A/N: Hey guys! It has been awhile since I posted. I hope you like this. PLEASE review! This idea was stolen partly from NeverEnding Story, I admit- I am a thief! R&R!---Loo

Disclaimer- If I owned them, do you think I would be working to pay for tuition?


"Dammit, Daniel! Come on!" Jack yelled. There was no response and he sighed gruffly. "I'm going to get Daniel. Meet you at the Gate in 10." He said into his walkie-talkie.

"Yes, sir." With that Jack entered the cave to find to promptly drag out his errant archaeologist.

"Here somewhere…gotta be…maybe over here…it's here, I know it is…" Daniel mumbled to himself as Jack approached.

"What is here?" the Colonel asked suspiciously. Daniel gave no indication of having heard him, continuing his mumbling and searching of the wall. "Daniel, what is here that is so important that we are going to be late getting home?" Jack tried again. Dainel paused in his pacing and reached out, pressing a hidden button in the wall. Jack grabbed him by the collar and yanked him back just as the wall began to shake violently. The two men moved to the far side of the cave until the shuddering had ceased. Jack was coughing and waving his hand around, trying to disperse the dust, but Daniel walked forward to the opened hole now exposed.

"There is it." The younger man breathed reverently.

"Forgive me, Daniel, but what the hell is it?" Jack coughed, moving up to see what Daniel was jabbering about. In front of him was an ornate pedestal with a bright, glowing, orange sphere perched precariously on top. "It looks like a basketball." He observed.

"No, Jack. This is much more than a basketball." Daniel muttered and stepped closer. "This is the completion of our standing orders."

"What are you talking about, Daniel?" Our standing orders are to find technology and weapons capable to protect Earth from the Goa'uld and other unforeseen enemies." Jack recited and Daniel nodded spastically.

" I know that, Jack. This may be it. It said that it is 'The saver of lives.'" He said, inspecting the sphere. "It looks possibly Ancient, but I'll have to look at it more closely back at the…" Daniel didn't get to finish his sentence as he reached out and touched the sphere. Jack wasn't close enough to stop him.

"Daniel, NO!" Jack yelled, but it was too late. The orange ball turned to a magnificent shade of blue, electricity licking out at them. One tendril caught Daniel and plunged into his chest. Jack had just caught Daniel's arm and, unseen, the electricity traveled through Daniel's body and connected with Jack's. Both men seized violently, unable to break away and their world went black.