CHAPTER 107

EPISODE………..crossing over with another anime! Kudos, bonus points, cookies or whatever imaginary reward you wish to give yourself if you figure out what anime before names are given.

Unfortunately, I can't remember a lot about the names of towns and the planet, if it was ever named to begin with in the series, which I am still in the process of trying to finish watching, but I have seen the movies and the first part of the series. I'm saying this all takes place after the movies and series, a couple years later. Instead of sixteen, the anime character is eighteen. And just in case, I do not own the character or series. To which, I am making up the name of a few places and bad guys for the purpose of the story.

Also, I don't remember the exact technological developments they have in this anime, so for the most part, I'm saying they have very few if any and don't know certain words that will be spoken later.

The ascension of Adria just over a week was still being felt by the team and everyone else. So far, nothing had happened physically to any teams off world and allies or to the Earth or any news either from off world teams and allies. If Adria did fully succeed in ascending, the Ancients must have intervened and put a stop to it, or something. Since nothing was happening, they were just hoping for the best but trying to be prepared for the worst, like a team being killed or worse, she coming in as a form of light, or more likely, like Anubis was and start causing trouble worse than Anubis did. Really they had no idea what might happen or could happen, but everyone was on alert and edge for the most part thinking anything could happen at any second. Though, since it had been over a week, since nothing bad had happened, the tension had lessened considerably and was getting less each day.

SG-1 had finished the day, their duties and such and were going home for the night. Ford wasn't wanting to go home just yet, mostly because he was bored and wanted to go somewhere, which was rather often a very familiar feeling for him they noticed. Wanting to go off on some adventure or just looking around in the T.A.R.D.I.S. They all decided to go with since he felt like looking at the rings of Saturn for awhile again. It was a rather pretty sight when he was able to land in the right place, or as it was technically called since Saturn was mostly a gas planet, parking just inside the gas clouds and changing the shape to look like their home so they could see things from the porch. It was a very pretty sight and they had done this more than once, and the colors changed frequently because of the light spectrum. They stayed for a few hours and then after eating, decided to go home for the night. However, and not surprisingly, the T.A.R.D.I.S. did not comply.

"Oh great, another universal jump." Daniel grumbled as he held onto one side of the console like the rest of them. "I just hope it isn't something being done by the Ancients this time."

"Doubtful." Ford said. "We've left our universe."

"What are you thinking about?" Carter asked as the ship continued to shake just enough they had to keep hold.

"Home. Sally, a hot shower and bed. Thinking of driving to work tomorrow and leaving the T.A.R.D.I.S. behind though. I miss driving." he said as he was working over controls.

As he was working on them and having to move to other controls on other consoles, the group shuffled one way or the other to keep hold.

"Maybe she's taking us to go help someone, like the Doctor is always doing." Vala said only to get looks from everyone but Ford. "What?"

"That is so cliché. Besides, that is a TV show where something has to always happen and this is real life." Mitchell said.

Ford laughed lightly as he shook his head.

"Well, we are coming in for a landing, hang on. Three, two, one…" he said grabbing the console quickly.

They heard her dematerialize and then the rotor stopped moving up and down.

"Strange…" Carter said as she slowly let go.

"We landed safely. No bump." Daniel said as he and the rest let go.

"Indeed."

"She's not out to harm us. Besides, the Doctor is….says he doesn't know the T.A.R.D.I.S. as well as he would like or said something like that once." Ford muttered as he grabbed his coat off the rack.

"Do you?" Mitchell asked.

"I don't know." he said adjusting the coat and grabbing his cane. "Hope to end up in his universe and talk to him about it sometime."

"Is it safe to even go out there?" Daniel asked.

"Air is breathable. Oxygen, nitrogen and most of the same elements in the air like Earth's, but no pollution. Seems more like the…medieval era on Earth." Carter said as she read the small screen. "Obvious signs of metallurgy going on, but not as heavy as we do. No signs of electrical usage, but there is a unknown power reading. Same reading, but sporadic, some areas really concentrated and others not so."

"Are we on Earth?" Teal'c asked.

"No." she said. "We haven't been wherever we are currently. And yes, she is scanning for home as we speak. Hopefully, it won't take long."

"Hmm, it's night time." Ford said as he turned the dial and looked at the screen showing outside. "Must be near a town or something close, I see several smoke trails in the distance."

"I'm reading a population of 1238 people. Most of them are currently asleep." Carter said.

"Well, we can stop the scan and…."

"No. I think we can just let the T.A.R.D.I.S. scan for the night and we all get some sleep." Mitchell said. "From there, in the morning, we can go out and explore a bit then go home. She'll have found it by then. We recently got off work technically."

"Yeah, I was doing translations all day." Daniel said as he rubbed his tired eyes.

"Good point. We'll go explore tomorrow." Ford said as he put his cane and coat back. "I want a shower anyway."

"Is that really you we smell?" Vala asked as they walked further into the interior.

"The showers went down in the men's locker room early on and I didn't know it till after the sparring session. What you are smelling is the extra cologne and deodorant."

"Not a great combo." she said as the others nodded. "But better than B.O."

"Why didn't you just go to the women's showers?" Mitchell asked. "Or the T.A.R.D.I.S?"

"Yeah, they section off every half hour for the guys that day." Daniel said.

"General duties kept me in the briefing room for five hours, talking to some people from the Pentagon and other idiots. By the time it was over, I decided to wait till I got home. Trust me, I have smelled worse. Spend a couple weeks in Iraq…..Iran….of was it the Ukraine? Some area over there with lots of sand and cold nights. Me and…."

When he kept walking and stopped talking they quickly moved ahead of him and stood still waiting. He rolled his eyes and grumbled.

"My team and I were mostly on surveillance and ended up getting false info on the date of….some meeting taking place. Instead of pulling us out, we ended up staying two weeks waiting for the meeting in hopes that it came early. Took fifteen days till it took place and then ended up that we had to back out because the C.I.A. crashed the party along with Interpol. We all must have spent a couple of hours in the bath when we got back. Only to be sent back out three days later to go after some jackass trying to sell some old nuke in Vietnam. Bomb was worthless and we all shot him and the rest of his idiots, other than because of orders, but because we were really tired, pissed at our boss and had to trek sixteen miles through that mess to get to our target. Basically, by the time that mission was over, we smelled just about as bad, but without the sand. Anything other details you'd like to know?"

"No." they all said.

Morning came early and after they ate, they headed out to look around, surprised that the T.A.R.D.I.S. was still searching. K-9 usually was helping, but he was back at home with Amy, Jacob and Sally. The sun was just coming over the horizon making the mountains across from them down in the valley, that had a few large tree covered hills around the town they scanned last night, very majestic. Different dirt roads left the town going various directions, one of which ended up on the path they were standing on, which was another small mountain range. Behind the T.A.R.D.I.S., which was parked dead in the middle of the path, was a large forest that climbed the mountain range and went off either direction out of sight. The air was refreshing and breeze carried a scent of lavender and jasmine, along with apples. All of which could be seen growing around the forest and along the side of the road along with other plants and flowers, though the apple scent was from a farm of several dozen trees just outside the town. The road, only obvious at being a road because of the signs of wagon wheel tracks and a broken wagon wheel against a tree that was almost covered by weeds gave away the transportation method used. Plus the fact they could see other wagons being used on different roads in the distance. Going off to their right, the road continued down and off around a corner, possibly going over or through a valley in the mountain. To the left, it crested on a hill and then went down towards the valley where the town was. Seeing as it was a society that had yet to meet people like them, as to their clothes, Daniel suggested they all at least dress up to try and blend in. From the scans they got of the town, watching people mingle around in the morning, Daniel had a pretty good idea of what they could all dress up in. Thankfully, the girls noticed that the women weren't all wearing dresses. Ford was the only one who didn't do so in the changing.

Ford wore his silver suit and his coat. Daniel was wearing a red shirt that button up with old wooden pegs and loose blue pants, like something you saw a Sultan wear, but not as baggy, plus a old looking long coat that was grayish green and a bag over his shoulder that had a notebook and some writing utensils. Mitchell was wearing the same, but with a blue on blue with a brown long coat. Teal'c wore all black, minus a coat. Sam and Vala both ended up coming back in loose leather, Vala in black and Sam in brown, but both had the same reddish long coat. The cloak like coat idea was mostly to cover their selves in case they had to hide something. The coats even came with cloth hoods attached.

"I think we should hide the T.A.R.D.I.S. first." Daniel said as they started to walk away. "Don't want someone…."

"Can hide her in the forest." Ford said going back in. "Let's see….hmm, this is interesting."

"We can go home?" Mitchell asked.

"Yes actually. But I want to look around so we'll check things out and then leave. There is a cave in the mountain nearby. According to the scans, no one has been in it for years. We can hide it there."

"Are you sure there is no one in there?" Vala asked.

"No life signs detected, other than bugs." Carter said as the ship landed.

"Should we take any weapons with us?" Teal'c asked.

Ford walked over and opened a circle only to frown and close it.

"Not that one." he said pulling a paper from his pocket.

He walked over a couple feet to another circle and open it pulling out a metal rod that had seven nine mills hanging from it. He opened the one below it and a tray came out holding clips.

"Yes, I know. Take the gun you gave me." Carter said walking away with a wave her hand as he started to speak.

She came back with it on her hip, which was well hidden by the cloak like coat as the others were putting the guns away in the holsters also provided in another circle. He grabbed his cane and then opened the door heading out.

"Oh wow!" Vala said pushing past them as she ran up to a large pile of gold, jewels and other treasures.

"Interesting. This place must have been someone's stash spot. Guess they died or forgot the place." Ford said as he brushed the dust off a silver shield that had unknown symbol on it.

"We are stuck General." Teal'c stated as he looked at the rock wall that had various spots where light from the sun was getting through. "It would seem a rock slide took place at some point."

"Yes." he said tapping the ceiling above the rocks with his cane.

"What are you doing?" Carter asked as he was messing with his Sonic Screwdriver.

"The ceiling is stable. The rocks can be moved." he said after a quick scan.

"Hey Ford, you might want to see this." Daniel said as he was looking at some strangely shaped blue rock that could be seen through and had some small object in the middle.

"Interesting." he said looking it over as he pulled a jewelry inspecting lens out of his pocket to the others surprise, except Vala who was looking at various treasures. "It's not a gem. Or at least not like we know them."

"I've seen this sort of symbol before. Whatever that object in the middle is, I think this is some sort of….um, as strange as this is going to sound…" he said adjusting his glasses. "I think it is magical."

"It is giving off a very unusual energy reading." Ford said as he scanned it. "Something I haven't seen before. Oh Vala…"

"Yes?" she said nervously looking up from an arm load of stuff she was going into the T.A.R.D.I.S. with.

"Leave the sword. It is also giving off a strange reading and I want to look at it." he said putting the lens away. "Keep it or toss it Daniel, up to you."

He grabbed the sword from the ground and went into the T.A.R.D.I.S., telling Vala to clean up the stuff she kept dropping as he grabbed something from another circle. Coming back out, he activated the zat and fired several times.

"Now we can get out."

"And here I thought you were going to blow it up." Mitchell said.

"Indeed."

"Other than that attracting unwanted attention, probably bring the cave down on us." he said going back in.

"Hmm, this looks interesting. Shaped like a military combat knife, but without the serrated edge, a couple inches longer and better looking handle."

"I thought you didn't like jewelry." Mitchell said as he noticed Carter looking over the knife with interest.

"I never said that." she said putting the knife back into the jewel encrusted scabbard. "I have never really been interested in it. I don't mind getting it from others though. No place to hang it or even put a rope or string on it. Must be ceremonial in nature."

"Are you checking it for unusual energies as well?" Teal'c asked as she was running her Sonic device over it.

"It's normal apparently. However, everything about this is real. Meaning it is priceless in our world. Nice keepsake."

Mitchell shook his head as Teal'c only raised an eyebrow at her walking into the T.A.R.D.I.S. with it as Daniel was shifting through the treasure.

"These coins have different people and languages I don't know on them." Daniel said.

"No surprise there." Mitchell said as he picked a old faded ruby ring off the ground. "Got one of those unknown symbols in this."

"It's energy reading is just about gone." Ford said as he was waving his Sonic Screwdriver over it suddenly, startling Mitchell. "Whatever it does or did, it probably can't do or has one shot left. Keep it or toss it. Where's Sam?"

"Right here. I found a knife I liked and put it in the safe. What about that sword you're holding?"

The sword was seven feet tall, six feet was the blade alone. It looked like a normal sword, a gold cross hilt, nothing inscribed, etched or put on it. Just a normal rectangular hilt with a solid wood handle that had a silver ball at the bottom of the pommel. The blade was double sided and had a very blue tint to it, no matter what angle you looked at it from. The scabbard was made of a light weight but very durable metal that looked like silver and was hexagonal in shape with a pointed end. It did have a metal clip on the side for a belt loop to go through.

"Looks well kept." Mitchell said.

"Yes." Ford said thumping the middle of the blade with his finger.

He suddenly tensed up and an electrical effect surrounded him as he visibly sparked.

"What the hell was that?!" Daniel exclaimed as he backed up.

Ford dropped the scabbard and sword as he hit his knees.

"Holy…..oh, whoa." he said shaking his head. "I've had better feeling shocks from grabbing exposed electrical wires. That really hurt. I think it is a shock sword."

"You think?" Carter asked as she slowly helped him to his feet with Teal'cs help.

"Certainly gave me a big shock. I feel okay now." he said and then suddenly looked at his watch and Sonic Screwdriver. "They weren't effected, thank god."

"It must be magical or something else then. Check this out." Daniel said as ran the blade along the wall causing it to spark like lightening.

"I think I'll hang onto that." he said taking the sword back and putting it away. "Vala, we are leaving."

"I found a broken sword, or…maybe the blade was just taken out." she said walking up.

Ford took the strange looking sword, which had a hilt that was oval and had three spikes coming off it on one side with another on the other, and a hole where the blade would be. The handle was also metal like the hilt and pommel.

"Hmm, doesn't look broken. Might be important later." he said pocketing it.

"General, as we are in unfamiliar territory and that we are not from this area or world, I would assume that the different currencies you have in the T.A.R.D.I.S. would most likely not be sufficient or be useful at all. I suggest we gather a handful or more of these coins in case the need to pay for something arises, such as passage into or out of the town." Teal'c stated.

"Or our freedom if we were being robbed or something." Daniel said. "With our reputation, we could run into anything."

"I agree with Teal'c. Everyone grab a handful or so just in case. Probably a few of the jewels too. They may not be as worth as much as they are on Earth." Mitchell said. "Who knows, we might even find something of use that could be useful to the SGC, or at least some interesting souvenirs, other than what we found here."

They did grab a few handfuls and then headed out of the cave. It had been at least half and hour since they landed in the cave and more people were moving about in the valley, more carriages and carts. So far, no one had noticed them or came by yet. They only had to walk a few dozen feet to get out of the forest where the cave was hiding behind a few fallen trees.

"Okay, off to…whatever that town is. Should we take the road or just walk the hill down?" Ford asked.

They opted to walk the road, figuring it was safer. Even though it looked like it would be easier to just walk down the hill, that wasn't all that steep anyway, the road must have been the way it was because of something on or in the hill since the road didn't go straight down into the valley. They didn't see any signs of former stumps or stumps or anything else that looked dangerous on the hill to keep them from walking it to town, but decided to walk on the side of caution.

"You know, you are going to stick out." Daniel said. "We can still go back…."

"I am not changing. The Doctor never does and I don't see any reason to either. On the various trips we have been on, no one has asked or said anything before." Ford said.

"There was that one group of people…" Daniel began.

"That place was a pleasure resort like Risa on Star Trek. Everyone but us was wearing shorts or bikinis." Mitchell said. "It's no wonder we stuck out."

"What I remember the most was Jack standing there drooling with his jaw on the floor." Carter said.

"That was so funny." Ford said laughing hard as the others also started laughing at the memory. "Good thing Sara never found out."

"God, she would kill him if she knew." Daniel said.

"Did any of you see the look on Teal'cs face?" Mitchell asked.

"Oh god, that was even worse than Jack's." Ford said as he noticed Teal'c frown. "I'm sorry to laugh Teal'c, but you were so appalled…"

They all were laughing as he only grunted and kept walking ahead of them. They stopped moments later and caught up.

"We never did find out what universe that was." Carter said as she wiped tears away. "I would have suspected it being your fault…."

"Yeah, being the guy with the gene for universal jumping…." Mitchell said.

"I am still waiting to see us enter the Star Wars universe." Teal'c stated.

"It just seems to be random." Ford said shrugging. "As for that resort, I still have no idea why we ended up there. I have wondered if it was Jack's fault though. Maybe some movie he saw or book he read and thought about hoping to actually go see."

"He did seem, at the time, rather…um….surprised to see all that." Daniel said. "And even spoke even quicker about not knowing the area at all."

"Yeah. He didn't seem like he was lying, but if he tries hard enough, I can't tell if he is or not." Ford said.

"Were you thinking about sex at the time we ended up there?" Vala asked.

He flushed for a moment before coughing into his hand as even Sam cleared her throat.

"So, it was both your faults." Daniel said. "You two had something special planned that night…."

"New subject." the two said quickly.

"There is a carriage approaching." Teal'c stated as he pointed ahead of them.

"Oh good." Ford said extremely relieved as Daniel had started to say more. "We can ask them where we are and, things like that."

It came up the hill, cresting it as they were nearing the top. It was a horse drawn carriage, with two horses leading it.

"Huh?" Ford muttered as he stared and then blinked before wiping his eyes and looking again.

"What is it?" Carter asked.

"For a moment, I could have sworn I saw a dark haired guy and girl, both in the same sort of royal blue, or perhaps dark blue, royal outfit…kinda like the Musketeers had in that Man in the Iron Mask movie, but without any frills, plus a blonde girl that was between them in some red and orange outfit with a red circular jewel between her breast on the outfit."

"And if they were…" Mitchell asked as they stopped to wait for the carriage to come to them.

"I would know where we are. However, it's not that anime."

There was a dark haired man and woman in the front driving the carriage, the guy looking about forty something along with the girl, but they were in faded blue farmer clothes and the girl in the middle was blonde, but about fourteen years old wearing a faded red dress that went up and around her neck like a collar. There was a red jewel between her small breast that hung from a leather necklace.

"Whoa." the man said as he pulled on the reigns. "Hello strangers."

They all responded with a hi, hey or hello.

"Is there anything me or my wife could help you with?" he asked with a warm smile. "You don't look familiar, so I'm guessing you are travelers from afar."

"Yes we are." Daniel said quickly as he pushed his glasses up. "We are actually kinda lost."

"You must have came through from the mountains. They do have some very dangerous and misleading trails. You must be very powerful people to have avoid the monsters that infest those areas. Thankfully, you all looked unscathed."

"Yeah, we were able to avoid getting into any….battles." Ford said quickly. "The…monsters must have sensed our…combined powers and back away. We never saw or heard anything."

The team gave him a brief look.

"You know where we are?" Carter asked quietly.

"Not a clue." said whispering. "So what is the name of the town down there, if we may ask?"

"Ah, that is Appleousea. Famously known through the region for the apples they produce all year round. The apple trees you see from here are just one of the five major farms that surround the city. The others, which are much bigger, are inside the town and just outside behind the other hills. They have other fruits and vegetables they grow, making them one of the biggest fruit and vegetable growers in this region, but it is mostly apples." the man said.

"Hmm, nice profession." Ford said. "Um, does the monsters come near town…"

"Thankfully not!" the wife said with a laugh of relief. "There is a magical guild in town that has created some…barrier that I don't understand that keeps the them from entering. It extends even to here and just inside the forest. Sometimes they have tried, but most of the time, the field keeps them out."

"Mommy! I want to go home and play with Cliff." the young girl said.

"Honey, you are being rude." the man said scolding her lightly.

"We're sorry for taking your time." Ford said quickly before Daniel could ask anything. "I'm pretty sure we can get any help and supplies from town. You and your family have a safe journey. Thanks for the info. Let's go gang."

The man nodded and waved with his family as they waved and left.

"We should have inquired more about these…..monsters." Mitchell said.

"We found magical equipment. We could be in any number of universes." Ford said as he shook his head. "I don't read any magic books or watch that many shows or movies that have magic. I can say with certainty that I do not recognize any of this or even have heard of this town. We can figure all that out when we get to town and ask more questions."

"If it wasn't for the fact we know we are capable of going to other universes, I'd be racking my brain to figure out how magic works and trying to disprove it at the same time. We already know it doesn't work in our universe." Carter said.

"Yeah, that one time we landed in…did you say it was that game you were playing once?" Daniel asked.

"Oblivion? Yeah, I already beat that. I'm just glad we landed away from any people and the various towns. We're just lucky we didn't encounter anyone." Ford said.

"That lizard that sort of looked like an big walking alligator was bad enough." Mitchell said. "It took three rounds from your gun to kill it."

"I know. Should have finished it off with just the head shot."

"The fifty gold pieces we found did come home with us just fine, but that Elvin dagger with some flame ability…" Daniel said.

"You actually remembered the daggers classification?" Ford asked surprised.

"It is what I do. Cataloging artifacts and other historical items. Why wouldn't I remember?"

"I thought it was really cool, until it fell apart into dust inside the T.A.R.D.I.S. as soon as we got home." Mitchell said.

"Does that mean any of those fancy jewels I found with the strange looking symbols and objects in them are going to be worthless as soon as we leave?" Vala asked.

"Yes." they all said.

"Then why do you have that sword?" she asked.

"Lightening fascinates me, even though it doesn't like me. Besides, might be worth a trade for something interesting in the town. Hey look, a large gate. I thought the town looked like it was surrounded by a large wall." Ford said.

"I'd say ten feet tall at the most. Not much of a protective. Ten feet is easy to scale, if you have the right equipment." Carter said as she looked through a small pair of binoculars she brought with her.

"Must be part of the barrier." Daniel said. "There is even a large gate and a couple guards outside."

The two guards, one on either side, were wearing what could be best described as full plate mail, though the helmet showed the entire face. They both had swords on their hips while holding large halberds. There was a small hut on either side near the gate that had open windows, which was obviously a guard station. Inside, they could see a few other weapons on the walls, including a shield and bow. Both guards were currently standing in front of the gate talking to each other as they leaned on their halberds, but they came to attention quickly as they were walking up. The group were a bit apprehensive at first, thinking they were going to be attacked or some hostile action of sorts, but it ended up being the opposite.

"Hello!" the guard on the right said cheerfully. "Welcome to our town, Appleousea. Are you here on business, pleasure or just passing through?"

"Or perhaps something else?" the other guard asked carefully as he made a motion with his hand.

The gate opened and a guy in some brown robe walked out slowly, their head covered by the hood.

"You come from a land very far away." the voice said monotonously, making it hard to figure out if it was a guy or girl. "Do you wish harm to this land and its people?"

"No." they all said.

"We're just here, exploring mostly. New to the area. We don't plan on staying very long." Daniel said.

"They have no ill intent or are cursed, or possessed. However, the silver dressed man is very hard to read and very powerful." the robed figure said making the guards tense. "He even carries a very powerful weapon. They are safe and pose no threats I can see or feel."

"Okay, now that just seems creepy." Mitchell muttered as the robed figured went back in and the guards relaxed.

"Sorry, but there have been threats lately and some monsters have tried to attack this place over the last few months. They have yet to attack anyone inside the barrier so far, but some people haven't been so lucky outside the barrier." one of the guards said. "Even though our Seer says you are safe, I would like to know who you are and your business, plus see what sort of weapon they mentioned."

Daniel introduced them all, leaving out the rank, except for Ford who jumped in at the last second saying he was just called the General and nothing more.

"None of the names sound even remotely familiar." the other guard said as he looked over a long list of pages. "Nothing in the warrants either, nor any pictures here that even resemble them at all. I guess they are safe."

"Very well. Before you go in, can we see this weapon you carry wizard…"

"I am not a wizard." Ford said quickly as he raised his hands and laughed lightly. "None of us can use magic, nor know how. I am a very proficient swordsman however. That…Seers probably, felt this."

He pulled the sword off his hip and held it out for the guard.

"Hmm, a very interesting sword. What does it do?" he said pulling it out slightly to look at the blade before putting it back.

"It is enchanted with the lightening effect." Daniel stated.

"Very interesting. We have a few sorcery shops that would be very interested in seeing or buying it from you. You can buy a map from the tourist booth just inside to your right." he said handing it back. "The laws are simple. No fighting of any sort, unless a monster does attack, which has not happened in many years. But if it does, we would like any help you can, even if it is to help get innocents to safety. If you are a warrior, your help will be appreciated, as long as you do your best to not destroy things or hurt innocents. No theft of any kind. If a fight does break out, avoid entering it at all cost. Depending on the severity of the fight will depended on the punishment. Even though you say you have no magical skills, the rules state to keep it to a minimum. We are a town that prides itself on keeping tranquility with the neighboring nations by keeping rivalries from taking place. Which reminds me, which kingdom did you come from?"

"Oh, we are very far away. A land called Earth. We came from across the ocean. No affiliations with anyone other than ourselves. Basically, we are neutral." Daniel said for them.

"Hmm, that will help with relations with the other regions. If there is anything else you need, please ask any guards inside for directions or ask at the tourist shop inside. Please enjoy your stay, sample our foods and drinks, and avoid causing any trouble." he said bowing slightly as the other guard opened the large gate.

"Thank you." they said as they entered.

The gate closed behind them as they stopped just inside. To their right, several feet away was a square brick building that had the words tourist shop and people coming in and out. From there, it went into a street that branched off different directions. There was shops in large brick and wood buildings, some also being inns or bath houses and a few being saloons of sorts. Many different types of eatery places. There was also a lot of open market tables in lines with many people looking and buying various trinkets and other things, some of which was food. Bazaars were practically everywhere and lots of people were mingling about. But even with all the people being there moving around doing their business, there seemed to be a lot of guards around as well. Some walking amongst the crowd, others stationed on the walls keeping watch and some even at the bazaars looking at the items, plus others on break eating at a few various eating areas where there was outside tables enclosed in a metal fence area to keep the people eating from being bothered by passer-bys.

"Wow, I haven't seen this many people mingling around since that time with you Mitchell when we were dealing with that problem with Vala back then." Daniel said.

"True. Looks a lot safer here though."

"As much as it would be nice to all break up and mingle, we didn't bring com devices…" Ford said.

"Actually, we all did. They are hidden within the inside of our coats." Carter said as she pulled back the right side of her collar. "We can set up the ear pieces quickly."

"What about you Teal'c?" Ford asked.

"Mine is in my pocket."

"We should still stay together at least in pairs."

"Good idea." Mitchell said as he started pointing. "Teal'c, you go with Daniel. Just in case he starts seeing something interesting and isn't watching his back."

"Ouch." Daniel said.

"It's true." Vala said. "Someone could easily come into your office and kill you while you were working and you wouldn't even notice. Hell, Lara Croft told me about the time she broke into your house and waited till you even noticed she was there."

"We all got told that story Daniel." Carter said. "Face it, when you see something really interesting, you don't pay attention to everything around you."

"You're the same." he stated.

"Which is why I am not pairing you two together." Mitchell said pointing at the couple. "Sam, you're with me, Vala, you go with the General. This way, we all will be looking out for each other in case one person notices something of interest."

"Not bad Mitchell. I don't like it, but we'll do it."

"General, you are with Sam every night. And you work with her every day, a couple minutes, or hours isn't going to kill you, or her." he said with a smirk.

Ford hung his head a moment as he sighed.

"I just hate not seeing that look on her face when she finds something of interest or learns a new discovery…" he muttered as she laughed and then patted his arm.

"We'll take pictures." she said pulling out a digital camera.

"When did you get that?"

"We all have them." Daniel said pulling out one as the others did. "The T.A.R.D.I.S. can travel to some really cool places, so we felt it best to get these to capture the memories."

"Indeed." Teal'c said as his flashed, taking a picture of a surprised and slightly shocked and awed Ford.

"I feel so left out now." he muttered as they chuckled.

"Okay, it's….about nine by my watch. I say we all meet up….how about that large church like building over there, say by 12:00." Mitchell said pointing. "Oh, and Vala…"

"Yes?"

"Don't buy everything in sight. And remember, we can't take certain items back with us. Okay Sam, ladies first."

"Oh, let's go this way then."

"Any particular reason…" he asked as they walked off.

"Okay Teal'c…" Daniel began as the other two came back.

"Wow. That was quick. Missed me so much you couldn't leave with him?" Ford asked smiling.

"Yes and no. We all should get maps." Carter said.

The got the maps they had to pay for and it took only two of the gold coins to do that. Daniel made some inquires about his field of interest and the young lady pointed out areas he should look at. After giving her a gold coin, that made her brighten up considerably, for her troubles, Daniel and Teal'c left.

"Well, there is souvenir shops everywhere." Ford muttered as Vala was also looking at the map.

"You probably want to look at the weapon shops." she said as she was starting to point out the closest one.

"No actually." he said looking over the map that also showed the region outside of town and a few local kingdoms and such. "Sayruun. That's a kingdom near here, a few days journey, or more depending on the route."

"What's so special about it?"

"Sounds familiar." he said stroking his chin.

"You have an idea of where we are then."

"Not really. The name is familiar, but….damn. It's on the tip of my tongue too. But nothing is standing out enough for me to realize where we are. Maybe it will come to me soon. I want to go here."

"That's, pretty far through town. And it is a weapon shop. Why not somewhere closer?"

"Yes, but the lady at the counter said they would be the best place to get this sword looked at for identifying. It shouldn't take us more than a half an hour to walk there and we have a couple of hours before we meet up with the others, so, we can window shop and look, but keep it limited."

Mitchell and Carter were mostly window shopping, she checking different things out discreetly with her Sonic Screwdriver and taking some pictures. When asked about the strange device, they said they were from another kingdom that created a new magical device that was capable of taking pictures, which they would take the said device back to their kingdom to have the stored pictures removed and they would look like paintings, just smaller. Seeing no harm had been done to the merchandise she had taken a picture of, the man let her go about her business and hoped to see this new magical device available to people like him soon. Mitchell radioed to the others about what had transpired so the others would also give the same story in case they were also asked.

It helped Daniel and Teal'c well because they were asked about it several minutes later, but for Daniel, a magician of sorts asked how it worked, which Daniel could only say he was part of a team testing it, range purposes and such. It was a good thing the card inside the camera was a few gigs, because the magician tired it himself several times over, taking different shots and trying to see how it worked, but eventually gave it back when Daniel mentioned how fragile it was. When asked where these magical pictures where being taken back to, Daniel didn't think as well as he should have and blurted out Yale Academy. However, the man said he was a traveler and had never heard of such a place, to which Daniel said it was a place in a kingdom called Colorado very far overseas. It got the guy and a few others off their backs quickly and they promised not to take pictures of people after several people began wondering about the possibility of getting cursed. The two radioed the others of this encounter which ended up helping Mitchell and Carter who were a bit later also questioned, especially by a few guards.

Daniel was able to find a library, but he wasn't able to read much of anything since the languages varied and some of the books were written in runes, which were said to talk about enchantments and other small spell abilities, like beginners. He only bought one of those types, just to see if it would make it home and then bought several others, seeing as he was able to translate some of the writings and wanted to read them, other than for research purposes.

Teal'c looked at a few armor shops while Daniel was checking out one of the books he bought. He found a black cape that wasn't magical, but was made of a fire resistance material that he liked. It was quite large and meant to be worn by someone who wore heavy armor under it. It was also suppose to be easy to clean, just soap and water, so he bought it even though it dragged a good inch on the ground around him.

Carter found many things that had energies in them, some very low and others really high. Some that were so high that they could have been naquada generators, but, they were useless to them. She did find however, a nice pair of sapphire earrings that had to be four carats at least, and shaped like two pyramids, put base to base. Even though Mitchell said they were a bit on the big side, she liked them enough that handing over a near baseball sized ruby that had some magical ability was more than enough for the man behind the counter. She told him to keep the change and left happy, especially after the guy tried to sell Mitchell earrings that would be seen as matching to his wife, which turned into a big, no we just work together talk and the man trying to say they looked good together which turned into him trying to sale rings.

Vala did find a few things, a jewel encrusted comb, made from a famous whale bone, the name of which was hard to pronounce. A few rings and necklaces, nothing magical. She did find a nice short sword that she mentioned that Kate might like, which Ford bought. A good strong oak handle with an actual gold cross hilt, with a jeweled pommel and jeweled ends on the hilt. Vala carried it on her hip as the bag of other things were on her back. They entered the shop he wanted to go into, seeing they had a good hour before they had to be at the church like building.

"Hello sir, what can I do for you today?" a slightly pudgy man with a blue robe said as he came out and met them on a circular rug that had runes on it. "Are you here to buy, sell, or perhaps it is an identification you are looking for?"

The square building had a counter with various rings and other small on the body type items and such while the shelves on the four walls had the other bigger items, swords, armors, shields, cloaks, stuff for horses, other weapons and things of that nature. This place dealt with identifying, selling and or creating magical things, no matter what it was.

There was a woman behind the counter doing inventory, she in a blue blouse and baggy blue pants that seemed to be made of the same material as the robe the man had on. Dark red hair that went behind her back and flowed over her shoulders, a pretty and triangular in nature face. Other than a smile, she went back to work. The man, had dark black spiky hair that was un-kept and a moustache that was also black and pointed going down past his chin a few inches, the rest of his face was bare.

"What makes you think I'm looking for identification help?"

"One does not do the job I do without learning how to read a customers face. That and you didn't look around much like you were looking for something in particular. Plus, you are holding your sword like you want to take it off very soon."

"Very good observation skills." Ford said taking a polite bow as the man did as well. The he shook the mans hand. "You can call me the General and this lady here, who is a friend only, is Vala."

"General and Vala. Strange names, but then, that is not important. What is, is the business you seek. I am Teranak. I am not the best in the business of identification, but I am very good at what I do. I would also assume that you are not from around these parts."

"That would be correct." Ford said as he removed the sword from his belt. "We come from a very far off land. I know very little about this sword, other than the fact it gave me one hell of a shock when I touched the blade."

The man took it and looked it over, not removing it from the sheath yet as they walked to the counter.

"How did you come across this weapon? It seems familiar." the man asked as he pulled the blade out and set both on the counter top. "I can say, just by looking at it, it is a very powerful weapon. I can even feel it radiating its power."

"As much as I would like to say it was given to me or won in a battle, I found it in a cave with other treasures, sometime back."

"Other treasures? It is possible this sword was a stolen item hid by bandits. That does happen more often than not. Did you bring any other treasures to be identified? I am quite sure I can identify this weapon, but I do not come cheap."

Ford pulled out a handful of gold coins from his pocket setting them down away from the blade.

"Very interesting. Though these particular gold coins are still available and in use, not many know that the image of this King is from over ten years ago. All of these coins are the same too."

"They are from the same cave. Me and my friends came across the cave, and being broke at the time, grabbed what we could to come here, seeing as it was the only town, to get supplies and information."

"They may well be being ripped off then. These coins are worth more than they seem. But only to the experienced eye."

"That probably means this sword we bought wasn't worth as many coins as we gave up." Vala muttered.

"That guys eyes did light up quite a bit when he saw the coins." Ford said. "Oh well."

"A very nice sword you have there lady. It has no extra abilities, but I can tell much craftsman ship went into the blade by just the appearance. That and I have enquired about it before myself along with other weapons other there. At the time, I thought it was that sword I felt power from, but it was actually a different sword by it. The jewels on that one made me think otherwise. How much did you pay?"

"Fifty coins." she stated.

"Had I been selling it, you would have only needed to give me twenty three of these. There are thirty eight here. I am unsure of how much you will owe me, since I haven't looked at the weapon more closely. It may be that you may need to give me more."

"I think I have a couple hundred of these coins in my pocket." Ford said. "Money isn't really a big thing my group has to worry about at the moment."

"Very well sir. I shall be one moment."

He walked through a wooden door into the back room coming back moments later with a few books, a couple dust covered.

"No, not that one." he said after saying some words over the sword and then setting the book aside. "Not that one either. Very interesting."

On the last book, and whatever he said, the sword glowed a bright blue on the whole blade and then stopped shortly after.

"Incredible! And you say you found this in a cave?!"

"I guess that means the sword is very powerful?" Ford asked.

"This is no mere common sword!" the mans said with excitement.

"Oh great. We are going to get so much unwanted attention." Vala muttered as the man was looking over the weapon closely.

"She is undamaged. Time has not tarnished her great beauty or power." he said lightly running his fingers across the blade.

"How are you doing that? I touched it and nearly fried my hair off." Ford asked.

"Only one who can wield magic knows how to keep themselves safe from the abilities of such weapons. If I were to be striked by this, it would do as it is intended to, but to touch her delicate blade, be it for examining purposes or to clean, you must have the skill and know how to do so, otherwise, you get the effect you did. I am guessing it must have been sometime since that has happened, for you look very well in health."

"Ah, yeah, it has been sometime." he said as he laughed nervously with his hand behind his head as Vala snickered. "I am much better."

"You were lucky it did not turn you to ash on the spot dear sir."

"As interesting as this conversation is, can you tell us about the sword?" Vala asked quickly.

"This is a Royal sword, lost many, many years ago during a battle with monsters that attacked a castle far away from here. Many lives were lost, though in the end, the monsters were pushed back. How it ended up in this region and in a cave is beyond even my guessing. It was thought lost with the areas of the castle that are still in ruins under the lake."

"And, it has a name?"

"She does. However, I cannot give you that information, nor what she is capable of without payment first. I do have a family to feed and workers to pay. Surely you understand."

"I do, more than you know. Even though I am fascinated by the sword and in many ways would like to give it to you to do whatever you wish, I may end up needed it. Trouble seems to find me more often than not. Will a hundred work?"

"I was going to ask for more, but you seem like a person who knows how to handle a sword, and how to take care of them with a skill few know. I have a ring here…" he said reaching under the counter. "It is for people like you who wish to wield powerful enchanted equipment that has a tendency to also damage or kill the wielder. It will keep you safe and make sure the sword only does its damage to whatever you end up striking, but will allow you to keep her clean and hopefully, undamaged. If you do need help with that sort of problem in the future, just come back here. Seeing as you have brightened my day considerably by showing me a item thought lost to history, I shall be friendly and only ask for a hundred and twenty."

"Sounds fair to me." Ford said dropping that many coins on the counter.

"This is the Sword of Thundaran. Legends say she was created by the lightening gods themselves as a gift to man. Unfortunately, the legends of why she was given are many and some are tales that leave much to be believed. I would elaborate on some of them, but I can see you are not interested. Do not worry, I am not offended. Most people do not care much for history like they should."

"Normally, I would along with a friend of my who is big into history, but we are pressed for time I'm afraid."

"There is books that can give better details and more accurate information if you wish to learn more. In fact, there is a book store that has some of those books available."

"Knowing Daniel, he probably already found it." Vala said. "So, what is she capable of?"

"Her blade is made from metals that not even man can create, and her power is that of the very lightening in the sky during a heavy storm. Very few blades can match her in battle and not shatter or break under her impacts. And even if they don't, the opponent better be well prepared or they will be turned to ash on the spot."

"Basically, a highly charged electrical sword." Vala said.

"Very highly charged." Ford said quickly as the man seemed insulted. "Thank you sir. Hopefully I shall not need her to save myself or anyone else. If we are lucky enough to avoid any conflicts, then I may come back and give her to you, since once we leave this beautiful town, we won't be coming back."

"That is a shame to hear. Is your trip home that far away?"

"Oh yes. Getting back would be quite difficult, even if we had all the money in the world."

"Ah, many dangerous trails and other perils that you wish to avoid going through again. It is understandable. I wish you great fortune in hopes that trouble stays away and just perhaps, I end up with that sword before you leave. Though I am curious as to why a great swordsman like yourself would not want to keep such a magnificent blade."

"Really, I have something much bigger and better. Not to mention, where we are at…um, how shall I put these gently…..um, magical equipment, of any form, falls apart. Just turns into dust. There is this field in our kingdom that I don't fully understand that keeps any and all magical items from working or existing."

"Very interesting. Your wars must be very bloody…."

"Actually, we tend to be very peaceful. It's only around the outside of the field where battles tend to take place, usually by some bandits or the occasional monster. No invading armies thankfully. Really, who wants to take over a land where magic is nullified constantly?"

"Good point." the man said with interest.

They left as Ford put the ring on his finger and put the sword back on his hip. The others were waiting as they arrived and after exchanging info, decided to eat at a local place nearby that had food they could identify before deciding to leave back to the T.A.R.D.I.S.

"I found some very nice books. One has these interesting runes, but I think it will fall apart or burn, do something that makes it worthless as soon as we bring it back." Daniel said as they were looking around at different eatery places.

"Can you read any of them?" Mitchell asked.

"Only a couple. The others I need to spend more time trying to translate. I may ask someone around here for help before we go though."

"Looks like you found things of interest." Mitchell said.

"Indeed. How much of the gold do you have left Vala Mal Doran?" Teal'c asked as he eyed the two bags over her shoulders.

"None. I gave the rest to Ford to help him with the identifying of that sword."

"What is it?" Carter asked.

"She…" he stated as he pulled the blade. "Is called the Sword of Thundaran. Basically, a highly charged electrical sword. A Royal sword by the short history I got from the guy. Priceless too. Shame I can't bring it home. Damn, I should have had the broken sword looked at as well. Oh, very pretty earrings there Sam."

"You don't think they are gaudy? They are a bit on the big side." she said fingering one.

"No on the first, a little on the second. But I think they bring out the blue in your eyes, so they are worth it. No power right?"

"I wouldn't have bought them otherwise. Whoever made them, really knew what they were doing. The flaws are so small, they were on a scale only a microscope can see." she said waving the Sonic device a moment. "Or so this says."

"This place looks nice." Vala said.

"I agree. The food is easy to identify." Teal'c said.

"This place it is then." Mitchell said.

The hotel and restaurant was very nice. They didn't book any rooms, instead just eating outside and watching people walk by and talking amongst themselves. There was a overhang above them that had more another area for those that wanted to eat and over look the city, but they were at a large table underneath in the shade on purpose because the temperature was getting a bit high. Not very many of the towns folk were wearing leather, unless you noticed the different warriors that were, and some were in metal armor and even some of the women were in tight fitting armor that covered the essentials but left most of the rest of the body uncovered. They were all eating different things, from cooked or steamed vegetables, a local fish that was recommended by the chef, steak, bread and water since alcohol was the only other drink available. Tea was too, but they weren't sure what it was since the name unknown and taste was really strange to Ford, so he suggested otherwise on trying it.

"I've watched many movies, TV shows and even seen books with women on the covers that have outfits like that. Even games. Seriously, a metal bikini, even if it is enchanted, does not protect everything else. I could kill that woman right there easily."

"This is a different reality from ours Ford." Daniel said as they watched the woman that was wearing what would be classified as a metal bikini walk by.

She had a cape as well, plus metal boots that were tight against her, like they were molded up to her knees. There was a short sword on her hip and a circlet around her head that was mostly covered by the red hair that was really long, going down past her butt. Jewels of different colors went around the top of her hip on the metal and was on the straps going over her shoulder.

"Yeah, she may look like a push over, but she probably has powers we can't even begin to try and comprehend." Mitchell said as the woman stopped and looked at them.

"Just because you have a legendary sword, doesn't mean you can take out…."

"Vala, skill is skill. You either have it or you don't. If she was to use just that sword, she would never have a chance." Ford stated.

"Ha! You actually think you could defeat me in battle. I have slain many monsters and humans alike!"

"Do you use magic to help you in battle?" Ford asked as he twirled his fork.

"Of course!"

"I am incapable of using magic, as is my friends here. I had to buy a ring to even be able to touch the sword I have here. My swordsman skill is unmatched, and my primary sword is bigger than I am, plus I am very proficient in duel wielding. Unfortunately, I left it…back at home."

"And what sword is that?"

"Teranak, guy over…"

"I have been to him many times." she said crossing her arms.

"He said it is the legendary Sword of Thundaran."

Several people gasped and many more were now looking at them.

"Hmm, even if that was true, you don't look like a swordsman. Much less like you've ever used one. Your friends here look more like warriors than you do. Hell, you look more like a farmer than anything else." she said snidely.

"Well…" he said twirling the fork on the plate. "Looks can be deceiving. And the best way to throw off your opponent is through deception. Though I try to do that as fairly as possible. As for the farmer comment, at least I can say I have done an honest days work."

Vala burst out laughing along with several other people as Daniel choked on whatever it was he was eating. Teal'c only smiled while Mitchell shook his head. Carter hid her smile behind her drink as the lady growled and clenched her fist.

"How dare…."

"Is there a problem here?" a guard asked as he walked up with his hand on his sword hilt.

"No." the lady said growling a moment before taking a deep breath. "This man and I were just talking."

"It sounded more like you and him were challenging each other."

"We aren't going to fight." Ford said. "Sorry to have disturbed you…um….guard. It wouldn't be a fair fight."

"That's for sure. If that sword is what you say it is, or what Teranak says it is, and you saying you can't use magic, there is a very good chance you'd end up blowing a good section of the town away with yourself." she said with a grunt. "If we see each other outside town, I will challenge you for the sword."

She walked off as the guard relaxed.

"Teranak is one of the best magic identifiers in this town. If what he says is true mister, I would suggest you don't use that sword at all. As long you promise not to fight with it or wield it in town, I will let you continue to keep it on your person."

"I promise. I'm actually thinking of selling it to Teranak."

He nodded and left and then the team relaxed.

"God, we almost got in trouble." Mitchell muttered. "Can we try to avoid getting into trouble for once? I'm enjoying not having to fight for once."

"Same here." Vala said.

"Ain't home, but I am liking it too." Carter said.

"As am I." Teal'c stated.

"I didn't think she'd hear me. I don't whether to feel offended that I don't look dangerous anymore." Ford said.

"Yeah, you used to instill fear with those eyes." Daniel said. "Even Jack was worried at the few times he saw you really pissed off. But he'll deny I said he said that if you ask him."

"I am still dangerous ain't I?"

"Oh yeah, a real bear." Vala said.

"Of the teddy variety." Carter said.

Even Teal'c laughed with the rest of them as Ford groaned. Carter and Vala clinked cups as Ford muttered something under his breath.

"Really General, I think you've gotten softer." Mitchell said.

"I wouldn't really call it softer." Vala said.

"What would you call it then Miss Doran?" Teal'c asked after no one said anything.

"On the rare times we see him really pissed off, that's when that Ford we used to see come out." Daniel said after Vala opened her mouth a few times trying to come up with something.

"I have to agree with that." Carter said. "It takes a lot to get you angry now, like the saying goes about someone's short fuse, yours instead grew several feet and tends to die before the explosion can happen. Unless you seriously get pissed off, then gasoline might as well have been dumped on it and the bomb making it all go up at once."

"Yeah, that sounds right." Mitchell said.

"Indeed. When we have our sparring matches, he is more focused than before. There have been times I was able to provoke him on purpose to see if I could break through his defense. Sometimes it worked. I have yet to succeed since his regeneration." Teal'c said.

"You got through it? What do you say?" Vala asked. "I've never been able to do much other than nick him, but lately, I haven't even been able to cut his clothes."

"He used to make remarks about me not being able to save Sam or someone else close. Usually in the middle of actual fighting. I admit, there was times I wasn't having a good day and he got to me. I'd still have the bruises if I didn't heal to quickly. But there wasn't many times that happened." Ford said.

"You don't even fight back anymore. You make us do all the fighting." Vala said.

"Until you get better and actually break through my defense, that just tells me that you're not learning to look for them. Kate actually got through once after seeing an opening I had been leaving open for several minutes. I've left multiple openings for you Vala, and…you just keep dropping the ball."

"I've got to pay more attention to you and her fighting than daydreaming." she muttered.

"No wonder I hear Kate is getting better at swordsmanship." Daniel said. "Didn't she kill you last week?"

"Yes." she said reluctantly.

"Does anyone have plans to look at anything else or something, or are we going home after this?" Ford asked with a sigh.

"Home." they stated.

"Well, I said I'd give this sword to Teranak if we were leaving. Can't bring it with. Be able to get this broken one looked at, at the same time."

They chatted about other things for the next few minutes as they finished their meals. People continued to go about doing their daily business and other things as they watched and kept talking. Ford thought he saw someone he knew, but after glancing around, he didn't see them again. They were getting ready to leave and finding out how much they owed when Ford suddenly stiffened up.

"Oh yeah! I haven't eaten like this in a long time!" a familiar woman's voice behind Ford said loudly. "And for once, I don't have to share."

"General, everything okay?" Mitchell asked as the waiter walked off with the gold.

"Was it something in the food?" Vala asked quickly.

He slowly turned in his seat to look at the four seater table behind him. There was one woman sitting there and she had before her several big dishes, more food than the entire team just ate, which she was going to town on like a starving woman. And even though she was eating quickly, she still wasn't getting it all over herself or everywhere else. She had a red and yellow outfit on, plus a blue black cape and black shoulder armor of some sort that had a jewel of some sort in them. The skin tight outfit was red while a yellow strip of cloth was over her breast and waist like underwear. A black headband and circular gold earrings was all that was on her head. White gloves that reached up to her elbows also completed her outfit along with white boots. There was also some sort of jewel in a metal piece that was on either wrist, under her neck attached to the small chain that kept her cape on and one on her belt, all looking the same in design.

The team stood and looked seeing the woman as well.

"Do you know her?" Daniel asked.

"Yes." he said weakly.

The woman stopped and then looked up at them as she noticed she was being watched. She noticed the strange man staring at her intently and looked down a moment at her chest because her chest size had finally grown outward from the small size she had two years ago. Looking back up, she saw he wasn't looking at her bust line, but at her face. The rest of the people had curious looks on their faces as they looked between her and the man looking at her. She noticed his eyes were very different and something about him made her think he was trouble, but also a total weakling. The staring contest took place for a good ten seconds before she finally decided to say something.

"Can I help you?" she asked raising an eyebrow.

"No." he said shaking his head quickly. "Sorry, never mind. I thought you were someone else. My bad."

"But…" Daniel began as Ford stood up quickly and made a cutting notion across his throat.

She watched them leave and did notice the cutting motion. Obviously the man knew who she really was, not that she was trying to hide who she was. She didn't recognize any of them and figured it was her reputation that made them leave. She shrugged going back to her meal without giving it any other thought.

"You know where we are finally?" Carter asked.

"We are leaving." he said as he started walking faster. "And then we are running back to the T.A.R.D.I.S. before trouble takes place."

"Were are we?" Daniel asked as the walk turned into a jog. "Who was that?"

"That is Lina Inverse. Trouble follows her worse than it follows us."

"They said this town is protected by…." Mitchell began.

"The worst monsters in the world search for her, so this place is likely to be overrun any time." he said sternly. "I don't want to be here when all hell breaks loose. Some of the most powerful monsters in this universe want her dead. I don't remember a lot about this anime because I watched it all back in the year I got married."

"No wonder you don't remember anything. During that year, after the marriage, I was surprised you even remembered how to work. That goes for both of you." Daniel said.

"I wasn't that bad!"

"Sam, the week after you came back from the honeymoon, you and him both had trouble remembering where some of the different things in your office were located normally. You swore that someone ransacked your office and then put everything back in different areas. It took showing you footage of the security cameras to make you believe otherwise." Daniel said.

"Indeed. As I recall, you even ended up at my room once thinking it was yours." Teal'c stated.

"God, you two had it bad." Mitchell said seeing Sam blushing slightly and Ford trying to look like it wasn't effecting him. "How'd you get any work done?"

"Luck." the two said.

The guards looked at them suspiciously as they ran up and asked to be let out.

"We saw Lina Inverse, so we are splitting before we get caught in any explosions." Ford said when asked what the hurry was. "And all hell breaks loose."

"You can go ahead." the guard that was talking to them said as he motioned for the door to be opened. "You aren't the first person to give the same reason. But she has been here before several times and we do know her reputation. So far, we've always been safe. Hope you enjoyed the town while you were here though."

"We could stay then. If they…" Daniel began.

"With our reputation for trouble?" Mitchell asked.

"I'm ready for my home and bathtub." Vala said as she pushed Daniel out as they all left. "Plus real bathrooms."

"They have plumbing and bathrooms here though. A lot like ours…" he said as he kept being pushed.

About half a mile from the town, the lady from before walked out from behind a tree nearby holding her sword out.

"Oh great. I had a feeling we were being followed." Mitchell muttered.

"I have been waiting for over twenty minutes for you to arrive. I want the sword."

Ford unclipped the sword and then looked behind him as did everyone else.

"I don't see anyone following us. But there is other trees and bushes, plus a few boulders big enough to hide several people behind. I got the feeling as well. T?"

"I have been discreetly looking General, but I did not see anyone."

"I thought so as well." Mitchell said. "But I didn't see anyone even when I looked."

"Well, who ever is out there, they are probably after this sword." he said removing the ring. "I don't know who you are, but I hope you are a nice and decent person and don't go on some killing spree with this."

She looked at the sword as he held it and the ring out.

"This is too easy. Why would you give such a valuable sword to me without a fight or compensation?" she asked keeping her sword pointed at them.

"Magic and magical equipment are cancelled out and destroyed where we live. Besides that, I have tons of gold, silver, jewelry."

She put her sword away and grabbed the sheath near his hand.

"I'm not a, villain or murder, but I am not a really great person either."

"Better than a monster." he said.

"Are you going to let go?"

"Um…I can't."

"What?" the team asked.

"I can't. I can't open my hand." he said as he tried to pry his fingers off with his other hand. "What the hell?"

She pulled as he pulled back. Her hand slipped off as he fell back bruising his knuckles on the ground.

"Dammit. It has already bonded to you." she replied with anger as she got up quickly and pulled her sword.

"Wait! What do you mean bonded?" Daniel asked as he held his hands out.

"You people really are dumb when it comes to magic. Bonded means the sword has chosen him to be the wielder, until he is dead and someone else takes it as the new owner."

Ford was able to switch the sword to his left hand as he pulled his Sonic Screwdriver out.

"Ford, I don't think technology is going to override this universe and…" Carter began.

He put the ring on his left hand, waved the Sonic device over his hand a few times and then his hand unclenched dropping the sword.

"Oh, thank god." he said quickly as he dropped the ring. "Take it before it jumps back or something."

"What was going on?" Carter asked as he helped him to his feet.

"Whatever energy is in that sword, it was traveling up my arm quickly, like it was trying to consume me or something. I managed to cancel it out long enough but boosting the rings power several times over."

"That would explain why the ring is glowing." Daniel said as the other lady picked it up.

"The magical ability of this ring has increased ten fold. How can you do that if you have no ability to use magic?" she asked as she also picked up the sword.

"We'd explain, but I doubt you'd even understand. Hell, I doubt I would even understand if they dumbed it down." Mitchell said.

"Swords is yours, you can deal with whoever is following us. We are leaving before Lina…" Ford began.

A loud explosion, followed by the ground trembling and the sound of a loud monstrous roar got their attention and the three people behind a couple of trees and a bush. They all looked back, expect Ford who hung his head, to see around the middle of town, a plumb of smoke rising and another roar as some large bone monster bellowed at the air as it raised its head above the buildings.

"And all I wanted to do was go home. Ah dammit! Might as well go play the hero." he grumbled as he grabbed the sword from her shocked hands and took off. "It's what we're best at."

"Wait, Ford!" Carter said running after him as the others followed.

The three people turned away and ran past her as she suddenly noticed the sword was missing from her grip. But she still had the ring in her hand.

"Hey!"

Another column of smoke arose as they neared the gates, or at least it was Ford nearing them as the others were still catching up. Seeing as the guards weren't at the gates, he jumped and slammed into the door breaking it down. The others caught up as he rolled and got up quickly.

"This isn't…" Mitchell began.

"Innocent people will be killed if we don't help. Lina is a ticking time bomb."

"What if she's not even here?" Daniel asked.

They heard different people screaming and saw many more running in fear, plus saw various magical attacks hitting the creature, but certain ones were more noticeable. And the creature, which looked sort of like a T-rex, just much bigger, bigger fore arms and large bone wings, was shooting back some sort of energy blast from its mouth.

"Oh, she's here." he said taking off again. "I can see certain attacks that she knows."

"I thought he forgot a lot about that cartoon." Mitchell said.

The other lady stopped at the broken gate and was catching her breath as they ran further in.

"Oh man, is the sword even worth this much trouble?" she muttered.

They rounded a corner as they neared the center of town seeing many people laying around injured or dead while guards were trying to fight back, throwing various weapons or attacking its large legs directly. Unfortunately, it wasn't doing much good because the monster was winning.

"What are we going to do?! This thing shouldn't have broken through the barrier…" a injured but fighting guard yelled to another near them as he loaded another arrow.

"You're asking me?! You've been a guard longer than I have?!"

Ford stiffened greatly and his eyes widened as he heard someone speaking, which quite a few others also were hearing.

"She'll destroy the town." Ford muttered and then suddenly bolted forward.

They started after but ended up backing off with several others as a building next to them exploded and crumbled to the ground.

"Ow, that could have been us." Vala said as she rolled over and coughed away the dust.

"We need to get over this, now." Mitchell said as they looked for a safe route.

As they started to head for the debris pile, several roars caught their attention making them look up. Skeletons came out of the ground, some with armor, some not. But all having a variety of weapons, from axes, to swords, halberds and maces. Thankfully, no bows or other projectile weaponry.

"Oh I hope this works." Mitchell said pulling his pistol with the others. "Otherwise this will be a short battle."

Ford rushed forward as he kept hearing someone speaking words, chanting really. He rounded a building to find the center of town, normally bustling with people and devoid of buildings because of a more park like setting, which was mostly destroyed by a massive hole in the ground where the monster came from. Plus dead and injured people along with burning trees, bushes and some bodies. Lina was off to his far right powering up some attack that was really powerful as the monster was distracted by the various guards attacking it. A red light was glowing in between her hands as the towns magic users were trying to do whatever they could, along with the guards to attack the monster or the skeletons that came out of the ground. Unsure if it was even going to work, he did the only logical thing that came to mind.

"DRAGON….." Line began yelling.

The right shoulder armor blasted off as something impacted it, though causing her no actually injury, it made her loose concentration and her aim as she fell back.

"SLAaaaaaaaaaa"!

She hit the ground on her back and her attack fired off up into the sky, catching everyone's attention for miles around as it looked like a enormous fountain of flame that dwindled away after a few moments. Everything went silent and then the monster turned.

"There you are Lina Inverse. Now, I, Skulldemos, will kill you and gain…"

Several loud shots stopped the creatures ranting, plus obviously killed it as its bony head exploded, as did the joints to his arms, several key points in his spine, the joints to his wings, and a couple in the legs. Bone shards flew everywhere from the explosions and it roared in pain before turning into a large pile of spread out and broken bones.

Ford leaned over with his hands on his knees as the team came running up, with more guards and healers as he was catching his breath, again.

"I didn't think that would work. You all okay?" he asked waving one of the guns.

"Are you…" Carter began and then looked up. "Ford!"

He dropped and rolled backwards as a double bladed axe impacted the ground where he had been. The blade came back up as he started to aim, only to see the skeleton fall apart from a couple hits.

"Nice shooting Sam."

"Thanks. I had a good teacher." she said putting her gun away.

"FIREBALL!" a pissed voice yelled.
A red hot fireball slammed into him from the side sending him flying into a damaged building. It caught fire as expected and came crumbling down in on itself afterwards, which put the fire out for the most part. The guards and healers went to help the other people and a few started to try and dig out the man Lina hit. The team quickly aimed their weapons at Lina as they noticed a red glow around her.

"I don't know what the hell your companion hit me with, but I don't take being attacked lightly!" Lina said as she started forward with a glowing ball in her hands.

"Look….um," Daniel said and he began trying to dissolve the situation before it went out of hand.

"Lina!"

She cringed and the ball in her hands went away.

"Hey there Nel'thina!" she said turning from them as she waved lightly at some women that walked up while smiling brightly. "I didn't do anything wrong."

Nel'thina was at least six feet tall, had a tight blue dress or robe on, it was hard to tell which seeing as he also had on blue pants of some sort and leather boots. It would be considered a cape, but it went all around her, only parting in the front slightly as she walked. A few jewels adorned the outfit, such as on some snaking bracelet on either arm, the circlet on her head had the jewels a few inches apart from each other, plus the few rings on her fingers, and finally the belt around her waist looked gaudy because it was a sparkling with the tiny diamonds that were all over it.

"Didn't do anything wrong?!" Nel'thina exclaimed as she stood in front of Lina with her hands on her hips. "There hasn't been any monster attacks in, on or around this town in years. And then one shows up and, obviously you intended to help."

"I was helping." she said and then leaned back as the lady got in her face.

"I noticed! But you know the rules, no spells powerful enough to destroy this town!" she shouted making Lina back up into the wall. "You were calling forth the Dragon Slave! That would have wiped out everything in this town!"

"It's not like I did it before."

"You've done it in other towns! That's why you are closely watched here! If it wasn't for that unknown man, everyone would be dead, possibly including you!" she said poking a finger in her face.

"I'm sorry! Nothing else seemed to be working. Even the Rah Tilt didn't do much."

"I noticed that as well." she said crossing her arms. "I can only hope for your sake that these strangers don't do something for you attacking their friend. And hopefully our healers are able to help him before he dies, if he isn't dead already."

"But…"

The glare she got made her droop her shoulders as she followed. The team lowered their guns as the lady walked up to them.

"Hello, I am Nel'thina. One of the few leaders of this town." she said with a small bow. "I am sorry for what happened to your friend. Lina?"

"But he almost killed me…" she exclaimed as she pointed at her missing shoulder armor. "I didn't know who he was! I thought he was…."

"You two met earlier while eating."

"That was nothing! He said he thought he knew me and said he mistaken me for someone else. Then they left. I finished eating and was going back to my room to sleep. Then this attack happened. And before you ask, no. I am not being chased down by anyone at this moment, at least no one I can think of anyway." she said touching her chin in thought. "It's actually been quiet the last few weeks for me."

"As much as I hate to say this, it isn't your fault Lina. Something was brought in past our barriers, but after having you watched and checked, it was determined you were not the one behind the strange readings."

"Who was it then?" Daniel asked as calm as possible.

"We are still checking that out." she said turning to them and looking at their strange weapons. "I was suspecting you people because you are very new, even though many new people have came into the city today."

"Then what…" Mitchell began as a guard ran up.

"Lady Nel'thina!" he said as he stopped and then lightly punched his fist to his left shoulder then right. "The guards have defeated all the monsters and the injured are being taken care of now. As for what caused this to happen, the sorcerers are still investigating."

"Very good. Carry on then."

"Yes My Lady." he said bowing before running off.

"As for the question I think you were going to ask, you people are suspected because you have gold that is since been seen rarely in these parts, you cannot use magic of any kind and the fact that man my people are trying to dig out is carrying a very powerful, very dangerous and very cursed weapon."

"Wait, cursed?" Daniel asked.

"That…Tera...something guy didn't say it was cursed." Vala stated.

"The sword was long thought to have been lost, and very few people know the reason why it was lost. A curse was placed on it when the former wielder, who used it in a great battle many years ago died while fighting a powerful monster. No one is really sure about what sort of curse it is, but it usually ends with the death of the person in possession of it. I find it strange you aren't more mournful for your friend."

The looks they got from a couple guards nearby, Lina and the lady made them feel really uneasy quickly.

"Um…" Carter began.

Lightening struck the area of the crumbled building making the various people nearby run away or get blasted back as several more strikes took place blowing debris everywhere. A glowing blue sword shown above the rubble and moved around knocking things aside before it plunged down into a rock. The team breathed a slight sigh of relief as the General climbed out and leaned on the sword a moment before using it like a crutch and cane to climb out of the pile. He was covered with dust, dirt, burn marks and broken wood splinters. There was tears in various areas of his suit and coat along with a few bloody areas.

"I'm fine, really." he said waving someone away.

"But sir, you must have…"

"I have nothing, no broken bones, no internal injuries…" he said as he kept walking until he was on the ground again. "Here, take this and…"

When the sword refused to leave his hand, he sighed and just dragged it along, causing sparks along the way.

"He shouldn't even be able to move. I hit him with a powerful fireball spell." Lina said. "He didn't even block it."

"Um, yeah…he's….Immortal." Daniel said getting a sharp look from the two women. "I can't really go into details…"

"The only way a human can become Immortal is to make a deal with a monster…" Lina said.

"I made no deals with anyone." Ford said tiredly as he leaned against the pillar holding a upper section of building above them. "At least not like that. And I'm not human."

"You are a monster then!" Nel'thina exclaimed as she reached for something in her clothes.

"Yeah, I'm a monster who stopped Lina from blowing up the town and then used my incredible magical power to stop whatever that bony thing was. I can't use magic."

"Then why did you take the sword back?" the lady from before said as she walked up.

"Force of habit. You still have that ring?"

She tossed the ring which he put on his hand quickly. It took a bit more effect, but he was able to drop the blade and then tossed the sheath aside. When the lady went to pick it up, she was stopped by a couple guards.

"He said I could have it!"

"I am sorry, but this weapon is cursed. And I believe it the reason behind the attack that just happened."

Ford tossed the ring back to her.

"Keep it, sale it, I don't care."

"How did you survive?" Mitchell asked.

"Basement area had some strong brick walls. Once everything stopped coming down, I was able to start climbing and digging out. I ended up using the sword to hack away at some things and then several explosions took place and here I am."

"Where did you find this sword…" Nil'thina asked with the intent of a name as well.

"I'm the General, that is Sam, my wife, Daniel, Mitchell, Teal'c and Vala. I found it in a cave in the mountains along the trail. It's since caved in, but you could look later when we pass by it before going towards our home."

"Maybe I will. However, we need to deal with you at the moment."

"Me? I was not behind the attack on this town."

"The only people who ever have been Immortals are people who have made deals with monsters." Lina said. "And since you can't use magic, you must have made a special deal to make it impossible for you to use it."

"What color is monsters blood?" Carter asked.

"Red." the two ladies said.

"That blows that idea." Carter muttered.

"Is there a test I can take or something you can do that will prove that I am not a monster? Telling you I'm not from this planet is obviously not going to work." he said seeing them give him the strangest look. "Yeah, I kinda figured that."

"There is a test that we can do that will tell us if you are a monster in the disguise of a human. And it will tell us if you have any magical capabilities, in case you are lying to us." Nil'thina said.

"Works for me. How long will it take?"

"Not long. However, we cannot do the test until later tonight."

"Why tonight?" Mitchell asked.

"The ritual works best at night, when monsters like to thrive. Also, the people who are needed to do this ritual need time to concentrate and be ready before it takes place. Currently, they are helping the people injured and helping with the rest of the damages."

"Will asking to help clean up everything make any difference?" Daniel asked. "I hate to bring this us, but seeing as we are with him, and she is married to him…."

"We have already done, subtle magical test on the rest of you. Ever since you entered this town, you have been being watched, only because of him. The rest of you show no signs of power or the possibility of being demonic monsters." Nil'thina said looking at them before turning to Ford. "You however have been showing great signs of power and still continue to do so."

"And yet, I couldn't call a light spell to save my life."

"Hold out your hand like this and repeat after me." Lina said holding her hand in the air.

Daniel was more interested because the words were archaic and obviously magical in nature. Above Lina's hand appeared a ball of light, which was a light spell. Above Ford's, nothing.

"He must be telling the truth. Even Gourry managed to cause a spark in his hand when I tested him once on our journey." Lina said crossing her arms. "And he was an idiot."

"I now know what this is." Ford said reaching into his pocket. "Have fun Lina."

Lina jumped for joy and almost screamed like a girl in extreme excitement as she saw what she was holding.

"This is one of the legendary Swords of Light?!"

"I just gave up two very powerful, magical enchanted swords. One that tried to bond to me twice and that one, which can help create the….Giga Slave is it?"
"How'd you know that?" Lina asked.

"You stopped the great Lord Shaba-something and then used it on, um….Hellmaster…something. And a few other times. Now tell me, would a monster, give away powerful stuff like that? The Thundaran sword has the potential to destroy this town and I just gave it away."

"You do speak the truth. No monster would be stupid enough to give these weapons away. But it could be a ruse to earn our trust." Nil'thina said. "Then again, most monster don't need powerful weapons if they are powerful to begin with."

"Fine, we'll just wait for tonight and then do this….test thing." Mitchell said. "In the meantime, we'll help any way we can, you can have him watched, along with us if you wish."

"I was going to have you confined to a dungeon, but you seem sincere in wanting to help. Two guards and Lina will watch your every move until it is time for the ritual. I expect no stalling or trying to get out of it when you are called."

The group agreed and she walked off leaving an appalled Lina.

"I didn't sign up for guard duty!"

Nil'thina looked over her shoulder and shrugged.

"Think of it as payment for getting to keep that precious Sword of Light. If it wasn't for the newcomers, you were my first suspect to the trouble that happened."

"What?! I've been here many times and nothing has happened!"

"What about that food fight with your friends, hmm?"

"That was over food, not monsters!" she yelled loudly. "Xello's was the only monster there, but we didn't know it at the time, and he walked out before he was involved! And that was years ago!"

"We noticed. Do try to keep things from getting out of hand."

Lina only growled as Ford sat down and rubbed dirt out of his hair.

"You all go help out the best you can, I'll wait here with Lina until two guards show up. Once this…test takes place, we can go back to the ship and go home."

"Are you sure that the test won't harm you? It is magic they use…." Daniel asked as Ford tilted his head to the side. "Right, if you're in serious trouble, she'll come to your aid."

A few guards and some of the healers came up and took the group off to show them where they could help and how, leaving two guards with the other two.

"What the hell do you mean by she'll come to your aid?"

"My ship and I are linked together, in life, and death." he muttered as he got up and popped his back.

"Your ship?" she asked with more than confusion on her face. "How is a boat…"

"She….there is no way I can explain her. This planet is…..so far behind and so out of touch." he said looking around. "I'm surprised my watch and Sonic Screwdriver work. Anyway, let's get to work."

"I am not working, I'm not even getting paid…" she yelled. "For something you probably caused!"

"Yeah, I caused all this." he said sarcastically. "And the monster called me by name, no wait, he called YOU by NAME! He or it said Lina Inverse! Not the General! I only shot you, non fatally to stop you from blowing up the town. I can't use magic, can't summon anything and yet I'm blamed because I survived having a flaming house fall on me! Gourry had that happen once or twice!"

"He came out of that injured! And burnt! And that monster I had never heard of or seen before!"

"I am burnt! My clothes are ruined! I'm just lucky that fireball of yours didn't burn everything off and leave me naked! He's the first monster I have encountered and I'm pretty sure would have been easy to defeat with a lesser spell. Like that Rah Tilt or em….um, something Lance."

"Monsters…" she began yelling as he rolled his eyes and started walking away.

"I'm from another planet! Out there!" he said waving at the sky. "A place where magic doesn't exist!"

"That's the lamest excuse I have ever heard from anyone, especially a monster! You can't get that high off the ground…."

"Would you also quit yelling your head off?! I don't think the next county slash kingdom heard you!"

"Then why are you yelling?!" she yelled inches from his face.

"Because you're yelling!" he yelled doing the same.

"Why did I get paired up watching your worthless ass?" she grumbled while turning away.

"I thought you said your group was from a far off kingdom?" one of the guards asked. "Was it a lie?"

"Yes it was a lie." Ford said in a huff. "We are explorers. We landed here in a spaceship. I'd elaborate on what she looks like and can do, but it probably would be like Lina trying to teach you how to cast that Dragon Slave spell. You get it or you don't. But, magic and magical items do not function or continue to exist on our planet."

"Do you have some way of proving what you are?" the other guard asked curiously. "Until the test is taken later and proves you aren't a monster, we have no way of believing anything otherwise. But if you had something that was something no one has ever seen…."

"How do you people send messages to each other, over long distances? Smoke signals and paper messengers? Mail system?"

"Depends where you go." Lina said.

"This wonderful and very useful device is called a telephone. I'd explain how it works, but you won't even begin to grasp the concept on the dumbest level."

"And…"

"I talk to people with it." he said punching buttons. "Remember the blonde woman who I said is my wife?"

"Yeah." a guard said as he kept his hand on his sword.

"I'll put it on what we call speaker phone. Sam, where are you?"

"Far wall….look at your watch, you'll see where I am." she said as the three heard her.

"She's over by that building." Ford said after looking at his watch.

"What are you doing?" she asked. "I'm rather busy….what did you do to get in trouble now?"

"Nothing. Is there a guard there with you?"

"Yeah, there is several guards. Nil'thina is nearby healing someone."
"Put her on."

"Say what?"

"Tell her what it is and put her on."

"Okay." she said with a audible sigh that was heard. "Nil'thina, I'm sorry to interrupt, but the General wants to speak to you about something."

"I don't see him around. He hasn't done something already has he? I don't sense an evil presence…."

"Who are you?"

"Me? I'm Peacker." the guard said confused.

"General?" Nil'thina asked carefully and cautiously over the line.

"There is a guard here called Peacker, you know him very well?"

"What have you…"

"I have done nothing. God you people are so paranoid, but for good reason." he said shaking his head. "Would you recognize his voice if you heard it?"

"Yes. He was directly assigned to watch you."

"Say something Peacker." Ford said holding the blue phone out towards him.

"Like what?"

"Say hi or report to her about something."

"Peacker? Is that really you? What sort of magic…."

"It's not magic. At least nothing I have every seen." Lina said loud enough Nil'thina heard her.

"It's a technology we call a phone. It allows us to talk to people over vast distances. On our planet, just about everyone has one, they are safe and used a lot, until the power runs out sometimes, but are easy to recharge over and over again. Their basic purpose is to allow people to talk, even from far away, so sending messengers and notes or mail is not needed. This is part of the proof that we aren't from this planet."

"Those items I was hearing about being called, cameras, aren't magical items either." Nil'thina said after a moment.

"Um, no. They are objects that let us take pictures of things, whatever we want and then we can, back home, make it into a bigger picture to look at. No souls or items or anything is stolen or taken, just a picture, sort of like a painting. Except more life like to look at." Carter said as the group on the other side heard. "Basically, it is used to help, captured memories of special events so that many years later, you can show those pictures to your children and then grandchildren and so on."

"History in the form of art." Nil'thina said in understanding. "A painting captured on this small device and brought out on another one back at your home."

"Exactly. I'm hanging up now. We can even change the color and size…" she said hanging up.

"Now, does this look or sound like any magic you have ever seen or heard or?" he said putting his phone away. "And telepathy doesn't count because no ones mind was read and you heard my wife and Nil'thina talking to, even though they are way over there."

"Can we get one of those?" a stunned guard asked.

"Sorry, only exclusive on our world. And I doubt you'd be able to understand half its abilities."

"Abilities?" Lina asked.

He started pushing other buttons and then the three were surprised by what happened next.

"I'm a Barbie girl, in my Barbie world…."

"Oops, wrong song." he said shutting it off quickly. "You didn't hear that. I hope Sam doesn't know I have that song. Um…."

"Was that someone singing?" the guard asked even more confused than before.

"Yes. I got better songs saved in here. Think of it like a book, words are all there and you read them to know what is going on in a story. This is sort of like that, but it holds the songs people have sung, and I can listen to them anytime I want. Just like reading a book. Except, since it is a song, you hear, the song." he said going through his list. "These are all good songs, but, something you might understand. Um…."

"Let me see that." Lina said grabbing it from his hands.

"Wait, you have…" he said trying to reach for it as she kept turning or twisting or just leaning out of his way.

"If this is from another planet, why can I read it? God the print is so tiny. There's a menu? I don't see a food list…"

"Give that back." he said in frustration as he kept reaching for it.

He grabbed her arm and then was suddenly face first into the ground. Even the guards were stunned at how fast she had somehow tossed him and was now sitting on his back as she kept playing with the buttons.

"Graphics? Games? Movies, never heard of that word. What the hell is all this stuff? Contacts? Wow, there is a lot of names here. They got different nicknames for everyone as well. This is a really cool, whatever it is. I don't understand the magic behind it all, but I'm more than willing to learn!" she said very enthusiastically.

"It's not magic, it's technology." he grumbled while holding his head up with one hand and tapping his fingers on the ground.

"Technology?"

"Can I get up please?"

"No. Go on." she said tapping him on the head as he sighed. "I want to hear what this…technology thing is."

"Give me a moment to think of an example you'd understand." he said as he continued tapping the ground with his fingers and then lifted a hand while shaking a finger. "Got it! Take the sling for example. Tosses a stone at an enemy. Later, someone looked at the concept and thought, what if we could toss bigger rocks? So the catapult was created. Same function, bigger sling. That's called technology…to a point. That is called a phone, which is a very improved version of sending letters to people. Basically, you talk to them instead and can for a long time, until the power runs out."

"So there is magical power in it."

"No." he said with another sigh as he heard buttons being pushed. "There is a…small item called an energy cell, battery actually. In it is stored power….like that sword I had that had the lightening ability. That sort of energy is hidden inside a small part inside the phone that makes it work. I can't use that power to do anything but make the phone work. Even if you blew up the phone, which I don't want you or anyone doing, there would be no massive explosion or anything. Just unfamiliar metal pieces and broken glass. Now let me up."

"Why is your wife's nickname…"

She was thrown off quickly and landed face first on the ground as he stood up grabbing the phone out of the air.

"That is no ones business! If I hear that you even speak what you just read to anyone, I will take that sword back and destroy it. Understand?" he said as he leaned into her face menacingly.

"Yeah…" she said holding up both hands and waving them with a nervous smile. "Never read anything."

"Good." he said looking at his phone. "Everything still seems in order. Now, let's quit goofing off and help around here. Standing around and not doing anything is going to make me look like a bad guy."

Shortly after the phone call, Mitchell and Daniel had separated from the others to check on Ford, mostly because Sam had asked them to just look. It took a lot for them not to laugh as they watched.

"Did we just hear Barbie Girl come from his phone?" Mitchell asked.

"Barbie Girl?"

"It's a song Daniel."

"They made a song about the Barbie doll?"

"You need to get out more often." he said shaking his head as they kept watching. "You don't listen to the radio on the way to work do you?"

"Not really no. Whoa, did you see that?"

"Yeah. That Lina girl just flipped him face first into the ground. God, I wish Teal'c could have seen that." Mitchell said shocked.

"I recorded it." Daniel said holding his small mini cam.

"Since when?"

"After she took his phone away and he couldn't grab it out of her hands, I pulled it out. Very few women can match him in wits and agility. I managed to capture a few moments of him…dancing with her for his phone."

"Is this going to be blackmail material…."

"Oh no. I'm going to show a lot of people this." Daniel said with glee. "Well, people we can trust not to say anything I mean. Besides, what would I need to blackmail him for?"

"Good point. Wait, Sam has a nickname?" Mitchell asked after seeing her tossed. "Unless it is Sammie, which I have heard her father call her…."

"No, I hear it is a pet name, but I have no clue what it could be. Hmm, looks like the fun is over." he said shutting the camera off. "Guess it is back to work."

"Who might know?"

"Janet. And Ford obviously."

"Not going to learn anything then." he said as they went back to helping with everyone else.

A few hours later, a lot of things were cleaned up and everyone was found. Quite a few people had died, but there was more injured than dead. Only one guard was watching over the group, which included Lina, as they all sat down on a broken column that was going to be moved later. Night was descending slowly as they were drinking water from cups they were given. Mitchell muttered about wanting a beer, but obviously couldn't get one. Even Sam said agreed with him, which got her a look from Ford, to which she brought up the agreement they had about her having one every now and then, as long as she didn't do it a lot and didn't get drunk.

"Well, you all helped us today greatly. You have my gratitude, but…" Nil'thina said as she walked up. "You are still considered a possible enemy…"

"We helped save a lot of lives. And we didn't have anything but cleaning and bandaging to do since we can't use magic to help." Mitchell stated. "How can we still…"

"You and the rest of your group are all found to be without fault and can leave at anytime. As you were helping, we used some special magic to search your hearts and minds for any evil auras, and found none. Only Lina and your friend, the General, still have an evil aura surrounding them."

"My past catching up with me I suppose." he muttered.

"What do you mean by your past? And why the hell would I have an evil aura about me? I'm not out to kill people!"

"You, I suspect, has to do with being a dark sorceresses. You have encountered very many big monsters, including the Dark Lord himself Lina. It is no surprise that you would be tainted. You even have the ability to cast the Giga Slave, and was even once consumed by that summon. Your body is tainted, however, your mind and soul are not." Nil'thina said. "You have many names given to you because of your past, including Lina the Bandit Killer and Dragon Slayer. However, you are not evil and can leave when you wish. No further attacks happened today, and I believe that you aren't behind today's."

"Oh great!" she said happily as she stood. "But, what made you count me out anyway?"

"You've been here for four days and no incidents happened until they came and started to leave."

"I can see that." she said touching her chin. "But why would this group be the cause? Anyone else that came into town could have been behind this? People from all around come and go daily."

"True, but there is not many people that have no ability to use magic. And they are very new. Going as far as to say they are from another planet. As highly unlikely as that is. And they have…devices of some unknown sort. Including weapons that can't be explained."

"Yeah." she said looking at her missing shoulder armor and then at him with a glare. "I'm lucky that fake jewel didn't explode on me."

"Sorry, had to stop you somehow without killing you in the process. The Dragon Slave would have wiped out half the town Lina."

"Yes. It is a good thing he stopped out." Nil'thina said. "The day is late and many of our guards are very tired."

"Meaning?" Ford asked.

"Until we can fully determine what has happened, I am having you placed in our prison. During the day, you will be allowed out and watched carefully. At night, you shall be placed back in your cell."

"Hey, wait a minute…!" Mitchell shouted as he and the others got up.

"You are allowed to leave. But if you insist on staying with your friend, then I suggest you do not try to stop this order. Otherwise, you will face the same fate in prison as well." Nil'thina stated forcefully as four guards came forward. "What do you choose?"

"Stay in some hotel or something around here or go back to the T.A.R.D.I.S. if you wish. I don't want to cause any trouble." Ford said as he stood and removed his coat and the his belt with the guns. "Take these with you."

"You are going to be placed in a cell, alone, and watched by a guard all night." she said as Teal'c took the items. "If there is anything else on you, I suggest you give it to your friends now. Prisoners aren't allowed any belongings. Besides, seeing what you have on you may or may not help prove your innocence."

"Does my wedding ring count?"

"While I do not think you'd use it for anything, I cannot allow it."

He placed it and his other ring on the dog tag chain and handed it to Sam. Emptying his pockets of the various item and removing his pocket watch as well, plus belt, he then allowed a guard to pat him down.

"He's clean my lady. Unless he can pull items out of thin air." the guard stated.

"Very well. Your cooperation has been helpful General." she said nodding and then turned to the group. "If you wish to stay, I will have you informed if anything happens during the night. He will be let out tomorrow morning, just after the sun rises."

"We'll go to our camp outside of town and come back in the morning." Mitchell said. "Hopefully we can all go home tomorrow. Assuming you can find some way to realize he's not an evil monster."

"There…is a, magical spell, we can do. However, if he is a evil monster, it will kill him instantly. If he is not, as you say, it may have unforeseen side effects."

"What does it entail doing?" Lina asked.

"He will be placed in a magical circle and several priest will be at various points on the outside of the circle."

"It's a banishment sort of spell. I've heard and seen a few before." Lina said. "One man, who claimed he was innocent, ended up having it done to him. He was innocent in the end, but lost the ability to speak or see."

"I'll do it. Nothing will happen to me either way. Why can't we do it now?" Ford asked.

"Our priest are very tired and it the process takes a couple of hours at most."

"Anything else I should know?" he asked with a yawn.

"The process is painful, whether you are evil or not."

"Why does it take so long?" Daniel asked. "Do you have a long chant that has to take place before it takes effect?"

"Yes and no. If he is evil, or evil is in him and he doesn't know it, it will make itself evident quickly after the first few minutes."

"And if nothing happens in those minutes?" Carter asked. "Wouldn't that show he's telling the truth?"

"No. It would only mean that the chant would have to continue. If it is a very weak monster, the effect it immediate. If it is a very powerful monster, it takes longer for the effects of the spell to take effect." she said as she looked at them and then back at him. "During the process, you shall be tied to the ground and beams of light shall radiant from the lines drawn in the circle. You shall feel pain almost instantly. However, if there is a very powerful evil inside you, you won't feel anything as it takes over your body and tries to fight for its life. Most monsters take their host with them when they die. However, there is a slight chance, if you are strong willed enough, you may come out of it alive. Only one person ever has, and they died a week later from the strain."

"And when the process is over and shows there is no evil in him?" Teal'c asked.

"He will be free to go, if he survives the pain."

"This sounds like a hyped up exorcism." Mitchell muttered.

"Come on people, this is me. We know what I am and am capable of. Even if I scream in pain, you know, I'll be alright after it is all over. Just probably will need a lot of sleep. I won't blame you if you wish to go somewhere else and wait it out. I'd hate to watch any of you go through this and would probably walk away too, if you were like me and in this situation. Go rest easy and realize, tomorrow we'll all be going home."

They nodded, though sadness and other emotions crossed their faces. As they left, a couple of guards came up with wooden shackles.

"Lady Nil'thina, this really isn't necessary." he stated as they locked his hands together in front of him. "And pointless. I can break these easily and I did promise not to put up a fight."

He twisted his hands a few times and the wood cracked in a few places.

"Very well. Remove them…"

"But my Lady…"

"He has shown he will not be difficult. He had plenty of opportunities to run away today, but stayed. Even when I gave him more than one chance to run off."

"I was wondering where that guard went after I got out of the bathroom." he said as they took the cuffs off.

Lina followed along as they took him to a 60x60 building near the capitol in town. They went down one floor to a dungeon that was rather clean. Only a few people seemed to be inside the fifty celled area. It was brick walls with metal bars. Ten guards in total were standing guard in various places. A large bell was hanging by the main door out next to a large pipe that lead to the first floor.

"What's with the bell?" Lina asked.

"If a prisoner escapes, that bell is rang and sends the signal up that pipe, where it is heard by the rest of the guards. We can then mount a defense and capture before the prisoner or prisoners can escape. There is only one was out, and those stairs are it." the high ranked and very muscular guard stated as the door was opened and Ford walked in.

"The bed looks nice surprisingly." he muttered and then glanced around to find the rest of the room empty. "I don't have to go, but…"

"There is a bathroom down at the end of this room." Nil'thina stated.

"That is strange. Usually a bucket is all prisoners get. I'm not being treated special…"

"No. You must have been in prison once before."

"Not like this. It was more a training thing, to help me be prepared for what might happened if I was captured by the enemy. Very degrading part of my past."

"Sick prisoners can make sick guards followed by sick innocent people. Which drops the defenses of the city if a crisis was to arise since not only are the guards unable to perform their duties, but are also trying to help innocent folks who can't help thmeselves. Healers would spend more time on curing sick guards and anyone else that got sick from touching anything that the sick prisoners had. Such as the bedding, clothes or, as there once was before we realized it, the buckets." Nil'thina said.

"I commend you Nil'thina. Not many kings, queens and people of that high of status realize that their people can and usually do die from diseases that were from prisoners that were treated poorly and because of bad hygiene."

She nodded and then left for the night.

"So, this world of yours…"

"What are you still doing here?" he asked as he laid down and noticed the sheets had a apple scent to them. "Must have hung these in or near an apple grove."

"I'm bored. Been a lot of places over the last couple of years since being alone now. It was fun traveling with friends. Even if they were pains in the ass sometimes." Lina said as she sat down on a stool outside the cell. "I've heard lots of stories and even read a few books to pass the time. Treasure hunting is fun, but I haven't heard anything new for a long time. You don't seem all the tired anyway…"

"I haven't slept alone in a long, long time. Well, it seems a long, long time, but it has been a couple years only. Very disorientating." he said putting his hands behind his head.

"What makes you so sure you're not possessed by an evil monster?"

"I can feel many things that happen in my body."

"So can most people." she said sarcastically.

"No, I'm not human. I feel things that others can't. If I concentrate hard enough, I can literally feel the planet under my feet moving through space. I can feel the blood running through my body and through my hearts…"

"Wait, did you say hearts?"

"Yes, I have two hearts. That's why I am an alien. The story behind it is long and so complicated, it ain't worth trying to tell you. You wouldn't even understand."

"Try me. I'm bored and here to listen."

"Why?"

"You're interesting. And not after my body like a lot of other men have been as of late." she said with a grunt. "Before, I used to have a little chest and then one day, they finally started growing. Now I get attention I don't want."

"You are a very beautiful woman Lina, even when you had a smaller chest. I've seen what you looked like a few years back. Using the Ragna Blade, fighting Rezo and then that…Dragon King turned human, for example. But don't take the compliments about your looks as interest. I'm very happily married and have a little girl at home waiting for me to return. I was just complimenting your looks."

"How is that even possible for you to know about the Dragon King…."

"I can travel through time." he muttered.

"That's only possible with very powerful magic and…"

"Very rare and hard to do. Yeah, saw you time travel as well and met some kid who had a Sword of Light with him, only to return to the future and find he lost the sword or something like that. I use a ship, but like nothing you've ever seen or even could believe. I'll give you a tour when I get ready to go home."

"Hey, I'm trying to sleep here!" some prisoner yelled.

"Ma'am, you really need to leave now." a guard said walking up. "I gave you what time I could."

"Thanks. Good night General. I really hope you come out of this as okay as you say."

"I will, trust me. Good night Lina."

The next morning, SG-1 made it to town early. Sam didn't get much sleep, other than because of worry, she was alone. Ford got little sleep either, and the bed was horribly uncomfortable. Several guards and the priest to perform the ceremony were standing outside the circle that was inside a large circular building that had no roof. The walls were brick and about fifteen feet high, with symbols and several enchanted items hanging on the outside at certain points of the wall. Nil'thina was there as he was brought in yawning and stretching his back.

"Those beds are horrible."

"Call it part of the punishment for being a prisoner." Nil'thina stated.

"But I'm not one. Not a criminal I mean."

"All the beds are the same." she said nodding to a couple priest that gently took him by the arms. "I am sorry, but there is no other way to deal with this."

"I'll be fine." he said as they had him lay down and then tied his feet and arms into chains in the floor. "You don't have to be here. Go eat and explore or something."

"It wouldn't be right to leave you alone…"

"Daniel, do you want to hear me scream for a couple of hours or whatever the time was? Do the rest of you? I won't blame you if you leave."

"You'd stay for us." Mitchell said.

"Only if you didn't say go away and was like I am." he said looking away from them. "Be grateful that it is me they are doing this to and not one of you. I'd be fighting to keep this from happening."

Nil'thina looked at the group in wonder and then back at the man in the center. It was really strange how he was taking this so lightly. She did hear about the conversation he had with Lina before she had to leave. Two hearts was very strange and they did have someone come in while he was sleeping to check, and they did find two heart beats. While it was very obvious the group with him didn't want to leave, they did anyway saying they'd be nearby. Lina however stood nearby watching as the priest lit some candles and waved some sticks around as they spoke a few words that made the lines on the floor glow.

"Whoa, that tingles." Ford said as he shifted around. "Kinda ticklish too."

"Nil'thina, we are ready to begin."

She kept looking at the man, who seemed to be sleeping from the looks of it. Many thoughts were going through her head when she was interrupted.

"Nil'thina?" Lina asked. "If he is a monster, then he's the nicest one I've ever seen. Even Zelos wasn't this kind. And he doesn't seem to even have an evil aura around him really."

"I know. Several other wizards and sorcerers came in and checked him out while he slept."

"I thought I didn't feel alone all night." Ford muttered.

"They all found different things, but nothing that truly points to him being a monster. Unfortunately, they are all bothered enough to think this should still continue."

"If this chant you are doing is the way I understand it, then you don't have to fully finish it. With everyone here keeping watch and checking to see what happens, after a few minutes into it, if nothing changes, it could be he is actually innocent and just gives off a different aura than normal people."

"You believe his story about being from another planet?"

"I have no idea what a…cell phone, is much less what the words mean or have heard of them either. But he demonstrated what it does. It's obviously some…"

"Technology." he supplied.

"That word, from some place we've never heard of or been. They can't even use magic, and most people can even use the charms, if just barely. They can't use them at all."

"He was able to use the legendary sword and that ring." Nil'thina stated.

"His friends couldn't use anything magical. Your people tested them before letting them leave the city. And none of them have two hearts. And that, phone thing played music. I've never heard of that happening before anywhere."

"Plus their weapons are very different from anything I have ever seen."

"Yeah. The word gun doesn't seem familiar at all to me. But I understand the alchemy principle behind it."

"You may begin priest elder. However, I may have you stop at some point."

"Yes Nil'thina." the hooded man said with a bow.

The lines got brighter as the twenty priest around the circle started chanting. Small electrical currents ran across the floor as the magic began flowing through the lines and into him. He seized up a moment in pain and then relaxed only to do it again. It came in short waves, and was brief. As they began to chant faster, the pain started growing in strength and length.

"You're…right! This, hurts, like, hell!" he yelled as it began to hit him over and over until it became one long blast that never stopped.

He screamed loudly as it felt like a million little cuts slices his body, inside and out. The pain was so great he wanted to pass out but realized part of the chanting made it so he couldn't pass out and had to kept taking the pain. He lost track of time as he strained against the chains with everything he had, screaming the entire time. If they had been normal chains, he was sure he'd have broken them already, but they were glowing a blueish color, which he guessed meant they were enchanted to keep him there or were glowing as part of the ritual. The rest of his thought processes and reasoning went away as the pain intensified to the point he was barely able to cry out anymore because he had went hoarse.

"This is getting to be a bit much." Lina said. "By now, even Xello's would have cracked."

Suddenly the chanting stopped and the light went away as the room turned red.

"I didn't say stop." Nil'thina stated.

The two looked to see all the priest grabbing their throats as they slowly died or passed out. The guards all went on the defense, pulling weapons or pointing halberds and spears as they heard a very dark and evil laugh.

"That's the Sword of Thundaran!" Lina exclaimed as she saw it floating above Ford's unconscious body.

"What?! That was locked away in a sealed chest!" Nil'thina exclaimed as she backed up.

"FOOLS! This pathetic building, enchantments and incantations are no match for my power!" a evil and sinister sounding voice said loudly all around them.

The chain holding him down shattered as his body rose up slowly to float above the ground. A long black cape followed by thick looking black armor that had the body builder look to it surrounded his body. His hair grew in length to near his waist and waved in the air behind him. More black armor appeared around his legs and arms, even covering his hands and feet. Three long spikes came out as shoulder armor, shining brightly with a metallic black look. His eyes glowed bright red and his facial hair grew out a couple of inches, giving him a much more evil appearance. The right hand reached out grabbing the sword and gave it a few swings.

"He was never possessed by the monster! The monster was in the sword!" Lina exclaimed.

"You are correct Lina Inverse! I almost have fully possessed him before, but he let go before I could complete my transfer into him. I would have spent many more years in this accursed sword until the next poor fool picked it up, if not for this atrocious ceremony. You tried to sever the link between us, which freed me enough to bring myself to him through the link. Now I have the most powerful body in the universe! And the most incredible mind anyone will ever come across!" he said laughing evilly. "I know things never thought possible by any person on this pathetic planet! Once I have gotten my revenge on this worthless mud ball, I will go from universe to universe, conquering each one until I am the lord and master of everything!"

Lightening rained down inside the building, blowing large chunks out of the ground and sending people flying into the walls, or through them as they began to crumbled under the onslaught. Nil'thina and Lina rushed out quickly as a large bolt of lightening slammed into the ground where they had been.

"What the hell is going on?!" Mitchell asked as the group ran up to the two on the ground.

"Your friend has been possessed by a powerful monster." Nil'thina stated angrily as she stood.

"That's impossible." Daniel stated.

"See for yourself then!" she yelled as she pointed at the rising figure.

"I shall conquer all before me!" he yelled loud enough everyone within ten miles heard him. "There shall be no mercy for anyone!"

People panicked quickly as lightening rained down on the town. Guards ran forward with other magic wielders and attacked him. Everything thrown at him hit some field and bounced back hitting the attackers.

"Ford?! What the hell are you doing?! You better take back control right now or else you'll be sleeping on the floor for a year! Not to mention I will cut off all your chocolate intake for a year as well! You remember the promise you made with that deal if I were to enact it!" Carter yelled loudly.

All the lightening stopped and he grabbed his head screaming. Though he was still floating in the air, he was fighting off an internal attack.

"Shoot me!" Ford yelled through pain as he eyes flashed from normal to glowing red.

"Fool! Give up this fight! You can't win!"

Nil'thina and Lina were a little shocked and surprised, not really from the fact that the group of people were shooting him, but the fact they were using the weapons they talked about. Guns weren't something they really were familiar with seeing or hearing, and were only told about because of the lack of how many times they could use them. Unfortunately, all the bullets did was bounce off the armor.

"Ford so help me, I will make you take the T.A.R.D.I.S. and stay away from everyone for over a year before coming back, you understand me?!" Carter yelled.

He fell to the ground holding his sides as the screaming of pain continued. Loud words of that no one could make out came from both individuals as they vied for control of his body.

"If he dies, he will just come back, right? Or so he said." Lina asked quickly. "No matter how he dies, right?"

"Yeah, why?" Daniel asked.

"Stand back." she said walking forward as she began chanting.

"Wait Lina! You could blow the entire city up!" Nil'thina yelled.

"It's us or him!" Lina yelled back.

"We don't even know who we are dealing with!"

Large bolts of lightening came down all over the place, including near all of them, blasting them all different directions. It didn't knock them out, but they were all bruised and bleeding.

"FOOLISH MORTALS! YOU CANNOT DEFEAT ME! I, ZARAKEN, HAVE CLAIMED THIS BODY AS MINE! NO ONE WILL TAKE IT FROM ME!"

"FORD!!!" Carter yelled loudly as she got to her feet and held her broken arm.

He turned to look at her with glowing eyes and blasted her with a fireball. Teal'c ran and knocked her out of the way in time to take the blast himself. Most of his clothes were blasted away as he screamed in pain while being blown into a nearby wall that left him unconscious. Carter slowly got to her knees coughing up blood as she tried calling his name only to pass out face first on the ground.

"This can't be happening." Vala stated as she saw Sam fall. "Ford can't have lost control. Ford, Sam is going to die if you don't…"

"DIE WENCH!"

Vala was blown back into a wall, slamming into it hard enough she died instantly from the impact and the fire arrow that left a large hole in her chest.

"I need to have him distracted." Lina yelled as she slowly stood and held her aching right arm.

"Daniel, you have any suggestions?" Mitchell asked as several guards and a few more magic wielders were blasted away.

"Grab our teammates and run away."

"Good call. You get Sam out of here, I'll get Teal'c with Vala's help when she awakens."

"You're running away?!" Nil'thina yelled.

"We can't use magic and our bullets have no effect at all! What do you want us to do?!" Mitchell exclaimed.

"Wait, doesn't Teal'c have a zat with him? That might do something." Daniel said.

"You go get it Daniel. I'll get Sam's gun. She should have some of those special bullets on her. Hopefully they will do something or at least provide the distraction for that Lina girl."

Lina was running around firing off different spells and doing a better job of avoiding the repelled spells or direct attacks at her. When several strange lightening like blast hit him over and over, making him stop on everyone else, he turned to see Daniel firing the zat gun, which was doing nothing.

"Another fool." he said raising his hand as a glow appeared in his palm. "And having you working for me would have been so much better Jackson."

Several bullets ripped through the armor making him falter in the air, but not fall as blood came out of the different holes. The last couple of bullets, aimed for his head, failed to get through as his arm came up and blocked them with a energy shield. No one saw the injuries heal up quickly as he turned and raised his hand.

"You, are more than expendable."

Mitchell started to put a new clip in when he and many others turned to hear a loud chanting that was just being finished.

"DRAGON SLAVE!"

Nil'thina ducked down behind a large chunk of wall as the magic slammed into Zaraken. The explosive wave that emanated out from him made Mitchell quickly cover Sam as Daniel did the same for Teal'c. Lina covered her smiling face with her arms as the blast continued outward. Mitchell barely kept him and Sam from flying off the ground and Daniel was thankful they were against the wall. At least no large objects hit any of them, but rocks as big as a baseball or smaller bounced off them. The blast was heard and seen by everyone in the city and people outside the city. As the smoke settled, everyone looked to see if it had worked.

"Very nice try Lina Inverse." he said with a laugh as the smoke cleared and his body and armor slowly came back. "If it wasn't for the massive power I hold and this wonderful body, I might have died."

He slowly descended to the ground and walked over to her.

"You are a very powerful person Lina Inverse." he said as she backed away. "You would make a great partner in helping me conquering the universe. A, perfect queen."

"I preferred the guy you're inhabiting, and he's married. Besides that, I don't like the domineering types." she said with a shrug. "Nor guys who think they are more powerful than I am."

"I am more powerful now than even that fool the Dark Lord Shabradigno ever thought he could have been!" he yelled.

"He at least looked like a monster. You're nothing more than some dead guy who is seeking revenge on people who are long since dead and forgotten." she said tossing her hair back. "What little I heard thought, you used to be quite the swordsman. But being consumed with rage at the death of your family, you used the Sword of Thundaran for revenge and it tainted you. It took over a hundred wizard and sorcerers to seal you into the sword."

"Is that a challenge?" he asked brandishing the blade at her.

"I'll say it is!" she yelled.

"Pull your precious Sword of Light then! I shall show you how much of a swordsman I can be!"

"Oh no. I'm going to use a different sword, if you have enough honor left to let me draw it that is. Or are you going to attack an unarmed woman?"

"You mean to use the Ragna Blade. Very well. Bring the sword of darkness forth. I should like to witness such a grand weapon so that I may learn to use it as well. Once I strike you down, I shall consume you body into mine before you die, allowing me to obtain everything you are and know. My power shall become much greater than before!" he said as she growled in anger. "It is a pity you didn't decide to become my queen."

"I'll be the one that puts you down!" she yelled.

The air around her changed as she chanted the words needed and moments later, a dark moving energy erupted into her hands.

"RAGNA BLADE!"

"Impressive power!" he yelled and then charged forward.

Everyone else could only watch as he was pushing her back. As much as she tried, she couldn't go on the offensive at all. She was blocking everything he swung at her. Sparks erupted with each hit, sometimes sending a blast of power into the ground or some building or wall nearby. He laughed cruelly as he continued to hammer at her.

"Is this all you have?! And you challenged me! What a pathetic fool! I have fought more worthy women in the past! And they used normal swords!" he said swinging hard enough she was knocked back several feet and dropped to her knees. "Give up and join me as my queen, or else the next blow will be your last!"

"Never!" she yelled as she stood again and held the blade in both hands. "I'd rather die than join you!"

"Then die!"

Just as he got inches from her, a couple bullets slammed into his chest and one into his leg making him stumbled. He quickly turned and was getting ready to toss a blast with his left hand when he turned back quickly with the Thundaran sword up to block her attack. Both blades slammed into each other, sending out a short shockwave. A few more bullets slammed into various areas of his body, driving him to his knees as she cried out loudly and pushed forward. The blade shattered as her blade pushed through and cut him in half diagonally. He cried out in pain as he dropped the his broken sword and black blood blasted out of his body from the deep cut.

"I told you I was better." she said breathing hard as she put the blade near his neck.

He smiled evilly as the wound healed up before her. Before she could push her blade, he swung out his hand, cutting her abdomen and chest with claw marks that sent her flying back. The blade disappeared from her hand as she curdled up in pain as blood seeped from her wounds.

"Fools! I am impossible to kill! There is no one that can match my power! Your attempts are meaningless! It is time that you learn just how powerful I really am!" he shouted as he stood and looked at the sky with his arms raised. "Feel the destructive and devastating power I wield! Behold, METEOR!"

The entire sky turned dark as thunder and lightening rolled across the sky. Mitchell knew what was happening as did Carter who woke up in pain as she rolled onto her back. Daniel had some clue, seeing as he noticed Ford playing the particular game a few times that had this attack. Teal'c had also awoken and only knew of it from seeing it a couple times like Daniel. Vala, had no idea what it was since she never played the game, wasn't into RPG's, but figured what it probably was by the name alone. People continued to run and scream in mass panic as they saw the sky darken further and then saw the cloud part as a large red rock was descending from high above them.

"I shall destroy this world with one massive attack! No one can stop me now!" he said as the wind whipped around him as he laughed loudly.

"That will kill you as well!" Lina yelled as she got to her knees.

"I AM A GOD! I CANNOT DIE!" he said as he continued to laugh and watch the meteor fall.

He looked away as he heard Lina chanting something familiar. He tried to stop her, but Ford fought back hard, just enough to keep him from trying anything.

"GIGA SLAVE!"

Light erupted around her body and knocked him back several steps. When her eyes opened, it was someone else there instead of her. She looked up at the sky and with a wave of her hand, the large rock exploded into millions of pieces. The attack died away quickly as she lowered her hand and the sky slowly returned to normal. Power continued to radiate off her in waves, mostly going upwards as she glared at him. Everyone felt the power running through her. Nil'thina and several other magical users were shocked at what they saw, mostly because they only thought it was one of the most powerful spells that few could actually cast. The shocking part was the fact they just realized it wasn't just a spell, but a summoning spell, which did what it was suppose to do. Lina was not in charge of her body anymore. People from miles and miles away could see the dark energies that flew off her that went into the sky. Buildings in the town that were severally damaged or falling apart turned to dust as her power effected them. Other buildings cracked or shook from the force. She raised her right hand slowly and pointed it at him.

"You, who was human and became a monster, wishing to destroy everything there is, shall not succeed. Chaos shall one day control all, but it shall not be started by you."

"I know who you are you old bitch! The Golden Lord! The Lord of Nightmares! But you're nothing compared to my power! I will rule the cosmos! Be the destroyer of time itself! In the end, I will obtain ultimate power over everything! You think that you're the ultimate power to be summoned!" he cried out as he flew up into the air several feet. "Behold the greatest summon in the universe! Bahamut!"

The sky darkened once again as the clouds thickened. Other than rumbling, nothing else seemed to take place. A few seconds passed and the clouds parted to show a very huge dragon descend from the sky. Everyone was shocked, other than the Golden Lord as the dragon landed on the ground and looked at him.

(A.U. Final Fantasy VII Sky or Space Bahamut. Forget the real name, but it is the third version of him.)

"DESTROY HER AND EVERYTHING HERE! OBLITERATE THIS CITY, THIS LAND, THIS WORLD!"

Bahamut roared loudly shaking the ground and buildings alike. A massive ball of energy formed into his mouth as he reared back. No one had ever seen a monster like this or even this big, or something so powerful, other than hearing about the Dark Lord himself. Everyone was thinking it was the end as the head came down and let loose with the mega flare attack. The resulting explosion was deafening. No one could see or hear anything, and then, it was all quiet. Everyone only saw white around them that slowly faded away until there was no dragon, just him still floating in the air and her on the ground on her knees. She wasn't injured or glowing anymore, but her clothes were still ripped.

"What the hell happened?" she muttered as she looked around at the destruction.

"Very impressive Lina." he said as he floated down to her and clapped his hands. "I wasn't even sure if Bahamut could even stop her. He did, but she used her power to save everything here including you. I find that very strange. But it is no matter! You are spent, weak, useless! I don't need to absorb you."

He turned and walked several steps away and glanced around as he raised his right hand.

"Now, shall all of you feel the most powerful spell in the universe! The ultimate attack! ULTIM…."

He stopped as he heard a loud and unknown noise. Everyone was looking at him, or at his left hand, which was holding a large metal weapon.

"How did he get that? I thought we left it in the T.A.R.D.I.S." Mitchell muttered.

"What is this?! You still think you can take your body back?! Give up and succumb to my power…!"

"Drop dead." Ford's voice said as the gun turned quickly.

Everyone, absolutely everyone was shocked when the weapon fired and blew his head and neck completely away. The body twitched a few seconds as blood spluttered out and then dropped like a sack to the ground. The silence was really strange for everyone as they did nothing but breath and wait to see what would happen. Blood continued to pour out of the body as those closest watched.

"Is it over?" Nil'thina asked as she slowly got to her feet. "He said he couldn't die, no matter what."

"Well….he can't really." Daniel said slowly as he helped Teal'c to his feet as they kept their eyes on his body.

"He can die, but he always comes back. It usually takes a bit of time…" Mitchell said only to stop as the body started to rise. "Oh crap."

Evil hysterical laughter filled the air as the body rose back to its feet and the head and neck came back together in dark waves.

"That was a very nice try! The power this body has is incredible!" he shouted with a few more laughs. "Your willpower to survive is amazing! But you will never win! Not even me killing your precious friends and wife was enough to make you fight back and gain control! Oh, I see they are still alive. Watch as I blow them and then everything and everyone else straight to oblivion!"

He raised both hands and began to say something when he was interrupted. A whistle noise caught his and everyone's attention. Everyone looked around as they tried to figure out where the noise came from. Hearing it again, at a different tone, they noticed it was from Carter, who was being supported by Mitchell.

He dropped his hands, only to turn and point them at the two. The wind started to pick up slowly as everyone heard a winding and grinding noise. Lina and him had to cover their faces with their arms as a blue box appeared a few feet away from in front of him.

"Ha, ha! The ship of time! With it this I will have the power over everything! For bringing me the precious ship, I shall make your deaths painless!"

He raised his hand again but didn't get a chance to say anything as the doors flew open. The screams that erupted from him were blood curdling as a bright light poured forth from the T.A.R.D.I.S. and enveloped his body. Dark tendrils tried to fight against the light and run away, only to be pulled in and the screaming continued. Lina could barely see what was happening because of how close she was. The blood curdling screams and his violently twitching body continued for a few more seconds and then all was silent suddenly. The body armor and evil appearance all disappeared away along with the hair growth. Other than the noise of a body hitting the ground, it was all quiet again.

"Okay, now it is officially over." Mitchell announced. "And we can go home."

"Are you sure it is over?" Nil'thina asked in fear as she stayed on her knees.

"Yeah, that's our ship. She killed the bad guy." Mitchell stated as he helped her walk over slowly. "Vala, we're going to need some help!"

"I'm on it!" she yelled as she ran for the T.A.R.D.I.S.

When Lina went over and poked his body, and then when nothing happened, people started moving around slowly again. Nil'thina got up seeing people looking to her for guidance. Even with all the fear in her, she started giving orders quickly as the group moved to the blue box.

"Daniel, T?"

"I'm really sore, but I'll live." Daniel muttered.

"I have been through worse." Teal'c stated.

Mitchell slowly helped her sit on the ground next to the open doors as Vala came out with the hand healing device.

"Sam?"

"My arm's broken and I really hurt inside." she said coughing up more blood. "Been worse. I'll live."

"I've got her." Vala said as she started using it.

Mitchell stood as Lina did as a few priest and other magic users, along with Nil'thina came over.

"Move, or I'll have you all put into prison despite your injuries." Nil'thina ordered with a drawn sword pointed at them.

"I know you don't trust us, but on my life, the bad guy is dead. He's not coming back." Mitchell said.

"You'll forgive me if I don't believe that."

"What are you going to do with him then?" Daniel asked.

"These people will check him out to see if he still has any sort of evil aura. If not…."

"He can't die! Not matter what you do, he can't die. He'll always come back." Mitchell stated. "We're sorry this happened. It shouldn't have, but it did. We'll do whatever we can to help…"

"Haven't you done enough already?!" a man yelled.

"It isn't our fault that the sword was cursed! We had no idea!" Daniel exclaimed.

"But you brought it here!" another man yelled.

"How about looking at it this way." Mitchell shouted. "Had someone else found that damned thing, then you'd probably still be dealing with that guy or already dead. He obviously had a lot of power behind him. We all saw the fight! This Lina gal was the only one that was even able to stand toe to toe with him! Even though this was our fault, we did end it before it got worse."

"Yes, you did. And you have my thanks for that."

"Nil'thina!" several people yelled.

"If someone else had gotten that sword, we probably would have been in worse trouble. And Lina may not have been here to save us! It was only because that man was able to let go of the sword and his strong will that the attack didn't happen sooner. And all that time, he was trying to fight to get his body and soul back. How many people can you say that have that much strength to fight a monster after having their bodies taken against their will?!"

Many nodded in realization.

"I only want my people to check him out. Nothing more. I will not move him unless it is deemed necessary."

"Very well. I only hope you find nothing." Mitchell said as he moved.

More than one person knelt around Ford's body, which was face down in the dirt, as they placed hands above his body in various areas that started to glow. Even Lina and Nil'thina were doing the same. Vala had finished fixing up Sam by the time they were done.

"Sam?"

"I'm really tired, but everything feels normal again. Thanks Vala."

"I'm just glad to see I was able to save you. Ford would have taken my head if I failed." she said as she moved to Daniel.

"He is clear. Even more so, he seems to have a more peaceful aura than most people." Nil'thina said as she stood with the others.

"Something seems different." Lina said as she stood shaking her head. "It's not something bad though."

"Well, you all did that hand scan thing when he was still linked to the sword, before all hell broke loose. Without that link, this is probably how he reads out to you people." Mitchell said.

"I do not sense any evil auras in the air or surrounding area my Lady." one of the magic users stated.

"Good. Go help out where you can, all of you." she said waving them off. "I would like to know exactly where you found that sword. There may be more cursed items."

Daniel, Teal'c and Mitchell gave her directions and pointed out of the city to where they could see the area they had came from as Lina and Carter were kneeling next to him. Daniel mentioned the massive amount of treasure that would help them rebuild and grow more. It wasn't going to bring back the dead, but it would help in making up for the trouble they didn't mean to cause. Nil'thina was sadden by the losses she had yet to hear about, but did agree the treasure would help.

"Can you help me turn him over?" Carter asked. "I'd really not like to hear him complain later about the dirt in his nose, mouth…"

"I understand."

Carter lifted as she pulled. Ford did not have his protective coat on, nor his suit coat or vest, seeing as they were still in the T.A.R.D.I.S. At first, when everyone saw his hair still a bit long in the back, they figured it was just an after effect that didn't wear off. He was letting it grow out a bit more, but this was a bit longer than usual. Carter ended up letting go and startling Lina enough she fell back onto her butt as she let go as well.

"What's wrong? You said he can't…"

"No…um, Ford's definitely alive. I just don't know if the…um…"

"Is something wrong?" Mitchell asked as he turned around with the others after Nil'thina walked away.

"You, could say that." she said slowly. "Let's pick him up and get him inside first. But don't turn him over."

"What?" they all asked.

"Why can't we turn him over?" Lina asked. "Don't tell me the sword survived."

She pointed behind them and they turned to see the broken sword on the ground several feet away. Vala, seeing his gun nearby, picked it up and came back quickly. Mitchell didn't understand what was going on, but followed her orders to drag him in by his arms. Once he and they were inside, and Lina gasping at everything around her, the door closed quickly as she hit the switch.

"Now what the hell is going on?" Mitchell asked.

"I didn't want a lot of people hearing any of us or….Ford yelling if he woke up suddenly. Now, it could be a side effect, it could be a revenge for not being able to have his body, or….." she said slowly turning the body over. "Chevy and he switched universes during the massive energy burst."

"That's a woman!" Lina exclaimed.

"We noticed." they all said.

"But I was fighting a guy! What's going on? And why can't I feel my powers anymore?" she asked looking at herself.

"It's a side effect of being in our universe." Daniel said. "Once you leave, they'll come back."

"Okay, what about…" she asked pointing.

"Vala." Carter began when she noticed her using the device on Teal'c. "Daniel, that circle I'm opening will have basic medical supplies. Find the smelling salts."

He grabbed them out after she pushed the needed buttons and tossed it to her. At first, he didn't move and then was jerked awake as he pushed the foul stuff from his face. He didn't sit up, but looked instead, noticing them around him standing, other than Carter kneeling by his side and Lina above his head.

"Dammit. There has to be better way to wake someone. What the hell happened to you guys?" he said seeing their disarrayed clothes. "Sam, are…"

"I'm perfectly fine. What about you? What do you remember?"

"A lot of pain. After that, nothing. I guess it is over and we can go home. You must be here for that tour."

"Actually, there was a monster inside you that I had to fight. Considering the monster in your body nearly killed everyone and did this to my outfit, I think you own me quite a bit of gold."

"Ever the treasure hunter." he muttered at her smile. "How about a large sapphire the size of your head?"

"I could buy a house with that!" she said excited. "Wait, you don't have any clue what has changed then?"

"What is she talking about?"

They recounted what they saw and everything that happened from where the sword appeared to where the T.A.R.D.I.S. saved him and everyone else.

"Wow. And I thought I had more willpower to fight something like that from happening. I'm so sorry I…" he said still lying on the floor.

"I won't make do on those threats. And we're all fine." Carter said as she gently patted his shoulder. "We still have one big problem though, and we're not sure how to deal with it."

"What is it?" he asked, not really sure if he wanted to know.

"Well, um there is no easy way to say this…." Daniel started saying after no one else did.

"You're a woman." Lina stated with a small smile that turned into a growl. "And the moment I see or think you've got perverted thoughts on your mind…"

He didn't hear anything but the first part and after it sank in, he nearly head butted her as he sat up and looked down in shock. His white shirt and suit pants were damaged in various areas with blood covering most of them, but nothing was showing.

"Ah bloody hell!"

He stayed inside, sitting against the wall while the others went out and helped for several hours. He was still sitting there when they got back and all went home. He still didn't get cleaned up till much later that night, doing so blindfolded and just letting the water run down, his body. The next day, he and the gang took off in the T.A.R.D.I.S. in hopes of finding their universe. Before they left, they left a message with the SGC of where to go, spatial coordinates, in case Chevy suddenly showed up when they weren't there. It took five agonizing days, for both of them, not the team, to end up in each others universe, only to have to end up at the spatial coordinates provided by each side. Both SG teams wanted to ask and look around more at the Zero coordinates universe they were in, which was completely white everywhere. But the two ignored them, got out the Machello body swapping machine from Chevy's T.A.R.D.I.S., because she insisted heavily, and then tried to get back into their right bodies. Which failed because the machine considered them the same person, technically. So, the two dragged their spouses into it and used them to get back into each others bodies. Once it was over, the groups made little jokes and comments about the two, to which Ford and Chevy could only sigh. Considering how dangerous the Zero universe was, they got back into their respective T.A.R.D.I.S.'s and left quickly. And even after they had gotten home, both Sam's continued to pester them for a few more hours about the experience.