Found - part 14

Moving into my new house tomorrow (aaaaaa!). Unfortunately, internet access will not commence until my roommates move in, which will be the 23rd, so this chapter may have to last you awhile. Have thought a lot about where this story is going (almost tempted to start again from scratch, but I realise that may annoy/anger a lot of you who have been following since the beginning, and so i won't!), and am excited about continuing. This chapter marks the end of the material I had already written, given the changes which I've made since beginning to post - like Luke - which make the original ending I'd written completely unsuitable. Can't say for sure when next chapter will be up. Hopefully will have it up by Friday 26th. I am so sorry for keeping you waiting so long - believe me, i know how annoying it is. Please review anyway, despite my terrible writer's etiquette!

Jase laughed out loud when they came in sight of the Earth ship. It was moving surprisingly slowly, and it had not taken himself and Karelle long to catch it.

"Why does it move so slowly?" Karelle asked. Jase shrugged.

"Maybe Kennedy's having trouble containing the others." He offered.

They approached cautiously. "What now? How do we dock? What happens if Major Kennedy sees us?" Karelle asked. Jase thought about it.

"We dock by guiding our ship to that huge doorway in the side of their ship. Do you see it?"

Karelle nodded.

"The doors should open automatically in response to the signal I send it."

"Then what?" Karelle asked.

"Then, we go and try to find Jack, Sam and the others. The only problem we may have, is if Kennedy sees us approaching. He may fire on us, or jump to hyperspace. Either way we're in trouble."

"How can we be sure he doesn't see us?"

"We can't. We'll just have to hope." Jase answered grimly. Karelle nodded resolutely.

"Let's do it."

Jase slowly and carefully guided the small craft alongside the docking port, and sent his signal. There was a moment in which he and Karelle held their breath, as nothing happened, before the huge door slid slowly open, revealing a one-way force-shield that would admit them. Jase flew the ship through the doorway, and set down very slowly, and very clumsily due to his lack of experience, in the docking bay. The doors slid shut behind them. Jase let out a breath he hadn't known he'd been holding.

"We did it." Karelle whispered, shocked. "You did it." She corrected herself.

Jase grinned despite himself, full of renewed energy at this first success.

"Okay. We're aboard. Now we have to find the others." He opened the compartment that he and the old widow sat in, and helped her out. They climbed down to the ground together, and hurried towards the door. It slid open automatically, setting off an alarm. Red lights flashed everywhere, along with a deafening siren.

"I think we've been detected." Karelle said. They looked left and right down the corridor.

"Which way?"

Jase gulped, and made a decision. "This way." He said, starting left down the corridor, hoping it was the right way.

Teal'c threw the door open and leaped into the bridge, just as Sam dropped from the ceiling hatch. They caught each other by surprise, but quickly recovered and Teal'c aimed a shot at Kennedy, just as the sirens went off. Kennedy was taken completely by surprise by Teal'c, Sam and the siren, but was unaffected by the direct hit from the zat.

Tally was circling round the other way to Teal'c, and Daniel had dropped from the ceiling, but all four of them stopped when Kennedy failed to collapse after the shot form the zat.

"What the –" Sam started. Kennedy smirked and pulled back his jacket to reveal a small device attached to his shirt. Sam frowned and looked to Daniel and Teal'c for an explanation.

"A personal shield." Teal'c said.

"A what?" Tally asked. Kennedy smirked again.

"Now what do you plan on doing?" He taunted them. "You can't shoot me, and I doubt any of you would be willing to risk court-martial back on Earth for injuring a superior officer."

All four of them gave Kennedy a look of deepest loathing, and advanced.

"I cannot be court-martialed." Teal'c stated.

"Me neither." Daniel said.

"I've been gone too long to merit a proper court-martial." Sam said.

"And I've never even been to Earth, so they sure as hell can't court-martial me." Added Tally.

Kennedy's jaw went slack, as the team of four all advanced on him from different directions. He span round, sizing them up, trying to figure out which of them would be the easiest to take down. He knew he didn't stand a chance with Teal'c. Daniel too had become surprisingly able at defending himself, largely due to Teal'c. Tally, he knew from experience was a bad move. But Sam . . . she was over fifty years old, and he hadn't seen any evidence to suggest she was as deadly as her daughter.

He positioned himself facing Daniel, strategically pretending he was going to pick him to fight. Then he lunged left straight at Sam. In seconds he was on the floor, looking up at Sam's scathing expression. "Bad move, Kennedy. Very bad move."

Teal'c approached, and between him and Sam they restrained the struggling Major.

"Daniel, can you turn us around?" Sam asked. Daniel was peering at the ship's navigation controls.

"Uh . . . I think so."

"And turn that damn racket off!" Kennedy barked from the floor. Sam kicked him, then nodded to Daniel to turn off the siren.

"Oh my god!" Tally suddenly exclaimed. She was leaning over another console, the one which was flagging up security cameras.

"What?" Daniel jogged over to her. Tally indicated for him to wait for the right camera to show again, and they waited in silence for a few seconds before Daniel hit the freeze button on the screen. The image clearly showed a young man and an old woman making their way stealthily through the corridors.

"Jase!" Tally breathed.

Sam shot a look in her direction. "What?" She checked Teal'c had a secure hold on Kennedy, and went to join the others. She saw Jase and Karelle, and gasped. "He must have transported them aboard too."

"But why?" Daniel asked. Tally said nothing, but dashed out the door.

"Tally!" Sam called after her. "Daniel, go after her, she doesn't know where she's going." Sam said to Daniel. He nodded and left.

Teal'c pressed Kennedy against the wall of the bridge. "Why did you kidnap them as well? They have no value to you."

Kennedy, his face red from lack of oxygen, spluttered: "I didn't."

"Don't lie to us, you ass hole, there's no way they got aboard on their own." Sam sneered at him.

Kennedy's face was aghast. "I swear – I didn't – it wasn't me." Sam looked uncertainly at Teal'c – she didn't know Kennedy well enough to tell when he was lying.

Teal'c looked intently at Kennedy, then released his pressure on Kennedy's windpipe a little.

"I believe he is telling the truth." He said to Sam. Sam shook her head.

"But then how did they get aboard? I was on that planet for eighteen years and I can promise you we don't have transporting technology."

Teal'c glared thoughtfully at his hostage. "I do not know."

Tally sprinted down the corridors, heading to the elevator she'd seen on her way to the bridge with Teal'c. There'd been a level number on that video screen – 8. She was going to get in an elevator, go to level 8, and then search the whole deck if she had to.

Daniel careened down the hallway after her, only to stop short when he rounded a corner, to find Tally standing still with her ear pressed against the door to the elevator. She turned when she heard him approach.

"The door won't open, but I think I hear voices inside." She whispered to him. Daniel strode forward and pressed his own ear against it, then he yelled through it: "Jack! Haley!"

They heard muffled yells come back to them. "Daniel? Is that you?" Get us out of here!" Jack was calling.

Daniel found the control panel for the door, removed the cover, and touched two wires together. It was the manual override for the security lock. The door hissed as it slid open.

"Thank you!" Jack said extremely gratefully. "It was getting a little claustrophobic in there."

"We've captured that creep on the bridge, Dad, but Jase and Karelle are on board." Tally told him, pushing him and Haley back into the elevator.

"What?" Jack said, shocked.

"Level Eight." Daniel said clearly to the elevator. It whirred as it began to move down.

"Level eight? Isn't that the docking bay?" Haley asked.

"Yeah it is." Daniel answered thoughtfully. "There aren't ships in Amdra are there?" Daniel asked Jack skeptically.

Jack shook his head bemusedly. "Not that I've ever heard of."

"Nor me. Besides the F-302, of course." Confirmed Tally.

The three Tau'ri gave her a funny look. Haley looked skeptically at Jack. "That wouldn't still fly after all these years, would it sir?"

"It will, but only if the magnetic field is turned off, and no one's been in the Ancient lab since you guys arrived." Jack said impatiently.

"Kennedy deactivated it to beam us aboard." Daniel told him. There was a moment of silence in which the elevator doors hissed open.

"But even so, Jase and Karelle can't fly it." Jack continued.

"Jase might." Tally said, her eyes shining. "I taught him what Mom taught me. He could fly it as well as I could."

"You've never flown it." Jack argued.

Tally shrugged. "Anyone got a better theory?"

More silence.

"Right, we'll split up. Haley and Tally go that way, Daniel and I will go this way." Jack indicated two different directions, and they paired off.

Sam paced nervously before the control panels on the bridge. "Teal'c, is there any way of pin-pointing Jase and Karelle's location, or talking to the others?" She asked.

"There is." He replied, and beckoned her to him. They switched places, with Sam taking over the guard of Kennedy, who looked more worried with every passing second.

Sam gave him a shove into the wall as a warning.

"Try anything, and you'll be unconscious before you can blink." She whispered menacingly.

Teal'c worked quickly on the ship's controls, and found the two stowaways. "O'Neill." He called over the ship's intercom. "Karelle and Jase are close to your location. Take the passage to your right, followed by a left." He instructed.

Jase and Karelle jumped at the sudden noise of the intercom, and looked around for the source of the voice.

"I believe that was the voice of Teal'c." Karelle said disbelievingly, as Jack and Daniel ran round the corner, closely followed by Tally and Haley.

"Jase!" Tally squeaked, as he swept her into his arms.

Jack grinned. "Found 'em, T!" He yelled at the ceiling, for lack of a better direction to yell at a disembodied voice.

Karelle stepped forward. "Jack, it is wonderful to see that you are safe."

"Yes, likewise." He said slowly. "Speaking of which . . . how did you get here?"

Jase pulled apart from Tally, and grinned at the others. "We followed your ship."

Tally grinned at Jack with a 'told you so' expression. "And how exactly did you do that?" Jack asked.

Karelle beckoned to them. "Come. We will show you."

Upon seeing that the rest of their group were all together, Sam and Teal'c roughly hauled Kennedy down to the holding cells. He stayed uncharacteristically silent all the way down. They didn't say a word to him, but pushed him into the cell and locked the door. Task completed, they located the others via the ship's computer, and made their way to the docking bay.

The docking bay door slid open with a hiss, as Sam's jaw dropped and Teal'c rose both eyebrows to the ceiling. "What the hell . . . ?" Sam gasped.

Tally grinned at her from her position up in the 302's cockpit. "This is so cool!" She exclaimed. She grinned at Jase, who was perched on one of the wings.

Sam and Teal'c entered the room slowly. Sam turned, gobsmacked, to Jack. "How did this get here?"

"Jase flew it." Tally said proudly.

"You're kidding."

"Nope. Kennedy lowered the magnetic field to beam us aboard, which made the 302 flight worthy."

Sam gaped at the eighteen year old boy on the wing. "Wow. I'm impressed."

Jase grinned shyly.

"So – what now?" Jack asked the assembled group.

They all looked at each other, feeling lost.

"As far as me and Tally are standing, I see two options. Either we go back to Amdra, or we go to Earth." Jase offered. Tally smiled uncertainly.

"I'm still not sure about that." She said quietly.

"Well you don't have to make up your minds right now." Jack told her. "How about for the moment, we all head back to Amdra, drop Karelle off and explain the situation to the folks back there, and then go to Earth for just a visit – to help you make up your minds. Whatever happens though, Sam and I need to do whatever we can to find Luke."

"You intend to tell the people of Tally's pregnancy?" Karelle inquired.

Tally looked scared, and Jase edged closer to her.

"Well if you stay there, they're gonna find out sooner or later, and you need to know how they're going to take it before deciding whether to stay." Daniel offered.

The young couple nodded thoughtfully.

"Let's do it." Tally said, looking directly at Jase.

He caught her gaze, and smiled slightly. "Yeah. You're right." He turned to the others. "We want to go back to Amdra, tell them the truth, and maybe go to Earth for a visit. Then we'll decide."

What did you think? I tried to make it a bit longer than my usual chapters - don't know how successful I was though! Please review!

Beka