Meanwhile, in the holding cells, Vor'tesh had revealed the ribbon device and personal shield generator he had concealed with his enhanced mental abilities. Changing his voice to sound like Jack's, he had an idea of how to escape.
"Sergeant Mills, I need to see General Hammond." Vor'tesh said.
"No can do, Colonel, we've got strict orders to keep you locked up." Mills said.
"No, you don't understand. I've got Vor'tesh under control but I don't know how long for. I can't remove him, but I can tell the Tok'ra how." Vor'tesh said.
"I'm sorry sir, my orders are clear." Mills said.
"Fine then." Vor'tesh said. Using all off his mental strength behind the ribbon device, he blasted the wall and it collapsed on the guards. He stepped out and listened to the alarms blaring. Then he looked at the bodies of the SF's under the rubble. He changed his voice to his Goa'uld voice. "Have it your way."
Back in the briefing room, Hammond, Jacob, Sam, Daniel, Teal'c and Castleman were discussing Vor'tesh.
"We could talk to him and find out what he wants." Daniel suggested.
"Power, all Goa'uld crave it." Teal'c said.
"As long as he's securely locked up, he's no danger to anyone." Sam said. Suddenly the mountain shook and the alarms went off.
"What in God's name?" Hammond demanded.
"Vor'tesh!" Selmak said. Hammond went to the P.A.
"Medical team and security teams to the holding cells." Hammond said. The others ran to the holding cells and saw the damage Vor'tesh had done.
"Oh my god!" Sam said.
"He's escaped." Castleman said.
"He's headed for the gate room." Daniel said. Hammond joined them and saw the damage.
"Where is he going?" Hammond said.
"The gate room." Sam said as she, Daniel, Castleman, Jacob and Teal'c ran towards the gate room. Hammond went to another PA.
"Attention all units, this is General Hammond, I want all units to track down and stop Colonel O'Neill, but I want him alive. He must not be allowed to enter the gate room." Hammond said. The others followed where Vor'tesh had gone and saw the wave of destruction he left behind. Wounded and unconscious officers and damaged doors.
"At this rate, no-one can stop him. He'll be in the gate room in no time." Jacob said.
Inside the gate room, the SF's guarding the gate were on alert and armed with zats and P90's. They heard a fire fight right outside the gate room, then there was silence. Suddenly they heard the sound of buckling metal and then the door of the gate room was blasted off, with Vor'tesh behind it, his hand raised and a malicious grin on his face. The SF's opened fire, but all shots were deflected off the personal shield he had. He then knocked them back hard with the ribbon device, rendering them unconscious. He turned to the Stargate. Hammond got to the control room, just as Sam, Daniel, Jacob and Teal'c ran into the gate room.
"Close the iris!" Sam shouted. Vor'tesh hit them all with the ribbon device, and then he turned up to the control desk and used the ribbon device to bring down the blast doors, but not before the iris closed. Sam, Daniel, Jacob and Teal'c got up and Teal'c fired a zat, but it rebounded off the force shield.
"When will you learn?" Vor'tesh sniggered. He used an even harder force from the ribbon device and aimed it at the manual iris control panel and destroyed it, opening the iris.
"Vor'tesh, kree shok anor." Selmak said.
"You dare order me, Tok'ra! You will pay dearly for this insolence." Vor'tesh said.
"We cannot allow you to enter that Stargate." Teal'c said.
"Shol'va!" Vor'tesh spat. He hit them all with force harder then he had before, resulting Daniel, Teal'c and Jacob losing consciousness. Vor'tesh turned back to the Stargate and focussed all of his energy into the hand device and aimed it at the Stargate. Suddenly, the gate activated.
In the control room, the technicians were working as fast as they could to get control of the system back and to open the blast doors.
"I don't care what you have to do, as long as you get those doors open." Hammond ordered.
"Yes sir." Harriman said. Suddenly, they heard the iris open.
"Who opened that iris?" Hammond demanded.
"He did, sir. He activated the manual iris control in the gate room." Harriman said.
"Get me control of this system." Hammond ordered.
"He's locked the blast doors." Siler said. Then the Stargate activated.
"Where is he going?" Hammond said.
"I don't know sir; nothing's showing up on the dialling computer." Harriman said.
"Shut it down." Hammond said.
"I can't sir, not from here." Harriman said.
"Sergeant, so what you have to do, but shut down that gate." Hammond said.
"Aye sir." Siler said and then he ran out.
In the gate room, Vor'tesh was standing at the threshold of the Stargate. Sam managed to get up.
"Colonel!" She called. Vor'tesh turned to her.
"You never learn; there is nothing my host can do, so appealing to him will not stop me." Vor'tesh said.
"Jack, please don't do this." Sam pleaded.
"It may come as small consolation for you, but my host does feel deeply for you. But that will do you no good. However, if you come with me as my Queen, then I will spare you." Vor'tesh said.
"Jack, please." Sam said.
"Very well." Vor'tesh said and he used the ribbon device on Sam and sent her back into the wall. Vor'tesh opened the blast doors as Teal'c, Daniel and Jacob regained consciousness. Daniel went to Sam, who was dazed. They all saw Vor'tesh at the threshold. "Take this as a warning, when I return, I will show you the full extent of my power." Then he changed his voice to sound like Jack's. "Bye kids." Then he walked through the gate. It closed behind him.
"We're in trouble aren't we?" Daniel said.
"More than you know." Jacob said.
"Now we are facing our greatest enemy." Teal'c said.
"But how do we go up against an enemy who knows our strengths, weaknesses and security codes?" Daniel said. Sam just looked blankly at the gate.
Soon after, Hammond, Jacob, Sam, Daniel, Teal'c and Dr Frasier were in the briefing room.
"Would someone care to explain to me how he got those devices in there without our knowledge?" Hammond demanded.
"I'm drawing a blank." Daniel said.
"What I want to know is how he did so much damage with only a hand device?" Frasier said.
"His genetically enhanced mental abilities maybe able to account for this. It looks like he can use his mind to conceal small objects such as the ribbon device and the shield generator. As for the damage, he has remarkable control over the ribbon device, and his mind is more powerful than any Goa'uld I've ever encountered, including Anubis and Sokar." Selmak said.
"The question is; where will he go? What will his next move be?" Daniel said. Jacob took control.
"Chances are he'll want to establish power before he launches an attack of any scale, and the best way for him to get that power is to take it from another Goa'uld, probably the one with the most power who can give Vor'tesh the power he needs." Jacob said.
"The likely choice will be Ba'al. He commands 5 Goa'uld fleets and has 3 three fortresses to his name." Teal'c said.
"So what do we do? He has our access codes and the secrets of our most powerful allies." Sam said.
"We can easily change our access codes and up security around the Stargate. As for our allies, all they can hope for is advanced warning. Remember people, not only are we dealing with the Goa'uld, we are facing the knowledge and experience of Colonel O'Neill, and that is a dangerous thing in the wrong hands. I'm operating a shoot-to-kill order, meaning he is to be killed on sight, by whatever means necessary." Hammond said. Sam and the others looked horrified that Hammond could issue such an order.
"What!" Daniel exclaimed.
"With all due respect, General, if we could capture him and get him to the Asgard…" Sam started before Hammond cut her off.
"Major, if he comes back here and launches an assault on this base and our allies with Colonel O'Neill's knowledge, then its game over, for all of us." Hammond said sternly.
"What sort of time frame are we looking at?" Daniel asked.
"Maybe a week, once Ba'al realises who he is, then he'll personally go out of his way to make sure that Vor'tesh has what he wants." Jacob said.
"Then we had better get started on warning our allies. Dismissed." Hammond said. Everyone walked out.
"Hey Sam, are you ok?" Jacob asked.
"It's just so overwhelming; Colonel O'Neill is a Goa'uld. It's just hard to get my head around, you know?" Sam said.
"Yeah, listen, I'm going back to the Tok'ra and warn them of the situation, then I'll be right back and I'll be here to the end, no matter how it ends." Jacob said.
"Ok Dad." Sam said. Jacob hugged her, and then he followed Hammond. "No matter how it ends." She whispered. The Dr Frasier came to her.
"Do you want to talk about it?" Frasier asked.
"I don't think I can, Janet." Sam said.
"It's ok, but just so you know; I'm here if you need to talk." Frasier said. They were walking towards the infirmary. Sam looked around to see if anyone was around. The SF's and the others soldiers Vor'tesh had injured were in the infirmary being seen to by other nurses. Sam pulled Frasier into Frasier's office.
"We told each other how we felt last night." Sam said.
"Excuse me?" Frasier asked.
"As part of the marriage counselling, they had to observe us in a normal social setting, as a date. We were flirting and then the Goa'uld left. There was a fight and I got hurt. Colonel O'Neill took me to his house and I spent the night. I told him that I love him and he said it back." Sam said.
"Oh Sam." Frasier said. Tears were glistening in Sam's eyes.
"We slept together last night. Right before this happened, for a few hours, he was mine." Sam said. Tears began falling more freely. Frasier pulled her into a hug.
"Listen to me; I don't agree with the General's shoot to kill policy. I stand by your suggestion of bringing him back and removing the Goa'uld from him. I assure you, I'll do everything in my power to help him when we get him back." Frasier said.
"Thanks Janet. Oh…I'd better get back and help contacting our allies." Sam said. She walked out. Frasier went back to work. They were in for a rough time.