Stargate SG1: Equestrian Arc

Chapter 3

Assembly

Laca’s, First Prime to Lord Ra, walked his prisoner through the caverns with his head held high. A Jaffa was a proud warrior even while gathering lowly creatures such as these. His orders were to gather slaves, and he did so without question. These were useless beasts even as slaves and lord Ra has a purpose for them, and he would follow his orders to the letter. They walked into one of the caverns that they had the slaves build in order to accommodate Lord Ra’s presents even though it was unbefitting of a god, to lower himself to such paltry accommodations. But that wouldn’t be for long; Lord Ra’s plans have already been set in motion, and after he conquers this world, he will regain his throne as supreme leader of the System Lords.

They took the prisoner to the edge of the throne where Laca’s reached back to the dog like creatures collar and yanked it to the ground where it curled up in a ball whimpering on the floor.

“Silence in the presence of your god” Laca’s said in Goa’uld. The creature may not understand the words, but it understood his activated Ma’Tok staff now pointed at him and it quickly became silent and Laca’s turned back to attention and waited for Lord Ra.

A lavish room, created for Ra’s private chambers, with items brought forth from the Tau’ri home world through the Chaapa’ai, one of the most significant was the sarcophagus where Ra slept. The sarcophagus itself stood upon one end, surrounded by many of Ra’s personal belonging. As the sarcophagus started to open up, it bathed the cavern in the light; Ra stepped forth from within, and Laca’s and the other Jaffa knelt in honor to their god while the dog creature covered his head with his trembling paws. The light reflected off his traditional golden armor and ceremonial helm giving him an aura of power as Ra walked over to the alter table that had been placed next to his sarcophagus. Upon it sat a small container, extravagantly decorated and surrounded by gold and gems gathered from this world along with an assortment of items of Goa’uld technology, at its foot rested a rather large and ornate container. Ra placed his hand over the small jar, staring at it in silence for a moment, then reached over and placed his hand within a small glove like device. “Report.”

“As you ordered my lord,” answered Laca’s “The slaves are continuing with digging out the Chaapa’ai, but these creatures cannot determine its exact location within the rubble. We have also begun our campaign of enslaving some of the surface dwellers. We had some difficulty in capturing some of the prisoners, but we were successful in bringing these beasts under your rule.”

“And the device?” Ra asked.

“We are still in the process of securing the location my lord, when we secure the Chaapa’ai and bring forth more Jaffa we…”

“Enough,” Ra spoke, his eyes glowed through the helm in frustration but his anger quickly faded away. “You will begin the second phase of our operation and take what Jaffa you need to secure that location.”

“And what of the slaves in the mines?” Laca’s boldly asked.

“Leave them; they will not be unguarded for long.” Ra said. “Their fear of my wrath will keep these slaves in line.”

“Yes my lord,” Laca’s said as he stood up “Kree, Jaffa,” he ordered as the other two stood attention. Then the three of them marched from the room leaving the prisoner alone on the floor.

After a moment of silence, Ra walked over to the prisoner as it once again started whimpering. “As for you, do not fret creature, your god is a merciful one” Ra spoke in perfect Taur’ri, a language these creatures understood, “And all that you have to do, is tell me everything I want to know.”

…..

As the three of them made their way across town, Jack made mental notes of the area while the pink pony, Miss Cheerilee, babbled on about something on pony history. Turns out that she was a teacher from the local pony school but that was about the only thing of interest he picked out of the conversation. Fortunately, Jack was so used to Daniels lectures that ‘babble,’ was something he learned to auto tune out long ago. Teal’c, on the other hand, seemed to be quite interested in her conversation. Either that or he was so used to silently gathering information on someone by letting them talk on their own as a trait left over from his First Prime days.

She led them down some winding paths and around several homes and shops, one of which he swore looked like a gingerbread house that his grandmother made one time, that lead to a rather large tree in the center of town. A signpost just outside the small red front door marked the place with the picture of a book painted on it and Jack surmised that this was the library.

They had carved out the tree and made it look just like any of the other homes in the area. There were several windows and a couple of balconies, up in its branches that seem perfectly at ease with the swaying in the gentle breeze but Jack stopped short of being impressed as Miss Cheerilee knocked on the door then stepped back as it opened with a subtle glow that had a purplish tinge. “Come in.,” another female’s voice said.

While Teal’c talked some more with the teacher pony outside, Jack stuck his head inside the doorway to see that Daniel and a purple Unicorn were holding a conversation while delving through a stack of books, both seemingly so involved that they didn’t even move when the door opened. “Looks like Daniel found a new study buddy,” Jack thought to himself. He didn’t care what they were reading as long as it was about a way to get him back home.

Making more mental notes, she was a darker color purple pony with purple eyes, deep purple and pink striped mane neatly trimmed around the horn with matching colored stripped tail. He also noted the markings of this pony with a large pink star surrounded by five smaller white stars that rather reminded him of the locking sequence of the Stargate, but not quite.

Carter was also in there sitting at a small table with another group of “ponies” surrounding her, enthralled by the laptop computer that she was using.

One was a bright yellow Pegasus with light blue eyes, long pink mane and tail with three small butterflies for her markings, “Butterflies, how quaint.”

A second was an orange freckle faced pony with a blond mane and tail with green eyes and sporting three apples as a mark. He didn’t see any wings on her, and he couldn’t tell if she was a Unicorn underneath that western style hat. “A real cowgirl that one.”

The third was definitely another Unicorn. All white with blue eyes and lavender colored mane and tail, both with long drawn out curls. Her marking was that of three blue diamond like shapes. “Oh yes, this one must be a real gem” Jack mocked to himself.

All this color was making him ill and never did he appreciate olive drab more than he did right now. Jack decided then and there that when he got back to earth he was going to spend the next month watching old movies on a black and white TV in a dark room just to get this crazy place out of his head. “What in the world would the Goa’uld want with these guys? You wouldn’t think they would want them as hosts… or worse… Jaffa. Can you imagine, a whole army of pink and purple Jaffa ponies, striking fear across the galaxy with the power of colorful cuteness? Enemies would give up because they wouldn’t want to hurt something they might find adorable. Oh yes, I can so see the Asgard bowing down before them now. The rainbow of colors alone would bring them to their grey little alien knees.”

Jack stifled himself in mid snide chuckle coming to the realization that he might actually be right. Oh, how he hated his gut reactions sometimes.

The purple pony finally looked up at them “Hello,” she said as she stood up and walked over to the door. “You must be Colonel O Neill. My name is Twilight Sparkle…”

“Twilight… Sparkle…” Jack quickly thought but again stifled a crude remark.

“…And these are my friends Rarity, Applejack and Fluttershy,” she said pointing a hoof at the white, orange, and yellow ponies respectively as they each walked forward; except the yellow one Fluttershy, who seemed to live up to her name and just wanted to hide behind the other two but was still there to be introduced.

“Um, Hi…” Jack started to say, but he jumped and banged his head on the top of the door frame as another pony, who seemed to pop in from nowhere below him.

“Aww, they’re here, and I was planning a big surprise party for them,” it said in a high pitched, almost rubbery squeaky voice.

“And this is Pinky Pie” Twilight continued her introduction.

“Ohh, this is so exciting though. We can still throw a party. It wouldn’t take me long to set one up, all you have to do is stand outside for a few minutes, I just got done reloading my party cannon, then you can come back in, and we can all yell SURPRIZE,” the pink pony yelled.

“Ah… no, maybe later,” Jack said holding one hand up stopping her in mid excitement while rubbing the back of his head with the other. This blue eyed pony was pink from her curly mane head to curly tipped tail with three party balloons as a mark, no surprise there, and about as bubbly as a bottle of Champaign, “I don’t know how much more of this I can take,” Jack thought to himself.

“Actually,” he said, “I just need to take these two away from you for a few moments,” pointing at Carter and Daniel.

As the four of them walked outside, they made their way over to a bench. Jack turned and was unsurprisingly amazed that he saw the little pink pony had already begun zipping back and forth dragging things back into the library from who knows where. “Little bundle of energy that one.” He said then chose to ignore it and turned his attention back to his team. “Okay guys, I hate to break up the fun, but we’ve still got a Goa’uld roaming around and a Stargate to find. Have we found anything useful?”

“Well Sir,” Carter said, “I have been going over some maps that Twilight provided and according to the information based on where they found us The Stargate is buried deep under the mountain range to the east. According to Rarity, an indigenous tribe of whom they call, ‘Diamond dogs’ who dwell underground and may have unknowingly uncovered it by accident.

“So now we have intelligent dogs as well?” Jack questioned.

“Well,” Carter said, “from what I understand, calling them ‘Intelligent’ may be overstating it a bit.

“Actually I’ve discovered,” Daniel added, “most of the life forms on this planet have some sort of intelligence and these ponies have a lot of respect for everything here, including insects, so think twice before you swat a mosquito, they might consider it murder.”

“Right now,” Carter continued, “I’m in the process of triangulating the depth of the Stargate based on the amount of time it took for the water pressure to push us to the surface and the elapsed time for the Stargate to auto shut down. And from what I’m calculating, it’s deep. And because the tunnels have collapsed, I’m not sure how we can even get to the Stargate.

“Twilight and I,” Daniel added, “were looking to see if there were any references to the Stargate within their history trying to find out who put it there in the first place. We didn’t find anything in her books, but her assistant Spike was in Canterlot and will be bringing some more books back with him tonight. Even then, she admits that the only one who may know anything about it would be her mentor Princess Celestia. When I questioned her why, she told me that because the Princess has been ruling over Equestria for over a thousand years…”

“…And now you might be thinking she already is a Goa’uld,” Jack said and ‘this’ Ra ‘wanna-be’ is trying to get back in touch with her after being gone so long.”

“That is one hypothesis,” Daniel said. “She may even be this Khonsu ally that I read about in the file back on the ship.”

“But the real Ra is dead,” Teal’c added, “killed by you and Colonel O Nell on Abydos.”

“Yes, but if she is Khonsu, she has been stuck here for over a thousand years and she may not know that ‘this’ Ra is a fake and that he could be planning a reunion that she may not be expecting,” Daniel said.

“Teal’c, Carter, if this Princess Celestia is a Goa’uld, do you thing you can sense it when she gets here?” said Jack.

“I do not know O Nell,” Teal’c said, “This place gives me the feeling as if there were Goa’uld all-around us.”

“I’m the same way Sir,” Carter said, “but I don’t think is anything related to the Goa’uld. The sensation is based off the amount of Naquadah in our blood in relevance to the Naquadah in the area and this whole place feels like one gigantic Naquadah reactor. I can even sense Naquadah in the ponies of this village, especially the Unicorns. And it’s even stronger around Twilight and her friends. But I didn’t observe any location wounds left by a Goa’uld entering their bodies and natural Naquadah in their blood would explain why these ponies have abilities such as telekinesis but without a blood sample, I couldn’t prove it.”

“Well then,” Jack said, “there’s only one way left to find out. Someone’s got to go up to the Princess and lift her… mane and look.”

“And if she does indeed turn out to be this Khonsu,” Teal’c said.

“Then I guess these ponies are going to have to figure out how to live without their precious Princess,” Jack said. “After all, she’s just a little pony. How hard could she be?”

“Well let’s not get too hasty on that, I think we need to do some more digging before we start shooting up the place. I at least want to find out a little more about her… and this place.” Daniel said as a rather large shadow quickly passed over them.

They each looked up and saw that the shadow belonged to a rather large carriage, pulled… well flown, by a small team of four Pegasi like an old west stagecoach. Jack noted that each Pegasus looked to be a larger white stallion wearing some sort of gold plated armor that looked something like an old Greek military uniform. He also noticed the small squadron of Pegasi working in pairs of two flying circles high above much like fighter pilots would do back home.

“Guess we’ll find out soon enough,” Jack said as the carriage circled around and came in for a landing on the other side of the Library tree where Twilight and her friends now gathered. The carriage itself was painted white and decked out in violet and gold trim. “A little ostentatious,” Jack said unimpressed with the flamboyant entry. “Guess this must be our little princess,” Jack said as they slowly made their way over to the field where she landed.

“Little?” Daniel said questioning Jacks choice of words.

The carriage’s lone rider was much larger than the other ponies of the village, about the size of a good riding horse. She was all white and had the wings of a Pegasus, with a much larger wingspan, and she had the horn of a Unicorn, which was not a combination that he had seen in the other ponies of this world. Her pastel colored rainbow mane and tail seemed to flow gracefully around her body. She wore a rather large, gold and jewel encrusted collar around her neck with a matching gold and jewel crown upon her head. All of which screamed typical Goa’uld entry, but Jack was willing to be both courteous and diplomatic about this, for the moment anyway.

“She’s an Alicorn,” Daniel whispered loudly and Jack gave him a quick glance from the side.

Princess Celestia stood upon her carriage, spread her wings, and leapt into the air, soaring briefly then touching down in front of the carriage where Twilight and her friends bowed and greeted her respectfully.

“It’s good to be the princess,” Jack said muttering a miss quote from an old movie he once saw just loud enough for the rest of the SG team to hear. “Is anyone getting any Goa’uld vibes off of her?”

“It is as I had suspected O Neill; I sense what could be an extremely strong presence around her, but if it is a Goa’uld, I cannot say,” Teal’c said and Carter nodded in agreement.

Jack silently watched her and despite the excitement of Twilight and the other ponies who gathered around her. Celestia stood tall, folded her wings in place and greeted each and every one of them, while, at the same time, she placed a firm but thoughtful look with those deep violet eyes over at Jack and the rest of his team assessing their strengths and positions. She eyed each of them, and the weapons that they carried calculating the risk of open engagement should it come to that, much the same way that he was doing to her.

“A little fan fair and a show of strength,” Jack thought to himself re-evaluating the situation as they each locked eyes on one another “clever.” Like a mental game of chess, it only happens in that first moments when you only have that split second to make a decision to over… or underestimate you’re opponent. Most leaders fail one side or the other but Jack did not get the impression that she had, when she smiled and walked over to them.

“Greetings Travelers, and welcome to Equestria, What do we owe the pleasure of your visit?”

“Greetings Princess” Daniel said cautiously stepping forward “We travel from a place called Earth through what we call a Stargate, but before we get into talks I must ask to do something personal of you…” he started to say as he reached a hand out towards her.

Suddenly all the ponies became excited and alert, Twilight and her friends all gasped as the guard stallions snorted, spread their wings and trotted forth to defend their princess, but Celestia herself remained calm by spreading a wing out towards her guards halting them in place then gave a nod to Daniel of permission to continue.

“I trust that you will inform me on what you are looking for,” she said as he cautiously proceeded to her side.

Daniel reached in with a hand and swept a part of her surprisingly soft mane away from the back of her neck in search for the mark of an entry wound left by a Goa’uld when it entered a host. As he made a quick study of her physique and he noticed the mark of the sun upon her flank when something from out of the blue knocked him to the ground.

It was a light colored, ill tempered, blue Pegasus with a rather colorful mane and tail of dark red to deep blue like that of a rainbow that came in and pushed Daniel to the ground. Jack looked up and saw a single Pegasus flying a circle overhead confirming his suspicions of where she came from.

And she was so involved and almost pugnacious in chewing him out for touching her princess that she didn’t even notice the purple and white auras surrounding her, holding her back.

“Rainbow Dash!” Celestia said slightly raising her voice in ire.

“But, he…”Rainbow Dash replied in protest.

“It’s quite all right,” The Princess said in a calmer tone as she and Twilight released Rainbow Dash from their respective spells.

“Are you okay Daniel?” asked Samantha.

Rainbow Dash hovered closer, looking down upon him apologetically, and holding out a hoof to help him up, “Sorry about that.”

“Ya, I’m okay, she just knocked the wind out of me.” Daniel said as he grabbed hold of her fore hoof, picking himself off the ground. He stood there for a moment re-adjusting his glasses, and noted that she just helped him up with the strength of her wing beats alone.

“Ah, She’s clean” Daniel continued dusting himself off. “The princess, that is.”

“And what pray tell were you looking for?” Celestia asked.

“I was looking for the entry wound of a Goa’uld symbiote,” Daniel said. “We followed one here through the Stargate, which is why we are here. We’ve come to find it and stop whatever it has plans for here on your world.”

“And what is a Goa’uld?” Twilight asked.

“Oh, they’re these little snake like things that like to take over the body and make them do all kinds of crazy things…evil things… like trying to take over the universe kind of evil, stuff like that.” Jack answered sarcastically.

Twilight and her friends let out another mass gasp as the sound of that hit home and the little yellow Pegasus curled herself into a shaking little ball behind the orange one.

“And you thought one of them might be inside the Princess,” Twilight concluded calming down and thinking rationally.

“Yes,” Samantha said, “Normally Teal’c and I can sense them, but something about your world nullifies this feeling, so we had to look in order to make sure that you weren’t already compromised.”

“Then I understand your concern; it is unfortunate, but I do not know anything about these ‘Goa’uld,” said Celestia.

“Our other problem,” Samantha continued, “is that when we came through to your world, your Stargate was buried deep under a mountain and the one on the other end was on a sinking ship in the middle of our ocean which is why your world got flooded. Thankfully, between the subsequent collapse of the cavern and the gate’s thirty-eight minute window, your world averted disaster from the sheer volume of water of our ocean.

“So that leaves you without the ability to get back to your world.” Twilight interjected.

“Yes, until we can get the gate unburied,” Samantha said.

Twilight looked at her, “But if yours is under water how can retrieve our gate help you get home?”

“Thankfully, there are more than just two gates. The Goa’uld that we followed through the gate must have brought it there from another planet. Once we get your Gate up and operational then we can send a signal through to our original gate to get home.”

“Then it is settled,” Celestia spoke up. “I must go for now,” she said looking up at the position of the sun. “Twilight; You and your friends will assist them in any way that you can. If there is a new threat to Equestria, I trust that you and the other bearers can handle it.”

“IF!” Jack snorted to himself as he watched her turn and walk away, “And just what are these ponies going to do about it, kill a Goa’uld with kindness? That’s not happening.”

“Look Princess, Jack shouted irritated. “I don’t think you don’t quite grasp the situation you’re in. The Gould’s mean business and they won’t stop trying to take over your world especially if you have something of value to them…”

“All the more reason why it is they who must help you,” Celestia spoke cutting Jack off in mid rant. “I think it is you who does not understand. I have learned to trust in them and their abilities as a team as I am sure you have in yours.” Celestia spread her wings, leapt into the air and landed upon her carriage. “There is a higher value in the friendships that they hold that no creature can take away. A lesson you could learn from them. So do not underestimate them based on what you see. Their guidance could be the key to the success of this endeavor.” And with that, she then nodded to the Pegasus team, and they took off leaving Jack to ponder her words and to eat his own.

“Alright everyone, you heard the Princess,” Twilight said. “Let’s bring it together and figure out what we need to do next. It will be dark in a couple of hours so we will need a place for you to stay at while you’re here.”

“Ya’ll can stay at with me.” Applejack said. “It’s probably the biggest place we have in order to accommodate ya’ll till we get this figured out.”

“Awww,” Pinky whined.

“What’s the matter sugar cube?”

“I had the party all set up in the library, now I’ll have to move it all out there. Oh well, good thing I’m always ready for a party emergency.” She said reverting to her bouncy old self.

…..

Jack stood in the doorway of the barn and looked out over the farm. “Sweet Apple Acres they called it,” he said to no one in particular biting down into one of its fruit. “My how like Eden this world is.” quoting something her heard long ago, but couldn’t remember where. It was a rather large apple orchard farm nestled in the foothills on the outskirts of town, and it had all the amenities that one would expect from any farm back home. There were more piles of hay and buckets upon buckets of apples everywhere and even a crazy old grandmother pony in a rocking chair on the front porch. Only thing missing was a shotgun, “Thankfully.” Oh, and the other animals, the cows, the pigs, the sheep only, back home, you didn’t have to worry about them trying to strike up a conversation with you. A least he was able to talk that perky pink pony out of throwing this party or whatever it was that she had planned. He still couldn’t understand how she got here and had it almost set up when he knew they had left Ponyville long before she had. “I swear when I get home, General Hammond is going to have to lock me away in a rubber room.”

On the down side, there was still a Goa’uld on the loose and for a moment there was nothing they could do about it. There was a dense forest a few clicks away that he and Teal’c are going to check out in the morning, while Daniel and Carter make their way to the mountain tunnels in search of the gate. The ponies had sent word out to some of the other towns and villages across Equestria, but no one has reported anything as of yet, but he suspected that, that will all change by morning. “Nothing to do but try and get some rest,” he thought. He doubted that any of them would get any rest once all this hits the fan.

The sun had begun to set in the west as the full moon rose over the eastern sky. The moon shined brightly as Jack studied it for a bit. He had seen many moons across the galaxy, and each one had its own unique characteristics. Some moons were either larger or smaller than that of earth or they had multiple moons, which always threw him off. But this one, this one here reminded him of home for some reason. It was almost the same size and shape of earth’s moon, but there just wasn’t something quite right about it and Jack couldn’t quite put his finger on it.

Twilights assistant Spike, who turned out to be a dragon… a baby dragon had returned form the pony city of Canterlot with a whole wagonload of books with the help of Applejacks older brother, Big Mackintosh, who was a large red colored stallion with a big green apple on his side. “What’s with this place and apples?” he questioned.

After Daniel ogled over the fact that there are real dragons in this world ‘yay,’ he was once again engrossed in the new books, while Carter and Twilight went over some calculations. Even Jack had to admit that that pony, despite her lack of experience, was almost as smart as Carter was. She was almost like having both Carter and Daniel rolled into one. It was hard enough to understand one of them let alone two. The other ponies, thankfully including that perky pink one, had all gone to their respective homes for the night. As for Teal’c, he was doing his thing off by the fire pit in the yard. Jack learned long ago, never to bother him when he’s trying to meditate. Feeling useless Jacked wandered over to Daniel side and peeked into the pony book that he was reading.

“Does it at least have a good plot?” Jack questioned.

“Actually it is a history book,” Daniel said without even looking up at him.

“How can you even understand that? It’s all scribble. It’s as if someone stuck a pen in their mouth and scribbled a bunch of lines on a page.”

“Actually, you are correct. That’s how ponies write. But the one thing I noticed right away was that their written language uses a line style dialect similar to that of the Ancients and crossed with symbols based off their cutie marks that resembles Egyptian hieroglyphics so that alone makes me feel more positive that the ancients did something here long ago.

“Whoa, whoa, whoa… cutie… marks?” he said giving Daniel one of his ‘you’ve got to be kidding me’ looks.

“Yes, that’s what they call that symbol on their flanks,” Daniel said looking back at him with that ‘where have you been for the past several hours’ look, then returning his attention back on subject. The other thing that I found out was that the ordinary pony, that’s the non-Unicorn and Pegasi, call themselves “Earth” ponies.”

“Okay...”

“Well, how many other planets that we’ve been too, know of the word “Earth.” And the only place I’ve found the word is in Ancient writings on earth so that alone shows that there was a connection between our worlds long ago.”

Jack just shook his head “Ya know, I think I’ll go see what Teal’c is doing.”

“Maybe you should try to get some sleep.”

“Where, I don’t exactly see a cot around here.”

“I think they piled some fresh hay in one of the stalls in the corner.”

“Great,” Jack muttered, “they’re the animals, and we get to sleep in the barn. Oh, how I love the irony.”

…..

Teal’c sat next to the pit as the fires light reflected off him and casting a long shadow behind him doused only by the brilliance of the light of the moon. Normally he would perform this by candle light in the privacy of his room but the fires light would have to suffice for the time being. As for the privacy that was another matter as he could hear the attempted whispers and giggles of someone hiding behind one of the bales of hay nearby.

“You may come out now, I am aware of your presence,” Teal’c said.

“I told ya’ll to keep quiet,” a small pony said as she came out from behind the hay bale.

The small pony was a yellow Earth pony with a larger red ribbon in her mane followed by another, another small white Unicorn with curly pink stripes. “I just wanted to see it,” she said in a tiny, crackly voice.

“I just want to know what awesome thing he had to do to get it!” a third said who turned out to be another small pony, a Pegasus with an orange coat and violet colored mane. Teal’c nodded and greeted each of them as they walked out.

He could easily tell that they were but children and was not offended by the interruption of his meditation “For what pray tell are you referring to,” he questioned.

“My name is Apple Bloom,” the yellow one spoke and these are my friends Sweetie Bell and Scootaloo.” She said pointing to the young Unicorn and Pegasus. “And we were wondering how you got your cutie mark.”

“My cutie mark?”

“Your cutie mark; the one on your forehead” Apple Bloom said pointing a hoof at his head.

Teal’c quickly realized what they were talking about “I am afraid you are incorrect; this symbol is not a cutie mark as you say. It is the symbol of a false god, and it serves as a reminder that someday all Jaffa will be free.”

“What’s a Jaffa?” Scootaloo asked.

“Jaffa are those who serve the false gods as soldiers. Many still believe that the Goa’uld are still gods.”

“Are there any here?” Sweetie Bell said shaking and obviously scared.

“Do not fret little one. No harm will come to you. Of that, I promise. Now if you will excuse me I must meditate,” Teal’c said and closed his eyes once again.

“Come on Apple Bloom,” said Scootaloo as she and Sweetie Bell walked away leaving Apple Bloom there for a moment staring at Teal’c.

.....

The sounds of staff weapon fire echoed across the field as a tall, incorporeal figure surveyed the land in front of it. “Report!” Ra’s voice boomed from the holographic device.

“My Lord,” Laca’s spoke on bended knee. “It has been done as you have commanded. We have captured some of the denizen creatures of this world and have taken them to the mines for interrogation. We have also secured the location for the device. Two of my Jaffa warriors have sacrificed themselves in your name in order to secure it and the device shall be fully operational by morning.

“Excellent, I have a new mission for you Laca’s, there is one among the equine creatures that has the ability to search and locate objects even deep underground. You will find this one… this one call 'Rarity' and bring it to me.”

“Yes my lord. It shall be done.”

Author's Note

Made a few corrections 12/7/13