Waiting in his office for the time of the briefing, Hammond was going over the last mission, written mostly by Jack. almost always by Jack, why does he keep referring this planet as Sahara Two? he wondered seeing the title of the planet that Jack added for the heck of it, like he always did.
There came a knock at the door, "come in." Hammond called, Sg. Siler entered holding a few papers, "yes?" Hammond asked.
"Sir, the report from the MALP says the planet is relatively open air and very hot dry during the day, we were able to find out the time of how long it is daylight and night time, the place is as a twenty-four hour day and just under that at night." Sg. Siler said.
"Is that all Sg.?" Hammond asked seeing Sam enter the briefing room on the other side of the star map, "I do have a mission briefing to go to."
"Yes sir, that is it for right now, it wont be until later when we can find out more, only McMurdo had some odd activity not far from the research station about half an hour ago, it ended up being a power failure at the reseach site." Sg. Siler said going to the door, "I'll report back to you Sir"
Arriving from the elevator, Teal'c and Daniel waited him, "Hi guys, you been waiting long?" he asked seeing them, he then metally kicked himself as he had asked that question before, after the First Time he had downloaded all that crap on that one planet, he still had the headache from it.
"Uh, no, Teal'c and I just arrvied, I think Sam is with Gen Hammond now though, You want me to get Dianna or-" Daniel started to say when Jack cut him off.
"I'll take care of that end, I'll see everyone in the Briefing Room in five minutes" Jack said, turning to go back into the elevator, pressing the button to open the doors he had to wait a while for them to open. Not knowing that Dianna was on the floor above getting on the elevator to come down to where he was.
Teal'c spoke without prompt, which was mildly surprising. He turned his face slightly.
"Daniel Jackson, what do you know about this Dianna person who the personnel on this base is talking about? Is she some kind of expert at something as you or Major Carter is?"
Daniel had started off with Teal'c in tow, seemingly thinking about something on that planet the briefing was about. "Hm? Oh you mean Dianna, well, you know what Sam does, as well as what I do, but Dianna is more like Jack I think" he said as he and Teal'c turned a corner to go up the stairs to the Control Room, the Stargate was active, and SG-7 was just heading out on a routine scouting mission.
a man passed Daniel a report on what they just found out about the planet.
Teal'c merely looked down at the report Daniel was looking and pushed Daniel out of harm's way as Daniel was walking with his eyes on the report. Then soemthing caught Teal'c's eye. It also caught Daniel's. It was a Koroshi-ni. It meant 'turn back' but there was something else on it. It was a goa'uld writing. Teal'c translated without realising.
"The Red Devil is laid here to the eternity of banishment. In the name of Supreme System Lord Sun God Ra, System Lord Divine Emperor Yu Hwang Shang Ti, System Lord Serpernt God Apophis, System Lord Lord of the Dead Anubis, System Lord Sun Goddess Amaterasu, System Lord Osiris, System Lord Isis, System Lord Desert God Setesh, System Lord Hathor, System Lord Ares. No one must wake the dreaded Red Devil and must abandon this world in the pain of death."
There was a pause.
Sam was already in the briefing room waiting for the mission briefing to commence. She saw Siler leaving Gen. Hammond's room. Sam had her elbows resting on the table and her chin on her hand. She'd been here quite a while after finishing some data analysis from the previous mission. As the trio, Teal'c, Daniel, Gen Hammond enter the room. Sam stood up.
Daniel listened as Teal'c translated the front page, well some of it, the rest of it was numbers and some Anceint writings, though Daniel could just barely make out the rest he looked to Teal'c, "Amamzing" He said, "This guy musta been a big bad wolf to be locked up...did you say Isis?" Daniel asked, turning back to the report, as he did so he almost walked facefirst into the control room door. if Teal'c weren't there to pull him out of the way he would have busted his glasses.
Jack was still down by the elevator, only this time he had his crossword puzzle out again, after snagging a clipboard from a passing Airman Jack got back to work on it. It had been about twenty minutes since his last one and since there was nothing to do but wait for Dianna, he figured, what the heck, might as well
Lets see, Up, down, left, right, blank...oh boy Jack thought looking at the number for the puzzle, I'll get back to it later he thought going to the next one
Teal'c spoke.
"Indeed, Daniel Jackson. Some of these names are familiar to us, but to have them listed as 'System Lord' means that this happened a long time ago when Anubis was among the System Lords."
Daniel nodded as he and Teal'c started up the stairs to the briefing room, "OK Isis was found dead, but in a Stasis Jar, and Anubis was bumped off, so to speak, about just under six thousand years ago, Hmmm...there is also some Ancient writing in here too" Daniel turned a page, where it was a little more clearer, but not by much, "OK wait a second, if this was made when Anubis was a System Lord, what does this have to do with P9C-372?" He asked aloud as he and Teal'c entered the briefing room at the same time as Gen. Hammond did.
Nodding a hello to Sam who was already there waiting, "Sam, General, good morning to you" he said with a nod to both.
"Where is Colonel O'Niell?" Hammond asked seeing he was not with Daniel and Teal'c. Nodding to Sam he said, "at ease Major."
"Well Sir he um..." Daniel broke off, not sure how to tell Hammond that Jack was getting Dianna.
Dianna silded up to the elevator.
"Need me sir?" she asked.
Jack looked up from his crossword as Dianna came into view, handing the clipboard(minus the crossword) to a passing soldier Jack nodded, "yes actually, we have a mission briefing and I thought you would like to be a part of it." He said starting off to lead the way to the briefing room, "far as I know they are waiting on us."
Dianna nodded "Yes sir- sorry I'm late." She saluted.
"Don't worry about it, we're both late" Jack said opening the door leading to the control room, green."after you" /green. he said, once they were both inside they headed for the stairs to the briefing room
Heading up the stairs the two saw Daniel, Sam, Teal'c and Hammond all waiting, "Been waiting long?" Jack asked with a smile on his face.
