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Ch. 4 We've got Trouble Jack!
Max was impressed. Sure, he negotiated a lot of hostage situations. He saved a lot of people. Just not on the scale that these two men did. He did decide to get the point of their visit back on track. "What does this have to do with where you were for the last six weeks?"
"I was offworld aiding one of our allies. Why are you asking all of these questions about our least favorite senator?"
"In the last several weeks, there have been several death threats against Kinsey. It was thought that as he was on the ticket with Hayes, these could be interpreted as terrorist threats. We have several credible sources that have pointed their fingers at you. Since my team is the best at counter-terrorism, I'm here."
"For cryin' out loud! Didn't I go through this about six months ago! Yes! I'd like to beat him to a bloody pulp! Occasionally, I want to shoot him! But that doesn't mean that I would!" He was fixing his death glare on Bhagat. Further explosions seemed eminent.
"That's what he meant. Of course! Think about it, Jack!" From the looks of things, Daniel was thinking faster than his mouth - and the rest of their brains - could move. Daniel was looking expectantly at Jack. When Jack gave him an empty look, Daniel practically bounced in his chair.
"Dr. Jackson, what did who mean?" Hammond asked patiently.
"Selmak told me when we were en route that Baal had a plan to shut down the SGC so that he would have a free shot at the Taur'i. What better way than to discredit us here? Implicate Jack, the 2IC here at SGC, in the death by terrorists of Kinsey. The president would suspend our operations. The senate would discontinue funding. We would be shut down and vulnerable to attack from Baal or Anubis or any number of other goa'uld."
Jack exploded with anger. "Son of a BITCH!" Jack slammed a fist on the table then jumped up. "These last six weeks have been a diversion? Carter and Teal'c are lying in the infirmary because a damned Tok'ra couldn't keep his ass out of trouble and Bocce Baal goes on and lays plans to shut down the SGC!" Jack continued pacing to try and process his agitation.
"So we have a terror threat from . . . aliens?" Tom was somewhat unconvinced. Of course, no one believed him when the Merchant was in Massachusetts. "What do we need to do?" He was already thinking of members of his team and how they would fit in on this op. Wildcard was a must. He needed someone who could think outside of the box. He was willing to bet that he'd need Nils' language skills. Sam would be good as a strategist . . .
Daniel spoke. "Well, maybe not so much a terror threat as a strategic move against us. We have been a very large thorn in their side for a very long time."
General Hammond looked a little proud. The Dr. Daniel Jackson of six years earlier didn't think in terms of strategy. He didn't even think of strategy. He could intuit like crazy, but he did not think as a soldier. Dr. Jackson had come a long way to being a warrior in this fight against the gould.
'How DOES one fight aliens?' Joe was thinking who he had to help in that effort. Crash would be good with his experience in black ops. Wesley and Bobby due to their almost telepathic communication would be perfect. Harvard, Blue, and the rest would be there as well. Joe had been fighting terrorists for more than ten years here on earth. He'd be damned if he'd let alien terrorists have a foothold here.
"Ok, Daniel, you call Jacob. Find out details. Remember, if Freya answers, it's Anise that likes you." Daniel looked uncomfortable at that. "I'll call my good buddy, Thor, and see if this would be a violation of the Protected Planets Treaty. Then I'll get up to the infirmary to check on Carter and Teal'c." Jack seemed to work out most of his agitation.
Hammond looked to the three other men. "If you will tell me who your commanding officers are, I'll take care of getting you and your teams TDY (temporary duty for those who don't know) here for the duration of this assignment. We'll need to brief them on what's going on. Mr. Bhagat, we'll need to brief your team as well, have them sign the paperwork, etc. I also need to call the President and Joint Chiefs. Let's get everybody here for this mission."
It took two days for all of the paperwork to get ready for so many newbies to the stargate. Joe, Tom, and Max worked out a basic plan and discussed strategies with O'Neill and Teal'c. All three men were awed by Teal'c's story. Here was a man who had power and privilege. He commanded armies for more than twenty years. He had a family, a wife and son. Yet he left it all behind to both humbly and proudly serve an old breaking down colonel.
"What did you see in this old man?" Joe smirked some.
"O'Neill is, in fact, younger than I. I am one hundred and four years old."
Tom's jaw dropped. "I thought that you were born for your position as first prime or you were a prodigy or something. I mean, Hell, you don't look like you are over thirty-five. I figured maybe forty or something and you aged well."
"I saw in O'Neill freedom. The knowledge that it is worthy to fight for. My people have been enslaved for hundreds of generations. Long had I tested Apophis and saw that he was no god. I had not seen an opportunity to both renounce him and obtain freedom for my people until I met O'Neill."
There were more than twenty men and women in a conference room twenty-five floors beneath Cheyenne Mountain with varying looks of shock, disbelief, and acceptance. General Hammond and SG-1 had briefed them. Teal'c was getting better. The tretonin had sped up the healing process. Sam was nearly one hundred percent. Sam had used the healing device on Teal'c to speed up his healing. Her burns were still healing but Janet had released her for the briefing. Everybody was already aware of the threats against Kinsey. They just found out where that threat was actually coming from. Apparently, the various pagan 'gods' did in fact exist. They just weren't gods; they were megalomaniac parasites with delusions of grandeur.
"Just to get this straight." Harvard was skeptical. "The god that the Israelites turned to and God supposedly sent them into slavery for, is an alien?"
"Yes, we ran into him about two years ago. Let's just say that we have a mutual hate society." Daniel glanced at Jack. Jack's scowl was fiercer than usual. "We recently rescued a prisoner of war from him. Much of our latest intel will be coming from him."
Sam started to outline their plan. "We're going to need two teams from among you. Frankly, we don't have that many military teams. The majority of them are scientific along with a few diplomatic teams. All of our military teams are either on medical downtime or on long term offworld missions, save SG-1. Our first team will be going offworld and gathering intel from our Tok'ra allies. Our second team will be setting up surveillance on Senator Kinsey. We have spoken with his aides. The President convinced them, and Kinsey, that this is a necessary course of action."
Several of the people around the table looked both surprised and pleased at the thought of going offworld. "Major Carter and Doctor Jackson will lead the offworld team. Colonel O'Neill and Teal'c will be leading the surveillance team."
Joe Cat looked at the men and women around the table. "I'm on the offworld team. This team will be known as Kinsey's Heros One, or KH-1. Also, on that team will be Blue, Lucky, Cowboy, Harvard, Mike, Stan, and Crash. Keep your eyes and ears open gentlemen. The people we are going to visit are allies. Aliens, but allies. Trust Major Carter and Dr. Jackson in all situations. They have seven years out there. You have a days knowledge."
"Major, once there, I want Jacob to finish healing those burns on your side." Sam looked to Hammond and nodded her acknowledgment to the order. "Gentlemen, I need to stress to you to listen to Major Carter and Dr. Jackson. They are the foremost experts on the gate, many of our allies, and many of our enemies on the other side of that gate. It is also Dr. Jackson's job to bring a nonmilitary point of view to the table. If he has an objection, listen to it because he's usually right."
"Conducting the surveillance and identifying the gould threat here on Earth will be Paoletti, Sam, Nils, Cosmo, Wildcard, Bobby and Wes. We will be Kinsey's Heros Two - KH-2. General, can we change the name? I don't want to be one of Kinsey's heros. I'd rather beat the crap out of him." When the general shook his head, Jack sighed. "Oh well. The FBI personnel will be officially, unofficially running this part of the op." Jack looked just slightly puzzled. "Or would that be unofficially, officially? Daniel?" Paoletti looked around the room at the slightly dejected faces. "Teal'c and I will also be leading this op. We know what to look for, be it the Jaffa or Gould."
Jack saw the disappointment in their faces. "Hey now, don't worry kids! Once this is all over, we'll take you on a nice field trip too." His grin was followed by face splitting grins all around.