"YOU CANNOT LEAVE!" A booming voice rang in the clearing where the 'Gate was.
Sam looked around, covering the ears of the small child in her arms. When she realized who was speaking, her skin went numb with fear. "It's Artemis."
Jack handed Thora to Daniel and turned around to face the angry Goa'uld who stood in front of a small band of Amazons. "Why not?" Jack asked in an agitated tone.
Artemis walked forward with an air of a queen. "Because the children are too important to our studies for you to leave," she said like it was a common sense question.
"To your what?" Sam yelled, horrified, adjusting her hold on Johnny.
"Our research," Aphrodite had just walked up to stand by her sister. "We knew that you would never allow us to study your offspring unless you were tricked into doing so. It is extremely important to our development of successful human cloning. Your children are needed here."
Jack was disgusted, "So, without even consulting us, you used our children as some insignificant tools to make your lives easier."
"Well, you don't have to make it sound like that! It's not like we were harming the children." Artemis responded agitatedly, "You know what they are now capable of."
"Bastards," Jack said. "First you use our children as research tools, and now you end sentences in prepositions!" He cried. "And I thought you were the more advanced race. What is the universe coming to?"
Daniel couldn't suppress a smile: even in the severity of the situation Jack still found himself looking for sarcastic things to say.
"Daniel," Jack snapped at the archeologist. Daniel's smile disappeared off his face. "Dial the 'Gate."
The young man handed Thora to her mother, who adjusted her hold on her son before accepting her; and proceeded to dial the DHD for Earth.
"Amazons, attack!" Artemis ordered without warning. The command was barely out of her mouth before all of the weapons the Amazon warriors held were in the air and just out of reach.
Sam looked on in awe and then remembered about the special abilities of her children that she had witnessed on several occasions. She looked down at the twins and saw that both had their arms outstretched as if they were reaching for the offending weapons.
Jack looked from the weapons to the children, and grinned – it would be very good to have his children on their side in the fight against the Goa'uld. If they could move all eight Amazon's weapons out of their reach now, just think of what they could do when they grew fully into all of their powers.