Authors Note: This is the first part of a new story. I own nothing of any characters mentioned. The story is done and has 5 chapters so I hope to post over the next week. Hope you enjoy.

Just like a Mummy

"You know this all seems to be kind of familiar" Jack O'Neill commented

"Well Jack we are looking at a pyramid that s the double of the Great Pyramid in Giza and the one in Abydos" Daniel answered with sarcasm

"Wouldn't that be a triple then? Anyway it's this whole mission. Doesn't it seem similar to something else?" Jack said

"Do you believe we are experiencing another looping day O'Neill?" Teal'c enquired

"No it's just all this. We are standing in what looks like an Ancient Egyptian city, Carter has been kidnapped by a weird God who has no real body and is about to be turned into his queen and I don't know it rings a bell"

"Well we have been in some almost similar situations" Daniel started

"O'Neill I believe you feel this situation bears a striking resemblance to a movie Cassandra Frasier made us watch called 'The Mummy'. As I recall it had a man she regarded as 'hot' in it" Teal'c commented.

"That's it, that's right. The Mummy. Dashing hero, that's me and ditzy sidekick- that's you Danny Boy, weird bloke from a land far away who says very little – you fit that description T and a damsel in distress…."

"Jack is you want to live to see your wedding day I wouldn't call Sam that, at least not to her face" Daniel broke in

"Oh I know, I'm not that stupid, but it fits doesn't it?"

"Indeed" Teal'c nodded

"So how did the movie go" Daniel asked after a few moments

"Danny we really need to get you out of your lab sometime. Well the movie was about a priest in Ancient Egypt who fancied the kings wife. The king found out so cursed them. 4000 years later the unlikely heroes awaken the creature and all hell is let loose"

Daniel sat down beside the wall they were spying over. He wiped his glasses

"Was the story true?"

"Danny when I said out of your lab I didn't mean into fantasy land. Of course it's not true, it just seems similar to our situation" Jack spat

"Yes but did they make up the story or base it on legend. You should know as well as the rest of us that some of our so called legends are actually true." Daniel spoke as if to a young child.

"For crying out loud Daniel IT IS A MOVIE" Jack shouted back

"Indeed O'Neill but there is a Jaffa legend very close to the beginning of the film. It is said that a God became too powerful that he was cursed to the lower world and will need a human host to hold his body. It is spoken that when the God returns he will come with power and might destroy all in his wake."

"That's what I was thinking there is the same legend in Egyptian writings. The God that cannot be named was cursed and will come again. What if that was Anubis and the film was based on that legend"

"Daniel correct me if I am wrong but Anubis has a name" Jack said poking holes in his friends argument.

"Yes Jack but often that was a way of denying an evil person there right, they would not be named so therefore they got no fame. We had no idea Anubis still existed until very recently, neither did the Tok'ra. Maybe that is what happened. Anyway what happened at the end of the movie?"

By this point Jack was shaking his head incredulously. However due to a lack of anything else to do he indulged his friend.

"Well the mummy came to life by reading this old black book, the book of the dead I think and then to kill him they had to use another book, what was it's name Teal'c?"

"The Book of Amun-Ra"

"Really that's interesting. The Great god Ra, you know that is very like the old legend" Daniel had gone into thought mode and Jack thought the whole thing was ridiculous.

"Teal'c when did Anubis disappear off the scene" Daniel asked

"Many years ago Daniel Jackson." Teal'c replied, not very helpfully

"I know Teal'c but how long ago, was it before the rebellion on Earth?"

"I believe so Daniel Jackson. As I recall the stories told about him indicate that Ra was still in charge of much of the galaxy including Earth when Anubis was sent away" Teal'c gave a more precise answer.

"Daniel I am almost scared to ask where you are going with this" Jack commented

"Well like Teal'c says Ra was the most powerful Goa'uld for a long time. So if anyone was going to curse someone it would be him. Maybe he couldn't kill Anubis but prevented him from existing properly" Daniel theorised

"Daniel you would be the first to tell me that Goa'uld's don't have that much power, that they stole everything they knew" Jack came back

"Ra was a powerful deity O'Neill. He was feared among all system lords and Jaffa" Teal'c lectured

"No sorry. I am not buying it. Some corny movie can not hold the key to saving Carter" Jack stated trying to bring his friends back to reality.

"Jack you said that in the movie a spell book could kill him, there are plenty of examples of spells in Ancient Egypt that were to curse people. Jack I don't believe in magic but to the outsider it would appear that the God's had power. Think about the sarcophagus, it brings people back from the dead, maybe there was something else at work here but it looked like a book"

Jack took a deep breath, this was going to be one hell of a debriefing, if they ever got home that is.

"Look I'm still fuzzy on how this gets us a plan to save Carter so do you think we can take a moment from Hollywood to watch the area to see if we can get an opening.."

"To do what Jack, Anubis will kill us as soon as we go near Sam. Maybe if this book exists we could have a fighting chance" Daniel jumped in

Jack decided it was time to lay things on the line

"Daniel even if by some miracle you are right there is no reason for the book to be on this planet in this exact temple" he implored to Teal'cs logic. But his hopes were quickly dashed

"On the contrary O'Neill this is the largest known temple of Ra. In was the centre of his power base. It is likely that he would keep valuable items like a spell book close at hand"

Jack glared at his friends "You guys can't be serious about this?"

Daniel looked at him and tried a different tact

"How exactly did the movie end?"

Jack finally succumbed to the inevitable and sat down beside Daniel leaving Teal'c on watch.

"Well the mummy called up an army of priests I think and they managed to control and defeat them by reading the book. Then the mummy was made mortal and killed again by reading some bits of the book"

"It all sounds plausible Jack, I wonder if we can narrow down where to look for the book?"

Jack looked at Daniel and sighed, well in for a penny in for a pound he thought

"I don't know about your legend but in the movie there was a legend about the two books in some statues or something only geeks like you had got things mixed up"

"Really so where were the books found" Daniel asked eagerly

"Well I'm not sure if it is really relevant Daniel, I mean it could send us on a wild goose chase" Jack said seriously, he needed to get a laugh out of this somehow.

Teal'c watched as his friends came close to one of their silly arguments.

"Daniel Jackson the books were hidden in the bases of two separate statues"

"Oh really which ones" Daniel gratefully looked up at Teal'c knowing that Jack had decided to stop being helpful

"I believe it to be Anubis and Horus"

Jack huffed "Look Ra is never going to have statues to other Goa'ulds, you know how egotistical he was"

Daniel thought for a moment, Jack did have a point, but then he remembered Abydos

"Not unless it held the key to destroying them. On Abydos there was a cave surrounded by the names of other Gods and at one time it had held a weapon capable of killing those gods."

"Why didn't you say anything before, we could have used one of those" Jack demanded

"Well if you had listened Jack I said it used to hold it, Ra had removed it generations before. Anyway back to here, what harm is it going to do if we search for this statue. If we find it great if not we just save Sam" Daniel stated

"So now you want me to come up with a plan that not only keeps Jaffa off us while we get Carter but also one to allow you time to play Indiana Jones. Not happening Danny" Jack finished emphatically.

"O'Neill I believe we may have an opportunity" Teal'c said pointing to the small group of Jaffa coming towards them. The group were carrying a chest which Jack recalled held symbiotes. The group were still out of sight of the main complex and could be captured quickly, then SG1 could get their uniforms.

"Good call Teal'c. Daniel we will finish this conversation inside. Lets go"

As they moved Jack was reminded of the beauty of SG1. He didn't have to explain or order anything, Teal'c knew precisely what to do and Daniel, well he followed dutifully along. All that was missing was Sam watching their six, no time to dwell – battles to be won.

The plan worked perfectly and soon they were carrying the chest into the temple. No one questioned them and Teal'c directed them to the correct area – job done. Now that they were dressed as Jaffa and inside the temple Jack has a decision to make. Did he scout the place for Sam or let Daniel waltz off on his flight of fancy based on, quite frankly, a bit of a lame movie. The question was taken out of Jack's hand when they rounded a bend and came face to well feet with a huge statue of Anubis – or at least the Egyptian depiction of him.

"This is it Jack" Daniel exclaimed with awe

"I can see that Daniel. Well come on, you see if you can find something and Teal'c and I will secure the area"

Jack walked over to Teal'c as Daniel bent over the statue

"Teal'c is it just me or is this awfully easy. First we don't get killed, then a patrol happens to come along that we can capture and then this"

"It is perhaps easy O'Neill but we do find circumstances occasionally being fortuitous. However we have still to rescue Major Carter so there is much time for things to go wrong" Teal'c said wisely

"This is too easy" Daniel whispered from behind them. They turned to see him bent over a book, a large gold plated book. Jack noted how similar it was to the one in the movie and stated

"You know there is something weird going on here"

"Perhaps you are right Colonel O'Neill" said a voice, a new voice from behind them all.