SG-12 SPECIAL OPS TEAM
CHAPTER 6: THE FIRST MISSION
~One week from last chapter~
PLANET P47-281
SG-3 the SGCs Marine combat unit lead by Colonel Makepeace was making their way down from the Gate.
They were on a routine recon for the planet. The MALP showed no signs of life, and the area looked abandoned.
But then again, Col. Makepeace had been working at the SGC for a few years now and they always seemed to be that way, at least until the shooting started.
They were heading into a small valley that a flyby by one of the aerial probes found, there was some sort of ancient looking structure and they were sent in to investigate, and if it was friendly or just plain empty SC- 7 would be sent to study it.
They had found a path in the forest past the Gate, leading down into the valley. They traveled in a standard pattern, with guns at the ready.
There were too many places to be ambushed in a forest and with the Goa'uld somehow taking out several teams in the past month, he was not getting his team killed because he wasn't cautious.
They were about over a kilometer from the beginning of the forest, when suddenly Col. Makepeace felt something was wrong.
He tried to find out what it was, then suddenly he realized that the animals on this world had suddenly gone quiet. It wasn't the quiet around his men, it was quiet from all around them, all the animals especially the birds, seemed to suddenly stop.
Col. Makepeace had only one thought. They were surrounded by something and they just walked into a trap. He hoped that when they out of this Col. O'Neill didn't learn of this, he'd never hear the end of it.
He was about to turn to his 2IC and tell him to pull back for now when it happened.
A shoot from a zat that seemed to come out of nowhere hit one of his men. Luckily he was only hit once, and wasn't dead. But by then all the Marines were taking cover.
The three still up began to fire at the direction of where the zat shot came from.
Suddenly other zat blast came from another direction, two of the Marines changed direction to face the new threat, but there was a problem. Even though they could see where the zat shoots were coming from, they seemed to come out of thin air.
One by one the team went down until Col. Makepeace was the only one left. He couldn't understand why he couldn't see the enemy. Unless they were invisible or something. At that thought Makepeace had a cold chill run down his spin.
What if they WERE invisible, but he didn't get to finish that thought as he was hit from behind from a zat and the world went dark to him in a flash of pain.
SGC COMMAND 8 hours later.
Hammond was at the control room looking at the Stargate as it was activated to P47-281. SG-3 was four hours overdue for a report, and Hammond needed to know what was wrong.
As soon as the Gate was active, he moved over to the microphone that would send his radio message through the Gate, to be relayed by the MALP on the other side.
"SG-3 this is Stargate Command report in." He waited for a few seconds then tried again. "SG-3 report." Still no one reported in. Hammond got that same feeling he got when things always went horribly wrong.
"Anything from the MALP airman?"
"Bringing up the video now sir."
The General looked up at the monitor and could see the image from the other side. There was no trace of SG-3, but the MALP could only see so far.
"Airman I want a aerial probe launched and all data recorded to be sent to me as soon as possible."
"Yes Sir."
1 HOUR LATER
SG-12 was currently in the gym. Lt. Paulumbo was hitting the punching bag, Maj. Conner was running a few miles on the treadmill, Capt. Hunter was lifting weights and Lt. Jones was spotting for him.
Currently all of SG-12 not only had finally started to get a long a little more than David expected but going a full week without something to do other than read reports and these work out sessions were started to get on everyone's nerves.
Currently he was trying to ignore the conversation going on.
"Look I'll go over it once more, it goes Kirk, Picard, Sisko, Janeway, then Archer." Hunter said between reps.
"But isn't Archer a captain before Kirk?" Paulumbo said.
For a week Hunter had been talking about all the sci-fi he knew that seemed to actually happen in real life, at least from what they have already had read about.
"Timeline wise yes, but in order of the shows no."
Thankfully David Conner was saved from further hearing about this great 'debate' of theirs by an announcement from the PA system.
"SG-12, this is Gen. Hammond report to briefing room in one hour."
Everyone of the team froze, looking at each other silently asking, 'did you just hear that?'
After a few seconds they got up and headed to the showers, and get ready, they were all hoping that finally they were getting a chance to do what they do best.
1 HOUR LATER SGC BRIIFING ROOM
The team made their way to the same briefing they had sat in a week ago, now however things were different, instead of being introduced to the SGC, they were going on a mission to find out what happened to SG-3.
At the end of the briefing Hammond asked for any questions.
"Sir I know my people are ready to go, but why now, usually you like to send new units into the field on an easier assignment, so why us? Why now?" Maj. Conner asked.
"You're right, but right now all of my more experienced team are off-world right now, and since your people are supposed to thrive in this kind of assignment I see little choice in the matter. Beside I have confidence that your team will do it's best. Any more questions?"
Hammond looked around and saw none. "Then you have a go, dismissed."
And with that SG-12 rose up saluted and left for the armory.
SG-12 entered the gate room, wearing the black SGC uniforms, since they would be arriving at night on the world.
They each carried the usual equipment, such as MP5s, anti-personnel grenades, etc., with a few exceptions. Major Conner decided that instead of his trusty berretta he'd carry a zat, because of it carried a nearly exhaustible supply of ammo.
Capt. Hunter instead of an MP5 carried an M16 with a grenade launcher attached to it, he also carried a few block of C4.
Lt. Paulumbo carried an M50 machine gun, with extra ammo I his pack. Lt. Jones even though she carried a med-pack, and an MP5, she also had a rifle with a scope on her back.
They arrived at the platform of the Gate, looking at the event horizon, they had prepared for this, but even though they didn't show it, they were all nervous as hell.
They heard Hammond give the go command and they started up the ramp.
"Well I always wanted to be an astronaut and see space." Hunter said to break the tension.
"Really then why the Marines and not the Air Force?" Conner asked him.
"Long story sir, I'll tell you after the mission."
"Oh yeah, got to retrieve some lost Marines, this should be fun." Paulumbo said with huge grin on his face.
"Hey I'll have you know that- " Fortunately for the rest of the team they had stepped through the event horizon and on to planet P47-281.
NEXT UP CHAPTER 7: MURPHY'S 4th LAW
CHAPTER 6: THE FIRST MISSION
~One week from last chapter~
PLANET P47-281
SG-3 the SGCs Marine combat unit lead by Colonel Makepeace was making their way down from the Gate.
They were on a routine recon for the planet. The MALP showed no signs of life, and the area looked abandoned.
But then again, Col. Makepeace had been working at the SGC for a few years now and they always seemed to be that way, at least until the shooting started.
They were heading into a small valley that a flyby by one of the aerial probes found, there was some sort of ancient looking structure and they were sent in to investigate, and if it was friendly or just plain empty SC- 7 would be sent to study it.
They had found a path in the forest past the Gate, leading down into the valley. They traveled in a standard pattern, with guns at the ready.
There were too many places to be ambushed in a forest and with the Goa'uld somehow taking out several teams in the past month, he was not getting his team killed because he wasn't cautious.
They were about over a kilometer from the beginning of the forest, when suddenly Col. Makepeace felt something was wrong.
He tried to find out what it was, then suddenly he realized that the animals on this world had suddenly gone quiet. It wasn't the quiet around his men, it was quiet from all around them, all the animals especially the birds, seemed to suddenly stop.
Col. Makepeace had only one thought. They were surrounded by something and they just walked into a trap. He hoped that when they out of this Col. O'Neill didn't learn of this, he'd never hear the end of it.
He was about to turn to his 2IC and tell him to pull back for now when it happened.
A shoot from a zat that seemed to come out of nowhere hit one of his men. Luckily he was only hit once, and wasn't dead. But by then all the Marines were taking cover.
The three still up began to fire at the direction of where the zat shot came from.
Suddenly other zat blast came from another direction, two of the Marines changed direction to face the new threat, but there was a problem. Even though they could see where the zat shoots were coming from, they seemed to come out of thin air.
One by one the team went down until Col. Makepeace was the only one left. He couldn't understand why he couldn't see the enemy. Unless they were invisible or something. At that thought Makepeace had a cold chill run down his spin.
What if they WERE invisible, but he didn't get to finish that thought as he was hit from behind from a zat and the world went dark to him in a flash of pain.
SGC COMMAND 8 hours later.
Hammond was at the control room looking at the Stargate as it was activated to P47-281. SG-3 was four hours overdue for a report, and Hammond needed to know what was wrong.
As soon as the Gate was active, he moved over to the microphone that would send his radio message through the Gate, to be relayed by the MALP on the other side.
"SG-3 this is Stargate Command report in." He waited for a few seconds then tried again. "SG-3 report." Still no one reported in. Hammond got that same feeling he got when things always went horribly wrong.
"Anything from the MALP airman?"
"Bringing up the video now sir."
The General looked up at the monitor and could see the image from the other side. There was no trace of SG-3, but the MALP could only see so far.
"Airman I want a aerial probe launched and all data recorded to be sent to me as soon as possible."
"Yes Sir."
1 HOUR LATER
SG-12 was currently in the gym. Lt. Paulumbo was hitting the punching bag, Maj. Conner was running a few miles on the treadmill, Capt. Hunter was lifting weights and Lt. Jones was spotting for him.
Currently all of SG-12 not only had finally started to get a long a little more than David expected but going a full week without something to do other than read reports and these work out sessions were started to get on everyone's nerves.
Currently he was trying to ignore the conversation going on.
"Look I'll go over it once more, it goes Kirk, Picard, Sisko, Janeway, then Archer." Hunter said between reps.
"But isn't Archer a captain before Kirk?" Paulumbo said.
For a week Hunter had been talking about all the sci-fi he knew that seemed to actually happen in real life, at least from what they have already had read about.
"Timeline wise yes, but in order of the shows no."
Thankfully David Conner was saved from further hearing about this great 'debate' of theirs by an announcement from the PA system.
"SG-12, this is Gen. Hammond report to briefing room in one hour."
Everyone of the team froze, looking at each other silently asking, 'did you just hear that?'
After a few seconds they got up and headed to the showers, and get ready, they were all hoping that finally they were getting a chance to do what they do best.
1 HOUR LATER SGC BRIIFING ROOM
The team made their way to the same briefing they had sat in a week ago, now however things were different, instead of being introduced to the SGC, they were going on a mission to find out what happened to SG-3.
At the end of the briefing Hammond asked for any questions.
"Sir I know my people are ready to go, but why now, usually you like to send new units into the field on an easier assignment, so why us? Why now?" Maj. Conner asked.
"You're right, but right now all of my more experienced team are off-world right now, and since your people are supposed to thrive in this kind of assignment I see little choice in the matter. Beside I have confidence that your team will do it's best. Any more questions?"
Hammond looked around and saw none. "Then you have a go, dismissed."
And with that SG-12 rose up saluted and left for the armory.
SG-12 entered the gate room, wearing the black SGC uniforms, since they would be arriving at night on the world.
They each carried the usual equipment, such as MP5s, anti-personnel grenades, etc., with a few exceptions. Major Conner decided that instead of his trusty berretta he'd carry a zat, because of it carried a nearly exhaustible supply of ammo.
Capt. Hunter instead of an MP5 carried an M16 with a grenade launcher attached to it, he also carried a few block of C4.
Lt. Paulumbo carried an M50 machine gun, with extra ammo I his pack. Lt. Jones even though she carried a med-pack, and an MP5, she also had a rifle with a scope on her back.
They arrived at the platform of the Gate, looking at the event horizon, they had prepared for this, but even though they didn't show it, they were all nervous as hell.
They heard Hammond give the go command and they started up the ramp.
"Well I always wanted to be an astronaut and see space." Hunter said to break the tension.
"Really then why the Marines and not the Air Force?" Conner asked him.
"Long story sir, I'll tell you after the mission."
"Oh yeah, got to retrieve some lost Marines, this should be fun." Paulumbo said with huge grin on his face.
"Hey I'll have you know that- " Fortunately for the rest of the team they had stepped through the event horizon and on to planet P47-281.
NEXT UP CHAPTER 7: MURPHY'S 4th LAW