Authors Note: Okay, here's chapter six on time. It's not too short either. Thanks for the great reviews! I live for reviews :) !

CHAPTER SIX: ATLANTIS?

McKay ran over to the wraith dart, which was on its side and partly lodged into one of the walls of a hallway in Atlantis. The cockpit opened and Sheppard fell out. McKay's eyes opened wide when he saw the wraith feeding mark.

"Sheppard! Are you okay?" asked McKay; he didn't look any older.

Sheppard frowned at him. "No! What the hell just happened? One minute I was flying the dart at top speed away from the wraith and then suddenly the dart's stopped and won't move and I got out and find myself somehow back in Atlantis with the dart halfway through a wall!"

"Um… I think we've been sent back to our universe through the Starplate, but I'm not sure. Anyway, that's not what I meant, you managed to get yourself fed on!"

"Oh," Sheppard grimaced. "That. I don't think it took any of my life, Scully shoved it off pretty quickly."

McKay had almost forgotten about the second FBI agent. "Where is she? Agent… Her partner was pretty worried about her."

"She's in the buffer," Sheppard told him and reached back into the cockpit to release her. Scully was rematerialised.

McKay looked from Scully to Sheppard. "You both got fed on? And Scully got beaten up. What did you do to annoy them do much?"

"Scully shot the wraith queen," explained Sheppard.

"She what?!" exclaimed McKay.

"Where are we?" broke in Scully, looking quite annoyed.

"We're in Atlantis, McKay thinks this is our universe," Sheppard answered.

"Atlantis? You better be joking," said Scully.

McKay sighed, as she seemed to be trying to decide whether or not Sheppard had been kidding.

"Just like the parallel universe thing, we're serious," McKay informed her. "We live in another galaxy called the Pegasus Galaxy in the lost city of Atlantis, which was built over ten thousand years ago by a race of people we call the Ancients. When we got here we woke up the wraith, pissed them off and now there trying to eat us and then get to Earth. That's our story as of two and a half years ago."

Scully gave a long resigned sigh. "I like my universe better."

Sheppard snorted in amusement. "I'm not surprised, McKay go wait outside the infirmary with Scully, don't go in until I tell you to, I'm going to the gateroom to check this is really our universe."

"Fine," muttered McKay, and turned to Scully. "This way."

Scully decided that it would probably be a good idea to do as she was told considering that she still knew next to nothing about McKay and Sheppard's universe, apart from the fact that it was totally and completely crazy.

McKay led her to a large room filled with hospital-like beds and medicines and then stopped outside. Scully noticed that there was no-one at all in the room.

"This isn't right," whispered McKay.

"Why not?" asked Scully.

"There's always someone in here, always. Whether its nurses looking after patients or Carson checking the supplies. But it's never empty," McKay told her, then his radio burst to life making them both jump.

"McKay," Sheppard said over the radio.

"I can here you," McKay replied.

"I don't think this is our universe…"

"No, neither do I," McKay told him. "Let me guess, the gateroom's deserted?"

"No. There are Genii here."

McKay's eyes opened wide. "What? Genii?"

"Yeah. Crap. I think they saw me! Sheppard out."

The radio went dead.

Scully stared at McKay. "Genii?" she asked.

"Oh, I forgot you wouldn't know. They're a race of people who come from the Pegasus Galaxy and their ex-commander, Kolya, is definitely NOT a friend of Sheppard's," McKay briefly explained.

"By 'a race of people' you mean they're not from Earth?" asked Scully.

"Yes that's right, they're still human but over the years we're been here they're almost managed to be as much of a pain as the wraith," grumbled McKay. "We better get moving, I think we need to find Sheppard."

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Sheppard jogged down the halls of Atlantis, he was sure that the Genii hadn't seen who he was. Good. Another universe or not he was going to kill Kolya.

He rounded the corner and almost ran right into McKay. Scully wasn't with him.

"McKay! What the hell?" complained Sheppard annoyedly.

McKay stared wide-eyed at him and then slowly backed off. Sheppard immediately assumed there was someone behind him and turned, raising his P90, there was no-one there.

"Hey! Don't do that! Where's Scully?" asked Sheppard annoyedly.

He then took in that McKay's expression hadn't changed and he was now muttering and shaking his head while continuing to back off.

"McKay…?" Sheppard took a slow step forward.

McKay froze. "Stop, please… go away. J… just go away."

Sheppard raised an eyebrow in confusion. "Are you okay?"

"No! You're not real!" exclaimed McKay.

"What the…??" Sheppard was very confused.

"I watched Kolya get a wraith to kill you! You're not real! You can't be," groaned McKay.

"What did you just say?!" demanded Sheppard

"I watched a wraith kill you!" repeated McKay. "Before Kolya took command of the Genii and took over the city he got the wraith to feed off you. I watched it kill you!"

"Kolya killed me?! Oh crap, look, McKay, I gotta go. Just pretend you didn't see me," Sheppard told him and then ran off before McKay could do anything.

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McKay peered around a corner and saw Ronon obviously trying not to be seen.

"Uh oh. Scully, we… err... have a problem," said McKay, then realised that Ronon had heard him. The ex-runner turned, aiming his gun and then saw McKay.

"Uh, hi," greeted McKay.

"McKay! Lorne said you were working on getting to a power station to prevent the Genii from following our life signs, what are you doing here?" grumbled Ronon, then looked suspiciously at Scully. "Who's that? Is she Genii?"

"Um… no. This is Agent Scully… so what did you say was happening?" asked McKay.

"We've escaped and are taking the city back from the Genii!" replied Ronon, as if it were terribly obvious.

"How did you get to this universe?" questioned Scully. "Is Mulder here too?"

"That's Ronon from this universe!" hissed McKay.

"What?" asked Ronon.

McKay's radio suddenly burst to life again.

"Bad news. There's no way this is our universe."

McKay winced a little, Sheppard could sometimes have really bad timing, now Ronon was staring at him.

"Who was that?" demanded Ronon.

"McKay?" Sheppard asked again. "McKay, when I speak to you over the radio I always expect you to answer."

McKay wished he'd keep quiet. "I know. Just shut up for a second will you?"

"Why? What's wrong?"

"A lot of very bad things if you don't shut up!" complained McKay, having no idea why Ronon didn't recognise Sheppard's voice, but knowing it had to be a bad thing.

"Who is that?" Ronon asked again.

Scully decided to take more control of the situation. "That was Colonel Sheppard…"

She trailed off as Ronon's gun came up and pointed at her. "McKay, are you sure she's not a Genii?"

"Yes, I'm sure! She's not a Genii, now put you're gun down, she's a friend," lied McKay, Ronon probably wouldn't be happy if he found out that he was trusting someone he'd known for all of two hours.

"Then why did she say that?" Ronon demanded, lowering his gun slightly, but not completely.

Scully opened her mouth to answer but McKay cut across her.

"She didn't know what she was saying. Hang on a second, I need to do something…" McKay got his scanner to beep into his radio in Morse Code to Sheppard.

"I am not talking in Morse Code, McKay. Just tell him we're from a parallel universe," came the Colonel's annoyed answer.

McKay scowled, if he'd understood the message Sheppard could easily have humoured him and continued using Morse Code.

"Keep your voice down," snapped McKay, while Ronon suspiciously raised his gun and again and Scully raised Sheppard 9mm at him. "Ronon didn't seem to happy when Scully mentioned you."

"Of course he didn't. I just found out from, well, I just found out from you in this universe that I was killed, I'm dead in this universe."

"What?!" shouted McKay loud enough for both Scully and Ronon to stare at him.

"I'm dead here. Kolya actually got that wraith to kill me here… uh oh."

"What's happened now?" asked McKay.

"Well, right on cue, the bastard's just turned up," Sheppard told him.

McKay frowned. "Then run!"

"Too late, oh well, I want to shoot him anyway."

"Huh? Wait! No no no, that's a bad idea!" McKay replied.

"Can't talk now, McKay. Sheppard out."

"Wait!" yelled McKay. "Oh this is not good."

"You're from another universe?" asked Ronon doubtfully.

"Yes we are, except I'm from a different universe to him," said Scully. Mulder always said he wanted to believe and right now Scully wanted to believe that she was having some completely mad dream and she would wake up soon.

Ronon was looking at McKay, still disbelievingly. "And Sheppard's still alive in your universe?"

"Yes, but he won't be for long if he kills Kolya!" grumbled McKay.

"Time out!" complained Scully. "What's happening now?"

Scully had discovered that trying to keep up with things happening in a universe she knew nothing about was very hard.

"There are rules of travelling to a parallel universe! You're very lucky you got out of your universe before you suffered the consequences of killing that wraith queen! If Sheppard kills Kolya, he's in trouble. This universe is way too much like ours to go meddling around with anything!" exclaimed McKay.

"And that would mean what?" asked Ronon.

"It would mean Sheppard might die. By killing Kolya that would cause a huge change in this universe because of the current events here, Sheppard may as well shoot himself!" explained McKay.

Authors Note: Heh. just had to leave it there!