They crept through the empty yard around the smaller buildings until Daniel stopped them in front of a small, shadow covered warehouse near the perimeter of the yard.
"This is it," Daniel whispered. He began to pull out his ID tag to open the lock on the door, but Mitchell stopped him.
"Traceable," Mitchell muttered. He pulled out his gun and stepped back to shoot the lock. Sam glared at him, annoyed.
"Also traceable," she snapped. She moved up to the lock and in a few swift motions had it open. "Not traceable." She opened the door quietly and they all entered, closing it softly behind them.
The hallways were long and straight, not exactly ideal should it come to a fire fight. Daniel led them down the hall muttering incoherently and sticking his head into rooms, apparently at random. Finally he stopped at a large plain room with a self in the middle, dividing the room, and shelves lining the walls. Sam looked around amazed; all of the SGC equipment was here. Zats, GDOs, you name it.
"This looks about right," she said, and they spread out looking. Daniel and Sam searched the walls while Mitchell headed to the divider. After a few minutes Sam found the com devices.
"Got it" she said.
"Uh, Carter? Come here. Is it supposed to be doing that?" Mitchell called from behind the divider. Sam moved around to see. On a table in the middle of the room was a large metallic box. It was glowing.
"First impression? No that's bad." She replied. She went over to examine it. "I've never seen this before but it's clearly Ori design."
"Ori?" Mitchell asked.
"Bad guys."
"Oh."
"I don't understand I should have seen this before it came to Area 51. I'm gonna need the files. Daniel, do you know where they keep mission reports?"
"Yeah," Daniel replied. "Just down the hall, I'll go grab it, which ones do you need?"
"The most recent ones you can find."
Daniel left the room, and Sam turned to Mitchell. "I'd really love a chance to study this. Do you think we'd be able to bring it with us?"
"Mary Poppins, this isn't a pleasure trip, we can't just take everything you want to study."
"Cam, I think this may have something to do with why nobody remembers the program. I've never seen this before, it has to mean something."
"Maybe all it means is that you're starting to forget too."
"I'm not forgetting." But that was getting harder and harder to believe. Her memories of the SGC seemed so far away now that it was hard to hold on to what was real. "I'm going to go help Daniel with those files," she muttered, and left.
Daniel was a few doors down. The room was filled floor to ceiling with boxes of files. Daniel looked up as she entered. "Glad you're here," he muttered. "I've just started going through these, there have to be thousands of files here."
"Almost ten years worth," Sam answered. "The most recent ones seem to be over here." She moved toward a set of boxes and started rummaging through them.
After several minutes Daniel muttered "Got it, this file has a picture of the object in the other room."
"That's strange, it's from over two years ago, the Ori weren't a threat then. Wait, that doesn't make sense that was right when Atlantis-"
She was interrupted by a commotion outside. They heard a gruff unfamiliar voice outside say, "We found him snooping around one of the storage rooms. I'm sure he wasn't alone." Sam looked around but there was no where to hide. A second later Mitchell was shoved into the room followed by two security guards.