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Chapter Twenty-One

The noise of the explosions outside alerted Kolya; that John's team had arrived. "It would seem you were right Doctor Weir. They did follow us here."

Elizabeth was lying, half unconscious on the floor. When he spoke.

Kolya debated whether to use the gun or not as she struggled to stay awake. "I believe it's time for me to depart from your company."

Leaving Elizabeth lying on the floor Kolya turned and started to leave the room; knowing he wasn't going to get any more information form her, then what he already had."

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Back in the woods the Phantom still lay on the ground. Suddenly white light emanated from someone's hands, which hovered over the creature's bandaged wound.

Within minutes the Phantom was up on its feet. It looked at the person who'd just healed it; before looking in the direction John's team went.

Zenta stood up, once he knew the Phantom would be all right. "We should leave them be." He Suggested. But he knew which side the Phantom had chosen and he was right because it had run off in that direction.

Accepting its choice Zenta turned and headed back to the Stargate.

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John got up of the ground having pulled himself out of the mud that had covered him thanks to the explosions. He looked himself over and could see he was covered in dirt and scratches.

Looking around he spotted Rodney not far from him, laying face down; he too was in the same state as him. As he turned him over he spotted Kolya walking towards them.

Kolya stopped a few feet from him and raised his weapon. "It would seem my trap wasn't totally efficient. Guess I'll have to finish the job."

Just as Kolya was about to pull the trigger, the Phantom appeared from nowhere; growled at him before knocking Kolya to the ground from the left side.

Kolya yelled out as he went down with a thud, soon after claw marks on his face appeared as the creature swiped him. After a struggle Kolya was back on his feet having thrown the creature of balance and was running away from them.

Both the Phantom and John starred at each other for a few seconds, before the creature continued in the direction Kolya had come.

Rodney had started to stir and John helped him up. Before he went to help the others.

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Although Ford was nursing a broken arm, everyone had survived the surprise attack and they ended up following the direction the Phantom headed as the lifesigns detector was broken in the fall.

They soon came up on an old run down stone building. The Phantom was clawing at the locked door, which appeared to be made of cast iron.

John rushed forward to try and open it, but could see it was securely locked. He hammered on the door and called Elizabeth's name. "Elizabeth are you in there?"

No reply came.

Ford and Rodney searched round the building and spotted a small window just above their heads around the back. Rodney tried jumping up to see if he could see in and caught a glimpse of Elizabeth lying on the floor. He took one look at Ford before rushing off to tell John, Ford was close behind him.

"John she's in there," called Rodney before he reached him, "but it looks like another door beyond this one."

John pulled out a grenade from his belt. "Good excuse to use this then."

Pulling the pin out he tucked it in a cubbyhole near the lock and quickly ran away; calling the Phantom as he did.

Not sure what was going on, the Phantom agreed to follow. The minute it reached John's teams position the grenade went off, blowing the door inwards.

Not wasting a second, John bolted through the entrance door, and ran down the corridor ahead of him, soon reaching the wooden door inside the building. He was just about to ram it when the Phantom stopped him; it's front paws on his chest keeping him away from it.

John tried to shake it off, when Rodney caught something in the door handle. "The Son of a bitch has rigged the door lock."

John's eyes went wide; knowing the creature just saved them all yet again, due to his haste to reach Elizabeth. "Can you defuse it McKay?"

"I'm not sure, it's the type that needs to be defused from the inside and Elizabeth didn't seem in the best of conditions to be helping us with that."

TBC

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