SG-12 SPECIAL OPS TEAM
CHAPTER 5: ORIENTATION
Major Conner couldn't believe it. Col. Jack O'Neill Air Force Special Forces, and one of his oldest friends from back in the day, here in a top secret facility that he was just assigned to.
Jack smiled at his reaction of shock, they hadn't seen each other in years, in fact the last time they had seen each other David was still a Captain.
"Well are you gong to say anything Major, or just sit on your six all day staring?" Jack playfully asked.
Conner's brain starting working after the initial shock was over. He got up onto his feet and smiled. He walked over to his old friend and shook his hand.
"Damn Jack long time no see. What the hell are you doing here?"
Jack got a grin on his face, he was going to enjoy this next part. "I've been here for years David, In fact I'm the 2IC to Hammond and I command the flag-ship team of the SGC, SG-1."
David took a moment a moment to take that in. "You mean you got out to other worlds and fight these Goa'ulds we heard about?"
"Yep I do." Jack said happily.
"It's amazing the Earth is still here." David said with a deadpan expression.
Jack made a mock expression of hurt "Hey!" Jack knew he was joking, at least he HOPED he was.
"So I take it you two know each other." That came from Capt. Hunter. Jack and David turned around to see the three officers giving curious expressions at their interaction.
"Let's just say that Jack and me knew each other in special ops." Conner told him.
"Let me guess, if you told us what exactly you'd have to kill us."
"You got it Captain."
"Okay I DO NOT ask not now or ever." He held up his hands up to his chest in a gesture of surrender.
Jack gave a smile at that. He liked the Captain's sense of humor already. It reminded him a little of his own humor at times.
"So" Jack clapped his hands together, "did you all come to a decision yet?"
"Well Jack it looks like we all have agreed that we'll take the offer, just one thing though." David said.
Jack a bit puzzled, cocked his head slightly. "And that would be.?"
"Do we get to use any alien weaponry, I'd love to see what you guys have gotten from space." David smiled.
Jack couldn't resist a laugh, after all these years David was still the same.
"Yeah, we got a few things from our field trips, you get see some of them all tomorrow at 0800 during the orientation that your team will get under me and my own team."
After a few more pleasantries with Jake, David and the others were given quarters on the base until they could get their own homes off base.
They got a little tour of the facility so they wouldn't get lost and would know were to show up the next morning.
***
The next day they all got up early. They all had a slight trouble sleeping, but for different reasons. Maj. Conner was thinking about all the things he had learned, Capt. Hunter was too excited to really get some sleep. Lt. Paulumbo still slightly couldn't believe this was happening to him, and Lt. Jones was thinking about what kind of hostiles she would see, all she could come up with were what she saw in movies.
After a quick breakfast in the cafeteria, they all made there way to a briefing room. Col. O'Neill was by the door to make sure they didn't miss it.
As they entered they sat down and a man with brown hair, glasses and a lot of files under his arm came in.
"A good morning, I'm Dr. Daniel Jackson, and I'm here to give you a more detailed description of the Stargate, and some of the cultures and alien life you'll meet."
"Excuse me but what kind of doctor are you?" Ask Paulumbo.
"I'm a doctor of archeology, I also study languages and cultures, why?"
Paulumbo gave a small shrug, "Well I just don't see the point of an archeologist on a military base."
Daniel always hated that people just thought that all the aliens they would encounter would speak English. Personally he put most of the blame on Star Trek.
Daniel fixed his glasses before correcting him. "Well for starters I was the one who found out how to get the Stargate activated in the first place, and not all the aliens and people you will meet even speak English, and the fact that some of the planets have ruins from fallen civilizations, you WOULD need a linguist and an archeologist at some point."
"Ah, point taken." Paulumbo said, he was currently reevaluating the value of someone like that on a base.
Daniel then went into a history of the Gate. How it was found in Egypt, the first mission, when Apophis came into the SGC, the destruction of his two mother ships above Earth.
He then went into the fact that most of the people they would meet would most likely be humans, whose ancestors who taken to that world.
When he showed then images of some of these worlds, he could see their interests, except for Capt. Hunter, he was obviously slightly disappointed.
Daniel decided to go to the part of the other aliens and their allies.
He explained about the Nox, the To'Kra, Tollans and the Asgard. Captain Hunter laughed out loud at the description of the 'Roswell Aliens' as the Asgard.
It went pretty well though Daniel this group was really paying attention, unlike a few others he could name.
After Daniel was done, Jack came to get them and they walked off to Carter's lab for the 'science lessons' as Jack told them.
Carter told them that the Stargate uses wormholes for travel.
"What's a wormhole?" Paulumbo asked.
"It's basically a short-cut in space so that you can travel faster than light, without really travel faster than light." This surprised Carter, because it came from Capt. Hunter.
"That's basically it, in a nutshell Captain."
While the Capt. had a smile on like he just become the teachers pet, the others were starting to think about taking up Sci-fi genre as a new hobby if they hoped to keep up.
Carter then went into a lengthy and very complicated science on how the wormholes actually worked, and how they calculated new Gate coordinates.
During this Paulumbo whispered to Hunter. "Do get any of what she's saying Sir?"
"Unfortunately only every third or fifth word, I feel dumber just being in the same room as this woman."
Paulumbo knew exactly how he felt, he knew he wasn't an idiot, but she made Hawkins look like someone with an average intelligence.
When they got to the naquada and how it could enhance the power of certain weapons like explosives, Hunter got this look in his eyes like he was in love. 'I've GOT to try THAT stuff some time.' He thought to himself.
After Carter, which the team felt was a very mind-numbing experience, they followed Jack once again to a target range, used for the SGC personnel.
There they met a dark-skined man with a gold tattoo on his forehead, and was holding a large type of metallic staff.
"And this people is Teal'c, he'll teach you about some of the weapons you'll be up against, and about the Jaffa.
Teal'c bowed to them slightly with his head. He began to explain about the Jaffa, and their weaponry.
When he got to the point about how he was in fact a Jaffa, he was slightly pleased at the look of shock in their faces, but with Teal'c he didn't let it show.
He showed them the staff weapons and the zats. He was most impressed with their ability to use the weapons so well after just showing them. Teal'c could tell that these warriors of the Tauri were definitively as the O'Neill had once said, 'cream of the crop'.
The rest of the afternoon, they had to look over all the mission reports supplied to them, so they would know about past missions and what to expect.
It was almost as boring as Maj. Carter's talking about astrophysics, which they all made at least one comment on.
Even though they were not yet done with their orientation, which they still needed to get a full physical and fill out certain papers that declared them official SGC personnel, they were all eager to get started.
Most of them had started out feeling that this might not be a good idea to stay, but as they got through the day, more and more they realized that THIS was the place to be.
This was definitely where they wanted to work. They had opportunities here to see and do things, that they had never dreamed possible.
At the end of their first day, they couldn't wait until their first mission.
NEXT UP CHAPTER 6: FIRST MISSION
CHAPTER 5: ORIENTATION
Major Conner couldn't believe it. Col. Jack O'Neill Air Force Special Forces, and one of his oldest friends from back in the day, here in a top secret facility that he was just assigned to.
Jack smiled at his reaction of shock, they hadn't seen each other in years, in fact the last time they had seen each other David was still a Captain.
"Well are you gong to say anything Major, or just sit on your six all day staring?" Jack playfully asked.
Conner's brain starting working after the initial shock was over. He got up onto his feet and smiled. He walked over to his old friend and shook his hand.
"Damn Jack long time no see. What the hell are you doing here?"
Jack got a grin on his face, he was going to enjoy this next part. "I've been here for years David, In fact I'm the 2IC to Hammond and I command the flag-ship team of the SGC, SG-1."
David took a moment a moment to take that in. "You mean you got out to other worlds and fight these Goa'ulds we heard about?"
"Yep I do." Jack said happily.
"It's amazing the Earth is still here." David said with a deadpan expression.
Jack made a mock expression of hurt "Hey!" Jack knew he was joking, at least he HOPED he was.
"So I take it you two know each other." That came from Capt. Hunter. Jack and David turned around to see the three officers giving curious expressions at their interaction.
"Let's just say that Jack and me knew each other in special ops." Conner told him.
"Let me guess, if you told us what exactly you'd have to kill us."
"You got it Captain."
"Okay I DO NOT ask not now or ever." He held up his hands up to his chest in a gesture of surrender.
Jack gave a smile at that. He liked the Captain's sense of humor already. It reminded him a little of his own humor at times.
"So" Jack clapped his hands together, "did you all come to a decision yet?"
"Well Jack it looks like we all have agreed that we'll take the offer, just one thing though." David said.
Jack a bit puzzled, cocked his head slightly. "And that would be.?"
"Do we get to use any alien weaponry, I'd love to see what you guys have gotten from space." David smiled.
Jack couldn't resist a laugh, after all these years David was still the same.
"Yeah, we got a few things from our field trips, you get see some of them all tomorrow at 0800 during the orientation that your team will get under me and my own team."
After a few more pleasantries with Jake, David and the others were given quarters on the base until they could get their own homes off base.
They got a little tour of the facility so they wouldn't get lost and would know were to show up the next morning.
***
The next day they all got up early. They all had a slight trouble sleeping, but for different reasons. Maj. Conner was thinking about all the things he had learned, Capt. Hunter was too excited to really get some sleep. Lt. Paulumbo still slightly couldn't believe this was happening to him, and Lt. Jones was thinking about what kind of hostiles she would see, all she could come up with were what she saw in movies.
After a quick breakfast in the cafeteria, they all made there way to a briefing room. Col. O'Neill was by the door to make sure they didn't miss it.
As they entered they sat down and a man with brown hair, glasses and a lot of files under his arm came in.
"A good morning, I'm Dr. Daniel Jackson, and I'm here to give you a more detailed description of the Stargate, and some of the cultures and alien life you'll meet."
"Excuse me but what kind of doctor are you?" Ask Paulumbo.
"I'm a doctor of archeology, I also study languages and cultures, why?"
Paulumbo gave a small shrug, "Well I just don't see the point of an archeologist on a military base."
Daniel always hated that people just thought that all the aliens they would encounter would speak English. Personally he put most of the blame on Star Trek.
Daniel fixed his glasses before correcting him. "Well for starters I was the one who found out how to get the Stargate activated in the first place, and not all the aliens and people you will meet even speak English, and the fact that some of the planets have ruins from fallen civilizations, you WOULD need a linguist and an archeologist at some point."
"Ah, point taken." Paulumbo said, he was currently reevaluating the value of someone like that on a base.
Daniel then went into a history of the Gate. How it was found in Egypt, the first mission, when Apophis came into the SGC, the destruction of his two mother ships above Earth.
He then went into the fact that most of the people they would meet would most likely be humans, whose ancestors who taken to that world.
When he showed then images of some of these worlds, he could see their interests, except for Capt. Hunter, he was obviously slightly disappointed.
Daniel decided to go to the part of the other aliens and their allies.
He explained about the Nox, the To'Kra, Tollans and the Asgard. Captain Hunter laughed out loud at the description of the 'Roswell Aliens' as the Asgard.
It went pretty well though Daniel this group was really paying attention, unlike a few others he could name.
After Daniel was done, Jack came to get them and they walked off to Carter's lab for the 'science lessons' as Jack told them.
Carter told them that the Stargate uses wormholes for travel.
"What's a wormhole?" Paulumbo asked.
"It's basically a short-cut in space so that you can travel faster than light, without really travel faster than light." This surprised Carter, because it came from Capt. Hunter.
"That's basically it, in a nutshell Captain."
While the Capt. had a smile on like he just become the teachers pet, the others were starting to think about taking up Sci-fi genre as a new hobby if they hoped to keep up.
Carter then went into a lengthy and very complicated science on how the wormholes actually worked, and how they calculated new Gate coordinates.
During this Paulumbo whispered to Hunter. "Do get any of what she's saying Sir?"
"Unfortunately only every third or fifth word, I feel dumber just being in the same room as this woman."
Paulumbo knew exactly how he felt, he knew he wasn't an idiot, but she made Hawkins look like someone with an average intelligence.
When they got to the naquada and how it could enhance the power of certain weapons like explosives, Hunter got this look in his eyes like he was in love. 'I've GOT to try THAT stuff some time.' He thought to himself.
After Carter, which the team felt was a very mind-numbing experience, they followed Jack once again to a target range, used for the SGC personnel.
There they met a dark-skined man with a gold tattoo on his forehead, and was holding a large type of metallic staff.
"And this people is Teal'c, he'll teach you about some of the weapons you'll be up against, and about the Jaffa.
Teal'c bowed to them slightly with his head. He began to explain about the Jaffa, and their weaponry.
When he got to the point about how he was in fact a Jaffa, he was slightly pleased at the look of shock in their faces, but with Teal'c he didn't let it show.
He showed them the staff weapons and the zats. He was most impressed with their ability to use the weapons so well after just showing them. Teal'c could tell that these warriors of the Tauri were definitively as the O'Neill had once said, 'cream of the crop'.
The rest of the afternoon, they had to look over all the mission reports supplied to them, so they would know about past missions and what to expect.
It was almost as boring as Maj. Carter's talking about astrophysics, which they all made at least one comment on.
Even though they were not yet done with their orientation, which they still needed to get a full physical and fill out certain papers that declared them official SGC personnel, they were all eager to get started.
Most of them had started out feeling that this might not be a good idea to stay, but as they got through the day, more and more they realized that THIS was the place to be.
This was definitely where they wanted to work. They had opportunities here to see and do things, that they had never dreamed possible.
At the end of their first day, they couldn't wait until their first mission.
NEXT UP CHAPTER 6: FIRST MISSION