The Adventures of SG-1
Anubis Attacks – Part 1
"Preparing for Jonas' Plan"
Stargate Command, Daniel's Room
Jonas knocked on the door, but since it was open, he could see Daniel was sat on his bed reading something.
"Sorry to bother you…"
"Oh, no you're not. I was just reading about, us actually…"
Jonas stepped into the room proper, and spoke, "You said that, Anubis was part ascended. That the ancients tried to send him back to our level of existence, but failed and now he's trapped somewhere in between."
"Yeah, so I've heard."
"Anubis wouldn't know everything there is to know about the Ancients then, right? Otherwise he would already found the Lost City, or…"
Daniel held up a hand and said, "I know I was able to read that tablet but,"
"No, I'm just thinking out loud here." Jonas told him, then continued his musing, "If Anubis were to accidentally find the tablet, chances are, he's not gonna make the same mistake that I did."
"I don't know…"
"But if we were to make, a replica of the tablet… but change what it says,"
Daniel nodded, but asked, "Why?"
Jonas just looked at him, and didn't seem as though he was going to answer.
A voice in the doorway attracted Daniel's attention. "A Trap for Anubis." He simply said.
Jonas turned to Harry, and with a smile, nodded.
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Stargate Command, Gate Room
Harry sighed as the Tok'ra arrived.
They had, over the course of 3 days, all but manufactured a fake tablet. They needed the tok'ra for both that part, and planting the tablet for Anubis to 'find'.
Not only that, but they needed a bit more information on the actual ship they were going to entrap.
Harry greeted Sina and 2 of her fellow Tok'ra. Having been informed who was going to arrive ahead of their arrival, he had been brought up to speed with who she was.
Since Sam was with Daniel locating a set of Rings on Vis Uban, Jonas was working away making sure that their fake was literarily correct, Teal'c was with the System Lord Yu to ensure Goa'uld co-operation in the venture, while Jack could only really stand Selmack and oddly enough, Melak of the tok'ra they had met, Jack had left this one to Harry, rationalising it with how Harry could do with brushing up on dealing with alien allies.
"Sina, Reece." Harry greeted her simple, Symbiote and Host, and did the same with her 2 escorts. "I am Harry Potter, SG-1."
She raised an eyebrow, so he explained, "Newbie. I take it you were briefed on our insane little plan?" he asked.
"Indeed we have, and the Tok'ra high council finds this a most remarkable, yet dangerous and challenging mission."
"Aint it just?" Harry commented with a grin. "Considering you even came, I guess the High Council voted in favour of giving their assistance to this mission?" he asked.
"Indeed, but that is a little presumptious." Sina replied.
Harry nodded, and shrugged. "Well then, please come this way." With that, Harry led the 3 towards the elevators to the left side of the control room/gate room.
"If you'll forgive my blunt honesty?" He asked in way of seeking permission to give opinion or otherwise possibly harmful comments.
"Please." Sina replied. "I much prefer honesty."
Harry nodded, and as they got into the elevator, and he pushed the button for the level where Sam's lab was, he told them straight, "I've heard quite a bit of… gossip about the state of Tok'ra-Tau'ri relations. And I don't just mean diplomatically, but socially too."
"Such as?" Sina asked, curious.
Harry flat out replied, although not with a trace of dislike in his voice, "The Tok'ra symbiotes' attitudes towards us Tau'ri humans. I've heard that they… you maybe not personally, but others… don't like us. Your plans were more long-term, and then here we came, new to galactic exploration, steam-rollering the Goa'ulds. I can only guess at the number of spy networks you've had to re-establish for every Goa'uld we've killed and whom were then replaced by other system lords or new goa'ulds. In essence, we've annoyed you, and you – not you personally so I've heard, but the others… well, they annoy us back, if you will. Not exactly a good base to build an alliance."
"You speak quite frankly, for a human." Sina commented, with a bit of humor.
Harry shrugged, and continued as they left the elevator, towards Sam's lab. "While sometimes honesty has to be pushed down in favour of lies – as it is in spy work, I have found that outside of those situations, honesty can help more than hinder…"
Sina considered him for the rest of the way to Sam's lab, and as they entered the lab, she said, "You are so young, and yet you speak with a wisdom few of your kind have."
Harry looked at her, and smiled a little. "Thank you. Now… our computers have been adapted so you can interface your devices with that for the data transfer." He began.
She raised an eyebrow.
"-For any data transfer you need to do for however you're going to assist us." Harry corrected with a wink.
She nodded, and one of the Tok'ra handed her a projector. She looked into Harry's eyes as she activated it, and found herself surprised that Harry was not at the device.
She remembered what one Tok'ra had told her after Sam had been shown the projector the first time – when they had come back with information about a Goa'uld living on Earth. Sam had looked at the device, not what it was projecting.
Harry just seemed to give the device an idly curious glance but focused on the projection of Anubis' ship.
"This is his Mothership. Much larger than a Goa'uld Hatak… even larger than Apophis' Mothership from a few years ago."
Harry nodded, and asked, "Crew?"
"Our spy on board has only been able to get partial schematics. Some have differed, conflicting. One said a crew of 5,000, another merely a thousand, but the highest count – which we would plan for but not prefer – is 16,000."
"How many of those are Jaffa, and how many Goa'uld?"
She frowned curious at what he was thinking, and replied, "Probably a few hundred Goa'uld in charge of the various armies – the rest would be Jaffa trained in the various disciplines. Ship control, Engineering, Our spy has managed to get an accurate figure on the Glider pilots – Just over a thousand pilots. The rest would be the ground forces, and if the 16,000 figure is accurate, as we suspect so, 12,000 Jaffa for ground forces."
Harry nodded, and then asked, "any internal defences?"
Sina shook her head. "Merely Jaffa patrols, but they would not expect any intruders so patrols are typically light, as they used to be before you Tau'ri began your, explorations."
Harry smiled slightly, before he lost the smile and asked, "External – Against a Fighter?"
And that was the tone of the discussion. Since he had been told that Sina would know of the X-302, or if she didn't, she should be told of it and the Hyperdrive (but he had been told not to tell about his magic nor the magic-generator built into it), and found she didn't, only that a space-fighter of the Tau'ri would be used to strike the ship, he explained about the 302.
She was shocked they could build such a small Hyperdrive.
"You are playing with forces you do not understand."
Harry smirked at her for that comment. She was unnerved – host and symbiote both.
"You could blow yourselves up…"
Harry shrugged noncommittally, lost the smirk and replied, "We've test-flown the X-302 through hyperspace 3 times. We made it to our moon and back the first and second time, the third… okay we had to have a tow, but then again we took our Stargate – under attack by Anubis at the time – away from earth as far and as fast as we could – we made it away before it exploded barely in time but as I said, we needed a tow after that, since the explosion simply damaged the fighter too much to safely trip through hyperspace."
Sina looked at him incredulously.
"Anyway… the plan. Since we know that our Hyperspace generator is only good for short-range, we've made modifications so that it is actually made for short range jumps. Our safety systems reconfigured for it. As such, Our 302 fighter will go into orbit, wait for Anubis' arrival, and then avoiding Death Gliders, hyperspace jump past the vessels' shields, but not so that we re-appear the other side of the ship, nor inside it… now you said that the Mothership has an external heat vent that, if destroyed would render the super weapon unusable – and if he does try to use it, would destroy the weapon, but not the ship."
"We do not know exactly where the vents are, nor can our operate learn it before the attack. The computers are protected using Ancient."
"So we put an Ancient expert or 2 onboard, who are also experienced… somewhat in one case, in infiltrating Goa'uld ships."
"Who are you suggesting?"
"Jonas… and I think Daniel will want to join him also."
"Daniel… as in, Doctor Jackson?"
"Yeah…"
"He's dead." Sina said.
"Nope. He was ascended, but then got booted out for trying to help us fight Anubis… given human form. WE found him on Vis Uban… ironic actually, Jonas made the mistake of reading that tablet incorrectly, we got to Vis Uban, found Daniel, who then told us that the tablet was wrong. There Jonas came up with this cockamimee plan to create a tablet that would say what he thought the real one said…" Harry shook his head.
"You also think this to be an insane idea?"
Harry nodded, and grinned, "But hey, I've had to come up with insane idea's before… they usually work better than not-so-insane ideas that usually make more sense. The universe's sense of humor I guess."
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Stargate Command, Briefing Room
Harry sat among SG-1, watching and listening to Sam give the briefing on the plan. Among them were other SG teams, officers, NCO's and SF's aswell as the 3 Tok'ra guests.
"We've had little success using Naquadria to power the F-302's hyperspace window generator for any length of time," Sam began. Harry frowned – He didn't know that the fighter had been given 'F' status as it were. The removal of the X signified that Area 51 were now going to start mass-producing the fighter.
"However, we have come up with a way to use the generator for short bursts, giving us a nice tactical advantage. If our calculations are correct, we can use a short controlled burst to bypass the motherships' shields."
Jack asked, "And if the calculations are, incorrect?"
"The 302 would exit just before the shields, or bypass the Mothership altogether, or worse… emerge inside it, but lets not go there."
"Ofcourse, let's, not dwell."
"Now, thanks to intelligence provided by the Tok'ra, the power core of Anubis' ship is cooled by several ventilation shafts leading into the outer ring section of the ship and ending on the exterior of the ship. Now, we just need to destroy 2 of the 4 shafts to make it so that, heat begins to build up and the power core starts to overload. However, we would need to do so just as the main weapon is powering up, so that Anubis can not abort the firing. AS such the core will overload, and the various 'eye' crystals will overheat and be destroyed."
Jack put up his hand again. "Where are these, shafts, exactly?"
Sam sighed and answered, "As Colonel O'Neill is well aware, we don't know where any of these shafts are… exactly…"
Sina added, "Our Operative in Anubis' ranks has been unable to get aboard the ship, and only able to glean a limited working knowledge of it. Anubis protects his computer systems with elaborate ciphers coded in the oldest known Ancient dialect, and we are only aware of 3 people in the galaxy who are remotely familiar with this dialect. 1 is Thor, of the Asgard."
"The others are Jonas Quinn and Daniel Jackson." Sam finished, although what Sina just said had been news to her. "Which is where they come in. They'll sneak aboard Anubis' ship and access their computer."
Sina continued, "We have devised an injectible radioactive isotope that will allow them to move freely on Anubis' ship undetected by it's sensors for 8 hours."Sina looked at the 2 and assured, "This isotope is not harmful and should have no side effects."
Sam continued, "They'll decipher the codes and relay the information of the targets to Colonel O'Neill and myself, who will be flying the F-302."
Jack smiled, and said, "No Problem, right."
"Sounds easy to me." Jonas quipped.
"I've encountered worse." Harry quipped.
Jack commented, "Anubis ship' is destroyed, and we all live to save another day."
Sam chuckled slightly, and spoke, "Again, as Colonel O'Neill is well aware, eliminating the crystal power core, wont destroy the entire ship. It's defenses and auxiliary weapons will remain intact."
"Why don't we dwell on that for just a second." Jack spoke.
"Our goal is to take out Anubis' new superweapon. It's what gives him a clear advantage over the other Goa'uld Motherships. Now we have received word from Teal'c that Lord Yu has pledged to bring the full force of the remaining system lords down on Anubis, once we've succeeded."
Jack looked around, and spoke, "Okay, anyone who thinks this is an absolutely insane idea, raise your hand." Jack raised his, and so did Jonas, a few others, and Jack added, "Come on, be honest," with that, over a few seconds, everyone but Harry had a hand raised, including the tok'ra.
"Harry?" Jack asked.
Harry just smiled, and commented, "I've seen idea's and plans that were a lot more lacking in sanity."
"Keep your hands up people, because the next question is, who's going to make this happen." Hammond spoke.
Harry raised his hand with a smile at that point.
"Well, It's going to take at least a week to move the inhabitants of the ruins." Jonas commented.
"Which should give us enough time to build a make-shift runway, and get the 302 through the gate and re-assembled."
"and once everything is established, The tok'ra will, plant the fake tablet, with any luck, will lure Anubis to the planet." Jonas finished.
Harry quipped, "And that's why It's not quite as insane as you guys are making it out to be."
Sina had to ask, "And how could it be as, insane as we are making it out to be?"
Harry simply replied, "We do all this knowing Anubis is going there, after we've planted the fake tablet, and know we'd have only a day to set the trap."
"Harry?" Sam asked.
Harry shrugged, and said, "Once I had to set a similar trap of similar magnitude in just an hour. Now that, was insane."
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