Episode Eighteen: The French Connection

[Fiala Skala]

1110
Gerobalon
Main Building
Lobby

Marah entered and fired off a quick burst at the incoming fire, then hit the ground next to Fiala catching a bullet through her left sholder. "Aghhhh, Crap! Frenchie has good aim. Fiala, what have we got and have you seen any sign of SD-7 yet?" Marah asked firing off another short burst.

Fiala handed a cloth . " Stuff it in , I' not a medic . But It'll do the job . " Fiala paused and looked towards Marah . " What you say we lay in a bit of pay back for my Radio and your shoulder ." She smiled as she reload her gun .

A voice came in over a French radio , A Voice that had the sound of concern . With Zara not far she let a shout . " What he Say ? "

<Tag Zara>

With a some what location . She smiled from the Conner of her mouth ." Your full of talents Zara . Thanks for the back up the two of yous ."

Marah spoke "Fiala, on the count of three pop smoke, then head for that door. I need to call Rai and Zara to rig the outside. If the french want a weapon they can have it in pieces. Now lets get going to find SD-7. One, Two.....Three"

With her smoke popped , Fiala made a fast pace through the door . With her P-90 tight in to her shoulder she let rip in to two French , leaving the other for Marah .

As the two of them made way down the corridor , Fiala pause and held her hand up . Gun fire , With that a siren rang of through the corridors and civilens began to come out the corridors and doors . Fialas worse fear came to life . A pair of French soldiers came down from a flite of stairs and began to shoot . Two civilians fall in the fire . Fialas response was quick as she pushed a manic civilians bang in to the wall to get her shoot .
The bullets ripped from one's shoulder to the neck and as the two stepped over there body's , they made way up the stairs .

<Tag All>

[Jahzara Jaarsveld]

1110 - 1115
Gerobalon
Main Building
Lobby

Zara nodded at Pooja’s comment and continued to open fire upon the advancing enemy. She could barely see the other two members of the team who were on the other side of the lobby and under constant fire.

Listening carefully to the French radio instructions, she was about to relay the information to the CO when the XO came across her own radio. "What did he say?”

Whispering so that the enemy could not overhear, Zara relayed what she had heard. “They said to retreat and protect the weapon. It is now fully functional.” She nodded as she heard the XOs reply. “Your full of talents Zara. Thanks for the back up from the two of you.”

"Pooja, Zara. That C4 you guys have in your backpacks, set it up around the boarder of this building. Wait for my order before you blow it. Marah out." Looking at Pooja, she asked. “When did we get C4 in our packs? I don’t remember that happening!” As the smoke grenades went off, she and Pooja quickly escaped through the entrance doors. “Now, I don’t know about you but I don’t think that order for setting up explosives around a civil building is a good idea. There could be innocent people working or trapped in there and I for one do not want to kill them. That *points to Eiffel Tower structure*, appears to be the weapon and we should be focussing on that. What do you say?” Zara asked waiting for Pooja to respond.

<Pooja>

[Dominic Evans]

1116
Command Room
Main Building
Gerobalon

The Captain nodded at his team mate's idea. He improvised a gas/C4 explosive and handed it back to Calmara. Ready to attack the control room. Evans reached into his flack jacket and pulled out an orange looking pair of sunglasses, he placed them over his eyes and then produced a small cloth which he tied around his face so as not to be affected by the cloud of gas that will shortly follow. He bought his P90 up to his shoulder again and crouched ready to fire. Calmara threw the gas grenade and smoke began filling the corridor. There was shouting, coughing and soon enough gunfire.

Two of the French guards had tried to break out of the gas and attack the SD-7 members, but both received a spray of bullets. Evans stood and peered around the corner, firing another two blasts to make sure the guards were dead. He then signaled and Calmara and Evans dived back behind cover as the C4 went off. The door had been blasted wide open for them. Calmara threw the flash bang, and after a few seconds Evans stood again and turned the corner whilst yelling a muffled,
"DROP YOUR WEAPO-" He dived back behind cover again as bullets came flying up through the doorway. Evans popped out again and with Calmara picked off a couple of stunned guards. Immediately after the rest began to drop their weapons and place their hands in the air. Evans noticed this and nodded to Calmara. He started walking into the room gun still raised. Evans tugged the cloth from round his face to let it hang at his neck,
"ALRIGHT DROP YOUR WEAPONS!! ALL OF YOU!! ON YOUR KNEES, HANDS IN THE AIR!! NOW!!" Shouting and shock tactics always seemed to work.

Calmara followed up with shouts of his own before beginning to tie the hands of the soldier's behind their backs. Evans looked around.
"Sergeant, tie them all to the railings and such, we'll lock the door and send a support team in shortly to take care of this mess, we can't carry them all." The alarm was also beginning to get annoying, "Can you shut that thing down?"

<Tag Calmara>

With that Evans turned and saw exactly who wanted. General Raikel. Who did not kneel or raise his hands, he just stood there, weaponless but staring at the Captain. Dominic approached the General and stared at him, eye to eye.
"Put your hands on your hea.... and get... on... your... knees." He growled. The General stood there and smirked, even laughing slightly. Bad idea. Evans lost his cool, he took out his pistol once more and began to yell.
"YOU THINK THIS IS FUNNY!?" He punched the General in the face with the butt of the pistol. "DO YOU!? HUH!!" He kicked the knees from behind the General, forcing him to the ground.
"YOU THINK THIS IS ALL A GAME!?" He smacked the General on the temple and then pointed the pistol at him.
"Now I'm gonna ask you one more time. Hands... On... Your... Head..." Raikel still just glared up at Evans, the Captain clicked the safety of the pistol. There was a brief pause, Raikel then reluctantly placed his hands on his head. Evans produced a cable tie from his jacket and used it to secure the General's hands behind his back. He then took a radio off Raikel's belt and clicked it on live, holding it to the man's face.
"Call them off, call your men off!"
Raikel said nothing. Evans raised his pistol again.
"Don't piss me off frog!" With a scowl the French man complied,
"All units, thees is General Raikel. Stand down, I repeet. Stand down. We are to surrender to ze amerikans." Evans tossed the radio aside and looked up to Calmara, they nodded at each other with a smile. Mission accomplished.

All through the building the French began to drop their weapons and surrender to the SD teams. Evans turned to Calmara, removing the sunglasses and cloth and placing them back in his jacket, "Good job soldier. Now. Lets get this guy to the gate and decide what to do with him." He let his P90 hang on the strap and kept his pistol in hand. Pushing the pistol into Raikel's back he commanded,
"On your feet." The man obeyed. "Walk."

<Tag Anyone>

[xthestrangerx]

1101-1116
Weapons Tower
Main Building
Gerobalon

Damn, I'm having the time of my life

That was the only thought in Atalya's head as the four of them made their way to the weapon's tower to shut off the weapon-gun-thingy-ma-jig. More of the enemy kept coming around as everyone raced to get to their destination. Atalya just kept spraying bullets everywhere hitting atleast a few of the guards every round. Moments later, the 4 of them got to the weapons tower and Thakur, Owens, and Theori got to work on disarming the tower. Atalya thought that she would be of no use, so she headed out and started to make her way around clearning any French that were heading up that way. Then by surprise, a guard got to her and punched her in the back of her head and kicked on her leg. Atalya pretended to go down as the guard took her up by the back of her shirt and twirled her around. She then put bullets through him as she then continued what she was doing.
Catch me if you can she thought as she faintly heard words coming through somewhere.
"All units, thees is General Raikel. Stand down, I repeet. Stand down. We are to surrender to ze amerikans."
American's? she questioned at first, but then she got the memo that the American's was another name for the Tau'ri. The guards that were surrounding her then lowered their guns as Atalya spoke, "Get out of here!" and all of then ran exept for one. She then went up to him and punched him in his face and he went down. Atalya then started to head back to the room where the others were working on the tower.
"How are things looking?"
<Owens or Thakur>
"Well, I just heard that Evans and Calmara got to the guy they were looking for and the guards have stood down, so for the moment, I think you're safe. So keept at it." she added trying to encourage them, but she had a gut feeling that it wasn't going to work.

<Tag anyone>

[James Calmara]

1117
Command Room
Main Building
Gerobalon

Calmara finished securing the surrenderd troops, them kneeling with their hands tied to the railing above their heads, he also deprived them of any weapons or ammo they were carrying. placing them in his pack these should provide a well neaded boost to the armory back on the Illiad he thought.

Next Calmara moved th the control connsole, some of the units were showing a fair bit of blast dammage and as ever the alarm controls were in the damaged unit. Calmara crouched looking for an inspection panal as he did he glanced over his sholder in time to see Cpt Evans give General Raikel a wack in the face, ouch thats gota hurt, well it'll teach him for starting a coup on an alien goverment, also mental note don't get on your CO's bad side, now what do we have here, ah i see what the problem is Calmara said to himself as his thought's went from the general to the task in hand. pulling his electronics kit out, he cut, lenghted, tied off, and joined wires, and evetualy succeded in bipasing the damaged areas of the console and in shuting down the alarm.

Standing up he had a good look at the consoles, runing his had over just above it trying to get a picture of the layout. seeing nothing of value or use he followed his CO out of the room. radioing the team members at the eiffle tower weapon site "Thakur from Calmara hows it going budde, had any luck? we've got General Raikel in custody if you need any info now would be agood time to speak up?

<Thakur>

"hold up sir, we nead abit of info from this guy,Calmara said to Cpt Evans then turning to Gen. Raikel "Right tell him what he neads to know"

<Thakur>

As Calmara stood there holding his radio as Gen. Raikel relutently suplyed Dr Thakur with what he neaded, he glanced left down the corridor he caught a welcome sight two SD unformed personel turning the corner at the other end and heading towards them, obviosly a team redirected when SD-7 failed to check in, some suport at last.Calmara thought.

<tag anyone>

[Manprasad Thakur]

1101-1117
Eiffel Tower Replica
Central Beam Naquadah Weapon
Gerobalon

Thakur, Owen, Atalya and Theori continued to climb the stairs until they reached the central beam from the previous tour. The whole tour was shaking due to the energy building up process that had been triggered minutes ago.

"Guys, everyone start looking for any panels or access hatches or anything that would let us inside this beast's heart to stop it." Manprasad said in a serious, but yet calm and collected tone. He started to look for any candidates along the structure that could be identified as a control station.

Atalya made herself responsible for their security and went to fend off the French waves until a radio signal came through. "All units, thees is General Raikel. Stand down, I repeet. Stand down. We are to surrender to ze amerikans." A French voice could be heard faintly through the distant radios.

In that exact moment Manprasad found what he was looking for. He removed the security hatch and revealed the controls of the sophisticated weapon. The buttons, signals, arrangement on internal controls and everything else screamed left over retroengineered Goa'uld bomb control box. 'Ah, great! Now we must know the sequence to disarm this thing or strip it bare and deactivate it from within to stop the energy build up process and save this people.' He thought to himself as he brought his pack to rest on his feet and opened it, taking equipment from within. "Theori, Astra, help me up here!" He asked as he started to take some protective sheaths from the control device. That was when Atalya rejoined them from her rounds.

<< Tag Astra >>

"How are things looking?" Asked Atalya to Manprasad and Astra.

"Good and bad. Good because we found the control console of this thing. Bad because it'll be complex to dismantle and disengage it. This one will be close, I'm telling you. I'd be great if I'm not interrupted." Thakur explained to Atalya.

"Well, I just heard that Evans and Calmara got to the guy they were looking for and the guards have stood down, so for the moment, I think you're safe. So keep at it." Atalya added trying to encourage them, but she had a gut feeling that it wasn't going to work.

Manprasad just nodded and kept doing his thing, taking apart another piece of the control console. The thing beeped that sound which told him things were bad. Taking the scanner from his pack and doing a quick reading he came to a conclusion that instead of 30 minutes, they now had only 15 to shut it down before it devastated all of Gerobalon's technology with an EM pulse. Manprasad cursed under his breath in Hindi and then his radio came to life in his vest. He pressed the talk button as he continued to try to disassemble the panel.

"Thakur from Calmara hows it going buddy, had any luck? We've got General Raikel in custody if you need any info now would be a good time to speak up?" Calmara spoke through the radio.

"If he could be kind enough to give up the deactivation code of the naquadah reactor located on the central tower beam we saw earlier today, that would be much appreciated. Not that I'm not enjoying tearing it apart, but it would be faster and time is an important factor now." Manprasad said into his radio to Calmara.

"Hold up sir, we need a bit of info from this guy.Calmara said to Cpt Evans then turning to Gen. Raikel "Right tell him what he needs to know."[/i][/b]

"The sequence is 3 to the right, 2 to the left on the east side one. 5 to the right and 1 to the left on the west side. I'm not going to say anything else." Raikel stated through the radio certain.

Manprasad did as instructed and the panel's lights went out. It was deactivated. The reactor was no longer turning Naquadah into energy and the energy already accumulated in the tower, not having reached the threshold for the EM pulse generation, began to dissipate through normal means. The entire tower shook for several minutes as this process took place, but then it was all clear. The danger had been averted.

"All good here now, Calmara. The weapon is deactivated and the tower unenergized. Tell Evans that we'll meet with you guys in the Main Lobby. Theori wants to say thanks." Manprasad communicated to Calmara through his radio.

<< Tag Calmara, Anyone >>

[James Calmara]

1118
Corridor Ajacant Command Room
Main Building
Gerobalon

The seconds that ticked by after Gen. Raikel had given Dr Thakur the disarm sequence felt like hours. Then the whole building shook from the top down. Shattering several windows on that level and thowing Both Cpt Evans and Calmara off balance. Gen. Raikel took advantage of this and made a brake for freedom. But several warning shots from both Evans and Calmara stoped him in his tracks.

Calmara walked over grabed Gen. Raikel by the arm and hauled him upright, just as two from SD-6 approched. "Afternoon ma'ams, we got ourselvs a prisoner. Thanks for coming in and keeping the others occupyed."

Then a welcome mesage came over the radio "Calmara from Dr Thakur, The weapon is deactivated and the tower unenergized. Tell Evans that we'll meet with you guys in the Main Lobby. Theori wants to say thanks."

"Right, Main Lobby, we'll meet you there, good job Doctors Calmara out. Turning to Cpt. Evans and the two SD-6ers, Calmara suggested "Looks like were done here sir, i suggest we head down part on frendly terms, and the Iliiad call." Then waited for a responce.

<Tag anyone>

[Marah "Tonobi" Law]

1118
Corridor Ajacant Command Room
Main Building
Gerobalon

Marah and Fiala rounded a corner taking out another two french men before seeing a sight of great relief. They finally had found SD-7. She turned to them and walked down to them in long strides. She looked like hell with torn up uniform and blood bleeding from a fresh wound. "So this is where you have been hiding, Captain Evans, Captain Law SD-6. SGC sent us to check up on you." she stated and then looked over to the Master Sergeant who was dragging a prisoner. "Anything to keep you guys happy Sergeant Calmara" she smiled at him. Then their radio's crackled to life. After they finished Marah nodded to James "Okay let me call the rest of my team then lets get out of here " she said turning to Fiala "Fiala we are going to help them out of here" she said to her and then clicked her radio, "Zara, Pooja. Fall back to the gate and ready it for us. We found SD-7 and coming back hot" she said and then turned back to SD-7. "Okay shall we get going then"

<Tag All>

[Dominic Evans]

1125
Lobby
Main Building
Gerabolan

SD-6 and SD-7 gathered in the Lobby a few minutes later. It was fast filling up with spectators. The natives were bringing in French Soldiers in handcuffs and were all gathering in awe of the heavily armed Delta Teams. Calmera and Evans marched the General in, handcuffed and at gunpoint. Evans nodded to SD-6.
"Good work team. Well done, the back up could not have come at a better time." He turned to the Lobby, yelling toward SD-7 who were making their way through the now swelling crowds. "Alright lets wrap this one up guys!"

The hustle and bustle of the busy Lobby was soon silenced. Evans turned to see the crowds begin to part, solid hard footsteps resounding in the building. Theori slowly approached, a cold hard look on his face. He was carrying one of the French assault rifles that he had obviously picked up off one of the guards after the surrender. He held it in his hands as he paced toward the group. Evans put a hand forward,
"Theori..."
Theori cut him off in a loud voice, "For too long, have we suffered this subtle tyranny... It ends now. We are a proud people, an intelligent people, we are not going to be manipulated or over run. THIS, ENDS NOW!" With that Theori fired a quick burst of the rifle at the General gunning the man down. The whole Lobby was silenced with shock. Evans' eyes were widened in disbelief. The Captain slowly approached Theori with a hand out, he lowered the rifle and then took it out of the man's grasped. In a solemn tone Evans turned to the teams,
"Well... How about that, a twist... Wrap it up guys, lets get back to the ship and get some security teams in here to clean this mess up." Evans took up his rifle and began to walk away, pausing a moment he looked at the dead General and then looked at Theori. They came here today to avoid deaths, only to have the people they save cause one. Evans left the Lobby.

<End Of Episode>
Unless of course anybody else wants to make a post.

[Manprasad Thakur]

1118
Eiffel Tower Replica
Central Beam Naquadah Weapon
Gerobalon

"Right, Main Lobby, we'll meet you there, good job Doctors Calmara out." Calmara said through the radio.

"On our way." Manprasad replied and turned off the radio, putting it back tidly where it belonged in his vest. He straightened his body up and closed the hatch to the weapon's control panel. "If I were you, I'd stay with the tower since it's quite a beautiful piece of engineering, but would strip it of this part." He said pointing to the center beam or naquadah power source. Theori opened a strange type of smile, but Manprasad didn't get the memo.

"Owen, Atalya, we should get going. Evans and Calmara are waiting for us in the Main Lobby." He shouted to the two women who were now checking the situation out away from the beam after the deactivation quake.

Then Theory led the trio down the stairs and through the building beneath the tower until they've reached the wanted location, the Main Lobby.

1125
Lobby
Main Building
Gerobalon

SD-6 and SD-7 gathered in the Lobby a few minutes later. It was fast filling up with spectators. The natives were bringing in French Soldiers in handcuffs and were all gathering in awe of the heavily armed Delta Teams. Evans turned to the Lobby, yelling toward SD-7 who were making their way through the now swelling crowds. "Alright lets wrap this one up guys!"

"Alright." Manprasad yelled to be heard due to the crowd that had amessed itself inside the room, cheering the defeat of their former friends and now enemies, the French.

The hustle and bustle of the busy Lobby was soon silenced. Evans turned to see the crowds begin to part, solid hard footsteps resounding in the building. Theori slowly approached, a cold hard look on his face. He was carrying one of the French assault rifles that he had obviously picked up off one of the guards after the surrender. He held it in his hands as he paced toward the group. Evans put a hand forward, "Theori..."

When Theori seemed not to hear Evans' call, Manprasad understood what that smile before had meant in the man's mind. He was going to do something drastic. Manprasad tried to run towards the others to no avail, as soon as the crowd parted for Theori's passage it closed again to watch his next actions and halted Thakur's advance. That was when it happened.

Theori cut him off in a loud voice, "For too long, have we suffered this subtle tyranny... It ends now. We are a proud people, an intelligent people, we are not going to be manipulated or over run. THIS, ENDS NOW!" With that Theori fired a quick burst of the rifle at the General gunning the man down. The whole Lobby was silenced with shock. Evans' eyes were widened in disbelief. The Captain slowly approached Theori with a hand out, he lowered the rifle and then took it out of the man's grasped. In a solemn tone Evans turned to the teams, "Well... How about that, a twist... Wrap it up guys, lets get back to the ship and get some security teams in here to clean this mess up."Evans took up his rifle and began to walk away, pausing a moment he looked at the dead General and then looked at Theori. They came here today to avoid deaths, only to have the people they save cause one. Evans left the Lobby.

The moment Evans looked back, Manprasad was standing beside the body of the dead General, making a silent prayer. Then he moved away without turning his sight even once to Theori again. Manprasad was against the killing of any life form without purpose. Yes, Raikel did try to hurt their civilization hard, but as bad as it sounds, it wouldn't have killed anyone, just made their lifes a little harder without technology for a while.

Manprasad joined Evans and said to both SD teams now gathered. "Thee who wants all, gets nothing. Thee who forgives, gets all. No one has got anything here today. There was only loss." He said in a somber tone of voice as he followed the SD teams out.

<< Tag SD-6 and SD-7 >>

(( OOC - That's the end for me. ))

[James Calmara]

1125
Lobby
Main Building
Gerobalon

As Calmara marched into the lobby side by side with SD-7 and SD-6 with the defeated General out in front he felt a great sence of achevment, in the few hours SD-7 had been there, they'd manged to expose a plot by a rouge group to an potential ally, brake up that group by force and detain its leader, and hopefully gain itself a new ally.

From the amount of people gathering in the lobby and the pats on the back they were geting Calmara guessed that popular opinion was definatly on their side. Then the atmosphere changed Theori steped in front of them from his tone and the way he was holding the rifle his intention was clear, seconds later General Ralkei was dead at his feet, Calmara look straight at Theori with a blank expresion, in a single shot they'd lost a valuable asset, but gained another.
"We'll be in touch."He said to Theori with a small smiled and turned heading for the Stargate and home.

[xthestrangerx]

1125
Lobby
Main Building
Gerobalon

And so this wraps up yet another mission. I'm actually getting tired of getting pushed around and not asked to do anything. Even though I was asked for the first time ever, today, I now realize that I need to work on my social skills more than ever.
Those were the thoughts of Atalya as the team met up with SD-6. It was a relief that everyone was ok getting through all of this.
".....we are not going to be manipulated or over run. THIS, ENDS NOW!"
Atalya litterally jumped up as she heard shots go around. The next thing that she noticed was that the enemy General was dead. The room was silenced as everyone looked at Theori with weird expressions. Then the teams quietly turned around and started to head out. As everyone was going, Atalya swung her head around and secretly gave Theori a thumbs up, and she also mouthed to him 'good job' and smiled as she caught up to the team.