Maahes paced in her chamber. Her First Prime stood bowed in front of her. Obediently keeping his gaze on the floor, not wanting to provoke the Goddess's wrath.
"How dare they!" she kept hissing, "They have the weapon that I seek! They kept on defying me! They're going to pay!"
The First Prime didn't dare to speak but he was glad when she finally stopped.
"I'rok, I want you to ready the Ba'hai"
The First Prime looked at her in horror, "My lady..."
The liquid amber eyes flashed, "Do as I say! I will get that weapon and bring myself above the System Lords!"
"Yes my lady" the First Prime bowed
He left in a hurry to prepare the Ba'hai, Maahes's new weapon she had discovered. She kept it a secret from all other Goa'uld it was part of her plan now for her ticket to power. I'rok would have been the one to use it but he knew now Maahes was taking this personally and planned to get that weapon back, herself. He never known Goa'uld to do things themselves, Maahes was very different Goa'uld indeed.
She still had the familiarities of a god but her plans were unorthodox and unpredictable. She would be greatly feared when she comes to power.
"Interesting" Sam muttered
"What's interesting?" Daniel asked
"That this shows the same readings as before, when I first read the energy readings of the bracelet"
"That's interesting?"
"Well yeah, sort of. I was expecting some sort of activation"
"Oh"
"Found anything?" she asked nodding towards his pile books
"I was thinking to run the reply of the video" Daniel picked up the video camera, "And compare notes... but I'm your lab rat at the moment"
"Just wait for half an hour and if nothing else shows then I'll let you go"
Daniel raised his eyebrows, "Its not like you to let go of a weapon so easily"
Sam smiled, "Then consider yourself lucky"
Daniel smiled then sighed. Sam continued her analysis of the weapon. She soon found out the armor was made out of a mixture of naquada, tritium and titanium alloy with another unknown metal. She was amazed that naquada could merge with tritium and titanium. This was only a scratch on the surface. In its dormant state she had no idea how it functioned and what she heard earlier from Janet, there was a strange chemical in Daniel's blood. This armor had defiantly had something to do with it but she was unsure how.
The half an hour was long and boring. Daniel wanted to look at those ruins again and take notes so he may reference them. His eagerness turned to impatience. His leg started to fidget to ventilate some of that stress that was building in his body. His muscles tensed Sam immediately picked it up.
"Just ten more minutes Daniel" she responded not looking up from her computer
Daniel sighed and tried not to think about the writings but he did and he grew more eager and more impatient. It could be a big archaeological find or even how to get this thing off so he didn't have to be here. Then he wondered how this was going to end up. What happened if they couldn't get the weapon off? Will he be stuck with it? Will it kill him? Suddenly anxiety tensed his muscles and made him fidget more.
"Daniel?"
He shouldn't be so worried but he was. He was heaps worried. It was going to be another Marchello disaster. They wont be able to take it off and he would be stuck in a lab for study even worse... the NID. God he couldn't stand them and they had their ways of trying to obtain technology... he had technology on his arm.
"Daniel!"
He wouldn't be able to go out in the field again. He would never enjoy his life again, the thrill of discovery, his companionship with his friends. His eyes darted with panic. He would be alone, like he was always. It was like fate. The universe can be cruel.
"Daniel!" Sam shook his left arm.
Daniel jumped and immediately the weapon on his right arm sparked in power. Without thinking his right arm flung towards her. His hand hit her jaw and she was flung across the room and went down as he jumped up and scrambled away to the other side of the lab. Sam felt dazed from the knock and took a few minutes to get up from the floor. She exercised her jaw, checking for broken bones but found her jaw was in working order. Her cheek was bright red and she rubbed it soothingly.
Daniel seemed to avoided to brake her jaw but managed to throw her across the room. She felt a force pushed her before she was hit. She guessed the avoided her feeling the full impact of his unnatural strength. She was very lucky.
She struggled to her feet. She had to find Daniel. Daniel wouldn't hit her let alone hurt her. It had to be something influencing the action.
She searched around her lab and found Daniel in a corner. His eyes wide with panic.
"Daniel" she stepped closer
"No, no, no. I wont let you..."
"What?" Sam pressed
"Take me. I wont let you take me"
"Daniel. No ones going to take you calm down" she dared to enter his personal space
The metallic armor cracked and sparked then right before her eyes the armor spread cross this shoulders to the base of his neck. It was like it appeared out of no where and seemed to set itself in place.
"I know they will"
"Daniel" she couldn't help but snap, "I'm here Daniel. No ones going to take you away. You're safe"
Daniel showed signs of calming down. She jumped up and phoned the infirmary. She was glad she had sensors on the metallic arm, now she can see if she can determine the cause of Daniel's behaviour.
Jack entered the infirmary and saw Teal'c and Sam already there. He answered to the call of something happening to Daniel. Janet was poking and prodding with needles while Daniel looked pale and visibly shaken. Jack walked up to Sam to ask but on cue the General entered.
"What happened Doctor?"
Janet place the stethoscope back around her neck and faced the General.
"To be honest I am not sure. He's suffering high levels of stress and anxiety"
"Stress and anxiety. From what?" Jack raised his eyebrows
"I'm not sure" Janet turned to Sam, "Sam was with him"
Sam shook her head. A bright purple bruise was on her cheek and Jack's eyes went wide with surprise.
"I was quietly analysing the armor and Daniel grew impatient. He wanted to study the ruins that he recorded. I just told him to wait for a further ten minutes and he seemed to relax. After a while he began fidgeting and then he looked... frightened. I got up to see what's wrong. I touched his arm and he lashed out at me"
"You ok?" Jack asked point to the injury
Sam nodded, "Yeah I'm fine. He more likely threw me across the room, than hit me sir. When I got back up he was in a corner really scared about someone's going to take him away"
"Away where?" Jack asked
Sam shrugged, "He was really shaken"
"Aww crap" Jack muttered
"The armor activated as well" Sam added
"Did you find anything on it?" the General asked his eyebrows frowning at the news
"Its made from naquada, trinium and titanium alloy. Also another unknown metal is mixed in. I'm just scratching the surface. I got readings from the activation but I didn't get a chance to analyse them yet"
"What happened with the armor?" Jack asked taking note that the weapon activated
"It just sparked and grew to his neck"
Jack looked and for the first time noticing the armour covered most of his shoulder and part of his collar bone. It did stop at his neck
"Its alive?" Jack raised his eyebrows
"No sir but it seems to respond to his emotions" tested out her theory
"Excuse me?" the General frowned
Sam bit bit her lip, "Back when we were captured by Maahes Daniel was acting strange"
"Yeah" Jack chimed in remembrance, "He fazed out on us for a moment"
"Every time we were with the Goa'uld he was... angry. Really angry" Sam emphasised sending the message that Daniel wasn't himself
"Is that when he proceeded to almost crushing the Goa'uld's hand?" the General remembered the told event in the de-briefing
"Yeah that armor grew on his hand" Jack added
"Indeed. During battle he seemed angry when we were in dire situation. I saw the armor develop on the rest of his arm. That is when he proceeded to use the weapon against the enemy Jaffa" Teal'c inputted
"Are you saying this came from the bracelet you found in the temple on P4X-Y25?" the General asked gesturing to Daniel's arm
"Yes sir" Sam responded
"So why did Dr. Jackson over react?" the General cocked his head not believing what they were saying but he did since weirder things have occurred
"I would have to take more samples" Janet filled in, "But from what I can tell the element in his blood is unknown and it seems to made of an alien mineral. My theory is the mineral could be causing an imbalance with Daniel's brain chemistry causing him to over react"
"If this weapon was made for the Ancients then it was designed to be used by them" Sam added to the brainstorm, "Not for humans"
"Any idea how to take it off?" the General asked
"No sir" Sam shook her head
The General nodded, "What do you suggest Doctor?"
"I suggest we put him into an isolation room and monitor him. I can keep him calm so the weapon wont activate endanger anyone else"
The General nodded, "Do it"
"So you want to join us Miss...?" the figure asked tried to fill the gap
"Kertalk" he pristine voice ran in the empty room
"Hmm... unusual name, Miss Kertalk" the figure murmured, "Tell me what do you do?"
"Many... classified things" she purred
"Well throw me a bone" the figure demanded
"I know how to speak Goa'uld"
"How do you know about the Goa'uld?" the man demanded
The woman just smiled, "That's... classified"
The figure had a hard and disgusted face.
"We did a background check and according to this you don't exist"
"Exactly Mr. Shaw. I am perfect for this operation. I have a clean slate so you may give me the background that most fits this job"
"We'll see. What skills do you have other than speaking Goa'uld"
"I know how to brake into computer systems, I know tactical operations, I have experience in undercover work, I have familiarity with alien weapons as well as earth's, I'm a scientist, I can speak more languages than Goa'uld and I can make a mean soufflé" she joked at the end, "Want my Résumé?"
The man folded his arms, "I'll talk to my superiors"
The man left the room and the woman watched him leave her long gaze never leaving his back. She smiled when he left. That weapon will be hers.
Daniel paced the room. He knew what was going on. His friends were talking about him as if he wasn't in the infirmary, but he was right there. He was over reacting on his emotions and used the weapon as the result. Now he knew how the weapon worked, he might make more of an effort to keep calm.
But right now he was bored. Dead bored. If he didn't go into a panic attack in the lab then he would be right now in his office reading that text and trying to discover its riddles and secrets! He started to pace the room more hastily like a caged animal. It was his fault for being here. If he didn't touch the weapon in the first place he wouldn't be viewed and studied like an experiment. He wouldn't be considered a security threat! He would be in his office lounging in what he loved to do!
"Daniel calm down" a voice on the intercom said. It was Jack's voice
Daniel stopped, took a breath and tried to keep his emotions in check. He was amazed how he just run away like that but it would start up soon if he didn't get something to do. He pressed the intercom button with his left hand.
"Jack I'm bored! I need to do something! If I don't occupy myself I'm going to tear this place down!" Daniel pleaded
"I'm on it Daniel. Do you like yo-yos?"
"Jaaaack! I need my books. I need my notes and the tape on the ruins. I have to read them!" Daniel ranted
"Alright calm down. I see what I can do" Jack said soothingly and got up
Jack had been watching him for the past hour and started to feel stressed just watching him pace across the room. He hopped Carter could figure all this out soon and get that thing off him. It seemed to drive him nuts. He left the observation deck to find Dr. Fraiser.
Teal'c took his place on the seat only to watch Daniel pacing again.
"I suggest you try to relax Daniel Jackson" Teal'c responded
"Sorry Teal'c I can't help it" Daniel pressed the button again, "I feel anxious and bored"
"Meditation may help to relieve your stress" Teal'c suggested calmly
"I know but I right now I really need to see those writings!"
Daniel began pacing again. Clenching and unclenching his fists. He ran his hands through his hair from time to time and paced up and down the room. The bed was unwrinkled from the lack of use. It seemed like he was waiting forever for Jack.
Then the large door opened revealing Janet and two men in scrubs. She didn't look happy but she held some books and the video recorder. Daniel stride up to her and took it from her grasp.
"Thank you, thank you, thank you!" he gasped and sat on the bed and began sorting through the books
Janet began her check ups again and proceeded to take some more blood samples from him. He complied happily as his focus went again to the writings on the wall in the playback of the video.
"I never know you to be so co-operative before" Janet joked as she finished up
It went on deaf ears.
"Daniel?"
Daniel didn't respond as he became engrossed in the writings. She rolled her eyes and turned to leave. Jack returned to the observation deck to see Daniel happily reading and viewing the tape.
"How is he?" Jack asked Teal'c
"More calm since his wishes has been fulfilled" Teal'c informed
"Great. He owes me one"
"Colonel" Janet said crisply, "Just the man I wanted to see"
Jack turned to see Janet enter the room and looked at him solidly.
"Yeah I know we had a deal" Jack muttered
Teal'c raised an eyebrow. Jack saw it.
"If I go to bed then Daniel could play with his toys" Jack muttered simply
Teal'c nodded understanding Jack's simplified wording. He restrained a smile. Janet looked at the Colonel.
"Ok, ok! I'm going! See you guys tomorrow" he muttered before leaving
"Teal'c you should get rest too" Janet replied softly after the Colonel stormed off
"I am fine" Teal'c responded stubbornly
"I'll make sure he's ok" Janet reasoned, "You need rest too"
Teal'c lifted his chin before bowing it into a nod, "Very well Doctor Fraiser"
The Teal'c rose and left. Janet knew they had a tough day and they needed all the rest they could get. Now if she could only get Daniel to sleep...
To be continued...
So this thing plays on emotions huh? And some shifty characters are also after the weapon. What's going to happen to Daniel now? Will they ever take it off? Stay turned to find out
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