Stargate Command: Outside
Sgt Riley, head of the L.A.P.D anti-terrorist unit, was granted permission to take a team to Cheyenne Mountain and attempt to finally take down the Guardians, he left LAX several hours ago and the plane has just arrive over the mountain, it's pitch black outside and the perfect conditions for a surprise assault, he and his team are now preparing to parachute down.
Riley stands at the back of the plane as the rear hatch opens and locks in place, "Alright, I want a clean jump, if you see any of those..a-holes on the way down..you take them out, shoot to kill." he says.
- "You just said three of my favorite words."
When the red altitude light illuminates in the belly of the plane they know its time to jump, "Lets do this, go..go..go!" shouts Riley, tapping each of his men in turn as they jump from the rear of the plane before checking every last man is out and he follows.
They free fall at first and then open their shoots when they reach a few hundred meters above the ground, using their night-vision goggles on the way down they see a number of Guardians patrolling the surface and Riley and his men silently take them out as they land on the ground throwing off their parachutes and immediately making their way to the entrance of the base, taking out several more in the process.
"Banks, get to work on the internal comms, get hold of someone on the inside. Vinny, Ellis, you got eyes up here, the rest of you know where you're going." says Riley, speaking very quietly so not to tip them off they're coming, "Move out." he orders and they quickly enter the base and fan out.
Stargate Command
The terrorist group known as the "Guardians" attacked the SGC and have been working their way through the facility from the surface level by level leaving a trail of bodies and destruction behind them, Jack and Teal'c took a team of marines up to level 11 to try and stop them reaching the lower levels, they've just finished setting the explosives on the access points and elevator shafts.
Jack secures the last explosive, "We're done, move back." he says as he turns and begins to walk down the corridor, he stops a few feet after passing a access point and hearing a noise, he cautiously walks back and listens, he hears movement and then silence, a few seconds later he presses his ear to the panel and hears a gentle metallic thud followed by an electronic beep, "Back, back, back, get back!" he shouts, rushing away knowing that an explosive has just been planted on the inside of the panel, moments later the panel is blown off and smoke canisters are tossed out of the shaft in to the corridor.
Panicked and disoriented they open fire on the shaft as "Guardians" begin to climb out one-by-one, they manage to take out a few but the smoke bellowing through the corridor gets too much for them and they have no choice but to move back and retreat, "Teal'c, lets go!" shouts Jack, watching Teal'c in the smoke laying in to one of the terrorists before knocking him to the ground and rushing away.
As they quickly retreat they're pursued by the terrorists and end up in yet another fire-fight when the terrorists blow another access point wide open and come at them from both directions, all but one of the marines are killed, Jack takes a bullet to the shoulder and they have to get out of there, Teal'c kicks in a store room door and helps Jack drag the surviving marine in to the room before closing and barricading themselves in.
While Jack tends to his own wound, Teal'c grabs a towel and tends to the marines wounds but quickly realizes the marine has died from his injuries, "How's he doing?" asks Jack.
"I am afraid his injuries were too severe. He is dead." says Teal'c, gently closing the marines eyes and covering him with the towel out of respect.
They've both lost men before and as the battle isn't yet over there's no time to grieve, "We won't be able to hold up in here forever, we need backup, where's the radio?" says Jack.
Teal'c pulls the broken radio from his pocket and holds it up for him to see.
"..Great." says Jack.
Sumidel
As the Commander draws back his fists in to the air ready to slam them down, Alisana quickly uses her arms to cover her face in fear and lays helpless on the ground preparing herself for the coming painful brutal attack. She has nothing to fear, her friends have her back and as the Commander throws his fists forward he is hit by the now enormous stalk that sprung from Lya's seed and with his fists just millimeters from striking Alisana, the Commander is sent flying through the air.
Only a few seconds had passed but to Alisana it felt like minutes, she slowly lowers her arms from her face and realizes he's no longer towering over her, she gets to her feet and sees him laying on the ground in the distance beyond the fissure, she then turns to look at the others who are shouting at her telling her to get up and run to them.
The Commander gets to his feet and starts running back sounding very angry, Alisana runs toward the safety of her friends but then slows and stops, remembering that Charlotte is in danger, she turns around and then starts running toward the Commander head on.
"Where is she going?!" says Daniel.
"I know what she's doing." says Lya, realizing where Alisana is heading, "Give me some room." she adds.
They run toward each other, rapidly decreasing the distance between them, Alisana runs with determination and concentration, the Commander speeds toward her like a raging bull and the moment they're within meters of each other he leaps in to the air with his arms outstretched ready to tackle her to the ground but he misses. The ground beneath her feet crumbles and cracks as the stalk punches its way through lifting and carrying Alisana high in to the air.
The Commander realizes what she's doing and opens fire on the stalk, obliterating large chunks of it and it splits and falls to the the ground but it didn't help him, the stalk lifted Alisana in to the air with so much force that she continued to be propelled towards and eventually through the active Stargate.
As the enormous chunks of falling stalk impact the ground around the Commander it creates more cracks and fissures releasing more gas in to the air which is ignited by his energy weapon and engulfs him in a huge fireball resembling a small nuclear explosion.
"Well, I think it is safe to say that he won't be bothering us for a while." says Thor.
"I hope she makes it in time." says Lya.
"Um, how are we getting home?" asks Daniel.
Stargate Command
Jack and Teal'c have no way of calling for help so have been sorting their weapons preparing to break out in to the corridor, their ammunition is low and they're greatly outnumbered but they have no other options at this point.
They stand ready by the door and as they begin counting down they hear shouting and gun fire from outside, it lasts a few seconds and they hear screams and the thuds of bodies hitting the floor then as it goes quiet they hear footsteps approaching and step away from the door behind the boxes, the door opens and they prepare to fire..
- "Don't shoot."
- "Hold your fire."
"Identify yourselves." shouts Jack.
- "Sgt. Riley, commanding officer of the L.A.A.T.U."
"The what?!" questions Jack.
- "We're here to help. And may I say, it is an honor to meet you."
They come out from behind the boxes and approach them, "Back at-ya." says Jack as he pokes his head in to the corridor and sees the terrorists on the ground, "Good job." he says,
Gate Room
With almost all of the SG-Teams and Marines on the upper levels defending the base most of the other personnel have gathered in the now crowded gate room waiting to be told what they should do next.
"Sir, the power couplings needed to charge the gate were irreparably damaged during the robot attack." says Walter.
"We need power, I don't care how you do it just get me some power so I can dial the gate and get these people to safety." orders Landry, sounding very angry with everything that's going on in his base.
"Main power is still down, even if we can retro-fit the gate we're running on backup power as it is and..." says Walter, trying to do everything he can but knowing he's out of options, "..I don't think it will be possible to dial out." he adds.
"Are you telling me we're stuck down here?" asks Landry.
"I'm afraid so, Sir." says Walter.
- "General Landry, come in sir." a fading voice speaks over the radio.
"This is Landry."
- "General, the prisoner has escaped. Heading towards the infirmary."
The radio cuts out to static
"Sergeant?, Sergeant? That's all we need..." says Landry, he turns to Mitchell standing guard behind him, "..head to the infirmary, apprehend the prisoner, I want him alive!." he orders, Mitchell doesn't waste time responding, he just turns and runs out of the door.
?
Like the cork from a shaken bottle of champagne, Alisana comes flying out of the stargate and lands several meters away on a sandy surface. When she recovers from the violent landing she shake-ably stands, brushing off the sand from her hair and clothes before looking around.
It appears she's standing on a small beach, heavy forestry towers behind her swaying in the wind to the sound of crashing ocean waves and the sun shines blindly bright in the sky, looking back down the beach she sees the stargate that she came through is intact but it looks highly unusual, a metallic cage seems part embedded in the ground with the stargate clamped in the middle of it, burn marks around the edges suggest that this strange device fell from space, scorched by the atmosphere.
After further examination of the device she discovers a control panel of what appears to be Alteran design, the device no longer has any power but looking closer at the symbols on the panel interface she comes to a startling conclusion, the symbols are Asuran and this cage is in fact the remnants of the Asurans satellite which they built and sent to destroy Atlantis a few years ago.
"This can't be." she says to herself, while shaking her head, then looks again at her surroundings, "This is Lantea." she says.
Instead of gating directly to Earth as she planned, the energy from the explosion set off by the Commander on Sumidel must have been powerful enough to disrupt the wormhole and send her off course, way off course.