Ch.93

I built a state of the art home and lived there with Drogon for the next ten million years before a flying city landed on the ocean. Drogon was swimming at the time and took up about thirty percent of the planet's ocean so when he surfaced, I walked along his body to the edge of the city's shield where his face was. The human like aliens were shocked, but they lowered the shield and let me onto the dock.

I looked to them and waved Drogon off. He snorted and dived back under while I turned to the aliens. "Can you speak English?"

They couldn't so I switched to French, Italian and hundreds of other languages before landing on Latin. That's when they spoke English and told me it took a while to adapt to my language because I kept switching them. I shrugged and they asked about me. I offered to share my knowledge if they wished, but they'd have to share their own as well.

They called me primitive until I pulled out a sword and cut off my left arm. It grew back instantly while I tossed the arm into the sea. I chuckled and told them how old I was and that to me they and their species were just kids. I turned my attention to one who tried to poke in my head and turned it back on them, reading their mind entirely.

They dropped to the ground in pain and I grunted. "Reading someone's mind is at best an invasion of privacy and at worst mind rape. Try it again and Drogon will burn your star ship to ashes before you can break through the atmosphere. I can survive dragons fire, can you all say the same?"

They fidgeted uncomfortably and I turned to their leader. "I'm willing to share billions of years of knowledge on multiple realities, technologies, energies, elements and my own immortality. If that's not enough to get you to treat me as an equal in your eyes, you can feel free to leave this planet. Drogon and I were here first after all."

He said their council had to deliberate and decide the risks. I shrugged. "I'll be on the only land on this planet. I have a home there. It's not much, but it's the best I could do with a desolate planet and sparse environments. Feel free to stop by when you have an answer then."

I waved a hand and opened a portal, walking through. It took a week for them to come and by then I was bored and relaxing under an umbrella on the beach with sunglasses and little else on. I put on a towel when the contingent came and looked uncomfortable. I chuckled. "Sorry, I didn't expect you to come at all at this point."

I slid on leather pants and grabbed some tea while Hosan, the high chancellor, said they'd agreed to my terms of full sharing for the knowledge I possess and samples to help them study my genetic makeup as their scans can't find me. I chuckled. "That's be the tattoos. They emit a high level energy frequency that jams all energies seeking me out no matter the form. They also increase my telekinetic abilities and grant me increased physical attributes like strength and speed. If you want samples I'll want the same and no genetic locks. If you're to study me and my abilities to enhance yourselves then turnabout is fair play."

He nodded and I opened a portal to their city. "Let's go then."

They spent years downloading my memories, studying them alongside my knowledge of magics, what they really were and everything. I did the same to a repository they had on Atlantis, taking in a hundred million years of knowledge and facts. They were both a calculating race and a highly emotional one. I learned from their histories, laws and even their technology and language.

They learned of my mutated genetic structure and the genes that allow for healing while I pointed out the alien ones that allow portal creation to anywhere I can think of. I told them of Drogon and the energy changes or magic I'd applied to him because I felt alone at times even when my wives were there and he was a good albeit noisy listener at times. They saw the worlds I'd been to, the spells, the power I once wielded, the beings I faced, everything I knew from my moment of stepping through time to arriving on this planet so Drogon and the humans of the previous world didn't go to war.

They tore it all apart and analyzed it, even finding my sexual activities fascinating. They were truly an odd race to say the least. On the flip side I'd studied their DNA, altered my own and gave myself the same genetic lock. The changes were painful, especially after all the genetic changes I'd gone through before, but when it was over, I was essentially Alteran with a few mutated genes.

My mind sped up, I made the super soldier serum and dosed myself with vita rays or chi which they studied as well. I grew again to six foot nine inches and besides more well cut muscles, not much changed beyond that. The Alterans began trying to make themselves immortal and I wished them luck with that, telling them the gene is random unless in my offspring. I was more interested in drone research and zero point energy modules more advanced than my previous knowledge on it.

They welcomed me after a fashion since my knowledge on vibrational frequencies made me an expert at phase shifting technology. They went forwards with granting life to the Pegasus galaxy and I occasionally worked on a remote outpost. Nearly five million years later they had created the wraith and went to war with them. I was on Atlantis when the wraith ships came and Drogon at my orders burned a great many of them, even partially entering space to unleash a massing fire that ate through the hulls of the wraith fleet.

It was brief, but it worked and Drogon barely survived doing it to save a cruiser full of Lantean passengers. Drogon took on constant bombardment that blew away his scales and injured him a great deal. For nearly a year he outlasted them but they just kept coming and he fell, landing across the mainland. I roared and unleashed a psychic blast that destroyed half the fleet of wraith ships and all the incoming darts before passing out.

I woke up in the infirmary with the boy Janus telling me we were evacuating. I got up and met Dr.Elizabeth Weir who said Janus told her I was immortal and I'd be able to survive long after they're gone and into her time. She asked me to give the Atlantis team a message to be careful and find her asleep in the city. I nodded and helped Janus set the city shield to change potentia in intervals.

We wished her luck and left to earth or Tera as the Alterans called it. There we spread out and some like Janus continued their experiments while others like Moros ascended and others still mates with cavemen. Yeah, I wasn't volunteering for that one no way no how. So I sat in meditation on Abydos in a cave while the sands outside reminded me of Dorne.

Thousands of years passed in the blink of an eye before the Abydonians found me. Some felt it their place to meditate with me, but I wasn't really there anymore. I'd ascended for whatever it was worth and still I sat there seeking something higher, something more. The others never bothered me though they were aware of my ancient and vast power only limited by my mind.

They knew I wanted to be left alone so they never bothered me. Sure, I left at times, to take the information from replicators, Destiny and other sources, but I returned and the knowledge helped a little. I wasn't seeking an all knowing power, but a path beyond the one the ancients found. I didn't find it but I had an inkling by the time Daniel Jackson and the team sent to kill Ra were led to me.

Daniel waved his hand through my energy body saying it must be some sort of hologram indicative of an advanced alien race. I opened my eyes and told him. "I am no hologram Daniel Jackson. In fact, I am very real. My body is just made of energy, free flowing instead of solid matter like your own."

He jumped back and the marines pointed their guns at me. I raised an eyebrow. "If his hand cannot touch me, what makes you think bullets can?"

They lowered their weapons and I closed my eyes. "Go, now isn't the time for you to be thinking of me unless you wish to ascend like me and become energy. But then you'd need to know the rules. Just go."

I closed my mouth then and continued focusing on my path, imbuing the seed of wonder into my being and taking in massive amounts of energy from subspace. I heard the explosion and weeks later Daniel Jackson returned with Sha're, his native wife. He told me what happened and I nodded. "I helped those that were dying find their footing on the great path. Sit, I'll tell you what I can without the others like myself causing problems."

He found a place and I told them the story of the Alterans. I told them everything up to how they built the stargates, settled on earth and one turned towards Origin, creating a plague at the command of the Doci back in their home galaxy. I told them how the plague caused them to flee and restart life in the galaxy five million years ago, starting over in the Pegasus galaxy.

I explained my past and a bit about my origins as a world hopper as well as Drogon before telling him how some of the greedier Lanteans did secret experiments to try and make themselves physically immortal like myself by experimenting on the humans of the Pegasus galaxy through a medium called the Iratus bug, ending in the creation of the wraith. I told them how Drogon fell, I lost control and ended up coming to earth before coming here to meditate on ascension.

Janus appeared and told me. "Enough old friend. The others will not allow you to interfere anymore."

I looked up and huffed before sighing and descending to his surprise. He asked while shocked. "Why?"

I smiled wryly. "The others are content to be immortal stuck in one plane of existence without seeking more. They wait and watch, judge those that act because they care despite them not always disagreeing. I was a king to some, a god to others and not once did I judge them any more harshly than myself. I will not stand or sit idly by and be judged by hypocrites. I didn't seek ascension for immortality, you know this."

He nodded numbly and I groaned before holding my head as my neck strained and my new mortal body felt agony. I had to cut myself off from the ascended plane and seal away the knowledge I had before. My nose bled for a bit and Janus sighed before wishing me luck as he faded. The others had tried to make me a blank slate, but my mind was beyond powerful even in mortal form so I sealed it all away instead.