The Apprentice

Chapter Thirteen: Escape

Daniel's P.O.V.

I watched helplessly as Adolfina was dragged away screaming. She'd spent the first three years I'd known her protecting me, and how do I repay her? By letting her get captured by some psychopaths with god complex's, then get chosen to be a host to one of them. And all I can do is stand by and watch as she's dragged off.

"Kill the rest," Apophis stated, walking away. All the prisoners started screaming and running to the back of the room. Only the guards remained.

"I can save these people! Help me... help me," Jack exclaimed, directing it at the guy who'd grabbed his arm earlier.

"Many have said that," Suddenly he turned and fired on one of his own guards then threw his weapon to Jack, "But you are the first I believe could do it!" Suddenly all hell broke loose, and when the firefight was done all the guards were dead. Jack headed for the back wall.

"Get out of the way!" Jack shouted. All the prisoners scattered, and he fired at the wall.

"Come on, let's move!" Jack shouted.

"Come on, come on!" Sam said. People started streaming through the hole in the wall Jack had created.

"Come on, move, go, come one!" Sam said.

"Come on!" Jack said. I moved over and helped them move prisoners through the opening. I felt slightly numb.

"You gonna be okay?" Jack asked me. I nodded my head, and left. We all ran heading back towards the gate.

"We've got less than an hour, how we doing?" Jack asked.

"We lost a few when we got to the forest," Sam replied.

"They will be hunted down and killed, anyone who does not exist to serve the gods is their enemy," Teal'c stated.

"And that makes you...?" Jack asked.

"I am Jaffa, bred to serve that they may live," Teal'c answered.

"I...I don't understand?" I asked.

He stopped and revealed a large X shaped cut on his stomach, and suddenly a snake or eel like creature slithered out.

"What the hell is that?" Jack asked.

"It is an infant Goa'uld, the larval form of the gods, I have carried one since I was a child, as all Jaffa carry one," Teal'c replied.

"Get it outta there," Jack said.

"In exchange for carrying the infant Goa'uld until maturity, a Jaffa receives perfect health and long life. If I were to remove it I would eventually die," Teal'c responded.

"Yeah, well if I were you I'd take my chances," Jack muttered, before continuing on.

We reached the hill near the gate after walking for several minutes. A ship flew down and hovered over the gate.

"Alright come on people, let's go, let's move!" Jack shouted.

"The boy you seek is no longer who he was," Teal'c stated.

"I don't wanna hear that," Jack said. Suddenly a glider flew overhead.

"Take cover!" Jack shouted. The glider started firing at us and everyone scattered.

"Sir, we're sitting ducks here!" Sam shouted.

Jack and Teal'c started firing at the glider but couldn't seem to hit it. Suddenly something hit the glider and it exploded. I could hear people cheering.