The setting was odd; it was like a shell of the base. The computers were all frozen. The food not real, but slowly more people were turning up always through the gate.

"What the hell is going on people?" General Hammond demanded of his lead team. Carter raised a hand.

"We think we know what's happening. Before you arrived here, were people acting odd around you and were you attacked by someone."

"Yes!"

"We all had a similar experience. We believe the people brought some sort of devise with them. I saw it before I was hit with a zat. It seems to have a store of consciousnesses in it which she is swapping for ours. This place is a basic construct designed to store our minds while they use our bodies." Carter described.

"To what purpose?"

"Well, her people were destroyed they could have stored their minds before and she is now using our bodies as a survival system for them." Daniel theorised.

"Is anyone missing still?"

"Yes." Replied Teal'c. "Ry'ac is yet to appear."

"How is that? They have here everyone who was in or off duty in the SGC?"

"Possibly his youth. A few of the older members of staff, like cleaners and such are also missing. It might be they need a host close in age to the one in habiting it and they fear perhaps a child will not be able to maintain the pretence." Daniel pointed out.

"My son is no child."

"We know that Teal'c but they won't. What we actually need is to find a way to find out what is happening." General Hammond nodded and they departed. Jack caught up with Daniel.

"You seem distracted."

"It's been a week and James has been on his own."

"Daniel, he's 16. He'll be having a wail of a time."

"Yes, Jack, I'm sure he is but what happens when he does begin to worry and rings in to the SGC?"

"Ah, I see your point."

"If Carters right then I don't like the idea of James being sat in a holding cell surrounded by possibly hostile aliens looking to tie up loose ends."

"Daniel, there's nothing you can do for now. So, go find a book and work this whole thing out."

"There aren't any. Jack. Like everything else in this place the books are just a front."

"In which case you may as well join me and Teal'c for a game of basket ball."

They were running, they knew they had a tail following, they had seen people earlier and stopped hitching for that reason. They were slowly moving across the country. It had been another day since they left the apartment. Jack reckoned there was a small train station in the next town and they could get out of state from there. The only issue was not making them too noticeable.

"Rya'c, you look the oldest, you should buy the ticket." James said as they sat in the park down the road from the station.

"Are you stupid, anyone's going to remember Rya'c the way he speaks?" Jack pointed out.

"Fine, you right. My ascents not much better. I've got this weird, generic american, british mix. I can fake something else but it'll sound over the top."

"Looks like it's down to me then." Jack sighed.

"Here's the cash, don't get something going to the place your thinking of just anything. We'll change trains a couple of times, see if we can swap on to buses for a bit. In fact New York or somewhere would be good. We can get lost in the subways and then leave to almost anywhere." Jack nodded took the money and headed to the station.

Carter came racing in to the Generals office. Amazing how that happens, he could do nothing here, but he still felt he ought to sit in his office.

"We have something!"

"What?"

"Someone just came through." The general followed her out the room to the gate room, where SG-1 was already assembled; the man stood there was not a member of SGC staff.

"Who are you, may I ask?"

"My name is David Evers. I'm the MI6 operative attached to this area and that little shit was right. Why is it you lot will never listen?"

"Listen to what?" Jack asked.

"Two hours ago, I called your government to report your little situation here. I was laughed off and they sent a team to pick up my informants, when they ran they picked me up instead and here I stand." They were all surprised.

"Who were your informants exactly?" Daniel asked.

"Oh, old friend of mine, caused me some trouble in the past, not sure how he knew about the whole thing, or ended up with his friends but you can ask him all that, they set out on foot and I don't give them much chance of not being picked up."

"Friends?" Jack asked.

"I demand you tell exactly what happened!" Hammond said.

"Fine, I met a boy three years ago investigating a break in to our files back in England from France. I found the boy then. Arrested him. He's played with me ever since really annoying little shit, far too smart for his own good. If he'd stayed in Europe I'd have recruited him at 18." Daniel stopped him there.

"Do you mean James MacGyver by any chance?"

"Yeah, he been pissing you guys off as well?"

"No, but he's technically my ward."

"Lucky you." He said sarcastically.

"He's running around pulling in British intelligence agents? Who was with him?"

"Boy in late teens early twenties, jaffa, and a kid about 15 or 16 called Jack."

"Rya'c has escaped then." Said Teal'c sounding pleased.

"Jack?" Sam said wondering. "Colonel wasn't your clone with a foster family?"

"Apparently not." Walter came in there.

"I'm sorry sir, I forgot in all this. Before I went in and ended up here. I was called out to Dr Jackson's flat. Your Clone apparently had a run in with the law and ended up coming here. He was staying with James until one of you was back on world."

Hammond stopped them all. "Are you people telling me the only people with any knowledge of our situation is a group of three young boys, who won't be believed by any one with the power to do anything and neither will any one they tell based on what has occurred here?"

"Yes, sir, but you don't realise, this isn't hopeless. If they where able to get Rya'c out of the base and are on the run even now then it's possible they could stay on the loose. Jack what would you do?" Carter asked.

"What do you mean?" The Colonel wondered.

"You clone has your memories, your experiences, he'll react in a similar fashion to you." Carter encouraged.

"Well I'd go to the pentagon or an old army friend."

"And if you knew that wouldn't work. Just hypothetically."

"Well, first I would focus on getting away and finding somewhere to hole up."

"Sam what's the point in this exercise?" Daniel asked.

"Look, as David said, James has skills none of us have thought of, even you've said before, he knows a lot more than you'd think. With him is someone who knows this base and how a search is conducted, better than anyone, he has a jaffa that knows tracking and lord know what else as far as survival and battle goes. They're all determined boys. They won't give up easily. I think they might be able to at least stay at large long enough to do something." Carter said laying out the skills of the group.

"What exactly could they do?" Hammond said completely disbelieving.

"They would only need to infiltrate the base and reverse the effects of the devise in order to free us."

"Carter that's a pretty big, only." Jack pointed out.

"I agree with the Colonel on this Major. This is one of the most secure facilities on earth."

"But, sir if Rya'c is out they've already got through those defences once. A second time would not be all that difficult. "

"Well, we can all pray."

"I don't like it Sam." Said Daniel.

"Nor do I Major Carter. Rya'c is not familiar with the ways of earth."

"I'm not so keen on sending kids in to fight either Carter." Sam looked at the three of them.

"That's the thing, we can't stop them guys. You know them."

"She's right. I wouldn't drop it" said Jack.

"If I know anything about James and the way he was acting when he left he's not backing down from this one." Put in David.

"Rya'c will not fail in what he perceives as his duty."

"There you go. Now lets just hope they live up to expectations."