by Anne
Disclaimer: The characters of Daniel Jackson, Jack O’Neill, Sam Carter, Teal’c, General Hammond, Janet Frasier, Apophis and anybody else you recognise from the SGC do not belong to me. Neither does the concept of the Stargate, SGC, and the Goa’uld and any thing else related to the series Stargate SG1. They belong to Stargate (II) Productions, Showtime/Viacom, MGM/UA, Double Secret Productions, and Gekko Products.
The characters of Methos (a.k.a. Adam Pierson), Joe Dawson, Connor MacLeod and Duncan MacLeod belong to Panzer/Davis, Rysher/Gaumont Television. So do the concepts of Immortality, the Game and the Watchers.
Likewise the characters of Adam Newman, Megabyte Damon, General William Damon, Ami Jackson, Jade Weston, Kevin Wilson or any names or events linked to the Tomorrow People TV series do not belong to me either. They are the property of Roger Damon Price, Thames/Tetra and ITV Television.
“Hey Bill,” O’Neill called Damon over to look at Adam and Megabyte. “What does it mean when the blue glow thing stops?”
Damon shook Megabyte, and then Adam, trying to wake them. They didn’t even stir, and looked to all intents and purposes as though they were in a very deep sleep or a coma. “I don’t understand it. Every other time I’ve seen them do a mind-meld, as soon as the light show stops, they’ve snapped out of it.”
O’Neill glanced at his watch as he thought of something else. Damm, he thought to himself, so much for that idea. “Carter,” he said, “Do you realise that the wormhole has been active for just over forty minutes?”
Damon looked at him in surprise. “And this means?”
Carter answered his question for him, her voice echoing slightly as it came over the speaker system of the control room. “Normally an outgoing wormhole can only be sustained for thirty eight minutes at the most. I was hoping that it might automatically shut down when it reached that deadline, but unfortunately it looks as though Ramiis is somehow overriding the cut out mechanism of the wormhole.”
“So, you’re telling me, whatever they’re doing, the boys and Daniel are on their own?”
“Sorry, General Damon. It certainly looks that way.”
Methos joined them and took the situation in at one glance. The immortal’s arm seemed almost back to normal, observed O’Neill. Gee, those guys can heal fast. Jealously will get you nowhere, Jack, he chided himself.
Methos noticed Daniel seemed to be in a similar state to Adam and Megabyte. Ramiis obviously had no further use for his body, at the moment at least. Whatever power was keeping the Stargate open, it was keeping the two Tomorrow People and Daniel was returning from wherever they were. Wherever their minds were, he corrected himself.
O’Neill noticed both boys’ eyes were moving rapidly under their eyelids. “Wherever they are, they’re certainly having an interesting dream.”
Adam’s body twitched for a moment, and Methos leaning closer, could hear his heart racing. “No Jack, I think you’re wrong there. Not so much of a dream. More of a nightmare.”
“I don’t think there’s much point in discussing our options, do you?” Adam asked Megabyte and Daniel. “We’re definitely not going to become hosts for these Goa’uld, and I really can’t see a way out of here.” His shoulders slumped. He felt as though he was reliving the nightmares he had experienced after his encounter with Rameses. Except this time it wasn’t a dream, it was for real. He really couldn’t see any way out this mess. The negative energy of this place really got to him, in a big way.
“Pull yourself together, Adam. There’s always a way out, there’s got to be. It’s not like you to give up so easily.”
“Remember, Megabyte, I’ve been here before. Now you know why I wasn’t too keen to come back. I barely got out last time.”
Daniel tried to sound optimistic, even though he certainly wasn’t feeling that way. “You’ve got to keep sounding positive,” he said. “I know it’s hard with this negative energy all around us.”
“That’s it, of course it’s obvious. Daniel you’re a genius!” Megabyte smacked his head with his hand and grabbed Adam in his excitement.
“What’s obvious? Megabyte, have you finally lost it?”
“Star Wars!”
Now both his companions were staring at him as though he was crazy. “Adam, remember that conversation we had just before we felt the effects of the Medusa Stone. The one where you went all philosophical on me.”
Adam still looked blank.
Megabyte put on his best Obi-Wan Kenobi voice. “Use the force, Adam, use the force.” Gee that’s corny, even for me, he thought to himself, before he continued. “Don’t you see, that’s the answer to everything. That’s how we can defeat Ramiis.”
Daniel noticed Adam start to smile, a smile that turned into a wide grin as he obviously worked out what Megabyte was saying. “Would one of you like to explain? Is this TP code for something I don’t know about?”
“Sorry, Daniel. When we were waiting to meet General Hammond earlier we started talking about the new Star Wars film.” Adam noticed Daniel was still looking blank.“What’s the basic premise of Star Wars? Good versus Evil. You’ve got to fight negative energy with positive energy. That’s how we’re going to defeat Ramiis and get out of this place.”
“Okay,” said Daniel slowly. “No offence, but I don’t think we’re strong enough to defeat him on our own, positive energy or not.”
“Hey, don’t look at me,” exclaimed Megabyte. “I haven’t got to that bit, yet. One flash of genius at a time, guys.”
“Remember, when you and Ami combined your powers with mine to help Millicent and I escape?” A thought had occurred to Adam. “We also used the power of the Ship. That’s what we’ll do this time. If we can contact the Ship, it should give us the extra power we need.”
Daniel felt as though he had fallen straight through the rabbit hole and come out the other side. “ Ship? As in spaceship? You people have a spaceship? I thought you said that you were from Earth, not some other planet. What sort of power can you access from a ship?”
“This isn’t just a space ship, Daniel,” explained Adam. “It’s more like a living entity. If we link with it, it will boost our powers still further.”
Megabyte noticed that Daniel still didn’t look any the wiser. “When we break out, that is, become Tomorrow People, we are drawn to the Ship when we first teleport. It acts like a homing beacon, except it’s a bit off. We usually end up taking a bath the first time, until we can overcome its effects.”
Daniel shook his head. “I’m still feeling lost. Tell you what, when we get out of here, you can take me to it and maybe then I’ll understand what you’re saying. In the mean time, just tell me what to do and I’ll do it. The situation the way it is, I’ll try anything once.”
“Megabyte and I will mind-merge again and then we’ll try to contact the Ship. The extra power the Stargate is giving us will help. Hopefully with the extra power of the Ship we’ll be able to defend ourselves against whatever Ramiis decides to throw at us.”
“Okay, I’ll just keep a look out for him then. By the way, have you got any idea of how exactly we’re going to use this power against him?” Both boys shook their heads. “Oh, right. We’ll just make it up as we go along then, shall we? Great.”
Daniel watched as Adam and Megabyte initiated the merge. As he noticed the blue glow that appeared around them grow brighter; he wondered idly what other powers these two possessed. If the Stargate itself were boosting their powers, as they claimed, what would happen if they actually took a trip through the wormhole? Maybe that was something they should look into once they got out of this place.
Ramiis returning interrupted his train of thought. He hoped that his companions had managed to contact this Ship of theirs, and that they had worked out what exactly they were going to do next.
“Have you come to a decision yet?”
“Well, actually we have.” And you’re not going to like it, he thought to himself. “We’ve decided not to take you up on your kind offer to become a Goa’uld, but we don’t fancy the thought of staying here either.” Daniel noticed that Ramiis didn’t seem to be impressed, but mind you, he hadn’t really expected him to be either. He hoped Adam and Megabyte weren’t going to take much longer; Ramiis didn’t exactly strike him as the patient type.
“I do not seem to remember giving you that particular option.”
“Well, we didn’t particularly like your wide range of choices, so we decided to add a few of our own,” replied Adam.
At the same time Daniel could hear Adam speaking in his mind, [follow my lead.] Whoa, that’s spooky, he felt like he was following two conversations, each on a different level. He concentrated on Adam’s mental voice and at once became aware of Megabyte’s presence in his mind as well. He also felt the tendrils of something else, something quite alien. It seemed to permeate through the link. He could feel the added power, power that definitely hadn’t been there last time he had felt the effects of a mind-merge. This must be their Ship, he reasoned to himself.
They ducked as Ramiis hurled some sort of energy bolt at them. Daniel waited for Adam to reciprocate and was surprised when he didn’t.
“Hey guys. Wasn’t the whole idea of this to fight back with an equal and opposite power? The way I look at it, if he hurls something at us, we should hurl something back. What happened to ‘follow my lead’?”
Adam looked at bit pale, at least from what Daniel could see through the weird lighting of this place. “We can’t,” he whispered.
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