A/N: I have to thank Mountain King for making a suggestion that helped plant the seed that gave me the idea for Ryu's weakness and the encouragement to keep going with this story. THANK YOU.

Also thanks to my other reviewer's for reviewing as well.

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It had now been a couple of months since Apocalypse's release and Ryu was beginning to get frustrated. In the last months two more energy domes had appeared one in the Shansi Province of China and another one in Egypt.

The energy domes weren't really what was making Ryu frustrated though, it was the fact that as long as Apocalypse hid himself away inside them there was nothing Ryu could do to get at him. Ryu had tried everything he could think of to get inside one of the energy domes with no success and he had the bumps, bruises, and even burns to prove it.

It was nothing but a waiting game now. There was nothing anyone could do as long as Apocalypse was in the safety of his energy domes, only wait for him to make the first move. Resigning himself to that fact Ryu, bored out of his mind, took to annoying as many people as he could at the SGC, to the point where people were beginning to call him a mini-Jack.

After being thrown out of the commissary because of a small, minor, food fight, if it could even be called that, between himself, with the help of SG-1 (minus Sam) and a small group of Marines, (Who Ryu still claims started it, so what if he may have accidentally flicked some tiny pieces of bread, crumbs really, off his shirt in the direction of one of them), Ryu decided to go bug Sam in her lab.

"Hey Sam what'cha up to?" Ryu, spotting what looked like a small box made of lead, questioned as he and the rest of SG-1 walked into Sam's lab.

"I'm getting ready to run some tests on a new form of naquada SGC-12 found. The natives called it Naquadria."

"Naquadria?"

"Yes according to the scientist SG-12 talked to Naquadria is supposed to be much more powerful then Naquada."

"More powerful, as in a bigger boom?" Jack jumped in his interest piqued.

"Among other things, yes. You can stay and watch if you'd like."

"Sweet."

So as the others made themselves comfortable around various parts of the lab Sam set up the last of her equipment. As Sam lifted the lid off the lead box Ryu began to feel a strange sensation, unlike anything he'd ever felt before. He tried to ignore it at first but as soon as Sam had the Naquadria fully out of the box Ryu felt an explosion of pain rip through his body and settle in his head.

On top of the massive headache Ryu began to feel nauseous and weak. Quickly stumbling to his feet, knocking his chair over, Ryu staggered out the door and down the corridor a little ways before leaning against the wall and sliding down it, pulling his knees up.

Not knowing what was happening SG-1 followed after him. Finding Ryu not far down the corridor, sitting with his knees pulled up, arms resting on them and his head down, the group gathered around him to try and find out what was wrong.

"Ryu you ok?" Jack spoke first

When Ryu didn't answer right away Sam knelt down next to him, placing a comforting hand on his back. "Do we need to get Janet?"

"Wha…No! No, no" Sam's question finally got Ryu's attention. He'd spent enough time, these last months, in Janet's needle happy, Napoleonic power monger hands to last a lifetime. "I'm ok, I'm alright, really I'm startin' to feel better already."

"Mind telling us what that was all about?" Daniel inquired.

"I'm not sure exactly, I mean one minute its all good; Sam's opening her little box thing getting out the Naquadria and then the next thing I know it feels like a damn elephant just sat on my head after a month long drinking binge, I'm getting nauseous, it feels like every bit of energy in me's being drained out faster than I can replenish it and I'm about ready to pass out. But as soon as I got out of the room and the farther away I got, the better I felt."

"You know I think we may have just found your Achilles heel." Sam stated.

"Ya think? I'm pretty sure I now have a better understanding of what Superman deals with every time he gets near kryptonite."

"Who is this Superman you speak of?" Teal'c asked before any one could reply to Ryu's comment.

"Superman… faster than a speeding bullet, able to leap tall buildings in a single bound, stronger than a speeding locomotive. 'It's a bird, it's a plane, no its Superman.'…You know Superman."

Seeing the blank, slightly confused look on Teal'c's face Ryu continued. "Alright what about Batman, Spiderman, Wonder Woman, The Flash, Cat Woman, The Green Lantern?" This time, still getting a blank look, Ryu turned to the rest of SG-1. "Ok this man has been on earth how long? And you haven't taught him anything about great American superheroes… Geeze you people have no respect, no respect at all for great classical American literature, I tell ya. Come I have much to teach you my young friend."

Leaving the others standing in the corridor completely confused and trying to figure out how they went from talking about the one big weakness Ryu may have to being lectured about not teaching Teal'c about comic book heroes, Ryu lead Teal'c down the corridor, telling him all about Superman.

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A/N: Hope you all like this little an hopefully humorous chapter. To be honest this is one of those chapters that completely turn out differently than you planned.

I started it out planning to have it be kind of a serious chapter dealing with a weakness for Ryu, but as I was writing this a conversation I had during school popped into my head and took this chapter in a totally different direction.

Today in one of my classes me and some other kids some how got to talking about who was the best superhero and as I stepped up to bat for Superman this one kid had the nerve to ask me who Superman was (although you gotta give him some leeway he is a foreign exchange student, I can't remember from where though). So of course I then had to go on this little rant about people having no sense of respect for great American literature (aimed mostly at the kid whose family the foreign exchange student's staying with for not at least giving him the basics about American superheroes).

Oh and also I decided to use Naquadria as Ryu's weakness because it sound more plausible than naquada because he's been at the SGC for months now and would have more than like been exposed to naquada on many occasions.

But since this is an AU and fiction I can rearrange things so that they know about Naquadria and have access to it with out the Kelownans, so they would have some around but not as commonly as regular naquada.