Teyla positions herself to walk beside Jenna.

And Ronon takes up the rear on his guard for shenanigans.

And Jenna will... walk in the middle, she supposes! That probably makes sense, they're standing to protect her and while she is good in a fight (she sparred yesterday! It was weirdly fun!) she doesn't really look like she's good in a fight and also she's probably not as good as her new friends yet. 

Also, now they're out in the light and she can get a proper look at John's face... wow, okay, she hadn't expected to find him cute, but she very much does. He's not big and muscular like Ronan is but he's still enjoyable to look at for other reasons. She apparently has choices now for who she can fall in love with and maybe possibly kiss or touch or marry and she was not expecting choices! She probably shouldn't string the both of them along like a harlot (she did pick the thing where they'd be attracted to her too right?) but she doesn't have to make her choice just yet does she? She can get to know the both of them more first. (Possibly slightly a little bit intimately first...) 

Though she should do that later, not now! Now she's supposed to be walking with her new friends to their friends and getting a tracker out of Ronon and worrying about the fact that McKay (whoever that is) is missing and looking for Ford and maybe she should be on alert rather than thinking about boys. Okay. Looking around, trying to be perceptive, while they walk. (She didn't get any improved senses, did she? Not that she can remember. Oh well.)

There's a sound almost but not quite like the sound Ronon's gun makes and Jenna hears Ronon whirl around and gasp a little. She also hears the guns he had on his shoulder clatter to the ground. Ronon is already rushing towards the attacker by the time she's fully turned around.

It's someone in the same clothes as John and Teyla. The skin around one of their eyes is weirdly swollen and they've obviously been sweating a lot. He continues shooting at the charging Ronon but Ronon mostly manages to take the hits on his already dangling right arm.

What the... fudge, fudge, fudgeitty fudgesicles! Jenna isn't sure who this is or what he's doing here but he's attacking her friend and her friend is disabled and in trouble with being already disabled and she can feel her battle senses going off and whoever this is is tough and Ronon is gonna need help. Without even taking a moment to slide her backpack off (she doesn't have the time) Jenna, following her instincts, sprints around the left hand side of Ronon to stay out of the line of fire (a concept that she can barely put words to but seems self evident at the moment) and then rockets towards the attacker, trying to split his attention between her and Ronon. 

Behind her Sheppard grabs his radio and yells "This is Sheppard. Eyes on Ford. Engaging!" even as he scrambles to grab one of the dropped guns.

Teyla being closer already has her hands on one. "Aiden please we just want to help."

Ronon snarls as he finally gets in range and tries to tackle the stranger, Ford, to the ground. It's partially successful. The gun Ford was holding goes flying and Ford stumbles a bit but it leaves Ronon in not the best position for a follow-up. Ford starts to go for another gun.

Jenna is a bit focused on other things at the moment but she still hears the words said as potential tactical information (not her normal way of looking at things, but comes naturally to her in the moment) and she determines that a) this is Ford (first name Aiden) which part of her had already suspected in the back of her mind, b) something is wrong with him, possibly mentally (which Ronan had already implied), and c) her new allies (allies? teammates, companions, friends) would prefer him alive, so she should disarm and disable only (not that she's going to kill anyone anyways!)

With the larger-scale tactical updates out of the way, the current situation is potentially dangerous for her al- for Ronon, given that he's still partly disabled and Ford is going for another weapon, and her al- new friends are unlikely to shoot into a melee with Ronon and someone they're trying to recover, and so they're unlikely to be be able to assist in the next few seconds. And so the best option available is... Jenna sprints the remaining distance to Ford in a moment, reacting before her thought completes, and tries to pull the gun away from him before he can use it on Ronan. 

Ford has failed to really learn the lesson from working with Teyla that small women are threats so he is entirely caught of guard by this event. He struggles to retain control of the gun briefly but quickly gives up in favor of attacking her with his hands. He's somehow stronger than Ronon but he's less careful and less aware of what's going on.

He's definitely stronger. Jenna tosses the gun aside (it's not an effective weapon in close combat) and though she doesn't have much difficulty blocking his attacks, her blocks are ineffective against his strength, and she can hardly find the time to get an attack through. His technique seems to be lacking, however, so the few moments she can manage to attack she uses her newfound knowledge of feints to get in an attack on his shoulder, and then his stomach. In both cases, however, her hits seem to have little effect. (What happened to make him like this?!) She can hold her own for the moment (barely, and her arms are starting to hurt), without assistance she's likely to lose this fight. But hopefully she's keeping the combatant (Aiden) sufficiently well distracted...

Ronon gets his feet under him and joins in to help, with one arm pretty thoroughly out of commission he's nowhere near his best but it's enough to take a good amount of the pressure off of Jenna.

Meanwhile Sheppard has grabbed the wraith blaster from where it fell and switched to holding that as a safer option where friendly fire is such a high risk.

With the pressure off Jenna can get more hits in, but they're still not effective against such a tough opponent, so perhaps she needs to improve her tactics. 

Oh, of course. 

Jenna feints downwards, appearing to grab a leg, but twists at the last second and slams a pair of fingers into the side of the enemy's (Aiden's!) neck where a pressure point is. And then when that staggers him only a little, she slams a foot down onto his instep, and strikes his solar plexus with the flat of her palm. 

He lets out a bit of a huffy breath and stumbles a bit more.

That's enough of an opening for Ronon to take advantage of and Ford finally hits the ground. The fight still isn't over though. Ronon struggles to keep Ford on his back even as he regains a little use of his arm and Ford tries to reverse positions.

Jenna is unlikely to be able to overpower the, to overpower Ford at the moment, given that she's just not as strong as he is. But if she wants to help she... should be able to take an arm away from him. Jenna scrambles to her knees next to Ford and pulls an arm away from him, trapping it between her legs and squeezing it between them. Her arms are ready to help overpower out if he tries to it free. They might need some additional assistance to fully incapacitate or disable the- to stop Ford. 

With Jenna's help Ronon is able to get a pretty firm grip. Ford is struggling but not able to get anywhere.

At which point, Sheppard is able to get a clean shot on Ford and hits him with the stunner several times in the head finally making him go limp.

And with the threat removed--

Jenna shakes her head as her combat senses fade away. They got him. They got... did she really do all that?? "I didn't hurt him too much," she blurts, "is he going to be okay? Also, what happened to him? I hit him in places that should have..." a picture forms in her mind of Aiden curled up on the ground in pain and she shudders. "Should have hurt him a lot more than they did," she concludes. "I'm sorry if I hurt him too much."

She was thinking very differently only a little while ago and now everything is the way it's supposed to be and she's having trouble thinking about how what she was thinking was so natural and yet completely alien. Maybe she shouldn't be in so many fights? (But she's so good at it!) If she needs to fight, though... she will. But maybe she can do other things instead on this adventure. Where they fight bad guys. 

"He got an overdose of some sort of drug the wraith inject to prolong the feeding process. We're not sure about all the details but it seems to enhance people's strength, endurance, all the classics. If it was just that we might try to use it but it also messes with your head. We're hoping we can help him detox."

"Oh." She ready needs to learn more about how this life force feeding thing works. (She's not looking forward to it, but she does want to know because she still has questions here.) "I... hope he gets better then. With the detoxing and all." 

"I hope so too." He kneels down and gets some restraints out of his vest and binds Ford's arms and legs together. He braces himself and then slings Ford over his shoulder. "Let's get to the gate."

Ronon nods. "I felt it. When I was taken a Wraith started to feed on me, still not sure why they stopped and made me a runner instead but I felt that surge at the beginning."

"Teyla radio an update please."