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sga_flashficTITLE: Ones and Zeros
FANDOM: Stargate Atlantis
AU: Where the Ocean Meets the Sky
LENGTH/RATING: 331 words, PG-13, Gen
SUMMARY: Everything's relative, and it all comes down to ones and zeros. Evil!Rodney (or really, Pragmatic!Rodney, but still.)
"You can't do this!"
Rodney didn't look up from the control room's primary terminal, "Can you please go have hysterics elsewhere? It's distracting."
"Let me in." John pounded on the door, glaring through the impervious glass riddled with scratches from the previous barrage of bullets.
"No." Rodney flicked his fingers absently and the force field bubble around him expanded, shoving John away from the door.
"There are people down there." Teyla's voice was cold and sharp and this time McKay looked up.
"Oh really? And here I thought I was just killing thousands of hamsters. Thanks for the clarification." He pushed a button on the interface and the entire complex shuddered as centuries old machinery lumbered into motion. A faint shiver of dust floated down from between the cracks in the bedrock above them. A warning chime went off and Rodney spun around with a curse to deal with the problem.
The rest of the team was retreated as Rodney’s force field expanded and contracted as he shifted focus.
"You have to stop him."
"I'm trying!" John snapped back, then yanked Teyla out of the way as the field suddenly flexed outwards.
"So destroy the building." Ronon shrugged as Teyla and John looked over at him, "You have a better idea?"
"I can hear you just fine you know." Rodney looked up from the second terminal with a satisfied smirk as the warning chime died away. "Destroy the building if you want, I'm not leaving and I'm not stopping just because some semi-sentient hunter-gathering morons refused to evacuate. They can't fight the Wraith, we can. It all comes down to basic math." He waved an arm encompassing them, the building, the planet, "Everything does."
"Those are people, not numbers!"
"Everyone's numbers. You, me--" He cut-off with a frustrated snort and pulled in the force field with flick of the wrist, refocusing on his work. "Go home John, it's my turn to save the world. If you won't, someone has to."
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FANDOM: Stargate Atlantis
AU: Where the Ocean Meets the Sky
LENGTH/RATING: 331 words, PG-13, Gen
SUMMARY: Everything's relative, and it all comes down to ones and zeros. Evil!Rodney (or really, Pragmatic!Rodney, but still.)
"You can't do this!"
Rodney didn't look up from the control room's primary terminal, "Can you please go have hysterics elsewhere? It's distracting."
"Let me in." John pounded on the door, glaring through the impervious glass riddled with scratches from the previous barrage of bullets.
"No." Rodney flicked his fingers absently and the force field bubble around him expanded, shoving John away from the door.
"There are people down there." Teyla's voice was cold and sharp and this time McKay looked up.
"Oh really? And here I thought I was just killing thousands of hamsters. Thanks for the clarification." He pushed a button on the interface and the entire complex shuddered as centuries old machinery lumbered into motion. A faint shiver of dust floated down from between the cracks in the bedrock above them. A warning chime went off and Rodney spun around with a curse to deal with the problem.
The rest of the team was retreated as Rodney’s force field expanded and contracted as he shifted focus.
"You have to stop him."
"I'm trying!" John snapped back, then yanked Teyla out of the way as the field suddenly flexed outwards.
"So destroy the building." Ronon shrugged as Teyla and John looked over at him, "You have a better idea?"
"I can hear you just fine you know." Rodney looked up from the second terminal with a satisfied smirk as the warning chime died away. "Destroy the building if you want, I'm not leaving and I'm not stopping just because some semi-sentient hunter-gathering morons refused to evacuate. They can't fight the Wraith, we can. It all comes down to basic math." He waved an arm encompassing them, the building, the planet, "Everything does."
"Those are people, not numbers!"
"Everyone's numbers. You, me--" He cut-off with a frustrated snort and pulled in the force field with flick of the wrist, refocusing on his work. "Go home John, it's my turn to save the world. If you won't, someone has to."
"STARGATE ATLANTIS", "STARGATE SG1" and other related entities are owned, (TM) and © by MGM TELEVISION and DOUBLE SECRET PRODUCTION in association with GEKKO FILMS and THE SCIFI CHANNEL. All rights reserved. No copyright infringement is intended nor implied.Technorati tags: writing | fan fiction | science fiction | stargate atlantis | the unforgotten country | fanfic
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Evil Rodney
Date: 2006-07-19 04:03 pm (UTC)Re: Evil Rodney
Date: 2006-07-19 04:11 pm (UTC)But I am not writing anymore Atlantis-Avatar!Rodney fics. Nopenopenope. Not a single word-- hey, stop that! *fights the fictive for control of the keyboard* Darnit!
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Date: 2006-07-19 04:05 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-07-19 04:13 pm (UTC)There will probably be more fics to follow, but I don't know if I can get the longer idea finished in time for this challenge. This version of Rodney is one demanding little fictive. ^_^;; *hides under her couch from the exponential plotbunny explosion*
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Date: 2006-07-19 08:34 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-07-19 08:55 pm (UTC)Basically they found a way to make recharge empty ZPMs, but it will destroy a nearby planet in the process. (Well, not 'destroy' destroy, but it will make it very uninhabitable.) They need the power now because of an incoming wave of Wraith that are targeting an inhabited star system that Earth/Atlantis is co-building an armada with. Very, very AU little place. ^_^;;
So... Rodney is busy destroying the planet, whilst the rest of the gang are becoming Highly Displeased(tm).
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Date: 2006-07-19 04:14 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-07-19 04:22 pm (UTC)Rodney is certainly working hard at digging his own grave, but I don't think Elizabeth will let Teyla actually rend him limb from limb. It's easier to let someone else make the hard choices, because even if you let him, in the end it wasn't you who pulled the trigger.
Ooookay, morbid thoughts aside, I think I need some Silly!Fic to cleanse my system. ^_^;; *trots off to write non-challenge fics and stop torturing her poor SGA fictives*
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Date: 2006-07-21 10:47 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-07-21 12:41 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-06-25 07:10 pm (UTC)The ultimate logical conclusion and that is what makes it so horrible.
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Date: 2010-06-28 02:06 am (UTC)This AU was such a very very disturbing place to be... because Atlantis kept making sense, but in a brutally ruthless way.