Authors Note: I do not Own Harry Potter, or any of the Stargate franchise. This is written for my own entertainment, and hopefully yours as well.
"Everyone secure?" Harry asked through the city-ships communication system.
"We're good Harry," came Hermione's voice.
Leaning back in the control chair, Harry engaged the upgraded star drive of the newly christened 'Avalon'. Avalon was the first fully upgraded Asuran city-ship, and the new Alterans had a very special plan for it. It was a slightly different design than Atlantis and was about 30 percent bigger, containing more meeting rooms, living quarters, and a significantly larger computer core, which Fleur was fully enjoying and taking advantage of.
There were some vibrations as Avalon broke free of Asuras' gravity and cleared the atmosphere. Asuras was protected with the same satellite system that both Lantea (the planet that Atlantis was on) and Chaya's planet of Proculus had. In the case of Lantea and Asuras, Harry, and by extension Fleur, was the secret keeper. A nice side effect of this is that any Fleur controlled ship could navigate to the planet without any of the crew or passengers on board having to know the secret.
After some testing, they had found that once taken to the planet, the passenger would know that they were on the planet in question, but they did not know where it was, nor would they be able to find to it again on their own, even if they were in orbit just outside the protected area.
The one weakness in Atlantis' protection was the Stargate. There were two guards however against any attack through the gate. The first was the energy field at the event horizon that would destroy anything traveling when it was engaged. The other protection was a bit more humane, Harry had installed similar sensors that the egg ships had. Any travelers coming through that were not on a pre-approved list were automatically transported to the brig, where they could be sorted out without having to kill them instantly. The shield would only be used in the case that the brig was full or they were facing a full invasion through the gate. Asura's Stargate was outside of the Fidelius so that back door did not exist at that location.
Once Avalon was clear of the planet's Fidelius protection and in a high enough orbit to make the jump, Harry confirmed the course with Fleur and engaged the intergalactic hyperdrive. The trip would take them several hours, so Harry disengaged from the chair and joined the others who were standing on a balcony watching the blue and black lines pass them by.
"That was painless." Harry commented as he hugged Chaya from behind.
Ayiana scoffed, "As if you expected anything else. Between your and Fleur's quadruple checks, it's a wonder that we had any vibrations at all." She teased him.
"I'm so sorry for your discomfort." Harry responded with a mock apology, "I'll ensure that next time her majesty does not feel a thing."
Ayiana raised an eyebrow and then gave him a stiff nod. "Be sure that you do." She replied before purposefully turning away from him with her head held high. This was too much for Hermione and Chaya who burst up laughing at their antics. Ayiana turned to them with a look of mock outrage before breaking into laughter herself.
They soon left the balcony and sat down in a lounge into order to hang out for the duration of the trip. Harry brought up a hologram of the city ship, zooming in on the top of a spire close to the central tower. "I thought that we could make these our quarters. Chaya and I will take this one," he highlighted a nice sized apartment with a few rooms. "And Hermione you could take this one," he highlighted a slightly smaller one across the hall, "with Ayiana right next to you in this one." He highlighted an identical apartment to Hermione's.
Hermione and Ayiana made eye contact and both gave a small nod. Hermione spoke up, "Actually Harry, Ayiana and I would like to share an apartment." She said before gently taking up Ayiana's hand in her own.
Harry's eye's widened slightly in surprise. He of course knew that Hermione had a crush on Ayiana, but he was not aware that Ayiana felt that way about women, much less that the two had become an item. He recovered quickly and gave them a smile, "Ok, how about you two take this one then?" He highlighted an exact copy of his and Chaya's apartment that was directly next door.
Ayaia nodded, "That will work just fine for us." Hermione nodded her head in agreement.
Chaya had a large grin on her face, directed at the new couple. She of course had known about their budding relationship, but respected their privacy and had not told Harry anything.
Harry let the hologram vanish and leaned back on the couch. "So, first: congratulations, and second: when did this happen?"
"Well, I already told you that I realized had a crush on her." Harry nodded in confirmation as Hermione began to tell the story. "Well, I finally brought it up with her last week during our morning lesson. We paused the program and simply talked for the rest of the morning. Despite the work that you two have been doing Ayiana does not remember if she had any relationships in her past life, but admitted to me that since she woke up, she finds all of us physically attractive."
Ayiana cut in. "My mind doesn't seem to distinguish between male and female in terms of sexual attraction. I have seen enough images of humans to know that I'm not simply attracted to everyone; however the three of you are indeed, sexy, to coin an English term?."
Harry burst out laughing at that. "Why thank you for the complement Ayiana." Chaya responded over Harry's laughing.
Ayiana nodded and then continued, "After I explained this to Hermione, she asked me if I would like to enter into a romantic relationship with her. Hermione was already a close friend and would make a wonderful partner, so I accepted."
Hermione cut in, "We wanted to give it a few days for it to sink in before telling you, so we asked Fleur to keep it secret."
"Of course you are entitled to your privacy; Fleur knows to treat that kind of information confidential as long as it doesn't threaten our safety." Harry replied. "So, of course I already know of your plot to assassinate me." He finished with a wink.
"Oh damn!" Hermione declared. "Guess it's back to the drawing board."
That successfully transitioned the conversation away from relationships and into silly banter combined with sharing updates and ideas on the different projects they were each working on.
They were just finishing up a light lunch when Avalon came out of hyperspace. They didn't feel the change, but Fleur appeared and announced their arrival moments later. The planet they arrived at was in the Milky Way, relatively close to Earth. It was similar in size to Earth, but had a higher percentage of it's surface covered in water. In fact there were only two land masses on the entire planet, each about the size of Australia.
There was no significant land animal life, but the soil on the continents was very fertile and both continents contained a large variety of plant life. The sea however was a different story. The water was practically bursting with life, both plant and creature. The largest of these creatures, according to the scans, grew to about 100 meters long, and much like a blue whale would simply open its mouth and swallow in smaller prey, the water being filtered out back into the sea. There were a large assortment of more vicious predators of a smaller size as well, but Fleur had already designed a type of sonar pulse that would keep the local sea life several hundred meters away from Avalon by causing an uncomfortable vibration in the bones of the larger sea residents. Smaller creatures that would eventually serve as meals were not affected by the vibrations due to their size. Much of the plant life in the water was also edible and would be used to feed the residents of Avalon as well.
The planet did not originally have a Stargate due to the fact that it was not scientifically interesting at the time that the original Alterans were populating planets. Because of this, it was completely un-discovered and untouched by any other species. There was no intelligent life to speak of. In a word, it was perfect for them.
Fleur had collected a large list of possible uninhabited planets for the group to look at as they considered where they were going to set up a base of operations in the Milky Way. After much deliberation, they finally decided on this one.
There were several ideas on what to name the planet, but they eventually ended with Altera, which seemed like a good name for the new home planet of the Alterans.
Harry gently set them down a short flight away from the larger of the two continents. The shield was lowered and the repelling sonar was turned on. Again Harry joined the women on the balcony, but this time overlooking their new home.
"Welcome to Altera, everyone." He said softly, simply taking in the moment. The green continent was visible in the distance and there was a light breeze coming from the west, gently cooling the warm afternoon sun.
"It's beautiful." Hermione breathed.
The group stood there for a few minutes lost in thought. Eventually Harry broke the silence. "Ok, I'm going to go set up the Fidelius."
They all had a designated job to do. Chaya was going to take a ship with a group of nanites over to the continent and get them started on creating a small farm that would be maintained and worked by the nanites under Fleur's control.
Hermione would be heading over to the spire that was going to serve as the academy in order to start preparing for the first students, and Ayiana was going to the main medical tower, again in preparation for a soon to be growing population.
An hour later, Harry placed the last satellite in orbit around Altera. With a mental command to Fleur, the satellite system powered up and its location was firmly placed in his mind, fully wiping out any other knowledge of the planet from almost everyone else. Chaya, and the rest of the ascended were immune to the effect of the charm.
With the defense grid now firmly in place Harry returned to Avalon. He flashed to the Academy and found Hermione. "Altera is the second planet from the Altera sun." It was circular logic, but the intent to share the secret was more important than the actual message, so Hermione was now in the know.
Harry flashed over to the medical tower where Ayiana was running diagnostics on the newly finished medical beds. The Asurans had no need for such things, and as such they had not created any. Harry repeated the secret to Ayiana and then continued to assist her in prepping the medical systems for the rest of the afternoon.
Several days later Avalon was running smoothly, all automated security systems were up and running, and the nanites on the continent were getting the soil ready to plant seeds. Chaya had returned to her people in order to settle a dispute between two towns which would likely take several days. Ayiana and Hermione only had two weeks left in their pre-planned education, so they decided to double up their sessions in order to get it done in a single week. This cost them their afternoons, but the plan was to have the first students of the academy come in several months, and there was a lot to do. The least of which was to find and recruit those students!
Facing a week with no afternoon planning meetings or training, and no Chaya to hang out with in the mornings, Harry decided to give his friends at the SGC a call. He hadn't heard from them since he had helped SG1 escape from Hathor. General Hammond's call to him with the news that SG1 was captured and that his superiors refused to send reinforcements was not well received by Harry. The fact that it cut short a small vacation that he was taking with Chaya on Proculus did not serve to temper his annoyance. Sure he had gone in and helped his friends out, but he was fairly short with the group after it was all said and done. It goes without saying that the Tok'ra did not get a good first impression of him.
He had caught up with Thor after they added Earth to the protected planets treaty. Harry hadn't attended that event because they didn't want the Goa'uld to know about the Alterans yet. For now, Harry was more than happy to work from the shadows like they did with Moloc. The exact same trick wouldn't work of course with other System Lords, but Moloc just happened to be ripe for the picking with an already rebelling Jaffa high in his court. Apophis would have been another candidate, but he was too much in the public eye of the other system lords, and it was likely that the changes would have been noticed.
Harry dialed Earth and projected his image through their iris. "Greetings people of Earth." He called out.
As it so happened, SG1 and several other SG teams were about to leave on a mission so they walked in with full gear.
"Harry!" Jack greeted him. "You're not mad anymore more I hope."
Harry chuckled, "Nah, mostly I was just annoyed that you had to go and get captured durring my vacation. Where are you headed off to?"
"Going to collect some of Daniel's old friends, it turns out the Abydonians need a bit of saving." Jack responded, clearly trusting Harry with confidential mission information that he could probably get anyway by hacking into their computers.
"Sounds like fun. Can I come?"
Jack shrugged and glanced up to the overlooking window at General Hammond. Hammond leaned over to press the button that activated the speaker system. "I'm sure Col. O'Neill would be glad to have you along Harry."
Harry nodded once, "Ok I'm coming through." He then deactivated the projected image and summoned his basilisk armor. After sending a mental note to Fleur asking her to inform Hermione and Ayiana where he went, Harry stepped through the Avalon Stargate for the first time.
The Avalon gate was in a special armored and warded room and had all of the same protections that the one at Atlantis had. The room itself however was quite different than the one in Atlantis. It was designed to be a public reception area, and had several tables and comfortable couches. It was actually Hermione's idea to not have the gate in the main control center of the city, which kept the inner workings of the city out of easy range of any curious visitors. Their re-design put the gate room three stories below the main control center.
They took about five minutes to brief Harry on the situation with the Abydonians before they all left through the gate. Several hundred meters from the gate was a makeshift cage holding the Abydonians. It was only guarded by about a half dozen Jaffa whom the SG teams quickly disposed of.
Jack blew the lock on the cage to release the prisoners. As they were running out, an elderly man grabbed Daniel. He called Daniel "Son" which caught Harry's ear. Their 30 second conversation concluded with the man bringing Daniels attention to a woman standing at the entrance to a tent not far from the cage. Judging by Daniels reaction, and the fact that the well-dressed woman was calmingly watching them, Harry figured that the woman was most likely Sha're, Daniels wife, and current host to the Goa'uld Amonet.
"Let's go Daniel." Jack ordered and was promptly ignored. A Jaffa came out of the tent and was quickly shot down by Daniels handgun. A second Jaffa was able to get a staff blast off that missed Daniel, but the shock sent him to the ground. Before the Jaffa could line up his staff to fire what would be a killing blow, a thin dart flew towards the Jaffa and pierced him in his unprotected hand. The Jaffa fell to the ground dead a moment later, the larval Goa'uld not having the ability to even slow down the effect of basilisk venom inserted directly into the bloodstream.
Harry looked down at his wrist, "I love these things, not nearly as crude as your guns or staff weapons, and twice as deadly."
Teal'c, who had been about to fire at the same Jaffa lowered his staff. "I did not see you fire any weapon Harry."
In response Harry slowly released a dart and flew it over to Teal'c so that he could see it. "This wrist guard contains several thousand of these darts, and I can control where they go. They have been soaked in a deadly toxin that kills almost instantly."
"It is a formidable weapon." Teal'c complemented.
While they were talking several things happened, Daniel ran into the tent after Sha're and dozens of Jaffa started running over the hill and opened fire. Harry and Teal'c were slightly separated from the rest of the SGC member who had taken cover behind small mounds of dirt. Harry and Teal'c dropped to the ground. Teal'c opened fire with his staff and Harry sent 10 darts out, all which found their mark. The rest of the team members were making a strong dent in the Jaffa numbers so Harry decided that would be needed in the tent, it was doubtful that Daniel would be able to shoot Sha're, regardless of the fact that she would likely kill him.
"Teal'c!" Harry shouted over the gun fire. "I'm going to go help Daniel."
Teal'c nodded and continued to fire. Harry fired off a strong expulso at the hill in order to cover him getting up and running over to the tent. The spell had the desired effect and a third of the remaining Jaffa went flying as the ground below them literally exploded in chunks of dust and dirt.
When Harry arrived at the tent he saw Daniel on his knees and Sha're attacking him with her hand device. "Ah hell." Harry swore as he took in the scene. Sha're turned to him and her eyes glowed, but before she could do much more than blink, Harry slammed her with an overpowered stunner.
Daniel collapsed next to her and saw that her eyes were closed and that she wasn't moving. "Sha're! Sha're!" He shouted in panic.
"She will be fine Daniel." Harry assured him from the tent entrance. "I'll get that snake out of her faster than you can say 'Sam's an astro nerd' and you will have your wife back."
"Harry?" Daniel turned to look at him. "I thought Teal'c… nevermind." He then collapsed back down next to his unconscious wife, gently holding her hand.
Harry stood there silently, making sure that the Goa'uld didn't overcome the stunner before they could secure it. Fairly soon, the gunfire stopped and the rest of SG1 came rushing into the tent.
"Daniel!" Jack yelled once he saw his friend down on the floor.
"Daniel is fine, Jack. Though I think he is probably a bit overwhelmed." Harry reassured him. Jack nodded and went over and knelt next to Daniel, putting a hand on his shoulder.
"Come on Daniel," he said softly, "let's go home."
Daniel nodded once and looked over to Harry, "You will free her?"
"You have my word, Daniel"
After a moment of silence Daniel spoke again, "I want to stay with her."
Jack looked about to object, but Harry cut in, "That's not a problem Daniel." He looked at the rest of the team. "You guys want a ride home in style? Sha're will be up and about before we get to Earth."
Sam looked about to burst with excitement at the idea of getting to see a bit more of Harry's ship, "Sir, permission to ride home with Harry."
Jack gave her a condescending look, "This isn't a car pool Carter."
She looked down in embarrassment, but Jack continued. "All right we can go." He paused, "But I'm riding shotgun!"
Teal'c didn't get the joke, but everyone else cracked a smile. Jack made a quick call to the leader of SG3 to let them know what they were up to.
"Everyone ready?" Harry asked. Hearing no objections, he removed the Lily from his pocket and tossed it out of the tent doorway. The ship expanded to gate size before stopping and hovering just off the ground. A moment later they were all beamed into a lounge. Sha're's body was hovering at waist height. "Fleur," Harry called out for SG1's benefit. "Could you beam me the…" he stopped as the device that they had designed to remove Goa'uld from a host was beamed and hovering in front of his face. "Thanks."
Sam took a look at the device. "Is that what I think it is?"
"A Goa'uld-sucker-outter?" Harry asked with a smile. "It sure is." Harry took the device and carefully placed the mouthpiece over Sha're. "Daniel, come press this button." Harry called out, feeling that Daniel should have a hand in freeing his wife. Daniel did just that, and moments later the little snake came squirting into the device.
The device, complete with Goa'uld was beamed away immediately. "It's secure." Harry assured them before they could ask. "Come, let's get Sha're checked out medically before I wake her up." He walked out of the room followed by a levitated Sha're and a curious SG1.
Harry took them to the ship's medical bay and gently lowered Sha're onto a healing bed. "The bed will scan her and take care of any problems that she might have from the removal process." Harry explained. While the bed did its magic, Harry sent a mental note to Fleur to take them to Earth.
Minutes later, the bed announced that Sha're was just fine. She slowly opened her eyes. "Daniel? Daniel, my love, is that you?"
"I'm here Sha're." Daniel responded as he took her hand. Harry gestured the rest of SG1 to follow him out of the room and give the two some privacy for their reunion.
Harry took them to an observation window, which wasn't actually a window as all views to the outside of the ship were based on cameras and scanners. Sam gasped when she saw the window, a clear view of North America from orbit was showing. "How did we get here so fast? I didn't even know we had left yet."
"The Lily is a bit faster than anything the Goa'uld can hack together Sam." Harry said dryly.
"Indeed." Responded Teal'c. "Even with the faster motherships of Apophis that trip would have taken several hours."
Harry smiled, "So, shall we interrupt the love-birds?"
Jack shrugged. "We probably should give them a bit more time, but we will need to get back and debrief the General about the rescue mission soon."
"Ok then, I'm feeling generous Sam, so let's kill a few minutes. You get to ask one question about the Lily, and I will give you a full and honest answer." Harry announced.
Sam gasped, and soon after the three men could see the wheels turning in Sam's head as she pondered what that question would be. Half a minute passed and Sam looked no closer to deciding. Suddenly the Jeopardy theme started playing, telling Sam that she was on the clock. As soon as it finished Harry spoke, "Time's up, what is your question?"
Sam let out a breath, "How is the Lily bigger on the inside than on the outside?" She eventually decided on that question, mostly due to the fact that she didn't even have any theories on how it might be possible.
"That's a good one," Harry declared. "The Lily maintains a small artificial dimension and dynamically moves the mass of the ship in and out of it. Only the engines and weapon systems are outside of it in real space when the ship is shrunken down. The computer, in this case Fleur, takes care of maintaining what is in and out of the dimension at any given time, as well as keeping the doorways seamless, so that passengers can't tell when they are in or out. When the ship is full size, like now, it is about two and a half km long, and just about everything is in real space. When the ship is what I call gate sized, only the weapons and sub-light engines are in real space. Of course, when the Lily is pocket size, almost everything is in the dimension and she can't do much more than hover."
Jack and Teal'c had clearly been lost after the first sentence, but Sam seemed to follow his explanation. Harry shrugged, "I'll send you the original specs and designs for creating and maintaining a pocket dimension. It would take more power than the entirety of Earth produces in a year, so I'm not too worried about you guys getting into too much trouble. But a fair warning, if done wrong, creating a pocket dimension is a good way to get yourself blown up." Harry would send her the oldest Alteran specs, not the new designs that made the process require much less power, regardless; the math involved would take someone as smart as Sam over a year of study to figure out enough to even read it correctly.
Sam nodded seriously. "Point taken, look but don't touch. Thank you Harry."
"Not a problem Sam." He turned and started heading back towards the medical bay with SG1 following him. When they got to the room Jack had to cough three times before the young couple stopped making out and acknowledged their presence.
"What?" Daniel snapped as he turned to glare at Jack.
"Time to go home, Daniel." Jack responded, completely unfazed.
Sha're looked up at Harry. "My Daniel tells me you are the one to thank for removing Amonet."
Harry met her eyes, "Daniel is my friend, and there are no thanks necessary. I am sorry for the years that you suffered under her power." He said honestly.
Sha're nodded in acceptance of his words as Daniel gave her a gentle squeeze on the shoulder. Daniel suddenly looked up at Harry, "Have you ever heard of a planet called Kheb?"
Harry thought for a second before shaking his head. "Never heard of that planet, I could have Fleur do a search though. May I ask why?"
Daniel nodded, "Because that is where we have to go in order to find Shifu, the son of Amonet and Aphophis."
NOTES:
I want to make something clear; this is not going to turn into a group relationship or harem story. The two couples will stay monogamous.
Thanks to goku90504 for pointing out a few typos in the last chapter. There have been several others in the past that have helped me out, and if you want a mention, just let me know.
Also, blame Stargatesg1fan1 for the delay in this chapter; he introduced me to the author 'Fel' and reading his works has consumed my time. If interested Google: Subjugation by Fel and click the link: Words of Fel on Weavespinner. He has two main story arcs, one Sci-Fi and one Fantasy, both are fantastically entertaining.
