" hello"  regular speech

' hello'  thinking

"hello"  mind speaking, projecting thoughts

"hello"  writing

"SG-1, you are good to go" said General Hammond, as SG-1 prepared to disembark to P6C-153 on the request of Daniel Jackson to examine some ruins the MALP device spotted.

Jack and his team stepped through the gate and seconds later, they were on the planet, apparently deserted, with some trees and lots of rocks. He turned to his team membersto give out the orders.

" Teal'c, take Daniel to the ruins, while Carter and I look around and contact us in about an hour." He said, but thinking, 'Better to stand and scout the area with Carter than watch Danny play with rocks or scout with Teal'c who takes everything so seriously.'

" Sure Jack, no problem." Daniel and Teal'c began to traverse into the forest to get to the ruins which were just down the hill. Sam and Jack went in the opposite direction, looking around to see if there was anything else on this planet.

" So Carter, anything interesting in your life right now?" asked O'Neill hoping that there could be some conversation on this boring planet.

" Actually, sir, I'm working on this new naquadah generator that can be used…" O'Neill inwardly groaned, 'Great. I forgot how much Carter loves to talk science. Maybe Teal'c would have been better company.' But he knew how much Carter, himself and his other team mates loved their job, travelling across the galaxy, seeing strange sites and couldn't ask for more.

"… and the amount of energy that was emitted with the test was astronomical. Um sir?" finished Carter, when she realized that O'Neill was up ahead 'I don't think he was listening.'

" Hey Carter, check this out, I think I found an inscription." Called Jack from ahead, where he was staring at a rock that was smoothed out, with ancient writings on it. " What do you make of it?"

" Sorry sir, that's Daniel's expertise." Replied Carter, who bent down to get a look at them, running her hand over the stone.

" Well let's radio the…"

His sentence was never finished, as a bright light engulfed them and they disappeared.

Meanwhile, Daniel was having a great time, finding inscriptions all over some walls and altars, making him believe the structure was an ancient temple. The structure itself was preserved so that it could provide any shelter if needed but the inscriptions had worn down so that translation was long and difficult.

" Daniel Jackson, what have you learned about this planet?" asked Teal'c, breaking the silence that had lasted for awhile.

" Well, according to this inscription, the planet was once inhabited by the Alatum, which means 'winged' in Latin. This inscription is harder to make out, but it appears an unknown disaster hit the planet and wiped out most of their people. Only a few survived and tried to write down their history." Replied Daniel, sadly. 'I wonder if this was another planet that was horribly destroyed by the Go'auld.'

" Daniel, it has been about an hour, we should radio O'Neill and Carter" advised Teal'c following orders to the book. Daniel nodded and took his radio,

" Jack, we've found some interested ruins, but nothing indicates that these people were advanced. Over" called Daniel. They waited for the reply and got none. They looked to each other, Teal'c raising his eyebrow.

" Jack you there?" asked Daniel, again with no answer. " Carter, over". Daniel's face began to furrow with worry. He looked up to Teal'c for his opinion.

"Daniel, I believe it pertinent to go back to the Stargate and search the area." Teal'c said, and he and Daniel went back.

Two hours later there was still no sign of the Major or the Colonel. They passed a stone with some inscription, but Daniel could not make out what it said. Teal'c advised they go back to the SGC and inform Hammond what has happened.

At the SGC, Daniel and Teal'c explain that O'Neill and Carter have been out of radio contact for about 3 hours. Gen. Hammond, worried, begins to set up a search and rescue mission with SG-11, and SG-5 but was interrupted in his plans.

"Off-world gate activation" Teal'c, Daniel and Hammond all hurried to the command centre, hoping that it was the two missing team mates.

" SG-1's IDC, sir."

" Open the gate" and with that said Teal'c and Daniel ran to the embarkation room and waited for their friends.

There stepped Jack, who was holding Sam in his hands who appeared to be unconscious. A medical team took her from Jack's hands and took her to the infirmary. Jack then turned to Daniel, Teal'c and Hammond and opened his mouth but then closed it.

"Jack what happened?" asked Daniel. O'Neill cocked his head to a side and looked at him, and tried to answer, but nothing happened. "Jack? Say something."

"O'Neill are you injured?" asked Teal'c, concerned for his friend. O'Neill shook his head and pointed to his mouth.

" Colonel, I order you answer Dr. Jackson." Demanded the General. O'Neill waved his arms, pointing to his throat. He then threw his arms up in frustration.

" Are you trying to say that you can't speak at all?" asked the General.

O'Neill nodded. He tried to speak again, but nothing happened again.

" Dr. Jackson, take him down to the infirmary where Dr. Fraiser can examine you." Ordered the General. 'What the hell is happening here?' he thought.

Carter woke up in the infirmary and she at once knew something was wrong. She tried to call for Janet but she couldn't say anything. 'What the hell? What happened?' What was even odder was that she kept hearing this odd buzzing noise in her head. 'Probably just an after-effect of what happened to me.'

Carter looked around and found Janet examining something in the corner. She made a noise hitting her hand against the bed.

Janet heard it and looked over, "Sam?"

Carter nodded.

"Why aren't you saying anything?" Janet went to the side of the bed and began to check her throat, as if she had laryngitis.

Carter shrugged, obviously distressed. Janet got a pad of paper and Carter began scribbling down questions.

" What the hell is wrong with me? Why can't I talk? What happened? Where's the Colonel, Daniel and Teal'c?" she scribbled down on the pad of paper.

" You went out of radio contact for 3 hours, Sam. Jack came through the Stargate holding you in his hands and then a medical team brought you here. As of yet, I don't know why you can talk. I'll have to do some x-rays and tests to check your vocal chords and box. I also have to give you a complete physical to make sure there are no other adverse effects." Janet replied, worried about her friend. " Can you tell me how your feeling?"

" Great.." she wrote sarcastically. "Actually, I keep hearing this odd buzzing noise, as if someone were talking in my head. You don't think it could be a go'auld?" Sam looked horrified, at the thought of becoming a host.

"Don't worry I checked, you are not a host. The buzzing has me worried though. Can you make out what the words are?"

"No, its like the person is too far away. But he's in the building. It's like I can sense him." She wrote.

"Do you know who it is?"

"Yeah, I think its the Colonel."

Jack was furious. He was in the debriefing room and he was mute. Talking was the only way he got his sarcastic blurbs out. What's more, is that he kept hearing a buzzing noise in his head. It was faint but really, really annoying. He looked up at Hammond, Teal'c and Daniel, envious that they could actually talk. He had to write everything down.

" Why the hell can't I talk? And what's this buzzing noise? Did the techies break something?" Jack wrote. The others read the note and looked at him.

" Colonel, there is no buzzing noise. Maybe we should have sent you straight to the infirmary." Said Hammond, concerned for his second in command.

" Let the Doc worry about Carter for now. Daniel, what did the ruins say about the planet? Anything about stealing voices?"

" I only got an hour worth of translating. So far all I know is that the planet was home to a people called the Alatum and that there planet was destroyed. Only a few survived, wrote down their history and probably left the planet or died. Do you remember anything at all of what happened to you?"

" Carter and I were walking up a hill when I saw an inscription. I went down looked at it and turned to Carter telling her what I found. Then everything is blank until I wake up by the Stargate with Carter unconscious beside me. Would someone please turn down this buzzing noise! It's driving me crazy." O'Neill clutched his head 'Why does it feel like Sam?'

"Colonel?"

Jack looked around the room. "Did you guys say something?" Daniel read this and replied:

"No."

"Yes you did."

"No I didn't"

" Did"

"Didn't"

"Then why the hell did I hear someone distinctly say 'Colonel' just now?"

The odd buzzing noise had stopped, Jack noticed. Before he could begin to write down anything else he heard something that felt like Carter.

"Colonel, Can you hear me? It's Carter."

Jack looked around saw no Carter and so went on the limb that it was her thoughts that were reaching him. He attempted the same by projecting his thoughts back to her. "Carter? How are you talking to me? Where are you?"

"I woke up in the infirmary. Still here but I had this weird buzzing noise but it….. felt like you. So I thought maybe I could send you a message. It worked and the buzzing stopped."

"Are you saying…"

" Hey Jack, you there?" said Daniel which interrupted his thought.

"Yeah, just minute." Jack then continued his conversation with Carter

"Sorry Carter, Danny interrupted me. So we're telepathic?"

"It appears so sir. I have yet tried to do it with Janet. We might only be telepathic to each other. Try it on Daniel and the others. I'll chat later, Janet thinks I'm crazy because I'm not listening to her."

"Alright Major."

Jack finished his mental conversation and looked at his table, and also noted that the buzzing was back but less irritating.

" So guess what?"

" So you've decided to be apart of this conversation, Colonel" said the impatient Hammond. The three have been just sitting there waiting for the Colonel to return to their meeting.

" I just had a conversation with Carter." He wrote down and passed the pad to his friends.

" How is this possible, O'Neill? Carter is not in the room." Asked Teal'c, who had been listening quietly for the past half-hour.

" I don't know. Looks like I'm telepathic. She can do the same."

"Jack, are you telling us you can read our minds?"

"Don't know haven't tried. Carters going to try it out on Janet, while I'm suppose to do it one you guys."

" Okay, Jack. Test it on me. I'll think of a word and you say it back." Said Daniel. "Cassandra"

" It was faint but I heard 'Cassandra'. Was that right?"

Daniel looked stricken. "Yeah, that was right. Jesus, what happened to you and Sam on the planet? Can you try sending thoughts to us? Like projecting what your saying?"

Hammond and Teal'c both nodded to O'Neill to try this experiment out. " Try it out, son. If this works, you may have found a way to communicate after all with your voice gone."

" All right. Here goes."

Jack concentrated and projected "I love Simpsons" towards his friends. He looked up.

" I love simpsons, Jack? How old are you?" said Daniel, chuckling at his friend's choice in television. But then realized how important the notion really was. "My god, you guys are completely telepathic! This is amazing."

Hammond was less than amused. "Colonel, you are to go down to the infirmary and have Dr. Fraiser to examine you.

"Do I have to?" Jack thought to Hammond, trying it again.

Hammond looked at his second in command. " Colonel, right now, we don't know what happened to you, why you can't talk, and we don't know if there is anything else that was done to you. Go to the Infirmary at once."

"I believe General Hammond is correct, O'Neill." Teal'c said. Daniel nodded.

"Great. Another physical with the Doc." He projected unhappily to the three.

After tests on Major and Colonel, Janet has discovered that their DNA had been changed slightly in certain areas. Their vocal chords and box were affected in that they could not be used. It was as if their means of speech had been deleted in order for them to use the mind speech, possibly a result of their sensory section of their brains operating in higher percentages.

They were waiting, along with the rest of their team and General Hammond. Janet told them her findings.

"Are you telling us we're mutants? That we'll start to turn blue and be able to teleport?"

Asked the snarky Colonel. The mind-speak was getting easier and to get everyone to hear they just projected their thoughts to the entire room.

" Is there anyway to reverse the process?" Sam was more concerned. She didn't want to be mute forever.

" Sam, Jack, I have no idea what was done to you. I can even begin to fathom which genes have been changed, which sequences… The only person that could change you back are the people who did this to you. And for all we know, this may not be reversible." Janet looked to her friends, worried about these alarming changes.

"Sir, permission to go back to the planet and find the insane people who decided to play god with us." Jack said. He was pissed. He hated being altered against his wished. 'hey that happens all the time to us. Do we have some sort of sign that says "come play with our genes, our minds or just do what ever you want with our bodies."

Sam chuckled. So far it appeared that Jack and herself could hear their 'surface' thoughts and communicate easier with mind-speak. Jack looked at her and smirked.

"The doctor has given you a clear, saying that you are fine except with these new abilities." Hammond was thinking it over. Usually, they would stay on base but he felt that no harm would come from letting them go. " I'll clear it so long as you return if something odd happens again." He looked at Teal'c and Dr. Jackson. "Keep an eye on them, if something happens again. Return immediately."

On the planet, O'Neill and Carter show Teal'c and Daniel the rock with the inscription the last thing either one of them remember.

" Sorry guys I can't make it out." Daniel looked to his friends, who had hoped that the rock was a clue as to why they were changed.

" Well, this was a bust. There's nothing on this planet but rocks, trees and more rocks. For all we know we were transported to a ship!" Jack was angry. He wanted to hear his voice again.

They walked around some more, and came upon a very large chasm.

"I wonder how deep this is. It looks bigger than the Grand Canyon." Daniel stepped closer to edge. Without realizing it until it was too late, Daniel got to close to the edge. Suddenly he lost his footing and fell over the cliff.

"Dr. Jackson!" Teal'c ran to the edge but knew he was too late. He looked to O'Neill and Major Carter but was stricken when he saw that they were running over the edge!

"Carter! What the hell are we doing?" cried O'Neill to his 21C, running towards a cliff with a very long grop.

"I Don't know sir! It's just I had this feeling that we could save Daniel."

With that thought, they went over the edge.

Daniel was falling, and he knew he was done for. 'Maybe Jack was right. My unhealthy interest in rocks caused my death!' he thought sarcastically.

He looked up and was horrified to see Jack and Sam falling towards him, with no ropes. But suddenly, there was this strange ripping sound and a set of wings appeared on the back of Jack and another set on Sam.

Jack's wings were an odd brown with a little silver in them, while Sam's were a beautiful gold. They flew down and caught him and brought him back up.

"What the hell? We're angels now?" Jack said to Carter.

"I don't know sir. It's kinda cool but weird at the same time"

Daniel and Teal'c looked at their friends who had their wings folded behind their backs.

"Daniel stop gawking and let's head back to the gate."

"Jack, Sam, you have wings! You can fly! But… but…" Daniel looked like he was hyperventilating.

" Daniel, we're still us. We just have these wings at the moment… and can't talk… and can communicate with thoughts " Sam said, trying to calm Daniel down, but realizing it was actually making things worse for the archaeologist.

" O'Neill, how do you feel." Teal'c asked. Daniel was still shocked but was walking.

" Well, I feel really light. Like I should be floating instead of walking." With that said, O'Neill began to float. "hey Carter, how do you get the gravity turned on with these things?"

"I don't know sir, maybe try to think hard about walking on the ground."

Jack did what Carter suggested and he was able to walk like normal.

" So what do you guys think Doc Fraiser is going to do when she sees us?"

They arrived at the gate. The wings were still present on their back and they dialled home, not knowing what everyone's reaction would be.