A/N: because I have friggin windows XP I am unable to save any of my stuff
to html format and maintain stuff like italicized text when I upload. So,
just so you know I've used *s to show when a symbiote is talking.
Later
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"What do you mean they're Reetou?" O'Neill was incredibly annoyed as he leaned forward in his chair and gripped the edges of the table. They were sitting in one of the Tok'ra meeting rooms and he found he couldn't quite sit still. He didn't like being summoned through the Stargate by the Tok'ra and he had liked it even less when they were greeted with transphase eradication rods pointed at them. Okay, admittedly the TERs weren't pointed specifically at them, but it was the principle that mattered. It had been hard enough knowing that they had handed Jenna over to become a host. If Jonas hadn't been so sure that Jenna wouldn't have fought it he sure as hell would have argued against it.
"I understand your skepticism, Jack," Jacob said, "but Emillynn and her last host Loral had excelled at information gathering. They recorded even the most obscure information."
"And with the Reetou threat against Earth, you couldn't have mentioned this sooner. Why does this not surprise me?"
"Come on, Jack," Jacob said. He understood why O'Neill felt the way he did about the Tok'ra, but at times it grated on his nerves. "Until now the stories about these particular Reetou were just that. Stories. There had never been any substantiated proof to say otherwise until now."
"If they're Reetou, how come they looked different? As a matter of fact," he emphasized with his hand, "why could we see them to begin with?"
"He has a point, dad," Sam added. "These guys were bipedal and admittedly they phased in and out, but we were still able to see them."
"*Perhaps I can answer that for you.*"
Everyone turned as Jenna walked into the room. It was odd for them, aside from Jonas, to again see someone they knew speak with a different voice. Emillynn/Jenna took a seat at the table and looked to the members of SG-1. "*It is good to meet you all. Jenna has nothing but praise for all of you. She admires the work you do a great deal.* Gee, Emillynn makes it sound as if I worshiped the ground you walk on."
"Whoa. What, no head nod or really long blink?"
"Aside from a slight glow to the eyes when Emillynn takes a turn, Jack, those other transitions don't seem to be necessary in my case."
"It's rare," Jacob adds, "but not unheard of."
"Getting back to why we're here," Jenna says just before a slight glow comes and goes from her eyes, "*these Reetou were thought to be myth. I had heard stories of a Goa'uld scientist that was experimenting with a way to create a cross between a Reetou and a human that could be used as a controllable breed of infiltrators.*" "What did the stories say happened to this Goa'uld?" Teal'c asked.
"*They say that although he was successful at creating the hybrid, they rebelled and slaughtered their creator and all his followers including the full blood Reetou being held. Since then they were said to have isolated themselves on one of the outer planets, slaughtering all who would trespass on their world.*"
"What about the jaffa warriors we encountered?" Sam asked, becoming concerned by the implications of such an enemy. "They were also able to become Jenna and Col. Wilcox in just a few hours. An enemy like this could prove virtually unstoppable."
"*Based on Jenna's memories, I believe the jaffa warriors you encountered were lifeless drones used to overwhelm an enemy. It also leads me to believe that in order to achieve a more complex deception the doubles had to have been the actual Reetou hybrids.*"
"Okay, I buy that. But how could they have assimilated the knowledge of the people they doubled? I was totally convinced that the 'Jenna' who approached us was the real deal."
"*I do not have the answer to that, Maj. Carter. Nothing I've heard ever mentioned such an ability. But it is not impossible to assume that higher mental capabilities were a part of their engineering in order to make them better infiltrators along with the apparent shape shifting ability.*"
"Well that's just peachy isn't it? If this happened a few hundred years ago, who knows how many there are then. Could they overrun the SGC and replace everyone there?"
"*No, Colonel. I would have to recheck my information, but it was said that only a handful of hybrids were created and as hybrids of two different species they would suffer from hybrid sterility.*"
"And that means..."
"It means, sir," Sam replied, "that they wouldn't be able to reproduce. The hybrids must have also been engineered for longevity which also means that the ones we encountered were probably all there were. It would certainly explain why they would have so many drones."
"Here's another question then. What was the point of keeping Jenna and Col. Wilcox alive while they impersonated them?" Jonas asked. He'd been quite up until then, just absorbing the fact that Jenna was well again as a Tok'ra. He watched Emillynn/Jenna intently as she formulated her answer. She didn't play with her hair the way Jenna tended to whenever she seriously considered a question and it bothered him. He knew how he felt about her, but until then he hadn't contemplated the fact that her being blended may effect how she felt about him.
"*Maybe in order for them to maintain the facade, the ones they impersonate need to be alive.*"
"Perhaps they had planned on infiltrating the SGC. One Reetou could cause significant damage before being caught if hidden in the guise of trust." Said Teal'c.
"But if what we're speculating is true," replied Sam, "that wouldn't work. If they need the ones they're impersonating alive then there is no way they could maintain a charade once they were through the Stargate and it was closed."
"They wouldn't need to, Carter," O'Neill said sighing at how close they had come to being duped. "All they would have needed to do was wait until we dialed the gate and entered our GDO code. After that it would have just been a matter of throwing a high yield bomb through."
"*We came to similar conclusion. That's why we called you here instead of coming to Earth,*" said Selmak. "*They seemed determined to carry out whatever they had planned. We can't be certain that they have not infiltrated the SGC.*"
"Yet they are not like the other Reetou, Selmak," Teal'c argued. "We would have seen them come through the Stargate."
"*Are you certain of that?*"
"He's right, Teal'c," Sam said. "We only do sweeps for Reetou periodically and you no longer carry a Goa'uld, which would have been the only way we would have known whether or not a Reetou had entered with us."
"That settles it," O'Neill said standing up. "Jacob...Selmak...one of you grab some TERs. We're goin' fishin'."
Later
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"What do you mean they're Reetou?" O'Neill was incredibly annoyed as he leaned forward in his chair and gripped the edges of the table. They were sitting in one of the Tok'ra meeting rooms and he found he couldn't quite sit still. He didn't like being summoned through the Stargate by the Tok'ra and he had liked it even less when they were greeted with transphase eradication rods pointed at them. Okay, admittedly the TERs weren't pointed specifically at them, but it was the principle that mattered. It had been hard enough knowing that they had handed Jenna over to become a host. If Jonas hadn't been so sure that Jenna wouldn't have fought it he sure as hell would have argued against it.
"I understand your skepticism, Jack," Jacob said, "but Emillynn and her last host Loral had excelled at information gathering. They recorded even the most obscure information."
"And with the Reetou threat against Earth, you couldn't have mentioned this sooner. Why does this not surprise me?"
"Come on, Jack," Jacob said. He understood why O'Neill felt the way he did about the Tok'ra, but at times it grated on his nerves. "Until now the stories about these particular Reetou were just that. Stories. There had never been any substantiated proof to say otherwise until now."
"If they're Reetou, how come they looked different? As a matter of fact," he emphasized with his hand, "why could we see them to begin with?"
"He has a point, dad," Sam added. "These guys were bipedal and admittedly they phased in and out, but we were still able to see them."
"*Perhaps I can answer that for you.*"
Everyone turned as Jenna walked into the room. It was odd for them, aside from Jonas, to again see someone they knew speak with a different voice. Emillynn/Jenna took a seat at the table and looked to the members of SG-1. "*It is good to meet you all. Jenna has nothing but praise for all of you. She admires the work you do a great deal.* Gee, Emillynn makes it sound as if I worshiped the ground you walk on."
"Whoa. What, no head nod or really long blink?"
"Aside from a slight glow to the eyes when Emillynn takes a turn, Jack, those other transitions don't seem to be necessary in my case."
"It's rare," Jacob adds, "but not unheard of."
"Getting back to why we're here," Jenna says just before a slight glow comes and goes from her eyes, "*these Reetou were thought to be myth. I had heard stories of a Goa'uld scientist that was experimenting with a way to create a cross between a Reetou and a human that could be used as a controllable breed of infiltrators.*" "What did the stories say happened to this Goa'uld?" Teal'c asked.
"*They say that although he was successful at creating the hybrid, they rebelled and slaughtered their creator and all his followers including the full blood Reetou being held. Since then they were said to have isolated themselves on one of the outer planets, slaughtering all who would trespass on their world.*"
"What about the jaffa warriors we encountered?" Sam asked, becoming concerned by the implications of such an enemy. "They were also able to become Jenna and Col. Wilcox in just a few hours. An enemy like this could prove virtually unstoppable."
"*Based on Jenna's memories, I believe the jaffa warriors you encountered were lifeless drones used to overwhelm an enemy. It also leads me to believe that in order to achieve a more complex deception the doubles had to have been the actual Reetou hybrids.*"
"Okay, I buy that. But how could they have assimilated the knowledge of the people they doubled? I was totally convinced that the 'Jenna' who approached us was the real deal."
"*I do not have the answer to that, Maj. Carter. Nothing I've heard ever mentioned such an ability. But it is not impossible to assume that higher mental capabilities were a part of their engineering in order to make them better infiltrators along with the apparent shape shifting ability.*"
"Well that's just peachy isn't it? If this happened a few hundred years ago, who knows how many there are then. Could they overrun the SGC and replace everyone there?"
"*No, Colonel. I would have to recheck my information, but it was said that only a handful of hybrids were created and as hybrids of two different species they would suffer from hybrid sterility.*"
"And that means..."
"It means, sir," Sam replied, "that they wouldn't be able to reproduce. The hybrids must have also been engineered for longevity which also means that the ones we encountered were probably all there were. It would certainly explain why they would have so many drones."
"Here's another question then. What was the point of keeping Jenna and Col. Wilcox alive while they impersonated them?" Jonas asked. He'd been quite up until then, just absorbing the fact that Jenna was well again as a Tok'ra. He watched Emillynn/Jenna intently as she formulated her answer. She didn't play with her hair the way Jenna tended to whenever she seriously considered a question and it bothered him. He knew how he felt about her, but until then he hadn't contemplated the fact that her being blended may effect how she felt about him.
"*Maybe in order for them to maintain the facade, the ones they impersonate need to be alive.*"
"Perhaps they had planned on infiltrating the SGC. One Reetou could cause significant damage before being caught if hidden in the guise of trust." Said Teal'c.
"But if what we're speculating is true," replied Sam, "that wouldn't work. If they need the ones they're impersonating alive then there is no way they could maintain a charade once they were through the Stargate and it was closed."
"They wouldn't need to, Carter," O'Neill said sighing at how close they had come to being duped. "All they would have needed to do was wait until we dialed the gate and entered our GDO code. After that it would have just been a matter of throwing a high yield bomb through."
"*We came to similar conclusion. That's why we called you here instead of coming to Earth,*" said Selmak. "*They seemed determined to carry out whatever they had planned. We can't be certain that they have not infiltrated the SGC.*"
"Yet they are not like the other Reetou, Selmak," Teal'c argued. "We would have seen them come through the Stargate."
"*Are you certain of that?*"
"He's right, Teal'c," Sam said. "We only do sweeps for Reetou periodically and you no longer carry a Goa'uld, which would have been the only way we would have known whether or not a Reetou had entered with us."
"That settles it," O'Neill said standing up. "Jacob...Selmak...one of you grab some TERs. We're goin' fishin'."