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The Taur'i Pharaoh
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It had been two hours since their escape from the cell and Ryou and Daniel were hard pressed evading all the patrols that were along all the corridors. The pair had luck on their sides at the moment as no one had discovered that the Archaeologist had vanished. Ryou halted causing Daniel to duck into a side crevice. The young boy walked around the corner to find the doors to the outside world, along with several guards that stood by the walls. He turned back towards Daniel's hiding place.
"Well?" Doctor Jackson whispered softly.
Ryou shook his head. "We can't go that way… but we are at the front entrance… just a sec…" He stuck his head through the wall behind his companion and found himself looking into dense bushland. He pulled himself all the way through and scouted the surrounding area before heading back. "There aren't any guards within the surrounding area so we can just go through the wall here. There's good coverage so we shouldn't be seen very easily."
Daniel nodded and got ready for Ryou to create the portal through the wall and slipped through as soon as he was able. It didn't take them that long to get through the trees and shrubs, while dodging the Jaffa that they came across along the way, and to the clearing that held the Stargate and DHD. Unsurprisingly there were about a dozen Jaffa as well. The pair both crouched low, one out of habit, the other out of need, their minds' contemplating a course of action.
The Doctor turned to the young man beside him. "Would you be able to distract them in some manner?"
"There might be a way. Wait here, Daniel-san." Ryou looked vanished into their surroundings.
It wasn't that long before someone approached from the opposite side of the clearing. As he entered the clearing, Daniel groaned. It was the Goa'uld, and he wasn't happy. "All of you will follow me. The Taur'i vermin has escaped; you are to search the land surrounding the palace, immediately."
All the Jaffa didn't question him and left the clearing immediately. The System Lord paused before he seemed to stare directly at Daniel's hidden form and then at the Stargate. He turned and vanished from sight.
Daniel wasn't going to lose this opportunity and sprinted for the DHD. He knew that he wasn't able to dial for Earth without the iris opening so he went for the next best thing… the Nox home world. He stopped just short of the Event Horizon and glance around for Ryou. He didn't have time to call for the boy as Jaffa came sprinting back towards the Stargate. Doctor Jackson dove through and the wormhole shut off behind him.
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It didn't take them long after they arrived at a private airport that Seto owned within the vicinity of Cheyenne Mountain, that the trio arrived at the edge of the military holdings. They stared at the tall barbed toped fence and Bakura just shrugged and opened a portal. This was just going to be too easy, he snickered.
They had all decided earlier that they needed to find an alternate route into the base instead of through the front door or in the company of the military. They couldn't allow themselves to be detected. They also decided to use as little of the Shadow powers as possible. The Thief was to act as the scout and Seto was to deal with any surveillance/security that they were to run into. Yami was to deal with the Chappa'ai itself. Yami and Seto crouched within a thick cluster of shrubs as Bakura scouted around.
It was about an hour later when he returned with the whereabouts of a hatchway near the foot of the mountain.
"There's a security panel that you need to bypass to open it." He warned Kaiba gruffly, as they trudged through the woodland towards it. Seto shrugged in unconcerned annoyance before absently brushing a twig out of his hair.
They were upon it fifteen minutes later. Yami kept guard while the Priest knelt down hooking his laptop into the military's high security with ease. Bakura glared over his shoulder watching him work.
Seto paused and turned a pointed glare at him. "Do you mind?!"
"Mind what…?" Bakura sneered, pretending ignorance.
"Must I force you to stand elsewhere?" Seto reached into bag and drew his Millennium Rod out, its Eye beginning to glow golden.
"You do and as soon as I'm free I'll skin you alive," was a snarled reply.
Yami turned from his position and glared at the two. "Will the pair of you just ignore the other before you do the enemy a favour and kill yourselves," the Pharaoh hissed quietly, his patience wearing thin.
Seto turned back to his computer and hacked through to the security on the hatch. The Thief just sent a fiery gaze at Seto's back then to the other Dark before stomping a couple of metres away, grumbling under his breath.
It wasn't long after that that the door covering their entrance unlocked bringing the Thief and Pharaoh immediately to Kaiba's side. Bakura opened it without a word and shimmied down the ladder. Yami followed a second later along with Seto, all his equipment back in his bag, who closed the hatch after himself.
"We'll be after their lowest level, since the Chappa'ai would be the most closely guarded object," Yami reasoned once they had reached the bottom of the long ladder.
Seto knelt down in the crowded space and dug through his bag once more. Along with his laptop, he withdrew three communicators that were worn on their ears with the mouthpiece settling just to the side of their lips. "Put these on that way we can stay in communication at all times." He once more hacked into the security through the wiring within the room. He was quick to download the plans of the base and transferred it to a tiny handheld computer.
Bakura grabbed one. "Get those cameras out of my way…" Without any further words he slipped out of the room.
Seto didn't even bother saying anything through his mouthpiece to the Tomb Robber and switched all the power off within the base, including the backup generators. At the same time Kaiba disabled all the automatic or overriding systems in this type of power failure in case they got in the way. Quickly packing up the laptop, he and Yami slipped out to meet Bakura just down the corridor. Seto glanced at the palmtop computer. "We need to take the first left to get to the elevator shaft."
They held no need for light; their other senses made it unnecessary and guided them unerringly. Their eye's seemed to glow like a predator as they all slipped forward in the pitch black light, as silent as ghosts.
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"Can someone tell me what the hell is going on?!" General Hammond demanded.
There had been no warning as the power had shut off and the generators didn't kick in. Flashlights began to illuminate the surrounding area. Troops began to flood into the control room to make the place as secure as possible. All staff were trying to track down the problem and get the power back up, with no success
Colonel O'Neill glanced at his remaining team. "Intruders…" He grimly voiced the one word that all were thinking.
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It was quick going making their way to the shaft. They used the tiniest amount of Shadow to hide themselves in as the base's military personnel carrying weapons, sprinted down the corridors holding torches or wearing night vision goggles. Bakura created a portal through the doors and into the shaft.
Sticking his head through, he stared about and found the ladder. He disappeared from his companion's sight and began his swift descent down the shaft. Seto was next with Yami not far behind; the portal dissipating immediately behind them.
It took them ten minutes to get to the lowest level. They clung to the rungs as Kaiba took a final look at their map.
"We take the corridor right to the end. Turn right there and then follow it until we come to a large steel door. The Chappa'ai is through there. There is a control room above it looking directly into the chamber. They'll be able to see us once we drop the Shadow. There's also another door on the opposite side of the room."
Yami nodded and rapped out his commands. "Bakura, you'll take the second door. Seto take the door we come through. The ones in the control room won't be able to do anything."
Amazingly enough neither the Thief nor the Priest protested and they all stepped through the Borderlands and into the outside corridor. Once again surrounded by Shadow they sprinted for their destination, slipping by the heavily armed forces occupying it with a fluid ease. They were soon at the large steel door and through to the other side, the Shadow around them dispersing.
Seto Kaiba turned back and slipped into a defensive stance, calling his power closer to hand, Bakura positioning himself similarly in front of the other entrance. Yami took up stance in front of the Chappa'ai and immersed himself within his Shadow power, Yugi joined with his other half and for the time being they became the complete person they had once been during their reign as Pharaoh all those millennia ago. His clothes began to rearrange into his old regalia including a gleaming crown with two fins on either side framing their hair and the Eye of the Wisdom of Darkness in the centre forming on his forehead
The Ancient Egyptian Pharaoh stretched forth his awareness and linked himself to the artefact standing before them all. He began dialling the home address of his powerful and hidden Allies.
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Everyone within the control room turned to stare at the Stargate as they heard it begin the familiar sound of dialling out. They also saw three figures before and to the side of the 'Gate.
"Teal'c, get us in there!" Jack called, grabbing his zat gun. "Blow the damn window!"
Two shots flew from the Jaffa's weapon staff and obliterated the window before them. The SG1 team and the rest of the troops aimed their weapons at the intruders and fired only to be stopped somehow by the two figures that had left their posts.
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