Team SG-21 moves down the riverbed as it approaches the Ancient Ruins, searching for the missing Russian covert operations team and trying to avoid immediate contact with Goa'uld or Jaffa presumed to be in the area. The team entered the board through a stargate located behind the butte visible on the right side of the top image.
This linkup was successful and the Russian indicated there were other Russian team members somewhere around and that they had been watching the Goa'uld digging around the area and doing something in the big Pyramid structure....
The team kept spotting more and more Jaffa and realized that to thwart whatever the Goa'uld were doing on the planet, they'd have to engage the Goa'uld and the Jaffa. They setup along the river's edge with their team's sniper to the rear and with Darren McPhail covering the flank from the river from a stand of trees.
Major Allen, the team leader, gave the word and volleys of gunfire and grenades ensued, with Jaffa going down, more Jaffa appearing, and then more Jaffa joining the first waves lying dead or seriously wounded on the sand or in the riverbank. This is reflected in the third picture. As the battle rages, the Russians reveal themselves in the ruin and begin engaging the Jaffa up in the ruins with the intention of planting a demolition charge in the pyramid.
SG-21, meanwhile, engages all the Jaffa from the front section of the ruin plus those moving in from nearby patrols. They find themselves attacked by a swarm of Jaffa accompanying a Goa'uld (fourth picture). At this time, things look a little tight for SG-21 with team members narrowly avoiding staff blasts, using up their luck, and being faced by the arrival of a staff cannon on a tripod.The battle continues to rage, the Russians manage to mow down a bunch of Jaffa in the ruins and gain access to the Pyramid, planting a bomb and having their Demolitionist launched bodily from the Pyramid by a Goa'uld Hand Device. Fortunately, he had layed the charges and they started to extract towards SG-21 and the Stargate.
Meanwhile, at the riverbed, SG-21 had found some of its mojo, downing most of the Jaffa in the riverbed with some very accurate fire (some of it from the lone Russian with the team). The Goa'uld sent one of his last Jaffa to activate the Stargate so he could leave and he followed more sedately in the wake of the Jaffa after stopping dead a lethal volley of bullets from the Russian operator with his personal shield.
The Russian suffered a bit of a fit when his fine shooting was ineffective, cursing profusely in Russian and hauling out his vodka flask, which he promptly drained, interspersed with more cursing in Russian. The air was positively blue...
That left the Goa'uld to deal with and he moved to take shelter from Captain Hunter's fire behind the DHD. What he did not reckon with, nor honestly did any of the SG-21 team members expect, was the Russian operator they had linked up with to enter some form of blind rage, partly spurred by the power of Vodka and partly spurred by his great anger at the unexpected presence of a Personal Shield on the Goa'uld.
The angry Russian slapped his bayonet on his AK-74, reasoning that if bullets moved to fast and were stopped by the Goa'uld's Personal Shield, then perhaps a simply spearing would prove sufficient! Motivated by rage and well-endowed with liquid courage, the Russian sprinted right up to the Goa'uld and engaged him in melee, jamming his bayonet into the neck of the Goa'uld and putting his whole substantive body weight behind it to see it lodged there. The Goa'uld's host was instantly killed, despite the powerful healing powers of the Goa'uld symbiote. See the sixth image for the shot of this climactic melee. With the Goa'uld down, everyone flees for the Stargate, with the Pyramid blowing up behind the fleeing Russians and then the alien device inside imploding in a way that suggests perhaps a small singularity is about to form. This encourages everyone to flee quickly.
The Russian Colonel remains heroically behind to seal the gate, ordering his demolitions expert to get back to the SGC. In doing so, he ensures his own demise and the safety of the SGC. Posthumously, he was awarded the Hero of the Russian Federation.
What went unnoticed in all the adrenal rush of the escape was the fate of the Drunken Russian operator. The Goa'uld host was killed by the bayonet, but the symbiote was not. While celebrating his success, the Russian Sergeant-Major was taken by the Goa'uld symbiote as a host and returned through the gate to the SGC....
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