I don't Stargate Atlantis or any of it's characters. I only own my badguy and my story. Well, what did I tell ya'll. I'm posting again. Didn't have to wait to long to see what I've come up with. Hope you like cause I totally know where I want to take this. It's going to be awesome:)

Chapter Eleven

Half-an-hour later the team were seated around the table in the conference room along with Dr. Weir and Dr. Beckett. They were all waiting for an answer from Rodney. They were getting quite impatient.

"Will you just tell us already Rodney!" Weir said.

Rodney sighed and began to speak really fast. "Okay. So those pods down there are mind transfer devices. And you're asking me how I know this. It's quite easy really. I read what the console had to say even though it was all in Ancient and I was able to translate everything that it said. And I was able to download the information over the data net and get it onto my data pad. We just have to put Sheppard in one of the pods and start it up. Then we should be able to extract Puren out of his mind." The others just sat and watched him as he babbled on.

"Is that all Rodney?" Weir asked. "Because I don't think you took a breath during that whole explanation."

He was breathing quite heavily with excitement. "Sorry. It's just that this is really the way to save Sheppard. I know this will work."

"Okay. But we have to go through every bit of information with a fine tooth comb. There has to be no way that this can backfire on us. If we find out anything that hinders this plan we will not move forward with it. Got it?"

"We've got it Elizabeth. Don't worry." Rodney said as he sat up straighter in his chair and could hardly keep his excitement inside.

"Okay. Then let's get started before Puren makes us do something that we regret." Elizabeth said and they all stood up to leave the conference room. "And everybody be careful. I don't want anybody to get hurt while we are working on this." She said before they left the room.

Rodney turned and saluted her. Telling her that he understood. Then they all left the room.

The team ran check after check after check on the device trying to deem it usable. It was a very slow process and to SGA-1 it was the slowest process that they ever had to wait through. They wanted to be able to help Sheppard now. Not wait forever until they got the go ahead. Rodney ran numerous tests with the help of Teyla and Ronan and they were getting quite exhausted with the whole situation.

"Dammit! Why isn't this working?" Rodney said with exasperation. "Why in hell isn't this working?"

"I don not know Dr. McKay." Teyla said. "Maybe we are missing something."

"Of course we're missing something. But what are we missing?"

The three members of SGA-1 stood in front of the main console in the lab and stared at it. They had no more ideas left. Even Rodney was at a complete stand still.

"Let us go see Colonel Sheppard then Dr. McKay." Teyla said. "Then maybe we will come up with something."

"Yes. I agree with Teyla on this McKay." Ronan said as he walked away from the console towards the door. He stood there with his arms crossed waiting for the other two to join him. Teyla walked over to stand with him and the two of them stared at Rodney. McKay finally nodded his head, put his equipment down on top of the console and followed his teammates out of the door and into the hallway.

"Let's hope that he looks better than the last time that we saw him." McKay said as he turned to face them.

"We can only hope Dr. McKay." Teyla said as she put her hand on his shoulder and turned him around, pushing him towards the transporter to the upper levels.

When they reached the infirmary they slowly made their way in and spotted Dr. Beckett in his office. "Hey there Carson." Rodney said. "How's our Colonel doing?"

Beckett looked up with a smile when he saw the three friends walk in. "Rodney. Nice to see you three. But what are you doing here? I thought that you were working in the lab."

"We were Dr. Beckett." Teyla said. "But we have run out of ideas. We thought that coming here to see John would give us some."

"He's sleeping still. We have to keep him under sedation so that Puren won't wreak any havoc and so that we won't hurt Colonel Sheppard."

"That's fine Carson. Really." McKay said. "We think that just being around him will help us come up with an idea or two."

"Alright then. Go on and sit with him. I'm sure somewhere in the back of the Colonel's mind he is there listening to us."

All three of them nodded in unison and left the office. When they made it to John's bed they saw that he was still strapped to the bed by the restraints. Ankles and wrists were covered in bandages because of the constant rubbing and pulling by the patient. His hair was still disheveled and part of it was matted to his forehead. The sheets were up to his chest and they could just see the wires attached to his chest to record his vitals. He also had a tube in his nose to help him breathe. He wasn't sweating as much but he still looked pretty sick.

Teyla walked up to him and placed her hand on his forehead. She kept it there for a moment and could feel the heat. She knew that he had been sick before they had gone to Puren's planet. But Puren had made things considerably worse for him. Ronan stood with his arms crossed in front of him and stared down at Sheppard. You could not tell how he was feeling. His face was almost vacant. Rodney stood beside the bed for a moment and then decided to sit instead. Nobody said a single word for almost five minutes. They were all unsure how to progress.

They continued to watch John sleep and they saw his chest rise and fall. The team hated to see their CO look like this. So pale, so sick.

Rodney finally spoke up. "So. Has anyone come up with an idea yet?"

Broken out of their reverie the two looked at the physicist. They shook their heads in unison.

"Yeah. Me neither." He said shaking his head. Rodney stood up suddenly and began to pace. The others knew that when Rodney paced he was trying to come up with an idea. Then he began to babble. An even bigger sign that an idea was trying to form in that brain of his.

Teyla and Ronan just sat staring at the man trying to piece together what he was trying to say. It seemed extremely random to them. But then again, it was Rodney. It made sense in his head. It didn't necessarily have to make sense to them. It was Rodney's way of thinking.

They looked at each other and then back at him. "Rodney. I think it is time to go back to the lab." Teyla said as she stood up. Rodney did not seem to hear. He began to babble even more.

"McKay!" Ronan said loudly and sternly so that the man would hear him. Rodney suddenly stopped talking and pacing and looked at his friends.

"It is time to go back to the lab Dr. McKay." Teyla said as Ronan stood up beside her.

"Right. Right." McKay said quickly. "Let's go." And just as they were about to go a hand reached out and grabbed hold of Rodney's wrist.

TBC in Chapter Twelve….

A/N: He he he he! Who could have grabbed Rodney? Do ya'll know? I bet you can guess. TTFN. Later days. :)