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Planet Designated- Illirianis; 2012.
It's been nearly three years since the end of the Ori threat to the Milky Way. Now, it was time to rebuild destroyed lives and destroyed homes on planets that the Ori army decimated. Of course, there were still other threats to the galaxy, namely the Lucien Alliance which slithered into the vacuum caused by the downfall of the Goa'uld. They were pushed back somewhat by the Ori crusade, but once the latter threat was extinguished, the Alliance grew more emboldened.
They even had the audacity to directly attack Earth, the home of Stargate Command and Homeworld Command- organizations that caused the Alliance nothing but problems in spreading their criminal activities. While the Lucien Alliance bomb that ploughed its way into the building known as the Pentagon was disarmed several minutes later with much difficulty, and the loss of several lives from the initial impact, the damage was done.
The Lucien Alliance wanted a war with the Tau'ri, and now they had one. While the Tau'ri, the newly found remnants of the Tollan, and the Free Jaffa Nation, took their war to the Alliance; the Tok'ra formed groups of covert operatives that were responsible for hunting the remaining Goa'uld underlords who remained scattered into the corners of the galaxy.
It was nearly two weeks ago that one such Goa'uld, an under lord to the former System Lord Ba'al named Surasi, had been discovered by a Goa'uld spy investigating the kidnapping of men, women, and children from several planets. From one such planet, he was nearly killed by a Tok'ra spy after his Jaffa were taken down and his slaves freed. However, he escaped through a Stargate several minutes before he could be captured. However, by the time the other Tok'ra reached the DHD, he was gone… and the DHD could not connect the Stargate to the planet where he escaped.
Unknown to the Tok'ra, the Stargate on Illirianis was located in a cave that was already unstable. The activation of the Stargate caused a tremor in the large cavern, causing the beginnings of a cave in. Surasi was nearly knocked out by a falling piece of debris after he rushed through the event horizon, and ran as fast as he could away from the destruction behind him as rocks and debris fell. Eventually, the ring was buried, while Surasi barely made it out and into the outskirts of a massive city in the distance.
The Tok'ra tried to dial out from the planet that Surasi escaped, but there was no luck. It took them two weeks to go through the data crystals in the DHD, and then find out the location of the planet Surasi had gone off to. It would be several hours after the discovery of Surasi's destination that Talia's Tel'Tak exited hyperspace to the orbit of a planet that exhibited no lifesigns.
Not even any Goa'uld lifesigns. Talia was surprised, the sensors on the ship were advanced enough to find the approximate location of any lifeform from orbit, but the sensors were showing nothing at all. Curious, the Tok'ra woman then cloaked her ship and made her way into the atmosphere, and then past the cloud cover.
'There you are,' she thought to herself once she found herself flying over a large, majestic, red building. She set her sensors to search for Goa'uld lifesigns, and she found it. She found Surasi. And a smile appeared on her face as she grabbed her handheld life-sign detector. Heading for the far end of the city, a city that seemed to be in chaos, Talia landed the ship and then pressed down on the Sodan cloaking band on her left arm.
Maegor's Holdsfast, Kings Landing, an hour later;
Using the handheld detector, the cloaked Talia, with the crystal on the band around her upper left arm glowing green found the man she was looking for. She stared into the brown eyes that glowed for a few second after she shoved the body of the young man, who was in his mid-thirties, against the wall on the top most floor of what was supposed to be the most secured building in Kings Landing. As Talia looked into the eyes of the Goa'uld in front of her… she could feel her symbiote, Arisa, telling her mentally that Surasi had been caught and that it was time to end him.
With one arm against the young mans throat, with the hallways empty due to everyone having been confined to their respective rooms, Talia punched him and then stepped back. As he stumbled to the floor after being hit by an invisible force, Talia pressed the crystal on her left arm with her free right hand. She stared with a cold smile at the stunned Surasi before leaning down, grabbing him by the collar and then shoving him back against the wall once again.
"Shol'va!" Surasi screamed before bringing up his arms so that he could either strangle Talia or push her away.
"Die," she whispered before the man could take another step forward. At lightning speed, Talia closed her right hand into a fist… her fingers pressing down on the pressure sensor in her palm. A millisecond later, as she stepped back and Surasi leapt at her with rage in his eyes, a razor sharp blade- an alloy of carbon, naquada, and trinium- was unsheathed from a compartment in the lower right sleeve of her black skin-tight suit. Talia swung her arm horizontally, the blade cutting through the air and then through one side of his kin, bones, and then the Goa'uld symbiote, and out the other side.
It was the head that rolled to the floor before the body crumbled down. Blood pouring out of the body.
Talia closed her eyes in regret for killing the young man, but with King Landing having been invaded, Talia just wanted to finish the job. She didn't want to lose her target into the invading crowd. But now, her job was done, her mission complete.
Talia brought her left hand up to her collar while she retracted the blade back into its compartment on her right arm. She pressed a button that shone red for a few seconds before blinking, indicating that her cloaked Tel'Tak she piloted had activated its autopilot from its parking spot in what was a dilapidated arena. The ship silently took off after its autopilot was activated, and flew towards the tracer on Talia's uniform. She just had to head for the roof, with the ship tracking her location, board the transport, and then fly out of the city and the planet.
As Talia was about to press the crystal on the left armband to cloak her body, Talia heard the distant screams of people- men, women, and children- out in the city thanks to the invading forces of the Lannister army. Talia didn't know the politics behind what was happening, all she knew as she landed was that it was as good a cover as any to take out her target.
But then, just before Talia cloaked herself once again. Just before she was about to turn and dash down the corridor to the stairs leading to the roof, a blood curdling scream was heard from four doors down the hallway. She shook her head before staring at the wooden doorway at the end of the curved hallway. Hesitating for a few seconds before turning her head again and preparing to make her way to the stairs, Talia thought to herself that this wasn't her problem.
And her symbiote, Arisa, agreed. They had finished their mission, and it was now time to head back to the Tok'ra homeworld for their next mission.
Talia took a step forward. She was a step closer to the stairway. But she stopped, her blood freezing when she heard a blood curdling scream. Talia looked over her shoulder and closed her eyes while rolling her hands into fists. This wasn't her fight. And then her blood froze when there was another scream, this time sounding as if it was coming from a young girl, then there was the wail of a baby.
"Stay away from them!" screamed a woman who, by the sound of her voice, seemed to be older, "please…. Stay…. Stay away! Mercy! I beg mercy! no! no!"
"Mother!" the young female voice yelled out. Her voice reverberated through the wall of the corridor as Talia turned around to face the door, hesitating on her next course of action. This wasn't her fight, she completed her job… just as she completed numerous others. And then she heard the girl scream, "Help me! Help me, mother! Father! Help!." And the voice was gone.
"No! Please! No!" the woman screamed in anguish as a chill ran up and down Talia's spine. She told herself that she had to act. This wasn't her mission, but she had to act. There was something pushing her to act, and then she heard the woman scream out again with a wail "Rhaenys!".
The crying wail of the baby continued.
"Talia,"Arisa mentally said as Talia took a step forward towards the wooden door in the distance, "this is not our concern, we must…."
Suddenly the wail of the baby was snuffed out, and the scream from the woman went an octave louder. It was the scream of anguish. 'What have I done?' Talia thought as she ran at full speed towards the door, pushing aside her hesitation. Talia knew she had to act, it was the human part of her that needed to act.
"Talia,"Arisa whispered in her mind as her host rushed towards the wooden door, "we have seen numerous people killed on the way to this place. The enemy army has been sacking this city ever since we entered, are you going to save the rest of the people? Why did you not save the ones you saw being killed? Why did you not save the ones being raped? Why…"
Before the symbiote could finish the next question, Talia mentally answered, "I had a job to do. Now my job is done. I should have acted earlier, I…"
"Talia," countered the symbiote in the five seconds it took for Talia to dash from the beheaded body, to the door where she was now hearing screams of pain and anguish accompanied by thuds. The symbiote could feel everything that Talia felt… it knew her thoughts and desires… it could feel a need that couldn't be explained to get into the room. As Talia lifted her leg to kick the door open, Arisa wondered if she should take control of Talia's body. Talia had her orders, and she always followed them- return home after finishing the job, no detours. Arisa could feel Talia was getting too emotionally involved as the host kicked the door down using her enhanced strength, and then stepped into the room to a sight either symbiote nor host had seen even during Talia's former enslavement to the Goa'uld under-lord, Balrog, "We do not belong here, the Tel'tak is coming for us, and right now it's tracking us to this level. We must leave, and… no."
"No," Talia whispered in shock, together with her symbiote, after the door swung hard inwards, slamming against the wall to the left side, and the lock that held the door shut fell into a pool of blood. Talia opened her eyes wide with a mixture of emotions going through her very being- disgust, disbelief, and anger- as her eyes shifted from the view of a little girl, a little more than three years old, with several stab wounds in her abdomen, chest, shoulders, and the side of her head, lying on a bed that was blood soaked with a bloody dagger lying next to her.
Talia's view them shifted to the mass of pink tissue lying on the floor in a pool of red blood and pink organs. Her eyes then shifted to the wall next to a man, a large mountain of a man who was wearing blood spattered armour. The chest plate had a crest of three animals in a vertical column… but Talia couldn't make out the name of the animal.
But that did not matter. What mattered was the wall next to him that had spatters of blood, flesh and brain stuck onto the surface. And then there was the sickening crack, followed by a woman's scream, as the armoured man then reached down to the bloody and bruised woman bent over a table.
The woman was screaming in pain as she was lifted over the head of the man who gripped tight with his blood stained steel gloves. Talia was in shock as she watched the man use his thick arms, when the woman was overhead, to pull hard and tear the screaming woman in half before letting go of the two half's of the body. They fell to the floor in two bloody heaps.
Talia's eyes shifted, her perception of time slowing down while she felt the anger from her symbiote as well. She watched the armoured man, in slow motion, reach down for the largest sword she had ever seen, and doubted that her blade could survive a hit from the heavy, silver, blade. A chill went up Talia's spine as he took a step forward while, at the same time, Talia heard voices and footsteps coming down the hallway behind her through her enhanced hearing.
She couldn't stay much longer, maybe five more minutes before she was swamped by guards. Talia heard the constant beeping from her tracker which told her that the cloaked ship was waiting for her outside the window to her left side. Talia knew that even with possible reinforcements coming from the hallway, she could make it to the roof while cloaked and bypassing all the coming soldiers. She didn't know if they were the soldiers of the enemy, or the ones that were guarding the city… but either way, she needed to get out.
"I told you we could not do anything, Talia," Arisa mentally said while thinking about the horror in front of them, "we must activate our cloak, and then leave this place." Talia took a step back while staring at the towering man who silently stared at her with crazed eyes she could make out through the slits on the helmet he was wearing. She was about to jump back out into the hallway, and then run. She knew that while cloaked in the hallway, no one… not even the giant of a man in front of her, could catch up to her.
And she had no intention of getting caught in between those hands. But then, before Talia could make her move, the corner of her vision saw the little girl… the bleeding girl on the bed… move her fingers slightly.
'She's still alive?' Talia thought as the small arms of the child twitched as blood soaked the sheets, 'just barely, just barely', her eyes shifting back to the man who was gripping the pommel of his sword tight. Before her symbiote could say anything, Talia reached back with her right hand and grabbed her Zat as the giant screamed in rage and rushed at her. Talia dove to one side, avoid the swing of the sword, before she lay on her side and fire the Zat at the man. She stared at the man in surprise as the beam left the weapon, 'he's fast for his size,' she thought to herself.
The blue beam of light hit the man, and then cracked blue lightning all over his body as he was forced to one knee… the sword falling to the blood stained floor. Talia got back to her feet in a rush just as he, while on one knee, leapt at her with his arms outstretched.
"Arrrgh!" he growled with madness and rage in his eyes.
'How is he still moving?' Talia thought as she dove away again and then rolled on the floor until she was near the top half of the dead woman's body. She then fired another shot to the giant's side. He screamed, enraged, once again before Talia got to her feet and fired another Zat beam. At the fourth beam, the giant fell onto the floor with a thud. He lay on his side with eyes closed shut but, to Talia and the symbiote's surprise, the man was still breathing.
"Talia, we need to leave, now!" the symbiote yelled in her mind.
And that's what Talia did.
It was two minutes later that the Lannister soldiers rushed through the hallways, and then entered the royal nursery. To their surprise, and to the surprise of Tywin Lannister who led them, they discovered the unconscious body of the man known as The Mountain lying face down, his great sword on the floor, his open hand over the pommel. Tywin, his jaw locked, stared at the unconscious body of the Mountain and wondered who could have bested him in a fight. He them looked away to the torn body of Elia Martell and a smile appeared on his face. He walked over to the body, stepping onto the pools of blood towards the top half of the body, and spit on her bloody face. He then shifted his gaze to the mutilated body of Aegon Targaryen, the son of the dead Prince Rhaegar Targaryen.
A smile came to his lips looking around the nursery, before he looked up at the empty bed. Narrowing his eyes as the smile vanished instantly, Tywin rushed to the bed and ordered the soldiers to search the room for the body of the second child. "Check under the bed, check the closets, check the entire Holdfast. Check everywhere before Robert comes to Kings Landing!" The Lannister soldiers mumbled amongst themselves while Tywin stared at the blood-soaked bed, "a child with this much blood loss should be dead. Find Rhaenys Targaryen's body for our new king"
Tywin then turned and stared at his soldiers, who were staring stunned at the horror around them, before barking the order again, "scour the tower. Find her! Go!" The soldiers then rushed out into the hallway to search for the bleeding child. Tywin looked back at the bed and rolled his hands into fists. Somehow, someone had taken the girl with them.. he didn't know how, especially since he and his soldiers would have seen someone carrying a bleeding bundle past them.
'That girl is the heir to the throne,' he thought to himself, 'she needs to be found, and killed. We need to be in Robert's good graces since we stayed neutral until the very last moment. And if we can't find the body, if we cannot find who sneaked away with the little bitch… then there's a city of little girls out there. We take one, and then ensure she is unrecognizable before handing her to Robert when he comes to claim the throne.'
And that's what happened. The girl, Rhaenys Targaryen wasn't found anywhere in the Holdsfast. Tywin ordered the abduction of a girl, any girl, who was Rhaenys' age. And they had found a girl, a daughter of one of the maids in the Holdsfast, who was then promptly killed to stop her wailing while the daughter was torn away from her arms. He then had his most violent knight - second to the Mountain - beat the little girl's face until it was unrecognizable before stabbing the little body.
In the end, Robert Baratheon, who crowned himself king, was later presented with the bodies of Elia Martell, Aegon Targaryen, and the unknown girl presented as Rhaenys Targaryen. The fury of the King's best friend was palpable… Lord Eddard Stark of Winterfell was outraged when Robert's reaction to the death of the children were, "they were no babes, they were dragon spawn," and the fact that Robert didn't see the Lannister's actions as murder.
In disbelief and outrage, Stark turned his back to Robert and rushed away to find his sister. To find Lyanna Stark.
And when he did find Lyanna months later, Stark found her bleeding on a bed in a high tower in Dorne. After her death, Stark took the baby Lyanna had christened Aegon Targaryen into his arms while, in her final breaths, Lyanna begged her older brother to protect her child. In the end, Ned Stark hid the baby's real identity and told his wife, Catelyn Stark, that it was his bastard son- Jon Snow.
But that tale is for another time. His story would be a story of one born by ice and fire.
Back in the present day, Talia flew the cloaked ship out of the atmosphere while the barely breathing body of Rhaenys Targaryen lay bleeding in the rear compartment of the Tel'Tak. Once the ship reached the outer atmosphere, Talia activated the hyperdrive and set it for the only place she knew the girl would be cared properly. She knew that the journey to Earth and the Tok'ra homeworld would be several hours by hyperspace- time she did not have- instead she keyed in the coordinates for the nearest Stargate which was forty lightyears away.
Once the ship entered hyperspace, Talia locked the controls and then rushed off her chair and towards the girl. Talia turned right once entering the rear compartment to a small box that was marked with Goa'uld symbols, and opened it. She then reached in and took the red jewelled object out of its recess. It was standard for all Tok'ra special operatives to carry a healing device in the event, no matter how unlikely, they were injured. This time, she was using it on someone else instead of herself.
Talia spun around and slipped the device on her right hand while giving permission to Arisa to take over her body. Arisa went down on one knee next to the exceedingly pale little girl and then hovered the device over her head. The red crystal then started to glow, the red light falling on the girl's head as Arisa slowly swept the device over the body. She was surprised at the constitution of the girl… she had stab marks all over her body and the side of her head, she was still bleeding out onto the floor but the flow had decreased as her body started to heal itself.
'You wish to fight, child,' Arisa thought looking down at the blood-stained face of the little girl, 'I agree with Talia, taking you back to Earth directly, or to the Tok'ra homeworld would take too long. Your wounds are healing, but the blood loss has made you severely weak. The life of a Tok'ra is no life for a girl.. not even for someone who survived a nightmarish assault. And the healing device can only do so much- your major injuries will be healed, but the rest will be cared for by the Tau'ri. You will be brought to people who will watch over you and bring you back to full health without a symbiote. And from there, you would live your life.'
Alpha Site, 1340 hours.
"Defence teams to the Gateroom, Defence teams to the Gateroom," yelled the lieutenant who was on duty at the table to the left of the Stargate. Behind him were banks of computers, and a small laptop was on his table. The laptop acted as the DHD for the Alpha Site Stargate, and after the Stargate activated, the laptop became the receiver for any SG team IDC. While the event horizon rippled, the lieutenant was staring at the computer screen waiting for a security code signal from Stargate Command.
'But they're not supposed to check-in for three more days,' he thought to himself as the defence teams rushed in with Colonel Pierce, the base commander, following them. The access to the Alpha Site Stargate was extremely restricted; only the SGC knew the address, as did a handful of Jaffa, and the Tok'ra. The Alpha Site was meant to be the port of last call for the Jaffa and the Tok'ra, only to be used in the most extreme of emergencies. SG Teams followed the same rules as well. As the defence team kneeled while pointing their weapons at the active wormhole's event horizon, they waited with bated breath for someone to walk through. The Alpha Site gate was unshielded, and had not iris, and because of that it was designated to be used only in absolute emergencies… and that's why there were about twenty heavily armed Marines with state-of-the-art weaponry aiming at the event horizon.
And with the SGC's luck, anything could happen. Absolutely anything. So imagine their surprise when a woman rushed through the Stargate with a bloodied little girl in her arms, "I'm a Tok'ra operative! And this girl requires medical attention!"
"Medic!" yelled the Colonel after seeing the bloodied girl, "call a medic!"
TBC