A/N: Thank you to Cocoa Girl2, flubber, and Amaruk Wolfheart of the Wraith! OMG this has been a REALLY long update… Surprised that I haven't seen any tomatoes thrown at my direction via PM's. I must fess up that I spelled Daedalus wrong last chapter, I might go and correct it later, but me thinks that you guys would rather have a new chapter…
Disclaimer: I wish with all my might that I owned the SGA franchise, but I don't.
Chapter 13
Zelenka's words chilled them all to the bone. The Wraith had upped to ante with biological warfare. Rodney paled, and then stood, tapping his earpiece.
"Elizabeth."
"Yes Rodney? Do you have my answer?"
Rodney looked at Radek. Radek answered by taking his hand and squeezed it tight. "Yes Elizabeth, I do." He paused, trying to find the words. "The Wraith are using advanced war tactics."
"Rodney, I know that, just tell me how."
Silence, fell among the three men. They were all thinking on how they could answer Weir's difficult question, without putting the entire base into mass panic. But seeing as the base was near enough mass panic anyway Rodney spoke each word to its bluntness.
"The Wraith are gassing out Atlantis using biological warfare, and most likely, they got the idea from us."
The Silence that came over the earpiece was deafening. Carson could see Elizabeth's gears turning in his minds eye. Instinctively Carson started to fiddle with the necklace that Agitra had given him, just a few nights before. It warmed up in his hand pleasantly.
He was broken out of his trance from a gasp from on of the physics, which one he couldn't tell, but it was Radek that once again spoke volumes.
"Atlantis has put us into lock down."
"So? The City did that when the nano-viri were loose," Carson said confused.
"There are some very critic differences between that senrio and this one," Rodney explained spastically. "One being that the Wraith are attacking, two being that the nano-viri weren't passed by breathing and three, Atlantis isn't a city, and it's a cleverly disguised flying space ship that looks and acts like a city. And what it is doing now is putting us in a lock down. She is cutting off our fresh air supply."
Carson looked surpluses, but went straight into doctor mode. "But what about the crowded places? Like the mess hall…" Nether neither Rodney nor Radek would look him in the eye. Then it hit him like a sack of bricks, they were stuck between two evils, death by suffocation or by the Wraith.
They would later choose to die with a bang by opening the doors and trying to evacuate as many people as possible through the Stargate before even that couldn't be kept open any longer. Both Sheppard and Rodney refused to leave, and since Rodney refused to leave so did Radek, as well as a few other military people. All of the medical team and Admin team left, except for Carson and of course Weir. All who stayed sat in the Gateroom waiting for the end. Weir sat in her office typing out her last log in her journal; Sheppard, Tayla, and Ronan were getting ready for the final blowout arming themselves to the teeth, as if that would matter if the were knocked out; Rodney and Radek sat with him on the Grand Staircase, intertwined, not caring what others thought, which not many did.
"You know, you could have left." Radek told him. He knew that he had replied fingering the necklace, but he didn't want to. He knew deep down that this might be his last chance to see Michael once more; sure it would be a long shot but maybe not that long.
As the darkness started to flood his drug induced weariness he whispered Michael's name, then the darkness claimed him.
And he woke again to a holding cell on a hive ship.
A/N2: Gahh! Don't hurt me! I'm sorry that this was a short chapter and that it took so long to update, I've been a little busy lately. But if you check out my deviant art link on my profile you can find some really cute pics of Michael, Ja'tent, and Carson. Plus a picture of Rada. Go check it out man!