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Thanks for putting up with the unfortunate mistakes in the language, I've always seemed to have a problem with 'where' and 'were' hopefully I've fixed them all.
CRASH – Chapter Seven
Several staff blasts came through the open gate
"Why isn't the iris closed?" Daniel shouted at the soldier standing next to him in the embarkation room
"I don't know" he answered as they both looked up to the control room's window
"The computer is not responding" Sergeant Thompson shouted from his station at the control room as the glass was hit with a second staff blast and started to crack Thompson and everyone in the control room lowered their heads instinctively, Daniel was ready to fire his gun at anything that would dare come through the gate, his right arm was hastily tied to his body to prevent movement, he didn't even get X-Rayed before the base went on alert.
That's when he saw the metallic armor of the first Jaffa coming through, red metallic eyes glowing. Daniel shot as did the other soldiers present in the gate room, the first two they shot at fell forward onto the ramp, the third fell back into the event horizon, that only served to delay the other Jaffa by mere seconds as the gate room filled with them.
The blasts continued as Earth's front line of defense was put to the test, the soldiers kept on firing at the emerging Jaffa, and Daniel was changing his clips like a professional even with only one operational hand.
The sound of gun fire, machine guns, staff weapons and Zat's was filling the room, the closed area made the sound louder, the Jaffa had no where to go but neither did the others.
It seemed the number of Jaffa coming through the gate was thinning as he kept on firing and looking around the room, for the first time he was able to comprehend the images he saw, across the way by the giant blast doors he saw about half a dozen soldiers, one was leaning against the closed door his chest heaving as Daniel could see the smoke coming from his chest wound, his eyes where wide as he knew he was about to die, he coughed and caught Daniel's glare and the corners of his lips cracked up as he nodded slightly and took in his last breath, two others were dead others had various staff wounds still with weapons trained on the still open yet empty event horizon, Daniel scanned the room meeting the deep brown sensitive eyes of the Jaffa he was proud to call friend, Teal'c descended his head at Daniel a small smile hovering over his thick lips., dead Jaffa all around.
He heard something to his left and turned to see the soldier that was standing by his side earlier, he was leaning against the concrete wall, Daniel moved over to his side as the man opened his eyes full of pain
"Did we do it?" he asked hopeful
"Damn right we did" Daniel answered just as the gate finally disengaged; the room fell into silence as the light was suddenly much dimmer.
The blast doors opened as medical personnel filled into the gate room moving around the dead Jaffa and reaching the injured soldiers.
"Daniel?" Janet reached her friend
"I'm fine Janet, the others, they need you more" he said as he held onto the now dead soldier.
"You're not okay Daniel, look" it was the first time he looked down to see the scorched open wound to his upper right torso, he didn't see more than that as the adrenalin rush he was on dramatically dissipated and he crashed to the floor.
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"Sir, Are you okay?" Sam asked when she noticed him legging behind her.
"Fine, the knees are a little stiff" he tried to catch up to her as they were moving through the trees surrounding Cheyenne mountain.
"Sir, its 28 floors down, will you…"
"I'll be fine major, lead the way" he ordered as she nodded and opened the steel hatch.
She climbed down attentive to any noises coming from inside the base and still watching that Jack was following close behind her.
When they reached level 24 she stopped and waited for him
"Sir, I'm ready" she said and as he nodded his head at her she opened the heavy door, his gun ready to fire, they peered inside. Motioning her to follow him they walked along the wall in the empty corridor, they reached the end when Jack signaled to Sam to take the other side before opening the door to the armory.
They retrieved two Zat's and changed the 'borrowed' Smith & Wesson with the usual issued berretta with extra clips. They moved on to level 26.
They entered the briefing room finding it empty as well as well as the adjoining office of General Hammond, they both crouched down and moved over to the observation window, they both peered with wide open eyes at the image that unfolded before them, dead Jaffa all over the floor, dead SGC soldiers, medical personnel moving franticly from one patient to the next. They both saw him at the same time just as Janet was pointing at his chest, he looked down and seconds later crashed while two medics placed him on a gurney.
Sam and Jack stood quickly to their feet and moved down the stair, as George took the stairs to reach his office he met the two missing soldiers,
"Col. O'Neill, Major Carter where the hell have you been?" he asked unable to hide the relief he felt in seeing them both alive and well
"It's a very long story General, what happened here?" Jack asked a little edgy wanting to know the rest of his team's condition
"Anubis's Jaffa attacked through the gate"
"Sir we saw Daniel down there, how is he?" Sam asked the apprehension apparent in her voice.
"I don't know yet, all the injured have been taken to the infirmary, I'll go down there just as soon as I debrief the president about what happened here"
"Sir Permission…" they both said in unison
"Granted" he didn't need them to finish the sentence knowing exactly what their request was.
They both nodded at their commanding officer as they sprinted down the rest of the stairs and turned right to the corridor that would lead them to the infirmary, unfortunately a place they knew very well since one or all of them was usually there for one reason.
The infirmary looked like a field hospital in the middle of a war, medical personnel running around and wounded soldiers occupying all the beds they had.
Both Sam and Jack's eyes gazed over the people laying in the beds trying to fine Daniel in all this mess but he wasn't there.
"Where's Dr. Jackson?" Jack grabbed the sleeve of a nurse going by, she shook her head
"I don't know Sir" she answered shrugging her shoulders
They both figured they'll never get anywhere in the state the infirmary was in so without another word they took up seats in the hallway outside.
Two hours later the rush and confusion died down a bit and Jack decided to try again
Jack felt a little ashamed of himself being second in command of the entire base and still wanting to know the current condition of his team, he should ask about all the people who were injured he thought to himself as he re entered the infirmary. With him entered General Hammond who had just come around the corner.
Janet walked towards them as she saw them enter, she told General Hammond about each soldier's injury and how long it will be for the recovery of each one, most had staff blasts to different parts of their bodies, some had broken bones and fractured ribs, others had internal damage.
"There are 24 in here Sir, two more are still in the O.R. and twelve died" she tallied the final count for the General as he nodded in affirmation.
"What about Daniel?" Jack asked amazingly being able to keep his voice from trembling as he asked.
"He's still in surgery" Janet answered as she nodded to them and run to the nurse who needed her help.
"Col. I'll see you in my office NOW" General Hammond said making sure what he said was construed as it should have, an order
"You too Major Carter" he turned around and walked to his office the two walking obediently behind.
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"Well Col. would you like to start telling me where you two have been these past three weeks?"
"All I know Sir is waking up in a hospital, people around me saying it has been 11 years since I was last awake and telling me I had a spinal cord injury and that Anubis was controlling Earth" he stopped to clear his throat and catch a breath before he continued at the General's nod
"I stopped taking the pills they kept giving me and found out I could move my legs, I waited for Major Carter to wake up and when we were both strong enough we escaped, I don't know who had us there or why they wanted us to think is was 11 years later but I have a pretty good idea that it was also an NID operation"
"Major do you have anything else to say?"
"No Sir" she spoke for the first time, George nodded and as he was about to dismiss them Jack asked
"Sir what happened here?"
"Well I received a cryptic message, I still don't know from whom, that said the base should go into full alert, when I recalled everyone you two and Dr, Jackson were missing. We found your car on the side of a road burnt, and recovered both your dog tags, we couldn't find you in any of the hospitals or morgues, then all hell broke loose with those Jaffa you saw down in the gate room, their forehead crest suggest they are Anubis's clan but we can't be sure, I do however have the feeling that things are far from over"
"You think he might return here with his ship?" Sam asked
"The sky's have been scouted and there is nothing so far but I have the distinct feeling he is already in Earth's orbit" The General said in a low voice, I received this message from our 'friend' he said as he opened the top of his laptop computer and turned it so the two will see the message he received on the bulletin board
'Texas Man, I have no news about Scaly, but think you should watch out for invisible bugs on your windshield'
"You think Anubis has the ability to cloak an entire mother ship?" Sam was stunned.
"I don't know Dr. what do you think?" he looked into her eyes
"Since the Goa'uld steal most of the technology they have do you think it's possible?"
"Probable is more likely Sir" Jack answered instead knowing it would once again be a battle, and more so to the death.
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