Blast From the Past
by Martha (and cats)

The gate expelled its unexpected traveler with a minim of fuss. The same could not been said for the reaction of the staff.

RODNEY is in the lab working at a computer.
SHEPPARD over com: Hey Rodney, you've got a... visitor, in the gate room.
RODNEY: Ha, ha. (looks up from computer) While I'm sure prank calls are solidly within your purview, can you please not interrupt me while I'm working!
SHEPPARD over com: No, I think you're going to want to see this.
RODNEY sputters.
SHEPPARD over com: Humor me McKay.

RODNEY enters the gate room, focusing on SHEPPARD
RODNEY: This had better be important. Do you realize how critical my work is to keeping this place up again running? Unless you've grown gills in the past-- (RODNEY stops when he sees the ALIEN)
SHEPPARD: (stopping his watch) 3.7 seconds, damn.
FORD: Told you.
ALIEN: Doctor McKay?
RODNEY: Yes, well... (to SHEPPARD) This is some sort of joke, isn't it.
SHEPPARD: Nope, no joke. (to FORD) I really though he'd last longer.
FORD: Pay up man, pay up.
RODNEY: This is a joke!
ALIEN: I don't understand.
RODNEY: YOU don't understand? I get pulled out of my lab for, for, well whatever you are.
ALIEN: But I took this form specifically for you.
SHEPPARD: (snickers) What?
ALIEN: We scanned Doctor McKay's memories and this was the being he most respected, that was not already on Atlantis.
FORD cracks up.
SHEPPARD, on the verge of joining FORD in mirth, raises an eyebrow at RODNEY.
RODNEY (frustrated): I was a young, impressionable youth.
SHEPPARD cracks up.
RODNEY: God damn it.
ALIEN: Have I done something wrong?
DR. WIER enters the gate room and stops.
DR. WIER: What's going on here?
FORD and SHEPPARD are still laughing to hard to answer.
DR. WIER: And who is that? (nods towards ALIEN)
RODNEY: (mutters)
DR. WIER: Rodney?
RODNEY: It's Hank McCoy. pause I don't want to talk about it.

-The End-

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