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Chapter XII

August 2015

Free Federation

"Captain Evans, Sir!"

Harry looked to the ships navigator as she had called him while they were approaching the large Earth Class planet that was on the boarder of the Milky Way and Andromeda Galaxies.

"It's an Ori ship!" she said which got everyone on high alert immediately. "They've been confronted by an unknown vessel, and we have yet to be noticed."

"Amber Alert!" he muttered, and the lighting turned a flashing orange while Sam was standing beside him within the curved, raised area with curved desk overlooking the rest of the bridge on an upper tier, with two more slightly lower either side, and the floor of the main bridge almost completely transparent with holographic overlays of outside, as was the ceiling and walls.

Sam whispered something in his ear while he nodded. The rest of SG1 were on the bridge now sporting black military uniforms that were of the same quality and design as the rest of the crews' uniforms.

Harry was wearing black trousers with and white armoured vest underneath, and form hugging black long sleeved turtleneck under that. He wore a crimson coloured jacket with SGC planetary logo with his wand on his left thigh and a black energy pistol on his right like other command and military members of the crew, SG1 included.

"Keep close to the planet's atmosphere, and let it hide our signal for now!" he said while looking out at the huge white curved ship that was in the region of ten times the size of the Spiritus, and double that for the other unknown ship. The unknown ship was brown and rustic, elongated, but squared, and had an old look about it, and seemed to be old transport freighter so they wouldn't know why they confronted the Ori.

"I thought the Ori came by gate!" Cam said as he moved up behind them looking at the ships on the holo-monitors.

"The planet is vast in size!" Teal'c commented. "Maybe their magic could not stretch far enough. The population of that world is vast enough to resist and spread throughout all of its continents."

"Why don't we just blow them out of the sky?" Cam suggested while everyone turned to him. "This 'battleship' does have big guns, right?"

"Sir's, ma'am!" the helm called urgently. "The Ori ship has just opened fire, and the other ship is taking heavy damage. Their ship doesn't appear to have any shielding, only armour. The Ori aren't letting them leave!"

"Okay, then Cam's way it is, Red Alert," Harry muttered while the lighting started flashing red as he turned back to his console and typed in commands with a smirk. "Pull out of orbit now, head towards the unknown craft and prepare for emergency teleports!" he commanded and the ship pulled out of the planets pull with ease and cannons slid open and up shooting a barrage of purple bolts of pure energy, shattering into the Ori's shields.

Meanwhile on the unknown ship within the bridge the people onboard had been angered that these Ori had turned up above a planet within their system of protection. However, they were attacked without warning and their ship wasn't equipped for battle, and it would be a few hours until reinforcements would arrive.

Their armour plating had depolarised and they prepared for a fiery doom. However, when they detected a new ship and it didn't even open any communication link and started firing on the Ori without hesitation they realised that the Ori were at war with these people; whoever they might be and that gave them a chance at trying to fix their ship.

However, their ship was damaged beyond repair, well repair outside of a space dock at least. Their engines were down and their ship was falling to pieces. They could only accept that the unknown alien vessel would never get through the Ori, and get to them fast enough to dock and save who they could if they were friendly.

That was when they realised the unknown alien ship had broken through the Ori's line and had force fields that were brushing off the minor attack beams, and sending as good as it got and then some more, and then out of nowhere there was a flash of brilliant white light and they were gone.

"Captain...?"

His first officer called looking lost as they were no longer on their ship, and with all their crew. They were in some kind of artificial park. It was lush with greeneries and plants of varieties they had never seen before. The light was dim and red and looking up they could just stare in awe, out into space through a domed glass ceiling that might not actually be transparent from the outside by the look of it.

They watched in awe as huge yellow and pink circles of light with strange markings, symbols, and words lit up around the front of the ship they were now on, spreading out, getting smaller to the front for several rings. The rings flashed and a concentrated beam of white light cut through the Ori's shields and tore their ship in two, ripping apart its engines, and it exploded just as their ship turned away and jumped in a flash of blue light; the stars whizzed by overhead in a phantasm of blue colours.

"Teleportation technology?!" the captain muttered to himself in awe.

"No way... this can't be warp...!" his first officer said in amazement. "This is faster, much faster," he mumbled before the ship came to a stop, surprisingly back at the planet where they could see debris from their ship, and the Ori.

"It's called hyperdrive!" They were interrupted, startled as the lights went on and the red turned off, as a man walked into the chamber with several armed men from some automated doors to the side. "Yes, like most of the Ori and the people of that planet we are human," Harry said with a small grin. "We are from the planet Terra; to other worlds we are mostly known as the Tau'ri, a sub species of human-."

"Terra...?" Cam interrupted.

Sam rolled her eyes. "We decided that if we do make first contact with a new race like this that we actually need our translators; they won't translate the earth correctly, and things would get confusing, so we subbed it for the Latin name of our planet," she said rolling her eyes but he looked lost.

"The translators will translate earth into either ground, dirt, or even give our planet the same name as theirs because of the way it works and interfaces with speech patterns," Daniel simplified things while the aliens looked confused.

"Sorry," Harry said with a wider grin. "I am Captain Harry Evans of the Battleship Spiritus. We have an exploration team on the planet and got a distress call when Ori turned up. We'll be heading down to the planet to put a stop to the Ori and to assess whether we can make constant contact and trade possible, or whether they're still too primitive, in which case we will remove their Stargate and place this planet under our protection until such a time as they're ready to join the rest of the universe as there is no use trying to force it upon them."

"What is a Stargate?" The captain stepped forward rather rudely. He was a small man with cool calculating eyes and sharp teeth. He wore a grey uniform with red stripes around his shoulders, and long pointed ears.

"Harry; he's a goblin!" Sam commented staring at him.

The goblin looked to her in surprise. "You have met my kind before?" he demanded quickly.

"I think you have a lot to learn!" Harry said with a smirk as he looked around to see several different species, all of which were looking to him for answers. "Lose any deep space exploration ships in the last few thousand years-?"

"Captain," Sam interrupted as she handed Harry a white tablet computer.

"Oh, right, sorry," he said sheepishly. "In the last 398 gravidic cycles, or so, is, that right?"

"I believe you mean 787 galactic years, there about!" a Centaur stepped forward, wearing a jacket, and glasses over his eyes unlike with Centaurs of Earth. And he gave off a vibe that nerds everywhere would be proud of. "It is the standard for the Free Federation to use galactic years rather than using gravity to measure time as it can be unpredictable and bent; too unreliable."

"Thank you," Sam said. "I'm Major Samantha Carter of Stargate Command!" she introduced herself. "It is nice to meet you."

"You too, Major!" he agreed with a nod. "But I must ask, what is the Stargate?"

"It's an ancient piece of technology," she began. "It literally does what the name says and creates instant gateways between worlds."

"Fascinating," he said with widened eyes. "You have met my kind before, within your galaxy?"

"No, but the Captain has!" she replied and he turned to Harry.

He sighed, rubbing his eyes. "Yeah... they kind of live in wooded areas, hidden my mage... umm... mystical Tau'ri. We can create a natural connection to Zero-Point-Energy-."

"You mean sorcery?" the goblin Captain asked.

"Yes," he said sheepishly, "although there isn't anything magical about it, for a few thousand of my planets years it has been believed that we were special and that our abilities were special, until I proved the idiots wrong-."

"You have artificially created this power," the centaur commented as he looked around the garden in wonderment.

"Yes," he agreed, nodding. "This space, I had built because it would help to have a nice, normal-ish place to go when on long trips into the nothingness of deep space. But please, tell me a bit about this Pangalactic Federation?"

"It's falling apart! It has been for very long time!" interrupted a young woman as she stepped forward. She was taller than the goblin and much more human. She was thin wearing green strips around her shoulders while still wearing the same uniform, and they thought she was Veela before they took stock of the pointed ears and long smooth black hair down her back.

"The Federation is dying," she said glaring at her Captain before glaring at Harry. "You are not the only kind at war – those devils in small skin lay waste to those who do not bow down to them. Why do you think that a transport vessel was the front line to confront the unknown ship? It wasn't any kind of noble gesture to protect that planet! It was with the hope of finding a new world outside of their domain to fight with us; a new world to flee too that could protect us."

"Enough!" her Captain retorted, growling. "We shall not talk of the Howzetaelphs. Those monsters are rotten fiends!"

"But look!" she said angrily. "These people are powerful!"

"They are also at war, Doctor!" the centaur commented.

"They could help us!" she replied with angry tears in her crystal blue eyes. "I will not become a slave to those things!"

Harry sighed as he tapped his watch. "Bridge, how long until those other ships reach us?"

"Approximately three hours, Sir!" came the reply while the new 'aliens' looked at him in surprise.

"Very well... Cam," he said looking at the man, "you cave the helm Colonel," he said, shocking him. "I believe we'll have extra guests in about three hours. I want that Prier off that planet in the next hour, SG-Three onboard this ship, alive and well, and the Stargate onboard so we can communicate with the SGC, immediately understand!?"

"Yes Sir!" he quickly agreed, rushing out of the chamber.

Harry turned back to the others. "I hope some of you can brief us on what we're dealing with because we have to tell our people something if we're going to join a war. We already have the Ori in our galaxy, the Wraith in the Pegasus Galaxy, and now the Andromeda Galaxy comes calling!" he said, and turned, leading them after him. "The first officer, doctor, and captain come with me, Teal'c, please could you escort our guests to some quarters."

"Very well," he agreed, leading them after him with some guards splitting off to follow them.

Six hours later according to that weird clock thing, and that was by Tau'ri planetary time and he had gotten bored out of his skull waiting around in his room. The Pangalactic reinforcements had arrived and some ambassador guy had been teleported onboard with some of his people. It was amazing since he had thought that sort of thing was the stuff of dreams, or nightmares as those things, he shuddered thinking about them.

He was twelve according to their calendar, but he was cool with that as it made him a year older. The Pangalactic Federation were recruiting younger and younger because of the war. He wasn't expected to fight, but he had other uses, and could man the comm. relays or something like that. He had just been apprenticed to the ships cook, and she was a serious task master, and he hoped she didn't find out that he had snuck out of his room and was wandering around the most advanced warship he had ever seen; it was like something he couldn't even imagine.

He was startled a moment later as he was almost trampled by a black man with bald head in a black uniform with a gold circle thing on his forehead as he exited what looked like the mess hall. Teal'c looked down at the pale blue skinned child. The boy looked up at him with wide purple eyes with slanted pupils and took a step back as the man was buff and wearing military uniform.

"Are you lost?" Teal'c asked the child, by human standards he would look around ten years old. He had a long whip like tail coming from his Pangalactic uniform, which had no colour indicting rank, and he shook his head, which had pointed ears up through his hair long blue hair that hung to his mid-neck. "I know it is terrible to be planted in the middle of a war, and worse that someone so young has no choice but to do their part. I was thirteen when I started down the path I am on now, but I was forced as then a race of pretend gods called the Goa'uld controlled my people through fear of what we would believe was more than technology.

"Please, try to keep out of people's way while looking around," he finished with a tight smile as he was reminded of his son, but his son was a bit more troubled while this boy still had an air of innocence, which should be treasured, not squandered, especially in such trying times as war, and he knew that more than most growing up the way he had.

"U-umm, thanks, Mister," he said as Teal'c moved on. "But what happened to these Goa'uld guys?" he asked quickly.

"My name is Teal'c," he replied and this time smiled fully as he stopped and stared back at the boy with pride. "They met the Tau'ri, and the Tau'ri chose not to succumb, and together with many other humans spread out through the Milky Way Galaxy, and further, the Goa'uld fell from power," he said before turning and walking away. "I have faith," he said pausing at a turning, "that the Tau'ri will be victorious again and again as long as they look to a better future for everyone, no matter the planet of origin, or the species, they are stubborn and imaginative, and that gives them strength," he finished before moving around the corner.

"Wow, wait, my names Eadaemar!" he called out but it was too late as the man had gone. He was awed and wowed. The Tau'ri sounded pretty awesome to him. They had conquered invaders before and set so many people free, and they were now fighting these Wraiths he had heard about from the computer, and the Ori, which sounded like complete jerks.

"Yo, Kid!"

He nearly jumped a mile in the air, or at least hit the ceiling as Harry had tapped him on the shoulder, and he was staring by the ships builder and captain. Harry was grinning widely as he looked him over before used a plastic thing to scan him before putting it back in its holster without comment on the act. He didn't even seem to show a sign that he did anything to merit any question, and he didn't ask about it.

"Sorry there aren't any other kids onboard for you to play with," Harry said impishly, "and we don't have any game consoles onboard, which kind of sucks, but I'll put that on the list of must have things for Terran ships in the future. Anyway, where are your parents?" he asked, looking around. "I heard your name is Eadaemar from what you just shouted, but I think Teal'c might have heard you."

"My parents died a few years ago," he said, looking away to a nearby window where he could see the planet below. "They died with my planet! I joined the Federation when I was smart enough to have some use to them so that someday I could rise up in the ranks, and get revenge against the Howzetaelphs."

Harry smirked and pulled the boy to face him. "Sometimes mate, it is better to let things go, or they'll eat at you, but you'll never rise to any rank without the proper education, unless you're a super genius like me!"

The boy suddenly sneered at him and glared, pulling away. "What would you know about anything!?" he demanded angrily with tears welling up in his eyes. "Your whole world is perfectly fine for you to return to any time you want!"

"It is," he agreed, leaning up against a wall with sagging shoulders and a sigh. "It may not be the same, but one man took everything I had from me because change and progress scared him because with it he would lose power, and control over our people. But before that, he used his powers so that my father could repeatedly rape my mother without her even realising she was a victim. I was a product of that. Then my twin brother became a famous hero at fifteen months old because of... well, look it up on the database later if you are interested in the full truth. Then suddenly my mother and father hated me because this old man told them too.

"I was prophesised to change my world. The hidden magical community had lived in the dark ages for years, believing they were superior to the non-magical, while the non-magical evolved and technology grew. I wanted to make everyone equal, and I suppose in a way that was because my brother had been lorded over me as superior, but I was always smarter, and I took back my family, my little sister, thank whatever was never controlled or harmed like my mother was, not then at least, but I know there were future plans that might have made me tear their world apart and kill them all, but I took her back, and my family. My father is now a wanted fugitive, along with the old man and thousands of my people."

"But your family wasn't dead!" he retorted while his voice went down an octave.

Harry smiled sadly and nodded in agreement as he crouched down and pulled the boy into his arms. "Yes, and now I have my mother, sister, and younger brother back, and somewhere my twin brother tries his hardest to do what is right to make up for all the bad he had done for the old man," he said while the boy melted into his embrace, holding back, nearly in tears.

"To get even, you must play the game smart," Harry said, stroking the boys long blue hair and kissing his forehead.

"But mum and dad, and everyone-," he sobbed, looking up with tears in his eye as he held onto Harry tightly, not wanting to let go as an adult finally understood what he meant, what he was about.

"They will be missed greatly," he agreed, feeling for the child. "But they will live on in your memory; in the memory of every member of your race that lives on to fight another day, not for revenge, but to bring them justice, so they can finally rest easily in the knowledge that everyone is safe and happy!

"My world is about to change vastly, and it will be hard for many of my people, magical or not," he said pulling back from the boy, but still holding him comfortingly. "But the upside will be that a smart young lad like you will have a vast choice of schools you can attend, where you should be because war is no place for children. You need to learn, make friends, fall in love, and then when you're ready Stargate Command, or our-our... hmm... Star Force will be waiting for you to help make a difference in the universe."

"T-thanks," the boy muttered while Harry stood, letting the child go, he offered his right hand.

"Come on, we'll be leaving soon," Harry said, "some of your crew will be staying on as embassies with a few other higher ranked officials that we'll be picking up before we head back to terra, with you, so you'll be safe, and you will get a future. I thought you might like to see what it was like, entering hyperdrive from the bridge?" he suggested with a grin while the boy nodded his head eagerly, and took Harry's offered hand in his left, and allowed him to lead him to the bridge.

Sam sighed as she had been standing in the doorway to the mess hall while Harry made a new friend, but smiled a little. She couldn't work that man out. He was unreadable, unbiased. He really didn't see the difference between races. He thought of them all as equal, and he had likely brought them into a new war, but seeing him with that child, she couldn't try to stop him. She knew that these people needed help, and she knew it was the right thing to do, and it would be done.

to be continued...