1: Dawn Of Thunder
Third Edition
Author: chaoseternus

When Earth is threatened, the USA and the UK join forces to protect our world…with help from an old friend.

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Chapter 3
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Cardiff-Wales International Airport

As the plane taxied to the gate, the 'reception committee' charged their rifles, and waited. The plane stopped, and the Air Hostess opened the hatch and quickly stepped to one side, the crew having been warned whilst on approach. The soldiers quickly stepped through the door and moved to SG-1's seats, their rifles pointing at the ground. All sound within the plane was cut off as the passengers eyed the soldiers and their guns, thoughts of September the 11 th filling their minds.

Jack O'Neill was not happy; the guns that were not quite pointing at him and his team-mates just screamed 'leak', and the corporal who seemed to be in charge confirmed this.

"O'Neill, Carter, Jackson , and" he quirked an eyebrow, his eyes knowing " Murray , such a surprise to find you here" his voice indicated it was anything but a surprise "Would you be so kind as to come with us please?"

O'Neill glared at him as soldiers grabbed their hand luggage and led them off the plane.

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SGC

Hammond glanced up from his reports as a knock came from the door, "Come In."

The tech sergeant stepped through the doors, and reported, reading from a clipboard in his hand;

"Sir, SG-1 has failed to check in, and we are receiving reports that their plane was met by armed soldiers."

An SF rushed in before Hammond could say anything, "Sir, A foot patrol just witnessed an armed man getting into a car and leaving the area, he appeared to have been watching the mountain entrance"

Hammond grimaced "any ID?"

"Just that he appeared to be wearing an SAS uniform, and it appeared that he wanted to be seen, sir."

"Well, now we know how they knew SG-1 were coming." the tech sergeant muttered.

"Quite." Hammond replied, motioning them both out before reaching for the red phone.

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RAF St. Athan

SG-1 fidgeted, restless and annoyed, the guards had escorted them to the very place they wanted to be, but strangely enough they weren't happy about it. The corporal who had met them off the plane entered the room; waving the guards out as he did so, this time he was wearing an Admirals uniform with 4 stars clearly displayed.

"Maybe I should transfer to the Royal Navy if promotions are that quick" Jack said, sarcastically.

The admiral replied, his voice even more sarcastic "Nobody promotes that quick, I was in disguise hum? You have heard of disguises right?"

It worked, Jack shut up, surprised, just glared stonily at the admiral.

The admiral sat down in his chair, and turned to face SG-1, offering them drinks, "So let me guess, you've seen the Airheads, and want to know what's going on, hum?"

"Well, yeah"

"Then we can start off with the lecture then hum?"

"Ah, we are aware of security."

"Obviously not, or we would not have known about the StarGate until you told us."

SG-1 looked at each other surprised, was he admitting to compromising SGC's security?

"Not the lecture I was on about though, and this one you can consider to come from the very top, it's about treatment of allies…"

Through out the lecture SG-1 kept wincing, it wasn't that he raised his voice, the Admiral was cool, calm and collected throughout, but he kept making some very harsh assessments.

"…The only reason you give Russia anything is because they have you over a barrel, we have been a loyal ally for years, first to send troops to help you against Al- Qaeda and Saddam, hell we even leant you our AWACS birds on 9/11, but we are expected to keep quiet, expected to send troops, and not have any control over our own men, or hear reports from them once they reach SGC?"

O'Neill rubbed his eyes and glanced at the closed window blinds again, he could have sworn he saw a faint ball of light pass through the blinds, entering the room, then leave again. He glanced at his team-mates; Daniel was also staring at the blinds, a surprised expression on his face. Teal'c had raised one eyebrow in surprise, so subtly that if O'Neill didn't know Teal'c so well, he would definitely have missed it, and Carter just did a rapid double-take, alerting Thompson to the ball of light. Thompson just glanced at it, and raised his eyes to the sky in supplication, calling upon the heavens for patience before raising his voice. Carter and Jackson 's heads snapped around to Thompson so fast O'Neill wondered if they had whiplash.