Title: Of Allies or Enemies
Author: Flea
Date 26.02.07
Part: 23/?
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: 2086
Archiving: only here and on fanfiction net
Warnings- angst, swearing, sexual content
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 23 - Oh Crap!

"Sheppard!" Ronan shouted as he rammed against the door with his shoulder, once again, he felt a pain shoot up his arm but still the door didn't move.

"Ronan, what's going on? We've lost contact with Sheppard!"

"So have I!" Ronan growled ramming against the door one more time; if he kept his up he was going to dislocate his shoulder.

"I am reading three life signs in the room!" Ronan could tell Rodney was nervous. "You need to get inside!"

Another shove and more pain shooting up his arm but still the door refused to budge.

"What do you think I'm doing McKay?" This time Ronan aimed his gun at the locking mechanism firing twice; it had little effect.

"Sheppard!" Ronan shouted banging his fists against the cold metal but getting no reply.

John's eyes glanced towards the door where he could still hear his friend trying to beat his way in.

"There is no way in from that side, Sheppard."

Teyla was still kneeling on the floor barely keeping herself conscious, he needed to find away out of this and fast.

"Look, you have me … let Teyla go."

"I don't think so, Colonel." Kolya laughed. "Why give her up when she is serving her purpose so well?"

"You don't need her, Kolya." John growled. "You said so yourself. I'll tell Ronan to back off, just open the door and let her go."

"Please, Sheppard, don't insult my intelligence … I know you too well." Kolya laughed.

"We need to do something!" Carson heard Rodney say about the tenth time that minute. The scientist has started to pace up and down the jumper every now and then trying to get Colonel Sheppard on the radio but having no luck.

"Aye Rodney, I know!" Carson spoke calmly hoping it would have the same effect on the pacing scientist; it didn't.

"We should be doing something!" His voice was becoming harder to hear as he once again paced into the back of the jumper.

"Ronan is trying …."

"It's not good enough!" Carson heard him shout; the panic in his voice increasing with each passing second.

"What do you want us to do Rodney, shoot them out? They're three floors down! Even if there …"

"Carson, you're brilliant!" He heard the scientist exclaim as he came running up towards the front of the jumper interrupting what ever else Carson was going to say.

"We'll give them a distraction … a little push." Carson listened to Rodney as he was slightly confused at what he was suggesting.

Suddenly the plans on the screen in front of him changed; the realization of what Rodney was planning to do hitting him like a bag of bricks.

"You can't be serious!" Carson cried loudly as Rodney continued what he was doing. "You're going to blow the place up!"

"It's just going to be a little explosion … all it will do is give them a chance to escape."

"Escape, Rodney, you don't even know what the situation is down there, what if they can't escape?"

"Do you have a better idea?" Rodney shouted, coming face to face with Carson neither one of them backing down.

"This is crazy!"

"That's why it's going to work …" Rodney paused, a slight look of doubt crossing his face "Should work ..."

"Rodney!" Carson warned.

"Just get on the radio and inform Ronan of what we're doing, try Sheppard as well he might be able to hear us."

Carson watched as Rodney busily continued his work. Shaking his head in disbelief Carson turned away calling Ronan on the radio; wondering what the Satedan would think of Rodney's plan.

"Kick your weapons over towards me." Kolya ordered; his gun still pointing at the back of Teyla's head.

"Why?"

"Just do it, Colonel!"

John kicked his P-90 and sidearm over in Kolya's direction along with the knife he'd used to free Teyla.

"You are an extraordinary soldier Colonel; it is a pity that an alliance between our people couldn't have worked. We would have made great partners."

"I'm not really that bothered about it."

What ever Kolya said next John never heard, Carson's voice overpowering his as it sounded through his ear piece.

"Colonel … can you hear me? I need you to listen to me carefully."

Keeping his eye focused on the Genii leader and Teyla to not give anything away he listened to what the doctor had to say.

"Rodney's got a plan … it's a terrible plan but at the moment we don't have much of an option." He could hear Rodney shout something in the back about his plans always working; John began to get a little worried.

"Ronan can't get through the door, we know there is another entrance but it would take far too much time to get to it." John heard Carson pause taking a deep breath before he continued; Rodney still shouting something in the background.

"We know you have company and are presuming that is the reason you can't answer your radio. In a few minutes Rodney …" Another pause. John could feel his heart begin to beat faster in his chest. "Rodney believes if he fires one of the jumper's drones into they're power core the jolt from the explosion should buy you enough time to escape. I know it's a long shot but …"

"A long shot ... Let me talk to him!" John couldn't quite make out the muffled words between the two doctors as they argued on the other end of the line. Keeping his eyes forward he could see Kolya was still talking though he had completely lost track of the man's conversation.

Teyla was watching him though; a look of confusion in her eyes at the way he was acting. Kolya may not have noticed something was off with him but Teyla sure did, even in her current state.

"Sheppard!" Rodney's voice sound over the radio obviously he had won the argument. "You're not too many floors down so when the drone hits your going to feel the exposition, it should be powerful enough to knock anyone unprepared off their feet."

Had John just heard them right … was he going to blow up the building with them still in it?

"I know what you're thinking." John seriously doubted he did. "The explosion should just be big enough to give the bunker a jolt, all you need to do is get Teyla and get to the door, Ronan will be waiting."

John swallowed hard; if he ever got out of this he must remember to tell Elizabeth to make sure Rodney had a another physic test; maybe even a cat scan … just in case.

"We'll radio you once Rodney's ready to go." Carson voice informed him before the line went dead.

"I hope you know what you're doing Rodney."

"Am I ever wrong? … Don't answer that."

Carson watched as Rodney finished his calculations preparing to fire the shot which would hopefully give John a chance to escape. That was; if he still could.

"Shouldn't we be working at finding a way for Ronan to get through the door?"

"I've told you Carson …" Rodney's voice filling with frustration at the doctors constant questioning. "Once we take out the power John will be able to open the door."

"And you know that for sure?"

"Carson we don't have time for this! Now ..." Rodney paused and pointed to a space on the screen in front of him. "You need to hit the power core here."

"Me?" Carson shouted with disbelief. "Why have I got to shoot anything?"

"Carson just do it, will you?" Rodney shouted. "We're running out of time."

"Fine." He huffed. "But be it on your head it I miss the bloody thing."

John heard Rodney's voice confirming that the drone was on it way; any minute now the whole room would shake giving him the opportunity he'd been waiting for.

Slowly widening his legs hoping to given him a little more stability for when the drone hit; normally he'd crouch on the floor but doing that now would inform Kolya something was about to happen.

He didn't have to wait long, the explosion sounded a lot nearer and larger than Rodney and Carson had indicated it would be but that didn't matter; it did the job it needed to do.

Kolya was thrown from his feet back up against the wall and in that brief moment John reached for his gun and aimed it at the Genii's head.

Kolya had managed to recover a lot quicker than John had expected and also stood with his gun pointed straight at him.

That's how they stood, two enemies both with their fingers on the trigger ready to end the other's life, as the building shook all around them.

Rodney watched as the drone hit it's indented target, the exposition which took place was a lot bigger than he had been expecting.

An alarm sounded on the panel before him grabbing both his and Carson's attention. The screen flashed once again a plan of the bunker only this time many areas were marked in a flashing red colour.

"Oh crap!" Rodney cursed, reading the screen before him.

"Oh crap, what?"

"I may have miscalculated the size of the explosion."

"What!?" Carson roared as he too searched the screen; trying to understand exactly what Rodney was saying.

"The whole building's going to collapse!"

"There is no way out of this, Sheppard!" Kolya spoke, his voice was laced with anger as once again his plans were ruined.

"Sheppard, can you hear me." Rodney's voice sounded over his radio.

"A little busy at the moment, Rodney!" John replied, his sight never wavering from Kolya's. Out of the corner of his eyes he could just make out Teyla's figure as she struggled to sit up, the explosion had also thrown her against the floor having caught her off guard.

"You may want to hurry it up!"

"Rodney!" John warned not liking where the scientist was going with
this.

"It ends now, Colonel!" Kolya exclaimed, Rodney's next comment never reaching his ear.

Before either had chance to pull the trigger Teyla's foot embedded itself in Kolya's groin knocking the Genii leader to the ground in pain. John watched as Teyla stumbled against the wall having just used the last bit of energy she had left.

"Sheppard the building is coming down; you need to get out there!" Rodney voice shouted down his radio, snapping him out of his thoughts.

Quickly he moved over towards Teyla not wasting any of the time she had given him; placing one arm around her shoulders and the other under her legs he lifted her from the ground and made for the door.

The door was heavy and with Teyla in his arms it was even harder to open; but with Ronan pushing from the other side the task was soon complete.

"Take her!" He ordered as he passed Teyla from his arms into the Satedan's. A look of shock plastered on Ronan's face at the sight of the Athosian he now carried.

Raising his gun he turned back into the room aiming his weapon at the spot Kolya was last; he was gone.

"Shit!" John cursed as he run to the hidden door way on the other side of the room which Kolya had left open as he retreated.

John looked into the darkness but he couldn't see any sign of the Genii.

"Why are you not moving?" John heard Rodney's voice in his ear once again "The building is coming down ... and you're still in there!"

"Went a little over the top didn't you, McKay?" John snapped, still angry that Kolya had once again gotten away.

"Oh, yes, blame me … I only just saved your life but it's fine …" John heard Carson once again interrupt the scientist though what he said John couldn't make out. "You've got about two minutes to get out of there before it all comes down on your head … I suggest you get a move on."

John stood in the doorway still looking out into the blackness which lay before him. He couldn't let Kolya escape this time.

"Sheppard!" John heard Ronan's voice from behind him.

"I can't let him go Ronan … not after this."

"There isn't time; we need to get Teyla back to Atlantis!" John sighed with frustration; he knew Ronan was right.