Jesse bit down on her bottom lip, as she struggled back to her feet and shot a glance back at the door. The force field was growing stronger and forcing Jack and Sam up against the far wall. "We need to destroy those crystals," Jesse said to Riley, as she grabbed onto his arm. "If we don't, they'll be killed."
"Okay," Riley answered, as they blurred through the force field and dropped to their knees on the other side. "Man, they're strong."
"Yeah." Jesse got to her feet first and looked at the crystals. "How are we going to destroy them?"
"Just do it," Jack yelled at them, as he and Carter fell to their knees as the force field got stronger.
"I have an idea." Jesse blurred over to one of the crystals and picked it up. It soon began to get brighter and brighter. "Hopefully this will work."
"Jesse, what are you doing?" Riley asked her as the light began to become blinding. "You're going to get hurt."
"I have to do something." She ducked her head as the crystal got brighter and hotter. "I hope this works."
"Jesse!" She let out a small scream as the crystal started to burn her skin and it exploded. "Jess!" Jesse's eyes closed as she collapsed to the floor and Riley quickly rushed over to her side. "Jesse?"
"Did it work?" she asked softly, as she opened her eyes to look up at Riley.
"Yeah, it worked." Riley then looked down at her hands to see that they were badly burned, and he frowned. "You didn't have to do it."
"Yes, I did. It takes one with our blood to make them heat up enough that they'll explode." She then fell unconscious and went limp in Riley's arms.
"You did good." Riley then looked up as Jack and Sam came over to their side. "Sorry about your lab."
"It's okay," Carter said, as she looked around. "It can be fixed up. How's Jesse?"
"She'll be okay." Ethan and Katie ran up to them and Katie threw herself at Riley. "It's going to be okay."
Katie then slammed a fist into Riley's chest. "Don't you dare do that to me again," she demanded him. "You almost gave me heart attack."
"Sorry, little one. I promise never to do it again."
"That's better." She then shook Jesse's arm, bringing her attention back to Katie. "What were you thinking?"
"I was thinking about saving my parents and the rest of this base," she answered her, as she got to her feet. "Other than that, I wasn't thinking." She then shot a smile over at O'Neill and Carter. "You guys okay?"
"Yeah," O'Neill answered her, as Carter began to look at the crystals. "Hey, are you sure that's safe?"
"It should be okay for her to touch them," Jesse said, as she ran her hand through her face. "Mom doesn't have the bugs in her blood that we do."
"I don't have them, so how did I make the crystals light up like that?" Katie asked.
"You have them, you are just too young for them to work," Riley said, as he ruffled up her hair. "Everyone from our time had them, even if they wanted them or didn't."
"Oh." They all looked over to see Jesse pick up another crystal, that was identical to the one that had burned her hands. "Is it safe for her to do that?"
"I don't know." Jesse slammed it onto the floor shattering it into pieces and it was only then that she picked up another smaller piece. This one glowed in her hands for a couple of minutes before going out. "What happened?"
"I had a thought." Jesse bent and picked up another smaller piece and threw it at Riley. He caught it and it began to glow only to quickly go out. "It's not dangerous when the crystals and broken apart. It's when they are whole that you would have a trouble with it."
"How's your hands?" Carter asked her, as she caught a glance at them to see that they were burned pretty badly.
"They'll heal," Jesse answered, as she looked down at her hands. "They'll heal pretty quick on their own."
"Only after your body makes more of those nasty little bugs," Frasier said as she came into the room. "You put a lot of them into those crystals to make them stop working. I'm sure you're body doesn't know how to handle that."
"Okay." Jesse looked down to see that they were slowly healing. "So in other words, Doc, don't do that any time soon."
"Right. So what really happened in here?"
"Katie touched the crystals and they reacted to each other creating a powerful force field. We could barely go through it because it was so strong."
"Okay, and how did they shut down."
"I did that part." Jesse shot a glance down at the crystal at her feet. "I took that one up in my hands and held it until it exploded. It grew stronger and stronger until it couldn't hold any more energy, forcing it to explode."
"Are the rest of you okay?" Janet looked around at everybody else, who shot her a smile.
"I think I'm gonna go sleep now." Jesse took a step towards the door only to fall to her knees. "Ow, that hurt." Jesse shook her head as she got to her feet. "Okay, maybe I'm a bit light headed for giving off most of my bugs. I think I just need to rest." She then took off for the infirmary.
"Okay," Ethan said as she passed him. "I'm gonna go with her."
"Good idea, Eth," Riley said, as he picked up Katie. "We'll be there right after you guys."
"Okay." Ethan blurred off to help him sister.
"I think all she needs is rest," Riley said to the others. "She put a lot of those bugs into that crystal to make it blow up."
"We'll go report what happened to the General," Jack said, as he watched Katie grow sleepy. "You guys go to bed."
"Night."
TBC