SG-1 went to the locker room to put on their gear ready to go on a retrieval mission, however, Daniel lagged behind as he stayed to talk to the General, he knew what they were about to do was very important but he also argued that his work researching the ruins on P3X-474 was equally if not much more important, after a lengthy exchange of 'buts' and 'why nots' he finally managed to convince Landry to let him go to P3X-474.
Once the team were geared up they returned 20 minutes later and entered the gate room, standing at the foot of the ramp.
Jack looks back at the control room window, "Dial it up, lets go." he shouts.
The gate spins and when the seventh chevron is locked the gate activates and a stable connection is established, Jack stands with Daniel while the others start walking up the ramp.
"Blowing us off for a bunch of old rocks huh." says Jack.
"Yep." replies Daniel.
Jack stares at him for a moment with his 'Daniel you're such a dweeb' look on his face, "Well...have fun." he says, snapping in to action as he walks up the ramp towards the gate.
"Good luck." shouts Daniel.
"Yeah, Yeah." replies Jack, as he steps in to the event horizon.
When the gate deactivates, Daniel reaches down and picks up his heavy backpack full of books and other historical reference material and swings it on to his shoulder, a security officer runs over to steady him when the heavy bag nearly causes him to fall over, "Thanks" says Daniel, getting his balance back.
"Are you okay Dr Jackson?" asks Walter.
"What!?..Oh, yeah fine just...I'm ready...dial it up." replies Daniel.
Walter then starts dialling P3X-474 so Daniel can go and have a look at the ruins.
SG-1 arrive on a world that currently has no designation, Earth hasn't visited before and it was only thanks to Major Pauletti getting hold of some important intel during an unrelated mission that they even knew the gate address.
Its a typical planet in the Milky Way galaxy, the gate is located in a clearing within a wooded area and a path leads away from it, the grass has worn away and recent foot prints can be seen on the path which indicates that the gate is in use by whoever inhabits the planet, looking at the skyline they can see a few streams of smoke coming from beyond the trees.
"Anything look familiar?" asks Jack, looking at Teal'c.
"It does not" replies Teal'c.
"Nope" says Vala.
"The smoke coming from over there doesn't look too thick, possibly a small camp fire or something." says Sam.
"Okay lets check it out" says Jack.
"Woah woah, hold on there skippy." says Mitchell.
Mitchell is the leader of SG-1 but now Jack has been reduced in rank back to Colonel and re-joined SG-1 and Mitchell is now confused as to exactly who is in charge now.
Jack stops and turns around, "Skippy?" he asks.
"The bush kangaroo, O'Neill." says Teal'c.
"Yes, thank you Teal'c." replies Jack.
"Exactly which one of us is giving the orders here?" asks Mitchell.
"I am...lets go" says Jack, turning around and continuing to walk.
"But I'm the leader of SG-1, you rejoined the team...under MY command." says Mitchell.
"No, I retook command of the team." says Jack.
"You can't just take command like that, we're both the same rank now 'Colonel', why should you be in charge?" says Mitchell.
"I have the most experience, and I'm older and wiser" says Jack.
"Pff-yeah, definitely older." replies Mitchell.
"Scuse me?" says Jack, a little angrily.
"Oh Boy!" says Sam under her breath, realising it's about to kick off.
Jack and Mitchell continue to exchange argumentative and insulting comments between each other and eventually end of having a playground scuffle in the dirt.
"This is great, should have brought snacks." says Vala, joyfully sitting on a rock and watching.
Sam walks over to them, "For God sakes, HEY! ...knock it off." she shouts.
Holding each other in a head lock, Jack and Mitchell stop and look up at her.
"What's wrong with you two, you're acting like a couple of kids..Stop it." says Sam.
"Just tell him I'm in charge will ya." says Jack.
"You know what, in terms of length of standing rank and experience, I outrank you both, so I'm in command. Now stop fighting, pick up your stuff and get moving. That's an order." shouts Sam.
As Sam walks off in a huff, they break their head holds and stand up straight brushing themselves off and picking up their gear as they follow the others down the path.
"What's wrong with her?" asks Mitchell.
"Ooh, she hasn't been sleeping much lately." replies Jack.
"Is she really in charge now." asks Mitchell.
"...Nah." replies Jack.
Even though Sam sounded initially annoyed at Jack and Mitchell's childish behaviour she knows it wasn't serious and its just a 'Male' thing, they apologised and made it up to her and have now decided that they should all be equally in command, unless a desperate situation arises in which case Jack has stated that he will give the orders at the point.
They continue to follow the dirt path for about a mile through the wood and eventually reach a small village, the smoke they saw earlier was coming from the chimneys of two of the small houses in the village, its very small and has may be 8 small buildings in total, there's a large open area in the middle of the village where wooden carts and stalls stand in lines and filled with fruit, vegetables and other merchandise, its probably a planet used by traders.
They walk through the village and passed the stalls keeping a look out as they move forward.
Suddenly Teal'c reaches around and grabs someone by the back of the neck as they approach from behind him, a small man very foolishly ran towards Teal'c from behind, you should never charge at a Jaffa.
"Can I help you with something?" asks Teal'c.
"Easy Teal'c" says Mitchell.
"Do you err...want to buy a scarf?" says the small man, looking a little petrified as Teal'c glares down at him.
"We do not." replies Teal'c.
"Okay Teal'c, put him down." says Jack.
Teal'c lets go of the man and he runs off back in to the stalls, they continue walking and bump in to some more people.
"Hey there, listen we're looking for a..." says Jack, before he can finish what he's saying, the villagers point towards a building at the edge of the village and then walk away from them.
"Thank you." says Jack, "Okay that was weird." he adds.
As they walk towards and get closer to the building pointed out to them by the villagers, they realise its a tavern and they can hear a lot of shouting and banging coming from inside, it sounds a lot like there's a fight going on, they stop and stand outside while they decide whether to go in or not.
"Vala why don't you go check that out, let us know what's going on." says Mitchell.
"I don't think so." replies Vala, insulted that he even asked.
The shouting gets louder and then suddenly a body comes crashing through the wooden side wall of the tavern and lands very hard on the ground in front of SG-1, its a young girl.
"Get lost. Come back when you've got something real to trade, HaHaHa" says a deep loud male voice from inside the tavern.
The girl gets to her feet, "Scr*w you, I don't need your cr*p anyway." she shouts, she brushes the dry dirt from her clothes and then tosses a small object in to the air and catches it like a baseball, she turns around and starts to walk away with a smile on her face, then stops when she sees SG-1 standing in front of her.
"Oh sh*t." she says.
"Hello, Linda." says Jack, sounding very smug.
"Heh heh...Hi." says Linda, slowly pushing the object in to her pocket, then in a flash she's off on her toes running.
Mitchell springs in to action, he passes Jack his P90 and chases after her, he's very quick on his feet and Linda doesn't get very far, she's barely passed the side of the tavern when Mitchell jumps and tackles her to the ground, the rest of SG-1 run up behind them.
"Nicely done." says Sam.
"Thanks" replies Mitchell, "Get up!" he says, pulling Linda to her feet and holding her arms behind her back.
"What do you want?" asks Linda.
"You know exactly what we want, you're coming back with us." says Jack.
"I'm not going anywhere with you." says Linda, assertively.
They hear an angry shout from inside the tavern, "Thieving witch!. Kill her!".
"Okay you caught me, lets go, take me back right now." says Linda.
Suddenly a load of men come running through the hole in the side of the tavern wall, they're holding various types of weapons and begin firing at Linda and SG-1.
"Time to go." shouts Mitchell.
A/N: For those of you who haven't been following my previous stories, Linda is a clone of Ba'al.
When Ba'al was on Earth and creating his clones he made a few in absolute secrecy, using various techniques he managed to alter the clones before they were grown which allowed him to change their sex, appearance and slow their ageing which allowed the clones to live on Earth completely undetected, these clones were teenagers, they were given identities and foster families, they blended in almost perfectly on Earth and no one knew who they really were, that was until SG-1 discovered them while investigating a mysterious illness affecting the children of a small town. Most of these clones died from a fatal flaw caused by the alteration of their DNA, but Linda survived and fled Earth and they've been looking for her ever since.