SG-12 SPECIAL OPS TEAM

CHAPTER 7: MURPHY'S 4th LAW

PLANET P47-281

The team had just stepped out of the Stargate.

"Whoa." Captain Hunter said. The others were also a little wobbly from their first time through the Gate.

"You know you read about that, hear about it, but man." Paulumbo said to the others.

"Alright people, we're here on a mission, night vision up." Conner ordered. They all placed night vision on, that attached to a holder on their helmets.

Maj. Conner then gave the hand signal to move out. They made their way slowly to the edge of the forest and found the path that SG-3 used. Conner stopped them at the path.

"Captain the Marines would have taken this path am I correct?"

"Yeah, but even though there are supposed to be no hostiles, I doubt that they would just waltz through casually." Hunter told him.

"So in other words they were most likely ambushed on the path." Paulumbo said.

"Most likely." Hunter said.

"So let's not make the same mistake shall we." The Major said. "Okay we'll head parallel to the path but keep thirty yards away from it at all times. Hunter, Jones you two have point. Paulumbo and me will watch our six."

They all nodded and started off.

They made their way quietly through the woods, always watching the area. About halfway to the valley Hunter and Jones came upon an encampment. They could see several Jaffa talking, but couldn't make out what they were saying.

Conner and Paulumbo caught up to them, and they moved behind a fallen tree near them.

The Major took out a small telescope the size of his middle finger and started to check out the campsite. "Looks like about ten Jaffa, I can't get a clear look at the markings on their head." He whispered to them.

"So what do we do sir, go on, or take them out?" Paulumbo said.

The Major was about to respond to the Lieutenant when he suddenly heard a nose to his right. The others heard something and readied their weapons. They didn't see anything.

Lt. Jones looked closely at the environment. That's when she thought she saw a branch move, normally she might of thought it was the wind, but there wasn't any. She stared hard at the space.

She could have sworn that she heard a slight shuffling sound, then she did hear the distinct sound a Zat makes when it was readied to fire. So she leveled her weapons and sprayed the area with fire.

The entire team was surprised at her action, yet even more surprised when her bullets pelting off what seemed like nothing, soon a Jaffa materialized out of nowhere and fell to the floor.

"JAFFA KREE!" A Jaffa at the site shouted, and all hell broke lose.

The team turned back to the site and started firing at any target they could. Paulumbo's M60 took out several of the Jaffa warriors in a few seconds alone, but still the Jaffa fought back with their staff weapons firing.

But the remaining Jaffa, touched something on their armor and disappeared. SG-12 had realized that the Jaffa had learned a new trick, and that they were in real trouble.

"SG-12 FIRE AT WILL!" Major Conner ordered.

They unloaded with everything they had at the campsite. Hunter even launched several grenades from his launcher at strategic locations, hopping to get the Jaffa. Several of the Jaffa rematerialized and fell the ground.

When the shooting stopped they reloaded and made their way to the campsite. Conner looked around and counted the bodies.

"I only count nine, one's missing." He said to his team.

The others looked around and couldn't find the missing Jaffa.

"Maybe he's still invisible?" Paulumbo said.

"Jones do you....what are you doing?" The Major asked her.

Jones held up her hand for silence, her eyes were closed and she was concentrating around the area for sound like before. The others caught on and readied their weapons.

They stayed like that for a few minutes and then suddenly the invisible Jaffa must have lost his nerve and made a run for it.

"Over there!" she shouted and began firing, the others followed suit and they were afraid they might have missed, except they saw the flashes of their bullets hitting the Jaffa metal.

"Jones, Paulumbo check it out." Conner told them. They nodded and looked for the Jaffa.

Hunter and Conner looked around the campsite and at the Jaffa. They took several of the devices that the Jaffa had on them. Hunter looked at the symbol on their heads.

"I don't recognize the symbol sir, do you?" Hunter asked his CO.

He shook his head. "No it's hard to tell, we don't know every symbol for every Gould, and they all start to look the same to after awhile."

Jones and Paulumbo had just returned. "One target down sir."

"Good, let's move it people, we made a lot of noise and these guys must have friends in the area, and I for one don't want to be here when they arrive."

They all started to move out and after about and hour came up to the edge of the forest. They looked down and saw the structure, from the UAV images. They also saw several Jaffa now on guard duty around the place.

"Well there goes the element of surprise." Paulumbo said sarcastically.

"Maybe not." Conner pulled out one of the devices that they had taken from the Jaffa.

"Uh sir, your sure you want to fool around with that? For all we know it could explode if used incorrectly." Hunter said.

The Major was about to give up when after he pressed on certain two glyphs the device kicked in and he vanished.

"Okay maybe not." Hunter said, while waving his hand around where the Maj. Conner was.

"Hey watch the hands, you nearly touched a grenade....I think?" Said his disembodied voice.

"You think you mean you can't see anything on you?" Paulumbo asked him.

"I can't see a damn thing of myself, I can't even find any of my weapons unless I'm already holding the damn things, or get lucky." Suddenly he reappeared again.

"What happened sir?" Jones asked him.

"Damn if I know, these things might be low on power, might be why those Jaffa weren't invisible." Conner said looking at the small device.

"Well we got five left, so do we use them and hope they don't give out while we're in the open, or do we find another way in?" Hunter said to Conner.

Conner thought about it, he looked around and there was no way they were getting in there any other way. "We try it. But we haul ass the entire way and try to stay as far as possible from the patrols."

The others nodded their understanding. The devices were passed around, with the Major with the extra. He showed them how he activated his and they made their way to the shortest distance from the woods to the building.

They waited for the patrols to move further away from them and activated their stealth devices and set out on a dead run.

NEXT CHAPTER 8: INFILTRATION

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