Chapter 2
'Sam?', Daniel is sitting next to her bed. 'What happened', Sam asks, drawing a complete blank about what happened after she Martouf in de conference room. Daniel quickly explains that she fainted, probably due to lack of sufficient amounts of food and water in the past few days. 'That is just the nice explanation for fainting like a fan girl', Sam grins ashamed. Did she indeed overreact? What did her teammates now think of her? What about Landry? And more important what about Martouf and of course Lan'tash! Will they see her now as a weak woman? She grunts uncomfortably at the idea. She makes a mental note. Another things she has to clarify and explain with the gentlemen. This time they will not leave her behind so easily! Their Sam Carter have had her chance, now it is hers!
'Teal'c!', Sam shouts as she joyfully embraces the jaffa. It is selfom, but he returns the embrace shortly before he lets go. 'How are you doing?', he asks while he looks around the gate room. 'Well, life is back to being boring again, however we had visitors this morning and I guess that General Landry will want to continue the debriefing now that you and Vala have arrived.
'Vala is back already?', the big man asks curiously.
Sam raises an eyebrow. 'Yes... why do you sound so surprised?'
'Because last time I saw her, she was running away hard from a mob of angry rich people she had just eluded in giving her all their valuables.'
'And why would she do that?'
'She told them she, personally, had rid the galaxy from the Ori.'
Sam laughs. 'It's nice to know that some things just never change.'
'Welcome back SG-1 and of course you Jack', Landry starts the debriefing again. 'As you all know, we have some visitors who came to us in distress and with a very disturbing story. They will now...
yes, Vala?'. The dark haired woman leans back in her chair while her hand is still in midair.
'Wow, how does he do that?', she asks at Daniel and Mitchell. 'Is he telepathic? He just knew I was going to raise my hand even before I knew I was going to raise my hand.'
'General Landry knew that you would raise your hand to ask a stupid question which is completely unrelated to the topic at hand, because you always raise your hand and interrupt him for a completely unrelated question', Mitchell snorts. Vala look at the man across the table with a deadly glare and focuses her attention back again to General Landry. 'You said: As you all know, but I don't know what this is all about so it's incorrect', she states.
The general looks irritated for a moment, takes a deep breath and is just about to open his mouth for a cunning reply when he is interrupted one again.
'Well, if you weren't too busy with stealing money from poor, innocent people, then you would be here on time to hear the story', Mitchell snaps at the young woman.
'Mentioning the story...', Daniel decides to cut in. 'We weren't even long enough in the debriefing to hear the story, because of...'
'The whole point of this useless discussion is about the simple fact that we shouldn't keep interrupting each other, otherwise we'll never hear anything again!', Sam finally steps in and makes sure that a few of the participants have the elegance to look ashamed.
'As I were saying earlier, we have a very delicate situation on our hands which require all of the SG teams to work at their maximum capacity and especially SG-1 will play an important part in our solution to the problem at hand. That's why I have decided to bring back General O'Neill so that the team will have it's previous setting with the extra assistance of Colonel Mitchell and Vala', Landry is explaining to the now curious team members.
'What is exactly the problem, sir?', Jack is finally daring to ask the question which is burning inside all the members. General Landry looks at the two visitors at the head of the table. 'I think Dr. Fraiser and Martouf are the best people to explain the situation and the problem which will be our problem soon.
All the members are now looking at Janet, who swallows and takes a quick sip from her glass of water. She then glances at Martouf and when he nods she turns her attention back toward the others in the room. 'As you all know, we are from the world who stranded her some years ago...' While she speaks Vala's hand shoots into the sky again but everybody is too focused to notice it, except for Mitchell, who smashes her hand down onto the table again. Janet continues her story. 'The cure for the prior's plague worked as a charm. We were finally crawling back to our feet and we were strong and ready to fight back. It worked. The human race working together in such fashion that we were able to beat them back. The Stargate was fully disclosed to the entire world and it was used for mass scaled evacuations. We were on the winning hand or at least we thought. But suddenly another enemy appeared on stage. We had never seen them before nor had one of our allies. Their strength is formidable and their numbers unending. These creatures are almost impossible to kill and they are quick in their movements. Their weapons far more superior then the Asgard weapons we had at the moment. Even the replicators which were held in stasis for study, were used in battle and they failed immediately. The numbers on our planet were soon diminished to almost none and they infiltrated our SGC. All the teams who didn't made it off world in time were slaughtered. Our SG-1 doesn't exist anymore. We were out of ideas and out of options and the only way we could think of to get help was our quantum mirror. It is a miracle that we found you guys again and we can only beg you grant us asylum in this world.'
'You do not wish to get help to save your world? To go back home?', General Landry asks surprised.
This time it is Martouf who answers or rather Lan'tash as his eyes flashes and the vibrating voice of the symbiote sounds clearly through the room. 'It is no option to go back to that world. In that world, the human race is annihilated. We are on our on now and we wish to stay here.'
'Do you have anything to offer in return?', Jack asks the man bluntly.
'Jack!'
'No Sam. We offer them a home and what do we get in return?'
Lan'tash looks Jack straight in the eye and then sighs. 'We have been scouting our enemy for a long period of time before we decided we had to save whatever we could. We heard their plans and though we do not know who they are and how they came to know these things, we do know where they are planning to get. They have found a way to travel not only between galaxy's but also between different realities. And apparently they hold a terrible grudge against certain individuals in a certain reality. They are coming here... to destroy every form of life here by living here.'
'Destroying life by living here', Daniel mutters. 'What creature destroys lives around him so that he can live?'
'Apparently they have the ability to suck the life out of their enemy and strengthen themselves. But that is not all... It seems that the Ori priests have found a way to combine the DNA of themselves with these vicious creatures... They are powerful and hungry and we bring warning, because they are coming for all life in this reality', Lan'tash finishes his story.
It is quiet in the conference room. The two visitors are looking around. 'It looks like you all know what kind of enemy we were facing', Janet says. 'Well, Janet... In our reality we found the mystical Atlantis and we sent people to the far end of the universe', Sam starts explaining. 'There they found an enemy, the ones you described, and they caused a war and a massacre and after many years they finally escaped them and now we all hope they are slowly dying in their own galaxy far away from here.'
'But why do they want to come here?', Martouf takes control.
'The SG-teams in Atlantis made sure that these enemies couldn't feed on humans again. And they are now slowly starving, since their attempt at finding Earth failed. But if these other guys come hear and start throwing a party for the rest of them, then we are screwed. So we have to contact Atlantis and start preparations for contacting everybody again and renewing old alliances and prepare for these enemies.'
'Yes I understand and we can really help you all with this, but who are these enemies?', Janet asks almost angry.
'They are called the Wraith...', Sam mutters, as silence is filling the room.
'So we've got almighty Ori and immortal Wraith...', General Landry is pacing the room. All eyes are following him intensely. 'What does those two combined make of our enemies...?'
'Campers, let me introduce you to the... Oraith'
