CHAPTER 52.……………PART 1

Take's place during time with Daniel gone and after Gemini.

Jack was having a bad day at the moment. Things were going great for the week. SG-1 went to another planet and came back just fine making more allies or at the most trading partners. Minus Daniel seeing as he was off to the Pegasus galaxy. It was Thursday and he was looking forward to a nice weekend seeing as nothing big had came up, nothing of serious trouble, until today. He opened another folder and it completely threw his day off.

"Dammit! Airman get Major Carter in here, now!"

"Yes sir." the man said running away quickly to the phone.

Ford was working with Sam on some computer data that they got from a crashed Goa'uld Hal'tak. The information from damage and weather. They figured that the Hal'tak, which was found by SG-16 a couple of days ago, had been there for a couple of weeks. There was no bodies around luckily. It looked like it belonged to Lord Yu from the information they were getting out, but it was pretty damaged. The computer system and most if not all the crystals were in a storage room they were looking at. Several tables held the items.

"Whoever piloted that Hal'tak must've ran the damned thing into the ground on purpose." Carter muttered as she brushed a lock of hair from her face.

"I'd have to agree from the picture's I saw. Didn't explode on impact though." Ford said looking at another crystal to see how bad it was fractured.

"How far did they say it slid?" she said jumping as a few sparks popped from the damaged console.

"I think they said…hey be careful." he said softly. "You want me to do that?"

"So you can get zapped or burned?"

"Zapped? Zapped?! Sounds like something Jack would say."

"You know what I meant."

"I know." he said holding her hand and rubbing it. "But I don't want to see these pretty things get hurt."

"You just know all the right things to say don't you." she said smiling.

"I know. Here let me take a quick look to see how bad it is and then you can check it out?"

"Alright." she said smiling and handing over a small tool. "Do be careful though."

"I always am."

There was several wires and glowing crystals on the damaged box. What was keeping the power going to them was hard to say. They couldn't see the inside of the large broken component, but figured that the three by five foot damaged item had some power source inside, and they didn't want it destroyed. He tapped it in a few places with the small tool. He didn't jump when it popped at him in several places.

"Can't see a place where it could be opened, yet."

"Neither did I. I looked over it with this flashlight and the ultraviolet still not finding anything. How they welded it closed so well, I haven't figured out." she said.

"How many volts it putting out?"

"Somewhere around a couple million volts."

"Ouch. That's some power. Is the…." he said then pulled his hand back quickly in a grunt of pain. He refrained from shouting and jumping around she noticed as he shook his hand.

"Hurt didn't it?" she said seeing a bad burn fading away.

"No kidding." he muttered through a grunt as he shook it off. "Damn, I felt that down to my feet."

"The casing seems to be electrocuted as well, probably a loose wire or incidental."

"I'd have to agree. Thank you for not touching it Sam. Would have killed you." he said trying not to think about it as he shook away the numb feeling.
"If you listen closely, you can heard a hum from it. I realized right away something was wrong and didn't touch it."

"Are all the crystals powered?"

"I was able to remove these three here." she said pointing at the table behind them. They were dark and badly cracked. "There looks to be a few others, but I didn't chance it."

"Where's those rubber grips?"

She handed them over.

"Those are the third pair I had to get. Those crystals are extremely hot."

He was about to try grabbing one when the phone rang. She went over grabbing it off the wall.

"Carter. Yes he is. Alright, I'll let him know. Thanks."

"What was that about?"

"General wants to see you. I'm going to come with seeing as I wanted to ask him for some time off. O'Neill isn't happy."

"Wonderful." he muttered taking the gloves off and setting them aside. "Why?"

"I don't why he's upset."

"That's not what I was asking."

"Oh, there's a man I want to go see in California." she said leaving.

"A man? Say that again." he said chasing after her. "What man?"

"I don't see that jealous look all that often. It's cute."

"I said that once to you. Wait, then I should be jealous?" he said a little forcefully. "Who are you seeing?"

"No." she said with a laugh. "It's a old guy. He deals in theoretical physics, temporal mechanics and a few other fields I like. He's talking at a University collage and I wanted to go see what he says."

"Hmm. I'm going to then. If not to hear him, but to have more personal time with you." he said pulling her closer.

"Oh really." she said smiling at his seductive tone.

Jack was looking over other files when they entered. He wasn't all that surprised since they were usually always together. He grabbed the file and tossed it at Ford who caught it quickly before its contents went flying.

"Get that straighten out Major. I got off the phone recently with some pissed off people."

Ford raised an eyebrow and looked at the now open folder.

"I called them three days ago. Said they should have arrived yesterday." he said calmly.

"Well those chips never came and the higher ups that called wanted to know why you haven't got them!"

"These are the chips we made or designed actually. I talked to them over a week ago as well." she said seeing the file.

"Those chips cost a couple hundred million to make Colonel. Call them and find out what's going on. They aren't here." he said taping the deck with his finger

"I'll be right back then." Ford said walking out. Jack went back to signing forms and didn't look up.

"Sir, is this a bad time?"

"Colonel? Why you still here? Bad time for what?" he asked looking up thinking at first she left with him. He was surprised she was there and he didn't notice.

"Time off." she asked slowly.

Jack laughed, hard.

"I don't see what's funny sir." she said crossing her arms.

"You've never asked for time off Carter. What's up? Wait, you and Ford want personal time?" he said putting on a serious face again. "Carter I'm glad to see you happy, but more personal time is not really something I can agree to let you have, unless it's because your pregnant…"

"No sir. Not yet and no, we're not trying either. Talking about it, yes, otherwise no. There's a professor that I want to see in California."

"An old teacher I take it?" Jack asked leaning back in his chair.

"No, just someone talking about things in the fields I know and understand."

"Figures. I bet the Major wants to go with?"

She nodded smiling.

"You're not scheduled for a trip off planet for another week. Go ahead, but finish what you both were doing before you leave for the weekend. And find out where those damned chips are."

"Yes sir. Thank you sir."

"You're one lucky sob Ford." he muttered after she left.

Ford was on the phone when she came into the office.

"Look, I called you guys three days ago."

Long pause.

"And they have mysteriously went missing?"

Another long pause. "I never signed a damned thing lady. They never arrived here. We don't have them."

She watched him roll his eyes and rub his forehead.

"Okay, where were they last? You don't know that either. What do you know? Only that I called a few days ago huh. Well, tell your superiors or whoever else you need to that the SGC never got them, I never signed for them and they have been stolen then. The President will have someone's job for this so give them that information too!!" he said slamming the phone down. "Maybe that will get someone motivated!"

"What'd you find out?" she asked leaning on the table with her elbows.

"No one knows where the chips went. And it's being blamed on me because I signed the package sometime yesterday around ten am. Report shows they arrived here too. But I was in a meeting with you all yesterday at that time."

"When we learned about all the computer parts, we were still going though. That was a long meeting. I almost thought the General was going to make us go to the ship to get the information than bring it here."

"I wasn't going to go. That planet was way to cold from what I heard."

"Why do you hate the cold weather so much?" she said standing up.

"It's not the cold weather I hate. I don't like snow. Got buried in an avalanche once while chasing a terrorist. If it wasn't for a locater beacon on me, I'd be dead under all that snow." he said calling Jack's office and telling him what he learned.

"I'll look into Major. You and Carter get back on those broken parts and make sure that thing is off before you leave for the day. Don't want someone to get injured or shocked."

"Got it Jack." he said hanging up. "He's going to check things out."

"Good, let's finish what we were working on."

It took them several hours but they managed to drain off the power finally. They pulled the crystals out of the sections then found out the way to get inside was behind the crystals. Inside the damaged unit was a glass like container of Naquada, but it was mostly used up during the bleed off. Carter removed it and set it aside for the night in a special container. At home they packed to leave soon after work the next day. Seeing as the Mustang needed a little work, they were taking the General. She figured he didn't do the maintenance on her car on purpose, which he denied.

The next day they went through it all and tried to gather what information was in the crystals. Lord Yu's research department, as it could be best described, was trying to come up with a faster and move powerful Hal'tak. Needless to say, it totally failed seeing as the ship crashed. The pilot was either lost in the snow or made it back home to report his findings. Which one, they were not sure. Most of the information was gone or fragmented. Mostly they got a little more naquada and some crystals that could be used in the Prometheus or anything else they might need that used the crystals. As the day was coming to an end they went to the cafeteria to eat before leaving. Teal'c was there too with Sam still in line looking. After finding some things.

"After this we can leave." she said sitting down next to Ford.

"You tell Teal'c yet?"

"That we are leaving? Yesterday." she said.

"Where was I?"

"Looking over the crystals like I asked."

"Oh. Well, I need to go get something before we leave that's off base."

"Off base?" she asked as she was about to put her fork in her mouth.

"Yeah. Just something I need to pick up before we leave. It'll be about half an hour." he said taking his plate away. He walked out of the cafeteria after leaving the kitchen.

"Do you know where he's is going Colonel Carter?"

"Not a clue. What are you going to do Teal'c?" she asked.

"I have not decided. I have thought about seeing Ishta."

"She'd like that."

"Indeed." he said with a nod.

"Carter, where's Ford?" Jack asked walking up to them with a plate of his own. More Jello than anything else was there and cake.

"Enough sugar there sir?"

"I don't know. I thought about bringing the whole block of Jello he made. But seeing as he's going to be gone for a week, I need to space it out. Chunk every couple of hours, you know." he said with a tilting of his hand.

Carter hid a laugh behind her mouth as she looked at her plate.

"So Colonel," he said noticing her laughing quietly and ignoring it. "Where is he?"

"Sir? Oh, ah he had to get something off base before we left."

"Which is?"

"I don't know."

"He didn't say O'Neill." Teal'c said after Jack looked over at him.

"Hmm. Well when you see him, tell him that those computer chips you two created, they were stolen before they made it to the SGC. The person who signed it made a good forgery, but a detailed investigation found out it's not his. The truck was last known to be here in Colorado, but where they are is unknown at the moment. It's being looked into though."

"Damn. Those chips are important. It's not going to do anyone who's got them any good here on Earth."

"What were these computer chips made for Colonel Carter?"

"We came up with an idea to create a program that is in those computer chips that could identify Goa'uld technology when we use a UAV or the rockets for searching the planets we dial. The test trial worked out so we had more made at a top secret place back East. They were suppose to show up over a week ago for us and the Alpha Site."

"They never did." Jack said.

"No sir. Now someone has them. They were extremely expensive to make too."

"Perhaps the Trust has them."

"Teal'c?" Jack asked.

"They did steal the Stargate O'Neill. If they knew what Colonel and Major Carter created, they may have taken them for their personal gain."

"He could be right sir. The Trust still have that ship."

"I know that Colonel. Damn." Jack said rubbing his face. "I've got another phone call to make then. After I'm done eating though."

Carter came out of the mountain finding him standing there with the door open. She stopped realizing something was wrong with the picture.

"You….un-welded the doors?"

"Ah, no. This is a different car." he said taking her bag from her and setting it in the back seat with some of the other items. "I left the other General back where I picked this one up."

Other than the open passenger door, the car looked the same, with the exception of a flashing red light under the middle of the hood at the front just like K.I.T.T. She got in and noticed a big difference. The dashboard had a two monitors in it and buttons in different area's. Lights and several other things flashed. It reminded her of the inside of K.I.T.T. as well.

"That company….F.L.A.G., didn't…"

"No. The car isn't alive." he said getting in. He was about to put the key in but pulled back.

"Mistress."

"Hey K-9." she said looking to see him in the back seat. "What's wrong?"

"Nothing. Did you want to drive?"

"No. To tired at the moment." she said waving a hand.

Ford started the car and she noticed a big difference. It sounded loud like a normal Charger, but more….refined. He pushed a button and she heard a clank noise from the doors. He pushed another button and the top came down resting the flag part of the car onto the back. They still could easily get to the stuff in the back seat and K-9 could get out if they needed him.

"Now that is different. What did you do to the General? He wasn't like this when we left the house this morning." she said impressed with the new look.

"This is a different Charger I built and added onto before we got married. I just haven't had time to do a more thorough test run for long distance driving." he said as they left the mountain. The sun was still in the sky but setting as they left the complex.

The speedometer was digital as was the RPM's.

"How many miles you put on….is there a name for this car too?"

"Still the General Lee. A couple hundred so far. But seeing as the engine is…different, I can put many miles on this before it will need a rebuild."

"Yeah, I kinda figured that. What else did you add?"

"Some of the things K.I.T.T. can do mostly. I'm not only bringing this car for giving it the long run test, but it's built to withstand most attacks in case someone comes after us or me."

"Nice to know."

"I built this General from the ground up, literally. It's four feet longer than a normal Charger because I built it that way. More room for the bigger engine and some other things, more room for putting stuff in the trunk and more room in the back seat. Sprayed down just about ever part of this thing with that MBS system to make sure nothing would bend or break under pressure. This car, unlike the show one, can do those jumps and survive."

"Let's not though."

"I did them already some time ago during a test. Don't worry, I don't plan on doing that at all on this trip."

"Good. If I want to fly, we can take a plane."

It took them the weekend to get down to the San Francisco area to see the seminar that afternoon on Monday. They took turns driving to make sure they went straight there to not miss the three day event being held at the University collage. During one of the times she was driving though, she got pulled over for speeding. Ford woke up as the police man was taking her license and registration back to his squad car.

"What's going on?" he asked with a small yawn as he looked out the back window.

"I was speeding." she muttered.

"Nothing new there."

"What does that…"

"Ma'am. Are you in a hurry because of national security issues?" the man asked as he placed a hand on the door.

"No sir."

"In that case, here's your ticket. Please keep from speeding unless it is an emergency ma'am. The law has more important things to do than pull this car over, again." he said handing the ticket, registration and license back.

He walked off muttering something about speed freaks and something about the General as Carter slowly turned to look at Ford.

"What?"

"How many time have…has this car been pulled over?" she asked with her command tone.

"Uh….." Ford said scratching the back of his neck. "I…really don't know."

"Think."

"Um…..a couple dozen maybe."

"Couple dozen? What do you do? Go looking for cops and make them chase you around?"

"No. Only when I am really needed at the base do I floor it pass the speed limit. That's usually when I get caught. How fast were you going?" he asked reaching for the ticket.

"80."

"And the limit?" he asked shrugging at the hundred some odd dollar fine.

"60."

"Hmm. This is nothing compared to what I did. Pay it when we get home." he said putting it in the glove compartment with the registration. "Like I do."

"What did you do?" she asked turning the car on and taking off.

"A hundred…..in a forty zone."

"60 over! Why?" she asked not really surprised.

"I….don't remember. Done it so many times and only got caught that once."

She shook her head as she floored it, going over the limit intentionally.

"Wait a minute, how can this be the same car…."

"I switched the plates to this one."

"Oh."

Once they made it to California, they got a room at a very nice hotel that looked across the bay and had one of the parking garages near it. They had just enough time to put away their stuff, get freshened up and then off to the collage.

"Hey, that Major and Colonel are here." a guy said walking into a storage building.

"What?! How?! When?!" another guy behind a desk said.

"They showed up and got a hotel over an hour ago." the other guy said.

"Dammit! They must have found out we are here and what we are doing!"

"What do we do?"

"Well, we could do nothing. They might be here for something else." a different man said.

"It's not likely that they are doing that or here for another reason. They're here for us. I figured on this happening, but not this soon. Here's the plan."

The college was a nice big building and a lot of cars were there, including a few officers. Carter was in somewhat tight leather jacket Ford got her. It had some weight to it, but she was getting accustomed to it on purpose. With help from Thor, Ford had another thing of Adamantium made for himself and for her. He had two coats now with the metal. The new one had woven Adamantium inside it like chain mail. So did her jacket. The rest of her outfit was a blue shirt with three buttons and tight blue jeans with high heeled boots. She also was wearing three carat diamond earrings. Ford had a white turtle neck shirt with blue jeans and his normal boots. He had the coat with the woven metal in it and his personal cannons. His other guns he tended to leave at work or at home, but kept his personal cannons with him almost all the time anymore. As they got out of the car, several people, mostly young men whistled at her while others commented on the car, all from a distance.

"K-9, keep it locked, windows darkened and listen for anything suspicious or interesting." he said pushing a button under the dash.

"Yes Master."

"Ready?" she asked slinging her purse onto her arm.

"Yeah." he said closing the door.

Another few whistled followed as they linked arms.

"I wonder what they would say if they knew my real age?" she said as they headed toward the entrance.

"Considering what you are capable of, not only at home." he said saying the last part only for her to hear making her blush slightly at the statement. "I'd think they'd try to ask you out if you were still single."

"Hey, why haven't we stopped for gas at all? The gauge barely reads it being used."

"Doesn't use gasoline. And has a…prototype carburetor designed to process the…liquid hydrogen." he said muttering out the last part.

She didn't say anything for a moment as they kept walking.

"You do know how dangerous that is, right?"

"K.I.T.T. has been using for some time now and was even using it when that incident happened outside the mountain."

"You're going to have to let me see the specs on him later."

"Sure."

As they walked up to the doorway they were stopped.

"Are you here to see the Professor Brooks speak?" the officer said.

"Yes we are." she said.

"It's down that hallway and to your left." he said hanging them a pamphlet.

"What's with the law being here?" Ford asked looking around.

"There was a incident in the school the other day. Weapons were involved. Do you have kids going here?"

"No." they both said.

"We are just here to see the seminar officer. We live in Colorado."

"Long trip miss. Have fun then."

Following the directions they walked through some large doors into what had to normally be a classroom or was the drama room. It was like walking into a theater. Chairs sat on the floor that angled downwards going to a large platform at the bottom of the room where several erasable pen boards were standing around. A table and chair was up there with several items and the old professor. White hair, late fifties, almost six feet tall, gray suit and white shirt with a black and white tie. Even had the old rectangle glasses on. He was looking over papers as everyone was coming in. Carter and Ford took a seat in the third row near the edge. There was around two hundred chairs in all, most of them empty.

"Guess he isn't going to get a big turn out." Ford muttered as he looked at his watch.

"That's not surprising see as very few people might even understand what he says. Is that a new watch?"

"One I built that works with the car so I can contact K-9 if I need anything or access some of the systems."

"Like a missile system?" she joked.

"Driver side door has two small missiles actually. Targeting system is in the steering wheel." he said leaning back into the chair. The small desk attached to it at least was able to come up and fold over to sit under the seat.

"You're joking?"

"No. Passenger side has…..has something, but it escapes me at the moment."

"You're weird, you know that." she said looking through her purse for something.

"But at least you know why and don't care." he said smiling.

"Yes. That is one of the things I love about you." she said sticking the gum she found in her mouth.

"Oh, here's a watch for you too. Better looking than mine." he said handing over a digital watch with a few buttons like his and a crystal face.

"Hmm. Looks a lot better than the one I wear now. Thanks."

Three hours later the Professor finished for the day.

"He had some interesting ideas. Some that I didn't think about."

"I saw that. Almost wish we could tell him how close to getting right he is. I'm getting hungry, are you?" he said as they left the school.

"Yeah. We could go back to the hotel and order room service."

"Unless you had other plans, I wanted to take a walk through the park. Never been there before."

"I'd like that. Sounds romantic. We can find a place along the way and eat, then take that walk."

"Cool." he said with a smile as he wrapped a arm around her waist. "So, what do you feel like having?"

"What do you feel like?"

"Ohhh. This is one of those trick questions. You want me to guess what you want…"

"No I don't." she said smacking him lightly. "I'd love to have something made by you, but it would take to long to wait. Short of something like fast food, I could go for just about anything else."

"In that case, I could go for Chinese."

"Works for me. Know of any around here?"

"Uh, I know of a place a friend mentioned once, but never got the chance to check out." he said unlocking the car.

They arrived to find that there was at most a dozen parking spots open, in what had to be a five to six dozen car parking lot.

"Still want to go?"

"Big turn out, but I'm practically starving." she said as she pointed out a spot near them. He backed into it without any problems and then locked it up as they got out.

"I'd ask if you wanted anything K-9, but…."

"Concern appreciated Master. I shall keep watch."

"Good dog K-9. We'll be back."

"Thank you Mistress."

"Should be a open….well, would you look at that over there." he said looking across a section of parking spaces to another section of parking spaces against a wall, far up from them. "It's Herbie the love bug. Well, not the Herbie seeing he's just some movies."

"Don't know it." she said as they started walking again.
"Movie's about a 1963 VW bug. Race car. Cool car really."

"Ah. Kinda like what you did with the General. Made a car after a TV show, except this, is from a movie series." she said as they walked between a couple cars.

"Yeah. Guess we get to pass by it since they got to park close to the front door."

"The owner got to park in the compact section."

"General is far from compact isn't he." he said with a shrug.

"More like a full sized truck." she said as he stopped and looked at the inside. "What are you doing?"

"Just checking it out. Built like a NASCAR on the inside. Pretty cool."

"Ford, I'm hungry, so you can stay out here and check out the car or…."

"I'm coming." he said patting the car's top lightly before following.

"I count myself blessed by God by you." she said as he put a arm around her waist.

"Hmm. I've got to ask why, just to hear the answer. Though I think I know already why."

"Because you look at cars, weapons, games, technologies and other things, but never at other women, so I have nothing to worry about or compete with."

"I was thinking it was the things I did and do."

"That's mostly bonuses." she said as they went in through the doors.

"What were you doing to my car?" a young red headed woman, late teens or early twenties asked with crossed arms as she came out the second set of doors into the place.

"I'm sorry. I was just admiring the Herbie look alike."

"Oh, well. Herbie is off limits, not for sale and I doubt you'd even fit. So please stay away." she said dropping her arms. "Goodbye."

"What just happened?" he muttered.

"You touched her car, which she cared a lot about. I would have done the same to my old Volvo had you done the same before I knew you."

They got a window seat that showed the parking lot. It wasn't a buffet place, but they didn't care.

"What are you watching?"

"She's over by our car."

"Doing what?" she said looking. "Maybe doing the same thing you did to hers."

"How did she know it was our car though?" he muttered aloud. "K-9, flash the headlights a couple of times, then tell me what happens?"

"What are you doing?"

"Checking something."

"The vehicle moved under its own power Master. I do not…."

"Don't think about it K-9. I'll explain later, but do a detailed scan until the vehicle is gone from range." he said discretely into his watch like before. "I'll explain everything later to you too."

After the nice meal in a Chinese restaurant, Carter drove the car over to park seeing as she had been in this part of California once before. He explained what Herbie was, and was surprised that Herbie existed, to which she wanted to see what the scans showed later as well. They got out and locked down the car leaving K-9 to keep watch. After putting their sunglasses on, they linked arms and took off down a path enjoying the moment. They didn't say anything for awhile as they soaked in the peaceful feeling.

"It's really nice here. Seeing couples together, children playing, dogs too." Ford commented as they strolled along.

"We don't get much time to be together like this do we?"

"I miss it. Just the two of us. No aliens attacking us or otherwise. Strange having a peaceful moment." he said quietly.

"It certainly is different. Just keep expecting someone to pop out of the bushes or some other form of trouble to happen."

"I know. I keep wanting to look over my shoulder too. K-9 is keeping watch though."

"I'm really glad you made him. He has been a tremendous help, not only with work, but other things as well. When you're not around, I feel safer knowing I'm not alone." she said as they sat on a bench.

"He is. Hey, that kinda remind you of home? All those flowers arranged around that statue? Like something we would do?"

"Yeah. That's something else I miss doing. By sheer luck sometimes we manage to save the plants we own and the garden we started."

"It's worth it. You still look good when you're covered in dirt." he said smiling at a few memories.

"You started that fight."

"I wasn't trying to. You somehow had a dead root in your hair and I tried to remove it."

"You got more dirt on me and in my hair trying to untangle it. Laughing at me didn't help." she said smiling.

"I couldn't help it. It looked like a badly placed face mask. You're the one that threw the dirt in my face."

"It was fun though. I can remember what we did after that." she said seductively.

"That's something I don't think I will ever forget." he said blushing. "Let's just wait till we get into the house before taking off the clothes."

"Maybe we should put a fountain in the backyard."

"Then we could have water plants."

"I've seen some of them in the stores. Sounds like a nice idea. Question is, what sort of fountain?"

Everyone including them looked around as they heard several police sirens go off. Most people went back to what they were doing while others looked at the police cars running by.

"Never a dull moment here. So where were we?" he asked turning back around.

"Thinking of things we can go back to the room and do."

"And I always thought Jack had the dirty mind. Did you want to do something else or go to the room right away?"

"I want to rent a movie. Something romantic. After that we can have…other fun." she said smiling as she got up off the bench pulling him along.

"Works for me." he said smiling as they walked back to the car.

They were some ways from the car still when Ford noticed no one was around anymore.

"Strange, there was a lot of families and other's having fun here a few moments ago."

"You're right." she said taking her glasses off and looking around. "Wonder where they went."

"There's still a lot of people back at that end of the park, but there was more here. Maybe the sprinklers are going to turn on…."

"Maybe it had something to do with the police we heard."

"Possible. Never know with California."

"Alright you two. Don't make any sudden moves. Just put your hands in the air, and turn around slowly. I would prefer to have a peaceful day today."

They did as they were told. Other than a few police officers in uniforms surrounding them quickly there was two cops that stood out. One was slightly short and balding with a Mexican background from his appearance. A small section of black hair on either side of his head that went around the back was all he had. He was in a gray casual suit with a black tie and white button up shirt. His gun was a 9mm Glock. The other guy was in a red three piece suit with a striped blue and white button up shirt. He had a lot of brown hair and was taller than the other guy by several inches. He had sunglasses on and held a modified silver 45 magnum pointed at them.

"So much for a peaceful day for us too."

"I have never seen someone get into so much trouble and never mean to." she said shaking her head then going into command mode as two officers searched them. "Can we know what we are being arrested for Mr…?"

"Captain Nash Bridges." he said putting away his gun as their weapons were removed and they were both handcuffed. "You're both under arrest. Rap sheet is to long for me to go into right now, so will explain it back at the precinct. We're just lucky an anonymous person told us where to find you."

"Rap sheet? Do you have any idea who we are?" Ford asked as he watched his guns and clips put into a couple bags along with her nine.

"Not in major detail yet, but I soon will. Stealing government property is serious business, especially when it's the top secret kind. Rodney, read them their rights and…no, I'll do it. They'll come with me and Joe. Don't want them trying to escape."

"This is a set up Captain." she said as they were being lead to a yellow convertible Plymouth Barracuda.

"You try anything or damage this vehicle, I'll have both of your asses. Got that?" Nash said pointing a finger at them.

"Completely. Seeing as we haven't done anything to begin with, we have no reason not to corporate." Carter said trying to ignore his attitude.

"Nice to hear sister. Joe, what are you doing?" Nash asked turning away from them as he closed the driver door.

"I think this is their car Nash. But the key's won't let us in." Joe said trying to insert the key into the slot. No one could see the inside because the windows were completely darkened.

"Let me try."

After a few moments he gave up and came back over to them.

"How do you open the doors on that thing or are they welded shut?" he asked jerking a thumb back at the General Lee.

"Well, first thing is.." Ford said bringing his hands around and holding the broken handcuffs out. "These were put on too hard and I can get out of most kinds. Second, we're not leaving or trying to escape."

"We need to find out why we are being charged with whatever the charges are. Anything dealing with government property becomes our business if it entails certain items." Carter said handing her pair over as well.

He showed her sometime ago how to get out of them. Though she was rubbing her wrist after she gave them up.

"Third, the car is designed to work only for us. Seeing as it is government property, despite looks, you can't get into it. Going to read us those rights or wait till later?" Ford said twirling both cuffs.

After reading them their rights he told one of the officers to call a locksmith.

"K-9, follow us, but keep your distance to about less than twenty feet. Don't want you rear ending the Cuda." Ford said into his watch as no one was watching them.

"Are you sure that's a good idea?" she asked quietly.

"Better than them trying to break in and set off the security system. I designed the system to allow only certain people to drive it. Only three of those drivers are here."

"Some security. What happens if someone tried to steal the car, after managing to break in?"

"System scans the person, sees if they fit the profile, and ejects them if they fail to fit. Or electrocutes them. Nothing fatal mind you."

"Fit the profile? Ejects? Electrocution? What is that thing, a version of the Batmobile?" Joe asked as he got in the passenger side after overhearing the conversation.

"No. Better than it though." Ford said plainly.

Nash got in and started backing the car away. As they started heading away police officers started shouting. He stopped quickly.

"What the hell? Who's with you two in that thing?" Nash asked reaching for his gun.

"I wouldn't shoot at the car Captain. It's completely bulletproof." Carter said looking back seeing the General inches from the bumper of the Cuda.

"It has a advanced computer system. Since I'm…we, are not driving it at the moment and leaving, it's programmed to follow us. Unless we tell it otherwise and I'm not doing so."

"Now I've heard everything. You expect me to believe that? Tell your friend to get out of the car."

Ford sighed audibly.

"General, un-tint the windows."

They un-tinted and no one was in the driver seat. The most shocking thing was that the windows could un-tint.

"There's no one in it Captain." a officer said looking through the windows. He couldn't see anything in the back seat though.

"That's the government for you Captain Bridges. I can't give you any information about the car other than it's ours and it will follow us back to the SIU. After that I might open it up for you to see the inside. But not likely."

"No midgets driving?" Joe asked the officer.

"None I can see sir. The car is driving itself from what I can tell. There's a computer system built into the dashboard. Looks really high-tech."

"Tell it to stay put." Nash commanded.

"No." Ford said flatly. "I cannot risk the General being taken, broke into or destroyed. He's following no matter what."

"Fine, it can come with us then seeing as it doesn't help your case any. Considering your rap sheet, you both stole it and reprogrammed it for your purposes." Nash said taking off as he floored it.

Down at the SIU precinct, Ford and Carter were looking out at the bay inside what was once a specially made boat for musical entertainment. It was converted later into use for the police and became headquarters for the Special Investigative Unit some years ago. It stayed tied to the dock at all times. Near the back section over looking the water, there was a table and a few chairs. A tall, heavy built, police officer stood just behind them as they sat together.

"You know Ford, you seem to attract trouble when you leave the base."

"I didn't do anything! I didn't talk to no one! I bet this has nothing to do with the speeding tickets. Whatever we have done…"

"We?"

"He did say 'we' have a rap sheet." Ford said using his fingers to emphasize we. "Someone has set us up. Probably to keep us from the base or something."

"I've never done anything extremely illegal in my life."

Ford knew she was lying as he gave a her a look.

"What?"

"The speeding ticket recently."

"That doesn't count."

He looked away chuckling as Nash, Joe, and a red headed lady named Rachael walked up.

"Where's their lawyer Rodney?"

"They refused Captain." the officer behind them said as Nash sat across from them.

"Can we get to the point Captain? How about, do you know who we are?" Ford asked leaning onto the table with both elbows. "Really know?"

"Yeah, I do actually. Joe."

"You're a couple of felon's who are wanted in three states. Ford and Samantha Carter. Been stealing government technology for a few years now. That refresh your memory." Joe said looking through the folder. "Oh, an impersonating Air Force officers is also a federal offense."

"Let me see that." Ford said yanking it out of his hand.

"Let him look." Nash said as Joe went to grab it back.

The rap sheet was very well written from what Ford could tell and though the two knew it was false, whoever was behind it did a great job of making it look like they weren't real officers in the Air Force, but impersonators that had been stealing technology for years.

"Someone went through a lot of work to do this." Ford said taking his glasses off. "Check this out Sam. Almost looks like you."

"This isn't me. The height's wrong. I don't weigh that much and I'm a natural blonde." she said a few minutes later. She slid the folder across the table after that.

"We have a surveillance tape showing you both at a storage building with government property. You both stole very important computer chips used for guidance missiles. VX rockets to be precise." Rachael said setting the tape on the table. "Suspected in the use of VX rockets anyway."

Both folders had pictures of them in the act of taking a truck load of boxes with computer chips in them. A close up showed a lady that looked like Carter and one that could have been Ford's twin brother. One picture showed a dropped box that broke open.

"I'm six three, not six foot. Besides that I never wear shoes, except when I run in the morning. And I never wear any belt buckle but this one. Despite Jack's objections too." Ford said tossing onto the table and pointing at his Star Trek buckle. "I don't know where these pictures came from, but they are not us. How about you show us the tape."

"Rodney, go get the TV will ya?"

He nodded and left.

"With me, that person in the picture could almost be me. This other woman couldn't be her though."

"Oh really. What makes you so sure?" Nash asked looking at the close up photo. "Looks like her. The eyes are a little different, but they say a camera adds pounds."

"Whoever this lady is, has a wig on Captain. They have red eyebrows. I don't." Carter said pointing at the photo. "I admit, it's a close look alike, but that isn't me. The hair style is wrong as well. I've never spiked my hair that way. Besides that I only have a piercing in one hole of each ear. Not two earrings like in this person's right ear. And I don't wear hoops. Not to mention I don't wear blue fingernail polish."

"Changing your hair style is easy." Rachael said. "As for the eyebrows, that's a little harder. And she's right about the ear piercing, unless it was a clip on. But we can't tell from the photo if it is or not. Now that I look closer Nash, I'd almost say that can't be her. Those pictures are from earlier today hours ago. Her eyebrows would still be a little dark if she had changed the color. If they were bleached out, then they wouldn't match her hair."

"Nash, I can't get into the car at all. Whatever it's programmed to do to keep people out works better than anything I've ever seen. It even warned me to back away." a officer named Harvey said walking up. "And shocked me."

"You're not getting inside the car so give up. Now, give me my phone call Captain." Ford said holding a hand out.

"Finally decided on a lawyer huh?" Nash said dropping the photo's.

"Nope. I'm going to call the President. He's close friends with us." he said with a smile.

"The President? Which one?" Joe asked with a laugh as Nash had a phone being gotten.

"President Hayes, Command and Chief of the United States." Carter said smiling as she sat back. "We know him personally."

That got them all to stop smiling and stop moving as Rodney came back with a portable phone. Ford pushed the numbers needed as the TV was set up.

"Yes, this is Air Force Major Ford Carter." he said rattling off a service number, a pass code and a security code. And the fact the two of them needed his help very quickly. "He said it would be a moment."

"This I have to see to believe. Harvey trace the call."

"Already on it Nash." Harvey said looking at a lap top.

"Ah yes, hello Mr. President. Yes this Major Ford Carter. Yeah she is here with me sir. No we are not at the base sir and no that's not happening. I need your help sir. Got a SIU Captain here that thinks we are felons sir. Someone did a real good rap sheet on us, but you and several high ranking officers know we don't have one."

"Ah Nash man." Harvey said slowly.

"Yeah Harvey." Nash asked turning to the man sitting on a stool.

"He's taking to the President of the United States Nash. That call goes directly to a private line in the Oval Office." Harvey said closing the laptop.

Tracing it anymore was pointless and staying on the line was probably a bad idea he figured. He walked away then quickly.

"Thanks sir. He wants to talk to you." Ford said handing the phone over.

"What was it we were suppose to have stolen exactly? What sort of computer chips for VX rockets?" Sam asked Rachael as Nash talked on the phone.

"This." Joe said tossing a small bag onto the table.

Carter picked it up and looked it over.

"Does this look familiar?" she said rhetorically.

"I'll be damned! This is those computer chips we made." Ford said grabbing the bag and pulling the chip out. "How did they get here?"

"Where did you find this?" Carter asked standing up holding the bag.

"That was found at the crime scene from that box that was accidentally dropped. You must have missed it when you picked up the others." Joe said.

"We didn't do it. We didn't come here to kill people and steal government property that belongs to us anyway." Ford said standing up. "We designed this chip and learned a few days ago they were stolen, but never found out much beyond that."

This agitated the other cops but Nash waved them off as he spoke on the phone. With a few hand signals, he told them to wait a moment. He hung up with a grim look and stood.

"That people, was the President of the United States. These people are not the two in the photo's. He personal confirms that these charges are phony and are being dealt with as we speak. Major, Lieutenant Colonel, I apologize for any inconvenience and trouble we may have caused you. You're free to go. Rodney, go get their personal effects please."

"Thank you Captain Bridges. I know you were only doing your job." Ford said.

"We need to know exactly where this was taken from. These computer chips are very important to the job we do. They are not meant to be used in VX rockets. They're suppose to be installed in satellite systems." Carter said.

"If the people that we think have them, it would be more than serious trouble. We're going to need you help finding these people. Since it's your town, we'll leave it up to you to find what you can and then reach us on our cells when you learn something. We'll do some investigating of our own, but extra help is appreciated."

"You want our help?" Nash asked confused.

"It's your town. Would you rather have an idea of what is going on, to a point, then having us run around, breaking speed limits and god only knows what other laws as we investigate. Not to mention any gun fights that might take place." Ford said.

"You got a point Major." Nash said.

"I guess we can help. Whatever we find out is probably classified though as is this case right?" Joe said.

"You don't have the necessary equipment to access the chips and I doubt you'll come across anything dealing with classified stuff other than the chips. If it looks like it might be, call us anyway."

"At the moment, we don't know enough about whoever has our chips. Until we do, just find out what you can and if it goes into government property that you can't see or information, then we'll pull you off the help list." Carter said. "We need to call the General and let him know what's going on."

"Oh yeah. Jack will want to hear this. We can call him back at the hotel."

She nodded as the officers started dispersing.

"Of all the places." she muttered looking out at the water.

"Figures. We go off to have some personal time, other than seeing that Professor, and this happens." Ford said leaning on the table and shaking his head. "Hey, it's still pretty early, you want to go get a movie or go straight to the hotel?"

"Movie still sounds nice. We can go take a look after they return with our things." she said turning around and sitting on the table. "You know, this actually doesn't surprise me anymore."

"Hey, Antoine." Harvey said walking over with a box. The same box that had the Air Force people's stuff.

"Yeah Harvey?" the tall black man with a small amount of hair on his head.

He had a small mustache as well as a small area under his lip. Other than that, he was clean shaven. He looked up from his desk as the man with the Graceful Dead arm band walked over.

"You were in the army or whatever it was. You ever seen anything like these?" he said looking around before pulling one of the guns out.

"Impressive piece of firepower. I'd have to say custom made, but nothing like this I ever saw. Who's is it?" he said looking over the long barreled 45 magnum.

"It's belongs to that tall man we brought it. Get this, he know the President personally."

"He does? That's interesting. What would a Air Force Major need with one of these?" he asked thinking aloud.

"I don't know, but ballistics went over one of the bullets just because they seemed strange. Get this, they can't identify the bullets. They can't identify the guns either. The propellant is a form of nitro glycerin, but it's a stable form that doesn't explode under stress. Only when ignited."

"Wow. Never heard of that sort of nitro. Wait a minute, you say guns?"

"Yeah, he has two of them." Harvey said pulling the other one out.

"These are heavy and look brand new. Uh oh. Here comes Nash." he said handing them back quickly.

"What are you two doing?" Nash asked brashly. "I sent Rodney to get them their stuff and guess where I find it?"

"My fault Nash man. I was asking him something about these guns. Figured he might have seen something like them. I'll take them back." he said picking the box up.

"Wait a minute. Let me see that."

"Sure."

"He have a permit for this?" Nash said looking the gun over himself.

The weight surprised him as he looked it over and pointed at a few things sighting it. The sighting was damn near perfect by his account and despite the weight, it felt just right and perfectly balanced.

"He does. Signed by the President himself. She has one to, but it's signed by some high ranking officer. I checked that gun, both guns over several times. There is no serial numbers, nothing on his. Even the clips have nothing. I had ballistics just check them out. The guns, bullets and clips are made of an unknown metal Nash. I don't know what it's made of, but it seems indestructible, if you can believe that."

"They try firing it?"

"No. They opened one bullet and found the propellant isn't gunpowder. It's some form of nitro that doesn't explode under stress, but has to be ignited. They figure the gun has one hell of a kick. They still have the bullet. You want me to go get it?"

"No. We'll wait and see if they notice it's missing and say we were doing a test or it got lost in the paperwork.. Keep me apprised though and go give them their stuff back before they think something is up. I want them watched, just in case. Something is up and I don't like it."

After getting their personal effects they walked out finding a few people looking at the car.

"This your car?"

"Yes. I'd show it off, but we need to get going." Ford said opening the door for her.

The people parted as he took off quickly.

"You know, other than that time with our honeymoon, every time we go somewhere, we end up having it ruined by…"

"I noticed Sam. I'm not worried though. As long as we are together, then I'm fine." he said taking her hand and kissing it. "Hopefully we can resolve this quickly and still have plenty of time leftover for us."

"You know all the rights things to say." she said smiling as they pulled up to a red light.

"Ah, but I mean them."

"Too true." she said as they kissed.

"The light is green Master."

With a groan he started the car forward when it died suddenly.

"What happened? They didn't…" she said thinking someone had sabotaged it.

"Car's fine." he grumbled as he started it again and took off quickly through the intersection ignoring the horn blast behind him.

"Then what….you dropped the clutch didn't you?"

He nodded slowly.

"I've done it before. I just…wasn't paying enough attention." he said as she laughed.

Ford was looking through a section of Anime, not finding anything really interesting as Carter was looking through the romance section inside a Blockbuster. He went over to a section that was devoted to big name actors and actresses. As thought, Sean Connery had a few missing.

"No surprise there." he mumbled seeing no Bond movies.

"Find anything?"

"What I'm not finding that I should have brought with me. There was this really good one that had him and….Sam Neil in it and a few other semi big actors. But it isn't here. Not that I have asked yet or looked in other stores before." he said as they walked away to the counter.

"Hello sir, ma'am. You new here or have a current account with us elsewhere?"

"We are just in town for a few days." Carter said to the young lady.

"Oh, in that case, we just need you to fill this out." she said pulling a piece of paper out. Carter looked it over and filled it out.

"Hey, you ever heard…no wait. You have one of those books that have the names of the movies in which everyone played in by the actor names?"

"Yes sir. Here it is." she said handing it to him.

He flipped through it finding that the movie he was looking for did not exist.

"Okay. That means one of two things." he said giving the book back.

"Anything I can help with sir?" she asked as Carter signed the paper.

"Nope." he said handing her a five. "Keep the change."

When they got out to the car she asked to drive. He handed the keys over.

"So, what movie were you looking for that you didn't find?" she asked as they traveled down the road. She liked how it hugged the road, the feel of the power and the grace it seemed to have as she turned the wheels, shifted gears and such.

"K-9, link up to the internet and find out if the Russians made a large submarine called the Red October? And find out if it's still missing? That's all I need to know."

"Working." K-9 said.

"That name sounds familiar." she said scratching her head as they stopped at a red light.

"There was a movie made where a Captain Ramsey, I believe his name was, took a new experimental Russian submarine that had a, turbine drive I think. Very silent and capable of firing like twelve to sixteen nuclear missiles within a long mile radius. He didn't want world war three to start so he took the ship to America and scuttled her. But part of the crew got to have asylum. Mostly the high officers."

"Information retrieved Master. A Russian ship was reported stolen and never found called the Red October. Last reported heading for America and never found. It was believed to have been sunk by another Russian submarine."

"Figures. Is the search still going on?"

"Unofficially Master."

"A C.I.A. operative told him where to scuttle the ship. And it still is sitting on the bottom of a lake in Maine. Incredible. Unfortunately, it's probably completely worthless seeing as it's been scuttled for years. Only hope the reactor is still closed off. Or did it have a reactor?"

"We have to report this information you know." she said as they pulled into the parking garage near the hotel.

"You can tell Jack when you call him unless you want me to."

"You tell him. I'm going to start a hot bath, get room service then we can watch the movie."

The next day they made it to the collage to hear the Professor again. He was going over some of the stuff he had been yesterday and was currently telling a theory he had on time travel asked by a student.

"You know, I think he'd act like Daniel when he finds some new artifact, if we told him time travel was possible."

"We can't do that."

"I know. Just a passing thought. But he is so close to having it right."

"It's all theory, mostly."

"Sam, the only time machine you've seen is the gate. I've seen two besides that."

"You can't tell him anything and you know it."

"I'm not going to tell him anything." he said defensively. "I'm not going to even talk to him. Don't worry."

Carter had no idea was going through his head but listened to the professor continue to speak for the next hour. He had some interesting ideas about time travel and with the right equipment, she could build a time machine, but was missing several idea components. She looked back over seeing Ford was listening intently. After the professor was finished they left to go window shopping.

"So what did you figure out?"

"I'm remembering what Doc Brown said once. Time travel is dangerous and something we should stay away from. Just one wrong thing and…poof, that's it, you can completely ruin everything. I can't think of anyone I know that I could trust with that technology."

"What about me?" she said offended.

"I don't know. Jack I'd be worried he'd go back and save his son, as much as I'd like to let him do that, I seriously doubt he'd ever work at the SGC. Daniel would save his parents or at least save Sha're. Teal'c might go and save his wife from being taken."

"You're worried I'd go back and save my mother." she said slowly.

"None of you would be a the SGC. I'd probably still show up and there would be different people working at the SGC. Time wouldn't change for me except for the things that have happened since me showing up. Otherwise for me, I'd still be thinking that you all would be, should be working there. I'd figure it all out after doing a check on your backgrounds."

"Nothing would change for you since you're from another universe. I see what you mean."

"Time travel is just so dangerous. Almost can't believe the Ancients tried time travel."

"So you figured out how….." she said with a wave of her hand. "Quantum mechanics works?"

"Yeah, I understand it now." he said biting his lip. "Ah…I can't keep this from you."

During the drive around town while window shopping, he told it all. On and off between driving and having no one around them, he would continue. During the window shopping Ford noticed a certain item which Carter laughed at and agreed they should get for Jack. She got some new clothes, which wasn't always a great thing. Though she was flattered, Ford's eyes wandered across her more than usual every time she tried something on, which lead to….problems for him, one's she instantly noticed, and did on purpose. It was now running on three o'clock and they went back to the hotel. They didn't have any messages so they went straight to their room. Ford set the box on the ground and let K-9 out.

"So the capacitors are part of the reason why we traveled, okay not you…"

"I know what you mean Sam. The time you all went back to the sixties and met Lieutenant Hammond. You know, you looked good in that outfit, the glasses were a nice touch." he said sitting on the bed.

"I still have that outfit. And those glasses are these here." she said pulling them from her purse. She put them on smiling.

"Perfect." he said smiling as well. "Strange, we have almost the same glasses."

"Our brands are different though." she said putting them away.

"As I've watched you over the years, everything I've ever seen you in, the only thing I never liked was that helmet you wore for awhile."

"We all wore those for awhile. They always messed up my hair." she grumbled. "Now as much as I'd like to continue this conversation about me, one I know where it would lead."

"Yes. I know." he said pushing certain thoughts from his mind, for the umpteenth time, that she could tell was running through it still. His restraint and patience always surprised her. "We need to get to work."

"Yep. Call those cops and see what they have found out. You know them better than I do."

Jack came home that night finding a package on his door step. He looked around before walking closer to see what it was. It came from some UPS office in California.

"Now who could that be?" he said slowly still wondering as he tapped it lightly. Looking closer there was a envelope attached to the outside. He pulled it off slowly after making sure it wasn't going to make a explosion. His name was on the outside and it said from the Carter's.

"Oh no. This better not be resignation orders." he said pulling the letter out.

"Dear Jack, you can probably guess who's writing this. Sam says hi and hopes you like the gift we found you and sent it right up. Considering some things, you probably thought this was a bomb and might have it back at the base being looked over, which we hope isn't the case. Whatever you're doing, we hope you like it." the letter said and was signed by them. The PS said batteries included.

"A gift for me. This is different." he said picking it up and listening just in case.

He opened it with a knife slowly and saw a lot of styrofoam. Shifting through it while sitting on his steps he came across a yellow object. Didn't take him long to pull it out and realize what it was. It was a foot tall plastic statue of Homer Simpson with a happy smile on his face. His hand was out with a Duff beer can in it, but it was open for holding drinks inside the can. Jack took it in laughing as he set it on the table and got a beer from his fridge. Since the batteries where already in it, he put the beer into the holder.

"Mmm. Beer."

The statue said this in Homer's voice after he put in it. Jack laughed and took it into the living room. Sometime later when he was nearly finished with the beer and placed it back in the holder, Homer said another thing.

"Doh!"

Jack laughed until his sides hurt.

Ford called finding out they located a possible warehouse for where the chips might be stored at. He told them to wait a couple of blocks away just in case and that they would be signaled if they were needed.

"Where is it now?"

"They got a lead on a warehouse near the docks. Hopefully…why do I even bother to say that. Let's just hope things go right for once."

"Your track record or ours hasn't been all that great lately when leaving the base and finding things that are stolen."

"Nope." he said turning off the street into the bay district.

He passed a few other buildings and noticed the SIU cops staying away behind a few buildings nearby as they turned going down the large dock. Several large crates, bundles of rope, a forklift and a few other items of little interest was lined up and down the good hundred yard dock. He stopped the car at the fifth warehouse down, out of what was about eight to ten at most. Some in a state of repair to disrepair.

"K-9. Scan the interior. I want to see what we might be dealing with."

The screen on the right activated and showed the outside of the building. It zoomed in until they could see the inside. No one was inside according to the life scans K-9 did using the General's systems. Several semi trailers were inside sitting in different locations. No discernable pattern to them. A few of them had computer supplies, a couple other's had medical supplies, two of them were loaded with office stuff such as desk, chairs, lamps, that sort of thing. One of them they couldn't scan through at all. It was lined with lead on the inside.

"That must be it then. Keeping them hidden from any satellite or tracking system."

"Make's sense Sam. You sure there is no one around K-9?"

"No life signs detected in the building Master."

"Alright then. Let's go." Ford said hitting a button called surveillance mode as he got out.

"K-9, keep watch."

"Yes Mistress."

He pulled his revolver as he approached the door. She got her nine out as he opened it slowly.

"K-9 did say there was no one in here."

"Doesn't mean that someone might show up anyway. Besides, who knows what's in the container."

Passing several of the containers, the one they needed was near the back sitting apart from the others. He knocked on it, but they heard nothing.

"I'm going to open it slowly."

Sam nodded and kept her gun ready as he put his away and pulled the lever up unlocking it. As he got it partially opened.

"Danger Master and Mistress! Bomb detected!"

"Bomb?! Where?!"

Ford opened the doors all the way and they both saw several large blocks of C-4. The time left on the digital clock said 18 seconds.

"Sam run! Now!" he said closing the doors again as she didn't argue and took off. "K-9 start the car and open the passenger door!"

"Affirmative Master." K-9 said as Ford had already started running.

"Time K-9?" she asked through her own personal watch.

"15 seconds Mistress."

She got out the door and into the car at eight seconds.

"Where is…."

"K-9 get the car out of here!" Ford's voice said through the line.

"Wait K-9! He still is…" she said as she saw Ford come out of the front door.

He didn't stop and turn, he kept going and jumped the dock as the warehouse erupted into a massive fireball throwing him a couple dozen feet out from the force.. K-9 stopped the car after backing up a good dozen feet. Carter got out quickly rushing to the edge of the dock.

"Where is he K-9?" she asked as sirens were heard coming. "Is he unconscious?"

"The Master's life signs indicate he is awake Mistress. He is currently at the bottom trying to swim up."

"Does he need help?" she said starting to remove her coat.

"He will surface in 4.8 seconds."

She kept looking around in the debris field. He popped up coughing and spitting near a burning log.

"Damn it!" he said looking where he was before swimming toward a ladder nearby.

"You okay?" she asked as he stopped near the top holding onto the edge.

"I should be asking you that question." he said wiping water from his face. "Are you?"

"Yes, but I didn't jump into the bay."

"True…."

"Danger Master and Mistress!"

They both started moving, but thought better of it, thinking moving might cause more problems.

"What is it now K-9?!"

"Dock stability has been compromised Mistress. Advise haste!"

Two of the large poles holding the dock up near the wasted warehouse snapped pulling that section into the water. The problem for them started when the other sections started getting pulled along.

"Carter jump! K-9 get the car back farther!" Ford said dropping.

"Ah hell!" she yelled jumping as the section they were on dropped down in as well.

She came up first seeing a good twenty yards of the dock missing, the cops that were to provide backup for them stayed on the concrete that connected with the dock, with the General parked on it with them, and Ford missing. Wiping water from her face she looked around again.

"Where is he K-9?"

"Three meters to your right Mistress and rising."

He surfaced a little closer shaking his head.

"My hair is going to be ruined." he muttered pulling something out of it.

"Your worried about your hair?"

"You okay?"

"I didn't want to take a swim, but yeah, I'm fine. Where's your coat?" she said noticing it missing.

"At the bottom of the damned bay! Let's get you out of the water before you catch a cold or something."

Once she climbed out with help from a few cops and was given a blanket.

"Aren't you getting out?"

"Not yet. Somebody get me a long rope please!"

"What the hell for? Whatever you lost is long gone and most likely can be replaced."

"One it can't be replaced and two I know where it is Captain. Now get me that rope please."

One was handed to him a few minutes later.

"I'll be right back."

"I think the cold of the bay got to his head." Nash muttered.

Took him several minutes, but he found it again. After placing the rope through the arms he swam back, got out and started pulling it in. Carter was sitting on the hood of the car telling a EMT she was fine as her cell phone went off. She shook off the water, surprised it was working.

"Carter."

"Hello Colonel."

"Who is this?" she asked suspiciously as she looked around.

"I'm fine….whoever you are." Ford said pushing the EMT away from him. "Just waterlogged."

"Someone that is warning you that that bomb was a message to pack up and go back home."

"Like that will happen. I'm guessing that you are the people, the Trust, that stole our chips?"

"I see you have been doing your homework Colonel. Your husband isn't paying much attention is he, seeing as he is currently trying to get his coat from the bay. Sad use of such a precious metal. Unfortunately, it's so precious we cannot make it. You seem to be all alone right at the moment, sitting on that orange junk heap."

She stayed quiet and didn't look around.

"We can see you. We saw you enter the building and despite my better judgment, we gave you a chance to leave. Forget the computer chips Colonel. They will be put to better use soon."

"We aren't leaving."

"The next time you might not survive. Leave or else the next time will be your last." the man's voice said hanging up.

"K-9, did you monitor that?"

"The call originated from a cell phone across the bay Mistress. I have the location on the screen."

"What happened here Major? You two blew up a nice section of this dock. Decided to have a party with out us?" Nash said with a short laugh that was not a funny one.

"No." Ford said hauling his coat up. He untied the rope, pulled it out and shook the coat. "Dammit. Take forever to clean this and weighs twice as much with water."

"Going to answer my question?"

"It was a trap. They knew we were coming and rigged the place to explode after we opened a trailer. We barely made it out. Our only led is gone." he said sitting on one of the police cruisers. "Thanks for your help, but I doubt we'll find anything now. Considering everything, the case might as well be dropped, but if you learn anything, just give us a call."

"We'll do. Just try not to blow up anything else."

"Got it Captain. Send me the bill if you have to." Ford said walking over to the back of the General as Carter was getting in the front seat.

He tossed his coat and the items in his pockets, wallet, change, those sort of things into the trunk as well seeing as they were soaking wet.

"What's up Sam?" he asked as she was typing on the keyboard that came out of the dashboard. The monitor was showing information about a place in the city, but where he didn't look.

"K-9 got a fix on the location of the man who just called me on my cell phone. We are going there right now. I want pay back. These clothes were new." she spat angrily as he starting getting in.

"Wow Sam. Seeing you angry isn't all that often, but in this case, it's cute." he said getting in as she scooted over. "I'm just glad I'm not the one of the receiving end."

"Go, now."

"Going and gone." he said gunning it lightly.

It wasn't long and they were crossing the bridge. Ford weaved through traffic, despite the amount of laws he was breaking.

"How fast are you…"

"95 miles an hour Mistress." K-9 said.

"And climbing." Ford said passing by a semi truck and several cars that honked at him.

One cop car noticed him speeding and started after them, then suddenly stopped despite clocking him doing a 105. Several turns later, after getting off the bridge, and a few sharp corners, he came upon the location K-9 directed them to. Pushing a button, the car suddenly went real quiet.

"What happened?"

"I switched to silent mode. Cuts down the noise the engine generates, but consumes a lot of power to do so, that's why I don't use it much." he told her as they pulled over next to the wall of a small warehouse.

Other than a few warehouses, there was a lot of semi trailers and train trailers stacked and piled around. Some in order and other's stuck in corners. Anyone looking from above, would see it almost looked like a maze, almost.

"Which one is it K-9?" Carter said pulling her nine.

"That, isn't a very powerful gun."

"It's enough. And can be intimidating."

"Since when?" he said getting ready to slip out the window.

"Since now." she said pointing it at his head.

"Point taken. Though I think I should make you a personal gun."

"I'll think about it." she said popping the clip in.

Ford got out and grabbed his stuff from the back as K-9 continued and told her which one it was.

"How many people inside K-9?"

"Scanner detect no one inside Mistress. Correction Mistress. A feline is inside."

"A cat? Well, that's nothing to worry about." she said getting out. "Keep those scanners on us K-9."

"Wait Mis…"

"K-9. Get a map of this area okay and all the ways in and out, just in case. Same as before okay."

"Yes Master. Wait Mas…"

"Thanks K-9. We'll hopefully be back soon. Oh, go dark too. Don't want anyone seeing inside."

"Yes Master." K-9 said as the windows rolled up. All the windows turned dark as they walked away.

"He say anyone's inside?"

"K-9 didn't detect anyone but a cat."

"A cat huh? Nothing to worry about there."

"Nope." she said as they opened the door slowly. "Probably a stray."

Even though there was no one around and the security system detected was so low tech by their standards, which K-9 was able to deactivate through use of a jammer built into the General, they were still taking no chances. Once inside, it was obvious they were going to have some trouble, possibly finding their computer chips, if not finding, getting them out. Mostly, there was a lot of open metal shelves around with a variety of items on them. They were all set up in a maze like way. Not in rows or any discernable pattern. A few trailers ranging from a full semi trailer to flat bed versions were in the middle of the room or stacked next to the walls. Unfortunately, the large doors for taking trailers in and out, was in the back of the warehouse. Not the way they came in.

"Oh man. K-9, scan around till you find our computer chips and see if there is anything here…..that shouldn't be."

"That qualifies as just about everything Master. The missing chips are in the white trailer several meters to your left."

"K-9, there's a lot of white trailers in here."

"Apologies Mistress. They are in the trailer two up from the four by four stack near the middle of the room."

"I think I see it." Ford said sighing. "We'll need a crane to get that out."

"Well, we can call the General and have him send people from the Air Force here to get them." she said as they walked through the mess of metal shelves. They had to make almost six turns just to get to them.

"Hey K-9, are all the chips in this trailer?"

"I cannot identify if they are all there Master. Sensor detect too much interference."

"Thanks K-9." she said.

"All right then. Here, you climb up on my shoulders and open the door."

"Why?"

"To see if they are all in boxes or if they are scattered and if they are all there. There should be little if any room in that thing. K-9 couldn't tell…"

"I got it. You sure you can hold me?" she said with a small laugh.

He smiled seductively as he put his guns away. The next she knew was she was high in the air and sitting on his shoulders.

"Now just stand up slowly. I'll keep you from falling."

"Next time you do something like that, warn me."

"Sorry. I thought it was fun though."

"You would." she said with a smile he couldn't see. "Good thing I don't have a dress or skirt on."

She got up easily and had her feet on either side of his head. Pulling up the levers she got the doors opened easily. Cardboard boxes were all she saw and from the looks of it, they filled the entire container. As she was opening the doors and looking inside, Ford kept still holding her feet. Yet he heard a clicking noise and a low growl which almost made him jump. He pulled his mirror out with his right hand and used it to look around the container.

"Oh no. Ah, Sam."

"It looks like they might be all here. I opened one of the boxes and found our chips inside. All we have to do…"

"Sam." he said a little louder, but calmly.

"What?"

"You need to get down, slowly."

Something in his voice said hurry.

"Let go of my feet for a moment."

He did so and she dropping to the floor in front of him, quietly, and pulled her gun.

"What's wrong?"

"Walk slowly." he said pulling her along as they rounded a set of shelves. "That's not a cat behind us."

She looked back and jumped as the large Siberian Tiger roared at them from the other side of the shelves. It jumped up hitting the shelves knocking things off.

"Run Sam!" he said pushing her forward as the Tiger dropped down and came running.

"So much for it being a cat!" she said as they ran.

Several turns later, they noticed they got lost quickly and cornered. They heard another roar and the clicking of nails.

"What now?!" she asked turning around pointing her gun.

"I'm not shooting it unless I haven't a choice. And that won't actually do much other than piss it off if you miss."

The Tiger rounded the corner spotting them and growled. Ford pulled his gun as it pounced knocking him into the shelve. It took a swipe at this head and he could only cover his face. The claws ripped his coat open and the force of the blow knocked him to the ground further.

"Climb!" he yelled rolling out of the way as it took another swipe at him.

Ford kept rolling as she managed to get up in time onto the eight foot high shelve against the wall. He took several hits from the claws, but only felt the blows as the coat took the damage. He lashed out kicking the Tiger in the jaw. It dazed it long enough for him to get off the floor and climb. He sat down next to her as the Tiger jumped at them as they moved their feet. Seeing it couldn't get at them, it paced back and forth growling.

"And I thought the Kull warriors were bad." he muttered looking at his coat. It was still holding together, but tattered in a few places.
"Now will you shoot it?"

"Unfortunately I have to." he said reaching behind him. "Uh oh."

"What?"

He looked down seeing his guns on the floor. And hers.

"Where's your other guns?"

"In the car. This is just prime." he muttered rubbing his temples with one hand and shaking his head.

"Now what do we do?"

"Calling for help is….wait a minute. We can call…"

"K-9!" they both said. She brought her new watch to her lips and started to call him.

"Fluffy!" a woman's voice called out. The tiger turned away from pacing near them and roared lightly.

"Fluffy? It's name is Fluffy?" Carter said looking down at it.

"Look's like Fluffy might leave. We might be able to run…."

"She's cornered two people over there on some shelves ma'am!" some guy said.

"Uh oh." they both muttered as they heard footsteps running toward them.

Three men, they didn't recognize them at all, came around the corner with a black haired woman, Latino, in a tight white dress, who didn't look familiar either, and pointed guns at them.

"Seeing as we are unarmed, you might as well lower those." Ford said.

"Fluffy. Come here." the lady said. The tiger walked over and sat down near her.

Minutes later, they were both sitting in front of a desk that was near the back wall. Their hands were tied behind their backs. The men were missing, being told to get the trailer of computer chips ready to leave. Right at the moment, Carter and Ford could hear machinery being used behind them. From what they could gather, a rigged up system in the building had a chain system set up on the ceiling to lift and transfer the trailers around the warehouse and outside though a few openings in the wall. Right at the moment, it was about to pass several dozen feet off to their left going outside behind the warehouse. The tiger was eating some sort of cooked meat as it lay by the desk. The woman sat behind the desk looking at them then at some papers in front of her while a short geeky man sat down next to her looking at a computer on the edge of her large desk.

"So, you're Major Carter." she said with a smile, then dropped it. "And you're Colonel Carter. Your dossier is impressive Major. Yours is a close second Colonel."

"Ouch. It's suppose to be the other way around…."

She got up and came around the desk sitting on it.

"Who are you and what the hell do you want?"

"Attitude Major. I like that." she said smiling as she got off the desk and picked up Carter's nine from off her desk. "I need information, and you'll give it to me, or else…..well, you can guess that."

She pointed the nine at Carter.

"I know for a fact you can break free at anytime. She cannot. You refuse to give me the info I need or lie to me, she gets shot. Nothing life threatening at first, such as being shot in the foot." she said walking over and pointing the gun Carter's right foot. "Won't do much, but she will never walk right again, or go off world as you all say. Not that I understand that fully, but I don't question those paying me really big bucks, even if they say aliens exist."

"What do you want?" Carter growled out not flinching at being threatened.

"You may have the information we need Colonel, but we know you'll probably keep quiet no matter how we try and make you talk. Your husband on the other hand, he has one serious weakness, and that is you." she said leaning over slightly and staring at Carter. She continued to stare at her as she spoke again. "I said I know you can break free Major, so do so, or else."

At first Ford did nothing and she pulled back the hammer. Ford sighed and looked up as the two women and the guy behind the desk watched him shift in his chair. Less than a minute later he had snapped the rope in half and tossed it in front of him.

"My, you are strong as they say. Bet you're great in bed." she said walking over slowly and leaning against her desk as Ford crossed his arms with a grimace on his face.

"That information won't help you with anything, so get to the point. Like Sam asked, what is it that I know that you want?" he said through clenched teeth.

"We know that these wonderful computer chips have been encrypted. You two know the passwords to get into them. We've already fried over a dozen chips trying to figure it out ourselves. We also know there are two passwords to get into it and that both are really long passwords, so don't try to lie to me and give me a short code." she said standing up and picking one of his guns off the desk.

"And don't think about trying to attack me at all. Fluffy is very protective and I have one of my men behind you with a gun pointed at the Colonel." she said tossing him his gun. He grabbed it by the barrel but didn't do anything as he glanced behind himself.

"Why give me my gun?"

"To show you, even though you have your vaunted weapon, you're powerless. So put it away or toss it. I don't really care what you do with it, but if you try to shoot anyone, she dies."

"Don't tell her anything Ford."

"I don't have a choice Sam." he mumbled as the lady pointed the gun at Carter's foot again. "The first one is…" he said stating the month of May, a date and a year, then doing so again with the same month but with a different day and year.

She looked back at the man at the computer. He was typing away as Carter glared at Ford.

"Well Marco?"

"It's coming up now Miss Amblin. We're in."

"Excellent. Is there anything else I should know about the chips Major?"

"Nothing that comes to mind. You have…." Ford was saying when another man came rushing forward.

"Miss! The police are on their way here! I was monitoring on the radio and just heard it! We got less than ten minutes till they arrive."

Miss Amblin instantly looked pissed as she glared at both of them then at the guy behind the desk.

"I thought you checked them for wires Marco!!!"

"Oh please. We own the only Dodge Charger around and a bright orange car like that sticks out like wailing baby in a silent prayer service. They were with us when we had to jump in the bay and were watching us by helicopter as we raced across the bridge doing almost twice the speed limit. We don't have a wire and certainly didn't need one." Ford said flatly as set his gun on the floor. "Deduction alone should tell you they are coming to see what we're doing."

She smiled wickedly as she grabbed his other gun off the desk.

"Marco, get to the truck and take the computer with you. Gene, help him." she said to the guy who was keeping his gun one Carter. "The rest of you get our escape plan into action. I'll be right out."

They nodded and started packing items off.

"As much as it would almost be better to shoot you both, it would make matters worse for the Trust. But if you continue to come after us after we leave, I won't hesitate to kill you both." she said walking over to Ford. "To ensure our escape is not hindered….."

She swung Ford's other gun around catching him up side the head. He dropped out of the chair onto the floor and didn't move as she dropped the guns onto the empty desk.

"Goodbye Colonel. It has been a pleasure. Not."

She ran out through a hidden door, but pushed a button making metal bars comes down over the large doorway out the back first as Carter shifted her hands around trying to get free. She heard the sound of a truck engine leaving as Ford started getting up slowly. She finally pushed the right button on her watch as she heard the General come plowing through front door, knock over a few shelves scattering objects as it spun to a stop just inches from their chairs. Several cop cars came in moments later following the SIU Captain's Cuda.

"Nice timing K-9." she said as managed to stand up without bringing the chair with her.

A cop ran up and started untying her ropes as another rushed up helping Ford to his feet.

"Where are they?" Nash asked looking around from where he was standing near the dazed Ford.

"They went out the back in a truck of some sort." Carter said picking her and Ford's guns up. "I don't see a way to follow them unless we blow a hole in the wall. They locked the doors pretty heavily."

"We don't have to blow anything." Ford said shaking his head as he walked around the General. "Everyone out of the way."

"What's he doing?" Joe asked.

"I don't know." she said as she got in quickly and saw he was bleeding from where he got hit. Normally she wouldn't be worried, but he was still bleeding.

Pushing a button on the dash then pulling a lever near the gear shift, the wheels turned sideways. Everyone moved as he made the car drive sideways, in four wheel drive. The sound of metal giving way to the heavy impact was agonizing loud, like nails on a chalk board, as the General went through the wall. The door feel forward as it was ripped from its frame. He pulled the lever putting the wheels back forward as he put it into first gear and rushed forward. The Cuda following moments later. Outside there was another warehouse, which was filled with more trailers. At the end of the edge of the warehouse they just came out of, was several box cars lined up going down the line of the warehouse with enough room for a truck to drive down or up, but not both. Ford turned sharply making the General almost impact the box car as he followed the path on the screen that K-9 brought up based on the route that the truck with their chips had taken. As they started to get to the end and make a turn, a few box cars suddenly fell down blocking the way.

Nash stopped his car at the turn that Ford had taken seeing that the General was going to have to back up and was starting to at a fast speed.

"Well, looks like whoever has those computer chips got away bubba."

"Yep. Guess we just go back inside and see what else is there Nash." Joe said as the General slowed down enough to turn and pass them still backing up. "I think some of the items in there looked like stuff that had been stolen recently."

"What are we going to do now?" Carter asked as he stopped near the opening he made.

"According to the map of this area K-9 brought up, that truck will be able to get away well before we can get around this warehouse section and get to them, so we have to get on the other side and follow their route." he said putting the General into first gear.

"But how are we….." she started saying as she suddenly realized what he was about to do. "You're going to make us jump the containers?"

"Exactly. It's the only way and we'll be just fine." he said getting ready to floor it. Instead he just revved it a few times.

"Wait a minute! You could get me…"

"Sam! You'll be fine. Michael Knight and K.I.T.T. have been doing it for years and he's not Immortal."

"Oh. Right. Wait, are you sure?"

"Yeah, just stayed buckled up. And relax, this is actually a lot of fun." he said as the words Passive Laser Restraint System came up on the screen as he floored it.

"If I get hurt, you're really going to get it."

"A little more trust Sam. I know what I'm doing." he said sounding hurt.

Nash heard the revving, wondering what was taking place as he looked in his mirror and called the chopper to keep a look out on any truck leaving the area they were in.

"Hey Joe?" he said looking more closely at the rearview mirror.

"Yeah Nash man?"

"Tell me that car isn't coming this way." Nash said as he looked back.

"Oh man, what the hell is he thinking?!"

Carter grabbed the roll bar above her head as they got inches from the back of the Cuda and suddenly lifted off the ground sailing over the box cars. She was more than surprised when they landed and she found herself having only one problem. Hurt hands from her tight grip on the roll bar and a very fast and hard beating heart. She looked back as he floored.

"See, nothing to worry about…."

"Left Master."

The car barely fishtailed as he spun the wheel and made the turn between several more stacks of boxcar trailers. Another sharp right followed and after about thirty yards, he made a sharp left at K-9's instruction. Way out in front of the General, down the small dirt road that passed several more stacks of old trailers, was the truck they were after. It was currently leaving and about to pull out onto the main road that would lead to the freeway. He hit the horn and floored it quickly. The people in the truck definitely heard the Dixie horn by the way the driver sped up and almost ran into the tall sheet metal wall as they left. Once on the pavement, they took off quickly.

"And they think they can get away?" Ford said with a laugh.

"They will if we don't go." she said waving a hand in their general direction.

He floored it again, hard, sending up a cloud of dust and continuing to do so for at least another twenty feet before the car finally shot forward. Seconds later he pulled a tight turn and got onto the pavement, leaving a nice black mark as he floored it again.

"Still have then K-9?"

"Yes Mistress." he said as the truck showed up on the map as a blip again.

"Damn, they are going through a residential area." he said seeing the other vehicle dots on the screen. "K-9, best guess as to where they might be headed for?"

"Data suggest they are headed for the freeway to the bridge Master."

"Well never catch up with all those other vehicles in the way. Wait a minute, there's nothing going on, on these roads."

"No, I don't see anything. At least three blocks is completely clear of traffic." Sam said looking at the map closely.

"If I turn here, then I take that road straight and turn there, I'll almost be ahead of them and might be able to stop them before they make it to the bridge." he said pointing out places on the screen.

"Sounds like a plan." she said looking forward. "This is the turn."

"Got it." he said turning to the left sharply.

"We are being watched by a news helicopter Master."

"Not important now K-9, but thanks." he said suddenly breaking through some wooden work horse barrier. "What was that?"

"Weren't you paying attention?" she asked looking up from the map.

"Not really. I think there was a sign though. Where's the next turn?"

"Two streets up. Ford, there's something in the middle of the road up there now."

"What is it Sam?"

"The map just shows something is in the way, according to the scanners, beyond that…."

"We'll find out soon." he said turning the corner sharply and suddenly stopping. "What in the hell is going on here?"

Out in front of them, just about two and a half blocks away, there was several vehicles all bunched up like a major accident just happened, but there was no smoke or leaking fluids or injured people. And there was an old style truck tow truck that hauled vehicles on its back, but the back was down like a ramp.

"K-9, what's going on.…"

"Scanning Mistress." he said using the car's scanners. "Conclusion of data suggest we are on a movie set Mistress. There are several camera's around…."

"A movie set. You mean a location?" Ford said looking outside the window. "I do see some camera's and…."

"Security vehicle approaching Master."

Looking out the windshield, they saw a security police car coming at them from just down the street.

"We don't have time for this and I don't care where we are. Hang on again Sam." he said gunning the engine quickly.

"Security is being called to stop us Master." K-9 reported as Ford swerved around the security car. It spun around and came after them.

"Go for the ramp."

"What? I didn't think…." he said surprised as he glanced at her.

"Please go for it! Making this car fly is actually exhilarating! If we weren't being chased, I'd take over driving. Besides, how else can you get around that mess?"

Slightly adjusting the wheel, he hit the turbo button causing the speed to go over a hundred. Hitting the horn as he hit the ramp, the car sailed into the air as Sam laughed in excitement. The security vehicle came to a halt with two more, all ramming into each other. Over a hundred feet later, they hit the ground hard and sent sparks everywhere as it bottom out and spun around quickly. They were both laughing as he gunned it again, leaving a dark trail and rushed off down the street.

"Oh god that was fun! Ford if we had a back seat big…." she said excited.

"Sam! Wow. Ah, please, I'm flattered but I got to drive!" he said laughing still.

"I'm driving home. Before we get home, I'm driving recklessly for awhile first."

"Deal." he said turning off the street and busting through another wooden work horse.

"I'll hold you to that."

"And you hold that thought about the back seat." he said with a wink. "K-9, where are they now?"

"They will enter the freeway in 32.5 seconds."

"Damn. Better hurry or we'll loose them in the traffic." he said avoiding a police cruiser that showed up suddenly in front of him from a street to the right.

Moments later, they entered the freeway and were a couple miles behind.

"Damn, they did get a good head start." Ford muttered as he dodged a Honda Civic that tried to pull into his lane. "Better hang on Sam."

"What are you thinking of doing? As fun as it may sound, you can't jump other vehicles to get ahead." she practically shouted as he shifted to a higher gear and pulled the car to the furthest right lane.

"We're going skiing."

Seconds later, he got the passenger wheels onto the concrete guardrails and floored it again.

"This is extremely dangerous!" she said holding herself up from falling into him.

"Exhilarating isn't it?!"

"Actually it is!" she said after a moment of thinking.

Ford had never done anything that would cause her harm and though driving on the freeway, with people honking and screaming at them for reckless driving, she suddenly realized she was going to be safe. And after that long jump, the car had proved itself and Ford's driving proved the same.

"Hey, this is actually fun!"

"See, nothing to worry about! Hang on!" he said pulling the car off the concrete rail and going through two lanes.

Passing by a few semi trucks with big loads they spotted the white truck with their trailer on its flatbed back.

"I think they spotted us." she said.

"Uh oh. Maybe this isn't…" he said as they saw a gun pointed out the window. Several bust of ammo came from the MP-5 bouncing of the car. The vehicles behind them and around them came to screeching stops and some crashed into each other and the rails.

"K-9 alert the nearest medical facility of what happened and report what injuries you can scan while we're in range!"

"Yes Master!"

"Is there anything in this car that can stop them from shooting others?!" she said franticly looking over the buttons.

"Ah, yeah." he said swerving behind the truck to avoid the gun from being pointed at them. "When I come out again, use the laptop and aim for the gun."

"Aim what?" she said as he pushed a button.

"The laser system. You've got about five shots."

She watched the monitor and a target system pop up. She used the touch mouse and moved the target up.

"Ready?"

She nodded and got ready. He pulled out a few seconds later and she aimed it quickly as another burst of ammo bounced off the car's hood. The first shot missed the gun and went through the front windshield of the truck. The second shot went through the door and the guy dropped the gun as he screamed.

"Try for the tires."

She was aiming for them when another guy poked his head out of the window with a different weapon.

"K-9, what weapon is that?" he asked quickly as he swerved to avoid hitting a small Honda Civic that the truck just went around.

"A grenade launcher Master."

"I can't get a lock from this range." Sam said looking out the window again.

"We're only about thirty feet away."

"And they keep moving into the traffic to keep me from hitting them." she said as he dodged around a Porche that honked at him.

"Good point. Hang on, I'm going to ram them."

"Incoming grenade Master!"

He barely saw it coming and never got out of the way as it impacted on the windshield. Only than a black mark and Sam making a small scream, he kept the car going straight.

"We're okay?" she said in a shaky voice.

"A Tomahawk missile would be needed to harm this thing." he said flooring it hard.

Seconds later he rammed the back end of the truck. Ramming it again, the driver almost lost control. He went to ram them in the side as they swerved, but missed as the driver moved to the left. The driver pulled to the right quickly slamming into the General hard. Ford barely kept the car from going over the concrete barriers. As he tried to pull away, the truck slammed into the car smashing it against the barriers. Sparks flew as the concrete blocks rubbed harshly against the side of the General.

"There goes the paint job." Ford muttered as he held the steering wheel in a tight grip.

"Forget the paint job. How do we get out of this?" she asked rather calmly. Though the car was shaking and scrapping, it wasn't crashing or falling apart. No alarms were going off and since K-9 was saying anything about the structural integrity, she figured the semi was probably taking more damage than they were.

"I'm thinking." he said calmly.

"Any other weapons…"

"We can't risk destroying the chips unless we have to!" he said as the General lurked into the air and rode on two wheels. The truck backed off slightly then made a sharp right toward them.

"They're going for it again!"

"Hang on!" he said slamming on the brakes.

The truck plowed itself into the concrete barriers as the General skidded to a stop and barely managed to get back onto all four wheels. Ford slammed on the gas again leaving a large trail of rubber as he rammed the back of the truck as it took off. The driver turned the wheel and pulled across the lanes as it went to the far left passing several vehicles and making the other drivers come to a quick stop as they tried to avoid hitting the truck and other cars. Luckily there was only a few collisions and K-9 reported no serious injuries as they rushed past the stopped vehicles.

"That's it. I've had…."

"They are going to use grenades again Master."

They could see the guy holding the launcher out the window, but he didn't aim at them. He aimed it forward and fired it. The truck quickly speed up and passed a large semi truck with a large trailer, that it just lost control of, as the axle assembly and wheels where blown away. The end of the trailer hit the ground hard, sending sparks flying and skidded sideways before Ford could get around it. Ford slammed on the brakes and unfortunately put the car in a spin as the trailer started tipping. It broke off the hitch as the semi driver lost control and hit the concrete barrier causing his truck to turn over and land on its side. It slide forward several feet before coming to a stop. The trailer came skidding to a stop several feet from the truck and continued to keep tilting over. Ford managed to gain control and skidded to a stop just short of the trailer, but not short enough.

"Oh no." Ford muttered as he watched the edge of the trailer drop from sight and land on the roof of the car with a loud bang.

The General groaned at the pressure of the impact and the driver side window cracked. Lifting a small panel, he pushed one of the three buttons in it and the hydraulics dropped the car an inch from the ground. Other than hearing sirens in the distance, the sounds of other cars stopping and the slight groan of metal, it was really quiet. Sam sat blinking as she gripped the seat in a death like grip.

"You okay Sam?" he said slowly turning to her.

"Ah…yeah. Just fine." she said slowly. "That, wasn't exhilarating."

"You sure….K-9, scan her please."

"She has a elevated heartbeat Master. No other injuries detected."

She let out a deep breath and let go of the seat.

"I just realized, I've been in worse situations. Though for a moment, I thought it might be the end."

Ford frowned as he thought. Didn't take long.

"Being in a spaceship as it crashed into the ocean…"

"Escaping a exploding spaceship thinking it was the end only to have one of our space shuttles save us…" she said.

"The black hole incident…." he said shaking a finger.

"Being stuck back in 60's..."

"That wasn't all that life threatening." he said with a frown.

"We knew the future, and Teal'c was from another planet and no Tretonin. Not to mention how much the General probably couldn't have kept his mouth shut and would probably want to try saving his son. You hate time travel, remember?"

"Good point. Guess the worse thing I can think you had to go through was when Conrad had you and those people….wanted to kill.."
"That's not a memory I want to remember, but true." she said holding a hand up.

They sat in silence for about a minute, doing nothing.

"Any ideas?" she asked.

"Not yet. We'll probably have to wait for a crane or something."

"You hear that?" she asked.

"That dripping? Yeah I do, K-9?" he said slowly rolling down the window. Thankfully it didn't fall apart.

"The trailer is leaking its contents onto the road Master."

"Smells familiar." he said sticking his head out the window and seeing a large puddle around the car that was getting bigger. She rolled down her and also looked.

"I think it's liquor. K-9, is that what it is?" she asked.

"Affirmative."

"Wonderful. We'll get drunk on fumes as we wait." Ford said as he sat back with a sigh.

"Smells a lot like Jack Daniels." she muttered rolling up the window.

"You've drank that stuff?" he asked with a raised eyebrow.

"No. But the Colonel has. He had Daniel tried it once. Sort of a dare. I…refused."

"I think I know why. Jack and Daniel having a shot of Jack Daniels. There's irony for ya."