The time was going slowly. Teal'c still didn't wake up. As her usual babysitting team was MIA (Jack, Sam, Daniel) or otherwise unavailable (Teal'c) Barbara had reported every day to the medical wing to Dr. Fraiser. Several hours later the good doctor usually chased the girl out, forcing her to find something else to do. And after Barbara had finished translating all the documents Jackson has left her it was a struggle.
It has been a week since Teal'c was brought back to the base. And almost a week without any attempts to get back home.
My phone! Where did I put it?
Carter had returned her phone relatively quickly but had borrowed it several times to try and see if she could find anything without damaging the device. For now, there was nothing that she had detected using her sophisticated technology: no weird magnetic fields, no radiation, no nothing. Zilch. She had done every single test she could think about without bringing damage to the device.
Barbara knew where the device was in Carter's lab and had made her way towards the device expecting the device to be shut down due to low battery (it has been a while since the last recharge. And there was no C-USB technology, yet.)
Well, the device was still on. And it had full charge. And it had internet connection. IT HAD INTERNET! Barbara quickly scurried away with her phone towards the room she was given. She had some digging to do.
Good news and bad news.
Good news. Not only the phone was not losing any of its charge, but it had also maintained its internet connection and some of the apps worked! Namely, the Browser.
Bad news. She now had an item that will be highly sought after by everyone and their grandma. And not only because it was a device with seemingly unlimited power. It had access to her time internet. Information.
Good news. She now could help the team and as much as she could try and provide the information for all SG Command Center.
Bad news. She really didn't know how providing the information will affect the unfolding of the events.
Gently putting the phone on the floor, she flopped on the bed letting the mattress bounce her a bit. She covered her eyes with a forearm. And no one was in the room to see a small wet trail on her cheek.
It has become a common sight to see Barbara in the Mess Hall. The girl occupied one of the corner tables, sitting cross-legged on a chair in, folded over some kind of rectangular device while her translation device was balanced precariously on her knee, her gaze constantly switching between the two. And a dozen of coffee mugs on the table in front of her.
Barbara managed to find some old instructions for her translation device and was using her uncontrolled internet access to gain more information.
She still couldn't find the planet on which SG-3 would find information about location of SG-1. To see if maybe it was shown on the episode Barbara quickly loaded the website to stream the episode from but while she could access the site, she could not access these series in particular. Or any of the other series in the same universe. No SG - Atlantis, no SG - Universe. Only the transcripts and character information.
Damn it!
The first thing Teal'c saw when he woke up is Dr. Fraiser standing over him with General Hammond by her side. The first thing he does is to sit up. The first thing he hears are small snores coming from somewhere around his legs.
"It's okay, it's okay. You're in the SGC Teal'c," Dr. Fraiser tries to calm down her patient.
"Where are the rest of SG-1? Teal'c asks as he holds at his side with one hand, while the other reaches down to pet Barbara's hair.
"Barbara had filled in what she could," answered him General Hammond. "She believes that the team was kidnapped by Hathor. And we believe that we may have soon have a lead. The Tok'ra should be passing us information."
"General Hammond, I will not remain idle while my friends may be in danger on this planet," Teal'c had managed to evacuate his bed without waking the reality-traveler.
"Teal'c, you've been unconscious for three weeks," Dr. Fraiser tried to stop the Jaffa.
"That is not possible. My symbiote would have awakened me long before the period of three weeks," Teal'c replied in disbelief.
"You were barely alive Teal'c, with substantial internal injury."
"Dr Fraiser spent most of the three weeks at your side. I'm convinced it was her refusal to give up that kept you alive," confirmed General Hammond.
"I am in your debt Dr Fraiser. General Hammond, permit me to return to this planet to search out my friends. If their bodies were not found by my side then they are prisoners," requested Teal'c. He had finally spotted some clothes. "I am grateful that Barbara has provided us with information, but I must try and find them."
"Did someone say Barbara?" The reality traveler in question woke up, stretching the kinks out of her back. Dr. Fraiser sent a reproachful look at the males. The girl was sleeping less and less and it was seen by the big eyebags she now had.
"No, please, go back to sleep," muttered Dr. Fraiser.
"Wait a sec, I had some new information prepared somewhere here," Barbara patted herself down as she was searching for a small USB she had stashed in one of her pockets. As soon as she found it, she motioned inserting it into a PC. Dr. Fraiser waved her hand towards a computer stand that was nearby and the whole group surrounded the girl as she opened a prepared document. "Look, I want to get SG-1 back as soon as possible. Especially considering O'Neill will have to fight off a Goa'uld larva. The Tok'ra will help him with it, but... Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition."
(And if they knew what Barbara had said Hammond would have told Barbara that nobody was going to give her the ammunition just yet, while Teal'c would have told her that he shall praise no Lords.)
Jack had woken Sam and Daniel from their post-cryo-freeze-drug-induced sleep. They enter the fake Gateroom after successful evasion of the Jaffa warriors in the corridors of the fake SGC.
"I've never seen this place so deserted," Daniel commented looking around the room.
"Guess they figure they don't need to keep up the act if we're unconscious," murmured Carter joining Jack on the ramp.
"It's fake," O'neill confirmed after kicking experimentally the Gate.
"I don't understand. Who would have spent enough time in the base to be able to reproduce it in this kind of detail? You don't think Apophis…" Daniel went to explore some of the lockers but found them empty.
"Silence!"
A sudden air disturbance on top of the ramp interrupted whatever Daniel was going to say and before the team stands Hathor, in all her glory. She regally stepped down the ramp, her goal – her Beloved, Daniel.
"We have indeed missed you, our beloved," the fake Goddess gently stroked Daniel's cheek.
The four of them are not alone for long in the fake Gateroom as they are joined by Raully and Trofsky and the rest of the Jaffa.
"Daniel, don't let her breathe on you," Carter shouted from her position next to O'Neill on the ramp.
"You think that we would go to these lengths if you were not already immune to that organism?" Hathor left Daniel and saunters around her Jaffa guards. Daniel didn't lose any time to join his teammates on the ramp.
"Do you like our guards? We managed to lure them from the remote outposts of our enemies. We are quietly building our forces before the System Lords even know that we are alive. But doing so is difficult when we have to operate with limited knowledge of the state of the empire," the Goa'uld stopped next to one of her Guards, draping herself over his shoulders.
"Let me take a guess, it's just a wild guess, but that's where we come in, right?" O'neill raised his hand to ask his question, while Carter next to him has an epiphany.
"We know more than you do!"
"Perhaps. We are prepared to offer you a life of luxury as servants in our royal court, for sharing information. Deny us…and you will not enjoy the alternative," Hathor walked back up the ramp to stand before O'Neill, waiting for an answer.
"You know…you really should do something about the breath," the man just couldn't keep his tongue still.
"How do we contact the Asgard so that we might align with their forces?"
"Try Roswell, little place in New Mexico."
"What is the sequence of numbers necessary to open the barricade protecting your Stargate?" continued Hathor, now asking Carter. When Captain didn't provide an answer, she moved towards Daniel.
"My dear Beloved, tell us about that girl who knows too much and came from far away," asked the Goa'uld teasing the archeologist. "The one you have become so fond of. Barbara, I believe?"
The team shifted slightly, Daniel nervously swallowed, not giving any answer. If the Goa'uld knew about Barbara, they had to destroy any information they had stored about her.
"If you will not give us the information that we desire, we do have another means of retrieving it," Hathor snapped her fingers and not a minute later a Jaffa entered the Gateroom, coming to a stop next to her. The fake Goddess reached into the Jaffa's pouch pulling out a squirming adult Goa'uld. She held it up so that SG-1 could see it.
"Our friend here is ready for a host. Tell us, which one of you shall it be?"