SG-1 are sitting around the table in the briefing room waiting to brief O'Neill on the details of their next mission before they head off through the Stargate, they've been waiting for nearly half an hour.
O'Neill comes out of his office carrying some files, he walks over and closes the briefing room door and then dismisses the S.O standing near the staircase, "Thank you Sgt., you can take a break now." he says.
O'Neill goes over to the table, pulls out his chair and sits down placing the files on the table in front of him.
"Is this going to take long Sir, we're due to depart in a few minutes." asks Mitchell.
O'Neill sits with his arms on the table and hands together, "The missions been assigned to another team, you won't be going through the gate for a little while." he says.
Everyone looks at each other confused, "Sir?" asks Carter, "Why not?" asks Daniel.
"Some things come up." says O'Neill, he picks up a remote control from the side of the table and turns off the lights, "Watch this." he says.
A video is projected on a screen at the end of the room, it shows a hospital ward and as the camera pans around they see two boys and three girls laying in beds, a doctor is walking around the beds and examining them, he speaks...
"Heart rate, blood pressure, breathing are all fine.." the doctor looks over to a medical device with paper coming out of it, he lifts up and looks at the paper, "..brain activity is non existent."
They see the doctor continue to examine all the boys and girls and they all appear fit and healthy but have no brain activity, "They shouldn't even be alive." says the doctor.
O'Neill stops the video and turns back on the lights, everyone still looks confused, "Who were they Sir?" asks Carter.
O'Neill starts reading names on the files in front of him and sliding them across the table as he does...
"Stewart McKensie, Age 17
Andrew Henderson, Age 16
Sally Margaret Johnson, Age 16
Annabell Moran, Age 17
Katherine Hillary Straus, Age 16
...All of them admitted to hospital in the last 3 weeks, and all of them in the exact same condition."
"That's terrible Sir, but what has that got to do with us?." asks Mitchell.
"All of these kids were admitted to the same hospital in the same town, three of them were found unconscious in school." says O'Neill.
"Did they all go to the same school?" asks Carter.
"Yes." replies O'Neill.
Daniel leans on the table with his arms together, "Still...what does this have to do with us?" he asks.
O'Neill opens another file in front of him, "Tests were carried out on all these kids, they found something they couldn't identify and after making a few calls they sent samples of blood off to another lab to see if they could identify what it was, the lab just happened to be run by the military...we checked the samples four times to make sure...but all five were found to have traces of Naquadah in their blood." he explains.
"Goa'uld?" asks Mitchell.
"No. They were scanned and subjected to dozens of tests, they didn't find any trace of symbiotes or entry wounds anywhere on any of them." says O'Neill.
"Then how did the Naquadah get in to their blood?" asks Vala.
O'Neill rolls his hands, "We don't know. But I'm guessing it has something to do with whatever happened to these kids." he says, "Units were sent out to sweep the town, school and the immediate area but found nothing, no Goa'uld, no strange energy readings..nothing." he adds.
He goes on to tell them that the local police took statements from people in regards to the kids that were found unconscious at the school but no one saw anything and no one heard anything, the kids were just found in their present condition with no explanation of how or why this happened.
O'Neill puts another file on the table, "This morning Mrs Peterson went upstairs to wake up her daughter for school, but couldn't wake her up, in a panic she called an ambulance and when they got to the hospital her daughter was found to be in the same condition as the others." explains O'Neill.
"What do we do Sir?" asks Carter.
"Well, given that all the victims so far are kids and three of them were found in school, I think it's safe to say that someone at that school knows what's going on." says O'Neill, "Now we can't just burst in there an interrogate everyone, so we're going undercover." he adds.
"Undercover?" asks Daniel.
"Yes." replies O'Neill, he passes Mitchell a file, "You'll be the schools new assistant football coach.".
He passes a file to Daniel, "You'll be the substitute History teacher, while the real ones...on vacation." he says.
"Vala, you'll be working in the kitchens. Teal'c, you'll be the school's Janitor." says O'Neill.
"Does it have to be the kitchens?" asks Vala.
"Yes." replies O'Neill, "It's the only position available, we can't replace too many key staff without arousing suspicion." he says.
"Fine." says an unhappy Vala.
"What about us Sir?" asks Carter, flicking her finger back and forth at Alisana.
O'Neill looks at Carter, "You'll be with me." he says.
"As what Sir?" asks Carter, O'Neill throws her a file with her information, she opens and looks at it, "We're married?!" she says shockingly as she looks back at O'Neill.
O'Neill smiles cheekily yet with a lot of pleasure, "Yes." he says joyfully, "We'll be playing the parts of Mr and Mrs Thompson." he explains.
Everyone else chuckles when they hear that, Carter looks around at everyone with a slightly annoyed look on her face, "What about her?" she says, pointing at Alisana.
"She'll be going undercover as a new student at the school." says O'Neill.
Alisana looks horrified, "School?" she says.
"...and our daughter." says O'Neill.
"What?" says Carter, "What?" says Alisana, "Our daughter?" says Carter, "Mom?" says Alisana.
Vala sits back in her chair, too happy to be bothered about the kitchen job, "Oh this is going to be fun." she says with a big smile.
O'Neill covers his ears for a moment to block out the whining, "Alright, alright...LOOK...our covers have already been established so it's too late to change them now." he says, "We leave this afternoon, read your files, get to know your cover stories inside and out...meetings over." he says as he gets up and walks back in to his office.
"Yes Sir." says Carter, "Mom." says Alisana with a smile, "Oh please don't. I'm too young to be your mother anyway." says Carter.
After spending time reading and memorising their cover stories, Carter, Alisana and O'Neill get on a plane and head off on their undercover mission, the others will join them in a few hours. As they get off the plane at a small West Virginia airport they get in to a car parked waiting for them outside, it's a Volvo, nothing too flashy.
They head off and drive for a couple of hours until they reach a narrow country road surrounded by trees and woodland at either side, as they approach the top of a hill they see the small town below and a large lake at it's edge, they pass a sign as they drive down the road in to town, the sign says "Welcome to Sunny Springs, Pop: 7,241".
As they drive through the main streets of the town they see cafés, a bar, grocery stores, antique stores, a garage, it's very picturesque and a nice little town, continuing on they see a beautiful white church, a large town hall and a school, they drive through the residential roads passing lots of nice houses until they reach their new home for the remainder of their stay, a removal truck is outside unloading furniture.
They pull up to the curb and get out of the car, "Seems like a nice quiet town." says Carter.
A woman is sitting in a chair out on her porch, "Hello there." she shouts as she comes down and walks across her lawn to greet them.
"Hello." says O'Neill.
"It's lovely having new neighbours." says the woman, "I'm Maggie...Maggie Adams." she says.
"Pleased to meet you." says O'Neill, he stands there for a few seconds in silence, "OH...err..sorry I'm Jack, this is my wife Samantha...and our daughter Alisana." he says, introducing everyone.
"Well I won't keep you, I can see you have a lot of stuff to move in here. I just wanted to say hi and welcome you to Sunny Springs." says Maggie
"Thank you, it was lovely meeting you." says Carter.
As Maggie turns around and heads back to her porch, O'Neill, Carter and Alisana head upto the house, "I'm going to find my room." says Alisana as she runs up the stairs with her bags.
O'Neill and Carter are stood at the door, O'Neill is giving Carter a strange look, "What?" asks Carter, "Want me to carry you over the threshold?" says O'Neill with a cheeky smile, Carter shakes her head and laughs "I think we can skip that tradition." she says and then steps inside.
The removal men finish unloading the furniture and as it starts to get dark they all settle in to their new home, tomorrow Alisana will go to school and together with Daniel, Teal'c, Mitchell and Vala will try to discover what is happening to the kids of Sunny Springs.