"What did he do?" Weir surveyed the Command Center: two guards incapacitated, the tech at the console picking himself up and Teyla standing guard over her Chief Science Officer. She picked herself up off the floor.
"He's shut everything down, including systems powered by the ZPM and the naquada generators. Dr. Weir, we have no Gate shield."
Teyla knelt down by McKay. "He was attempting to use this." She held up a Wraith device.
"Is that a Wraith emergency beacon?"
"Yes."
"Is it activated?"
"No."
Thank God for small favors thought Weir. She was shaking. Not everyday you get thrown around by a friend. Not everyday the friend invites your enemy over for dinner. She collected her thoughts and transferred into command mode.
Her comm activated. "Dr. Weir this is Beckett. What the bloody hell happened? Have you found Rodney?"
"He's here doctor. We had to stun him. Hold on." She tapped her comm. "Security to Command." She switched back to Beckett. "Doctor, I am placing Dr. McKay in the brig. Have a medical team meet him down there."
"Alright people, every system needs to be checked. We need to find out what happened and how to fix it."
Weir watched as people checked under consoles and ran diagnostics through the laptops running on battery power.
"Dr. Zelenka."
No answer.
"Dr. Zelenka can you hear me?"
"Wha?" A whispered groggy voice answered.
"Dr. Zelenka are you all right?" Weir and Teyla exchanged worried glances.
"Son of a bitch punched me. Am I resident punching bag now?"
"Who?" She looked down at McKay. "Did Dr. McKay do that?"
"Yes, where is he? I will…"
"Dr. Zelenka, where are you?"
"Rodney's lab." His voice was growing stronger and more agitated.
"Dr. Beckett, medical emergency in Dr. McKay's lab."
"Not medical emergency, is cause for hateful and debilitating revenge." Radek was definitely pissed. Weir had to give a small smile.
"I was monitoring, already have a team on the way," responded Beckett.
"Dr. Zelenka, Dr. McKay has crippled Atlantis and Parcini." A thought smacked her and her stomach clenched. Parcini. Sheppard and the rest of the team that went to the building. Damn it.
"He did what? Is not the Rodney I know."
"Dr. Zelenka, Dr. McKay was compromised by a Wraith mind," interjected Teyla keeping her stunner trained on the still form.
"Will see what is on laptop here in lab. Something is running." Weir could hear him grunting. "Or maybe not, little dizzy."
Another voice interrupted the conversation. "Dr. Weir, this is Dr. Kavanagh. I am on my way to the lab."
Not her first choice but he would do. "Very good."
After what must have been an eternity or just a minute, security entered the Command Center.
"Take him to the holding cell. If he wakes up, stun him again until he is safely locked up." She took one last look at Rodney as the marines picked him up and hauled him out. Teyla followed them, escorting her teammate to the brig.
Kavanagh's voice came across the radio again. "Dr. Weir, it looks like Dr. McKay uploaded a program, that once turned back on, puts our naquada generators in a perpetual state of diagnostic." Even when just relating information, Kavanagh was as irritating as an elastic waistband on a hot summer's day. The man just had a natural whine to his voice. Very grating.
"Similar to what he did on Parcini," she said to herself. "Thank you doctor. How is Zelenka?"
"The medical team just arrived. He's doing better." Kavanagh sounded annoyed at the interruption. "I'll let you know when we figure out how to fix the problem."
McKay had been in a hurry here, no one was dead. But on Parcini, he had had time. The thought made her sick. It would be another 30 minutes before the planet checked in. Stackhouse and Dex were already there searching the city. She realized now nothing would turn up; Sheppard's team was not there. They never left the facility.
"Dr. Weir, I don't know what he did. Somehow he shut everything down: ZPM, controls, emergency fail safes, everything. This going to take awhile." The tech continued looking at his laptop and checking inside the Ancient computer console.
"Keep trying." She tapped her radio again. "Lt. Cadman."
"Cadman here."
"I need emergency security measures in place. You are the ranking military officer here. We have no Gate shield and no power."
"I'm on it."
Elizabeth looked around as her people worked. She needed to talk to McKay.
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A/N: Thank you for the reviews! You rock! I know the chapters are short but where they end seems to be the right spot. Now let's see what Weir could possibly want to talk to Rodney about.
PS: Thanks to Baileysmom for the catch. I checked and rechecked and never saw it. Duh.