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SG-1 returns to the safety of the SGC to find something is wrong. The power is out, the gate room is a mess and everyone is missing.

Empty Halls: Backup Generator

Sitting on the floor inside the closet was an airman. With his left hand he was hugging his knees up to his chest and with his right he held a gun to the colonel's head. Then the airmen pulled the trigger. A click echoed through the quiet room. Followed by two more before the airmen realized he had no ammo. So he wrapped his hand that held the gun around his knees and began rocking himself back and forth.

SG-1 looked at each other in shock and disbelief. Things just got weirder and weirder. Colonel O'Neill decided to talk to the man.

"Airman." He tried to get his attention, but the airman just stared forward into the wall and moved his lips like he was mumbling. The colonel looked and saw a name tag. "O'Malley." The airman twitched in response. "O'Malley what's going on here?"

"...Valley of death ...I shall fear no evil..."

"O'Malley! Get a hold of yourself! What happened?" O'Neill shouted as he shook the airman to try and bring him out of his insane state.

"I saw the Pale Horse... and its rider." Then he laughed. The airmen let out the laugh of a maniac, one who'd lost all ties to reality.

"What's he talking about?" O'Neill asked his team.

"I believe he is referring to the book of Revelations from the Christian bible." Teal'c answered. "The passage states 'I looked and saw a Pale horse, its rider's name was Death and hell followed close behind'."

"Thanks Teal'c. That really clears things up." The colonel said sarcastically.

"Well maybe it does sir."

"How Carter?"

"Well, O'Malley is Catholic. The book of Revelations is also known as Apocalypse. If O'Malley thought he was going to die, that might come to his mind."

"Carter, he's insane. Did you hear that laugh? He's a loon!"

"Sir, O'Malley was tough. If whatever we're dealing with did that to him, things might be worse than we thought."

"So what are we dealing with?"

"The Pale Horse... the Pale Horse..." O'Malley kept whispering to himself.

"Well, according to O'Malley, we're dealing with Death."

SG-1 stood in the security room a few minutes longer before deciding on what to do.

"OK team, we're gonna head out and see if we can find anyone else. If O'Malley got left behind, maybe someone else did."

"What are we going to do with O'Malley?" Daniel asked, genuinely concerned.

"Well, we can't take him with us. He was safe here, so we'll leave him here."

"So... where do we head Jack?"

"Carter, doesn't this base have a backup power generator?"

"Yes sir."

"So why isn't it on?"

"I don't know sir."

"How do we turn it on?"

"We'd have to go to the generator that's two levels up."

"Carter, structurally speaking, if the base was overrun, what floor would the SGC personnel evacuate to in order to mount a defence?"

"Well sir, they would probably go up. To prevent whatever it was that got into the base from reaching the surface."

"Understood. We're gonna do a floor by floor sweep working our way to the surface. We'll check the power generator on the way and hopefully restore some main power."

"Umm... Jack."

"Yes Daniel?"

"What if we don't find anyone?"

"Daniel, people don't just disappear. They're probably just mounting a defence. Now come on, let's go."

SG-1 did a thorough sweep of the floor they were on and found no one so they continued their search one floor up. The floor they were now one was totally dark. None of the emergency lights were active so the only light that could be seen was the light from their flashlights. The team wandered the halls, searching for anyone or anything that could provide them with answers.

"Olly olly oxen free!" O'Neill suddenly shouted at the top of his lungs, startling Daniel and Carter. His two team mates gave him a dirty look. With an innocent smile he replied, "It was worth a try."

The team had almost finished searching the floor when Daniel turned around and shone his flashlight wildly behind the group.

"What was that?' He whispered loudly. Then frantically searched for what he had seen.

"What'd you see Daniel?" O'Neill asked as he shone his flashlight in the same location.

"I don't know, but it shot across the hallway."

"Teal'c, with me." O'Neill and Teal'c slowly approached the end of the corridor, then, on the count of three, sprang around the corner to see nothing but a normal, yet very dark hallway. The two then returned to the others. "You sure it wasn't just your imagination Danny-boy?"

"I know what I saw Jack. Something was there."

"Well, it's not now. Let's keep going, we're almost at the power generator."

The group continued in silence. They reached the next floor and Carter led the way to the backup generator. They reached the room to find the door was missing. They entered the room expecting to see something weird and they were not disappointed.

"Carter?"

"Yes sir?"

"This is the generator room, right?"

"Yes sir."

"Then where's the generator?" The team looked into the room to find small bits of machinery littering the floor. Those small bits were the only machinery in the room. The generator itself was nowhere in sight. It appeared as though the backup generator had been literally torn out of the room.

"This is like a bad horror movie." Daniel said as he stared at the mess in front of him.

"OK, looks like we aren't getting main power back anytime soon. Com'on, let's keep moving." The team finally managed to tear their eyes away from the mangled room and continued on. They came across the on-base recreation and training center and went inside. They scanned the vast room and then turned to leave when Daniel spoke up again.

"There! Right there! No, there!" He was shining his flashlight wildly around the room.

"What is it this time Daniel?" O'Neill turned around to look at his friend when he was suddenly struck from behind and knocked down. He tried to see his attacker, but he had a flashlight shining right into his eyes. He tried to fight off his attacker but he suddenly felt the unmistakable feeling of the barrel of a gun under his chin, so he stopped fighting.

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