A/N: thanks to the people who reviewed, i'm still sad that i'm not getting as many as for the Starplate Files, but i'll get over it.

CHAPTER THREE: EVACUATION

Scully was only half way to the hut, and already having a bad day, when Mulder rang her new mobile.

Scully answered it. "Hello?"

"Scully I need you to come back to the hotel and pack all our stuff. I'll meet you at that clearing we discovered yesterday morning," announced Mulder.

"What?" asked Scully in surprise. "Why?"

"There's been an unusual death and the Air Force have the whole area roped off and are evacuating the island!"

Scully frowned, stopping in her tracks. "That doesn't make any sense."

"I know. That's why we're not leaving. I'm checking out the crime scene, I'll meet you in the clearing."

For once Scully couldn't argue with him. "Alright Mulder, but you get to take the blame for this."

"Sure," agreed Mulder and hung up.

Scully turned around and started back to the hotel.

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Mulder slunk around the 'crime scene' area; the Air Force had completely fenced it off using portable fences that carried the trade name Rent-a-Fence. Mulder decided that he would find out what the Air Force were trying to hide… which possibly included his Starplate.

He was about to climb one of the Rent-a-Fences when he heard someone coming and hide behind a bush.

"Sorry sir, that's the trouble with concrete, we can't tell which way it went," an Air Force man was saying.

"Too bad. Can you at least tell me how many there are?" came his reply.

Mulder stiffened with anger. He knew that voice!

He peeked round the bush and saw the first man shack his head. "No, but we think there's more than one."

"Thanks anyway. I'd better go catch up with Teyla and Ronon."

Mulder leaned further around the bush, and saw the first man walking back off around the Rent-a-Fences, while the other man was walking off towards the forest.

Mulder abandoned his bush and jogged after him, there was no doubt about it, it was the conspirator who had introduced himself as Lieutenant Colonel John Sheppard before flying off in a spaceship to catch Scully.

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Scully had just finished packing her and Mulder's stuff when there was a loud crash outside her room.

"Ow! Carson go check another hotel, it looks like everyone's already been evacuated from this one," someone argued irritably.

Scully froze, and pulling the packed bags with her, hid in the wardrobe. She did not wan to get caught by the Air Force.

"I'm going, but I thought you said you'd found her!" complained a second person, with a Scottish accent.

"I said I think I've found her. If I haven't your wasting time, its going to be very bad if she gets off this island," snapped the first person.

Scully started to get a headache and began to get suspicious that they might be talking about her.

"Right, I'm going," replied the Scottish person.

Scully heard someone walk off as a key turned and the door opened. She stared between the crack of the two wardrobe doors and saw a man who had short brown hair, blue eyes and was no exactly physically fit. Her headache got worse.

The guy looked exasperated. "Typical!" he complained. "I should've made Carson come and check out this room, I knew this was a waste of time." There was a short pause. "There is no one here, right? Hello? Anyone called Scully home? No I thought not." Scully saw him raise one hand to his ear and turn on a radio. "It's already been evacuated she's not here. I'm going to check out yet another hotel. McKay out."

Scully was not happy that he was looking for her, she noted that he was only armed with a sidearm and jumped out of the wardrobe, drawing her sidearm. "Stop where you are! I'm FBI and I'm authorised to shoot, put your weapon and radio on the ground and your hands up!"

He stopped and stared at her. "Oh, there you are. I don't think you'll remember me. I'm Doctor Rodney McKay."

Scully ignored the 'I don't think you'll remember me'. "Put your radio and weapon on the floor, now!"

McKay stared at her gun, before deciding it wasn't worth the risk and putting his 9mm and radio on the floor.

"Now turn around and with your hands up," ordered Scully.

McKay looked indignant. "What? But…"

"Turn around!" repeated Scully. "I am authorised to shoot!"

McKay glanced at her gun again before putting his hands up and turning around.

Scully went up to him and dragged his hands behind his back, then tied them with a belt.

McKay protested loudly. "What are you doing? No nononono, don't tie my hands! You're not supposed to tie me up! You're supposed to be really confused and just follow me!"

Scully's headache turned into a migraine and she felt faint. "Walk in to the bathroom and shut the door."

"Hey! You're not going to leave me there are you? 'Cause I'm warning you now, that's a really bad idea…" started McKay, but was cut off as Scully shoved him into the bathroom before slamming and locking the door.

Then she fainted.

She was standing in a field next to Mulder with a forest behind her, infront of them stood four people, three men and a woman.

The woman had light brown, almost red hair and brown eyes. One man was hanging slightly back, he had brown eyes, dreadlocks, and what looked like a permanent scowl. The other two men stood slightly forward, one of them had mischievous hazel eyes and messy black hair, the other was perhaps not completely physically fit and had short brown hair and blue eyes.

The guy with messy hair was trying to keep a straight face.

Scully saw Mulder notice.

"What?" Mulder asked.

"It's a plate with stars on it," the man explained.

"And the 'gate symbols," added the man with short brown hair.

"You know what it is?" asked Mulder.

"It's a Starplate," sniggered the man with messy hair.

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Sheppard had walked quite a long way into the forest when he heard someone following him, he turned around, raising his P90.

Mulder walked out behind a tree holding his gun up. "Where's Scully?"

Sheppard looked surprised. "You've lost her again? That was careless."

Mulder scowled. "Have you taken her again, with the Starplate?"

Sheppard snorted. "The Starplate? You're in our universe, we don't have a Starplate we have a strange lookin' machine instead, which McKay says is strange, for reasons I can't be bothered explaining 'cause it would take me about an hour… hang on, did you ask if I'd taken Scully again?"

"Yes. I want to know if you've taken her up to a big alien spaceship for a second time!" snapped Mulder.

"You think I took Scully to the wraith the first time?" asked Sheppard in amazement.

"No, I know you took Scully up to the spaceship," Mulder corrected.

"I didn't," Sheppard told him. "The wraith brought her up there, and I followed."

"You're lying!" Mulder replied angrily aiming his gun at Sheppard's head.

Sheppard sighed. "No I'm not. Anyway, you might want to lower your gun."

"Why's that?" asked Mulder defiantly bringing up his other arm to hold his gun with two hands.

"'Cause I don't really wanna start shooting at each other, and considering you have a handgun and I have a submachine gun, I think it's in your b est interests that we don't shoot at each other," Sheppard pointed out.

Mulder eyed his P90 wearily.

"Besides," continued Sheppard. "I'm kinda busy at the moment. Come back to the fenced off area and I'll get Lieutenant Mills to get the Parallel Universe Machine here, and he should be able to get you back, as well as Scully when we find her."

"You want me to follow you to a fenced off military area?" checked Mulder. "And then you want me to trust that you'll send me and Scully 'back'? No."

"Please?" asked Sheppard. "Look, I really don't have time for this. Standing still on this island at the moment is not a good idea."

Mulder stared at him for a moment, wondering if he'd really just said 'please', he opened his mouth to reply that he was not going anywhere when something moved in the forest off to his left.

He swung 'round, but there was nothing there.

"What?" asked Sheppard.

"Have you got people watching me?!" demanded Mulder, turning around to point his gun at Sheppard again.

"No," Sheppard told him truthfully. "Why? What did you see?"

Mulder saw something move in the forest behind Sheppard, but it was gone again before he could focus on it.

"Have you got me surrounded?!" yelled Mulder angrily as something else moved through the forest to his right.

Mulder remembered seeing something the same before the last group of conspirators' had knocked him unconscious and tied him to a tree. Teyla had claimed that; 'the wraith could make you see things that are not there'. Mulder was prepared to bet that Sheppard was making him see things.

"Are you messing with my head?!" complained Mulder angrily.

"No, I'm not…" Sheppard began and then turned to his right as Mulder saw something else flash across. "Oh crap."

"What?!" demanded Mulder.

"Don't shoot at the weird shadowy things," Sheppard told him vaguely, then turned on his radio and spoke into it. "Teyla, Ronon, I think I've found one of the wraith, head back towards the beach."

"Towards the beach?" repeated Teyla. "Yes, I believe I can sense a wraith in that direction."

"Good, well, ouch!" exclaimed Sheppard as Mulder rammed him against a tree, pinning his P90 to his chest. "Hey!"

Mulder held his gun to Sheppard's head. "Where is Scully?!"

Mulder saw Sheppard focus on something behind him, a split second before he found himself pulled to the ground form behind, he rolled over and up and saw a tall alien with long white dreadlocks holding Sheppard up in the air by his throat.

Sheppard kicked out with both legs, hitting it in the gut, it hissed angrily and threw him through the air, where he crashed into the middle of a bush.

Mulder fired at the alien, it snarled and advanced on him, Mulder reloaded his gun and shot it again, it collapsed.

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Ronon turned to Teyla. "That didn't sound good."

Teyla looked worried. "No it didn't, I believe the wraith may have crept up on him."

"Well, lets go kill it," said Ronon and set off at a run, Teyla close behind him.

A/N: Well the wraith had to show up some time. Don't worry, there's more than one. please review, i will post faster if you do, i promise!