Daniel and Vala are in the mess hall, they've search an entire floor of rooms and come up empty, feeling tired and hopeless, Vala grabs a packet of nuts of the counter then walks over to a table and sits down, putting her feet up on the table she sits down and opens the packet of nuts.
Daniel is kneeling on the floor checking a cupboard in the corner, "Are you helping me look for these things or what?" asks Daniel as he sees Vala sitting down.
"Yes, Daniel." replies Vala.
"Well you're not going to find them there are you." says Daniel, "Get up and help me." he says.
Vala begins eating the nuts, tilting her head back and dropping them in to her mouth from above, "We've been searching for hours, I'd say its pretty hopeless at this point." she says.
Daniel takes a frustrated breath and then hears Carter's announcement over the radio that she found another piece and was heading back to Daniel's office.
"You see, did you hear that?" says Daniel, "There's still hope. Stop whining and help me." he adds.
Vala takes her feet off the table, "It's not here Daniel, we've searched everywhere already, unless you want to start opening tins of food I don't think we're going to find it in here." she says.
Daniel looks in to the messy cupboard he's kneeling at and then places his hand on the top and lifts himself up, "Yeah, I guess." he says, "The Generals office and briefing rooms are next, let's try there." he says.
Vala watches Daniel as he walks towards the mess hall door, "Daniel I'm tired, Can't we just stay here for a while." she says.
"No. Let's go." says Daniel as he walks out.
Vala ignores him and eats a few more nuts, then places her feet back on the table and sits back to relax, a few moments later Daniel swiftly walks back in to the room, he grabs Vala's hand and pulls her to her feet and walks her out of the room, "Daniel!" says Vala, moaning and complaining.
Carter and Alisana are walking back to Daniel's office when they see Mitchell and Teal'c getting off the elevator, "Carter, there you are." says Mitchell.
"Wohw, are you two alright?" asks Carter, looking at their cuts and bruises.
"We will be fine." says Teal'c, Mitchell looks at him, "Speak for yourself, I'm going to be in need of some serious R'n'R after this." he says, "Still...at least we got this." he adds, holding out the piece of the Triplex.
Alisana is holding the other one and reaches out and takes the piece from Mitchell, "Oh let me see." she says.
"We still have another piece to find, times running out. We should head back to Daniel's office." says Carter.
As they head off together down the hall, Daniel and Vala had reached the Generals office and checked looked it over, they didn't find anything and are now just finishing the briefing room.
Daniel stands with a blank expression as he watches Vala crawl out from under the briefing room table, "Find anything?" he asks, "Yes, the cleaners aren't doing a very good job of vacuuming under here." replies Vala, "Well come on." she says, holding out her hand waiting for Daniel to help her up.
As Vala dusts herself off with her hands, Daniel turns around and looks of the large window overlooking the gate room, looking down he sees the last piece of the Triplex resting on the gate ramp, "Vala" he says, "What?" asks Vala as she comes over.
Daniel briefly points down to the ramp, "I think we found it." he says.
"Well lets go get it." says Vala as she walks off and down the spiral staircase to the control room.
"Vala." says Daniel as they come to a stop at the control room window.
"What now?" asks Vala.
Daniel reaches for his radio, "Let me tell the others first. You remember what happened to Mitchell." he says, fiddling with his radio.
"Oh for goodness sake, Daniel. It's just sitting there." says Vala, she runs down the stairs and in to the gate room.
"Vala..wait." shouts Daniel, "Never listens to me." he says to himself while still fiddling with his radio, "Why don't you ever listen." he shouts down the stairs, "What's wrong with this thing!" he says, trying to get the radio to work.
Vala reaches the ramp and picks up the piece of the Triplex, she turns and holds it up so Daniel can see it, "You see, nothing happened." she shouts.
Then she feels a sharp prick on her hand and drops the piece on the floor, "Ouw" she says holding her hand, "What, what is it?" asks Daniel over the comms, "It cut me." replies an angry Vala.
Suddenly tiny bits of metal start rising from the ground like an ant hill and lifting the Triplex piece along with it, Vala backs away and runs out back up to the control room, Daniel seals the doors as she runs through them, using the emergency button to shut the doors also sets off the base alarms.
Vala and Daniel stand watching threw the window at the mound of metal, it 'swallows' the Triplex piece and then the pieces of metal take shape, a form.
The others who were on their way back to Daniel's office heard the alarm and ran to the control room to see what's happening when they were unable to contact Daniel on the radio, "Daniel" shouts Mitchell as they all run up the stairs, "Why did you set off the alarm?" he asks.
Both Daniel and Vala point at the window, they look out of it and realise what's going on.
"Replicators." says Daniel in a worried tone of voice.
Five Replicators have formed in the gate room and are scurrying around, one of them looks different to the others and carries the Triplex piece inside of it, Teal'c goes over to a locker at the back of the room that contains a small number of emergency weapons and he brings them over and hands them out.
Mitchell loads a shotgun, "Five Replicators...shouldn't be a problem." he says.
Teal'c and Mitchell head down the stairs carrying shotguns and tuck themselves against the wall at either side of the large door, "OK, open the door." says Mitchell over the radio, as the door slides open they run inside and open fire on the Replicators scattered around the floor, walls and ceiling.
It takes a minute or so but using the shotguns they manage to take out four of the Replicators, the final one carrying to Triplex piece makes a jump at Mitchell and Teal'c and they both turn around and shoot it at the same time, the Replicator breaks in to pieces and the Triplex piece drops to the floor.
"What did I tell ya, piece of cake." says Mitchell, bending down to pick up the Triplex piece, as they head towards the door it slides shut, they turn around and the other door also slides shut locking them in the gate room.
Then the Stargate starts spinning and once again Molo's deep mischievous laugh is heard in the room.
Carter quickly sits at a console trying to open the doors, "Open it up." shouts Mitchell, "I can't, the override isn't working." replies Carter, "We have an incoming wormhole." she adds.
"Close the IRIS" says Daniel.
"I'm trying, it won't let me." says Carter trying everything she can.
As the Stargate activates and a connection is made, Mitchell and Teal'c take a few steps back and load their shotguns, a few seconds later Replicators start pouring through the gate, climbing and clambering over it and up the walls, they open fire and step back as the gate room slowly fills up with the little buggers.
"Carter get the doors open!" shouts Mitchell over the noise and gunfire.
Carter and Daniel run down the stairs and to the gate room door, Carter opens a box at the side of the door an pulls the manual override lever down, she looks at the door but nothing happens, she pushes the lever up and down again and the door opens about an inch but then stops, "We need leverage." she shouts.
Daniel looks around frantically for something to use, he sees a thin pipe running up the back wall and he and Carter over to it, they pull and yank at it but can't pull it free, Daniel looks behind and stands with his back pressed against the wall, "Get out of the way." he says, then with his back pressed against the wall he raises his foot on to the side of the pipe and begins to kick at it, the bottom part breaks free and steam comes out of it.
Mitchell and Teal'c are quickly running out of ammo and being forced back in to a corner of the room by the increasing number of Replicators.
"Ouw." says Daniel as he tries to grab the pipe and burns himself a little on the steam, Carter removes her jacket and wraps it around her hands, using it to grab hold of the pipe she yanks it off, "Got it." she shouts, and she runs over to the door with it and wedges it into the inch wide gap of the door, "Pull" she says as her Daniel pull with all their strength trying to lever the door open.
The door begins moving slightly and Mitchell and Teal'c notice and lend a hand, Teal'c stands while Mitchell sits and they push with their hands and feet through the gap while Daniel and Carter continue to leverage outside, eventually a big enough gap is created and Mitchell and Teal'c squeeze through it.
"We're not going to be able to close that, the Replicators will get through it." says Carter.
"We must have weapons." says Teal'c, "Right." says Mitchell, he passes Carter the last piece of the Triplex and he and Teal'c run off to the weapons lockers while Carter and Daniel return to the control room.
When they return to the control room they see Replicators climbing up the windows, they start eating through the glass and they all step back, "Get upstairs...find anything you can to defend yourselves." says Carter, "Here take this." she adds as she throws the piece to Alisana.
Daniel, Vala and Alisana start running up the stairs, Carter was about to set the base self destruct when several Replicators break through the glass and enter the control room, one lands on the console in front of Carter and makes her jump, she falls backwards off her chair, "Sam." shouts Daniel as he sees what happened and runs back down the stairs to help her.
As two Replicators run along the floor towards Carter she fends them off with her seat and kicking her feet, Daniel reaches down and grabs her under her arms and pulls her back across the floor towards the stairs and lifts her up, "Let's get out of here." says Daniel and they run up the stairs.