Of Gods, Men and Monsters
"This sort of thing never ends well"

Authors note:-
Now we start to link different stories together. For just why Daniel acts like he does in this chapter please see the companion piece "Lost Stars in an Empty Sky."

'I know it's a cliché but I've got a real bad feeling about this.' Jack muttered after turning another corner. Daniel had to agree and shared a look with Sam so did she. After stepping out of the Stargate they found large community square completely abandoned.

What once very recently a large advanced city was now a half demolished, burning disaster zone With no clue how it got like that. There were a couple of large posters in some sub-dialect of Asguard Daniel couldn't make much sense of. Other of one word he guessed was Ragnarock. The end of the world.

Some of the damage looked fairly recent so the four of them were moving with absolute stealth. Well Jack, Sam and Teal'c were, Daniel was no slouch when it came to sneaking but the others were experts. They had found a building relatively intact and were trying to get a over view of the damage to try and guess what had happened.

'O'Neill.' Teal'c whispered before pointing with his staff weapon. They looked in the room, it looked like a charnel house. packed with bodies.

'Oh boy, that does not look good.'

Sam inspected one of the bodies before. 'No wounds sir, I don't know what killed them.'

'It wasn't recent Carter.' Jack snapped and Daniel began feeing for his Has mat mask.

She stood up with a wince on her face. 'It doesn't look like a virus sir.'

Jack checked the corridors. 'We've seen enough Carter. Lets get back to the gate.'

Daniel grabbed his friends arm. 'Jack, we don't know what did this...'

'No we don't. If it was a disease we're in trouble. If it's not someone killed a whole city, almost demolished it and moved on.'

'Exactly why we need to stay and find out.'

Jack checked the corridor again. 'No Daniel I don't like this and my gut is telling me to get out of here.'

'Indeed.' Teal'c supplied.

Sam stood next to him. 'He's right Daniel.' she said. 'The best thing to do is get out of here and bring reinforcements.'

'What if there are survivors? We can't abandon them.'

'See reinforcements. Sub paragraph:- lots of.' Jack quipped and without another word they headed back to the gate. Daniel knew they were right, even if there were survivors of whatever happened here they couldn't do anything about it.

A high pitched hum began overhead that drew their attention. 'Airship?' he asked.

'Sounds like somethings up there, T lets have a look.' Jack nodded. 'Carter stay here.' The two of them moved down the corridor and stuck their heads through the window.

They pulled them back again at the same time. Teal'c was pale, Jack just blinking. after looking again Jack scrambled back. 'Okay there is a balcony on the other side of this door. Carter you need to see this.'

'Why.'

'It's a flying saucer.'

A few moments later they were all crouched behind a potted plant and a pillar on the balcony. The flying saucer was huge, and Daniel felt a chill in his soul when it passed overhead. something inside told him this was bad news. five sub domes spun underneath the saucer as it lazily spun in the opposite direction.

It was a dull golden copper colour and had a sort if unearthly grace about it. From out of its side a smaller disc slid out. Only three, much smaller spinning domes underneath, it. The smaller ship slid down to the ground. Landing in the broken courtyard of the building.

As it landed Daniel saw five men, with their hands on their heads, mach out to meet it.

They were followed by four motorised dustbins. All dull gold with single eye stalks and two lower sticks. One short with a sort of cage around it and the other looking a lot like sink plunger. 'We have to run. Now.' he said without knowing why.

'Daniel?' Sam asked her hand on his shoulder. He couldn't move, eyes fixed on the things down there.

'Doctor Jackson is correct I have heard stories. Demons of death and destruction. To cross them is certain death.' Teal'c muttered.

'The sentence is extermination for all who they meet'

'Danny, you okay?' Jack asked but Daniel was beyond thinking. he just watched. One of the prisoners looked around desperately. after a second he made a brake for it. Running and clambering over the rubble. Daniel could hear the others shouting after him to stop but he wasn't listening

One of the dustbins turned. It screamed one word that somehow Daniel knew all too well. 'EX-TERMIN-ATE!' A blue bolt burst from the short arm. The running man screamed.

A horrible sound, the death scream of a man lasting a whole second. Ending in a sort of gargling whimper. worse still was the sight. The man glowed blue, so bright a blue that you could see his skeleton as he writhed. Falling to the ground like a puppet with it's strings cut.

Then the unthinkable happened. The other three Daleks turned to the other prisoners. 'THEY ARE NOT NEE-DED. COM-PLETE EX-TERMI-NATION.'

They fired and he didn't think, 'NO!' Daniel shouted and opened fire with his P90.

Jack ducked behind the rubble again. Two of them out there, wonderful. 'Right. It doesn't look like they know what a Stargate is, or that we're going for it. If we can keep from doing anything stupid.' He looked pointedly at the gagged Daniel. They had prudently taken all his weapons from him as well. Just in case he tried to attack the invincible things again. 'We can get out of here. Any problems with that?'

Danny looked just as shocked at his own actions as they were. Not that Jack could blame him. Whatever these things were they were inhuman monsters and should be stopped. But not by them.

Jack had set up a suitable distraction and set it off. The building over looking their ship detonated and collapsed on top of it. The two monsters spun and glided out of the square.

Teal'c hefted the Space-monkey on his shoulder and the three of them ran for the DHD. Carter hammered out the Earth address and Jack pulled out the last block of C4, slapping it against the Stargate.

'Sir?' she asked.

'Go. he nodded her over as the gate opened and she punched in the Iris code. Teal'c with Daniel still on his shoulder ran through the gate. Carter flowed and Jack cast one last look. Yep the two... thinks were coming back. hitting the detonator for 5 seconds he followed his team, Knowing full well that the explosion would at the very worst damage the gate.

At best detonate it and wipe out a chunk of the planet.

End "This sort of thing never ends well"

Authors note:-
Other companion pieces in this crossover universe to follow (or be reviled) shortly... (cue maniac laughter!)

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