Stargate: SG-1
Title: One More Day
Author: Jeremy Scott
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Chapter 1
It was a typical day in the SGC. Major Sam Carter was in her lab working on an experiment in Naquadah, looking to find expanded uses for the mineral. Teal'c was in process of Kelnorim to allow his symbiote time to replenish the brave Jaffa warrior. Dr. Daniel Jackson as always was underneath a sea of papers trying to translate more languages and text from planets SG-1 had visited. However Colonel Jack O'Neill wasn't enjoying the time to himself. Instead he stood in the office of Major General George Hammond. The two of them in discussion about the next mission he wanted to send the team on.
"Col, planet P4X-355 seems over run with Jaffa. The telemetry shows that they're after some sort of artifact not too far away from the Gate."
"Great, so we get to see old stuff and fight the Jaffa."
"Col O'Neill, the Pentagon right now is in debate whether or not the Stargate program has caused more problems than it has solved and if it's worth the billions it takes to run this facility without the retrieval of anything."
"That's not true sir, we've brought back plenty, diseases mostly. Teal'c, he came through the gate where we didn't have him before we left. And Zats sir; Zats are good."
Gen. Hammond tried to keep a straight face, but he smiled slightly and
then regained his normal straight-forward composure. "Col I want you to go and assess the situation. If the Goa'uld want it, there's a problem."
"Yes, sir. When's the full briefing?"
"At 10:00. I'll expect SG-1 ready for a briefing."
Jack stood to attention when he was dismissed and walked out casually. Going to each of his team he told them the full scoop he got and to be ready for the morning‘s activities. Each had their own set of questions, basically if they had any idea what sort of technology it could be. Jack's only answer was: `an alien glowy thingy.' Each accepted the answer that Jack didn't know and went about their business.
The next morning at 10:00 SG-1 was in the briefing room with new telemetry reports. Hammond had authorized a UAV scan to assess what it was that the Jaffa were interested in. They saw a large gun type weapon and a rather interesting control panel. The Jaffa had started to charge the gun and then a sudden burst of energy from a Staff weapon destroyed the UAV.
"I don't need to tell you the ramifications we'd suffer if the Goa'uld got the chance to build on of those and came to Earth," Hammond started.
Carter interjected, "It reminds me of the weapon we saw on planet 636 sir. Its construction is similar and if that's the case, it far in advance of anything the Goa'uld have and would give them that much more of an advantage."
Jack spoke next, "That's correct sir. Carter's ascended boyfriend told her so."
"Enough Col. If you're right Major Carter then it's imperative to do one of two things. Get the technology or destroy it so it doesn't fall into Goa'uld hands permanently."
Daniel looked at some of the closer inscriptions. "And we probably better hurry…if I'm reading this right of course."
"What is it Dr. Jackson?"
"Well as I can't read the entire inscription I can't be for sure, but it seems this particular gun was built to be fired at the sun."
"Daniel, that would destroy the planet," Carter shot back.
"Yes…but maybe that was the point. I mean there are cultures out there that believe if they have to die, they'd rather do it taking the life of the enemy versus capture."
"SG-1 you have a go. You leave in 30 minutes. Get your gear ready and report to the Gateroom."
"Yes, sir," they all said.
They all started to walk towards the armory and Daniel caught up with Teal'c.
"Have you ever seen anything like that?"
"Indeed I have not Daniel Jackson. The Goa'uld have nothing like it in their possession."
"Well…yes, I knew that. But I was curious if they had ever run into tech like it before."
"The Goa'uld have been to millions of worlds Daniel Jackson, it is always possible that they have "
Daniel got an almost defeated look on his face as he decided that any other questions would likely be pointless, "Thanks Teal'c."
"You are welcome Daniel Jackson."
With the team geared and ready to go they got to the Gate room and prepared to disembark.
"SG-1 stand by," they heard from the control room. They stood there and the chevron countdown commenced. Finally they heard "Chevron seven locked and engaged." A sudden ‘WHOOSH’ came and a brilliant ball of energy shot out from the Stargate. When it stabilized the team got onto the platform.
"Good luck SG-1," said Hammond.
They got to the other side of the gate and as soon as they hit the dirt the firefight started. Jaffa were firing left and right trying to kill them.
"Dammit! Head to the trees and stay there!" O'Neill barked. He ran to south of the gate and started trying to identify where the cover fire was coming from. It seemed to be concentrated to the front of the gate and not an entire perimeter around it. He clicked
on his comm.: "Teal'c?"
"Yes O'Neill, I am here."
"I need you to swing to the East, I'm going to go around the other side to meet in the middle. Carter, Daniel, you give cover fire."
They agreed and they started to follow their orders. Teal'c took off coming across the first wave of Jaffa. He saw the marks on their head that saw them to be Sokar's men. He raised his eyebrow in some amazement and started to fire his Zat into the crowd. Moving position slightly each time he fired so that he didn't give them an easy target to hit he cleared 3 of them and started to run further in.
O'Neill's run was just as strenuous. He too got a look at the Jaffa and they bore the mark of Apophis. He just shook his head.
"For crying out loud, does he ever STAY dead?" He said quietly to himself. He started to fire into them with his P-90 and they started to fire back, but the fast nature of his weapon vs. theStaff weapon was good enough to kill them all without a problem. However, the gunshots tipped of the other guards that they were in the area. Several others started to come into their range. O'Neill started to take off in a hurry as he and Teal'c finally met in the middle.
"This is not going well O'Neill."
"Gee, ya think? I personally thought that we might have the upper hand.”
"We do not O'Neill."
In a moments notice they heard a voice say `Jaffa, Kree!' and knew that they were about to get more company than they could handle. O'Neill gave coordinates to the team who met not too far from the gate. They stood there and watched the Jaffa investigate their last
position.
"Any suggestions people?" O'Neill asked looking at his team with a bit of wishful hope in his voice.
"We might try to sneak around to the weapon, if we blow it up it'll give them something to aim at while we run to the gate," Daniel said.
"Any other suggestions that doesn't involve blowing up that beautiful honkin' space gun people?"
"Daniel's right, sir. We haven't a clue how many Jaffa are on this planet, and we have no way to know if we'll be able to stop them. The device is under their control, and if they take it when we had a chance to stop it we could be responsible for the deaths of billions."
"Carter, is there some sort of moral compass that guides you or are you just trying to make my head hurt on purpose?"
"Sorry, sir. I just don't think that the device is worth the lives of the billions that will die by the Goa'uld's hands if we allow it to stand."
"I concur O'Neill, Major Carter speaks with wisdom."
"Crap, in all of the military outfits I end up with McCoy, Spock, and Scotty mixed between the three of you. Okay, fine, we blow it. We'd better cut around the woods. We've got about a 4 click hike going that way."
They started to get underway and after about 2 hours they get to the gun, which still looked to be charging. There were 4 Jaffa guarding it, and 2 that were behind the controls.
"We can take them Carter, we might be able to get that gun."
"Sir, just one word of caution, it only takes one to fire it."
"Would you be optimistic just once?"
"I am being optimistic Col. I just see this in terms of what might happen if we're not careful."
Jack shook his head and got his P-90 ready. He signaled the others he was going to go around the device and start the commotion and the rest were going to start firing at them as soon as they had their backs turned. He crept over to the other side of the gun and he
fired into them wounding one of the guards. The others turned and started to fire in his general direction. The others started to fire and before the last Jaffa fell he hit the control panel on the device. They ran to the device and Carter looked it over.
"Sir, as far as I can tell the Jaffa just locked the mechanism into place. It's going to fire and I don't think there's a think we can do to stop it."
"Are you going to try?"
"I'm going to give it my best, sir."
Sam worked with all she had to try and get the device to shut off. They stood there until they heard the clanking and clacking of Jaffa soldiers coming to the device.
"Sir, it's not going to work. Our best option is to run to the gate and activate it. The build up will fire but if we push it we'll make it to the gate just in time to race the beam to get home before it blows the sun from the sky."
Daniel read the glyphs and shook his head. "This device has some other purpose for the sun, but I don't know what it is. Someone scratched out the rest of the inscription, but the gist of it is that the hand of God would stretch out and sweep them away to a better place."
"Yes Daniel, the better place is probably their version of Heaven, and I don't think I want to follow, do you?"
"No…but then again it doesn't say heaven, it just says a better place."
"Yes Daniel, much like that place where the hamsters go when they die. Parents tell their kids that they went to a "better place." No thank you. I suggest we run the same way we came until it's cleared of Jaffa then go straight to the gate."
They took off again, this time picking up the pace. By luck they'd missed the Jaffa patrols, but the fates switched against them when they got to the DHD. Carter started to dial home when the remaining patrol caught back up with them.
"Sho'vah!" Yelled one of the Jaffa to Teal'c as he fired at him with his Staff Weapon. Teal'c ducked and rolled firing his Zat at the Jaffa. The Gate started to get bogged down with the fight and they knew they were going nowhere. Jack and Carter fired in widespread and the warriors hoping if nothing else to severely injure them enough to escape. Then the ground started to rumble.
"What the hell was that Carter?"
"I think it's the device sir, it's about to fire."
"Crap! SG-1 GET TO THE GATE NOW!!!"
They started slowly moving back when the air started to charge and a brilliant yellow beam fired towards the sun. Everyone looked up. Jack pushed his team and they started to run for the gate. The Jaffa started again to fire as the team finally jumped through the gate. In moments they all disappeared into the event horizon..
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