John smiled as he looked around at the quiet meadow surrounding him. He lowered his P-90 and studied the area. The Stargate stood in the center of a large field surrounded on all sides by thick trees. The area immediately around the gate looked well cared for. Huge stone pillars stood in a ring around the gate with a paved walkway leading up to the gate.
"Well someone takes care of the place," John glanced back at his team who were also looking around the area.
"Hmm, yet another undeveloped planet," Rodney muttered.
"Samuels, Baker you're on gate duty. The rest of you let's look around," John started walking across the field.
"I doubt we're going to find anything at all. From the readings that I'm getting there's nothing here that's worth looking for," Rodney stated.
"Well then it may make a good alpha site or a place for refugees to settle," John pointed out.
"I have more important things to be doing than going on nature hikes," Rodney muttered.
"McKay quit complaining and tell me what you're reading."
"Life signs all over the place which is normal since we're standing next to a forest."
"Let me know if anything strange shows up," John replied as he stepped into the tree line with Rodney right behind him. Teyla and Ronon followed close behind.
"So you two know anything about this planet?" John looked back at Teyla and Ronon.
"I have never met anyone who came from this planet," Teyla answered.
"I don't think so," Ronon replied.
"What's that supposed to mean?" Rodney looked over at him.
"That the stones looked familiar."
"So you've been here before?" John glanced back at Ronon.
"No, on Telos the gate is within sight of the capital city," Ronon kept his gaze on the forest around them.
"Perhaps the people of this planet are similar to the people of Telos," Teyla suggested.
"I hope not," Ronan muttered.
"Why?" John glanced back at him.
"Because the Telosians do not take kindly to strangers."
"How unkindly do they take to strangers?" John stopped.
"Well they'll kill us before we leave the planet," Ronan replied.
"But you said you've never been to this address, so this can't be Telos, right?" John looked back at Ronan.
"The Telosians never told anyone their gate address. We would meet them on a planet and then they would blindfold us and dial the gate," Ronan answered.
"Why would they do that?" Rodney asked.
"Because if no one knows where you're from they can't tell the Wraith where to find you," Ronan looked back at the three who were all staring at him.
"So this could be a planet full of people who really do not want us to be here and will kill us if they find us?" John started to raise his weapon.
"I would put that down Sheppard," Ronan dropped his gun onto the ground.
"Ronan what are you doing?" John demanded.
"Trying not to get killed," Ronan put both his hands in the air.
"Sheppard there are people in the trees," Rodney pointed up into the branches.
John looked and could see what he hadn't before. They were surrounded. Men crouched on thick tree branches all around them. There were at least twenty that he could count and he had the distinct impression that more men were hiding just out of sight in the leafy trees. John cursed silently and started trying to form a plan to get back to the gate without getting killed.