"Kree!" Lantash ordered hesitantly.
The soldiers did not to respond at first but soon their eyes dimmed and they obeyed with deference. When he commanded them to speak they released pure symbiote shrieks. He asked them who he was and they answered.
"Our Lord."
He asked them what could kill them.
"Nothing."
He barely noticed Martouf considering what an incredible opportunity it was, One we can't pass up, Lantash.
Lantash took a moment to disagree, It's too great a risk to use them in any complex plan while we are under the watchful eye of Anubis. He sent a silent prayer that Anubis be as yet completely unaware of these creations.
There is someone here we could 'have removed'.
Walking her away from them he whispered, "Samantha, I need your help after all."
"Hmm," she was not impressed but she listened.
He handed her his communicator, "This is Ganev's password. I need you to use it to disable the surveillance on the upper levels and erase the recordings back to yesterday."
She warily walked between the soldiers to the rings and was gone.
He told them to kill General Ganev. They opened doors in the walls and left through them, by following he found himself in the circular hallway. He would return to the control panel later and find out just how many mechanical hosts had been made.
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One of the new soldiers activated the doors and they all slinked into the General's private quarters to find Ganev with Sutiana. Lantash moved through his soldiers and looked them over.
"When did you two meet?" Lantash teased.
Their eyes snapped onto him and confusion flooded their expressions at the sight of the new weapons. Only Ganev didn't look surprised. He told Sue to leave but the mechanical soldiers barred her way and she backed up to her former position, watching nervously, though standing tall as ever.
"Who do you think you are now," the General bellowed. "Kaya? Sholva? Someone else this time? Or... have you finally admitted to yourself the real reason you're back?" he sneered pressing forward. "Is it painful... finding out that you aren't so much better than us after all? You probably even told yourself this is just about finding out what's going on here."
Lantash simply eyed him coldly, "I admit that I will take pleasure in watching you die... but I haven't stooped to your level."
"No, You've fallen beneath even Kaya's! Now that's really something. Indeed, he may have dreamed these things up, but you're going to actually use them."
"Yes, I am! And how fortuitous of you to be standing in my path," with a sneer Lantash signaled the soldiers forward. Ganev pulled out his zat not aiming for the threatening forms but for Lantash. The shot was deflected by Lantash's personal force field.
"Ganev is right, and you know it. You have become worse than Kaya!" Sue screamed pushing past the General, her tone filling with wrath. "Is this how you woke up and you were hiding that rotten disease of a soul from me the whole time, living in my house? How long did it take to go to your head?" she was shaking with shock and rage.
"You didn't recognize me?" he asked incredulously.
She seethed, "I hate politics."
"What a contradiction you are," he smiled grabbing her as she tried to attack him. She didn't like the look in his eyes and tried to pull away. He held tight until she stopped resisting then threw her to the floor and stepped back, signaling the soldiers to execute them both. Both were backed up to the wall. Their arms, held out to defend themselves, were gashed across by the metal tentacles.
"Now," Ganev gasped haltingly, failing to defend himself, "how are you going to argue your superiority to the Goa'uld?"
"Arguing is such a waste of time."
The soldiers drew up their arms dealing the death strikes with absolute precision. Rupturing Ganev's brain, lungs and heart, erupting a spray of blood from his ribcage as they withdrew from him, leaving his body a bloody, lifeless mess. Sutiana lay prone, in the same state. Their dark, thick blood ran off the glossy metal, the soldiers and their host components already prepared for their next task.
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Samantha checked Martouf for wounds and became perplexed. She wiped her hands down her dress soaking it with blood. She finally spoke, "you're not hurt. What happened?"
"I won."
"You 'won'," she repeated with uncertainty. "Where are they?"
"In the grand hall."
Her eyes widened, she turned the surveillance on and gasped, reeling into shock, trying not to hyperventilate. He turned it the image off.
"You did that?"
"No, those things did," he said impatiently. He regretted his harsh tone the instant he saw her surprised expression.
She steadied herself and looked into his eyes shaking her head in confusion, "you didn't order them to do it?"
"I did, but-" he reached out for her but only left deep red streaks where his fingers grazed her sides as she paled and turned away. He sighed.
She spoke somberly, "none of the things we've done here can come to any good. We've got to get out of here... before things get even worse," she picked up her stuff and headed down to the gate room with him. When they got there he watched as she moved to the DHD. She glanced at him then stopped for a second, longer look at him, "What is it?"
"I'm not going with you," he said.
She stared at him for a moment, "why?"
"This is too important to leave."
Her eyes widened, "So you've decided to go over the council's head on it?"
He shrugged, "the council can do what they want. For now I'm staying here and I want you to stay with me," he said gravely.
"You know I can't do that."
"Think about it."
"Martouf-"
He calmly interrupted, "just think it over."
Before Samantha could respond Martouf's communicator lit up. He looked at her pointedly, "it's Anubis, I must respond."
"Please, Martouf, just come with me," she pleaded.
Moving up to her, Martouf took her hands, "I'm sorry, Samantha." He kissed her slowly and passionately. "Think it over".
He activated the gate and left without looking back. Samantha sent her signal to the Tok'ra, took a deep breath and walked through the gate.