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Chapter 3

The Stargate team and Ryer scouted out the area surrounding the Stargate. Teal'c and Jack were discussing a strategy while Sam and Daniel listened and added their thoughts. Ryer sat a little ways away with her eyes closed and a calm expression consuming her face. Suddenly her eyes sprung open.

"Only one of their minds is open to me. With four guards there, that won't help much," Ryer informed her new-found friends. She thought for a while longer.

"Why don't we just find our weapons, and kill them?" asked Daniel.

"Oh, great idea," said Jack, sarcastically, "That might work, except the guards have our weapons."

"Oh," was Daniel's only comment.

Ryer began talking out loud. "Every year the priest sacrifices the criminal's condemned to die. He takes them to another planet. Maybe I can… Stay here, I'll be back. And Jack…"

Jack looked up at Ryer.

"Please don't do anything stupid," she said and then melted into the woods. Ryer quickly ran to the Priest's tent.

"I have a favor to ask," she said to the Priest after bowing reverently.

The Priest returned the gesture, and said, "What is it that I can do for you?"

"I need you to help me and the foreigners escape," Ryer told the elderly man.

The Priest turned grave and said, "What you ask is treason."

"Not if we escape from you and hold you hostage until we leave. I promise no one will harm you, and it will erase all doubt from you."

The Priest consented and they Ryer helped the old man to where SG-1 was waiting. Quickly, she outlined her plane to the Stargate team. They readily agreed, and the plan was set into motion. Ryer and the Priest went in front of the team and pretended to be leading them for the sacrifice. As Ryer approached the DHD, she realized that she did not know the address for Earth, so she dialed a friendly planet where they would be able to dial home. As they approached the gate, Jack pretended to stumble, and pulled a knife out of his boot. He grabbed the priest and held the knife lightly against his throat. The Priest did a good job of faking fear. The guards quickly aimed their guns at Jack.

"Put your weapons down, or the Priest is a goner," he yelled to the men.

The guards immediately dropped their weapons, and Teal'c retrieved them. Sam, Daniel, Teal'c and Ryer went through the Japa-ai, and Jack let the priest go before he followed them. When he reached the other side, Jack saw the others staring up into the sky.

"What is it?" asked Daniel.

Ryer lost no time in giving the answer. "The Wraith," she whispered, and then burst into action. "Daniel, dial Earth."

Daniel didn't move, still mesmerized by the approaching ship.

"NOW!" Ryer practically screamed at him, and then she collapsed in spasms. Daniel ran to the DHD, as Sam knelt next to Ryer.

Faces leered at her. "NO!" she tried to scream, but the words could not come out. She looked past the faces, she was surrounded by test tubes.

"How long until it works," asked one of the faces.

"It shouldn't be long now," replied another.

She was in a wraith ship.

Seconds dragged by, and she began to lose control of her senses. Suddenly, she mechanically sat up.

"Yes!" one of the Wraith exclaimed.

"Our harvesting machine is working," approved the fist one.

"Too late," groaned Sam as the wormhole engaged from the other end. Suddenly, Ryer sat up.

"We must go," she said, urgently.

"What are the Wraith doing here?" asked Samantha. "I thought they were only in the Pegasus Galaxy."

"They have been purging the planets for years," said Ryer. "But never mine," she murmured as an afterthought.

Sam looked at her curiously.

"Can I talk to you?" Ryer asked Sam. "Alone… please."

"Of course."

Sam and Ryer moved a few yards away from the men.

"I had a vision. It was when I fainted."

Just then, Jack motioned for them to be silent. The companions hid in the brush as footsteps drew close. Ryer concentrated to feel if the person was friend or foe. She pierced the mind, and immediately collapsed into spasms. Sam tried to muffle Ryer's cries of pain, but the Wraith picked up on the noise. Jack and Teal'c open fired on the Wraith as Daniel frantically sought his bullets, as his gun was unloaded. Suddenly Ryer sat up, her eyes glazed over. The Wraith blasted Daniel to the ground, and turned to Ryer.

"We meet again," the Wraith said with apparent dislike and delight. "Kill her," the Wraith commanded the mesmerized Ryer.

Ryer picked up her gun and turned toward Sam. Sam jumped out of the way quickly as a shot hit the ground where she was just standing.

Here ends Chapter three. 4 coming soon.