Escaping Through the Gate

Epilogue

The unthinkable had happened, Anakin Skywalker was a sith, Janine saw it with her own eyes. She may have been only a Padawan, but she was in charge with watching the youngest children, and she would keep them safe. And not by confronting Skywalker. She held a secret that had been told to her by her master when the war had started, there was a secret way out. Not just out of the building, the city, or the planet, but out of this galaxy.

It was a Stargate. A thousand years ago, when the Jedi order was young, and the sith still a great danger in the galaxy, they had met an ancient technologically advanced race, who had granted them a gift, a Stargate which they could use if they ever needed an escape route. And she needed it now. Her master, Sper Gi Sion, a former padawan to the great Yoda, had entrusted her with the knowledge of the ancient portal to another galaxy that Yoda had entrusted to Master Sion. It was a secret that Yoda had only told the one, as he did not believe that his padawan, now known as Count Dooku, was worthy of such secret knowledge.

But now, while Master Sion went forward with the other Jedi knights and their padawans, she was entrusted with all of the children, ages 8 down to the toddlers, with getting them to safety. She was a fourteen year old girl.

While she could hear her friends and fellow warriors die at the hand of a man she had looked up to for years, she lead the thirty children left in the temple down to the basement. She was carrying two of the babies too small to travel quickly with them, as the children who were 7 and 8 years old were helping with the younger children.

They made it to the lift that was normally used for cargo without being seen, and they made it to the basement, where Janine Char had been shown last year by her Master. They had to go through a tunnel which only opened with a code: MJ503KL, and a fingerprint, which hers had been added to when they had last been down here.

The large door opened to reveal a large metal ring, that was their way out. "All right, This is the Stargate, it will take us away from here, to another planet. I am going to dial to Earth, where we are going, but I want you to stand by the wall when the gate activates, I need to contact the people on the other side but as soon as I say, walk through the gate as fast as you can, I don't know how much time we'll have before someone hears the gate, everyone in? I'm going to shut and lock the door, I know most of you are scared. This is probably a one way trip, and we may never be able to return, but I want you all to think about your lesions. Remember what Master Yoda always says, 'feel the force flowing through everything we must,' Now, here goes nothing." Janine walked to the gate, and looked at the panel that had lit up when she approached. The children moved to either wall, clutching each other, especially the younger ones. She could see the fear in their eyes so she turned back to them, "And remember to push back your fear like Yoda always says, 'fear turns to hate, hate turns to anger, anger turns to the dark side.'" With no more time to give a pep talk, she pushed the coordinates that her master had her memorized and when the eight coordinates were put in, the gate stopped spinning, and water came out of the gate, showing what her master had called the event horizon.

Stargate Command

Siler watched as the gate activated after the eighth chevron had locked when Hammond asked Siler answered, "Sir, unauthorized incoming wormhole, and it's an eight coordinate gate address. But it's not Atlantis."

"Close the iris."

"Sir, we have an incoming radio transmission, "Hello, this is the Jedi Temple, I am the Padawan Janine Car with the children, we are under attack. It's been one thousand years since we contacted your planet, but I was told to radio you before walking through just in case there was something in front of the gate."

Hammond answered, "This is General Hammond, I am I command of the Stargate Command of the planet earth, who's in charge there?"

"I was entrusted with the children, to get them to safety, the temple is under attack. Please, we can hear the storm troopers coming down here, they probably can hear my comm. transmission."

"Open the iris," he ordered Siler, "You may come through,"

With that, Hammond ran down to the gate room, being met my O'Neill, Carter, Jackson, and Teal'c. "What's going on sir?"

"A girl dialed the gate, she said that they were under attack, and she was told to bring the children here to safety, I think she may have been told to contact us, because they knew the Ancients a thousand years ago." They entered the gate room to see children, dozens of them, coming through the gate, from age 8 to infant, and then a fourteen year old girl came through. Shut it down, their right behind us, DUCK!" Obeying the order, everyone in the room hit the dirt, as energy bursts came through the gate until Siler shut down the gate.

Jack looked at the teenager, a little younger than Cassie, "Lucy, I think you've got some 'splaining to do…"

TBC…

What do you think? The idea came when reading an altered star wars universe fic by Scott Ferguson. (great stories!) Hope you enjoyed, what do you think, and any one interested in being a beta for this story? Email me! And REVIEW, REVIEW, REVIEW!