Jack stood in front of the four officers in front of him, taking in their every appearance as the stood at attention in front of the warehouse they'd been training in. Numbers two, four, six and seven had all been weeded out already, leaving Adams, O'Neill, Baker, and Zillner as the remaining trainees. Sam was observing them from the security room in the SGC at the moment through a live video feed. She needed to see how they would react to their final test, though none of them knew that's what it was.
A black car pulled up behind Jack and a man in full dress blues stepped out, calling the Colonel over.
"Hey, whaddya think's goin' on?" Adams leaned over and whispered into Sean's ear.
"How'm I supposed to know?" Sean shrugged back.
"He's your dad."
"Does it look like he's talkin' to me?" Sean gave a frustrated growl and rolled his eyes.
After a quick heated discussion, Jack jogged back over to the group waiting for him.
"We have to head back right now. It seems we have a foothold situation at the SGC. We're the only ones outside the program at the moment. Daniel, T, you guys take Baker and Zillner with you, meet us at the access hatch."
The group headed off towards the black SUVs parked in the empty lot. Sean hopped in the front seat with Jack, while Adams climbed in behind him. The two set off as fast as they could towards the SGC.
"What's goin' on, Dad?"
"Foothold means there are alien hostiles loose in the SGC. We neutralize the hostiles and minimize their exposure to Earth."
They flew into the side entrance of the SGC, followed closely by the other SUV. The seven men jumped out, gathering around the access hatch.
"Daniel, I want you to take Adams with you, Baker, Zillner, I want you to go with Teal'c. O'Neill, come with me. We'll head down first, Adams and Daniel, Baker and Zillner, and Teal'c last. We'll get out at level 21, Adams and Daniel, level 25, you guys take 28. We'll meet up in Carter's lab if possible, maintain radio silence unless absolutely necessary." With that, Jack headed down the ladder, followed by Sean and the rest of the recruits.
Jack and Sean got off at level 21 and started heading down the hallway, Sean walking somewhat backwards, covering Jack. He was surprised at how silent the young man was, knowing he'd never had the chance to train him himself.
The sound of heavily clanking boots flittered through the cement hallways and Jack pulled Sean into a storage closet off to the side.
"I can't make out who they belong to, but they're definitely Jaffa." Jack pulled back the tiny periscope and tucked it back into his pocket.
"I'm not sure meeting in the Major's lab is such a good idea," Sean spoke out quietly. At Jack's quizzical look he continued, "The Goa'uld steal technology from other cultures, right? That's probably one of the first things they'll look for."
"Right. We'll search the levels see if we can figure out who's who. We need to find out who we've got on our side," Jack whispered back. When the footsteps faded down the hall the two ventured out in search of possible allies.
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Daniel and Jack Adams snuck their way down the hallway on level 25, narrowly missing a Jaffa patrol along the same path as that 4 levels above them.
"It's definitely a Goa'uld that's taken over the SGC," Jack whispered to Daniel, following close behind him.
"The last Goa'uld that took over was Hathor. We need to find an Airman somewhere. Their actions may be able to tell us a little more." Daniel raised his pistol just a bit higher as if it would protect him just by being there.
The two slipped through the hallway, slinking along the corridors as silently as they could, hoping to come across an Airman or SF, dreading finding any more Jaffa patrols.
They heard the distinct sound of combat boots on the hard cement floors as they rounded the corner and tried to hide as best they could. Unfortunately, the Airman had already seen them and raised his M-16. Daniel and Jack threw up their hands in surrender, but staying wary of the man in front of them.
"Whoa, hey," Daniel said, trying to placate the Airman.
"Why are you roaming? You should be fulfilling your service to our lord." Before the young man could react, Jack's hand flew to his hip and pulled out the zat, shooting the Airman once.
"That was, uh, pretty quick," Daniel said, dropping his hands to his sides. "It sounded almost like when Hathor had us all under her little spell"
"So it's Hathor again?" Jack stepped over the man, kicking his gun away from him.
"Uh, no. If it was, none of the men on this base would be effected other than those who have joined us since then. I know for a fact Airman Thompson has been a part of this program from the beginning. We need to get to the medical lab, draw some blood. We might be able to find out what's controlling them."
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Baker and Zillner followed Teal'c dutifully as he set about exploring the bottom level of the SGC. The activity was increased on this level, and Teal'c knew why Jack had sent him down there with the two recruits, he just hoped the two with him realized it as well.
The Jaffa patrol forced the trio into a storage closet as they waited for the group to pass.
"Okay, there's three of us, that's why we're on this level and you know how the Jaffa think, so you're down here right?" Baker asked Teal'c quietly in hopes he was not overheard by the passing Jaffa.
Teal'c smiled inwardly and offered a soft, "Indeed," as a reply.
"Great," Baker muttered under his breath. Unfortunately, at that moment a second patrol was coming around the corner. The door burst open, and five Jaffa surrounded them, zats firing.
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
"Jack," Daniel called into the radio strapped to his shoulder. "Meet us in the infirmary."
He wasn't sure if Jack got the message since they were attempting to maintain radio silence, but they needed Lt. O'Neill to fire up the programs to help them read into what the blood sample could give them.
Daniel and Adams hid behind the beds, praying none of the base personnel overheard the transmission. When the sound of boots echoing down the hall reached their ears, they hunkered down tighter and readied themselves for a firefight. As the figures entered the infirmary, Daniel and Adams jumped up from their spots, ready to attack.
"Whoa, hey, hold up! It's just us!" Jack yelled at the two before they could shoot Sean or him.
"LT, you're the scientist, help us out here." Adams waved him over to the computer console where they had put a drop of the Airman's blood under the microscope.
"We're looking for abnormalities in the blood," Daniel added, pulling up the history from when they'd been infected by Hathor.
What neither Adams nor Sean knew was that prior to their entry all computers in the SGC had been rerouted so that Sam was controlling everything they saw. She would match Sean's keystrokes to make it look like he was in control and make them see chemicals in the Airman's blood that weren't really there.
Sean pulled up the visual of the Airman's blood and moved the image so it was side by side with the previous sample of Daniel's blood. "Okay, if you look at the display, the chemicals in the two are almost identical, with the exception of one."
"I'm assuming that's what's causing the difference. The blood is Airman Thompson's," Daniel said looking pointedly at Jack. "He was just as effected as we were when Hathor came knocking."
"So how did you guys defeat her the first time?" Sean looked up from the computer screen.
"It seemed to wear off slightly when she was out of proximity, but her little mind control breath didn't work on the women. It was basically they, who defeated her."
"The women saved your asses?" Adams raised his eyebrow at the two members of SG-1.
"Yeah, well, it wasn't exactly our crowning moment," Jack remarked snidely.
"No kidding," Sean laughed.
"Yeah, yeah."
"So, how're we s'posed to get rid of 'em?" Adams asked impatiently.
"Find where he's sequestered himself, then we can come up with a plan." Jack was letting the two run with it, but Sean's acuteness to the situation surprised him. It was exactly what he would say, just a little more extravagantly than he'd be able to put it.
"He'd most likely be in the control room and General Hammond's office," he supplied for the two.
"We could always just go in there guns blazing," Adams offered.
"No. Intars blazing, zats blazing, but no guns. These are our own people here folks. The Tok'ra and Tollan have ways of extracting the Goa'uld, so we need to take it alive," Jack adamantly pointed out.
At seeing the nods from the other three, Jack turned to head out of the infirmary. "Right, let's head out."
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sam was watching everything play out from the security room and had to admit, 1 and 3 were definitely the best fit for the existing SG teams. 3 tended to think a lot like her, and that would most likely work the best with the dynamics of SG-1. 1 was their best choice for team leader if the position was open, but there were no new teams in formation, so they'd have to fit him in where they could. She could tell he worked well in any position within the team.
Baker and Zillner, along with Teal'c had been "captured" so she wasn't paying attention to them quite just yet, they still had to wake up.
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Zillner slowly awoke to the sound of flesh hitting flesh. He carefully opened his eyes and looked to the side. To his left, Teal'c was restrained to the wall with shackles and looked obviously beaten, but that had not been the sound he'd woken up to.
To his right, Zillner noticed a man standing over the semi conscious form of Baker, laughing.
"Insolent, Tau'ri. You will tell me what I want to know, or you will be sorry."
Zillner shrunk back at the sound of the man's voice. He'd never heard anything sound so frightening. He was glad to hear the knock at the door, and surprised when he saw one of the SF's he recognized from his wanderings through the complex.
"Lord, you are needed in the control room immediately. Our master requests that you initiate the sequence." With that the SF bowed and left the room. The man gave a final kick towards Baker and left.
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
The four men split up into their original pairings and headed off to see if they could find the Goa'uld. Daniel and Adams were crouched outside Hammond's office waiting Jack's signal, while he and Sean readied themselves outside the control room.
Jack clicked his radio three times and simultaneously the two groups burst through the doors. Hammond's office was empty, so Daniel and Adams headed over to give Jack and Sean backup.
Jack and Sean, in the meantime, were busy with a firefight on their hands. They noticed, unfortunately, that Sgt. Harriman just happened to be the Goa'uld they were looking for.
"Shit," Jack muttered under his breath at seeing their culprit. He caught Sean's glance out of the corner of his eye and shot the last remaining man in the control room. The group stood up and entered, wary of any others hiding behind chairs.
Jack stood over Walter and shook his head. "Besides SG-1 and Hammond, Walter's the best choice for a Goa'uld host. He knows every detail of this command."
Daniel and Adams busied themselves tying up their captives while Jack and Sean sat Walter up and tied his hands and feet individually to avoid him figuring out how to escape while they interrogated him once he woke up.
"Didn't that seem just a bit too easy to you?" Adams asked walking over to Jack and Sean.
"Oh yeah," Jack answered. He didn't notice Sean inspecting the computers until he heard the 'Gate start to dial out.
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sam watched the group as they took down the entire entourage in the control room. It was time for her part in the ploy and headed down to the Gateroom to meet General Hammond.
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
"What the hell did you do?" he shouted.
"Nothing, he'd already set it to dial out when we came through the doors." Sean was quickly trying to cancel the dial out procedure when Daniel raised the blast doors.
"Uh, guys, I think we have a problem." Daniel stared out the window down at the ramp.
"Oh, for cryin' out loud!" Jack shouted. Sean looked over to see what was the problem and gasped.
There, standing at the base of the ramp, stood General Hammond, with a ribbon device aimed at Major Carter's head.
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Zillner worked his way silently out of his ropes, thinking it was finally a good thing his shoulders seemed to be "double jointed." He'd easily worked his hands over his head, since his feet were tied to the chair he was in, and picked apart the knot with his teeth. He reached into his boot, pulled out the Swiss Army knife he kept there and easily sliced through the rest of the ropes holding him.
He ran over to check on Baker, and realizing the man wasn't in too much danger, headed over to Teal'c. The Jaffa had just awoken and was watching the Lieutenant intently as he rummaged through his pockets.
Zillner pulled a paper clip out of his pocket and immediately set to straightening it.
"To what use is that piece of metal?" Teal'c asked him, causing the young man to jump. He hadn't noticed him wake up and the Jaffa's deep voice had startled him.
"I'll pick the locks on the shackles," Zillner answered. He smiled and said, "Learned it from MacGyver when I was a kid."
"I will ask Major Carter about this MacGyver. I have heard her mention him more than once." Teal'c rubbed his wrists as Zillner let him out of the shackles.
"It was a TV show. The guy kinda looked like Colonel O'Neill," Zillner smiled.
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
"You don't wanna do that!" Jack shouted through the intercom at the Goa'uld.
The man looked up at him through the glass and glowered. "You will let me leave."
"Hmph, and we don't want to do that." Daniel looked over and gave Jack a look that seemed to say, "I can't believe you just said that."
"Jack, I don't really think that's the best way to stop him."
"He's got Carter! I don't really care right now, we have to get her back."
While the two were arguing, Adams and Sean snuck out the side door and headed towards the Gateroom doors, thinking they'd gone unnoticed. Jack smiled slightly, just enough for Daniel to notice.
Jack saw the door start to open just enough to let the two into the room, and resumed arguing with the "Goa'uld" enough to "distract" him from what the two recruits were doing. Blue light shot out from the zat Adams was holding, and Hammond and Carter dropped to the ground. Sean ran over to Carter and pulled her away out of reach.
"Daniel, radio Teal'c. Get him to bring the other two to the Gateroom. Jack turned around and started slicing through the bonds on everybody in the control room. "Good job, guys."
He ran down to the Gateroom, gently woke Carter, and helped her sit against the wall. Making sure the other two couldn't hear them, he whispered, "So, how do you think they did?"
"I still have to look at the tape to see what the other two did while I was down here, but my reports will be definitely be favorable." She smiled up at him and he rubbed his thumb over her cheek.
"C'mon, I'll take you up there." He held out his hand and helped her stand up. He threw her arm around his shoulders to keep her steady and turned to Sean and Adams. "Watch him until the others get down here, then join us in the security room." With that, they left.
"What do you think is really going on?" Adams asked, looking over at Sean.
"I don't have the foggiest idea."
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Jack and Sam entered the security room, immediately run over by an excited Rico. He excitedly wagged his tail and licked their faces, trying to make sure they were who he thought they were.
"Hey, Pup," Jack said, rubbing his head. He helped Sam sit in one of the chairs and pull up the tape of Baker and Zillner. "Whoa, didn't think Walter had it in him."
They watched as put on a show for the recruits, pretending to hit Baker harder than he really would. Of course, Baker had been given a concoction thought up by Fraiser that would slow his reaction time, making it look like he'd been beaten more severely than he was. When Walter left, they watched Zillner work his way out of his bonds and free his companions.
"Resourceful, isn't he?" Jack said as he watched over her shoulder.
"Yeah, and 5 never once gave in."
The door behind them opened up, sending Rico immediately on guard. "Easy boy." Jack rested his hand on the dog's back, calming him.
"Sit down, please," General Hammond said pointing the remaining seats in the room. The four recruits sat down looking warily at their superiors, not really sure what was going on. Hammond nodded to Jack, letting him explain.
"The four of you have just been put through your final test." Jack handed a piece of paper over to Carter who continued what he was saying.
"Number one, Lt. Adams, throughout the past three weeks you have excelled in all various fields on any SG team, though you seemed most in your element when leading a group."
"Number three, Lt. O'Neill." Sam paused momentarily looking between Jack and Sean, suddenly realizing this must have been the recruit that he'd had the 'conflict of interest' with. "You have shown much the same talents as Lt. Adams, but your scientific experience makes you more valuable to a front line team."
"Number five, Lt. Baker, you are resilient and did not back down in the face of the enemy, holding your own in what seemed to be an impossible situation."
"Number eight, Lt. Zillner, you were resourceful and managed to rescue both your comrades even though Baker was unconscious. You managed to use what you had to make sure everyone got out alive."
General Hammond nodded at every point made by Major Carter, and agreed fully with everything she said. He had already decided where the men would be placed.
"Lt. Adams, you will be placed on SG-17 until the time comes to create a new team. Lt. O'Neill, upon recommendations from both Major Carter and the Colonel, along with your extensive scientific background, you are being placed on SG-1, as Major Carter's permanent replacement. Lt's Baker and Zillner, at this moment there are no open positions for you, but you will be placed immediately on SG teams as the positions open up. Meanwhile, we would like to keep you here in an official capacity."
The four recruits grinned at each other, until Sean's smile dropped a bit.
"You alright, LT?" Adams asked concerned.
"Um, General Hammond, sir, am I allowed to be on SG-1?" he asked nervously.
"That's already been taken care of, son. SG teams 1 and 17 are on two weeks downtime to get to know their new members." General Hammond left a confused group standing in the security room as he walked out to return to his office.
"Well, that was unexpected," Daniel said, pushing his glasses higher up on his nose.
Teal'c approached the recruits and faced Sean. "Welcome to SG-1, Lt.O'Neill." He bowed his head in greeting.
"You can call me Sean," he replied, to which Jack held up his hand.
"I wouldn't hold my breath. I've been trying to get him to call me Jack for two and a half years."
Teal'c quirked an eyebrow and sat back down.
"Listen, Sean. Why don't you and Trish come over to the house tonight for dinner, I'd love to have you again. How 'bout everybody. Adams, Baker, Zillner, you're invited, too."
"Thanks," Sean smiled and turned to head towards the locker rooms.
A/N: Okay, i know it seemed really easy for a final, but i have a hard time writing stuff like that, so i did the best i could, sorry. i hope you liked it! Thankyou