STARGATE ATLANTIS Brimstone by Brimstone (SGA-15)

Author:Brimstone (SGA-15) [Retail]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Fandemonium Books
Published: 2020-06-30T23:46:32+00:00

Chapter Twenty

The team was led down several passageways. Each time they turned, the floor slanted down a little more. There were four guards, two in front and two bringing up the rear. Those in back held more of the Taser-style weapons.

Ronon glared at them the entire trip. It was obvious he wanted to make a fight of it, but Teyla kept a hand on his arm.

“We have to get Rodney to an access panel,” she said. “We can’t afford a fight here that might damage the computer, or get us separated. The time will come.”

Ronon glanced at the guards one last time. “You can count on that.”

They rounded a last corner and stepped into a larger open area. The room was round with smooth metal walls. A number of doorways were spaced out around that wall, and on the far side of the chamber a frame rose that appeared to be a single huge gate. The guards turned right and opened the third doorway.

“Inside,” the first guard said, nodding at the entrance.

Cumby stepped inside first, followed by Ronon, who looked ready to make an issue of it. Teyla hurried Ronon through, forcing Cumby in further, and Rodney brought up the rear.

“You know this is crazy, right?” Rodney told the guard, stepping back toward the door. “You know you — ”

The door closed in his face with a snap. He stood, looking at it with his chin tucked and his head cocked to the side.

“Don’t think they’re interested,” Ronon said.

Rodney shook his head and turned to the chamber, skimming his fingers along the wall. “We have to find an access panel.”

“Doesn’t seem like there’d be one in a holding cell,” Cumby said. “Sort of defeats the purpose if you give prisoners access to the computers.”

“And how many prisoners do you think could take advantage of that access?” No one answered, and Rodney turned back to the wall.

“I don’t think this was always a prison,” Cumby said. “The rooms are pretty large and the furnishings are built in. It looks more like some sort of converted guest accommodation. If that’s true, then there is probably an access panel here — maybe there used to be a console.”

The walls weren’t covered with tapestries, as they had been in their quarters, but they were decorated. There were posters in frames, just like in the upper city hallways, and there was a sort of brightly patterned wallpaper covering the rest. Rodney studied it, and Cumby moved to another wall, concentrating.

“It’s not the same,” he said. “None of this has been repeated anywhere that we’ve been.”

“It’s here,” Rodney said. “We have to find the pattern.”

“If you say so,” Cumby replied. He sounded anything but convinced, but he kept looking.

Meanwhile, Ronon turned in a circle and studied the posters. One showed the Woard, decimating an opponent. Another showed something closer to a dragon or a dinosaur than anything else. One was a stylized depiction of dancing girls. The next seemed to be two humans fighting, until you looked closer.

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