You Mean My Day Just Got Worse?

Part Two: I don't know if I quite captured Kolya, but you can't blame a girl for trying! Well, I had this done, but then I got a better idea that ended up making it a lot longer (sorry for the delay!) So, I broke it up again. I really want more time to rewrite the ending so here is the middle part and the last part will be up tomorrow scout's honor!

Wraith Hive:

Kolya was slowly coming to. He had not had the rare pleasure of being held captive on a hive ship before. Yes, he had fought the wraith for years, but this was a new experience for him. Cowen had told him enough about the hive ships to recognize where he was currently. He pushed himself up to take a better hold of his surroundings. There were only two other occupants of the cell: Dr. McKay who was also waking up, and Colonel Sheppard, who still looked completely out of it. Out of it enough that he would easily succumb to death by his hands.

Kolya half entertained that thought when McKay spoke up, "Don't even think about trying to kill either of us." His voice wavered a little, but strengthened as he continued, "If you even want to attempt to escape, you're gonna need both of us."

"Really Dr. McKay, do you think I am that stupid?" retorted Kolya. Yep those stunners left a dozy of a headache behind.

Just then Sheppard started to stir. He opened his eyes to take in his surroundings, and Kolya commented, "Oh good now we all are awake."

The pilot pushed himself to a sitting position and looked around at the cell, "You know, it's almost like a home away from home. Maybe they should start charging rent for amount of times I find myself in one of these cells."

McKay rolled his eyes and responded, "You know, I think that's a habit you really need to break."

"At least it's not a cocoon," replied the Colonel smugly.

"Oh hardy har har colonel," replied McKay sarcastically, "You're the one with the honor of being on one of these ships the most. AND At least I don't have to worry about those hive queens. What is it with you and women? Ascended women, alien women, even wraith queens seem to have a thing for you."

Sheppard rolled his eyes and snapped back, "Ah, but I don't drool over wraith do I? That honor goes to you!"

As much as Kolya did not want to admit it, he found himself following the conversation of his two cellmates. Granted he wanted nothing more than to inflict pain on both of them, but he couldn't help see the strange relationship that was between them. He had known that they were friends, but by their banter he could see that they played on a whole other level than most. It was strange that a man as annoying and smart as Dr. McKay could have such close ties to a smartass military man that caused him so much grief.

However, he would have to restrain himself from trying to kill them just yet, because their banter revealed that both had been in this situation several times before, and he had to admit that McKay was right in that he needed both of them to escape. He'd bide his time, and once they were out, finish what he and Sheppard had started.

Kolya's musings were interrupted by the man himself as Sheppard asked him, "So in order to get out of here we are going to have to work together, as much as I hate to say this," Sheppard paused but a significant look from Rodney made him continue, "Temporary truce 'kay?"

Kolya sized him up to see if he was being honest, however the one thing that he had noticed in his dealings with Sheppard, was that he was very true to his word, "Alright, I will not try to kill either of you until we are off this hive." At McKay's audible sigh, he had to chuckle a little.

Sheppard was still watching him carefully, "So if we are gonna get outta here we are going to need a plan. Any ideas?"

Kolya could see McKay processing ideas faster than he could come up with any himself, so he decided to fish for a little info himself, "I will admit this is my first time on a hive, so unfortunately, I don't know too much about them."

"Really?" asked McKay amazed, "You, Mr. I Am Such A Villain, has yet to be on a hive ship? Huh." McKay appeared to be deep in thought but then suddenly it all seemed to click and he turned back to Sheppard and said, "Well I say we combine what you did the time Ford dragged you guys on that half-assed mission of his and my escaping skills."

Kolya watched as Sheppard considered this even though he had no idea what they were talking about. Sheppard replied, "Well yeah, our only problem lies in getting sharp pointy objects, and acquiring weapons once we get out."

Both men continued to ponder that point. Finally he couldn't take it anymore, "Would either of you like to explain this plan. I'd like to know if it's worth my time to trust you two."

McKay was about to answer him, when Sheppard cut him off, "Okay, we'll fill you in, but first I want to know one thing."

Kolya could see where this was going, but was at a lost for how to avoid it, "You want to know how I am alive is that it?"

"Yep," replied the colonel smugly watching him like a hawk all the while.

Kolya sighed then said, "Fine. I have always had contacts on numerous planets that have been indebted to me. Well, when a few of them learned that I had died and my body was being kept by Ladon, they were not too happy about it. So they staged a plot with my remaining men to recover my body and their brother soldiers who were being imprisoned by Ladon."

"Yeah go figure," commented McKay sarcastically.

Kolya gave McKay a pointed stare, before proceeding with his tale, "The operation was successful. Ladon did not know of anything until it was too late. The ancients were an intelligent race, by combining some of their technology and some drugs made from wraith enzymes, I was given my life back. The wraith drugs also took years off of my life, strengthening my body. Not unlike your little gift from your wraith friend, huh Colonel?"

McKay and Sheppard were still letting Kolya's tale soak in when a wraith and two guards approached their cell. The male wraith appeared to look all of them over before motioning his two lackeys to escort Sheppard out of the cell. The protests of McKay did nothing to engage them in conversation, let alone deter their movement. The colonel gave McKay a reassuring nod before accompanying them out of the cell.

Rodney sat back down once they disappeared from sight and said worriedly, "This is not good, not good at all!"

Kolya was a little peeved the Sheppard had been taken as he really wanted to be the one to kill him but felt compelled to ask, "Why?"

McKay looked ready to start hyperventilating, "Why? WHY? Because if we want to get off this hive we need him! He is the only one who can fly a dart to get us out of this mess, that's why! Without him we are screwed! Screwed I tell you!!"

"Oh," replied Kolya coolly, folding his arms across his chest as he leaned up against the cell wall. "I suppose that is the plan. Escape from the cell, steal a dart, and have Sheppard fly us out of here. That's it?"

Rodney gulped and took a steadying breath, "Yep. Well the getting out of the cell is always a little tricky. There are a couple ways to do it based on my experience." Then Rodney proceeded to fill Kolya in on their history with hive ships.

Another Part of the Wraith Hive:

Sheppard was led along a corridor to one of the main chambers of the hive. It was not long before the hostess joined him. Man did he hate hive queens. This one was no different, and she was supremely interested in him for some reason.

"You are different than other humans," she said sweetly, deadly sweet of course.

"Really, that's what all the ladies say," drawled Sheppard cockily.

The wraith queen continued to pace in a circle around him, "You have almost a faint wraith quality about you." She stopped, "Why?" Then resumed her circling.

Wraith quality? Huh? She somehow must have sensed that the wraith had given him his life back. Another fun flashback. First Kolya and now this, the day was getting better and better. He replied to her, "Wraith quality really? I certainly think I'd know. But hey what can I say?"

She stopped her pacing and seemed to concentrate fully on Sheppard. The wraith queen was attempting to find the answers she wanted in his mind. Well, he wasn't going to give that up without a fight. As the seconds ticked by, the strain was starting to take its toll as the colonel was forced to his knees. Then a huge jolt rocked the ship ending the queen's mental onslaught.

John breathed a small sigh of relief because he would not have been able to keep her out of his mind of much longer. The wraith queen was pretty pissed about something and out of rage hit the colonel sending him flying backwards colliding with decorative column that supported the chamber. His head collided with the column sending him into oblivion.

"Take him back to the others, I must deal with this new threat," she hissed to her guards that had come forward to serve her.

Wraith Cell:

Rodney was pacing the cell out of worry for his friend when a jolt rocked through the ship knocking his legs out from under him.

From the opposite corner Kolya asked, "Is it your ship the Daedalus?"

McKay pushed himself up to a standing position and replied, "I am not even going to ask how you know about that. Not it can't be, it's," Rodney stopped not wanted to mention Earth, "Away currently, plus it would have extracted us now if it was."

"Really, extracted?" Kolya asked intrigued. This kind of technology would sell for a great deal, not to mention being supremely useful itself.

McKay looked over at him, head shaking, "No way, don't even think about it. There is no way you could take the Daedalus. No… I think odds are this is a rival hive. But the distraction might prove to our advantage."

Just then they heard sounds in the hall. The two drones were dragging Sheppard back to the cell. They opened the door and threw him mercilessly onto the floor before exiting and going back down the hall from which they came.

Rodney immediately rushed over and knelt by his friend, "Sheppard? Are you okay?" McKay was starting to worry over the pilot's lack of response, but his investigations were cut short as movement in the hall captured his attention. He witnessed a group of wraith making there way down the corridor, only to have a canister of some kind thrown at their feet. Within seconds all of the wraith were on the ground, apparently out cold. Unfortunately the gas in the canister seemed to work on humans as well, because half a minute later Rodney knew no more.

Dark Cell:

It was hard to ignore the throbbing pain that he felt in his head. Actually, it was what helped to bring him out of the blissful release of unconsciousness. However when he tried to reach up and touch his aching head, John found that he was unable to do so. In fact he soon became aware that his hands were tied behind his back. That was not the only thing though; he was sitting in a chair back to back with another person.

John tried to twist around as much as possible to see who was sitting behind him. He caught a glimpse of the Atlantis expedition logo on the sleeve of the man behind him, and breathed a sigh of relief, because that had to belong to McKay. Rodney was still completely out of it, whatever it was, as his breathing was slow and regular, plus he didn't respond to John when he called his name. So since there wasn't much else to do, he decided to get a better feel for his surroundings.

They obviously were not in the hive any more. That much was evident given the design and architecture of the place. They were seated in the middle of a medium sized stone chamber that was lined with bookcases. These were filled with books of course, adding to the library feel of the place. There also were several tables with different science equipment set up on them, changing John's initial thoughts of the room as a library to that of a lab. The room was pretty dark because there weren't any windows that the pilot could see, and the door to the chamber was located directly to his left. He assumed the other half of the chamber was filled with similar pursuits, but couldn't get a good view of them.

John had just finished his examination of the chamber when Rodney started to moan a little and move around. This was a good sign because then he could hopefully get some answers as to how they ended up where they were. Because the last thing that he remembered was having that nasty wraith queen throw him across the room, and waking up in this lab place didn't quite make a lot of sense.

Rodney moaned again, "Uhh my head. That must have been some strong stuff."

"What stuff?" John inquired curiously. Apparently Rodney had been knocked out with something.

"Sheppard?" asked McKay, his voice with a hint of the concern he was trying to conceal.

"Duh," replied the colonel rolling his eyes, even though there was no way the scientist would be able to see it. "Mind filling me in on what I missed?"

McKay switched into scientist mode as he rattled off the facts of the last things he remembered, "Yeah two wraith lackeys threw you back into the cell, literally, and as I was trying to get you to wake up a canister was thrown at a group of wraith down the hall. It was filled with some kind of gas because it made its way down to the cell after quickly dispatching the wraith. The next thing I knew was that I was waking up here with a nasty headache."

One thing was still nagging at the back of John's mind and he voiced his thoughts to Rodney, "So what do you think happened to Kolya?"

Rodney took a second to ponder that one before replying, "That is a good question. Let's just hope that he's enemies with whoever our captives are now, whoever they are."

"Yeah, it'll be twice as hard to get out of here if we are up against the combined forces of two people who hate us," added John.

"I blame you for that, Mr. I Can't Play Nice with Anyone," replied McKay sarcastically.

"Hey, it's not always MY fault!" retorted Sheppard.

However all conversation was forestalled as the sound of the door being unlocked grabbed their attention. The door swung inward to reveal their latest captor, Michael.

Atlantis:

It had been a day since Teyla and Ronon had come back to the city missing the other half of their team. In that day, the presence of the military commander and head of the science department had been sorely missed by the inhabitant's of the city. This had happened in the past, but spirits were at an all time low as there was no evidence as to where they could be now.

Down in the labs, Zelenka had spent the entire night scanning the galaxy for the trackers that had been imbedded into all offworld team members. However the system had not quite been refined and he was having trouble with it. The signals were just too weak to pick out right now. He had fallen asleep while the search was still running and was woken up to his laptop beeping at him. He rubbed the sleep out of his eyes as a focused in on what his computer was trying to tell him.

Seconds later he scrambled to find his comm. and called an emergence briefing with Dr. Weir and Major Lorne. What he had found out was definitely a step in the right direction.

Creepy Lab:

Lt. Colonel John Sheppard could barely contain a sigh. He seriously was contemplating what he must have done to offend the gods above to have allowed this day to happen. Really, Murphy's Law was just starting to get plain annoying. Perhaps he should have stayed in bed that morning. First he had had to endure the boring mission with McKay playing the 'touch this' game, then Kolya and his genii buddies had shown up, next the wraith crashed the party, and finally Michael was thrown into the mix. Was someone out to get him? Well they weren't going to win, that was for sure. He would not go out without a fight, that was a given.

So he decided to break the silence first, "So how've you been Michael? How're the kids?" Of course by kids he completely meant Michael's creepy bug minions that were in the severe need of an exterminator.

"Colonel Sheppard and Dr. McKay welcome to my latest lair. Imagine my surprise when I planned to take over a hive and use the ship to ferry my army and the humans stored inside to increase its numbers, to find in a cell out of the way, the two of you," replied the half wraith coolly.

"Us, why would you want to see the two of us?" asked McKay sarcastically, although John could hear the fear that Rodney was trying to contain.

"What happened to Kolya?" asked John trying to move the conversation along.

Michael seemed to smile, "Yes, your friend Kolya had quite the story to tell. It seems you two have had an interesting relationship. He was able to offer me something that I needed, human test subjects, and I was able to offer him freedom."

"Oh so you two are all buddy-buddy now aren't you?" asked the colonel not liking where this conversation was heading.

However it was McKay who asked the most important question of them all, "So, uh, where does that leave us and all?"

This time both were sure that Michael smiled, "Neither of you will live to see the sunset."

With that he started to leave the room, but not before the colonel called out, "So care to elaborate on that?" Of course that earned him only silence from Michael as he left them to contemplate what he said.

"Huh, who woulda thunk? Michael and Kolya working together," said Rodney sagely.

John shrugged and replied, "Screams good things don't it?"

With that the two fell into an uneasy silence as they tried to figure a way out of the mess they currently found themselves in and wondered where it had all gone wrong.

Atlantis Briefing Room:

At the word from an excited Zelenka, Dr. Weir, Major Lorne, Teyla and Ronon now met with the scientist. He quickly explained what he had found.

"Now the new trackers have hardly been put to the test, and I was unable to get a lock on them as a result. I think that since they were on a hive ship and therefore moving around, the program was not written to keep up well enough."

At this point Ronon cut in, "Doc, is there a point to this?"

Something seemed to have clicked for Elizabeth, "And since you have a lock that means the hive ship has stopped moving or they are no longer aboard the hive."

"But if they managed to escape the hive, why haven't they dialed in yet?" asked the Major.

This earned silence from the group; however it was Teyla that spoke up, "Could it not be that they are unable to as they are still being held captive?"

"All we know is the location of the planet that they are on, or nearby. The signals have stopped moving. That is all I can tell you," replied Radek solemnly.

Lorne straightened in his seat and said, "Well that sound's good enough to me. I say we take some jumpers full of marines to the planet and use the jumper's sensors to further locate them so that we can extract them."

Elizabeth was still unsure about this since there were so many unknowns, but she knew that they really couldn't afford to wait around too long, "Alright, Major take whoever you need and be ready to leave in an hour."

As they stood up to leave the briefing room Lorne turned to Teyla and Ronon and said, "I take it you guys are going to want to come along?"

--Ahh the dreaded TBC, I'm sorry I did mean for this to be done, but I had the idea to just make it worse and throw Michael in there adding to the plot considerably. The old ending didn't work, so I have to redo it. The Final Chapter will be out tomorrow I promise!—lemons--