Chapter 21
M'Rhinna kicked open a sealed door to a room and the same blue light filled the area. Evan let out a low whistle of appreciation, looking at the walls covered with weapons of every kind, crates of ammunition pushed against the edges of the room. She looked over and smiled as Ronon began to pocket and palm slim knives, hiding them in every conceivable place without constricting movement. She grabbed a holster belt and strapped it on around her waist, taking two handguns off the wall and putting them in the holsters.
"You said everything gets sealed in case of an attack?" John said and she nodded, opening a crate of ammunition. "So all of these are in the same condition they were ten thousand years ago."
"That's right." She said putting clips filled with softly glowing red bullets into the pockets of the belt. She strapped a holster of some kind around her forearm and started to slide knives into it, sliding knives into the holster belt as well.
"Can we have some of these?" Evan said.
"Take as many as you want, this isn't the only armory on the planet." She said, shrugging into a holster and sliding a long dark sword into it, the hilt and handle visible over her shoulder.
"Well okay then." He said and let go of the P-90, leaving it to hang down his front and grabbed what looked like a kind of shotgun off the wall.
"The ammunition is in the crate at your feet and the holster is right next to you." She said and he opened the crate, taking clear boxes of glowing red shells and tucking them into his vest.
"How many armories do you have?" John asked.
"There are twelve more in this building, thirteen in every major building and at least one in every other structure." She said, thinking about it.
"We'll come back for the rest in this building and get the others in an as needed basis." He said and she nodded.
"We'll have to come back with a couple…Puddle Jumpers, I believe you call them?" John nodded. "Some of these crates are heavy."
"Why does everything glow red?" Evan asked.
"It's stored energy. Whereas your bullets are a one time deal, you can get at least a dozen consecutive shots out of one of ours. When the energy is spent, the gun ejects the cartridge." She said and put clips into each of her guns, putting one in the chambers and flicking the safeties on, sliding them back into the holsters.
"Are the rest of the armories stocked like this?" John asked.
"This is one of the smaller ones in this building; the central armory has explosive devices of all shapes and sizes."
"The Daedelus will be back soon, they can get those. How much damage can your bombs do?"
"One sonic grenade can take out a cruiser and one pulse grenade can take out a Hive ship if placed right."
"How big is a sonic grenade?" she made a circle with her fingers about the size of a baseball. "Pulse grenade?" she widened her hands to the approximate size of a bowling ball. "Very nice, we'll definitely be picking up those."
"The pulse grenades are remote controlled, but designed in a way that if the casing is broken, say by a Wraith trying to disable it, the energy will be released all at once versus in waves."
"Destroying everything with a big boom."
"Yeah, pretty much."
"And the sonic grenades?"
"Same deal, only the energy in a sonic grenade goes outwards all at once when detonated, if the casing is broken and the energy releases, it pulls everything inwards."
"It causes things to implode instead of explode." Evan said and she nodded. "Effective, either way." He said.
"Let's get out of here." M'Rhinna said, "Do you need me to get back to this room?"
"No." John said. "I remember the way."
"Good, I want to spend the least amount of time in these compounds as possible." She said.
The trip back to the gate was uneventful with the creatures staying just out of eyesight the entire way back but not pursuing them as aggressively as before. The gate activated and John sent through his IDC. They walked through and Teyla met them on the other side.
"Did you get everything you wanted?" she asked M'Rhinna.
"Just about. Your ship the Daedelus will get the rest." M'Rhinna said and Teyla nodded.
"Their weapons tech is incredible. You should see the gun that Major Lorne picked up." John said and Evan held up the shotgun in the holster.
"I can't wait to try this baby out." He said and M'Rhinna sent him a quick smile.
"Target practice later?" she asked.
"We better." Evan said smiling back.
"Can I try out your gun, M'Rhinna?" Ronon asked and she looked at him.
"Only if I can try yours." She said.
"Deal." He said and suddenly her brow furrowed, her eyes darting to Teyla's stomach. A smile broke her face and a small laugh left her lips.
"What?" Teyla asked, putting her hands on her stomach.
"Your son just asked if he could try shooting my gun. I told him not until he's older." She said and Ronon snorted. "He's going to be a handful."
"I'm starting to get that feeling." John said. M'Rhinna looked at Ronon, seeing the look he was giving her.
"Don't look at me like that! I can't have kids with a human!" she said and they looked at the bigger man.
"I wasn't thinking that!" he said.
"You were thinking about what I would look like pregnant. I'm telling you right now, I can't have children with a human. We aren't compatible." The men in the room perked their eyebrows. "Genetically compatible."