Chapter 5

At 0630 all of SG-1 sat around a large table in the middle of the briefing room, at the end of it was General O'Neill.

"Ok kids, I take it we all had a nice night last night." General O'Neill grimaced.

"Yes, sir," Colonel Mitchell said, "Now, what adventures with P4X-584 bring us this time, Sir?"

The General handed over his command to the young Colonel Rivers.

"Well, to answer your question Cam," Alex paused and put up a series of images on the projector screen, "P4X-584 is a non-inhabited planet, that has an interesting magnetic pole. The science team and I would like to go and study it."

"Ok, so let me get this straight," Cam said, "We're going to the planet to study the magnetic pole?"

"Cam, this is an opportunity of a lifetime," Sam chimed in from across the table, "Anyway, we're already going, whether you like it or not,"

"I know, but we're going to the planet to study the magnetic pole!" Mitchell said obviously annoyed.

"Cameron," Alex said sort of invading the colonel's personal space, "You'll think it's cool once your there, you can bring a compass and it should spin around in circles!"

"Oooo... Cool…" Cameron said sarcastically.

"Cam," Alex said looking at him with those dark brown eyes of hers, "Do it for Sunshine,"

"Fine, but only because of you and those darn eyes," Cameron said.

"Ok, then it's set, you disembark at 0900, as scheduled." General O'Neill said, as he stood up along with Colonel's Mitchell, Carter, and Rivers, and Major Davids. "Dismissed."

At 0830, SG-1 was in the prepping room, getting dressed and armed for the mission.

"Does it both any one else, that we are leaving this early?" Alex said, they all knew that she was not a morning person.

"No, not really," Cameron said, his team knew he was a morning person.

Alex zipped up her bullet proof vest and strapped her holster on her thigh and stuck her 9 mil in it. She also clipped her P-90 to her vest. The rest of her team did the same and they all headed down to the gate room on level 28.

After the gate had opened and the puddle like event horizon was in front of them, they heard of the communications system in the gate room,
"SG-1, you have a go!"

SG-1 walked up the steel ramp and stepped through the event horizon. They ended up on a different planet, P4X-584. The first thing that SG-1 saw was a lot of trees. When they looked past the trees, they notice a large circular object in the sky, the moon.

"That moon is large!" Colonel Mitchell said.

"Indeed. Larger than the planet itself, Colonel Mitchell" Teal'c stated as he walked off the platform around the gate and into the forest, the team was close behind.

Cameron looked over at Alex, "Why isn't that the planet then?"

"The atmosphere isn't breathable for humans on the moon; therefore, this is the planet." Alex responded to Cameron's question.

"Got it."

They walked through the forest for quite a long time before Alex stepped on something she probably shouldn't have. All of SG-1 was transported up and into the hat'ack vessel, Ba'al's hat'ack vessel.

"Shoot, not this again," Cameron declared as he and his team slowly crept around the vessel careful not to get caught. They walked around with their weapons ready, safety off. The Jaffa patrol eventually got the best of them and they were captured, stuck in the same cell they were in last time they got themselves into the predicament. The serpent guard took their weapons and their vests so they were left empty handed. SG-1 was thrown into the cell, Alex was thrown first into the cell, and Cameron was thrown on top of her. Alex grunted from underneath him as he rolled of her, he propped her up and she rested her head against his chest.

"Don't do that again," Alex said out of breath, and coughed afterward.

"Not like I did it on purpose." Cameron said as he wrapped his arm around his best friends shoulder.

"Still, don't do it again," Alex said as she closed her eyes.

Cameron rubbed her shoulder and the same time as he patted it. She fell asleep in his arms.

Scott felt very jealous that his wife was sleeping in her commanding officer's arms. Scott wished Alex was safe in his arms, but at least she was safe, for now.

Soon, the serpent guard came into the cell and took Alex from Cameron's arms. Alex reached out in a desperate attempt to hand onto Cameron. She failed. The serpent guard dragged her out of the cell and brought her into Ba'al's "office".

"Colonel Alex Rivers," Ba'al said banefully, "You are a beautiful woman, your husband is a lucky man."

"What do you want from me?" Alex said bluntly, hoping she could get out of their soon.

"I need information." He said quickly and retrieved a device that he had resting on a table next to his throne.

"I'm not going to tell you anything." Alex replied with a rude tone to her voice.

"Oh, I have other ways of retrieving information than interrogating you." He said as he pushed the thumb tack looking device into her temple, she winced with pain as it was inserted.

"This is not going to work; you're not going to get any information." She replied as she felt a small electrical charge come from the device, "What in the world is this thing?"

"It is a memory recall device, I'll ask you questions and what you're thinking will be projected to the machine up there." Ba'al said as he pointed to a large screen on the opposite side of the over decorated room.

"Go to hell," was her simple response.

Ba'al turned the device up and asked her a question, Alex concentrated really hard not to give him any information, but she thinks she could have let small details slip here and there. Ba'al finally gave up.

"Take her back to the cell." He ordered one of his serpent guards, the serpent guard took Alex by her arm and guided her to the cell, once there he threw her in.

Alex landed on the hard cement floor, and lost consciousness. She woke up in her husbands arms; the moment she woke up she grabbed onto his sleeve and held on tightly.

"Hey, Sweetheart," Scott said caringly, "We thought we lost you there for a moment.

"No, I'm still alive," Alex said jokingly as she sat up a little and rested her head again her husband's shoulder.

"How's Sunshine?" Cameron asked as he walked over to his teammates.

"I'm fine, Cam," Alex said as she wrapped her arm around Scott's waist.

"Good to hear it, Sunshine," Cam said as he patted her shoulder and headed back over to Daniel, Sam, and Teal'c.

Alex lay in Scott's arms until the serpent guard came in and took her from him, again.

"What the heck do you want from me this time, Ba'al?" Alex said brusquely.

"Just more information, Colonel," Ba'al said bluntly as he stuck the device he had last time into her temple once more.

"Screw you,"

"This time, Colonel, we are going to try a different approach to things." Ba'al mused. Ba'al cranked up the dial on the controller for the device on Alex's temple, Alex let out a shout of pain, as she collapsed to the floor.