Thundersdawn PT5: Chocky's Thunder

by Chaos_eternus

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Chapter 3: The Panic Button

Albertine strode wearily into Thompsons office, her whole manner screaming extreme fatigue. A worried frown quickly covered the Admirals face; they weren't working her that hard, were they?

"We have a major problem, Admiral" Albertine slowly forced out, "Our world has come under attack."

Thompson glanced again at Albertine, even more worried now, was she cracking?

"I know, we lost Dauntless, most of the Lancers and had Thundersdawn knocked off-line, remember?"

Albertine glanced at Thompson confused for a moment, before understanding flashed across her face.

"We do not mean Albertines world, I mean mine, Chocky's, Albertine has let me borrow her body, still we, I have little time before the device encompassing my home system severs the connection to my body and kills me, this" she gestured to Albertines body, "gives me time, nothing more and is terribly draining for Albertine."

"You realise we will need to test you to check that Chocky has set-up shop, right?"

"We realise that."

"Good, now attack by whom?" Thompson replied, his tone firm.

"A Goa'uld, he has extended the field of a Zero Point generator so it covers the entire system, we do not know the Goa'ulds name, he is unknown to us"

Thompsons eyes widened, a ZPE field that covered an entire system? The resources that would have required let alone a Goa'uld actually having got his hands on ZPE technology in the first place, let alone an unknown. This sounded like Maktenos was continuing his moves to become the top dog; either that or they had another snake that was capable of long-term planning to deal with, not a happy thought.

Thompson thought for a moment, and then reached for the three red phones on his desk, SGC, Prime Minister and President of the United States, it was time to hit the panic button.