Title: The Furling Legacy
Author: Quick-demon
Disclaimers: I own nothing but my pet rock. Here rocky, rocky, rocky! Come here, oooh yes, your a sweetie aren't you. (shakes head) Yes you are. Yes you are.
Rating: PG-13 (For no particular reason other than the minor-erh- ok s-word swearing)
Genre: General, Humor, maybe some mystery and a little action/adventure
Season: Seven. Its sometime after Fragile Balance since I sort of mention a tiny bit of it in my story.
Spoilers: None really. Maybe a tiny spoiler for Fragile Balance.
Summery: Jack is cute, blue, fuzzy and two feet tall. So much for being the hard nosed Air force Colonel he was born to be.
Author's notes: I know there have been stories with people changing into animals but they've been earth animals. However in this story Jack is completely alien. Who wants to be human one day and be an alien the next? Don't worry peoples he has a reason for being an alien animal... I think. It might get a little Sam-Jacky later on. I'm not sure.
This whole fic is beta-ered by: Eruannelaviriel. Big thanks to her! She writes good stories too...
P75-X92 was a scientist's playground. So why was he here? Oh yeah that's right, to baby sit. Make sure no Jaffa or unexpected natives pop up out of no where and say 'hello'. This is suppose to be an uninhabited planet but with their luck it seemed it was more likely the natives were hiding from the UAV sweeps and pop up anyway.
Jack finished his perimeter check and watched his 2IC scoop up some whitish-bluish sticky alien ooze. In the debriefing she was going on and on about the strange substance. From the MALP readings alone there were traces of naquadah, minerals and different stuff that Jack didn't remember. The energy readings from the MALP showed that it was some sort of power source, natural power source. It could benefit them all in the future if she had a chance to study them.
Luckily nearby the pale pool of substance was a temple. Strange thing was it looked completely brand new, with not a scratch, but Daniel reassured him that it was at least 200 years old. Daniel was having a whale of a time trying to decipher the ancient writings. What Daniel had speculated, the language was completely alien. It looked like curved blobs to Jack.
Being a few meters away from each other, the scientists were easier to keep an eye on. Teal'c remained nearer to the temple mainly because he was being questioned by Daniel about it. Jack had to admit, though he wouldn't to his team, that the Temple was impressive. It was made out of some sort of metal that gave a natural grayish white colour. Carter did preliminary scans earlier to determine that the metal was nothing that we seen before. So it's a new mineral? Big deal. All the scientists at the SGC would be begging for this mission.
Like he said before P75-X92 was a scientist's playground.
How many hours was it already? Six? Jack sighed as he sat on a nearby boulder. They were here for three days, Jack knew it was going to a very long boring three days. The sun was beginning to set. Might as well set up camp. He can't stand doing nothing. He didn't know how he was going to baby sit through three days. His selfish side prayed for a Jaffa attack or a native appearance because he didn't know how he was going to survive 3 days of this.
Why did God listen to him now? His prayer for action was answered in about the second day with the arrival of natives. Would you know it they DID live underground? The minerals in the soil (as Sam theorized) blocked the thermal sensors. He didn't know how that would worked but alien planets have alien minerals and stuff. Anything is possible.
These natives were really, really angry that they trespassed on their sacred land and despite Daniel's diplomatic talk the natives wanted the punishment to be fulfilled. Punishment by death. So there they were hiding out in the metal Temple. The good old metal was highly resilient to the villages' own projectiles of spears, darts, knives and as it seems salvaged staff weapons and Zat guns. Who ever made this thing, Jack would kiss their feet. It provided efficient cover to battle the natives.
The native assault cut them off from the Stargate. To get home they had to get through these hostile people. The natives at first kept their distance but soon edged closer, trying to land a hit on the abominations within their holy temple. Jack saw these people prefer confrontation as they became more bolder and bolder to come forth.
Jack ordered for them to fall back as they couldn't pick off enough people to keep their position. They back out of the entrance hall to the main circular room. It was brightly lit with glowing jewels and the skylight on the roof. If Jack wasn't in the middle of the battle he would have noticed.
They took cover around the corner of the entrance hall. The hall was narrow enough not to allow much movement and not to have cover and they picked them off easily. Things started to get a little hazy. They managed to get more clear shot of them and it seems they introduced more fire power. It was becoming risky to stick your head around the corner.
From the dust and bitter smoke from within the entrance hall, the natives jumped at them with surprise on their side. These people preferred confrontation and hand to hand combat rather than using long range weapons. Catching Jack by surprise a large bulky dark native pounced on him. He raised his
90 but it was knocked from his grasp. The native raised a knife to wound and hopefully kill him but Jack knew enough hand to hand combat to deck this guy.
The rest of his team didn't fair so well either. Sam was attacked from behind with a chain around her neck. Teal'c fought off two experienced fighters with his staff weapon, with their own salvaged staff weapons and Daniel had a hard time wrestling a large bulky native with a spear.
More natives came through and now it seemed overwhelming. The team was trying their best to fend them off as much as they could. The large bulky dark native punched Jack in the jaw with sent him toppling unceremoniously to the floor. Jack heard the crack and he instantly knew his jaw was broken. The native grabbed him by the shirt and hauled him up. This guy was a muscle tank. Jack threw a punch of his own but it did nothing but anger the native.
Well shit.
The native was putting a lot of his weight on Jack forcing Jack to lean back. Jack grabbed his knife from his side and made a good stab into the native's gut. The dark skinned native growled and hissed in pain, swearing his his native tongue. Jack pushed him off still clutching the bloodied knife. The native yelled in anger and charged at him. Jack tried to move but the big guy was too fast.
Jack was sent flying backwards with the wind knocked out of him. What surprised Jack the most is that he landed in something soft instead of the hard metal floor. Before Jack knew it he was was sinking. The thick liquid swallowed him so fast he only had time to catch a breath.
The natives seemed to stop fighting. They suddenly froze before backing away from their opponents, eyes wide with terror. Teal'c raised his staff weapon, Sam her
90 and Daniel his own Beretta as the native's attitude changed drastically.
Something was wrong. What could make the natives hell-bent on their demise to scared and terrified? They chattered to each other to their native tongue pointing to the large pool in the center of the room. The three team mates turned and realized that, that pool wasn't there before. The natives turned and fled in cries of panic leaving the team in a state of confusion.
"Ah... what just happened?" Daniel asked
"It appears they are alarmed by the pool in the center of the room" Teal'c's voice rumbled deep
Sam approached the pool. Within was white liquid that had a blue glow about it. It looked like a visible aura of some kind that gave it a heavenly glory. On inspection she concluded it was the same substance as the one outside but this one was contained in like a small pool, as if it was meant to be there. Daniel looked over to the walls again. He jogged over to one section.
"This is the same thing that we found outside. The question is what is it doing here and why is it here?" Sam asked
"I've only managed to decipher a little of the writing" Daniel explained from the wall, "Since it as some sort of relation to Latin. This roughly translates that this is a ritual bath"
"A ritual bath?" Sam questioned
"I think. It seemed to take part in rituals for cleansing or symbolism. What ever it is the natives don't be too fond of it" Daniel muttered
"Where is O'Neill?" Teal'c suddenly interjected
The two other scientists looked around realizing they're missing their CO.
"Did any of you see what happened to him?" Sam asked worryingly
"No I did not" Teal'c stated
"No I don't think so..."
"Lets spread out and search for him-" her speech was cut off by a splash
A small dodger blue hand popped out from the murky depths of the liquid. Teal'c and Sam sprang into action and trained their weapons on the hand. Soon the head and the other limb appeared above the surface. The creature coughed and spluttered. It was an odd looking creature. It had blue fur, two floppy ears that were short and rounded. Large eyes held brown pupils, its nose was a pink button and it's mouth held no carnivorous teeth.
"Aww crap" it cursed, its voice was male and it seemed familiar, "I'm way too old for this shit"
The creature hadn't even registered the humans in front of it. It caught the rim of pool and lifted himself out of the thick whitish-blue ooze with a thi-lok. The rest of him seemed to resemble as a small rodent of some kind. It had small padded feet, a thick tail, the underside was a light blue and from it's neck to it's back was a trail of stripes in the same light blue colour as the underside. It unceremoniously landed on the floor weighed down by the ooze that clung to its fur. Cursing all the way. It seemed quiet harmless but if this was the creature that the natives were scared of...
"Um hello?" Daniel called
The creature's head sprang up and saw Daniel.
"Hello your self!" it snapped, "Help me up, I'm covered in this stuff!"
Daniel made no move but just blinked at it. The creature frowned.
"Look are you gonna play eye spy or you're gonna help me up!" it snapped
Daniel looked to Sam. Sam showed no indication of a quiet order so Daniel reached out and gave the creature a hand.
"Thank you" it growled, "I need a shower, a few beers and a game of hockey!"
Teal'c frowned and stepped forward pointing his activated staff weapon at the vermin, "State who you are"
The creature blinked and looked up at Teal'c, "What are you talking about... and why are you so big?"
Teal'c didn't move his stoic face. The creature looked around to the two other team mates and realized they were looking at him with caution and curiosity.
"Did something happen to my face? Or did I get snaked or something?" the creature demanded
The three members seemed to look at him oddly. The creature suddenly realized it was probably the case so he sighed.
"Fine, I'm Colonel Jack O'Neill of the United States Air Force 66-789-7876-324" it said
The three remaining members of looked at him in shock or disbelief. Jack knew this was bad.
"What?" Jack growled
"Jack?"
"Sir?"
"O'Neill?"
"Oh for crying out loud! What's so hard to believe?" Jack snapped, "Want me to recite the alphabet and the times tables as well?"
"How could this happen?" Sam wondered out loud
"I don't know" Daniel replied, "The pool wasn't here before we entered. Maybe the fight triggered something"
"It could possibly be a trick to fool us. Hindering us to find the real O'Neill" Teal'c pointed out
"But why?" Sam asked, "It would make more sense if it replaced him in a more... realistic way"
Jack shook his head. What on earth were they talking about? Why don't they believe me?
"Whoa, time out peoples" the creature made a 'T' with his hands, "Would someone like to tell me what the hell is going on?"
Sam glanced towards Daniel and he glanced back at Sam. Teal'c stood stoically but raised an eyebrow.
"I'm not getting any younger you know" Jack said impatiently folding his arms giving his expectant stare
"Well sir..." Sam started, "You see..."
"What Carter! Spit it out!" Jack snapped his tone telling her not to give him a long winded techno-babble explanation
"I'm not too sure myself... sooo... Daniel is going to come out and say it" she continued
Daniel gave Sam a wide eyed look before shaping it into a glare. Sam glared back. She wasn't going to do the dirty work this time. Last time Daniel passed the buck and she had to tell Jack he was a clone. Well the clone Jack anyway. Jack huffed and looked at Daniel expectantly. Daniel shifted uncomfortably under his gaze.
"Uh you look different" Daniel muttered
Well duh!
"How different Daniel? Care to elaborate?"
Uh oh Daniel wasn't the one short for words... like Carter... this must be bad
"Well uh... you see...um..."
This is really bad!
"You retain the shape and size of a small rodent O'Neill" Teal'c stated blandly, "Perhaps an alien version of a small rodent"
"What?" Jack blinked, "Excuse me? I'm not in the mood for jokes T"
Teal'c face stared at him in its dead pan face state. Teal'c wasn't joking, hell, Teal'c wasn't the joking type. Jack blinked and ran his hand through his hair or unknowingly a bit of turf on his head.
"How bad?" he asked finally
"Here sir" Sam pulled out a mirror from her pack and gave it to Jack.
Since when Carter kept mirrors in her pack? I didn't know they became standard issue...
As he took the mirror from her he'd noticed that she had to bend down, now he realized that they all looked down on him. As he reached out he saw his arm blue, skinny and furry. He snatched the mirror and saw his face.
"AHHHH! What the hell happened?" he shouted touching his face
He looked down at his small rounded body, his hands and at his newly sprouted thick tail.
"AHHHHHH!"
He was blue, furry and about 2 feet tall.
"Why do I feel like I'm in a bad B grade comedy movie?" he commented
How could this happen?
"I want a damn good explanation for this!" Jack snapped glaring at his teammates
Sam shifted, "I don't have one Sir. The origins and the composition of the white substance needs lots of study. I have no idea determining the cause of the change"
"White substance?" he snapped
"Yeah the pool you came out from" Daniel filled in
Jack breathed deeply to keep his temper. Carter was new to this as they all were, no need to take it out on her or on Daniel for that matter. They just need to find a cure for this... that's all...
"We're going back home!" Jack snapped turning away from them
"Sir!"
"Jack!"
Jack turned back to the scientists, "I don't think you can work this out in one day. How much I hate to face Fraiser and her needles we have to inform the General about this. He could send some people who can help you do what you do best. I just want to go home have a shower and get drunk and then wake up tomorrow and hope this was only a dream!"
With that he turned back, "Gear up. Lets move out!"
Even if Jack was blue, fuzzy and two feet tall he was still their Commanding Officer... maybe a shorter and more grumpier Commanding Officer.
"Yes sir" Sam muttered as she went to gather her equipment.
The team gathered what they had, packed up their camp and traveled back to the Stargate. This was going to be one hell of a mission report.
To be continued...
Ok not a bad start. I wonder what's going to happen when he gets back to the SGC
Reviews anyone? Come on! I would like to know what you think! Honestly! I do!