A/N: Sorry this is so massively late, I was busy and so told my plot bunnies to go away. Then when i needed them again they started stonewalling me. This is the second last chapter and another Lemoner will be revealled, in the last chapter i will reveal the remaining two.

CHAPTER ELEVEN

It was a lemon. Just one lemon, but it was surrounded by every kind of lemon sweet you could possibly imagine. The lemon also had a face carved into it.

McKay stared at the lemon. The lemon stared back.

"You can't win a staring contest with a lemon, Rodney," Sheppard informed him helpfully. "They don't blink."

McKay swung around to face him. "I don't care! It's another lemon! At least this time I might have caught a lemoner on my camera, but seriously how am I meant to work with this in my lab?"

Sheppard shrugged, resisting the urge to say 'it's just a lemon', which would definitely provoke a reaction from McKay. "Dunno. Though expect to see more of theses around-" Sheppard pointed towards the sweets "-there was a huge amount of lemon sherbet brought in on the Daedalus."

McKay scowled. "Whatever. I'm checking my camera."

McKay turned to his computer and began typing furiously. "I get a feed from each of my cameras on this computer. It was incredibly easy to achieve now that Elizabeth allowed me to wire the camera to the power grid, particularly because this computer is also connected to the power grid."

"Yeah," mused Sheppard thoughtfully. "I wonder why Elizabeth let you do that, maybe to throw us off thinking she was a lemoner."

"Hmm," commented McKay. "Why don't you ask her? Right, I've got the file ope-"

The computer screen flickered, then the lab lights flickered.

"McKay…" said Sheppard.

"Oh no," said McKay.

He'd barely finished speaking before the power cut completely and Atlantis was plunged into darkness. Then the back up lights came on.

"Oh crap," muttered Sheppard, looking around the dimly lit lab. "Elizabeth's gonna kill you."

"Maybe she rigged it to cut the power," suggested McKay a little hopefully. "Then she can't blame me."

"Nah, I don't think she rigged it," replied Sheppard, bursting McKay's bubble of hope. "I don't think she'd want the whole city on back up power. It was probably a lemoner who didn't know that you were using the cities main power grid."

"True. And I don't think Elizabeth would know how to rig it," observed McKay.

"That's a god point too."

There was a short pause.

McKay looked miserably at one of the dim lights. "I'm so screwed."


"Bloody hell!" Beckett stared around the semi-light infirmary. It was a good thing really important systems got back up power, such as lights (dim as they might be, it wouldn't do to be tripping over things). Carson spoke into his radio. "Control room, this is Beckett. I've lost main power in the infirmary."

Weir answered. "We're lost main power all over the city, Carson. There doesn't seem to be any damage, Chuck says it just switched itself off. But we're running diagnostics just in case."

"Why did it switch off?" asked Carson.

"We don't know yet. I've called Rodney to the control room, he says he thinks he knows what caused it."

"Okay, love. I'll come up too, I'm sure it'll be an interesting explanation."

"I'm hoping for more then interesting, at least he should be able to tell us if its safe to turn it back on. Weir out."

Carson sighed and put down the computer that had had the medical report he'd been working on. He hoped he hadn't just lost all the work he'd done on it and decided that in future he was going to make back ups of all documents on computers that weren't linked to Atlantis's power grid.

Once he got to the control room Carson found there was quite a crowd of people already there. Chuck, the other control room technician, McKay and Weir he'd been expecting. Yet Sheppard, Teyla, Zelenka, Ronon and Cadman were also there.

"-and it just shut down," McKay finished explaining something to Weir. "It wasn't my fault."

Sheppard nodded in agreement. "For once he's right, we both agree that the Lemoners set this up. I'm sure you'd be able to help with confirming that."

McKay sent her an evil look as everyone else in the control room turned to look at her. Carson sighed, he wondered what McKay and Sheppard were planning to do once they'd found out all the Mysterious Lemoners.

"I will look into it," Weir assured him, not trying to avoid the accusing looks of people who didn't appreciate being woken up at early hours in the morning and hadn't yet heard that she was a lemoner. Annoyingly at least one of her fellow Lemoners was also giving her an accusing look. "Meanwhile, Zelenka, is the power grid damaged?"

"Ah, well, according to this-" Zelenka gestured to a computer that had just finished running diagnostics "-the computer in Rodney's lad was rigged to simply switch off power, so no, it is not damaged."

"Didn't know you could get computers to do that," commented Ronon.

"Most can't, Rodney's is linked to the power grid," Zelenka told him. McKay scowled, Carson noticed he was standing at another control console.

"At least there's no damage," remarked Chuck. "It means it's safe to turn it back on again."

Chuck typed at his computer and the main (bright) lights came back on.

"Still kinda reckless to switch off the main power," commented Sheppard, keeping his tone light but looking at Weir.

Zelenka was looking down at his computer and, because he didn't see Sheppard looking at Weir, he assumed the colonel was talking to him. Zelenka shook his head. "Reckless? No, not really. It was a simple rig and no problem to switch back on once we'd realised there was no damage."

Weir raised an eyebrow at Sheppard and McKay.

Sheppard rolled his eyes.

"Well, if that's sorted out, I'll get back to the infirmary," said Carson and made for the infirmary hoping to recover his report. He was surprised when Sheppard and McKay followed him.

"South pier," announced McKay out of the blue.

Sheppard nodded. "Figures. There's a nice view."

"What?" asked Carson in confusion.

"It's where Lorne is," McKay told him. "While Weir and Zelenka discussed the power I was working at a console so it would locate Lorne's subcutaneous transmitter as soon as the main power came back on."

"Right," replied Carson. "May I ask why?"

McKay gave an evil grin. "He's a lemoner."

"Oh? How did you work that out?" questioned Carson.

Sheppard shrugged. "He paints, he's ordered painting supplies to be put on the Daedalus before, and since that painting that was in the infirmary wasn't brought here on the Daedalus – I checked – it meant it must have been painted on Atlantis."

"So we're heading to the south pier to tell him that we know he's a lemoner," added McKay triumphantly.


Lorne stood back and looked critically at his painting of the night sky. The moon didn't quite stand out enough…

"Having fun, major?"

Lorne almost dropped his paint brush as he started and swung around to face who'd spoken. McKay and Sheppard stood in the doorway. Sheppard had a lopsided smile on his face, McKay just had a plain evil look.

Lorne gulped. "Sir? McKay? What brings you here?"

"Well I wanted to tell you that the painting in the infirmary was very good, well done," congratulated Sheppard.

"Personally I prefer that one," said McKay, the evil look not leaving his face.

"Oh, um…" Lorne wasn't sure what to say, though it was very obvious that they knew he was a Lemoner. Lorne wished he hadn't painted the lemon. "I guess this is more detailed then the other one…"

Sheppard grinned. "Yeah, guess it is. And you can tell Elizabeth that we'd like to find out who planted which lemon."

"Not that it makes that much difference to me," added McKay. "But Sheppard got particularly annoyed at certain lemons."

Sheppard smiled. "Anyway, keep on with your painting."

McKay gave Lorne an evil smile before he and Sheppard left.

Lorne felt like borrowing McKay's saying of; 'I'm so screwed'.


A/N: Lorne. I thought i made that too obvious from chapter ten- Lorne paints in the episode Sunday. Lorne is Lemoner 4 and he rigged the lemons that flew across Rodney's lab and ended up hitting John, so that's why he thinks he's screwed. Again, i'm sorry i took so long to post, the next chapter should be up soon, if it isn't up in a week, then please send me a PM and i'll make sure it's posted quickly.