Thanks for the nice reviews, here is another long chapter, enjoy.
Edited a few grammer and spelling mistakes out.
Chapter 10 - …life sucking aliens but especially the newly arrived slayer
Atlantis,
Doctor Weir walks over to Peter Grodin, who is looking out of a large window into the ocean.
"Here it comes." Peter told her.
"What am I looking for?" Weir asked him.
There's an explosion in the distance out in the water.
"There. Another part of the force field just failed. I don't think we have much time." Peter told her.
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Atlantis, control room,
"How are we doing? Look, if we can just buy ourselves another day, maybe we could…" Dr. Weir started.
"This city is sacrificing parts of itself in order to maintain these main areas but catastrophic failure is inevitable." McKay informed her.
"Not in my wildest dreams would I hope to find the lost city of the Ancients so completely untouched, so pristine, and we have no choice but to walk away from this?" Dr. Weir told him.
"In order to save it." McKay told her.
"To save it for whom? We don't have enough power to send a message. As far as Earth is concerned we're just going to be missing, presumed lost." Dr. Weir told him.
"We'll be back. We'll find a power source somewhere in Pegasus." McKay told her.
"We have yet to hear from Colonel Sumner. We've got no idea what's out there." Dr. Weir told him.
"We can't wait. It is time to go now." McKay told her.
Frustrated, Weir walks away from him, then activates her radio. "Attention all personnel. This is Weir." She spoke through the radio. The base begins to shake violently. "Stand by for immediate evacuation." To McKay "Dial the Gate."
McKay pushes two chevrons, but the Gate then starts dialing in.
"We've got an incoming wormhole." McKay told the others.
The force field comes on and the Gate activates.
"I'm reading Lieutenant Ford's identification code." Peter told Weir.
"Let him in." Weir told him.
McKay lowers the force field. Sheppard comes through the Gate, followed by the rest of the Marines and the Athosian villagers.
"Step in folks, move away from the puddle." Sheppard told them.
Weir runs down the steps to him. "Major Sheppard?" she asked, then as the last people come through, the Gate shuts down. The base continues to shake. "Major Sheppard, who are all these people?"
"Survivors from the settlement. We were attacked. Buffy and Sumner and some of our men were taken." Sheppard informed her. He finally notices the way that the base is shaking. "What's going on?" he asked.
"We are in no condition to help anyone right now." Weir told him.
"What the hell's going on here?" Sheppard asked.
"We are about to abandon the city." Weir informed him.
"Going back there is a really bad idea." Sheppard told her.
"Major Sheppard, the shield is about to fail and the ocean is about to come crashing in on us. Do you have a better place for us to go?" Weir asked.
Sheppard turns to the Athosians. "Jinto, do you have any other address we could gate to?"
"Yes. Many." Jinto replied.
Sheppard grabs his arm and hurries him towards the control desk.
"He's just a boy." Weir told him.
As Jinto is hustled past her he said "I am Jinto."
"She's pleased to meet you." Sheppard told him.
On a computer screen, the message "Shield Failure Imminent" appears.
"The shield is collapsing!" McKay told him.
There's a flash of light as the shield begins to fail and the base jolts so hard that everyone is thrown off their feet. The city of Atlantis begins to rise off the ocean floor. Inside, people scramble to get out of the way as the base continues to shake, causing boxes and crates to fall and crash around.
"I'm dialing an address." Peter told the others.
"No, wait!" Weir told him.
"She's right." McKay told him.
Externally, the city rises faster through the water. The water boils as the rising city approaches the surface.
"We're moving!" Sheppard yelled.
The city breaks the surface – the towers first, then the rest of the city. As the control room lifts above water, sunlight pours in through the windows. As the city settles into its new position on the ocean surface, the internal lights come back on. Weir and the others walk in amazement to the nearest window, which still has water pouring off it, and look out in awe.)
"We're on the surface." Ford told everyone.
"I was hoping for another day. Looks like we just got a whole lot more than that. Let's not waste it." Weird said as she looked outside.
A small tidal wave is moving away from the city in all directions, caused by the rising of the city. There is no sign of land in any direction.
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Wraith hive, somewhere,
Buffy's eyes snapped over and she saw the all too familiar ugly pale blue alien hovering over her. Buffy reacted automatically and her hand was against the Wrath's neck and she twisted it, hearing a satisfying snap she dropped the body sprung up in fighters position.
There were 5 other Wraith in the room with her. She also recognized Teyla, and some other villagers, all seemed to be still unconscious. No time to worry about them Buffy jumped over a blue energy shot coming at her and kicked a Wraith hard against the head before she landed on the ground and immediately punched the Wraith who had fired at her with some sort of weapon. She then kicked the weapon out of his hands and shot another Wraith coming at her. She then used the weapon the slam the Wraith who she had kicked before the Wraith she had stolen the weapon from grabbed it she pushed it hard at him making the Wraith stumble back against the wall not waiting Buffy blurred after him, snapped his neck quickly before running back to the two remaining Wraith. One who was recovering from the hit she caused from the weapon and the other came at her.
"Three down two to go, while the big bad Wraith have yet to score." Buffy quipped.
Buffy flipped over the Wraith coming at her kicked the recovering Wraith, then turned and snapped the Wraiths' she had flipped over neck. The only remaining Wraith let out a roar before attacking her. Punches and kicks were being exchanged in a blur, the Wraith couldn't keep up with her. No human could keep up with a Wraith hand to hand so training that hard at it wasn't necessary.
The Wraith was amazed to see this human could not only keep up with his fighting but also seemed faster and stronger then him. Buffy ducked under a punch from the Wraith and swept his feet out from under him with her foot. She was then up kicked him hard in his side making him fly backwards.
"You baddies never learn do you." She said and noticed her sword and walked over picking it up.
"Impossible, who are you?" The only remaining Wraith asked having gotten up.
"I'm the one who will give your kind nightmares." Buffy informed him and before he knew what was happening she severed his head from the rest of his body with her sword.
Buffy looked around to make sure it was safe before she walked over to Teyla.
"Teyla, wake up." Buffy said after checking her pulse.
No reaction, Buffy slapped Teyla causing the woman's eyes to open. "Buffy?" Teyla asked.
"Yeah, come on, we've got to wake up the rest of your people, and then find out where the other captives then get the hell out of dodge." At Teyla's blank look Buffy clarified "Before we escape."
Teyla got up and saw the Wraith bodies lying on the ground. "What happened to them."
Buffy looked at them then back at Teyla "me" she answered simply before she turned to one of Teyla's people preparing to wake him up.
"Buffy look out!" Teyla called too late, as Buffy jumped up the blue energy shot from the Wraith gun hit her in the leg and as Buffy came down she looked dazed but still conscious, she ran at the previous unconscious Wraith by the same weapon she had used on him only to be hit by another shot and Buffy's world turned black as she tumbled forwards unconscious.
Teyla ran at the Wraith only to also go down by the Wraith stunner.
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Atlantis, later,
Everyone's had a little time to get used to their new situation. Ford is organizing the Atlantis crew and the Athosians in the Control Room area.
"People, listen up. No-one gets to sit down until they've cleared two pieces of equipment off this deck. Now let's go." Ford ordered.
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Atlantis, up at the control desk,
"The last zero point module is depleted, but limited power. Turned out that our generators aren't going to hold back an ocean. Life support systems are working but the planet's atmosphere's breathable – well, notwithstanding the inevitable allergens." McKay told them.
"So now can our naqahdah generators supply enough power to the shield for defensive purposes?" Weir asked.
"Not even close." McKay answered.
"On the surface without a shield? We're target practice." Sheppard told him.
"I'm acutely aware of that, Major, but thank you for reinforcing it." McKay told him.
"When can you tell me where the Wraith took Buffy, Colonel Sumner and the others?" Sheppard asked.
"Even with the six symbols Lieutenant Ford provided there are still hundreds of permutations…" McKay told him but was interrupted by Sheppard.
"Seven hundred and twenty." Sheppard finished for him.
"Yes. I knew that of course. I'm just surprised you did." McKay told him.
"Take away the co-ordinates you can't get a lock on, and that's your one. When you find it, send it up." Sheppard told him.
McKay walks away.
"Major, a word." Weir told him.
She leads him away from the others. As they approach a glass wall, to their surprise it automatically slides open. They walk out onto a balcony. There's a gentle breeze.
"Wow!" Weir said.
They walk to the edge of the balcony and look down at the ocean. After a moment, Sheppard remembers why they came out there.
"Let me guess: you're not gonna let me rescue my people." Sheppard asked.
"Major, you don't even know if they're alive." Weir told him.
"You don't leave people in the hands of the enemy. And the fact that we are having this conversation in private lets me know that you know damn well that it's wrong, and it will totally undermine your leadership. So as ranking military officer I …" Sheppard told but Weir cut him off.
"Alright, just shut up and listen to me for a moment, alright? Come on, what do we know about the Wraith? One of the few things we do know is that they are the enemy that defeated the Ancients. When we first began to use the Stargate we found on Earth, we got ourselves into serious trouble – why?" Weir asked him.
"I don't need a history lesson …" Sheppard told her.
"Because the people in charge didn't consider the ramifications before they reacted." Weir told him.
"They took our people – how am I supposed to react?" Sheppard asked.
"And we're defenseless – you said so yourself. How do you know going off on some half-assed rescue mission isn't gonna to bring them all right back here to our doorstep?" Weir asked.
"Maybe it will. But it's the right thing to do. Why? Because it is!" Sheppard replied.
"John…" Weir said.
"If we're not gonna do this – and I mean right now – let's just turn tail and pack up, because they're coming." Sheppard continued.
"You don't know that." Weir told him.
"Our people are in the hands of the enemy, Doctor. Do you know what that means? It is just a matter of time before the Wraith figure out that this is the base of our operations." Sheppard told her.
"I just need more information. I mean, who knows, maybe we could negotiate a peaceful…"
"Peaceful? Are you kidding?! We weren't there for more than a few hours before they showed up."
"Is it possible they came because of you, and that one of these people you brought back here with you tipped them off?" Weir asked.
"It's possible." Sheppard replied.
"See, that is exactly the kind of snap decision I'm referring to!" Weir told him.
"They're not all bad people, and, you know, if we're gonna stick around here, we need friends." Sheppard told her.
"OK. I see your point. Now you see mine: I will not authorize a rescue mission unless I am sure there is at least a remote chance of success. I'm not sending more good people, including you, to their deaths." Weir told him.
"OK." Sheppard replied.
He walks away back into the base. Weir leans on the balcony and looks out over the ocean.
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Wraith hive, somewhere,
Teyla wakes and sits up, Halling and Toran help her to her feet.
"Are you alright?" Toran asked her.
"Where are we?" she looked around "Where is Buffy?"
Colonel Sumner is standing near the door to the cell. The door looks like a metal spider web. He turns to look at Teyla.
"Buffy was taken as well?" he asked and Teyla nodded
"Yes, I remember she woke me up before, there were four dead Wrath on the ground. The fifth was only unconscious. She told me to help wake my people, find the others taken and then getting the hell out of dodge. The unconscious Wraith however had woken up and shot us both with the Wraith stun gun." Teyla informed him.
Colonel Sumner face was impassive, he knew about Buffy's abilities and therefore ignored the looks of amazement and shot from the other Athosions or his own men "Any idea what to expect?" he asked Teyla.
"No." Teyla told him.
"Your friend was the one who said the Wraith would come if we went down into the ruins." Sumner said to Toran.
"Perhaps you should have heeded his warning." Halling told him.
How do I know he's not the one who told them?" Sumner asked.
Loud thumping footsteps can be heard approaching.
"Someone comes." Halling told them.
A Wraith walks along the corridor to the cell. He is tall and thin and has very long white hair down his back. He's clearly not human, and he has a seriously big mouthful of teeth. He wears a floor-length coat or robe. He is accompanied by two guards, similarly tall and thin but we can't see their faces because they're obscured by a mesh-like mask. The three of them reach the cell. The door opens and they walk in. Sumner steps forward.
"I'm Colonel Marshall Sum…" Sumner started to say but with a gesture the Wraith throws Sumner across the cell. He crashes to the floor. The Wraith looks at Toran and gestures at him. One of the guards walks over to him.
"No, please." Toran told them.
The guard grabs him by the throat and lifts him off his feet, then turns and walks out with him.
"Take me in his place!" Teyla told them.
"No, take me!" Sumner said standing up "We're the ones you're after, right? I'm their leader."
The Wraith just looks at him dismissively, then turns and leaves with the other guard. The door seals behind them.
"They have no need to explain themselves." Teyla told him.
"I got that." Sumner told her.
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Atlantis, control room,
A Malp has been sent through to the Stargate co-ordinates that Ford memorized.
"We're receiving visual telemetry." Peter informed the others.
As Weir looked at the screen she said "I can't see anything."
"No atmospheric readings at all." McKay said.
A round object flashes past on the screen.
"Wait, what was that?" Sheppard asked.
"Rotate the camera." McKay ordered.
The camera pans around and shows a round bright light, then moves around further to show that the Malp is floating way above a ringed planet. As the camera pans some more, we see the Stargate drifting in space.
"Well, there goes that Malp!" McKay said.
"It's in space!" Sheppard told them.
"It's in high orbit around a planet on the far side of the galaxy." McKay told him.
"You're sure this is the right address?" Weir asked.
"It's the only one we could get a lock on." McKay replied.
"Very well. Shut it down." Weir told him then to Sheppard "I'm sorry." She walks away as the Gate shuts down.
McKay has a thought and tells Sheppard "Come with me, Major." He walks away, Sheppard following him.
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Atlantis, ship bay,
McKay has taken Sheppard to a bay full of several small lozenge-shaped ships, stacked in rows one above another. McKay and Sheppard enter one of the ships from the rear. As they walk in, the lights automatically come on. There are two seats at the front end, with a control panel in front of them. As Sheppard touches the panel, it lights up.
"Think you can fly it?" McKay asked him.
"What do you say we find out?" Sheppard told him as he sits down in the left-hand seat.
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Wraith hive, queen chamber,
Buffy felt herself being dragged somewhere by two Wraith. She felt weak, tired. Opening her eyes she recognized the hallway from her vision back on Earth. She let herself rest knowing not long from now she would need her strength to prevent the death she saw of Colonel Sumner.
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Atlantis, infirmary,
Using microscopes and magnifying devices, Doctor Beckett is examining the severed arm that Sheppard shot on the Athosian planet. Weir comes in.
"Doctor Beckett, what was it you wanted me to see?" Dr. Weir asked him.
Beckett picks up the arm and shows it to her "these cells have none of the normal human-inhibiting proteins whatsoever. That gives them an incredible ability to regenerate."
"What about the movement Major Sheppard saw?" Weir asked him.
"As far as independent behavior, I'd say that anything he saw was caused by a residual command reaching the severed nerve endings." Beckett told her.
"Alright. Anything else?" Weir asked.
"The being this arm belonged to – if I was a betting man, I'd say it was old. Very, very old." Beckett informed her.
"How old?" Weir asked.
"As long as these cells are properly nourished, I don't see a life form like this ever dying of natural ageing the way we do, and they'd be bloody hard to kill." Beckett told her.
"I don't like the sound of that." Weir replied.
"I don't blame you." Beckett told her.
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Atlantis, ship bay,
McKay brings Weir in. There's a slight humming sound.
"What is that noise?" Weir asked.
"I don't ... He was right here. Major!" McKay yelled.
There's a rippling, and one of the ships uncloaks right in front of them. It's hovering slightly above the ground, and Sheppard is at the controls. He talks to them over a comms system. "You said you want a tactical advantage?"
Weir gazed in amazement at the ship "Alright, so you can fly that thing. It doesn't mean you can pull off a rescue." She finally told him.
"Doctor, this is why you brought me here." Sheppard told her.
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Atlantis, control room,
McKay is at the control desk. Weir trots down the stairs to join him.
"Ready?" Weir asked.
"I have no idea. This technology is so far beyond us, I haven't clue what we're dealing with. For all I know, we could" McKay said and Weir gives him a look. "Yeah, ready." He added.
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Ship,
Ford and a group of marines have joined Sheppard on board.
"Alright, boys, get ready to go." Ford tells them as he comes up to the front and sits down next to Sheppard. "Gateship One ready to go."
"Gateship One?! A little Puddlejumper like this?!" Sheppard asked not believing this.
"It's a ship; it goes through the Gate: Gateship One." Ford explained.
"Oh no, no, no, that's all wrong." Sheppard told him.
"Dr McKay thought it was cool." Ford told him.
"Oh, OK. Well, it's official – you don't get to name anything. Ever." Sheppard told him then he speaks into the comms "Flight, this is…" he grins "Puddlejumper. We're go for launch."
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Atlantis, control room,
"Er, this is Flight. I thought we were going with Gateship?" McKay said over the comms.
"Negative, Flight." Sheppard replied over the comms.
"Stand by." McKay said then turned to Weir. "It's a ship; it goes through the Gate, I, I…" He trails off and speaks into the comms irritably. "Fine – Puddlejumper, you are clear for launch."
"Dial it up, Lieutenant." Sheppard told him.
In between the two seats is a smaller version of the dialing device from the Control Room. Ford punches in the Gate address. In the Gate room, the Stargate dials out and activates. Above the Gate, the ceiling opens and the Puddlejumper hovers slowly down until it is lined up with the Gate, then moves forward and through the event horizon. Weir and McKay watch it go.
"Be safe." Weird told them.
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Puddlejumper,
The ship is through the Gate and in orbit around the Wraith planet. It cloaks.
"Wow, this is cool." Sheppard told Ford.
"Looks like you got the hang of it." Ford replied.
"Tell you what, Lieutenant, a lot of fighter pilots would kill to fly this thing. It's like it reads your mind." Sheppard told him.
Almost immediately, readouts appear superimposed over the front window.
"Did you do that?" Ford asked.
"I-I was just wondering where we go from here." Sheppard told him.
"I'll take that as a yes. So how do we find them once we land?" Ford asked.
"Well I've been thinking about that too…" Sheppard said and on the wall beside him, a panel opens to reveal a small hand-sized device with a screen on it. He takes the device off the wall, looks at it and then puts it into his jacket pocket. "Now I'm thinking about a nice turkey sandwich."
Sheppard and Ford look around the cabin but nothing else materializes.
"Worth a try." Ford told him.
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Wraith hive,
Buffy opened her eyes to see a skeleton in a chair, a Wraith female walked up to her.
"How did you, a tiny human girl manage to kill 4 of my kind?" the female Wraith asked her.
Buffy shrugged as far as she could since she was still being held by the two Wraith, Buffy looked at the wraith "You mean you don't know? You don't have some old vague prophecy on me? Wow, this is new…kinda fun actually." Buffy told the female Wraith who growled and raised her hand trying to probe Buffy's mind but Buffy looked tense for a minute then just smiled at the female Wraith "now that is just rude, didn't your mother teach you any manners. You want to know something ask and say please."
The female Wraith looked at her anger obviously. She knocked Buffy out again. "Get the other one, the one who claimed to be in charge." She ordered.
The Wraith and his guards return and walk into the cell. The Wraith walks over to Colonel Sumner, looks at him disparagingly for a moment, then snarls before turning and leaving. Sumner looks back at his men, then resolutely walks out with the guards.
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Puddlejumper,
The ship has flown down to the Wraith planet and is hovering just above the ground. Out of the front window can be seen a huge structure with trees growing on top of it. Sheppard and Ford look at the structure, then share a look of concern. Ford gets up and goes towards the rear of the ship. The bulkhead opens to show the marines in the back.
"Lock and load." Ford told them.
The Puddlejumper decloaks and lands. Everyone gets out and checks the immediate vicinity.
"Alright, teams of two. Learn what you can, lay down the defenses as you see fit. I want to be able to light this place up if we have to." Sheppard said then turned to one of the marines "Two clicks, you're clear to talk."
"Yes, sir." Stackhouse replied.
"Do not engage the enemy." Sheppard told them then to Ford "You're with me."
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Wraith hive,
The guards bring Sumner into a large hall. In the middle of the hall is a long dining table with food on it, though the food doesn't look very appetizing. Sitting in a chair at one end is a skeletal, ancient-looking man. He looks like he's been dead for centuries. It's also clear that this is Toran. Sumner looks at him for a while. The ceiling appears to be very high but is obscured by mist. Sumner then spots Buffy being dragged in unconscious by two Wraith. Behind them a female Wraith, similar in appearance to the male Wraith but with dark red hair instead of white. Sumner rushes to Buffy, "Let her go." He ordered.
The two Wraith look at the female and then shove her to Sumner.
Sumner caught Buffy, "Buffy?" he asked but there was no reply. He glared angrily at the female Wraith.
"What have you done to her?" he demanded to know.
"She killed 4 of my kind." The female Wraith stated "How can someone of her tiny form and of your weak species defeat for of mine?" she demanded to know.
"Guess our species is more then just food for you." Came the weak reply from Buffy.
"Who is she!? What makes her able to take out for of my kind!? Tell me!" the female ordered.
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Wraith hive, hall,
A guard stomps down the corridor. After it has passed, Sheppard and Ford come out of hiding.
"Thought getting in was going to be the hard part." Sheppard said to Ford.
"That's the first one we've seen." Ford replied then he attaches some C4 to a wall.
Sheppard gets the hand device out of his pocket and looks at it. There's a moving dot on the screen. "Little dot should be him. Go over there." He told Ford and Ford walks in the direction he indicated, then comes back. A corresponding dot shows on the screen. "Yeah, that's you." Sheppard told him.
"So we got ourselves a life signs detector." Ford told him grinning.
"We can name it later." Sheppard told him.
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Wraith hive, cell,
Sheppard and Ford carefully approach the cell.
"Major?" Teyla asked.
"Shh. Are you alright?" Sheppard asked.
"How did you find us?" Teyla asked.
"Is my son alive?" Halling asked.
"He's well and waiting for you. Where's Buffy and Colonel Sumner?" Sheppard asked them.
"Colonel Sumner was taken by the Wraith." Bates told him.
"We don't know where." Teyla told him then added "As for Buffy, I only saw her briefly when I first awoke. She killed four Wraith, the fifth was only unconscious and when she went to check on Toran she was shot by a Wraith stunner by the fifth Wraith, it took two shots to take her down. I was shot after her and woke up here, we have not seen her since."
"Well, how about when was Colonel Sumner was taken?" Sheppard asked pushing his worry for Buffy aside for now.
"Not long." Teyla told him.
"I knew something had to go wrong." Sheppard said then he clicks his radio.
"This is Stackhouse, go ahead, sir." Stackhouse voice came over the radio.
"How about a diversion a little bit? You really need to make some noise out there." Sheppard asked him.
"Yes, sir." Stackhouse voice replied.
"Ready the C4: blow a hole and get these people out of here on my signal, alright? I can find the colonel with this" Sheppard said to Ford then he looks at the scanner. "There aren't that many Wraith around. I should be able to do this. If I'm not back in twenty minutes, blow the cells and get out."
"You're the only one who can fly these people out of here." Ford replied.
"Yeah, I'm going to fly us all out of here, including the colonel and if she's still alive Buffy." Sheppard told him.
"Just saying I should be the one to go, sir." Ford told him.
"Twenty minutes. I'll find him." Sheppard replied to him then moves off. Ford starts handing C4 through the bars to the marines.
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Wraith hive, dining room,
"What do you call yourself?" the Wraith asked Sumner while Buffy got up still weak but was preparing herself for battle, but did nothing yet because two Wraith stunners were aimed at her.
"Colonel Marshall Sumner, United States Marine Corps." Sumner replied.
"Buffy Summers." Buffy cut in making the Wraith focus her attention on her.
"So little fear, both of you. Is it valor…or ignorance?" the female Wraith asked.
"I've seen worse then a pale blue life sucking alien." Buffy replied, then added "You don't even hit the top ten in scary."
The Wraith snarled "Such insolence and ignorance."
"We traveled through the Stargate as peaceful explorers." Sumner told her.
"You must eat, yet you resist your hunger. Why?" the female Wraith asked him.
"Why have you taken my people prisoner?" Sumner asked.
"You trespassed upon our feeding ground." The female wraith replied.
"Feeding ground?" Sumner asked.
"They feed of us humans, like vampires. Only they literally suck the life out of you with their hands instead of biting you and draining your blood like vampires. The skeleton in the chair there is an example on what's left after they have fed." Buffy told him.
"All living things must eat. In this I'm sure we are similar. You feel hunger even now – I can sense it. Yet you resist. Why?" The female Wraith asked.
"Why do you care?" Sumner asked her.
"Hunger is distasteful." The female Wraith replied.
Sumner looked at Toran's skeleton again "Looks to me like the food didn't agree with him." He quipped.
"There we are quite dissimilar, Colonel Sumner." The female Wraith replied. She leans over to Toran, running a long fingernail down his head. "We don't require our food to agree with us."
Nearby, Sheppard – with the help of his scanner – is searching for the colonel.
"What do you call your world?" the Wraith asked.
Sumner refuses to answer. The Wraith repeats the question but this time her mouth doesn't move and the sound of her voice reverberates. She's clearly exerting telepathic force on Sumner, who struggles under the pressure.
"Fight it colonel, focus on me, ignore the ugly pale blue bitch and think of something else." Buffy told him.
"What do you call your world?" the telepathic voice roamed in Sumner's head.
Sumner struggling not to speak, but unable to resist "Earth."
"It is not among our stars." The female Wraith told him.
"No." Sumner replied while still struggling not to speak.
"Tell me of Earth. How many more are there of your kind?" the female Wraith asked, again, Sumner tries not to let her into his mind. "Thousands? Millions?" delighted she continued "More. Our feeding ground has not been so rich in ten thousand years."
"Yeah maybe but unfortunately we have our own version of evil who are going to have a problem with you trespassing on their feeding ground." Buffy told her.
"They will be nothing against us." The female Wraith dismissed.
"Really? Cos I remember me killing 5 of your people earlier and I was alone. Earth has a lot of people like me and even more of vampires and demons who's feeding ground you will be trespassing. Now vampire are not as strong as me but they will match you wraith, you'll be outnumbered, outgunned and defeated if you come to Earth." Buffy told her.
Sheppard is still making his way towards the hall.
The female Wraith studied her but for some reason could not read her she turned to Sumner trying to see the truth through him.
"Is that the kind of treatment I can expect for myself and my people?" Sumner asked.
"As I have said, all living things must eat." The female wraith told him "tell me, is she speaking the truth."
"I think we're done talking." Sumner told her.
"I think not. Kneel." She female Wraith told her but Sumner doesn't move. She reaches towards his head. He grabs for her hand but she runs a fingernail down the side of his face. Her voice echoes in his mind. "Kneel." Sumner falls to his knees. I have not tasted such strength in so long." She reaches down and rips his shirt open.
Buffy had taken that moment to spring into action and blurred to the Wraith grabbed her by the hair and pulled her head back "He's not going to be your dinner." She punched the Wraith and kicked her away then blurred towards a guard flipped over him snapped his neck and used him as shield from the stun blast from the other wraith.
"Get her!" the female Wraith ordered then was tackled to the ground by Sumner.
Buffy threw the dead Wraith into the other one and looked at Sumner "don't let her hands touch you, they suck the life out of you." She warned him then ran over the Wraith coming up and kicked the stunner out of his hands and started hand to hand combat with him.
She knew Sumner would not hold long against the female Wraith did not hold back against the Wraith and quickly found her opening in his technique and hit him hard in his stomach making the Wraith hit the wall and bend forwards a bit, enough for Buffy to see her sword strapped behind the Wraith's back and she yanked it out from his back and cut the Wraith's head off. Not waiting to see if he's dead she spun around and saw…
Sumner was thrown backwards by the female Wraith "Fool!" the female Wraith said and walked towards him, Sumner tried to fight the Wraith but she hit him so hard he was barely conscious now.
The female wraith bends down and slams her open palm onto his chest over his heart, her nails piercing his skin. He screams.
"No!" Buffy yelled seeing the Wraith sucking the life out of Colonel Sumner just like in her vision had shown her.
Nearby, Sheppard hears the scream and hurries towards the sound.
"How many years must I take from you before you tell us what I wish to know?" She suddenly is yanked off Sumner who was visibly ageing.
The female Wraith turns to see who had disrupted her feeding process "You!" she yelled "I have had enough of you!" she said charged at Buffy.
Buffy stood there sword ready as the Wraith came at her. The Wraith actually managed to avoid the first two attacks but a kick had her stumbling back and she was barely able to roll out of Buffy's sword.
The female Wraith screamed as she saw Buffy had sliced her skin with the sword. But the wound already was regenerating. She smiled and held her hand up and Buffy flew backwards by an invisible force. The female then went back to Sumner and again placed her hand over his chest.
Sheppard is still trying to find the source of the sound. Sumner screams again, he has gotten even older.
"Where is this new feeding ground?" the Wraith demanded to know.
Sumner gritted his teeth against her onslaught "I won't." she told her.
Sheppard finally reaches the hall. He is above ground level and there is a gap in the wall from where he can see what's happening on the floor below. He shoots the female Wraith, who looks around but doesn't move. The Wraith continues to press her hand against Sumner's chest, draining his life force from him, and the bullet holes in her body heal themselves.
Buffy then yanks the Wraith off Sumner again and swung her sword cutting off one of her hands. The Wraith screamed but also her hand started to regenerate.
Sumner, who is now extremely elderly, with white hair, and clearly near death.
Sheppard then aims to shoot the Wraith through the head but is shot from behind by the male Wraith. "John!" Buffy yelled distracted for a moment and the Wraith held out her other hand and she is thrown back again, harder this time so Buffy was barely conscious.
"Bring him!" the female Wraith ordered then walked to Sumner finished her feeding on him, her hand regenerating faster. She then walked over to Buffy and ripped her shirt more open and was about to feed on her only to fly back.
Buffy was barely awake but she knew if she passed out she would die, again. She embraced the slayer in her fully, needing her strength and with a snarl she kicked the Wraith hard, sending her flying back away from her.
Sheppard is being held down on the table by a guard as the male Wraith came at Buffy who jumped up gracefully and moved fast towards the male Wraith cutting him across the stomach then chopped his head off.
Sheppard awoke and blinked just as the male Wraith's head dropped through the ground.
Buffy kicked the head hard towards the guard holding Sheppard making him loosen his grip and allowing John to break free.
Buffy then threw her sword with accuracy at the Wraith guard. And it imbedded into his chest, and if the heart was at the same place at it was at humans also though the Wraith's heart.
Sheppard now free took the sword out of the Wraith and moved to stand beside Buffy "You ok?" he asked.
Buffy took a deep breath trying to regain control of herself and not be the slayer completely "Once we get out of this suck fest." She quipped then winced and looked back at Sumner's skeleton.
Her eyes went cold and angry when she looked back at the female Wraith, her slayer death glare at its deadliest.
"How's the hand feeling?" Sheppard asked her.
She holds her hand in front of them and fingers were now already forming, until the hand was completely regenerated.
"Much better." The female Wraith told them. "More will come, you can not escape alive. Give me the location of you planet and I will spare you."
"You really expect either of us to fall for that?" Buffy told her and took the sword from Sheppard.
The Wraith sees the scanner device in Sheppard's pocket and takes it out. She looks at it, clearly recognizing it – or who made it.
"How did that come to you?" she asked indicating the device in John's pocket.
"I don't remember." Sheppard said to her.
"You won it at the carnival last week." Buffy said to him.
"Oh yeah, silly me." John drawled.
The female Wraith snarls again. Suddenly she is shot, Lieutenant Ford has arrived. He fires multiple shots at the female Wraith who just staggered backwards. Sheppard grabs his radio.
"Light it up." Sheppard said through the radio.
All around the outside of the building, explosions go off. The Wraith screams in fury. The male Wraith and a guard come running but more explosives blow up in their faces.
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Wraith hive, cell,
"Cover!" Bates yells and everyone ducks as the cell door blows.
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Wraith hive,
Buffy steps forwards and the female Wraith takes a step back, obviously knowing better then to engage this girl.
Buffy smiled and the female snarls before charging her.
Ford is about to shoot but Sheppard puts his gun down and shakes his head "She can handle her." He tells Ford.
Sure enough Buffy first sliced the Wraith across her chest, then shoves her sword though the Wraith heart and finally yanked it out, the Wraith fall to her knees and Buffy twirled her sword before landing the blade against the head of the Wraith splitting it in two halves. The Wrath fall at Buffy's feet forwards, dead.
"That has to kill you." Sheppard drawled smiling.
Buffy looks back shrugs, then looks at Colonel Sumner. "Wasn't enough to save him." She told him.
"Who or what are you." Ford asked her.
"That's need to know, and you don't. I'm not Goa'uld or Jaffa, or Tok'ra before you ask."
Ford and Sheppard look at her, "he knew, who you were, did he? Colonel Sumner?" Sheppard asked her.
"Yes, I hoped him knowing who I was would change what I saw." She avoided her looks and used the dead Wraith to clean her sword.
"How'd you find me?" Sheppard asked Ford.
"Tread marks. Standard issue. Sir, let's go." Ford replied.
"We should get the others and get out of here before they wake up." Buffy said standing up and strapping the sword behind her back.
Teyla and the others are climbing through the gap blasted in the cell door.
"Who?" Sheppard asked and Buffy indicated the scanner in his pocket, he took the scanner out.
"What's she talking about? How many are left?" Ford asked
"Look up and see for yourself." Buffy then said to him.
Sheppard looks at the scanner. A whole lot of dots start to appear on the screen. Sheppard and Ford look up into the high ceiling. The view is now clear – the ceiling is honeycombed with hundreds of cells, presumably sleeper cells for the Wraith. In each of the cells, a figure is stirring.
"We need to leave." Ford then said.
Buffy who had begun the sense them as soon as they woke up nodded "I agree, if they find us here they will do whatever it takes to find out where our planet with their many happy meals on legs are." Buffy told them.
"Happy meals?" Ford asked.
"Yes, they drain the life out of you for food, can we go now?" Buffy asked Sheppard.
"Bates, we're on the go." Sheppard said into the radio.
"So are we. Colonel Sumner?" Bate voice came other the radio.
"Negative." Sheppard replied.
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Atlantis, Gate room,
Weir is standing near the Stargate, gazing at it. McKay comes down the steps to join her.
"Doctor Weir, we're getting reports in from all over the city. Some pretty interesting stuff. We've only been able to provide power to certain sections but even then the things that are coming up are just…" McKay began to say then trails off, realizing that she's not paying any attention.
"I should never have let them go." Weir told him.
"For what it's worth, you made the right decision. Give them time." McKay replied.
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Wraith planet,
Everyone is running back through the woods towards the Puddlejumper.
"Major, the Jumper is secure for the moment." Stackhouse informed him over the radio.
"We have a big problem." Sheppard replied over the radio then to Ford "Lieutenant, take our six. I'm going to take them back to the Jumper."
"Be right behind you." Ford replied.
He hangs back as the others race off. In the distance, the Wraith structure is burning. Wraith fighter ships fly out from the structure and head off. In the woods Teyla, sensing something, slows down, looks back, then heads back towards Ford, who is alone and looking nervously around. He sees a wraith apparition and fires at it. Teyla arrives and snatches his rifle off him.
"There's nothing there." She told him.
Ford taking his rifle back off her "I'm sure I saw something." He told her.
"Only what the Wraith wish you to see. Firing your weapon will reveal our position. Come on." Teyla told him, then the two of them run off.
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Puddlejumper,
The escapees arrive at the Puddlejumper.
"Get in!" Sheppard ordered and grabs a rifle off one of the marines and runs back the way he came. Buffy hesitates before she also takes a gun and sprints after the Major, easily catching up with him.
Nearby, Teyla and Ford are running. A Wraith fighter soars overhead and its transporter beam sweeps along the ground towards them. Teyla hurls herself at Ford, throwing both of them out of its path. They fall to the ground. Another fighter swoops over and fires at them. There's a massive explosion nearby. Sheppard and Buffy appear, firing up at the fighter, which flies away with smoke trailing behind it.
"Thank you, sir, Buffy." Ford told them.
"Let's try not to make a habit of this." Sheppard told Ford then looked at Buffy wondering just what else this beautiful blond woman could do.
The four of them run to the Puddlejumper and get in. The other marines follow. Stackhouse looks up just before he gets into the Puddlejumper "We've got incoming!" he told the others.
Sheppard throws himself into the pilot's seat and speaks to the ship itself "Okay, now what am I thinking?"
The Puddlejumper rises up off the ground and cloaks as it heads up into the sky.
Buffy takes the seat beside him and Sheppard looks round at all the others "Everybody OK back there?" he asked.
"We are well enough." Teyla informed him.
Ford comes forward looks at Buffy sitting in his seat. Buffy just gives him her most charming smile and he sighs and remains standing behind them and asked "How far is the hard part?" he asked the Major.
As they go into space, they can see several Wraith fighters ahead of them.
"Crap. I don't think we've gotten to the hard part yet." The Major replied.
Many Wraith fighters are stationed around the Stargate.
"What can we do?" Teyla asked.
"We're safe as long as they can't see us." Ford replied.
"They don't have to – there's only one way for us to go. The minute we activate the Stargate they can start shooting blind and blow us away on our approach." Sheppard informed them.
"Then how can we get through?" Buffy asked "Does this ship thing have any weapons?"
Sheppard looked at her then saying "I don't know, we're still learning about what it can do."
"Some rescue." Buffy drawled earning her a glare from the Major, which she ignored.
"We should draw them away from the Gate, double back." Sheppard said to them.
The Puddlejumper decloaks. As soon as the fighters see it and start heading towards it, Sheppard swings the Jumper around and heads away from the Gate. Many of the fighters follow it.
"Be prepared to dial the Gate on my mark." Sheppard told Buffy.
The fighters fire at the Puddlejumper – Sheppard swerves to avoid them.
"Weapons" Sheppard mumbled and immediately the Puddlejumper again answers Sheppard's thoughts. A weapon deploys from the side of the ship and fires an energy drone – the same sort that attacked Sheppard's and O'Neill's helicopter earlier in Antarctica. The drone surges unerringly towards one of the fighters and blows it up.
"Try and go invisible again." Ford suggested.
"I tried – it must be damaged. Dial the Gate." Sheppard told Buffy.
Buffy starts punching the symbols.
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Atlantis, Control room,
The Gate starts dialing in.
"Off world activation." Peter Grodin informed the others.
"Raise the shield." Weir told him.
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Puddlejumper,
The Stargate activates. Two Wraith fighters are still guarding it. Sheppard swings the Puddlejumper around and fires a salvo of drones at one of them, destroying it.
"Nice" Buffy commented earning her a smile from Sheppard before he turned to Ford "Get ready to punch in your code on the next pass." At that Buffy slipped out of her seat and Ford took hers ready to enter his code.
Ford takes out his Garage Door Opener "What's the range on these things?" Ford asked.
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Atlantis, control room,
"Do we have an identification code?" Weir asked.
After checking a laptop McKay said "Nothing yet."
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Puddlejumper,
The Puddlejumper shoots down the second fighter guarding the Gate.
"Enter your code." Sheppard ordered Ford and Ford starts punching in his code. "Hang on!"
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Atlantis, control room,
"I'm reading Lieutenant Ford's IDC." McKay told Weir.
"Let them in." Weir ordered Peter Grodin.
Grodin hits the controls to lower the shield.
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Puddlejumper,
As Sheppard swings the Puddlejumper around to avoid the Wraith fighters pursuing him, they fire on him. Some of their shots go through the Gate and reappear in the Atlantis Gate room, exploding against the wall. Everyone dives for cover behind consoles.
Over the noise of the explosions Weir shouted "Give them a few more seconds."
Sheppard finally has the Puddlejumper lined up with the Gate.
"We're going too fast." Ford told the Major.
"I know." Sheppard answered.
As the Puddlejumper approaches the Gate, its engine pods retract into the side of the ship to make it more streamlined. It plunges into the Gate at a fantastic speed. Two Wraith fighters follow.
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Atlantis, control room,
The Puddlejumper comes racing through the Gate but immediately stops just yards into the Gate room. This ship has mega inertial dampeners, as nobody comes flying through the front windscreen.
"Reactivate the shield!" Weir yelled.
Grodin hits a button and the shield comes back up. There are two loud thuds on the shield, then the Gate shuts down. The Puddlejumper rises up towards its bay. Inside the ship, Sheppard smiles with relief.
"Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to Atlantis. Please remain seated till the Puddlejumper has come to a full and complete stop.
"Puddlejumper?" Buffy asked causing him to look at her "Not bad. I would have guessed someone from military would name it something dumb like Gateship." She told him.
"Hey, there is nothing wrong with Gateship" Ford told her.
Buffy looked at him then to Sheppard "Let's make sure he never names anything." She told him making him snigger and Ford glare at them.
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Atlantis, briefing room,
"Buffy can you tell us what happened to you on the Wraith planet? I've already gotten reports from Bates who told us what Teyla said when you woke her up and from Major Sheppard on what happened when he arrived at the scene where you pulled the Wraith off Colonel Sumner." Weir told her.
"And I would really like to know just how you were able to not only stand your own against the Wraith but actually kill them." John added.
Buffy looked at Weir then at John and sighed, realizing that she needed to tell them everything in order to get along and function well.
"This is going to take a while, Dr. Weir already knows most about me John but in a nutshell: When I was fifteen years old and back on Earth as was called as a slayer. A vampire slayer, yes vampires are real. Being called as the slayer gives me added, strength, stamina, speed, hearing, can seen in the dark and in vast distances fine. I also have something of a sixth sense which allowed me to sense vampires and demons back on earth and apparently aliens as well. Anyway Dr. has transcript you can read if you want that tell you more about the slayer." She told him.
"I wasn't allowed to bring the transcript." Dr. Weir told her.
"Oh, at least you know. I'm not in the mood to go over my entire slayer life again. So I'm only going to tell you what is relevant for now." Buffy told them.
"Vampires and demons?" Sheppard asked.
Ignoring the Major Buffy said "Right so, after a big battle some months ago I found out my father isn't my father but Colonel Jack O'Neill is. I also get told about Goa'uld and such. My friends and I decided to help out. Met my father, Henry, the president, got me clearance for SGC and now the war between our allies, and the Goa'uld, and other hostile aliens are being backed by slayers and witches. Part of being a slayer is sometimes having Prophetic dreams. Bits of pieces from the future to prepare the slayer for what is to come. I had one of those and it showed me going here to Atlantis and the threat that was here. I saw Wraith Darts flying over the camp on Athos, I saw Colonel Sumner life being sucked out of him by the Wraith."
"You knew all of this before we went here?" Sheppard asked her, sounding a bit angry.
"Yes, and I only told my friends this and they all agreed that if I told anyone in the Air Force or from your expedition about this that the expedition would be called off or be military. I don't work well with the military. Now when we were here, I realized that if I told you Dr. Weir or Colonel Sumner about my vision we you would have either thought of me as crazy or acted such that things changed for the worse. My vision only saw him being drained, I didn't know when or where. I should have told you maybe Colonel Sumner would have been alive then but I didn't because I thought that best at the time. Then at Athos seeing the camps, I just knew it was going to happen, soon. But that night there I had another dream."
Flashback
"Hello Buffy" Kendra said smiling at her.
"Kendra?" Buffy asked "Another slayer dream" she stated.
"Yes, I'm sent to tell ya not tho tell Colonel Sumner about ya vision." Kendra told her.
"Sent? Dawn?" Buffy asked.
"Tha first slayer." Kendra replied.
"Oh, why can't I tell him, or anyone for that matter. People are going to get killed, we need to evacuate them." Buffy told her.
"Tha vision shows you what is tho come, what will come. If you change it more damage is done, all you can do is prepare yaself. You are tha slayer, Buffy. If you and Colonel Sumner and tha others are not taken, tha Wraith will not awaken thoo early. Tha Wraith must awaken now if they are tho be stopped. Even if you did tell Colonel Sumner about ya dream, his time here is over, death is his gift. You should know that ya cannot stop that from coming through." Kendra told her.
"But death was my gift as well and I'm still here. Can't he also avoid death as a gift for a while?" Buffy asked.
"You did not avoid death Buffy, you died. Death gift was returned to ya by yar friends." Kendra told her.
"There really isn't anything I can do for them?" Buffy asked.
"I am sorry Buffy, no. Prepare yourself, and take care of yaself." Kendra told her and then Buffy awoke.
End flashback.
"What is this death is your gift part and why what did you mean when you said your friends returned it for you." John asked her.
"When I was twenty I sought out the first slayer in a vision. She told me death was my gift. I didn't understand what she meant until later. There was a Hell Goddess called Glorificus, or Glory for short, she was banished from her hell dimension to this one, trapped in a human male. She found a way to escape her human imprisonment and went looking for something called the Key. The Key was a ball of mystical energy that has been around millions of years. Some monks were guarding the Key and to keep it safe from Glory they gave it human form and sent it to me." Buffy paused wondering if she should tell them about Dawn or not. She sighed realizing that she would have to be completely honest to them in order to not have problems later on.
"Ok so they sent this person, this Key to you? What did you do with it?" Sheppard asked.
Buffy glared at him "She is not an it." She snapped at him then seeing the stunned look on his face sighed and ran a hand to through her hair. "Sorry." She apologized.
"That's ok, who was she?" Weir asked her gently.
"The monks sent who sent her to me, had to make sure I would protect the Key with my life. So they sent her to me in the form of a sister. Altered my and my friends memories to believe she had always been there. I found out when my mother suffering from a brain tumor and I was convinced the cause was something supernatural. I preferred a spell, some sort of meditation that would allow me to see through spells to discover the cause. I noticed Dawn was there but not there. But no matter how she came into my life or how annoying she could be she was my sister. After my mom died after a operation to remove the tumor, of an aneurism Glory found out Dawn, my sister was the Key. Now I am strong, but compared to Glory I was nothing. She was a God. I faced a lot of things before here but she made me take Dawn and leave town with my friends. A friend got hurt on the road and I called a doctor I got to know. He showed and then changed into Glory after treating Giles, my wounded friend. She took Dawn."
Buffy paused forcing her down and kept herself in control of them before she continued "I was lost in my own head, convinced myself I killed Dawn. Willow found me and got me out. My friends and I then went to stop Glory from performing the ritual. See the only time the Key could be used is that if the planets were aligned properly which happens every thousand years or so. The ritual required to use Dawn's blood to open a portal between dimension which would allow Glory to return. But if the tear between dimension was formed all dimension would bleed into each other and hell would be unleashed on Earth and everywhere else in the galaxy. Glory didn't care about this, only about getting home. I used a hammer of a troll God to stop Glory. When she was defeated she changed back into Ben, the doctor. He was innocent in this so I let him live. Giles however found this too dangerous and killed him, killing Glory as well. He doesn't know I know this, but I do." Buffy told them sadly then steeled herself before continuing.
"So after I beat Glory, I rescued my sister who was on top of a tower. But I was too late, one of Glory's minions had already cut Dawn and her blood had started the tear between dimension. She wanted to jump into it to stop it but I stopped her. See the only way to stop the dimensions to bleed into each other was if the blood stopped flowing. Jumping into the portal charged with mystical energies would do that. The sun came up and I could hear the First telling me "Death is your gift." Everything fell into place then. Dawn was made from my blood. The monks made her out of me. Death was my gift, so I told Dawn goodbye and jumped." Buffy told them.
"You died?" Sheppard asked.
"Yeah, that was the second time actually. First time was when I was drowned by revived by CPR." Buffy told him.
"How many times did you die?" John asked her.
"Three times, I flat lined briefly when I was shot. The hospital revived me." Buffy told him.
"And your friend Willow used magic to revive you the second time, right?" Weir asked her.
"Yes…" Buffy answered "They thought I was in a hell dimension so they did a spell and ripped me out of Heaven." She added then changed the subject.
"I woke up after being beamed up by the dart, in some room, A Wraith was standing over me, I quickly snapped his neck with my hand, then killed 4 others, a fifth I shot with a Wraith stunner. I woke Teyla up, told her we needed to wake the others, find the others taken and get the hell out." Buffy started her debriefing. "The fifth Wraith woke up from the stunner shot me twice before I went down. Woke up being dragged by two Wraith to somewhere. Met the Wraith female in charge, she questioned me, wanted to know how I could do what I did. She tried to use telepathy on me but it didn't work, maybe because of the aspect of the demon thing, or cause I'm the slayer. Anyway I wouldn't answer her questions and started to really irritate her. She knocked me out. I woke up with Colonel Sumner holding me in some sort of dining room. She crawled into his head made him tell about Earth, how many happy meals there were for them. Tried to get him to reveal the location, but failed. I started killing the guards, he tackled the female Wraith. I killed the first guard warned him not to let her hands touch him cause she would suck the life out of him. I killed the second guard and then turned to help the Colonel only to see that bitch feed off him, literally suck his life force and feed of it. I yanked her off, she used her telekinetic trick on me. Asked Colonel Sumner again about the location of Earth, he refused, she fed again. I yanked her off again, chopped off her hand, Major Sheppard had arrived since then. He was shot with a Wraith stunner and I was distracted for a second and female Wraith did the trick again, only with more force. I was barely conscious. I guess she fed off and killed Colonel Sumner then and healed herself. I let myself open to the darker part of me and kicked the female Wraith off and away from me. Killed the Male Wraith, the guard that was holding Major Sheppard and Major Sheppard gave you the rest of what happened." Buffy finished her debriefing.
"So what now? The Wraith are awakening too early? What does that mean?" Weir asked no one in particular.
"I think it means that the Wraith are waking up and there isn't enough food yet for all of them." Buffy told her.
"That makes sense." Weir said then added "We're going to have to be careful out there from now on though."
"We have out own Wraith slayer on base, I'd say the Wraith better be careful of her. That female one was already so scared of her she took a step back when Buffy approached her.
Buffy tried to suppress her blush but failed.
"Yes, well despite that. Caution, ok?" Weir told them.
Buffy smiled "of course"
"Goes without saying." John told her.
Weir looked at the two 'then why do I have the feeling you two are going to get into a lot of trouble' she thought to herself but did say anything.
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Atlantis, night time,
There's a 'getting to know you' type party going on in the control room, with all the Atlantis crew milling around with the Athosians. Sheppard and Buffy walk out onto the balcony and look out over the dark water.
"I guess this is home now." Buffy told him.
"I guess so." Sheppard told her.
"I'm thinking of a little place with an ocean view. Out of the way." Buffy told him "You?"
"Same." He replied as Weir walks up behind them.
"Major. Buffy." Weir greets them. She holds up mugs for them to take. "I thought the occasion merited opening this. Compliments of Colonel O'Neill."
"Cheers." Sheppard said and they all drink. Weir notices that Buffy doesn't look happy.
"You did good, Buffy." She told her.
"I don't know about that." Buffy replied.
"Hey, there was no way you could have saved Colonel Sumner." Weir told her, "And If he is where you have been, you should not beat yourself up too much.
"Maybe, but I have to live with the fact that I could have saved him." Weir nods understandingly.
"I'm beginning to think I shouldn't have come. I haven't made any friends, the Wraith are awake, killing people and I keep hearing this is some sort of plan from the Powers but I don't like it. I thought I was coming here to save people but I changed nothing, Colonel Sumner still died, Athosions were killed." Buffy told her.
"No?" Weir turns towards the Control Room/Gate room. "Look around you."
Buffy looks at the Athosians milling around happily. Nearby, Halling is having an affectionate moment with Jinto, the two of them have their foreheads touching like they did in before. Teyla is standing next to Halling, and she has heard what was just said.
"I agree, Buffy." Teyla said and walks over to her, puts her hands on his shoulders and bows her head. Buffy glances at Sheppard, who grins at them. Buffy rolls her eyes a little, then lowers her own head so that her forehead touches Teyla's. They stand like that for a moment, then Teyla raises her head. "You have earned both my friendship and that of my people. With our help you will make many more friends."
"And besides that Buffy, you have brought hope for the people here. You are the only one with the…abilities to take a Wraith on in hand to hand and defeat them." Weir told her.
A little way away, Doctors Beckett and McKay are watching the interchange. McKay is gnawing on something on a stick, it looks like a very thin kebab.
Teyla and Buffy leave the balcony. Sheppard starts to follow them but Weir stops him.
"One more thing, Major, something I'd like you to sleep on. I have a few thoughts on it myself but…" Weir told him.
"Thoughts about what?" Sheppard asked.
"Who the members of your team might be." Weir told him.
"My team?" Sheppard asked.
"Well, you are the ranking military officer now, or do you need to be reminded of that? We need to get back out there; do what we came to do." Weir told him.
She turns and leans on the balustrade, looking out on ocean. Sheppard joins her.
"You do realize I can get us in to all sorts of trouble, right?"
She nods amicably, "Both you and Buffy I'd imagine." She told him.
"What makes you so sure Buffy will be on my team?" Sheppard asked.
"She's a slayer, she can take on a Wraith easily, had a lot of experience when it comes to tactical situations. She's a real asset to us here, you'll need her if we're going to survive this galaxy." Weir told him looking at the ocean before turning back to him.
Sheppard didn't say anything for a while "She is something, not sure what to make of her. She told her about her vision, but she went along hoping to stop it only to find out she isn't supposed to. Still she did her best to save the Colonel and the Athosians. She warned us about the power here before we realized it could be a problem. If she hadn't gone along, or had the vision all off this still would have happened." He fell silent for a moment before saying "I'm not sure I believe all of the stuff about demons and hell gods, but she does. And apparently so does the president and some others high ups in the government."
"It's a lot to take in, but something from the transcript I remember. The reason why nobody back home noticed anything about the supernatural is because they don't want to, they see a vampire attack the rationalize it away as a gang on PCP playing vampire. Makes me think that if I saw something I've been made to believe isn't real, I would rationalize it away as something normal just so I wouldn't be thought of as crazy or so that I wouldn't have to think in what else there might be out there." Weir told Sheppard.
Sheppard didn't say anything thinking on all of it, Weir looked at him then left him alone an rejoined the party, a few minutes later so did Sheppard.
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