[b]Paige, Lawson, Blaze, Cody.[/b]
[i]Part two as the amazing adventure continues.[/i]

Paige followed the old man inside along with one of the military personnel. The facility itself was practically pristine although she could only guess what the others must have looked like since she had nothing else to compare it to. The old scotsman asked about the ATA gene, she hadn’t really thought about it but she knew she had apparently been born with it. She was told that it would allow her to access certain types of technology, namely this kind. 

So naturally, she smiled and waved her hands around the consoles as they sprang to life before anyone had a chance. It was amazing that even in it’s dormant state the machinery could recognize her genome. Of course Paige had to say something significant for this moment but all she could think about was Frankenstein. As her hands floated across the face of the console she spoke in her most dramatic tone. “It’s alive! Hahaha. Quite a good scene isn’t it? One woman crazy two very sane spectators! Here’s to a son of the house of the Ancient.” 

Lawson was really getting tired of this working relationship that was going on. Surely eventually she would grow up though he wasn’t exactly holding his hopes for something like that happening. He brought up the interface engrossing himself in his work. He worked through several menu systems as he worked down through them. “It appears, this was some kind of power research.. something to do with hyperspace and subspace.” He turned to look at Paige.

“Start an uplink with the ship, secure line to our lab and begin transferring this data. It could be important.”

“Already on it boss.” She had already pulled out her tablet and started to upload the data. The transfer rate was impressive and she was about to comment on it when a thought crossed her mind. “The Ancients were miles ahead of us with their technology so wouldn’t any information from them be important?” She continued to monitor the data flow as she thought aloud. “The carrier signal is slightly obstructed, presumably from whatever this structure is made of, but we’re still getting through at about eighty six percent. Transfer rate is at fifty four gigabytes per second. Everything looks normal. I can’t wait to get into this at the lab!” 

Outside the bunker teams of men wearing rag tag Jaffa armour and wielding staff weapons and zat weapons began moving to the facility, finding the guards inside the guard house and then several of them were sent out to find those responsible for the attack. At the same time several stood guard as even more moved into the facility, they instantly began firing on the strike team in the lab as they entered, one of the marines falling under a staff weapon and being dragged back by his comrade. At the same time the uplink slowed dramatically and the captains comms crackled through. 

[i] "Blaze, how are things looking down there? I can't say I want to hang around any longer. Be advised that fighting has started and you may have incoming. Also, you'll need that beacon now to get out." [/i] 

Lawson immediately moved and dragged Paige down and beside one of the better covered consoles. He then looked up at the Colonel. “Obviously they are actively trying to jam our transmissions. Whatever they are using isn’t strong enough to cut it all out however so it obviously isn’t Ancient Tech more likely some modified Goa’uld. Possibly even some form of shields.” He moved back to his tablet and pulled it out grabbing Paiges at the same time stopping the uplink. 

He handed her her tablet back and took his own Zat and held it at the ready. “We shouldn’t leave any of this behind for them, or anyone else. With the peak of the war this lab could be very important and I doubt I could shut it down before it is over run and we don’t have the resources to subjugate and maintain control over an entire planet.” 

The explosion of gunfire and what she assumed were energy weapons was terrifying. She had never been in such a stressful situation before and she wasn’t sure what to do. She certainly didn’t want to get caught in a crossfire but she really didn’t want to leave the data behind let alone destroy it. “We can’t just abandon all this data! We’re like the first ones here in ages, who knows what kind of information is here! Isn’t there a way to save it? Can’t we at least try? At least give me a chance to shut it down without blowing the damn thing sky high!” 

“Don’t misjudge me-” this arguing in the field really wasn’t the best time. “-I do not want it destroyed, nor do I want to leave it. Also while I acknowledge your computer skills I have been around ancient systems far longer, these are set up differently to other systems due to their age and nature as an experimental facility. They aren’t meant to be shut down while the shield is still active, I’m amazed the Goa’uld even got that far, all we need to do is buy enough time to remove control crystals and that will essentially freeze all the consoles until we come back, if we get blocked off we destroy them we should be able to make some kind of bypass with our knowledge, even if we lose the facility we still have some of the data on the ship anyway.” Shots continued to rain down the hall. One of the stun grenades appeared in the room and luckily one of the marines picked it up and tossed it back as there was a flash of light in the hall and everyone looking in the direction covered their eyes.

“The point is, we can’t wait here too long whatever we do.”

Paige was relieved at his response although she was still having a hard time not panicking. “Okay, just show me what to do.”

The colonel was getting slightly worried about the sit-sat, as the American’s would call a situation like this. “Cap’n, this is definitely going to be a fire-hot zone. We’ll pull out as fast as we can, but the data control crystals need draking, ma’am.” He looked back at the scientists, and hoped the message had gotten through whatever shielding had been put up. He sure wished that they wouldn’t be needing to defend the position. He had no clue as to the procedure the chaps were going to do, but he had trust that they’d do it as fast as possible, or at least Lawson would. The new young woman he had lesser trust in, but she was smarter than him, so he couldn’t judge, could he?

“Sirs, we’re not going to have much time here. I’ll see what I can do though.” the colonel said as he walked back forward. He clicked his short range comms, and asked the lieutenant “Lieutenant, stat report!”

Cody had been taking a drink when he first heard the shots. He cursed under his breath as he stood up quickly and drew his left pistol raising the radio to speak when a staff blast flew at him. He dropped down accidently smashing the radio, an amatuer mistake that he’d kick himself for later. He raised his pistol and double tapped his attacker and pushed himself up and ran up to the trees off to his right as the marines fell back into the facility. More defendable? Yeah, for a time. Survival wise? Well if the ship got them out in time, probably. Cody on the other hand stuck to his instincts again. Just another thing the Colonel would love to chew him out for later.

As he ran threw the trees he ran into a group of four of the enemies soldier and ducked back behind a tree as they started to fire at him. Once more Cody found himself cursing his individualism and ran to the next tree firing another two shots this time damaging the knee cap of one of his attackers, who proceeded to scream out in pain. “Is this really what we have to be doing!?” He yelled out. Not that he cared much for their response he was just thoroughly pissed. He reached into his cargo pocket with his right hand producing the Zat once more. He leaned out and shot one more man with this weapon disabling him as he immediately took cover once more as the staff weapons continued to barrage his position.

Cody could hear them getting closer as they continued to fire on his position, but Cody couldn’t help but wonder if everyone else was doing okay. If four guys were focused on him, how bad was it for the others? Of course now he understood just how bad these situations got he would definitely bring another weapon next time. This definitely wasn’t like back home, of course he could handle this with what he had, but it wasn’t fun like it could’ve been. He blind fired from the left side acting like he was going to stick out on that side as the enemies began focusing on that side of the tree, as he then spun out from cover on the other side firing four shots from his pistol and three from the Zat. He would have to end this and get back to the facility quickly.