The New Recruit-Chapter 4-Down the Rabbit Hole
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"I don't know; I guess it's because-" she was cut off from answering as the floor beneath them gave way to a smooth stone slide before they could even react.
As they slid down the smooth stone, Ronon attempted to stop his rapid descent by jamming one of his daggers into the slide. It didn't help. As soon as the smaller airman hit him, Ronon lost his grip on the dagger's hilt and both he and Ballard continued the slide down into the unknown. Moments later, they landed in what appeared to be an underground chamber below the temple.
"What the hell happened?" Ballard asked as she brushed off the dust and dirt from their little journey off of herself before checking the reader to make sure that it wasn't damaged, or, if it was damaged, if she would be able to fix it.
"The floor opened up and we landed in some kind of chamber," Ronon answered.
"Thanks for the obvious statement. I meant, what the hell happened to your knife." She pointed at the shard of blade that had landed a few feet away from them.
"It broke from our combined weight," he said as he picked up the metal and examined it. He would have to replace it when they got back to Atlantis. If they got back to Atlantis.
"Well, then, let's continue on. There's an energy signature coming from that direction," she pointed ahead of them and started on, ignoring the glaring Satedan as he took four quick steps and caught up with her.
"Did you hear something?" McKay asked Sheppard as the two men continued on down the tunnel they had found themselves in.
Neither man was quite sure what had happened; all they knew was that one minute they were following the direction that the energy reader had picked up the signature as coming from, and the next moment they were hurtling down and smooth stone slide. Following their unexpected trip into the bowls of the stone temple, they had found themselves in an underground chamber.
"Yeah. This is Sheppard; did anyone – hello?" His question was answered by static on the radio.
"We must be too far underground for the radio signals to be picked up. The energy signal is coming from ahead of us," McKay said as they continued on down the tunnel.
"Major Lorne, Dr. Kavanaugh, can either of you hear me?" Teyla called into her radio as she followed Zelenka down the hall they had found themselves in.
"I think we are too far down for them to pick up radio signal," the Czech scientist told the woman walking behind them.
"You are probably right. That does not mean that they are not trying to contact us as well. Is the energy signature becoming stronger?" she asked him.
"Yes; it would appear that whatever is giving off this signal is less than a meter away."
"No answer from anyone. You're sure that whatever device you guys picked up is down here?"
"Yes, Major. For the sixth time, yes. Whatever it is, it's less than a meter away and the signal is getting stronger." Dr. Kavanaugh snapped at the military man as they followed the directions the energy reader was giving them.
Okay, so that was kind of short, but I promise more is yet to come.
