hathor_girl

Earlier that day

Nick Marlowe - known as the intrepid, fearless Colonel Danning on the TV show Wormhole X-Treme, was cowering behind a table, beside Yolanda Reese, which fans of the show would recognize as Major Stacy Monroe.

"How in the hell did this happen?" Nick hissed in a low voice. "We'd just gotten into the mess hall here, and we haven't even got any food yet! Who is that insane madman?"

"How should I know?" Yolanda spat back, her heart beating rapidly with fear. "Why did I ever agree to this?"

"A military institution would seem like a safe place, though, wouldn't it?" Raymond Gunne - the actor who played Dr. Levant on Wormhole X-Treme, said, crawling over beside the others.

"Lots of guards, sure, but lots of crazy nuts too, I'd think - and looks like one of them freaked! I hate the air force!" Nick exclaimed, his voice just a bit too loud. "Why aren't they watching out for us?"

Hermes flashed his eyes and looked towards the humans hiding behind the tipped over table. "Shut up, miserable slaves! Perhaps you'd like to feel the holy fire?" Hermes fired up his weapon and sent out a yellow bolt that hit Nick squarely on the shoulder.

Nick screamed out in pain and started convulsing on the floor, as if he had an epileptic episode. Yolanda began to cry and Raymond began to hyper-ventilate.

Most of the people gasped in fear, and some started crying.

"No, no, no, no..." Raymond repeated as he began rocking back and forth.

"Quiet, idiot!" Douglas Anders hissed at him, wriggling closer and doing his best to stay as close to the floor as possible while doing so. He was known as Grell the robot on Wormhole X-Treme, and he was more than a bit too big to be inconspicuous.

"I agree, we should not further call the attention of the angry individual." JR Bourne said, joining the others behind the big table. He was a newcomer in the group, and had only been in a few episodes of Wormhole X-Treme. His character was called Cartof, and he was supposedly an alien resistance fighter.

"How did he even hear us?" Yolanda whispered, when Nick had stopped spasming and Hermes had moved his attention elsewhere. "He's across the room - like maybe 50 feet away!"

"Yeah, and what's with his voice?" Raymond grumbled in a low voice.

They all fell quiet, with the exception of the occasional whimper of fear from someone. Around the room, other people where cowering, trying to avoid calling attention to themselves.

JR Bourne tried to clear his mind. Ever since they had come to this place, he had felt weird - almost as if something was prickling or humming in his blood. To be honest, he thought it may have started a little while ago, as they approached the place, but he did not become truly aware of it until he had been here some time. Strange.

That wasn't the only thing that was strange. He recognized this place - or at least a similar place? And he recognized the weird tingling feeling in his blood, as if it was quite normal, and something he had sensed before. Almost as if it was...familiar?

He shook his head. This was crazy! Did it have anything to do with those weird dreams he had started to have now and then? Those where people with glowing eyes tortured him with strange devices? Other people with some kind of armor, and retractable helmets...and then there was the blue tunnels. Those he dreamt of often. Another frequent dream was about a beautiful woman, with blue eyes and blond hair. Her appearance changed sometimes, and her her would become short. Was she one or two people - or three?

The blue tunnels usually held people in his dreams, usually in tan uniforms of some kind. Sometimes those people would have glowing eyes also, but these people seemed kind. Perhaps he was going crazy.

Except, now there was a man in the room who had those exact type of glowing eyes! And the distorted voice seemed right somehow. He knew the man was evil, but he was not afraid of him. Not like the others were - he knew this was not a strange demon, nor was it just a human with some tricks up his sleave.

The word 'Goa'uld' came to him when he looked at him. It didn't mean anything to him, but he knew that was what that man was.

Again he felt that weird sensation in the back of his head and neck, as if something...moved? That sensation of an almost-presence of...someone?

He decided to push off the thoughts of his perhaps-craziness and focus on getting out of this situation alive.

Some time passed, with the people in the mess hall - except for Hermes - cowering and trying not to call the attention to themselves. Some cried silently, others just tried to be as inconspicuous as possible. All thought why had did happened, why had this being taken them hostage? What was a chaapa'ai? The strange man had demanded to be allowed to go through that or he would kill them all!

The man who called himself Hermes began pacing the room, waiting for finding out if he would be allowed through the 'chaapa'ai' or if he should begin shooting the hostages.

JR suddenly felt a different tingling in his blood, similar to the constant one since he had arrived here, but slightly different. He realized it was when the man called Hermes came nearer - and unfortunately Hermes realized at the same time. He became furious.

Stepping up close to JR, and pointing the strange weapon at him, Hermes screamed. "You have a symbiote! You are Tok'ra of course! The traitorous Tau'ri have hidden a Tok'ra in here! They thought you would overpower me, but your cowardly nature made you hide instead. Well, no longer, you have been discovered!" He raised the weapon and fired a blue beam at JR at short range.

JR screamed shortly, convulsing on the floor, before his eyes flashed briefly, and then he became unconscious.