THE GAME'S A FOOT. A FLYING GENERAL. AND A BLOODY EYE

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"The games afoot!"

"O'Neill, the Nebulium!"

"Oh yeah, them! The games a foot, and if its anything like Carter's foot we stand a good chance of creaming them."

"Indeed O'Neill, in combat Colonel Carter's feet prove to be feet of fire."

"They do don't they T. Feet of fire and tights of thunder. Cool. You check over there T."

"I will."

"Do you think Oma Desala could pass through, penetrate our Iris?"

"Yes.. ..she must have that ability, to shift, a phase. She has the ability to pass from one state to another."

"Yeah but that doesn't necessarily mean she could pass through a thick plate of trinium reinforced titanium."

"This is true O'Neill. However Oma Desala is an Ancient, and as we have seen, the Ancient's do have the ability to not only change state but also to phase that state through matter, inorganic as well as organic. On what are your thoughts O'Neill?"

"The Nebulium crashing through the Gate.. ..like Oma Desala, they should, may, have the ability to pass through the Iris, having first dialled either a Seven or Nine chevroned wormhole."

"O'Neill if they do not have the physical ability as do the Ancients to pass through the Iris shield, they may, as do the Asgard, have the technological ability."

"Yeah,.. ..the Nox, the Tollen.. ..Well luckily, it seems either way, once through the Iris they gonna go down, they lasted a real sort time in their raw state T."

"This is true O'Neill, however if they arrive at The SGC, in the Gate Room, after having penetrated the Iris, they may then quickly infect local personnel. Perhaps members of the Gate Room defence Teams."

"Ah okay em, just a minute. Do you know what we need, yeah, we need Siler to fix us a gas delivery system in the Gate Room. Right T, can you get on to Siler, he needs to fix up a system ASAP. If the Gates Dialled.. ..if it engages and we don't get a signal.."

"We did get a signal from SG-14 O'Neill."

"Yah.. ..still, okay, if the Gate engages, signal or no, flood it with high pressured oxygen immediately.. ..hows that?"

"It is an excellent plan. It will slow down Nebulium in raw state or indeed as their infected human shell state. O'Neill are you expecting another visit?"

"Yeah,. ..I am. They've been laying low for a very long time. T, they're not gonna rise up, come a calling, and then when they don't get an open invite, simply go away quietly. They're after something don't you think so?"

"I do think so O'Neill."

"T I'll carry on with this, can you em, can you get on to that straight away."

"Yes O'Neill I will."

"Well come back down and let us know when you're done, let me know where you're up to."

"You will still be here in lower Base O'Neill?"

"Yeah I reckon so. I just need to em, it's the possibility of us getting more money, funding in the future. And Buds had about three shipments in the last few days alone, I just need to double check these Special Stores.. ..see where we're up to, see what we need. Plus I want to make sure theres nothing lying around down here that I don't want those tics from the NID lookin' at."

"Yes indeed O'Neill, I will not be long."

"Okidoke."

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"A flying General!"

"Me?"

"Yes."

"Not hallucination?"

"I think not O'Neill. At no time were you exposed to the obsidian samples from P7X 377. It could not have been due to an hallucinogenic drug."

"Well T we've had no more signs since then. I mean wouldn't you say it's a bit of a coincidence that it happened more or less the same time as Sam's hallucination?"

"No I would not. Colonel Carter went to sleep in her bed. She awakened in her bed. She remained in the confines of her own house throughout the whole of her sleep time. Daniel Jackson's use of the word flight or flying was used only in relation to the sensation the shamans would induce. Colonel Carter did not herself engage in the performance of an unpowered flight.

Your experience O'Neill was altogether different. You went to sleep in your bed and you awakened many many meters away from it. You had in fact partaken in the performance of actual flight. You did indeed become a flying General."

"So you definitely.. ..definitely don't reckon its anything to do with being exposed to anything.. ..or anyone from the pyramid?"

"No O'Neill I do not believe that was the circumstance."

"Well lets see, nothing else has happened up to now Teal'c, maybe it was just a one off.

..Yeah, what ya sayin'?"

"I am saying nothing O'Neill. I have nothing to say. I am waiting and watching."

"..Yeah, okay.. ..okay, we'll see. We're down on quite a bit of this stuff, we're gonna have to err, order out."

"O'Neill this all appears to be the most expensive and specialised equipment we have on the Base."

"It is T, that's why its called Special Stores I guess. Its different from the normal stores, theres all this special storage arrangement as well. Come on lets go back up. I'll send Bowkervale up to the third with the requisition slips. I'm going to need to reorder a lot of this stuff. Teal'c have you heard anything in relation to the autopsy results?"

"No. I saw Colonel Carter when I instructed Sergeant Siler on your requirement for the oxygen dispensing system, she was reluctant to discuss the results.. ..without first reporting to you. I understand you have requested her presence in Daniel Jackson's office within the hour?"

"Yeah, because I also want to hear about yours and Daniel's conclusions on this Runic, Asgard stuff. In fact its nearly ten a.m. now. We may as well go straight there. T why don't you look in on Siler, see where they're up to, let me know. I'll meet you in Daniel's."

"Indeed."

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"A bloody eye!"

"Yes Sir, a bloody eye in all cases was the only outwardly visible signs of possession. The first sign of infection, but once the inflammation around the orbital subsides theres no discernible evidence. Unless of course an examination to the base of the auditory nerve, around the tunica posteriors, inferna, is carried out."

"Have we had those results in yet?"

"The autopsy results from Groom Lake. Not yet Sir, but they have sent through some initial findings, em, very interesting, I'll just quickly run through them for you. Sir we're going to have two sets of em, results.. ..well two Reports. One is actually on the raw, raw state Nebulium and the second set of results will be on an infected.. ..pers.. ..well.. ..a member of em.. ..Philips Sir, and Balinsky. Sir their results will pertain to an infected person, shell.

The infection, after the initial method of contact, the infection occurs on the subatomic level. We're talking about manipulation of nanoparticles here Sir. And also, which will account for the effect on the men who survived the infection, we're in particular looking at the effects of metal ion poisoning to the cell membranes.

They haven't completed the inspection of the nanoparticles resonance band, they'll record the changes evident, as shown in the electronic spectra and micrographs. Having said that Sir, at this stage there is little doubt that the readings are pointing to some kind of poisoning on that particle level."

"Nuts! Carter.. ..the chase."

"Of course Sir, cutting. The Nebulium infect by injection into the ocular cavity. Our men, Sir Philips and Balinsky, died due to osmotic stress and metal ion poisoning. Additional time is needed for the meticulous study of the transmission electron microscopy and electronic absorption spectroscopy readouts. General the official copies of the autopsy will be release within sixty hours."

"Thank you Colonel. George will be joining us tomorrow for the crucial 2nd and 3rd Briefings."

"Yeah Jack, Major's Pierce's samples have now been analysed, we'll be ready for tomorrow."

"Okay.. ..We have a new enemy. We need to prepare. Tell me about the Runics."

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