A/N: Feedback is the food that keeps this story going. In case anyone hasn't noticed, I really like the character of Cameron Mitchell. Beta'd by Angw and Trickster's Queen of War.

It only took two hours for Jack O'Neill to step through the gate. Cameron laughed. Jack looked like an old man trying to play soldier. Jack wore his characteristic sunglasses and held a P90 clipped to his flak vest.

Cameron saluted. "Welcome to P3F-998 General."

"It's a bit warm." Jack replied sarcastically. "At ease Mitchell."

Cameron relaxed. "Sam, Jackson, and Teal'c are up at the compound."

"How far is it?"

"Not far."

"You're talking to an old man Mitchell!"

"I could radio Teal'c to come and carry you."

Jack laughed. "Funny Mitchell."

Cameron led the way. To his credit, Jack didn't seem the least bit fatigued as they walked through the trees and underbrush. In fact, Jack seemed even more excited than Cameron was.

They reached the compound after only a few minutes of hiking through the wilderness. Cameron led Jack into the dome that Sam was working in. Sam now had cords and wires strewn all over the place, trying to interface with the dome's system.

"Hey Jack." She said, enveloping him in a hug.

Cameron couldn't help but sneer. He was going to win big when he got back to the SGC.

"So what needs intitia... whatever?" Jack asked innocently.

"Everything." Sam replied. "We think that if you initialize one panel, the whole compound will come on line."

"So what do I do?" Jack replied, obviously not paying attention.

She guided him over to the console she was working at. "Just use it like you used the ancient gate ship."

Jack sat down and closed his eyes. After a few seconds he opened them again. "I've got nothing."

"Just try." Sam pleaded.

Jack closed his eyes and concentrated again. Nothing happened.

Cameron bounced up and down. He was hoping for something really cool. After a few seconds however, it became clear nothing was happening. He nervously cleared his throat.

Sam shot him a death glare.

He threw his hands in the air. "What? If something was going to happen, it would've happened already."

Sam narrowed her eyes. "Maybe you're right Cameron? Go bother Teal'c and Daniel for awhile."

Cameron wasted no time leaving the dome. Jack strolled leisurely out only seconds later. Cameron shot him a sideways glance. Jack just pretended to look at the sky. Cameron laughed, he was going to win big, there was no doubt about it.

He found Daniel on the far wall, still frantically translating. "Anything interesting Jackson?"

Daniel looked up and regarded Cameron with a quizzical expression, then dived into an explanation. "From what I've been able to determine, not only did the ancient who ran this place only ascend six hundred years ago he was also a member of something called the order of time."
Cameron suddenly remembered walking in on one of General Landry's phone calls to the White House. "I once overheard Landry talking about an order of time. Of course, he also mentioned Colonel Sheppard and marriage."
Daniel raised his eyebrows. "Really? We should probably check with him about this."

"Anything else?"

"Surprisingly enough, there's several spots where the record is non-existent for several thousand years."

Cameron shook his head. "What do mean?"

"It's like he wasn't here."

"That's weird."
"Yeah." Daniel pointed to another section of the wall. "That section talks about how the ancients built this compound to connect to their former brothers in the Ori galaxy."

Cameron raised a finger. "Question! Why would they do that?"

"Keep in mind that this is all speculation." Daniel started talking really fast. "We know the ancients were suffering from a plague, maybe they thought if they could contact their former brothers, they might find a way to help them."

"Okay." Cameron shook his head to clear it. Then pointed to the walls. "But there's nothing here to indicate that what you just said is true."

"No."

"Keep translating."

Cameron strolled leisurely around the center of the compound. He gazed up at the rapidly fading light. He checked his watch. The planet was at a very different time schedule as his watch said it was 1400.

He glanced around and noticed Jack talking with Teal'c. Jack was in the middle of making some kind of elaborate gesture to describe something to the stoic Jaffa. Cameron walked up.

"Think it's safe to camp for the night?" He asked Teal'c.

"I believe we have little to fear." Teal'c replied.

"Camping?" Jack raised a curious eyebrow.

"Setting up a fire pit shouldn't be hard." Cameron commented. "There's plenty of wood and rocks."

Jack glanced over at the entrance to the compound. "There's a nice spot just outside the opening."

"Cool. You and Teal'c want to get started; I'll talk with Daniel and Sam."

Teal'c glanced at Jack. "Shall we not precede O'Neill?"

"Indeed we shall." Jack replied sarcastically, heading off into the woods.

Cameron laughed at the irony of what he'd just done. He'd basically told his superior officer what to do. It was turning out to be another fun day on SG-1.

XXX

Jack had gone overboard with the fire, Cameron thought. Jack and Teal'c had arranged dry logs as chairs to sit on and made a large fire pit. Inside was a flaming inferno that had become the campfire. But he couldn't complain.

The temperature had dropped twenty degrees as the sun had fallen and a north wind had made it feel significantly colder. Now he was glad he'd worn the full black jacket.

He reached forward with his hands, warming them by the fire. Jack was showing Teal'c the proper art for cook marshmallows over an open fire using a stick he'd found in the woods. There was a large pile of wood beside Teal'c.

Sam had finally taken a break from working on the ancient computers after her laptop had burned through its third battery. She was sitting beside Jack. Cameron couldn't help but notice how close the two of them were.

Suddenly, Teal'c stood up. He held up a hand to quiet everyone around the fire. Cameron had worked with Teal'c long enough to know that this meant trouble. He quietly stood and walked over to him.

"What do you hear?"

Teal'c straightened. "Colonel Mitchell, accompany me."

Cameron nodded and followed Teal'c as they cautiously walked through the bushes. Cameron tried to listen for whatever it was Teal'c had picked up on, but couldn't hear anything.

He didn't stay in the dark for long. A staff weapon blast forced him to duck. He raised his P90 and fire a burst at the source of the blast. Teal'c ducked behind a tree and returned fire as a torrent of staff weapon shots ripped through the area where he and Teal'c had just been standing.

Cameron waived his hand back towards the camp. He then rolled behind a tree and stood back up. He quickly grabbed his radio. "Get back to the compound Sam!"

"What the hell's going on?" Came Jack's response.

"Jaffa ambush!" Cameron snapped in reply. He fired a burst from his P90 then darted back behind another tree. All around him, staff weapons continued to fire mercilessly.

Cameron grabbed a grenade off his belt. "Fire in the hole!" He yelled as he pulled the pin and threw the grenade.

Using the grenade as cover, Teal'c and Cameron ran back towards the compound as fast as their legs could carry them. All around them, they could hear the shouts of Jaffa as they ran into the compound.

Daniel and Sam were covering the sole entrance from one side, Jack was covering it from the other side. Cameron motioned for Teal'c to help Sam while he crouched down next to Jack.

"Damn I miss going off world!" Jack said excitedly.

"Fun, isn't it?" Cameron replied.

"You wouldn't believe it." Jack replied sarcastically.

No Jaffa came through the entrance, but Cameron could hear them as they formed a perimeter. There'd be no escape. Cameron took a deep breath. This was not going to be pretty.

A quick glance at the wall confirmed that they didn't have to worry about the Jaffa climbing over the walls. At least not for awhile. Cameron forced himself to keep glancing over his shoulder. The last thing he need was to be shot in the back.

A horn sounded. A lone Jaffa stepped through with his arms in the air. "Humans of SG-1!" The Jaffa bellowed. "We offer you a last chance at surrender."

Teal'c stepped from his position of cover with his hands equally in the air. "Who do you serve Jaffa?" Teal'c snarled in his darkest voice.

"By the order of Lord Gerak, this compound is now the property of the Jaffa."

"If this was solely about that, you wouldn't have fired on myself and Colonel Mitchell in the woods."

"The Prior of the Ori requests that this compound be secured in his name. In the name of future relations with Ori, Gerak has told us to take it at all costs."

"Have you truly fallen so far?" Teal'c replied.

"It is not we who have fallen. It is you."

"Brother, hear me. The Ori are not gods, and you should not worship them as such."

"I do not serve the Ori, but Gerak." The Jaffa still seemed arrogantly proud of himself.

"Gerak serves the Ori."

"You lie!"

"The old ways have fallen brother, stop this madness before it is too late."

"No Teal'c. If this must come to battle, you will fall." The Jaffa stepped back through the opening.

Cameron stiffened as the same horn sounded again. This time with a war cry following it. Then the first Jaffa stepped through the entrance. Cameron didn't waste time, he fired.

The Jaffa flipped backwards as the bullets connect with his head. The second Jaffa met a similar fate. Cameron continued to fire as more and more Jaffa stepped through the opening.

He glanced over his shoulder just in time to see the first Jaffa start to climb over the wall. He turned and fired. He knew at that moment, they didn't stand a chance.

As soon as he finished his thought, he was consumed in a bright white light. For a second, he though he was dead. Then he realized they were in a similar structure, except that it was surrounded by large rolling hills and the sun was directly above them in the sky.

He glanced at Jack. "Where the hell are we?"

"Don't have a clue." Jack replied.

"I think we were just transported somewhere." Sam suggested.

"So where is here Carter?" Jack asked.

"I don't know?" Sam replied. "But my laptop is gone."

"Is everyone alright?" Cameron asked.

"Fine." Daniel replied, stepping out from behind his piece of cover.

"I am uninjured." Teal'c replied.

Without warning, three men appeared all around them. Each man was dressed in ragged clothing, but carried a large rifle of some sort. Cameron instinctively raised his weapon.

"In the name of the Ori, drop your weapons!" The lead man called.

Cameron nodded at Teal'c. He then counted to three in his head, then he turned and fired. He caught the soldier nearest to him with a shot to the head. Teal'c and Sam had taken the other soldiers.

"In can't be." Daniel said aloud.

"What?" Jack snapped.

"I think we're in the Ori home galaxy."

"And we're about to have company!" Cameron yelled as he noticed number of figures headed towards the compound. "Teal'c take point and get us out of here! Sam, Jackson in the middle. General, you and I have the rear."

Teal'c quickly darted through the opening and into the trees. The figures darting over the hills soon turned out to be soldiers. Teal'c was threading his way blindly away from them. In only minutes, they were engaged in a running gun battle.

The Ori soldier's weapons turned out to be energy weapons, very similar to the staff weapon in terms of both range and accuracy. Cameron swore as shots passed near him. He could feel the heat from each shot as it passed.

Teal'c paused as they reached a ravine. He suddenly stopped and turned. Cameron stopped and tried to turn around. His foot got caught in the mud and he twisted his ankle around. He let out a moan of pain as a shot hit his ankle. He blacked out as he fell off the cliff.