Chapter 10

Isabelle was escorted to the recreation room while the briefing with Jacob and Selmak commenced. The adults correctly assumed she was too young to understand the threat of Anubis and the Replicators and feared she would be scared and have nightmares as a result. There was a communications error with the guards and Izzy found she was alone in the room with no one else. The child soon grew bored and opened the door to go explore the base still keeping her wand hidden up her sleeve.

She came the storage room that house artifacts for the scientist to examine and catalog upon being brought back by the SG teams. She walked into the room and looked about all the gadgets. She came across an empty ZPM and looked at it in thought. The information started to unwind in her mind and suddenly she realized how the Ancients made the ZPM's. They used the nanites to charge the modules with dark matter. She could not understand how it worked on a sub-molecular level but did understand the tiny robots were key and she held the controller. She removed the wand from her sleeve to see if it would work. She waved the wand over the empty modular and stated a single command. "Imples," she told it to fill.

The modular then began to glow as the nanites restored the power.

She smiled pleased, "Cool!" She then went down to the next item on the shelf. It was small and resembled a badge. She puckered in thought as she examined it, "Oh' it's a shield!" She then found it was no longer working, "It's broke." She waved the wand once more, "Instauraboes" she commanded it to be repaired. The little device then gave blue glow in the palm of her hand. She placed it back down and went to the next gadget. It was a small metallic ball that seemed lifeless. She found it too needed repair, "Instauraboes." she commanded again and the little ball then glowed with a blue energy. She concentrated trying to figure out what the little ball was, "What does this do?" The information began to unravel, "Dimensions?"

The door of the storage unit opened and in walked one of the scientists, Dr. Felger. He was a sloppy scientist and seemed to always be daydreaming. He wore his lab coat and went to the ZPM and picked it up but didn't seem to see Izzy standing right before him. He looked at it and found it seemed to glow indicating it had power. His eyes grew wide, "Yes!" he grew excited for so far they found few with any power.

Izzy spoke looking up at him, "Hello! I'm here!"

He didn't hear her or see her. It was if she was invisible. He turned and walked out of the room with the ZPM in hand. Izzy looked down at the ball, "This makes me invisible. Neat!" She then placed the ball in her pocket and walked out of the room to spy on the grownups for she didn't like being told to leave.

Isabelle made her way back to the briefing room and there she discovered Bra'tac had also arrived. SG-1 sat around the table with General Hammond at the head. Bra'tac and Jacob were seated as well. She walked into the room and no one saw her. She listened to the conversation.

Bra'tac warned, "Anubis is growing in power. He has taken out more System Lords. He has gained control over the Replicators. We have never seen power like this before."

Jacob added, "The Tok'ra have no idea how he got so powerful so fast. We thought he was dead."

Daniel winced, "He's obviously not dead."

General Hammond assured them, "We have an outpost and a second Gate on Earth. The outpost in Pacific has a weapons platform and a control chair. We are debating if we should pull the ZPM to dial Atlantis or keep it to protect Earth."

Jack stated, "We're trying to find another ZPM but we keep coming up empty. Izzy is giving us dialing addresses but the so far everyone we found is dead."

Bra'tac asked concerned, "How is the girl?"

Sam told him, "She was downloaded but she's holding it."

"I am pleased to hear she is doing well," he told her. "I fear what would happen if Anubis had the information in her mind."

Daniel gasped, "He would be even more powerful. He's already tapping into something but if he were to capture her…" he winced at the dreaded thought.

Teal'c stated, "That would be bad."

"Very bad," he nodded in agreement.

Jack stated, "There ain't no way he's getting her. She's not allowed off world. He can't just come in here and grab her either."

Sam's heart ached in worry, "But look at how fast she was able to dial the Gate and go off world when she tried to run away."

Bra'tac asked concerned, "The child tried to run away?"

"She was upset and thought we didn't want her." she explained. "She was able to dial the Gate, take out the guards and go off world and we could not stop her. If she decides to go off world on her own we will not be able to stop her."

Jack countered, "Unless she is off base! Then she would have to get through guards outside, come on base, get past the guards inside and dial and then get past us."

Daniel told him, "If she really wanted to get past us…she could. She is pulling on the universal knowledge. She could ascend, Jack! She won't need any help doing it."

Sam shook, "She ascends then we lose her. She won't need us at all. She will have god-like powers…"

"The Others would keep her," Daniel figured. "They won't send her back like they did me. They will keep her, teach how to be like them and then we will probably never see her again because she won't need us." He gulped at the thought.

Jack shook his head, "The kid adores us! She wants to be just like us. She not gonna leave us for a bunch of…glowing…beings."

"We might not be able to stop it, Jack!" Daniel warned him. "Once you start tapping into that level of ascension there might not be a coming back. She could go to bed one night and just ascend in her sleep. It could be effortless for her."

She spoke to herself, "I don't want to do that."

Jack suddenly realized, "I could lose her anyways." A pit formed in his stomach for to Jack ascending was like dying.

"She may not need us much longer," he warned him.

Sam sniffed as a tear rolled down her face, "One day she could just be gone."

Izzy grew alarmed for it sounded to her as if she was going to die. She gasped, "I'm gonna die!"

Jack crossed his arms feeling upset, "The Others won't send her back to us like they did, Daniel. They will keep her and make her like them."

"I'm gonna be kidnapped!" she began to panic. "These Others will kidnap me." She then wondered, "Who are the Others that are gonna kidnap me?"

Dr. Felger came to the door grinning from ear-to-ear. He announced, "Sirs! Sorry to interrupt but I thought you would like to know. We have a full ZPM!"

Sam didn't look enthused. She was worried she would lose Izzy. She merely nodded, "Thank you Jay."

"That's good to know, Dr. Felger." Hammond told him.

No one seemed excited and Dr. Felger wonded what was wrong. He slowly excused himself, "I'll be in my lab." He walked away wondering why everyone seemed so gloomy.

Sam shook her head, "I'm letting the Others take her from me."

Daniel sighed, "Her fate is not up to us, Sam."

Later

Isabelle grew fearful that these "Others" would kidnap her. She didn't know who the Others were or what they were or why they would kidnap her but the adults seemed concerned and therefore she needed to be concerned as well. It was soon time for bed for the little girl and she hid her dimension altering ball inside her sock drawer. She figured she better keep the magic wand with her all the times in case one of the "Others" tried to kidnap her. She settled into bed worried that she could be taken away from SG-1 but these Others.

She was tired from being so worried she quickly fell asleep with her wand under her pillow. She soon went into a dream that was not any dream she had been in before. She found herself walking into a diner with a green and brown interior. It was filled with people and breakfast was being served. She stood in white pajamas looking about confused.

A red haired woman sitting at a nearby table called her, "Isabelle! Come sit with me."

She walked over to the table and just stood wondering what was going on.

She pulled a chair out for her, "Sit down!" she instructed.

Izzy took a seat on the chair wondering where she was.

The friendly face introduced herself, "My name is Oma. I'm a friend of Daniel."

She smiled feeling at ease, "You know Daniel?"

"Very well," she nodded. "Do you know where you are?"

She shook her head, "In a restaurant!"

"This is a place Daniel made while he was Ascended. It's the place his Grandfather took him after his parent's funeral. It meant a lot to him."

"How did I get here?" she wondered.

"Your mind brought you here," she told her.

"Am I Ascended?" she wondered glancing about.

"No," she shook her head. "You are still asleep in your bed. When you sleep your mind is free to roam and the knowledge brought you here. When you sleep your mind can wandered the universal knowledge with ease. You can see the past and see the future. You can go anywhere but only when you are asleep."

She wondered, "Will the Others take me?"

She gave an assuring smile, "The Ascended are the Others. That is what we call each other. You could ascend very easily but there is something Daniel forgot about…Free will. Each being has free will and if you don't want to ascend you can stop it. It's actually up to you."

"So I won't be kidnapped?" she asked her.

She shook her head nearly giggling, "You won't be kidnapped." She then became serious, "At least not by us. Anubis on the other hand would love to get his hands on you."

"Who is Anubis?" she wondered. Suddenly a plate of chocolate chip pancakes appeared before her with a big glass of chocolate milk. She sat surprised, "Did you do that?"

"No," she assured her. "You did that," she pointed to the food. As Izzy ate the best pancakes she ever tasted Oma continued. "Anubis was a Goa'uld and he convinced me that he had changed when he was dying and I, like a fool, believed him and helped him ascend. He soon proved he lied and we tried to send him back but he fought us and is now half-ascended. He would want you to help him ascend the rest of the way again and gain more power. He would use that to dominate the galaxy."

"How do we stop him?" she wondered.

"I might be able to stop him but it would destroy me in the process. I've tried to counter what he has done and so far it's been marginal. Isabelle, I'm the one who put your raft on the island. I saved you by putting you there. Otherwise, you would have died along with your father."

She stopped eating, "Daddy really is dead then."

She consoled her, "No one ever really dies. There is a realm that souls can go to but it is forbidden for an Ascended being to enter. He is there with the other souls. They have their own place."

"Like Heaven?" she asked.

"I believe it's called 'Heaven' on your world. Other worlds have other names but it is the same place." she told her. "You are my last hope! If I cancel myself out to stop Anubis another threat will come and the Others will do nothing to stop it. The threat is from another galaxy and they are called the Ori. The Ori would be defeated by Daniel but what he doesn't know is the Ori keep another enemy that is even more powerful at bay. We have to prevent that from happening."

She asked with a mouth full of pancake, "We should send Anubis to jail!"

Oma gasped, "That's it! I knew you were special. If we can lock Anubis up so he cannot get out then we work to avoid confrontation with Ori." She grinned, "I know just the thing to capture him."

She asked, "A magic lamp that keeps a Genie?"

"The very lamp that story was based on," she nodded. She placed her hand on her chin and asked, "Those pancakes good?"

Isabelle was still eating and gave a hard nod, "Huh-ha!"

"You look to be enjoying them," she admitted.