The Grey Woods Beast
By Kushie
I do not own NCIS: I do not own Anthony Dinozzo, L.J. Gibbs. I do not own the other team
members, or any specific tv series included.
Please understand that some English spellings and types of dialogue differ from the American
ones. Some of us put the letter 'U' in a lot more word endings. I'm sorry if you find this awkward
It's second nature to me. As is putting certain words, in front of the verb, instead of after
This story bears no relation to any of my other stories. It is set in a totally different Universe.
Warning! Alternate Universe. Many Characters act out of Canon! Don't like don't read.
Chapter Eight: The Weapon of the Gods
Jethro felt his stomach contract, as he beheld the snivelling, wailing, Anthony Dinozzo Senior.
"It's trying to distract you Tony. Hold your focus!"
"I am boss and," He scowled. "It's just made one gigantic mistake." Tony replied.
"Mistake?" Ziva asked puzzled. Tony glanced sideways at Gibbs
"It chose the wrong father!" Despite the dire nature of their situation. Jethro felt a deep warmth
settle around his heart. He squeezed Tony's arm.
"We won't let him die. But after this you and he are done!" Tony nodded, then looked back at the
creature that held his biological father.
For the most part, the small contingent from the Air Force had remained on the fringes of
the operation. Content to merely observe. There were five of them. But now they stared
the creature. Almost disbelieving. They began having a quiet, yet urgent, discussion.
"Colonel!" Carter whispered. "It's an Unas!" Faced with seeing one in broad daylight.
Daniel could understand why the people, observing it. For the first time, would think it was a minotaur.
It wasn't completely cloven hoofed. But the tracks left by it's, two clawed, feet. Could give such an
impression. The Doctor shuddered Then a thought occurred Had the original Minotaur been an Unas.
It had been indestructible and shut up in a Labyrinth. He looked at Jack and knew the same thing was
going through his mind. Thor had trapped the one on Samaria in a deep underground maze.
Was this the way ancient people imprisoned the Goauld? Was it a way to detain something immortal?
Daniel thought hard. Trying to remember the exact details of how Theseus had destroyed the
Mythical Greek Monster.
The legends were blurred by the long passage of time. All that remained of the tale was that Theseus
had been supplied with a weapon, by the Goddess Athena. Which begged the question.
Who was Athena? He spoke aloud.
"Jacob? Didn't Egeria, the mother of the Tokra escape RA, by travelling to Greece?"
The Tokra/Man turned to stare at him.
"Yes she did. Ra sent his servant Hathor after her."
"And the Egyptian Goddess Hathor is often shown with the head of a cow."
"Hang on a minute," Jack interrupted "We've met that Lady and she weren't no Unas."
"Goauld can live for thousands of years. They frequently move on to more advanced and better looking
hosts." Sam said. Then Tealc drew their attention to a more pertinent point.
"The weapon the one, called Din'zo, carries. Does it not remind you of Thor's Hammer?"
"An Asgard weapon?" Jack spun round to look at the Federal Agent. "Where the hell would
they have got one of those?"
"Athena is sometimes named Erina and depicted as a cat," Daniel offered. " Bastet was Egyption and,"
He paused before adding. "The Asgard Freya is often said to be the leader of the Valkeries. They are few.
But I've seen an old carving, that showed her riding on a flying battle cat."
"Which now begs the question What is that Toy thing That led us here?" Jack eyed Vinni. It now
hovered at Tony's feet. It's hackles were standing on end and it was treading at the grass with it's front paws.
All the time growling.. Selmak suddenly entered the conversation. As a rule Jacob's Symbiote didn't speak
much. So his deep voice startled the others slightly.
"I believe it to be a Organo- Mechanical Device. A seemingly innocuous plaything. Until activated by a
specific set of words."
"You mean a robot."
"In some sense yes. But one whose circuitry is more naturally based." Jack blinked then frowned
and looked round. Tim McGee gave him an awkward grin.
"Sorry! I couldn't help over hearing and well," he blushed. "I'm sort of really interested in cybernetics.
Particularly the fusing of living flesh with computerised implants."
Carter bought the conversation back to the Unas.
"Sir!" she addressed herself to Jack. "I think it's carrying." she nodded in the direction of the beast.
His eyes widened and the hairs on the back of his neck stood up. As he realised what she was implying
"It' a Goold?" Daniel winced and half wondered. If Jack would ever learn to say Goauld, or if he could.
But didn't choose to. His pronunciation, being a way of insulting the parasites.
Jacob was wearing the uniform of an Airforce general. As he often did, when forced into working on Earth.
Now he assumed that persona.
"Gibbs and his man need to know what they are dealing with." Tim had pretty much caught most of their
conversation and gathered the Air Force group were more than they seemed. For a start; one of them,
had glowing eyes and his voice kept changing. Mcgee guessed he wasn't totally human.
Nevertheless he led them over to Gibbs.
"Boss!" Jethro glanced away from Tony. Mcgee indicated the Air Forcers
"I think they can help. They know what that is?" Jethro had noted the Air Force General and that
his team, had yet to offer anything helpful, to the operation
"General?" he now acknowledged.
"It's not a Minotaur!" Jack said. Gibbs looked past General to his subordinate and raised a quizzical eyebrow.
"It's called an Unas!"
"And?"
"What you see is a shell!" Selmak spoke through his host. It is controlled from within. By a Parasitic life form
called a Goauld."
"Which helps us how?"
"The weapon your man carries will burn out the Symbiote. With that gone the Unas can be killed."
"Any suggestions how to kill it Gunfire seems fairly useless."
"First destroy the beast within."
"Again how?"
"Tell your man to focus the beam on it's head or better still the back of the neck. That is where the Parasite
will have nested." Jethro wasn't sure how to get Tony behind the Minotaur, Una Thing. What ever
But after, days of listening to talk of Gods and mythical creatures. This new information didn't surprise him
in the least. He was willing to accept any advice going. Then he spotted his biggest asset.
"Ziva!" he pulled her aside. "We need the thing to show Tony it's back." she understood.
Jethro looked the other way. "Abby you still reckon you can slow it down?" She nodded
Daniel Jackson had turned his attention to the one called Dinozzo. Not the snivelling terrified man
The Unas dangled and swung about, like a puppet. But the younger one. He looked as if he was of
Mediterranean Extraction. Italian? or? Comprehension burst into Daniel's mind Greek!
"Oh God! he muttered. For many years he'd pondered the Greek myths and lately How many
of them could have been Goauld. Pelops had been for certain. But now a major truth dawned.
The major Olympians had much more in common with the Asgard. Daniel's mind burbled in shock
As he realised! Ra had tried to kill Egeria. Not just because she opposed him But because!
She was pregnant with a Human Child. Theseus had been a Harsesis. The one person with the knowledge
of how to use Goauld technology and, more importantly. The ability to destroy them. Daniel stared at Tony.
He knew what he was seeing. He understood why the Agent could make the weapon work.
Anthony Dinozzo was a direct descendent of Theseus
He was a Harsesis!
TBC
A/N: A little! Okay shamelessly large, SG1 tie in. Someone had to do it eventually.
But disclaiming any ownership of that program and it's characters
