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Mentality by mermaid2bseeker
There also hadn't been anymore attempted Gate enterings by the Goa'uld since the GDO's had been switched from numbers to letters.
But now there was a problem, one of the people upstairs had heard about Samantha's nanobots and somehow got clearance to extract a sample of them for 'scientific' study.
General Hammond was in his office talking to a Captain who represented the NID. The NID were the people who wanted the nanobots.
"Sir," said Captain Horatio, "those nanobots inside Maj. Carter could prove to be a huge medical and scientific jump, imagine injured soldiers on the field repairing themselves on a molecular level, they'd hardly be any casualties."
"I understand the potential for these things, but it is a person we are talking about," said Hammond. "Besides we don't even know if these things can be extracted safetly. They've already intergrated themselves into the Major's spinal column."
"We have specialists waiting at our facilities ready to take every precaution necessary," protested the Captian.
"The first time those things repaired a big wound, which turned out to be a burned graze on Maj. Carter's arm, she was put into a coma," the general explained. "It was only by a electrical accident that she awoke. I am not prepared to risk one of my officers' lives."
"But sir."
"My decision, barring presidential intervention, is final."
"Yes sir," said Horatio, and with a quick salute, walked out of the General's office.
Unbeknownest to General Hammond, after his refusal to help, the NID had taken matters into their own hands. They set up surveillance around Samantha's house recording her movements. They had also tapped her phone lines. Not that it did any good, ever since Samantha had gone home she had been 'discovering' her new abilities. Nothing illegal, of course. But the electrical currents being created by her abilities scrambled any other electrical signals in the house. Eventually they had to give up.
So far, Samantha had 'written' an entire report on Wormhole Physics, without touching a single key, all she did was think the report and it was transmitted onto her laptop's screen. Just for fun, she had also fixed a problem she had been having with the guidance system in her car. Sadly, the thrill wore off quickly and she stopped playing around with the abilities.
The one hiccup for Samantha had been when SG-1 went to P4S568, the first mission they had had since Samantha had been put back on active duty. The mission started normally enough; they were to try and swap technologies with an advanced civilization who had made contact with them through the MALP.
The people called themselves Aquatanians, they were named after their planet, Aquaton. The weird thing was the water-to-land ratio on Aquaton was the same as Earth; 3:1. The Aquatanians were far more advanced then Earth, they had already developed aerial space transit.
"We are here to trade," Daniel said to Neda, the Prime Consulate of Kerana, one of the continents of Aquaton. They had been led to the 'capital' to explain their business there. Jack rolled his eyes, as again Daniel used diplomacy before caution.
"So why do you travel with a servant of the enemy," said Neda, pointing to Teal'c.
"We, all of us, oppose the enemy," explained Daniel.
"Why do you bring weapons of death?" asked Neda, indicating their weapons.
"We bring them, because we do not always know what we will find on the planets we visit. We use them only to defend ourselves."
"I believe you," Neda said reluctantly, "what is it you wish to trade?"
Samantha spoke, "we wish to trade technologies."
"What sort of technologies?" Neda asked suspiciously.
"For example, how is it that you are able to have spaceships?" she answered.
"You mean, you do not know?" said Neda.
"No, we,... our space tavel program is in it's infancy, we have only made it as far as our moon, twice," said Samantha.
"You are not advanced enough," said Neda disgusted, "you have nothing that we could want. Leave us."
"But..."
"No!"
In the end it was Jack who got them to leave. "Be careful when you leave," said Neda with a tone of sincerity in his voice, as they were walking out of the room. "We are having disputes with some of our inhabitants, there are some rebel Aquatanians who are very dangerous, they might attack you."
"Thanks for the warning," said Jack over his shoulder as they exited.
Outside was beautiful, the city had been built near one of Aquaton's bodies of water. They were walking a well worn path along the shoreline towards the Gate when Samantha stopped suddenly, the hairs on the back of neck rose as if in warning.
"What's wrong, Carter?" asked Jack.
"I don't know, sir," she answered, "something feels off, as if we're being watched."
Jack got out his spy binoculars and scanned the horizon. "I don't see anything."
"It's probably nothing, sir."
He eyed her suspiciously, "okay," he finally said.
They started walking again but it wasn't long before Sam became suspicious of her surroundings again. Her eyes opened wide as her hightened senses let her hear the click of a weapon, and smell atmosphere being ionized. "Get down!" she shouted.
They all lunged for the ground at the same time and the energy beam flew over their heads. Before they could even get up they were being attack by men in ragged clothes. The men had strange weapons but were mostly using their fists to fight with. One of them jumped on Teal'c but he was able to subdue him with a shot from his Zat gun. Another had Daniel on the ground and was using him as a punching bag. Jack was fist fighting with a rather short man, but this man made up for his shortness with excellent fighting skills.
The last one, a burly muscular man had paired with Samantha, she had done her best to fight him but he was just too big for her. He wrapped his arms around her chest and squeezed tightly, lifting her five inches off the ground in the process. She struggled against him as he cut off her air supply. Even as she felt the effects of suffocation she was still struggling against her attacker, she managed to get her knife in her hands before she lost consciousness. Though she had fallen limp in his arms, he kept squeezing, to make sure she died.
