The answering call, "Polo," came faintly down the hall. Elizabeth and Tanner found Chris and Sam locked in a room.
"How the heck did ya get stuck in there?" asked Tanner.
Chris responded, "Got caught. Excuse me, excuse me, will you let me outta here?"
"Cute impression, Chris," Liz said dryly. "The door opens with a pass key." As she said this Tanner swiped Daniel's stolen card and the door opened.
"Hope ya'll two weren't makin' out in there."
"Shut-up, Elizabeth," Sam said as she hit her friend on the arm.
On the way back to their room the card was slipped into Daniel's lab, hoping he would think he had just absentmindedly left it on his desk. Everybody congregated in the girls' room to go over the notes of the different levels but when the door opened, they quit talking suddenly. O'Neill was standing there in the doorway. All of the teens looked like angels watching TV together.
"Yes?" Tanner asked innocently.
Jack looked them over. They looked like they might be hiding something, but he was not sure, "Those kids are either really sneaky or innocent," he thought.
Jack had thought that the airman who had came to him saying that he had locked two teenagers in a room might be a little crazy, because the teenagers were not there when he went to check, but he gut told him that these little angels before him were not as innocent as they appeared to be. So he decided to play it cool and sat down with them.
"Nothing, just wanted to see what you guys were up to. So what are you watching?"
"Oh, crap. He knows," flashed through some of their heads, but if he was going to play it cool so were they.
"NCIS," Anna answered. "It's a cool show."
Chris added, "Yeah, they got me hooked."
"What's it about?" O'Neill asked, only about half interested and wondering if it way anything like the real NCIS agents he knew.
In true sisterly fashion Anna and Liz started to talk at the same time, paused then Liz started talking.
"NCIS stands for Naval Criminal Investigative Service."
Anna picked up, "This unit is lead by agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs. He is the old guy with short gray hair."
"He's not old!" O'Neill protested.
"Whatever, now the cute guy standing next to him is Tony DiNozzo, my favorite."
Anna and Francisca echoed her sentiments before Liz continued.
"The guy behind the computer is Tim McGee, and the gothic chick is Abby Schuto, she rocks! The other girl is Ziva David. (Da-veed) In autopsy is Dr . 'Ducky' Mallard and his assistant Jimmy Palmer. The only person left is director Jenny Sheppard."
After watching it for a little while O'Neill was hooked. He was wondering if the student who was holding the classroom hostage was being controlled by someone else or if this was his own doing. Then after it was over the teens distracted him further by asking him what his favorite shows were and discussing the episode they had just seen. Then realizing it was 2100 he decided it was time for then to go and get some sleep, because tomorrow the training started. It wasn't till he reached his house that he remembered why he had gone to them in the first place.
"Those little brats suckered me!" He said out loud as he hit the steering wheel of his truck. "They are going to pay for this he thought. So pay."
At 0600 the next morning about half the teens were awake, an hour later the others rolled out of bead and they all headed to the mess hall. After griping about still having to do school all through breakfast they were ready to listen to Major carter prattle on about the exciting world of science. Realizing that they had no clues as to where her office was they asked a passing airman who directed them up two floors.
The group was headed towards the elevators when Sam said, "Hey ya'll. Aren't we forgettin' somethin'?"
They looked puzzled for a second then Liz said, "We don't got a pass card, so no access to the elevators."
As they gladly headed back to the rooms Tanner suggested that they all meet in the girls' room.
"Major Carter is going to come down here all ticked so we need to be doing somethin' and not just goofin' off," Anna said.
Thirty minutes later a very angry Major carter burst into the room. She was prepared to tear into them with all the force of an Major, but seeing all seven of them sitting on the floor apparently studying the material they had been given about the Stargate program and stopped her dead in her tracks. She was surprised. She had expected them to still be asleep in the bunks.
Liz spoke up, "We were on our way, really, but we realized that we had no way to access the elevators. Ya'll didn't give us an ID card or nothin' yesterday. So, we figured someone would show up eventually to fetch us. So here we are."
Carter felt stupid for the first time in her life. She knew she had forgotten something, dang it!
"Sorry, we should have taken care of that earlier, but come on and we will get it done now."
An hour later all of the group had a card. Carter looked at her watch 1930. "We still have 30 minutes left so come on and I will give you an intro lesson."
Thirty minutes later the seven staggered out of the lab.
"Do you think if we tell Dr. Jackson our brain is full he will let us off easy?" Anna asked.
Sam, Chris, and Tanner said in unison, "Doubt it."
Anna sighed, "I figured as much." She looked over at her sister; she looked like she had been thrown in ocean without a life vest.
"Are you ok Liz?"
Elizabeth blinked a few times, "I'm going to fail, and then I will get shipped back home and then I'll be stuck in that horrid college again, and fail all over again, and I'll have to work at Rick's my whole life and will ask, do you want fries with that in my sleep!"
"Calm down." Anna said.
"See? I told you that you were stupid," Kendall said.
Liz whirled around and advanced on him, "I am going to stab you and you will die a long and painful death!" She said venomously.
"OK," Kendall said surrendering.
By that time the group had reached Daniel's office.
"Oh goody, time for another two fun filled hours listening to somebody drone on and on about nothing important," Sam complained.
"Think we could pull the pass card thing again?" Anna asked hopefully.
"Doubt it," Liz answered. With that last sentence they all tentatively entered the lab of doom!
Two hours later the seven stumbled out with Kendall rubbing his hand.
"My hand hurts," Kendall whined.
"Kendall, all our hands hurt," Tanner snapped at him.
"And I thought Mr. Lamprecht had a lot of notes since he filled up three boards full," Anna added as the seven went in search of food.
"Hey," Sam said stopping them. "We only got an hour before we go and get killed by Col. O'Neill and Mr. Teal'c so why don't three of us get the food and have the other four get the DVD player set up, so we can finish that Supernatural episode we started before Major Carter stormed in."
They all looked at each other mutually agreeing. Anna, Chris, and Kendall went to get the food while the others set up the DVD player. When the food arrived Anna told the others.
"People were givin' us strange looks; apparently most people eat their food in the cafeteria."
"Well too freakin' bad," Sam said.
After finishing the episode they still had another thirty minutes to kill so someone suggested cards.
"How about strip poker; it worked so well in Michigan," Liz suggested with a grin holding up her Dixie flag cards.
"I love those cards," Sam said as she grabbed them our of Liz's hands.
"Hey, Kendall, does someone need to show you how to play poker?" Anna teased.
"Does someone need to come over there and show you how to shut up?" came the snarky reply.
"Oh, scary," Anna laughed.
"Shut up, the both of you," Liz ordered. As she dealt the cards she asked, "Have I ever told you how I learned how to play poker?" Without even waiting for an answer she continued, "Well, in foods class when the other side of the room was cooking it left our side with nothing to do so one of the guys decided we should play poker. All ten of us dragged our chairs over to the middle table and we played. As long as we were quiet the teacher didn't mind, that and the fact we were seniors and were about to graduate."
Before long it was time to go to the most dreaded and most anticipated session of the day, O'Neill and Teal'c's class!
