"Look lady, I seriously doubt you're gunna let us skip off home if we drop these weapons." Lorne said, his temper was rising but he wasn't about to let everybody know that she was pushing his buttons.
"Oh, no I have no intention of letting you…what was the phrase… 'Skip off home' if you drop the weapons. I am just simply saying that you have the chance to save the rest of your fellow trespassers by putting them down."
"Major."
"Oh so if we just put these down you'll just simply…"
"Major!"
"WHAT?" Lorne instantly regretted shouting as he saw it was Doctor McKay who was speaking, he knew that the scientist was still 'fragile' from his virus experience but he just couldn't help his anger finally surfacing.
"Do as she says."
"What?" He repeated, but quieter this time. He was watching McKay with a look of curiosity and suspicion, if McKay wanted them to do as an alien said so then something had to be wrong.
"I said do as she says, Major." McKay was looking directly at him, as though he was trying to tell him something without using speech. But even though his suspicions were aroused he trusted McKay, even though he would never admit it to his face.
"Okay, Lieutenant lower your weapon." Ford looked quickly at Major Lorne before he obligingly lowered his weapon and pointed it at the floor.
"Now you will…" The woman began but McKay cut her off before she could continue into the horror that undoubtedly awaited them.
"I don't think they'll be doing anything else." The woman turned to stare dumbfounded at McKay, as did his fellow teammates who were still conscious and breathing.
"You're going to let them go." McKay said decisively, and Lorne noticed that McKay wasn't acting like McKay at all. He was acting differently somehow, almost feminine. His hand was on his hip, and he was watching the woman in front of them with a cool, unflinching gaze.
"Excuse me?"
"You heard me, I told you to let them go. You can have me, and I'll help you with what you want to do but you have to let them go." Lorne felt sure he had heard wrong, Rodney McKay was putting his butt on the line to help them out. This was practically unheard of, unless of course it was his team on the line.
"Such a brilliant offer but I'd prefer to have something else to bargain with."
"Look, Torrela. I am not going to say this more than once so listen closely. Let them go, and I will fix whatever you need fixed and I will help you in all your scientific needs."
"McKay, what the hell are you doing?" Lorne's surprise at McKay's sudden willingness to save their necks turned slowly to horror as he watched the woman's face turn from surprised to delighted.
"I know what I'm doing Major, and if this is the only thing that can get us…you out of here then it's going to have to be the only option." Lorne hadn't missed the quick slip-up McKay had made, he had a plan and that was all that mattered. As long as they were all going to get out of this alive, but then his stomach did a strange kind of flop as he realised that three of the group were gone. His eyes strayed across to the bodies of Major Sheppard, Lieutenant Trawling and Doctor Beckett still lying on the ground.
"Very well Doctor McKay." The woman said, as an evil grin passed across her face, at the very thought of having this scientist to fix every problem in her complex. "Your friends may leave. On the condition that you work for us until the end of your days."
"Very well." He said and he raised his hand towards her, she took his hand and they shook on it. The deal was sealed.
"Let them pass." The woman said to the guards on the side of the door, they stepped aside immediately leaving a gap where the group could leave.
"Lieutenant, let's get the rest of our team out of here." Lorne said as he walked swiftly to where Major Sheppard lay and picked him up, then he turned to steal a quick glance at McKay before he walked back towards where the two scientists were dragging Doctor Beckett out of the door and Lieutenant Ford was pulling Lieutenant Trawling after them. He turned back as he too reached the doorway, he saw McKay watching him. Major Lorne nodded to the scientist to show him that he now had earned his respect. McKay just nodded back and made a motion as though to shoo Lorne out, so with a last look around the hall he turned and hurried from the room carrying the Major carefully back down the dark hallway.
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' "Fancy letting me in on your little suicide mission here?" Rodney yelled, he was no longer in a White Hall, for which he was greatly relieved, but now he was in a strange house. It was an odd Tudor House, with the brickwork showing on the inside and quant furniture placed strategically in the large living area.
When no one answered Rodney sighed and flopped down onto a comfy sofa near him, he hadn't expected an answer but he had at least thought she might let him see what was going on, now that he had so kindly let her use his body for this stupid mission. He didn't see why she had to get rid of this 'impostor' in her body, when she was doing exactly the same thing in his.
"You could at least have given me a T.V." he sighed, this house might be nice but it didn't have any of his usual luxuries, such as a television, a fridge stocked with beer or a paediatric bed.
He gave another sigh and stood up, he needed to move around. He couldn't just sit here any longer; he wanted to find out what was happening. Maybe he could hide in the background somewhere; she'd done it to him so he should be able to do it with her.
He concentrated hard, and soon the room around him began to dissolve. Now he could see as through his own eyes, but he could still feel Torrela in control.
'God, this is weird!' he thought as he watched the woman in front of him turn and walk away towards the shadows.
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"You will follow." Came a gruff voice from one of the soldiers beside Torrela, she smiled and nodded.
"Naturally." She replied and followed the woman at a swift trot, before long she was right behind her, close enough to attack her, but she restrained that impulse it was too soon for that!
"Here." Torrela stopped quickly as they reached a new door; she stared at it through Rodney's eyes and started to worry about her plan.
'This might not go down too well.' She thought, she watched as the impostor reached forward and touched the door, which promptly melted away.
'She has the ancient gene?' came the voice of Doctor McKay from the shadows of her mind; she ignored him and walked slowly into the new room.
It was very similar to the other rooms in the base; it had a high ceiling, black floors and strange instruments that were making strange sounds.
"What are we doing here?"
"I would have imagined you would have wanted to make sure we kept our word, about your friends being allowed to leave." She replied coolly, as she motioned towards a machine, which buzzed into life, and a picture appeared on the screen. She found it very hard to contain Rodney's sudden burst of 'that is so cool!' but she managed to in the end with only the smallest exclamation.
"Impressive isn't it?"
"Oh yeah, amazing." Torrela said sarcastically, that was her technology that this impostor was messing with and she wasn't just going to lie down and take it. Suddenly the picture began to focus and figures appeared on the screen, she recognised the small form of Doctor Zelenka pulling Doctor Beckett along the ground in front of the complex, then came Doctor Volga who was shaking so badly it looked as if she had completely given up holding Beckett, and bringing up the rear were the two soldiers first came Major Lorne dragging Major Sheppard and Lieutenant Ford followed keeping his gun raised ready for any attack but also trying to drag the form of Lieutenant Trawling behind him.
"Now you have seen your friends are safe, maybe we can get down to business."
"Oh yes, lets." Torrela said with mock enthusiasm,
"Firstly you will help us finish what our ancestors have started. You will help our scientists to create the virus for which our people built this laboratory, and you will unleash it's power on the city of Atlantis."
"Oh goody." All the guards around her were exchanging amused looks, before the impostor threw a scathing look towards them and their faces turned back to stone masks.
"Follow me."
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"Sir don't we need to return to Atlantis?"
"Yes Lieutenant, but McKay has a plan and I don't want to be on the receiving end of one of Major Sheppard's rants about not leaving McKay in the hands of dangerous aliens. Last time someone did that, they were forced to scrub out the entire east pier!"
"But Sir, the Major's…"
"I don't think so Lieutenant."
Doctor Zelenka was listening half-heartedly to the conversation behind him, he was still in shock from the near death experience but adrenalin was still pumping through his blood. His head turned as he heard Major Lorne's last sentence, he almost dropped Carson as he turned to the two soldiers behind him.
"What do you mean, they are not dead! We saw them die, we saw them get shot and now you trying to make out that everything is fine. We just lost valuable people!" He could see Major Lorne's eyes widen in shock, but he didn't care anymore. He had tried so hard to not let his anger or frustration escape him, but this had been too much, he had lost two friends by death and one friend was now in the service of aliens.
"Doc, calm down!" came the shocked voice of Lieutenant Ford who had moved forwards towards the small, terrifying doctor.
"No, I will not Lieutenant. Three of my friends are gone, two never returning. Tell me howIcalm down?"
"Doc, look I know that back there it looked like they were shot but believe me I know when I've seen a stunner and when I've seen a real gun. They're stunned! Probably until we reach the gate, you haven't lost anyone!" Radek's eyes focused on Major Lorne's and in that split second that they made eye contact, he instantly knew that this was true. He looked swiftly down at the ground in embarrassment, Doctor Volga come up behind him and placed a hand on his shoulder.
"Okay," Major Lorne said shakily, it seemed he was still trying to get over the fact that Radek had shouted at them. "well I say we get back to the gate and tell Doctor Weir what's happened and get her to send a Jumper through, we'll send these guys back for treatment and then the rest of us will rescue McKay. That sound good?" He looked hardest at Radek who after a few moments hesitation nodded, and they once again started towards the gate.
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'You're going to do WHAT!'
'Look Doctor McKay, it is the only way to ensure that the impostor is destroyed. An EMP will be more than enough to destroy it.'
'But don't you think it's a bit, you know, STUPID!'
'It is only dangerous if we get caught.'
'Oh and of course we're both the masters of disguise. Well I'm sorry but I don't think it can be done.'
'Doctor McKay, I need you to help me! Please!'
'Torrela are you begging? Well I suppose my intellect does outstrip your own, but…okay fine I'll help. But only if you promise to leave my body afterwards!'
'Deal.'
'Okay then, let's get this done.'
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