Sequel to 7 Points
By Chaoseternus
Chapter 12: Capture
Hel'tek cursed as one again she was forced to dive for cover.
This was getting dangerous.
They must know she was here now, otherwise why would they be sending every craft they had to search the area?
Not only was it the occasional fighter flying low and slow overhead, it was every fighter, every transport; in fact it appeared to be every craft they had.
Her ears pricked up, a distant crashing sound reaching her ears and she concentrated, listening very carefully to the forest.
Her eyes widened, and she blasphemed against her god fluently and vividly.
And now it appeared she had ground parties to deal with, beautiful.
She cursed, realizing she had only one real choice now.
Her decision made, she moved, swiftly gliding through the forest, silently, showing her skill as a master woodsman, leaving the area as fast as she could.
She would have to come back once everything had all quietened down.
Kara smiled predatorily as she glanced down at the map, bright blue arrows clearly marking the movements of the search parties and a slowly growing red line showing the movement of her double.
And a spread of yellow dots lined across the map, into which the Jaffa was heading at high speed.
The trap was closing, the hare had been pushed where they wanted her, and the flanks were now moving around.
Soon they would have her surrounded, and then it would be a simple matter of clenching their fist around her.
Then they would have her, and then she would have her answers.
Maybe then she could fly again.
Hel'tec stopped suddenly, a feeling of danger, of threat settling over her.
Slowly, carefully she stepped back to the closet tree, settling herself into the background, camouflaging herself amongst the trees and bushes.
Then she carefully analysed the feeling, and cursed, ambush. She was walking into an ambush.
Her ears pricked up, paying more attention to the crashing sound of the search parties, they were pretty loud, in fact they seemed to be at least half a mile away, so why was she able to hear them so clearly…
She snarled, realisation setting in. She was being herded, they were meant to be heard, to drive her towards some pre-positioned troops, maybe set down by some of their transports.
Either way…
She glanced around, then up.
That would do it.
Quickly, carefully she shinnied up the tree, making sure not to leave any sign of her presence.
They would pass straight underneath her, and never know she was there, and then she could double back on them.
Kara stiffened, suddenly wary and watchful, "I don't think she is going to play ball"
Tigh glanced up at her, ignoring the reports streaming in from the search parties for the moment, "What do you mean?"
Kara frowned, wondering why she was so certain but she just shrugged it off, "She's going to hide, wait for the search parties to pass then double back"
"Where can she…"
"Check the treetops" Kara interrupted, not a trace of doubt in her mind, or her voice.
Tigh took once glance at her expression, and flicked his radio on.
And on the map, five yellow dots moved out of formation, heading swiftly over the forest, their markers indicating treetop height.
Hel'tek looked up worried as a loud roar came over the forest, moving slowly over the treetops.
They had another set of craft searching from the air it seemed, one she had not seen before. It figured. These appeared to be moving quite slow though, they might actually move slowly enough to catch a glimpse of her, something that wasn't easy at higher speeds.
She would have to be careful.
She frowned, that one sounded close, very very close indeed.
She glanced quickly around the sky and shrugged as she saw nothing.
Then glanced back down and froze.
Then flicked her staff up, desperately trying to kill the armoured soldier flying in front of her in time, her eyes noting the symbol of the Tau'ri Gatecrasher teams, the heavy, outsized backpack from which heat radiated, her mind swiftly concluding it was some kind of flight pack as her body swung the staff weapon around.
An electric crackle sounded over the forest and Hel'tek slumped, the staff falling from her fingers, dropping swiftly to the ground below.
Kara winched, a stab of pain swiftly passing through her.
Frowning, she shrugged it off, it was nothing, really.
Tigh turned towards Kara, a triumphant grin on his face, "They have her"
Tigh frowned, "She was hiding in the trees, just as you said Lieutenant"
Kara shrugged it off, trying to appear nonchalant despite the confusion tearing through her, "just a lucky guess"
Tigh wasn't convinced, "Right…"
Hel'tec grimaced as she was led back through the forest, the number of guards around her growing with every meter as the search parties joined up.
This wasn't good, how could she talk to her whilst she was in jail?
How could she explain to her who she was, what she really was whilst they were under constant supervision?
She couldn't, no really.
No, she needed to escape and try to contact her once some time had passed, once the fuss had died down.
After all, she couldn't exactly give up on her blood kin could she?