Realisation - Part 2
(AN: sorry about the late update. Bad internet connection and Work Experience do these things, you know. :) ah yes, and my sister also pointed out I'd been spelling "sheppard" wrong for the last few chapters. So... that's like fixed now... :P )
Sheppard whipped up his Beretta and aimed out of the doorway - nobody there. he made a notion to Woolsey telling him to keep quiet - he nodded, and Sheppard moved up to the doorway. He tilted his head, and saw an unconcious guard outside. He moved out and -
"Sheppard!?" came a voice to his left - he turned quickly and tightened his grip on the trigger.
"Teyla!? what are you doing here?" Sheppard gasped. The cell next to woolsey's was open - Teyla was right next door! She loosened her grip on her newly aquired L98 assault rifle. Sheppard did the same, lowering his beretta.
"There's no time - we've got to get to a safer place -" she began to stutter. Woolsey ran out of his cell to the prison door.
"Teyla, what are you on about?" Sheppard said.
"Forget it - look out!" she shouted, as the door into the prison opened, and three soldiers entered, gunning Woolsey down where he stood...
"Fox - Hound? damn it!" Sheppard shouted, releasing three bullets into each soldier. They dropped to the floor with a huge thud.
"No! Woolsey! Colonel, come in... Woolsey's dead, he got hit by Fox Hound on exfil! I'm on my way to Landry, we can still get him out!" Sheppard shouted down his radio. He beckoned Teyla to follow him as they moved up to the old hallway to the lift.
"Teyla, what the hell are you doing here?" Sheppard whispered, in case more guardswere around.
"When you left Fox-Hound, Sheppard, I joined to replace you. Only now, when they rebelled against the government and went rogue, I didn't agree with their revolt, and they threw me in here," she returned.
Sheppard's heart pounded. "What then?"
"Ronan and Carter didn't follow with me. They joined... I couldn't believe it..." she said.
They got in the lift and moved down until another one of the strange atlantean lights changed in the lift. Sheppard's heart continued to beat against his chest. Ronan and Carter had joined the terrorists?
Sheppard tried not to think about it. "Right, erm, you wait here, I'll find Landry. Then we have to get you and him out of here as soon as possible," he said rhetorically.
Teyla did as she was asked and, kneeling down, watched the opposite end of the corridor through the L98's sights.
Sheppard tried to make sense of what was going on while he walked down the hallway, gun in hand. Fox-Hound had rebelled except Teyla... that was everybody he knew... Ronan, Carter, even Lorne - and he didn't even know about it!
He moved up to a door ahead that slid open as he neared it - inside, strapped to a pillar with ropes coming off to the walls in every direction, was Landry. Sheppard burst into the room - there was no guard.
"Landry, you alright?" he said. Landry didn't open his eyes and his bruised face remained unflinching. "Landry!" he shouted.
Landry woke with a start and flinched at the sight of Sheppard. "Leave! you have to! these ropes... they're strapped to c4..." he said, coughing up blood. Sure enough, as Sheppard looked around, he saw it plastered to the walls, the ceiling, the floor...
A giant red flash hit the floor at Sheppard's feet. Ronan stepped out from behind the pillar. "Right... touch that wire, and the c4 blows up along with the old man..." Ronan directed at him.
Ronan could always beat him in a fight. Sheppard began to sweat. They both had their guns aimed on eachother's heads. "Make your move."