Chapter 29

It was a brief period after New Year when Jack walked into the living room with an envelope in hand and sat down next to Sam.

"Jack, is that?" She asked

"Yeah." He opened the envelope and with a deep breath started reading his contents. Sam watched as his expression changed.

"What's wrong?"

"Thor." Sam frowned. "He is in trouble."

"What?"

"I know, right. How can he be in trouble with all his big honking tech. But it says here a snake head called Anubis got to him."

"A Goa'uld got to him?" She asked not believing it.

"A half Goa'uld half ancient." He left out, and Sam's eyes widened in shock.

"What are we going to do?"

"Well, you are going to stay here and be safely pregnant."

"You know what I meant." She shook her head.

"I just wanted to get that out before. My plan is to save him. We are going to blow his ship out." He said wriggling his eyebrows. "But you might want to read this," Jack told her giving her the letter.

With a nod, Sam took the paper and started to go through the contents, which included the Anubis threat warning, one alert over an ancient weapon. An announcement over Teal'c's wife and the existence of a weapon that could destroy all the replicators in the galaxy. When she finished, she lowered the paper and rubbed her face tiredly.

"When are you going to speak with Teal'c?" Jack smiled from all the damning things in the letter, the one related to their friend was the one she chose as the starting point.

"I don't know." He shrugged. Sam's eyes brightened, and she raised the paper and scanned it fast. Jack grinned. "What's going on in that brain of yours?"

"I think… you can use the ship and take Teal'c with you and warn Thor. Maybe even save him before Anubis get a chance to put the probe on his brain. We should put a message for the Tok'ra to see if they know something else about this Anubis."

"You want me to blow Anubis ship." Jack grinned, and Sam nodded. "But what about the weapon?"

"I guess our best course of action is destroy it, Jack. I mean, if any other Goa'uld finds out about it they might be able to use it."

"Okay, you've solved everything but one thing."

"Dreay'auc." She said.

"Yeah."

"PYX328"

"Huh?"

"Don't you remember? The planet with the lake full of young symbionts," Jack frowned.

"SG-5 followed a platoon of Jaffa's and reached to the lake where they saw a Goa'uld Queen birthing in the lake?"

"Ah! I remember reading that. Who was that Queen?"

"If my memory serves me correctly."

"It always does," Jack interrupted her making her roll her eyes.

"It was Bastet. There was a temple there, SG-5 brought back pictures of it and Daniel translated as Bastet, daughter of … Ra."

"It's that one of the many planets Daniel insisted he needed to go to get a closer look at the temple?"

"Yup, just before I found out I was pregnant."

"So, your plan is to grab Teal'c and jump on the ship, save Thor, kill Anubis, destroy the ancient weapon, destroy the replicators and fish some snakes out of a pond to save Teal'c's wife?"

"When you put it like that sounds like a hell of a work." She added, and he chuckled.

"How about you send Teal'c out tomorrow, he can let Bra'tac know and that way he and other free Jaffa can get them."

"And here I was planning some actual fishing…" Jack joked. "I'll send him first time tomorrow. Now, scheming-mind, we are off to bed." He smiled at her.

"Let's go. You need the beauty sleep to save the galaxy again." She grinned.

They found Teal'c at the mess hall the next morning, the alien and a table full of food. Shaking their heads, they walked towards him.

"Morning Teal'c, hungry?" Jack asked

"O'Neill. What's on your mind?" The alien asked before popping a grape into his mouth.

"Dreay'auc"

"What about my wife?" Jack sat on the table and slid the letter towards him.

"Read this," Jack said, with a nod Teal'c took the letter and read it. "You can go and see your family, T. When you are there, give this address to Master Bra'tac." Teal'c nodded as Jack stood up. "You leave in two hours." He informed the alien over his shoulder.

Raising his eyebrow, he picked the note that only had PYX328 and the correspondent gate symbols on it. He saved the note in his pocket and continued with his breakfast.

An hour later, he walked to a computer to check what they knew about this planet, reading through SG5 notes, he felt the weight being lifted from his shoulders as that planet contained exactly what the note said his wife needed.

On the set time, he walked up the ramp to visit his family and hopefully save his wife the last words he heard on Earth where Jack's good luck.

Three days later, the gate started spinning, and Teal'c GDO code came through. Jack walked into the gate room and watched as his stoic friend walked down.

"How's the family, T?"

"They are very well, O'Neill."

"And Bra'tac?"

"He is well; he sends you his thanks and regards. Fifteen free Jaffa along with Dreay'auc are now saved due to new Prim'tas replacing the very mature ones."

"And what did they do with the old ones?"

"Killed them."

"I guess there was nothing else, right?" Teal'c nodded. "Go get checked."

By three o'clock the alarms system went haywire, not expecting any teams back, Jack ran to the control room in time to see the iris getting closed.

"Who's calling, Walter?"

"General Carter, sir."

"Open the iris," Jack ordered him as he hurried down to the gate room.

Jacob stepped onto the ramp and walked down. "Good to see ya, dad," Jack told him from the entrance, still walking towards the man.

"Jack." They greeted each other with a quick hug. "How's Sam?"

"Bigger every day. Not in a bad way." He added fast after getting a glare from Jacob. "So, the Tok'ra has news for us?"

"Yup, I spoke to the council. Surprisingly they gave me their approval to use these," Jacob grinned opening the bag he was carrying, inside there were two devices.

"Oh, are those what I think they are?"

"If you think these are the devices which allow someone to walk through the walls, then you are correct."

"Cool!" Jack grinned. "Wait, there's a but there, isn't it?"

"As always," Jacob told him, and Jack sighed. "They will only allow you to use it if I go with you."

"I thought it would be worse." Jack grinned, and Jacob shook his head. "I guess you are staying for the night?"

"It seems like it. Where's Sam?"

"Lab., I need you to go get checked she will probably be still there by then." Jacob nodded.

"Oh, and Jacob?" Jack called the man as he was walking away from him

"Yes?"

"Don't let her near the things in your bag!" Jack pointed, and Jacob laughed, waving his hand as they took separate ways.

As Jack said, later when Jacob walked into Sam's lab, she was still there typing on her laptop.

"Hey kiddo," Jacob greeted her, and she jumped in shock, turning around to see him.

"Dad!" She smiled brightly and walked to him; they embraced until Jacob felt a kick.

"Hey another kiddo," he grinned towards her belly.

"What are you doing here?"

"I guess I've been appointed to help Jack on that triple mission of his."

"So, you are staying for the night," She smiled.

"Yup, you think there's a chance of us getting out of here for the rest of the day?"

"Sure! The kids will love to see you; it's been months. I'll meet you top side in twenty?"

"Sounds like a plan." He winked at her before leaving her to finish what she was doing

After finishing for the day and walking towards Jack's office to give him some files, she walked topside and found her dad already waiting for her. She tossed her keys.

"You can drive, dad."

The next morning, Sam watched from the control room as they walked inside the ship. The door closed behind them, and the ship rose and went through the gate. She sighed, knowing the only thing left for her now was wait.

Once on the other side of the wormhole, Jack maneuvered the ship to dial the next planet, this time one that would leave them closer to where Anubis was in orbit, cloaking the ship, they traveled through.

"It looks like he is still here," Jacob said.

"Yeah, let's just hope we are not too late," Jack muttered, his father in law nodded as they flew towards Anubis ship, using the ship cloak as they did before, Jack landed inside one of the bays.

"Here," Jacob gave him one of the devices. They strapped the things to their arms. "This button here," Jacob pointed.

"It will allow you to walk through the wall; you push it before you try to cross. Be careful, Jack. It only lasts a few seconds."

"Gotcha. Let's go."

Jacob and Jack worked their way to several different rooms trying to find Thor. After two hours of searching and planting bombs along the way avoiding Jaffa patrols, Jacob stopped at one corner and looked around.

"There are two Jaffa standing outside," He whispered turning to Jack.

"Thor," Jack affirmed.

"It could be, I'll take the one on the left, you take the one on the right."

"On three," Jacob nodded

"One... two...three," Jacob said then they ran out from where they were with their zats raised and firing at the two Jaffa.

They reached the fallen Jaffa and removed their weapons, Jacob opened the door as Jack raised his zat to check the room. Once they noticed it was empty of guards, they pulled the two fallen ones inside to avoid getting caught. Once they were safer, they searched the room and found Thor strapped on a table.

"Thor, buddy," Jack said, and the alien opened his eyes.

"O'Neill"

"Yeah, I've come to get you out of here," Jack explained as he removed the restraints and helped Thor to sit up.

"How did you know I was here?"

"Later, had Anubis done anything to you?"

"No, he mentioned something about a device he would use on me."

"Ok, let's get you out of here. I'll have to carry you, buddy. We haven't got much time," Jack explained before picking his small form up. "Let's go before Anubis shows up."

Running their way back carefully wasn't enough, soon the alarms went off.

"Jacob, hit the button," Jack said, and as Jacob pulled a switch, an explosion was heard. They kept running, and three minutes later, they heard the second set of bombs go off. They stopped shortly after that, the way to the ship was blocked by guards.

"I'll guess you'll get to use them after all," Jacob shook his head before they both ran through the wall and right next to their ship. Jacob ran and started to fell where the door button was, finding it, they walked inside, and as Jacob closed the door again, Jack placed Thor safely on a seat before moving to the controls.

"Let's get out of here."

Jack started the ship and flew towards the shielded opening and out to space. He reached closer to the planet before he turned them around.

"Weapons," Jack said as Thor walked towards him. Two fireballs left the ancient ship, and soon the mother ship exploded.

"There buddy, Anubis is no more."

"Thank you, O'Neill. General Carter and Selmak for saving my life."

"You are welcomed, Thor. Ah, there are two more places to go before we can go to Chimera and let the Asgards know you are safe."

"I'll appreciate letting them know about my fate. Where are we going first?"

"You will see."

Jack flew down to the planet Stargate, dialing they crossed to the next planet. There they found a 'Y' device about fifty meters in front of them. Jack flew up and turned around to see how big it was.

"What is that Jack?" Jacob asked with a frown.

"For what I was told is an ancient weapon which needs to be destroyed. If someone dials another planet and activates it, they can destroy half of the planet in one attack."

"Destroying it is the best course of action, O'Neill." Thor blinked.

"We agree," Jacob told him.

"Weapons," Jack said after nodding to them, he fired a couple more times making sure nothing remained from the device. Once it was over, he dialed another planet.