Hammond and SG-1 were shocked when both Jesse and Riley blurred into the briefing room, and stopped at the end of the table. "We need to talk to you," Riley said, as Jesse went to look at the map.
"Okay," Hammond said, as he turned to face them. "What do you need to talk to us about?"
."Cassie." Riley went to stand next to Jesse and she touched a small dot that represented their planet.
"What about her?"
"Haven't we gone over this before?" Jack asked, as he turned to face them.
"She's in trouble."
"What kind of trouble?"
"Apophis has captured her. I need to go through the gate and get her."
"You're joking right?"
"No, sir, I'm not."
"How do you know that Apophis has captured her?"
"I don't know how I know for sure. I just got a vision when I was by the gate just now. I have been getting visions since I was little about others in danger. I don't question them, I just help those out who are in trouble."
"So she really is in trouble?"
"Yeah, I don't think that the Nox were able to hid her."
"I don't think so either," Jesse said, as she turned to face him. "I have a hunch that if Apophis came to destroy the Nox, Amonet gave herself up for them."
"She would." Riley ran a hand through her hair and stared at the map. "That means that Apophis took her back to his main base."
"But I thought that it blew up."
"Only a small part of it blew up. I'm sure that he was able to repair it."
"So, I guess we're going back there to rescue Cassie?"
"We?"
"Yeah, you can't go back there this time by yourself. You'll need someone to watch your back."
"Okay, fine. You can come." He then went down the stairs to the observation room and began to type on the computer. Jesse followed him along with Sg-1.
"Ri, what are you doing?" Jesse hunched down next to him, watching him search through the gate destinations. "What are you looking for?"
"The Nox World. I need to go through to make sure that Cassie has been taken."
"Okay, we can go."
"Just the two of us." He turned to face SG-1. "I need for you guys to be ready when we get back. We need Daniel and Teal'c to stay behind."
"Okay," Hammond says as he turned to talk to his aid. "Colonel, you and Major Carter get your gear ready."
"What about them?" Jack asked, pointing towards Jesse and Riley.
"What about us?" Riley said, as he got to his feet and headed for the gate room. "We'll be right back."
"Do me a favor," Jesse said, as she punched in the gate coordinates in the computer. Keep an eye on Eth and Katie for us."
"Okay." Jesse followed Riley to the gate and the Gate whooshed opened. Riley pushed the symbols on the device and nodded to her. They then blurred up the ramp and through the gate. "Then they are gone."
Jesse and Riley hit the other side running only to come to a stop at the horrible sight in front of them. The entire planet was on fire. "Oh, dear god," Jesse said, as she spun around to see that the gate was still there. "Where are the Nox?"
"I don't know," Riley said, as they ran for where the Nox lived only to find it destroyed. "Okay, this can't be good."
"Riley, we have to go."
"Why?"
"They're why." Riley looked up to see a group of five large replicators bugs coming towards them. "They look hungry."
"So we really should be going?" Jesse and Riley headed back for the gate, only to have Jesse snag her foot on a hole and she went down hard on her ankle. "Jesse?" Riley ran back to her side and helped her up, only to have her cry out in pain and grab her ankle. "What happened?"
"I think I may have hurt my ankle."
"Can you walk?" She tried to get up only to collapsed back to the ground. "You really do need to walk." She shot a glance back to see that the replicators were getting closer. "We should have brought guns."
"How were we supposed to know that there would be replicator bugs here?" Jesse jumped to her feet and this time stayed on her feet. "Okay, this hurts, but I think I'll be able to get to that gate."
"Okay, we should get going." She headed for the gate at a slower pace. "Why are they after us? We didn't threaten them."
"It's the bugs in our bodies." Riley jumped over a fallen tree and turned only to have one of the bugs jump at him. He ducked and it flew over his head to hand on the tree. "Man, do I hate these guys."
"Riley watch out!" Riley turned to see Jesse throw a knife at him only to have it hit the bug behind him, pinning it to the tree. "We have to get out of here." She took a step towards him, only to be brought down when two replicator bugs jumped on her. She let out a cry as they began to attack her. "Ri, get them off of me."
Riley somehow got them off of her and got Jesse to her feet. "You okay?" He quickly noticed the wounds on her arms and neck. "We really have to go."
"I know." She ran her hands along her arms and winced in pain. "Okay, now I hate them."
"Yeah, they aren't like by a lot of people." Riley grabbed her arm and pushed her forward. "Let's go."
"Yeah, let's go." They headed for the gate at a run, but they didn't blur because they didn't want to attract the replicators to them. "Man, this is hard. I forgot how hard it was to actually run and not blur everywhere."
"Yeah, but lucky for us, we're in shape."
"If you call this in shape." Jesse stopped at the end of the clearing to catch her breath and so did Riley. "We need to run more often."
"Yeah, we do."
"Let's get back to Earth. They need to know what's happened." They then blurred to the gate. Jesse dialed in the address while Riley punched in the symbols. The gate opened and they went through.
On the other side, Jesse and Riley dropped to their knees as they tried to catch their breaths. "You guys okay?" Carter asked them, as she and Jack came up to their sides.
"Yeah, we're fine," Jesse said, as she sat up. "We're just out of breath, because we're out of shape."
"Out of shape?" Jack said, as they slowly got to their feet. "How are you guys out of shape?"
"Well, we kinda have taken the ability to blur for granted and not been running everywhere we wanted to go."
"So why the hurry back?"
"Well we had replicators chasing us," Riley reported, as he watched with a smile as the wounds on Jesse's arms healed. "They attacked us. The Nox are gone. The planet has been destroyed."
"That's not good." Jesse got to her feet and tested out her ankle only to frown but then faked it. "You okay?"
"Yeah, I fell on my ankle," Jesse said, as she looked around to see that there were weapons. "But I'll be okay. We need to rescue Cassie."
"Well, then we shall go."
"Let's go."
TBC
