A/N: I made up the small wraith cargo ship in this story A/N: I made up the small wraith cargo ship in this story. Oh well.

CHAPTER ELEVEN: PROBLEMS

Weir almost screamed in frustration as she yet again listened to the last desperate call from the Alpha site before the wraith blocked off the gate.

The Alpha site had been found again, couldn't anything go right that day?

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Mills watched as Mulder used his bazooka to shoot down another wraith dart; Teyla had filed him in on the events before he'd arrived. Apparently Mulder had also bazookered down five trees before Teyla had managed to convince him that the wraith could make you see things that aren't there.

The FBI agent seemed in a very bad mood, understandably since he hadn't seen his partner in hours. Unfortunately Mills wasn't sure if he was going to be able to convince the man that Atlantis existed, he was going to have to try and explain that.

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McKay let out a groan of frustration as the all-to-familiar sense of the wraith ship starting up its engines trembled through the hive.

"What was that?" asked Scully, who was now almost happy she wasn't dreaming; if her brain could come up with events and people like this she would have to consider taking herself to a mental hospital.

"The hives engines starting off, we're moving," McKay told her.

Maybe being slightly mental wouldn't be too bad. Dreaming would be better. "Where to?"

"Don't know," Sheppard replied.

"It doesn't matter where we're going," broke in McKay. "We're screwed anyway.

"As optimistic as ever," muttered Dr Tatum and Sheppard had to agree with him.

"Oh come on! It's not as if we're gonna escape! We're on a moving wraith hive ship with the Daedalus currently on Earth!" complained McKay.

Sheppard frowned. "I thought it was on it's way?"

"It got delayed," Tatum told him.

"Bringing me back to how completely screwed we are," said McKay.

Sheppard sent him a glare. "Think about it McKay. You say that at least twice a week and we're not dead yet."

McKay rolled his eyes and glared back. "Which, considering how many crazy suicidal missions you've been on is a miracle! Well we just ran out of miracles!"

"We'll get out of this too," insisted Sheppard. "Stop saying we're gonna die, you're scaring Zelenka."

Scully glanced at the thirds scientist; he'd been very quiet and looked quite pale. She guessed he hadn't been in this situation as much as the others.

Scully thought that Sheppard might have been able to convince McKay that they weren't going to die if the wraith hadn't turned up at the cell door.

The wraith opened the door and looked around. "Who is your leader?"

Scully saw Sheppard sigh and mutter. "Here we go again."

"I am," he said.

The wraith grabbed him by his arm and hauled him out of the cell.

"We're all dead," said McKay.

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Sheppard was surprised to see the wraith queen already in the room when he was thrown in. She had the Parallel Universe Machine infront of her. They wraith stayed at the door.

"What is this devices purpose?" the queen hissed.

"Don't know," Sheppard told her.

"You will tell me," the queen commanded, coming closer.

"I've never seen it before in my life," insisted Sheppard, he was really sick of getting questioned.

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Doctor Beckett waited until the Alpha site was completely silent before venturing out from the trees; he winced at the mess of what was left of the Alpha site. He saw Lorne also coming out of the trees.

"Major!" he called.

Lorne whipped around, P90 coming up and saw Beckett and relaxed.

"Hey doc. I wasn't expecting to see you around," commented Lorne.

"Me, Colonel Sheppard, Rodney, Dr Tatum and someone from another universe came back through that dangerous machine and found ourselves getting attacked by the wraith," explained Beckett.

Lorne frowned. "Are they still here?"

Beckett shook his head. "I saw the Colonel get taken and then I think I saw a beam pass over Rodney and Tatum too."

"We better get back to Atlantis," pointed out Lorne, excepting the news. "Dr Weir will want a report and we need to find out where that hive went."

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McKay panicked as they once again heard the wraith approaching the cell.

"Oh no."

"They're coming back," observed Scully.

Wraith walked down the corridor towards them.

"Why have they come back without Sheppard?" questioned Scully, musing the fact that she was actually starting to like these people.

McKay didn't look happy. "Because he didn't give them the information the needed so they've come back for someone else."

The wraith entered the cell and grabbed McKay. His eyes went wide.

"What?! Why me?"

Typically the wraith didn't answer and just dragged him off. Scully got the impression that although McKay had obviously been in one of the spaceships lots of times he hadn't been taken out of the cell by wraith all too often.

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McKay was relatively relieved when he saw Shepard still alive and not being fed on. The Colonel was kneeling infront of the Wraith Queen. When the queen saw McKay she released her hold on Sheppard's mind and he stumbled back to his feet and took a step backwards.

"Hi McKay," greeted Sheppard.

"Uh, hi," replied McKay noting that the Parallel Universe Machine was in the room, that couldn't be good.

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As he'd predicted, Lt Mills was having a hard time convincing Mulder that Scully was actually in the lost city of Atlantis and was safe. The man was damn stubborn and very mistrusting.

The rest of his team struggled to get the Starplate in work. Mills knew it was a lost cause; they were going to have to wait for rescue. Tatum had been the only one on his team with the ATA gene and he and McKay, who had the remote-like-thing, had gone back to their universe. Lucky people.

"How can I trust you?" demanded Mulder.

There he went again. Questioning everything. Mills stopped himself from groaning in annoyance.

"If you can't, then just be quiet about it until McKay brings your partner back," replied Mills, giving up.

Mulder glared at him. "How do I know she is coming back?"

Mills did groan in annoyance.

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Scully stared in complete amazement as the same screeching alarm from the other ship sounded at the same time McKay and Sheppard came running around the corner with a whole pile of weapons and the Parallel Universe Machine.

"Stand back," ordered Sheppard, rigging something that looked suspiciously like C4 explosive to the cell door. Scully backed off.

The other scientist, Dr Tatum they'd called him, looked very surprised. "What? How…?"

"Teyla told McKay to keep a spare knife strapped to his arm and the wraith didn't find it," explained Sheppard briefly. "We need to move."

Somehow they managed to get the third scientist, Zelenka, McKay had called him, it sounded like a Czech name to Scully, they somehow managed to get him to move at a reasonable pace. The guy looked plain terrified.

Sheppard somehow led them to another prison cell, where they freed a whole group of scientists, doctors and soldiers who had been culled form the Alpha site. The rest of Lorne's team included.

A group of wraith cam up behind them and Sheppard yelled a quick order to the military people and tossed them their weapons. The wraith were soon taken care of.

Scully was feeling overwhelmed by all the events of the day, but still wasn't impressed when they came to yet another small type of wraith ship.

"No," she said. "No more spaceships."

"Too bad," Sheppard told her. "It's the only way out."

"I am not getting pulled, beamed or what ever you want to call it into another spaceship!" defied Scully surprised she still had enough energy to argue.

"This one's different, you don't have to be stored in the buffer," Sheppard replied.

"Yeah," added McKay. "This is a small wraith cargo ship, not a dart."

"Don't care," grumbled Scully.

"Just get in the damn ship!" ordered Sheppard irritably. "Now."

At least there was a sort of decent entrance to this ship, a kind of door.

"Fine," she muttered, it wasn't like she wanted to stay on the larger ship anyway.

"McKay, Tatum you guys too. Sorry, but I'm gonna have to get the rest of you in the buffer," apologised Sheppard.

Scully reluctantly followed the three of them on to the ship. Sheppard started it up and scoped the remaining people and Parallel universe Machine up in the buffer. There was information streaming across the ship and Scully couldn't help but notice that it wasn't in English, or any other Earth language for that matter. Hopefully Sheppard understood it.

The little ship shot out of the larger one.

"McKay…" said Sheppard.

"What?" asked McKay.

"Little help here."

"You need my help?" questioned McKay in obvious surprise. "I thought you said you could fly anything?"

"I can, with English!" complained Sheppard. "Can you translate that?"

Scully was not impressed. "You don't know what that says?!"

"I was never very good at other languages," Sheppard answered. "McKay?"

"It would take time that we don't have, Colonel. So no I can't translate it in time. You flew the dart without English."

"I'd flown a dart before! I have no idea what half these controls are!" replied Sheppard.

Scully felt like repeatedly hitting her head on something hard.

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