Title: Atlantis

Author: Tonia Barone

Rating: Teen

Spoilers: The Storm, The Eye and Underground (Genii knowledge)

Disclaimer: +looks down at herself, patting all the female-only equipment as if checking to that they are there+ Hmmm...nope, still a woman so I guess that means I don't own 'em 'cause as far as I'm aware, the person that owns them is a guy. +shrugs+ Pity.

Notes: jakisbishlygay is a goddess. Seriously. Some of the mistakes I had in this thing were so stupid, she must have at least SOME deity-blood in her for the patiences she had for me.

Also, yeah, I know this is a very short part. If was a good place to cut. +shrugs and smiles+ Don't kill me+snorts+ I can't believe that I, someone who LOVES long chapters, has a natural aversion to posting them. The irony is not lost.

Summary: War is not pleasant, but we do what we must do to survive.

Her Protector and the Leader are taken to the grounding station by the Genii leader. She watches with fond amusement as her Protector reads the Genii leader the riot act for using guns around such delicate equipment. Even in the most severe of circumstances he still manages to lose himself in his work. It will take him approximately twenty minutes to repair the damage with her help and he relays that information to the Genii Leader.

The storm has arrived by now, the rain pounding a harsh beat on all surfaces. The noise of the rain hitting her walls is enough to cover the conversation her Protector and the Leader have while the Genii leader is distracted. Word of her Favorite's exploits has reached him and he is not pleased. Good, he was not meant to be.

Her Favorite asks her what her Protector would do and she readily tells him. His grin is feral as he runs to the nearest of their power sources. There is little the Genii can do if they have not the power with which to do it. The loss of a few of her systems is a just price, she thinks as she watches her Favorite remove the key used to turn the device on. Immediately power to the tracking station fails and her joyous cry is echoed in her Favorite's mind.

She is quick to guide him to the next power source and, oh if only she could grin. Her Favorite had unknowingly timed the removal of the key to the precise moment the Genii leader asked her Protector for a progress report! When she shares this with her Favorite, he smirks and shares her amusement. He makes for the next power source and she is distracted by the arrival of her three wayward Children to warn him of the Genii that now guard the remaining power sources.

Before they leave the puddle jumper, she gives the life signs detector to the Healer; they will need it. In fact--

Oh no. She quickly forestalls her Favorite from going to the third power source in favor of the control tower. The Genii are sending reinforcements and there is naught she can do until he gives her the command. She watches as he blind-sides the Genii standing at the dialing device for the Doorway just as it opens. She is ready and the barrier is up before his fingers do more than ghost the controls. Five Genii make it through before she can close the barrier, but fifty-five more follow. The sound of their partially materialized bodies hitting the barrier is sickening, but such is the art of war.

The Genii woman orders her Favorite to be fired upon and she watches as he just barely makes it to the haven of the Leader's office. She guides him through an alternate exit, previously unknown to him, and to the third power source.

This act does not endear him to the Genii leader, who orders manhandles her Protector. The Genii leader is about to shove her Protector over the railing, despite the Leader's efforts to stop him, when her Protector convinces him to spare his life; for the moment, at any rate. The Genii leader immediately gives her Favorite the ultimatum that either he restores the power or both the Leader and her Protector die.

This throws her Favorite for a loop for he was under the impression that the Leader was already dead. Faced with this new threat, however, he is quick to push aside his joy and hurry to the first power source. When he arrives it is to find two Genii guarding it. He is quick to make a distraction and waits until the Genii have left the room before entering. Just as he is about to replace the key, however, they return and stop him. Her Favorite tries to talk them into contacting their leader but they will not listen.

Her attention switches back to the Healer, Second and the Warrior. They have been to the armory and are nearly upon her Favorite's location. It seems wrong to her that the Healer should be made to carry a weapon of pain and death, but at the moment it is needed.

The Second held one of the Wraith stunners that her Children have collected over their stay. She was curious as to why so she quietly asked him. He, like many of those with the Healer's Gift, seemed to think her voice within them was simply their own mind speaking back at them. He answered with the explanation that he would 'shoot first and ask questions later', which was a quote from one of their moving entertainment pictures, she saw. He was aware that her Favorite wandered these halls and did not want to risk shooting him with their primitive weapons. This was very wise of him.

The Genii were positioned in such a way that her Favorite had an unobstructed view of the Second, the Warrior and the Healer creeping up behind his captors. The two Genii were subdued in relatively short order and her Favorite quickly restores power to the grounding station the Genii leader has her Protector and the Leader hostage.

Her Protector immediately sets to work repairing the grounding station while her Favorite brings the others up to speed on their situation. It isn't until the two groups split again, the Second now going with her Favorite to the control tower while the Warrior and the Healer return to the jumper bay. It isn't until it is almost too late that she finally sees the Genii woman behind the Warrior and the Healer.

This is the same woman who blamed the Warrior for her father's death. She clubs the Healer in the back of the head before turning her attention to the Warrior. The ensuing fight is a wonder to behold but it becomes obvious early on that the Warrior is far more experienced. It is soon over, but the Warrior is sympathetic toward the Genii woman and lets her go free with her life.

More pressing matters have arisen in the meantime.