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It passed over Alkari like a wave, the liquid sliding across her skin, she didn't know what she had expected. Maybe for it to stick? Or leave some kind of a residue on her, but it just slid over, like it had never touched her once she was through it. Her eyes were closed, so she more felt then saw the bright pin points of lights that popped up as she was moved.
It almost seemed as if her body was pure energy being tossed and turned and hurtled back and forth through whatever conduit she was being transported in. The feeling was exhilarating, and then she was emerging on the other side.
Her body being drawn back together from whatever she had been changed into for the journey. A sort of cold sweat forming over her as an icy chill swept through her, quickly followed by a hot flush. Swaying slightly, she tried to stand but her head felt like it was in the sky, an intoxicatingly painful light headedness was taking up so much of her concentration from the moment that she exited the Stargate, that she didn't notice the half dozen personnel training weapons on her.
Or the surprised expressions on the faces of SG-1, nor did she notice the hurried motions of Colonel O'Neill to keep her from being torn to pieces by shrapnel. Then she noticed nothing as darkness swam up to consume her vision and her legs buckled beneath her, depositing her into the arms of one Jaffa, before she could strike the platform.
*******
Alkari's eyes fluttered open again before Teal'c had even had a chance to adjust her in his arms, looking up into his eyes she murmured "Thanks for the catch" before popping back up onto her own two feet, which she found a little strange considering that she had just fainted and still felt very warm.
A feeling of confidence rolled through her and a smile sprang up on her lips as a short, stocky man with more then a small pot belly came into the room, he was bald and radiated command. That and the way the others in the room stood aside for him to pass indicated that he was the person in charge of whatever facility she had just stole away to.
O'Neill made a gesture to indicate the new man "General Hammond this is erm- "
"Alkari" Teal'c put in
"Yes. Alkari. One of the people we met on P3X-C14"
The General looked between SG-1 and Alkari, "Ok, so what's she doing here? You didn't say anything about bringing someone back"
Before anyone could say anything else Alkari decided to speak up "Um. I followed them back, they didn't know what I was going to do"
After a few moments had past with the General glancing back and forth he decided that it would be better if they went to the debriefing room to continue their discussion. She was only too happy too oblige, walking between Samantha and Jack she was almost skipping along. It was an ecstatic feeling that was coursing through her like a drug since she had stepped out of the gateway. And she couldn't seem to tone it down.
Oh well, she thought as she took a seat and found to her delight that it swivelled. She couldn't keep the smile off her face, such a small thing, but it was fun! She even noticed a small tweak at the corner of Sam's mouth when she realised what was inspiring Alkari's glee.
Settling into the seat at the end of the table General Hammond clasped his hands together and she swivelled to face his direction. "I think the debriefing can wait a few minutes while you explain to us why you left your world and followed my team back through the Stargate" she noticed how his eyebrows arched as he finished, an interesting thing that she'd seen almost all of the people on Earth do so far, something that she had never seen anyone on the other world do.
Facial expressions are fascinating, she thought as she met Hammond's eyes.
"It wasn't my world" she said simply "Um, Daniel there" looking at Dr Jackson "Found a tablet that said 'Our world is gone but we remain and we shall not be forgotten. Krypton'. Some kind of catastrophe destroyed the planet neighbouring the one your people found me on, my planet, I was only a few years old and I was sent there by my family, but all the other survivors who made it to the planet have died since."
The General, and a few of the others at the table looked as if they couldn't see the reference to what had been asked, but were being polite and letting her continue.
"I'm getting side tracked, sorry" Adjusting how she sat she continued "An inventor built a ship that could travel between galaxies and placed his son in it, the people who raised me told me that this was where his ship was sent" Taking a breath Alkari said "I believe that he and I are the only ones left from our world and when SG-1 said where they were from I thought it was fate, that the gods had intervened, and I was compelled to follow them and try to find Kal'El"
Then she just waited, her story was out, she decided to let them make of it what they would.
Daniel Jackson was the first to speak back up "Ar, if your.people.could send one person this far, why not more? I mean some more of you obviously must have used other ships to leave, Krypton." Alkari tilted her head with her response "Kal'El's ship was a prototype, and his father was desperate to save him. The most that was available were some inter planetary pods, a fair few of which didn't even make it to another planet"
He made a small oh noise before falling silent. O'Neill's glances toward the General prompted him to speak up again. "Well, Alkari, as much as I cam sympathise with you, this is a very big planet and you aren't even sure that this Kal'El is here, and we can't just let alien peoples go wondering about, so I'm afraid that you came through in vain, we're going to have to send you back to P3X-C14" he waved his hands about in something that she guessed was a "there's nothing I can do" gesture.
Feeling her eyes hardening, icing over so they wouldn't betray what she was feeling. She spoke with determination and confidence "I know he's here, its almost as if I can feel him" her words were passion driven and she tried to convey to them with words alone her desperation and need "Please!"
"There's really nothing that I can do" he said once more. "Dr Frasier will give you a complete examination to make sure you didn't bring anything through with you, but after that we're going to have to send you back through the Stargate"
He crossed his arms and lifted his chin in a very definite, there would be no arguing, way.
Resigned she let her head slump in defeat. There was nothing she could do! She'd travelled planets through a wormhole but she was still a child to the people of Earth, a child with no way to act without their help.
And the people that could help her where sending her back.
******
With a glee that she hadn't felt in years she laughed aloud at the obvious frustration of the doctors as they were unable to draw her blood, thrice they had shattered or broken their needles attempting to pierce her skin.
She didn't know why they couldn't, but it was simply too funny for her to worry about.
A smile still live and blooming on her face, Alkari could feel her body, could really feel it even as she laughed in delight. She could feel the resilience in her skin, it was as if her entire body where becoming more mature, more.tough.
It was an incredible feeling when she paid attention to it, a feeling that was only expanding through out, radiating a new kind of strength inside of her and it was a feeling that she was already beginning to love.
It was addictive, no really? She felt like putting her fist through a wall, and she was more then positive that she could do it if she tried, that she could do it and that it wouldn't hurt her in the slightest.
She was laughing so hard at the frantic motions of one of the younger doctors as he became increasingly more frustrated with the needles, that she had to grip the metal poles of her bed to keep herself from falling to her knee's.
Alkari didn't even notice that she was squeezing the metal to the point that she was indenting it in the shape of her hands.
Finally the doctors where aggravated enough that she was being sent to her room for the duration of her stay, faintly she heard one of the doctors muttering how it didn't matter any way since she was going to go back to whatever they called the planet they'd found her on, the sooner the better in his opinion.
The bars remaining unnoticed for the time being.
******
"General Hammond" Doctor Fraser called, a little out of breath from rushing along the corridors to catch up with him.
"Yes, Janet?"
"General" she panted "the girl that you had brought down to the labs. We couldn't take her blood" hurrying on "Her body was literally too strong for a needle to penetrate it and I've already talked with Doctor Jackson, back on the other planet she had some scrapes that any teenager might accumulate"
"But now there's not a mark on her, and General she indented several metal beams on one of the beds, she didn't even seem to realise that she had done it"
General Hammond just looked at her for a moment, the SGC had encountered physically superior beings before.
"General I know what your going to say, but from talking with Daniel and what I observed in the lab myself whatever's going on with the girl.its only just started happening since she came through the Gate"
His eyes widened a little at that "Are you saying that being on Earth is making her stronger?"
"I couldn't say for sure, but it looks like it, sir"
The possibilities if they could find out how it was she was changing, the SGC could finally have found a very real weapon in the fight against the Gou'ald. First things first, he would have to postpone her departure and he wasn't NID to begin initiating tests on her without her permission. There was a lot of work to be done.
******
Alkari sat in her given room, the feel of the entire complex had changed, something was going on. Something that involved her, maybe something that she had done in the few hours since her arrival. She knew they had noticed whatever was happening her, they would have had to have been blind not to.
And from some of the hushed whispers she had been able to hear, a number of people very much wanted very much wanted to know how and why her body was getting stronger.
Maybe this means I won't be going back so soon after all, the thought firmly placing a grin on her face.
To TheOneYouSeek, thanks for reviewing, and I'm glad that you like so far.And if I didn't have grammar and spelling problems there'd be nothing to criticise! *G*
Oh and bad Fanfic.net for stealing the review button.
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It passed over Alkari like a wave, the liquid sliding across her skin, she didn't know what she had expected. Maybe for it to stick? Or leave some kind of a residue on her, but it just slid over, like it had never touched her once she was through it. Her eyes were closed, so she more felt then saw the bright pin points of lights that popped up as she was moved.
It almost seemed as if her body was pure energy being tossed and turned and hurtled back and forth through whatever conduit she was being transported in. The feeling was exhilarating, and then she was emerging on the other side.
Her body being drawn back together from whatever she had been changed into for the journey. A sort of cold sweat forming over her as an icy chill swept through her, quickly followed by a hot flush. Swaying slightly, she tried to stand but her head felt like it was in the sky, an intoxicatingly painful light headedness was taking up so much of her concentration from the moment that she exited the Stargate, that she didn't notice the half dozen personnel training weapons on her.
Or the surprised expressions on the faces of SG-1, nor did she notice the hurried motions of Colonel O'Neill to keep her from being torn to pieces by shrapnel. Then she noticed nothing as darkness swam up to consume her vision and her legs buckled beneath her, depositing her into the arms of one Jaffa, before she could strike the platform.
*******
Alkari's eyes fluttered open again before Teal'c had even had a chance to adjust her in his arms, looking up into his eyes she murmured "Thanks for the catch" before popping back up onto her own two feet, which she found a little strange considering that she had just fainted and still felt very warm.
A feeling of confidence rolled through her and a smile sprang up on her lips as a short, stocky man with more then a small pot belly came into the room, he was bald and radiated command. That and the way the others in the room stood aside for him to pass indicated that he was the person in charge of whatever facility she had just stole away to.
O'Neill made a gesture to indicate the new man "General Hammond this is erm- "
"Alkari" Teal'c put in
"Yes. Alkari. One of the people we met on P3X-C14"
The General looked between SG-1 and Alkari, "Ok, so what's she doing here? You didn't say anything about bringing someone back"
Before anyone could say anything else Alkari decided to speak up "Um. I followed them back, they didn't know what I was going to do"
After a few moments had past with the General glancing back and forth he decided that it would be better if they went to the debriefing room to continue their discussion. She was only too happy too oblige, walking between Samantha and Jack she was almost skipping along. It was an ecstatic feeling that was coursing through her like a drug since she had stepped out of the gateway. And she couldn't seem to tone it down.
Oh well, she thought as she took a seat and found to her delight that it swivelled. She couldn't keep the smile off her face, such a small thing, but it was fun! She even noticed a small tweak at the corner of Sam's mouth when she realised what was inspiring Alkari's glee.
Settling into the seat at the end of the table General Hammond clasped his hands together and she swivelled to face his direction. "I think the debriefing can wait a few minutes while you explain to us why you left your world and followed my team back through the Stargate" she noticed how his eyebrows arched as he finished, an interesting thing that she'd seen almost all of the people on Earth do so far, something that she had never seen anyone on the other world do.
Facial expressions are fascinating, she thought as she met Hammond's eyes.
"It wasn't my world" she said simply "Um, Daniel there" looking at Dr Jackson "Found a tablet that said 'Our world is gone but we remain and we shall not be forgotten. Krypton'. Some kind of catastrophe destroyed the planet neighbouring the one your people found me on, my planet, I was only a few years old and I was sent there by my family, but all the other survivors who made it to the planet have died since."
The General, and a few of the others at the table looked as if they couldn't see the reference to what had been asked, but were being polite and letting her continue.
"I'm getting side tracked, sorry" Adjusting how she sat she continued "An inventor built a ship that could travel between galaxies and placed his son in it, the people who raised me told me that this was where his ship was sent" Taking a breath Alkari said "I believe that he and I are the only ones left from our world and when SG-1 said where they were from I thought it was fate, that the gods had intervened, and I was compelled to follow them and try to find Kal'El"
Then she just waited, her story was out, she decided to let them make of it what they would.
Daniel Jackson was the first to speak back up "Ar, if your.people.could send one person this far, why not more? I mean some more of you obviously must have used other ships to leave, Krypton." Alkari tilted her head with her response "Kal'El's ship was a prototype, and his father was desperate to save him. The most that was available were some inter planetary pods, a fair few of which didn't even make it to another planet"
He made a small oh noise before falling silent. O'Neill's glances toward the General prompted him to speak up again. "Well, Alkari, as much as I cam sympathise with you, this is a very big planet and you aren't even sure that this Kal'El is here, and we can't just let alien peoples go wondering about, so I'm afraid that you came through in vain, we're going to have to send you back to P3X-C14" he waved his hands about in something that she guessed was a "there's nothing I can do" gesture.
Feeling her eyes hardening, icing over so they wouldn't betray what she was feeling. She spoke with determination and confidence "I know he's here, its almost as if I can feel him" her words were passion driven and she tried to convey to them with words alone her desperation and need "Please!"
"There's really nothing that I can do" he said once more. "Dr Frasier will give you a complete examination to make sure you didn't bring anything through with you, but after that we're going to have to send you back through the Stargate"
He crossed his arms and lifted his chin in a very definite, there would be no arguing, way.
Resigned she let her head slump in defeat. There was nothing she could do! She'd travelled planets through a wormhole but she was still a child to the people of Earth, a child with no way to act without their help.
And the people that could help her where sending her back.
******
With a glee that she hadn't felt in years she laughed aloud at the obvious frustration of the doctors as they were unable to draw her blood, thrice they had shattered or broken their needles attempting to pierce her skin.
She didn't know why they couldn't, but it was simply too funny for her to worry about.
A smile still live and blooming on her face, Alkari could feel her body, could really feel it even as she laughed in delight. She could feel the resilience in her skin, it was as if her entire body where becoming more mature, more.tough.
It was an incredible feeling when she paid attention to it, a feeling that was only expanding through out, radiating a new kind of strength inside of her and it was a feeling that she was already beginning to love.
It was addictive, no really? She felt like putting her fist through a wall, and she was more then positive that she could do it if she tried, that she could do it and that it wouldn't hurt her in the slightest.
She was laughing so hard at the frantic motions of one of the younger doctors as he became increasingly more frustrated with the needles, that she had to grip the metal poles of her bed to keep herself from falling to her knee's.
Alkari didn't even notice that she was squeezing the metal to the point that she was indenting it in the shape of her hands.
Finally the doctors where aggravated enough that she was being sent to her room for the duration of her stay, faintly she heard one of the doctors muttering how it didn't matter any way since she was going to go back to whatever they called the planet they'd found her on, the sooner the better in his opinion.
The bars remaining unnoticed for the time being.
******
"General Hammond" Doctor Fraser called, a little out of breath from rushing along the corridors to catch up with him.
"Yes, Janet?"
"General" she panted "the girl that you had brought down to the labs. We couldn't take her blood" hurrying on "Her body was literally too strong for a needle to penetrate it and I've already talked with Doctor Jackson, back on the other planet she had some scrapes that any teenager might accumulate"
"But now there's not a mark on her, and General she indented several metal beams on one of the beds, she didn't even seem to realise that she had done it"
General Hammond just looked at her for a moment, the SGC had encountered physically superior beings before.
"General I know what your going to say, but from talking with Daniel and what I observed in the lab myself whatever's going on with the girl.its only just started happening since she came through the Gate"
His eyes widened a little at that "Are you saying that being on Earth is making her stronger?"
"I couldn't say for sure, but it looks like it, sir"
The possibilities if they could find out how it was she was changing, the SGC could finally have found a very real weapon in the fight against the Gou'ald. First things first, he would have to postpone her departure and he wasn't NID to begin initiating tests on her without her permission. There was a lot of work to be done.
******
Alkari sat in her given room, the feel of the entire complex had changed, something was going on. Something that involved her, maybe something that she had done in the few hours since her arrival. She knew they had noticed whatever was happening her, they would have had to have been blind not to.
And from some of the hushed whispers she had been able to hear, a number of people very much wanted very much wanted to know how and why her body was getting stronger.
Maybe this means I won't be going back so soon after all, the thought firmly placing a grin on her face.