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ch. 3 Last Chance
SGA-1 stood in the gate room waiting to go to the planet designated M5X-226, also known as Manderlina. Above them, Terras stood by the control panel trying to get Teyla's attention. Teyla knew this but refused to look.
She felt a light tap on her shoulder and turned around to see Ronon. "Terras is trying to say something to you." Teyla finally looked up to see Terras holding up a sign that said, 'This mission, please?' Teyla's face went red and she turned away, hoping her other team mates wouldn't notice the sign. She had no such luck.
"Do what this mission?" McKay just couldn't keep his mouth shut. John heard him and turned to look. Teyla made a mental note to shout 'Wraith' on a future mission and watch the scientist scramble behind a tree, dropping his equiptment in the process.
"Teyla!" Terras' voice cut through her thoughts like a knife. Teyla reluctantly turned to see her holding another sign that said, 'It could be your last chance.' Teyla glared murderously at the grinning psychiatrist. Forget watching McKay break his equiptment, when she got back, Teyla would send some of the most whiniest scientists to Terras. That included McKay and Kavanaugh.
John smirked at Teyla's murderous expression. "Do I even want to know what you and Terras are up to?" Teyla turned and glared at him.
"I doubt it." John smirked again and turned around, waiting for the gate to dial up.
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The lush green forrest before them seemed to stretched on for miles. There was a path that led to the right of the gate. The team followed it and eventually came to a small village. It was eerily quiet as no one seemed to be around. A man, looking like he was in his early fourties, walked a few hundred feet in front of them.
"HEY!" John called. The man heard him call and waited for the four strangers to catch up.
"Hello. I am Tomen." Tomen greeted them with a smile. He examined each member closely. His eyes rested on Teyla and she blushed at Tomen's attention.
"I'm Lt. Col. Sheppard. This is Dr. McKay, Teyla Emmagen, and Ronon Dex." John looked around at the deserted village. "Where is everyone?"
"They are hunting." Tomen repeated the lines Hotep had given him on the mother ship. "One of us must remain to take care of the animals and greet people from other worlds." Tomen secretly pressed a button on the device Hotep had given him and almost immediately, fifty jaffa surrounded them.
"What's going on?" Ronon demanded.
"They're jaffa." McKay answered.
"Drop you weapons and come with us." One of them said. Reluctantly, seeing as there was no way they would be able to win a fight, the team put all of their weapons on the ground. One of the jaffa searched them for any hidden weapons. Finding none, he ordered them to take off their vests and jackets. Then another jaffa behind them prodded them with his staff weapon to start walking. Tomen happily handed over the device he had and skipped away.
"What are they doing in the Pegasus galaxy?" John whispered. He peered at the black symbol on their foreheads. Two arrows crossed behind a shield with two tiny beetles on it.
"What are jaffa?" Teyla asked. She noticed their strange weapons and wondered how they worked.
"They're human's with no immune system. They have gould symbiotes instead to heal them and keep them alive. Without their symbiotes, they would die. They serve a gould. The gould are parasites who essentially take humans as hosts and pretend to be an egyptian god, forcing people to worship them." McKay considered going into a lengthier explanation about how there are a lot of goulds in the Milky Way and how Sg-1 had destroyed many of them but decided to save that for a time when they weren't being taken to a cell where they would be tortured for information and ultimately all become hosts.
"I still don't understand why they're in the Pegasus galaxy." John said agitatedly. McKay was about to answer him when one of the jaffas' staff weapon shoved John to the ground. Teyla knelt down and helped him up.
"What was that for?" Ronon shouted.
"Be silent humans." The jaffa simply ordered. John, Ronon, McKay and Teyla all fell into a worried silence and walked the rest of the way without so much as a cough.
The lead jaffa held up his hand which brought everyone to an abrupt stop. The jaffa pressed a button on the device Tomen had given him and a mothership appeared in front of the troupe.
The team was again shoved foreward as the jaffa entered the ship. Teyla and Ronon were confused about why they were being taken hostage but said nothing on their way to a small cell with gold walls.
The army of jaffa locked the door and left them alone. For the first time since they were captured, Ronon dared to speak.
"What is going on?" John busied himself in trying to open the door and Teyla had no idea, so McKay was left to answer his question.
"I honestly don't know. Though I'm pretty sure those jaffa are going to come back in a little while and bring us to their 'god' for questioning. Or they're going to make us hosts." The three others exchanged a worried glance. "But we should stay positive and hope it's only questioning, right?" Rodney added hurriedly.
"Why are they in the Pegasus galaxy?" John asked for the third time when his attempts at opening the door failed.
"Well I'm sorry Colonel but I wouldn't have the dangedest idea. Why don't you ask him?" McKay pointed above John's shoulder and eveyone turned to see a six foot three jaffa standing there with a gold symbol on his forehead and a smirk on his face.
"My name is Hotep. To answer your question, we captured a Tau'ri and he told us about Atlantis in the Pegasus galaxy. He had the coordinates in his mind and we were able to extract them. On the way here though, our beloved goddess, Neith, was killed. We managed to save the gould although the host died. We wanted to find a new host for our queen before we took Atlantis. And I think we found her." Hotep looked straight at Teyla as he said this.
"There's no way." John could've killed Hotep for even thinking about doing that to Teyla. "You'd have to go through the three of us before you got to Teyla." Hotep only shrugged.
"If that's how it's going to be." He looked behind him. Four jaffa came around the corner and opened the cell door. "You will come with us." Hotep had meant them all to come but the three men assumed he had meant only Teyla. They stood in front of her, ready to fight. Hotep grinned maliciously. "All of you will come. Does this satisfy you?" They didn't answer but allowed themselves to be escorted from the cell by the four jaffa.
The team walked single file with one jaffa each in front and back of them and on both sides. John walked in front and after a couple of minutes, he looked back and signaled to his teamates. This went unnoticed by the jaffa and they walked on a little bit more. Then John, Teyla,and Ronon attacked the jaffa. Ronon grabbed the two jaffa on the sides and bashed their heads together, knocking them unconscience. Teyla, who walked in the back, elbowed the jaffa behind her in the stomach and he keeled over, allowing her to snatch up his staff weapon. Since she didn't know what to do with it, she just whacked him over the head with it. John had shoved the lead jaffa so hard that he fell into Hotep and John was able to smash their heads onto the floor. Hotep, however, remained conscience while the other fell limp. Rodney just stood there cowardly while all this was going on.
"You will pay for this." Hotep snarled. Teyla tossed the jaffa's staff weapon to John, who, fortunately, knew how to use it.
"Let's get out of here." John ordered. Pointing his weapon at Hotep, John, Teyla, Ronon, and Rodney backed down the corridor, making a run for it once they rounded the corner. Hotep stood and the two jaffa that Ronon had taken out regained conscienceness.
"If no one else, make sure you get the woman. She is Neith's new host." They obediently picked up their staff weapons and went the opposite way SGA-1 had gone, knowing a short cut.
The Atlantis team ran furiously trying to find an exit. Teyla, who ran next to Ronon in the lead, tripped. John who ran in the back, helped her up and continued running with Teyla right behind him. At the third intersection they came to, the two jaffa ran across the hall and grabbed Teyla. She was prevented from screaming and since she was behind the others, no one noticed her disappearance. The rest of her team ran ahead, oblivious to her absence. Her last thought before she was knocked unconscience was, Terras was right.
John, Rodney, and Ronon finally found a way out and ducked into the forrest surrounding the ship.
"You guys keep going! I'll make sure no one's following!" John veered to the left and the other two kept running. John stayed there for several minutes and, seeing that no one was coming after them, followed the path Ronon and McKay had taken and caught up with them. John looked around but didn't see Teyla anywhere.
"Where's Teyla?" John asked frantically. Ronon and McKay shared a confused glance.
"We thought she was with you!" McKay exclaimed. Behind them, the sound of the mothership powering up caused them all to turn and see it flying out of the atmosphere. Their only hope of getting Teyla back entered hyperspace a second later.
"We have to go after them." Ronon declared.
"We can't." John said harshly.
"But Sheppard we have to."
"You don't understand. We can't. They could be anywhere by now. They entered hyperspace. There's no way to know where they went. We can't go after them."
"But-"
"LISTEN TO ME RONON!" John yelled. "DO YOU THINK I WOULD JUST LEAVE HER ON THAT SHIP IF WE COULD FIND IT? THERE'S NOTHING WE CAN DO! THE BEST THING THAT WE CAN DO IS GO BACK TO ATLANTIS AND BRIEF WEIR! THEN WE CAN FIND A WAY TO GET TEYLA BACK!" Ronon said no more and simply followed John as he stormed out of the forrest and back onto the path where they picked up their stuff that the jaffa had fortunately left.
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"Unscheduled incoming wormhole." The technician at the control panel announced. In seconds, Elizabeth was by his side.
"Do we have an identification code?" The tech. looked and nodded.
"It's SGA-1, ma'am."
"They just went through an hour ago. Lower the shield." Elizabeth met the remaining three members of SGA-1 in the gate room. The three men carried their jackets, vests and weapons in their hands. John carried an extra one, Teyla's.
"What happened?" Elizabeth asked when the gate shut down and Teyla didn't come through.
"Apparently there are gould in this galaxy and they have Teyla. They're going to make her a host and when they do, they're coming for Atlantis." John summed it up quickly. "We need to find the mothership and go after it."
"But you said-" Ronon started.
"The long range sensors can detect Wraith ships so they must be able to detect gould ones too." John more to Elizabeth than to Ronon. "We need to check if it's heading to Atlantis." He turned to leave.
"John-" Elizabeth protested. John whipped around to glare at her.
"Elizabeth, there is a gould ship coming to take Atlantis and the one heading the attack will be Teyla. I'm sorry if I seem a little agitated right now, BUT AS WE SPEAK, THE WOMAN I LOVE IS BECOMING A GOULD!" John stomped out of sight, but not before the room became silent and all eyes focused on him.
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