Ch.95

They dragged me to earth with Daniel and Daniel told them my story sort of. They wanted to take all sorts of samples and I let them, warning them. "The genetic lock on my DNA will prevent any viable replications of my abilities I'm afraid. The Lantean high council deemed it too dangerous to study after a faction made the Wraith when combining it with their DNA using an insect called the Iratus bug as a testing example because it's species showed potential for evolution."

I ripped off an arm and cut out my heart, dropping it in a tray while my arm regrew and the chest wound closed pretty fast. It was a bit messy, but I wasn't the janitor so I didn't care. General Hammond asked about the tattoos and I shrugged. "They keep advanced technology like your cameras from seeing me or targeting me. Basically I'm invisible to technology. They emit harmless energy in a frequency that makes technology simply not detect me."

General Hammond asked if it could be replicated and I shook my head. "Without the energy device that emits the specific energy, not that I'm aware of. I don't know how I got them and I barely remembered that much about them. Feel free to try though. I doubt it's harmful, but I could be wrong."

When Jack and the others returned with a bunch of refugees and Teal'c, I stopped the samples and told General Hammond I'd like to join SG-1 and if not, I'd like to leave because I wasn't going to stay and play Guinea pig for any reason. The doctors said my blood could hold the cure to all diseases and the secrets of immortality. I shrugged. "I may not remember my life, but I do know enough to know that isn't a blessing. Time changes even the best of men into monsters and seeing everyone you've loved age and die isn't a blessing doctor."

I turned to General Hammond. "Your people want more samples, that's fine, but you have my price. If you don't want to have me as a warrior then I'll go find another cause to fight for."

Major Samuels asked. "And if we choose to keep you indefinitely?"

I glared at the man, making him float and pinning him to the ceiling. "Then you put your planet at risk because the moment you do I will return to ascended form and burn it to ashes, starting and ending with you. Only when my rage renders this planet uninhabitable would I let you die. I may not remember everything boy, but I was a king and a god to creatures that would pick their teeth with your bones long before your race became hairless and walked on two legs. I may not be either anymore, but my dignity is still there."

The airmen drew their guns and I raised an eyebrow, letting Samuels drop to the floor. I looked to General Hammond. "So, am I a captive, free to go or a member of your command cause honestly, I don't care which at this point. I'm done being used as a free pincushion and I won't tolerate assholes thinking I owe them or your people anything. I only offered to fight because it sounds interesting or less boring and I can be of use there."

General Hammond sighed. "I'll make the arrangements. Still, you'll have to be able to follow orders."

I nodded. "I'm fine with that, so long as those orders aren't because your people wish to experiment with me more or confine me for interrogation on things I don't remember nor care about."

General Hammond grunted. "Fair enough. Do you know how to use our weapons?"

I nodded. "I do, but I'll make my own. Your weapons aren't efficient. Ammo seems to be an issue when firing for prolonged periods of time so I'll make my own guns and weapons. Feel free to record my efforts and try to replicate them, but don't expect it to work immediately without knowing what you're doing."

He told Samuels it'd be best if he stayed away from me from now on because I was a guest under his command. He told me they'd have to asses my physical capabilities as well as any powers I may have like my telekinesis that could be of use in the field. I told him all of my capabilities including low level telepathy, healing others, telekinesis, enhanced reflexes, strength and all physical attributes.

I could lift upwards of ten tons and run up to forty miles an hour. I spent a lot of time being assessed alongside Teal'c. I had openly admitted to knowing advanced sciences, weapons technologies and power applications like cold fusion, solar, naquadah and Naquadria reactors, telling him it was against the gate builder's highest laws to give such technologies to less advanced societies.

Jack complained saying. "If we were that advanced we wouldn't need them!"

I shook my head and sighed. "There is a lot that falls under less advanced, but mostly it comes down to how advanced your society is, not your technological level. Many societies like earths exist across the stars I think, but in the Pegasus galaxy this was true. The issue is that if I give you such advanced weapons or power generation capabilities, you could try to turn it on your neighboring countries or blow yourselves up trying to make bigger bombs. The others have seen it many times hence the law."

Daniel said it was a very good law but General Hammond asked. "How can you be sure that's what we'd do?"

I tilted my head. "You're in command of this base, you seem to be a good man and you do right by your people where you can. If not for Teal'c risking his life though, he would've been taken off and experimented on by another command and there would be little to nothing you could do about it, yes?"

General Hammond grimaced and nodded so I sighed. "The same goes for any advanced technologies I give you. While I trust you, you aren't the one in command of this country let alone the world as a whole. If that were the case and everyone was in agreement, United under one banner or coalition, then this conversation would be a little different. Even the gate builders had their rebels and it ended in one creating a plague or so Daniel tells me and others making the wraith in search for immortality like mine. No society is perfect and there are no true guarantees, but it's based on the function and advancement of your people as a whole."

Sam spoke up. "We're there any societies that were advanced enough then, before you went into seclusion?"

I frowned and rubbed my temples as my nose bled. I visibly paled while I fought to gather and retain the knowledge. When I stopped I wiped the blood away with a Kleenex and sighed weakly. "The Asgard, the Nox and the Furlings. They were around just before I went into seclusion. The Asgard are in the Ida galaxy and are the oldest of the four races besides the ancients. The Nox would share their knowledge, but they are pacifists and would not fight even if it means death and the extermination of their race. They believe all life is sacred and would hide with illusions and mind tricks rather than confront an enemy."

Daniel asked. "And the Furling?"

I shrugged. "They are a mix between pacifists and warriors like the Asgard. They value knowledge but they value their lives as well. They are the youngest of the four races and we're developing on a different path to the ancients and Asgard. Their ships had warp jump technology that incorporated elements of wormhole travel only for short bursts. It was inefficient, but unique. As for the Asgard, they'd gotten ahold of an old ancient repository while the ancients were in the Pegasus galaxy and spent several million years studying it. I'd imagine they've barely scratched the surface by now."

General Hammond asked if I knew how to contact any of them and I shook my head. "Abydos was the Furling homeworld and I didn't sense any of the people being them so I can only assume they abandoned it while I was in meditation or-"

Daniel finished. "Ra captured them."

I nodded grimly. "It would explain why he had a spaceship. As for the Nox, I can give you their homeworld address, but it is unlikely they'll show themselves if you go with weapons. Their people are long lived but they cannot live more than eight hundred years at most so they won't recognize me off hand. And even if I give you the Asgard homeworld address, your gate lacks sufficient power requirements to dial an eight symbol address to another galaxy which as I've stated, I cannot give you."

General Hammond said he'd like whatever I can give them including the gate addresses to all known worlds to match them up with the Abydos ones or more if there are any. I nodded and asked. "Would you like the laws and customs of the ancients? I know them, some basic stuff like gate addresses and my fields of expertise. Oh, and this, apparently your people send an expedition team to Atlantis in a few years and without me there, the city's shields will fail, the ocean it's at the bottom of will rush in and most will die. A Dr.Elizabeth Weir survived and stayed behind to rotate the potentia, the ancient's power source, so the city's shields held longer. Janus and I set the city to rise should power failure be eminent, but it requires I be there or the clamps holding the city to the ocean floor will not release."

General Hammond was shocked before asking. "How did she-"

I shrugged. "Time travel. Janus was always experimenting with forbidden technology. He built a gate ship capable of jumping through time and she used it to get to the past to change it and save her people. She will be very old by the time we arrive and will need immediate medical attention once we take her out of stasis. Her body will not last long, but I may be able to help her ascend if I'm there so that she need not die in vain."

He nodded before asking if I had Atlantis's gate address. I frowned. "I knew it, but it's gone."

I looked up. "The others must've hidden it in my subconscious with all my locked memories. I don't understand why, but perhaps it's for the best that you have to find it on your own. Things easily obtained are hardly ever fully appreciated and the city ship of the ancients is worth appreciating, even Drogon-"

My words ceased as pain swam into my thoughts. Emotions and and trauma newly remade. I blocked it out and the pain faded before I rubbed my head again. "Sorry, I'd rather not talk about the past anymore."

General Hammond said he understood before dismissing us and asking that I share what I can with them later. I went to the gate control room and began working on machine code which shut down the gate for a time. General Hammond and the rest came down as I was near finishing and asked what I was doing. I told him evenly. "I'm putting in all the gate addresses and using the planetary shift algorithm along with the gate's internal computer to make a full star map of all the gates in the galaxy alongside the reasons those that are inactive are that way. Don't want to dial into a blackhole now do you?"

Jack asked. "That would be bad I take it?"

I nodded. "Very bad, unless you have sufficient shield technology to use it in a manner as a power source which would cost you a gate. I was never into shields myself so you'll have to figure that one out on your own."

Sam asked what would happen so I told them in exact detail how the gravitational pull would create a distortion bubble of time spaces and such everything, including the planets and solar system into the stargate while it expands and creates a blackhole on this end before the gate crushes itself and shuts off. I told them we'd be dead long before that happens though or they would be. I'd be stuck in a blackhole constantly regenerating and being crushed to death for eternity.

Daniel asked how I knew that and I grunted. "Suffice it to say I got curious and if not for the ancients advanced teleportation technology I would be in one still right now. It was…unpleasant to experience being torn apart, crushed, suffocated and only to start over and over again for ages. I was gone all of five days in the core before they were able to pull me out and yet it felt like all of my life a thousand times over."

I tapped the last key and the stargate systems started back up again with all the addresses in the Milky Way. I turned to them. "Talk about going insane. It took me several years to relearn how to speak and eat properly. But hey, they learned enough about blackholes to know that they aren't the fun little space swirls they pretend to be."

Jack grunted. "No kidding."

I shrugged. "It took me a while to come to terms with everything and let it go before I was able to ascend. Unlike most ancients I didn't want help ascending because it was a point of pride. Still, a thousand years alone in a cave and I'd let go of everything that tied me to the physical plane I think. I had to have done it or I wouldn't have ascended. Funny that I don't remember doing so, but it doesn't matter now."

I grunted. "I descended because I wouldn't be controlled by hypocrites who'd stopped on the path of ascension and were content to sit there and judge everyone below or who'd reached their level, dictating what they were to do with their ascended powers or not while interfering themselves. Call it a disagreement of standards if you want, but that much I do remember. If they won't help and they won't let others help as ascended, I ask you, what's the point? To watch humans and others struggle and toil, judging them as beneath you because they haven't done something in a few thousand years that it took their own people a hundred million years and genetic alterations to achieve?"

Thunder rumbled and we heard it even here in a deep underground complex. I grunted and looked to the ceiling. "Bite me. You don't want me to come back up there and smite your asses either. I'm not breaking your rules so go sit on a pike."

I shook my head and turned back to General Hammond. "Sorry about that, but apparently I'm being carefully monitored because they think I'll break their rules even in human form."

Daniel asked. "Isn't it against their rules to interfere. I mean, you're human now."

I shrugged. "They're hypocrites and they feared me fighting back as an ascended. As a human they can't kill me because my body is beyond even their powers to destroy, but they can force a full mind wipe or suppression to revert me to a blank slate if I remember everything. They bend and break their own rules as a collective and as the creator of them they know best how to get around them when needed."

Jack grunted. "I think I suddenly understand why you left them."

He looked up and it was silent entirely. I grunted. "Anyways, the gate addresses are in the computer alongside the Furling, Asgard and Nox home-worlds. You might want to send teams to the Furling home-worlds if they aren't completely taken over, but remember, a non hostile unarmed delegation to the Nox home world if it's not under goa'uld control. They'll hide the gate if they think you're a threat."

General Hammond nodded and I left it at that before going to the laptop Daniel provided for the laws and stuff about ancients. I typed in machine code and spent a good deal of time there before it was time to ship out for my first mission. On it, I saved Sam from being a rape statistic by a Mongolian warlord because a boy traded her for gold.

I killed the warlord and all his men that tried to fight back before Jack and Daniel pulled the arrows out of me. Sam said she had it and I shrugged. "Sure, but you have nothing to prove and you aren't a solo act. Jack said to get you back by any means necessary and you being raped to death by a Mongolian horde would've put a damper on my mission. Sure, you could kill the chief, but then you and his daughter would be passed around until you were dead or a new chief was chosen. There was no way you were getting out of there with here on your own so I gave them a bigger target and threat to hit."

She thanked me later with a kiss on the cheek.