Vala fired shots at the Furlings in quick succession, not pausing in her task. They staggered after the first shot hit them but by the time the third shot had struck they were on the ground. Moving to where they laid, Vala shot at them again at close range and gave them a not so gentle kick with her foot. Satisfied that they were dead, she moved forward.

For Vala there was no time think, the job she was undertaking was to important. She had to act first, using all of her instincts. The time for thinking would come later. For now all she had to concentrate on was eliminating the Furlings, without hopefully bringing to much attention on herself and finding Daniel and Anna. The words find Daniel and Anna were going through her head like a mantra, over and over again. Pushing even that thought out of her head she carried on through the corridors of the ship.

As she moved quietly about, she searched each room occasionally coming across a Furling. With each one she found she acted swiftly, no hesitation as she fired at them. Sometimes a Furling got a shot off but the energy projectile that it launched had no affect, the armour she worn easily deflected it.

Arriving at a crossroad of corridors she saw three Furlings, each one standing in a corridor with an arm raised at her. Quickly they fired projectiles at her and just as quickly Vala shot at them, not stopping until they were down. Suddenly something slammed into her, throwing her against the floor. Surprised but not damaged, Vala realised a Furling had come up behind her. How stupid, she thought. As she quickly rolled over onto her back, she fired at the Furling just as it was about to attack her again. At such close range the blast of her weapon brought the Furling down, a large blacken red sticky hole appearing on its chest. For a second it seemed surprised as it brought its hand up to where the blast had struck. As it looked down at its hand, Vala shot again and again, causing it to stumble to its knees before it fell forward, two large sticky marks appearing on its back. The blasts had gone right through it.

Breathing heavily Vala got up.

"That was close," she said out loud her voice sounding quite different outside the suit. Giving a brief glance at the Furling, she looked around carefully making sure that no more Furlings were going to surprise her as she continued going through the ship. Though the ship was mostly in darkness, Vala began to recognise some of the rooms and corridors from when her, Mitchell and Teal'c had given the ship a quick search. She was getting close to where they had been held prisoner.

In discussing the rescue plan it was thought that it was a possibility that Daniel and Anna might be held captive in the same room that they had all been in. Though no one was confident that this was the case, still it needed checking out. Vala was determined that she would search everywhere for Daniel and Anna. She would not leave this ship until she had found them, and she knew the others felt the same.

Approaching the room that had been their prison, she noted that there were no Furlings around. Mentally doing a quick count she knew that she had so far taken down 8 of them, but she knew that didn't mean that she had got them all. The rest were probably closer to where their ship was attached to the Ancient ship. She would go and investigate that possibility soon, but for now she needed to check this room. The door or force-field or whatever it was, was still in place giving Vala a brief hope that perhaps someone was inside. More importantly that a particular someone was inside. Not bothering to figure out how to open the door she blasted at the control panel. Sparks flew out and a doorway appeared revealing a darken room. Taking a deep breath Vala went in.

Though there was little light in the room, the Kull suit had built in night vision providing Vala the ability to see everything quite clearly. Laying near a wall was Daniel. Laying half on his side and half on his front, with one arm stretched out as if reaching for something, he appeared almost dead. Going to him, Vala knelt down on one knee and rolled him onto his back. As she did so she gave a small gasp, unable to hold the shock back. His shirt was torn in places, revealing large circular wounds. Bruising was also visible through some of the tears, as if someone or something had repeatedly punched or kicked him. Though these wounds were bad enough it was the large gash on his forehead, running along his hairline, that gave her even more concern. For a second she felt herself losing it, wanting to cry out, to scream but she pulled herself together. Daniel needed her, she had to be strong.

With a gloved hand she gently touched him. "Daniel! Daniel, I need you to wake up." Realising that perhaps he wouldn't recognise her voice in the suit she pulled her helmet off. "Daniel! Wake up! Please!"

Opening his eyes Daniel found himself looking into the beautiful green eyes of Vala. Funny he thought, he had looked into her eyes many times over the years and only know was he realising how truly beautiful they were... she was, he amended. He gave a small chuckle as he thought that. He really had been beaten badly by the Furlings if he was admitting to himself that he thought Vala beautiful and even more surprising was that he was tempted to tell her how beautiful she was. "Vala...."

"You know this is starting to feel somewhat familiar. Me boarding a strange vessel and finding you. All it needs is for you to be tied up and strapped to a chair, and we're right back where we started. When we get back I think maybe we need to have a little talk about your fetish for being rescued by beautiful women dressed in black. Until then we need to get you out of here."

As she said this Vala reached under Daniel's shoulders and using her body as leverage hauled him into a sitting position. For a second Daniel swayed wondering if he was going to pass out again, but Vala held him tight supporting him.

They stayed like that for a few seconds, Vala watching him with concern. Sensing the swaying had passed she eased off a little in her grip, looking for signs that he wasn't going to pass out. Seeing that he was okay. "Better? she asked.

"If you mean, am I going to faint, then yes I'm okay. If you mean does it hurt, then no, it hurts like hell." Daniel gave her a painful smile.

Vala nodded. "Okay then. I'm going to pull you up now. I want you to hold onto me, and don't let go no matter what."

Getting a better grip on him Vala pulled him upright, with Daniel leaning on her for support. Luckily the suit provided plenty of places for Daniel to grip onto. With her arm around his waist and his arm around her shoulders they stood up, Daniel holding back several moans as they did so. Making a move to leave the room Daniel looked down at Vala. "Anna. The Furlings they took Anna. We've got to find her. We can't leave her behind."

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