Chapter 37
Jack stepped back into the wardrobe that had been retrieved from the vault in the other reality. His brother David was tasked with going with him to ensure they got the lamp while Thor, Teal'c and Isabelle stayed behind with the alternate SG team in the other reality. As Jack emerged from the wardrobe in the secure room in his reality with his twin brother behind him the guards on duty all did a double take.
David sounded, "Your secure room is just like ours!"
"I know," he gave a heavy sigh.
From the observation room above the secure room a voice came over the speaker. "Colonel O'Neill," it was Frasier's voice.
He cranked his head around and looked up, "Frasier!"
She squinted, "Is that your brother?"
"Yeah," he nodded. "We got a plan but we need the lamp in Carter's lab."
"I'll meet you at the door," she told him.
Jack glanced at David and noticed he was staring at her. "What?"
"Who is she?" he wondered.
"Base doctor," he told him. He then warned, "She's a power monger!"
David admitted, "She's pretty."
"Trust me," he warned. "She will gladly shove a needle up your ass than put up with any crap."
The door opened and they stepped out into the hallway. Janet looked worse for wear as she was took over running the base and still now answers to oddities that plagued them. "Where is the rest of your team?" she wondered.
"They stayed behind in the other reality," he explained. "How are they?"
"I can't explain it," she admitted. "Sam is sleeping just about all day. Daniel and General Hammond are awake but refuse to leave the infirmary and both keep talking about you nonstop. I ran blood work and everything came back clean. I can't explain it!" She then added, "On top of that the elevator is still not working and there is nothing that they can find wrong with it."
David asked, "What's going on?"
Jack explained, "My Carter, Daniel and General Hammond are all having some kind of breakdown and the elevator worked fine for me but apparently no one else." he started down the hall, "Let's get the lamp."
The trio arrived at Sam's lab. Jack found the lamp that suddenly illuminated when he touched it. He noted, "That didn't do that before." He then picked up his wand that was on a nearby stand for Thor had been running test and found it activated in his hands. He figured, "The nanites are working again."
Janet asked, "How could that be? Sam and Thor said they only would take commands from Izzy."
David asked, "Thor? Your Thor is alive?"
"That kid who came with us," Jack started.
"Jonathan," he nodded.
"He's Thor," he told him. "Our Asgard got new bodies. Loki isn't running the show."
"Oh," he understood. "Your Asgard are still friends."
"The Goa'uld are not!" he told him. "If this is working than the nanites are taking commands from me somehow."
Janet asked, "Did Izzy say anything to you about changing the nanites program?"
He shook his head, "No!" He thought back to that morning, "She gave a Swiss Army knife. I thought she found it."
Janet figured, "We better have a look at that knife."
David stated, "You guys have control over the nanites?"
"You know about the nanites?' Jack smirked.
"We found them but we have no control over them." he informed as he followed Jack out of the lab and to the nearby locker room. Jack then opened his locker and picked up the knife, "This is what she gave me."
"It's a knife," David told him. "Didn't Sam's TV show have a guy with a Swiss Army knife?"
Janet figured, "MacGyver!"
"That's it," David recalled.
"Sam gave Izzy some of her MacGyver episodes to watch." Janet remembered. "That actor looks a lot like you, sir. What if she got confused and did something?"
"Like what?" he asked baffled. "It's a TV show."
"But her mind was affected by the download and she might not have realized that." she countered. She quickly gathered, "She might have thought that actor was you and you had some…Magic pocket knife." she looked at the knife. "In the show MacGyver used his pocket knife to fix things. The elevators worked for you and no one else, sir."
"Meaning?" he asked.
"She made the knife and somehow tied it to you and fixing things." she figured as she led the two men into the infirmary. She walked into Sam's room and Sam was still asleep. She motioned, "See if you can wake her."
Jack went to her side and gently touched her shoulder, "Carter! Wake up."
Her eyes suddenly fluttered open upon the command. She looked at Jack and smile, "You're here. I missed you."
David walked right up behind Jack and stood by his side.
Sam blinked, "There are two of you now?"
"This is my brother," Jack told her.
"Hi," she smiled at him but could not stop thinking about Jack. Her hand grasped his and she didn't want to let him go.
David placed his hand on Jack's shoulder to get him to step away and focus on the task. With the pocket knife back in Jack's pocket David then fell victim to the spell. Suddenly his brother was all that mattered. He couldn't think of anything else. He seemed to nearly go into a trance, "What do you want me to do, Jack?"
Jack did a double take for David sounded odd. "What?" he asked him.
Janet figured, "The pocket knife is…enchanted. Apparently, when you have it in your possession whoever touches you goes into a trance. No one can touch you!"
"Oh' for crying out loud," Jack then realized that was he who was causing the all the problems.
Short Time Later
Jack knew he was running out of time and Anubis would try to cross to the other reality at any moment. He returned to the other reality hauling David by the collar as he seemed to be in a stupor. The Navy Captain sounded like a drunken sailor as he told Jack how much he loved him. As Jack returned David to the other reality David's wife, Sam Carter waited by the wardrobe for their return.
Jack hauled him out of the wardrobe as David was still professing what a great guy he thought Jack was. "You were always more cool than me, Jack." he announced. "I was the brain but you were the cool one."
Sam Carter-O'Neill noticed he sounded drunk. She asked, "What did you do? Drag him to a bar!"
"No," Jack explained. "Apparently, I'm jinxed and anyone who touches me acts like that…" he motioned to his glazed eyed brother.
"What?" she gasped confused.
"Long story!" he huffed. "Where's my team?"
"They dialed the vault and took the mirror with them. They are laying the trap for Anubis." she explained. "Do you have the lamp?"
"Right here," he held it before him.
"I'll have Walter dial out," she informed.
Jack asked himself, "Is Walter in every reality?"
Vault
Teal'c had placed the mirror in the middle of the now empty vault in the alternate reality. The Jaffa suggested, "It would be best to trick Anubis into thinking the mirror in this reality was set in the cavern with the Fountain of Youth." He motioned, "Have the nanites make the hologram."
"Like in the rec room?" she asked.
"Indeed," the Jaffa nodded.
She closed her eyes, "Tiny robots make the vault look like the Fountain of Youth." She opened her eyes and the area looked just like the cavern that contained the energy pool." She jumped up and down excited still in disguise, "I did it! I did it!"
Before Jack could dial to the vault the mirror activated. Anubis was suddenly standing before them and determined to get the energy pool. Anubis declared, "The nanites cannot save you now." He went for the pool and attempted to jump in himself but found the pool was not real and the vault appeared around him. Anubis needed to pool to restore himself to that of an Ascended being more than he needed it to make a weapon.
Teal'c informed, "The pool was an illusion." He wondered where Jack was and why the Gate had not established the wormhole. He glanced at the Star Gate hoping Jack would come with the lamp for Anubis already breached the mirror.
Anubis sneered at Teal'c, "You're friends will not save you. The Jaffa will perish." He found he had fallen into some kind of trap that was about to be set and needed to escape himself. He started to bluff to the Jaffa.
Thor sat on the floor and had the Sam's laptop connected the mirror with a long cord. He reported from his post, "I have detected a time dilation field that has established around us along with a dimension shift."
Anubis accused Izzy, "You are attempting to isolate us!"
"I didn't so it!" she swore.
"You are the only one with such power, child." he sneered at her upset for his grand plans of finding a. energy pool and gaining its benefits were shattered.
"I didn't do it!" she repeated. She looked at Thor and Teal'c for support. "I'm not doing it!"
"I believe the nanites are responsible," Thor told her.
A voice came behind him, "Close!" A figured emerged from the walls. She was tall, nearly Sam's height and sported short brown hair. She wore a green battle dress uniform with an SG-1 patch. She looked about sixteen years old. She stepped forward and stood before Anubis. She sang softly, "Hello darkness my old friend. I've come to speak to you again." She cocked her head, "Recognize me?"
Anubis stepped back.
Thor stated, "You are Isabelle at an older age."
"Eight years from now," she nodded. "You and Teal'c will need to keep this encounter a secret. See, when I was eight I didn't have the ability to really counter Anubis and that's why he is after me. He doesn't want the Fountain of Youth for a weapon. He wants it to save his life. It would restore his Ascension. If he could immerse himself that pool he would have unlimited power."
Teal'c then realized an older version of Isabelle had placed them in the dimension and in a time dilation field using the nanites. He wondered what she was about to do.
She shook her head and spoke to Anubis, "You are so pathetic! You are so weak you tried to use a child to get to the Fountain of Youth. Seriously! Who does that?"
Young Izzy asked, "You are really me? From the future?"
"I am," she told her. She then turned her attention towards the mirror and simply stared at it for a brief moment as the nanites' program activated.
Thor reported, "She's altering the mirror."
Anubis grew concerned, "What are you doing?"
"I am giving you want you wished for. A universe of your own to rule." she told him. The glass of the mirror glowed green and Anubis was suddenly sucked back inside.
As Teal'c watched he could see a figure of Anubis seem to fall back into dark nothingness.
Young Izzy asked, "Where did Anubis go?"
"I sent him to a universe that never developed any galaxies. There is nothing but a void for him to rule." she explained. "He will remain trapped in the void for all eternity." She turned to Teal'c and Thor, "You two need to come up with a good story on how you three defeated Anubis. I suggest Thor claims he sent Anubis to the void using the mirror. They don't need to know about me." She gave a smile, "See ya soon." She then faded as she walked away.
Thor reported, "We are out of the altered dimension and time dilation field. The Star Gate came to life and established rather quickly. Jack emerged with the alternate SG-1 team.
David was still feeling rather high and was ready to fight Anubis in his altered state. "Where is the…whatever it is…we are fighting!" he demanded to know a bit wobbly.
Jack held the lamp, "Did Anubis try to crossover yet?"
Thor stated, "Indeed! I have altered the mirror to send him to a universe void of all galaxies and life." He went with the cover.
Jack stood and gasped. He looked at Teal'c, "I missed the battle?"
The Jaffa stated, "Indeed." He then stated, "It was not much of a battle." He looked at young Izzy and gave a small smile.
The child figured she had to keep the secret and at a later time in her life she would come back to the vault and send Anubis away for good. It would be eight years. She had more years to grow and become an actual member of SG-1. She grinned thinking she will make the team. "It was awesome!" she cheered. "Anubis wasn't very strong after all. He's was a big chicken."
Jack stood in as much of a stupor as David. He gasped, "You, Teal'c and Thor just defeated Anubis all by yourselves?"
"Indeed," Teal'c claimed knowing Isabelle would have to do face Anubis when she grew up. He was thankful that he got a glimpse of the woman she would grow into. He was ever so proud for she remained him of Jack.
"Oh," he figured there was more to the story but they would not tell him. He then asked, "That pocket knife you gave me. Did you find it or did you 'poof' it?"
Izzy explained, "I made it just for you. I know your secret identify now."
Jack paused and had to ask, "Secret identity?"
"You're MacGyver!" she told him.
His eyes rolled back. "When you made the knife what did you tell the tiny robots?" he asked her.
"That you needed a magic knife that would make everything work for you." she explained. "Now you can fix anything just like you did on TV."
Jack looked at David who stood giggling like a girl. He felt ever so high, "You're MacGyver!" David then went on, "MacGiver, MacGidgit…MacGadget."
Jack went to the girl and dug the knife out of his pocket. He held it before her, "I need to undo that. Make it just a regular knife."
"But you can fix anything with it," she told him.
"When I touch someone they are being affected by it," he explained. "It has to be a regular knife and no magic."
She grasped the knife with her hands, "Tiny robots…Make this a regular Swiss Army knife." She was still in disguise as Captain Sinclair and the other SG-1 team knew there more to the Captain that were being told. They figured it was top secret and wondered why Jack would not tell them.
Suddenly, David felt much better. He shook his head clear, "Wow, I feel like I just stepped out of a bar." David didn't know Captain Sinclair's real identity due to the disguise. He had no idea she was the daughter he never had. Jack figured it was for the best to keep her identity secret and let them assume Captain Sinclair was no one of relation.