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One week later …
Col. O'Neill had stationed himself right outside the elevators so he could see these teens for himself. They were being taken strait to the briefing room upon arrival. Hammond was going to talk to them for a while then call in SG-1 to help finish the briefing, but right now he wanted to see how they acted when they didn't know they were being observed.
The elevator dinged, 'That must be them,' he thought. The doors slid open and the first one out was Mini-him followed by a short girl with strawberry blonde hair and right beside her was a tall guy with strait shaggy brown hair that he kept on shaking out of his eyes. They were followed by a really tall guy with close cut black hair and glasses. A half step behind him was a girl with long curly, black hair of medium height who was a bit on the chubby side, beside her was another guy of about the same height and had shorter brown hair. Bringing up the rear were two girls one was slightly taller than the other, her hair was a light brown and the girl beside her had stick strait light brown hair.
The group was laughing and talking among themselves as they stepped out the elevator. The tall guy must have said something rude because the black haired girl hauled off and hit him. O'Neill almost burst out laughing as he watched them.
He continued to observe them 'till they walked into the briefing room. Then he made his way to Carter's lab where the rest of the team was waiting to hear about the "kids".
"Well?" Daniel asked as soon as Jack walked into the lab.
"Well, what, Daniel? Well water, well being, well fed?" O'Neill dead panned back in his usual manner.
Daniel glared at him, "Haha, Jack. You know what I am talking about."
O'Neill got right down to business, "It is a group of seven. Eight of you count Mini-me; three boys and four girls."
He was about to add more when the phone rang. Carter answered and after a brief conversation announced, "Hammond is ready for us."
As SG-1 walked into the briefing room eight pairs of eyes looked them over. Hammond stood up.
"This is SG-1. They will be training you if you decide to join us. SG-1, please introduce yourselves to our guests."
O'Neill went first. "Col. Jack O'Neill" was all he said before he sat down. Carter followed his example. "Major Samantha Carter."
A few of the teens turned to look at the strawberry blonde.
Teal'c was next.
"I am Teal'c." He joined the others. Daniel came last of all.
"I am Dr. Daniel Jackson. I am a doctor of linguistics and archeology, not medicine."
Hammond motioned for Daniel to sit as well before he addressed the teens, "Would you introduce yourselves and say you age and level in school."
They glanced around the table a second before the black haired girl started the introductions.
"My name is Elizabeth Lonigan. I am 21 years old and have just completed my bachelors in psychology." The adults looked at her in shock. She looked like she was only about 17. Elizabeth turned to Strawberry-blonde indicating her turn.
"I am Samantha Kingsbury, 16 years old. I will be a sophomore when school starts back up in the fall."
Shaggy hair went next. "Chris Woods, 18. I just graduated from high school."
Tall dark headed guy was up next, "Kendall Nelson. I am 16 years old and will be a senior next year."
The two girls who were last in line were sitting together and the shorter one went first, "I am Anna Lonigan, Elizabeth's sister. I am 15 years old and will be a sophomore, but at a different high school than the others."
"My name is Francisca Fernandez. I am 16 years old and will also be a sophomore in high school. I am also Sam's cousin."
It was the last guy's turn, "My name is Tanner Shults. I am 17 and I will be a senior in high school."
Now that the introductions were over Hammond got down to business. "I'm sure your friend Jack has told you a little bit about what you are doing here."
The group just looked at each other. "Not really. He said ya'll wanted us for somethin' extremely important, but couldn't tell us what," Tanner explained.
"Briefly, we want you to form a team that can function anywhere from combat to research to diplomacy. I can't get into more detail until you decide if you want to join the program or not. Those who are old enough will be enlisted in the Air Force while the younger ones will finish their education. You will now be escorted to a room where you can talk among your selves and decide if you want to join or not. If that's all then, you're dismissed."
Elizabeth leaned over to Sam and whispered, "All that was missin' was the readin' assignment."
After the group was escorted to a room SG-1 started watching the security cameras in the room, and Mini-Jack went with Hammond to his office.
The seven youths got settled in the room.
Tanner was the first to speak, "Well, that was weird."
Anna & Elizabeth said in unison, "Ya think?"
In the security room Jack got excited, "That's my line!"
Back in the room they couldn't decide what to do. Liz was all for it and Kendall was dead set against it. The others fell in between the two. In had been this way for the past hour.
"I think we should accept. It sounds far more interestin' that anything back home," Elizabeth pointed out in a spirit of adventure.
"Shut up, Elizabeth," Kendall said.
"Make me," was the snappy response.
Kendall continued, "We know you want to go and save the world or somethin', but think for a second! Whatever they want us to do has to be very dangerous! We could get killed or somethin'."
Elizabeth was about to retort when Anna interrupted.
"Will the both of ya just shut up."
Tanner put his two cents in, "Anna's right, both of ya'll need to quit yellin' at each other – it's gettin' us nowhere. We need to figure if this is something that we could make a living off of. If we accept we are going to have to live around here, but if we say no it's back to the same thing we've always done. I have to say, I'm for it."
Elizabeth picked it up from there, "Tanner's right. We all need to decide for ourselves. Tanner and I have already decided yes. So everybody else needs to make a decision. Anna, you have to decide for yourself and you have to be sure. Okay, sis?"
"Yea, yea, I get it," was all Anna said.
Sam walked over to the desk and grabbed the pad of paper and a pen off the top. She tore out five pieces of paper and handed them out to the others.
"We need to make a pro and con list. Sometimes that can help. Plus Rory does it on Gilmore Girls."
Chris asked, "Samantha, how are we all going to write it down with only one pen?"
Realizing her mistake she went, "Oops!"
Francisca, ever in favor of saving trees and avoiding arguments, said, "Sam could write all ours down on one piece of paper."
Everybody nodded their heads in agreement. Sam then drew a line down her paper and listed one side pro and the other con.
"Ok, let's start with the con side first." Sam suggested.
Suggestions came thick and fast. "Family" "Friends" "Mission trips" "grits & gravy" "Sweet tea" Sam got those down and asked if there were anymore.
"Phillip," Liz said with a grin. "Oh wait, already gone."
Sam murmured, "Stupid mermaid." A few of them laughed.
"Anything else?" Silence answered Sam's question. "I take that as a no for right now. Ok on to the pros."
"No school!" Everybody shouted.
"Jobs," came from Liz.
"No more Rick's," Tanner added.
"Snow," Kendall added. Everybody gave him a strange look.
"Snow?" Liz repeated.
"Yeah, it snows out here. We would see some," Kendall explained as if they were all 1st graders.
"And all this time I thought that's what we did in Michigan," Francisca said sarcastically.
Anna looked up from folding here paper into tinny little squares, oblivious to the tone Francisca had just used, "It is."
Liz said, "Who cares? Let's add it."
Tanner sat up in his seat and declared, "I got an idea. Since it is our summer break, and we'll be outa school for a while we can have a trial run! We'll all accept and do what they want during the break. If we like it we'll stay; if not we go home. Ok?"
Everybody looked at each other, gauging everyone's reaction. After a few moments, simultaneously everybody said, "Yeah!"
"OK, everybody agrees. So who's going to tell them?" Francisca asked.
"Uh, Francisca look." Anna said pointing towards the security camera.
Elizabeth stood up with a stupid grin on her face. "I'll take care of that."
With that she picked up her chair and took it over to the security camera and stepped up it.
"We're ready!" She announced and hopped down. Ten minutes later everyone was sitting around the conference table. Gen. Hammond addressed the teens, "I heard that you have made up your minds."
Liz and Tanner looked at each other as if daring the other one to talk finally Liz answered.
"Yes, sir. We came up with an idea. We stay here and train till school is ready to start back up, and if we find our work satisfying we'll stay and if not we will go back to school in Tennessee. Is this ok?"
Hammond looked at them, "As you most likely have figured out; the room you were in was bugged and we've already heard you idea. I called the President and he has agreed to it."
At the mention of the President the teens looked at each other in amazement. Hammond continued, "First you need to sign the papers Major Carter will give you, saying that you will not tell anybody about what you are about to see then SG-1 will brief you on what you will be doing for the next few months, Major Carter."
Carter stood and continued the briefing. "You will have three areas of study. I will be teaching you basic science. Dr. Jackson will be teaching history and linguistics, and Col. O'Neill and Teal'c will be teaching weapons and defense." Carter then turned to Hammond and said, "General, SG-7 is due back in one minute, sir."
Knowing what she was getting at Hammond said, "Go ahead Major."
Carter left for the control room, as Hammond continued; "Come and see what you are about to be doing for the next few months."
As the blast doors opened the teens cautiously walked up to the giant window. After about thirty seconds the blast door was clear and they saw a giant stone ring. One or two of them had their mouths open to say something when the inner circle began to turn. Seven times it moved then what looked like a tidal wave come through then settled to a pool like consistency. Four figures came walking out through the standing water.
The older members were grinning at the shocked and fascinated expressions on the younger people's faces. A few of them even had their mouths open like a fish. When the shock wore off the questions began. Carter came back to the conference room to help explain what they had just saw.
"General, SG-7's mission was successful," Carter reported.
"Thank you, Major. I am going to go and debrief them now. You and SG-1 will finish this debriefing."
"Yes, sir." With that Gen. Hammond left and the group was left standing at the glass looking at the Stargate.
Carter cleared her throat to get their attention, "If you would please take your seats again, I will begin to fill you in on the Stargate."