A/N: Hi guys, thanks everyone for your reviews on the previous chapter. Hope you enjoy this new one, and please review and enjoy. Cheers.
A/N2: Any dialogue line that "shows up like this" means that the character is speaking in Greek/Colonial Standard. Telepathic communication still remains as the same format as before.
A/N3: This is a quick response to the guest review by 'bubulala'. There are two Lewis' in the chapter. One is an Airman with SG2, and the other one is a Sergeant with SG14.
Gateroom, SGC, the same day, 1645 hours.
Dawn was ecstatic with the news she had heard in the briefing room earlier that day. After floating around various SG teams for months since she joined the SGC, she was finally assigned a permanent team in SG2. The first person that she had called to give the good news was Buffy and Joyce back in Sunnydale. They were happy for her, but Buffy did remind her to always watch her back.. especially with the Ori still out there. The next two people she called were Willow and Faith who were still in Paris, and were scheduled to return in two days. Equally excited as the brunette girl, Willow and Faith excitedly told Dawn that there would be a party in her honour after she gets back from the mission. Willow told Dawn that Colonel Ferretti and SG2 would welcome her in their own way. And then a few days later, once she recovers from her hangover, SG1 would bring along the Scoobies for another party. After telling Dawn to be careful, Willow and Faith let her go off the phone.
Putting the phone back on the hook, Dawn turned around and walked the few steps into the Gateroom where the rest of SG2 and SG14 were waiting for the Stargate to finish dialing. Standing beside Satterfield and Grogan, Dawn made sure that she had everything she needed such as her combat knife, P90, Zat and her radio. Looking over at Satterfield, Dawn saw that the Asian woman was also carrying the same equipment as her. She then glanced over at Airman Lewis as he looked at the Stargate dial the address, before he walked a few steps back and spoke to Colonel Ferretti. She saw that both teams were carrying the dependable P90's since this was categorized as a meet and greet mission.
Satterfield, who was standing next to Dawn as the fifth chevron engaged, looked over at Dawn and leaned over to whisper into her ear.
"You alright?" asked Satterfield, "you've gone through the Gate before, nothing to be nervous about."
"I'm not nervous" replied Dawn as she turned to Satterfield, "just excited 'is all. This is my first time through the Gate as part of a team. What I mean is, yeah I've gone off-world with SG1, SG3 and various others… but this is the one mission where I'll be going as part of a permanent team. It's my first as part of a permanent team."
Satterfield just simply smiled at Dawn as the unstable vortex of the Stargate erupted outwards, before it settled back into the event horizon.
"Welcome to SG2, Dawn" said Satterfield as she gently pushed Dawn up to the bottom of the ramp while Grogan used the remote control to move the MALP through the Stargate. The group then looked back at the control room, where Walter was looking at telemetry data from the MALP at the same time as General Landry was coming down the stairs from the briefing room after he had finished another meeting.
"Walter" said General Landry as he walked up behind the balding technician, "anything from the MALP? Is the planet safe?"
"Sir" said Walter as he pressed a button and the lights on the MALP turned on so that the camera could take a better look at the surrounding area, "looks like Major Rosenberg was right, the Stargate is in what seems to be a holding area for artifacts."
The General looked in awe as Walter moved the camera around and various statues and paintings came into view. Walter moved the MALP around to face the Stargate but still couldn't find any sign of the DHD.
"The people on that planet may not have been able to find the DHD" said General Landry, "I take it that a laptop with a dialling program, and a Mark Two naquada generator has been placed inside the MALP?"
"Yes, Sir" said Walter as he looked at a section of the screen in surprise, "sir, I'm reading elevated radiation levels."
"How elevated?" asked a concerned General Landry as he leaned in behind Walter as he pointed to some numbers on the screen.
"It's not enough to scrub the mission" said Walter, "but these are just the readings in the basement, I'm worried about what would be waiting for them in the surface."
"Dr. Lam has already given the teams the standard inoculations" said General Landry, "and the MALP has Potassium Iodide tablets and Prussian Blue. That should keep them safe for a day as long as they don't eat or drink anything. This is only a meet and greet mission, I'll have to guess that this planet has naturally elevated radiation levels than our own. But, tell both teams to stand by… I'll bring this up with Dr, Lam."
"Yes, sir" said Walter as General Landry walked over to a phone, while Walter leaned into the microphone and told SG2 and SG14 to stand-by for orders from General Landry. It took the General about five minutes to gain assurances from Dr. Lam that as long as the teams didn't stay out too long, as long as they didn't eat the food, or drink the water… they should be alright. However, she recommended that they stay on the planet for not more than a day just to be on the safe side. Frowning, the General walked down to the Gateroom and talked personally to Colonel Ferretti from SG2 and Major Blasdale from SG14. HE had told the two leaders of their respective teams about the inherent dangers, and that although Dr. Lam said that they shouldn't be planet side for more than a day, he wanted them back in twelve hours for a check up. If everything checked out, then another team would take over for the meet and greet mission.
"Understood, Sir" said Colonel Ferretti, "we'll check in every two hours, and I'll have both SG2 and SG14 take the Iodide pills in the MALP once we've reached the other side."
"Godspeed, people" said General Landry who nodded at both team leaders. He then stepped back as he watched SG2 and SG14 walk off to another adventure through the Stargate before the wormhole disengaged. The General then turned around and sighed, he had to ensure that Vala wasn't causing any trouble while waiting for the psychiatrist from the IOA. He smiled to himself as he walked up the stairs to the briefing room as he recalled Colonel Mitchell's reaction to the General telling him that Vala was his responsibility to keep in line. Almost immediately, he thought back to his front line team as he stopped in the middle of the second flight of stairs before turning around and walked back into the control room.
"Walter" said General Landry, "contact Major Rosenberg and Miss Lehane, tell them that I know they still have a couple of days left on their honeymoon, but I need them back at the SGC now. With SG1 at Vagonbrei, I need the both of them able to move out to help should anything happen to them."
"You think something will happen, sir?" asked Walter.
"It pays to keep the big guns close to your vest" said General Landry, "get it done, Walter. And once they get in, ask them to come to my office for a debrief."
"Yes, sir" said Walter as he reached for the phone on the console in front of him and contacted Willow's secure phone line.
Unknown Vessel, Orbit of P2B-765.
On one of four strange 'Y' shaped vessels that orbited the planet below, an elderly man along with two remarkably similar blonde women and a black man in a suit were standing along a long basin that had water running on the surface. The four of them were surrounded by seven foot tall robots that were standing to one side as if waiting for orders.
It was all of the sudden when the elderly man looked up confused and then to his right where a screen appeared showing a map of a city in the planet below. The map zoomed in to show a building among others that were crumbling onto the surrounding streets. He then looked from the screen to the two women who were looking at him confused.
"Did you see that?" asked the old man as he pointed to the building on the screen, "a massive power spike from that building, what is that?"
"The museum" said one of the blonde women, "the same one where Starbuck killed me a few hours ago. I still feel that piece of rebar through my chest."
"Whatever it is" said the old man as he looked back at the screen when the power spike suddenly vanished, "send some Centurions to the museum, maybe the humans found something that they think would save them. Let the centurions show them the futility of their endeavours."
"By your command" said the smiling black man as he nodded at the two women before turning around and walking down a long corridor.
Planet designated P2B-765, storage area.
The previously darkened storage area was now lit up brightly thanks to the light emitted from the event horizon of the Stargate, and the lights on the MALP. It took only a few seconds before both SG2 and SG14 were thought the Gate and standing close to the MALP. Colonel Ferretti turned on the camera and confirmed with the SGC that all members of both teams had reached the planet, and requested that the SGC disengage the wormhole.
"Copy that, Colonel" said General Landry, "check in every two hours."
"Yes, Sir" said Colonel Ferretti as he stared into the MALP's camera, "Ferretti out."
Just then, the event horizon was disengaged and the two teams found themselves in a slightly more darkened room.
"Lights!" shouted Colonel Ferretti as everyone turned on the torches attached to their P90's, "before anyone does anything, swallow the Iodide pills in the left compartment of the MALP. Take some Prussian Blue in your vests as well, do not, I repeat do not drink the local water, or take in the food."
"Won't that look a bit rude to our hosts?" asked Dawn.
"Probably" said Colonel Ferretti, "but we'll be honest and tell them that the unusually high radiation levels on their planet mean that our health could be at risk if we drink or eat anything local. We'll do the meet and greet, and then we'll ask permission from the locals to send one of our doctors here to examine the food and water… and yes, I know its rude of us to do so, but it's for our safety. The locals may be used to it, but we're not."
"Alright" said Dawn nodding her head as she swung the torch attached to her P90 in another direction.
Once everyone had taken in the Iodide pills, the Colonel asked SG14 to stay in the general vicinity of the gate. He asked Major Glassner and Captain Heffron from SG14 to set up the naquada generator and attach the power leads to the Stargate, and then to boot up the computer and activate the dialing program.
"In the meantime" said Colonel Ferretti, "Satterfield, Grogan, Lewis, Summers and I will explore the outside."
"We'll stay in radio contact, sir" said Major Blasdale as he nodded his head.
It was Colonel Ferretti who had opened the door that led out of the basement when he was visibly hit by the smell of stale air. It seemed as if no one opened this door in months.
Immediately signalling everyone behind him to be alert and ready weapons, the Colonel and Lewis brought up their P90's and headed slowly out into the hallway that led to another door at the end. Following them, Satterfield and Dawn slowly walked out with their P90's held up as well and pointed towards their front and then, finally, it was Grogan who walked into the hallway last by taking up the rear with his P90 also held up and ready to fire.
Colonel Ferretti and Lewis opened a door upon reaching the end of the hallway and stepped back as fresh air from the stairwell flew into the now open hallway behind them. Looking confused at the people behind him, Colonel Ferretti nodded and led the group up the first flight of stairs until they reached a sign on the wall.
"Satterfield?" asked Colonel Ferretti as he nodded at the sign.
"It says 'lobby', sir" said Satterfield, "looks like Willow was right, it's an ancient dialect of Greek. There have been some archaeological evidence uncovered to…."
"Ok" said Colonel Ferretti nodding his head, "all I needed to know was ancient dialect… and Greek. Thank you, Major."
"Of course, Sir" said Satterfield as she looked at the Colonel, before smirking at Dawn.
Looking up the stairwell from where they were standing, he figured that there were probably four floors above the lobby, not including the basement. However, wanting to get the show on the road, Colonel Ferretti felt it would be best to meet the local leaders before going on an unannounced expedition through the museum where there could people looking at the paintings or artifacts; and then next thing they knew, the guests in the museum would be faced by aliens from another world called Earth.
Cautiously opening the door, the Colonel and the others were again hit by a blast of fresh air that they could actually feel flowing within the building. It was when they stepped outside into the hallway did they manage to find out why there was so much fresh air. Some parts of the wall had collapsed into the dark hallway itself, which was poke marked with the light from the sun that shone in from the huge gaps in the walls. In fact, the entire hallway was littered with large chunks of what seemed to be concrete.
"What the hell?" asked Colonel Ferretti as he looked at the destruction around him as he and the others walked into the large hallway where not only were concrete chunks on the red coloured carpet covering the floor, but many of the paintings and statues were either torn or broken as they lay on the carpet.
After looking around in shock, Colonel Ferretti had signalled them to take off their weapon safeties and move towards the main lobby. He knew that they needed answers on what was going on, and he could get that from the locals.
As Dawn was walking behind Satterfield, she had her weapon pointed to the right while Satterfield had her pointed towards the left with Grogan still following behind them. It was a few minutes later that they had walked into a large central area with a reception desk that was now empty and the front was not only littered with massive chunks of debris, they also saw a blonde woman in a black halter top and trousers who was lying on the floor. Rushing over to her, Colonel Ferretti crouched down and put two fingers on her neck to feel for a pulse. Shaking his head, he should have guessed that the woman was already dead when he saw the large piece of rebar that was jutting out from her chest. Looking up towards the second floor, he could see that a large section of the floor had been destroyed.
'All this debris must be from the destroyed second floor' thought Colonel Ferretti to himself when he saw Dawn crouching on the floor as she picked up a yellow coloured book before she started to flip through the pages.
"Anything?" asked the Colonel as he walked towards Dawn while Lewis, Satterfield and Grogan walked out the front doors.
"Colonel" said Dawn as she pointed to the cover of the book, "we're in the… hold on… I think it says the 'Colonial Museum of Delphi' or it could be the 'Delphi Museum of the Colonies', still the same either way."
"Delphi? As is the oracle of Delphi?" asked the Colonel as Dawn looked at him with an eyebrow raised.
"Yeah" said Colonel Feretti, "I've watched Three Hundred with Jack, Teal'c and Daniel… and I'm telling you, you should never watch that movie with Daniel… we had to gag him just to enjoy the movie."
"Well" said Dawn as she flipped the book and grinned, "that movie is so full of inaccuracies that…."
"Not you too" moaned the Colonel as he shook his head, "anyway, any other information you picked up?"
It was just then that Satterfield ran back into the lobby and called for Colonel Ferretti and Dawn to follow her outside, that there was something important that the both of them needed to see.
"Apparently we're in a city called Delphi" said Dawn as she walked next to Colonel Ferretti while following Satterfield as he handed the Colonel the yellow covered book, "I think it's a tourist guide, says that this is a planet called Caprica… one of the Twelve Colonies of Kobol."
"Colonies? Kobol?" said the Colonel as he looked at Dawn after they walked through the front doors and were heading towards another staircase that was situated between rows of plants, "what's Ko… oh God."
The Colonel, and everyone in SG2 looked on in surprise at the destruction all around them. They saw large chunks of debris on the streets, they saw cars overturned, many of the surrounding buildings seemed to be intact while others were already crumbling onto the ground. Cautiously SG2 walked down the stairs and stared at the destruction all around them; whichever way they turned, they found the streets littered with debris.
"What the hell happened?" asked Grogan as he looked around.
"Judging by the unusual radioactive readings the MALP read?" asked the Colonel, "I'm guessing a nuclear war."
"But what Willow saw in her dream… I mean from what she told General landry.. she didn't see this" said Dawn shocked as she looked around her surroundings, "this is…. Wait."
"What?" asked Satterfield as she looked at Dawn who looked around her surroundings with a look of confusion.
"Do you hear that?" asked Dawn as she narrowed her eyes and looked around.
"I don't hear anything" said Grogan as he looked at Dawn.
"Exactly" said Dawn as she looked at Grogan, "even if there was a nuclear war, shouldn't there be some survivors, at worst.. there should be bodies laying on the streets… but…."
"There are none" said the Colonel as he looked around, "which would mean that someone."
"Or something, sir" said Airman Lewis as he looked around.
"Or something" said the Colonel as he glanced at Lewis, "moved the bodies. Alright, let's split up…. Summers and I will take the West while Satterfield, Lewis and Grogan take the East side. This way, each team would have someone who understands the local language in case we run into anyone. Follow the rules of engagement; do not fire unless you are fired upon. Don't stray too far away, and stay in constant radio contact. We'll meet back here in two hours."
"Yes, sir" said Satterfield, Grogan and Lewis.
Area 51, Nevada, 1700 hours.
Colonel William Ronsen was once the commander of Earth's first battle cruiser, the Prometheus. It was now not only commanded by his good friend, Colonel Lionel Pendergast, it was now Earth's primary defensive space station. Following the battle over Tegalus, the Prometheus was deemed to be obsolete and the original plan of the IOA was to scrap the entire vessel in favour of the Daedalus class cruisers. It was on General O'Neill's recommendation that the Prometheus instead be reassigned as a space station after her hull, and other important technology was repaired. Then once Willow and the others had developed the new energy weapons based off the Ancient designs found at the Death Valley outpost, the new Prometheus Station had its hyperdrive removed and then replaced with three Mark one Naquadria reactors that would power sixteen turrets for the energy weapon. These turrets were placed at strategic sections of the new space station for maximum coverage. This was in addition to the Prometheus' regular payload of missiles, railguns and naquada enhanced nuclear weapons.
However, due to the American's retaining control of the Prometheus as a space station, the Chinese and the Russians too rallied for support among the other IOA signatories, which now included members of the G8 and NATO, for greater share in the technology discovered through the Stargate missions. In order to placate the Russians, which had the longest alliance with the SGC, it was agreed that a new 304 would be given to them to replace the destroyed Korolev. The new unnamed Russian vessel would be in line after the next American vessel, the Apollo, followed by China's new 304 known as the Sun Tzu. In the meantime, the Russians and the Chinese were promised the third and fourth ships respectively that would be built based on the X-305. In addition, the Russians were also guaranteed a second team at the SGC.
Following the battle over Chulak, the IOA and Home World Security had given the go ahead for construction of new ships with the Avalon being the first in the line of the Avalon class of Escort Cruisers. The second ship, named the Excalibur, would be manned by the United Kingdom under the authority of Home World Security.
In addition, the British government had been in deliberations with the Americans for the past year or so in regards to the treasure that was found in Glastonbury Tor; and they had just reached an agreement where fifty percent of the treasure would go towards funding the SGC as long as they received adequate representation in the program. The agreement went so far as to having three SG Teams; two made up of British SAS personnel and the third being a combined Great Britain team, a new 304 following the one being built for the Russians, and two new 305's over the next three years; one of which is the Excalibur.
As Colonel Ronsen walked through the corridors of his ship, he looked out through one of the windows at the next two 305's being constructed in the bays adjacent to the Avalon's. He smiled as he saw the last of the hull of the Excalibur being put into place, and knew that the next step would be installing the drives, the reactors, the turrets and so on and so forth. He also knew that the Daedalus was back in her bay being retrofitted with the new Ancient weapons technology. In the meantime, the Avalon's first shakedown cruise would involve an intergalactic milk-run to Atlantis.
Turning around, he continued his walk through his new ship. It was smaller than the Prometheus, and the Daedalus class, but the battle over Chulak proved that the ship was fast and extremely agile since it was able to avoid a majority of the Ori beam weapons. The battle also showed the IOA and Home World Security that the energy weapons worked against the Ori shields. As he walked through the hallways, the Colonel recalled having once asked General O'Neill why the name Avalon was chosen for the new ship.
"It was Red's idea" the General had told him while he was taking a tour of the ship when it was still a prototype, "she told me that the Ancients called this galaxy Avalon to indicate a new beginning for their race. She figured this was a new beginning for us as well since we may finally have a weapon that would put us on equal terms with the Ori and the other races in the galaxy."
With fifteen minutes left for the Avalon's scheduled shakedown cruise, the Colonel walked back towards the elevator. Once he was inside, he pressed the button for deck one.. the bridge. He knew that the teams all around the ship were almost done with all the system checks, including the latest in Asgard computer security measures. It was something that had to be done. He had read Colonel Caldwell's report about how a little more than a year ago, a Wraith virus had infected the computer system and was directly responsible for at least two deaths on the Daedalus. Home World Security didn't want that happening again, so the Asgard assisted in upgrading the security software for all the Earth ships since that incident. It was only two months ago that they had provided another new upgrade to the computer security systems.
Once Colonel Ronsen had reached Deck One, he walked out of the elevator and turned right until he was at the bridge. He then sat in his command chair and turned to the Captain on his left side.
"Are all computer upgrades complete?" asked the Colonel.
"Yes, sir" said the Captain, "the teams have finished ahead of schedule and are departing Avalon as we speak."
"Good" said the Colonel as he nodded his head before turning to face the Major on his right side, "are all systems green?"
"Yes, sir" said the Major, "Naquada and Naquadria reactors are online, Hyperdrive is online, shield generators are green, sublight engines are green and…"
"Good" said Colonel Ronsen as he smiled at the Major, "are our guests on board?"
Since the fact that the United States was building ships capable of flying through space was revealed to the U.S Army and Navy, they had requested that commissioned officers participate in exercises so that they could be trained in manning any new ships.
Colonel Ronsen couldn't help but smile when he recalled talking to General O'Neill a few months back which was when he heard that eventually, the Navy were going to ask for ships that they would be able to control in conjunction with the Air Force.
"And I kid you not" said an inflamed General O'Neill whose face was red with anger, "you know what those people want to name their first ship? Well, do you?"
"No, sir" said Colonel Ronsen as he sat across General O'Neill's desk at Home World Security in the Pentagon.
"The Enterprise!" said General O'Neill incredulously, "they want to name their first ship the Enterprise… you know how long I've lobbied to the President that the Prometheus deserved the name Enterprise? Huh, do you?"
"Many years, sir?" asked the Colonel as he tried to hide his grin when facing his commanding officer.
"And now" said the General as he calmed down and put his forehead on the table, "it's the Navy that gets the Enterprise… my luck sucks."
"Sorry, sir" said the Colonel as he watched General O'Neill slowly bang his forehead on the table.
Smiling at the memory of that day, Colonel Ronsen was brought out of it when the Major told him that the three lieutenants and four lieutenant commanders were already on board the ship and heading towards the bridge.
"Alright" said Colonel Ronsen as he nodded his head, "open a line to Area 51 control."
"Done, Sir" said the Major after he pressed a button.
"Control, this is Avalon" said Colonel Ronsen, "we are requesting departure clearance."
"Clearance is authorised, Colonel" said the voice that came over the speakers, "airspace has been cleared and launch trajectory has been loaded onto the navigational computers."
"Major?" asked the Colonel, "we have the trajectory?"
"Yes, sir" said the Major as she looked at his screen.
"Thank you Control" said Colonel Ronsen, "please open bay doors."
Just as the bay doors that covered the hanger were opening, the seven Navy officers stepped into the bridge and stood at attention once Colonel Ronsen turned around and stood up.
"Permission to come aboard, sir" said one of the Lt. Commanders as he saluted the Colonel.
"Granted" smiled the Colonel as he returned the salute, "we're ready to move out, once we're in hyperspace…. I'll give you the full tour of the ship, and answer any questions you may have."
"Of course, sir"
"Colonel Ronsen, Sir" said the Major, "hanger bays are opened, and we have clearance to depart."
"Alright" said Colonel Ronsen as he motioned for the seven officers to stand at a console before taking his seat again, "release all clamps, fire up the thrusters."
As the clamps fell away from the small ship, small thrusters fired to slowly take the Earth vessel out of the hanger bay. Once the ship cleared the underground structure, the rear sublight engines took over the job of providing the thrust for the ship. As it rose through the clouds, the Navy officers looked out of the bridge window as they slowly watched the sky darken, until all they could see were the stars. It was then that they saw another structure floating in space.
"Space station Prometheus, this is Avalon" said Colonel Ronsen as the ship passed the station, "keep the porch light on for us."
"Good journey, Avalon" said Colonel Pendergast as he looked out the front window as Avalon opened a hyperspace window and flew into it.
Back on the Avalon, the Navy officers looked in awe at the green cloud they had entered before finding themselves in a blue tunnel with white streaks. Colonel Ronsen turned around and smiled at the surprised expressions on the faces of the Navy officers.
"Ladies and Gentlemen" said Colonel Ronsen as he turned around in his command chair, "welcome to hyperspace."
"Where are we going, sir?" asked Lt. Daniels, one of the Navy officers.
"We're going to our outpost in the Pegasus galaxy" said Colonel Ronsen, "I hope that you all have read your briefing packets?"
"Yes, Sir" said Lt. Commander Ryan, "we're going to Atlantis?"
"Yes, we are" said Colonel Ronsen, "this is a full test of our intergalactic Hyperdrive and a milk-run. We're carrying two months worth of supplies for the city whereas the Daedalus is able to carry three months worth. So until the Daedalus is completed with her refits, we'll be the ones supplying the city."
"The trip is eighteen days?" asked Lieutenant Graves.
"Yes" said Colonel Ronsen as he looked at the brunette woman, "and on the way, we'll stop at the still under construction Mid-Way station in the middle of the void between the Milky Way and the Pegasus galaxies. It's the primary structure of the CMR Intergalactic Gate Bridge."
"CMR?" asked another Lt. Commander.
"Carter-Mackay-Rosenberg" said the Colonel, "now, if you'd follow me… I'll give you the grand tour of the Avalon."
Delphi Museum of the Colonies, Caprica, 1730 hours.
Major Blasdale was told about forty minutes ago that SG2 would split up and comb the nearby areas for any locals. Since then, he has heard nothing from the Colonel in charge of SG2. However, that wasn't too worrying for the Major as Colonel Ferretti told him that he'll check-in every hour on the hour. Telling Sergeant Lewis to watch the Gate with Captain Heffron, Major Blasdale took Captain Glassner with him to check out the immediate area of what the Colonel had told him was the Delphi Museum.
Walking up to the door at the end of the hallway, they climbed the flight of stairs and reached the first level. Looking through the glass opening of the door, he saw a mostly darkened hallway that was lit up thanks to the sunlight from outside coming in through large gaps in the wall. Shaking his head at the devastation, Major Blasdale then signalled Glassner that they should head up and check out the situation on the other floors. As they headed up the next flight of stairs, they never noticed three shadows that appeared around the corner from the end of the hallway that led into the main lobby. If they had stayed, the two SGC officers would have been able to see two seven feet tall robots walk up to the hallway and look at the door both Major Blasdale and Glassner were behind previously. They would have also seen a brunette Asian woman who looked as if she was the clone of one Major Lauren Satterfield.
It had been nearly fifty minutes since SG2 had split up, and since then they've been able to cover a lot of ground. Colonel Ferretti had ordered everyone that they were to stay in the shadows as much as possible, and stay out of the open.. even if they encounter any locals. The Colonel was worried that the inability to find any bodies, even if they were lying on the street; which meant that he had a very bad gut feeling of what could have happened to any survivors. As he and Dawn moved cautiously down a side street and under what seemed to be a block of apartments, he was wondering who or what would remove all the bodies, and why. Were there survivors? Or was it something else? The first thing he thought were that maybe the Goa'uld discovered a new weapon that would kill the Tau'ri, and if they had used it on the people on this world then it was only a matter of time that they used it on Earth.
"Could this be a test?" asked the Colonel as he ducked behind a corner with Dawn, who was peeking out to look at a main street.
"Colonel?" asked Dawn as she turned back to Colonel Ferretti, "did you say something?"
"Just wondering if the Goa'uld has some new weapon" said the Colonel, "it's just strange to me that we haven't found any bodies, just debris everywhere. It looks like the city itself wasn't the epicentre of a nuclear blast but…."
The Colonel stopped talking when he saw Dawn peeking out the corner, as she squeezed his arm tightly.
"Summers?" asked Colonel Ferretti as he stood up and peeked outside as well. He opened his eyes wide when he saw what had gotten Dawn surprised. He saw a group of fifteen seven foot tall chrome robots that were accompanied by two similar looking blondes and three Asian women who looked like Major Satterfield.
"Ok" whispered Dawn as she looked at the strange sight, "Lauren doesn't have any twins, or triplets, that she doesn't know about right?"
"I don't think so" said Colonel Ferretti as they quickly hid behind the corner again when one of the robots stopped moving. They kept on hiding as the robot looked into the side street as its single red eye slowly moved from one side to the next. Once sure that nothing was wrong, the robot then followed the rest of its kind. Dawn and Colonel Ferretti peeked out the side again once they heard the mechanical sounds of the robot's footsteps walking away.
"They're heading towards the museum" said Colonel Ferretti as he and Dawn came out of hiding, "we need to get back, now."
The Colonel then got on his radio and contacted Satterfield and the others. He looked at Dawn in surprise when Satterfield told them over the radio that she, Grogan and Lewis had taken cover in a building parking lot when she heard what eventually turned out to be twenty chrome plated robots, two blond women and three women who looked just like her.
"Sir" said Satterfield as she looked at the strange sight from behind cover, "could this be another replicator invasion?"
"Sure hope not" said the Colonel as he and Dawn cautiously walked through the streets, taking cover whenever they could while heading back to the museum, "I want you three to head back to the museum."
"Yes, sir" said Satterfield and turned around to signal to the others that it was time to get back, "we're heading out now."
"Be careful" said Colonel Ferretti.
"Yes, Sir" replied Satterfield.
When the hour mark had passed, the Colonel tried to radio SG14 but the signal couldn't go through. All he heard was interrupted words from Major Blasdale and sounds of weapon's fire in the background. Looking at Dawn, he nodded as they moved faster through the streets and towards the museum.
"Satterfield" said the Colonel as he was on a run now with Dawn at his side, "shots fired, get back to the museum.. best speed. Stay hidden until I give the order… is that clear?"
"Crystal, Sir" said Satterfield as she, Grogan and Lewis started to run towards the museum.
With Grogan and Lewis eventually only slightly overtaking her, Satterfield ran past a side street when she saw something out of the corner of her eye and turned her head before she stopped in shock. She was looking at another copy of herself who was standing on the other end of the side street wearing some kind of a gold uniform and had her left arm in a sling, while her forehead seemed to be bleeding.
"Carl!" shouted Satterfield as she brought up her weapon at her copy who was still standing some distance away, "Carl!"
"Lauren" said Grogan as he ran back and turned his head to see what Satterfield was looking at, and immediately brought up his P90, "who are you? Are you a replicator?"
Satterfield and Grogan looked on as the woman looked back at them and shook her head confused. Just then, both of their radio's went off at the same time.
"Majors" said Colonel Ferretti, "I'm almost there with Summers. Where are you? What's your ETA?"
"Almost there, Sir" said Grogan as he and a very confused Satterfield looked on at the Asian woman's copy who was still standing at the other end of the side street. He then looked at Satterfield, "we need to go, now… we'll deal with this later."
It was then that the copy of Satterfield took a few steps forward and both of the Air Force officers aimed their weapons at the woman.
"Who are you? Why can't I sense you?" said the woman.
"Lauren" said Grogan.
"Stay where you are" said Satterfield in ancient Greek as she ignored Grogan, "do not move, and do not make another step or we will shoot."
"Lauren" said Grogan as he put down his weapon and grabbed her vest and pulled, "we need to go, now!"
"Help! We're…" said the voice of Major Blasdale on the radio as his signal cut out after the sound of weapons fire in the background.
"Lauren!" said Grogan, "we need to go, now."
"Damn it" said Satterfield as she put her weapon down and took off in a dead run towards the museum with Grogan.
As she watched her copy in a green uniform and black vest run away led by another man wearing the same thing. Sharon Valerii could only look at the now empty street where her copy once stood in confusion. She knew the names of her copies, she could tell one of her copies from another… but the woman she just saw, the woman who was aiming a strange weapon at her; she didn't know who she was. Sharon knew that they looked like each other, but there was something off about her… something that wasn't right. Then just as she had appeared, she was gone. Sharon heard someone on what seemed to be a wireless that was attached to her doppelganger's vest scream out in a language she didn't understand and then they heard the weapons fire in the background. Sharon knew that they were running towards the museum; the same place where just a few hours earlier, Kara 'Starbuck' Thrace of the Battlestar Galactica had tried to kill her. She could have succeeded if the father of her child, Karl 'Helo' Agathon hadn't swung Kara's weapon away at the last moment. Since then, Sharon was keeping as far away from them as possible while still tracking them from a distance. She knew that the both of them had driven out of the city in Kara's vehicle and she had every intention of following them, but seeing her copy… someone she wasn't connected to in some way unnerved her. This was something that never happened to anyone of their kind. It was something new, and she had to see what was going on. After making sure that her arm was still in its sling, she ran towards the museum.
Control Room, SGC, 1745 hours.
Walter was talking to Siler in the control room when the Stargate suddenly activated. Standing up, he quickly reached for the microphone.
"Unscheduled Off-World activation" said the balding man, "defence teams to the Gateroom."
"Walter?" said General Landry as he ran down the stairs from the briefing room, "who is it?"
"It's SG14, Sir" said Walter, "audio and video,"
The General nodded at Walter as the man then reached for a button, and the bloody face of Sergeant Lewis appeared on the video screen as the entire room heard weapons fire going off in the background.
"Sergeant" said the General, "report."
"Sir" said Lewis, "we're on the ropes here… robots… giant robots are….."
"Walter?" asked the General as the picture started to fizzle, and the audio kept on getting interrupted by static.
"Must be some sort of jamming, Sir" said Walter, "from the other side."
"Sergeant" said General Landry as he looked at the screen, "what is the status of your team?"
"Major Blasdale and Glassner are dead, sir" said Lewis as he looked back at Heffron who was standing at the door shooting at the tall robots with his weapon when a hail of bullets ripped through his arm and he fell inside the storage room, as three robots were walking menacingly towards him.
"Lewis!" shouted Heffron as General Landry and the others at the control room could only look on helplessly, "tell them SG3 are still in the city somewhere, they're on the way but we need backup, and… AHHH!"
"Heffron!" shouted Lewis as he picked up his weapon and shot at the robots as they slowly filed into the room. He saw one of them fall but was immediately replaced by another robot. General Landry and the others could only quietly watch as Lewis stared back into the screen with eyes full of fear as blood suddenly covered the lens of the MALP camera. As his body fell onto the floor, the people in the SGC could only watch as three large robots looked into the camera as a red coloured dot in what seemed to be their head moved from one side to the next.
"Walter" said General Landry very softly and calmly, all the while staring at the three faces on the screen, "remotely access the laptop… delete everything on it. Then initiate the incendiary device."
"Done, sir" said Walter after he had pressed a few buttons, and a few second later they saw the reflection of a reddish yellow flash on the chrome armour of the robots.
"Attention" said the General as he spoke into the microphone, "to anyone receiving this message, we have enacted Code One protocols. I repeat, Code One protocols are in effect."
The General than looked back at Walter and told the man to shut down the wormhole. He knew it was a risk; it was possible that due to the jamming on the other side… the message may not have gone through. Code One protocols were to be enacted should any laptop with information on Earth's security, particularly the dialing program, falls into enemy hands. A small incendiary device within the laptop could be activated in a minutes' notice to destroy any, and all, information on the hard disk. It was also code for anyone who still remained off-world; help was coming, and coming soon.
"Get me Major Rosenberg and Faith" said General Landry.
"Sir" said Walter, "the Major said that their flight was delayed for three hours at Charles de Gaulle."
"Call them" said the General, "tell them to get into a restroom….. then have the Prometheus beam them straight here. Once they're here, have them see me in my office. In the meantime, I want SG3 in full tactical gear and ready to go off-world."
"And SG1, sir?" asked Walter.
"We still have the Ori to fight, Walter" said General Landry, "inform them on what's going on, but their primary duty is to get the information on the Sangraal."
"Yes, sir" said Walter as he picked up the phone while the General looked at a freeze frame of the three robots.
'Hang on' thought the General, 'help's on the way."
Delphi Museum of the Colonies, Caprica, 1815 hours.
Dawn and Colonel Ferretti were holding their position behind a recessed part of a building as they peeked round the corner at the large group of about thirty five chrome robots that had taken their places at the main entrance and on the street in front of the museum. The both of them, along with Satterfield and her team, who were on another side street a few blocks down, had heard the General's message although most of it was static. All they could really make out was 'Code One', and they knew that it would be only a matter of time before back-up arrived. What the Colonel and Dawn didn't know was that they were being watched themselves.
As the two of them continued to stake out the entrance, both the Colonel and Dawn saw the robots, who were now led by two old men who arrived a few minutes ago, pull out four bodies from inside the building and drag them down the stairs. Before leaving them on the side of the road.
"Sir" said Satterfield over the radio, her voice reflecting the outrage she felt, "are you seeing this?"
"Yes" said Colonel Ferretti as he closed his eyes and said a little prayer for the fallen officers, "I see it, we're badly outnumbered… if we do anything now… it's suicide. I can guess that one of them went through to the SGC, and I intend to honour their sacrifice by not dying today."
"We need to bring their bodies back" said Dawn as she sat with her back to a side door. The both of them had found this recessed back door in one of the buildings that was right across the street from the museum. Both Colonel Feretti and Dawn were using the recessed section to stay out of sight from the robots, at least until back-up arrived.
It was a few minutes later that another robot had walked down the stairs carrying the burned shell of the laptop containing the dialling program, and the Naquada generator. All of a sudden, the radios became active again and all of SG2 got a message.
"Anyone listening to this message" said Colonel Reynolds over the radio's of SG2, "be ready to attack when the signal's been given."
"Reynolds" said Colonel Ferretti as he spoke into the radio after seeing a few robots heading back into the museum, "you have six…. No eight robots walking back into the building."
"Yeah" said Colonel Reynolds, "when we reopened the wormhole, we used the MALP camera's to check out the surroundings. We saw that there were four robots at the base of the Stargate. So we kinda peppered that room with armour piercing rounds through the Stargate, and once we made sure the room was clear.. we walked through. They must have somehow told the other that we're here."
"Cool" said Dawn as she smiled at the Colonel before she spoke into her radio, "is Willow here too?"
"Hey Dawnie" said Willow as she and Faith took up positions at the door at the end of the basement hallway, "we're here and you know what… Faith is so wrong about you."
"Huh?" said Dawn into her radio.
"Today's a Thursday" said Willow as Dawn smiled, "stand by for the signal."
"What's the signal?" said Satterfield.
"Trust me" replied Colonel Reynolds, "you won't miss it."
While SG2 were taking their places in preparation for their fight back, no one saw Sharon on the roof of the building where Dawn and Colonel Ferretti were taking cover. She was on her stomach as she crawled over to the edge of the building trying to listen to what the two of them were saying, however it was a language that she never heard spoken in any of the Colonies. Frustrated, from not being able to understand what was being said, Sharon turned towards the museum again just as she heard glass from the third floor windows shattering and looked on in shock as three centurions flew out of the inside hallway and literally crashed into four of the centurions that were guarding the front entrance. Once the centurions were down, then all hell broke loose. Sharon saw that another group of windows from the third floor's east wing blew out as two centurions flew out and hit the asphalt. Then she heard distinct sounds of weapons fire from inside the building, as well as from the outside. Sharon stood up and looked down from the edge of the roof as she looked at the strangers firing their weapons from covered positions.
Then seeing movement from the corner of her eye, Sharon looked across the road at the roof of the museum and saw two of her own models, and a Centurion turn towards a door that had just opened. She saw her copies take a step back as the Centurion took a few steps forward and retreated its hand to reveal its powerful barrelled weapon. The next thing Sharon saw were her copies taking cover as the Centurian exploded. Covering her eyes from the explosion, and hearing the sounds of weapons fire all around her, Sharon saw a dark haired woman walk onto the roof. Sharon saw the woman just hesitate for a second before her copies ran at the woman. Sharon knew in her heart that the woman was doomed from the start, humanoid Cylons were stronger than normal humans…. And two fighting at once meant that the woman had no chance.
Just as one of her copies punched the woman in her gut, Sharon saw that she only took a few steps back before she blocked another hit. Sharon looked on in shock as the dark haired woman dodged another punch before she countered with a kick that sent one of her copies flying. The dark haired woman then ducked a kick from the second copy before she spun around and swept her feet from under her. Sharon then saw the woman raise her weapon and step back, saying something in that strange language. Sharon saw her two copies look at each other before they took a few steps forward, and then fell dead onto the ground after the woman had shot them right through the head.
Sharon looked on as the woman shook her head before she headed for the edge of the roof and pointed her large sized weapon towards the centurions that were firing on the others down below. She then saw the dark haired woman open fire as the Centurions slowly went down. Sharon knew that despite being a humanoid Cylon herself, she was still a Colonial officer and right now she was derelict in her duty to protect people. She knew that she should be on the surface helping these strangers instead of hiding out on the roof. So even with her arm in a sling, she grabbed her sidearm and ran to the roof access door and ran down the seven flights of stairs. Heading to the back entrance where she knew that the two strangers would be, Sharon ran and opened the door… only to find the brunette haired woman alone who turned and looked at her in surprise while she was still firing her weapon. That instant of her loss of concentration meant that a round from the Centurian tore through her shoulder and she fell onto the floor in pain.
"Summers!" shouted Colonel Ferretti, who was taking cover behind a nearby tree as he saw Dawn getting shot in the shoulder. He then saw to his horror one of the copies of Satterfield walking out the back door and into the recessed section. The Colonel then saw the uniformed woman reholster her sidearm and painfully take her arm out of her sling. She then quickly ran to Dawn who was lying bleeding on the ground and pulled her with both arms as the both of them screamed in pain. The Colonel provided cover fire for Satterfield's copy to get a wounded Dawn into the recess. He then saw the woman painfully put her hand back into the sling, before taking out her firearm and shooting at the robots.
"Major!" shouted the Colonel into the radio as he contacted Willow, "Summers is down, she needs medical aid.. where the hell are you?"
"In the lobby, sir" said Willow, "we've got about ten more of these things inside to take care of."
"We've got five down here!" shouted Colonel Ferretti into the radio as there was the sound of an explosion from the inside of the Museum as five of the robots flew out of the left side of the building. The Colonel saw them crash onto the road followed by Willow carrying a M16 with an attached grenade launcher as she fired three rounds at the robots, causing them to explode. He looked up at the roof as Faith continued to fire one of the SGC's heavy weaponry at the robots as the chrome monstrosities slowly thinned out. Eventually, the last robot was taken out by Colonel Reynolds and his trusty grenade launcher.
Once the fight was over, Willow ran towards the direction that she had seen Colonel Ferretti go. As she got closer to that location, she saw blood on the ground as a copy of Satterfield stood in shock while looking at Dawn. As Willow reached the recess where Dawn was laid up against one of the walls, she saw the brunette was getting paler by the minute and looked at the blood that was flowing from the wound in her shoulder.
"Hey Dawnie" said Willow as she quickly kneeled down and caressed her cheek, "you'll be alright."
"Yea" said Dawn softly as she gave Willow a small smile, "hurts like a bitch though."
"That's what I said the first time I was shot and trust me, you're not a member of the SGC until you get shot at least once" said Willow as she put her hand on Dawn's injury and closed her eyes. It took a few seconds but the wound was healed, however Dawn was still weak due to the blood loss.
"Who….. who are you people? What colony are you from?" asked Sharon as she looked at Willow and then at Dawn, before turning around and settling her eyes on her doppelganger who was running over to them, "and who are you? Why don't I know your name… I know everyone of my model… but you… who are you? Why don't I know you?"
"Sir" said Satterfield as she, and Grogan raised their weapons at a surprised Sharon, "she's one of them, I think she's a replicator."
"We destroyed all the replicators in this galaxy, Lauren" said Willow as she looked at Satterfield and then at her copy, "although, new ones could have come through…. But, unlikely. If they had, they would have already gone after the remains of the Goa'uld, and then come after us."
"Lauren" said Dawn softly as she interrupted Willow, "she… she saved my life."
"Dawn?" said a surprised Satterfield as she looked at the team's newest member sitting in a pool of blood, "what happened?"
"Was shot…" said Dawn, "your doppelganger saved me, Willow healed me.. and now I wanna sleep."
"Lewis" said Colonel Ferretti as he turned to Airman Lewis, "take Summers over to the Stargate, Colonel Reynolds should have it secured."
"Sir" nodded Lewis as Willow and Satterfield helped Dawn stand up, before Lewis put her arm around his shoulders and helped her along to the Museum. Along the way back, Lewis picked up the naquada generator that the robots had earlier left on the ground at the foot of the staircase. As he was walking up the stairs with Dawn, he nodded at the members of SG3 who were running down the stairs to retrieve the bodies of SG14.
As Sharon watched Dawn being taken away, she was still unsure as to the identity of these strangers. She turned around and looked at them closely and saw them carrying variations of the weapons that the Colonial military used, even their uniforms were similar in some aspects. She saw one of the patches which had a set of wings on it, however she didn't understand the lettering on some of the patches but she could make out that two of them had the number 'One', and then the others in front of her had the number 'Two' on another patch.
"Are you human?" asked Sharon as everyone looked at her confused, before turning to her doppelganger who was still staring at her warily.
"Satterfield" said Colonel Ferretti leaning into the brunette woman, "what'd she say?"
"She's asking if we're human" said Satterfield, "Yes, we're human."
"How… how can you be human?" asked Sharon in shock as she took a few steps back, "I.. I don't understand… how are you human?"
"She's a machine" said Willow as her eyes narrowed, "I don't sense any thoughts or emotions from her."
"What Colony are you from?" asked Sharon as she looked at her doppelganger, "what colony are you from?"
"She's asking which colony we're from" said Satterfield as he looked at Colonel Ferretti and then at Willow.
"This is your show, Satterfield" said Colonel Ferretti.
"We are explorers from a planet called Earth" said Satterfield.
Willow and the others had seen many reactions when telling people that they were from another world, but Sharon's reaction surprised them all. The redhead saw that her entire body started trembling as she dropped her sidearm onto the pavement. Sharon then took a few steps back as she brought her hands to her mouth in shock.
"You… you are the Thirteenth" said Sharon, "by God you are the Thirteenth Tribe."
Just then, everyone's radio's fizzled to life as Faith spoke on the other side.
"Guys" said the Slayer, "we've got more bucket heads incoming."
Willow turned around and saw her wife on the roof of the museum as she was pointing to the East side of the street. Turning around, Willow told Colonel Ferretti that it was time to leave. She had told him that, according to what Faith could see, another fifty robots were heading their way.
"Move out" said Colonel Ferretti as he nodded at Lewis, Grogan and Willow, "go!"
"Wait" said Sharon as she looked in shock at the people preparing to move off, "please help us… the humans here are fighting a war. They need the help of the Thirteenth Tribe. I need the help of the Thirteenth Tribe."
"Lauren?" asked Willow as Grogan, and Lewis ran towards the museum and took positions at the top of the stairs to cover Willow and Colonel Ferretti, along with Faith who was still on the roof.. and two members of SG3 including Colonel Reynolds who ran up to Grogan and Lewis.
"She said that her people need help" said Satterfield, "that they're fighting a war."
"Damn it" said Colonel Ferretti as he rubbed his forehead, "listen, tell her that we'll try and send a ship here to search for survivors.. but we're already in a war, and we can't engage in a second front in someone else's war. Not with the Ori still in this galaxy. Sending a ship to search for survivor is the best we can do."
The three of them watched as Sharon's face fell after Satterfield translated what Colonel Ferretti had said.
"Damn it!" said Faith over the radio as weapon's fire erupted from the museum, "get the hell back now!"
"What's your name?" asked Satterfield as Willow and Colonel Ferretti ran to the front of the building and started firing their weapons as four of the advancing robots fell from weapons fire.
"Sharon.. Sharon Valerii"
"Sharon" said Satterfield as she looked back before looking at her copy again, "I don't know who's side you're on…"
"Human's" said Sharon, "I may be a machine but…"
"We haven't had the best luck with machines" said Satterfield as she heard Willow shouting for her, "I'm sorry, I have to go… if you want to help, then help the human's here fight… you're a military officer?"
"Yes" said Sharon.
"Then do your duty" said Satterfield, "we'll send a ship… I don't know when it would get here but I suggest getting of this planet on your own. Like I said before, we're in a war as well… one that affects the entire galaxy and our resources are stretched as it is."
"I… I understand" said Sharon nodding her head.
"We actually came to this planet to request the people of this world to help us is a fight against an enemy that threatens the entire galaxy" said Satterfield as she looked at the shocked Sharon, "but if the people here are in a war… then, I don't know of they'll be able to offer aid."
"I heard that there are survivors after all the Colonies were attacked" said Sharon, "many left the Colonies, but I don't know which way.. I mean they're looking for Earth."
Willow: "Lauren, we need to get going."
Satterfield: "On my way."
"Maybe we'll have another encounter" said Satterfield as she turned around.
"Wait" said Sharon as she called after her doppelganger, "what's your name? And how are you getting out of here? Going back into the museum's suicide."
"Lauren Satterfield" said the brunette woman as she ran towards Willow and Colonel Ferretti, "and we have our own way back.".
Sharon looked on as her doppelganger ran off towards her comrades. She then picked up her sidearm from the pavement and ran the other way. Her mission was now to find Helo and Starbuck, and get off this planet. She wasn't sure about what would happen to her if they ever reached the Galactica, but one thing she was sure of was that the Thirteenth Tribe, that Earth, was real. They had someplace to aim for now. She recalled how Helo had told her that Earth was just a myth.. that it didn't exist, but she knew now that it wasn't the truth. She had seen it herself, and now she knew why she didn't know her doppelganger's name…. why she didn't sense her doppelganger's presence.
"She's human" said Sharon to herself as she took one more look behind her, only to see the red headed woman, the man and her doppelganger heading into the museum. A few minutes later she saw the first centurions walk up the stairs, "seriously, how the hell are they getting out of there?"
Shaking her head, Sharon took off at a dead run. She did not want to be discovered so she ran as fast, and as far, as she could from the museum.
Storage Area, Delphi Museum of the Colonies, Caprica, 1900 hours.
Willow and Colonel Ferretti were the last to run into the storage room after they had placed two blocks of C4 on a remote detonator at the entrance at the end of the corridor. While they were running through the museum towards the stairwell, they had seen bodies of the Satterfield copies, as well as a couple of bodies of an old man and a few of the same blonde woman they had seen earlier at the lobby floor with the rebar jutting out of her chest.
In the room, Willow saw that the others had already gone through and that Faith was carrying Glassner's body and Colonel Reynolds was carrying Major Blasdale's body. Nodding at Colonel Ferretti, Colonel Reynolds walked though the event horizon first followed by Faith who gave a small smile at Willow. It was then that they heard the door at the end of the hallway opening and Willow and Colonel Ferretti peeked out only to see six robots walking through the door, their weapons aimed directly at them.
"Hey Skippy" said Willow with a smile as she pressed the remote detonator, "ta-ta."
Willow and Colonel Ferretti ran towards the Stargate as the blast took out the stairwell and destroyed the robots in the corridor. Just before the two of them entered the event horizon, Colonel Ferretti saw Willow crouch down next to the new naquada reactor that was powering the Stargate. He saw that she pressed some buttons on the top of the generator, before she pulled the top panel upwards and turned it in a clockwise direction before pushing it back down. It was then that the generator started to make a humming noise.
"What did you do?" asked the Colonel.
"Overload, Sir" said Willow as the both of them jumped through the Gate only to land hard on the ramp in the SGC.
"Raise the shield!" shouted Colonel Ferretti as the shield and then the iris activated.
Once the Stargate disengaged, Willow and Colonel Ferretti walked down the ramp as Faith gently placed Glassner's body on an awaiting gurney, and the nurse covered the body with a white sheet. Standing next to the brunette Slayer, she squeezed Faith's arm as they saw Satterfield approach both Colonel Ferretti and General Landry who had walked down to the Gateroom.
"Sirs" said Satterfield, "I am requesting that I be taken off SG2, until I have undergone a thorough medical examination, and scans."
"Report to the infirmary" said General Landry as Colonel Ferretti walked up to Satterfield and gently lay his hand on her shoulder, before walking with her to the infirmary.
Back on Caprica, Sharon was still running when she heard the sound of a massive explosion and that shook not only the ground, but the nearby buildings as well. The force was so great that it pushed her onto the ground even though she was about a mile away. Turning around, she saw columns of black smoke that was rolling into the sky from the area of the museum. Not wanting to waste anymore time, Sharon ran after the father of her baby… and after the woman who nearly killed her back at the museum.
TBC.