Camy- I love John and Teyla too. They are so perfect for each other. Thank you so much!
Cpt. Ritter- I'm glad your threat continues and thanks for the advice.
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ch. 5 Not Quite What I was Hoping For
Teyla's eyes glowed. She looked around her and saw Hotep standing near her.
"Hotep." Her voice came out low like a Wraith's voice, but a lot smoother. "My first prime jaffa. Have we made it to Atlantis yet?" Hotep bowed before her as she stood up.
"Not yet but we are on our way. I thought you would want to wait until you took a new host before we captured the city." Neith stared down her nose at him.
"You were wise to wait. And what of the tok'ra?"
"She is locked up. I thought you would want to get information out of her. So I had her detained but not harmed. So that you may use your own method of interrogation." Neith let out a slow, malicious smile.
"You were wise to do so. You have my thanks for seeing to mine and the ships needs while I was not able to. I am very pleased. However, there is one issue we must discuss. I have found out from my new host about an enemy called the Wraith." Neith told Hotep all about the Wraith and how Teyla could communicate with them.
"So what should we do?" Neith walked a few steps away, considering what should be done.
"I have not decided yet. They would over power us in no time. I do not believe we should make an enenmy out of them. It would be best if we avoided them at all costs. But they seem like they would make good hosts." Neith smiled. "Perhaps if we capture one..." She let her sentence fall away and abruptly changed her mind. "No. They are too dangerous. They can suck out ones life with only their hand. It would not be wise."
Hotep had finally stood up and walked over to where Neith stood. "Would you like to address your jaffa my queen. They will be wanting to see their goddess after so many days." Neith nodded.
"Yes. I should. Thank you Hotep. Please gather my jaffa around the chaapa'ai." Hotep bowed again and rushed off to please Neith.
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John walked into the Puddlejumper where his rescue team was getting ready. Lieutenant Miller was seated behind the controls looking like he was about to be fed to the Wraith, and Major Lorne sat next to him, trying to not show how nervous he was. Cadman, Bates and Carson stood in the back, loading up on weapons. Bates and Cadman were trying not to scream in frustration as Carson kept protesting to his going. Ronon stood just outside the Jumper trying last minute to teach Terras how to shoot a P-90. And Rodney was munching on a power bar.
"John?" Elizabeth had suddenly appeared at the rear hatch.
"Elizabeth I'm going and there's nothing you can do to stop me." John stood defiantly with his arms crossed against his chest. Elizabeth stepped into the Jumper with a pained look in her eyes. Everyone stopped what they were doing to watch this interaction.
"John, I'm not going to stop you. I just came to wish you good luck." She turned her head away from him. "And good bye."
John froze. It took him awhile, but he finally got over the shock enough to speak. "What are you talking about? I'm coming back. So are the rest of us." Elizabeth stared at him increduously. "What makes you think we aren't coming back?"
"Colonel Caldwell didn't tell you?" John looked at her dumbly.
"Tell me what?" Elizabeth's shoulders sagged, bearing the unfortunate weight of having to be the bearer of bad news. She suddenly knew how it felt to have to tell someone face-to-face that one of their family members had just died.
"When you get back, Caldwell is having Teyla shipped off to the mainland and you sent back to Earth to be court-martialed." Elizabeth averted his eyes.
"For what?" By now, Ronon and Terras had moved into the Jumper and were pretending not to listen as they finalized all of the preperations.
"Well he's court-martialing you for insubordination and disobeying a direct order." John swallowed around the lump in his throat.
"And why Teyla?" He croaked in a small voice.
"Teyla is being sent back to the mainland because she's, quote, 'a liability and a distraction to the team.'" John's eyes narrowed and his lips were pressed together so tightly together that they were compacted into a pencil-thin line. He picked up a radio and threw it at the wall with such force that it caused everybody to jump away in fear.
"John!" Terras cried from behind him. He turned to see her scared eyes pouring into his. In that instant he knew, no matter what he did, nothing would change anything. He realized how lucky he was that Caldwell was letting him go on this mission. The consequences would have to wait until they got back.
"Let's go." John gruffly ordered. Everyone jumped at the order and said their good byes to Elizabeth before closing the rear hatch and powering up the Jumper.
The ship was halfway out of Atlantis' atmosphere and everyone was deadly silent before Bates had decided to bring up an extremely important issue.
"Sir, how are you- how are we going to rescue Teyla once we get on that ship?" John didn't turn to look at him, he just stared out the window as he answered.
"Well we are going to take out any jaffa that get in our way and find Teyla. Then we'll bring her back to the Jumper and go home. Got it?" Bates rolled his eyes in annoyance.
"Sir with all due respect, Teyla is a goa'uld. We can't just pick her up and hope she'll come with us peacefully. We have to face the possibility that we will probably have to take her by force. And then we have to figure out a way to remove the goa'uld from her-" John silenced Bates with a glare as he slowly turned to look at him.
"What are you really doing here, Bates? Because it's obvious that you don't like Teyla and don't really care if we rescue her or not." Bates didn't hesitate to respond.
"I'm here to make sure you don't do anything audacious to compromise Atlantis or this team. You can't let your personal feelings get in the way, Sir." John stared icily at him. He kept staring until Lieutenant Miller announced that they were approaching the mother ship.
"Okay. Cloak the Jumper and locate the glider bay. McKay," Rodney looked up. "Override the commands and get us in there." McKay grabbed his laptop and started working on this simple task. Within five minutes, he had opened the bay and worked it so that no one on board would realize it unless they were inside the bay which would be the cause of their deaths.
Miller manouvered the Jumper into the bay and McKay closed the doors.
"Fly a safe distance away and stay cloaked. Don't come back until I radio you." John said to Miller. He then said to McKay, "Are you sure you'll be able to getting the doors opened from the inside? Maybe you should stay."
"Please, Colonel." He replied egotistically. "It would be a piece of cake. It's just a matter of Miller getting here in enough time so that no one walks in there while the doors are opened. And I'm going." John nodded.
"I hope so. Let's move out." It seemed as if Sheppard and his team were appearing out of thin air as they stepped out of the cloaked Jumper with their weapons raised. They passed maybe twenty gliders as they covered the distance to the air locked interior door and shut it tightly. John radioed Miller to tell him he was clear to leave as soon as McKay got the doors opened.
"Go ahead Lietenant." McKay said into his own radio. "Don't forget to radio us once you've left the glider bay and again once you've returned."
"Gocha. Go ahead and close the doors. I'm gone. Miller out at 1630 hours."Johnordered McKay to put the laptop away and get out his weapon after he had finished. He then took point and turned the safety off on his P-90.
They cautiosly walked down hallway after hallway for half an hour, the only sounds they made came from their footsteps and the faint beeping of the life signs detector in John's hands.
After another half an hour of walking and not meeting up with any jaffa, they came to a storage room with crates of Zats and staff weapons. The team stopped in there to get a better surveilance of the ship. John easily recalibrated the detector to show the entire level they were on. Over fifty red dots blinked inside a gate room not far from where they stood now. All of the dots seemed to be standing around one dot in particular. John guessed Teyla.
"Alright. It looks like Teyla has already become a goa'uld and is making a little speech to her jaffa." John addressed the room. "I suggest we wait here until she has only a few guards and then we take her.
McKay, Bates, Terras, and Carson, you four are going to remain here while the rest of us get Teyla. We'll come back and get you when we are ready to leave. If anything happens to us, you are to radio Miller and get the hell out of here. McKay you have the other life signs detector so you won't be going out blindly. Stay hidden in case anyone else comes in here. We'll radio in one hour. If we don't return in two hours-"
"Then we'll come rescue your sorry butts." Terras stated obviously.
"Negative. If we don't return in two hours without having contacted you, you are to leave. Understand?" He was answered with murmured replies of 'yes sir' and and 'understood'. "Good." He looked down at his detector and noticed many of the jaffa leaving the room. He saw a few heading this way and ran to the back of the room. "Get down and hide! There are four jaffa heading this way!" He said as he dived behind a large stack of crates. The others followed suit. He turned off the detector and shoved it in his pocket.
The door wooshed opened and as promised, four jaffa clanked in. They each grabbed a crate and began stacking them outside the room. John was afraid the jaffa would find them but thankfully they stopped taking the crates after they had gotten sixteen piled outside. More jaffa came and helped the four carry the crates away. They left and closed the door.
John released a breath he hadn't realized he had been holding. He sat up and saw everyone peeking up around the crates. When he was sure the jaffa were really gone, John pulled out the life signs detector and turned it back on. There were still many jaffa in the gate room. It appeared that Teyla was still there as well. John didn't tear his eyes away from it until he saw what he thought was Teyla leave the room with a relatively small guard of jaffa. Only three or four accompanied her.
"Teyla is heading to the next level up. She's only got three or four jaffa with her. We should head out." John took point and was followed by Ronon, Cadman, and Lorne. They started walking down the hallway to the nearest stairwell. They ducked into the closest room every time a jaffa came down the hall they were in.
"She should be right here." John said, indicating the room they were standing in front of. "There are two jaffa with her. We should be able to take them by force." He signaled for them to follow him in.
Sparks flew as bullets hit the metal armor of the jaffa. Since they were taken by surprise, John easily over powered them. For a split second, it was just him and Teyla in the room. To John, the second lasted for hours. He stared into Teyla's eyes with a hopeful expression. His hope was quickly diminished when Teyla's eyes glowed.
Ronon, Cadman, and Lorne came in and kept their weapons pointed at Neith. John reluctantly kept his raised.
"Teyla?" John asked harshly. Neith smiled.
"You amuse me humans." She said in her low voice. Neith stepped closer to John. "You were very close to my host." She examined his face from where she stood. "Perhaps you will make a good host for Meret, my beloved." What happened next happened so fast that no one could have been prepared for it.
Over ten jaffa came in from all sides of the room. Their staff weapons were on and pointed at the four intruders.
"Well this wasn't exactly what I had planned." John quiped as he lowered his weapon.
"Jaffa! Kree!" Neith cried. She instructed the jaffa in goa'uld before leaving and slamming the door behind her. One jaffa pulled out a zat gun and shot all four of the team. They each passed out on the floor.
A/N- Okay so I've lost my voice and can now devote all of my time to writing the next chapter! Now doesn't that purple button look mighty tempting?