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Harry Potter and the Alteran Gift
Chapter 37
PNA avatar (or any artificial intelligence or neural computer interface) speaking with Harry looks like this. Telepathy *looks like this*.
Then, on 12/9/98, the ANI alerted Hariel to the fact that the Earth SGC stargate has entered a failure condition and appeared to be experiencing an expanding time dilation originating from the remote gate they are connected to.
Hariel just sighed and said to the empty room... "Oh here we go..."
...
*Gin, Mione? I just got alerted by ANI of a major problem on Earth with their stargate. I think now is the time, I am going to go help them and introduce myself.*
*Okay, Harry good luck. Try not to be too hard on them, after all the very young do not always do what they are told.* said Gin.
*Gin, you forget that you are only just 17 yourself and I'm only just 18.* replied Harry.
*Yeah, so, that was still a great line from Lya in that mission report. Besides I thought you were now 40,000,018.* replied Ginny.
*That was just a metaphor sweetheart.* answered Harry.
*Alright dear, I'll see you later. You too Mione.* said Harry
*Bye Harry, good luck* said Mione and Ginny.
Harry teleported to the gate-room and took the gate to the Orion orbiting Earth.
"Orion, scan the Earth stargate and the SGC and give me a current status." ordered Harry.
"SGC stargate has been disconnected from their jury-rigged power source and is still open. The wormhole between gates is receiving energy directly from the expanding gravity and time-dilation wave originating at the black hole near P3W-451." replied Orion.
Hmm. Harry thought. If they only had a standard dialing device they wouldn't even be having this problem. Harry looked at himself to make sure he was wearing his Supreme Commander finest and silently willed the Orion to project his hologram to the SGC adjusting for the time dilation.
At the point at which Captain Carter stood next to the stargate with her dog tags hanging out slowly being pulled to the event horizon of the gate, responding to the front edge of the gravity wave,
Harry appeared as a hologram in a white flash of light a few feet behind her facing Teal'c and just as her tags were swallowed by the gate...
Captain Carter turned around and ran down the ramp yelling, "Lieutenant..." only to run straight through Harry's hologram and to hear...
Teal'c yell out "Halt. You will proceed no further. Who are you and how did you enter this facility?"
At this, Captain Carter spun around and ordered "Who are you?"
As several armed security enter through the doors and took up positions to take out the intruder if necessary.
Harry simply rose both his hands palm up in a symbol of peace and said, "Hello people of the Stargate Command, my name is Hariel, I detected your stargate malfunction and came to see if I could assist you." Harry said.
"You have? How did you get here? Where are you from? How did I just pass right through you? You're a hologram aren't you?" Captain Carter said breathlessly and very fast.
"Well, I can explain some of that but, first would you like me to resolve your gate issue for you? While we stand here and talk it is only going to get worse." answered Hariel.
"Okay, if you can do that, sure, please." replied Carter.
Harry didn't have to gesture at all because he's not even there, he's safely on the Orion still, but he turns toward the stargate, raised his right hand, made a slight wave and the stargate disconnected.
Harry turned back around to face Carter and Teal'c and said, "Well that's that."
"How did you do that? Where did you come from?" asked Carter.
"You already asked that." replied Hariel.
"You still haven't answered me." answered Carter.
"Okay, well look, it seems like your little base here is still on alert and people are injured, others are running amok all over the place. Perhaps you should attempt to restore some order and once you get everyone together who needs to hear my story, I will answer some of your questions then. Until then, how about I just follow you." replied Hariel.
Simultaneously unbeknownst to them, General Hammond just finished exiting an elevator and being met by a Major Davis who wished him to accompany him to meet the President.
In another location of the base, Colonel Cromwell and his special forces team just finished cutting through a bulkhead wall getting ready to accost Dr. Frazier.
Several minutes later, technicians on the surface realized that they have real-time communications restored with the gate-room. Major Davis and General Hammond turned back around and head back to the SGC and Colonel Cromwell received confirmation from the surface that time appeared to return to normal. According to protocol they continued to secure the facility until a hot debrief could be undertaken to assess the current situation.
A few minutes later Hariel was standing in the infirmary watching Carter pace the floor as Dr. Frazier stitched up Teal'c's injury and Colonel O'Neill walked into the room saying "Siler took a pretty good hit. How you doing Teal'c? and who in the hell are you?" O'Neill exclaimed at Hariel.
"I am Hariel and you're welcome." replied Hariel.
"Welcome for what?" O'Neill said sounding frustrated.
"Colonel," Captain Carter said. "This man just appeared in the gate room and offered to help us, waved his hand and the gate shutdown."
"He waved his hand?" asked O'Neill now sounding more astonished than frustrated. "What is going on here?" O'Neill asked.
"As I told your Captain Carter, once you all have restored order and gathered everyone who needs to hear my story, I will answer some questions, I don't want to repeat myself a hundred times today." answered Harry.
As O'Neill reached out toward Hariel in what appeared to be an obvious gesture as though he was going to try to restrain him and take him into custody. His hands passed right through him.
"Colonel, I wouldn't do that, he's a hologram, he's not really here." said Carter.
"No, then where is he really?" asked O'Neill.
"I am presently in my cloaked Battleship in geosynchronous orbit over this facility."
At that admission everyone in the room's eyes bugged out. O'Neill realizing his mistake tried to lighten it up with humor, held his hands up and said, "We come in peace." said O'Neill.
"Well, that remains to be seen. But, I assure you I do as well. Why don't you get this place under control and call a meeting of everyone who wants to know why I'm here and I'll be happy to answer some of your questions." replied Hariel.
At this, an idea occurred to Colonel O'Neill. "Say, Mr. Hariel, you have a big space ship right? Is there any chance you could go to the planet where that black-hole is and get our team out of there?" asked O'Neill.
"Sure, I can probably do that Colonel, what planet are they on?" asked Hariel.
"Oh, it is P3W-451." replied O'Neill.
"Colonel, he's not going to know where that is we need to give him the gate address or coordinates." said Carter
"Actually Captain, P3W-451 is all I need. I'll go now and see about getting your team back. Why don't you see about getting your people here sorted out and maybe when I get back we can have that meeting." replied Hariel.
~white flash of light~ and Hariel is was gone.
"Orion, take us to orbit of P3W-451, black-hole safety protocols are in effect. Call the ETA." ordered Hariel.
"Black-hole safety protocols are in effect, ETA in 30 minutes." replied Orion.
30 minutes later...
Hariel got to see his first black-hole in person, he took a moment to think, how pretty?! then got back to business...
"Orion, calibrate the transporter to adjust for the time dilation and gravity waves of that black-hole, then lock onto those four human life signs near the stargate and beam them directly to the bridge." ordered Hariel.
~white flash of light~ and four SGC team members were unceremoniously dumped ass over tea kettle onto the bridge of the Orion. That is what happens when you are transported when you were at a full run.
Hariel stood up, willed his PNA to put up a kinetic shield, just in case the four prone figures on the floor decided to get up and start shooting at him.
"Hello, people of the Stargate Command, my name is Hariel. I was asked by your Colonel O'Neill to stop by and rescue you. Are all of you alright? Does anyone need medical attention?" said Hariel.
All of them seemed too dumbfounded and in shock to actually say anything at the moment but they all seemed to manage some version of nodding their head no, which Hariel took as meaning they were okay.
"Alright then, why don't the four of you have a seat over there and just relax and please don't touch anything. I will have you home in about 30 minutes." said Harry.
The team said nothing, just silently did as they were asked assuming, this guy must be one of the good guys given what he just did for them and if Colonel O'Neill sent him.
"Orion, return us to Earth orbit."
"Transiting to Earth, ETA 30 minutes."
30 minutes later...
Harry scanned the SGC and found a large gathering in one of the large conference rooms adjacent to the gate-room. Assuming this to be his meeting, he willed the Orion to transport his four guests directly to the conference room and to project him as a hologram.
~several white flashes of light~ and the four SGC members and Hariel appeared in the debriefing room.
Harry took the initiative by saying, "I hope I'm not interrupting anything. Here you go Colonel O'Neill, your lost team." said Hariel.
Pandemonium broke out, with people reaching for guns they forgot they weren't carrying at the moment. Guards burst in the door and tried to grab Hariel to once again just pass right through him.
"People relax, don't be so jumpy. You see why I appear before you as a hologram instead of in person. I would have been accosted twice already today and all I've done is come to help you." said Hariel.
At this point, medical orderlies arrived to escort out the four team members he just rescued for a check-up and with a nod from the General, the security guards retreated from the room.
"Well, sir," began the General, why don't you introduce yourself and tell us where you're from, how you came to enter our facility, and why you came to help us? Not that we're not grateful mind you, it is just that this raises a lot of questions." said General Hammond.
"Certainly, my name is Hariel and I would be happy to answer some of your questions if you would introduce yourselves as well please?" replied Hariel.
"Of course Mr. Hariel. This is Colonel O'Neill, Captain Carter, Dr. Daniel Jackson, Teal'c; and over here this is Major Davis and Lt. Colonel Samuels, I am General George Hammond, commanding officer of this base." said Hammond.
"Thank you. I am pleased to make your acquaintance. What would you like to know first?" asked Hariel.
"Where are you from?" asked Daniel.
"That's classified information." replied Hariel. O'Neill and Hammond gave each other a look. Samuels looked like he wanted to jump out of his seat and Davis just had a bemused expression on his face.
"How did you enter our facility?" asked Hammond.
"I have not yet entered your facility." replied Hariel.
"Then how is it we can see and hear you?" asked Hammond.
"I am projecting my image to you using my ship's hologram projector." replied Hariel.
"So, you are an alien then?" asked Samuels.
"What does that mean, alien?" replied Hariel.
"You know, not native of this planet?" replied Samuels.
"Oh, well then, I guess I am just as alien as you are." replied Hariel.
"Wait, what do you mean by that?" continued Samuels.
"What I mean is that my people did not originate on this planet and neither did yours." answered Hariel.
Samuels got ready to continue this line of questioning until Hammond cut him off.
"Enough of that right now Samuels, it's clear he's is playing semantics with you right now and you're just taking the bait. Sir? Mr. Hariel, what we'd first like to know is if you are friend or foe, we understand you did just help us but often there is another motive, are you a threat to us? or to Earth?" asked Hammond.
"No. But you must understand, just as you keep your secrets for your own reasons I keep my secrets for my own reasons. For one thing, I do not know if you are a threat? or is Earth? so I won't be giving you a road-map to my home-world today." answered Hariel.
"We're no threat to anyone" said General Hammond, "unless you are a Goa'uld or allied with them."
"How about the rest of Earth, General?" asked Hariel.
At that Hammond could not honestly answer so he sat in silence for a moment.
Hariel continued, "You see, I came today to help the people of the Earth but in order to do so I need to speak with someone or a group of leaders who represent the people of Earth. Is that you, General?" asked Hariel.
"No, Mr. Hariel. It is not. We are just one branch of one government on Earth. We cannot speak for everyone." replied Hammond.
"I see, does the rest of the Earth know what you have been doing here with the stargate for the past couple of years in their name? Do they know and approve of the risks you take and the threats you bring back to this world? Do they know that you just risked having your planet destroyed by a black hole 100's of thousands of light years away from here? Did they know about six months ago that your planet was almost bombarded from space by the Goa'uld? and that your government would have allowed it to happen without so much as warning any of them? and that it took your SG-1 team here violating your orders and the orders of the President of your government, to see the world saved by the barest skin of their teeth." asked Hariel.
"Mr. Hariel, have you been spying on us?" asked Hammond.
"General, do you not spy on all the governments of your world, even those you call allies, in order to maintain a current threat watch in 360 degrees at all times? Do you think you are the only government who does this, or the only race in the galaxy who does this? Please don't play the naive card, General."
"Mr. Hariel," continued Hammond. "Thank you for coming to our aid today. I certainly would like to know how you knew we were having a problem in the first place, why you came here and all that, but if you don't want to tell us, obviously there is nothing we can do, you are not even really here after all." said Hammond, as he gestures as though he were going to dismiss the meeting.
"Wait," said Daniel. "I think we're just asking the wrong questions."
"Well, Dr. Jackson, go ahead you have the floor." said Hammond.
"Tu eh, adventus asordo amacus?" asked Daniel?
You came to help friends?
"Etium." answered Hariel.
Yes.
"Qui in tu ani?" asked Daniel?
Who are you?
"Nou ani Anquitas." replied Hariel.
We are the Alterans.
"Et pare Astria Porta?" asked Daniel.
The fathers of the star gate?
"Etium." answered Harry.
Yes.
At this Daniel's cupped his hands over his mouth and got white as a ghost.
O'Neill had enough about two 'Etium' ago said, "for crying out loud Daniel, what is it? can you guys please speak a language we mere mortals can understand?"
At that Daniel just shook his head and gasped: "He's an ancient, a gate builder, one of the Alterans!"
"How is that possible? We thought all the ancients were dead or long gone." asked Captain Carter.
"I'm sorry that is also classified information." answered Harry.
"Aw c'mon," said O'Neill, "will you only answer questions if Daniel here can scrape together enough ancient words to ask you in your own language?" asked O'Neill.
Sigh. "No not at all, to be perfectly honest with you I was just stringing you along a little bit. You see I'm known as a bit of a prankster on my world. And it amused me to hear Dr. Jackson attempt a few words in my language. By the way Dr. Jackson, you cheated throwing in a couple Latin words where you couldn't think of the proper Alteran word. But I gave it to you, it was amusing." said Hariel.
"It sounds like you're actually from Earth, how is it that you know English so well, speak it like a Brit, and know Latin too." asked Hammond.
"My people have a gift for languages is part of the answer. I can learn a new language and speak it after having only held a short conversation with someone in their native tongue. Of course for the full answer, our cloaked social research satellite that has been monitoring your planet for months now has intercepted communication in every language on Earth and we have translated and hence learned each of them. As to why I speak English so well, we determined that the dominant language of commerce and science on your planet and especially here at the SGC which is the first place to capture our interest for obvious reasons is English, and we traced it to it's source, the place you call England and learned to speak it the way they do, assuming that is how it is supposed to be spoken? Is it not good enough?" Hariel said sounding unsure of himself at the end; just seeing if they took the bait and tried to set the hook.
"Wait a minute let's get back to your cloaked social research satellite you say has been in orbit of our planet for a few months. This sounds an awful lot like a spy satellite to me." asked Lt. Col. Samuels.
"Lt. Col. Samuels, I believe I addressed that point with your General just a few minutes ago." answered Hariel.
"Why are you spying on us then? Or maybe then the better question to ask is, why did you just start a few months ago. Why the sudden interest?" asked Captain Carter.
"Now, that is a good question that I can answer." said Hariel.
"You said you thought my people were long dead or gone. Well, you were half right, we have been gone for a very long time. It is a long story for another time, perhaps after we have gotten to know and trust the leaders of your world but, for now I will just say that we left this galaxy millions of years ago and the few that returned here lived in isolation. A small group of us decided to come out of isolation and re-join the galactic community, we are in fact now in the process of colonizing a new home world in this galaxy." started Hariel.
"About five or six months ago we started off by scanning the entire stargate network in the galaxy to determine if there were any active gates and then to conduct social research operations to assess the state of affairs in the galaxy. While doing this of course we detected the activity of a gate on Terra or Earth as you now call it." continued Hariel.
At that admission, Carter gave Hammond a meaningful look as if to say, 'I bet that anomaly we were tracking for a while was caused by him doing that'.
"This gate that you are using was not the original gate on this world, someone must've brought it here. We have already located and recovered the primary gate assigned to this world. You are using this gate without a proper dialing device which has caused you a number of problems, a few of which we detected. Today, well when we detected your gate in a general fault condition with an unstable wormhole exhibiting time dilation and an advancing gravity wave, I felt I had better intervene to help before things got very out of hand." concluded Hariel.
"Thank you Mr. Hariel, for helping us and for explaining that to us." said General Hammond.
"My pleasure General, but please now that you know my identity I should give you my full title, I am Supreme Commander Hariel of the Alteran Fleet, I would prefer to be addressed as Supreme Commander on official State business, or just Commander in polite company for short or private conversations like this one." said Harry.
"Certainly, Commander. I understand and thank you." replied Hammond.
"How do we really know he is who he says he is General?" asked Lt. Col. Samuels.
"Here, I will show you some proof. Will you all please stand up?" said Harry.
With a nod from the General they all stood up and Hariel beamed them directly to the bridge of the Orion while he remained seated in his control chair.
"Welcome, ladies and gentlemen to the Alteran Battleship Orion. If you would care to look out the forward viewport there you will see a view of the Earth." said Harry.
"I don't know exactly how to prove I am Alteran and I am quite certain that if I gave you a blood sample you wouldn't know what to do with it. I was not really offering by the way." continued Hariel.
Hariel brought up a holographic image of an old standard dialing device that he knew they would recognize.
"Do you see this?" asked Hariel.
"A DHD?" asked Captain Carter.
"Yes, we simply call it a dialing device. I want to give you one. If that doesn't prove to you I'm an Alteran I am going to stop trying. The fact is I came to you today intending to do two things, to disconnect your stargate from that black hole and to give you a proper dialing device. You see if you had one of these controlling your stargate, the sensors and the safety protocols built into it would've prevented you from making a connection to that planet's stargate in the first place while it was being influenced by the black-hole. You noticed of course how when your team first connected to you, you only got a brief connection before the gate disconnected itself? Same idea." said Harry.
"Thank you Commander. That is very generous. To be honest we wouldn't have expected anything like this because all the other technologically advanced races we met in the galaxy think we are too primitive and won't share technology with us because to them we are too young." said Daniel.
"Well, to be sure your race is too young but, I only really have two choices right now. Set you up so that you are using your gate properly or take it away from you." said Harry.
"Wait a minute Commander, you don't have any right to take that stargate, it is the property of the United States government." said Lt. Col. Samuels.
"Lt. Col. Samuels, what is your problem? You seem to be the only person in this group who has a problem with everything I say. Your property you say? General does this man speak for the policy of your government or for the whole world?"
"No, he does not Commander." replied Hammond.
"Good. Lt. Col. your presence at this meeting is no longer required." said Harry who silently transported him back to the conference room alone.
"Alright, let me construct your dialing device for you." Hariel decided to put on a little show for these folks so they will have a little better idea who they are dealing with. He gestured with his hand and a small object appeared to float out of the pendant around his neck. With another gesture the item grew in size appearing like some kind of machine that Harry left hovering in the air. Then within a gesture of his other hand he engaged the molecular construction device to build a standard dialing device. The SGC members watched in awe as many brief flashes of light stabbed forth, then back and forth from the device as the recognizable shape of a standard DHD appeared to grow out of the light right before their eyes. About 90 seconds later a complete DHD was sitting on the deck of the bridge right in front of them. With a snap of his fingers, the device he used to construct the DHD appeared to disappear into thin air.
"Ah, there we go. One fully loaded standard Avalon galaxy network dialing device. Would you like me to transport it directly to your gate room General?" said Harry.
The General still not having fully regained his composure, his jaw still a little bit dropped to the ground shook himself from his stupor and said "Yes, Commander, that would be fine. Thank you very much." replied Hammond.
"Alright then, why don't we all return there then." Hariel said, and with a thought he had the Orion beam all of them and the DHD to the gate room. To say the technicians in the gate-room at the time were a little startled would be a gross understatement. Fortunately, they recognized their boss real fast and stood down.
"There are only two reasons I am being as generous and understanding as I am, and bending our rules about non-interference. One is because on the balance I have become rather fond of the work your SG-1 team has done and how they have grown since they started exploring other worlds and I wish to continue to give them a chance, whereas the rest of your government on the whole still gives me pause. Two, and really the only reason why the first has any weight for me is because I am aware of the Goa'uld threat in the galaxy to the human race and others, but Earth is only one of 40 planets in this galaxy with permanent human settlements on them. However Earth is the one that has the greatest chance of standing up to them and you have shown compassion enough in some circumstances to go to other's aid when you can. Although I am aware of some of the missteps that have come out of this command as well, the adventures of your Captain Hanson last year for example." continued Harry, eliciting a hard wince from Carter, and bowed heads from the General and Daniel." continued Hariel.
"Nevertheless, we believe some of you are learning, it would be a shame to stop your progress now. Dr. Jackson, I have it on good authority that Lya of the Nox is particularly impressed with you, as am I. Having spoken recently to Supreme Commander Thor of the Asgard, he believes you have future potential as a race as well. Both of these were good endorsements on your behalf. So, we will try to work with you when we can. But, most of that is up to you. Normally I wouldn't speak to representatives from a planet at all unless they justly represented all the people of the planet. Your race is still so young, fighting amongst your own kind over territory, old grudges, personal egos of your leaders, misguided ideologies, etc. We would be very fearful of handing such a world any of our scientific knowledge or technologies, let alone any weapons.
"While the Goa'uld are no threat to us, we wish to help the human populations of this galaxy against the Goa'uld. However, as powerful as our technology is, there are few of us and few enough of us that we do not wish to risk our population in the type of ground engagements and espionage as you people seem to have built your teams to do. At some point after I leave I know you will brief your President on the events and my words here today. I ask you to take a message to him for me. If he is prepared to lift the veil of secrecy regarding the existence of the stargate, your country's monopoly on use of the stargate, and unite with all the other major powers of the Earth in an endeavor to fight the Goa'uld, I would be willing to come to talk to the group of them and negotiate some form of defensive alliance to assist you. If not, I cannot promise you will hear from us again, but we will be watching you."
"Before you go," started Daniel, you mentioned that you know the Nox and the Asgard. We know little about them ourselves. Is there anything you can tell us about them?" asked Daniel.
"I will give you a little history lesson Daniel Jackson. Millions of years ago, there was an intergalactic alliance composed of the most advanced races known at that time: the Alterans, the Asgard, the Furlings, and the Nox. We would periodically meet to discuss matters of mutual concern and importance. We seeded the stargate network and human life in the galaxy and silently without anyone knowing we were there and with minimal interference on our part, tried to nurture and protect the younger races." answered Hariel.
"Today, only us, the Asgard, and the Nox remain. None of us know what has become of the Furling. But until recently the Asgard and the Nox would have told you that we had disappeared for good as well. There are personal and private reasons why the bulk of our civilization receded from the main stage and maybe someday we'll tell you more about that. But for now, all you need to know is that we have decided to return and resume a presence in this galaxy." concluded Hariel.
"I will take my leave now and wait to see if your government wishes further dialogue with us. Fare well." said Harry as he walked over to the stargate, raised his hands over his head in a concentric arc, and as he did so the stargate materialized a fully formed stable event horizon without ever dialing an address or forming a vortex of energy, then Harry simply walked through it and the gate disengaged behind him.
"Wait, how will we be able to let him know if the President agrees to meet him?" asked Colonel O'Neill.
"Oh, I get the feeling that there is very little that goes on around here that he doesn't know." answered Daniel, eliciting raised eyebrows from Captain Carter and General Hammond.
At that several members of the team still standing around the DHD could have sworn they saw a small flash of light and a head appearing only briefly with a wink, then disappearing.