"Havoc… I think you need to lay off the coffee… seriously…"
"Bah! I had a late night! Get off my case!"
"No… I have to agree with Rodney on this one… You've had… how many…?"
"I think he's up to thirty three…"
"Thirty seven…"
"I don't need to stop drinking this stuff. I'm not awake yet."
"Havoc? You've been awake for the whole time… and you've got a caffeine problem…"
"Your footprints are melting holes in the floor!"
"Shut your face, Rodney…"
Havoc looked behind himself. Sure enough, the floor was venting steam in the shape of his footsteps. He shrugged and went back to his coffee. His thirty seventh coffee. He had never had it before and now he had become addicted to it. Sadly, the caffeine overdose was making his energy control erratic. Radek had tapped his shoulder in the hallway and Havoc had almost decapitated him with a whip of light. He got a few hairs off his head, but otherwise, he missed. Such was the powers of the ultimate life form on a coffee rush.
"I heard you refused to spar with Teyla or Ronon four times already…" Sheppard said, changing the subject. Havoc stared back. "Why?" Havoc put down the coffee mug and turned so his shoulder was facing John.
"Punch me here was hard as you can. C'mon, let loose." Sheppard shrugged and pulled a hand back. His fist came slamming down onto Havoc's shoulder. His fingers made a creaking like snapping sound and his hand was sore beyond belief. John swore. Havoc shook his head. "My skin has become far too hard for direct attacks. Like punching naquadah. Can you imagine the pain they would suffer if they just laid into me like they usually do?"
Sheppard cradled his hand and stared at the spot he had hit. There wasn't even movement. Rodney kept tapping into the control panel and muttering. Havoc looked around the screen.
"What'cha doin' now McKay?"
"I'm researching the Asurans for a weakness, like the Replicators. It would help if I had some of their matter though… to test on." Havoc smiled and opened his robotic palm. A section of the nano bots hit the panel. They contorted and made a tiny Replicator spider. Rodney flinched and fell backwards as the tiny spider scooted in his direction, squeaking. Sheppard sobered up quickly. Havoc laughed.
"Aw… He likes you..."
"Your arm is made of Asuran blocks!"
"Duh! What else…?"
Rodney started thinking. Havoc saw the look on his face and so did Sheppard. Rodney had an idea. And that meant something was going to be blown up by the end of the day.
Havoc was knocked out on the observation table in the isolation room. He had agreed to this, but he didn't know how Rodney was planning to test this. He had a ton of wires and tubes attached to his robot arm. McKay and a few scientists were running about, carrying advanced tools and scanners, dressed in Has Mat suits. Up in the observation deck, Sheppard, Teyla, Ronon, and Weir watched impatiently. McKay found what he was looking for. A bottle containing the Asuran blocks that they had found their first year in Atlantis. They had been deactivated for some time now, but they couldn't be to sure.
McKay scraped a few of the cells off Havoc's arm and put them under a microscope. After a minute, he looked up to the window.
"Havoc's molecules are definitely Asuran, but they seem to be a more primitive model. They are only able to complete tasks that he mentally gives them. I don't know if they have the same aggression programming in the core as the others though. But it's safe to say that we don't have anything to worry about with these." Weir sighed in relief and smiled.
"Good job Rodney." Rodney nodded and turned around…
…Knocking over the containment cell of Havoc's molecules and the Asuran cells. The Asuran cells felt the energy from Havoc's and reactivated. An alarm rang in the room. The scientists struggled to contain the breach. The two breeds of cells merged. A metallic smear formed on the floor. It leapt in the air and slammed into Havoc's arm, molding with his cells. A dash of red arched down the silver, like veins. Rodney turned up to the window.
"Seal the Lab! We have a containment breach…!"
Deep in Havoc's mind, an unwelcome guest intruded. Havoc was suppressed down in the programming as the new breed of Replicator overpowered his unguarded mind. Havoc snarled as the unfathomable aggression flowed through him…
Havoc's arm twitched and a giant curved blade arched out, suspended by silvery rope. The Blade sliced down and cleaved a scientist in two. Havoc slowly got up, the cords on his arms melting. The creature stood up. Rodney was in shock, shaking and stepping backwards. Havoc looked pissed. His eyes were flinty and cold. A series of red tattoos arched over his face. The arm twitched and the blade retracted. The new Havoc sneered.
"This host is much better that the first… I reward you by letting you live till I'm done." The Shadow Havoc had somehow been resurrected in the form of this heartless Asuran symbiote. Rodney fell to the ground.
"Sh- Shadow Havoc…?"
"Ha! That weakling is dead. I am Inverse Havoc. All of his frustration and anger at the humans are multiplied and carried out by me… I am just a servant to his wishes."
He leapt up into the air and blasted the window out of the observation deck. Weir and the others fell back. Havoc stepped into the box. He eyed the group with distaste. He turned his arm into a gun barrel and aimed it at Weir. Teyla yelled at him. He whipped the barrel around at her. It knocked into the side of her head, sending her sprawling. He planted a foot on her back and placed the barrel to her head. Energy hummed behind her ear. Inverse Havoc laughed, but then stopped. He suddenly threw himself against the glass and fell back to the ground floor. His true self spoke as he slammed into the floor.
"This is my body! Leave Teyla alone!" Inverse Havoc began to fade.
"Why protect that human… Why… they took all your hope… all your friends…" He disappeared. Havoc lay on the ground in a pool of his own blood.
"Not them… the Ancients… Wait till Earth…" Havoc whispered as he fell into a deep sleep…