Makepeace sat in his chair beside Teal'c he knew that Teal'c could wring his neck if he wanted to. Even his glare was enough to force Makepeace to stir. His eyes remained fixed on Carter.

Hammond sat at the head of the table, O'Neill sat beside him with Carter on the other side. Daniel walked in with Carter's external drive in hand and he dumped it on the table in front of her.

"Careful. You could break it." Carter remarked casually as she plugged it into the computer and waited for it to load.

"Right sorry." Daniel mumbled.

"Can someone please tell me what the hell is going on?" Makepeace repeated impatiently.

"I'm sorry Sir," Jack turned to Hammond, "Did you hear something? Or am I just hearing things?"

Everyone in the room ignored him and turned to Major Carter as the lights dimmed. "Within the last few months, the System Lords have been developing a weapon that if successfully completed will be able to send highly charged electromagnetic particles all through-out the galaxy via wormhole technology." A grid appeared on the screen of a diagram of a pyramidal object with an eye of Ra on the front and a circular object resembling a Stargate on the bottom face.

"Carter! Big words! Little brain!" Colonel O'Neill hit his head on the table in front of him, frustrated.

Carter ignored him. "The particles will disperse upon reintegration and create a viral worm that will activate other gates within the galaxy and replicate the virus sending out the electromag-"

"Woah," Makepeace shook his head, "You're not talking about an EMP are you?"

"Yes, Colonel, that is exactly what I am talking about."

"I thought those only happen after a nuclear blast."

"Ordinarily you would be correct however there are EMP generators only this is on a much larger scale."

"How?"

"Because many of our weapons are electrical. If they fire this we have no defense against them."

The reality of what Carter had just stated sank in. "Everything nuclear we have will be operational but the controls to use them would be fried. The hybrid technology made of Naquada will still have limited use but without the electrical power to compensate for the instability they'll explode."

"Okay, so we'll be without weapons for a while. I don't see what the problem is." Daniel stated deftly. "Can't we just repair them?"

"No," Carter shook her head.

"Why?" Daniel blinked quickly in confusion.

Carter's gaze turned to the floor beneath her feet. "Watch," She said gravely. She pushed the play button on the remote that she held in her hand. The eye of Ra that was depicted on the outline of the grid lit red and shot a thick yellow beam that was aimed at the planets core. Within minutes, the planet was reduced to nothing more than space rubble.

"Oh." Daniel said dumbly.

"When our defenses are down, that's when they'll hit and we won't be able to stop it."

Makepeace was irate at Carter's words. "What the hell? We can't defend ourselves and our so-called allies aren't going to help? You gotta be kidding me!"

"Slow down, Makepeace." Hammond commanded, "We know how dire the circumstances are, but this time our allies did give us what we needed."

"In the form of what? A sword?"

Thor beamed in beside Carter. "Indeed, this is a sword but not a sword of an ordinary kind-".

"You're right! Unlike all the swords, the blade can suck itself in!"

"-It can only be utalised by an Ancient or someone who possess the same gene."

"Gene? The gene that siren was talking about? She said that Lockie-"

"Loki." Thor corrected.

"-was conducting experiments on people with that gene."

At that moment, Dr. Frasier entered the room with the lab results hidden inside a manila folder. "Sir, his results tested positive. He has the gene."

"Thank-you doctor," Hammond said calmly over his shoulder, "You're dismissed." With a quick tap of her feet and a nod of her head the good doctor left in a scurry.

"Long ago, before the Asgardian genetic degradation began and the Asgard occupied their first world, Valhalla, we created a device known by your ancestors as the Rainbow Bridge. It worked much like the Stargate created by the ancients only it is always present like a permanent divide within the dimensions and could only extend to three places. The first was Valhalla, the second was Himinbjörg, the third was Midgard or as it is called now, Earth. Over time, the technology was sought out by many and then the Great Invasions of Sirens began."

"Sirens? Like part fish part human thingys that drag sailors down to their deaths?" O'Neill asked.

"Actually, that's a fictitious tale spun by Hollywood." Daniel answered.

"Come again?" Jack asked.

Daniel blinked several times. "Sirens, according to the Greeks, were actually part-women part-bird who sung in very high pitches that made Salior's forget to eat and so they would eventually starve to death while listening to the Sirens sing."

Jack dropped his head to the table. "I like my version of the story better," He mumbled.

"The birds, as doctor Jackson said were not a part of the race but the technology they used to find Valhalla."

"You, you're talking about ships?" Jackson asked.

"Indeed, Doctor Jackson, I am. When the motherships reached the orbit of Valhalla they released a very high pitched sound that resonated throughout the planet causing, what Major Carter referred to as an Electromagnetic Pulse. The high frequency could not always be heard by our ears, however, those who could hear it did indeed forget to eat and eventually starved to death."

"Makes sense." Sam reasoned.

"To you maybe," O'Neill scowled.

"That's a great story thur-"

"Thor."

"Whatever. That still doesn't explain the sword." Snarled Makepeace.

"This sword was taken from Hogni the first member of the High Council of the Asgard by Aglaope the Siren."

"Doctor Jackson?" Hammond questioned.

"Ah, Hogni was the King of the Asgardians according to Norse Myth and Agalope is a character from Greek Myth who sang to Odysseus's Crew to their deaths. Some say that she had many faces and could change forms."

"Indeed, she could. Agalope was something like a General in your Army. She commanded the soldiers to take prisoner everyone in the High Council including Hogni. When she took his sword and claimed it as her own we then discovered that these Sirens also possessed the Ancient gene. When the Asgardians captured Agalope, she was taken as prisoner but our holding cells could not hold her. She escaped them all using Hogni's sword and we could not kill her. The only option left was to imprison her inside the Rainbow Bridge and then seal it. Those tasks that you faced inside the Bridge were devised to warn people away from the Siren."

"Then why did you let me go through with it?"

"This was forged by the Ancients made from Diamond. Hogni was an Asgardian but He was also half ancient and so therefore It is useless to the Asgard."

Thor picked up the handle of the sword but the blade did not extend. He gave it to Makepeace and Carter jumped back when the blade extended outward for him.

"Colonel Makepeace, you have the Ancient gene. As does Colonel O'Neill."

Makepeace placed the Handle of the sword gently on the table and watched as the blade once again sank inside itself. "If Jack has it too, why did you need me to get the Sword?"

"Aldosterone." Carter mumbled.

"What was that Major?" Makepeace asked.

"Aldosterone is a naturally produced steroid in the body that helps with regulating salt and potassium," She began, "But over-dosed concentrations of it will produce seizures, numbness and muscle weakness. Colonel O'Neill was given shots of it on our last mission when we were captured by the System Lords in an attempt to weaken his body. He's fine for now, but he can't take much more of it."

"So?" Makepeace questioned.

"Aldosterone is produced as a byproduct of this weapon."

"Oh."

"Neither Daniel nor I possess the gene, but we still need to use the sword because it is the only materials strong enough to break through the eye of Ra. That's its only weak spot. And its shields will be down only as the weapon is getting ready to fire."

"And I am Jaffa. I could not utalise the technology even if I wanted to." Teal'c sat stoically where he was.

"Its gotta be you," Jack stated firmly, all mirth gone from his voice.

Makepeace sat back in his chair thinking about everything that he'd been told. He clapped his hands together and moved forward in his chair. "Let me get this straight," He paused, "You want me, to stab a hole through an eye of a doomsday weapon of mass destruction using Hogans-"

"Hogni-" Thor interrupted.

"-Sword in a futile attempt to save the world again?"

"Pretty much." Jack nodded.

"Okay, fine. But if I do this, what happens next?"

"You can't stay on this base," Hammond stated bluntly, "The people who were going to execute you are already starting to wonder how you managed to disappear into thin air."

"The president had to order them to stay quiet so they wouldn't going around asking too many questions." Carter admitted.

"And you're a security threat." Jack stated.

"Yeah," Makepeace rolled his eyes, "I got that. So what happens?"

"You would be a liaison to earth from the Asgard." Thor stated.

"Don't we already have that agreement?" He snarled.

"We do. But there are other technologies that the Asgardians found in possession of the Sirens that are also Ancient in design. We cannot use them but if the earthlings can, then that is where they must go."

"Why don't you just hand 'em over?"

"Because many of those technologies were not safe with us. We could not use them, but it was possible that other races who were threats to the Asgard and the planets under Asgardian Protection could. If any of those races were to invade again, they would take possession of those weapons so they were protected in places in the far reaches of the galaxy that we can no longer go to because of our genetic degradation. You could fulfil this task for us and then bring what you find back to earth."

"You'd be doing what you always wanted, Jarhead." Jack shrugged.

"Indeed," Teal'c muttered.

Makepeace needed no moment's hesitation. "Alright, when do we start?"

SG-1, Makepeace and Thor were whisked away in right before the General's eyes. A smile came to his face. "That'll never get old," he chuckled.