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that the deck space aboard the vessel probably equaled half that of one of the
World Trade towers.
"You not bring your people inside here!" The young Abydan's grasp of English
slipped under stress.
O'Neil simply climbed the barricade, setting off down the corridor. He was
quickly joined by Charlton and West.
"I will send to Skaara!" the furious young man yelled.
It was the only threat he could use. He knew his poнsition couldn't hold against
a determined assault from O'Neil's troops.
Jack O'Neil knew the militia leader when Skaara had been a simple shepherd. The
colonel had beнfriended the young man when the original reconnaisнsance team had
arrived on Abydos. Skaara had responded by organizing his friends into a group
of boy commandos to rescue O'Neil and the other team members when they'd become
the prisoners of Ra.
From that original resistance cell, Skaara's militia had grown to company size
and beyond, attaining almost Frankensteinian proportions during and after the
attack by the crew of Ra's Eye.
But the two commanders, Earther and Abydan, knew each other. O'Neil could
imagine Skaara's reaction. "Call to Skaara on your radio," the colonel said
coolly. "I bet he'll tell you to help us search."
O'Neil emerged to find a half-panicked mob of militiamen milling around in the
midst of his camp and shook his head. He could only hope that the infiltrators
were still aboard and not hidden in that churning mob.
Three intruders did not a major invasion make. But , the very smallness of the
force set off alarms in O'Neil's head. His background was covert work. And this
fire drill had all the hallmarks of infiltrators being inserted. Maybe Hathor or
whoever was heading up the opposition was looking for some intelligence-this
threesome could be the Horus guard equivalent of recon Marines.
Or they could be up to some sort of deadly mischief. It seemed unlikely that
three operatives-even high-tech ops-could jump-start the wrecked starcraft. If
fixing the good ship Ra's Eye had been that easy, Hathor's crew could have done
it themselves.
On the other hand, there were lots of sensitive systems left behind in the
hulk-technological secrets that Ra's successors might prefer to deny Earth
scientists. Selective sabotage or wholesale destrucнtion-either strategy might
be a possibility.
"Charlton, we're going to need additional security details. I want a perimeter
established around the ship. No one to get in or out-"
O'Neil flicked a quick glance to West, but the genнeral said nothing, leaving
everything in O'Neil's hands-and if necessary, on his head.
"And let's get our own message to Skaara. We'll have to search that sucker deck
by deck, and I'd rather do that with his approval-and presence, if possible."
Skaara put in an appearance well after the ship had been surrounded and sealed
off. Several militia offiнcers were still arguing about O'Neil's trespass aboard
"their" ship when he arrived.
"I'm sorry, Colonel," the handsome young man apologized. "There's some trouble
brewing in the city that needed my attention."
When he got the full story on the Horus guard inнcursion, he blistered his own
people and opened the ship right up.
"The devils disappeared into the wall right here," a militiaman explained,