CHAPTER THREE: RETURN TO CAPTIVITY

As his prisoner finally succumbed to the bliss of unconsciousness, Anubis turned his rage on the nearest Jaffa, who stood before him nearly trembling in fear.

"Why will she not tell me what I wish to know!" he demanded angrily. "It has been two days, and still she refuses to answer."

"I know not, my lord," the Jaffa replied, hoping against hope that his voice wasn't shaking as badly as his hands. "Perhaps the Tau'ri are stronger than we believed."

"Impossible," Anubis growled. "She is a woman! She has the knowledge of the Ancients, and she refuses to divulge it."

The Jaffa chose not to answer, and watched his god pace in anger around the small room.

"Take her back to her cell."

"My lord…if she is not placed in the sarcophagus, her injuries will kill her," the Jaffa said, not tremendously worried about the small Tau'ri woman that intrigued his master so much, but worried that he would be blamed if she were to die.

"I said take her to her cell," Anubis repeated, his voice soft and slow. "If she will tell me nothing of use, than she will feel the full brunt of my wrath."

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When Janet Fraiser woke once more, she lay perfectly still, trying to keep from crying from the pain running throughout her body. She wasn't sure how long she'd been in Anubis' clutches, but she was certain that it had been more than three weeks. And each day had been the same. First he'd wanted any and all information about Earth, but she had given him nothing but her name, rank and serial number.

Now he was after the Knowledge of the Ancients, and even if she had been able to access it, she wouldn't have given it to him. The problem was, she knew that she didn't have long before it would start taking over her brain as well as her body. She could clearly remember the trouble Colonel O'Neill had had when he'd had the Knowledge of the Ancients downloaded into his mind several years back.

She would begin speaking in a language that she'd never been taught, and she'd had impulses to do and build things beyond her wildest imagination. She didn't know if the new Knowledge within her mind would care that Anubis was an enemy. She had a funny feeling that whether she liked it or not, she could, quite possibly, help Anubis create a weapon with the Knowledge, and be the one responsible for wiping out the earth.

Definitely not something she wanted on her conscience.

She shifted slightly, trying to ease the pressure on the broken ribs she knew she had. Her back was covered in bruises and bloody gauges that marred the once perfectly tanned flesh. Anubis took great pleasure in poking her with what seemed to be the Goa'uld version of a cattle prod and listening to her scream.

Janet took a deep breath and held it for several seconds, trying to listen to her surroundings. After a moment, she realised she was alone, and let out the breath she'd been holding. Slowly and with great difficulty, she sat herself up, propping her back gently against the wall and looking around the room.

Without even noticing, her right foot began tapping a staccato rhythm on the floor, her hands twisting in anxiety. Except it wasn't that she was anxious about her next meeting with Anubis. She had to do something.

What that something was, she had no idea, but…she knew she had to do it.

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Twelve hours later, when two Jaffas came to escort her to see Anubis, she managed to wrench herself from their grasps, and race frantically down the hallway, locking herself in a storage room and barricading the doors. She could hear the staff blasts on the doors outside, and she heard the Jaffa shouting orders at one another, and at her, but she was a woman with a mission. The Knowledge didn't care that she was injured, half starved and bleeding to death. The Knowledge wanted what it wanted, and it wouldn't be ignored.

She quickly walked to one of the storage boxes and pushed the lid off, revealing several zat'n'ktels. She carefully picked one of them up, running her fingernail along the top edge and finding a small groove. She applied a slight amount of pressure and was gratified to see a panel open to reveal the zat's power source, a small dark blue crystal rod. She pocketed the crystal and quickly dismantled another three zat's as well, collecting their power sources for later use.

She grabbed the last zat for self-defence, quickly practicing with the unfamiliar weapon. Regardless of how many times she'd seen SG teams using the weapons, she'd never actually had to fire a zat in a combat situation before. She'd been drilled in their use though. One shot stuns, two shots kills, three shots disintegrates.

There was nothing more in the room that would be of use to her, and she quietly moved the barricade against the door. She couldn't hear any sounds of the Jaffa outside the door, but she knew from years of being acquainted with Teal'c that the Jaffa could be incredibly stealthy when they wanted to be.

She went to one knee, knowing that if the Jaffa would fire at her, they'd instinctively go at chest height. Sometimes being petite had its advantages, and anything fired at normal chest level would go straight over her head.

She quickly opened the door, firing her zat at the two Jaffa who had been silently guarding her door.

She made a dash for it when she saw them both fall under the electric charge, and she let her new instincts guide her. She had no idea where the Knowledge wanted to take her, but she knew that there was no point in trying to resist it. Whatever it wanted, it would eventually get, and it would be worse if she tried to resist it. Plus, the Knowledge seemed intent on getting her away from Anubis, and she definitely wasn't opposed to that.

She made it into the main control room of Anubis' ship, and using the ships controls, she locked the door to the room from the inside, ensuring that no one could sneak up on her. Opening up a panel of complex looking crystals, Janet paused, trying to comprehend what the Knowledge was telling her.

She had no real idea what these crystals did. A stray thought about Sam Carter, and her extensive knowledge of all things Goa'uld flitted through her mind before she abruptly pushed it away. She didn't have time to think about her friends, or her home, or…or about Cassie. She was stuck, millions of light years from Earth, in Anubis' ship, with the Knowledge of the Ancients downloaded into her mind.

She let the Knowledge take over her hands, removing and rearranging crystals, knowing she was tampering with the ships life support systems as well as their navigational tools. She had no idea what effect it would have, but she was hoping that she wasn't actively helping Anubis find what he was looking for.

Janet rearranged another set of crystals, and nearly toppled over when the ship abruptly entered hyperspace. She could hear the sounds of Jaffa guards outside the doors yelling angrily at one another as they tried to work out what their prisoner was doing to their ship.

She pressed her palm against her temple, wishing the pounding headache would cease, and in a moment of panic, she realised what was happening to her. She'd seen Jack O'Neill begin using too much of his brain capacity than was healthy or normal for a human, and it had started out as a stabbing headache. This was it…there was no turning back. She was shocked out of her depressing thoughts by a booming voice.

"Tau'ri!" Anubis voice sounded over the ships intercom system. "Cease what you are doing at once. Surrender yourself, and you will come to no harm."

"Wish I believed you Nubie, but you lack credibility," Janet muttered to herself as she closed the panel to the controls. She moved to sit herself in front of a large desk of controls, looking up in awe as she saw the holographic screen rise in front of her. It gave her the layout of the ship, and she knew it would allow her to control most, if not all of the ships vital functions.

She brought up the screen that would show her the movements of the Jaffa, the Kull Warriors and of Anubis, surprised to see how few of each of his guards he had on the ship. She'd have expected more of the most feared System Lord since Apophis, but obviously they'd been overestimating him.

Then again, she knew that SG-1 had dealt a serious blow to Anubis when they'd destroyed a queen Goa'uld that had been helping him to create more Kull Warriors.

Janet quickly traced a path to the glider bay, hoping against hope that it would be largely unguarded. Then again, with her little escapade, getting out of the main control room was going to be an interesting feat. A smile curled on her lips.

What she needed, she realised, was a diversion.

And after working with people like Colonel O'Neill and Sam Carter, she had brushed up on her diversionary tactics in order to get them to sit still long enough to go through their pre and post-mission physicals.

Working quickly, she managed to lock down several areas of the ship, meaning that there were less guards that would have access to where she wanted to go. Working with the Knowledge, she purposefully removed a power crystal to one of the spare engines and replaced it with a much more powerful one. Too powerful in fact. She did a quick countdown in her head, grinning in satisfaction as she heard the echo of an explosion, and the pandemonium it caused in the hall.

Success!

Glancing at the holographic screen that monitored the positions of the beings within the ship, she noticed that there were only five Jaffa still remaining outside the door in wait. And the Knowledge had no use for being captured. Trusting that instinct, she opened the door and allowed the Knowledge free reign.

Four and a half minutes and five dead Jaffa later, she was racing down the hallway to the glider bay, when suddenly out of the corner of her eye, she noticed a very familiar room. One she had seen all too often over the last two weeks. The room where the sarcophagus was kept. She came to an abrupt halt, and crept inside, tampering with the control panel that would activate the locking mechanism on the door. The Knowledge had a new idea…

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