Author's Note: I'm sorry about the wait. I've been trying to submit this chapter since Tuesday, but kept getting an error message. Enjoy!

Disclaimer: I do NOT own Stargate. If I did Sam and Jack would be together, living happily ever after!

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SG-1 and Jacob stepped through the Stargate onto the planet designated P6X-467 into a lush forest.

"Are you sure this is the place?" Jack asked Jacob. "I mean, you'd think there'd at least be some Jaffa here to guard the gate."

"I'm sure," Jacob said solemnly. "Just look up." The members of SG-1 looked up to see innumerable black dots floating in the sky.

"Whoa, what are those?" asked Daniel.

"They're Goa'uld motherships," Jacob explained matter-of-factly.

"All of them?" Sam asked incredulously. "My God, there could be thousands!"

"Yeah," Jacob agreed.

"You know, this counts as a surprise," Jack told Jacob. "I think I've told you how I feel about Tok'ra surprises, haven't I?"

"Yes, you have, Jack," Jacob replied in exasperation. "I just forgot to mention it."

"You forgot to mention this!" Jack repeated incredulously. "Just like you forgot to mention the weapon was the entire planet!"

"I didn't know the weapon was the entire planet until Anise told us," Jacob responded. "I just overheard Herak telling Anubis that the weapon would be ready in —"

"Anubis is here!" Jack asked in outrage.

"Well, not anymore," Jacob explained. "He just stopped by. Herak is now temporarily in control."

"Thanks, I feel much better!" Jack said sarcastically.

"Sir, don't we have a mission here?" Sam interrupted. Jack turned around to look at her for a moment.

"Oh, right," he said as though just remembering this, "Okey, doeky. Move out,"

They had gone about a mile into the forest when Jack stopped.

"Sir?" Sam asked.

"Do we know where the rebel Jaffa camp is?" he asked turning to Daniel.

"Well, um….." Daniel began hesitantly.

"Daniel…" Jack pressed.

"Well, we never got a chance to ask Bra'tac since he had to go into surgery and Jacob has no clue, so…" he glanced up at Jack's stern stare, "no,"

Jack looked from Daniel, to Teal'c, to Jacob, to Carter as if hoping that one of them would know. When his eye met Sam's, he found he couldn't tear his gaze.

"Well, I was thinking that it can't be much further then a couple of miles because the area near the Stargate is the only inhabited part of the planet," Jacob began before realizing that Jack wasn't listening, but staring at Sam a little too intensely. "Ummm…..Jack!" he said loudly.

"Yeah?" Jack replied, turning sharply away from Sam.

"Did you listen to a word I said?" Jacob asked.

"Sure," Jack replied flippantly, "just not all of them."

Jacob gave him a disbelieving look before turning to Teal'c.

"Our top priority is to get your son Rya'c. If we can't get the rest of the Jaffa out, hopefully we'll at least have him," he said.

Teal'c bowed his head.

"I believe in free Jaffa; I hope that we are able to relocate all through the Stargate," he said.

"Hear, hear," Jack said. "Now let's keep moving; the deadline's twelve hours."

"Actually, now it's down to eleven hours and forty-five minutes," Sam pointed out, looking at her watch.

"Ah!" Jack interrupted. "Let's not think about that! Let's just keep walking." Sam shrugged.

"Alright, sir," she said.

They hiked through the heavy underbrush of the forest for the next ten minutes before they heard yelling, and people crying out in pain.

"I think we found it," Jack said, laying by a bush and taking the binoculars Sam passed to him.

As he took them, their hands brushed against each others and both felt the electricity, which caused Sam to quickly pull her hand away. Jack looked at her a moment, before turning back to spy on the labor camp.

Looking through the binoculars, he quickly spotted Rya'c and pointed him out to the others, who were on the ground beside him.

"Okay…so what's our plan?" Jack asked.

"Ummm….we rescue the Jaffa," Daniel suggested.

Jack gave him a look.

"Anyone want to go into more detail?" he asked.

"We should go in during nightfall," Jacob said. "It would probably be the best time to free all of them without being caught."

"What about the ever-impending time limit?" Daniel asked rather nervously.

"It should be dusk in only about a half an hour," Jacob replied. "That should give us plenty of time."

"Sir," Sam added, "if we all take positions around the camp, we would have a better view of what's going on."

Jack thought about it for a moment.

"Alright. Teal'c you go to the north side. Daniel and Jacob, east side and Carter, you'll stay with me. Keep in radio contact," Jack ordered.

"I take it we're hoping nothing will happen at the west side," Daniel said wryly.

"That's where the main entrance is," Jacob told him.

"Oh," Daniel said tersely as he picked up his gear as did Jacob and Teal'c. Teal'c bowed his head before leaving.

"See ya all in a while," Jack said as they departed.

Sam and Jack watched them as they disappeared into the shrubbery.

"Now what?" Sam asked.

"We wait," he replied.