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About half a mile after they had started again, John, Rodney, Zelenka and Lorne found themselves surrounded by doors once again, having reached the complex of labs and rooms that Rodney had found to be the area containing the energy outburst earlier. They had sent Healy up to a higher level of the city to report to dr. weir, as their radio's couldn't penetrate the heavy machinery above them. They were underneath the shield generators so there was just too much static to give the atlantians in the control room a proper report.

Rodney and Radek were half-heartedly bickering, though it was not any sort of full-blown argument, just more of a disagreement, for which both john and Lorne were extremely grateful. And so, they chose to let the 'disagreeing' geniuses' voices fall into the background and turned their attention to the rooms that lay about them. As it seemed that there was nothing of interest in the hallway, John walked over to one of the doors and slid his hand over the panel.

He was vaguely reminded of startrek as the door swooshed open to reveal what seemed to be another one of those labs Atlantis was so plentiful of. It was as if the atlantians actually cared about science. John smiled at this. Gee, Imagine that...

Bringing himself out of his thoughts, he did a quick check around the room. Glass panels, a few tubes, lots of those crystal-things, nothing unusual as far as he was concerned.

"So, anything suspicious yet, sir?" Lorne's voice drifted casually from where he was standing at the entrance to the lab.

"Nope. Just, you know, a bunch of Ancients-stuff. Let's go check up on the Geeks, maybe they've got something." Lorne's mouth quirked a little at the fond nickname that had been given to the two scientists. He headed toward them, with sheppard following close behind him. They seemed to have finally agreed on whatever it was that they had been fighting over and were already anxiously trotting up to meet him and john half-way.

"Col. Sheppard, major Lorne. It's definitely still another half-mile down, and we probably would've been there by now if radek hadn't been so kind as to-" Rodney began, but john, seeing the budding of another argument, cut him off.

"Good! Glad to hear it. Let's go then." he said, turning abruptly toward their destination, not allowing time for a response. Rodney just mumbled irritably and followed. Radek and lorne gave each other amused glances before joining the rest of their group.

About a total of five minutes into their trek, john's radio came to life.

"Lt. Colonel sheppard, come in."

Sheppard slapped his radio up to his mouth. "Sheppard here. What's your status?"

"I'm coming back to join you along with some other scientists, sir. We'll meet you at the location of the energy source, if dr. mckay would be so kind as to"-

Rodney took up his own radio. "Yes yes yes," he interrupted, "you need to head down to the corridor"-

john tuned out the rambling scientist and pulled a granola bar out of his pocket. He had forgotten to eat this morning. Removing the wrapper, he looked down at it with disinterest. He frowned. With all the stuff the daedulus brought to Atlantis, they could at least be thoughtful enough to bring a some new kinds of granola bars. Besides, it was what the members of the SGA-1 practically lived on! Grumbling inwardly, he took a bite.

"Hey, colonel. I've directed Healy and the other scientists to the energy sources' location. We have to go." Rodney said, taking sheppard's thoughts away from his ever-so-interesting snack. Sheppard tucked the bar away back into his pocket.

"Alrighty then. Let's go check it out." with that he strode, once again, down the hall, followed by the rest of the group.

Rodney trotted up to catch up with him. "The reading is getting stronger. As usual, my assumptions were correct. But what's even more interesting, is that the power levels of the energy spikes are increasing as well." he paused for a brief second as he studied something on the screen. His eyes widened slightly. "Whatever this thing is, it's powering up."

"Oh crap. Okay, let's move! Maybe we can catch it before it blows us all to hell." with that sheppard shouldered his P-90 and broke into a run.

Darting down the corridor, all four of them felt their hearts thumping in anticipation of whatever was coming. Truth be told, the newest residents of atlantis had a bad history with these kinds of things. Before long, doors started to come into their line of sight. The group trotted to a stop as they reached the middle of the jumble of doors around them. All present stared around at all of the thirty or so doors for a only a brief moment before John whirled on Rodney.

"Rodney, which one?" he barked.

Rodney was tapping rapidly on the glowing screen before him. "I'm trying to figure that out. " he said through gritted teeth.

"Well try hard-wait, I thought you said you knew where it was!" John glared at the two scientists.

Radek stepped in. "We were only able to locate the general vicinity in which the source of the spike had occurred, now that we are closer it will take a moment to locate it's exact point."

"Got it!" Rodney cried triumphantly, interrupting anything else radek might of said. "It's through that door." he said, pointing to a door about three doors down from the end of the row on their right.

All four automatically trotted to the door, coming to stop just in front of it. Hesitating only for a moment, john ran his hand over the console on his right. Both sheppard and Lorne raised their P-90s as the door slid open, prepared for the worst. When nothing remotely life threatening or scary-beyond-all-reason jumped out at them, they cautiously stepped inside.

"Okay, now what?" john asked, almost disappointed by the contents of the room. It was, as far as he was concerned, pretty much the same as all the other sciency rooms which had infected Atlantis's every other section of flooring. There were a few control consoles and some slightly less usual ancient doohickeys, but still...

"Wait. Over there." john turned to see Lorne pointing to something in a corner of the room. Following his gaze, sheppard saw a door which he hadn't noticed before, mostly because it was partly hidden from his range of vision by a shelf which had blocked his view.

They all crept slowly up to the door, two p-90s and one 9 mil. (held by Rodney) pointed at the door as if it was expected to swing open and throw something mean and life-sucking at them at any moment. When nothing of the such happened, Rodney leaned over and tapped the console. The door swooshed open. rodney kind of just let his jaw drop slightly. Sheppard raised his eyebrows in that strictly-sheppard way. Lorne stared. And radek somehow managed to shove his glasses further up the bridge of his nose. It was rodney who broke the silence.

"Well, this is familiar."

Hah! See, janajyo, I didn't leave it at them just before they open a door, that would be mean, so I left it just after they opened the door! Hehe...please REVIEW, I NEED reviews! Encouraging criticism, it is good too!