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The Apprentice: SG-1 Series
Chapter 28: The First one's
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EXT–P3X-888, DAY
I glanced up from the Goa'uld skeleton that I was helping Daniel excavate and sighed. The past month and a half since we helped Thor with his replicator problem had been crazy. First we tried to a help a group of people that promised to give Earth access to highly advanced technology in exchange for supplies to help them beat their enemies. Turns out they were the ones that started the war, lying bastards. Then a Tok'ra named Anise had brought us a set of alien tech military wristband things that gave us super strength and speed. We then went off world, against orders, and destroyed a Goa'uld ship. Damn near getting ourselves killed in the process. After that a Jaffa Priestess named Shaun'Auc came to us telling us that she had been able to convince the symbiote she carried to give up the ways of the Goa'uld and we took her to the Tok'ra.
Turns out she was wrong the symbiote Tanith, betrayed her and killed her. Teal'c wanted to kill Tanith but the Tok'ra had other plans for him, mainly using him against the Goa'uld by feeding him misinformation. After that we had to deal with mind controlled SGC soldiers and Tok'ra, and in the end Martouf/Lantash were killed. Sam took that really hard and for several days she wouldn't leave her on base room. Sha're, Jane, Fraiser, Cassy, and I all had to drag her out for a girls night at my house. Shortly after our girls night we went to a planet were some guy activated some sort of Ancient device that caused the same day to repeat over and over.
I don't remember the day repeating but Jack, Teal'c, and Skaara did. Once that was resolved we got sent to Russia to deal with a problem. Turns out the Russians had found the Stargate that had been on Thor's ship when we blew it up, and they'd encountered a problem with seemingly living water. Sam, Daniel, Dr. Svetlana Markov, and I had all been trapped on a sub on the water planet until Jack and Teal'c returned the water sample that was stolen from the planet. After that incident Skaara wanted a little break, which we got for a couple of days before Daniel was informed about the excavation sight on P3X-888 and I just had to come with him and see. Skaara had decided to stay behind on Earth with the rest of the team. Apparently Jack had promised to show him how to play some video game.
"Look at this." Daniel's exclamation brought me out of my thoughts.
"I know!" Rothman replied.
"It's beautiful," Daniel muttered.
"Female…Queen!" Rothman stated.
"I think so, I mean look at the dorsal structure," I pointed out. Daniel picked up his dictaphone.
"SG-11, Archaeological survey P3X-888, dig site four…"
"Five!" Rothman and I corrected at the same time.
"…Five. Subject: Queen, primordial Goa'uld, as evidenced by the enlarged pectoral musculature and dorsal structure. This Goa'uld ancestor appears to have been a…"
"Cleopatra!" Rothman interrupted. I glanced over at him in confusion, and so did Daniel.
"Well I found her I get to name her…so Cleo," Rothman defended. Daniel glanced over at me and I shrugged my shoulders.
"Cleo as she has been so colorfully named by Robert Rothman appears to have been a predator, not parasitical. Confirming my theory that the Goa'uld evolved for millions of years in the prehistoric oceans of this planet before ever taking on hosts," Daniel stated into the dictaphone. Rothman took a small sample from the skeletal remains of the Goa'uld.
"Lets get a sedimentary time line before we jump to conclusions here, please," Rothman interjected.
"Err…testing for Naquadah levels," Daniel noted.
Rothman placed the sample into a clear container that Daniel was holding. Daniel mixed the sample with the liquid already in the container and we all examined the results.
"Wow, nothing, not even trace amounts!" I muttered in amazement.
"We didn't find any Naquadah in Brutus or Julius either," Rothman stated.
"It must have became part of their Goa'uld makeup later in their evolution, that's significant," Daniel hypothesized.
"How so?" Rothman asked.
Daniel stared at the container in confusion.
"I have no idea…err lets crate this one," Daniel turned to Loeder, "Loeder!"
Loeder walked over to us as Rothman offers Daniel a flask filled with water.
"Have some," He offers.
"No, thank you," Daniel replies.
I took the flask and took a gulp of water than handed it back to him.
"Go ahead Daniel, Hawkins can make a water run," Rothman stood up, "I love ordering those military types around…Hawkins!"
Hawkins glanced up at him annoyed. Loeder approached us and glanced down at the skeletal remains of the Goa'uld.
"Err…mark this one Cleo … and don't ask," Daniel stated.
Loeder raised an eyebrow at us, as we gathered up some samples and started to move away from 'Cleo'. We placed the samples on a table nearby 'Cleo', and Daniel started writing stuff down. Suddenly the sound of gun fire drew my attention to Loeder, who was firing at what looked to be an Unas. The Unas knocked Loeder to the ground and quickly raced over to where Daniel and I were standing. He knocked Daniel to the ground, then turned towards me, and hit me across the face. I fell backwards onto the ground, my head smacking painfully on the hard dirt ground. I felt something grab me by the ankle and suddenly I was being pulled across the ground.
Despite the pounding in my head I tried to dig my fingers into the ground but it didn't do any good, and I could see Daniel being dragged across the ground beside me. To be honest this kind of reminded me of when we first arrived on Abydos the first time and that large animal dragged me and Daniel through the sand. It especially reminded me of that moment when my head smacked against a rock and everything went black...
SOME TIME LATER
I groaned. God my head hurts, I really need to stop hitting my head on things while off world! I opened my eyes and glanced around. The first thing I noticed was that my hands were tied in front of me, and the rope led from my hands to the Unas, who was standing a little ways away from me. The next thing I noticed was Daniel lying on the ground next to me, and his hands were also tied in front of him with a rope leading up to the Unas. I reached over and shook Daniel's shoulder, and his eyes flew open. I could hear the Unas growl and I cringed at the sound. Daniel started to sit up and glanced around, but the Unas turned towards us and growled. He yanked on the ropes in his hand, pulling us up off the ground.
The Unas dragged us through the forest for several hours not stopping once. I was starting to get tired, and I kept stumbling and tripping over rocks and tree roots.
"Ok, I know it seems completely unlikely that you understand a word I'm saying but err…I've gone about as far as I can go at this particular place, so, with your permission, I'm going to fall down now!" Daniel exclaimed, collapsing to the ground.
I sighed and collapsed to the ground right next to him, leaning my head on his shoulder.
"Thank god, rest!" I muttered. The Unas glared at us angrily.
"Rest! This is a thing you should err…become familiar with! Rest…it means err…rest!" Daniel explained.
The Unas growled at us and reared back.
"That's close…come on try again…GRRRESSST!" I encouraged, glancing up at him from my spot on Daniel's shoulder.
Daniel reached into his pocket and pulled out his radio. I felt around my pockets but couldn't find mine. It must have fallen out of my pocket when this thing was dragging us.
"This, this is err…nothing that you need to be worried about. This is a radio. It's err…so my friends can find me and shoot you!" Daniel explained. I smacked him on the shoulder.
"Well don't tell him that," I muttered.
Daniel stood up and activated the radio. I stood up as well, glancing down at the radio in Daniel's hand.
"Err…this is Daniel Jackson. If anyone can hear me…"
The Unas swiped the radio out of Daniel's hand, and it crashed against a tree. The Unas then yanked on the ropes knocking the two of us to the ground. All the air left my lungs as I hit the dirt and I gasped for air. Oh perfect just perfect.
"Ok, I get it, no more radio. Radio bad! Do you speak any kind of language at all? I mean you must be intelligent. I mean, you made that necklace and those clothes," Daniel rambled, gesturing to the simple clothing and large bone necklace the Unas wore.
The Unas used the rope to drag us to our feet and we started walking again.
"Ugh walking," I groaned, hanging my head.
"Ah yeah, yep that was refreshing, thank you. I'm good for another ten miles!" Daniel added sarcastically.
A FEW HOURS LATER
We'd been walking, and walking, and walking, and to be honest I was getting tired of it! The ropes were starting to hurt my hands, seeing as the Unas kept tugging on them, and I could already see red welts forming on my wrists. We eventually came across a river and the Unas stopped, and glanced up at the two moons in the sky above us. I let out a happish sounding noise and just dropped to the ground, Daniel dropping down right next to me.
"Oh dear lord in heaven above I don't think I can walk any more today," I muttered, closing my eyes.
"Yes, rest! This is err…this is good. This is rest," Daniel exclaimed.
The Unas started chanting something and I glanced up at him.
"Is this some sort of meditation or...?" Daniel asked.
The Unas ignored us and continued chanting. Daniel reached into his left jacket pocket and pulled out his recorder, and started recording.
"This is Doctor Daniel Jackson. In case anybody finds this, Adolfina and I have met a wonderful new friend, and he's taking us on a long journey to see his friends," Daniel stated. Suddenly the Unas stopped chanting and glanced back at us.
"I'm just making notes," Daniel turned back to the recorder, "At the moment, my main concern is that my new friend is an aboriginal Unas in its un-Goa'ulded state, and that we're the evening meal." I groaned.
"Oh why Daniel, why did you have to say that," I grumbled, glancing over at him.
I glanced back over at the Unas who had started chanting again.
"It err…or rather, he appears to have undeveloped chin and facial horns which indicate he could be a subspecies. Possibly a juvenile," Daniel stated.
The Unas growled at this, and I snorted in amusement. That definitely sounded like he was telling Daniel to shut up.
"Shut up?" Daniel questioned. The Unas snorted.
"I understood that…" Daniel pulled the recorder closer to his face, "We're communicating."
"A cha'ka. A cha'ka. A cha'ka. A cha'ka. A cha'ka," The Unas chanted.
Daniel aimed the recorder at the Unas.
"Schakka…Schakka…Chaka!" Daniel said, trying to imitate the Unas.
The Unas stopped and started at Daniel amazed.
"Is that what you call yourself? Chaka? Daniel, I'm Daniel, and this is Adolfina. Chaka is something else?" Daniel guessed.
The Unas growled at us slightly, and Daniel glanced up at the sky.
"Is Chaka the moon? This is some sort of moon chant?" Daniel asked. The Unas just stared at him with wide surprised eyes.
"Moons coming into alignment?" Daniel asked, gesturing with his hands. The Unas growled loudly and Daniel and I both ducked our heads.
"Moon chant, what was I thinking?" Daniel muttered.
"Yeah what were you thinking with that one?" I questioned, cuffing him lightly upside the back of his head.
"Well I didn't see you coming up with any suggestions," Daniel replied, shoving me lightly with his shoulder.
I rolled my eyes at that. Suddenly I heard the sound of a UAV overhead, and the Unas stood up in alarm.
"Shesh!" The Unas shouted.
"Shesh, what is that?" I asked.
"Chaka, keka! Shesh! Chaka keka! Shesh!" The Unas shouted, pointing at the UAV as it flew overhead.
"UAV!" Daniel replied, making a symbol with his hands for the UAV.
"UAV! It's our friends looking for us," I explained.
"Shesh! Chaka keka!" The Unas shouted.
"You're frightened! It's ok, it won't hurt you. It won't hurt you," Daniel stated.
The Unas seemed to calm down as the UAV flew away. The Unas then began to drag us away from the water but Daniel pulled back.
"Hey!" Daniel shouted. He pointed to the water with his hands.
"Water…we need water," He stated.
The Unas scanned around the area and approached the river. Daniel and I knelled down and put our mouths near the water. The Unas grabbed us by the shoulder and pulled us up away from the water, and made a cupping motion with his hands. Daniel held up his bound hands and the Unas slowly put down the ropes allowing us to drink the water. The Unas glanced around, and suddenly Daniel had both his and my rope in his hand and started dragging me away.
I could hear the Unas behind us, and Daniel pulled me back behind him and towards the water. The Unas back away from the water. Daniel pushed me backwards and the two of us started swimming across the river, and approached the opposite bank. Unfortunately I could see that the Unas had circled around and was waiting for us. We stopped and stared up at the Unas. Suddenly I heard the sound of something moving in the water behind us, and I glanced back to see the water rippling, and it looked like something was moving towards us. Daniel yanks on my rope and the two of us race out of the water. We reach the shore and I glanced back to see a symbiote leap out of the water. The Unas snatched the symbiote out of the air and broke it's head off. He then smeared the symbiotes blue blood across both our faces, and I cringed in disgust.
"Keka, keka, keka!" The Unas growled. Daniel backed away slowly, once again pushing me behind him.
"Keka. Keka means dead? Danger?" Daniel asked, sounding out of breath.
The Unas growled, glanced around, then pulled on mine and Daniel's rope.
"Ka!" The Unas shouted.
"Ok, ka means no," Daniel muttered.
The Unas struck Daniel and he fell to the ground, I backed up slightly away from the Unas and it growled at me, and shoved me to the ground.
"Right, I won't do that again," Daniel said. The Unas pulled both of us to our feet, and started walking.
A CAVE, A FEW HOURS LATER
We'd reached a cave after several hours of walking. The sun was starting to go down, and I was getting kind of tired. The Unas dragged us into the cave, and set up a fire, and started roasting the dead Goa'uld over it.
"Is this your cave…your cave?" Daniel asked. The Unas just growled at him.
"It's nice!" Daniel stated.
The Unas took the Goa'uld off the spit and threw it towards Daniel who just stared at it. The Unas took the other end for himself. He pointed at the Goa'uld in front of Daniel.
"Nan!" The Unas stated, taking a bite out of the Goa'uld. Well I just lost my appetite.
"Nan," Daniel questioned, picking up the Goa'uld head.
"Nan is Goa'uld? It's err…a symbiote?" Daniel asked, imitating the Goa'uld. The Unas growled.
"Ka. Nan!" The Unas took a bite of the Goa'uld while looking pointedly at Daniel.
"Ugh I think he wants us to eat it," I muttered.
"Eat, nan is eat, of course!…No, you know, if we're the main course, I'd rather you fill up on the appetizers," Daniel suggested, throwing the Goa'uld head on the floor.
"So no…err ka!" Daniel said. The Unas picked it up and threw it back at Daniel.
"Nan!" The Unas replied. Daniel threw it back to him.
"Ka!" Daniel replies. They did this a couple times and all three of us started to laugh slightly.
"Right err…yes, toss the symbiote head! That's very, very popular, very interesting. Yes, all the kids are doing this," Daniel muttered, laughing slightly. Daniel threw the Goa'uld head into the fire.
"Oh look out! In the fire but…" Daniel reached into his pocket and pulled out a chocolate bar. Now how long has he had that?!
"Nan!" Daniel stated.
"Ka!" The Unas replied.
"Now don't say ka until you've tried it!" Daniel said.
"Even though that's what you just did with the Goa'uld head," I muttered.
"Shhh, you wanna eat a symbiote," Daniel replied. I shook my head.
"Than shh," Daniel muttered.
I stuck my tongue out at him, and Daniel just rolled his eyes at me. He turned back to the Unas and unwrapped the candy bar and the Unas sniffed at it.
"Nan!" Daniel stated, taking a bite of the bar. I whined at him and he rolled his eyes and me but let me take a bite of the candy bar.
"Mmmnnnn!" Daniel muttered.
The Unas tried to imitate Daniel, and Daniel offered him what was left of the candy bar. The Unas sniffed it then licked the bar, then took a bit.
"Mmmnnnn!" Daniel muttered.
"Mmmnnnn!" The Unas imitated.
"That's funny, I err…met my father-in-law like this!" Daniel stated.
"Food, the universal peace maker," I mumbled.
Daniel laughed at that. I was feeling really tired after walking all day, so I laid down and closed my eyes. I quickly fell asleep but I wasn't asleep for to long, maybe an hour at most. The sound of Daniel shouting woke me. I sat up and glanced around. The Unas was standing next to Daniel near a wall with drawings on it. There was a scratch on his face.
"Keka?" Daniel asked.
I stood up as the Unas pushed Daniel away from the wall and rubbed some blood onto the wall next to a depiction of an Unas with two captive humans.
"I think we've just been marked for death!" He stated, glancing over at me.
I stared back at him wide eyed. He walked back over to me and we both sat down. Eventually the Unas fell asleep and Daniel silently picked up a large stone. For a second it looked like he was going to smash it on the Unas' head, but then he just let the stone fall to the ground with a loud thump. The Unas sat up and growled at Daniel. Daniel held up his hands.
"It's ok, it's ok," Daniel stated. The Unas leaned on it's hand and flinched. I noticed blood pouring out of a wound on his hand.
"I can help you with that, if you let me," I suggested, pointing at the wound.
"But you have to trust us!" Daniel added.
The Unas looked at his hand then at me. Daniel had given me a pair of tweezers, which he'd found in the pocket of his vest, and I was using them to try and pull a bullet out of the Unas' hand. The Unas kept flinching and I kept having to pull his hand closer to me. After a few minutes of this I finally managed to pull the bullet out of the Unas' hand.
"I don't suppose you know the story of Androcles and the lion?" I asked, as I held up the bullet.
"Chaka!" The Unas exclaimed, looking back and forth at me and Daniel.
"What is Chaka?" Daniel asked. The Unas looked away.
"Look, obviously we don't need to be enemies here. I mean err…I want to go home. I mean, don't get me wrong, it has been a hoot but err…I did just pass up the chance to kill you so…" The Unas pulled on our rope and Daniel glared at the Unas.
"Please, let us go!" Daniel asked quietly.
Daniel picked up a piece of charcoal from the remains of the fire as the Unas pulled us to our feet. We started off further into the cave, and as we passed one wall Daniel stopped and quickly wrote something on the wall. The Unas glanced at the wall, but before I could see what Daniel wrote the Unas pulled us down the pathway further into the cave. After a while of walking we reached a large cavern, and I could hear the sounds of other Unas'. I could see fires and lots of different items spread out throughout the cavern.
"Look, I know we've got the beginnings of a beautiful friendship here, but I'm not sure your folks are going to understand," Daniel exclaimed.
Suddenly a loud deep growl rang out through the cavern and the shadow of a larger Unas appeared in the entrance to the cavern. The larger Unas approached us, growling loudly and I took a step back from it. The Unas that had captured us cowered back in fear. The Larger Unas approached Daniel and I but the Unas that captured us stepped in front of us.
"Ka! Ka keka!" The Unas exclaimed. The larger Unas looked down at him and growled.
"Ka nan, tok! Chaka, ska nat, Chaka!" At that moment SG-1 entered with their weapons drawn and ready to fire. Daniel put his hands up to stop them.
"Don't, don't! Don't shoot!" Daniel shouted.
The team stopped as the larger Unas roared loudly. Other Unas' appeared from further inside the caves. They started towards us but our Unas started talking again.
"Cho'ee'che!"
"This started out as some sort of rite of passage. I think the alpha male was expecting the younger one to offer us up for some kind of feast," Daniel explained.
"Tok. Chaka, ka nan!" Our Unas said.
"Instead I think the younger one's trying to bring us into his clan," I finished.
"Why?" Sam asked. "We've communicated. We're friends!" Daniel replied.
"Friends?!" Jack asked, sounding incredulous. One of the other Unas' approaches us swinging a club.
"Ka!" Our Unas shouted. Jack, Teal'c, Sam, and Skaara all raised their weapons but Daniel and I both raised our hands to stop them.
"Don't! I think the younger one's trying to tell the clan that he's found something good for them," Daniel stated.
"And they're buying that?" Jack asked.
"Ugh, No, I don't think so," I answered, shaking my head. The larger Unas approached Daniel ready attack but Daniel raised his hands.
"Ka keka!" Daniel shouted. The Unas stopped and backed away in surprise.
"Daniel?" Jack asked.
"What did you just say?" Sam questioned.
"I think I just asked him not to kill me!" Daniel answered.
Suddenly the larger Unas attacked our Unas knocking him to the ground. The larger Unas went to attack Daniel who ducked out of the way. The Unas' swing missed Daniel but hit me hard in the chest and I fell backwards onto the ground, a scream leaving my mouth. My chest hurt from the hit and I groaned. That's definitely gonna leave a mark. I could hear the sound of gun fire and I glanced up to see Sam, Jack, and Skaara firing at the large Unas hitting him several times in the chest. The larger Unas staggered backwards slightly, then attempted to hit Daniel again. But our Unas attacked it first. Our Unas knocked it into a small shallow pool of water and drowned it. Our Unas then let out a loud roar and the others all bowed at him.
"He's just become the alpha male," Daniel explained.
Our Unas growled at the others and they all retreated back into the depths of the caves. He then turned to me and Daniel.
"Dan'el? Ad'lfna," He exclaimed, gesturing for us to following him into the cave. We both shook our heads.
"Ka. We have to go now. Thank you. Chaka," Daniel replied.
"Thanks. Chaka," I stated.
He growled softly, then left. Suddenly Skaara was by my side looking me over.
"I'm fine, just a little bruised. Help me up will ya," I asked, holding out my bound hands to him.
He smiled at me and pulled me up off the ground, and enveloped me in a hug. I couldn't exactly get my arms around him seeing that they were still tied together so I settled for just burying my face in his neck. After a few moments he let go of me and I gave him a quick kiss.
"Now will someone please untie me," I exclaimed, holding out my hands.
"I've got it," Jack said, walking over to me.
He pulled out a large pocket knife and quickly cut off the ropes around my hands, then did the same for Daniel. I watched as the Unas' left the cavern and I couldn't help but smile at the fact that we'd just made a new friend.
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AN: I actually really like this chapter! It's got some nice brotherly/sisterly type interactions between Daniel and Adolfina in it! Plus who doesn't love Chaka I mean come on that Unas is adorable?! I hope ya'll like the chapter don't forget to review!
