Rodney was beginning to get worried, it had been several days since he'd pulled his prank on John and Aiden and they had yet to retaliate. Rodney was starting to get paranoid; everywhere he went he was always looking over his shoulder and what not.
Carson wasn't quite as paranoid as Rodney since neither John nor Aiden had indicated they knew Carson had been in on the prank, but that didn't mean they didn't suspect, so Carson was being cautious everywhere he went as well.
"Maybe they aren't going to retaliate, maybe they're trying to be grown up about this whole thing." Carson stated as he and Rodney sat in the commissary eating breakfast.
"Are you that naïve?" Rodney questioned. "Of course they're going to retaliate. They're probably just trying to build it up a bit with some suspense, since odds are its not going to be anywhere near as genius as ours was."
"I hope you're right."
"Of course I'm right, I'm always right." With that Rodney went back to eating his food and Carson followed suite.
"T-1 targets are on the move headed your way." John's voice announced over the radio.
"Roger that sir." Aiden replied from where he was standing in front of one of the transporters, along with two Sergeants. "All right you two know what to do."
Aiden left the two Sergeants by the transporter and met up with John down the opposite hallway that Rodney and Carson were coming down, so they wouldn't be seen. Soon Carson and Rodney arrived at the transporter and tried to get on, but were stopped by the two Sergeants.
"We need to see your transporter passes." One Sergeant spoke.
"Our what?" Carson sounded confused.
"Your transporter passes sirs. Dr. Weir felt that all the excessive transporter use was an un-necessary drain on power. So the only way you can use the transporter is if you have a pass."
"You're joking right? This is some kind of joke." Rodney couldn't believe it.
Just then a Captain and a Lt. came walking up to the transporter. Stopping the two pulled out their passes when asked for their transporter passes. The Sergeants looked the passes over and then allowed the two on the transporter.
"No sir. If you have a problem with it you'll have to take it up with Dr. Weir, we're just following orders." The Sergeant, turning back to Rodney, answered the question.
Watching Rodney and Carson take off, presumably to try and find a different transporter to use, which they wouldn't find since all the transporters from that level all the way to the control room had guards, John and Aiden came out of hiding, huge grins on their faces.
Congratulating the two Sergeants and the Captain and Lt., who hadn't actually gone anywhere on the transporter just stood inside it, on a job well done John and Aiden left to set up phase two.
"Do you think the Major and Lt. are pulling their prank on us?" Carson asked as he and Rodney started down yet another set of stairs.
"Can't be." Rodney replied.
"Why not?"
"Because for one thing it would be too brilliant a prank for those two Neanderthals to come up with and two we did both miss that last staff meeting because of unavoidable reasons, so it is possible these passes are for real and Weir just hasn't had a chance to inform us yet."
"Major target one is headed your way." Aiden informed John over the radio.
"Copy that." John responded, then turned to Peter. "Alright Grodin your up."
"Yes sir."
John left the control room moments before Rodney entered with out Carson, who had been called away to the infirmary. Not seeing Elizabeth right away Rodney figured she was in her office and was about to head in there when he was stooped by Peter.
"Dr. McKay I'm afraid you can't go in there right now."
"And why not?"
"Dr. Weir is very busy at the moment and has asked not to be disturbed. But perhaps I can be of assistance."
"Depends what do you know about these transporter passes?"
"I take it this means you haven't been to your lab yet today?"
"No I haven't what's that got to do with anything?"
"Since you were unable to attend the last staff meeting and Dr. Weir knew she would be busy all day she had a memo about the new passes and the request form delivered to your lab first thing this morning."
"Right of course she would. I guess I'll just head there then." With out another word Rodney left the control room headed for his lab.
Once Peter was sure Rodney was out of earshot he keyed his radio, "Target one has left the control one and is headed for his lab."
"Roger that. Target two has just arrived in the infirmary." Ford replied.
Upon arriving in the infirmary Carson was surprised to find no one but the occasional nurse around. After questioning one of them Carson was informed that no, none of them had paged him to the infirmary and that they hadn't had anyone in there all morning.
Figuring he might as well get some paper work done since he was there Carson entered his office and sat down to begin working. Reaching over to pick up his lap top Carson found that it wouldn't budge, confused he tried lifting other various items off his desk only to discover they wouldn't budge either, someone had super glued everything on his desk to the desk. Carson had a good idea who was behind the super glue and why.
"Sheppard, Ford." Carson whispered under his breath. It was going to take Carson forever to get everything pulled off his desk.
"Target two has received glue surprise." Aiden's voice came over the radio.
"Understood. Target one has reached his lab." John responded.
Reaching his lab Rodney quickly moved over to his desk and pulled out his chair intending to sit down. But when he pulled his chair out all of the none breakable things that had been on his desk came flying off. It didn't take Rodney long to learn that fishing wire had been tied to the things on his desk and his chair.
"Ha, ha very funny Major, if this is the best you can come up with then I've already won." Rodney ignoring the mess on the floor turned to his desk and spotted a folder that had to be at least an inch think with 'Transporter Pass' written on it.
Figuring Elizabeth had sent more then just a memo and request form for him to look at Rodney opened the folder and skimmed the first page, which was just the memo telling him all about the transporter passes and why they were being used. Setting the first page aside Rodney was surprised to see the next page was the beginning of the request form, it seemed like there were a million pages he had to fill out in order to get a stupid pass.
Muttering something about evil paper work Rodney got to work filling out the request form.
It wasn't until a few hours later when he'd finallygotten everything unglued from his desk that Carson noticed the folder with 'Transporter Pass' written on it. Curious as to what might be in it Carson opened the folder and found the same things inside that Rodney had and like Rodney, Carson quickly got started on filling it out.
By the time Rodney and Carson had finished filling out the request forms and found a free moment it was well into the evening. Entering the control room at around the same time both spotted Elizabeth speaking with John, Aiden, and Peter.
"Alright we've filled out your stupid little request form." Rodney in formed Elizabeth. "Now can we have are passes?"
"Rodney I have no idea what you're talking about." Elizabeth stated.
"You know the transporter passes, so we can use the transporters…" Carson spoke up.
Noticing the confused look on Elizabeth's face both men looked at each other for a second then turned their gaze on the others. Seeing the smug little grins on John and Aiden's faces and the amused look on Peter's, it dawned on Rodney and Carson that the transporter passes had been the real prank and the whole thing with the super glue and fishing wire had been a distraction and Elizabeth had, had no idea about any of it.
"This isn't over, not by a long shot." Rodney threatened, pointing a finger at John and Aiden, before storming out of the control room followed by Carson.
A confused Elizabeth watched the retreating forms of her CMO and head scientist, before turning back to the others.
"What was that all about?" Elizabeth asked only to have John hand her one the folders Rodney and Carson had left behind. Taking a minute to skim through the papers in the folder Elizabeth couldn't help the surprise as well as admiration that entered her voice. "You didn't?"
John and Aiden just grinned their goofy smug little grins and left the room.
A/N: Hey this story won't be over for another few chapters or so but I do have an idea for how to end it but I need a really good one last prank so if you have any ideas or anything I'd like to hear them and see if you might have something better than me.