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Flynn had kept his ears open and listened to any sound that might be a proof of danger, but nothign out of the ordinary was present. There weren't any Jaffa that he could spot and those guys usually didn't stay hidden. Jaffa and the Goa'uld preferred to be rather open about things, after all what use was power if they couldn't flaunt it about? Still they weren't fools and could throw hell of ambushes when they wanted to do so and that was what he was concerned about. So far nothing spoke about an ambush and the road back to the gate if they high tailed it in straight line was clear as they had arrived by it and nothing was around during his scouting of the surroundings there. They also had a guy back at hte gate so if it opened and Jaffa arrived from there to cut their escape, they'd at least hear about it. Then they could probably fight their way into the ship and escape using it instead...

"Alright, casual now." He smiled as he led the way into the village proper with the two ladies in tow. The 3 of them were all armed, so he suspected nothing would go wrong on the safety front if it was only some villagers with pitchforks if it came to a fight. Though even primitive weapons could kill them with a lucky shot.

As they got closer to the center where teh crowd of people were at, he rested his hand casually on the gun grip, just in case. When they were right by the crowd of people, the locals finally noticed them and after a few brief glances filled with shock and surprise they shouted something in the local Goa'uld dialect which Crystal would vaguely be able to translate as ' They are here!!! Inform the Lord!' And hurry to open up a path.

"Ohh... welcoming party. Fun." Flynn muttered with a smile, seeing the people hurry to open a path through the crowd towards the ship." Keep your hands on the weapons..." He warned the two women with him as they walked through the crowd. The noise was rather grand and it would be near impossible to understand what was being spoken from the overlapping voices as people were all trying to get a peek at what was going on. At the center of the crowd by the big ship there was a big stone carved throne where a hooded figure was seated. They wore typical flashy robe and on their right hand was a ribbon divice. Still it was quite obvious this was a woman... He decided to go for it, if they had to, fighitng their way would be possible as long as there are no actually jaffa squad to cut off their path." We've come to ask if you've found Egeria?" He stated as finally the crowd all turned completely quiet. Aside sounds of nature around there was not a single human making any noise.

"Her light forever guides our path, warriors of the Tauri. My name's Kahlan, I've been expecting you since yesterday." She replied and shouted somethign to the people and they scattered in horror. hurrying to pick up valuables and leave the village. Flynn threw a glance at Crystal. What the woman had shouted roughly translated to ' Abandon the village, the Jaffa are coming to raze it'." Look I will be brief because I suspect that I've been compromised. There's a Ha'tak vessel entering the system that was picked on my ship's sensors. They will be here shortly. My ship's a deathtrap, I located an explosive device hooked to it's engines set to explode via remote detonation... " The woman stated with great unrgency, but was cut off by Flynn.

"Damn, I knew this was going to go wrong! The universe ravels in making our jobs hard!" Flynn cursed and looked at Crystal and Cassandra." The two of you are in charge of looking after her." He ordered and just before he could say anything else the radio came to life.

"Sir, the gate just activated, a massive number of Jaffa troops just came through! What should I... ohh shit they've noticed me!" The next moment the sound of gun fire and static came through the radio.

"Well shit..." He cursed." Change of plans! Cassandra, you help her fix that damn ship, Crystal, you're with me, we're going to try and stop them by the village entrance!" He ordered and looked at the Tok'Ra." Why on earth weren't you alreayd waiting for us at the gate then!?" He shouted.

"Because the gate's trapped too! I already checked it yesterday! The dial device's actually completely disabled and even the gate doesn't have power to be activated from this end, only incoming wormholes are possible! It was better for you to come to the village." The woman replied, earning another curse by Flynn.

" Damn, Cassandra, help her disable that bomb! Crystal, you've got permission to shoot on sight!" He stated and ran towards the road to the gate. Picking up a position behind one of hte houses.

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"...Sounds to me like they were expecting us or something..." she muttered, hearing the words of the villagers. It made her wonder, if this was supposed to be sort of hush quiet sort of mission, then why did the villagers know to expect them? None of it was really making sense, and she thought about that as they met up with the woman outside of the ship, and hearing her words, it did not sound good. Not good at all. She heard the woman's words, not just the ones that she spoke out loud, and she understood completely why everyone was panicking and hurrying along.

"Did we really expect this mission not to go wrong? Since when have things ever gone according to plan in the history of everything. It just doesn't happen all too often," she said as Flynn started giving out orders, she heard the other soldier on the other end of the radio, and tried her best to stay calm in their current situation. Crystal nodded her head when Flynn addressed her, pulling out her pistol as she raced after him.

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Cassandra followed Flynn until they were at the village seeing the group of people who were there staring at them, and then they all suddenly opened up a path for them, until they were standing in front of an odd looking ship. And then seeing a woman sitting on her throne, raising an eyebrow but she kept her hand on her handgun just in case but didn't draw it yet. She let Flynn do all of the talking, as she eyed the villagers silently getting a bad feeling about it. Then the Tok'Ra spoke up after Flynn said the phrase as she raised an eyebrow at the announcement. "Of course it's a trap." Cassandra said to herself, as the villagers turned and fled rather quickly from the village.

She listened as the radio going off, which didn't sound good and gave Flynn a rather quick nod as she started to approach Kahlan and then entered the ship. "Show me where it is, you are going to have to walk me through it if possible." She wasn't sure exactly what to do she had never done any sort of bomb disposal or whatever it was that would make the ship explode.

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"Frankly no... I just didn't expect it to go that bad this fast." Flynn replied to Crystal with a frown. They were by the edge of the village now and there was not really much to be done now. They had a Jaffa hunting partly arriving any moment now and they were cut off the gate." Don't spare the ammo, if we cannot keep them away until Cassandra and the Tok'Ra disable that bomb, we are screwed either way." The soldier stated as he started to see the gold flashes from the Jaffa armors in between the trees and in the road. They were apparently planning to surround them, but that was going to take a while since well a village in a forest.

"Fire!" He shouted and opened fire as soon as the Jaffa appeared out of the treeline. The P90 made short work of the first one who showed up and the one next to him. Then the staff blasts started flying past them and impacting the building which was holding mostly due to the fact it was made of stones rather than wood. It was going to be a hairy situation for a while and Flynn only hoped that Cassandra could disable that bomb with the help of the Tok'Ra in time. Then a staff blast flew right by his head. They could easily hear the soldiers of Ba'al shouting in Goa'uld." And time to withdraw to the next house! You move first, I will cover you!" Flynn shouted to Cassandra as they were going to be overwhelmed by numbers and the sides soon enough, so he pulled a Frag Grenade and tossed it in the fray, taking out 2 Jaffa in the meantime.

Meanwhile at the Tok'Ra ship, Kahlan had let Cassandra to the hyperdrive of the ship where there were two devices. A Goa'uld bomb of sort. Two small in size devices, but it was going to blow a huge hole in a ship this size and probably take them all out in the process too." Honestly I didn't expect them to arrive through the gate with this precision..." The Tok'Ra said to Cassandra as tehy were opening the two side pannels of the bomb." You see the 7 crystals? We need to remove them in sequence. Each of hte devices have 7 of those crystals and if we remove even one in the wrong order it will explode." Kahlan explained and waited for Cassandra to move in possition." You need to identify which crystal gets powered after I remove one on my end. When you pull yours I will have to do the same and this will have to repeat until all 14 are removed. Ready? I'm starting." The Tok'Ra stated and gently pulled the first crystal as teh devices lit to life and started humming with symbols appearing on the sides." Ignore it... focus on the dismantling!"

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"Well that is somewhat comforting, expected them to show up, but just not right now... Honestly, who knew it was even possible to have so much bad luck in the span of not too long. I mean really, this is a bit on the ridiculous side if you ask me. So, basically just shoot until either we run out of ammo and likely get killed or something, or just keep shooting until that bomb is disabled and we can hopefully get out of here, this'll be fun."

Crystal had never really been in a combat situation before, so this all was new to her. Sure, she knew how to use the pistol, but she was a linguist, and an archaeologist, not a soldier. It didn't help that their team only had started off with two people who were soldiers, and two who weren't really. Crystal had no idea really where she was firing, that much was obvious, but she looked at the Jaffa and started shooting, not saying anything really.

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Cassandra nodded slightly as she followed Kahlan through the small ship, getting a good look at the cockpit before following the Tok'Ra into the back of the ship where the hyperdrive and the bomb was set up. She took a moment to look at it as she set her things down on the ground and made her way towards the device. She started to inspect it just a little bit as she eyed Kahlan as she removed the panel seeing the crystals within. She listened to her as the Tok'Ra explained the process, as Cass ran a hand through her hair letting out a slight sight.

"So underfire by aliens, dismantling an alien bomb, on an alien ship, on an alien planet, right no pressure at all.." She watched Kahlan remove the first crystal as she started to do the same thing. She quickly stopped as she heard a humming sound and symbols also appearing on the sides of it. Which didn't seem like a good thing at all, as Cassandra nodded slightly as she went to remove the next crystal.

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The firefight was short and fierce. Flynn's shots were really precise and he easily took down 3 jaffa with burst fire while they were retreating backwards to the ship. Crystal's shots were a lot less accurate, but effective never the less! She had managed to also hit 3 jaffa, but only two of them really fell right away. One only started holding his wounded shoulder and sumbled for cover before he started haphazardly attemp to fire again. The staff weapon blasts were flying inches away from them, causing loud noises as they hit the ground and buildings. They were fighting pretty zealouslyy, these jaffa." Crystal, just retreat to the ship!" Flynn ordered and threw his last grenade. There was barely any effect as all the jaffa dashed away from it and not even a single one was caught in the blast, but it did buy them more time to retreat!

Just as they were to reach the ship, a staff blast whizzed menacingly and hit him right in the shoulder, sending Flynn tumbling on the ground, by the entrance of the ship, cursing loudly as he was trying to stand up. Instead he rolled over and hurriedly managed to sand up just to jump into the ship.

Inside t he ship Cassanda and Kahlan were rapidly removing crystals from the bomb, managing to remove half of them by the time the other 2 members of the team showed up on the doorstep. Staff blast started hitting the hull, but the ship was holding strong. There was just a single problem with the whole thing, the bomb seemed to rapidly be heading towards exploding as the symbols on the sides were changing at a great pace!" Focus! We are half done!" The Tok'Ra stated as she had heard the curses and the way Flynn had cried out, recognizing that he had probably been hit. But if they didn't disable this, they were all going to die!

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Crystal didn't expect her shots to do all that well, she wasn't a soldier after all, just having the basic training in the use of pistols. She was somewhat glad when her shots found their way to their targets, taking down a few. At least this way she hopefully never had to deal with the idea of them getting back up and attacking except for the one that was still standing. Hearing Flynn's words, Crystal glanced over at him, before nodding her head slightly at him.

A second later she turned and started racing for the ship, trying to avoid getting hit with anything. This entire situation was all brand new for her, being in fire fights and this sort of thing, so she was all too thrilled to follow Flynn's directions. It at least gave her an idea of what to do. She got into the ship and looked over at Flynn, noticing that he'd been hit, and that was not a good thing, that much was obvious. If someone ever got hit, usually that was bad, and she looked at him as he rolled into the ship to stand up. "Are you okay?" she asked him.

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Cassandra could hear the gunfire and staff blasts going on from outside, as she continued to remove the crystals one by one, now her hands started to shake slightly hearing the timer getting louder and louder, at least that's what she thought it was anyway. She looked over her shoulder while still taking the crystal that was there out.

Seeing Flynn there and Crystal as well, she wanted to get over there and help, but she knew if she didn't then they were pretty much dead. "Close the ships door, it would slow them down." Cassandra said as she went back to the task at hand while looking up at Kahlan for a moment and then back to working on removing the other crystals that were on the bomb.

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The staff blasts flew and impacted the ship as they did. It was really unnerving to listen to it from inside the ship. At least staffs didn't cause that much damage, but they had little time before either an alkesh bomber arrived or the Jaffa brought a bigger weapon. Flynn shot a few random times with one hand as he heard Cassandra call for them to close the hatch and so he did, slumping down on the floor once relative safety was had." God dammit, Tok'Ra! You could have left via the stargate before this mess even started! This is why people dislike working with you guys!" He cursed loudly in pain.

"If I left the ship they would notice it... now leave us to concentrate." Kahlan replied without being angry or affected as she was still working in tandem with the human. Finally after a few more moments the rest of the crystals were removed, finally the annoying sounds of the device stopped." This is it!" The alien agent stated and dashed for the ship's controls, starting the engines as the ship lifted off the ground." We will need to leave orbit to open a hyperspace window..." She explained while Flynn was still holding and standing the pain.

"Crystal, help me bandage up... Those were some good shots by the way." He called, holding the wound. Luckily staff blasts didn't bleed, but the burnt state of the injury didn't make it any better." Hey, do you have one of those healing thingies with ya?" Flynn called in some hope, but his hopes were quickly broken by the negative reply he recieved." Alright, Cass, go keep an eye in the cockpit... and for the love of god make her pilot this thing better. What's she doing for a spaceship to be this bumpy?"

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This was definitely a not so great situation to be in, not at all. They couldn't just dial back to Earth, they were on a spaceship that ad almost been blown up, and they likely had no idea what it was that they were doing. This was really bad, really really bad, and she had no idea how this was going to end. At least in her mind, they currently were at the bottom, all that could really happen was going up. She was almost positive that they had already hit rock bottom at least.

"Thanks..." she said in response to what Flynn had said about her shooting. It wasn't the best, definitely could have been better, but she didn't do too bad for not being in the military. "Now, let's see if we can patch you up, does kind of suck that they don't have one of those healing machines or whatever they are called," she said as she pulled out her First Aid kit and pulled out some bandages, starting to bandage him up to the best of her abilities.

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Cassandra closed her eyes and sighed heavily as the last crystal was removed and the sound that was the timer she assumed was stopped now, as she watched the Tok'Ra quickly leave the room and made her way over towards the cockpit. Cassandra followed shortly after her, and looked towards Flynn seeing the blast of the staff weapon had done on Flynn. It did look really painful, as she made her way and watched Kahlan using the ship as it took off. "Are you okay?" Cassandra asked Flynn, and then nodded slightly as she made her way towards the seat next to the alien woman.

[color=6ecff6["I think theres some parts that were removed to make the ship a bit lighter and more maneuverable or something right?"[/color] Cassandra asked her as she looked out the window of the cockpit. "Is there any kind of weapons on this thing?" Cassandra asked her as well, if not and theres a larger ship in orbit then they would be in trouble for sure.

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Kahlan looked at the human and nodded at the first question as she pointed her to a console she could study in the meantime or something as to not be idle." Sort of... My ship's has always been uncomplete. Ba'al never really deals with this and I was masquerading as a lesser Goa'uld before I joined with him so no one really dealt with all the things that could or went worong. It's still running though, have to keep appearances so at least the appearance was maintained." She explained, basicaly the she was kind of poor, alright? She didn't have the resources to get a new ship.

"This isn't an Alkesh bomber... It doesn't have weapons system. It's bigger than a transport shuttle though and faster." Kahlan added as they were now in orbit. Luckily the Ha'tak was way too far away to shoot at them right now, so as soon as they left atmo, the tok'ra innitiated a hyperspace jump towards the closest secure world or at least secure enough.

Meanwhile Flynn was being bandaged up. At least once they were offworld and in hyper space there ship wasn't bumpy anymore." It's called simply a healing device..." He replied to Crystal as the bandaga was pressed into his seared flesh. This was not how he imagined this day going in the morning... Bloody Tok'ra and their 'plans'.

"Alright change of plans... Tok'ra, Cassandra, come here." The soldier called out and soon enough the alien woman showed up. He pulled the notepad from his gear and scribbled a gate adress." We are too far from Earth, it will take about a week to arrive via hyperspace and have no time to get to any tok'ra base. This world is a uninhabited world that's should be close to here. It has a gate and should be safe. We shall get off there and return to Earth via that gate." He stated and handed over the adress. He had a plan... he always had a plan." Now tell me what was the info so important to cause all this mess?"

The Tok'Ra took the paper with the adress, noted and was about to leave to change the course when she heard his question." Yes... ehh... the Tok'Ra located the soldier you lost on that Ba'al world in an explosion." The woman replied, shocking him." She became a temporary host for one of Ba'als main underlords, Ishtar. Apparently both were heavily injured and Ishtar's host was beyond salvation thus she jumped hosts. She managed to heal enough to survive and escape. That's the reason your people were unable to locate her body among the others." The Tok'Ra finished her explanation." We plan to capture Ishtar and will require the Tauri's aid."

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"Yeah, well I don't really care all too much what it is called, we can argue about that later or something. No matter what it would have been nice to have one, and I hoped that you didn't plan to get shot at today, because that would really be a bad outing if you ask me," Crystal said with a slight smile, trying to lighten the sort of dour mood. Sure, they'd been nearly shot and killed, and almost blown up all in the course of a few minutes (or at least it had felt like that) it didn't mean that they couldn't smile slightly at that or something.

Hearing Flynn's plan about gating back to Earth via another planet, she nodded her head, figuring that it made some sense in the long run. They needed to get back to Earth as quickly as possible so that they could hopefully come up with a somewhat better plan than what ended up transpiring. "Sounds like a solid plan to me..." she said simply, before she turned to the Tok'ra to hear what the information was, since they had all nearly been killed for it, and she nodded her head slightly.

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Cassandra looked at Kahlan as she explained a little bit about the ship, which sounded like it was all that she could scrounge up which was probably a bad thing as well. "You should think of at least getting some kind of upgrades." Cass had said calmly as she watched the hyperspace window open, and they were as far away from the planet that they were on now. She turned around and made her way towards Flynn at least they weren't dealing with alien bombs anymore. Cassandra slipped her hands into her pockets looking between Flynn and Kahlan as the two of them spoke.

She listened to the bit of information that Kahlan had given them, she raised an eyebrow she really wasn't sure who they were talking about. "So, question what if the planet is under goa'uld control?" She asked, as she looked at Kahlan as well for a moment and then over towards Flynn. "So whats the issue with her anyway?"

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Flynn listened carefully to the Tok'ra explanation. The more he heard, the more his expression darkened. He even cursed out as he relaxed and leaned on the wall, trying to process it." Damn...shit... That happened and we are learning just now?" This was bad, this was real bad and what's more they had left one of their own to Ba'al.

He looked at Crystal and Cassandra." Who is she? Claire Rosefort was the team leader of SG-17 before the post was given to me." He explained to the two Cs." Didn't you two think it's odd that a whole SG team was replaced suddenly? Sure the news were limmited by SGC, but you probably should read the reports. SG-17 was decimated a few months back. The entire team was lost... They all fell prey to a terrorist attack while observing the transition of power in a Ba'al occupied territory. The world was relatively advanced so they had explosives. It the team leader was believed MIA, in other words killed, but unconfirmed. We even had a funeral held." He added." This is also the reason a lot of SGC codes and passwords were changed. Despite believed dead, chances couldn't be taken... Now we just learned one of our own and a team leader at that became a Goa'uld host. This is a really bad news! Even if passwords were changed, Claire Rosefort still had access to a lot of classified information! This would explain while jaffa loyal to Ba'al always seemed to be near our expedition teams. For weeks after the incident."

"Alright, alright." He said and took a deep breath." We shall scan the planet when we arrive. Once no Goa'uld forces are confirmed, we shall land. If enemies are present, I have coordinates of a few more gates we can try. Now... if you excuse me I need a nap... the pain is getting to me..." He mumbled." Wake me when we arrive. You are free to do whatever in the meantime. Use the chance to study the ship's systems or language or whatever..." He was mumbling now.

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"I admittedly only skimmed through that report." Cassandra said as she looked towards Flynn as he started to explain a little bit about what had happened to SG-17 which sounded really bad to her. She looked over towards Crystal for a moment and then over towards Flynn seeing that he was injured. She didn't really have the skill to tend to wounds either, but she could understand that he was a bit tired, she was as well after dismantling the Goa'uld bomb.

"I'll wake you when we are close then, and maybe try and squeeze more information out as well. And see what makes the ship tick." Cass said. Cassandra turned and made her way back over towards the cockpit and looked over at the console a bit and pulled up a seat as she started to look it over a little bit.

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Crystal just listened to what Flynn was saying, and his reaction towards what the Tok'ra had said made things worse, if that was even possible. If this Claire Rosefort had access to everything that Flynn basically was saying that she did, even a fraction of that sort of thing, it meant things were way worse than people thought. With that sort of info, the Goa'uld would be able to potentially do a lot of damage against Earth. This was bad, this was really really really bad.

"So... Sounds like the entire situation just got made worse... Well, you never know, we are pretty much at rock bottom now, well hopefully, so all that can be done is to climb our way back up. I mean, sure it seems bad if the Goa'uld have that sort of info that you're saying, but we can't do anything about that now. All we can do is deal with it and figure out what to do..." she said, nodding her head slightly. Hearing Flynn say something about a nap, she could understand why he'd want to fall asleep. That was a bit of a stressful situation that they had been in, and technically still are in. She didn't even know what she was going to be doing, though the idea of looking around the ship a little bit did seem like a nice idea.

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The whole ship was now mostly quiet. The journey would be taking about 2 hours so there wasn't much to be done in the meantime. Flynn was still taking his nap while the Tok'Ra was moving about the ship seemingly doing some maintenance cause she was opening panels and fiddling with the crystals and the ship seemingly was behaving better.

Cassandra's study on the ship was being rather fruitful. She was getting a good hang of the control systems and with a few pointers from Kahlan, Cass was now pretty sure she could perform basic control functions.(You can Add Goa'uld craft basics under her Specialty skills) Flying was almost beyond her, but in a pinch she might be able to pull it off.

Crystal on the other hand didn't have a defined goal as she spend dthe two hours. Since that was the case, she gain most benefits with a few smaller chats with Kahlan. She gained a better understanding of the differences between ancient Egyptian and Goa'uld.( Add Moddern Goa'uld Language(Basics) to her specialty skills)

Overall the two hour trip was pretty fruitful as they finally exited hyperspace." Innitiating the Scan. You might want to wake that leader of yours." The Tok'Ra stated as she resumed piloting the ship manually, locating the gate and heading in that direction." So far so good, no Goa'uld are detected in the system."

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Cassandra took the little bit of information to heart as she picked up on the basics of controlling the ship for the time being as she occasionally followed Kahlan as she did the maintenance as well on the ship. She would occasionally look out the window seeing the hyperspace all around them. Before taking a bit of a rest as well, and sat down to eat a little bit until their time was finally up as well, Cassandra stood up and stretched out a little bit. She nodded towards the Tok'Ra and made her way over towards Flynn and lightly started to tap him with her foot.

"Time to wake up, we are at the location now." Cassandra said towards Flynn, and started to make her way back over towards the cockpit when Kahlan said that there weren't any Goa'uld in the area which is a good thing. She looked over towards the woman and wondered what she had plans next. "So where are you headed after this?" Cassandra asked her, figuring that making some small chat before they got back to Earth.