Golden Dawn

Chapter 9: Captured

In the SGC, Cestus was strapped down to the bed, he breathed in and out slowly. He heard footsteps and he quickly pretended to be asleep. He waited until it was next to the bed and he opened his eyes quickly to see Dr. Fraiser holding her notepad. With a sudden surge of energy, he broke free of the straps and grabbed her before she could scream. He whispered slowly in her ear.

"Do as I say and you will not be harmed. Don't do it and I will be forced to kill you. Got it?"

She nodded in understanding and he relaxed his grip a bit. He ordered her to take him to the armory. They walked along empty corridors since it was nighttime and the security was minimal. The door to the armory was seen as they turned another corner. With a sudden thrust of his thumb into a pressure point, she was instantly unconscious and he left her in the armory room as he grabbed his armor and all his weapons. After equipping himself, he cloaked and made his way to the gateroom. He looked in as he saw the 2 airmen sitting at the console chatting about how peaceful it was at night. Tiptoeing quietly, he got within 3 feet of them before they realized there was something there. With a few quick blows, both airmen were down and he dialed the Astriaporta. Smirking slightly, he wrote something quickly into the computer and set it to activate 20 seconds after the gate shut down. He realized that it would take a little longer than needed to get to the gateroom before it was blocked off. He pointed his wrist blasters and fired until the glass broke. Only 2 security guards managed to get into the gateroom before he leaped through the opening in the thick glass. They were neutralized before they could fire their M-16's. With a kawoosh, the gate was activated as he ran through to Rivanna. His superiors would not be pleased that he was captured, but they would be also glad he had a lot of intelligence and that he managed to escape. A few seconds after the gate deactivated, sparks flew out of the computer that he was typing in and the gate conductors blew out as the virus spread throughout the base. Stargate Command was out of commission for a few days.

Over Rivanna…

Amann looked through the reports before throwing them down on the floor. An aide picked them up as he walked to the window in his quarters agitated.

"Dammit!"

"I'm sorry sir, but what is wrong?"

"It's nothing. I am sorry for this Telan. This enemy has technology to challenge us, and now Anubis has one of our most powerful ships in his possession. What technologies could he learn?"

"Well sir, it was not your fault. It happened. Such is war."

"And Galadriel was on that ship! She beamed over to take command of it and now she is captured! Captured by Goa'uld scum! They will probably torture her. She was always the gentle one. If only I could have gone in her place. I'm tougher than she is."

Swearing angrily, Amann punched the metal desk in anger. A large dent appeared as he punched it a few times more to vent his rage. He sat down glancing out. His aide was at a loss for words, having never seen his leader in such a state, not even in over 1,000 years of service. It was Amann who eventually spoke.

"Telan, send for the High Command. I want an invasion plan for Anubis's territory and a broadcast to the System Lords opposing Anubis. We have to deal with Anubis now. Our isolation is over. The battle for the Milky Way Galaxy has just begun and we will need all the allies we can get our hands on. I wish to speak to Ba'al and Lord Yu immediately for an alliance. They are the ones most opposed to Anubis. Do it. I will get my sister back even if it means I have to invade with every ship we have. Go now and inform the others."

Telan left Amann's quarters as Amann stood outside watching the planet below him. So green and peaceful, yet he knew that planets like this will be burned before he saw the end of this current crisis. He got up and made his way to the bridge to talk with his generals.

Over Tartarus…

Anubis returned to Tartarus with an upgraded Ha'tak and all that he dragged along. He immediately sent down his Kull Warriors to ring down on to the Alesian ship to capture it. On the orbit of the planet were massive shiyards and drydocks, and nearly seventy Ha'taks. Twelve Ha'taks were inside the drydock, having Protoss weapon and other upgrades applied to them. The shiyards were building four ha'taks already with upgrades. Three larger shipyards near the moon were building Apophis' motherships, with the upgrades. On the other side of the planet were two groups of five shipyards, building a strange round ship. One of them was nearly complete, having its top part being added.

Thoth followed Anubis down to the planet.

"When the Kull Warriors have finished with the Alesians, send down the prisoner, and go up there and begin the analysis of their technology."

"As you wish, my lord."

The dozen Kull Warriors entered through the ring platform. They used their wrist weapon to mow down the enemy. The Kull Warrior armour was not of Ancient based technology, but of ChiYou. ChiYou and his clan were superior in metallurgy than even the Asgard or Ancients, thanks to their dominance over the alien technologies of the Garuda. However it was similar to the Alesian armor.

The armor absorbed any kind of energy weapon, even their own wrist blasters, which was an Ancient based technology. The Jaffa came behind the Kull Warriors along with more Kull Warriors. However, the Jaffa staff weapons were ineffective against the personal shields and the armor of the Alesian soldiers. Following them were a group of special Kull Warriors, recently made by Anubis to something unique. They did not have weapons but strange metal claws. These creatures stuck their claws at nearby consoles and any circuitry. Metallic tentacles spread through the consoles and began to download the database of the ship, sending the data directly to the planet below via subspace link.

Anubis' mothership shortly arrived from hyperspace, and Hre'ack, Anubis' First Prime appeared on a screen, "My lord Anubis, the battle is a success, for we have brought with us two enemy ships. The weapon nearly destroyed the targeted cityship. However we have the destroyer that destroyed many of the Ha'taks. We also have a smaller craft as well. Shall I board it, my lord?"

Hre'rak was a young Jaffa soldier that had come into the service of Anubis when his former master had been killed against Anubis, he had shortly been made his first prime at that. Personally, Anubis was rather surprised that Hre'rak not only survived to return, but capture ships. Anubis did not mind losing his Prime, after all there are still millions of Jaffa. However, Anubis agreed with his competence.

"You have done well. You are worthy to be my Prime. Board the ships and bring me back prisoners. Send the ships to the drydocks to be repaired."

Then he turned to Thoth who just entered the room.

"Speak."

Thoth bowed.

"The Kull Warriors are meeting some resistance on board their ship, my lord. Their soldiers are wearing personal shields and energy blades. The Jaffa are being slaughtered. Their weapons are simply being absorbed. Even the Kull warriors are having a hard time. The Alesians are even stronger than they are, though the stun grenades are working."

"Let them be slaughtered. The Kull Warriors will do the job. Are you recording the data being transmitted?"

"The downloading just began, my lord."

"Good. Now I shall have Ancient technology that I can actually use. Recall all my commanders to Tartarus. Retreat from all battle and have all Ha'taks return to the nearest shipyards. We have major upgrades to implement."

"As you will, my lord."

Anubis watched as the Alesian ship data seemed to stop. He turned to Thoth.

"Well?"

"We have some data downloaded, my lord."

Anubis mused.

"We should have more than this. What data did you get?"

"The designations of the Alesian ships, and some schematics of the enemy beam weapon, my lord."

"What of the Drone weapons?"

Thoth cowered in fear.

"A thousand apologies, my lord. The Alesians have initiated deletion of data as soon as they discovered that we were tapping into their syst..."

Thoth choked as Anubis stretched his left hand forth as if he was using a hand device. There was no device.

"Unacceptable! I want that weapon. I will have what I need in the end. All shall fall before me in supplication. Bring me the data on the beam weapons and a schematic of a ha'tak."

Thoth gasped and nodded as Anubis released his grip.

Hre'rak appeared on the screen.

"My lord, the Kull Engineers report that they have been cut off from the main data bank, but they have found a code to stop the self destruction."

"I want prisoners, Hre'rak. Stop the self destruction, and get me the prisoners."

"Yes, my lord."

Almost immediately Hre'rak appeared on all three ships on a screen,

"People of the Alesians. I am Hre'rak, First Prime of my Lord Anubis. I give a message from my Lord to you all. Surrender yourselves, and you will live, otherwise, your homeworld will die by Lord Anubis' hands."

Hre'rak was interrupted as a Ninja Jaffa noticed the sudden power output from the ship closer to the dockyard. Without a word he began seeking a trace route, as he did so he spoke, "jesut diko!" Promptly information was sent, and Hre'rak spoke again.

"Those of you that have started the self destruct hear this, it is in vain to do so. Lord Anubis will destroy your homeworld unless you surrender to me now. You are out manned and out gunned."

The screens turned off. Hre'rak turned towards the Ninja Jaffa.

"Disable that with the info you have."

"It's too late. The smaller ship has just activated."

With a bright blue flash, the Aurora-class ship blew up her antimatter reactor. 300 crewmen were instantly killed as thousands of Jaffa were instantly incinerated in a 10 mile radius. The AES Galadriel however was in for a surprise. Galadriel and Ayen watched as the timer reached 0..... There was shock as nothing happened, somehow the Jaffa of Anubis had stopped the self destruct. The fighting stopped as the crew surrendered, but there were many thousands of dead Jaffa at their feet. Only the sudden appearance of the Kull Warriors managed to hurt them. But, the Alesians had managed to delete all of the data in the computers and write over it to make the data unrecoverable. Ayen led his crew out to the waiting Kull warriors. He smiled at them and actually laughed.

" So, there is a foe worthy of us? Impressive such a primitive race can actually copy some of our armor technology. Legionnaires, throw down your weapons."

The Kull Warriors and Jaffa led the Alesians to the nearby base. The Jaffa approached cautiously, not wanting to get too close. The Alesian soldiers even smirked at them. Two Kull Warriors grabbed Ayen and led him to Anubis' chamber. They threw Ayen down on to the floor, in front of Anubis, who was looking at a console. Anubis turned.

"I am Anubis. You will tell me all you know, and more."

Anubis waved his hand, and Thoth, who was nearby, brought him a small box. Inside were mind probing devices Anubis used on Thor.

"Let's see if you can resist a mind probe longer than an Asgard did."

Then Anubis looked into Ayen's face, and Ayen could see Anubis full on. Ayen raised his eyebrow.

"So you are half-ascended......Impressive....and here I thought you were just another pathetic parasite. My apologies. As for your mind probes, we have similar devices we use to interrogate prisoners and my mind is well conditioned to resist these devices. "

Hre'rak appeared shortly as if he had been called for, behind him were a pair of Kull Warriors, and a single engineer Kull, between the normal Kulls they held Ish'ta, who was, for the most part, trying to remain calm, but was completely freaked out at the sight of Anubis.

"My Lord, If this one is resistant to the mind probe, I highly doubt this one is"

He said pointing towards Ish'ta with his staff. He then motioned the Kull forwards, it carried a small data screen.

"The Kull Engineers have found tampering to the database of the ship, however, they have managed to find an odd codex, Thoth is working on breaking the code to get to the information as we speak Master."

Ish'ta was thrown down to the floor where she stared at Ayen in disbelief. She spoke in a low voice.

"De'lac?"

"Yes Ish'ta, it is I, though that is not my true name."

"When we get out of here, I am going to kill you for lying to me about being a Jaffa and running away when you were supposely killed."

"I'm sorry Ish'ta, but I was supposed to encourage the resistance you formed. It was the only way to help my people."

Anubis ignored the bickering and turned toward Hre'rak.

"You have done very well, Hre'rak. You shall be greatly rewarded for your competence."

Anubis inserted the mind probes into the brains of Ayen and Ish'ta.

"Resistance is useless. I am Anubis, and you will tell me all I want to know. I will not make the same mistake as I did with Thor."

A Kull Engineer brought two large orbs with many crystals on them. They were portable memory drives not connected to outside computers, but allowing direct access.

Osiris entered the chamber followed by Tanith. They bowed. Osiris spoke.

"Congratulations on your victory, my lord. I hear you have quite a prize."

"Report!"

"Morrigan is falling back, and her fleet has lost another fifteen ha'taks under my assault."

Tanith spoke up, cutting Osiris off. Osiris did not seem pleased.

"Subjugating unaligned human planets are going well, but there weren't many technologies to be used. Also, I have detected odd hyperspace signature on my way here. It was similar to an Asgard engine."

Osiris scoffed.

"The days of bowing before the Asgard are over. Our ships are now as powerful as theirs. We shall crush them."

Anubis waved the two prisoners back to their cells, and turned back to face Osiris and Tanith.

"Indeed. I will destroy the Asgard for meddling with Goa'uld affairs. However, there are no Asgard ships in this region of the galaxy. The only other race with even some of the Asgard technology is the Tauri."

The two underlords looked interested.

"I suspect that ChiYou is trying to ally himself to Earth since he has awakened. I will destroy the Tauri and their planet Earth soon enough. When I capture ChiYou, I will get my hand on his warship the Garuda, and decipher the truth about his technologies."

The two Goa'uld bowed and left.

Ayen resisted the mind probe as he fought long and hard. He eventually was successful in shutting it down within his brain and looked at anubis smugly.

"Well, if that is the best you are able to do........I am disappointed. Alesian mind probes are far more sophisicated devices."

Hre'rak shortly appeared within Anubis' throne room.

"My Lord, the Alesian has managed to get past the control matrix for the mind probe device, however the female Jaffa is weak and her mind is easily penetrated, we have her within a cell within which she is connected to the probe, there is a planet not far from here wherein many female Jaffa reside, unguarded. The male has been taken to a cell, he has been stripped of his armor and weapons and placed within a gravity cell."

Hre'rak then went silent as Thoth appeared and bowed.

"My Lord Anubis, The Kull Engineers have traced the code and have found data on many of the Alesian ships, their homeworld of Alesia on the far side of the Galaxy. And the records show that there are only enough ships to wage a limited offensive campaign without risking their homeworld."

Anubis paused and tapped on the console.

"The mind probe is a hybrid technology of Protoss and Ancient technologies. His attempt to resist the mind probe have already given us enough informations about them."

Then he turned to Thoth.

"Well done. Soon I will assemble a great armada and conquer the Alesians... but they are not so easy a prey to fall by simply capturing their homeworld."

One of the Jaffa entered and bowed.

"My lord Anubis, Lord Zipacna and Lord Setesh have arrived."

"Bring them all here. I will meet with them."

A few hours later…

Anubis sat on his throne with Osiris, Tanith, Zipacna and Setesh kneeling before him.

"Zipacna, report!"

"Already half of Olokun's territory is now yours, my lord. I have crippled the mainstay of his fleet and he has been cornered near his border with Baal. I believe that if we push him too fast and too hard, then he will capitulate to Baal rather than to us."

Anubis nodded then turned to look at Setesh.

"You have done me a great service, though it did not last for long. I want you to fight the Tauri."

"My lord?"

"ChiYou will try to get to their world. I want ChiYou. You need to track him down and bring him before me. Worry not of the intervention of the Asgard. They are no longer a hinderance to my conquest."

"As you wish, my lord."

Anubis turned to the large window.

"Now I have gift for each of your. Behold your new flagships!"

Outside, five Apophis' motherships decloaked.

"They are equipped with superior shields, cloaking technology, better weapons and a Protoss weapon. It will be enough to conquer the System Lords."

Before anyone could say anything, he chuckled and raised both hands.

"Now, watch as I reveal my flagship. Fortress ship Ha'nutak!"

A massive structure decloaked. On its underside was a large four-sided pyramid, with a triangular pyramid of Apophis' Ha'tak next to each of the flat sides. These pyramids were built upon a thick superstructure like Apophis' mothership. On the topside, everything was same except the rectangular pyramid, which was larger on the bottom half, then there was a step and the top half was same size as the on the bottom. It was huge.

"I have several new upgrades that need to be completed, but it is the height of my technology! It's firepower is capable of destroying entire fleets!"

The four goa'uld showed fear and awe on their face. Zipacna managed to congratulate Anubis.

"Most brilliant, my lord."

"Yes. Go now."

Anubis sat for a while looking into his console. Hre'rak came.

"My lord, you have sent for me?"

"Yes. Bring the two prisoners and the computer core that are connected to them."

"At once, my lord."

Hre'rak left and was back a few minutes later with Ayen and Ish'ta. Anubis looked at them and gestured at Ish'ta.

"Well, Ish'ta of Hak'tyl. You have just told me all you know of the Tau'ri and your code for opening their iris. I am sure that they are no longer valid, but it gives me some ideas."

Then he turned to Ayen.

"You have resisted well, Alesian. However, your attempt to shut down the probe allowed the probe to break into your thoughts tiny bit. It is enough for now. You will tell me all you know of your homeworld."

Ayen smiled and spat on the floor. He spoke in contempt.

"You and your pathetic race are no match for the Empire. My leader is strong and will break your half-ascended abomination with his own power. He was once ascended too and he retains much of that power. Your Jaffa and even the Kull warriors will fall before the might of the Empire. That is all you need to know of my world you leeching parasite."

Anubis chuckled.

"Yes, if I was any other Ascended or half-ascended being, that may be the case. Unfortunately for you, the rest of the Ascended beings will stop your leader from harming me directly if he ascends. He can only rely upon his technology, and I will have them soon enough. Now, you will tell me about your beam weapon. I have managed to re-create it, but it needs some more work. You will tell me now!"

Anubis reached forth with his left hand as if using a hand device. Black energy issued forth from the hand and reached into Ayen's head like the beam from the hand device. Ayen grunted in concentration and managed to brush off the dark energy issuing from Anubis. He looked up and said grimly.

"Amann managed to find a loophole where he can use a more powerful form of himself. It is true he cannot ascend fully and use all of his power, but he can be half ascended and do so. I am sure with his superior knowledge, he will defeat you simply with his will. You think yourself so powerful and wise Anubis. You have much to learn."

Anubis sneered.

"It is you who has much to learn. I already know all there is know of your leader Amann. He may be powerful, but if he interferes with power beyond the limit that the Ascended Ancients have set up, then he will be recalled by the Ascended or be banished. If I wanted I could do as much as he can, if not more, but I walk the line, Alesian. If your leader happens to cross that line, which I hope he does, then he will be removed and I will have no opposition."

Anubis connected the portable computer and connected it to the console.

"I have what I want, but there are somethings that still needs to be explained. You will tell me all you know, even if you don't want to tell me anything."

"My lord, we have the Tau'ri access code for their gateshield system."

Hre'rak said speaking up from a computer console as date scrolled across a screen from Ish'ta's mind probe.

"We also have information that Mol'oc is now dead and his army is leaderless."

"That I already know. Ba'al has been capturing Moloc's planets easily, and the death of Moloc was suspected. However, it is of no concern. How are the new ships and shipyards coming on?"

Thoth bowed.

"We have constructed another nine shipyards and they are producing ships by the dozens, sire. We will soon match the number of ships in the combined force of the System Lords."

"Good. Have Osiris use the stargate to conquer Moloc's planets not yet in the hands of Ba'al."

""Yes, my lord."

Anubis walked closer to Ish'ta. He touched her face and lifted it up by her chin.

"So you are Ish'ta of Hak'tyl. It is a foolish endevour, I tell you, little mortal. How can you imagine the lives without the gods to give them purpose? You exist only to serve the god, me. Serve me, and I shall grant you a new purpose. You shall become my instrument in conquest of the galaxy."

She spat on the floor.

"I do not serve false gods."

Anubis laughed.

"I am a god, and you will be witness to my full power soon enough. Your Jaffa rebellion will fall as will your human and Alesian allies."

Anubis sent away Ayen and Ish'ta and went back to his throne and studied the data on his console.

Down in the cells…

Ayen stared at the gravity cell and looked toward Ish'ta, Galadriel, and the 20 or so soldiers imprisoned.

"So, any ideas on how to get out of here?"

Galadriel spoke in her calm voice.

"This is very bad, General Ayen. We need to escape before my identity is discovered. It was clever of you to disguise me as your aide, but sooner or later Anubis will find out and he will definitely put a mind probe on me. I am probably strong enough to defeat it, but he will still gain some information. That cannot be allowed. My brother is probably worried sick over me."

Ish'ta spoke next.

"So you are all Alesians. That would explain who you are, De'lac."

She hit Ayen with her fist and he was stunned as she stared at him in fury.

"You lied to me. You were my husband and you left when the rebellion needed you most."

"Ish'ta, I told you before, I was ordered to do it. I had no choice in the matter."

"That is no excuse. You could have told me. Instead you spied on us and then you left."

"I can…..only ask that you forgive me, Ish'ta. Right now, we got more important things to do like get out of here. These gravity cells are hard to override. I might be able to reach the top part of the opening if I am able to jump high enough, but it is risky."

Galadriel spoke up.

"Why not have a few Alesians stand on each other and try to get to the top."

"We need to be quick, Councilor. If we do that, the Jaffa will likely notice and shoot us. Without any of our armor or shields, we would die. I need to surprise them by jumping up there and killing the guards."

"Wait, I hear something. Listen!"

Footsteps were being heard as Hre'rak stood over the opening.

"You, the blonde one. Come with me now."

One of the soldiers rushed at Hre'rak. One of the Jaffa shot him with his staff weapon and he stumbled, but not before he killed the Jaffa by snapping his neck. Hre'rak dodged the swing from the Alesian before killing him with another staff blast to the chest.

"Come now, Councilor Galadriel. Anubis awaits."

Galadriel walked forward in her white robes.

"Fear not, General Ayen. I am strong."

The gravity field was reactivated as Galadriel was marched toward Anubis.

To be continued…