Jack had left one of the Majors from one of the teams due to head out in the morning in charge of the base after talking to Hammond and explaining the situation.

"Okay people you know what we have to do." Jack said stood on the ramp. "Now we're just waiting for Major Carter." Jack sighed. "Hey Carter can you hurry it up?" He called to Sam who was in the control room, looking at the UAV scans.

"Colonel they are in a pit, I doubt they are going anywhere. I'm sure a few minutes won't hurt." Sam replied. She went back to talking to Simmons.

The door to the gate room opened and Siler brought another FRED into the room.

"Siler, we've already got equipment." Jack said.

"Did you get everything I asked for?" Sam asked walking into the room.

"Yes ma'am. We're just waiting on the last items now." Siler replied. "Colonel you need to sign this." He handed him a clip board and a pen.

"Sam, do you want to explain?" Jack asked.

"Rope and abseiling equipment is going to be helpful, but I've looked at the scans it's not going to get them out of there so I drew up my own equipment list." Sam explained. "Siler offered to help pull it all together."

"Do I want to ask what's on this list?" Jack asked.

"Just sign it sir." Sam suggested. Jack signed his name on the line.

"Ma'am, your axes." Another Sgt came in with three axes.

"You planning on lopping every ones heads off and tossing them in the pit Sam?" Some called.

"Don't tempt me." Sam replied. "I had another ten hours of leave left. A bloody coop sounds just the way to retaliate. Load them up Sgt." Sam said.

"Yes ma'am."

"So are you ready to go now?" Jack asked. "Or did you forget the kitchen sink?" Everyone chuckled.

"Now you'll never know what I had on." Sam whispered. "Lieutenant I think the Colonel meant dial the gate." She called to Simmons.

"Yes ma'am."

"Did you decide to take over Major?" Jack asked. Sam replied in Arabic.

"What did she say sir?" Someone asked as the gate opened.

"I'll tell you when you're older." Jack replied. "Move out."

"You might want to tell them to keep at least twenty feet from the pit so they don't topple in." Sam suggested to Jack. "The ground is unstable up to that point."

"You didn't think to mention that before now because?" Jack asked.

"I was still studying the UAV readouts. Look..." Sam pulled something out her pocket and brought up a copy of the infrared scans.

"What's that?" Jack asked.

"PDA." Sam replied.

"Since when have you had one of those?"

"Since this morning. I went to the computer store remember. Don't worry I didn't hock the farm."

"That's good because I didn't know we had a farm." Jack said causing her to grin. "If we can't get close then how are we going to get them out?"

"That's where a little ingenuity and forethought comes in." Sam replied. "That's my area of expertise. Can you keep everyone back and get a few aspiring lumberjacks to cut me down 9 trees, about this wide." She held up her hands to demonstrate the thickness of tree trunk. "Tall and straight as possible."

"Sure."

"Good I'm going to talk to Daniel." Sam took a box off the top of the FRED.

"Daniel, come in." Sam said over the radio.

"Hi Sam." Daniel replied. "I thought you were on leave."

"Well I was but it turns out my best friends are stuck down a pit. So I thought I better come and save the day." Sam teased.

"Thank you. How long do you think we're going to be stuck down here?"

"The ground is pretty unstable; we're going to have to try a little construction effort, so if you hear trees falling don't worry." Sam explained. "It's going to be a while."

"Okay." Daniel replied.

"How is everyone down there?"

"It's a little cold and unfortunately the food didn't come down with us." Daniel replied.

"Umm, speaking of that... Janet sent you all a care package. I can't get close enough to drop it in the pit but I'm going to toss it, it's got a parachute attached and it's padded so just watch out." Sam explained.

"Thanks Sam."

Sam moved as close as she dared before tossing the box into the air luckily it went to the centre of the pit and floated down.

"Got it." Daniel responded.

"Sit tight we'll have you out of there as soon as we can."

TBC