Title: Stranded - Lightning
Author: Lt.Kara.Thrace
Rating: PG-13
Pairing: Jack/Sam
Genre: Romance/Humor
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Summary: The team is split up when a lightning bolt strikes the gate while they are in the wormhole returning home.
Author's Note: I have fixed the GDO, DHD error and tried to make this chapter more realistic. The other chapters are in progress. I welcome contructive critisism it helps make my stories better so please review.
Sg-1's code had just come through and the iris opened, when the gate began to overload and disengaged prematurely blowing a lot of the gate room equipment.
"What happened lieutenant?" general Hammond demanded.
"I'm not sure, sir, the whole system's shutdown and a lot of the equipment has been fried."
"Can you redial?"
"No sir, we have to replace all the damaged equipment and reboot the entire system I'd say 24 hours at the least and that is wishful thinking."
"Do it." The general hit the button for inter-base broadcast, "Sg-4 report to the briefing room immediately."
A few minutes later in the briefing room…
"Your mission is to search for any sign of Sg-1. Re-establish contact every hour on the hour," ordered general Hammond, "You will disembark when the gate is fully operational. Dismissed"
On a distant world located somewhere in the distant reaches of the universe, colonel Jack O'Neill stepped through the stargate, not noticing that the wormhole disengaged earlier than usual. He did however notice the unusual location. He was standing in the middle of a humid, forest with a muddy lake nearby.
Jack was confused, "Carter, this doesn't look anything like the world the MALP surveyed or the gate room, what's going on?" He turned to where his team should have been standing but he was all alone, "Carter? Daniel? Teal'C? Anyone?" he shouted, sending the birds in the trees nearby flying from nearby trees, squawking.
He heard twigs snapping to his right. He turned, aiming his gun ready to shoot anything that moved, "You there! Come out!" He called, but there was no answer and the noises had stopped. Not lowering his guard or his gun, he took a cautious step forwards towards where the noises had come from.
Snap!
A twig snapped behind him. He whirled around, but he was a second too late. All he saw was a large hairy black shape, with its claws flashing, about to hit him. Jack was knocked to the ground hard. His gun flew from his grip, and into the lake, now only a few feet away. The beast was on his chest preventing him from recovering from having the wind being knocked out of him.
He head butted it hard, sending a searing pain through his forehead, but knocking it the creature far enough back to kick it. As the beast flew off him, it tried to hold on with its claws, but failed and only succeeded in cutting his chest severely. Jack cried out in pain and struggled to his feet, gasping for breath. The beast had been merely dazed.
Jack used the opportunity to climb the nearest tree. It was a long painful process, as his chest scraped against the tree several times. He was still dizzy from the head butt, slowing his progress. He finally reached a strong, high branch that would support his weight and inched out onto it.
After catching his breath, Jack looked down to the base of the tree. The beast had recovered and was circling the tree growling, and every once in a while jumping up, and snapping its jaws at him, revealing long, pointy white teeth.
He looked out to the horizon. The sun had just risen and the sky was a perfect azure blue without a cloud in sight (the sun is a blue sun). When he thought about it, it was a weird swamp, there were no pesky bugs trying to eat him alive. It was also dryer than usual, but he wasn't complaining. If he had not been attacked, if he was not in a tree bleeding and if there was no vicious beast circling below waiting for a shot at him he might have been having a good time.
Major Samantha Carter stepped out of the star gate noticing that it disengaged sooner earlier than usual, but put that in the back of her mind as soon as she saw the landscape. Instead of the lush green fields the MALP video feed has sent back or the gate room there was only mist lots and lots of mist.
"Sir…" Sam broke off as she turned to where her superior officer - colonel O'Neill and the rest of Sg-1 should have been standing if they were there. "Sir? Daniel? Teal'C? Are you here?" There was no reply; in fact it was only eerily silent. She reached for her GDO, muttering to herself, "I'll just dial Earth and…my GDO?" Carter's GDO was on the ground in front of her barely visible but obviously a heat distorted blob of half melted material. In case someone came looking for her she wouldn't stray far from the gate but had to get far enough away as not to be disintegrated when it activated. Carter held her gun at the ready and slowly moved forward into the mist.
Daniel and Teal'C were hurled out of the gate violently, and into some shallow murky water. As they got to their feet Daniel commented surprisingly lightly, "Well that was unusual."
"Indeed. Daniel Jackson are you aware of the small insect all over your body?"
Daniel froze not daring to look down at himself, "What bugs?" He looked at Teal'C instead, "Umm… Teal'C."
"Yes?"
"Are they are wiggling beetle- like creatures?"
"Indeed they are but you did not look at them."
"You have them all over you too."
"Perhaps they are the cause of the unusual itching sensation I am experiencing."
"Itching? Come to think of it I kind of feel itchy…oh no! They are biting us, quick brush them off!" After stepping out of the water and getting debugged they looked around. All they could see was a dense forest, "Teal'C I think we ended up at the wrong place this isn't the planet we were on or the gate room."
"I agree shall we dial Earth now?"
"Let's."
In the gate room...
"Sg-4 you have a go and good luck."
Once again in the briefing room…
"No traces at all?"
"No sir."
"Alright all of you can go, except lieutenant Williams," ordered general Hammond.
The other three members filed out, "Yes sir?" inquired lieutenant Williams.
"I want you to start running computer models of any possibilities of what happened to Sg-1 and determine the source of the overload."
"I'll start right away sir."
"Report any progress to me as soon as you can."
"Yes sir."
"Unauthorized off world activation," boomed a voice over the loud speakers.
"Dismissed." General Hammond rushed to the gate room.
As he entered he saw Daniel and Teal'C standing on the ramp sporting torn uniforms, dripping wet and covered in itchy red spots, "Stand down," he ordered the guards, "Teal'C, Daniel report to the infirmary immediately. You look very itchy."
"Yes sir." They both left, walking very stiffly.
He went back to his office and found lieutenant Williams waiting for him, "You have something already?"
"Yes sir I have the cause of the surge and two likely possibilities of what happened to Sg-1."
"That was fast."
"When the MALP surveyed P2J867 there was a storm approaching and that's why Sg-1 was coming back early. I suspect a lightning bolt hit the gate and caused it to overload when Sg-1 was already in the wormhole."
"That makes sense but what happened to Sg-1?"
"The first possibility is that they ended up on a planet in between Earth and their destination."
"Suppose that theory is correct, but why wouldn'y colonel O'Neill and major Carter have reported back by now? Daniel and Teal'C just arrived back so it's obvious the team was split up."
"Their GDO's may have been damaged by the lightning."
"Then why would Daniel and Teal'C still have their GDO's in working order?"
"Luck, the shock that could have damaged the GDO's may have just missed them."
"Alright see if you can figure out where Colonel O'Neill and Major Carter have ended up." General Hammond left his office and headed for the infirmary to check up on Daniel and Teal'C
TBC
