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Breaking Ranks - Genesis
"For as long as I can remember my dad always drilled into me that one day I would joins the Marines."
"But you're in the Army." Sheppard stated as I nodded with my lips pressed into a firm line.
"Exactly." I laughed softly as I glanced at him; he was looking at me with confusion. "We stopped talking when I joined the Army and not the Marines, but it's not just because I defied him. It's tradition to join the Marines in my family; my grandfather, my great-grandfather, my great-great grandfather were all in the Marines. I have no idea how far it stretches back, but to not join them is like chopping off your own arm." I joked as Sheppard smirked. "That's not the worst of it," I sighed. "It's always tradition that everyone in the Sumner line has a name beginning with 'M'." He raised his eyebrows in shock.
"Hard core."
"Tell me about it, my dad wanted to call me Maxine. But apparently my mum abhorred the name so they settled on Mia." I grinned slightly. "So you can picture the absolute shame and disappointment on my dads face when I returned home telling him that I had joined the U.S Army."
"Oh I have an idea," he admitted, he shifted slightly and winced from the hit I gave him.
"We started yelling at one another, I threw some things. I told him that tradition wasn't everything and I should be able to live my own life not the life he planned for me. I wanted to be my own person, not some drone that does everything that everyone else does."
"Good idea," he grunted. I scoffed.
"Well he didn't think so. He told me that I had dishonored my family, like it was a divine right to join the Marines." I stopped for a second, reliving the memory and still being able to feel the anger even if it was eight years ago. "He stormed off, no doubt calling my grandfather and telling him what had happened. While he was gone I packed my bag, I packed up everything I would need to survive as I left him a note. I wanted to write a long note saying how I was sorry I defied him, but I wasn't sorry. I was proud of myself for doing it, so instead of writing an essay I settled on just saying, 'I hope one day you'll understand. Goodbye.' I left the note on the kitchen counter and left the house and I never returned. Cheyenne Mountain was the first time I had seen him in eight years, it was a bit daunting to be honest."
Sheppard had been silent for a few minutes, I was worried that he thought I was stupid for doing what I did, what if he was like my dad and thought that I should've joined the Marines? "That's pretty brave." He finally said, shocking me. My head quickly turned to his; I couldn't get anything out as he spoke again, "To defy your dad like that, it's pretty amazing. You stuck up for what you believed in." I felt my insides warm up with what he said; I could feel myself grinning like an idiot at his praise.
Sheppard tried to push himself off of the floor but he wasn't able to use his left side from the hit I gave him, I quickly hopped up. "Here," I said as I linked my arm with his right one as I helped pull him up into a standing position. He stretched out, wincing slightly as I grimaced, "Maybe you should have Carson check you out?" I asked him.
"Nah, I'm fine," he waved his hand in front of his face. I rolled my eyes at him.
"Not wanting to admit that I beat your ass again?" I smirked at him as he gave me a dry look.
"That may be part of it." He admitted. We walked to the gyms door; I turned to the Major.
"Thanks for sparring with me, it helped a lot." I thanked him as he nodded in thanks.
"No problem," he replied as I started backing away.
"You should ice it, by the way." He sent me a very dangerous glare as I laughed at his expression and hurried down the corridor and away from him.
For the next few days everything seemed to be quiet, we went on a mission and established some more trade relations with the people there, which gave us some more food for the Atlantis populace. Other than that I spent most of my time training in the gym or jogging around Atlantis. One morning, as I was just heading back to my room after having breakfast my radio buzzed.
"SGA-1 please report to the conference room, immediately."
I spun on my heel as I walked towards the control room, when I arrived there I headed up the stairs and into the conference room. Teyla, Sheppard, Ford and Elizabeth were already here. Elizabeth and Sheppard were the only ones sitting down as Rodney and Doctor Zelenka had taken up the rest of the space with computers and screens. I was getting slightly anxious from the looks on the two doctors' faces. I stood next to Teyla as I tried looking at all of the screens present to see why we were all here.
"This planet is basically the same size as Earth. Now, hurricanes on Earth never get as big as this bad boy because once they hit the shore, the brakes get put on. Without as much landmass to slow it down here, it just gaining momentum." Rodney explained, pointing out something on one of the large screen behind me. I finally realized what they had been talking about; we were about to have a very bad storm apparently.
"Both of them are," Zelenka added, causing Elizabeth to raise her eyebrows.
"Both of them?"
"We only saw one," Teyla said.
"It only looked like one. Now, according to the Ancient Database, every twenty or thirty years the sea gets unseasonably warm. Now that, for reasons too boring to get into, means that hurricanes are much likely to occur." Rodney explained.
"Well, like El Nino, the ocean—" Rodney interrupted Zelenka.
"Like I said, too boring to go into."
"Focus," Elizabeth said sternly to both of them, mainly at Rodney.
"Well basically, if you have a situation where there are a bunch of hurricanes out there, the likelihood of two colliding is greatly increased—that's what's happening."
"It's more like a merger than a collision. They are intersecting and combining their power." Zelenka explained further.
"So it's like a super storm from hell." I stated as Rodney and Zelenka nodded.
"Yeah," Rodney said grimly, "and it's heading straight for us."
"You just said the Ancients experienced these storms every twenty to thirty years. Atlantis must have some sort of precautions put in place?" Weir asked the two scientists.
"In the past, the Ancients have been protected by the shield or submerged deep enough in the water to not be affected." Rodney said like it was the most obvious thing in the world.
"Ok, strike those options. What else have we got?" Sheppard asked the two men. Zelenka and Rodney are silent.
"Nothing," Zelenka finally said, "it's a real threat. The high winds alone will wreak havoc."
"Come on guys! This city has been around for a long time." Sheppard exclaimed.
"Storm surge is inevitable." Zelenka mumbled. "Not to mention that fact that by moving over a landmass just before hitting is, the likelihood of tornadoes and electrical activity is greatly increased."
"This is Atlantis," Sheppard said desperately, "I mean, they've got to be able to handle that, right?"
"No," Rodney said with defeat.
"Why not?" Weir asked him.
"The people who built this city knew that had a forcefield capable of holding back anything Mother Nature or for that matter, the Wraith could throw at them. Without that protection, Atlantis is remarkably fragile." Rodney told her.
"Even our conservative calculations project widespread structural damage." Zelenka added.
"Flooding could sink the city entirely." Rodney added.
"How could something as big as Atlantis just sink?" Ford asked them both.
"I'm sure the passengers on the Titanic were asking themselves the same question." Sheppard said sarcastically.
"Yes well, let's not!" Rodney cried.
"So what you're saying is, if Teyla and I hadn't discovered this, we—" Sheppard was cut off by Elizabeth.
"We would be in even bigger trouble," she turned to the two scientists, "alright, what's the plan?" she asked them.
"By my calculations we have just under, twelve hours until the storm hits, so uh, we plan to have a plan…" Rodney said uncertainly.
"Yeah," Zelenka shrugged.
"By then," Rodney finished. Elizabeth nodded for the two men to leave as I assumed they were heading down to the lab to come up with some genius plan to save the day like they always did.
"I suggest we evacuate the mainland, if this storm is as bad as they say, the Athosian's will be at risk." I told Elizabeth as she agreed.
"We'll bring them here for the time being. I believe Doctor Beckett is over on the Mainland, he'll need to be brought up to speed." Elizabeth said to us.
"Yes he was providing medical assistance to some of my people, Major Sheppard and I were going to get him when we discovered the storm." Teyla replied to her. Elizabeth turned her gaze back on me.
"Lieutenant I would like you to head the evacuation on the Mainland." I nodded as I motioned for Teyla to follow me as we left the conference room. We moved into the control room as I headed over to Chuck who was at the communications control panel.
"Chuck can you give me city wide please?" I asked him as he nodded, he pressed a few buttons and nodded to me. I hit my radio piece, "Attention please, this is Lieutenant Sumner. I need all personnel who have had jumper training to please report to the jumper bay. We need to start evacuations on the Mainland for the upcoming storm, thank you." I hit my radio piece again as Teyla and I headed up to the jumper bay.
We waited a few minutes as people walked into the jumper bay. I had five people all up, which was a good enough number to begin ferrying everyone. I instructed them all on what was happening as we all headed to our jumpers.
"Bay doors are open, jumper one."
"Acknowledged, we'll stay in radio contact." I looked to my right as I gave Teyla a reassuring smile as I took the jumper out of the bay. I brought up the H.U.D to make sure that all jumpers were in the air, I grinned when I saw all five of them following in a straight line.
It took us twenty-five minutes to get to the Mainland, as we all set down our jumpers at various spot I could already see that the winds were picking up. Even though the storm was still eleven hours out. As Teyla and I left the jumper I turned to her, "Go and talk to your people and tell them about the storm," she nodded to me, "I'll go find Beckett and bring him up to speed." We then went our separate ways as I wondered through the camp to find the Doctor. I asked a few Athosian's and found that Carson was at one of the homes on the edge of camp. I hurried over to the tent just as he came out with his medical bag, he spotted me immediately, and he looked surprised to see me.
"Mia, come to help me inoculate these babies?" he smirked as I shook my head.
"Sorry Carson, not today. We're here to actually begin an evacuation." I told him, as he looked even more shocked.
"Why? What's happened? Is it tha Wraith?"
"No, thank god. Rodney and Zelenka are predicting a really bad super storm that going to be worse that any of the hurricanes we've ever had back on Earth."
"Really now?" his eyebrows rose as I nodded.
"It's going to be bad, so we need to get the people off the Mainland." Carson nodded in understanding as he and I walked to where I assumed Teyla would be, she was exiting the tent as she spotted us, we met each other half way. "How'd it go?" I asked her as she tilted her head.
"Some believe me, some do not."
"What do you mean they don't?" I exclaimed as Teyla shook her head.
"Some don't believe that the storm will be as bad as I say, either way everyone has agreed that the women and children will be evacuated first, the men and any women who want to will stay behind to help secure some of the foundations." I nodded.
"Alright sounds good, did you tell them where to go?"
"Yes I informed them to only bring their most precious possessions and start heading towards the jumpers." She told me.
"I'll go and watch over that, Carson you stay with Teyla and help out as much as you can." I saw him pull a face slightly at doing some hard labor but I ignored it as I hurried back to where all the jumpers were.
The people who had flown the jumpers were all standing around nervously, "Listen up! The women and children are going to be boarding first; I want as many people as possible in all the jumpers. There are around one hundred Athosian's here so there's going to be a few trips today. Once your jumper is full you are to fly back to Atlantis, drop off your cargo then fly straight back, understood?"
Some mumbled and others nodded as I could hear hushed voices of the Athosian's coming closer, I turned around and begun ushering them into the first jumper, some of the Athosian's recognized me as they all smiled softly at me as I directed them into the jumper. After the first ten were loaded in I instructed the scientist whose name I didn't know to take them to Atlantis and return. He nodded as I watched the jumper fly away. I hurried into my jumper as I activated the comms system, "Atlantis this is Lieutenant Sumner."
"Go ahead."
"Jumper five is inbound with ten Athosian's."
"Acknowledged, we will notify when the jumper has arrived."
There were six Athosian's remaining as I moved them into the next one, we waited around for ten minutes before another eight arrived. I moved them all into the one jumper and instructed that jumper to go on to Atlantis. An hour passed and the last three jumpers had been filled and were now on their way back to Atlantis. Fifty-seven people had been evacuated so far. I waited around my jumper for another few minutes as the first jumper arrived back, the scientist stepped out, and to my surprise, Ford.
"What are you doing here?" I asked him as he walked up to meet me.
"Weir want's you back helping McKay and Zelenka. They still haven't thought up of a plan."
"I don't know how much help I'd be, I'm a mechanical engineer." I argued as he shrugged.
"Beats me, maybe someone dumber than them can come up with a solution." He smirked at me as I rolled my eyes at him.
"Very funny, alright I'll head back, keep these jumpers moving. We've got nine hours before the storm hits." Ford nodded in understanding as I headed to my jumper and sat in the pilot seat. And then I started flying the jumper back towards Atlantis.
I arrived half an hour later just as I saw a jumper leaving the bay and heading back to the Mainland. I landed the jumper and exited it and headed down to the control room. It was pretty busy in here, apparently we had found somewhere to gate to as the Athosian's were being ushered through the gate. I glanced around and spotted Elizabeth standing at the balcony as I walked over to her. "Doctor Weir?" I called out to her as she turned around and spotted me.
"Lieutenant, I trust everything is running smoothly on the Mainland?"
"Yes, Ma'am. Ford said you wanted me to help out Rodney and Zelenka?" I asked her as she nodded.
"Yes they aren't having any luck, I was hoping one more brain to help them might increase our chances of survival." I smirked at her.
"Of course, I'll head down there now." I said to her as I spun on my heel and hurried down the stairs. Rodney's lab was just off the fourth level of the tower as I walked in; both he and Zelenka weren't talking as they were both furiously typing away at their laptops. "Help has arrived," I called out cheerfully as both men looked up. Rodney pulled a face at my presence as Zelenka sent me a small smile. I took a seat in the middle of the room as I began spinning around slowly. "Weir sent me down here to give you guys and extra brain."
"Well thanks but no thanks." Rodney snapped as I rolled my eyes.
"Just humor me Rodney. What have you got so far?"
"Nothing," Zelenka mumbled. I smirked as Rodney gave him a dry look and then turned his gaze to me.
"We found the most probable way to survive this is to somehow power the shield. We just have no way of powering it up enough."
"What about the wind?" I offered.
"You gonna build a windmill in eight hours?" Rodney said sarcastically.
"Ok, solar energy?"
"Do you see any sun out there?" he snapped at me. I frowned at him.
"Well I don't know, I'm just throwing stuff out there. In Arizona we used solar panels to power everything. I've never actually seen a hurricane before," I told them both as Zelenka looked over at me.
"In the Czech Republic we don't have to deal with hurricanes."
"We don't get many in Canada either—except one called Hazel." Rodney added as I scooted over to one of the laptops, I started pulling up a schematic of the city to see if there was anything we could use to help us.
"Hazel?" Zelenka seemed curious. Rodney hummed.
"Forty years ago."
"That's interesting." Zelenka mumbled.
"So Rodney you must have been what, thirty?" I said nonchalantly as I felt his stare on me. I chortled as he sighed.
"I was once almost struck by lightning." There was a brief pause.
"Lightening?" Zelenka said as he stood from his chair. I heard Rodney stand also as a few seconds later I realized what they meant.
"Could that work?" Zelenka asked.
"Possibly?" Rodney replied.
"But how?" Zelenka continued. I began typing away at the laptop for a few seconds, the two men were throwing around ideas about how they could use lightening to power the shield when I called out to them.
"Hey!" they both stopped talking and looked at me, "I've found something," they both hurried over as I showed them the cities schematic. "I saw it before but I didn't think anything of it until you said lightening. Look here," I pointed to the point on the screen. "There are lightening rods all over Atlantis, thousands of them."
"Of course," Rodney said in realization, "Atlantis is a giant metal city, lightening would be drawn to it, the Ancients would need somewhere to transfer all that electricity though." I grinned at him.
"Precisely," I typed on the laptop again until the screen changed and showed the grounding stations. "There are four grounding stations in Atlantis, whenever the city is hit by lightening it's all transferred here and discharged back into the ocean." I looked at them smugly as I finished, Zelenka smiled at this revelation.
"Hang on," Rodney said, "what if we disabled the grounding stations? Where would all the power go?" he asked either of us as I shrugged. I heard Zelenka snap his fingers.
"I remember reading something before…" he mumbled as he hurried to his computer and stared at the screen for a few seconds. "Ah, here. The cities wall are lined with super-conductive material—" Rodney cut him off.
"So the electricity would be in the city itself—"
"If we could reroute some of the power distributions—"
"We could transfer that power into the shield generator." My head was like a tennis ball, going backwards and forwards between them.
"So we have a plan?" I asked them both. Zelenka nodded at me.
"I think we have a plan."
"We have to go tell Doctor Weir," Rodney realized as the two scientists ran out of the room at top speed. A few seconds later Rodney popper his head back in, "Start writing a subroutine for transferring the power to the shield generator."
"On it, Doc." I saluted him as he rolled his eyes and left again.
It was a few hours later and I had only gotten halfway with writing the subroutine, I'm sure Rodney would have been able to do it within half an hour but he had radioed me saying that he and Zelenka were in the power distribution rerouting some conduits for the electricity. And with writing a subroutine I had to try and bypass failsafe systems that didn't allow for this power flow. I mean, there is a reason why the grounding stations were put in place, the city knew that if they were disabled that the hallways would become supercharged.
I heard footsteps coming closer to the lab; I looked up just as Rodney entered. "You're still going?" he asked me as I rolled my eyes.
"Yes, Rodney. I'm about halfway done." I told him just as I heard more footsteps coming. Elizabeth and Sheppard walked into the lab, I glanced up at them and gave Elizabeth a smile when she looked over at me. I moved my gaze to the Major as he was smirking at me; I lowered my gaze back down to the laptop as I heard Rodney explaining the plan to Sheppard and Elizabeth once more.
"There are hundreds of lightning rods placed strategically all around the city."
"Wait a second," Sheppard interrupted him.
"What?"
"Why?" Sheppard asked him.
"Why what?" Rodney replied, annoyed.
"Why are there hundreds of lightening rods placed around the city? Wouldn't the shield protect against lightening?"
"Yes, yes it would, but running the shield all the time is only good for one thing—draining power." Rodney explained.
"Right."
"You're aware there is a time element to what we're doing here, right?" I smirked at Rodney's abruptness.
"Yes it has been brought to my attention." Sheppard said sarcastically. I looked at Elizabeth as she just sighed and shook her head.
"Like I was saying, there are lightening rods placed all over the city. Now as it stands right now, all the energy they capture is routed into four main grounding stations. In turn the stations ground all that energy into the ocean below."
"So instead of sending all that energy to the ground…"
"We use it to power the shield."
"How?" Elizabeth asked.
"By directing it right down the corridors of Atlantis and into the shield generators." Rodney said to them both.
"The city can handle that?" Elizabeth asked in awe.
"Yes—theoretically." Rodney said unsurely.
"Like dinosaurs turned into birds theoretically, or theory of relativity theoretically?" Sheppard asked him as Rodney looked at him with confusion.
"What? Uh, sort of between," Rodney then pointed to the screen, there were four blinking dots on it. "Elizabeth you take grounding station two; I'll take grounding station one; Major, you take stations three and four."
"Whoa, whoa wait a second," Sheppard cried out, "where are stations three and four?" Rodney points to two points on the map that are at the edge of the city.
"Here, and here."
"And we are…?" Rodney then points to the control tower on the map.
"Here, yes."
"Well why can't Mia take one of the grounding stations?" Sheppard pointed at me, I was still sitting in the back on the laptop. Rodney waved his hand in the air.
"Mia is working on the subroutines to allow power to flow freely through the city, I've got to get done quickly so that I can write a program so that Atlantis doesn't go into a lockdown from the grounding stations being disabled, and Elizabeth was complaining about her knee the other day…"
"Wait a second. Are these things even close to a transporter?" Sheppard asked him.
"Yes, Elizabeth's is."
"And mine?"
"Uh, it's a brisk walk away." There was a slight pause from them.
"And by 'brisk' you mean…far?"
"By 'walk' I mean run."
"Ok," Sheppard agreed, albeit annoyed.
"You need to radio in once you've got to your first station." Rodney said.
"Alright. Let's do it." Sheppard said as he hurried out of the room. Rodney turned around to me.
"Get up to the control room. I need you to disable the grounding stations manually once they've been activated. And also finish that subroutine."
"I'm almost done," I said to him as he and Elizabeth walked out of the lab. I carried two laptops up to the control room as I sat down at one of the panels and hooked up the laptops to the system.
I was finishing up with the subroutine when my radio buzzed. "Mia, you there?" Rodney asked as I hit my radio.
"Go ahead."
"I'm about to disable the grounding station, be ready to deactivate it."
"Affirmative, ready when you are." I switched to the other laptop up, suddenly a little warning flashed on the screen as I quickly shut it down.
"Elizabeth, it's your turn now." Rodney said.
"Understood." Came Elizabeth's reply. Another warning flashed on the screen as I shut that one down too.
"Alright, Elizabeth head back to the control room, I think that should do it." Rodney said as my radio went silent.
It was around ten minutes later when I heard a noise come through my radio, "I'm here!" It was Sheppard. There was a lot of rain and wind coming through with his radio feed.
"I told you to contact me when you got to the first one Major."
"I am at the first one, Rodney!" Sheppard snapped.
"Oh sorry, I've already done mine."
"That's great, good for you!"
"Me too," Elizabeth added into the conversation, I was smiling by this point.
"Good for everyone!"
"Where are you now?"
"I'm at the damned grounding station!" I could tell that when this was over, Rodney was going to get a smack from Sheppard.
"No, no, no, not you." Rodney said as Elizabeth replied to him.
"I'm in the transporter."
"There you are."
"There I am." The two spoke to each other.
"Glad everybody's having such a good time. What do I do?"
"There should be a keypad right on the console of the station." Rodney explained through the radio.
"Got it."
"Punch in the Ancient equivalent of one three one five four seven," there was a pause of silence on both ends. "That do it?" I knew it had worked as the flashing warning came up once more as I shut it down.
"Yeah!"
"Good. Three down, one to go. They all seem to have the same separation code, so get down to the next one, repeat the procedure. We'll meet you in the control room."
"Roger that!" Sheppard replied as the radios went silent. I though, seeing as I wasn't doing anything I would begin working on the patch for the grounding stations that Rodney said he was going to do.
There were two guards standing on the balcony in front of me, they were chatting away to themselves when something unexpected happened. The gate activated. When I heard the sound I bounced up from my chair and ran to the balcony. The two guards looked at me as the gate opened and the shield went up.
I ran back to the computer just as a woman's voice came over the radio, "There's been an attack on Manara. We've got wounded incoming. Lower the shield." I walked to the console as I checked the screen.
"They're broadcasting an Athosian I.D.C." I said.
"Please! Before it is too late!" The woman cried out again, desperately.
"What do we do?" one of them asked me. I pressed my lips into a firm line as I hit my radio.
"Doctor Weir, we've got an Athosian party incoming with wounded." I said as I hit the shield button.
"We're lowering the shield!" The guard yelled into his radio as the two of them ran down the stairs to meet them down at the gate.
"We're on our way." I heard Elizabeth say into my radio. I hurried to the stairs as I began walking down them as the Athosian's came pouring in through the gate.
"What happened?" one of the Marines asked them.
"They were everywhere. I can't believe they didn't kill us all," I heard a familiar female voice say. I looked to the group of Athosian's just as one of the Marines stepped slightly to the right, and I got a clear view of the woman who had spoken. It was Sora.
I felt my stomach drop to the floor, just as I was about to let loose a yell something rolled off of a gurney and stood up. Two shots were fired as the two Marines' were taken down. I gasped as I hit my radio once more, I turned and tried running up the stairs to try and activate the shield once more.
"Doctor Weir! Don't—" I stopped as two bullets went flying past me, one hit the stairs above my head as I instinctively ducked down and then the other I felt fly right by my arm.
I spun around as I stared down towards the gate. There were at least twenty Genii soldiers in the gate room now. Sora and the man who had shot the two Marines were staring at me. In my ear I could hear Elizabeth, Rodney and Sheppard shouting like crazy at me to report to them about what was going on, but I knew that if I spoke one word that man wouldn't hesitate to put a bullet through my head. I could tell that he had missed shooting me on purpose. He and Sora moved towards me slowly.
"Is that her?" he asked Sora as she nodded.
"Yes." I frowned, what were they talking about?
"Restrain her." The man ordered as two Genii ran over to me. I didn't struggle as they both grabbed my arms; they dragged me down the stairs and brought me closer to the man. He was a little chunky, and could have easily been passed off as like a typical uncle or something, apart from the fact that he was holding a gun and the aura around this man screamed dangerous. The only reason why they would restrain me would be because they knew what I was capable of, I could spot in this Genii team three of the four men I had attacked back on their homeworld.
"I see my reputation precedes me," I hissed at him. He smirked down at me as I could here footsteps approaching, from still having my radio turned on I could hear that it was Elizabeth and Rodney approaching. I spotted them enter the control room directly across from me.
"What the hell is going on?" Elizabeth cried out as Genii surrounded them with guns pointed at them. The man before me turns and walks slowly towards them.
"Doctor Elizabeth Weir." He stated.
"Yes?" she demanded from him, her eyes narrowed. He then turns his gaze to Rodney.
"And you must be Doctor McKay." I see Rodney's face pale, as he doesn't speak, although he didn't have to. Sora glared at him as she stood next to the man.
"That is him." She barked.
"Where is Major Sheppard?" the man demanded, shocking Rodney and me. Why would he want to know where he was? "I would like to know the whereabouts of Major Sheppard."
"Why? So you can ask him on a date?" I said sarcastically as he turned to stare at me. I tugged my arms, trying to get free from the two Genii holding me in place. The man conveyed no emotion as he slowly turned back to Elizabeth and Rodney.
"You seem to know a lot about us. Who are you?" Elizabeth asked him. Rodney's face dropped. He had obviously recognized who they were from Sora and their uniforms.
"They're Genii." He muttered to her.
"There's only one thing you need to know, Doctor. As of right now, we are in control of Atlantis." He said ominously as I glared at Sora. She met my gaze and smirked at me.
The Genii moved us up to the upper level of the control room, well, Rodney and Elizabeth were moved, I was dragged. They slammed me down in one of the chairs and pointed a gun at me constantly, I knew that if I even tried to take one of them out they'd either shoot me, or Elizabeth, or Rodney.
They were left standing, surrounded by Genii as they began looking at all of the consoles we had. I turned my head, I had seen the burly man had gone outside to the balcony; I heard the door open once more as he came back in.
"Who are you?" Elizabeth finally asked him.
"Commander Acastus Kolya of the Genii." Well, least I could put name to a face now. "This Atlantis is extraordinary—more than I ever imagined." He said in awe, still looking around the base.
"What have you done with the rest of my people?" Elizabeth demanded.
"I'm quite sure they have no idea we're even here." He replied.
"Then they're safe?"
"Yes." I didn't fully believe him, and from the look on Elizabeth's face, she didn't either. She took a step towards him.
"There was a time when our two peoples considered becoming allies. Why are you doing this?"
"You're in possession of supplies we vitally need. Hand them over without difficulty and we'll leave peacefully." Kolya said.
"Or?"
"We're both intelligent people, Doctor Weir. I'm sure there's no need for me to demonstrate once again the strength of my resolve." I knew he had been talking about killing the two Marines. Just thinking about them boiled my blood. I could see Elizabeth looking at me; she was obviously deciding what to do. I guessed if she said no I would be the first one Kolya would kill.
"Which supplies do you have in mind?" She finally said.
Oh my goshh, sorry to leave you all on a cliffhanger but you'll just have to wait until next week to find out what happens! So we found out why Mia and her dad fell out all those years ago, it may have been a little obvious to some people but if not we have an explanation! And I just love the bickering with Rodney, it's always fun to write. And we finally meet Kolya, funnily enough he is one of my favourite characters on the series. What do you guys think will happen in the next chapter? I'd love to hear your thoughts! Again thanks for reviewing and alerting and let me know what you all think!
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09sasha - With your review, it sounds like you may have been confused as to what was going on. Mia had her own reality and Sheppard had his own one with Teyla, but in Mia's he appeared in hers like a ghost or whatever the people were. So Sheppard didn't know what she dreamt of or whatever. Hope that cleared it up for you, if not message me please! And thank you so much for asking!
Guest 64 - It was actually so much fun to write her family all together, I wish that there was another time that I could do that, maybe I might throw another one in there as like a crack or something ahah. Yes this girl needs to admit that she has feelings and so she's not a cold hearted bitch!
LeopardFeather - Thank you! Hope you enjoy this chapter!
Adela - Thank you! Enjoy this one!
Thank you everyone! Hope you all enjoyed! Can't wait for next week!