A familiar crack or breaking plastic reached O'Neill's ears and he groaned, reaching for another plastic tie.
"Would you mind please not breaking this one? I know you are a slayer and can break out of the damn things without a sweat, but I would feel a lot better if the Goa'uld at our back was tied up!" O'Neill said, exasperated.
"Well, and their was me thinking you just wanted to see me in handcuffs" Buffy quipped.
O'Neill's mouth snapped shut, and a slight blush coloured his cheeks.
Buffy caught his eye, and blushed, "You didn't?"
"Ahh… well… No, of course not" O'Neill replied, stumbling slightly.
Sam and Xander traded smirks.
"Well, he was quick to rally so he gets points for that I suppose" Xander grinned, "but unfortunately he lost out totally on believability, I would have to say a low 3.5"
O'Neill glanced around at the smirking teams, and gave up. With a disgusted sigh he threw the tie to the floor, and began stepping over fallen Jaffa bodies, heading towards the secret Tok'ra entrance, "Why do I bother? Honestly ever since that bloody lot… that bloody lot?? Hell, they even have me doing it now!"
Amused grins were levelled at the Colonels back as he muttered his way through the corridors, not even stopping during firefights with the Jaffa. The Colonel it seemed was in deep trouble. Even Teal'c found it mildly amusing.
Willow stiffened as they left the Tok'ra tunnel, her senses screaming of a powerful threat in the area, carefully, slowly she reached out, then slammed down on her magic, shutting all her active spells off and using very trick she knew to drop her magical signature.
"Guys?" Willows worried tone brought the teams up short, "we need to leave and fast"
"What appears to be the problem Miss Rosenburg?" Teal'c asked, a note of concern in his voice.
" He's here"
Nobody needed to ask which who, exchanging anxious glances, all banter gone, they ran, double timing it swiftly through the forest to the edge of the minefield.
Where they stopped, "What do you mean you can't see the mines anymore?"
"I had to shut the every spell I was using down otherwise Anubis would already have detected me, he's powerful, more powerful then me, if he gets any closer he will feel my presence regardless, we need to go, now"
Willow gasped suddenly, dropping to the floor, her face lined with pain. Beside her, Buffy winced, holding her head in her hands and Giles gasped, "Oh good lord!"
"He's found, or rather not found Enerina, he's just a touch on the annoyed side" Willow gasped out, before groaning, and sliding into unconsciousness as another wave of boiling seething anger hit her.
"Great, we have to cross a minefield where we cant see the mines, whilst carrying Willow whilst chased by a very annoyed part-ascendant and his fearless supersoldiers, what mphm pmmth pth mmmth?"
"Might want to shut up, don't want to be giving the universe ideas now do we?" Giles replied wryly as he removed his hand from O'Neill's mouth.
O'Neill shut his mouth with a click, grunting in agreement.
"Still doesn't answer the question of the hour" Xander commented, "Just how do we get through the minefield?"