She blinked as the lights went out and the dim emergency lighting came flickering on. She twitched slightly. She had been hiding in a storage closet so she could think.  Dr. Lee had gone to a meeting with O’Neill. She wondered how much he would get the laid back General about their latest failures.<br/><br/>She slowly went through the list in her head. Fire no. Acetic acid no. Bleach no. Copper no. Sulfate no.  Ammonia no. She had even tried an old alcohol mixture that someone had told her once. Still the vine was taking over. She had suggested cutting the lights in a last effort to at least slow the growth down.<br/><br/>Dr. Lee was hopeful that someone would think of something before it reached any of the main systems?. Dr. Green decided the best course of action was to go tell the kitchen to stop serving salad in hopes it would calm the plant, if it could think. She wouldn’t like it either if it were sentient and people where eating something that looked very similar.<br/><br/>Kelly was unaware of how the plant had already reached a system involving the gate. The officers in the control room frantically worked to get the gate operational again without overloading the system. They only managed to get it halfway working. They now could do everything but dial out.<br/><br/>