The puddle jumper emerges through the stargate and orbits around a small lush green and blue planet. John activates the engines and engages the cloak then begins their decent towards the planet.
"Are you getting anything?" John asked looking over his shoulder at Rodney.
"No, but I am picking up the readings Elizabeth was talking about." Teyla looks over to Rodney disapprovingly. "I'm not saying go for the Z.P.M.'s first I saying that's a good place to start that is what they came to the planet for initially so we should start the search in that area."
"So Lorne and his team went where?" John asked activating the holomap.
"Here," He says pointing on the map. "Not that far from the tree line."
John flew the puddle jumper over the land passing the village Elizabeth told them about. "Do either of you recognize that village?" He asks Ronon and Teyla.
"If the gate in the town doesn't work then there would be no way for my people to trade with them." Teyla says standing to get a better view of the village.
Ronon shook his head. "I've never seen it before."
"Okay then we'll just come back if we can't find anything on Lorne and the others," John sighs steering the jumper in another direction.
They flew around for an additional twenty minutes before they found any sign of the team.
"Sheppard look." Ronon pointed to an area of flattened grass. "The puddle jumper landed there."
"That's a good thing at least we know they weren't shot down." John says landing the puddle jumper next to the indented grass.
"It's not here," Ronon states walking across the patch with no resistance.
"Well at least we know which way they went," John uses his P-90 to point out four paths carved into the grass. "But we need to hurry we're loosing sunlight." He adds looking up to the sky before cautiously beginning to follow one of the paths towards the tree line. Ronon and Teyla look around the field one last time before following John and Rodney.
"You're getting that feeling too?" Ronon asks Teyla.
"Indeed," She answers taking the safety off her gun and surveying their surroundings once again before following the others neither of them noticing the man crouched in the tall golden grass. He waits until the group is out of sight and signals to four other men that are hidden in the grass with him. He look over to a younger man to his left and motions for him to follow them, the young man nods and crouches back into the grass and moves quickly to catch up with the team, as the others move around the cloaked puddle jumper.
The team walks through the forest area until the only light is from the planets duel moons and the only signs of life are the soft crunching of their feet on the fallen leaves of the forest floor and the creatures of the night calling to there kin which were occasionally silenced by one of the team calling out to Lorne and the other team members.
"Sheppard, you hear that?" Ronon asks signaling for the others to stop, a soft familiar whir is heard in the distance and in quickly growing louder.
"Puddle jumper." John exclaims looking up through the trees of any sign of the ship. The ship glows pass overhead just buzzing the treetops. John and the team race through the night chasing after the jumper calling to Lorne on their coms. "Rodney you and Teyla see if you can make it back to the jumper to catch 'em Ronon and I will keep following on the ground." Rodney and Teyla turn and head back in the direction in which they came. Going as fast as their legs could carry them Teyla and Rodney make it back to the field in record time.
"Where is it," Rodney says out of breath as he franticly tries to de-cloak the ship, he looks around the nearly pitch black field and doesn't see it. He follows the indented trail back to where the ship was. "What the hell?" He questions waving his hand through where the ship should have been.
"Rodney," Teyla whispered cautiously to Rodney as she raises her gun and locks eyes with a man standing in front of her in the field.
"Ow," Rodney whines slapping the side of his neck. "Something bit…" Rodney pulls out a dart and collapses to the ground, he helplessly watches as boy that shot him and some additional men stand up surrounding Teyla. Teyla puts her P-90 on the ground, hold her hands up and surrenders.
Back in the forest John and Ronon are still chasing the puddle jumper, when it turns and seems to be headed back to the field.
"Major Lorne this is Colonel Sheppard do you read me?" John shouts into his coms slightly out of breath from still chasing the jumper.
"Maybe their on a different frequency," Ronon yells back as the two continue to chase the ship, that is until they reach a small clearing and it disappears from sight.
"Damn it!" John yells kicking the ground.
"Sheppard something's not right here," Ronon arms himself as he looks around the dark area.
"Teyla," John says into his com and receives no answer. "Rodney, this is Sheppard please respond," still nothing then static.
"Something's definitely wrong." Ronon says running back into the forest.
The two race back to the field when John runs straight through a trap that snatches him in to the air by one of his legs, and a rope is pulled knocking Ronon to the ground. Before he could fully stand a man covered in leaves runs across and kicks him across the face, it looked as if the ground had come alive and attack him as more men dress the same way got up and come after him and a defenseless John. Ronon subdues two of the men when he runs to cut John down. Sheppard hits the ground hard and scrambles across the leaf covered forest floor to his gun when he feels a soft prick in his neck. John pulls pin thin dart out of his neck, "Not again," John grumbles before collapsing. Ronon looks over to see one native tying Sheppard up, he quickly grabs one of his attackers he rips off his covering seeing it a young boy he strips the boy of his own knife and hold it to his neck, and positions his legs so the can easily be snapped if need. The boy grunts as Ronon get a tight grip on his hair and pulls his head back.
"Let him go," The bloodied, beaten, and tired Satedan rasped out, men stare back at him but none release John. "Let him go or I'll slit his throat." He growls tugging harder on the boy's head.
"Ahem." Ronon turns to see two more of the natives approaching him from behind, the what he's assume was the group leader looks over his shoulder as another comes up with a hostage. Ronon reluctantly releases the boy when he sees one of the natives have Teyla for their hostage. She stood with her hands bound and mouth gagged as the man held a blade to her throat and another held one of their guns to her temple. Ronon steps closer and the man presses the blade into her juggler until Ronon surrenders, never seeing the stun blast that came from behind.
