The ODYSSEY
Plot Summary: SG-1 gets lost and ends up taking the long way home with the help of the remnants of the Colonial Civilization. Crossover between Stargate SG-1 and Battlestar Galactica: 2003
Rating: T (Maybe a few bad words thrown in every once in a while)
Timeline/Spoilers: For Stargate SG-1 this would be in Season Five before Daniel sacrifices himself in the penultimate episode of that season. That will not be included here and I will be going AU after that. For Battlestar Galactica: 2003, this starts out during the one year of peace on New Caprica during the Season 2 Finale. I will follow some aspects of the succeeding episodes, while modifiying or altering small details/episodes. Anything up to the midpoint of Season 4 will be fair game.
Disclaimer: The concept of Stargate SG-1 and all related characters belong to Stargate (II) Productions, Showtime/Viacom, MGM/UA, Double Secret Productions, and Gekko Products. The concept of Battlestar Galactica and all related characters belong to Glen Larson, Ronald D. Moore, and the company that makes it.
Author's Note: This damn story would not get out of my head this story. So I started to jot down a few notes and then it took off and so I've been working on it all day. It is not beta'd so all mistakes are mine.
Author's Note 2: Other stories of mine will continue one day. I've just hit a roadblock in them and with other things in life. This damn story just insisted on being written.
Feedback: I appreciate honest feedback.
The ODYSSEY
Chapter 1: What more could go wrong...
"Carter!!"
She ignored his call as she raced over to the controls of the Tel'tak looking at them warily. While she'd seen her father and Teal'c operate the ship she'd never properly learned how to plot a hyperdrive jump in this vessel. They were usually in a rush to get somewhere and so felt it improper to ask. She regretted that decision now.
"Carter!"
She looked up to her commanding officer (CO) as she felt the faint vibrations of a distant explosion.
Colonel Jack O'Neill and her other teammate Daniel Jackson were gently laying their unconscious teammate, Teal'c, down in the cargo room.
She turned back to the controls as she answered his unbidden question, "Working on it, sir!"
"We got less than… 60 seconds before the reactor goes!" he informed her as he ran over to join her.
When he arrived he saw his second in command (2IC), Major Samantha Carter, working the controls as he finally started to hear the ship, and hopefully their escape route, power up. 'Leave it to Carter', he mentally told himself with a smile.
With ten seconds before the Goa'uld mothership was set to blow up Carter had lifted the Tel'tak from the hangar floor and was heading it towards the hangar bay doors. As soon as they cleared the entrance she punched the engines to get them into orbit as soon as possible. They barely cleared the blast radius of the exploding Ha'tak.
Jack was about to congratulate his 2IC when they briefly saw a flash of bright light outside the front window. In the fraction of a second after they recognized the flash for what it was the entire control panel became electrified. Including anything in contact with the controls, this unfortunately for Sam Carter, included her.
"Daniel!" Jack barked as he watched the electrical charges race through Carter's body. And as quickly as it had started, it was over leaving an unconscious Major in its wake.
Daniel rushed forward to help Jack carefully remove her body from the control chair to check on her. When they had her on the floor he placed his hand on her neck checking for a pulse.
A shrill alarm brought Jack's attention to the control panel and the front window as he noticed that they were losing their upward momentum and would shortly begin the rapid free fall back to the planet. The soldier's training in him forced him to leave his teammate's side and step up to the ships control console to try and return power to the ship before they crashed.
As Jack focused on the controls and restoring power he tried to ignore the sounds coming from behind him.
"Come on Sam," Daniel quietly whispered as he repeated compressions on her chest. He halted them only to give two quick breaths to her unresponsive body. "1, 2, 3…" he quickly resumed his compressions and kept count.
Ignoring the soft thuds Jack pressed a series of buttons as he got the ship to continue with its original trajectory of leaving the planet's orbit. Once he had them safely in orbit and the fear of falling back into orbit was gone he turned back to the scene behind him. He never completed his turn though as another alarm went off.
He turned back to the window in front of him and instantly understood that the sound he was hearing was a defensive alarm as another ship had them in firing range.
"For crying out loud," he muttered as he began turning the unarmed vessel away from the Goa'uld ship that was launching death gliders to hunt them down.
"Come on Sam…" Daniel had finished his fourth round of compressions and was checking Sam's pulse.
"YES! That's it Sam!"
"Daniel?!" Jack asked over his shoulder as he tried to out distance the much faster gliders.
"She's got a pulse, Jack."
"She awake?" he asked anxiously as shots flew past them.
"Not yet."
"Crap!"
"What?" Daniel asked as he turned his attention to the Jack now that Sam appeared to be in the clear.
"You don't happen to know how to get this thing into hyperdrive do you?" he asked tersely as Jack continued to move the Tel'tak in evasive maneuvers.
Daniel's eyes bulged as he saw the glider's weapons fire barely miss their ship. "Aaah… No."
"Come on, come on," Jack muttered as he continued to press buttons and dials at random. "It's gotta be one of- YES!"
And before their eyes a hyperspace window opened and the ship made its hyperlaunch. It appeared that they had made another narrow escape from the hands of the Goa'uld.
But unbeknownst to them, the odds were against them. Just before they escaped a glider's aim found its mark as a shot hit the Tel'tak's engines. The impact of the shot went unnoticed mere fractions of a second before the ship jolted during the hyperlaunch.
"We did it Da-" Jack looked over his shoulder and found his friend not to be by his shoulder anymore.
"I'm okay," came a groan from a few feet back.
Jack got out of his seat and found Daniel slumped against a wall. He couldn't help but smile as he recalled the first time they had experienced a hyperlaunch and been thrown across the room. Knowing that he was going to be okay he turned his attention to his second in command who laid at his feet. He kneeled down and confirmed that she was in fact still alive.
It took Sam over two hours to wake up from her near death experience. "What happened?" she drawled as she reached her hand to her forehead.
Her hand never reached its destination though as she felt her CO's hand stop her hand in mid motion. "Hold up Carter. You don't want to do that."
She looked at her CO with confusion as she tried to remember what had happened to her. When her CO turned her hand and placed it in front of her vision the memory of their escape came back to her. She noted that her hands were charred and she estimated that they were covered with third degree burns on her palms and second degree burns on the backs of her hands. Her heart started to race as the severity of her injuries were realized and she felt the associated pain.
"Carter, look at me," her CO gently commanded her. "We don't have a med kit and there's nothing to wrap up your hands that won't increase the risk of infection. We also don't have any meds for you."
Sam processed his words as she closed her eyes as she mentally willed the pain away from the front of her mind. She needed to do something other than think of her hands.
"How's Teal'c?"
"Still out of it, but he's alive. They must have done a real number on him and junior."
"Where are we?"
"In hyperspace."
"Where to?"
There was a pause that forced Sam to open her eyes and look at her CO questioningly. "What?"
"About that… You see we kind of came under fire when we were in orbit and I was lucky to get the damn system to initiate, let alone figure out where we were going."
"So you have no idea when we're going to drop out of hyperspace?"
Jack pursed his lips and shrugged his shoulders.
"Or where?"
"Hey what else was I supposed to do with you and Teal'c taking naps?!"
She raised an eyebrow at his choice of words for their bouts of unconsciousness. Deciding that trying to figure out their trajectory and when they'd come out would help take her mind off the throbbing pain she leaned forward as she motioned her CO to give her a hand.
Five minutes later they dropped out of hyperspace.
"Well this is a nice little piece of space we've found for ourselves."
In front of them was a small blue and green planet with a debris ring surrounding it.
They were torn from the sight in front of them when yet another alarm went off. This time it indicated that their sublight engines were completely non-functional. Sam looked over at her CO as she spoke, "What more could-"
"Ah!" her CO jumped in before she completed the statement. He turned to glare at her but was momentarily caught off guard by the wide eyes on his second in command. "What?" he asked as he followed her gaze to look out his side of the vessel.
"Is that what I think it is," he gingerly asked.
"Yes sir. That star is going nova."
"Of course it is! Alright, Carter let's get out of here. I'd rather not stick around for the pretty show."
"Yes sir," she told him as she monitored the controls and surroundings.
"By the way, any clue as to where we are?"
"No, sir." She asked Daniel to press a series of buttons on her behalf. "There appears to be a large radioactive star cluster nearby that is clouding our readings."
"Of course there is," he muttered as he turned to the controls and waited for Carter's instructions on initiating the hyperdrive's engines in a more controlled fashion than he had. "We'll just make a short launch, enough to get us away from this cluster and safely away from the nova."
An hour later they were dropping out of hyperspace and once again found themselves looking at another planet. Except that this time the planet was much closer and encompassed most of the view from the front window.
"Uh… Sir," Carter anxiously called out just before the familiar alarm of disabled sublight engines went off.
"Carter?" Jack asked as he looked over and heard the alarm. He returned his vision to the window as he saw that the planet was getting closer. "This is so not good," he realized.
"Escape pods," Daniel offered as he turned and headed towards the rear of the small ship.
"Yes! To the escape pods," Jack called out as he rushed to help Daniel load Teal'c into one of the four escape pods on the ship.
They were just entering orbit when the four small pods were jettisoned from the free falling Tel'tak that was quickly consumed in a burst of fire as the re-entry speeds increased. The four escape pods with their internal booster's and thruster's were able to slow their descent as they came crashing down to the surface of the cold and nearly barren planet below.
TBC