A/N: Thanks for your patience. Chapter 2 is now up and I have tried to move away from the table format I used in chapter 1. Let me know which format you prefer.

When I had the idea for this story Tealc still had his symbiote and I have kept him that way for this tale, so please do not flame me for that.

Criticisms are welcome.

For the critic that commented that my Hammond was way off, I hope you find him a bit more on target in this chapter.

Now onto the story:

Cut to the Stargate room, SG1 and SG13 are all kitted up to go on a mission, so is Halle. Jack looks very unhappy about this and so does Hammond. Sam seems to find it all amusing.

The Stargate is active.

Halle is staring at the active gate in wonderment.

Jack: This is a bad, bad idea!

Hammond: We are sending the remote through first and if it there is any sign of danger at all, the mission will be scrubbed!

Hammond: During the mission Colonel it will be your judgement whether to proceed or call it off if you think it is too dangerous for Halle.

Jack turns to Halle

Jack: You hear that kiddo! Any signs of Jaffa activity at all and you are out of there, if you disobey any order I give and you are out there, If you even look at me funny you are out of there!

Over the intercom comes a voice: All clear General!

Jack glares at Halle then turns to the two teams

Jack: Here we go!

They all step through the StarGate and we cut to them arriving on a planet that seems to look like a desert wasteland

Halle: WOW!! What a rush! I feel cold, is that normal?

Jack turns to look at Halle with a no nonsense look.

Jack: Where to now?

Halle looks at Teal'c and frowns and the turns back to Jack with a grin.

Halle: 67, 123, 45

Jack: What?

Sam: I think she just gave you a set of coordinates

Jack: oh. Okay lets move out SG13 take point, we'll guard the rear. Halle stay in the middle at all times, okay?

Halle: yeah, whatever.

After an hour of trekking they come to a stop, where they are now looks no different than anywhere else, it is just all sand as far as the eye can see.

Jack turns to Halle with a quizzical look

Halle: Sam where is the exact point for those coordinates I gave you?

Sam points to a spot on the ground.

Halle walks to it and stops and then turns to the others with a knowing smile

Halle: you better catch up!

All of a sudden transport rings appear around Halle and in a burst of light she is gone.

Jack: son of ****, come on guys!

The SG teams run to the spot and they get transported as well.

Cut to a typical Gould installation, the teams have materialised in an underground chamber and Halle is by the only door trying to enter a combination on the lock, without much success.

Jack walks up to her.

Jack: Any luck?

Halle: Umm, it seems they've changed the combination.

Jack: ah of course, so what exactly is the reason we brought you along?

Halle gives Jack a rueful grin.

Jack: Sam?

Sam: I'll try.

Sam takes over from Halle at the door and pries open the panel and starts working on the circuitry below.

After a few minutes Sam says "ah ha" and the door slides open.

Jack points to two members of SG13

Jack: you and you stay here.

The rest of the teams go through in two's with Halle in the middle.

The door leads into a big chamber that is like a warehouse, there is shelving all round the room and also racks of shelves down the length of the room almost like rows of bookshelves you'd find in a library.

Jack walks to one shelve and looks at what's on it, this one is a whole row of Zat guns.

Jack: Hozzzah!

Jack: alright teams split up into twos and inventory the whole lot.

Halle: what about me?

Jack: you stay with me and Teal'c at all times okay?

Jonas: why are there no guards here at all?

Jack: you heard Halle, it's a secret stash.

Jonas: I still think it's a bit strange.

The teams split off into twos and start looking through the room. The room is full of standard Gould weaponry including staff weapons, grenades and even armoured staff gun turrets in the middle of the room.

Back in the chamber holding the transport rings a light starts blinking on a panel above the door.

Cut to the interior of a Gould ship in orbit above the planet.

A Jaffa sitting at the controls of a panel looks up at a light that has suddenly started flashing on his panel.

He picks up a communication device and starts talking urgently into it.

Back in the weapons storeroom Jack, Tealc and Halle are in one alcove looking at a shelf full of crystals.

Jack: Tealc, are these…

Tealc: Yes Jack, they are energy units for Staff weapons

Jack smiles

Jack: alrighty!!

All of a sudden there is the sound of staff weapons being fired and then gunfire.

Jack shouts: Tealc stay here and protect her, I'll find out what's happening

Jack runs out of the alcove.

Teal'c turns to Halle and in a no nonsense tone says

"Stay in this corner and do not move"

All they can hear is a flurry of weapons fire, then it goes silent, Halle starts to frown and then suddenly looks up and shouts

"Teal'c watch ou…"

By reflex Teal'c looks back at Halle and at the same time a jaffa appears round the corner, Halle gasps.

Teal'c turns quickly at this sound bringing up his staff weapon at the same time in one smooth motion, as soon as he sees the glint of metal he throws himself to the right and fires his weapon just as the jaffa also fires his.

Tealc's blast catches the jaffa full centre, but he is also hit though his sideways movement made it only a glancing hit.

Both fall to the ground with Halle screaming in the background.

Halle rushes over to Teal'c who is trying to keep hold of consciousness.

She bends over him

Halle: Teal'c!!

Tealc: keep away

Halle: What?

Tealc: go now

Halle: no way!

Tealc: I cannot hold it anymo……….. his voice trails of.

Halle bends nearer to hear Teal'c better. All of a sudden there is a wet ripping sound, surprised Halle looks down Tealc's body to find the source of the sound, her eyes bulge in terror as she sees something move in his shirt. With dawning comprehension she tries to move back but with an unexpected surge Tealc's symbiote rips through his shirt and Halles throat!

Teal'c shouts: No!!

Tealc turns over and picks up his fallen Zat gun and as Halle slowly stands up and her eyes begin to glow he zaps her.

She collapses to the floor and Tealc passes out.