CHAPTER 58

EPISODE----RECKONING PART 2

They were situated around the briefing room table discussing current problems. As they sat down, Jack sniffed the air and looked around. Carter sat on his right followed by Ford. Jacob sat on the other side.

"Where is that…fruity like smell coming from?" Jack asked.

"My tea sir."

"You drink tea? Giving up coffee for…" he said pointing lightly at her belly.

"Ah, no sir. It's raspberry tea. Gets rid of nausea."

Jack raised an eyebrow. Even Jacob was surprised.

"What'd you do? Go to one of those Chinese shops or…"

"I gave it to her Jack. Old southern remedy for pregnant women who get morning sickness or have that sick feeling. Besides, she can't have coffee anymore. Not until our princess arrives anyway."

"I miss the coffee, but this tea works sir." she said taking a drink.

"That's good. Does it just work for pregnant…."

"No, it helps keep away any nausea."

"I'll have to remember that the next time I get drunk."

Carter's eyebrows rose as did Jacob's.

"You can't afford to get drunk Jack. None of us can. A slight buzz for you maybe, but beyond that, this place can't have you coming to work plastered."

"I was kidding."

"Could have fooled me."

"Did me." she said.

"How many beers does he usually drink?" Jacob asked.

"Two at the most I've seen." Ford said.

"Okay, enough people, I know my limit. We got serious work to do now. Okay, Ba'al showed up recently and told us about the Ancient weapon at Dakara."

"Us sir?"

"Me and the Major. It was almost funny. When you get a chance, Jacob can tell you what I told Ba'al earlier."

"Yeah, despite the seriousness of the problem, Jack decided to be funny." Jacob said not happy with the memory.

"That's not a surprise dad. Did Ba'al say anything about the weapon?"

"He said it's capable of completely destroying all life in the universe. But I seriously doubt it has that sort of range. That….just doesn't seem possible." Ford said.

"He wants us to get rid of it." Jack said.

"He wants us to destroy it?" she asked confused.

"Or else Anubis will get it." Ford said. "Anubis would be unaffected by it, I believe is the point he tried to get across without saying it."

"Makes sense." she said.

"Ba'al is serving Anubis?" Jacob said surprised.

"Not exactly." Jack said waving a finger. "You know the Goa'uld and their egos."

"He would never admit to being subservient." Jacob said nodding.

"No. But he did say he was bidding his time. Probably to learn what he can from Anubis."

"That's not surprising either." Ford said.

"Maybe trying to find a way to kill him."

"There's that too." Jack said to Jacob's statement.

"We have no real idea of how this Ancient device works or how the effect will be. Considering Anubis is a non corporal form, he would most likely survive it, which would explain why he wants it. He has access to some Ancient knowledge." she said.

"There'd be no one left to rule." Jacob said scoffing.

"For now, but time might not be an issue for him." she said.

"Start over and make himself like a real god." Ford said.

"Exactly." she said.

"Well, let me state the obvious, we can't let this machine fall into Ba'als or Anubis's hands." Jack stated.

"Or the Replicators for that matter." Jacob said.

"How much time do we have until Ba'als fleet arrives?" she asked.

"Why?" Jack asked leaning onto the table.

"He didn't say where the device was hidden did he?"

"No." both Ford and Jack said.

"It could be in the ruins. For that matter, it could be deep underground and it might take blowing up the whole planet in order to destroy it, unless it's shielded, in which case our biggest naquada infuse nuke bomb might do nothing." she said.

"We have to find it before we can destroy it Jack." Jacob said.

"Then get out of here. The sooner it's gone the better."

It didn't take them long and they were waiting in the gate room as Walter dialed out.

"Where's Ford, Sam?" Jacob asked looking around.

"Said he was getting something to help fight the Replicators or a Jaffa contingency if they showed up." she said looking at her PC-90. She looked up suddenly with a concerned look.

"What?"

"Oh no." she groaned. "Unless he's bringing a lot of different explosives, I think I know what he's bringing. Something he mentioned he created in case of a Replicator encounter. Or if the base was being overrun."

"I don't understand." he said really confused.

"He once told me what he would use if the Replicators ended up on the base, or something else. Not the human form ones though."

Jacob was even more confused and was about to ask her when the door opened and K-9 rolled in with Ford. He had a large black case on his shoulder along with a few large ammo crates held together by a rope that was carrying them behind his back.

"Yeah, I was right." she mumbled. "Think you have enough there?"

"I'm not taking any chances. Besides that, I need to test this on something anyway." he said defensively.

"SG-1, you…what the hell?! Major, that better not be a missile!" Jack yelled.

"What would he do with a missile sir, and as far as I know, we don't have any that small." Walter said. "Portable I mean, like that."

"It's not a missile sir." Carter said. "It's okay, I know what it is."

"Well…..I guess if you know what it is. Okay, go ahead and good luck." he said as the gate stabilized and they walked through.

Jack called down to the armory to see just what Ford walked out with. He more than raised an eyebrow when he learned what it was, but figured if Carter knew, then she must have been in on it.

The first thing they saw was Teal'c, Bra'tak and a few other rebel Jaffa. They smiled and nodded at them as they walked off the ramp.

"It is good to see you Colonel Carter, Major Carter." Bra'tak said clapping them both of on the shoulder. He nodded to Jacob. "Where is the Replicator Ford?"

"Probably still on Thor's ship. He beamed us back to the SGC after the weapon failed. Replicators took over the ship as he was taking us back to Earth."

"We tried to stay and help him, but he didn't give us time." she said.

"This is most unfortunate."

"Not really. I think he's better off with Thor. Got a feeling he'll be able to help us there." Ford said.

Bra'tak and Teal'c were skeptical, but nodded.

"Do you need help Major Carter?"

"Thanks, but I've got it Teal'c."

They walked up into the ruins, past several old very tall columns and came to a wall with Ancient writing. Carter set down the bag that had Daniel's notes on Ancient writing as did Jacob. Ford set the case down, opened it and started working as Jacob raised more than a eyebrow. Even Selmak thought Ford might be going for overkill. Carter told the two airmen that they could take it from here and they set down a crate that had equipment they needed.

"You're right Sam, he does love guns. You sure he isn't going overboard? Even Selmak thinks he's going for overkill."

"He's fine and it's not as much as you'd think dad. It's only when we are fighting the Goa'uld or Replicators or whoever it happens to be that he's concentrating on weapons. Otherwise, he's concentrating on the job or me. Besides that, he's usually right when it comes to weapons." she said looking back a moment as she smiled.

"Ah. Considering everything I've been hearing about his exploits, that doesn't surprise me now."

"Yep. Okay, let's see what this wall says. Times a wasting."

"Well, we can safely say that this structure was built by the Ancients." Jacob said looking it over for a few seconds.

"Indeed." Teal'c said looking it over.

The wall had lots of Ancient writings on it along with circular lines set into it. Five large circles. None of them touching.

"This dialect looks very old. It may take some time." Selmak said looking it over.

Ford told K-9 to watch the gun sentry he set up and to report anything strange as he walked away.

"Yes Master."

"Time hmmm. Maybe, maybe not." Ford said walking up to them. "I can read some of it, bits and piec…."

He leaned closer to a word as Teal'c said he'd leave them to it.

"Uh…."

"Something wrong?" Selmak asked walking up and looking.

"That word says chicken." he said pointing it out with a very confused look.

"It says what?" Sam asked as she held the bag up and Jacob opened it to get out Daniel's notes.

"Chicken. It says chicken. What the…" Ford said confused as well. "It makes no sense."

"Well, until we decipher the rest, we won't know what it means." Jacob said looking through a note book. "You're sure you got that right?"

"It's right. It's….chicken." he said running his finger along a line. "Well, if I had to cook something to open the door, you got the right man to do the job. But that would just be silly."

"I….that would be beyond silly. But considering that the Goa'uld don't have much in the way of cuisine, maybe it's possible that the door…..you're right it's way to crazy to be something like that." Jacob said as they looked at him.

"When you put it that way…."

"How about we figure out the rest of it before we speculate." Carter said.

They both nodded.

"Are you really sure it says…" Jacob began.

"Yes!"

Up in space, several cargo ships, lots of gliders and five motherships stayed in orbit. All under the charge of the rebel Jaffa. At the moment, the leaders of the ships were talking on the bridge of Tolak's.

"We will be vastly outnumbered by Ba'als forces." Aron said.

"I refuse to consider a strategy that demands the deliberate sacrifice of Jaffa lives." Tolak said.

"What then do you advocate? Prayer perhaps?" Aron said.

"Jaffa….." Teal'c said coming forward.

"We are here to consider the battle with our enemy." Bra'tak said.

"Not with ourselves." Teal'c said then looked at Bra'tak. "Ba'als forces approach at a speed that are far slower than they are capable."

"Indeed. He is giving us time to find and destroy the weapon." Bra'tak said.

"Why doesn't he destroy it himself?" Tolak asked.

"Ba'al is in a difficult position." Teal'c said. "With so many witnesses, it would be far easier to inform Anubis that the weapon was destroyed before he was able to reclaim Dakara."

"How then will he explain his languid pace?" Aron asked.

"Regardless, he will only hesitate so long." Bra'tak stated.

"Five Hal'tak, eight Al'kesh and ten squadrons of gliders. That is all we have." Tolak said.

"Empty the bays. Deploy the gilders to the far side of the planet. Take two Hal'tak and all the Al'kesh and hide them on the far side of the moon." Teal'c said.

"Divide our forces?" Tolak asked.

"Precisely." Bra'tak said.

"All our hardship, all our suffering, the sacrifices we made for our cause, will end today." Teal'c said looking at them all. "One way or another, this battle will decide the fate of all Jaffa."

Most if all of them smiled and nodded. Except one.

"This is madness." Aron stated.

"So too was the very thought of our freedom." Teal'c said.

Aron nodded and agreed.

Daniel and Replica Carter were still in the same illusion talking.

"So now what? You done? You got what you wanted." Daniel said with his arms crossed. "Don't suppose you could drop me of at the nearest Stargate?"

She continued to look at him with a small smile.

"It is true. I learned the location of the Ancient weapon that could destroy me and my brethren. But I also saw the extent of knowledge your subconscious mind contains."

Daniel looked around with his eyes then at her as she stepped forward.

"You have no idea, do you?"

"No. No I don't." he said lost.

"You've tried accessing it, but it always just out of reach. I could help you." she said as he looked away. "I could help you unlock the knowledge of the Ancients. The secrets of the universe….together."

Daniel thought about it.

"I have to admit, it does sound interesting."

She continued to look at him with that small smile.

"On the other hand, you're a evil killing machine bent on galactic domination, so I'll pass."

She wasn't happy with the answer as she looked at him grimly and tilted her head. Daniel squinted and turned his head as it hurt and a memory of him trying to stop Anubis from destroying Abydos many years ago came to his mind.

"You had the power." she said as Daniel looked at her sharply. "You were about to strike, but she stopped you."

"No. I don't believe you." he said breathing a little harder. "You can make me see whatever you want."

"You know it's true. Destroying the weapon that can destroy me, is a good thing, for me. But there is more. There is a way to kill Anubis in your mind, and so much more." she said as Daniel's face showed slight pain and concentration.

"I am not done Daniel Jackson. Far from it. In fact, we have only just begun."

"Midday, the darkness is high in the sky?"

"I don't get it either." Ford said as Carter pointed out a line. "None of this makes any sense. But we can rule out the cooking idea."

"Neither does the wind blows on the pillow." Jacob said looking at Daniels notes.

"Or this three days to the chicken." Ford said looking at the line he found earlier with that word. "This…..it's like you'd have to be from Earth to understand it, but you're still lost even then."

"That's what they say though." Jacob said sighing.

"Are you both saying this whole wall is a bunch of nonsense?"

"I don't know what I'm saying." Jacob said.

"Maybe it's all a riddle." Ford said running a finger along a line then shaking his head.

"Are you sure you're both not mistaken?"

"Would you care to try?" Selmak said holding the notes out. "The text is very difficult, and if there is an organization of Daniel's notes, I have yet to discover it."

Carter leaned over and picked up some papers off the ground next to the wall.

"He certainly has his own system." she said looking them over.

"Maybe….no that makes no sense either. Moon in…." Ford said touching another line.

"Colonel Carter."

"Yeah Teal'c, go ahead." she said grabbing her com.

"Have you make any success in the translation?"

"We are making…some progress, but….."

"I wouldn't even call this progress. None of it makes sense." Ford grumbled loud enough that Teal'c heard it through her line. Jacob shrugged.

"That is unfortunate. We are running out of time. I suggest more haste in your translation."

"Translation isn't the problem Teal'c. Understanding it is." Ford said touching his com.

"What's up?" she asked knowing Teal'c wouldn't call unless it was important.

"Our long range scanners have picked up Ba'al's fleet. They will be here within the hour."

"Understood." she said as Jacob sighed. She turned around taking a deep breath. "Okay boys, you heard him, we've got less than an hour."

"Well, I can tell you this, this is a door. Opens going straight up."

"How can you tell?" Selmak asked.

"If you look at some of the scratch marks on it, though few there are, they go up and down, not to the side. And the door doesn't drop into the ground since I felt around for that already. If I still had Hercules, I could probably just lift it open. Too bad we can't call him for help."

"That's not going to happen since it would take too long to get him here." Sam said. "But at least we know it's a door."

"Question is, how do we open it?" Jacob said tapping the notes he had with a pen.

"It would be much easier on both of us, if you did not resist."

Daniel had decided to sit down on a pile of blankets and he tried to think.

"Why, why, why? Why? You know, why in the whole world of things rational and sane would I help you?"

"Because deep down you also want the knowledge that I seek."

"Yes, but the problem is, anything I learn I won't be able to put to much use if you're going to kill me."

"What if I promised not to?"

He laughed.

"Yeah…haha."

"You really think I am that different from Samantha Carter?"

"You're a Replicator bent on the destruction of all living things….so yeah I do."

"Her thoughts, her memories, even her emotions, they're not meaningless to me." she said as Daniel sighed in disbelief. "I do not wish to harm you or destroy Earth for that matter. I could have done that already if I so desired."

"So you're saying that you'll leave Earth untouched?"

"I promise you that, and your life."

He seriously thought about it.

"Nope, nope, not going to help you. I obviously can't stop you, so, give it your best shot."

"What if I told you I had changed. With help."

"Help? Help?! What sort of help would change you?" he said almost laughing.

"Ford."

He really laughed now.

"I see, you captured him, took his memories and saw his logic. I don't believe it."

"Yes, but no." she said making a wave of her hand.

Suddenly Ford was standing there in a set of clothes just like her off to her left. He didn't move though.

"You made a copy of him I see."

"Yes."

"Then why isn't he speaking?"

"This is only a…picture if you will of what he looks like. He is not here with us."

"Oh really. He's on a mission of universal domination of his own."

"No." she spat lightly. The tone made Daniel think something was wrong between them. "He is currently on Thor's ship, named after you."

What she didn't say was that her Ford had stopped the Replicators by linking up again and taking them over. They were currently trying to repair Thor's ship which had no hyperdrive system. He was fighting her, and winning.

"Really, and why would that be? Trying to stop the Asguard from finding the cipher I bet."

"No. The human Ford, Samantha Carter and my Ford found the cipher, but we adapted soon after it's test."

"I see. And you still want my help after telling me this story, which by the way is probably untrue. Forget it, I'm still not helping." he said crossing his arms.

Ford disappeared as she started looking through his mind again.

They were still at it, looking over the door and getting nowhere, or were until Carter noticed something strange.

"Maybe is can only be deciphered from someone who can only understand the language?" Selmak said looking over the notes.

"I know the language, but it doesn't make sense." Ford said after Jacob looked at him.

"You can read it, not understand it."

"Well, you got me there."

Carter was looking at her father when she looked down at the notes and made a discovery.

"Can I see that?"

He handed it over.

"You're holding it upside down." Selmak said.

"I know, I just noticed these symbols look like another word I have seen before." she said pointing at the symbols and then giving the notes back upside down.

"Right side up it's darkness, turn it around and…it says sun." Selmak said spinning the notes.

Ford took his coat off and set it aside.

"Midday the sun is high in the sky, that makes more sense." she said then looked back seeing a strange look come over her father's face.

Ford was standing on his hands. Somehow he was keeping himself completely straight and not falling over even as he scratched his left leg with his right foot.

"It is completely different. Some words make better sense this way or the sentences do…wait a minute…." he said dropping to his feet and standing up.

"What?" she asked.

"I think these circles move. If they did, then the writings would make better sense."

"Let's try it." she said putting her hands on one with him.

It turned as they spun it around doing a full 180 degree turn.

"There, now that does make better sense." Ford said brushing his hands off. "Ah, how many of these circles are there?"

"Five." she said as he was counting.

"It couldn't be that simple. Just turn all five upside down?" Jacob said.

"I doubt it. It's more than likely a few to…"

"A combination lock." Ford said looking at another circle.

"Yeah." she said looking at the notes for the circle he was looking at.

"Now we just need to figure out which one are which then." Jacob said smiling at their small victory.

"Your pathetic trickery will only delay your evitable defeat." Ba'al said on the large view screen that was hexagonal shaped on the Hal'tak that Teal'c, Bra'tak and Aron were on.

"There is no trickery at hand. We know that enviably that your goal is to eradicate all free Jaffa." Teal'c stated. "We have sent the bulk of our fleet away to survive to fight another day."

"Surrender now! Or be destroyed!"

"Defeat those remaining, and you will be forced to destroy the weapon on Dakara yourself. And then you will have to deal with Anubis."

Ba'al shut off the link extremely pissed.

"His fleet appears to be holding position." Bra'tak said looking at Teal'c.

"For the moment." he said.

Down on the planet they were still trying to find the right combo. Carter and Ford turned one more, after a few different combos and then backed off as the whole place started rumbling.

"Let's hope that's not a bad sign." she said grabbing her PC-90 as Ford put his coat back on.

The other Jaffa protecting them and the two airmen rushed down from the stairway well behind them to help if they were needed. K-9 stayed near the special sentry gun Ford set up. The notebooks and papers near the bottom of the door fell inward as the massive foot or more thick doorway moved up. Behind it was two large stone slabs that slid aside causing dust to fly into the air as they pointed their weapons and flashlights in.

"Wait here." Ford said walking in slowly. "I'll check it out."

"You're not…" she started saying.

"It's safe. And small. Not as far in as I thought." Ford said looking around the small room.

As he entered up to a large table like object, the room lit up. The table like object was actually what looked to be a smaller version of the time machine that the Ancients built where Jack and Teal'c kept going through that time loop for three months. It was smaller, about the side of a twin bed mattress and had only a row of three by eight small column like blocks in the center. One either side of the ends was two raised sections that had a button like look on them, kinda like the eye of Ra symbol, but different. Ford put his gun away as Carter and Jacob entered. Carter walked up to the Ancient console of sorts as Jacob walked up next to Ford. The airmen and Jaffa stayed outside. Ford ran his hand across a few of the blocks in the middle and mumbled something as he scrutinized them.

"We're in business." she said lowering her gun. "I'm going back to call the General."

"It's definitely of Ancient design sir."

"Do you think our bomb will do the trick."

"We'll find out sir. I…never mind sir."

"What is it Colonel?"

"Ford had that glazed over look for a moment after he touched the machine sir."

"Is he there with you?"

"He's still with the machine sir."

"Blow it up Colonel. That's an order and shoot him if you have to, to get him home."

"Ah….yes sir."

"O'Neill out."

Jacob was walking around the machine looking it over. Ford was touching the blocks muttered something as she walked back in with a bag on rollers. She set it down and opened it pulling the naquada generator out to get it ready for detonation. Jacob went around to the other side and placed his hands on the edges as he looked it over. Behind him a panel opened to revealed a light blue screen with Ancient text floating across it. Almost looked like words floating on water.

"Sam…." Jacob said making her look up as he continued to look at the screen. "Might want to hold off that for a minute."

Sam got up and looked at the screen in amazement and confusion.

"If I'm reading this screen right, the weapon uses an energy wave that reduces all molecular matter to it's basic elements. It's not strong enough to disintegrate an entire planet, but it is strong enough to wash away a planets surface, and anything in the surrounding space." he said turning back to her.

"That sounds bad."

"I know, but it also sounds like it works in the same way as your disruptor works on the Replicators." he said leaning onto the console. "By separating the individual components."

"Makes sense. They are both Ancient design and General O'Neill did use the Ancient knowledge to built the disruptor." she said. "Wait, you think that this weapon could be modifi….oh no."

"What is it Sam?" he asked seeing as she really looked upset suddenly.

"He's gone again." she said shaking Ford's arm.

He didn't change from his lost and glazed over look as he kept touching different panels, but not depressing them. His eyes darted around on the different panels quickly as he lightly touched them every so often.

"What's wrong?" Jacob asked waving a hand in his face. "What happened?"

"This happened several times to him while we were working on a Ancient shuttle with time traveling capabilities. Each time though I was able to get him out of it."

"Wait, you found a Ancient shuttle that works?!"

"I'll explain later." she said shaking his head. "Damn. I may have to shoot him."

"Try splashing water in his face." he suggested.

"We cannot destroy this outpost. Doing so will result in much worse consequences." Ford said in a voice that was his, but also sounding distant.

"Interesting." Selmak said stepping back. "I believe he is connected with the machine on some level."

"I kinda figured that." she said pulling her canteen out from behind her back. "Wait a minute? Outpost? What sort of consequences?"

"Destruction of the planet and surrounding area. A Zed PM fuels the weapon built into the top of this mountain." Ford said in the same voice as he touched a panel, then shook his head. "No, not that one. Ah, the one next to it is it, hmm."

"There's a ZPM here?! Where?" she asked a little excited.

"Access restricted until threat neutralized. The Replicators are coming." he said.

"Do you know their ETA?"

"Less than an hour."

"Can this thing be used to destroy them?" Jacob asked.

"Weapon current configuration is off. Activation now would kill everyone here and in orbit. Change of configuration is needed. Energy wave configuration for Replicator destruction is unknown."

"I think we can fix that. One moment. Teal'c, come in."

"Proceed Colonel Carter."

"Look, something has came up. We can't destroy the weapon. My dad, Selmak and Ford believe that we can use the weapon to destroy the Replicators. It's just going to take time to reconfigure the settings down here."

"I see. Why is the weapons destruction not possible."

"Ah….well other than destroying the weapon would cause the destruction of the planet and the ships in orbit and….I don't think Ford would let me."

"Explain."

"Remember when we told you about what happened when he was helping on the Ancient shuttle?"

"Indeed."

"Same thing has happened here, but I can't get him out of it."

"I see."

"When things start getting bad up there, let us know so we can give you time to leave and then we can blow this anyway."

"And if Major Carter attempts to stop you?"

"I'll shoot him and drag him home."

"Understood."

The screen on the Hal'tak showed a massive fleet of ships come down at them.

"Ba'als fleet is moving into attack positions!" Aron said.

"It looks like things are about to get…..bad." Bra'tak stated.

Jacob pulled a laptop out as Carter tossed water into Ford's face. He coughed a few times as he suddenly acted like he just was dropped into water.

"What the….where's the water….what are you doing?" he said looking at her seeing as she was holding a canteen. Jacob chuckled.

"You spaced out again."

"I did?"

"Yes." Jacob said repeated what Ford had said moments ago while in the trance like state.

"Wonderful. Need to get that under better control." he muttered wiping his face.

"You said there is a ZPM here." she said.

"I may have….oh yeah. There is one, but we can't take it, yet." he said looking like he was fazing out again. He slapped him self quickly then growled.

"Oh man, that is getting on my nerves. All those voices are giving me another headache."

"Just focus on something else." she said.

"Focus…focus…ah." he said smiling suddenly. Jacob didn't notice as Ford and Carter smiled at each other then looked at the Ancient device.

"I'm not getting anything." Jacob said looking at a laptop he was working on as he tried interfacing with the Ancient device.

Ford was currently walking next to on the other side as he touched the column buttons again, but didn't move them. He turned around and looked at the water like screen as Sam left his side and went to her father. He was keeping himself pretty well focused now with a certain thought.

"Maybe it's just not possible." Sam said taking over.

"Come on Sam, it can't be any harder than blowing up a sun." Jacob said leaning on the machine.

She more than sighed with displeasement, she had attitude with it.

"You know, you blow up one sun and everyone expects you to walk on water. Ford is the only one that has never rubbed that in my face." she said giving her father a glare. "Much less commented on the subject."

"Blowing up a sun is nothing. I could do that. Stopping a black hole, now that was something to brag about." Ford said turning back around.

"I didn't actually stop it, you do know that?" she said looking up momentarily.

"Yeah, but you stopped it from destroying Earth, not many people I know could even think of an idea like that. I wouldn't have. Actually I couldn't even think of anything at the time I saw it happening."

"It was a gamble, but it paid off." she said as the laptop made connection. It's screen suddenly looked just like the Ancient one on the wall.

"Good work Sam, I knew you could do it." Jacob said patting her on the back.

"Hooking up was easy, getting the settings for the needed configuration, that's going to be hard."

Up in space above the planet, the battle was ragging. Gliders, Al'kesh and other Goa'uld ships fired at each other, dived around each other and maneuvered around as they tried to destroy each other. The ship with Teal'c, Bra'tak and Aron shook under the pounding it was receiving.

"Shields are down 50." Teal'c stated holding him self up against he console as the ship shook.

"We cannot take much more!" Aron stated.

"Signal the other Hal'tak, begin retreating. Sublight engines only, full power." Bra'tak said.

"The rebels are fleeing my Lord, the planet is ours." a Jaffa said as he piloted one of the Goa'uld motherships with Ba'al sitting behind him.

Two Kull warriors stood on either side of Ba'al and two other Jaffa were in the room on either side of the Kull warriors at other consoles.

"They expected us to follow. So they draw the battle on two fronts. Signal the fleet to follow the Sho'va." Ba'al said with a smirk.

"My Lord?" the confused Jaffa said.

"Dakara can wait." Ba'al said smiling. "No battle strategy can save them now. We will crush them, then take the temple."

"As you command."

Down in with the Ancient weapon, Jacob brought the frequency the Ancient weapon was currently set at, up onto the laptop as the two watched.

"I'm pretty sure that this is the frequency spectrum of the wave output that is used to disintegrate matter."

"That's nothing like the spectrum analysis that is used on the Replicators." she said bring up a screen next to the other one that showed a different 3D bar graph of the frequency of the wave that the disruptor used on the Replicators.

"Yeah I know….."

"We just have to change the setting on this to match that frequency then. Doesn't sound to hard." Ford said looking at the screen then at the column like buttons as he pointed different ones out and muttered to himself.

"Easy?!" Jacob said.

"Yeah, just like that time machine that failed to work. Just push the panels in here and it changes. Like so." Ford said pushing one down.

The graph for the current frequency changed on the screen.

"Yeah, I know that, but we don't know which configuration we need." Jacob said.

"Well, I can run a comparison on the two waves to let us know if we are going in the right direction." she said.

"That's good." Jacob said nodding.

"That one next." Ford said pushing a far right one down. The screen changed again.

"Maybe we should wait till…." Jacob started saying as Ford walked around to the other side and pushed one down near the middle.

"Ford?"

"Yeah." he said looking up quickly at her then back at the panels.

"Are you even with us?"

"That one…no. Hmm." he said looking lost again, for a moment. "I'm here, just thinking."

"Look's like he's getting close Sam, but not close enough." Jacob said looking at the screen.

"I'm going to run that program just in case. Ford, even if you think you've figured it out, don't activate it. Understand?" she said grabbing his hand as he started to touch one behind the laptop.

"Yeah, sure. Don't activate the weapon."

"Good." she said seeing he was with her and listening. Something occurred to her then. "Oh, wait. This weapon will be useless if we can't hit all the Replicators at once. They'll just adapt to it like they did the last time with Thor. If that happens, we've blown our only chance to get rid of them all."

"What are you saying Sam?" Jacob asked. "We have to hit them all throughout the galaxy? How do we do that?"

"Well, the weapon would translate through the Stargate. You think Anubis would dial one gate at a time?"

"Wait, you want to dial all gates, simultaneously? Is that even possible?" Jacob asked looking shocked at the idea of it being a possibility.

"Yes, all of them." she said.

"Every Stargate at one time?" he said with a short laugh. "You know how may there are in the whole galaxy?"

"A lot." both Carter's said.

Jacob lowered his head a moment then Selmak took over.

"I have no idea how to alter a Stargate to perform such a function." Selmak said. "I don't even know of who to ask."

"Oh man, we have to ask for his help don't we?" Ford grumbled.

"Unfortunately, yes." she said reaching for her com.

"Who do you mean?" Selmak asked looking at both of them.

"Ba'al." they said.

She grabbed her com unit and called Teal'c.

"Teal'c, I need you to call Ba'al. We need his help." she said explaining the idea.

"Are you certain Colonel Carter?"

"I don't think we have a choice Teal'c. This may be the best chance we will ever get."

There was silence for a few moments.

"Understood." Teal'c said looking at Bra'tak. "Opening a channel."

Up on the screen in front of Aron, Ba'al suddenly appeared.

"So, I see you have decided to surrender, a wise decision considering your imminent defeat." Ba'al said smiling smugly.

"We have no intention of surrendering. I merely wish to inform you that we have found the Ancient weapon on Dakara."

"Then you intend to destroy it?"

"That would be foolish. We have learned that the Ancient weapon may be the means to destroy the Replicators once and for all." Teal'c said smiling.

"It's incredible!" Replica Carter stated as she stopped searching Daniels mind. "Yet you still resist me. Do you not care? Are you not amazed by what you are seeing?"

"I don't understand it. It's more than any human can begin to comprehend." he said with a frown of frustration and some pain.

"I am not human."

"Believe me I know, but there must be a limit to how much you can process, how much information you can store."

"I am sharing what I know with my brethren. The extent of knowledge we can store it only limited by our numbers. As we speak, those numbers are growing faster than you can possibly imagine." she said suddenly wincing herself.

"Can't handle it can you?" Daniel said noticing the wince on her face.

"No. Something has came up, but it will not stop me from getting what I want." she growled out as she delved back into his mind.

Ford was pushing more panels in as Carter got the program running to get the match up readings. Ba'al showed up behind Ford in his holographic form suddenly. What surprised Carter and Jacob was that Ford didn't move, just acted like he didn't show up at all.

"This chamber must be well shielded, I could not find it with my ships sensors." Ba'al said looking around.

"Good. You don't need to know where it is." Ford said smugly.

Ba'al only grunted.

"I assume Teal'c told you the plan?" she said not wanting him there either, but not having much choice. It was a good thing he wasn't personally there.

"What makes you think that you can modify this weapon to effect the Replicators?"

"Because I am an Ancient that is currently getting it ready to fire. Unfortunately, I don't know enough about the Stargate to make is work like we need it to. Something you figured out how to do that, I haven't." Ford said leaning over and tapping a few panels then standing up shaking his head.

"We need to get this wave output frequency to match this one here within a .76 percent margin." she said turning the laptop around for Ba'al to see.

It currently read 32.00. Ford looked at it closely as he leaned over. He pushed a few panels and it dropped to 28.46.

"That's a little closer." Jacob said nodding.

"How did you get hold of this disruptor technology to fight the Replicators in the first place?" Ba'al asked.

"General O'Neill made the disruptor from Ancient knowledge he downloaded and used the Asguard computers to create it."

"O'Neill?" he said surprised. "The mere thought of that makes me sick."

Carter shook her head and kept herself from making a seriously bad retort.

"Either help…" Ford said pushing a panel in. The reading move up to 29. "Oops. Anyway, help or I'll change the settings, send everyone here home and blow your pathetic fleet away."

"You're bluffing. My army would stop you before you could even come close."

"Want to bet? This room is shielded from the weapon itself. I can close the door, raise a shield around the mountain and have plenty of time to get it ready." Ford said turning around.

Ba'als mouth moved around in thought.

"Look, if we can do this, and hit all the Replicators at the same time, we can wipe them out, but we need your help." she said quickly as they kept the stare contest going.

"Very well. I assume that you want me to reprogram the Stargate to dial all of them simultaneously."

"Yes, just like you did when you changed the virus that was used against you to try and keep you stuck on one planet." Ford said. "You changed it and used it against us though."

"Yes, the virus that was used on my Stargate." Ba'al said smiling. "Rather ingenious."

"Look, can you do it again or not?" Carter said loosing patience.

"I can't even believe I am considering working with a female of the Tauri, a Tok'ra, and an Ancient." he said giving them all smug looks.

Sam didn't say anything, but she definitely was offended, Jacob didn't say anything either much less look offended, but Ford was as he stepped closer.

"You better pray we never meet face to face or else…." Ford said then spoke the rest in a Goa'uld dialect that made Ba'al flinch at the words. Jacob flinched too and was shocked.

"What did he say?" Carter asked her father as Ford turned back around to the panels.

"Trust me Sam, you don't want to know. Ever."

"I will send down a few Jaffa to…."

"No way. You send one Jaffa, the deals off." she said quickly as she pointed at him.

"I see a Kull warrior and I'll personally come up to your ship and take you out. Trust me, I have ways to get what I want done." Ford growled at him as she turned to him again.

"He does, and I'd let him go after you." she said.

"I cannot work on the Stargate through a hologram transmission." he said forcefully.

"Sure you can." she said smiling. "You just tell us what to do."

Ba'al knew what that meant and by the look on his face they all saw, he was not happy.

"Unscheduled off world activation!" Walter yelled as the gate suddenly opened and he closed the Iris.

Jack came down the stairs rapidly.

"Is that Carter or I should start saying Carter's?" he asked coming up behind him.

"Understandable sir, but no. But I am picking up radio chatter." Walter said pushing buttons and turning dials as the machines gave off a strange sound. Down in the gate room, security got ready for whatever threat came through.

"Sergeant?"

"I don't know sir." Walter said as people continued to scramble around.

"What the hell is that?" Jack asked as all of the computers started acting funny. They made a buzz like noise and the monitors kept blinking on and off and acted like someone was accessing files.

"I don't know sir. I've lost access." he said fingers racing. "Someone has hacked into our computers, remotely."

"Shut it down." he ordered watching the computers continue to act up.

"I can't sir. I'm locked out." Walter said continuing to try.

"Damn." Jack said as he walked over to the base phone and grabbed it quickly.. "This is General O'Neill."

The Iris opened suddenly.

"Sir!" Walter shouted.

Power in the base fluctuated and seemed to shut down. Jack walked away from the phone and moved over to Walter to look out the glass panel better. Down below, the security forces aimed their weapons. Seconds later Replicators came pouring through. Started pouring anyway, but they suddenly stopped and then moved forward, but a little slower. Gun fire opened up on them all immediately.

"Evacuated the gate room! Get out of there!!" Jack yelled through the mike.

Gun fire continued as the airmen ran out of the room covering each other.

"Close the blast doors!"
The blast doors came down as Jack went back to the phone. Alarms blared throughout the base as people ran from the room.

"Initiate base lockdown! Emergency, all personal evacuate through alternate routes! Self destruct protocol on my order!" he yelled into the phone then slammed it down. "Walter get out of here!"

The main doorway into the base closed and locked down per preprogrammed instructions. Down in the base, everyone was making their way out through the escape tunnels built to take anyone topside onto the mountain top. People were taking those routes as Jack walked through the hallway past a line of people getting out.

"Oh, man. This just figures."

"Sir, we are cut off from the self destruct." Colonel Reynolds said walking up. "They were to fast."

"Dammit." Jack muttered shaking his head.

"Even if we could make it through them, they probably have already disabled the activation mechanism."

"Those bugs cannot get out of this mountain!" he said poking the Colonel in the chest then moved on. Reynolds followed as did several other men.

"It's only a matter of time before those bugs break into the base systems and override the security doors."

"Alright, lets make sure we get everyone out of here, then we will toss a little nuke down the silo."

"You think that will stop them?" Reynolds asked as they turned a corner.

"It will slow them down."

"Sir, any idea why these bugs seem to be…….going slowly about things."

"No, but I did see them come through then suddenly stop, then they took off again. I didn't see much after that when Walter closed the blast doors."

Daniel opened his eyes after seeing things again in his subconscious mind. He was understanding better and saw her look down blinking like she was having trouble, she also didn't look happy.

"Can't handle it can you?"

"Yes I can." she said with a sudden grunt. "I just need time to process and share it with the others."

"The universe is infinite. It's not just knowledge and information, its understanding on a level that you will never reach." Daniel said with a small smile.

"Why do you think that?" she said.

"Because you're a machine." he stated.

"So are you. Just different in your construction."

"That's where you are wrong."

"We'll see." she said smiling.

He smiled knowing he was right. She suddenly jerked again and looked away.

"See, you can't handle it."

"Wrong." she said going into his mind again, forcefully.

"General, the President has authorized the deployment a ten kiloton nuke bomb on your command sir." Walter said coming through the line as Jack and several others walked through the base with weapons at ready.

The base was on low power and everything was just about dark. Even the emergency lights didn't help much as the troops looked around.

"A state of emergency has been issued within a two hundred mile radius of the Cheyenne Mountain and is currently being evacuated. A transport helicopter is waiting for you and the remaining personal on top of the mountain."

"Thank you Walter." Jack said as Reynolds walked up. "Colonel?"

"We have a problem sir. Six SGC personal are trapped on level eight. They are cut off from the emergency escape hatch."

"Siler?"

"Siler."

Jack nodded with a small grunt.

"Figures it's Siler. Let's go."

She was continuing to delve deeper into his mind when she was suddenly cut off. She opened her eyes and had to shake her head.

"You lied to me." Daniel said.

"What?"

"You promised you'd leave Earth alone. There's Replicators infiltrating the SGC right now."

"How can you know that?" she asked forcefully.

He smiled.

"While I was in your mind, you were in mine." she said realizing what had happened.

"Took awhile to figure out, fortunately you were too distracted to notice. That Ancient knowledge really help too, thank you."

"You tricked me." she spat.

"You tricked me first."

"You should never have told me." she said. Her tone was laced thick with anger.

"Too late. For you that is."

She brought her fist up to hit him, but he quickly grabbed it and was able to keep holding it. She tried to make him let go but couldn't.

"Trying to leave. Sorry. Time for a little more time in Danny's world." he said.

"My brethren cannot be stopped. You cannot control them." she said trying to pull her arm back.

"Not yet, but I'm learning."

She twitched again as he entered her mind.

They now had the frequency at 21.72 and were still trying to get it closer so it could be fired.

"We've rigged the DHD to dial automatically when the signal is ready." Carter said running back in.

"Did you have K-9 take notes?" Ford said looking at a few panels. He tapped a couple, shook his head and fingered a few others as he thought.

"Always on projects that big."

"Beautiful job Sam." Ford said pushing a few panels down. The numbers dropped down to 7.49.

"You almost had it there Ford." Jacob said surprised and happy at the sudden drop. "Will it work though Sam?"

"K-9 says it should."

"Of course it will work. How dare you doubt me." Ba'al said as he suddenly appeared again.

"What is he still doing here?" Jacob asked sighed at Sam.

"Why are you here? Your job is done and we don't really like you being around." Ford muttered as he pushed a panel. The numbers jumped up to 8.05.

"Wrong one." Jacob said.

"I was distracted. Get out of here Ba'al. Go…bother Anubis or something." Ford said waving a hand at him.

He smirked at them then pointed.

"Push that one."

"Why do you think that one?" Jacob asked.

"I'm a god. God's are all knowing." he said smiling brightly.

Carter rolled her eyes.

"Okay smartass. I'm giving you thirty seconds to leave or else I change it to kill all symbiont life forms." Ford said turning around.

"You're bluffing. Doing that would kill the Jaffa in orbit." Ba'al said smirking.

"Carter, call Teal'c and tell him to take what's left of the fleet and make a hyperspace run for it. Jacob, get everyone out there inside. They've got one minute." Ford said pushing other panels. The numbers jumped into the fifties and then into the sixties. "K-9, block the gate from activating for the moment."

"What are you doing?!" Carter yelled as she came around the grab his arm.

"Getting rid of the Goa'uld, or at least the ones in orbit. K-9 can stop the gate from activating so it won't go to other planets. I know how the weapon works and what frequencies are needed." he said standing up suddenly and looking lost as he pushed more panels down.

She had been watching him the whole time and noticed the small wink he gave her only.

"Oh god, he's serious! Dad go get them in here! Teal'c come in, you need to…"

Ba'al looked frightened and left quickly. Jacob started to run out when she called him back.

"Ford was bluffing dad. But it certainly had the desired effect." she said removing her hand from her com that she didn't actually activate. "Can you fix this quickly?"

Several panel pushes, done within a matter of seconds, the numbers dropped down to 7.87.

"Impressive." Selmak said. "What would you have done if he called your bluff?"

"Oh, it was no bluff. It was going to take me longer than a minute to get it set up right, but somehow I know the setting needed to kill symbionts. And birds, all birds." he said confused at the last thing he said. "Hmm. I think I know the setting for the Wraith too, maybe."

"Birds?" she said surprised at the idea.

"I don't know why. Ah, this one next." Ford said leaning over and pushing a panel in.

The numbers dropped down to 4.00.

"Much closer." Jacob said. "Nice job."

Jack and Reynolds came around a dark corner near the blast door where Siler and the other airmen were trapped. Reynolds tried his card, nothing happened and he shook his head.

"Siler?"

"Yes sir!"

"We are going to get you out. Step away from the blast door."

"Yes sir. Let's get this table over."

Siler and the others with him dropped the metal table onto the floor and got behind it as Reynolds put a small block of C4 on the doorway.

"Put another one Colonel."

"Sir?"

"It's a blast door!" Jack said using two fingers for emphasis on the words blast door.

"Right sir."

Reynolds put another block and they got back behind a corner.

"Hang on Siler. Fire in the hole." Jack said into his com line then push the detonator.

"Down!" Siler told the others.

Moments later there was a large explosion and a big hole in the door. Siler looked over the table seeing a large piece of the door embedded in the metal table. Had the table been wooden, that metal would have been in him.

"Whoa." was all he could say.

"Siler?!"

"Thank you sir." he said walking out and taking the nine given to him.

"I expect to be in your will."

"You are sir."

"Okay…that's weird." Jack said as they all walked away.

"But you're in the Carter's will sir."

"That's different…oh never mind."

They followed the dark corridor as the alarms kept going off around them. Turning a corridor, they came across a hatchway to the surface and started hearing metallic noises. The men they just saved brought their rifles up as they knelt down in front of Jack and Colonel Reynolds. They others aimed what weapons they had as the Replicators came around the corner up ahead of them and started their way. They suddenly stopped, twitched and started to back up, then came forward again.

"What is wrong with them?" Reynolds asked.

"I don't know and don't care. They can't leave the base." Jack said as they all opened fire.

Teal'c and his group were leaving slowly when suddenly the sensors picked up a large amount of ships exit hyperspace. Aron brought it up on screen after detecting it. The ships outnumbered Ba'als fleet two to one and all the ships were Replicator infested. As they dropped out and drew closer, they opened fire on the Goa'uld fleet.

"They are firing on Ba'als forces." Aron said.

"It is the Replicators." Teal'c said realizing it moments later.

"What is it at now?" Ford asked looking up.

"3.56." she said.

"Not bad."

Ba'al showed up again suddenly.

"I thought I told you to leave."

"We all did." Jacob grumbled out.

"My fleet is under attack. The Replicators are encroaching on the planet as we speak." Ba'al said looking off to his right at something they couldn't see.

"Sam, get everyone in here. Have K-9 park himself in the doorway and keep a signal lock on the sentry gun. Your dad and I will finish this."

She nodded and ran off quickly.

Jack had went through two clips in his PC-90 already and the men and women with him were starting to run low as well, but they kept firing even though the Replicators seemed to be having trouble. They had stopped coming at them and instead were going up the hatchway. They also kept stopping occasionally then moving again.

"Running low on ammo sir!" Reynolds yelled out.

"Fall back!"

The rebel fleet that was not in hiding watched as the Replicator ships begun to decimate Ba'als forces. It almost seemed a little one sided because the Replicators only took the shields out then swarmed the ship to take them over.

"Instruct all our vessels to attack the Replicator ships." Teal'c said.

"Are we not better off just letting them destroy each other?" Aron asked.

"If the Replicators win and we fail to keep them from getting the weapon on Dakara, then all we have fought for is lost."

"General, fifteen minutes to safe detonation distance." Walter said through Jack's com as he entered the gate room.

Jack and the people with him had fallen back heading for the gate room to come up with some sort of plan seeing as they were not getting out of the base at all.

"Yeah, you know Walter, we are having a slightly difficult time getting out of here. Tell General Hammond, the second he can pull the trigger on that nuke, do it."

"Yes sir."

"And have that chopper that is waiting for us leave now."

Reynolds gave him a questioning look.

"You see those bugs going into that hatch?"

"Yes sir. You think they getting out of the base is their primary goal?"

"It's a safe bet." Jack said as he made another sweep of the wall with the light on his PC-90. "They are going to the surface."

"Leaving the only other way out of here accessible."

Sam got the others inside, but watching at the doorway with K-9. Jacob and Ford had gotten the numbers down to 1.32 as she came up asking how it was going.

"Almost there Sammy." Jacob said.

"I think I know what panels are need to push to finish it, but how about this." Ford said turning to Ba'al. "How about we take a page from Jack's book. Let the Replicators kick his ass."

"Excuse me?" Carter said coming around the weapon console.

"How about we get the weapon ready to fire, and wait till Teal'c reports in saying Ba'al and his forces are destroyed, or at least tell us Ba'als ship is gone."

Ba'al obviously thought the idea was bad and he disappeared quickly.

"If you can finish it…" she started saying.

Ford spun around pushing a few panels in. The numbers dropped to .99.

"Close, but not it." Jacob said.

"What?" Ford said coming around to see the screen. "Hmm. Give me a few moments. Thought I had it there."

"We might not have that." she said slowly as he kept scrutinizing each panel.

"It's just one of them I need to push, just one, maybe two."

Jack made a couple hand signals telling Reynolds to take two men and go another direction toward the gate room as he and the others would take the back entrance. Reynolds nodded and walked off as Jack swept the walls with his light along with the rest with him. They stopped by the armory before going toward the gate room though. The other officers got down and waited as Siler and Jack entered the Gate Control Room. Siler had a heavy machine gun with the big clips like found on Tommy guns and Jack had a multi round grenade/shotgun launcher. Reynolds walked in first from the stairway entrance and shot the two Replicators in the room. Siler set his gun down and started working on the computer quickly. Main power was quickly restored as the lights came on. The blast door came up to show the gate was off.

"Siler, can we dial out?"

"I'm working on it sir." he said typing away.

"Ten minutes until detonation." Reynolds said looking at his watch.

The men left outside near the back entrance opened fire as Replicators came at them.

Out about Dakara, the Replicators were winning, quickly. The rebel Jaffa were barely doing anything to the Replicator controlled ships and had already lost a few to the Replicators. Ba'al's fleet was loosing just as badly if not worse seeing as they had more Jaffa on board their ships and were being killed.

"Shields are down! Weapon systems are off line!" Aron yelled as the ship shook.

"Reroute power to sublight systems." Teal'c said as he worked on his console. "Evasive maneuvers!"

The ship they were on dodged and weaved as best it could, but a Replicator ship continued to follow and pound away on their badly damaged vessel.

"They are too fast! We cannot evade them!" Aron said as he continued to try anyway.

The Replicators continued to try and get at them in the control room. Reynolds kept firing his multi round shotgun as the others kept firing. Jack came out and closed the doorway to the gate room.

"How's it going in there?!" Reynolds asked as he fired.

"Not good!" Jack said firing with him.

"Same here!"

They kept coming, stopping a moment then backing up then moving forward again and again. It was a strange sight, but they didn't bother to stop firing.

"Grenade!"

Everyone kept firing even as Jack fired three grenade rounds into the hallway that was littered with blow apart Replicators. Even with the explosions, they kept coming.

As they kept trying to find the last panel to push, a spider like ship came down and landed on Dakara. A Replicator ship. Same looking one that Samantha Carter was in when Fifth had her. It landed near the Stargate and dropped off several dozen Replicators that headed for the Ancient weapon.

"Master! Mistress! Replicators are approaching!"

"Wonderful!" Carter said. "You know what to do K-9?"

"Yes Mistress."

"Ford, we need that last one."

"This one." Ford said pushing it down.

The numbers dropped to .80.

"Not close enough yet." Jacob said. "We are running out of time."

"Other than what those men have out there, that jury rigged gatling gun has ten thousand rounds of ammo to go through before we have to worry. If need be, we can close the door." Ford said.

"Let's hope we don't have to." she said kneeling behind K-9 and pointing her PC-90. "K-9, how long until….fire K-9! Fire!"

The small flight of stairs that lead down to them was suddenly overrun as a mass of Replicators came down them. At first it was a mass, then it just ended up being parts flying as the gatling gun Ford had set up sprayed a lethal death of bullets back and forth like a water hose from a fire truck. The columns, stairs and dirt all exploded under the heavy assault. What Replicators that did make it pass the stairway, not many, and onto the dirt were cut down by the men and Carter.

"Siler!" Jack yelled into his com.

"Sorry sir, I'm trying!"

The airmen continuing firing away as much as they could. They had no where else to fall back to so they knew they had to stand their ground, literally. Jack switched to his PC-90 and fired.

Daniel had his eyes closed as he concentrated and kept her arm held in his grip. They both opened their eyes. She actually gasped.

"I got you now. More than you know. I know what's going on now."

Jack and his team kept firing as the Replicators all stopped. This time they didn't twitch or move.

"Huh…" Reynolds said looking at Jack as they stopped firing. "They aren't moving this time. Not even twitching."

"That is different. Oh well."

They both shrugged and kept firing.

Aron looked at his sensors, almost not believing what had just happened.

"The Replicator ship just….stopped. Sensors are indicating that all of the Replicators ships have ceased functioning."

Teal'c opened a channel.

"Colonel Carter, have you successfully activated the weapon?"

Over his line he heard a massive amount of gun fire.

"No! But the Replicators down here just froze. K-9, shut it off."

"I am unable to do so Mistress. There is a malfunction is the firing system. I only have control of where it is aimed Mistress."

"Well Colonel, he is getting rid of them." a airman said standing near her.

"Make them count K-9." she said.

She walked back into the room as Ford was looking between two panels. The gatling gun was wasting what was left of them that was in the general vicinity of being seen.

"This or nothing."

"There is so many aren't there. To many for your mind to handle. It's taking all of your concentration just to handle." she said as Daniel looked at her shaking as he tried to keep control.

He let go suddenly and stepped back. The room changed to be the room he never left. The Replicator blocks around his head moved back into the wall and the ones around his wrist and ankles pulled away releasing him. He stepped away quickly and looked around for a brief moment when he remembered something.

"I don't have to control them anymore. Your….problem as he has become now to you, is doing it for me."

She made her right hand change to the blade she used much earlier on Lord Yu and the others. As she brought the blade up it was suddenly stopped as the point touched his chest. A hand was holding the blade that came out of the wall.

"You!"

"Yes me." Replica Ford said pushing her blade away as he came out of the wall and stepped in front of Daniel.

Daniel was shocked as he backed up into the wall seeing Ford in the same clothes she was in and that he was copied to, he knew Ford was copied from being in her mind, but seeing it was a little different.

"I just arrive from Thor's ship by using the Replicators you had attack it. I tried to tell you once before that this was something we did not have to do. I even warned you I thought of fighting back."

"Betrayer. You lied to me just as…" she spat.

"No. I have not tried to kill any of our kind. I have tried to save them. Save you. There's no reason to go out and destroy everything in site. Conquer the galaxy, for what? We are machines Sam. We don't have a culture to build onto. We don't have a background. We don't have a logical reason to exist. And we can't make one if all you want to do is the same thing the original human form Replicators wanted. Fifth was different and you know it. He would have helped humanity." he said poking her in the chest making her step back a few steps. "Think logically, like the real you would. Like the real me would."

"The only way…."

"I knew it was pointless to come, but I came anyway. I could have stayed with Thor and been safe from what is about to happen, but I wasn't going to leave you. Even with the anger, bitterness, and that completely screwed up program to continuously replicate. Thor fixed me of that problem. I've reestablished myself back into the link again. It's slow, but the repair done to me is slowly being spread to the other's. See what I have seen and done and know. You can call off the attacks, they will back down and not use the weapon. We can leave, live on a planet of our own…."

"I have already seen what you have seen and know everything you've done. There is no negotiations to be made. Only terminations!" she snapped at him.

"I tried Daniel. If you ever make it home, tell them I tried." Replica Ford said as Replicator blocks suddenly surrounded Daniel and he was instantly jettisoned off the ship.

"Wait!" Daniel yelled as he was surrounded.

"You can't stop me."

"I can hold everything at bay long enough for your demented conquest to be stopped. I kept one piece of information from you though." he said as he made a picture form in his hand.

It was a ultra sound Thor gave him. She was shocked by the look on her face he saw.

"They deserve the chance to have what we never will. Something that could have been with us."

Ford slammed his hand down on a panel and the numbers jumped around hitting .25.

"Got it! That's it!" Jacob shouted.

"Do it! They're are on the move again!" she said as the Replicators started toward them then all then turned and raced away quickly.

Jacob reached over and pushed the button on the small raised part. The whole mountain started shaking as the top opened like a apple cut into four sections. Bright electrical energy surged from the top as the Stargate opened. All the other gates on many other planets suddenly opened moments later.

"Incoming wormhole?" Siler said confused as he stood up looking at the gate as it stabilized.

A large ball came out of the top of the mountain as the electrical energy continued to build up. Then it released sending out a wave that passed across the whole planet. The Replicator ship and Replicators turned into dust. The wave passed off the planet and took out the Replicators in orbit. On all the planets with gates that were dialed, the same wave came through and encompassed the planet and any ships in orbit of the planet.

"I'm sorry." Replica Ford said.

She continued to glare at him then suddenly looked away as she knew that she failed to stop the weapon. He grabbed her in a hug that surprised her and didn't let go as the ship was hit by the massive wave and disintegrated. For the moment that was left, as he held her, she was sorry for what she had done and realized why he had tried to stop her.

Daniel was spinning away in the small ship when he met blackness.

At the SGC, they were surprised when a bright blue wave passed through everything and the Replicators that were not moving all turned to dust.

Carter entered the room after having K-9 blast the sentry gun. Ford was holding her father who was partially laying on the floor.

"Dad?!"

"I'm fine Sam. Just a little tired."

She looked up at Ford.

"He collapsed just after the weapon went off." he said as Jacob slowly got up again with some help.

"Are you sure you're okay?" she said as he leaned on her a moment.

"I'm fine, really. Just haven't been sleeping well lately. Must be the stress of knowing I'll be a grandfather again. And the fate of the universe was at stake." he said with a smile. "Threat's gone and the adrenalin rush is over."

The couple smiled as he took a deep breath.

"You did it. You both did it." she said.

"Yeah, well Selmak deserves most of the credit. Ford only knew some of the translations on the panels."

"True. Once I knew most of what they said, it was easier to figure out what to push. But only with your help Sam did we get the program necessary to get them in the right frequency. It was a team effort and it took us all to do this." Ford said picking the naquada generator up. "Let's go home. I don't know about you two, but I'm hungry."

"All Replicator controlled ships have gone dormant." a Jaffa said scanning the vessels.

"Dispatch a contingent to each vessel and have them reclaimed in the name of their god." Ba'al said.

"As you wish my Lord." the Jaffa said as his console beeped. "We are being hailed."

"On screen."

"Surrender now and you will be granted mercy." Teal'c said smiling.

"You are not in a position to be making such ridiculous demands." Ba'al said in a tone that scoffed at Teal'cs proposition. "You are surrounded."

"You are incorrect. It is in fact that it is you that is surrounded by free Jaffa."

Before Ba'al could say anything else, his bridge was stormed with rebel Jaffa. His First Prime was taken prisoner quickly as the Kull warriors beside him were taken out by a blue weapon blast. Within seconds he was surrounded by Master Bra'tak and several warriors.

"Behold, your false god!" Bra'tak said pointing the PC-90 he had at Ba'al.

Ba'al sat up laughing as he quickly hit a device on his arm and vanished. They opened fire only to put holes in his chair.

As they all left the room with the Ancient weapon, Ford suddenly stopped saying he left something behind. He came back out a couple minutes later holding a small camera, Daniels camera actually, and his coat seemed to be sagging to one side. K-9 had blasted the gatling sentry gun into a metal pile to get it to stop firing. Seeing as it was now worthless, they left it to be retrieved later.

"Talk about a pile of metal filings." Ford said as they came out of the ruins and into the large open area with the Stargate.

"Colonel, Major, there's something over here you might want to see." a airman said rushing up to them.

They walked over without Jacob who said he was going to dial them home. The came across a pile of Replicator parts, but made out in words.

"I tried…" one line said. The rest after it didn't get finished or was messed up by something. The line under it said, "Daniel….." The rest after it was also messed up. But they did know who it came from. Two large letter's that were not messed up were under the two lines. R.F.

They managed to get back to the SGC without any problems. Teal'c and Bra'tak stayed behind to…tidy up the spoils of war. They had many ships, many captives that needed to see the truth and a lot of repairs and other things to do. Jacob was sleeping while the base was being fixed up and worked on. Jack, Ford and Carter were leaving the control room and heading up the stairs to his office. K-9 was recharging in their office and downloading information about the gate workings they learned from Ba'al into the computer.

"Hear that gatling gun you requested worked out well. Stopped a lot of the Replicators from getting to you guys." Jack said.

"Built it, but never got the chance to see it work." Ford said with a sigh of sadness. "Really wanted to see it in action too."

"Yes sir. Ford set it up as a sentry gun and K-9 operated it. Rather ingenious actually. I know that the Jaffa weren't to happy about the damage we did to the ruins, but it was unavoidable sir."

"We could have used it here." Jack mumbled. "Anyway, any word from Teal'c?"

"Yes sir." she said as Jack went first up the stairs. "Although Ba'al got away, the fact that he turned tail and ran has made the rebel movement even stronger. Jaffa from all over the galaxy are showing up on Dakara to join in gaining their freedom."

"Bra'tak wanted me to stay and say a few words of encouragement, but I said no. Not sure why really." Ford said as they entered the briefing room. "He's better at speaking to many people than I am."

"Better him than you huh?"

"Something like that."

"They also have a extensively sized fleet now that is guarding Dakara. Hopefully with the weapons we have provided them, they will be able to stand a better chance against Anubis's super soldiers." she said as they entered Jack's office. "It looks like they will win their freedom now."

Jack got behind the desk, looked through a few folders with a grumble and sat down.

"That's good to hear." Jack said.

"We also heard from Thor." Ford said.

"Oh! How is he seeing as your…duplicate stayed with him."

"Great. Apparently…Replica Ford fixed his ship, took the Replicators and left. He didn't say where though." she said.

"He also said that the new ship…the Carter's as it being called now, is almost finished." Ford said.

"Really now! He say when?"

"Another month maybe, at the most. Says there is a special surprise for us once it is finished though."

"But he wouldn't elaborate on what it actually was." she said quickly.

"Nice, but typical. Hey, um…did you guys…did the Replicators with you twitch, back away or stop like they were having trouble?"

"Not much sir. I mean they stopped for a few moments then started running away."

"Any ideas on why that happened?" Jack asked leaning on his desk.

"Not a clue. I was busy with that Ancient weapon console."

"You think that Daniel might have something to do with it?" she asked.

"That's a possibility." Ford said.

"I don't know Carter. You know anything Major? Especially with that message you both found."

"The message we found wasn't much, but it was enough to say….I don't know. I don't want to speculate. I only can tell you that R.F. would stand for Replica Ford. In my opinion, Daniels out there, somewhere."

"If he was on that Replicator ship…."

"Carter, we don't know anything. Until we do, I'm with Ford here, thinking he's still out there…somewhere." Jack said waving a hand. "Anything else?"

"No sir."

Ford shook his head.

Jack picked a pen up and started writing as they left. He dropped it after they left and looked worried knowing it was possible that Daniel didn't make it at all. The message alone was just about enough evidence to state the fact that no one wanted to believe.

Walter was just doing his job as normal when the gate suddenly activated the next day.

"Unscheduled off world activation!" he said as he always did when this sort of occurrence happened.

Carter ran up and sat down in the chair across from him. Ford came up and leaned down on the console looking at the small screen as information started coming in.

"Who is it Walter?"

"No IDC sir."

The gate shut off suddenly.

"Did anything come through Colonel?" Walter asked.

"Yes. It's from Atlantis." she said shocked.

"It's more than that. They sent a lot of information. Wow. We better start looking through it Sam. More me than anything else."

"Good idea. Walter inform the General for us please."

"Yes ma'am."

"I'll get K-9 from the lab. Wish Daniel was here to see this." he said as he started walking away.

"Me too." she said sadly as she typed away at the computer.