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Tweak says, "You'll never break me!"

John Sheppard (ltcol_sheppard) wrote in lostcity,
@ 2008-04-18 15:50:00

Entry tags:

andra kes, carson beckett, elizabeth weir, evan lorne, john sheppard, nicole desjardins, rodney mckay, ronon dex, teyla emmagan, tobias fangor

Surprise!
Who: Tagging EVERYONE (including you new folks), and especially McKay
What: Trying to keep a secret from McKay!
Where: All around Atlantis to the Mess Hall.
When: April 18, 2008
Status: Incomplete

Rodney McKay was preoccupied in the lab, dealing with a situation that Radek Zelenka had created. Basically, Rodney was on a scientist's version of a snipe hunt while a meeting was being held in secret without him or without his knowledge. But that's how it was intended. The subject of discussion was the planning and execution of a certain Canadian physicist's surprise birthday party and it wouldn't be a surprise any more if said Canadian was in attendence.

Everyone was going to do their part to keep Rodney occupied while everything was being set up in the Mess Hall. Chuck, the technician, was going to track McKay's movement's via the internal biosensors and radio that information to all concerned. Andra had volunteered to help decoroate and to make Rodney a chocolate birthday cake which gave Sheppard some cause for concern.

"Um, you might want to help her out with that," he whispered conspiratorially to Teyla. God only knew what kind of cake they'd end up with if Andra was left in charge of it.

For the most part, John's role in all this was as the organizer. He was the one that came up with the idea of having Chuck keep tabs on Rodney via the biosensors and he would be the one to run interference and send in the marines -- so to speak -- in order to keep McKay busy and away from the Mess Hall. Which was going to be a pretty big responsibility considering how much that man loved to eat!

Both Ronon and Lorne were on the decoy team and would help out with the decorating committy where and when they could. Everyone else was either part of the decorating team, the food & spirits team, or would help the decoy team run interferrence. Some people were performing all three duties. It would be a minor miracle if they could pull this off without Rodney getting wind of it.

"Okay, we all have our assignments people, let's get to it," John announced as the meeting broke up and everyone scattered to carry out their appointed tasks.

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dr_rodney_mckay
2008-04-19 09:35 pm UTC (link)

"This is ridiculous!" Rodney whined to Miko. "As soon as I fix one thing, something else breaks! I feel like the damn dutch boy with the dyke! Wrong kind of dyke!" he growled at her gasp and flush. "It's a wall that holds back water, like a damn, and this little boy sticks his finger in a small hole in the dyke to stop a leak, only another one springs up, so he blocks it with his other hand, but another springs up, so he uses his foot, knees, elbows, until the damn thing breaks and he drowns. I think. The point is, there is a ridiculous number of things going wrong today, and where the hell is everyne, anyway? Hand me that. Seriously, did everyone call in sick?? No not that one, the other one. God, I haven't even had lunch."

He saw movement out of the coerner of his eye and practically pounced on the poor soul with his words. "You! Pickle? No? Sorry, that's the hunger talking. Picallo? Seriously? Like the Dragon Ball Z guy? Whatever, I want you to go down to tower nine and check the equipment -- there has to be a physical reason that section is draining more power than the others. Hellooo! Hurry up -- ZedPMs don't grow on trees, you know! I don't care what Zelenka told you to work on -- I outrank him, and I'm telling you to go to the tower. Do you want to get paid? I thought so!"

Rodney turned back to the screen and scowled. The feeling was back. "God, I swear like there was something I intended to do today, and I can't think of what. Knowing my luck, it was some important systems check, and now we're all going to die a horrible death because all of Atlantis' warranties just expired at once!" He heard a beep, and turned to another workstation, where Simpson was standing. "What did you do??"

"Nothing, I--"

"I know that beep! That beep is not good!" He started to move towards her, only to nearly trip on someone who was kneeling down, working at a panel. "Excuse me, what are you doing? Did the IOA send you to be underfoot? Is it 'Let's annoy McKay and make him have an anyerism' day? What are you doing?"

"I--"

"I specifically told you to go to tower nine!"

"Actually, that was Picallo. You told me to check the relays in this panel ten minutes ago."

"And you're still working on it? My god, do I have to do everything myself?"

Simpson's panel beeped again.

"Get away from that! Shoo!" he told her, hurrying over and quickly pressing buttons. "If I didn't know better, I'd swear you were trying to blow us up on purpose!" he snapped.

"It's just the garbage disposal -- you told me to look at making it's power usage more efficient," she insisted.

"Well, I hardly see as how nearly blowing it up makes it more efficient!" He putzed with it for a while. "There. yet another crisis averted. Now can I get back to averting the other crisis, or would all of you like to sabotage the city some more and maybe sink us? God, I'm hungry. Think you can handle this for half an hour?" he asked Miko, pointing the to screen he was looking at before Simpson's interruption.

Miko gave him a look like a dear caught in headlights. Stomach rumbling, Rodney lay his hands on her shoulders. "It's okay, Miko, you can do this. I trust you." At least enough to leave the system long enough to get some food.

"Let me get you something to eat, Doctor McKay!" she suggested.

He considered it a moment. "Nah, that's okay -- I really need a break, I'm getting crosseyed. Besides, I want some real food -- I've been living on powerbars for days!"

"I can get you anything you want!" Miko insisted.

"Well, that's just the thing -- I don't know what I want!" he said, trying to get around her.

"If you could just show me how to do this one more time," she insisted.

Rodney sighed. "Is there a gas leak in here? Is that what's making everyone so brain-dead? Look, I need to eat now, before I pass out and you all die a horrible death because I was in a coma and therefore unable to stop some crisis. You'll manage, Miko -- thats an order!" Grabbing her shoulders again, he gently moved her aside and walked to the exit.

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ltcol_sheppard
2008-04-20 08:09 pm UTC (link)

As Rodney left the lab, Miko tapped her headset. "He's leaving the lab!" she said frantically, not knowing what else to do to stop him.

"I've got him," Chuck replied from the control room as he tracked McKay's movements and relayed the information onwards.

"Colonel, McKay's on the move and he's headed straight for you," he said into Sheppard's headset.

John had just set down a box of party goods on one of the tables when he got Chuck's infomation.

"Crap," he said in looking around quickly to see who he could divert to incerpt Rodney.

The first person he noticed was the motuary tech Desjardins. "Nicole," he said in walking towards her. "McKay's on his way. I need to you to run interference. Make any excuse you can to keep him out of the mess hall. Think you can handle that?" he asked.

While Sheppard was talking to Desjardins, Ronon began digging through the box the Colonel had deposited removing it's contents. One item in particular got his attention, a DVD.

"What's this?" he asked as Major Lorne came over to help him unload.

Lorne took the item and chuckled as he looked at. "The 40 Year Old Virgin. Colonel Sheppard thought it would be appropiate to show," he smirked in setting it down, then picked up some other stuff to take over to the decorating crew.

	dr_weir 2008-04-22 12:23 pm UTC (link)
	Elizabeth chuckled. "I'm afraid you'd have to ask Colonel Sheppard about that. This is deviousness far past my ability," she said with a sly look to the aforementioned officer. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	callmetobias 2008-04-28 09:24 pm UTC (link)
	Tobias nodded, he was adapting and getting used to Atlantis slowly but surely. He wouldn't change in a day, not after living for nearly 7 years in a tree in a meadow, but being inside was less scary than it was, though he stayed well away from the med labs unless he absolutely had to. "He's nice," neurotic, but nice, at least to Tobias. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)