A few minutes before Abydos was destroyed...
Daniel, now a free-floating mass of energy, watched as Anubis fired upon the other System Lords' fleets with his superweapon, destroying them, but the ship didn't leave, instead aiming the superweapon at Abydos. With growing feelings of utter horror mingled with anger, he appeared on the bridge of Anubis' mothership in human form, dressed in Abydonian robes, and he ordered Anubis to leave. Anubis, characteristically arrogant as the rest of his brethren, refused.
Fear below the surface, Daniel's eyes narrowed in determination as he realised what he had to do. He had to destroy Anubis, for SG-1's sake, for the galaxy's sake, for Abydos' sake... for Sha're's sake. He was in a 'now or never' moment. If he let Anubis go, the Goa'uld would dominate the galaxy within weeks, and his friends wouldn't be able to do anything. As for Abydos... no chance.
He felt the power coursing through his veins, or Ascended equivalent, and Anubis taunted him, provoking him to do what he had in mind. Daniel raised his hands, focussing on the rush of power, glad on one level that he was in a position to do something, and his hands glowed a yellowy-white. Yes, in a matter of seconds, Anubis would be vanquished and everyone would be happy.
Anubis carried on provoking him, teasing him, and Daniel's brow furrowed in concentration. He wasn't going to let him get away with this. All these years, he hadn't been able to fight back - a string of abusive foster families, school bullies, a 'touched' Jack... But now, he could. Now he could give this guy what for.
Just as he was about to strike, Anubis raising a gloved hand to shield his face, he heard Oma whisper in his ear, "His time will come, Daniel, but it is not now."
And with that, he felt himself being pulled away, dragged upwards whilst in the meantime fading along with the amassed power as he shouted in protest, "No! Don't do this!"
But it was too late, Oma had pulled him out, leaving behind a spooked Goa'uld and his First Prime, the former giving the fatal order to aim and fire the superweapon at Abydos' pyramid.
Daniel found himself in surroundings of absolute white, Oma in front of him, gazing at him sadly. He asked, seething with anger at her interference, "Why did you do that?! He was half-ascended! I could have destroyed him for good!"
She shook her head and replied, "No Daniel, I could not permit it to happen. The Others wish to cast you down to the lower plains without your memory as punishment for attempting to break our highest law. Little time remains."
He stared at her, asking, "What now? I... I fall and you let Anubis dominate the galaxy? If he finds a way to ascend, he will come for you and he will destroy you."
Morgan appeared next to Oma and said, a ring of rippling, shimmering light visible around the three figures, "Daniel Jackson, the end of the path cannot be visited from the middle. You must travese the path along its full course."
Daniel frowned in thought, and asked, "You mean that Anubis will eventually be defeated?"
The two women didn't answer his question, Oma saying instead, "The Others will not tolerate your presence among us any more. The thread has snapped. You indirectly killed Nirrti, and now you were about to kill Anubis."
Morgan said quickly, glancing around at the rippling light, "We must proceed quickly - the Others grow impatient."
Morgan disappeared, becoming a part of the ring, and Oma, her lower half disappearing into the now spinning ring, held Daniel's hands as she said, "I will perform the casting. You will not lose everything. If I do not do this, any of the Others will do this, and they will permanently erase your memories."
Grief-stricken and upset, he said, remembering a prophecy he had encountered, "Just tell me one thing - who are the Guardian, the Listener and the Duality? The inscriptions that I have come across appear to revere them."
Oma smiled slightly as she felt her brethren chatter excitedly amongst themselves, and she replied, a hand reaching up to cradle the side of his face as he shut his eyes, "You will discover this during your journey, Daniel. You are destined for wonderful things - you and Samantha both."
It was too late for him to open his eyes in surprise at that last part, and he wondered as his surroundings flashed endless white, whether he had misheard what she had said. Energy coursed through his very being, pure, white energy, and then he felt everything, his consciousness included, fade away into nothingness.
