I know this is not what you knew before the rewrite. I thought I do a backstory first before we get to the Babylon 5 galaxy and it would make sense with Earth. I left Easter Eggs on other sci-fi stuff that some already figured out. I am not into the attention to every detail unless it is necessary which you will see. I do have some grammar lapses but I checked a few times and tried to get them all. Thanks. The next one is going to be smaller but it is "The Fight".
If you want answer to questions, just pm me or email me. If you are a jerk, don't be surprise I am a jerk back. I am in writing mode and I don't want to be bother with your jerk reviews and responses and people want to hear about the story, don't do it. The Babylon 5 starts after the next chapter, half of it is already done with Voyager, Joan of Arc, Juggernaut, Scylla and Manaed and Furies fighting an intense battle. Joan of Arc is the Colossus class. Juggernaut is Athena, Scylla is Ares, Manaed and Furies are Furies class or Destiny/Neptune converted to military.
/ Destiny
"Eli you're going back out there alone?" Col. Young rasped, knowing the damage to his lungs were more extensive than he realized and it was his fault as Eli warned him.
"Yes, we have two destinations left. We have two stones, we can get the 3rd one, we go home. If Tierestad is correct, the next destination is the last one where the Furling/Alteran people took it to."
He continued.
"Meeting them was not a coincidence, it was fated. We were so hell-bent on finding them, I could have saved us time and let the Etemec come to us and show us where the stones are Instead of you getting hurt. Besides, the Idio is not dangerous, just need to find them. I can't risk you or anyone else to go with me. So let me do this alone." Eli explained.
"I know I can't talk you out of it, just be careful son." Col Young replied knowing he will not change Eli's mind.
"I will sir." He nodded and then turned to Tierestad.
"Thank you for the orb and the gate address to where the last one is located. I will watch for the Idio Baileys, as you call them, which is the reason why I have no one else to come with me. I am protected they are not." Eli explained.
"You are considered a god among my people and I have no doubt you will obtain what you've searched for. The Idio what we are told are wayward people so don't trust them initially and be careful." Tierestad stated ominously.
"Only a few venture in ships that we come across and find them lacking in hospitality." Adrianna added before her husband can speak.
"Lady Adrianna I will keep that in mind. I must go. I hope you in enjoy your stay here." Eli did a slight bow to the Etemec leaders and finally looked at Ginn with total love in his eyes.
"My Ginn, I've heard you missed out on the last battle helping out the colonel and the crew did a good job with no casualties and minor damage. Keep watching and do not hesitate to give a hand, but you remember, do not strike first, we don't want them on us, protect before going into battle mode. Come here let me show you something.
Eli hands glowed for a bit while he touched Ginn forehead. She smiled.
"You understand now?" He asked softly. She nodded.
"I do."
Eli smiled and turned away from the crew and left the bridge then he simply disappeared not even going to the stargate knowing that the Baileys on Idio would be watching it and he had the coordinates.
Col. Young looked at the Etemec couple. Old and grizzled was Tierestad while his wife was the opposite and regal.
"Sorry I did not introduce myself, I am Colonel Everett Young, this ships leader. Sorry if I wasn't around for the latest attack but I guess my crew did a good job killing whatever those things are" He looked outside the window and the extensive debris field. "Is there anything else we need to know before we head home?"
"Colonel, I have their request list, not at big as you think, it is only one request. They want to go home." Dr. Gray said.
"Where is home?" He asked looking at the two.
"Aschen Prime" Camille answered and was waiting for the colonel's response while Lt. Scott and MSgt. Greer were holding back.
"Are you serious, Camille? Why would they go back to that evil planet of non-feeling zombies?" He said incredulously.
"So it is true, our home world has change over thousands of years." Adrianna said not wanting to believe it but they got their confirmation.
"Wait, are you Aschens? Way in this galaxy?" Col. Young was beside himself.
"No, they are not, sir" Ginn interrupted. "They are an offshoot of the Furlings."
"Oh and how is that?" He looked at the two, normal looking human beings in his eyes.
"Show him." Ginn instructed the Etemec.
"Col. Young, we are Furlings and when we set foot upon this ship, powers started to manifest and quickly gained. We are not like Ginn or Eli, like true Ancients but now the wife and I can do things and show our people that you exist and that you will take us to our home galaxy, not Aschen Prime, but your Earth and we were told that your Earth have a powerful fleet that can come back and kill those you saw outside this ship. They have killed billions of us to the point we don't have a world to sit down and just live out our lives, too dangerous. Only in the Idio system which Motava has a population over a million. Only the place Eli is going to can keep this evil from destroying them as they are underground and what we have heard, over-populated to the point which I did not tell Eli, when you become of a certain age, you are force to live above ground and you will not last long there." Tierestad explained.
Col. Young looked at the man and pretty much everyone knew what was going on.
"Do we have the logs of the last battle?" He asked and Dr. Rush told him it is all right there indicating on the screen.
"Put it on."
A 3-D map of the Koryx Destroyers, the Etemec command vessel and Destiny was on screen and where all the weapon ports listed and firing rate. Col. Young looked at Brodie and MSgt. Greer
He had to admit they did a damn good job with only slight damage to shields and how they adapted to the Splatters shield draining technology.
"I guess ELI's updated weapons systems did its job?" He said nonchalantly.
"And them some" MSgt Greer added with a grin.
/ Planet Motava – Idio system
Eli materialize in a ball of energy on Motava and he could feel the last orb he needs is actually here. But the problem is the Baileys he was warned about, two of them and they've noticed him materializing. The village was close but it will be too close for him to find the hidden door to get to the underground after he scanned the villages and nothing was found until he went underground as he could materialize into something he doesn't know about. He need a point of reference. He did not want to materialized in a wall or ground, it would be lethal, even for him. The gate was his focal point and used his math which he is good at to get him a far away from the gate as he could. He also saw on his wrist that not only the Baileys but human destroyers, man-made robots that are converging on him. He was not worried about that but he needed to get below ground. His wrist blaster show that is was fully charged and he had the right to defend himself against this monstrosity and he will do it.
He dodged a couple of blasts and used his telekinesis to punish the destroyers but the Baileys were different, they were huge, maybe 50 feet in height and they had multiple weapon platforms, consisted of heavy plasma, minor lasers and even kinetic weapons and they used them on the athletic Alteran. He dodged with ease or had his personal shield to shunt the pain. He had plasma grenades he made from his last quarry that the VINCENT repair bots and used them by hurling them using his telekinesis. He knew they could overwhelm him and he tried to avoid their blasts. He ended up destroying one of the Baileys and they went into ballistic mode on him shooting from several different angles and weapons making it harder and harder for him to dodge and try to use his other plasma grenades.
/ Motava underground capital city
"Sarge, Hel, we have someone on the surface, coordinates Delta four, Beta six" The Voice announced through their implants.
"Voice, that is near the forbidden ring and the Baileys heavily monitors that area." Helen responded while sparring with Sarge, who gave a roundhouse kick that Helen barely got away from and nodded nice move.
"Well this individual actually down one of the two Baileys but they have brought reinforcements with other Baileys and at least twelve Destroyers" Voice explained.
"Damn, we both can't take on a Bailey, that would be suicide. Our shields would be down in seconds" Sarge reacted and then duck her head from a punch from the gloved hand of the dark skinned warrior.
"I don't have a reading on him, but the pictures I can get that he is human with extraordinary speed and he has some type of weapons that the Baileys don't know about but they can withstand him, he used something else to down one of them. He also has personal shields." Voice said thinking about this as it has been a very long time someone came through the gate but this one didn't. She would know instantly if someone came through the gate, so who was he?
She watched the athletic human dodging when he must, absorbing the destroyers deployed armed weapons in awe. They weren't affecting him, but the other Bailey was getting through the shields and she could see him buckle by their blast. This was something that was never witness before in her 8000 years on Motava. Only those who are enlightened like her could accomplish this. She could not sense he is one because those would have some patterns or recognition.
"Exit hatch 24, it should open up into the village not too far from the ring." Voice ordered.
"We know the drill, but with those destroyers and Baileys, is this wise?" Helen questioned.
"There is something about this individual that is unique, he is not a runner or a destroyer, I feel he wants to see me. I can't explain it and he needs something that I have and then he will leave and what I do not understand his mode of transportation." Voice was riddled with thoughts, feelings, permeations of what is going on.
Voice knew that the Etemec encountered an Ancient ship because her thoughts and instruments is almost galactic wide and she protected the people on this planet but almost all of the populace were underground and in vast cities, some shafts were 25 to 30 levels deep with a planet population of a few million but food and air tend to their needs was even straining her. It was the only way her Furling kindred for those that possess no powers or ascended could live. She did not like the councils' edict of banishment of people who become 40 years old and then sent above ground where they have no chance. …but she understood.
She also knows that the individual on the surface was not Furling, but familiar. He shielded his thoughts except he wants to meet her and she was curious why so she ignored protocol and ask her best two warriors to investigate.
"Okay we are on it and I hope this is not a suicide mission" Sarge said leaving their sparring room.
"No, I believe you two are the best on this world and can conceal if necessary." The Voice reassured.
The two did not believe her but they have been in some nasty scraps before and the Voice believed in them as a team. But now four Baileys and looks like seven destroyers, that is a tall task of hiding and extracting this individual, but they admit, the human young man did what most of them could not do unless they had a lot of people. This means he is either cunning, lucky or very dangerous. They both thought the last to pull this performance but the Voice was adamant about bringing him below.
They got to the hatch and opened it. Sometimes they will open others were Baileys tend to ignore or they remember their flying patterns, to soak up the sun. Every Motavan have to do this once a week and there is schedules that the warriors figured out how to do it. There is at times that the Destroyers can improvise and sneak in by taking the skins of the runners who have been banished, but they are destroyed when found and usually the Voice is the one that finds them and they do not know that. Their weapons were erratic and powerful, so the Motavan underground break them down and reverse engineer them.
The Voice said that they did not originate from this planet but elsewhere and have been stagnant for a very long time. She did hide her true intentions and kept a lot from these people. They would not survive on the surface, she knew the evil forces of space would rain down on them and they have no ships and no protection. She believed if it was a ground war, they would win. Many battalions of warriors that grew up, trained hard, looking for Destroyers if they show up and also they acted as the police and enforcement of the edict force.
Sarge took in the air. The lithe blond girl smiled and she looked at her tall muscular dark skinned friend.
"Well, our weekly ration of vitamin D is replenished."
"Ha ha, very funny, but we need to get this done quickly, no telling when they send more Destroyers. Baileys are easy to spot but the Destroyers are cunning and dangerous and I rather face them one on one than a Bailey" Hel responded seriously.
"Wait did you see that?" Sarge said watching a young man, well looks like a boy run from one building to another and was very fast. Then three Destroyers appeared, stopping and firing.
"We need to help him, Voice said so." Helen said.
"Wait." Helen put her hand up before Sarge start charging in.
A lot of thin like red bolts of light impacted the Destroyers, one went down quickly while the other two stood stationary firing their arm cannons. The man they saw came into the picture and they can see the shields he had flared in response. The face of the young man was handsome but he looked determined. So he fired at the second one and then their worst nightmare showed up, a Bailey.
Sarge knew the newcomer will have to focus on the Bailey and the second Destroyer was down. She nodded to Helen what they needed to do.
The two female warriors opened up their blasters and sent many plasma discharges into the remaining Destroyer who was bent on taking out the newcomer and was too late to change his shields. He went down quickly and the newcomer looked at them and they felt he was giving them the thanks but then pointed at the Bailey.
"Keep out of his firing sight by hugging the walls and come to me." He shouted to them.
"Is he crazy, that is a Bailey, they can see everything?" Sarge said and then thought.
"Why don't you come to us, you are in close quarters and we don't have enough firepower to take those things down." Helen said
Eli thought about it and it made sense, he was in close quarters and these two female warriors did help him out. He decided to do something and he hope he would not freak them out. He disappeared, then next to him he reappeared.
When he appeared behind him, he saw two arms raised and what he saw from their weapons, it was scary.
"Ladies no need to fire, I am on your side. I came to your planet looking for a certain individual and she has something I desperately need. Can you please escort me to her?" He said smiling at them and Sarge was already gushing in her mind. To her this man had it all.
"Now you, the thoughts are screaming, I have someone already but thank you for the compliments" He smiled at her and Sarge still was gushy until Helen elbowed her.
"So young man, how did you exactly pull that off" Helen's eye was raised.
"I am different." Eli shrugged. He noticed that he was not in any uniform and they saw something like they have on his wrist but he has them on both sides and they figured out that is how he could take down the Destroyers with ease. They also noticed that he has some type of devices on his jack, like utilities and Helen think they are devices that he took down the Bailey with.
"Those rod things on your vest, are they weapons?" Helen asked to see if she is correct.
"Yes it is, to take out tank like vehicles or the big flying things I see that came after me when I arrived on the planet." Eli said.
"Wait, you are not from Motava?"? Sarge asked before Helen could ask.
"No, I am a very long way from home." Eli answered.
"But our benefactor said it has been hundreds of years before anyone from space came here." Helen said and looked at Eli with awe.
"She is correct, but we must be going, I am detecting some of those humanoid robots and two big gigantic weapon platforms zeroing in on our position. I don't want to fight and nor do you two now, but I don't like our odds, so I know you have some way to the sublevel." Eli was serious, his motion detector that was on the wrist seen two big blobs and a lot of little ones heading their way.
"We will show you but only on one condition." Helen said responding and to Eli she was serious.
"Those rod things you have on your vest, you have to give them up, because we know how deceptive Destroyers are and I would not like one in our midst. The reason is that you can teleport and if you can do that, what can you do to our city?" She queried him and she saw him smile and something happened. "
"You are good, a thinker, look at all options type like a military person, I will grant you your wish, even take off my wrist weapons but I am keeping the scanner because I am looking for something." He said in her mind and Sarge did not know but she felt his thoughts well.
"Done, I don't think you are a Destroyer because there is no way they could do that. Who and what are you?" Helen said as they started for the hatch with his stuff in her hands.
"The one who protects you, will know when we get there." Eli said and they started down the steps.
/Montava – underground city
The six destroyers deployed their weapons and shot at Eli and the two Motavan warriors, hitting shields while Eli replenish the weapons and shield energies with his own body energy. They were draining him and he could feel it. It was something new and how powerful an Alteran can become and he thank his mom to not delve in the power his mind could succumb to.
"Four more, Eli you can't keep this up. We are in the inner sanctum which no one has come before and I think the defense will not only attack them but us as well." Helen said while blasting another destroyer, staggering the male being how the hand blaster returned lethal fire and the shields blared in response.
"Voice, you know who I am and why I am here. Can we make it through safely?" Eli asked.
"Yes, your pattern is flesh and the defense will not harm you" She responded quickly.
"Thank you!" He said.
"I can't wait for our talk Ancient one" She replied.
"No the weapons will not harm us, she turned them off as I have talk to the Voice." He pointed at his head.
"She said to run through and let the defense take care of the others." He added.
"Are you sure? We have around sixteen autocannons pointed at us I have seen visually" Sarge said looking at her wrist device.
Eli thought they did not know about the cruelest weapon that a Furling can produce in the corridor that would slice individuals, any, apart without effort. He decided not to say it.
They ran through the corridor that enter the inner sanctum of an automaton, just like Gabriel with many monitors looking at the underground and above ground with cameras on many Baileys that watched all towns and two guarding the gate.
Four destroyers enter the corridor and many plasma bolts peppered them with blasts but their shields held but the thing the shield could not stop was four titanium based blades entering from the slits in the walls. Eli turned his head knowing how bloody was going to be and Sarge and Helen looked and was like, that could have been us as there is no escape. There is no way anyone could make it here unless they take the ceiling down and even that would not guarantee their safety.
"So you have finally made it asking for the orb for it has been prophesize, can you now free these people in this underground jail and countless other planets in the galaxy?" The Voice said acidly.
"No charades their Voice, I know you are a Furling automaton and very mad but how could I know? Thanks to these two with me, we were able to make it this far." He responded just as vehemently.
"You are young Eli; I would tread carefully. The False Titans want all humanoids terminated and we being down here is our best advantage of staying alive. We never got a chance to build a fleet to take them on. The read backs I received from the "Bezerkers" as you call them tell us we're no match for them. You stayed on one or your ships your people created for a few years and you know they can take on a Koryx destroyer and by reading reports you'd succeeded and actually gave a couple of Etemec their latent powers which these people don't have." The Voice said as her body as Eli noticed was an android but he knew otherwise.
"Yes I made it this far because of them and you know what I am capable of. If I revealed my powers to kill, then I will be killed as well. You know the rules Furling." He voiced vehemently.
"Be as it may, young one, one which we have not seen for a long time, but you were innocent before your chance and embraced it, this is something I cannot say is wrong, we welcome it. This orb will open the gate but you are weeks away on that ship and when I give you this, every Koryx vessel will pinpoint your location and there will be many to pursue you. "The Voice paused.
"When you have three, it amplifies probably galaxy wide coordinates of your position and you will have every Koryx vessel that will converge on your location and even with your upgrades, they will be coming for you. Are you prepared for that?" She questioned.
"I talked to our friend at Earth, you do know about that and Mars and if you don't I would be disappointed." He countered.
"Ah Gabriel, shit. He is in charge for our alternative base and still alive, I did not know, he is Alteran, I am Furling and we weren't privy of a fleet as they left your galaxy so they can live while leaving us in what three galaxies to hide, defend ourselves and survive. At least the Alteran ascended, only a few of us did, including me but I am the jailor and I have to protect our people while your people abandoned us". The Voice was irate and Helen and Sarge started to back up now understanding there is going to be a fight of wills between the two.
"You did your best Corilla Descard, or the Voice, one of the most powerful ascended Furlings and you supposed to govern this galaxy and you failed." His voice softens after that.
"It is not your fault". Eli said quietly and he saw by the automaton and saying her name, he hit soft spot.
"Kind words Mr. Wallace and I can tell from your heart you meant it for a more violent species than you means a lot." Her voice softens and Sarge and Helen felt a bit better.
"I am the best of both, Corilla. I am Alteran and from I don't know where my mother is from. Gabriel will not tell me. Do you know?" Eli was curios.
"I do, but your mother have to tell you that. I can't do that and you know. Your father, which kind of make me curious how he can hide for thousands and thousands of years and produce an offspring with so much power. Your mother is powerful in her own right but looking at your mind, she never used it. She rather be a pauper than use her power to be prosperous. Us Furlings are not like that but as the Jailor of this world, I have no choice. I have to protect the last of my flock." The Voice said as she walked toward Eli. She was beautiful and Eli could tell she is who she was. Her embodiment of her natural flesh probably rotted away many eons ago, but she kept her mind and body the way she wanted. Hers was calm and somewhat soothing to him which he understands why she had devotion.
"You have a substantial amount of ships but can they be manned by your primitive culture?" She said smiling knowing Earth when she went underground were basically cave dwellers at best when they fled that galaxy.
"Yes and then some. They know where the Super Gate is located and they stock ships at Mars like you said are already manned and ready to defend us. The issue is, can we make it in time?" He smiled at the Furling icon.
"Wait, you mean you are from a ship in a sky and a kindred of the Voice, who had guided us for thousands of year"? Sarge said.
"Yes, but in this instance, the Voice is not alive, it is a living impression of our second race or third, her people the Furlings are more violent than others, the opposite, called the Nox resides in our galaxy. Most of the people I know are human, which are the best of both or in this case of all three. We are the ones who came here in a ship and will come here and take care of this issue. I already talk to Earth about the predicament of your people. You have some magnificent villages on the surface that the Baileys have taken care of so nature did not take over. It seems to me that it is a ploy by the Koryx to entice you to come above ground" Eli Explained.
He continued. "She can only calculate what she can do in the current state and that is all I can say"
They did not need to know the truth that Voice is alive but in an android body and well protected.
"If you are a person of non-violence, maybe we can come with you and help you in your adventure" Helen, the dark-skinned woman offered.
"As long as the Colonel signs off sure." He replied looking at two lethal warriors who have did the dirty work he could not do.
"So how do we get to this place as we have the orb now?" Helen or Hel asked.
"Leave that to me. The Baileys will not see us and I guarantee when we figure this puzzle out, the people in the underground will be seeing sunshine soon without worry, my people on Earth will make sure of it." He said in a way that both Hel and Sarge believed in him.
"Take my hands, we are going to my ship." He reached out his hands.
"Wait, Mr. Wallace, the girls will need these to replenish their weapons and shields." The voice reached into a container and took out two more wrist blasters and shield generators and half dozen power packs.
Eli offered his back-pack that they returned to him and he put all the devices in it.
The Voice turned to the three.
"I hate for my two best warriors to leave but what you are doing is the most important thing for this segment of the Furlings history. Even though these warriors are Idio, or Motavan, I guess the Etemec called us Idio, which was a twin planet that was destroyed a long time ago and the Koryx stole the last orb, but they did not know I had the other. If you can tell Gabriel that I am still here, he will welcome the communication and maybe we can set something up so we can talk. This will help us coordinate when you come back with a fleet and take care of this menace and free our people and the ridiculous edict."
She stepped away and nodded.
Seconds later Eli, Helen and Sarge vanished. Voice smiled. An Alteran, there was hope again in her eyes.
/ Destiny
The three materialized and soon many weapons pointed at them. The warriors brought up their wrist weapons instantly and looked at Eli and then at the three soldiers.
"Eli, who are your guest?" Lt. Scott said eyeing the lithe blond woman while MSgt. Greer looked at the tall dark skinned warrior with a wolfish grin.
"They are with me, Furling offshoots from Idio system, we have the last orb." He said and show them the orb and had them lower the weapons including the two women.
"We can go home now?" Lt. Scott said.
"Yes, but before we head for the super gate, this ship have to be refueled, weapons and shields at 120% efficiency because we are going to have half the galaxy of Koryx ships, the ones you fought on our tail" Eli was serious and they can see it in his eyes.
"And these two?" MSgt. Greer asked.
"They are my bodyguards" Eli lied because the looks they gave him was like what in hell did he need bodyguards for.
"They can shoot first and ask questions later, I can't do that" He shrugged.
"Ah, I get it, your muscle while you talk people down?" Lt. Scott ribbed.
The two Motavans just looked at all participants in the conversation and not understanding the things they were saying. Their use of slang was foreign to them.
Then everyone except them two starting laughing. It confused them even more as the bravado seemed to be serious to them.
/ Destiny – two weeks later, two weeks from super gate
"How many so far?" Col. Young asked Lt. Scott
"That is six Destroyers destroyed sir, but long range scanners still shows 31 converging on us. Estimate we will be at the gate the same time but we are running out of energy even with maximum speed and these fights draining us even more and even Eli can't lend us more energy, he is being drained so he is trying to find some way to get the scoopers to do it while in flight and not near a star but something like cosmic radiation" He explained.
"That is our Eli, I guess Dr. Rush is with him." Col. Young asked.
"Yes and Eli said that the doctor is helping him immensely along with Gabriel at Mars. They are testing it on the Furies/Neptune class, which is Destiny, and then Eli relays it to Dr. Rush and they are building schematics. If it works it could by us a little time and get our energy back to passable. " Lt. Scott informed.
"Well, it still creeps me out when Eli does that ball thing and then head to Mars, but he reminds me it is safe and that is how his dad travelled all the time. He said it started to become natural and as long as he does not break any rules, they will not bother him. It is like he believes they want him to succeed." Col. Young said as he saw the new 3-D display that Eli got from Earth and all the Koryx Destroyers and they were making a beeline toward Destiny.
/Destiny – same time on bridge
Sarge has taken a liking to the younger but muscular Lieutenant called Matthew Scott. He did his job well and was second in charge. She studied everything she could about this ship and him because he told her, because she is military, she and her cohort Helen needs to learn just in case something happens.
She could not believe she would be on the ship of the Ancients. There were stories told about this ship gracing the stars inhabited by gods.
Well, they weren't gods, there were human like her except Eli and Ginn, which she found it is almost like him and reason why he said what he said back on Motava, they were bonded, she could feel it when they are near each other, like magnets. Only a few military, everyone else all civilian, but those civilians she can tell by the look in their eyes and their demeanor, they fought and fought a lot and when she was told of their journey it impressed her even more. She looked over at Helen, who was with MSgt. Greer, talking combat.
Helen had a different opinion than her best friend, there wasn't physical interest in someone of her skin color and he was likewise. All he was interested was her weapons and her hand to hand combat. They did a lot of sparring and she had to admit the gruff looking Master Sargent was a good fighter. Not as good as either her or Sarge, but he would do okay back on Montava and if he had more training can be an elite and for males that is top one percent.
She liked being on the ship, better than being underground and they had good food, terrible alcohol but she was not as outward as Sarge and stuck to training on each console on this ship and to be ready if she is needed.
It took Eli a week to convince his boss to trust them and it became easier to integrate with the crew and they became more open and outright friendly. She think they did not have many visitors and usually when they come they weren't friendly so she could understand them being wary, but Eli talking for you makes a big difference as well. Some still look at him in awe and she can feel his energy of being disappointed in how they think of him and she wondered why.
She left the bridge and went to the laboratory where she saw Dr. Rush and Eli talking about the orb.
"Am I interrupting anything" She quietly asked and saw the two men look at her then at each other.
"Not really, we just find out something interesting that doesn't make sense and your Voice and our Gabriel did not want to tell us, but we figured it out"
"All this technology stuff is above me, all I care about is the wrist blasters and the shields" Helen said and saw the men started to crack a laugh.
"All you Motavans like this?" Dr. Rush asked, prompt a look from Eli.
"We are taught at the age of eight to fight and we only have 32 years of fight before we are banished to the above ground and if you can fight, you last longer but in the end, the numbers will get you." She deadpanned.
"Wow, that has to suck" Dr. Rush replied.
"Well, when we take care of this task, your friends of Earth will make sure we get rid of that edict" She happily said.
"True, but what we found out might be outside of the mode of killing or being an Amazon" Dr. Rush retorted.
"Amazon?" Helen gave him an expression of what is that?
"He means a fierce female warrior that is in Earth's fairy tales" Eli interjected and got a thanks nod from Dr. Rush.
"Feared?" She said.
"Most definitely." Dr. Rush smiled and saw the tall dark skinned woman smiled as well and was pleased.
"You see Eli, this orb is like one of the symbols on the stargate, it gives it another destination. I don't understand why they would not tell you? Dr. Rush explained to Eli and Eli started to understand but he doesn't think Dr. Rush would. Gabriel and Voice told them, they can give him tools but he had to figure it out or they would be in trouble and now he is understanding how the above level thinks.
"You remember when I transformed, there were images that did not make sense, like trans-dimensional in nature but I think it was trans-universal. These orbs were from the Alterans to use on supergates to other universes" He said and saw the look on Dr. Rush and then he looked at Helen and he could tell that she did not have a clue what he was talking about.
"You see, doctor, this planet, Chillicott was the last of un-ascended Alteran and Furling and beings far stronger than I was looking for them. So they separated the stones so they could not use the supergate and follow the ones that got away. Their technology was more advance than Earth, just below Tollan, but each of these planets fell. I saw some of their technology, some of their ships, they were no match, but on the ground they were formidable." He had Dr. Rush mesmerized and Helen started understand.
"The Voice, from her planet, was the last line of defense, so over the several thousand so years, moved the population below ground. Look at the wrist blasters and personal shields Helen have. That is Alteran technology along with Furling technology. She kept it to herself because if they allow the Koryx minions to find them based on technology and with no ships, they would have no chance." He continued.
"So somehow when I went to the deep sleep, this ship also changed its universal tag. It was like I was directed here for a reason and the reason, it lays in our hands. The orbs change the universal tag. The Furlings hid for a reason. If I am correct Voice said that they were scattered and numbered in the millions after billions died here and another two universes in this same tag. Well if her calculations are correct there only a few million in this galaxy, so where are the others? The clue is here."
Dr. Rush looked at Eli, Helen understood some of it.
"So you mean, the bulk of the Furlings went somewhere else as they are not in our galaxy, we would know." Dr. Rush queried.
"Maybe not our galaxy, but the same galaxy, different universe tag" Eli smile and Dr. Rush started to smile, it made sense.
"We have the DHD dial device configured for our galaxy and these orbs will get our right ID tag. But time is running out. The scoops are in place and could give us an additional forty percent in power, we can make it about a few hours ahead of the nearest swarm of destroyers." Eli stated while he put the orb away and waved Helen to follow him. Dr. Rushed carefully put the orbs in the casing and started to do the checks for the DHD.
"Let's go make preparations for the run to the gate. I have everything. We just need to go as fast as we can as long as we can and I will head to Mars and get some backup." Eli explained.
"Helen, would you mind coming to me to the bridge to talk to the Colonel?" Dr. Rush asked knowing that if Helen saw Eli turn into a ball of energy, she would definitely not understand. He normally does it in private.
As soon as they left the laboratory, he turned into a ball of energy and a few minutes later he coalesced in front of Gabriel.
/Olympus Mons – Mars – Sol sytem
"We figured it all out Gabriel so now you can reveal your secrets and how you and Corilla going?" He knew he would make Gabriel wince but he know there was something going on now between them.
"None of your business, Eli." He responded looking guilty as ever.
"You are right, two ascended beings in robotic bodies for show, having feelings" Eli chided, it was only him and Gabriel but he swore he saw Gabriel blush.
"Stow it, Eli, what do you have?" Gabriel wanted to stop being embarrassed by this young Alteran but Eli was right he had to admit it.
"We are getting closer and I got the scoopers to work and figured out that we are in a different universe and me being Alteran, the little sleep I had, someone above us changed the ID tag of our universe and why we need orbs in addition to gate addresses to go to different universes and one I did see mirrored ours and where the Furlings, the main ones are located." Eli proudly announced and Gabriel just smiled.
"I did not help you, so my sentence might go down a few hundred thousand years because of how you and Dr. Rush figured it out." He was beaming now, he did not help Eli or Dr. Rush. They figured it out on their own.
"What did you do?" Eli was curious now.
"Well, ummm, another time, but you know most of it right now." Gabriel shrugged.
"I must contact Gen. O'Neill, as we going to need help, right now, 37 Koryx destroyers will be coming through with us and I am tired. Even I can't save myself, I can't live if the crew is killed and Destiny taking, so bring a fleet. You have got all the data on how we can destroy them and that is not the problem, but draining our energy is and we can't replenish. This band aid we figured out is not going to be enough. I do not know where it leads but be there as I know you do. This is not against the rules because I know where it leads and I don't know this system, it is far from any worlds that I know of in the star gate system." Eli explained.
"Eli, since you know the destination, I am permitted to tell you. It is the Cyrannus cluster, no one knew they have more than 50 billion humans and over 2 million hybrid humans with cybernetic parts. But the gate is in neutral territory and we have talked to both species and fought one of them and they will leave us alone after what we've done to them. Now the ones with a lot of people are ruled by a council and the General is fed up with them but they will not touch us either. They have a lot of ships but are technology inferior in space to space combat and it would take a century before they could get to Earth. We will not have a problem and I give you a line to the General. Say hi for me." Gabriel answered.
"Eli, what is shaking?' Gen. Jack O'Neill answered the phone jovially as always.
"We are about two weeks from the gate at full burn. Dr. Rush and I figured out to modified the scoopers which Gabriel gave us help on." He was interrupted.
"Eli, no technobabble on scoops unless ice cream. You said two weeks. How many ships are on your tail? Gabriel gives me the details from time to time but I think he does it so I don't have a heart attack." Jack quipped.
"In the end around 37. We can destroy them but we are spent in fuel and can't stop and refuel. Destiny class or what Gabriel said Furies class and an Ares would be enough, but the Splatters are going to be a problem, there is going to be thousands upwards maybe a million of those things. We take the ship out with them on it, that is what we do as a tactic. Even with our gun displacements, they still are a problem and drain our power." Eli explained.
"Okay, we will have two Furies and an Ares, an Athena would be in the system. The Colossus class will be ready and this will be a great shakedown and some test for our pilots." O'Neill responded with a fist pump, now a real shakedown for new crews on what Eli told him that they would not be a risk of excessive life.
"Colossus?" Eli questioned. Gabriel never said anything about that. He knew of the other ships and how impressive they are but this was new.
"Biggest ship in our fleet, think of aircraft carriers but in space but does not need destroyers for escort." O'Neill replied and smiling.
"It carries fighters and fight like a destroyer." Eli queried.
"Yes and then some, the nastiest platform we ever conceived and it would be perfect to come to your aid. The only problem it is slow. It does not have the engines to get there quickly like our others due to size and amount of tonnage it has. Going to another galaxy, it can't do, it would take months." O'Neill answered.
"I see, but I will see it, can't wait for it. We will need help, these minions of the False Titans will not stop until this ship is dead. It has killed two others. I've seen the wreckage." Eli smiled and gave Gen. O'Neill on what has transpired.
"Do what you can son, Gabriel said that what you discovered he can open up other avenues and will explain to me. This ascended bullshit rule you two tell me all the time." Jack said a bit annoyed.
"Well, we don't want to be in their cross-hairs. I got to go and tell the crew to prepare to fight and get the DHD ready." Eli responded and then coalesced into a ball and went back to Destiny.
That unnerved Jack, but he remembered Dr. Jackson and others that did this in front of him, but still it unnerved him.