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Chapter 12: "Please have your boarding passes ready as you enter the plane"

Whistling, Ferreti approached the Al-kesh, his bag slung casually over his shoulder, grinning as he noticed the ready state of the craft. He had just missed most of the preparation, such a pity.

"Ferreti, glad you could finally make it" O'Neill sarcastic comment hit Ferreti's ears just as the Colonel himself appeared in the crafts small door.

"Glad to be here Colonel," Ferreti replied sincerely, "The alternative was being 'borrowed' by Doctor Frasier"

O'Neill chuckled as he waved Ferreti aboard, slamming the heavy airlock shut behind him.

"He's here, we can go now" O'Neill shouted to the front of the craft as he checked the seal on the airlock.

"Finally" came the chorused reply from the cockpit, as the craft's engines were brought online.

Ferreti resisted the urge to comment as the craft rose from the ground, heading into space before he had even reached the bridge. Somebody was being an eager beaver.

In a whirling bright pool of displaced energy, the Al-kesh appeared in orbit over Anubis's research facility… or rather didn't appear, it's cloak having been activated just before they left hyper.

Their arrival was unnoticed, there was no watching ship in orbit and the research facility with its sensors and squadrons of fighters was on the other side of the planet. Carefully, slowly so as to minimize the crafts energy signature, hence its chances of being detected, O'Neill swung the Al-kesh around the planet, circumnavigating it from space whilst the rest of the teams poured over the crafts small passive sensor suite, picking out every detail they had could for the assault ahead.

Finally, they were ready and the Al-kesh re-entered the atmosphere, burning its way through the air over a hundred kilometres from the base, before flying through the tree top's to within a kilometre of the Goa'uld R&D facility, the two teams walking slowly through the thick overgrown forest from there.

"Well, at this we know no patrols are sent this way" Buffy cursed as she swung her machete again, hacking a way through the forest, "'cos I don't see no sigh of their tracks or the hacking they would have to do to get through"

"Indeed, however they would not leave such an obvious approach to the base unguarded" Teal'c commented, a slight worried frown on his face.

"Er, guys" Xander commented weakly from behind them, "I think maybe I can explain that…"

Carter looked at the very careful way Xander was keeping one foot firmly on the ground, and the slight corner of a black object that showed where his foot had scuffed the dirt of the forest floor away, and came to a swift conclusion, "Oh, shit. Tell me you didn't?"

Teal'c, Daniel and Jack shot Carter surprised looks at the profanity, and then shot Xander worried looks as his reply sunk in.

"Mine"

"Okay, it's yours" Buffy quipped, then frowned "unless you mean mine as in explosive in which case… bugger!"

Xander shot Buffy a mildly amused look, "you have been spending way too much around G-Man"

"You have got to be kidding me" O'Neill commented, his eyes wide.

"The Goa'uld do not generally employ such devices," Teal'c added.

"Well, this one has" Carter commented, kneeling on the ground to take a closer look at the device.

"We appear to be in a minefield then?" Giles asked, then at Carters nod commented, "Bugger!"