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Ch. 5Zero inspected his room with some scrutiny. It was nearly the definition of utilitarian. There were only two pieces of furniture; a bed and a desk. The only decoration was a vase on the desk with some yellow and blue flowers in it. Oookay that looks a little out of place Zero thought to himself.
"Is there anything that you need before I leave, sir?" the soldier asked.
"No, I'm good. And call me Zero." The reploid answered.
"Ok Zero, there's a phone in the desk, so just call if you need anything." The soldier then left.
Zero flopped down on the bed. This is all so confusing. How did I end up here? More importantly, how am I gonna get home? Zero thought. The legendary hero closed his eyes and began to analyze all of what had happened.
A few hours later, Zero's thoughts were interrupted by someone knocking on his door.
"It's open." Zero called.
The door opened and there were two of the men that were in the briefing room earlier. One was white and had short brown hair that was beginning to grow gray. The other was black, taller and more muscular. His head was shaved and had an odd metal tattoo thing on his forehead.
"Can I help you?" Zero asked.
"Hey there, I'm Colonel Jack Oneil and this is T'ealc. General Hammond asked us to show you around the base." Jack answered.
"Did we interrupt something?" T'ealc asked.
"Nah, I was just thinking." The reploid replied.
"Oh, ok. Let's get going." Jack said, motioning for Zero to follow him.
Zero shrugged and got up to follow them.
Jack led Zero around the base and introduced him to everyone.
"And for our last stop, here's the on base gym." Jack announced as he led Zero into the gym.
"Would you like to join us in our daily exercises Zero?" T'ealc asked.
"Sure, why not. Wanna spar?" Zero asked, finally seeing a part of the base that interested him.
"Very well." T'ealc obliged.
Zero grinned and phased out of his armor into a workout outfit that was a pair of black sweats a red tank top.
"Woah." Jack exclaimed.
"Shall we begin?" Zero asked stepping onto a training mat.
T'ealc stepped onto the other side of the mat and turned to face the reploid. Zero took a martial arts posture and T'ealc followed suit.
"Aaaand, let's go!" Zero announced and T'ealc lunged at him.
Zero ducked under T'ealc's attack, grabbed him around the waist, and threw him on his back. T'ealc retaliated by kicking Zero's feet out from under him and tackling him.
They continued on like this for quite some time. After a while a rather large number of soldiers came to the gym to watch. After about half an hour of intense 'sparring' Zero and T'ealc stood facing each other from opposite sides of the mat, both were out of breath and looked very ruffed up.
"Ready… to… stop?" Zero said in between breaths.
"Yes." T'ealc replied.
They both collapsed simultaneously and Zero was laughing.
"Man, I haven't had a workout like that in nearly a year!" the reploid said grinning. "Good spar!"
"Indeed." T'ealc said with a hint of a smile.
"You call that sparring? That was a brawl!" one soldier exclaimed.
"Nah, if we were fighting to hurt each other T'ealc would at least have some broken bones." Zero corrected him.
Zero was just getting up just as the PA system started blaring about an unscheduled activation of the Stargate.
"What's going on?" Zero asked Jack.
"I don't know, follow me." Jack ran from the room, Zero following him.
When they got to the control room the last chevron had locked and the gate was activated. The Iris was about to close when something small flew through the gate and exploded. After the explosion cleared everyone in the control room saw that the Iris was damaged and couldn't close.
"Soldiers to the gate room, now!" Hammond shouted into the PA system.
Less than a second later several Jafa came through the Gate and blasted the soldiers that were already there and more kept coming through.
"Get to the armory and get to down there." The General said to all of the soldiers in the room.
"General! Please let me help." Zero asked.
"Ok. Jack, get Zero his weapons."
"Yes sir. Come on." Jack said, leading Zero out of the room.
When they reached the armory a huge blast rocked the base.
"What the hell?" Zero exclaimed.
"I don't know. Here you go!" Jack said, handing Zero his weapons, which Zero put into their holsters.
They ran into the hall and towards the gate room. As they rounded a corner they were face to face with about ten Jafa. They leapt back around the corner as several staff and zat gun blasts lanced into the wall.
Zero pulled out his sword and ran around the corner again. He cut the end off of one of three of the staff weapons with one swing of his sword and killed their owners with a second. The other Jafa were thrown off balance by his sudden attack and Jack and T'ealc shot down 4 of the as Zero disarmed and K.O.ed the other three with his chain rod.
"I think I know what that blast was." Zero said grimly.
"Well?" Jack queried while checking the area.
"They probably blasted the door to the gate room open." Zero answered.
"Let's get going then!" Jack said rushing off with Zero and T'ealc following him.
When they reached the gate room the door was blasted apart. They stood to the side of the door, so that they couldn't be seen.
A Jafa officer was addressing the other soldiers in the room. "Has the scout unit returned yet?" he asked another Jafa that was standing at a turret.
"No sir." The Jafa responded.
"They are minions of Keljore." T'ealc said after risking a peek around the door.
"Who?" Jack asked.
"A minor, yet cunning, Gou'auld lord." T'ealc elaborated.
"I think we can take them." Zero said confidently.
"What! There's got to be at least 20 of them." Jack protested.
"Don't worry, you've got me."
"No, we're waiting for back-up."
"I going." He leapt through the door. Jack and T'ealc exchanged looks and followed.
Zero made a beeline for the turret and before anyone could stop him had killed the operator and was blasting Jafa with it. Jack and T'ealc got behind the turret and were shooting at the Jafa too.
"You're a crazy son of a bitch!" Jack yelled at him.
"Yeah, I've been told that before." Zero responded as he continued blasting the enemy.
After about three minutes of the firefight, it was over and all of the Jafa were dead.
"See, I told you we could take them." Zero said slapping Jack on the back.
Well, that's all for this chap. I finally got over my writer's block, sorry for the long wait.
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