Chapter 15: Queen of the Tok'ra
This is a different ending of the Stargate SG-1 episode, 'Cure'
The gate on this world opened with light as all three being fell through it.
Or at least two being physically went through it. The third was actually a parasite clinging to one. When they all came through the gate shut itself and Laserbeak, Katy and Icarus were startled as they landed on the ground. Laserbeak possessing faster reflexes managed to take to the air before he hit the ground. As he floated above them and landed on the Stargate Katy slowly gotten herself off the ground and ran towards the stargate.
"Prowl! Prowl!" she shouted but the gate closed leaving them in darkness.
Laserbeak made a mourning sound as he looked towards the gate to which no wormhole is seen. Katy began to have tears in her eyes as she fell to the ground and began to cry. Icarus was at a lost as the Goa'uld never had anyone help defend him willingly and not as a god. Prowl gave up his life to protect them even though he was a machine.
The silence was a long one until Laserbeak finally spoke up.
"We need to get moving and find out where we are," he said at last.
Katy and Icarus agreed as they slowly rose up from where they were on the ground sometime later.
They walked into the city which appears to be nothing but ruins. The light of the twin moons above was they only source of light. Katy held onto the pack that she had picked up before jumping into the Stargate. Already she was pulling out something to eat which was a piece of dried fish that she had made before their trip.
Taking a bite she managed to finish off in a few minutes seeing as it was a rather large fish. When she was done she walked further into the ruins with her friends being guided by the moonlight towards the road that wound its way into the forest beyond.
Laserbeak's optics provided a good search light as they traveled through the dark road. Being a goa'uld host also allowed Katy to see better in the dark and the clicks she made that she had learned from the singers also came in handy.
Katy, Icarus and Laserbeak continued their way and it was at that time that Laserbeak landed on a rock.
"What is it?" Katy asked
"There is a city up ahead I decided to hide since there are flying contraptions up there I don't want to be spotted," he said and Katy walked further ahead till she reached the edge of the bushes which led to a slope.
Looking over she was caught by the site of a rather large industrial city with balloons and blimps flying overhead.
"Wow," was all that Katy said.
Primitive for a planet Icarus said
"Shut up it is all cool to me," Katy replied to the symbiote.
Cool to you but not to me I have seen far grander Icarus stated
"Have you, your highness seen anything with your own eyes and not the eyes of others. Of course you haven't as I recall correctly you were just matured when this happened," Katy replied
Shut up you insolent fool I choose what to appreciate and what not you shall not decide for me! Icarus stated.
"Why don't you just shove it?" Katy said getting awfully irritated with Icarus's attitude.
And shove it where might I add? He said
"Why don't I shove it up through your mouth and out your rear end, or have Laserbeak do it for me. It will be painful but satisfying at the same time," she said until they heard something and both hid in the bushes.
Two lights shown themselves on the road as two people walked past them with a strange looking car.
"Um either its me or is that a model T type car?" Katy said
Primitive might I add Icarus stated
Will you shove it! Katy replied
"They appear to be residence that finally discovered the combustible engine at least they are evolving," Laserbeak stated
"True," Katy said
They remained silent with Katy and Icarus battling it out in their head for a while trying to gain control. To the outside eye no one would notice the eternal battle going on but Laserbeak was not human and could see the subtle changes nor strains that his advanced optics can.
"We need to move," he said
Both Icarus and Katy agreed as they moved on from their spot once the lights have faded.
Traveling for another hour or so they finally came upon the gates to the city. Katy was afraid when they entered that they would be shot.
It was by luck that she found a clothes line hanging form the wall and dressed up to cover the suit that the Singers provided her.
The suit she had gained from the Asterite was fine and dandy but that was for in the water not for on land.
Katy dressed herself in a simple dress with dark brown bottom and lighter top and dark vest. It allowed her to move better and hide since she had no shoes before. Now that she has some on again she fixed her dark black hair and finally cleaned herself up better. Laserbeak watched as she put on her new clothes and walked out into the dark street.
Now you look more your place Icarus stated.
Shut your fucken mouth up asshole! Katy yelled back at him
She hates dresses but will have to wear them so she will not make her mother cry. They walked further till they came upon a large building.
A factory? Katy asked
Seems to be and looks like it Icarus replied
"Laserbeak what do you think?" she asked the transformer
"I have no idea what is inside that building but my scanners indicate some sort of fluid from within. I think it is some sort of water factory," he said
"See if you can find any life signs in the building," Katy asked
Laserbeak took off flapping his large wings and activating his small thrusters for more lift till he was at least above the building. Soaring high he cut his engines and let his wings absorb the wind and just floated there.
Then he slowly lowered himself down till he was at last on the roof and looking through a window.
What he found was quite shocking.
Inside were tanks full of water and when he ran his scanner inside he found something that shocked his systems to the core. Taking flight once again he floated down towards the ground and towards Katy and Icarus.
He landed by flapping his wings and pressed his talons to the ground.
"Well?" Katy whispered
"It is a factory alright but it is well guarded. I saw many guards and some strange humans walking around it. But the shocking part is inside the water that they are using. They look kind of like Icarus," Laserbeak said
"You are kidding me there are Goa'uld in those tanks?" Katy asked
"It appears so," Laserbeak replied.
Now all three of them were stumped.
Goa'uld? Here? That means we are back in our home galaxy we can dial any planet we want Icarus was starting to get excited which made Katy feel all the more determined to get back to Earth and to her family.
"So then we can use the stargate to go back to Earth right?" Katy asked
"Yes we can if we knew the right combination," Laserbeak stated
They grew quite again when they heard voices and quickly hid behind some bushes. Looking out they spotted two strange people enter the facility. From the looks of it they seemed to be breaking into the factory. Laserbeak quickly flew up onto the roof once again.
As his optics changed to infrared he spotted the two getting caught by guards and one falling into the pool to be infested. He watched when they rescued him and dragged him away from the pool along with the other prisoners. Flying down he made his report to Katy and Icarus.
"We have to get into that building," Katy said
"Let me do another reconnaissance to see what they were up to before we come down with any conclusions," Laserbeak said and flew upwards again into the sky leaving Katy and Icarus to their thoughts.
So the man was infested? Icarus asked curious
From what Laserbeak has told us something is not right now how long does it take for blending to happen?Katy asked
Normally about an hour or so depending on the condition of the host Icarus asked
Why is that? Katy asked
The host's condition determines if blending is possible and if it is compatible then the symbiote such as myself cleans the body to make is more suitable for its survival. By that I mean cleaning out any impurities such as disease or parasites that you don't know about in the system. In exchange we start elongating the host's lifespan to about a few hundred years by injecting an element called Naquadah meaning that you will outlive all your protégée for at least four hundred or so years without a sarcophagus and with one indefinitely. Icarus explained
Why do I sense a 'but' in there? Katy asked
Well the drawbacks is addiction and madness now that I have seen it for myself in the memories of my ancestors, and the queen that spawned me; it was not worth the risk, Icarus stated
At least I don't have to worry about that,Katy replied
A noise made them stop what they were doing as they watched from the shadows the group walking away from the building towards the main town. They were in handcuffs with guards around them from what Katy and Icarus could tell. As they watched Laserbeak landed again in the bushes after the guards left.
"I believe I found something while they were distracted," he said and led them up to the roof.
Katy climbed up to the roof using a storm pipe and slowly walked over it and down into the room that Icarus was speaking of.
It was dark and the guards were outside.
Peering in she could barely make out the tank in the center of the room.
"There is a ventilation opening up here for you to enter and I shall direct to into that room," Laserbeak said and floated inside.
Katy and Icarus followed climbing into the ventilation shaft and climbing down.
They crawled around for about five minutes before opening the shaft that led them into the room. Once in Katy stared in shock with the thing inside.
Is that a Goa'uld queen? Icarus stated
A what? Katy asked
A queen she is the mother of many Goa'uld like a queen bee if you will Icarus stated
Katy looked in wonder at the creature in the tank. This huge thing could not be one to infest a person and then make babies with them, or is it?
How does she reproduce in a human like that? Katy asked
She uses her host to mate with a human to get their 'code of life' or DNA to you Tau'ri once she has done that then she will spawn many Prim'ta or larvae as you will. He said
"Each one compatible with a human," Katy said
Laserbeak watched them closely while having his scanners at their fullest and keeping an eye out for any intruders.
Katy walked slowly towards the tank and the queen lifted her head up slowly and weakly her bulging body looking frail.
"She looks sick," Katy said
Icarus was lost for words as he stared at the queen.
Indeed she looks very ill. Being in this tank must be very hard on her and with her bulging body she must have been forced to mass produce which is very unhealthy for a queen, Icarus stated not being able to take his eyes off the queen.
"Someone is coming," Laserbeak said and Katy quickly scrambled up into the shaft once more with Laserbeak behind them closing the guard and lowering his optics so he would not be seen.
As they hid they saw the door open and some people poured in some of which Katy recognized from when they broke into the room. The two a dark man that is rather tall and intimidating and a younger kind of handsome looking man.
Traitor! Icarus hissed seeing the symbol on his head.
Katy looked down at him, what the fuck are you talking about? Katy asked
His head see that symbol that means he is a Jaffa Icarus stated.
And? Katy demanded getting annoyed
He is a traitor seeing as he is with the Tau'ri Icarus hissed.
Wait Tau'ri Katy said
With that the grate began to give and she Laserbeak and Icarus fell and the guards had their weapons on them. Raising her hands Katy was shocked to see the faces of the ones before her.
"Who are you?" said the main in the grey business suit on the far left of the group.
"Ummm, I am Katy, Katy Saotome of the Planet Earth," she said
"Sir she is a Goa'uld," the woman with blonde hair said beside her.
"Oh him! That is Icarus," Katy said pointing to her head.
You make it as if I am nothing more then a parasite Icarus stated
"You are a parasite you asshole," Katy said back.
The group looked kind of awkward at her. Laserbeak remained quite as he watched the group from the ground. Katy then remembered she has an audience and turned blushing in embarrassment.
"Um I was talking to Icarus my symbiote he can be a royal pain in the ass mind you," she said rather sheepishly.
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"So your symbiote can't control you?" asked the dark man whom Katy learned is named Teal'c.
"Yeah he tries many times and I give him credit for perseverance but doesn't work," she said
"Wow such resistance to a symbiote can be of some great use to us," the woman whom she learned was named Sam said.
"Yeah well I wanted to go home more then anything at the moment," Katy said
"You do realize that by entering the Stargate you violated some very classified information right?" the older man named O'Neill said to her.
"Yeah well it was not my idea to get kidnapped when you are about to die of cancer and then get thrown across the known universe to an unknown planet only to have a giant slug in your head," Katy said
I am not a slug!
She began laughing hysterically at the looks on their faces.
"I like to call him a slug," Katy said smirking
"Animorphs?" O'Neill said
"Yes do you know of the Animorphs?" Katy said
"Yeah my son used to read them," he said
"Where is he now?" Katy asked and regretted it when his face turned sad.
"Sorry!" Katy said looking rather apologetic.
You are such an idiot Icarus stated
"Shut up slug face," Katy said
I AM NOT A SLUG! YOU ARE AN INSENSITIVE BITCH! Icarus screamed at her making her cringe and fall over with her hands on her stomach.
She felt the hands trying to help her.
"Stupid Goa'uld," Katy growled
"You seem to be in control," the one called Teal'c said to her
"I am in control most of the time; for some reason Icarus can't control my body even though he is a fully mature Goa'uld. And we fight a lot you can even ask Laserbeak over there," Katy said after she recovered from that episode.
Laserbeak only rolled his optics at that explanation.
The one Katy called 'handsome' was in fact another human from another planet such as this but different. His name was Jonas and he was quite curious about Icarus.
"So you both share everything then?" he asked Katy
"Not really I call him slug or 'Icky' when he irritates me," she said knowing it would irritate him more.
You just wait Icarus stated
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After dinner and some story telling all of the people gathered were quite intrigued by Katy and Icarus's story about the singers and the events that happened on Cybertron and before that.
The team from earth that Katy, Icarus and Laserbeak discovered was named SG-1 from a military operation that was set to explore different worlds and find new sources of trade and find threats.
Katy was excited to go home while Icarus was not feeling so well about it.
Something was not right starting with that queen.
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It was later that night when both he and Laserbeak returned to the factory. Luckily with the help of the Autobot Icarus managed to avoid the guards and break into the facility. When they were in front of the queen once again Icarus was shocked to get a really good look at her.
From his memories he recognized her immediately.
"Egeria Queen of the Tok'ra,"
TBC
