It's Far From Over: chapter 8
Title: It’s Far From Over
Rating: M
Genre: crossover, sci-fi, fantasy, action, adventure, romance, mostly het
Fandoms: Animorphs, Army Wives, BTVS, Doctor Who, Eureka, Hawaii Five-0, Legend of the Seeker, NCIS LA, Primeval, SG-1, SGA, SGU, Supernatural, Torchwood, Veronica Mars & Warehouse 13 (set mainly in the Stargateverse)
Characters: Aiden Ford, Allison Blake, Amy Pond, Bobby Singer, Cameron Mitchell, Cara Mason, Castiel, Chase Moran, Chin Ho Kelly, Chloe Armstrong, Claudia Donovan, Claudia Joy Holden, Daniel Jackson, Danny Williams, Dean Winchester, Denise Sherwood, Douglas Fargo, Eli Wallace, Elizabeth Weir, Evan Lorne, Eric Beale, Everett Young, Faith Lehane, Frank Sherwood, G. Callen, Grace Monroe, AU!Gwen Cooper, Helena G. Wells, Henry Deacon, Hetty Lange, Hilary Becker, Holly Marten, Jack Carter, Jack Harkness, Jack O'Neill, clone!Jack O’Neill, Jennifer Keller, Jenny, Jo Lupo, Kensi Blye, AU!Jo Harvelle, John Sheppard, Kahlan Amnell, Kono Kalakaua, Laura Cadman, Lori Weston, Martha Jones, Marty Deeks, Matthew Scott, Mickey Smith, Myka Bering, Nell Jones, Rachel Berenson, Richard Cypher, Riley Finn, River Song, Rodney McKay, Ronon Dex, Rory Pond, Rose Tyler, Roxy LeBlanc, Sally Sparrow, Sam Carter, Sam Hanna, Sam Winchester, Stephen Hart, Steve McGarrett, Tamara Johansen, Teal'c, Teyla Emmagan, the Doctor (10.5 & 11), Trevor LeBlanc, Vala Mal Doran, Veronica Mars, Willow Rosenberg, Zane Donovan, Zeddicus Zu'l Zorander + some minor characters
Pairings: Faith/Riley, Elizabeth/John, Sam/Jack O., AU!Gwen/Jack H., TJ/Cam, Martha/Becker, Rachel/Stephen, Lori/Steve, Kahlan/Richard, Cara/Ronon, Vala/Daniel, Kensi/Deeks, Cadman/Danny, Claudia/Eli, Veronica/Dean, Teyla/Teal’c, River/11, Rose/10.5, Jennifer/Rodney, Nell/Eric, Kono/Callen, Roxy/Trevor, Allison/Jack, Jo/Zane, Claudia Joy/Michael, Pamela/Chase, Denise/Frank, Amy/Rory, Chloe/Matthew, AU!Jo/clone!Jack O., Jenny/Ford, Sally/Mickey, Malia/Chin, Grace/Henry, Willow/Sam, past Willow/Kennedy
Summary: After an attack on the SGC the Stargate Program finds out about the supernatural and a secret plan of an old enemy who is set on taking over the Earth. Greatly weakened in numbers the Stargate Program begins to recruit while starting to hunt down their enemy.
Disclaimer: I don’t own any of the characters or fandoms. I wish I did… *g* I don’t make any money with this! I’m just writing the story for fun and hope someone else will enjoy it, too.
Spoiler Warnings: all of Animorphs, season 1-5 of Army Wives, all BTVS & ATS seasons (no Comics), season 1-6 of New Who, all of Eureka, season 1+2 of Hawaii Five-0 (2010), all of Legend of the Seeker, season 1-3 of NCIS LA, season 1-5 of Primeval, all of Stargate, season 1-6 of Supernatural, season 1-3 of Torchwood, all of Veronica Mars, season 1-3 of Warehouse 13
Other Warnings: some characters deaths (but no one listed under characters)
I’m German and my English isn’t and probably never will be perfect. I hope I don’t make too many mistakes. Feel free to point out errors so I can learn and improve.
Thanks again to my awesome beta landiana24 for betaing this! :-)
Story Introduction with character info, etc *~*~* Story Master Post *~*~* Fanart (new and older ones that fit this story)
Fandoms & Characters in this chapter:
BTVS: Faith Lehane, Riley Finn
Hawaii Five-0: Chin Ho Kelly, Danny Williams, Kono Kalakaua, Lori Weston, Steve McGarrett
NCIS LA: G. Callen, Kensy Blye, Marty Deeks, Sam Hanna
Primeval: Becker
Stargateverse: Daniel Jackson, clone!Jack O'Neill, Laura Cadman, Radek Zelenka, Sam Carter, Vala Mal Doran
Whoverse: Jack Harkness, Martha Jones, Mickey Smith, Sally Sparrow
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chapter 8: Help
Day 4 - Atlantis - afternoon - recruits team 2:
“Can you open the door from your side?” Colonel Jack O’Neill called.
“No,” Daniel answered from the other side of the door. “The opening mechanism isn’t working.”
“Can you override it?” Jack wanted to know.
“Do I look like Sam?” Daniel asked sarcastically.
“Just try, you’ve probably seen Sam do it about a thousand times.”
Daniel snorted. “So have you. Why don’t you try it?” he suggested, but started to take off the door panel’s outer hull anyway.
“Let Mickey have a look at it. He’s good with computers and technology,” Martha suggested and pushed him forward while trying to ignore the icy water that was almost up to her knees by now.
Daniel immediately stepped aside. “Any ideas?”
Mickey stared at the inside of the panel, narrowing his eyes. “Not really. I’ve never seen anything like this,” he admitted.
Hearing the exchange of the others Becker cursed and hit the wall, then tried to pry the doors open with his hands, but they didn’t move even a tiny bit. This could not be happening! They weren’t even officially part of the Stargate Program, hadn’t even gone on a real mission yet and Martha was already in mortal danger! If they didn’t get them out of there the whole corridor would probably flood and they’d drown.
“Maybe we should try another way,” Sally suggested. Staying in this corridor didn’t seem like a good idea to her.
“I don’t think there is one,” Daniel said. “The door closed on its own, which probably means the cities safety measures have been activated and shut the flooding parts of the city off to keep the rest of it safe.” He sighed, knowing that the Hammond had left already, which meant that they didn’t have beaming technology at the moment. He really had to suggest installing beaming technology in Atlantis, if he made it out of here. No, not if, when… Sam and the others would find a way to save them, he had to believe that!
“Great,” Mickey muttered sarcastically while taking a closer look at the inside of the panel. He had to open that door, but he had no idea how. This technology looked pretty alien to him. “We really could use some help right about now,” Mickey added glancing at Martha. The alien kind of help, he added in thoughts. “You do have your phone with you, right?”
“Sure,” Martha said pulling it out. She never went anywhere without it.
“I’m pretty sure that whatever is interfering with our radios is interfering with phones, too,” Daniel said. “But feel free to try anyway.” He wasn’t about to die because he was too stupid to try a phone.
Martha smirked slightly. “A simple technical malfunction won’t stop my phone. Unless powerful aliens are blocking all signals this phone works anywhere in time and space, and it never breaks down.” That said she called the Doctor.
Daniel raised an eyebrow at that, but decided that he could find out what exactly she meant later.
“It’s ringing,” Martha informed them. And ringing, she added in thoughts. Could the Doctor never answer his phone right away? Nope, apparently not, she thought cursing slightly as she only got the mail box.
“Doctor, it’s Martha. We’re in a bit of trouble… the ‘being stuck in a flooding locked place’ kind of trouble,” she said and then quickly stated the date and time. It didn’t really matter when the Doctor heard her message; the important thing was that he knew when to arrive here. Disconnecting the call she looked around, waiting. Unfortunately there was no breeze coming out of nowhere combined with a familiar noise.
“Who did you just call?” Daniel asked, curious after her cryptic message. That sounded like whatever kind of Doctor she called already knew where she was. “No, forget that and give me the phone.” He had to call Sam. If anyone could get them out of here it was her. Questions could wait until later. The water was rising rapidly after all.
Martha didn’t hesitate and handed the phone over. She was sure that the Doctor would come, but occasionally something did go wrong and he arrived at the wrong time and then couldn’t go back because that would mess up timelines. Or if something was a fixed point in time he couldn’t interfere. She wasn’t about to risk all their lives by not handing over her phone.
Daniel let out a sigh of relief when he heard Sam’s voice.
“Sam, it’s Daniel.”
“Daniel? Thank god you’re okay. I was worried when we couldn’t reach any of you…”
“Okay is a little exaggerated,” Daniel said interrupting her. “We’re stuck in a flooding part of the city. Please tell me you already knew that and have a plan to get us out of here.”
“Well, I knew parts of the city are flooding and that Atlantis shut them off. But I’m working on another problem myself. An ancient device was damaged in the explosion and is… Never mind, you don’t need to know that. I’ll put you through to the control room. I’m sure they are working on getting you out already.”
Daniel sighed, but knew that whatever Sam was working on right now had to be very important. It didn’t take long and he was talking to Amelia Banks, then Radek Zelenka.
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“What do you mean you can’t tell me how to open the damn door?” Daniel asked a bit later.
“Of course I could tell you that,” Zelenka answered. “But Atlantis has gone into lockdown for the flooding areas. There is no way to open that door from where you are. I’m sorry.”
“But you can open it from the control room?”
“We are working on it.”
“Great,” Daniel muttered dryly. “Work faster!”
“I will get back to you as soon as we found a way to get you out of there, Dr. Jackson,” Zelenka promised.
Daniel cursed and disconnected the call. “They are working on it,” he said looking at the others.
That didn’t sound too promising, Martha thought. Where the hell was the Doctor? This couldn’t really be a fixed point in time, could it? She didn’t want to die here. Looking down at the water that was now up to her stomach she shivered slightly.
“We’re not dying here,” she said defiantly and snatched her phone back. There was one more call she could make. There might be certain rules the Doctor couldn’t break, but others sure as hell could.
“Who are you calling now?” Mickey wanted to know.
“An old friend,” Martha said with a smirk. A very old friend.
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A planet somewhere in the universe:
Captain Jack Harkness sat at a bar, gulping down a drink. Grimacing he placed the glass back down. That really was disgusting.
“What the hell did you put in there?” he asked the barkeeper. Then his phone rang. Startled he rummaged through his coat’s pockets and fished the phone out. He hadn’t used the thing in years, not since he left Earth after the incident with the 456 and the deaths of Ianto and his grandson. He sighed, pushing that thought away as quickly as possible. For a moment he just stared at the phone, wondering if he should pick up. Even after years he still wasn’t really in the mood to go back to Earth, but he knew that there weren’t a lot of people who could call him while he was on another planet, and those people wouldn’t call unless it was important. Without bothering to check who called he picked up.
“Hello?”
“Jack, thank god! I almost thought you wouldn’t pick up either.”
“Martha, what’s wrong?” he asked quickly, not liking the tone of her voice.
“We’re stuck in a flooding locked place and really could use some help getting out of here. Please tell me that vortex manipulator of yours is working.”
“What about the Doctor?” Jack asked before adding: “Never mind. Where and when?” If the Doctor could help Martha wouldn’t have called him.
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Day 4 - Atlantis - afternoon - recruits team 2:
Daniel watched Martha as she talked on her phone while trying to ignore Jack O’Neill’s questions from the other side of the locked door. He was really curious about Martha now. It sounded like whoever she spoke to agreed to help, but who could she possibly be talking to that could get them out of here? Not a lot of people could get into Atlantis or even knew of its existence. He was about to ask her what was going on when something weird suddenly appeared in the air a few steps away. It sort of reminded him of a wormhole. Then a man he had never seen before appeared. Wow! Apparently she did know someone who could get into Atlantis.
“Jack,” Martha called grinning happily.
“Ugh, you sure know how to pick a place for a date,” Jack said sarcastically. “What’s with the freezing water?”
Martha snorted. “I’m pretty sure I mentioned being locked in a flooding place,” she said, then stepped forward and hugged him.
Jack grinned as he wrapped his arms around her. All of a sudden being back on Earth didn’t feel like such a bad thing anymore. He hadn’t known how much he missed Martha until he saw her again. Smiling slightly he let go of her.
“Mickey Smith, should have known you’re the one who got her into this mess,” he said jokingly.
Mickey snorted. “Me? It was all her idea,” he said crossing his arms in front of his chest. “And just so you know, you’re not getting a hug from me this time. You enjoy those way too much.”
Jack chuckled. “Maybe I should just leave you here…”
“How about we leave the reunion for later,” Sally stated dryly, her teeth chattering slightly from the cold water.
“My thoughts exactly,” Daniel remarked. “I’m guessing that since you did get in here you can get us out, too?” He had no idea how the man did what he did, but right now he didn’t really care. He just wanted to get out of there. Questions could wait until later.
“Fair enough,” Jack stated. “I’m not too fond of freezing water anyway. And yes, I can get us out of here,” he added looking at the man he didn’t know yet. “So, where to?”
“Just behind that locked door would do,” Martha said and watched Jack press a few buttons on his vortex manipulator.
“Alright, everyone hold on tight,” Jack said holding out his arm.
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“What the hell is going on in there?” Colonel Jack O’Neill called banging against the locked door. He heard people talking, but they weren’t answering him. Then he heard footsteps and saw Vala coming towards them. He hadn’t actually met her before, but Daniel had told him enough about her in e-mails that he was sure who the woman was.
Vala stared at O’Neill’s clone, one of his team members and the locked door next to them. When the control room informed her about what was going on she immediately went to the area Daniel’s recruits team was supposed to be in. She knew that parts of the city in that area had started to flood after the explosion and that the recruit teams couldn’t be reached over their radios. She simply had to find out if Daniel was okay.
“He’s stuck in there, isn’t he?” she asked, then sighed, when O’Neill’s nod confirmed her fears.
“Can you open the door?” Jack asked gesturing at the panel next to it. Vala had been a Goa’uld’s host, which meant that she still had some of its knowledge and might know enough to get the damn door open.
“I can try,” Vala stated while stepping over to the panel. She didn’t really know much about ancient technology, but sometimes it was similar to Goa’uld technology, and she sure as hell wouldn’t give up without even trying to get Daniel out of there. It was Daniel after all. She couldn’t lose him!
Before Vala even had a chance to start working on the panel a group of people suddenly materialized in the corridor next to her. It kind of looked like they were beamed in, but they didn’t have beaming technology right now, did they? Well, who cared how it happened? Daniel was safe and that was all that mattered to her right now.
“Daniel!” she exclaimed, stepped forward and threw herself into his arms.
Daniel was still a little startled from the events of the past minutes and was just starting to realize that he was no longer in a flooding corridor when Vala threw herself at him. “Umpf,” he muttered but his arms quickly went around her, holding her close, without him even consciously planning to do it.
“I’m fine, Vala,” he said while letting go of her.
“Don’t do that again,” she said narrowing her eyes at him while taking a step back.
Daniel snorted slightly. As if he could promise that. With the kind of lives they led they’d probably be in mortal danger again before they even realized it. “I’ll try my best.”
Vala simply smirked.
Jack O’Neill grinned and clapped Daniel on the back. “I guess the Hammond hasn’t left yet after all,” he said.
“It wasn’t the Hammond that beamed us out of there,” Daniel stated.
“Vortex manipulator,” Jack Harkness offered in explanation and gestured at his wrist.
Becker raised an eyebrow at the conversation. Beaming? Vortex what? Yeah, this really was classified and for the first time he did get the feeling that the ARC might not be the weirdest place you could work for. Then he turned to Martha and looked her over.
“You okay?” he asked, feeling immensely relived that she was no longer in mortal danger.
Martha looked up at Becker surprised. That almost sounded like he cared. Maybe he did… just because he didn’t want a relationship didn’t necessarily mean he wanted her dead, right?
“I’m fine,” she said. “But how about we get out of here. A change of clothes really would be nice.”
“Agreed,” Daniel said.
“Transporter’s that way,” Vala added and gestured in the direction she had come from.
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Day 4 - Atlantis - afternoon - recruits team 3:
“Why did it have to be him?” Deeks muttered when his team found their fake hostage and rescued him. “If you ask me we’d be better off leaving him with the ‘aliens’.”
Kensi turned to her partner with a glare and playfully hit him in he shoulder.
“Ow,” Deeks exclaimed rubbing his shoulder.
“Don’t be such a whiny baby, and stop talking badly about Danny,” Kensi said, but felt slightly amused. For some reason Deeks just didn’t seem to like Danny, or maybe he was actually jealous? He had been teasing her about the man ever since they first worked together. It wasn’t even like that for her. Yes, she liked Danny, but not really in that way. And besides, even if she did, it was none of Deeks business. They weren’t together after all and she didn’t get all up in his face about women that he met either.
“Oh, so he’s Danny now, not Detective Williams,” Deeks observed not too happily.
“We’re going to be working together now. It’s only natural to become friendly and use first names,” Kensi stated before ducking from fake enemy fire.
Deeks quickly followed her and hid behind a table next to her. “I’m still Deeks,” he observed silently.
“What did you say?” Kensi asked after firing a round of shots at the hologram aliens.
“Nothing,” Deeks muttered, turned away from her and headed off after the rest of their team and their rescued hostage Danny, while trying not to think about how friendly Kensi and Danny could be getting.
“I can see the artifact,” Callen called. “Keep the holograms busy while I get it.” He just started to make his way towards the artifact when the city started to shake and an explosion could be heard, followed by a blaring alarm.
“What the hell was that?” Deeks called rubbing his ears.
“Sounded like an explosion to me,” Danny stated dryly.
Deeks rolled his eyes. “Smartass.”
Danny was about to reply when Kensi cut him off. “Cut it out, boys. We have bigger problems. I don’t think that was part of the simulations,” she stated looking around for any possible threats.
“It wasn’t,” Danny confirmed looking around as well. “At least not as far as I’ve been told.”
The retort was on Deeks tongue, but Kensi’s look silenced him.
“I can’t reach the control room,” Callen said before walking to the door and peering out of the room.
Danny frowned and tried his radio, but didn’t get an answer either. “Great,” he muttered. “First day of work and already an explosion, and that even though Steve isn’t even around. I knew I shouldn’t have taken this job.”
Lori smiled slightly. She really had missed Danny and his antics. “He hasn’t changed, I see,” she said glancing at Chin.
“Not a bit,” Chin agreed.
Sam smirked and clapped Danny on the shoulder. “Come on, man, we’ll get you back to the control room safely.”
“I can take care of myself, you know,” Danny stated glancing up at the SEAL.
“Of course you can,” Sam said as they started to walk.
“Anyone got any real weapons?” Callen asked, ignoring Danny and Sam’s banter. There was an explosion and he knew that there had been a bombing at Stargate Command. He really didn’t think that was a coincidence.
Danny pulled his gun. Sheppard had remarked at breakfast that it was never a good idea to walk around Atlantis unarmed, even when you were off duty. Apparently he hadn’t been kidding. “I do,” he answered.
“Okay,” Callen muttered when no one else spoke. One gun was better than none. “Williams, you go first, unless you want to hand over that gun…”
“Not a chance,” Danny stated and went to the door. After peering out he started to walk down the corridor, gun at the ready.
Callen followed the detective and gestured for Sam to take the rear.
They didn’t even make it to the first corner before a bright greenish light stopped them.
“What…” Kensi started, shielding her eyes with her hand. Before she got to finish the question something hit Callen, then Chin and Deeks. All three men went down at once. “Deeks!” she exclaimed, worried about her partner the most.
“Take cover!” Sam called and pushed Lori down just in time. A shot soared above their heads, hitting the wall.
As the bright light disappeared Lori saw the shooters for the first time. They had greenish skin and long hair. Her eyes widened. They looked like some of the holograms they had taken out before.
“Wraith!” Danny called and started shooting. What the hell were Wraith doing in Atlantis? They had been mentioned in his debriefing this morning, but he thought they were in another galaxy, which was why he hadn’t paid too much attention to how to kill them. Bullets apparently didn’t seem to work as well on them as on humans. At least he managed to make them drop their weapons when shooting at their hands. That didn’t stop them though. They were bleeding heavily, but still advanced when he ran out of bullets. Before he managed to reload a Wraith reached him and knocked him against the wall hard. He tried to fight it off but even injured the Wraith was incredibly strong. Just as the Wraith was about to slam its hand down on Danny’s chest it was pulled away by Sam, who immediately started to fight it. Lori and Kensi were trying to fight off the other two Wraith and keep them away from Chin, Callen and Deeks, who hopefully were just unconscious.
Danny reloaded his gun quickly, but had a hard time finding a target to shoot, fearing he might hit his friends. Cursing he put his gun down and rushed over to help the women. Sam was a SEAL after all. He’d be fine.
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Steve rushed down a corridor towards recruit team 3’s last known location with Kono and Cadman right behind him. He knew that his team members as well as Sam Hanna and his team could take care of themselves, but they had no real weapons and apparently there were Wraith near their location. Steve had no idea how they got in, or how dinosaurs could be in other parts of the city, but right now all that mattered was keeping his people alive.
Turning around a corner Steve’s eyes widened. Towards the end of the corridor Sam was fighting a Wraith by himself. Danny and Lori were fighting another. Next to them a third Wraith hit Kensi, sending her crashing into the wall as if she was nothing more than a fly. She had barely hit the floor when the Wraith loomed over her. Unfortunately Sam was in his line of fire or Steve could have taken the damn Wraith down. Luckily Danny had a clear shot, but he ran out of bullets before the Wraith was dead and had to start fighting it with his bare hands.
“Kono, help Sam,” Steve decided, while trying not to get distracted by Chin and the others who were on the ground. They probably were just unconscious, not dead. Wraith couldn’t feed on the dead, so they wouldn’t kill them, right? “Cadman, help Danny.” That said he brushed past Sam, just as a Wraith hit Lori, then pushed her against the wall hard.
Steve ignored the panic that rushed through him and tried not to think of the images he had seen of Wraith victims. He really, really didn’t want to imagine Lori like that! Ignoring the urge to shoot the Wraith Steve jumped and pulled the Wraith away from Lori just as it slammed its hand down on her chest. Shooting wouldn’t have done any good. The Wraith would have healed itself by sucking the life out of Lori.
Lori sighed in relief when the Wraith was pulled away from her. That thing was incredibly strong! Pushing off the wall she turned to her left where Steve was now fighting the Wraith. A small smile appeared on her face. Of course Steve had come. He’d never let anything happen to her or the rest of the team. However, her smile disappeared just as quickly as it had come, when the Wraith hit Steve.
While trying to catch her breath Lori noticed a gun on the ground. Steve must have dropped it while pulling the Wraith off her. She quickly picked it up, then tried to get a shot in. Unfortunately Steve and the Wraith were moving too fast and were too close together.
“Steve, get down,” she called. Steve kicked the Wraith in the chest, then complied. As soon as he hit the ground Lori started shooting.
When the Wraith fell Steve quickly moved out of the way, then heard more gunfire. Getting up he glanced around. All Wraith were on the ground now, covered in blood.
“They dead?” Danny asked panting heavily.
Sam kicked the Wraith closest to him. It didn’t move. Neither did the one Cadman kicked. Steve checked the last one. Luckily it didn’t move either.
“Looks like it,” Steve said, then turned to Lori. “You okay?” he asked looking at her concerned. She seemed a little beaten up, but compared to what could have happened he guessed it wasn’t so bad.
“I’m fine, you?” Lori answered and tried not to read too much into the fact that Steve seemed most concerned about her. It was hard though with the way he looked at her.
“Fine,” Steve answered.
“I’m good, too,” Danny stated. “Thanks for asking.”
Steve chuckled slightly and clapped his friend on the back before walking over to Chin. Kneeling down he checked for a pulse.
“They are alive,” Kensi said next to Steve while checking on Deeks and Callen.
Kono sighed in relief. “We should get them to the infirmary.”
“That’ll be fun,” Danny muttered. “I’m guessing we can’t just call an ambulance, can we?”
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