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Sorry to be long winded here, but I wanna say stuff. I want to take a second to respond to the reviews. First of all, yes I do have a thing for cliffhangers... they make you guys want to come back and I think they work very well in this story. Next a response to the review of BenRG, SG-1/Doom? Very original... but no and I would like to say that I can't really provide any more description because... well... it's dark! Do you have any idea how dark it would be underground with no lights at all? That's what I'm trying to show... it's THAT dark! Anyway... on to Chapter four!
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: Freaky Things
"Colonel O'Neill?" The attacker gasped. "Is it really you?" The rest of SG-1 had their weapons trained on the attacker.
"Of course, who'd you expect, the Easter Bunny?" The colonel answered. He was getting frustrated with everybody pointing guns at him today.
"Sir!" The attacker got off the colonel and stood up quickly and saluted. "Lieutenant Alex Stonewall , SG-13, sir."
The colonel stood up and looked at Stonewall with the sternest look he could muster. "Lieutenant! What is going on here?" He shouted at the young officer.
"Not here sir, it's too dangerous. Let's head to the change rooms." Stonewall quickly turned on his heels and bolted off to the change rooms. When SG-1 entered the change room they were immediately greeted by the light from a portable lantern. Inside they found Lt. Stonewall kneeling beside another officer who was sitting on the floor with his back against the wall.
"Colonel O'Neill." The sitting officer said when SG-1 entered the room.
"Major Spencer, what's going on here?" O'Neill asked. Spencer began coughing uncontrollably and couldn't respond.
"I'll field that question sir. Sorry colonel, but we don't really know either. SG-13 returned from our mission about ten hours ago. We came up here to get changed because the gate level change rooms were out of commission due to the toxic spores SG-3 brought back a week ago. Just as the four of us got up here we heard the 'off-world activation' alarms. About ten minutes later the power went out. Walker and Gardner were the first changed so they went to take a look... They never came back. The major and I went out about half an hour after them and we couldn't find anyone on this floor. We were looking around when some shadow thing attacked us. We didn't even see it coming. It thrashed the major pretty hard in the ribs. I fired my gun but it didn't even phase it. Then I heard some shots in the distance and the thing left. I brought the major back here and grabbed some supplies and we've been waiting it out."
"We just got back a few minutes ago." Daniel added.
"Did you find anyone else?" Major Spencer asked.
"Only O'Malley; he was in rough shape." O'Neill replied.
"Where was he?" The major asked again.
"Security station alpha."
"OK." Spencer began to stand up. "Stonewall and I will head to O'Malley, if you guys find anyone else, send them our way. We'll set up a base there."
"Spencer, can you make it?" Carter asked.
"It's only two floors down right? We'll make it. Stonewall! Gather up whatever's useful. Good luck SG-1."
"Colonel, be careful. We saw things out there." Stonewall said, fear seeping into his voice.
"What kinda things?" Daniel asked.
"Freaky things... I can't explain them. Just watch yourselves." With that, Spencer and Stonewall headed one way and SG-1 headed the other way.
"You think they'll be alright?" Daniel asked.
"We already scouted that floor Daniel, they'll be fine." Carter answered.
SG-1 ascended another floor. The next one was just as dark. They followed the corridors seeing the same thing over and over again, nothing. Suddenly, a black shadow bolted across the end of the hallway in front of them.
"Tell me I'm not the only one who saw that!" Daniel pleaded.
"I saw it as well Daniel Jackson."
"Thank you Teal'c."
"Yeah so what was it?" O'Neill asked.
"Sir, do you smell that?"
"Smell what Carter?"
"That. It smells like... smoke..." The group looked around and smelled the air. "Umm, sir?"
"Yes Carter?"
"The walls are bleeding sir."
"I can see that Carter." SG-1 looked around and saw that the walls appeared to be oozing red liquid. Daniel approached the liquid and was about to touch it when the colonel pulled him back. A few seconds later, it was gone.
"Carter, what was that?"
"I don't know, a hallucination sir?"
"Are we going crazy, Carter?"
"I don't know sir."
"Let's just keep going."
SG-1 continued down the dark halls, but they were no longer silent. Every now and then they would hear something; banging, clanging, rattling. All these things seemed to have no apparent cause and whenever they were investigated, nothing conclusive was found.
SG-1 had just listened to the creaking of some old door hinges die away when a new sound filled the halls. At first it was a low growl then it got louder.
"Umm... Jack."
"I hear it Daniel."
"No. Look there!" To the right of the group twenty-five feet down the hallway they saw a pair of red, glowing eyes, floating in the darkness.
"Get ready." O'Neill whispered and everyone's weapons rose and aimed. The eyes didn't move. SG-1 stood absolutely still, waiting. The eyes also waited. Suddenly they blinked and when they reopened a second later, they were five feet closer. Even though the flashlights were aimed at the eyes, the beams seemed ineffective against the total darkness around them and failed to light the owner of the eyes. They blinked again and were another five feet closer.
"Steady." The colonel ordered. The eyes blinked again but reopened in the same spot. The instant they reopened they shot forward with a sudden hissing sound and SG-1's flashlights went out.
"Fire!" O'Neill ordered and the team fired into the darkness. The light from the firing bullets allowed them to see a bear sized black shape advance toward them. The bullets and staff blasts were ineffective and the beast kept advancing. It reached the group and with one sweeping motion of what seemed to be arms or wings it sent SG-1 flying. Each person was knocked against the walls and went down.
The beast stopped. Its eyes glanced up and then down in the darkness. Then, as suddenly as it was there, it was gone, leaving SG-1 alone in the total darkness.
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