Author's Note: Sorry for how long it's taken to get this chapter out. This is NOT abandoned. However due to work, and life took some major turns my time is limited. I will ask that everyone remain patient, and I will post updates as often as I can. I have the next 12-15 chapters planned, just need the time to write them.
Gen. O'Neill was sitting in his office, it had been two weeks since the battle in the Pegasus Galaxy, where his wife and friends all disappeared. He was doing his best not to show how worried he was. Janus had made contact with Thor and O'Neill, he could say that the Old Ones had taken them, but he had not determined where. He suspected it was the agent they were working with who had them, but the Alterra and Lanteans had not discovered who this was. He was beginning to understand how Gen. Hammond had felt when SG-1 was often missing for extended periods of time.
Rodney McKay and Sol had been going over every sensor reading they had captured trying to search for a clue to what happened to his friends. Sol had to walk a thin line not to provide information from Janus to McKay for his own safety. They had gone through the sensor readings from the Nemesis, Hades, and Ares and found nothing. Rodney had on a whim retrieved the logs from his Puddle Jumper. Upon examination, he could find nothing in the logs around the time everyone was taken. Frustrated he glanced down, to where he emerged on Midway Station. Two milliseconds behind him emerging from the wormhole it showed a tiny blip of something else emerging. Sol and Rodney had retrieved the video logs and sensor logs from Midway Station. Upon examination of the logs, they found the blip. The video showed nothing, and standard scans of the gate room showed no debris had been blown through.
Dr. Miller was working with Thor on upgrades to the city. Carson and Thrud had been assisting. They had been installing four Interdimensional Energy Collectors on Atlantis and another six on Pacifica, to power the cities. This would offer far more power than the Neutrino Ion Generators they had been using. In addition, the new Multi-Ionic Phase Induced Sheilds were being installed. Atlantis would be capable of extending a shield entirely around the Earth without having to readjust the shield emitters. Pacifica would be able to extend a dual shield around the Earth as well if it needed to move into position to do so.
Dr. Beckett was working with Loki to install the new automated medical bays. Dr. Beckett had been impressed with how they worked on the ships and found them to be extremely useful here. A special unit was installed for the recruits under Larrin's command. She seemed to be taking her loss of Sheppard, Teal'c, and Ronon out on them.
Thor and O'Neill sat in his room, that night. Thor explaining everything that had occurred.
"I knew we would need considerable time to determine how the Tau'ri ships were destroyed. If we had just built the SD-312 we would have had the same outcome," explained Thor.
"So you used the nanites to create the first city with a time dilation field. Once there you activated it again this time to give you time to determine what happened?" asked O'Neill.
"More or less," replied Thor.
"During this time your population grew from four hundred seventy-six to over fifty-four thousand?" asked O'Neill.
"That would be accurate," replied Thor.
"No wonder it took you all eleven hundred years to do it. You all were too busy," replied O'Neill.
"We made some initial evaluations on what we would need to improve that would enable us to build the new DN-1103. Teams broke up and began work immediately. However, it was my efforts to determine how they were able to penetrate the shields so easily that took the longest time. Eight hundred forty-six years to determine how the shields were penetrated. I am sorry it took that long," replied Thor.
"Thor buddy! That wasn't even a second in time here. I think we can afford the time it took. I'm just sorry you were stuck in that time dilation field so long," replied O'Neill.
"We were able to expand the time dilation field to the entire system and eventually the neighboring three systems as well," informed Thor.
At that moment a pencil holder turned over on Jack's desk.
"Thor I think we need to take this conversation to the conference room," spoke O'Neill.
"Yes let us move there," replied Thor.
A few minutes later Thor and O'Neill were in the conference room. Thor activated the door locks and shifted the room out of the dimension.
Janus appeared before Thor and O'Neill., "We were able to identify who has your friends. Someone you used to know Narim of the Tollan."
"Narim? He blamed us for not returning to fight the Goa'uld when they attacked Tollana," replied O'Neill.
"I said, someone, you used to know. He has been taken over by a Goa'uld. He has several Tollan with him, however, they are not controlled by the Goa'uld. They are unaware that Narim is a Goa'uld. He has managed to raise their anger against you. He has made some sort of deal with the Old Ones. They captured your friends and turned them over to him," informed Janus.
"Seriously? Another Goa'uld and the Old Ones are helping him? With Narim and knowledge of the Tollan," a frustrated O'Neill.
"Do you know where they are located?" asked Thor.
"Yes we have however we haven't found exactly where," spoke Janus, "They are located here on Earth."
"What?! Here on Earth?" shouted O'Neill.
"We know how they slipped back to this Galaxy, however, we hadn't found it was here to Earth," replied Thor.
"We will find them here! Anything else you need to tell us?" asked O'Neill.
"Yes, Thor my friend, I think it's time to do what we discussed," replied Janus, and then he disappeared.
"What is he talking about?" asked O'Neill.
"Janus and I have discussed this at length. We believe it is time for the people of Earth to learn of the Stargate and more importantly about both your friends and enemies," replied Thor.
"You want us to disclose the Stargate now?" asked O'Neill.
"It also involves restoring the old alliance, with your people as the leaders of the alliance," replied Thor.
"One thing at a time, we get our people back, and then we can discuss this," replied O'Neill.
"Of course O'Neill," replied Thor.
Meanwhile, Carter was working in her lab looking over this new element found, it was given the name Naquadah. She was working on its uses as a power source. She felt something was amiss, but could not put her finger on it. Narim had been traveling she hadn't seen him in three days. He was traveling more and more these last few weeks. She was getting anxious. In fact that morning she found herself scribbling the name Jack on a piece of paper. She couldn't figure out where that name had come from.
John and Teyla were sitting in his apartment, they had agreed to take things slow. As they had been seeing each other over the last few weeks, they had developed feelings but neither was sharing with the other they were more brotherly/sisterly feelings instead of romantic.
Cameron was flying back from Europe, looked over at this co-pilot Andy, who just seemed to be content with everything in life. Cameron wanted some adventure, he wanted a challenge, not the dullness of flying cargo planes.
Daniel had surprised Vala with a three day holiday in Cairo, with room service they had no need to leave the hotel. Vala found Daniel the most relaxed he had ever been. She was enjoying this time but was wondering what he was up to.
O'Neill didn't waste any time, calling together McKay, Zalenka, Miller, Sol, Lee, and Landry, in the conference room.
"Thanks to some off-world resources that I have, we have learned some additional information on the location of SG-1 and PJ-1. Remember Narim? Apparently, in the invasion of Tallana, he was taken over by a Gou'ald. Which explains his hostility toward us. He has apparently convinced other surviving Tollans that we are at fault for the invasions. They want revenge. We don't know the full details but he now has our teams, we don't know what his goal with them. We should assume to extract our current level of technology and any response we would have." informed O'Neill.
"Do they have any idea where?" asked McKay.
"Somewhere here on Earth. We don't know exactly where, here on Earth. I would think we should assume the worst case scenario in his goals," replied O'Neill.
"We should be able to scan for Naqudah, to locate the Gou'ald," replied Lee.
"Narrim will have thought of that and have something in place to prevent that from occurring," replied McKay.
"I need the collective brain power here in this room to find a way to search for them," ordered O'Neill.
"The Asgard will provide all the assistance we can. I have already sent for our experts on scanning technology. They will be at your disposal," answered Thor.
"I will create data packets to update them immediately," replied Sol.
"This will be like looking for a needle in a haystack," replied Rodney.
"That would be easier," replied Zalenka.
"I've sent orders to Pacifica to bring it in orbit around the Earth, cloaked to remain hidden. General Landry, I want scans running from Atlantis and Pacifica looking for any anomalies. We will send teams to investigate everything." ordered O'Neill.
"Yes, sir! I will have teams prepared to investigate immediately!" replied Landry.
Narim sat staring at the eight pods holding the elite of Stargate Command. He had tried every measure he could to read their minds, the virtual reality world was his last hope. If he had additional Goa'ulds they could quickly get the information needed, but he had to remain secretive to hide his own identity from the other 7 remaining Tollans. If they found out who he really was, it would be over for him. For him to take over the Earth he needed the exact location of any forces capable of countering them. However, tools he used to extract this information from them all failed. Even the ascended beings he was working with could not read their minds. Apparently, this was happening more and more often, which is why there wanted an end put to these humans.
"Narim our devices are nearly done they will be a low yield detonation designed to bury a stargate instead of destroying one," spoke Avalyn of the Tollan.
"Good Avalyn, I am still trying to find the location, and it is failing me," replied Narim.
"You will find a way, you always do. We will bring an end to the recklessness of the Tau'ri. They will not bring the terror to any other civilization that they did to us," replied Avalyn.
"Thank you Avalyn!" replied Narim.
Little did they know that he would insert in a small amount of Naquadah into the device just enough to trigger the detonation of the Stargate. That would cause an explosion large enough to destroy a large portion of this planet and to affect the orbit. Sending it either into the sun, or away from the sun, didn't matter to him which, as both would be the end of all life on this planet.
That night O'Neill sat on this balcony looking over the Pacific Ocean, he was wondering where his wife was if she was safe, and just what Narim was doing to her. The Gou'ald continually found a way to make his life miserable. He wished he was done with them once and for all. He wished he could ask Hammond how he was able to do this so many times. How did he have the strength to do this time after time. Jack noticed a slight glow behind him.
"Hello Jack!" came a familiar voice to O'Neill.
O'Neill turning, "General Hammond?"
"Yeah Jack, I ascended. I've kept my distance but I have kept an eye on you. I'm not the only one," replied Hammond.
"Janet?" asked O'Neill.
"Yes, she's kept a bit closer eye on Casandra, than I have on you," replied Hammond.
"Sir, how did you do it? All those times we were missing sometimes for months," asked O'Neill.
"It's not easy, but you have to have faith in your team. They will be fighting with everything they have. You need to do all you can to help them," replied Hammond.
"Why now?" asked O'Neill.
"I knew what was on your mind, wondering how to handle this," replied Hammond.
"You could read my mind?" asked a worried O'Neill.
"No your mind is blocked from me, however, your facial expressions I can read like an open book. Don't forget I've been where you are at," replied Hammond.
"Understand sir!" replied O'Neill.
"Jack you will be seeing me around a lot more. Things are changing and changing very fast up there," replied Hammond.
"George stop in anytime! I'm sure others would love to see you as well," replied O'Neill.
"See you soon Jack!" replied Hammond, as he dissipated.
Vala was sitting in the bathroom of the hotel her and Daniel were at. She was staring in shock at the device in her hand. It read a single symbol on its monitor, a plus sign. She couldn't believe it herself, how would she tell Daniel.