hey all! wassup? lol, yeah... no apologizing this time because it didnt take me THAT long to put this chapter out... i hope it stands up to its predecessors... really.

anyway, although i didnt get a ton of reviews, all the reviews were very sweet! thanks a lot you guys!

atlantian - HA! i knew i'd train you guys to read top and bottom A/Ns! omg, mckays response to carter, yeah!
nightpheonix - lol, okay, woot for you for reading all A/Ns! novak was fun to do... MDS: muse denial syndrome, pah
Delka - sorry this last one didnt do as well in your mind, i hope this makes up for it! thanks for your honest review!
flubber - lol, hermiod barely tolerates mckay! thats okay if your iMac wasnt working, you reviewed in spirit!
McKayLover - a bit crazy? hehe, i'm mad! yay! yeah daedalus will do one... i promise!
Sepik - i'm very happy that the last chapter ranked so high for you! yay! thanks!
stevewraith - now that you say it, yeah hermiod is very mckay, isnt he? LOL! thanks for that!
SilverRider - who said asgard are smarter than us? lol... not me of course! happy you love this fic! thank you!
Whirlwind-2005 - lol, the daedalus crew shall be fun.. but yeah, hermiod gets one next! i could never miss him!
Port-of-Seas - oh hermiod'll write one... he just needed to see how it was done first! not so clever now asgard, are you?
Yarrharr - hey! good to see ya again! wow... thats a heck of a review! thanks for all the praise! (hugs)
Freckles-101 - omg... earth will be totally fun, if not totally crazy... there are SOOO many people on earth to do... thanks!
Romulus Magnus - thanks! well asgard are very lawyer-ish... except for thor, but we havent seen him... glad you liked it!

hm... i imagine people are on vacation and thats why this didnt get so many reviews.. i hope it wasnt b/c it was bad.. lol, the second chapter got exactly this many reviews too, 13... oh well...

OH! speaking of vacation, i'll be going to poland (yay!) on Aug. 11th and coming back the 27th... they'll be time to check your lovely reviews, but not enough time to write a new chapter... i'm sooooooo sorry! i'll be sure to write one as soon as i come back!

anyway.. the chapter everyone's been waiting for! chapter 19!

Telepathy could be a blessing… or a curse. It was a blessing because it allowed for smoother directions and instructions to be sent along. It could be a curse because mind-voices hurt and it was really weird to receive messages not meant for you.

SilverBlade of the SwiftKill Hive walked along the organic corridors of his ship, out for a midnight stroll. He looked all important walking down the hallways… not that he wasn't or anything. Something was repeating itself though over and over again in his mind and he couldn't figure out what it was. It seemed to be a transmission or something. He stopped on the side of the corridor and cocked his head slightly. Several younger Wraith walked by, eying him warily. He snarled at the looks that seemed demeaning.

After all, as the Queen's head male, he was not allowed to have crazy voices in his head.

SilverBlade continued down the hallway, trying to make out just what exactly the message read as. For all he knew, the faint message might be from the Queen. No… when she had an order for him it was loud and clear. Maybe she was sleeping… maybe it was someone nearby sleeping. Great…

Reaching his room, SilverBlade disarmed himself. Multiple blades left many more pockets along with a fancy gun he'd found on the planet the Hive had culled earlier that day. After this ritual, he plopped himself on his bed and thought.

Minutes went by.

Suddenly SilverBlade shot up. He understood the message! It was no order from the Queen or anyone's dreams; it was a random transmission for anyone who wanted to read it. Quickly he reviewed it in his head and found it to be a repeating sequence. The message named itself as "The Ancient Hitchhiker's Guide to the Pegasus Galaxy." Accompanying this message was a similar one, but it was addressed from a Stargate.

Interesting.

SilverBlade decided he would be more wary of stargates in the future…

Now SilverBlade considered himself to have a sense of humor – an aspect where many of his kind lacked. He also had a healthy sense of self, not overly egotistical, but just perfect for a high ranking Wraith. He noticed that both "Guides" had a title and seven points with minor points explaining each major point.

He grabbed a pad sitting on his table, one used by the scientists for checking the ship's systems. Luckily it also had a writing pad. Using his sharp fingernails carefully, SilverBlade began to tap out a message of his own.

OOO

The Wraith Hitchhiker's Guide to the Pegasus Galaxy

1.Watch your back while eating.

... a. Someone might be there to stab you while you are enraptured with your meal.

... b. You don't really want some lowly human killing you while you eat, do you?

2. Steer clear of Atlantis!

... a. While very very tasty and could potentially lead to a massive feeding ground, these humans are bad business!

... b. Please violate rule 2a if you are part of a rival Hive. You're very welcome to go find out how armed they are.

3. Sap the life from your Runners so they can't get back at you!

... a. After all, we train our Runners to the highest standards and if one ever got out, we'd be screwed.

... b. They know everything… beware.

4. When a feeding is set up, be very very suspicious.

... a. Just last month we lost our highest male to a drug that runs through a victim and kills the feeder. NOT GOOD!

... b. Some of those humans are actually quite clever. It's rare, but they're there and they're very clever.

5. Why settle for human food if human is the food? You don't!

... a. Don't eat human food! Our stomachs aren't made for that shit.

... b. Just remember: a good Wraith doesn't let food run away.

... c. They also don't eat sissy food.

6. When wiping out a rival race, WIPE THEM OUT!

... a. Don't leave survivors! Yeah they may breed for next generation, but they'll breed killers and you'll be the reason for the downfall of the Wraith race!

... b. Heh, wouldn't that suck…

7. If you see a human with long white hair, kill him.

... a. He's probably one of us! Might be your cousin or something…

... b. But hey, he's a potential rival and good food! Ex-wraiths are some of the best around.

... c. Think of him as… a delicacy.

SilverBlade finished tapping out his rules with a ruthless grin on his face. It was an open mouthed grimace that passed off as a Wraith smile. He looked proud at the work he had accomplished in the last half hour. SilverBlade didn't know if the Queen would appreciate the humor (because everyone knows that she had no sense of humor at all) but he knew his buddies would.

Without disclosing their location, SilverBlade sent off the message as a burst of data in sub-space. Anyone could pick it up and no one would know it had been him who wrote it.

He chuckled; it was fun to dabble in the sciences sometimes.

Hey, maybe he should dabble some more… after all that cure to getting to Atlantis was due any day now…

Sooooooooooooo? How'd it do? Did it stand up to expectations? Please tell me if it did or not...

ALL READERS, READ THIS:

Okay, many of you have been wondering what on earth I meant by "two veins" of the story... let me show you!

This is the Guides progression:

from the Guide Atlantis wrote:

Novak (on the Daedalus)
Hermiod
the 2IC
Daedalus
and on to Earth!

from the Guide the Atlantis Stargate wrote:

the Ancients
the Wraith
the Genii (?)
the Brotherhood (?)
the Athosians (?)
etc...

I'm switching off between the two paths for now until the Daedalus reaches Earth then the Guides that spawned from the Guide Atlantis wrote will be finished... then all I have to do is track down every race capable of receiving a message and writing a Guide for them... lol, sounds like fun eh? I hope this demonstration was easier to understand than my previous explanation!