Location: UNSC Earth (Secret Office of Naval Intelligence Facility)
Date: 27th October 2558
Time: 10:45

"Dr what is the status of the patient?" asked the ONI Officer

"Well Sir, the patient is ready to begin walking around, should I bring her out of the chamber?" asked the Dr

"I think she has had long enough, for 5 years she has been stuck in that chamber and is lucky to be alive." said the ONI Officer

"Bringing her out now." said the Doctor tapping on the machine controls

The chamber stopped functioning and the patient was gently put onto a bed and covered up and then was attached with various instruments needed to monitor her. The doctor then said it would take a while before she was up and walking about.

5 minutes later they could begin to hear groaning and mumbling and were surprised that after 5 years that the patient would be conscious within such a short time.

"Welcome back." the Dr said looking at the patient

"What was the last thing you remember?" asked the ONI Officer to the patient

"It may take her some time before she can talk." said the Dr

"I can hear you speak." said the patient

Both the ONI Officer and doctor were stunned because they thought it would take longer for her to be able to speak.

"Can you remember anything?" asked the ONI Officer again

"I can remember my name and a few other things." said the patient

"Alright could you start with who you are, we know who you are but we have to be sure that you can remember by yourself as that helps you a lot." said the Doctor

"My name is Miranda Keyes and I am a Commander in the UNSC Navy." said Commander Keyes

"Good, do you remember anything else?" asked the ONI Officer

"I do, but I think that we should continue this discussion when I am dressed and have eaten." said Commander Keyes who didn't look like she was amused

"I understand you will have 30 minutes to get washed, dressed and eat, then we will see what you remember." said the ONI Officer

Location: System [Epsilon Eridani System Reach planet look alike] Onboard the Retaliation
Date 27th October 2558/25th April 1998
Time: 10:00

The pilots of the cargo ship were surprised that they had managed to get away from the pursuers and thought that they wouldn't be able to make it to the nearest Chappa'ai. They were surprised again when they got caught by a ship that they could not recognise. The pilots then decided to land and shut down all the power and walk out as there was no-where left to go.

After walking out of the ship one of the pilots took a good look around and were again surprised because they had not seen anything like this ship, however they did not get the chance to look around any further because they were surrounded by things they could not describe.

Further away from the ship was SG-1 and Captain Wilson who were at the moment observing them from behind the barricade that was setup.

"Do you recognise them?" asked the Captain to SG-1

"Nope, I don't recognise them, then again I have a hard time recognising anyone." said O'Neill

"I also do not recognise them either." said Teal'c

The other members of SG-1 also replied they did not know them.

"Identify yourselves." said Captain Wilson to the 2 pilots

The two pilots of the ship looked at the man before answering.

"I am Kelleck." said Kelleck

"I am Heshur." said Heshur

"Are you goa'uld?" asked Captain Wilson with suspicion

Location: Earth Whitehouse Oval Office (Stargate Universe)
Date: 25th April 1998
Time: 13:00

"Mr President, General Hammond is on the phone." said the secretary

"Thank you." said The President to his secretary

The President picked up the phone and talked to General Hammond

"I hope you have good news for me George." said The President

"I do indeed Sir, SG-1 has made contact with potential allies and those allies have invited them back to their world." said Hammond

"That is good news indeed, so who are these potential allies?" asked the President

"From the meeting, we know they are called the UNSC and according to them they are from another star system." said Hammond

"Do we know anything more about them?" asked the President intrigued and wanting to know more

"What we do know is that they have a ship, and they had no idea what a Stargate was or what a Goa'uld was." replied Hammond

"I see, how they would take to an alliance with us?" asked the President with some interest

"I asked the same question and apparently they want to deal with the whole planet, if we are to make an alliance they want us to reveal to the world the stargate which could cause a lot of problems but that is so far the only stipulation they have." said Hammond

"Well I don't think we can agree to that due to the fact that the world may go to war if they found out about the Stargate." said the President

"The Captain I talked too seems to understand that and said that they would help when the time comes, they said in exchange to revealing the stargate to the world they would help us build ships." said Hammond

"I will take what you said under advisement however if you get the opportunity to talk to this Captain again would you ask him what types of ships he would be willing to show us how to build and what type of help he would be willing to provide." said the President

"I will Sir, but what do you think about us revealing the Stargate program to the general public?" asked General Hammond

"Well I have to give it a lot of thought but if us gaining an ally that can teach us to build space ships and has a formidable army with a lot of new technology is the price we must pay to help us defend against the goa'uld then I must seriously consider this." said the President

The phone conversation went on for a while but by the end of it the President had authorised General Hammond to write up a proposal for the UNSC to take back to their leader or leaders.

Location: Earth Stargate Command (Stargate Universe)
Date: 25th April 1998
Time: 13:30

General Hammond had just finished talking with the President. "What way will I write this proposal up?" thought General Hammond, sure writing a proposal so that they could propose an alliance may be easy but when it came down to it there were so many considerations to take into place and he thought this is going to be very hard indeed.

General Hammond walked out of his office and towards the stairs to go down to the Operation room for the Stargate. On his way down the military personal saluted him and he saluted back and the scientists also gave him a nod of respect. Upon getting to the Operation Room he talked to the technician.

"Sergeant when is SG-1 scheduled to be back from the planet?" asked General Hammond to Walter

"Sir, SG-1 has an estimated time of arrival at 14:00 hours." replied Walter

"Thank you sergeant." said General Hammond as he was deep in thought on the way back to his office

Location: System [Epsilon Eridani System Reach planet look alike] Onboard the Retaliation
Date 27th October 2558/25th April 1998
Time: 10:00

Right after the two people introduced themselves they did indeed state that they were carrying symbiotes inside of them and that was when they were secured by the marines and taken to the medical bay.

"What is this ship I haven't seen anything like it and it doesn't match any goa'uld design I have seen before?" asked Heshur

"I am sorry but that is classified information and since you were in a goa'uld ship and you have symbiotes with you then you will be checked out by medical and then confined." said one of the marines

"Do you think we are goa'uld?" asked Kelleck

"I don't know what to think but you have symbiotes in you and until you are cleared by our medical staff and that you pose no danger to the crew you will be confined to quarters. I will try to make you as comfortable as possible but anywhere you want to go on the ship and you will be escorted by 4 marines." said Captain Wilson

"We understand, however we must also caution you that we won't take kindly to being escorted everywhere or being held prisoner for long." said Heshur

"After medical has cleared you, you will be brought to a meeting room for questioning so you can explain exactly what you were doing by coming into this system." said Captain Wilson

The 2 hosts nodded and understood and left with the security escort to the medical bay. O'Neill asked

"Is it wise to let them wander around the ship?" asked O'Neill

"I would not worry colonel we are more equipped to deal with the situation than you know." replied the Captain

"I would like to examine the inside of the cargo ship if you don't mind captain." said Captain Carter

"I am afraid that will have to wait for the moment Captain Carter as we still have much more to discuss." said Captain Wilson as he started to walk off followed by Dr Glassman back to the tram system which SG-1 followed them too.

Once inside the tram system the Captain pressed the button for the relaxation area on board the ship so he could continue the discussion in the room that they were in before the cargo ship showed up. The tram then left for the relaxation area.

Location: UNSC Earth (Secret Office of Naval Intelligence Facility)
Date: 27th October 2558
Time: 11:20

Commander Keyes after having gotten dressed and had a good meal was then brought before the ONI Officer in the room where she would be questioned about what she remembers.

Commander Keyes looks around at the room and finds that it is quite nice. The interior is just like a home in that it has a clock in the corner, the desk is made of wood, there is a screen for the computer on the desk, there is a fish tank sitting next to the opposite wall from the clock and finally there are 2 chairs 1 behind the desk and the other in front of the desk.

"Commander Keyes, please come in and sit down." said the ONI Officer

"Thank you very much." said Commander Keyes

"I hope you have had time to get used to walking again as well as eating, sadly I have had a lot of paper work so was unable to talk to you before now." said the ONI Officer

"I understand, I am curious though to what the exact date is?" asked Commander Keyes

"This may be a shock to you since the last date you remember was December 2552, is that correct?" asked the ONI Officer

"I remember it being December in 2552 yes but the date was the 11th, which was the day I was shot in the back and I remember nothing after that." answered Commander Keyes

"I will bring you up to speed then, the current date is 27th October 2558, and a lot has happened since 2552, I will start by saying that the Human-Covenant War is over, it ended in March of 2553, there was a nice little ceremony over the by the hillside near the Voi portal that will remain barren as a memorial.

You will be pleased to know that the Sangheili whom you fought alongside in 2552 have helped us on many occasions and we have aided the Arbiter when he requested help.

In 2553 the Arbiter returned home and discovered that since the Covenant fractured more factions have rose up under the guise of the true covenant and those leaders all cement their claim by saying that theirs is the only true Covenant which has led to many disputes between different factions.

The Sangheili Civil war raged between 2553 and 2558, The Arbiter led one of the biggest factions in the Civil War and he also requested help from the UNSC when he was in danger of being defeated which we gladly give him.

In 2557 we found the Forward Unto Dawn floating near a Forerunner Shield World called Requiem while investigating the Dawn's distress Beacon, during the UNSC Infinity's investigation of a strange signal they were pulled into Requiem but managed to escape where the then Captain Del Rio left a beacon near Requiem and came back to Earth to warn us about the Didact, leaving the Master Chief on Requiem which was a decision that was not popular with HIGHCOM and so Del Rio was retired and the commander at the time was put in charge of Infinity.

On July 24th, 2 days after the warning, the Didact arrived at Earth and his ship was able to withstand our Orbital Defense Platforms and our entire Defense Fleet, his ship was only taken out thanks to the combined efforts of the UNSC Infinity, the Master Chief and Cortana.

Between 2552 and now we have had to deal with a lot of different threats. I will give you a file which will contain all the relevant information to get you up-to-date. I would like to ask you if you would like to continue in the Navy as you have effectively been declared dead as of December 2552." said the ONI Officer as he finished talking

"I had thought about retirement however I am still part of the Navy so I will take my old post up although I will need to train and read up on all the material because I have been out of the field for 5 years." said Commander Keyes

"I had a thought that you would like to continue which is why I put in a request to the head of ONI which was taken directly to Lord Hood and he will be on his way to HIGHCOM tomorrow which you will also be there too, in the meantime I suggest you read the file it will bring you up to speed on what you have missed going into more detail than I could go into." said the ONI Officer

"Thank You, I will read this after I go through all the tests." said Commander Keyes

"I will see you tomorrow at 09:30, Good day Commander Keyes and good luck with all the tests." said the ONI Officer

Location: System [Epsilon Eridani System Reach planet look alike] Onboard the Retaliation
Date 27th October 2558/25th April 1998
Time: 10:30

The tram arrived at the relaxation area and Captain Wilson, Dr Glassman along with SG-1 got out and walked back to the meeting room. They got to the meeting room and opened the doors and sat down.

"I think we should continue discussing what we talking about before this incident began don't you agree?" he directed the question to SG-1

"I agree and personally hope that we can come to an arrangement that would benefit both of us but we understand if you need to talk with your superiors because that is no doubt what the good General is doing now." replied Colonel O'Neill

"We were discussing the possibility of an alliance between the two of our people's." said Dr Jackson

"I will read the proposal that anyone from your government submits, however I will then pass along a copy to HIGHCOM and to the UEG senate and let them decide if we should proceed. I would need to see if we can't run a few missions together to get a better grasp of the danger of these Goa'uld." said Captain Wilson

"The Goa'uld, from our experience tends to send in massive armies to subdue any foe, on many different occasions including the very first mission to a Goa'uld homeworld which was what lead Teal'c to join us. We have gained much more information on the Goa'uld since Teal'c has joined us." said Colonel O'Neill

"In the interests of co-operation perhaps we can assault a Goa'uld base or somewhere that is of little consequence to the Goa'uld but could hold technology that they use?" asked Captain Wilson

"That would be a bad idea because if the Goa'uld discover that you attacked them and they found out where you operate from then they would come to subdue you, on the other hand they may suspect us and Earth would be attacked. I would suggest that we find out all we know from the 2 prisoners that just came aboard and are being checked up on by your medical staff." said Captain Carter

"Good idea, EVA give me a status update on the 2 Goa'uld that we took prisoner." asked Captain Wilson

"The 2 prisoners have completed the medical portion and are now underway to their confinement, shall I have the guard detail bring them here instead?" asked EVA

"Yes, have them brought here and make sure that you blindfold them because I don't want them to be able to tell where in the ship they are." replied Captain Wilson

"Understood" said EVA.

Location: UNSC Earth, (Secret Office of Naval Intelligence Facility)
Date: 27th October 2558
Time: 11:00

The ONI Officer contacted the head of ONI and requested that Lord Hood and the rest of HIGHCOM be brought up to speed on the re-instatement of Commander Miranda Keyes but promote her to Captain due to her record and the fact that she saved Johnson from the Prophet of Truth.

The ONI Officer contacted Admiral Osman directly and started to talk to her.

"Admiral Osman, I would like to inform you that Commander Keyes is up and is currently completing the tests that need to be completed before she can be back in the field. It is my recommendation that she be promoted to Captain so that she can take up her new post as Head of the Cortana Class ship currently being constructed. I have given her a more detailed version of the events after the war leaving out any parts that paint us in a bad light." ONI Officer

"I will make your recommendation to the rest of HIGHCOM." Admiral Osman replied

"Thank you Admiral, on another note how do you think this wormhole to another universe will benefit us because we have yet to receive a report, for all we know this new universe could me a lot more dangerous than the one we are living in." ONI Officer

"This new universe presents us with new opportunities. I would like to take full advantage of it, when we regain communication with the other side since at the moment we can't communicate because the wormhole is destabilising any signals needed for communication, the probe's signal was able to get through because it was on a low frequency which is too hard for video transmissions to use." Admiral Osman replied

"If I have any more news I shall contact you, I would also like to know who will inform Commander Keyes of her promotion and who will also tell her of her new assignment?" asked the ONI Officer

"That is being taken care of as we speak, as for who informs her of her new assignment, that will be discussed when she meets with HIGHCOM." Admiral Osman replied

The communication channel then ended with the ONI Officer left wondering if he said something he wasn't supposed to because the Admiral looked annoyed at the last from of questioning.