Chapter 13: First Contact
Setting: Kobol, above the underground Stargate complex, minutes after Chapter 12
SG-1 exited the Stargate on Kobol to find they were underground. Immediately, Daniel took out his video camera to document this. Mitchell raised his P-90 and Teal'c held his staff weapon as shoulder level. Daniel led them to a stairwell that appeared to go to the surface. Mitchell cautiously led the way up, with his weapon out in front of him.
President Roslin and Commander Tigh stood in the ruins of Athena's Tomb, looking around. It was nothing like Roslin's dream. She turned in a circle in order to see the entire area, wondering where Apollo, Starbuck, and Baltar could be. There was no giant ring here, there was nothing. Then she gasped.
Colonel Tigh turned around and saw what Roslin was looking at. Three men emerged from a small opening in the ground. Daniel immediately zoomed in with his video camera while Mitchell and Teal'c lowered their weapons. Mitchell approached the two.
"President Roslin, I assume? I'm Colonel Cameron Mitchell of the SGC. Earth."
Both Tigh and Roslin's eyes grew wide. Earth? Could it be? Contact was really made!
"This is Doctor Daniel Jackson and Teal'c. Doctor Jackson will clue you in on what we know as well as give you an overview on other things. Our ship, Prometheus, is already on its way here to escort your fleet to our Alpha Site. You should be safe there. It should arrive in two days."
Roslin and Tigh were too stunned to speak, so Daniel began to tell them everything: the Ancients, the Five Great Cities, the Goa'uld, the plague, the Replicators, everything he knew about the Colonies and the Cylons, the Asgard, Earth. The entire time, Roslin and Tigh nodded. Trying to absorb all this new information was difficult. There was just so much!
"Doctor, we can give them the entire historyof Earth back at the SGC. Madame President, Colonel, we'd like you to come back to Earth with us. It is safe from the Replicators."
President Roslin agreed immediately. Tigh used his radio to contact Adama. He ordered Tigh to go – the rest of the fleet would wait for the Prometheus. For now, they were safe. Earth was the future, not just a dream anymore.