CHAPTER 30

Episode-----DEATH KNELL

Jacob, Carter, and Ford were inside one of those large metal sheds on a remote planet. Guards were pretty abundant outside keeping watch on the Stargate and the surrounding area. Inside this particular building though, work on a new weapon to fight the Kull warriors of Anubis's was going on. The new weapon was a weird looking rifle that reminded Ford of those plasma rifles on that Halo game for XBOX, except that it had pointed ends on the top and bottom. Jacob was looking around the room searching shelves and desk for something. Carter was looking over a small power pack and using some small pen like tool on it. Ford raised an eyebrow as Jacob walked by. Carter was starting to get tired of being distracted by her father's movements.

"Lost something?" Ford asked.

"Yeah, where's the Matrix Crystal?" he said looking in a fridge unit.

"Next to the primaries." Carter said.

"I can't find anything in here!" he said going to where Carter pointed out. "I had a system back at the old Alpha site."

He turned around very agitated as he kept searching.

"The old Alpha site was compromised when Anubis used his mind probe on Jonas. You really didn't want to hang around there did you?"

Ford just kept quiet and watched them. He was happy to see them get time together since they didn't get much at all. From what he understood of Sam's past, they didn't get much time then either.

"I just want to be able to work as efficiently as possible." he said finding what he was looking for. "Anubis's drones are kicking the crap out of the System Lords and we're next."

Jacob came back to the table they were working on as he kept talking. He remembered a recent incident and looked up at Ford.

"That is if they get past you." he said pointing at him.

"If?" Ford said chuckling.

"Well, for everyone else there is this." Carter said not looking up.

"We should have had this prototype done weeks ago."

Ford had to agree, but silently. They had been working on it for the last week or so taking over for someone else.

"It's done….its just not finished." Carter said continuing her work on the power pack.

It was a small thing too. Maybe three inches long by half an inch wide with a crystal looking section that was clear and flat coming out of the top about a quarter of an inch.

"Interesting distinction." he said with cocky smile.

"We only got Telchek's devise a month ago." Carter said stopping her work a moment and looking at her dad. "I'm surprised we were able to come up with something so quickly."

"In it's current configuration, the weapon is only 70 effective in counteracting the reanimation technology." Selmak said.

"That's because the power unit your using hasn't been properly calibrated. This one will be better."

"So that's what you're doing?" Ford said.

"Didn't I tell you?" she said stopping a moment.

"No. I never asked. I was trying to figure it out myself without distracting you."

"In my mind I guess I thought I did." she said going back to working on it.

"Maybe." Jacob said.

"Have you not had your coffee this morning?" she asked her slightly grumpy father.

She stopped working and really paid attention to him. He took a moment before responding.

"Selmak doesn't like coffee." he said with a shrug.

"You gave up coffee for your symbiote?" Carter said with an amused look.

I didn't. Ford thought with a smile.

I prefer it with sugar, but you keep making it black! And cold!

You get enough sweet's as it is. Still can't believe I ate that couple pound bag of M&Ms in less than an hour last night.

It was a craving that needed to be filled. WE aren't at the base to get chocolate fix.

Jacob nodded.

"I never knew that."

"We never talk anymore Sam." he said sadly.

The hurt in his voice was detectable enough to Ford anyway. He was once a cop. Okay a high ranking, government trained, etc. Anyway he took a class, a few of them on physiological profiling and emotional stuff, so he could easily hear it. He thought of trying to help by saying something when the alarms went off. Carter looked up quickly at the door as did the others. She glanced just for a moment to her left seeing Ford had his gun out.

Ah, another fine day in the making. Hercules thought to him. His tone was hilarious but Ford kept himself in check.

Been digging around in my memories again.

Not really. I seem to have better access when you're asleep. Some of these strange sayings make a good point a lot more quicker than how we talked in my day. That was a attempt at a sarcastic remark. Kinda like Jack does.

You got that one right.

A soldier walked in quickly.

"Lieutenant Glenn what's happening?" Carter asked.

"We're under attack." he said. "We just picked up Goa'uld ships entering the atmosphere. Colonel Riley has ordered and immediate evac to Beta. We're bugging out."

Jacob turned to his daughter. They both were not happy.

"Who is it? Anubis?" Ford asked.

"We think so." Glenn said.

"This won't do any good then." Ford said putting his gun away with a twirl. He had his gloves out the next second.

Carter had a small chuckle seeing this. "If you didn't have Hercules, would you still go hand to hand?"

"With this coat. Oh yeah. Besides, what else could I do. A rocket launcher probably wouldn't do anything from the sounds of it."

"You have to be the best thing she's ever found."
"Dad." she said blushing.

"I'll take that as a compliment." he said smiling. "You two do whatever you need to get ready to evac. I'll cover the door."

Back at the SGC…..

A M.A.L.P. was being readied to send through the gate. Hammond, Daniel and Jack were in the Gate Control room looking out the window panels.

"What happened?" Jack asked. Teal'c came walking up behind them.

"Approximately twenty minutes ago, the presence of Goa'uld ships prompted the immediate evacuation of the Alpha site." Hammond said.

"Sam and Ford were doing research there." Daniel said.

"She, Jacob and Ford were working on a new weapon designed to neutralize Anubis's new soldiers." Hammond stated. "At the moment we have no idea what happened to them."

"How many people got out?" Jack asked.

"Casualty reports are stilling coming in from the Beta site but at least 90 people are missing including the base commander, Colonel Riley."

"I thought the location of the Alpha site was a secret." Jack stated.

"We brought the gate there by a Tok'ra ship, it's a completely new address." Daniel said.

"Evidently the Goa'uld have somehow discovered its whereabouts." Teal'c said.

"Chevron seven is locked." Walter said from the controls.

Outside the control room the event horizon burst forth and stabilized.

"Wormhole established." he said touching the listening device in his ear. "No radio chatter."

"Send the M.A.L.P."

"Yes sir."

It moved its way slowly forward and went through.

"M.A.L.P. is on route."

On a screen sending feedback from a camera on the M.A.L.P., it showed a bunch of round rocks.

"Sir my instruments are telling me the M.A.L.P. is on its side."

"Do you still have camera control?"

"Yes sir." he said moving the camera. It showed more rocks then panned into seeing the event horizon of the Stargate.

"If the Stargate was knocked down, and it's lying face down, the forming event horizon would have formed a cavity underneath it." Daniel stated. "When the M.A.L.P. came through it fell into the hole."

"There's no way to know if the DHD survived the attack." Hammond said.

"If we were to bring an alternate power source.." Teal'c started.

"We could dial it manually." Daniel said finishing Teal'c's idea.

"Possibly under enemy fire." Hammond said.

"We'll be fine sir. The gate dug the perfect foxhole." Jack said determined to go.

"You have a go. Good luck Colonel."

"Thank you sir." he said leaving with Daniel and Teal'c following behind. Teal'c nodded to Hammond before going though.

The gate shut down and they were all lying down on the ground. So far no sounds were in the air. The landing was a little rough, but they had more important things to think about. Jack brought the ladder up and placed it against the side of the downed gate so they could get out. He climbed out looking around. There's wasn't much left of the Alpha site. Actually, there was nothing left. A good two maybe three mile radius of blast devastation was seen. Smoke rose from large area's of ash in many locations. The other two climbed out just behind him. Jack didn't bring his coat this time. Just his vest over his black shirt. Daniel and Teal'c did though.

"Whoa." Daniel said looking around.

"This destruction does not appear to be the result of an aerial assault." Teal'c said.

Jack took his sunglasses off.

"Single radius blast." he said blowing the glasses off then looking around. "Quite possibly the self-destruct. To keep the Alpha site from falling into enemy hands."

They called in more help and Hammond sent another team after dialing manually.

"We'll split up and search for survivors." Jack said slapping a clip into his PC-90.

"Who could have survived this?" the team leader of the other SG team said.

"Ford most likely." Teal'c said.

Jack looked at the other commander very unhappy with that question. "Start with that tree line there."

"Copy." he said seeing the obviously upset look in Jack's face.

"Move out." Jack said heading the other direction.

Jack and his group were walking through the ashes and smoke. Daniel seemed to be looking more at the devastation than anything else. As they dug through a few area's Teal'c found something.

"O'Neill."

Daniel and Jack walked over to see what it was.

"What have you got?"

It was what was left of a Kull warrior. Chest and head armor only and visibly damaged.

"This is the armor of one of Anubis's drones."

Jack grabbed his com unit. "Reynolds?"

The other team looking around now in the forest stopped a moment. Reynolds dug through his pocket finding his com unit.

"Go ahead."

"Be advised. We may not be alone here. At least one of Anubis's goons might have been on the planet when it blew. Proceed with caution."

"Understood."

They kept going and came through some thick undergrowth when they heard a branch break. Reynolds motioned pointing fingers at his eyes and pointed in that sounded direction. They slowly moved in and weapons came up quickly. He put a hand up and the Jaffa warrior along with several human survivors put their weapons down slowly.

"Major Green. You alright?"

"I'm fine sir. We have serious injuries here."

Reynolds looked down near a tree seeing several people laying down being treated the best they possibly could.

"Any other survivors in the area?"

"As far as I know, we're the only one's sir." Green said. He was hurt and bleeding, but not badly.

"O'Neill." he said through his com

The three were looking around still but from one location. Jack was sitting on a fallen tree.

"Go ahead."

"We found several survivors, but they're not in good shape."

"How bad?"

"Some can walk, but most need immediate medical treatment."

"Is Major Carter or Ford among them?"

Reynolds looked at Green who shook his head.

"I'm afraid not. Jacob Carter isn't here either."

Jack took his glasses off and sighed.

"SG-3's going to need a little help getting the gate back up." Jack said talking to the M.A.L.P.

"SG-11 and 21 are assembling up right now Colonel." Hammond said. Jack had called home again after seeing no threats around. "I'll be sending them through momentarily. Unfortunately that means a delay before I can send any other resources to help with the search."

"Getting the wounded out is first priority sir." Jack said through his com which relayed back to the SGC by the M.A.L.P.

"Agreed, but if there are any other survivors out there, there may not be a lot of time."

"Understood sir. We'll keep trying."

Ford woke up feeling pretty bad. He remembered trying to get the Carter's to safety and having to fight off a couple of those stupid drones. He felt something jabbing in his back and turned to get it out or at least move off it, unfortunately, he didn't realize that he wasn't on the ground and when he turned, he fell, from about twenty feet up. Branches broke as he went through them on his way down. One branch broke in a very bad place. He hit the ground finally and curled up letting out a yell that was heard for miles along with a few choice words. Everyone around the former Alpha site heard it but couldn't tell from where it came.

That hurt!!!!

"No shit!!!" he yelled rolling over still holding himself.

Need to get that branch out of our leg.

Ford tried sitting up and moving his right leg up closer. The pain in his nuts was worse than the stick in his leg. Only because Hercules was keeping him from passing out was he still awake. He pulled the stick out with another scream of pain. It was a few minutes before he could walk again. His leg had fixed itself so he could stand, but only managed to get to his knees. He looked around finding he was in the middle of a forest and completely alone.

"How in the hell did I end up here?" he said still holding himself and grimacing.

Ford looked at his coat seeing it was burnt again and tattered in a few area's but still could protect him if things got serious. His com unit was fried so he couldn't call out and his hair was once again burnt slightly.

"Great, there goes my hair do again." he muttered.

I think we were caught in the edge of that blast zone when the Colonel activated the self-destruct. We were blown into this tree I think. Herc thought.

Nice. Really nice. We could be several dozen or so feet from the blast zone or miles away.

"SAM!!! JACOB!!! Anyone!!!"

He looked around seeing no one and hearing even less. He pulled out a compass and found the direction he needed to go and started running, but with a limp.

Daniel and the other's heard a scream but couldn't really identifying where it came from.

"That could have been Ford." Daniel said.

"I certainly didn't sound like Carter." Jack said.

Teal'c figured it was a direction he pointed and they headed for it seeing they had nothing else to go on. They came across Jacob who was on the ground with a fallen log across his right leg. He was holding one of the special rifles. Teal'c removed the log and the others helped Jacob into a sitting position.

"It wasn't you that screamed, was it?" Daniel asked.

"No. I heard that too." Jacob said. He was hurting and weak but would live. "Anubis's drones…."

"We know." Jack said.

"Take this. It's not a hundred percent but it's all we've got." Jacob said handing the rifle over.

Daniel searched through his pockets till he found what he was looking for. "It still has a few more shots. Sam has a fully charged power unit." Jacob said as Daniel got knelt down.

"Where is she?" Jack asked.

"I don't even know if she's still alive." he said looking at the sky.

Daniel had a bandage out and applying it to the cut on Jacobs leg.

"Ford was with us but we got separated by a few drones. I haven't seen him either since."

Back at the SGC they were bring the injured through the gate on stretchers. Jacob was one of them and was being transferred to a stretcher on wheels.

"How are you doing?" Hammond asked coming up. They were still at the end of the ramp.

"Nothing Selmak can't handle." he said repositioning himself better.

"We need to know what happened out there. How did Anubis get the location of the new Alpha site?"

"I have no idea." Jacob said as Daniel came up beside him. "I was with Sam and Ford when the self-destruct went off. One of the drones was chasing us into the forest." He paused a moment as he readjusted himself slightly on the stretcher.

"George, if I survived the blast, you know that thing did as well."

Daniel and Hammond exchanged a look of worry.

"What about the prototype weapon?" Hammond asked.

"I gave it to Colonel O'Neill. But it's only semi effective in its current configuration. The upgraded power unit was with Sam."

"And we have no idea where she is?" Hammond asked.

"She's still missing." Daniel said. "We can only hope Ford is with her."

"Is there anything else we can use against these drones?"

"Their armor is impervious to energy attacks and regular firearms are useless. Not even Ford's weapon has the ability to hurt them."

"What about the one we found?" Daniel asked.

"Kinetic energy. An explosion of that size. They can't ignore physics."

"When you say kinetic energy?"

"It would have to be a lot."

Daniel looked up at Hammond.

"How about a missile?" Hammond asked.

"That might do it. If you get close enough."

Hammond nodded. "Sergeant Siler."

The guy came over from talking to a woman about some mechanical information.

"Prepare a UAV with UCAV specs."

"Yes sir."

Hammond then nodded to the nurse having him take Jacob to the infirmary.

Daniel stood there looking worried as Hammond thought a moment.

Up in the briefing room Hammond started asking and inquiring of Major Green about what happened. They needed to know exactly how things went and maybe find out how Anubis knew the location of the new Alpha site. He explained that the Stargate was hit by a bomb cutting them off, then ships came down dropping off drones. That's when Colonel Riley activated the self-destruct because of the sensitive nature of some of the stuff there. Hammond asked if there were any unusual things going on in the last 48 hours. Green responded saying no. Hammond ordered Green to get a list of all the Tok'ra, Jaffa and human's that had been at the Alpha site in the last 48 hours.

"Yes sir."

Jack and Teal'c came out of a trail and onto a sandy area.

"Footprints."

Jack bent down looking at them.

"Standard issue from the SGC."

"Indeed. Depth of the impressions indicate someone of Major Carters size."

"There's another set over there. Much larger." Jack said pointing a ways. "I don't see Ford's though."

"Indeed. His boot's are much bigger and have a different pattern. Perhaps the drone is what we are seeing here." Teal'c suggested.

"Yeah." Jack said as they stood up.

"Do you believe this prototype weapon will be effective against it?"

"We'll jump off that bridge when we come to it."

Jack brought his weapon up as he heard running through the bushes. Teal'c brought up the grenade launcher. It was the turning chamber type.

Ford came running through the trees and ran by them not even noticing them, not at first anyway seeing as he was searching the ground.

"Ford!"

He stopped and rolled quickly coming up with his gun.

"Whoa Ford! Just us!"
He un-cocked it and put it away as he leaned against a tree to get his breath back.

"Where's….Sam?" he said between breaths.

"Don't know yet. We found her trail though." he said pointing to the ground.

"What happened Mr. Primus?"

"I was in hand to hand combat with one of those damned drone's when the blast went off. Next thing I know I'm in tree." he said obviously pissed.

"Did you scream earlier?" Jack asked as he stepped closer.

"You heard that huh? God probably did too even this far from Earth. I fell out of the tree taking branches as I fell. One caught me in the nuts."

"Ow." Jack said cringing. Teal'c did too, somewhat.

"Jacob make it?" he asked.

"He's back at the base with others." Jack said.

"Fix this." Ford said pulling a device from his pocket as he stood up.

"What is it?"

"You should know! It's a tracking device. I landed on it or something damaging it some. With this I can find Carter. I don't have duct tape or paperclips on me, much less gum."

"You planted…"

"Can you fix it?" he asked sternly. "I can, possibly, but don't have time."

"I believe you have Colonel O'Neill confused with Major Carter's talent." Teal'c stated.

Jack really looked like he had no idea.

"How's Sam Malloy?" Ford asked suspiciously as he narrowed his eyes.

"Who?" Jack asked really confused. "What are you taking about? The only Sam I know is Carter."

"I do not understand the relevance." Teal'c said.

"SHIT!!!" Ford yelled making them both step back.

"I got to…forget it." he said tossing the thing aside.

"Ford…" Jack began.

"I knew something seemed funny when we talked to you. Where's the tracks?" he asked looking around.

Jack pointed at the ground. Ford took a quick glance and ran off with them following after a moment. Jack could see in Ford's eyes he barely was keeping his rage in check.

"I do not understand what Ford was talking about."

"Me neither. Must be a hit in the head or something when that blast caught him. Or the crotch crush is getting to him." Jack said. Damn! He's going to have a lot of questions later. As is she if she's still alive.

In the infirmary at the SGC, Daniel was talking to Jacob.

"So uh, how's the leg?"

"It's getting there. Slowly but surely." he said with a huff.

"Oh yeah slowly. The way you heal it will probably take a day."

"You didn't come here to ask me about my leg. You want to know what happened to them?"

"Yeah."

"The base was under attack. We could hear the explosions getting closer….." he said.

FLASHBACK……

During the narration he explained how they got the Matrix Crystal and wiped the computer memory.

"We have to leave now." Major Green said closing the door as he came back in. The whole room shook from an explosion nearby.

"Just give me a second." Carter said.

"You have the prototype!" Green said.

Jacob grabbed the rifle from its stand and went over to his daughter.

"She's still trying to get it fully functional Major." Ford stated looking out the doorway.

"We can't leave this information for them to find!" Jacob yelled.

The whole room shook again making things fall.

"How much longer?!" Green asked.

"Finished." Carter yelled grabbing something.

"Get down Green!!" Ford yelled seeing behind him.

Green didn't move quick enough and several blast caught him. He died instantly and fell to the floor.

Jacob and Carter got down behind a table as the soldier walked in.

"Hey!"

The soldier turned seeing someone off to his left. Ford grabbed the front of his armor under his neck and gave him a clothesline hit in the neck. He didn't even have time to hit the ground as Ford spun him around and snapped his neck before tossing him outside.

"Let's get the hell out of here." Jacob said.

Carter followed behind as Ford stayed between them.

Jacob turned his head looking forward at the medical rooms wall as he continued.

"The Stargate was hit. We couldn't get out though Ford muttered something about possibly manually dialing it. We ran for the hills and a drone followed us. Ford got separated from us when a drone tried rushing us." he said then paused to take a deep breath. "If Sam is still alive. It's still after her."

"Maybe it's just hiding. Waiting for a chance to go back through the gate."

"Out of all the rooms on that base, why did it come to that lab? And why did it chase us oppose to everyone else?"

"You think it knew about the prototype?"

"I think that is the whole reason for the attack." he paused again before continuing. "Somehow Anubis knows we have the only weapon in the galaxy that is capable of stopping his soldiers."

"And Sam has the design."

"That thing won't stop until it finds her. Ford has it as well, but very few people really knew that."

"Sergeant Siler report." Hammond said coming into the gate room. The flying ACV was ready with two missiles. One on each side.

"Ready to go sir."

"Well done. I want it airborne. Now."

"Yes sir."

Hammond turned around heading for the control room when he was stopped.

"General sir. Medical reports that the leader of the Jaffa rebels is cleared for debriefing."
"I want to speak to him immediately."

"Yes sir."

Hammond and the leader got in an argument about how the Tok'ra were keeping secrets. It didn't last very long. Hammond decided he need to talk to Jacob to see what was going on. He let the Jaffa leader go to the Beta site to find out what happened to the small group of Jaffa that went to see what they could do against the System Lord Olukun who was fighting Anubis. He believed that the Tok'ra had a hidden agent in the mist of this System Lord that was sending Jaffa warriors to fight Anubis in an endless slaughter. He wanted to have the System Lord assassinated so the Jaffa would be free.

Jack, Teal'c and a somewhat faster moving Ford kept following what tracks they found. It wasn't to hard in some ways seeing as there was quite a few broken branches and some blood. They could hear Ford muttering to himself. Some of it was a quite vulgar, but nothing using the words that took the lord's name in vain. Jack noticed Ford never did even when he was extremely pissed, like now. Jack reached up clicking on his com as he was called.

"Colonel O'Neill?"

"General?"

"Status report."

"We found tracks sir. Could be Carter's."

"It better be." Ford grumbled and then yelled back. "Looks like her size."

"From that tone of voice you must have found Ford. What direction are the tracks?" Hammond asked.

"East sir. Up into the hills."

"The higher ground is a more defensively position." Teal'c said.

"Understood." Hammond voice said through the com line. "I'll have an UCAV fly a search pattern in that general direction. Hammond out."

Carter was sitting on a hill side looking at her left thigh. It was bleeding, but not bad enough she would bleed to death, though the gash was about a foot long. Didn't help her walk all that great either. Several cuts were on her face too. She dropped closer to the ground as the warrior came close. He looked around trying to find her, then headed in a different direction. She looked up slowly then set her head down to the ground again.

Where are you Ford? You said you'd be there for me. God, I hope dad made it too. she thought.

Hammond was looking over a report when Jacob walked in knocking on the open door.

"Jacob."

"Any news on Sam?" he asked walking in with a cane.

"We have an UAV airborne and all available SG teams are searching." Hammond said as Jacob took a seat. "I don't know anyone more tougher or resourceful than her. She'll find a way out of this. Other than Ford maybe."

"Have they found Ford?"

"Unfortunately he is not with her. He came out of the woods where Jack and Teal'c found tracks they believe are hers. When he finds her, anything in his way will be in trouble."

"I've heard and saw what he will do for her. He really cares. Anyway, how goes the investigation?"

"I've been meaning to talk to you about that. Do you know anything about a Tok'ra being in Olukun's ranks?"

"No."

"According to the Jaffa, you have a spy within there inner circle."

"They're mistaken."

Suddenly their conversation was cut off as the alarm went off.

"Off world activation!"

The gate was open letting the Jaffa leader through. He walked down the ramp as Hammond and Jacob walked up.

"Did you learn anything at the Beta site?" Hammond asked.

"Of the Jaffa sent to recruit rebels from Olukan's army, only one has returned. The fate of the others is unknown. Anubis has won a major victory. Thousands of Jaffa have been killed and many of his commanders have been captured. Including the Tok'ra spy."

His tone was contemptuous and lined with anger.

"That's impossible. If we had had someone on the inside. I would have known about it." Jacob said.

"Are you sure?" Hammond asked.

Jacob looked at him a moment and wondered.

Carter had taken off running again not long after the Kull warrior had moved away. She was running down a slightly short hill through the forest and had to stop at a tree because of the limping from the pain becoming to great again. She sat down looking at her leg again and leaned against the tree.

The Kull warrior kept searching finding blood on some leaves. More blood was on other leaves leaving a trail. He approached slowly seeing someone sitting near a tree.

Carter closed her eyes a moment trying to rest and ignore the pain wishing she wasn't alone. Lately, she hadn't been alone since Ford was always around when she needed him. They had been doing so many things together lately, off duty, with the exception of one thing they were still talking about, that if he wasn't around, it was strange.

The Kull warrior came around slowly seeing it was a dead male soldier. He had succumb to his injuries and died against the tree sitting up. The warrior lowered his arm weapon.

Carter opened her eyes and looked around suddenly feeling in danger again. She got up slowly walking away as quickly as her leg would allow.

"Thank you for your cooperation in this matter Delek." Hammond said from his chair at the briefing room table. A airmen was sitting next to the General typing out what was said on a laptop.

"I do not see the need to continue in this investigation General." the Tok'ra symbiote said. "The Jaffa have as much as admitted responsibility."

"All we know for sure is that some of the men sent to recruit rebels from Olukans armies didn't return."

"Because they were captured in Anubis's latest offensive. It is the most logical explanation."

"According to the Jaffa, they say a Tok'ra spy was also captured."

"We both know that Jaffa intelligence is not as reliable as it should be."

"So you're saying that you had no operative on Olukuns ranks."

"I am unable to discuss such matters at this present time."

"The terms of our alliance dictate full disclosure." Hammond said tapping the table with one finger.

"Only in matters of joint concerns."

"The security of the Alpha site is a matter of joint concern." Hammond said a little forcefully.

"But the disposition of our operatives has no bearing on the Alpha site."

"So you claim."

"You have allies amongst the other nations of this planet do you not?"

"Of course."

"Do you always practice full disclosure with them?"

"We gave you shelter, when you had no where else to go." Hammond stated.

"Because you needed us." he said forcefully. "Just as you needed our help with Tel'chak's reanimation device because you needed a weapon to fight Anubis's drones. But you also have not been so forthcoming. There is, for example, your program to build and design hybrid ships using Goa'uld technology. A program which the Tok'ra feels is extremely unwise."

"We need those ships to help defend Earth."

"And so you feel it is none of our concern. You see General, it works both ways. You ask us that your headlong pursuit of technologies you don't understand poses no threat, but you fail to offer similar consideration when it comes to our policy on covert operatives."

"Let me ask you something. How many Tok'ra from the Alpha site our still unaccounted for?"

"Five."

"Do you know how many people I'm missing? 64. Believe me when I say I'm going to get to the bottom if this, with or without your help."

Carter came out near a stream and bent down slowly. She put her hand out and got a much needed drink seeing as she had been running for some time and that damned drone was still after her. For the moment, she figured she managed to elude him. As she was getting the drink, several energy blast came past her. She looked up seeing the warrior on the other side of the small river. She got up jumping over a set of fallen jogs as more weapon fire past her. The warrior fired more shots as it walked through the river shooting as she ran off again.

Jacob was standing at the door to Deleks room who opened it after he knocked.

"I've been expecting you." he said. He walked away from the door and stopped near the bed. "No doubt you've spoken to General Hammond."

"He says he asked you if we have a spy in Olukans circle."

"Yes he did."

"He asked me the same question. Of course I told him no, because only the High Council could make a decision like that. And since I'm on the High Council, I would know about it….wouldn't I? Or is there something you want to tell me?" Jacob asked.

"If you have a concern. Take it up with the High Council yourself." he said turning form Jacob. Jacob grabbed his arm turning him back around.

"Who do you think you're talking to?"

"An interesting question. It seems I'm talking to a human host."

Jacob gave control over and Selmak spoke with some anger.

"Make no mistake Delek. I am still Selmak. And I was a leader of the Tok'ra before you had even taken a host."

"Maybe you've been a leader too long. The Tauri are unlike other humans in the galaxy. Their will has not been eroded by thousands of years of slavery. This can be a valuable asset. But it can also make them dangerous. Particularly as host."

"Jacob Carter has had no more influence on me than any other host."

"There are those of us that would disagree. You have allowed yourself to get to close to these people Selmak. Your true loyalties are in question."

"You speak for the entire council?"

"You still have your defenders. Although their numbers are diminishing."

"So you did meet without me. You did send an operative?"

"And if you had known, would you have told General Hammond?"

"They have a right to know."

"We knew you would feel that way, which is precisely why you were not informed."

Up in Hammond's office Jacob was telling him what he learned.

"This spy has gone missing?"

"Yes. But the Tok'ra will never acknowledge that he could have been responsible for what happened at the Alpha site. Tok'ra have strict orders to never allow themselves to be taken alive."

"What about a sarcophagus?"

"They take special precautions to make sure the brain is not left intact. Reanimation is not possible."

"This is all assuming the man wasn't taken unaware."

"The system isn't foolproof, but they won't admit that. The thing is, I don't think you will ever find who was responsible for the leak. It could have been the Tok'ra or the Jaffa. It could have been both. I've helped you as much as I can with this investigation. Right now I'd like to get back to the Alpha site and help with the search."

"I need you here." he stated tapping his desk.

"George. I've already told you I'm out of the loop. They think my emotions are clouding my judgment, which is a little ironic, considering I'm wasting all this time while my own daughter is being hunted down by that thing."

"We have our best people on this Jacob. They will find her. Ford will find her if it kills him."

"And what am I suppose to do in the meantime?"

"I just got a report from the Beta site. The Jaffa are blaming the Tok'ra for what has happened. There already have been several altercations. If I can't get things under control, I have orders to expel them all." he paused a moment letting it sink in. "Our alliance is falling apart. I need someone to bridge the gap. I need someone with a voice of reason. I need you."

Jacob didn't want to do it, but he understood what had to be done. He nodded and took comfort in knowing Ford was looking for her. That man wouldn't stop.

Carter was hiding in some bushes, laying down, as she heard the sound of a motor. She looked up seeing it was the UVA and silently thanked Hammond as she pulled back a few branches to get a better look. It was passing overhead slowly, but a good half mile away. She tried signaling it by using the sunlight to reflect off her watch. Suddenly several energy blast hit it and it came crashing to the ground within seconds. Carter stopped and got more hidden in the brush while peering out over at where the firing came from.

Ford heard the small explosion of the UAV being hit in the air. He made a quick calculation of where he heard the engine stop suddenly and took off with the others behind him.

As the soldier walked away from where she was, she got up quietly and tried to head for where the UAV crashed. Hopefully it would have something she could use on it to get rid of the drone or at least call for help.

"O'Neill." was heard through his com line.

"Go ahead."

"The UAV was shot down in your area. It's four klicks away at 3-2-0 degrees from your location."

"We're on it." he said as they began running faster. Ford was well ahead of them though and getting farther out of sight.

"If Carter saw that she will head for it." he yelled as he ran out of their line of site.

"I know." Jack said. "Damn he's fast. Faster than I thought."

"Indeed."

The Jaffa leader entered the briefing room again as requested. Jacob was staring out the window at the Stargate. Jacob nodded to the guard who brought him in signaling it was okay for him to leave.

"Why have you asked me here?"
"You know what's happening at the Beta site?"

"I do."

"I need you help to put a stop to it before it gets out of hand. You're a leader amongst the Jaffa. They'll listen to you."

"And what would you have me say? That we must bear the arrogance of the Tok'ra without complaint. That they should be subservient to those who would sacrifice their own brothers."

Jacob dropped his head letting Selmak take over.

"For thousands of years the Jaffa have been dependent on the Goa'uld because they need symbiotes to sustain them. But now there is a substance known as Tretonin that will free them from this dependence."

"I am aware of the significance of Tretonin."

"Are you aware that countless Tok'ra symbiotes died in its development? Including our beloved Queen Egeria, the Queen Egeria from whom all our lineage can be traced."

"I was not." he said sounding regretfully of the news.

"For the first time, the Tok'ra have fought side by side with the Jaffa and the people of the Tauri. It has made a difference. More System Lords have fallen in the past seven years than the 700 previous."

"It is true that together we our strong."

"And divided we will die."

"We cannot let the alliance between us end." Jacob said taking over again.

"Your words our wise. But my time at the Alpha site has taught me some bitter lessons. I suspect that you do not speak for all the Tok'ra."

"No." he said turning away.

"Until the others feel as you do. Reconciliation will not be possible."

Carter came out slowly seeing the UAV crashed on the ground in what would be called a quarry of rocks on Earth. It had crashed near a large pile of them that ironically could serve as a foxhole in some ways. She picked it up setting it on the rocks. It still had one good missile on it and she tried to aim it across the open field. She got to work on the open circuitry of the broken UAV hoping the missile would still fire possibly with the use of a circuit board she removed. Opening a small panel of the missile, she got to work quickly trying to use the circuit to manually fire the rocket. She looked up briefly thinking she heard her named called, but after a moment of silence, she went back to the rocket.

"Gentlemen, we've asked you to come together because we need you help." Hammond was saying as the head of the briefing table. Daniel was seated to his right with the Jaffa leader next to him while Delek and Jacob sat on his left. "We need to keep the situation at the Beta site from getting out of hand."

"What do you expect the Tok'ra to do General? We have suffered a number of unprovoked assaults."

"Unprovoked?" the Jaffa leader said. "You refused to help us and thousands of Jaffa died needlessly."

Daniel watched the argument between the two people. Worry was written on him. Hammond was as well but keeping his face from showing the frustration.

"Assassinating Olukon was never an option." Delek said. So far Jacob was being quiet.

"Why?" Daniel asked.

"We had no way of knowing how many Jaffa would join the rebels. We could have gave the entire army to Anubis."

"They deserve the right to choose. Instead they were slaughtered."

"We have been fighting the Goa'uld for thousands of years. You have no right to question our methods."

"That's because you were alone for thousands of years. You have allies now."

"And what good has it done us? In the few short years we have known the Tauri, your tendency to provoke direct confrontation with the Goa'uld has resulted in the deaths of more Tok'ra than the last hundred years."

"I hate to admit it George, but he has a point." Jacob said. "When a human or Jaffa dies in battle, another born can take their place. The same can't be said for the Tok'ra."

"Our Queen Egeria, from whom all Tok'ra have spawned is dead. Our numbers our dwindling. This alliance is something we simply cannot afford."

Carter was still working hard on the missile and could swear she heard her name called again, but kept at working just in case. The missile was just a bit bigger than her leg and about half the length but one mistake and it would blow up in her face. She was messing with the wires when the soldier came into the rock clearing. He was around maybe fifty yards away and pretty much in the line of fire of the missile. She got down quickly looking but staying low. She started to put the wires together when he fired at her. The blast hit the rocks and part of the damaged UAV but didn't break the connection.

Jack and Teal'c started running faster as they heard an explosion and Ford yell her name again.

Carter put the ends together quickly and the missile fired. It exploded sending up rocks and dust everywhere. She looked up seeing the soldier was missing and possibly buried as she walked out slowly to see if she got him through the thick dust. Seeing nothing she sat down near the blast zone feeling her tiredness really getting to her. Her leg was still aching and needing medical attention with all she had been putting it through. Then the ground moved and the soldiers hand came out suddenly. She looked up seeing him getting out of the rocks. He stood up looking around then seeing her he raised his arm. She looked at him not moving when the soldier turned to a noise. She heard a yell and saw a large black object slam into the soldier knocking him hard into the ground. Teal'c who just arrived was ready to fire a grenade but stopped seeing someone knock the Kull warrior to the ground.

Ford rolled with the impact and got up quickly between the warrior and Carter.

"You want her, you have to go through me." he growled trying to make the warrior aim at him as he kept stepping into the line of fire.

This made the warrior look away from Carter quickly.

"Sam, get out of here." he yelled back to her as the warrior got up slowly and started aiming for her anyway.

He grabbed a rock just about the size of a volleyball and tossed it like a baseball into the warrior. It blocked it, but the impact knocked the warrior to the ground.

Carter ran off quickly getting behind the rocks again as Ford told her to go hide. Jack ran up to where she was and saw Ford dealing with the problem and Teal'c watching, but he wanted to be sure in case something did happen. The warrior stood back up as Jack turned to her.

"Carter, do you have….."

She handed it over while still watching. Teal'c came down behind them.

"Thanks."

The warrior brought his weapon to bear on Ford who sidestepped it and gave him an elbow in the face, cracking the mask. As the warriors head snapped back Ford grabbed the arm pulling the weapon off. He grabbed the other one too ripping it off. The warrior looked at his arms then took a swing catching Ford across the face as he was tossing the weapons aside. It cracked a few teeth and split his lip as he staggered back a bit. Ford flashed his eyes in anger and rushed up and giving the warrior a punch to the gut with enough force that it brought him off the ground. He didn't stop there though and gave him a quick right hook followed by a backhand from the same fist while he was still in the air. It sent the warrior landing on his back. Ford spit out a tooth as the guy started getting up again. He gave him several more heavy impacts that broke bones before a roundhouse kick spun him in the air landing him hard on the ground and then grabbing the back of the warriors head as he started getting up and smashed it into a boulder several times before decking him again.

"I think he's going overboard." Jack muttered at the scene.

"I do no believe he is finished." Teal'c stated.

The warrior wasn't moving but that didn't stop him. A large rock about half the size of a Volkswagen bug was lifted into the air with some strain before it was dropped rather harshly onto the warriors back. He spit several more times and walked away holding his lip and shaking his hand that ached from breaking it in a few places.

"He dead?" Jack asked as Ford walked up. "I suspect he would be after that, but…."

"Don't know, don't really care." he said going over to Carter still shaking his hand. "If he is, he's not going to be long."

"You're late." she said sitting back against the rocks and grimaced as she closed her eyes in pain.

"Sorry." he said sincerely as he sat down near her and moved his hand.

"Do you want to get up?" Jack asked her as Teal'c checked the body. Jack had tossed the new rifle to him.

"I just need a minute sir. Where were you?" she asked leaning into his shoulder tired.

"He was in a tree." Jack said. "He came out of the forest running looking for you and spouting…"

"Okay Colonel. I think she can figure it out from there." he said feeling his lip with his free hand.

"Did you let him hit you?"

"No Jack." he said smartly. "He caught me off guard. I was looking over here to see if everything was okay and if you guys had showed up yet."

"You okay though?"

"Tired Jack but feeling better now."

He hadn't looked away from Carter the entire time, mostly at her leg he was checking.

"He is dead O'Neill."

"Good Teal'c."

"The next guy is going to get it worse. Much worse."

"Oh really. How may I ask are you going to do that?"

"A few idea's. I don't want to talk about it."

He whispered something into her ear and she nodded.

"Got a med kit handy Jack? Lost mine somewhere."

He dug through his vest and fished it out. Ford fixed Carter's leg the best he was able and then picked her up gently, much to Jack's surprise who did keep his mouth shut. The look in Ford's eyes had a burning rage to them Jack saw. Something he had seen very few times. Something he didn't like seeing. Ford carried her all the way back to the gate and put her on a stretcher they had ready when they got back on the base. Well before their way through the trip back to the gate, she passed out.

Back at the SGC, Hammond was talking to the Jaffa and Tok'ra again at the table.

"First of all we would like to congratulate you on the recovery of Major Carter. We are glad to know that she is safe." Delek said.

"Thank you." Hammond said.

"I have spoken to the High Council regarding the situation at the Beta site. The Council believes that the best solution is for the Tok'ra to leave."

"Is that really necessary?" Daniel asked.

"If this partnership were to continue, you would insist on full disclosure of all our covert operations would you not?"

"I'm afraid that is non-negotiationable." Hammond said.

"Then I'm afraid we must refuse. Secrecy is our only weapon. It's all we've ever known."

"The Jaffa too will be leaving." the Jaffa leader said.

"I don't understand. With the Tok'ra gone.."

"We are not leaving because of the Tok'ra. We are leaving because it is what we must do. On your base, you dictate the terms. We must consult you before we take action. There are those among us who feel that we have traded one master for another."

"We are not trying to tell you want to do." Hammond said. "We simply think it's important to coordinate our efforts."

"Unlike the Tok'ra or Tauri, the Jaffa are still learning what it means to be free. We must have our own bases, train our own leaders, build our own communities. We must do it for ourselves or it will have no meaning. Only then can we be equal partners in any alliance."

"I'm sorry, this is nuts." Daniel stated as he looked around the table.

"My friends almost died out there so we could finally get a weapon capable of stopping Anubis's soldiers. And now we're finally in a position where we can really make a difference and you want to walk away!" he said on the verge of anger.

"I'm sorry Doctor Jackson." Delek said.

"This is how it must be." the Jaffa leader said.

Down in the infirmary Carter was waking up, hearing movement around her.

"Hiya kid."

Ford had left the room so they could talk privately. Jacob had informed Ford of what had happened up upstairs and wanted to talk to her alone. Delek had Jacob ask Ford if he would reconsider coming with them.

"Sorry Jacob, but seriously. Think about that statement? I told you before and I'll tell you again. We both say no. Yes Hercules has intelligence, but he has no trouble admitting he was known for his strength and tactics. Technology and other sciences were never his thing. If it wasn't for me, he'd be…a lot like Jack is. Dumb as a brick some days. He says no."

"Selmak wants to hear it from him."

Ford breathed a sigh and rolled his eyes.

"I agree with Ford completely. I can be better use here than with the Tok'ra. I wish to remain for other reasons as well."

"Are those reasons including Major Carter?" Selmak asked.

"Yes. That and others. Sugar is one big reason seeing as I know the Tok'ra have none. Tell them no please."

Ford took back over.

"I need to be able to get hold of you later, so if you can send a message about where you are going so I can personally let you know when I plan to ask her." he said quietly.

"I will try. I'm happy to know she's in good hands." he said going in. "It would devastate her if you did leave."

"I know."

Carter looked up seeing her father. At a glance she noticed Ford was standing outside.

"You were asleep for a long time. You gave me quite a scare."

"Sorry." she said tiredly.

"Jack told me what happened. I'm proud of you." he said as she smiled at him. He took her hand as he talked. "Look Sam. I may not be able to come around as much for next little while."

"What do you mean?" she asked worried.

"Things kinda got screwed up while you were out there. The alliance is in trouble."

"I don't understand."

"You don't need to know the details right now. Let's just say we are going our separate ways for awhile." he paused looking at her, letting it sink in. "If I stay with the Tok'ra, at least I can try to mend some fences."

"You sure?"

"I'm not ready to give up on this just yet." He got up and gave her a kiss on the head. "Don't worry. I'll be back eventually."

"I'll miss you." she said starting to cry.

"I'll miss you too." he said looking at her one last time and then he left. He gave Ford a handshake and said to take care of her or else.

"I will."

Ford watched him walk off before going in. He was just wearing the standard issue pants and black shirt with his boots.

"Hey Sam." he said sitting down on the bed gently. "I can leave if you…"

"Hold me." she said as she began to lose control.

He helped her up holding her close as she cried into his chest. No one was around making it easier on her. She had gotten used to letting her emotions and guard down around him. Only when it was too great did everyone else see this side of her.

"They asked me to come with them again and of course I told them no. I mostly blame you for that…." he said trying to lighten the mood.

She didn't say anything other than a small laugh. She just stayed in his arms feeling better that he was there.

"I'd take you home, but that needle pushing lover as Jack calls her, says that you're not well enough to go home." he said jokingly.

She chuckled some more knowing he was trying to make her feel better. It was working. She sat back as he looked at her.

"You know, even with what happened to your face, you're still as beautiful as ever." he said making her smile as he ran a finger across her cheek. "How do you do it?"

"Where were you?" she asked slowly.

"When he was chasing you, you mean?"

She nodded gently as to not make her head hurt.

"Well, I was taking on a couple of those guys when you and Jacob ran off. I took one out quickly and was getting the other off my back when I heard the explosions happening. I knew that the base was going up because of the self-destruct and ran after you guys as fast as I could. The next thing I knew I was up a tree. I had….trouble, ahem, after that….with running, and walking."

"You ah, didn't climb down I take it." she said hearing a distinct tone in his voice.

"No." he said dragging the word out then whispering the rest. "Oh no. I fell from twenty feet or more. Now I was fine till a branch caught me in the crotch breaking my fall. Figures it was the last branch too. And a big one. Took me a few minutes before I could get up and walk again."

She knew what that felt like and cringed. "I bet that hurt."

"Everyone at the blast zone and around there heard me scream. Anyway after getting up and being able to walk straight I barely stopped running. I would have been there sooner, but the tracking device was broken."

"Tracking device?"

"I put a small one in your coat and boot to help me find out if you got lost or something. I've been doing it for sometime now, but only off planet. I landed on the handheld tracker and well I had to do it the old fashioned way and follow your trail."

"You had my clothes bugged?"

"I was watching out for you. I'm just sorry I wasn't there sooner."

She didn't say anything but moved back into his embrace. He held her till she fell asleep and tucked her in. Janet came by to see how she was doing as he left going to his room on the base to rest seeing as Janet didn't want him sleeping in the infirmary unless he was a patient, which was just about never. If Sam was in serious trouble, then it would be okay. He told her to have him informed when and if she needed him. He was able to heal her leg using that healing device, but everything that had happened had already taken its toll so she needed a lot of rest.

AUTHOR'S NOTE: The Knight Rider 2000 movie never happened in this story. But Team Knight Rider does exist, the last episode of that series never happened. Still waiting for the DVD sets.

The next day Carter was still asleep in the infirmary and General Hammond wanted to see Ford so he had to come there instead.

"You wanted me sir." he said sitting down in front of his desk as Hammond gestured at the seat.

"I've just been informed a film crew is coming to do a documentary on this place and some of it's people."

"Oh great." he muttered unhappily. "Sounds like the time Kinsey's son came along. This isn't the same thing is it General?"

"Same thing that crossed my mind. But no, Kinsey's son is not behind this. Unfortunately the President told me he wants this to go forth. He authorized it in fact wanting it made for when this facility is made public."

"That makes more sense. I don't see why you needed me…"

"He also ordered that you not be in this film because of your situation. He doesn't want anything happening that might show….."

"What I am capable of and am in a sense?"

"Yes son and more. Your immortality is very top secret. In some cases more top secret than this place. Only a very few people know that about you. Though other higher up's also want you out of the picture for other purposes."
"Not a problem sir. I'll just keep near Colonel O'Neill."

Hammond laughed knowing the Colonel would probably try his best to keep away from it.

"Well if O'Neill doesn't shy away, just try to stay out of the picture. If he gets you in it though in a not needed way, let me know."

"Got it sir. When is this happening?"

"Next week."

"Oh, well then I have plenty of time to make plans to be elsewhere. I'd ask for time off, but I'd prefer to be here anyway. Never know what might happen."

"Good. Dismissed."

A couple days later……….

Carter was finally at home again and last night the two of them had dinner. He had came over to her house and cooked, surprising her yet again. Janet had allowed her to go home as long as she did nothing too strenuous and had ordered Ford to make sure she didn't. After he had helped her home, Ford said he'd lie to poor Fraiser if Carter wanted to do something outside her rules. Carter had laughed at the prospect but didn't think it such a great idea since they where probably being watched. He made a chicken Cordon Bleu with a nice salad to start with. He didn't bring wine like she thought he would but brought bottled cider. She had a nice laugh at this and enjoyed it. Dessert was a homemade cherry cheesecake.

"I had no idea you could cook and such great dishes." she said as they sat in the living room talking. Ford even cleaned up, everything.

"It's a hobby I learned. Something I like to do."

"I thought guns were your hobby?"

"No that was more of an obsession." he said almost laughing.

She gave him a strange look.

"I'm kidding Sam. Seriously, it was part of the job that I just learned how to do greatly. Your field of expertise is Astrophysics where I can use powerful guns. Well, guns in general. I've expanded my knowledge of different things over the years though. That's why I can understand what you're saying while Jack has no clue."

"But we know Jack's faking it."

"Wrong, Jack 'IS' as dumb as a post sometimes. MacGyver does exist alright, but it isn't Jack. It's his brother." he said.

"Wait. How do you….why do you…"

"MacGyver has a son named Sam Malloy. It's Sean Angus Malloy actually. Jack had no clue who I was talking about, not till much later anyway. When I found him and Teal'c looking for you, I asked him to fix my tracker. He had no idea how and when I asked him about Sam Malloy, he was totally lost. MacGyver is his brother or twin brother most likely. He's covering for him. Where he is, I haven't been able to locate. Probably for safety reasons."

"I'm going to say twin. One got the brains the other got the brawn. Or at least that's what it seems like."

"We'll have to talk to him about it later." Ford said.

They talked a few more hours, especially about that night where she asked him in and he confided in her. Nothing still happened. At around ten he said goodnight and left saying he'd be there to get her in the morning.

Ford was up and dressed for work by six and was heading out the door to the General with a cold cup of black coffee, just the way he liked it, and usually a day old preferably, when a couple of black Hummer's pulled up next to his house. Men in black suit's, ironically and no pun intended got out. They had stun guns, but concealed. Ford had noticed the power packs on their belts as their coats moved with the small breeze. There was eight guys, all wearing sunglasses as well. The license plate said government vehicle.

This looks like a nice reception. I'm betting they want to take us away for intense questioning and a lot of pain inflicting.

More than likely true Herc.

"Can I help you guys?" Ford said assessing the situation.

He was thankful that all those years in his other past he got used to wearing the coat pretty much everywhere. He was wearing it even now and even more thankful. He had lined it with rubber after the last repair and had a new form of protection that the SGC people had made to help protect against staff weapon blast. Since it was untested on a live person he volunteered in case anything went wrong. It worked only damaging the vest and making the hit spot feel like you got punched hard, but otherwise no burn marks. The rubber helped so if he was hit with a zat blast. Two shots didn't even kill him, not often. He didn't try a third since that was suppose to disintegrate. The men were spread pretty far apart so if he tried anything, they'd have a better chance at getting at him or stopping him. Or so they thought.

Why not just rush them? Herc asked.

Nice idea, but not a good one. What if it is a legitimate thing or something SGC related?

"We need you to come with us sir. You're wanted at the White House." a tall black guy said. Ford was still the tallest, but not the widest.

"Did Kinsey have anything to do with this?" he asked smartly.

One of them flinched and that's all he needed.

We should get rid of this Kinsey. He's making life difficult for even me. Reminds me of Hades. Let's get out of here. Herc thought.

Good plan. Drive the way I want, if we can get to the car without a brawl.

"Okay guys. I give up." he said putting his arms out.

One of them got closer. The wide shouldered black guy.

"Here let me finish my coffee." he said bring it to his lips.

He tossed it quickly into the guys face and pulled him close as the others pulled the stun guns out. One of the guys fired hitting the black man he was holding. He jerked and passed out as Ford let go then grabbed the guys stun gun and shot a guy near him. He twitched and dropped. He found the hidden nine millimeter Glock on the unconscious guy he dropped and pulled it. The others pulled theirs and got down as he fired hitting one guy in the shoulder and another in the hand. Since he couldn't see the other Hummer because it was behind the other one, he emptied the clip into the tires he saw and dropped the black guy. As the others tried regrouping he dived into the General. It roared to life as though it knew it needed him to make a quick getaway on the first turn of the key. He peeled out as he backed up nearly hitting a guy and then floored it as bullet's hit the car. The undamaged Hummer came soon after him. He turned on a street nearly hitting another car passing by. Heading down the street he thought he lost them when the Hummer came out of a side street nearly broad siding him. He pulled the emergency brake making the car turn around quickly as the Hummer ran past and then floored it again going back the way he came. Hopefully he could get to Carter's before they found him, but unlikely. A black car came out in front of him and he instantly knew that he couldn't avoid it. He turned smashing his right front end into the driver side tire instead of a head on collision. The black car had hardly moved at all and wasn't damaged, surprisingly. The Hummer had turned around and was coming back at him quickly. Ford revved the engine.

"Fine guys. You want to play. Let's play chicken." he said putting it in reverse.

Oh no. You're not serious? Herc asked.

"Deadly."

The door to the black car started opening as he floored it. He backed up quickly pulling his bumper off leaving it hanging from the black car. The guys in the Hummer saw what was happening too late as he smashed his rear end into the front. Both vehicles were lifted into the air and dropped harshly. A couple of thudding sounds could be heard, then the General's driver door flew off, literally. It landed in someone's yard across the street. Ford got out as the other guys started recovering. He flashed his eyes at them and grinned wickedly as he grabbed the front near the tire. There were a few choice words from the occupants as he lifted the front and completely flipped the vehicle over before they could get their guns out. He got back in his car and took off with it sputtering some and smoking from the back. He ignored the black car and the guy watching as he passed them rounding the corner. The other guys left behind at his house had fixed the two tires and were getting ready to come after him. They looked up too late and Ford rammed it head on. The Hummer was pushed back a couple of feet as the General's front end crumpled in badly. It started smoking and a low dying horn sound was heard from it. It sounded like a clogged trumpet. Ford got out rubbing his head which was bleeding slightly from where the steering wheel was broken after his head connected with it. He started running down the sidewalk after the guys running away when another Hummer came around a corner down the street.

"Can't that guy take a hint."

This Hummer looked armor plated though and looked to want to run him over. What made him really worry was the red light that flashed back and forth just under the front of the hood. He turned seeing that black car coming his way. He ran out into the road making it stop a couple feet from him and pulled the shotgun out loading an explosive shell.

"Unless you want that thing to run us both over tell me a weak spot!"

It was only two blocks away and moving fast.

"C'mon and help me here! They're going to think that you're with me anyway!" he said turning to the car.

He still got no answer and couldn't see inside the car since the windows were tinted.

"Thanks a lot K.I.T.T. Going to try something else then." he said putting the shotgun up and getting his personal cannon out and loading it.

He tried aiming for the driver and fired. The vehicle swerved and the bullet exploded on the window, but had only cracked it. A laser came from the undercarriage of the Hummer and managed to go through his coat and going through his right leg. Blood splattered across the hood as he dropped onto it and slid off. The Hummer picked up speed quicker coming at them.

"Get me out of here otherwise F.L.A.G. will be in serious trouble!" he yelled through gritted teeth.

His leg felt like it was on fire. A tall man with curly brown hair got out of the car but hadn't moved for the doorway.

"Michael. I have scanned the on coming vehicle. It is built of a material that is diverting most of my scans. I believe it has an artificial intelligence as I do. Michael it has a Molecular Bonded Shell as I have!" the black Trans Am said. "If it hits me, I will incur serious damage. I don't believe I will survive the impact."

"It's after me." Ford said to the tall man in a black leather coat. "Get me out of here or that reincarnation of K.A.R.R will come after you both."

"K.A.R.R's returned!" K.I.T.T. said as Michael helped him into the passenger side.

"That was a figure of speech K.I.T.T." Michael said getting in quickly and backing up fast.

The Hummer fired a laser blast that hit where K.I.T.T. just was. Michael stopped the car looking at the road.

"That was close buddy."
The Hummer started racing forward and Ford moved his left foot to the accelerator making K.I.T.T. peel out. Michael turned control over to K.I.T.T. as he tried extracting the guys foot off his. Ford moved it without fighting. The Hummer was five feet from the front of K.I.T.T.'s bumper and closing.

"We have to get rid of this guy fast. Whoever is driving was ordered to do so by Kinsey. He wants me dead."

"Kinsey?" Michael said as K.I.T.T. made enough distance between himself and the large Hummer enough to spin around to drive forward.

"You don't mean Senator Kinsey? The one running for President?" K.I.T.T. said.

"Good job K.I.T.T." he said as he looked at his leg. Blood was all over the seat and his pants but his leg had healed up. "Sorry about the seat. And hood."

"He going to live K.I.T.T.?"

"I don't understand how Michael but he has no injury. I saw him get hit and felt the laser hit me. His blood is still all over my hood."

Michael looked at the exposed leg seeing no blood flowing out. He instantly started to ask questions.

"Don't ask. Classified. K.I.T.T., under the….oh what was it?" he muttered a moment then recited a legal government code that only K.I.T.T. would truly understand making K.I.T.T. keep everything he had seen and learned since seeing Ford as a classified subject.

"Michael. We cannot ask him any personal questions or anything pertaining to his mission. Everything we do with him is classified at the top level."

"What? I don't…."

"You can't ask questions. You're very life depends on it as well as K.I.T.T.'s. Go to this address." he said giving K.I.T.T. the location of Carter's home.

"That address is a resident nearby. K.A.R.R. will certainly know where this place is and be there before…"

"I know. Just go K.I.T.T." he said putting his gun away finally. Michael relaxed some. "Where's that Hummer?"

"About a mile back. He or she is having trouble with traffic."

"Good. Turbo boost over whatever gets in the way and get to that address. Super Pursuit if you have to."

"Super pursuit it is. K.I.T.T. let's go." Michael said pushing the button.

K.I.T.T.'s body changed as parts came out of the car increasing the speed from hundred miles an hour to over two hundred. The emergency braking system kicked in stopping the car quickly as he made it to the destination in scant seconds. But they first went several blocks away from the address to throw off their intended destination before turning around. It worked seeing as the Hummer was pretty far away now.

"Just stay by and watch discretely." Ford yelled getting out. "Hide down the street until we leave."

"The unknown Hummer is over a mile away and closing on this position." K.I.T.T. said.

"Thanks. Now get out of here." Ford said running over to Carter's house.

K.I.T.T. took off as Ford tried the door. It was locked so he forced the door open and looked around. He went into her kitchen and turned around hearing noise.

We should….. Hercules was saying when a bullet hit him in the back.

"Thanks a lot Sam."

"Ford? What the hell are you doing breaking into my house?!" she said lowering the nine millimeter.

"Your dressed. Good." he said grabbing her arm. "We have to go."

"Go where?"

"The SGC. I have a assassin after me." he said looking outside.

"I see they got you pretty good." she said seeing his bloody pant leg. She was on guard though despite being humorous. "You get them?"

"No. A laser got me. Oh shit!"

"What?!"

Ford grabbed her and ran through the kitchen as the Hummer plowed through her front door. He set her down as she looked at her house.

"What in the…..MY HOUSE!!!!!" she yelled looking at him.

"Get the car. Now." Ford said running over to the Hummer and grabbing the bottom side.

It backed up dragging him along tearing up her lawn and fence. As soon as it stopped, he started lifting the vehicle enough to turn it over when the door opened forcefully smashing him in the face. He hit the ground hard landing on the concrete walkway.

"You amuse me Mr. Primus. I was told you have more than average strength. But you are nothing compared to me. I am far superior to any thing you have ever seen or will see." a dark voice said from the Hummer.

"K.A.R.R." Ford said scooting back. "So it is you. How?"

"Amazing what technology can do." the voice said again with an devilish laugh.

Ford rolled over getting up quickly as a laser blast scrapped his coat. Carter still hadn't got in her Volvo. He groaned inwardly as he grabbed her arm and pulled her along.

"That thing talked."

"No kidding." he said forcing her in the passenger side.

He shoved the car out of the way as the Hummer backed up where it was just at, hitting Ford into the middle of the street. Carter got into the driver seat and started the car as the Hummer turned toward her. K.I.T.T. came driving by and stopped in front of the Volvo blocking it from harm.

"The ever inferior K.I.T.T."

"K.A.R.R. We destroyed you. And we'll do it again."

"As obsolete as ever. You never did understand your true potential. I have improved from the last time we met. You cannot stop me this time." K.A.R.R. said revving his engine. The Hummer's engine was really loud and neighbors were starting to come out and look.

Carter didn't know what was going on and was still trying to get her car to work, but it wouldn't turn over. She saw Ford roll over quickly and give the right back tire a hard kick.

K.A.R.R. yelled in frustration and tried to back up. Ford had kicked the tire hard enough it had bent it inward just enough to make driving difficult. Getting up quickly, he ran up yelling at Carter to move over.

"What the hell is going on?!!"

"I've been targeted by Kinsey. Remember? He's been trying to get rid of me." he said somehow getting the car started and making it take off so quick Carter was slammed into her seat. "He must have looked into other ventures and found out about F.L.A.G."

"How do you…."

The look on his face was enough for her that it was true. Kinsey had tried several times to get rid of him as well as the N.I.D., or the rogue part anyway.

"I'll fix your house later."

"You sure as hell will! You know how long it took me to get that place looking that good?"

"Many years. I'll help replace and repair everything, with interest. I swear."

He shifted gears as he came around a corner. K.I.T.T. was close behind and so was K.A.R.R., though the Hummer was having some trouble keeping up. A bright light showed up in his mirror and he pulled Carter's head down quickly as a laser blast took out the rear window of the Volvo station wagon and the headrest of the passenger seat and put a hole in the windshield

"What the hell is that thing?!" she said looking back. "That was the laser?!"

Ford explained in short detail the history of K.I.T.T. and K.A.R.R. K.A.R.R. was the prototype that went crazy because he didn't have a program for preserving human life like K.I.T.T. did. K.I.T.T. had supposable destroyed K.A.R.R. in a head to head battle. Somehow K.A.R.R. survived and was turned into the Hummer now trying to trash them, or him anyway. He was telling all this while trying to avoid being hit by the laser, succeeding barely. K.I.T.T. had taken a hit making him spin out. K.A.R.R. just plowed into K.I.T.T.'s side pushing him out of the way and kept coming after the Volvo.

"He must have been reprogrammed to kill me." Ford growled. "You're okay though?"

"Physically I'm fine. Mentally, I'm not sure. They made vehicles with A.I.'s?"

"I showed you the information at that time when I was being investigated for Kinsey's faked assassination. Remember?" he said taking a tight turn that pushed her into the seat again and almost through the door too.

"Barely. The system crashed soon after you left when someone kicked us out and I forgot about it." she said as they pulled up the Mountain Complex.

Jack was getting his pass out and giving it to the guard from his big truck as Ford spun the car nearly hitting the back end of his truck.

"What the hell?!" Jack said getting out. "You joy riding in her car now! Can't get enough in yours!"

"Get inside the mountain and try to find that site again. It's called F.L.A.G." he said saying the flag name was an acronym.

He got out seeing the Hummer pulling around the corner. It picked up speed considerable fast heading for them.

"Ford what is going on?" Jack said coming up. Carter had gotten out on her side and was heading over to the guard.

"RUN!!!" Ford yelled shoving Jack out of the way.

Ford flashed his eyes in anger and braced himself as K.A.R.R. plowed him into the side of the Volvo. It crunched considerable inward and hit Jack's truck. The Volvo took the punishment as it could deploying its airbags, but was totaled within seconds. The guards called for backup to the surface and started firing their rifles at the Hummer. The bullets bounced off doing nothing. K.A.R.R. backed off laughing and fired his laser at the two guards nearby killing them instantly. Jack and Carter took cover and made their way into the mountain. Carter said Ford told her that conventional weapons won't do any good, nor would explosives such as a Tomahawk missile seeing as his explosive bullets didn't do any good.

"That's impossible!!!"
"Trust me sir. I don't think he'd make this up. Ford's personal cannon did nothing to it and he said he used an explosive round."

Down in the SGC, Hammond was working on more papers and reports when the alarms went off. He left asking an airmen what was going on.

"Security breach on the top level sir. Someone is trying to get in past the main gate. Two guards have already been killed. I don't know the specific's but Colonel O'Neill and Major Carter are up there as well. I don't know if they have been hurt but both of their vehicles incurred a lot of damage."

"Get a security platoon up there right away. Get Teal'c up there with his staff weapon as well. Hand out zat's to the men to use only if necessary."

"Yes sir." he said turning away.

"Wait a minute airman. Isn't Ford among them up there?"

"I don't know if it's true sir, but I heard he was in the wreckage that happened when a large black military style Hummer smashed him into the side of Major Carter's car. If he's out of that, I haven't heard yet. That's also if he survived."

"Go on. I'll have medical standing by." he said reaching for his phone.

Guards came out as Jack and Carter were coming in.

"What's the situation sir?" one of the soldiers asked.

"We have an intruder trying to breach the perimeter. Armor piercing and explosive rounds are ineffective." Jack said taking a zat from him.

"The vehicle is alive sir."

"What was that Major?" he said swearing he heard her wrong.

Outside the few remaining guards were continuing firing at the Hummer. It stayed where it was firing its laser occasionally as it laughed

"K.A.R.R.!"

K.A.R.R. stopped firing and backed up so he was pointed more towards the exit point. K.I.T.T. was there, a little beat up, but functioning.

"Ah. My obsolete nemesis has returned."

"Give it up K.A.R.R. These people will stop you."

"Highly doubtful. I have killed there only true means of offense and now I can get rid of you."

"I don't think so K.A.R.R. I may have been damaged, but I can still out race you."

"Not if I destroy you first." K.A.R.R. said powering up his laser.

"How much time we have K.I.T.T.?" Michael asked.

"A few seconds at most. Michael. His laser has been severely upgraded. I don't think I can withstand another hit."

"I know buddy. When he goes to fire we'll use the turbo boost."

Ford inhaled a deep breath feeling life return. He was very wet all over and saw it was his blood. His body had been literally crushed.

This brings back memories. Except that when I was covered in blood, it wasn't my own. Not always anyway. We look like we stepped into a pool of it

My turn.

Ford looked up quickly and this registered on K.A.R.R.'s sensors distracting him.

"You still live!! I will not fail a second time!"

Ford yelled loudly and rushed the demented vehicle slamming himself into its side. Succeeding in smashing the passenger window in, he tried to get in as K.A.R.R. started moving around trying to toss him out of the window.

"IF I GO, YOU GO!!!" he yelled pulling a few panels off roughly and trying to grab internal circuits.

"You are inferior and will be destroyed for your interference!"

K.A.R.R. stopped moving as several electrical blast hit him.

"That should have disappeared." Jack said taking a few more shot with the zat. It just hit the vehicle but did no sign of any damage. "TEAL'C!!!!"

Teal'c powered up his staff weapon and fired a few rounds. They didn't do anything either as the Hummer turned facing them. A panel opened on the side near the back revealing two missiles.

"Oh shit! Take cover!!" Jack yelled as both missiles were fired.

The missiles impacted the ground killing several soldiers, taking out the small guard station outside and blowing up Jacks and Carter's vehicle.

"Time for us to move in K.I.T.T. We got to try something."

"Such as?"

"Maybe if we hit him hard enough he might have a circuit come lose."

"That's highly unlikely Michael. But I am compelled to point out if we don't try something, many more lives will be lost, including ours."

Michael pushed on the accelerator heading for K.A.R.R.'s side. K.A.R.R. backed up more pointing himself at K.I.T.T. and another panel on the side dropped revealing two missiles.

"Michael he's got a lock on me!"

"Turbo boost K.I.T.T.!"

K.A.R.R. fired both his missiles as K.I.T.T. blasted into the air. K.I.T.T. was going to land on top of K.A.R.R. but another compartment opened in the roof firing a small missile into K.I.T.T.'s undercarriage. The explosion blew his hood open and cracked the windows as he bounced off the back end rolling a few times before ending up on his side.

"Game over K.I.T.T. You lose."

"So do you!" Ford said pulling a shrapnel grenade out.

He jammed it into the driver seat as he threw himself out the window and rolled away. He quickly got up and started running when an explosion hit him in the back.

Jack had the other's regrouping as he watched a unknown black car come to Ford's aid only to be shot down as it somehow jumped into the air, without a ramp, and was immediately blasted by a missile coming out of the top of the Hummer. Ford was either thrown out or got out of his own accord and started running away after getting off the ground. Jack saw something move underneath the Hummer and tried to yell to Ford to watch out when an explosion happened in the cab of the Hummer. Another missile came from underneath exploding behind Ford. He didn't see where Ford went and hoped he wasn't vaporized or something worse. The Hummer started up and drove away quickly with smoke coming out of its window's and a few other area's. He and everyone else fired at it until it got out of range, but to no avail. Fire teams got to suppressing the fires as medical teams got to the wounded. Whoever was behind this attack had killed seven soldiers. Four men and three women. Many more were hurt by shrapnel, burns and other serious injuries. The man in the black car was burnt and had a few broken bones. Carter had a few bruises but he wasn't sure why. Ford was found wrapped up in the damaged fence. They couldn't tell if he was bleeding or not, but he was alive. His hair had been burnt almost completely off, again, and his coat was needing another repair job. Parts of his coat were scattered about along with a few of his guns and clips.

Hammond was standing in the briefing room as Carter filled him in what she had learned. She had been given time to find out more information as she requested before being debriefed about what had happened. She had also had time to change clothes, luckily. Daniel was in his office at the time and was still there since no one had went and gotten him. Teal'c was in the infirmary for a shrapnel injury to his arm. So was Ford who hadn't woken up yet.

"Ford told me that Kinsey had sent this vehicle to kill him. Now it is possible that it is true, but I haven't found any proof to back it up." Carter began. "Or it was the rogue N.I.D."

"This has Kinsey written all over it sir. Had one of us died and the base taken serious damage, that would improve his position at taking over." Jack said.

"Agreed, but unless there is proof I can't do anything."

"I found out through extensive digging around that there is a government agency called F.L.A.G. It was started up in the early 1980's by a man named Wilton Knight. F.L.A.G. stands for the Foundation for Law and Government sir. Wilton Knight created a car that had a lot of special capabilities to help fight crime and other injustices. It was considered classified, but not top secret like this place. The first car, was a bust since it didn't have a program that made it respect human life. It had self preservation in mind and tried to kill and did kill those few who got near it." she paused a moment bring a picture on the screen of a black 1982 Trans Am. "A second vehicle was built with human preservation in mind and was put into service. It continues to run its job today and is unfortunately up top with serious damage."

"Is that the car I saw upstairs Major?"

"Yes sir. That was K.I.T.T. His name stands for Knight Industries Two Thousand. The Hummer is known as K.A.R.R., who was supposedly destroyed several years ago by K.I.T.T. when they battled under a bridge according to the report."

"Does K.A.R.R. stand for something?" Jack asked.

"Knight Automated Roving Robot sir."

"Oh. Figures it would have a acronym."

"I'm fine Janet. Forgive me, but back off please." Ford said walking in.

He was wearing new clothes, SGC standards and that camouflaged baseball like hat again. Carter thought it made him look like a General and gave him a younger look. But she preferred his long hair, unfortunately so did a lot of the other women on the base.

"Doctor?" Hammond asked.

"He left against medical advice sir." she said standing near the table.

"I'm fine sir. Tired and pissed off." he said rubbing his face in exhaustion as he sat down. He saw the look he was getting from Jack and Hammond. "Sorry about the outburst."

"Considering what you just went through, that still surprises the hell out of me, I'll let it go this time. If I feel something is wrong Doctor I'll have him returned immediately."

"Yes sir." she said leaving.

"What did it feel like?"

"Excuse me Jack?" Ford interlaced his fingers on the table as he leaned forward. He knew where Jack was going and didn't like it and made it obvious on his face.

"Being hit by a Hummer? Being crushed alive?"

Ford bit back a very ugly retort and said something else as Herc quickly tried to calm him down.

"It hurt like hell Jack, what do you think? I died…..painfully. Twice now."

"Mr. Primus." Hammond said with caution.

"Sorry sir. I'm having a bad day." he said rubbing his forehead.

"Major please continue."

"I found out that K.A.R.R. was rebuilt by some hidden company that doesn't actually exist. From there the trail completely dead ends. I couldn't find out much except the information at F.L.A.G."

"How's the driver of…what was the good car's name?"

"K.I.T.T. Jack. His name is K.I.T.T." Ford said sounding very exhausted. He looked like he was going to fall asleep. "I shouldn't have come down here. Permission to leave sir?"

"Where…permission granted as long as you don't leave the base."

"Where would I go? If I leave, K.A.R.R. would come after me and the General Lee was totaled so I can't drive away."

"We already have a team over there cleaning up things as we speak son. Same thing at Carter's house."

"Thanks sir." he said moving slowly. "I'll see you later Sam."

She nodded and continued on after he left.

Ford went up top and was stopped as he got near the entrance to the mountain. Before he left though, he went back to the infirmary and used the healing device on Michael.

"Sorry sir. Orders from the…"

"I know." he said cutting him off. "Where's the black car that was hit."

"Black car?"

"The Trans Am involved in the incident soldier?!" he yelled a little to loudly.

The guy flinched and stepped back.

"Sorry Sergeant Hart." he said seeing the name tag. "I'm having a bad day."

He rubbed his forehead as Hart spoke.

"From what I heard that happened, I could see why. The car is still outside."

"I need to get to it. I promise you I am not going anywhere and you can have a soldier stay with me with a zat gun if it makes you feel better."

"What's so important about that car sir?"

"That's classified. I have to get out there and soon or else you'll have a large semi truck pulling in very soon or a humongous plane landing nearby to come get it and ask questions."

He got the idea and had a Junior Lieutenant stay with him. Ford went through what was left of the area and soon came across the damaged car. It was smoking pretty badly. Ford managed to get the back open and found the tools that were kept there in cases close to this. He set the tools aside and grabbed the passenger door which was in the air slowly putting the injured car on its wheels, surprising the airmen.

"K.I.T.T.?" he asked slowly.

The Lieutenant nearby could hear sorrow in Ford's voice and didn't understand what was going on. There was a chirp or beeping but not much else.

"Damn. Lieutenant come here." Ford said having the soldier come over.

The junior pulled out a pad as Ford requested. Ford wrote down things he would need and had the soldier call someone to bring them to him. The soldier also backed off per Ford's wishes as he called the stuff up. Ford lifted the hood seeing a lot of fused and other damaged parts.

"I am so sorry K.I.T.T. You didn't deserve this."

He got the tools out and pulled a manual of K.I.T.T. out from under a hidden section in the dash and got to work on a certain area quickly but carefully.

A couple of hours had went by and Carter was looking Ford and not finding him.

"Maybe he defied orders and left the base." Jack said following her.

"Really sir. Think about that statement."

"I did. He might have left to keep us safe. More you anyway."

She stopped realizing that Jack could be right.

"Oh no. You actually think….don't answer that."

"You better hope he didn't or Hammond will have a field day with him. Let's go see if he did leave." Jack said.

They came up top finding work going on outside, things still being cleared and cleaned up. Jack noticed someone was over by the black car and shook his head.

"He left alright. Didn't go far though." Jack said pulling Carter away from a man who she was about to ask. When they asked a few people inside, they pointed at the elevator.

"How do you know sir?"

"He's over there." Jack pointed as they walked over.

"That do it yet?"

"Yes. That feels right." K.I.T.T. said. "It isn't the best, but it will work. You got to me just in time."

"Sorry I can't do better. I don't have the expertise or parts to work on repairing your body. Bonnie and them should be along soon though. I found and was able to activate your tracking device. But I had to scavenge other parts to make it work. Your body is…pretty much totaled at the moment. Almost as bad as that battering ram incident."

"Thank you. Is Michael okay?"

"He's fine. The best doctor's you'll find on the planet are here. He was sleeping when I left."

"Thanks for helping him."

He got off the ground and started working under the hood again.

"Damn. Your turbines are completely melted. Something in here got really hot and fused half your systems to the frame."

"My turbines are melted. If the damage is as extensive as it sounds, I may need a whole new body entirely."

"I hope not K.I.T.T. I like black Trans Am look myself. Though you could go with the 69 Charger too. Personally…"

"Ford?"

Ford was in the engine, or what was left of it and didn't get out, mostly because he had a hand stuck.

"Yes Colonel."

"What are you doing?"

He got out slowly looking at Jack puzzled as he shook his bleeding hand.

"What?"

He looked bad. His clothes were covered in unknown fluids and some known along with blood. His hat included and he looked like he might have been crying once. But that could have been the smoke and some spraying fluid in the car.

"I said…"

"I know what you said. I'm fixing a mistake I made." he said forcefully.

"You didn't built the car though." Carter said.

"I know Sam." he said softly as he went back under the hood. "But it's my fault K.I.T.T. got hurt. I should have tried harder. I nearly got the greatest car ever made destroyed. By sheer luck and this manual I was able to save his core program. Just about everything else needs to be rebuilt." he said dropping the tools he was holding as he got out. "Whatever was in that missile, melted just about everything in here including the frame. And that's not easy to do."

"Where's the core program?" Carter asked looking around.

"K.I.T.T., meet Major Samantha Carter and Colonel Jack O'Neill."

"Hello Major. Hello Colonel." a voice said from a small black box with a speaker and a small camera lens. Flashing lights were blinking on top of it.

"That's the core program?" Jack asked.

"Yeah." he said picking it up slowly. "I can't fix the car, but I was able to save him. Now we just wait till the semi arrives."

"The F.L.A.G. mobile unit. That's what your waiting for." Carter said grimacing at the damage under the hood.

"Yeah. It should be nearby considering that K.I.T.T. was working around here. Any idea's K.I.T.T.?"

"Unfortunately I don't have access to my scanners so I don't really know. At the time we met you they were on the out skirts of town."

"Shouldn't be to long th….."

The guards around the area tensed up as a large vehicle came up the road. It was the F.L.A.G. semi as expected. A single cab with a large black sleeper section and a trailer. All black with a gold knight on the back near the end of the trailer. A knight like that on a chess board. The driver stopped suddenly seeing the weapons aimed at him.

"Have them lower their weapons Colonel."

Jack turned yelling at them to do that as a elderly gentleman and a red haired lady came out of the side of the trailer. She showed age but not too badly.

"Oh my god. K.I.T.T. are you…" the woman exclaimed in fright and worry as she went for the car itself.

"I'm fine Bonnie. This man saved my core program. My body however, did not fair the same." K.I.T.T. said from the box Ford was holding. She turned to it quickly surprised K.I.T.T. was functional and not in his body.

"His power systems were failing and I did the only thing I could." Ford said handing the unit over slowly. Carter could almost swear he didn't want to give it up.

Bonnie took the unit, looked at him strangely, and walked away back to the semi as K.I.T.T. started telling her what happened.

"Can you tell me what happened here?" the elderly British man asked.

"Th.."

"K.A.R.R. was here. He's been programmed to kill me. K.I.T.T. was trying to help fight him and this is what happened." Ford said running a hand across the damaged Trans Ams hood which was not going to ever close again without major bending.

"K.A.R.R. you say? That's impossible. His parts were picked up and destroyed to insure his demise."

"Sorry to inform you sir, but I found out that he was rebuilt with the intended purpose of killing Ford. A dummy company was behind it, but I haven't found out who is behind it." Carter said.

"Devon. Mr. Miles. K.A.R.R. has been reborn into a heavily armored, heavily armed, Army issue Hummer. He even had the MBS." Ford said.

He was looking at what was left of K.I.T.T.'s body still running a hand across it slowly. The broken and fractured windshield shifted and fell in as the driver front tire deflated suddenly. One of the T top panels fell in seconds later and then the interior caught fire as the dashboard suddenly erupted in flames. Ford grabbed the fire extinguisher he had brought up with the other supplies and emptied the contents into the car.

"This is disturbing news. Where is he now?" Devon asked as he stroked his face with concern as he looked at the mess K.I.T.T.'s body was in.

"He drove off after Ford managed to toss a grenade inside the cab. It didn't seem to do much." Jack said.

"This is not good. K.A.R.R. has no compunction about taking lives to reach his goal."

"Mr. Miles was it?" Jack asked. The man nodded. "This place is a top secret underground base. From what I learned of your line of work, you know what can and will happen if anyone finds out about this place and what has happened."

"Yes Mr….ah?"

"Colonel Jack O'Neill. Two LL's. This is Major Carter and Ford Primus."

He shook their hands and agreed to keep things quite and agreed to sign a non disclosure form. Between the three of them they explained what happened, leaving out Ford's major injuries. He frowned to say the least.

"Where is Michael now?"

"He's being taken care of by our doctor." Jack said. "I'll see if he can be brought up."

While Jack walked away, Carter asked him some technical information which he said he knew little about in that regard. He took Sam to the trailer to talk to Bonnie to find a way to find and destroy K.A.R.R. Ford stayed looking at the car. He sat down in the driver's seat thinking as he looked over the damaged and burnt interior. Most if not all the buttons were burned out and melted, the two monitors were destroyed as was the built in sections of scanning equipment near the shifter which was burnt and melted as well. The left side T-top section fell in to the passenger seat as he tapped on the long crack.

"Can I ask what you're doing?"

"Thinking about another life. What I could have had had I not came here. What I want and have. Things of that nature. I got something for K.I.T.T. though." he said yelling to a airman.

He told the airman to go to his room and get a folder in his desk drawer. He came back at the same time as Jack and a few nurses came up with Michael.

"You make sure K.I.T.T. gets repaired and stays away from this. Tell him it's his way of paying me back for saving him. This is my battle, not his. This folder has specs for a special upgrade. Make sure Bonnie puts it in. Someone else has the patent for it already though so don't try using it on anything else. Any financial help you need, just give me a call. Seriously."

Devon thought about what he said as Ford walked away. He looked at the information in the folder with interest as he returned to the semi. Carter met up with him explaining what she found out as Jack came up after releasing the injured driver.

"Bonnie was reluctant to give out much, but Devon ordered her to cooperate. She gave me the tracking signal they got on him and several other things that might help. An A.I. System like those have special parts and programming that stand out apart from other vehicles so we might get lucky and find him on satellite. They are going to look into the matter and send us what data as it becomes available."

"Good. The sooner we find him the better I'll feel. The safer we will all be. I advise that all of us stay inside the mountain until we get him. To get at me, K.A.R.R. will go after the team."

"You're sure about that?"

"Jack. He tried to run Carter over by coming through her front door."

"He drove into her house?!"

"Yes Colonel! That monster destroyed years of work. My place was beautiful and now it looks like a tornado hit the lawn and everything around it plus looking like a tree was tossed through the front door."

"Ouch. We won't go after my home will he?"

"Not unless you're there. And your home in Minnesota would be attacked if you went to it."

"Damn. There goes fishing."

"Jack, you don't do anything but sit there and toss out a line into an empty pond, drink a beer and take a nap."

"So?"

Ford sighed, shrugged and walked away shaking his head.

"What?" Jack said following along.

After Jack had gotten back with them to go inside, the equipment being used to move damaged objects and other items was used to put K.I.T.T.'s damaged body into the semi which left soon after.

"I swear you have a crush on that car." Jack said.

Carter was taken aback by the statement and even more so by Ford's answer.

"Funny Jack, but almost true. It's not a crush. It was a dream I longed for that wasn't going to and couldn't happen. I wanted that car. Want that car. Just something about having a car that could think and talk was cool to me and I wish I had it. To hard to explain." he said giving it up. "Though I had the prop car in the other universe. Couldn't drive it though."

The rest of the ride was in silence and after speaking to Hammond what transpired above, he agreed they shouldn't leave until they locate K.A.R.R. Carter and Ford got on it right away, after Ford got cleaned up though and finally something to eat. Daniel was still working in his office completely oblivious to everything that had happened. It wasn't until he tried to leave for the night that he was told everything that had happened and why he couldn't go out. He was shocked to say the least, mostly because no one on the team came and said anything to him.

Ford was up early and trying to find Sam. He had been looking for the past two hours and asking around. Hammond he didn't bother with seeing he was busy on the red phone. O'Neill was in his office talking to someone and was very secretive about it. He ordered Ford away a lot quicker than he'd done in the past.

Now that was strange…… he thought as he went to ask Daniel.

"Hey Daniel, you seen Sam? I can't find her anywhere." he said walking into his office.

"No. I figured she was with you." he said looking up from a book.

"Can't seem to find her anywhere and it's beginning to scare me."

"I'm going to assume you've been to her lab and room already?"

"Yeah, but no real indications she's been there since last night."

"Try this idea. Where do you think she would be? Last place you might look always works."

Ford scratched his head in thought. "Not sure. She's not in any of the computer rooms or other labs. Isn't in the gate room or with Jack and isn't working out in the gym either. Checked the commissary more than once and she hasn't been in there since last night."

"Can you help me a moment then?"

"Sure. What's up?"

"I'm having trouble making these symbols out. I'm trying to learn Chinese and…

"Ah, not an easy task. Let's see."

Ford looked them over and after a few minutes the two of them figured out what the passage said seeing as it was an archaic form of Chinese.

"The last place….the last place….my room! Thanks Daniel." he said patting him on the shoulder.

"Anytime. Thanks for you help." he yelled as Ford left rather quickly. "He's got it bad."

Carter had came to Ford's room looking for him to ask questions about what he knew about K.I.T.T. and the others. The idea of artificial intelligence was a fascinating concept. When they had returned back to their universe those many months ago, Ford had placed several boxes of DVD's in that large trunk. She remembered seeing on one of the set's a picture of that black Trans Am on it and some unknown man. Ford's room was empty, which was strange since he preferred to usually sleep in if he could, when on base. Due to several attempted break-in's at Ford's place and other problems, Ford had transferred his really important personal belongings to a special large safe on the base in his room, which was also his office. He only gave SG-1 and Hammond the password. If anyone wanted in, they'd have to use at least four blocks of C4 and hope they didn't blow up what was inside. She opened it finding only three DVD boxes with the car on the front.

"Knight Rider huh? Interesting……"

It didn't take long for her to read the small information about each episode. She looked up seeing the boxed sets of SG-1's missions that he had. It was only the first to the six season and ironically Ford showed up in what he called the seventh season. She set down the DVD she was holding, thinking about how they had all gotten together one night going through a few of them that were really interesting.

FLASHBACK………………

"We should start with this one." Ford said placing the DVD inside Jack's DVD player.

They were at Jack's house to enjoy them. Ford had mentioned this one could get O'Neill in trouble with Hammond.

"Which one?" Jack asked taking a swig of his beer.

Ford refused to drink any which really surprised everyone, still. He mentioned he hated the taste after trying it once and stayed far away from it. Stayed away from alcohol in general. Said something about bad memories about a friend and they didn't pry.

"Remember that time loop…."

"Oh no. Not that one." Jack said trying to get out of his seat.

Carter and Daniel pulled him back down saying he had to endure it. Jack was reluctant but stopped fighting the issue. Ford kept the controller on purpose. Even ordering them to let him go didn't work.

"We are all off duty right now and the planet is not in trouble Jack. So forget about trying to be a Colonel." Ford said sitting down. "We either watch it now or sometime later."

When it got to where Daniel purposed that seeing as everything keep starting over for them every ten hours, they had free reign to do whatever they wanted. No consequences. Jack got stares when they saw him on the TV trying out pottery making.

"It's stress relieving!" he yelled at them. "Besides, I can't fish at work."

They got a good laugh at him playing golf in the gate room. He couldn't remember what address he had dialed though. Jack covered his face when the one where he resigned and kissed Carter came up. She always wondered why he gave he that look that day. He didn't look at her either when the scene played. Just covered his face with one hand even as she looked at him.

"I thought the yellow outfit was rather funny Jack. But you know what, I've never seen it since."

"I got rid of it after that….anyway, it's gone." he mumbled.

They went through a few others getting a good laugh at certain ones and questions at others. The episode Emancipation was interesting.

"Why are we watching this one?" she asked them all as it started.

"It wasn't my idea." Ford said looked over a box. He wanted a different episode.

"The outfit." Jack and Daniel said.

"Good grief guys. Grow up." she muttered.

"What, you looked great in that blue dress. Wait…Ford? What about you?" Jack said looking over at him.

"What?" he said looking up from a box.

"What did you think?"

"Of what?" he asked confused.

"Weren't you paying attention?" Daniel asked.

"I'm sorry. Did you guys ask me something?"

"Yes." Jack said shaking his head. "What did you think of Carter in that blue dress?"

"Dress?"

Yeah, that planet I was on where women were subjugated, had to wear dresses and cover their heads and face. The mission we're are currently watching." she said pointing at the screen that was showing Carter being taken away as a prisoner to be sold.

"Oh. I hate this episode. That's why I don't want to watch it."

"Really? Why is that? She looked great." Jack said getting a small glare from her.

"Yes, but truthfully, that headdress thing was ridicules. It was horrible. The dress was nice, but otherwise…..anyway, it was the subjugation part I hated. And while we are on this subject, I wish I was there then, because I would have kicked his ass, culture problems or not. Took on the whole damned tribe if I had to."

"Okay. You're going somewhere with this? I can tell." Jack asked not surprised.

"If we ever go on a mission where something like that is happening, you better send another team. Order's or not, I won't stand for it." he said forcefully.

He then looked at her.

"Though I did like how you kicked his ass in the end."

"It was fun showing him up." she said smiling.

Ford suddenly smiled, but it was more of a wicked like smile.

"Now how about explaining what happened on that mission Jack was referring to where you drank something and there was something about missing clo…."

"Oh, you haven't heard that. That's right." Jack said smiling. Even Daniel smiled as he looked away as her smile turned to anger. "Well, she had…"

"What?!"

"I was kidding!" he said as she smacked Jack's arm and then Ford's a few times for bringing it up.

Carter pulled herself back to reality and got one of the DVD's out looking at the battle between K.I.T.T. and K.A.R.R. The fight with Goliath was an interesting fact and was possibly the way out of trouble if he wasn't dismantled. Ford came in when she was looking at an episode that had to do with K.I.T.T. getting trashed badly when his MBS system was taken out.

"I should have looked here first."

"Ford!!" she said jumping up. "You startled me."

"Sorry. I figured you heard me come in. So, find anything useful?"

"Yes and no."

"Carter you okay?"

"I watched those two that had K.A.R.R. in them. He's just as bad an a Goa'uld. Almost worst. I've got a few idea's but I'm not sure what to do."

"Okay. What have you got so far?"

"At the time they were built they had state of the art computer software and hardware. Now they probably have computer's that are a lot like ours here on the base. From what I could learn, this newly rebuilt K.A.R.R. could possibly enter the bases computer by remote uplink and activate the self-destruct and we might not be able to stop it. He could access nuclear missile silo's."

"In the wrong hands he could be dangerous. I know. K.A.R.R. has a major weakness though. He really distrust humans. He only thinks about self-preservation but knows that he cannot repair himself without human aid so I seriously doubt he will launch our nukes. Blowing this place up, I doubt as well seeing as Kinsey is behind this and wants this place. He might try something when and if he realizes what is in this place." he said placing his hands on her shoulders. "Let's concentrate on what can be done and not what could happen."

She nodded and told him her idea.

"If we could get Goliath working again, that's assuming he wasn't dismantled. That would be something he couldn't withstand. Tank would be nice, but to slow. And if we could get that formula that breaks down the MBS system, we would have a way to destroy him. Unless we use a bigger vehicle."

"Now there's the Carter I know and love. Goliath would work."

"I've got to make a few phone calls first then we'll know if this plan can work. Let's get going."