Jack and Mitchell rush through the woods in complete darkness, around trees, through dense grass and bushes with only the erratic movement of their torches to light their path, they soon lose their way and get lost.
"How long have we been running, we should have reached them by now. Where are they?." asks Mitchell, as they both stop and slightly slouch over out of breath.
Jack looks around, he doesn't know which direction to take, all he sees is trees, "This way." he says, heading off again in no particular direction.
Meanwhile, after receiving the radio call from Jack the others have been making their way back through the woods to find cover, Paito, the injured man from the village, has had his wounds patched up but is unable to walk on one leg so Daniel and Vala have him perched between them as they head away as quickly as possible.
"Come on, hurry up I can hear it coming." shouts Sam, running in front with Alisana.
"Keep going. Don't stop." replies Daniel, sort of skipping along slowly behind with Vala and Paito propped up between them.
As she hears the creaking sounds of toppling trees, Sam starts running sideways with her P-90 pointed out with the flash light on and looking to the woodland behind them, then for a good few seconds it goes quiet and she stops running, "Wait, wait." she says, everyone stops running.
After a few moments of standing in silence, Vala removes Paito's arm from her shoulder and quietly walks over to Sam, "What is it?" she whispers through the eerie silence.
After moving his eyes around looking at their surroundings, "Let's get out of here." says Daniel, as Vala begins to walk back towards him, Sam snaps her head around after hearing a creak and with her flash light trained on the wood she sees a large tree falling, "Look out!" she screams.
The large tree topples and hits the ground between them and Daniel, breaking several more trees on its way down, moments after the tree fell the ground beneath their feet begins to break and shake, they look at the ground by the fallen tree which then begins to cave in, "Run, run!" shouts Sam.
Sam, Vala and Alisana run away as the ground continues to cave in and disappear behind them, but they can't outrun it, the cave in catches up with them and the ground swallows them all to the sound of their screams.
"Vala. Sam." shouts Daniel, in shock and standing behind the fallen tree, all he could do was watch on in horror as his friends ran for their lives.
He hears a roar within the trees beside him, then the sound of large footsteps as something bursts through the trees right ahead of him, through the darkness and now muddy dust filled air he sees the silhouette of the enormous beast which lets out an intense roar, he steps backwards and trips over Paito who was laying on the ground, he gets to his feet and reaches in to his holster and pulls out his side arm before emptying his clip at the beast.
Even when the clip is empty he continues to slowly back away and pull the trigger in fear with nothing happening, he watches as the beast appears to uproot a small tree from the ground and then swings it like a club and hits Daniel square in the chest sending him crashing sideways against a tree a few meters away.
Jack and Mitchell have been running through the woods and trying to find their team mates for quite some time, they stop moving again when they hear the beasts roar over the sound of crushing leafs and twigs beneath their feet, then they heard Daniels gunshots, "Damn it!, this way." says Jack.
A few minutes later they make it to the location of the gunshots and stop momentarily behind some trees and look out in to a clearing with the fallen tree and caved in ground, it's still extremely dark and the air is filled with dust from the cave in, like a thick mist, "You see it?." asks Jack.
"No." replies Mitchell.
Jack reaches for his radio, he tried it earlier but didn't get a reply and figured they went radio silent in order to hide, "Daniel, Sam...come in." he says.
No one responds on the radio but they do hear a faint groaning sound, they cautiously head out from behind the trees and in to the clearing, eventually stumbling on Paito laying on the ground, literally stumbling over him, "Paito. Where are the others?." asks Mitchell.
Paito lifts his head to speak but then passes out before he can say anything, "Paito!" says Jack, gently shaking him, he gets frustrated about the lack of information about his lost team mates, "Paito!" he spits through his teeth, "Damn it."
Then another groan a few meters away, Mitchell goes to investigate, "Its Daniel." he shouts, finding him face down on the ground beside a tree.
Jack goes over, "Anyone else?." he asks.
"No." replies Mitchell, getting bandages from his backpack and applying them to Daniel.
"Here." says Jack, passing him his water canteen, "Where are the others." he wonders.
"Can't be too far. He's hurt pretty bad, we gotta get him and Paito outa here, he needs medical attention, they both do." says Mitchell.
"Yeah." says Jack, worried that he can't see or get in contact with the girls, "Teal'c." he says on his radio.
"O'Neill, did you encounter the beast, I heard the sound of gunfire." replies Teal'c.
"Negative. Listen, Daniels in bad shape we have to get him out of here. Grab the woman and kids and head for the gate." says Jack.
"What of the others?" asks Teal'c.
"No sign of them. Just make your way to the gate we'll meet you there and head back to Stargate command for backup." says Jack.
"Understood." replies Teal'c.
Stargate Command
As Jack and Mitchell monitored the area waiting for Teal'c to arrive with the woman and children, they hadn't seen or heard anything more of the beast or their lost team mates, they eventually headed back to Earth carrying the injured and unconscious bodies of Paito and Daniel and were greeted by a room full of medical personnel awaiting their arrival.
The woman and her two children were escorted to the infirmary to get checked out and moved away from the chaos.
"How are they?." asks Landry, standing by a stretcher as Dr Lam makes a brief examination.
"Looks like they got them back just in time." replies Dr Lam, "All right, get him in to examination room 3 and get him patched up and rehydrated, let's get Daniel to the operating room and prep for emergency surgery." she orders to her colleagues.
"Doc?" asks Jack, with worry.
"He's alive but I think he has internal bleeding, we need to stop it quickly before it gets any worse." replies Lam as she backs out of the gate room, "I'll take care of him." she adds.
"Where's the rest of your team, Colonel?." asks Landry.
"We don't know, General. We know they were attacked by something but they weren't in any condition to give us any information." replies Mitchell.
"Sir, we need to mobilise a search and rescue team and head back to the planet." says Jack.
"I'm sorry I can't do that yet." replies Landry.
"What?!. General, we have to go back." shouts Jack, his tiredness from lack of sleep is making him extremely twitchy.
"We have two people seriously injured, one of which is a member of your team heading for emergency surgery, we have no idea where the rest of your team are or even if they're still alive, not to mention we have no idea what this thing is you were up against out there. I'm not going to risk the lives of anymore people until we know more." says Landry, being quite firm.
"But General.." says Jack.
"I'm sorry Colonel. You all look exhausted, go to the infirmary and get checked out and then get some rest. I'll have an U.A.V prepped immediately and we'll do an aerial sweep of the area on Terion, if there's no sign of this..beast..and the area is secure then we'll send a team through to search for them." replies Landry.
Landry understands Jack's need to return to the planet and search for his missing team members, Sam, Alisana and Vala are his friends as well, he cares for them deeply and wants to find them as much as he does, but he can't risk the lives of anyone else until he knows its safe.
P3X-006: Terion
To the sound of falling chunks of dirt, laying face down in the dirt, Sam lifts her head and takes a long deep breath and opens her eyes and blinking the dirt from her lashes, coughing and sputtering she looks around and sees only dirt, her P-90 covered in a mound of dirt lays ahead of her, the flash light is still on and partly illuminating her, "Vala." she groans after seeing her laying to her side on top of Alisana.
She pushes off the chunks of dirt from her back and crawls over to them, "Vala..*cough*" she repeats, trying to shake her awake.
Vala wakes up frantic before seeing Sam and calming, "What, what...Sam..where.." she says, she looks down and sees Alisana laying under her, "Ali." she says, pushing herself off of her.
As soon as Vala moves off of her, Alisana wakes seemingly unable to breath, she flips herself over and coughs up the half a tonne of dirt she swallowed on the way down, "Its all right, get it out." says Vala, tapping her back.
"Are you all right?." asks Sam.
"I don't think any thing's broken if that's what you mean." replies Vala.
"Yeah. What happened?." asks Alisana.
Sam stands and pulls out her P-90 from under the dirt, "Ground caved in around us." she says, shining the torch and looking around.
"Where are we?." asks Vala, helping Alisana to her feet.
"I'm not sure. I think its some kind of tunnel." says Sam, shining her torch behind her they can see there's a void that looks like it goes on for a while.
Chunks of dirt and soil continue to occasionally fall around them.
"We can't stay here, the soil above doesn't look very sturdy." says Alisana.
"Shouldn't we wait for a rescue, they're bound to be searching for us." asks Vala.
"Alisana is right, even if they started digging now it would take too long for them to reach us, plus there's a good chance it could all collapse on top of us. We should head through the tunnel and see if we can find a way out." says Sam.
After a brief stare at the ceiling and praying to herself that someone will find them, Vala agrees, "Fine, let's get moving." she says.
A/N: Sorry about the delay in story updates, been a busy couple of weeks. I will try to update faster from now :)