The One With the cd Burner
by Becca

DISCLAIMER: All publicly recognizable characters and places are the property of MGM, World Gekko Corp and Double Secret Productions. This piece of fan fiction was created for entertainment not monetary purposes and no infringement on copyrights or trademarks was intended. Previously unrecognized characters and places, and this story, are copyrighted to the author. Any similarity to real persons, living or dead, is coincidental and not intended by the author.


Becca bounced into SG-13's Rec Room/Lab carrying an average-ish sized box marked 'FRAGILE' in large red letters.

"Guess what guys!" She exclaimed happily, bouncing over to one of the computers SG-13 had…procured for The Gutter.

"What's in the box?" Cara asked.

"It's a CD writer!" Becca exclaimed happily.

"A…CD writer?" Mish asked. "Mish is unfamiliar with this item. Is it edible?"

Kat thwacked Mish on the head. "Of course it's not edible! It's for making our own CD's!"

"Oh!" Mish said, rubbing her head where Kat had hit it.

"Are you thinking what I'm thinking?" Bryn said with a mischievous glint in her eye.

"Probably not, knowing your mind, so what are you thinking?" Cara asked as Becca got the CD writer out and started installing it.

Bryn aimed a hurt look at Cara, but it just bounced off so she started telling everyone what she is thinking.

"Well…missions get kind of boring sometimes 'cause we don't have music! But now that we can put songs on CD's…" she grinned.

"Ooooh…Mish likes this idea!" Mish exclaimed. "But we only have 5 computers…"

"Not nearly enough!" declared Cara. "Lets go! We need to get computers and phone lines so we can download songs!"

Everyone ran out of the room, except Becca who stayed behind to continue installing the CD writer.

"I bags Danny's computer!" Kat yelled as she headed off to his lab to get it.

"I'll take Janet's!" Bryn yelled.

"I'll take Simmons'!" exclaimed Mish.

"And I'll take Sam's!" Cara said. "Go about your missions, wraith like…" Bryn thwacked her over the head. "Shut up, and go get Sam's computer! And don't forget the laptop…"

Cara glared at Bryn, but she was long gone, in the direction of Janet's office.

She sighed, and headed in the direction of Sam's lab, but turned quickly to have a quick word with Boo and Dex about re-routing some phone lines.

15 minutes later, and SG-13 now had six extra computers they had borrowed from various people, plus 5 extra phone lines along with their DSL connection.

"You realise, of course…that we could have just networked all the computers together and used our DSL?" Becca asked.

"Yeah…but then it'd b slow with 11 computers all using it at the same time…"

"Oh true!" Becca said. "Ok…What songs do we want?"

"Matchbox 20!" Kat exclaimed.

"Lifehouse!" added Bryn.

"Bare Naked Wookies!" Mish yelled.

"Don't you mean Ladies?" Becca asked with a giggle.

"What?" Mish asked.

"Bare Naked Ladies…not Wookies…Ladies!" Becca giggled again.

"Oh, right!" Mish said. "Ladies…not Wookies…different galaxy…must remember that!"

"Lets get too it!" Cara exclaimed.

Everyone grabbed two computers each, with the exception of Becca who stuck to one to sort out the actual burning of the CDs, and Cara and Mish who took three each.

Two hours later, and SG-13 had five CDs burned, plus about three more waiting to be burned.

Unfortunately by this time, people had noticed their missing computers, and phone lines and had complained to the General about it.

It took the General an hour to track down where all the phone lines had been relocated to, and another 30 minutes to find out that the President of the US of A was arriving in 10 minutes, and expected a welcoming party.

George immediately got hold of all the SGC teams that weren't currently off world and made them get into dress uniform to impress the president. Of course, he left SG-13 out of his plans, since the President had specifically asked him after his last visit not to let them near him again.

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"Mr President, it's an honour to have you here…Had I known you were coming…" he said, as he helped the President out of his stretch limo.

"I've had my chief of staff calling you for on the secure line for the past 2 and a half hours!" the President exclaimed. "When he continuously got a busy signal, I decided to come down here and check things out myself!"

"I assure you…our operators are attempting to find out why this is happening as we speak, Sir! SG-13 has re-routed some of our phone lines, but I am *certain* they would not re-route the secure phone line. Not even SG-13 are that stupid." George said apologetically.

The President shuddered at the mention of SG-13. "Promise me I won't have to see them on this trip!"

"I promise, Sir. I have guards posted that will prevent them leaving the level they are currently on." General Hammond said, wishing he could condone confining SG-13 all the time. "I assure you that no mishaps like the last one will happen ever again!"

"Good…I'll be holding you to that!" the President exclaimed, remembering what had happened last time.

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Flashback:

"Mr President! We're so happy to see you!" Cara exclaimed, pumping his hand up and down.

"We have a little surprise for you, if you'll just come this way!" Cara smiled, and the rest of SG-13 nodded enthusiastically.

The President thought fondly of his own daughter, and waved back the armed guards. "Lead on, Girls!"

They had taken him to their Rec Room/Lab and had told him to close his eyes until they told him to open them, and he had obliged.

Finally they told him he could open his eyes, and he found a large chocolate cake in front of him.

"For you and your men!" Bryn exclaimed proudly. He has smiled, and eaten a piece of cake, as had all of his guards. He thanked them, and returned to his tour.

Biggest mistake he had ever made! There was something in the cake that had turned him and his guards bright purple for several weeks. He didn't know how they had done it, but he had had to cancel all official appearances for those weeks, and he still had a faint purple shade to him.

End Flashback.

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The rest of the visit went without a hitch, and an hour later, the President was winging his way back to the White House, while General Hammond went to see SG-13.

"SG-13…" he started, as he walked into their Rec Room/Lab. Only to be stopped by the scene that was before him, of 11 computers hooked up to several phone lines, and two droids hurriedly moving between computers, transferring songs for burning.

"What is going on here!" he yelled.

"Oh, hi George!" Becca said as she popped her head up from the keyboard where she was waiting for the latest CD to finish burning.

"We're burning CDs" exclaimed Cara.

"And you *had* to take SG-1's computers and phone lines to do it?!" George yelled.

"Of course!" Bryn exclaimed. "Five computers and one DSL connection is not nearly enough!"

George had a sudden awful thought. "Oh please tell me you didn't…"

"Didn't what?" asked Mish.

"Re-route the secure line in my office…" he said desperately.

"We might have…" Cara sad speculatively.

"YOU *MIGHT* HAVE?!?!?!" George yelled, a little vein on his forehead throbbing.

"Relax, George! We *needed* the latest Matchbox 20 song!!!" Kat said soothingly.

"The President has been calling for the last 4 hours, trying to tell me that he's coming for a visit, and he couldn't get through because *you* needed some song?!?!?!" George practically screamed.

"Yup!" Cara exclaimed happily. "Wanna hear?"

"NO!" he yelled, the vein throbbing harder now. "I don't want to hear! Now you will return *all* the computers to their owners, and re-route *all* the phone lines, starting with the one in my office! Understood?!"

"But…" Bryn started, then thought the better of it. "Understood."

George turned and left SG-13 to fix the mess they had created, and went to the infirmary to find some painkillers to combat the killer headache he now had.

©Becca 2001

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