Five planets that the SGC wish they had never sent a team to



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From: [personal profile] archersangel (from livejournal.com)


oannes. (fire & water) because they ended up thinking daniel was dead & the rest of SG-1 was traumatized.

P3W-451. (a matter of time) because of the black hole that got SG-10 & nearly destroyed earth.

the planet where they found ma'chello. (holiday) considering all of the trouble he body switching machine caused.

P4X-639. (window of opportunity) where the found malikai & the time device. it resulted in at least a 3 month time loop.

kelowna. (meridian) where daniel got the lethal dose of radiation.

From: [identity profile] sg1-sj-lover.livejournal.com

Five Planets That The SGC Wish They Had Never Sent a Team To


1 ~ P2C-687. SG-3 came back from that mission... high on some sort of plant on the surface. It took four days to get those marines to stop giggling like a group of teenage gi rls. And the pranks pulled on Colonel O'Neill... well, Jack made sure those were ones that would never be spoken of again.

2 ~ P3A-220. SG-9 had taken that one. A simple trade operation, that's all it was. The next day, it was revealed to the SGC that it had been an ambush. They held their breath when Walter received SG-9's IDC. As they opened the iris to find that three of the four members of the team weren't there... they'd never look at trade missions the same after that.

3 ~ P3X-993. SG-11 came back with refugees from that planet. SG-13 told them there had been an attack on the people by Apophis. The SGC welcomed their first refugees with open arms, only to be repaid by a virus that spread through the base like nothing they had seen before.

The base was locked down and they discovered that the sickness only lasted three to five days. They placed the refugees on a new planet as quickly as they could. The worst thing about the experience was the longer-lasting, more subtle effects of the virus in some. Let's just say the SGC had to retrieve many of the copied security tapes of the events that occurred in Sam's lab. And Daniel's.

4 ~ P4X-528. SG-1 had gotten the short straw taking this one. The M.A.L.P. showed no strange activity. When they arrived, however, they found themselves in the middle of a planet of children. Not just ordinary children. No, these children, however normal they appeared on the outside, were... not normal in the least.

The first sign was when a seven year old boy spotted them from literally a mile away. He ran to them before they had even taken a step.

The next sign was when a four year old gi rl picked Teal'c up and held him over her head. They barely escaped with their lives. Alright... that might be an exaggeration. But their dignity was certainly dented by the time they returned to the SGC. And the General didn't hear the end of it for a long, long time.

5 ~ P3X-666. SG-13. Another ambush. Every remaining member of the SGC blamed themselves for not figuring out what was going on before they lost one of their own. A vital member of their team. Dr. Janet Frasier.

Many thoughts of closing the program passed through the minds of each and every person on base. The threat from the Goa'uld was all to real to do that. And, before long, they had to save the planet once again. But not once, did they make any decision without Janet's sacrifice being recalled to their minds. And she would never be forgotten.

From: [identity profile] theeverdream.livejournal.com


Notes and warnings for the following story:

This is set between 1.19-Tin Man and 4.21-Double Jeopardy and contains spoilers for both episodes. It probably will not make sense if you haven’t seen at least Tin Man - here is a spoiler-full summary (http://www.stargate-sg1-solutions.com/wiki/1.19_%22Tin_Man%22_Episode_Guide) that doesn’t tell everything about the episode but will make my story make way more sense.

I have played around with the definition of “the SGC” a bit for this prompt – I suspect that loosely defined it could be “the place they come back to”. I have not numbered the planets but there are indeed five.. one of them isn’t a mission but... well, yeah, just read and hopefully it’ll all make sense. :-)

Warnings: Angst. Some language, and non-explicit sexual content. And did I mention angst? Because yeah, this is not a happy story.

From: [identity profile] theeverdream.livejournal.com


It took him two weeks to bury the gate.

He would sit and stare at it, thinking for hours of what they’d lost.

The others offered to help, but he had to do this – take this final step to making it real in his mind – alone.

It should have killed him, when Teal’c shoved his head into the path of scalding gas. Except instead of blood, bone, and burnt-off flesh, Jack was made of metal and wires.

When he finally lifted his hand to the control panel of the machine that would pick up the gate and deposit it in a massive hole to be buried like so much else, Jack thought that he might never again stop wanting to die.


**********

It was actually Harlan’s one-too-many “com-traya!”s that pulled Jack out of his initial funk. Not that he felt any better about losing his life, but at least avoiding insanity due to Harlan’s incessant annoyance gave him a goal to focus on.


**********

After a while, they settled into a routine of fixing old things around the complex, adding new improvements, and saying “com-traya” at each other in various degrees of sincerity/sarcasm, depending on the speaker. None of the newcomers were doing okay, exactly, but Carter distracted herself by becoming very involved in the work, and Teal’c’s level nature helped him deal.

One day Daniel asked Harlan if their bodies were “fully functional.” All five of them were sitting around one day after a brief but rather intense emergency with some pipe or another; they had just fallen into their chairs with a collective sigh of relief. Before Harlan could open his mouth to chatter away Daniel asked his question, and to a few stunned looks he continued, “cause, you know, I could really use some sex.”

That was when Jack realized that Daniel was most likely just as depressed as he was.


**********

Their mechanical bodies were indeed fully functional.

After Harlan had blinked at them a lot in response to Daniel’s question and muttered something that nobody really heard, Jack went to one of the little hidden-away cubbyholes he often used when he really just needed to be alone.

He tried jerking off and found that yes, things seemed like he remembered. Funny, though – he hadn’t thought about sex since he got here, hadn’t been having the wet dreams about Daniel that he normally had when he went too long without sex or in emotionally stressful situations like this one.

Maybe sexual arousal was available in these bodies to be accessed when you told it to be, and not before? Or something. Jack didn’t pretend to understand the mechanics of what he now walked around with. Some things were obviously different, like strength and mental alertness, and maybe this was just one of those different things.

But maybe... when things were really bad, when they went beyond emotionally stressful and moved into life-shattering, maybe the sexual part of Jack just... went ignored for a while.

It had, after all, happened once before.


**********


(continued)

From: [identity profile] theeverdream.livejournal.com


A month or so after Daniel’s question, Carter and Teal’c, while not being overwhelmingly obvious about the fact that they were screwing each other, weren’t completely discreet, either. And that was fine as far as Jack was concerned. This, their new home, was very much not the way things used to be; they had what they had and if Carter and Teal’c had each other now, after not seeming interested before, then that was perfectly fine, even if it would have shocked Jack to no end back at the SGC.

Jack did want to confirm, however, so he privately asked Carter about it. Which actually ended up as him stammering something that may have been related to the words “sex” and “Teal’c”. To which Carter replied, among other carefully worded and non-offended or offensive sounding things, that the bickering that Daniel and Jack were engaging in on a daily basis as a poor attempt at dealing with their mutual feelings for each other gave her headaches and she really liked Teal’c’s calming presence and she really, really could not, at this time, imagine having sex with Jack.

Sam was more observant about his feelings than he’d always hoped she’d be, and for a moment, it scared him very badly. Years of repression don’t just vanish overnight, even if, over that night, you have been turned into a non-military affiliated robot.

But then Jack then thought “to hell with it all” and went to go find, and hopefully fuck, the man he loved.


**********

But it didn’t go well.

Jack hadn’t counted on Daniel needing finesse, although he thought in retrospect that he probably should have assumed. Daniel ended up storming out, offended, and Jack’s inability to talk about his feelings meant things didn’t get any better.

Carter and Teal’c moved into a room on an edge of the complex that was more private and comfortable: a bedroom, for lack of a better term.

Jack discovered that Harlan’s annoyance was apparently still limitless, and he wondered if after thousands of years he’d get like that, too.


**********

Jack unburied the gate approximately eight minutes after Carter said she had finished the portable power pack she had been working on in secret.


**********

(continued)

From: [identity profile] theeverdream.livejournal.com


It wasn’t the same.

It was better than being stuck in that underground, broken-down-despite-their-best-efforts facility.

But while it was kinda cool to see exactly how their new bodies could outperform their old ones, and it was fun to get distracted from depression with pretend missions, each time they came back to the complex and Harlan and realized all over again that this was now the only SGC they’d ever have....

They all tried not to think about it.


**********

They refused to take Harlan with them anywhere and besides, he didn’t want to go – he wanted them to stay. There was nothing he could do but be unhappy, worried, and slightly resentful every time they went off-world, regardless of how well their mission went.

Harlan spent a lot of time wishing that he had the guts to destroy the batteries, and that Sam wouldn’t have been able to just make new ones.


**********

Their first new mission was to Kosyn, a world rich in natural beauty beyond belief – ultra-rich colors, waterfalls like fairy tales and fields of flowers to take your breath away. They found a village of extremely xenophobic people, whose reaction to Daniel’s “we’re peaceful explorers” speech was to set him on fire. When he rolled out the fire and arose, patches of bare metal gleaming in the sun, the villagers ran. All but one, who, they quickly discovered, had apparently died of a non-dead-Daniel induced heart failure.


**********

A handful of missions in, they found themselves on a planet of the type for which MALPs were invented. They barely escaped the Jaffa guarding the gate. Jack never told anyone how much fun he’d had fighting for his life that day, but they all noticed that his mood had lifted for a while after.


**********

Then there was Tesuola, where the inhabitants were fun, welcoming, and extremely sexually oriented. They conducted the “Ceremony of Invitation” in honor of the team, which could basically be described as a town-wide orgy. Before, Jack would have made polite excuses and gotten them the heck out of there. But now and then were very far away, and they stayed.

Blankets and plush cushions were spread in various places throughout the square and a field a short distance away. Wine and food were brought out and set up buffet-style.

Carter and Teal’c followed some villagers to a large assembly of cushions in a corner of the square.

Jack tried to romance Daniel, who demonstrated his level of interest by grabbing and going off with a very pretty boy of about twenty.

Jack could feel every wrinkle.

He wandered a little, and then sat by himself in a hidden alcove, where he was sure not to be spotted as he watched Daniel.

The night after they got back, Daniel went to Jack and cried into his shoulder.

“None of this is the same, Jack. We’ve lost so much.”

“I know,” Jack said. “It’s awful.”

Jack gently lifted Daniel’s head and looked into his eyes.

And with calm conviction and a small sense of hope apparent in his words Jack murmured, “I’ve still got you.”

Daniel gazed back at Jack as though he’d been waiting for those words his entire life.


**********

Jack found he could manage a little better after that, now that he had Daniel. They went to an uninhabited planet together sometimes, just the two of them, and for a few brief moments Jack could imagine that this was the life he would have chosen.


**********

And then came the mission to Juna – P2X-729 – where Daniel knelt in front of a man with a staff and shook his head at Jack.

Jack would have killed every man in that place to save Daniel, damn all the consequences, except he knew that Daniel was as weary as he was. Tired in the depths of his soul.

And later, as he looked into his own face telling him that he had no one left to lead... as he could feel his imitation body failing... he felt peace.

He was ready to die.

From: [identity profile] mailroomy.livejournal.com


1. The Planet with the Photocopier-gate
First time they arrived, the natives loved chocolate and asked for more. SGC sent seven crates of chocolate for mining rites. Fourteen crates arrived. It was a puzzle but the team blamed it on over-zealous supply crews, especially since the seven-member mining crew arrived as ordered, not one person more or less. Then SG-1 left for home.

When one of the mining crew opened mouth inserted one foot one foot too many, the natives were surprisingly "nice". They didn't throw tantrums, didn't hold any hostages, didn't require blood rites or anything so gruesome like that. They merely sent the crew back with a small secretive smile. Seven member went through the gates, fourteen people arrived back at SGC.

The mess took several year's worth of migraine pills and the planet was not to be visited anymore.

"But they're nice people," Jack said, so they saved the address for an especially rainy day.

2. The Pollenosphere Planet
Instead of a proper troposphere, this planet where advancedly-mutated humanoid bees thrive had a Pollenosphere thicker than the earth's first two atmospheric layer combined. It was enough to awaken the dormant allergies that lies in the core of every human being ever born on earth, however deep that core may be buried. And much to everyone's chagrin, the natives saw space-suits as replicas of their much-hated enemies and would not receive them in such "vile costumes".

The planet was locked out until a suitable industrial-strength anti-histamine could be invented, or for humans to evolve enough, or both. Even then, it was almost a given the Dr. J could only marvel at bee-scratchings and marvellous runes from afar.

3. Marvin's Homeworld
The natives called their home planet, Fantabula, but Jack christened it Marvin's Homeworld after Marvin from Douglas Adam's tetralogy. The sense of pessimistically depressive paranoia saturated the air that even the most cheerful Sgt. Alice Golightly needed extensive therapy before she could crack a smile again.

The planet's designation was saved for those days one needed to send much hated enemies to their emo-demise. But so far, they hadn't thought of anyone they would wish it upon.

4. The Jackpot Planet
According to an ancient manuscript found in a very unremarkable planet, there was this one planet with the most amazing cache of mining products, from base metals to naquadria to whatever else you could think of. A veritable planet worthy of several Congress-approved drool buckets.

But. Too hot. Too close to a red supergiant. Too risky. Too bad so sad.

A few senators tried to sponsor ways of inventing ultra-cooling gears, but Jack didn't think that anyone with the right frame of mind would want a visit to Planet Hell.

5. Mercury
There were never Martians on Mars, but there were Mercurials on Mercury. Not the most unpleasant beings SG-1 had ever met, not the nicest either.

"You wont' send me there. ever. again!" Jack exclaimed. "Sir." He added belatedly.

"Indeed," Teal'c said, "It was worse than being locked in a room with seventeen menopausal goa'uld queens."

"A predicament you've found yourself in, I'm sure," Daniel said, wondering why he was so surprised at the "Indeed" he received.
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From: [personal profile] sid


There's a pattern - #1 they thought Daniel died, #3 Daniel nearly died, #5 Daniel really did (temporarily) die.

But poor SG-10 never got a second and third chance. :-(

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From: [personal profile] sid

Re: Five Planets That The SGC Wish They Had Never Sent a Team To


Good mix of humor and sadness, with the canon punch-in-the-gut ending. :-(

Those kiddies in #4 sound spooky!
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From: [personal profile] sid


First, let me state for the record that I am entirely in favor of doubled chocolate shipments. ;-D

*sporfles at #3* Emo-demise!

The stories Teal'c could tell, lol.
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From: [personal profile] sid


Robot!Jack is the most haunting of the robot!SG-1. OMG, to feel peace at the end of his existence when his comrades have all fallen....

There's so much to love here: the insincere com-trayas, the hint at that other point in Jack's life where sexuality had shut down, Daniel requiring finesse, the mutual grief that finally brings them together. *sighs*


From: [identity profile] theeverdream.livejournal.com


Thank you much! Great to hear specifics you liked :-)

I got the "haunting" feeling from watching Tin Man, definitely. Such an awful situation for the robots to be in... I felt so sorry for them.

From: [identity profile] antares04a.livejournal.com


The first planet seems like the perfect answer to all finacial problems. *lol*

And 3 is great - I'm sure there's a Goa'uld out there that deserves to be sent there.

and 5 - *Lol* Poor Teal'c!

From: [identity profile] sg1-sj-lover.livejournal.com

Re: Five Planets That The SGC Wish They Had Never Sent a Team To


Yeah, I certainly wouldn't want to stay too long with those kids...

I couldn't resist adding Heroes in there... I couldn't find a better way to end it. I'm sure they really wished they hadn't sent them there.

From: [identity profile] my-lil-darlin.livejournal.com


I read this on the rec of a friend. I looooooves me some angst-- the angstier, the better-- so as you can imagine, your Robot!SG-1 story was more than satisfying to me. Poor Jack especially-- you caught his emotions, his despair, his frustration with himself and his inability to communicate effectively, really well. Lovely work, every word.
Jude

From: [identity profile] theeverdream.livejournal.com


Thank you so much. This comment really meant a lot to me. I am relatively new to writing fanfic, and so far when I have written angst I have felt almost apologetic about sharing it. I like reading angst too, but normally like it with happy endings, and some types of angst just make me sad and aren't good, and so I tend to forget that some people just do really love reading angst! So your comment was such a great reminder, and will help me feel much more confident when I write angst in the future!

And thanks for telling me specific things you liked about Jack. Watching the episodes I felt empathy for Jack specifically, I think the way that they focused on him more or something, and I am happy to have been able to get some of those emotions into words.

Thank you so so much!
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From: [personal profile] sarkka


Oh the ache..........bravo, well done =)
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