Authors' Note: Hi there, just so you know, this story was co-authored with my friend Nimeria. This story is as much hers as mine.
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Why to Always Have an Escape Route
Chapter 10
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(Jack, Ronon, and Teal'c are defending an unconscious Mitchell and Sam.)
Jack: Just whose idea was this!
Teal'c: I (fires at circle of foes) believe that this was (fires)-
Jack: DON'T answer (zat) that Teal'c!
(Some time later, everybody in the group kneels or lies handcuffed.)
Jack: Crap.
Mitchell: (slowly regaining consciousness) Uhnn. I don't know what happened but I have a feeling it wasn't good.
Jack: Were the handcuffs or the guards your first clue colonel?
Mitchell: Actually sir it was my pounding head.
Random Guard Dude #1: Silence.
Jack: I wanna talk to your leader.
RGD#1: I said silence!
Jack: And I said I want to talk to your- (RGD#1 hits him with butt of gun) - leader.
Teal'c: I believe we are well within our rights to ask to speak to your
leader.
RGD#2: You're prisoners; you have no rights.
RGD#3: Commander Kolya will deal with you when he finds time.
(Kolya walks in the door)
Jack: Convenient.
RGD#1: You will remain silent!
Kolya: (looking at Ronon) Where is Sheppard? (Ronon says nothing) Where is Colonel Sheppard? (Ronon glares and still says nothing)
(Meanwhile, the other team, not caught yet, finds the room they were looking for.)
Taylor: I found the room we were looking for! It's through this door!
(All rush inside to see ---- a store room the size of which can only be described as roughly the same size and shape as that room seen at the end of the Indiana Jones movie where they have to get rid of the ark of the covenant.)
Daniel: Yeah, this is going to take awhile.
Sheppard: Move out, but stay alert.
(Taylor, Mary and McKay go left and Sheppard, Daniel and Jess go right.)
Taylor: Do we have any idea what this thing we're looking for looks like?
McKay: Ahh. Unfortunately not.
Mary: So how exactly are we supposed to find it?
McKay: (stops to think) Oh.
Taylor: Yeah 'oh'. Good grief.
Jessie: (from the other side of the room) TAYLOR!
(Taylor takes off immediately in direction of Jess's voice.)
Mary: Oh lovely.
McKay: What? What's going on?
Mary: That's just it. I have no idea, and obviously Taylor either has no clue or thinks they're in trouble or she would have waited.
McKay: Oh.
(The two of them head off in Jessie's general direction, and eventually they come to where Taylor had found the others where they see...)
(Jessie pointing to a large gate set up between two isles, with a sign stating DO NOT ENTER.)
Sheppard: (scratches head) Well now, that's new.
(Jessie just beams happily.)
Taylor: (walks through lock, inspecting its content) Looks pretty solid here guys.
Daniel: Move, please. (she does) Back up please. (they all do)
McKay: What are you going to-?
(Daniel shoots lock off of gate, quite effectively although the physics of such an action seem rather dubious.)
Daniel: That.
McKay: Right. Ladies first!
(Taylor looks down the long, dark, tunnel-like isle.)
Taylor and Jessie: Nu-uh.
Mary: Oh, for Pete's sake. (walks in)
Sheppard: (glares at McKay) Despicable... (follows, gun at the ready)
McKay: What?
(The others likewise glare and follow.)
McKay: No, really, what? (follows)
(Meanwhile, the other heroes have been moved to a not-quite-comfy little communal jail cell, far from the other prisoners. Sam is also awake, and the handcuffs have been removed from all.)
Sam: Guys? What happened? Where are we?
Mitchell: We were captured. Then this Kolya guy came and ranted for awhile about how he was going to find Sheppard and kill him and blah blah blah. Then when he couldn't get us to tell him whether or not Sheppard was in the city, he had us brought here.
Jack: None too gently one might add.
Teal'c: Indeed.
Mitchell: So what's our game plan people?
Ronon: We get out of the cell.
Mitchell: Given.
Jack: We find the others, because I'm pretty sure the Kolya guy knows they're here.
Sam: Also a given, sir.
Teal'c: We find the device we are looking for.
Mitchell: Still not telling me anything new.
Jack: Okay then. To quote a fairly incompetent scientist, 'Our "Plan" is to have a plan.' (Mitchell groans. Sam smiles slightly. Ronon irritably kicks the bars of the cell, and Teal'c just raises an eyebrow at the Satedan's actions.)
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