Kajos: Second chapter as promised!
James came to in the infirmary. As he cracked his eyes open he could feel the caked blood on his face the straps at his throat, waist, wrists and ankles. His nose was impossible to breath through as he forced his swollen lids apart to see people stood over the bed.
"Hey, James? How ya doing kid?" Jack asked
"al'it" James mumbled feeling his lip split at the small movement and pour blood into his mouth.
"Sure, kid. " He looked at the others gathered round. "Umm...according to Carter you seem to be mentally in this world and able to manipulate it just like we are...opening door, interacting with us and stuff but your really in that world which is why we can try and help but it doesn't really do anything. Sort of like being in and out of phase at once. James...what happened?" James mumbled incomprehensibly. They all looked at each other. Then Sam light up with an idea.
"Wait a second." She came back with a pencil and a pad of paper. She put the paper under his hand and the pencil into it inside the restraint. Understanding James started to write a simplified version of what had happened. "So we were right. You guys were going to break us out." James added two more words before dropping the pencil. Still are. Once he dropped the pencil his hand began to flex as he dislocated his thumb and pulled his hand out of the restraint.
"James!" Dr Fraiser complained. "Stop, you at in no state..." Jack held up a hand to stop her.
"Doc, he's not listening, and anyway, he's no better off here, they're not treating him." He had the other hand undone and his neck and was checking that none of the guards on the ward could see him. Before he reached up and painful mashed his nose back into shape. Scrapping all the gore off his face he finished freeing himself. He was still dressed and had pretty much been abandoned in the ward. He headed for the sink and washed his face before grabbing a bottle of anti-inflammatory and taking two.
"We knew he could do that didn't we?" Hammond asked.
"I for one, sir, had no idea." Daniel said. Daniel walked to the door glancing out at the deserted corridor.
"We'll just follow you shall we?" Jack said. James looked back and nodded before slipping out into the corridor and heading back towards the cells. The others followed him uselessly. He didn't encounter anyone until he saw that the cells were still covered by guards. He backed up into an empty storage room beckoning for everyone to follow him.
"They've got two guards outside of each of the cells. I have nothing. Any ideas?" He asked them all. It was a little bizarre to watch as the senior staff of the SGC tried to come up with ideas.
"Those goauld light bomb thingies! Head for the armoury on level 21, we're on 20 thats one level, you can get there. That would take out the lot of them. In the mean time there are uniforms in here. You could change and pass for an SF." James liked the idea and dug out a uniform.
"Umm, could you guys, leave while I change."
"Oh, yeah, sorry." Daniel said herding everyone out the door. Changed James emerged and started along the corridor to the lift. There were some people in it but the uniform fooled them and he was on the next level in seconds and out again before anyone could look at him too hard. He was at the armoury a minute later and had fooled the card reader just after that and was into the stores. "Nicely done. We should look into that." Sam said as she watched leaning against the wall. James ignored her setting in and searching through the crates. "Vault on the wall." Jack said. James looked up at him and went to the vault entering the pin as he was told to by Jack. The door swung open and he picked up the devise. He looked down at himself unsure how to hide it on himself.
"I need a pack or something." They all looked thoughtful.
"SG-12's locker room in round the corner. They were on a four month mission, not due back for another six weeks, try in there, son." Hammond said. James nodded putting the grenade down and stepping out the armoury he was quickly back with a basic backpack. It wasn't too suspicious, he shoved the grenade in then looked around and grabbed four zats and some smoke grenades and flash bangs shoving them all in the bag. He headed back to the elevator.
Back at the cells the guards were still there, He turned with the grenade and rolled it out in to the corridor. Jack and Daniel looked at each other as they realised they could see it only when James was holding it.
"Well, that's normal." Daniel tipped his head in recognition before following the boy. It was surreal, the corridor looked normal to them but they watched as James stepped over the bodies of the guards and disabled the cells doors, smiling at people on the other side.
"Has anyone else noticed the way he interacts with both worlds when he disables those readers?"
"No, Carter we hadn't." Jack said stood hands in pockets relaxed. Zats disappeared as James handed them off to people. "So thats the rest of the kids sprung."
"James you look distracted." Cassandra said.
"Yeah, well I'm currently seeing two versions of everything."
"What?" clone-Jack asked.
"Well, there's this version and there's the place everyone else's minds have been sent, for some reason I can see both at once."
"That does not sound pleasant James McGuyver."
"It's a little weird." James said, "but the sooner we sort this mess out the sooner I don't have to see both."
"Let's do this then." clone-Jack said taking point down the corridor.
Kajos: Well thats it for today. My hands are frozen but I will try to update again soon. May be tomorrow if the weather doesn't clear up. Hope you enjoyed the chapters, review if you did or not.