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After the chaos had died down, Rodney was left alone after the last man walked out the door smiling. Why are they always grinning like that at me? McKay shook his head, Weird military types.

McKay sat down on the edge of his bed, scowling at the odd creature on his feet he moved his foot and it rolled onto the ground, still sound asleep. "You ate Pooky, didn't you! You and your kind make me sick! That's right, I know what you did. You won't get away with it either." McKay informed the Tel'Nash. Stupid evil creature.

McKay looked around his room until he found what he was looking for, big metal tongs. He grinned evilly at the creature and grabbed it with the tongs.

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Infirmiry:

"Whoa! What the bloody 'ell is that!" Beckett stepped behind his console cautiously. McKay held what appeared to be a dead mutant lizard-snake in giant metal tongs.

"Don't you know what a Tel'Nash is? I want you to X-ray it, or shove a camera down its throat, either way is fine."

"Alrighty, wanna tell me what this is all about then?"

"I think it swallowed something...valuable of mine. So, X-ray it or something." McKay dropped the limp, Snake/mutant lizard...thing, on one of the beds and clicked the tongs together impatiently. Its the not knowing, that gets to a man. "Come on! Get moving."

"Alright, well, I guess I could do an X-ray on the wee...er...thing. See what's inside." Beckett wheeled the machine over, "What am I looking for?"

"Uh- Do you need to know cause..."

"It'd be nice to, yeah."

"A stuffed bear. There, now can you look?"

"A stuffed bear eh? It'd have to be a darn small bear to fit in that wee body."

"Huh?"

"Well its just that I don't think a stuffed animal would fit. Why would an animal, even one as weird as this, want to eat your stuffed bear anyways?"

"Because its a vile, evil little creature that takes joy in other peoples torment. Not that I'm, I mean- It was a gift, from a friend....it, means allot to me, you know, from the friend." He stammered.

"Right. I doubt your bears in there, Rodney." Beckett eyes the strange creature, "Is it dead?"

"Hmm? I don't think so, it was sleeping a moment ago."

"You were carrying it with metal tongs probably squeezing it half to death though." Beckett poked it with his finger, "It seems really cold."

"I think its supposed to be warm or something."

"Well you best get it warm then." Beckett handed him a towel.

"Thanks." He said dryly. He rolled the Tel'Nash onto the towel using the tongs and managed to wrap the thing up without touching it.

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McKay took it back into his room and turned on the heater. He moved his blankets to form a little warm nest and set it in. Beginning to warm up to the little Tel'Nash, he stopped mentally cursing it for eating Pooky -since apparently the bear wouldn't of fit- and he touched its weird skin. Even with its coat of velvety fuzz he could still feel its frog-like skin underneath. Stupid frog beast... If you didn't eat Pooky, "Then where is he?"

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Deep within the bowels of the city, where daylight never shone, echoed a laughter.