AU: My good friend USANAguy pointed out a large plot hole in my story and he gave me some help, so this chapter is mainly from USANAguy's genius brain, I only changed a few things here and there so just about all of this chapter came from USANAguy so I'd like to say thanks again.

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The Apprentice: SG-1 Series

Chapter : Maternal Instincts

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Skaara, Sha're, and I were all sitting in mine and Skaara's office playing a boardgame when the base alarms started blaring.

"Unscheduled off-world activation!" came the voice of Walter over the audio system.

I glanced over at Skaara and Sha're for a second, and could see a quizzical look pass over both of their faces. I knew what they were thinking, there weren't presently any off-world teams, so this was more than likely a surprise Goa'uld attack. We jumped out of our seats around the wood table in the corner of the room and raced down the hallway towards the control room. In less than a minute we'd reached the control room and I could see that the iris was closed.

"We are receiving an IDC sir," said Walter, "It's Master Bra'tac."

"Open the iris!" ordered General Hammond.

The combination titanium/trinium barrier covering the event horizon of the artificial wormhole opened as the defense teams took aim. And I watched as Bra'tac came through the rippling water-like surface of the wormhole. He was covered in blood and was half carrying what looked like a sick Jaffa soldier under the armpit.

"Help!" he said.

"Stand down!" ordered General Hammond to the defense team, "Get a medical team in here!"

I raced out of the control room, leaving everyone behind me, and into the gate room and up the ramp towards Bra'tac. I glanced over him, looking for the injury that lead to him being covered in blood. He'd helped me through one of the worst years of my life, and I considered him to be the father I never had. I couldn't find any wounds but it was only a quick over view of the man.

"Master Bra'tac," I said, acknowledging the Jaffa Master's presence.

"Young Adolfina, it is good to see you again, and don't worry the blood is not mine," said Bra'tac, giving me a small smile and a pat on the shoulder with his free hand, "That is Moac, my most recent apprentice. Hammond of Texas, may I speak with you and the rest of SG-1 in the conference room right now?" I sighed and nodded my head. Thank god he's not hurt!

{Five minutes later in the conference room}

"Apophis's forces swept through Chulack like an unstoppable tidalwave," said Bra'tac, speaking in his own weird but easily understandable metaphor. Damn doesn't that bastard know how to freaken die?!

"SON OF A BITCH!" Colonel O'Neill exclaimed in extreme irritation, "Someone has to teach that guy how to die!"

"He commands the armies of So'kar," Sha're stated matter-of-factly, "A most formidable force."

"He must have transported off of So'kar's ship before the moon of Ne'tu was destroyed by the Tok'ra weapon," Sam hypothesized.

"I will return with you to Chulack to help our brothers fight, Master Bra'tac," Teal'c exclaimed.

"There is no longer any need for that. The battle was swift. They searched the city and left. Never before have I seen a false god slaughter so many of his worshippers," Bra'tac explained.

"My guess is, it's the Jaffa rebellion. It started there," Jack guessed.

"But not all of the Jaffa on Chulack believed that he was a false God," Said Sha're.

"Yes, but this is Apophis we're talking about here," Daniel scowled, "It is far more easy to eliminate them all at once than to sift through the people one at a time and root out the the false believers."

"No Daniel Jackson. I do not believe that is it," countered Bra'tac, "We, you and I both know that Apophis possesses powerful weapons that could have obliterated the entire population from space. Instead they came to the city on foot. I have reason to believe that they were looking for something."

"Is what they were looking for relevant?" Skaara asked.

"It must be something important," Sam replied.

"I have received word from some of our rebel Jaffa allies that support our cause. It is the human son of the false god Klorel," Bra'tac stated. I'm sorry wait what now, when'd this happen?

"I know what you speak of," Skaara exclaimed suddenly, "The demon that possessed my body, Klorel. Adu'lfia, when you were a prisoner of Klorel, he took a sample of your DNA and a sample of mine. He then impregnated a human slave with it in combination of the DNA of himself. It would be called a Harsesis child. It would possess all the knowledge of the Goa'uld and be a security risk to them. Apophis hoped that the Harsesis child would become his new host. All I could think of at the time was that this was an evil diabolical plot, so I managed to influence Klorel's mind to hide the child after it was born. I managed to extract a great deal of knowledge and information from Klorel's mind. There existed with it in Klorel's mind knowledge of a planet called Kheb. And that is all that I was able to influence Klorel to do. The child... our child, was born shortly before the demon Klorel was removed from me. It was a girl. Klorel named her, Klorelia."

Everyone's eyes had gone wide at Skaara's explanation, though Daniel and Jack looked pissed, and I'm sure if I could see my own face in a mirror at this moment that I would look completely indignant. That rat son of a bitch had a clone daughter of me and Skaara without my permission.

"Skaara! We have a clone Goa'uld daughter together? Why didn't you tell me this before?" I nearly shouted.

Skaara looked confused as he stared blankly at a blank spot on the wall. It was almost as if he was searching his brain for something. I swear if he doesn't answer me I'm gonna smack him upside the head. I love him and all but seriously this ain't something you keep from someone!

"You know, I'm not really sure? I think it must be part of the memories of the Goa'uld blending; until it was mentioned I never really thought about it after Klorel was removed from me," Skaara defending finally, giving me a small smile.

He grabbed my hand and mouthed sorry and I nodded my head and tightened my grip on his hand. I noticed Bra'tac seemed to be thinking of something also.

"I've heard of this place called Kheb in Jaffa legend," Bra'tac exclaimed, "It is believed that when an elderly Jaffa can no longer carry a symbiote they go there, to Kheb, where their spirit is then led into the next world, a final resting place for one who was going to die. Kheb was a place that my father once told me about long-ago. All he knew was that the planet in question is a place that no Goa'uld will go to. For any Goa'uld that has ever gone there has apparently never returned. My father told me that in the spirit of being the first rebel Jaffa, he said if the Goa'uld are truly gods, then why should a god have to fear anything, especially going to some strange planet."

"A powerful force against the Goa'uld? That could indicate powerful weapons, or advanced technology of some kind," I exclaimed, smiling brightly.

"Now that's worth looking into," said General Hammond, "Doctor Jackson, Adolfina, do you know anything about a place called Kheb in human mythology."

"All I know is that there's only one reference of it. It was apparently a place that the false God Osiris went to to hide from Seth," I explained.

"Master Bra'tac, do you have any idea what kind of danger it is that we might encounter on this planet called Kheb?" asked General Hammond.

"All that the stories and legends say, is that the planet is an untouched wilderness of forest and mountains, and that the pathway to the spirit world for elderly Jaffa is a building or structure of some kind a distance from Stargate. Perhaps an alien temple," Bra'tac answered.

"If we could get our hands on Adolfina and Skaara's half Goa'uld child, and it does possess all the knowledge of the Goa'uld, it could be a valuable source of information. Perhaps even a means to destroy the Goa'uld entirely," Sam stated excitedly.

I glanced over at her for a second. Ta hell with what she could give us I may not have know about her till now but technically she is my child, ain't no damn Goa'uld getting his hands on my child!

"Well, that is something worth pursuing," Jack muttered.

"Is it possible that Apophis found out about Kheb, and that the Harsesis child might be there?" asked Teal'c.

"I think that it is possible," Skaara replied. Oh hell no, he ain't getting a hold of Klorelia!

"Well, if Apophis wants the kid that badly, and I know Apophis as much as I think I do, then I don't think that we can trust him to simply fear the superstition to keep him away; he's just crazy enough to go!" Jack stated.

"Bra'tac, you wouldn't by any chance happen to know the Stargate address of Kheb would you?" asked Daniel.

I started fidgeting in my seat. The thought that Apophis might get a hold of Klorelia was starting to upset me. Skaara's grip tightened on my hand and he rubbed his thumb over the top of my hand.

"No. The knowledge on how to get there was barred from all Jaffa by the Goa'uld a long time ago. But it is rumored that it is within a cluster of stars in this galaxy. A cluster of four stars to be exact. The Goa'uld call it the 'Planets of the Locnakoh'. Each star with a Stargate, but only three of those stars are known to the Jaffa," Bra'tac replied.

"You wouldn't happen to know the Gate addresses for those three stars would you?" asked Jack.

"Now that I can help you with," Bra'tac said.

I smiled, but at that moment we got a call to report to the infirmary. A minute later we were all in the infirmary and I could see Fraiser standing by the Jaffa Bra'tac had brought with him.

"His symbiote is dead. It was too badly wounded," Janet stated sadly. That was all that needed to be said. Without the symbiote the Jaffa man would die, and Bra'tac moved to stand over the young Jaffa Moac.

"Master Bra'tac. I have failed you," He said in a weak voice.

"No. It is I who have failed you; I should have trained you better. You are the strongest and bravest Jaffa I have ever trained; you have nothing to be ashamed of. You die now, not a slave of a false god, but you die... a free Jaffa," Bra'tac countered.

I stepped forward and rest my hand on Moac's shoulder. I had very briefly meet the young Jaffa back when I was being held by Klorel. He seemed like a nice enough man. Moac nodded his head at me, and grabbed my arm for a second. Then suddenly his arm went limp, his eyes clouded over, and he stopped breathing.

"Hammond of Texas?" Bra'tac suddenly.

"Yes Master Bra'tac," Hammond replied, glancing over at Bra'tac.

"I need funeral arrangements. His body is to be burned, and his ashes to be put in a container, so that one day I may spread them on the grave of Apophis," Bra'tac requested. Hammond nodded his head.

A little while later {Control room}

We were looking through the selection of Gate addresses in the computer trying to find the correct address. I noticed four addresses, three of which were white, while one was highlighted in red.

"Is this the cluster of four stars?" I asked, pointing to them.

"Yes," said Bra'tac, "Those are the 'Planets of the Locnakoh'."

"What are the Gate addresses in white?" asked Skaara.

"Those are the ones that we got from the cartouche on Abidos," Sam explained, "Red indicates the new gate addresses that Adolfina programmed into the computer from the repository of the ancients."

"Then the Gate address for Kheb that were put on Abidos by Ra would not be there, right?" I asked hopefully.

"Probably," Sam answered.

"So the Gate address in red has to be it," Daniel muttered with a tone of dawning comprehension, "We found it." I smiled brightly, and glanced back at Hammond who nodded his head at me. Hold on Klorelia we're coming for you.

A short while later

"Chevron 7 locked!" Walter's shouted over the speakers in the Gate room.

The unstable vortex flushed sideways in a giant splash of what appeared to be water, then fell back in to form the rippling water-like surface of the event-horizon of the artificial wormhole. The MALP Reckon Robot Probe began rolling forward up the ramp and slowly passed through the event-horizon. A few seconds passed before I heard a technician say anything.

"We are receiving MALP telemetry."

I glanced down at the monitor and looked at the image being feed back to us. The image showed a tree line of dense forest and beyond the forest were tall mountains. Well Bra'tac did say that it was supposed to be an untouched wilderness of forest and mountains, so it looks like we're on the right track.

"Colonel O'Neill, you have a go," Hammond stated.

"It sounds like there might be trouble on the planet. I would like backup on this one sir," Jack requested.

"Take SG-2," Hammond conceded.

I followed Jack down to the gate room and SG-2, SG-1, Bra'tac, and I proceeded through the gate. We left SG-2 at the gate, and walked on through the dense forest. We'd only been walking for just about 10 minutes when Bra'tac found footprints that weren't any older than 4 days. We followed the footprints and found several Jaffa bodies, each burned to a crisp.

"Why aren't there any damage or burn marks to the surrounding plants?" I asked at the unusual enigma, cocking my head to the side and staring at the bodies in confusion.

Obviously no-one had an answer to my question because they all staid quiet. We found the body of a Jaffa priestess nearby, but unlike the Jaffa we'd found she had only a single staff blast wound in the small of her back.

"She was shot in the back as she fled," Bra'tac stated.

"I count eight bodies, total," Daniel stated, glancing at the woman.

"So what happened here?" Jack asked.

"The priestess was being escorted back to the Stargate by two of the Jaffa. When they met the others, she realized she was in danger. She attempted to flee. They chased her and shot her. Then someone or something attacked them," Bra'tac explained.

"You can't know that for sure," Sam replied.

"I am quite certain," Bra'tac rebutted.

"What about the child?" Daniel asked, glancing over at me and Skaara.

"She carried the child," Bra'tac stated. I glanced up at him from the woman's body.

"Come on, how can you know that?" Jack asked.

"Her hands are not bound," Teal'c replied. Bra'tac rolled her body over to reveal that the woman's wrist were indeed not tied. I silently fumed at the thought of the child being put in harms way like that.

"Then where is the child?" asked Skaara.

"Some one must have saved her, and carried her... on," I answered, pointing a finger towards the path.

We continued walking until we reached what looked like a Japanese temple. We walked into a beautiful court yard and garden. I still couldn't believe that we have a daughter together, though without Goa'uld DNA in it. I couldn't help but wonder what she looks like. I couldn't shake this eirey feeling that I got about this place. It wasn't a negative feeling, but I just couldn't help but feel that we needed to be peaceable here. It seemed liked Daniel and I had the same idea, seeing as he started taking off his gear and weapons at the same time I did.

"Guys? What'cha do'in?" Jack asked.

"Well Jack, call me crazy, but I got a feeling that we can't just walk into this place waving guns around," Daniel stated.

"He's right. This place is sacred ground," Bra'tac confirmed.

Teal'c and Sam waited while Skaara, Jack, Bra'tac, Daniel, and I all went inside, but Jack couldn't help but bring his gun in with him. Once inside I noticed that everything looked fresh and clean. There were writings and candles on the walls. Then there was what looked like a Japanese monk had just materialized while our backs were turned.

"Woah! Hey. How did you get here?" asked Jack.

"I have been here for some time," said the monk matter-of-factly.

"No, I mean, how did you come into this room so quickly?" Jack rephrased. But the monk didn't answer.

"We were wondering if you might help us?" I asked the monk.

"Do you seek oneness with Oma Desala?" asked the monk

"Desala? That means 'mother nature' right?" Daniel asked.

"Daniel, what is this weirdo talking about?" asked Jack indignantly. I rolled my eyes at his indignant tone.

"Jack, I think the temple is a teaching shrine for ancient Buddhism on Earth. These symbols on the wall are of an unusual dialect but I think it might be to help one to a mind of calm and peace," Daniel explained.

"We need to ask you a few questions," I said to the monk.

"I only know that a snowflake cannot exist within a storm of fire," The monk responded. Oh, so he's one of those monks. Lots of cryptic riddles, great just what we need. Ah oh well at least I'm good with riddles.

"You know me, I'm a huge fan of subtlety, but that's downright cryptic," Jack exclaimed, tossing his hands in the air. The monk looked at me, then at Bra'tac.

"Let there be no barriers between you and where you are," The monk stated. Jack seemed really confused, but I had an idea of what he wanted.

"I believe he wishes for us to take off our boots," Bra'tac exclaimed. The monk nodded his head, and we took our boots off as the monk sat crosslegged on the floor. Daniel, Skaara, and I sat with him to play along.

"We are looking for a child," Daniel told the monk.

"There is a child within all of us," said the monk matter-of-factly.

"We are referring to an actual literal human child of flesh and bones," said Bra'tac.

"We believe that a baby girl was brought here a few days ago," Skaara supplied.

"Lightning flashes, the soul is enlightened, and in the blink of an eye the mind is freed, and then the body matters not," said the monk. Okay I'll admit even that one confused me.

"Jack, this might take a while," Daniel stated. Jack stepped out of the room and Bra'tac sat on the floor with us. The monk looked over at me.

"Do you wish to achieve true enlightenment?" asked the monk. I raised an eyebrow in interest and shrugged my shoulders nonchalantly.

"Sure," I replied.

"If one is not completely certain of their chosen course, then the traveler cannot reach his destination," The monk stated.

"What are you saying?" I asked him, not entirely sure he'd give me a fully understandable answer.

"You cannot achieve pure enlightenment unless you want it," said the monk.

"Well, achieving enlightenment is a very interesting thing that I would love to learn to do sometime but I feel a little preoccupied with a different task right now," I told him.

"Finding enlightenment is not a hobby that you can do in your spare time; to reach enlightenment you must shed all of your burdens."

He did not wait for my reply or press the issue. He then turned to Skaara.

"Skaara of Abidos. You believe that when you die your mind lingers in a spirit form," He stated. I knew it wasn't a question, but a statement of fact. Though I was caught up in wondering how he knew Skaara's name and were he came from.

"On my world, we feel the presence of our fallen brothers watching over us after they leave this world," said Skaara in an elaborated explanation, "We believe that this life is only the first step, and that death is but another path to a more important journey." The monk smiled.

"Enlightenment awaits you. You are half way there," said the monk.

Skaara smiled at the praise, and I couldn't help but smile at the look on his face. The monk then turned to Bra'tac.

"Within you is a being who's heart knows only darkness," said the monk, "Your physical body must renounce such evil before you can achieve oneness with Oma Desala."

"If I remove my symbiote I will die," said Bra'tac as a statement of fact.

"One must shed all evil before they can ascend," The monk replied.

"So, a Jaffa cannot ascend until he is willing to die?" asked Bra'tac.

"Once you ascend there is no further need of the body. Your heart is of good, but your symbiote must be removed in order to purify your physical body of evil, or else you cannot follow the path," The monk explained.

"If I remove my symbiote right now, I will die within a matter of hours. Will I ascend before then?" Bra'tac asked. I glanced between Bra'tac and the monk nervously.

"If you renounce all evil right now, and follow the path, then Oma Desala will guide you by the hand every step of the way." Bra'tac had a look of thoughtful disappointment as he pondered all of the details of the situation.

"I am not ready to die," said Bra'tac.

"Master Bra'tac of Chulack, leave this place. And Oma Desala offers you an invitation to return here when you feel you are ready to shed all your burdens. Oma Desala will help you ascend then," said the monk.

The monk's chosen words might have been rude, but his tone of voice was clear that he was simply letting the Jaffa Master know that it was ok that he was not ready for Oma's teachings, and wishing the Jaffa Master a friendly farewell and that he may come back at anytime. Bra'tac got up, picked up his boots, and went outside, while the rest of us stayed.

"I don't have to die to to achieve enlightenment, do I?" asked Daniel nervously.

"Your physical bodies do not need to be purged of the same evil as his. But you have your own burdens of which to rid yourself. Your journey to ascension will follow a different path then his," The monk explained. We sat there for another short moment.

"I feel compelled to ask you again, was a baby girl brought here recently? Perhaps by a group of Jaffa?" I asked him directly.

I had this insistent need to know what had become of my daughter, even though I hadn't given birth to her or seen her at all. She was still part of me, part of the man I loved, and it killed me to not know what has happened to her.

"To find out what the picture is on a 'connect-the-dots' one must draw the line from dot to dot. For if the final outcome is reveled to you without finding out for yourself then the page remains blank," The monk replied.

I felt stupid. I felt like I should be able to figure out that riddle, but I couldn't make heads or tails of it's meaning. The monk then had us stand up and he led us over to the wall where he then ran his finger along the symbols. The writings were a combination of several cultures. I couldn't quite make them out because their combination was very confusing. But my own personal cross reference indicated that it was an explanation on how to teach yourself to have new skills for focusing your mind to have peace and calm, and then coming up with new and unusual and highly unorthodox ideas. That was the gist of what I thought the translation of the writings were saying, but at the same time it seemed incomplete, as though they didn't quite make sense.

"Tell me, why do you seek this child of flesh and bones?" asked the monk.

"The child possesses great knowledge," I said to him, "Knowledge that can help us defeat the Goa'uld."

"And you hate the Goa'uld," said the monk.

"Yes, I hate the Goa'uld," I replied, my jaw clenching slightly.

"What could the Goa'uld have possibly done to deserve such hatred from you?" asked the monk.

"They took me as a host," said Skaara, "And then tortured Adolfina with my very hand and I was powerless to stop him."

"So what you're saying is that it is revenge, because it's personal," said the monk.

"That is only partly it," said Daniel, "The Goa'uld bring the hatred of others on themselves. They torture, mass murder, and enslave countless millions across the galaxy."

"Provocation is an illusion. You learn knowledge of human psychology; when one has been hurt badly by another on purpose, one feels a need to inflict some form of suffering on the tormentor in order to teach him a lesson, where the tormentor then feels that he has been wronged by the tormented, so he in turn will seek revenge, where the tormented will feel that they have been wronged, and then will seek revenge. When a circle that has no end is a never ending cycle, the evil is then too strong to be defeated by sheer force and strength of will, and therefore the only way to win against the evil is to deny the evil the battle."

That riddle was a little easier for me to understand. And I found it to be very true.

"Is there another reason that you want the child? Perhaps a reason that is a little more personal?" asked the monk.

I put my arm around Skaara's shoulder.

"The child is our daughter," I told the monk.

"You carried her and gave birth?" asked the monk.

"No. Another woman acted as a surrogate carrier. But the child scientifically is of our flesh and blood," I responded.

"And you wish to take responsibility as parents?" asked the monk.

"Yes," We both replied at the same time.

"And you are sure that she will be safe with you?" said the monk.

I then decided to give the monk a little cryptic riddle of my own.

"The future is like the flipping of a coin," I said, "you will never know what side it will land on. But the only way for the unknown to become the known is for you to watch and observe its forming shape until it is completed." I said cryptically, smirking slightly.

He countered with a riddle of his own.

"Because your path is so clear it takes a longer time to realize it. If you immediately know that the candlelight is fire, then the meal was cooked a long time ago."

At that the monk then led us back onto the floor for meditation where we tried different things for hours. The path to enlightenment apparently required us to open our minds to the ideas of the impossible. He taught us to trust. And through trust and an open mind he showed us that we had telekinetic powers. He had us practice with our powers. It was amazing to be able to just think, and then an inanimate object does what ever my mind tells it to. And apparently these were not powers that were given to me because I came here, these were powers that we all apparently have had all the time, we just needed to learn how easy it was to use them. Jack soon entered the room looking more than a little impatient.

"Alright, is the kid here or not?" Jack asked. Daniel stood up and faced Jack.

"Jack, I think I understand what all this means," said Daniel as he referred to the writings on the wall, "It seems that all of this is an instruction manual. You see, people who built this place I believe they were aliens that did not have physical bodies, they existed as pure energy on a higher plane of enlightenment. They possess the ability to manipulate nature and other such things. And now it seems that this place is meant to be a guide for anyone who wishes to become like them. To ascend to a higher plane of enlightenment from this lower plane of enlightenment and exist as pure energy. That explains why the ancient Jaffa who were a lot more superstitious and primitive-minded may have looked at this place as a sacred path way to an afterlife."

Daniel showed Jack what the monk had shown us, but it didn't seem like Jack was all that impressed.

"Am I supposed to believe you did that?" Jack asked, glancing at the candle.

"Yes," The three of us replied. Jack pulled Daniel to the side but I couldn't really make out what they were saying. Suddenly Jacks gun floated up into the air.

"Hey," Jack exclaimed, releasing the gun. The gun hovered in the air between Jack and Daniel, and I couldn't help but stare at it.

"All right, that's dangerous put it down," Jack growled, glaring at the monk. The gun floated to the floor.

"Ok, that was a little more impressive. How'd you do that?" Jack asked the monk.

"Actually I did that," Daniel stated. I smiled and shook my head, leave it to Daniel to wave around a dangerous object with his mind.

"What?" Jack asked, glancing over at him.

"That's what I've been trying to tell you, this is, it's incredible," Daniel exclaimed.

"He taught you how to… "

"…do things with my mind. You could do it too ," Daniel replied, cutting Jack off.

"He could teach me how to light candles and move stuff around by…thinking?" Jack asked.

"I cannot teach you what you already know," The monk supplied. I smirked and shook my head.

"Oh I don't think I know as much as you think I know," Jack countered.

"You must come to know Oma Desala. Become her friend," The monk suggested. Suddenly there was a noise outside and I glanced towards the ceiling. Jack picked up his gun and we all raced outside just in time to see a Goa'uld glider fly overhead.

"Teal'c, Bra'tac, check that out," Jack shouted. I watched Teal'c and Bra'tac move off.

"Major Coburn?" Jack asked into his radio, "This is O'Neill."

"Read you, sir," Coburn replied.

"We've got some Jaffa activity here. How's your position?" Jack asked.

"Clear, sir," Coburn answered.

"Good, standby," Jack ordered. Jack moved down towards Sam.

"I want claymores from the entrance to here," He instructed.

"I thought we were leaving," Sam replied, frowning.

"Me too," Jack muttered.

We moved back into the temple while Sam set up the claymores. When Sam came into the Temple her and Daniel got into a small debate about the possible reasons why we could light fires with our minds. Teal'c and Bra'tac raced into the room.

"A Goa'uld mothership has landed. As many as two thousand troops approach," Teal'c stated.

"Love to stay and chat," Jack said, moving out of the temple with Sam right behind him.

"Wait, wait a minute, what about...?" Jack and Sam were already gone and Daniel frowned.

Then from out of the ceiling came something extraordinary. It appeared to be a bright glowing cloud of white light with waving white tentacles. I then realized that it was an 'ascended-being' like what the writings on the walls of this place were referring to. I then thought that this particular ascended-being was in fact the one that the monk was trying to teach us of. Oma Desala. It passed right through the solid wall. I walked up to the wall, and I reached out and tried to touch the wall but my fingers passed right through the wall. I pulled my hand back out and then I walked forward. I passed through the insubstantial wall and came to another room. And there behind silk-like see-through vale of mosquito netting, was a baby, cooing, waving its arms around and kicking it's feet up. A moment later Daniel and Skaara, had followed close behind me. I walked up to the child and ever so gently I scooped her up into my arms. Baby Klorelia, my daughter. She was beautiful. She had my eyes, but had Skaara's hair and face. Klorelia? I then thought about it for the first time and realize that it was a beautiful name, even if it was given to her by a Goa'uld. I couldn't keep the smile off my face. I then turned to the ascended-being Oma Desala.

"I promise I will protect her and take good care of her," I stated.

We were then about to walk out after Skaara put his hand on me. I stopped. It then dawned on me, what if we don't actually possess these powers. What if Oma, just created the illusion to us that we had the powers. I then turned back towards her.

"It was you, wasn't it?" I worded in question form but it was in fact a statement of fact. "We never did any of it, none of us possess any powers at all?"

The human face on the ascended being then shook her head. I then considered what exactly our baby's life would be if we took her home. The NID would forever be after her. She'd be locked up in a padded cell after the Goa'uld memories surface. Always interrogated for information. Not to mention Apophis would always be after her. Our baby's only chance at a semi-normal life would be to stay here where she's safe. So I put her back in the baby cradle with tears in my eyes. I put my fingers to my lips and then touched my fingers to her forehead. We then walked out of the room. When we got back out into the main courtyard we were face-to-face with several Jaffa wearing red armor. The Jaffa commander in the front had a symbol on his forehead indicating that he was a former servant of So'kar.

"Surrender in the name of your god Apophis, or you will die," He shouted. The monk appeared and approached the commander.

"You are not welcome here. Leave this place," He stated. But the commander ignored him, and instead fired his staff weapon, killing the monk.

"No!" I shouted.

The Jaffa threatened us with there weapons again. I raised my hands in surrender and stepped forward.

"Drop your weapons!" I commanded.

"You heard her." warned Jack to the Jaffa.

"Actually Jack, I was talking to you," I said.

"What!?" said Jack in disbelief. I knew that we would come to no harm if we were unarmed.

"Jack, if you were ever going to trust me on anything, trust me now," I told him.

Jack sighed but put his weapon down, and the rest of the team followed his example. But the commander shot at us anyway. I believed I had the super powers and I thought of stopping the staff blasts. A small lightning fast silvery cloud zipped out in front of us and swept away the staff blasts. I then used my powers to destroy the Jaffa. A lightning bolt shot out of the sky and killed the Jaffa. Suddenly The monk's body vanished into thin air and his clothing collapsed flat on the ground. Then another glowing white light white tentacle cloud rose out of the clothing and floated away. Suddenly Oma Desala came out of the door carrying the child, and then flew away.

"Was that the Harsesis child?" asked Sam.

"Yes it was," said Skaara.

"I thought we needed that child?" Sam stated.

We looked at her for a moment, and she got the message.

"Right. No choice," She muttered.

We then began walking back towards the Stargate. I felt a heavy weight in my heart at the thought that I might never see Klorelia again. I'd only seen for all of what ten seconds. Skaara wrapped his arm around me pulling me close to him as we walked. He must have seen the look in my eyes.

"I'm sure we will see her again some day," He stated, giving me a sad smile. I nodded my head, just as we reached the gate. Major Coburn dialed up the gate, put in his GDO, and then we were home...