A long chapter this time, hope you enjoy it. My next post won't be for a while, as i'll be away for a few days, but never fear, I'll be thinking about this story!
The usual disclaimer; I don't own Stargate, or any of the people in it, I only own Ice, Dash, Control, Venus, and Pap.
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We rolled into the main base around 1400 hours, and I dismissed all the troops promptly, and allowed them to go to the nearby independand village, Tangart. Indipendant villages are extremely rare, as most Commanders will simply force the civilians within to work for him or her. I, however, talked with my civilian director, Venus, who said that it would be better to allow independant villages on my territory. She said that although it would mean there was less labour now, more and more independants would flock to my territory as they learned they could live in peace there. And once in my territory, they would probably sooner or later take a job in one of my facilities, and make themselves productive. Venus is nothing if not cunning.
The town itself was situated over the remains of the original base, Delta Core, and contained the 'Stargate'. We didn't use it, as our attention was focused inwards, rather than outwards. We had been scarred baddly for interfearing with other races. Unlike Earth, we learnt our lessons quickly. Most of the buildings were made out of metals, as our nanotechnology made it easy and cheap to create huge buildings in a matter of hours. The people were happy, and created a semblance of 'normal' life; that is, shopping centers, malls, arcades, resteraunts, basketball courts, and brothels could all be found within the city limits. The city also provided water and electricity free of charge to every building, a small television station had been set up, and there are three competing newspapers. Some eager youngsters had started up a radio station, before realising that there were no instruments, singers, or bands on the planet, and any CD's were guarded fiercly by their owners. For example, no one who wanted to live would touch my Linkin Park CD.
I entered the base, and spotted Control standing on the other side of the room, talking with some civilian. A tech, by the looks of it. I walked over. "Commander!" Control smiled "Its good to see you back in one piece" I nodded to him, and to the suddenly nervous tech, and looked down at the Sat Map the two of them were poring over. "So Sirous, whats been happening in the world as we know it?" Control frowned suddenly, and scratched his head. "I distinctly remember telling you not to attack the Bretons" I nodded sagely, and he continued "But earlier this morning, I looked down at the map, and what did I see?" I could hear a distinct note of annoyance in his voice, but decided not to make it easier for him "Well, what did you see?" I asked, trying to sound puzzeled "Is the world ending?" Control spluttered "No the worlds not ending!" I cut him off quickly "Well then, I guess there's nothing wrong" I smiled cheerfully at his look of outraged indignance and turned quickly and walked away. My mood was cheerful, and only got better hearing Control splutter with outrage behind me. Whistling, I was about to walk outside, when an urgant speaker announcment came though. "Control, this is Pap" A dispacher replied on the mike, while I listened in curiously "Pap, this is control, whats your sitch?" Pap's voice came though harshly over the air "Get the Commander out here, its very important!" I switched my mike on and responded "Pap, this is Ice, whats going on?"
"Sir, the Stargate's opening!"
I, along with everyone in the room froze with shock. I snapped out of it microseconds before Control. "Pap, get the squadren together, and back here to suit up" I turned to Control "Sirous?" Control stopped barking orders for a second to turn to me "Sir, Raptor squadren is ready to deploy" I nodded to him. Although he was a mother goose, he was an extremely efficient officer. I switched my mike to the Raptrors band and spoke up "Raptor squadren, sound off!" various aknowledgements came though, including "Dash's ready to go!" and I smiled, glad that I would have a friend backing me up on this important event "Raptors, get to the casino, and form up out the front." The casino was very close to the Stargate, and it would give us time to get to organise, and be ready for anything. "Control" I snapped "Be ready to inform the other tribes about this development" Control nodded "I have the messages encoded, and my finger is on the broadcast button" If the visiters were enermy's we would broadcast the signal, and all the tribes would come together under the flag of Eutopia, to drive the invaders out. However, if it was friendlies, there was no reason to inform the other tribes, as we may gain an important advantage.
I quickly, with the help of a tech, pulled my armour on, then ran outside, blasting to 120 miles per hour without gaining altitude. The town rapidly grew bigger in my viser, and I pulled up, to soar over the building, and come to a perfect touchdown in front of the assembled troops. Raptor squadren was an all light squadren, thus the basis of their name - raptors; birds of prey. "Ok troops, I want 15 of you in the air, hovering, ten will be in entrenched positions, and the five on building tops" murmoured grunts accompanied the orders, and they moved out quickly. The Stargate had locked in its fourth chevron. "You ready?" I asked Dash. She smiled beneath her viser "Yep, lets make the first contact" We walked out, and stood a safe distance away from the Stargate, in the open. The sixth chevron had locked. "Raptors, do not fire unless fired apon! Repeat DO NOT fire unless fired upon!" I barked. The fifteen hovering troops were flying so high they were out of sight to the Stargate. The ten entrenched troops kept low, and would be unlikely to be seen. Whoever exited the Stargate would see only Dash, and me, both in our combat armour, and holding pulse ion guns. The seventh chevron locked, and a blaze of power washed outwards, before being sucked back in, leaving a watery-like surface inside the stone ring. I carefully breathed out, then back in, and stood ramrod straight, waiting for the intruders to arive.
They arived one at a time, a tactical mistake if they wanted to attack. First was a woman with short blond hair under a old fasioned combat helmet. She was carrying what appeared to be a mp5. Definetly from Earth. I heard Dash sigh with relief. The woman walked forward, talking to the second person who had arrived, a young man with glasses, with apparently only a berreta. "You can't tell me the heirographs..." Her sentence was cut short as she noticed us standing a few meters away. Her companion, not noticing us, thought she had finished talking and stated "Sam, you know that the Egyptians... Ow!!" he glared at her, as she had elbowed him in the ribs "That wasn't necissary! What the..." He cought sight of us and also fell silent. Both of them stood there with their mouths hanging open. I stepped forward, but stopped, as both the woman, Sam, apperently, tightened her hand on the MP3, and two more figures appeared from the Stargate. As they appeared, the watery field collapsed, leaving the four of them standing, mouths agape, staring at us. It was starting to irk me. I took a step forward, ignoring the way the third man had grabbed his MP3, and pointed it at me. He obviously didn't realise there was no way he could hit me with it, and even if he did, it would bouce off my armour. I couldn't see the fourth guy, he was standing behind the others. "be carefull, Ice" muttered Dash through her mike. I grinned and spoke up "Welcome to Eutopia! It took you long enough!"
The man with glasses was the first to speak. "Who, exactly are you?" I sighed. It was going to be a long day. The guy spoke again "this planet was apparently uninhabbeted, but you're here..." His voice trailed off, as he was evidently lost in thought. I spoke up "My name is Commander Ice, I command..."
"Ice, right?" The guy with the MP3 broke in. Dash and I stared at him without expression, and the guys companions stared at him in exasperation. I didn't know the SGC employed morons. He looked around at all of us. "Joke" He explained, looking at our still expressionless faces "Obviously a bad joke" he subsided, and the woman, with a irritated glace at the man, stepped forward. "We have been to this planet before, and we didn't find any signs of inteligent life..." I broke in,
"Yes, I remember that, when was it, ah, yes, three and a half years ago to the day, SG1 made a prefunctuary search of this planet" Dash sniggered quietly at the shocked looks on their faces. "H, how, how did you know that" Glasses guy said in confusment. While the others confered in low voices. I smiled at them. "perhaps you'd like to come with me" The last guy stepped forward, and I casually analysed him, before my eyes opened wide in shock "What the fuck! A Jaffa!" My weapon snapped up, as did Dash's. The third guy stepped in the fireing path, hands held placatigly up palm out. "Whoa, hey!" He soothed "This Jaffa is a friend" I thought for a second, then grudgingly lowered my weapon. I had to glance at Dash to make her do the same. I sighed. "As I was saying" I said, keeping a distrustfull eye on the Jaffa, who stood calmly, as if unaware of how close to death he was, holding a staff weapon. "perhaps you would like to come with me" They looked inclined to argue, so I quickly switched on my mike "Raptors, defencive formation around us"
The SG teams reaction was comical. I guess it must be unnerving for those not in the know to find fifteen guys suddenly fall out of the sky to land around you, another ten jump up apparently out of the ground, and five jump from fifty foot high buildings, to land gently next to you. I smiled at them "So glad you agreed" They looked at each other, and apparently reaching a decision, lowered their weapons and silently followed Dash and myself.
It was a fair way to the base, three clicks at least, and on foot without armour, would take a long time. I decided to impress the SG team, and so, pulled my radio out of my belt, which was incase of a helmet malfuction, and clicked it to the mech band. I held up my hand, to stop the proccesion, and spoke into the radio "This is Commander Ice, I need a airborn APC at my location now." I clicked it off and listened to the reply "I'll be there within seconds, sir" The reply was literal. I heard the prisoners, er, guests behind me gasp in shock, as the APC fell through the clouds, to land gently several feet in front of me. Airborn APC's like this one could only carry six people. I turned to Raptor Squadren "Raptors, meet us back at the base" They acnowledged, and Dash and myself helped the others into position on the APC, and got in ourselves. APC's were dangerous for unarmoured troops, as they were open topped, to allow troops to fly or jump out when they wanted to. I beleived that these guys could hang on. My Earpeice crackled "Where to, Sir?"
"Back to base"
"Yes sir"
The APC lifted up, slowly, and smoothly accelerated to 200 miles per hour, taking three seconds to do so. I had told the pilot not to go fast. We got back in no time, and landed on a pad right in the middle of the base. Dash, and I jumped off, using our jets to slow our fall, and waited for the SG team to shakely climb down. I cleared my thoat "if you could follow me, please" I turned and walked towards a small briefing room "Ice, i'm going to get changed out of this armour, I'll meet you inside" I aknowledged Dash, and turned to face the still shaky SG team. To their credit, they recovered quickly, and began to examine the room. "If you would please wait here, I'll be back in a second." I said. The glasses guy spoke up "Where are you going?" He looked concerned. I smilled "I'm going to get changed" I turned and walked out.
Feeling refreshed, and comfortable in my uniform, I walked in with Dash. About to speak, I noticed, that the attention of the males in the room, with the exeption of the Jaffa, had become extremely interested in Dash. With a glance I realised why. Her uniform hugged her body in all the right places, and her beautiful pale hair framed her angelic face like a halo. Suddenly annoyed at the guys staring, I pulled Dash close to me, and put an arm around her possessivly, wondering why I was doing it. Dash and I were not an item. I concluded that it must be that I didn't want any offworlders ogoling my second in command. I was blissfully unaware that if it was a Eotopian doing it, I would have made his life very miserable. I knew however, that Dash was going to tease the hell out of me for that move, but she suprised me by snuggling closer to me. She mustn't like their stares either.
They had obviously been discussing what to say, and the glasses guy must have been elected as spokesman. "Um, my name is Dr Daniel Jackson," he said, "This is Major Samanther McKenzie" He pointed to the woman, Sam, "This is Corenal Jack O'Neal" He pointed to the comidian, "And this is Tealk" pointing to the Jaffa. I shook their hands, except for the Jaffas. I didn't like Jaffas. "My name, as I said, is Commander Ice" I indicated to Dash, who was still nestled in the crook of my arm "This is Squad Leader Dash"
Daniel frowned "You say you're a Commander, and you know alot about the SGC, but who exactly are you?" The others were watching me - us closely.
This was the moment of truth. They say the truth shall set you free. I wondered if if would free us from Eutopia. I wondered if I wanted to be free from Eutopia. But most of all, I wondered why I was enjoying holding Dash so much, and why she enjoyed being held.
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Please please please please please please please please please please review!!!!
The usual disclaimer; I don't own Stargate, or any of the people in it, I only own Ice, Dash, Control, Venus, and Pap.
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We rolled into the main base around 1400 hours, and I dismissed all the troops promptly, and allowed them to go to the nearby independand village, Tangart. Indipendant villages are extremely rare, as most Commanders will simply force the civilians within to work for him or her. I, however, talked with my civilian director, Venus, who said that it would be better to allow independant villages on my territory. She said that although it would mean there was less labour now, more and more independants would flock to my territory as they learned they could live in peace there. And once in my territory, they would probably sooner or later take a job in one of my facilities, and make themselves productive. Venus is nothing if not cunning.
The town itself was situated over the remains of the original base, Delta Core, and contained the 'Stargate'. We didn't use it, as our attention was focused inwards, rather than outwards. We had been scarred baddly for interfearing with other races. Unlike Earth, we learnt our lessons quickly. Most of the buildings were made out of metals, as our nanotechnology made it easy and cheap to create huge buildings in a matter of hours. The people were happy, and created a semblance of 'normal' life; that is, shopping centers, malls, arcades, resteraunts, basketball courts, and brothels could all be found within the city limits. The city also provided water and electricity free of charge to every building, a small television station had been set up, and there are three competing newspapers. Some eager youngsters had started up a radio station, before realising that there were no instruments, singers, or bands on the planet, and any CD's were guarded fiercly by their owners. For example, no one who wanted to live would touch my Linkin Park CD.
I entered the base, and spotted Control standing on the other side of the room, talking with some civilian. A tech, by the looks of it. I walked over. "Commander!" Control smiled "Its good to see you back in one piece" I nodded to him, and to the suddenly nervous tech, and looked down at the Sat Map the two of them were poring over. "So Sirous, whats been happening in the world as we know it?" Control frowned suddenly, and scratched his head. "I distinctly remember telling you not to attack the Bretons" I nodded sagely, and he continued "But earlier this morning, I looked down at the map, and what did I see?" I could hear a distinct note of annoyance in his voice, but decided not to make it easier for him "Well, what did you see?" I asked, trying to sound puzzeled "Is the world ending?" Control spluttered "No the worlds not ending!" I cut him off quickly "Well then, I guess there's nothing wrong" I smiled cheerfully at his look of outraged indignance and turned quickly and walked away. My mood was cheerful, and only got better hearing Control splutter with outrage behind me. Whistling, I was about to walk outside, when an urgant speaker announcment came though. "Control, this is Pap" A dispacher replied on the mike, while I listened in curiously "Pap, this is control, whats your sitch?" Pap's voice came though harshly over the air "Get the Commander out here, its very important!" I switched my mike on and responded "Pap, this is Ice, whats going on?"
"Sir, the Stargate's opening!"
I, along with everyone in the room froze with shock. I snapped out of it microseconds before Control. "Pap, get the squadren together, and back here to suit up" I turned to Control "Sirous?" Control stopped barking orders for a second to turn to me "Sir, Raptor squadren is ready to deploy" I nodded to him. Although he was a mother goose, he was an extremely efficient officer. I switched my mike to the Raptrors band and spoke up "Raptor squadren, sound off!" various aknowledgements came though, including "Dash's ready to go!" and I smiled, glad that I would have a friend backing me up on this important event "Raptors, get to the casino, and form up out the front." The casino was very close to the Stargate, and it would give us time to get to organise, and be ready for anything. "Control" I snapped "Be ready to inform the other tribes about this development" Control nodded "I have the messages encoded, and my finger is on the broadcast button" If the visiters were enermy's we would broadcast the signal, and all the tribes would come together under the flag of Eutopia, to drive the invaders out. However, if it was friendlies, there was no reason to inform the other tribes, as we may gain an important advantage.
I quickly, with the help of a tech, pulled my armour on, then ran outside, blasting to 120 miles per hour without gaining altitude. The town rapidly grew bigger in my viser, and I pulled up, to soar over the building, and come to a perfect touchdown in front of the assembled troops. Raptor squadren was an all light squadren, thus the basis of their name - raptors; birds of prey. "Ok troops, I want 15 of you in the air, hovering, ten will be in entrenched positions, and the five on building tops" murmoured grunts accompanied the orders, and they moved out quickly. The Stargate had locked in its fourth chevron. "You ready?" I asked Dash. She smiled beneath her viser "Yep, lets make the first contact" We walked out, and stood a safe distance away from the Stargate, in the open. The sixth chevron had locked. "Raptors, do not fire unless fired apon! Repeat DO NOT fire unless fired upon!" I barked. The fifteen hovering troops were flying so high they were out of sight to the Stargate. The ten entrenched troops kept low, and would be unlikely to be seen. Whoever exited the Stargate would see only Dash, and me, both in our combat armour, and holding pulse ion guns. The seventh chevron locked, and a blaze of power washed outwards, before being sucked back in, leaving a watery-like surface inside the stone ring. I carefully breathed out, then back in, and stood ramrod straight, waiting for the intruders to arive.
They arived one at a time, a tactical mistake if they wanted to attack. First was a woman with short blond hair under a old fasioned combat helmet. She was carrying what appeared to be a mp5. Definetly from Earth. I heard Dash sigh with relief. The woman walked forward, talking to the second person who had arrived, a young man with glasses, with apparently only a berreta. "You can't tell me the heirographs..." Her sentence was cut short as she noticed us standing a few meters away. Her companion, not noticing us, thought she had finished talking and stated "Sam, you know that the Egyptians... Ow!!" he glared at her, as she had elbowed him in the ribs "That wasn't necissary! What the..." He cought sight of us and also fell silent. Both of them stood there with their mouths hanging open. I stepped forward, but stopped, as both the woman, Sam, apperently, tightened her hand on the MP3, and two more figures appeared from the Stargate. As they appeared, the watery field collapsed, leaving the four of them standing, mouths agape, staring at us. It was starting to irk me. I took a step forward, ignoring the way the third man had grabbed his MP3, and pointed it at me. He obviously didn't realise there was no way he could hit me with it, and even if he did, it would bouce off my armour. I couldn't see the fourth guy, he was standing behind the others. "be carefull, Ice" muttered Dash through her mike. I grinned and spoke up "Welcome to Eutopia! It took you long enough!"
The man with glasses was the first to speak. "Who, exactly are you?" I sighed. It was going to be a long day. The guy spoke again "this planet was apparently uninhabbeted, but you're here..." His voice trailed off, as he was evidently lost in thought. I spoke up "My name is Commander Ice, I command..."
"Ice, right?" The guy with the MP3 broke in. Dash and I stared at him without expression, and the guys companions stared at him in exasperation. I didn't know the SGC employed morons. He looked around at all of us. "Joke" He explained, looking at our still expressionless faces "Obviously a bad joke" he subsided, and the woman, with a irritated glace at the man, stepped forward. "We have been to this planet before, and we didn't find any signs of inteligent life..." I broke in,
"Yes, I remember that, when was it, ah, yes, three and a half years ago to the day, SG1 made a prefunctuary search of this planet" Dash sniggered quietly at the shocked looks on their faces. "H, how, how did you know that" Glasses guy said in confusment. While the others confered in low voices. I smiled at them. "perhaps you'd like to come with me" The last guy stepped forward, and I casually analysed him, before my eyes opened wide in shock "What the fuck! A Jaffa!" My weapon snapped up, as did Dash's. The third guy stepped in the fireing path, hands held placatigly up palm out. "Whoa, hey!" He soothed "This Jaffa is a friend" I thought for a second, then grudgingly lowered my weapon. I had to glance at Dash to make her do the same. I sighed. "As I was saying" I said, keeping a distrustfull eye on the Jaffa, who stood calmly, as if unaware of how close to death he was, holding a staff weapon. "perhaps you would like to come with me" They looked inclined to argue, so I quickly switched on my mike "Raptors, defencive formation around us"
The SG teams reaction was comical. I guess it must be unnerving for those not in the know to find fifteen guys suddenly fall out of the sky to land around you, another ten jump up apparently out of the ground, and five jump from fifty foot high buildings, to land gently next to you. I smiled at them "So glad you agreed" They looked at each other, and apparently reaching a decision, lowered their weapons and silently followed Dash and myself.
It was a fair way to the base, three clicks at least, and on foot without armour, would take a long time. I decided to impress the SG team, and so, pulled my radio out of my belt, which was incase of a helmet malfuction, and clicked it to the mech band. I held up my hand, to stop the proccesion, and spoke into the radio "This is Commander Ice, I need a airborn APC at my location now." I clicked it off and listened to the reply "I'll be there within seconds, sir" The reply was literal. I heard the prisoners, er, guests behind me gasp in shock, as the APC fell through the clouds, to land gently several feet in front of me. Airborn APC's like this one could only carry six people. I turned to Raptor Squadren "Raptors, meet us back at the base" They acnowledged, and Dash and myself helped the others into position on the APC, and got in ourselves. APC's were dangerous for unarmoured troops, as they were open topped, to allow troops to fly or jump out when they wanted to. I beleived that these guys could hang on. My Earpeice crackled "Where to, Sir?"
"Back to base"
"Yes sir"
The APC lifted up, slowly, and smoothly accelerated to 200 miles per hour, taking three seconds to do so. I had told the pilot not to go fast. We got back in no time, and landed on a pad right in the middle of the base. Dash, and I jumped off, using our jets to slow our fall, and waited for the SG team to shakely climb down. I cleared my thoat "if you could follow me, please" I turned and walked towards a small briefing room "Ice, i'm going to get changed out of this armour, I'll meet you inside" I aknowledged Dash, and turned to face the still shaky SG team. To their credit, they recovered quickly, and began to examine the room. "If you would please wait here, I'll be back in a second." I said. The glasses guy spoke up "Where are you going?" He looked concerned. I smilled "I'm going to get changed" I turned and walked out.
Feeling refreshed, and comfortable in my uniform, I walked in with Dash. About to speak, I noticed, that the attention of the males in the room, with the exeption of the Jaffa, had become extremely interested in Dash. With a glance I realised why. Her uniform hugged her body in all the right places, and her beautiful pale hair framed her angelic face like a halo. Suddenly annoyed at the guys staring, I pulled Dash close to me, and put an arm around her possessivly, wondering why I was doing it. Dash and I were not an item. I concluded that it must be that I didn't want any offworlders ogoling my second in command. I was blissfully unaware that if it was a Eotopian doing it, I would have made his life very miserable. I knew however, that Dash was going to tease the hell out of me for that move, but she suprised me by snuggling closer to me. She mustn't like their stares either.
They had obviously been discussing what to say, and the glasses guy must have been elected as spokesman. "Um, my name is Dr Daniel Jackson," he said, "This is Major Samanther McKenzie" He pointed to the woman, Sam, "This is Corenal Jack O'Neal" He pointed to the comidian, "And this is Tealk" pointing to the Jaffa. I shook their hands, except for the Jaffas. I didn't like Jaffas. "My name, as I said, is Commander Ice" I indicated to Dash, who was still nestled in the crook of my arm "This is Squad Leader Dash"
Daniel frowned "You say you're a Commander, and you know alot about the SGC, but who exactly are you?" The others were watching me - us closely.
This was the moment of truth. They say the truth shall set you free. I wondered if if would free us from Eutopia. I wondered if I wanted to be free from Eutopia. But most of all, I wondered why I was enjoying holding Dash so much, and why she enjoyed being held.
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Please please please please please please please please please please review!!!!