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General Disaster.

By LetitiaRichards.

Previously:-

Bauer returned to his office to contemplate if he was brave enough to defy the men who held his card of fate in their hands. Would he be able to bring them down and would they take him with them? Only time would tell, but he couldn't sit back and do nothing. He already owed SG-1 for saving his butt and the planet, and General Hammond had been generous to a fault. He picked up the red phone and waited for it to be answered.

Chapter 5

"Carter you're with Daniel and General Hammond. Teal'c and I will watch your sixes. Keep in contact every hour on the hour! Or if Daniel finds anything," Jack ordered.

"Yes sir," Sam replied.

They all walked into the ruined city and looked around for anything amiss, but last night's check showed nothing untoward among the debris.

Jack pointed out a partially in-tact building.

"You wanna try that one Daniel, I think you might find something interesting in there," he said.

"What? How..."

Jack smirked and Daniel glowered.

"Last night? You went in there last night? And you wouldn't let me take a look?" he cried indignantly.

"Nope! I told you it was too dark."

"Yet you never said anything?" Daniel was almost yelling with impatience by now and with astonishment added. "Jack! You could have said something."

"What? And spoil the fun. What difference would it have made. You'd have been awake all night thinking about it," he grinned.

"I was awake all night anyway. You should have told me!" he pouted.

Hammond and Sam hid their smiles but Teal'c turned away to study the perimeter, so that nobody knew if he was smiling or not.

Jack waved away any further arguments from his friend and motioned them into the doorway, listening to the gasp of surprise from both Daniel and Sam when they saw the interior. Before he left them to it, he countered with a word of caution.

"Daniel! Carter!"

"Sir?"

"Jack?"

"Don't touch anything!" he said, ducking out of the doorway.

Sam grimaced, but Daniel glowered, throwing his hands into the air from frustration.

"Just saying," he yelled back as if he'd seen the gesture. He didn't wait for a reply, just added, "See you kids later!"

Jack and Teal'c took off in opposite directions, planning on meeting up again at the same point.

All was peaceful and Jack was bored. There was no threat here. He checked his watch; it was just past time for Carter to call in. He stopped and sat on a tumbledown wall to wait for her call, but minutes passed and no call came. He stood, wondering if there was a problem. He clicked on his radio.

"Carter? Daniel?"

There was no answer, just a little static.

"Teal'c? You listening in on this?"

There was no answer, just static from his Jaffa friend too.

He was already running when he released the radio button, having heard nothing from, nor been able to raise anyone on his radio.

He scrambled over the rubble for the next 15 minutes, finally meeting up with a worried too Teal'c just as a deep rumble sounded nearby and the ground beneath their feet trembled slightly. It was over almost before it registered, but it was still an unwelcome reality. Jack knew he had to get his team out of the ruins before they got buried alive.

They both ran onwards, heading for the building where they had left the trio.

Puffed from his run, Jack rushed into the building and ordered them all out, seeing as the radios weren't working.

Daniel was rather reluctant to leave; he was engrossed in the writing on the walls, as was Sam with some mathematical symbols. Hammond was rising to his feet wondering what was going on.

"Why?" Daniel asked petulantly.

"Colonel?" came the predictable cry from Sam.

"What's the problem Colonel?" Hammond needed to know.

"Didn't you feel that?" Jack gasped a little breathlessly, astonished that no-one had felt the need to get the hell out of there with the ground shaking beneath their feet.

"Feel what?" Daniel demanded, his hands on his hip.

Jack sagged in frustration.

"There was a earthquake, and yes, I know it can't be an earthquake as we're not actually on earth, but that's just being pedantic Daniel."

"Are you sure Colonel? We never felt a thing," Hammond responded trying to calm things down.

"Teal'c...did we or did we not just have an earthquake?"

Teal'c was about to answer when the ground trembled again only this time it was stronger.

"We did!" he answered needlessly.

"Okay, everyone out now," Jack yelled.

Daniel grabbed up his pack, as did Sam and hurried from the building as another stronger quake hit, trying to knock them all off their feet.

The General stumbled and lost his balance and Jack scrambled back towards him to give the older man a hand.

Teal'c get them outta here!" Jack yelled, meaning Daniel and Sam.

He'd just reached his hands down to help Hammond up when the floor gave way beneath them and the roof collapsed in on them.

Sam, Daniel and Teal'c had made it outside and looked on helplessly as the building collapsed behind them, cutting off Jack and Hammonds' escape. As they stood there in shock, wondering what to do, they were each rendered unconscious by a Zat charge.

Osiris smiled evilly as they were each carried over to where the ring transport had deposited her and her Jaffa troops. She wasn't particularly happy that she only had three of the infamous team, but knew without a doubt that there was no help for the other two who couldn't possibly have survived that cave in, and she wasn't even going to try; theirs was a hopeless cause.

The sharp rattle of earth type weapons distracted her and several of her Jaffa fell to the sudden onslaught. There was a brief but bloody battle and she'd had to activate her personal shield to keep from being killed. She escaped with some of her Jaffa as well as Sam and Daniel, by ringing up to her ship, hovering above the planet. Teal'c had recovered quicker form the effects of the Zat blast and had turned on her, trying to save his team-mates, but he and the other SG teams still outnumbered and their efforts were thwarted when more Jaffa arrived and he was wounded.

"Teal'c? What happened here?" Colonel Dixon demanded, pushing his helmet back from his brow and trying to see how bad Teal'c wound was.

Teal'c surveyed the devastation, and hung his head in defeat.

"I have failed my friends Colonel Dixon. Major Carter and Daniel Jackson are now prisoners of Osiris, and General Hammond and O'Neill I fear, may be dead," he intoned with regret.

"I didn't see them where are they Teal'c? Were they ringed up before we got here?"

"Regretfully no, they were still in the building when it collapsed."

"They're under there?" Dave Dixon whistled in disbelief. They'd be lucky to find them, but he doubted they would still be alive. "We need to contact General Bauer..."

"How did you know that SG-1 was in need of assistance Colonel Dixon?"

"Ah...that would be General Bauer's responsibility. He called us into the briefing room and we put together a rescue plan, but don't ask me how he knew you guys were in trouble, 'cause I have no idea. I had heard a rumour that the President got on to him, but then I wasn't there at the time."

Teal'c raised an eyebrow at this and puzzled as to how the President would know of this, but his main concern right now was getting O'Neill and General Hammond out from under the rubble and hope they had both survived.

OoOoOoOoO

The wormhole burst into existence and Davis turned immediately when the code came through.

"It's SG-13 sir. Shall I relay it through the speakers?"

Bauer nodded. He needed to know if they reached SG-1 in time.

"SG-13," he began, "What is your status?"

"We have a problem sir," Dixon said with a heavy sigh. Major Carter and Dr. Jackson were taken by Osiris. She zatted them and escaped despite our efforts sir. We have Teal'c but he was injured in the battle."

"What of General Hammond and Colonel O'Neill?" Bauer was wondering what had happened to them.

"That just the problem sir. They were in one of the buildings when it collapsed. We've got to dig them out. I request some more men and some heavy equipment sir. There's a lot of rubble to move. There was a lot of seismic activity when we arrived sir. There are still a few after shocks but nothing as strong."

Bauer didn't want to think about how Hammond and O'Neill might be dead, but he would pull out all the stops to bring them home.

"I'll get onto it right away Colonel. You'll have your help soon."

"Yes sir."

With that the transmission ended and the wormhole shut down.

Bauer issued his orders like bullets from a P-90 and then retreated to his office to hope and pray that his actions weren't too late to save Hammond and O'Neill; and to figure out the nightmare of how to retrieve Dr. Jackson and Major Carter.

TBC