A/N: Sadly enough my BETA-reader has had to resign from his post, so from now on the position is ones again open for application. If you feel like you want this position then please send me a PM.

Jippie, there' actually some character development in the Episode, which is something that's been requested several times over and over again. It's not much but it's a start.

I'm having a writers block that grows bigger with each Episode I write, so it gets harder and harder to write these things, but at least I had a laugh doing it (you'll understand why in the dreamy part).

Infirmary. Atlantia.

General of the SGC Jack O'Neill felt like he'd had not one, not two but rather ten beers to much, except he didn't feel sick, but that could have been because his stomach ached like hell for food.

Then he heard a muffled voice screaming something and following that he heard more voices around him coming closer.

After a while he felt someone opened his left eye, letting light inside to which he shut it hard.

"General can you hear me?" He thought a voice said.

In response he tried to ask who, but all that happened was that he begun coughing.

"Get this man in upright position and get him some water." He heard what definitely was Dr. Beckett's voice as the sounds in the room became clearer.

Then he could feel several hands pulling him under his arms, putting him in sitting position before a cup was pressed against his lips and liquid poured down his throat.

After that someone once again opened his eyes, revealing a blurry image of Carson, making him grunt a bit before his eyes adjusted to the light, but still he didn't get a clear image.

"Jack." He heard a second before a pair of arms wrapped themselves around him, making him twist in discomfort.

"Sam, I don't think that's good for him." A voice that definitely was Daniel's said.

"Sorry sir." Sam said as she tried to pull away, only to have Jack put his arm around her and holding her in place.

"You should know she's been here almost the entire time." Daniel said.

"Well someone had to keep an eye on him and you two were a little to busy with your own problems." Sam said.

"O'Neill, its good to see you're awake." Teal'c was heard.

"I know you're happy to see him, but I need to perform some checks on him." Carson said and gently led Sam away before returning to start examining Jack.

"I'm fine Dr." Jack said as he felt Carson poking on his legs.

"General, no one's fine after taking a shoot through their heart." Carson responded.

"Through the heart? So that's why it hurts so much."

"Sir, just try to be still while Dr. Beckett examine you." Sam urged him.

"Fine, just be ge..argh." Jack replied as Carson pressed two fingers into his chest, just outside his heart.

"That will leave a scar." Carson commented before continuing his examination.

A minute later Carson where done with the examination and walked of with some blood samples for further testing.

"Doctor, you've forgot to check my eyes, cause I can't see a shit." O'Neill shouted after Beckett as he realized that Beckett was leaving.

"It'll come back, your eyes took some damage due to a lack of oxygen, but as soon as the cells begin to repair themselves your vision should return gradually. But there's nothing I can do to speed that up, you're free to leave." Beckett said and left the room.

Hearing this Jack tried to push himself into upright position, but to no avail as his arms refused to cooperate.

"You mind helping me get to my quarters?" Jack said to his three friends.

"Sure." Daniel said and begun to approach Jack.

"You know what Carson said Daniel, no unnecessary weigh for a few more weeks. Teal'c give me a hand." Sam said as she walked past Daniel, who Jack now could see held crutch in his left hand, and put her arm under Jack's, closely followed by Teal'c who did the same.

"There was some damage to your nervous system, luckily Dr. Beckett managed to repair it, but you'll have to retrain your body to the new wiring." Sam explained as the friends made their way out of the infirmary.

"So what happened to you Daniel?" Jack asked as the walked, motioning at the crutch.

"Oh, a minor accident while I pursued your attackers." Daniel answered.

"If you by minor accident mean crashing a stolen hover-car into another hover-car making both cars crash into a building and then getting rescued by Teal'c a moment before getting shoot in the head, then yes it was a minor accident." Sam said with a small laugh.

"Do not forget that Admiral Sheppard was in that car too." Teal'c added.

"That's kinda crazy just because someone shoot me." Jack said.

"Then you should hear what Sam did." Daniel said.

"And what did you do?" Jack asked

In response Sam begun to mumble something.

"Basically she went berserk, eliminating an entire Lucian Alliance fleet before repelling an attack on Destiny." Daniel filled in.

"Well I don't see her with a crutch." Jack said.

"If it hadn't been for McKay she wouldn't even have been in one piece."

"So you kids went crazy just because someone shoot me? It's not like it's the first time it happens." Jack said as they reached the door to his quarters.

"O'Neill, you should know that most of the SGC went crazy over it, important people all over the planet were killed that night by Lucian Alliance operatives." Teal'c commented

"How long ago was this?" O'Neill asked as he realized that he'd been out a long time.

"Sir, you've been in coma for almost four weeks." Sam answered.

"Four weeks? Then I take it we've already delivered retribution?" Jack said as they sat him down on the bed.

"Yes, tho we might have overreacted in our eagerness to respond to the Lucian Alliance." Daniel said.

"How many are dead?" O'Neill asked with a hint of sadness in his voice.

"It's hard to say sir." Sam said.

"You must know how many you took to the assault right? And how many returned, it's as simple as that."

"Sir, there was no casualties on our side of the battle, we did however destroy an entire enemy planet in the process. There was a large number of civilians on the planet when it happened."

"You brought out the X-307?"

"Yes sir."

"You didn't think for one second that it would be a little to much."

"No sir."

"We'll take a debriefing later. For now there's some things I need to discus with Sam, alone." Jack said and motioned at the door.

After the two had left, leaving Sam and Jack alone, Sam broke down crying, to Jacks surprise.

"Don't you ever do that again." She sobbed.

"Do what?" Jack asked in confusion.

"Get shoot like that."

"Hey, I can't decide if I get shoot or not."

After that Sam became quite and against his better judgment Jack, after much struggle to get his limbs to do as they were told, put his arms around her to comfort her.

After an hour or so Jack noticed that Sam had stopped crying and had instead fallen asleep. To his own surprise he found himself laying her down on the bed and tucking her in, just like he had done so many times after coming home to his ex-wife, only to find her sleeping on top of the bed waiting for him to come home, when he was done he lay down behind her and quickly feel asleep himself.

Sam's dream.

In her dreams she woke up and felt herself lying on a bed with someone holding her tightly from behind with an arm around her waist, not unpleasantly tight but rater tight enough for her to find it cozy.

So she turned around to find out who this person holding her was, to her relief it Jack O'Neill, the man she'd fallen for time and time again, and not a Goa'uld, a Jaffa or any of the countless other enemies they'd fought.

At this point her body took over and she gently pushed the man of her dreams, quite literally this time, over on his back before she slid up on him and bowed down to wake him up with a kiss.

After a few kisses he opened his eyes and looked at her, then he whispered something she couldn't make out before he pulled her closer, after a few seconds of kissing she pulled away, ready to move on to more adult things, but as she did this her hand accidentally pressed on his chest just were the heart was placed.

"Argh, that hurts badly Sara, can you be a bit more gentle." Was Jack's response to this.

At first she thought it was odd for him to say that, but then she became aware of their surroundings and realized that it wasn't a dream, in panic she threw herself away from Jack only to fall down from the bed on the floor.

By the time she'd gotten up from the floor Jack was sitting on the edge of the bed and pulled her into a hug, holding her firmly in place with her back against his chest. He too had realized it wasn't a dream.

"I'm sorry sir." She sobbed, this wasn't good and she knew it, romantic relations between commanding officers and their second ind command wasn't exactly according to protocol.

"You should be." Jack answered in a harsh tone.

"I understand if you're mad at me for kissing you sir. I thought it was all a dream, it wont happen again." She said and tried to get up to leave, but Jack held her firmly in place.

"Oh, I'm mad at you alright, but not for doing that."

Now Sam's mind went blank, he was mad at her, but not for the kiss, what else could he be mad at her for? Maybe for falling asleep in his bed in first place. The mind of the brilliant scientist had soon come up with hundreds of reasons of why he was mad at her, then he silenced her brain with his next words.

"Don't you dare brake a kiss like that again." He said as one of his hands trailed up and pushed her head back into a position where he could kiss her.

After that kiss things went fast...

Three hours later their fun was interrupted as Daniel and Teal'c entered the room.

"Didn't you learn to knock?" Jack shouted as he pulled a duvet over someone lying next to him without any clothes on.

"We've been knocking for over a m..." Daniel begun before he saw a jacket thrown over a chair in a corner with a name tag that he could read, then he turned back to Jack "Is that Sam."

"What? No she's my second in command Daniel, that would be inappropriate." Jack said.

"Well this is her jacket at least and so are those pants if that notepad is anything to go by." Daniel said in response and picked up the jacket, before pointing at a pair of pants hanging upside down over a door. Teal'c simply raised an eyebrow, he knew all to well what his two friends feelings for each other were.

"Daniel, turn around, walk out that door right now and forget what you ever saw here, same goes for you Teal'c" Jack ordered.

"If that's what you want, but allow me to be the first one to say this. It's about god dam time you two loosened up and had a little fun." Daniel said before turning around and heading for the door.

"Indeed." Teal'c added before following his friend, but before they reached the door Jack had opened his mouth again.

"What do you mean about go dam time?"

"Well it's not like the feelings you two have for each other have gone unnoticed from anyone. I actually think you two are the only people who doesn't know what the other thinks about you."

"You're not making any sense Daniel." Jack said.

"How thick can you be Jack? You think Sam would walk into the shower at the same time as you're there ever other month or so by accident, it's only when you're alone in there that she does that."

"How can you know that Daniel?" Sam asked just as she shoot up her head into view.

"I've been in the locker room a few times when you've been going inside, other times I've come inside the locker room only to find your two lockers the only ones that are open.

And Sam, all those times Jack has been thrown out of the wormhole only to land on top of you, he's been pushing of to gain that extra speed. Hell you've guys been married or dating in one way or another in almost every other reality or time-line we've visited or seen."

"There's also the time loop were you took some liberties O'Neill." Teal'c added.

"Hey, you promised not to tell." O'Neill complained.

"Either way you two aren't exactly a surprising couple." Daniel remarked.

"Fine, I give up, yes we did have some fun, ok?"

"Ok."

"Now what did you want when you opened that door?" O'Neill asked.

"We where just going to ask you and Sam if you wanted some breakfast before we begin to excavate you're desk. It's rather cramped from the papers you need to sign." Daniel said.

"What do you think?" Jack asked Sam.

"Sounds good." She answered.

"As she said, sounds good. We'll see you there, we've got some cleaning up to do first." Jack said and motioned for the clothes that lay and hanged all over the room.

"We understand." Daniel said and walked out of the room closely followed by Teal'c.

Bridge. Vindaxer.

Sitting on the bridge of the Vindaxer was Eli as well as some other crew members from the repair team.

"Ok people, lets try this at minimum power." Eli ordered.

Following his orders the crew members begun to ready systems for power up.

"Insert the ZPM." Eli continued after he got the green light from all stations.

A moment later the emergency lights shut of as the ZPM powered up the ship and the regular lights came on. For a split second the ship accelerated before stopping again.

"I have regained control of the entire ship." Mars Caesar said after appearing, in English as Daniel had delivered a language crystal.

"Good."

"It's green across the board." An officer reported.

"Good, prepare to test the engines."

"Sublight engines at ten percent." Mars reported as the ship accelerated slightly.

"Increase power at will." Eli said after a few minutes of looking through data.

"Increasing to full power." Mars said as the ship accelerated hard.

"Take it easy." Eli said as he corrected his position in the chair after almost being thrown out of it as the ship accelerated.

"I forgot that you have physical bodies."

"Move on to test of the FTL-engine."

"Powering up FTL-engine." Mars said as there was a slight hum before the ship jumped to FTL.

"Sir, sensors are detecting a faint energy signature ahead." The sensor officer reported.

"What is the status of weapons and shields?" Eli demanded.

"Fully powered, but we haven't had the time to test them yet." An officer reported.

"Mars, drop out of FTL, prepare weapons and shields before making a hyperspace jump to the energy signature." Eli ordered.

"Dropping out of FTL in three, two one...now." Mars said and then the ship dropped out of FTL. "Weapons and shields at full power. Switching to hyperdrive, preparing to jump in ten seconds."

Ten seconds later the ship broke through the barrier between normal space and hyperspace.

"What's our ETA?" Eli asked.

"The hyperdrive isn't tuned correctly to the size and shape of the ship yet as it's built for the command class, so we're a bit slower than we should be. We're estimating three hours until our arrival." An officer said.

"How much would we gain on stopping and tuning it correctly?"

"Not much if any time at all."

"Drop out as long as we wont lose time." Eli ordered.

"Dropping out." Mars said as he dropped the ship out of hyperspace.

"Begin tuning the drive now." Eli ordered.

Two hours later the drive was tuned and they were on their way with a new ETA of one hour.

Another hour went by and then they dropped out in the middle of nowhere, all that was there was a massive fleet of control ships around a massive ship that was several kilometers front to back and about one across, it's design had influences of both Ancient design and design from the control ship.

"That ship was controlled by my wife." Mars said at the sight of the ship.

"That's the repair ship you were protecting?" Eli asked

"Yes, or at least part of it. Looks like the control ships have made some modifications to it. They probably had to destroy large parts of the ship to be able to take it over."

"Sir, control ships are powering up and deploying drones." An officer reported and outside they could all see the control ships coming to life.

"Get us out of here. Get me a channel to General Young." Eli ordered and pointed to different people who did what he told them to.

"Eli, what's the rush." Young said as he appeared on a screen.

"On our test flight we stumbled upon another Ancient ship, only this one isn't floating around without power, the control ships have repaired it and implemented their own technology in it."

"You stumbled across it?"

"Well we did continue on the course that the new found ship had when it left the battle."

"Battle?"

"Yes, the battle in which the Vindaxer was destroyed. It's the repair ship that was sent along with the fleet protecting Destiny."

"That's why the control ships looks so good." Rush said over he should of Young.

"What do you mean Rush?" Young asked.

"Well we know that the control ships have been out here for a very long time, but all we've stumbled upon has been in prime condition. This must be were they repair, at least in this part of the universe."

"If that's the case then we have to destroy that ship."

"I don't think that Mars will allow it, that ship was once controlled by his wife, if we want to take the advantage of that ship away from the enemy we need to capture it, in the long run we'll gain a much large advantage from that then by simply destroying it." Eli protested.

"Eli, you realize the man power needed to take over that ship if they have any guards on it."

"It's not like we have any lack of people. We could probably get an entire brigade for it if we asked."

"We probably need one if we're going to take that ship, if we get one brigade for this each soldier will need to secure a huge area. But still I have to say that Eli is correct, we need to take that ship away from the enemy and it wouldn't hurt to have that ship under our control, with it we could repair the rest of the fleet without help from Earth." Rush said.

"You both want to do this?" Young asked hesitantly.

"I'd say we do." Rush said after taking a look at Eli for confirmation, during the time they'd been back on Destiny he'd changed, to the better, drastically, now he actually listened to people, at least to Eli, the other scientists, Young and people he considered smart, something Eli and Young gave credit to Dr. Perry for.

"Then I'll get in contact with the SGC to request troops and weapons for the assault of the ship. In the meantime I want you to get here with that ship Eli." Young said.

"We're on our way. Just as soon as Mars allows it, I don't think he'll like the idea of retreating so far away from it."

"Do what you have to do. If nothing else keep him from reengaging the enemy alone. Young out." Young said and closed the channel.

"You heard that I assume?" Eli asked into thin air.

"Yes. While I don't like the idea of backing down from a fight with them I also know that I can't take her back alone, this ship is a little to big to enter her, at least in the way necessary to clean her up, so even if I can get through their defenses I need you. In other words I'll fall back to Destiny, but I'll set out guards around around them in case they try to relocate." Mars said after appearing in the middle of the bridge.

"Good, then plot a course for Destiny." Eli said and leaned back in the captains chair.

Conference Room. Atlantia.

Since the faithful day when Daniel and Teal'c had walked in on Jack and Sam in bed there had been some small changes in the SGC, one of them being some changes in protocol, another was the fact that a set of officer quarters had become available as Sam had moved in with Jack, lastly Jack had, following the attempt on his life, announced his retirement as leader of the SGC but as of yet he had not named a successor.

Now the original SG-1 was sitting in the conference room in Atlantia discussing a request that had just been received from Destiny.

"So you all think that we should do this?" O'Neill asked.

"It's a unique opportunity to gain an advantage over the enemy in that area and to release some extra resources from us when the war comes." Sam said.

"I agree with Sam, we need to take this opportunity?" Daniel agreed.

"Indeed." Teal'c said.

"Then it's decided we'll grant them a brigade for the mission." O'Neill decided.

"We might want to make it more than one brigade. That ship is rather large" Daniel said.

"What about project Machina Militum?" Sam asked.

"The prototype's have been finished and we are ready to push them into production as soon as we've tested them against some real soldiers." Daniel answered.

"So lets test them against the soldiers by comparing effectiveness?"

"What is this project?" O'Neill asked

"It's the follow up of the Atlas-project, a project to create a piece of armor that can function without human input. Daniel's been overseeing the project since it's transfer to Chrona." Sam explained

"And these robots work as they should?" O'Neill asked sceptically

"They're androids, but yes, they work as they should, they learn from every encounter too." Daniel answered.

"As long as you can guaranty that they can't turn on us you have a green light to deploy them alongside our regular soldiers." Jack said as he got up, meetings wasn't his thing.

"Jack, there's a reason to why these androids haven't been put out into the field yet." Daniel reminded Jack.

"And yet you tell me that they'll do their job." Jack said before he left.

"Sam, I'm going to need you to go through the last of the code, just to make sure it's perfect." Daniel said.

"Sure." Sam said and received a datapad from Daniel with the latest updates on the project, including the programming.

"Thanks. Did he say anything about who would lead the assault and the boarding of the ship to you?"

"He's planing on leading it himself as a last act before retirement." Sam said before leaving to read through the code.

Gate Room. Destiny.

In the gate room people were flowing through the gate to Destiny, together with the occasional android, from Atlantis.

On board the Vindaxer the same thing happened but instead of many humans and a few androids the ratio was reversed with a few humans mixed with the androids, this group came from Chrona.

As they arrived through the gate they walked up to different ring transports located around the room, installed just for this assault, and were sent away to different parts of the ship to await further orders.

After a few minutes everyone had arrived, so when O'Neill, Sam, Daniel and Teal'c stepped through the gate they were greeted by a tech reporting that everyone where on board.

I response O'Neill thanked the tech before dismissing him, after that the team made their way to the bridge.

Bridge. Destiny.

As they arrived on the bridge they could see people running in and out of it with papers and in the middle of the chaos Young sat, seemingly undisturbed by all the people running around.

"Captain." O'Neill said as they reached him.

"General, we're ready to begin the attack as soon as you give the word." Young replied.

"Begin the attack." O'Neill ordered.

THE END

Well this went rather fast actually, I'm rather surprised my self.

Originally I planned to have both the battle and Jack's retirement in this chapter, but I guess the word count will run away as I write that, so instead I'll cut the Episode here and put the rest as it's own, it'll be almost as the last Episodes in the seasons of the real series.

As always I want your reviews.

A/N:

Who should take over after Jack? I'm thinking Sam or Daniel.

Name for the repair ship? AI is named Venus.

Name for the android soldiers?

There's a poll on my profile page about Episode/Chapter length, please answer it.