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"How dare they keep me waiting!" grumbled Fear. "On the eve of my greatest victory!"

Googler, Lady Illusion and the Gould had already gone up to the ship. Lord Fear was waiting for the rat to return. He had kept Mark downstairs too, just in case the Gould tried to do a runner.

Mark was still in the crystal ball, unsuccessfully trying to smash his way out.

Rat flew back inside in a rush. "Boss!"

"Where are Anvil and Pigface?"

"Gone, boss. Ace Lightning's here. Along with a bunch of mortals."

"Yes!" said Mark.

"Quiet!" shouted Fear, finally getting really annoyed. The stupid mortal was spoiling everything. He shot a bolt of energy into the ball. It exploded, leaving Mark to fall to the ground unconscious.

"At least that shut him up," said Staff.

Lord Fear grabbed Mark and dragged him to where the rings were. Rat followed.

Suddenly the doors to the Haunted House burst open.

"Hold it there!" shouted Jack.

"How dare you speak to me like that, you puny mortal!" Fear growled.

"Right, now I can see how he gets along with a Gould."

Staff Head shot at Jack, causing the rest of Sg-1 to duck as they came in.

Jack shot back with his zat gun, narrowly missing Lord Fear.

"Mark!" said Ace. "Fear, what did you do to him?!"

"You should be more worried about what I'm going to do to him." His eyes narrowed. "But you're too late." He pressed a button on the wrist device the Gould had given him. The rings descended from the ceiling. Before they touched the floor Lord Fear fired a blast in their direction.

Everyone ducked as the energy slammed into the wall above their heads. When they looked back up the rings had disappeared into the ceiling.

"No!" growled Ace. It was the second time today! He walked over to where the rings had been. "How do these things work?" he demanded.

"We need a remote like what Lord Fear had," said Daniel. "Though I doubt they left one behind…"

"I'm flying up after him," said Sparx.

"You can't," said Sam. "That thing does have weapons. They'll shoot you down."

"Do you see a better way?"

"O'Neill," cut in Teal'c, grabbing the Colonel's attention.

Jack looked where Teal'c was pointing his staff weapon. Out of the shadows rolled a figure. A clanking metal claw swung by his side. Jack raised his weapon, recognizing Random Virus from Ace's description earlier in the briefing.

"What's going on? Where's Mark?"

"It's okay, Random. They're friends," said Ace.

"Mark's gone. Lord Fear was going to destroy him. I stopped him but now some… creature is going to take over his mind. I couldn't stop them."

"Look Random," said Ace, "they've got a ship up there. Do you think you can stop it or something?"

Random seemed to think for a moment. "Yeah, it's still there." He half smiled. "But it's not going anywhere now."

"How'd you know that?" Daniel asked.

"I can feel it," Random explained. "And I've got control of it, for now anyway."

"Great," said Sparx, "let's fly up and blast them!"

"Wait a second," cut in Sam. "You can control the ship from down here?"

"Yeah."

"What about those rings?"

"Yeah."

"Sir," she said to the Colonel, "if we use the rings we can get right in there."

"Ace?" asked Jack.

Ace shrugged. "I don't see another way."

"Great, everyone get under the rings."

"Back to back," suggested Ace. He turned to Random when he saw his friend wasn't following. "Come on, lightning knight. We're going to need your help."

"Maybe that's not such a good idea, Ace," sighed Random. "I could turn mid-battle on you all."

"You stopped Fear from destroying Mark. You've kept you good side in control this long, even though you were surrounded by evil. You can hang on long enough to help save him from this Gould thing, okay?"

"Guys, we gotta go," said Jack, realizing something was going on but also knowing they needed to hurry.

"Alright, I'm not going to let you down, Ace."

"The thought never entered my mind," Ace replied, slapping Random on the back. "Let's go."

"Come on, get this ship moving!" yelled Lord Fear, stepping away from the rings.

"What's the rush?" the Gould replied. He was sitting in the pilot's chair with his hands on what appeared to be a blue crystal ball, which in fact controlled the ship.

"Ace Lightning is here! I don't know how he got here! But he'll be after us to save his precious sidekick if we don't leave soon."

"He cannot get in," said the Gould, turning around in his chair. He saw Mark lying unconscious on the floor. "I hope you haven't damaged my host," he growled, eyes flashing.

"The mortal's fine. He's only unconscious. Believe me, it's better off like that. If he was awake he'd find some way to ruin my plans."

"He won't be able to in a few minutes. Bring the human up here. I want to keep an eye on him. Once we're underway – and he's awake – I will take him over. He'll be helping you before you know it."

"Excellent," said Fear. He dragged Mark to the front and dumped him on the floor.

"What I miss?" asked Mark, the jolt waking him up.

Lord Fear smiled. "Not much. The mortal is awake. Let's get moving."

The Gould seemed to wait a moment.

"Well?"

"My ship is not responding!"

"What?!"

"It is working perfectly, but it will not obey my commands!"

Suddenly the rings stacked up on the floor and in a flash of light Sg-1 and the lightning knights appeared in the cargo bay.

"It's Ace!" said the Rat. "And the mortals!"

"Sorry to barge in," said Ace and blasted Lord Fear.

Fear blocked with Staff Head and staggered backwards. Within seconds a full blown fight broke out.

Sg-1 started firing around, mostly with zats.

Teal'c tried to hit Googler with his staff weapon. Googler dodged the blasts and threw himself at Teal'c, who managed to block him with his staff, but was still thrown across the room.

The rest of Sg-1 quickly found some crates to hide behind.

Sparx flew up to the ceiling, effectively drawing most of Lady Illusion's fire.

"Curse you, Lightning!" yelled Fear

"Forget them!" said the Gould. "Your evils can handle them. I'm closing the doors to the bridge. We need to get this ship moving."

"I think I might have found the problem," said Fear. Random Virus had come up too. As the doors began to close Fear fired a blast of energy at the cyborg. His concentration broken, the ship shuddered violently.

Ace saw the doors closing. He made a dash for them but Lord Fear turned his blast onto him without even stopping.

"Third time not-so-lucky," he gloated as the doors shut. The indulgence cost him. He didn't see that Jack had ducked through until the Colonel fired his zat gun at him.

Jack dove down next to Mark. "You alright, kid?" he asked.

"Yeah… Colonel Jack O'Neill?"

"Spot on."

"But that's just a TV show! It's not…"

Jack just looked at him.

Mark sighed. "Never mind – story of my life."

"Well save it. And keep down."

Back in the cargo bay everyone else was still fighting. Carter fired a few zat blasts at Googler, all of which missed. She ducked as he bounced past.

"The ship's moving…" said Daniel.

"Random, have you still got control?" Sam asked.

"Of what?" Random didn't sound too good, despite that the only damage he'd taken was from Lord Fear.

Ace realized what was happening. "Random, just concentrate on controlling the ship."

"Don't listen to him," said the rat. "Look at them. They're all hiding behind boxes! How cowardly is that?"

Sam remembered what Ace had told them about Random, even as he seemed to withdraw into himself. His evil side was about to take over.

"Yes, I have control!" said the Gould. The ship rocked as it suddenly shot up into the sky.

Jack's shot aimed at Lord Fear went wide. Lord Fear fell over. Jack took advantage of the fact no one was shooting, stood up, and zatted the Gould.

The Gould fell to the floor. He turned around and raised his hand shakily, a hand device pointed at Jack.

Jack fired the zat again. The light in the Gould's eyes seemed to fade a second before the energy hit.

"I'll destroy all you cowards!" yelled Random, his eye flashing red.

"Holy Hannah!" exclaimed Sam. She rolled out of the way as Random's claw crashed into the crate she'd been hiding behind.

"Isn't Random Virus supposed to be your friend?" Teal'c asked Ace as he fired at Lady Illusion. She morphed out and reappeared elsewhere in the room, only to nearly get hit by Sparx on the lightning flash.

"He is my friend," Ace replied, then stood up and fired a blast of energy at Random.

"You will pay for this you pathetic mortal!" yelled Fear. He lifted Staff Head and fired at the Colonel, hitting him in the shoulder.

Jack dropped his zat and fell to the floor.

Mark tried to think of something to do but his thoughts were interrupted by a high pitched screech. He looked down on the floor. A snake-like creature stared up at him. It's frill opened and four fangs widened as it screeched again.

"Damn!" said Jack, seeing the parasite. It must have slithered out of its previous host just before Jack shot him. He made a grab for his zat.

"Oh, no you don't," said Fear. He fired at the spot on the floor, making Jack jump back. The zat however, was knocked towards Mark.

Mark grabbed it and was about to shoot the Gould when he saw that Lord Fear was about to finish off the Colonel.

"Say your prayers, mortal," said Staff.

Suddenly he and Lord Fear were knocked to the ground by a blast of energy.

The Gould flung itself at Mark – and then seemingly exploded, showering Mark in blood and guts.

Mark stared at the mess on his shirt.

"Damn snake," muttered Jack. He was sitting on the floor with his handgun drawn.

"Are you alright, Colonel?" asked Mark

"Yeah, just call me Jack."

"Ok, Jack. I'm Mark."

"Yeah, Ace's told me all about you. He was right too, you saved my ass back there."

"No problem. Wait, right about what?"

Suddenly the cargo bay doors opened. Lord Fear had set them off, desperate for backup.

"Quick, get down!" yelled Jack as a stray bolt of lightning blasted in.

Mark ducked down next to the pilot's chair.

"Lightning!" yelled Fear. "What do you think you're doing?" He shot a bolt of energy at him.

Ace ducked. "Saving the world, what else?"

"You won't stop me this time!"

"You are all cowards!" shouted Random. Lord Fear blasted him.

"What the hell?" said Jack. "This is just what we need."

Random growled, then seemed to struggle for a second. The ship shuddered violently, reacting to the battle of wills. It listed sharply, throwing everyone to the floor.

Lord Fear staggered up. "You may have won this battle, Lightning. But I doubt you'll be able to escape this death trap!" He grabbed his pieces of the amulet and snapped them together. A portal opened, just large enough for him and his evil gang to escape.

"You cowards!" growled Random.

As the evils left Lady Illusion flung a crystal ball next to Random Virus, causing everyone to duck and knocking the cyborg out.

The portal closed down.

A second later the ship lurched again and began to drop.

"Um, who's driving?!" asked Daniel frantically.

Mark looked around. No one was anywhere near him. "I guess that's me…" He slapped his hands onto the blue orb and felt every control on the ship knife into his brain. He shut his eyes and tried to find the steering. Suddenly it was almost like he could see the controls in his mind. He opened his eyes again and willed the ship to pull up. It reacted roughly. Mark smiled. "Just like a video game." He hoped he could figure out how to play this one before they ran into the ground.

The ship broke through the heavy cloud layer. The sixth dimension was extremely stormy and bolts of lightning struck the ship, making it harder for Mark to steer. He could feel the ship responding but still couldn't get it to slow down, which would have been helpful.

"Everyone hang on!" shouted Jack. He didn't bother to try and help Mark. Even if he could've gotten to him the kid was doing a better job than he could.

Mark looked out the front window and saw the ground rearing up. He still couldn't seem to slow down and instead pulled the ship up even more sharply. It groaned and shuddered in protest. Then suddenly the ship screeched to a grinding halt, slewing through the air and bumped into the ground with a mild thud.

"Nice going, kid," said Ace. "Are you alright?"

"Yeah, now that you're here."

"You left the brakes a little late," commented Jack.

"Actually I don't think I did that."

"Sorry, that was me," said Random, rolling in.

Jack, Teal'c and Sam turned their weapons on him.

"It's okay, my good side's in control… for now."

The weapons went back down.

"Well, what are you apologizing for?" said Sam. "You just saved us."

"Actually Mark saved you. I only woke up at the last minute. If he hadn't had that much control over the ship I couldn't have stopped it."

"Um, Mark," said Sparx, "I think there's something on your shirt."

"Oh… yeah," said Mark, looking down in disgust. "That's what's left of the Gould, thanks to Jack."

"Well let's get back then," said Jack. "That thing's better off dismembered all over you then in your head, but I'm guessing you'll want a change of clothes."

"Um, yeah, thanks. I think."

Everyone headed out the back of the ship and towards the stargate. Luckily they hadn't landed too far away. Daniel dialed the DHD and the gate opened. They all stepped up and walked through, Mark stopping to poke the event horizon, before he plunged in. The gate room materialized. It wasn't exactly familiar but it was definitely not the sixth dimension. Mark finally relaxed.

"Sam, are you sure this is food?" asked Sparx, poking the green substance. She was sitting in the commissary with Sam and Teal'c.

"Yeah, try it, it's yum," replied Sam her mouth full of jelly.

Sparx finally did, then wolfed down the rest of her cup.

"Told ya," mumbled Sam through more jelly.

Sparx ran off to get some more, nearly knocking Mark and Daniel down as the came back with some real food.

"Sam, what did you feed her?" asked Daniel.

Sam just looked up, her mouth too full to answer.

Daniel rolled his eyes and sat down.

"Finally," said Mark, "I haven't eaten since this morning." He'd changed his shirt and was now wearing a slightly oversized air force jacket. "I don't believe this. I'm in a military base. The food's better then the stuff in our cafeteria."

"I'll say," said Sparx, coming back with three more jelly cups. Sam took one. "Hey, nice jacket. Really makes you look like a superhero."

Mark glared at her. "Are you sure you should be eating those?"

Sparx just grinned at him. "Just 'cause you can't have any 'til you've finished your dinner."

"Dinner…" said Mark. "I should be at home having dinner. Not here. My parents are going to kill me! They probably know I haven't been at school. I'm guessing you guys are gonna make me sign an official secrets act or something. What am I supposed to tell them?"

"You don't need to worry about that," said Daniel. "This place needs to be kept secret. We'll cover for you. And technically we can't make you sign anything, but it's probably not a good idea to try to tell anyone."

"Yeah, I understand. Thanks."

"By the way," continued Daniel, "does anyone know where everybody else has disappeared to?"

"I have not seen O'Neill and the other lightning knights since we returned," said Teal'c.

Ace and Jack were on their way to the commissary.

"I still don't fell right about leaving Random alone," said Ace.

"General Hammond just doesn't want him going nuts," explained Jack. "Aside from killing everyone there's a lot of mechanical stuff I bet he'd mess up.

Random Virus had been locked up in a shielded room as soon as he arrived. He'd actually suggested it himself.

"He's not going to anyway," said Ace.

"I saw what he's like in the sixth dimension, Ace. We can't take the risk."

"I know. But he's a lightning knight. His good sides got to come out on top."

"I'll take your word for that," said Jack sincerely.

"That's a turn around. You didn't trust me about Mark."

"Yeah, well, I was wrong. You know what? That Gould was going to take him and he could've shot it. But he shot Lord Fear instead so he wouldn't kill me. Left himself open. Luckily I got the snake but he couldn't know I'd do that. Then he goes and flys that ship. You know how hard that is? You're real lucky he's on your side."

"You didn't need to tell me that," Ace smiled.

"So," continued Jack, changing the subject, "has Mark ever told you about fishing…"