Chapter 3: Welcome to Stargate Command
The next day, Kim arrived at a base with a tunnel leading into the mountain. The words, 'Cheyenne Mountain Complex' were over the tunnel entrance. "This must be the place." She said.
When Kim approached the complex, an SF stepped out of a guardhouse, blocking her path. "I'm sorry, but this is a restricted area." He said. "You must leave now."
"Actually, I got a message from a Colonel Samantha Carter." Kim started while pulling out the Security Card. "Saying I was recruited."
The SF took the card and looked at it. He then looked at Kim, then back to the card. He handed it back to Kim, and moved out of her way. "Proceed to the elevators. Someone will meet you there." The SF went into the Guardhouse and started talking into a phone.
Kim continued into the complex, and went through a Security Checkpoint. When she was finished there, she was escorted to the elevators. Another SF that stood next to the elevator swipes a security card into the door mechanism, and the elevator opened. When Kim entered, she noticed a woman with short blonde hair wearing a black shirt and greenish-gray pants. The elevator doors closed behind Kim and the button for the 28 level was pressed.
"Kim Possible. Welcome. It's a pleasure to meet you." The woman extended her hand and Kim took it. "I'm Colonel Samantha Carter, but you can just call me Sam."
"Well then, Sam. What kind of top secret project is this, anyway?" Kim asked.
Carter handed Kim a folder and she started reading it. The folder contained information about some of the last ten years. From the start of the Stargate project, the war with the Goa'uld, the Ori, meeting alien races, traveling to other planets, along with so much more. When Kim was finished, she looked at the Colonel with a skeptical look. "You're kidding, right?"
Carter shook her head. "Sorry. This is all true."
The elevator stopped on Level 28 and they got off. Kim still didn't believe that people have been going to other planets. Carter was leading Kim through the hallways. "What's so hard to believe?" Carter asked.
"This Stargate is!" Kim exclaimed. "A device that is capable of creating a stable wormhole. That's impossible!" She went and looked through the folder until she came to a picture of a ring-shaped object with thirty-nine symbols. "It's more like Science-Fiction, then reality." Kim stopped walking when Klaxons starting blaring. "What's going on? She asked.
Carter smiled. "Why don't I show you?"
Carter led Kim through a Blast Door and into a much larger room, one that resembled a Missile Silo. Kim looked around, and when her eyes fell on a ring-shaped object the folder she was holding dropped from her hands. Some chevrons were lighting up. When seven chevrons were lit, a blue portal appeared inside the ring and an unstable vortex kawooshed out of it. Kim gasped and jumped at the same time in reaction to the devise activating. The blue vortex then pulled back into the ring, and it looked like water as it rippled. A metal shield-like barrier closed in front of the event horizon.
"Incoming traveler." Blared the intercom.
Kim was in shock for a few seconds. "Wh-what's that?" She stuttered.
Kim's reaction was exactly what Carter expected and she couldn't help but smile. "THAT is the Stargate. Looks like someone is coming back. Let's go to the control room."
Kim quickly picked up the folder, and followed Carter, as she left the room and entered the hall. They went through a door to their right and up the stairs. Inside the Control Room was dark, except for some lights that come from various machines. Many people were in the Control Room. One of them was sitting at the computers, while another was standing over him, wearing a blue shirt, with the insignia of 'General'.
"What have we got, chief?" The General known as Landry asked.
"Receiving IDC sir. It's SG-7." The Chief Master Sargent, Walter said. "Arriving on schedule."
"Open the Iris." General Landry ordered.
Walter placed his hand on a hand scanner, and the Iris opened. Moments later, four people came through the event horizon, and then the Gate dissipates. General Landry turned and notices Colonel Carter, and Kim was standing beside her.
"Colonel. I assume this is the Kim Possible I've heard about?" General Landry asked.
"Yes, sir." Colonel Carter replied.
"Unfortunately, with the arrival of SG-7, we're going to have to wait. Unless, you want to get her team assembled?" The General inquired.
"Of course, sir." Carter replied.
"We'll be debriefing when her team is assembled." General Landry left.
Carter took Kim to a room with a small table, and some folders on the table. Kim took a seat. "What are these?" Kim asked.
"Personnel files. You were recruited for your leadership skills, and you're getting your own team. Think carefully before making a decision. I'll be back in an hour to check up on you."
For the next hour, Kim went through one folder after another. There were some that were impressive, while the rest Kim didn't considered. Many of the personnel Kim read about, she knew from either from when she was saving the world, or school. She picked up the last folder and opened it. She raised an eyebrow as she read the folder.
"Impressive." Kim said as she read over the file. "One of the most impressive I ever read."
"Then I believe you've chosen your team?" Came a voice from the doorway.
Kim turned around and saw Carter. She turned back to the folders as Carter came and sat.
"I'm more like having trouble picking out a team, but this one here," Kim passed the folder to Carter. "Is more impressive than the rest."
"So, this is all?"
"Well, can I make some small requests?" Kim asked.
"What do you have in mind?" Carter asked.
Bonnie sat at in a Terminal, waiting for her flight, which she's been waiting for the last hour. Bonnie was being transferred to be in England tomorrow. She heard the Flight Attendant announcing that boarding was in progress. She reached to grab her bag and headed to board the plane.
"Major Rockwaller?"
Bonnie stopped and turned around. A man, in a full dress Air Force uniform, approached her. He had brown hair, and held the rank of Major.
"Who are you?" Bonnie asked. "And can we make this fast? I have a plane to catch."
"I'm Major Paul Davis. And no you don't." Major Davis replied. "You're being reassigned. Please come with me."
In an Area 51 lab, Wade had just completed a simulation of an experiment he was working on.
"Another complete success." Wade started to go and put on the finishing touches when the phone rang. He walked over to the phone and picked it up. "Dr. Load here."
"Report to the front gate. You're needed." A scientist on the other end said.
Hanging up the phone, Wade left his lab. When he got to the front gate, a man in a full dress Air Force uniform approached him.
"Dr. Wade Load." He said.
"Yes." Wade slowly responded.
"I'm Colonel David Walker, and you're being transferred."
Kim waited in the briefing room for her team to arrive. It's been more than six hours and counting. She had been keeping herself by reading mission reports of the flagship team called SG-1.
"Hostile aliens"…"Phase Shifting"…"Traveling to other realities"…."Acquired alien technology"…."Traveled back in time"?… Did they really blow up a sun?" Kim wondered out loud.
"Yes, we did." Kim's head snapped towards the doorway and saw Carter, who came and sat down.
"That's got to look awfully good on any resume?" Kim said.
"We've done some pretty amazing things. Right now, your team is here." Carter said.
General Landry entered, followed by seven people. Three of them were Kim's team. But Kim didn't know the other four. The others were three men and a woman. One of the men had brown hair, glasses and was obviously a civilian by the look of him. He was Dr. Daniel Jackson. Another man was dressed in blue Air Force clothing, with his sleeves rolled up, brown hair and with the rank of Colonel. That was Colonel Cameron Mitchell. The last man was tall, dark and silent, with a gold emblem on his head. He was known as Teal'c. The last one was a woman with black hair, and seemed very bored. She didn't look like she was in the Military. She was Vala Mal Doran. Everyone took a seat. When the three took notice of Kim, they were taken off guard.
"Kim? What are you doing here?" Tara asked.
"I was recruited." Kim replied. "And it's good to you guys."
"It's nice that you know each other, but getting back to the reason we were called to this briefing." Colonel Mitchell said, then everyone focused their attention to General Landry.
"Your mission is to P3X-545. It's a standard Recon mission. The MALP showed indigenous plant life, but nothing else in the immediate vicinity. Doubtless anything will go wrong, or that you'll find anything at all." General Landry said.
"Oh, come on! Every single Recon Mission has always been," Mitchell paused for a second when he saw the look on the faces of the new team. "A walk in the park." He finished with a fake smile.
"Actually, according to some mission reports, Colonel, something always seems to go wrong for your team." Kim said, glaring at Mitchell.
"No, not every mission goes wrong for us." Jackson said, drawing out the words. "Just... most missions."
"Besides, it's like a one in a hundred million chance that something will go terribly wrong." Vala said.
"Thanks for the reassurance." Bonnie sarcastically said.
"But in the event that anything might go wrong, SG-1 will be joining you." General Landry said.
"So in other words, we have babysitting duty." Colonel Mitchell said.
"Exactly." The General responded.
"The last time we had babysitting duty, something went terribly wrong." Colonel Mitchell reminded the General.
"Indeed." Teal'c said as he remembered the events.
"What happened?" Bonnie asked.
"SG-1 was stranded at the Gamma Site with some Delegates from the IOA, and they were nearly eaten alive, by insects." General Landry responded. Kim and her team cringed at what they heard. "The Delegates made it out alright. Now, gear up and be ready in one hour."
Everyone left to get ready for the upcoming Recon Mission. Each member of SG-1 had the belief that the upcoming mission will be nothing then a standard, simple, Recon mission. But unbeknownst to them, that this mission is far different than anything anyone of them have ever experienced.