Enemies Foreign

[Morosz]

"Attention! Admiral on the bridge!" Everyone standed up and saluted to Admiral O'Neill as he entered the bridge of the Odyssey. Quickly saluting back and ordering the officers to continue their work he walked to the window and tried to light a cigarette but as always, his lighter gave up at the worst possible time. He turned towards Commander Sader who was sitting in the helm's seat. "Oh come on. John could you give me your lighter? It seems my own just gave up." John looked up from the console he was working on and walked to O'Neill, took out his lighter and gave it to the little annoyed Admiral. "There you go sir." "Thanks. By the way are we ready?" "Almost sir. We are curently going trough final checks. Cargo bays 1 2 3 and 4 are full with supplies for the mission. Engeniering just reported that the new comm relay is functional and ready, and that the Juneau engeniers left the ship." Jack took the lighter lighted his cigarette and gave back the lighter to John. "Good to hear Commander. Now lets get to work.".....

An hour later.

Jack was sitting in his chair on the bridge smoking a cigarette and thinking about something very deeply when Commander Sader's voice woke him up. "Sir. Final checks are complete. Engeniering reports green status. We are ready to request launch premission." Jack turned his head towards Sader "Good. Open a channell to Juneau controll." "Aye aye sir." "Channel open." "Juneau controll this is the LNS Odyssey requesting premission to launch, over." "Roger that Odyssey your request to launch is granted, good luck out there, Juneau controll out" Jack turned towards Lieutenant Drake. "Allright Drake, manuvering thrusters only untill we leave spacedock after that one quarter impulse speed till we set course." Lieutenant Drake repplied affirmatively "Yes sir." Jack then turned towards Sader. "John start plot the course." "Aye sir." The Odyssey slowly left spacedock and after the course was plotted she quickly charged her cruise engines and left...

3 weeks later.

Jack was sitting in the cantina drinking a cup of tea and reading scanner data from his pda. "And once again nothing intresting." He said silently, then took out a cigarette lighted it and leaned back to enjoy the rest of his tea. At this very moment Sader entered the cantina to grab a sandwich and hand over some reports to O'Neill before going back to work. Reaching the table where O'Neill was sitting he took out the pda wich contained the data. "Sir. Here are some fresh reports and scanner data." Jack took a deep smoke and turned his attention to Sader. "Thanks. John do you have a moment?" "Well honestly i should go back to work but i think that maybe i can spare some minutes why?" Sit down for a moment." John did as Jack asked he sat down and lighted a cigarette. "Long time since we managed to talk." "Indeed sir. But mainly because most of the time i was on the yukon and you rarely go outside alaska." "Maybe. But this is not what i want to talk about." Taking a small smoke from his cigarette John asked. "Then what is it sir?" Jack dropped his cigarette into the ashtray and finished his tea. "I want to know how is the crew holding up so far. Like we've been here for 3 weeks now and the omicrons aren't the most friendly place where a person can be. Especially if its in a Battleship. And since i know they would never show that they had enough when iam near them i ask you." After a short thinking John did not remember anykind of negative or tired comment from the crewmembers he met so far. "Well as far as i can tell the crew is holding up perfectly sir. And what about you?" Jack raised an eyebrow. "What about me? What do you mean?" John took a deeper smoke from his cigarette. "Well....you seem to be a little apathetic theese days. And actually Drake and I are worried a little." Jack smiled a bit. "Oh. Well don't worry iam fine iam just a bit tired thats all." "Oh i see. Well allright then." With this sentence John standed up. "And now i have to go back. See you on the bridge sir. With this last sentence John walked out from the cantina. "Ok. See ya there." Jack standed up as well and walked out from the cantina too but he went to his office first.

Upon reaching his office the ship's alarm was raised and from the speakers Lieutenant Drake's voice was heard. "Atention! All hands to battlestations. Repeat all hands to battlestations. Admiral O'Neill to the bridge!" Jack turned away from the door of his office and started to run towards the elevator. "Oh, for crying out loud." As Jack ran trough the corridors of the ship he finally reached the bridge.

"Allright at ease everyone. Status report." Jack stopped at right side of the bridge looking on Drake. "Sir we picked up an unindentified ship on intercept course. ETA 2 minutes." Jack walked to his chair and sat down.Damn it, that means we cannot cloack away and escape unnoticed. "Now the only question wich remains is what will we do when its in range."Jack sighed and turned towards Sader. Thank you mister obvious. But i think since we cannot run and i don't want to waste energy on killing that target let's see what he or she wants from us. In case it's a human of course. But keep the weapons powered up and the shields at full.
John repplied with a quick nod and after sending the orders to the gunners and the engeniering he resumed observing the radar.