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Ch. 6It was nearly midnight, the Resistance base looked completely empty, and all of the lights were dimmed. Cerveau was in his lab sleeping, he was in an office chair and his feet were propped up on a desk. His computer was displaying a screensaver of shifting multi-colored lines that cast an eerie light into the lab.
Suddenly the comm unit on the reploid's wrist started beeping loudly, Cerveau was wrenched from his sleep and fell heavily onto the floor.
"Huh? What? Oh… hello?" the scientist mumbled into the comm.
"Cerveau? It's Ciel. Did I wake you?"
"No, I was just watching the… the Late Show." He lied, quickly screening the TV guide on the table.
"Oh really? Did you the last interview?" Ciel asked excitedly.
"What do you want at this hour?" he asked, dodging the last question.
"I couldn't sleep and wanted someone to talk to." She said sheepishly.
"Oh. What about?"
"Zero, I guess."
"Yeah, he's been gone for a while now."
"It's been two weeks and we still haven't been able to figure where or when he was sent exactly." Ciel's eyes started getting watery, "and I'm just worried that we may never find him."
"Don't worry Ciel. We're working as hard as we can, so we'll be able to find him."
"Do you really think so?" Ciel asked, recovering a little.
"Yeah I think so, and I'm sure that Zero is trying just as hard to get back to us."
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Zero stumbled out of the bar that Jack and some other marines had taken him to. He had a silly grin on his face and smelled strongly of taquilla and scotch. He had phased his hair down to a shaggy shortish look so that he blended in better and was wearing a t-shirt and jeans.
"I never get to go out like this back home anymore!" Zero said slightly slurred.
"Yeah, well that doesn't mean you get to get drunk on my tab!" Jack complained to the reploid who barely came up to his shoulder. "Do reploids get hangovers?"
"I do, but… meh." Zero said with a shrug.
"You won't be like that in the morning." Jack said under his voice.
"Sir, we should probably be getting back to the base soon." One of the marines said after checking his watch.
"Yeah, it is pretty late. Let's get going." Jack said leading them to one of the base cars that they had 'borrowed'.
They drove back to the base with Zero trying to sing songs on the radio that he had heard already, It was about 2 a.m. when they got back.
They were taking Zero to his room since he could barely walk and ran into Sam on the way.
"What were you guys doing out so late?" Sam asked them all; she herself had circles under her eyes.
"Not much, we just went out to the bar." Jack said slightly defensively.
"Hi Sam!" Zero said loudly. "Late night in the lab?"
"Are you drunk?" Sam asked.
"Just a little, yes." He answered swaying a little. Sam shot an accusing glare at Jack who tried to look innocent. "Hey Sam, can I ask you a personal question?"
"Um… ok." She said awkwardly.
"Well, I was wondering, are you seeing anyone?" Zero said trying to lean against a wall, but slipping and landing on his butt.
Sam went a little pink. "Uh, n-no not right now, and don't you have a girlfriend named Ciel?"
"Oh! That's right. Never mind." He said happily.
"Maybe you should go to bed." She suggested.
"Ok." Zero said getting up with a marine's help.
Jack excused the marines and took Zero to his quarters.
"I'm ok. I'll see you tomorrow." Zero said when they had reached his quarters. He went in, closed the door and promptly collapsed on the bed and fell asleep.
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Jack's prediction of Zero having a massive hangover had come true. The 'hero' walked into the mess hall the next morning wearing sunglasses and his helmet, trying to block out outside stimulus. He had a stony glare on his face that would have made even Copy X back surrender.
He went directly to the coffee and just took the fullest pot and sat down with Daniel and T'ealc.
"Rough night, Zero?" Daniel asked with raised eyebrows.
"No shit, Sherlock." Zero said in a growl and taking a gulp of coffee.
They sat in silence for about ten minutes, and then Jack came in.
"Hey Zero! What up?" Jack said merrily, clapping Zero on the back.
Zero clutched his head and gritted his teeth.
"You're walking on thin ice O'Neill." Zero hissed between his teeth.
"Yeah well, what're you gonna do about it?" the Colonel replied. "Anyway we've got a briefing in half a hour." He walked off to get some breakfast.
"I'm going to kill him if he does that again."
"I know that feeling." Daniel said, sipping his coffee.
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Everyone was at the meeting and Zero had taken enough of the edge off of his headache to take off his sunglasses. Hammond began explaining what their mission objectives would be for the next day's mission. Zero was beginning to wonder what he was doing there when Hammond addressed him.
"Zero we want you to accompany SG1 on this mission." The General said softly, having noted his condition.
"Me?" Zero asked snapping into attention.
"Yes, I feel that we should at least give you a chance to help out around here."
"Thank you."
"Will you be ready to go?"
"Oh yeah, my hang over is almost gone."
"Good. Now should get down to the quarter master to get a uniform."
"A… uniform?" Zero asked, slightly peeved.
"Yes, it's standard procedure for team members to wear uniforms."
"Fine."
"Good, now get down there."
Jack and Zero went down to the quartermaster's office and Zero got all of his gear for the mission.
He tried it on before going to bed that night. He had gotten a full-length mirror to help with self-maintenance and was looking at himself in it. He looked rater odd in the military clothes. His slim limbs left the fabric loose and baggy looking, like he was wearing clothes a few sizes to big. He had gotten a cap and long spikes of blond hair stuck out slightly away from his head. He wouldn't phase his hair down unless he had because he wanted to keep some individuality in his look.
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The next morning Zero met the rest of SG1 in the gate room and was feeling much better than 24 hours prior, in fact he was looking forward to this mission.
"Hey guys. Everyone good to go?" Zero asked when he walked into the room.
"Yeah, we were just waiting for you." Jack answered.
"Cool, now do we turn this thing on or does someone else?" Zero asked looking at the Star Gate.
"They activate the Gate from that room up there." Sam said pointing up to the control room.
"Cool… um… how does it work?" Zero asked her, realizing that he had never seen it been used by a person before.
"It's actually simple, after it activates we just walk through the Gate and we're sent to a another planet." Sam explained.
"Ok, let's get going."
"We're good to go" Jack said into his radio.
The gate came to life, after a few moments it activated, and they all walked up to it. Zero was mesmerized by the shimmering pool that was in front of him. He touched the surface for a moment and, summoning up his courage, stepped through.
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Well, that's it for this chapter! Once again I hope that you all liked it!