"All I can say is score one for the good guys. I can't say I'm sorry that they blew themselves up."
After spending several minutes checking that everything on the Odyssey was okay, Cameron stood on the bridge with his arms crossed staring out through the window looking at what was left of the Ancient ship. There wasn't much to see just a few pieces floating in space. Of the Furlings and their ship there was no sign, Cameron was confident that they had gone the same way as the Ancient ship, which in his mind was good news.
"I'll have to agree with you on that one."
Cameron and the others turned around in surprise to see Daniel in a wheelchair, Vala standing right behind him.
"Daniel!" Sam smiled at Daniel, relief and happiness in her voice to see him alive and well.
"Daniel. Shouldn't you be resting?" Sounding very calm, Jack looked at Daniel, his hands on his hips, casting a brief glance to Vala at the same time.
Hearing Jack's words, Vala caught the meaning behind the words, judging from the look he gave her that said 'and what the hell is Daniel doing up already'. She gave a slight shrug of her shouldrs. "He insisted. There was nothing I could do to make him stay, and believe me I tried. It was either tie him to the bed, which I thought was a pretty good option, or bring him myself."
Daniel looked at Jack, knowing that he was concerned, but trying to convey to him that he had to see this with his own eyes. "Jack, I'm fine. Really. Just a little woozy." Moving closer to the window he took in what was left of the Ancient ship, disappointed that it had come to this "Any sign of the entity?"
"No. It came, it saw, it kicked butt. My guess is it didn't think it had any reason to stick around." Cameron understood some of disappointment and hope he heard in Daniel's voice. He too, would of liked to have seen the entity again.
"Maybe. I thought it might..."
Suddenly a white flash struck behind Daniel and the others, interrupting what he had been going to say. Turning around they saw Thor, who stood there, his black eyes blinking at them.
"We are pleased to see you well, Doctor Jackson."
Realising that this was not Thor but the entity using the hologram of Thor, Daniel moved closer. "Thank you. For what you did."
"Yeah, we kinda own you one. Though you did take your sweet..."
"Jack!" Daniel stopped Jack in the middle, giving him a quick glare to shut him up. Turning back to the entity Daniel gave a nod towards the bridge window. "You're going back out there."
"Yes."
"Will we see you again?"
"We never left you. We have always been here. The universe is..."
"...infinite." Daniel couldn't help but smile at that, he had heard this before.
"Correct Doctor Jackson. Your kind shows promise. The truth lies not in the answer but in the question. Do not make the same mistakes as the Furlings."
"Yeah, about Furlings. What happened back there?" Cameron wasn't sorry to see the Furlings dead but he was curious as to what had exactly happened.
Looking at the Cameron Daniel answered for the entity, knowing the answer, "It gave the Furling what it wanted" Looking back at the entity "You showed it..."
"... itself. We could not stop it so we gave it what it seeked. It wanted knowledge, we gave it knowledge of itself. It saw all that it had done, all that it was. We did not cause the Furling it's pain, the pain it felt was it's own truth."
"And their dead?" asked Cameron wanting it confirmed.
The entity looked at Cameron. "You have strange ideas of death, one day you will understand. All you need to know is that they are gone, they will not cause you any more harm," pausing it looked at the others, giving them each a brief look, "But there are others out there who will"
Cameron and Jack exchanged looks, both thinking the same thing, that they had just made themselves a new enemy.
"You can't say that this job is boring. We find the bad guys, get our butts kicked a few times, and then kick some butt of our own." Jack could only shake his head with a laugh at the absurdity of the lives they all lead.
"So the Furlings are still out there," stated Cameron, giving the others a look, all of them knowing that they were safe for now, but that there was now a new enemy out there, somewhere, waiting. For now though they were alive and well, they had won this round. And for now the Furlings were gone, they could worry about them later on.
"Correct, Colonel Mitchell. The Furlings as you say 'are out there'. For now they are not interested in you, but they are there and they will come looking for you... one day. Remember they are not what they appear to be, do not under estimate them." The entity moved closer to Daniel, almost touching him. It spoke again very quietly but quite clearly, "Know this, the truth to what you seek is often right in front of you." With that it took a step back and a ray of golden light, as wide as Thor, poured out up through the ceiling and out of the ship, leaving the hologram of Thor standing there before it too disappeared.
"Their not much for big goodbyes, are they." Cameron turned to Daniel giving him a pat on the shoulder. "Jackson, it's good to see that your head is still in one piece." Making a move out of the bridge he turned to them all as he took a step backwards. "I'm with Anna, if anyone needs me. Harris take us home," he said and turned back around heading to the infirmary.
"Harris, you heard him," said Jack, calling out and pointing a finger at Captain Harris who was behind his console, "Get us out of here and back through the Stargate. We're going home."
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