GateCrashers
Part 8 Of The Thundersdawn Series
By Chaoseternus
Groaning, Anise and Freya exchanged curse words at their aching feet as they reached the edge of the forest, behind the gate. The cursing at the feet stopped abruptly, and switched to cursing Jaffa as she contemplated the volume of Jaffa milling around the gate, plus the assembled bulks of two gun towers, complete except for the guns themselves. How was she going to get past all these?
Smiling, the Jaffa slipped back deeper into the woods, gesturing his comrades to watch the Tok'ra as he headed away, to a safe distance to use the new communicator he had been given, without the possibly of being overheard by the Tok'ra agent.
"My Lord, we have a Tok'ra at the rear of the Gate"
He nodded as the swift reply came to grab her, and then paused, what if? It was risky to mention it, but…
"My Lord, if the gate defenders were to be pulled away, leaving the gate unguarded, would not this Tok'ra do exactly what you planned for?"
He flicked the communicator, a small rounded device, its perfect mirrored surface marred only by a set of five buttons on the base, and waited, his guts clenching with anxiety.
He sighed lightly, as the reply came back. Ba'al would have killed him for such impudence, but Maktenos often rewarded good suggestions from the Jaffa, this idea he obviously liked.
Stunned, Anise could not believe her ears as the Jaffa charged away from the gate, her fellow Tok'ra had broken out and had put up enough resistance to force the Gate defenders to be pulled away to assist in forcing the Tok'ra back into the tunnels. They would not defeat the Jaffa of course, the Jaffa were too many and too well supported from orbit, but it gave her a golden opportunity.
But where to go? Unbidden, a snippet of a conversation she had overheard rose to her mind. An address of a world were the Tau'ri were sending a team, quickly she flipped through some mental calculations, converting the Tau'ri designations to a gate address, then she sprinted, both Anise and Freya giving it their all as they charged for the gate, punching in the address of a dead, uninhabited world.
Glancing around fearfully, Anise dived through the gate.
"My Lord, she has passed through the gate"
"I saw it My Lord, the address was for a dead world, I believe she just means to stay there long enough to dial out again"
"Yes My Lord"
"Thank you, My Lord"
Gasping, Anise dived through the gate again, arriving rapidly in the middle of a strip of green, plentiful farmland, with the interesting addition of four P-90's pointing at her head. Now that wasn't standard farm issue.
"Anise" the weapons lowered, "what are you doing here?"
She looked at the team, and smiled slightly. At least this one had met her before, he knew she was genuine Tok'ra.
"Ferreti, the Tok'ra base has been seized by Maktenos, most of the Tok'ra have been captured"
"Oh shit!" Ferreti cursed, diving swiftly for the DHD.