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Knife Edge, part 15: Beware the Jabberwocky my son…
P4X-639
The echoing, high pitched howling filled he air, the unmistakable call of the Harbingers of the Abyss.
"I tried to warn you." Trance looked at Anubis, "But you wouldn't listen."
"What are they?" The Goa'uld looked round, unmistakably worried.
"They are the Maggog, and they will kill every living thing they come across, and there is nothing you can do to stop them."
"Surly there is something you can do?"
"What if there is?" Trance turned to leave, "Why should I?"
High Orbit, P3X-639
"Harper, I'm reading a massive discharge from the planet." Andromeda looked confused, "Hold. I'm picking up new life forms."
"Goa'uld?" The engineer asked.
"No: Maggog, thousands of them."
P3X-639
Rommie brought her forcelance round, forcing Ares onto the defensive. He brought his own staff up, blocking the attack, then twisted it to the side, trying to wrench Rommie's weapon from her grip.
"Would you really kill this body?" Ares brought his staff town, trapping Rommie's beneath it.
"I'd rather see Dylan dead then host to a parasite."
"AI shutdown: code lexic dark..."
"Nice try, but I don't take orders from Goa'uld." Rommie brought her other arm round, her fist snapping the staff-weapon half way along its length. She brought up her own weapon, aimed it at Ares chest, and fired. The Goa'uld fell backwards onto the floor, the light in eyes eye's dimming.
"Rommie?" Dylan asked, looking at the smoking hole in his chest.
"I'm sorry." Rommie cradled him in her arms, "I'm so sorry…"
"This is so not good." Beka had almost reached the prison cell when the sound of rampaging Maggog filled the air. She burst round the final corner, Gauss pistol blazing, taking down the two Jaffa guards before they could react.
"Behind you!" Tyr yelled out a warring, sending Beka spinning round to blast a Maggog that had appeared from a side corridor.
"People, we are leaving!" Beka shot the lock off the cage door, "The Maru's outside; Farretti and the others are keeping it safe while we bust you out."
"Where are the others?" O'Neill asked, lifting a Zat from a dead Jaffa with his remaining hand.
"Trance went to deal with Anubis." Beka explained, handing out the remaining weapons, "Rommie went to find Dylan."
"Dylan's been taken over by a Goa'uld." Tyr pointed his commandeered staff-weapon down the corridor.
"Oh my god!" Beka exclaimed, not noticing the movement in the shadows behind them.
The lone Maggog leapt at Carter, sinking its teeth into her neck.
To Be Continued…