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The Jumper landed in Atlantis swiftly, the doors had barely finished opening before the medical team had boarded and taken over.

The rescue team could do nothing but stand in the front compartment and watch as Beckett and his team checked over Rodney, put him on a gurney and wheeled him away towards the infirmary an IV trailing alongside.

John, Teyla and Ford hurried after the medical team, they wanted to make sure Rodney was all right before they did anything else.

As the entered the infirmary they saw the medical team putting McKay onto a bed and wheeling the stretcher away, Beckett bent low over McKay and checked his breathing.

"Ok let's get him hooked up to a heart monitor," he looked at the few nurses that stood around him and they set to work.

"Major, what the hell happened out there?" he asked as he walked towards them, as he drew nearer to them he saw the exhaustion on each of their faces.

"He appeared out of nowhere, he must have activated some type of transporter." John began; he didn't want to tell the story in its entirety, that could wait for the mission debrief, Beckett just needed to know the facts.

"Then some guards appeared, they were shooting left, right and centre. Suddenly Rodney fell, Ford and I ran towards him and found the dart in his back. When we tried to remove it a self-defence mechanism activated, making it impossible to remove."

Carson nodded at the end of this, he had seen the tops of three spikes embedded in Rodney's back.

"Well, we'll do our best for him now. You all go and get some rest." He turned to walk back to Rodney, before he suddenly remembered who he was talking to,

"And that's not a suggestion Major!"

John smiled as he and his team left the infirmary, he knew that neither Ford nor Teyla really wanted to leave but if they had stayed Beckett would have strapped them down to the hard beds in the infirmary and made sure they slept for 12 hours.

As they were rounding the corner they met Elizabeth walking hurriedly towards them, her face was drawn and she looked worried.

"What happened? Is Rodney ok?" she looked at all three of them in turn, waiting for an explanation. John ran a hand through his already messy hair and sighed,

"Rodney got shot with some type of dart on the planet, we weren't able to remove it on the planet but Beckett's team should be able to do it no problem." She continued to watch them for a minute before nodding, she knew that they needed to sleep but she was just so worried.

"Ok, thank you Major." She moved to one side of the hall to let them all pass, John nodded as he walked past, Teyla gave a tired smile and Ford gave a curt nod before hurrying off to join his team.

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"Dr. Beckett the only way we're going to be able to remove this dart is through surgery." Carson looked down at the short, blonde nurse

"Aye lass I know, but I'd like to run some tests first just to make sure that he won't be in any danger from the surgery." He smiled at the nurse who gave an almost apologetic smile back as she hurried from the bed, which held one of Atlantis's most obnoxious personnel.

Carson looked down at Rodney, it was strange to see him lying still and silent. Normally he would be complaining about anything and everything in the infirmary, but now he was silent and still.

"Don't worry lad, we'll sort you out" he whispered to Rodney before he began to move off towards his office.

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"I must congratulate you Doctor McKay, I do not believe many people have lasted this long in this sort of situation." Rodney looked up from his position on the cold, hard floor. He had been going through the same ritual for what felt like hours, she would speak for a while then there would be the pain and then she would continue speaking.

'Women. Can they never stop talking?' his thoughts seemed to echo around the huge hall, the woman looked at him her face a blank mask.

He waited for the blow of pain that he was sure would follow, but nothing came. No blinding pain, no nothing.

He opened his eyes tentatively, he could see her still sat on the desk on one side of the hall but she was now staring out into space, she seemed to have forgotten that he was here.

He began to get to his feet, aware that at any moment she could suddenly force him back down to the floor. But nothing happened, he remained safely on his feet and she seemed none the wiser.

'Now what to do?' he thought and again it echoed around the room, well ok that's the first problem he had to stop thinking, that is going to be difficult.

"No!" the sudden screech made Rodney jump; he looked at her and saw that she had stood up but now she had turned her back on him.

He began to inch silently towards her; he could hear her muttering under her breath, he was soon standing right behind her; this was his chance to beat her, he lunged at her dragging her down to the ground.

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"Unscheduled Off world Activation."

Elizabeth ran from her office into the control room, she hurried to the side of Peter Grodin who was scanning his laptop for an IDC.

"Sorry ma'am there's no IDC" he told her, stating the obvious once again. He looked at the other technicians around him hoping that maybe they might have detected a radio transmission or something.

"What the hell?" One of the technicians cried as the shield began to flicker, Elizabeth and the other staff in the control tower watched as it suddenly died.

"Security teams take your positions." she yelled just as someone ran through the gate, the security teams raised their weapons as one.

"Please don't hurt me!" the man cried as he came to a halt in front of the teams, his eyes widened as he saw the weapons all pointed in his direction.

"Please, I am here with infor…information about Doctor McKay's condition!" Elizabeth looked shocked for a moment, but she soon pulled herself together and left the control room and walked down towards the stranger, nodding at the security teams as she came so that they lowered their weapons.

"Thank-you." He said smiling at Elizabeth who returned the smile only half heartedly

"Who are you?" she asked quickly, she wanted to know who this man was and how he knew McKay.

"Oh, I am Kelus. I was a scientist at the same complex as Doctor McKay. I have escaped to try to help him."

"Help him with what?" Elizabeth asked trying to be careful about how much information they disclosed to this stranger.

"We were informed that Doctor McKay was shot with one of the viral darts, I believed it to be the one that the leader of our people made shortly after his arrival here."

"What virus is that?" Elizabeth was starting to get worried now; Rodney had been shot with a dart that contained a virus, only a few months after they had suffered the loss of many fine expedition members through a terrible virus.

"It is a virus that controls the mind." He noted her blank expression and continued, "Our leader is dying, she wants to make sure that in some sense she can live on. She picked Doctor McKay for this experimentbecause she knew that he would try to escape and get back to his people, she could then take over his body and destroy all those who stay in Atlantis."

Elizabeth was momentarily stunned at this information, some lunatic woman was destroying McKay's mind so that she could use his body to continue to lead her people!

'Well you're not getting one of my people!'

Not long to go now, hope you like this chapter.

See my vague plan is starting to take form, is it a bird? Is it a Plane? hmm we shall have to see. :P