A way back home   von yumi_san
                                (SG1/The Tribe)
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                            Kapitel 1: A new World
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Disclaimer: I own neither Stargate nor The Tribe or anything associated with
it.

A/N: You can read this Story even if you do not know The Tribe as the reader
will be introduced to the Tribe World at the same time as SG1. I also like to
thank Product Of A Sick Society (FF.net) and

ToBetasered (FF.net) for betareading this Chapter.


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Tic ..Tock

Sam looked up at the Clock before she once more concentrated on her experiment.
SG-1 had a mission today but there was still enough time to finish her work.

"Sergeant Murphy please increase the energy input by five." Her lab assistant
nodded and went over to the terminal to change the energy input of the quantum
mirror.

"Interdimensional matrix is stable Sir, ehhh M'am." Sam smiled. Murphy was a
good Soldier, and a passable Lab assistant. If it weren't for her clumsiness,
she would have been promoted long ago.

*"*"*"*"*"*"*"*"*"

"Carter!" Jack barked from the doorway, where he had been standing, for god
knows how long, dressed in his mission gear carrying his pack on the back and
Carter's in his hand.

"Hello, sir. Daniel, Teal'C." Sam replied absent-mindedly, gesturing her Team to
enter. She was too busy monitoring energy fluctuations in the Quantum Mirror to
pay attention to a bored Jack at the moment. "Please don't touch anything." She
addet as an afterthought.

"What'cha doin', Carter?" Jack inquired as he peered at some equipment. On the
table beside the apperatus he was interested in was the Quantum Mirror remote.
Sam looked up just as Jack was going to touch the delicately calibrated
equipment.

"Stop!" she barked. Jack quickly backed up, spreading his hands wide in a 'who
me?' gesture as he did so. Unfortunately, this had the result of knocking the
remote to the floor right behind Daniel, who was in the process of stepping
backwards.

A crunch was heard as Daniel stepped on the remote and overbalanced. Trying to
stay on his feet he started to stumble backwards, through the inconveniently
placed Quantum Mirror.

Reacting quickly Jack let Sam's pack fall while he grabbed Daniels hand…and
lost his balance as well. For a moment the Mirror was flickering and a low
crackling noise, one that was slowly increased in volume, was heard.

For a second nobody moved.

*"*"*"*"*"*"*"*"*"

"Tell the General what happened!" Sam called to Sergeant Murphy as she grabbed
her pack with the left hand, and raced to the Quantum Mirror, followed by
Teal'C.

Once more the Mirror flickered followed by a loud crack. Then there was nothing,
as the Mirror was no longer active.

Sergeant Murphy blinked. She looked at the Mirror and blinked;then, she looked
at the remote and back at the Mirror.

"The General's not going to like this." The Sergeant said to the empty room. She
sighed and hurried off to get it over with. Why did such things always happen
when she was working?

*"*"*"*"*"*"*"*"*"

Jack and Teal'c quickly were back on their feet, scanning the surrounding area
for enemies and fast exits. It was, for the lack of a better term, a battle
reflex honed by years of Gate travel. Samantha and Daniel were on their feet
just as quickly but their sole attention was on the Mirror or more specifically
on the deactivated Mirror.

"Sir, we may have a problem." The Major started, looking through the sparsely
decorated grey concrete room before focusing on her CO. "The signal feedback
caused a backlash in the circuits of the Quantum mirror, and because of this the
Interdimensional matrix collapsed

"English Carter, English"

"Because of the destroyed remote the mirror shut down. So if we do not find this
universes equivalent we are stranded."

Daniel had guessed that the moment he saw the mirror, but hearing it said was a
whole other thing. "Fuck." He mumbled to low to be heard by his Teammates.

"Peachy, just peachy. Carter, Daniel, search the area. T," Jack waved his hand
in the general direction of the Jaffa's forehead, "Do something about this, the
last thing we need is a shitload of attention."

"I do not believe this to be necessary O'Neill." Teal'C said, while indicating
to a Newspaper that rested on a nearby table. "If this Newspaper is correct, the
whole adult Population of this world is dead."

Daniel scanned the pages. "It's about one and a half years old. If someone
survived, they would have been here in the meantime."

"So we are the only Humans on this godforsaken earth. Great, just great."

"Not necessarily sir." Sam looked around the room once more before focussing
solely on her CO "If the Newspaper article is correct, it only affected the
adults, it is quite possible for the children to be alive, maybe even for those
who reached adulthood after the virus struck."

This revelation changed everything. Disguising Teal'C and blending in till they
found a way to get back, a standard operation procedure when stranded on a
foreign and possible hostile world, was no longer possible.

"Ok Guys, here's the plan." Jack said, "We have MRE's, Munitions and Equipment
for a two week Mission. I have also packed six Twinkies." Daniel and Sam gave
him a look that all but screamed 'seriously?' "We are not all as diplomatic as
Danny here, and it is a legitimate way of bribing the natives." He said as if it
was the most logical of reasons, "Anyhow has anyone else packed additional
stuff?"

"I have not O'Neill." Teal'C answered.

"Well I've got my allergen-desensitising treatment and—" Daniel started to
blush. "Condoms. Janet thought it a good idea to distribute them among the
people of P3X-981."

"Carter?"

"Nothing, Sir."

"So we have at least Twinkies, and Condoms to trade."

Jack stated while Daniel was fighting down his blush and Carter tried not to
rolled her eyes as he stated the obvious.

"Carter, Daniel you two scout the area. We need to know if the City is
inhabited, who's in charge and so on. You know the spiel. T and I are going to
secure this facility, so we can use it until we find a strategically favourable
base of operation." With a nod from Daniel and a 'Yes, sir' from Sam, both went
outside, leaving their backpacks behind as they would hinder a possible fast
retreat.

Through the Newspaper they already knew that they were in Wellington, the
capital of New Zealand, with the mirror being located beneath the "Wellington
Hospital."

*"*"*"*"*"*"*"*"*"

Leaving the Hospital through the front entrance Daniel noticed that the area was
quite industrialised for a suburb area. And it was dirty, that he could tell
without problem, even though the sun was still rising. Old newspaper, burned out
trashcans and thrown out furniture decorated the street, with all kinds of
graffiti smeared over house - and stone walls.

Daniel looked closer at a few of the symbols that were sprayed with seemingly
every colour of the rainbow on seemingly every wall, before he took his
Dictaphone and began to talk.

"Recurring names and symbols indicate gang or tribe-like alliances among the
surviving population." He said. Sam waved him over to show him a tattered city
map she found in one of the burned out cars littering the street, divided into
sectors, most likely used to aid the evacuation during the virus outbreak.

"The recurring number 15 matching the one used for this area during the outbreak
indicates that the sector system was assimilated by the tribes. It is to be
expected that different sectors are ruled by different tribes, with this area's
ruler being" He looked at the recurring name sprayed on the wall,"The 'Tribe
Circus.' "

Sam signalled Daniel to hold the Dictaphone in her direction.

"The buildings all show signs of vandalism and the shops we came across were
striped of food, drinks, make-up and costume jewellery, while medicine and
dietary supplement had been left. They obviously weren't schooled in what to
take, and only took what looked useful. Most of the burn marks seem old so we
can assume that most of the vandalism was done during the virus outbreak or
shortly after the adults died." Sam added while entering a store through the
destroyed window front. It had once been a tourist office and as such it had
little to no value for the children, which left it in a better shape than most
shops around. Daniel deactivated the Dictaphone and started looking around,
before taking a tourist city map lying around, that was more in detail than the
sector map they already had.

Taking a plastic bag from behind the counter, Sam began to fill it with paper
she took out of the printer and ball-pens with a Wellington logo on it.

Among the souvenirs they also found a deck of cards as well as some scarfs and
hoodies.

The 'I love NZ' hoodies where anything but fashionable and most kids wouldn't be
caught dead in them but at least the hood would help them disguise their age a
bit.

Sam looked up at the Morning sky; their watches still ran on SGC time, so she
had to guess how late or, in their case, early it was. "We should go back
Daniel. The kids will not sleep forever and the later we are the higher are the
changes to encounter them."

They left the shop through its window, as the door was looked, returning to the
Hospital when Sam caught the glimpse of a person, most likely a boy or a young
girl, she couldn't tell from the distance, attempting to hide himself in the
shadows..

"We are being followed. One on our left and two behind us." whispered Sam, and
Daniel, after subtly looking around, nodded. He had not noticed them before but
once he knew they were there it was painfully easy to spot them.
A stone flew in his direction and he barely avoided being hit, they now could no
longer pretend to not notice them. Sam faced the two behind them while Daniel
faced the one to their left. Both SG1 members had their guns drawn but this was
more out of reflex than the actual intention to shoot. Nevertheless the Kids,
two boys and a small girl, didn't know that, so it didn't take long for them to
come out of the shadows.

"Adults, tell us how you survived." One of the boys rudely ordered them.

Sam and Daniel shared a look, they hadn't had the time to put a cover story
together.

"We were in a cryogenic unit supported by a zero point energy source isolated by
means of."

Sam explained.

"I understand" the Spokesperson said but it was obvious that he didn't, not
surprising seeing as Sam had fed them bullshit.

"Are there more?" The small girl interrupted, "Did they put our parents into
these cryo-things?" Daniel looked at the small child not sure how too tell her
the truth.

"They are from some kind of military. And at least the woman is American. If
there are more, emphasis on the if, they're Military as well." The rude boy
said.

*"*"*"*"*"*"*"*"*"

In the mean time Jack and Teal'C had started to secure their temporary base of
operation by collecting all key cards and checking the emergency generator.

In Institutions like Hospitals an emergency generator would activate the moment
the power fails, but for the SGC, and obviously for this institution as well,
this was too great a risk, as sometimes having no energy was the only thing that
kept enemies from activating the Stargate and/or messing with the SGC's computer
system.

For SG1 that meant that they had a generator that would provide them with energy
for at least a month—a year or more if they didn't use the gate.

Jack had already thought about leaving through the gate towards one of their
technologically advanced allies in hope of finding them able and willing to help
SG1 return home. Sadly this was not one of his most brilliant of plans, as
Teal'C had pointed out.

Firstly, they didn't know if the addresses where the same. Secondly, there was
no guarantee that they had already met this dimension's SGC. Third, even if they
had met there was no guarantee that they were friends… and last, but not
least, it would make a target out of them and earth should the Goauld realise
that the Tauri had an active Stargate.

So no gate travel for them, at least until they knew for sure that it would be
beneficial.

"I did not find the remote O'Neill. It seems as if it was taken off base."
Teal'C said. Jack nodded in response.

"Thanks T." Jack looked at the small bag Teal'C was carrying and raised an
eyebrow.

"These are medications I saw Janet Fraiser use in the past. I found them in the
Hospital above and thought them beneficial." Jack took the bag from the Jaffa
and looked over the stuff inside. Most of it he recognised, stuff like Tylenol
or penicillin for example.

"You had to go and find the biggest needles they had, didn't you?"

"A true Warrior faces his fears."

"You think I fear Needles?" It was voiced as a statement.

"Indeed."

It was in situations like this that Jack was not sure if the older one was
making a joke or being serious, so he decided to let it go.



                           Kapitel 2: A new Society
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Disclaimer: I own neither Stargate nor The Tribe or anything associated with
it.

A/N: You can read this Story even if you do not know The Tribe as the reader
will be introduced to the Tribe World at the same time as SG1. I also like to
thank Product Of A Sick Society(FF.net) and

ToBetasered(FF.net)  for betareadingthis Chapter.

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Sam and Daniel sat on a pair of old plastic garden chairs next to a wooden table
'decorated' with swearwords and doodles.* It was more or less typical for the
tribe society as they had discovered.* Graffiti as a political medium, make up
to show tribal solidarity, the cloth and furniture a mix of what was available
and what they thought 'cool'. It was all part of a new and ever changing society
that while strange, was no less complex than their own.

Daniel was itching to activate his dictaphone but thought it unwise, seeing as
batteries had to have scarcity value. He looked at Sam who seemed decidedly
uncomfortable as Kathy and Lori, two prepubescent girls, asked question after
question about men and pregnancies.

They had to be at the moment, the two tribe members out of the seven or eight
that Samantha had met so far, that she liked the least

While Sam was not too thrilled to answer, she also knew that she was most likely
the only reliable source of information these girls had.

"I am Jayden, leader of the survivors." A stocky young man said as he introduced
himself. Samantha hadn't seen him before and estimated him to be 19 or 20 years
old.

"I'm Major Samantha Carter, USAF. This is Dr. Daniel Jackson." She didn't
gesture in Daniel's direction, it wasn't necessary.

"USAF ?" He asked.

"That's a stupid Tribe name." Kathy said

"You are stupid. It's not a Tribe name but some sort of military organization
thingy." Lori stated as if it was the most obvious thing in the world.

"How would you..." Kathy was not able to continue her sentence as Jayden sighed
and said "Kathy, Lori stop it. I apologise Major Samantha, Doctor Daniel." If
the two SG1 members were surprised by the use of title and given name they
didn't show it.

"We do not mind it Jayden of the Survivors." Daniel was as diplomatic as ever.

Sam could see that Daniel found the whole discussion quite interesting, and it
wasn't really surprising seeing as he was the diplomat of SG1.

"Mark told me how you survived the Virus. And I have to ask if more of you are
out there." Jayden stated, worried how dangerous or helpful they might be.

Mark had to be part of the group they had encountered in the street not far from
here, how else would he have known their story. Daniel assumed him to be the
rude one they talked to the most, as he was relatively sure that the other boy's
name was Dylan. At least that was the name the young girl, Jade, or was it Jane,
had called him by.

"There are two more that we know of, as they are part of our team. But if others
were saved in the same way, we do not know." Sam knew she had to be careful with
what she was telling him, as it was all too easy to get lost in one's own lies.

"If you could show us the facility we would like to search for information about
possible other survivors." Jaden was careful as not to sound too aggressive.

Now it was Daniel turn to lie.

"I fear that this is not possible as we destroyed the entrance as ordered once
we emerged from the Facility. There is no way in, and even if there were a way
it would not be safe to try. "

"What was the Facility's name? My father was military, so maybe I know something
about it." Mark asked as he entered the room, ignoring Jayden who was about to
ask his next question.

By the way the others reacted to this situation Sam guessed that this was not
the first time this happened.

"I don't know the official name. The code name we were given was Tollana, the
commander was a scientist, codename Anis. That is all we know." Sam looked at
Daniel with what Jack would call the 'WTF' expression. He shrugged his shoulders
and mouthed the word 'Jack' in her direction. It would be best to keep the story
as simple as possible and with names Jack was unlikely to forget.

O'Neill was in no way stupid, but he had the tendency to forget names, usually
those of planets they visited, and mess up complex stories, so they better be
safe than sorry.

Before further questions could be asked Sam's walkie-talkie made some cracking
noise and Jack's voice was heard through the Survivors' living room "Carter,
this is O'Neill, Lima-Uniform-Delta-7-7-2, do you read?"

While giving Daniel a sign to keep the Teenagers out of listening range she
answered "This is Charlie-Bravo-India-9-1-7. Five by five, Sir."

"The situation?" He asked.

"We've made first contact. IFF* is unknown."

"The details?"

"Survivors, approximately 8 people, age range from 8 to 20. Little to no
political influence in the area, none city wide. Sir."

"OK. Return by 2000h SGC time. Over."

"Yes Sir. Over and out."

The cracking noise stopped and Sam focused her attention on Daniel who had
engaged the teenagers in a discussion about the do's and don'ts of the tribe
world. A quick look on her watch told her that she had about two hours before
they had to be back in the Hospital.

"We've got to return in approximately two hours, which leaves us with about 30
minutes."

For a moment Daniel was confused, even with them not being a hundred percent
sure which way they had to go it would at max take them an hour.

She obviously wanted to make sure the children would not follow them by leading
them in the wrong direction and then losing them. He wasn't so sure this would
work, as the terrain was unknown to them while the kids had home advantage.

As the survivors heard that their new friends would go, it became hectic.

Kathy and Lori had some last minute questions, Holly was searching for
additional make-up she had somewhere that would help SG1 blending in, and Jayden
did his best to negotiate future meetings.

For Daniel it was clear that Jayden thought them powerful allies even though
they were few in number. Be it because they had weapons and were trained to use
them or because they were older and had more knowledge about technology and
various other topics, he did not know.

Sam looked at the make-up set Holly, another one of the survivors, had given
her. It looked like the one kids would use for Halloween.

"Sam?" Daniel interrupted her in her musings.

"Nothing, Lets go."

*"*"*"*"*"*"*"*"*"

Both had on the way to the Survivors tried to remember the paths they used but
with the children avoiding big streets it was nearly impossible. Daniel had
learned that they did this to avoid the Tribe Circus, so the two had to rely on
their map.

"We are somewhere here." Sam pointed at Tirangi Rd. and making sure none of the
children were near she continued, "And the hospital is there." She now pointed
at Riddiford St. "If we go directly that would take us 30 to 40 minutes, but we
would have no way to lose them."

Daniel looked at the map, "We could use the wood surrounding Hataitai Park to
lose them and go to the Hospital from above rather than below."

"Possibly. Normally I'd say that the area is too small but this is our only
changes. This way we can also avoid being seen by too many children. "

Having decided on a route, Sam and Daniel began walking, intent on evading any
unwanted tails.

IFF = (identification, friend or foe)



                          Kapitel 3: New Information
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Disclaimer: I own neither Stargate nor The Tribe or anything associated with
it.

A/N: I'd like to thank ToBetasered for betareading this Chapter.

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Jack was pacing around like a tiger in a cage.

It was 2025 h SGC time and Daniel and Sam were late. Normally this wouldn't be a
problem as SG1 had standard issue radios but Sam had told him that they would be
trying to lose any trackers sent to follow them. Under those circumstances
keeping in radio contact was counterproductive.

Trying to distract himself he looked over the list containing their resources.

Food, Medicine and Energy wouldn't be a problem, even though the MRE's tasted
like Chicken. They also would have to be careful with their batteries, not
because they didn't have enough but because the children didn't and might try to
steal theirs.

Looking at his Wally-Talky he decided, that while having a well stocked Military
Base as a HQ had it advantages, it didn't help in cases like this.

"Where the f****** hell are they" Jack muttered lowly.

He once more walked past Teal'C, if there was one thing Jack hated then it was
waiting while his team was potentially in danger. Jack suddenly turned around
and opened the door that separated the NZ SGC, as they called the New Zealand
base, from the regular hospital. As he did so he noted that they really needed
to find ot what the place was really called. Jack personally thought that NZ SGC
just sounded stupid.

"I'll look around outside. Who knows, maybe they got lost in the hospital." He
somewhat optimistically said to Teal'c

While both men knew that this was highly unlikely, anything was better than
sitting around doing nothing. Jack entered the regular Hospital, closed the door
and smiled. There was a small sign next to the door that told anyone who
bothered to read it, that the supposed storage room he had exited held important
paperwork. In Jack's opinion there was no better way to keep someone at distance
than paperwork.

Teal'C sat next to the door waiting, when suddenly his radio crackled with
static. "T, we're here." O'Neill's voice said over the channel, loud and clear.
Before Teal'C could acknowledge the message the door opened than the rest of
SG-1 entered, his team was once more complete.

Teal'c's eyes ghosted over his fellow team members, taking in the fact that Jack
looked more relaxed than he had been a mere 5 minutes ago, while Sam and Daniel
looked a bit messy. They had obviously to hidden in the forest, meaning they
hadn't had as easy a time coming here undetected as they had hoped.

"So Campers, what's the situation?" Jack queried.

Daniel and Sam looked at each other before the archaeologist began to tell
Teal'c and Jack about the Sectors, the Tribe system, the Tribe Circus and the
Survivors.

"Anything to add, Carter?" O'Neill asked, in what they referred to as his CO
voice, looking at her.

Sam nodded, "While the Tribe Circus is undoubtedly the most dangerous Tribe in
this area they are by no means the most dangerous in the City."

The Major elaborated on her statement, saying, "From what Holly told me, that
honour belongs to a group called the Demon Dogs." She said sarcastically,
"Although," Sam continued, "It would seem that the Demon Dogs have been
scattered after their leader was killed fighting a new tribe."

"A new tribe?" Teal'C asked

"Kathy told me that there have been sightings of, 'Creepy-looking robe guys that
freaked the hell out of everyone'. They even appeared at a meeting of the
Council of Tribes." Sam answered.

Jack seemed confused "Council, council…"

"It's a meeting of some influential tribe leaders and their right hand men or
women Jack." Daniel interjected wearily, "I told you about this."

"You did?" Jack looked sceptically at Daniel

"Indeed O'Neill" Teal'c validated.

"Whatever. Back to the topic, what about the time issue? We are after all on a
different time zone and while I can tell that it is lunchtime I'd like to
coordinate our movements more precisely." Jack looked at his XO "Could we use
the system time of the PC's?"

"You told me yourself that the whole system only activated after you started the
emergency generator. This way the system had to start its synchronisation
process which is normally done through a satellite, but..." Carter began
explaining, before the colonel interrupted her.

"Yes or No? Carter." He asked impatiently.

"No, sir!" Sam replied, sheepishly. She hated it whenever he had to interrupt
her because she once more got off the track.

"Actually, I know the local time." Daniel said, "At least, I assume I do." He
temporized.

"How?"

"Well, Wellington is GMT +12 while Colorado Springs is GMT -6. This means that
we have to add 18 hours to get the local time. This of course only works if this
dimension does have the same amount of seconds to a day." Daniel explained.

"It should have." Sam said, "Even though this seems to be among the remotest
dimensions we can reach it still only started to vary in the last 50 or so
years. That means that anything that concerns events that are further back in
time, like the development of the solar system is identical. A day here would
therefore be just as long as a day back home. At most we could have lost a few
seconds in transit, but that is highly unlikely.

"OK , whatever. Synchronise your watches, it's now 1451 h local time." Jack
ordered.

He was answered by a chorus of replies from his team.

"Yes Sir!"

"Indeed O'Neill..."

"Yes."

*'*'*'*'*'*'*'*'*

Jack tried the Halloween make up and decided to use it to conceal his features,
smearing different shades of brown and green along his cheeks, across his nose
and forehead. The hoody Sam brought back fit but just barely, not surprising,
seeing as Carter had guessed his size. He felt stupid wearing the ill-fitting
piece of clothing and from the looks of the rest of SG-1, it seemed that they
felt the same.

Well Sam and Daniel did. With Teal'C he wasn't sure.

"We need more information. Carter, check the computers and the labs for
information concerning the remote and any allies this SGC has. Daniel, I found
some documents written in some kind of Ancient text. I've put them on a table in
the mirror room." Jack ordered them.

"Yes, Sir." Carter replied in typical military fashion.

"On my way." Daniel chipped in eagerly.

"Teal'c, you and I are going to be checking the video footage of the security
cams in the Hospital on the days leading to the shutdown." He told the Jaffa.

*'*'*'*'*'*'*'*'*

SG-1 was once more divided and silence fell over the base, only interrupted by
Carter typing on a keyboard or shuffling through papers in a lab; and by the
scraping sound of a pen on paper made by Daniel, or...

"OK," Jack thought, "It's not totally silent." But still, with only SG1 on the
base it felt unwelcoming to him.

"Colonel O'Neill, do you read?" Jack's radio crackled a bit, a sound that
stopped as soon as he pressed the talk button.

"What's the matter Carter?"

"Sir, there are no Goa'uld in this Dimension." His XO told him.

"What?" Jack exclaimed clearly suprised.

"According to these records APC teams have in all their travels only encountered
a handful of species, the Nox, the Tollan and a few others. But every planet
that in our dimension that was colonised with slaves abducted from earth is
empty. The Gate they use is the one from Antarctica, hidden by the ancients.
Over."

"So no snakeheads, that's good news." Jack answered, relieved. "What's an APC
team?"

"Their designation for the SGC is APC, Astria Porta Centre, after the Ancients
name for the Stargate." Sam replied over the radio.

"Do we have Allies to gate to in case of an emergency?" Jack asked hopefully.
Maybe Thor could help them, the Asgard where the most advanced species known to
them after all.

"Negative Sir." Sam answered. "They were friendly with a few species but had no
alliances. Over"

For a few short seconds there was silence as Jack and Sam thought about what
they would do if it ever came to the point when staying was no longer an
option.

"This is Daniel. We created the Virus." Another voice intruded on the channel.

"Daniel? Explain!" O'Neill barked, startled by the revelation.

"Well. I'm no chemist but the documents I translated were written by someone
we've identified as rouge NID in our universe." Jackson explained. "He writes
about experimenting with alien substances to create an immortality drug. From
the way he writes this it wasn't his idea. The guy he reported to was an NID we
had on our suspect list back home."*

"Great…just what we needed, the bloody NID." Jack sighed. "Anyone at least got
good news for me?"

"Indeed O'Neill. This is Tango-India-Foxtrot-2-1-9." Teal'c gave his call-sign
blandly, "I believe the remote was taken away by a scientist named Anderson.
Over"

"Carter?"

"Found him Sir. Jason Anderson, married to Alyssia Anderson, two sons Martin and
Bray both where underage when the virus hit. They were just moving so the system
has no current address." The Major answered.

"So now we are searching for two boys of unknown age." Jack groaned. "Peachy
just Peachy."

"Do we at least know what they look like?" He added as an afterthought.

"I'll print the Picture." Sam said, "But it is at least two years old, so I
don't know how useful it might be."

Nothing interesting happened over the next few days. Sam had shut down every
system they didn't need and closed those labs that where potentially dangerous,
including the one in which the virus was developed; although Sam promised that
without a host it had long since died. Unfortunately, for obvious reasons, she
could not promise that the virus hadn't mutated and wasn't still active outside
the hospital.

All Sam could tell the others was that it was highly unlikely that a mutated
virus had a long lifespan. It would most likely be gone within a couple of weeks
without anyone to infect. Daniel had finished translating the documents but had
not found anything further that could be of interest. Sadly SG-1 hadn't found a
better way to disguise their selves and had to rely on the fact that they at
least weren't noticeable from afar would help them a bit.

Regardless, rumours about adults were already flowing through the city..

"O'Neill! There is an adolescent in the Hospital."

Jack looked at the screen that Teal'C had pointed at. It seemed as if screen
duty had finally paid off.

O'Neill picked up his radio. "Carter, Jackson do you read?"

Jack waited for a response.

"One moment..." Daniel radioed back distractedly."...Yes."

"Colonel, what is it sir?" Carter answered crisply.

"We've got an unidentified Teenager, around 19, spraying a message on one of the
walls of the entrance Hall. Get here for possible identification." Jack
answered.

"Yes Sir." Carter responded.

"I'm on my way Jack." Daniel added a second later.

It took them a little over three minutes to get to the security room and the boy
in the entrance hall was nearly finished.

"I remember seeing this boy. He's one of the Survivors." Sam said while peering
at the screen.

"Lachlan" Daniel said, "His name is Lachlan. He's nineteen,his cousin is
Holly."

"We didn't see much of him when we were there, but he was the only one of the
tribe that didn't seem fascinated with the idea of adults being still alive."
Sam added deep in thought, trying to remember as much as possible about the
reclusive boy.

"Ok! Daniel, you and I are going upstairs to see what kind of message this kid
left." Jack ordered .

The two men departed from the room, leaving Sam and Teal'C to watch the screens.
Teal'C made sure that the way Daniel and Jack took was clear while Sam closely
watched a recording of the earlier camera footage to make sure they hadn't
missed anything.

"Section A3 is clear O'Neill." Teal'c radioed while keeping his eyes on the
monitors.

"A4 clear."

Sam looked up."Sir, He left no presents. I repeat, no presents."

"Gotcha, Carter." Jack returned.

Perhaps they were being overly cautious but in Jack's opinion the only real
advantages SG-1 had were their experience and the fact that no one knew for sure
that they lived here. The two men had reached the Hall and Jack scanned the room
with experienced eyes, before he focused on the message that Jackson was
reading.

'To: Sam and Dan'

Jack looked at Daniel who cringed and mouthed Lori.

'of the Tollan'

Obviously the Survivors had bought their cover story.

'We need your Help. Holly and Kathy were taken hostage by slave traders on
market day in the first warm days since you arrived.

Lachlan'

"Market is every 7 days. The first warm day was 8 days ago and the Market
following was three days ago." Daniel supplied upon seeing Jack's baffled
expression.

"But why not simply say so?" Jack asked.

"They don't have a calendar to determine the actual day and they had no way to
know when we would find the message. Quite a few people have seen us in this
area, together with the fact that Sam bandaged up a kid a few nights back they
most likely assumed that we were here at least once and might come back again.
The probably have already marked every medical praxis in this area."

Jack nodded "Go back and keep an eye on the cameras."

He activated his radio, and told the other's what they had discovered.

"You guys and I will try to get some info about the slave traders." Jack
ordered, "Over and out."

He took out the chalk that was part of the standard SGC field pack and wrote:
'We will. Jack of the Tollan'



                     Kapitel 4: Search and rescue mission
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Disclaimer: I own neither Stargate nor The Tribe or anything associated with
it.

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It was three hours later and so far they had nothing.

Sam had gone to the Survivors but neither Lori nor Mark, who were the only ones
at their base, had any further information.

"This is Tango-India-Foxtrot-2-1-9. Jack O'Neill, I have found us a guide.
MollyTribeless has offered to guide us to the Traders in exchange for food and
water." Teal'c's voice said over the radio.

Switching to his radio's command channel, Jack spoke to the rest of SG-1.

"Everyone, team meeting in 10 minutes at the alpha site."

They knew that they were not invulnerable and that they might not be able to
protect their base, so they had started their very own alpha site where they
hoarded extra resources like a few MRE's, some water, medicine and spare
ammunition. They thought about hiding weapons as well but thought it to
dangerous a risk if some of the children found the base.

Jack was the first there and began to dig up one ration of food and a bottle of
water before once again burying their hidden cache.

*'*'*'*

He was not a moment too soon, as Teal'C and Molly arrived only seconds after he
was done followed by Sam.

Daniel was the last too joined them.

Looking at the girl, Teal'c had brought in, Jack addressed her, "Molly? This is
your food and water. You'll get it as soon as we've verified that your
information is correct." He said, pointing at the bottle and the MRE Sam was
packing into her backpack.

The girl, looking every bit the street urchin with her dirty cloth and unkempt
brown hair, watched the bag hungrily and sneered. "As long as you make sure you
keep up old man. I've got no intention of waiting Gramps."

Saying this she stormed off with SG1 following behind, trying to memorise the
way they took them some time to reach what Molly called the 'Native Forest' the
outskirts of which they followed until they could see a camp in the distance.

"That's the Traders camp. The big tent with the foxtail on top of it belongs to
Jake. He's a cheating son of a bitch." The young woman bit off with a snarl.

SG1 nodded, clearly aware from the girl's agitation that Molly had some personal
history with this Jake.

*'*'*'*

Sam entered the forest in an attempt to sneak closer to the camp using the trees
for cover and remaining unseen. In the meantime Jack was nursing a headache. He
had always thought that he got along great with kids, but Molly was obviously
the exception of the rule as she got on his nerves, big-time.

Molloy eyed Daniel lecherously, "Yo Geeky. Ever had a hot mouth on…"

Jack put his hand over her mouth.

Enough was enough...

"Listen Molly," He said in a strained tone, "I can imagine that this is boring
for you and realize that time on the streets hasn't done your vocabulary and
behaviour any favours. But please behave a little less like a whore and more
like a fifteen," "Sixteen" Molly said, clearly unhappy about being thought
younger.

"Sixteen year old."

She looked at Jack, before she turned around to glare at a red faced Daniel and
a stoic looking Teal'C.

"Don't get your knickers in a twist Gramps." Jack rolled his eyes and hoped Sam
wouldn't take too much longer.

He got his wish when only a few minutes later Sam came back and confirmed that
Kathy and Holly were among the slaves at the camp. As a result, Molly was given
the MRE and her Water and send on her way. They had Teal'C follow her discreetly
for a while to make sure she didn't suddenly change her mind and decide to warn
the slavers. In the meantime, while Teal'c was gone, the rest of SG1 was
planning the best course of action to free the slaves.

*'*'*'*

They were hiding among the trees waiting for the sun to set. With a look at the
rapidly darkening sky Jack gave a quick signal at Sam and Teal'C who began to
sneak near the slaves, trying to avoid the campfires.

In the mean time Jack and Daniel waited, ready to act should something go wrong
or to welcome the slaves should everything go right. Jack looked through his
night vision lens, alternating between focusing on the slaves and watching on
the guards positioned by the fires. Then he saw Sam cutting the shackles on the
last slave. Already the other captives were running in their direction as
quietly as possible.

Looking at Daniel he saw that the first girl had arrived and was being lead
further into the forest, when he suddenly heard a short scream. Looking back at
the camp he saw that Kathy had fallen and was now helped up by Holly. Acting
fast he threw a smoke grenade into the middle of the camp to make it impossible
to find the slaves with the light emitted by the fires. The camp itself was in
bedlam as all hell broke loose and it wasn't long till everybody there was
awake.

A brutish looking man, or perhaps a boy, raced after the escaping slaves only to
meet Carter who stopped him by breaking his leg with her rifle. Turning around
she stunned a young woman, who was trying to throw a torch at her, with her Zat.
Seeing the grass catching fire, Sam ran over to extinguish it, while cursing the
stupidity of the girl. Teal'c in the meantime had taken two Traders by surprise
and knocked them down from behind.

*'*'*'*

Holly and Kathy were the last to arrive in the forest and Jack wasted no time to
guiding them further, following the tracks Daniel and the others had created,
while Sam and Teal'C did their best to destroy the trace without using their
flashlights. They could only hope that it was enough.

"Who are you and why did you help us?" One of the girls asked, obviously not
believing that someone would risk their lives without at least hoping to gain an
advantage doing so.

"They are the Tollan." Kathy told eco-girl as Jack had, based on her clothes,
titled her in his mind.

"I don't know those two" She pointed at Jack and Teal'C "are but these are Sam
and Dan."

Feeling the need to add something Holly said "They are friends!"

"I'll trust you….for now." Looking at each of them she added "I'm Rose of the
eco-tribe."

Jack nearly snorted in laughter.

"Jack of the Tollan. My big buddy over there is Teal'C" Daniel in the meantime
was busy asking Holly how the two of them had been caught.

"They told me they had information about my sister, her names Ivy." Daniel got
the feeling that she wanted to say more about it and gave her a sign of
encouragement to continue. "She was on a class trip during the outbreak of the
virus. The installation of quarantine sectors kept her from returning home...I
haven't seen her in over one and a half years."

"Tell me about her." Daniel, having lost his wife first to the Goa'uld and then
to death, knew how it felt to have a loved one missing, not knowing if they were
still alive; not knowing if they would ever be reunited.

"She was 14 and really excited about the class trip. Our parents...they, they
loved plants and Ivy inherited that." A sad smile graced her lips as she told
Daniel what happened back then…

"She was all for the rights of plants and stuff. I used to make fun of that,
called her Poison Ivy. After that Batman villain, you know?" Daniel nodded; he
had read the comic as a kid.

"She would have turned fifteen on the trip, and we had a surprise party planned
for when she returned. But then the virus hit and she didn't come home, the
military didn't allow anyone to leave or enter the city. Mum…she was the first
to die." Holly sighted "I promised her I would find Ivy, that I would protect
her…" She looked down on her feet as if they where the most interesting thing
in the world.

Eventually, Holly turned her perceptive eyes on Daniel "Who did you lose…" She
asked softly.

"My Parents, when I was a boy. My wife, I lost her first to Terrorists and when
we finally freed her… she died." He gave her a sad smile as he picked a bit of
wood out of her long blond hair.

"You'll find her." Daniel promised, "One day, you'll find her."

As the children were in no condition to return to their Tribes or the City
centre Rose offered to take them to her tribe, as it was located nearby. Her
tribe leader 'Eagle', she said, wouldn't mind when she heard the story. For a
moment Jack played with the idea of a Xena-style Amazon tribe but from what Rose
had told them about 'Pride', who was her teacher, he guessed that this was not
the case.

They wandered for a time, along a small river that lead, as Rose explained,
towards an artificial lake. Jack was impressed with the foresight this bunch of
city kids had shown when they choose this place as a new home. Daniel and Sam
obviously thought the same, as he could hear them talking about something Daniel
called a "back to nature" development.

"O'Neill. There is a settlement in south-southwest, half a klick from our
position." Teal'c said, having scouted ahead.

"What's a Clic?" Kathy, who was walking behind Jack, asked.

"Klick is a military distance measurement method. It equals a kilometre or 0.62
miles." Jack said while looking for Rose.

"That your tribe or someone else?" He asked.

"The Eco's are the only tribe this far into the forest. Other tribes like the
Traders only frequent the outer parts." Rose replied.

Jack squinted at her, "That means Yes?"

"Yes!" The young woman snapped.

O'Neill smirked, "Good"

*'*'*'*

Sam smiled as she heard the small dialogue. Jack and Rose would either get a
long great or hate each other with a passion; she wasn't sure which one it would
be but guessed that she would find out soon enough. After all Jack was never
subtle when he hated someone, Kinsey and Anise where the best example for that.

"Rose, you and I will go and meet this Eagle." Rose looked at Jack with what
could only be described as a 'huh?' expression.

"We could of course overwhelm her by storming in there as a group but I thought
that maybe.." He started but was soon interrupted by Rose.

"First of all, who died and made you boss?" She said hotly. He grinned at her
like a cat that caught the canary.

"So you'd rather.."

"No!" Rose turned around and walked towards the eco camp "You coming?"

Jack, still grinning, gave a sign to the rest of his Team. "Teal'c, you'll
follow discreetly. Carter, you and Daniel watch over the group. Wait till Teal'c
contacts you before acting. "

Teal'c nodded signalling his approval.

"Yes Sir." Sam said, "But may I suggest taking Daniel with you? Not to be
disrespectful but he is a better Diplomat."

"Either Jack or Daniel" Rose screamed as she continued walking away from them.
Well if you could call it walking because she had slowed down as much as
possible to wait for Jack without actually to be waiting. "We don't want to
startle them."

Jack rolled his eyes "Do your thing Daniel." Tipping his hand against his
radiohe added "Check in every 15 Minutes"

"You're wasting battery's on that?" One of the kids asked flabbergasted.

"Correction, we're using batteries on that." He said it in a tone that allowed
no objection.



                       Kapitel 5: Meeting the Eco Tribe
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Disclaimer: Same as for the last chapters.

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Daniel and Rose were walking slowly with their hands held up high as they
entered the camp. As Daniel looked around he realised that 'camp' was not the
right expression. This was because what Daniel saw in the glow of the fires
reminded him more of a Maori village than the refugee camp he expected.

'They don't survive, they live.' He thought as he watched an older boy teach a
younger one how to read.

"We mean no harm." Daniel held up his hands just a bit higher as he said that,
while Rose, having enough of this nonsense took down her own.

"ROSE!" A boy, maybe 6 or 7 years old, screamed as he ran towards them.

"Mickey. God I missed you" Rose smiled as she embraced the boy.

They looked happy and Daniel asked himself what kind of relationship they might
have.

"You where gone for quite a while." The voice came from behind Daniel and he
turned to face her.

Walking towards them was a blond woman, dressed in a get up that was strange,
even for the tribe society. She had her hair pined up to knots and was dressed
in a blue bodysuit, that was liberally decorated with feathers.

"Not voluntarily." Explained Rose as her hand continued gliding up and down the
young boys back. "I was taken by the Traders on my way into the City. Daniel"
here she pointed at her companion "and his team freed me and the others earlier
tonight."

"We are indebted to you Daniel." The blond woman voiced her believe, while her
face was graced by a small smile. "But please, tell me everything."

"It is late." The Archaeologist explained as looked up to the dark sky. "And the
way back into the city is long." He added now focusing on the blond woman he
assumed to be Eagle.

"The children we rescued need a place to stay for the night and Rose suggested
your village."

For a moment there was no reaction, but then she called for Pride, the boy who
taught Rose if Daniel remembered correctly. His get up was normal, or at least
normal as far as it concerned the tribe society.

With his black combat boots, the grey-black camouflage pants, grey black shirt
and long black dreadlocks he blended in with his surroundings far better than
Eagle.

"Pride, take two of the others and gather as many blankets as we can spare and
all the drinkable water. Rose will show you the way." Pride didn't seem happy
about leaving her alone in Daniel's presence, but he left without a word,
followed by Rose.

In the meantime Eagle had focused on Mickey. "Go and tell Nelly that tomorrow we
will have to boil more water than usual."

Two of the older tribe members had, in the meantime come closer and Eagle
gestured them to her.

"These two are Lily and Don. They will guard you tonight."

The 'to make sure you don't attack us' was left unsaid.

*'*'*'*'*

It was dawn and the eco's were already up and working. From catching fish and
boiling water to repairing cloth, the duties were varied and it reminded him of
pre-industrialised villages around the world.

"You are coping very well. It's...it's impressive how you rediscover skills and
organise everything." And it was, as Daniel couldn't imagine that someone had
taught these children how to catch a rabbit. Looking around he focused on the
school where one of the older children thought six of the younger ones how to
build a trap.

"We were not totally without knowledge and we had the time to utilise it." Eagle
explained.

"We have improved and still are improving our skills, especially the fighting
and teaching skills."

Eagle was proud of her tribe, it showed clearly in the way she spoke about it.

"You teach fighting?" He shouldn't have been surprised, while the eco's were
peaceful the tribe society as a whole was not.

"Survival of the fittest. We do not want war, but we want to survive."

*'*'*'**'*'*'*

In the meantime Jack had arranged a meeting of those that were freed the night
before. "From what Rose told me we are here" He illuminated while pointing on
his map.

"That gives us two possible ways back to the city."

He was now pointing inside the forest.

"This way. North-North-East through the forest."

Slightly changing the angle he now pointed at a different part of the forest.

"Or that way. East towards the street and then north towards the city."

Looking at the children he continued.

"If anyone of you is hurt in a way that complicates walking you need to let me
know. Because then, and only then, we will take the way east."

"Why? It's obviously more comfortable." One of the boys asked.

"Because the traders camp is East North-East." Sam explained, showing him the
mapwere she had marked the camp the night before.

"But would we.." the one of the girls began but Sam interrupted her.

"We wouldn't necessarily encounter them but we don't want to take risks if it is
avoidable."

"Carter will walk in front while Teal'C will guard our rear and Daniel and I
remain with the group." Jack said to continued Sam's explanation.

Chaos erupted as everyone tried to talk to everyone else and it just didn't seem
to stop.

"OK Guys." Jack started only to interrupt himself.

"SILENCE!"

That had the desired effect as everyone stopped talking.

"OK Guys" Jack started once more. "We're meeting again in fifteen minutes. Be
ready by then. Carter !"

"Yes Sir."

"Go and search for Daniel." He turned to face the Jaffa "T, you and I will
search for Eagle."

"That will not be necessary." Teal'C replied before turning his head to indicate
towards the village, from which Daniel and Eagle where emerging.

"You will be leaving?" The leader of the Ecos asked as she reached the rest of
SG1.

"In about 13 minutes" Jack replied, "You are ready Daniel?"

The Archaeologist nodded "Yes. But there is something Eagle wants to talk to you
about."

"I am able to speak for myself." Eagle looked sternly at Daniel as she said
this, before turning to the Colonel while Daniel's face had turned a nice shade
of red.

"Your Tribe may be small but you are rich in skills and medical recourses. We on
the other hand can provide manpower and food. As one has what the other needs
I'd like to propose a tribe alliance."




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