"We're from the planet Earth. You might know us as the Tari? We come in peace. We were simply exploring your planet for resources when we ran into you people. We didn't know if you were enemies or not, so we decided to prepare just in case," explained Daniel, left to his usual duty of having to explain everything to everyone. His chest still hurt from where the large animal pounced on him.
"I don't know any Tari. And what is planet Earth?" asked Cloud. They still didn't seem very trusting.
"Apparently they haven't ventured into space yet or used the Stargate," Daniel said to Jack.
"We do too have space travel, but it's pretty new. Damn fool idea to be traveling up there if you ask me," rasped the man named Cid between his cigarette.
"Look, maybe we should all introduce ourselves so that we can get along somewhat better," interjected Sam.
"I agree Major Carter. I am Teal'c, from Chulak."
"And I'm Major Samantha Carter, I'm a scientist."
"Dr. Daniel Jackson, archaeologist."
"And I'm Colonel Jack O'Neill as I said before. Your Cloud, Cid, and Barret, right?" said Jack, attempting to be nice.
"Yes. I'm from Midgar, do you know where that is?" SG-1 nods no. "Right. Well, I introduced them. Now the others." Cloud whistled loudly and other started to drift in from behind tree and shrubs. He gestures to a very beautiful girl, about the same age, in pink, with large green eyes, and carrying a staff. "This is Aeris Gainsborough." Then to another same aged girl, in a somewhat skimpy getup, but well built, with a pretty look to her. "This is Tifa Lockheart." Then to the large wolf looking animal with all red fur, and its tail on fire, only one eye, and small tattoos covering it. "This is Red XIII." A small girl not more than 17 popped out of a bush not far away and skipped towards them. She carries a bladed pinwheel for throwing, and a left arm buckler for blocking. "This is Yuffie Kisaragi." Suddenly a large stuffed animal looking thing with wings falls to the ground from a tree above. It has a small black and white cat sitting on top with a megaphone and a crown. "This is Cait Sith." A cold wind blew through the woods quickly and suddenly a man was walking towards them. He has dark black hair, a metal claw on his left hand, red eyes, and carries a pistol. "And this is Vincent Valentine," finished Cloud.
"Nice to meet you all," said Jack.
"And nice to meet you as well," said Red XIII somewhat formally. Jack turned and looked at Red and started, not believing what he just heard.
"What did you say?" asked Jack.
"I said, nice to me you as well," repeated Red, somewhat offended.
"You can talk?" asked a startled Sam. Red nodded, confused. "Colonel, this can't be possible, wolves don't have the mental or physical capacity to talk."
"Apparently they do, Major Carter," added Teal'c.
"He isn't a wolf, he's from Cosmo Canyon," said Cait Sith. That as well stopped them dead in their tracks. Here was a talking wolf and now a talking cat with a megaphone and boots riding on top of an oversized white stuffed animal, if it was an animal. But before anyone could say anything, Aeris interrupted.
"Wait, you say you are from a different planet? How is that possible? Where did you land your ship? You must have had a ship." Daniel now noticed how melodic her voice really was. And how deep her eyes were.
"Well, we actually didn't come on a ship, we came on that large disc about a mile that way." Sam pointed in the direction of the Stargate.
"That ring has been there for ages. It's nothing but an old altar built by the Ancients." At that Cloud looked at Aeris sharply. Not to be mean, but to obviously remind her not to say anything else.
"Look, regardless of where you came from, what do you want?" repeated Cloud.
Jack gave Daniel a look, signifying his turn to explain again. "Well, actually, we noticed that you have an energy source here that is very powerful. We are in need of powerful defenses. We from Earth are having trouble with the Goa'uld. Do you who they are?"
"Energy source? You mean Mako!" added Yuffie.
Barret interrupted quickly. "You're from Shinra! See, Cloud, I told you we couldn't trust these guys! We need to get rid of them!" He advanced towards Jack with his gun in hand, wait, it was his hand!
"Whoa! Hold it there, we don't know any Shinra," Jack said as he pulled his gun up.
"They're telling the truth..." whispered Vincent who was behind Jack with a breath of wind suddenly.
"What is up with this place?" Jack said.
"Jack, let me handle this," Daniel said. "What are you all doing? Why are you all traveling together?"
"We're in search of Sephiroth. He used to be part of SOLDIER for Shinra but absorbed too much Mako and went crazy, at least that's what we think. We don't really know much more besides that he has had extensive experiments done on him and is one of the only surviving Ancients," Cloud said.
"Wait, so Mako, that energy source, can be bad for you?" asked Sam.
"Well, not as far as anyone knows. See, everybody is exposed to Mako at some point in their life, but it never does any harm. But all members of SOLDIER are infused with Mako so they become a little more powerful. But it has never effected anybody badly expect for Sephiroth. It usually only causes some memory loss or brief hallucinations," explained Tifa.
"I was part of SOLDIER once, which is why my eyes are turquoise," Cloud said.
Jack was interested with military things. "SOLDIER, is that like an elite military group?"
"Yeah! But you better not go there! Shinra is an evil empire! They tried to destroy my uprising, AVALANCHE, by simply crushing the entire section we were stationed in with a plate! And they keep draining the Mako from the planet! It's the planet's life blood!" belted Barret.
"Jack, maybe if we help them, they might let us know a little more about this Mako and how we might be able to use it," added Daniel, always on the lookout to be able to explore a new world and try and appease Jack at the same time. Jack thought for a moment. He looked at Sam, she gave him a nod. He turned to Teal'c.
"I don't know, what do you think Teal'c?"
Teal'c didn't answer immediately; he was engaged in a sort of stare down, size up contest with Barret, who was physically as big and tall as Teal'c. "I think you will make a good decision, whatever that may be."
"Fine, send a message back to Hammond, tell him that we are going to need a little bit and to not send anybody else until we communicate with him again. We are going to help you, Mr. Cloud," Jack said.
"Why would you want to help us?"
"Because we from Earth need to form alliances, and the way to do that is to help you out in some way."
"The road will be rough and hard. No offense, but we kicked your butt back there."
"We were outnumbered and surprised. We can handle our own you might find."
"Fine. But the first instance of betrayal by your or your own will lead to your death, understood?"
"Understood." Jack turned to Sam. "We get that a lot don't we?"