A/N: ok, this is my first decent sized chapter in a while (sorry about that people) but here's chapter nine, mostly on time.

CHAPTER NINE: WRAITH MAYHEM

Sheppard was lying flat on his back in his jail cell counting the tiles on the ceiling out of boredom when Scully walked up to his cell, holding a large bag. Sheppard sat up.

"Feel like getting me the Starplate now?" inquired Sheppard.

"Why should I?" asked Scully.

"You said you'd give me the Starplate once Mulder got back," Sheppard reminded her.

"Well, some circumstances have changed," Scully told him.

"Like what?" asked Sheppard annoyedly.

"Mulder may be back, but he also can't remember anything about the Starplate or Parallel Universes," Scully pointed out.

"Oh, that. That wasn't my fault!" protested Sheppard.

"How do I know I know that you hadn't already told them to erase his memories before you came to this universe?" demanded Scully.

"Why would I do that?" asked Sheppard. "Someone probably made a mistake, as far as I know there was no plan to erase Mulder's memories. I can find out if there's a way to give him back his memories if you want."

"No!" exclaimed Scully.

Sheppard raised an eyebrow. "Wow. That was an unexpected reaction."

Scully sighed. "If Mulder find out that he's seen aliens, even if they are from your universe, I'll never get him to shut up. I know that from experience."

"So… does that mean I can have the Starplate now?" Sheppard inquired hopefully.

"As long as you use it well after I'm out of here," Scully ordered. "I don't want to get the blame for you disappearing."

"No problem," agreed Sheppard.

Scully opened the cell door then reached into her bag and pulled out the Starplate, which promptly started glowing. Scully almost dropped it in surprise.

"Why is it glowing?" she asked wearily.

"Charging up," Sheppard told her. "It's either about to send something here, or send anything one close to it to my universe."

Scully immediately dropped it and backed away, fortunately, the Starplate didn't break.

Sheppard stared at it happily. "Is it indestructible or something?"

"I don't know…" Scully started, but broke off as a flash of blue light shot from the Starplate, leaving three wraith standing just inside the cell.

"Of course it's wraith," grumbled Sheppard, then turned to Scully. "Don't just stand there, shoot them!"

Scully didn't particularly want to alert anyone to aliens form another galaxy in a parallel universe by firing her gun, but she changed her mind when two of the wraith exited the cell though the door she'd just opened and began walking towards her, while the other headed for Sheppard.

Sheppard dodged around the wraith as it attempted to hit him and dived for the Starplate as Scully shot down the wraith nearest to her.

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McKay backed away from the extra four wraith that had just walked into the tent.

"What?! There are more!" exclaimed Harris. "I thought you disintegrated them all!"

"I popped them out of existence but obviously that wasn't all of them!" corrected McKay.

"Can you do the same to these wraith?" asked Harris, taking a step back and raising his P90 again as the wraith drew closer, looking very confident. "Because I can't take on four wraith!"

"I'll see, um, it looks like I only managed to pop one wraith out of existence," muttered McKay, eyes flicking nervously to the wraith.

Harris fired at the wraith. "One?!" He yelled over the noise of his gun. "But there were four left!"

"Yes, well, there's another four wraith here! Worry about the wraith in our universe! You know, the ones that are attacking… uh oh," broke off McKay.

"What?!" asked Harris killing one wraith and ducking a wraith punch as one of the wraith got too close.

"The Parallel Universe Machine it's…"

McKay didn't have time to finish his sentence as the Parallel Universe Machine's blue light shot out around Harris, McKay and the three remaining wraith.

SGA-13 came charging into the tent guns raised.

"Oh you're kidding me!" complained Corporal Newcorn.

"Again no wraith," grumbled Captain Powers.

"Yeah, and no people," remarked Major Johnson.

"Maybe they're hiding," suggested Lieutenant Young.

"Hm…" said Johnson thoughtfully, then started speaking in an overly loud voice. "Hey, you know how this machine can be horribly unstable? I wonder what would happen if I shot the crap out of it with my P90?"

Powers snorted. "Sorry, I didn't hear an indignant McKay squeak from anywhere."

"Damn," complained Johnson.

"Uh, guys, do you think the 'horribly unstable' machine actually got unstable?" asked Newcorn.

"Yeah, I guess that makes sense, considering there's another dead wraith on the floor," observed Powers.

Johnson looked down. "So there is. Young, radio Mills, tell him things just got worse."

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Sheppard had just managed to get hold of the Starplate when it started glowing again. Before he could even have second thoughts about holding it while it was glowing a bright blue flash filled the room, bringing three wraith, McKay and Harris.

Unfortunately this happened at the exact same time that Mulder and Skinner came into the room.

"What's going on?!" bellowed Skinner, trying to direct the question at Scully, who was trying to wrestle back her gun from a wraith.

"Aliens!" yelled Mulder, almost excited.

Sheppard turned around. "Sorry, these aren't from your universe… though you can have 'em if you like."

A wraith promptly hit Sheppard, sending him flying out of the jail cell, where he collided with McKay, and the two of them rolled to a stop at Skinner and Mulder's feet, Sheppard still holding the Starplate.

Skinner looked at a loss for words.

"Ow!" protested McKay. "You had to crash into me, didn't you!"

"Next time I'll ask the wraith to hit me away from you," retorted Sheppard, then climbed to his feet. "Do you have the remote-device-thing?"

McKay got up rolling his eyes. "No I don't have the 'remote-device-thing'. I'm assuming even your natural ATA gene won't activate that?"

McKay pointed to the Starplate.

"Oh, I haven't tried, Scully only just gav…" Sheppard broke off and glanced at Skinner. "I only just got it."

"Little help!" yelled Scully from where a wraith was pinning her to the wall.

A burst of P90 fire filled the room and Scully's wraith collapsed.

"Nice going Captain!" called Sheppard.

Harris grinned. "Thanks sir! How about activating that plate?"

"I think he's trying," replied McKay, then took in Skinner for the first time. "Errm… I didn't know you had glasses Caldwell…"

"He's not Caldwell," Sheppard informed McKay.

"Oh." McKay squinted at Skinner. "You're right, he's younger." McKay turned back to Sheppard. "Concentrate on turning that thing on, I don't want death by wraith!"

"I'm trying!" complained Sheppard.

"What? What's happening?!" exclaimed Skinner, finding his voice.

"I told you aliens existed!" replied Mulder, wincing as if he had a bad headache.

A group of security people ran into the room, apparently they'd finally heard the gunfire.

"The prisoners escaped!" yelled one of them, seeing Sheppard outside his cell.

Sheppard rolled his eyes. "Yeah, so they comment on that before the life-sucking aliens or Harris with his P90!"

Scully was backing away from two wraith, her gun (out of bullets) lay on the floor.

Mulder suddenly put one hand to his head and fainted.

"I think that's the first symptom of memories starting to return," McKay announced while Skinner checked Mulder's pulse in alarm.

"Capture the intruders!" screamed a security guard.

"Sheppard!" called Harris, a wraith trying to wrestle his P90 from him… and wining. "It would be helpful if you got that plate working right about now!"

As if as an answer the Starplate started glowing, softly at first, then it began pulsing with light. Skinner, Mulder and the Security guards stopped and stared, the wraith holding Harris's P90 ripped it out of his hands, Harris threw himself to the ground as it went off, and Scully attempted to get past the two wraith.

Sheppard turned to Mulder, Skinner and the security guards. "Stand back!"

Scully suddenly realised what was happening. "Listen to him! Stand back!"

Skinner started dragging Mulder backwards, while the security guards backed off with their guns raised. Scully made an attempt to turn and run away, but ran into a wraith that was sneaking up on her. Blue light shot through the room.

A/N: The next chapter will be the last, I'll try to have it on time!