"Yes!" John turned quickly to see Radek Zelenka almost punch the air in triumph; the female doctor was next to him smiling broadly.

"I'm guessing they've finished it." he stated to the two men who were sat with him, John got up slowly, to prevent any unwanted head spinning, andstarted offin the direction of the two doctors.

"So, you finished it?" He asked casually as he lent against a tree near the two scientists, they both looked up at him before Doctor Zelenka decided to speak.

"Yes, well we hope so. It is very hard to reverse transporter algerhythms, but we believe that we have created sound method. We just need to test it to be sure." John raised an eyebrow at the small scientist, who promptly looked down at the ground.

"Doc, we don't have time to go and find some little white mice so that you and … um… well so that both of you can run some tests. We can't alert these people to our presence, if you think you've done it then we go." He knew that this was going to put a lot of pressure on the two scientists to be right first time, but right now he needed to get into that complex before he exploded with impatience.

"Okay, we'll just run another check to make sure." The female doctor said, as she and Doctor Zelenka turned back to the small computer screen between them and began typing. John sighed and moved back towards his other companions, he saw Lieutenant Ford and Major Lorne look up at him when he neared them and he nodded once.

"It's a go." He told them quietly, Major Lorne nodded and began to radio Lieutenant Trawling who was patrolling the area.

"Um…sir," John turned to face Lieutenant Ford, "You don't have a weapon, don't you think that maybe you should stay out h…" but the Lieutenant's voice faded away as he saw John's expression and soon he moved off to check on the other marine. John turned to watch the complex intently for any sign of movement around it, it'd be just their luck to manage to get the transporters working and then be caught before they managed to get inside.

"We are ready." Doctor Zelenka came swiftly towards them; he had his head down watching the computer screen intently checking for any type of flaw in their equations.

"You sure Doc's?" When he received a nod from both scientists he reached for his radio,

"Okay everybody, on my signal we're going to head for the front of the complex." He turned to look at the three people around him; he saw their anxious expressions and guessed that his face must look the same,

"Okay guys, let's roll."

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' "Come on guys, you can do it. Just a bit further and I'll be free!" Rodney whispered as he watched a small screen on a wall, it hadn't taken long for him to figure out how to work it and now he could see what his friends were doing outside.

"It will never work." A small voice stated, "There's no way they could have reversed the transporter algerhythms so quickly, it took my people years to make the transporter go one way. Your people cannot have changed the algerhythms so quickly and with so little equipment."

"You don't know my team." Rodney said with a glow of proud as he turned his back on the woman,

'Please let this work.' he thought desperately as he eyed the screen nervously, watching the figures moving around him, keeping a look out for any signs of resistance.

"You do know that if I survive this struggle I shall be destroyed by my kind." Rodney turned slowly, his head was still hurting from the last memory she had forced him to endure and he could still feel warm blood trickling down his neck.

"So?" He said bluntly, he didn't really care if she was destroyed by her own kind. But if he had a say in it he'd be the one to kill her! Even if he didn't really believe in violence, she was the exception to the rule.

"So? Do you really think that you can live with that Doctor? Live with the fact that thanks to you I will have been destroyed! Live with the fact that a decent human being was murdered because of you."

"Decent?" he said laughing, how could she even think that she was decent? "How can you be decent? How can you... hang on! How can you be a human being? You're a virus, not a human."

"Ah there you are mistaken Doctor, I am not a virus, even though I have been known to act like it. I am in fact a human,and I do not reside in your brain. If I did I think I would start to redecorate." Rodney glared at her, but his mind was racing. How come she wasn't a virus? What was she then? How could she be in his brain and not be a virus? But he'd met her in the complex hadn't he? So surely she was human? These questions kept rolling around and around inhis mind until his headache increased with frustration.

"Don't worry Doctor, it annoys everyone when they find out they've been wrong all along." Torrela said sweetly, Rodney turned and began to walk menacingly towards her

'That's it! I've had it!' he thought as he reached her, but suddenly the screen on the wall beeped loudly and he turned.

"What now?" he said absently as hehurried offtowards the screen to consult it. It still showed the same landscape, trees everywhere 'which no doubt the Major was counting at some point in time' and the imposing complex, which was drawing nearer and nearer. Then he noticed something moving to the right of the screen, it was a figure hidden in the trees.

"Oh great." he muttered, how was he supposed to warn the others? Thanks to some gung-ho Lieutenant he was now incapacitated.

"Come on you bunch of slack jawed idiots." he muttered, he didn't mean to be rude; well actually he did, but they needed to wake up and smell the strange man hiding in the bushes!

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"Come on you bunch of slack jawed idiots." All seven of the group turned to stare at the unconscious body of Doctor McKay as it began to speak, even Ford and Trawling who were holding him up turned to look at him.

"McKay, that's not very nice. We're here to help you and all you can do is…" but John stopped abruptly, he had seen something in the trees to his right. He motioned to the others and they all stopped, the two scientists and Doctor Beckett were looking around curiously and the soldiers were lifting their weapons.

Suddenly the figure burst from the trees into the clearing and all three marines raised their weapons ready to fire, Ford and Lieutenant Trawling almost dropped McKay as they brought their weapons up to their shoulders.

"Please don't shoot! I am here to help!" John looked at the new person suspiciously; he was a young man of about 23 with dark brown hair and a grubby uniform.

"Who are you?" he asked as politely as he could, he wasn't about to trust anybody on this planet but he thought it was only fair to be civil.

"My name is Theseus, I am a friend of Kelus. He told me that if you should return then I was to help you. Please I am only here to offer assistance. Please lower your weapons." Theseus was smiling in a friendly but frightened way and John couldn't help but begin to trust him,

'Maybe this will work after all.' he thought as he eyed Theseus carefully before nodding to the rest of his men, they all lowered their weapons but continued to glare at the new arrival.

Hello, sorry about the delay in chapter posting. Hope this chapter's okay. I got the idea for Torrela's bit from a Doctor Who episode, the 9th doctor's adventures, lol you can probably see which bits I'm on about.

Also Theseus was a Greek Hero, son of Princess Aethra and grandson to the king of Troezen. He was raised by his grandfather and his mother. He first proved himself to be a hero by lifting a massive boulder and finding an item that had been placed beneath it by his father. (How exciting :P) lol. There's a little history lesson in Greek Mythology. :D

Please do review if you want to, i am enjoying reading them and taking on board any critisms you may have. Thanks.