"Alliances of Magic and Science"
Chapter 3
(Mutant X Sanctuary)
The Mutant X team was doing there usual things when the world didn't need saving. Nicole regretted interrupting their nice, relaxing day. Rather suddenly Nicole arrived in Sanctuary, engulfed in fire.
Shalimar jumped back, Brennan and Jesse stood there, and Lexa used her power to attack. But, Nicole's fire shield just absorbed the hits. Lexa gave up after a few minutes. Once she stopped Dr. Allison 'turned off' the shield.
"Nicole!" Shalimar sounded surprised.
She plunged forward and gave her a huge hug.
"Hey, guys," Nicole said.
"Who the hell is she?" Lexa asked.
"Dr. Nicole Allison, Anthropologist slash Archeologist at your service," she said
"Also Mutant slash Phoenix slash Adam's niece," Jesse said, giving Nicole a hug.
"Adam's niece! He never said anything about having a niece!" Lexa said.
"He didn't technically," Nicole said.
"It's a long story, Lexa," Brennan said, also giving Nicole a hug.
"Which we don't have time to tell you right now, I'm afraid," Nicole said.
"What's up?" Brennan asked.
"Evelyn has been kidnapped by Anubis and was turned into a Goa'uld host," she explained.
"Oh my god," Shalimar said.
"Who's Evelyn and Anubis. And what's a Goold?" Lexa asked.
"Goa'uld," Nicole corrected her.
"How could she possibly be kidnapped in a High Security Base?" Jesse asked.
"There was an Anubis spy among the Tok'ra," she said. "Look, I'll explain on the way back to the base. We need to leave as soon as possible."
"Okay, let's go," Brennan said.
But nobody moved.
"I can't teleport everyone that long of a distance. I was planning on using the Double Helix to get us there," Nicole said.
"Right," Jesse said.
(Sanctuary, The Lab)
Dr. Allison stood in the middle of the lab. Shalimar appeared at the doorway.
"The guys have the Helix ready to leave," she said.
Nicole nodded.
"Uncle Adam spent a lot of time in here, didn't he?" Nicole said.
"He sure did," Shalimar moved over to where Nicole was standing. "He spent all of his time in here, actually."
"I can still sense him in here I can feel his presence as if he never died," Nicole sighed. "Well, we should get going. We wouldn't want the boys to worry and I don't thinks Lexa cares,"
"You don't like her?" Shalimar asked as they started walking in the appropriate direction.
"It's not that I don't like her, I just don't trust her," Nicole said. "She seems so unpredictable and I have trouble reading her when we first met."
Shalimar gave a weird look.
"In my business, you have to be suspicious of anybody like Lexa," Nicole said.
(Double Helix)
Through out the first half of the journey back to the SGC base Dr. Allison seemed unusually quiet. Shalimar, who was sitting next to her, leaned to her side and asked:
"Are you alright?"
A tear escaped from Nicole and trickled down her cheek. She quickly wiped it away.
"I will be when Daniel wakes up from his coma, when I get my daughter back and when all of the Goa'uld are dead and gone," Nicole said.
"So, are you guys planning on filling me in, or are you just gonna leave me in the dark here?" Lexa said.
"Well, we were thinking of just leaving you in the dark," Jesse teased from the one of the two pilot seat.
"Very funny, Jess." she said.
"You guys don't mind helping out on this one," Nicole said.
The three shook there heads.
So, with help from Mutant X, Nicole brought Lexa up to speed on the situation.
"I realize it sounds crazy. At first we thought it was too," Brennan finished.
"Oh, with the things I've seen it sounds perfectly normal," Lexa told him. "It's the fact that the Dominion doesn't know about the SGC that's making me a little uneasy."
"What, you can't trust even the people you work for?" Dr. Allison asked.
The Mutant X team looked at her warningly.
"I don't blame you," Nicole said calmly.
Brennan, Shalimar, and Jesse sighed with relief.
"We're about 5 minutes away from Cheyenne Mountain," Jesse announced.
"Good," Nicole said. "Once we're there I'm gonna hand you over to Major Davis. He'll be waiting for you."
"What are you going to do?" Shalimar said.
"I have to catch a plane to L.A. There's a team that I must recruit. I'm gonna asked them to join us," Nicole said.
"Well, we're going to need all the help we can get," Jesse said.
To be continued . . .