Ten minutes after Jack, Teal'c and Mitchell headed in to the cave in pursuit of whoever was flying the cloaked Tel'tak ship, the gate activated and General Landry attempted to contact SG-1 to inform them of the new information Daniel had just given him about what they may be facing, failing to make contact with SG-1 he asked Major Ganns to continue attempting to make contact on his behalf and relay the message to them.
"Hold it, hold it." says Mitchell, walking through the dark tunnels with Jack and Teal'c and stopping after being alerted to faint static chatter on his radio, "Say again, Major." he says.
"I have – message – Landry – command." says Major Ganns.
The thick tunnel walls are breaking up the transmission and making it difficult to understand what he's saying.
"Message?" replies Mitchell.
" - said – Jackson – with – Goa'u -"
"Major, this is O'Neill. You're breaking up, what did you say about Daniel?." asks Jack, reaching for his radio.
" - "
"It's the tunnels, we're too far underground." says Jack, "Did you get any of that?." he asks.
Mitchell shakes his head, "Something about a message. Do you want me to head back and see if I can reach them?" he says.
"All right, you head back and find out what he wanted. Teal'c and I will keep looking around." says Jack.
"Right." says Mitchell, then he turns and runs briskly back the way they came.
"Let's go, T." says Jack, continuing forward.
Deep within the tunnels
Vala and Alisana scream at the sight of the enormous beast before them.
"Come on.." shouts Vala, turning and grabbing Sam around her waist to move her out of the way, "..run, help me." she shouts, her heels losing grip in the soft wet dirt around the edge of the pool of water.
Alisana crawls and feels frantically around the muddy ground, "Where's the gun?!" she asks.
Vala lays on her back with Sam on top of her, pushing away through the dirt, realising she isn't getting very far she pushes Sam off of her and stands up then grabs Sam's arms and drags her towards a tunnel opening, "Lets go." she shouts.
The beast turns and steps towards them, Vala lets go of Sam out of fear and stands with her back to the wall, the beast recoils its arm as if getting ready to strike her.
"Hey!" shouts Alisana, now with P-90 in hand, as the beast turns to look at her she opens fire and drives it back.
As the beast stumbles back trying to get away from the bullets, Alisana runs passed it while still aiming the P-90 and firing on it, "No, no.." she moans when the gun jams, "..stupid..!" then throws the gun at the beast, turning around she and Vala help Sam stumbling to her feet and make a run for it through the tunnels.
Further back in the tunnels, Jack and Teal'c stop in their tracks.
"Did you hear that?." asks Jack.
"I believe that was gun fire, O'Neill." replies Teal'c.
"Not just gun fire, that's a P-90. Its got to be them, lets move." says Jack.
He and Teal'c pick up the pace and head off running flat out through the maze of tunnels.
Alisana and Vala run as fast as they can with Sam perched between them, the mysterious glow and pain from her stomach is fading and she's starting to come around again.
"Guys, what's happening?." asks Sam.
They stop, "Sam, are you all right?." asks Alisana.
"I think so." replies Sam, slouching over feeling a little dizzy, "What happened?." she asks.
"That thing found us." says Vala.
"What was that all about back there?." asks Alisana.
"What?" replies Sam.
"You were in pain and..glowing." says Alisana.
"I was?." asks Sam, she doesn't remember.
"Yes you..." says Alisana, then they hear the roar of the beast in the tunnels behind them, "..we have to keep moving, can you walk?" she asks.
"Who cares if she can walk. Can you run?." asks Vala.
Colonel Mitchell headed back and finally makes it to the entrance, night time has once again settled in on Terion, out of breath he stands outside and attempts to make contact with SG-18.
"Ganns, come in, do you read." says Mitchell over the radio.
"Yes Colonel I read you. Is everything all right Sir?." replies Major Ganns.
"We we're underground exploring some tunnels we found. Can you repeat your previous message, your transmission wasn't clear and we couldn't read you." says Mitchell.
"Yes Sir, we received a message from Stargate Command, General Landry had some new information for you." says Ganns.
"Well?" asks Mitchell, after noticing Ganns didn't finish telling him what the message was.
"He said Dr Jackson believes the planet was once ruled by a Goa'uld, and that it may still be here." says Ganns.
"He may be right, we found a Goa'uld Tel'tak ship out here, Colonel O'Neill and Teal'c our trying to find out who was flying it." says Mitchell.
"Do you need assistance, we can be at your position in 10 minutes." asks Ganns.
"Negative, remain at the gate and don't let anyone or anything through." orders Mitchell.
"Copy that, Colonel." says Ganns.
Mitchell then hears a sound behind him, when he turns to investigate he's hit hard in the head and knocked to the ground unconscious.
The girls continue running through the tunnels trying to get away from the roaring beast behind them, they constantly look over their shoulders and can see and hear dirt falling to the ground as the beast squeezes through the narrow tunnels hot on their trail.
They come to a junction where the tunnels are taller and wider and they stop briefly to catch their breath.
"Seriously, what is that thing?." asks Vala.
"Not a clue. Whatever it is it seems very determined to kill us." replies Alisana.
Vala shakes her head, "I saw its eyes, it was angry." says Vala.
"So it doesn't want to kill us?." asks Alisana.
"Oh its going to kill us, but I don't think its just out for blood. It was clearly angry about something." replies Vala.
While they were talking, Sam stepped away from them to look down the tunnel, she saw something very strange, it appeared to be a ghostly figure of a woman, she doesn't recognise her and the moment she saw her she disappeared, faded away.
"You all right, Sam?" asks Alisana, seeing her staring down the tunnel.
"I think we should go this way." says Sam, saying nothing about what she saw.
They hear the roar of the beast behind them again.
"Works for me, lets go." says Vala, pushing her way passed them.
Jack and Teal'c managed to navigate their way through the tunnels and exit in to the chamber with the pool where the girls were minutes ago.
Teal'c kneels beside the edge and examines the impressions mud.
"Got something?." asks Jack.
"Indeed..." replies Teal'c, pointing out the tracks, "..four distinct sets of prints, three are military issue boots. The others are considerably larger, there was a scuffle and one of them was dragged several feet in that direction." he explains.
Jack spots something sticking out of the water and reaches out to grab it, "P-90." he says, looking worried.
They hear the roar of the beast in the tunnel ahead of them, saying nothing and doing nothing more than briefly looking at each other they get to their feet and head off after it.
Once again the girls run through the tunnels then come to a stop again, "Look there." says Alisana, spotting a light ahead, they continue and come to a really large open doorway made of gold bricks.
As they walk through the doorway they slowly enter a large pyramid shaped room at least 100 feet high, the walls and the floor made of solid gold bricks, several pedestals with lit torches line the walls and reflect off the shiny golden walls illuminating the entire room, by the farthest wall at the back of the room is a golden chair at least 30 feet tall and surrounded by piles of gold and jewels.
"Wow." says Alisana, amazed at what she's seeing.
Sam grabs Vala's arm when she tries to take off, "Wait!, what are you doing." she says.
"What?, I just want to look at the pretty sparkling jewels." asks Vala, "I wasn't going to take them." she says, unconvincingly.
"We can't just go running in there." says Sam.
"Why not?." asks Vala.
"Look around, it's clearly Goa'uld design. There could be traps." replies Sam.
"Sam, I know how the Goa'uld build things, I was one myself remember. I assure you there's no traps in here, trust me." says Vala, then she heads towards the back of the room.
As Vala walks in to the room she steps on a section of the floor and a panel on the wall at the side of the room slides open and an energy blast is fired out from it similar to a staff weapon, Sam and Alisana grab and pull her back just in the nick of time, "Vala!" they shout.
"You were saying?" says Alisana.
"There may be a few traps." replies Vala, with her eyes open wide and an expression of shock on her face.
"Ok, if we're going in here we need to go together, slowly." says Sam.
They line up behind each other, "Now, step where I step." says Sam.
They move slowly through the room, stepping on the gold bricks lining the floor individually and watching the side walls to ensure they don't get blasted in the process, they all stop in their tracks when they hear a gurgling sound.
"Vala, was that you?." asks Sam.
"No. It was probably your stomach." says Vala.
"Its not me. Alisana?." asks Sam.
"Erm...that came from behind me." replies Alisana, standing behind both Sam and Vala.
As they turn their heads and look behind, they see the beast standing in the doorway looking back at them and sounding a gurgling growl as it breaths in and out.