[Stargate] Just Another Natural Underground Site

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O'Make:

SG-1 warily passed the beam of light from their flashlights over the room and wondered what this new place was and why Jack O'Neill's alteran built remote dialer had brought them here.

Jack O'Neill stepped forward leading his team down the steps from the Stargate, beneath their feat lights in the floor slowly brightened with a subtle musical note and lights overhead turned on as well until the room was brightly lit showing three doors and a set of stairs leading up to a mezzanine hanging over the gate area, one wall had a large glass window with geometric stained patterns on it behind which a slowly brightening room with rows of medical pods.

In the center of the room a hologram activated and a balding man dressed in a tan uniform announced briskly, "please state the nature of the medical emergency."

"Woolsey?" Jack O'Neill reflexively asked, as the hologram bore a striking resemblance to the mild mannered oversight committee bureaucrat that had plagued the SGC over the past year.

"Pardon, that is not a recognized medical malady."

"It really does look like him doesn't it," Carter said.

"The resemblance is uncanny," Daniel agreed.

"Indeed," said Teal'c.

 

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Daniel: "Jack what are you doing?"
Jack: "Huh?" continues pressing buttons on the ancient handheld computer
Daniel: "Jack..."
Jack: "What?"
Daniel: "What are you doing?"
Jack: "Playing Legend of Zelda."
Daniel: "How?"
Jack: shrugs; "this thing scanned the game cartridge, only annoying part is all the text is in ancient, somehow."

 

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7.1 Deleted Scene - bad planning

"What's the plan," Jack asked motioning to their gear and Teal'c. "We are obviously not welcome, and you're considered a traitor and would likely be shot on sight and wake up in a sarcophagus to be tortured by Apophis."

"Indeed," Teal'c said and opened the door to the storage room with the items they'd taken from their first visit to Chulak.

"You will conceal yourselves beneath these," He thrust the bundle of priestly robes at the team. "I will go in my armor and claim my helmet is damaged."

"Workable, but I've got a better thought. Apophis and other Goa'uld aren't unknown to make sometimes seemingly ridiculous commands. Claim that apophis commanded thus after you damaged it as punishment until he could be bothered to repair it," Daniel said.

"Good thinking," Jack said, eyebrows raised in compliment.

 

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7.2 Deleted Scene - larval goa'uld

The building wasn't very deep and just inside of the opening, there was a tub of bubbling water deep enough for an adult to wade in. The surface of the water frothed at their approach. The larval Goa'uld churned within.

"What do you think these things eat?" Daniel said out of morbid curiosity.

"I doubt it's your standard fish food from the local Safeway," Carter said.

"Here," Daniel said, and offered her his thermos.

"Oh god, so gross," Carter said grimacing as she dipped the now empty thermos into the water and then jerked it back up quickly, sealing the cap on top having caught a curious larva.

"We need to get back under cover now, we're about to have company," Daniel said. In the distance he'd spotted the sooty smoke from another torch carried by one of the priests of apophis approaching along the winding path.

"Ugh, I absolutely hate leaving this here like this," Carter said.

"I don't think we have time for you to plant any explosives," Daniel said, as he pulled Carter along.

The two disappeared behind the hedges just in time as the next group of priests rounded the corner to approach the larval creche.

7.2b Alyssonal rider - (From Polydicta)

"We got an even dozen, but I'm not sure what to feed them," Carter said. The team was looking at the larval symbiotes swimming through an aquarium full of fake coral and those cheap aquarium castles and other decorations. Daniel suddenly stood up and ran out of the lab before returning a few minutes later at a run with a golden cardboard canister with garish print and the label "Goldfish Food ... brings out the colour of your pets!" under the safeway generic brand label.

"You're not going to..." Jack said.

"Daniel!" Carter exclaimed as Daniel ignored them and pushed the little plastic spice jar style cover open and started sprinkling the pellets of fish food into the tank.

Daniel closed the feed opening with a smirk and set the food can onto the table next to the tank before turning back to the group with a smirk.

"What, I thought it might be worth a try," Daniel said.

Behind him the twelve symbiotes abandoned their chasing after each other to go after the pile of fish pellets slowly sinking into the tank.

A week later a clumsy airman accidentally left the tank open with his back turned, but the most that happened was one of the symbiotes popping its head above the water to screech at him until he dropped a handful of the golden fish food pellets into the tank.

 

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7.3 Apocryphal Apophis (Thank CmptrWz for this one)

Apophis held his glowing karakesh over the DHD accessing a secret recording computer he'd had installed. The logs made no sense to him, how did they go anywhere without a registered address.

The Goa'uld System Lord refreshed the log file again and located the section related to when the infernal tau'ri team and that Sholva had left the planet. There, that's the address, but no, the log didn't indicate a connection, surely that meant they simply mis-dialed.

Experimentally, the system lord carefully input the symbols himself, only for the address to immediately fail to connect and go dark. Not that he had any idea of the need for the second bit of equipment the Tau'ri had lucked upon that allowed for the DHD to register an authentication device capable of supplying the handshake protocols the destination required for a connection.

The System lord decided that his recorder must have a flaw that allowed the pestilential Tau'ri to leave without logging their real address after they redialed, though it was only a few symbols off from one address he was already aware of connected to the Tau'ri. Trust humans to be so flawed as to misdial Abydos' address.

 

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you can all thank bethofdeath for this one:

"...Carter? Why did the...whoosh... come out as a huge flock of butterflies?"

"Kaleidoscope," Daniel corrected absently.

O'Neill twisted around. "Huh?"

"Huh? Oh, a group of butterflies is called a kaleidoscope."

"Huh. Carter, why did the whoosh come out as a huge collideaskup of butterflies?"

"I don't know sir. I'm sure we'll find out later."

 

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"It's only a problem when Danny here gets lost in trying to decipher it," O'Neill muttered.

Opher nodded. "Ah. Even the old sometimes fall into that trap."

"The overly-pretentious holographic display based on elements likely isn't helping," Lya added with a shake of her head.

O'Neill raised an eyebrow. "Interesting. Nice to know that we're not the only ones that go overboard with our monuments."

"Even the old can make mistakes. Our ancestors once terraformed a moon as a living monument, but without properly considering the effects of the gas planet on the orbit and atmosphere. It takes...far too much maintenance."

"See, now you're admitting to being fallible. Ruins the mystique you've got going."

Opher shook his head. "You are not so young as to believe us to be infallible, and we are not young or foolish enough to pretend it."

O'Neill nodded. "It's nice to have you admit it though."

"It's a lesson your people could learn as well."

"I've made many mistakes in my lifetime. Many of them still haunt me."

Daniel finally finished packing his notebooks away, having scribbled in several of them before placing them in his bag and still holding one. Looking at the three of them, he frowned. "Did you say something?"

"Nothing important enough to repeat," O'Neill replied. "Let's get going."

 

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"But, just look at that purple sky sir," O'Neill said, morosely.

"Yes, I'm sure it looks gorgeous," Hammond said.

"I could just run down to the locker room and get my gear, take like 5 minutes tops," O'Neill continued.

"No, and that's final. You're in charge of integrating our new Jaffa into their teams for the next week, colonel," Hammond said. "Besides, Anders has his hands full, if under control with his extra temporary team members."

"Yes sir," O'Neill said.

Through the bulletproof window of the briefing room, he watched SG-4 walk up the ramp. Trailed by Ha'kiera and one of the NID team. Colonel Anders of SG-4 turned and threw a salute just as he did before every mission back towards the control room before falling back through the blue puddle of the gate. "Smarmy git," Jack muttered.

 

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Hathor was annoyed at how...inefficient the Tau'ri were with moving her Sarcophagus around, but had finally made it to the facility that likely housed the Chappa'ai. Approaching the obvious guard station, she frowned as she realized that it was manned by armed women.

Well, all she needed was to get to the point of a male in charge speaking to her, so she approached the guard station.

"Hello," she said, aiming to at least not be attacked immediately. Needing to heal would be...inconvenient.

One of the women looked at her, then down at something in the little structure. "Hathor, right?"

They knew of her? "Yes."

"We're sorry, but we're already in the middle of a significant plague situation. We'll need to reschedule your attempt to take over the base. We're hoping to be done with the plague by Thursday, if you'd like to come back then?"

She blinked, and considered. "A plague?"

"Likely engineered, possibly by one of your contemporaries. Or possibly not. We're a bit out of the loop up here."

"I see. How many sunrises away is Thursday?"

"Three."

"Thank you, I'll see about returning then."

 

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"Well-done?" Matt Perry questioned.

"You do remember how my dad ended up in the hospital with a parasite right?" Jason Byron asked.

Matt shrugged, "It's not a fuh...ricken moose steak, Jace." He self censored at the sharp glare from Captain Doctor Janet Fraiser.

"You do you," Jason took a sip of his beer and leaned back.

 

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Heliopolis - Stargate Receiving Room

Hathor confidently stepped out from the stargate before looking around in confusion, this was not her expected destination. She frowned in an ugly way, assuming that somehow the dialing device the Tau'ri possessed had glitched, proving in her own mind that the technology of the Tau'ri was not as advanced as she had assumed. She took another three steps towards the DHD ready to dial again when a flash of light played across the room, and she had a moment's view of an octagonal ceiling before she was frozen within the stasis field of the medical pod.

Some time later a team of Nox arrived through the stargate with one of their own medical pods, ready to swap devices so they could remove Hathor from the planet without taking her out of stasis.