-1Deployment
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Disclaimer- None of it's mine, it belongs to people who are not me and thus is not mine. I' am burrowing the characters and other things for fun and nothing more.
Spoilers- Spoilers as before.
---Cassie---
Cassandra lay silently in her Gou'ald prison cell. She had spent the last hour and half screaming her voice raw, while rushing about her tiny cell. There was never an answer.
She would look at her watch but they had taken it, along with her shoes and everything else apart than the clothes on her back. Vulnerable and alone she curled up into a ball and cried.
She cried till she felt better, or at least felt less afraid. Taking a moment to examine her surrounds.
Her cell was a solid square with only one door opposite her. A series of round white lights were above offering her a clear view. The cell was unremarkable, the standard Gou'ald cell that Sam had probably seen the inside of more than once. The remains of a control panel still visible on the wall opposite her hard marble slab for a bed, suggested that this probably wasn't actually meant to be a cell. The thought gave her hope of escape. She got up to inspect her surroundings.
What would Sam do? Cassy thought, ferociously peering all around for some means of escape, something to her advantage. She wasn't Sam though she was a college student. A college student who had been abducted by aliens. She felt tears rising again.
No! She mental snapped at herself.
She had to escape, she wasn't Sam, of course not. But Sam had never had Janet for a mom. Janet had been worse than a prison warden, when it came to her only daughter staying out late. Still Cassie had learned a thing or two about escaping. Than she saw it, the control panel.
Approaching the control panel cautiously on bare feet. Peering inside a few brightly coloured control crystals were still inside. She reached inside and picked up the shattered remains of one sapphire crystal. Her finger bled on contact.
It would make a crude weapon and Cassy didn't fancy her chances of fighting her way out. Especially without even knowing where she was, or what was going on. Still a weapon was a weapon. She tucked it in the usually place as stealthy as possible.
Then the ominous sound of heavy footsteps echo from outside her cell. She quickly rushed back into the middle of the cell. Now wasn't the time to escape she needed more information. As the door opened she gasped.
'Who are you! What do you want with me!' She felt fresh tears roll down her cheek as all hope of escape vanished with the appearance of two fearsome Kull warriors, complete in jet black energy absorbing armour. They approached her and harshly gripped her, one too each arm.
'Let go of me! What are you doing!' She screamed hysterical, kicked and struggled as she tried to break free for several minutes. The Kull warriors just dragged her along through the corridors of what Cassy imagined was the interior of a Gou'ald Mothership.
After five minutes her escorts reached a room filled with columns of machinery, glowing lights, equipment and spare parts of various design. Cassie had never seen an engine room, but imagined this fit the description nicely.
The escorts unceremonious threw her to the floor. The force of impact causing a sharp twist that shot up her arm. She was sicken by the sound of her wrist cracking She silently sobbed, over her injury. She was on the verge of tears again when lights flickered in the air in front of her.
Appearing in front of her was a middle aged man in a three piece Armani suit, complete with a crop of black well trimmed hair and smart beard appeared before her, in the form of a hologram.
'Ah, Miss Frasier, how are you?' Cassy was at first shocked by his Taurian appearance, but left reeling by his Gou'ald voice. He looked like he belonged on wall street, not on a Mothership.
'Who are you?' Cassie was shaky responding, cradling her wrist trying not to show any sign of weakness.
'My name is unimportant. You're the one that matters here.' The hologram flicking , crackled and surged with light. Before returning to normal. He gestured silently towards the Kull Warriors one left her side. Walking off out of view while the other tighten it's grip on her good arm.
'You see, I' am what you might say in a difficult position. For all my power as a system lord, there is one power beyond my expertise. As the hologram sneered maliciously. The second drone returned, in its arms was a mysterious black box.
'Ancient technology.' Cassie locked eyes on the box as the drone opened it.
---Surface level, Terra Atlantus---
While Felger caused Chaos below, Colonel Dixon and a Major Sumner stood outside the airlock leading to the helipad outside. Both men waiting the arrival of General Hammond and the Secretary of defence, who were both re-pressurising in the broken airlock.
'Can you stop pacing, it's making me dizzy, sir.' The young major turned to his colonel and straighten his back. The exterior airlock a few anxious feet away, cycled through nosily.
'It's the secretary of defence! How can you be so damn calm, Sumner!' Colonel Dixon shook his head as the air lock cycled again.
'Goddamn, what's taking so long!'
'It's just a technical fault sir.' The young major Sumner explained as a small nervous, female maintenance technician arrived.
'Sergeant what's taking so long!.' The six foot Colonel Dixon bared down on the tiny technician. Sumner felt sorry for anyone the colonel would blame for this, he had a furious temper.
'The general and secretary of defence have been waiting half an hour! It's zero degrees in there, get them out already!' Dixon looked ready to throttle the tiny girl. Sumner chose to step in.
'Well at least they'll be cooled off-ed. Sir!' The colonel turned on his subordinate, the young technician silently nodded her gratitude. 'Sumner I don't need this! My wife's having another kid! That makes five! I need this promotion! We 're not all blessed with your goddamn Ancient gene. Some of us are replaceable!' Sudden the air lock opened with an ear-splitting grating noise. Out stepped the robust General Hammond and a slender women of about 40 years old with short red hair and fair complexion. Both as white as a sheet from the intense cold blasting the two waiting military men.
'General Hammond, Madam Secretary.' The colonel announced as the two younger men saluted their superiors. Dixon swallowed hard and stepped forth.
'I'm sorry about the delay, we've been having some technical…' Before the Colonel could finish a horrible sound of metal clashing on clashing metal and a rising roar shook the domed complex.
Dixon and Sumner swapped nervously glances, as the familiar hum of a drone weapon followed by the thunderous crash.
'Felger!' The two military men spoke in union. As another drone shot out.
'If you'll excuse me sirs!' The major spoke with an annoyed tone. Before taking off at a sprint towards the control room.
---Outpost level, Terra Atlantus---
After nearly running down Dr Gardner as she left the elevator, Sumner jumped in the cage descending the mile to the control room in just a few minutes. While Dr Gardner explained the situation.
'You really can't blame Felger, I mean it's not his fault!' Major Sumner gave her a dubious look, while she tried to save her colleagues skin.
Within a matter of second of the metal cage touching down, Sumner had torn his way out and had crossed the distance between the chair and the cage. Without a word Felger shot out of the chair, a panic look on his face as he meet eyes with the furious major.
'I warned you about touching my stuff!' He said sharply dropping in his chair.
Sumner reacted instantly to the chair familiar presence. The image of the three drones formed in his mind . He could see their individual POV's. The snow blinding endless white of Antarctic layout before him.
Closing his eyes to stop the pain. The young Sumner, pictured the drones slowing. Turning in the air till they were returning to base. He breathed a sign of relief at the simple easy of it., The drones would of return automatically to the launcher.
But the drones had turned but were now accelerating as they locked on to the target. Sumner panic as he saw the drones hurtle through the blue skies of Antarctic, back towards the research outpost.
'Major Sumner! The drones are inbound!' Felger was shouting frantically at the immobilised Major.
'He can't hear you Jay.' Gardner said calmly as she watched the radar screen showing the green blips heading towards them.
'If those drones hit us, it going to be really! Really bad, like boom! Half the worlds gone!'
The drones begun their descend on to their target. Still Sumner couldn't see the problem, the drones should of disengaged and returned. Instead their were accelerating towards them. Somewhere in the distance he could here voice talking, a beeping. He couldn't afford to get distracted though.
He concentrated harder on the drones, he could see through the drones the silver dome of the research outpost, growing larger and larger with each passing seconds.
'Arrrgghh!' The struggling major cried out in the chair as he tried one last time to gain control of the renegade drones. He could see them shoot down the path they had made early. Heading right for the launcher, He saw for a split second three people in the cage descending down. Then everything went dark.
---Cassie---
The drone opened the box. And took out a foot long cylindrical object made out of what Cassie assumed was golden stain glass, she was drawn to it's beautiful appearance.
'You see the ancients for all their philosophising and noble intentions.' The figure spoke.
'Their understood the importance of power, and safe guarding that power.' He gestured dramatically at the box, leaving no doubt in Cassie's mind that he was a Gou'ald.
'You see, all ancient technology requires a certain gene to operate. Now unfortunately for your sake. You possess this gene.' The drones marched forward again, one dragging Cassy, the other clutching the device. The hologram moved with them deep into the engine room.
The group arrived in front of a circular pedestal of about four feet in height even Cassie could tell it was of ancient design. On top was a perfect slot for the cylindrical device held by the drone.
'What is that?' She asked flatly.
'Power. Power your going to give me.' The system lord didn't even try to hide his smug superiority. Cassy swallowed hard, before uttering her next sentence.
'What if I refuse?' In disbelief of her own confidence, the words made her feel powerful. Till the drone holding her tighten it's grip on her remaining arm causing her to winced.
'I think the consequences to yourself are apparent.' The hologram grinned with twisted glee. 'However, I have taken other actions to ensure your co-ordination.' The hologram nodded to some one out of view. With a brief flicker of light the hologram changed. The well groomed face was still visible but now the hologram showed a room filled with people and a stargate. Cassie recognised it instantly, it was the SGC's gate room.
'I have secured explosive devices to key structural points of the SGC. With a single command! Well I can only imagine the consequences of such powerful explosions under a mountain!' The sadistic joy the system lord took in mocking the stunned Cassy was almost too much to bear. He laughter maniacal and turned to her, handsome features perverted in cruelty.
'If you refuse me, everyone you have left on this world will be buried alive!'
Cassy stared at the cylindrical device, than at it's pedestal. She was out of options and couldn't refuse.
'Okay.' She sadly resigned.
The drone released her, while the other passed her the device. With only one arm the cylinder was heavy and awkward to take hold of yet she managed.
'What do I do?' Her voice was flat and defeated.
'Just place it in the slot.' The hologram point with a hand.
Cassy stepped up to the pedestal, it was a difficult and slow procedure with a broken arm. Eventually she climbed on to pedestal to insert the device. The cylinder lit up a bright golden colour as it disappeared into the pedestal.
Sudden all around her, giant machines like turbines activated. The teenager's eyes shot about as a humming rose around.
'What is that ! What did I do?' The only answer she received was a Zat blast in the back causing her to collapsed on to the pedestal. As she fell to the floor drifting into unconsciousness, she heard a sinister voice speak.
'Deploy the troops. Launch the attack, now!'
What device was Cassie just forced to activate? Has Felger just caused another catastrophe? An
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