Chapter 9 - Questions, Answers and some Jell-o
"So Teal'c, what has Uncle Danny found out about me today?" Hope asks the large man as they walk towards Daniel's lab where Daniel was waiting for them.
Teal'c smiles at the nickname O'Neill calls Daniel at times, then answers his young niece, "Daniel Jackson has informed me of a certain ability you seem to possess."
"Oh, well in that case, shall we continue?" she says as they walk into the archeologists lab.
When the three were seated around the desk Daniel began without any pauses, "So, Hope, want to tell us anything?"
"Um, well I was hoping to tell everyone at once but I guess I can tell you both now." As she says this, Carter and O'Neill walk in and sit down at the desk with the others.
"Hey guys," O'Neill says dragging a chair over.
"Hey, you know you really didn't have to come, I was just going to ask Hope some questions, I would have told you later you know," Daniel tells them both.
"Well I remembered on our little outing, Hope told me she needed to tell everyone something when we got back. I guess it slipped my mind and I figured we might as well find out now," Carter tell them all.
"Ok, I think what I found out is what she was going to tell us so I might as well start with that. So Hope, how strong are you?" Daniel turns towards Hope.
"Well, all I know is that I'm really strong, like maybe even stronger then Teal'c." At this the others all raise their eyebrows and turn to Teal'c.
"Can you prove this?" Teal'c asks wondering if the girl is lying.
"How about an arm wrestle?" O'Neill suggests. Once they all agreed on this, they set it up so Hope and Teal'c could arm wrestle each other without knocking anything of Daniel's over.
"Okay," Daniel began," when I count to three, you may begin, ready?" At the nod of their heads, Daniel began counting, "One, two, three, go!" Their strength matched each other for a few seconds when seen in Hope's face, her strength overpowered Teal'c and she brought his hand down quite easily. Everyone looked amazed and Teal'c looked on with new found respect for this young girl who sat before him.
"Wow," the three others said afterwards.
"Well I told you I was strong," Hope told them.
"Well I knew that from reading it on the tablet but I just didn't know you were that strong. Ok with that over with, I has some more questions."
"Shoot" Hope told him to continue.
"What is the true purpose of the key?"
"Well the key, or me for this matter, has the purpose of opening the ultimate weapon to destroy any race that they choose to destroy. The weapon is like a computer, you type in what you want to do, press a button and presto! Instant enemy killer."
"Hm, ok." Daniel takes a minute to write this new information down. "Why come here if you can protect yourself? Your obviously strong enough to."
"Well, Oma believed that the key needed all the protection that, well I could get. Since you guys are my family and actually know about the Stargate and use it, I guess she figured you would be the most likely candidates to protect me the longest."
"What do you mean by the longest?" Carter jumps in.
"Well I will die eventually, everyone does. And she also believes you guys will stay alive longer then other races to protect me longer. Does that make sense?"
"Yeah, I think I got it."
"Ok, I have one more question, how do you feel about the Goa'uld?"
Hope looks on with hate and passion while answering, "Daniel, I hate the Goa'uld possibly as much as everyone on this base. When they discovered I was born, they found the planet I was with Oma on and tried to kidnap me multiply times. It was harder when I was younger and when Oma wasn't there to help me. It was like training because I hadn't fought before that, so I taught myself how to train between attacks and learned stealth and how to use my environment to my advantages."
The others looked on with hate towards the Goa'uld who wouldn't leave this passionate girl alone for a few year to have a peaceful, and quick childhood. Instead they attacked countless times and wouldn't give up.
"So," Hope begins again unaffected," anymore questions or can we go get some blue jell-o?"
the others laughed as O'Neill replied her, "no, but what about pie? Or at least pick red jell-o, isn't that better then jell-o?"
"Uh, I don't think so, I've tried them both." They all laughed as they headed out for the commissary for some jell-o and family time.
