Yes, I know the swordfight is a rip-off of Star Wars. : )

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SG-1 walked through a dark rocky landscape, the walls illuminated by the flickering of flames that they couldn't see. Using the flashlights on their P-90s to light the way, Sam remarked,

"You'd think an advanced race would have invented a light source that isn't as primitive as fire."

Daniel replied, "It's central to Origin. The Ancients may have generated the associations of fire with demonic imagery in our galaxy so as to shield us from the Ori. There is no immediate illogicality with fire being a symbol of all things good, like heat, light and a medium to cook by."

Cam remarked, "Protectin' us for our own good?"

"Something like that."

Suddenly they grimaced in pain and flew backwards, falling onto their backs, and Cam remarked as he held his nose, "Shoot… while saving galaxies doesn't get old, force fields do… aah."

Sam asked her friends as she held her sore nose, "Teal'c? Jackson? Mitchell? Everyone ok?"

She received three muffled replies of 'yes', and she checked Daniel's nose due to it bleeding. She cleaned and plastered it, as Cam remarked with a grin, "That really is sweet."

Daniel murmured, "Shut up Mitchell."

Sam smiled as they all got up, and she and Teal'c tested different parts of the force field with the barrels of their P-90s. She said,

"Right, I think we took a wrong turn."

They looked around for another exit, when Artur appeared before them. Following a hunch, Cam reached out, and his hand passed straight through the figure. Artur then said,

"I am not really here, Percival - I am what you would call a hologram. My fair Guinevere, the shield will vanish once one of the knights has defeated the Red Knight."

Cam remarked with an intense glare, "Aw man, I bashed his brother already."

The hologram disappeared without another word, and soon they heard the sound of a trotting horse. P-90s raised, they faced the direction of the sound, when a yellow horse appeared, the source of the noise, and a knight in red, shining armour seated astride it. Daniel whispered,

"He's certainly got the fire imagery down pat."

Cam remarked in reply, "Is it me, or does that horse remind you of…"

Daniel smiled as he finished his sentence, "The Three Musketeers… D'Artagnan's funny looking horse. I'm surprised you read it."

"Hey, I do read from time to time, despite my alleged parentage."

The knight trotted up to them on horseback, before dismounting. He said in an echoing voice,

"I am Mordred, the Red Knight. If you wish to continue this quest, your most worthy champion must defeat me, otherwise I will kill all of you."

Cam stepped forward, and was about to say something, when Sam stepped in front of him, Daniel attempting unsuccessfully to grab her arm. Cam whispered,

"Sam, what are you doin'?"

"You've already had one knight fight, and you're going to tell your godchildren about it."

She squared her shoulders and said to the Red Knight, "I will fight you."

The Knight's chilling laughter echoed throughout the cavernous interior of their surroundings, and he said scornfully, "Your champion is a woman?! Are you men or are you mice? A knight cannot fight a woman."

Sam angrily retorted, "Oh yeah?"

Daniel whispered to Cam, "Uh-oh."

"What?"

"She's definitely going to fight him now… remember the Simarka report?"

"Oh… oh crap."

Teal'c whispered, "I believe that she can defeat him."

Daniel clapped him on the shoulder as Sam continued, "What's me being a woman got to do with it!? I can easily kick your shiny red ass!"

A glowing blue sword appeared at her feet and she picked it up as the Knight mockingly replied,

"Of course you could, my dear… you may dress like a man, but you are far from being a man."

"Ok, I'll strike you a deal - you fight me and I kick your ass, and you accept that I'm just as good as or even better than a man."

"Fine, my dear. Go ahead."

Sam placed her combat vest , P-90 and jacket on the floor, and the Knight continued, disbelieving, "The duel will be forfeited if any of your knights intercede. This is a fight to the death. When I succeed, I will slaughter your knights as is my right. May I remind you that no-one has defeated me?"

Sam retorted, "This might just be your lucky day."

She approached Daniel, who smiled at her despite the pain in his eyes, and she slid an arm around his neck as she kissed him, and he kissed her back. They parted, and he whispered as he caressed her jaw, sadness in his eyes,

"Good luck Samantha."

"Thanks Daniel."

Cam and Teal'c wished her good luck too, and she turned back to the Knight, when suddenly her and her opponent were bathed in a circle of white light, separating them from the rest of SG-1. The Knight lunged at her with his sword, not a serious attempt as he only intended to scare her into hysterics with a flesh wound. To his surprise, she dodged the blow, and skilfully fought him back.

The two of them continued to fight, their swords making humming noises as they made contact, Sam gaining several first degree burns on her arms and through her t-shirt. Suddenly, she was knocked flat on her back, her sword flying just out of reach. Through the blinding white light, she could see her friends' faces fall, and she looked up in time to see the Knight standing over her, ready to run her through with his sword. She quickly kicked him with both feet, the Knight flying backwards, his armour clattering on the ground. She grabbed her sword and he instantly sat up, and they resumed fighting.

A while later, she discovered an opening and took it. She ran him through with her sword, and he writhed in agony before exploding into orbs of yellow flame, Sam shielding her face with her arm. The swords, horse and white light soon disappeared, along with the force field as Teal'c discovered, and Sam quickly picked up her gear before sprinting as she called,

"Come on you guys, we don't know how long this is going to stay down!"

On the other side of where the force field had been, Cam and Daniel checked out her burns, the former remarking, "You know, this means we're even on knight fights."

Sam retorted as she grimaced in pain, "Pfft, you just got pain… I got pain and burns."

Daniel remarked with a slight smile, "That was a little too Star Wars."

Teal'c replied as he scanned their surroundings, "It is a shame that we could not acquire those swords on a permanent basis."

Her wounds bandaged, Sam put her gear back on, and Daniel said with a smile, "You certainly kicked his ass."

She affectionately touched his jaw as she replied, grinning, "I sure did… it'll teach him to scorn a woman."

She glanced around at her team-mates before saying, "Right… onwards men."