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Chapter 10 – Revelations part 2
"... you mean by that?" O'Neill said that when he was transported away by the Asgard Thor, supreme commander of the Asgard Fleet, and good friend of O'Neill.
"Ow!" Jack said when he landed painfully on the floor with his still-injured side.
"Greetings, O'Neill." Said Thor, a little pink alien with an extremely thin body, and arms and legs just as thin, but a large head.
"Hi, Thor." Said O'Neill, who kept lying on the floor.
"Were you injured during transport?" Thor asked when he saw that O'Neill didn't stand up from the floor.
"No. Well, I am injured, but not from your transporter." O'Neill answered.
"I see. Let me transport you into a medical chamber, where you will be healed." Thor said as he walked back to the control console and moved one of the glowing stones.
O'Neill saw another bright blue flash and suddenly he was in a medical chamber. Immediately he felt the Asgard healing devices tend to his wound and within seconds, it was healed. Then he was transported back to the bridge of Thor's ship.
"Thanks." O'Neill said.
"I am afraid we need your help, O'Neill." Thor said.
"Are the replicators being a problem again?" O'Neill asked.
"Not more than usual. But that is not why I am here. We may have found an permanent solution to the replicators." Thor said. "As you may..."
"Wait up, Thor. I think my team needs to hear this too. Can you beam both of us down to the infirmary in the SGC?"
"Very well." Thor said, as he walked back to his control console and moved a blue stone.
Down in the infirmary of the SGC, Thor and O'Neill arrived in two blue flashes of light.
"Greetings." Thor said.
"Hello Thor." Sam and Daniel said.
"Greetings, Thor." Said Teal'c
"Greetings." Thor said to Jacob and Anise. "My name is Thor, supreme commander of the Asgard fleet."
"Greetings. My name is Selmak." Said Selmak. "And I'm Jacob. Nice to meet you." Said Jacob.
"Greetings, Thor. My name is Anise,' said Anise. "And I'm Freya." Added Freya.
"Hello, Thor." Said King Minos. "Long time no see, eh?"
"Minos! This is indeed a wonderful coincidence." Thor said, seeming really surprised by Minos's presence. "I did not detect you on my scanners."
"I was aiming for the surprise." Minos said. "But how's it going with the Asgard?"
"I am afraid that it is not well with the Asgard as a race. We are dying from the effects of cloning, and we are being defeated by the replicators time and time again."
"Replicators?" Minos said. "As in the Ancient Replicator-blocks?"
"They have evolved, and they now pose an enormous threat to our galaxy. The Tauri helped us a lot by teaching us to shoot ballistic objects at the replicators, but they have evolved even more. Some are now nanobots, capable of resisting almost anything. That is why I am here."
"Are you going to blow them up?" Minos suggested.
"On the contrary. We are going to shut them down. That is why we have come here, to Earth."
"To Earth?" Daniel asked. "Why Earth?"
"Because as you may or may not know, the Ancients fled here after they were defeated in Atlantis. Their species mixed up with yours, and some humans on earth posses the talents necessary to operate Ancient technology."
"Yeah, Minos told us about those powers." Carter said.
"I was going to ask your permission to scout the entire planet for individuals that posses such talents like O'Neill, but that will no longer be necessary." Thor said.
"Wait a minute!" said O'Neill. "I posses that power too?"
"You have inherited a part of the ancient genetic structure. Thus you are able to have the ability to control Ancient technology. But it takes talent too to control the Ancient technology that I came for. Though that is now no longer necessary." Thor said.
"Why not?" asked Daniel.
"Because we now have one of the Ancients themselves." Thor said. "Minos, will you be so kind as to help the Asgard shut down the replicators?"
"Ok. But first I need some sugar. Well, a lot of sugar." Minos said as everybody else in the room was stunned by the revelation that Minos was an Ancient.
"What for?" asked Thor.
"Well, I was shot too, just like O'Neill, But I never liked the Asgard healing devices. Plus the power required to control the Replicators and to shut them down completely is immense. I need to be well prepared, and that means I'll need to have a sugar rush in my system."
"I can synthesize some sugar immediately." Said Thor.
"I'll get a glass and some water." Carter opted.
"Thanks." Minos said as he got the glass of water from Sam and the sugar from Thor.
He added the sugar to the water, and drank it down completely in one go.
"That must be awfully sweet." Said Jacob.
"Not at all. It's delicious." Said Minos. "Now let's fix my leg."
He pulled up the leg from his pants to show the bare flesh that was shot by an energy blast from a Kull, and then broken by the Ashrak. He moved his hands on top of the damaged parts, and concentrated. The flesh and skin healed immediately, and Minos stood up on his no-longer broken leg.
"All set." Minos said.
"Wow. That's quite amazing." Said Daniel.
"Now, Thor. I need a lot more sugar if I want to have enough power to control all the replicators. And I don't think you'd want to waste so much energy on making it for me, so I'm guessing that I'll have to use one of my reserves."
"Your reserves?" O'Neill asked.
"Yep. Lots of sugar stored away safe and sound on almost every planet I have been to. That includes Earth. But we can beam it directly out of there from your ship, Thor."
"Wait. I don't think Hammond would like it if we go on a long, dangerous mission without saying." O'Neill said.
"It is not necessary for you to come, but I will be happy to take you along with Minos."
"I'll go." Sam and Daniel said.
"I will accompany you too, Thor." Teal'c said.
"Well, Selmak and I would both think we're a little too old for such an adventure." Jacob said. "Is it OK if we stay here, to study the new weapon?"
"Sure thing." said O'Neill. "Just tell Hammond."
"Then I will remain here too, to study your new weapon, Major Carter." Anise said.
"All right. Now we just have to tell Hammond that we're going." O'Neill said.
"I can beam you to him." Suggested Thor.
"Nah, that would be rude. I'll walk." O'Neill said.
"I'll come too." Minos said.
"Very well. Shall I beam you all aboard the Mjollnir?"
"Ok." Carter said.
Thor beamed himself, Carter, Daniel and Teal'c onto the bridge of the Mjollnir.
"Thor, did you name your ship Mjollnir in reference to the legend of the Hammer of Thor called Mjollnir."
"Yes, I did, but actually..."
Meanwhile, down on the planet, O'Neill and Minos were almost out of the infirmary.
"What's this?" asked Dr. Frasier. "Both of you shouldn't be able to walk, and certainly not leave the infirmary!"
"Well, we got a head start, thanks to Thor and sugar." Minos answered.
"Wait. What?"
"Thor healed O'Neill's wound and I healed my own with a little help from a substance called saccharine, commonly referred to as sugar. Bye." Minos said as he and O'Neill left the infirmary, leaving a stunned Frasier behind.
They arrived in General Hammonds office only minutes later.
"General," O'Neill started, but he was interrupted by Hammond.
"What's this? Colonel, Minos, you should both be in the infirmary." Hammond said.
"With all due respect, sir, No. It's no longer necessary. Thor healed my side, and Minos here, who turns out to be an Ancient, healed himself." O'Neill stated.
"Thor? Ancient? Here?" Hammond asked.
"Yes sir. Thor needs our help. That's why I came here. Request permission to take SG-1 and Minos to take down the replicators, sir."
"How long will you be away, Colonel?" Hammond asked now he had convinced himself after some thought that this was the best option. After all, if they helped in defeating the sworn enemies of the Asgard, the Asgard would be able to help defend Earth against Goa'uld threats.
"I don't know, Sir. But I don't think it will take that long. Though we might need some supplies for the time. A few weapons and some food, sir."
"Permission granted, Colonel. I take it Thor can beam the supplies out of our storage facilities?"
"I'll ask him, sir."
"Wait. I don't have a communicator." O'Neill noticed.
"Thor. We have permission to go, and general Hammond said we can beam up some supplies. Food, weapons perhaps." Minos said, seemingly against the ceiling. But Thor must have heard it somehow, because almost instantly after Minos said that, both of them were beamed aboard the Mjollnir.
"How did you do that?" O'Neill asked Minos.
"Do what?" Minos asked.
"Talk to Thor from the SGC to here." O'Neill asked.
"I project my voice here. It's a cool trick, because you can add all kinds of sound effects." Minos said.
"We are ready to leave for the Ida galaxy." Thor stated. "The journey will take several hours, because we cannot fly at full speed."
"Why not?" Carter asked.
"Because our naquadria-generators cannot generate enough power to reach maximum speed without using the energy buffers. And we are going to need full energy buffers when we arrive there."
"There being where?" Daniel asked.
"We are currently on course to the Asgard Assembly point, where we will meet up with the rest of the fleet. We will then enter hyperspace after the entire fleet is assembled, and reach the Replicator home planet. There the fleet must give us enough time to transport to the planet, and locate the ancient chair that controls the replicators. However, we must first destroy every replicator vessel in the vicinity of their home planet, otherwise they could just bombard the control chair and we would all be killed." Thor concluded.
Everybody heard the news and prepared to fight. They got their weapons out of the storage room that Thor had beamed them into, and Minos went to look for the sugar that Thor beamed aboard. After a few minutes of searching he entered the bridge where the others were waiting and talking, and he joined them.
"So, Thor, what's the plan?" O'Neill asked. "Apart from the main lines you've already told us."
"We detected a very weak energy signature from the heart of replicator space. We had not seen such a signature in several thousands of years. We concluded that it must have been one of the Ancient chairs. The energy signature matched the signature of one of those chairs closely, but not exactly. The Asgard High council then devised numerous plans to either take out the replicators by destroying the chair, or shutting every single replicator in the entire galaxy down by using the chair. The last one was deemed most viable. If every Replicator in our entire galaxy was to be destroyed, the following explosions would have annihilated almost three-quarters of the galaxy. Even the we cannot withstand an explosion of that magnitude. That is why we chose to control the replicators, shutting them down.
But there was one problem. The ancient control chairs can only be used by the ancients themselves, or individuals that have a similar genetic makeup. That is why I was sent to Earth, to locate an individual with enough power to control the chair. Luckily we have found one of the Ancients themselves. It would not require such an immense strain that it would most likely kill the person in question, even if we temporarily enhanced their genetic makeup." Thor finished.
"I see. Do you want to hear the story about how the replicators came into existence?" asked Minos.