Chapter 4

The thing that surprises people about Daniel Jackson the most was that he had an excellent sense of direction while on Earth. Give him some stars, some landmarks and boom he could navigate through a snowstorm or at least a sandstorm, before and after the fact. You had to be a good navigator when you lived in a place that kept sifting every few minutes or hours. On and off the planet.

As his team slept, Daniel woke up naturally an hour before the crack of dawn, and when he wanted to do something, he could work fast. So when Teal'c woke up at dawn, he swore bitterly at the note that Daniel left stating, 'Went to find the Andalite, will be back for lunch. Have weapons, don't worry. I'll be fine.'

Teal'c ignored the urge to squeeze his fingers to his nose and went to inform the rest of the team that Daniel was A.W.O.L. again for the who knows how many times.

There was much swearing to be had after breakfast that morning. Teal'c had the instinct to provide food before informing the rest of his team of their missing teammate. Even more swearing when Sam discovered a hike sponsored by the Sharing was going to be in the area that Daniel was searching for the Andalite was in. Pamphlets were awesome things, so they signed up with a quick phone call.

Unknown to them Jake and his friends had the same idea since Tobias came to him in a panic when he noticed that Daniel Jackson was heading to the Hork-Bajir colony. Daniel was too far into the hike to be persuaded to turn around when Ax accidentally mentioned them. Ax regretted it ever since. It just urged the man on.

Three hours after everyone got up, they found themselves paired up with their hiking buddy.

"So do you like hockey?" Jack asked in a attempt to start a conversation with Jake, who along with Rachel and their friend Phil decided to join in. He wondered briefly where Marco was.

Surprisingly enough Teal'c or Murray seemed to get along with their friend Phil like two peas in a pod, or as Jack suspected two aliens in a pod. Phil clearly needed human lessons since he tried to eat leaves off of the trees asking if it was a maple. His playing with his sounds was to at least Jack, a dead give away. He hadn't heard that much experimentation since his son Charlie was learning how to speak.

"No, I'm not much of a hockey fan."

Jack sighed loudly as he exchanged glances with Sam who was walking with Rachel. 'I'll be a long day. Darn you Daniel!'

Tom butted in on his second attempt to engage in conversation with Jake, which was going well, he liked the Simpsons too. Tom, not so much.

Jack wondered what would happen if he 'accidentally' zapped him. No harm done right?

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In the elevator going down to the SGC headquarters Robert Kinsey's hands twitched, then paused and started to twitch again. He brushed it off as a nervous tic for the past a few days, but in reality, Robert Kinsey was swearing up a storm since he had no control what so ever and no one even knew!

'Oh do suck it up human. I'm in control for the rest of your feeble life and I am in your court. I don't want the star-gate to get into the wrong hands either.' Yeerk H652 was pleased with his assignment.

He was volunteered to host this senator, the first one to get infected ever but it would take a while. Visser 1 and 3 wanted to keep a very low profile until they knew everything about the government. Yeerk H652 didn't inform anyone about the SGC because he wanted an ace up his sleeve in-case he was demoted. He had plans.

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Daniel on the other hand was having the time of his life. He ignored his feathered guard Tobias and was writing as much as Toby, the leader of her colony would tell him in his notebook. SG1 might even find the Hork-Bajir home world and free it or something.

"Now what kind of bark did you say cures illnesses?"

Tobias twitched. It was going to be a long, long, long day.