John slowly woke up, where the hell am I? he wondered as he heard a beeping noise before opening his eyes, looking around the first thing he noticed was the I.V. Drip in his arm, what the hell? he wondered, finding he was unable to move and that he actually did not want to do so because he was as naked as a jaybird under the sheet, OK John think this through, why are you naked? Possibly the Wraith are doing something and they need you to be so? No that wont work, I don't see any Wraith around, hell I'm not even in a Hive Ship of all things! OK you are on a Hive Ship John thought seeing a black haired Wraith enter, it was a female. only she seemed to be doing something with Johns I.V. Drip.
John only watched, not trying to move. That's right John, make yourself look like you are still asleep. the Doc wont notice a thing, the Doc noticed! John thought sensing the Wraith female going to his IV Drip and checking the thing. John thought faking sleep wouldn't work so he faked waking up. "Where am I?"
The Wraith didn't say anything, other then muttering to itself as it left John alone.
OK that didn't work now what? John thought. Teyla where the hell are you Babe??
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On Atlantis Weir was pacing, "will you stop that?" Rodney asked looking up from his game of poker with the database, "You are making me nervous."
"Sorry, it had been a while, do you think they found their daughter yet?" Weir asked standing near Rodney's computer, only so Rodney could see her by looking up, "or maybe..."
"They went through that half an hour ago." Rodney said, "if there was any trouble they'd radio for backup. Which I highly doubt because these people only allowed them to go there."
"It is also possible that whomever the people on the other side are only wanted them to go is because Sheppard has the Gene and Teyla has her own Gene." Weir said.
"So what do you want me to do? Go after them? If I did that I'd most likely get shot down coming back here" Rodney said as he finished his game. So far he was getting good at poker.
"Well, not only you, perhaps if you took Lorne and Ronon with you?" Weir said.
"Yeah sure the Larry, Moe and Shemp, ready to take on the Wraith" Rodney gave Weir a 'you have to be kidding me' look only the look he got back made him ask, "You want the Three Stooges to go then I take it?" Weir nodded, Rodney sighed. "OK The Three Stooges have left the City" Rodney closed his laptop and stood up, "Someone get me a tac vest."
Ronon showed up in the control room, "you called?" he asked Weir and Rodney.
"Yes yes we did, only Sheppard and Teyla have... wait a minute, when did you get back?"
"... only been gone for a half hour now, so we are going in as backup to see if they made it o the place where their kid is at?" Ronon looked to Rodney, "got back ten minutes and Sheppard and Teyla left. Why?"
"Oh well, just wondered, where's Lorne?" Rodney asked as he was given a vest and a P90.
"Here" came the answer as a Jumper lowered out of the bay above "REady to go when you are"
"Great lets go, you know the rules" then Rodney and Ronon joined Lorne in the jumper, and headed through the stargate.
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Teyla started pacing in her and Kiros cell, she had been awake for more then an hour and no sign of John. "We have to get out of here." Teyla said going to the cell door.
"That is easy to say mother, how do we get out? there is... mom? What are you doing?" Kiro started to say that there was no way out when Teyla found the controls to the door.
"You have a knife on you do you not?" Teyla asked after finding the place to cut into the door controls to open the cell so they could get out. Kiro then knew what her mother was thinking, get out, find her father, and go back home soon as possible before anything else happened. Kiro thought a few seconds before nodding, she had a knife, after all Drow rarely went around weaponless.
Teyla held a hand back to Kiro and Kiro set a rather oddly curved knife in her hand, handle first. without thinking much of the shape of the knife Teyla began cuting their way out, Kiro watched and listened for Wraith as Teyla cut a cord and the cell door opened, looking to the knife then back to Kiro Teyla asked "Where did you have this?"
"You'd be amazed as to where we keep some weapons" Kiro smiled as she drew a second knife, both blades were made the same and looked as if they were part of her waist belt. Teyla was not going to ask where the other knives were if Kiro had more then the two.
"Come on" Teyla then led the way and the pair of them left the cell. looking for John.
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After thinking over what to do John tried to move, only he couldn't, OK, I'm strapped down so... oh boy, not good, Teyla's gonna hate this. John thought after finding out he was naked under a bedsheet strapped down for who knew how long with a IV Drip in his arm. He looked around, Not many weapons around here, nothing to get free with. Now, where is, oh there are my clothes, nice of them to leave them nearby. only I can't GET to them! John stared at the ceiling, Where are you Teyla?
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Coming to a T in the hallways of the Hive Teyla looked first to the left, then the right, not knowing where to go. "Why are we stopping?" Kiro asked. They had found Teylas vest, but that was it. "I think we should run."
"Why?" Teyla asked looked around them again. Only never looking UP.
"Beacuse of that!" Kiro shouted as a Wraith Keeper dropped from the ceiling. Teyla aimed her weapon, the only wapon she had, a 9mm with a limimted number of bullets she had to do something. Moving fast Teyla grabbed the Keeper and held the gun to its throat, "Where is my husband?"
"Who?" Came the answer.
"Where is the one called Sheppard?" The gun pressed into the soft neck of the Wraith Keeper. "where is my husband?" Kiro backed up, somehow Teyla was not going by the 'Motherly Love' rulebook. Only Kiro wished she hadn't moved as the Keeper grabbed Teylas gunhand and twisted it. Teyla screamed as her armed was twisted around behind her and the gun was force into her neck. making her go silent within a nanosecond of the ice cold metal pressing against her skin.
"Who was that you were looking for?" the Keeper asked in a mirthful voice, then the Keeper screamed as Kiro grabbed it from behind and started to wrestle with it, her knife going between the two in such a way that it would strike either of them if Kiro was not careful.
Teyla watched, unsure of what to do, Kiro was strong and fast that was clear, but the Wraith must have just fed as whatever wounds were inflicted healed. without thinking Teyla turned away as the strangled grunts of a Wraith losing air came from the Keeper, then, slience.
Other then Kiros heavy breathing as she let go of the dead Wraith, giving a shove to the now dead Wraith Keeper Kiro looked to her mother, "Are you OK mom?"
"I am fine, let's find your father." With that the pair took off.
John lay in the bed, staring at the ceiling, 'well if they had ceiling tiles I'd have something to do' he thought seeing the sliming green stuff with bits of light flashing by. I wonder how they made these ships? John heard screaming, and running feet and turned his head just in time to see two people go running past, Teyla? Kiro? Hey! John yelled after the pair, "Hey! I'm in here! You passed me!"
Teyla slammed on the brakes and Kiro crashed int oher, thankfully they pair didn't fall. Turning fast on her feet Teyla called out, "John?"
"In here!"
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As Teyla and KIro neared where John was, Lorne and Rodney and Ronon were having less of a result then those up in the Hive Ship far above. "are you sure Dr. Weir wanted us to go as the Three Stooges on this?" Lorne asked for the (to McKay) trillionth time.
"Yes fact being that I know Ronon here never heard of them you have so we will have to make do with Moe and Shemp and no Larry." Rodney said as Lorne parked the jumper near were the fight happened, opening the ramp Rodney stared out at those waiting at what seemed like a house. "Well it seems those are the people we want to see." he said getting out of the Jumper and heading towards the person he thought was a male, only because of the armor he thought Arivina was a male.
Seeing Rodney head towards her home Arivina opened the door and headed back inside, and waited for the three Humans to enter. Somehow she had not the heart to ttell the three men what happened to their friends, if they were whom they were after.
Seeing Arivina enter the house Rodney started forwards only to be stopped by Lorne, "hey Sheppard might be in there" Rodney said, then he saw Lornes look, "... or it could be a trap, after you." Lorne led the way into the house, and saw only Arivina by herself, her weapons were on the table. A very small crossbow, and a pair of longswords with velvet hilts.
"You seek someone?" Arivina asked, looking over the three men.
"Yes actually three people, perhaps you have seen them?" Lorne asked lowering his weapon, Rodney had never raised his But Ronon had his sword in hand and headed for the table, he picked up the blade and started to compair the differenaces between his own blade and that of a Drow.
"You seek Kiro and her mother and father." Arivina said turning back to what looked like a huge fireplace, there was a good sized roast cooking on it. What she had said was more of a statement then a question.
"You mean you saw Col Sheppard and Teyla?" Rodney asked before Lorne gave him a 'shut up' look. Arivina didn't notic the look that Lorne gave the other man.
"Yes, I saw them, as well as their daughter. I cared for Kiro before her parents arrived for seven and ten years." she said as she removed some of her armor so she could move around the cooking area better. "She and her parents went for a walk not more then ten minutes ago." the Drow went on as the three men stared at her as she took off some of the armor, she was a well built woman to say in the lest, all Drow females were well bred. Well Rodney stared, Lorne and Ronon looked at the other.
"Were'd they go?" Ronon asked setting the longsword on the table, he perfered his own sword.
"Ask the Wraith." came the reply.
"Wraith?" Lorne asked.
Rodney though wasn't listening, as he had piucked up the crossbow out of habit at seeing it was so small. the draw weither must have been more then 10 KG for the thing was tiny, like a 9mm hand gun only with a crossbow look and feel.
Arivina spoke again as she turned to the men, her sky blue eyes and jet black skin and stark white hair made Lorne want to rasie his weapon, "Kiro took her parents on a short tour of the Underdark, only while they were gone Mathias came to here when the Wraith arrived, the Wraith stunned many but only took Kiro and her mother and father."
"OK new question." Ronon asked, his voice low, "where?" If Ronon was trying to intimidate the Drow he was not doing a very good job of it, sure he was a full head taller then Arivina though she was smaller and faster, and was a Priestess of the Ancients.
"Most likely the Wraith took them to the surface, only how they did so I donnot know." Arivina said.
"They didn't use the Stargate?" Lorne asked.
"Stargate?"
"The Ring" Ronon said somewhat correcting Lorne and somewhat answering the question.
"No, they did not come by way of the Ring." Arivina said, "they came by way of the surcae, only taking Kiro, her mother, and her father, though they put up on good fight, we helped as much as we could, though we were unable to get to your friends and their daughter before the Wraith fled with them."
"Where were they last?" Lorne asked. Arivina told them and they left.
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Teyla entered the room John was in, and almost at the same time pushed Kiro back into the hall to keep watch as the first thing Teyla saw was Johns clothes on a chair, then she saw John on the bed strapped down, "what happened to you?"
"Get me outta this!" John all but screamed seeing Teyla staring at him, after a minute he asked confused. "What? Something wrong?" he looked to Teyla, she had gone a bit pale, only enough that she was scared, and worried.
"Are you OK John?" She asked him going over to him and starting to undo the straps, she knew he was naked under the sheet because of his clothes on the chair, when John made the move to take out the IV she stopped him, "No. Don't remove that, we don't know what is inside it." then she heard voices on her radio, strange that the Wraith let her keep the thing. She heard chatter, souinding like Ronon and Rodney bickering about something. "I hear someone" she told John.
"Who?" John asked, "who do you hear?"
"Ronon, and... Dr. Mckay." Teyla looked away for a moment. then her eyes fell on the IV Packet, it was just normal blood, thankfully from what she could see.
"Can you get ahold of them?" John asked, right before there came a shout and a crash as a Wraith fell into the room dead as a doornail, a small knife sticking out of its forehead. "That had to hurt, gimmie my pants would ya?" John yanked the IV from his arm and caught the tossed colthing as Teyla went to the door to keep watch with Kiro, John grabbed his vest then headed to the foor, his shirt was torn so he wouldn't need that... for all he knew. "What's going on? And, where did you get the..."
"...where did we get these?" Kiro asked drawing yet another knife from her small ammount of armor, "you are gonna need this." She said handing the rather oddly shaped knife to John. Who took it without a question other then, "why is it kinda warm?" he got slapped, right across the face, OK John bad idea to ask THAT question. he thought as the three started off.
"Should we not try to contact Dr. McKay?" Teyla asked as the three came to a four way stop. somehow the layout of the Hive was not as confusing as most Hive Ships were.
"Go ahead" John said, "I think I lost my radio."
Teyla nodded, John might have left it behind down in the Underdark for all they knew. she got onto her radio, "Dr. McKay?"
"Teyla?" came Rodneys confused sounding voice. "Where are you?"
"We are in a Hive Ship, only I am unser of where, we just left the Medical areas." Teyla responded.
"Oh well you are in luck as we are just about to... hi guys" Rodney said seeing the three round a corner and almost run headlong into the other three. "The Three Stooges at your service at the request of Dr. Weir. Don't ask why the Three Stooges only I think Weir actually likes those guys, come to think of it they are funny."
"Rodney, before going into a good history lesson what say we meet first, This is Kiro, Kiro this is Dr. Rodney Mckay" Teyla said introducing Kiro to Rodney as Ronon had gone back to report to Weir at Lornes orders. And the fact that Lorne was down the hall aways
"Well nice to meet you, though I just did a hell of a lot of walking and need to rest my legs a bit." Rodney said finding a seat and sitting down. "Ronon headed back home to let Weir know what was going on, the locals are pretty neat, the city is the same as..."
"... Atlantis we know that already. Fact is I think we are near the main tower." John grabbed Rodney and the four took off for Lorne, who was at the door leading to the Tower below by way of a path. when they met up with Lorne John spoke up, "Maj"
"Col" came the response, "and this must be Kiro" Lorne nodded his head towards Kiro who was hanging back a bit covering their retreate. Hearing her name spoken the white haired woman turned around. "Names Maj Lorne, nice to meet you, I'd love to keep thre chat going here but we gotta go, you seem to know you way around here, you take point and lead the way down to the City..."
"Underdark" Kiro cut in.
"...Whatever, lets go I'll keep an eye on our six." Lorne said, Kiro led the way down to the Underdark. All the while a voice rang in Teyla head, soon a choice would come, and she knew it. After all, she still had to tell Halling of her marriage to John and of how it was going so far. And she knew Halling would not like it and want her to come back.