7: Alpha Centauri
Author: Chaoseternus
Chapter 4: NID
When the first words O'Neill heard at the morning briefing were NID, he knew he was about to have a bad day. He did not like the NID at all; they were treacherous corrupt scumbags, and a disgrace to the human race in his opinion. Even now, they still held a lot of behind the scenes power, and that made them dangerous.
"At 0200 Zulu time this morning a Lancer IS arrived with a courier pouch, it seems Thundersdawn managed to successfully capture an NID asteroid facility with its computers intact" O'Neill smiled a smug grin, another NID operation taken down and a major intelligence coup at the same time, maybe this wouldn't be too bad. "I wouldn't start smiling just yet; they managed to grab a list of everyone who had passed through the NID base in the last month, four names flagged" Franco passed a small slip of paper across to O'Neill, who read it with widening eyes;"Damm! I know them, they seemed like good sorts" O'Neill paused for a moment, "Have security run surveillance, see if we can nab any other rats"
"Yes, Sir!" saluting, Major Franco left the room, leaving O'Neill with his thoughts. NID, perfect. Over the years that group had caused him almost as many headaches as the Goa'uld themselves, with the kidnapping, ship napping, hell basenapping they seemed so fond of. Still, after having worked with the RSS for several years now, he knew that the British Ambassador would have got one hell of a telling off if he had actually agreed to Kinsley and his NID goons assuming command of the SGC during disclosure. The NID came so close to utterly destroying Earth's chances to gain allies, hell, Earths chance to survive the approaching storm that day. Without doubt, they would have quickly pissed someone off like the Nox or the Tollan pretty quck, and that would have been the end of it. Earth would not stand a chance against their vastly superior technologies. He was just very glad that Thor had gotten his message in time; it was a pretty close thing. O'Neill sighed, as he pushed thoughts of the NID to the back of his mind. At least the NID were hurting now, but he had work to do.