Okay, as I was writing this chapter, the story took a very (and I mean a very) unexpected twist, even for me. So I hope you all like it. I liked it.
Muse/ViH: If you start singing, I'll smack you.
You mean if I start singing...I like to move it move it! I like to move it move it! Ya like to? Move it!
:Smack: Hey! That hurt spammit!
Muse/ViH: I warned you.
You are no fun. I want my Elphie Muse back.
Muse/ViH: You scared her away.
Oh yeah...well...on with the chapter.
I own nothing...so who wants a cookie?
Muse/ViH: Oye vey...
Oye vey everybody!
!WARNING! There is some slight graphic-ness in this with the Dante monster's eating habits. As in, I actually say what he's munching on. So if you're squeamish, sorry. If not, you've been warned just the same.
Sam grinned as she took the cloth off of the weapons Dante had left for her. She picked up a black vest and noticed that the design of her and Dante's pendant had been raised on the back of the vest. She also noticed that there was a built in sheath for a sword. Sam slipped the vest and was slightly surprised to discover that it fit her perfectly. She zipped it up and turned her attention back to the weapons.
She attached a hip holster to her left leg. She picked up a pair of Berettas and checked the clips before sliding them into the holsters. She placed another pair of pistols into holsters on the vest before she loaded up the pockets with clips for the guns. She then grabbed the sword and looked at the blade. She ran her finger down the blade and smiled at the sharpness. If there was one thing Dante did extremely well, it was to take care of his weapons. She sheathed the sword on her back.
Sam started to leave when another item caught her eye. She frowned slightly and picked up the Ancient bracer that Dante had worn for the last several months. Another note fell out of the bracer. She picked it up and quickly read it:
Hey Sam, I figured you could use all the help you can get to stop me, so use the bracer. No one else will be able to use it. I think it has to do with the fact that it's encoded to my DNA or something like that. So it's all yours now. It should help you locate me faster. It also acts as a remote for this ship and does a bunch of other stuff you'll no doubt figure out. Good luck with it.
Dante
PS-Quit standing around and get your butt moving already. Always slow…
Sam shook her head at the last line and focused her attention on the bracer. Figuring she had nothing to lose, she placed it on her arm. It immediately snapped shut reminding Sam of the armbands Anise had brought to Earth five years ago.
Now to find Dante, she thought. A screen suddenly appeared on the armband and a scaled map of Atlantis was displayed with a red dot at one of the branched of the city. Thought controlled…cool, Sam grinned. Fastest route to Dante. A red line mapped out a path on the map to the red dot.
Sam quickly memorized the route and grabbed the shotgun on the bed. She loaded it up with several silver rounds and ran out of the ship, moving as fast as she could. She ignored the people she bumped into, focused only on finding Dante and stopping him before he killed more people.
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"Where is he?" Elizabeth demanded.
"We don't know. He's moving too fast for us to track properly," a Russian technician replied.
"We have another problem," Beckett said.
"What?" Elizabeth asked.
"Several of the people he attacked managed to get away…"
"How is that a problem?" she demanded.
"They're genetic structure is beginning to change," Beckett said. "They're turning into creatures similar to what Dante is now. And I can't reverse the process."
"There's nothing you can do?" Elizabeth asked.
"No. Even if I had all the time in the world to analyze the gene that causes this mutation, I wouldn't be able to reverse the effects."
Elizabeth sighed. "Any suggestions?" she asked, looking up at Colonel Steven Caldwell. He was the commander of the Daedalus and had just returned from a scouting mission they had been sent on.
"We should evacuate as many people as we can before it's too late," he said. "Ferry them to the mainland, send them through the Stargate, and/or have them board the Daedalus. Either way, we shouldn't stay here until the creature is dealt with," he said.
"That creature use to be a person, and now you're just going to kill him?" Vala demanded. "I thought you people were better than that."
"He's killing good people," John said. "We don't have a choice."
"Maybe there's someway to suppress the violent part in him," Daniel suggested. "Let his more…human side come out."
"He was never human Daniel," Teal'c said.
"Maybe not, but he acted more human than most people in this room," the archaeologist said, folding his arms.
"Think you could come up with something that could subdue him Doctor Beckett?" Elizabeth asked.
"If we can keep him unconscious for a long enough time, I might be able to come up with some sort of enzyme that might suppress his violent side. But I need more time to analyze the data from the experiments we've been running."
"Do it. Mitchell, Sheppard, take your teams and track Dante down. Try to subdue him if you can, but if you have no other choice, you are permitted to use whatever force is necessary to protect yourselves," Elizabeth said. They nodded and the eight people left the room. "Colonel, start the evacuation," she said to Caldwell. He nodded and left the room as well.
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"Where's Sam?" Cameron asked.
"I haven't seen her since she was knocked out," Daniel said.
"Hopefully she hasn't been infected as well," John said.
"She hasn't," Teal'c said. As John turned to reply, he noticed the challenging look in Teal'c's eyes and wisely closed his mouth.
"Beckett probably has her down in the infirmary," Ronon said.
"We'll worry about it later. Right now we have to stop Dante from killing and infecting more people. So let's move," Cameron ordered. "And stay together. I don't think four on one will be fair for us." They all nodded and headed off to the last section of the city that Dante had been sighted in.
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Sam crept down the dark hallway, every sense she had on high alert. She paused at an intersection and waited several minutes. A low growling reached her ears and glanced down at her bracer. Dante's location and mine, she thought. A red blip appeared a short distance away from a white blip. Quickly judging the distance between them, Sam slid around the way and stealthily made her way towards her mutated brother.
Dante was currently ripping out the intestines of a French scientist. He paused and lifted his head, sniffing the air. Sam came around the corner and fired a silver bullet into the creature's shoulder. It yelped in pain and turned angrily to Sam. She stared him in the eye, pulling out a second gun. Dante roared and charged her. Sam leapt out of the way and slammed through a pair of doors. She slid out onto the tower balcony and into the rain. She leapt up to her feet and watched as Dante plodded towards her. Sam fired off several shots but he managed to dodge them. He hurdled towards her and slammed into her, causing her two guns to fall off the tower.
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"Whoa!" John exclaimed, leaping back as two objects struck the ground in front of him. He frowned. "Where did those come from?"
"From there," Rodney said, pointing at the tower.
"These are Colonel Carter's guns," Teal'c said, picking them up.
"She must be up there," Daniel said.
"But why would she drop her guns?" Vala asked.
"Perhaps she is fighting Dante," Teyla suggested.
"Let's move!" Cameron ordered and they hurried into the building.
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Sam blew rainwater out of her mouth as she stared at her brother. A low growl was being emitted from his throat as he stared angrily at her. Sam kept her breathing even and began reaching for her sword. Dante suddenly roared and charged in, grabbing Sam by the throat. He leapt up onto the railing and dangled her out over the edge.
Sam began gasping for breath, her hands latched onto Dante's furry arm. "Dan… te…it's…me…" she wheezed. He growled at her and tightened his grip. Black spots began forming in front of Sam's eyes. She could feel her strength beginning to wan.
Dante's black eyes stared at Sam. His eyes soon rested on the pendant around Sam's neck and something snapped inside of him. He tossed Sam back onto the balcony and roared at the moon, pain in his voice.
Sam fought her way back to consciousness and stared in disbelief as the fur melted off of Dante. His bones shrank back down to their normal size and he collapsed back onto the balcony, his body shaking with exhaustion. She crawled over to him, her body still tense.
He opened his eyes and she was relieved to see they were back to their normal hue. Blood tears formed in his eyes and began sliding down his face, mixing with the rain. Sam sat down and pulled him into her lap. He began sobbing uncontrollably, holding her tightly.
Sam stroked Dante's wet hair, trying to help him calm down. What the hell happened? she thought. How did he change back?
Her head shot up as footsteps reached her eyes and she saw SG-1 and Sheppard's team come running onto the balcony. They all skidded to a halt when they saw Dante back to normal in Sam's lap, still very much alive. She shrugged at their silent question and looked back down at her half-brother, two thoughts running through her head:
How the hell did he change back? Why did he change back?
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