Harry Potter – Alteran
*This is Alteran speech*
-"Mental communication"-
-oo00oo- scene break or time jump.
Disclaimer – I do not own Harry Potter or Stargate SG1 nor do I receive money for my writing. Some dialog from Stargate SG1 is used in the story. It will not be marked.
Chapter 10 - The Plan, The Recruits and SG1 oh my!
Aliya was introduced to Dumbledore a few days later when he came to meet the newest member of Harry's family. That was how Albus saw them all after all. He spent some time talking with Aliya about magic, since she had received a full download of the repository, she got all the magic stuff too even though she couldn't use it.
The three magicals had even allowed her to try to use their wands but nothing happened. Albus surmised that Aliya could have used magic but only with the fully charged Elder Wand, which was part of a singularity now.
The recruitment plan was in its final stages and Aliya had jumped in to help as well. She was in one of the small manufacturing labs creating the special PADDs they intended to use. While the nanites were good for building just about anything, they required a source of raw materials nearby to do so.
They had plenty of those materials but Aliya was an expert with the energy to matter manufacturing consoles. Harry had been so focused on using the nanites for the large projects he had forgotten about the devices that took raw energy and transformed it into matter.
As a group they decided to avoid any conflicts of race and religion with the first round selection and Aliya had just finished the 70 PADDs they were going to need.
Harry had also started work on a new ship, it was going to be a purely scientific variant of the current cruisers. It would be able to defend itself like the AHS Asclepius, Hermione's ship, but this one would go to Luna and Aliya. They would be able to travel to worlds on and off the Astria Porta network to do research.
He had also started construction of a defence satellite to be placed in the Navo Videeum system. It would be able to defend the system from any intruders. It's sensors would even be able to detect cloaked and phased ships. Harry wasn't going to place one in the Terra system just yet though since the Ares or Zeus could be there in minutes.
Luna continued her work in her zoo and in the reserve on Navo Videeum 3. Harry wasn't sure how she was getting all the animals there and didn't ask. Luna had suggested to Harry that he offer part of the planet to the goblins but he wasn't too keen on doing that at this point. He told Luna he would keep it in mind for the future if the changes in the wizarding world reverted back to the old ways, which he didn't think it would.
Besides recruiting the children to Olympus, Harry and Luna's number one priority was to not damage the wizarding world on Earth. Even it there had been thousands of candidates, they would have only offered it to a few. The Wizarding world needed the new blood to survive. Someday, he hoped they could move the entire wizarding world into the Alteran Society and off Earth all together, that though was going to take a very long time.
By the middle of May they were ready to start. All the PADDs were ready and programmed. It was going to be a simple start, the PADDs would be delivered by mail to the children. With it would be a letter to the parents explaining that their child had come to the attention of a very private and selective school for gifted students.
The letter explained that the device was a small computer that would test the child, if they passed the tests, a representative of the school would come and offer them a spot. The school was completely free to those selected. All expenses would be paid for the child and family to relocate while the child was attending the school.
The screen of the PADD had a simple instruction on it, "Place your hand here." with an outline of a hand and had the name of the child displayed.
Once the child placed their hand over the outline, the PADD would get a direct DNA scan of the child and unlock itself. The child would be the only one that could use the PADD. If a parent tried to use it or answer questions for the child it would shut down for one hour. This was explained in the letter as well.
Depending on the age of the child it would start asking questions, reading, writing, math, social, as well as start teaching them the Alteran language. The whole experience was presented as a game to the children.
It would even have questions for the child to ask their parent or parents, political and social views, feeling about science and space exploration. One question asked the child and their parents if they believed in aliens.
Once the child learned how to read the basic Alteran language and achieved a certain level in the testing for their age, a signal was sent to the Outpost. Then either Emma and Hermione or Aliya and Hermione would go see the child and their parents, everything would then be explained in broad terms. If the parents declined or freaked out, Hermione could obliviate them of the whole process. Harry would go alone to some and Luna would fill in for Hermione if needed as well.
The first round of PADDs were shipped out in the mail mid May and the first scanner to be activated was a young girl in london. The PADD registered its activation with the outpost and started asking questions and teaching the girl. Many more activations followed, in fact they had a 100% acceptance of the computers so far.
It was mid June when the young girl's PADD registered that she had completed the basics needed and that contact should be made. Harry decided he wanted to be the first to go make the offer. Before going though, Harry looked up the girl's results and the family's history in the public records since he wanted to know everything he could before meeting them.
The girls was a seven year old, only child named Rena, her parents, Jonathan and Grace, were good parents as far as Harry could tell, no reports of abuse, good work ethics, and they lived modestly in London, well within their means with both parents working to support the family. Both parents also had Alteran DNA at around the same levels as the Grangers. The one big difference was that Rena wasn't magical even though she was 55.6% Alteran.
It was expected that not all of the children would be magical. While everything on earth shared a large portion of its DNA with everything else, the small part that made a human, human, was the part that was being measured for Alteran DNA. The part that made a person magical or not was also included in this area. If they didn't have magic, it was more than likely they would develop Alteran abilities instead.
Harry, via the PADD, made an appointment to visit the family late in the afternoon on a Saturday. He was wearing a normal higher end business suit as he walked up the hall of the apartment building to the door of the Colberts. When he knocked, the door was opened by Rena.
"Hello, you must Rena?" Harry asked the young girl. Her father was a few paces behind her watching and trying to get a read on Harry.
"Are you Harry?" Rena asked.
"I am. It is very nice to meet you Rena." Harry then looked up from the girl toward her father. "You must be Jonathan?" Jonathan stepped forward putting a hand on his daughter's shoulder.
"I am, Rena insisted on greeting you. She has been very excited ever since getting the padd, that's what you called it."
"That's correct." Harry held out his hand. "I'm Harry Evans, the Dean of the school."
Jonathan took Harry's hand and shook it. "The Dean?"
"Sorry, I should have let you know I was coming. I like to do one or two recruitments myself each semester. It keeps me in touch with the process and the students. May I come in?"
"Oh yes, yes. Grace our guest is here." Jonathan called out. "Tea Mr. Evans?" he asked.
"Oh that would be wonderful. I miss English tea. We have very good tea at the school but you just can't compare it with British tea." Harry followed Jonathan and Rena into a small but clean and well furnished living room.
"My wife, Grace." Jonathan introduced the woman standing in the room. "Grace, this is Mr. Evans, Dean of the school." Harry held out his hand to her and she took it for just a moment.
"Speaking of the school, there was no name in the letter that came with the padd or on the padd that we could find?" Grace asked as she gestured to a chair in the room. Harry moved over to it and sat down. Jonathan started making the tea from a tea set on a side table. Rena looked like she was ready to burst with questions but was being very well behaved. Her mother had pulled her into a seat next to hers.
"You're correct, the name was not given. We are a very private and selective school. We only recruit the best and the brightest from around the world. We don't advertise or publish anything in the school's name, so if you were to hear the name it wouldn't mean anything other than being related to Greek Mythology."
"So the school is in Greece?" Jonathan asked as he handed Harry the tea.
"Actually no, it is much further away. The name of the school is Olympus, the home of the gods of Greece but it doesn't actually have anything to do with the country or the ancient greek religion. I can anticipate your next question, why all the secrecy?" Harry asked and both parents nodded.
"What I am going to tell you, may be hard to accept but I assure you that it is the truth and I can provide proof. Humans as you know them are not the first race to inhabit the Earth. Many millions of years ago, a race called the Alterans called this world home. They did not originate here though, they came from another world, very far away.
About five million years ago they were forced to leave Earth due to a plague that was spreading throughout the Milky Way. From billions of Alterans only a few million survived. When they left, they sterilized the galaxy and then reseeded it with new life. Humans are the second incarnation of that race but they are millions of years away in evolution from becoming like the Alterans. " Harry was surprised they hadn't interrupted him in outrage yet so he continued.
"About ten to twelve thousand years ago, a very small group of Alterans, less than a thousand, returned to earth. Of that group most left again but some stayed. The group that stayed intermingled with the new humans of earth. I think you can see where I am going with this.
Those Alterans have descendants among Earth's population. I am one of those descendants as are the three of you. Jonathan and Grace you are both about 25% Alteran at the DNA level. Rena is 55% Alteran which is why she was selected." Harry stopped and waited again to see their reactions so far. Jonathan had a contemplative look on his face, Grace had a small frown, and Rena was smiling.
"So the reason you have never heard of Olympus except in mythology, is because the school and the city of Olympus, is not on Earth but I can see the scepticism on your faces."
Jonathan was the first to reply. "You have to admit it is a very unbelievable story. You are even calling us aliens. The only thing holding me back from not kicking you out on your butt is the computer you sent us. I looked, there is nothing like it on the market, not even remotely close to it. As far as I could find the technology in the padd doesn't exist yet.
There is research and development heading in that direction though but it is years away. That and the things the padd asked plus that strange language it taught Rena was enough for Grace and I to talk and come up with some very strange conclusions, us being part alien wasn't one of those things though." Jonathan looked at his wife.
"You said you could prove all of this?" Grace asked but Harry could tell by her expression that she wasn't buying it so far and was actually getting a bit upset. "The idea that I am not human and that my daughter more so, is not sitting well with me."
"I understand how you feel. When I first found out that I was not who I thought I was, it took me time to come to grips with it." Harry was referring to finding out he was a wizard more so than finding out he was Alteran.
"I am the most alien in the room actually. I am 76% Alteran and until recently, I was the most Alteran on the planet. To answer your question though, yes I can provide proof." Harry replied.
Grace was looking at him questioningly. "What do you mean until recently?"
"It is a long story but there is now a full blooded Alteran on Olympus and working with us. Aliya is… 284 years old… " Harry smiled. "Well five million two hundred and eighty four years old. She was found in suspended animation, she had been frozen five million years ago."
"Wait, 284 years old?" Jonathan had picked up on her true age. "She must look ancient."
"Actually Aliya doesn't look much older than I do. Alterans live very long lives, it is not unheard of for them, with proper care, to live to be several thousand years old."
"What!" both parents exclaimed. "How old are you?" Grace asked.
"Actually I'm only 16, I'll be 17 in a few months." Harry chuckled a bit. "Don't let my age fool you, I have 50 million years of knowledge in my head. It's a long story and you will get to hear it all but for now you wanted proof right?"
Both of the parents nodded and Rena squealed out a yes. There was a bright flash of light and the four people in the room disappeared.
-oo00oo-
After seeing Earth from orbit the Colberts had signed up immediately, seeing Olympus had them wanting to get started right away. They didn't have any other family on Earth, Jonathan and Grace had been orphans like Harry. They both quit their jobs the next day and with the help of a few transporter beams, all their stuff was brought to Olympus on the Zeus.
In retrospect, the Colberts had been easy, there were now six other families on Olympus but the girls had had a much harder time convincing the families of the truth. One family after having had it explained to them had thrown the girls out of their house calling them crackpots and other names.
Harry had been in orbit for that one and had beamed the family to his ship. It was a last ditch effort to recruit the family before obliviating their memory of the whole thing. It had worked, so that became part of the recruitment protocol as a last resort. It was technically kidnapping but if it failed, a quick memory wipe and the family was scratched off the list.
Hermione had a bit of a moral conflict over it but had to admit it worked.
The families were getting settled into a residential tower in the city and since 95% of the first selecties parents were part Alteran, at least 25% so, Emma had each of them get a basic download of the repository with a little space left over for a career choice. The kids would all start school once all the first round selections had been either recruited or not.
All in all it was going well, the girls were sometime doing two families a day and so far had a 90% success rate with 50 contacts made and 45 recruited so far.
-oo00oo-
June 25th
Harry, Hermione, Luna, Dan and Emma were all in the city control room talking about that day's recruits when the alarms in the room started going off.
"Olympus, report." Harry called out as he closed his eyes and connected his mind to the city computer.
The Olympus hologram appeared. "Terra Outpost reporting incoming activation of the American Astria Porta… Priority One alert, Goa'uld incursion detected… weapons fire detected…" Olympus started reporting.
"Dan, get the Ares there." Harry ordered and Dan disappeared in a flash of light. Harry then opened his eyes and also disappeared.
Harry waved his hand at the Olympus gate as he ran toward it, his nanosuit deploying as he ran. He stepped through the gate and into the Terra Outpost. "Report."
"The Goa'uld and Jaffa have returned through the Astria Porta. They took one female soldier with them from the base. Five other soldiers are dead, the base is mobilizing and converging on their gate room." Rose reported.
"Inform Dan when he arrives to remain in high orbit and to monitor the system." Harry ordered. Harry's nanosuit then enclosed his head and he faded from view, there was then a flash of light.
Harry had figured out the energy modulation and signatures used in the Hollow's Invisibility Cloak and incorporated it into his nanosuit allowing him to cloak himself completely.
-oo00oo-
SG Command
The base was in chaos, soldiers running in every direction, and the mountain had been sealed up. General Hammond was in his office after just returning from the gate room. Several Airmen and officers were coming and going from the office, giving him reports and receiving orders.
Unknown to him, in the corner of his office stood Harry Potter. Harry was watching and listening to everything going on. While Rose could monitor the base and see everything that went on there, she had trouble with audio because of the mountain and depth of the base. So she had to wait until reports were entered into base computers to get the full picture on events.
Harry listened to the orders the general was giving out taking extreme interest in the orders to go retrieve Colonel O'Neill from retirement.
Harry figured it was going to be a long few days for him because of this. His biggest concern was that a Goa'uld was now aware that Earth was getting close to challenging them by the fact that there were two dead Jaffa in the gate room.
He also wanted to retrieve the airmen that had been kidnapped by the Goa'uld before she could be used as a host, that would be a very bad thing to let happen. He knowledge of Earth as a whole would have the Goa'uld coming in force. The chance to gain 7 billion new slaves from the population of Earth was too tempting to pass up.
Rose and Olympus had already found her by tracking where the gate had dialed out to. She was being held on a planet called Chulak, one of Apophis's strongholds and a major Jaffa planet. They didn't have an exact location though, so Harry figured he would soon be going on his first covert mission in enemy territory.
As Harry was watching and listening, his mind went to one of the items on his todo list that he had forgotten about, with the outpost scanners occupied by looking for recruits, he hadn't had a chance to really scan the planet for other alien tech.
The Goa'uld had been on the planet for many thousands of years after all, there was bound to be some. Then again maybe he would leave it for the americans to find, they would need it for research after the events today. Maybe he could find it all then leave little hints for them.
It was only a few hours later when Colonel O'Neill was escorted into the office by an officer named Major Samuels.
"General, Colonel O'Neill." The major introduced him.
"General." O'Neill stated as he glimpsed his Abados team being led by the office door.
"Colonel O'Neill, at… " the general started explaining the situation so Harry tuned him out. He was only interested in new information. He had already planted a nano bug in the office so he and Rose could get better audio in the office.
Harry could tell that the general didn't believe O'Neill's report on Abydos was completely accurate and that he was hiding something. Harry didn't believe the report either. When the General and O'Neill left the office and proceeded to the room where the Stargate was housed, Harry followed behind them.
He wasn't to shocked to find the bomb the military was going to send through the gate. With a mental command, he instructed Rose to stand by to beam the core material and explosives of the device away. If they did send it, it wouldn't go boom. He would wait till the last second to do it though.
That was when Colonel O'Neill finally came clean on what had happened on the planet and about Dr. Jackson still being there. After that Harry followed the General back toward his office while Colonel O'Neill was escorted away to be confined until the General made a determination about what to do.
Harry placed nano bugs in the gate room and the control room as he followed the General. Once General Hammond was back in his office, Harry placed a bug in the conference room and then went to explore the base so he would have a first hand knowledge of it and to place more bugs.
He found their main computer core and placed a bug there even though Rose had full access to it already. He visited the makeshift infirmary that was being set up, the armory, locker rooms, brig, and any other rooms that he thought they would use frequently or congregate in.
Once he was done bugging the base Harry found a quiet corner and beamed up to the Ares that was waiting for him in orbit. Dan was in sitting in the Control Chair when he arrived.
This was Dan's ship so he just stood off to the side and contemplated everything he had discovered. He wasn't nervous, just worried that this event could start something he would have eventually have to clean up.
In the meantime, Rose was watching the bomb and would do as instructed if they started to send it through the gate.
"So what are we going to do Harry?" Dan asked as he sat up in the chair.
Harry looked over at Dan with a worried expression. "For now wait and watch, see what the Americans do. They have the Stargate but they still think it only goes to Abydos. If they figure out that it goes to thousands of other planets, they will start using it to explore and find technology.
I could beam the gate away from them but that would be interfering… Their use of the Stargate could help us in the long and short term with the Goa'uld." Harry paused to take a deep breath.
Dan took that opportunity to add his thoughts to the conversation. "I'm sure they will get themselves in trouble out there, we could then see how they handle it. Plus it will help them advance Earth's technology, maybe enough that you could make official contact with them in the future."
Harry took a moment more think about what Dan was saying. "If we let them use it, I think I'll end up having to make contact with them sooner rather than later just because I'll have to pull their butts out of some fire so they don't destroy the planet." Harry finally replied. He valued Dan's input otherwise he would just end up doing things the same way he did at Hogwarts, jumping in feet first.
"I know Harry. So what are you going to do?" Dan asked. He had made his case so was just waiting for Harry to make up his mind.
"Nothing for now. If they just start sending bombs through though, I will take the gate and I will explain it to them when I do."
It wasn't long before there was activity with the Stargate. Apparently General Hammond agreed with Colonel O'Neill that destroying the Abydosians wasn't a good idea and O'Neill had just tossed a box of tissues through the gate.
-oo00oo-
It was a few hours later when the same box came back through the gate from Dr. Jackson with a message written on it, 'Thanks, send more'. Harry listened in as they decided to send a team back through the stargate to Abydos, consisting of all of the original team members available plus a few additions.
The most notable addition was a Captain Samantha Carter a noted Ph.D in theoretical astrophysics. Harry had read about her in the Stargate files on the base computers the year before. Captain Carter was part of the Stargate program even back then but was working in the background to get the Stargate to function.
Harry listened in to the briefing taking place. The team was being sent to Abydos to retrieve Daniel Jackson and to ascertain the threat to Earth. Boy were they in for a big surprise. That the Goa'uld hadn't come from Abydos would definitely prove that other gates existed.
Harry sent a signal back to Olympus, when the American team was about 10 minutes away from leaving for Abydos, he asked Dan to set course for the planet.
-oo00oo-
Abydos, High Orbit
The Ares appeared out of hyperspace over Abydos in high orbit to await the arrival of the team from Earth. Harry beamed down outside the temple pyramid on the planet, cloaked himself and walked inside. It was actually easy to find Dr. Jackson since the man was sitting around a cooking fire in the middle of the room.
Harry quickly moved toward him and brushed his hand on his clothes, planting a nano bug. Just as he did that the gate started to activate causing everyone in the room to scatter, grabbing earth weapons, and hiding. In the chaos, Harry planted a couple more bugs in the room then left and transported back to the Ares.
"Dan, keep an eye on things here please. Don't interfere just watch and record it all." Harry then called out to the room, "Hermione are you here?"
"Yes Harry, the Asclepius is 5000 meters off your port aft quarter. The new cloak you gave the ship is working great if even the Ares sensors couldn't detect me." Harry turned to look in the direction Hermione said she was at but couldn't see anything in the holographics of the scanners.
"I'll have to adjust the Ares and the Zeus's sensors to detect your ship, we don't want any mishaps. Dan is staying here to watch, we are going to Chulak." Harry then disappeared in a white flash. Moments later a hyperspace window opened and closed as the Asclepius left.
-oo00oo-
Chulok, High Orbit, Asclepius (Cloaked)
The Asclepius arrived twenty five light minutes away from Chulok and on the opposite side of the system's sun from the planet. Harry didn't want to risk the Goa'uld detecting the hyperspace window. Hermione then piloted the ship to a high orbit of the planet. At half the speed of light it took about an hour to get there.
During that time Harry closed his eyes and using the ship's scanners, tried to locate the missing airman from earth. Harry did note there was a Goa'uld Ha'tak in orbit of the planet but they wouldn't be able to detect the Asclepius.
The cloaked satellite in the system wasn't a great help in finding the woman. It had recorded all the incoming wormholes and who came through the gate but it didn't track the individuals on the planet. There were a lot of Jaffa and human slaves on the planet so Harry narrowed his search to locations close to the Goa'uld palace.
He found Apophis and his slave pens, plus the selection area being used for the women. He accessed Apophis's computer systems and found out that his wife Amonet was seeking a new host. It explained a lot about why Apophis was raiding planets. He was actually heading out on another raid as Harry watched.
"What do you think Hermione?" Harry asked. Since she was in the chair she was getting all the same information he was.
"We need to protect the woman from Earth, Harry. Anything more though and Apophis could get paranoid that one of his enemy's was interfering or planning an attack. We can't just beam her up like we did Ernest Littlefield, she is directly connected to the military. You could go in and place a Notice-me-not on her so she gets overlooked."
"And people wonder why I love smart women. Good idea Hermione, it doesn't solve everything but it's a start."
"I'm receiving a transmission from Dan." Hermione informed Harry.
"Dan?, what's going on?" Harry spoke outloud to the room.
"Harry, Apophis just came through the Stargate here. Most of the SG team was at a temple nearby with Dr. Jackson, but there was a firefight with the Jaffa. Several Abydosians, three special forces personnel are dead, the rest in the room were injured, one critical. Apophis also took two Abydosians with him when he left, a woman and a teen boy. What do you want me to do?" Dan asked.
"We can't interfere, just keep monitoring. I have part of a covert plan on this end. After the SG team departs Abydos head home, I don't think we will need the Ares firepower."
"Ok Harry. See you soon."
"Hermione I'm going down there. I want you to go back to Olympus…"
"No Harry, I will be staying right here, I can get you out if you get yourself in trouble, which you will." Hermione interrupted him.
"I'll be fine..." Harry tried to reassure her.
"No." Hermione crossed her arms defiantly.
"Fine. I'll be back." He was the leader of the Alterans but for some reason he never got his way. Harry then faded from view followed by a flash of transporter light.
-oo00oo-
Harry appeared in the woods not far from the palace and made his way inside, avoiding the Jaffa patrols. He was taking his time to get to where he thought the airman was being held. His nano suit was giving him a heads up display of the area via the scanners in the suit in addition to a scanner feed from the Asclepius.
He did have one close call though when a Jaffa passed by him in a hall. The Jaffa had stopped and looked around like he sensed someone there, causing Harry to stop. The Jaffa eventually moved on and Harry realized that his foot steps could still be heard. He applied a silencing charm to his feet and continued on.
When he reached the room where the women were being held, he slipped in and started to search for the airman. He found her in the back of the room sitting on the floor in some frilly and see through egyptian harem clothing. As a matter of fact all the women were dressed the same way and he was trying very hard to ignore the sight.
Harry moved over next to the airman and knelt down next to her. "Don't be afraid and don't move, I'm here to help you but you have to do as I say.' Harry whispered to her. The airman flinched and looked around her but couldn't see the owner of the voice, her eyes getting really big. She was about to respond but Harry continued.
"I'm cloaked, invisible, so that I'm not seen by the guards. I'm going to do something that will make them ignore you, it's not the same though, so don't bring attention to yourself." Harry placed a hand on her shoulder to confirm that he was real, at the same the notice-me-not charm on her.
The airman flinched again at the touch but then nodded in understanding. "Ok, they shouldn't take notice of you unless you do something to draw their attention. Just sit here. I'll be back in a little while." before taking his hand away though, he placed a nano tracker on her so he would know where she was at all times.
The ariman nodded again so Harry stood up and made his way out of the room. He wished he could save them all, he could save them all but that would cause a lot of trouble. There was no way of knowing how Apophis would react but it wouldn't be good. Hopefully an opportunity would present itself.
Harry made his way to the slave pens but was unable to gain access to them. The guards would definitely notice the doors opening and closing. He could have done any number of things magically to the guards or even disapparated but it was to risky that it would be discovered. Magic was energy, and the Goa'uld had technology that could detect energy, even his transporters.
Casting the silencing and notice-me-not charms had already been a small risk. Just beaming to the planet had been a risk as they could have detected the energy use. So far though his luck appeared to be holding out.
Since he couldn't get into the slave pens yet he went back to the harem chamber to wait by the airman. He let her know he was back and then stood guard over her just in case.
-oo00oo-
Over the course of the next couple hours several new women were added to the room by Apophis's priestesses but Harry tried not to take notice of them, He wasn't going to be able to save them all and he knew one would be selected by Apophis for his queen.
Harry didn't have to wait too long as three serpent guards walked into the room. The lead Jaffa opened his helmet and started looking around, Harry noticed that it was the First Prime of Apophis by the gold symbol on his forehead. He was likely here to make a selection from the women in the room to bring to his master. There was also the slim chance he was looking for Harry.
The First Prime looked around for a moment before pointing to one, saying, "You.", She was quickly pulled out of the room by a couple of priests that had joined the guards. There was nothing Harry could do to stop it though, not without giving himself away.
He watched the guards leave and knelt down again next to the airman. "Just stay calm and don't do anything that will draw attention to yourself and you will be fine." He whispered.
"Who are you? Can't you help the rest of the women?" She whispered back.
"It's complicated. I can't do anything more without stirring up a hornets nest. I will if an opportunity presents itself though." Harry replied in a whisper.
"Why me then?"
"I can't tell you that. I will tell you though that I will get you back to Earth, one way or another. Now, no more questions."
It was then that Hermione contacted him through his mental connection with the nanosuits. -"Harry?"-
-"I'm here Hermione… no trouble yet."-
-"That's good. Rose just reported that the Americans are going to send a rescue team here to find the airman. Also the woman taken from Abydos is Daniel Jackson's wife and the boy was very close to Colonel O'Neill. They are both already in the slave pens or in the harem room."-
Harry groaned. His luck was starting to change. Not only was he protecting the airman but now he had to also look out for Dr. Jackson's wife and some kid that O'Neill had bonded with. The problem was, he didn't know what they looked like.
"Airman, what's your name? I can't keep calling you airman."
"Williams, Katlin Williams. Who are you anyway?"
"A friend, all I can say is that there are friendly races out in the galaxy too. I won't always be around to help though. You just got lucky I was in the area. Shhh they're coming back." Harry told her.
The Jaffa entered the room again and picked out another woman from the group.
-oo00oo-
-"Harry."- Hermione called him mentally through the link three hours later. Harry had watched three other women taken from the room during that time. He was feeling helpless to do anything about them and was getting desperate for a way to end this without the Goa'uld going nuts or revealing himself to them. Covert was not his normal way of doing things.
-"The Team from earth is here. They split up into two groups. One is staying near the gate and setting up a perimeter. The other one, O'Neill, Jackson, and Carter, are heading in your direction. I'll keep you informed."-
-"Can you tell where the last woman taken from this room is?"-
-"She's in an inner sanctum and very close to Apophis and his wife. There are several other Goa'uld in the palace as well, they are all congregated in some kind of dining area. Harry, Amonet just jumped hosts..."-
-"Shit, the last woman taken in there was one of the last to arrive here. I hope it wasn't Dr. Jackson's wife."- Harry commented. Just as he finished that comment the Jaffa and First Prime entered the room again and started herding the woman out.
Harry whispered to Airman Williams. "Stay calm, walk with the others but don't touch or get touched. I will be right behind you."
The Jaffa and priests led the group in the direction of the slave pens. Maybe his luck was changing. They were all herded into the room with the rest of the captured slaves. Harry made sure to direct Katlin to the back of the room.
-"Harry, O'Neill and his group have made contact with a group of priests. They are being taken to the palace. I think the priest think they are Goa'uld."-
-"Ok Hermione, just when I thought my luck was changing…"-
-"Keep calm Harry, you'll figure something out that won't get you revealed."-
-"Let's hope."-
Not even twenty minutes later, O'Neill, Jackson, and Harry assumed Carter were dragged into the room unconscious. Katlin gasped at the sight of them and started moving forward but Harry stopped her with a hand on her shoulder.
"Stay here. I'll go check them out." Harry whispered and Katlin nodded. He waited until the guards left and made this way to where they had been dropped. Harry knelt down next to the three and held his hand over them. The scanners in his nanosuit told him they were fine, just stunned. With a thought he sent an eneverate at the three to wake them up.
As they started to regain consciousness Harry moved back over to Katlin. "Ok, they're fine, I woke them up. When they're back on their feet you can go over. You'll be safe with them. I have to leave now before I'm detected."
"Thank you. What do I call you?" She whispered back.
"Hmm… My name is Harry, that's all I can tell you."
"Thank you Harry." Katlin then slowly made her way toward the others from Earth. Harry watched her go as he moved into one of the corners of the room that was toward the front. He watched as she identified herself to O'Neill and he started quietly questioning her. At one point he started looking around the room looking for something or someone.
Harry just kept watch over the room. He couldn't leave either without the flash from the transporter being seen, he was going to have to work on that.
He did notice O'Neill talking and arguing with a teen boy, Harry really hoped that was his friend from Abydos. Dr. Jackson got caught up in the discussion as well before O'Neill and the teen named Skaara walked off toward the back wall. Harry had picked up part of the conversation on a nanobug he had placed on O'Neill when he revived them.
Harry watched and waited. O'Neill and Skarra checked walls and windows for escape routes. Carter, , and Williams stayed off to one side of the room talking in whispers. It looked like Carter was consoling and Harry had a bad feeling about that. Harry listened in on the nanobug.
"So Ra isn't dead after all?" Carter asked.
"No, it wasn't Ra. It was Apophis." Jackson replied. As O'Neill and Skaara joined them.
"Who?" Carter looked lost.
"Um, it's from Egyptian mythology. Ra was the sun god who ruled the day. Apophis was the Serpent, Ra's rival who ruled the night. It's right out of The Book of the Dead. They're living it." Jackson replied again.
"We will save Sha're?" Skaara asked O'Neill effectively changing the subject.
"I can't promise you anything at the moment…"
"But you are a great warrior! We defeated Ra together!"
"I know, but take a look around here. Look what we're up against." O'Neill replied to the kid. Skaara just glared at him. Jack looked a little hopeless at that moment but tried to reassure the kid. "We'll try, ok?"
-oo00oo-
-"Harry, Apophis and the rest of the Goa'uld are heading your way with a contingent of Jaffa."- Hermione informed him two hours later.
-"Ok Hermione, keep your mind in the data feed, I may have you beam everyone out."- Harry told her. At that moment Luna joined the conversation from Olympus.
-*Harry, don't do anything at all. Just watch and stay out of the way.*- Luna broke into the conversation.
-"Luna, I have to help..."-
-*They will be ok Harry. Just stay out of the way.*-
Harry sighed internally. He trusted Luna completely, if she told him to do nothing, he was going to listen. -"Ok Luna."-
Just then the doors to the room opened up, several Jaffa entered followed by several Goa'uld and an Egyptian Royal Box carried by slaves. This caused the room to start to panic with everyone trying to move as far away from the front as possible. Harry could see the fear in the eyes of everyone in the room except for O'Neill and his team.
"Shaka ha! Kree hol mel, Goa'uld!" the lead Jaffa called out.
"What'd he say?" O'Neill asked Skaara
"They're going to choose." Skaara replied.
"Choose what?" Carter asked.
"Who will be the children of the gods." replied Skaara
At that point the curtain on the Royal Box was pulled to the side and Apophis stepped out.
"Jaffa!" Apophis called out causing the Jaffa to turn to him and bow.
Apophis turned back to the box, holding his hand inside it to help a woman step out as well. The sight of the woman caused Dr. Jackson to call out a name. "Sha're! Jack, help me please" O'Neill held Jackson back from rushing forward with assistance from Carter.
"Daniel, don't!" O'Neill ordered him.
The First Prime then called out to the room. "Benna! Ya wan, ya daru! Kneel before your Gods!" This caused the rest of the guards to move out into the room and start forcing people to their knees.
At this point Harry was itching to do something. He could kill every Goa'uld and Jaffa in the room without to much trouble but the firefight would cause casualties. He just had to wait a bit longer. He watched as the First Prime gave O'Neill some kind of signal with his eyes and O'Neill knelt with the rest of the people in the room including Skaara, who O'Neill had to coax down.
There was something off about this Jaffa. Harry hadn't tried to access anyones mind in the room for fear of it being detected but he was seeing something going on with this one. Harry was pretty sure that not all Jaffa saw the Goa'uld as gods, maybe this First Prime was one of them.
When the Goa'uld moved out among the people and Skaara was chosen by a pair of them, Harry's heart just about broke. First Dr. Jackson's wife was taken as a host, which there was nothing he could do about right now. Now Skaara was being taken as well. He trusted Luna completely but it was getting more and more difficult to hold himself back.
When Apophis and the other Goa'uld finally left and Apophis gave the order to kill the rest, Harry was on his last straw. Before he could act though the First Prime and O'Neill exchanged some shouted words.
"I can save these people! Help me! Help me." O'Neill shouted at the Jaffa.
"Many have said that but you are the first I believe could do it!" The First Prime replied as he turned and fired on his own men before throwing his weapon to O'Neill and picking up the one the dead Jaffa dropped.
The ensuing firefight was chaotic and Harry had to shield a couple of the slaves from staff blasts, he really hoped no one noticed it. When it was all over there were no slave casualties and all but the rebelling Jaffa were dead. Harry was happy to see them all safe for now.
O'Neill turned to the back wall while ordering everyone out of the way then blasted a hole in the back wall.
"Carter, Daniel, get these people out of here, to the Stargate." O'Neill ordered.
"Come on!" Carter started yelling at everyone and directing them out the hole in the wall.
O'Neill looked at the Jaffa as the last of the prisoners exit through the hole. "Hey, c'mon!" he called to him.
"I have nowhere to go." replied the Jaffa
"For this you can stay at my place. Let's go." causing the Jaffa to move forward.
"What's your name?" O'Neill asked.
"Teal'c"
"Teal'c, where will they take Skaara, the boy?"
"To the Stargate, after they've selected hosts for their children they will return home."
At this point they both exited the room through the hole and ran to catch up with the rest of the prisoners. As soon as the room was empty there was a flash of light in the corner of the room.
-oo00oo-
"Harry, are you ok?" Hermione asked as he appeared on the bridge of the Asclepius.
"No, I saved the Airman but Sha're, Dr. Jackson's wife was taken as a host and Skaara, O'Neill's teen friend will soon be a host as well. I was able to place magical trackers on them that the Stargates will hopefully register so we can track them, but i'm not sure. It was a last second idea."
"You did your best Harry. I am monitoring the progress of the prisoners and the Earth team toward the gate. The Ha'tak left orbit a few minutes ago. There is a small ship heading toward the gate that has most of the Goa'uld onboard."
"That would make such a good target but not with Sha're and Skaara onboard it."
"Not to mention the power vacuum it would cause if Apophis died." Hermione pointed out.
"Yeah, there is that too. Bloody hell." Harry swore. "Lets just keep an eye on them."
Hermione kept the scanners on the prisoner and on the small ship. They watched as the Goa'uld were ringed down in front of the gate and the ship turned to start firing on the prisoners that escaped. Harry was tempted to shoot down the ship from orbit but a missile from the second half of the Earth team took it out.
There were injured people down there though. "Hermione, as soon as the rest get out of sight, beam the casualties up but keep them in statis. We can heal them and return them to another planet later."
"Ok Harry."
They watched as the Goa'uld gated away just as O'Neill and the others reached the ridge overlooking the gate. A running battle then ensued. Two of the soldiers that came with O'Neill on the rescue mission where hit but dragged to the gate. It was to bad, Hermione would have been able to save them.
In the end everyone was able to get through the gate and Hermione beamed the injured up and into statis.
"That's all we can do for now Harry. Let's go home?"
"Yeah, we can study the data later. I can listen in on the SGC from Olympus, I don't need to be there."
-oo00oo-
Briefing Room, Stargate Command
The newly formed SG1 was sitting around the briefing room table with General Hammond as Airman Williams entered the room. She had been checked out in medical just like everyone else then summoned to the meeting.
"Airman, please have a seat." General Hammond ordered her and pointed to a chair at the table. "Colonel O'Neill tells me you had help while you were captured. What can you tell me about this?" The general asked.
O'Neill and the other all sat up a bit more to listen.
"Sir, after I was captured, I was taken to that planet and placed in the room that Colonel O'Neill found me in. I wasn't there long though. They took me to another room where I was forced to dress in those 'clothes' by some female priestesses. I was then placed in another room with a bunch of other women all dressed the same way."
"I'm not sure how long I was in that room. There were women being brought in and removed all the time. The women removed from the room never returned. Anyway, I was in the back of the room, trying to make myself less noticeable when I heard a whispered voice next to me."
"The voice told me not to be afraid and that he was there to help."
"It was a man?" The General asked
"I can only assume so based on the voice, sir. I couldn't see who it was. He told me he was cloaked, invisible to avoid the guards. He then told me he was going to do something that would make them ignore me but that I couldn't move around or draw attention to myself. I assumed he meant that if I did, it would nullify whatever he was doing."
"He said he was cloaked? Those exact words?" Captain Carter asked.
"Yes Ma'am, cloaked."
Captain Carter turned to the General. "Sir, it sounds like whoever or whatever it was, had a personal cloaking device. That is very advanced technology." She stated excitedly.
"Airman Williams, did you ever see this person?" The General asked.
"No Sir, but I know he was really there, he placed his hand on my shoulder at one point. I can tell it was a hand with five fingers. I also got the feeling he was there the whole time Sir watching over me except for about an hour or so. He told me he was leaving to check on something."
"Did you ever ask him who he was?" This question came from Colonel O'Neill.
"Yes Sir, and I asked why he couldn't help the other women. His exact words were 'It's complicated. I can't do anything more without stirring up a hornets nest. I will if an opportunity presents itself though.' Then I asked why he was protecting me. He said 'I can't tell you that. I will tell you though that I will get you back to Earth, one way or another. Now, no more questions.'
"This sounds a bit fishy Sir." O'Neill stated as he turned to the general.
"Let's hear the rest Colonel. Airman Williams?"
"Yes Sir. At times I could swear I heard him talking, like I was hearing one side of a conversation. He was definitely communicating with someone. 'Mmmhmm's' and I heard 'damn' once. After a while he asked my name, he didn't want to keep calling me Airman."
"Hold on, this person knew your rank?" O'Neill pointed this fact out and looked to the General.
"I caught that too Colonel. Whoever this is, must have studied our military at least a bit." Replied the General. "Go on Airman. No detail is too small."
"Yes Sir. Well he asked my name. I told him and then ask for his again. He said 'A friend, all I can say is that there are friendly races out in the galaxy too. I won't always be around to help though. You just got lucky I was in the area. Shhh they're coming back.' He was right too, not ten seconds later the guards and priests came in and took another woman."
"When the guards came back the last time and started herding everyone out he told me 'Stay calm, walk with the others but don't touch or get touched. I will be right behind you.' I don't know if he was behind me but he was there when the Colonel, and others were brought in."
"I tried to move to check and help you but he stopped me and told me he would check on you. When he got back to me he said 'Ok, they're fine, I woke them up. When they're back on their feet you can go over. You'll be safe with them. I have to leave now before I'm detected.' I asked him once more time what his name was and he said 'Hmm… My name is Harry, that's all I can tell you.'"
"Airman." Captain Carter go her attention. "You have a really good memory, you've, I'm assuming, been quoting him?"
"Yes Ma'am. I have a very good memory for conversation. I always have."
"Did you hear from him again after that Airman?" asked General Hammond.
"No Sir, after that I moved over to be with the Colonel… I don't think he left though."
"Please explain." The General prompted.
"Two things Sir. First, I still felt like I was being watched but less directly. I can't explain it. Then Sir, during the firefight Colonel O'Neill and that Jaffa were having with the other guards, two of the prisoners had been fired at while running to the back of the room, the energy from their weapons hit some kind of energy barrier. It saved the lives of the two prisoners. I think that was him."
"You mean one of the two prisoners?" asked the General looking at Colonel O'Neill because those refugees were still on his base.
"No Sir. I think he created the shield to protect them but wasn't one of them."
"Directed energy shielding Sir…" Carter started.
"Hold on Captain. Airman, anything else to add?" asked the G`eneral.
"Yes Sir, he sounded young, like a teen. I also have observations about the Jaffa and Goa'uld."
"Thank you Airman, we will debrief you on that later. Dismissed." Williams got up, saluted and left the briefing room. "Thoughts?"
"Sir, this all sounds a bit suspicious to me. Why would, whoever this is, pick the airman out to save and not the others?" O'Neill jumped in before Carter could.
"Are you saying you don't believe her Colonel?"
"No Sir. I'm just saying it could be a Goa'uld trick."
"Sir, we could ask Teal'c about the technology she is describing. Either way Sir, cloaking and shielding technology would be a great advantage, As for Airman Williams, she has an eidetic memory for verbal communication... " Carter started but was interrupted by Daniel.
"General, I think the person was from Earth."
"What!?" Came from the other three at the table.
"Hear me out. If what you say is true Sam about the Airman having an eidetic memory then the person helping her used a couple terms that could only be found on Earth. She said, he told her 'I can't do anything more without stirring up a hornets nest.' 'Hornets Nest' is an Earth metaphor, I doubt it's used anywhere else in the galaxy."
"Also the name 'Harry' is short for Harold, again it's an Earth name. Last 'Damn' in the context of it's use that the airman described, is an earth swear. I think whoever he is, is from Earth."
"Do you know how crazy that sound's Daniel?" Colonel O'Neill stated with a bit of shock on his face at what he just heard.
"I know Jack, but I can't explain the use of those terms any other way. 'Stirring up a hornets nest' is strictly an Earth metaphor, and one you would have had to hear growing up on Earth, it's not used here that often anymore either."
"Assuming your theory is right Dr. Jackson, how is that possible?" the General asked.
"Alien abduction? Not Goa'uld though. He said there are friendly races out there too. Obviously advanced races based on the technology he displayed. Or he is alien himself but was raised here on Earth for a time? I don't know General. I'll see what I can find in the archeology records, see if I can find reference to other races besides the Goa'uld."
"Sir, I do have one concern." Carter spoke up.
"Go ahead Captain Carter."
"Sir, with the cloaking technology described, how do we know he didn't come back through the gate with the rest of the refugees? He could be in this room right now."
On hearing that jack jumped up and pressed the closest emergency button in the room sending the SGC into chaos.
-oo00oo-
Conference Room, Olympus
Hermione looked at Harry with concern. "Harry?"
Harry lowered his head and slumped down a little in his chair. "Yeah, yeah, I screwed up a bit"
With a smile, Luna Jumped in. *Don't do anything, just let them do their thing. They won't find you since you're not there. It happened the best way it could.* This caused both Harry and Hermione to look at her.