taxonomites | 1 [Holo-Location: Sanctuary]

All he did was blink, how could everything have changed so drastically? Daniel blinked again, hoping despite himself that he’d only imagined he’d seen a metal room with him standing on a platform. No luck. He glanced around, warily, before calling out.

“Thor?” Surely it had to have been the Asgard’s transporting beam, right? Except without the flash of white.

“Jack?” He tried again. Despite the fact Jack hadn’t been on the Prometheus with him, weird things tended to happen when Jack was involved, so it was generally a safe bet to assume he had something to do with this. Still nothing. He gave a sigh, reaching a hand up to ruffle his hair.

“This isn’t funny, guys.”

Only then did he look up and spy a rather odd and unusual device.

“..Okay, definitely not Asgard.”

Feeling a strange weight on his wrist, he sent an enquiring glance at it, only to do a double-take. What the heck was on his wrist? It didn’t hurt, despite the fact the metal seemed to be fused to his skin.

“Oh that can’t be good..”

He also noticed at that point the pedestal standing next to him. Was something wrong with his sight that he’d not noticed that? He stared at the tablet resting on top of the pedestal, the metal bracelet attached to him temporarily forgotten as he walked carefully around it before reaching out and picking the tablet up. Then he glanced around again.

“Jack?” Silence. “Isn’t someone going to say I shouldn’t have done that?”

This was getting tiresome, and he was starting to feel even more uneasy. He stared back down at the tablet, if only so he wouldn’t be looking around the large room anymore and see no one. Without really expecting anything to happen, he tried to open the tablet, finding it flipped open quite easily, as if it were a cell phone. He sighed again, glancing around once more despite himself.

“Jack, I know you have to be there. I get that you must be laughing your socks off, but this really isn’t funny.”

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"...Huh. What happened before you got here?"

Daniel frowned, considering whether he should meddle with the timeline or not. Well, he was already there, right? And this didn't seem like the usual place.

"Well..The Supergate was almost complete, but Vala managed to hyjake a scout ship and pilot it where the last link was supposed to go. Supergate exploded. We're not sure what happened to Vala."

He fell silent for a moment. "So... Carter hasn't come to Atlantis yet."

That comment rather rankled. Ever since Atlantis had been discovered, he'd wanted to go. And every time he had the chance, something came up or someone else was sent.

"..I'd have to go with no.."

"...Oh."

Because he couldn't quite help himself.

"..Why was she sent to Atlantis?"

"Became the new Head of Atlantis. Nothing too bad."

Of course the why was sort of bad. Only sort of.

"Ah.."

That he could understand, though he was still not too happy that he apparently hadn't gotten to go to Atlantis yet.

"How is Atlantis doing?"

"Could be better." Sheppard sighed and leaned back, closing his eyes. "Have to trust a Wraith. It's... well, hard."

Daniel blinked in surprise. He took a couple steps down from the platform before taking a seat.

"A Wraith? Why?"

"Only way to stop human born replicators. Kind of ironic."

"Wait..How'd they get access to Pegasus?" That was a rather disturbing thought. One he didn't like at all either.

"Welll..." Sheppard sighed. "These replicators were actually created by the Ancients and tried to emulate them, took on human form. But they were designed to destroy the Wraith. One argument later the Ancients wiped all the data of them from the database."

Oh that was disturbing. Daniel put a hand over his eyes as he sighed.

"So why are they going after Atlantis?"

Sheppard decided to get comfortable. This was going to be a long one. "They wanted to take over their creator's city for... you know, whatever reason. Spite, probably. Most actually wanted information on how to ascend."

As Daniel wasn't exactly watching Sheppard, he had no idea the man was settling in for a long story. Regardless, his hand stayed right where it was as he listened.

After a moment, he leaned forward a bit and rested his elbows on his knees. Only then did he glance back at Sheppard and notice the shift in position.

"Why'd you decide to trust a Wraith to help? What are they getting out of it?" Daniel hated feeling out of the loop.

"They have a code that can shut the replicators down. The replicators are attacking humans and Wraith, mainly hitting humans because the Wraith are already hitting themselves." A sigh. "Common enemy."

Daniel sighed quietly. "Lovely."

"I was more thinking of... messy."

"Yeah." Daniel couldn't keep the grimace off his face as he agreed.

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