The Road to...
Chapter one
...USAF or NASA
Teal'c pushed open the heavy door into the briefing room. The rest of his team was already there, seated around the polished wood table. The tall, dark-skinned Jaffa went and sat next to DanielJackson. Apparently an argument was already well under way.
O'Neill seemed very indignant and was having trouble acting subordinate to General Hammond. "What moron decided that!" he all but shouted.
General Hammond interrupted, "I told you, this just came in from Washington. We don't even know if this isn't just a clerical error, Colonel."
"Have you ever heard of a clerical error that switched Air Force rations for astronaut food!" jack demanded.
The General was clearly becoming frustrated. He tried his best to bring the situation back under control. "Now, Colonel, it does not matter why it happened. We just have to deal with it until I can fix the problem."
But jack did not seem to hear. He turned to Sam, sitting on his other side and asked, "Carter, have you ever heard of an Air Force base being sent food meant for NASA?"
"Uh...no, sir." she answered.
"See! It just doesn't happen! It's not like we're at McDonalds and they got our order wrong. We should find out who was behind this..." O'Neill continued to rant.
A little bit confused, Teal'c turned an inquisitive look to DanielJackson.
He pushed his glasses up on his nose and explained what was going on in a slightly annoyed but resigned tone, He told his friend, "Astronauts can't eat normal food in a zero G environment, so they have this special packaged food, Which, apparently has been sent to the SGC and now that's all we have to take off-world."
"Oh." Teal'c looked back up towards the head of the table where Hammond had just decided to let O'Neill vent for a few minutes. Sam looked like she thought the situation was kinda funny but awkward and she just wanted to get on with the briefing.
Jack was saying, "...was probably some good-for-nothing paper-pushing jerk who read 'Stargate: used to travel huge distances between stars' then realized that stars are in outer space. So us travelers should eat space food."
"Are you finished?" General Hammond asked.
"...Yes, sir." said Jack.
"Good. Then let's continue this briefing," he said, "You may begin, Dr. Jackson."
Teal'c decided that this was probably not the best time to inquire as to if astronaut food would include ice cream.
AN: Hey, if ya'll like this, I can post more! This is only the begging, the real story has yet to start!