Chapter 38:
Stone took aim though the Holographic sight, the Jaffa head in his sight.
"Ready, O'Neill." Teal'c voice came over the radio.
Finger in the trigger, Stone waited for the go ahead.
"Mark." The word was not finished when Stone pulled the trigger. A 5.56mm bullet pierced the Jaffa's scull at 940 meters per second, killing him instantly.
Jumping up and rushing towards the two boys, Stone was just behind Teal'c, the big guy could move fast.
Coming to a stop in front of the two boys', Stone looked at the fallen Jaffa. Then search for any threats near, before turning to the two boys.
"Uncle Mike!!" The older boy exclaimed.
"Uncle Mike???" Stone had never before been called that.
O'Neill and Carter came towards them.
The younger boy raced to Carter, and jumped into her arms, almost knocking Carter over. "Mommy."
O'Neill looked at Carter and the boy in shock, but no more that Carter herself.
A scream was heard again, the older boy rusted to a baby carriage. Taking a bottle from a bag, the boy gave the child the bottle and the wailing quiet down.
Teal'c handed Stone the Mark.23, who holstered it.
O'Neill walked over to Carter. The younger boy had his arms tightly around her neck, refusing to let go. "So Carter, who is you new friend?"
"Mummy, she is my mummy!" The boy said in Carter neck.
Carter was even more astonished than O'Neill.
"I can explain." The older boy said. "I am Charles Tyler O'Neill."
"But …" O'Neill could not say any more.
Stone looked at Teal'c, the Jaffa was a bewildered as he was.
"The little one is Grace." Charlie said pointing to the carriage. "And that is Jacob."
"How??? What???" O'Neill could not grasp the situation.
"You from an alternate reality!!!" Carter exclaimed.
"Yes, in our reality you are our mother, well my step-mother anyway." Charlie said shyly.
Teal'c looked around alarmed. "O'Neill, we must move." Stone felt the same as Teal'c, there was trouble heading their way.
O'Neill rushed to Carter and took Jacob from her, freeing her to take Grace. Charlie went to grab the carriage.
"Leave it." Stone ordered. Clicking his radio on. "Kingstone! Take the lead with Jonas. Double time!"
Kingston and Jonas, took the lead, half running. Stone and Teal'c took the rear, keeping O'Neill, Carter and the children in the middle. After traveling for more than half an hour, with ten more minute to the gate, Young came on the radio. "Sir we have a Tel'tak inbound."
"Understood, dial the gate and send a signal through to the SGC. Keep the gate open!" O'Neill ordered.
"Roger!"
The group stopping. "They will cutting us off." O'Neill voiced.
Stone looked at Teal'c and saw that he was thinking the same as he himself. "Teal'c and I, will attack them. Giving you the time needed to escape."
O'Neill thought it through; there was no other safe way to get the children to the gate. "Agreed."
Stone walked to Kingston. "Watch them for me, my friend."
"Just get your ass back, or Nash will kill me."
Stone and Teal'c ran ahead, towards battle, into a conflict with unknown number of hostiles.
After running hard for five mintues, Stone head a noise up ahead, the clanking of Jaffa armor and boots. Turning to signal Teal'c, Stone saw that the Jaffa had notice it also. Taking shelter behind two large rocks, the two waited.
Within a minute a patrol of eight Jaffa came around the bend. Stone pulled out a grenade, pulling the pin, letting the lever fly, then throwing the grenade at the Jaffa. It land a meter in front of the lead Jaffa, exploding just after landing. As soon as the explosion came, Stone and Teal'c came out firing. Stone with his M4 and Teal'c with his staff weapon.
As Stone eject the spent magazine, and reloaded the rifle, he advanced alongside Teal'c. Seven dead jaffa lay dead, one hit three times, twice in the right arm and in the pouch, Stone could see blue bloodlike fluid seep out of the wound.
"What is that?" Stone asked Teal'c.
"Symbiotic blood, the Goa'uld must have been hit." Teal'c knelt down by the Jaffa. "Kree Jaffa."
"Kill me!" The Jaffa asked. "Make it quick."
"Answer my question, and I will." Teal'c offered in return. The Jaffa nodded his reply.
"Which Goa'uld do you serve?" Teal'c asked.
"Ares!"
"What are you doing here?"
"Scouting mission, for our lord."
"How many Jaffa?"
"Twenty-one. Two patrols of eight, four to guard the Tel'tak and the pilot." Blood came with the words.
"Thank you." Teal'c stood up.
Stone drew his mark.23 and handed to Teal'c, who took it. Fired one shot, killing the Jaffa, then handing the weapon back to Stone, who holstered it.
"So what will they do now?" Stone asked Teal'c.
"We killed three at the village, eight here. That leaves ten, the other patrol; they will have headed for the village. This patrol was heading to the gate, then there two Jaffa by the Tel'tak."
"What about this Goa'uld, Ares?"
"A minor System Lord, who controlled a relatively small amount of territory. It seems it was a coincident that they were here."
Stone grabbed his radio. "SG-1 nine, this is Achilles. What is your situation?"
"We are heading to the gate; we are two minutes from the gate." O'Neill voice came back.
"Get through right away, don't wait for us, get everybody through. Achilles, out." Stone grinned at Teal'c. "What will the other Jaffa patrol do now?"
"Most likely, they will come here!" Teal'c lifted one eyebrow.
"Then we should get out of here, don't you agree?" Stone grin got bigger.
"Agreed, Michael Stone, we should." Teal'c turned to go in the direction of the gate.
Stone grabbed the Jaffa's arm, to stop him. "Wrong direction!"
As Teal'c turned to face Stone, he got there Stone wanted to go. "Bold idea, let's go!"
The two men ran off towards were the Jaffa had come from. Sprinting as fast as they could to, to beat the patrol if it headed towards the Tel'tak instead of going towards where the first patrol had fallen. After running for three minute they came to a clearing, were the Tel'tak was sitting, two Jaffa were walking around.
Stone signaled Teal'c, what intention was. Receiving a nod in return.
Taking aim with the M4, sighting crosshair on the Jaffa closer to the hatch of the Tel'tak.
Two bolt's from Teal'c staff weapon hit the Jaffa closer to his position, Stone let loose a burst from his rifle, killing the Jaffa he had been Aiming for. Coming running to the Tel'tak, Stone turned and took up a covering position near the hatch, while Teal'c went in and secured the Tel'tak.
"Michael Stone, get in." Teal'c ordered.
Stone backed into the craft, keeping an eye on the wood surrounding them. The hatch closed as soon as he had entered the Tel'tak. Turning around, Stone realized where he was. Looking around, seeing Teal'c at the helm.
"T, I am going to secure the rest of the craft." Not waiting for a reply, Stone entered the cargo hold. The hold was empty except for sleeping bunks used by the Jaffa. Checking every crack and corner, until he was satisfied.
Walking on to the bridge again, Stone saw that they had entered hyperspace. "So where are we heading?"
"The nearest planet with a stargate, which is not occupied by Goa'uld."
Stone sat down in the other chair. "And how long until we get there?"
"Twelve hours!"
Stone grimaced.
"Is something the matter, Michael Stone?"
"My wife is going to kill me." Stone said as he laid the M4 on the floor beside the chair, and took out his canteen.
"Why would she do that?" Teal'c asked as he took the canteen offered by Stone and took a swallow.
"I promised her that I would go with her to Doctor Frazier." Stone looked at his watch. "In one hour, on earth."
A subtle grin came on Teal'c's face. "This is most troubling. I will go to your funeral." Teal'c said deadpan.
"Is this Jaffa humor? Jack has mentioned it." Stone looked at his companion. "If it is, I must tell you it is not funny."
"I am merely stating a fact, Michael Stone." Teal'c replied as he handed back the canteen.
Taking a big swallow from the canteen. Stone watched the Jaffa closely. "So, T. What do you think about the latest development?"
"Of what do you speak?"
"Well, finding the children on P3X-4724?"
Teal'c didn't answer for quite some time, then. "This is not the first time we have had to deal with alternate reality."
"But have there been children of Carter and Uncle Jack, before?"
"No, this is the first time, this has happened."
Stone looked out at the lights flashing in hyperspace. "I didn't even know about Charlie, until three months ago."
Teal'c just looked at the younger man, not replying.
"I can't imagine the pain of losing your child. Or the pain of having another suddenly appearing." Stone looked at Teal'c.
"I believe Major Carter and O'Neill will do the right thing by these children." Teal'c argument broke not disagreement.
"I agree with you. But I am afraid of what some powerful people will do, people like Kinsay or members of the collaborators, or even the colonist. I will do everything within my power to shield the children from the bastard." Stone said with hatred in his voice.
"I concur with you, and will be right besides you." Teal'c agreed.
For the rest of the journey the two men were silent, deep in thought.