Thank you for reaching chapter 2.

This part is a bit longer.

So what does Rodney have to say to John?

Chapter 2

Back to Present Day, briefing room

"Oh! It was me?" exclaimed Rodney happily, almost clapping at the thought.

"Yeah, it was you. Well, a holo-you. A old grumpy hologram if you ask me," added John, rolling his eyes at Rodney's evident excitement.

John had just returned from his future experience and had requested an immediate debriefing with the team. Sam, Rodney and Ronon had joined him as soon as he mentioned Teyla and that he had new intel.

"I'm not grumpy!" exclaimed Rodney reproachfully.

"Rodney!" exclaimed Samantha Carter with a tone of warning before turning back to John. "So you came back empty handed from your search but landed in the future where an old hologram of Rodney told you where Teyla is?" summed Carter.

"Yes. I was coming to it," added John continuing his tale.

Back to the future , the holo room

"This is weird!" said John, more to himself then the hologram.

Rodney clearly thought the situation was normal because he rolled his eyes at John's statement. He actually had been waiting for this moment for a while.

"Not really! However, I can't believe you are alive. I mean we all thought you would come back but WOW! So you were in the future all this time!" exclaimed Rodney, moving his hands very quickly in every direction.

John was getting this daydream feeling and somehow felt he would just wake up back home with the real Rodney pestering him with nonsense, "Ok… So this is the future?"

"Hello! Unless you didn't pay close attention to your surroundings, of course this is the future. Maybe seeing me that old is some kind of joke to you, huh?" declared Rodney sarcastically, pointing his index finger at John. The transparent finger left John wondering how Rodney could be conversing with him and not be really here.

"And you are what?" Inquired John, walking around Rodney to check for anything to help him understand the scientist's sudden appearance.

"AI hologram!" announced Rodney proudly.

"Really? You created an artificially intelligent hologram of yourself? I wonder if your ego can grow any bigger," sniggered John as he took a closer look and passed his right hand through Rodney.

"Ahah! Funny!" said Rodney, crossing his arms in front of him.

Rodney still had his sarcasm ready to kill and John felt relieved by the sense of familiarity. However he still had no idea what was going on and how he had ended up here.

"What happened to Atlantis?" he asked while still looking around the room.

"Long story cut short. We all died. That is Earth people and Atlantis people…well the human race in its entire being."

"How?"

"We got attacked by evil green aliens that can control the mechanism of the universe better than us. You know I'm not supposed to tell you that much. I'm supposed to tell you that to save us all you need to save Teyla and destroy Michael's army!"

"Save Teyla, save the World?" joked John, when an episode of the Heroes series came back to his mind.

"Yeah, that sounds right." declared Rodney, unaware of the joke.

"You have been watching scifi again," laughed John.

"Hello! I'm a hologram! This is the real world!" said Rodney pointing to himself and taking a few steps into the room. "You know how complex it is to create an interface capable of…"

John cleared his throat and came back to the point not wanting Rodney to start explaining some very complex physics to him, "So how do I find Teyla?"

Rodney stopped moving and looked at him seriously, "She is aboard Michael's ship orbiting M34778."

Back to present

"Ok! Let's go then," declared Ronon, speaking for the first time since the meeting had begun.

"Wait!" John stopped Ronon as he stood up from his chair. "I'm not finished. This bug army is not our only problem. Rodney told me how Michael's army created a bigger rift among the human alliances and somehow pissed off the wrong aliens. Those are the ones who will kill us all."

Everyone in the room started at the thought. Sam looked pensive… How many more enemies would they have to destroy to have peace?

"So in order to save the universe we must stop Michael's army to bugger this new race?" concluded Rodney.

"Yes," answered Sheppard simply.

Hehe! So what do you think?

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