Kajos: again very sorry for the lateness of the update, I promise it's not that I haven't not been writing! I've just had other non fan fics to write and a deadline to meet. I have though been watching the new SG series Universe. Not sure about it yet. The original will always be the best and I am trying to collect the dvds but it's taking time and I'm struggling to find time to watch them. Anyway enough about me. On with the story.
The front door. What made this sound like a good idea? They had no idea how they were getting out of those cells currently. James was mostly hoping they hadn't moved things around too much or changed security protocols. This whole thing was a horrible idea. If only he had a better one he would use it.
The four of them were on a bus headed for Washington, the plan was to go to the pentagon. Obviously it was a stupid idea that would get them arrested, but at least someone would know they were then on the base and hopefully that would prevent them getting killed. It was risky, there had to be a reason they had taken his father but left Rya'c and what ever it was might not bode well for the rest of them.
As the bus trundled onwards Jack had gone to sleep, James had noticed this was a sort of skill of his to just drop off when ever. Not surprising since his adult self had been a military man and still was. James refused to think of people in the past tense. Cassy was reading text books and muttering about how much she was going to miss because of this crazy stunt while Rya'c was quiet content to stare out the window at the scenery and occasionally gasp. James was bored and had stolen a laptop of someone who had been sat in front of him and got off a few stops back. He had worked out the guys name and town so he would email him and post it back later claiming he found it on the bus and he must have left it by accident, which he did in a way.
In the mean time he was able to start working through things using the brief spurts of wifi he could pick up in towns and cities when they stopped. He was starting to piece together with some download software a simulation of what they needed to do. It took him a couple of hours to build the basic reconstruction of the base they would need and start mapping their hopeful path from the cells. Occasionally he woke Jack to get ideas about doors and patrols and such but mostly he was able to remember enough. The journey was long and they all slept at one time or another. Jack sat late in the night watching the others as he hoped they got as far as the pentagon before they were picked up. It had been his idea and he wanted the security of knowing other people knew he was sighed, suddenly looking at the three of them he felt all of his years before and after cloning and thought with dread on the idea of four teenagers even with this much skill going up against what they were. It was a fools errand.
With the morning came their arrival. They all roused themselves and realising he would have it confiscated, James, deleted all his work off the laptop and slipped it back under the seat for the bus driver to find. As they stepped off the bus three of them instantly scanned their surroundings while Cassy checked the map on the wall of the bus station looking for the best route. James was already spotting security cameras and carefully stepping out of sight of them and indicating to Rya'c and Jack to do the same so mostly other people blocked them. Rya'c was on guard for any attacks from SG staff while Jack kept an eye out for any agent sorts. Between the three of them they had the whole place covered until Cassy was done and they left through three different exits Jack and James going one way that Jack knew from his many visits to the capitol and heading for the train station while Cassey and Rya'c headed out to the pavement to catch a local bus out a ways before they had scheduled to meet the others in a park not five miles from the five sided building.
They spent three hours hanging around the place before James, having cased the place and found a way in online, snuck them through the perimetre towards the building where they made it as far as the lobby before they were stopped and thrown out. After three more times they were arrested. Of course they gave the same fake names as before to avert suspicion but the names were flagged and very quickly calls were being made to departments the guards had never know existed and people had arrived with badges and smiles.
"Hi guys." Jacks replacement grinned and got nothing but scowls in return as his team of SFs lead them out in to a truck where Jack joined them in the back. "Well well well, we find you at last. You lead us on a pretty good chase there kids. Now why not tell me what you were thinking? Disappearing like that. Cassy, you have class, you should be there. As for the rest of you. James you gave Daniel a heart attack when you disappeared and you! Come on, your wanted by the police and your leading teenagers in a chase across the country, your supposed to be me! You get a head wound or something."
"Congratulations you hacked our files. Your not Jack."James just sneered back at him.
"Not even close." The Clone said. "I would trust myself...I think and Daniel would come to pick him up if he was worried about James."
"Really you are a very poor actor." Cassy said snootily.
"I personally could not tell the difference Colonel." The copy nodded and thanked the boy before Rya'c continued. "Except that you failed to mention me when I would have believed an alien adolescent would have been the greatest of your worries."
"Well, you have us but no great problem, we have you. So, you won't be talking to anyone in the near future." Alien-Jack threatened.
"What about our friends and schools and relatives?" Cassy pointed out.
"Well we have most of those relatives you mentioned, all your schools are in different parts of the country and think you've moved and friends...well I don't think they'll be much of a problem after, you all just packed up and left with out a word." They were all solemnly silent with the realisation that they were royally screwed.