Disclaimer: Not mine, never is though i wish i could claim Ronon Dex and the smexiness that is him.
A/N: so i had writers block for most of this week so that's why there hasnt been all that many updates, but i hope this makes you all happy. Theres more action to come after this chapter. Well kind of, drama, action killing and all that fun stuff. ENJOY!
Chapter thirty-eight
As stealthily and quietly as she could Natalie ran down the hallways with her gun held up defensively in case someone decided to try and attack her – if they did they definitely would not be coming out of that fight alive that was for sure. Turning down yet another hallway Natalie continued on her way to the Biology Lab to get Becky.
Becky may have been living in Atlantis for quite a while now and she might be able to somewhat fight now but she's never been in a life threatening situation before. She might h ave known that it would happen and knows what she was supposed to do if it happened but you never are truly prepared until you come face to face with the danger. Being in the Pegasus galaxy and living in Atlantis was dangerous, sure for the most part it's just science and field work and Becky isn't the one going off world where the real danger is but even so, it is dangerous place to live nonetheless. Natalie has learned first hand just how dangerous it is living there, not just from her time with Altozia but other missions that she has been on before.
Touching her ear comm Natalie tried radioing Becky, though she doubted that she would answer her. "Becky," Natalie whispered. "Becky come in, where are you. It's Natalie, answer me damn it." she demanded but still didn't get a response.
Natalie huffed in annoyance, one thing that bothered her about Becky was that Becky was prone to not wearing her ear comm at times she said that they bothered her and made her ear itch.
"Damn it Becky when I get my hands on you I am so duct taping your damn ear comm to your head." Natalie seethed.
Running around a corner to where the Biology Lab was at Natalie had to quickly duck and cover behind the wall, three of the Abaroian soldiers were shooting at her and one managed to get her in the arm. She was pissed now, they made her bleed on her favorite shirt.
Standing up but still staying close to the wall Natalie peaked over to where she knew the Abaroian soldiers were, there were four of them all heavily armed and heavily muscled. So that meant one thing, not hand to hand combat it would have to strictly be firearm only.
"You do realize your leader sent you on a suicide mission right?" Natalie yelled to them. "I mean there are ten times more of us then there are of you here, how are you expecting to get out of here alive?" she asked them.
One of the men laughed at her, "We will get out of here, or better yet we will overtake your home." he said arrogantly. "Just you wait, by the end of the day you all will be bowing down to us."
When he said that Natalie got a determined look on her face, and held up her version of Ronon's gun. "Really?" she asked them.
"Yes, you are all too weak." another man, much younger then the first said.
Natalie smirked to herself and quickly stepped out of the safety of the wall and shot at two of the soldiers, effectively killing them and then jumped back behind the wall but not before getting shot again, in the same arm.
Before Natalie was able to curse at the men for shooting her again her radio went off, "Where are you Natalie?" Ronon asked through the ear comm. "You should have made it to the Bio Lab by now. What the hell are you doing?" he asked.
"Well I'm kind of in the middle of getting shot at," Natalie told him tersely. "Its really tons of fun." she told him sarcastically.
Ronon growled over the radio, "Where are you? I'm coming to you." he said to her.
Natalie rolled her eyes to herself, "No you aren't Ronon. I'm fine, nothing too major. Stay where you are. I can deal with this myself." she told him.
"Natalie," Ronon started but got cut off by her.
"Hold that thought," she said to him and then turned her attention back to the two soldiers that were shooting at her.
Peaking around the corner she shot one in the chest, the other aimed at her before Natalie could do the same to him and took a shot at her, she quickly crouched down and rolled onto the ground. Hurriedly she aimed her gun up at him and shot him right in between the eyes, sighing Natalie got back up on her feet.
"Ronon I'll radio you when I get to Becky." she said and then turned her radio off and continued down the hallway towards Becky, stepping over the bodies of the soldiers that she just killed.
Turning left down a hallway Natalie breathed a sigh of relief when she saw that it was completely deserted, which meant that there shouldn't be anyone in or around the Biology Lab. Slowly Natalie entered the Biology lab and headed towards the room that she knew Becky worked in, scoping out the rooms just to be sure that there was no Abaroian soldier hiding in wait for an opportunity just like this.
"Becky," Natalie whispered. "Becky are you here?" she asked again a bit louder.
There was the sound of movement coming from a cupboard, cautiously Natalie headed over to the said cupboard with her gun pointed at it and then she carefully opened it. There scrunched up inside the cupboard was Becky, who looked to be quite uncomfortable.
Natalie gave her an amused smile, "Seriously?" she asked. "How the hell did you fit in here?" she asked.
"Not easily I can tell you that." she said to her and stuck her arm out. "A little help would be nice." she said to her.
Shaking her head at her friend Natalie grabbed Becky's hand and hauled her out of the cupboard, "Are you okay?" she asked looking at her friend intently.
At that Becky nodded, "Yeah just a bit freaked out is all. Never been in a situation like this before." she told her.
Natalie nodded, "Yeah I know." she said and pulled out her normal gun and handed it to Becky. "Here."
"What?" Becky asked and immediately shook her head. "No Nat, I don't need that." she said to her backing away from her a bit.
Sighing Natalie looked at Becky, "You need this because you and I are going back out there and getting to the others." she said as she walked back towards the exit of the lab. "Unless of course you would rather stay here and let them come to you and find you vulnerable in here without a weapon." she said with a raised brow.
Hearing that Becky gave Natalie a glare, "Fine." she said taking the gun from Natalie.
"One rule using the gun," Natalie said and paused for a moment. "You shoot to kill, no exceptions." she told her seriously.
At that Becky hesitated, "Nat I don't thi-"
Natalie cut her off, "No exceptions Becky." she told her fiercely. "If you don't aim to kill then you will end up being the one killed and I don't want that to happen to you. I'm the one who would have to go back down to Earth and tell your grandmother. So you will shoot to kill you got it."
"Okay, I'll do it." Becky said with a nod.
So with that said and done the two girls quickly left the Biology Lab and headed towards where all of the fighting was going on at – the gate Room. Becky wasn't so sure about going head first into battle so to say but she knew that if she wanted to stay alive that it was best to stick with Natalie.
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It didn't take Natalie and Becky all that long to find out where all of the fighting was happening at, sure they could hear gun fire and fighting going on all over the place but mainly it was coming from the Gate Room which was where Natalie figured everyone was at.
Without a second thought Natalie jumped right into the fight; killing everyone and anything that wasn't one of the Atlantean's and doing her damnedest to find Altozia – she was going to make him suffer like she did and hopefully send his ass to hell. Of course that was after she figured out who it was that gave them the information on where Atlantis was, they couldn't just let anybody know the coordinates.
While fighting Natalie made sure to keep Becky in her line of sight, making sure that she would be able to jump in and help if Becky needed it. It seemed, at least from what Natalie could see that all of those self defense lessons were really coming in handy to Becky. She was taking care of herself pretty well.
"Natalie behind you!" Becky yelled at her.
Turning around Natalie punched a gun in the face who was trying to sneak up on her and then did a round house kick to another guy that was besides her, pushing him over she stomped on his hand and aimed her gun at one of the other soldiers and killed him before he could get to one of the Atlantean's.
It didn't take long for the people of Atlantis to gain the upper hand and disarm any of the remaining Abaroian people and round them all up and make them sit in the middle of the Stargate Room. It wasn't like there were very many to start with anyways and even less now since quite a few had been killed in the fighting.
"You're hurt," Ronon said as he stood in front of Natalie and looked down at her left arm that had two bullet wounds in them. "And you didn't radio me." he said gruffly.
At that Natalie sighed, "Sorry me and Becky were kind of busy running over here." she told him.
He gave her an annoyed look but let it go, "You should go see Beckett," Ronon told her.
"I'm fine," Natalie said waving his concern off. "Is Altozia still alive?" she asked changing the subject.
"Yeah," he answered her. "Won't be for much longer though." he said as he charged his gun back up.
Natalie narrowed her eyes when he said that. "If anyone is going to kill him it's going to be me, I am the one that he did the most damage to." she told him with a deadly look in her eyes.
Becky interrupted, "Are you sure you really want to kill him Nat? I mean I get that he put you through hell but is killing him really worth it?" she asked.
Both Ronon and Natalie looked at Becky, both forgetting that she had been standing there with them.
"Yeah Becky," Natalie said with a nod. "it'd be worth it." she told her seriously and then looked at Ronon. "Where is he?" she asked as she looked around the Stargate room where the other soldiers of Altozia's were gathered up at.
Ronon gestured towards the stairs, "Up in the conference room, Carter figured it would be better that way. Wouldn't be able to manipulate his people." he told her as he gave her an understanding look.
Breathing in deeply Natalie took off and headed up the stairs towards the conference room before Ronon or Becky were able to say anything else to her, as Natalie entered the conference room Carter and the others looked at her not sure if they should restrain her or not.
"Natalie I don't thi-" Carter started.
Before Carter was able to finish her sentence Ronon barged into the room and stood behind Natalie supportively; John, Teyla, Rodney, Lorne and Emilia were all in the conference room as well so that they could deal with Altozia.
"Well it's a party now," John said which earned him a glare from Carter.
Carter turned back towards Natalie, "Natalie I don't think that it is wise for you to be here right now." she said to her softly. "You are the one who had the worst experience with him and you are very emotional right now." she said to her. "I think it would be best if you would go back to your room."
At that Natalie narrowed her eyes at Carter, "No. I'm staying. I at least deserve that and you know it. He killed my brother, my best friend I deserve to be here more then anyone." she argued.
Carter opened her mouth to argue again but Ronon looked down at her, "We're staying." he said determinedly.
"All right." she said, Carter knew when she was arguing a lost battle.
Natalie stepped farther into the conference room and went over and approached Altozia where he was tied up at, when he saw her approaching he smirked at her and looked her up and down as if he was trying to undress her with his eyes,
"I see you healed up well," he sneered at her.
Scoffing Natalie crossed her arms and looked down at him, "Yeah, no thanks to you." she stated.
He laughed at that, "Well, if it was up to me Lady," he said to her, insinuating that Natalie really wasn't a lady. "You and your friends would have never made it off of my planet, in fact I would have kept you as my personal whore."
Once he finished that sentence Ronon tried to jump at Altozia so that he could strangle or kill him but John jumped in front of him before he could go through with that plan and shook his head. Ronon grunted and stood back behind Natalie and kept a steady glare on Altozia, as much as he wanted to kill Altozia he couldn't they had to find out how exactly the Abaroian people got Atlantis' gate address.
A/N: Hope you liked the chapter. Please review as usual. if not i may withhold cookies and hot chocolate or something of that sort. Or for you more of age people no sex on the beach drinks or any alcohol at all.