Chapter 8
Now that Sam was on her stomach facing Jack, she reached down and pulled a long strip of material from the bottom of her shirt. "Whoa Carter, let's not get carried away here," Jack said as she began tearing her shirt.
Sam smiled as she answered, "Sir, I have to get a tourniquet around your leg before you bleed to death."
"Well, then by all means, tourniquet away."
"Yes sir." She then began to slide herself along the very narrow space between her and O'Neill. The space was very tight and she found it a bit of a squeeze to be able to reach his leg. She didn't even notice as she was reaching for his leg that her breasts were practically in his face as she worked.
"Ah, Carter, this is a little… uncomfortable. Maybe you can hurry it up?"
Not completely realizing that he was referring more to her position than to her pressing on his broken leg she replied, "Yes sir, I think I almost got it."
She had the strip of cloth slid under his leg, far up on the thigh. Now she just had to reach around with her other hand and bring the two ends together to knot it. "This is going to be a little weird position for a second here sir," she warned him.
"It already is Carter."
It was then that she realized how she was positioned in reaching back to his leg. She blushed, but decided not to comment on it. She would be out of this in another moment. She reached her right hand behind and then inside his thigh, reaching for the other end of the fabric that she had slid under his leg. When she had gotten a hold of it, she found that her hands had gotten too slippery with his blood and her sweat to get a good enough hold to pull the fabric any further up. She was going to have to tie it where it was.
Bringing her left hand over with the other end of the fabric, she reached with both hands to the inside of his thigh and began to draw a tight knot. She double and then triple knotted it as tight as she could make it. Hopefully, this would be enough to keep the blood from pouring out for a while.
Just as she was about to withdraw her hands, another impact sounded above them. The cavern shook and a loose rock above her fell right on top of her arms. Both her and Jack let out a cry of pain.
"Carter! What are you doing?" He managed to say after a moment of cursing.
Taking a few deep breaths to dispel the pain, Sam responded. "It wasn't me. Another rock fell on my arms which are now probably both broken and pinned between it and your leg.
"So you're pinned now too huh?"
"Yes sir."
"Well… so much for being out of this position quickly…"
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Grissom and Sara had just reached the place where they had left Jack and Sam when another small explosion above shook the cave a little bit. After waiting a moment to make sure that nothing was about to fall down on them, Grissom used the radio. "Colonel Carter? General O'Neill? Are you there?"
A few moments later, O'Neill could be heard on the radio. "Yes, I read you, who is this?"
"This is Gil Grissom. Sara and I have the crystals. I just need you to instruct us how to use them to get to you."
There was a moment of silence before O'Neill came back on saying, "Yeeeah… we're not so sure that that would be a good idea. Carter thinks that if you use the crystals it may be bad for us. Something about we're too close to the rocks or something."
Sara took the radio from Grissom and said, "I would assume that it's because the energy output from the crystals would be too great and would probably either burn you very badly or try to include your own cells in the crystal process."
Another moment of silence passed before Jack answered, "Yeah. Carter agrees. Anyway, we're not sure how we're gonna get out of here, but it would be good if it was soon. Does Jacob have any thoughts?"
"Jacob went back to the gate room. There are… Jaffa? Coming through the gate and he wanted to see if he could see who they work for," Grissom answered.
"Jaffa?! Coming through the gate?!?"
"Yes. That's why he sent us back here to get you guys out."
There was a long moment of silence. After waiting for a while Grissom radioed back, "What would you like us to do?"
"Well, I'll be honest with you. We are at a loss. As usual, I don't have any ideas and Carter seems to be fresh out. So I guess your best bet is to try and find Teal'c, Daniel, and the FBI agents. They may have come up with something for you out of here. There's not much chance that you're going to be able to get us out in time now anyway."
Just then, Sara snatched the radio back from Grissom and said into it, "Wait, Jacob gave us a Zat gun. He said that three shots disintegrates, right?"
"Yeah,"
"Well could we use that on the rocks between you and us to basically dig a way to you?"
There was a brief moment of silence when O'Neill came back saying, "Carter says it could work," as Sam's voice could be just heard still talking in the back round explaining how it would work.
"Alright then, let's do this," Sara said.
"Wait," Jack radioed back. "Carter says that you are going to have to be careful that you don't cause another cave in as you remove the rocks."
Grissom took the radio back and said, "Yes, we know. We have to work from the top down so the remaining rocks down fill in as the lower ones are taken out."
Grissom then handed the radio back to Sara and took aim at a large rock towards the top of the wall on debris in front of him and fired three times. The rock disintegrated and vanished.
"This is going to take a long time, time that they are not going to have with the air running out and the Jaffa coming through. I'm going to go see if I can find another one of those Zat guns to use here," Sara said.
"Sara, it's a bit dangerous for us to be wondering around alone right now," Grissom said as he took aim at another large rock.
"Grissom, they are going to die in there if we don't hurry. There isn't a lot of choice here."
"You're right. Hurry up and find another one and get back here."
Sara nodded and turned and ran off down the tunnels.
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"Well, what are we going to do about this?" Greg asked as he waved a hand at the wall of rubble in front of him.
"I have no idea. I suppose we better start digging. We have a fairly large room here, but the air won't hold out forever," Daniel replied.
"True. Is there anyway to contact someone on the outside? Working both sides of this will get us out faster."
"Perhaps, I had a radio but I set it down when I was removing your restraints," Daniel said as he began looking around the room for his radio. He walked over to the table where he remembered sitting it down only to find that the table was now covered in chunks of rock. "Well this doesn't look good. I'm sure I set it here."
He and Greg both began searching through the debris, trying to locate Daniel's radio. After about ten minutes of searching, Greg reached under a rock and pulled out the battered radio.
"Well, here it is, but it doesn't look like it's in very good shape," Greg said.
"Well, let's see," said Daniel as he took the radio from Greg and began speaking into it. "Jack?"…no answer. "Sam?"…no answer. "Teal'c, Jacob? Anybody?" still no answer. "Well, so much for that," Daniel concluded. "Looks like it's up to us to get…"
"Hello?" a voice sounded on the radio.
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Sara was walking down the hall when her radio began making static noises with what sounded like a voice somewhere in there. As she slowed her walking, she caught the last bits of what the speaker was saying, "J…cob? Anybody?"
Sara stopped and spoke into her radio, "Hello?"
"Hello! Sara? Is that you?" The voice came back.
"Yes, who is this?"
"Dr. Jackson. I'm here with Greg. We're trapped in the lab where his operation was and we need help getting out of here."
"Well if the room is still in tact, I have the crystals that will grow a path to you." Sara answered.
Before Daniel could answer, Jack came on the radio saying, "Sara? Who are you talking to?"
As Jack's message ended, the tail end of what Daniel was saying came through Sara's radio. "…out 20 ft down and to the left."
"Dr. Jackson, wait just a second. It seems that only my radio is picking you up. O'Neill is trying to talk to me too."
"Daniel? You're talking to Daniel? How come I can't hear him?" Jack's voice asked.
"I don't know. But let me talk to him for second. He and Greg need my help," Sara told Jack. "Daniel, what was it you were saying before?"
"I said, great, the room we are in is the first right from the waiting room you were in and then about 20 ft down and to the left."
"Well, that is about where I am standing now," Sara said as she looked at the side of the tunnel that was crumbled next to her. "Your radio must have a distance problem. That's why I can hear you and O'Neill can't."
"Must be. Now, I don't know how to use those crystals, you're going to need to ask someone else," Daniel told her.
"Alright, I'll see if O'Neill or Carter knows."
"Sam should," Daniel said as Jack also came through asking, "…knows what?"
"I need to know how to use those crystals in order to make a path to get to Greg and Daniel."
There was silence for a moment on the radio as Jack waited for Sam to supply him with the answer. When she didn't respond, he said, "Carter? Carter, are you awake?"
"Huh? Oh sorry sir, I must have slipped out. What is it?"
"Standby," O'Neill's voice came over Sara's radio.
"Carter," Jack said to Sam again. "Sara has found Greg and Daniel but they are trapped in a room too. Sara needs to know which crystal to use to get to them."
"Tell her the small square one," Carter answered.
"Sara? Carter says to use the small square one," Jack radioed back to Sara.
"Alright, how do I use it?" She asked.
"All you have to do is push it up against the rock section that you want to carve through," replied Jack.
"That's it?"
"That's it."
"Alright, here goes." And Sara took out the small square crystal and pushed it up against the rocks in front of her and quickly stepped back as the wall started to glow as it distorted and seemed to peel back from its self.
In a few moments, Sara was no longer looking at a wall of fallen rock, rather at Greg and Daniel standing in front of her in another room.
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"In here," Teal'c said as he stepped to the side of an entrance to another room off of the tunnel that he, Mulder, and Scully had been traveling along. Mulder, than Scully, quickly entered the room and waited for their guide to come in behind them and tell them what it was they were looking at.
There was a large circle on the floor in front of them with a pedestal just beyond that. The pedestal seemed to have some strange stylized symbols on what appeared to be buttons.
"How does this work?" Mulder asked as Teal'c came in behind and quickly walked over to the pedestal.
"There is little time to explain. You need only to step inside of the circle before you and I shall activate the rings. We will be taken to another part of the facility. Hopefully one that will allow us to escape through the gate," Teal'c said.
Mulder and Scully nodded and took their places within the circle. Teal'c pressed a few buttons of the stand in front of him before he quickly joined the other two in the circle. A moment later, several large rings came up from the floor and completely encircled the three. A brilliant light filled the circles and whisked the three away.
In the other ring room, the rings rose from the floor and the light flooded them once again, this time leaving Mulder, Scully, and Teal'c standing within this new circle.
"Amazing!" Scully exclaimed.
"How did we do that?" asked Mulder.
"As I said before, there is little time to explain. Perhaps once we are all back at the SGC I will attempt to do so. Right not we must discover what has been happening and if we are able to get to the Stargate from here."
"Greg!" Sara cried as she rushed up and threw her arms around him. He hugged her back, very relieved to see a familiar face. Sara stepped back and asked, "It is you, isn't? They got that thing out of your head?"
"I certainly hope so," Greg answered.
"Yes, I watched Anise remove it myself," Daniel said. "In fact, the corpse in a container over there if you're interested in seeing it."
"No thank you, Dr. Jackson. I'll take your word for it," Greg said emphatically.
Sara took a second to smile at Greg before changing to pressing issues at hand. "Dr. Jackson, I was on my way to find some more Zat guns when I heard your call."
"Well I have one and I think that there are a few more in the chest over there," Daniel answered as he waved at a chest sitting in the corner of the room.
"Good. Greg , you'll need one. We don't have a lot of time and the more of us working at once, the faster we'll go."
"Why? What are we working on?" Daniel asked.
"Colonel Carter and General O'Neill were caught in a cave in and they don't have a lot of time left before their air runs out. Now Carter says that they are too close to the rocks to be able to use the crystals to get to them. The only other way that we could figure to get to them fast enough is to use the Zat guns to disintegrate the rocks between us and them. Grissom is working on that right now, but the going is very slow with one person," Sara explained as quickly as possible.
"Wow, those guns can disintegrate things?! You mean like a phaser? That's awesome," Greg exclaimed.
"Yes Greg, it is very cool, but right now we need to focus on the problems at hand rather then get caught up in all the new fantastic technology. The matters are a bit more complicated in that there are Jaffa coming through the Stargate and could come up on us at any moment," Sara explained.
"Jaffa?" Daniel asked
"Yeah. At least that's what Jacob said they probably were when he went to investigate who they were. Come to think of it, we should have heard back from him by now I would think."
"Well, there's nothing that we can do about that right now. Let's just go and see if we can help Jack and Sam," said Daniel. With that, he started walking down the hall to where Sara had left Grissom working. "By the way, what about Teal'c and the FBI agents?" he asked.
"We haven't heard from them," Sara answered.
"Well I hope they're alright, but knowing Teal'c I'm sure they have things under control."