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Teal'c stood stoically, his staff-weapon still pointing at his target.

"Teal'c, what just happened?" Daniel asked, standing up from his position over Sam.

Teal'c lowered his weapon and turned to Daniel. "The replicators have been eliminated," he said.

Daniel looked around him. "How?" he asked.

"It was a hologram," he said.

"What?" hollered Jack in utter disbelief, from Carter's side. A hologram? They had wasted precious time and ammo on a hologram? Not to mention possibly the last of Carter's strength? Jack was furious, but couldn't help letting out a sigh of relief at the same time. They were out of danger.

"Of course," Daniel said. "That's why we couldn't shoot them. They weren't actually there."

"Indeed," Teal'c replied.

Daniel grinned. "Thank god for that," he said. "That would have been…well…"

"Terrible," came a small voice from the ground next to him.

"Sam," he said and kneeled back next to her. Jack was wiping the sweat of her face with his sleeve.

"Hey Daniel," she said as he felt her head for a temperature. "I can assure you, I have a fever," she said with a weak laugh.

"You were shaking, and thrashing all over the place," he said.

"Fever will do that to you," Sam said. "Goes great with the hallucinations," she said, as casually as possible. From the look her CO gave her, she wished she had kept it to herself. He would be worried about her for the rest of the trip.

"Hallucinations?" Jack asked. He had remained silent until now, focusing all his attention on watching Sam. His voice was almost cracking with concern.

"Yeah. And you were there, and you were there, and you I've never seen before," she said with a weak grin, trying to break the ice a little. It always unnerved her when Jack got too concerned. He always got that look in his eye that made her very uncomfortable. It thrilled her, but made her very uncomfortable.

Jack's face broke into a smile. "Good to have you back, Dorothy," he said, endearingly.

"So Teal'c," Sam said, the strength in her voice covering just how weak she really felt. "How did you know?"

"It appeared unlikely that the replicators had in fact made themselves immune to your weapons," he said. "Upon further inspection it became apparent that the sound was not emanating from the replicators themselves but from the tree in front of me. My staff weapon proved effective in deactivating it,"

"Good work," said Jack. Teal'c bowed his head in welcome.

"Teal'c, is there anything left of the device that…" Sam took in a sharp breath. "Sorry," she said, as Jack held her back to steady her.

Teal'c bowed his head again and retrieved a small, ball-shaped device from the scorched tree.

"Interesting," Sam said, her bloodshot eyes lighting up with a spark that only her doohickeys ever saw. She fiddled with it, taking a screwdriver out of her pack, disassembling it, reassembling it, cleaning it and trying to make it work again.

"That should do it," she said, placing the ball on the ground. She looked up at Jack, asking permission to turn it back on.

"Not till you've had something to eat. You haven't exactly kept anything down," he said. Sam nodded and rummaged through her pack, taking out the supplies that Dedi had given them.

Curious, Jack, Daniel and Teal'c removed their supplies from their own packs. Dedi had packed them several buns as well as a strange bottle of what looked like water that stayed freezing cold even with no insulation. Sam put it to her nose and sniffed. It smelt sweet like a flower or tree sap. She had long since run out of water from her canteen; Jack had used most of it in an attempt to cool her fever. So, with another sniff of the liquid, she shrugged and took a sip, the fluid burning as it slid down her throat. She coughed and spluttered, but noticed that already, her nausea was beginning to lift. She looked inquisitively at the bottle and took another swig. Her eyesight became clearer and she could look towards the light without receiving stabbing pains in her head.

"Sir," she said, looking over to Jack, who was hungrily feasting on a bread roll. "Try the juice," she said, taking in another mouthful. Jack shrugged and took a swig out of his own bottle. He retched.

"That's the most disgusting thing I've ever tasted," he spluttered. "Good though," he added, when he noticed how much more awake he was. "Hey Danny," he called. "Try the brew. It's even stronger than your coffee!"

Now that her strength was closer to normal and her stomach was full, Sam wasted no time in getting back to her newest doohickey. As soon as she had finished eating, she picked up the ball again and studied it, pressing buttons every so often. Daniel was busy trying to find out what the mysterious drink was, so that he could take it back to Earth and make a lot more. Jack was absent mindedly watching Carter as she worked, and Teal'c as usual, was watching them all.

"Got it," Sam said, and pushed a button on the ball. There was a low humming sound and she put it on the ground in front of her. A large replicator army appeared around them, their metallic legs squeaking as they marched. Jack sidestepped as a replicator walked through his legs.

"That's just wrong," he said, batting his legs down. "Damn bugs!"

"I am yet to understand the significance of this device," Teal'c said, picking up the ball so that the replicators marched through the air instead.

"Maybe they wanted to scare us off," said Daniel.

"Or render us out of ammunition," Teal'c suggested.

"They," Sam mused.

"Right," Daniel caught on. "I guess we're back to square one on that."

"Not RepliCarter?" Jack asked.

"I don't think so, sir," Sam answered. "There'd be no point in using a hologram."

Teal'c held the ball to his ear and frowned. "There are other sounds emanating from this device," he said.

"What?" asked Sam as Teal'c gave it back to her. She held it up to her own ear. It was music. Familiar music, at that. She passed the ball over to Jack. He grasped it to his ear and bopped along with the music.

"Catchy," he said.

"Do you recognize it, sir?" Sam asked. Jack shook his head. Sam frowned. She was sure she had heard it before. She held it back up to her ear and listened again. Suddenly she realized where she had heard it.

She groaned.

"What?" Daniel asked, as she handed the ball over to him.

"Jitterbug," she said, rolling her eyes.

Jack frowned. "As in the 'Wake me up before you go go' Jitterbug?" Jack asked.

"No," said Sam, "of course not. The song, 'Jitterbug'. It's from the Wizard of Oz."

"No it isn't."

"Yes it is."

"I would know, Carter,"

"Colonel Carter is correct, O'Neill," Teal'c said. "Jitterbug is indeed a piece from the musical, the Wizard of Oz. It is in the deleted scenes," he said.

Sam grinned. "That's right. I forgot it wasn't in the movie."

"Care to explain, Carter?" asked Jack.

"Yes sir," said Sam. "The jitterbug was a dancing…bug in the Wizard of Oz. The Wicked Witch used it to tire out Dorothy so that her flying monkeys could steal her, sir," she said.

"Cool," said Jack.

Daniel groaned. "I get it. The replicators were supposed to be the jitterbugs?" Sam nodded. "And that was supposed to be funny?"

"Well, obviously the Wizard has a sense of humour rivaling Teal'c's," Jack answered. "Is that in the book too?" he asked Sam, mockingly.

"Well, no sir. Stage musical."

"You've seen that?" he asked, excitedly.

"We did it in high school, sir," Sam replied, smiling as she watched the grin grow on her commanding officer's face.

"Are you serious?" Jack asked. "Who were you? Please tell me you were Dorothy," he goaded.

"I wasn't in it sir," she said incredulously. Jack looked clearly disappointed. Sam smiled slightly. Obviously the General had never heard her sing before. "I helped make the flying monkeys though," she said, hopefully.

"Did they fly?" Daniel pitched in.

"I wasn't the captain of the robotics club for nothing," she grinned, taking back the ball and putting it in her pack. She was amazed at how well she felt. Her headache hadn't completely subsided and she was more than a little queasy, but the worst of her nausea had lifted and she felt no worse than she did after a fairly hefty team-night. With a heave, she put her pack and followed Teal'c, who was leading onward through the forest.

"How long have I known you?" called Jack as he caught up to her.

"Eight years, sir," she answered, frowning in confusion.

"And how many years have I not seen a flying monkey under my Christmas tree?"

"It won't be nine, sir," she said, with a warm smile. He grinned back at her.

Not for the first time on the mission, Sam and Jack ran straight into Teal'c and Daniel who had stopped abruptly.

"De ja vu," Jack muttered as he looked behind him to see the forest had ended several metres before. Just how long had he been grinning at Carter, anyway?

Sam flushed a little, realizing how long she had been staring at him. Again, Daniel and Teal'c didn't seem to have noticed. She shook her head and snapped back to reality. Just what was in that miracle juice, anyway?

"What have we got, Danny boy?" Jack asked. Daniel looked at Jack wildly, gesturing to the huge green wall in front of them. Obviously, Jack had been paying absolutely no attention.

"The gates to the Emerald City," he said grandly.

Jack and Sam looked up in front of them. The wall was so high that they could barely see the top.

"It's beautiful," Sam whispered, and stroked the wall with her finger. She had never seen anything so iridescently shiny before. Had she not known how awake she was, she would have sworn she was hallucinating again. "Sir," she invited, as Jack stood by her side. He gave his team a childish grin and rapped on the gates with his knuckles. The sound boomed as though they were in a tight corridor.

From inside the gates, trumpets sounded. With a loud creak, the gates swung open, revealing a huge city of green. A grand fanfare played as SG-1 stepped through the gates and into the strange city. The whole city sprang to life, children danced, women sang out in chorus and confetti was being hurled over balconies.

Dorothy and her team had finally made it to the Emerald City.

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