Title: The Awakening

Chapter 1: The Find of a Lifetime.

Author: Sgccyberwolf

Rating: PG / PG-13. Depending on the moment

Disclaimer: I don't own Smallville or Star Gate. Star Gate is owned by Sci-fi Channel and MGM. Smallville is the property of Warner Brothers, DC Comics, and Tollan / Roberts Production.

The Field Trip

Clark sighed.

He was on this field trip to a dig at an abandoned Indian village. Clark was on this trip because his girlfriend conned him into taking Advanced Anthropology with her. Chloe told him that it was a way they could spend more time together and he believed her. Little did he know she only wanted him around because life on a farm made Clark use to hard work and getting dirty. Chloe, on the other hand, was still very much a city girl at heart and did not like dirt or being dirty.

Dr. Amos, the teacher, knew the tribal counsel and secured permission to dig here several years back. He had brought his students to this site for five years and the most they found were some broken pots and a few arrowheads. He kept the area marked off for his students. Although the holes were almost naturally filled in between digs by blowing dust and rain, you could still see indentations of previous digs.

No matter how much he loved her and wanted to spend more time with her; this experience was not going to be worth it. Chloe put her arm around his shoulder. "Cheer up Clark, maybe we will find some arrowheads or artifacts."

Moments later the bus came to a stop. Dr. Amos immediately stood up and reminded them that although they were not at Smallville High, they still needed to conduct themselves as if they were.

The students began to file off the bus. Chloe & Clark were the last students to get off the bus. Dr. Amos pulled Clark aside and asked him to help unload the tools. In the mean time, Chloe went ahead to find a dig site.

As soon as everyone was with the partner they choose and had the necessary equipment Dr. Amos asked if anyone had any last minute questions about their assignment. When no one asked he set him or her to work.

At the SGC: That same day

Colonel O'Neill walked into Sam's Lab and leaned down to where she was working under a table. As usual she was tinkering with some techno gizmo that he didn't understand.

"Next week I am planning on going fishing... do you want to tag along" he asked her.

Major Carter got out from underneath the table and removed her safety glasses and looked over at him. Major Carter liked spending time with Jack, but she didn't want to go fishing. "I'm sorry sir, the trip sounds fascinating but the research we are doing into Naquahdria has taken us in a whole new direction and I just can't break away now. Did you know the generation in the Naquahdria reaction..."

Colonel O'Neill put his hands to his ears. "Ahahahah, you know I don't understand this techno-babble." Carter looked at him sympathetically, "I'm sorry sir."

Colonel O'Neill started to head for the door. "Well if you change your mind, the invitation is still open." Carter cleared her voice, "sir I did have one question. Since you knew I was going to turn you down, who are you taking?" O'Neill ducked his head back into the room. "Actually Daniel is going with me. He will probably bore me with some ethical debate, and ask me what I think. The reality is, I will just let him talk and pretend to listen." With that information out there, O'Neill was out of the room and heading down the hall.

Meanwhile: back at the dig

Clark was not having fun at all. They had been at the dig all day and had very little to show for it. The sun had almost set in Smallville, Kansas and Clark had dug a pretty deep hole. Chloe was on the surface cataloging and trying to get a fix on how old the broken clay pot they found was.

Just as Clark was about to give up and get out of the hole he hit something. It didn't sound like stone but wood. Clark moved his lantern and began to remove the dirt on the wooden planks. He figured that he must have uncovered an old mineshaft.

Clark examined the planks with his light from the lantern. It looked like one of the planks had some writing or symbols on it but the dirt was obscuring it. As he moved some of the loosen dirt, he noticed that there were symbols on the planks. The most astonishing thing was that the symbols looked like they were Kryptonian, but they were not the same symbols he found in the Native American cave paintings. He assumed that they could be Kryptonian, but maybe they were a language of his race that he was not familiar with just as Earth had many languages to it. He wanted to see the rest of the writing, so he called up to Chloe to send him down a brush. Chloe went to their kit and got a brush and then it happened. As she neared the edge of the hole she tripped over a rock and fell in.

Clark caught Chloe in his arms but their combined weight was too much for the planks and they gave way. They fell into a dark cavern with Clark landing first and Chloe on top of him. During the fall Clark lost the lantern he had, but knew it fell in with them. Clark happened to have a flashlight on his key chain, so he turned it on to see if he could find the lantern. Surprisingly it did not land to far away. Clark checked the lantern and everything appeared to be in working order. He lit the lantern and what the two of them saw next took their breath away.

They thought that they fell in a mineshaft, but the walls were very ornate. The walls were stone and metal that look like gold. They were also covered with more of the incomprehensible writing on it just like the wooden planks did. As they continued to explore, they saw what appeared to be another chamber. Just then a voice came from the surface... it was Dr. Amos. "Chloe, Clark, are you down there?" They came toward the opening, so that they could see him. They explained that they fell into a chamber below the dig site and they needed a rope to get out. Dr. Amos told them he would get a rope from the bus.

Realizing they had a few minutes until he got back, they decided to explore the inner chamber they had just seen when he called them back to the opening. As they explored, Clark continued to notice the symbols that Chloe just past them off as cave markings. Although he had been in the Native American cave, she did not draw the conclusion of their similarity. Towards the back of the inner chamber they noticed a shelf that was covered with cobwebs and dust.

Chloe was first to reach the shelf because Clark was paying more attention to the writing he could not read. She reached onto the shelf and pulled off an object that was very dirty. She began to clean off the debris and then became excited by what she had found. After cleaning up the first jar, she noticed a second one on the shelf. Chloe motioned for Clark to come over and take the first jar, so that she could clean up the second. Clark noticed that the jars had writing like the walls, but that was it. He asked Chloe, "what do you think these are?" Chloe looked at him. "I think we just stumbled across a pair of Egyptian Canopic Jars.

As they continued to examine the jars, they did not realize someone or something was behind them. The mysterious figure then put his hands on their shoulders. They were so scared by the physical contact, that they almost dropped the jars. As they turned around, the light from the lantern showed onto Dr. Amos' face. He had told them that he dropped the rope and when they did not climb up he came down to see what had happened. Chloe then showed him what they had found. He too was excited by the find. He told them both that they would have to test their find, but if they were right, then they just put Smallville on the map for the second time since the meteor shower made Smallville the "Meteor Capital of the World."

TBC

Author's Note: Well, this is the first revised chapter of the story. Not much changed in this chapter. I changed a few plot points by shifting them later into the story. Chapter 2 is coming soon.