Ok people, I give in. Here is the next chapter of MFA, I won't let it die. Thank you to all of those who reviewed and told me how much they like it. Their reviews helped me write this. I need encouragement people! If you want more chapters, review and tell me what you think, otherwise you'll never get another chapter. My goal for this chapter is 20 reviews, thats only nine more! Come on, review!
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Ora and FC managed to calm down after ten or fifteen minutes, but only after they laughed so hard that their sides felt as if they were splitting, and they had trouble remembering how to breathe properly.
FC looked at Ora. "Danny Boy's next." Ora suppressed a shiver as she saw FC's wicked grin. FC had way too much fun doing this. Ora cocked her head and gave FC an equally terrifying smile.
"Oh, no; this one is mine."
Daniel walked into his office and hit the power button on his laptop. Then he promptly walked over to his bookshelf and grabbed his last mission data. PX7-854 had had some amazing ruins; almost Japanese-like in structure. He didn't often get that, and wanted to look over everything again for his report whether Jack wanted to read it or not.
He heard a quiet sound and glanced up at his computer, which had finished loading. He set down the bundle of paper and quickly opened up Microsoft Word so he could finish his almost done report. He grabbed his coffee cup and took a sip, then sat back for a couple seconds, contemplating what he should write. He typed up a few sentences, then took another sip of coffee, almost choking when he could once again see the screen from over the cup. It was gone, what he had just typed was gone. He frowned deeply and put the mug on the desk. He typed the sentence again, figuring it was a glitch, and then looked at his notes. He glanced up and almost had a heart attack; it was gone, again. Daniel tossed his notes back onto the island-table. Glaring at the screen, he retyped the sentence, and then finished the paragraph to see if that would work. Not even two seconds later, it blipped out like it had never existed. Daniel looked at the computer, disbelief and annoyance written all over his face.
Coming back to his senses, Daniel started to devise a plan to beat the "bug" (or whatever was deleting his precious report). He rewrote the paragraph, then hit 'save' as fast as he could. The typing disappeared, but he smiled, exited the current file and opened the saved file. However, his joy did not last; he opened the file only to find an entire three-fourths of his report gone. Gone, as in not there, blown away in the wind, went 'poof!'. Frustrated, Daniel hit the keyboard violently, which consequently resulted in the whole document becoming a blank, white, useless page. He cursed so rudely that the passing scientist glanced in the room, did a double take when she saw its only occupant, and hurried on, looking nervously behind her.
Standing abruptly, he closed the laptop and practically ran down a group of officers on his way to the elevators. If Sam had anything to do with this… well, ok, he couldn't yell at Sam, but Jack would certainly hear about it.
Daniel walked into Jack's office only to find the General with his head on his desk, muttering under his breath. Daniel couldn't catch it all, but it sounded something like, "damn computer…toed boots…everything gone…&$ foot…" The other odd thing Daniel noticed was that papers seemed to have found their way into every nook and cranny of the room; there was even one wedged into the light on the ceiling.
Daniel cleared his throat, and Jack's head jerked up, glaring; he was apparently not in a good mood. Daniel saw the look and figured now was defiantly not the best time to go complaining to the General about any problem, much less one dealing with technology. He murmured something along the lines of, "um, just come back…busy…keep everything attached." He slowly backed out of the room, quietly closing the door behind him, then hurried back to his office, thinking he just needed to read something to get his mind off of everything going on in the present.
As Daniel walked down the corridor toward his office, he let his mind wander back to the Japanese-like structures; they truly were amazing. While the architecture was mainly Asian, primarily Japanese, the rest of the culture was medieval European; mainly Norse. As he contemplated the meaning of this, and whether or not Thor knew anything about it, he slid his ID into the scanner, and stepped into the room. He heard the sound of a dusty page turning and looked up in surprise. There was a girl sitting in his chair, with an old dusty volume of an Ancient Egyptian history book in hand.
The girl appeared to be about fourteen, maybe fifteen, and was a little over five feet tall. She had short burgundy hair, blue eyes, and rather pale skin for today's teen standards. On the island table and the floor around her were stacks of books that consisted of about seven eighths of Daniel's collection. She looked up after a couple minutes of Daniel staring blankly at her. She smiled the moment she saw him. "Oh, hi Dr. Jackson! Sorry about the mess," she jerked a thumb at the pile of books, "but I wasn't sure where to put them once I finished." Daniel gave her a sort of 'are you completely sane?' Nope, sorry! look and then glanced back at the pile of books.
"Oo-kay. And you are…?" As he said this he started to slowly side-step toward the phone on the wall. It was rather difficult, because there were multiple books in stacks on the floor and he was having trouble navigating around them without tripping and falling.
The girl, who had stuck her nose back in the book, didn't look up as she replied, "Hm? Oh, I'm FC."
"FC?"
She nodded her head absent mindedly, letting the book fill her unusually limited attention span. So she didn't notice when Daniel picked up the pretty red phone hanging on the wall. However, she did notice when he angrily slammed the phone back on the hook; and while she didn't jump, she did look up. "We disconnected the phone for your office."
Daniel looked somewhat frightened. "'We'?"
"Yup; Ora and me," As she said this, she hopped off the chair and put the book she had been reading on top of a small pile of slightly newer books. She grinned at his confused look. "Sorry I can't stay longer, but we have work to do. See ya!" And with that she promptly bounced out the door and down the corridor. Daniel just stood there, shocked. For a couple minutes he didn't say or do anything, but realization suddenly hit him like a ton of bricks. There are intruders on the base! Gotta go tell someone. He hurried out the door, and made a beeline for Sam's office, barely noticing the people he walked past; though he would later swear that someone with burgundy hair had walked passed him and snickered.
Sam looked up Daniel scurried into her lab; he looked unusually distressed. "Hey Daniel! What's going on?"
"I just…there's…and then she…" Daniel stuttered and waved his hands around, not sure what to say first.
Sam gave him and odd look, "Um, Daniel? One thing at a time. What happened?"
Daniel took a breath, "There are intruders on the base. One was in my office."
"What!"
"I saw one! She came to my office, and said something about there being another person. Sam, I think they might have hacked into the system."
"What makes you think that?"
"My phone. I tried to call base security, but my phone was dead. The girl, FC is what she said her name was, she said she and…Ora, I think…that they had disconnected my phone."
"They what!" Sam looked at him with disbelief written all over her face. "Ok, I'm going to take a look at the security cameras, why don't you come with me?"
"Uh, yea, sure," with those words, Sam stood up and hurried out the door, Daniel at her heels. Sam slipped her security card into the slot to access the elevator and both waited impatiently, wanting to get going as soon as possible. Finally, the elevator arrived, letting both passengers on, and off again on the fifteenth sublevel. Sam and Daniel both walked to the security room, not stopping to get out of anyone's way. Sam once again slid her special card through the special slot, and they both walked in.
"Can I help you, sir?"
"Yes, we need to see the video footage of Dr. Jackson's office from 18:00 to 18:30."
The airman sitting at the desk leaned over toward is computer, and typed in a few things before standing up, "Here you go, ma'am."
"Thanks," The airman nodded and stepped aside, letting Sam take a seat. Sam sat down, and Daniel leaned in closer so he could see the screen better. Sam hit 'play' and both watched the events that followed. Only, there weren't any events; unless you count Daniel talking to himself. Daniel stared in disbelief, "That's not right. That can't be right. Sam, I swear she was there!"
"I know, Daniel; I believe you. I'll look at it to see if it was tampered with. If this person really did get into our system, they could have done something to the tapes." Daniel really hoped that they had been tampered with. If they hadn't…well, he didn't want to think about what would happen if it hadn't been altered. Let's just say he would be paying another visit to a nice, bright, and padded room.
"Are you sure I'm not on that tape?"
Ora sighed, "For the hundredth time, yes!."
"Positive?"
Ora whapped the pyro upside the head, "FC! Do you really not trust me that much!"
FC grinned sheepishly, "I just don't want to get caught."
Ora rolled her eyes, "Have we ever been caught?"
"No."
"And why is that?"
"Ummm….."
"Because we know what we're doing," Ora glanced at FC and edited her statement, "or I know what I'm doing, at least."
"Hey!" FC glared at Ora. "Baka."
Ora grinned, "Anywho, we need to continue our work…."
Sergeant Mariana Siddens was on duty in the security room, and was currently sitting back in her chair reading Sara Douglass's The Wayfarer Redemption, occasionally looking up at the screens for the security cameras. She started when the phone rang, but sighed when she realized what it was. "Security, Sergeant Siddens."
"Sergeant, why didn't you report the hall on the fifteenth level?"
She glanced at all the cameras on sublevel fifteen, "Col. Carter. Sorry ma'am, I don't see anything on any of the cameras on that level."
"Sergeant, I'm standing right in front of the camera, do you see me?"
"No, sir."
"Can you tell if there is anything wrong with the recordings?"
"It doesn't look like it."
There was a pause and Mariana could hear Carter say something quietly, as if she was thinking out loud, "Hmm. They might have put it on a loop." Then she went back to speaking normally, "Do you see a jump on the screen every few seconds? It could be very tiny, watch it carefully." Mariana leaned a little closer to the screen and watched for a few minutes, "Sergeant? Have you found anything?"
"No. Sorry, sir."
"Try rebooting the system."
"Sir, I don't think–"
"You have my permission, sergeant."
"Yes, sir," Mariana rolled her chair over to the computer desk and hit a series of keys, shutting the whole system down. Literally seconds later the system was back online. Mariana wheeled back over to the screens and paled. There was Col Carter, standing in a hall, looking at…well, she couldn't really tell what it was. From her angle it looked like a bunch a scorch marks. "Siddens, can you see anything now?"
"Y-yes, sir. What is that?" She heard a sigh from the other end of the line. "It seems to be graffiti."
"Graffiti? On the base? What does it say?"
"It says, 'FC was here'."
Ok, reviews! Thanks to all those who let me see the light (I know I'm cheesy)
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So, have we learned our lesson? No? Ok, here it is: never let FC and Ora get bored. If you do, you'll be in trouble ; )
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