18/04/2008 17:26:00
Kolya's men stopped the feeding wraith and re-locked its hand in the shackle. Kolya turned back to the people in the Control Room. "You have approximately three hours until we dial back and see if your answer to my proposal still stands," Kolya said, and the Gate deactivated.
Amber looked up from Jeremy's shoulder and glanced over at Dr. Weir, "Now what?"
"I do not know," Elizabeth confessed. "Kolya must have inside me within the Genii." She turned to Layden.
"Dr. Weir, you honestly don't think that the Genii are behind this, are you?" Layden asked.
"I don't know what to think anymore. But, what I do know is that we need to find him. For the time being, you will remain on Atlantis," Elizabeth answered.
"Dr. Weir, let me return to my people and interrogate the men in my circle that were once part of Kolya's coup," Layden protested.
"We can't trust that you can obtain the information in time and that you're people aren't behind this!" Elizabeth argued.
"Dr. Weir, would you think that I would come to Atlantis alone if the Genii were behind this?" Layden questioned, making a good point.
Five ½ Hours Later… (after second feeding and just before third…)
After the second wraith feeding, Layden was allowed to go back to his home world to interrogate those men. That was two hours and a half ago. The Atlantians started to get worried and suspicious at the wait for the address that Layden would supply them. But up 'til now, they heard nothing.
Raine and Amber sat on the steps separating the Gate and Control Rooms, each had a mug of hot chocolate and marsh mellows. "It sucks that we can't go with them to find John when Layden dials in," Amber muttered, before sipping her hot chocolate.
"Well, Alek wouldn't let me go even if we could," Raine said.
"Alek, is well… Alek," Amber replied. "At least you still have your abilities. I can't activate a personal shield!"
Raine sighed, sensing that Alek was nearby. "We'll get your powers back, hopefully," she assured her,
"Hopefully?" Amber snapped, taking a sip of her hot chocolate.
"Well, it's going to be difficult, borderline impossible," Raine grumbled.
"You have no idea how to, do you?" Amber asked, and when Raine shook her head, she sighed. Raine explained to her that she had lost her powers years, years ago and she could remember how her… her… d-dad got them back. Amber was not very enthusiastic about the story.
"That helps," Amber grumbled, looking at the StarGate.
"Sorry," Raine said, following Amber's gaze and then something hit her. "Something just dawned on me. In John's absence, aren't you the ranking military officer on Atlantis."
Amber nearly dropped the mug and jumped to her feet. Thanking Raine, she dashed up the stairs and into Dr. Weir's office. "Dr. Weir!" Amber exclaimed. "I'm going on that mission once Layden dials in."
"No, you're not," Elizabeth replied, looking up from what she was doing.
Placing her mug on Elizabeth's desk, Amber said, "Actually, since I am the ranking officer in John's absence, I have the power, and the authority to go on this mission."
Elizabeth sighed, knowing that Amber was right. In John's absence, Amber was the highest-ranking military personal on Atlantis. Major Lauren had been promoted after. "You're right," Elizabeth admitted. "You are the ranking officer. I have no choice but to let you go."
Amber smiled, and as she did the StarGate activated; it was Layden.
After the Mission…
Amber and the rest of her team returned to Atlantis, they had been sent to the wrong planet. However, Kolya had not dialed in yet.
"What do you think is keeping Kolya?" Ronan asked.
"You're not thinking John's dead are you?" Rodney stammered.
"No, I was thinking that he escaped, though that is a possibility," Ronan grumbled.
Amber turned to them, her eyes narrowed, "We will NOT think about that."
The Gate reactivated and Layden was on the screen, receiving very harsh words from Elizabeth. Amber listened in and leaned against one of the pillars; now she was PISSED OFF. Layden's image disappeared and Elizabeth told the Gate Control person to dial a certain address. "We're not out of luck yet," Elizabeth said, as she turned to Amber.
Amber ran down the stairs, trying not to fall, and nodded to her team as well as locking eyes with Jeremy before stepping through the gate. Once on the other side of the event horizon, Amber turned to her team, "I'll stay by the Gate, because, one: it's the safest place for me, and two: If Kolya heads for the Gate, I want to shoot him."
As a reply, the rest of the team nodded and disappeared off into the trees. Jeremy glanced over his shoulder, seeing Amber climb into a tree and load a nine-millimeter. He couldn't help but smile just before running after the team ahead of him. The way they looked into the silent forest was hinting at the fact that they were waiting for something to happen.
There was a shout, followed by gunfire and the team dashed toward it. They entered a clearing and feasted their eyes on the sight of a wraith standing in the center of dead Genii. Before the team did anything, or was spotted by the wraith, the wraith walked over to the very old looking John and began to, what looked like, feed on what was left of him. Ronan walked up behind the wraith and pulled him back, and just he as about to shoot John, normal John, jumped up. "It's alright, he's a friend!" John said, motioning for the team to lower their weapons.
John took Ronan's gun and shot the wraith, though it was set on stun. "Hey," Rodney exclaimed, "he looks younger than before!" John shrugged and told the team to drag the wraith back to the jumper for they were going to bring it to a wraith home world.
Back with Amber…
Kolya was jogging toward the gate, none of his men were behind him. Amber jumped down from the tree as he started to press the symbols on the DHD.
"Kolya!" Amber shouted, sounding like John with a feminine voice. "you're not leaving this planet!"
"Major, it is good to see you again," Kolya said, hitting the blue button on the DHD, activating the StarGate.
Kolya made a run for the event horizon and leapt through, just missing a bullet from Amber's gun. Amber tossed her gun to the ground and cried out in anger and frustration. After retrieving the gun, she disappeared into the trees, looking for the rest of her team. The sound of Ronan's gun rang through the trees and Amber ran toward it. She emerged into the clearing where her team and John stood over a stunned wraith.
"What the hell!?" Amber exclaimed after Ronan said John had just stunned it. John turned around, with a surprised smile on his face. He tossed Ronan the gun and embraced Amber with a lung-crushing hug.
"Can't breathe…" Amber muttered under the pressure of her father's arms.
Later that Night…
Amber and Raine sat in Amber's quarters, each with another mug of hot chocolate in their hands. On the floor was Amber's laptop, they were browsing through Amber's video and photo files. Amber looked at Raine and asked, "What next?"
Raine took the mouse and went to Amber's documents folder and scrolled down. She stopped at the file titled: July 6th 2004. In the file was a video icon.
"What's this?" Raine questioned, moving the cursor to the icon, but not opening it.
"Um," Amber hesitated.
"This is… footage from the crash, isn't it?" Raine asked, remembering Amber mentioning a crash of sorts a while back.
"Yeah," Amber sighed, and then nodded when Raine asked if she could watch it. Coincidentally, as Raine double-clicked on the file, Jeremy, John (he wanted to see Amber for something), and Alek (he wanted Raine) entered the room.
"Sit down, why don't'cha. It's like this room is wired," Amber muttered, grabbing her pillow off her bed and held it in her arms as the video started. Jeremy couldn't help but laugh as he sat down next to his fiancé, wrapping his arm around her shoulders and having her lean her lean against him. John leaned against the door; he watched the video in interest and suspicion.
YAY! VIDEO TIME!!
"You ready?" Jay Sheppard asked as he held the camcorder in front of him.
"I guess," the 19-year-old Amber replied. She was standing next to a fighter jet. There were army guys filling the rear part of it.
Jeremy smiled at her, for he was standing beside her. He kissed her cheek causing her to blush. "Don't crash," Jeremy laughed.
"Well, I'll try," Amber replied sarcastically as she climbed the ladder to the pilot seat of the jet. Jay had climbed up after her, but just stood on the ladder with the camera in Amber's face.
"So, any last words?" Jay asked.
Amber hesitated before saying, "Well, personally, I have no idea what I'm getting into, but I guess I'm doing this for mom. Oh, and for daddy. No, not the evil daddies, but the one good one, wherever he is. Let's just hope I'm as good as a flyer as the tests say."
"Sergeant!" The general of the air base said, coming up to the jet (Jay climbed down as the general approached). "Are you ready?"
The cover of the jet closed and sealed shut. Amber put on the headphones and said through the attached microphone, "Ready for take off, sir!"
The general nodded and placed his hands behind his back and the three of them (Jay, Jeremy and the general) stepped back from the jet, camera still rolling. The jet's rear doors closed and the jet took off. When the jet was out of the base, Jay and Jeremy ran to the edge of the open gate.
"Shit…" Jay muttered, as the camera started to fuzz.
The Camera fuzzed…
"Control," Amber said, through her headphones, "I've got two homing missiles, I don't think I can shake them!" The flashed from fuzzy to not, showing glances of the jet spinning, diving and trying to loose the missiles a couple miles away.
Amber's point of view…
The rear door of the jet opened and Amber shouted to the people in the rear, "Get out!" Some of the army people jumped though some protested by saying they won't leave her alone to die.
"Listen to me! JUMP or I'll make you fall out!" Amber ordered in a shout. The army people still refused and the jet went straight up, causing them to fall out. Amber shut the rear doors and looked at the radar at the three homing missiles behind her.
Back in the Base, the Camera now working…
"Amber!" Jay and Jeremy shouted in unison as the camera refocus on the three missiles penetrating the jet, making it go up in smoke and dive toward the ground.
Back in Amber's Quarters…
Amber pressed her head into her pillow, squeezing it tightly. Raine saw Amber do that in the corner of her eye and stopped the video, they had seen enough. John had gotten so interested, his face was almost through the laptop screen. He looked at Amber and hesitantly asked, "What happened next?"
At sounds of Amber grumbling into the pillow, Jeremy said, "Well, we took out a Jeep and drove to the remains of the jet. There we found Amber, bruised, burned, cut, and her right leg crushed by the body of the burning plane. Obviously, she was rushed to a military hospital underwent surgery."
"I doubt it's my business, but what was she diagnosed with?" John asked.
Amber lifted her head from the pillow, before Jeremy could reply. "Extreme damage to the memory portion of my brain, severed leg, some third degree burns, usual crap from plane crashes," Amber said softly, rolling up her right pant leg, revealing a long scar that ran from her hip to the middle of her thigh. "Everything healed except for this. This is why you'll see the occasional stiffness or limp when I walk," Amber said, before pulling down her pant leg.
That should fill in some answers for ya. Oh, and to see some pictures we collected of our SGA cast: go to and search for "TwiDwagon" and browse through our pics.
Sorry about the long wait for an update. We had a lot of stuff going on, but now that we're on vacation we can really update and make you peoplez happy!