Stargate Sg1 Revolutions: The First Commandment
Danielle had just come out of her latest meeting with Dr. Fraiser. It was confirmed, her body didn't produce any histamine, what that mean, she wasn't exactly sure.
Her gut was telling her it had to do with what she was able to do to the Touched, what she had always been able to do.
These were secrets that she kept even from Sha're, secrets that she couldn't possibly keep hidden on her own anymore. She was living in a controlled environment, where she went, what she ate, even what she wore to some extent were controlled.
Things had gotten a little better since she had officially been made a member of Sg1, along with Teal'c. Danielle still wasn't sure how General Hammond was able to pull it off. She knew he was facing some stiff opposition from Colonel Kennedy at the very least. He had come by as well, to ask his own questions.
Thinking about it for weeks Danielle finally came to her decision, she couldn't keep her secret alone, she had to tell someone, someone that couldn't be ordered to say anything.
Teal'c was in the middle of Kel'noreem, when he heard a knock at his door, at this time of night there were very few that visited him.
"Teal'c… if you weren't too busy, I was wondering if we could talk," Teal'c heard Danielle Jackson through the door.
Teal'c stood up, walking to the door. "Come in Danielle Jackson." Teal'c invited as he opened the door.
"I wasn't interrupting anything was I?" Danielle asked.
"No. What was it you wished to discuss?" Teal'c asked.
"It's kind of private…" Danielle said as she closed the door, and took a seat on the floor.
"I promise you, anything you tell me will remain between us," Teal'c said as he sat across from her on the floor.
"Do you remember how I was captured by the Touched on the last mission?" Danielle asked carefully, hoping that Teal'c would believe her.
"I apologize Danielle Jackson, I will not fail you again." Teal'c said, feeling no small amount of guilt about losing Danielle.
"No… uh… It isn't about that." Danielle said momentarily thrown for a loop. "I never blamed you for what happened, we were attacked."
"Then I am uncertain about what it is you wish to speak about." Teal'c said, wondering what was on the young woman's mind.
"When I said that I escaped the Touched… It-it… was a lie." Danielle finally said.
"I do not understand." Teal'c said. "I am certain that they captured you."
"I never escaped Teal'c." Danielle replied looking down. "Sometimes when I'm afraid… something happens, …something bad," She said having a hard time explaining.
"What has happened?" Teal'c asked in concern.
"I… I threw them away from me, without touching them. It was with my mind." Danielle tried to explain. "They landed far enough away from me that it scared them, they ran away."
"I do not understand." Teal'c said. "Such things are not possible." He did not know if what Danielle Jackson had told him was true, but he was certain that she believed it to be true.
"I know." Danielle said softly. "I wouldn't think it was real either if it didn't hurt so much."
"Are you injured Danielle Jackson?" Teal'c asked.
"No, not anymore. The pain always goes away. I'm afraid because it's never hurt that much before. I've never passed out before." Danielle said.
"Why have you not informed Doctor Fraiser?" Teal'c asked curiously.
"Because of what they'll do to me." Danielle answered. "They'll lock me up, worse than we're locked up now, and they're going to try to figure out what makes me be able to do the things I do."
"Then why have you decided to tell me? Are you not afraid that I will inform them?" Teal'c asked curiously.
"Because I trust you," Danielle answered simply. "And you can't be ordered to tell anyone else."
"Why have you decided to tell anyone this?" Teal'c asked. "Would it not be safer to tell no one?"
"They decide where we go, what we eat, even what we wear," Danielle said as she pointed to the uniform that she was wearing. "Without help it's only a matter of time before they figure it out."
"I will help you." Teal'c promised.
At night in the woods smoke covered the landscape, crossing over the path, making it imposable to see beyond that. Suddenly a black man came running through the path, a white man right behind him.
They were being chased by three men. "Come on, Franks, let's go!" The black man said, urging his teammate to go faster.
"Conner! Conner! I dropped my remote!" Franks said, he suddenly stopped and ran back for it.
"Got it!" Connor said as he quickly picked it up.
The natives of the planet were in the woods. One of them shot a blow dart that hit Franks in the shoulder, sending him falling to the ground screaming.
Conner kept running, not knowing his friend had fallen. He got to the Stargate and started dialing Earth.
Franks tried to make it to the gate but fell, having a lot of trouble standing.
Conner got the gate open and put in his teams code. That's when he noticed Franks was not with him. "Franks! Franks!"
"Go. Go!!!" Franks shouted, urging his friend to leave him before he fell face first into the dirt.
The natives of the planet were drawing closer, as Conner ran as quickly as he could.
The natives surrounded Franks, a man who didn't look like he was from the planet, but looked to be from Earth stood over him. He picked Franks up by his hair as another man that looked to be from Earth stood at his feet.
""Franks, Franks, Franks. I'm disappointed you, my son." The second man said as he pulled out a gun and aimed it Franks head, one gunshot to the head and Franks was dead.
The Natives gasped at seeing this power, Conner stopped in mid run and turned around. The natives immediately went after Conner, as the gate shut.
"So, Conner got through." The second man guessed.
""What about this one?" The first man asked as he pointed to Franks.
"Burn him." The second man said as they poured what could only be gasoline on Franks, then they took a torch and light him on fire.
It was daylight by the time the Stargate opened again as SG-1 came through the gate.
"For a planet with a UV radiation as high as this one is supposed to have, the plant life seems to be doing very well." Danielle said as she looked around.
"Apparently Abydos was the exception, not the rule, as far as tree's are concerned." Carter replied.
"Well that makes sense, for a plant to support human life there must be some sort of Carbon-based vegetation, right?" Danielle asked.
"It is no accident." Teal'c added "Many Stargate worlds were tare-formed by the Goa'ulds, centuries ago."
"Okay, let's take a quick look around the gate, before we move out to find SG-9." Jack ordered.
"It's can't be that far." Carter hoped.
"I don't know, this Stargate is literally out in the middle of nowhere, I doubt it plays an active role in anybody's culture." Danielle said as she and Jack started down the trail.
Sam stopped at the DHD and just looked up while putting on her gloves.
Teal'c comes up behind her. "Is there a problem Dr. Carter?" He asked.
"No birds." Sam replied as they both started to walk.
"There should be a road up here or something or...Jack? Guys?" Danielle said as she walked along the forest.
Suddenly a man came up from the ground and pulled Danielle against him, wrapping his arm around her neck tightly. He grabbed Danielle's gun and pointed it at her neck. "Ahh!" Danielle said is shock and surprise. "Okay, okay, don't shoot."
Suddenly another gun was pointed at Conner's neck as Jack appeared behind him. "That's very sound advice."
Conner slowly took the gun away from Danielle's neck as Jack grabbed it away.
Conner turned to see who caught him. "Colonel O'Neill."
"Lieutenant Conner?" Jack asked as Conner looked like he was about to cry in relief before he collapsed.
Jack and Danielle caught him before he fell. "Alright, alright, come-on." Jack said as they dragged him back to the Stargate. "Alright Conner, what's going on? Command received your signal six hours ago, and no one came through. Why?"
"Hanson" Was the only thing that Connor said.
"Where is he, we need to talk." Sam asked.
"No, don't." Connor warned.
"Why?" Jack asked.
"Franks... he..." Conner got up and started running, quickly followed by Sg1.
What was left of Franks wasn't pretty. It looked to be just a couple of bones and his dog tags.
Conner bent on one knee at the site.
"Conner?" Jack asked as Conner picked up Franks dog tags. "Conner, I need to know what happened."
"Permission to speak freely about a superior officer, sir?" Connor asked.
"Yeah, go ahead." Jack said, already getting an idea of what happened.
"He's lost it, he's out of control." Connor said.
"Captain Hanson?" Sam asked, needing clarification.
"Maybe it was the sun, radiation." Connor tried to explain.
"Wait, are you saying the sun did this to Franks?" Danielle asked, alarmed.
"No, Captain Hanson did that to Franks." Connor clarified.
"What?" Sam asked, not believing it.
"For trying to get back through the gate." Connor explained.
"I don't buy that." Jack denied.
"Sir, we were trying to warn command about what's really going on, the people here, they believe he's their god!" Connor explained.
"Because you came through the Stargate?" Teal'c asked.
"No, no, you don't get it." Connor shook his head. "Hanson believes it too."
"Carter?" Jack asked as he and Carter went off to the side to talk as Conner started to bury what was left of Franks.
"I want you to take Conner back through the Stargate, report to General Hammond what's happened here." Jack ordered.
"No, sir." Sam disagreed.
"No, Sir?" Jack asked, not believing that Carter was willing to go against orders.
"If you are going after Captain Hanson, I should go with you, I can get to him." Carter explained.
"Look, Captain, either we're bringing him back to face a court marshal, or not. I think we both know what the 'not' means." Jack explained.
"I know him, Colonel." Carter replied.
"Yeah, that would be the problem." Jack agreed.
"I gave him back the ring because I know him. I know how he thinks, how he operates." Carter continued.
"How he likes to play god?" Jack asked.
"Look, I don't understand how that could happen, any more then you do, but if SG-1 is going after him then I am going with you." Carter said adamantly.
"Wait a minute, you, you, you can't do that, there are hundreds, probably thousands of them. H-he's their god. They'll die for him, they'll kill for him in a heartbeat." Connor tried to explain how serious this was.
"That's not your problem, now I need someone to report back to the General, and that is you." Jack ordered.
"No, sir." Connor replied.
"No sir?" Jack asked. "Does it say Colonel anywhere on my uniform?" He asked sarcastically as he made a show of checking his uniform.
"I know the planet, the situation, I think it's suicide. But if you're going, I'm going, sir." Connor said as Sam looked at him like he lost his mind.
"But you are not physically able." Teal'c pointed out.
"Franks was my friend." Connor replied.
"This isn't about revenge." Carter tried to dissuade him.
"Maybe not for you. We got to move now, in daylight." Connor insisted.
"Well, we're off to see the wizard." Jack said, finally giving in.
"I hope you packed lots of sun block." Connor said.
"The probe's data indicated that shade, even heavy cloud cover won't protect us, it can be pouring rain, and we'll still burn." Carter said.
"She's right." Connor agreed.
"Then why on Earth, are we traveling during the day?" Jack asked.
"We're not on Earth, people here live in caves. I think they used to be mines; they only come out at night. They're probably still after me, sir." Connor warned.
"To OZ." Jack said as they started to walk again.
Baker was standing outside, in the day light looking around. There were large sunburns on his face. He walked into his cave, and met Hanson who was standing at a large rock. "Your right, they sent SG-1."
Hanson looked at his dog tags, then tore them off and threw them down.
It was night time, and Sg1 had a fire going. Danielle was eating, and looked very disgusted. "This taste like chicken."
"So what's wrong with it?" Sam asked.
"It's macaroni and cheese." Danielle said as she put it down.
Jack and Teal'c were in the woods messing with something.
"Teal'c?" Jack asked.
"The perimeter is established." Teal'c said as he threw a rock into the woods, suddenly lights turned on and a very loud alarm went off.
"Perfect." Jack smiled as the alarms turned off. "If any little rocks sneak up on us, we'll have plenty of warning." He said as they returned to the tents and Conner walked up.
"So, any indigenous lions, tigers, or bears I should be lying awake worrying about?" Sam asked.
"The plant life is all that seems to live in the sun." Connor said.
"How could something like this actually happen? The SG teams are supposed to be made of well-trained professionals." Danielle asked.
"Well when we first met the cave dwellers, they immediately bowed down to us, thought we were gods." Connor explained.
"Well that's a fairly common phenomenon, I mean uh, it happens." Danielle agreed.
"Except Hanson didn't deny it." Connor added. "Told us it might be safe if we allowed them to believe he was god for a while. He said it was the system of government they needed to retake their world."
"And, you were okay with that?" Danielle questioned. It was a weak argument at best.
"Franks was our anthropologist, he agreed with Hanson, that it might be safer. But the longer we stayed here, the stronger they believed. On our fourth or fifth week here, a young child wandered out of the caves, and must've gotten lost, Hanson went on after him, he was gone for two full days before he came back. Carrying the child, barley alive in his arms." Connor said.
"The cave dwellers must have loved him for that." Sam concluded.
"Yeah, they did, he wasn't the same after that." Connor agreed.
"You're saying that's what sent him over the edge, the sun?" Sam asked.
"It wasn't any one thing," Connor explained. "If it was, me and Franks, we could have seen it coming. Done something about it before..."
"Before what?" Teal'c asked.
"There were a few cave dwellers that got the idea that Hanson was just a man, like they were, thanks to Franks and I. He had them tied to stakes and left out in direct sunlight, if they lived seven days, they were allowed back in the caves." Connor said.
"A number of certain Biblical events took place over the course of seven days." Danielle pointed out.
"By then they were blind. Giant bleeding burns all over them. Just took them a little longer to die. Personally, I'd rather eat a bullet." Connor continued.
"I'll take first watch." Jack said.
A few hours later Jack was still on watch. Conner woke up and went up to O'Neill. "Hey, Colonel, I'll take watch."
They heard a noise then saw a native walking close. Both of them pulled out there guns. There were lots of them, and they were getting closer.
Jack woke Teal'c, and then Danielle. "Let's go, we've got company."
"Are you sure?" Danielle asked, sitting up as a dart hit right next to her head.
"Pretty sure." Jack deadpanned.
The Natives started to shout as they stepped into the alarm and causing the lights turn on. Jack stood behind a tree shooting as Sam quickly woke up gun in hand. She started shooting, soon followed by Conner and Teal'c who used his staff weapon to hit a tree. Half the tree fell and sparks flew everywhere and scared off the natives.
"They appear to be gone." Teal'c said.
"Yeah, Conner?" Jack called as he looked around, but there was no sign of him. "Conner?" Apparently, the natives had captured him.
It was morning in the village the native workers were working on what looked to be the skeleton of a large building.
"The temple is taking too long to build." Hanson observed.
"There working as hard as they can." Baker said.
"But not as long as they can. Divide them into shifts, day and night." Hanson ordered.
"You can't." Baker said in alarm.
"What?" Hanson asked, surprised that he was being questioned.
"They'll die." Baker pointed out.
"Sacrifice. Their way to salvation." Hanson said.
Back in the woods SG-1 was walking down a trail through the woods. Teal'c had point, while Sam and Danielle were walking together in the middle leaving Jack in the back.
"They were probably instructed just to take Conner. Send us a message that Hanson's in Control." Danielle observed.
"Sound's familiar." Sam agreed.
"Witch part?" Danielle asked.
"He likes control." Sam said.
"Oh…. What did you see in him?" Danielle wondered.
"I don't know. I guess I've always had a soft spot for the lunatic fringe. he was...he was charming." Sam replied.
"That's good, charming is good." Danielle agreed.
"I don't know. I should be more surprised by this then I am, but I'm not. You know, he had this in him, Danielle. Too many years of Black Ops." Sam said.
"Well that's typical of our government's evaluation of solders. The crazier they are, the more extreme situation they seem to be put in to." Danielle agreed.
"He wasn't happy when I broke off the engagement, but he seemed like he really pulled himself together when we met up at Stargate Command." Sam remembered.
"Apparently not." Danielle said as Teal'c suddenly stopped and motioned for everyone to be quiet.
Jack walked up to Teal'c. "What do you got Teal'c?"
"This way." Teal'c said as they got to a cliff and saw hundreds of people working on the temple in the daylight.
Teal'c tossed Jack a pair of binoculars. "The road out of the valley, passed the mountain."
Jack looked into the binoculars, and saw people pushing a cart with a large rock on it, then a man tied to a pole, very burnt.
To the left another man was tied to another pole and further down tied to the last pole was Connor.
Jack shook his head and sighed. "I'll be back in 30 minutes."
"If you are thinking about rescuing Conner..." Teal'c started to say.
"Not yet, Captain? When the time comes I'll need your help getting in the front door." Jack said.
"I'm prepaid for that, sir." Sam said as Jack got up and left.
"There will be none left to worship if this continues." Teal'c observed.
"Like Abraham." Danielle agreed as both Sam and Teal'c looked at Danielle.
"Who is Abraham?" Teal'c questioned.
"A biblical figure. Believed to be the father of man, God tested his faith by instruction him to make a great sacrifice, his son Isaac." Danielle explained.
"Did he sacrifice his son?" Danielle asked.
"He gave it a good shot before an angel stopped him at the last minute." Danielle said.
In the valley a group of men were trying to help a fallen man, with little success. Baker saw them and walked over. "Get up!"
"He's worked straight through the night, he needs rest." One of the workers said.
"Shut up!" Baker yelled as the fallen man tried to get up but he couldn't. "Do I have to make an example? Do I?" Baker said as he took the butt of his gun and started hitting the fallen man with it and the man started to scream.
"Hey, look over there." Sam said as she handed the binoculars to Teal'c and got up.
"Wait. Where are you going?" Danielle asked.
"I can't just stay here and watch him beat that man to death." Sam replied.
"You will be captured." Teal'c said.
"Uh-huh." Sam agreed.
"You think that's a plan?" Danielle asked.
"Danielle, I can get to Hanson, that's what the Colonel was talking about." Sam explained.
"Well can you at least wait until he gets back?" Danielle asked,
"A man could be dead by then." Sam said as she ran off, leaving only Danielle and Teal'c left.
"We should have stopped her." Danielle sighed.
"We would have failed." Teal'c pointed out.
Jack was standing somewhere else watching what was going on with the worker. He ran behind a bush, pulled out his gun and used the scope to look at Conner.
Suddenly Sam was their punching Baker down to the ground. "Well, that was refreshing." She said as Jack ran back to Danielle and Teal'c.
In the cave Baker had his gun at Sam's back and was taking her further into the cave. Sam was lead to stand in front of Hanson who was at his throne with women at his feet.
"Well, it's about time." Hanson said when he saw her.
"Hello Jonas." Sam said.
"And you never thought I'd amount to anything. Quite a leap isn't it? From Captain to..." Hanson started to say.
"What's happened to you Jonas?" Sam interrupted.
"Please, sit down." Jonas said. "These caves were once mines they permeate the hillside for miles but these people have been multiplying like rabbits. They don't have the technology to dig themselves more space, they don't have the courage to leave the caves. It's like a third world country in a bottle."
"And you think yours saving them?" Sam asked skeptically.
"I know I am. These people, they're human beings. They're like us. How can we turn our backs on them? Kidnapped from Earth, forced into slavery for centuries!" Jonas said passionately.
"We can't change that." Sam said.
"Yes we can, we must help." Jonas said.
"Well how is posing as a god and slowly working these people to death going to helping?" Sam demanded.
"I hate that word, stop using it." Jonas demanded. "I'm not posing! It is a matter of definition my people need me. They believe in me, and because they believe they work."
"To death." Sam added.
"We're building a civilization, Sam. They are going to be sacrifices. It's better than rotting in caves, living and dying in squalor like you've never seen. I'm creating a great people."
"In your image?" Sam asked.
"Yes. It's going to be wondrous! You'll see, you'll see." Jonas said in a fanatical tone.
Back at the remaining members of SG1 stood from where they were sitting.
"Alright, were going to have to get one of them alone, talk to them." Jack said.
"They could give us away." Teal'c pointed out.
"Maybe not, maybe not." Danielle disagreed. "I think I've got just the candidate." She said as they saw a man who had sneaked off to the river to drink and wash off.
Danielle walked up next to him and started to wash her hands. The man looked at her, fear in his eyes.
Danielle waved hi, then looked back down. Jack walked up to the other side of the man, he looked up and saw Jack.
The man quickly jumped up and turned around to run only to be met by Teal'c. Teal'c puts his finger to his lips. "Shh"
Back in the caves Hanson was showing Carter pictures drawn on the walls of the cave. The drawing were of animals and people dancing under a giant orange bubble, a table type thing in the middle.
"I really wish I understood these drawings." Hanson said.
"Why don't you ask your people?" Sam asked.
"All knowing." Hanson explained.
"You knew I would come didn't you?" Sam asked.
"How could you not? Healer of the emotionally wounded. I was your one failure. The bird with the broken wing that wouldn't heal." Hanson replied, almost bitterly.
"You seem to be flying well enough on your own." Sam pointed out.
"I hoped that you would understand." Hanson turned his back to her, giving Sam an opportunity to grab her gun and cock it loudly as Hanson quickly turned around.
"I do understand, your sick and you need help." Sam said as she kept her gun trained on him.
"That your idea of help?" Hanson asked.
"Yes, you're coming back with me." Sam said.
"Well, your gonna have to use it, Sam. Go on. It's still loaded, pull the trigger." Hanson said as Sam's hands started to shake. "Do it!" Hanson came closer to Sam. "So help me, that is the only way you're going to stop me. What's a few deaths compared to the survival of MY people? Killing their savior might irritate them a little, but at least I'd be gone."
"Don't make me do this." Sam said.
"Go on, pull the trigger, one more fraction of an inch." Hanson said as he slowly took the gun out of Sam's hands. Sam looked like she was about to cry. "You had the gun. You appeared to have all the power. Yet, I was in control. That is the strength of a god."
Back in the woods Sg1 had the man lying under a tree. "My name is Jamala, Jamala. Please don't kill me."
"No, we won't." Danielle promised.
"Jonas said you would come. Devils with power like him here to destroy us." Jamala said fearfully.
"No! No, we're not devils. We're men and women like yourself. I'm Danielle, this is Jack and this is Teal'c."
"Hi!" Jack said as Jamala looked at Teal'c.
"Is ha a Jaffa?" Jamala asked.
"Yes." Danielle said.
"Don't kill me!" Jamala begged.
"No! It's okay! He's friendly, he's a friend." Danielle got up and put a hand on Teal'c's shoulder.
Teal'c had a huge frown on his face. "Smile, look friendly." Danielle said to him. Teal'c put on the worst smile Danielle had ever seen in her life.
"You're going to have to work on that a little bit." Jack said.
"How do you know he's a Jaffa, have you seen one before?" Danielle asked.
Jamala shook his head. "No, just stories from when I was a young boy. Long ago. He is a servant of the old gods, yes?"
"Well yes and no. He's from another place. So are we." Jack explained.
"Another place?" Jamala asked.
"Earth. It's way, way out there, where we're from, Jonas too. See he's not a god, he's just a man. A crazy man, granted, but..." Jack said.
"Okay, Okay, Jonas is bad." Danielle cut him off.
"But it's alright, he can't hear you right now, he can't hurt you." Jack said.
"But he will if you and your people continue to believe in him and follow him." Danielle said.
"No, he will save us!" Jamala denied.
"By laboring you in the sun until extinction?" Teal'c asked.
"If we finish the temple, Jonas will make the sky orange. It will be safe to come out in the light. There will be no more sickness." Jamala said.
"The sky, orange?" Jack asked, confused.
"The sky. Up there." Jamala pointed up as Danielle sighed.
"Yeah, I know what the sky is. Why?" Jack asked.
"When the sky's orange, it's good. There's no more sickness." Jamala explained.
"And Jonas can make the sky orange?" Teal'c asked.
"Yes, he can." Jamala said.
"How do you know?" Jack asked.
"He says he can." Jamala replied.
"Do you know what he's talking about?" Jack asked.
"I believe so." Teal'c agreed.
In the cave Hanson walked out of his cave, along with Sam. They walked out to the cliff looking out at the workers. "It's going to be magnificent. Isn't it?" Hanson asked, more to himself than for any kind of response.
"What's the point Jonas, by the time it's built there'll be no one left to worship you." Sam pointed out.
"Please. Mere survival for these people will require unquestioning faith, pure devotion. They must believe in me, if I'm to lead them into the desert, to the promised land. I'm merely separating the wheat from the chaff. Besides I'm supposed to be crazy, right?" Jonas said.
"I never said you were crazy." Sam pointed out.
"But you think it don't you?" Hanson laughed. "That's alright. I still have faith in you even if you don't believe in me, yet. You'll come around."
"I don't think so, Jonas." Sam said.
"Come here." Hanson said as he grabbed her by the arm and pulled her back into the cave.
In the woods Teal'c was drawing a picture on a piece of paper, the picture looked like the table thing that was drawn on the wall in the cave.
"What is it?" Danielle asked.
"It is something I have seen the Goa'ulds use. It creates an energy force high in the air." Teal'c explained.
"What, protection from the radiation, like this planets sun?" Danielle asked.
"The device I saw appeared to turn the sky orange." Teal'c said.
"The cave painting tells of this. They show this symbol." Jamala confirmed.
"Have you ever actually seen one of these things he's talking about?" Jack asked as Jamala nodded.
"Where?" Danielle asked.
In the caves Hanson pulled back a curtain, showing Sam a large cloth covering something big. He pulled the cloth off and she saw what must have been in the picture he was talking about. Sam went around it to look at it.
"What is it?" Sam asked.
"Looks like something the Goa'ulds left behind. What I gathered from the local folklore is that the ancient gods used it to make the sky orange, to protect the people from the sun sickness." Hanson explained.
"Some sort of shield." Sam agreed.
"Yes."
"You don't know how to work it?" Sam asked.
"Not my area of expertise." Hanson replied.
"You never cared about me coming here because you wanted me, Jonas, you just wanted me to figure out how to turn this thing on for you." Sam realized.
"Oh no! That's not true," Hanson denied. "I sincerely hope that one day you will agree to be my goddess. Turn it on."
"What if I won't?" Sam asked defiantly.
"The we will watch every last cave dweller die in the sun, before I kill us both. 'He hath not failed one word of his good promises'. I've been carrying this for years." Hanson pulled out a book. "All along I've been looking for God. And here I am."
"So you betrayed your gods, as I am betraying mine?" Jamala asked.
"The beings I betrayed were not gods. They had power, but power alone does not make one a god. Do you understand?" Teal'c asked
Meanwhile behind them, Jack and Danielle were working. Jack had Jamala's clothes on and Jamala had Jack's on.
"Can't leave Conner out there another day, he'll die." Jack said.
"We also have to do something about Captain Carter." Danielle agreed. "But if Teal'c can turn on this device, we could seriously undermine Hanson's power."
"There is a problem with your plan, Danielle." Teal'c said.
"Wait, don't tell me you don't know how to turn it on." Danielle asked.
"Yes, I can turn it on. But there must be two." Teal'c explained.
"What are you talking about?" Danielle asked.
"The shield technology evolves a force field, being bounced back and forth between the two devices." Teal'c replied.
"I have only seen one, in his cave." Jamala added.
"Hanson may not know, he needs the second device." Danielle realized.
"This is the valley." Teal said as he started to draw a diagram. He added a bunch of triangles to look like mountains, and he puts a circle on one end and a ladder looking thing on the other. "Here is the Stargate," He traced the circle. "Here is the temple." He traced the ladder looking thing.
"Good drawing." Jamala complimented.
"Thank you." Teal'c said. "Where was the first device found?"
Jamala pointed to a spot near the Stargate.
"Then the second device is..." Teal'c said as he drew a x with a circle around it all the way across the valley and near the temple.
"You're assuming the Goa'ulds just shut them down and left them in place?" Jack asked.
"That is correct."
"I'm sorry Teal'c. Your calculations could be way off. Conner doesn't have time for us to be wrong. I'll go after him. You try to find that second device. I'll try to meet you back here." Jack said as he ran off after Connor.
Teal'c, Danielle and Jamala were walking through the woods. Jamala was way ahead of the others. They found a rock platform but nothing on it.
"This place is like where the other one was found on the far side of the temple." Jamala said.
Danielle and Jamala got down on their knees and started wiping away the leaves and dirt from the platform.
"This is like solid rock, we'll never be able to get through this." Danielle realized.
Teal'c, who was standing off the platform looking around, came to join Danielle and Jamala. he looked at the spot Danielle and Jamala had searched and tapped on it with his staff, nothing happened.
"Stand aside." Teal'c said as Danielle looked up at Teal'c then jumped up, pulling Jamala up off the platform.
Teal'c followed them, then aimed and fired his staff weapon at the spot in the middle of the platform, creating a large circular hole in the platform.
Danielle ran up to it, followed by Teal'c and Jamala. "I just hope it still functions."
In the valley Jack was hiding behind some rocks, making his way to the poles. He stopped behind a rock and pulled out a blowgun. He aimed at one of the guards and blew.
The blow dart hit the guard right in the chest, who passed out and fell down the cliff.
Jack walked up to Conner. Conner's head was down and his eyes were shut. "Kill me."
"Are you sure? I've come all this way." Jack said as Conner's head snapped up in surprise.
Jack untied him. "Can you walk?"
"Yeah."
"Let's go." Jack said as they started slowly walking. "Think we can pick up the pace a little bit here?" Jack said as they heard a man shout.
They both saw Baker in the background and heard his gun cock as guards surrounded the two.
Jack turned to Baker. "Hey, how you doing? You know we'd love to stick around but some brain-dead sycophant left my buddy out here to die. So were out of here."
Baker backhanded Jack across the face and took his gun, then his knife. "Move." he pushed Jack as they all started to walk.
In the cave Sam had her little computer out with some wires sticking out, going into the shield maker. "The control board seems to follow the same basic circuitry patterns as the gate technology."
"Just turn it on." Hanson said impatiently.
"Colonel O'Neill." Sam said in surprise when she saw Jack was escorted in by a guard.
"Captain. I see everything's working out just as we planned." Jack smiled.
"Shoot him!" Hanson ordered.
"No! Alright I'll..." Sam started to say.
"Wait, you're going to turn this thing on in here?" Jack asked.
"Do it now. If it works, I'll spare him." Hanson said.
Sam turned to Jack, who nodded and waved her to get a move on it. Sam fiddled with the device until an orange light shot up to the ceiling. "It's beautiful."
Danielle and Teal'c had the other shield maker out from under ground.
"Will it work?" Danielle asked.
"I do not know." Teal'c said as Jamala came running as fast as he could towards Danielle and Teal'c.
"Everyone is being forced to gather at the circle of the gods." Jamala said as he caught his breath.
"The Stargate." Danielle realized.
The Stargate has been knocked down, and all the villagers were surrounding it.
Conner and Jack sat on their knees near the gate, hands tied in front of them as Baker stood behind them, and Hanson and Carter stood behind Baker.
"My children. Today is a great day!" Hanson said to the gathered crowd "The sun stood still in the heavens, and hasted not to go down about a whole day. I have the power to help, and to cast down. But fear not, standstill, and see the salvation of the Lord. Today, we will bury the doorway, that brings forth demons who threaten to undo us. But first I will send those evil doers who have already invaded our world, back to the hell from whence they came." Hanson said as he pointed at Jack and Conner.
He dialed in Earth's address. "Fear not, for I the lord your god, control the gateway to the underworld." Hanson said as the gate opened and the people jumped as it opened.
Sam looked like she could barely control her rage. "You said you wouldn't kill them."
"I'm not," Hanson agreed. "I'm sending them back to Earth."
"Without sending the signal to open the iris they'll die." Sam pointed out.
"Please Sam, I'm having a moment here." He ignored her as he returned to yelling. "I am the lord your god, there is nothing I cannot do. No one is greater then I. No one is more powerful then I. Throw them in."
Jack and Conner were pushed up and taken to the edge of the rock going over the gate.
Suddenly Danielle appeared, she jumped on to the edge of the gate. "Wait! Stop!" She said as Jamala shot Baker with Teal'c's staff before he could shoot.
"Back away!" Jamala shouted as Hanson pulled out a gun. Sam kicked it out of his hands.
Hanson backhanded Sam and they started to fight.
Jamala shot the staff right by Hanson causing him to stop and turn.
"Listen to me, no matter what Jonas has shown you or done for you, he is not a god." Dani addressed the crowd.
"Don't you listen to her!" Hanson shouted. "They are demons, agents of the devil! I am your savior!"
"We're not demons, for crying out loud." Jack said.
"This..." Dani said as she picked up a gun. "This is not magical power. It is called a gun, and it is a machine." She said as she made the clip fall out and the villagers gasped.
"Do as I say! Or you will all die!" Hanson said.
"Do as he says and you WILL die." Jack replied.
"Do not betray me, after all I have done for you! I promised you I would bring you out of the caves, into the light. Today I fulfill that promised." He said as he walked over to the shield generator. "Behold the magical power that belongs to your god! I give you the sun." He turned it on. "I give you the world."
The light went straight up, but did nothing more.
Hanson went over to Sam and jerked her by her vest. "What's wrong?"
"I don't know!" Sam replied. The device worked exactly as it was supposed to.
"Fix it!" Hanson demanded.
"It's a machine, I can make it work, and so can you, just like Jamala there can fire that staff. Now I'll show you how, there are two devices. And both must be turned on for the shield to work. Watch."
Danielle nodded to Jamala who shot the staff in the air. Teal'c saw it, and turned on the other shield.
Suddenly both bright light hooked together like a rainbow, then a large orange dome formed.
"I'm taking you with me!" Hanson said to Sam as he realized that he had been found out.
Jack pushed Conner off the ledge, and tackled Hanson, sending Hanson, Jack and Sam down and on the ground.
The villagers were very mad at Hanson and tackled him in a mad dash. They picked him up and they threw him into the Stargate before anyone had time to dial in the code.
A few hours later the gate was back up and SG-1 and some villagers were standing together talking. Jack was standing by himself looking at something when Sam walked up to him. "Uh, I think we're ready."
"Think we should tell them to bury the gate after were gone?" Jack asked.
"Teal'c seems to think the Goa'uld won't be back." Sam said as Danielle walked up.
"Maybe we should come back and check on these people." Danielle suggested.
"I think we've done enough, don't you?" Sam said as Danielle nodded and walked away.
"Something else on your mind?" Jack asked.
"I had the chance to end this, Colonel, he literally asked me to do it." Sam explained.
"Killing a man is no badge of honor, captain." Jack pointed out.
"I know." Sam agreed.
"Look, I'm no expert on this thing." Jack waved the book Hanson had. "I generally read one commandment, and I think it's the first."
"I am the Lord your God, and you shall take no other God's before me?" Sam asked.
"Okay, so it's not the first one. I'm talking about the 'No Killing' one. No matter what the reason, every time you break it, you take one step closer to Hanson." Jack said as Sam nodded.
"Thanks," Sam said as Jack handed her the book, then went to where the rest of SG-1 and the villagers were talking.
"So, you going to be alright?" Jack asked Jamala.
"Yes." Jamala said as they shook hands. "The world outside the caves...it's very big, yes?"
"Yeah, it's bigger then you can imagine." Danielle agreed as she and Jamala shook hands.
Danielle walked to the Stargate, and dialed home. Sam transmitted the code, and SG-1 plus Conner walked up to the gate.
To Be Continued…
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