Author's Note: Also I must give cudos to Kamikashi for the creation of Haruka Shark. Without her help and insight this story wouldn't be half the story. Sorry that I forgot to add this sooner.

The Flying Demon Shark

Once outside, Jon and Cassie were instructed to move into formation creating Elements. Cassie and Jon weren't in the same element, not that Jon was surprised since he and Cassie had a connection even as thin as theirs.

Once they were all assembled, the Colonel who they'd seen inside greeted them. "Good morning, Class of 2008, Class of Carl W.
Richter. I am Colonel Haruka Shark." One of the cadets snickered at her name; spinning around, she shot a glare at the boy. He sobered instantly, standing at hyper-attention to make up for his breach of taboo. "No, you're not allowed to joke about my name; yes, I do bite if you do." She looked at the assembled Cadets daring them to laugh at her joke and only Jon gave her a small smile. "I am the Vice Commandant of the Cadet Wing and the acting XO of this Academy." She paused. "Which means your collective sixes are mine for the next four years... if you make it."

Moving down the line of cadets, the Colonel continued her welcome speech. Her eyes settled on Jon and he realized that Haruka knew just who he was or maybe what he was. Watching her speak he was hard pressed to say if this was a good or bad thing.

Jon knew that she would never yell unless provoked. And that then it would be way worse than anything these cadets had ever seen. An angry Haruka never had been a pretty sight and an angry Colonel Shark was something that Jon didn't want to contemplate.

Colonel Shark's speech ended. "Now file onto the buses with your Elements and they will take you to your dorms."

The lines of cadets marched onto the buses, some of them crisper than others. The TIs had been moving among the cadets as yelling and asking questions. Showing these young people what they can expect. This was the Air Force, not the Girl Scouts; these people were expected to be able to lead; they were no longer allowed to be followers.

Jon sat down in his seat; his eyes forward. Cassie was about five rows back, he had caught a quick glimpse of her quick smile before he sat. Their elements and two more made up the cadets on the bus.
The bus ride was the first test.

An upperclassman moved down the isles and the shouting and berating continued. The TI was yelling at a cadet behind him and Jon couldn't contain a snort. Send this punk to Jack and he wouldn't last a day at the SGC. Maybe he had already been washed out and that was why he had a bee in his bonnet.

The upperclassman stopped his attack on the other cadet and moved on to stand in front of Jon. "Is something funny Cadet?"

"Sir, no sir." Jon answered quickly without hesitation and eyes straight ahead waiting.

Cadet Trelawney faltered for a moment. It wasn't often Cadets got it right the first time even after hearing it exemplified over and over.

Wanting to break this Cadet's cool exterior, he began to drill him question after question. Only to have the cadet answer quickly with the correct phrasing and still looking straight ahead never wavering.

After the eighth question was answered correctly he gave up. He looked at Jon's name tag knowing that he would be watching this one. As he moved away Trelawney realized where he had heard that name before.

Stetson Trelawney smiled, his father would be very happy when he relayed this information. He would make this cadet's life miserable and his father would finally be proud of him.

Moving on he chose someone else to intimidate but for the rest of the ride Trelawney's eyes returned to study Cadet O'Neill.

Everyone filed off the bus forming into their elements once more.
The TIs and seniors moved through the ranks either yelling or asking questions. The stood there for what seemed like hours and Jon could feel the sweat trickling down his neck as the sun seemed to beat down on them.

He didn't dare look at Cassie, who was one element over, to see how she was faring. This was one of the most grueling tests and he hoped that she was doing alright. He'd been through worse- well Jack had, a POW in Iraq, and with Bocce.

Then Trelawney was back again yelling and shouting as he questions Jon's brains, parentage and anything else that the TI could think of. Then it got personal. "So you think you're going to have it easy because you have an Uncle who is a Brigadier General up at Cheyenne Mountain with all those geeks in Deep Space Radar Telemetry? You think he's going to make it easy for you?"

Jon couldn't stop the smile that broke out on his lips. "Sir, no sir." but it was gone as soon as he said those words. Mentally sighing Jon thought it had taken long for someone to connect him with Jack. The shouting and name calling went on and on, all focused at Jon.

Finally Jon had enough and quipped, "I wonder how many times Colonel Shark lets you clean her office refrigerator a week or does she just save it up and give you the really nasty stuff? Sir."

Trelawney whirled around and was right up into Jon's face. "Did you say something Cadet O'Neill?"

"Sir, yes Sir. May we be dismissed, Sir?" Jon couldn't help but put a little bit of jerk on the last word.

Bristling at the tone but the words that were so very true, Cadet Trelawney grabbed the front of Jon's t-shirt. Not really thinking about what might happen to him if he was caught.

Another TI touched his shoulder. "Don't do it, man. He's not worth it." The red cleared from Trelawney's eyes. He was about to release Jon when he heard a sharp voice that made him cringe. "Cadet Stetson Trelawney!" He was dead and he knew it.

He let go of Jon's uniform and slowly turned to see Colonel Shark and two other officers. One was a General with aviator glasses and the other a beautiful blond woman with insignia of a Lt. Colonel standing a few paces behind her and he knew exactly who they were.

In fact he had met the two of them last year when he had applied to the SGC as his father wanted him to.

But for now, he was shark fodder. Swallowing, he squeaked out,
"Ma'am, yes, ma'am!"

"Report to my office at 1700 hours. And don't forget your usual bucket." The voice was cold and deadly, leaving no room for argument.

Crap! He had just been dressed down in front of an entire class.
And the baby class nonetheless! Not really thinking he tried to argue. "Ma'am, I -"

"If you fail to report in then it's the fridge and the dishes. For the rest of the week. I do not repeat myself, is that clear Cadet?"
It was a tone that inspired fear. The Flying Demon Shark never yelled but her voice held the power to carry over all of the parade ground. Other Cadets turned to watch what was happening.

Trelawney gulped. Assigned a week's worth of dishes in front the greenies! Not his idea of fun. "Ma'am, yes, ma'am!"

Feeling like a fool Trelawney dismissed the class and the Cadets marched into their dorms.

The three officers said nothing as they walked the rest of the way to Colonel Shark's office. Jack and Sam had met up with Haruka outside the auditorium. They had been on their way to her office when she spotted the fourth year squadron still standing out in the sun outside their dorms. It was past the time for them to be inside. They would hardly have enough time to shower and dress before they had to be at dinner.

Faster than Sam had ever seen a woman move in heels the Colonel had eaten up the distance to where the cadets still stood in formation.
What amazed Sam the most was the fact that she never actually ran.
Neither she nor Jack said anything as she watched the Colonel dress down the Cadet. Sam had marveled at the Colonel's control.

Now looking around the office, Sam wondered why the office didn't seem to match the woman's personality. The desk and tables around the room were piled up with files and other stacks of paper, so much that the only visible testimony to her career were two colonel-grade combination caps hanging on the wall, a man's and a woman's. Half of her possessions were packed in a box.

All eyes turned to Jack waiting for him to give them permission to sit. It took a moment for him to realize what they were waiting for. "At ease and sit. You both are making me nervous." He motioned to the chairs as he sat.

Jack looked around the chaos of Shark's office and he couldn't help but smile, she had more paper work piled up then he did. And he thought he was bad! "Have you been procrastinating your paperwork,
Kisame?"

She laughed. "No Jack; that was you. I never understood how you could put off writing those essays until the night before they were due and still get a better grade than me. It just wasn't fair. I'd spend weeks on my essays and you would spend a few hours, it never made sense to me."

Sam looked at Jack and then the Colonel. Something told her that she would learn more about Jack from a few conversations with this woman then she had in the seven years she had known him.

Waving his cover at the piles of papers he said, "Since you are so busy..." His eyes looked around at the stacks of papers again.
"We'll make this short and to the point. Where's my list of candidates?" Smirking he continued, "That is if you can find it."

Although she wanted to, Haruka didn't sigh. "Jack as you very well know I am covering for General O'Meara's paper work to go through so that he is officially retired after he suffered a mild stroke a few weeks ago. Once that is done they will appoint `his'
replacement and I won't be doing four jobs (Acting Commandant/Academy XO, Vice-Commandant, Chief of Flight School,
Chair of Astronomy) any longer. As for your list, it is right here." From a seemingly random stack, she picked up a stack of files handing them to Jack. "These are for you and Colonel Carter here are yours." From another pile, she retrieved another chunk of file folders which she offered to Sam.

"Thank you, Colonel Shark. Are there any you want me to look specifically?" Sam asked opening a random file and scanning the contents.

"No, I think they'll be all fine additions to the SGC. But that said - Jack, in your stack there's a file on Cadet Trelawney. He was in the applicants last year and was rejected. A friend of his family exerted some pressure to be allowed to try again. I tried to veto it but it went over my head. I don't need to tell you want I think you should do with him." Her cold smile mirrored Jack's.

He opened the file, read through it quickly and nodded. "Sounds fine. I might take his group out myself. I had a ball the last time SG-1 did that. You wouldn't mind if I went along would you Carter?"
His smile was purely diabolical.

Sam's smile was huge. "We'd all like that sir. We miss you."

Haruka watched the two of them amazed. She'd known Jack O'Neill for a very long time. She's even attended his first wedding but she had never seen him like this. What ever "it" was, disappeared so quickly, she even questioned if she had interpreted the look correctly.

Jack seemed to come to his senses and turned back to Haruka. "Now about Cadet O'Neill and Cadet Fraiser. I don't need to tell you that they're special. I sent you a full brief but I just wanted to make sure that you had a chance to read it."

Nodding Haruka replied, "I did. I always thought that one of you Jack was too much for the world but two? Armageddon might just be on its way."

The smile that crossed Jack's face wasn't a happy one. "Well he just might be the one to stop it in a few years. This whole Academy thing is a little bogus. He could be at the SGC right now as a Lieutenant outperforming even the best we have, but he chose this.
He wants to take some more schooling to improve his knowledge.
Maybe he'll be as smart as Carter here is one day."

"Jack, he's not crazy, he's just not you. He doesn't have to make the same choices and mistakes you did; he can learn from yours and make his own mistakes and choices."

"Yep, that's true and I'm sure that he will. He is me, sort of after all. If you have any problems with him or Cassie let me know.
I won't interfere but I do want to be told." Having run out of things to say Jack got to his feet, holding out his hand. "Colonel,
I'm sure I will be seeing you again." He put his cover on saluting once before leaving.

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