Part 2. Ok, I don't know how I did on the explanations, and like Elizabeth, a lot of it went over my head, so... Let me know what you think?

Due to popular demand, I'm gonna post this chapter early.

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Part 2 of The Hunt is up, I hope it's not too disappointing. Again, I tried to explain it, but I think a lot of it went over my head. :S This...is why I'm not an astrophysicist. Rodney! A little help over here!

RM (Rodney McKay): (Shows Rodney running from brainwashed marines) "I'm a little busy right now!"

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(John and Teyla, John's POV)

Walking down another hall, I flashed the light of my P90 into two more labs, frowning to find several computers hooked up and activated, but no one in the rooms. "This is very weird."

I felt a light weight against my arm and turned to find Teyla standing next to me, leaning over me a little as she looked through the doorway. "Yes, I have never seen anything like this. It is as if they just abandoned their work." Walking carefully into the room, she flashed her light around as she approached one of the computer. "And this is odd, as well."

I followed her in, my curiosity peaked by her comment. "What's that?"

The screen showed strange energy readings. There were spikes now and then, and looking up, I realized the computers were hooked up to a small spherical shaped object.

Typing on the keyboard, Teyla frowned. "It appears this was an object that just showed up in the ocean around Atlantis."

"You know how to work these…scanners?"

She shook her head. "No, but there was an open log at the bottom of the screen. It says they ran scans on the object and found it released radiation, but since the levels seemed safe at the time, they brought it to this lab and began running all kinds of scans." Her eyes narrowed as she hit a button and the document on the screen flipped to more writing. "Once they began running scans, the level of radiation spiked, and…" Stopping, she turned to me. "It just leaves off there."

"I really don't like this." Tapping my ear, I turned to the doorway and raised my P90 as I went to stand to one side of it. "Rodney, do you read?"

Rodney's panting voice came over the line. "We-We're here." P90 fire rang out in the background and Rodney went quiet a moment. "Sorry, we're a little busy." His voice was heavily pained.

"What the hell's going on?!"

"We found some of the marines."

"And they're firing on you?!"

"My response, exactly. They're not talking to us, but from what I can tell, they seem to think we're invaders of some kind."

"Maybe it has to do with what we found in the lab."

"You…found something?"

Rolling my eyes, I sighed and nodded. "Yeah, you'd better get to the north lab. We've found a strange object, and I think it may be what's effecting the others." Turning back to Teyla, I watched as she carefully typed on the computer. "And the sooner we find out what that is, the sooner we can fix this."

"Getting to your location might be kind of difficult, there's a bunch of marines shooting at us, remember?"

"You'd never let me forget. Look you need to find a way, I dunno how to work this stuff."

"Obviously. Ok, we'll figure…something out."

"Good. And put a hurry on it. Sheppard out."

When I disconnected the radio, I became aware of the sound of feet approaching. They were in the hall, but closing in on our location.

"Teyla." Hissing at her, I raised my P90, before lowering it and grabbing a stunner. Lucky we had two in the jumper. Nodding to her, I ducked my head out around the corner, and felt my eyes widen. There, walking down the hallway, were Elizabeth and Zelenka. Both were armed, which was unusual in itself, and they were talking.

"So you think you can figure out a way to turn off the device? It's already drawn four of them, we can't risk it drawing any more."

Zelenka nodded with a frown. "Did we find the four? I think I can shut it down, but there is no telling what that will do."

"They're still wandering around. Team Five had two of them pinned, but I just received notice that they managed to escape them. They're chasing them, but it looks like those two are on their way here."

Frowning, I ducked back around the corner and looked at Teyla, finding her staring back in confusion. Looking to the said object, I wondered if we should hide. If they were going to shut it down, that could help us, right? Shaking my head, I turned back and raised my stunner, signaling to Teyla to do the same.

We took up positions on either side of the door, and waited. It didn't take long. Still deep in conversation, Elizabeth and Radek walked into the room, stopping and raising their hands to their guns quickly, as they spotted us. Unfortunately for them, we'd already targeted them with our stunners.

"Ok, take a step forward, slowly." I said, as I reached out and took Elizabeth's hand gun. "We have a few questions for you."

"I think it's only fair to let you know we won't talk." Her tone was grim. "I don't know who you are, or what you want, but our people will come for us."

"Don't know who we are?" I turned to Teyla, staring at her in hope she'd understand my unasked question, but she shook her head. "Elizabeth, it's us." I could tell from the look on her face that she didn't have any idea what I was talking about. "It's me, Lieutenant Colonel John Sheppard, and this is Teyla Emmagan, of the Athosian people."

Her face remained grim and disbelieving.

"John!"

Spinning in place, I raised the stunner as Rodney and Ronon ran into the room. Suddenly, I heard Teyla calling my name in alarm, and movement, and before I could turn back, I felt a sharp pain in my side. Twisting my body, and trying not to pass out from the pain, I hissed and grabbed the hand that held the knife hilt, pulling it out and turning to find Elizabeth's grimly triumphant face as she glared at me.

"Oh my god! Elizabeth!!"

Her eyes narrowed and she turned her head to Rodney. "How do you know my name?! Who the hell are you?!"

"She doesn't recognize us." I explained to them through gritted teeth. I gestured with my head to the computer and gave him a look. "Figure out what the hell that thing is and turn it off!" Gasping in pain, I took a moment and closed my eyes, knowing Ronon could watch over both Radek and Elizabeth. The pain that washed through me was intense. And for a moment I really felt like kicking myself. It's Elizabeth. I should have known she'd have more than just a hand gun on her.

"Turn it…" Elizabeth's eyes turned confused and suspicious. "That's what we were planning to do."

"Yeah, well, I don't wanna risk you blowing up Atlantis. Let's do this right." Rodney muttered as he walked over to the computer. "Hmm…" Typing quickly, a number of commands, he frowned. "Well no wonder it spiked. You were putting power into it without making sure our power wouldn't have any negative effects on the, uh…" He looked at the sphere. "That."

"Yes, I know. We did run scans, but nothing showed up. We thought it harmless." Zelenka finally spoke up, glaring distrustfully at him. "The power just surged, we still don't know why."

Elizabeth stayed quiet, but watched everything through narrowed eyes.

Hissing in pain, I stood against the door as Ronon closed it and blasted the sensor with his blaster. Teyla walked over quietly, and checked the injury before taking a field dressing and placing it over the wound. "It is not deep, but you should rest." She stated quietly.

I just nodded, trying to blink back the tears in my eyes as the wound stung and burned. Taking a moment to look at the sphere, I noticed it seemed like a plain old silver colored metalic orb of some kind. There was a few tiny openings, where th computers were plugged in to it, but that's about it. It wasn't really all that impressive, but it did hum quietly and it glowed slightly.

"Why are you doing this?" Elizabeth didn't seem so much suspicious as she was confused, now.

Looking at her, I sighed. "We're friends, Elizabeth." I winced and took a deep breath.

"Ok, it looks like there was a radiation that affected everyone's memory. It was caused by a mixture of the energies in that thing, and the power they tried to run through it." Rodney was frowning deeply. "And, of course, they made a mistake. The combination caused errors in the plan. It was to duplicate their memories, in case anyone ever got amnesia, this would hold the memories."

Radek walked over and looked at the screen. "I see. Like a memory library, sorted by person."

"Yes, that's right. And the only limit to it's powers is the shield generated by Atlantis, which seems to jam the radiation somewhat. It pretty much got everyone with one go. Only, because we weren't here, our memories weren't stored. The problem is because our memories weren't stored, and the error in the machine…" He shot Radek a look. "We were apparently forgotten. Not erased, I can still find the memories, but the radiation is affecting the brain and blocking the memories. It's like, the machine considered us a malfunction. A mistake, and not real, despite how many people knew us, so it blocked the memories of us." Typing some more, he nodded and pointed to the screen. "I can reverse the effects and shut down the power, just give me a few minutes."

"You, in the lab!"

"Well, you'd better hurry, Rodney. I think we just ran out of time." I muttered, hissing in pain as I clutched my side and stood in against the side of the closed door. My side was still throbbing, and I felt dizzy, but I raised the stunner, refusing to rely on the P90, and kept half my attention on the doorway.

"We know you have two of our people! Release them, and we may go easy on you!"

Frowning for a moment, I rolled my eyes. "Great, it's Bates."

"You say we should…know you." Elizabeth looked really lost and was massaging her temples as though she had a headache. "A lot of this is over my head, but I do know I don't recognize you."

Hearing beeping sounds, I turned back to the door, realizing they were trying to initiate the locking mechanism and get the door open. Right about now, I was glad that Ronon blasted the lock, it would make it that much harder for them to get in.

Still.. "Rodney, any time now would be great."

"Ok, I think I've got it."

The door panel beeped loudly and slid open.

Well, so much for that idea. "We're out of time!" Grabbing Elizabeth's hand, I pulled her behind a console and pushed her down, as Teyla pushed Radek down beside her. Raising the stunner, I fired it out the now open door, and watched as two marines dropped. Ronon was sitting behind a second console and jumped up to fire his blaster before collapsing down as they fired P90s back.

Bullets bounced off the metal consoles, and some landed in the ground next to my feet, causing me to jump and scrunch myself up into a smaller ball, but still trying to stay in a position that would allow me to move.

Turning to look over my shoulder, I watched as Rodney crouched with the computer he was working on. Elizabeth was looking at the stunner in my hand, and the one in Teyla's. Her face was totally confused now, and almost unsure as her gaze turned to the wound in my side, she'd caused.

"Ok, I've reversed it. It should take effect any moment!" Rodney called as he typed quickly. "And I'm in the process of shutting it down!"

Suddenly, the firing ceased and several groans were heard. Elizabeth clutched at her head, as her face scrunched up in pain, and she groaned. As did Radek. Then, they all collapsed.

"Elizabeth!" Reaching out, I winced and hissed as my side pulled, and carefully put my fingers to the side of her neck. Relaxing as I realized she still had a steady pulse, I checked Radek and nodded in relief. "They're ok."

Ronon got up and walked over to the downed marines, checking their pulses. "These guys are ok, too." he called slightly.

"Well…" Looking around, Rodney looked at the object as it hummed and the faint light it was giving off, slowly faded away. After a moment, it sat on the table, dull and lifeless. "That's that. It's powered down, and I've disconnected the power from this computer." Getting up, he sighed and went over to another. "I'll finish getting the rest of these computers disconnected." He reached out with both hands and suddenly winced.

"Rodney...?"

Watching as he carefully peeled back his sleeve and showed a nasty red gash where he'd been hurt, I watched as his face paled and his eyes widened. Closing them, he carefully put the sleeve back in place and braced himself on the console. "On second thought, I'd better go to the infirmary."

"And I'll head to the control room." Standing up, I winced again and closed my eyes as the pain ran right through my body, turning into a dizzy spell as I struggled to stay upright. "On second though...maybe I'll just go to the infirmary, too, and wait for Carson." I muttered as I walked slowly out of the room. "Yeah, that's what I'll do. And then, maybe I'll sleep for a week, or two."

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