9Chapter 1
SG1
Sam's POV
"Carter, are we ready to go yet?" I looked up from the computer screen that I had been studying to see Colonel O'Neill looking at with his usual impatient look.
"Just one more minute, sir. I was just double checking to make sure that the malp is ready to go through."
I finished with my final systems check and gave the General the all clear.
"Walter, send it through," he said.
Daniel's POV
A minute later I heard Walter saying that they had malp telemetry.
I hurried over, anxious to see where we were going.
It looked pretty much just like every other planet we have visited so far.
This meant that it was like a green pasture.
'With some very old looking runes in the background.' I thought with excitement.
I looked over and noticed that Jack had that look on his face that meant he knew that this was going to be one of those missions where he would just sit there and talk with Tealc while being absolutely and positively bored.
'Oh, well,' I thought, 'at least I'll be able to examine something new.'
So a few hours later, I was finishing getting my gear together when Jack came looking for me.
It was rather evident by the look on his face that he was trying to get this mission over and done with.
"Are you quite done with packing yet?" Jack asked.
"Yeah, just one more minute, Jack." I replied.
The look on Jack's face said, quite clearly, that I had in fact already said this too many times for his liking.
So, instead of packing something that I wasn't quite sure that I would need I said, "Alright, why don't we getting going then."
Jack's POV
I was standing in the gate room with Daniel and Tealc while Carter was doing some last minute system checks on the gate path.
I was getting rather impatient to get going so, I turned toward the glass, which was in between the gate room and the control room, and asked, "Carter, how much longer?"
"Just one more minute sir. I have to make sure that we leave at the right time because of the solar flares that are occurring during this time of the year," she replied.
I had absolutely no idea what she meant by what she had just said; so I just replied with a confused look and a nod of my head.