Fic: Stjerneportalen (5/8)
Title: Stjerneportalen - Chapter 05 (Første Oppdrag)
Author:
mirrored_illusions aka
3am_moonlight
Fandom: Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV), Stargate Atlantis (TV)
Rating / Timeline: Teen & Up. / Post BtVS, ca. S05 of SGA.
Characters: Buffy Summers, John Sheppard, Teyla Emmagan, Ronon Dex, Rodney McKay, Elizabeth Weir, Evan Lorne, Laura Cadman.
WC: 9, 713 / Complete.
Disclaimer: BtVS belongs to Joss Whedon, the Stargate franchise is the property of whoever holds the copyright.
Other links: AO3 | FF | TtH
A/N 1: Not beta read. Sorry.
A/N 2: This was written for the 2016 Fic-A-Day Challenge over at TwistedShorts on LJ / TtHFanfic.org.
- I'm finally reposting this fic to DW and LJ; it only took two months! Oops?
A/N 3: ‘Stjerneportalen’ is simply a Norwegian translation of ‘the stargate’. ‘Første oppdrag’ means ‘first mission’.
Major Lorne, whose first name had turned out to be Evan, lead a team consisting of two Marines and an Astrophysicist. It soon became apparent that one of the Marines was a cheerful young woman named Laura Cadman, who was also an explosives specialist. She was upbeat and easy to talk to, and the fact that she was so comfortable with violence was definitely plus even if it was mostly of the bomb variety. Buffy mentally put her down as someone to at the very least be on friendly terms with if nothing else. Having female friends and allies who knew how to take care of themselves and fight was always good.
She had met Major Lorne’s team the day before the mission, but she’d first had a one on one conversation with Lorne in his office the day after her talk with Elizabeth. In the meeting he had outlined how the Atlantis Expedition conducted their assignments to other worlds in the Pegasus Galaxy, what was expected of her both in Atlantis and off world, she was also given a list of the Expedition's objectives and their priorities. It was followed by a trip to the shooting range where she had to prove she was proficient in various guns and other projectile weapons. While she still did not like guns she also understood that it was unavoidable considering this was a military expedition and the Wraith weren’t exactly up for cuddling. The human population wasn’t necessarily all that friendly either. Still, she much preferred her sharp and shiny weapons, especially her Scythe.
He had skipped the hand-to-hand test since he had already seen her sparr with both Ronon and Teyla several times. To Buffy’s amusement Teyla had somehow managed to talk him into sparring with her as well, despite his repeated polite rejections. He had naturally lost but he had been graceful about it. Which she had approved of as there were too many men out there who were unable to handle being bested by a woman.
Ronon had also taken his losses well, and had taken it a step further and asked for a trade: he’d teach her the fighting techniques of his homeworld in exchange for her teaching him the fighting techniques of her reality/dimension. Or as he simply said; your world. Buffy had accepted, both for the new skills she would acquire thanks to this deal, but also because she genuinely wanted to spend time with this warrior and find out if he was someone worth getting to know a lot better or not.
The meeting with the team had been nice. It wasn’t a huge success but it wasn’t a disaster either. Captain Cadman had been the most open and unreserved, while her fellow Marine, Lt. Josh McKinnon, had been a little sceptical but cordial none the less. The team’s resident scientist, Dr. Werner Draum, had spent most of his time tapping away on his portable computer, much like Dr. McKay had during her interrogation on her first day in the city.
Regardless, the five of them were now on a supposedly abandoned planet. Another team had checked it out a few weeks before, but Elizabeth had instituted a standard procedure that the archeological teams were not allowed off world unless the planet in question had been thoroughly checked out for any and all kinds of problems. In off world scenarios ‘problems’ could be anything from hostile natives, to Wraith, to dodgy/Ancient technology, to dangerous woods, underbrush, mountains, rocks, the local wildlife, and anything and everything inbetween.
The planet they were currently on had some old ruins on it believed to be of Ancient origin. The last team had found some weak energy readings in the remnants of what appeared to be a small village, but had been unable to locate precisely where it came from. Hence the main reason they were there, other than give a secondary stamp of approval for the geek squad to come and do their thing. Major Lorne took Lt. McKinnon with him to guard Dr. Draum while he made an attempt to track down the elusive signal.
Meanwhile it was up to Buffy and Captain Cadman to check the perimeter. She extended her senses as they began walking; first she tuned out Cadman beside her, then the low chatter between Lorne, McKinnon, and Draum, then she identified each sound one by one and then eliminated them if she believed them to be benign. A few were put in the ‘wait and see’ box, but none came up as ‘dangerous’. In other words there were no other humans in the vicinity, no Wraith, and as far as she could tell there were no other predators around who posted a danger to her temporary team.
A visual scan of the area turned up more or less the same thing, as did her supernatural/danger sense. Which was good, at least for now.
Six hours later and she suddenly heard the sound of hooves coming towards their general direction. In that time Cadman and McKinnon had switched places four times, but at the moment she was walking around the perimeter with Lorne. He’d turned out to be a nice enough guy, but with a good sense of humor and a penchant for sarcasm. As they walked into the ruins again she kept an ear out for whatever animals which were coming towards them. It was probably two or three of them, but they sounded heavy and they moved a lot faster than she expected.
Nearly ten minutes later and three unicorns stepped through the nearby foliage. Or rather they looked like unicorns before her brain caught up to the fact that they were green. Their coat was a sea foam shade of green and their mane was a dark shade of moss. In the middle of each of their foreheads they had a bright orange horn. An eye-watering shade of orange. Buffy blinked and stared at the strange horse-like animals for several minutes before she realised that one of them was charging Lt. McKinnon and another was charging towards Major Lorne. The third seemed content to simply watch from the treeline.
In a burst of Slayer speed she managed to get Lorne out of the way of the charging beast, but McKinnon was not as lucky and got a horn through the side of his body. Buffy added even more speed and caught up to the Lieutenant but not before the equine managed to step on him. She took a quick look at the wound while Lorne and Cadman scared the unicorn-like animals away with gunfire. Dr. Draum had hidden in one of the more intact buildings as soon as he saw the animals galloping towards their team. Buffy put her field first aid training to good use before picking the nearly unconscious man up off the ground and began running towards the Stargate.
Before she gained too much speed she yelled over her shoulder, “Wait five minutes and then send your code through to the city. Contact me when it’s open. Don’t hesitate.” And then she was gone.
When she finally reached the DHD she was mindful of the injured man in her arms as she dialled. It was a little tricky and McKinnon was loosing a lot of blood. Thankfully she didn’t have to wait long for Lorne to give her the go ahead.
“The door is open and medical is on it’s way.”
She didn’t reply, moving her hand up to her earpiece would’ve caused unnecessary pain and discomfort to McKinnon, and simply ran into the water like surface. Someone on the other side would no doubt report back to him that she and her precious cargo had made it safely to the city. On the other side she didn’t wait for the medical personnel to arrive and just ran towards the infirmary. Dr. Beckett, or rather his clone as she had overheard someone call him, met her about two thirds of the way there. She gently put the man on the stretcher they brought with them and then moved out of the way as the doctor and nurses took over.
She’d done all she could for him, all that was left to do now was wait. Wait for news if he would make it, and wait for Elizabeth to be notified and then come down to the infirmary corridor to ask her questions. And of course wait for the rest of the team to return to the city.
Author:
mirrored_illusions aka
3am_moonlight
Fandom: Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV), Stargate Atlantis (TV)
Rating / Timeline: Teen & Up. / Post BtVS, ca. S05 of SGA.
Characters: Buffy Summers, John Sheppard, Teyla Emmagan, Ronon Dex, Rodney McKay, Elizabeth Weir, Evan Lorne, Laura Cadman.
WC: 9, 713 / Complete.
Disclaimer: BtVS belongs to Joss Whedon, the Stargate franchise is the property of whoever holds the copyright.
Other links: AO3 | FF | TtH
A/N 1: Not beta read. Sorry.
A/N 2: This was written for the 2016 Fic-A-Day Challenge over at TwistedShorts on LJ / TtHFanfic.org.
- I'm finally reposting this fic to DW and LJ; it only took two months! Oops?
A/N 3: ‘Stjerneportalen’ is simply a Norwegian translation of ‘the stargate’. ‘Første oppdrag’ means ‘first mission’.
Major Lorne, whose first name had turned out to be Evan, lead a team consisting of two Marines and an Astrophysicist. It soon became apparent that one of the Marines was a cheerful young woman named Laura Cadman, who was also an explosives specialist. She was upbeat and easy to talk to, and the fact that she was so comfortable with violence was definitely plus even if it was mostly of the bomb variety. Buffy mentally put her down as someone to at the very least be on friendly terms with if nothing else. Having female friends and allies who knew how to take care of themselves and fight was always good.
She had met Major Lorne’s team the day before the mission, but she’d first had a one on one conversation with Lorne in his office the day after her talk with Elizabeth. In the meeting he had outlined how the Atlantis Expedition conducted their assignments to other worlds in the Pegasus Galaxy, what was expected of her both in Atlantis and off world, she was also given a list of the Expedition's objectives and their priorities. It was followed by a trip to the shooting range where she had to prove she was proficient in various guns and other projectile weapons. While she still did not like guns she also understood that it was unavoidable considering this was a military expedition and the Wraith weren’t exactly up for cuddling. The human population wasn’t necessarily all that friendly either. Still, she much preferred her sharp and shiny weapons, especially her Scythe.
He had skipped the hand-to-hand test since he had already seen her sparr with both Ronon and Teyla several times. To Buffy’s amusement Teyla had somehow managed to talk him into sparring with her as well, despite his repeated polite rejections. He had naturally lost but he had been graceful about it. Which she had approved of as there were too many men out there who were unable to handle being bested by a woman.
Ronon had also taken his losses well, and had taken it a step further and asked for a trade: he’d teach her the fighting techniques of his homeworld in exchange for her teaching him the fighting techniques of her reality/dimension. Or as he simply said; your world. Buffy had accepted, both for the new skills she would acquire thanks to this deal, but also because she genuinely wanted to spend time with this warrior and find out if he was someone worth getting to know a lot better or not.
The meeting with the team had been nice. It wasn’t a huge success but it wasn’t a disaster either. Captain Cadman had been the most open and unreserved, while her fellow Marine, Lt. Josh McKinnon, had been a little sceptical but cordial none the less. The team’s resident scientist, Dr. Werner Draum, had spent most of his time tapping away on his portable computer, much like Dr. McKay had during her interrogation on her first day in the city.
Regardless, the five of them were now on a supposedly abandoned planet. Another team had checked it out a few weeks before, but Elizabeth had instituted a standard procedure that the archeological teams were not allowed off world unless the planet in question had been thoroughly checked out for any and all kinds of problems. In off world scenarios ‘problems’ could be anything from hostile natives, to Wraith, to dodgy/Ancient technology, to dangerous woods, underbrush, mountains, rocks, the local wildlife, and anything and everything inbetween.
The planet they were currently on had some old ruins on it believed to be of Ancient origin. The last team had found some weak energy readings in the remnants of what appeared to be a small village, but had been unable to locate precisely where it came from. Hence the main reason they were there, other than give a secondary stamp of approval for the geek squad to come and do their thing. Major Lorne took Lt. McKinnon with him to guard Dr. Draum while he made an attempt to track down the elusive signal.
Meanwhile it was up to Buffy and Captain Cadman to check the perimeter. She extended her senses as they began walking; first she tuned out Cadman beside her, then the low chatter between Lorne, McKinnon, and Draum, then she identified each sound one by one and then eliminated them if she believed them to be benign. A few were put in the ‘wait and see’ box, but none came up as ‘dangerous’. In other words there were no other humans in the vicinity, no Wraith, and as far as she could tell there were no other predators around who posted a danger to her temporary team.
A visual scan of the area turned up more or less the same thing, as did her supernatural/danger sense. Which was good, at least for now.
Six hours later and she suddenly heard the sound of hooves coming towards their general direction. In that time Cadman and McKinnon had switched places four times, but at the moment she was walking around the perimeter with Lorne. He’d turned out to be a nice enough guy, but with a good sense of humor and a penchant for sarcasm. As they walked into the ruins again she kept an ear out for whatever animals which were coming towards them. It was probably two or three of them, but they sounded heavy and they moved a lot faster than she expected.
Nearly ten minutes later and three unicorns stepped through the nearby foliage. Or rather they looked like unicorns before her brain caught up to the fact that they were green. Their coat was a sea foam shade of green and their mane was a dark shade of moss. In the middle of each of their foreheads they had a bright orange horn. An eye-watering shade of orange. Buffy blinked and stared at the strange horse-like animals for several minutes before she realised that one of them was charging Lt. McKinnon and another was charging towards Major Lorne. The third seemed content to simply watch from the treeline.
In a burst of Slayer speed she managed to get Lorne out of the way of the charging beast, but McKinnon was not as lucky and got a horn through the side of his body. Buffy added even more speed and caught up to the Lieutenant but not before the equine managed to step on him. She took a quick look at the wound while Lorne and Cadman scared the unicorn-like animals away with gunfire. Dr. Draum had hidden in one of the more intact buildings as soon as he saw the animals galloping towards their team. Buffy put her field first aid training to good use before picking the nearly unconscious man up off the ground and began running towards the Stargate.
Before she gained too much speed she yelled over her shoulder, “Wait five minutes and then send your code through to the city. Contact me when it’s open. Don’t hesitate.” And then she was gone.
When she finally reached the DHD she was mindful of the injured man in her arms as she dialled. It was a little tricky and McKinnon was loosing a lot of blood. Thankfully she didn’t have to wait long for Lorne to give her the go ahead.
“The door is open and medical is on it’s way.”
She didn’t reply, moving her hand up to her earpiece would’ve caused unnecessary pain and discomfort to McKinnon, and simply ran into the water like surface. Someone on the other side would no doubt report back to him that she and her precious cargo had made it safely to the city. On the other side she didn’t wait for the medical personnel to arrive and just ran towards the infirmary. Dr. Beckett, or rather his clone as she had overheard someone call him, met her about two thirds of the way there. She gently put the man on the stretcher they brought with them and then moved out of the way as the doctor and nurses took over.
She’d done all she could for him, all that was left to do now was wait. Wait for news if he would make it, and wait for Elizabeth to be notified and then come down to the infirmary corridor to ask her questions. And of course wait for the rest of the team to return to the city.