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Chapter 15: Enerina

Swiftly, the team dropped groaning out of the low tunnel into an old, dusty storeroom, obviously unused for quite some time. Teal'c, brushing his hands off to remove the dust of the tunnel, moved to the door first, placing himself there as a guard as the rest of the team dropped their packs, cursing their aching backs. When Xander had said the tunnel was low, he hadn't seen exactly how low, and the team had literally had to crawl the last 10meters, their packs pushed ahead of them.

Grumbling, the packs were raised again, and the team left the room, their Zats spitting electric fire at a pair of patrolling Jaffa. Fast and silent, they strode searching through the corridors, their Zats and on several occasions, Buffy's fists dealing swift and quiet oblivion to any Jaffa foolish enough to get in their way.

Finally, they reached an obviously well defended doorway; the surrounding area covered with bright-untarnished glyphs, hinting at more recent construction, four Jaffa stonily standing in front of the heavy metal door.

Nodding, O'Neill glanced around, catching the eyes of each member of the team. Zats were raised and they dived out of their concealing cover, spitting electric unconsciousness at the surprised Jaffa. They fell, and the Tau'ri raced forward, then dived headlong for cover as another eight Jaffa appeared from a side corridor, their staffs already raised.

"You know" Buffy cursed as a staff bolt landed just an inch from her head, "ambushes are a lot more fun if your doing the ambushing, not the other guy"

O'Neill just grinned wryly as he holstered the Zat, and brought his P-90 up to his shoulder, sending a stream of bullets down the corridor at the Jaffa, joined swiftly by Carter, and Daniels P-90's, Teal's staff, and Xander's rifle. Grinning evilly, Buffy raised a P-90 in each hand, and dove out of cover, sprinting at Slayer speeds towards the Jaffa. The Jaffa swivelled fast, trying to shoot Buffy as she jumped over their heads, landing behind them. But now they were caught in a deadly crossfire, Buffy in front, the other Tau'ri behind. They died quickly as the clomping sounds of approaching Jaffa hit Buffy's ears.

"Company's coming, might not want to hang around" she shouted as the team dove for the door, moving swiftly through into the room beyond, where they stopped in shock.

In front of them, gazing at them despairingly was a young battered lady, her hands broken and bloody, her weakly glowing eyes screaming that she was a Goa'uld. Behind her was a heavy metal table, broken straps and restraints adorning it like obscene decorations, at the edges of the room was Goa'uld devices, almost all medical, and most showing signs of recent and bloody use.

Buffy gazed into the eyes of the Goa'uld, and her Slayer instincts started screaming, shelter, protect. For all she was a Goa'uld, this one was an innocent, a dying innocent. Groaning, Buffy walked over to the crawling Goa'uld and started checking her injuries.

"We don't have time for that Buffy, lets go!" O'Neill shouted as he placed C-4 throughout the room.

Disgusted, Buffy glared at O'Neill, before turning back to the Goa'uld, straight into her desperate, pleading eyes. Buffy nodded, not entirely sure what she was being asked.

With a grateful smile, the light faded from the Goa'ulds eyes. Cursing, Buffy checked for a pulse. She found none. She turned away to announce the death, but a stinging pain made her cry out.

SG-1 looked over and jumped swiftly to the obvious conclusion,

"Aw, hell" O'Neill cursed, his P-90 raised to point at Buffy as she rose to her feet.

"Excuse me, could you please be so kind as to tell me why exactly you have weapons pointed at my Slayer?" Giles asked, Ripper most definitely in the house.

"Gr. Gr. Greetings. My Na. Name is Enerina" Buffy stuttered, her eyes glowing, her manner screaming scared, broken.

"Oh bloody buggering hell" Giles cursed.

"Seconded" Willow moaned.

"Shit" Xander cursed, "Of two minds she shall arise"