"Oh I'm dying for a hot shower and a cold beer" Laura sighed as she and Hannah dragged their exhausted selves into the women's barracks. They had just finished 16 hours of field training in the rain and mud, mud which now covered every inch of them.
"I hear you" Hannah said holding her boots, she was barefoot and not trying to spread dirt and mud through the barracks, the less moving she had to do in the next 7 hours the happy she'd be. She moved slowly to the showers with Laura behind her.
"You know I love the whole fact we are being trained to an inch of our lives but sometimes I think this really sucks" Laura sighed
"Why?"
"Because we are never going to be deployed as force recon as we are just the tryout flunkies we go back to being ordinary marines after this"
"You might be surprised" Hannah said "Ever think that maybe we are being groomed for more than force recon?"
"What we are going to become the ultimate female marine team and save the world from evil and beer" Laura said in mock seriousness. Hannah shrugged casually.
"You never know"
Laura snorted "Right, we'll be-" Laura stopped mid sentence she watched Hannah become surrounded by pure light one second and the next she was gone.
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Hannah stood on the main bridge of the Prometheus, she turned around and saw Jonas, Teal'c, O'Neill and Sam and Thor. "Hi" she said feeling slightly disorientated.
"Hannah" O'Neill said just as surprised
"Not that I don't enjoy being plucked out of training but you do know you beamed me out of my barracks right in front of Laura right?" Hannah asked "She is probably having a fit as we speak"
"I'll tell General Hammond" Sam said, she moved off to another console
"So what's going on?" Hannah asked, she felt slightly worried about Laura but knew there was nothing she could do it about it now "I guess this isn't a social visit"
"No it is not" Thor said, he went further and explained the situation the Asgard were having with the Replicators and how they had used the Android body of 'Reese' to call forth the Replicators in the galaxy, so they could trap them into a Time dilation field. He explained to her that the replicators had somehow stopped the time dilation field from activating and now needed SG1 and the Prometheus to fly into Replicator dominated space to activate the dilation field.
"So what do you need me for?" Hannah asked not sure what she could possibly add to the situation.
"We have come up with a method of observing the Replicators and taking in depth reading on their nature we believe by replacing your implants we can record this data and use it in finding a solution to destroying the replicators completely"
"Really?" O'Neill said he looked surprised and impressed "That sounds good"
"Yes" Thor said
"Ok well let's do it" Hannah said, Thor moved his hand and Hannah was transported the Asgard science lab.
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Later, Hannah had cleaned up from her previous state and now sat on the lab table the procedure had taken less than 20 minutes, apparently when ascended people didn't visit you while unconscious it made the implants adjust faster Hannah had mused.
All she felt was a dull ache in her left eye, and nothing else. She had to hand it to the Asgard their drugs were good at their job.
Thor stood at a console moving control stones "As I said earlier we have replaced your current microscopic chips out for bio-neural circuitry it is not permanent. But it will make the replicators unable to invade your neural network like they did previously and protect you against electoral surges" Thor said "The ocular implant also organic in nature is a general-purpose implant designed to primarily to scout unfamiliar areas, make detailed examination of living things, and record and review technical data to be review later."
"So I have a tricorder in my eye" Hannah joked, Thor tilted his head to one side he didn't get the star trek reference. Hannah was about to say something when her ocular implant came online, her vision flashed and rolled like a bad computer screen, she had to blink a couple of times before it cleared into a crystal clear image.
"It should be working now" Thor said he turned to console and moved some stones. "It will also show what O'Neill would call a Combat heads up display in your vision"
"Yeah I just came online" Hannah said with a smile she looked around the room all of sudden readings were blipping up in her vision, telling her energy readout, compositions, she saw energy flowing through the walls. She looked at Thor and it focused she focused on him her vision outlined him in white before it flashed green, she looked around as she saw multiple readouts of distance of items, she started to get a slight headache.
"You should be able to control the combat heads up display" Thor told her, She closed her eyes and focused on shutting off the heads up display in her eyes. When she opened them again the read outs were gone but her eye was still pointing out everything.
"Yeah this is weird" Hannah said
"Understand these organic microscopic chips are only temporary and will degrade in under 72 hours" Thor warned her "If we do not have them removed in time you will die"
"That would be bad" Hannah said, not exactly comforted by the thought of what would happen.
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Hannah was transported back to the Prometheus it didn't take her long to find Teal'c and Jonas, she stole a pint of Ice cream and held it to her eye, Teal'c gave her a spoon and she ate with the boys out of their containers.
"New upgrades done?" O'Neill asked Hannah turned to O'Neill and nodded as he stood next to her, he pulled the Ice cream container away "Damn" he cursed, her eye was completely blood red like she had burst all the blood vessels in her eye.
"It'll be fine, Thor says my eye just has to adjust to the implant" she told him
"Implant?" O'Neill asked he knew he was there for the talk but it sounded more invasive to him after seeing her eye so bloodshot.
"It'll record things for prosperity" Hannah said with a shrug "don't worry it's all safe"
"Tell that to your eye" he said handing the Ice cream container back to her, he shook his head and sat down with the boys. Picking up a fork, he tried to take a spoonful of ice cream from Teal'c but he gave him a look of disapproval before handing him his own Ice cream container.
Hannah placed the ice cream container she held back to her eye before she leant over and stole a spoonful of Ice cream. O'Neill raised an eyebrow but Teal'c ignored it "So Jonas, first time going up against a Replicator, eh?" O'Neill asked,
"I think I have a pretty good idea of what to expect though. Teal'c and Hannah told me all about them and I have everything Dr Jackson wrote. They're fascinating." Jonas said, he took a mouthful of ice cream before sharing with Hannah.
"Fascinating?" O'Neill asked as he watched Hannah take a spoonful of ice cream.
"Well think about it. We have a human scientist who creates this android girl who then goes on to create these Replicators as a toy. Well at least the concept of something that starts out so innocent become so evil, well that's got to be fascinating to you." Jonas said, he looked around the group waiting for someone to agree with him.
"Replicators exist merely to increase their numbers and do so without prejudice. They are no more evil that a virus." Teal'c said
"A really evil virus" O'Neill added, Hannah nodded as she ate another spoonful of ice cream.
"Well yes we can all agree that any living thing that isn't inherently evil in itself is capable of undertaking actions that are evil." Jonas argued
Teal'c swapped his ice cream for O'Neill's "Seriously you won't share and now you steal mine" O'Neill griped, Hannah reached over and took a scoop "Really you –"
The ship decelerated "We are slowing" Teal'c surmised
"Colonel, you should come forward, Sir" Sam's voice said over the PA
"We're on our way" O'Neill said. He put his ice cream down and headed out the door along with Jonas and Teal'c. Hannah took another spoonful before she followed them to the bridge.
Sam turned from her seat "We just came out of hyperspace a minute ago."
Thor beamed onto the bridge "We dare proceed no further without risk of engaging the Replicators. You will have to continue from this point on your own ship's power." He said
"But you're gonna wait here for us, right?" O'Neill asked
"There is now another concern. Our long-range sensors have discovered the time dilation device was indeed activated" Thor said
"Well that's good. It's not good?" O'Neill asked
"Time is now progressing faster within the field" Thor told them
"They reversed it?" Sam said
"By a factor of ten squared." Thor answered
"What is with you people? Time machines are nothin' but trouble, even we know that." O'Neill said, Hannah pursed her lips trying to smother a smile.
"Clearly the Replicators have discovered a means of utilising the time dilation machine to serve their own purpose." Teal'c said
"Well what would that purpose be?" Jonas asked
"Well, I gotta tell you this changes things. Carter, how does this change things?" O'Neill asked
"I don't know, Sir. I guess it doesn't." Sam said
"You mean we've got the same problem we had an hour ago." O'Neill
"Well the difference is, in that hour, four days have passed for the Replicators. Depending on when they did this, relatively speaking, they could have experienced hundreds of years." Sam said
"I get it." O'Neill said
"If you wish to reconsider…" Thor drawled
"No. No. Full well expected the other shoe to drop eventually" O'Neill said
"We can only hope this will be the last footwear to fall. The co-ordinates to the planet have already been programmed into your navigational computer. We have modified your engines and structural integrity fields to their maximum potential to assure your safe arrival. We will monitor your progress as best we can. Good Luck." Thor said, he then beamed out
"Have you seen what Thor did to her eye?" he asked Sam, Sam turned to Hannah
"Her eye looks fine" Sam said, she looked at O'Neill, Hannah's eye looked completely normal.
"I told you… it's adapted" Hannah said, they all took seats while Hannah moved to the front window and watched the Asgard ship pull away from them.
"Setting course to programmed co ordinates. Throttling up sub light engines." Sam said
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They made it to the designated co-ordinates, with only being scanned once by the replicators apparently they deemed their vessel not worthy of being consumed. They landed the ship and as they stepped out onto the ground, the planet was a dust bowl with no other signs of civilisation or Replicators except for the one structure. A storm brewed above as they moved toward the structure.
"This can't be the only structure on the entire planet." Jonas said as they walked to the structure.
"I'd be willing to bet the bugs ate everything else." O'Neill said
"Then where are they?" Jonas asked, Hannah knelt down and brushed away the dust it revealed replicator blocks, that covered the ground like skin
"You guys are not gonna like this." Hannah said, Sam knelt down with her
"What is it?" Jonas asked
"This planet's surface appears to be covered with Replicator blocks." Teal'c commented
"Probably more than one layer and who knows how thick it is. Maybe miles." Sam said
"Why would that be?" Jonas asked, Hannah closed her eyes as a headache started, she pinched the bridge of her nose the Ocular implant was processing too much for her brain to filter.
"Well it could be a by-product of the reverse time dilation. In relative time, they've been here hundreds of years but there's nothing left here to consume so they're just conserving energy." Sam sup positioned
"I'd go with that" Hannah said, she stood up and staggered slightly O'Neill caught her elbow to steady her.
"You alright?" He asked, she nodded
"I wonder what's keeping them here?" Jonas asked
"Who cares. Watch your step." O'Neill said and motion they move on.
The structure was one of very simply yet elegant design, they flashed their flashlights to illuminate the large room they were. Hannah spotted the time dilation device and she and Sam moved to it.
Hannah's implant scanned the device "The original interface is still intact" Hannah said aloud. "It seems though there have been some minor alterations"
"Good or bad?" O'Neill asked
"We might be able…" Sam didn't finish her sentence as they heard footsteps coming their way. They all stood to the ready with weapons raised.
A young man appeared, he had curly brown hair and an air of pure innocence and curiosity written in his expression. "Who are you?" he asked, looking at them all.
"Colonel Jack O'Neill, US Air Force, Earth. Who are you?" O'Neill asked
"The others are coming" he told them, within a few seconds four others appeared behind him. Two males and two females, they all were of varying age, yet held were the same. Hannah had no idea what to make of them. Her implant had the same conclusion, it was still processing all she knew was that they weren't flesh and bone they were comprised of microscopic nanite cells.
The older of the two males that had appeared stepped forward. "What do you think you're doing?" he asked
"Clocks are running a little fast around here. Thought we'd stop by, wind 'em. We'll be on our way." O'Neill said, Hannah moved back to the device and was started to make the changes slowly while keeping her eyes on their new guests, Sam had the same idea joining her.
"Your companions are attempting to alter the settings on the time device, and we cannot allow that. If she does not stop immediately, we will be forced to take action." He warned
"Well, now, if you do that, we might be forced to take our own action."
"Tell your companions to stop."
"Carter, how much time you need there?" O'Neill asked
"A lot, sir. Maybe a few hours." Sam said, Hannah nodded in agreement on the estimate
"Hours?" O'Neill asked
"Sir, the interface was completely rebuilt. I'm not even sure where to start."
"Couldn't you crank it up a little bit? Move things along?" O'Neill asked
"It doesn't work that way" Hannah said before Sam could.
The older man laughed "Ironic, isn't it?"
"Who are you people? Because, if you haven't noticed, this entire planet is paved with Replicators." O'Neill said
"We are aware of this." He said,
"Then you should also know that these things have taken millions of lives, and they'll keep on doing that unless we stop them" O'Neill told them, one of the two women stepped the older male's side
"He doesn't understand" she said to her counterpart,
"You know, he's standing right here." O'Neill said dryly
"We cannot allow you to stop them, I'm afraid." The older male said
"Why not?" O'Neill asked
"They are Replicators." Hannah answered, as her brain gave her the answer she didn't want.
"Ah" O'Neill said he, Teal'c and Jonas opened fire on the replicators, the bullets seem to pass straight through the replicators and took chunks out of the wall behind them. The guys paused their firing knowing it wasn't doing any damage. Dozens of replicator bugs entered the room and surrounded them completely.
"Tell your companions to step away from the device." The elder replicator told O'Neill.
"Carter. Hannah" O'Neill said, They both stood up and moved away from the device
"Your projectile weapons?" he asked for with an open hand to gesture they drop their weapons.
"Yeah, you know, I think we'll hang onto those for a while." O'Neill told him, the replicator bugs retreated from the room. the elder replicator gave a smile.
"Now there is no need." He said, and gestured they disarm themselves of their weapons, O'Neill nodded wearily and they all slowly removed their weapons and placed them on the ground by their feet.
"Where are my manners? This is something of an occasion, after all, isn't it? Our first meeting. Welcome" He said he stepped forward and held his hand to O'Neill. O'Neill looked at the hand on offer suspiciously.
"Colonel, if we really intended you harm, do you believe you would be standing there? As I said, welcome." The replicator asked.
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