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It was always the quiet ones you had to look out for. Nice, sweet little planet with no Goa'uld and no threats, great people and of course fiery doom had to be hurtling from the sky with no real way to avert the crisis. Carter had crunched the numbers and determined that it was a once in a hundred years event and gee, weren't they lucky to get to see it. Of course, there was the problem with evacuating an entire village of people through the Stargate until the planet was safe again, but practical concerns were far outweighed by the…whatever. Jack had tuned out when the talk went to science rather than how they were going to get the hell out of there.
Quick plans provide quick solutions and everyone agreed the best idea was to get the Edorans through the gate as soon as possible, monitor the meteor storm via existing technology and send a MALP through when it looked like things were all clear before coordinating sending everyone back through. Would have been easier if the Edorans would just cooperate and considering a third of them wanted to stay behind, Jack was finding it difficult to remain rational. Even when it had been dark, even in those days when Charlie was gone and he and his wife were strangers to each other, he'd never deliberately given up and hoped it was over. Oh, sure, he'd thrown himself into one crazy mission or another, but he'd never actually considered giving up entirely. He was too much of a fighter for that.
As the meteors started hitting the ground with greater frequency and lighting the fields on fire, he motioned toward the gate where Daniel, Carter and Teal'c were gathered. One of the Edorans had decided to hole up in a cave and Jack couldn't leave the kid to die, so he ushered his team through the gate. He'd dial in as soon as he got back with the kid and make it out; damn gate was made of naqahdah, after all, and from what he knew of the stuff, it was pretty damn indestructible.
He broke into a run toward the caves and stopped when another meteor hit the ground about a hundred yards in front of him, lighting up the ground like napalm on gasoline. It shook him and he stumbled and as much as he hated to admit it, it was a situation where he was going to end up killed with no discernable gain. Doing a quick cost-benefit analysis in his head, Jack opted to head back to the gate. He'd break the news to the kid's mom himself if he had to, but there was no way he was going to make it to him and back before the whole planet was destroyed.
He dialed quick and frowned when the event horizon looked a little…off. Still, with fire raining from the sky, there wasn't time to compare color swatches to make sure the gate was working correctly. He'd deal with it later if he ended up in the sixties again but for now, he was saving his own ass. Hard choice, hopefully the right one, and he closed his eyes against the heat of the meteors and the weird, tickling feeling in his stomach whenever he stepped through a gate.
He opened them on the other side, blinking for a moment. Last time he checked, SGC didn't have its own tropical beach with warm sun and fragrant breezes and he sure as hell didn't remember dialing another planet along the way. Maybe his fingers slipped on the DHD, but he'd looked and checked them twice before engaging. Maybe it was one of those damn solar flares-they always seemed to futz with the system no matter how intricate.
Or maybe it was just classic Jack O'Neill luck and something else entirely had happened. For all he knew, he could be in lockup with some Goa'uld and it was all an illusion. Only one way to find out. Plenty of people around, after all, so someone was bound to notice him if he started raising a fuss. And oh, he had one hell of a fuss planned.
"Hello? Carter? Teal'c? Daniel? Where the hell am I? Anyone? Jack O'Neill, Earth, Stargate…any of it ring a bell?"
He looked behind him in shock. The gate was…the gate was gone.
Damn.
[OOC: Arrival! First one in gets to explain the island to Jack and subsequent taggers please feel free to notice him wandering around lost and point him to various useful things. Also, will be slow as it is very much going to be my bedtime soon, but wanted to get it up so I can tag on it tomorrow as well.]
Quick plans provide quick solutions and everyone agreed the best idea was to get the Edorans through the gate as soon as possible, monitor the meteor storm via existing technology and send a MALP through when it looked like things were all clear before coordinating sending everyone back through. Would have been easier if the Edorans would just cooperate and considering a third of them wanted to stay behind, Jack was finding it difficult to remain rational. Even when it had been dark, even in those days when Charlie was gone and he and his wife were strangers to each other, he'd never deliberately given up and hoped it was over. Oh, sure, he'd thrown himself into one crazy mission or another, but he'd never actually considered giving up entirely. He was too much of a fighter for that.
As the meteors started hitting the ground with greater frequency and lighting the fields on fire, he motioned toward the gate where Daniel, Carter and Teal'c were gathered. One of the Edorans had decided to hole up in a cave and Jack couldn't leave the kid to die, so he ushered his team through the gate. He'd dial in as soon as he got back with the kid and make it out; damn gate was made of naqahdah, after all, and from what he knew of the stuff, it was pretty damn indestructible.
He broke into a run toward the caves and stopped when another meteor hit the ground about a hundred yards in front of him, lighting up the ground like napalm on gasoline. It shook him and he stumbled and as much as he hated to admit it, it was a situation where he was going to end up killed with no discernable gain. Doing a quick cost-benefit analysis in his head, Jack opted to head back to the gate. He'd break the news to the kid's mom himself if he had to, but there was no way he was going to make it to him and back before the whole planet was destroyed.
He dialed quick and frowned when the event horizon looked a little…off. Still, with fire raining from the sky, there wasn't time to compare color swatches to make sure the gate was working correctly. He'd deal with it later if he ended up in the sixties again but for now, he was saving his own ass. Hard choice, hopefully the right one, and he closed his eyes against the heat of the meteors and the weird, tickling feeling in his stomach whenever he stepped through a gate.
He opened them on the other side, blinking for a moment. Last time he checked, SGC didn't have its own tropical beach with warm sun and fragrant breezes and he sure as hell didn't remember dialing another planet along the way. Maybe his fingers slipped on the DHD, but he'd looked and checked them twice before engaging. Maybe it was one of those damn solar flares-they always seemed to futz with the system no matter how intricate.
Or maybe it was just classic Jack O'Neill luck and something else entirely had happened. For all he knew, he could be in lockup with some Goa'uld and it was all an illusion. Only one way to find out. Plenty of people around, after all, so someone was bound to notice him if he started raising a fuss. And oh, he had one hell of a fuss planned.
"Hello? Carter? Teal'c? Daniel? Where the hell am I? Anyone? Jack O'Neill, Earth, Stargate…any of it ring a bell?"
He looked behind him in shock. The gate was…the gate was gone.
Damn.
[OOC: Arrival! First one in gets to explain the island to Jack and subsequent taggers please feel free to notice him wandering around lost and point him to various useful things. Also, will be slow as it is very much going to be my bedtime soon, but wanted to get it up so I can tag on it tomorrow as well.]