Daniel and the Lieutenant quickly looked at each other before they both began moving as quickly as they could in the direction of the ruckus. Surprisingly the noise wasn't that far away at all. As they reached the end of the tree line that stood before the clearing the stargate was centered in both of the men saw where the noise was coming from.
There, in the clearing, SG-16 and the Jaffa were engaged in an all out fire fight- and SG-16 was losing. All the men were ducked down behind fallen trees and boulders. From what Daniel could tell no one on SG-16 was injured despite their precarious position and the relentless firing of the enemy. "I don't think anyone was hit." Daniel said in a whisper. He doubted anyone would hear them over the weapons fire but he learned in his years at the SGC that Murphy's Law is a force to be reckoned with. He was taking no chances.
"Well that's good. What are we gonna do?" Andrews asked, never taking his eyes off the fight in front of him.
"I don't know yet…" Daniel said, biting his lip and looking around the clearing. "Okay I have an idea…. kind of. I have no clue what the success rate will be but it's all we've got and it's worth a shot." After receiving a nod from the Lt. he continued. "Okay first we need to find you a place to sit down." They hobbled a bit and found a large rock the Lt. could sit on without being easily seen. "Okay here it goes. We take the C4 from our packs. We should have four total. We duct tape two of them together. I'll take those two and my other one and run up to the other side of the clearing. How's your arm? Can you throw?"
"Um, I played little league baseball when I was a kid." Andrews said nervously as he shifted on the boulder and pulled a stick out from under him.
"Good, we'll need that. I'll run over to the other side of the clearing… I'll throw my single C4 to their left side and you'll detonate it when it gets right at their feet. Then I'll start running to get in a position where I can throw the other two right into the middle of them. Right after you detonate the first one you throw yours to their right side and I'll detonate it when it gets to their feet. By time we hit both sides of them I should be in position and then I'll throw the last bundle. Then you can detonate it at the right time. That should eliminate enough of them to even the numbers up a bit and give our guys a fighting chance."
"That's brilliant." "That's brilliant."
"Yeah well lets see if it works before we pat ourselves on the back." Daniel said and dumped out his pack on the damp forest floor. Andrews did the same and Daniel taped two of the charged together and set the remotes before he gave an explosive and a remote to Lieutenant Andrews. After helping Andrews to lean on a tree Daniel gave him a nod and took off into the brush. With a grim look of determination the soldier stared out into the fighting and said a silent prayer that Dr. Jackson's plan would work. Unbeknownst to him, he wasn't the only one.
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Daniel ran as quickly as he could through the forest. All Daniel could think of was how badly things could go if this plan didn't come together perfectly. A detonation just a second too soon could be devastating. A second too late could be worse. A C4 thrown too far could send the Jaffa running in the wrong direction. A C4 not thrown far enough could go virtually unnoticed. And even if everything went perfectly there was no guaranteeing it wouldn't do more harm than it would good. Not only could it harm some of the members of SG-16 it would give away their positions. Eventually Daniel just tried to stop thinking all together.
