A/N: The rights to SGA are not mine. Nope, sorry for the confusion. The rights to Triple Threat are mine though. S'all good.
Suspense is an interesting key when it comes to stories, don't you think?
Chapter 18
"What do you mean, they've been kidnapped?" "They were at a grocery store when a man came up behind Nikki and put a gun to her. Another man shot two of the cashiers, and then took both her and Becca. They got into a black van with no plates. Before they left the store, Nikki managed to tell another cashier her name, that she was military, and to tell the cops."
He nodded. It made sense. "She's smart. She knew that as soon as the cops ran her name, there would be red flags and the SGC would be alerted. She knew that we'd know what happened."
"I'm at the SGC now. I'll put in a call to Atlantis and get your team here. Anyone else you want?"
John took a minute to think. "Have them send Lorne and Kira along with the team. I need the best we've got on this. Elizabeth can handle the city without a military commander for a short while. I need Lorne here."
"Got it. I'll make the call. You also may want to call your brother. We called you first. We'll have the Daedalus beam you up as soon as you're ready."
John stood up and found his boots. He quickly put them on and laced them up. "Give me ten minutes and I'll be ready."
"See you in a bit." They hung up and John quickly dialed Dave's cell phone number.
"This is Dave Sheppard."
"Dave! We have a problem…"
SGA
Dr. Weir turned to look at Chuck. "Get the Colonel's team up here, now. And get Majors Lorne and Holt as well." Chuck nodded and made the calls. O'Neill had just dialed in to fill them in on what had happened.
A few minutes later, Teyla, Ronon, Rodney, Lorne, and Kira walked into the control room.
Teyla say the look on Elizabeth's face and went to her side. "Elizabeth, what has happened?"
She looked between all of them. "You all are being sent back to Earth. Colonel Sheppard has requested that all of you meet him on the Daedalus and help in the search."
Lorne stepped forward. "What search?"
Elizabeth took a deep breath before she told them. "I'm sure you all remember John's sister-in-law, Becca?"
They nodded and waited for her to continue. "Well, we just got word from the SGC that her and Nikki have been kidnapped. The Colonel will fill you in on everything that happened."
Kira's face paled as the rest of them took it in. Lorne was the first to say anything. "When do we leave?"
"Now. Chuck, dial Earth." The gate was dialed and as the chevrons locked, the team assembled in the gate room. Teyla looked up at Elizabeth as the rest went through the gate. "Good luck and bring them home."
Teyla nodded and gave Elizabeth a small smile. "We will."
They all reached the SGC and walked down the ramp. General O'Neill and Colonel Mitchell were waiting for them at the bottom of the ramp. Jack stepped towards Lorne. "Glad you guys could make it. The Daedalus will beam us up and we'll meet the Sheppards up there."
Lorne's brow furrowed. "The Sheppards, sir?" Jack gave a small smile. "Yeah, the Colonel insisted that his brother be involved in the search and be taken to the Daedalus as well."
Jack turned towards the control room and nodded to Colonel Carter who was waiting to contact the Daedalus. "Daedalus, this is Colonel Carter. They're ready to beam up."
Mitchell, O'Neill, Kira, Lorne, Teyla, Ronon, and Rodney were all beamed up to one of the conference rooms in the Daedalus.
John and Dave were already arguing. "This is all your fault, you know that? If you hadn't let them go by themselves, they'd still be here!"
John whipped around and looked at his brother. "You're kidding me, right? They went grocery shopping. How was I supposed to know that some guys would just happen to be at the same store and want to kidnap them? I can't follow them around everywhere on the off chance that something bad will happen. Nikki is tough. She can handle herself. And as for Becca? Well, she's with Nikki and I know she'll do her best to protect her."
Dave's face was getting a little red as he got angrier and angrier. "You really think Nikki's going to be able to protect her from everything? For all you know, Nikki could be dead! Becca could be on her own, or hell, she could be dead too! And it's all your fault!"
"Like hell it's my fault! If you really think that, then you also think I should never have come to your house. I should never have tried to get to know my brother more."
"Maybe I am." John stopped his retort. He was shocked. Could his brother really mean that? He stood there staring at Dave.
"You really mean that..?" Dave was about to start yelling again, but Lorne stepped in between the two men. "Okay, that's enough! This arguing is not going help us find them. You can bicker some more after we find them. Is that clear?"
John nodded and turned back to the table he had been looking at when they'd gotten there. There was a map on it with various other pieces of paper and equipment. Dave just watched his brother with pent up energy. John had kicked himself back into Colonel mode. It had calmed Dave slightly to see his brother so determined to find them, but not enough to not want to continue the argument.
He didn't pursue it any further though. The man was right. They needed to concentrate on finding Nikki and Becca right now.
Jack smirked at Lorne. "Way to go, Major."
Lorne and Ronon joined Sheppard at the table. "What's the plan, Shep?" John looked up at his friend. "The plan right now is to find them. And then to make a plan to rescue them." Ronon nodded and looked at McKay.
Rodney sat down and pulled the laptop towards him. "Okay. Have you tried their subdurmal transmitters?"
"We just got here a couple of minutes before you did. We've only had time to find a laptop and argue."
McKay nodded and started typing away at the laptop. "Well…bad news is they're somewhere where the signal isn't allowed to broadcast. I have a few tricks up my sleeve though. I may be able to boost the signal somehow. Give me a few minutes."
Teyla walked over to John and put her hand on his shoulder. "We will find them, John. There is still hope."
John looked up at Teyla. "I know. I will find them. I have to." Teyla gave John a small smile. She squeezed his shoulder and then removed her hand. She continued to stand by his side to give him strength.
"Okay! I've got it!" John looked up at Rodney. "You found them?!"
Rodney looked up at Sheppard. "Well…no, not exactly. But I have narrowed the search area down to a fifty-mile radius!"
Ronon grunted. "That's a lot of area, McKay." "Yeah, but it's a lot better than searching the entire world, now isn't it?"
Mitchell rolled his eyes and leaned over to look at the area McKay had narrowed it down to. "Most of that land is empty. It would take a few days to search though. Any way to narrow it down the tiniest bit more? Even…to forty miles?"
McKay snorted. "You're lucky I got it down this far. There's not enough information to narrow it down anymore. If they had a cell phone or could submit a signal somehow, that'd help. But so far, we've got nothing."
SGA
Nikki and Becca had been thrown into an empty room. There was nothing in there to help them escape. There weren't even any windows.
They'd been blindfolded before they were taken out of the van so they wouldn't be able to find their way out if they did somehow escape.
Nikki looked at Becca. "Are you okay?" Becca nodded as she took in her surroundings. "Nikki, what are we going to do now?"
Nikki stood up and walked around the room. "I don't know, Becca, but I'll figure something out. I'll get you home, I promise you that."
The door opened and a different man walked in. He grabbed Nikki by the arm and pulled her out of the room. He slammed the door shut and pulled her down the hallway. "Where are you taking me?"
The man ignored her and continued to pull her through hallway after hallway. He stopped in front of a door and knocked on it. The door opened and the man who had shot the cashiers, Carl, was standing there. He gestured them in and the man holding Nikki threw her into the room. Carl shut the door and turned to look at her. She was sitting on the ground where the man had shoved her.
She looked up at him and glared. "What the hell do you want with me?"
He laughed and walked over to a table that was sitting by the door. "It's not me that wants you here. If it were up to me, you'd be dead already. No, she wants you alive. Why, I have no idea."
"She? Who's she?" "All in due time, sweetheart. For now, I'm here to grill you for some information about your little…friend." He walked over to her and pulled her up. He sat her into the chair that was in the middle of the room.
He pulled out his knife and started to play with it. "So. John Sheppard. Where is he?"
"Who?"
He laughed and leaned towards her. "Honey, I know you know him. That's his sister-in-law in the other room. You two seemed pretty friendly. So, I'm going to ask you again. Where is he?"
"Go to hell." He slashed his knife towards her and it cut her upper arm. It wasn't a deep cut, but enough to make her bleed. "You see, I'm already going there. Might as well make it worth it. Since you're not going to answer that question…how about this. How do you know him?"
She glared at him, but didn't say anything. They continued the back and forth banter for a good half hour before someone knocked on the door.
Carl walked over and opened the door. The man that had taken her from the room was standing there. "What do you want? Can't you see I'm busy?"
"It's Jean. He wants a word." Carl scowled and turned back to Nikki. "Don't move, sweetheart. I'll be back in a minute."
As soon as the door closed, she searched the room for anything she could use to escape. She found a laptop sitting in a bag on the table. She quickly pulled it out and turned it on. It needed a password. Great.
She clicked on the hint button. The hint gave her the password. "Man, these guys sure are dumber than I thought."
She typed in the password and got access to the computer. Nikki pulled up a web page and impatiently waited for it to load.
Once it did, she brought up her e-mail and sent off a quick one to Rodney. She knew that John would bring him from Atlantis to help him find them. She also knew that Rodney would have his e-mail open if he was working on a computer.
She closed everything down and closed the laptop when she heard footsteps. She shoved the computer back into the bag and just barely managed to sit back into the chair when the door opened.
SGA
McKay was typing away at his computer, trying desperately to somehow narrow down the search radius. A screen popped up on the laptop saying he had an e-mail. He almost ignored it until he realized who the sender was. His eyes widened and he opened it.
He was in the middle of reading it when Kira noticed McKay's eyes had widened. "What is it, Rodney?"
John's head snapped up and he looked over at McKay. His eyes were wide and his mouth was slightly open. He looked up and looked directly at Sheppard. "I just got an e-mail. From Nikki."
John jumped up and moved to stand behind McKay. He read the e-mail over his shoulder. Jack was getting impatient. "Well? What does it say?"
John read it aloud, "Rodney- figured you're with John. Don't know who these people are. Two names: Carl, Jean. Yes, Jean is a guy. All middle-aged. Carl mentioned a woman is in charge. Don't know who. Were blindfolded. Been interrogated about John and SGC. Only me though. Tell Dave won't let them hurt her. Someone's coming. Gotta go. Hurry."
John stood up and ran a hand through his hair. "Can you use that e-mail to narrow it down further"
Rodney started typing away again. A couple minutes later he looked up at John. "I narrowed it down to a thirty-mile radius. That's the best I can do."
John nodded. "Okay, bring up the map. Let's have a look at what we're dealing with."
McKay brought up the map and narrowed down the radius. "It looks like there's only a few areas where they could be now."
Mitchell leaned in closer and observed the search area. "That old hangar bay could be worth a look. If I were a kidnapper, that'd be a good place to bring them where no one would come looking."
John nodded. "I agree. It's isolated and run-down. No one's used that building in years." He looked up at his team. "Gear up. We're going down." He looked at Teyla and Dave. "You two are staying here. Teyla, I need you to watch this map and tell us what's going on. Dave…please don't argue with me about this. I've already lost my fiancée and my sister-in-law. I don't need to lose my brother too."
Everyone paused when he used the word fiancée, but didn't say anything. Dave simply nodded and took a seat. He put his head in his hands and didn't look at anyone. John came and stood right behind him. He put his hand on his brother's shoulder and lowered his voice so that only Dave could hear him. "I will bring her home, Dave. You have my word. You're going to see her again."
Dave looked up at his brother and saw the sheer determination in his eyes. He knew that John would do anything in his power to bring Becca back to him. All he could do was nod his head.
John looked up at his team. "Let's go."
Jack walked over to the laptop. "I'll stay here and keep the military aspect going up here. Besides, I don't think Landry would be too happy with me if I went down with you." Mitchell snorted and rolled his eyes. "Sir, I think that's an understatement."
The team geared up and got ready to be beamed down. John hit his com. "Colonel Caldwell, request for myself, my team, Colonel Mitchell, and Majors Lorne and Holt be beamed down to the coordinates McKay's about to send you."
McKay rolled his eyes, but went back to the laptop and sent the coordinates. "Request granted. Good luck, Colonel."
They were beamed down to the surface about half a mile from the hangar bay. They wanted the element of surprise.
"Half a mile? Really? Why couldn't they beam up right outside of the building?"
Ronon threw Rodney a death glare. "Shut it, McKay. You could use some exercise."
John rolled his eyes but jumped right back into Colonel mode. "Okay, listen up. When we get to the building, we scout the perimeter first. We see what we can from the outside before we go in. I'll decide once we get there what we do depending on what we find, is that clear?"
He got various "Yes, sir"'s from the team. He turned to Mitchell. "I hope you don't mind me taking this one over, Mitchell."
Cam turned and looked at him. "No, it's your mission. I'm here as a friend lending support and back-up. You're the boss."
John gave him a small smile and they continued their walk to the hangar bay. John was praying that they had found the right place and they weren't too late. He couldn't bare it if he lost Nikki. He didn't know what he'd do.
Sorry to cut it short right here. I didn't just want to put this adventure into two chapters and call it done. There has to be some suspense going. As well as some kind of excitement! So what do you think is going to happen?
Are they going to the right place? Will they find them in time? Who is behind all of this? How will John react when he finds who is responsible? So many questions to answer!
Review and ask them! Who knows..maybe I'll get it updated a little quicker if I get some reviews! =D Hope you're enjoying so far!