Chapter 5

Jenna had only made it up to the third landing when the door to the landing above her opened and Col. O'Niell stepped onto the landing. "Hey, Carter, where're you going?"

"Just stretching my legs, Sir." Jenna said as she took a step back. She was not fooled by the casual way that the Col. approached her. She could see it in his eyes that he suspected. She almost didn't hear the door on the landing below her and glanced down to see the one called Teal'c coming up from below.

"You know you're supposed to stay under observation," O'Niell said, drawing her attention back to him. "Doctors orders."

"I guess I'd better get back then." Without waiting for any reply, Jenna quickly stepped through the door of the landing she was and heard the Col. call out and booted feet on the steps as they began to pursue her. She took off towards the right and turned left at the first corner that was only a few feet away.

She stopped in front of a utility access panel and pulled it open as she heard the stairwell door slam against the wall. Inside she found a series of pipes that ran parallel to a ladder to the right. Quickly stepping onto the ladder, Jenna swung the access panel closed. Glancing up then down, Jenna decides that her best option was to descend. Pulling her sleeves down so that her hands were engulfed in the cuffs, Jenna grabbed the sides of the ladder tightly, she then secured her feet to the outside of the ladder and loosening her grip began a quick decent to the bottom.

Jenna slid to a halt at the bottom of the ladder falling back and through the access panel of the bottom floor. She recovered quickly and just in time to encounter a startled soldier. Taking advantage of the surprise her sudden appearance had caused, she pivoted on her right foot going down as she did and swept his feet out from under him with her left leg. Unprepared for the unexpected assault, the soldier didn't catch himself in time and hit his head on the concrete floor and was unconscious. Quickly checking to make sure the man was not hurt too badly, Jenna propped him up against the access panel to block it and continued down the hall in the direction that the man had come from.

Three doors down she came to a door with the word 'Armory' printed on it. She found what she needed and proceeded back into the hallway until she came upon a room full of computers and what appeared to be a large glass star-chart. There were five people stationed at various computers throughout the room and beyond two of them she saw the top edge of the machine that she hoped would provide her escape. Jenna stepped into the room and before any of the people within could take much notice she fired five consecutive bolts of energy and quickly dispatched them. Running up to the window, she noticed that there wasn't a dialing device within the room, which surprised her greatly considering the military of all people should have had one.

"Unless this is the original." She remembered reading in her history book how the original Interplanetary Transit Device had been found without a dialing device and computer had to be used to initiate a wormhole.

Scanning the monitors in front of her she found the one she needed and began the dialing sequence. Once the first chevron was engaged, Jenna left the room and made her way to the gate room. She'd only taken a few steps away from the control room door when a sudden flash of light nearly blinded her as a bolt of energy hit the wall just centimeters from her face. Jenna turned blinking to see Teal'c standing a few meters behind her, energy weapon in hand.

"Major Carter, if that is you, I suggest that you give up now or I will be forced to shoot you."

"Drop the Zat now!" O'Niell shouted appearing from the other direction. He to had an energy weapon pointed at her, both men trapping her between them.

She figured she had only one chance to get out of this and that was to get back into the control room and take the hard route to the gate through the observation glass. Raising the Zat, she pointed it at the man closes to her and was about to fire when she was struck by a bolt of energy from Teal'c's weapon. Surprised by the sudden tingling sensation, she was even more surprised at the fact that she was still standing and so, apparently was Teal'c. Just as suddenly as she was shot, she felt O'Niell's arms grab her from behind knocking the weapon from her hand and wrapped his arms around hers. Jenna brought up her legs and braced them against the wall before pushing against it forcing herself and O'Niell against the opposite wall. She heard the breath come out of him but he wouldn't release his grip.

"For crying out loud, Teal'c give me a hand!"

Teal'c was immediately by their side and blocking a swift kick brought his fist up effectively knocked Jenna out with a blow to the temple.

"Thanks."

"We should take her directly to Dr. Fraiser, O'Niell."

"Good idea, Teal'c. I should have thought of that myself." Teal'c ignored the implied sarcasm as he had eventually learned to do and watched as O'Niell picked up Major Carter's limp form. "Check on the others in the control room and notify General Hammond that we got the Major and I'm taking her back to the infirmary."

Teal'c bowed his head to O'Niell and turned to enter the control room as O'Niell headed off with Major Carter. He found that all of the officers in the room were alive and would probably come to in a few minutes. He went to the computer to shut down the gate before contacting Hammond and noted the coordinates. They were the coordinates to the planet Kheb were they had found the Harcesis child and the being know as Oma Desala.