The Chosen Ones Ones And The Battle For Truth
Disclaimers: Star-Wars or Stargate SG-1 are not owned by me. The story belongs to me everything else belongs to the George Lucas and MGM studios.
Warning: With the chapter the conversation from the debate in the galley results in fixing their connection, before his powers send a shock wave and break down the door and they hit every force sensitive in the galaxy, as they do some work now on this and things change directions as the quartet start growing closer now.
Chapter 10: Healing the Bond Further and Poltholes Explained
As he took a deep breath he read out his inner thoughts to them. 'I'm lucky they arrived when they did, or I'd never stay the way I am.' Anakin thought to himself as he read it out loud to them. I feel like a rich man, one who wonders if up his friends are really his friends or are just with him, because they want his money. My best abilities are mechanics and piloting, but that's not enough for them."
"I grew up outside the temple, is it so wrong to let my emotions take control, I grew up in a different way then they did, though I'm well liked, they don't know what to make of me, because I'm more powerful than all of them together, though I'm twelve, I'm far ahead of them. I hate being the chosen one, can't they understand, I don't want the attention, I just just want to be normal, like them."
"Why do they put up with me, why do I keep testing them, mom was the same way, and I tested her again and again, to make sure she cared about me, she sent me away so I could be with stronger people, and I still haven't learned anything, but letting my anguish get in the way.', Yes, had you not arrived when you did today, I'd be feeling these things and let my anger, arrogance and lust get in the way till it destroys me. You just saved me, by simply arriving now Daniel." Anakin said to him smiling softly.
"Thank the force, you just saved us simply by showing up in front of our ship at the time, let's just insure the Sithmaster can't get to either of you now." Padme said smiling in relief and he nodded to her as he looked at Jack. "I've been feeling everything he feels in these books, I mean sure you say you respect the work I do, but your actions speak louder the words Jack, those words say you don't want me around and I'm not useful anymore."
" Simply because I don't use your techniques, though we were in our second year together, we got along better than and we turned into a family, you respected my abilities and you were determined to protect me when Samuels suggested we get the damn thing, but I refused at the time. But then I fall briefly and you stop trusting me after that, why exactly, you realize what I was really trying to tell you at the time?" he asked the duo sternly.
"Dan decided to get the device and bring it back, I was telling you what he had planned and why I gave orders to keep me there. To get you to listen to that danger, I had to be cruel, Sam you remember our fight in the lab, and what I said at the time. 'We can't just leave it there, we have to study it', what am I really trying to say to you Sam?" he asked and she covered her eyes at that. "Stop it by any means necessary and you're still fighting it off, get me to pull the plug before they destroy you and take you away from me." she said and he nodded as Jack felt his heart jump and skip a beat at the memory.
"Yes exactly, you were blended with Jolie, but she left the information to you, that information came from me, she past that to you and you saved me by your love. You guys realize just what your messages were to me during this situation. Only love, friendship and trust can fight the darkside, love is a poison to the darkside, to fight the darkside you got to confront it by injecting as much care and love into as possible." he said and Jack sighed.
"To the Jedi, I had to briefly face my Sith side by by getting you to yank me off duty, in fact, you told me you know what it feels like, but your remark had a double meaning. I was trying to hold in my anguish over my parents back, before you told me that you'd help me recover and that did it finally. Jack, you and the duo saved me, simply by not giving up on me and bringing the me you know to the forefront, but just telling me we can pull through."
"During this situation I'd been Kyp when he and Han were facing off and in the ships, you broke down the door of that pain by reminding me of a very deep reason I chose to be a Jedi, it was to keep from losing someone I love. With the fact my parents are dead, I lost my wife and baby brother, and you three gave me the strength to keep going. Our quintet were still in one piece, but seeing Charlie and my parents, the pain was too much for me."
"The addiction was the release valve and you did the rest by getting me to let go, before Dan got too strong and I really did turn into his alter ego. Jack don't you understand, by getting rude with you, snapping at you, I was trying to tell you, that if you don't get me off duty and quick, let alone destroy the coordinates to the planet, this me would be gone for good. Though I was undercover, I was fighting it with everything in me."
"If I'd been Siri, I'd be acting like I was against you, and if Anakin was my best friend's padawan, I'd be insuring he was safe, even if it meant him having to face a repeat of his old life, I had to protect him. I ordered the guards not to lay a hand on you, but from the president and joint chiefs point of view, the safety of the rest of the planet, out weighed your physical conditions and to prevent the NID from getting their hands on that technology."
"You had to wait till I get them to gain my trust and I freed you, I'm sorry if you felt like I betrayed you, but I did it again when I was dealing with that creature on Aris's home planet and Jacob contacted me. To them, in this situation, you can't be trusted, but considering you tried to escape, you just ensured I gained the Intel they needed by these guards shooting out the roof of that cave right above me, you caused that addiction by your actions."
"You did it again when I told Senichi we weren't going to run and that results in me committing a murder I never wanted. Your actions are why they decided I was to be more valuable and with me Teal'C. But you and Sam, you're too impulsive, you turn to your training every time I try to build a connection with our captors and it gets you thrown into back in the mines, or just on the rack and you get whipped till you passed out."
"Return of the Jedi, you act like Han, and he yanks his gun on impulse every time, because you got compromised by Hathor, I can get the job done without winding up dead for pulling the trigger when I've been exposed at the time. That's why they consider me far more valuable than you are Jack. I'm Luke, I act like a Jedi. And you're acting like a smuggler, a mercenary, that's why they consider me far more valuable when we deal with things."
"To be blunt here, I'm quoting Luke now, 'But what good would it do us if you get yourself killed', simply because you can't control the impulse to keep your finger off that trigger, you're too reckless, impulsive and impatient. Hamilton contacted me after we came back from our mission with the Enkarans, that's what he wanted, me to put my knowledge to use and find a peaceful solution to it and you destroy a perfectly good generator, in that."
"The Eurondans, after we reported back I went over your and Hammond's heads and straight to the horse's mouth, he gave me orders to ask questions and do digging at the time. And the quintet were in the room with him. They said the same thing, you and Hammond had no reason to be pissed, I'm simply following my orders and mandate, because you're the one breaking our commanders orders every time you turn around and do it your way."
"Danny, my robotic counterpart, he did what I would do, but that's everything now. I'm the one following orders, you're following the NID by listening to a snake in the grass Jack." he said and he swallowed at the news. "Hamilton gave you orders during Euronda, why the heck didn't you tell me that, I wouldn't have lost my temper if you had?" he asked and Qui-Gon answered that. "Because it's not your business, he's taking orders from five three and four star admirals and the chancellor, translation, his orders are from the government, and probably a general who's a medical doctor as well ."
"You, your admiral and Samantha defied orders from these six men and they're furious you disobeyed orders Colonel. As a Jedi his orders come from the chancellor, though we serve the chancellor, our allegiance is to the republic, his orders came from a man that out ranks all of you together. You get mad at him, and you're getting mad at your chancellor, simply because he ordered him to do what we do, do some digging, before reporting in."
"That just happened, before we met, he contacted the chancellor and his advisors are in the room with him, your rebellion leaders, like ours, gave orders. They gave him orders, he followed them and you're out of bounds for treating him like this when all he was doing is following the orders given to him by your chancellor and admirals. There's no excuse for this Captain, he's in the right, you are in the wrong, all of you are in the wrong."
"I'm just going to say this now, but as a Jedi trained in the living force, we will do what we must to ensure you don't make a mistake, even defying orders, we will do what is right, it's the will of the force. Daniel is me at thirty eight years old, I understand him so well that he's every right to be furious at you for this, at the moment, I'm just going to act like a father to him, but what were you thinking about you two, because this is illegal."
"What you did was illegal that day by defying orders, stealing from other planets is illegal, getting involved in wars you know nothing about, illegal. Everything you've done, since you went undercover is illegal, including just following their thoughts over him, simply because he did what we would have done. Siri is on a mission, undercover, she's doing what Daniel did when they ordered him to go undercover, by order of the council and chancellor." he told him and he swallowed as Daniel finished it as he looked at him sternly.
"He's right Jack, and I think it's time you heard their thoughts now." Daniel said and in answer to that a image came up and they listened to the conversation between their commander and the generals and president. "Tahl, she joined with the force, she decided to do my job for me here with your commander." Qui-Gom said smiling. "Alright Son hold it right there, though we couldn't break the IOA's order, we ordered a semi covert mission regarding the attack on us five years ago, the sarcophagus was another he destroyed the damn thing. He's gotten us twenty five scores in three years and that's out of his diplomatic abilities, but he's more valuable to us than all of the science department combined, simply because he's got the gift of being a Jedi and ambassador."
"To me, that's enough of a reason now, but this constant request for more technology is not coming from the five of us, it's coming from James here. The real help and aid are coming because of Daniel. If we'd asked Daniel to go undercover he'd do it in a heartbeat, because he's got the skills to do it without being killed, he's like the Jedi and Tok'ra in being unseen and acting like he really turned on you." he said and she looked at him smiling.
"Thank you General and yes you are right, that's part of our job, we go on missions undercover all the time, we..., okay what was your mandate to Daniel specifically exactly?" she asked and he explained that to her. "Determine threats of Alien technology, make peaceful relations of the cultures we visit and do added digging if there was an unseen threat we can't deal with, but he could. Daniel's been doing that ever since he found the mirror, he also said he heard a voice in that situation." he said and she nodded to him and got started.
"I think I better explain that, auditory hallucinations, visual ones, he's having premonitions and is connecting to us on the other side of the universe. The said voice he heard was Qui-Gon when he was directing that cruiser closer to the second, his force abilities were activating one by one that day and the previous two weeks. But Bra'tac was training him in the way we do so with our own padawans, Daniel was a six year year old padawan in this situation, in five years he gained the knowledge and know how to join the force."
"General Vidrine do you know the meaning of the word humility, virtue and truth of spirit, let alone grace, wisdom, selflessness?" She asked and he nodded. "Well a man fighting to save millions doesn't sacrifice their virtues for the brass ring, by not looking at things below the surface, you could have sold your souls to the Devil, or unleashed your version of Vader on the entire galaxy, in two situations, in each situation. By not listening to him you could have destroyed yourselves. It's time you saw what he really thinks here." he said and Charlie flashed up a globe then to display his memories.
"That's from your refusal to give them two weeks off generals, if it hadn't been for you, he'd never would have been put through that." Charlie growled angrily and they swallowed at that as Landry answered him, before he could though Adams said it for him, with a furious look in his eyes at that. "We're not the ones to send the team there, someone else did Charlie." Adams said to him and they exchanged looks at that.
"Just drop the act boys, it's time to tell him the truth." Hamilton told him and they nodded. "George, Daniel was under orders to fake this the whole time, he was working undercover, while they were captured by the Taldor, we had Paul Davis working undercover, in the NID and he heard they gained intelligence on a planet that had one. The planet was Shyla's home planet and when they got back from Dalaris, which was the keeper's planet."
"We called him and Teal'C to the White House, for a meeting and Davis debriefed us in it, like he said if it meant insuring no one got hit by the technology as wel, if it was malfunctioning, he had to risk it, and with that our second one mission for him. Our orders were demonstrate the side effects of what the device does, and when recovered destroy the damn thing, he was under orders by us and the president on four occasions, this, the Symbiote Killers, the mirror and Euronda." Jumper told him and he stood up in shock at that.
"Why didn't you tell me that Sir?" he asked and they all crossed their arms then. "Like you ordered Jack to not tell them, the trio, the truth till the end of his mission, we ordered Daniel and Teal'C to do the same thing. In our eyes out of the quartet, we find Daniel and Teal'C far more valuable then the duo together. As you can see the damage here, by your mistakes, you just broke our orders and it tears a hole in your friendship as a result." Gates told him firmly and he swallowed as Landry finished that.
"Daniel was acting, but everything he was doing by the sarcophagus was actually meant to tell you he was working undercover, Teal'C knew what he was doing because he was with him, when we met in secret two days, before they shipped out. As the general said he was ordered to demonstrate the side effects and then destroy the device, but you too his performance so seriously that you stopped trusting him since."
"In our eyes that says you don't deserve that promotion at the moment if you break our orders that fast George, on three occasions. Yes Daniel acted out, but it was to get you to focus on that real threat, he demonstrated the dangers of that technology to me and I decided, forget it, there is no way in hell we're allowing that thing here on earth. As if that's not enough, after you treated him Janet, he came to me for counseling and I told him my next situation and it's regarding McKenzie and thus begins the situation with the tablet."
"I had a mole in my network and you fell right into the trap that the NID wanted you to make as well, he was under orders to investigate Mckenzie as well. Just what the hell is the matter with you, can't you read the message here, I believe his exact words were 'we can't just leave it there, we got to study it' to Sam and 'you're the clueless one, you never show me any respect' to Jack, well here's the translation of what he's really trying to say."
'Sir, guys, I'm acting, just focus on what I'm really trying to say here', or are you so determined to join the ranks of our allies that you're willing to sell your souls to the devil, he was undercover, orders given to him by the sextet and me. Damnit Major, you could have killed him, he was under my orders to do digging on McKenzie, but you took his performance so literally that this could have killed him and us!" General Mathison snapped at him and Janet sternly then. "General I didn't know Sir!" she told him quickly and he crossed his arms.
"You never listen to him, because you still think in a logical way major, there are no logics when it comes to being a Jedi, you've seen with your own eyes how dangerous alien technology gets and you disobeyed my orders while listening to a quack that is involved with your opposition. I'm a major general, though I'm a doctor, you still follow my orders as well Major, you broke my orders while doing this too." he said to her sternly with a firm look.
Before they they could say it a memory flashed up. 'Hey General Mathison, what was it you needed to see me about exactly?" Daniel asked and he smiled as he and the sextet got started then. "How are you doing son, since you were put back on light duty?" he asked and he sighed. "Not so good, the damn side effects are more potent than you'd expect, to put this bluntly, if you recall the Jedi Academy trilogy, that's me in terms of facing a menace I never wanted at the moment."
"Like I said I'm Luke and this kid rolled into one, but now every ounce of hatred I have is pointed directly at Apophis, though he's dead, it doesn't matter. Sir, facing my alter ego nearly killed me once, I can't go through it again." he told him and they all nodded. "That's the only time we ask you to deal with the damn thing son, I promise, but right now, I need some help, I've got a mole in my team who's digging through the personal records of civilians and I have reason to believe it's Dr. Mckenzie, if you could pull another undercover operation with this."
"I'd appreciate it, it may take up to a year, but just ensure he can't hurt anyone else, because I have reason to believe he's working for the NID." he said and Hamilton finished up then. "So far we've had the occasional issue, but if technology starts going missing that belongs to our allies, or if George starts taking orders from someone not like us, it's time to ignore what they say and do this as a Jedi, you're my Jedi master, I need you Doctor Jackson." he said to him gently.
"Yes Sir, I'll take the jobs and I will insure that if these guys start straying from what the movies had to teach us, that you get the results done right. I promise, this is to insure you remain in control, you can count on me, my loyalty is to you and I will insure our program stays in the lightside at all costs." Janet heard and covered her eyes then at the news as he looked at her as he said it sternly to them.
"There you see, he was under our orders that entire time, if you'd just focused on what you learned so far, instead of listening to a snake in the grass your friendship wouldn't have had damage take to it Major." Mathison said to her with a stern look on his face as Jumper finished it then. "As for Euronda, Daniel went over your heads and came directly to us over the phone and we told him to do a bit of digging into that situation and he got us information that these people were fighting a war of diversity, that's why he never came to the debrief."
"He needed to get off base and undercover to tell us. You and Jack just broke our orders and this results in a split in the bond he has with you. I'm beyond disgusted at what you, Sam and Jack said to him that day. So four ocasions and our orders showed results, though you broke orders, he followed orders, you say you follow orders George, but you don't, and it's because you got greedy." Jumper said to him sternly and he felt his heart break at the news.
" In our eyes Daniel's far more valuable than the duo together now. Jack's too impulsive and if that's the reason he resigned the first time, after their mission to that Japanese culture it's because you basically said he had nothing left to offer you, and ever since he's getting sick of this one step forward/two steps back phase. And it's because Jack is too stubborn to listen to him, well enough is enough now, Daniel is the one in charge when they get back." Jumper said and he nodded to that as Hamilton answered that sternly.
"To the duo, I'm an equal and I phrased this particular situation to the duo, and they would have looked into that tablet and not leave me in the hands of those maniacs. In fact to them I'm a friend, equal, Jedi, a Jedi brother, we're bonded by the force, they see me as a brother and comrade in arms, I found my place finally when with you I don't have it. And for all a simple reason as us being loyal to each other." he said and then looked at her as he said it.
"That's how he feels about this, and the pentagon, they see you as more valuable than we are?" Jack repeated in shock and he nodded. "Yes, Aris phrased it reverse the day we met him. I'm far more valuable, because I have the knowledge of every culture in the books, and with my powers I can get a mission done without a shot fired. Teal'C, he's got knowledge of their technology and their ways and he's a turncoat now, he's as valuable as I am."
"Sam, she's the smartest officer in the base, and she's got Jolinar's memories and knows everything about advanced technology. As for you, yes you're valuable, that value only comes from not pulling the trigger every time we find a threat. It's my job to make peaceful relations with other culture, every time you find something you can't understand you immediately assume it's a threat. Dr. Hamilton was correct when he said that to you."
"When he said military, he meant you special forces types, you encounter something you can't understand and you immediately assume it's a threat. It's my job to determine threats, but I dont fly off the handle too soon Jack, Sam's choice to try and make contact with the entity was the right thing to do. It thought we attacked and attacked us, because we sent a probe and we destroyed twenty percent of their culture as a result."
"Sam you recall the real reason they decided to clip your wings, though you're valuable, your knowledge comes being blended with Jolinar, yes that's valuable to a fault. But to them it's a threat, because it falls into the hands of the Goa'uld or the replicators it's going to kill us, we got a demonstration to that during the foothold incident. To the Goa'uld I'm not as much a danger as either of you, because I show the gentle serenity the Jedi show."
"That is why they underestimate me every time Jack, your tendency to jump feet first is the reason we've had the one step forward/two steps back and it's why Jacob is so furious at you for retrofitting those gliders. The base is composed of civilians scientists and soldiers and military, but you're always surrounded by your own kind. My kind are the men sitting right in front of me, I show all the traits that make them who they are, because I had that patience."
"But of the three of us, I'm the one who you, Hammond, Janet and the others scorn the most, simply because of my acting on the job. In this case, you're more focused in not losing Teal'C and when it came to me being in the hands of Mckenzie, to block out a god damn memory you turned tail and ran. I said I saw something go into Teal'C and you automatically see it as I'm hallucinating, to me that says you don't want anything to do with me now."
"So instead of just digging further into this, you just ignore the damn indicators, if you just contacted Jacob, Jacob is a two star General, he'd get me out of there, look at the god damn tablet and begin work on translating it. But no you abandoned me to the system, but you just left me, don't block the truth, you know I'm right. You'd think I'd just allow them to get away with that, newsflash, no I wouldn't, you played right into the hands of your opposition by listening to a quack who never set foot through that gate."
"Being a team meant trusting each other, family, being there for each other no matter what happens, and yet, you don't, sure you take risks, but when it gets dangerous you act like its a threat, but when it's as simple as another test, the Phantom Menace test, no less you flunk it by not sensing the danger till it's practically knocking on the front door. But you're acting like the council, in denial that the danger has returned till it kills a friend, you never wanted to admit that I was right all along till you get infected too."
"Yeah it was different when you were the first to make contact with the Asgard, because you were the one taking the risk Jack. If it was me, I'd risking taking that knowledge and finish what we set out to do, but to him, though it's killing him to see the me he knows fade away as the knowledge of whoever I'm turning into comes into me starts growing. Cam would let me finish what I set out to do and he knows this."
"If we'd been team-mates for eighteen months, he understands, because he's acting like a younger version of you, but he'd never just abandon me, never on purpose. If Cam ever says that to whoever gets me into this mess with my version of the Darkside, but I'm just going to phrase this the way he did. So with that when you took that knowledge before you knew damn well that there was the possibility you might not survive it."
"As members of the command we take risks with our lives, but we're doing the job we were asked to do and though it kills our comrades to see us fading, he's right and now you know that the hard part of being part of a team. The hardest part of being part of this team, of being the front line team, of us growing this close, is it's not risking your own life, but having to watch your team-mate, your friend, taking chances with theirs."
"For the sake of the greater good, but as you saw with Frank, he gained the hardest lesson of being a commander and you gained yours, and it's: the hardest part of being a team is not risking your own life, we grow this close to each other, is not risking your own life. It's having to watch your friends taking chances with theirs, well congratulations, now you really do understand how Frank felt about leaving."
"Cam's a younger version of you, but even he understands this, that sacrifices must be made, in order to protect the greater good, the safety of the many outweighs a single life, if he became my team leader, he'd never leave me, unless I forced him. He's a fighter pilot, but he's everything you used to be, before you went into black ops, but I'm getting him into the program and we go from four to five, if you're promoted later."
"You recall Anderson's remark on the show, 'your own man needed your help, for you to listen and you treated him like a number', Well that's what you've been doing to me, you've been acting like Edwards, like that commander and without even realizing destroying our friendship, and she's too afraid of your temper, of Hammond's temper, to stand up for me and herself, because of this, and knowing if she does its over for her."
"Anderson and his navy seal friend, that was us, I tried everytime to get our puzzle pieces to fit back together and yours wouldn't because you're not acting like you did when we started out, you're acting like your thirty eight year old self again and like you're on a case of self destruction and destroying our team while doing it. While she's afraid of you and can't stand up for herself, knowing her career is finished if she does."
"As to that, when we started out in the program, she risked a court martial knocking Hammond unconscious, but you both are soldiers who's tempers she doesn't want turned on her. You never gave up on getting Teal'C back, but you gave up on me at the time, so why is that. Is it because I'm a civilian is it just that our friendship doesn't mean anything to you anymore. I spent, after you got trapped on Lara's planet, three months looking for someway to bring you home. As for her, it's like you worry more about them than you're worried about the person who's best your best friend since our conception."
"To her it's a question of me or her career and if she does it's the end of her career and you're too stubborn to realize you were destroying our team, because of this, on two occasions, Euronda and Reese, you consider the reason I was so fed up with your attitude and why I was giving Vidrine the cold shoulder. After the meeting when Hammond chose Carson for us, I let McKenzie know that I know he's been working for the NID, and Teal'C made it clear he ever tried it again, it's dismemberment."
"You left me in the hands of your god damn opposition, they wanted me out of the way Jack, just to start dismantling the core of the SGC, starting with the team that created it. That created the code it was based off of. But instead of trying to find some way to get this worked out, you just leave me in the hands of the doctor who's never stepped foot through that gate." he said and took a deep breath as he felt his anger surge.
"Than when I choose to ask questions you shut me down and and it takes getting it thrown in your face that there's more than meets the eye and now I'm beyond furious at you for treating me like that when I was really trying to do my job. Said job being who I am, and what I'm going to become now that we're out here. A Jedi is a keeper of the peace not a soldier, I was doing a settlement and questioning their motives because my Jedi senses were that they're hiding something and I get confirmation to that by Farrell."
"After we get back I've reached my limit and it's because I'm sick to death I've got I've got to clean up your mess, that I've got to do my job by breaking orders and that my bodyguard, your fellow soldier, is the one I've got to confide in till it's finally too late and I've nearly had to kill myself to get results. I mean honestly, trust is a two way street and its obvious you don't trust me, none of you: you, Janet, Lou, Hammond, trust me after Shyla, you think I wanted to have my alter ego dragged out, that I wanted you to suffer as much as I did at the time, that to me it's out of sight, out of mind." he said and sighed as he finished his remark.
"No I didn't, in fact, you thought I was dead when I wasn't, what's this really trying to say where you, Sam, Lou, Hammond and Janet are concerned exactly anyway, you just don't need me in the program anymore. I am a scientist, and a scientist has no place making suggestions to military intelligence in your eyes. If that's the case, I should have resigned after the Linvris, if you're so quick to judge me as mentally incompetent at the time. And that brings it to the Euronda." he said and the duo felt their hearts fall at that. As they heard the tone and felt their hearts break at the amount of anguish in it.
As they listened closely they felt their hearts break then. "For God sakes guys, haven't you learned anything here, you don't get involved in other people's wars till you have all the facts, and certainly not for advanced technology, why do we hate the parasites so much, huh, it's because they have no soul and they will do anything to make sure they remain a viable threat, when they're even stronger."
"What's the cardinal rule in spec ops and negotiations guys, look before you leap, read your enemy, and above all never, ever, accept a gift horse without looking at the interior motives for it. You guys get pissed that I undermine at times, but I've been using your lessons for the last four years, and now you ignore that code, we're not ready for that technology if you act like this, and that goes for whatever information I learn later."
"Omac said it before, advanced technology is not a toy, haven't you learned anything from the situations I've been through, let alone Linea, the Bedrosians, the replicators, you have to look before you leap, these people are genocidal maniacs, and it didn't take needing it thrown in my face to figure this out, I've forgiven you time and again for this, when you've failed me at the time."
"But what do I have to do to get you to listen to me, we were created to protect the planet, yes, but we were also created to learn more about the galaxy, search and retrieval, but galactic exploration comes first. I'm a diplomat, the president made me his chief, why not let me do my job for once instead of jumping feet first into a treaty without looking at the consequences."
"Close to seventy missions and you ignore the biggest rules in the business, look outside the damn box, read your opponent and know what his interior motives are, and lastly don't just accept a gift horse without asking any questions, Jack that god damn undercover mission caused their opinions to go to your head, Sam how many times have I have to go over this with you, thinking outside the box is the only way to stay alive in the field.
'Sir, you're a good commander, but stress is no reason to just ignore one of your advisors, especially when it could get you killed in the field. I spent four years working with you and you still see my opinions as not worth the time to listen to and it's because of that damn fool and the mirror, which I might add saved your lives at the time. The sarcophagus I was undercover you fools.'
"I'm just going to say this now, but it's beyond my retention that someone who understands me so well can miss the point entirely I was under orders by the president and the pentagon on four occasions, I warned you what would happen if we shut down and you didn't listen to me then. They asked me to run my own investigation and see what the damn device does at the time."
"With the mirror, the president told me to ignore orders, after our mission to the keeper planet the president had me go undercover. He wanted me to show you and Janet just the damn thing does, and Teal'C knew because he was under the same orders at the time. But you stopped trusting me since, though I completed the mission and got you technology, I took a risk and it paid off."
"I spelled it out for you that Machello was the reason I ended up in the hospital, and you nearly kill me because of McKenzie's theories, when the idiot had never been through the gate. You don't trust me, are you people trying to get rid of me now so you can just destroy yourselves to protect earth, the only chance to survive this war is by fighting by thinking like civilians. I'm under orders by your bosses."
"The president gave me orders to ask questions, you remember my mandate, well that's what I was doing it at the time. What the hells the matter with you exactly, are you so determined to join races you're willing to sell your souls to the devil. It's my job to ask questions, determine threats by alien technology and make peaceful relations, you're disregarding the orders given to me by your commander in chief."
"I've saved you from screwing up more than once and at this rate I'm reaching my limit, but I'm not putting up with your short sidedness here. Go ahead and sell yourselves to the devil for advanced technology, because by that point I'll no longer be around to bail your asses out of the fire, and I'm the one becoming the threat if that alien turns me into one of them and I finally fall to the Darkside, because I've lost everything that ever mattered to me, namely the seven of you, Sir."They heard and Sam looked at him in shock at that.
"You've been holding that in for four years here." she said and he nodded. "Yes, ever since I proved the President correct that we every reason to be cautious in this case. He terminated that decision after you killed Alar, Jack, and that's why there was an enquiry about it. So he decided, after Jacob came to us regarding Yu's slave farm, that gave us a nice clean up and we gained a bit of technology while doing it." He said and she sighed at that.
"My decisions are better than yours are here, in his opinion, he's a politician, a diplomat, Jack, so with those words, ever since you butted heads with Kinsey you hate politics, and that's how it is, you really don't like politics or diplomacy, because you're not in control of the situation. I am, you're acting like a cross between Han and Anakin's alter ego, because you hate the rules and want to do it your way, when he and I both know that taking it slow and patiently you get things done right." he said and sighed at that as he finished.
"Guys please, just this once, remember our mission when we ran into Mat, to survive, we got to act like we did then, it's time we returned to our second year of being a team. You think that losing the others did damage, I lose the core of the command and that's it, the core of it is you guys, Hammond, Janet, Dave, Paul, Lou, Greg, Jared, Bra'tac, Jacob. You guys, we lost Evan, Philip, Derek and Jake, three quarters of our originals are gone. But the other twenty five percent are still here and I'm fighting to ensure that now."
"Without you, that's it for me, I'm trying to keep you alive. Just trust me, I can get the results, and we don't lose anyone else in the command, just trust me Jack, trust me like you once did." he told him and he nodded to him as he gave his shoulder a squeeze. "Just getting that out of you now helps, but we got to talk in private after this, if you're in the crossroads between the darkside and the lightside." Jack said and he nodded in agreement to that.
"Ben, Padme, with you being connected to the Jedi order and the senate, and that's your future by the way Padme, you because the new senator after your two terms are complete, once this mission is complete. But consider this an even trade, we prevent them from causing a dictatorship and in exchange, we accept what help you have to offer." Daniel told them and they nodded to that as he answered him.
"Once you learn the value and dangers of advanced technology, than we'll give some of our technology and, in your case Daniel, our orders histories and some of our training technology so you train with your new lightsaber later on once you and your team leave and as a memento. A picture of us and the council with you and my friends, but remember what you learn here, knowledge is power, peace over anger, honor over hate, strength over fear."
"With me with you, you got a chance to heal, but our bonds on missions, we need to create the spiritual link between us, you me and Anakin now. But with you just venting your feeling now, you're now sliding away from the darkside and back to light, just put this on the backburner till we complete the mission and then you can finish talking this over and you're free to become one with the force after that." Obi-wan said to him and he nodded to him.
"Master what test am I in right now, if my powers are still this unstable?" he asked and Qui-Gon sighed as he grabbed the first of the series in the duo's collection and gave it to him. "Test of self, to free your powers, you must release your anger and let go now." he said and Daniel nodded to him. "Path to Truth, yes I'd say this is my path to truth now, to free myself and let the force take total hold. We got to fix our connection guys." he said to the trio.
"Charlie you got a copy of the dead device, I want to see it?" he asked and in answer to that the tablet appeared and with it was the spent device and he read the device carefully. "Force I've seen devices like this before, but this is no normal translator you're looking at a thermal detonator with the firing pin being the stone here." Padme said and she read the tablet as the words translated themselves to her, before she looked at him firmly.
"I don't need a translator to know what this says Daniel, but listen to this, this scientist was looking for the right person. 'To all ye who understand my language, this device is a Trojan horse disgused as the tablets that the Goa'uld who are part of the Greek culture, if tasked with hunting down any Goa'uld on your planet, I wish you to use these to kill the symbiote themselves'."She read out and Daniel nodded to that.
"Have you ever seen devices like this before?" Daniel asked and they all nodded. "Yes, twenty percent of the technology you encountered in your travels ended up in our galaxy, this happened to be one of them. Siri and Bant destroyed two of them, but thankfully this one is spent, because the last little bugger was neutralized. You said you're a linguist, so with that in mind, to translate this force decode the sentence structure." Qui-Gon said to him and Obi-wan finished his remark then as he looked at him.
"In fact, before you were under pressure, just relax and to translate this device far more easily though, don't force the connection, just relax and let it flow, force decode it that way." Obi-wan said to him gently and he nodded to that. As the words rearranged themselves he smiled, before seeing something on the tablet and looked up in shock then.
If I'm captured, before I die in the hands of my captors this is my legacy: to any who are fighting the Goa'uld, my inventions can help you do that, this device kills the symbiote itself, but like any other weapon, there are severe dangers. For a non symbiote blended host, its effects are like mind illnesses, causing hallucinations and chemicals abnormalities, and all signs left over from a previous affliction."
"If your Goa'uld captor is dead you are safe, because the protein marker is the cure, the marker is able to keep you healthy and block out input and anything else the captors do to you. But if you are a Goa'uld, Tok'ra or Jaffa, the devices will kill you, though if you have a protein marker than you are safe, because that's the weakness in the technology, remember this my young ally."
"To my future allies, or the youngest of the, now, five races, if you're also looking for ways to fight the Goa'uld my wish is you use my knowledge. I meet your representatives face to face and I trick you into something. Than I am sorry my friend, if I got selfish when we met at the time, but I lost everything that ever mattered to me and I wanted a chance to start over."
"If you are searching for your mate, use my knowledge to fight the Goa'uld, it may take many years, but you will beat them, my only wish is you put my knowledge to use. If you are to be the leader of the fifth race, remember this and these words my young friend: a warrior's power comes from their mind, soul and heart, not from their muscles. As warriors we consider not who we kill but who we allow to live, if your people see human lives so important."
"Use that, but remember, being a master warrior means being selfless, don't just look at it from one angle see all the alternatives, before threat and force. You can win without a shot fired if you are patient and slow yourself down to learn everything we've got to teach you, but you must use it wisely. As the Tollan told you, advanced technology is not a toy, to work it you got to be smart and understand the dangers of what it is you're working with."
"Though I'm a warrior and scientist, my race is gifted in Trojan horses, weapons disguised as devices that are meant to lead somewhere else for the Goa'uld, devices like the tablet you hold in your hands right now. If you discover another device that is shaped like the stone that has circles on it and a line between them, you'll know it for what it is, it's the language of my people, my young friend and ally, remember this. You're a younger version of me."
"If you are much younger and are willing to take up my legacy, my wish is you combine every bit of knowledge you learned from us and work it into your training. Violence and force is never the answer, we work by stealth, by non violence and my knowledge, the pen is mightier than the sword, remember that and when you are ready. We will admit you into our circle of the four races, and you will meet all of us in your travels, if your rebellion has activated the gate, then take your training slow." he read out and looked at the tablet in shock.
"Machello what are you exactly, four races, the Asgard, Furlings, Nox and the Ancient's, we met three of the four, what are you exactly?" he asked softly as Jack thought it over and leaned back. "No it can't be, the inscriptions on the wall at the temple at the time, his race are the Furlings, why didn't we see that coming sooner?!" Jack asked in shock and Daniel thought it over. "Teal'C are the messages on the Heliopolis in the box, I can translate the wording now?" he asked and he yanked a packet of papers out and passed it to him.
"Alright here's the Asgard, the Nox, the Ancient's, I've spent five years learning to read those, here it is..., the Furlings, yeah it's an exact match alright, he's a member of the Furlings, just give me a few minutes I got to see what he was really trying to tell me." he said and the duo both nodded as he read through it with his new skill as he looked up. "Yes, he's part of the Furlings guys, alright this makes perfect sense, I gained two new ones."
"But this makes perfect sense now actually, alright Norse and Celtic that was the Asgard, Latin that was the Ancients, Greek and Latin mixed together is the Furlings and that just leaves the Nox. And they're ancient Egyptian in language, it took them a bit of time to translate what I was saying, but once they did they started speaking the way I did afterwards." he told her and they nodded to that as Qui-Gon smiled at him then.
"Well there's your first lesson in force intended translations, to understand, just relax and let their speech break though on its own. If there was a youngling movie based on that, and the sentient that suggested it was correct, just listen with your heart and you will understand that way." he said and Daniel nodded smiling at that. "I can see that by the time we leave here, I'm gaining seventy more languages once I learn every planet in the galaxy now." he said and they started laughing at that as Jack answered his remark smiling.
"Alright now you started something Qui-Gon, he's like a kid in this now, and with just hearing that I'm looking at a kid in a candy store that gets to play with his new languages to his heart's content." Jack said smiling and Panaka chuckled at the reference then. "You remember my recommendation when we were on board the second ship that was heading for earth, Don't look at the facts, eliminate the obvious, and set aside your previous assumptions, just unlearn what you've learned in the past, throw aside the obvious and the rest becomes clear." he said and she nodded to him to answer his question.
"This is what I meant at the time, what happened last year exactly?" he asked and she sighed. "Maybourne got both of us trapped on a moon that had every person that was eating a certain plant so paranoid that they killed each other. But I remember what I promised I'd do if that did happen, I'd go archeologist if that did happened and it saved us, but I had to shoot him to neutralize him briefly at the time." Jack told him and he nodded to him.
"Thank god you remembered what I told you if this scenario played itself out though, I was the one to send that telemetry shot to you Sam, as was the key, that was me. I had to get you to focus on that memory, you remember what I said: if the moon of the planet was in really close range and I mean so close it was practically sitting on top of it, and the key had two circles and a line between them, remember now?" he asked and she smiled at that.
Before she could say it a couple pieces of paper showed up that had the telemetry shot of the planet and moon, as well as the device as Jack looked at the image and yanked a pen from his pocket in his vest and drew a arrow from the temple to the moon. "Gotcha, okay that door threw us off the planet and we ended up on the moon as a result. Thank god for you're being in the force, even though you weren't visible you were always there for us." he said and Daniel flipped the image over and they saw two photos on it and then smiled.
"D.N.J. Serria Golf One, Sierra Golf Charlie. Daniel Jackson of SG-1 of Stargate Command, thanks man for the memory." Jack read out and smiled as he saw a picture of the four of them with her between himself and Daniel with Teal'C on Daniel's left with smiles on their faces, before Sam focused on the second photo and chuckled. "Yeah I remember that pool party at your house at the time, it was your fourth of July barbecue."
"Just before Peterson knocked Jefferson into your swimming pool, Daniel and I were dancing and this was just before the little mishap in the pool." She said and he started laughing at that. "Well if this is really the start of your relationship, I'm your big brother now Sam." he said to her and she nodded to that smiling. "When was that exactly?" Anakin asked and he smiled. "It was after we went to get Jacob from our version of Mustufar at the time."
"The planet got turned into our version of the infernal regions. The planet we went to was loaded with denizens of hell and we ran into a couple Sith that resurrected memories I didn't need then and I'll explain why when you're older. Anyway, one of said Sith was Apophis, and his rival was a Sith by the name of Sokar, from what Daniel explained to us, he was the original Satan, which is, in our wording, the devil." she said and Daniel finished that.
"These Sith took on the persona of the deities from every culture I studied on our planet, we took out twelve. But Apophis was Ra's rival, we take Ra and we get the attention of every Sith in the galaxy as a result. Which was how we got recalled in the first place with half our team dead, we lose Charlie next and that just leaves me, Lou and Jack left. So far we took out Ra, Apophis, Hathor, Sokar, Seth, Isis, Imhotep, and I'm dealing with Osiris and Anubis."
"But the others were Cronus, he was a Titan from Greek culture, Nirrti, she was an Indian deity, Marduk was from Babylonian culture." he said and they nodded. "You missed one, we got Her'ur as well Danny." Jack said and he chuckled. "What's this mean, return of our old bond, you calling me by my childhood nickname again man." he said and he nodded to him gently. "Yeah you just got your anger out of you, now we need to patch up that bond." he said to him and he nodded to that as he answered him.
"I get the feeling once I do that, that Sidious is going to sense my force signature at the very least. Though if my signature is going to react like a supernova hitting every force sensitive in the galaxy like a shockwave from throwing a boulder into a swimming pool. Though if every force sensitive, whether they're trained or not, is going to pick up the pulse once we heal our bonds, before I start." Daniel said to the duo and they nodded to that.
"If you're as powerful as we think, you're going to be Anakin when he's in his prime, but for every force sensitive. The jolt that a Jedi turned Sithlord gives off, once they return to being a Jedi is going to be like you threw a two ton boulder into a lake, the shockwave is going to hit every force sensitive in the galaxy, Jedi, Sith, whoever this character belongs to on his home planet, but every force sensitive in the galaxy is going to get that jolt."
"And they're going to sense someone who is an adult version of the chosen one the prophecy specified about. But this version has the heart and soul of a very strong warrior and is so pure, that they're never going to win, no matter what they try now. At the moment to ensure you make it within the allotted time, you're going to have to vent and get whatever you want to say to them off your chest now." Qui-Gon said to him softly and he nodded.
"This must be my final test, I'm hovering between good and evil and to ensure I never turn to the darkside, or at the very least get away from the point of no return, we got to get everything on the table over this though I just vented my anger. The conflict is trying to fight its way between good and evil, I'm at the crossroads and Anakin was at this choice in the third story, he's facing that choice himself, but for me to pass the last and final test."
"The test of the soul, this mission and tonight debate, in our cabin, is going to be the deciding factor now. Jack that's why they sent us here, you and I are key pieces to ensure that the NID and Kinsey never slaughter anyone else. But in order to do that, we just got to get everything on the table here." he said and Jack nodded to that.
"So these are our children then?" Padme asked and he smiled and gave a nod and she smiled as she looked at them. "My daughter looks just like me and Luke looks like an eighteen year old you Annie, here's her future intended with her too." she said and he looked at the first book, before she looked at the other book series and then saw the faces of her grandchildren and chuckled as he said it grinning as he looked at her as he said it with a chuckle then.
"Children and grandchildren, three generations in our family they're all force sensitive, oh I'm not giving this up now, to protect my family, I'm staying a Jedi." Anakin said in agreement, smiling as he looked at the quintet of books then. "My family, I'm never giving this up, alright like we decided, till we reveal the truth, though the council and our parents know, nobody but our circle knows, Ric, Dack, you're also in the know we're married." she said to the duo and they both nodded to that.
"Early betrothal at this rate, Padme, I made this for you, so you'd remember me, I carved this out of japor snippet. This is my promise to you, my heart belongs to you now." he said, giving her the necklace and she looked at it smiling. "It's beautiful Annie, thank you." she said and gave him a hug and he tightened his arms around her smiling, as the rest of the group smiled at the declaration as they relaxed things then.
"Okay we may have to reactivate piloting program, let's see here, yes okay, Anakin your children chose Yavin IV as their Jedi academy. Theirs was for the living force, we got the Jedi temple in two different places, we just recreate the layout and use one of the Massassi temples for it and..., Exar Kun, I don't believe it, we took him out 3,000 years ago."
"The council's not going to like this." Obi-wan said reading the book series focused after Luke started choosing initiates then. "If we're coming back, it's when the Solo twins are thirteen Ben, but we just got ensure you guys, your friends, Siri and the council look the same way we remember you by. But the drug to ensure that is taking thirty five years out of the equation so you're going to look like you're fifty seven year old self, and in your case, Anakin, you're forty four year old self." Sam said to him and Daniel answered that.
"Yeah well once I begin training watching my master grow old and die is something I'm not watching, once the knowledge breaks down the front door. I'm helping Thor with a slow aging drug, it's taking off seventy years for all of you. So you're gaining the years but you look the same way you did when we separated after Anakin makes choice and we stick around for another two weeks, which is three months your time."
"It's also going to enhance all of your physical traits right now, speed, strength, your midichlorine connection to the force." he said and they nodded to that. "Well my children are knowing who their mother is, but I'm never falling to the darkside. Okay to answer several plotholes in your storyline focused in our future, starting with when Luke found his sister, her husband and co-pilot, as well as the droids here." Anakin said and started naming them off.
"The reason I never sensed Leia's powers or that's she's my daughter, is because she never used her powers at all. Ben helped Luke unleash his force signature and I could sense his powers like a supernova going off, Leia on the other hand, not till Luke told her the truth that they were twins did her force link to Luke activate, that's one plothole explained. Another is if I said this to you when you confronted me Ben, when you ran into me in the hall."
"I left when I was the youngest Jedi master made to the council, but in your eyes I was still a padawan and in my eyes the circle was now complete, because you raised me Ben, in your eyes I'm still that little boy you remember. But the pain is too much for you to bear that it's killing you to see what Sidious turned me into and in your eyes I'm dead, that my alter ego killed me himself. That's your truth, from a certain point of view."
"As to why, when we separated and you left I was a knight, but when we met then I was now a master, but you never called me by name, because in your eyes, I was dead to you, because you thought there was nothing left of the me you know." Anakin told him and he nodded in agreement to that. "Yeah okay, but before we used to think it was spiritual and now they turned it into a biological thing, which is it exactly?" Jack asked him gently.
"It's a bit of both, to be force sensitive it's the midichlorines are your access to the force, the force is really your ancestors, you can talk to those one with it. But to be a Jedi, you have to believe you can accomplish the impossible, nothing is impossible, as long as you believe you can do it you can. The older you are the less you learn if you don't unlearn and be open to what we have to teach you." Qui-Gon said and he nodded to that as Anakin went further.
