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Alpha Mag – 1652 GMT
Brigadier General James Tundra, USAF walked down the cold, damp hallways of Alpha Mag, a base on Alpha III, a planet on the very edge of the galaxy. Alpha Mag was a secondary base, made up of solders who gave up on the hope that Earth would be resurrected.
Three years earlier, the Stargate Program was initiated at Earth. It was a secret government project based in Cheyenne Mountain in Cheyenne, Wyoming. The Stargate is an ancient teleporter device, allowing the teleportation from one planet to another. A couple months after, an asteroid struck the planet. All that survived were those brave warriors inside Stargate Command at the time.
Tundra was a Lieutenant Colonel at the time. He was off world on a planet that a team called SG-1 was before. They were distributing trade supplies to the planet's inhabitants. When they arrived back at the Stargate on that world, they were told the news.
A year and several promotions later, Tundra decided to set up a secondary military site. With no support at all from the remaining military members, Tundra set off to Alpha III. He left with Captian Jeffrey Francis Link, USAF, and Sergeant First Class Henry Dockson, USA. When they arrived, they found a run down base, which was probably once used by an ancient race. After cleaning it up, they contacted the SGC for supplies and crew.
With repair in full swing, Tundra had it easy. All he did was walk around, made sure things were on schedule, and check up on finished projects. With the iris instillation almost complete, the Stargate came to life as an outbound connection made it through.
A team of Jaffa, along with a Jaffa in gold armor, walked through. They opened fire on any human they saw. Link ran to the iris control center and closed all the blast doors as Dockson rushed to the gate room with a platoon of soldiers. However, their weapons were useless to the armor of the enemy forces. Link looked at the cameras placed in the gate room to see the outcome. He saw Dockson get shot at by the energy weapons. He looked behind him and saw similar weapons sitting on the ground. Maybe it was their base.
Link grabbed the Staff Weapon and the Zat'n'ikatel and called for his squad over the radio. They too found similar weapons in the armory. They took time to get acquainted with the weapons, since the enemy wasn't going anywhere with locked doors. They then opened the doors and opened fire on the enemy. The Jaffa in the gold armor looked at Link.
"Who are you?" Link asked
"I am Lord Baal. You refuse to bow down to your god and fight instead?"
"Never heard of ya," Link replied firing the Zat at him. One of the Jaffa jumped in the line of fire, taking the hit. Baal ordered his remaining troops to dial out, for this battle would be lost. Giving suppressing fire, they dialed back to their world and left through the Stargate. It wouldn't be the last time they saw Baal.
However, that was two years ago. Times were different then than they were now. The SGC is now over run with rookie military members thinking they know everything to know when out in the field. Colonel Link's squad was stuck in a different galaxy after finding out their purple crystal, required to get to other galaxies, was drained. Tundra was busy forming a trade alliance with another system lord, Lord Osiris. Baal was still out there and was gathering more members by the day.
When Tundra arrived back, their base had been on shut down for the couple of weeks. It wasn't until long he figured their crystal was drained.
Planet X – 1703 GMT
Planet X was a terrible planet to dial to. It was like living in a large barn stable. Unless you like hay, there wasn't much else to eat. Colonel Link, Captain Jack Smith, Technical Sergeant Jim Watson, and Second Lieutenant Randy Green were just sitting in the hay. They couldn't go anywhere. Ascian was another planet controlled by Baal, Hutchsonia was an abandoned planet, with an active iris and no way to receive the codes to lower it, and Atlantis was over run with the same idiotic crew from the SGC.
"This sucks," Green stated.
"Yeah," Watson agreed. "Why are we here again?"
"Well, we were chased by the Jaffa, so- we're here" Link informed.
The Stargate came to life as they jumped for cover.
"Colonel Link, you there?" a voice came through the radio. They all sighed and came out from cover as Link grabbed his radio.
"Hey, nice to hear from you, Straw," Link replied.
Tundra was given the nickname Strawgate, or simply Straw, by the Alpha Mag members during a meeting one day. Tundra kept saying "Strawgate" instead of "Stargate" during the briefing. It's a name that just stuck.
"Well, I figured you'd be here. What's the matter?" Tundra replied.
"Um, well- we're stuck here."
"Stuck?"
"Yeah, Link's crystal ran out of juice," Green got in her radio.
"Hang on a second," Tundra replied. A few moments later, a purple crystal, carried by two hands, appeared from the Stargate. Link walked over and picked it up as the hands disappeared.
"Thanks Straw," Link replied as the Stargate shut off. "Green, dial home," Link said, handing Green the crystal.
"Yes sir," she replied.
Alpha Mag – 1826 GMT
Being the Iris Control Operator was tough work, and Link never liked it. But, it was a job to do and someone had to do it.
Major Dave Derkis walked into the control room, "Hey Link," Derkis replied.
"Oh, hey Derkis. What's up?" Link asked, getting his feet off of the console.
"Did you hear the news? P2X887 has a command ship resting on the surface. AM-2 went to investigate, and it was abandoned. Guess what that means."
"Uh, full months of shore leave with pay?" Link asked.
"No, that means werestealing itso that we can bring it back to Alpha Mag."
Link looked at him. "If you think that I'm-"
"You're already cleared," Derkis smiled.
"Then I'll dial out to somewhere, get radiation poisoning and-"
"Your papers are already in, you're cleared. Even if you die, we'll be lugging your dead carcass onboard the Ha'tak."
Link glared at him. Derkis then realized it was safer to talk to Link from the other side of the bulletproof glass.
Hours passed as Link continued to stare at the inactive Stargate. At least Tundra could have given some other menial work for him to do.
Green walked in the control room. "Hey Link" she said.
"Hey Green," Link replied back. Link and Green knew each other for a long time. They used to go to the same High School back in Maine. He was a year older than her and enlisted in the United States Air Force Academy. When he graduated, he was a Second Lieutenant. He was stationed at a base in Alaska for a while. A couple years passed as he was promoted to 2nd Lieutennant. It was then he was transferred to the SGC.
About the same time, Link had been writing letters to Green. He really wanted her to join with her since they lived so far apart. She enlisted in the Air Force, but not in the academy. After completing boot camp, she was given the duty of entrance guard to Cheyenne Mountain. She was told that everything would be explained to her when she arrived. Green didn't feel that great. She'd been asking the Air Force officers on the location of Link, but all the kept saying is that he was on a classified mission.
Link's "classified mission" was on Tundra's SG-8 team. Tundra, then Colonel, was the team commander with Link, now 1st Lieutennant, along with Smith and Watson.
Green was on the night shift patrol. She never liked the night, since it was cold, but someone had to do it. Inside the SGC, which was unknown to her, they were under a barrage of fire from Jaffa. They somehow were able to penetrate the iris and start an assault. SG-8 was off site at the time when they got the call. Link hopped into his car and sped off to Cheyenne Mountain.
Green saw the car speeding up to the gate. It was one she didn't recognize. She closed the gate and stood on the outside with her rifle pointed.
"Stand down, Airman!" Link shouted, not knowing who it was. The ID scanner outside scanned the ID bar on the top windshield, recognized it, and opened the gate. But Green wasn't going to let him in. She stood on the outside, not even knowing there was an ID scanner. Link stopped the car and got out. "Listen, there's an emergency-" he stopped and looked at the Airman's name on the jacket. "Randy?" he asked.
"Jeff?" Green asked back.
The two hugged each other until Link said, "What the hell are you doing here?"
"I got stationed here for outside guard duty for, whatever's inside," she replied.
"You mean you don't know what's inside there?" he asked.
"No, uh," she looked at his pins on his uniform, "Lieutennant?"
"Oh, well," Link said rubbing the back of his neck, "that's uh… nothing. Listen, I need your help. Come with me," he said getting back into his car. Green got on the other side and he drove in into the mountain's parking area. They both jumped out and ran to the elevator.
He got to sub-basement 14, an armory site. Green was amazed at the vast amount of tunnels. He grabbed a MP5 and two Zat guns, giving one to Green. "Here, press this button," the Zat gun popped up, "then press this button to fire," he said demonstrating the Zat Gun. "One hit stuns them, two hits kills them. Three hits turn them into self-disintegrating bad guys, leaves only the fresh scent of pine."
Green looked at him oddly.
The two helped one another out as they joined up with the rest of SG-8. With all the SG teams, they helped repel the entire Jaffa. Later, Green was commended for her acts of duty. She was promoted to Staff Sergeant and was put on Gate Security, after being explained what the Stargate Program was. In the months to come,Captain Link put in a request Senior Master Sergeant Green to be put on SG-8.