Thanks again for all reviews made about this story, this is the last chapter of this stoy. I hope you all enjoy it, it does have whumping in it :P
I have encluded the word Wingdangdoodle but don't ask about that, it was the first word that came into my head. :P
"Okay where do I start?" Torrela said enthusiastically, she needed to get started on her plan to destroy this impostor once and for all.
"You will stay here, in sight of all the guards in this area. You will not escape again." The guard who had spoken moved back to his position by the door to the unending corridors and watched her carefully, Torrela turned to her table and found several vials and a strange variety of other instruments lined up on it.
"WHERE'S MY REWARD? I WANT MY REWARD!" she turned quickly to see Theseus being dragged into the lab, he was kicking and screaming but the guards who were clutching his upper arms were taking no notice of him at all. He was dragged into a small room just off the lab and the screaming stopped abruptly, a bright white light shone through the door before it all went dark again.
'Oh great.' Came the timid voice of McKay but she once again ignored it and set to work.
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"Major do you hear that?" Lieutenant Ford whispered as they made their way back from the gate. They had just sent the three stunned personnel back through the gate accompanied by a reluctant Doctor Zelenka and Doctor Volga and were now expecting a Jumper to be sent any time soon.
"Hear what?" Major Lorne asked as he stopped in the forest, listening intently for any sound. Suddenly there was a rustling from the bushes in front of them; they both raised their P-90s at the bush. Suddenly another bush to their right rustled and they turned their guns on that.
"We need to get back to the gate." Major Lorne whispered, and they both moved quickly and quietly towards the edge of the forest and back towards the towering gate. As they walked backwards more bushes began to rustle and they saw a foot emerge from one of them, at this they both began to run as fast as they could back to the gate. Doctor Weir had told them that they must not attack the natives until the Jumper arrived, so they for once heeded her advice and ran for it.
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Torrela looked swiftly around her towards the other scientists in the room, Rodney had used them last time to create a diversion in order for him to escape and maybe she could do the same.
She began to walk purposefully towards them, but a rather large guard stepped in front of her blocking her path.
"I need to borrow something."
"What do you need?"
"Umm…"'Just say a word. Anything. Oh for heavens sake, umm wingdangdoodle.'
"I need a wingdangdoodle."
"A what?"
"It's a device which measures the temperature of a substance and also measures the amount of acid or alkali needed." The guard looked stunned for a moment before letting her pass, she walked towards the scientists. One of them stuck out like a sore thumb so she walked towards him, he didn't look up from his work until she began to whisper to him.
"Any chance you can create another diversion?" the man turned to look at her, his face giving nothing away. He looked into her eyes before he sighed and nodded once, he pointed towards a piece of equipment on his desk and she picked it up looking confused.
"For your excuse." He whispered before he turned back to his work, Torrela smiled and walked back towards her desk she knew it would be long before the diversion would happen and she could steal away towards the control tower.
Ten minutes later the diversion happened, a fairly large explosion was set off which made chairs and desks fly towards the walls, she barely had time to duck in order to miss a rather large piece of desk, which flew towards her.
The guards were in uproar, three of their number had been knocked out by particularly large pieces of wood, four of them were now walking towards the injured scientists which left only three. Picking up the solution she had been working on carefully, she moved towards the three remaining guards they all moved together and raised their weapons.
"Sorry." She said as she threw the solution over the three of them and they began to yell in agony, before any more guards to reach her she ran out of them room and down the corridor.
"Next left, third right." She muttered as she tore down the corridors, finally she reached the control room and entered carefully. There were five guards in there all pacing up and down; this would have to be a timed approach.
Moving forwards into the shadow of a large console she watched two of the guards move towards her, she counted to ten before she struck sending both guards flying across the room, she ran towards them and picked up one of the dropped guns that now lay on the floor. She aimed this at the remaining guards and fired in quick succession; if it hadn't been for McKay's firearms training she wouldn't have been able to hit all her targets.
As the guard fell to the ground she moved towards another console in the room, making sure that the guards were no longer in possession of weapons as she went. Soon she had all the guns in a pile next to her and she began to click away on the console, shutting off lights in most areas of the complex. After she had darkened the area she pulled up a new screen, this screen had the title 'self destruct sequence'. She smiled as she quickly typed in her code and set the timer to 15 minutes, long enough for her to get out of the complex alive she hoped. She turned to leave the room but a blow hit the side of her face so hard that she was knocked backwards, she flew into the wall and fell to the ground as stars exploded in front of her eyes.
"You should not have left Doctor McKay."
"Thought you would have guessed that I'm not McKay by now. But then again some people are just born stupid." She replied as she unsteadily raised herself to her feet, the stars were fading from her vision and she could now see the impostor standing in front of her a look of shock and outrage on her face. Torrela lunged at the impostor, but she had never fought in McKay's body and she doubted that he had either, but still she attacked, managing to draw blood.
"You should have left long ago!" screamed the impostor as she threw Torrela off her, and stood sweeping away the blood from her face and smiling as the skin regenerated. Torrela stared horror struck, she could tell that several of McKay's ribs were broken and his body was becoming tired. There was no choice, if she stayed in this body any longer it would die and she would never be able to do this. The only way to survive was to once more take possession of her body, even if it would be a fight. With a massive effort she forced herself off the floor and ran at the impostor her hand outstretched, the impostor grabbed her hand and began to twist it but the damage was done she closed her eyes and felt the familiar sensation as she switched bodies.
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Rodney opened his eyes and found them staring at a black ceiling, all around him strange lights were flickering. He raised his head slowly and looked around, on the floor were the bodies of five guards lying scattered on the ground and a small pile of guns were piled next to him. He began to stand and felt a shooting pain in his ribs, he guessed that some of them were broken and his head was spinning slightly.
'Great I have concussion and broken ribs, and most probably my sugar level has dropped oh just great!' he thought as he gingerly got to his feet and leant on a console. It was then that he noticed a screen with some very familiar numbers on it; he stared at it for a moment before it began to sink it. She had set a self-destruct and it was already down to 8 minutes, he gulped and stared down at the console but he was in no position to try and tamper with this now he had to get out.
He turned towards the door and walked as quickly as he could towards it, as he reached it he turned back for one more look inside and saw another body lying to his left. It was the body of a woman, the woman who had held him and the woman who had made his life a living hell for the past few days. He looked at her for a moment before he turned and moved down the corridor towards what he hoped was the exit, he could hear the distance sounds of people running behind him and he tried his hardest to get his feet to run.
'Carson will look at this when I get back, it'll all be over soon. All be over soon' he thought over and over again, until he reached a piece of the complex that he recognised, it was the place where he had been held and he just needed to run on a little further and then he would be able to get out of this place before it blew.
5 minutes to go.
Rodney ran until suddenly the bright, white light engulfed him and he reappeared outside the complex, he shook his head to try and clear it before he ran quickly towards the forest and safety. The night sky of this planet was full of stars and new constellations but Rodney had no time to try and look at them, he could feel his broken ribs complaining heartedly against this much strain but he ignored them, he had to get to the gate. Seconds later he reached the forest and had to lean against a tree to get his breath back, he knew instantly that he shouldn't have stopped, his ribs began to hurt so badly that he fell to his knees and let out a yell of pain. He didn't even notice a sudden blast of white light from behind him; he just fell onto his front in the forest.
"AH HA." Came a triumphant voice from behind him, but he could move, he felt oddly detached from his body and knew that his blood sugar levels were dropping towards danger point.
"Your friend Torrela, couldn't get the better of me," the voice continued, and he felt strong hands picking him up from the floor "so I got the better of her!" the hands suddenly slammed him against a tree.
"And now Doctor McKay, you have broken our agreement! You said you would work for me for the rest of your days! But then again judging by the way you look now it won't be long before you die anyway." Rodney opened his eyes carefully and saw Torrela's impostor glaring at him, he groaned slightly before a coughing fit began. The woman dropped him on the ground in disgust, but the coughing continued and Rodney could taste the blood in his mouth. Finally it subsided and he managed to breathe again, he raised his hand to wipe away the blood from his mouth and saw his watch his eyes widened in shock. They had two minutes before the complex blew up; this was very bad especially if this woman was going to make it difficult for him to leave.
He raised himself shakily to his feet, and tried to walk off into the forest but the woman behind him screamed in rage and grabbed him once more. This time Rodney fought back, he threw a magnificent punch, which missed by centimetres, and the woman laughed.
"Let me go, we need to get out of here it's going to blow!" he whispered, but she didn't seem to hear him instead she threw him from her and he collided with another tree.
"Now Doctor McKay, I shall kill you once and for all." She cried happily, Rodney knew that if he wanted to live he needed to run. He gathered his remaining strength, picked himself up from the ground and began to run away, he looked briefly down at his watch and saw the seconds ticking by:
5
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3
He tried to run faster but his broken ribs were causing him too much pain, even with the help of adrenalin he wouldn't be able to go any faster or keep going for much longer.
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Rodney could hear the first signs of the explosion roar through the building, he could see the trees in front of him being lit from the fire behind him. Suddenly he was thrown once more from his feet and hurled about 10 feet, he fell on his stomach as the shockwave passed over the forest and beyond. As Rodney hit the ground everything went black, and he knew that this was the end.
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The Atlantis Jumper had arrived through the gate about 5 minutes ago and had been circulating the planet, until a huge explosion from the complex had sent one hell of a shockwave over the planet and had made the equipment in the Jumper go haywire.
They were plummeting towards the ground at a tremendous velocity before suddenly the controls began to respond once more, the pilot grabbed the sticks and pulled the Jumper up from it's nose dive.
"What the hell was that?" Major Lorne asked from the back seat, he watched Lieutenant Ford and the pilot checking the equipment,
"I believe that was the complex, Sir." The pilot said swiftly, as something popped up on the HUD.
"Yes the complex just exploded." Lieutenant Ford said, he was smiling for a moment before he suddenly realised that McKay might have been in there, his smile faded instantly and he motioned for the pilot to take them down.
When they had reached the ground both Major Lorne and Lieutenant Ford hurried out of the Jumper, they didn't know if the natives who had been around earlier were still around or even alive but they weren't going to take any chances.
They entered the forest near the complex quickly and quietly, and began to walk towards the destroyed building. Lieutenant Ford was walking quickly in front, his eyes scanning the surrounding forest for any sign of life. Major Lorne was behind him doing the same but also scanning the ground for any bodies, well one body in particular.
"SIR!" Major Lorne ran towards Ford who had stopped by a tree, as he reached the young man he looked down and saw Doctor McKay's body lying face down on the ground. His heart skipped a beat, but he knew what he had to do and picked the scientist up carefully. He saw Ford looking at him, but he ignored him they had to get back now!
"We've got him." Lieutenant Ford said over the radio,
"Okay, we'll keep the motor running."
After about three minutes they reached the Jumper and hurried aboard, Lorne put Rodney carefully on one of the backbenches and let one of the marines watch him. He moved towards the front of the Jumper and sat down.
"Get us back to Atlantis now!" he said, and watched as the view changed as they rose and then the gate came into view. They were going home, at last!
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Two weeks later.
Rodney's eyelids were heavy, and he didn't want to open them ever again but he could hear someone beside him snoring and it was annoying him. Slowly he opened his eyes and was greeted by the sight of a sleeping Major Sheppard, he was sat on a chair with his mouth open.
Rodney rolled his eyes at the sight, before he turned his gaze to the rest of the room. He soon realised that he was in the infirmary and he cautiously began to sit up in bed, as he did so he felt a strange pull on his arm and looked around. An IV drip was positioned next to his bed. So Carson had him drugged up to the eyeballs, always a good sign.
As he sat up he saw that his was the only bed that was occupied, that was different! Normally there were about ten soldiers in here complaining about gunshot wounds, or pulled muscles.
As he sat there he heard someone bustling about in Carson's office and sure enough about a second later the mother hen himself came out and spotted Rodney, he came bustling towards him.
"And what are ye doing up? Ye should be resting lad!"
"Not my fault if your voodoo medicines don't work." He replied, throwing a look at Major Sheppard who was still snoring loudly.
"Ah, I see." Carson said and he moved quickly towards Major Sheppard and prodded him awake, John looked around for a moment before seeing Rodney was awake.
"Ah sleeping beauty's awake." He said smiling,
"Only because of your tremendous snoring!" Rodney said grumpily, now he was awake he really wanted to go back to sleep.
"I don't snore!" John said indignantly, as he straightened in his chair. Carson rolled his eyes as he listened to the two bicker like an old married couple. He moved around to Rodney's IV and put a clear substance in it, before he moved back to the front of Rodney's bed and glaring at him.
"Sleep now!" he said sternly, Rodney grimaced but wriggled down into the covers. Carson walked back to his office, and when his back was turned Rodney stuck his tongue out.
"That's not very nice McKay!" John whispered as he suppressed a laugh at his friend's infantile behaviour.
"You're not the one whose stuck in here because of broken ribs…" but John never heard what else his friend was complaining of, because Rodney fell asleep and began to snore.
"See you snore. I don't!" he whispered, as he too settled down ready for a nice little nap before Rodney woke up again.
Soon the infirmary was filled with the sound of snoring and Carson smiled in his office as he completed his paperwork. Everything was going to be fine.
Hope you've all enjoyed this, and i hope that i'll be able to make a new story soon.
Thanks for all the reviews and for all the support i've had.
Thanks again.