It was early morning, when Sg-1 and Sg-X, plus a very tired Katie and Ethan, stood and watched as the gate started to open. "Take care of her," Riley said to Ethan, as he gave Katie a hug before putting on his pack. Jesse gave them both hugs before Riley helped her with hers. "Man, these packs are heavy."

"Don't we know," Jack said, as he held out two pistols and ammo. "For your protection."

"Thanks," Riley said, as they put them into their pockets. They then strapped their Zhats on, plus their knives. "I think we have all the weapons we need."

"I think so too," Jesse said as she took the G.O.D. from Carter and strapped it to her arm. She then shot them a smile. "Well, I guess this is good bye until we come back."

"And you're gonna come back," Jack said, as he shot a glance over to see that Katie had fallen asleep.

"Oh, course, dad. I wouldn't dare leave you to take care of Ethan by yourself."

"How thoughtful."

"Ready?" Riley asked her, as he punched in the symbols on the device on his arm.

"Yeah, let's do this." They then blurred up the ramp and through the gate.

"Bye," Ethan called out to them, as the gate powered down. "Now all we can do is wait for them to return home safely."

"They'll come back."

"I know."

They then all left the gate room and went their separate ways.

Jesse and Riley hit the other side of the gate to find the world on fire. Jesse brought up her hand to cover her mouth as she began to cough as the thick smoke began to get to her. "Can you see anything?" she called out to him, as he came up to her side, and turned her towards the gate. "Riley?"

"No one is left alive here," he said, as he placed a stone in front of the D.H.D., before he began to dial up another planet. "We should go before the poison in the air kills us off for sure."

"Okay." They blurred through the gate as soon as it opened only to come through to the other side of the gate, they were soaked to the bone from a downpour. "Okay, this sucks."

"Let's find a safe place to hide." They then blurred towards some caves at the cliffs that surrounded the gate. They found an empty one and stopped to catch their breaths. "Okay, that wasn't what I had in mind when I said let's recon."

"I know." Jesse helped him get his pack off and he helped her with hers. "How about we leave our packs here and do some light recon?"

"Sounds like a great idea." They then blurred along the tree lines, in search of any signs that humans were there. They soon came upon a small village that was burned tot he ground. "This can't be good. You go check for survivors, while I go check the area."

"Okay." Jesse started to walk down the main path that led into the village, looking for any signs for survivors. She had just passed a large hut when she was attacked from behind. She hit the ground hard and quickly rolled away from her attacker, only to see that it was a young man. "Hello," she said to him, as she jumped to her feet. "We mean you no harm."

"We?" the man asked, as he pulled out his knife and began to look around. "How many are there out there?"

"I only know of one more person."

"Who is your God?"

"I have no God."

"You lie." He swung at her with the knife only to have her quickly move out of the way. "You have been sent here to destroy me"

"By whom?" Jesse ducked his attack again and put more space between them.

"Your Lord, Apophis." Anger quickly filled his eyes as he lunged at her. "You' will not complete your mission."

"What mission?" Jesse ducked the knife again and backed away from him even more. "I'm not following you at the moment."

"You are lying." He lunged at her again only to be stopped by Riley, who soon had him down on the ground. "See, here's the proof." Riley quickly had him disarmed and tossed the knife aside.

"No, this is the other person that I had mentioned before. Ri, let him go."

"Is he okay?" Riley asked her, as he came to her side after letting go of the man.

"I think so. He's not a Goa'uld." She ran a hand through her hair and shot him a smile. "Okay, we started off on the wrong foot. My name is Jesse and this is Riley. We are looking for any human survivors or refugees."

"My name is Jace," he said, as he looked down at his feet. "I'm sorry that I had attacked you. I have heard from other slaves that you guys escaped after destroying part of Apophis' base, and that the remaining slaves had been killed."

"It's nice to meet you, Jace," Jesse said, as she shot a glance around. "Are you alone or are there others out there?"

"No, there's no one left here." He ran a hand through his short black hair. "I escaped the massacre only to find myself alone. I've been alone for a very long time."

"Okay, you can either come with us or stay here." His face lit up and he shot her a smile. 'That is if you really want to come with us."

"I would love that."

"We aren't going back to Earth right away. We are doing recon to find more survivors and/or refugees. We have a safe place for them to go once we locate them."

"That sounds like a great idea."

"We should be going now." Jesse then blurred off to get their stuff, leaving Jace to get his.

"Wow, she moves fast," Jace said as he gathered up his few belongings and put them into a pack. He took up a staff weapon and followed Riley to the gate. "Can you move as fast as she can?"

"Yeah," Riley said, as they waited for Jesse to catch up. "But I'm not as good as her."

"He's right about that," Jesse said, as she came up to them with their packs. "We have trouble."

"What did you see?" Riley asked her, as they put on their packs and he started to dial up another planet.

"I saw the remains of what was a Goa'uld Mothership with replicators eating away at it."

"Well that's a good enough reason if any to take our leave."

"Yeah, let's go." The gate opened, and they started through the gate. "I hate those bugs." They went through the gate only to come to the other side to find themselves in the middle of ten armed humans. "Okay, this can't be any better."

"No, it doesn't look like it." They all quickly put their hands on the top of their heads and Jace dropped his weapon. "Our days are getting pretty interesting, don't you think." Both nodded. "That's what I thought." Riley then shot the group a smile. "We come in peace."

TBC