GateCrashers
Part 8 Of The Thundersdawn Series
By Chaoseternus
Ca'nac walked his swift circuit around the Tok'ra tunnel entrance, silently praising his God. He had done what no Goa'uld had managed before, he had captured the Tok'ra! Not just one or two Tok'ra, but almost every single agent in one sweep. Even better, he had arranged an unbeatable ambush for the Tau'ri, the Godslayers. They would not be able to breech the gate, so they would have to come with the fleet in order to rescue their allies and protect their own interests, and when they did they would find that Maktenos had placed 23 of his best warships in the system, Ha'taks and his great Gods new He'tens. The Tau'ri would be destroyed and Maktenos would be able to ride that victory into his rightful place as supreme ruler of the Galaxy.
Even a covert assault by the Tau'ri would not work, Maktenos had just introduced new sensors that detected and tracked hyperdrives without emitting any sort of energy signal. The sensor was undetectable, and with the fleet running silent the Tau'ri would never know where the warships were until it was too late.
Ca'nac stiffened as the distant echoing of Tau'ri weapons and staffs reached his ears, then he laughed. They had tried a gate assault anyway! The fools, that foolish attempt would be rebuffed and they would soon realise they had no choice but to attempt a fleet action, and be smashed. Maktenos was a most wise and true god to have foreseen this!
A mighty crump reached Ca'nac's ears and he looked shocked towards the StarGate 5 miles away. His eyes disbelieving, he saw the mighty shape of a gun tower rise, shattered 30 feet into the air before dropping with a crash to the ground.
A mighty whirring hit his ears and he realized with sudden dread that his invincible God had not foreseen a successful gate assault. They had no way to contact the fleet and ask for reinforcements, and if the Tau'ri successfully seized the gate despite the forces arrayed against them then in all likelihood, he too would soon be dead and his God defeated. He wondered what that truly meant.
Ca'nac stiffened as a crashing sound in the undergrowth reached his ears, it had been an hour since the sounds of battle from the gate had seised, and he had too assume with the number of times the gate had activated since that the gate had fallen, and the Tau'ri were now amassing a force of sufficient size to retrieve their allies. But this was too soon and too loud, it was most likely a survivor come to report.
"Ca'nac! Ca'nac!" the brash arrogant Gay'ner rushed, his armour battered, his manner dishevelled into the clearing, "the gate, it has fallen! The Tau'ri used armoured warriors as their first wave, I have not seen or heard of their like before!"
"The Tau'ri do not use armoured warriors" Ca'nac replied sharply.
"Ca'nac, they do now" Gay'ner insisted.
A slight purring made Ca'nac look up in time to see an armoured tank swiftly tear into sight through the forest trail heading into the clearing. Ca'nac stiffened; them dove for the undergrowth as an echoing bang sounded through the forest. Arrogant Brash Gay'ner disappeared, the ground cratered where seconds before his body had stood.
The green mottled tank purred past, chased by a second, a third, a fourth, a fifth. Behind them tore convoy of open topped vehicles, great blue armoured figures within and Ca'nac realized with dread that they had no weapons left capable of piercing such thick armour, not on the planet anyway. Maktenos's own great plan had proven to be flawed, and the Tau'ri had capitalized with glee on the flaw, his God should have spotted it, were he truly a god.
Were he truly a God? Ca'nac marvelled at his own thoughts, such thoughts were the truest heresy imaginable and yet… and yet he realized he had buried or ignored such thoughts, such evidence for decades.
Ca'nac stepped forward out of the undergrowth to the side of the road, he lowered his weapon to the ground and stood submissively, waiting to be found.
It didn't take long, two minutes behind the tanks and the transports came another group of vehicles, this time loaded with the familiar green-garbed figures of the Tau'ri Stargate teams.
Ca'nac found himself glad to be led away, disarmed, and he wondered why.