Chapter 10: Gut Feeling

Setting: SGC Gate Control Room seconds after the end of Chapter 9

Klaxons began to go off around the base. "OFFWORLD ACTIVATION! OFFWORLD ACTIVATION!" Walter's voice rang out through the base communications systems. Doctor Jackson, Colonel Mitchell, Teal'c, and General O'Neill raced down to the control room from the O'Neill's office. As they arrived, Walter was prepared to close the iris.

"WAIT!" Doctor Jackson's hand went up. He closed his eyes and his expression said it all. O'Neill and Teal'c had seen it before. He only made that face when old feelings and memories from his ascension were re-surfacing. "Do not close the iris. I just have a feeling. Please, do not close it."

Jack looked over at him. He could see in the young doctor's eyes that he was serious. He grabbed the phone nearby and pressed a button. "All SF's to the Gateroom immediately! I repeat, all SF's to the Gateroom immediately. We are now on high alert!"

Close to a hundred security forces entered the Gateroom as the blast doors slid open. Teal'c raised one eyebrow. He did not realize so many people could fit into the Gateroom. Guns were cocked and raised in anticipation of what was going to come through the gate.