Location: Cornerian Stargate Command
Date: 3 Years Ago
"What the hell do you mean your shutting me down?!?!" yelled Fox in a furious rage, standing in the middle of the gate room.
"We, McCloud, are shutting you down because in the 5 months that we gave you, you not once have gotten that blasted thing to do anything! All it does is sit here and eat up the tax payer's money. Imagine how the citizens would react if we told them that a large part of their money was going to fund research on some device that you can't figure out how to work?" responded General Maybourne from the control room.
"That's fucking horseshit! We're so frickin' close to figuring it all out.." "Really, is that so?" interrupted the general. "Funny. that's exactly what you've been tell us for the last five months and you have what to show for it, absolutely nothing!"
With all the fighting going on, all the people in the control room were watching Fox and the general. Because of this, none of them seemed to notice a certain drive on the computers activate.
"God damn it, why the bloody hell...." Fox stopped mid-sentence as he heard the sound of the hydrallic pumps on the gate behind him come to life. "What the....oh my god....we're getting a dail-up! RICK!!!" Fox turned to face the gate, watching as the first of seven Chevrons locked itself into place, then he returned his gaze to the general, a huge grin on his face, "You wanted to see what the research is for Maybourne....then just you wait!"
The general just stared at the ring, almost scared. "McCLOUD! What the hell is that thing doing back there?" yelled Maybourne, watching all the monitors around him buzzing and beeping.
"Chevron 3 is holding....." called Rick over the loud speaker as a symbol stopped under the third Chvron, in which the Chevron then locked the symbol, "Chevron 3 is locked in place."
Hearing all of the noise, the rest of the Starfox team and Gerenal Pepper, who now knew all about the gate from Fox, rushed into the control room to see everyone running around and computers going nuts all around them. The group of them then walked over next to Maybourne and looked through the control room window at the commotion in the gate room.
Pepper was the first to ask what was obviously on all of their minds, "What in the hell is going on with that thing Maybourne?" he yelled to General Maybourne due to all of the noise around them.
"Hell if I know!!" yelled Maybourne in response, "McCloud said that they're recieving a dial-up....whatever the hell that is."
"Chevron 5 is holding.....Chevron 5 is locked in place...."
"Everyone!! GET OF THE RAMP NOW!!" yelled Fox as the sixth Chevron locked into place. Noticing the urgency in his voice, all the tech workers with him in the gate room ran off and even jumped from the metal ramp leading up to the mouth of the ring.
"Chevron 7 holding....." Everyone in the control and gate room stood breathless, watching the track with the symbols slow, "Chevron 7....." and then stop under the 7th and final Chevron, "....locked....."
In mere seconds after the 7th Chevron locked, what looked almost like water swirled inward from the edges of the ring in toward the center. Once the "water" came in contact with the rest of the "water" in the center of the ring, it exploded outward, causing sparks to fly all over the place in the control room as computers literally exploded. The explosion of the "water" soon returned to the mouth of the gate, a whirlpool effect forming behind the gate. What was left was was a rippling wall of the "water" filling the mouth of the ring.
All except Fox stood completely still, just staring at the gate, jaws agape. Smiling, Fox turned to face the window of the control room, or more so, Maybourne "Is that enough of a reason to keep up funding, sir?" and turned back toward the gate, laughing inwardly, not waiting for a response.
Date: 3 Years Ago
"What the hell do you mean your shutting me down?!?!" yelled Fox in a furious rage, standing in the middle of the gate room.
"We, McCloud, are shutting you down because in the 5 months that we gave you, you not once have gotten that blasted thing to do anything! All it does is sit here and eat up the tax payer's money. Imagine how the citizens would react if we told them that a large part of their money was going to fund research on some device that you can't figure out how to work?" responded General Maybourne from the control room.
"That's fucking horseshit! We're so frickin' close to figuring it all out.." "Really, is that so?" interrupted the general. "Funny. that's exactly what you've been tell us for the last five months and you have what to show for it, absolutely nothing!"
With all the fighting going on, all the people in the control room were watching Fox and the general. Because of this, none of them seemed to notice a certain drive on the computers activate.
"God damn it, why the bloody hell...." Fox stopped mid-sentence as he heard the sound of the hydrallic pumps on the gate behind him come to life. "What the....oh my god....we're getting a dail-up! RICK!!!" Fox turned to face the gate, watching as the first of seven Chevrons locked itself into place, then he returned his gaze to the general, a huge grin on his face, "You wanted to see what the research is for Maybourne....then just you wait!"
The general just stared at the ring, almost scared. "McCLOUD! What the hell is that thing doing back there?" yelled Maybourne, watching all the monitors around him buzzing and beeping.
"Chevron 3 is holding....." called Rick over the loud speaker as a symbol stopped under the third Chvron, in which the Chevron then locked the symbol, "Chevron 3 is locked in place."
Hearing all of the noise, the rest of the Starfox team and Gerenal Pepper, who now knew all about the gate from Fox, rushed into the control room to see everyone running around and computers going nuts all around them. The group of them then walked over next to Maybourne and looked through the control room window at the commotion in the gate room.
Pepper was the first to ask what was obviously on all of their minds, "What in the hell is going on with that thing Maybourne?" he yelled to General Maybourne due to all of the noise around them.
"Hell if I know!!" yelled Maybourne in response, "McCloud said that they're recieving a dial-up....whatever the hell that is."
"Chevron 5 is holding.....Chevron 5 is locked in place...."
"Everyone!! GET OF THE RAMP NOW!!" yelled Fox as the sixth Chevron locked into place. Noticing the urgency in his voice, all the tech workers with him in the gate room ran off and even jumped from the metal ramp leading up to the mouth of the ring.
"Chevron 7 holding....." Everyone in the control and gate room stood breathless, watching the track with the symbols slow, "Chevron 7....." and then stop under the 7th and final Chevron, "....locked....."
In mere seconds after the 7th Chevron locked, what looked almost like water swirled inward from the edges of the ring in toward the center. Once the "water" came in contact with the rest of the "water" in the center of the ring, it exploded outward, causing sparks to fly all over the place in the control room as computers literally exploded. The explosion of the "water" soon returned to the mouth of the gate, a whirlpool effect forming behind the gate. What was left was was a rippling wall of the "water" filling the mouth of the ring.
All except Fox stood completely still, just staring at the gate, jaws agape. Smiling, Fox turned to face the window of the control room, or more so, Maybourne "Is that enough of a reason to keep up funding, sir?" and turned back toward the gate, laughing inwardly, not waiting for a response.