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Hammond, Teal'c, Janet and Daniel all jumped to their feet, looking around for the seemingly invisibly lizard-girl. The general was about to call out to the SF's stationed outside the door when a raspy voice spoke from behind them, making the jump about a foot in the air.
"Are you able to do that?" she asked them with a smile. All four of them whirled to face her, three of them slack-jawed and the other with a raised eyebrow, all demanding to know what she had done.
She had left her robe off, as she would normally have done - dark green scales were patterned all over her body, effectively covering her and 'preserving her dignity (or would have if she'd been human) - and explained in brief that the reptile she's been 'cloned' from had chameleon-like tendencies and she was the first success from the mix.
"I can blend into the background if I need to." To demonstrate she held a hand over the briefing room table. They watched in awe and fascination as it disappeared completely, blending in with the wooden surface.
"That is a very unique and valuable ability." Teal'c commented "I see why Nirrti endeavoured to create a soldier like you."
"Yeah…that's…wow." was all Daniel could manage before trailing off. Janet immediately started to pelt her with questions but Hammond interrupted them, reminding them of the matter at hand. Before long they were once again distracted as Jacob Carter arrived, and they all ran to the Gate room to meet him.
"George…what's going on?" he demanded upon seeing only half of SG1 and visibly jumping when he saw the Lizard girl. "Where are Sam and Jack?" Daniel jumped in and quickly told him what had happened.
"WHAT?! You just left them there?" he demanded angrily. "What happened to leaving no-one behind?" He yelled.
"Dammit Jacob, I had no choice! You think I wanted to leave them there? You think I'm proud of that?" Daniel yelled back. Jacob bowed his head as Selmak surfaced, the sight of the usually unflappable archaeologist giving him pause for thought.
"I must apologise for my host's anger." Selmak told them soberly. "He does not like the idea of his daughter being in danger."
"It's okay, Selmak. I understand."
"So what preparations have been made?"
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Sam looked at her CO,
squinting against the bright sunlight. She was so hot, the sun had burnt her
skin and she ached all over. She was weak, barely having the energy to breathe
and she had to fight to remember. She knew that there was something she had to
remember, something important but since she had been put on the cross all she
could remember was the sensation of pain, suffering, fear and love…for Jack,
for everyone in her life, the people she would never see again.
She could feel her memories slipping even as she tried to grasp at them. The
confusion in his pain darkened eyes mirrored her own and she sensed that he
felt it too…like there was something they had to remember but they didn't know
what it was.
Had she been coherent she would have wondered how they had managed to hang on this long.
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Creeping silently through the houses that made up the small settlement the lizard girl pushed away the fear that niggled at the pit of her stomach. She wasn't afraid of dying, though she wasn't suicidal by any means…it was just that she had lived alone for so long, merely surviving, constantly hunted that felt it would be a release, when the time came. She was, however, afraid of what might happen to her if the Jaffa captured her again she had observed the people of the planet enough to know that whatever it was it wouldn't be pleasant. Not by a long shot.
After a MALP had been sent through the gate ahead of them…enduring that they wouldn't be sent straight into a troop of Jaffa - they'd had to use one of the Goa'uld 'zappy-stunning balls' - they'd proceeded ahead. The Girl was to sneak in while the others waited under cover and sedate all of the Guards before they stepped in to grab Jack and Sam and run.
The others-Teal'c, Daniel, Jacob and Janet (who had insisted on coming, pre-empting the need for medical help) - waited in the shadows, out of sight as she crawled, flat out, along the floor. Hammond hadn't been allowed to send any more people as back-up. The only reason they'd been allowed to send this team was for fear of the Tok'ra breaking off from them.
The Girl had the re-assuring weight of her large knife strapped in its holster, to her right shin and the sedatives in a pouch, taped to her front where her body would cover it from being seen as she changed to the colour of the floor.
The sedatives were a mix that Selmak and Janet had come up with that would render the guards catatonic, but still able to carry out minor motor functions such as breathing, blinking and standing there like nothing had happened. Jack would have been impressed at the co-operation the Tok'ra showed in giving up their knowledge to help.
Aside form a brief fling as she injected them the guards made no movement or indication of their compromise. As soon as she was done she signalled the others and they crept forward efficiently.
The group stopped for a slit second, holding back curses and exclamations as they rounded the corner of a building and the main square came into view, revealing the two figures strung up to the crosses, slumped and unconscious, lit only by the light of them moon.
Leaping forward with renewed resolve they reached it to find the girl already pulling at the nails that pinned Sam. IT took a lot of effort and made her hands sore but she managed to get them all out, even as Teal'c did the same for Jack. Both of them stirred and mumbled as the pain made itself noticed but they didn't regain consciousness.
Jacob caught his daughter as she was finally fully released from her binds, silently apologising to her, cradling his baby as they waited momentarily for Teal'c to get Jack, Daniel and Janet were stood, weapons raised searching out even the slightest hint of disturbance or discovery.
They got the pair of them down with relatively little problems and started to work their way back out to the forest, Teal'c, Jacob and Janet leading with their two charges, Daniel and the Lizard girl bringing up the rear as the made their way as stealthily as they could through the dark buildings.
They had almost made it out without problems but as they reached the last of the small buildings a figure emerged, looked at them in shock for a moment and then proceeded to yell, raising the alarm.
Within moments they were being pursued, blast's trailing after them as they ran. Already they knew there would be a guard posted at the 'gate and their only route out was shut off.
Janet was frantic…she knew that there was little chance of Sam and Jack lasting very long if they had to wait for pursuit to break off, and they couldn't run or hide easily with their unconscious charges.
No-one had noticed the Lizard girl slip off with her newly acquired Zat. They were focusing on trying to break off from their would-be captors and remember the directions the girl had given them to get to an area where she had lived…more importantly where she had resources.
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