The Vortex of Time.
Chapter 1/P1231
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Authors note
This entire chapter is based on Earth and switches points of view quite a bit, but its essential for the chapter to work.
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"Can't you make the dammed thing any brighter?" Colonel Jack O'Neill asked Captain Samantha Carter.
"Sorry sir, but this is the brightest it'll go," she apologised.
"Hey, what was that?" Daniel suddenly shouted. He had seen a flash of blue light on the monitor.
"What was what?" Jack asked exasperated, Daniel always had to find something.
"There it was again didn't you see it? It was like a blinding flash of light it only lasted about a second; but I definitely saw something!" He insisted.
"I saw it too Daniel Jackson." Teal'c agreed.
Suddenly the surveillance went off indicating that the Stargates' wormhole had just disengaged; conformation come when the gate master said;
"Wormhole disengaged."
"General?" O'Neill asked, turning to face Hammond.
"You have a go. But first, Captain Carter I want you to find out what those flashes were."
"Yes sir." Carter replied eager to be getting on with the work.
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Sam studied the strange flashes on the monitor again. She had slowed the tape down and enhanced the video resolution. There just after the first flash, a person materialised, and there again. So these weren't bombs dropping like she had first thought. They were matter transporters, but they were vastly superior to the ones the Gould used; as instead of the rings carrying the person down, these were matter dematerialisers!
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Waiting for the signal that indicated that the wormhole had engaged, O'Neill waited impatiently at the base of the ramp tapping his foot.
"Wormhole engaged!" Came the gate masters' voice (at last) over the tannoy system.
"SG.1, you have a go!" Came General Hammonds' voice.
"Yes sir!" O'Neill responded before turning, ascending the ramp and entering the wormhole.
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Pretty bad chapter I know and short, though I think the next is going to be even shorter. Sorrrrryyyyyy. O.K. people now review, you know you want to!
