The Fifth Member of SG-1
A Quick Year – Part 4

"Nirrti's End"

P3X-367

Harry silently made his way, freezing from the wind, to the compound, and entered it.

As it was, he didn't want to risk his being found, should Nirrti have her cloaking technology again and be able to see him while invisible.

He scouted the place out, and generally avoided the deformed people he saw.

A few hours later, he returned to his little hide-out and recovered his clothes and equipment. He took his radio into the forrest, and made the scheduled contact with the remaining SG-4 members at the 'gate on their subchannel.

"SG-4, this is Harry, over." He said, feeling silly at being naked holding a radio.

"Harry, this is SG-4, where's Colonel Ivanov or SG-1?"

"Nirrti has captured them… I'm working on effecting their release. I need you to return to the SGC and appraise General Hammond of the situation, but that if we don't return in… 24 hours… we'll most likely be dead." Harry didn't like to say it, but he had to, since 24 hours was how long he guessed the block would last, and considering how easily they found Sergei, he guessed he was correct about there being a Telepath.

"… Understood."

With that, Harry cut communications and left his radio and the GDO device he had been given in a bag that he buried along the path to the Stargate, hidden sufficiently so only Harry could find them again.

Just in case SG-1 didn't have theirs.

--

He slowly entered the compound again, this time with his clothes and equipment, although those were visible, he was still not.

He found a suitable alcove, and placed his stuff there. Conventiently close to the room where he guessed the device he saw was the DNA manipulator device.

With that, he went down to the cells.

Sergei seemed to be going through what Elabran had, and had no more than an hour by Harry's estimation.

Harry sighed, he knew he might be able to heal the guy, but thought he might be discovered.

He barely gave it a 2nd thought though. He took a deep breathe, and focused on creating a special space-expansioning charm on the space between 2 bars, as he pushed himself through that same gap. It was very taxing, but he made it through into the cell with Sergei, without being discovered.

He needed a few minutes to centre himself, before he stepped over to sergei, and whispered that he was invisible and to try to make no noise to reveal his presence.

With that, he placed his hand on sergei's chest, and tried his best.

--

He woke up a few hours later – thankfully it seemed no one – not even SG-1, had noticed him. He had stayed invisible. Sergei looked to be as he was when Harry first entered, but from Teal'c's comment of how he seemed to have stabilised, Harry guessed he merely prolonged the Russian man's death.

He saw Jonas was gone, but Sam looked a little hot and bothered.

Like a small flame suddenly introduced to oil, Harry's anger bubbled quickly to the surface. But he held himself in check.

He left the same way he entered, and made his way to Nirrti's chambers.

There, he found Jonas alone.

He whispered, "Jonas…"

Jonas looked around with a frown.

"Joooonaaass…" Harry whispered, but this time with a faint smile and ghostly-tone.

Jonas thought for a few seconds, before he rolled his eyes, and asked in a whisper, "Alright Harry, where are you?"

Harry flicked his nose, and Jonas stumbled back.

"You gotta go, Nirrti will be back any second…"

"Alright, but just so you know, I've got a plan."

--

Harry watched as O'Neill arrived in the room. He had chanced it and stood in front of Nirrti, who didn't bat an eyelid and didn't seem to see him, though Harry wondered what that quirk at the corner of her lips was about, nor why she seemed to look at the floor a few metres in front of herself for a second.

He grinned as Jack stopped in place between this Wodan and Eger or something.

And then he thought of what Sam was going through. He lost his smile and appeared, back to Jack.

This wodan fella turned him around, and the egar fella tried to enter his mind.

Harry grinned. The 2 powers were being fed into his body, making his body do things. But their energy was essentially, the same as his own. Compatible.

Like a vacuum, he began to pull all along the 'lines of energy' to their cores. Artificial. Not at all like Cassandra's, these were not all that connected to the physical state of the beings they inhabited.

They were unaffected by being almost entirely drained.

Harry turned back to Nirrti, and used some of the accumulated energy to create a plasma ball.

Essentially, a miniature sun.

"Wait!" Jack stopped him. "We need her alive – She did something to Sam!"

Harry caught Jack glance at the telepathic dude, who then focused on Nirrti. Harry simply stood and took the staff blasts to his bare chest, his 'body shield' going up on instinct.

Egar told Wodan that SG-1 were right.

Wodan used what little he had left, and snapped Nirrti's neck.

Harry sent the plasma ball at the 2 Jaffa, who hadn't let up in firing at him.

The two were vaporised.

He sighed and calmed down, and heard the telepath say assure Jack that he learned from nirrti how to fix them, and asked wodan to get Sergei, who would need it first.

Harry left with Wodan, and since he knew Wodan didn't have any power left, he opened the gates instead.

It wasn't until Sam had been fixed also, that he realised that he was still naked.

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Briefing Room, Stargate Command

Hammond shook his head, but was smirking all the same. "You wondered Nirrti's compound, Naked…"

Jonas shook his head. "Why couldn't you make your clothes invisible?"

Harry shrugged, and answered, "the whole, absorbing thing."

Jonas nodded, but Jack asked, "Howcome you weren't tired after…"

Harry shrugged again, and answered, "Probably because that Egar? Guy tried to read my mind? And unlike the energy from the 302…"

Sam smiled. "You could absorb it."

Harry grinned and nodded. "And be like a vacuum on 'Artificial Magic Cores'. They weren't affected like I or Cassandra, since we had naturally created ones… locked as it was with Cassie. They were altered too much for theirs to be natural. I almost drained them dry."

Sergei asked, "And that was like?"

"Well, a car battery… so much stored energy – one battery per person if you will. Over time, they should be recharged from use. But switch engines, and there's a chance it could be changed to not recharge… that's essentially what happened with me. They were like… little moped bikes with big 4x4 batteries. And I just hooked them into my Engine."

Sam rolled her eyes but smiled at the metaphor. "So…?"

Harry shrugged. "I should be good for spells for awhile before I'm affected again like before. But I'm not going to waste them."

"Cool."

Harry added, "I'm wondering if a Reparo spell would help me in repairs though…"

Jonas frowned at him, and said, "Latin for, to fix?"

Harry nodded.

"Interesting."

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