Origins

by burnable

Sequel to Back to the Beginning. Harry finds out that one of their advanced systems have been experiencing strange interruptions and follows them back to a military compound, where the Stargate, an ancient feat of alien technology, allows mankind to reach out and explore different worlds and cultures. Still harem, but less focused on that.

12. Chapter 12

AN: See disclaimer on Chapter 1.

Chapter 12

The next day, an instance of Harry was visiting the Asgard, with the new battery he'd gone to retrieve. It had never stopped storing more and more magical power and he'd needed to place it in a container to protect their eyes, since it shone like a sun, even though it produced no heat. They informed him that its power levels were immeasurable by their means and he'd happily filled up another two of their batteries for them, siphoning it from his completely magical version. Filling them up took only about an hour, but it seemed that their version topped out at just over one-hundred thousand years of comparative charge, which was a great deal more than the thirty years the others had stored.

They did ask how he had achieved the feat, but he had to tell them that it was a once-off occurrence and that he couldn't safely tell them how it was done. The Asgard understood needing to keep such things secret, for fear of the damage one could cause with the knowledge and thanked him for the investment in power, promising to keep him updated on their own experiments on storing and gathering such power.

While he was there, Harry accessed Superspace, on a whim, only to realise that the layer had actually grown beyond the Milky Way galaxy. That would also partially explain the influx of power. It even seemed like the layer had separated itself from ascended space, like it had done in his galaxy. Apparently that change had also rolled out like his seeding of magic. That was good news, since he didn't want to think what other possible ascended beings would do with such immense amounts of power.

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While he was doing that, another instance was with his clone, connecting it to some of the last of the available unity crystal, for One to inhabit. The crystal would be stored in the same location as the dragon crystals, which he had noted had started changing colour, from blue to green. It was a gradual change, and Harry suspected that it had something to do with the developing personalities of the dragons.

One was obviously pleased to have a real body he could call his own, since Harry no longer needed to use a clone. It was unfortunate that he didn't have access to magic, though, but he decided to become a researcher, to work on just that issue. If he could figure out how to emulate the original power of the unity crystal, for self-transfiguration, he would be on his way to figuring out how to use magic in other ways.

Harry did ask him if he'd have a problem with changing his appearance, though. Having someone walking around with his face, which was not connected to him in some way, was not something he liked thinking about. One didn't have any objections to that and Harry helped him choose his own appearance. He decided on being a brunette, with brown eyes and a few freckles. He was also a bit shorter and younger looking than Harry, with an altered facial make-up. He did look slightly like Harry, but only in a way that made him look related, but not from the same parents.

Having set One up with that, he also got him a room in one of the apartment buildings, to give him a place to stay, along with a weekly stipend. It wasn't much, but would allow him to live modestly. If he wanted more money, he'd work for it, like everyone else. One would be his assistant in his lab, until he'd learned all he needed, to support himself properly.

Harry found it strange that he had basically made himself a son. Someone that came from himself, with just enough magical knowledge to have an advantage when researching magical energies. If he applied himself he could go far. That though had Harry smiling. He'd take care of One, until he was ready to leave the nest properly.

Lastly, Harry got him a Comm, and gave him access to the public libraries, so that he could study that in his own time. He even copied the data One had compiled during his vigil so that he could look into his own interests again. Little did Harry know that One had a photographic memory, a thirst for knowledge and a genius-level intellect. That would serve him well in the years to come.

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Harry's last instance, or more accurately, what he considered his real body, was with Jack, his son, Charlie, and his ex-wife Sara. It was not an easy explanation, having to skip a lot of information on how they had done what they had done. Sara had not taken it lightly and had started crying inconsolably, as she held onto her son, who was also crying and apologising for playing with his dad's gun.

Obviously they couldn't claim Charlie had come back to life a little more than four years after he had died, so Harry had offered to house them in Harmony. Thinking it was likely a good idea, since Charlie would not be able to see his old friends again, and they couldn't find out anyway, Jack had supported the idea. Sara, still not in her right mind, had refused immediately, thinking that something horrible would happen in such a strange new place.

Her father, who had come to live with her after the death of Charlie, had listened to what information they could give and had stepped in, deciding that it was likely a good idea to at least see the place, so Harry had taken them to Harmony in the Sphere. The old man had not said it, but he was also afraid that Charlie would be taken from them, if the wrong people found out. The experience of being beamed aboard the ship and the flight itself, which Harry had taken the long way, to give them a chance to talk things through, had been a revelation and the old man had really loved the idea of magic and everything that they might learn in such a place.

Learning that everyone in Harmony was expected to contribute in some way, had the old man worried about his own usefulness, but Harry assured him that he could get him a magical way to learn a new skill or two, which would then allow him to do things he hadn't ever thought he could. It wasn't something that was offered to everyone, but Harry recognised that the old man was the linchpin in this conversation. He was going to be the one to convince his daughter.

Jack was animatedly describing the flying scooters and the magical school to his son, by the time they arrived on Mars, and descended into the designated landing area of Harmony. It was a new addition, but had become necessary when more people started visiting, including, but not limited to, Thor and some of the other Asgard.

There were also occasions when the Wolves brought delegates by ship, rather than through transport tunnels. Those were being used only once permanent relations had been established between other planets and Harmony. Usually in an effort to bring people into the Alliance. It wasn't something Harry had decided, but he was informed and he followed protocol, just like everyone else, setting an example to show people that even he had to follow the rules.

They went through what amounted to customs and were scanned by magical and medical staff for anything that needed attention. It was a free service, to show people what they were signing onto, when they joined the Alliance, as well as giving their people data on the differences between the different humans in the galaxy.

The inspection had revealed that the old man had a failing heart and he was seen to Harmony General, before they could continue the tour. The problem had been taken care of by a potion and a bit of work by a healer, before they were sent on their way again. The issue was not life-threatening at that point, but it would have been in another year or two.

Seeing Harmony for themselves, having some ice-cream and seeing Charlie connect with other children his age at the park, along with the heart thing, had made their decision for them and Jack had paid a company to arrange the move of his wife's house to a different floor in the same building as where Teal'c's family stayed, out of his own pocket. It wasn't cheap, but Jack insisted. It was his family, after all.

Unfortunately the damage to his relationship with his wife had been done already, and Jack and Sara had to explain to Charlie that they were no longer together, but Jack decided to stay with them for a while, until they were accustomed to life in Harmony. Sara would also need to have some time to accept that her son was really back, just as much as Jack still needed to come to grips with it.

(AN: While I am loath to bring it up, we must remember that religion is a large part of people's lives, especially in the SG universe, and the next bit is just to show that it remains a part of the story, even if it happens mostly in the background. For the purposes of this story, this next little bit is to show that there are still aspects of many religions involved in Harmony.)

When Harry left their apartment, where they'd stay until their house had been moved, Sara's father accompanied him and thanked him again.

"I don't know if you really are just a young man with magical powers, or if you're an angel, but you were definitely sent by the Good Lord himself. What you did today, is a miracle and you'll have my respect and gratitude for the rest of my life, even as I thank God for sending you to us." the old man said, having placed a hand on Harry's shoulder.

"You are more than welcome." Harry said. "I just wish I could do this for everyone, but there are rules not even I can bend more than once."

"You have done more than enough, and I think you'll be excused this one time, even if I need to stand in front of the Big Man one day to state your case." the old man smiled at him.

"Thank you, sir." Harry said.

"Could you tell me, is there a Church here in Harmony?" he asked.

"As I understand it, there are, yes, for many denominations, for multiple faiths, including some places of worship for the Egyptian gods, which is another story you'll hear all about as you stay here. You can ask Jack about them." Harry said. "We do not mind people believing what they want, but we do not tolerate religious bigotry or violence. That is one of the founding tenants here in Harmony."

The old man nodded in acceptance. "I'm not asking out of religious zealotry. I just want to know if there's a place of worship, so that I can attend mass and thank God properly. Today is Sunday, after all."

"Thank you for understanding." Harry said.

"Are there laws or rules, which deny people from performing their religious duties and converting others?" the old man asked.

Harry sighed. He'd heard about this, but never actually experienced it. "You are allowed to talk about, and to peacefully try and get people to accept your faith, but you are not allowed to tell anyone that they are wrong in believing what they are doing, unless they are undermining someone else's rights. Any faith that attacks others, or inspires zealotry, as you call it, is frowned upon. If you can bring people to your point of view, with them freely choosing it, without being coerced, you are more than welcome. Just be willing to listen to their perspective as well."

"That's enough, Harry." Jack said, as he joined them. "Mike, there are many people here from many walks of life. Many of the people who live here have found out that they were worshiping false gods, so you'll have your chance, but Harry isn't a spiritual leader. He's just the one trying to help everyone, despite what they believe. I'm sure there are missionaries here already. I'll help you find out more, so that you can do what you feel you need to. No doubt they will be able to tell you more about the accepted ways to go about it, here."

"Thank you, Jack." the old man said. "I was never all that devout, but today has taught me that miracles can happen, even after all hope is lost."

"Well, get a job first, before you start riling up the neighbourhood." Jack said, a ghost of a smile crossing his face. "Now, come on, I'm taking the family out to lunch." He looked at Harry. "Do you want to join us?" he asked.

Harry had been getting uncomfortable with the conversation and was glad for Jack's intervention. "No, I think I'll be joining my fiancées for lunch." he said with a smile. Before Mike could question that statement, Harry smirked and apparated out.

"Coward." Jack mumbled.

"He's hedonistic?" Mike asked.

"Actually, that would likely describe some of his girls better." Jack said. "He told me once that he was using traditional magical customs to protect a few of his friends, by claiming that they were all in the running to become his wife. They were the ones who convinced him that they were better off all staying together."

Mike looked at the spot where Harry had disappeared, before he smiled and shook his head. "Well, good luck to him. Sara's mother was more than enough woman for me."

"You're not going to say something about his lifestyle?" Jack asked, wondering about the change.

"He's got multiple women in his life." Mike said. "That'll be its own punishment in time. That, or maybe, if it works out, it will be a reward for what he's doing here." he said with a chuckle. Jack couldn't fault that logic. If hell hath no fury like a woman scorned, Harry would one day be in the eighth circle… if he wasn't lucky, or smart. Somehow, he believed Harry, of all people, could pull it off.

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Harry didn't end up joining his girls, since Sirius had cornered him and called in Remus, who was accompanied by Daniels. It was done carefully and was by no means a demand, but they did ask him for something at least. Remus pointing out that Jack's ex-wife, ex-father-in-law and deceased son were in town, kind of forced Harry's hand.

"Fine, but we're not doing this here." Harry said, as he apparated them all into the Sphere. The fact that he hadn't touched any of them had not been missed.

"Okay, how the hell did you do that?!" Sirius asked. Realising he had demanded that of Harry, he quickly added, "Because there is some underwear in the world that need to be apparated directly into my hands… from a distance."

Harry couldn't help the smile that crept onto his face at that. Trust the old dog to make that his go-to excuse. "Nice save." he said, as he started casting every bit of security magic he could on the ship, after which he activated the on-board StellarNet, still in there since the trip, and moved them to Alpha Origin.

"Thank you." Sirius beamed, not having noticed the move. "I do try."

"Okay, I think we're safe here." Remus said. He'd noticed the move. "Could you please tell us what's going on? You're doing things I've never even heard of before. Some of them are supposed to be impossible."

"Well, the apparition thing was actually something I invented a while back." Harry said. "I turned it into a spell, but you'll struggle to cast it on a piece of clothing. Sorry Sirius."

"Damn." Sirius said, actually sounding let down.

"And raising the dead?" Remus asked. "You didn't make a golem did you? That would just be cruel."

"I didn't make a golem, no." Harry said. "Well, I replaced Charlie with a golem, and the golem died, but not Charlie."

"And when did you do that?" Remus asked, narrowing his eyes. With Harry's other inventions, he could imagine how that was done, but not the when of it.

"When we came back from the past." Harry said. Before anyone could object, Harry held up a hand. "I'll need unbreakable vows on this. Sorry guys, but this is serious."

Harry was shocked at the instant acceptance. Sirius didn't even make a joke. Once the oaths were sworn and bound, Harry started talking.

"So, once I got magic working again and confirmed that Superspace was established and expanding with the magic, we came back, hired Pandora and, as a thank you to Jack, I messed with time in a way that the Asgard informs me maintains the continuity of the timeline, while saving a life and restoring a bit of hope to the universe. Then I put away the temporal transport mechanisms and hid them in Superspace, where only I can ever get to them." Harry finished. He'd done that last bit on a whim, but stood by his choice. There was no data on the technology, except for in his head, and that was a closed vault.

All Harry got from his audience was shocked silence. Until Sirius started smiling. "My godson invented Magic!" he exclaimed, before he started pumping his fists. "My godson created Magic!" he repeated. Remus and Daniels, had had to cover their ears. Harry was just glad the ship was soundproof. He'd not put it past his luck that an ascended was just within earshot, just a dimension away, in some twist of fate, allowing them to hear.

"To be fair, I was more like a tool of Magic's to create itself." Harry corrected.

"Even better. My godson was the one Magic turned to, to create it." Sirius said, at a more tolerable level, the smile not having left his face at all. "And now you're an ascended god of magic?! That's bloody awesome!"

"I don't know that I'd put it exactly that way." Harry said, not liking the sound of that, even as a small part of his mind did draw a positive comparison to the statement and his circumstance. "I prefer, I've gained access to something ancient and powerful, which allows me access to it."

"Something ancient and powerful that you created." Remus pointed out. "Fuck me, Harry. This is huge."

"Bigger." Daniels said. "You said you have a bigger mind now?"

"Well, Superspace keeps on trying to expand my mind and teach me stuff. I'm thinking that's a normal part of ascension." Harry said. "It is connected to this world, and it's connected to a storage medium I created. Somehow it decided that it needed to record… everything that happened in the galaxy since its creation, storing more information than the original device could possibly hold, likely in another form, or stored in Superspace itself. It keeps on trying to give me answers to everything."

Remus looked thoughtful about that. "I'm guessing you're still here because you don't like the idea of being handed the answers?" he asked.

"Once I open Superspace to Oma, I'm hoping she can redirect that." Harry said.

"What?! Why?!" Sirius asked. At Harry's questioning look Sirius looked exasperated. "You're still planning on giving someone you barely know access to unlimited power and information?"

"That doesn't sound like a smart idea." Daniels agreed with Sirius.

"Yeah, use that expanded mind of yours and think." Sirius said. "We've seen this too many times. Hell, even the other ascended who have all that power don't help."

"To be fair, I don't think they have this much power." Harry said. "Superspace is filled with magic. The ascended don't even know about magic. Or, at least, they saw the beginnings of it, but as far as I can tell, the moment magic started manifesting for real, they were blocked from it for some reason."

"You can always find out." Remus pointed out.

"No!" Harry exclaimed. "If you start asking me to allow this to change me fundamentally, I'm never speaking to you again."

"Wait, I wasn't asking you to find out from the 'Superspace'." Remus said, quickly. "You have this Oma Desala woman you can test with, right? Just do one of your experiments and see what's affecting her. You have the scientific knowhow, right? Isn't that your whole thing?"

Harry realised that he had jumped to conclusions in more than one way. "Sorry Remus. I… I just don't want to become like those other ascended. I'm trying very hard to resist the temptation of simply becoming more, but I don't want to leave my humanity behind, like they did. Even Oma sometimes talks like the simplest things are beyond her understanding. I don't even know if the ascended can love. Their race had striven for intellect and left their bodies and the ability to procreate behind. I don't want that and it scares me."

"Then descend or whatever." Sirius said, easily.

"I can't do that either." Harry said. "All that power and knowledge will eventually look for someone to use it. Magic is alive, after all. Without someone to… commune with, it may take the short step to the ascended plain and start connecting to people there. While I can resist it, I can also keep it in check."

"So, do your duplication thing and have one of you keep it in check." Daniels suggested.

Harry wanted to argue, but he really couldn't refute that. His mouth moved, but no sound came out, even as a part of him did just that, dedicating a portion of a 'secondary' mind to the process of keeping himself in check and acting like a buffer. That 'Harry' didn't need to focus on anything else, in that dimension with nothing to distract it. It was a simple process too. That part of him was quite content to watch as his 'real' body experienced life and simply refused the constant draw to reach that version of himself, the 'real' him.

Harry sighed, just seconds after Daniels had made the suggestion. "Wow." he said. He'd not noticed that he had been putting a constant strain on himself to keep himself… himself. It wasn't something that affected him, but it was like a binding. Now he was free of it. He could choose to commune, through the dedicated self that was there for that purpose, but he could also choose not to. "That's better." he said.

"Did it already?" Remus asked. Harry nodded, a blissful smile on his face. "That was quick."

"Actually, it was a whole thing, but the buffer is now in place. At the beginning I was worried that I'd get bored, doing that, but now I'm experiencing what I am, while I'm busy being a buffer there, so that I can be here with all my attention." Harry said. It made perfect sense if you knew what it was like to be capable of true parallel processing. Or, was that Multitasking? Anyway, Harry suspected a person who studied computers would understand the concept better. He was very happy to note that no answer tried to come to him without his asking for it. It seemed that the buffer was also making it so that his questions weren't getting out to Superspace.

"You're sounding like Luna." Sirius said.

"Yeah, I couldn't explain that when I was holding all the answers." Harry said, happily. Then he turned to Daniels. "Thank you." he said sincerely. "You have no idea how much that idea helped me."

Daniels smiled, glad he could help. "You're welcome, Harry." he said.

"So, now you're limited again?" Sirius asked, slightly disappointed.

"No, I'm still capable of many things, but I'm just not getting a constant feeling of knowing the answers to everything." Harry said. That, and he didn't feel like his mind was constantly under pressure to expand.

"What does that mean?" Sirius asked.

"That means, I can be with all my girls at once, in different places even, and pay them all individual attention." Harry said with a smirk.

Sirius seemed to finally have a reference he understood, which made the whole concept open up to him. "You lucky bastard!" he said.

"Hey, as soon as I figure out how to keep it temporary, you and I will be having a drink in Superspace, while you go gallivanting and maybe even doing your taxes, all at the same time." Harry said, with a smirk. Of course he'd want to share this, he'd just need a bit of time to figure it out the old-fashioned way. With good, solid, scientific trial and error.

"We have taxes?" Sirius asked, dumbfounded again.

"We really need to replace you as mayor, don't we?" Remus asked Sirius.

"That's what I keep telling you!" Sirius agreed.

There were obviously more questions, some of which Harry actually answered. Things, like why he had decided to go with only Jack, was one of those he chose to answer. Harry's family were not pleased to hear that there had been a possibility that they might have failed to come back. Harry simply vetoed that conversation, stating that any one of them would have done the same, which they couldn't argue against. It wasn't something they liked to hear, but it was definitely the truth. Daniels actually stood up for Harry, stating that he was a man now, and that he had the right to make those kinds of choices for himself.

That had led to a whole other conversation, where Daniels was finally brought up to speed on Harry's real past, including being sent back in time and changing the past. That conversation had led to many other topics being covered over the next few hours. Daniels' respect for Harry just grew with every other topic covered.

They were discussing why, if he could change the past, he didn't simply go back and save more people, when Daniels' Comm rang. The caller ID said it was the control room for the monitoring staff.

"Daniels here." the big wolf answered.

"Sir, we have a situation." the controller said. "Sokar is being attacked by a large Goa'uld Armada. The flagship identified itself as Anubis's."

"We'll be right there." Daniels said, as he turned to Harry. "I need to get to the Plutus." he said.

"Done." Harry said, as the Sphere moved to above the receiving area in Harmony. Daniels didn't wait to apparate himself to Plutus, still on his Comm and getting more information.

"Call Teal'c." Harry said into his own comm.

"Black." Teal'c answered.

"Sorry to interrupt, but we've got hostiles attacking one of our allies. Care to join us?" Harry asked.

"Where should I meet you?" he asked.

"Portkey to the Sphere." Harry said. Normally he'd call Jack too, but he knew that he was still with his family. It took only a few seconds for Teal'c to appear in the designated area. "Hi Teal'c."

"Who is being attacked?" Teal'c asked quickly, as he went directly to the gunner's position.

When the Plutus took off a minute later, with its staff having apparated to their positions, or having taken portkeys, for those staff who were not magic capable, Harry simply monitored their position as they used the StellarNet to go where Daniels had been told to. When the Sphere arrived, stealth enabled, it was to see two large armies of pyramid ships arrayed against each other, shots being fired in a constant barrage between the two. Sokar's personal ship had some magical protections and it seemed to be the biggest target, which was sparing the other vessels, to a degree.

"So, we want to help one of them?" Sirius asked, as Remus just watched as hundreds of shots of various sorts filled the intervening space, where the Plutus had just appeared. Suddenly the shots being fired stopped.

"What is happening?" Teal'c asked.

"Daniels probably had his technicians set up an illusion in the command deck of every ship." Remus said. It had been one of the new enhancements that they had come up with, to try and spare lives, by demanding compliance. The Alliance had gained quite a bit of notoriety and the Plutus was a feared and respected ship.

Harry had not set up a connection for such a thing, but he had other options. He simply connected to the monitor in the bridge of the Plutus, where Daniels stood in front of the captain's seat. He was dressed in a black uniform, with silver accents. It had the Marauders Insignia on the chest and some sort of rank indicated on his shoulder. He was speaking in a commanding voice and Harry only caught the tail-end of that conversation.

"-do you understand!?" Daniels finished.

Sokar's voice was heard then. "We informed the interloper that he was encroaching on Alliance space, Lord Daniels. He insists on pushing at our boundaries on a daily basis."

"You have no right to tell Anubis where he is allowed to go. This galaxy belongs to me, the true god above all." a raspy voice said. It was likely Anubis. "Destroy-" he began to order.

"I warned you, any further attempt to attack our people will result in your destruction and seizure of your lands, worlds and people." Daniels interrupted. "Captains of the Anubis army, if you want to live, don't follow Anubis's orders. If you want to die, like so many before you, continue as you have. I know you've heard about me. You know I don't make idle threats."

"Don't listen to him!" Anubis ordered. "Destroy them!" Before another shot could be fired, however, the Biliskner, Thor's magic enabled warship, appeared next to the Plutus followed shortly by the entire Marauder Fleet of Prometheus-class ships. Each of those ships, Harry knew, contained at least ten smaller vehicles, which would be piloted from inside the main ship. That meant no human losses would be incurred should the smaller ships be destroyed in any battle. They all looked like a cross between a jet and a death-glider with three forward-facing sharp points. They looked mean and they packed a punch.

Anubis was not going to show weakness or be intimidated by that display of support for Sokar's, admittedly, bigger armada. "I said destroy them!" Anubis demanded again. Unfortunately the Anubis generals and ship-captains were more fearful of their own master, than the army arrayed in front of them. The Pyramid ships started spewing forth energy weapon fire, as their own smaller vehicles started flying out and approached their enemy.

Daniels gave the order and the Sokar forces started exiting their own ships, as the Marauder's fleet did the same. No shots were being fired from their side, however, as Thor communicated to Daniels to hold off, while he activated a newly developed Asgard magical countermeasure. A giant shield of visible shimmering energy surrounded the Marauders and their allies, which stopped all the energy-fire being directed at them. Harry realised that they did have the knowledge for something like that, with what he'd given them and chuckled as he realised that Thor's ship must have been the recipient of one of the new, larger, Asgard magical batteries.

"How are you doing this!?" Anubis demanded. He'd never seen the kind of power being shown here.

"The alliance has many powers to bring to bear and many allies to call upon." Daniels said, even though he was impressed with what he was seeing.

"Asgard stands with the Alliance." Thor added his own voice. Though Harry couldn't see it, he could see the calm look and nod in his head, as was part of Thor's normal mannerisms.

"The Asgard has no right." Anubis said, trying to calm himself. "You are betraying the protected planet treaty. This space is not part of the treaty."

"You misunderstand." Thor said, calmly. "The protected planet treaty was nullified, when we joined the Alliance. This entire Galaxy is now part of protected space."

"I will see your people die, for this betrayal!" Anubis exclaimed again. He was frustrated, since he had no idea how this was being achieved. All batteries were still firing and he'd not seen one weak-point in the shield. All the ships that had come into contact with the shield had crashed into it, like it was a solid object. It must be functioning as some sort of force shield. Even firing his own ship's weapon, which looked like a form of directed arcing electricity, did nothing but skid off the shield and hit his own ships.

"Commander Thor, can we fire through that shield?" Daniels asked.

"We can open a space for movement through the shield, but that would make a weak point in our defences." Thor said. "There is another option." he said, then, realising that Daniels must have muted the connection to Anubis.

"Please, I'm all ears." Daniels said, with a smirk on his face. Thor explained the plan and Daniels agreed, developing an evil grin on his face. "Oh, I like that idea." he said.

They'd need to wait for the weapon-fire to stop, before Thor could activate his plan, however. "I will send my ships to create a barrier for you, Lord Daniels." Sokar offered.

"No." Daniels disagreed. "We don't sacrifice our people for a temporary advantage, or any other reason." Looking to the side, Daniels made eye-contact with one of his controllers and nodded. Said controller activated the link to Anubis's ships again. "You are welcome to waste your energy on our shields. It will make killing you easier when you run out of power." he said with a smile.

"You cannot hide behind your shields forever, human." Anubis sneered. "You will become vulnerable once that shield falls and then you will die." to punctuate his statement, his electrical attack fired again, twice, but still to no avail.

"We can always discuss the peaceful surrender of your people, Lord Anubis." Thor said reasonably. "Surely you have a care for their wellbeing?"

"My men will die for me, and do so willingly, because I am their god." Anubis announced, sounding quite pleased with himself, really.

"I've seen enough." Harry said.

"You've got that look again." Sirius said, rubbing his hands together. He loved it when Harry got all dramatic. He was just glad he was there to see it in person this time.

Harry had to think about it for a moment, but he had an idea that might be impressive enough.

He quickly sent a whispered message to Daniels, who looked shocked for only a moment, but then grinned even wider. He was going to love being involved this time.

He connected to the on-board magical battery, which had a very large charge, siphoning its power directly through himself before he focussed his will on the space between the two opposing forces and constructing an illusion just outside the human visual range. At the same time, he connected to the Plutus, where he connected into the link their operators were using to send the illusion to the bridges of the Anubis ships, hijacking the audio feed for his own purposes.

The first indication that something else was going on, was when the impact pattern of the enemy weapons fire started hitting something other than the shield. Anubis sent another shot of his main weapon, when he realised that the shield was being protected by something else. The lightning weapon connected to a large invisible construct, but when the weapon stopped firing, the electricity kept on running all over the invisible presence. The sheer size of the construct shocked even Anubis and he stood up off his throne, to walk closer to the window he was using to watch the battle.

He looked on in horror as the shape, still wreathed in lightning, became visible slowly, before solidifying into the body of a large man, with a thick brown beard and a shaved head. He wore a black uniform with a very recognizable insignia on the chest. That of the Marauders. The leaders of the Alliance.

"YOU HAVE REFUSED THE PEACE, OFFERED FREELY BY THE ALLIANCE." The deep rumbling voice of Daniels said, coming from seemingly everywhere, as Harry allowed his voice to carry and be amplified into the designated areas in the ships. At the same time, the lightning that had been running up and down his body, started moving toward the eyes of the gargantuan creature, until it was seemingly absorbed into it, the eyes glowing an unholy green for just a moment.

"This cannot be real! It's a trick! You cannot fool me!" Anubis cried his defiance.

"THEN YOU WILL HAVE TO LEARN, THROUGH EXPERIENCE." Daniels said. "YOU WERE WARNED."

Daniels reached forward with his mammoth hand and grabbed Anubis's flagship between his thumb and forefinger. Anubis didn't know how to react, when he felt the impact of what he had thought was a hologram, on his own shields, which crumbled a second later, as Daniels pressed his fingers together, before crushing the ship in its entirety, in what looked like a tiny flash of an explosion, to his eyes. In actuality, Harry had transported the ship into stasis, just moments before it could be crushed and had made the illusion of the rest. There were, maybe not innocent, but at least misguided Jaffa on board the ship and Harry was never one to condone the murder of those who didn't know any better.

"NOW CEASE YOUR ATTACKS, OR I WILL BE FORCED TO TEACH YOU ALL HUMILITY AS I HAD TO TEACH THE ONE YOU THOUGHT WAS A GOD." Daniels said again.

The ships that had been firing on the giant, instantly stopped their attacks, but they kept themselves at the ready, in-case their god gave them other orders. There were no further orders.

As if to add insult to injury, the shield protecting the Alliance ships vanished for a second, only to reappear around their enemy. That was not the end of the show, though. Thor manipulated the shield around them and it began to shrink. The captains of the enemy ships quickly started moving their fleet together, to avoid the very edges of what they knew to be an impregnable shield.

Daniels' giant form held his arms out and around the shield, as if he was containing them in it. "NOW LAY DOWN YOUR ARMS AND WE WILL RETURN YOU TO YOUR PEOPLE IN PEACE. OR BE SENT BACK IN PIECES. CHOOSE."

"Did he just say that?" Sirius asked incredulously. "He could have said something so much cooler!" In reality he was jealous as all hell. That was the perfect line, for people who hadn't heard the pop culture reference before.

In short order the smaller attack vessels returned to the Pyramid ships and the captains of the ships declared their surrender.

All in all it was nothing more than an impressive display. Harry had basically beaten the Goa'uld using their own methods. Perceived power through use of technology that their opponents didn't understand.

Sokar, on the other hand, felt a sudden relief in that he'd only met Harry and never come up against Daniels. If Harry was the devil, then surely Daniels was a god above gods. He never would think of ever betraying Harry, for fear that he'd be dealt with by Daniels, who had been thousands of times the size of the demon, who's scorched hand-print was still a reminder that he was working for powers beyond his mortal comprehension.

The wolves who knew Harry, understood only that he had done something amazing again. It was a habit of Harry's to use something new, usually thought up on the spot, to put people in their place. Having seen the ship crushed, but leaving no debris behind had some of them suspecting what had really happened. Not that any of them knew how.

When Daniels' giant form had faded, leaving only the Asgard Shield in place, where Thor would keep it, until they had safely transported all the Jaffa and Goa'uld away, Remus turned to Harry. "Was that something new?" he asked.

"Not really." Harry said, disconnecting the borrowed communications he'd been using. "I used the on-board battery to empower that. I couldn't do it without a massive power-source, though."

"And the ship?" Sirius asked.

"Stored in the Plutus." Harry said. Portkeying the ship away and into storage had taken a lot of power from this distance, but he might have been able to do that with his own power and without a power-source, given enough time. The Plutus could have done it on its own.

"So, you did it again? With nothing more than illusions and a singular display of power?" Remus asked.

"Well, not really. Those shots from the ships took quite a bit of power to negate against the illusion, so I ended up redirecting their energy manually." Harry said. "That was enough power to decimate a large city, so I'm very happy to have had access to the shields and hull of the Sphere. I used that rather than trying to shield all that power myself."

"You redirected all of that to the Sphere?" Teal'c asked. They'd not felt a thing. Just how strong were the shields on the ship? Never mind that, just how strong was Harry?

"Well, the Sphere is the toughest thing I've ever made with all the Asgard and magical tech I had access to." Harry said. "Redirecting the force impacts was not easy either. Manual energy redirection was draining. I'm thinking that that will be my next new project. Sounds fun." he finished with a smile.

The others looked at Harry like he'd just revealed another secret of the universe to them. Harry didn't really mind though. He pulled up his Comm and called Daniels.

"Thanks for the assistance, Mister Black." Daniels answered the call. Harry could clearly hear the celebrating going on in the background, which was likely why Daniels had answered the call that way.

"No problem, Daniels." Harry said easily. "You got it from here? I was on my way to lunch when this thing started and it's approaching dinner time."

"Commander Thor has already started beaming the prisoners away." Daniels confirmed. "We'll be heading back home soon. We'll get the new goblins to sort these pyramid monstrosities."

"New goblins?" Harry asked.

"Ask Mayor Black. He's the one that arranged their immigration documents." Daniels said.

Harry looked at Sirius, who nodded. "I'll do that." Harry said. "And Daniels? Good job. I could see you had that handled nicely, before I stepped in."

"Thank you, sir. I'll be sure to tell the troops you approve of their work." Daniels said. He was only slightly upset that they never really got a chance to fight this time, but he also understood that Harmony had higher standards than the monsters they'd been fighting. He also knew there were other Goa'uld out there. He'd get more chances.

"Goodbye, Daniels." Harry said. He'd noticed that it had become suspiciously quiet on the other side, as the cheering subsided and people listened to Daniels' part of the conversation. Just before he hung up, there was another cheer. Harry turned to Sirius then. "Goblins?" he asked as he transported them back to Harmony.

"Well, Longtooth had some family on Earth still and they made a deal we couldn't refuse." Sirius said. When Harry just kept on looking at him, he explained. "Fine, we've had requests for quite a while and I just wanted to shut them up, so we've kind of accepted most of the goblin nation as citizens of Harmony."

"The deal, Sirius. What's the deal?" Harry tried again. He didn't mind the goblins. The ones they had had worked out wonderfully so far.

"Well, since we've got all these warding companies, who don't have all that much to do, since we've expanded the boundaries of Harmony to support growth for the next ten years or so, we arranged a spot for them on the other side of Mars, for them to establish their own town. In return, they have happily taken a deal to handle the more difficult work with the materials we gather." Sirius explained. "Goblins are the best smiths and metalworkers in the entire world and they kind of heard about the metals we've discovered in space, so…"

"They want to dismantle the ships we capture and help with mining the stuff." Harry finished.

"Yes." Sirius said.

"And their rates and fees?" Harry asked.

"Longtooth handled it." Remus said. He never really trusted Sirius to handle that kind of negotiation, but Sirius had actually done a good job with that deal.

"Longtooth is a goblin. Would he not have a conflict of interest in this?" Teal'c asked. He'd lived on Harmony long enough to know the bigger names and Longtooth was the biggest name, when it came to the goblins.

"Oh, that's the best part." Sirius enthused. "Since Longtooth is Harmony's Minister of Finance, he's taken a goblin oath to always do what's best for our interests. That's also why he let slip about what we're doing here. He involved his people, because he knew it would benefit them, and us."

Harry landed the ship before he nodded at Sirius. "Good thinking. We'll have to get him a raise."

"No way." Sirius said instantly. "He's paid in a percentage value of the strength of our economy. To give him a raise, we'd probably affect it negatively. By doing what he did, he was giving himself a raise."

"Bloody goblins." Harry chuckled. Leave it to them to enrich everyone, so that they could benefit. "Well, it looks like you'll be staying mayor for another term, Sirius."

"What? Why?! I did good, why punish me!?" Sirius begged.

"Yes, you did good, so people will want to keep you in your position." Remus agreed. "Thank Merlin that you have people handling your taxes. If you were taken to court for tax evasion, it would be a scandal."

"But, but… No!" Sirius lamented.

"Oh, quit whining." Harry said. "Let's get you drunk and call Madam Bones. That'll cheer you right up."

Sirius didn't complain about that idea. Amelia had been looking better and better to him the last while. She had a wicked tongue, which he secretly loved, and was an even better kisser, not that he'd be telling anyone about that incident, anytime soon. Little did he know that Remus had orchestrated the entire event and had a recording, for when the time was right. He was still one of the original Marauders, after all.

"Actually, call Amelia first." Remus suggested. "She dislikes being left out of a good party."

"Party!" Sirius agreed, instantly. "It's been a while! Let's give the house-elves a mess to clean up!" he exclaimed, before apparating away.

"Was that a good idea?" Harry asked.

"Harry, we've got a lot to celebrate." Remus said. "Your own achievements notwithstanding, Anubis's defeat today was a big achievement. He has been on our radar for a while and taking him down will go down in galactic history."

"We heard rumours that he was building an armada to bring to bear against the Alliance for months now." Teal'c agreed. "His defeat, and that his people were taken alive, will be a cause for much revelry on Chulak." Anubis had seized the opportunity, when most of the system lords disappeared. It had also been why he had only attacked, when he had thought he had a large enough fleet, having heard the stories of the Alliance.

"Okay." Harry said, with a nod. "Let's party, then."

---

There were announcements on all the magical stations, about the defeat of one of the galaxy's greatest foes and a public holiday was declared to commemorate the occasion. Someone released the footage of Anubis's defeat and news reports and interviews with some of the wolves who had been there, were underway in Harmony within the hour and most of the people in Harmony, even though they hadn't know about the specifics, celebrated the massive success as everyone discussed the video footage and the information released in the interviews.

Black Manor may have been a bit small for the amount of people who showed up for the celebration. Many people from the SGC, their families, for those who had them in Harmony, and many friends and allies had shown up. Even a few Asgard, in their more human-form clones had made an appearance to add to the celebrations.

Throughout the whole event, most of the people looked at Daniels as the one that defeated the entire army and Harry encouraged that, since he didn't like the limelight anyway. In his opinion the big man deserved the attention he received, even though he didn't like seeing his Aunty Poppy acting possessive, when one too many ladies started flirting openly with him.

Daniels took the attention with a tolerant smile, even as he denied that he had a big part in the whole affair. Harry just chuckled at that. Acting humble would only raise people's opinion of him. He knew, it had happened to him on many occasions.

As for Harry, he spent the first part of the party chatting happily with the many people who came to chat with him, as he entertained the children by conjuring jumping castles, moving toys and other child-friendly activities, which ensured that the parents could enjoy the evening without worrying too much about their children. He only got to enjoy that for a few hours, though, before the house-elves took over. Hermione had told him that they were feeling left out. House-elves loved children. It was part of their nature to want to take care of them.

Returning to the house, Harry found everything from drinking contests to areas dedicated to dancing, with loud music and flashing lights in one corner and more sedate, elegant dancing in another, with magical barriers to ensure nobody bothered anyone else with their idea of fun.

There was a buffet table with many dishes and different kinds of food, for people to snack as they felt the need. To accommodate people with different tastes, there were even a few off-world delicacies, prepared by some of the chefs that the Ladies of the house had arranged. There was even a dedicated dessert station with never-ending chocolate fountains and all kinds of treats.

Harry didn't know, but the girls were paying attention to what people enjoyed the most, and a list was already being made, for future events… such as a certain wedding that they were busy planning.

Sirius was chatting happily with Amelia, Remus, Tonks, Daniel and Sha're, gesturing as he told one story or another, while Amelia rolled her eyes at him on more than one occasion and Remus correcting stories he knew the truth about.

When Harry finally sat down, after dancing with all his girls at least once, in both dancing locations, he was surrounded by those same girls, who wanted to hear the story from his perspective. He told them of what had actually happened.

Hermione mentioned then, that she had been working on creating magical illusions with physical form, but had been completely unable to emulate Harry's special gift. Even after all that time, it seemed that Harry was unique in his form of physical manifestation in magical illusions. She had been talking to Sam, Carter, not Pike, about her own research into what she called Hard-Light Holograms, which could potentially do something similar. Sam had told her that it would be limited to physical touch, where Harry's illusions could produce heat and sound and different variations of pliability. Hard-Light Holograms would be solid, unbending structures, incapable of anything more than solid forms, which was a limitation of the technology.

She'd gone into that research as a counter to her own phasing magic. Since illusions weren't constructed of matter, it was possible that it could be used against people with phasing capabilities. It was something that all the researchers in Harmony tended to do. Once you create something, you had to learn the limitations and how to counter it, which would give you a greater understanding and add to your capabilities.

Harry would have offered to help her work on emulating his magic, but he felt that if it was truly unique to him, it was likely something he needed to keep as his trump-card. That, and he suspected that it might have something to do with Superspace. It had been there when he was a child and he'd created it with his own magic, to begin with, so there would likely always be some of his magic in there.

That conversation led to others, concerning what had been going on in the research departments of Harmony. While not all of the girls were researchers, they were all capable of understanding the vast majority of what was discussed. The girls had never told Harry this, but some of them had taken the time to learn more, so that they could take part in his conversations, concerning the more theoretical things that he got into.

Luna was very happy to declare that the first Harry Black movie was ready for release and that the next few were going to be a lot quicker in the making, now that they had the processes down. That also meant that they were ready for the next step in Harry's plans. That led to secrecy spells being cast and plans of a whole different sort being discussed, before they returned to the party. A party which showed no signs of slowing down by 4AM the next morning, but Harry and his girls had had enough by that point and wanted to get to bed, and other activities.

Harry had not had enough time with his girls, since his return from the past, so he happily spent said time, giving them all some personal attention.

---

The next day found Harry and his girls just enjoying each other's company in bed, until Dobby knocked on the door and delivered a late breakfast to them in bed. Dobby was of the opinion that they should spend more time at the activity they were obviously busy with, because he and the other house-elves were hoping for many babies to take care of, one day. It was for this reason that breakfast in bed usually consisted of energy rich foods and things thought to help in the making of little ones.

After delivering breakfast to his master and mistresses, Dobby returned to the kitchen, where he was still in charge of making snacks and drinks for the still ongoing party, arranging clean-up duties and keeping an eye on the goings on of the Harmony guild of house-elves. It hadn't been asked of them, but the elves had had an increase in energy, since Black Manor was a hub of magical energy and the master and his family had been unknowingly feeding the elves connected to them much more magic than they could spend performing just their normal duties.

They divvied up extra work, like street cleaning, taking care of the many gardens and parks and seeing to the general beautifying of Harmony, which was both a duty and an honour. Nobody even noticed that they were doing it, since that was the sign of a good house-elf, and because there were services set up for such things, with people who didn't mind that they never really had as hard a time as it really could be, especially considering the tasks were mostly performed by magic.

Of course, even with the large staff of house-elves, mostly former workers in the Death Eater homes, and some others released from service to 'bad masters', there was still more to do than only they could handle, which was why Dobby had taken it upon himself to start the guild. There were other families in Harmony, who had brought their own elves with them and those had been contacted to plan things like working together on larger tasks, which ended up extending the reach of the elves to most of the established lands of Harmony.

While Black Manor was especially high in magical potential, the rest of Harmony had levels that could rival places like Hogwarts, so the elves were more potent there than they had been on Earth, especially with the magic their families gave them. To be perfectly honest, if they hadn't needed the connection to a magical person or family, they could very well have survived here unattached, but that wasn't their way and they preferred their current way of life.

It was while Dobby was planning the rest of the day and seeing to his duties and those of the elves under him, that he noticed something strange. He seemed to pick up on things more quickly, and the elves around him seemed less efficient than they could be. He was considering this, when Harry appeared next to him.

"Hey there, Dobby." Harry said.

"Master Harry?" the Elf asked, in confusion. He was certain he was just in the master's room, where he was spending time with his missuses. He could feel him there at that moment, even, but he could also feel him right next to him. His connection could always lead him to his master, but he was in two places at once… or three? "Dobby doesn't understand." he admitted.

"Sorry about that, Dobby." Harry said. He hadn't thought of what his current status as an ascended being would do to the elf, until he felt a draw on his attention as the part of him in Superspace made him aware of it. "We should talk. Can we go somewhere private?" he asked.

Dobby clapped his hands and the other elves all vanished, to give him privacy with the master's son. Most of the elves were connected to Sirius, since Harry spent so much time away from Harmony, with Dobby usually accompanying Harry on long trips. Dobby snapped his fingers then, and a low buzz was heard for a second as his version of a sound-protective ward settled in. "We is being alone and private, master Harry." the elf reported.

"Thank you, Dobby." Harry said kindly, as he conjured a seat for himself and his elf, who reluctantly took the seat at Harry's gesture.

"How is Master here and also in his room with his missuses?" Dobby asked.

"That's a bit of a story, but I wanted to talk to you about it, before it came up around someone who shouldn't know." Harry said. Dobby nodded, to indicate that he understood. He realised that he had sometimes done things that made his master unhappy, not that he had known it at the time. "When I went away, I did some things that changed me and that made me more powerful, which as you know will affect you."

"Master Harry has become even more powerful?" Dobby asked with big eyes. His master was always so powerful. How had he become even more powerful? "Master Harry really is the greatest wizard ever." he said, even as he recognized that what he was saying was true. He pulled on the connection, as he normally would to draw himself to his master, to gauge the strength of the connection. He couldn't feel an end to the power. It was like he was close by, but also far away. Further than he could see or understand. Even so, the connection was as strong as if he was standing right next to the far away connection.

"Don't do that." Harry warned. "That's what I wanted to tell you. For me to stay who I am, I had to make another me, who is very far away, in a place that changes people. That other me is working to keep me from changing and being taken away. If you try to go to the me, there, you will likely not be able to come back."

Dobby's eyes bugged out again, as his thought process decided to follow a certain, ingrained route. "Dobby needs to feed Master Harry's other self! Dobby is a bad elf! Dobby should have known!"

"Dobby, calm yourself." Harry said, making a calming gesture. "The other me is in a place where there is no need to eat, or sleep or anything you need to worry about. He's also with me, so he doesn't need attention and he doesn't get bored. We're still one person, just also not." he said, before smiling kindly at one of his oldest friends, one that had once sacrificed himself for Harry. "The other me is very grateful that you are thinking of him, too, though. He says thank you, and not to worry about him." It was a bit of a lie, to help the little guy understand in a simpler way. The other him wasn't separate at all, being himself. Connected, but also not limited to the physical limitations of the physical world, like he himself wasn't, if he chose to be.

"He's not angry at Dobby? Dobby wasn't being a bad elf?" Dobby asked, his eyes brimming again. It sounded to him like master Harry was saying a part of himself had died or something.

"You're more than just a good elf, Dobby. You're my friend. He's quite content there, actually." Harry said. "We are enjoying life as we should. He's there to make it so that I can be here, while he sees and hears and tastes and experiences everything I do. So that I can have a life and one day have many babies for you and the other house-elves to look after." he said with a mischievous smile, as he remembered Hermione's statement from the previous evening. "Not that we're ready to have them just yet. We're enjoying the practice, though."

Dobby seemed to respond positively to that statement, and his tears vanished as he considered that. "He tastes what Master tastes?" he asked. "Did he like the bacon this morning, because Dobby thinks he could have made the bacon better."

"We both think the bacon was excellent, as always." Harry said, smiling. "So, can you remember not to try and go to him? To not mention this connection? To not pull too much from him?"

"I must not take other Master Harry's magic. He needs it to be with you." Dobby said, with a nod, deciding he understood the situation well enough. He'd not draw power from that master Harry again.

"Good." Harry nodded. "Remember, that Harry's power may change you too, so the less you pull from him, the better. I like you the way you are."

"Thank you, master Harry. You are too good to Dobby." Dobby said, his eyes brimming again. Harry just shook his head with a smile at the little guy, for his over-emotional responses. He secretly thought the elf could cry on command and did that on purpose.

"I could be a better friend, but I don't think you could be any better. You're already the best friend and house-elf anyone can have." Harry said, as he got up. "Oh, and let's keep this and the fact that I can make more of me a secret between the two of us. The girls know about my copying myself, but until we're married, this is family magic that they don't understand everything about, yet."

Dobby nodded, realising that he was to keep his master's family magic secret. "Dobby will not say anything." he promised, seriously.

"Goodbye." Harry said, before he faded out of existence.

"The greatest wizard EVER!" Dobby exclaimed happily, as he pulled himself together and snapped his fingers again, to cancel his magic and to allow the other elves back into the kitchen.

---

The party had finally ended early that evening, as people who had been happy to use magic to keep going, remembered that they had work to get back to the next day. Sirius had long since vanished into his wing of the house, with a certain Lady Bones, who had instantly refused to enter his room at seeing its state, and had dragged him back to one of the guest rooms, where they ended up staying until the morning of the next day, when people needed to get back to work.

The parents who had children, thanked the elves who had kept an eye on them, seeing to their needs and even setting them up with places to sleep in peace, while they enjoyed the party. Parents seldom took time for such things, but at the Black Manor there were such accommodations made available, so that people could enjoy themselves without worry.

Those that had gone home on the evening of the first day of the party, had taken transport rooms or flying carpets, with tipsy drivers who were sometimes even asleep, while the carpets did as they were designed to do, and took people home without incident.

By the next morning, the Black Manor was spotless and everything was back as it was supposed to be.

When Harry left his room, first, as usual, it was to find Desiré waiting for him in the den. She needed to talk to him. Similarly, he needed to talk to her.

"Good morning, Mister Black." Desiré said, with a respectful nod.

"Good morning, Desiré." Harry said back. "Have the elves given you something to eat yet?" he asked, noting that she didn't have food or a drink.

"They have come and gone." Desiré confirmed. She'd been waiting since early. She really needed to speak to Harry, as soon as possible.

"Okay, then." Harry said, nodding, before he sat down and started on his coffee, placing a preserving charm on his food, so that he could chat to the Ascended, who obviously had business to discuss. "I'm assuming you have urgent business to discuss?" he gave voice to the thought.

"I do." Desiré said. "It's about Anubis." she started.

"The fact that he's ascended?" Harry asked. He'd felt something off when he'd transported the ship into stasis. That had been the cause for the amount of power it had taken.

"You knew?" she asked.

"Not until I investigated what I had felt when he went into stasis." Harry admitted.

"Stasis?" she asked. She'd watched the recording herself.

"Yes, we try not to kill innocents, whenever possible. Anubis might be bad, but his Jaffa surely won't all be." Harry said. "Did you want to warn me about him not being dead?"

"Yes." Desiré said, a strange look in her eyes as she looked at Harry in a new light. "You could feel that he was ascended? That shouldn't be possible, unless-"

"Yeah, let's not discuss that just now." Harry said, looking over his shoulder at the door, where he could feel one of his girls approaching. "After breakfast." he said.

Desiré nodded in understanding. "Very well." she said. How had she not been able to tell? Harry was around her all the time and he was never really a mystery to her. Even in this magical construct, she'd been able to interact with the world normally, like a mortal, but her power was accessible to her, even if she had to be very subtle in its use, to keep the other ascended from finding out.

Harry went back to his breakfast as the girls joined them, and Harry chatted amiably with them and Desiré about his plans to work on an energy redirection project, which had limitless potential for defensive and offensive capabilities, if he was able to succeed in it.

Desiré, for her part, contributed ideas about things she felt would help widen the spectrum for Harry, but not necessarily how to achieve anything. As an ascended, and as someone who understood Harry to a degree, she never gave him answers that she felt was breaking any of the ascended rules, or which would spoil his fun.

By the time his breakfast was over, he decided to leave with Desiré, stating that they had something to discuss, about the captured Goa'uld. He had no issue telling them that there was something about Anubis that connected him to the ascended dimension, which meant they understood that Desiré had information she'd rather not discuss with too many people hearing. That didn't stop them from being curious, but they let them go without issue, resolving rather to let Hermione just add it to her never-ending list of questions, for when they were married, after which they went back to planning the event itself.

When Harry and Desiré got to his lab, it was to find One already busy reading on a display monitor connected to his Comm, while he inspected a large machine he was studying. He greeted them, and then went back to his studies, while Harry led Desiré into his office, where he had protections set up for privacy, so that he could access his most protected information without the chance of people seeing or hearing it.

Harry sat behind his desk and Desiré took her own position in front of him. She didn't wait long. "You are ascended." she stated.

"Yes." Harry said.

"How?" she asked. She would have known if he was in the process of ascending. Sure he had the potential, since he was as good as they came, which was a prerequisite for the ascended realm, and he was quite enlightened, but he didn't seem like he would even want such a thing. He'd even stated as much.

"It was an accident." Harry admitted. "I can't give you all the details, but suffice it to say, I made a new dimension, which I had intended to offer to ascended who wanted to be a part of the universe, not just watch it, but something changed and it turned into a magical version of what you know."

"Magical version?" she asked.

"Well, I needed to protect magicals from you ascended and I wanted the realm to stay a secret, so I made it work that way." Harry said. "Unfortunately, while I was setting up those protections, it kind of drew me into itself. Now I'm both there and here. Magically ascended and also not. Once I've figured out how to set up a space for others, without giving them access to the infinite power it has made for itself, I'll be offering you a space, so that you can continue your work, but without the oversight of the idiots currently in control of ascension."

Desiré, no, Oma Desala had never even considered that to be possible, had not known that it could even be attempted. The ascended realm was as old as time. It had come into existence at the beginning of the universe and was as vast as all of existence, even though the ascended tended to stay together in the Milky Way Galaxy. For Harry to have created it and have it be capable of what he claimed, he'd have had to… "You went back in time?" she asked incredulously. It was against all the rules. Never mind that she couldn't fathom how you'd go about such a thing as creating an artificial realm. Then again, she didn't know magic, couldn't from the sound of it.

"I didn't want your ascended friends finding it and using it, so I needed to go back to before they were in this Galaxy. I didn't know that it would spread itself so far." Harry admitted. "I think Magic itself used the knowledge I had to create pathways for itself to spread throughout the universe, traversing through subspace or Hyperspace to access further and further. That hadn't been part of my plans, but Magic obviously had its own plans."

Oma was quiet, then, as she pondered the implications of such a thing. If Magic was sentient, could choose to travel, spread throughout and explore the universe, and Harry had given it access to his, admittedly large knowledge of how both magic and science worked together, there was very little that he couldn't achieve, with access to such a dimension of power. She didn't doubt his intentions, but her own experience told her that she needed to ensure she didn't repeat the mistakes of the past, should he succeed in making a place for her and others like her in this new realm.

"Anubis was my doing." she admitted, then. "He fooled me into helping him to ascend. Now he wants to destroy all life in the galaxy and start over, creating life anew, in his image."

"He's capable?" Harry asked, not having expected such a thing. How would that even be done?

"There is a device, which was used to seed life in this galaxy." Oma said. "It can be used to achieve the opposite as well."

"That's why humans look like the Ancients." Harry said in understanding. They'd recently found a woman frozen in the ice in Antarctica, close to where the second Stargate was, even if it was a mile under the ice. Diagnostic spells had revealed that she was in perfect stasis and had been for millions of years, but also that she carried a deadly pathogen, so they'd not chosen to revive her. Rather they had stored her in stasis, until they had a vaccine figured out. Nothing they had tried had worked so far, but Harry didn't really care, since that wasn't his division. If all else failed, he'd eventually simply make her a new body and have her live through that.

"You knew?" Oma asked.

"We've found certain evidence. I doubt you ascended would have noticed, since the team that found it had magical protections, which would have negated your ability to see it." Harry said. "Do you know where this device is?" he asked.

"I do." Oma said.

"You're not going to tell me, are you?" Harry asked, with a sigh. He'd need that information, before he allowed any ascended into Superspace.

As if reading his mind, Oma nodded. "I believe I can trust you, but I have been fooled before." she pointed out.

Harry pondered this for a while. "Okay, then. How about this? You tell me how to protect from it, and I help you put something in place which will not allow either your own people, or mine to ever get close to it again. We set up a way to allow it only to be used, if both of us decide it is needed."

"You can do that?" she asked. Harry was right. Such a solution would appeal to her, because she knew she'd never decide to open it up again. Harry felt the same.

"I can." Harry agreed. He'd set up two Fidelius protected wards around the location, with him as one secret keeper and her as the other. Oma would need to test it to see for herself, but Harry was sure he could convince her with that display. In the meanwhile he'd set her up with all the documentation she could need, to read up on the charm.

"Then, I think we can do that." Oma finally said. "Before that, however, we need to decide on how to deal with Anubis."

"If we brought him out of stasis, could he escape magical protections, like I have around your Monastery?" Harry asked.

"He's not fully ascended." Oma clarified. "Not anymore. The Others punished him and myself, by allowing him to partially manifest in your world. He is not allowed to do anything he couldn't before, as a Goa'uld, but he breaks the rules, by using knowledge he gained as an ascended. My punishment is that I cannot do anything but watch as he goes about destroying everything."

"Assholes." Harry said, thinking about both Anubis and the other Ascended. "Okay, then. Can he escape, though?"

"If I cannot escape, he'd not be able to." Oma said.

"Perfect." Harry said, as he took out his Comm. "Call J. Daniels." he said. When Daniels answered, Harry informed him not to take the ship out of stasis yet, which it turned out, they had discussed, but wouldn't be doing for a few weeks, since they had many Jaffa and Goa'uld to work through. Harry would ensure the proper protections were in place, before they did that. Then he'd stick Anubis in a phylactery, if he could, and give Tom some company. The two deserved each other for what Anubis had been planning.

"And just like that, my biggest mistake is stopped in his tracks." Oma said, a sigh of relief escaping her. "I cannot thank you enough."

"Let's discuss your normal procedures for helping people ascend. We don't want a repeat of your past mistakes, do we?" Harry asked.

That conversation led to the revelation that intent-based wards would have stopped such a thing from ever happening in the first place. They also discussed what Oma felt was acceptable, for an environment in which she could work. If Harry was able to do as they discussed, the Superspace would have a dedicated layer inside itself, which would work much like the ascended realm, but would still be unreachable to them.

Unfortunately, Oma would need to likely become human, before she would be able to ascend into the new realm, or her move might draw the attention of the others. For that to happen, Oma would need to prepare herself. If she was careful about it, she may even be able to spread word between the other ascended who did not approve of the current rules. There were a few of them, after all, mostly those who she had helped ascend.

Before they broke up for the day, Oma had two more bombs to drop. The Wraith and the Ori.

The Wraith were a parasitic race of humanoids, who ruled a galaxy called the Pegasus Galaxy on Earth. They were the reason for the fall of the City Ship Atlantis and the Alterans who had gone to that galaxy. They went into long stasis sleep cycles, while they allowed the human 'stock' to grow and repopulate, before they awoke and reaped again.

The Ori were ascended beings that operated out of the galaxy where the Alterans originally came from. They held themselves above the mortals of that galaxy as gods and fed on their faith, giving them godlike powers of influence and made them many times more powerful than normal ascended. Should there be a fight, the ascended of the Milky Way would be defeated easily.

She only told Harry about all this, because she had realised that the influence of magic would allow them to either avoid those galaxies, or to try and help. Neither would be an easy task by normal means, but Harry's people and allies might be up to the challenge. Unfortunately there wasn't a lot of information about those threats, since the Ascended kept to their own Galaxy and had invested quite a bit of power to keep the Ori from realising they were even there, granting the same protection to the mortals of their Galaxy. At least it seemed they were good for something.

They left that meeting late in the afternoon, with Desiré deciding to return to her pod, so that Oma could focus all her attention on planning her move and to contemplate the information she had been given, while Harry still needed to figure out how to ensure the Superspace never became a playground for other monsters. There was also something of a discussion about her descent from her current state, which Harry said they could discuss later.

---

A few weeks later, Anubis's ship was released from stasis, into a large warded field, effectively cutting him off from any form of escape. Harry didn't even give him a chance to speak, when he apparated directly onto the bridge, instantly sealing him in a separate storage disk.

It took a bit of work from there, but two weeks later, Tom was introduced to an illusion of Anubis, who was in actuality contained in a pocket dimension, which Harry and Pike had put together. The long and the short of it, however, meant that he was just as contained as Tom was, the wards and the Fidelius ensuring that they couldn't be found, nor escape.

Harry didn't want to risk anything though and had removed the Hallows, only to discover that they were completely drained of whatever magic they had once contained. The stone was just a normal piece of volcanic glass, while the wand was just a stick. Having returned home, to check on the Cloak, revealed a normal piece of ordinary, if outdated, clothing.

He intended to spend time on that immediately, but his other self informed him that the Hallows had been part of his ascension. Harry suspected that it was just a horribly convoluted part of ensuring that he found his way to the Superspace. Magic itself must have wanted it, or, perhaps, needed it. Either way, Harry had sighed and transported both the stick and the stone into Alpha Origin.

This realisation had given him an insight to a problem that had been bothering him for years. The Elder wand may have been the cause for the massive reaction Albus Dumbledore had had when he was cleansed of influencing magic. Such a device, no matter how intelligently crafted, would still leave a print on the person it was bound to. Dumbledore had won the wand's loyalty, which would no-doubt have affected him, as it had stayed connected to him for many years. Harry was the last owner, but he never used it, so doubted it had connected to him prior to cleansing Dumbledore.

At least he could put that mystery behind him. Now he just had to figure out how that same wand had connected to him, unless Magic had just been a bitch and connected him because he'd been the last mortal to handle it. Something told him that that wasn't the whole story, but that same tickle that had told him that he needed to go back in time, before he was connected to Superspace properly, told him that he'd get the answer without looking for it, so he put it aside, not really caring to look for an answer that he would likely only find when Magic decided it was time.

Trying to clear his mind and to find something fun to do, he decided to postpone his research into redirecting energies, and to focus on another project he had in planning since his last big mission.

The next few months were spent in research, even as his girls set a time for a year from the moment he had told them to start planning the wedding, for said event. They didn't want to feel rushed and felt that a year-long notice period would allow all their allies and guests to book the event.

---

When Harry was finally done with his latest research, he invited SG-1, Doctor Pike, Doctor Hawk and his family to see his latest invention first. Harry had invited them to come to the Sphere for the trip which would take them to the dedicated location for his invention. He didn't tell them what they would be seeing either.

As they arrived on the morning of that Friday, Harry couldn't contain his excitement. He just knew that Doctors Hawk, Pike, Carter and Jackson would be excited by this. He had no doubt that he'd be receiving many questions about how it was possible, but he decided not to think about that, since he'd not be giving them the answers anyway. One, who was also there, had no intention of giving Harry's secrets away either.

Doctors Pike and Hawk had been the first to arrive, an hour early, followed shortly by his own girls. SG-1 arrived half an hour early. Remus, Daniels, Sirius and their significant others showed up just before the event was set to begin. He greeted them warmly and allowed them all to chat, without answering any questions and then had them take their seats, before taking his own.

"Can't you at least tell us where we're going?" Hermione asked.

"We're going to Alpha Origin." Harry said. "It's what I named the star closest to my research lab."

"Is the name significant?" Pansy asked.

"I have reason to believe that something happened there, long ago, which allows for this particular feat of magic and technology to be possible only there." Harry said, evasively.

"You're keeping secrets again." Hermione huffed. She knew him well enough to pick up that he knew more than he was letting on, besides the obvious, anyway.

"Always, my dear." Harry smirked, as they left Harmony and he activated the transport to the star mentioned. Moving from there, he flew them, not to the planet, but to the space station he had been building to house this particular project. As they approached the station, it only became visible to those with him, once he passed the wards.

"Fidelius?" Sirius asked, trying to act nonchalant at approaching what looked like a giant, upside down spinning top, with windows in all directions at the base of the structure. Those who knew, recognized that the top was layered with magical solar panels, which had them thinking that whatever they were about to see took a lot of power to function, which was the point.

"Yup." Harry said, as he flew them to the large base, where there was a place to dock.

"Why don't we have a space station?" Doctor Hawk asked.

"We do." Pike said easily. "It's used as the official reception area for people who want to visit Harmony, but who want to come by their own means, rather than be brought by the wolves."

"Why don't I know about this?" Pike asked.

"It's not something we use for research." Harry said. "It's got dormitories and some facilities, but it's not a research station. The wolves use it as a check-point. It's not even in our sector of the Galaxy. The idea is to keep the location of Harmony a secret. They use a transport tunnel to hide the fact that we aren't based on the planet below the station."

"Clever." Hawk said.

"Thank you." Daniels said. It had been his idea. Harry had approved as well, but he hadn't had much of a hand in it. Bill had handled that one, since he was capable.

Harry docked them and took them into the large station. It wasn't a mammoth facility, but it was definitely not small either, being large enough to house around fifty people with space for supplies to last those people for a few months at a time.

Seeing that the influence for the decorations had come from the inner design of the Sphere, made the girls smile. Harry might not have the same sense of style, but he could at least emulate what he learned. Harry skipped over pointing obvious things like living areas, the kitchen and the facilities, out. Instead he took them right through to the topmost floor, where he'd setup his surprise.

There was a thick metal door, with what looked like a tablet on the side, where Harry placed his hand. A second later the doors unlatched and opened themselves.

"Fingerprint-scanner?" Pike asked, looking at the obvious magical design.

"Just something I was testing." Harry said. "The Fidelius should protect the station, but there is always the risk of someone bringing someone or something that they don't know about. The tablet scans your blood, cross-references it with a magical imprint and then checks your intent. I'll be setting it up so that it will allow only people in who were scanned in, after this."

"I'm assuming this is dangerous?" Remus asked.

"In the wrong hands." Harry nodded. "Knowledge is power, after all." He waited for them all to enter and triggered the door to shut. "Alpha, how are things?" Harry asked the room.

"Everything is as it should be, Mister Black." a nearly emotionless female voice said. "The demonstration is prepared and ready."

"Thank you Alpha." Harry said.

"Who's Alpha?" Sirius asked. The voice had sounded so cold. Lifeless.

"I am the static artificial sentience created by Mister Black, who runs this station." the voice said from all around. "Mister Black named me Alpha, for the sun, Alpha Origin."

"You made an artificial life to run this place?" Sirius asked. "Is that safe? What does this place do, anyway?"

"Well, Alpha isn't alive, really." Harry said. "When I made her, I made her with the knowledge of her purpose and how important it is to keep everything here a secret. She was made in a way that makes her unchanging. Her base personality and priorities will never change, but she has room to grow and learn besides that, to a degree."

"I have space to learn in a flux diamond crystal hard drive Mister Black designed, after the success of One." Alpha said. It was basically a large recording crystal, like the ones they used for their computer systems, but with a different interface and using Doctor Pike's encryption and compression techniques.

"I am pleased that I could serve as inspiration." One spoke up.

"I am pleased to meet the inspiration to my design." Alpha said, still rather emotionlessly.

"And what is it that needs all this security and new inventions?" Pike asked, getting excited at the things she was seeing. Harry had been holding out on her. She never really forgot, but this reminded her that Harry was no slouch and that she really should include him more in her own research.

"You'll see." Harry said. "Alpha, please start the demonstration."

"Of course, sir." Alpha said.

The lights in the room dimmed. In the centre of the room, over a circular area with railings, a pinprick of light formed and grew brighter. As everyone stared, the pinprick suddenly grew until a representation of the Milky Way galaxy became visible.

"This is our galaxy, our home." Harry said. "We live near the rim of a cluster of stars that span just over one-hundred thousand light-years." As he said this, the picture zoomed in on the solar system they call home. The planets were spinning around the sun in fast forward, to better show the movement of said planets.

"This is our solar system. It's older than 4.5 billion years and it's constantly moving and changing." Harry continued. "Since the beginning of human evolution, there have always been questions about how certain things came to be and how they have changed."

The picture zoomed in on the Earth. "This is our planet. It's been our home for over six million years, but we've only explored about 10% of it. Most of it is covered in water and most of that has also not been explored."

The picture zoomed in again and changed to look up at the sky, at night. "From the surface, we can only see a small percentage of the actual galaxy with our bare eyes."

The image changed again, to show the solar system. "But what if I told you, that we now have the ability to see not just all of it, but also how things have come to be as they are?"

The solar system stopped spinning and started to go in reverse. "What if we could peer into the past and see how things were a couple of thousand years ago?" Harry said, as the rapid spinning stopped and the image zoomed into the Earth again. It was different somehow, and the Earth seemed to be changing before their eyes, as the continents drifted slowly apart, before it stopped.

The image then zoomed in and before them stood a pyramid, and before it hundreds of people in what was probably slave garb, pulling large pieces of stone toward a temple of some sort. There were Jaffa standing around them, with what looked like slightly more primitive versions of the staff weapons they carried still and there was a Goa'uld ship on a pyramid. "What if we could not just prove our theories, but see it for ourselves?" Harry finished.

"How are we seeing this?" Daniel asked in awe.

"This is the Temporal Window." Harry said. "Alpha Origin was where magic seems to have started in this galaxy, around two hundred million years ago. When it started, it created something interesting. A subspace pinpoint in time and space. I have learned how to, shall we say, connect to that pinpoint and look through it to any time in the interim.

"But that is not all." Harry continued as he saw questions were about to explode around him. The image split. Now they were looking at two images, one, where the slaves were still working, with the Jaffa watching, and another, where there were dead bodies lying around the same area, mostly slaves, but some Jaffa as well. The Goa'uld ship was not there in the second image.

"What you are looking at, is a different timeline, where an uprising had driven the Goa'uld from the Earth. Our timeline. The other, is one where no such uprising happened." Harry said. "The Temporal Window does not only look into our past, but all possible ones that occurred after Magic started spreading throughout our universe." Harry finished again, for the last time.

He had not known that that would happen, when he added the temporal instances to the device he had placed in the star. He'd thought it would be limited to only their timeline, not that he had even considered it, but that seemed to not be the case, and Harry should have known better, considering there was magic on the other timelines they had visited. He hadn't seeded magic there, after all, so he should have known that they were all connected to the point in which he had been there before all those other timelines came into being.

There was a stunned silence again. Even those who knew about Harry's secret adventure didn't know how to react, even if they knew not to say anything about what they knew.

It was Pike who spoke up first. "Fuck you." she said.

"What?" Harry asked, not understanding.

"Here I have to dedicate hundreds of hours just to set a permanent destination with our technology, into other timelines just to observe them without the Mirror, and you can just browse to them like it's another of your bloody indexes!" Pike exclaimed, exasperatedly. They had chosen to lock the Mirror away, after figuring enough of the technology out to replicate it, with their own security protocols. It had been her idea. Quantum singularities were simply too unstable to trust. If they accidentally locked onto a timeline, where their mirror was connected to another singularity, it could have done more damage than could be prepared for.

"Hey, I'm not the one who insisted on locking the Mirror away." Harry said, defensively.

Pike's eye twitched. "Fine." she huffed, after a bit. "But I'm done doing things the old way." she finished.

"I'm not going to argue about that." Harry said.

That's when the questions started up again. It took Harry quite a few hours to explain what he had created, if not how. He'd also taken the time to tell them that certain time periods would not be available, on certain timelines, including the last hundred years on their Earth. Other timelines would be available, but Harry didn't want people looking in on private moments from their Earth, especially his own past and everything related to the Magical world. There were also a few places locked out of all timelines, like ones of religious significance. Harry didn't want to encourage people to look for things that could make or break the basis of religions. He didn't see that ending well for anyone.

Besides that, it would be free to explore. He had to point out that the Temporal Window was not just centred around Earth either. Other worlds and cultures thereon would be open to them as well. There was a permanent block on nudity and sexual happenings as well, for obvious reasons. He didn't want people using it to see their favourite celebrities or models in the buff, after all.

This was not just an Astrophysicists' wet dream, but from an Archaeological perspective, it was a treasure-trove of information. Daniel was obviously the first one to start asking questions about what had led to the uprising Harry had shown them, and Harry had to point out that he hadn't really looked into it, seeing as the challenge for him had been in the creation of the system, not what all it would be able to reveal to them. Alpha had found the instances, as was part of her duties. It was also not as simple as asking a question. There was no way to know what one timeline would show until it was looked into. They would be capable of going back to whatever timeline they had been looking at before and add that destination to a database, to go back there, but that would be up to them.

Harry also had to point out that there was likely an infinite amount of timelines, so finding anything specific would be near to impossible, unless you'd found it already. The most important thing would be their ability to look into their own past, to learn what had really happened. Unfortunately, they would also not be able to use anything they learned through the Temporal Window as proof, since they'd have to provide evidence and confess where it came from. Also, anyone that used the system would be bound by a contract not to reveal what they learned, or how, except to people with clearance. It was simply too dangerous to allow knowledge of this place to spread.

That didn't deter Daniel and he was still adamant that he'd love to have access to the Alpha Origin Station.

The others had their own insights and questions, and Harry did his best to answer them. Some wanted to know how Harry had found the birthplace of magic, but he just said that he had used something he had recently invented, but was not going to discuss, for security purposes.

By the time evening fell, Daniel was already sitting at a station he had claimed, discussing with Alpha some things that he'd been wondering about for ages and she'd simply brought up an image that went back to whatever he had been asking after, at his station. Harry had had to drag the man from the room by his arm, when he basically refused to leave his seat, revelling in the confirmations he'd already seen, first-hand.

Harry then had Alpha register Doctor Hawk on the security system, and pronounced her the mission commander of the Alpha Origin Station. She hadn't even asked him why. She'd been at her own station, looking at a representation of the Galaxy as it showed her a perfect record of the last two-hundred million years-worth of stellar movement.

Harry did ask her to work with a team, who she'd have to assemble and then they'd need to set rules and limits on use for the station, taking into consideration everything from a healthy work environment, to codes of conduct and security. She promised not to let him down, with a certain fervour he had not seen in her before. She'd also be the only one, besides Harry himself, who would be able to add people to the system.

The trip home was a quick step through a new Transport Tunnel, which led into Harry's lab, for the time being. When asked why they hadn't taken the trip there through it, Harry pointed out that he'd spent some time building the station and wanted to show off. It wasn't like anyone going there would ever see the outside, after all. He'd be the only one that could find it, anyway.

One immediately went back to his station, when they arrived. Apparently he had some work to finish. Harry suspected that he'd be through the Tunnel again, before they were back home, to chat with Alpha outside the main chamber. He could understand it, though. Alpha and he were the only two of their kind in the universe. He'd likely make friends with her and then beg Harry to make her a body at some point as well. He didn't really see the harm, but he would refuse to give her a Unity crystal mind, even if he had more, because he couldn't risk her 'programming' changing. It was a security feature after all. She had the ability to grow in some ways, but that data would always be located on the designated storage medium, which would always be secondary to her primary crystal, so that she would always maintain her priorities.

They had dinner that evening, with the entire group who had gone, discussing the repercussions of so much available knowledge. There would need to be many protocols for maintaining security, and Daniels had immediately volunteered some people to stand guard by the tunnel, once it was placed in a designated location, likely in the middle of their highest security location in Harmony, the basement of the research facility, where weapons prototypes and abandoned research of that kind was kept securely.

Harry had received a few looks from his girls throughout the day and knew his questioning wasn't over, but none of them had questioned him about their suspicions, just yet. Hermione had a thoughtful look Harry knew all too well. She had drawn some conclusions and made some calculations, based on when he went on his secret mission and had likely come to a conclusion that they were connected somehow. Knowing that Harry had mentioned creating a new dimension and the fact that magic had originated at that star two-hundred million years ago, would likely have her worried.

That evening, while Harry lay in bed with his girls, Hermione and he had a whispered conversation and Harry confirmed that he had gone to that star to help him establish the dimension. He didn't go much further than that, but he told her, unequivocally, that he was not planning on ever doing something like that again, which soothed her fears quite a bit.

Besides that, the other girls had a bunch of questions. Harry had started using his abilities to create false life and there were worries that he was starting to go too far. Harry assured the girls that he had made Alpha with the specific purpose of ensuring that his new technology was never abused. She was in-fact, the ultimate authority on Alpha Origin Station. Humans could be compromised. Alpha was incapable of changing her base priorities, so he knew for a fact that she would keep things from ever getting out of hand, or people from abusing the system for personal gain.

---

Doctor Hawk came through in style, having assembled a team of mundane and magical scientists three weeks later, who were all excited at the prospect of learning more about the universe, with different people in different roles, with different responsibilities. There would be a proper chain of command and a proper procedure for exploring through the Temporal Window, with Alpha taking note and updating a database Hawk and Harry had access to.

There would also be a proper request procedure, wherein people needed to submit requests and gain approval, before any information was sought through the system. Any extra information that was gained would be reported as well, with Alpha checking on occasion if anything was missed. Everyone would know that there was complete oversight, so that people didn't try their luck.

Daniel was disappointed that he had not made the cut, as Doctor Hawk was looking for people with the correct priorities and background. He was a brilliant man, with a vast knowledge of the ancient world and even a lot of insight into ancient alien cultures, but he was also part of the Stargate program and ultimately reported to the United States Government or their representatives. The team going to Alpha Origin were all citizens of Harmony, with no ties to other organizations.

He did have clearance to request information, though, and was given a high priority, based on the fact that he was one of Harry's friends. When operations started up, he found that he would get answers within an hour of requesting information and said information was usually accompanied with video footage or pictures, which he had access to for as long as he wanted it, within reason.

It wasn't ideal, but Harry had refused to step on Doctor Hawk's toes on this. It was her duty now and he'd known her long enough to know he could trust her judgement.

---

Harry returned to his other projects after that, putting the whole thing aside, as he focussed primarily on his project to redirect energies. It proved to be a difficult task, something that would take quite a while, since he wanted to redirect all energies that could be brought to bear on anything he decided to protect.

In the following months, nothing that could be considered a problem really arose, and life settled into a nice routine, where people performed their duties and discoveries were made.

Luna's movie had been running trailers in the Magical and Mundane worlds, both, and was released during this time. The fact that the Mundane people thought that it was fiction, meant that it was well received. The fact that actual magic was shown on the movie, made it realistic enough that Luna and her team, including the actors, received nominations for awards, but they had been warned that accepting such things would unfortunately be impossible. If the awards people wanted to give it to them without them present, that would be acceptable.

The movie was intended for all audiences, so the truly evil happenings in Hogwarts during Harry's first few years were changed to less serious things, like bullying and youthful recklessness, for the purposes of keeping the actual happenings from coming to light, and to protect the victims involved.

The end of the movie hinted at a sequel and the story started gaining a large following. Luna was surprised at how much money this one film started bringing in for her, since she'd not done it for the money. The people involved however, started earning quite a bit, since they were being paid a percentage of the profits from the film. This also meant that Harmony suddenly had celebrities, even though people did know that the movie was about someone they all respected already.

Harry had also approached the Unity Crystals on their homeworld about giving them bodies, like the dragons had, so that they could interact with the world like humans did and one of them had decided to try it. It unfortunately didn't work out, since the sentient alien Crystals didn't understand how to interact with humans and had felt quite uncomfortable, not being used to doing things in this manner. They had returned to their homeworld, but having seen what Harry had done with the other crystals, had offered to help them produce more, for future projects. Apparently that was something that they could do, given time, and they had been able to create quite a few more crystals for Harry to take with him. He was very grateful.

---

Almost a year had passed and the nuptials were just a week away, when Harry was taken from his lab by force, to attend the bachelor party Sirius had been planning for months. To say it was a big event, was an understatement. Almost all the bars in Harmony were in on the act, as Harry was taken from one location to another, to drink and party and perform dares that embarrassed him just enough so that he didn't want to leave.

The crowd of men following the procession of partying consisted of most of Harry's male school friends, almost all of whom had access to Harmony, either because they worked there, or because they lived there, the male soon-to-be in-laws for all his brides and a few of their friends, a few of his old professors, including Hagrid, Flitwick and Dumbledore (for some reason), and finally his family, consisting of Daniels, Remus, Sirius and even Dobby.

The streets were lit up for the evening and the Weasley Twins, because who could keep them from the event, were in rare form, as they set off hundreds of fireworks every time the group moved from one bar or location to the next, loudly announcing that people should make way for the king, while the other Weasley men kept an eye on them, to ensure they didn't do anything anyone would regret. Even Ron, who was still single, but had actually made it into his favourite Quiddich team and had a few fans by this point, including a loyal female fan base, was there for the occasion.

Neville was there as well, but he was the calm amidst the storm of raging alcohol abuse, even as he slipped a few pranking charms Harry's way when he let his guard down, which actually happened a few times.

Sirius had overestimated his own tolerance, and before the evening was over he'd had to resort to magic, to allow him to continue the festivities. By the time they reached the strip club, Bella's, most of the men were properly inebriated. The strippers, of course, knew of the event and who it was for, so out of respect for the Ladies of Harmony, they had some light entertainment planned, with no excessive amounts of nudity or flirting.

All-in-all, it had been a rousing success, with everyone enjoying the evening, never even aware of the fact that Daniels had had a few squads of wolves following them and scouting ahead to ensure security and privacy from people who might decide to take a picture or two. Not one Comm had made an appearance, though, as it seemed most people respected the First Founder of Harmony too much, to take pictures of him when he was not at his best.

Even with potions and application of charms to protect from such things, Sirius had ended up having too much fun and Remus delighted in putting his passed out form in a pool-chair, in the middle of the lake in Longbottom Garden.

Harry had enjoyed the event, even though it seemed that in his current state of ascendance, he was able to limit the effects of alcohol on himself. He knew that he could choose to be completely immune, but that would spoil the fun for everyone, so he had allowed himself to become sloshed, while his higher processes kept an eye on him from Superspace, to ensure he didn't do anything he would regret.

He was very glad for the fact that he was able to wake up the next morning without a hangover, and sent a grateful thought to himself, who sent a mental smirk back. Strange as that thought had been, it had become the norm for Harry to consider the situation as a partnership between himself and another him, who was constantly busy setting up a space in Superspace for the Ascended he intended to welcome there.