Ch.67

After I was in, we had to run and shoot to keep as asses from being eaten. Once we were ready, I connected with the replicators minds and took all they knew while hiding my presence from the subspace link. I took in more information in one go than the entire ancient repository twice over. When it came down to a firefight, I groaned as I waved a hand and all the replicators in our side of the ship were reduced to blocks. I passed out and woke up on a tropical beach.

Thor stayed around long enough to thank us before he was picked up by his people. As for the way home, we had to wait until the second stargate was in place. So two weeks on a tropical beach wasn't all that it was cracked up to be. It was a long two weeks in which Sam and I fell back into old havits not to be spoken of outside of our miniature vacation.

When we returned to the SGC, I grabbed a shower as the first thing without debriefing. Once I was scrubbed clean and no longer looking part mummified, I used cocoa butter and felt much better. I shaved my head and trimmed the beard down to my usual light fade before dressing in clothes that didn't smell like a pirates armpit. I enjoyed that Sam enjoyed watching me dress in the locker room, but it was all behind us and we'd both agreed as much.

When we got to our vacation point to actually take a vacation, the Pentagon called with a Russian submarine, pictures of some replicators and a dead Russian crew. I looked over the pictures and asked if there was any video. They said no so I sighed. "You're looking at maybe one or two bugs from the ship. The rest are made out of the submarine which is less sophisticated materials that would likely short out when introduced into sea water if they don't rust to pieces. Destroy the original one or two bugs and you can sink the submarine without the rest being able to escape."

I turned to Major Davis and grunted. "If you even think about keeping them for study, let me remind you that the Asgard did the same and they're on the brink of losing an intergalactic war against them with their own technology being used against them as well. They'll eat through this world and everything made of metal, even if it's radioactive, will be turned into them before they move on and leave humanity dead in the water like they should be. That's my expert opinion on the matter, just FYI."

Major Davis nodded saying it was noted before Thor came through the gate asking for help. I shrugged, agreeing to go along with Sam who wanted to. They had their answers here and I wasn't about to tango with more bugs up close, telling them the last time I was in a coma for a day and nearly died. We left with Thor and he gave us the nickel tour before showing us the O'Niell and telling us we were going to face three replicator controlled ships and prevent them from continuing on to the planet.

By time we reached the ships, the Asgard Vessels were destroyed. Seeing the replicator's ships, I asked Thor. "Can you upload new command codes into the replicators?"

Thor shook his head and I narrowed my eyes before sighing. "Do you have a way of reviving my body and repairing it if I overuse my mental abilities regardless of the physical cost?"

He asked curiously. "To what end?"

I grimaced. "Theirs. If you can get the ship close enough to all three of those ships and beam or create one replicator here, I can tap into their subspace network, forcing them to my will very briefly. With it I can unleash a new command over the subspace link, overriding their own like I did before and forcing them to become inert. The likely outcome is an extreme and violent seizure, coma or death of my current body, albeit temporarily if you can revive me, but I want it to be in this body."

He nodded slowly. "It is possible to repair the physical damage done, but your yourself will still suffer an extreme mental backlash."

I nodded. "Then do it. Get us close and create or beam over a replicator. Just make sure Sam has a shotgun just in case."

He created the ordinance and prepared a healing chamber for me before getting us close enough. Once he beamed over a replicator, the other three ships opened fire on the shields. I connected and made them stop before groaning and holding my hands over the replicator. I linked with the subspace link and fully took control of them very briefly.

Light green from me and I lashed out, destroying all the replicators on all four ships. I managed a bloody smile before it was lights out. I woke up in the chamber with the mother of all migraines. Sam said I'd had a combination of an aneurism, stroke and seizure with a heart attack that while repaired, had me out for three days.

She said the ships were recovered and the replicators were destroyed, but it was all Thor could do to keep me from dying permanently within the first day. She told me they'd saved Jack and Teal'c while Thor had us in orbit over earth at the moment. I got out of the medical bed and Thor told me that whatever I did, it wiped out half the replicators in his galaxy and my body kept flickering between pure energy and a solid state. He said he'd not heard of such a thing since the ancients were around.

I gave him a droll stare saying I had their blood in my veins so it wasn't hard to figure out I was likely pushing the cusp of ascension physically with my mental capacity. I asked if he had any water and ibuprofen. After a fist full of headache medication and some water, I grunted, saying my body needs nourishment on a serious scale. I told him I need to replenish the blood lost and the energy I'd spent.

He handed me a gritty power bar packed with enough vitamins to make a normal person sick but he'd said it was everything my body needed in one bar. I ate it and felt better almost instantly so I finished my water and asked if he needed anymore dumb ideas. He shook his head saying the Asgard had it for now at least.

I suggested he attempt to force the replicators come together instead of tearing them apart, like a mass of neutronium and other alloys fighting to maintain their shape by occupying the same space. I told him with that one could in theory at least, destroy them in one blow if they knew how to achieve extreme particle fusion on a sun quantum realm. I shrugged. "The blast would wipe out a star system, but the replicators would be destroyed. If nothing else you could always use the device the ancients used to start life in the millet way galaxy and link all the stargates up, firing it on a frequency that would severe the subatomic bonds of the individual replicator blocks on an intergalactic scale."

Thor asked if I knew where the device was and I shook my head. "No, but then I haven't been able to access the information stored in my subconscious either because it's too much and could turn me into a brain dead fool. If you could somehow link the ship's computers with my subconscious, you could look for yourself with key words."

He thought it over before shaking his head. "Your mind has been through too much stress and with you now just awakening, you'll need to recover before such an attempt could be made without making the damage irreversible. The odds of getting anything of use before it kills you is very slim for now. Let us take the win and recover before making our next move."

He sent us down and weeks passed before the Eurondans contacted us. Something about the way Alar said Kindred set my teeth on edge. Still, I held my tongue before telling them I'd go and keep myself cloaked just in case all is not as it seems. General Hammond agreed to the extra precautions and we went through the gate.

They carried medical pills that recovered even their sickest to full health alongside food and supplies. I read their minds and watched as everything went down, warning Sam and Teal'c as they went back about the Eurondans having started the war as a preemptive strike by poisoning the planet's atmosphere. I reported to General Hammond and all I said was racist Nazis. He asked what we could do to stop the war and get the gate into the right hands.

I told him I could knock them out and take over, the facility, take their technology and knowledge for ourselves, contact the other size and tell them everything before setting up air filtration balloons to cleanse the poison from the atmosphere within a few days. He agreed to that path over the more violent one so I told him I'd need extra hands to search and zip tie them all for weapons. He gave us two teams and when we went back, Sam told Jack there's been a change in plans. All the locals fell unconscious and the two squads of SG members got to work.

I set to work making contact with the other side and stopping the fighting. Seeing a black man on the screen surprised them enough to stop bombing and listen. I told them about the stargate, the origin of their people and how it fell into the Nazi's hands. I explained earth had similar people in a war before they were beaten and scattered.

I told them we took over the facility and were preparing to send out special weather balloons with air purifiers to clean the poison from their world and water purifiers would be next if they want to stay or not if they want to start over on a new world free of the past. Weather balloons were launched repeatedly over the course of hours as the thick poison in the air soon dissipated. Hundreds of balloons circled the globe and positioned themselves at my command before taking in most of the poison in hours.

I made contact with the other side again and told them to give it three days and the atmosphere should be repaired and cleaned of all toxins, though the ground and water would still be contaminated until we can set up purifiers there as well. They thanked me before I turned them over to Jack and he filled them in on the mix up with the Nazis. He told them they could move in and retrieve them whenever they're ready and meet us peacefully to discuss how they wish to move forwards. Soon enough many people entered the facility through hatches I directed them to.

I wasn't surprised to see they were people of many races and colors. We backed off since we had what we came for and I told them the facility was theirs now, but we'd like to show them the stargate and how to contact us when their people were ready. They agreed and thanked us before following us to the gate. There we gave them our gate address and told them how to contact us with Alar's video communications device.

I told them that our world is like theirs only less open war over racism and more diplomacy. I told them I'd bring the water purifiers and ground solution, but the solution would destroy whatever's on the ground, growing plants from the super fertilizer created in it's wake. Again they thanked us and I wished them luck in whatever they decided. A couple days later after I'd given General Hammond all the Eurondan's technology, I returned with a diplomatic team and brought the water purifiers.

I went out with them and dropped a purifier in all the lakes across the planet before sending out drones full of solution to mix with clouds. It rained all over for days as destroyed cities melted into goo and forests regrew from them practically overnight. We worked together to restore their world and clean it all up. Soon a quick scan showed the world was as clean as earth was nowadays.

Then came the rebuilding which we provided help doing over time. They too were Eurondans as it turns out and the Nazis were all put in prison, pulled from their sleeping tanks and imprisoned for war crimes. We really didn't have an issue with that. Instead we offered trade deals and agreed to continue helping them rebuild their civilization.

They were given the vaccines and all our medical knowledge as well as plenty of help from Armor Tech in the rebuilding process's back on earth there was an entire company division devoted to charity building houses for homeless, apartments and entire state of the art villages wherever needed. Here they did the same and did it fast. We endeared them to us and even earned their respect. Eventually we had to leave it up to them since their world was theirs again and they had farms with unlimited crop yields so there was no lack of food or clean water anymore.

The weather balloons were put away with the UAVs while the water purifiers remained. They'd moved the stargate close to their country's capital and our diplomats got a treaty with them. They had all the technology the Nazis had before except the knowledge we'd made a copy of so we were all square on that front. As for their own technology, they were more than willing to share in exchange for other technology like the genetically modified crop seeds and the goo we'd used.

Both we're easily made available while the politicians took over. Weeks flew by as I dug into my own work, making sure the scientific advances of humanity was being made as a whole and not just in one country. To this end I monitored the heads of every field and made sure they all got the knowledge and were working towards understanding it. A lot more was released in the form of online games made like the wormhole extreme show that Martin Lloyd had made.

Factual scientific knowledge imbedded in the games as problem solving issues and everything as entire countries were playing such games. The virtual reality system came with the game free of charge and the experience was revolutionizing the gaming industry as well as many fields of science. When Anise showed up, I introduced her to the others, telling them her host's name was Freya. Anise said not anymore because the body was a clone of Freya.

I nodded and apologized but she dismissed it saying Freya was off on other council business elsewhere at the moment. She brought four Atanik armbands and I asked to see her notes on them. She passed them over and I read through them rapidly before closing the book and reading the armband in front of me. "It says: With great power comes great responsibility and the ability to effect great consequences."

Anise nodded and k looked to her before telling them. "The armbands release a virus into the bloostream that temporarily enhances the individuals to superhuman levels, but eventually the immune system adapts and fights it off so the warriors are left exhausted and likely in the middle of battle which is most likely how the Atanik's came to fall by the goa'uld, they were simply overrun once all their warriors were immune to the virus."

General Hammond asked if it was lethal and I shook my head. "No,but puts a lot of stress on the body and if they fall off in the middle of battle you're screwed. Since each person's body has a different immune speed and it's an alien virus, odds are we'll burn it off quickly with the vaccines in us."

I turned to Anise. "Still, you need to stop pretending we're children in a ploy to get us to do what you want. You may have an advanced clone's mind, but you've no idea how to conceal your thoughts from me."

She glared at me and came out about Apophis's new mothership. We looked over the specs and General Hammond asked if it could be done. I shook my head. "Not with stealth and not quickly. It's well defended, but we can take it with the new suits. We shouldn't run into resistance after we take out those guarding the gate. I can conceal us from there, but it'll take time to get passed the shields in each hall and corridor. Still, it's something that needs doing."

General Hammond agreed, just not while on alien technology. We went to the planet and it had several quakes from the suits taking damage as we killed the Jaffa. I stored their weapons and armor before moving on, taking the two staff cannons before we entered the ship's facilities. From there I got to take out two guards and retrieve some weapons grade naquadah which was stored in a capsule.

We systematically made our way to the core by disabling each of the ship's corridor shields along the way while killing the Jaffa as needed. Once we got there, I told them to run back because I was faster and secure the way out. They agreed and I set the charges, hauling ass at a dead run and meeting them at the gate. We saw the ship blow just before we stepped through the gate and had General Hammond close the Iris.

I gave Anise a scowl and Jack told General Hammond the target was destroyed and I'd picked up a few toys along the way. I gave him the capsule case. "All the weapons and armor of the Jaffa along with the staff cannons and some weapons grade naquadah. A bonus of sorts I guess."

General Hammond nodded. "Good man."

I shrugged saying I was going to medical before the debriefing so I didn't have to do it later. After a quick medical checkup, I sat through the debriefing and gave my account of it before sitting through the armband testing Anise still wanted to do. The armbands worked and it was at an accelerated rate. I made a buffet in the mess hall before doing my work at super speeds, finishing all my projects and writing thousands of books, articles and scientific advancements on my laptop.

Unlike Sam's, my computer could keep up so when she came to my lab to borrow it, I suggested she read everything on there and fully catch up. She did so for several hours before she knew and understood all the Tollan's sciences, the goa'uld technology and language, the ancients language since I got a dictionary out of Jack for them and so much more. Everything Armor Tech had worked on or was brought back and studied from the gate was there.

Hell, even the Nazi technology was all there and Sam had learned it all. I wasn't entirely idle in that time either, I'd built a mark two naquadah reactor, an ion generator like the Asgard use and teleporters of many designs including a ring platform. When Sam finished, she gave into the impulsiveness of the armbands that lowers inhibitions. She and I ended up causing mini quakes of our own in the showers and my spare room.

She was sleeping it off in the destroyed bed while I showered and dressed. Janet checked on her while I upgraded the base's security even more, taking out the windows and putting in reinforced thick walls with cameras all over the gate room and screens on the opposite sides of the walls so they can see the gate room from every angle down to the microscopic particles if they so choose. I gave the gate a hydraulic lift so that it could face straight up and lay flat if necessary to prevent enemies from coming through or enemy fire from hitting the gate room and instead firing straight up through the roof opening which does retract and is already reinforced.

Next I added a grid in the gate room that had retractable spikes running along the floor and walls while ensuring the cameras were extremely well protected. Just as morning came, Sam joined me in finishing a program that would prevent outside AI's or energy based lifeforms from entering our systems from the MALPs or gate. Essentially make it impenetrable before Sam and I had a large breakfast with Jack and Daniel.

Jack said the whole base could feel us crazy kids going at it. Sam blushed and I finished my drink before dragging her off for more, not caring since the anti-quake inhibiters in the base now prevented such things from effecting others. Still, it's not like we didn't give it our best until the arm bands fell off just before we had to report in for checkups.

Sam and I lay there panting for a while as she collapsed on my chest. I held her as my head cleared and eventually we recovered. She went to slide off of me and I told her not to. She looked at me and I sat up, kissing her, enjoying the feel of us.

I told her whatever it was that keeps bringing us back together, we'd likely never be normal, so I wanted us to be whatever we can be. She sighed saying it wasn't how things were supposed to go. I shook my head saying I didn't care anymore, so long as we had whatever it was that keeps bringing us back together there was no chance we'd be able to get back to the supposed to's and should be's.

I grabbed her ass and lifted her, burying myself to the hilt in her slick, cum filled heat. Her breath caught and we we back at it, making me damned glad I was a civilian and even if I wasn't we'd be the same rank. She moaned as we finished and I just held her while she said we should at least use condoms from now on. I grunted and kissed her neck saying I'd wear a clown suit if that's what she needed, but condoms were a simple matter.

She snorted lightly while I massaged her breasts and worked her clit until she climaxed in a squirting creamy fashion. Once she was done bucking in my arms, I slid out of bed saying we should shower and get to medical to let them know we were back to normal. She agreed, telling me to go first because she was comfortably numb and if we went together we might never get to medical. I chuckled lightly and pulled on some pants before telling her seriously that we could stop as soon as she no longer wanted to continue with whatever we had.

She nodded slowly and I kissed her before heading to the showers. I stopped by the room to grab the arm bands while she was getting in the shower and headed to medical. Janet didn't ask while Anise checked us over. She said the virus was out of our systems, but there was something wrong with me because I was stronger and faster than before the armbands, but not as strong and fast as the armbands had made us.

I told her of my mutated gene that adapts to different levels of stress and that the virus's stress on my body wasn't as much as it was for Sam and the rest, so I likely didn't advance too far because of it, but more than I was before. I left it at that and went on a mini vacation off world to gather raw naquadah for myself on the planet I'd spent a hundred days mining naquadah. This time I brought capsules and worked on my own while the other teams mining asteroids with their gate ships ignored me. On the bright side my ship was the first thing I'd upgraded to have it's own DHD and Iris code beacon.

It had a lot more than that including phase shifting technology and a beacon for contacting other allies if need be, but then for my work I didn't mind. I harvested an asteroid the size of Texas and more than eighty percent naquadah the entire time I was there it took a few weeks to get it all with the crystal tech that refined it, but once I was done, I Bobba Fett jet packed my way back to my gate ship and flew out of there. I arrived and heard the news of Tanith and how he killed Teal'c's lover friend.

I patted Teal'c on the shoulder and told him Selmak or one of the others was likely monitoring his mind so they can use him before killing him. Teal'c agreed and I sighed, telling him I'd observe the Jaffa fasting tradition with him and meditate with him. He thanked me and we meditated for several days. I learned a great deal about the Alterans and passed it all on to Mewtwo.

It would take a very long time even with my mental capabilities to safely digest it all, but from then on I'd replace sleep with meditation. When Za'tarc technology came to be known after an SGC member nearly killed the Tok'ra high councilor, General Hammond made it a mandatory screening and asked that I do said screening. I wasn't happy about it, but it was necessary because I was more thorough than the Tok'ra technology they'd brought.

To that effect, I was able to find three Za'tarcs amongst the SGC members and helped them by erasing the subconscious programming directives. When it came to the Tok'ra, they reluctantly agreed to submit to my mental exams to be sure because even their own clone minds seemed susceptible to the same technology. I found only two amongst them, Jolinar and Martouf. It was difficult because of their own minds rejecting and defending themselves, but I was able to remove the programming and save their lives with their help.

The summit went like planned and no incidents occurred while the Za'tarc weapons had been found and dealt with. I was soon in high demand by both sides because I'd sworn to keep the secrets of the Tok'ra so long as they do not put earth or it's people on jeopardy. By the time I left to go on the mission that caused a time loop with the team, I was already mentally exhausted from constant checks.

I was definitely in need of a break and a break I got when I ended up in the loop with Jack and Teal'c. I acted like normal and enjoyed the ride because each time it restarted I woke up with Sam in an amorous mood bobbing below the sheets with a late start. I asked the same questions and just meditated while Jack and Teal'c screwed around, getting months of meditation out of the way as I learned all there was to know of the ancients or as much as I could in those months of repeated days.

When it was over, Jack asked why I hadn't helped before since I'd admitted to remembering. I shrugged. "It was more like a dream for me. I figured I was sleeping mostly because I was left alone after the meetings."

They were gobsmacked and General Hammond asked how many loops there were. I shrugged. "About four months give or take a day or two. I wasn't really counting and instead meditating to hopefully actively gain access to my subconscious. No luck, but my mental abilities did improve a lot unless this is a dream as well."

Jack snorted. "It's not."

I shrugged. "Then I apologized for leaving you to an awful fate with no consequences for four months. Whatever did you do in all that time anyways?"

He didn't have an answer for that, though he did smile at Sam. I shrugged and left it at that knowing that even if he kissed her, her lips were occupied wrapped around me moments later and the morning before. Soon we dealt with the Russians stargate program and got to capture Maybourne out of it. The Russians had retrieved the stargate we'd used to get off Thor's ship so they'd tried their hand at running a stargate program and pissed off an alien race.

I got to scan the seemingly underwater race and planet as I spoke with them telepathically and explained our innocence and why we'd come. They weren't happy, but they were highly intelligent and understood we were a young race meaning no harm. I suggested they bury their gate so non of them are harmed once they released us and let me scan their planet. They seemed to agree and I passed on to them all the knowledge of earth and that obtained from the stargate since the program's inception.

They weren't as interested in everything as I thought they'd be, just wanting to be left alone mostly. Still, they appreciated the sentiment and gave me the knowledge of their people and culture. They didn't use technology so it was mostly cultural stuff Daniel found fascinating when we were returned to earth. I told the others how the race experimented with their molecular structure and evolved into aquatic energy beings which covered their planet.

Weeks later I was with Daniel on a dig off world when an Unas tried to attack. I knocked it out and read it's mind before getting a grasp of it's language. When Daniel stopped the military types from killing it, I stopped and stood up. "As of right now we're under quarantine. The primordial goa'uld live in the lakes on this planet so anyone whose gone near it will submit to questioning. Let the Unas go for now, we have bigger things to worry about."

The military personnel immediately obeyed my orders and had everyone sit down so I could do a mental exam. I had them do the same and that included Daniel and the scientists. I removed all weapons and went to them one by one, letting those free up to grab weapons. In the end two of the personnel including one doctor and a Lieutenant were carrying symbiotes. I dropped their asses and we tied them up.

I told them to pack up camp and have them sent back only to return wearing full body armor. The major in charge saw to my orders and I told Daniel that if he wants to stay he wears full body armor at all times. He agreed and suited up before joining me with the Unas. I told him telepathically of the language and customs of the Unas.

I told him a small tribe lived not more than five miles away in some caves and this one intended to capture and take him back to eat as a coming of age ceremony. Chaka woke up and Daniel spoke to him in his own language while I lit a fire and we spoke Unas. I gave Chaka a sword and used another to cut several trees down in one swing. He accepted it and held it reverently before wearing it like I did.

Daniel gave him a lighter and we got a bracelet and bone necklace respectively. I told Chaka to wield the sword with honor and it would never fail him. He ended up killing the alpha male of his tribe and becoming the alpha male with said sword. We went back to the SGC where Dr.Rothman and Lieutenant Hawkins had the primordial goa'uld's in them removed.

I told General Hammond everything including meeting the Unas Chaka and making friends. I told him I'd traded a sword for the armband and Daniel had given him a lighter for the necklace as was the Unas custom. I explained how Chaka became the alpha leader just before we left so there shouldn't be problems from him so long as we stay away from the caves as he was highly intelligent. As for the goa'uld, Daniel told them the naquadah wasn't in them which confirms that using it in their blood to control technology seemed to be it's only purpose and made it harder to detect the symbiote's off world.

We soon visited the Enkarans whom we'd saved and helped relocate. When it'd been a month since they'd finished being relocated so I wasn't surprised when another villager came running asking for help. We saw the terraforming ship, I scanned it from as far as the gate before telling them. "It's a terraforming ship. Whoever it is, they're more advanced than the goa'uld from my readings. I'm going to contact them and hope they're feeling reasonable."

We were soon beamed aboard the ship and found it was breathable so I lowered my helmet. Daniel said they were expecting us and we met with Lotan, an organic based Enkaran ambassador of sorts from the ship. I asked if he could halt the ship temporarily until we can work out a solution so that both the Enkarans and those he represents can both survive. He said it was possible, but the ship would eventually have to continue it's process.

When he told us of the Gadmeer, Daniel said it was fascinating and he'd love to study some of it. Lotan offered translations and I agreed, asking if he could connect via subspace to my computer port and download all the knowledge he's free to share with us. He tapped the screens and the ship did as requested. I smiled before taking it all in as electricity sparked between my hands and my computer.

It was literally everything the ships had on the Gadmeer from their language to their technology. I sighed, understanding everything before asking for the planets scanned by the ship for terraforming. Daniel asked why and I told him. "If this ship needs this specific environment then odds are it's scanned most of the galaxy before settling on this one. If it has then I can hopefully find the original Enkaran home world from it's databanks and if the ship and Lotan are willing, they can drop the Enkarans off at home or we can arrange for the Tok'ra to pick them up and do so."

Lotan agreed and the scans all came into my mind before saying I'd found it. I moved to the screen Lotan tapped on and brought up the Enkaran home world. Lotan was surprised I'd adapted so fast and I told him to have the ship scan me and he'd understand why. He did so and found I was a genetic marvel as he put it.

I mentioned the Enkarans and Jack suggested we all go and give them the choice. I asked to stay with the ship for a bit and continue the exchange of knowledge. Lotan agreed to allow it and left with the others so I shared everything with the ship's computer, from Goa'uld to Ancients and all the technology and history in between. I copied all of the ancient's database into the ship's computer with some modifications to it's data storage capabilities. When I'd given it all the knowledge I had, I beamed down to the others as happy as a cucumber or however the saying went.

The Enkarans were more than happy to go home so I asked Lotan to take the stargate and DHD onto the ship before the process begins so that we may keep in contact once the Gadmeer people are reborn. He agreed and we left after seeing the Enkarans were beamed up from all over. We headed home ourselves and I sent files to all those who needed to know about the Gadmeer people, culture and technology. Sadly even my body wasn't capable of speaking their language, so the written translations were given and a dictionary of sorts was made.

As for the knowledge of the planets, I mad a 3D hologram device of the entire galaxy and all the planets scanned by the Gadmeer ship, noting those with stargates, those with goa'uld's, Nox, Enkarans, every race I recognized by the scanned descriptions or technology. Those the SGC had been to were marked and designated as well, adding all the data from the new planetary MALP scans I'd finished making the day before. All the worlds we'd visited or knew of and had scans for were added to the mix where the Gadmeer ship didn't have scans so a good portion of the billions of planets in the galaxy was mapped out for us.

Hell, even some scans of black holes and other things were there as well. I worked on it for weeks before we ended up in a domed city on a planet going through an ice age. I spoke to the slaves keeping the city warm telepathically, freeing those with memory stamps and knocking out the guards. Soon there was an uprising and the leader of the city responsible for enslaving them was tossed off his ivory tower head first into the ground far below, though not by the former slaves, but by his own people.

See, he'd been memory stamp happy on more than just the slaves. As for those not wanting to live on a planet going through an ice age, they were given the gate address to a tropical beach planet and told how to get there. We went home since the slaves were headed there regardless of what happens to those in the city. They pretty much all fled to the tropical planet except the guards who were stuck unconscious in the slave place with no way of knowing about it all.

I'd obtained the technology and metallurgy methods used so there was no more reason to visit that planet again. In the meantime Osiris tried his hand at escaping earth in one of Daniel's archeology friend/ex lover. He was caught and removed, or so I was told. Sarah was released with a NDA signed and was meant to be sent home after Daniel gave her the tour where as it turns out Osiris she'd it's skin and escaped capture so she knocked out Daniel and temporarily took over the control room long enough to disable the defenses and escape through the gate.

Yeah, that didn't look so good on our record but then I was off world mining my own Trinium. When I returned, Selmak came needing our help to stop an alliance between Heru'er and Apophis. He said he and the Tok'ra could do it, but they'd recently come across information that Teal'c had been captured by Heru'er while trying to inspire his people into rising against the goa'uld and Heru'er plans to give him to Apophis as a gesture of good faith so we needed a rescue mission agreed to as well while everything's going on and they'd like me to act as a telepathic broadcaster to let one side's Tok'ra know if they're in danger from the other.

It was all very delicate, but I did agree and I told Daniel his translations were off because the Phoenicians didn't have zero in their number system, but to make something so sophisticated they'd have had to add it. Sam agreed and Daniel changed his translation before we finished the meeting. We arrived with two cloaked cargo ships and a cloaked gate ship to save Teal'c and any Tok'ra in danger. I meditated and connected with the Tok'ra minds, warning those on Heru'er's ship that Apophis didn't plan on agreeing to shit because he planned to kill Heru'er here and let the armada of cloaked ships take the beating.

Sam and the others finished rather quickly and I warned them what was about to happen before helping the Tok'ra on Heru'er's ship escape. I contacted Teal'c's mind and gave him the strength to endure the physical torture while telling him what was going to happen and how to escape. Jack was leading a rescue operation so he'd be there soon with my guidance. They saved Teal'c and spared the Jaffa while his torturer died, beheaded by my blade I'd sent with Jack.

They made it off barely in time for Heru'er to be destroyed by Apophis. I took over the cloaked gate ship and sent all ten cloaked naquadah enhanced nuclear phase missiles at the fleet protecting Apophis's escape. No Tok'ra were killed in the ensuing violence, but most of the mine field was destroyed in the process. Apophis's ship managed to escape and even with the fleet destroyed, they were barely manned ships meant to be sacrificed in the end.

We left and Teal'c was healed before he thanked me for the strength to endure. I nodded saying there was no way I wouldn't have helped him. I told him that even if earth stopped fighting the goa'uld now that they're safe, he wouldn't be alone in his fight because I could and would leave earth to fight and stand by his side. He clasped my arm and we both bowed our heads at the unspoken words.

I spent the next few weeks working on my 3D model device and upgrading the shield technology all around the base to beyond Tollan capabilities to penetrate. It took more energy, but I was able to upgrade the solar reactor as well while the system drained the backup cells. When they were all drained, it switched to the solar reactor again while I upgraded the backup power cells. Soon they were just as efficient as a mark three naquadah reactor which hadn't been invented yet.

I only stopped my work to see the blood stained note. I took it, scanned it and told them it was from the future as even the ink had traces of elements not on earth at this time. I told them it was definitely Jack's handwriting and the blood was Jack's but there was something in it. General Hammond asked what and I told him to give me a couple hours to break it down and find out what the compound is and does.

He nodded and told the others that he was scrubbing that mission for now. I told him not to just yet, but to put a hold on it and I'd go myself, cloaked to find out what the danger is. He hesitated before agreeing and I got to work on the blood analysis, breaking down the compound before rebuilding it from scratch with the same state had it been without being broken down by the body.

When we had the debriefing, I set the capped vial on the table and told them. "It's a chemical compound meant to extend the human lifespan by a century at least. Sadly whoever made it had far darker intentions."

I waved a hand and the device in the center showed a breakdown of the compound. "The compound has been modified to target and sterilize the human reproductive organs leaving whoever takes it with double their natural lifespan but like the pesticide we found before, entirely sterilized and more thoroughly. I've gone over every compound and even my own healing capabilities, the sarcophagus, everything. Nothing seems capable of reversing the effects."

I turned to General Hammond. "Likely the inhabitants of the planet I'm about to head to engineered it as a subtle way to wipe out earth's population or possibly used it before on others and simply made it a part of the package of their fake alliance with earth. However it went down, approximately ten years in the future a version of Jack died getting the message to us."

Sam asked. "A version?"

I nodded. "The DNA had none of the vaccines Armor Tech invented in it so unless this solution wiped it out, the future Jack was from an alternate timeline which makes sense because Armor Tech or I would have easily been able to decipher the compound. Likely I was killed off in that timeline or never was born, who knows. My point is both planets exist and whoever made this fully intended on genocide on a global scale through attrition. The way this drug compound is made, there's no other possible explanation at all. If it weren't so screwed up, I'd call it a work of art."

General Hammond agreed and told me to be careful. I nodded and told him that I intended to take all they had of that's their intentions. He agreed and dialed up the gate, sending a cloaked MALP through. When the gate was confirmed upright and not shielded, I went through in full armor and cloaked myself on the other side. I sent the MALP back through and told General Hammond I'd see what I can find and contact him in five hours exactly.

I moved fast as the gate shut off, finding farmers and reading their minds about the Aschen. I saw some Aschen checking the DHD and read their minds before teleporting to their harvester ship above. I hacked into their computers, taking everything they knew and had here before knocked the Aschen on the harvester out. I took it and all the harvesters on the planet, knocking all the Aschen out after reading their minds.

I knew enough and worked quickly, but I was far from done. I went to their home world and took all they knew, leaving a virus to wipe out all their technology as I left, heading to the last world and the one we'd have gone to before had I not done anything. I took all the harvesters and knocked out the Aschen before leaving a gate address burned into the ground by the gate.

The locals had all been told telepathically on both planets what really happened and the Aschen being knocked out and left to them didn't bode well at all. I contacted earth at the five hour mark and came home. I told everyone in the conference room about the Aschen. I told them how they worked, what they'd done and how I just royally fucked them.

I told them as I passed the case of capsules to General Hammond. "All the harvesters and technology. I downloaded translations on the harvester computers. Each one is a portable lab amongst other things though they have weapon capabilities in the form of bioengineered bomb making technology onboard. I'd say for a civilization like ours they'd likely drop a bomb through our gate and watch us all die within hours of exposure."

I shrugged. "They're a patient race that's wiped out two worlds so far and left only a few thousand descendants with no culture to farm their own worlds for them. You tell me if we should make contact or not."

General Hammond grimaced asking if I'd taken all they knew. I nodded and smiled. "It's enough to bridge the gap between ours, the Goa'uld and the Tollans technology along with so much more. They were quite advanced which likely came with having no morals and being mass murdering psychopaths as an entire race. Sadly I couldn't get ahold of one of their ships, but all their knowledge is ours now."

I put it in my computer and transferred the files. All of the biological warfare stuff was immediately labeled classified and sent to the Pentagon. It was deemed too dangerous to even attempt being used, though the basic science was already within our grasp from the Tollans since I'd taken all they'd known as well. Hell, the scanners that disabled weapons was a major seller of Armor Tech's.

All the governments and most major companies paid for such installations into their buildings all over the world. As for the Aschen, all three worlds associated with them were locked out of the dialing programs on our end. General Hammond knew I'd left the gate address to a black hole so if the Aschen dial it, all three worlds in the same solar system would be sucked in and fucked. The best part is that they had no idea who did all of it.

We soon met Shifu on Abydos who wanted to meet Daniel and the one he called his little brother. He was the son of Apophis and Amonet, but he wanted to see and hear from Daniel about his last true ties to the mortal coil. I smiled when I met Shifu after they brought him back. He smiled at me and I spoke with him telepathically.

I learned he was already ascended and beyond powerful mentally, but that not beyond my power as he showed me. I thanked him and Jack said I just met him but I shrugged. "Lightning flashes, sparks shower, in the blink of an eye you've missed seeing."

I left and went to meditate, telling them he's ascended like Oma Desala so they should try not to piss him off. I meditated and worked my ass off over the next few weeks since I'd learned I was near ascended with my dormant ascended powers I hadn't even begun to tap into. I ended up going to a goa'uld palace when one guy died by wormhole suicide and Daniel began acting violently as well as suicidally the next day. Even I myself wasn't immune to the effects of goa'uld device, though I knew what it was and how to turn it down over time so we had two weeks on a tropical planet in a palace with a kid named Loran.

I scanned the planet and informed General Hammond to send through Daniel and SG-5. He did so after I explained what happened and how to fix it. We spent two weeks all together with Jack complaining the whole damned time. Still, Sam and I made time to be alone with each other when either of us felt the need.

We'd settled on friends with benefits for now until either of us finds someone we could be with more than that. She'd defined us after those two weeks were nearly up mostly because she'd been the one coming to me needing stress relief and a rough fucking. Still, she always stayed and asked for me to hold her afterwards like I'd used to when we were together. I didn't deny it to her and made damned sure we were clean afterwards with a portable invention of mine, a shower that comes in a box and pulls moisture from the air, purifies it and releases it as semi hot water.

It was something I'd made after our last off world vacation of sorts. When we were free to go, we packed up and took Loran with us since I'd discovered his parents were dead and buried. About a month later an alien electrical entity tried to attack the SGC and died from the protections in place as it fizzled out.

I'd missed the mission before that being off world at the beta site putting the upgraded hatak ship back together with all the modifications I could work into it.

They were still rebuilding it when Harlan contacted us and came to the SGC. I had my bot self come from Armor Tech and speak with Harlan. He learned everything Harlan knew and we went to Juna to get the others back once robot Jack contacted us. My robot self came with us and we watched the Jacks get into it before I drew my swords and put up my helmet saying my bot self and I would wipe out the Jaffa on the planet.

Both Jacks asked how my bot self could do anything without armor and weapons. I smirked and my bot self waved an arm that extended like a liquid metal blade whip and sliced dozens of trees in the breath it took for them to gulp. He spoke casually. "I've been upgrading. I'm also immune to all forms of weapons except psionic, that of the mind. It's how my real body ensures I don't go crazy and whatnot. He can shut me down with a thought sadly and there's no way to stop that. Otherwise I'm a walking talking army of one."

He shivered as another formed from him as it spoke. "Or many."

Soon a whole legion of them grew and cloaked as I told them what happened before telling my bot selves to move out and not harm the locals, but clear the path to the ring platform. The moved fast and I led the way to the pyramid. Both Jacks were weary until one of them poked a standing Jaffa and his head fell off as he fell to pieces. We walked right in the front door and my bots appeared, reforming into just the one.

I told them that I never wanted to and never will again ask him to do it because that sort of battle is both without honor and disturbingly like a massacre where it's a one sided slaughter making us no better than the goa'uld. My bot told them the ability to do so and the knowledge how will disappear after today. He activated the rings remotely and sent us all up without the warriors of Juna.

My bot self said he'd clear a path and force the doors shut so the Jaffa onboard can't interfere, but after that he'd disassemble himself into slag. I nodded and Jack said the war potential was definitely worth more than stopping Cronus. I shook my head and asked if he could promise the countries on earth wouldn't use such technology against each other or worse, to conquer the galaxy and settle disputes that way.

He stayed quiet and I grunted, leading them to Cronus while bot Jack took Sam to free the other two bots and kill the goa'uld with them. Teal'c killed Cronus after I temporarily paralyzed the Jaffa with him, making them watch as Teal'c killed Cronus. I passed Teal'c my sword and he took Cronus's head off. All the Jaffa on the ship watched it happen before the bots died from lack of power.

Apparently they'd all been using temporary internal battery packs. The Jaffa were offered freedom by Teal'c and were allowed to see the head of Cronus for themselves. My own bot had shut down and turned to slag like he said he would, leaving no trace beyond hardened liquid metal that he'd been there at all.

The hatak ship was landed and the Jaffa were released with freedom on their minds, all of them. Bra'tac answered the call and took them with the ship to an agreed upon site for upgrades. They were promised armor and technology like our own with upgraded staff weapons as well and they got it with Armor Tech having built up a huge stockpile with all the weapons grade naquadah and refined trinium I'd mined. They got medical pills, vaccines and more to boot and were promised that one day all of them would be given free cures so that they need never be dependent on the symbiotes or anyone again once we find it.

Armor Tech employees trained them in different fields and supplied one of the latest technologies, virtual combat and schooling chairs. It was one of the newest donated technologies to the SGC and now to the free Jaffa movement.

It taught them all about symbiote's, other races we've encountered or know about and all possible classes earth had to offer up to the newest sciences and technologies we had. It was a true gift to them as a hundred chairs were supplied. I told Bra'tac and the Jaffa gathered that some day when all Jaffa were free they would have to figure out how they wish to guide their people so the chairs teach all the ways that not just earth, but all the races we've encountered do so.

I told them they will ultimately have to decide for themselves in the end how they wish to live, but perhaps it would help them. I waved a hand. "And if not, it has many other things of wisdom to teach and more fighting styles than any other person besides myself has mastered. The knowledge and wisdom of many worlds and many peoples lay within, it is up to you all if you wish to make use of it. Though I should warn you, it gives one hell of a headache if you learn too much at once so it's best to take it slow at one lesson per hour since what it teaches inside takes years, but outside it takes but minutes."

Bra'tac thanked me and I grasped his arm as he offered, bowing my head politely and saying that it was my honor to me such a brave man willing to stand up to the goa'uld from within and lay the foundation for the freedom of his people. I told him Teal'c may be the open sword wielded against the goa'uld, but he is the strong and wise blacksmith that forged it. Bra'tac smiled and I walked him through using the chair first. I told him to select while inside what he wishes to learn.

He learned all about the goa'uld from their murky watered home world to the Unas and how they took power leeching off other races all the way to the Tok'ra and their resistance to the freed worlds and the goa'uld's fear of the Asgard. When he came out of it minutes later he told the Jaffa all to go inside and see the truth of the goa'uld for themselves. Bra'tac thanked me again and his men took turns learning things for themselves while their ship was being upgraded.

In the meantime I had to go and take our hatak ship to the Tok'ra with Jack and the team because the Tok'ra called and asked us for help moving their last ground base off world with the stargate. Their ship was being used as a top secret base and couldn't be risked with all of their top brass on it. We were to meet up on it so we met Selmak and the traitor Tanith. Soon Tanith escaped and Apophis was on his way so Teal'c went after Tanith.

Sam and Selmak came up with a new plan to blow up the star and take out Apophis's fleet. Jack approved it and so did the Tok'ra council. We went through with the plan and ran into an Alkesh that started firing at us. None of the weapons could hit it due to being so small and fast while the shields were inoperable. I went to repair the shields, main power and hyper drive while Jack and Teal'c went to deal with the enemy ship in a Starhawk.

I managed to get the main power and hyper drives on as well as the shields, but the weapons were down still. Selmak flew the ship and hid us behind the sun while Teal'c and Jack crash landed on the planet. Sadly Apophis came with his fleet and a big ass mother ship. I headed back to the bridge and warned Selmak that I had to reroute power through a secondary power conduit.

Selmak said Apophis wanted the Tok'ra so we'd give him them. All the Starhawks were sent out and Apophis chased them so we got to ring up Jack. When Apophis turned his back on the Starhawks, they all opened fire on his fleet. The sun went super nova and we escaped through hyper space.

We were flung forwards four million light years and so was Apophis's ship. I grunted and told them I'd modify the hyper drive because a hundred years to get back was way too long. Apophis started firing on the other ship and it went after Apophis's ship because ours wasn't the biggest threat with our systems damaged from the blast. I went back to fixing the shields first which was relatively easy, but the hyper drive control crystals were completely shot.

Though weapons were online so there was that. We hid behind the nearby star for a while and when we came out Apophis's ship was there alone and nobody was alive onboard so we went to take the hyperdrive crystals at the very least if we couldn't take the ship.

When we arrived, I told the others. "Take off your armored suits now and throw them away. Plain clothes only, the ship is infested with replicators and they can sense the materials our suits are made of."

I stripped down to my plain clothes, tossing my armored suit aside where half a dozen replicators appeared and began feasting. The others weren't far behind as I pulled out a capsule of P90s, passing them around. We headed to the crystal control room fast, dodging replicators and taking the crystals necessary to repair and upgrade our ship. I hauled ass out of there while they waited at the ring platform and ringed out with them.

I ran to the control crystal room on our ship to make the repairs so I missed them getting knocked out, but I did face Teal'c and some Jaffa. I was captured and ended up in the cell with the others just before Selmak was captured. Soon I grunted telling them the ship was infested like Apophis's mothership. The door opened seconds later and a replicator came in.

I peeked and told them the hive mind was immune to my power and at best I could access raw information. We got out and I told them the plan to take Teal'c back, blow the sublight engine control crystals and jump ship with the cargo ship that Teal'c and Apophis came in. Sam and Daniel set the explosives and I captured Teal'c with Jack, getting him to the cargo ship. Selmak checked the hyper speed and found it was increasing exponentially.

When it was time, the explosion went off and we jumped ship. We watched the hatak crash and explode on the planet below. In the meantime Teal'c's mind wouldn't accept my words even telepathically so when we got him home, Bra'tac helped him through the Jaffa's last rights. I sat with Teal'c and told him even knowing Janet and the others were listening all I'd done while Hathor had me under her thrall.

I told him that I'd told him once before and he didn't judge me, so whatever he did in Apophis's in the past, I'd never hold it against him. I sighed saying I'd like for him to remember that I'm with him until the end of all goa'uld even if I have to carry him with me as I crush the life out of every last one of them. I sat quietly with him for a few minutes and Sam said she'd go next. I left and went to finish up on a few thing, helping speed up the ship upgrades for the free Jaffa ship.

Sadly the previous ship hadn't had a chance to shine, but this one would and even more so because it would be coated in a layer of kinetic energy absorbing armor. The power absorbed would go to the shields and weapons to be fired back at whomever they fought. We were all there when Teal'c came out of it and I told Bra'tac once Teal'c was back to normal. "Your men and ship are ready to begin. They seem eager to kill those that enslaved them and their people for so long. The armor and weapons have been given to them and now to you."

I passed him a suitcase. "The latest armor and weapons to fight the good fight and keep you alive. I've updated the chair's interface to include the capabilities and training simulations for the armor and weapons, jet packs, personal shields, and cloaking included."

Weeks later the Jaffa had all been trained and were off trying to free more of their people while we were on a destroyed planet studying a weapon made from ascended knowledge. When an ascended being came at Sam, I stopped him and I mean really stopped him, throwing lightning at his ass. I told him to back off both telepathically and verbally. He took human shape to Sam's surprise and Daniel came running in with the others asking what happened.

I grunted since the ascended man made himself invisible to them. "There's an ascended being like Oma and Shifu here. He tried to forcefully merge minds with Sam and I tried something Shifu showed. I threw a bolt of lightning at him charged with my mental energies."

I waved a hand at his general direction. "He made himself invisible, but Sam saw him."

Sam agreed and I told them. "His name's Orlin, he told the people of this world how to make this weapon to defend themselves from the goa'uld and they did. The statue outside is a monument to honoring them. Still, they used it to try and conquer other worlds and the other ascended destroyed them, laying waste to the whole planet and banishing Orlin here for breaking their highest law. Do not accelerate the path of those below, a derivative of the Ancients own law the Asgard adopted no doubt. Don't share technology or knowledge with those too primitive or young to use it wisely."

Orlin appeared asking how I knew so much and I shrugged. "I took the knowledge when my bolt made contact. Just surface thoughts mind you, but if you try that mind rape shit again without Sam's permission I'll see if I can't really kill an ascended even as I am."

He nodded, apologizing only I told him he shouldn't be apologizing to me. He apologized to Sam saying it had been many centuries since he'd seen a woman and when she was smart enough to figure out he'd removed the power source to disarm the weapon he thought she might be open to him. I ignored him and winced, seeing my bolt of lighting blew up the crystal on top when he'd deflected most of it. The big honking space gun as Jack put it, was destroyed utterly now.

Sam told him she wasn't and she didn't know him ascended or not. Orlin nodded and apologized again before saying that perhaps it was best that the weapon was destroyed because if we'd taken it or powered it up, the others would've likely killed us and wiped out our planet as well. I sighed and shrugged. "Well, there goes this mission. Let's head back."

Sam asked about Orlin and I shrugged. "Leave the idiot here. I mean really, vanished to the lower plain and he sticks to a deserted planet? Seriously, he's gotta be the dumbest ascended there is considering even Oma doesn't stay in one place and she's not far off. Odds are there are more banished ascended out there, if not here then in the Pegasus galaxy where Atlantis was for the last five million years."

I turned to Orlin. "No offense, but sticking to this planet because the others said so is dumb. Your an ascended as well and you're spending your eternity paying for one mistake made with the best intentions. Tell them I said they can eat a dick and try to fry me so they can break their own damned laws and banish themselves."

The sky rumbled and I snorted, looking up. "Try it. I'm not afraid to do as I please in this life or as an ascended. Screw with me and I'll fuck your whole existence up!"

A lightning bolt came down and struck the ground in front of me. I huffed. "Pansies."

Daniel said it was maybe best not to piss off the lightning throwing immortal beings. I shrugged. "Trust me Daniel, everything dies so nothing's truly immortal. The laws of the universe and nature won't allow it, not in this reality at least."

I looked to Orlin. "Tell your minders I said they can bite me. If they try and keep you here, just dial a black hole with the stargate. Fuck this planet and fuck them if they want to stay watching you. Even they'd be sucked in so you can escape then."

He grimaced saying he deserved his punishment. I shrugged. "Wanting someone to live isn't a crime no matter what they say. The real crime is standing by and watching innocent lives be slaughtered, enslaved and tortured for the amusement of others. The ancients in their infinite wisdom forgot one thing when they made that law, all life is precious and should be preserved at all costs except that of others. You messed up giving the humans a weapon, you should've given them a shield or a way to hide their planet and people out of phase until the goa'uld left. It's never wrong to see the suffering of others and want to help, it's selfish and makes an ass of you if you don't in fact."

Sam smiled and Orlin thanked me, regardless of his situation. I nodded, telling him to find the other ascended and help them cope or make friends at least. Jack told him to start a support group for those who want to help mortals and don't care about the other's asshat laws. Orlin said he'd do what he can and I nodded before leaving with the team.

We had a rough debriefing and I took the blame for destroying the weapon. Jack said it wasn't my fault entirely and it was a circus of explaining until General Hammond got the clear picture. I went about making a database of all the races and people we'd met, making an alien list of sorts. The ascended had three people under it's name so far with a wide range of powers and what I understood of ascension as a whole.

We soon ran into another race being hunted by the goa'uld, the Reol. We collected some samples, but the Reol we saved after I knocked out a veritable army of Jaffa left with the Nox Lya who promised to bring his people to Gaea to live in peace. As for the Jaffa, we got their ships for a time while they were captured by the free Jaffa and Bra'tac. He said they'd do what they can to make them see the truth.

I told him the alkesh and death gliders would be returned once they were upgraded with more armor and weapons. He thanked me and showed me the symbol they'd chose was a peace symbol with a two staff weapons crossing it and a dead goa'uld symbiote head above. I nodded and warned him the Tok'ra may not appreciate the implications, but it was fairly straightforward and understandable.

He nodded, saying he and his men were doing what they can to make an uneasy alliance with the Tok'ra and help undermine the goa'uld while enlightening all the Jaffa willing to learn of the goa'uld's true origins and history. He said many had learned and joined them already and hopefully these would as well. I left them to it and Jack mentioned maybe building an underground base prison on the planet for the Jaffa we capture so we can drop them off for Bra'tac and the others to do whatever with. I agreed and he told the SGC men dropping off the last of the unconscious Jaffa to get on it.

Almost a month later I'd been taking time off with Sam and Janet for Cassandra's birthday when her rite of passage began. We brought Cassandra to the SGC and I healed her with a goa'uld hand held healing device, fixing what was wrong before telling Janet and Sam she'd be fine from now on. Nirrti's lab had long since been found and taken apart, teleportation rings and all, so it was unlikely we'd see her anytime soon.

Janet thanked me because they'd all known this day would come including Cassandra so it hadn't been much of a surprise, but more of an embarrassment on her part. She'd kissed a boy and passed out which was sort of funny and I chuckled when she told me that. She tossed a chess piece at me and I'd stopped it midair before setting it back on the board saying it was her move.

She rolled her eyes and I left Sam to play with her while Cassandra said Sam was lucky even if I was a jerk. I went back to upgrading Bra'tac's ships and focusing on work until Sam interrupted me for some alone time in the alkesh. She said she was feeling epic and I had an endearing smile on my face before she said Cassie was right, I was a jerk. I rolled my eyes and held her, saying she didn't mean that.

She didn't argue and just relaxed in my arms. Weeks later the ships were given to Bra'tac who said most of the warriors had joined him once confronted with the undeniable truth. He said some of his men built virtual reality chairs and put the unwilling warriors in it to face the truth of the goa'uld whether they liked it or not. I shrugged saying it wasn't meant for that but if it worked for them that's their decision.

In the meantime Daniel had us saving Chaka and all the Unas that had been used as slaves on a farming planet by assholes with goa'uld weapons and torture devices. I took the torture devices after knocking out the humans and freed the Unas. The weapons were taken by them and when the assholes that tried to force them back started shit, they died. The rest were given a chance at peace with Chaka teaching them and brokering it.

I smiled at Chaka and told him telepathically that he was a wise and strong leader, good for his people. Chaka thanked me in his way and we left. Jack wasn't alright giving them weapons and freeing them, but I told him he reminded me of a southern farmer a century or two ago. He said it wasn't the same and I told him the only difference was how drastic our looks were from the Unas.

I told him they were no different than Jaffa and in fact had been slaves far longer. I shrugged saying that the other two we'd met with Goa'uld in them weren't in control of their own bodies and while most were likely primitive, so were we compared to the Nox and Asgard, yet they don't judge us for it. He lost that argument and let it go when Sam agreed with Daniel and Teal'c. Our next big mission was an outing where we went in with a Russian team.

I retrieved the eye of Tiamat in secret and we dealt with Marduk, taking back the creature Marduk had inhabited once he was dead and so was it. I found the ring platform while they found the goa'uld hand device, so I took the sarcophagus into a capsule along with the ring platform and all the crystals before setting C4 charges around the main pillars and blowing it once we were out and the Russians were done searching.

We went back and they reported the eye of Tiamat missing so I told them. "It's not missing, it's here."

I set a capsule on the table and told them. "The device is an energy cell like that of the naquadah reactors from what my scans tell me only they pull in zero point energy from subspace. Apophis had one on his throne world as well alongside Ra supposedly and the other system lords from way back when. Six eyes come together to make one singularly powerful energy source. The goa'uld couldn't figure them out, but from I can tell, the crystal design is clearly from the ancients."

I tapped the capsule and released it saying. "It's too powerful an energy source for any one country to possess Generals, so I have a solution both countries will most likely agree to."

General Hammond and General Chekov said they were listening so I sighed. "I'll make a cloaked satellite network to cover the globe and powered by this crystal and any others we collect, it'll shield the entire planet. No weapons, no spy crap, just sensors and a energy shield net worked into them with cloaking technology. As you're both aware by now, the entire solar system has weapons all around us with none capable of reaching earth. The shield will be a last defense powered by the everything I can think of and the crystal as it's main power supply."

General Chekov said he'd want assurances and he'd have to contact his government while General Hammond agreed. I told them to let the bureaucrats decide, but I did have a gift for the General. I took out a hard drive and set it on the table. "I've spoken with the president and General Hammond as well as those in my company, Armor Tech. They've agreed that both sides have been holding out too long, so here's the deal, you'll get two teams to start out with and all current knowledge obtained from the stargate in exchange for full cooperation."

General Chekov went to grab the hard drive and I grabbed his hand, speaking in his mind that I'd know. (No more secrets. If you and your government are in, you're all in to protect our planet and all we hold dear. No more secret missions, no more lies.)

I continued as I released his hand and spoke out loud. "The president has contacted your government and president for a joint call. We spoke before the mission so they've agreed. Your men can learn from ours, be diplomats to the aliens out there and do as we do. If you or your men can't cut it or betray these guidelines, your president has assured me you and all your men will be held accountable by us and be replaced as necessary. He fully understands the gravity of the situation and what we all have to gain or lose by our cooperation or lack their of."

The General nodded and took the hard drive so I turned to the team. "Welcome to the SGC, SG-13. I'm sure General Hammond had training you'll have to undergo before you're let off world again."