Jack set his tray down and shook his head as he saw the headline of the paper that Teal'c was reading. "I don't know why you read those Tabloids T!"
"The tales in these pages are much more interesting." Teal'c tilted his head
Jonas joined the table that was quickly becoming the SG1 table. "I agree with Teal'c the tabloids make for a more entertaining read. You see quite more of the human projection written on those pages than in your other News spreads."
Sam spoke up from behind Jack causing her CO to jump, "Jonas, Teal'c they are tabloids because they are fiction. No one has a bottled alien head in their bedroom, and no one has given birth to Bigfoot."
Jonas took the tabloid from Teal'c with permission, "What about this article on the back page?" Jonas flipped the paper over and read the brief caption under the shadowy picture. "Possible power ranger identity sighting are they human or alien?"
Jack shook his head, "the rangers are a big hoax it started about twelve years ago with some college students and now it has all the tabloids trying to find out the truth behind a series of horrible photographs that pop up a couple times a year."
Sam nodded her head as she sat down next to Teal'c, "It is indeed all too convenient. Stories of alien ships but we have never caught anything on our sensors and stories of battles that cause massive destruction that seems to repair itself leaving only witnesses who remember their house being stepped on but can't get their story straight about whether it was a giant robot, a mutant or an alien?"
"Yes and now we know who really reads those tabloids…" Jack rolled his eyes but stopped as Sam shook her head with one of her looks.
Dr. Grayson took that moment to walk up to them with a sandwich in her hand, "Hello Jonas how are you doing?"
"I am doing well thank you for asking." Jonas nodded and then held up his hand, "and my hand is all better as well."
"That is good to hear, I heard you arguing about the power rangers?" Dana asked looking at SG1
Jack shook his head, "We were not arguing; we were teaching Jonas and Teal'c about tabloids and hoaxes in the media."
"Well like it or not the power rangers are real." Dana smirked, "I know I have seen one."
Jack got a wide surprised look on his face, "Oh yes that is right you are the civilian doctor that was recruited from the failure of a project, "Lightyear research and rescue?"
"It is Lightspeed Rescue and research development. My father formed it and got governmental support to fund the organization in order to study the power rangers. It was just by sheer luck that a team came to the Mariner Bay area."
"of course it was a coincidence." Jack mocked the doctor who shook her head at his teasing.
"I have a better use of my time and I don't need you to mock me Colonel. You are free to believe that the power rangers don't exist and I am free to believe that they do and that they are here to save our planet. I am also free to share my beliefs because I am a civilian." Dana nodded her head in confidence before leaving with her sandwich.
PRSG1
Going to the infirmary Dana went into her office and locked the door. She set her sandwich on the desk and reached into her pocket. She pulled out an encrypted disc while hiding the act from the ever present camera. She then turned the screen off as she plugged the disc in. she had grabbed the disc from Billy just moments before grabbing a sandwich. She was surprised with her nervousness about espionage when she had effectively been hiding such a fact for years what with Lightspeed's two faced nature. One face had been government friendly handing over reports offering up proof to the power rangers' existence and the other a secret face in which Lightspeed were the ranger team. It was her job here at the SGC to use those skills of hers to get the GSA any and all applicable information pertaining to anything that may or may not be directly linked to the GSA.
The disc ejected itself once it had copied everything that it needed. She then slipped it back into her pocket and then ate her sandwich before going to her set appointment with Eric. She was not looking forward to meeting with Eric but he needed the disc so that he could copy anything he needed to share.
Walking out to the infirmary after finishing her sandwich she saw that Eric was on time for his post mission physical. Janet Fraiser was about to call for him but she nodded and said she would take him. Eric walked over to a bed and sat down, "You nearly lost the opportunity …" Eric paused, "the opportunity to spend with one of the best looking guys on base."
Dana shook her head, "I am married and you should remember that." Dana sneered at the officer as she took his vitals.
Dana stepped in closer and made it look as if she had tripped. At that moment Eric reached out to stabilize her and she felt his hand slip into her pocket as her slipped the disc up his shirt cuff and then into his own pocket. Dana was glad that GSA discs were hardier than the discs that were earth made.
Dana righted herself and she finished the physical before calling over a nurse to give Eric his shots and she made her way to the next appointment.
PRSG1
Eric sighed as he went to his own workstation. Each SG team had a small bay which was their teams staging ground. All the paperwork they needed was there however the bigger teams like SG1 tended to hang out in the labs if they had a geek who was high enough up the feeding chain to have their own office. Making a sweep of his team's area he sighed in relief when he realized that SG18's area was clear. He sat at the computer and quickly slid the disc into the computer.
Lieutenant Cawthorne walked in and grabbed a hat off of a shelf, "Haven't headed home yet Captain?
"No, I had some additional paperwork to finish so I decided to take a whack at it before heading home." Eric said casually, "After all I do have only my birds at home."
"Well enjoy then." Lieutenant Cawthorne walked out but then poked his head in the door, "Are you sure you don't want to join us? I mean Lieutenant Hailey is going to try and beat her record at the pool tables at O'Malley's and you know you can't beat that girl's genius."
Eric waved him on, "You go on ahead, I am going to finished up here and go back home to my birds."
As soon as Lieutenant Cawthorne left Eric removed the disc from the computer and slipped it into his pocket. Eric played nice and filed a few pages of reports so that his alibi would pan out if anyone were to ask about his extra hours logged in at the base. He then went and wandered down towards the labs with a report of energy readings that needed to handed off to one of the scientists. Lieutenant Hailey had intended to do it herself but she had already run the analysis on the disc and didn't exactly need to hand it off in person so he would save her the extra paperwork. Anyways he had a scientist he needed to visit.
Eric walked into Billy's lab and seeing that the scientist was engaged in a conversation with Major Carter he held up the paperwork and set it with the disc in the intake slot. He knew Billy understood because as he went to leave he heard the conversation take a turn towards ending.
Eric sighed, he didn't understand why Billy seemed to get the responsibility to making the Intel drops but the responsibility fell on him for the time being.
PRSG1
As soon as Major Carter had left the lab Billy sorted through the paperwork and pulled out the disc which he slipped into her side bag. He would get the disc to his informant outside the base after he was done with the analysis readings from Lieutenant Hailey.
Billy copied the data and compared it to other ongoing projects before receiving a message on his cellphone. Realizing that his window to reach his informant was rapidly closing on him, he saved his data and left the lab.
Getting home he had barely pulled into his lab when a figure dressed in black slipped into his car, "I was wondering when you would show up?"
"I can't exactly slip around the base can I?" The person whispered, "I got stuck with the low head on the totem pole and wound up with an enlisted position. I don't exactly have freedom of movement around the base. I am lucky enough that my fighting skills got noticed and SG1 wants to use me for tactical strikes." The voice shook her masked face.
"Do you have your report?" Billy asked as the figure handed him a second disc and went to leave the car, "Tori, don't get caught."
"I am only seen if I want to be seen. You should worry more about Eric, he seems very insistent on being obviously protective of all of us." Tori nodded as she disappeared into the night.
Billy put both the disks together before going into his house. As he shut the door he attempted to flip the light switch and shook his head as the lights refused to turn on. His contact was in the house and they had disabled his fuse box in order for him to have an alibi to be in the basement.
He went downstairs and grabbed his flashlight as he walked down the stairs so that he wouldn't trip on the boxes he had stashed in the basement after his hasty move in. a hand grabbed him and flipped him as he guided his way along the path to the fuse box.
Laying on the ground he looked up at the shadowed figure that stared down at him. "good to see you too!"
"You're late!" the person said with a smile on their voice.
"You try single handedly retrieving the data from people you aren't supposed to know." Billy shook his head as he stood up and looked the person in the face as his sight adjusted to the darkness.
"So the SGC isn't on to any of you?" the person asked cautiously
"Not that I can tell. Although Dana sent me a message through the morphing grid earlier saying that at least SG1 thinks we are a load of bull made up by the tabloids." Billy shook his head
"I might be able to fix that." The person scratched the side of their mouth.
"what are you thinking?" Billy asked
"I will tell you I have been called to GSA headquarters to join a new movement." The person sighed
"Will you be returning?" Billy asked surprised
"Not for the foreseeable future." The person shook her head
"Well if you plan to leave with a bang I recommend that you don't do anything too showy. I think we are better off with them thinking the rangers are unrelated to the GSA. I mean all we need to do is tell them that we are connected and then the entire military will be tracking down the teams and making them go public and as you well know that is forbidden."
"I know what I am going to do so don't worry. I just need you to get me access to the SGC for some time in the next week." The person said thoughtfully
"That won't be easy but I will try to get you inside." Billy said thinking of ways he could do such a deed and get away with it. "Here are the discs; can I now get to repairing my fuse box that you shorted out?"
The person tossed a fuse at Billy and teleported out in a flash of pink light.
Billy shook his head as he replaced the fuse and returned to his upstairs in order to test the lights in his living room. Once the lights were on Billy looked towards the pictures on his wall and caressed the cheek of the young woman in one of the pictures. This war was starting to get to him, he knew it was necessary however too many people that meant something to him were being called off to fight in other regions of space. Some days he wondered if they were truly near the end.
PR PR
An Asian woman sat up and looked around at her sleeping companions. With a glance at the sky she saw that the night was fading and that soon it would be time to head for the meeting hall that had been designated for the event that would take place in the coming days.
She stood up and folded her blankets and packed them with her backpack that held her few belongings that she bothered keep. The day she had disappeared from the burning building had been life changing and she wondered if anyone thought of her. She let her mind wander to the day
1994
A young Asian woman ran through the fire and crumbling bricks. This was supposed to be a peace summit but she didn't know if they had been attacked or if something from inside had exploded. It was dangerous inside the burning building but she didn't care. There was a little girl trapped inside and she needed to help them. Fire fighters seemed cautious to continue but this young woman knew that the little girl who was trapped in the fire was important to the grand scheme of things and would need to be rescued or the balance would be thrown out of whack.
The young woman climbed a staircase and dodged around burning beams that were starting to fall from the ceiling. The smoke was making her cough so she tied her scarf tighter around her neck. She succeeded in finding the little girl to which she carried her down the stairs to the front exit.
The little girl turned around to call to her rescuer only to find no one behind her. No one would believe that there had ever been anyone rescuing that little girl but the girl would always remember the face of her rescuer knowing that she had been rescued by an angel.
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Mia shot up in bed and shook her head. She thought of the day that the angel had rescued her. She fingered her samurai symbol and sighed. Her mother had recently told her the complete legacy behind why she trained day in and day out to prepare for uniting with her Lord. She would be called on one day to help keep an evil that existed within the Earth itself from breaking free and joining with the bigger darkness that toyed with the Earth.
PRSG1
General Hammond walked into Carter's lab, "Major Carter this is Major Earnhardt, she will be tagging along with SG1 for the next few days as you field train her. She was going to be joining SG18 for her training however there are some previous hard feelings between her and Captain Myers."
Sam cocked an eyebrow at the Major after Hammond had left the lab, "Hard feelings with Captain Myers?"
"We ran into each other while I was on a leave of absence a few years ago and butted heads from the beginning. We can get along however it is better that we aren't left together for long periods of time." the Major sighed wistfully.
"You like him don't you?" Sam grinned
"Alright we do get along some of the time but because of our rank, well you know and if I had known he was here at this command I would never have accepted." the Major said but Sam sensed that the statement wasn't entirely true. "By the way you can call me Taylor if it isn't for official reasons."
"Well Taylor how about I introduce you to the rest of SG1?" Sam said as she closed down her files.