The Road to...
Chapter 3
...Lots of Trees...
Blue-silver energy whooshed and fell back on itself, ponderous ripples dancing across a horizon line. Teal'c's boots clanked on the metal ramp and then outer space bent and twisted itself to let him through, pinpricks of light blurring. Whirling through continuum, an instant passes before his combat boots touch soft ground.
Looking around, at first all he saw was green. They were in the middle of a very dense rainforest. The trees were huge and very close together. Everywhere was huge green and blue and yellow leaves, ferns, vines, and flowers. There were also crazy-looking plants that were obviously very alien. It was just not quite what you would see in the Amazon. He couldn't tell just from looking, like usual, if this world had been terraformed by the Goa-uld or not.
It was loud too, Teal'c thought, compared to the cool serenity of the mountain base; loud with the noise of rustling foliage, water dripping, wild bird calls and animal noises.
Teal'c took a few steps forward—nothing very tall grew within range of the Stargate's energy backwash—and put his hand on a tree trunk. He followed it up, and couldn't see the top of the tree, or any of the trees. They disappeared into the canopy.
"I have never been in a forest like this before." he said, turning back to look at his team-mates.
'Me neither..." Sam Carter said.
They were looking around in wonder at the bright, full new world they had appeared on. Vines had even grown up around the Stargate; some had been ripped away by the force of its activation.
O'Neill put his hands in his pockets and declared, "Welcome to Jurassic Park!"
Sam made a face.
"What, Carter, don't like dinosaurs?" O'Neill asked her.
'Not really, sir." she said, shaking her head. Her short blonde hair poked out from under her hat. "Cassie and I turned it off when the T-Rex started eating everyone."
"What is Jurassic Park?" Teal'c inquired.
Meanwhile, DanielJackson was looking at the ground immediately around the Stargate. If he looked closely he could tell that there was a series of large flat stones laid into the ground. They might have inscriptions carved into the surface, but it was very worn and mostly overgrown. However, the stones seemed to be arrayed around the Stargate in a circle.
Making sure his P-90 was securely clipped in place and his bandana was tight around his head, Daniel followed the circle. Back in front of the others, he found that the line he was following diverged to head farther off into the forest. The stones laid into the ground led him past a few huge trees and ended at the DHD. It was intact, with only a big leafy vine growing all over it.
"Hey! Here's the DHD!" Daniel shouted back to the other three, who quickly found their way to him.
From there Sam spotted the crashed UAV. Mangled metal bits were lodged on a high branch. There would clearly be no salvaging of it. Besides, a small monkey-thing was sitting in the middle of it looking at them.
"Well, which was is our lost city of gold?"
"I don't know, Jack. Let's just pick a direction and go." Daniel said, shrugging.
"Okay." O'Neill checked his compass. "East. Carter take point. Everyone, stay in line-of-sight. File out."