Chapter 17: Two Make One

Laserbeak watched as the Tok'ra began to operate on Katy to remove Icarus from her and thus freeing her from her entrapment. Why does he sense that something is going to go wrong at any time?

Well he could not help but notice that something did go wrong.

It was at that moment that when Icarus was finally removed and a healing device was done to both symbiote and human it was not till hours later that indeed the effects began to happen.

Almost instantly he was on alert when Katy began to thrash and an alarm went off. Teams ran into the room to see what was wrong when a high pitch noise came from Katy. Her scream was unlike anything they had ever heard in their life. She screamed something in squeaks, clicks, whistles and barks in a specific pattern and by luck Laserbeak managed to record it all. She was thrashing to the point of hurting herself that is why the other Tok'ra that rushed into the room placed her in restraints and began to do some tests.

The squealing began to get louder and louder while Laserbeak recorded the sounds on all frequencies.

It was surprising however when the symbiote that was taken out began to struggle as well and began to make the same noise. Laserbeak recorded it all as they sedated both of them and placed them in cryogenic stasis.

SOMETIME LATER

"And that is what happened," Jacob Carter said as he told them what had happened to Katy Saotome.

"You mean to tell me that when you people went to remove the snake she reacted this way?" Col. O'Neill said to him.

"Yes that is what had happened and we were just as shocked as you all are," Jacob replied.

"What do you think happened?" Sam spoke up

"Well we think that something happened to both Katy and Icarus to have them both react this way," Jacob said

"Do you have a recording of the sounds made?" asked Jonas

"I do," said another voice and Laserbeak entered.

"Hey aren't you that robot birdie that accompanied that girl?" O'Neill said

"I am a Cybertronian if you will sir a Transformer," Laserbeak replied

"What do you have for us?" asked the man in charge of the meeting a rather distraught Gen. Hammond.

"Well I do have a recording of the noise that she and the symbiote was making," he said and played it for them all to hear it.

It was indeed a bunch of squeaks, clicks, whistles, barks and other noises that all from a pattern. Each of the members of SG-1 listened to it.

"Hey who is watching the discovery channel?" said a voice and they turned to find one of the airmen standing there.

"Who are you?" asked Gen. Hammond

"Sorry sir I just came to deliver this to you it is urgent," he said and handed Hammond a folder.

After reading it the airmen was about to leave when Hammond called him back in.

"Just a minute young man," he said and the airman turned around.

"Yes sir!" he said standing at attention.

"What do you mean by what you said earlier," said Hammond.

"I mean what I said sir why are you listening to a bunch of dolphins for," the airman replied.

"Dolphins?" said Sam

"Yes, ma'am my sister is in the navy and works with dolphins sir," the airman replied.

"Can you tell me more about this?" Hammond asked as the airman thought it was ok to enter the room.

"Well from the sounds they sound like bottlenose dolphin sir, that much I can tell you, I will have to ask my sister about it more," the airman replied.

"So are you saying that this recording which came from off world is from an Alien race of dolphins?" Hammond said.

"Alien dolphins I don't know sir but I do know a transformer when I see one," he said pointing at the form of Laserbeak off in the corner.

"You know of my kind?" Laserbeak asked curious.

"Airman have a seat you have some explaining to do," he said

"Yes sir,"

SEVERAL HOURS LATER

"So if what this airman said was true then Katy was speaking the language of the Singers," said Sam as she leaned forward.

"So it seems," said Teal'c

"So then how do we communicate with her?" asked Jonas.

"Well I think the answer lies with the airman's sister who I believe is onboard the SeaQuest," replied Hammond.

"The SeaQuest? Isn't that the Navy's pride and joy with the latest in technology?" Sam replied

"Yes in fact I know the captain of the SeaQuest and if his sister comes through then I will be able to establish contact with my old friend Nathan Bridger." O'Neill said to the group.

"Then do it Coronel that's an order," Hammond said and the group got up to do what was necessary.

It took several days before contact was made with N.E.S.T. and the SeaQuest. On the screen was a rather scruffy looking man who looked like he just came from a mission stood beside a rather tired and old looking man that appeared to have too much sun.

"Nathan Bridger and Major Lennox I assume," Hammond said looking at the screen in the briefing room.

"Yes sir that is us," said the scruffy looking man whom Hammond assumes is Major Lennox.

"I have a message for both of you from two of my people here on base. Well actually one of the messages is for the Autobot known as Optimus Prime the other is for Nathan himself," Hammond said.

"I am surprised sir that Stargate Command would contact us," Nathan said

"Well if the situation would not have called for the involvement of both N.E.S.T. and the crew of the SeaQuest then I would not be having this conversation," Hammond said with a smile.

Catching the gist of the joke both men laughed.

"Getting Serious now General that is not why you called isn't it?" Lennox replied

"No it is not Major, and the reason for this call is because I need your help," Hammond said.

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It took several hours for Hammond to explain the situation with both Lennox and Bridger and after having heard it Lennox was the one who said something.

"Aside from the girl that speaks dolphin there is a Decepticon at Stargate Command?" Lennox said bewildered.

"Former Decepticon Major," General Hammond said with a smile.

The sounds of heavy footsteps could be made and a rather deep voice filled the screen and Hammond was surprised when Laserbeak stood up straighter.

"It is an honor to finally see the one who saved the life of my second in command and his platoon," said a voice.

"Optimus Prime sir," said Laserbeak.

"Welcome to Earth Laserbeak," he said

"Thank you sir," he said

"I have someone here who wishes to speak to you," with that the face that filled the screen was one that Laserbeak was glad to see.

"PROWL!" he said

"Yep," was the reply

"How in the Matrix did you get to Earth?" asked Laserbeak

"After the attack I went back to the ship and found it to be damaged so I had stolen a pass code that would get me to the space bridge. By using that I was able to transport myself to the Sol System's planet Mars and from there convert myself to Protoform and came to Earth…Well after fighting my way into the building of course," he said

Laserbeak smiled, "I am glad you are alright my friend," he said

"How are Katy and Icarus?" he asked

"Not good I am afraid," and the Transformer explained to them his dilemma.

"Well why don't we put them back?" asked Lennox,

"It is not that easy," replied Jonas who sat down to watch the exchange.

"Yes to do something like that when the symbiote is weak will kill both host and symbiote. That is the reason why we are here asking if Nathan can understand this message," Jack said to the two screens.

Laserbeak played back the message and Nathan Bridger nodded, "I myself can't understand dolphin but I know someone who can I will arrange a transport along with some fuel for your transformer friend there," Nathan said.

"Thank you it is much appreciated," Hammond replied.

The connection was terminated and Hammond turned to the individuals who stood before them.

"At least something can be done about this." Hammond said.

It was not till two days later that Hammond stood at the entrance to Stargate Command with the rest of his team. There the doors to the elevator opened and four individuals entered. The first man being Major Lennox from N.E.S.T. he was followed in by a dark skinned man that also bore the N.E.S.T. uniform. The third man was a teenager from the looks of his clothes, but he bore the symbol for SeaQuest DSV on his uniform. He was followed by Nathan Bridger who held a device in his hands.

They all entered the briefing room where Laserbeak resided and the others whom had waited for them to arrive including the airman who suggested it.

"Rory it is good to see you again," Bridger said as he ran up and gave the airman a hug.

"It is good to see you again sir," Rory said to him.

"Your sister is doing fine in fact she can speak a good amount of bottlenose that mimic," Bridger replied

"Is she still pulling pranks on SeaQuest?" asked the airman

Bridger shook his head, "Oh yeah and she still drags Lucas and Darwin into it as well,"

"Gentlemen please be seated," General Hammond said to them.

All four of them sat on the left while SG-1, Jacob and Malak sat on the right.

"Now Gentlemen I asked you to come here in the need of a mutual friend who is now in cryogenic stasis at the moment to save her life. She was infested with a symbiote not too long ago that tried to take the life of another and has asked our allies the Tok'ra to remove the symbiote." Hammond began

"But upon removal we found that she became delirious and her body started to lose strength something that has never happened before. We called you here because just before putting her in stasis she began to make strange noises which we identified as bottlenose dolphin a language that we humans will never be able to understand at this point in time." Jacob asked

"We asked you both as representatives of both your respective branches of the military to help us in our dilemma seeing as N.E.S.T. is not apart of the United States it also deals with alien accounts that is why we asked you to come here," Jacob said.

Lennox stared at Laserbeak as the Autobot nodded.

"Laserbeak here is a former Decepticon and requested the presence of NEST seeing as they deal with the Autobots which are others of his kind. He asks if you could remove the Decepticon symbols from his body and place the symbol for earth on them instead." With this Laserbeak nodded.

Lennox was the one who spoke first.

"As a representative of both the Autobots and the team at N.E.S.T. I am glad to comply with the request seeing as both Optimus Prime and our original liaison could not be here," he held up a welder and some paints.

"When this is done I would like to begin that procedure,"

"Very well," was the reply from Hammond.

"I understand that Laserbeak wishes to remain with the SGC?" Lennox said

"That is correct Major because for me Katy and Icarus need my assistance and the Tok'ra need their queen once she is healed," was the reply from the Cybertronian.

"You said that you can't translate bottlenose dolphin is that correct?" Bridger said to Jack

"Yep I don't understand squeaky," Jack replied.

"Lucas here has that solution," he pointed to the younger man.

"I have here a portable device that should help we use it to speak to Darwin our dolphin onboard the SeaQuest and would like to place it in your computers," Lucas said.

Sam pointed to the terminal on the side.

Lucas got to work immediately uploading the programming into the computer. As he did so he ran a test with Darwin's recording.

It was series of squeaks clicks and whistles that he played on a recorder.

It was then the P.A. system in the room changed the tone and a voice translated, "Darwin play with Lucas? Or are we going to sing together some more?" it said.

Everyone sat there in shock at the squeaky voice that played.

"What I invented was a system that took the dolphin's squeaks, clicks and whistles and by computer breaks it down and interprets it into any language it is programmed to translate in including Goa'uld," Lucas said.

"That is amazing just like the Stargate's universal translation program," Sam said

"Yes only this one interprets only cetacean language something which I think does not work with the Stargate system since it is mainly on a different frequency as a normal human vocabulary," Lucas replied.

"Alright them lets here that message that this girl spat out in delirium ok," Bridger said.

Laserbeak replayed the recording of Katy's voice.

What came out of it was something that shocked them all.

"When two become one they become strong, when one become two again their souls shall fall and agony shall rip them to the planes of darkness and the eternal deep."

TBC