– God Eater –
"We will arrive within the hour, my Lord," informed the former first prime. The Jaffa was now a mere helmsman in the service of his new God, Naruto. His previous master was devoured by a demonic nine-tails beast that his latest master conjured out of thin air. He soon learned its name as Kurama – and it seemed to be dwelling within his master's spirit.
"Cool," Naruto responded simply and resumed examining the hand device wrapped around his right hand. It was no longer dormant thanked to the traces amount of Naquadrah in his bloodstream. It was due to his recent diet of water and Goa'uld parasites. The parasites were pretty tasty and quite crunchy when cooked nicely over an open fire. Consuming them also gave him a health boost, which was already nice to have.
"That is called a Kara Kesh – a multifunctional apparatus. You can use it to torture people, shoot –
"You have me at torture people, Kurama," Naruto said with a grin. He activated the device mentally and outstretched his arm. He fired a few shots at the ceiling before aiming the weapon at some live subjects.
"My Lord?" questioned the live subjects Naruto was pointing at. They did not know what they have done to anger their master.
"Damn, I want to test out my new toy," Naruto muttered and turned the weapon away. "But it's no good killing underlings for fun."
Naruto sighed and then jabbed his fingers at the Jaffa. "You lots! Find a bucket and broom and make yourself look busy. I want my – hotta – looks spotless so I can eat off the floor!"
"Yes, my Lord," the group of Jaffa responded. They had been reduced from warrior to janitors. And there was nothing they could do. He was a God, and they were mortal. And considering the amount of Goa'uld harvested corpses onboard, they would be wise not to say anything stupid.
Only a dozen or so Jaffa survived the onslaught caused by Naruto.
"It's called a Ha'tak," Kurama corrected from within the mindscape, "roughly translate to attack."
"I'm not learning their shitty language," Naruto snorted. "Maybe except for this… Jaffa! Kree!"
The Jaffa stood attentive, awaiting orders.
"Alright, break time is over, get back to work," Naruto said after a handful of seconds. "By the way, what does Kree actually mean? Actually, I don't want to know. It sounds better if I don't know its exact meaning. Anyway, what else did you learn from the Goa'uld besides their toys?"
By the toys, Naruto meant their technology, which was pretty advanced compared to the Earth he knew or the Elemental Nations for that matter. He didn't have any use for tech since it was shittier than magic. And magic was shittier than chakra, at least his form of chakra. He admitted that if a Ha'tak arrived at the Elemental Nations, there was very little the people could do about it, not until they figured out how to breathe in space like he had.
"You wouldn't want to know," Kurama muttered.
"Try me," Naruto responded and blinked when his mind flooded with imagery of torture and horrors that was almost on par to his own atrocities. "What the fuck – !? When did you do all of that?"
"These aren't my memories," Kurama said and sighed. "This is only the surface."
"Only," Naruto said. "How much is left?"
"More than 10,000 years' worth," Kurama answered. "These things are exceeding long live because of their technology. The one before was almost 200 years old. There are those amongst their kind that is over a thousand of years old."
"A thousand year old… eh? Damn geezers," Naruto quipped before blinking. "Are they Ginseng?"
"What do you mean?"
"You know, the older they are, the tastier and healthier they becomes?"
Kurama face palmed. "Yes, Naruto."
"Awesome," Naruto said. "So where are they?"
"You're not seriously going to go and hunt them down just so you can eat them?"
"Why not?" Naruto questioned. "From the glimpses I managed to see, they did much worse to the human of this place. It's time to show them what it feels liked to be preyed upon. And besides, they aren't that bad."
Kurama shook its head. "Alright, from what I managed to extract, the oldest and most powerful of the Goa'uld is the System Lords. By powerful, I mean they have a lot of people who willing to die for them in one way or another. Collectively, the System Lords controlled much of this galaxy, but they are in constant state of bickering."
"So pretty much like any Council that wielded too much power," Naruto pointed out.
"Yup, pretty much," Kurama agreed. "Since Ra – their King or so to speak – got killed, they are prone to fighting amongst themselves."
"Ra… Egyptian God Ra? Who kill her?"
"Him," Kurama corrected. "It's the humans – the Tau'ri. It means – well, humans."
"Nice translation. It means the first one or the first born or something like that," Naruto said. "So Ra, supposedly an emperor of a galaxy-spanning empire got raped by a bunch of humans? Is the Earth of this place like super advance with light sabers and death stars?"
"No, they are the same technological level as we know," Kurama said. "At least that is what the Goa'uld believed."
"So no light sabers?"
"No," Kurama said.
"Oh well, at least I got an awesome space ship that go pew pew pew," Naruto said with a grin. In all of his adventure thus far, he had never been on a space ship let alone commanded one. "By the way, you know how to run any of the gizmo on board?"
"Some," Kurama answered. "Most of the tech aboard does not belong to the Goa'uld. They merely stole it from species and repurpose as their own. They do design some new stuff once in a while, but those are really rare. They have been flying around in the same kind of ships for centuries. If we have time, I will run you down their history a little, at least so you aren't completely aren't completely lost in this place."
"We have time now," Naruto pointed out and looked around the room. "I'm not doing anything, and you're not doing anything either."
"Right," Kurama said and began explaining some finer details about the Goa'uld hierarchy and their control over hundreds of world.
"My Lord, we will momentarily arrive in the orbit of the Tau'ri home world," informed the helmsman whose name Naruto never bothered to learn. The man name was Ka'lak, but that name meant very little to his God.
"Cool," Naruto responded before stretching his arms and legs. He got off the seat and headed to the holographic display. How they managed to display things in air without use of magic or chakra was surprising at first.
"That was some boring ass history lessons, Kurama," Naruto added and cracked his neck to remove the strain he had been feeling for a while. "I forgot like 90% of it already."
"My Lord, I'm detecting another ship in orbit," Ka'lak informed. "It's the Asgard."
"Odin, Loki, Thor?" Naruto asked and looked at the display. The sensor did indeed pickup another ship nearby, which had no shield or power. It was sitting duck for his vessel.
"I do not understand," Ka'lak said. "The Asgard is the enemy of the Goa'uld."
"Not my enemy," Naruto said. "My enemies are long dead and buried. If they somehow manage to revive themselves, I will just kill them again and as many times as it takes."
"Yes, my Lord," Ka'lak responded. He waited while Naruto pondered what to do.
"Do we have weapon?" Naruto asked.
"Yes, my Lord," Ka'lak answered. He hoped his God wasn't about to pick a fight with the Asgard as the Ha'tak would not be able to put much of a fight.
"Awesome. Let's have a space battle," Naruto said and pointed at the Asgard ship. "Fire!"
Ka'lak hesitated for a moment before opened fire on the Asgard ship with the Ha'tak forwards cannon. Four plasma bolts came from the Ha'tak forced the shield of the Asgard ship to flare up in a faint blue color. Another four plasma bolts came and did the same.
"Our weapons are ineffective, my Lord," Ka'lak informed as the sensor showed now drop in the shield strength of the ship they were firing upon, meaning the shield would never collapse until sustained fire from his God's ship. "We are being fired upon."
"Cool," Naruto called out as the Asgard ship fired what appeared to be a huge metallic spear. It flew directly at his ship. "What is that?"
The shield of the Ha'tak flared up slightly as the metallic spear composed of replicators passed right through and slammed into the hull of the ship. Another spear was launched, which crashed into a separate section of the ship. After that, the Asgard ship ceased retaliation despite being fired upon.
"This is kind of boring…" Naruto muttered after a dozen more shot slammed into the Asgard ship's shield to no avail. There was no fun if only one ship shoot in a space battle.
"Huh? Why did you stop?" Naruto asked when his ship ceased attacking. "Did it run out of power?"
"We have lost power to weapon, my Lord," Ka'lak informed.
Naruto sighed. "Shitty ship… losing power after only a few shots. How can I have an awesome battle like this? Kurama, do something?"
"I'm going to snooze," Kurama responded. "Wake me up when something interesting happens."
"You shitty fur ball," Naruto cursed and headed out of the bridge. He headed to the power room to see if he can fix the problem. "What the fuck is that noise?"
His eyes arched when he saw a spider-like machine crawling across the floor. He blinked when he saw dozens of them eating pieces of debris scattered in the hallway he passed through much earlier on.
"We think we got termites. Stop eating my ship!" Naruto commented and stomped on one of the mechanical spider, crushing it under his foot. He had to use a bit of strength since the spider was composed of pieces of metal. He had to also watch his strength not to shatter the floor of his ship.
Naruto's act of aggression caused the nearby replicators to mark him as hostile. The closest one immediately leaped at him, which broke into pieces with a slap. Several more leaped, only to get the same result.
The Replicator learned quickly and swarmed over Naruto.
"Ewww! Did it just spit on me?" Naruto cursed when a Replicator sprayed him with highly corrosive acids. It would eat through flesh and bones within matter of seconds, and as such, Naruto felt the burns even if it was only momentarily. The melted skin on his face quickly mended, but the anger in his eyes did not.
Naruto roared and sucked in vast amount of air. He spewed out intense heat that washed over the entire corridor, targeting only the replicators and nothing else. As advanced as the replicators were, they could not survive flames that in excess of a million degree. Hundreds of them quickly became nothing more than superheated puddles on the floor.
Naruto exhaled fumes when the last Replicator got scorched in the corridor. He then moved to the next one and did the same. By the time he reached the fifth corridor, he found the first corridor got infested again.
"Damn, they breed fast," Naruto growled in annoyance as he watched a small group of replicators gathered the remains of their brethren to create more of themselves. "What are these things?"
"No idea," Kurama answered. It was interested in what these pests were. "Let me grab a few in here to study."
Kurama emerged from the mindscape and grabbed a few with its tails while Naruto summoned a couple hundred of clones to sweep through the ship and fry any replicator they find. The replicator put up a good fight against the clones, but in the end, they were pushed back to the power core of the Ha'tak.
"Looks like they feeding on the ship's power to make more of them," Kurama commented and noted that the power core had been modified slightly. The replicator had essentially upgraded the ship to meet their power requirement.
"Looks like," Naruto snorted as he looked at the glowing pillar at the center of the room which the replicator had used to draw energy from the power core. "It's exactly what they are doing, fucking parasite."
Naruto sucked in air and eradicated the bugs with fiery blast. He then ordered his clones to seek out the rest and eradicate a few that remaining because they were hiding in walls and out of view. Even so, he wasn't sure if he got them all. He couldn't sense them as they were machines.
"While we are," Naruto said and took out a scroll. He unsealed a huge paint brush and large jug of black ink. "Let's see if we can increase the firepower of our ship."
"Shouldn't it be better to use on the weapons themselves?"
"Will do that later," Naruto said and dipped the brush into the jug. He began drawing several lines over the floor, surrounding the power core. "There. Now, a bit of chakra."
Naruto poured his chakra into the seals, causing them swirled around the power core. The power core in turned hummed loudly and glowed brightly. "Any more than this, it might blow up."
"Could improve it a little bit more," Kurama pointed out.
"Maybe later," Naruto said and rushed out of the room. "I got a space battle to fight."
"My Lord, we have regained our weapons," Ka'lak informed.
"No thanks to you," Naruto said and ordered to fire onto the Asgard vessel again. Thanked to the replicator screwing around the power core and his chakra seals vastly increased the efficiency and power output of the Ha'tak, over 20 plasma bolts fired simultaneously. The bolts slammed into the replicator controlled vessel with a vengeance, but only drop its shield by 1%. Before a second was over, 20 plasma bolts slammed into the shield, causing it drop another 1%.
"Their shield is fluctuating, my Lord," Ka'lak informed.
"Of course, it is," Naruto snorted and watched barrage of plasma bolt slamming into the Asgard ship, wearing down its shield. The Asgard ship responded by firing more replicators onto the Ha'tak, but the replicators were all destroyed by hundreds of clones roaming around the corridor.
"Time for some boarding action," Naruto said when the shield of the replicator controlled ship dropped below 10%. Its shield was on the verge of failing. If the ship was under anyone else, it would have fled. The replicator on the other hands had no such concept. It continued to fight what obvious a losing battle.
– God Eater –
"Carter, tell me what is happening," requested Jack O'Neill as he watched the Beliskner – an Asgard ship – being pounded by a far inferior Ha'tak of the Goa'uld.
"The Ha'tak is winning the battle, O'Neill," answered the stern-face Jaffa, Teal'c, when Carter tried to find an explanation to the situation, frantically.
"They are not supposed to do that, are they?" O'Neill responded. "Carter!"
"Sir, I can't explain it," Carter hastily answered. She only learned of the replicators and their ability to replicate, using whatever materials available. She was still going through the data left behind by the comatose Thor on the ship's console. She understood that the replicator could improve technology, but it still did not explain why the infested Ha'tak fired upon the Beliskner.
"That just put a wrench in our perfectly thought out plan," O'Neill pointed out. They were about to destroy the deceleration device outside the ship to let it burned up in the atmosphere, but neither he nor anyone expected a Ha'tak to arrive and attacked a vastly more superior Asgard ship and got itself infested.
Now they had two ships to contend with. One if the Ha'tak managed to destroy the Beliskner with him and his team (Carter and Teal'c) aboard. Daniel was back at stargate command.
"So what's now?" O'Neill asked, a little stumped at what to do next. There was no way to destroy the Ha'tak, and considering its current power-up, it could decimate the planet from orbit. The only real choice left was return back to the SGC through the stargate they had beamed aboard.
"We just lost shield, sir," Samantha Carter called out when the ship rumbled heavily.
"Time to go," O'Neill called out and pushed the capsule containing comatose Thor through. Carter was about to go through when the computer indicated the Ha'tak had stopped its bombardment, and something small – human-size – was launched at the Beliskner.
"Is that what I think it is?" O'Neill asked as he looked back at the holographic display from the active Stargate. The displayed outlined the projectile perfectly thanked to its highly advanced sensor. From the look of it, the Ha'tak just fired a person at the Beliskner.
"It appears to be a person, O'Neill," Teal'c commented.