While Carter, Alisana and Vala continue working to find a way to salvage the ship, the others are making their way through the corridors with Yol.
"Are you related to the Asgard?" asks O'Neill.
"I have not heard of the Asgard." says Yol.
"Well you look like them." says O'Neill, "Bony, skinny, naked." he adds.
"So you have psychokinetic powers?" asks Daniel, quickly changing the subject, "You can move things with your mind." he says.
"Yes." replies Yol.
"Why don't you use that on the Umbra, can't you float them away or something." asks O'Neill.
Yol briefly looks over his back at O'Neill, "The Umbra also possess powerful minds, although they're not as advanced as ours, they're capable of blocking our abilities making them less effective." he says.
"So let me get this straight, you guys are guardians to the princess...and the only weapon you have is your mind, which isn't that effective." asks Mitchell, "Why don't you have guns?" he asks.
"We use weapons such as guns, however, we did not have time to arm ourselves before we came through the Stargate." says Yol.
"What about the Umbra, do they have guns?" asks O'Neill.
"Yes." replies Yol.
O'Neill stops walking, "Hold it." he shouts, they all stop and look at him.
"What type of weapons do they have exactly?, what are we up against out there?" asks O'Neill.
"They only possess the weapons their ancestors were carrying when they came through the Stargate, at minimum...30 energy weapons." says Yol.
"Anything else?" asks O'Neill.
"They're also extremely good hunters. It will not be easy." says Yol.
"Why have the Umbra not attempted to gain access to the ship?" asks Teal'c.
"They have, many times. Thankfully the hull is strong and their energy weapons proved ineffective when they attempted to penetrate it, they gave up trying many years ago." says Yol.
Daniel notices Yol looking a little disheartened, "What's wrong?" he asks.
"I am the last guardian, if I die, there will be no one to free the princess and I will have failed my mission, and my people." says Yol, "The princess must survive, the fate of our people depends on her safe return home." he says.
"Then we will not fail." says Teal'c.
"Why are you helping me win a battle that is not yours to fight?" asks Yol.
"It's what we do." says O'Neill, "Come on, lets go get your princess. Then we can get the hell out of here." he says.
They start walking again and eventually reach an exit point on the ship, before heading outside they do a weapons check and ensure they have everything they need.
"Carter, come in." says O'Neill over the radio.
"Here Sir." replies Carter.
"We're at an exit on the East side of the ship, what's out best route from here to the city?" asks O'Neill.
Alisana brings up an external scan on her display and Carter stands by her.
The city sits on a large circle of stone on the surface, from the outer edge and winding inwards are hundreds of buildings of various sizes and style, the architecture is similar to that of Mayan, Aztec and ancient Greek, at the far edge of the city stands an enormous tower, it almost reaches the roof of the cavern, the tower was probably the middle of the city but the structures behind that are no longer visible and have long since been destroyed and covered in tonnes of rock.
"There isn't a lot of vegetation so if you're looking for cover you're going to have to stay on the East side for about half a mile there's a large cluster of big rocks which should provide cover, after that you'll come to a small river, go West up the river about 100 meters and then head North and you'll be inside the city, you're on your own from their Sir, we can't scan the interior, but we can tell you where the Umbra are, right now they're all on the west side of the city so you should be alright." says Carter.
"Okay, then that's the plan, everybody stay close together and stay alert." says Mitchell.
"Can you run?" asks O'Neill, looking at Yol's small skinny legs.
"Do not worry, I will keep up with you." says Yol, "I will go in front." he says.
"Okay, Carter, we're heading out." says O'Neill over the radio.
"Good luck Sir." replies Carter.
Teal'c pushes the button to open the door and it opens, sliding sideways, "Lets go." says O'Neill and they all swiftly exit the ship, keeping low and moving around to the large rocks East of them.
Carter, Alisana and Vala remain on the bridge and are trying to come up with a plan to salvage the ship.
"So...ideas?" asks Vala.
"Well we can't fly it out of here." says Alisana, she uses the console to bring up the engine status, "The engines are fried, and even if we could fly it we wouldn't be able to break through all this rock." she says.
"If we had a hammer we could take it apart and take it out of here piece by piece." says Vala, jokingly.
Carter smiles, "Okay lets think about this, we can't fly it, it's completely surrounded by rock so we probably couldn't even move it if we try, and we can't take it apart...what if we beam it out." she says.
"How?, the Daedalus' sensors can't scan through the rock and if they can't calculate the size and mass of the ship they can't beam it out." says Alisana.
Carter holds up her finger with an idea, "Yes, but...we have access to the systems now, if we send the Daedalus detailed plans and schematics of the ship they should be able to calculate the size and mass, then use that data to beam it out." she says.
"But they still don't know our exact position, and the ship will be at an angle stuck in this rock, how are they going to put that in to their equations?" says Alisana.
Carter shrugs her shoulders, "Well that's what we'll have to figure out, and we don't have a lot of time so we better get to it." she says.
As Carter and Alisana turn back to their consoles, Vala walks over and sits in the captains chair, leaning sideways she rest on the left arm of the chair and drapes her leg over the over arm, looking quite comfortable.
"What are you doing?" asks Carter.
"I have no idea what you two are talking about or what you're doing, so I won't be of much help, I'll just sit here...out of the way." replies Vala.
Carter points over to Alisana, "Go over there and watch the external sensors, you can monitor the guys progress and update them on the location of the Umbra." she says, firmly.
The others are outside making their way through the cavern towards the city, they're just a few meters away from the river, there isn't much light inside the cavern but they can see wooden torches standing and burning around the edge of the city, the ocean above is flowing through a small crack in the roof of the cavern and falling like a narrow waterfall to the surface below, creating the river.
They huddle down at the edge of the river, a wide bridge stretches across it above them, "Okay, Carter said West, so we head under the bridge." says O'Neill, they all head under the bridge as O'Neill wave them through and then follow behind.
"Mitchell, I'm seeing three life signs heading towards you." says Vala over the radio.
As they reach the other side of the bridge and hear the radio call, Mitchell holds up his fist indicating to the others to stop, looking out he sees three Umbra walking around above them.
"What do you see?" asks O'Neill, as he makes his way to the front.
"Three Umbra." replies Mitchell, as he watches them walk away in the opposite direction, he indicates to the others its safe to move on.
As they walk out from under the bridge, a rock is accidentally knocked off the surrounding wall and makes loud noises as it rolls down, everyone stops and cringes, the three Umbra heard the noise and turn around and walk to the edge of the bridge, they stand at the edge slowly looking around.
The Umbra are around 6 foot tall, dark skinned and are very heavy built, they look slightly humanoid but have long pointy chins and large yellow eyes, they wear clothing made from rags, some are wearing wraps around their waists and have shoes made of wood and twine, due to their breeding they've had to make clothing from whatever materials they could get their hands on, the others are dressed similar but also have pieces of armour covering their knees, waist, chest and gauntlets on their arms, some carry primitive staffs and daggers while others have powerful energy guns.
The Umbra turn and walk away when they don't see anything, "Two more coming from the South." says Vala, unexpectedly over the radio, O'Neill quickly reaches for his radio to turn it down, it's too late, the Umbra heard it and run back to the river, they look down and see them under the bridge.
"Damn it!" shouts O'Neill, as the Umbra points his gun at them, O'Neill and Mitchell step out and open fire, "Back back, go back." he shouts to the others and they run back under the bridge.
They manage to take out two of them who have primitive weapons, as the third approaches, it fires its energy gun at them, O'Neill and Mitchell dive out of the way in opposite directions, when Mitchell lands, he quickly kneels up and swings around, opening fire with his P90 he manages to take down the Umbra, who's body tumbles and falls down in to the river.
O'Neill and Mitchell get up and walk over to the Umbra's body, "Yep he's dead." says Mitchell, they see what appears to be green blood bleeding out of it, they hear a rustle behind them and swing around pointing their guns, they see two Umbra but as they turned around, Yol is standing on the bridge holding out his hand, he's using his powers and floating the Umbra in the air, Yol then sweeps his hand and the Umbra go flying through the air way off in to the distance and slamming against a wall.
O'Neill and Mitchell stare at Yol in amazement for a few seconds, "Nice." says O'Neill, he then turns to Mitchell, "Lets go." he says as they head back under the bridge, Mitchell spots the Umbra's gun and picks it up, "This oughta come in handy." he says.
They rejoin the others and following Yol, they climb up the side of the river wall and on to the bridge, "Vala give us a click next time and wait for us to respond before you talk." says O'Neil.
"Sorry General." replies Vala, "You may want to get out of there though, I'm detecting more life signs heading your way from the West." she says.
"How many?" asks O'Neill.
"Err...all of them." replies Vala.
Carter comes on the radio, "Sir, don't forget they could be more inside the city, we can't scan it so we don't know." she says.
"We need to move, O'Neill." says Teal'c.
They reload their guns and run across the bridge towards the city entrance, they have no idea if more Umbra are inside the city but with nearly 200 hearing the gun fire and heading towards their position, they have no choice but to head inside.