Snow White and..SG-1?
Just ten minutes later they had arrived through the Stargate on the planet that they had left just a few hours earlier. The sun still shone brightly in the deep blue sky, the children still played on the deep green grass and employees of the SGC were still extracting minerals from the planets soil, but now the planet was tinged with something else.
"Okay this is weird..." Janet Fraiser immediately stated as soon as she stepped through the gate.
"So you noticed that too?" Daniel stated to her.
"Yeah I just..."
"Can't put your finger on it right." Daniel stated.
"Yeah." she stated amazed that she wasn't the only one who felt strange about such a beautiful place. "How did you..."
"Well we've been there, seen it, and done that." Jack O'Neill answered beginning to walk in the direction of the forest in which they had been sitting earlier.
The doctor caught up with him. "Colonel to your recollection did the Major do something that you didn't, hurt herself sometime or even eat something maybe that you guys didn't?"
"Surely you would have picked anything like that up on the x-rays or in the blood tests you took doc." the Colonel asked.
"Yeah, but maybe we missed something."
"That's not saying much for your capabilities." The Colonel told her.
"Look sir I know you care about Sam, we all do but there is no need to take it out on me. We have done every test we can think of in the infirmary, every possible test, but there has got to be something we've missed and it has got to be to do with this planet." the doctor told him.
"That I agree with," the Colonel answered.
"Everything okay?" Daniel asked having caught up with the doctor and the Colonel, concerned over their arguing and the effect it would have on the already shaken up Doctor Fraiser.
"Yeah fine. Everything's just peachy." O'Neill told Daniel. "Well we're here." The Colonel told the doctor showing her the spot where they had stopped for their lunch.
She knelt down and started looking around. "Nasty." she said after her hand found a rotten apple that was lying on the floor in front of the log on which they had been sitting.
"Okay." Daniel began muttering to himself "So we were sitting down here commenting on how freaky this planet is, then she came along and asked Sam..." he trailed off seeing the same old woman who had spoken to Samantha Carter before she had fell unconscious.
"Do you want an apple dear?" came a familiar voice.
"Excuse me?" Janet Fraiser asked getting up to see an old woman standing beside her.
"Do you want an apple dear?" the woman asked again. "They're said to be the best tasting apples in this kingdom."
"I don't think so." Janet Fraiser answered. "I'm not really very hungry."
"Well then I will leave you one here." the old woman told the doctor undeterred before beginning to walk off.
"No really I..." but she trailed off seeing the woman had disappeared.
"Okay...so she came along and offered Sam an apple which she took..." Daniel continued to mutter as Jack began to pace and Teal'c sat down "Then we saw the dwarves..."
"Dwarves?" Janet Fraiser cut in.
"Yeah there were um...dwarves." Jack O'Neill informed her.
"Like those over there Dr Fraiser..." Teal'c stated pointing towards the forest.
"And then Sam just..." Daniel trailed off realizing both Jack, Teal'c and the doctor had began to approach the group of dwarves wandering through the forest, Janet having picked up the apple that Sam had eaten and the apple the old woman had left for her to determine if they held the key to Sam's condition.
"Okay so we're meeting the dwarves," he said to himself running over to join them.
"Excuse me!" Jack O'Neill shouted to the dwarves.
They carried on marching through the forest.
"I said excuse me!" he shouted.
Still they carried on.
The team followed them to a stone house deep in the forest that seemed to be almost camouflaged by the trees and vines that were growing. One of the dwarves beckoned for the team to follow them inside. O'Neill took out his gun and led the team into the house of which the team had to duck just to get through the door as it's scale was so minute. It reminded them of a children's summer house, everything inside it being so small.
"Nice place you got here." O'Neill remarked in his usual sarcastic tone looking around.
"Who are you?" one of the dwarves asked.
"I'm Daniel Jackson, this is Colonel Jack O'Neill, Dr. Janet Fraiser and Teal'c."
"What of your friend?"
"You mean Sam? a blonde woman with shortish hair wearing the same uniform as Jack?" Daniel replied.
The Dwarves nodded.
"She's sick. That's what we're here for...to find a way to help her." Janet Fraiser told them. "We can't find a cause, or any treatment. We wondered if you had any idea what was going on."
"No, no idea." one of the dwarves stated briskly moving away from them.
"Then why the hell did you ask us in here." Jack O'Neill shouted losing patience. He had the feeling that the dwarves weren't telling them the whole story.
His friends glared at him.
"Outside it's not safe, there are spies everywhere." one of them nervously told the team.
"Spies...? Whose spies? " Daniel asked them.
"Hers. The wicked queens." another dwarf told them.
"Okay, lets get out of here. This is obviously not going to help." O'Neill stated beginning to wonder if every person on this planet had lost their mind.
"This wicked queen, what can you tell us about her?" Daniel asked sitting down on something.
Jack glared at him in frustration.
"She is very bad and very jealous." one of the dwarves replied "She makes us work in the mines to... how do you say? extract minerals from the soil to help make weapons."
"What do you mean by she's jealous?" Daniel asked intrigued.
"She want's to be the fairest in the kingdom and of course she is not. If she spies someone prettier than she, she will try and rid herself of the competition."
"The old woman..." Daniel Jackson stated.
"And the apples." Janet Fraiser carried on. "Damn it why didn't we see this sooner."
Teal'c looked at O'Neill confused, then relieved, as it appeared he wasn't the only one who didn't understand what they were talking about..
Janet catching on to their confusion began to explain.
"Before Cassandra goes to bed she likes to hear a bedtime story, usually a fairytale."
"Yeah so..." O'Neill asked looking at her blankly.
"So the one I'm reading her at the moment is Snow White."
"You know of Snow White?" one of the dwarves asked, his eyes wide.
"Sir, you know how the Goa'uld have taken on personas of ancient Egyptian Gods and are living on as them? well these people are living the story of Snow White." Janet Fraiser explained.
"And you are able to conclude this how?" Teal'c asked.
"First of all in Snow White there were seven dwarves, look around you Teal'c how many do you count?"
"Second of all." Daniel cut in " In Snow White, Snow White herself was given a poisoned apple by the wicked queen which put her into a comatose state, one in which no-body could tell that she was alive."
"The wicked queen being the jealous woman these guys have just described, and that comatose state being the one Sam is now in, though we know she is alive because we can still minutely detect her breathing. That apples the key Sir, just the same as in that fairytale and that old woman is the wicked queen."
"Let me get this straight, you think that the old woman Sam spoke to and tha you just spoke to was this wicked queen in some sort of disguise and that she gave you and Sam a poisoned apple because she feared that your both being..."
"Beautiful..." Daniel cut in.
"...Not at all ugly would rid her of her reputation as being the fairest of them all?"
"Exactly." Janet Fraiser cut in. "Oh and thanks for the compliment guys."
"It would make sense Jack, and it would explain why everything here is...the way it is." Daniel stated "It just leaves us with the question of whether these people are living the fairytale or if somehow the authors of such stories were writing true accounts of different worlds where these events have been taking place."
"As much as I'd like to get into this conversation now, and as much as I'd like to believe you I can't help but think that maybe the whole...I dunno..insanity of this planet has rubbed off on you. A fairytale is a fairytale guys nothing more, you're just grabbing at straws."
"Then how do we know of Snow White." one of the dwarves asked him "She stayed here once you know, she was a very nice girl."
"Whatever." Jack O'Neill answered sarcastically. "Let's get out of here." he then told his team leaving the house.
"Thanks for your help." Daniel told the dwarves before leaving also with the others in the team at his side.
"Boy that guy was ungrateful." one of the dwarves stated about the Colonel as he left.
"So for arguments sake." Jack O'Neill asked the doctor as they approached the gate "As I have never read Snow White, if they are living the fairytale, do you know how we can help Sam?"
"I have an idea yes." she answered him.
"You gonna test those apples, find an antidote to the poison?" he then asked.
"I don't think we're going to detect anything if we do sir."
"What do you mean you don't think you're gonna detect anything? Snow White was poisoned, those Dwarves said it themselves."
"Yeah but Jack, in the fairytale there was only one way Snow White could be woken up, and if these people are living the story it's likely that will go for Sam too." Daniel answered backing his friend up
"And what is that way?" Jack asked innocently.
"Lets just say I think it's gonna make the guys on the base very happy." the doctor replied.
Just ten minutes later they had arrived through the Stargate on the planet that they had left just a few hours earlier. The sun still shone brightly in the deep blue sky, the children still played on the deep green grass and employees of the SGC were still extracting minerals from the planets soil, but now the planet was tinged with something else.
"Okay this is weird..." Janet Fraiser immediately stated as soon as she stepped through the gate.
"So you noticed that too?" Daniel stated to her.
"Yeah I just..."
"Can't put your finger on it right." Daniel stated.
"Yeah." she stated amazed that she wasn't the only one who felt strange about such a beautiful place. "How did you..."
"Well we've been there, seen it, and done that." Jack O'Neill answered beginning to walk in the direction of the forest in which they had been sitting earlier.
The doctor caught up with him. "Colonel to your recollection did the Major do something that you didn't, hurt herself sometime or even eat something maybe that you guys didn't?"
"Surely you would have picked anything like that up on the x-rays or in the blood tests you took doc." the Colonel asked.
"Yeah, but maybe we missed something."
"That's not saying much for your capabilities." The Colonel told her.
"Look sir I know you care about Sam, we all do but there is no need to take it out on me. We have done every test we can think of in the infirmary, every possible test, but there has got to be something we've missed and it has got to be to do with this planet." the doctor told him.
"That I agree with," the Colonel answered.
"Everything okay?" Daniel asked having caught up with the doctor and the Colonel, concerned over their arguing and the effect it would have on the already shaken up Doctor Fraiser.
"Yeah fine. Everything's just peachy." O'Neill told Daniel. "Well we're here." The Colonel told the doctor showing her the spot where they had stopped for their lunch.
She knelt down and started looking around. "Nasty." she said after her hand found a rotten apple that was lying on the floor in front of the log on which they had been sitting.
"Okay." Daniel began muttering to himself "So we were sitting down here commenting on how freaky this planet is, then she came along and asked Sam..." he trailed off seeing the same old woman who had spoken to Samantha Carter before she had fell unconscious.
"Do you want an apple dear?" came a familiar voice.
"Excuse me?" Janet Fraiser asked getting up to see an old woman standing beside her.
"Do you want an apple dear?" the woman asked again. "They're said to be the best tasting apples in this kingdom."
"I don't think so." Janet Fraiser answered. "I'm not really very hungry."
"Well then I will leave you one here." the old woman told the doctor undeterred before beginning to walk off.
"No really I..." but she trailed off seeing the woman had disappeared.
"Okay...so she came along and offered Sam an apple which she took..." Daniel continued to mutter as Jack began to pace and Teal'c sat down "Then we saw the dwarves..."
"Dwarves?" Janet Fraiser cut in.
"Yeah there were um...dwarves." Jack O'Neill informed her.
"Like those over there Dr Fraiser..." Teal'c stated pointing towards the forest.
"And then Sam just..." Daniel trailed off realizing both Jack, Teal'c and the doctor had began to approach the group of dwarves wandering through the forest, Janet having picked up the apple that Sam had eaten and the apple the old woman had left for her to determine if they held the key to Sam's condition.
"Okay so we're meeting the dwarves," he said to himself running over to join them.
"Excuse me!" Jack O'Neill shouted to the dwarves.
They carried on marching through the forest.
"I said excuse me!" he shouted.
Still they carried on.
The team followed them to a stone house deep in the forest that seemed to be almost camouflaged by the trees and vines that were growing. One of the dwarves beckoned for the team to follow them inside. O'Neill took out his gun and led the team into the house of which the team had to duck just to get through the door as it's scale was so minute. It reminded them of a children's summer house, everything inside it being so small.
"Nice place you got here." O'Neill remarked in his usual sarcastic tone looking around.
"Who are you?" one of the dwarves asked.
"I'm Daniel Jackson, this is Colonel Jack O'Neill, Dr. Janet Fraiser and Teal'c."
"What of your friend?"
"You mean Sam? a blonde woman with shortish hair wearing the same uniform as Jack?" Daniel replied.
The Dwarves nodded.
"She's sick. That's what we're here for...to find a way to help her." Janet Fraiser told them. "We can't find a cause, or any treatment. We wondered if you had any idea what was going on."
"No, no idea." one of the dwarves stated briskly moving away from them.
"Then why the hell did you ask us in here." Jack O'Neill shouted losing patience. He had the feeling that the dwarves weren't telling them the whole story.
His friends glared at him.
"Outside it's not safe, there are spies everywhere." one of them nervously told the team.
"Spies...? Whose spies? " Daniel asked them.
"Hers. The wicked queens." another dwarf told them.
"Okay, lets get out of here. This is obviously not going to help." O'Neill stated beginning to wonder if every person on this planet had lost their mind.
"This wicked queen, what can you tell us about her?" Daniel asked sitting down on something.
Jack glared at him in frustration.
"She is very bad and very jealous." one of the dwarves replied "She makes us work in the mines to... how do you say? extract minerals from the soil to help make weapons."
"What do you mean by she's jealous?" Daniel asked intrigued.
"She want's to be the fairest in the kingdom and of course she is not. If she spies someone prettier than she, she will try and rid herself of the competition."
"The old woman..." Daniel Jackson stated.
"And the apples." Janet Fraiser carried on. "Damn it why didn't we see this sooner."
Teal'c looked at O'Neill confused, then relieved, as it appeared he wasn't the only one who didn't understand what they were talking about..
Janet catching on to their confusion began to explain.
"Before Cassandra goes to bed she likes to hear a bedtime story, usually a fairytale."
"Yeah so..." O'Neill asked looking at her blankly.
"So the one I'm reading her at the moment is Snow White."
"You know of Snow White?" one of the dwarves asked, his eyes wide.
"Sir, you know how the Goa'uld have taken on personas of ancient Egyptian Gods and are living on as them? well these people are living the story of Snow White." Janet Fraiser explained.
"And you are able to conclude this how?" Teal'c asked.
"First of all in Snow White there were seven dwarves, look around you Teal'c how many do you count?"
"Second of all." Daniel cut in " In Snow White, Snow White herself was given a poisoned apple by the wicked queen which put her into a comatose state, one in which no-body could tell that she was alive."
"The wicked queen being the jealous woman these guys have just described, and that comatose state being the one Sam is now in, though we know she is alive because we can still minutely detect her breathing. That apples the key Sir, just the same as in that fairytale and that old woman is the wicked queen."
"Let me get this straight, you think that the old woman Sam spoke to and tha you just spoke to was this wicked queen in some sort of disguise and that she gave you and Sam a poisoned apple because she feared that your both being..."
"Beautiful..." Daniel cut in.
"...Not at all ugly would rid her of her reputation as being the fairest of them all?"
"Exactly." Janet Fraiser cut in. "Oh and thanks for the compliment guys."
"It would make sense Jack, and it would explain why everything here is...the way it is." Daniel stated "It just leaves us with the question of whether these people are living the fairytale or if somehow the authors of such stories were writing true accounts of different worlds where these events have been taking place."
"As much as I'd like to get into this conversation now, and as much as I'd like to believe you I can't help but think that maybe the whole...I dunno..insanity of this planet has rubbed off on you. A fairytale is a fairytale guys nothing more, you're just grabbing at straws."
"Then how do we know of Snow White." one of the dwarves asked him "She stayed here once you know, she was a very nice girl."
"Whatever." Jack O'Neill answered sarcastically. "Let's get out of here." he then told his team leaving the house.
"Thanks for your help." Daniel told the dwarves before leaving also with the others in the team at his side.
"Boy that guy was ungrateful." one of the dwarves stated about the Colonel as he left.
"So for arguments sake." Jack O'Neill asked the doctor as they approached the gate "As I have never read Snow White, if they are living the fairytale, do you know how we can help Sam?"
"I have an idea yes." she answered him.
"You gonna test those apples, find an antidote to the poison?" he then asked.
"I don't think we're going to detect anything if we do sir."
"What do you mean you don't think you're gonna detect anything? Snow White was poisoned, those Dwarves said it themselves."
"Yeah but Jack, in the fairytale there was only one way Snow White could be woken up, and if these people are living the story it's likely that will go for Sam too." Daniel answered backing his friend up
"And what is that way?" Jack asked innocently.
"Lets just say I think it's gonna make the guys on the base very happy." the doctor replied.