A/N: Okay, remember this story is set just after Common Ground and before McKay and Ms Miller, so you haven't seen the first seven episodes of season 3 there are more spoilers in this chapter, just thought I'd let you know.
CHAPTER FIFTEEN: MYSTERIOUS TAPES
Weir stared at McKay. "You're telling me that Agent Scully's a sceptic?"
"Definitely. Do you have any idea how long it took us to convince her that aliens are real?" grumbled McKay.
"You convinced her?! Rodney, she's meant to be a sceptic in her universe! You can't just go mucking things up in parallel universes!" complained Weir.
"If we hadn't she probably would have gotten herself eaten by a wraith! Look, I don't know why we're having this conversation, it's too late to do anything about it and I have work to do!" snapped McKay.
Weir raised an eyebrow. "Actually, there is something we can do."
"What?! How?" demanded McKay.
"Well, Earth recently came across some interesting Asgard technology. Colonel Carter was away on a mission at the time so it was sent here via the Daedalus, you were meant to be looking at it, but you've been quite busy lately so Radek has had it," Weir told him.
McKay waved his hand impatiently, ignoring the fact that it had only been sent to him because Carter was busy. "And? What is it?"
"Radek found that it can erase memories," explained Weir.
"Oh. So we're just going to erase her memories of the last day and a half?"
"Basically, yes. But we're only going to erase her memories just before we send her back because Radek found that it knocks the person unconscious for a little while so we can send back before she wakes up," replied Weir.
McKay clicked his fingers. "And because, I bet, seeing something too close to her erased memories could cause her to remember!"
Weir nodded. "That's right."
"Oh… and… not meaning to sound rude, but are we really just going to let her wander the city without even a security escort?" asked McKay.
"I don't see why not, she's an FBI agent, I'm sure she'll know not to touch anything. We're going to wipe her memory anyway, so it's not if she's going to leave with any important information," Weir reminded him.
"Ah. Good point. Right, I'll get back to work then, I think we've almost gotten that machine working," McKay told her.
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Mulder woke up with a very bad headache leaning against a tree, he remembered being hit by a blue blast from one of the conspirator's guns'. Mulder tried to get up and snapped his eyes open when he found that he couldn't move.
Mulder glanced down at the ropes that tied him securely to the tree and looked up angrily, expecting to see the military people mocking him. He stared in astonishment at the empty clearing. They'd buggered off! Mulder fought against the ropes and found that he could get them undone.
"Hey! Where did you go?! Where's Scully?!" yelled Mulder. "I know why you left! You're not from a parallel universe that was a cover! You've taken Scully up to one of your ships! You're afraid of what I know! You're afraid of the truth!"
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Captain Harris heard what were unmistakably the FBI agent's loud complaints. He turned to Mills. "Hear that, sir?"
Mills kept walking. "Hear what? I don't hear anything. Do you Sergeant?"
"No," answered Sergeant West.
Harris saw Mills's small smile and grinned as they continued their 'strategic retreat' with Mulder's bazooka… and handgun. They figured Mulder would be fine until someone stumbled across him and untied him, Teyla would be able to sense it if the two remaining Wraith Darts came down from space.
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Scully stumbled across a box of tapes; she had already seen a room with a T.V and tape player and had been wondering where the tapes were. She wanted to do something normal to take her mind off the craziness of the universe she was in until they figured out a way to send her back to her mostly same universe… well except Mulder of course, he wasn't sane.
Scully had just one problem with the tapes she'd found; none of them were labelled. She grabbed the top few and went off to watch them and hopefully they'd end up being a couple of good movies that would take her mind off the fact that she was in the lost city of Atlantis.
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Sheppard was in a bad mood. He didn't like being in the infirmary and he was feeling much better, probably because of painkillers, but still! At that moment Beckett walked over, looking pleased with himself.
"What?" asked Sheppard.
"Well, Colonel, if you think about it, it was only a week ago that I cleared you for duty after your wraith encounter," Beckett reminded him.
Sheppard thought he hardly needed reminding. "Yeah, well that wasn't my fault… and I blame McKay this time."
"As I was saying that was only a week ago, and here you are again. So I've decided that because you come here so often I should have a bed specially reserved for you." Beckett's smug tone was bordering on sarcasm.
Sheppard was about to comment when Beckett held up a label that said JOHN SHEPPARD in big clear block capitals, peeled off the backing and stuck it to Sheppard's bed frame.
Sheppard was not impressed. "That's not fair, as I said; it's not my fault, at least make McKay one too."
Beckett smiled. "Already done. I'll show it to him as a nice surprise next time he hurts himself."
Beckett waved a label that had RODNEY McKAY on it. He walked off, still smiling. Sheppard scowled.
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Scully inserted tape one into the tape player and turned on the T.V. The tape started playing.
A random man, Scully had never seen before appeared on the screen. Scully wondered which movie it was.
"Doctor Weir, if you are reading this, please respond."
Scully frowned… was it a fictional movie after all? After a short pause the man spoke again.
"I do know you're there Doctor. The existence of Atlantis is no secret among the Genii. It would be pointless not to answer."
Scully heard Dr Weir's voice in the background. "This is Doctor Weir."
"Oh good. I wanted to be certain you were there to see this," the guy on the video continued, and then stepped to one side so you could see Sheppard bound and gagged behind him.
Scully realised she probably shouldn't be watching the tape, but what better way could there be to learn about he people that she had to stay with for a while?
McKay's voice could also be heard in the background. "What have you done to him?"
"Nothing whatsoever Doctor McKay."
"Okay," McKay replied. "Let me re-phrase that. What are you planning to do?"
Scully watched as the guy on the video replied with; "It's quite simple, I'd like to make a trade."
Weir could be heard cutting across him. "Before we continue this conversation another second, I want to speak to Sheppard."
The man came slightly closer to smiling. "Be my guest."
Scully listen as McKay's exasperated reply was audible. "We'll re-phrase that to. We would like him to be able to speak to us."
The man on the video smirked. "Very well." He nodded to another guy, who removes Sheppard's gag.
"Under my command authority. Whatever he asks, don't do it!" ordered Sheppard and tried to say more but the second guy re-gaged him. Scully thought Sheppard looked suitably pissed. Scully wondered if it was that man Kolya McKay had mentioned earlier.
The man she was talking about on the video chuckled. "Well, as you can see he's his usual charming self."
Weir spoke again. "Explain your terms Kolya."
So it was the Kolya guy… what had McKay said to her again?
--FLASHBACK--
"Okay! For those of us who don't live in crazy universes, what are you talking about?" questioned Scully.
"Oh," said McKay. "Kolya got a wraith to suck the life out of Sheppard in a prison."
--END FLASHBACK--
"Uh oh," thought Scully.
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Mills, Harris, West and Teyla stared in amazement at the intact Starplate.
Ronon had lost his temper at the inactive Starplate and had shot it repeatedly with his own gun… which was very powerful. Fortunately and miraculously the Starplate didn't have a single mark on it.
"Ronon!" scolded Teyla. "We will get home safely. But losing your temper is not going to help!"
Ronon grumbled and glared at the unmarked Starplate.
"Trying to destroy the only thing that can get us home isn't going to help either," Mills muttered under his breath.
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Scully stared at the tape as Kolya asked. "Do we have an arrangement?" Weir remained silent. "Very well."
Scully watched in horror as the wraith was allowed to feed on Sheppard, who was in obvious pain.
"Stop!" yelled Weir's voice in the background. "STOP!"
"Enough," said Kolya and Scully stared as the tape the recording had been put on went blank.
Scully blinked and felt shocked at what she'd just seen… she hadn't believed McKay. Maybe the tape had been planted for her to find and this was all some big joke.
The tape broke her out of her thoughts with an automated voice.
"This is a double sided tape, if you wish to finish your film simply take the tape out, and turn it over. Then insert the tape and press play."
A/N: lol. Don't you hate those automated voices?