Trekking through the thick undergrowth of the forest was no problem for the four explorers from Earth. As darkness began to descend they brought out torches, giving them the extra edge in their search through the night.
Their nature of their mission was simple. A couple of hours ago the SGC had an unauthorised gate activation. They closed the iris, but a glass bottle appeared at the base of the ramp. the SGC concluded that the people who had sent it had technology far more advanced than any other they had seen. The bottle contained a message written in symbols.
"Daniel…. Did the message say anything more?" Major Samantha Carter called as she walked behind a couple of trees.
"Such as… why they wanted us here." Colonel Jack O'Neill added, pointing his torch up into a tree at the sound of a bird screeching. As the light shone on it the bird spread it wings and flew away, causing a couple of leaves to fall down.
"Well… the language I am not familiar with so there was still a little bit I hadn't translated, but from what I could tell the inhabitants of this planet were under attack by a supreme power."
"Most likely Goa'uld supreme Power." Teal'c replied, the only member of the team not needing a torch.
"Any name mentioned?" Jack stopped as he came to what appeared to be a body… burned beyond recognition.
"Not that I could see." Daniel turned round and noticed Jack had stopped walking. Sam, Daniel and Teal'c stood around the body, Jack's torch shinning on it.
"What do you think?"
"I think we need to take extreme caution." Sam answered, looking between Jack and the body.
"Teal'c… you ever seen any weapon capable of doing this to anyone?" Jack shone his torch on Teal'c, making him flinch a little as the beam shone into his eyes.
"I have not."
As Jack moved his torch away from the body, something caught Daniel's eye. He bent down and round what was supposedly the neck of the body, he found a gold necklace. He brushed off some soot and ash revealing an intricate carved pendant. Sam shone her torch on Daniel.
"What is it?"
"I have no idea." He reached round and soon found a clasp. He unhooked it and stood up. Holding the piece of jewellery in his hands. "But the markings do look a little like the message we got." He placed it in his pocket, zipping it up so I wouldn't get lost.
A staff weapon blast from the north alerted the team that the Goa'uld were occupying the planet.
"Let's get away from here." Jack ordered. They began to move back towards the Stargate as a boy and girl ran through the trees right into Daniel and Sam. Their faces filled with fear
"Kinoga! Garlandah jiondo! Jaffa Anteyra!" The girl screamed pointing back in the direction the two kids had come from.
"Daniel?" Jack looked at Daniel
Daniel's face was blank. "I have no idea what that means."
"How about… Let's get out of here!" Jack called as suddenly a staff weapon blast hit the nearest tree to him. Quickly the six people dashed off through the trees, not even bothering to open fire on the Jaffa following them.
Within minutes they reached the large clearing where the Stargate was located. Sam began dialling the DHD so they could get back to the SGC. But the Jaffa weren't too far behind.
All seven chevrons locked in placed and the power reached maximum efficiency to create their exit. The gate activated with a WHOOSH and the wormhole was established. Jack looked at the two kids and noticed that they didn't seem afraid of the Stargate and how it worked. Sam quickly sent the GDO signal through just before the two kids ran through the event horizon and disappeared.
"Oh crap!" Jack sighed as he dashed in through after them. Staff weapons blasts hit the ground near the rest of SG1. They turned to see how far away they were and very quickly headed up the steps and disappeared through the even horizon and they were sent past hundreds of systems back to Earth.
In a matter of seconds after Jack has stepped through he materialised at the SGC. Standing at the top of the ramp he was faced with SGC personelle pointing their weapons at the two kids, who were standing slightly further down the ramp.
"Don't shoot!" Jack screamed immediately, holding up his hands. Sam, Daniel and Teal'c then emerged and the gate deactivated.
Seeing the team the men stood down. General Hammond entered the gate room through the blast door on the right hand side of the room. He walked over to the ramp.
"Colonel O'Neill… Who are these kids?" the General asked, a little concerned as to the meaning of why the two children had been brought to the SGC and they had come through running before the rest of SG1.
"That's a very good question." Jack replied.
The two children looked between the two men speaking. The girl then placed her hand on her chest and spoke one word.
"Kali."
Teal'c's eyes wandered over to the girl as he raised an eyebrow… the rest of them also looked at her. Being the linguist Daniel moved over to her and bent down so he was about the same height as her. She had long blonde hair and blue eyes. The team would have estimated she was around 7 years old. Daniel then pointed a finger at her.
"Kali?" he asked gently… she nodded her head in response. Daniel then looked at the boy. He was slightly taller and looked very similar to the girl. He had blondish-brown hair and blue eyes.
He looked at Daniel and then also spoke one word.
"Braiyn."
"Braiyn." Daniel repeated with a small smile He then pointed to himself. "Daniel." Standing up he then pointed at the rest of his team. "Jack. Sam. Teal'c and… " Daniel paused as he tried to think of how he was going at address the general to the kids.
"George." Hammond responded.
"So…" Jack started. "What are we going to do with Kali and Bariyn?"
"Braiyn." Daniel corrected him. He looked at Hammond. "I'd like to try and study their language."
"Yeah… the kids said… Jaffa Anteyra. … That wouldn't mean Jaffa of Anteyra by any chance?" Jack asked, waving his hands around in a odd manner. This amused the children.
Daniel thought for a second. "Yeah it could."
Daniel's reply made Sam sigh a little bit. "If it does then it means we have another Goa'uld to deal with."
"Debriefing in an hour. Get these two kids checked over by Doctor Fraiser first." Hammond turned and left the gate room. SG1 then led the kids out of the gateroom and off to the infirmary.
Daniel and Sam stayed with the two kids as Doctor Janet Fraiser gave them a check over.
"They both seem perfectly healthy." She reported as a doctor handed her the test results.
"Wait a second!" Daniel said suddenly. Janet and Sam looked at him.
"What's wrong?"
"The message was sent by these two kids. Remember the two words near the bottom…. I translated them as karma and brain... Well it would appear I translated it wrong and they actually say Kali and Braiyn."
Sam smiled a little. "Looks like you might want to check over the message again then."
"That's not a bad idea." And with that Daniel walked off to his office to begin his translation again, completely forgetting that they were to have a debriefing of their mission in just a few minutes.
