Chapter 10
A few days later, SG1 was sent to the second address on the list. When they stepped through the gate they were in a closed and dark room; they turned the lights attached to their P90s before moving. When Jack took two steps forth, he stepped on a line which causes the lights to turn on.
"Woah! that never happened before," he said, and they used the new-found light to look around the room.
"Jack, walk towards the gate," Daniel requested.
"Why Daniel?" He asked looking at his friend.
"Trust me."
"Ok," as he walked towards the gate, the lights turned off again. "That is weird."
"Now, walk towards me," Daniel asked. With a raised eyebrow, Jack moved towards him, and the lights went back on
"Daniel?"
"Jack, look behind you. On the floor." Teal'c and Ferretti walked over to them and looked down to see a blue gray line that was drawn on the floor.
"Jack, it reacts to you."
"Why me? I'm nothing special."
"I don't know. There's a circle over there, walk through it?"
"Why?" He squinted.
"Jack! Whoever built this place, must have built it for a reason!" Jack sighed but walked towards the circle. He took a deep breath before walking through it. There was noise in the back, and they all turned towards the sound only to notice something had appeared on the wall.
"It's getting stranger and stranger," Jack said. Teal'c walked over to it.
"Teal'c, I don't think you should get close to it," Jack warned.
"It will not harm me."
"I think he's right, Jack," Daniel said O'Neill, rolled his eyes.
"Ok! What do you see" Teal'c took a closer look at the device before leaning back and answering "Colored Lights."
"Is that all?" Jack asked taking a step closer to the device.
Teal'c stepped to the side nodding. And Jack took his cap off to take a look for himself. The device reacted to him and came out from the wall, grabbing his head to their utter shock.
"Jack!" Daniel yelled.
A few seconds later, in the same way, it had trapped him, the device released him. And Jack collapsed onto the ground. They moved forward quickly.
"Jack!" Daniel called noticing his eyes were open. "Ferretti! Help Teal'c with Jack; I'll dial the gate!" Daniel instructed as he ran over to the DHD and started pressing the buttons.
The others picked Jack up and carried him to the open wormhole. As they walked away, the lights went out.
"We need a medical team!" Daniel yelled out stepping out first. The medical team rushed in as the other three appeared on the ramp. They lowered Jack on the gurney, and Dr. Frasier checked his eyes shining her pen light into his eyes before they rushed out to the infirmary.
"Captain, what happened?" She asked over her shoulder.
"The Colonel step through a circle on the floor, and a device appeared. He approached it, and it grabbed his head for about a minute before it let him go. And we came back."
"Someone page Carter!" Hammond said.
"Don't! I'm going to tell her!" Daniel added.
"Very well." He agreed, and he walked up to his office. Sam entered the room at that point.
"Where's Jack?" she frowned when she only spotted three of the SG-1 members.
"In the infirmary, Sam," Daniel told her softly.
"What? What happened? Was he shot?"
"No, nothing like that. Come on, I'll explain you on the way."
Two hours later, Jack was sitting up in bed with Sam tightly held in his arms.
"Hey, Sam. Any ideas of why it picked me?"
"No," she shook her head against his chest. "But somehow that ship you found before and what happened now are connected to you."
"But why me?"
"I wish I know." She sighed and pulled back.
"What is it? What's wrong?"
"The letters, wasn't one with P3R- 272 on it?"
"And that's helpful why?" She rolled her eyes.
"That's the planet you came back from. I need to get home and read it!"
"No need," he stopped her. "General Hammond has it; I gave it to him this morning."
"Colonel, how are you feeling?" Hammond said entering the room.
"I'm okay. Uh, sir, the letter I gave you this morning?"
"I thought you would be asking for it," he said passing the envelope to Jack.
"Thanks," quickly he opened and read it out. "Well, it says here I'm changing somehow and that you need to let me do whatever I will do without interference."
"What?"
"Apparently, I'll be meeting important allies to Earth," he grinned despite the circumstances.
"Allies?" Sam frowned. "Does it say who they are?"
"No, we will encounter them again. It says Norsemen gods as if that helps." He shook his head.
"Daniel might know something about those Gods, sir," Sam offered.
"Ask him. Anything else, Colonel?"
"No, that's it." He finished passing him the letter.
"Alright, since we don't know what those changes might be, you can't leave this base, Colonel. Understood?"
"Yes, sir." They both said.
"I'll leave you two alone," after returning the letter to Jack, he walked out. Jack gave Sam the letter, and she sighed as she read it.
"Jack, if you need anything let me know."
"I will. Plus, we don't know how long before these changes start"
"True."
Over the next four days, Sam and his team created a schedule to keep an eye on Jack. Each night, Sam returned home to their kids, and each morning she was there to see him. Daniel was the first to notice Jack's change; he was using some words in Latin. And later, when Jack was in Sam's lab, he looked at her for a minute before standing up.
"Jack? What is it?" She asked
"Control room," he left out before walking out. With a frown, she followed him, until they reached the room. He stood there looking at the gate for a couple of minutes before looking down to the computers
"Jack?" She asked as he took a seat in front of a computer as if willing it to speak to him.
"Captain, should I page General Hammond?" the Sargent asked
"No, it's ok."
"Addresses," he muttered.
"Addresses?" she asked.
"Yes."
With the frown still on her face, Sam leaned closer to him and took control of the keyboard and mouse, and soon the gate addresses popped up. She stepped back, and Jack went through the list and stopped at PYX 384.
"Jack?" She called again.
"I can fix it."
"The ship?" she offered as he looked at her.
"Yes"
"I'll let general Hammond know."
"Not yet," he said grabbing her by the hand, before turning to the screen.
Then he took the key board, "Addresses," he said typing fast. With widened eyes, Sam watched him type ones and zeros.
"Captain, what's going on?" Hammond asked noticing them in the control room.
"I'm not sure yet, sir. He did say he can fix the ship."
"He can?"
"Apparently, yes, sir." Hammond frowned.
"What is he doing?"
"I don't know; he said addresses."
"Addresses to what?"
"I'm not sure, sir."
"Ah, Captain?" Sam turned to the Sargent who was looking at his monitor.
"Gate addresses?"
"What? Stop him!"
"Sir, you don't understand. He's adding new gate addresses." Sam said, and they watched as the list grew. Then he pushed his chair back, and the computers went off line.
"Rebooting," he looked at her. When the computers came back on line, Sam checked them and stood back.
"Holy Hannah! These addresses are different from the ones in the Abydos cartouche and the letter! Three thousand new ones had been added so far." She informed Hammond before turning to Jack. "Are you okay?"
"Come."
He stood up, grabbing her hand he pulled her out of the control room and down to where all the equipment was. He let go of her hand walking around and grabbing and passing different items to her and grabbing a few for himself. Once he was done, he nodded her to follow, and they returned to her lab.
"Laptop," he said lowering the things on her bench. "Thanks," he added when she gave him a spare laptop she had.
"Cake, please." He grinned.
"I'll be right back."
When Sam returned with a slice of cake and two coffees, she found him typing like crazy on the lap top. He stopped to look at her and nodded his thanks before grabbing the plate and coffee and returned to what he was doing before, stopping every now and then to eat and drink.
Ten minutes later, he stood up and gave her the laptop and started to move the pieces around on the bench. Leaving him be, Sam used the time to see what he was working on before. Her eyes widened when she saw the blueprints of a DHD and a strange looking device. She opened the blueprints on a 3D modeler and then, she took a second look at the table, where she found several pieces that looked like to what was laying on her table.
"What is this device you are building, Jack?"
"More power."
Hours later, Jack finished the device, and he started walking around her lab picking up different tools. Frowning when he didn't found what he was looking for her turned to Sam.
"Laptop."
"You want another one?"
"Yes"
"Ok"
Sam transferred all the data from the laptop Jack used before into five pen drives. She placed those away and turned off the laptop before giving it to him. He looked at her.
"Gear up, we need the ship."
"Ok," she said before running out to gear up and then to the control room. Sam ran out of the lab to gear up then she ran to find General Hammond.
"Sir," she panted.
"Captain? What's going on?"
"Jack, sir. He wants to go to PYX 384. He's going to fix the ship. He asked me to go with him"
"Why now?"
"I spoke to Dr. Frasier before coming; she says he doesn't have much time left. The knowledge has taken over ninety percent of his brain."
"Alright, get a GDO and go."
"Yes, sir." She said as they noticed Jack entering the gate room carrying a backpack. "I guess that's my queue."
"It seems like it. Good luck and Godspeed."
"Thank you, sir. Ah, when we return you will need to move the ramp out of the way."
"We will be waiting for your return."
"Yes, sir." She walked down, and Jack turned and observed her. "Are you okay?" she asked, he nodded and mumbled something, in Latin.
"God, I wish I knew what are you saying."
Jack held onto Sam's hand as they walked up the ramp. When they arrived at the other side, Sam looked around not knowing where to go.
"Do you know where is it?" Jack looked around, before nodding. Taking her hand, he started walking; he let go of her hand when he stopped in front of the ship. Placing his bag on the soil, he started removing the vines.
Sam helped him, and when it was mostly uncovered, he pushed the button to open the doors. Sam picked the backpack, and they entered the ship.
"Wow, this is amazing," she said placing the bag on the seat. He walked straight to it and took a couple of things out. Then, he started to work on the ship. "I've never seen anything like this before."
An hour later, he stood up. And walked to the main console and sat. Sam walked and sat next to him. He placed his hands on the circles in front of him, and the ship engine started.
"You did it, Jack!" She grinned.
The door closed and soon she noticed they were moving upwards and backward at the same time. She looked out the window when different things appeared on the screen. She didn't know what it said, but she knew Jack understood whatever it was. Soon they were hovering close to the Stargate, and he pushed different buttons that were on display.
The gate started spinning, and he muttered something. Sam frowned. She walked to the back and grabbed the previously discarded laptop and gave it to him. He nodded in thanks and typed.
"Tell Hammond to move the ramp," She read, the wormhole established then. She entered her GDO code and pressed okay before taking her radio.
"Stargate command, this is captain Carter. Please move the ramp; we are coming in."
"Captain Carter. You can proceed, the ramp is clear." Hammond answered.
"Copy that sir, Carter out."
On Earth, everyone was paying attention to the gate. And soon the ship started coming through when it was fully on Earth, the wormhole disengaged. Turning around the ship, Jack landed it, opened the door and turned it off. Before they walked out of the ship.
"Sir, this is the ship," Sam announced awkwardly. Hammond turned to Jack
"How are you doing, Colonel?" Jack shook his head, and walked to the ship and returned with the laptop.
"I'm almost out of time. I will take the ship up and park it on the surface cloaked. Then I need to go through the gate one last time." Sam read out loud as he typed.
"Go where?" Hammond asked.
"Allies." She read and looked at General Hammond with a lot of hope in her eyes. "They might be able to help him, sir."
"Alright, first the ship." Jack nodded and pulled Sam back on to the ship
"Captain? How are you going to get the ship out of here?" Hammond asked.
"The same way the gate came in, sir. Through the top."
General Hammond returned to the control room as Jack started the engines. The ship hovered over the floor and flew to the top of the room. The top opened, and he flew it out and parked it on the side.
"Ship's cloaked. This is the cloak and decloaks button," Sam read, when she raised her eyes, he pointed towards a button. "Got it. Let's go, Jack."
Jack felt around what they knew was the side of the ship and the door closed. They walked to the doors and nodded to the security personnel. Then, they walked to her lab, where he took the laptop out again.
"That's the gate address to where you need to go?" she asked as he showed her the symbols.
"We don't have enough power for locking the eight one." He nodded and picked the device he was working earlier.
"That's going to give us the extra power?" Jack nodded
"Ok, when do you want to" She started to ask but he had already written the answer.
"NOW!"
"You need to tell me how it works." She told him, and he typed.
"I'll do power you, do gate." She eyed him.
"I'll guess I'll go and dial the gate" she sighed. He grabbed her hand to stop her and cupped the side of her face softly.
"Just come back to me, will you?" She asked, and he kissed her softly.
He let her go and walked towards the door, she picked the laptop and ran out of her lab. He already left towards the power supply levels. She hurried up to the control room and seating on the computer she started to dial the address Jack gave her.
"Captain, we losing power!" The Sergeant said as the seventh chevron locked and the gate continued spinning. But then, the power supply settled.
"I'm getting an extra boost from somewhere."
"It's Jack…" she explained sadly. Then, the eight chevrons were locked, and the wormhole was formed. She ran down to the gate room as Jack entered it. He stopped at the bottom of the ramp and looked at her.
"I'm coming with you, Jack." She said reaching for his hand. He smiled.
General Hammond reached control room at that moment, in time to see them disappear on the blue before the wormhole disengaged.
"God speed," He said quietly.