A/N: I'm so sorry this is so late, I had a writers block. This chapter has Lt Mills from my team SGA-8 in it and two team members from my troublesome team SGA-13 in it. I hope you like them. (Mills is afraid of Ronon).

CHAPTER FIVE: THE PARALLEL UNIVERSE MACHINE

Scully heard a lot of crashing and banging from the bathroom, then a short silence, followed by some muffled talking. She frowned and approached the door, only to hear the voices clearly.

"…not a lot I can do about it. I'll unlock the window of the room below you if you want do you can continue your plan…"

Scully recognised the voice immediately, but she couldn't quite place who it was.

"As I've said, very funny! Have I ever mentioned how much I hate rope climbing?" Scully easily recognised that as McKay.

"Yeah, this would be 'bout the fifth time this week," replied the other person.

"Will you stop mocking me Colonel?! I'm hanging out a third story window, the least you could do is help me!" snapped McKay.

"No, I'm pretty sure the least I could do would be to stand here doing absolutely nothing." There was a short pause. "Alright, climb back in the window and I'll come up and let you out the bathroom."

"You know Scully's in the room, right?" asked McKay, Scully was beginning to wonder what she should do, obviously McKay was trying to escape out of the window.

"Sure, we need to send her home anyway."

And there it was again, talk of sending her 'home'. Scully had no wish to go wherever it was that they wanted to send her. She wondered why Mulder hadn't called to find out where she was, Scully decided to call him.

She dialled his number. It rung out, she wondered if the Air Force had caught him snooping. Scully decided that she was not going to get caught, she picked up her and Mulder's bags and made from the door, wondering how she was going to get away from the Air Force Colonel, who was probably already inside.

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Inside the fenced area Mulder watched Ronon puzzle over his mobile phone as it rang, Mulder breathed a sigh of relief when he didn't answer it. It was probably Scully, wondering where he was, after all chances were Sheppard didn't even know where she and McKay were.

Mulder looked up as Lt Mills came back in.

"Hi, I've got a science team coming in soon with the Parallel Universe Machine, sorry if it takes a while, but it has got a long way to travel," Mills told him, eyeing Ronon nervously.

Ronon gave a snort of amusement, Mulder couldn't be sure if he found Mills wording of the fact that the machine was apparently coming from another galaxy funny or if he thought it amusing that Mills was obviously nervous of him.

One thing that was really starting to bother Mulder was that although he was a prisoner every single one of the people he'd met had been relatively nice and good tempered, except possibly Ronon.

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Scully walked down the hall and turned a corner… and walked straight into an Air Force man in full uniform. He had messy black hair and mischievous hazel eyes. He looked exactly the same3 as the person in her second strange dream.

"You…the wraith…" started Scully before wondering how she knew the creature was called a 'wraith'.

He looked slightly irritated. "Well… It's good to see you too."

He was also the guy who'd called Mulder's plate the 'Starplate' in her third dream.

"You…" repeated Scully as she realised she recognised his voice from the radio too.

"You…" she began again, only to have memories pounding through her head. The small wraith dart, the wraith hive ship, the Stargate, Atlantis and the blue hand device that had wiped her memory.

"You!" shouted Scully.

Sheppard shrugged. "Me."

Scully stepped forward, furious at remembering that he and McKay, who she'd trusted, had had her memory wiped, and punched him in the face.

Sheppard stumbled back in surprise, just as his radio burst to life.

"Colonel Sheppard, this is Caldwell, I've just beamed up the Parallel Universe Machine from the SGC and am ready to beam it down to you."

Sheppard blinked. "Errm… Sure, go ahead."

There was a bright white flash and Scully jumped back as the familiar machine appeared between her and Sheppard.

Sheppard looked slightly irritated, he spoke into his radio. "Colonel, I didn't mean directly to me, I'm standing in a hotel corridor, beam it to Mills."

Scully realised that her ticket home was just about to disappear as quickly as it had come and remembered that during her time in Atlantis Zelenka had shown her where the button to activated the machine was. He'd also told her that he and McKay were going to modify the Parallel Universe Machine so, unless they changed it using their access codes, it would only be able to send people between her and their universe.

Scully leapt forward and pressed the button. Sheppard stared at her, the turned and ran as the machine gave an unhealthy whirring sound an d a couple of beeps before sending out a large sweep of blinding blue light.

Scully found herself standing in an empty hotel room next to the Starplate.

There was a crash and a groan as Sheppard, who'd still been running away from the Parallel Universe Machine when it had activated, didn't stop in time and ran into a wall instead.

There were voices coming from another room.

"In there! I heard something!" Scully heard a familiar voice yell.

Assistant Director Walter Skinner came into the room followed by a team of FBI agents, he stopped, surprised at seeing her.

"Agent Scully. We haven't been able to locate you or Agent Mulder for days," AD Skinner told her, then turned his gaze to Sheppard, who was staggering back from the wall holding his head. "Who's that?"

Sheppard turned around. "Uh… hi."

Skinner took in his tack vest P90, 9mm and knife.

"This is Lieutenant Colonel John Sheppard," Scully informed her boss.

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McKay succeeded in picking the lock to let himself out of the bathroom as he wondered why he hadn't tried that before he tried escaping out the window. Scully was no longer in the room so McKay walked out of the room and into a corridor, just in time to see the Parallel Universe Machine get beamed out of the corridor.

McKay looked at the now empty corridor in confusion, then walked back in to the hotel room and picked up his radio. "Colonel Caldwell, why was the Parallel Universe Machine in the hotel corridor?"

"We accidentally beamed it to Sheppard when he wasn't where we were meant to send it, don't worry Doctor, we're going to beam it to Lieutenant Mills now."

"Hmm. I take it you beamed up Sheppard and Scully too?" asked McKay.

"No, Sheppard should still be in the corridor, I didn't know he FBI Agent was with him."

"You're kidding, right? 'Cause Sheppard not there anymore, and neither's Scully," McKay told Caldwell.

"No, I'm serious. Contact him on his radio if you can't find him. Caldwell out."

McKay rolled his eyes knowing that Sheppard's radio was set to the same frequency so he should have heard the whole conversation. He decided to try anyway.

"Sheppard come in." As he predicted there was no reply. "Sheppard can you hear me? Sheppard are you there? Colonel Kirk are you hearing me? No I thought not."

Weir cut into his some-what one-sided conversation. "Is there a problem Rodney?"

"Yes, I would say so. Caldwell accidentally beamed the Parallel Universe Machine directly to Sheppard and Scully and now they're no where to be seen and Sheppard's not answering his radio," complained McKay.

"What are you saying?" asked Weir in a tone that said she already knew exactly what he meant but didn't want to voice it.

"Sheppard and Scully must've been send to Scully's universe. It could have been a result of Caldwell using beaming technology on it after Zelenka science team damaged it with coffee or Scully could have purposely activated it, assuming she remembered how. It doesn't really matter which, either way, Scully's been send back with her memories re-emerging and Sheppard in a parallel universe. Both could cause potential damage to that universe, and I stress the word 'both' in that sentence because Sheppard's more than capable of causing catastrophic damage…"

"Okay!" broke in Weir. "I get it. What can we do about it?"

McKay sighed. "I don't know yet. Send Mulder back maybe? Look, Sheppard might be able to find his own way back, we think the Ancient gene works the Starplate. If not I can go to that universe with that remote machine we used last time and I'll bring him back."

"Okay," agreed Weir. "That works. Tell Caldwell to send the message to Mills that as soon as Zelenka's sure the machine's working properly to send Mulder back."

"Will do," replied McKay. "McKay out."

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Major Mickey Johnson of SGA-13 stared at that little blue hand-held machine he'd been given by Mills before being told to watch the FBI agent.

He turned to his team-mate Lieutenant Jay Young, keeping his voice low so Mulder didn't hear him.

"Hey, Young, which FBI agent was I meant to zap with this?" he asked.

Lt Young shrugged. "I dunno, what is it?"

"It's the Asgard memory-wiping thing. They zapped one of the FBI agents with it last time, which one was it?" questioned Johnson.

"Errm…" replied Young. "I wasn't told. Just do eny meny miny moe, if it lands on agent Scully just zap her when she gets here."

"Okay, why not," agreed Johnson. "Eny meny miny moe…"

A/N: I hope you like Johnson and Young, they have a knack for doing dumb things. :) please review and tell me if you like them (and Mills)