Authors Note: SORRY!! It's late, I know it's late, I'm sorry! It's also a short chapter, i've been busy. i now have a scene break of numbers... one number written over and over again actually...

CHAPTER FIVE: PARALLEL UNIVERSES

Sheppard ran down the corridors of the wraith hiveship, he'd taken down the wraith who'd tried to take him somewhere and had found his weapons and tack vest. He was looking for Scully; hopefully the wraith hadn't killed her yet. They were probably beating her up for killing their queen first.

Sheppard crept around to the queen's interrogation room, guessing that it made sense that they would still take people there. Sure enough Scully was being held against a wall by a male wraith. She had a feeding mark on her chest, but she didn't look any older. It had probably only taken a year or two, like he'd guessed it was beating her up before eating her, hadn't anyone ever told wraith not to play with their food? Well he wasn't complaining…

He aimed his P90 at the wraith holding her, deciding to take care of the guards afterwards. Sheppard shot the male wraith five times in the back. It, having just fed, didn't die, but it did drop Scully, then it turned angrily towards him. Sheppard open fired at it. The wraith finally died and the wraith alarm sounded through the ship.

Sheppard swore and shot at the two guards advancing on him and then ran across the room to Scully, who looked very dazed and beaten up. He hauled her to her feet, she staggered. It5 seemed a bit pointless asking her if she was okay since she obviously wasn't so Sheppard didn't bother.

"Come on," he said, handing her his 9mm since he hadn't been ale to find her gun. "This way."

Scully recovered slightly and nodded. Sheppard led her to the wraith darts, avoiding all the now very angrily wraith.

Scully didn't look impressed when she saw the wraith darts.

"Nuh uh," she said. "There is no way I'm getting in one of those."

Sheppard sighed. "Wait here."

Scully frowned at him. Sheppard ran across the open space, dodging stun blasts as the wraith spotted him and scrabbled into a dart. Scully probably thought he was ditching her. Oh well, she could get pissed at him after he let her out of the buffer on Earth. He scooped her up in the darts culling beam.

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McKay was glaring at Mulder who now had his gun out to prevent Ronon from trying to forcefully take the plate.

Ronon had already threatened to shoot him, but Teyla had managed to keep some peace there… just. Particularly when Mulder had told Ronon that if he so much as raise his gun he'd shoot.

McKay frowned as a very loud whine came from the air. McKay automatically looked up, one wraith dart was barrelling across the sky at top speed with about fifty other darts on it's tail. Typically when he looked to his scanner Sheppard's life sign was in the leading dart, he'd also be prepared to bet that the second life sign in the dart was the other FBI person. He sighed; the towns' people were going to be pretty freaked out but now.

Mulder had also seen the chase, he gripped the Starplate tighter and it glowed, symbols and stars flashing in what seemed to be a random order. Then it let out a beam of light, catching McKay and the dart being chased. Mulder stared as both McKay and the dart disappeared, just like the tree.

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Zelenka stared at the tree. Well it was proof that he could get the device to bring things back, but the tree hadn't exactly been what he'd had in mind and it so far hadn't helped him get anything else back.

The Ancient machine suddenly burst to life again, Zelenka turned around and saw it flashing and ran up to it and then swore in Czech. He turned on his radio

"Elizabeth, please report to my lab immediately," he requested over his radio.

Weir walked in seconds later, apparently she'd been near the lab.

"I was just heading down to see how your progress was doing anyway," she told him. "What's the news…"

She trailed off when she saw the tree.

"That came through during one of my experiments," Zelenka briefly explained. "The problem is I was just trying to figure out how to bring people back when the device activated again, but this time nothing came through, it changed its coordinates. What I'm saying is, it just changed what universe it's connected to."

Authors Note: Thats right, 42! oh and i'm not sure if anyone one noticed the address of the planet the device came from back in chapter one... both the numbers and letters. please tell me if you did.