Sobek the Immortal: Bringing a God to His Knees [Closed]

[hi_there_aliens]

Who: Daniel Jackson, Vala Mal Doran, Eva, The Master, Eleventh Doctor, Jamie McCrimmon
Where: Kalimba (planet side)
Summary: A small crew goes on an archaeological expedition to a jungle planet, where System Lord was imprisoned. Taking Daniel as his host, he captures the crew and tortures them, while rebuilding his fleet.
Warnings: Violence, torture, gore

((Part One and Part Two here))

As time drew on, there was no sign of Stacy, rescue parties or of a single landing pods. The typhoon season approached closer with each day, rain and wind spattering the leaves on some days, varying between intense heat and humidity on other days. The megafauna in the jungles had grown more active too. The earth rumbled under their feet as they starting their migration amidst hooting calls and croaks. Throughout the varying weather, one thing remained constant. The hive of activity around the three step pyramids never ceased, slaves either taking shifts or in the most fanatical cases, working themselves near to death or to death. It was like this all across Kalimba. The call had gone out with the instructions for the slaves: work was to begin on restoring the Crocodile God's fleets underneath each step pyramid all across the planet. They were his Chosen, his Children, and he would ensure they were rewarded for their faith.

The complex swarmed with slaves and guards moving weapons and parts. Sobek and his personal guards were also in and out more often as the fleet began to take shape, often traveling to other sites to check on progress. Stones fell away from each ship as far as the eye could see. More and more of each ha'tak was revealed, while lines of human bodies went inside to work on the interiors. If the number of step pyramids that towered through the jungle were any indication, his fleet would be massive.

((same as Part 2: run your own posts with each other, more private threads with Sobek are available at the start. Part 3 does not have to immediately include end-plot stuff. If you want more CR amongst each other or your character being messed with by Sobek, please do!))

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[bonnypiperlad]

There was an indelicate snort from Jamie at the Master's comment. A petty part of him had been pleased when the guards had brought the traitor back and tossed him in the cell with the others, because it was the least he deserved. Mind you, he still kept his distance from the man, because he was still very dangerous. But he wasn't surprised at all that the Master would let them all die rather than help. Not bothering to comment on that further, he turned his attention back to Vala. Or, well, most of it. As long as the Master was in the same cell with them, he going to make sure what happened to him didn't happen to the others.

"Symbiote poison?" Well, he supposed poison would work, right enough, assuming they could lay their hands on it. But how could they apply that to all of those followers of Sobek's?

"Say we did manage to get some, somehow. How would that work better than blowing up the ship?"

sorry it's late guys

[makeherblue]

Well, at least if they had to die, they wouldn’t do it alone. Even if the Master made things difficult, as he always did, the Doctor didn’t believe he wanted that either, dying without friends. Or, in his case, an audience. Or dying at all, which oddly enough the Doctor could also agree with. He didn’t really fancy dying himself if there was another option. In that aspect he wasn’t very different from the average human.

The Doctor frowned at Vala and Eva’s hurry to sacrifice themselves. Humans were odd like that – either they wanted absolutely nothing to do with dying or they went the other extreme and were tripping over themselves to get killed in what was probably a kamikaze attack. At least they were weighing what options they had first. He had to give both humans that. He lifted a finger, about to interject that blowing up the mothership was probably a moot point because it was either going to do that on its own or it was going to lock itself in that moment between seconds, twisting and untwisting in on itself and maybe he could have given a straight answer if he was more familiar with Sobek’s technology.

“I don’t think it’s a question of if they’ll blow up,” the Doctor was going to be decidedly vaguely about that point. As for Jamie's question... "Because we're going to take Daniel Jackson back with us and I don't think he'd want to do with with that thing inside him, do you?"

He turned back to Eva and Vala, still trying to decide which of the two wanted to martyr themselves more. He frowned.

"I'd rather neither of you dies, you know. There has to be a way to stop him during the transfer. Is there a way to, oh, I don't know, stasis lock the symbiote or paralyze it in its natural state?" At this point, he had run out of second chances for the Crocodile God himself, so he was even open to the symbiote being paralyzed and left to flop around on the floor with his doomed ships, for however long that lasted. The biggest issue in his mind was securing a symbiote-less Daniel and then getting off-planet.

[economicalrhinoplasty]

"I could bite another Goa'uld head off." Eva licks her front teeth, putting up a show of bitterness and darkness to hide how vulnerable knowing she'll sink to that level makes her feel. It wouldn't work, of course - Sobek would never jump ship into Vala without plenty of guards around.

But she pauses, thinking back on that jar cracked open on the floor. Poison, maybe not, but it might have been keeping Sobek in some sort of stasis. She and Vala are given a bit more leeway to move around, although she doesn't know if she can get back to that original room in the temple.

"Vala, how would one make symbiote poison?"

[valaunbound]

"It wasn't a serious suggestion," Vala snorted derisively, with a laugh that almost bordered on hysterical, without the Tok'ra here or access to the files at the SGC she had no idea even where to start. She might aswell have suggested asking Sobek nicely to please commit suicide.

"Besides it took the Tok'ra years to perfect it. Mostly they use it in gaseous form though Jamie, that's why it'd be better. If we had some, that is. It'll kill every symbiote on an entire planet, including the Jaffa."

That didn't help with Daniel though, it would take whoever was host to Sobek at the time with it. Vala wasn't even sure why she was discussing this, it was too much of a longshot. Too many things needed to fall into place. "Even if we did have some, we'd need it in two forms. An injectable version for Sobek followed by the gas. Anyone expert in chemical warfare and mass genocide? Because I only know it's made of two components, one from the symbiotes themselves."

The question was asked with a heavy dose of sarcasm and was definitely rhetoric. "Our best bet is blowing the Naquadah generators in the Mothership after the switch. I at least know how to do that, I can set the generator to time delay feedback on a loop til it blows. You all just need to get as far away as possible between Sobek taking me as host and the generator blowing. Ther's also a weapons cache near the main generator, it was the first thing I noticed when we were first taken prisoner Doctor."

[bonnypiperlad]

Maybe it wasn't a serious suggestion, but Jamie seized on it anyway. It sounded to him like it could work, providing they could get whatever this other ingredient was, and...well, they didn't really have much of another plan to go with right now. "Aye. But what if ye were able to use it on Sobek before he took ye as a host? Maybe inbetween somehow, so it'd not affect Daniel? If we did that and blowing up the generators, maybe we'd stand a chance."

He glanced over at the Doctor. While he couldn't say so much about the genocide part of things (although he wondered sometimes), he knew that the Doctor, out of all of them, stood the best shot of actually making the that sort of thing. "Doctor, ye had us make that sulphuric acid stuff for the Gonds. Could ye figure out how to concoct that poison if ye had the right ingredients?"

[makeherblue]

The Doctor paused for a moment.

"Probably. More than probably. I'm handy at that sort of thing from time to time," the Doctor said, pursing his lips. He laced his fingers together as he took in Jamie. The human had a big black smudge of grime on his cheek, his mouth pulling to the side as it always did when he was thinking and thinking hard. It was almost oddly comforting, this little bit of familiarity. "We probably won't have time to set up a dispersal device for the whole planet, though. Rather hard to get that set-up when you have Jaffa shooting at you."

What he cared more about right this very moment was securing Daniel and getting that symbiote out of him, then securing a path to a teleporter or a transport ship.

The Doctor reached up to brush his shaggy hair out of his eyes.

"If you can secure the ingredients - and possibly find my sonic screw driver - I can see what I can do. Also we could use coordinates for Eneesh's ship if it's still in orbit. I think it's safe to say we can't expect any help from Stacy."

[economicalrhinoplasty]

"As if I couldn't learn chemical warfare." She probably could, too, if she put her mind to it and had the resources. Granted, they have neither time nor resources here, so the point is moot, but mainly Eva doesn't want them to take too many ideas off the table before they've found at least one that they can cling to, vain hope that it might be.

It's not even as if she has a direct opposition to leaving Vala behind, although she'd certainly rather not - as far as Eva's concerned, they're all expendable until they're certain they can stop the Goa'uld terrorizing further planets. Saving their own skins is a nice goal but absolutely cannot be the priority; too much is at stake.

"Besides, we have Doc." She laces her fingers up and rests her chin on them, fixing him with that intense stare she reserves for business meetings and conversations with people smarter than her. "What ingredients do you need? I'll find a way to get them to you if I have to eat another Goa'uld to do it."

[valaunbound]

"All I know is that one part is from the goa'uld itself and the other is a common chemical, one of those ones found on that period table that they have on Earth."

Well that narrows it down Vala, it's at moments like these she really wishes she paid more attention during briefings instead of idly doodling or drifting off into happy Vala land while she's wondering why they aren't actually doing anything. Besides the Tok'ra never were forthcoming with their methods in the first place.

"Carbo something I think or maybe it was potassisomething or other. We'd need at least two larval goa'uld though, one for testing on and one for extraction purposes. Meaning we'd need the larval fluid too to keep one of them alive until we were ready to try it out."

The dark haired woman was obviously rather pleased with herself at remembering those details, amazing what you pick up when you're not listening to Samantha and watching Daniel's jawline twitch.

[bonnypiperlad]

"Och, that's just great. How are we supposed to get this carbon potato whatever it is if we don't know the name of it? Might as well just grab any chemical we can find and see if it works," Jamie muttered. Honestly, given he hasn't got a clue what Vala means by those names, he's starting to think they might just have to the latter. Or give the whole thing up as a bad plan. His lips pressed together, but he managed to bite back the 'Oh what's the use' that was threatening to come out of his mouth and replace with another question.

"And where would this larval fluid be, anyway?"