CHAPTER 45
EPISODE………………….ENDGAME
It was night at the SGC. Barely anyone was really around. Walter was sitting at the gate controls going over a clipboard of papers. It was a slow day with nothing serious happening. All the seriously important people were at home enjoying sleep. One of the technicians came up from below making Walter turn. He set aside the clipboard and looked at the idle screens.
"What's going on?" the guy asked.
"Not much." Walter said with boredom.
The guy grabbed a chair and sat down next to Walter leaning back. He also had a clipboard with a small headpiece on his right ear.
"I hate the graveyard shift. Nothing exciting ever goes on."
"Hey, just cause it's three am here doesn't mean it's not daylight on other planets." Walter said turning to him with a serious tone. He leaned closer as did the other guy.
"A team could be coming in hot any second now."
"Yeah, that's true."
They both turned slowly to look at the gate. Nothing happened.
"So, coffee?" the guy asked after a moment.
"Yeah." Walter said getting up.
"Let me ask you something." the guy said putting his clipboard aside as Walter walked to the coffee machine. "It's not that late, there's barely any people around. Have you ever thought about dialing up the gate and checking out other planets. Just for a few minutes?"
"That would be a no." Walter said at the absurd idea with his hands on his hips.
"Me….me neither." he said loosing the funny attitude.
They turned back to the coffee machine when there was a bright light behind them.
"What the hell?" Walter said.
They turned slowly to each other in some fear and kept turning to look at the gate room. There was no Stargate anymore. All the computer screens kept flashing the words system offline. They walked up to the computers seeing several guards looking at them also lost.
"The gate's gone."
"I….I can see that." Walter said really worried.
"Are we going to get in trouble for this?"
Walter just slowly looked at him still having a panic look.
3:10 am.
The phone rang waking Ford from his lovely sleep. Carter only mumbled something as he told her he'd get it and unwrapped himself from around her, reluctantly. He reached out grabbing the phone quickly before it made a third ring. They decided to take that night off and actually get some rest instead of what they usually did almost every night.
"Carter resident." he whispered.
"Sorry to wake you Major, but you and the Colonel are needed right away at the SGC."
"What's so important it can't wait till morning Walter?" he mumbled. "We aren't under attack or something are we?"
"Someone has stolen the Stargate."
Ford sat up in bed startling Carter from her sleep making her sit up enough to hear what he was going to say.
"What? How?"
"We're not sure. There was a flash of light then it was not there."
"We'll be right there Walter." he said hanging up as she reached around placing one arm around his shoulder and another on his leg. She was slowly moving her fingers up the inside of his leg.
"What's up honey?" she asked snuggling.
He held her closer as part of him said go back to bed, but not sleep. The other part won though.
"That was Walter…" he said rubbing her arm and kissing her hand.
"I got that." she said sleepily.
"Unfortunately, we have to skip having fun. Somebody has stolen the Stargate." he said sighing.
That woke her up completely and she pulled both hands away as she turned and flipped on her lamp.
"Say what?! Somebody stole the Stargate! How?!"
"Loosely translated, from the small amount of information he said to me, Beam me up Scotty."
"Damn. So much for what I wanted to do."
"Sam, please. Don't tease me like that."
"Well, look at it this way. You have something to look forward to for tonight." she said as she got out of the bed with him.
"You're worth waiting every minute." he said kissing her neck.
"Now you're teasing me. No fair." she said with a small whine.
A couple hours later……
It was early morning now. The sun was coming up and barely shining on the mountain already. Carter and Ford were looking over what information they had on the disappearance of the gate along with K-9. So far no clues other than knowing it was beamed away. They had yet to look at the video recordings though. Daniel was talking to the two men that was stationed that night. There was a camcorder next to him recording everything said.
"What about your instruments? Any sign of gate activity?" Daniel asked as he took notes.
"No sir." Walter said.
"Did anyone approach the gate at any time?"
"No." they both said.
"So no unusual gate activity of any kind?"
Same response.
"Okay." he said turning off a tape recorder and writing.
"Sir, are we going to be facing any disciplinary action for this?" the other guy asked.
"I think it is safe to say that there is nothing you could have done." he said not looking up from the paper.
"Thank god. I mean one minute we were getting coffee and the next minute the gate is…."
"Wait a minute. You were getting coffee?!" he asked with anger.
"Uh……I…." the other guy said. They were both scared now.
"I'm just kidding. Just kidding. That's all, thank you guys, appreciate it." he said getting up with a smile and grabbing the camcorder tape and leaving the small room.
They were now in the briefing room. Jack, Daniel and Ford were looking out the window at the now gateless room. Carter was over at the table messing with the surveillance video.
"Who'd take the gate? This makes no sense. I mean the Goa'uld wouldn't do that." he said being rhetorical.
"I have no idea who would have done it, unless that jackass Kinsey did something." Ford grumbled out with a hidden yawn.
"Trouble sleeping last night? Again?" Jack asked.
"Me and Sam never were able to talk that morning jog, so I'm not completely up. Much less have breakfast. Getting woke up with this news isn't all that great either."
"Really bad news. I'd hate to be the guy who has to explain this to the President." Daniel said. Jack was standing right next to him.
"Daniel, that was a dumb thing to say." Ford said looking at him.
"What? Oh." he said seeing the look on Jack's face. He was not happy.
"Sir. I've got the video surveillance footage." Carter said.
Good timing Sam. Certainly saved Daniel's hide. Ford thought as he walked over standing next to her since she was sitting on the table. The other two followed shortly after. Jack still looking peeved and glaring knives at the poor man.
"The gate disappeared at 0307. There were two airmen in the gate room and two technicians in the control room." she said bringing the video up on the flat monitor she was using.
It was one of those computers they had around the base that was moved by using a rolling computer table. Just plug in and start working.
"But none of them saw or heard anything prior to the flash."
The video played showing the gate not doing anything then it disappeared in a flash of light. A familiar flash of light.
"Well, unless the Asguard got mad at us, which I doubt…then…" Ford said.
"Someone else has transporter technology." she said finishing his statement.
"What about the Prometheus?" Daniel asked. "Didn't the Asguard install beaming technology as well as the hyperdrive?"
"Yeah, but it's in the hanger. We are still making adjustments to the new engines." she said.
They wanted the Carters help but they had more important duties, per Jack's orders.
"We know that Anubis had Asguard beaming technology. But Ba'al now has it seeing as he took over Anubis's territory."
"You think Ba'al stole our gate?" Daniel asked.
"To be honest, I don't know what to think." she said.
"We've pissed Ba'al off so many times and I know he wants to get hold of me from the things I have heard from the rebel Jaffa's so he couldn't be the one that stole it. It wouldn't make sense anyway." Ford said thinking. Who could have done this? I should be able to figure this out.
"Yeah. I thought it was a long shot, but he is the only one that has the technology." she said.
"Well, I need some answers." Jack said.
"That's not going to be easy sir. Without the gate, we have no access to intel from off world. We have no way of knowing of what's going on out there."
"You'll think of something."
"I can't think of anything Jack. The gate was the only option we had and even with the Prometheus's advanced sensors and communication equipment they can't learn anything."
"Think anyway. You're the smartest people on the planet! Come up with…anything! While you do that…" he said then glared more daggers at Daniel who didn't look at him. "I have to make a phone call to a certain someone."
"Is Teal'c still on P4X-161?"
"Oh no, I forgot he was not here." Ford muttered as Sam looked at her watch.
"Yeah, his meeting with the rebel Jaffa's should be over by now. When he finds out he can't get back to us, he'll follow protocol and head to the Alpha site." she said.
"At least we know where he will be." Ford said walking over and looking out the window. "Hmm…."
"Is that a hmm for idea or…." Daniel asked.
"Possibly. What if someone was able to hack the Prometheus? Steal the designs for its transporter technology. Its been in the hanger long enough I could have found and downloaded the information."
"That's a possibility, but there's safeguards upon safeguards to prevent hacking and other intruders of that nature." she said.
"That's not to hard to get past when you figure the system out. Hell, I used to hack the Pentagon till they finally gave me full access."
This shocked them both. He turned around seeing the shocked looks.
"Was this before meeting us or after?" Daniel asked after regaining his composure.
"The answer is both but right now we need to see if the system was hacked or copied. If we find nothing, then it's back to the drawing board. Let's get K-9 on it."
At the Alpha site things were going as usual. Scanning, digging, that sort of thing. Teal'c walked through a door to the main control room wearing a cloak about him. His head was uncovered though and he walked over to the commander of the base who was leaning over to look at a computer screen.
"Colonel Pierce."
"Teal'c." he said standing up.
"What is the situation?"
"We have been out of contact with Earth for seven hours now. We can establish the wormhole but we get a do not proceed response to our IDC."
"As was the case when I attempted to return from my mission."
"They have had lockdowns before, but the fact that they are not responding to any of our radio calls has me concerned. Basically we have no idea what is happening at Stargate Command." he said sadly.
"I will return to P4S 161. The rebel Jaffa will provide me with a cargo ship which will take me to Earth."
"Teal'c. We're not jumping to conclusions." he said making Teal'c turn back to him. "This may be just a malfunction, but it is possible that Earth has been compromised."
"Indeed." he said slowly, then turned and left.
The Carter's were trying to figure out if there was anything they could find, do, or whatever to get anything to do with the gate getting back, found, etc. The Prometheus wasn't hacked or anything to do with the transporter being copied unless someone came in and looked it over taking notes on paper or something. Many note books worth of notes. Even video logs showed nothing strange in that section of the ship or any other sections. Then, they found something, but from their own video logs of the gate room. Well K-9 found it actually as he went through them quicker than they could.
"Find anything?" Daniel asked walking in.
"Yeah, I think we did." she said from the computer she was on. Ford was behind her with a hand on her left shoulder. "We had K-9 go over the gate room surveillance tapes and sensor logs while we checked on the Prometheus."
"He noticed something two days before the gate was beamed away." Ford said with a gesture at the screen.
"Oh. Such as?" Daniel asked with hope.
"Well, we got this anomalous reading that we thought was feedback from the recently overhauled superconductors that was being detected for those last couple of days." she said as she brought up a video log.
If Jack was asking, he would have made her cut to the chase, Daniel had little if any problems with either of them explaining everything in detail before getting to the point. Sometimes he got it, other times he was lost but let it slide.
"We reasoned out that feedback because of this." Ford said pointing at the screen. Daniel moved closer to see. The screen went fast forward showing several people checking out the gate. It was easy to tell they were gate tech's. They all left except one. Sam slowed it down to where it played at normal speed. The guy in a white lab coat bent down near the inner ring and was doing something, like putting something on the gate that wouldn't be seen.
"What was that?" Daniel asked.
"Ford's got an idea that sounds feasible, that in theory makes sense. All I can tell, according to the time code is that whatever he did, that is when the supposed feedback signal started."
She then punched a few buttons bringing the guys face into a closer focus. They could see who he was then since his face was almost looking at the camera.
"I think we need to talk to this guy. Oh, what's the theory?"
"I'll tell you when we talk to Jack."
In the briefing room they were talking to Jack about their findings. Jack was looking at the guys file as Carter talked. She and Ford sat on Jack's right.
"Dr. Kevin Hartkans. He's been with the program seven months. Clean record, nothing out of the ordinary, except that he has gone missing suddenly."
"We had
his apartment checked out. It was cleaned out." Daniel said
sitting on Jack's left.
"This is starting to sound familiar."
Jack said closing the file in disgust.
"You think it's the Trust?" Daniel asked.
"Well, they have been busy lately. They had Teal'c under surveillance, they blackmailed you," she said looking at Daniel. "They tried to kill Alec Colson. Obviously they have a bigger operation than we first thought. Now as far as we know, the N.I.D. have been clean for over a year now. But there are still dozens of agents that are unaccounted for. And they still receive financing from unknown sources."
"Please, if they could take the gate out from under us, they could empty the gold from Fort Knox." Daniel said.
"Not necessarily. If they could take the gate from us, they would have done so earlier. That doesn't explain what Hartkans was doing unless what Ford suggested is true. Considering the evidence, as little as it is, it's the only possible explanation. And I agree with the theory."
"So, let's hear it." Jack said impatiently.
"When the Asguard gave us transporter technology, we could only beam something up if we had something to lock onto. Like they do in Star Trek with those com badges. I think that's what that doctor did. He placed a device that they could use as a transponder and beamed the gate away."
"A locator beacon." Daniel said.
"Exactly." Carter said.
"So my stamp collection is safe. How does this help us find the gate?"
"You have a stamp collection?" Ford blurted out.
"So?" he said defending himself.
"Okay." Ford said putting his hands up.
"Anyway…." Jack said rolling his hand for them to move on.
"Yes sir. If they intend to keep using the beam, they have to keep using beacons. If we can request NSA satellite time to see if we can intercept the signal, we could then find and stop them."
"Do it."
"We have one other problem. If those people that had Daniel are the same people who took the gate, one of them is Immortal."
"Any idea which one?"
"Sorry Brigadier. No clue." Ford said shaking his head.
"This is probably a stupid question, but what are you going to do if you find this guy like you?" Jack said sitting up with his hands intertwined on the table.
"Depends. I can try to bring him here. Failing that I shoot him in the head with you know what and run."
"Bring them in if you can."
Teal'c walked back through the gate onto the planet finding the sun shining on dead Jaffa's on the ground. They were everywhere, but there was no weapon fire marks, smoke from explosions or otherwise and no sign of any enemy around as he stepped away from the gate with his staff weapon at ready anyway. He checked a body finding the man dead and got up quickly with his weapon ready to fire as a warrior showed up from the trees.
"M'zel."
"Teal'c."
The man ran up looking upset.
"What has happened here?" Teal'c said lowering his weapon.
"When I arrived, they were all dead." he said with a cracked voice.
"All?" Teal'c asked in shock.
"I will show you."
With luck they did find something from the NSA satellite. Carter, Ford, K-9 and Daniel all went in a large black GMC vehicle to a warehouse where a signal was detected. Carter had a vest on that Ford had made her which had those special plates in it. When his future self sacrificed himself for the base, the coat was destroyed but the metal plates survived. He used them to make Carter a vest. It wouldn't protect her arms and legs but it ensured her from being hit from the neck down to her waist, all the way around. Daniel only had a vest to protect him from bullets. There was many other officers stationed in front of the building in similar vehicles. The officers were in armored vest and had assault rifles ready as they pulled up.
"We took out a couple of guards and have the area secured." one of the officers said to Carter as she got out and down next to the truck.
Ford came around getting down next to them with K-9. She and Daniel had zat guns while Ford had his personal cannons out with rubber ammo.
"Satellite intel puts the signal somewhere inside the complex."
"Alright, you men are with us, keep the perimeter closed. No one in, no one out."
"Understood." the guys said following behind Daniel. Ford and Carter stayed side by side.
They walked up to the stairs near a door. Ford set K-9 on the landing.
"Is it locked K-9?"
"Yes Master. Shall I open it?"
"Yes, quietly if possible."
"Yes Master." he said extending the nose piece. A small red beam lanced out and the door popped open.
"Good job K-9." she said.
"Thank you Mistress."
"Wait." Ford said grabbing the hand of a guy that was about to throw a flash bomb in. "K-9, go in and let us know if you detect any life signs. No sense letting them know we are here if they can be taken by surprise."
"Yes Master." he said rolling in.
Ford followed behind him with Sam then Daniel and the rest after K-9 said it was clear. They walked in past a military troop transport truck and into a large area with rooms that were separate by walls with no doors. Ford looked around quickly as everyone started spreading out. A neon blue light caught his attention and he walked to it slowly when he noticed something.
Oh no!!!
"Everybody hold up and back out!"
"What is it?" Carter asked looking where he was looking. On a couple of boxes on a table was symbols. Symbols that showed nerve gas. "What the hell?! K-9 scan those."
"Scanning Mistress." he said. "Unknown chemical Mistress. It is not in my database."
"Wonderful. Are they a danger to us?"
"Not enough information Master." he said as Daniel moved a tarp off something that was covered.
"Whoa! Guys."
"Those are VX rockets." she exclaimed.
"There's enough of whatever this is to kill several thousand people!"
"Danger Master. Mistress. Danger!"
"Where?!" Ford asked looking around with both guns.
"By the Hummer Master."
They all turned as some guy stood up firing at them. He got down as the soldiers fired back. A few seconds later he got up again sending another burst which hit a few vials bursting them open. Daniel had dropped down behind a barrel while Carter stood behind Ford who didn't move at all. The guy dropped in a loud grunt after that as two rubber bullets hit him. One in the chest and the other in the head. The guy was going to be hurting when he woke up, but he wasn't dead. As the soldiers moved in K-9 spoke.
"The unknown chemical has been exposed to the air Mistress."
Carter looked up seeing a few vials open and smoking.
"Oh no." she said with extreme fear.
They all turned seeing the blueish smoke starting to rise quicker.
"That's not right. I've seen nerve gas." Ford said a moment later as he walked over.
"What is he doing?!" a soldier asked.
"If it was nerve gas, we'd all be dead already." Carter said with much relief.
"I don't know what this is, but it's not nerve gas. And it doesn't seem to be doing anything to my hand." Ford said rubbing some between his fingers. He wiped it off and walked to the rockets.
"Tie that guy up and have him placed in one of the trucks to be taken back to the SGC for questioning. Keep watch on him." Carter ordered a soldier.
"Yes Colonel." he said taking several men to help him.
"K-9, are these fully functional?"
"Yes Master?"
"Damn. Where's that…oh." he said pulling a multi tool out. "Sam, you take the other one."
"Sure." she said putting the zat on her hip.
It took less than half an hour, but they disarmed and pretty much made sure the rockets were never going to fly again. They both had a small canister about the size of a pineapple grenades inside them of the unknown chemical. They had the dismantled rockets and chemicals taken to the SGC for further study along with anything else around the warehouse that seemed relevant.
Teal'c and M'zel walked up to the encampment of the Jaffa rebels seeing they were all dead. There was over a hundred or more dead bodies just lying on the ground as though they died instantly.
"You see?"
Teal'c took a few steps forward and leaned on his staff weapon. He looked out across the large clearing that was a encampment of Jaffa brothers that believed in the freedom for all Jaffa. Now all dead. Sorrow was all over his face at the sight.
"We managed to identify the liquid we found in the warehouse." Carter said handing over a small vial to Jack.
Spread out on the table was pictures of the items they had taken from the warehouse and a picture of the man that attacked them.
"We, well, everyone is just lucky it wasn't really nerve gas. They would all be dead if it was and I'd be the only one here, maybe."
"Thank god for small miracles." Jack said looking at the vial. "So what is this?"
"The symbiont poisoning. Specifically the new formula we were working on in conjunction with the Tok'ra." Carter said.
"Once we found out what the stuff was, we believe we figured out why the gate was stolen." Ford said rubbing his face.
"And that would be?" Jack asked.
"We think that the Trust stole the gate to deliver the chemical in aerosol form to Goa'uld worlds. It's an all out attack." she said.
"They have no care for the millions of Jaffa lives that will be taken with it either." Daniel said.
"Great. Anything else?" he asked dejectedly.
"The guy from the warehouse isn't talking, but he was carrying this." Daniel said taking something from his pocket. He handed it to Jack who looked it over.
"It's an Area 51 identification badge."
Jack looked it over and then tossed it on the table.
"Go here and find some answers, now."
SG-1 was driving to the gate to Area 51. They had to change into different clothes, but Ford kept his coat on. A special badge kept them and just about everyone off his ass about it and the two personal cannons he kept with him. All his other weapons he left at the base along with the ammo for them. He had a few clips for his guns though. Carter and Daniel asked about the special badge as they were in the waiting room.
"When I saw the President last he said if there was anything I needed, just ask. It was during that time when the President was officially giving command to Jack, after that mission where Ba'al made Jack give up Camulus. So I did and this is what I was able to get. I'm one of the few people who can walk into the most top secret places that America is in control of and still keep this coat and the guns with me. I do it not only for my protection but for those around me, like you two. I could walk into the oval office like this. Special pardon you could say."
"Nice." Daniel said. "Glad he gave it to you."
"That was a good request. Besides, the coat looks good on you." she said. It did make him look more handsome.
"Thank you." he said with a bow. They both laughed.
Carter and Daniel were sitting on a bench while Ford stayed standing. An almost unkept dark haired man about Sam's height walked in. He had a lab coat on with the same fading yellow colored overhauls that everyone else wore. Daniel and Sam stood up as he walked in.
"Colonel Carter, Major Carter, Doctor Jackson. Sorry to keep you waiting."
"Doctor Briskdale. I believe you have been briefed on our situation." she said not offering her hand. He didn't offer his.
"Yes I have. Why do you…"
Ford flashed a different badge.
"The President himself huh? I can't argue with that."
"Good. We've been bothered by enough people. Now, we are here because our investigation has lead us to believe that your security has been compromised."
"With all due respect Colonel, Major, we are not the ones who lost the Stargate."
"But alien technology has gone missing from Area 51 before." Daniel pointed out.
"Yes, but security measures have been significantly increased since then. No one is allowed to bring anything in or out, no cell phones, no computers, not even street clothes. With this one exception." he said looking at Ford. "I'm guessing they checked that out first though."
"Thoroughly."
"In any case all personal are subject to a personal search and scan before they leave."
"Look, whoever took the Stargate has access to Asguard transporter systems. Last year when Osiris came to Earth, she used that same technology which she activated remotely with a wrist device. Now that wrist device was brought here and you worked on it."
"You must be a Star Trek fan." he said smiling some at the analogy she used. "Anyway I never got it to work."
"Well, if you don't mind, we'd like to see it." Daniel said.
"Is it…"
"Very necessary, yes it is. Get moving or we go looking for it ourselves."
"Yes Major."
"Doctor Harris checked some of the Jaffa bodies out on P4S 161." the Colonel of the Alpha base said to Teal'c. They were still in the control room. "You were right. It was the Tok'ra symbiote poison."
"I would not have believe it had I not seen it with my own eyes." he said angrily.
"I knew that the Tok'ra lost patience with the alliance but I never thought they would do anything like this." the Colonel said.
"Inde…"
"Teal'c!!!" M'zel yelled from behind him as he entered the room and walked over to him. "I have received word from our Jaffa brothers. Three more Goa'uld worlds have been attacked! Millions are dead!!"
Teal'c said nothing as he looked at his friend with sorrow and shock. There was nothing he could say.
They walked into a secure room with a guard near it. Doctor Brickdale put his hand on a large palm scanner on the table. After it scanned him he turned to the wall which had unlocked a drawer. Rows upon rows of small drawers lined the walls. One of the drawers opened to reveal the wrist device and a few other objects of alien origin.
"You see, right where we left them." he said.
"Forgive us if we don't believe you." Ford said.
"We've been down this road before." Sam said running a scanning device over the object. "It's real."
"Like I said, we figured if Osiris ship was still up there, we could use the wrist device to get up there. Unfortunately, it is not only keyed to the presence of Naquada in the blood but the specific Goa'uld's DNA. We tried to create and adapt using samples of both elements, but we didn't get anywhere."
"So the ship is probably still in orbit, but cloaked." Daniel said.
"In which case we have no way to find it." Carter said.
"Until its orbit starts to decay, but that could be years down the line." Ford said.
"The Tok'ra will be made to pay for this treachery!!!" M'zel yelled turning around to the Colonel.
"Calm down a second. We need to figure out what is going on." the Colonel said trying to calm him down.
"What more do you need to know! The Jaffa are being murdered!!! Poisoned like vermin."
"The Tok'ra have had this chemical weapon for a long time. Why would they suddenly decided to use it now?" the Colonel asked.
"Perhaps the failure of the alliance has convinced them there is no other way!" Teal'c exclaimed.
"There is something else going on. It's not a coincidence that this all started happening after we lost contact with Earth."
"That does seem unlikely." Teal'c said after a moment of thinking. "We need to speak to the Tok'ra directly."
"That won't be so easy. After they left the Alpha site, we haven't had much intel on their movements. The last we heard from them was at Colonel Carter's wedding, since then zip. We have no idea where the new base is."
"We still know the location of some of their operatives. I believe our best chance is P3S 114. The Tok'ra operative named Zarin is undercover there commanding one of Ba'als garrison on that world." Teal'c said.
"I will come with you." M'zel said.
"Whoa, hold on a minute here. You're talking about walking into Goa'uld occupied territory. And there is no Jaffa fifth column there to help you out. Without sympathetic warriors in Zarin's ranks, how will you avoid being captured?"
"We do not." Teal'c stated.
"What?" the Colonel said surprised at the notion.
"Only by being captured, will we be brought before the commander." M'zel stated.
"That's how you're going to make contact?!"
"We must speak to the Tok'ra." Teal'c said forcefully. "There is no other way."
"It's too risky. You walk in there unannounced, Zarin could have you sacrificed just to maintain her cover."
"That is a great possibility." he said with force again.
"You realize the second you walk through that gate, you're on your own."
"Understood."
M'zel nodded and he and Teal'c walked out of the control room to the gate.
Outside in a semi vacant area behind some old buildings, Doctor Brickdale was in a green jacket and pants waiting outside his old style black Porsche. He started to open his cell to make a call when a dark car pulled up and a dark skinned bald headed man got out.
"So what is the big emergency?" the man said.
He was the guy who threatened to kill Krista if Daniel didn't give the information he needed.
"I can't do this anymore." the doctor said with panic in his voice.
"You've already taken the money doctor. It's a little late for cold feet."
"You don't understand! They came to see me! They asked about the wrist device!!" he said bordering hysterics.
"Who?"
"Three people from Stargate command!"
"And you requested a meeting with me!" he said reaching into his long coat.
"What?"
Several dark GMC vehicles came rushing around the corner just down from them.
"You were followed!" he said firing a rapid fire pistol at the dark vehicle.
The soldiers took cover and didn't move closer. He turned and blew the lock off a door near him and entered quickly. A few other vehicles pulled up quickly and more armed soldiers in dark clothes moved in. The Doctor was taken into custody quickly while some others went after the other guy. The bald guy was putting in a new clip as he walked past several large wooden crates along with many small ones. When he got to the stairs he turned and fired at the soldiers walking in. One crate was tore to pieces quickly as his bullets ripped it up. He turned and ran up the stairs as the men took cover.
"Hold your fire! We need him alive!" the commanding officer of the group said as the proceeded forward.
Up top he fired taking a door out. He pushed it open and went outside putting a new clip in as he walked along the small walkway to a small roof. He quickly started running across it when he felt that buzz feeling, but didn't bother to look around much as he dropped off the edge to the ground behind a dumpster. He knelt down next to the dumpster and looked around with his gun pointed. With his other hand he reached into his pocket bringing a small device out.
"Drop it or I take your head off!" Ford said coming out from behind a GMC that he and Carter had came in.
"You!!!" he said turning to shoot. Carter stood up taking him out with a zat gun seeing he was distracted.
They both walked up to him quickly.
"You know I said wear that vest. Even though you look great in what you have right now." he said putting one of the personal cannons away. She had on black pants with a tight black leather coat that zipped up. No pockets on it.
"I know, but…" she said picking the small device the guy had up.
"Wait Sam! That looks like…" he said grabbing her hand. They both disappeared in a beam of light as it beeped.
"A signal de…." he was saying as they beamed up to some ship.
They heard the sound of a zat turn on behind them. Carter dropped to the ground as she was hit not having a chance to see who it was. Ford spun around with the gun he didn't have put away.
"Drop it hot shot. I only have to hit her again and she is dead." he said picking up a CB unit off a small table near him.
With a growl of frustration he lifted the gun into the air and un-cocked it.
"Brooks." he said into the unit.
The guy had very short brownish hair and a lean face. A swayed jacket with a dark blue shirt and green tie with dark pants was what he was wearing. His look just about screamed I'm a bad guy and almost as proud of it.
"Go ahead." came through the CB.
"We have a small problem here. Take a locator beacon and get down to Hoskins last position."
"What happened?"
"We've got uninvited guest." he said then put the CB unit in his pocket. "You, take off the coat and drop the guns. I know you have two of them and maybe more."
Ford put the gun back into its holster and took the coat off. He put it on a crate well away from him as instructed and took the holsters off setting them on the coat along with the holstered revolvers and holstered Desert Eagles. Under the coat he had jeans and a blue striped button up shirt on with a leather jacket.
"Must be hot with all that, not to mention heavy. Take the leather coat off too and set it with the rest."
"Do I have to? I get cold easily."
He pointed the zat gun at her again so he took it off.
"Anything else that is a weapon on you?"
"No. They're all there." he said backing away. He didn't consider his knife that was part of the steel toed boots part of the deal.
"Good." he said taking a plastic tie off the table and tossing it to him. "Tie her hands behind her back and sit there with her. We know that these you can break out of so, I won't bother with giving you one. I'll just kill her if you try anything. And no talking."
"Fine." he said gently tying her hands as told.
He gently lifted her off the ground and set her in his lap. She was out cold and there was nothing he could do and figured it better that she stay out of it in case they decided to shoot them. He looked around seeing they were in the cargo hold of a Goa'uld cargo ship. The SGC Stargate was over against the wall as was several computers around the room. A few crates with what had to be the symbiote killing chemical was in the room as was VX rockets and a small delivery system to shoot them through the gate.
Well, we know where Osiris ship went to. he thought sitting back.
Teal'c and M'zel were indeed captured as planned and taken before the undercover Tok'ra agent. She lived in her pyramid ship and was sitting in her throne room. It was a small room with small lit fires on small stands on either side, several of them. She had a red dress on that wrapped around her neck. It showed off just above her chest and both her arms. The rest of the room looked like every normal Goa'uld ship.
"Speak." she commanded as the three Jaffa knelt before her.
"My Lord Zarin. Two enemy Jaffa have been captured near the gate. One of them is the Sho'va Teal'c."
"Are you certain?"
"I am." he said looking at her briefly. "Lord Ba'al will be most pleased, will he not?"
"Yes. Of course. You have done well. Now bring them to me."
"Yes my Lord."
Daniel was in a the same room that he talked to Walter and that tech that morning. They had that doctor from Area 51 sitting at the table. Seeing as Ford and Sam were missing, he had to do the interrogating. A couple of guards stood in the room in case Daniel needed them. Daniel paced around the table in a bad mood as he talked to the guy.
"Now, I'm going to ask you again. Where are Colonel Carter and Major Ford?"
"I don't know!" he yelled.
Daniel sighed and motioned for the guards to leave as he turned away from the scientists. The doctor looked scared as Daniel closed and locked the door.
"You're going to need to start cooperating." he said sitting down and lacing his fingers together.
"I can't!"
"Two decorated members of our Air Force and members of our governments most top secret organization is missing, and you're implicated. I don't think you're going to just walk away from this." Daniel said as the guy looked at the table holding his head and shaking it.
"They'll kill me." he said crying.
"We can protect you."
He shook his head still sobbing.
"And we can also choose to ignore your two million dollar Cayman Island account."
The doctor looked up at him and stopped crying.
"Didn't think we'd find out about that huh?"
"So if I help you, I can keep the money?"
"We can come to an arrangement."
He sat back not crying anymore and looked more confident.
She was sitting there thinking as her three warriors came back in with Teal'c and M'zel. They were brought before her and made to knell.
"The prisoners, my Lord."
"Leave us." she said to all of them.
"My Lord?"
"I intended to question them myself. Leave us now!" she said getting out of her seat.
Her First Prime nodded and left with the Jaffa he brought in along with the two guards that always stayed near her. Once they left.
"Are you mad?! What are you doing here?!" she asked frustrated and shocked.
"We must speak with you." Teal'c said standing up. M'zel stood as well.
"Speak with me! Do you not realize that coming here you have placed all our lives in danger?!"
"Are you not in control of this garrison?"
"I am, and as such, it is my responsibility to see that you are tortured for information, until such time that Ba'al arrives to witness your execution."
"So what's it going to be?" Daniel asked.
"You said both Carter's are missing?" he said rubbing his hands as though they hurt.
Daniel nodded.
"Well, they're probably on the ship." he said looking at the wall to his left.
"Osiris's ship? So you did manage to get onboard?" Daniel asked.
He nodded then leaned onto the table.
"About a year ago, some men came to see me. They knew everything about my work, the Stargate, Osiris. They knew there was a possibility that there was a cloaked ship in orbit, and they wanted it badly. I told them that the key was the wrist device, but I couldn't get it out of there, at least not through the front door."
"What do you mean?" Daniel asked skeptically.
"One day I was working in the lab on the adaptor, and the next thing I know I was on the ship. I had remotely activated the transport beam."
"Which you failed to report."
"It was killing me that I wasn't able to tell anyone that I figured it out." he said looking around at the ceiling. "I had to keep telling them that it wasn't working. Anyway, after that, I went back and forth a couple of dozen times. But at the end of the day, the wrist device was always back where it belonged."
"And you beamed the others up using locator beacons."
"Well the beam was the only thing working without the command codes…and that's where you came in."
"The translation." he said leaning back with his head looking at the ceiling as he realized what he did. The doctor stood up and leaned on the table as Daniel kicked himself mentally.
"Osiris worked for Anubis and Anubis had all his command codes translated into Ancient. Once they had full control of the ship, thanks to you, they had no need for me. They took a permanent presence on the ship, 24/7, worked in shifts. I went back to Area 51 and sabotaged the adapter. Project was shelved and no one was the wiser."
"Can you get the wrist device to work again?" Daniel asked seriously as he moved closer to him.
"Absolutely." he said with a smile.
Carter awoke feeling someone holding her and her hands tied behind her back. She slowly opened her eyes to see who it was. Ford felt her tense up like she was ready to fight.
"It's just me." Ford whispered as he helped her sit up.
"Launch window in three minutes. Get ready for the upgrade." Brooks said as she walked past them.
"Why are you not tied up?" she quietly asked as she sat next to him.
"I do anything, you die." he said now sitting with his left foot on his right leg and arms crossed.
"Get down to the engine room. Check the power relays." Hoskins said.
"Yes sir."
When he managed to get back to the ship, he and Ford knew who each other was. He whispered to Ford that no one knew who he really was and if he said anything, Carter would die, very painfully.
"Sir." the guy that shot her said. He was getting a missile ready to launch.
The black guy walked over slowly.
"Welcome aboard, Colonel Carter. I've already talked to your husband."
"Were are we?"
"We are in a polar orbit around the moon?"
"Why couldn't I ask questions?" Ford said with a angry tone.
"Because you are a problem. You have had more training than her in situations similar to this, in some cases and we don't need you causing trouble. You being here is a big enough problem to me as it is. We can't kill you, but her we can. Anything else Colonel?"
"This must be Osiris's ship?"
"Yes. We have you two to thank for that blessing. If you hadn't caught her, we would never have had this opportunity." he said proudly.
"You know they are going to come after you."
"Prometheus is undergoing refit." the guy with the tie said.
"Not for long." Ford muttered. Only Carter caught it all.
"What was that Major?" he asked sarcastically.
"I said I wish it wasn't."
"More luck for us."
"It still has its sublight engines, once they find out your in a ship, they'll come after you. Even with a cloak, you're giving off an energy signature." she said.
"We are on minimal power. Maybe after a year of intensive scans they might be able to find us." the black guy said as the ugly tie guy messed with the missile.
"You're going to launch a chemical attack against the Goa'uld." she said.
"They already have. He bragged about it to me." Ford said.
"We've started with Ba'als territory. Since he is the most immediate threat right now." he said still messing with it's insides.
"You're killing millions of innocent Jaffa."
"Spare me Colonel. The Jaffa are a race of warriors, bred specifically to serve the Goa'uld and enslave the human race." Hoskins said.
"They are indoctrinate from childhood to believe that the Goa'uld are gods. They don't have a choice." Carter said trying to make them see what they were doing.
"They were just following orders right. Where have I heard that argument before?" Jennings said putting the canister in.
"Smart ass." Ford muttered.
Hoskins turned sharply to him but didn't do anything. Ford caught a brief glint of a sword hidden in the coat.
"What about the rebel Jaffa, they are growing in numbers everyday?" she said. She didn't see the sword or if she did, she didn't let on.
"Acceptable losses." he said moving away from the missile.
"Its very simple Colonel. Earth faces an immanent threat, and we have a weapon that can eliminate that threat." Hoskins said. "And we intended to use it."
"We're ready." Jennings said as the panel closed over the missile.
"What's the next target?" Hoskins said as the other guy worked on the computer.
"P3S 114."
"Dial it."
"Yes sir."
Hoskins gloated over the two of them as the gate dialed out.
"You force me to choose between abandoning my mission and allowing you to die." she said turning back to them.
"I would care more about my own life if I were you Tok'ra." M'zel said moving closer to her as he reached out and choked her.
"M'zel." Teal'c said moving to his side. "I feel as you do brother. But this is not the way."
He looked at her, then at Teal'c then back at her and let go. She grabbed her neck gasping for air.
"Why are you here?"
"We know about the attacks." M'zel said.
"What attacks?"
"The Tok'ra have been using the symbiote poisoning against the Goa'uld." Teal'c stated. "The Jaffa of three world have been annihilated thus far."
"Impossible." she said shocked.
"We have seen it with our own eyes. An entire Jaffa army lying dead on the ground, no signs of battle. How do you explain this?" M'zel asked with anger.
"I cannot. But I can assure you that the Tok'ra are not responsible. If these attacks had been planned, I would have been informed."
The gate activated and settled, they then moved the missile into position.
"Initiating launch sequence." the tie guy said.
"You can't do this! It's murder!" she said.
She even looked at Ford to do something, but he didn't move, but he did give her a subliminal signal that he was about ready to, just not yet.
"That's were you're wrong Colonel. It's war." the black guy said.
The missile fired off making Ford and Carter both close their eyes as the missile flew into the gate. It was a sad thing to see happen but they couldn't so anything about it yet.
A contingent of Jaffa was walking down a grassy hill as the missile came through the gate. They got down and aimed their weapons as it flew off into the sky and exploded moments later.
"What was that?" she asked turning around to the sound.
All she saw was the wall though. Teal'c and M'zel got back on their knees quickly as they heard her troops coming. She stood before them as though she was still in charge.
"My Lord. We are under attack." her First Prime said coming in.
"Attack by what?"
"A weapon flew through the gate, it exploded over the city…." he said when she suddenly grabbed her neck and dropped to the floor in pain.
"My Lord Zarin!" the First Prime said coming over to her. She died in his arms.
"My brothers, we must leave!" Teal'c said standing up.
The First Prime stood up ordering the other Jaffa to stop them They aimed their staff weapons at them. He started speaking in Goa'uld.
"You do not understand!" Teal'c said turning to him.
M'zel grabbed his gut as did the others instantly after. Teal'c grabbed M'zel.
"M'zel there may still be time." he said as M'zel fell to the floor.
"I die…..free." M'zel said through tremendous pain as Teal'c felt tears well up in his eyes. He laid M'zel on the floor gently as his friend passed away.
"Indeed." he said standing up and then looking around.
He looked at the dead Tok'ra lady and knew that they couldn't be behind the attacks as he grabbed a staff weapon and left.
The Prometheus was in orbit above the Earth scanning for a ship they knew was out there.
"Sensor grid R-14 shows no anomalies sir."
"All right, proceed to the next grid."
"Yes sir."
"She's out there somewhere." the Captain said to himself.
Daniel was let back into the room with the doctor again. He left to get information and give Jack what he learned. He also had something else which he set on the table and opened. It was Osiris wrist device.
"Make it work."
"Our next target is, P5R 357." Jennings said.
"Let's do it." Hoskins said.
"We have to do something." she mouthed to him.
He nodded saying he follow her lead.
"I wouldn't bother. Ba'al abandoned that planet six months ago when the Naquada mines went dry." she said.
"Wasn't that a desert like planet? The one you said was mined also for its rich metals?"
"Yeah, the one you said reminded you of Tatoonie."
"I hated that planet. Was so hot and sandy. Temperatures were like 135. But at least it wasn't an ice planet."
"They're lying." Jennings said.
"Go ahead then. Waste a rocket. That's one less planet you will destroy." she said shifting her hands. She still couldn't break free.
"Please do. Other than wasting the rocket, it'll probably melt before it gets out of the gate. Hell, the heat might even make it explode as it leaves the gate."
"They do have more up to date intelligence." Hoskins said standing up.
"They're bluffing."
"You could make this a lot less painful if you helped us select optimum targets."
"What are you talking about?" she asked looking at him.
"You know as much about the tactical and strategically positions of the System Lords better than anyone else on Earth."
"I don't know as much as you think." she said looking away from him.
"You know enough to help us make maximum effect with little collateral damage. You're the one who wants to save innocent lives."
"Nice try."
"So are we going for P5R 357 or not?"
"Go for the next one on the list."
The guy shook his head and did as instructed.
"Saved one." Ford whispered.
She barely nodded.
Down in the SGC control room, Daniel had a vest on and was strapping a zat to his right leg. The wrist device was on the table next to him.
"Alright, tell me again why I should agree to do this?" Jack said coming from above.
"Because it's the only way to get on the ship and if they have changed the command codes, I'm the only one that has the best chance at deciphering the Ancient symbols."
"And if there are ten armed goons when you get there, you're going to be the one that….gets…." he said waving a hand at him.
"Better idea?" he asked looking at him and a couple of others.
"Look Daniel, just because I don't have a better idea is no reason to do anything."
They looked at each other realizing that made no sense.
"Look, once I shut down the cloak, the Prometheus will be able to detect the ship. Then all I have to do it disable the hyper drive and wait for the cavalry. They will never see it coming."
"Which is one of the advantages of a totally insane idea." Jack said pointing at him.
"And where did I learn that from?"
Jack gave him a small glare.
"Okay." he said taking the wrist device.
He activated the zat gun as Siler stepped away from him. Jack saw him walk by and backed up with him. Several others did as well.
"Let's do it." he said pushing it.
He vanished and was instantly on the bridge of the ship. And alone. He put the device in his pocket and tried to access the computer that was hooked up the ships system. He kept getting access denied though with every attempt.
"Come on." he said trying again. "Fine."
He moved away with the zat gun and opened a panel of crystals near the pilot section of the ship. He gave them a nice blast which fried them and made the ship uncloak and then he then left the bridge.
"Sir, we have something. It's definitely a ship." a officer said reading off distance and bearing.
"Battle stations! Plot a intercept course. General O'Neill this is Prometheus."
"Go ahead." Jack said from the control room.
"It
looks like Daniel Jackson pulled it off. We have them on our screens
and moving in."
"Understood."
The two guys watching them were working on another missile as that Brooks walked in.
"We have a problem. I just monitored a 60 loss in our power consumption."
"The cloak." Hoskins said pulling his zat out. "Watch them."
Jennings turned around and did just that. Pointing his zat at her much to both of their displeasement. Daniel was walking down a short corridor, quietly, when he was shot. He dropped to the ground unconscious from the zat blast as Hoskins and Brooks came around a corner looking at him.
"Get back to the bridge and get that cloak back online!"
"Yes sir."
"We are in weapons range sir."
"Have they noticed us yet?" the Captain asked.
"I don't think so sir. They seem to be operating at minimal power, no evasive maneuvers."
"What about the hyperdrive?"
"Still no signal from Doctor Jackson."
"General O'Neill. We have a problem, the ships cloak is down, but Doctor Jackson has yet to confirm if he has disabled the hyperdrive or not."
"Just give him a little more time."
"Right now sir they are sitting ducks. If they spot us and run, we won't be able to go after them. We can't afford to let them get away General. I recommend that we open fire immediately."
Jack said nothing.
"General, please advise!"
Brooks walked onto the bridge looking for resistance and found none. She went to the computer then saw that the crystal's were destroyed since the panel was still open. Hoskins led Daniel into the room with the zat pointed at him.
"Daniel, see you decided to join us." Ford said smiling.
"Shut up." Hoskins guy said as Daniel sat down next to Ford who scooted closer to Carter.
"Where the hell did he come from!" Jennings said walking in from another chamber.
"He had the wrist device."
"Any chance there is more on aboard?"
"No, it only lets one up at a time."
"Hoskins, this is Brooks." came over his CB.
"Go ahead."
"The cloaks been disabled. I don't think I can get it back online."
"This position has been compromised. We need to get out of here now."
"Yes sir."
"What about them?" Jennings asked.
"We can't take them with us." Hoskins said.
"I don't mind taking a ride." Daniel said.
"Me neither." Carter said.
"Are you two crazy?" Ford said leaning forward looking between the two of them.
"Sorry about this." Hoskins said aiming it at them.
The gate started activating.
"Incoming!" the tie guys said as they turned to look at it.
They got down as the gate shot out. As it backed off Daniel rushed the tie guy. Ford kicked the black guy in the face which pissed the guy off as he only rolled with the blow.
"SG-1, this is Teal'c. Please respond."
"Sam get that!" Ford said ducking a punch.
He gave Hoskins a nice hit in the face that made bones break. Daniel was having more trouble as he was hit in the gut then face which knocked him down. Jennings went for Carter who backed off and Ford smashed his face in with an elbow shot.
"Repeat this is Teal'c. Respond please."
He ducked the swinging sword and rolled over to the crates with his guns.
"Teal'c this is Daniel! We need you help!!!" Daniel yelled grabbing the CB since he was nearest to it.
Ford had pulled his personal cannons out and crossed them to block a downward swing. Hoskins didn't do much except dent his sword. But he didn't back off either making Ford fall to one knee as he swung hard again. Teal'c walked through the gate and aimed the staff weapon. Hoskins turned at the right moment and was shot through the chest as Ford pushed him away. He was blown into the missile and knocked it to the ground taking the assembly set up down with it. Teal'c slowly walked down the small ramp keeping his weapon ready.
"Somebody want to untie me." Carter said turning her hands to everyone.
"Daniel can you do that." Ford said helping him to his feet then grabbing his stuff quickly.
"Hoskins what is happening down there?" came through the CB.
"Give it here." Ford said as Daniel removed her tie.
"Sure." he said tossing it over.
"Jennings, Hoskins, where the hell are you?"
"Your friends are dead. Give up or else I'm coming up there."
They didn't get a response back but the engines started up moments later.
"The hyperdrive." Ford and Carter said.
"What?" Daniel said.
"We got to get out of here." Ford said loading a different clip. He couldn't shoot before seeing as he had rubber bullets still in it. Now they were his explosive rounds.
Carter rushed over to the computer.
"Yeah, it's the hyperdrive. Get to the gate!"
Daniel, Teal'c and Ford got up there quickly. Ford aimed his gun at the dark guy as his chest began to heal. Carter searched Jennings coat and found a locator before joining them.
"They are trying to run sir."
"Dammit. General O'Neill, they are powering up their hyperdrive, we are out of options!!!" the Captain said.
"Can you shoot it without destroying it?"
"I cannot give you any guarantees."
"Sir, we are picking up a signal coming from inside the ship." a officer near him said.
"What sort of signal?"
"Locator beacon. Same frequency."
"Lock onto the signal and activate the transport beam!"
"Beam activated."
Just before beam out….
"Turn your heads, you won't want to see this." Ford said as Carter got up by them.
The black guy got up and looked seeing them at the gate. Ford pulled the trigger and as the bullet left the gun, they vanished. Brooks activated the hyperdrive system and started flying away as she heard a small explosion.
"The ship is gone sir."
"Cargo bay report!"
"This is cargo bay, we have the gate, both Colonel and Major Carter, Doctor Jackson and Teal'c."
"Teal'c? Acknowledged." he said then switched channels. "General O'Neill, we have the gate and SG-1 aboard. They are alive."
"Thank you Colonel. Bring them home." he said with a sigh of relief.
"Yes sir." he said then nodded to the female officer.
Moments later they were beamed home inside the gate room. The gate needed work to be inputted back into the system though and in just the right place.
"Ah, home sweet home." Ford said.
"Thank god." Daniel said as Jack came rushing down.
A couple of hours later……
Many gate techs were working on the gate with different tools and other equipment. Carter nodded to a guy and walked down the ramp. Ford was helping with some equipment being worked on behind it. Mostly replacing heavy wires.
"The good news is that the gate is fully operational again." she said walking down the ramp. "We can resume off world missions immediately."
"And the bad news is the Trust have a fully functional Goa'uld Al'kesh." Daniel said.
"We have also placed jamming devices around the gate to make it impossible for any locator beacons from beaming the gate away again." she said.
"What of the Tok'ra poison?" Teal'c asked.
"Well, they left most of it behind, but they still have enough to wipe out about half a dozen Goa'uld worlds." Carter said tapping the clipboard in her hand with her nails.
"In retrospect maybe you should have destroyed the ship when you had the chance." Daniel said.
"No way! That would have been the worst idea! I didn't feel like floating through space the rest of eternity!" Ford exclaimed as he walked up wiping his hands.
Nobody said anything as they gave him a strange look.
"What?"
"I thought you said blowing you up would kill you?" Daniel said.
"Vaporized, possibly. From what I heard from other Immortals, it don't work that way. You still have to take the head off." he said making a slashing gesture across his throat.
"Maybe we should test this theory." Jack said casually.
"No way sir!" Sam exclaimed. "Sorry, just tired."
"I think you all need the night off. Go home. You can deal with the rest of the stress of working here tomorrow." Jack said and then with a wave as he left. "Oh, nice to see you all again."
"The only other bad news is that I might have missed." Ford said as they walked out.
"Missed what Ford Carter?"
"That Hoskins guy. He may have moved out of the way."
"Let's hope not. He made me want to kill him." Carter said.
"Did he do something to you?" Daniel asked.
Carter usually never had thoughts like that. Unless it was Kinsey, but then almost everyone at the SGC wanted Kinsey dead. Even the janitorial staff hated him.
"No. Other than being zatted no one touched her. We had to watch another planet be destroyed by one of those missiles. She tried to talk them out of it, but they could care less." Ford said as they neared the locker room.
"Well, I'll see you later." she said heading off. Her tone had a hidden suggestiveness to it that only Ford really noticed.
The area of the base that got bombed was rebuilt to have a locker room just for the women, a pool, the bomb shelter area for working on explosive devices and a few other rooms. The women on the base were especially happy for their own locker room. It was also a lot fancier since the women were the ones that mostly made it.
