Title: The Awakening

Chapter 2: Possession

Author: Sgccyberwolf

Rating: PG / PG-13. Depending on the moment

Disclaimer: I don't own Smallville or Star Gate. Star Gate is owned by Sci-fi Channel and MGM. Smallville is the property of Warner Brothers, DC Comics, and Tollan / Roberts Production. Chevy and Avalanche is the trademark of General Motors.

Star Gate Command: One Week Later.

Colonel O'Neill was headed to see General Hammond. As he past through the Control Room, the staff on duty knew he was going on leave but could not figure out why he was still dressed in his Air Force issue BDU's.

As Jack ascended the stairs to enter the conference room just outside Hammond's office when he heard a door shut. A few seconds later Hammond walked into the conference that adjoined his office; he stopped when he saw O'Neill standing in the room. "Jack, I thought you were leaving for your fishing trip?"

Jack was leaning on one of the chairs. "General every time I try to go on leave some emergency comes up, or I get beamed up by the Asgard... I just figured I just wouldn't try to leave the base this time."

A few seconds later Hammond and O'Neill heard someone coming up the stairs at a hurried pace. As the person finished the climb, they could see that it was Daniel. As he neared the top of the stairs he saying, "Jack, you gotta see...," before Daniel could finish his thought he hit the last stair wrong and fell face down onto the conference room floor.

O'Neill walks over to Daniel and helped him up. "Jack, you gotta see this," he repeats. Daniel hands Jack what appears to be a supermarket tabloid. O'Neill looks at the cover and then hands it to Hammond. O'Neill looks over to Hammond after he hands him the tabloid, "see I told you something would come up."

"This is one of Jonas' tabloids... apparently nobody cancelled his subscription," Daniel blurts out. Hammond looked at the cover and then hands it back to Jack. The cover story read something about Egyptian's ruling an ancient American dynasty. O'Neill opened the cover and flipped to the story. The story had the picture of a teacher and a couple of students from a place called Smallville, Kansas who recently uncovered what the story claimed to be two Egyptian Canopic jars.

O'Neill put the tabloid down on the conference room table. "Daniel, it is a tabloid, this is probably just a hoax they printed to make money." Daniel picked the tabloid back up and showed Jack the inset picture. "Do you recognize that?" Jack took a closer look, the inset picture was a close up of one of the jars. The prominent feature on the jars was immediately recognizable. The jars contained Goa'uld writing. "Daniel, are you saying that you think that there might still be Goa'uld in the jars." Daniel took the tabloid back from Jack and began to and gave Colonel O'Neil and General Hammond the most serious stare that he could muster. "Can we afford to be wrong here and not check it out. If there are Goa'uld in those jars and the jars are still functional, then they could still be alive and just waiting for someone to open them up." Having been only an observer to the conversation at this point, General Hammond took the tabloid from Daniel and looked at the picture himself. "Provided I can explain this to the president and get an authorization... SG-1, you have a go."

About the same time in the city of Metropolis

"Lois, get in here," was the scream she heard from the open ceiling of Perry White's office. Lois Lane looked up from her desk when she heard the bellow. Even though she was just an intern, Perry recognized the same spark in her that he saw in himself. Instead of simple tasks, Perry already had her reading copy and editing actual journalists. Lois put down what she was doing and went over to Perry's office. Once inside, she noticed that Perry was not alone. Jim Stevens, a reporter for the planet, was sitting on Perry's sofa. "You wanted to see me chief," Lois said as she walked through Perry's door.

Perry motioned for her to take seat and passed her a tabloid that he had in his possession. Lois noticed that Perry was reading some story about ancient Egyptian Canopic Jars being found in Smallville. Lois asked Perry what this was all about. Perry filled her in on the fact that the find was being transferred to the Metropolis Museum of History as part of their Egyptian collection. "Lois, I want you to accompany Mr. Stevens to Smallville and assist him in covering the story. This made Jim shoot up off the sofa. "I don't need a wet behind the ears intern riding my coattails on this story." Lois immediately shot out of her seat. "Why you egotistical Neanderthal of a man." Seeing both of them, overreact like children caused Perry to slam his hands on his desk. His action made both of them jump, but it effectively got them to pay attention to him. "Jim, Lois, the decisions final. You are both going to Smallville. End of story."

With whatever indignation he could still salvage, Jim started to head for the door. As he reached the door, he looked back. "Come on cub," was all he said. With that Jim left the office and Lois was just about to get up. Perry motioned for her to sit down. "Jim is threatened by you, you are doing the work of seasoned journalists as an intern. He is afraid that you will leave him in your dust." Lois began to get up from her chair and started for the door herself. She paused about half way and looked back to Perry. "What if that what I intend to do." Perry got a worried look on his face at that moment. "Lois, your time will come and if you keep up at the pace you are at, it will be sooner than you think. Go to Smallville and please keep Jim from making a fool of himself and this newspaper." Lois nodded in agreement with Perry and with that she was off. She knew that she had to hurry home and pack. If Jim Stevens were only half the jerk she knew him to be, then he would take the plane to Smallville alone and leave her behind.

Dr. Amos' Lab – The Same Day

Dr. Amos, Chloe, and Clark had spent the better part of the week studying the jars. They had yet tried to open them because if they did contain body parts, they wanted them to remain intact. Chloe had been acting strange all morning and Dr. Amos picked up on it. "What's wrong Chloe," he asked? She looked over to Dr. Amos. "What it wise to tell the tabloids about our discovery, what if it attracts the wrong attention."

Dr. Amos walked to Chloe and put his hands on her shoulders to console her. "Chloe, nobody else listened to us, museums would not return our calls, newspapers wouldn't even send anyone, and the television stations thought I was a crackpot. Since the article in the tabloid I have gotten calls about our find, including one from Air Force, a Dr. Daniel Jackson." This got Chloe's attention, she knew the name from research she had done on the Internet when trying to research there find, "you did say Dr. Jackson." Dr. Amos returned her glance and nodded in agreement. "Yes, Dr. Jackson. I remembered he had a lot of theories about ancient Egypt and then he disappeared. When I asked what his involvement was with the USAF, he told me he was a consultant for them. He told me that they would be driving down from Colorado and would meet with us on Saturday around 2:00 PM"

Dr. Amos looked at his watch and realized it was after 8:00 PM. Even though it was the Friday and the start of the weekend, Dr. Amos did not like to work late. He told Chloe and Clark that it was time to pack it in and go home. Chloe agreed with the doctor, but Clark lied and said that he wanted to go over some of the test results again. What he really wanted to do is get a better look at the writing and try to decipher it. Dr. Amos was not worried about Clark, because as a student assistant, Clark had a set of keys of his own. Dr. Amos reminded Clark not to work to late and with that he and Chloe left Clark on his own.

After they left, Clark picked up the jar that had a male-like head on it. He was looking at the writing very intensely when he lost his grip on the jar and accidentally dropped it. All the super speed in the world did not matter because the jar still hit the ground and the lid came off. At first, a little bit of liquid poured out. Considering how old the jar was supposed to be this surprised him. He picked up the jar and lid and put it back on the desk.

Just as he was about to put the lid, back on the jar, he saw two glowing eyes looking up at him from inside the jar. Clark was taken aback for a second and let out a gasp of surprise. That is when the creature made its move. It leapt into his mouth and broke through the soft tissue in the back of his throat. The next few seconds were terrifying to Clark. At first he gagged and then he was trying to figure out how the creature penetrated his body considering how invulnerable he was. Before he could get his bearings he began to feel disoriented and then he had the feeling of being trapped in his own body. He could see his hand move, but he did not move it. Then he heard the voice. It sounded like his voice, but he was very resonant. He could hear himself saying that I have chosen well for my new host. Host, what did that mean? All he knew was that something was controlling him and he was along for the ride.

TBC

Author's Note: In the original draft of the story, I had Clark and Chloe both taken by the Goa'uld in the first chapter. I decided that I wanted to change the story a little, so now Clark is taken. In a reviews of the story before people wanted to know why Clark's physiology did not just reject or inhibit the symbiote.

While writing Mirror Imperfect, I did some research on a few Superman web sites. They all agreed that Superman was not invulnerable, but his body generated field that protected his epidermis from harm. I am surmising that since he opened his mouth, that was a break in the field. I could be wrong, but its just a story.

Chapter 3 of the story will be up shortly. It was originally just a couple of pages like the past two chapters, but I decided to make it a little longer because I am not entirely sure what direction chapter 4 is going to take me yet.