Stargate: Revan

by MasterRevan

After his final defeat on Yavin, IV Revan finds himself in a galaxy far far away. Now he has to deal with a group of crazed parasites with illusions of grandeur, help a race that has become a shadow of its former selves, and maybe help bring balance to a galaxy filled with new enemies and allies. (AU!, OP Revan, OOC Revan, I like a story with a happy ending sue me)

5. Chapter 5:Blending

Chapter 5: Blending

Revan was floating in a void. Nothing but blackness and a feeling of peace in the force only having a second to take it in before he found himself flung away as the force embraced him to the very core of his being.

"There is a lot of unrest in life. The Force is created by life, so it has unrest in it. If you open yourself to the Force, how can you not open yourself to a certain amount of unrest?" He heard a red-haired woman say looking out a window as ships battled a lightsaber clipped to her belt.

"What do you wish to hear? That I once believed in the code of the Jedi? That I felt the call of the Sith, that perhaps, once, I held the galaxy by its throat? That for every good deed I did, I brought equal harm upon the galaxy? That perhaps what the greatest of the Sith Lords knew of evil, they learned from me? What would it matter now? There is only so much comfort in knowing such things, and it is not who I am now." He could see Kreia looking at Meetra, the dark side surrounding them.

"Then everything changed. The war ended, and the Jedi were accused of treason. One by one, they were hunted down." he found himself looking at a Togruta talking to a young man, the force strong in them both.

"Love doesn't lead to the dark side. Passion can lead to rage and fear, and can be controlled... but passion is not the same thing as love. Controlling your passions while being in love... that's what they should teach you to beware. But love itself will save you... not condemn you." he was merely an observer, watching as Jolee said to him on the Ebon Hawk after Bastila had been taken by Malek.

There was so much…too much he could feel the force trying desperately to help stop the flashes, but it only made it worse as more flowed through his head and his sight was lost to a blinding white with words still coming.

"You were the chosen one! It was said that you would destroy the Sith, not join them! Bring balance to the Force, not leave it in darkness!" he could feel the desperation and sorrow in the voice

"It encompasses all opposites. truth and lies, life and death, the new republic, and Yuuzhan Vong. light and dark and good and evil. they're all each other because each thing and everything is the same thing. the force is one." he felt pain and longing and rage.

He tried to shut it out feeling his body curling in on itself, hands squeezing his head as it kept coming.

"Your destiny is now your own. Sever all ties to your past. No one must know that you still serve me. Now go, and remember that the dark side is always with you." pain and suffering screaming in the force.

"The Force… does not want me dead. It does not want me happy, but it does not want me dead."

"There are no other Sith. There never will be, except for us. One Master and one apprentice; one to embody the power, the other to crave it."

"Twilight is upon me, and soon night must fall. That is the way of things, the way of the Force."

The voices just kept coming with the force seeming to join with them screaming in his head, his fingers digging into his scalp he couldn't handle it the sensations increased in intensity.

"I love you too, with all my heart." The pain and sensations disappeared all at once leaving him just laying there before he got the strength to open his eyes finding the image of himself and Bastila during the Battle of Rakata Prime. The world stood the force once again coming to him, but this time it was calm, no pain just a soothing feeling throughout his body. Then the image seemed to shatter and he knew nothing more.

"Revan?"

The first thing he felt his head aching like the time Mission had spiked his drink on Tatooine, his body felt sore letting out a groan of protest as he turned onto his front feeling the softness of a bed pushing himself into a sitting position.

"Revan?" he heard again recognizing that it was Eresh and turning towards the sound slowly opening his eyes. The light of the room burned his eyes before they slowly grew accustomed to it finding Eresh looking at him with worry he let a small smile formed on his face.

"Who's Revan?" the smile turned into a smirk at her worried face before she realized he was kidding and hit him on the shoulder making him let out a groan of pain.

"That wasn't funny," looking put out as she played with the lekku with a glare.

"Sorry," he looked sheepish "but you seemed pretty worried and I figure you could use some humor," he reached his hand forward giving her shoulder a squeeze smiling as she lost her glare.

He gave a quick look around the room finding himself still in his combat robes and that he was on the Ebon Hawk, his lightsabers resting on the table beside the bed. Feeling the force reaching out to him with what appeared to be worry he let it flow through him feeling it soothe his aches and pains.

"What happened after I passed out?" he asked, watching as she brought up a holo map of Ida with the red dots that had covered most of it now numbered in the fifties.

"I managed to delete most of their core programming," his eyes widened as he realized he could feel the Surik and Eresh through their link again.

"A small number of them were able to cut their connection to the replicator network, but we managed to wipe enough to allow for our communication systems to work in Ida." The map showed three of the dots disappearing. "With the knowledge, I gained from their network and of Lantean technology I created a device that can wipe a replicator block much like an EMP so their now destroying those that remain," she pulled up a blueprint of an Asgardian ship equipped with the device which he gave a quick look at them.

"The Asgards were very happy that we managed to solve their replicator problem and have given access to some of their data systems," she smirked "I've already found a way to increase the output of their ion guns and increase their shields by six percent," smugness in her voice as she showed a data comparison between the ships before and after her upgrades though it only lasted for a second before worry overtook her features as he moved to stand up.

"Are you sure you're okay?" she brought up two displays showing what he assumed was his vitals one appeared normal while the other one showed massively increased mental activity "while you were out your vitals were off the charts...I was worried your heart would give out with the stress my scans showed your body was under," he gave her a shake of his head slowly getting to his feet raising a hand and calling his lightsabers to him then clipping them onto his belt.

"Just," he paused looking out of the rooms viewport to what he assumed to be the capital city of Othala feeling the force wrap around him "remembered something I'm pretty sure I was supposed to forget," giving her a nod to follow as he made his way out of the room towards the ramp of the ship.

"So I'm guessing the Asgard High Council wishes to speak to me again?" they walked through the ship passing by HK who sound dejected at the removal of weapons from the Hawk making Revan let out a chuckle.

"Yes, I believe they want to thank you and to learn more about the method to stop the degradation if my occasional listening in on their comms is right then they're searching for all pre-cloned Asgard genetic samples," the ramp lowered as they walked out of the ship Thor beaming in front of them.

"High Counselor Revan, I am here to escort you to the Council chambers," he said with a bow of his head "And I would like to personally thank you for helping us end the war with the replicators," with a brief nod from Revan and Eresh they found themselves standing on the center platform in front of the Asgard High Council.

The meeting went quickly with many thanks for solving the replicator problem and when Eresh transferred the knowledge of the method to stop the degradation with Revan promising to provide the nanites they would need to repair the current genetics of the Asgard. Then they moved onto what would be done with the Vanir as they had been responsible for numerous human experiments that were outlawed by both the Lanteans and Asgard both of which would lead to either permanent exile or death. After a brief break and communicating with Lya via the now working connection to the Surik he asked the Vanir to be left in the care of the Lantean people in exile never to be allowed to return to Othala which after some debate the Asgards allowed with the stipulation that the council member Thor would become the ambassador between their races with a permanent residence on the Surik to monitor the Vanir which Revan allowed.

After a couple of hours of talks mostly on what their alliance would entail and having a contingent of Asgard scientists and their equipment moved on the Ebon Hawk to join the work with Lya and the Vanir. He also gave them the Atlantis gate address so they could send through anything they needed and he had Eresh use some raw material the Asgard provided to create long-range communication stones to allow them to communicate instantaneously between galaxies using clones with no consciousness in stasis till the stones registered a connection meaning they wouldn't have to have a twenty-four-hour watch.

After having Lya send nanites through the gate containing the semi-complete degradation cure the Asgard scanned it to make sure it was safe before spreading it to the Asgard population and current clones in production. Lay also informed him that while the Vanir were saddened they would never be able to return to Othala were happy that they'd be allowed to remain on the Surik and having stopped the eventual destruction of their race. Lya's voice seemed to be beaming with joy at the fact that they'd managed to help the Asgard who was also interested in re-establishing communication with the Nox sending a dignitary to Gaia to establish communications with their long lost friends.

After two days of gathering supplies for the coming Asgard they were ready to depart from Othala with Revan saying goodbye to the remaining council members. He and Thor were teleported on their respective ships with Thor jumping to lightspeed to arrive three hours after them and Revan setting a course for the Surik and activating the wormhole-drive once they broke from the gravity of the planet feeling a brief second of weightlessness then finding themselves facing the Surik piloting the ship to its hanger finding Lya and Lytir standing outside the ramp of the ship a smile on her teleporting all the equipment to the labs while they gave each Asgard a datapad escorting them to show them a layout of the ship.

After making sure the Vanir and Ida Asgard wouldn't have any issues and leaving them to Lya who was basically in charge of all medical science research on Surik he teleported to his room to have a quick shower and throw on a copy of his combat robes. He ignored Eresh's knowing look before she went back to using the data given to her by the Asgards to increase the capabilities of their hyperdrives before he fastened the shielding device onto his belt giving her a brief nod before teleporting back onboard the Hawk cloaking it as he piloted it once again over the SGC.

Checking to make sure that he had everything he needed and slipping his mask back on he gave the ship a mental nudge finding himself looking at Carter's lab before the force shouted at him and he dodged jumping onto the desk in the room turning to face a shocked Carter her fist still out, hand on her knife.

"You're lucky that I dodged," he flicked his shoulder showing the shield activation and the sound of an electric discharge "this shield packs quite a punch, would have probably knocked you out a few hours," he smiled at the embarrassment on her face.

"How did you get back?" she lowered her hand from her knife "the gate hasn't activated and from what you said the last time we met it took you months to travel between galaxies," curiosity shining in her eyes.

"At lightspeed, it'd take a few weeks for sure," he jumped down from the desk pulling one of the stools in the room to him sitting down " but the Asgard only take a few hours at lightspeed to travel between galaxies," he chuckled at the widening of her eyes

"But the power requirements alone," she started reaching for the datapad he had given her that was in her vest.

"Would be impossible to generate with the current level of Earth technology," he pulled out another datapad sitting it on the desk. "I had Eresh whip this up while I was away," moving his hand over the pad projecting an image of the Lantean shield generator smiling at the surprise in her eyes. "I figured a 3-d representation would help with development," she moved a hand forward the display registering her touch and zooming in on the generator showing the multiple layers much like what he had shown her on the Hawk.

"I have to ask, why are you giving this to us?" she looked at his wearily "I know you said it was outdated before, but you seem to have a vested interest in giving us a means to advance our understanding of advanced technology..why?" he sighed at her question before sitting up straight waving his hand the image changes to an image of the Morros.

"What race is he?" he asked watching as Carter looked confused at the question.

"Human right?" she asked, Revan shaking his head no pulling up Morris's genetic structure before gesturing her to touch the pad which after a moment of hesitation she did an image of her genetic makeup appearing.

"How?" she asked, staring at the display as it started to show multiple parts of their genetics that matched.

"The pads are composed entirely out of nanites," he could see the fear in her eyes "don't worry, they're controlled by Eresh and their only programming is to keep the pad functioning I gave them a little nudge to take some of your skin cells to show you this" the genetic structure overlaid themselves showing that they shared undeniable similarities the realization dawning in her eyes.

"Humans don't just look like Lanteans," the image changed to show multiple samples of human and Lantean genetics. "Lanteans are humans...we came to be long before the Nox and Asgard," a map showing where the Lantean race started to its final home on Earth. "We seeded humanity centuries ago hoping one day they could be our legacy." he smiled as Carter looked shellshocked waiting a few minutes for her to get out of her shock waving his hand bringing up the shield generator designs again. "Now, I believe we were talking about possible power sources available to Earth?" he let a small smile formed on his face as Carter seemed to shake herself out of her shock before going back to talking about the shield generator as she still processed what she'd been told.

The next few hours were spent with Revan and Carter discussing the shield generator only interrupted by Jack who walked in and stopped to stare rubbing his eyes before letting out a sigh.

"Carter, are my eyes deceiving me, or is Kinsey's most wanted sitting in your lab after hitchhiking a ride to the Asgard with me," Carter looked wide-eyed at Jack looking between him and Revan. "A man.." he looked to Revan who nodded "A man who we have orders to capture and detain until ordered otherwise?" Carter looked worried.

"But Sir, he's helping me make progress on the shield generators with his help I think-" Jack cut her off raising his hand looking at the room's cameras then to Revan who shook his head.

"Carter, I could listen to you list of all the reasons I shouldn't try to detain him I'm guessing the main being that he could probably cut me in half before I could reach the alarm," he took a step back out of the room "But, instead I'm just going to forget what I saw and finally get some fishing done...just make sure Hammond doesn't see him or he'll be put in a tight spot," he turned walking out of the room whistling a tune Revan and Cater looking at each other before resuming their discussion.

The next couple of months were spent with Revan splitting his time between his duties and helping Carter with her shield generator project. He'd had a laugh when the N.I.D had tried to commandeer the holographic display he'd given Carter only for it to be teleported to her lab after every try, eventually leading them to stop though he kept Eresh monitoring it just to be sure.

The Asgard scientist and Thor found their accommodations on the Surik to their liking studying some of the less classified Lantean technology while not working with Lya and the Vanir. The Vanir seemed to enjoy having their Ida counterparts around becoming more open and while they did have some arguments against what they'd done it never evolved past heated words with Lya being the mediator. They'd also had a breakthrough with Eresh going through the Asgard archives finding a ship that had been unaccounted for during the plague that had started the degradation using stargates in all available galaxies as scanners to look for it as it could contain pre-cloning era Asgard D.N.A.

The Pegasus galaxy provided some interesting news with the Wraith appearing to have calmed down after their forced exile establishing two different colonies on the planet each ruled by the two remaining queens. After a brief chat with Lya and Eresh, he had the nanites on the ships orbiting the Wraiths new world create four new Eresh duplicates every month to take a gate ship to check in on the humans in the Pegasus galaxy offering aid to those who needed it using the stargates to keep in touch. Within the first week of travel, they'd discovered a group of people called Athosians that lived in small settlements that used the stargates to trade something that brought a smile to Revan and Eresh's face as that had been one of the reasons the gate network had been established. The Eresh duplicates had helped teach them a more efficient way of farming, receiving an offer of introducing them to other groups using the stargates which they readily agreed to.

The Nox and Asgard had reestablished their communications with the delegate they'd sent now working as the ambassador between their people living on Gaia learning from and teaching the Nox. Through the Nox, they meet the Tok'ra and after a brief discussion, they realized that they could help them by providing cloned bodies eliminating the possible loss of symbiote due to lack of a host. Though finding a person to be the genetic template was hard as they couldn't use any current Tok'ra members as it was possible the cloned body would have the memories of the symbiote which could cause madness if blended with another. They also denied the Nox's subjection of using one of them as they needed a human host to keep up their covert operations hidden from the goa'uld. This lead to the Vanir offering their collection of human genetic material collected from their experiments allowing the Asgard to use it to make blank bodies with a variety of appearances which was now being planned as cloning a human at an accelerated pace could cause damage so they were taking it slow accelerating the rate of growth to safe levels.

The Asgard were now looking into expanding the capabilities of their ships and the possibility of re-establishing colonies now that the replicators had been taken care of. They'd also asked permission if they could study the Wraith with hopes of removing their dependence on the enzyme with hopes it would make them less aggressive which Revan gave on the condition they do it using information gathered from the nanites as it was too dangerous to have a Wraith brought aboard a ship. The Asgard had also given Eresh designs of their current model of hyperdrive which she immediately put resources into outfitting the Surik and Hawk with, and also have Helia return for a short while to retrofit her ship with available upgrades.

It was during Helia's return that they learned of a possible cure for the Jaffa reliance on the goa'uld symbiote called Tretonin. Helia explained that during one of their resource gathering missions where they traded some rare metals that Eresh provided for resources they'd landed on the planet Pangar with the ship cloaked and after a brief discussion with one of the larger settlements leaders had been introduced to the drug as one of the metal they were trading could help improve its availability to the populous. After thanking Helia for her work and offering her some shore leave which she denied he saw her off after giving her the official robes befitting her position he quickly got ready.

He sent Lya a brief message explaining where he was going and giving Eresh control of the Surik before beaming onto the Hawk sitting in the command chair and taking the new hyperdrive for a spin as he set a course to Pangar pushing the hyperdrive to his limit feeling a brief pull before the ship came out in an orbit of the planet. After running a brief scan and finding the most populated city he had the ship enter the atmosphere cloaking above the clouds as he had it hover over the city before teleporting himself into one of the forested areas outside of the city. After double-checking to make sure there was no one nearby or any cameras he started towards the city at a brisk pace enjoying the greenery and making a note to visit Lya's greenhouse. It took about twenty minutes before he found himself at the city gate stopped by a guardpost and revealing he was there to offer trade and that Helia worked for him holding up a sample of the metal they needed which lead to him being ushered through the city to meet their leader Dollen who was accompanied by the commander of their military Tegar.

They were about an hour into the discussion that was going nowhere with them offering the drug but refusing to tell him what its main ingredient was as a matter of national security.

"I'm sorry, but we cannot disclose what the main ingredient is even if you're offering such a rare metal," Dollen said rubbing his balding head sweat on his brow as Tegar just continued to glare at Revan.

"How can I offer the metal for the drug if you're not willing to tell me what it's composed of?" he let out a sigh, remembering how much he hated politics "I cannot accept the drug without knowing if it could cause permanent harm to those it's used on," he noticed a brief twitch of Tegar's brow feeling his and Dollen's hesitance in the force.

"It has a side effect doesn't it?" he asked standing up leaning on the table "that's why you won't tell me the main ingredient, and why you seem so excited at the possibility to increase your supply," he turned to the room's exit starting to walk towards it pausing as Dollen began to speak again against the wishes of Tegar.

"Fine!" he shouted, stress showing on his face as he and Tegar looked to each other before the military commander stood down with a brief nod. "I'll show you the main ingredient of the drug in exchange for a guaranteed supply of the metal," he gave the man a nod and found himself being led out of the main building and escorted to what appeared to be a bunker walking through guarded doors through what appeared to be some kind of aquatic container his eyes widened as he saw goa'ulds in it.

"The main ingredient is goa'uld," the disbelief was clear in his tone as he saw the shock on the two men's faces "How do you have so many...unless you have a queen," he questioned noticing both men avoiding his gaze as they made their way through to a locked room the door opening and finding himself looking at a goa'uld queen.

"We found her in what appeared to be a ceremonial urn in the ruins near the chappa'ai," Dollen said moving to stand next to the tank "We read how were once used as slaves for the goa'uld and discovered her to have some regenerative abilities which after a few decades of study allowed us to create the Tretonin," he looked down shame in his eyes "But, the drug wasn't perfect and after use makes the user dependant on it...we thought we could fix the problem with time but our scientist tell us she is dying and there is no way we can come up with a solution within the time left," he looked to Revan tears in his eyes "please we need the metal to increase our production of the drug so we can have the time to come up with a solution,"

Revan looked at the man for a second then to the queen having a quick mental conversation with Lya and Eresh before turning his attention back to Dollen.

"I'm sorry, but I cannot give you the metal," he could see the hope in the man's eyes die and Tegar looked ready to blow a gasket only to look shocked at his next words. "But, I will help cure your dependence on the drug," he smiled at their shock. "All I need is a sample and I'm sure my people can come up with a cure within the time you have left,"

"You're people?" Dollen asked hopefulness and relief in his tone.

"Sorry, but we're not ready to be known to this galaxy yet," he smiled "just know that we're doing everything we can to help you that I swear to you," he said with a small bow telling Lya to use Atlantis's gate to dial the planet. "My chief medic should be here in a few seconds using your chappa'ai," he chuckled at their looks of surprise as they made their way out of the building meeting Eresh and Lya halfway citizens staring at Eresh eyes wide.

"Eresh you know you're still a twi'lek right," he said looking at her with a disapproving look as she merely shrugged a smirk on her face, Lya watching their interaction with a small smile before turning to Dollen introducing herself and asking to see the goa'uld queen in hopes that maybe she could heal her and for a sample of the drug. Tegar quickly had an underling grab a sample which she gave to Eresh who dipped a finger in scanning all components of the drug and bringing up the data on the datapad Lya was carrying which she read over as they made their way to the lab Lya going up to the goa'uld to scan her. Leaving Lya to the scanning he had Eresh connect with the Asgard as well as Nox to find a way to cure the dependence on the drug being told that all available scientists that weren't working on major projects were looking into it though any discussion was interrupted as Revan felt the force scream out in outrage the glass tank cracked slightly and some of the room's lights shattering and for the first time Revan saw pure rage on Lya's face a look that he'd never expected to see the windows of the room shattering.

"Lya?" he asked shock in his voice as he felt the force around her moving like a caged beast he slowly reached out to her in the force winching at the sheer emotion he felt from her rage, anger, sadness, fury, love, and hope it was buried under all the others.

"How long?" she asked, stepping towards Dollen and Tegar more windows breaking. Revan moved to step in front of them raising his hands slowly only to gasp as he felt the force squeeze around him, Lya looking into his eyes with tears streaking down hers. "How long!" she shouted the ground cracking at the pressure she was exuding from the force.

He reached out with his hand seeing a look of shock in Lya's face as he lifted her off the ground holding her in the air tightening the force around her.

"Lya what's wrong?!" he shouted, feeling her pushing against his restraining grip.

"Egeria!" she shouted pushing herself free of Revans force grip sending him flying back into the two men leaving them a pile on the ground as she walked towards them. "They experimented on her!" The last of the windows shattered with military personnel coming in pointing their guns at Lya which Revan teleported away using the ship leaving the men unarmed. "Killed her children!" the room was creaking as cracks formed in the walls and ceiling "Used her like cattle!" Eresh moved to stop her only to be slung across the room leaving an imprint on the wall. He could feel her emotions running rampant.

"Rev...what do we do?" he heard Eresh ask mental pulling herself from the new hole in the wall as Revan commanded the force to surround Lya squeezing his hand wincing at the brief look of pain on her face but he held her there pulling his fist down pushing her to the floor with enough force to cause an indent holding her there.

"I'm pretty sure this is the first time she felt something like this," he remembered when had made his pledge taking a dead Mandalorians masks who had spoken out against the war only to be burned to ash, "the first time you reach into the dark side can lead to a bit of mental instability," he could hear a snort from Eresh who moved to stand next to him Lya still fighting against his grip.

"A little?" she looked at the damaged room and the two men currently cowering behind Revan with a tone of disbelief and skepticism that turned to worry as she looked at Lya. "Can we help her?"

"Kill the two grown men cowering behind me?" he asked voice full of sarcasm ignoring Eresh's glare as he reached deep into the force centering himself before taking a deep breath standing up straight and walking to the still struggling Lya stopping as he looked down on her eyes filled with sadness. "I know how you feel Lya knowing that someone you love has been hurt," he moved his hand down placing it on her forehead "But, striking out against the one that caused the harm would that make her happy?" he saw some sanity returning to Lya's eyes as he pushed the force into her letting her feel his emotions "would she want you to lose your way?" tears began running down Lya's eyes, the dark side dissipating from around her, he gave one final push letting the light side fill her.

The room was filled with silence and a crying Lya who Eresh rushed to pull her into a hug as she cried her sadness prevalent in the force. After the two men finally got the courage to stand up and have all their men stand down Revan turned to the tank and with a small amount of water escaping from its cracks he turned to Eresh.

"How long?" he asked, seeing reluctance on her face before Lya nodded in her hold.

"From Lya's scans, Egeria has less than ten years," she looked to Lya before continuing "they indicate she was tortured pretty badly and the damage has only worsened due to their experiments and non-stop breeding of her..she never had any time to heal and at her age, I don't think even the Nox can heal her," Lya buried her face into Eresh shoulder "Even moving her to a host could kill her," she began running her fingers through Lya's hair.

"I'm sorry," Dollen said looking towards them, "I thought all goa'uld were evil? Is that not true?" seeing that Eresh was giving her full attention to Lya he turned to Dollen.

"Most are, however, Egeria over there learned from the Nox that there were other ways to live," he smiled sadly at Lya "other things to live for..she started to fight the systems lords birthing children and taking up the name Tok'ra a movement to fight the goa'uld," he could see the shame on Dollens's face as he explained his eyes wandering back to Lya then to Egeria raising his hand towards her tank letting the force flow through him and to her feeling her tiredness feeling the strain she was put through over her long years of torment, but buried beneath all that he could feel a shining light a glimmer of hope unspoiled by all the pain and suffering summed up in one word given voice through the force.

"Lya" he looked to the queen closing his eyes taking a deep breath.

"Jolinar" he called eyes still on the queen.

"Yes?" he could hear the barely held-back emotion in her voice.

"You've been in contact with about Tok'ra cloning plan?" he asked, turning to her looking into her glowing eyes determination burning in his.

"Yes," she answered, "But it could take up to a year to solve all the problems the come up with accelerated cloning even with the help we've received," she looked towards the two men before turning her attention back to him "the main problem is creating a clone without a consciousness the human genome is resistance to know techniques,"

"And we can't move her to anyone like Lya to heal because the strain would be too much," he thought out loud before letting out an exaggerated laugh looking at Lya. "went the first clone is done, would you be willing to leave Lya and take them as a host?" he could see her shock but he continued "Of course I still want you on my crew, you could be the Tok'ra ambassador," he smiled at her before walking to the tank with purpose Eresh and her eyes widened when they realized what he meant.

"Rev doing that will!" Eresh started to only to stop as he looked her in the eyes giving her a small nod.

"Lya's race isn't advanced enough in the force to use it to heal on the scale needed, he stared at the tank, we know that there's a big chance she wouldn't survive cryo and Lya would never leave her side" he gave Jolinar a big grin "you've all become members of my crew so I'm responsible with keeping you guys happy," he remembered helping Mission with her brother and Carth reconnect with his son. "Even if it means some sacrifices have to be made," he remembered Meetra giving up her freedom to face punishment from the council. "I wouldn't be who I am if I was willing to just sit back and let people's suffering continue," he had raised an army against all rules of the Jedi Council..compared to that this was nothing.

"I will become her host...the force should be able to sustain and heal her within a year," he smirks at Jolinar then turned to Eresh, "I'll put myself in a deep trance to help aid in the healing once she's inside," he removed his robe revealing the body armor underneath "I'll leave the Tretonin fix to you," Eresh nodded standing up pulling Lya up with her Jolinar giving her back control. With a flick of his hand, the lid of the tank flung off then lifting Egeria with the force pulling her from the egg sack she was connected to holding her in front of him reciting the Jedi code opening his mouth feeling the symbiote jump forward then a sharp pain pulling the force to him as he lost consciousness giving the force one command.

"Heal" the last thing he felt was the force pushing into his body sensing the damage done to the symbiote then nothing.

He was chasing someone through the forest he could feel his lungs burning arms and legs aching only let out a gasp as he was tackled feeling her love sitting on her legs a smirk on her face

"Her?"

Pain all she felt was pain Ra looking down at her with rage in his eyes as he pushed the shock pike into her stomach.

"Really you think to take the name Tok'ra washes your deeds from your hands?" he pushed the pike deeper, a scream coming from her throat. "Do you think yourself my better?" she glared at him as he gloated spitting on his face.

"Egeria?"

She was on the ground Lya laying on top of her looking at Gaia's moon the sound of a waterfall and the gentle breath from Lya before breaking the silence.

"Do you have to go?" sadness in her voice as she looked up to her worry on her face only to have it wiped off her face with a kiss a hand on her cheek pulling back to see her cheeks now red and let out a giggle nuzzling her face in Lya's neck.

"Have to? Yes," she whispered into her ear smiling as Lya held her tighter "Want to?" she rolled over, Lya now looking up at her before she kissed her again resting her forehead against hers "No" she whispered into her ear feeling her shiver.

"Lya?" his head hurt.

She was running, but her host was long past her prime, her painful gasping was interrupted as a jaffa smacked her with his staff, and then all she knew was darkness, feeling as she was ripped from her screaming host.

"I am Revan" pain. Why was there always pain?

She had no mouth but she screamed as her children were killed over and over an endless cycle of birth and death...but she had a plan to stop them to save her children.

"I am Revan," more and more thoughts not his own came much similar to the memories he'd regained but the pain was manageable...he had to heal her...her?...Egeria

She had her children born without thought she would not send them to suffer endless deaths...she had sabotaged their genetic makeup so the drug wouldn't be efficient...then she could be free...so she could die.

"But you can't!" he shouted to the memories, the force trying to heal her to help her but she'd all but given up.

For a brief second, she felt Lya...but that was impossible, she would never leave Gaia...she would never hold her again.

"Fight! Live!" he screamed, pulling the force into his body pushing it to its limits. He couldn't let her die, not when she was so close! "Lya needs you!" he felt some give as the force started to heal at a slow pace.

The night in the forest repeated the feeling of Lya against her..the night before she left the one person she…

"If you still love her then fight to live!" memories of his capture by the emperor rushing through their link. "You're seeing my memories right!?" he thought of all his interactions with Lya every moment.

He was looking at Lya talking to Jolinar about how much Egeria meant to her...how she wished to see her again.

"Lya" she was fighting now his memories of Lya joining with hers flashing through her mind both of their memories blending the force cascading around them the memories stopping as.

"I love you," Lya looked at her eyes full of tears standing in front of an active stargate.

They were fighting the force healing what it could, but it didn't feel like it would be enough. The world growing darker Egeria growing fainter still fighting Revan pushing his control of the force to the limits his body screaming in protest like when he'd used a force storm he couldn't handle it. Egeria telling him to stop, but he couldn't he wouldn't let Lya go through what he did he couldn't...so he let go feeling his heart slowing down everything fading Egeria's yells fading he was alone.

But he wasn't...the force was him and he was it, there was no end to either memories and thoughts, not his own threatened to overcome him but couldn't he wouldn't let them. He looked out to the vast darkness, the force eagerly waiting for his command, feeling that it still wouldn't be able to heal Egeria...not on its own but he realized now where he'd messed up, the blending having shown both his life and hers.

"Some champion of balance I am," he brought up the memory of Yavin IV of his defeat watching as he failed on his self-appointed mission, but smiling as he had brought both the Jedi and Sith together something he never imagined possible. "I'm scared," he looked at his dark half twisted by every one of his negative aspects refusing to let go of his rage and his light side blinded to what he had managed to achieve stopping to stare at Satele Shan, a proud smile on his face before looking up at memory's sky.

"I should have been able to hold the force storm for hours," the memory of it played before switching to him lifting Atlantis "And raising Atlantis should have been simple," it changed again this time to a copy of where he'd met Bastila and he sat down on a chair forming to catch him. "I'm scared to let go...to let both sides of the force go, I've been holding myself back and I can't heal Egeria if I keep this up," he brought his face down to his hands, fingers running through his hair "What do I do?" he let out barely a whisper to the empty memory.

"You do what you always do," his eyes widened as he looked up Bastila looking at him with a smile "you break the chains holding you down," memories began to play on the walls of the room showing every time he'd beaten the odds from his first battle in the Mandalorian Wars to him stopping the replicators, Bastila talking as they played "you're Revan the man who brought the Mandalorians to their knees, who destroyed the starforge, who bested the sith emperor at his own game buying time for our son to live his life in a galaxy at peace at the cost of your sanity," she cupped his face Revan refusing to look her in the eyes.

"You're just a memory," he whispered as she made him look her in the eyes finding nothing but kindness and love in them with tears running down her cheeks.

"Your memory," pushing her forehead against his feeling the warmth of her touch "and I like to think I'm a pretty good memory," she smiled kissing him softly before pulling back and stepping away Revan reaching out towards her as she looked at him.

"Living in the past isn't living Rev," she said, watching him stand up to look her in the eyes. "It's just clinging to what will never be again," an image of the Surik and everyone he'd met since his arrival in this reality "you're desperately trying to cling to something you can't ever have,"

"...you," he said receiving a nod and a sad smile

"Your subconsciousness is fighting your conscious mind trying desperately to cling to our life together," images of their life and wedding appearing "much like your light and dark side did..fighting for dominance limiting your abilities to a mere shadow of what you should be capable of," the images that he saw after using the force storm appeared again "you know what these are, don't you?" he nodded

"Memories from when I was one with the force," he looked at the one showing a galaxy once again at war "time has no meaning when you join with it, it all just blends together..my light side saw all of this when I split," she nodded as the image changed to the foundry where he'd tried and failed to fully become one with the force.

"And the knowledge was locked away when you were given life and brought here," he saw himself waking up in the forest, then his attack from the Ori. "But, you absorbed all the knowledge of the Ori as well as their force essence weakening the lock...and then your force storm gathering so much of the force into your body more than you'd ever been able to handle broke it even more," a look of realization appeared on his face.

"I pushed my body to the limit, forcing more of the force into it than I ever had before," she let out a small chuckle.

"You completely shattered any of the remaining blocks and the information rushed to your mind and out of necessity the force brought you here," she looked at the room and with a wave, it became a replica of the apartment they'd shared. " to give you a chance at withstanding the tsunami of memories and emotions you've opened yourself up to," she sat down on a chair.

"How could I ever hope to withstand all that information?" he looked at the room with a nostalgic smile on his face despite the situation. "Even the memories regarding just the years I lived would probably destroy my mind," receiving a nod from her.

"You're right," she said plainly "but, you're also missing one important fact," she smiled as him "me,"

"You?" he asked, looking at her to explain.

"We'll the actual me who created your body," she smiled at him "you see out of all the Jedi who agreed to the plan to send you here she was the only one who knew just how many times you've done the sheer impossible," an image of him entering the Hades command chair what felt like years ago appeared "you absorbed all the knowledge of both the Ori and Lanteans in record times with barely any need for a buffer really because she planned ahead, giving you everything you'd need to survive the knowledge locked away," she gave him a serious look standing up and walking to him face to face with him. "This time the force will be the buffer it already trying and it might put you out for a bit but you and Egeria will live"

"You just need to let me go," his eyes widened at that "accept that I'm gone I'm not coming back...end the infighting within yourself and let go!" the room changed again finding himself back in the blackness he'd started in with the memory of Bastila. "Live Revan, this is your second chance to let go of the past, remember it if you want but don't cling to it," she put a hand on his chest looking up at him moving forward kissing him briefly before whispering into his ear. "Live Revan," eyes locked onto his as he finally accepted her words and accepted that he couldn't ever be with her again that this would be their final meeting even if it wasn't so he did what he thought was impossible since his capture by the emperor...he let her go.

"Goodbye Bastila," he said, forehead against hers as the darkness became a blinding light and all he knew was the force using his last conscious thought to feel for Egeria finding her healing before the force gave him everything and he knew nothing more.

"So you're awake," he heard as he regained consciousness, his body feeling relaxed and comfortable as he realized he was in his bed on the Surik. "They moved you here after you stopped spasming from the information overload" he opened his eyes finding the room's lights off looking to his side staring as he saw Lya sleeping on a recliner that had been moved into the room. "She has not left our side since I've taken you as a host,"

"Well she does love you more than you'd probably ever know," he thought back to Egeria stretching his body feeling his back pop before moving to the opposite side of where Lya was getting off the bed finding himself in only pants pulling his lightsabers to him clipping them to his belt then pulling on the shirt on the table next to the bed.

"She nearly killed those two men who had me experimented on and breed like cattle," he smiled at the shock in her tone "She went against the Nox way for me...something that is extremely rare if not impossible," he reached out to the force finding it coming to him without conscious thought using it to keep Lya asleep as he teleported himself to her quarters putting her to bed and covering her. "I cannot express the love I feel for her," he smiled, teleporting himself to the Surik's bridge, finding himself alone.

"Once we've got the Tok'ra clone project done you could blend with her after Jolinar gets a body," he said out loud finding his voice scratchy teleporting to the mess to grab some water then back to the bridge. "Or you can get your own body and spend the rest of your life telling her," he could feel her joy at the idea, silence filling the room as he checked on the current status of everything finding that he'd been out for about two months and wondering where Eresh was.

"I believe Eresh is currently dealing with the Vanir and Tok'ra," Egeria said pulling up a camera feed showing the Vanir and Tok'ra getting into a shouting match with Eresh the Nox, and the Ida Asgard playing mediators Revan staring at the situation dumbly.

"When did the Tok'ra and Nox move in?" he asked, staring at the feed pinching himself to find it wasn't a dream.

"Once the Tok'ra heard that Lya and I were reunited and the circumstance of such they all but begged Eresh to be allowed to come and now have taken residence in Atlantis's main tower using the stargate to send and receive operatives," she said pulling up Tok'ra mission reports that had been logged into Atlantis's computers. "The Nox also heard of Lya's actions after finding me and wished to provide her counsel as well as see if they could speed up our healing which failed and left three Nox exhausted but otherwise unhurt," she pulled up a map of Atlantis showing that Lya's greenhouse had been spread from the two labs to taking up most of that floor of Hades. "They now reside in the area that was Lya's lab making it twenty-seven Nox, over a hundred Tok'ra, and including the Vanir over a hundred Asgard currently living on Surik," Revan simply just stared at the increase of personnel.

"How do you know all of this?" he asked, checking and double-checking logs that Eresh had made during her time in sole control of Surik.

"We're connected mentally meaning I have as much access to the ship and its systems as you do, not to mention I can communicate with Eresh," she proved the point by turning the display to show the SGCs logs his eyes widening as he saw they'd recently used the stargate to go back to the past. "I find the people of the Tau'ri to have become great after their overthrow of Ra. I hope you continue to help them grow into what the Lanteans once hoped they'd achieve." sincerity in her voice making Revan smile.

"So do I," he checked up on the progress of the Tretonin cure finding that it had been cured a week after he'd passed out with Eresh having a cloaked ship now watching over the planet and providing them with some means of protecting themselves. " so what caused the fighting?"

"The Vanir have grown to greatly respect Lya and her drive to help them while the Tok'ra respect Lya just as much were more worried about our condition leading to an argument...it's been a stressful situation for everyone with Eresh taking most of it herself as Lya has been watching over us," he let out a sigh of relief as the argument seemed to calm down on the display.

"Well at least I know I can somewhat trust her with Surik when I'm away," he said changing the display to the SGC reports catching up on what he missed finding that Carter was almost ready to build a prototype.

"So do you plan to go through with your idea?" curiosity in her tone as the display changed to his private project.

"Yeah, I mean we have the technology to make sure it works," he made a quick few changes "we can change it if need be," he smiled closing the file just as Eresh teleported in the room tackling him into the command chair.

"Do you have any idea how worried I was?!" she shouted at him, "Your heart stopped multiple times and started again! Not to mention your mental activity was making your repository download look like nothing you should be dead!" she pulled him into a tight hug hurting his ribs a little though he didn't bring it up as he let her vent about everything that's happened since he'd blended with Egeria.

After listening to her vent for over thirty minutes he simply smiled patting her head and hugging her. "Thanks for helping with everything you did a great job Eresh," he chuckled as her blue cheeks turned purple burying her face in his neck.

"So care to fill me in on what's not on the logs?" he asked Eresh, getting serious.

She told him that after he'd blended with Egeria he'd been taken to the Surik with an Eresh duplicate staying on the planet to update them on the drug cure which they finished in a week leaving an Aurora-class ship behind cloaked to look after the planet, she'd permitted them to stay on the Surik only if they divulged all intel they had with Egeria using his mental link to talk to them resulting in the Tok'ra now working out of Atlantis and being monitored for possible bugs and moles using nanites.

The Nox on board had explained Lya's work bringing soil from Gaia and turning the entire level in a forest having Eresh modify that floor to allow for continued growth meaning they at least had what amounted to an orchard on the ship. Those with science backgrounds began working with the Vanir and Asgard on the cloning problem which had made a breakthrough discovery from Eresh's constant scans of the galaxies the location of the ship they'd been looking for having it delivered to the Surik and was currently being powered by a spare ZPM to keep the Asgard in stasis alive while they looked for ways to revive them safely using Lantean knowledge on the subject.

Helia had visited him when he was out reporting that she was still causing damage and distrust among the system lords with help from the Tok'ra leading to the destruction of some of the current shipbuilding planets lowering their production rates as well as inciting some rebellion among jaffa using Teal'c as an example as well as the goa'uld inability to stop sabotage to prove they weren't gods. The weapons development team managed to create a device that when stuck to the gate would give it the power to dial out of the galaxy for one use before self-destructing the materials in it melting into a puddle on the ground destroying all circuitry that made it up also preventing tampering.

After catching up on all the news Revan made a ship-wide announcement saying was up and thanking the Nox and Asgard for helping Eresh keep the peace and making sure to have comms off in the section Lya was in knowing she needed some rest. After which he was met by Jacob Carter who was working as the spokesperson for the Tok'ra with Revan giving control to Egeria so they could discuss the current status of the Tok'ra before the little confidence ended leaving Revan and Eresh in the bridge. Though the comfortable atmosphere ended when they were notified that someone being host to a goa'uld had tried to access Carter's datapad off-world Eresh giving Revan a nod as he was beamed onto the Hawk already leaving the hanger before setting a course for her last coordinates activating the ships cloak and jumping to lightspeed finding himself staring down on a planet using the datapads tracker to find what appeared to be a goa'uld fortress with deeper scans showing there to be a recreation of the SGC with four human life signs along with some nanites that he realized were on a Tok'ra.

He used the ship's chair to connect to the nanites, finding himself looking at a red-haired woman dressed in a modified SGC uniform along with a man as they asked Jack questions using a memory recall device to put images up on the screen.

"So they're trying to learn the location of the Asgard and Nox," Egeria said a hint of anger at them trying to find the Nox "But, where are the others?" he pulled up a map of what was scanned showing identical layouts to the one Jack was in with human life signs.

"They've probably split them up so they wouldn't question the oddness of the situation and plan an escape together," he looked for an empty room smiling as he found one grabbing the shield generator and his mask slipping it on.

"Why the mask?" she asked as he centered himself in the force feeling it more clearly than ever before.

"You've seen my memories you know what it represents," he answered pulling his hood up before with a thought he found himself in a storage room smiling as he walked out feeling the force do everything to erase his presence as he walked past jaffa guards without a single look being sent his way.

"Yes, but from what you learned the republic you fought for died due to corruption and teachings you left behind that inspired the rule of two allowing for the sith to establish a new xenophobic empire ruled by fear and hate," he could hear the sadness in her tone giving her a silent thanks for caring.

"True," he moved out of patrols way making his way through the fortress "but the ideas that it stood for life on with me," he found himself in front of a locked door using the force to pull it open smirking as he found sg-1s clothing and equipment grabbing one of the emptied packs putting the clothing and firearms into it before grabbing all the c-4 available putting four blocks around the room before having the ship link to their timers for remote triggering before making his way to what he knew to be the armory putting some Zats into the pack before leaving the rest of the c-4 in the room with the timers set to thirty minutes.

"So who are you going to rescue first?" she asked as he used his connection to the ship to guide him to the human life signs finding another locked door using the force to push it open Carter asleep in what appeared to be some kind of cryostasis pods with the woman he recognized to be the Tok'ra letting the force stop hiding him and clearing his throat chuckling as her jump drawing a Zat only to stare wide-eyed at him.

"You're Lady Ergeia's host!" she whispered loudly before looking around in embarrassment.

"I'm Revan and I've come to rescue sg-1," he pulled the pack off sling it to the ground walking up to Carter turning to Tok'ra who blushed and messed with the controls Cater waking up slowly smirking as she looked at him for a second before she rolled off the pod landing naked on the floor Revan looking to the ceiling.

"What the hell is going on!" she shouted at him as the Tok'ra handed her a robe which she slid on, "I knew something was up when I couldn't find the datapad and they had no idea about the shield generator," she coughed Revan turning back to her before reaching for the pack handing it to her turning around for her to change back into her clothes.

"Well from what I can tell you were captured by Hathor," he looked to the Tok'ra agent who nodded and continued. "From what I could tell during her stay at the SGC she remembered enough to make a replica and have been asking you Jack and Daniel questions to get enough information to attack Earth," he handed Carter a Zat once the rustling of clothes stopped turning to face her.

"What about Teal'c?" worry in her tone Revan having a brief chat with Eresh before nodding thanks.

"He was found unconscious by another sg team and has been trying to talk Hammond into rescuing you," he nodded to the Tok'ra before she was teleported to the Hawk. Turning to face Carter " We've got about fifteen minutes till the c-4 I planted in their armory goes off," he nodded to the door motioning for her to stow the weapon which she did "I figured we'd find Jack and Daniel and I'd teleport you out before blowing this place to Tatooine," she looked at his with curiously "It's a desert planet which trusts me it deserves every negative thing said about it," he started walking down the hall shrouding both him and Carter in the force stopping her from firing at a passing patrol that ignored them to Carter's amazement looking to Revan for an explanation.

"I'm using the force to shroud us from their view they literally can't notice use their minds won't let them," he said finding another locked door forcing it open "though it doesn't work on cameras they never expected to be exposed they didn't install any," they quickly woke Daniel with Carter explaining the situation and having his get dressed and armed as they were once again shrouded by Revan finding Jack wandering the halls they dropped the shroud filling him in as well.

"You know I'm going to have to start paying you for saving our asses," he said as the c-4 went off Revan triggering the one with their extra gear causing another explosion, the hall they were in shook before with a thought they were teleported onto the Hawk. He slid into the command chair firing on the fortress leveling it completely making sure no life signs were remaining getting a whistle of impressment from Jack.

"You know we could use this kind of firepower," he jokingly said with Revan rolling his eyes having the ship jump to lightspeed on course to Earth. He stood from the chair stopping when Carter's eyes widened; she pointed the Zat at him with the Tok'ra pointing it at the sg team.

"I thought it was because we were surrounded by jaffa or her," she nodded to the Tok'ra Daniel and Jack readying their Zats "But you have a goa'uld," he could see the worry in their faces letting out a sign leaning against the wall arms folded over his chest.

"So your dad is the only one who can have a Tok'ra symbiote?" he chuckled at their sheepish looks watching them lower their weapons letting Egeria have control.

"I am Egeria, mother of the Tok'ra," she smiled at their shocked looks while the Tok'ra agent bowed to her, gaining her attention. "Ah I recognize you Mingala I've looked over the files the Tok'ra uploaded while I was indisposed," she put her hand on the woman's cheek happiness in her tone, "you do the name Tok'ra proud," she brought their foreheads together pulling back giving her a nod before giving control back to Revan.

"You said yes to having a snake put in your head!?" he could hear the disgust in Jack's tone, Mingala giving him a glare opening her mouth to correct him but stopping when he motioned her to stop Daniel hitting Jack in the shoulder.

"It was to save her life. I can't stand by and let someone who means so much to a dear friend die," he made his way past them to where the galaxy map was on the central hub feeling the ship drop out of lightspeed coasting through the atmosphere heading to the SGC. He grabbed a Nox drink from one of the room's refrigerated containers sitting down on a chair looking at them as the hub displaying their current location shut off.

"So you traveled through time?" offering them drinking Mingala grabbing one immediately blushing at the attention giving control to her host who was named Thina. The sg members stared for a few seconds before grabbing a drink and sitting down telling him about the mission before Revan was notified they were now cloaked over the SGC standing up fishing his drink.

"Well it looks like this is your stop," he gave them a nod, the hub turning on to show that they were currently over the SGC.

"Do you often hiver over top-secret military installations?" Jack asked with sarcasm.

"Only when I visit most of the time I'm over the white house," he smiled at the gobsmacked face Jack had to teleport him and Daniel off of the ship leaving Carter looking at him with curiosity he nodded towards her datapad "If you look on the datapad you should find the option to communicate with your dad's."

"Why would my d-" she started to say

"Let's just say finding myself host of the mother of the Tok'ra has to lead to some changes in my position and leave it at that," and with a thought, she was teleported into the SGC. Turning his attention to Thina. "I'm guessing they're going to want a report on what happened?" he received a slow nod. He smiled at her before teleporting her to Surik leaving him alone once again.

"You know you're not alone right?" Egeria said as he walked to the cockpit sliding into the command chair setting the ship to dock with the Surik as he leaned back letting out a breath.

"I know," he removed his mask, setting it down as he looked out the display, watching as the Surik came into view a small smile on his face. So did you talk to Lya through Eresh while we were out?" he could feel embarrassment from her.

"I did not," hesitance in her tone "I was hoping to speak with her myself when we finally awakened...if you don't mind." he could feel her nervousness through their connection.

"Sure I'll let you have control to talk to her," the ship entered its hanger landing gear deploying as it settled onto the floor of the hanger. "I know some deep meditation techniques that should give you some privacy...just make sure to keep the clothes on," he smirked at the sheer embarrassment and outrage he could feel coming off her.

"I wouldn't dare do anything without my host's permission!" she shouted in his head causing him to let out a laugh.

"I know Egeria I'm just playing with you," Eresh notified him through their connection that Lya was up so with a thought he was teleported out of the Hawk to outside he quarters hand raised to knock as it opened revealing Lya. "I'll leave you two to chat," he gave control over to Egeria who had to regain their balance as she hadn't been expecting the change then cut his connection to his senses allowing the force to deafen him to everything leaving him seeing nothing but darkness.

The next three months had Revan and Egeria busy spending a week getting used to their co-habitation of his body much to Eresh's amusement like when he had come out of his force mediation to find Lya's head on his lap. Though it'd been awkward and Eresh's loud laughter at the situation a little grating they got past it. The Tok'ra were fitting in well with Revan and Egeria being notified of all their actives on and off the books and in return for providing them a haven as well as a means to advance the fight with the goa'uld providing them reconnaissance for strategic strikes using their cloaked ships and protection created from the Vanir combat suits incorporating Lantean technology and the metal closet to Mandolorian iron they could synthesize. Egeria had denied their request to join the High Council till the Tok'ra could be provided cloned bodies though she did say she would advise them should they ever need it.

The Asgard using data from Lantean stasis development had managed to safely awaken one of the Asgard from cryo though it took a few hours and the Nox's help for her to speak after finding out the current situation of her race. She agreed to donate some of her D.N.A and the Asgard genetic deterioration was finally beaten, new clone bodies were created and grown within the first month as they knew their genetic code like the back of their hands. The new Asgardian bodies looked very much like humans with the skin grey and head being a bit bigger, Thor was the first Asgard to volunteer for his consciousness to be implanted in a clone body which was a success resulting in most Asgard and the Vanir moving their consciousness into new bodies. With the Asgard in now more human bodies they came to realize that they required clothing, though due to them having lost the need for them Revan provided them with a mix of Lantean and Earth-style clothing as well as designs of clothing from his home reality. It was common to see Asgard in many varieties of clothing with the Vanir having chosen to adopt Lantean styles as the Surik was now their home. With the Asgard genetic code now no longer a problem they poured all their attention into the Tok'ra cloning project shortening the estimated time needed to six months.

Helia had kept up with her sabotage and hit and run tactics on goa'uld mining planets focusing on their shipbuilding projects using information gathered from and with the Tok'ra. They'd managed to start a small territory war between Chronos and Nirrti with the latter rumored to have cloaking technology stolen from Hathor. Helia and her crew were also outfitted with the new combat suits and joined by five Tok'ra and an Asgard medic named Lea.

The Nox had finished converting the floor that Lya's lab was on into an indoor forest. Lya had split her time between the new cloning project and receiving counseling from Revan and a Nox counselor on what had happened when they'd discovered Egeria. It had been the first time she'd ever felt such rage and was completely unprepared for the backlash through the force, something she felt deep shame about though Egeria was able to help Revan break through to her. He had taught her some Jedi meditation techniques, something the other Nox showed interest in, joining her.

Revan, when he wasn't giving Egeria control, had started to up his training his five-hour sparring sessions now lasting nine hours sometimes more, something he attributed to his new status in the force. It came to him without thought and he could feel it more closely than ever before feeling it dancing underneath his skin waiting eagerly for the merest command...just a thought. He'd taken up deeper meditation techniques to get a feel for his control and his new aptitude in the force only coming out of meditation when Ergeria reminded him to eat. He also had the Ebon Hawk equipped with every advanced technology offered by the Asgard who was still immensely grateful for making the cure possible. The rest of the old Asgard crew were released from stasis with most of them returning to Othala with the female named Neir who was the first one awakened staying to learn from their vast archives of knowledge and from what Revan heard enjoy the company of Thor.

Revan was roused from his meditation by Egeria notifying him someone was trying to get his attention, opening his eyes to see Jacob Carter looking down at him.

"Hey Jacob," he stood up stretching as he did so his bones pop before turning his full attention to Jacob. "How's Sam doing?" He forces pulled his water to his hand, drinking as he gestured to Jacob to follow him as he left the storage area he'd turned into his training room heading to the mess nodding to Tok'ra and Asgard as they passed by.

"She's doing pretty good," he pulled a datapad from a holder on his hip offering it to Revan. Grabbing the pad while throwing the now empty container into the waste receptacle he gave it a glance eye-widening as he reached the end.

"You think Sethesh is hiding out on Earth?" He scrolled through the pad checking their work and finding no problem before handing it back "and you want the SGCs help in finding him?"

"Yes, Selmak and I were hoping to see if they could provide help finding them," he winced a bit "and to see if we could handle some personal business afterward," with a quick mental message to Eresh he gave Jacob a nod and they were teleported onto the Hawk's cockpit. He smiled briefly at Jacob's gobsmacked expression as he had the ship launch from the hanger on course for the SGC with Jacob sliding into the co-pilot's chair.

"So how goes the Tretonin research?" He grabbed his mask, putting it on smiling as the inside of it lit up the hud he'd had installed in it over the last few months, activating the personal shield now installed in the armor under his robes.

"They are going pretty well with Egeria's help; we've managed to improve the drug to its expected capabilities," Selmak said, taking control moving a hand to the display and pulling up the research note. "Some of us find it difficult to work on the drug due to its source," sadness and discomfort in his voice.

"I'm sure the Asgard would be willing to take over research," he could feel Egeria's sadness when the drug was mentioned but there was also a strong determination underneath it and a resolve to deprive the goa'uld of their jaffa. "I know how uncomfortable it makes Egeria, but we both know it's one of the only things that can cure the Jaffa of their reliance on symbiote," he said, receiving a nod from Selmak.

"We understand that, but knowing our mother's determination we will not falter," he smiled at the determination in Selmak's voice and the pride he could feel from Egeria. "Test on jaffa blood samples we managed to gain from volunteers show it has an eighty percent chance of working...were trying to increase that percentage, but there is a limited supply of the drug so it's not a long term solution, " He could hear something in Selmak's tone as he realized why they were going after Setesh.

"You're hoping to use Setesh to clone a new supply of symbiotes for the drug aren't you?" the smirk on Selmak's face was all he needed as confirmation. "With Asgard cloning techniques you could have an unlimited supply."

"At least until we can find a way to synthesize it instead of using symbiotes," he said as ship sensors notified them they arrived over the SGC. After making sure they both had what they needed on them they both were teleported into the briefing room to the surprise of sg-1 and Hammond.

Jacob and Selmak spent the next hour explaining the situation to Hammond and the team with Revan chipping in. Though Revan was confused as to why they hadn't tried to detain him like Jack said they were ordered to but he decided not to question it. After the debriefing, he found himself in Daniel's lab who with the help of Teal'c was going through the U.S. 's database on cults with leaders similar to Setesh finding a match almost immediately. The cult they found was located in Seattle, Washington lead by their leader Seth leading to Hammond giving sg-1 the okay though Revan was told he'd have to change into military fatigues as his mask and robes would stand out Jacob already having put fatigues over his combat suit.

He gave them a look then shrugged having his nanites break down his robes into military fatigue covering his armor reaching up and removing his mask receiving gasp from the SGC members.

"You're just a kid!" Jack said, staring at Revan who smirked reaching up to scratch at the stubble he'd grown over the last few months.

"Looks can be deceiving," he threw the mask in the air, the ship teleporting it onto his bed on the Hawk. "I'd like to see you looking like this when you're three hundred years old," he smiled at the shock on their faces nodding to them, "So are we going or what?"

"You know you could have just traveled in your ship and got there within ten minutes?" Egeria asked an hour into the flight to Seattle as he looked out at the sky through the window across from Jacob and Sam.

"True but we don't know what kind of technology he's had access to," he looked down to his lightsabers "the Lanteans brought technology with them when they returned to Earth most o which wasn't cataloged as they never thought they'd return to Atlantis," he ignored Jack and Sam's looks as he talked out loud to Egeria.

"So he could have Lantean technology able to pick up on the ship if it were to appear near his compound," he could feel the equivariant of a nod through their connection. "Or worse...maybe we should run a scan for Lantean technology once we're done here?" he nodded returning to watching the clouds pass them by and answering Daniel's occasional questions regarding the Lantean language,

Once they arrived sg-1 scouted out the perpetrator of the compound with help from a disgruntled father of one of the cult members telling them of a secret tunnel and running into the ATF with Jack using their phone to call the president to get clearance to take lead in their investigation and Sam developing an ear device to give a slight shock to nullify Seth's mind-altering drug that he used to gather his following and turn people into zealots. With everything in place sg-1 headed into the compound through the secret entrance with Jacob monitoring their comms and Revan keeping in constant contact with his ship should they need a speedy exit.

The operation came to a close with sg-1 being discovered to have nullified the drug in their systems leading to a small firefight as they took out members of the cult using Zats to knock them out of their brainwashing. Jacob and Revan headed into the tunnels as cult members left with Carter warning them that Seth had escaped into the tunnels leading to Jacob being hit hard with a Kara kesh blast leading to San taking his and blasting Seth into the ground with him moving to raise his hand only for Revan to cut his arm off at the elbow stopping Sam from blasting him again.

Jacob had been saved from most damage thanks to his combat suit though due to his exposed head he received a slight concussion with Revan using the force to knock out Seth and grabbing his severed arm to the rest of their disgust.

"Collecting souvenirs now?" Jack asked as Revan pulled Seth over his shoulders using the force to strengthen his body holding the arm in the crook of his elbow.

"Well, I figure once we remove Setesh from his host the host would like his arm back," Sam and Teal'c helped her dad up arms on their shoulders as they headed to the exit. "I figure we could reattach it and if not we could provide a nice replacement" they made it to the exit Revan throwing Seth up before helping Jacob up.

Once they made it to the surface Jack having military personnel collect all the alien artifacts and Revan and the rest of sg-1 loading Seth onto a truck shutting the door and having him teleported with his arm into one of the stasis pods on the Hawk, the AFT agent coming up behind him.

"I'm sorry, but I'm going to have to take him into custody," the agent said, moving to open the door of the truck only for Revan to step in front of him and waving his hand.

"You don't need to take him into custody," sg-1 stared at him.

"I don't need to take him into custody," their eyes widened as the agent's eyes seemed to glaze over.

"Seth was killed in the house's explosion leaving no trace of his body,"

"Seth was killed in the house's explosion leaving no trace of his body,"

"Move along"

"Move along" the agent walked away Revan smiling at the gobsmacked expression on everyone's face sliding into the now-empty truck being joined by sg-1 and Jacob stopping the driver on an empty street using the force to make sure they were alone and having them teleported to his ship giving Jacob a nod and teleporting him and sg-1 to the SGC briefing room.

He then sat in the command chair having the ship start to run a deep scan of the planet for anything of Lantean origin finding a healing device buried in Honduras teleporting it on the ship finding in the data gathered from Atlantis that it was capable of healing even the most egregious wounds, but would cause mental instability in those not as evolved as Lanteans were sending a message to Lya to try and improve it to work with all species maybe even reverse engineer it into a more portable and compact form. He also found that the outpost established before the evacuation to Earth was still there buried under miles of ice in the Arctic its ZPM having completely depleted, but that wasn't the most surprising find. He jumped out of his seat eyes wide as he stared at the result of the scans, a single life sign buried very near to the outpost almost out of the sensors range pushing the ship to its maximum speed to hover over the ice to get better readings Egeria sharing his surprise.

"Could a Lantean survive so long frozen in the ice?" she asked awe in her voice as the scanner showed a holographic representation of the body in the ice scans indicating it was female.

"By herself?" he had the ship fire drones into the ice using the chair to take control of them to get a more precise control cutting through the ice to more manageable chunks for teleportation. "No, but if she was one of the few who were close enough to ascend and was in a stasis pod then it is possible," he stopped the drones looking to the holographic display making sure the block of ice she was in was able to be teleported before beaming it into one of the ships storage rooms lowering its temperature to match that of the ice.

Once he was sure she was safely in the ship he started a more in-depth scan finding that she was carrying the plague that had nearly wiped out the Lanteans quickly locking down the storage area completely. She also had some damage to the portion of her brain responsible for long-term memory probably due to the thousands of years of stasis and the disease which appeared to be targeting that area he turned to look at the ancient healing deceive.

"You can't be thinking of turning that thing on can you?" Egeria said as he looked at the device.

"I mean we can't be affected by it and with you, inside me, I'm protected from the plague right?" he looked over the data they had on the plague. "I mean you're capable of healing almost any disease and from the looks of it this plague while deadly to a non-host Lantean, with the force and you boosting my immune system it shouldn't affect me at all," he picked up the healing device leaving the cockpit and heading to the sealed room.

"Wouldn't it be best for Lya to handle this?" he could hear the worry in her tone as he stopped in front of the room's door.

"The disease is airborne, releasing her from the ice is enough for it to be able to spread," he had his clothes nanites turn the fatigues into a sealed suit. "If I contain it to the room and activate this device in the sealed room it should completely wipe it out within an hour leaving no possibility of contamination," he smiled as the door opened sliding into the freezing room turning the device on and shutting the door behind him sealing it and raising the temperature of the room slowly.

"You know for someone who was once known as a tactician feared by the Mandolarians and unafraid to make critical decisions," he could hear some disappointment in her tone. "You leap forward without thinking most of the time," he let out a loud laugh watching the ice starting to melt, sitting down in a corner of the room closing his eyes and letting the Force flow through him.

"It's just the sort of person I am," he breathed in and out slowly feeling the force fill him more and more with each repetition "you know I used to lead the ground forces during all of my attacks and flew in most of the space combat missions," the room finally reached normal room temperature ice now melting faster part of her arm out of the ice.

"I know I just find it curious that someone with such a detail-oriented mind most of the time you can lose yourself in your passions" he could feel a hint of admiration from her, "What I'm trying to say is that I have learned a lot from this situation," he smiled as he got a glance of Lya from their connection.

"So when's the wedding?" he asked, smiling at the amount of embarrassment and joy through their bond, a chuckle leaving his lips. "I mean you're talking about losing oneself to their passions...I'm guessing that is code that you want to tie the knot with Lya right?" he could feel Egeria trying to get her emotions under control as silence filled the room.

"While we have discussed the possibilities of a wedding, we find ourselves wondering," she seemed to hesitate full of worry "If we were to take the next step and have children… and should they be gifted as the Nox are in the force would you be willing to train them?" Revan's shock was prevalent through their connection.

"Why would you want that," his eyes snapped open seeing that the woman's body was almost out of the ice her chest rising and falling slowly "Why not have them learn Nox way?" he stood up approaching the woman the hud of his mask notifying him that she was merely sleeping most of the disease already gone from her body through the damage it had done to her memory could be permanent it wouldn't hinder her.

"After Lya's experience with the dark side," he could feel the concern that Egeria still felt "she feels it would be safer to have someone more knowledgeable in the force to teach them so they would be prepared." he could feel the trust he inspired in her "We feel that you are the only one who could do it as you use the force as a whole with no negative consequence,"

"But what it took to get me here," he looked down at his hand memories of everything he'd done since he'd stepped foot outside of Dantooine enclave. "You saw what happened to Alec...what I caused him to become following my teachings...you know there's a reason I haven't offered to teach the Nox anything other than meditative techniques,"

"We both know it was the Emperor's fault for that," she sent a feeling of comfort to him "and we both know what you've experienced has given you perspective...would you at least think on the subject? I mean till I get a body it's all hypothetical," Revan moved his hand to the woman's neck feeling a strong pulse giving Egeria a nod.

"I'll think about it," he said the woman stirring heading moving back and forth to look away from the light before one of her eyes opened seeing Revan standing there fear on her face as she jumped back falling onto her backside scooting wall from him till her back was against the wall face full of fear. Revan checked the room using his link to the ship finding that the healing device had removed the disease from the air with only a small amount in the woman's body fat that was quickly being destroyed by the device. He slowly backed up hands raised in a non-threatening gesture reaching up slowly and removing his mask, revealing his face smiling at her.

"Hello," he slowly put his mask on the ground before moving into a sitting position, legs crossed, hands still. "I am Revan and you are?" he asked watching as the fear started to dissipate from her face as she took a step forward watching Revan weirdly before moving to stand in front of him touching his face.

"Revan?" she said eyes full of curiosity before pointing to herself "Revan?" he smiled, shaking his head no he reached a hand out slowly putting two fingers on her temple letting the force flow through himself into her receiving a gasp as she pulled away before reaching for his hand grasping it tightly, he could feel the force gather around her pushing it into him feeling like a type of force healing technique searching for something to heal before settling back into her as she seemed to weaken a bit falling forward Revan catching her helping her sit.

"Okay, how about not trying to heal me till you're healed yourself." he smiled at her checking the room to find that the disease had been completely eradicated using the force to shut off the healing device he attention turning to it before he helped her stand opening the door of the room having her follow him making his way to the mess on the ship grabbing her some of the Nox juice and some fruits from Pegasus that had been grown in Surik's new forest chuckling at the sheer joy on her face at taste before digging into the food and juice which were gone in minutes as he set course for the Surik through his metal link to the ship and having Eresh send a ship for Jacob for when he was done with his business having the woman follow him to the cockpit, her eyes filled with wonder as the ship traveled to the Surik.