Wow this is a long chapter. Well guys, this is the last chapter. I've already started working on the epilogue though, so hopefully it won't be too long before it's up. Thank you to those who have been faithful in reading this story, and I apologize for how long it's taken me to finish it.

Spoiler alert: the very end has a bit of a spoiler for 10x19 "Dominion" It's brief though.

Last time:

The sound of the gate dialing brought her back to wakefulness. Standing, she leaned against the biggest tree and listened. Several minutes passed and nothing happened. She had expected Adria to come through immediately and was surprised when she didn't.

Before too long, Jackie felt a presence that she recognized come through the gate.

Chapter 20 –

Once the gate disengaged, Jackie took a deep breath to calm herself. Coming out from behind the large tree she had been using as shelter, she made her way up the back of the platform, stopping only when she stood in the middle of the stargate.

"Looking for me?" Jackie finally broke the silence.

Adria whirled around at the sound of Jackie's voice. With a wave of her arm that seemed nothing more than an extension of her turn, she tried to throw Jackie. However, Jackie was expecting that move and managed to counteract the attack so that she didn't budge from her spot.

Jackie raised an eyebrow at Adria. "Not even going to say hello?"

Adria smirked. "That was a nice show you put on the last time we met. Yet with all that you still lost." She turned and began to pace. "What makes you think you can win now?"

"I wasn't trying to win before." Jackie replied. Moving slowly down the dais she continued, "Our last meeting was nothing more than a test."

"We are not so different you and I." Adria returned, continuing to move in cadence with Jackie. Jackie raised her eyebrow again. "My first plan is not to destroy the people of this galaxy, but sometimes they simply cannot be saved."

Jackie felt her anger rising as the two continued to circle. Using every ounce of strength she possessed, she suppressed her anger before replying.

"There is one major difference Adria…You destroy those who will not convert; I don't destroy, I have to choose whom I will save."

"You are a naïve child." Adria answered in anger.

"Perhaps." Jackie said. "But I'm older than you." To emphasize her point, Jackie raised her arm and flung Adria 10 yards back.

In retaliation, Adria swung her arm and flung Jackie to the left, causing her to hit the DHD. "My age is irrelevant." She said as she stood and used her power to hold Jackie against the DHD. "I have the power of the Ori on my side."

"Funny," Jackie croaked. "So do I!" Freeing one arm she managed to knock Adria's feet out from under her, making her land on her face.

"Impossible." Adria demanded as she stood and faced off with Jackie.

Jackie shrugged. "Personally I would us 'improbable.' I've learned over the years that the impossible happens."

The two young women resumed their circling. They had each done a round and a half when the gate began to dial and caught their attention. Adria looked left and Jackie looked right, both watching in surprise and fascination as the gate dialed and connected, forming the shimmering blue of the event horizon.

Reacting quickly, Adria threw up a force field around the dais and stargate. Jackie raised an eyebrow at her.

"I will not allow your people to interfere." Adria explained angrily.

"And how do I know that your people aren't the ones that are about to come through?" Jackie replied.

"No one knows where I am."

"Only one knows where I was going, and he is the one who told you." Jackie returned with a sinking feeling. Oh she really hoped that Bra'tac hadn't returned to the SGC and told…

Jackie didn't have time to finish her thought as the event horizon rippled and Vala and Jack stepped through.

It took only a matter of seconds for Jack and Vala to take in the scene before them. Both of the younger women were in battle stances and were covered with cuts and dirt.

"Jackie."

"Adria."

Jack and Vala spoke simultaneously and stepped forward only to be stopped by the force field. With a sinking feeling in their guts, the two parents realized they were going to have to watch from where they were.

Taking advantage of the distraction, Adria threw a bolt of energy at Jackie. Jack and Vala watched in horror as a large explosion filled the area where Jackie had just been standing. With a vile look of triumph on her face, Adria turned toward the two behind the force shield. But neither paid attention as the dust settled.

"Jackie." Jack mumbled.

"Sorry General, she's gone. No one can stand up to the power of the Ori." Adria sneered.

"You're a little premature in your gloating, Adria."

Adria spun around and stared in openmouthed shock as a force shield visibly lowered around Jackie.

"I'll give you on thing, though, you're consistent; even if your beliefs are pigheaded." Jackie smiled.

Λ

Daniel hurried from the infirmary before Dr. Lam could change her mind. Hurrying down the corridors, he pushed through the door into the gym. Pausing only a moment to locate his target, he hurried over to the mats and stopped just in front of the massive bulk that was Teal'c.

Since leaving Daniel in Dr. Lams' care, Teal'c had been expecting him to show up with a dozen questions, so he wasn't surprised when Daniel showed up in the gym. However, it was still a good thing that Teal'c had such intricate control of his reactions, or Daniel would have required another visit to Dr. Lam.

"It isn't wise to stand there Daniel Jackson." Teal'c said without stopping his training, instead working around Daniel's position.

"Where are they Teal'c?" Daniel asked, unfazed by Teal'c's warning.

"Of what do you speak Daniel Jackson?"

"Jack and Vala, Teal'c, Jack and Vala. They are no where to be found on base and neither one signed out of the base."

For the first time since Daniel entered the gym, Teal'c stopped and looked at him. Turning, he shot a pointed look at the two airmen who were using the weights. Silently the two young men hurried out of the gym, leaving Daniel and Teal'c alone in the room.

"I do not know the exact location of O'Neill and Vala Mal Doran."

"But you have an idea where they are." Daniel stated.

Teal'c simply bowed his head in response.

"Well?" Daniel asked impatiently.

"What is your belief regarding Jacquelyn O'Neill's location?"

"That she went to fight Adria." Daniel responded, a 'duh' tone in his voice.

Teal'c's only response was another pointed look.

"…and Bra'tac gave Jack the address to the planet where his daughter and Vala's daughter would be fighting to the death." Daniel answered the unspoken prompt.

Teal'c nodded.

"There's one thing I still don't understand."

"What is that Daniel Jackson?"

"How did Jack and Vala, not to mention Jackie, manage to gate offworld without alerting the entire base?"

"I believe the ongoing experiments in the gateroom afforded them the same opportunity." Teal'c replied.

"Of course! The gate was already dialed." Daniel exclaimed. "All they needed to do was wait on the other side for the wormhole to disengage before dialing the other planet. It's ingenious!"

"Indeed."

Λ

Jack looked down at his watch, 3 Earth hours had passed since he and Vala stepped through the gate and found themselves locked behind a force field. In that time, Jackie and Adria had been doling out some serious fire power. Looking back up at the scene in front of him, Jack took in the sight of the two young women: bruised, cut, bleeding and short of breath. They stood a good 25 yards apart, awaiting the next onslaught of fighting.

"Jackie, I am losing strength. I will not be able to help you much longer."

"You've been…?" Jackie thought in response to the familiar voice in her head.

"The pendant Jackie. You must go for the pendant. It is your only hope."

Jackie eyed Adria. She had heard the stories about Adria's pendant.

"Come Adria, simply admit that you are wrong and we can end this."

Jack's head came up at Jackie's statement. Catching the movement, Vala looked back and forth between the two young women and Jack.

"What's wrong?" Vala asked.

"I don't know, but something's about to happen." Jack responded.

"How do you know?" Vala queried.

"Jackie is baiting Adria."

"No matter how well or hard you fight, the truth will win." Adria returned angrily.

"Which is why I suggested that you admit defeat." Jackie shot back.

"Origin is the true path to enlightenment." Adria argued. In her anger Adria failed to notice that Jackie was moving closer.

"See, that's what the Ori want people to believe." Jackie continued. "After all, they covet power. In order to obtain that power, they need worshippers and in order to get those worshippers, they use threats and lies."

"Blasphemer!" Adria shouted as she sent another blast at Jackie.

This time however, Jackie simply absorbed the energy instead of repelling it. Three sets of eyes stared at her in shock.

"It's only blasphemy if it's not true." Jackie replied, ignoring the looks. Adria opened her mouth to respond, but Jackie cut her off, "I am living proof, Adria, that the Ori are not who they claim to be."

Adria narrowed her eyes as she regarded Jackie.

"Come on Adria! Are you seriously trying to tell me that you haven't wondered how I'm able to fight you?" Jackie goaded.

"It is irrelevant." Adria replied with a false calm.

"You can't fool me with your nonchalant exterior Adria, I'm in your head." Jackie mocked.

"That isn't possible."

"But that's where you're wrong." Jackie smirked. "All those times you thought Vala was communicating with you, allowing you to teach her about Origin – that was me. I convinced your brain that you were actually seeing her standing there."

With a wild yell, Adria sent off another energy blast toward Jackie. Again, she simply absorbed the energy.

Watching from the dais, Jack noticed that the distance between Jackie and Adria had decreased from 25 yards down to 15.

"Now that's the Adria that I know and detest." Jackie was almost laughing at how predictably Adria was reacting.

"How?" Adria said through gritted teeth.

"Ah, there's the question of the century." Jackie suddenly got serious. "I'm you Adria." Adria frowned. "Or at least a different version of the Orici." Jackie's smirk started to kick back in. "I'm the failed version of the Orici. But I'm okay with that, because it proves that the Ori are NOT infallible." Adria's face grew stone cold. "What's wrong? Don't believe me? Well maybe this will help."

In an unanticipated move, Jackie projected her memories from her time among the Ori to Adria's mind. Adria doubled over with head in hands at the impact of the memories. A couple minutes later, Adria opened her eyes, straightened up and glared at Jackie.

"You lie." Adria demanded angrily.

"Doesn't matter whether you believe me or not." Jackie responded calmly before sending off an energy blast toward Adria.

Adria stood in place with a smirk on her face. Every other time, since the fight began, that Jackie had fired off an energy blast it hadn't affected Adria. As the energy blast hit Adria, it enveloped her and threw her back several feet. When she sat up, she was bleeding from a new cut on her head and looked shocked that the blast had had any affect on her.

"Missing something?" Jackie asked with an eyebrow raised.

Instinctively, Adria reached her hand up to her neck where her pendant usually lay. It was missing. She looked up at Jackie in consternation.

"It's amazing how handy a distraction can be." Jackie answered Adria's unasked question.

"The memories." Adria stated unemotionally as she stood to her feet.

"Funny thing about that pendant," Jackie said. "It can withstand any kind of Ancient or Ori technology and power, but disintegrated under the inferior power of a Tauri weapon."

Adria didn't waste her breath responding, she was too angry to formulate words anyway. Instead she mustered all the power she could and shot off a continuous energy blast at Jackie.

Reacting quickly, Jackie did the same.

From the dais, Jack and Vala watched in fascination as the two beams met in the middle. For several long minutes, the two beams met directly in the middle of the two young women. However, it couldn't stay that way forever. All too soon, the massive energy spike where the two beams met started moving closer to Jackie.

It didn't take a genius to realize that Jackie was in trouble. As a genius however, Jackie knew better than most just how bad it would be if that energy spike actually reached her position. She was starting to run out of options. Realizing that there was only one option left, Jackie did the last thing that she wanted to do: she connected to the Ori and pulled her power directly from them.

Λ

The second that Daniel had realized what Teal'c was trying not to actually tell him, he ran out of the gym toward the gateroom. Bursting into the room, he paused for a split second to locate Sam and then hurried over to her.

"Sam, can I talk to you for a minute?"

"I'm kind of busy at the moment, Daniel, can it wait?"

"It's kind of urgent."

For the first time since their short conversation started, Sam noticed the strained and worried sound in Daniel's voice. Turning she looked at him, concern written across her face.

"What's wrong Daniel?"

Daniel opened his mouth to speak, but was interrupted by a yell from the group of scientists closest to the stargate.

"Colonel Carter!"

Sending Daniel an apologetic look, Sam hurried across the gateroom to the stargate. Understanding the importance of a breakthrough, Daniel followed.

"What's happening Dr. Apple?" Sam asked as she came up to the group of scientists. "Is it the one we're looking for?"

"I'm not sure, Colonel. We were going back through the alternate universes that we've left cells in. There was an anomaly with the cells in this one, but I'm not sure what it is. I've never seen this kind of anomaly before."

Sam turned to the computer that Dr. Apple had been working at and looked over the information that had been collected. It didn't take her long before she saw what she had been hoping not to see.

"It's entropic cascade failure." Sam sighed. "Keep checking the others."

"Yes Colonel." Dr. Apple replied solemnly.

"What did you want to tell me earlier, Daniel?" Sam asked as the two friends moved away from the scientists.

"How long will it take you to check all of the alternate universes that you've left cells in?" Daniel inquired.

Sam gave him a look, but when he wouldn't say anything more she answered him. "Two, maybe three hours."

Daniel nodded. "When you're done, you're going to need to leave the gate open."

"Why?" Sam demanded, allowing her frustration to show through. "Daniel what the hell is going on?"

"Let's take a walk."

Λ

The change happened in the blink of an eye. In fact, neither Jack nor Vala were very certain if they saw correctly. All they remembered was an enormous explosion and the force field falling. Once the force field was down however, the dais and stargate were flooded with the floating dirt that had been flung into the air by the explosion.

Moving quickly, the two put their sunglasses on to protect their eyes and pulled their shirts up over their noses. Thus protected, Jack and Vala moved down off the dais. Silently, Jack motioned Vala to move toward the last place they had seen Adria. Vala nodded and moved in that direction, putting her radio earpiece in place. Doing the same, Jack moved toward the last place he'd seen Jackie.

The closer Jack moved toward the location of the explosion, the thicker the air became with dirt. It finally became so think that Jack, who had an excellent sense of direction, was unsure which way he was headed. Reaching down into the right cargo pocket of his BDUs, Jack pulled out a smallish device that he had swiped from Carter's lab.

Turning the device on, Jack located three signals. The signals that the device was picking up were from the locater chip implants that all SGC personnel received. Locating the only one of the three not moving, Jack relied on the device to guide him through the dirt filled air.

Jack was within a few feet of Jackie, and still unable to see her, when his radio crackled.

"General, can you see anything in this cloud of dirt?"

"Not with my eyes, but I swiped some doohickey from Carter's lab that picks up the signals from the locater chip implants that we all have."

"Well at least you're making progress." Vala replied sarcastically. "I can't see a thing in this…DAMN IT! What the hell?"

Jack stopped in his tracks. "What is it Vala?"

"Adria."

"And…?"

"There's a pulse, but it's faint. Without immediate medical attention she won't make it."

"Understood. I'm not far from Jackie, I'll contact you when I'm sure of her condition."

"Okay."

"Dad?"

Jack again stopped in his tracks as he heard the one voice he wanted to hear more than anything else at that moment.

"Jackie?" Jack smiled with relief. "Stay put kiddo – I'm having a hard enough time finding you in this cloud without you moving."

As Jack spoke, he noticed that the dirt seemed to be settling – and at a rather alarming rate. Within a few seconds, the entire area was clear and Jack could see Jackie just a couple feet away. Turning briefly, he located Vala and Adria. When he returned his attention to Jackie, he was surprised to see her sitting up.

"Hey, do you really think you should be getting up?" Jack asked as he hurried to Jackie's side.

"I need to make sure…" Jackie stopped her thought mid-sentence as she struggled to her feet. She grimaced as she grabbed her side.

"Jackie, maybe we should…"

"No!" Jackie interrupted vehemently. "There's something I need to do."

Nodding reluctantly, Jack wrapped an arm around Jackie's waist and helped her walk the few yards to where Vala stood over Adria. As the two came up, Vala stepped away and let them pass. With just a couple feet left, Jackie pushed away from Jack and knelt down on one knee next to Adria.

Once she was sure that she was steady in her new position, Jackie leaned over and checked for Adria's pulse. Like Vala had said, it was there but it was faint.

"I'm sorry." She whispered so that the other two couldn't hear.

Adria's eyes flew open, surprising the three above her. They were all too shocked to move immediately.

"No…" Adria shook her head. "I'm the one who's sorry." She turned and looked at Jackie. "I didn't know Jackie…I swear I didn't know."

Suddenly a bright light enveloped Adria's body and began to float upwards, leaving her clothes and three very stunned people behind.