Chapter 11: Tok'Goa'uld

SGC

Earth

It has been two weeks since SG1 with the help of the Ancients saved the people of K'Tau. In that time bought the American and Russian governments went into overdrive after Earth was invited to partake in an alliance with the two most powerful races in the known universe, the Asgard and the Ancients themselves. To this end SG1 will be accompanying an ambassador to the Ancients. His name is Joseph Faxon and he is one of the best ambassadors the world had to offer. Seeing that this would basically be a war conference, General Hammond got permission from the president to accompany SG1 as the 'military diplomat'. Along with SG1 and their two charges would come the Tok'ra led by Jacob Carter/Selmak. The Tok'ra that will be coming to the meeting numbered only three, Selmak and two aids. Lastly there was Bra'tac. He along with Teal'c represented the Jaffa. They hoped that the Ancients would be able to aid the Jaffa rebellion in overthrowing the Goa'uld.

SG1 walked into the room along with general Hammond and ambassador Faxon. Faxon and Carter's eyes met they smiled and turned away from each other a slight blush on their cheeks. Every member of the Tau'ri was dressed in their best clothes, while Teal'c and Bra'tac were dressed in the traditional Jaffa armor minus the weapons.

"We ready?" asked O'Neill

"Yes sir" said Carter almost instinctively

"How does it feel to go through the stargate?" asked Joseph

Carter went on to explain that in detail only to be stopped by O'Neill

"Carter?"

"Sir?" asked Carter confused at being interrupted in the middle of an explanation that almost no one in the room understood, except for the Tok'ra present

"Can we go?" asked O'Neill impatiently

"Yes, sir, sorry sir" said Cater and went to the control room. O'Neill turned to Joseph

"Be careful how you use the word 'how' especially around her, unless you truly want to know how" said O'Neill

"My mistake" said Joseph smiling

The gate began to spin

"Chevron one encoded"

"So, master Bra'tak, what are your hopes for this alliance?" asked Joseph

"Chevron two encoded"

"I hope that we might finally get rid of the false gods that enslaved us for so long" said Bra'tac

"Chevron three encoded"

"Indeed, with the Ancients help we might finally rid the galaxy of the Goa'uld" said Teal'c

"Chevron four encoded"

"I heard that the Asgard are invited as well" pointed out Joseph

"Chevron five encoded"

"I hope that they might help as well" said Bra'tac

"Chevron six encoded"

"Indeed this might be the single most important moment in the war against the Goa'uld" said Teal'c

"Chevron seven locked"

The famous symbol that was Earth's point of origin came to a stop at the chevron topmost of the gate. The gate stopped spinning and activated the unstable vortex shooting out before returning to the familiar puddle. Joseph flinched at the sight, earning him a smile from Carter and a laugh from O'Neill. Without much thought, the group of 10 people stepped through the puddle and into the most beautiful room they've ever seen.

M2S-5Y6

City of Atlantis

Supreme Commander's quarters

Danny woke up early that morning. Looking beside him, he smiled when he saw his wife sleeping soundly beside him. Much has happened in the year and a half since he left Terra, but all things considering he felt like he truly belonged somewhere, a feeling he had not had since he turned fourteen. The past couple of years had been rough on him, that much he would admit. Learning of a past he didn't know and being thrust head first in a galaxy where it was either kill or be killed. His thoughts turned to the meeting that was about to take place later that day. The High Council agreed to this alliance after much convincing from Danny's part. They still weren't completely happy, but they did see reason and allowed Danny to forge this alliance.

Slowly Danny got out of bed and headed for the showers. Once he came out he saw Sam sitting up in bed looking at him with hungry eyes

"Like what you see?" asked Danny, breaking Sam from her staring

"Yes Danny the view out the window is gorgeous" Sam said in an attempt to mock him

"Um, the window's behind you" pointed out Danny

Sam pouted and crossed her arms

"Oh, come one, don't be like that" said Danny as he climbed in bead

Danny approached slowly whispering in Sam's ear "If you pout like that you're goanna get punished" said Danny earning a shiver from Sam. The pair kissed until Danny broke off and headed for his armor rack to put on his armor.

"How do you think the treaty will go?" asked Sam

"I hope it goes well, otherwise, we might just have to leave this galaxy as well" said Danny with sadness in his voice

"Is it that bad?" asked Sam slightly shocked

"Yea, it is. We barely have enough men to man the ships, and we can't afford to lose them, we simply don't have the resources to build new ships" said Danny

"But I thought that the mining operations were going well" said Sam confused

"They are, but we still need more than we have and we simply don't have the manpower to mass produce thing, that's why we need Earth" said Danny

"What could Earth possible have that we would need?" asked Sam

"Entertainment, diverse foodstuff, military experience, they have a lot of what we need. What I'm hoping for with this treaty is to have some Earth instructors come over and teach our men how to fight as irregular opponents and how to fight against irregular opponents. While our knowledge of military tactics is better than the average Alterran's due to the fact that we were raised on Earth, it still is nothing compared to a well trained general or admiral" said Danny as he finished putting on his black and white armor on, with a white cape behind him. On his shoulder there was a small DP symbol as a reminder to who he once was. He finished with holstering an energy particle pistol to his left thigh and an energy lance on the back of his belt. Lastly he clipped his cross guard energy sword to his belt.

Danny left his apartment for the transporter booth and from there he went to stargate operations. He walked up to a technician and asked

"Where are the Asgard?" asked Danny

"They have just entered the galaxy, it will be another couple of hours before they arrive" she answered

Suddenly an aid walked into the room

"The council is ready to receive you" said the aid

Danny nodded and walked to the council chambers. The doors slid open and Danny walked inside. The entire council was dressed in their best clothes.

"Are you ready?" asked Danny

"Are you sure this is necessary Supreme Commander? We do fine by ourselves" asked a worried Helia

Danny sighed "I may not like it, but I am not naïve or stupid enough to not ask for help when I clearly need it" said Danny and Helia nodded

They heard a warning sound and walked out of the door. The ceremonial guard snapping to attention as the blue stargate activated.

City of Atlantis

Gate room

O'Neill didn't know what to expect when he walked through the gate, but this was certainly not it. So far all the architecture the Ancients have left in the Milky Way was stone based. The Orion was more technological, but it was old. Their warships appeared to be relatively new, but that didn't say anything for they could be thousands of years old, and you can't really look at a warship and call it an architectural marvel, now can you? But this was on a completely different level.

The stargate was different, again (how many gate models did these people built anyways?), but it appeared to be somewhat newer, if you could call something that is probable millions of years old new. The rest of the room was equally grand if not grander. Stained glass windows, tall pillars with what appeared to be light emitting crystals attached to them, on the floor there was a representation of a stargate, and some sort of podium leading to the actual gate. To either side were four soldiers dressed in battle armor. O'Neill could see that it was ceremonial, since he saw what their real armor looked like.

A grand staircase led to a second floor that probably held the control room, judging by the people manning the different consoles. From the control room there was a bridge leading to an office of some sort. On the other side there was a large room. O'Neill didn't know what it was but it looked important.

Finished with his admiring, O'Neill turned his attention to the people in front of him. At the front most point there was a tall man dressed in white and beige as it seemed to be the norm for the Ancients. He appeared to be in his mid thirties. To his left there was a woman with red curly hair, dressed in a form fitting uniform. From her stance O'Neill could tell she was ex-military. Behind her sat another woman with a kind smile and golden hair with blue eyes. She wore a tight fitting white dress. Next to her was Commander Tucker. O'Neill wondered what he was doing here, after all this was supposed to be a diplomatic mission and there were already two members which had relations to the Ancient military force on the team. Commander Tucker had a holstered pistol on his left thigh and a holster with some kind of weird cylinder looking thing on his right. On the shoulder he had a patch that showed a flaming DP symbol in a white hexagon with what appeared to be letters on the edge. Slowly O'Neill's eyes moved to the last member of their welcoming party. A young man in his early twenties, black hair cut in a clearly military manner, cold steel like blue eyes that should belong on a war hardened veteran. The eyes were scanning the new arrivals critically, devoid of the kindness and light that they have shown when O'Neill first met the person. The man was dressed in black and white armor. His gloves and gauntlets were black and from his gauntlets three metal spikes curved backwards. The rest of his arm was black. His combat boots were also black as were his legs. On his torso there were white lines going to the center white stripe. On his shoulder was the same symbol that Commander Tucker had. O'Neill then turned to look at his weapons. The same pistol on his left thigh, which seemed to be a common, and on his right sight there was an odd looking thing strapped to his belt. It looked like a cross guard light saber. A white cloak hangs loose on his shoulders.

The older man stepped forward

"Hello, Ambassadors of the Tau'ri, Tok'ra and the Jaffa rebellion. I am High Councilor Albertus Anatolius; these are Councilors Helia Sylla, Tucker Andromedus and Mallia Gaius. And of course you know Supreme Commander Daniel Phantom" said Albertus

Joseph Faxon stepped forward

"Thank you for having us, I am Ambasador Joseph Faxon of the United States of America, this is General Hammond, leader of Stargate Command and this is SG1: Colonel Jack O'Neill, Major Samantha Carter, Dr. Daniel Jackson and Teal'c witch along with Master Bra'tac is representing the Jaffa rebellion" said Joseph

Selmack stepped forward and in his simbyote voice he said

"I am Selmak of the Tok'ra, my host is Jacob Cater and these are my aids" said Selmak

Albertus bowed in greeting and said

"Welcome to Atlantis"

M2S-5Y6

Atlantis meeting room

To say that the ambassadors were impressed was an understatement. The non Terrans in the group were certainly impressed by the technological prowess and architectural marvel of the city, but to the Terrans this city had a more important meaning.

Atlantis. This was the actual Lost City of Atlantis that sunk beneath the seas.

Apparently that part was true, only it didn't happen on Earth, or in this galaxy.

"So, flying city?" asked O'Neill

"Apparently so" muttered Joseph still in shock and currently running on auto-pilot

"Don't you think it's a bit big?" O'Neill asked Jackson

"Jack, they're the Ancients. They did everything big" said Jackson way to occupied with studying the architecture of the city than any normal person should be

The doors opened and Albertus, Helia and Phantom walked inside and took their seats at the round table. Phantom sat in the seat near Hammond and near Helia there was an empty space and next the Tok'ra were seated.

The audible chime of Asgard transporters was heard and two Asgard were deposited in their throne chair

"Greetings, I am Penegau of the Asgard" said Penegau

"I am Thor, Supreme Commander of the Asgard Fleet" said Thor as he introduced himself

"Greetings Thor, Penegau, thank you for coming" said Albertus "Now let us begin, we have called this summit to discuss the threat of the Goa'uld"

"Um, excuse me" butted in O'Neill "Why are we here?"

"You are here, because in this very moment you are the single most powerful military force in this Galaxy" said Danny

Silence was all that greeted that answer. That and hanging jaws from the earthlings present.

"What do you mean? We don't even have spaceships!" said O'Neill

"True but you still have the largest armies of us all, and you are the only ones capable of challenging the Goa'uld directly" said Danny

"And you can't?" asked O'Neill, asking the question that was on everyone's mind

"No" answered Danny, bowing his head in shame. To be a military leader and admit to being weak was a great shame, but one that refused to see the truth before his eyes was a true fool "Challenging the Goa'uld directly will result in the eradication of the last of our people"

"Supreme Commander Phantom what has happened? The last time I came to this city you were the undisputed rulers of the Pegasus Galaxy" asked Thor in a concerned voice

"An enemy happened, one that destroyed the Grand Fleet and slowly pounded us into dust, until only Atlantis remained" said Danny

The people in the room were shocked. There was an enemy out there that defeated the Ancients, the Gate builders.

"How could something like this have happened?" asked Bra'tack

Danny opened a holographic display that showed the stars of the Pegasus Galaxy glowing blue above their heads

"When we first arrived in the Pegasus Galaxy, we found it devoid of any life, in time we seeded new life in this galaxy where they appeared to be none, soon the new life grew and prospered and in time a thousand worlds bore the fruit of life in this form. Then one day our people sat foot upon a dark world where a terrible enemy slept. Never before have we encountered beings with powers that rival our own; in our overconfidence we were unprepared and outnumbered. The enemy fed upon the defenseless human worlds like a great scourge, until only Atlantis remained" the map slowly began to turn read until only one blue dot remained. The blue dot expanded and it showed a planet surrounded by hundreds of ships" this city's great shield was powerful enough to withstand their terrible weapons, but here we were besieged for many years. In an effort to save the last of our kind, we submerged our great city into the ocean. The Atlantis stargate was the one and only link back to Earth from that galaxy and those that remained used it to return to that world that was once home. There the last survivors of Atlantis lived out the remainder of their lifes. This city was left to slumber in the hope that our kind may one day return" finished Danny

The people in the room were stunned. There was an enemy out there that defeated the Ancients and Earth was once the home of the Ancients

"So the story of Atlantis is true" said Dr. Jackson looking into Albertus' eyes" a great city that sunk in the ocean"

Albertus nodded

"Truth be told we wanted Earth to join this alliance for one other reason" said Danny

"What other reason?" asked Joseph

"We need allies, more than that we need teachers. I have learned from the Nox that Earth has a great deal of experience in the Art of War, something that we are severally lacking. You see, until the Wraith rose to power, the only races that could realistically challenge us were the Asgard and the Furlings so we had no real reason to progress in the military department. Our military in itself was more for show than anything else. This progressed to such a state that in our time in Pegasus civilian administrators were placed in charge of fleets and they captained warships. Some like myself, Grand Admiral Hippofalacus and some other members including the Supreme Commander of that time opposed this, but they were overruled by the High Council. In short we grew arrogant and paid the price for our mistakes" finished Danny. Danny knew that adding himself in the mix was wrong, but he needed to make it look like he truly was an Ancient.

The Earth delegation was staring jaw slack at the Supreme Commander of the Ancient fleet. 'Did that really happen?' They thought. Did the guy in charge of the most powerful fleet in the Milky Way, ship wise at least, really asked for help from the inferior humans.

"Supreme Commander, we will discuss trade of military advisors in another meeting, but for now we must focus on the matter at hand" said Joseph

"The Goa'uld" stated Thor" I am sorry to say that we can be of no more use than we already are. We are fighting our own enemy in the galaxy of Ida"

"What kind of enemy?" asked Albertus

"Replicators" said Penegau "A race of self replicating machines that use blocks as base forms"

"Have you tried using disruptor technology on them?" asked Helia

"No, we were unsuccessful in creating such technology" said Thor

"Well we might be able to help you in that department. We've had replicator problems in the past as well and the weapon developed to counteract them should, in theory be successful in defeating the Replicators" said Danny

"We are grateful for this, your efforts may have just saved the Asgard race from certain destruction" said Thor

"I have also heard from the Nox that you're suffering from a genetic degradation problem due to cloning" said Danny

"That is correct, unfortunately our war with the Replicators has left us incapable of dedicating any sufficient number of scientists to look into our genetic degradation problem" said Penegau

"We might be able to help in that department as well. If I'm not mistaken our database contains the genetic code of the Asgard of old. A remanant from an old project" said Albertus

The Asgard stared at them with wide eyes

"We are in your debt High Chancellor. Our hope when we came to this meeting was to gain assistance in combating the Replicator threat, and now when we return we will be able to bring more great news to our people" said Thor

"Yea, great, let's not jump the horse here, all right?" said Danny. The Earth delegation was mildly surprised when Danny used an Earth expression, but they brushed it off as nothing" We still have to research bought the Replicator problem and your genetic degradation problem. At this moment nothing is set in stone" said Danny

"True, now we gathered here to discuss the threat posed by the Goa'uld" said Joseph

"Indeed, now first and foremost we need to know what is the status quo in the power structure of the Goa'uld System Lords" said Danny

Again the Earthlings were mildly surprised when Danny used a phrase that they haven't heard anywhere else except on Earth. This made Colonel O'Neill suspicious. What can they be hiding? Have they been living on Earth this entire time? Questions such as these made their way into the mind of one Jack O'Neill.

The meeting took several hours, but at the end of it the five factions reached an agreement. Earth will supply projectile weapons to the Ancients as well as ammunition. This was to defend against the replicators. The Asgard will be taking with them a contingent of 50 Ancients scientists escorted by four of the best troops at Danny's disposal. They will aid the Asgard in creating a disruptor weapon to end the threat posed by the Replicators and reasarch posibile cures for their genetic degradation. One hundred Earth Generals, Ambassadors and weapons experts will soon arrive on Atlantis and begin teaching them about asymmetric warfare tactics as well as imparting lessons that Earth had learned in its 5000 years of almost uninterrupted war and in the five years since the Gate had been opened. In return a number of Ancient engineers and scientists have been displaced to Earth to aid the Tau'ri in understanding some of their technology as well as helping them create a power source powerful enough to power a starship. This last term was met with heavy resistance from bought the Asgard and the Ancient High Council, however Danny explained that they simply didn't have the time to wait around for Earth to figure out everything by themselves and he explained that at most the scientists would be ordered to help improve their power generators, not their weapons or shields. Danny was optimistic, not stupid. Also Earth will provide a database with their history so the Ancients could classify and draw up a sketch of a Goa'uld's personality to be used when planning any attacks. The Tau'ri have offered to give the Ancients a database with Earth movies and other forms of entertainment, that is after they saw a ten year old child building a nuclear bomb on the premise that he was bored. The Tok'ra were the main intelligence network of the alliance. It was decided after much negotiation and borderline begging on the Ancient side to have the intelligence gathered by the Tok'ra sent to Atlantis for processing. A number of Tok'ra would be stationed on Atlantis to monitor the data and together with bought Earth and Ancient officers they would go over and analyze the data and come up with targets of strategic importance that can be attacked with hit and run techniques. Lastly Bra'tac would continue to rally support for the Jaffa rebellion while the Tau'ri and the Ancients would provide the logistical support needed to fund a rebellion.

City of Atlantis

Supreme Commander's quarters

Danny opened the doors with his telekinesis and shed his armor and weapons leaving a trail of clothes to the bed in which he promptly collapsed. Who knew that diplomacy could be so exhausting.

"Danny you awake?" asked Sam

Danny turned to look at his wife. She was wearing her night dress and he was wearing the skintight under-armor body suit. Sam was stroking her belly affectionately.

"No, what is it?" asked Danny

Sam smiled "Danny, I'm pregnant"

Danny's eyes bulged out of his head and his jaw hang lose. He stayed like that for what Danny could describe as being an eternity when in fact it was always a couple of minutes.

Sam looked at the shocked and unmoving face of her husband, he had been like this for a couple of minutes and Sam was beginning to wonder if she broke him.

Boy, did she wish he stayed that way longer.

Danny literally leaped off the bed and kissed her then he started bouncing off the walls… literally. Thorough Atlantis, at almost local midnight a single shout could be heard. The unmistakable voice of Supreme Commander Daniel Phantom.

"I'M GONNA BE A FATHER!"

Meanwhile Danny was still moving through the room like a five year old who drank a liter of coffee and was talking a mile a minute, so fast that he was constantly switching from English to Ancient, Asgard, Furling, Nox, Latin, German, Arabic, Esperanto, French, Spanish even a bit of Goa'uld.

Suddenly Tucker burst into the room looking worried. He didn't even get to open his mouth when Danny was suddenly in front of him rambling about babies and fathers. That didn't last long because he was suddenly stuck by a particle pistol stun round and quickly fell to the ground uncountious. Tucker looked behind his best friend/brother to see Sam holding Danny's pistol.

"Um… what happened?" asked Tucker confused

"I'm pregnant" said Sam and Tucker's eyes bulged out

"Oh, uh, congratulations" said Tucker. He paused to look at Danny's limp form before him "Restraints?" asked Tucker unsure

"Restraints" confirmed Sam

As they were in the process of cuffing Danny to the bed, Albertus, Helia and a very pregnant Jazz walked in the room. They stopped when they saw the scene before them

"Um, why are you cuffing my brother to the bed?" asked Jazz

"I'm pregnant" said Sam

"Oh, that explains it" Jazz muttered "So, he basically had a freak out?" asked Jazz

"Kin off, we're still unsure if freak out is the best way to describe it" said Tucker

"We'll go" said Albertus. While he was a close friend of the Phantom family, this was clearly a family matter "Tell Danny that he can take a weak off" said Helia as the two walked off

"So what do we do now?" asked Jazz as she was looking at her brother who was cuffed and gagged on the bed.

Sam and Tucker shrugged and left the room leaving a confused Jazz and an uncountious Danny in the room.

A/N: The alliance has formed and the Goa'uld are in for a beating. I'm sorry for putting you through all this political talk, but rest assured that giant space battles are in the near future. Also sorry for forcing the timeline a bit so it goes like this: Danny spends 4 months on the Orion alone, another month is the actual journey to Pegasus and on the way the find the Tria then 13 months they spend in Pegasus on Atlantis. Also, what name should Danny's son have?