August 30th: One Foot In Front Of the Other: Underground
Title: One Foot In Front Of The Other: Underground
Author: 3am_moonlight (MirroredIllusions on TtH)
Crossover: BtVS / Stargte Atlantis
Rating: Teen
Word Count: 1,525.
Timeline: BtVS: Post-Chosen & SGA: post-03x19: Vengeance.
Disclaimer: Nothing copyrighted belongs to yours truly.
Summary: AR-1 is sent to check on the Taranians and Buffy decides to tag along to get out of the City for a few hours.
Author's Note: Written for Day 30 of the 2021 August Fic-A-Day.
A/N: 01 / 02 / 03 / 04 / 05 / 06 / 07 / 08 / 09 / 10 / 11 / 12 / 13 / 14 /
A/N 2: This is so rushed. *sigh*
The Stargate snapped shut behind Buffy and she began walking towards the Taranian settlement. Ronon fell into step with her almost immediately with Sheppard and Teyla in the front. "What really happened with Weir back on Earth?"
Buffy craned her neck to look up at the man. "More or less what Mr. Taylor and Colonel Sheppard said; she was convicted of attempting to perform illegal experiments on a human being against their will and for deliberately lying to a medical professional to perform said tests. Her political career is over and there is no chance of her returning to Atlantis."
"But where is she?" Ronon loomed over her in an attempt to force her to answer his questions. It didn't work, but there was no reason to tell him that.
"On Earth in a secret prison facility. Turns out there have been enough crimes committed by people who either know about or are a part of the Program that they have their own prison."
Teyla interfered with her teammates' attempts at scare tactics and asked, "Is Mr. Taylor going to be the new permanent civilian commander of Atlantis?"
"No. All parts found him inoffensive enough to be chosen as a temporary leader while they search for and vote for someone more experienced. He'll stay for a month, two at the most."
"Anyone else thinks the lack of movement over at that village is odd?" Sheppard gave all of them a skeptical look and Buffy focussed her senses on the settlement and frowned.
"There's no one there."
15 minutes later they had done a quick search of the houses and various buildings and came up with nothing, not even a stray pet. Keeping smaller animals for fun rather than to for either food or to help with food gathering seemed to mostly be an Earth thing. Although there were a few worlds where people recognized the concept.
Sheppard and Teyla conversed and soon after all five of them were in some underground tunnels, and Buffy flashed back both to many other underground tunnels she had been in but also to the Slayer Dream that had gotten her to move to another galaxy in the first place. She tensed and Sheppard gave her a sharp look. "Um, head's up," Buffy said, "we're about to walk into some ugly trouble down here. Don't ask how I know, just keep your eyes and ears open."
Her Dream had shown her some kind of monster she didn't recognize, some kind of cocoons, an explosion, AR-1, and then a whole lot of the monsters. None of it boded well for them.
An hour later they had found a room with an empty cocoon, a second room with a lot of dead Taranians who had strange non-vampire neck wounds that kind of freaked Sheppard out, and then a second room with even more cocoons but this time still containing the presumed monsters. Sheppard brought out the explosives and she agreed, these things needed to die before they had a chance to cause any harm.
Not long after they ended up in a lab of some kind. Sheppard stared cautiously at a jar full of liquid with some kind of giant bug in it. When Teyla gave it a similar kind of wariness, Buffy decided to ask the obvious question.
"What's with the bug and everyone looking at it like it'll bite you?"
McKay glared at her and drew in a mouthful of air to start one of his infamous tirades. "It's an Iratus bug." Off her blank look, he continued, "It's where the Wraith come from, an unholy combination of the Iratus bug and humans." He went on, but she tuned him out until he suddenly stopped and looked more closely at the Life Signs Detector. She did make a mental note to look up the creature and figure what Sheppard's problem was with it, other than the obvious.
"The life sign is heading our way." McKay's eyes had gotten large and Buffy unsheathed her favorite sword. Jack had finally allowed her to bring a selection of her sharp and shiny toys to Pegasus after the show and tell back on Earth right before Dr. Weir's trial. This had been the first chance for her to use it and she was looking forward to trying out her magically enhanced sword on a Pegasus bad guy. Uh, creature. Or whatever the thing running around in the tunnels was.
Not long after the monster tried to attack Ronon and while the other three reacted by attempting to shoot it, Buffy raised her sword and putting some extra strength into her swing since the bullets weren't really having much effect, she swung it at its neck and its head detached from the rest of the body.
It only occurred to her afterwards that she should probably have told them to stop shooting before moving forward to behead it. Thankfully, they were aware enough to do it on their own. Ronon gave her a terse, "Thanks," as he pushed the beast off of him and got himself upright again. The look AR-1's team leader gave her though meant she was in for another talk with him in his office sometime soon.
"Does anyone recognize whatever that is?" She asked the room.
"I'd say it was the dot playing hide and seek with us, but there's a new dot on the screen now." McKay was once again waving the LSD around, and they got moving. Her Dream had shown her monsters, but the thing she had just killed wasn't the kind to be able to think for itself, which meant its master was probably nearby.
Later still, Buffy and Teyla got stuck in a room with what Teyla told her was 'Michael' and her heart sank. Go figure she would have to deal with Elizabeth Weir's Monster. Except he didn't seem to care about her at all, instead his entire focus was on the Athosian.
"Hello, Teyla. I knew we would meet again."
Beside her, Teyla had tensed and raised her weapon partially. "Michael. What have you done?"
Keeping half an ear on the conversation, Buffy studied the part-Wraith, part-human she had suddenly come face to face with. Carefully moving to the side, she signalled the other woman to keep him talking so he wouldn't pay much attention to her. Then, at Teyla's nod, she moved quickly and knocked him out cold.
Right after Sheppard jimmied the door open and the boys watched as she zip-tied the hybrid. "I understand this is one of Atlantis' pet projects. Do you want me to kill him or do you want the honors?"
Colonel Sheppard was just kind of staring at Michael for a moment before he regained the ability to speak. "Neither. We're bringing him back to Atlantis."
Everyone stared at him and a heated argument broke out, but in the end, he was the leader and had the final say. "On more thing," Buffy interjected, "There has to be more of those things around here. It might be a good idea to make sure they're all killed so they don't attack someone who happened to travel to this planet."
While they were talking, Ronon had begun patting Michael down, most likely looking for weapons, but he came up with a crystal instead. "McKay," he held up the memory device.
"That's the control crystal for the DHD." He took it from Ronon, who used the opportunity to blindfold their hostage.
Their journey back to the Stargate ended up being a little more exciting than they had intended as Michael's monster attempted to surround them to free their master. In the end, they escaped by Sheppard flying the Dart Michael had arrived in, then scooping them up.
The Daedalus swung by and dropped several bombs on top of the underground complex a few days later, then a few other areas to exterminate the creatures. Without the dialing crystal and the Dart, they didn't stand a chance.
Michael's return to the City was interesting, but Buffy honestly just wanted to kill him and be done with it. It had taken her about two minutes to regret knocking him out rather than just kill him outright. Normally she would've agreed that killing someone who was already in captivity was morally wrong, but keeping him alive would not solve any problems for them. Unsurprisingly, no one listened to her.
Still, things in Atlantis returned to their version of normal, even if they had a dangerous hybrid in one of their holding cells. Just waiting for the right opportunity to cause havoc and destruction upon them.
People had taken her part in bringing down Dr. Weir surprisingly well. There were those who blamed her, but most of those were easy enough to avoid, and they were all busy enough that they didn't have to interact much or at all. Life went on and Buffy kept training people, it was a mandatory requirement so they couldn't refuse, just ask for a different teacher or class.
Buffy did send Jack a cryptic email informing him she had found her underground tunnels and their resident monsters though.
Author: 3am_moonlight (MirroredIllusions on TtH)
Crossover: BtVS / Stargte Atlantis
Rating: Teen
Word Count: 1,525.
Timeline: BtVS: Post-Chosen & SGA: post-03x19: Vengeance.
Disclaimer: Nothing copyrighted belongs to yours truly.
Summary: AR-1 is sent to check on the Taranians and Buffy decides to tag along to get out of the City for a few hours.
Author's Note: Written for Day 30 of the 2021 August Fic-A-Day.
A/N: 01 / 02 / 03 / 04 / 05 / 06 / 07 / 08 / 09 / 10 / 11 / 12 / 13 / 14 /
A/N 2: This is so rushed. *sigh*
The Stargate snapped shut behind Buffy and she began walking towards the Taranian settlement. Ronon fell into step with her almost immediately with Sheppard and Teyla in the front. "What really happened with Weir back on Earth?"
Buffy craned her neck to look up at the man. "More or less what Mr. Taylor and Colonel Sheppard said; she was convicted of attempting to perform illegal experiments on a human being against their will and for deliberately lying to a medical professional to perform said tests. Her political career is over and there is no chance of her returning to Atlantis."
"But where is she?" Ronon loomed over her in an attempt to force her to answer his questions. It didn't work, but there was no reason to tell him that.
"On Earth in a secret prison facility. Turns out there have been enough crimes committed by people who either know about or are a part of the Program that they have their own prison."
Teyla interfered with her teammates' attempts at scare tactics and asked, "Is Mr. Taylor going to be the new permanent civilian commander of Atlantis?"
"No. All parts found him inoffensive enough to be chosen as a temporary leader while they search for and vote for someone more experienced. He'll stay for a month, two at the most."
"Anyone else thinks the lack of movement over at that village is odd?" Sheppard gave all of them a skeptical look and Buffy focussed her senses on the settlement and frowned.
"There's no one there."
15 minutes later they had done a quick search of the houses and various buildings and came up with nothing, not even a stray pet. Keeping smaller animals for fun rather than to for either food or to help with food gathering seemed to mostly be an Earth thing. Although there were a few worlds where people recognized the concept.
Sheppard and Teyla conversed and soon after all five of them were in some underground tunnels, and Buffy flashed back both to many other underground tunnels she had been in but also to the Slayer Dream that had gotten her to move to another galaxy in the first place. She tensed and Sheppard gave her a sharp look. "Um, head's up," Buffy said, "we're about to walk into some ugly trouble down here. Don't ask how I know, just keep your eyes and ears open."
Her Dream had shown her some kind of monster she didn't recognize, some kind of cocoons, an explosion, AR-1, and then a whole lot of the monsters. None of it boded well for them.
An hour later they had found a room with an empty cocoon, a second room with a lot of dead Taranians who had strange non-vampire neck wounds that kind of freaked Sheppard out, and then a second room with even more cocoons but this time still containing the presumed monsters. Sheppard brought out the explosives and she agreed, these things needed to die before they had a chance to cause any harm.
Not long after they ended up in a lab of some kind. Sheppard stared cautiously at a jar full of liquid with some kind of giant bug in it. When Teyla gave it a similar kind of wariness, Buffy decided to ask the obvious question.
"What's with the bug and everyone looking at it like it'll bite you?"
McKay glared at her and drew in a mouthful of air to start one of his infamous tirades. "It's an Iratus bug." Off her blank look, he continued, "It's where the Wraith come from, an unholy combination of the Iratus bug and humans." He went on, but she tuned him out until he suddenly stopped and looked more closely at the Life Signs Detector. She did make a mental note to look up the creature and figure what Sheppard's problem was with it, other than the obvious.
"The life sign is heading our way." McKay's eyes had gotten large and Buffy unsheathed her favorite sword. Jack had finally allowed her to bring a selection of her sharp and shiny toys to Pegasus after the show and tell back on Earth right before Dr. Weir's trial. This had been the first chance for her to use it and she was looking forward to trying out her magically enhanced sword on a Pegasus bad guy. Uh, creature. Or whatever the thing running around in the tunnels was.
Not long after the monster tried to attack Ronon and while the other three reacted by attempting to shoot it, Buffy raised her sword and putting some extra strength into her swing since the bullets weren't really having much effect, she swung it at its neck and its head detached from the rest of the body.
It only occurred to her afterwards that she should probably have told them to stop shooting before moving forward to behead it. Thankfully, they were aware enough to do it on their own. Ronon gave her a terse, "Thanks," as he pushed the beast off of him and got himself upright again. The look AR-1's team leader gave her though meant she was in for another talk with him in his office sometime soon.
"Does anyone recognize whatever that is?" She asked the room.
"I'd say it was the dot playing hide and seek with us, but there's a new dot on the screen now." McKay was once again waving the LSD around, and they got moving. Her Dream had shown her monsters, but the thing she had just killed wasn't the kind to be able to think for itself, which meant its master was probably nearby.
Later still, Buffy and Teyla got stuck in a room with what Teyla told her was 'Michael' and her heart sank. Go figure she would have to deal with Elizabeth Weir's Monster. Except he didn't seem to care about her at all, instead his entire focus was on the Athosian.
"Hello, Teyla. I knew we would meet again."
Beside her, Teyla had tensed and raised her weapon partially. "Michael. What have you done?"
Keeping half an ear on the conversation, Buffy studied the part-Wraith, part-human she had suddenly come face to face with. Carefully moving to the side, she signalled the other woman to keep him talking so he wouldn't pay much attention to her. Then, at Teyla's nod, she moved quickly and knocked him out cold.
Right after Sheppard jimmied the door open and the boys watched as she zip-tied the hybrid. "I understand this is one of Atlantis' pet projects. Do you want me to kill him or do you want the honors?"
Colonel Sheppard was just kind of staring at Michael for a moment before he regained the ability to speak. "Neither. We're bringing him back to Atlantis."
Everyone stared at him and a heated argument broke out, but in the end, he was the leader and had the final say. "On more thing," Buffy interjected, "There has to be more of those things around here. It might be a good idea to make sure they're all killed so they don't attack someone who happened to travel to this planet."
While they were talking, Ronon had begun patting Michael down, most likely looking for weapons, but he came up with a crystal instead. "McKay," he held up the memory device.
"That's the control crystal for the DHD." He took it from Ronon, who used the opportunity to blindfold their hostage.
Their journey back to the Stargate ended up being a little more exciting than they had intended as Michael's monster attempted to surround them to free their master. In the end, they escaped by Sheppard flying the Dart Michael had arrived in, then scooping them up.
The Daedalus swung by and dropped several bombs on top of the underground complex a few days later, then a few other areas to exterminate the creatures. Without the dialing crystal and the Dart, they didn't stand a chance.
Michael's return to the City was interesting, but Buffy honestly just wanted to kill him and be done with it. It had taken her about two minutes to regret knocking him out rather than just kill him outright. Normally she would've agreed that killing someone who was already in captivity was morally wrong, but keeping him alive would not solve any problems for them. Unsurprisingly, no one listened to her.
Still, things in Atlantis returned to their version of normal, even if they had a dangerous hybrid in one of their holding cells. Just waiting for the right opportunity to cause havoc and destruction upon them.
People had taken her part in bringing down Dr. Weir surprisingly well. There were those who blamed her, but most of those were easy enough to avoid, and they were all busy enough that they didn't have to interact much or at all. Life went on and Buffy kept training people, it was a mandatory requirement so they couldn't refuse, just ask for a different teacher or class.
Buffy did send Jack a cryptic email informing him she had found her underground tunnels and their resident monsters though.