Disclaimer: I do NOT own Stargate. If I did Sam and Jack would be together, living happily ever after!
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"You know," Jack said, reaching toward Herak's armor, "you've got something on your —" Before he could finish, he was hit with the butt of a staff weapon and knocked onto the ground, where he found several staffs pointed at him.
"Okay, this is not good," he said dryly. Teal'c, meanwhile, stepped forward towards Herak.
"Herak, hear me," he said. "Anubis is a false god. You can join the Jaffa rebellion and be free."
"I am First Prime of Anubis," Herak said firmly. "I have no desire to abandon my powerful position at Anubis' side."
"I know that, as First Prime, you are just as much a slave as any other Jaffa serving the Goa'uld," said Teal'c. "You are not powerful, Herak, you merely carry out your master's orders. Join us and together we can free our brothers and sisters from the oppression of the Goa'uld."
"Lord Anubis is a god," Herak stated.
"He is not," Teal'c told him. "He is a parasite inside a human body."
"An Ascended human body," Daniel added.
"A parasite inside an Ascended human body," Teal'c corrected.
"Well, half-Ascended," Daniel quickly interjected, "and he may not have had a human host when he was alive."
"The point is he's not a god," Jack finished triumphantly.
"Enough!" Herak shouted. "Anubis is a god and I will not abandon him as you abandoned your god, shol'va."
"Then I guess we'll just have to kill you," Jack said and, with that, he grabbed his gun, which was lying on the ground nearby, and fired it several times at Herak. Jack was hit with a staff blast as a battle erupted between Anubis' Jaffa and the rebel Jaffa.
"Colonel!" Sam yelled, running towards Jack, who appeared to be severely injured.
Since Anubis' Jaffa had staffs and zats, the "battle" was very one-sided and it was only a matter of time before they scored an overwhelming victory. Teal'c, Jacob and an unconscious Daniel were captured and brought up to Anubis' ship with the ring transporter. Sam, however, had managed to pull the injured Jack into some nearby undergrowth..
"Sir, are you all right?" she asked him.
"Well, that's a rhetorical question if there ever was one," Jack quipped in response.
"We have to go far away from here or Anubis' Jaffa will eventually find us," Sam told him matter-of-factly. "Can you walk?"
"Do I look like I can walk, Carter?" he asked her sardonically.
"No sir," Sam answered and Jack gave her a look at the mention of 'sir'.
"Help me up, will ya?" Jack asked and Sam slowly helped him up from the ground.
Jack grimaced and gave out a small moan of pain as he placed an arm around Sam's shoulder and she helped him through the dense forest that surrounded them.
"Got any weapons?" he asked as they continued their journey.
"Two guns and a zat," Sam replied.
"You think you can manage to get the gate up and working?" he asked, closing his eyes in pain.
"Not without a naquadah generator sir," Sam said gravely.
When Sam thought they had gotten far enough away for the moment, she helped Jack sit down against a large tree and began to examine the extent of his injuries. He had a few nasty gashes on his shoulder and leg, and one large gaping wound on his side. Sam bit her lip and went to work bandaging them.
"That's the best I can do sir," Sam said when she was through.
"Can you just…drop the 'sirs' Carter?" he asked squinting his eyes against the pain, "please," he added.
Sam was silent a minute and Jack was sure she was going to refuse again.
"Come on," she said at last, " we don't want Anubis's army to find us, do we Jack?"
Jack smiled a pained, but genuine smile, and allowed Sam to help him up.
Daniel awoke to find himself resting in a dark cell, which was undoubtedly aboard Anubis' ship. He laid his head back down in despair. They had failed and now all the Jaffa on P6X-467 were going to disappear in one big nuclear explosion. And what was going to happen to him? "Death would be a pleasant fate compared to what awaits you aboard Anubis' vessel," Herak had said. That didn't sound particularly encouraging.
Daniel didn't have much time to ponder what this fate might be, because, at the next moment, his cell door opened and Herak walked in with two other Jaffa guards.
"I thought Jack shot you," Daniel said vaguely. He wasn't thinking straight.
"Anubis revived me with the sarcophagus," Herak explained. "How could he not be a god if he can revive the dead?" Daniel was too overwhelmed to answer.
"Although O'Neill and the woman you call Carter have thus far eluded capture," Herak continued, "they only condemn themselves to death."
"I thought you said death would be a pleasant fate compared to, uh, what you'll do to us," Daniel said. "Then wouldn't that make it better for them?"
"Perhaps," Herak agreed. "However…they will be destroyed by your weapon."
"What?" Daniel asked in surprise. "Y-you know about that and you're not going to stop it? What about your weapon?"
"The planet is not weapon," Herak said smugly. "The weapon will be provided by the Tok'ra."
"What are you talking about?" Daniel asked incredulously.
"Anubis gave the Tok'ra the lie that this planet was a superweapon so that they would destroy it for them," Herak explained. "The motherships you saw orbiting the planet are, in fact, the combined forces of the System Lords. Anubis has called a summit for the System Lords and they have left their fleets orbiting this planet. With the naquadah in the Stargate, the explosion will annilihate the entire planet and all the ships orbittting it. Ironic, isn't it? That the Tok'ra, using a weapon of the Tau'ri, will finally solidify Anubis's rightful position as supreme ruler of this galaxy." Daniel was too shocked to say anything for a moment.
"So, why are you telling me this?" he asked eventually.
"To take away your hope," Herak replied, smiling evilly.
