Disclaimer: See chapter 1 for disclaimer.
A/N: So, that was the end of part one of this story. Here is part two where we get into the universe of Stargate and others such as Star Wars, possibly Firefly and maybe even Star Trek eventually. I honestly don't know. Part of why it has taken me so long to update (sorry about that) is because after watching The Last Jedi, my interest in Star Wars was reignited, causing me to binge watch both The Clone Wars and the first three seasons of Rebels. Also, read an amazing Rebels fanfic that I will mention later. So, yeah, expect some Star Wars in a few chapters.
Part 2
Chapter 10: The First Universe
The Wolf Den materialized inside of a long-abandon space station. Rose and Clara stepped out and looked around. For being abandon for tens of thousands of years, it was surprisingly well maintained. Then again, from everything they learned in the Nexus, the Ancients did know how to build things to last. This station, for example, was the size of a small moon or large asteroid. It was the trans-galactic hub of the Ancient's Stargate networks, as well as their ship and technology production facility. Of course, being in the void between galaxies made sure that almost no-one would ever find it. That it orbited a Class O Blue Supergiant star that the Ancients had engineered themselves was mindboggling. Even the Time Lords had never ventured that far with their ambitions.
"Well, isn't this cozy," Clara said as she looked around the control center they were in.
"Be fair," Rose told her. "There's something to be said for function over form sometimes."
"Let's just find the control chair and interface with the repository. That should have the most up-to-date information for now," Clara responded.
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"Hmmmm… What do you think, Clara?" Rose asked as she looked at the newer model of Stargate they found in storage a few months later. "Should we add one to the Den?"
"What's the point? It's not like we need it to get anywhere." She responded.
"Yeah, but you have to admit, it looks really cool."
Clara laughed at that. "You sound just like the Chin sometimes, you know that?"
Rose blushed a bit, but before she could respond, they got a beep on the wrist computers, which they had tied into the core of the station as well.
"Well," Clara said, "looks like we are going to Earth a little sooner than expected."
"Seriously, how the hell did they end up connecting to a black hole?" Rose asked exasperatedly as they headed back to the control center.
"Well, they haven't got a proper dialing device, have they?" Clara pointed out.
"Maybe we should offer them one," Rose considered.
"Might be a good idea," Clara agreed. "We should put one of the cloaked satellites in orbit too."
"Sounds good. Ready to introduce ourselves?" Rose asked with a smile as they walked into the control room where the TARDIS was parked.
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General Hammond and SG-1 were staring at the monitor in shock. SG-10 was trapped on a planet being sucked into a black hole, and there was nothing they could do to save them. Jack felt bad for his friend that he recommended for the Stargate program. And Carter wanted to study it?!
"We are witnessing good men dying, in slow motion, Captain!" Jack told her angrily.
Carter seemed to realize just how terribly her scientific curiosity had overcome her, and felt horrible about it. "You're right, Sir."
The technician typed the commands into the computer, but it didn't work. He tried again, and got the same results. Turning to General Hammond, he said, "Sir, it won't disengage."
"Try again," Hammond responded.
"I already have, Sir. Twice. It won't shut down."
Before anyone had a chance to worry about what that might mean, they heard an unusual sound building in the gate room, a wheezing, groaning sound. They watched as a black box appeared on the ramp, directly in front of the stargate.
"Security teams, move in," Hammond ordered into the microphone in the control room.
Several armed soldiers entered from either side of the gate room and pointed their guns at the black box in front of the stargate.
The door opened, and out came a blonde girl wearing jeans and a t-shirt, followed by a brunette in tights, with a skirt and blouse. Both of them were wearing long black coats and appeared to be unarmed.
"Well, there's a fine how'd ya do," the blonde said sarcastically.
"They're Americans," the brunette said as if that made everything clear. "What did you think they would do if a mysterious black box suddenly appeared in the middle of their top-secret military base?"
"Well, I had hoped they would at least greet us and ask questions first."
"Excuse me," they heard from speakers in the room. They looked around and saw an important looking bald man in a room behind a thick glass window, talking into a microphone. "Who are you, and how did you get into this base?"
"Well, better late than never I suppose," the blonde said in a snarky manner.
The brunette lightly elbowed her and spoke. "We're friends, I promise. We detected your stargate in a fault condition, connected to a black hole. Mind if we fix that first, before we get to the question and answer session?"
"Sir," they saw a blonde short-haired woman say to the bald man. "If they can shut down the gate, we should let them. We have no idea what kind of effects might get transmitted back through the wormhole if it remains open."
"Very well, proceed," the man said into the mic.
They watched as the blonde girl pulled something out of the sleeve of her jacket and turned to point it at the open gate. It made a whirring sound and a moment later, the stargate disengaged.
In the meantime, the group that was behind the glass came into the gate room from one of the side doors and stared at them.
"How were you able to do that?" the woman asked.
"Sonic probe," the blonde girl replied putting it back in her sleeve. "Just used it to send an emergency disconnect signal to the internal control circuits of the stargate."
"You make that sound like a simple, everyday occurrence," the woman said.
"Every day, no," the brunette girl said. "Simple, pretty much."
"My name is General George Hammond, commander of the facility. This is Colonel Jack O'Neill, Captain Samantha Carter, and Teal'c. Can you tell us who you are and how you got here?"
"I'm Rose, and this is Clara," the blonde girl said indicating herself and the brunette.
"We got here in our ship," Clara said as she patted the side of the black box affectionately. "The Wolf Den. Please don't ask us how exactly it works though. The English language just doesn't have the mathematical or scientific capacity to go into detail about the higher dimensional mechanics behind that."
"You said that you were able to detect a problem with our gate? Does that mean you could also detect where it was connected to?" O'Neill asked.
"We did," Rose confirmed. "We wanted to make sure to lock that address out of the system in general to prevent further incidents like what just happened here."
"Would that black box you came here in be able to go there by any chance?" he asked.
"Fairly easy, yeah. Why do you ask?" Clara was getting more and more curious. These people were not as uptight as they initially expected.
"We have a team trapped there and can't do anything for them," O'Neill said before the General could try to stop him.
"Shit!" Rose said as she grabbed Clara by the arm and they both ran back into the box and closed the door. A moment later, they all heard the strange wheezing and groaning noise again as the box disappeared from their view.
"Colonel!" Hammond almost yelled at him.
"I had to, Sir. If there is even a slim chance that they could be rescued. Getting sucked into a black hole sounds like a terribly painful way to die."
"There's no way they'd be able to reach them in time, though, Sir. You might have just asked them to go on a suicide mission," Carter stated.
Before anyone could respond to that, they heard the sound again, this time from the wall behind them, under the window to the control room.
The doors opened and out staggered SG-10!
"Major Boyd?" Hammond asked in a concerned tone, which secretly pleased Rose and Clara as they walked out behind the beleaguered team.
"Sir," the Major acknowledged. "I'd like to get my team to the infirmary. We're all rather sore, sir."
"Agreed. Get to the infirmary and get some rest. We'll debrief tomorrow at 0800."
"Thank you, sir," the Major said as he and his team staggered out of the gate room and were met by a med team.
"Thank you," O'Neill said sincerely to Rose and Clara who were leaning against their black box.
"You're welcome," they said in unison with disarming smiles.
"Yes, thank you for saving our men," Hammond said with a relieved sigh. "Would you join us for a discussion upstairs in our briefing room?"
"Next time, perhaps," Rose told them.
"We were in the middle of something else when we detected the fault in your gate. We'll come back another time for proper introductions," Clara said.
"Maybe even with gifts to make sure something like this doesn't happen again," Rose said cryptically. She was starting to understand the Doctor a bit more, now that she was on the other side of things.
The girls walked back into the box and the people in the gate room watched it disappear again, wondering just what the hell had happened.
As Rose and Clara were at the controls taking them back to the hub, Clara just had to ask. "You had way too much fun with that, didn't you?"
Rose laughed merrily. "Come on, it was fun to be on the Doctor side of the equation. You enjoyed that, too."
Clara chuckled a bit. "Yeah. So, what do you think, upgrades?"
"Might as well. Just a little boost and some safety measures to help out while they learn."
"Let's get started then, shall we?"
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"Well, that was good work, SG-1," Hammond said as they were finishing with their latest debrief. He was still amazed by it to be honest. Some of the things they had learned since discovering the stargate just boggled the mind. "Dismissed."
They were all starting to get up when a wheezing, groaning sound filled the briefing room. Daniel looked around in concern but the others just looked surprised when a black box appeared in the corner of the room.
Rose and Clara stepped out of the box smiling playfully at the group of people.
"Did you miss us?" Rose asked with a twinkle in her eyes.
Clara smacked her lightly on the arm. "Would you stop teasing them? They've just been flung backward and forwards in time, by a wormhole of all things."
"How could you possibly know that?" Sam asked them in confusion.
"And what do you mean 'of all things'?" Daniel looked at them curiously.
"Oh, he's a sharp one," Clara said.
"Seems so. Still, shame you hit 1969. You would have really enjoyed the summer of love," Rose said cheekily.
"I did," Jack said with a smirk.
"So, this is the black box you told me about?" Daniel asked his teammates. "Why does it say, 'Wolf Den' on the top?"
"Personal preference," Rose replied.
"Used to say, 'Snog Box' there," Clara told them with a snicker.
"Clara, Rose, what brings you by today?" Hammond asked to regain a little control of the room.
"You've just had a second malfunction with your gate this year caused by lack of a proper dialing device," Clara explained.
"Thought you all could do with an upgrade," Rose told them.
"You're just… giving us a DHD?" Sam asked in disbelief.
"Carter," Jack started. "Don't look a gift horse in the mouth."
"The answer to your question is no," Rose told her.
"We're going to upgrade your entire control center," Clara said with that cheeky smirk.
"How are you going to do that?" Hammond asked. "And how long would it take?"
"Like this," Rose said as she tapped a few keys on her wrist computer. There was a flash of light and in front of Sam was suddenly a snazzy looking laptop.
"Nice trick. Been hanging around with the Asgard have you?" Jack quipped. He was just making a wisecrack. He didn't expect them both to whip around and stare at him intently.
"You've had contact with the Asgard?" Rose asked seriously.
"Even went to their world in a different galaxy," Jack told them.
"How? Earth shouldn't have the power generation capabilities to be able to form an intergalactic wormhole yet." Clara was really glad they made contact with these people. They had been looking for the Asgard since they learned of the great race alliance. They had already found and spent time with the Nox, but found no trace of the Asgard or Furlings yet.
"Colonel O'Neill was able to build a device that temporarily boosted our power flow," Sam offered, not looking up from what she was seeing on the laptop.
"I take it you haven't been hanging around them? How are you able to do that beaming stuff they do then?" Jack asked.
"That's a long story," Clara said evasively.
"We have time," Hammond told her.
"How about a deal?" Rose countered. "You give us the gate address you have to their world, and we'll not only upgrade your control center, but also other parts of the base, like your infirmary, power generation and some beaming technology to make the base self-sufficient."
That was able to pull Sam's attention away from the laptop. "Every advanced race we've encountered has refused to share technology. Why would you be so willing?"
"The amount of advanced knowledge on that computer you have in front of you is enough to put you roughly a millennium or two ahead of the currently most advanced people in the galaxy," Rose admitted to them.
"But it is only knowledge," Clara explained. "It will take time to understand it and put it to use, time that should help you develop the wisdom on how to use it."
Everyone goggled at the what was being offered to them before Rose continued.
"The reason so many have a non-interference policy is because advancing too quickly tends to destroy planets and peoples, usually because they advanced the weapons technology far ahead of anything else."
"What we are offering with that computer," Clara picked up, "is a paced advancement of scientific knowledge in general. Basically, it will make you earn the next advance."
"But what we are offering for the base is a way to safely continue on as you are. The control center, for example, will have a proper dialing device built into it with safety protocols that prevent things such as dialing black holes or through solar flares," Rose continued.
"This again," Clara started, "is strictly for the safety of this base, and as such will all be tamper-proof preventing reverse engineering."
"That's still an awfully big carrot," Hammond said as everyone else looked rather stunned. "What's the stick?"
"The stick, as you call it General," Rose said seriously, "is that you keep to the moral and ethical standards that you have already set so high. Do that, General, and we could have a very good friendship. Fail to do so, and we will cut off all communication and remove our gifted technology from the entire base."
"Will you excuse me while I make some calls about this?" he asked them.
"Take your time, General," Clara said as he got up from the table and left for his office. She and Rose walked over to the table and sat down next to Daniel to wait, and answer some likely questions.
"You don't even need us to give you the gate address, do you? You'll just take it from our computers remotely," Daniel said without preamble.
Clara laughed at this while Rose looked at him curiously and asked, "What makes you think so?"
"You're too willing to give us advanced knowledge and technology, you obviously have technology far advanced of what you are offering us, you knew we had amoral elements in our society that could be trouble on this base so you've already been in our systems at least once. You speak English with English accents and they have no knowledge of us, so you're either from the future, from a different reality, or studied us closely enough to have traced our language to its origin in which case you would easily be able to access our technology."
The girls gaped at him in shock at the leaps of logic he made, but couldn't discount any of them. Sam might be the technical one of their team, but Daniel obviously had an amazing mind.
Rose kept staring at him as she reached into her coat and pulled out a stethoscope of all things, placing it in her ears and pressing it against Daniel's chest for a moment before pulling back.
Daniel looked at her in confusion as Rose put it away and turned to Clara. "One heart, not a Time Lord. But that is some frightening brain power."
Everyone was staring at the girls in astonishment, except Sam, who was staring at Daniel.
Clara looked at them all in turn with a serious expression on her face. "Do NOT tell your boss we could just take the address from the computer. We want this deal as much as you do."
"You must be Dr. Daniel Jackson," Rose said reaching out her hand to shake his. "I'm Rose, this is my wife, Clara. It's a pleasure to meet you."
"Likewise," Daniel said with a bemused expression. Before anything else could be said, Hammond walked back into the briefing room.
"I've been given the order to proceed," he informed them. "If you'll come down to the control room, we can get you the address you requested."
They all followed the General down the stairs into the control room where he ordered a technician to bring up the address on the computer screen.
Rose input the address into her wrist computer while Clara asked everyone to step back from the equipment into the middle of the room. In a flash of light, all the equipment in the room was replaced with sleek looking panels. One panel, right in front of the window, had the dialing symbols on it. The control for the iris was now attached to one of the window frames and while there were still physical monitors, they were flat screens that could also expand onto holographic displays.
Clara sat down at one of the terminals, pressed a button, and a holographic display sprang to life with a display of their gate map. She selected one, and the gate dialed it far more rapidly than the previous system could have. She shut the gate down and left the holographic screen open on an instruction manual.
"As you can see," Rose started as she smiled at their shocked looks, "all of the data from your old system was copied onto the new system in transit. Everything you see will function exactly as you would expect from your old system, but with some improvements and a few little additions."
"What you can't see," Clara continued for her, "Is that we also just beamed in some medical equipment to your infirmary, a food production terminal to your main kitchen, and a power generation module for you to connect to your power grid is waiting for you up in the briefing room. The other equipment we provided will actually draw power from that module wirelessly without any connections, so you only need to connect it to your grid to for the Stargate and other needs."
Jack ran up the stairs quickly, the others following to find him staring at a black brick-shaped object on the table with what looked like jumper cables sticking out of it.
"Well," he said, "that's a bit anti-climactic."
His team stared at him incredulously, Clara burst into laughter, and Rose just shook her head.
"We did tell you it would all be tamper-proof," Rose reminded him.
"I understand that," Jack said. "It's just, this thing is going to save us over a billion dollars a year. I was expecting something a bit more dramatic than a brick."
This time Rose cracked too and the girls were holding each other up as they laughed.
SG-1 and General Hammond sat down at the table, but Clara and Rose continued walking towards their black box and leaned against it.
"Any last questions before we leave?" Rose asked.
"Only a million or so," Sam deadpanned.
"Pick the best one you can think of." Clara suggested.
While Sam's brain was turning furiously trying to decide what to ask, Daniel beat her to it. "How can we contact you?"
"Ha!" Rose laughed and turned to Clara. "You're making dinner tonight."
Clara simply stuck her tongue out at Rose before turning back to the group. "Sam should have the answer to that in a few years," she said with a smile as she and Rose stepped into the TARDIS and disappeared.
After watching as the mysterious black box vanished, all heads turned to Sam.
"I don't know," Sam admitted. "She must mean the answer is on this computer somewhere."
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