"Is there nothing we can do?" Teal'c asked.
"I've studied every detail there is to know about the device. I don't know. We could jump into hyperspace."
"And what Carter? Run? We've never done that before."
"But sir! I've wracked my head for any weakness that the weapon has and I can't find one!"
"Think of one Carter!"
"Sir, with respect, I can't! There is not enough time."
"When has that stopped you?"
"Sir, with respect, not now." Carter was honestly trying her best to think of any weakness the device had.
"Hey Major! Didn't you say that the EMP charges down a split second before the weapon prepares to fire?"
"Yes, why?"
"See ya." Makepeace removed a stone from the inside of his jacket pocket and activated it. He was gone before anyone could react. They all looked outside to see that the Eye had begun to glow red.
"The weapon is charging." Teal'c observed.
"Damnit!" Jackson was still jumping up and down and slamming his fist on the walls of the ship.
"Sir, our Radios don't work over this distance."
"Thor?"
Thor handed Jack a white stone which he had used only a dozen times before. He spoke into it.
"Makepeace! Get your ass back on this ship! We're doing this mission as a team."
"Negative, Jack," came the muffled and static-ridden response, "you and me are the only two people here who can use this sword that will destroy this old son of a gun. And you can't be here because you've been drugged on Testosterone."
"Aldosterone."
"Whatever." Makepeace coughed.
As much as it pained Jack, he knew that Makepeace was right as did everyone else onboard. "What's the plan of attack?"
"Had the walkie-talkie over to Major Carter." Makepeace himself was growing tired and weary of the exposure.
"Why would I do that?"
"Because she's smarter than you, damnit!"
Jack rolled his eyes and handed it over to Sam who snatched it from his hands with a burning fury. "What's your position?"
Makepeace coughed and began describing what he saw. "I think in a mothership this would be the control room. I see two pilot seats only the window is covered in so much red that it looks like a giant ruby with a display."
"That would be the pupil of the eye of Ra. Stab it when it's about to fire. The blast will discharge and it will destroy the weapon in a matter of only a few minutes. We'll beam you off the second we get a chance."
"Roger, that. Standby."
Makepeace channeled his energy to the sword. His arm felt the heavy weight of the blade extending from the hilt. The room was very quickly filling up with a gaseous form of Aldosterone. He could feel it itch at his skin as it slowly seeped though. He felt the pain in his entire body that he had once felt in the Rainbow Bridge. It flowed through his body like an electric volt only it was worse the first time. His bones still cracked and creaked but it was more tolerable.
"Colonel Makepeace! Are you still there?"
He pulled out the communicator.
"Yeah, the Asgardian Walkie-Talkie still walks and talks!" He screamed.
"That's good to hear. But pretty soon the Aldosterone will fill up in the control room."
"You're a little late for that lecture Major!"
The mist began to cloud his vision. It made his insides churn just like what he felt when he was in the cave. It's the same type of gas, his mind concluded. The red rubies that laced the halls began to ignite in a straight line leading up to the pupil of the eye of Ra.
He slowly moved towards the front of the room and hefted the sword and stabbed it directly through the eye. The discharge threw him back a few feet but he had to retrieve the sword.
"We're going to beam you aboard, Sir!"
"That's a negative! I don't have my sword. Leave before the ship is destroyed from the static!"
"We don't leave-"
"-spare me the lecture Major! You stay here your sitting ducks!"
"No!" Major Carter cried.
"No time for arguing Major," Jack said from behind her, "Thor take us out of here."
"Sir! We don't leave our people behind!" but Thor's ship had already jumped into hyperspace.
And quite suddenly Makepeace was far out of reach, out of sight, but not even close to being out of mind.