Little Lost Girl
Star Wars/Stargate CrossoverDisclaimer: I don't own star Wars or Stargate
Timing: Early season 7 of Stargate, after Daniel has returned. Post the New Jedi Order arc.
Summary: Sequel to the Healer. Sg-1 goes to investigate a downed starship on an uninhabited planet and encounter a lost woman.
Author's Notes: Hope you like this chapter. And I say, Review, Review, Review! I cannot say that enough times, ReviewJ And finally, REVIEW!
Chapter 9 Going home.Jaina Solo could practically taste the surge of desire that was coming off of the humans of the SGC. Carter looked like she was going to start drooling any second at the prospect of so much technology at her fingertips. Teal'c looked stoic as usual, though Jaina could tell through the Force, that he was as excited as the others.
"He would be willing to do that?" asked General Hammond with enthusiasm.
"Definitely, " Jaina confirmed.
Silence descended once again as they thought over the consequences, Earth was finally going to get some advanced technology!
"You know, not to put a damper on everybody's parade but, uh," Daniel cut in, he cleared his throat, "how are we going to contact them?"
"That's the easy part," started Jaina, she turned to Carter, "You salvaged my X-wing, right?"
"Your what?" asked Carter in confusion.
"My ship," Jaina elaborated.
Carter nodded, "Yes."
"Good, I can cobble together a transmitter from it, all I need are a few parts, I can send a distress signal from the planet you found me on, and considering how long I've been missing, Wedge is going o be have all available personnel scouring the area for me," Jaina explained.
"Wedge?" asked Daniel with interest.
"That's Admiral Wedge Antilles, he's the sector commander," Jaina imparted to them. She paused for a second, "You know he's going to be very upset when I tell him about the Goa'uld," she mused unhappily.
"Yeah, why's that?" Jack asked.
Jaina turned to look at him, with irony in her eyes, "He was supposed to be retiring, his superiors back home, badgered him into taking this position because it was supposed to be a peaceful assignment, just exploration and building up our new colonies here. He's fought in enough battles for several lifetimes, he wanted some peace and quiet."
"Yeah well he came to the wrong galaxy for that, mayhem and destruction are what makes this galaxy spin," Jack quipped sarcastically.
Barriss cleared her throat, "I do have another question Jaina."
"Shoot."
"How did your people come to this galaxy? Did they use the ancient device?" Barriss questioned.
Jaina nodded in the affirmative, "That would be a yes."
"But how did you find it, we only found it through blind luck," stated Barriss.
"We didn't, the Ryn did, a lot of refugees disappeared during the last war, the Ryn Network went looking for the ones that weren't found by the end of the war and found the thing in Wild Space-seems that people were using it to escape to this galaxy," Jaina admitted.
"The Ryn have a Network? A Network of what?" demanded Barriss; she remembered how they had been reviled by all the other species.
"Busybodies. It was a connection between gossips," was Jaina's succinct reply.
Barriss blinked. What?
"They're a bunch of gossips?" said Jack in disbelief, "Heh…" he looked down the table and opened his mouth to speak but one look from Janet, the base gossip queen, told him that anything he said he would regret come his next physical. He quickly shut his mouth pretended that the thought had never occurred to him.
Hammond cleared his throat and tried to get back to the issue, "Well, how long do you think it will take you to build this transmitter?"
"Not long," answered Jaina.
"Then perhaps we can get started?" he suggested.
"I'd love to."
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The next hour was spent by Carter and Jaina going through the wreckage of the X-wing. They talked idly as they worked and most of the time Jaina spent explaining certain capabilities of the X-wing, from the weapons systems to the hyperdrive and everything in between. The slot for and remains of Jaina's astromech had truly peaked Carter's interest.
Once Jaina had gathered all the components that she required from the wreckage of her X-wing, she and Carter moved to Carter's lab to assemble the transmitter. They chatted idly as they worked, or rather as Jaina worked, Carter just watched in fascination and every now and then Jaina would stop to explain the physics behind one part or another.
Hours later, Jack O'Neill entered the lab with a tray bearing three glasses of blue jello.
"It has come to my attention that neither of you has eaten anything for hours, so…I come bearing delicious blue jello," Jack explained with a smile.
"Ah, just what the doctor ordered," retorted Jaina happily. She found this strange foodstuff most appetizing…in spite of its colour.
Jack searched for a free spot on the worktable then placed the tray on it when he found it, "Actually, Janet wanted to drag you both kicking and screaming out of the lab and down to the mess hall to have a proper meal, but I convinced her that this was better," Jack said with a thoughtful expression on his face.
Jaina and Carter chuckled at his remark as they both grabbed a cup of jello and a spoon, leaving the last cup for Jack.
As they sat and ate the jello, Jack asked Jaina, "So the doc says that I remind you of your father?"
Carter turned to Jaina in surprise, "Really?"
"Yeah, but Jack's less sarcastic," clarified Jaina with a nonchalant shrug.
Carter had just taken a large spoonful of jello and started to choke and cough at this remark. Eventually when her coughing fit subsided she said incredulous, "The Colonel is what!"
"Less sarcastic," Jaina stated evenly.
Carter sat there frozen with her mouth open in astonishment and after a few moments said, "Is that even humanly possible?"
"Hey!" exclaimed Jack as he glowered at Carter.
Jaina smirked at Jack's reaction, "My dad, he was a General in the New Republic Navy. He was infamous for his acts of insubordination, insolence, and his unnatural ability to totally ignore orders he didn't like. My Uncle Wedge-that's Admiral Antilles, says that if my father had ever brought up one of his officers up on charges…he'd have been the laughing stock of the entire New Republic!" she admitted.
"Impressive," Jack was starting to like this guy.
Carter on the other hand was still trying to come to terms that a person more sarcastic that Jack existed in the universe.
"So he's sarcastic and a General?" Jack asked thoughtfully as he spooned another mouthful of jello into his mouth.
"Well, he's retired now, he and mom travel the galaxy, scouting planets on his ship now," Jaina corrected.
"How does your mother stand him?" asked Carter, as she came out of her daze.
"She just does," Jaina replied simply.
"Next time you see her, give her my condolences," Carter commiserated.
"Again…Hey!" Jack said in outrage as he glared at his second in command.
Jaina laughed at their foreplay, at this rate she expected them to married in a few more years, they nearly argued as much as her parents did.
Jack turned his glare in Jaina's direction, "What are you laughing about?" he said irately.
"You of course," Jaina explained daring him to say anything more.
Jack just stared daggers at her in response.
Carter had been mentally sorting though all that Jaina and something jumped out at her, "The New Republic Navy? Don't you mean the Galactic Alliance Navy?" Carter asked stumped.
Jaina winced, she hadn't wanted to spring that on them yet, "No what I said was correct. The New Republic was the Galactic Alliance's direct predecessor. You remember when I mentioned the Far Outsiders to Master Offee?"
Jack and Carter both nodded wondering where this was going.
"They shattered the New Republic," Jaina stated with a frown.
"They WHAT!" shouted Jack and Carter in unison.
"It was a short very bloody and brutal conflict and half way through it the New Republic stopped existing" Jaina said, anger apparent in her voice.
"W-Why?" hesitantly said Carter.
Jaina shrugged depreciatively, "Nothing much happened…we just lost the capital, the president and most of the senate in a single day. Not to mention the horrendous battle that happened that same day, casualties that day numbered in the billions." She ate another spoonful of blue jello.
Carter was stunned silent while Jack looked at Jaina in horror, "Oh, is that all?" If that wasn't the definition of a very bad day, Jack didn't know what was.
Silence descended on the group as Jaina's last comment had sucked the fun right out of the room like a giant vacuum cleaner. Jaina finished her cup of blue jello, she placed the cup back on the tray and started working again. A few moments later, a much-subdued Carter also started working again. Silently Jack finished and left the two to work.
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They were gathered at the foot of the gate, Jaina had completed her transmitter and hadn't wanted to wait, she wanted to contact her government as soon as possible. So she waited at the bottom of the embarkation ramp as the stargate dialed up the planet that SG-1 had found her on.
SG-1 was coming with her back to the planet to wait for a response with her. Master Offee had also insisted on coming along, she wished to establish ties to the Galactic Alliance for Miraan as soon as possible, though she had sent Barakis back to Miraan with a status report for the rest of the Triad as well as what she intended to do, Luminara was accompanying her.
The gate activated with a whoosh and the General's voice came over the intercom saying, "SG-1 you have a go. Godspeed, to you all," he said in parting.
The group rambled up the ramp and entered the wormhole. They were expelled out into the midday sun of the unnamed planet.
They gathered at the foot of the gate where Jaina quickly activated her transmitter.
"Now what?" Daniel asked earnestly.
Jaina turned to look at Daniel, "Now we wait."
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Four hours Jaina's personnel comlink clicked.
"This Solo," Jaina spoke into her comlink.
"Jaina! Are you okay? We've all been worried about you!" came a worried male voice that Jaina knew immediately, it was General Tycho Celchu, though she wondered why he had come all this way just to get her.
"I'm fine Tycho. Better than fine actually," she looked around at the others listening in, "I've made some new friends…some of them are actually native to this galaxy."
Silence answered her.
She frowned, "Tycho? You still there?"
"Yes, I'm still here. Listen, I'll be at your position in a few minutes, Celchu out." The channel closed leaving Jaina very surprised at Tycho's uncharacteristic curtness.
Jaina turned to the others and said, "We're waiting…again."
They didn't have to wait long this time. Within a few minutes a small dot appeared on the horizon. The dot grew rapidly into a three-winged shuttle. As it neared the bottom two wings folded up and the shuttle came to rest a short distance from the gate.
Shortly after it landed a ramp descend and three men descended and walked towards Jaina and the others.
The central man was tall with blue eyes and aristocratic features that gave him coldness, but one that was dispelled by the emption in his eyes.
He walked up to Jaina and hugged her warmly, "Jaina, its good to see you're alright," he said as they broke apart.
"It's good to see you Tycho," Jaina replied.
Tycho paused and looked at those around Jaina, his eyes paused momentarily when the came to Teal'c but they widened in surprise when he saw Barriss and Luminara. They grew even wider as he took in their Jedi robes and lightsabers.
Jaina saw his surprise and introduced him, "This is Jedi Master Barriss Offee…formerly of the Old Republic and her daughter Luminara, Master Offee this is General Tycho Celchu."
Barriss nodded sagely in greeting and Tycho said, "It's an honor to meet you Master Offee." He turned back to Jaina, "Where are these natives you talked?"
Jaina smiled, "They're right here. This is Colonel Jack O'Neill, Major Samantha Carter, Dr Daniel Jackson of Earth and they're all human."
Tycho looked at her sharply, "Human? And Natives!"
"Let's just say I've discovered a few things that a lot of people will not believe, some that will alter many scientists preconceptions," Jaina answered smartly, "I even discovered what the ring is!"
Tycho looked thoughtful, then he pointed at Teal'c, "What about him?"
"That's Teal'c. He's a Jaffa from Chulak, though his ancestors were also human," Jaina explained.
Teal'c nodded stoically at the General.
Tycho eyed him suspiciously and Jaina noticed.
"Is there something wrong, Tycho?" she asked.
Tycho looked her straight in the eye and she noticed for the first time how strained he looked, "The colony world of Atlaris has been attacked by a group of humanoids. They had tattoos on their foreheads…similar to that!" General Celchu said solemnly as he pointed Teal'c's forehead.
Author's Notes: Ah, finally finished and with a cliffhanger as wellJ The sequel is in the works expect two fics, one about the battle for Atlaris and the other the continuation from this point. Hope you like this chapter. As always, Read, Enjoy and Review!
P.S. The more Reviews I get will directly effect how much I concentrate on writing the sequels;) Though I am currently going to focus on getting some headway in some of my other fics, including trying to break through the barrier between me and the next chapter of What the Hell happened here.