O'Neill snickered quietly, resisting the urge to drop one of the trees large red rotting fruits on the Jaffa searching frantically below them, dodging the falling fruits with ease.
Xander had no such compunction.
"Bullseye!" he triumphantly muttered to himself, followed quickly by an "ouch!"
"Come on children, we still have to get to the minefield, and that's not exactly easy at treetop level" Ferreti said, an amused smile on his face.
"Yes Father" Xander whine made Ferreti pause, shuddering for a moment, Xander as his son? No thanks! Having to deal with O'Neill at work was often bad enough… funny but bad.
"Remind me again" Giles asked, his face slightly green as he looked straight down a small hole in the trees branches to the forest floor over a hundred meters below "exactly why are we doing this?"
"Because Carter noticed that the leaf coverage was thick enough so that the Jaffa would never spot us if we moved through the top of the trees, because we had to get over the minefield somehow, and oh yeah, the only place we get could up to the trees was a kilometre away from the minefield" O'Neill replied, his voice heavy with sarcasm, "never minding about the whole drop factor"
"Ah, yes thank you for reminding me about the drop" Giles commented, turning away from the small hole he had been looking down, "but I hadn't actually forgotten that"
"Ditto" Willow added, nervously.
"Oh bugger" Giles cursed, frantically backpeddling, forcing the rest of the group to back peddle behind him, "Somebody shoot Carter" he cursed, as the branch he had been standing on vanished down to the forest floor below, "She forgot to mention rotten branches"
The group's eyes widened almost as one, then looked nervously around the branches at their feet. Teal'c's frown deepened, then he moved forward, taking the lead.
Moving through the trees to the forest clearing where their cloaked Al-kesh was took several hours, by which time the sound of Supersoldier fire had reached their ears, repeated burst after burst.
"What the hell are they up to?" Willow asked.
A gutteral, doubly modulated voice responded, "They failed their 'God' and so the Jaffa are being slaughtered"
The Scooby's stopped, and sent disturbed and disgusted looks at 'Buffy', "you have got to be joking"
"She is not" Teal'c disgustedly added from in front of him, not bothering to hide his feelings on the matter.
Shuddering, the Scooby's started dropping down the trees trunk, carefully dropping to the forest floor by the clearing, disturbed by this latest evidence of Goa'uld evil.
Now they had their transport in sight, all they had to do is get home, without gaining the attention of one P'eed off Anubis in his mothership above.