Ch.135

When the knight dissolved, nothing happened until I turned to Vala. "You took something."

Sam grabbed a coin out of Vala's bra and said she'd put it back so it actually stayed there. When she returned I told Ronan. "Put the sword back in the stone and anyone that doesn't want to get crushed, I'd say move towards said stone."

Ronan did as I recommended while everyone moved. When the treasure appeared, I grunted. "What a miser. Seriously, we can drain literal tons of gold from a planet in hours and this is all he leaves behind."

I held up a hand and the single book floated into it before I went over it. I passed the book to Daniel. "It's about my people coming here and note that it's not thousands, it's millions of years. Their hyper drives technology was non existent back then. Instead it was strictly sublight engines. Even FTL wasn't invented until twenty million years after they arrived when it was applied to Destiny as the latest and greatest ship of it's time."

He read the book and I walked over to the Alteran communication device before scowling. Mitchell got people from Prometheus to come down catalog and store things. Sam asked what was wrong and I grunted. "Nothing. I'm gonna head back now. There's nothing of interest here and clearly this isn't gonna break out into a fight anytime soon."

I walked to the rings and left via Prometheus who beamed me down to the SGC. There I caught a gate out to the Mongolian world. After that I brought out a ship and left, heading across the galaxy and gathering naquadah from asteroids. I emptied out entire asteroid belts within days using bots I kept in my ring which is where all the naquadah went.

Billions of tons of refined weapons grade naquadah was taken alongside all the other precious metals I could find. When the asteroids weren't as plentiful, I moved to the planets that had no life or stargates. Molecular synthesizers made crystals to my specs and the bots used them to harvest worlds metals. Metal filters cleansed oceans and so much more.

Eventually Sam contacted me and told me Daniel and Vala were unconscious because of the device I'd been looking at before. I told her to wait until they're in danger then destroy it with the unstable vortex of a wormhole to sever the connection. I returned to earth when Sam called again saying she needed me there. I beamed into the meeting room of the SGC and saw the Prior there with guns pointed at me.

I told General Landry. "You can relax now. He cannot harm you while I am here. His power is false, borrowed from the Ori so that they may corrupt the minds of their followers as they did long ago when Celestis was home to all the Altera."

The prior looked me over and tried entering my mind only to be blasted off his feet while his staff flew into my hand. "I would try that again kid. My mind is my own and I don't respond well to outsiders reading my thoughts without permission."

He got up slowly and spoke. "You are one of the evils."

I shrugged. "I've been called worse. Then again, I've been a god of a hell dimension that would make your Ori scream like beaten pigs."

I twirled the staff. "Neat tool. It amplifies your powers and let's you draw on the power of the Ori doesn't it?"

He reached for it and I waved a hand, treating him like a human ping pong ball. When I stopped, I set the staff down. "Now, what are the children pretending to be gods up to these days?"

He tried to get up and I waved a hand and he grunted before collapsing. "Stay down, I didn't give you permission to get up. Now answer my question or I'll show you why even demons feared me."

He grunted. "The Ori are gods-"

I snorted lightly. "I've met gods, real gods. Trust me kid, the Ori and the ascended as a group are just petulant children thinking they have power because they know a thing or two. I've fought a gods before. Hell, I even fought a capital G God once. I got my ass handed to me but then he couldn't kill me either and I was in his reality or rather outside it when he blew me up like a reality bomb."

I put a foot on his chest and told him coldly. "Your Ori are no more than upstart ghosts who can play with the weather. But don't take my word for it."

I held out a hand and the staff flew into it before I touched it to his forehead. "See for yourself the source of my sorrow, pain and unending rage."

He screamed bloody murder as I spoke. "I've killed gods, real flesh and blood deities given form by the faith of others. I tore them apart, laid waste to their worlds and believers. I've butchered more powerful beings than your would be gods for sport, because it was fun and they screamed just right when I pulled them apart. I've met the devil himself, destroyed hell and wounded God. I've seen civilizations more powerful than Altera rise and fall, walked across time and seen the end of many universes. I have stood in the screaming void outside of time and space, driven mad by loneliness and sane again because there was nothing better to do."

I brought the staff up. "Your gods are merely fake ghosts compared to the beings I've faced and that was before I knew advanced technologies the Alterans taught me when I joined them. I am unkillable, unstoppable and immortal in every sense of the word so spare me your god's will and tell them to fuck off."

I dropped his staff next to him and walked away while the others in the room were shocked stiff. I stopped and turned to them. "This isn't the only reality out there and this isn't the only multiverse. Surprise, I'm not from around here, at least not originally."

The prior stood up in a daze and said my words were heard by the Ori and that they'd respond in their own time. I shrugged. "I could give a fuck what they have to say."

He smiled. "You will."

I waved a hand and broke his neck. His staff glowed and his body incinerated leaving ashes. I turned to General Landry and the Jaffa council member. "You should be careful with whom you let into your base. They can create plagues with their staffs and heal the same. My ship found none this time but it'll become evident very soon if they come in force."

Ronan asked if I can beat them and I tilted my head. "I can, but if I do it may cause problems for the others. Anyone living in the mortal plane but capable of killing ascended beings without being ascended will draw unease from them. As it is they fear me when I'm ascended and for good reason. I can kill them and they can't even hurt me."

The Jaffa leader asked. "Are you a god?"

I shook my head. "I'm just a man. Never underestimate humans, of which I include you Jaffa. After all, you're just humans that were forcefully enhanced and called Jaffa. Your species has not changed and I consider that a good thing. After all, of all God's creations, humans are the ones gifted with unlimited potential. It is this potential that has allowed me to reach great heights, well, and the fact that aliens have experimented on me before. That was about as fun as being castrated with a rusty spoon."

Mitchell asked. "Who in the world would-"

I grunted. "Demons. Yeah, I've had better days."

I turned to the Jaffa. "I don't know why you're here, but send word to your people. From now on all Jaffa willing to learn may come to Sanctuary as all peoples of all worlds can. It will be a Mecha of learning and enlightenment. Just know that any fighting in sanctuary will get those involved banned regardless of the reasons. It is a place of learning and knowledge freely shared, not a place for weapons of any kind."

He nodded and I turned to General Landry. "Your people are being warned now and all weapons will be sent back here within the hour."

He nodded numbly and I sighed. "Only those from this galaxy and the Asgard are welcome. If the Ori wish to spout nonsense when their worlds are basically covered in ignorant sheep that's their issue."

I turned to Sam and left, beaming out and waiting for her. She beamed aboard a bit later and asked to see the memory files I kept locked away from her learning. I told her she'd get them as soon as she returned to Sanctuary. She smiled. "Good, let's go."

I sighed and brought her to the city ship where I unlocked the files from her virtual bed. I stopped her and sighed. "I'm not perfect Sam and I know I'm not a good man, just know that I love you."

She kissed me and said nothing she sees inside will change how she feels about me. I shook my head and told her to say that when she returns. She went under and I went to meditate on the inlet. Days passed by as word came of more and more priors coming to the Milky Way.