NOTE:

Hello! Thank you for all the reviews. So this Chapter started in Sam's POV and the part after the 2nd line break is in Jack's. I don't own anything, but the way. Hope you enjoy the chapter!

I would have assumed that the aliens would have taken over the commissary. I mean, what's not to like? There's food which is, in truth, not the best, but the dessert is amazing, there's only one entrance/exit so it's easy to defend, there's lots of tables and room to strategize, and it's a great place to stash unconscious people (Invaders aren't usually that polite. They just leave people laying everywhere, prone to being stepped on). But as we cautiously entered the commissary, there was nothing. the place was completely empty, save for some food left on the tables from when the invasion started. Not that I'm complaining, but I expected the dream keepers to at least have some sort of presence there.

"Um… isn't this a little suspicious?" I glanced over at Teal'c, "The commissary being completely devoid of any aliens? Usually they like to set up base here or in the briefing room, and they're not there either."

He hesitated, his eyes continuing to scan the room, "Indeed."

I took a small step forward and froze. Slowly, I looked down and my breath caught. The baby dream keeper's pinchers snapped around it's mouth, surprisingly menacing for such a small creature. It opened said mouth and let out a series of hisses, it's eyes flashing. I was usually only scared by normal things. An army of Jaffa, extremely pissed off natives, being stuck in a river with giant poisonous sharks, etc. But never before had I actually been scared of something smaller than a shoe. That was about to change.

The thing issued one last hiss, and lunged toward me. I stumbled backwards, unprepared for the attack. Martouf had said that they only took people as their incubators when they were in a dream state. I had just enough time to think of a particularly unfriendly string of words about him, when the infant wrapped itself around my hand and yanked the knife, my only weapon, out of my hand while it started clawing it's way up my arm. I tried to desperately shake it off, pull it of, and everything else you could possibly think of, before Anise stepped in and ripped the thing off of my shoulder. I gasped, blinking red spots out of my eyes. Damn that hurt! Taking a deep breath, I forced myself to look down at the arm in question. Multiple gashes ran from the palm of my hand, around to my elbow, and into my shoulder. And even more scratches and claw marks had decorated my arm in addition to that. My blood was dripping on the floor, seeping outward, searching for something to stain with it's vivid, but gut-churning, color. I looked like I was mauled like a very hungry bear, or one of the giant poisonous sharks I mentioned earlier. Who knew such a small creature could be such a vicious attacker?

"Major Carter, you require medical assistance." But Teal'c's focus wasn't on me, despite his concern. He was scanning the walls, ceiling, and floor for other infant dream keepers, along with Anise and Siler. Each one that was found had something thrown at it, whether it be a knife or a screwdriver, that they were usually killed or knocked unconscious. I was so absorbed, almost mesmerized by the steady stream of infant dream keepers showing themselves and then being dealt with, that I didn't even notice them until they spoke.

"Holy crap Carter. That's quite the scratch."

Ferreti stood in the doorway along with two Russian soldiers. By then all of the dream keepers had been taken care of, so the other three people in the room turned their attention to the new arrivals as well. I smiled at Ferreti.

"Good to see you too."

"Well it looks like we're right on time."

Behind the newly arrived trio, was 3 more people. Zhukov, another Russian soldier, and-

"Dad!" I grinned and walked forward to hug his, but winced as the motion pulled of my arm, reawakening the fire along the wound.

"Sammy. It's good to-" He paused, "What in God's name did you do to your arm?"

"An infant dream keeper attacked me." I gave a hesitant smile to prove I was alright (which could be disproven if he just looked at my arm again, but I had to try).

Instead of proving me wrong, he closed his eyes, "Damn it. They've already hatched. This is not good."

"Why? Well, I get why, but we just drive them out too."

It was Anise who answered, "I did not wish to bring this up, but a base full of Tok'ra could barely hold them at bay before reinforcements arrived. How could a base of humans hold them off?"

"Excuse me?" I said incredulously, grinding my teeth together at her insinuation that we were not as capable as them. Arrogant, self-assured, egotistical-

"This is not an offense to the fact that you don't have symbiotes, just a reference to the fact that we have experience fighting them. Anise is right." We were all startled yet again by the appearance of two more people, Eytan and Martouf, "But we still can fight. The Tok'ra have been contacted."

"Hold up!" Ferreti held up his hand, silencing Eytan, "Maybe we should sit down, now that we're all here and there are no more nasty surprises waiting to maul us at the moment."

Murmurs of agreement spread through the group, and we all migrated toward a table near the back of the room. The door was in view of everyone, so we could easily see any threat coming.

"First off," Freya said, "I think that it would be helpful to know everyone's names here. I do not know these 4 people." She pointed to the four Russians.

I hadn't even noticed that the Russians had failed to introduce themselves. I guess I was a little busy running away from tiny evil aliens.

"And we only know Teal'c and Major Carter." Zhukov jumped in.

"Okay." I leaned forward, my elbows resting on the edge of the table, "So, everyone knows Teal'c and I, right?" With nods all around, I continued "And this is Major Ferreti, Eytan and Tarik, Martouf and Lantesh, Sergeant Siler, Jacob and Selmak, and Freya and Anise."

Zhukov nodded, "Alright. I'm Colonel Zhukov, this is Major Alexander, Captain Avilov, Captain Siyan."

A few people offered smiles, but mostly it was just an awkward silence that followed. I was about to break the silence, but Teal'c beat me to it, "Perhaps we should continue strategizing."

We all jumped onto that statement like a drowning man clutching at straws.

I clapped my hands together, "Yes! So, the Tok'ra were contacted. They could probably find a way in and help, right?"

Martouf leaned forward, "Perhaps… but if they were informed of the race of people attacking, then they would be able to save us without a doubt."

Captain Avilov nodded, "They were told of the full extent of the situation."

"Good." Martouf nodded, but did not elaborate.

We all exchanged glances. I stared meaningfully at Martouf, Eytan, Anise, and my father, but only my dad seemed to understand.

"Sammy, the Tok'ra have a defense against the dream keepers. We have developed a type of radiation that will incapacitate them. The only thing is, it's harmful, even deadly, to humans who do not have a symbiote."

Ferreti frowned, "Okay, that puts a slight hitch in the plan. It's kind of an ineffective plan if the people who are being saved die while being saved!"

My dad shook his head, "Ferreti, there's an immunity that can be administered. They will send it to us in the most accessible way, in this case the air vents, and then send the radiation."

That sounded like a fabulous plan to me. What could possibly go wrong?

"The air vents are automatically sealed off during lockdown, in case of an alien pathogen." Siler pulled some pie that was left on the table toward him, "I can override it, though. Major Carter just has to get to the control room, and I also have to be at the generator."

I nodded, understanding, "So you can manually reset the system and I can access the lockdown sequence, isolate the algorithm that codes for the air vents being sealed, and open them without even hacking into the system… much."

"Alright. They should be here within the hour. Now," Martouf paused, scanning the people seated at the table, "How about 4 of us go with Siler to the generator, 3 of us go with Sammantha to the control room, and the remaining 5 can secure the complex as best you can in the remaining time. Now, I personally would like to go with Sammantha to the control room."

"I will accompany Major Carter as well." Teal'c straitened his back, as if daring anyone to contradict him. Nobody stood in the way of Teal'c protecting his team. He would rip anyone limb from limb if they did (and that was not an assumption. He had never actually done it in front of us, but he had threatened to). It was safe to say he would be a good person to take along for protection.

Dad looked like he wanted to contradict Teal'c but he hesitantly nodded, "Okay. I'll head off with Siler, Eytan, and whoever else would like to come."

"I'll come." Ferreti offered, "And Zhukov's team along with Freya, or is it Anise… whatever. Anyways they can go with her to secure the base. We'll join you guys after we're done opening the air vents."

I stood up, ready to move out. I was satisfied with the plan. It was a good plan. Not much could go wrong, as it was pretty simple, but if anything went wrong, it would be disastrous. Well, we would just not have to mess anything up. Great, how many times has that been said before plan C ends up taking affect. I sighed. Oh, well. We have to try, probably not the best idea to psyche myself out. We were doing this, and the heath of the entire base rested upon us doing this. No pressure, right?

(and by the way, in case you forgot, plan c is running for your life)

A little while later...

I was starting to loose feeling in my legs. And my arms. And everywhere else. By then I had come to the conclusion that begin tied up sucks, but being tied to a wall sucks even more. This eventually lead me to the obvious conclusion that this whole situation sucked. And that conclusion was confirmed when a group of evil aliens came into our room. Sorry, cell.

"So, anything new going on? You know, like plans to take over the world."

My eyes flicked over to Dani, who was stifling a smirk, "Ya, like they would tell us that."

"Great conversation starter, though."

"Quiet!" The lead woman hissed. She held up some sort of dark container, which was moving. I took that to be a bad sign, and I was right. he woman spoke again as she began removing the lid of the jar, "Our children do not enjoy excessive noise."

I coughed, "Children?"

She reached in the jar and pulled something out. It was kind of hard to describe. Think of a chimpanzee, shrunk down to the size of my hand, turned part lizard, with feelers all around it's mouth, legs of about 10 centipedes squashed together, and making the noises of a very pissed off cat. The image just screamed of all sorts of bad things. Dani muttered something in another language that sounded suspiciously like a curse, and even though I had no idea what it meant, I had to agree. This was not looking so good.

The woman flicked her eyes to another alien and he raised his gun- along with every other person in the room besides her. She reached into a pocket, pulled out some sort of device, and pressed a button. Instantly, the chains holding Dani to the wall released her and retracted into a ball with a creaking noise. I'm sure Carter would have been fascinated, but I had other things to worry about. For example, the thing that looked suspiciously like an injection or shot that the woman just pulled out of her pocket. She had set the tiny creature down at her feet and advanced toward Dani. Then something hissed. And it wasn't the tiny evil creature on the floor. The air vent in the corner was spitting out a white mist. It shot out and curled throughout the room. I tried to hold my breath, but it didn't do much good. The stuff sunk into my skin, and made my already asleep appendages even more tingly. What the hell was it supposed to do? Deciding it was useless to keep holding my breath, I let out a puff of air and turned to the woman, ready to rip her a new one, when she started hissing. or it sounded almost like hissing, but I was able to pick out what she was saying after a few moments.

"What is that? Inaro, is this part of your plan?"

"No." He looked grim, "I am as clueless as you are."

"Well then find out! Move!"

A few of them scurried out of the room, and she returned her attention back to Dani, "Now, where was I? Oh, yes. I was about to inject this into you. Don't worry, it won't hurt you."

Dani sucked in a sharp breath, "You're lying. You're going to put my into a dream sate, aren't you? Make me an incubator."

The woman nodded, seeming impressed with Dani's deduction, "Very good. And I prefer to not use the term incubator. It sounds almost derogatory." She began to advance forward again.

Dani held up a hand in desperation and pushed herself away from the woman, managing to stand up, "Wait-"

And the door opened. The woman turned, I grinned, and the soldiers all turned their weapons upon the new people. The trio at the door seemed shocked at first, but got over it quickly. Teal'c, Ferreti, and Carter attacked all of them with a very large virally of weapons. They had executed this in a manor of seconds. They turned as one to take out the lead woman, but froze. The woman held Dani up against her, the injection to her throat. A small trickle of blood could be seen tracking it's way down her next. I could feel my anger building up, along with the three saviors'.

"If you attack or come any closer, I will inject this into your friend. She will fall into a dream state, and the infant at my feet will immediately take action. And Sam," she looked directly at Carter, "You know exactly what this will entail."

Carter swallowed and took a step back, her eyes boring into the woman.

"Now set down all of your weapons."

In a flash, Teal'c flicked his wrist and his weapon was flying toward the woman. And of course, she had to have cat-like reflexes. She jerked Dani up and in front of her. A yell from Dani confined that the weapon had missed it's mark. A fork was not in Dani's shoulder. Again with the cat-like reflexes, the woman ripped the fork out and threw it to the floor.

"This is your only warning. Set your weapons down NOW."

And they complied. A symphony of metallic noises filled the room as various tools and weapons were tossed to the ground.

She smiled, "Good. Now slowly make your way out of the room."

Nobody moved.

"I told you that was your last warning." And she injected the substance into Dani, letting her crumple to the floor. There was compete silence, before a hiss echoed through the room and the tiny evil creature lunged straight at a completely vulnerable Danielle Jackson.

NOTE 2:

So what did you think? I hope this chapter met all expectations. So, I'm thinking one chapter after this, then the epilogue. Then another story! Here are some options for the next story. I can't pick, so please help me choose one. And keep in mind that I'm not very creative and there are probably some really cheesy and over written plots in the list.

All of the stories will be with Danielle, and they will all have actual plots. They can be before or after Nathifa comes into the picture (some of them have to be one or the other, but most can be interchangeable).

Shades of Grey redone w/ aftermath.

Scorched Earth aftermath

On earth, Goa'uld technology is found and SG-1 has to get it back.

Dani and Sam body swap, and then there turns out there are heath issues, and they have to invade someplace or steal something to return them to normal (a VERY used plot, but I thought it might be fun to write).

SG-1 finds out about a group's plot to assassinate SG-teams, and they must go undercover along with SG-2 (or another team, your choice) to stop it.

Sg-1 goes on a diplomatic mission… but on earth. People can attack, there can be a kidnapping, etc, etc.

SG-1 can turn into animals after an off-world incident. Then there is, of course, an attack, impending annihilation of earth, or other disaster.

Sg-1 is put to the task of training 4 new recruits, but then they are attacked or get into a very bad situation off-planet (with the POV of the recruits).

Redemption redone

Heroes redone

One of Baal's clones is wreaking havoc on a trading planet, and SG-1 must stop it.

Kinsey comes to the SGC and tries to frame them of treason and murder. He has to be stopped, obviously.

A training exercise with another military base turns bad when a Goa'uld escapes containment on earth and attacks (outside of SGC point of view).

Thanks! And as always, please review, suggest, comment, criticize, or choose the next story.