Chapter 3

SG-1, Bra'tac and the Jaffa loyal to him, were cautiously through the halls of Klorel's pyramid ship. As they paused at a corner, Bra'tac turned to Colonel O'Neill.

"Do you have any more of this four-c?" Bra'tac asked.

"It's called C4." Jack replied.

Captain Carter then answered. "No, we used all we had to destroy this ship."

"Do you guys have any ideas?" Dr. Daniel Jackson inquired.

After a brief pause, Bra'tac said, "We shall have to cross that bridge when we come to it."

Really starting to wish I hadn't taught him that cliche. Jack O'Neill thought to himself.

As they rounded the corner, two Jaffa Sentries saw them and opened fire. In an instant, Colonel O'Neill jumped into action, quite literally. He leaped forward firing the Goa'uld weapon he referred to as a Zat. Both sentries were dead from shots he fired in moments.

Bra'tac nodded at him. "Not bad."

As they moved through the Goa'uld ship, General Hammond was talking to the President, back on Earth. He was telling him to board Air Force One and work to coordinate the efforts of the militaries of Earth. At the same time, Apophis was telling his son to prepare to burn the first city on the planet's surface.

Unbeknownst to all of them, the Goa'uld prisoner, Setne, had escaped his cell. Now, disguised as a Serpent Guard, he was in the Stargate stored onboard the ship. He noticed the explosives set by SG-1, but left them alone. He smirked at the idea of Klorel's ship exploding at his supposed moment of triumph. He set the coordinates, then stepped through the gate.

As Klorel was making the preparations his father had ordered, Bra'tac entered the throne room. Klorel smiled and commanded the Jaffa soldier to come to him.

"Witness the power of your god, Jaffa." Klorel said gazing at the planet he was about to burn.

"I can not." Bra'tac replied in a flat tone.

Klorel's smile vanished. "Why do you defy your god, Bra'tac."

"Because you are not a god. You are a parasite in the body of a child and I despise you!"

Klorel raised his hand and activated the device attached to it. "Traitor! Heretic! I am your GOD! And you will feel my wrath!"

As Bra'tac fell to his knees in pain, he said, "I die free!"

Suddenly, there were gunshots originating from the entrance to the room. SG-1 and their Jaffa allies were launching a surprise attack. The Jaffa guarding Klorel fell quickly, but took down the Jaffa aiding SG-1 first. Bra'tac took advantage of the surprise to overwhelm Klorel. Some of the guards nearby rushed to the throne room, but Dr. Jackson opened fire on them. One went down while another successfully landed a hit on Daniel with his staff weapon.

Daniel fell backwards with a large burn on his right shoulder. Despite the severe pain, Daniel managed to lift his rifle and shoot the Jaffa before he got too close.

A second later, Jack emerged from the throne room. He bent over to examine Daniel.

"Come on, Daniel, we need to go!" Jack said.

"With these wounds, I won't be of any help." Daniel replied. "Go on without me."

"No way!" Jack replied. "I am not leaving you here to die, Daniel."

"You won't be." Daniel said. "I have an idea."

Apophis was about to open a communication channel to his son ship so he could explain his delay. Before Apophis had the chance to, the teleportation device went online. Suspicious, he ordered his men to ready their weapons. After the rings completed their task, Apophis was shocked by what he saw.

The humans he had that were supposed to be dead, along with the warrior who should have carried out their execution stood before him, holding his son hostage.

"If you fire upon us, I shall kill Klorel." Teal'c said.

As they made their way to the exit, Apophis shouted, "Bra'tac! How dare you betray me!"

Bra'tac raised his staff weapon. "I have spent one-hundred-and-thirty-three years worshipping false gods! No more!"

He then fired the staff weapon, but not at Apophis. The wrecked the ship's controls. As he and the others left the room, Teal'c shoved Klorel forward as they closed the doors. On the other side, Teal'c blasted the opening mechanism, trapping the Goa'ulds inside.

As Apophis's warriors tried to pry the doors open, he stood before his son. Klorel could not meet his father's eyes

"You disappoint me, my son." Apophis said in a chilling tone.

"Father, forgive me!" Klorel begged.

Apophis turned away from him. He tried to work what was left of the ship's controls. He was momentarily pleased to discover he could still move the ship. However, just barely. Apophis also noticed his son's ship drawing closer to his.

"What have they done?" He murmured to himself.

SG-1 and Bra-tac had reached the shield generators. Bra'tac was explaining why and how they would destroy them.

"While we were on Klorel's vessel, I directed it closer to this one. If the shields are not functional when Klorel's ship explodes, this one will go with it."

He pointed downwards, into the boals of the ship. "We shall have to make our way down there and use our weapons to-"

Bra'tac stopped when he noticed Jack tossing two grenades into the shielding apparatus. A moment later, there was a loud "boom."

"Well, that solves that." Jack said. "So, what now."

"Now we die." Bra'tac replied.

"That's a bad plan." Jack said. "How far are the glider bays from here?"

Bra'tac smiled. "Not far. Not far at all."

In the throne room, Apophis slammed his fist into the control console. He could not regain enough control of the vessel and he knew it. Apophis and his son stood side-by-side as the teleportation rings descended around them. They arrived in front of Apophis's onboard Stargate and dialed the coordinates of Chulak, a Goa'uld base world.

Apophis knew he would suffer great shame for this defeat. He swore he would have vengeance on this wretched planet and it's crafty inhabitants.

As the cowardly false god escaped, SG-1 and Bra'tac had reached the glider bay. Jack was ready to launch an all out assault to get to the gliders. However, Bra'tac simply rolled a Goa'uld Shock Grenade into the bay, then closed the doors. The grenade knocked out all the Jaffa warriors in the bay. Carefully stepping over their unconscious soldiers, they got onboard two gliders.

Back on Klorel's ship, Dr. Daniel Jackson emerged from the ship's Sarcophagus, his wounds healed. He immediately began running to the ship's Stargate. In a matter of minutes, the planted explosives would go-off.

Daniel had never run so hard in his life. Once Daniel got to the Stargate, he dialed a SGC friendly world. He literally jumped through the Stargate less than ten seconds before the ship exploded.

SG-1 and Bra'tac had also managed to escape in time. From a safe distance, they watched Klorel's ship explode. Unfortunately, that explosion did not destroy Apophis's. Instead, the pyramid ship was crashing down to Earth.

"We did it. We saved Earth." Captain Carter said.

"Yes, this is the great blow against the false gods and a victory for freedom." Bra'tac said.

"Now, let's head home." Jack said, steering the glider towards Earth.

Sometime later…

As Colonel Jack O'Neill, Captain Samantha Carter, Teal'c and Bra'tac entered the Gate room in the SGC, there was a burst of applause. Well deserved, considering they had just saved the planet. They shook hands and patted each other on the back. Then, Jack saw Daniel and said, "I knew you would make it."

General Hammond stepped forward once the applause ceased. "Welcome home, SG-1. Master Bra'tac, words cannot express our gratitude."

"You are Hammond of Texas?" Bra'tac asked.

"I am." The General replied with a smile.

Bra'tac looked from him to SG-1 and back. "Your warriors serve you well."

"I know they will be sorry to see you leave so soon." Hammond said.

"I must return to Chulak, before they receive word of our rebellion. My place is there." Bra'tac replied.

As the Jaffa warrior was led away for a quick debrief, General Hammond turned to SG-1. "Things are not going to be the same. The world now knows about the Stargate and the Goa'ulds. Already, negotiations and plans are being made on how to move forward with the Stargate program. There is talk of setting up the second Stargate we found in the Antarctic for use by the nations of the world."

"There is also Apophis's ship, which crashed in Kansas with a whole lot of Jaffa and alien technology onboard. We are rounding them up."

"General, with all due respect, we would like to enjoy this victory for a moment." Colonel Jack O'Neill said.

Hammond nodded. "Alright, but remember, there is going to be a lot of work to do tomorrow."

To be continued in the sequel, "The New World," an upcoming Fanfic.