Title: Red Sun Rises
Author: JediBant
Rating: M
Warnings: AU to some of Superman Returns, May be some spoilers in later chapters. Also might be some AU to Stargate SG-1 I think I have the dates within time Jack still with SG-1 but might have it wrong. Maybe some torture or violence in later chapters.
Chapter 1
Three Weeks Earlier – 7th December 2004
"So what are we looking for today, Carter? People, Technology, Rocks?" Jack specifically directed the last one over his shoulder towards Daniel.
He was rewarded with Daniel's indignant answer of "Artefacts."
"I'm not sure what we'll find. We sent a UAV up yesterday and it showed an energy reading about two hours walk from here, it was large enough to be a small monument but it's also large enough to be a crashed ship."
"Goa'uld?"
"It could be but I don't think so. The image that the UAV picked up was the wrong shape for a gilder and it was too small to be a cargo ship."
"Ok so two hours…" Jack said gesturing around him in different directions waiting for his 2IC to fill in the gap
"That way sir." She pointed east.
"Ah we'll have a lovely view of the sunrise as we walk." Jack said as he pulled his hat further down on his head.
"Actually sir it's almost noon," Sam informed him, pointing above them at the sun which had almost reached its peak, "the sun here is red, that's why everything is tinted red."
"Right…East it is them. Carter take point; Teal'c watch our six."
Two hours later the team arrived at the source of the energy. After watching for a few minutes, Jack allowed them to move in for a closer inspection.
The ship looked like it had been predominately white or clear to begin with but was now burn up, presumable from the re-entry into the atmosphere. The ship looked as though the upper half had moved up to allow its passenger out. One thing was for sure, it definitely wasn't of Goa'uld design.
Sam and Daniel slowly approached the ship while Jack and Teal'c watched the area in case the owner of the ship decided to return. Both of the scientists climbed onto the ship and looked inside, one looking to find out anything she could about the workings of the ship, and the other looking for any clues he could about the civilisation that owned it.
"Teal'c have you ever seen one of these before." Jack asked not taking his eyes off of the trees around them.
"I have not."
"Carter, any idea where it's from?"
"No, sir I've never seen…"
"Earth," Daniel interrupted looking at a book he had found in the ship.
"What?"
Daniel held up the book, "The Complete Works of Charles Dickens, I'd say that I fairly large clue, there's another one here," he paused while he reached into the ship again.
"That doesn't prove anything; it could be about nuclear physics or a guide to fishing." Jack protested.
While Daniel was reaching for the other book, Carter took the book and looked at the table of contents, "Yes sir, a guide to catching very big fish, a whale in fact, that go by the name Moby Dick."
"Technically, whales aren't fish," Daniel said as he pulled back from the ship holding another book, "this one is The Greatest Works of William Shakespeare."
"O'Neill." Teal'c called.
Jack turned towards Teal'c and saw what the Jaffa had.
"Go to ground." He told the other two.
Sam reacted immediately grabbing Daniel to pull him upright from his leaning position into the ship before they both jumped down from the ship and ran towards the bush they had hidden in when they first arrived. Teal'c had taken position behind a tree near the bush and Jack had taken a similar position on the opposite side.
A few minutes later a tall man in a torn silver bodysuit came out of the trees with a pile of sticks and a small log under his arm.
Kal-el moved slowly through the trees back to where his ship had crashed. He wasn't completely sure why he had crashed, if he had to guess he would have said that he had been knocked off course by an asteroid or meteor when he was passing the planet, either that or someone had shot at him.
Either way he was now stuck on this planet until the he or the AI fixed the ship, or someone past else found him on the planet, which he wasn't waiting out for since the planet seemed to be deserted except for a few animals he had seen in the area.
His main problem though was the red sun that the planet orbited. It meant that all his abilities that he had had his whole life, with the exception of the time just before he left earth when he had given up his powers for Lois.
As a result of the sun neutralizing his abilities, the entry into this planets surface hadn't done him much good. Where usually he would have walked, or flown, away without a scratch; now he felt like everything hurt. The worst was his arm which he had automatically used to brace himself for impact, he was sure that something was broken but there was no way of telling; he also had a large cut on his thigh that throbbed every time he took a step; along with many smaller cuts and bruises. All in all he did look or feel like Superman. To add insult to injury the ships AI refused to let him sleep because he had a concussion.
"AI," the ship lit up almost instantly in response to his voice, but even so it was slower then it usually was, "you get any further fixing the ship."
"No, Kal-el, there is little I can do and the power source was damaged in the crash, even if I did fix it, the power used to keep me active for the amount of time that would take would drain all power reserves."
"And I don't know how to get home with out you."
"That is not the problem Kal-el, you would not be able to achieve orbit."
Kal-el stopped a few metres from the ship and dropped the load of wood he had been carrying.
"So you're saying that I have no way off of this planet," he sat, collapsed, next to the wood, wincing as his injuries were aggravated.
"There is a Stargate on this world about two hours walk from here…"
"…but the chances of me finding the right combination of symbols to get anywhere is almost miniscule."
The AI didn't reply.
SG-1 watched without making a sound as the man, Kal-el, as the ship called him. Started to move the wood he had collected into pile to make a fire, all the time holding one arm close to his chest.
He continued to talk to the ship, "You know I never realised how depended I was on my powers, normally I would have simply snapped a dead tree in half and set it alight his my heat-vision, actually no I wouldn't have cause I wouldn't have needed a fire, I don't get cold, if I did I would be in serious trouble living in the north pole." He laughed.
"He's insane," Jack whispered.
"AI are you sure we don't have anything to light a fire with?" Kal-el asked the ship.
"Yes Kal-el, there seemed no need, we did not mean to land anywhere, and if by some small chance Krypton was still there we would not have needed to light a fire."
"Krypton, I've heard of that planet," Daniel told the team.
"Let me guess, Greek mythology, no Japanese, Krypton it sounds Japanese." Jack cut in.
"No its not but I have heard of it."
"It's an element in the Periodic Table," Sam added.
"No," Daniel snapped, too loud. They all froze and looked back towards the ship and its pilot.
Kal-el looked towards the sound he thought he had heard but dismissed it. He dropped his head into his hands and grounded his eyes with the heel of his hands, "AI can I go to sleep yet, it's been a whole day, surely it is safe now."
"I would not suggest it until you have had a meal."
"A meal of what, we have no food, and I don't know what plants here are poisonous."
"Could you not catch an animal of some kind?"
"Catching an animal requires energy and weapons which I don't have. It would also require a fire which I don't think I will be able to start until I am awake. Which won't happen until I sleep," he lifted his head with some effort to glare at the machine, which didn't do much good since it couldn't see him or understand emotion.
"Why do you not ask the people in the bushes if they have any food?"
A/N please don't attack me for what Sam said about the red sun, I don't have a science degree, I am working on it but I am not there yet, I have no idea what effect a red sun would have on an environment or the atmosphere and the internet isn't being cooperative in telling me about red suns so I am guessing and probably wrong.
Also I have changed some things in the prologue that were pointed out to me and added a time frame.
Thanks for the reviews.
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JEDI-BANT