Memoirs Of An Astrophysicist
The Storm/The Eye
I really wished I would never see the Genii again. If wishes where horses, right? I shouldn't have told Kolya the plan, but then a knife in your arm can be pretty convincing. I mean, I can deal with the Wraith. An alien race bent on making all of humanity their next meal is something I have no problem shooting at. But the Genii are people. Psychotic, obsessed, neurotic people, but people nonetheless. What I don't get is why were fighting each other, when the Wraith are a much bigger problem. If the Genii would've just asked nicely, I'm sure there wouldn't be much of a problem. They get C4 and the knowledge on how to get their Uranium weapons grade and we get a whole lot of food. Maybe I'm just being too optimistic, (the result of hanging around Sheppard.) but when there's a superior problem and lives at stake, there isn't any time for petty differences. (Now I sound I Elizabeth.) If they can't help them self's, how do they expect us to help them? We're barely standing on our own two feet.
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It was something though; I'd never guessed the Genii would be dumb enough to try to take over Atlantis. I wonder...even though they failed, there are an infinite number of realities our there. Everyone connected to a choice we did or didn't make. I mean everything Sheppard, Ford, Teyla, Carson and I did, ended us up here, where we are and who we are today. For example if Sheppard chose heads instead of tails, he wouldn't have been here. Because of that neither would Teyla, since it was him who rescued her and the other Athosians. Which would mean that every mission that Teyla and the Major been on would have had an extreme difference in their ending because of their absence.
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The head of military would probably Sgt. Bates. The security would be a hell of a lot different. I wouldn't be on the flagship team going off-world, would have never gotten to know Ford and most likely never would've. Because of that, when Kolya came during the storm, since I never met Sheppard, got to know Ford or never seen Teyla and never will because she was most likely dead; I may not have been so eager to step in front of that gun for Elizabeth. In result, she would be dead. Carson and Ford would be God knows where because they wouldn't have needed to go to the mainland, and because Sheppard was still back on Earth blissfully naive of what's happening here, there would have been nobody to take out Kolya's goons or raise the shield and Bob's your uncle, Steve's a Wraith; the Genii take over Atlantis. (Like I said, I have to stop hanging around Sheppard so often; I'm picking up his terminology.)
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So yeah, we got lucky. And I'm not saying luck is bad, no I like luck. In fact the more the better. But it just makes me think about what has happened, could've happened and what will happen when we run out of rabbits to pull from our hats. But hey, I guess we'll find out when the time comes.
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So for the Fearsome Foursome, Captain Kirk, Xena, The Flash and Captain Untouchable, it's just another disaster averted. (This sounds like something straight from a Marvel comic book.) God I hope nobody reads this...
A/n: My longest chapter yet. Hope you like! R&R!
