Chapter 5 - Battle

There was not much time to prepare for the attack. Only minutes after the village had been evacuated the first ships appeared on the horizon. Not short after that first sight volleys of energy crashed into trees and houses. But this was not the worst thing...

Jack, who had taken defense position with his team by the Stargate muttered several curses as the first Jaffa landing party approached their position very quickly. It came to a firing battle between them and the Jaffa. After a while they gained control of the situation, but unfortunately there was another troop on its way toward the village. It had to be about ninety of them and only forty women back there to fight against them. Jack saw from the corner of his eye how they fought, it seemed as if those amazons could deal with them quite well with every woman taking out more than one, at first...

Siama'a had still been busy arranging the village's defense as the first shots hit targets not far away from them. She turned her head to see that a first explorer troop of Jaffa had landed, they ran into the gunfire of Jack and SG-1.

With a sudden surge of fear she had to think of him... Jack! She had been so harsh to him as he came to speak to her half an hour ago and then she had ran away just like a creep. He was willing to risk a lot for her and the Kel'ba people and she had treated him like that.

"We don't need your help. Go home!" the words shot through her mind confusing everything even more.

That moment she saw a lot more Jaffa storming toward them. Her comrades were already fighting the ones of the first row, not thinking much, being kind of mechanized in her motion, Siama'a kicked one of them down herself and then another one.

But there was already following another hostile troop and they were shooting many staff blasts at them. About two thirds of her comrades managed to take cover behind a heap of debris or somewhere else. The rest continued fighting them since they were too far away from any possible place to take cover, they had no other chance. Many of them were shot or threw themselves down on the ground trying to evade this sort of fate, most of were not successful with that.

Siama'a herself had an inattentive moment still being lost in her thoughts about Jack, she was not really able to fight any more; the blast of a zat gun hit her and she collapsed to the ground as the sizzling shock went through her body.

Jack saw how the Jaffa ran out of the devastated village. It were far too many to battle them. Then he saw that one of them had Sam taken captive, he was carrying her unconscious body over his shoulder. Jack felt a stitch deep inside his stomach. The thoughts of the last battle he had had together with her came back into his mind. Now he was acting without any reasonability, he had to save her no matter what might happen to him, he cocked his MP and sprang out of cover. Teal'C tried to pull him back, but he failed him. Now it was too late to get him back anyhow. One of the Jaffa saw Jack's motion and shot him with his zat before Jack could fire a single shot at him.

He pulled Jack back up to his feet and hauled him away.

The rest of SG-1 could do nothing but watch the scene, the Jaffa were already too close to the waiting Alkesh to reach them any more.