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Chapter 2
The O'Neill kids' trip through the mirror was surprisingly uneventful. It was a lot different than the roller coaster ride the Stargate gave travelers. This was almost boring. In a simple flash of light they found themselves on another planet.
They were in a bright room that looked like it was only used as storage. Items sat around the room all bearing identification tags.
"Wow talk about your treasure chest of alien artifacts. I bet Danny-boy would go nuts if he saw these," Commented Charlie as he read one of the tags on a cone. "Wow a Clay cone from Lagash with cuneiform symbols on it. Daniel would definitely be going crazy right about now."
He had forgotten something very important though, his brothers didn't know the importance of such objects and because those objects had gotten Charlie's attention they just knew they'd be fun to play with.
"Hey," Charlie barely managed to catch Car's hand on the way to pick up a mask. "Remember how your not suppose to touch things in Uncle Danny's office."
His brothers nodded.
"Same rules apply here. Keep your hands in your pockets," Continued Charlie.
"But Unca Danny wont let you touch nothing either," Commented JD with a glare at his older brother.
"Your right JD, I won't touch anything else either. Why don't we go see what else we can find?"
They moved out of the lab into a large dark room. There were burn marks on the walls that Charlie could easily identify even though they looked to be old. They were marks from staff weapon blasts.
"'Arlie what dis?" Charlie heard Torq's question.
Torq was standing right next to a DHD. Charlie was shocked he figured that the mirror would bring them to a place where they couldn't put a Stargate.
"That's a DHD. It stands for Dial Home Device. That's what they use to make the Stargate work," Replied Charlie.
"How come we don't 'ave one?" JD demanded.
"They only found the gate so mom made her own DHD," Replied Charlie with a sigh. JD could be such a handful and yelling at him would only make it worse.
"Wow," mumbled Car.
The Next Day
Charlie O'Neill stepped through the Stargate onto the fifth planet he had dialed today hoping that five might prove to be their lucky number. The first two, listed as friendlies on Daniel's note hadn't even connected. Another one listed as the Tok'ra had brought him to a desert planet with unfortunately no sign of the Tok'ra. The forth however was by far the worse. A Goa'uld Mother ship was an obvious sign of the alien's occupation of the planet. He thanked who ever might be watching over them that he hadn't been captured. He didn't even want to imagine his brothers and sister being left alone. Charlie felt bad enough just leaving them for a couple hours while he checked out the gate addresses. What if he never made it back?
The sight of this planet with no apparent sign of a threat did manage to lift his spirits some. The Stargate was located at the base of a mountain and while the gate itself was in a clearing a forest stretched out on all sides. The trees though big in their own right were dwarfed when compared to the mountain's towering peaks. The sky on this planet also managed to catch Charlie's eye, it wasn't the color. The sky was blue just like on Earth. The difference here was the clarity of that blue without any of the pollution of Earth. Even in the face of all of that Charlie's thought drifted back to his reason for his trip to this planet and their current situation and then his hands tightened on his P90.
Charlie swept his surroundings without the awe that he had felt only a few minutes before. This time his eyes were not admiring the scenery but were looking for anything that might be considered a threat. Seeing nothing Charlie quickly raced over to the DHD his stomach tightening with the thought of not being able to dial out. Thankfully the DHD was in working condition, their luck was still holding out.
Charlie did a mile sweep to either side of the gate and much to his surprise and relief he didn't find any sign of anything that could be considered a threat. He had even come across some fruit bearing trees, and even though he wasn't sure if they were even safe to eat it gave him hope. He had even spotted what almost looked like a deer on his search. That brought a smile to his face. It might take him a lot of work but on this planet it seemed he could definitely feed his family. Charlie even found a small opening in the side of the mountain that lead to a small unoccupied cave just big enough to use as shelter for Sarah, the Trips and himself.
Upon seeing the cave Charlie had made his decision. He really would have preferred to expand his search to five miles but he didn't know if he had the time. If he wanted to move the children he had to do during the light of day. Charlie wasn't exactly happy about moving the children here even with all that he had found on the planet because overall he didn't know a thing about the planet. The fact was though this planet was already better than the one they were currently staying on and even if this planet proved not to be the safest in the universe at least they wouldn't starve to death.
Less than an hour after he had left Charlie returned through the gate this time with his brothers and sister in tow. Sarah was strapped to Charlie's back completely amused by her trip through the Stargate, giggling as she watched the shimmering surface of the Event Horizon. The Trips seemed to agree that gate travel was a blast all insisting that they should do it again. Charlie wanted to laugh at himself for that, he'd almost puked on his first trip through the gate.
"OK kids. Car, JD, Torq I want you all to hold hands while we walk. Can you do that for me?"
Four brown and two gray eyes met Charlie's brown ones. Charlie couldn't help but chuckle at they way they all agreed.
Car answered first, "Yeah."
Torq followed with, "Shure."
Finally JD said, "You betcha."
"Did Dad teach you that?" Charlie asked.
With a smile they all nodded their heads and said it again.
"OK, follow me," Ordered Charlie as they began walking along the base of the mountain to the small cave that would serve as their home.
After they had reached the cave Charlie fed all of the kids and somehow managed to get them all to sleep for their nap without to much of a problem.
Charlie would have really liked to go on another search of their surroundings but he wasn't about to. He was too worried about one of the kids waking up and deciding to go exploring on their own. So Charlie decided that climbing a tree to give him a higher vantage point while still staying by the cave might be a better idea. From his vantage point atop one of the trees he saw a sight that would have made him jump for joy if it wasn't for the fact he was high up in a tree. Not very far in the distance a stream cut through the forest.
