The Omake Files – The Fifth Man
Tomb Raider

"Starring, Daniel Jackson"

England, Unknown Location.

Lara looked at the device that lay in the centre of the room, surrounded by a forcefield of some sort. Looking around, she smiled as she noticed just what it would take to get passed the various traps and the lack of an actual bridge across the chasm.

Holstering her smoking pistols, she got ready to throw her grapple, as she took a running jump. Behind her, the bodies of some grunts lay shot dead, surrounded by empty shell casings from their own weapons.

As she reached the apex of her jump, she threw the grapple. The powerful magnet on it attached and easily took her weight, preventing her from falling. She swung into it, then back and forth until she was high enough to grab a ledge. The grapple was detached, and wound back into its reel automatically. Lara edged around, and jumped up to the next when it ended, and down again when that one did too.

10 minutes later, and she was about to summersault onto the platform, when some kind of access hatch opened, and some wolfs came out. Three, to be precise.

She smiled, and used the pole she held onto to swing a full 1160 degrees, 3 turns and a quarter, releasing and drawing her weapons quickly.

She was upside down, and it was as though she was in slow-motion...

The dull bang of one pistol... then the other... then the other... at full auto.

She landed in a roll, and came to a halt.

She smiled a little, and released the clip latch, popping the empty magazines away, and replaced them with full ones attached to autoloaders in her backpack.

She stood up, and walked up to the device, and looked it over.

A hologram appeared, and she gasped. It was Merlin.

An hour later, and as she left the tomb and got to the outside air, the device in her bag, she finally came back into contact with Zip and Alister.

On her comm link, she heard, "Lara, what the devil happened?! We lost all contact!"

"Nevermind that now, Zip. I need you to look up an old friend of mine."

"And just who is this friend of yours, Lara?" Alister asked. "I thought all your 'old' friends were either dead or gone insane?"

Lara winced at the reminder. Amanda, whom she thought dead, had shown up awhile ago. Only she had become a little insane, what with her holographic demon.

"Alister, you'll just, love this... I need you to contact Doctor Daniel Jackson." Zip could be heard laughing, and Lara knew the probable reason. "Whatever's the matter, Zip?" She asked lightly, as she mounted her motorbike. She gave one last look at the closed entrance of the hidden tomb, and smiled.

"Lara, you should see the look on his face..." she heard. "I'm getting on that. What do you want me to say?"

"Give him a message: I might have found evidence of a connection between King Arthur and the Egyptians. He's the only expert I know of who would accept my story, Zip. And it is one hell of a story."

She heard mumbling, then zip replied, "Yes well, be sure to share the story with me, I've got a couple hundred pounds riding on the latest exploit of yours."

She rolled her eyes, as she pulled out onto an empty A road, and accelerated.

"Are you kidding?" Alister finally spoke up. "He thought the pyramids were landing platforms for alien ships! He's definitely insane, Lara!"

"With what we've seen, Alister, I could believe he might just be right about that theory."

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SGC

"Wait, Lara Croft, as in Lady Croft of England?" Harry asked.

Daniel nodded. "Even though she's ten years younger than me, she knows a lot more than I do, except about the Alien influence part on ancient cultures."

Harry nodded, and then spoke again, "But... Lady Lara Croft. Her fortune is probably more than what it takes to run this entire program." He reiterated.

Daniel nodded. "Yes, that Lady Lara Croft."

SG-1 shared a look.

"Look, I didn't tell you guys that I knew her before... well, before..." He paused for a moment, then continued, "Because I knew you'd all react like this."

"The fact that she could be very helpful to us didn't cross your mind?"

"Actually, it did." He spoke. "She's doing more good stopping the bad ones in the archaeologist community. Otherwise, we very well would be worshipping tyrants who gain power from what I believe to have been alien devices."

Jack coughed, and gave him a glare.

"Said devices were destroyed, or are now in the care of her very cautious hands, Jack. That part is why she's nicknamed the 'Tomb Raider Legend'. Practically everything she's found were all legends, thought merely myth until, she found them. Bad people follow her, Jack, trying to outsmart her."

"And now she's contacting you for help." Jack finished.

"Hey, it's just a translation job. It's been years since I've seen her."

"Where are you meeting?"

"Well, I could only just respond to her message now, and she's on a dig."

"Right. Lets go then."

"Jack..."

"Hey, you think that after all the trouble on the last 3 archeology missions and digs, both here and offworld, that I'd let you go?"

Daniel sighed and looked at Harry.

"Hey, if you're thinking that I don't want to go, well... I do. Back in the Old Potterverse, Lady Croft was the only person who was more famous than I was. I became a celebrity by surviving when it should have been possible, but it was something about or around me, that's what everyone knew. Lara Croft in my 'verse didn't have an ounce of magic, but it didn't matter to even the purebloods. They respected her because she survives all on her own. I guess the same is true here, but different."

Daniel nodded. "She's been shot more times than I have, but you wouldn't think it, Jack. Best doctors money can get."

"How'd she get into that, anyway?" Jack asked.

"Harry? What's her story in the old... potterverse." Daniel was still a little hesitant to call Harry's old universe by the little moniker.

"Apprenticed to a professor, Von Something, and when she was 15, her plane went down over the Himalayas. She trekked for, i dunno, days or weeks, and after that the whole survival thing kind of got her into the lone raider routine."

Daniel nodded. "Similar. When she was just a kid, she and her mother were on a plane that went down over the Himalayas. She was a lot younger than 15. Her mother disappeared mysterious...ly..." He seemed to have an epiphany. "A ring-shaped device was involved..."

"A Stargate?"

"No wall of water involved, but perhaps."

"Anyway, she was on her own, and it took her ten days to trek, alone at the age of 9, across the Himalayas."

Jack snorted. "What a load of crock."

"But true, Jack. She's a prodigy like that."

Harry had to ask, "SAS training? She had that, and the one time I saw her... from a distance, I didn't get to meet her, she was beating up this US Marine for... I don't know why."

Daniel nodded with a smile, "Yeah. She's been asked to help train several new SAS at times. Got one out of a foreign prison a few years back."

"Sweet. So how did you know her?"

Daniel looked away for a moment, then said, "I joined her on one of her... Tomb raids. I guess I forgot all that stuff she taught me after all the traps we encountered were all technological..."

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A/N: An omake where Daniel used to be like a male version of Lara, until he got all office-side of the stuff and tried to do all that stuff we saw, convincing people that pyramids were landing platforms for alien ships.

Also the TRL hint was a hint towards the one game I've played. I did have Angel of Darkness, but the bugs and it not letting me 'jump' lara on the first level when she was in the very position it said to put her in.... well.. I might have gotten a little too pissed off at the game and... ahem... It took weeks to get rid of the burnt plastic smell.