Cameron's first thought was of the pounding in his head.

Memories slowly came through. An energy blast. A tall powerfully built figure all in black dragging him. A cold, smooth oval shaped device being placed on his forehead, followed by intense pain.

As the memories settled, Cameron became aware of a much more pleasant sensation. A hand was lightly stroking his forehead and hair. It felt nice. This was followed by other thoughts such as that his head was being cushioned by something that was both soft and firm, and he could faintly smell flowers. Anna, he thought and slowly opened his eyes.

"Doc?" Cameron spoke. In the dimness of the room he could just make out her smiling face.

"Hi," she said softly.

The fogginess clearing from his mind, he slowly sat up. "Whoa," he said as a wave of pain and dizziness came over him. Catching his breath, he turned to the concerned face of Anna. "I'm really beginning to dislike these guys."

Anna reached out her hand, running her hand through Cam's hair and pausing it there. "You okay?"

Looking at her intently, he also reached out his hand, gently running it down the side of her face. "Yeah, I'm okay Doc."

"Well, I'm just going to stay here. What's the point in getting up, their only going to knock us down again." Vala took a breath to try and ease the nausea she felt.

Cameron turned to Vala, who was lying on the floor with her knees bent up. She looked very pale and her eyes were glazed and red, as if she had been crying .

"You okay?"asked Cameron

"Never better," said Vala, giving a weak smile.

Slowly standing up, with the Doc's help, he turned to Teal'c who was leaning against a wall with one arm, slightly bent over. "Teal'c?"

"I too am okay, Colonel Mitchell."

Suddenly a section of one of the walls opened up again, revealing Daniel who was roughly pushed into the room. Though he looked a little shaken, at least he wasn't unconscious like the others had been when they had been brought back.

An alien figure entered, walked up to Anna and held her by the throat. One finger pressed on a vertebrae in the back of her neck, a thumb pressed on the front of her throat. It pressed firmly, applying enough pressure to be uncomfortable. Anna had the feeling that it was letting her know that it could kill her in an instant if it wanted to.

As Cameron made a move to take a step forward, the alien holding Anna turned it's head. Raising an arm it sent a small burst of energy at him, causing him to fall onto his knees in pain.

The alien turned its attention back to Anna. Anna felt that the alien was staring at her, even though she could not see it's face. All she could see was her own reflection staring back her from the helmet.

"You are not Asgard," said a voice that was hoarse and raspy, "Nor are you an Ancient"

With that part of the helmet seemed to dissolve becoming slightly transparent. The only feature she could make out were a pair of eyes. The eyes were dark golden with black shimmering iris's, oval in shape. Anna felt that what was staring at her was most definitely very alien. It scrutinized her for a few seconds as if it was confirming something that it already knew, then it let her go. With that it took a step back and disappeared.

~*~*~*~

"Okay, what just happened?" Daniel looked at the spot where the alien had been.

"It appears that it has left," replied Teal'c.

"Yeah, well as long as it's not coming back, that's a good thing." Cameron went over to the open section of the wall. "Looks like it decided to leave the door open on its way out."

"It may very will be a trap, Colonel Mitchell. I would advice caution," said Teal'c coming over to join Cameron in the doorway.

~*~*~*~

For nearly an hour Cameron and the others searched the ship but could find no sign of any aliens. The ship was still in semi-darkness and all the computer were offline, as were their comm links.

"Well, we're not going anywhere in hurry," said Cameron walking onto the bridge with Teal'c behind him.

"I take it no luck finding any shuttles or escape pods." Daniel looked up from where he was sitting.

Cameron shook his head. Suddenly his comm crackled

"Cameron! Cam, can you hear me?"

"Loud and clear Sam. It's good to hear your voice. We've run into a few problems...," replied Cameron over the comm, relieved the Sam was okay.

"We know," interrupted Sam, "I'm going beam you back" With that Sam activated the Asgard beam and beamed all of them back onto the Odyssey.

~*~*~*~

"... we were lucky, they only knocked out our systems."

Sam, Jack and the others were walking through the semi-darkness of the Odyssey as Sam talked. "With Thor's help I managed to get some of the systems back online."

With that they walked into a lab that was lit up.

"So I see," said Daniel.

"Actually, this lab was the only thing that still had power after the energy charge hit us."

"Oh?" Daniel looked at Sam with surprise.

"We were just as surprised as you are. Thor explained that this lab has some kind of special shielding,"

"Why?" Daniel looked around at the others who seemed just as interested in this piece of news as he was.

Going over to the console Sam touched a pad and a holographic image of Thor appeared. "I haven't asked him yet."

"We kind of thought it was more important to get some of the systems back online. And of course, rescue you," interjected Jack.

"Thor, why has this room got shielding?" said Sam

The image of Thor began to speak, "The shielding was installed when we implemented the technological upgrades to this ship. Since you are asking about the shielding, I can only come to the conclusion that it has been activated. For that I am deeply sorry. I had hoped that the need to use it would not arise. Obviously that is not the case. The enemy you have encountered are the ???" The last word that Thor spoke was in the Asgard language.

Seeing the others look to him for understanding what the last part was Daniel translated, "He said 'The Betrayers.'"

"Now why am I thinking, that is not a good thing," Taking off his cap, Cameron took a seat.

"Who are "The Betrayers'?" asked Daniel.

"They are our greatest enemy, and our greatest shame. You are in grave danger. Do not under estimate them. They are ruthless in their pursuit, and extremely patient."

"You call them 'The Betrayers', I take it that's not their real name." Daniel was curious by this turn of events. An enemy of the Asgard was definitely something to be worried about.

Before Thor could answer Daniel, Cameron noticed that Anna had gone very still, her face pale and a look on it that he recognised. "Doc, what is it?"

"I think.... I think I might know who 'The Betrayers' are," Anna said this very quietly as if she had trouble believing what she was about to say, yet everything seemed to add to the conclusion she had come to.

"You do?" asked several voices at once, surprised looks on their faces.

For a few seconds it was quiet then Anna spoke again, "It's the Furlings."

~*~*~*~