Disclaimer: I own absolutely nothing. Harry Potter belongs to J.K. Rowling. Stargate SG1 and any references to it belong to MGM Studios. Star Craft and all of its characters belong to Blizzard Entertainment.
Summary: Crossover with Stargate SG1/Atlantis, Star Craft, Resistance: Fall of Man with plot references to Gundam Wing as well as several other minor series.
June 6, 1991: Milky Way Galaxy; Earth; Number 4, Privet Drive
Young eleven year old Harry Potter ran wildly from his Uncle Vernon. He'd just done an 'inadequate' job on the garden and 'deserved' a beating. He had, in fact, done work that a professional gardener couldn't do but that held no sway in this house.
"Come back here, you freak!" Vernon bellowed as he chased the small boy around, one hand clenching his belt. Vernon eventually cornered the boy in the den behind the couch. He grabbed the boy by his collar and threw him against the wall. He then went forward to whip him with his belt.
"Please Uncle, I didn't do anything wrong," Harry pleaded.
"You did wrong just by being born, boy," Vernon said, pulling his hand back for a swing. He swung down with his belt. Harry cringed and waited for the pain to come. The pain didn't come, however; only a bright flash of white light.
Harry opened his eyes slowly when he didn't feel any pain. He looked around and found himself in a grey metal room with a bed in the center. As he continued to scan the room he found a three foot tall grey alien.
"W-who are you?" Harry asked the alien.
The alien for his part was surprised. Every time before now, the beaming had put the patient right in the bed and almost never had the patient retained consciousness. "You are a strange one indeed, Harry Potter," the alien said.
"How do you know my name," Harry asked, slowly standing up. "Who are you?"
"I am the Asgard known as Loki," the alien said. "I have been ordered by the Asgard High Council to capture you and bring you to Othala. Considering that you are conscious gives you a choice. Should I send you back to your home?"
"No!" Harry said quickly and a little loudly. "Please don't send me back there!"
"Then you shall accompany me to Othala," Loki said. Harry felt a sudden pull and almost fell over as the ship jumped into hyperspace.
"What do you want with me?" Harry asked Loki a minute or so after the jump to hyperspace. He had moved to a window and was no looking out at the purplish blue and black of hyperspace.
"I am simply acting on orders," Loki said from where he was standing over a pedestal in front of a large screen. The screen depicted a large triangular ship with two spires in the back between the engines running along a blue path between two green dots. "The Council didn't tell me what you're wanted for just to go and get you."
"I can tell that you really don't want to do this," Harry said. Loki cursed in Asgard.
Harry watched as the representation of the ship approached one of the green dots. As the representation came close, he felt the ship come out of hyperspace and watched out of the window at the stars and now at the new planet that had just appeared. It was covered in an enormous city.
"There, now that you're here, you can get off my ship," Loki said. No sooner said than it was done and Harry vanished in a flash of bright white light.
Harry reappeared in the center of a council room. He stood in a circle while there were several raised stands in a semicircle about ten feet from where he stood. More seats stood raised above the already raised stands in a semicircle on the other side of Harry, presumably for public seating.
In the raised council seats, six Asgard sat with one Asgard in a higher backed chair than the others. This Asgard spoke first. "Welcome, Harry Potter, to Othala, Home World to the Asgard. I am Thor, Supreme Commander of the Asgard Fleet."
"Nice to meet you, Thor," Harry said full of faked cheer. "Whatcha doin?"
"I presume that that was a question as to the reason you were brought here," Thor said. Harry nodded. "We have been monitoring you for a very long time, Harry Potter."
"Why?" Harry asked simply.
"We believe that you are one of the last true remaining descendants of the Ancients," Thor said.
"You do realize that I have absolutely no clue what that means, right?"
"Yes, I realize that you are still a young child among your people and a mere speck of existence compared to us. I must start from the beginning then.
"Ten thousand years ago, there was a great alliance of four great races," Thor began. "These races were the Asgard, the Nox, the Furlings and the Ancients. Ten thousand years ago, a great plague ravaged the Milky Way galaxy where the Ancients had chosen to be their home. To escape the plague, the Ancients took everything they could to another galaxy. Until now, we have discovered that the Ancients did in fact return to the Milky Way galaxy and to Earth but we have not met any that are still alive."
"I still don't know what this has to do with me," Harry said.
"We believe that you are a direct descendant of the Ancient Janus," Thor said.
"Go on," Harry said. This wasn't really in his character, but he doubted the council would beat him for being cheeky like Vernon would.
"As an Ancient, you would have access to all of their knowledge and you could possibly tell us where they are now," Thor explained.
Harry was confused as any eleven years old would be in this situation. "Even if I am an Ancient, I can't remember. Actually, I can't remember anything past a year ago."
"We believe that your knowledge is simply locked away," Thor said. "Do you feel safe here?"
"Yes, I do as a matter of fact," Harry said. For some odd reason, this place screamed of peace and calm.
"Will you let us try to unlock the memories inside of you?"
Harry stood there in thought for a moment. "I'll let you do whatever it is you need to do as long as you don't make me go back there." Thor nodded before both of them disappeared in a flash of light.
Harry and Thor reappeared in what appeared to be a science lab. It had a few machines and several pedestals similar to the ones on Loki's ship. The coolest thing in Harry's mind was the window. Outside of the room was a truly enormous city. Skyscrapers, buildings and ships all made of some composite metal stretched out as far as the eye could see.
Thor motioned for Harry to stand next to him. Harry moved over to the three foot tall alien who now had a strange device in his hand. When Harry stopped, Thor took the device and placed it at Harry's head. The next thing that Harry knew, he was violently reliving several memories that he never knew before.
He saw a tall brown haired man holding a sleeping baby in his arms. Harry watched as the man gave the baby to another man with a long white beard and moon shaped spectacles. The man then walked out of whatever room they were in and disappeared in a flash of white light.
Harry came out of the memory falling to his knees. "What did you see?" Thor asked. Harry told him exactly what he saw. "I am sure that this man was Janus. This is something that we did not account for. It would appear that Janus is in fact your father."
"That can't be right," Harry said. "My parents died in a car crash…" Even as he finished, he realized that it would probably be easier to believe the three foot tall gray alien in front of him rather than his abusive family.
"I can only assume that your so called parents were not your actual parents," Thor said. "Is there anything else you remember?"
Yes, I do remember six symbols that I've never seen before," Harry said. "They keep coming to the forefront of my mind."
Thor placed a stone on a pedestal and a screen appeared displaying thirty-six symbols. "Are these the symbols that you see?" Thor asked.
"Yes!" Harry said excitedly. He quickly pointed out the six symbols.
"That address does not appear on any of our records," Thor said. "I doubt that the Stargate will be able to take us there."
"No, the Stargate will work," Harry said. "I remember that Janus was one of the main designers of the Stargate. There is a personally customized one at this address."
"Then we shall go there immediately," Thor said and they were beamed away in a flash of light to a large hall. In the hall was the Stargate for Othala. Thor activated the Gate and the two of them stepped through.
They came out in a forested world. Harry immediately turned around to look at the Stargate. This one was different from all the others that were in his or Thor's memories. It was about three times the circumference and yellow. The event horizon was white.
"This is called a Warp Gate," Harry said. "It's hard to believe that I suddenly have all of these memories again."
"Can you remember anything specifically?" Thor asked.
"No," Harry said. "I think I need to have a reference for the memories to trigger."
"Put your hands up," A voice said from behind them. Thor and Harry turned to see three seven foot tall armored men holding very dangerous looking rifles. (Marines) Two of the men had blue paint on the shoulders and legs of the armor. The third man had teal paint on the same appendages. Their faces could be seen in the opened helmet. Harry and Thor quickly did as ordered. "Who are you two?"
"I am Thor, Supreme Commander of the Asgard Fleet," Thor said. "This is my charge, Harry Potter."
"What are you doing here?" the teal man asked.
"Harry discovered and address for this Warp Gate and we came here to investigate. You are not what we expected to find."
"You don't strike me as allies of the Zerg," the teal one said and he lowered his rifle. The other two did the same. "I am Captain Raynor of the battleship Hyperion. I would suggest that you go back through the Warp Gate. This position is about to be overrun by the Zerg."
"What are the Zerg?" Harry asked. Already sounds of battle were coming from a ways off. Gunfire and screams were in no short supply today.
"Hope that you never meet them," Raynor said. "Go!" Thor and Harry took that as a cue and ran back through the Warp Gate. Raynor turned around and started shooting his rifle along with the other two soldiers.
Harry and Thor arrived back on Othala only minutes after they had left. "Well now what do we do?" Harry asked.
"It is your choice to make," Thor said. "What did you hope to find there?"
"I don't know if there ever was anything there or not," Harry said. "I was just drawn to it. I still am but we can't go back there as it is now."
"Then what do you want to do?" Thor asked.
"I would rather fight a god than go back to my relatives," Harry said. "Can I stay here?"
"I'm sure that it can be arranged."
July 31, 1991: Milky Way; Earth; Number 4 Privet Drive
Albus Dumbledore walked up the front lawn of Number Four. He was here to pick up his new student, Harry Potter for schooling at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. As he rang the doorbell, a large rotund man answered the door.
"What do you want, freak?" the man asked with a scowl.
"I'm here for Harry," Dumbledore said. "Where is he?"
"Gone," Vernon said. "He disappeared in a flash of white light a month ago. I'd assumed your kind had taken him."
"There are anti-apparation wards all around this house," Dumbledore muttered. "He shouldn't have been able to get away." Silently, Dumbledore strode into the house much to the rage of Vernon. He searched the house ignoring the shouts coming from its inhabitants. When he was almost certain that Harry wasn't there, he found Vernon pointing a shotgun in his face.
"Get out of my house, freak!"
"Shut it, you despicable excuse for a man," Dumbledore said. "I am far above you." This angered Vernon and he pulled the trigger. The shell stopped an inch from Dumbledore's face. "That was the wrong move." He whipped out his wand. "Avada Kadavera." As Vernon fell to the ground, dead, Dumbledore went through the rest of the house casting the same spell on the man's wife and son. No one would ever know he was here.
August 10, 1996: Milky Way; Starship Beliskner; High Earth Orbit
"What are we doing back here, Thor?" Harry asked looking out from the bridge of the Beliskner. He had filed out into a handsome sixteen years old with tone muscles and had grown to five feet, seven inches tall. He no longer required glasses thanks to visual implants from the Asgard which increased his sight ten fold. He had had the Asgard change his hair color as well. Now it was a darker shade of brown about a quarter of the way to black. This way it was much less noticeable. In his line of work, you had to blend in with a crowd and black hair was too uncommon. His stunning green eyes remained, however.
"Our sensors have shown that Earth has activated its Stargate again," Thor said. "We have to make sure that they know what they're getting into."
"Humans never know what they're doing until they're five feet under," Harry said as they pulled into North American geosynchronous orbit. "What am I doing again?"
"We've located the Stargate already. It is in a facility known as Creek Mountain. When they activate the Stargate again, you will go down under cloak and go through with whomever they send through it. Try to find out what they're doing."
"If I have to show myself on the other side, I may need to use the Asgard weaponry. Shouldn't I get a Tauri weapon or something?" As soon as he'd finished speaking, Thor beamed a few things up from the planet and onto a nearby table. Harry walked over to it.
On the table was a set of clothes and a few weapons. There were brown cargo pants that allowed a lot of maneuverability. They were thick and didn't transfer energy easily. There was a red undershirt as well as a brown jacket. The jacket buttoned up and had a black collar. Several pockets were on the jacket. Four were on the outside and two on the inside. Both the pants and the jacket were slightly darker brown than his hair color. A belt was set aside from the rest. It had a back pouch and a holster for a handgun.
An assault rifle was on the table next to the clothes. It was an SA80 British service rifle with a thirty round magazine and an automatic fire rate of six hundred rounds a minute. In Harry's hands, it was the prefect weapon. Along with the rifle were ten magazines of ammunition. Two fragmentation grenades were next to rifle.
Harry smile and took the clothes. They fit easily on over his grey skin suit that the Asgard had given him. He buttoned up the jacket and placed the magazines in his pockets. He tucked an Asgard cloaking device that was always wrapped around his left wrist underneath the sleeves. It was basically a small wrist warmer with a single button on it.
Harry grabbed his personal Browning Hi-Power handgun from the table. It had been taken by an Asgard for study a dozen years ago. When it was determined that it was extremely weak, they upgraded it. In place of a magazine was a small Asgard power source. The firing mechanism was taken out and replaced by an energy weapon. When fired, red energy shot out. If the weapon's safety was on, it fired stun shots. If the safety was off, it fired kill shots that could take the life of almost any bio signature. He placed the weapon in his belt holster with the safety on. Lastly, Harry put on a brown baseball cap that he'd made using the Asgard beaming technology.
"Well, I'm ready to go whenever they are," Harry said. At first, Harry had been sitting there waiting to be beamed out any second. Seconds turned to minutes and minutes turned to hours. Finally after three hours, he was beamed down into the Creek Mountain facility.
Harry arrived stealthily with his cloaking device on. The usual white flash did not occur as it was a stealth setting. While it couldn't go nearly as far and didn't look cool, it was a necessity on stealth missions. His cloaking device would last for twenty minutes at the most. Harry watched as a team of military personnel walked through the Gate. Just before it shut down, Harry hurled himself through the event horizon.
Harry came out on the other side. All of the military guys were frozen from the molecular reconstruction. Harry wasn't because he was used to it. He quickly moved behind one of the pillars in the pyramid they had arrived in.
Throughout the rest of the day, Harry watched from the shadows and from his cloak as the military guys personally led the people of the planet, Abydos, in a revolution against the false god Ra. Only once did Harry fight and that was when he was snuck up on by a group of Jaffa. They had quickly fallen to his SA80.
Harry watched as Jack O'Neill and Daniel Jackson used a nuclear weapon to destroy Ra. He smiled a few times when he saw the goodbye between the soldiers and the doctor. He followed the three surviving military members back through the Stargate leaving Abydos behind. As soon as he stepped through the Gate again, Thor beamed him back up to the Beliskner.
"You were gone longer than I expected," Thor said. "What happened?"
"The United States went to a nearby planet called Abydos. There they fought against Ra and actually blew him up."
"The humans killed a Goa'uld System Lord?" Thor asked disbelievingly.
"Bingo," Harry said. "Fortunately they think that there are only two Stargates and aren't going to try any more stunts like that again." Thor nodded and the Beliskner left Earth orbit for Othala. Harry took a seat next to Thor's 'throne' for the journey.
"What do you plan to do?" Thor asked him.
"What do you mean?" Harry asked looking up at his mentor.
"I have watched you for a long time," Thor said. "I can tell that you want to get away from us for a while. And so I ask, what do you plan to do?"
Harry sighed. Thor always saw right through him. "I don't know, Thor. My memories have been calling me back that planet for years now. I want to go back there but I know that I can't; not without a tank at least. I'm tired of doing little recon missions against the replicators. I want to actually make a difference."
"I understand that," Thor said. "You are like a son to me, Harry," he said. The Beliskner began to change course heading for a planet in the Milky Way galaxy. They came out around a planet that was shrouded in darkness.
"Where are we?" Harry asked.
"This is an Ancient planet that few know about anymore. It is mostly destroyed but there are ships down there that you can use. We cannot because we do not have the Ancient gene. You do."
"You're really going to let me use an Ancient ship?" Harry asked skeptically. They were both beamed down to the planet.
Harry raised his rifle in alarm. That wasn't what he was expecting. The planet had a dark cloud cover all around it but there were a few platforms in the sky that provided light making it a somewhat grey landscape. Thor and Harry stood on a floating platform looking out across a plain where several dozen ships were in dry-dock.
"Whoa," Harry said. "I can really use one of these things?"
"There larger ships are Aurora Class vessels," Thor said. "They would require twenty Neutrino Ion Generators to power it up half way. We cannot spare more than four to power your ship."
"Which of these ships can run on four?" Harry asked observing the ships.
"That one over there," Thor said, pointing to one ship in the center of a row of ships, "is the most powerful ship that can run on just four Generators."
The ship had two large wings that stretched out and slightly downward from the main structure and began in the back of the ship near the engines. The two wings both had landing bays and weapons on the top and bottom. On the ends of the wings were large energy cannons that stretched forward to about half the total length of the ship. The main structure was rectangular and was about a hundred and fifty yards long in total. There were ten rail guns on the ship and ten missile tubes in the main structure. (Think Behemoth Class Battle Cruisers from Star Craft only downsized.)
"How powerful is that ship?" Harry asked.
"It is slightly more powerful than the Beliskner," Thor said.
"I guess I have my ship," Harry said and they were beamed onto the bridge.
Harry looked around the bridge of his new ship. It was situated towards the back of the ship and was in a raised part that was hardly noticeable from the rest of the ribbed body. There was a command chair in the center on a raised pedestal. To the left and right were two more chairs with computers in front of them. Harry knew that the left one was for weapons and the right was for flying. Behind the chairs were several screens that displayed lesser functions of the ship and all had their own station. The entire ship could, however, be controlled from the control chair if need be.
Harry stepped forward and sat down in the padded control chair. It was comfortable and held his weight quite well. There were armrests with small grip bars at the front. Harry placed his hands on the bars and was instantly connected to the ship. In this position, Harry had complete control over everything at once but once his mind was linked to the ship, all he had to do was sit in the command chair to perform most functions.
"This is a cool ship," Harry said scanning the ordinance. The rail guns were energy based and had a near limitless supply of ammunition. There were ten auto loading missile tubes in front of the bridge with twenty missiles each. The rearmost tubes were reserved for nuclear missiles. Drone weapons were stored all around the ship. There were several thousand drones. "It doesn't have a name, though."
"If this is to be your ship then you must name it."
"In that case, from now on this ship shall be known as the Corona," Harry proclaimed proudly.
"I shall return in one hour with the four Generators," Thor said. "I'll also bring your personal effects."
"Right, Thor, see you in an hour," Harry said going into a waking sleep looking over the statistics of the Corona. An hour passed in the blink of an eye for Harry.
"Harry," Thor said standing in front of the control chair.
"Thor?" Harry said. "Why haven't you left yet?"
"I have already returned."
"Huh," Harry said. He had long since gotten over the true technological prowess of the Asgard. "The Generators are in place and the ship can fly," Harry said. "Get back to Beliskner. I'll bring the Corona into orbit." Thor nodded and beamed back up to his ship.
Harry concentrated without using the control handles. The Corona lifted into the air and propelled itself through the thick cloud cover and into low orbit. The Corona didn't stop until it reached high orbit around the planet and had pulled up beside the Beliskner.
"So Thor, if I'm going to be leaving for a while, can you upgrade my SA80 like you did with my Browning?" Harry asked.
"If you come with me back to Othala, I will upgrade it however you wish," Thor said. After receiving the affirmative from Harry, the two ships entered hyperspace, leaving the Ancient shipyard behind.
September 8, 1997: Milky Way; Chulak; City
"Damn," Harry muttered as he dove into the shadows to avoid a Jaffa patrol. His cloaking device was out of power and he was deep inside enemy territory. The patrol didn't notice a thing and kept moving along.
Harry was in Chulak searching for information on Apophis, one of the Goa'uld System Lords. Apparently, he was choosing a host for his queen, Amonet. Rather than run in all gun ho, Harry decided that stealth was key. Right now he was inside Apophis' fortress searching for the prisoners. The Corona was in high orbit under cloak.
Harry crept down the halls. He heard a bass induced voice speaking. "Kill the rest." The voice said. It was quickly followed by screams.
"I can save these people! Help me!" The voice belonged to someone Harry knew but couldn't remember.
"Many have said that," another, deeper voice said. There was a short pause, then: "But you are the first I believed could do it!" Staff weapon blasts started going off. Harry ran towards the fire and found the prisoners. He fired two bursts of bullets from his SA80 into the two guards. They quickly fell. He looked into the cell as Colonel Jack O'Neill used a staff weapon to shoot a hole in the wall.
"Wait!" Harry said. Jack and a Jaffa turned to look at him.
"Who are you?" Jack asked.
"Tell me how to open the door and I'll tell you," Harry said. The Jaffa, a man named Teal'c, told him what to do and a second later Harry was in the cell with them. "I'm Harry Potter. I'll help you get out of here, Colonel."
"How do you know me?" Jack asked.
Harry mentally cursed. He'd screwed up but covered it quickly. "I've been hiding here for a while and watched you come in. Can we get out of here?"
"Right, let's go," Jack said and they made their way to the hole in the wall where the prisoners had escaped. Teal'c did not come.
"I have no place to go" Teal'c said.
"For this you can stay at my place, now come on," Jack said and Teal'c too came over.
The ragtag group of prisoners, soldiers and Jaffa ran across the country side towards the Stargate. A loud whining sound alerted them to the appearance of Death Gliders. Teal'c and Jack used their Staff Weapons against the fighters but did little damage. Harry knew the capabilities of his SA80 and knew that he wouldn't be able to do a thing so he held his fire. After two passes, the Glider was shot down by a surface to air missile from one Major Kowalski of SG2.
The group ran the last of the way to the Stargate. Jack ordered Daniel to dial the Gate and the soldiers took up defensive positions. Jaffa were coming at them from two directions. Harry took up a position near Jack but far enough away to not get caught in crossfire. As a line of Jaffa came over the ridge, Carter used the claymores, killing the first wave and then the second wave when they came.
As the third wave came over and around the ridge, the Gate activated. Harry started firing his rifle along with the other soldiers. He only carried two clips on him because that was all he needed. The first clip had two hundred thousand rounds in the space of one magazine using Asgard technology to shrink it. Every fifty shots, however, the rifle had to cool down for exactly three seconds before it could be fired again.
The second clip he carried was a power source for a more powerful version of the system found in his Browning. He didn't use this clip because he'd have to show his advanced technology in front of the Tauri.
Harry fired continuously against the Jaffa but there were simply too many. When the last of the prisoners went through the Gate, Jack ordered the rest of the soldiers to go through and that he'd be the last one to go through. Unofficially, Harry would be second to last. Out of the corner of his eye, he saw Major Kowalski get attacked by a Goa'uld symbiote. Harry turned his rifle on the small creature and with the accuracy of a sniper; the shot tore the serpent's head off.
"Thanks for that," Kowalski said before diving through the Gate. Harry backed into the event horizon still shooting. He came out in the SGC and stopped shooting immediately. Jack came diving through a second later and the Iris closed. Several loud bumps were heard as the enemy Jaffa impacted the titanium shield.
Harry turned around to see a bald man approach Colonel O'Neill. "Colonel, what happened out there?" he asked.
"Well General, we were captured and thanks to Harry and Teal'c, we escaped and came back home. Did you miss us?" Harry just barely hid behind a mask of impassiveness. This was extremely amusing.
"We'll have a debriefing in one hour," Hammond said. "Mr. Potter, I would ask you to come as well."
"Yes sir," Harry said. An hour later, he was happily sitting in the briefing room with his rifle in his lap.
"I would ask you to leave you weapon in the armory, Mr. Potter," Hammond said.
"I mean no offense, General, but I need to keep everything I own where I can see it otherwise someone might just come in and steal it." Hammond nodded and Jack chuckled before they began the debriefing.
"And so, with Harry and Teal'c, we fought our way through the Stargate," Jack concluded his report.
"And just who are you, Mr. Potter?" Hammond asked Harry.
"I'm Harry Potter," Harry said. "Please, call me Harry. I hate being called Mr. Potter. I don't even know why I kept the name. My adoptive father is dead."
"What do you plan to do now?" Hammond asked.
"Well," Harry said after a moment of thought. "I've been bored for the past month or so. Is there any chance that I could join an SG Team? I assure you that I have exceptional combat ability and am quite a diplomat. I even know ten other languages and have a few contacts."
"It'll have to be taken up with the president but I don't think that will be problem," Hammond said. "In the meantime, we'll set up a VIP room for you."
January 13, 1998: Milky Way; Stargate Command; Gate Room
Harry stood in the Gate Room along with all the other members of SG1. He along with Teal'c had been accepted onto SG1 and they were now a five man team. Harry had been given the rank of Honorary Captain, giving him the command and privileges of a Captain, but wasn't a part of the actual military.
Though he was now military, he didn't use the combat fatigues that the other members used. Instead, he just wore his usual brown jacket and pants. His SA80 was held on a strap around his neck. He had three blocks of C4 and two grenades on his belt. He had tuned an earpiece that he always wore to SG1's frequency.
He'd been on Earth for several months now. Each mission was pretty simple. They had been on many missions but had barely fired his weapon. He'd in fact been quite bored. One incident when a Goa'uld named Hathor had taken control of all of the men on the base. Harry and Teal'c, the only two men not to have been controlled helped the women defeat Hathor. The Goa'uld had, however, stepped through the Stargate seconds before Harry could take the final shot.
"Testing," Jack said into his radio. He always did this before missions to make sure that Harry's earpiece worked right.
"I hear you, Jack," Harry said. Carter was the only one that always called him Sir.
"Chevron seven, locked," Walter said from the control room and the Gate activated
"SG1, you have a go," Hammond said. They all walked up to the Gate and walked through.
The came out on a forested world designated P2X-582. A MALP had been sent before hand and everything had come out okay. It wasn't okay, actually. The second they had stepped through the Gate, ten seven foot tall armored soldiers were pointing very dangerous looking guns at them. Nine of them had blue paint while one had teal.
Harry looked at the teal soldier. "Raynor?" he said.
The teal man looked at him for a moment before recognizing him. "You're Harry Potter, aren't you?" Harry nodded. "Lower your weapons, they're allies."
"Harry, what's going on?" Jack asked.
"I don't know, Jack. I met these guys a few years back." He addressed Raynor. "What's going on? Why are you here?"
"We're on this planet for supplies," Raynor said.
"Where are the Zerg?" Harry asked. "You seemed pretty scared of them last time we met."
"There is a small army of them on this planet," Raynor said. "Again, I suggest that you go back where you came from."
"No, I'm not going back this time," Harry said. He turned to the rest of SG1. "You guys should head back. Things could get ugly around here. I'll be back eventually. I can't say when as I don't know, but I will be back."
"We can't just leave you here," Jack said. "If you die, I'll have to do the paperwork." That wasn't exactly what Jack meant but it was the easiest to say.
"I'll be fine, Jack. I have the technology to survive. Go, before this gets in over your head." Jack, albeit reluctantly dialed the Gate. He'd long since realized that while under his command, Harry wouldn't do anything if he didn't think it was the right thing to do. There was nothing he could do to stop the seventeen year old who looked like a twenty year old. Harry watched as SG1 disappeared through the event horizon.
"Why are you staying?" Raynor asked as Harry took out his rifle clip. Harry took another identical one and replaced it. He then flicked the safety off.
"For seven years, I've wanted to know what the Zerg are and what connection they have to my past. Now, I have the chance to find out."
Raynor smiled. "Well in that case, come with me. I'll get a weapon for you. That one looks too primitive to work against these things."
"Trust me Jim, this rifle is more advanced than anything you have." Harry took something out of his back pouch. It was a rectangular object with several buttons on it. Harry pressed a sequence before putting it away. "My command ship, the Corona, will be here in half an hour," Harry said. "Is the Hyperion nearby?"
"Yeah, it's in orbit," Raynor said.
"Good," Harry said. "Make sure that transports are ready to get us out of here."
"It's already done," Raynor said. "We'll be able to leave in twenty minutes when my crews get the Xel'Naga artifact from the ruin."
Harry froze. "Did you just say Xel'Naga?"
"Yes, they're the ones that first inhabited the galaxy," Raynor said.
"Sir!" Harry and Raynor turned to see a Marine running up to them. "Sir, the Zerg have been spotted moving towards this position. We'll be overrun in a matter of minutes!"
"Shit," Raynor muttered. "If the Zerg get this artifact, we're all dead. Sergeant, have the men set up defensive positions around the mouth of the complex. Harry, follow me."
Raynor and Harry ran through the forest towards a cliff. Raynor, in his marine armor, had to run much slower for Harry to keep up. Eventually, they came to a large cliff with a cavern in the side. Marines and medics were running around setting up defensive positions. Harry and Raynor quickly made their way to the mouth of the cave.
"What's in there?" Harry asked gesturing to the cave.
"There is an ancient Xel'Naga artifact in there that could prove useful," Raynor explained as they got into a trench. "As it is, my men haven't discovered it. I'm going to recall them immediately."
"How did you know where to find this thing?" Harry asked.
"One of my contacts, the Moebius Foundation, tipped us as to where various artifacts are and we go there to try and get them before the Zerg do."
"Well, consider this artifact mine if you aren't willing to go through till the end," Harry said. He got up and ran full speed into the cavern listening to Raynor curse.
Harry ran through until he came to a fork in the road. Some seventh or eighth sense was telling him where to go so he ran down the left hand hall. He came to another fork, going left again and then a third time before going right twice and then left once. It took him ten minutes to get to a larger room with a single pedestal in the center.
Harry didn't waste any time in running up to the pedestal. On it was a ten inch long, half inch thick cylindrical handle. It had a personalized grip and a small opening at the top clearly showed which side was which. A power strip along the side displayed the amount of power left. It had a little over eighty percent power left. From the looks of it, it was at least two hundred years old if not older.
Harry grabbed the handle and pulled it off of the pedestal. He immediately felt a mental link to the object. It was Ancient, just like the Corona. He quickly processed the information he was receiving. The handle was a beam saber, a prototype Warp Blade. When mentally activated, it extended to a four foot long azure blade of pure energy.
Harry slipped the blade, called a Warp Saber, into his back pouch. With a storage system like his bullet clip, it easily held the ten inch handle. Harry then turned around and ran back out the reverse way that he had entered. In his haste, he missed the flashing light on the side of the pedestal.
Harry came out of the cavern to a fierce battle. Zerglings and Hydraliasks had penetrated the first trench and were assaulting the second trench. Drop ships could be heard in the air.
Harry raised his rifle and fired a shot at a Hydralisk. The red two inch long beam penetrated the creature's head. The scythe-handed alien was critically wounded and another shot from Harry killed it. He ran forward firing off two shots for every one Zerg. He killed twenty Zerg on his run to the third trench where Raynor was situated.
"Jim; get your men to the transports!" Harry yelled over the gunfire. "I'll cover your retreat! Just leave one transport waiting for me near the cliff!" Raynor nodded before ordering all of his soldiers to bound back through his radio.
Harry stood and set his rifle to automatic. He fired at a rate of five hundred rounds per minute into the advancing Zerg. Dozens upon dozens were cut down in their fanatic attempt to kill the humans. One Hydralisk got too close to him and tried to cut into him with its arms. Harry instinctively grabbed the Warp Saber from his pouch, activated is and sliced upwards into the Hydralisk. The alien was cut in half and burned.
Harry didn't spare the dead creature a single glance as he turned tail and ran towards the last remaining drop ship. He leapt into the lifting craft just before Hydralisk spikes tore through where he was once standing. Marines in the ship fired rounds out of the closing door covering their escape.
Harry breathed in deep as the ship entered low orbit and docked with the Hyperion. The Hyperion looked shockingly like the Corona but was large and less powerful. The battle cruiser had likely been designed based on the Corona's structure. Already Mutalisks and Scourge were throwing themselves against the Hyperion's defenses.
Just before the hanger bay of the Hyperion closed behind them, Harry saw the Corona drop out of hyperspace. Harry pressed a button on the square in his pouch and was beamed to the Corona's bridge much to the surprise of the marines.
Harry got into the control chair immediately after arrival. He grasped the control bars tightly and fell into the waking sleep of total control. Mutalisks and Scourge were altering course to come and attack the Corona. In all relativity, this was a small Zerg swarm, only about a thousand Zerg.
Harry aimed the rail guns and loaded a nuclear missile into tube two. Small rapid fire lasers shot out from the ten rail guns on the ship destroying dozens of Mutalisks every second. The more agile Scourges were harder to destroy and a few impacted the Corona's shields. The nuke finished loading after several seconds of intense fighting and Harry launched it on bio-proximity fuse. The missile drove deep into the Zerg fleet and detonated when a Scourge attempted to destroy it.
The explosion was massive. Everything was blinded for a brief moment when a giant flash of white light broke over the horizon. When the flash faded, Harry and the Hyperion observed the destruction caused by the nuke. All of the Zerg except for the ones directly attacking the two cruisers were annihilated.
"Harry, is that you?" Harry came out of the total concentration and brought Raynor's face on screen. Now out of his armor, Harry saw just how haggard he really looked. (Look up Jim Raynor and look for the picture with a cigarette for the description.
"It's me, Jim," Harry said. "How's your ship doing?"
"We're still mostly in one piece," Raynor said. "If your ship hadn't shown up, we probably would have been dead."
"Then it's a good thing that I showed up," Harry said. The Corona told him that several targets were approaching. "Hey Jim; my ships sensors have picked up seven ships approaching. They're Goa'uld Hataks; long range mother ships."
"Are they a real threat?" Raynor asked.
"They're a threat to you," Harry said. "I can fight them all and hopefully win." The Corona again told him about more ships. "Now I have three more ships approaching from the other direction. I've never seen these before." At the same time, the ships came out of hyperspace. Three Protoss Carriers were behind the Hyperion and the Corona. The seven Hataks came out in front.
"Attention unknown vessels," a voice said on all frequencies. A Jaffa appeared on the Corona's screen. "This planet has been claimed by the God Apophis. If you do not retreat, we will destroy you."
"This is Harry Potter of the Ancient ship Corona," Harry said. "The Goa'uld have no right to claim this planet as it already falls under Ancient control. Leave this space at once or I will fire on you."
"The Ancients are dead!" the Jaffa exclaimed. "You will be destroyed for your insolence." The face disappeared and the Hataks opened fire.
The gold energy blasts from the Hataks impacted the Corona's blue shield. The shields lowered to eighty seven percent having already been damaged by Scourge. Harry directed the rail gun fire against the enemy ships, concentrating on the lead vessel. He charged the wing cannons and loaded two normal missiles into the launch tubes.
The wing cannons fired three shots every two seconds against the lead Hatak. The shields had already been brought down from the rail gun fire and two shots tore clean through the ship. Harry changed fire to the second Hatak, this time firing his missiles. As the shields reached eighty percent, the missiles broke through the weakened shields and destroyed the ship.
Harry at this point began to attack all the targets at once. Five rail guns attacked one Hatak while the other five attacked incoming Gliders. One wing cannon attacked another Hatak while the other attacked a third. Drone weapons shot out of the Corona and aided the other forms of weapons in fighting the ships. The three ships that were being attacked were destroyed. Harry concentrated his fire on one of the two remaining Hatak, easily destroying it. As the last Hatak tried to flee, twenty drones tore into it while wing cannons and rail guns attacked. It didn't last ten seconds of concentrated fire.
"That was very impressive." Harry allowed for a face to be brought up on screen. It showed a High Templar standing there. "I am surprised that the Terrans could create such a powerful assault craft."
"Gee, thanks for the compliment," Harry said. "State your name and business here."
"A sensor we put on the Xel'Naga artifact told us that it was being stolen. I was sent here to retrieve it," the Templar said.
Raynor's face appeared next to the Templar's on the screen. "If the Protoss did put a tracker on the artifact, Artanis or Zeratul would have come; not send a messenger boy."
"Petty human," the Templar said. "You could never understand our government."
Raynor smiled. "Now I know that you aren't with the others. I know that the Protoss would show some respect to me. Hell, I was offered a place on Shakuras with them." The Templar growled and his face disappeared.
"I thought that went rather well," Harry said as the Carriers started launching Interceptors. Raynor just laughed as both ships prepared for combat.
The Hyperion started charging its Yamato Gun as the Corona launched drones. The rail guns tore through the Interceptors with ease but the Carriers either had an unlimited number of them or kept rebuilding them. Drones slammed into the Carriers, easily bypassing the shields. The explosions were somehow dampened, however.
Harry noticed the lack of damage done by the drones. It appeared that only the kinetic energy was damaging the ship's armor. Harry increased the engine power and advanced towards the ships. He fired wing cannon shots on one of the escort Carriers. The cannon shots impacted a blue shield and did not actual damage to the ship. It did, however, severely weaken the shields. The Hyperion's Yamato Gun fired a second later and broke through the shields. The Carrier stood no chance against the modified weapon.
With two Carriers left, Harry started firing on the other escort. The wing cannons did massive damage to the shield and them to the ship itself when the shields failed. The Carrier broke apart and exploded. The last Carrier was destroyed quickly by a combined attack from the Hyperion and the Corona.
"Well, Jim, we seemed to have quite a few enemies," Harry said. "I'd like to meet with you personally. Can I transport over to the Hyperion now?"
"Of course, I'll send a Drop Ship," Raynor said.
"That won't be necessary," Harry said and beamed directly to the Hyperion's bridge.
Raynor nearly fell over in shock at seeing his friend appear out of nowhere. A few guards pulled out side arms upon seeing him. "Stand down," Raynor said regaining his balance. The guards lowered their weapons.
"Greetings Captain Raynor," Harry said with a bow.
"Greetings," Raynor said. "So, what did you want to meet about?"
"I've just been attacked by highly advanced aliens that I have never heard of or seen before," Harry said. "You seem to know them. I want to know where you and these aliens came from."
"What do you offer us in return?" Raynor asked.
"In return I can offer you my services and some technology that may be of use," Harry said. "Hopefully we can work out an agreement."
"I'm sure we can."
The next few hours were spent with the two of them pouring over star charts and maps, Raynor telling Harry about the Koprulu Sector and the Protoss and Zerg. The Koprulu Sector was a region of space about three times the size of the Sol system. It wasn't in the Milky Way but rather in the Andromeda galaxy. They had their own version of Earth as well that bore no resemblance to the Earth in the Milky Way.
Raynor and his Raiders were the most wanted criminals in the Koprulu Sector. They had come to the Milky Way for a year to gather supplies before heading back into the Koprulu so that they could help fight the Zerg. Apparently, the faction that they had fought on the planet was a rouge Brood that had escaped Kerrigan's control.
Raynor also explained that the planet that Thor and Harry had Gated to seven years before was in the Koprulu Sector on a planet called Auir. Harry then told Raynor of the Corona and what he could do to the Hyperion to add to its abilities. Harry offered copies of his own rail guns and several nuclear missiles. In return, Harry would receive the Hyperion's weapon schematics and be allowed to return to the Koprulu Sector with the Raiders. Even he got bored every now and then.
"This is quite a lopsided deal," Raynor said after a few hours. "You're giving us a ton and all you ask in return is weapon schematics and a chance to fight the Zerg."
"The Zerg are a pretty nasty race and I would love to get a crack at them," Harry said. "Besides, I went to Auir because I felt a drawing to the planet. I'd also love to go back there."
"I'm sorry, Harry, but Auir has been overrun with Zerg."
"Even better," Harry said. "Listen Jim, I have to prepare for the mission. Take this," Harry handed Raynor a tracking device. "If you ever need help, just call."
"Thanks, Harry," Raynor said.
"Don't mention it," Harry said before beaming out.
December 28, 1997: Pegasus Galaxy; High Orbit; Sateda
Harry walked into the Corona's bridge. He'd been traveling for almost three weeks to get to the Pegasus Galaxy. He was now in orbit over a planet that the Ancients had colonized soon after coming to the galaxy. Known now as Sateda, it had an advanced civilization of humans living on the ground oblivious to the Ancient structure three hundred yards beneath the surface of the capital city.
Harry cloaked the ship as soon as he entered orbit. He was dressed in his brown jacket, pants and red undershirt as always. His hair had grown out quite a bit during the journey. While before he was going to cut it, Harry decided to let it grow out a bit. It now cropped just below his shoulders and he kept it in a single large braid. His bangs were kept out of it since they had remained shorter than the rest. They cropped just above his eyebrows and were extremely defined. (Think Duo from Gundam Wing only with a shorter braid and green eyes.)
Harry had his SA80 in his hand set to stun mode. Here, he wasn't worried about showing off his technology. His cloaking device was hidden under the left sleeve. If not for the rifle, he'd probably blend right in.
Harry beamed down onto the top of building in the only city on the planet. The Ancient facility underneath the city had shielding that blocked all transport in. He'd have to find the normal entrance somewhere in the city. Unfortunately for him, he hadn't checked the life signs around where he had beamed in and appeared in front of a middle-aged man and woman.
The man had long dreadlocks that were tied up in the back. He was the quickest to react. In less than a second after Harry's arrival, the man had a handgun pointed at Harry's head.
"Who the hell are you?" the man asked.
"Shit," Harry said to himself. "I'm sorry for dropping in on you like this," Harry said again with a bow. "I hadn't intended for anyone to know that I was here."
"You haven't answered my question," the man said.
"I am Duo Solo," Harry said. During the trip he had come up with an alias for dealing with other cultures. The less people that knew of Harry, son of Thor, the better it was for him. "I came from the Milky Way galaxy."
"I am Ronan Dex," the man said. "I happen to work for the military here and I'm sure that they would love to get their hands on you."
"If you have any intention to capture me, you had best be rid of it," Harry, now Duo, laughed. "I can and will vanish into thin air if you make any serious move against me."
Ronan lowered his gun. "Melina, go back home. I'll deal with this." The woman, Melina, turned and ran down a nearby set of stairs. "What are you doing here?"
"No one here knows it, but there is tunnel system beneath this city," Harry said. "It might have some things that I could use."
"Why should I let you take what's rightfully ours?" Ronan asked.
Harry sighed. "Listen, I can make it so that you never even knew I existed. I can disappear or I could kill you right now before you had time to react. Fortunately, I'm not that kind of guy. If you help me find the entrance to this complex, I'll let you keep eighty percent of what's in there as long as I take the plans for it."
"If there are weapons down there, the military will do everything in their power to take them," Ronan said. "I'm all for getting advanced weapons for my people but not if it will mean tyranny. I'll help you find this place and help you any way after that under the condition that you take all of the weapons."
Harry's eyes widened. "That is the last thing that I would expect. You've got yourself a deal, Ronan Dex."
Harry and Ronan spent the next twenty minutes looking around the city. They eventually had to enter a subway and then had to find a tunnel underneath one of the tracks. When they had the trapdoor open, they dropped in and closed the door behind them. Harry had night vision thanks to his Ocular Implants but Ronan did not. Harry gave him a pair of night vision goggles he'd stolen from the SGC.
The duo made their way through a tunnel complex. There were no rooms on either side of the passage they were in. After two minutes of walking, they came to a door. They opened it carefully using military protocol and stepped through. On the other side was an elevator. Either the power supply was dead or turned off because the lift didn't work.
Harry and Ronan plied their way into the floor of the lift, pulling one panel away. It gave them a clear view of an elevator shaft that went straight down. Harry grabbed a magnet pulley and attached it to the floor of the lift. It snug closely on and Harry prepared himself to fall down into the shaft. He'd given another set to Ronan. Harry turned off the brake and let himself freefall for six seconds before they came to the floor.
Harry took the pulley off his belt and grabbed his rifle. They were right next to a door now. They pried it open and walked in. They found themselves in another hall with several doors on both sides. Harry had a faint memory of this place and walked down the hall further. Ronan followed him wordlessly. They came to a final door directly in front of them. Harry opened it and stepped inside.
The room they entered was small, about ten feet by ten feet. There were several consoles around the walls but the most attracting piece was in the center. It was a triangular pedestal with two hexagonal cylinders sitting on the top. One was inside the pedestal and was active. Harry knew what these were. They were Zero Point Modules which created an artificial region of subspace and drew phenomenal amounts of energy from it.
Harry grabbed all three of them, pulling out the last one. The second he did, alarms started going off in Ancient. Harry was fortunate enough to understand that they were screaming "Self-Detonation in thirty seconds."
"What is that?" Ronan asked over the blaring sirens.
"It's saying that this facility is going to self-destruct in thirty seconds!" Harry screamed. Harry knew that the bomb wouldn't damage the city above them, just create a small earthquake. He grabbed Ronan's arm and beamed them out of the now unshielded complex.
Harry and Ronan next appeared on the bridge of the Corona. Ronan was in shock at having suddenly disappeared but there were more important matters.
"That complex is going to destroy the city!" Ronan said.
"The bomb will destroy the complex but won't cause more than a small earthquake in the city," Harry said, setting the ZPMs on the floor. "The instant the quake is over, I'll beam you back down to the surface of the planet."
"That's it?" Ronan asked. "Now you're just going to leave?"
"You won't get any lost sleep," Harry said. "You won't remember any of this until I want you to." With that, Harry placed his hand on Ronan's head and used Asgard technology to suck out all of the memories of the past hour. Ronan's body sagged and Harry caught him. When the quake stopped, Harry beamed Ronan down into his house. The man would never know that he'd talked and worked with the last living Ancestor.
January 3, 1998: Milky Way; High Orbit; Earth
Harry walked through the halls of the Corona. When he'd placed the ZPMs into the Corona's power system, he'd found that two of them were at one hundred percent capacity and the third was at ninety eight percent capacity. It was enough power to light up every circuit on Earth for a day.
With the ZPMs, Harry had enough power to fly back to Earth in five days on low power. En route, he had received a transmission from Raynor saying that Hyperion would head back to the Koprulu Sector in two days. He'd come back to Earth to make his leave of SG1 official and to let them know that he was okay. All of them had taken a real liking to him and would want to know that he was safe.
Harry sat in the command chair as the ship came out of hyperspace. He'd absently been reading a book he'd taken from the SGC but the book dropped to the floor when Harry saw two Hatak mother ships over Earth. The ships turned at his arrival and started to fire weapons. Apparently he'd worked up a reputation by destroying Apophis's fleet a month earlier.
Harry raised the shields to full power. When the gold energy blasts hit the now orange shield, Harry received another surprise. Ten Goa'uld blasts had taken one percent of shields away. Without the ZPMs, that would be ten percent of his normal shields. The Hataks had been upgraded since he'd left.
Harry fired back at one of the ships using the rail guns and sporadic wing cannon blasts. While he did this he scanned the ships. He was surprised to find three human life signs when the ships should have been entirely Goa'uld. Harry realized that these life signs must have been SG1 trying to stop the attack. He couldn't beam them out through the enemy's shields but Harry did focus his attacks on the second Hatak. The ship was quickly dispatched. Harry stopped firing his wing cannons and instead resorted to his forward rail guns. The small shots destroyed the fighter bay and weapons.
Harry's attacks had severely weakened the shields. He cloaked the Corona a ways away from the ship and beamed directly in front of the human life signs. Jack fell over when Harry appeared and the loyal Jaffa quickly raised their weapons.
"Hold your fire," Sam quickly said and the Jaffa lowered their weapons. "Harry, is that you?"
"Hello Sam," Harry said. "I must say that when I showed up here that this was not what I expected."
"Harry, it's good to see you," Jack said. "We'll get the introductions underway when we can destroy the ships."
"What did you have in mind?" Harry asked absently.
"We have C4 set all around this ship but we have no idea how to take care of the other one," Sam said.
"If we can ring over to the other vessel and disable their shields, we may be able to destroy both ships," a gray haired Jaffa, Bra'tak, said.
"That won't be necessary Master Bra'tak," Harry said. "I have already destroyed the second Hatak ship and nearly destroyed this one before I realized that you were here. If we can disable this ship's shields, we can all be transported to my ship."
"You have a ship?" Sam asked.
"Later," Harry said.
They spent the next ten minutes making their way to the shield generators. The troupe of eight was now standing on a balcony looking down at the generator.
"Now we must climb down several levels and attack the shields with our weapons," Bra'tak said. As he began to move, Jack grabbed two grenades out of his vest, pulled the pins and dropped them off the balcony. The shields went down with a small explosion.
"Grenades," Jack said simply. "Harry, you said we had a way off this ship?"
"Yeah, just a second," Harry said. He beamed them all over to the Corona's bridge and himself to the command chair. SG1 and the group of Jaffa were very surprised. They all had their unique reactions that aren't worth mentioning. "Just watch the Star Trek battle," Harry said with a smile.
The Corona uncloaked and advanced towards the wounded Hatak. Harry overcharged his wing cannons and fired them at the same time. The Hatak exploded in a fantastic explosion. Harry set the Corona for a course that would take them to the SGC.
The people in the SGC were in silent awe as they watched an enormous battleship float over their mountain complex. They were in less than silent awe when SG1 and the Jaffa group appeared in the Gate Room in a flash of white light. Harry didn't wait around long and moved the Corona out of the atmosphere. He'd let Jack do the talking. His SG1 patch was in Jack's vest pocket but wouldn't know it was there until he emptied it.
January 5, 1998: Void; Andromeda-Milky Way; Battle Cruiser Hyperion
Harry had beamed over to the Hyperion as soon as he came out of hyperspace. Raynor was somewhat used to it by now. The two greeted each other like old friends.
"Harry, welcome back," Raynor said. Jim turned to one of them men on the bridge. "Captain Horner, activate the engines and set the ship for the Koprulu Sector." A middle-aged man nodded and went about his task. "Harry, please follow me to the briefing room."
Harry and Raynor walked through the Hyperion for a few moments before entering a small room. It had a four person table and four chairs. A large screen was on one of the walls. Harry and Raynor took their seats and the screen activated showing the Koprulu Sector. Raynor grabbed a laser pointer from the desk and used it on the screen.
"This is the planet Moria," Raynor said pointing to a blue world. "It's a Terran stronghold that has a truly enormous amount of resources. The Terran Dominion has placed a significant force there to protect it. The Hyperion's crew is under equipped to fight the Dominion or the Zerg at this point so we're going to raid the planet."
"What do they have down there?" Harry asked as the screen zoomed in on Moria.
"Our contacts on the planet tell us that they have a squadron of Viking transformable assault walkers as air support. There is a division of Marines and Siege Tanks. A small fleet of Battle Cruisers is in orbit around the planet. The actual people of Moria have five antique Goliath combat walkers."
"That's quite the arsenal," Harry remarked. "What are we stealing?"
"We're going to strike at dawn in a military outpost," Raynor said, highlighting a piece of the planet. "They'll be on the end of night patrol and tired. The relief fighters will be slow to get in the air and we should be able to get a team of Marines into the complex before air support is a threat. Once inside the complex, the Marines will make their way to the main hanger where the Vikings are kept. They will pilot the Vikings out of the complex while the Hyperion and the Corona provide top cover."
"Are there any Battle Cruisers in dry dock?" Harry asked. "Those would be valuable assets if we could get a hold of them."
"I think that all of the ships are in space," Raynor said. "If you really want some Battle Cruisers, I'm sure that we could raid a Dominion shipyard somewhere along the line. The problem is manning them."
"I can create a system that can make a standard Minotaur class Battle Cruiser operation with just one pilot and six gunners," Harry said. "Moving on, are the Goliaths in the hanger as well?"
"From what our sources say, yes," Raynor said. "I'm not having our men grab them because the Vikings are more powerful and a better asset."
"I'll head in with the Marines," Harry said suddenly. "I want to get at least one Goliath so that I can study it. I'll target it and transport it up to the Corona's hanger bay."
"Harry, we need the Corona for this," Raynor said urgently. "If you're with the assault team then no one can fly your ship."
"Jim, it is more advanced than any Terran ship you've ever seen. Do you really think that there isn't an auto-fire sequence? It'll take me five minutes to target the Goliaths and beam them up." Raynor nodded as he consumed the information. "Also, I think that his particular engagement shouldn't take more than ten minutes. I'm not sure how our ships will hold up against the enemy defenses."
"I was thinking that anyway," Raynor said. "We'll be there in two hours. Will you be ready by then?"
"I'll be ready whenever," Harry said leaning back in his seat. With that, Harry beamed back over to the Corona.
January 5, 1998: Andromeda; Low Orbit; Moria
Harry set the Corona to auto-fire sequence B. This would set the rail guns to attack any small fighters and the wing cannons and drones to hit the larger targets. The Battle Cruisers were about ten times more powerful than the upgraded Hataks. Harry didn't want to think about how powerful a flagship was.
The Marines went in by Drop Ship. As soon as the eight man team had landed, Harry beamed down with them. His rifle was set to kill. Harry ran into the complex with the Marines. He ran full speed to keep up with the armored Marines.
The nine man group ran into a small squad of Marines. They fell to concentrated fire from the Raiders and Harry's rifle. The Raiders fought their way into the hanger. Harry stepped into the center of the hanger while the Marines sealed the doors. He observed the Viking assault walkers and the Goliath combat walkers.
Harry ran forward and placed a small device on each of the Goliaths and watched as one by one they disappeared in flashes of white light. When all of the combat walkers were gone, the Marines got into the Vikings and took off into the air. Harry beamed back up to the Corona and sat down in the command chair, going into total control.
The Corona turned ninety degrees to the left and concentrated all its fire on one of the Battle Cruisers. The shields were down to sixty percent but were holding steady. Overcharged wing cannon blasts shot into the Minotaur class and caused it to explode down the center. From behind the ship, the Vikings entered the Hyperion's hanger bays and the ship began to climb. Harry followed it providing cover.
The two Battle Cruisers came out into space and hastily made a retreat. The retreat was masked by one of Harry's nuclear missiles. The nukes destroyed two enemy Battle Cruisers and several fighters.
January 7, 1998: Koprulu Sector; High Orbit; Mar Sara
Harry hadn't taken part in the drinking celebration. He wasn't a booze user in any sense of the word. Sure, he'd drink a toast or a beer every now and then but had instead gone straight to the hanger bays of the Corona.
The Goliath walkers astounded him. Two arm machine guns and one under-body gun as well as two shoulder mounted missile launchers made up the walker's weapons. It had a cockpit upwards in the top of the body with an opaque glass covering, relying on cameras for sight.
The Goliath had a chair piloting system with two hand bars that slid up and down the long armrests. On the bars were several buttons that reacted to the slightest intentional touch. The hand bars could be rotated to change targeting and camera view. Various number pads and keyboards allowed for quick adjustments. The feet had acceleration and maneuvering controls. The entire suit could be moved and piloted using the pilot's four limbs. The keyboards and pads were for passive adjustments.
The walker had been out of date for a few years, steadily being replaced by the Viking. There was one thing that the Goliath had that the Viking didn't. It was more maneuverable and had one hell of a mechanic.
In the past two days, Harry had been making huge renovations to one of the Goliaths. The limbs had been recreated using the hanger's equipment. The right arm now had a more powerful machine gun that fired more powerful rounds than the Viking did. It allowed for beam gun rounds to be fired when the conventional shots ran out, enabling unlimited ammunition. The left arm had had its machine gun taken away and replaced by an actual arm with a five digit hand. This allowed for it to have interchangeable weapons that could be attached and were being made by the Corona even then.
The shoulder missile launchers had been scaled down a bit. The machine gun now had greater range and power and was the main supplement. Instead, the missile launchers were more like flat shoulder armor with five missiles each.
The machine gun underneath the body had been taken out. Instead of the gun was a more powerful power core; a thermonuclear fusion reactor to be exact. The walker's legs had been shifted down a little more and made much more maneuverable. Retrorockets had been placed inside the soles of the legs and allowed for boost jumping.
A back piece had been added. It contained two highly powerful retrorockets inside that along with the foot rockets could fly through the atmosphere. While it wasn't very efficient, it was possible. The back rockets when used in tandem with the foot rockets enabled the Goliath to boost backwards and to both sides much quicker than a Viking could accomplish. In short, powerful bursts, the rockets could be used to jump several hundred feet. Powered by the fusion reactor, the rockets never ran out of energy.
Harry was extremely proud of his creation. He'd renamed it Helios. It was painted a dark tan and teal color to set it slightly apart from other Goliaths. On the wall next to Helios were several weapons that the walker could use. There was another beam machine gun as well as beam cannon. More weapons were being worked on but he didn't have many designs. Currently, a shield arm was equipped with a large tower shield on the shoulder which dropped down into the hands during combat.
The Hyperion and the Corona were currently over the sterilized world of Mar Sara. It was a place where the Dominion never went and the Zerg found uninteresting. There were no resources there at all but it allowed for a safe haven for a while.
For the past two days, Harry and Jim had been planning a raid on the Dylarian Shipyards, where several dozen Battle Cruisers were in dry dock. They only needed three or four of the massive assault ship. The plan was simple; they would send in two squads of Marines and a fighter wing of three Vikings. The Marines were all pilots and would take the Battle Cruisers out to the Hyperion.
The Corona and the Hyperion began to fly towards the nearby Dylarian Shipyards. They were a few thousand miles from Korhal, the Dominion capital. They had two hours to complete the operation before the military came down on them full force.
January 8, 1998: Koprulu Sector; Dylarian Shipyards
Harry sat in the cockpit of the Helios. He'd insisted that since the Corona wasn't going to take place in battle that he accompany the strike team in the Helios. Currently, he was alone in a Drop Ship that was flying in formation with two others and the three Vikings. The six ships were currently slowing down as the Marines jumped out. Harry's Drop Ship opened up in the back and the Helios was flung out by catapults.
Harry shifted the left handle over into another slide which activated the boosters. The Helios slowed down before it hit the platform. Harry shifted the handle back into the first slide, deactivating the boosters. Three screens to the right, left and in front of the pilot showed the Goliath's visuals. The Helios was no different in this field except there was a more powerful tracking system.
Harry saw eight Marines land on the left screen and eight Marines land on the right one. They were all prepared for battle in five seconds. The place that they had chosen as a staging point was away from the nearby Siege Tanks. Harry turned the Helios around. He was going to go first and eliminate the Siege Tanks.
Harry shifted the left handle over into the booster slide. They activated and fought against the space platform's artificial gravity giving the Helios a slight hover. Harry boosted forward at about eighty percent of the Viking's airspeed. Arclite Cannon shots exploded around him but were too slow to hit the Helios. As Harry approached a raised platform where a Siege Tank was situated, he pushed the left handle up, increasing the booster power. The Helios rose up off the platform and onto the raised portion.
Harry landed and lowered the boosters to hover. The Tanks couldn't fire at him but the Marines that were near them could. They unleashed a hailstorm of bullets on him. Harry raised his shield and the bullets pinged harmlessly off. When they had to change clips, Harry pushed the right handle forward. The machine gun arm extended and the shield pulled back. The Helios let out a true hailstorm of bullets on the Marines.
Harry watched as the Marines exploded in a shower of blood. At first, it sickened him but then he reminded himself that it was just like killing a Jaffa. Cannon rounds landed next to him. Harry turned and saw the Siege Tanks in Tank mode firing at him. Harry boosted backwards along the ground firing from behind his shield.
Harry pushed the left handle up and the Helios rose into the void. He boosted to the side to avoid missile shots from a nearby Turret. He fired three missiles at the ground, one at the Turret, the other at the two Siege Tanks. All three targets exploded in a hail of shrapnel.
"Marines, the path is clear," Harry said over the radio. "You're clear to advance…" Harry couldn't finish his sentence as he was hit from behind by a missile. His seat straps held him in tight but it was still quite a shockwave.
Harry spun the Helios around to see two red Vikings coming at him from behind. Harry boosted back, firing his gun the entire way. Bullets impacted the left Viking but did little actual damage. Harry switched the gun over to its beam setting. Now, explosive beam rounds fired towards the aircraft. The shots looked like yellow tracers.
Beam rounds impacted the left Viking and it exploded, damaging its wingman. The right Viking got closer and closer, firing its missiles. Harry boosted up and over the Viking as it overshot, the missiles missing. Harry shot his machine gun inverted at the retreating plane. The explosive rounds impacted the engines and it exploded in a brilliant flash.
The Helios landed on the platform. Two Battle Cruisers were flying away towards the rendezvous point already and the Marines were stuck in close quarters combat near the third. Harry boosted towards their position.
Harry approached the fighting Marines as they engaged enemy Marines. Harry put his shield in front of the allied Marines and blocked the bullets. With the other arm, Harry fired his machine gun, killing eight Marines in large explosions. Harry completely forgot that he had left his gun in beam mode.
(This seemed like the best place to stop.)
