AN: As a gift for a friend, I decided to continue this a bit...
"Samantha Carter..." came the calm voice as it spoke over the answering machine, "This is Shady Acres, we're calling because you're on the contact list of a patient here..."
"Yes, is he alright?"
"Ma'am, that's what we're calling about, Orlin's gone missing," the doctor at the nursing home responded, "We're trying to find him."
A brief pause as she started trying to figure out what happened.
"The only witness, I'm sorry to say, seems to have been hallucinating at the time."
"Oh?"
"If you can believe it, the guy across the hall claims to have seen a bright flash of light from the room."
The phone slipped from her fingers to fall with a clatter to the ground.
Loki blinked as he brought the ship around.
He'd managed to obtain some limited freedom in exchange for what might be considered to be a suicide mission.
The Asgard sent a single ship for some better scans of the Ori galaxy after the power these new enemies were demonstrating became apparent in the Milky Way.
However, the scans weren't making sense.
They had information from the last ships anywhere near this direction that spoke of it being full of life.
Now, however there was an increasing percentage that was now empty, even of the signatures that their former allies gave where their presence was more common.
His curiosity got the better of his caution and proceeded towards the planet most recently sterilized.
"Orlin?" Daniel asked as he found himself in a diner that he vaguely remembered.
"Yeah, it's me," the ancient answered, "They're bringing everyone in to deal with this."
"Are the Ori..." he was cut off.
"Actually, while they're part of the reason for everyone showing up, it's not them being hostile that's caused it."
"Oh..."
"Something attacked them," the man whispered, "Something that's been wiping them out."
It was a stunned tone, one that Daniel remembered using when his parents died and when his wife die.
"How can something be killing ascended beings?"
"That's just it," the man answered, "We don't know."
An object was detected upon the dead worlds surface approaching a local stargate.
Oddly enough the sensors best comparison was from a common object originating from Earth.
"What is a pepperpot?"
He paid any sanity left in his mind no heed and beamed it up only for the containment unit that could hold even replicators in stasis to malfunction spectacularly and a horrifying voice speak one word before the end came for him.
"EX-TER-MIN-ATE!"