[b][Deyika and Tonak[/b]

Back on the Al’kesh and within the pilot seat, Deyika’s hand steadied itself upon the red orb which held the ship in position where her brother had indicated. Her eyes focused upon the little red dot on the locator that caught the signal from her brother’s tracker. For several seconds longer she watched it, mesmerized by the steady pace and the signal strength until she shifted to the transmitter. Due to the simplicity of the Goa’uld bomber, she could only listen to the ongoings play out as she heard sounds she guessed were the rings tearing through the roof followed by the sounds of her brother’s one liner and punctuated it with a gunshot. Dey guessed Tonak’s pistol was pointed at the Alliance’s little nuisances head or he wouldn’t have wasted the breath. 

Naturally, she didn’t flinch or seemed affected by the sounds of violence as she had seen it before, namely the aftermath when things got rather hot. Her hand reached to press a few buttons and ensured the cloak was still maintained. It won’t do well if the Tauri noticed a little Al’kesh hovering there, would it? She mused to herself. 

She leaned back into the chair, her eyes scanned the skies for any signs of other ships within her air space then reached over to click another button. She breathed deeply while she waited on her brother to finish up what Kane had tasked him with. Dey wasn’t a fan at playing the sit and wait game for too long. Namely when her brother was out mucking around planetside which never set with her from the start, but was unavoidable in their employment. 

Tonak had just finished up placing the ambush on the two Tauri who were in the woods which would prove an ample distraction for he had heard that the long ranged weapon experts had confirmed visuals off the Tauri team at the Ancient Facility. Everything was coming together nicely, he just had to ensure that everything was going to work. It was all set and then it was almost ready to come together in the end. 

Once he knew he was alone, he had long ago abandoned the pretense of leading the planet and they had fallen into anarchy which he quite enjoyed. Once out in the town square he activated his communicator. “Dey, give me a pickup. We’re almost done here. We have stuff to do and not a lot of time to do it.”

Dey smirked at hearing her brother’s words on the transmitter. Her fingers pressed the button as she replied to him, her hand released from the red orb and clicked the rings to teleport him onboard. “Got ‘cha.” 

Placing the ship on autopilot and still cloaked, she pulled out of the chair then headed to the ring room. It didn’t take long as she knew her ship from top to bottom, inside and out, to arrive when Tonak’s figure was revealed when the rings pulled back. She tossed him an apple she had followed by a comment. “So, everything went well I take it?” 

Tonak heard the engines thrum to life as the ship moved, ensuring that it wasn’t in the same place to where the rings would have been detected. Naturally the Tauri again would likely have gotten suspicious with the activation of the rings however that wasn’t a problem right now. He took a bite off the apple after catching it before speaking. “I’ve managed to resolve the situation, it is just a pity however that our local asset didn’t really work.” He shrugged. “Our end goals can still be achieved though so that is something.” He took another bite of the apple.

“I’m going to need to go light some fires near the ancient facility. We have the other two jammed and soon you’re going to go need to start a fight. Everything sound good?”

“From the sound of his little broadcast, the guy seemed to have an ego complex and was a real asshole.“ Dey replied, her body turned to return back to the ship’s bridge. 

”I know, and he was and he did. However despite the fact that an asset suddenly turned… well. He snapped really which is a waste we’ve used the rings three times with a Tauri Vessel in orbit. He’s dead and still has a chance to ruin everything.”

“I didn’t think you just shot your gun off for kicks, Ton.” Tonak merely shrugged at that. “I rarely do Dey, I rarely do.”

“I know that, too bad it wasn’t a Tauri at the other side of it rather than a worthless pest. The bullet would’ve been worth it rather than a waste. Anyway, it seems they hadn’t notice us yet thankfully. I kept moving the ship around enough and never in the same location, even added a randomizer for the ship’s autopilot to keep us moving in something other than a straight line. So far, it’s doing well.” She motioned for him to follow her as she started to walk down the hallway, her eyes turned upon him. “What’s next on our list? Hopefully I’m not just the one that has to bail your ass out as usual.” 

She nudged him gently with her elbow in teasing before she grew silent for his reply. 

Anyone else nudging him would have got a punch in the gut, or worse. However of course after all they had been through he wouldn’t do anything like that to his sister. Though they were twins she was still his little sister. “Oh the next bits going to be fun. I’ll meet you on the bridge in a couple of minutes.” He walked away to the cargo hold and grabbed a case, obviously the design of those used by the Tauri. It was one of his own ones so Deyika would likely be ignorant to the contents. 

Walking out he took it to the bridge and opened the case. “You’re going to use this-” Inside there was a Tauri naquadah enhanced bomb. “Tauri by design, incredibly hard to come by and in its current configuration… extremely explosive.” He closed the case back up.“You know the rules concerning the [i]Langford[/i] so we aren’t using it on her. Instead I want you to beam it onto the Ha’tak. I’ve convinced them to power down their shields earlier so it will be quite easy and will create a nice explosion, scramble some sensors and put them on battle alert. I’ll tell you when to do it of course, and once you have done it just sit back and watch the fireworks.”

Deyika’s eyebrow raised at the shoddy tech, obvious it was Tauri, and cocked her hips with a bit of attitude. Inside she was impressed at how simple the plan seemed to be and straightforward it was, a little disappointed at first. Then again, it was better than playing just the getaway pilot all the time like before. Her body paced a little, her teeth bit her lip in that nervous gesture, for a moment or two until she replied. 

“Alright, seems simple enough. Just leave it near the rings and I’ll get it ready for your signal.” Deyika mused lightly, her head glanced back to Tonak and added while she headed to take her seat up front. “Also...be sure to dispose of that apple core right, not just tossing it away on the floor.” 

Tonak just sighed shaking his head walking away with the case, he turned around when he got to the door. “You are really unbelievable. We’re working on a Galaxy changing plot and you’re concerned about an Apple core?” With that he just walked out of the room, flashing the briefest of grins. Several minutes later Dey would have gotten an alert that the ring platforms had activated, indicated that Tonak had headed back down to the planet.

[b]Rea’c and Kayle[/b]

Rea’c and Kayle had thoroughly explored the area, and now had been waiting for half an hour for this person or representative to turn up. He had crossed his legs and allowed himself to enter a light state of Kel’No’Reem a she waited for things to progress. Kay did not join him in this, probably feeling she could not also retain her attention. Truth me told he didn’t truly know why however he had nothing better to do. Though at the same time he kept his mind on his surroundings, listening to the birds and the rustling of the leaves as the wind blew through the trees. 

He heard a twig snap, just one. Someone was trying to be stealthy and his eyes immediately darted open. He waited until Kay glanced over in his direction and he subtly nodded before closing his eyes again as to not make it obvious he had noticed though his grip on his staff weapon had tightened. He only hoped she would find a way of checking out the disturbance without making it [i]too[/i] obvious.

Kay was nervous, it showed in her body language and she was very aware of it. However she wasn’t completely sure the reason as under normal situations, she could remain completely calm and composed. She could only guess at the source was due to the fact she and everyone on the Langford were millions of lightyears or more from Earth. And any sort of backup should things go terribly wrong. That fact added on top of the desire to do well seemed to only encourage her nervous to bug her. To sooth her rattled feeling, Kay turned to the one thing that comforted her: her knife. Her hand held it by the blade and been toying with it, her head turned up to pan the surroundings, when a snap caught her attention. Immediately only her eyes pulled to the side briefly to spot Rea’c already alerted to what she knew. 

She managed not to jerk her head towards the sound as not to give away the fact she heard it, instead pulled up to her feet then started to pace slightly. Her eyes had fixed upon her blade while her brain tried to formulate a plan. It had been far too long and now someone seemed to be attempting to ambush them. An idea occurred to her. A risky one but it might allow them the advantage of surprise, if done right. Her hand pull up to her radio and appeared to talk into it. 

“Lt. Zaken here. It doesn’t appear anyone is showing up, we’re heading back to our original location for pick up.” Kay’s words clearly weren’t protocol in this situation as she didn’t wait for an answer. Then again, she never had her thumb pressed over the button either so no message would’ve gotten through. She turned to Rea’c to speak to him. “Let’s head back.” 

She was hoping he wouldn’t think she was being foolish or ignored the true danger, instead she hoped he would’ve figured out her true intentions. 

Rea’c opened his eyes and looked at her. He didn’t understand what she was doing and as such he arched an eyebrow to illustrate his confusion. However he did not question her and stood up grabbing his weapon and nodding his head. “As you wish.” At the same time he avoided the need to twist his head as he heard several other twigs snap. He now had a mental count up to three separate assailants in three different locations. Whoever they were they weren’t exact professionals however he didn’t want to get too overconfident. It could, afterall, be a trick to push them into overconfidence to make a mistake. 

He stood up to follow her to wherever they were heading.

Kay smiled, though she wasn’t surprised at his confusion, and pulled closer to lead the way. She needed to know how many were around and being stationary wasn’t going to give her an accurate account. Naturally after a few steps she heard the sounds around her that indicated at least three different assailants, one was behind and two to either side, that seemed bent on flanking them unknowingly. Her steps had slowed bring her to Rea’c’s side. 

“I’m assuming you already know there’s three of them, at least that many following us?” Kay asked in a lower voice, trying to keep hard to hear for their unwanted ‘guests’. Her pace hadn’t been affected but her hands still held her knife, the blade fiddled in her fingers and slowly edged into a ready throw.

Rea’c merely nodded, he had long ago learned that having a deeper voice meant that it was more likely that he would be heard. They were walking back to the river when he heard them begin to pick up the pace followed by the tell tale noise of someone opening a Zat’nik’atel. He pulled out, gently and carefully two of the Tauri “flashbangs” hoping that she would do the same. The distraction would give them enough time to get to a clear defensible area, or if needed be beamed out. 

Kay’s eyes twinkled in acknowledgement when Rea’c had nodded in agreement, her lips turned up in a slight smirk. Then she mouth the words my signal to ensure he knew to be ready and saving her the trouble to make sure they were on the same page now. Causally she stealthed her knife and brushed past her flash grenades, quietly one from her belt when the sounds of a Zat was opened. Her other hand had reached for her own Zat, already unclasped after the incident with the self claimed Goa’uld and Rea’c quicker draw, then readied to jerk it free after the flash happened. 

She brought the grenade close to the holster and hooked the little pin with her finger before she shouted. Her eyes closed when she tossed them while her hand ripped out her Zat in a fluid moment. Afterwards, she took off in Rea’c’s wake.