A/N:Thank you to all who reviewed the last chapter, as always they were very much appreciated. Here is chapter 29 for your enjoyment. Please review, it helps me to know that a conclusion to this story is still wanted.

To all those in the States or from the States, I hope you had a happy and safe Independence Day.

Chapter 29

"Anything Sam?" Daniel asked as he walked into her lab. Hank had once again taken over the chair next to Kate's bed, right after one of the nurses had watched him eat breakfast, Janet was taking no chances with anyone else's health.

"Some of these sites are real possibilities for where Ba'al could be holding J the Colonel. Others are good sites for the Jaffa Rebellion to know of, if they can get anybody from Ba'al's armies to join," Sam began.

"It has been difficult to find any who serve Ba'al who are wiling to fight for their freedom. Ba'al has terrorized the Jaffa under his command into believing that if they rise against him he will only grow in power," Teal'c spoke up, the shadows of the lab had hidden him from view.

"Whoa! Sorry, didn't see you there Teal'c," Daniel exclaimed.

"It is all right Daniel Jackson."

"How many of the planets Hebron indicated have already been checked?" Daniel asked.

"Only three, but that includes the most promising of all the planets Hebron mentioned."

"Odd. Could, and this is only a possibility, and one I'm sure someone has already thought of, could he not be telling the whole truth?"

"Are you channeling the Colonel, Daniel? Or did you hit your head on something? Touch any weird artifacts lately?" Sam inquired though she was half-serious, she was smiling which both men considered good especially given the circumstances.

"I don't think so, not that I'm aware of, and not recently. But still, other than the fact that he doesn't have a snake in his head, who says he's not a bad guy? They could have turned him."

"Not likely. Becoming a Tok'ra is a serious commitment. One that no host makes lightly."

"Uh, Sam? You didn't have much of a choice, Jack did it…once…and hated it, and the Tok'ra never really let Hebron in, especially after they put Tanith in his head."

"Daniel, I know this. But Hebron wanted to be a Tok'ra, he hates the Gou'ald and still wants to fight them. Actually, now he wants to fight them even more, he's just not too happy with the Tok'ra."

"Wonder why? Anyway you said the most promising planet had already been checked?"

"Yeah PX-987. It was checked last Thursday by SG-9. There are, however, ruins on the surface, according to the report. Ancient ruins."

"Ancient, as in folks who built the Stargates or ancient as in really old?"

"Ancient as in part of the club that kicked you out," Sam grinned, "Which means I want another team to survey the planet."

"Because Ba'al could have figured out enough to be hiding in one of all the fun hidden chambers the Ancients loved so much. Or he could be working with Anubus that would give him the ability to adapt Ancient technology and use it to hide," Daniel thought out loud.

Sam leaned against her work table and stared around her lab. As her gaze shifted from object to object Daniel and Teal'c would have sworn, if asked, that they could hear the gears in her brain shifting and opening up to full throttle.

"What if it's simpler than that? What if we're over looking the obvious?" She asked, not actually expecting an answer.

"Like what MajorCarter?" Teal'c asked, hoping to help prompt her mind on.

"The Goa'uld have cloaking devices for their motherships and really all their ships. Nerriti was the only one with a personal cloaking device, but wouldn't the System Lords have confiscated that after the summit four years ago?"

"Most likely. They were pretty pissed that she hadn't told them about it," Daniel answered, sitting in Sam's desk chair and watching her mind begin to spin as it formulated a distinct possibility.

"So it's possible that Ba'al could use a cloaking device to shield a mothership or a base while on a planet. Which would mean that even a visual survey would never find anything," Sam continued.

"If the Tok'ra have a way to detect cloaking devices, we could borrow it and recheck PX-987."

"Yet I have never heard of a way to detect a ship when it is cloaked. Such a device would be priceless to any System Lord and especially to any minor Goa'uld," Teal'c somberly offered.

"True, but even if a specific device doesn't exist, it takes huge amounts of power to keep a cloaking device active, if we can detect that energy, it would give us a start," Sam answered. She knew this was more than a possibility, everything in her scientist, officer, and woman knew this was important. And she also knew that PX-987 was the place to look.

Daniel can you find where Dad and the other Tok'ra on base are? I'm going to need to talk with Selmak and one of their scientists," Sam said grabbing some reference books off her overcrowded bookshelf.

"Please not Anise," Daniel begged as he vacated her chair.

"Based on the security video Sgt. Davis shared with me it is unlikely Anise will be joining any meeting on base in the near future," Teal'c's eyes twinkled lightly, though only they knew it, Sam and Daniel knew the Jaffa warrior was pleased with Kate's actions. Of course, only they could see the twinkle in his eye.

"True, but she's more an archaeologist who plays with every artifact she finds. Sorry Daniel."

"No problem, Sam. So any scientist of theirs who's n base or can get here ASAP will do?"

"Definitely I want to have this idea be more than a possible theory when we go to the General," Sam answered distractedly, her brain already focused solely on making this theoretical device a reality, and on trying to access Jolinar's memories to see if it was already created. Daniel and Teal'c left the lab and went to round up the people Sam needed. They knew that even if this device wasn't real yet, it soon would be. After all, Sam had once built a particle beam accelerator to bring Jack home: she could do the impossible, they just had to keep her sprits up while her usual muse was a captive of evil.