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Stargate: SVU

Chapter Ten

"Get her out of there!" Olivia cried. She watched in horror as a still-sleeping Casey Novak struggled to breathe in the narrow confines of the smoke-filled stasis tube.

"The controls won't respond," Sam said, examining the panel on the wall next to where Casey fought to stay alive. "The damage from the staff weapon must have fried the circuits."

"So what'll we do?" O'Neill asked her.

"Break the glass!" Olivia frantically told them.

Sam just nodded in agreement. "No other way, sir…otherwise, she'll suffocate."

Olivia backed off as O'Neill brought up the butt of his P90 to smash against the glass--but he stopped when Teal'c urgently called his name.

Teal'c came up to the stasis tube, his staff weapon firmly gripped in both hands. Teal'c smashed a portion of the glass with the butt-end of his staff weapon. He was careful to only smash the section of the glass that was over Casey's torso, which kept any shards away from her face. When he cleared out a large enough hole in the glass, Teal'c gave his staff weapon to O'Neill to hold. Teal'c then reached into the smoky stasis tube and carefully pulled the prone Casey out in his arms.

"Just put her down here," Janet told Teal'c, "on the floor."

Teal'c placed the still coughing Casey on the floor, where Janet grabbed her wrist and checked her pulse. Olivia bent down on the other side of Casey and took her free hand in her own. "Casey? You all right, hon?"

Casey opened her eyes for the first time just then. She stared incredulously at Olivia as she struggled to say something--yet was racked with a series of coughs instead. Casey must have been spending a quiet night at home when Neith's Jaffa abducted her, for she was barefoot, wearing a pair of casually worn jeans with a softball jersey that read 'sex crimes' across the front.

"L-Liv?" Casey croaked, in-between coughs.

"No, don't try to talk just yet," Janet told her, as she helped Casey to sit up. She handed Casey her canteen of water. "Here, drink some of this."

Casey gladly accepted the water and greedily drank some down. While she did this, Janet quickly checked her pupil dilation with a flashlight.

"How do you feel?" Olivia asked.

"O-Ok, I-I think," Casey replied, her voice sounding somewhat normal. She gave Olivia a puzzled frown. "Uh, why are you dressed in that get up? You working undercover in a sex fetish place again? As what--a genie this time?"

Olivia couldn't help but burst into a broad smile. She glanced at Janet and said, "Yeah, she's fine…."

Fraiser just gave Olivia a bemused look. "You sound like you've got a really interesting job, Liv!"

Olivia shrugged easily. "It's a living…."

As Casey glanced all around her, she became even more alarmed. "Olivia, what the hell is going on? I-I'm not in my apartment anymore, am I?"

"No, you're not, Casey," Olivia said gently. "Um, I guess it's safe to say that you're not in Kansas, anymore, Dorothy."

"Thank you," Casey said, as she gratefully accepted Janet's help in standing up.

"You're welcome," Janet said. "How are you feeling, Casey? Any dizziness?"

"I've got a scratchy throat," Casey replied, touching her neck. "But that's it."

"Probably just from the smoke," Janet assured her. She nodded at Olivia and then at O'Neill. "She's going to be fine."

Casey stared in puzzlement at all of the heavily armed people who surrounded her and said, "Olivia, why's the Army here?"

"Actually, ma'am, we're not Army," Colonel Drumlin cheerfully said. "We're the United States Marine Corps."

"Speak for yourself!" O'Neill angrily told him. Turning to Casey, he said, "I'm Colonel Jack O'Neill, United States Air Force." Gesturing to Janet, he added, "That's Major Janet Fraiser, she's a doctor. Over here is Major Samantha Carter; they're also U.S. Air Force--"

"I guess we're, uh, telling her everything too, huh, Jack?" Daniel asked, looking uncomfortable.

"Yes, Daniel, we're telling her everything," O'Neill replied, shaking his head. Turning to Casey, he continued with the introductions: "The big guy who pulled you out of the tube is Teal'c. And this really annoying guy right here is Dr. Daniel Jackson."

"Hey!" Daniel said, now looking annoyed.

"Gene, we've got people upstairs in the mothership," O'Neill said to Drumlin, ignoring Daniel. "They're Kelori, native to the planet, and they're holding the slave quarters. We need to extract them, ASAP."

"Any fast way of getting up to them?" Drumlin asked.

O'Neill nodded. "The rings."

Drumlin's eyes narrowed in distaste. "I'm not crazy about using the rings. The idea of materializing in front of enemy troops isn't a happy one for me."

"The ring transporter is the only way up and down from the ship, sir," Sam told him. "The complex is cut off from the ship, otherwise."

"If you're afraid, Gene, my people and I can go first," O'Neill teased. "As usual, SG-1 will lead the way…."

"Oh, please…." Drumlin muttered with disgust. "Just show me where the rings are located, Jack."

"Wait a minute," Casey cried, as she clutched Olivia's arm. "What the hell is going on, here, Liv?! What happened?! Where are we?!"

Olivia gently grabbed her friend by the shoulders and said, "You and I have been abducted by aliens who are under the rule of another alien who's pretending to be an ancient Egyptian goddess named Neith."

"Um, actually, she really is Neith," Daniel corrected. "I mean, technically speaking, she was worshipped as the Goddess Of All back in the First Dynasty."

"Got it," Olivia replied with a nod. She glanced back at Casey and said, "You and I have been kidnapped by Neith, the actual Egyptian goddess of warfare, and of the hunt. And right now, sweetie, we're on another planet, and these wonderful people--both SG-1 and the Marines--have come to rescue us. Ok?"

"Oh, yeah, sure!" Casey started laughing uproariously--until a glance at all the serious and deadpan faces that stared back at her quickly quieted her laughter.

"Oh my God," Casey said quietly to Olivia, "you're really serious, aren't you?"

"I'm afraid so, honey," she said with a sheepish look.

"Liv," O'Neill prompted, "we have to get going."

"Right." Olivia took the frightened Casey's hand firmly in her own and said, "No matter what happens, just stay by me, all right?"

"And the both of you stay with us," O'Neill said, gesturing at himself and the rest of SG-1. "At all times."

As she and Olivia went with SG-1 and the Marines down the corridor, Casey nervously gazed at the slumbering people all around her "Who are all these people in the walls?"

"They've been abducted, just like us," Olivia told her.

"For experiments?"

"No. By abducting them from earth, Neith is trying to start an interstellar war."

"Between the aliens?" Casey asked, looking amazed.

Olivia nodded. "Yeah, pretty much. Earth is protected from alien invasion by another group of aliens known as the Asgard."

Casey, looking dumbfounded, grew silent as they arrived at the junction where the ring transporter was located. Both O'Neill and Drumlin decided it would be best to send up a smaller scout party, first. Several Marines under the command of Major Lyman took up transport position in the center of the ring platform. Teal'c joined them.

Olivia admired how calmly Casey was taking all of this in. "You're really getting the hang of this whole situation, Case."

"No, I'm not!" Casey said, sounding irritated. "I still don't get any of this at all, Liv. I'm still not completely convinced that any of this is real. I keep hoping I'm going to wake up at any minute."

"Well, what you're going to see now is probably going to freak you out," Olivia muttered, as the ring transporter flashed to life.

Casey let out a startled yelp as the rings rose up from the floor, surrounding Teal'c and the Marines. Then they all evaporated into a white light that shot upwards, along with the rings themselves.

"What happened to them?" Casey hysterically cried. "Did they just die?!"

"They were transported," Olivia assured her. "You know, like on Star Trek?"

"No, I don't know…." Casey ran over to the wall and knelt down in despair. "I just want to go home!"

"These people are taking us home, Casey," Olivia told her.

But when Janet and Sam also came over to offer support, Casey fearfully cowered from them. "I don't know any of these people," she whispered. "And I don't trust them, Liv."

"But you know me, don't you?" Olivia asked.

"Of course," Casey said.

"Then trust me, Case," Olivia told her. She held her hand out to Casey. "Just keep it together--like I know you can--and come with me. C'mon."

Casey took her hand and allowed Olivia to lead her over to the ring transporter, where she watched another group of Marines "ring" up to the Mothership. "Are we going on this thing?" Casey nervously asked.

"Yes, and it's perfectly safe," Olivia assured her. "I went on it before. Right, Sam?"

"Yep," Sam confidently replied. "And I've been on it countless times."

"Let's all go up together," O'Neill suggested. "Liandra, you come too."

"Sounds good to me, sir," Sam replied.

Daniel nodded. "I'm game."

"Great idea," Janet said as she stepped onto the platform with them. "Colonel, Daniel, I didn't have a chance to say this before: it's good to see you're all right."

"Thanks, Fraiser," O'Neill said. "Is Cassie worried about us?"

"She's a nervous wreck, sir," Janet replied with a smile.

"Um, is it ok for us to hold hands during the transport?" Olivia asked Sam.

Sam nodded. "Go ahead. It won't adversely affect anything."

"Oh God…." Casey moaned, as the set of rings surrounded them. She gripped Olivia's hand so tightly that it hurt.

"Hey, close your eyes," Olivia told her. "I'll tell you when it's over."

Just as Casey shut her eyes, the transporter kicked in, and everything disappeared in a blinding white glow.

Before Olivia realized it, her vision returned back to normal as the set of rings dropped into the floor around them. They were now back aboard the mothership. Teal'c stood with Sartor, Marten and a few of the Marines. Once the group materialized on the platform, Teal'c bowed his head at them in greeting.

"When's it gonna start?" Casey anxiously asked, her eyes still closed and hands tightly clutching Olivia's own.

"It's done," Olivia told her. "You can relax now."

Casey opened her eyes and glanced around them in shock.

"C'mon," Olivia told Casey, with a gentle tug on her shoulder, "we need to get off the platform so the others can come up."

"Only your second time on this thing and already you're a pro, Liv," O'Neill told her with admiration. When he saw Teal'c, he said, "What's the word, T?"

"Marten and the other Kelori warriors have engaged the Jaffa in combat," Teal'c reported. "Although they suffered losses, the Kelori were victorious, and we now control this entire deck."

"Way to go, kids!" O'Neill said to Sartor and Marten, shaking their hands. holding out his hand. "Outstanding!"

Marten grinned broadly as he shook O'Neill's hand. "Thank you, O'Neill."

Yet Sartor looked worried. "I do not know how long we can hold this ground."

"Yeah, I can't imagine Neith letting something like this stand for long," Daniel said.

"Which is why we've got to work fast," O'Neill said. "Sartor, we need to get all of the captured Kelori down to the base via the ring transporter. You think you can start gathering the women and children from the slave quarters? We'll send them down, first."

Sartor nodded. "Very well."

"I shall aid you," Liandra told him, as they both headed for the slave quarters.

O'Neill contacted Drumlin on the radio to coordinate the evacuation, while Sam led Janet to the slave quarters so she could see to the needs of the sick and injured. Teal'c came over to Olivia and Casey. He nodded, with a slight smile on his face, and said, "It is good to see you are well, Casey Novak."

"Thank you," Casey said with a shy smile--although she never let go of Olivia's hand. She stared thoughtfully at the tattoo on his forehead and asked, "Is that a gang tat?"

"It is a symbol of my former service as First Prime to the false god Apophis," Teal'c politely replied.

"Oh." Casey gave Olivia a helpless look that indicated she had no idea what Teal'c just said.

Olivia tried to explain, as best she could, the situation concerning humans from earth who had been scattered throughout the galaxy, thanks to the Goa'uld. She was grateful when Teal'c helped fill in the blanks--and eventually, even Daniel came over and once more recited the basic history lesson that he gave Olivia in the Kelori caves.

'God, that seems such a long time ago, now,' Olivia mused, thinking about the Kelori cave, as she listened to Daniel speak. Gazing at his handsome features, she abruptly had another thought: 'Hey, he's kind of cute….'

SG-1: SVU

Mo'at was still fuming as he entered Her Lord Empress Neith's private quarters. Teal'c had tried to kill him just now--and very nearly succeeded--had it not been for the ring transporter slicing off the tip of his staff weapon at just the right moment. When they had rematerialized, the business end of Teal'c's staff weapon had fallen to the floor in front of Mo'at's feet.

'The very nerve of that hasshak,' Mo'at angrily thought, 'to even think that he could ever kill me!'

Still, Mo'at shall deal with that stinking shol'va all in good time. Right now, he had an audience with his beloved ruler.

Neith sat on her throne in the private quarters looking very thoughtful and pensive. Mo'at gave the customary bow, with his arms crossed in front of him. "You summoned me, my Lord Empress?"
"Yes, Mo'at," she said softly. "We are losing."

Mo'at's eyes grew wide with shock. He was so stunned at what she said that he was literally at a loss for words.

"I have contacted the ship we have monitoring Earth, and have been told there is no movement whatsoever on that front," Neith informed him. "The Asgard--if they had been contacted by the SGC--should have arrived by now. I believe our plan to trick them into a war with the system lords has failed."

Neith stood up, and gestured for Mo'at to do the same. They both slowly walked side by side over to the wall of trophy heads. "The lack of an Asgard presence over Earth, along with the ferocity of Hammond's attack on us just now, has only convinced me that something went wrong with our plan. I feel it is time to change tactics."

"Of course, my Lord Empress," Mo'at said, still stunned. "What shall we do now?"

"The Netian Empire must now launch a full-scale, all out assault on all our enemies in this sector," Neith grimly replied. "The entire Imperial Fleet shall be mustered up for this effort. We shall leave this ball of dust--but before we do so, I wish to exterminate these bothersome Kelori vermin. I want naquadah missiles loaded into all four major missile launchers. That should decimate all life on the planet's surface very nicely."

Mo'at nodded. "Yes, my Lord Empress. I must point out that the base will still survive the blast from the missiles."

"We shall simply see to it that it doesn't," she told him. "After we've wiped out all life on this pitiful little dust ball, we shall blast the base--and the humans within--from orbit. Once this is done, I shall take personal command of a legion of Jaffa and thoroughly sweep the entire ship, killing all the slaves and whatever Tauri troops may be here."

"Very good, my Lord Empress," Mo'at said with another nod. "Might I ask where will we go once we have accomplished everything?"

"We shall retire to Mount Tanis, where we will work out the logistics of our attack on this sector, as well as to retrieve the Asgard Slayer. The time for that weapon to be put to use has finally come. It would appear that the endgame has arrived much sooner than we've anticipated, Mo'at. But like the good warriors that we are, we shall be ready for it nonetheless."

"We will be ready for it only because of your skillful leadership, my Lord Empress," Mo'at said with a bow. "I shall give the orders to load the naquadah missiles, now."

"Oh, and Mo'at?" Neith said.

Mo'at stopped walking and turned back to her. "Yes, my Lord Empress?"

"I found Slaar to be quite lacking in his leadership skills," she told him. "Thanks to his buffoonery, the slaves have now taken over the entire deck that the slave quarters is located on. You would do well to choose your next protégé with the utmost care, Mo'at. For his skills, or lack thereof, also reflect on you."

A chill ran up Mo'at's spine when he recognized the not so subtle threat against him that was hidden within her words. "I swear I will, my Lord Empress."

When he left Her Lord Empress Neith's private quarters, Mo'at was practically running.

SG-1: SVU

When Sam re-entered the slave quarters, she was pleased to see that it was nearly empty. The evacuation was going very smoothly, thanks to the fact that they had this entire deck secured, with the enlarged SG-3 being backed up by Kelori warriors.

The only problem was the poor wretched souls in the slave stalls who were too sick, too far gone, to move. Janet had agonized over each and every case, making the extremely hard decisions to leave behind those who were practically dying to the point where they were beyond any help. There was nothing that could be done for them, other than to medicate them so they would not feel any pain in their last hours--yet that didn't make the situation any easier for Janet to handle.

Sam glanced over by the platform and saw Olivia chatting intently with Casey, and felt an emotion she'd not expected: jealousy. It was odd; Sam almost felt like a little girl who discovered that her very best friend in the world had just dumped her for a new friend. It was crazy…she was a major in the U.S. Air Force who has helped saved earth countless times, and yet Sam had to fight the impulse to run over there and pull Olivia away from Casey.

Perhaps the sight of Olivia talking to a close friend of hers from New York City was a reminder to Sam that Olivia would be leaving them soon. Assuming everything went all right, and they got home safely, Olivia would be resuming her former life as a cop with the NYPD--a thought which saddened Sam to no end. She had grown to like Liv very much--she even owned her life to Olivia--and would miss her.

"Get the hell away from me!" Janet roared.

Sam ran over to one of the stalls, where Janet was angrily shouting at Nacre, the Royal Physician. The man was simply waving his hands at her, as if warding off an impending attack from Janet.

"Don't you dare speak to me again!" Janet snarled at Nacre. "You hear me, you little bastard?!"

Glaring at Nacre, Sam gripped the trigger of her P90, which hung in front of her torso on its strap. "Get away from her," she firmly ordered him. "Now!"

"Very well," Nacre said, holding his hands up as he quickly moved away. "I want no trouble…."

"What happened?" Sam asked Janet.

"He's hanging over me, trying to give me advice on how to deal with these poor souls," Janet replied, looking offended. "Then he actually had the gall to compare himself to me! 'We're both doctors,' he tells me!"

Janet shook her head in disgust. She glared at Nacre and shouted: "I have about as much in common with you as I do with Josef Mengele, you son of a bitch!"

"Easy, Janet, take it easy," Sam soothed her. Her friend was already wound up from the grim task of performing triage on the dying in the slave stalls, and now that little creep Nacre had to go and wind her up even further. "He's not worth it."

Sam frowned at the ceiling when the lights in the slave quarters abruptly flickered--then they flickered again. O'Neill came over to where Sam and Janet stood and said, "Um, Carter, you mind seeing what mini-Carter is up to over there?"

Sam glanced at where he pointed and saw Jennifer Hailey standing with her nose deep within the power crystals that were located inside a panel on the far wall. She then glanced sharply at O'Neill and incredulously said, "Excuse me, sir. But…mini-Carter?"

"All right, all right," O'Neill nodded, waving his hand. "I meant go and see what your protégé, Lieutenant Hailey, is doing. Better?"

"Yes sir," Sam replied, with a heavy sigh, as she started walking over towards Hailey and Satterfield.

Sam grinned broadly when she overheard Janet say, in the same incredulous tone of voice: "Mini-Carter?"

"Well, Hailey's a lot like Carter," O'Neill defensively muttered. "Plus Hailey's really short…so, you know…mini-Carter. Right? What?!"

"Nothing, sir," Janet muttered. "Uh, pardon me…."

Sam glanced back and saw that Janet had turned her attention to the contents of her medical bag, leaving O'Neill to stand awkwardly by himself. Sam just shook her head, smiling. She loved Jack O'Neill dearly, yet there were times--like now--when he could really put his foot in his mouth.

Satterfield had exchanged her helmet for a regulation green cap. When Sam approached, she gave the Major a sheepish smile. "Uh, Jenny…." Satterfield said out of the corner of her mouth.

"I got it, Grace," Hailey said from behind the panel door, "I got it…there…."

"Got what?" Sam asked.

"Oh, Major Carter," Hailey said, stepping back from the panel. She also now wore a regulation green cap in place of her helmet. "I switched off the nerve gas, Ma'am."

Sam stared at her in amazement. "Nerve gas?!"

"Yes, Major," Hailey replied with a grin. "Lt. Satterfield noticed earlier that the air vents in the slave quarters looked larger than the standard air vent configuration in the rest of the mothership."

Sam glanced up and saw what she meant. The vents were indeed larger in size and protruded down into the slave quarters. She realized with a chill that they were developed for rapid insertion of pressurized gas--lethal gas--into the slave quarters, should a hairy situation, like a slave revolt, arise.

"I thought it best to at least check the power panel for a nerve gas control, and I found it and switched it off," Hailey added.

"Satterfield, Hailey--good catch!" Sam told them, smiling. "We never even noticed!"

"Thank you, Ma'am," Hailey replied, grinning. "There's something else that's strange about the panel. There appears to far more power crystals here than is needed. See, there's just way too many--"

Hailey was cut off when Janet let out a startled cry. Sam glanced at her friend, who stood up from her medical bag and shouted, "One of my surgical knives is missing!" Janet stabbed a finger at Nacre and added, "Somebody search him, now!"

Yet before anybody could make a move, Nacre deftly grabbed Casey from behind and held the knife at her throat.

"Olivia!" Casey cried, as she helplessly reached out for her. But the blade at her neck kept Casey from moving.

"You little bastard!" Olivia snarled, as she brought her zat up at Nacre's head.

"Shoot me, shoot us both," Nacre warned her, "and I might still slit her pretty neck before I go down."

"Stand down, Liv," O'Neill ordered, as he, Teal'c and several Marines all came over to Nacre with their guns drawn. "Back off, now! We've got him covered."

"You have nothing, Tauri," Nacre sneered. He brought his left arm up and quickly tapped something on his sleeve.

Sam was stunned to see a ring transporter start up right where Nacre and Casey, his hostage, stood.

'He's ringing out of here!' she thought, stunned.

Olivia realized the same thing, for she abruptly jumped into the circle of light that illuminated the transport area. And then Teal'c joined her, leaping in right behind Olivia just as the rings fell from the ceiling and surrounded them. The foursome disappeared in the transport flash as the set of rings flew back up into the ceiling.

"Damn it!" O'Neill yelled, as he and the Marines now gazed at an empty space before them.

Sam glanced at the power panel, and immediately realized why there were so many power crystals--half of them were still glowing from the ring transporter. She opened the panel door further and saw a flashing light, which indicated the level where they had ringed to.

'Dear God,' Sam thought, 'they're at the very top of the ship! They've got to be in Neith's private quarters!'

O'Neill ran up to her with Daniel by his side. "Carter, please tell me you've got some good news!"

"I've got good news, sir," she confidently told him, as she manipulated the controls in the power panel and started up the ring transporter once more. "Everybody who's transporting up had better get on the platform now!"

SG-1: SVU

"The naquadah missiles have been loaded, my Lord Empress," Mo'at reported as he entered her private quarters. "In all four main missile launchers.

"Superb, Mo'at," Neith said. "Give the order to--"

She was interrupted when the ring transporter came to life just then. Both Neith and Mo'at watched, alarmed, as the rings deposited the Royal Physician Nacre, who held a young woman up against him with a knife at her throat. There were two other people: the Tauri woman Neith recognized as Olivia Benson, and Teal'c.

The moment Teal'c laid eyes on Neith, he aimed his staff weapon right at her--yet Mo'at, who leapt from where he stood on Neith's throne platform, tackled the shol'va to the floor, knocking the weapon from his grip. Neith watched as a vicious hand to hand battle erupted between her First Prime and Teal'c.

Meanwhile, on the transport platform, Nacre made the mistake of turning towards Neith, as if to say something to her. This was a mistake because Olivia Benson used that moment of distraction on Nacre's part to leap at Nacre like a tiger, knocking both him and his hostage down.

"All the Tauri are insane," Neith muttered, shaking her head. "Perhaps it would be best to just wipe them all out after all…."

She rose from her throne and stormed over towards Olivia Benson, the ribbon device on her right hand giving off a deadly glow.

"Starting with you," Neith muttered, glaring at Olivia.

SG-1: SVU

Olivia pulled Casey away from Nacre's grip. Casey looked even paler than usual, but she appeared to be none worst for the wear. Olivia saw that, for his part, Nacre wanted nothing more to do with her--the Royal Physician crawled away from them like the insect that he truly was.

"Casey, you ok?" Olivia asked.

"Yeah, Liv, I---OHMIGOD!" Casey abruptly screamed, fearfully pointing at something over Olivia's shoulder.

When Olivia turned to see what it was, her blood ran cold at the sight of an enraged Neith, who approached them with that weird glove of hers glowing dangerously bright. Her eyes flared unnaturally as she held the glove right at Olivia and Casey. There was no time for Olivia to bring her zat up to bear, for it appeared Neith's glove was just about to fire.

"Run!" Olivia cried, as she grabbed Casey's hand and they both ran for their lives.

Neith's weapon discharged, the energy bolt exploding on the very spot where they just stood.

"Her eyes are glowing!" Casey hysterically cried, as they ran into the adjoining room. "What the hell is she?"

"The queen bitch of the universe," Olivia replied.

They were just about to run through a doorway when the sight of a dozen armed Jaffa just outside made Olivia and Casey stop dead in their tracks. Olivia shot two Jaffa down as she ran over to the door panel control and hit the top button--she remembered it was the same button that Sam hit to close the door when they were in the medical area, and Olivia hoped the same button worked here.

She smiled broadly when she saw the massive doors slide shut on the remaining Jaffa. Olivia then shot the control panel with her zat, which fused the controls. Hopefully, that would keep--

"LIV!" Casey screamed from behind her.

Olivia turned in time to see Neith striking Casey across the face with her hand, knocking the woman to the floor. Then Neith came up and thrust the weird glove weapon right into Olivia's face.

Olivia let out a helpless cry as a beam shot out of the weapon and drilled into her head. She sagged to the floor, dropping the zat, as Olivia felt head-splitting pain the likes of which she had never experienced before in her life.

SG1: SVU

Mo'at reached for a knife on his belt, but Teal'c kicked it out of his hand before he could bring it to bear. Then he punched Mo'at in the face. The blow staggered the First Prime, but he recovered quickly enough to try and kick Teal'c in the stomach--which Teal'c effortlessly dodged.

Mo'at broke off from the fight long enough to retrieve a staff weapon from a row that lined the wall, which gave Teal'c pause--until he realized that it was a wooden training version of the staff weapon, used to teach hand to hand combat tactics. It could not fire.

Teal'c ducked under the swipe Mo'at gave him with the wooden staff. Then Teal'c dived onto the floor, where he rolled over to where the other training staff weapons were. He stood up and grasped one in his hands, just in time to use it to block another killing blow that an attacking Mo'at sent his way.

Both men stood there for a time, their staff weapons locked against each other, both gazing hatefully into the other's eyes.

"Prepare to die, shol'va," Mo'at said.

Teal'c noticed out of the corner of his eye that the ring transporter once more activated. He hoped it was O'Neill and the others--if it wasn't, then this fight would not last very long.

Yet no matter who it was that was 'ringing' up on the platform, Teal'c resolved to end this fight with Mo'at once and for all. Right here and now.

Teal'c then shifted his weight against his staff, which caused Mo'at to abruptly slide off to the side, until he caught himself, breaking the connection. Teal'c then swung his staff weapon like a baseball bat, until it struck Mo'at square in the face.

Mo'at, stunned, staggered back--until Teal'c expertly knocked his feet out from under him with a flick of his staff. Mo'at's head bounced against the hard tile as he landed roughly on the floor.

Teal'c stood over the dazed Mo'at, with his staff weapon held high, and said, "Say your prayers to whatever god you worship…for you are about to meet Him."

Then Teal'c brought the butt end of the staff down for the killing blow, crushing Mo'at's skull and instantly killing the First Prime. The surrounding tiles were splattered with blood and brains.

The rings lowered back into the ground just as Teal'c swung around, ready to fight once more.

But, to his relief, it was indeed O'Neill, along with Major Carter, Daniel Jackson, and Lieutenants Hailey and Satterfield. They all stared at him, and the remains of Mo'at, with wide eyes.

"Damn, Teal'c, you really went to town on Moby there," O'Neill muttered with admiration. "Not that the son of a bitch didn't deserve it."

They were all startled when they heard a loud explosion from the other room.

SG-1: SVU

'What the hell?' Olivia thought, as she stared at her surroundings in puzzlement.

She stood on a large platform that lay before a massive door, which was set within the stone walls of what appeared to be a giant temple. Everything was very bright, and Olivia saw why: gazing up in the clear sky, she saw two suns--one was dimmer, and more reddish in color, than the other. As she cast her gaze across the land, Olivia saw that it was a barren desert that blazed under the harsh light of the twin suns. The platform she stood upon appeared to be a mountain that overlooked this dry, parched terrain.

A sound distracted her, and Olivia turned to see the massive metal doors of the temple slowly closing. Just before they did, Olivia noticed a large object in the dimness. She couldn't make it out.

A woman with long, blond hair approached her just then. Clad in the scant, flimsy clothing of an Egyptian high priestess, the woman--whose name Olivia somehow knew was Mut--respectfully bowed before Olivia.

"Do not worry, sister," she told Olivia, "for the Asgard Slayer shall be safe here, at Mount Tanis, until you need it."

"Sister," Olivia heard herself say, "you forget your place…."

Mut bowed again and said, "My apologies, my Lord Empress Neith. I shall not forget my place again."

"See that you don't," Olivia/Neith harshly replied, "or I shall seal you up in a chamber within Mount Tanis myself."

Olivia/Neith turned and strode to the far end of the platform, where there was a flight of stone steps that led to a vast field that contained several rows of titanic-sized pyramids. Then Olivia was stunned when she realized that they weren't pyramids, but an immense fleet of landed Goa'uld motherships.

Olivia flinched in pain suddenly; it felt as if her head was being drilled. She glanced up and was inside one of these motherships, with Mo'at standing there, telling her that the naquadah missiles had been loaded in all missile launchers. Olivia wanted to ask him what a naquadah missile was, but she was in too much agony. It was all just too much to take.

All Olivia wanted to do was to lay down and die.

SG-1: SVU

"Oh, God," Casey said, as she helplessly watched that monster shoot what looked like a laser beam into Olivia's head.

She got to her feet and started to run over to them, until Casey was distracted when her foot accidentally struck an object.

Casey glanced down and saw the weird gun that Olivia had dropped on the floor. She picked it up and aimed it at the demonic woman with the glowing eyes. When she pulled the trigger, a laser bolt shot out and struck the woman, making her cease her hellish torture of Olivia.

Olivia slumped down on the floor, where she appeared to have passed out, as the demonic woman turned around to face Casey, her inhuman eyes glowing intensely.

"I still don't know if this is a dream or not," Casey told her. "But dream or no dream, I am not letting you hurt my friend!"

When Casey fired the weird ray gun again, her eyes grew wide when she realized that the laser bolt didn't hit the woman personally--instead it struck what looked like an invisible wall that surrounded her.

The woman let out an angry roar as she held up her hand--which began to glow as bright as the sun--right at Casey.

Casey dived to the floor as the energy bolt struck the wall behind her, creating the loudest blast she'd ever heard. She wondered if it would also be the last thing she'd ever hear, as well.

SG-1: SVU

Daniel quickly unstrapped his P90 as he ran into the adjoining room with the rest of SG-1. He quickly saw the cause of the explosion they'd heard: a part of the far wall had been blasted. And he also quickly saw who had caused the explosion: Neith.

She stood in the center of the room with her hand outstretched, and Casey was cowering on the floor before her.

"DROP HER!" O'Neill shouted, as he raised his P90 and opened fire directly on Neith.

Daniel, Sam, Hailey and Satterfield all followed suit, and soon there were five P90s all blasting away at Her Lord Empress Neith. Daniel soon saw it was a futile effort, for Neith--like most Goa'uld--was protected by a force shield. He was the first to stop shooting.

"We're just wasting bullets!" he called to the others.

"He's right, sir," Sam said, as they all ceased fire. "She's got a personal shield."

Teal'c casually strode up to Neith and, in a calm and satisfied tone of voice, said, "Mo'at is dead."

Neith let out a long, low snarl at that.

"Growl all you want," O'Neill replied. "That force shield may protect you from our bullets, but you can do little else. You're now our prisoner, your Lord Empress Bitch…."

Neith glared at him and said, "You shall all join Mo'at in the afterlife…very shortly."

With that, she pressed a button on her gauntlet, and a set of rings dropped down from the ceiling. Teal'c ducked out of the way as O'Neill, Hailey and Satterfield frantically opened fire on her with their P90s as Neith beamed out, yet it appeared their bullets harmlessly bounced off the rings.

"Damn it!" O'Neill angrily shouted, once the ring transporter had whisked Neith away. "I should always know better than to gloat to one of these Goa'uld bastards! They've got more escape tricks than David Copperfield!"

"Who's that?" Satterfield asked Hailey.

"A magician," Hailey replied. "You know, like that Mind Freak guy?"

"Oh, yeah..."

Daniel ran over to Casey, who had sat up and reached out for something. "You ok?" he asked her.

"I'm fine," Casey told him, pointing. "But it's Olivia…."

Daniel realized that, from where Neith had stood, she blocked their view of Liv. Olivia lay on the floor with one arm flung over her head, looking for all the world like a discarded doll.

And she was very still.

"Oh God, no," he said, as both he and Casey ran over to her. When Daniel bent down before the prone woman, he said, "Olivia? Hey, Olivia? You hear me? Olivia?!"

Olivia stirred slightly, letting out a soft moan. Then she peevishly said, "Daniel, I thought I told you to call me Liv…."

"Oh, thank God," Daniel muttered with relief, as she opened her eyes and smiled wanly up at him. "Are you all right?"

"Yeah, I think…." she said. Olivia let out a pained groan as Daniel and Casey helped her to sit up.

Sam came over and knelt down, looking concerned. "Liv, how are you?"

Olivia smiled at her. "Got a splitting headache…and I had a really weird dream! When Neith hit me with that glowy glove of hers."

Daniel felt a chill run up his back. "Wait. You saw something, when Neith tried to kill you with her ribbon device?"

"Yeah," Olivia said, shaking her head. "But never mind, it was silly…."

"Liv, just tell me what you saw in that vision you had," Daniel said. "No matter how silly it may seem."

Sam grabbed his arm. "You're thinking it's the same as what happened with you and Sha're, isn't it?"

Daniel nodded. "Yeah."

Olivia gave him a nervous look. "What do you mean?"

"The ribbon device is a dangerous weapon," Daniel told her. "But--and I know this from personal experience--it can also transfer the thoughts and memories of the person wearing it into the victim. Look, just tell us what you saw, ok, Liv?"

Olivia frowned thoughtfully. "Well, I found myself in the desert, at some kind of a temple called Mount Tanis. Oh," Olivia abruptly said, when she recalled something, "the Asgard Slayer was there! It was being kept there by a woman named Mut, who called Neith her sister."

"Oboy," Daniel said grimly.

"What?! More bad news?" O'Neill asked, as he, Teal'c and Lieutenants Hailey and Satterfield all joined them.

"Actually, Jack, it sounds like good news for a change," Daniel replied. "When Liv was attacked with the ribbon device, Neith inadvertently told her where the Asgard Slayer might be." He glanced at Olivia for confirmation. "You said the place was in the desert, and was called Mount Tanis?"

Olivia nodded. "Yeah."

"The Asgard Slayer?" O'Neill said with a frown.

"That's what they called it in the dream, or vision, or whatever it was," Olivia muttered. "It was inside the temple, behind a massive metal door. I couldn't get a good look at it."

"All right, that'll have to wait for now," O'Neill said. "Because we really need to get out of here."

"There's one other thing," Olivia told him, as she was helped to her feet by Sam and Casey. "What's a naquadah missile?"

Daniel, Sam, Teal'c, Hailey, Satterfield and O'Neill all froze with horrified expressions on their faces.

O'Neill leaned in towards Olivia and sharply said, "Why?"

"Um, I also saw Mo'at telling Neith that all missile launchers were loaded with naquadah missles," Olivia told him.

"I take it that's real bad, huh?" Casey nervously asked O'Neill.

Everybody was startled when the floor shook, and a long, low rumble could be heard throughout the ship.

"Feels like we're taking off, sir," Sam urgently said.

"Yeah, Casey, it's bad," O'Neill muttered. "In fact, it couldn't be any worse…."

To Be Continued...