Revelation Act 2
Mar. 7th, 2011 11:32 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cedar_grove
Title: Revelation
Rating: NC-17 (adult readers) due to S.L.V
WARNING: Act 1 contains non-con - may be triggering
Spoilers: Some spoilers for S1-4
Summary: On the brink of death, Todd risks an untested serum and is thrust into a spiral of madness and instinct. Meanwhile, Kenny must persuade the inhospitable Wraith Sentinels to transfer the Queen's young to the Nursery facility. On Atlantis, Haddad continues the desperate race to save Keller, that may lead her to follow Beckett into the deepest peril she has yet faced. (WARNING: Contains Non-con essential to the story.)
Disclaimer: MGM own Stargate: Atlantis. This story is for entertainment purposes only and no revenue is being made from copyright material. No infrigement intended.
Acts 1 & 2 now available.
Author's Note: Look guys, the rating says it all, but I'll spell it out. This contains explicit scenes, and the non-con warning appears at the header of the Act's page below the image, and on the Atlantis home page. You HAVE been warned. Many thanks
![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif){kind=small}
gospikey for hard work in Beta.Previous Episodes:
Harm's Way (1), Chain of Command (2), Enmity (3), Mantle (4), In Truth... Freedom (5), Letting Go (6), Beyond the Third (7), Deliverance (8), No Way Back, (9) Apostasy (10) and Crossing Lines (11) can be accessed here.
![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
Revelation Act 2 - Review part 1:
Date: 2011-03-14 09:29 pm (UTC)Todd:
Thus had the war begun, and what the one the humans called Michael had started, he would end… in blood and death, yes, but ultimately in the genesis of a new Wraith era.
Cocky much! We’ll see who makes the newer, long-lasting race in the Pegasus Galaxy, Todd or Michael. :P
Is Malcolm going to be a player, too? There’s this thing I remember to do with Teyla…
Only as he turned did the aroma from the fireplace reach her – roasting meat, the scent of rich, warm juices set her mouth to water.
I can think it’s cute that he’s cooking for her, right, without wounding his Wraith ego? Yes, she needs it, and so he does it, but I still think it’s interesting that a Wraith Commander can cook human food.
"But you must understand that this changes… many things."
"This… this…" She slapped a hand against his chest. There was no real force behind it. She hadn't the strength, but when she drew back her hand to do so again, he caught it in his own. "You keep saying this. This what?"
"What happened here," he answered, still looking deeply into her eyes, "What came before… what will come after…"
He growled the final word, his eyes becoming hardened flecks of amber coloured flint, a cruel determination settling in that promised suffering and pain. Alicia shivered.
"It's what he wants," she whispered.
"I know," he answered. "What he does not realise is what he has done… and left undone."
I think I’m confused here. The ‘this’ is the rape that occurred?
The ‘what came before… what will come after…’ does that mean the state of their ‘relationship’? I mean, I get that Alicia just got raped, and she’d be nowhere ready to jump back into bed, cuddling away with Todd, but does this indicate that for Todd it can’t go back to that, either, because she was had by another Wraith? Is that the ‘it’s what he wants’?
The ‘what he has done… and left undone’ hopefully doesn’t mean that she’s now carrying that disgusting Wraith’s child, right? If I remember correctly, he came on her, not in her, though that’s not a good way to avoid pregnancy, in general.
The unseen current within the tank’s fluid carried the occupant closer to the glass, a halo of long, white-blonde hair spread toward Kenny as he peered within, mesmerised and unable to pull away.
What is that? Something more Wraith, as in back into evolution, or how to say it? Matriarch back? Backer than that?
Meeting that creature’s going to be interesting.
Todd’s Hive:
He would come to know what it was that was so important about the research that his commander had been undertaking with the human doctor…
His fingers, as he closed hers around the crystal prism, were almost gentle.
…if only to understand his own instinct to protect her from discovery of the stolen data.
If I’m not mistaken, this is the reverse POV from the one we had with Keller, and it was really interesting to be reading it. Funny, really, how Keller hoped she was covering herself up, but naturally, Kenny noticed her looking at the chip, and knew she wanted to steal the information. It was ‘nice’ of Kenny to give it to her like that, insofar as a Wraith can be called nice.
Now that all was ready, everything in its place, he could proceed in his plan for retribution against the one that had dared to lay hand upon that which was not his.
Ow, the plot thickens. That’s the plot against killing the Elder Queen’s Commander, lol. I wonder who will be first: Todd or Malcolm. Should we start taking bets?
White Elder Queen’s Hive:
Malcolm gave a moment's thought to mentally shutting down all systems before disengaging his hands from the controls. It was a fleeting notion, and dismissed as petty – beneath him.
As in turning off all the lights? Because that would be hilarious.
Nice save from Jethera, though I’d be scared to break them up. Malcolm’s lucky the Hive Commander still responds to the summons of the Queen.
I should be looking into that betting pool… If this still lasts much longer, the HC being alive…
--
(cont.)
Re: Revelation Act 2 - Review part 1:
Date: 2011-03-15 06:00 pm (UTC)Todd
Yeah, he's cocky, and I know where /my/ money is in respect of the Pegausu Galaxy.
Malcolm will feature yes - in a slightly different way though.
I guess it is cute that he's cooking for her but as you said, she needs it. I wouldn't so much say that he knows how to cook though. There's not much to skewering food on a sharp stick and shoving it in the fire after all.
the 'this' is the attack made by the EHC Yes... not just the rape, though that was the last straw, just everything about the attack.
What came before, what came after - yes, the state of their relationship... but wider issues as well.
Done/undone - No, it doesn't mean she's carrying the ECH's child.
You will meet the creature that was taken from the lab - I believe - in act 3? I think so. I forget having written it all already.
Todd's Hive
You are not mistaken, it is the reverse POV.
You can take bets if you like, but I think it's a bit of a foregone conclusion.
Elder Queen's Hive
The Elder's are all named, btw, it will become clear who's who...
Jethera again - hmmmm
Re: Revelation Act 2 - Review part 1:
Date: 2011-03-15 06:51 pm (UTC)Yes, I do believe it was Act 3 where the creature was. It's not in the one I have open now. ^^
I already *know* who I'm going to bet on, let's say. But I think I wouldn't be alone in making that bet, so no cash.
I went upstairs and managed to collect an important piece of paper: the one with the signs for the Queens and other Wraith on it. :-D
Spikey
Re: Revelation Act 2 - Review part 1:
Date: 2011-03-15 08:31 pm (UTC)Okay, you have one open now *big grin* Are you following that?
I don't think you'd be alone either.
Ah, so you have the signs - does it help?
Re: Revelation Act 2 - Review part 1:
Date: 2011-03-15 09:02 pm (UTC)TV is on for the moment, but I hope to get a little bit done still.
Nope, odds are against one of the two, and well...
I think the signs haven't been updated in a while, but the one I did get confirmed is the identity of the Red Elder Queen. So Mommy *is* going after one of her young, ey? Lol. It wouldn't surprise me if her Commander turned out to have a familiar face, really. ;-) Their tattoos are what make them unique, right?
Spikey
Revelation Act 2 - Review part 2:
Date: 2011-03-14 09:35 pm (UTC)His fingers flashed over the keyboard, freezing and then magnifying a single protein sequence, electronically deconstructing the amino acids, trying to identify the trigger and a way to neutralise its actions, or at the very least, some way to support the integrity of the surrounding proteins.
Hmm, this whole process that’s been happening to Teyla, is that alike what Michael’s been studying in the Queen? Their natural evolution? Perhaps he captured the Queen to see if he could make a vaccine for Teyla to have her reproduce (like a Queen), but then it’s happening without him interfering, as in it being a total surprise? He gives her these looks like it’s incredible that this is happening… He’s not convinced that she won’t be harmed in the process, so concern is present, but he’s in awe of her, too.
I don’t know if it’s correct to assume the Ancients blocked the ability for the old Wraith to reproduce fast (more than one daughter per female could lead to a lot more males should the first one be reproducing simultaneously, too), but then scientists managed to undo that block by creating a vaccine, let’s say, and then nature decided to give Wraith the ability to reproduce way faster, even.
Or not. Another theory is coming up after the break. And the break being the next post or so. :-D
"You cannot save her," the Queen mocked, heedless of his warning. "She was already condemned by the heresy in her blood before you even—"
I guess that means it has nothing to do specifically with what Michael did to her in order to conceive, so the hybrid-parts of her went through this evolution on their own after all? Whether it’s a negative or a positive way for her to evolve. We shall see.
"You cannot save her," she rasped against both physical and mental interdiction. "We were never able to save the hosts, and she will—"
It would be funny if the answer to his problem is in the samples Beckett has with him. After all, if we were to think back to the AU episode, it seemed like Alicia was a host to a Wraith Queen, and has indeed survived the experience.
He sought to control the lingering jealousy, as well as the relief that took a hold at her words. She did not know. Nor yet did she understand the extent to which his manipulation – genetic, emotional, and physical – had intervened in the creation of her son.
With ‘emotional and physical’, does he mean the taking over of Kanaan? I forgot if she told him she kind of felt him there yet, or not. I do remember that I’d like her to tell him. In time, then?
As he turned to go; to rejoin the others he paused momentarily to stare into the almost opaque glass of a generative tank, his eyes falling on the figure held in stasis, locked in an ever dreaming world of thought, sensation and memory that were its own, and yet, at the same time where nothing but a shadow of its Original’s life experiences, shared across complex telepathic neural pathways.
Is that the Elder Queen (she took DNA from him, he took DNA from her), or perhaps even, somehow, the Matriarch? I take it the original is still alive, Todd has one copy, and Michael only has the second one left?
Though if it’s the Elder Queen, Kenny would have responded differently to seeing the creature? Does the Matriarch look much different from the Queens as we know them? Again, we’ll just have to wait and see. You’re being difficult! :P
Atlantis:
"I hear you, 'Yetesha," he assured her. "You're saying there's independent Wraith DNA – an evolution."
So that means: Wraith as we know it today = Iratus + Human + other DNA (the evolution)
Then that tank that was in Michael’s lab, was it either something reversed, with the evolution out of the DNA (why, though?), or it was that DNA strengthened? Again, why.
And why was the creature so important to Todd? Perhaps we’ll have to wait and see until he tells us?
--
(cont.)
Re: Revelation Act 2 - Review part 2:
Date: 2011-03-15 06:07 pm (UTC)Here's where a lot of the confusion started - I'll try and help out.
What's happening to Teyla is not alike to what Michael's been studying in the Queen, but is in some way connected. You're closer with the second half of that first paragraph.
You second paragraph would be touching on the truth. There is a line somewhere in one of the flashbacks that pretty much says as much.
Keep them theories comin'
"You cannot save her," the Queen mocked, heedless of his warning. "She was already condemned by the heresy in her blood before you even—"
I guess that means it has nothing to do specifically with what Michael did to her in order to conceive, so the hybrid-parts of her went through this evolution on their own after all? Whether it’s a negative or a positive way for her to evolve. We shall see.
You also have to bear in mind the possibility - the very real possibility - that the Wraith Queen doesn't know what the hell she's talking about.
It would be funny if the answer to his problem is in the samples Beckett has with him. After all, if we were to think back to the AU episode, it seemed like Alicia was a host to a Wraith Queen, and has indeed survived the experience.
Not necessarily the answer, but you can be as sure as God made little apples that Michael will use that information as well.
Re Kanaan - um yes.
Is that the Elder Queen (she took DNA from him, he took DNA from her), or perhaps even, somehow, the Matriarch? I take it the original is still alive, Todd has one copy, and Michael only has the second one left?
No - you're waaaay off base with that one. It is a clone, but it's nothing to do with the Wraith Queen.
And yes, you'll have to wait and see about the Matriarch!
Atlantis
So that means: Wraith as we know it today = Iratus + Human + other DNA (the evolution)
Then that tank that was in Michael’s lab, was it either something reversed, with the evolution out of the DNA (why, though?), or it was that DNA strengthened? Again, why.
And why was the creature so important to Todd? Perhaps we’ll have to wait and see until he tells us?
It means we missed something pretty big in all our (read Carson's) learning about the Wraith.
You'll find out why the creature is important to Todd... yes. Another wait and see.
Revelation Act 2 - Review part 3:
Date: 2011-03-14 09:36 pm (UTC)The words faded as images began to flash before his eyes; images out of legend – bed time stories told to Wraith young of a world that existed at the heart of a great red darkness and of a Queen so great and fearsome that to be in her presence alone meant death at a mere thought from her mind… and yet she divided, became five instead of one, but fell away into the arms of a single Wraith commander, and not the oblivion of death. The Five became little more than newborns, borne away in the arms of obedient human servants, returned to their mothers’ bodies as though they had not yet been born… mothers with lifeless eyes – decaying flesh. The Fearsome Queen turned in the arms of her consort, reached for him, closed her fingers around his heart, and tore it, still beating from a chest scarred with the mark of many feedings.
The consort stumbled away; fell at the feet of another male, taller – almost regal – and with a strength that could almost be felt. The new Wraith male tipped his head to the side and reaching down, fed deeply from the already dying consort, until there was nothing left but a thin layer of white-green dust on the floor of the lofty hall that shifted and changed around him. The Queen drew closer, reaching for her new consort, who became nothing more than a pillar of white light – painful to view, that flashed like lightening against a gathering darkness… and against the darkness fell within the womb of a dark haired queen, to battle there, twin serpents the bright of the white against the dark of a blood-red river…
I thought I’d quote the whole bit, it’s interesting, and complicated at the same time. I take it the four are the Elder Queens?
The Fearsome Queen = Matriarch?
Hmm, is the Matriarch a prototype of the Wraith (Iratus + Human) + evolution? Don’t know if that’s a logical question, but since she produced more than one female, and it seems a bit of a surprise that she didn’t die…
That ‘borne away in the arms of obedient human servants’ is a Host? They circumvented the blockage by having humans carry the females until they were grown enough to live outside the womb? Does that count as conquering it? Because that’s cheating. We know scientists worked on the problem, but if they didn’t do anything in the Wraith females, but turned to the human servants instead, is the evolution then the thing that made it possible for them to carry a female without dying, or did it give them a whole other way to have their young? As in immediately out of the Queen, into the Hive? We’ve seen that pool they are put into, and then the tendrils taking the eggs… I didn’t dream that, did I? Lol.
Either you’re getting confusing, or I’m making it confusing. To your utter delight. ;-)
I’m still wondering what Michael’s doing with that Queen, though…
He couldn't help but spare a fleeting thought for the state of that now, and what the bite of the Sentinel's touch would have done to the starburst pattern of it on his flesh.
Starburst? Star - like Todd? Wait, which one was Todd’s mother again? I think we met her… I remember speculating about it, and I think you confirmed it.
Todd said he was a son of the Second of Five in the next Act, so definitely an Elder Queen. As this Red Elder Queen’s been following him around (therefore she ended up at Michael’s facilities), is she following her son?
Is her HC Todd’s brother? I doubt it’s still his sire, after all this time.
--
As I said, I'm a little bit confused. All I know is that I'm sitting on my chair!
Spikey
Re: Revelation Act 2 - Review part 3:
Date: 2011-03-15 06:13 pm (UTC)No, there are more than 4 elder Queens. We'll meet the 'Elder Queens' in Convocation, and their number will be given at the end of act 3 as being 5.
So 5 Elder Queens, each born of the Wraith Primal Mother. (Fearsome Queen)
Hmm, is the Matriarch a prototype of the Wraith (Iratus + Human) + evolution? Don’t know if that’s a logical question, but since she produced more than one female, and it seems a bit of a surprise that she didn’t die…
Watch for a little Wraith Mythology coming up, I think, in act 4... and the mechanism by which she didn't die has already been mentioned.
That ‘borne away in the arms of obedient human servants’ is a Host? They circumvented the blockage by having humans carry the females until they were grown enough to live outside the womb? Does that count as conquering it? Because that’s cheating.
Why is it cheating? And no, you didn't dream that part with the tendril and the pool.
I think you're making it confusing... though I am being deliberately obscure - all /will/ be revealed, I promise you.
Michael is researching many things, with that Queen - there are many things he still wishes to achieve.
Yes, starburst... like Todd... and... she could be following her son, couldn't she? You will see in Act 4 who the Red Queen's Hive Commander really is. *grin* (Too spoilery to confirm or deny your guess).