John still couldn't get the thoughts and butterflies out of his head and stomache as he held the ribbon and rank he had been given, It wasn't everyday that somebody in Atlantis made as far as General, heck Jack was now a three star General himself, but he had been on the SGC far longer then John had been even in the service.
"OK Sir, what do you need us to do, and when do we do it?" John asked Hayes.
"Well first off if you would be so kind as to introduce your family I think we can get you three working on the mission sooner then later." The President answered.
"Oh, well, this is my wife Teyla, and our daughter, Kiro." John said introducing his family, "what do you want us to do? Other then reload a Puddlejumpers drone bays?"
"Word from our deep space probes say that there is a ship in orbit of Earth right above the outpost, however nothing has happened thus far as we can tell. The three of you know this type of technoledgy now more then anyone else on the planet so we figure. . ."
". . . Send in a strike team in a cloaked Jumper see what's going on and use the drones there in case something gowes bad." John finished, it figured, he'd never get a bit of vacation time on his homeworld, or anywhere for that matter. "when do we leave?"
"A few minutes ago you were to leave, why are you even still here?" Hayes asked confused. The three headed for the jumper and the surface.
Once inside the jumper Kiro asked, "who was that? What did he give you Father?" She had no idea of the customs on Earth were like, even though she'd been living with the Ancients for so long, then several months to a year with the Dark Wraith on that one planet.
"It's nothing to worry about, just a little something for my rank back at home." John said, knowing that Teyla had spoken with Kiro beforehand about the Atlantis Military and how they ranked themselves. "As to who that man is, he's my commanding officer, so to speak." John then explained as simply as he could to his daughter how the President had command of the Earth based military, to a point.
John wasn't very good at explaining things so he said the simpe stuff he knew about how the Earth military worked, that way his daughter wouldn't get too confused like Teyla did. "To be simple, the presiodent has control over most of the miltary of Earth, so far so good I guess you could say, He can order me aroud, unless i'm offworld where he can't do a thing about it." he then explained what happened when he went back to Atlantis against orders. "Almost got fired from the military for that too."
The jumper soon crossed over the water to the whiteness of Antartica. and sooner still came into view of the installation, thougnone saw the Ori warship far above, nor did the life signs dector on the jumper pick up any soldiers around. As soon as the jumper touched down John opened the weapons pods, the president had been right, the jumper was weaponless.
But as John stood there wondering what to do next the dronee came up from the ground and reloaded themselves into the jumper, So far so good. when that was done Kiro asked if she could go and see the outpost that was deep in the ice, John agreed even though Teyla had a odd feeling of the place.
John though remained in the jumper as Teyla took Kiro into the top level of the installation, not knowing that seven Ori soldiers and one very well known Athosian were down there. John then nodded off, without really thinking of needing sleep, he knew that Teyla needed more then he did, so why bother to stay awake anyway.
Down below Teyla watched as her daughter looked over the Ancient made outpost, it was oddly warm. Teyla even felt it, as if someone had been living there recently. then the lift started back up on its own. 'this can't be good' Teyla thought when shots rang out and Kiro screamed.
Teyla felt something hit her from behind, and when she woke up she found herself no longer inside the outpost under the ice, instead she was inthe small globelike place above the opening. 'Kiro?! oh No!!' Geting up from where she sat she went to find John.
She all but ran into the jumper, "John, wake up! It's Kiro, she's missing!" Teyla yelled into his ears.
"That was my ear Teyla no need to yell so loud..." Then it hit John of what his wife just told him. "Kiro, where, when, how, who?!" he asked grabbing his gun from where he'd set it.
"In the outpost under the ice, I was hit from behind, then woke up, up here." Teyla explained taking her own weapon with her. She knew she didn't have a need to be worried, but then Kiro was always armed, just like Ronon was. But then whomever fired, and knocked her out, made her worry, who were they, and how did they get there before the three man team arrived?
"Lets go." John said leading the way into the first building, something was wrong, but then something always was. "You feel anyone?" John asked Teyla, who nodded, "What do you feel?"
"Someone i haven't felt in a very long time." Teyla said.