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He was doing push ups when he heard the discharge of staff weapons mixed with other sharp sounds and it was coming closer. A few seconds later he saw one of the guards outside his cell step out into the corridor and receive a compact blue blast in the chest.
"O'Neill" he cried out to warn his friend who had just stepped into the corridor. The second guard point his staff at his friend just as the later rounded the corner. Then the guard fired and an orange bolt hit the man straight in the chest. Everyone but O'Neill was surprised when the orange bolt impacted a green barrier just as O'Neill raised his weapon and fired.
"You don't look too happy to see me" O'Neill said. He aimed his weapon at the cell bars, two weak, sharp, blue blasts melted the lock.
"I did not think anyone would come for me so soon." Teal'c's face was a large smile. He saw his friend step out into the corridor only to take multiple staff blasts to the body while returning fire.
"Well I did didn't I?" O'Neill said while Teal'c picked up a staff and helped out. "We need to get moving, I'm not sure how much more this thing can take."
"The rings are this way" Teal'c said and pointed down one corridor.
"I came to find something else too, I hoped the Goa'uld would have some sort of Tok'Kal which can knock out everyone in an entire city."
"The device you seek is called a Tak'Kol. They are not considered to be honourable by the Jaffa, still there should be some on the ship" Teal'c said and changed direction.
"Care to tell me how you ended up in that cell?"
"I was ambushed when I entered the council chambers some days ago. Their intention is to attack Earth, they say many Jaffa worlds have been made devoid of life and they blame you."
"I'm sad to say it, but they may be right. The day after you left for Dakara we had a change in leadership, and not for the better, but we're planning to correct that soon."
"Then they must be put on trial before the council."
"No, they will not be allowed to get of the planet" O'Neill whispered seconds before they ambushed a patrol and a pair of guards.
"We may not have time. Most of our ships are engaged in a campaign against a Goa'uld who has grown too strong, they have been for many months but I do not think it will be long until they are victorious and then they will bring the full force of our fleet down upon Earth." They stepped into a storage room and walked up to a Tok'Kal which was many times larger than the normal kind. When Teal'c pressed a button on a control panel it rose up from the ground. "This is the Tak'Kol."
"Well then, let's get going."
"There is a set of rings just down the corridor" he said as they walked out with the Tok'Kal following right behind him.
"Well come on then." O'Neill said and rushed down the hall.
At the rings Teal'c stepped inside with the Tok'Kal, which took up all the remaining space inside, while O'Neill had to stay outside while Teal'c and the bomb ringed over.
"Lay down your weapons" a Jaffa shouted. Behind him several more came into the hall.
"How about you put them down instead" O'Neill said. His weapon was pointed at the group. Then he pressed the button and jumped into the rings as staff blasts slammed into his shield.
"O'Neill are you alright?" Teal'c asked as he saw the rings retracting around his friend.
"Just give me a minute" O'Neill said. He felt the shield tumbling inside his clothes. "Get us out of here for now." On his leg he could see the damage of a grazing blast but he could see the muscle fibers ever so slowly growing back in place.
When Teal'c reached the controls of the ship it rose from the hull of the Ha'tak where O'Neill had landed the ship. "O'Neill. Their shields are active but our hyperdrive is damaged."
"We're cloaked so we're safe and we're using an aftermarket hyperdrive so use the Ancient console to set a destination." O'Neill said as he tried to put weight onto his leg, which gave away under him.
"It is not responding to my commands O'Neill. It is as you claim, aftermarket equipment is not good." Teal'c came running from the cockpit and lifted up O'Neill. "They will begin to shoot at random to find us in moments."
"This is Ancient equipment Teal'c, it's better than what was here to begin with" O'Neill said while he shifted his weight onto the console and begun to tap at the display. Outside they could see that the Ha'tak begun to fire at random."I'll need a moment to activate it, unless you want to vaporise the Ha'tak."
"It matters not to me O'Neill, they do not want me alive and so I could not care less for their fate" Teal'c said, much to O'Neill's surprise. "If we vaporise this ship it will be one less we must face in battle over Earth. The fleet already gathered here is large enough that it will prove hard to stop."
"If you say so" O'Neill said and pushed a button. In front of the ship the hyperspace window opened and the ship slipped through while the Ha'tak was ripped into pieces. "Still that wasn't the decision of the honorable warrior I used to know."
"There is nothing left of the honour the Jaffa had when they fought under the Goa'uld, they do not deserve respect or honour anymore" Teal'c said in disgust. He slumped down against one of the consoles. "I believed the Jaffa could unite, but these days I have been proven wrong. The oppression of the Jaffa and humans of the galaxy is again as strong as when the Goa'uld ruled, only now the Jaffa are the ones oppressing. The nation I have fought to create have become the thing I fought, the high council is no better than the Goa'uld, they are just as greedy and power hungry."
"Sounds like regular politicians to me." A small pool of blood begun to form around Teal'c. "Isn't the Tretonin suppose to heal you right up."
"It has done before, but the effect has decreased lately." Teal'c said while the pool grew.
"Just hang in there, you're lucky we're not to far away from home." As he said the words O'Neill saw his friends head fall over to the side.
On Jobos Mokar was showing the Angelos around the lab when one of the consoles begun to beep. In confusion the Angelos begun to look for enemies while he himself walked up to the console to see why it was sounding the alarm. On the screen the sensors showed an object, possibly a ship, which was going to crash close to the gate. He did not need the sensors to identify the image shown as the ship he had allowed O'Neill to take. With a few presses he activated the transmitter and tried to reach the ship, but no one seemed to respond.
In horror they watched the ship plummet from the sky at breakneck speed. Far too late it begun to level out. With the grace expected of a large blue whale the ship impacted the ground and skipped over the surface.
It took some time before the ship lost momentum and begun to carve a long ditch into the forest. By the time it stopped it had carved a path far into the forest which had been set on fire by the ship. Powerless to stop the raging fire they saw the ship disappear for a few seconds before a shield formed around the ship.
His mind was in chaos when he looked around the lab for anything to save them with. After failing to find anything useful in the lab he ringed down to the gate.
Inside the ship O'Neill felt his heart sink as he looked out of the ship, he had managed to activate the shield but now the forest around them was burning and without help he knew Teal'c would be dead soon. During the trip the blood pool had grown much larger and the sticky liquid now covered large parts of the floor.
After what felt like hours one of the consoles beeped and when he looked at the screen it showed a long and thin object closing on their position quickly from behind the ship. Hoping for aid he hurried to the back of the ship, as fast as he could with an injured ankle, surprisingly enough one of only two injuries he'd gained from the brutal landing, the other being a broken arm.
When he opened the cargo doors some ash fell down onto the floor while they slid open, slowly at first then faster. Halfway open they grinded to a halt with a loud rumble. Far away on the horizon he saw a dot appearing and quickly forming into the hover sleigh used in the processing facility.
When it reached the shield the sleigh passed right through it and forced its way into the cargo hold through the half open doors.
When the sleigh had stopped halfway into the ship one of the side panels opened and Mokar jumped out.
"Classy" O'Neill said as he limped up to the man.
"I do try my best O'Neill" Mokar said as he tried to help him into the sleigh.
"There's a Jaffa in the cockpit who's injured" O'Neill said. He broke out of the Alterran's grip and tried to move towards the Jaffa."I think he could be ready to join you."
"I will see to him O'Neill. But I do hope your plan does not rely on recruiting a single Jaffa." Mokar hurried off into the cockpit to tend to the Jaffa.
"Of course I do" O'Neill shouted while he begun to push the Tok'Kal from the corner it had ended up in during the crash. Luckily for him it still floated lazily just over the floor, a large dent had however been created in the wall next to it.
When the Tok'Kal came within a short distance of the hover sleigh it was surrounded by a force field which guided it inside the sleigh.
"O'Neill, I will need your help to move the Jaffa."
"I'm coming." He limped towards the cockpit, halfway there he heard a crack from his broken wrist and as he prepared to fall face first into the floor the pain in the ankle disappeared and he could stand straight again. This Lantean change felt good, he felt young again and that was a feeling he had not felt in many years, probably several decades. Hehad begun to respect the Ancient, or Alterran which he seemed to prefer, during their short time together. They had not done much together but he liked what he had seen so far.
"I've done what I can for him, but he has lost much blood and will need to recover" Mokar said as they lifted Teal'c inside the hover sleigh. "I hope you found what you needed for your plan."
"Of course." Together they climbed into the cargo hold where Mokar opened a panel which protected the manual controls.
"I hope your plan does not rely on him though." Mokar said. The metal of the sleigh and the ship groaned as they forced their way out of the ship. "Even with a symbiote it would take him a number of days to recover until he can fight."
"As a matter of fact it doesn't, but I'd consider him an asset." O'Neill said as the sleigh raced through the blazing fire. "I stole a bomb which will stun everyone in the city, if it works as planned. Still it wouldn't have hurt to have a third person for the assault, just to secure the city."
"You do not need to worry about that. The good news is that I have managed to find ourselves a group of warriors, the bad news is that the lab I hoped to use in growing the body was destroyed in the process."
"Well you can build another right?"
"Yes, with enough resources and manpower it can be done easily."
"That's just a temporary setback then. Teal'c told me the Jaffa fleet will be going to attack Earth soon, most likely within the month."
"You know we are not ready to take on a fleet yet. I have not checked on the shipyard yet, but I do not think we are in any position to construct a fleet without much repair work done to the shipyard."
"I think we at least should check up on it."
"I do agree with you O'Neill." The sleigh stopped quickly and the hatch opened. They jumped out of the hover sleigh and were covered in ash raining down upon them. From the direction of the crashed ship they heard a loud bang, like distant thunder, while they hauled Teal'c out of the sleigh and into the rings.