VIRTUAL LOCKDOWN AT THE SGC
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"Sir that was the Commander of the Beta Site.. ..Colonel Brewster.
Hes just Dialled through, sent a communiqué acknowledging
receipt of the Level three special stores, supplies for em, Major
Eagan. He also said that Teal'c and Major Griff would be leaving
the Site, for here, within the hour."
"Super Walter, thanks. Send em.. ..send them both up as soon
as they get back. Let Griff send his Team straight to Medical and
ask him and Teal'c to join me as soon as.. ..thereafter."
"Yes General."
"Strategy!"
"Jack what exactly are you expecting to happen?"
"Don't know."
"But Sir you must have something on your mind."
"It that a complement Carter. Okay there is something on my
mind, here it is. I'm half.. ..I'm expecting, I'm half expecting..
..maybe fully expecting, I think when we go in to sedate SG-14,
I think these possessing minkies are gonna jump out of the bodies,
shells Carter.
Try something on, I don't know. Make a break for it. Go for the
Gate. Disappear. I don't know. Get in to Lee's lab somehow and fire
up the Skull. I don't know, they may even stay for breakfast, but
I am expecting something.. ..yeah."
"Well Jack if they don't know we're on to them now they definitely
will know we're onto them when we go to sedate our guys."
"Sir that would be the logical time to make a break for it."
"So we're dealing with logical beings then Carter?"
"Sir you do have to have a degree of logic and intelligence
to navigate the StarGate system. Em, I mean lets face it we have
been on planets before, and moons, where the population haven't
had the know how to em, to use the StarGate."
"Fair enough Carter. Yersss, fair enough."
"So that's something else we know about them Sam. They can
navigate."
"Sir. I'm gonna want Major Griff's Team in as tactical as
well."
"Yes of course. Give them some stand down time after Medical.
Give them an hour, let them get fed and freshened up. You know em..
..in Medical, you know they're going to have to.."
"Done it Sir. Spoke to Doctor Brigham about it. So we're incorporating
that test into all Post Mission assessments. Check the nerve, check
the ocular cavity."
"Sweet. Sad but sweet. We're gonna em, have the lead Team
armed with Zats and 9 mils."
"Yes General."
"Carter have we got anyone from Field Medical on the Base?"
"No Sir. No they've em, Teal'c had all the Field Medics sent
through to the Beta Site. Whats on your mind Sir."
"I don't want Carmichael down on Level thirty-one A."
"Jack that's where hes been for the last few hours."
"No I don't mean it like that Daniel. When we start to move
the guys I don't want Carmichael or Brigham on the floor."
"Sir you really are expecting trouble aren't you?"
"Yerr eh, yes I am."
"Sir Teal'c and I can administer the sedation."
"Err….Carter.. ..err.."
"Jack, Jack, Teal'c and I can do it. After all I am a Doctor."
"Well, sure Daniel, but just don't go using your antiquated
old stone slabs to sedate my people.. ..ha, ha. We're using needles
right."
"Roger Jack."
"Carter I'll need you out co-ordinating so, if em, if you'd
let Teal'c and Daniel take point on that."
"Yes Sir."
"Okay then, Colonel, lets have Nick shipped out on the first
bus."
"Jack will you be sedating Nick?"
"Thats a negative on that Daniel. No. Hes been isolated, but
lets just get him through to the Beta Site and fixed up before we
em, before we deal with the men."
"Okay Jack, thanks."
"You're welcome Daniel. Goes without saying."
"Thanks Jack."
"Without sayin'. Right now they don't know we know so how
are we going to approach this?"
"Jack instead of sedating them we could just tell them we're
sending them on a Mission, to the Beta Site."
"Daniel that would be a good idea but from what Carters told
us they're not going to be very willing to go through a Seven Chevron
wormhole. And if we Dial a Nine Chevroned wormhole up for them,
they're gonna know we know. Besides logic and intelligence isn't
usually dwarfed by stupidity."
"Okay. I was just being lazy."
"Gotcha."
"Sir they're separated from each other. What we could do is,
Daniel and Teal'c could go in and say they need a blood sample."
"Yeah that's okay. Em, on what grounds?"
"Yeah right Sir. Perhaps not a blood sample but we could say
that its.. ..em, an injection of antibiotics for the eye infection."
"Splendid. That's the plan Daniel."
"Yep that's totally feasible Sam."
"Splendid. Lets see. And lets hope they're not telepathic."
"Oh Gosh. Sir, what happens if the sedation works in such
a way that it forces the creature out of the shell, the men. And
it jumps into Teal'c or Daniel, remember like Ma'chello's page turning
minky making device."
"Crikey that's a thought. Hold on.. ..now you're saying that
the extreme chemical imbalance in Nick was caused by the em, um..
..what?"
"Sir it was the break down of the possessing entity in Nick's
system when he came through the crystallo structure of the Crystal
Skull."
"Right so if they break down into those components could we
safely say that those components are toxic to the minkies, the Nebulium?"
"That would stand to reason Sir. And if not fatally toxic
it will be probably quite harmful Sir."
"Jack are you thinking of, whats the word, poisoning us?"
"Ha ha, err, no, no I wouldn't call it poisoning Daniel."
"Oh, really, what would you call it?"
"More like an excruciating 'orrible amount of discomfort,
which will probably result in a couple of days hospital rest."
"Sir if we get the balances right it could actually act as
a sort of shield."
"No its not going to work Colonel. I was thinking out loud,
its not going to work."
"General Sir it could, I'm positive we could find the right
balance."
"No its not going to work because I'm not taking two of my
best people out of the game before the games even begun."
"Yes Sir."
"Best. Thanks Jack, I, and Teal'c, really appreciate that.
Okay, Sam what about if you zatted us once each?"
"I don't know about that Daniel. I don't know about that.
Its just that the toxicity is based on metal poisonings. Potassium
metal, naquadah, traces of niquadria. Theres a lot of metal poisoning
in there. Its erm.."
"Yeah but whats that got to do with zatting us?"
"Well its, not to you.. ..but it could, in reaction with those
chemicals, induce a form of electrolysis. You could end up, after
begin zatted, looking like an attractive scrumptious feast to the
Nebulium. I mean we're not entirely sure of the conditions they
require, but we do know that metal, positive ions, has got a lot
to do with it."
"Oh."
"Cater would you think a zat gun would work on the Nebulium?"
"Again uncertain. It may work on them, but it may also give
them added strength, energy. Sorry about that Sir, another as yet
unknown quantity."
"Its okay Colonel, we'll find out soon enough."
"Sam what about zatting the men while they're already infected?"
"For now, that's another unknown. I would say though because
of the possibility of electrochemical reaction, Sir, perhaps the
9 mils to the lower quarters."
"Noted Carter. Very lower."
"Sir."
"Basically folks what we need now before you can go in and
sedate them is a way to contain the contamination."
"Yes Sir, that's exactly what we need."
"Jack that's not an easy one. You'd think it would be easy
to come up with something, but its not."
"I know. Carter are you sure about the address for the Beta
Site?"
"Yes Sir, absolutely. Daniel and Teal'c sussed it out. In all
cases it's the same formulae. Walter's dialled it up and we've sent
and received messages."
"Whats the procedure?"
"Sir, the route we tested whilst you we're in conference is
as follows, the Eight Chevron address for the planet Othala was
Dialled. SG-16 followed the M.A.L.P. through and from that location
they Dialled the Beta Site using its Nine Chevron assignation. Transmissions
were sent and received. SG-16 then Dialled us back using our Nine
Chevron assignation and successfully transmitted. Its all working
Sir. And SG-16 are awaiting instructions in the Ida galaxy."
"Splendid. We knock the men out. Ship them to Othala via a
Ninth Chevron Nth dimension wormhole. They're greeted by a defence
force, fully MOPP geared, they're then ferried off to the Beta Site
via another Nine Chev, and greeted by Colonel Brewster and his men,
and Bud Eagan and his men. The defence force follow on to the Beta
Site quarantine via an Eight Chevron Dialling for their Post Mission
medical. Sweet. Lets see."
"Sir it sounds straight forward."
"It is straight forward Sam, but like Jack said, lets see."
"Griff, Teal'c."
"General."
"O'Neill."
"Everything in order?"
"Indeed it is."
"Affirmative General. They're all.. ..everybody's got their
positions."
"Very good work. Very good work. Nice job. Take a seat men."
"Thank you Sir."
"I will thank you."
"We're just in the middle of discussing em, the safest way
for Teal'c, ha ha, hi Teal'c.."
"Colonel Carter."
"..for Teal'c and Daniel to administer the sedation to each
of the em, well to SG-14."
"You will not be using the usual method of injection by narrow
steel needle?"
"Yeah, its not that Teal'c, you see we're worried about these
Nebulium jumping out of the men, or jumping out of the man you're
about to inject and jumping into yourself or Daniel."
"Ah."
"Ou big ah Teal'c. Big ah. Any ideas?"
"O'Neill perhaps if you shoot myself and Daniel Jackson with
a charge from a zat'nik'atel?"
"No, no we've been through that, its not gonna work. Its complicated
but Carter seems to have reasons why that probably won't work."
"I see."
"It'll be in the notes T, if you want to sound it out with
Carter."
"How about if you both geared up. I don't know maybe stick
a space suit on."
"Why?"
"Why. I don't know. Em to stop these aliens from getting under
your skin."
"Carter?"
"Actually Sir as simple as it is I think its quite brilliant.
Major Griff's suggestion may very well form the basis of protection
against contamination."
"Really Colonel Carter?"
"Yes Major Griff it really is an excellent idea."
"Sweet."
"Very sweet Griff. Nice one."
"General."
"What you on to Carter?"
"Sir we know they can't pass through crystal. Perhaps if we
use some silicon type.."
"Whoa, back up there a minute Colonel. My understanding, which
at the time was a bit vague and fussy, was that these minkies can't
go through the Crystal Skull in a body, a shell as you call it."
"Oh erm, ah damn, yes Sir."
"Yes or no?"
"Yes Sir, and damn."
"Damn Sam?"
"It just would have made life easier. Yes they can probably
pass through the Skull on their own, just not in a manipulated molecular
state."
"Oh you mean as in an impurity?"
"Yeah, yep."
"Okay square one."
"Not quite Sir, no. We've got a Griff suit idea now so we're
getting there."
"Okay, pick up the pace people."
"Colonel Carter you are suggesting that Daniel Jackson and
myself first put on the Griff suit and you then fill up the remaining
spaces between our own bodies and the defining structural membrane
of the suit?"
"Membrane T, the Suit?"
"Indeed, the suit. Fill it up with a solution which is impervious
to the passage of Nebulium."
"Bingo.. ..and snap Teal'c. Yeah we just need to hit up on
the right solution."
"Anything in mind Sam?"
"Chlorine."
"Jeeezzz Carter!! You mean that yellowish, greenish gas that
they used in..?"
General O'Neill almost fell out of his chair.
"Sir maybe not that exactly."
"Exactly maybe not Carter.."
"I'll work on it Sir.. ..as a matter of urgency. Actually
I could do with going down to Doctor Lee's lab and quickly putting
this in to action with him."
"Please do Colonel. I'm well aware that I don't need to stress
what a difficult spot we're in without containment. But the way
I feel about this is every added minute that SG-14 are on the Base
takes us closer to throw down."
"Yes Sir, I understand."
"Okay. If you can come up with something.. ..soon, that'll
be another step forward."
"Yes Sir."
"That'll be great Sam. A step forward for Teal'c and me.."
"Indeed Colonel Carter, a step for mankind."
"Sure thing Teal'c."
"Thank you Major Griff."
"Sir can I get this underway now?"
"We just need to finish up on the sedation administering strategy
and the extra-galactic transfer through the Gate to the Beta Site,
both of which I'll Debrief you on as soon as you report back. So
please do, set to Carter."
"Setting Sir, and I am confident that between Doctor Lee,
Research and myself we will come up with something workable."
"Excellent Colonel, we're all standing by."
"General."
Colonel Carter left the Briefing Room and darted up to the labs.
"What we're going to need to do is lock the Base down before
we commence with the transfer."
"Sir elevation to Code Five?"
"No Major. No, because that will actually cause us to be cut
off from the Gate. No, erm, lets call it a virtual lockdown. We'll
closely follow the procedure of Code Five without actually enacting
Code Five.
We'll maintain a Satellite relay to General Hammond at TIGETS.
And we keep the StarGate operational. Aside from that we need a
lock down. No one in or out. Strict. No movement above the security
barracks on sixteen and below thirty two."
"Indeed O'Neill. That will be manageable. It will not be difficult
to secure the lower levels."
"Why? Why? Whats down there?"
"Doctor Jackson have you not.. ..Teal'c do you need any help
with that?"
"Yes Major Griff. Thank you."
"You'll put lower sub Security on it?"
"Yes O'Neill."
"Jack whats down there?"
"Nothing. I'll show you.. ..some time."
"When?"
"Its just a load of, all books and stuff."
"Books?"
"You know, old books, special archives and stuff."
"Special?"
"Well kinda extra special, you know."
"Really don't Jack."
"Its nothing, just stuff.. ..storage.. ..stuff and things."
"Just?"
"Yeah just.."
"But I didn't even know there were all these extra levels."
"That's no big deal Doctor Jackson."
"You've been down there Major Griff?"
"Well you know, Special Ops.. ..ex. Hardly anyone ever goes
down there."
"I believe that is because hardly anyone has clearance Major
Griff."
"Daniel I need all Non Essential Personnel off the restricted
Levels now."
"So is below thirty two considered on or off the Base. Okay
okay. I just feel a little miffed. A lot."
"Its quite alright, I would too. When we're back to DEFCON
Five I'll show you."
"Thanks Jack. I'll call Siler."
"Done."
General O'Neill beckoned one of his aides and told him to have
Master Sergeant Siler report to Doctor Jackson's office in ten.
"Levels thirteen and fourteen?"
"They're yours Daniel."
"Okay Jack, I'll have all NEPs assemble on those two Levels."
"Ripping. Em, hold on. Yes? Yes! Beautiful. And the men. Nice
work. How long? Keep at it. Super, check back as soon as. Ciao.
Colonel Carter and Doctor Lee have come up with a crowning idea.
Thanks to you Griff. Okay Daniel, Teal'c, you don't need to get
suited up. Because these Nebulium infect through the eye, research
is putting together a helmet device. We fit it to the infected mens
heads. From what Carter was sayin' its kinda like a space suit helmet.
Anyway yada, yada and more heavy weight technical tu tu. The bottom
line is we flood the hood with a solution, the Nebulium minky tries
to jump out, straight into the harmful solution."
"Sir, will the men be able to breathe if they're wearing a
hood full of harmful solution?"
"Actually didn't ask Griff. But then I'm sure Colonel Carter
knows I wouldn't have it any other way."
"Yeah, you're right about that Sir."
"Okay gentlemen, if you please. Virtual Lockdown!"
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