The SGC was contacted by a young man called Duan, a member of a people known as the Terion who SG-8 made contact with only a couple of months ago, he dialled Earth requesting urgent help when his village was attacked by what he called a beast, he didn't have much time to explain before the connection was lost.
Daniel and Sam had played back the video transmission they received from the MALP, just before the gate connection was lost they saw something very large on screen pass by, the transmission cut off quickly and the final seconds of the video is quite fuzzy, despite freeze framing and running image analysis to try clear it up, they've been unable to clear it up enough to figure out what it was they saw.
Despite the lack of information regarding what exactly this 'beast' is and the obvious risks involved in going to another planet without knowing what they're up against, SG-1 requested that they be the ones to go and check it out, it took some convincing but General Landry eventually agreed to let them go.
SG-1 geared up and are gathering in the gate room preparing to depart on their mission.
"What is taking them so long?, we've been here for ten minutes." moans Jack, looking at his watch.
Jack, Daniel, Mitchell and Teal'c are in the gate room waiting for the others.
"You know girls." replies Mitchell.
"Are you telling me or asking me?." asks Jack.
"I'm just saying, girls take a while to get ready sometimes." replies Mitchell.
"This isn't a date, we're going on a mission...not ballroom dancing." says Jack.
Jack gets impatient, "This is ridiculous, I'm going to go find them." he says, walking towards the gate room entrance, as he gets to the door the others come around the corner, "Oh there you are." he says.
"We're here, sorry, sorry." says Vala.
"Where have you been?." asks Jack, sounding like a father yelling as his disobedient children.
"Getting our gear. We were talking and, well I guess we get caught up. We're not scheduled to leave for another minute, we're here now." says Sam.
Jack points to the foot of the ramp, "Go stand over there." he orders.
Sam, Vala and Alisana walk together towards the ramp, giggling a little at the feeling of being told off, "He's cranky because he didn't get a lot of sleep last night." whispers Alisana.
"I'm not cranky!." moans Jack.
They stand by the ramp ready to disembark on their mission, the girls compose themselves, they were just having a laugh but know full well how serious this mission is, they need to get to Terion and find out what's going on and hopefully find Duan and other survivors of the attack.
"Dial it up!." shouts Mitchell, turning to look at Walter behind the glass in the control room.
P3X-006: Terion
They arrive through the gate on Terion, the planet is in daylight and it appears to be mid afternoon time, the gate is situated in a clearing surrounded by tall thick woodland, Jack, Mitchell and Teal'c took point with the others following behind, they come through with their P-90's held up defensively and scan the immediate area with their eyes as they slowly move forward and spread out waiting for the others to come through the gate behind them.
Jack signals the others to spread out and check the area and blind spots, after a few minutes checking the perimeter they fall back and gather by the gate, "Anything?." asks Mitchell.
"Nothing." replies Jack.
Teal'c holds out a rag jacket he found, "I found this in the brush, but did not see anyone. I believe it is the garment Duan was wearing. There is nothing here, O'Neill." he says.
"There's blood on it." says Daniel, seeing a red stain on the sleeve.
"Well there's definitely something here." says Sam, from a few meters away.
The others walk over and join her.
"Is that the MALP?." asks Daniel.
"It was." replies Sam.
The MALP is on the ground completely crushed and broken, it's like a crumpled tin can that somebody's stood on.
"Whatever did this must be pretty strong, there's no signs of any weapons being used and no blast damage." says Sam.
They all stand up straight and look around erratically when they hear the faint echo of a roar coming from somewhere in the distance.
"Maybe we should get out of here." asks Vala.
"I think we should head for the village." says Daniel.
"Ooor lets dial the gate and go home. Show of hands." says Vala, holding up her hand, scared by the roar she heard.
"All right, let's find the village." says Jack, turning and heading in to the woods with the others.
Vala stands still, "You guys go ahead, I'll stay here and guard the gate." she shouts.
"Vala." shouts Daniel, "Let's go." he adds.
"Damn!" says Vala, hesitantly following and catching up to the others, "Fine. But if I get mauled to death I'm going to kill you." she moans.
As they all move slowly through the woodland they pass a lot of toppled and broken trees, the trees are broken at the tops as well as the bottoms, it's clear something very large and very strong passed through here not too long ago, they stop suddenly when their finely tuned military hearing picks up movement near by, Mitchell signals the others to get low and remain quiet and still.
They lightly spin around aiming their weapons as they hear the sound of breaking twigs, one after another and the sound is getting closer, then they stop and aim at some trees when they hear a rustling and pin point the sounds location.
A man comes running out from behind the trees and then stops with his hands up in shock at seeing SG-1 in front of him, "Freeze!" shouts Mitchell, about to open fire but recoiling his weapon after realising it's a Terion man and he's unarmed, "Jeesh." he groans.
"Please don't hurt me." says the man, clearly terrified.
"Relax, we're not going to hurt you." says Jack.
"You scared us half to death, what are you doing out here?." asks Mitchell.
The man is quite disoriented and confused, "Our village was attacked by a monster, we tried to frighten it away and defend ourselves but it was too big and too strong, it destroyed our homes and killed and injured many of our people. We were unable to stop it so we fled in to the woods hoping it would simply grow tired and leave..but..it followed us, hunted us down like animals, we all got separated and I got lost in the woods." he explains.
"Your leg is hurt, Sam can you pass me the first aid kit." says Alisana, noticing the man bleeding from a deep wound on his leg.
The man sits against a tree while Sam and Alisana tend to his wounds.
"Hi, I'm Daniel." says Daniel, talking softly to try and keep the man calm, "What did it look like?." he asks.
"I am Paito. It was enormous, I've never seen anything like it, certainly not in my life time." he says.
"Some kind of animal?." asks Daniel.
Paito shakes his head, "It was no animal, it was a monster...I...my head is floating." he says.
"That's the morphine, it's starting to take effect." says Sam, "Sorry Daniel, we had to give him something to calm him down and numb the pain, I don't think he's going to be much help for a while." she adds.
"All right, the village can't be much further. You guys stay here. Mitchell, Teal'c and I will go check it out." says Jack, checking his weapon and then heading off.
It takes them roughly half an hour to reach the boundary of the woods and the village, the sky has dimmed as night time settles on Terion, as they walk slowly through the middle of the village they can see the destruction left behind by the mysterious beast, most of the log houses are broken and wrecked with whole sides and roofs ripped off, the bodies of some lifeless villagers lay scattered around and the area is just a complete mess.
"God." mumbles Jack, a little distressed by the sight.
As they pass by one of the slightly less damaged houses they hear something inside, they position themselves defensively around the door, Jack and Teal'c position themselves at either side and after a few seconds Teal'c opens the door and Jacks spins around and steps in to the house, he moves in and Teal'c and Mitchell follow, they don't immediately see anything but then they hear another sound from the corner of the room.
They circle around a table and when they see behind it they find a woman cowering with two young children and holding them tightly together, "Take it easy, take it easy..." says Jack, signalling the others to lower their weapons, "..we're not going to hurt you, we're from Earth we're here to help, it's okay." he says.
The woman and young children understandably shaken and scared slowly stand and sit at the table.
"Hey there." says Jack, smiling at the children, "..you hungry." he says, reaching in to his best pocket for a meal bar, "It's not that great but it's edible." he says passing it to them.
"Are you the only ones here?." asks Mitchell, softly.
Too shaken up to speak, the woman simply nods her head, then she quickly grabs the children and cowers once again behind the table when a loud roar comes from outside, Jack, Mitchell and Teal'c rush to the door and look around but don't see anything, then another loud roar comes from behind them.
"It is in the woods, O'Neill." says Teal'c.
"Oh, crap." says Jack, reaching for his radio, "Daniel, Sam, pick up!." he says.
"Yeah Jack." replies Daniel.
"The thing..the beast, it's in the woods." says Jack.
"O'Neill." says Teal'c, with urgency, when he notices trees start falling heading away from them.
Jack and Mitchell take off running towards the wood, "Teal'c stay with them." he orders, wanting him to stay with the woman and children, "Daniel, get out of there, it's heading your way, take cover now!" he shouts over his radio.
The beast is tearing through the wood and heading towards Daniel and the others, the beast has a big head start as Jack and Mitchell chase after it from behind as fast as their feet will carry them, after seeing for themselves the destruction the beast caused to the village, they know their team is in grave danger as it quickly gains on their position.