Title: Of Allies or Enemies
Author: Flea
Date 16.02.07
Part: 21/?
Rating: M

Pairing: J/T
Characters: John, Teyla, Elizabeth (little bits from all the others)
Genre: Romance / Suspense /Angst /Action its got some of everything
Word Count: 2394
Archiving: only here and on fanfiction net
Warnings- angst, swearing, Torture and Violence
Spoilers: slight once through out all the season, many from the episode which Kolya appears in.

Disclaimers: No copyright infringement is intended. All characters belong to MGM I'm only borrowing them for my own personal enjoyment.

Summary: After years of planning, many disappointments and many failures … At last he has finally succeeded. Acastus Kolya is now the leader of the Genii people and is in full control. What does this mean for Atlantis and how does John take the news?

Chapter 21- Bring Her Back

Elizabeth stood in the control room as she looked down on the scene below, a team of marines stood by the gate; armed and waiting.

"They are preparing to leave the jumper bay now Ma'am." The young technician informed her.

Any minute now the rescue mission would begin; but Elizabeth had to admit she was a little worried. The joy she felt once Rodney had discovered the planet had slowly disappeared leaving nothing but a feeling of dread deep down in her stomach.

A rescue plan had been drawn up in a matter of minutes with John and his team, plus Carson; Major Lorne and his men as backup. The marines which waited below her would follow them through once they'd check that the immediate area was clear; and these men would guard the gate until they returned.

Like most things over the last week Elizabeth couldn't help but think everything was happening too fast, what if they forgot something? What would happen if Kolya had more men on the planet than they believed? What if Kolya killed Teyla the minute he received word of the attack?

"Dial the gate." She spoke, turning to give the order.

The Chevrons began to light up one by one, and as each came to life Elizabeth felt her heart beat rise. She couldn't shake this terrible feeling that something was going to go wrong, couldn't help but wonder if she would be seeing her friends again.

"Ma'am … Ma'am!" She snapped out of her thoughts with a slight jump, the technician looked a little worried at her reaction. "They're waiting for your order, Ma'am."

"Yes ..." Elizabeth sighed. "Colonel." She spoke softly into her radio.

"We're ready to go Elizabeth!" His answer was straight to the point; waiting for her to give the signal.

Elizabeth watched as the ceiling doors slid open and jumper one descending into the gate room.

"Be careful!" With those final words, John and his team disappeared through the gate as jumper two followed close behind.

The marines walked forwards waiting for her signal to leave. A few seconds had passed; but to Elizabeth they seemed like hours.

"The gate's clear Elizabeth …" John's voice sounded in her ear, the breath she had been holding escaping her lips in a soft sigh. "You can send the marines through." She nodded towards them and one by one they left.

"Bring her back Colonel."

"Will do." The gate disengaged; and all that was left was silence.

"It would appear that Sheppard didn't care for you as much as I believed." Kolya circled Teyla his movements slow; words harsh and to the point. "Your hour is nearly up and there is no sign of him."

"He knows I would rather die then be used to lure him into a trap." Teyla spat.

Her shoulders ached from her arms being held high over her head, wrist burned from where the cuffs cut into her skin. Teyla could feel the first few beads of blood begin to run down her bare arms.

Her head was throbbing from the dizziness and nausea she was feeling. Teyla was sure she had a concussion. Her side ached; making it hard to breathe. Her ribs were bruised, possibly even broken, but Teyla would not allow Kolya to see this pain.

She needed to be strong … her team would come for her; John would come for her. She just had to wait till they did.

Teyla heard the sound of the door opening. She tried to turn around to see who was entering, but she didn't have too. Quinlan, Kolya's second command, walked over towards Kolya a new fear arose in her body at the sight of what he was pushing.

The Genii soldier pushed a trolley of some sort loaded with items which Teyla never know could exist, items which were designed and created for one purpose; to cause pain.

"A little primitive; I know." Kolya told her lifting what looked to be a whip from the pile running it through his hands as he watched her. "But they seem to get the job done."

"Why are you doing this?"

"Please don't take it personally … I'd much rather be doing this to Sheppard but; he isn't here."

"They will come for me."

"As I said before ... I'm counting on it." Kolya smiled.

Teyla watched as Kolya nodded towards his second in command given him the order to begin.

Teyla tried to follow him with her eyes as he walked around her with the whip in hand. She could sense that he had come to a stop behind her which could only mean one thing; Teyla prepared herself for what she knew was coming.

The whip crack hard across her back, the pain which it caused almost unbearable, Teyla had to bite the inside of mouth to stop from crying out; she would not give them the satisfaction of hearing her screams.

Teyla could taste blood but before she could prepare self for more the whip slashed across her back once again.

"For a secret Genii base; I expected more guards." Rodney spoke as he surveyed the monitor in front of them.

John could see he was correct! After arriving through the gate, he'd cloaked the jumper searching for any signs that this truly was the planet Kolya had brought Teyla too. The fact that no soldiers guarded the gate had caused him to believe that Rodney had been wrong.

It didn't take long before they found what they were looking for. An abandoned building stood about two miles from the gate surrounded by over grown forest. If it wasn't for the sensors in the jumper they would have flown right over it.

"It doesn't look very big." Carson questioned.

"Probably most of it is under ground." Rodney answered pressing a few controls trying to find more information. A plan of the building showed up on the screen, Rodney had been correct. Although the bunker looked small from the outside, inside it was twice the size and went down at least 10 levels.

John looked at the monitors, some where in there Kolya was holding Teyla hostage. He glanced at his watch it had been a little over an hour since they'd received Kolya message; there was no telling what he could be doing to her right now.

"Major ..." John spoke into his radio. "What are your readings?"

"Looks like twenty guards or so are guarding the perimeter; I can't see a way in, though."

John looked at the screen before noticing that the major was right. There had to be an entrance, but for some reason it just wasn't showing up on the scans.

"There!" Rodney shouted; pointing towards the scan. "Here's the main door! Right here." John watched as he pointed toward one part of the map. It was small but John could just about make out a door way; of course that just happened
to be the area where most the guards were.

"There's a back entrance." John noticed as he looked closer; much smaller and a little out of the way but there were less guards.

"Ok ... "John paused; thinking over what the best course of action would be. Their time was running out what ever they did, they needed to do fast. "Pull back to the edge of the forest, there's no way we'll be able to land in there anyway."

"Yes sir."

John skilfully turned the jumper around, heading back in the direction they'd just come. The bunker was about a mile through the dense trees, it would take some time to reach it but they had little choice.

Even though she was bleeding and in a great deal of pain; Teyla couldn't help the smile which appeared on her face as she watched one of the Genii officers inform Kolya that the gate had been activated.

"Are you sure it's Sheppard?" Kolya asked; Teyla could hear the anger in his voice, and for a brief moment the pain didn't matter. Her team had found her; all she needed to do was hold on a little longer.

"My men had yet to confirm or deny that Sir."

"Then I suggest you don't bother me until you know for sure." Kolya roared.

Teyla watched as Kolya began to pace around the room; deep in thought. His eyes eventually landing on hers; sending shivers running down her spine.

She heard him give the order to Quinlan to carry on, and within seconds the pain began again. Only this time Teyla knew that her friends would be there soon, all she needed to do was last a little bit longer.

"McKay ... you and Beckett will stay in the jumper; use the sensors. We don't want any Genii soldiers sneaking up on us." John ordered checking his back-up weapon before replacing it in its holster. "We want to get in, get Teyla, and get out as quick as possible."

"What about Kolya?" Ronan asked, also checking if his weapon was set to kill and not stun.

"Any of you get a shot at him you take it ... understand?"

"Will do sir." Lorne answered; the rest of his team nodding in agreement.

"Colonel." A voice sound through his ear piece John recognized it as Sgt. Stackhouse who's team was guarding the ate. "We've just taken out two Genii soldiers that were checking up on the Stargate. Believe we got to them before they were able to radio out positions but I can't be 100 sure on that, they might be expecting you, Sir."

"Understood, Stackhouse." John growled in frustration. He was hoping to go in there with the element of surprise; if the Genii knew they were here it was going to make things a lot harder.

"Okay Major, you and your team take the second jumper ... I saw a small clearing just north of the bunker about half a mile away; possibly a little more. We're going in from two directions the minute anyone gets a location on Teyla you radio your positions. I don't want any more casualties. Is that clear?" John didn't wait for an answer before he continued. "Ronan you're with me let's get going."

John and Ronan began they're trek through the forest heading in the direction of the bunker. According to the sensors they should have a least a mile and a half before they would come across any guard, but if Kolya knew they were
coming there's no telling what might happen.

The soft buzzing of the jumper filled the air as they left to take up their positions.

John tried to focus his mind of the task at hand and not think about what Kolya could be doing to Teyla. It had been over an hour, but there had been no attempt from the Genii to use the gate, Stackhouse would have informed him if they had. Which made John believe Kolya knew they were there; why waste time dialling Atlantis when the person he wanted was only a few miles away?

John was so lost in his thoughts that his foot caught on a prodding root causing him to trip, almost falling flat on his face.

"I'm fine." He called to Ronan; noticing the Satedan's slightly amused look as he mange to regain his footing before continuing.

He needed to focus; all that mattered was getting Teyla out alive and getting back to Atlantis with out any one else getting hurt.

"Sheppard …" Rodney voice sounded through his radio "Seems like they know we're here. There are two guards are heading your way.

On instinct Ronan and John crouched down. John's eyes scanned the forest carefully searching for the Genii soldiers but there was no sight of them.

"See anything?" He whispered to Ronan.

"Nothing."

"We're just west of your position, heading past you." Rodney informed them.

John glanced at Ronan who had seen something move in the distance. Following the direction he pointed John could make out the figures of 2 men slowly walking through the forest no more than 30 feet away; they hadn't seem them.

John signalled for Ronan to continue, and keeping low both men moved off in the opposite direction the guards were heading. John just hoped it would be this easy all the way through, though a nagging feeling at the back of his mind told him it wouldn't.

It wasn't long before they reached there destination taking up once again a position in the undergrowth to hide them from the Genii guards.

"This is Sheppard … we're in position what's your location?"

"About ½ a mile from the bunker sir …" Came Lorne's reply. "Should be there in a matter of minutes."

"McKay, what have you got?"

The sensors aren't too clear."

"I'm counting 2 guards." John told him as he watched one of them walk towards the edge of the forest, obviously checking some noise he heard.

"With another two inside the door." Rodney informed them "The Major's looking at roughly a dozen .. Half inside, half out."

"What about Teyla?"

"I'm looking."

"Well look faster." the Satedan huffed.

"If you want to try and do this, be my guest." Rodney complained.

"McKay!" John warned, really not wanting to have to deal with one of Rodney's mood swings right now.

"I'm going as fast as I can, what do they think I am …" John listened to Rodney mutter to himself for a few minutes, waiting for the scientist to locate Teyla. He was just about to lose his patience when Rodney's voice came back on the line.

"I got her … looks like she's about 3 floors down around the centre of the complex."

"Gotcha … Major, are you in position?" John asked; preparing himself for what was about to happen.

"Roger, Colonel, waiting for your order."

"Draw them to you as much as you can, me and Ronan will head towards Teyla. It will be easier if we've got a clear way."

"You got it, Colonel."

"McKay, Beckett. Keep an eye on things we're going to need your help locating Teyla once we're in there."

John paused. Taking a deep breath, it was time. "Just hang on Teyla." He whispered to himself, clicking the safety on his gun off.

"Everybody move in!"