Duke Et Decorum Est Pro Patria Mori
Part 1-Surprises
By Don't.Poke.Me
A.N. Hey everybody this is a joint fic written by myself Katie and my friend Julie. By the way Katie also have another account with fanfiction.net under the name Sugar Quill you can visit it if you like. Anyway that's enough of us babbling, on with the story!! By the way the title is Latin for: It is sweet and proper to die for your country, (will have some relevance later on in the story! I promise!).
"All right Carter, lets get this over with ASAP!" said Col. Jack O'Neill SG1's commander as they set foot on yet another planet covered in trees "Yes Sir." Replied Maj. Samantha Carter SG1's second in command and astrophysicist. "I'll just." "You'll just go look for your cultural things Jonas." Said O'Neill to SG1's new cultural expert. "Oh and Teal'c go with him and make sure he doesn't dawdle or upset any natives, we've got to finish the training of some newbies this afternoon." Said O'Neill as he followed Carter on her soil sample-taking trip. Teal'c being Teal'c just bowed his head and followed Jonas. "Who did the preliminaries Sir?" "Hmm? Oh I believe Hailey did. She's coming on real well." "I know sir." Said Sam with a smile. "You know?" "Yes she requested some." Sam stopped as Jack motioned for silence. They walked along for about another fifteen minuets before Jack motioned her to stop. "You hear anything?" he signed to her. Sam shook her head. "You done yet Carter?" "Almost Sir." Carter replied, quickly gathering the rest of the samples she needed. "Done." "Right lets head back to the gate, and I really hope I don't have to go and remove Jonas." Said O'Neill leading the way. "Yo Jonas, ready to go?" he asked through the radio. "We've only been here half an hour." "Jonas are you ready to go?" "Yes and no." "Yes and No? What do you mean 'Yes and No'?" "I've found, no we were found by. You better see this for yourself Jack." Jonas cut out his radio.
Sam looked at O'Neill, he nodded. They broke into a jog trot in the direction of the gate. "Jonas you know I don't like surprises." O'Neill yelled as they came toward the gate clearing. There stood Jonas, Teal'c and a young women in fatigues. "Jonas?" O'Neill asked, his eyes catching sight of the huge sword strapped across her back. "It is a pleasure to finally meet you Col. O'Neill, Maj. Carter. I've heard many good things about you." Said the young women. "And you are?" "I'm Gwyn." She said "Do not worry I am completely harmless." "I think I'll be the judge of that don't you. How about you let me have that sword of yours?" "I am afraid you would not be able to withstand the weight of the sword, but I will place it here so you may try if you wish." Said Gwyn as she unbuckled the sword belt and laid it on the ground. "I have yet to see anyone but myself who can wield this sword." She said, smiling at Sam. She winked. Sam smiled back. "I'll take your word for it." Said O'Neill, glancing at Carter's smile. "So what now sir?" asked Carter. "It would be logical to return to the base Col. O'Neill." Said Teal'c. "What about Gwyn?" asked Jonas "Well I suggest that." O'Neill stopped as they saw the gate start to move in the dialling sequence. "Take cover." SG1 ran for the bushes.
"Stop." Said Gwyn, her voice, barely above a whisper carried power. SG1 stopped in their tracks. "It is just SG14, they're bringing the surviving newest addition to the SGC." "Surviving newest addition? What happened to the other intended additions?" asked Carter. "I am unaware as of yet what's going on but I'm sure if we just wait a moment." Gwyn said when the wormhole established itself. SG14 came through the gate with a tallish woman in SGC uniform. "Col. O'Neill who's this?" "What? Oh this is Gwyn Maj., she found us." "You were lost?" "No she found us. Why are you bringing newbies through the Stargate? Newbies that we are supposed to be finishing training of this afternoon?" "General Hammond's orders sir." "General's orders? What Orders?" "She's not an ordinary newbie sir." "In what way?" "I'm from an alternate universe Sir." "I did not ask you to speak private." Shouted O'Neill; turning back to SG14 and then spinning round again. "Did you say alternate universe?" he asked. "Yes and actually my rank is Maj. Sir." Said the young woman, adding the sir as if it was an after thought. "Our orders were to deliver this young women to you and to return to the base immediately." "Right then Maj. Take SG14 home." "Yes Sir." "Maj." Said Gwyn running after SG14. "What's she doing?" Carter asked the young women. "You'll find out in a moment, oh and by the way my name's Julie." She said smiling. "That's that then." Said Gwyn as she walked back. "What's that?" asked Jonas. "I just removed myself from their memories." She said. "I thought it would be best if General Hammond introduced us to the SGC, rather than be greeted by a lot of rumours."
"It's good to see you again." Said Gwyn. "You too Gwyn. It worked then?" Gwyn nodded. "Excuse me. What worked?" O'Neill asked. "The um whatchamacallit. What do you call it Gwyn?" "Well for simplicity I call it the zip portal but its technological name is." "That's where you stop because it sounds likes it going to get very complicated." Said Julie smiling. "So what is it then?" asked Jonas. "It's an extension of the Goauld technology you used to send Koualsky and Doctor Carter back to the reality in which you were married to Carter. Sir." Said Julie. "Oh one of those things." Said O'Neill. "You built one?" asked Sam. "Yep, from scratch. It's quite simple really you just." Gwyn was cut off short. "As clever as Maj. Carter is Gwyn, no offence Maj., but you might end up confusing her, a lot." "You mean there's something Carter doesn't know!?" said O'Neill. "Doesn't know yet." Corrected Gwyn.
"Anyways back to the alternate universe business. In our world the whole Stargate program, Stargate, Goauld, Tokra, everything is a TV program. Kind of like the Stargate extreme show Marty organised here." "How do you know about Marty?" asked O'Neill. "I was just getting to that. Anyway it seems that our episodes are what happens here." "So in our universe we're real and in yours we're not." Said Carter. "Correct" said Gwyn. "Anyway as you know this is Colonel Julie King." "Major." Said Julie. "Colonel now, you've just had a promotion." "You can just do that?" asked Jonas. "Yes, you see in our world I have the ranking of a Space Navy Admiral, an Army General and an Airforce General. So I'm kind of one of the first people are government turns to, in a dire emergency." "You mean a crisis." Muttered Julie. "Julie's an Airforce and Army Col." Said Gwyn. "What was I promoted for Sir?" asked Julie. "Hmm, lets just say unexpected foresight in the emergence of a potential threat to an alliance between The Alliance and the SGC." "What??? Oh that." "Yep that. Anyway, in our world my 'official', I say official lightly as it's only down in the government records as a cover from potential threats." "As if that changed any of the attempted kidnappings or death threats." Gwyn glared at Julie, who promptly fell silent. "Anyway, as I was saying." Continued Gwyn, after twitching her fingers at Julie who started to look angry. "How old are you two?" asked Jack. They didn't look very old. "Gwyn's 25 and I'm 24 in like a week." Jack couldn't believe it a girl younger than him with the same rank! And another girl also younger than him with ranks in The Army, Airforce and Space Navy. He wasn't quite sure what a space navy was but it was probably like the navy we have only in space.
"My job is as a forensic scientist/astrophysicist. I work for the Alliance and as you know have a background in the Airforce, Army and Space Navy. I'm a trained astronaut and I also a qualified Doctor and pilot. I've also studied languages. I've experienced numerous battles thanks to the zip portal and I am trained in every existing martial arts and self defence and I'm also a telekinetic. So I'm afraid you're going to have to come with you. On the other side I could be extremely useful." Said Gwyn, grinning at the astounded looks on the others faces. "I'm Army and Airforce trained and I'm a anthropologist." Julie and Gwyn smiled after looking at O'Neill who had a strange look on his face. "Okay then, I don't suppose you've built a time machine so we can go back and you can explain that all in ENGLISH!!" shouted Col. O'Neill. Gwyn looked at Julie again and they laughed. "You'll understand some day." Julie reassured him.
"As I said before the zip portal is an extension of the Goauld technology," said Gwyn turning to Jack and continuing, "this means I have improved the technology far beyond the original parameters set for it. Which means it has a kind of time machine built into it, which is an extension of the wormhole technology, i.e. the Stargate and I actually built the zip portal around the parameters." "And Gwyn your going to have to stop yet again because you are confusing these poor humans." Said Julie, as she stopped Gwyn mid lecture. "Can I suggest that we get back to the base?" said Jonas, "We're kinda a bit overdue."
Switches to General Hammond in the briefing room
"What were you thinking? You're two hours late!" he said in a tone of voice that said he was a born leader. We're sorry sir! It's just that you have to meet these two girls." Said O'Neill. "You mean it's plural now?" asked Hammond. "I've met Julie, she'll be a remarkable addition to the SGC. Who's this other one?" "She's called Gwyn General." Said Jonas. "She showed me some interesting ruins on Antar." "Antar?" asked O'Neill, turning to Jonas. "Yes Antar, Gwyn told me that an ancient race used to live there long ago, before the." "All right Jonas you can tell us later, your getting as bad as Carter and Daniel. Aren't you wondering off the subject a bit?" asked O'Neill. "Hmmm, he is a bit. Anyway I suppose you want to hear what happened to the rest of the new trainees?" asked General Hammond, leading Jack and Jonas into his office and offering them a swat. "I'll send for Private King and Captain Hailey, they know more about the attack than I do."
Julie and Hailey enter Hammond's office and salute. "At ease." "How can we help sir?" asked Julie. There was a knock on the door. "Come in." "There's a young woman to see you sir. Shall I tell her to come back later?" said General Hammond's aide. "Jonas could you see to it please? Tell her I'm busy." Said Hammond, Jonas nodded and went to see who it was. As Jonas came back he had a strange look on his face. "There's no-one there Sir." He said. Julie smiled. "Do you find something funny private?" snapped Hammond. "Sir her rank is Col." said Jack. "Who promoted you?" "Admiral Pitak sir." "Admiral who?" "Admiral Gwyn Pitak." Said Gwyn appearing by the door. "But you can call me Gwyn." "Who the hell are you?" asked Hammond as Hailey pulled out a handgun and pointed it at Gwyn. "Admiral Pitak of the Alliance Space Navy, General Pitak of the Alliance Airforce and Army. I could go on for another five minutes but I won't. However I will tell you that I am extremely well qualified, and you would have a very hard time killing me." Said Gwyn smiling. "Oh and Hailey, don't bother trying to shoot me, the bullet would vaporise as soon as it hit my shield." Gwyn's smile widened. "Oh General, I'm extremely sorry about making SG1 two hours late, I felt I should explain who Col. King and I were and that we are not a threat to the SGC." She said, pulling out a piece of paper out of her pocket. Julie lunged and grabbed the piece of paper, as she ran at the door she pressed something on her wrist and ran through the door.
Gwyn legged it after her, also through the door, Jack ran after Gwyn, stopping to open the door, Jonas ran after Jack, Hailey ran after Jonas and Hammond ran after Hailey. As Julie ran she read the letter, looking up every now and then to see where she was going. She ran through the mess and into the gate room, by now Carter and Teal'c were chasing Julie too. She stood on the ramp with a smile on her face, the smile faded when she saw Gwyn's face. "Julie give me that back." Again her voice was barely above a whisper and yet the power in it shocked Jack. As Gwyn walked forward and up the ramp, she turned. "I'll meet you all back in the Generals office, I have to take care of this." She said indicating Julie. Gwyn lifted a hand and the letter disappeared from Julie's hand an appeared in Jack's top pocket. "A letter for you from Laira Col. I promised I would deliver it to you. If you will please excuse me." She nodded to them all, grabbed Julie and disappeared. "I guess we should get back to my office." Said Hammond, as he motioned Jack to open the blast doors.
General Hammond's office
"Julie I can't believe you just did that. Has every thing I've said just gone in one ear and out the other?" "It's was the wrong letter." "Don't you think I could tell that? I was going to give Jack his letter and then Hammond his. But anyway, wrong letter or not you had no business to read it." Said Gwyn taking a breath. "I know you were sent on the mission with me, but the letter from my colleagues had a seal on it that I put on. And if you'd broken the seal, well you know what would have happened. Except it would have been worse as the seal is keyed to one person only." Julie's face blanched as she realised the danger she might have been in. "What would have happened?" asked Jack, as he led the others into Hammond's office. "At best Julie would have been killed or at worst would have an irreversible disability more than likely something to do with speaking."
"Doesn't sound to bad." Said Jonas. "Would you like a temporary example?" asked Gwyn, her voice had hardened. "You really don't want to get Gwyn to do that too you, not will she's in this mood." Said Julie, her face slowly regaining colour. Gwyn pulled out an official looking letter from her pocket in her jacket and handed it to General Hammond. "Oh yeah, thanks for the letter, I'll read it later." Said Jack, patting his top pocket where the letter was. "But I'll ask again, what happened to all the Newbies I was supposed to be training this afternoon?" Julie and Hailey looked at the floor. "Take your time ladies." Said Hammond, not wanting to pressure them. "Well you know how you suspected that the Goauld had infiltrated the academy?" Julie paused as they all nodded. "Well there was. He was one of the." Julie paused as Gwyn motioned for her to stop. "There's someone listening in." she held up a finger. In about 30 seconds five members of the SGC appeared in the centre of the room, one was an American solider; the other four were Russian.
"The SGC has been infiltrated. These are the only ones at the moment as far as I can tell from a quick scan, but I'll have to have a lengthy search later on." Said Gwyn to Hammond. The "Russian" solders have always been Goauld but lieutenant Timmins here is new." Gwyn started to speak to the five Goauld. "She can speak Goauld?" asked Jack to Julie. "One of her many languages." Said Julie. Gwyn turned to them. "Timmins I can save, the other four are quite frankly not even worth saving." "Why don't we just kill all of them?" asked Jack shrugging. "I will undertake the killing of the four Russians, but Timmins is different, I can sense that." Gwyn paused as she continued to stare at Timmins. She grinned. "That's why he's different. He's of Sinyin origin. "Sinyin??" asked Jack. "He's an elf. One of my sisters commanders if I'm not mistaken." "She rarely is." Muttered Julie to Jonas. "And don't you know it Julie, said Gwyn without turning to face her. "Well he's definitely worth saving, I believe I'll return him to my sister, I'm sure she'll be glad to have him back." "Did you just say he's an elf?" asked Jack. "How come he doesn't have pointy ears?" "He has a glamour cast over him." Said Gwyn, she waved her hand and the others noticed the differences. Timmins was immediately taller and his facial features were finer, and his ears had gone all pointy at the top.
"It'll be a shame to lose him, he was a good solder." Said Carter. "How long will it take to remove the symbiote?" "Shouldn't take too long. I'll need to go back to my world to gather some equipment and some things for my sister as well. Oh and I'll need a secure room to set up the zip portal." "Jack, Jonas could you see to it please?" asked Hammond. "Yes sir." Said Jack. "Come on Jonas, Teal'c." said jack as he led the other two out of the office. "Where do you want me to leave Timmins for now? He won't be able to do anything he's kind of out of it a bit." "Take him down to medical." "Thank you General. I'll just get rid of these for you." She said, indicating the Russians. She waved a hand and they seemed to become a pulse of light that flowed into her hand. "They're life-force is a part of me now, they won't cause any trouble." She said. "That was amazing Sir." Said Sam. "Thanks, one of my abilities. It strengthens me as well, and the transfer of the knowledge from the symbiote's previous hosts is transferred to me too."
Oh General, would you like to send an envoy with me to meet my colleagues?" asked Gwyn, Carter's face lit up. "That's a very kind offer, could I send Maj. Carter with you? I would normally send Jack but he'll be busy when you're ready to leave." "Let's take Timmins to Dr. Fraiser and then you can get your gear together and show me your lab." Said Gwyn smiling. "Of course Sir." "Sam, you can call me Gwyn, don't bother with all this Sir stuff. You'll know when it's the right moment to call me Sir." "You want to come Julie?" "No thanks. I sense much technobabble in the force. And besides there are those huge spiders in your lab." Julie shuddered. "They're quite harmless you know." Said Gwyn smiling.
Gwyn led the way out of the office with Timmins gliding in front of her, she gestured for Sam to walk next to her. When they had deposited Timmins into Janet's capable hands Sam led the way to her lab. "I'm sorry about the loss of the Naquadria that Jonas risked his life for. I happen to know where there is a rich deposit." "Really, where?" "On my sister's planet. I'm pretty sure they would probably give you unlimited access to it if you help them with a minor problem of theirs." "What sort of problem?" "Their planet is overran with some pretty big spiders. And the only flaw of the elves is that they're petrified of spiders, it's probably something to do with the fact that spiders are particularly lethal to elves." "I'm sure that wouldn't be a problem." Said Carter grinning.
Mess Hall
"Hey Julie." Said Jack as he walked into the mess and saw Julie sitting eating a light lunch. "Hey Jack." Said Julie gesturing for him to seat himself. "Since your going to be here for a while you really should come and watch Teal'c floor me millions of times." He said smiling. "Sure, why not? I could do with a bit of a workout." Said Julie as she followed Jack out of the mess. "Hey Jonas, you doing anything?" "Nope why do you ask?" "Jack's invited me to watch him get floored by Teal'c, too be honest I could do with a sparring partner myself." "Your on." Said Jonas grinning. "Promise you won't be mad with me?" "For what?" "You'll see." Said Julie grinning as she walked after Jack down the corridor.
Sam's Lab
"Some set up you've got here." Said Gwyn, looking at all the machines in Sam's lab. "Thanks." Said Sam, who was rummaging through a drawer full of books. "Whatcha looking for?" "Hmm? Oh a book Daniel gave me before he died. It's written in Goauld, he said it's roughly about some ancient virus that killed off a lot of Goauld ages ago. He was looking through it because some of the symptoms matched the ones that four of the SGC members from different teams died of. This is it." She said, giving the book to Gwyn. "Hmmm, if this is what I think it is I'll need to get something from my sister when we take Timmins back. I'll run this through a couple of machines in my lab when we go to my world." She said skimming through the book. "He's not dead you know." "Really that's superb! Where is he?" "He's off world, on my sisters planet funnily enough. When we take Timmins back I'll see how he's doing. When you thought he died he actually ascended to a higher plane of existence."
"When my sister found him he was nearly dead as when he was descended he came back in the state he left in. He was almost beyond the healing powers of the elves. Last I heard he was fine." Gwyn paused. "Why did they send him back?" "I'm not really sure." Said Gwyn frowning. "When I questioned him halfway through his heeling, he didn't really want to talk about it. Something about an argument with one of the bosses." "Yep, I'm definitely going to need to see my sister about this, I just hope it's only the first kind and not the second. Anyway, you ready to go?" "Yes I think so, is this okay or should it be formal?" Sam asked pointing to what she was wearing. "Better bring your formal stuff in this, I wouldn't want it to get damaged going through Zip. And anyway I've got some things to show you in my lab first, you might get a bit mucky." She said smiling as she gave Sam a protective bag to put her suit in. Sam led the way to the room where Gwyn had set up the portal.
A.N. Hoped you liked the first part of the story as much as Julie and I do! Anyways the next part should hopefully be up soon (if I can get Julie to write any!!) Now then unless you want a taste of Gwyn's medicine you'd better fill in that little box called a review so we can know what you think. From: Don't. Poke.Me
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Part 1-Surprises
By Don't.Poke.Me
A.N. Hey everybody this is a joint fic written by myself Katie and my friend Julie. By the way Katie also have another account with fanfiction.net under the name Sugar Quill you can visit it if you like. Anyway that's enough of us babbling, on with the story!! By the way the title is Latin for: It is sweet and proper to die for your country, (will have some relevance later on in the story! I promise!).
"All right Carter, lets get this over with ASAP!" said Col. Jack O'Neill SG1's commander as they set foot on yet another planet covered in trees "Yes Sir." Replied Maj. Samantha Carter SG1's second in command and astrophysicist. "I'll just." "You'll just go look for your cultural things Jonas." Said O'Neill to SG1's new cultural expert. "Oh and Teal'c go with him and make sure he doesn't dawdle or upset any natives, we've got to finish the training of some newbies this afternoon." Said O'Neill as he followed Carter on her soil sample-taking trip. Teal'c being Teal'c just bowed his head and followed Jonas. "Who did the preliminaries Sir?" "Hmm? Oh I believe Hailey did. She's coming on real well." "I know sir." Said Sam with a smile. "You know?" "Yes she requested some." Sam stopped as Jack motioned for silence. They walked along for about another fifteen minuets before Jack motioned her to stop. "You hear anything?" he signed to her. Sam shook her head. "You done yet Carter?" "Almost Sir." Carter replied, quickly gathering the rest of the samples she needed. "Done." "Right lets head back to the gate, and I really hope I don't have to go and remove Jonas." Said O'Neill leading the way. "Yo Jonas, ready to go?" he asked through the radio. "We've only been here half an hour." "Jonas are you ready to go?" "Yes and no." "Yes and No? What do you mean 'Yes and No'?" "I've found, no we were found by. You better see this for yourself Jack." Jonas cut out his radio.
Sam looked at O'Neill, he nodded. They broke into a jog trot in the direction of the gate. "Jonas you know I don't like surprises." O'Neill yelled as they came toward the gate clearing. There stood Jonas, Teal'c and a young women in fatigues. "Jonas?" O'Neill asked, his eyes catching sight of the huge sword strapped across her back. "It is a pleasure to finally meet you Col. O'Neill, Maj. Carter. I've heard many good things about you." Said the young women. "And you are?" "I'm Gwyn." She said "Do not worry I am completely harmless." "I think I'll be the judge of that don't you. How about you let me have that sword of yours?" "I am afraid you would not be able to withstand the weight of the sword, but I will place it here so you may try if you wish." Said Gwyn as she unbuckled the sword belt and laid it on the ground. "I have yet to see anyone but myself who can wield this sword." She said, smiling at Sam. She winked. Sam smiled back. "I'll take your word for it." Said O'Neill, glancing at Carter's smile. "So what now sir?" asked Carter. "It would be logical to return to the base Col. O'Neill." Said Teal'c. "What about Gwyn?" asked Jonas "Well I suggest that." O'Neill stopped as they saw the gate start to move in the dialling sequence. "Take cover." SG1 ran for the bushes.
"Stop." Said Gwyn, her voice, barely above a whisper carried power. SG1 stopped in their tracks. "It is just SG14, they're bringing the surviving newest addition to the SGC." "Surviving newest addition? What happened to the other intended additions?" asked Carter. "I am unaware as of yet what's going on but I'm sure if we just wait a moment." Gwyn said when the wormhole established itself. SG14 came through the gate with a tallish woman in SGC uniform. "Col. O'Neill who's this?" "What? Oh this is Gwyn Maj., she found us." "You were lost?" "No she found us. Why are you bringing newbies through the Stargate? Newbies that we are supposed to be finishing training of this afternoon?" "General Hammond's orders sir." "General's orders? What Orders?" "She's not an ordinary newbie sir." "In what way?" "I'm from an alternate universe Sir." "I did not ask you to speak private." Shouted O'Neill; turning back to SG14 and then spinning round again. "Did you say alternate universe?" he asked. "Yes and actually my rank is Maj. Sir." Said the young woman, adding the sir as if it was an after thought. "Our orders were to deliver this young women to you and to return to the base immediately." "Right then Maj. Take SG14 home." "Yes Sir." "Maj." Said Gwyn running after SG14. "What's she doing?" Carter asked the young women. "You'll find out in a moment, oh and by the way my name's Julie." She said smiling. "That's that then." Said Gwyn as she walked back. "What's that?" asked Jonas. "I just removed myself from their memories." She said. "I thought it would be best if General Hammond introduced us to the SGC, rather than be greeted by a lot of rumours."
"It's good to see you again." Said Gwyn. "You too Gwyn. It worked then?" Gwyn nodded. "Excuse me. What worked?" O'Neill asked. "The um whatchamacallit. What do you call it Gwyn?" "Well for simplicity I call it the zip portal but its technological name is." "That's where you stop because it sounds likes it going to get very complicated." Said Julie smiling. "So what is it then?" asked Jonas. "It's an extension of the Goauld technology you used to send Koualsky and Doctor Carter back to the reality in which you were married to Carter. Sir." Said Julie. "Oh one of those things." Said O'Neill. "You built one?" asked Sam. "Yep, from scratch. It's quite simple really you just." Gwyn was cut off short. "As clever as Maj. Carter is Gwyn, no offence Maj., but you might end up confusing her, a lot." "You mean there's something Carter doesn't know!?" said O'Neill. "Doesn't know yet." Corrected Gwyn.
"Anyways back to the alternate universe business. In our world the whole Stargate program, Stargate, Goauld, Tokra, everything is a TV program. Kind of like the Stargate extreme show Marty organised here." "How do you know about Marty?" asked O'Neill. "I was just getting to that. Anyway it seems that our episodes are what happens here." "So in our universe we're real and in yours we're not." Said Carter. "Correct" said Gwyn. "Anyway as you know this is Colonel Julie King." "Major." Said Julie. "Colonel now, you've just had a promotion." "You can just do that?" asked Jonas. "Yes, you see in our world I have the ranking of a Space Navy Admiral, an Army General and an Airforce General. So I'm kind of one of the first people are government turns to, in a dire emergency." "You mean a crisis." Muttered Julie. "Julie's an Airforce and Army Col." Said Gwyn. "What was I promoted for Sir?" asked Julie. "Hmm, lets just say unexpected foresight in the emergence of a potential threat to an alliance between The Alliance and the SGC." "What??? Oh that." "Yep that. Anyway, in our world my 'official', I say official lightly as it's only down in the government records as a cover from potential threats." "As if that changed any of the attempted kidnappings or death threats." Gwyn glared at Julie, who promptly fell silent. "Anyway, as I was saying." Continued Gwyn, after twitching her fingers at Julie who started to look angry. "How old are you two?" asked Jack. They didn't look very old. "Gwyn's 25 and I'm 24 in like a week." Jack couldn't believe it a girl younger than him with the same rank! And another girl also younger than him with ranks in The Army, Airforce and Space Navy. He wasn't quite sure what a space navy was but it was probably like the navy we have only in space.
"My job is as a forensic scientist/astrophysicist. I work for the Alliance and as you know have a background in the Airforce, Army and Space Navy. I'm a trained astronaut and I also a qualified Doctor and pilot. I've also studied languages. I've experienced numerous battles thanks to the zip portal and I am trained in every existing martial arts and self defence and I'm also a telekinetic. So I'm afraid you're going to have to come with you. On the other side I could be extremely useful." Said Gwyn, grinning at the astounded looks on the others faces. "I'm Army and Airforce trained and I'm a anthropologist." Julie and Gwyn smiled after looking at O'Neill who had a strange look on his face. "Okay then, I don't suppose you've built a time machine so we can go back and you can explain that all in ENGLISH!!" shouted Col. O'Neill. Gwyn looked at Julie again and they laughed. "You'll understand some day." Julie reassured him.
"As I said before the zip portal is an extension of the Goauld technology," said Gwyn turning to Jack and continuing, "this means I have improved the technology far beyond the original parameters set for it. Which means it has a kind of time machine built into it, which is an extension of the wormhole technology, i.e. the Stargate and I actually built the zip portal around the parameters." "And Gwyn your going to have to stop yet again because you are confusing these poor humans." Said Julie, as she stopped Gwyn mid lecture. "Can I suggest that we get back to the base?" said Jonas, "We're kinda a bit overdue."
Switches to General Hammond in the briefing room
"What were you thinking? You're two hours late!" he said in a tone of voice that said he was a born leader. We're sorry sir! It's just that you have to meet these two girls." Said O'Neill. "You mean it's plural now?" asked Hammond. "I've met Julie, she'll be a remarkable addition to the SGC. Who's this other one?" "She's called Gwyn General." Said Jonas. "She showed me some interesting ruins on Antar." "Antar?" asked O'Neill, turning to Jonas. "Yes Antar, Gwyn told me that an ancient race used to live there long ago, before the." "All right Jonas you can tell us later, your getting as bad as Carter and Daniel. Aren't you wondering off the subject a bit?" asked O'Neill. "Hmmm, he is a bit. Anyway I suppose you want to hear what happened to the rest of the new trainees?" asked General Hammond, leading Jack and Jonas into his office and offering them a swat. "I'll send for Private King and Captain Hailey, they know more about the attack than I do."
Julie and Hailey enter Hammond's office and salute. "At ease." "How can we help sir?" asked Julie. There was a knock on the door. "Come in." "There's a young woman to see you sir. Shall I tell her to come back later?" said General Hammond's aide. "Jonas could you see to it please? Tell her I'm busy." Said Hammond, Jonas nodded and went to see who it was. As Jonas came back he had a strange look on his face. "There's no-one there Sir." He said. Julie smiled. "Do you find something funny private?" snapped Hammond. "Sir her rank is Col." said Jack. "Who promoted you?" "Admiral Pitak sir." "Admiral who?" "Admiral Gwyn Pitak." Said Gwyn appearing by the door. "But you can call me Gwyn." "Who the hell are you?" asked Hammond as Hailey pulled out a handgun and pointed it at Gwyn. "Admiral Pitak of the Alliance Space Navy, General Pitak of the Alliance Airforce and Army. I could go on for another five minutes but I won't. However I will tell you that I am extremely well qualified, and you would have a very hard time killing me." Said Gwyn smiling. "Oh and Hailey, don't bother trying to shoot me, the bullet would vaporise as soon as it hit my shield." Gwyn's smile widened. "Oh General, I'm extremely sorry about making SG1 two hours late, I felt I should explain who Col. King and I were and that we are not a threat to the SGC." She said, pulling out a piece of paper out of her pocket. Julie lunged and grabbed the piece of paper, as she ran at the door she pressed something on her wrist and ran through the door.
Gwyn legged it after her, also through the door, Jack ran after Gwyn, stopping to open the door, Jonas ran after Jack, Hailey ran after Jonas and Hammond ran after Hailey. As Julie ran she read the letter, looking up every now and then to see where she was going. She ran through the mess and into the gate room, by now Carter and Teal'c were chasing Julie too. She stood on the ramp with a smile on her face, the smile faded when she saw Gwyn's face. "Julie give me that back." Again her voice was barely above a whisper and yet the power in it shocked Jack. As Gwyn walked forward and up the ramp, she turned. "I'll meet you all back in the Generals office, I have to take care of this." She said indicating Julie. Gwyn lifted a hand and the letter disappeared from Julie's hand an appeared in Jack's top pocket. "A letter for you from Laira Col. I promised I would deliver it to you. If you will please excuse me." She nodded to them all, grabbed Julie and disappeared. "I guess we should get back to my office." Said Hammond, as he motioned Jack to open the blast doors.
General Hammond's office
"Julie I can't believe you just did that. Has every thing I've said just gone in one ear and out the other?" "It's was the wrong letter." "Don't you think I could tell that? I was going to give Jack his letter and then Hammond his. But anyway, wrong letter or not you had no business to read it." Said Gwyn taking a breath. "I know you were sent on the mission with me, but the letter from my colleagues had a seal on it that I put on. And if you'd broken the seal, well you know what would have happened. Except it would have been worse as the seal is keyed to one person only." Julie's face blanched as she realised the danger she might have been in. "What would have happened?" asked Jack, as he led the others into Hammond's office. "At best Julie would have been killed or at worst would have an irreversible disability more than likely something to do with speaking."
"Doesn't sound to bad." Said Jonas. "Would you like a temporary example?" asked Gwyn, her voice had hardened. "You really don't want to get Gwyn to do that too you, not will she's in this mood." Said Julie, her face slowly regaining colour. Gwyn pulled out an official looking letter from her pocket in her jacket and handed it to General Hammond. "Oh yeah, thanks for the letter, I'll read it later." Said Jack, patting his top pocket where the letter was. "But I'll ask again, what happened to all the Newbies I was supposed to be training this afternoon?" Julie and Hailey looked at the floor. "Take your time ladies." Said Hammond, not wanting to pressure them. "Well you know how you suspected that the Goauld had infiltrated the academy?" Julie paused as they all nodded. "Well there was. He was one of the." Julie paused as Gwyn motioned for her to stop. "There's someone listening in." she held up a finger. In about 30 seconds five members of the SGC appeared in the centre of the room, one was an American solider; the other four were Russian.
"The SGC has been infiltrated. These are the only ones at the moment as far as I can tell from a quick scan, but I'll have to have a lengthy search later on." Said Gwyn to Hammond. The "Russian" solders have always been Goauld but lieutenant Timmins here is new." Gwyn started to speak to the five Goauld. "She can speak Goauld?" asked Jack to Julie. "One of her many languages." Said Julie. Gwyn turned to them. "Timmins I can save, the other four are quite frankly not even worth saving." "Why don't we just kill all of them?" asked Jack shrugging. "I will undertake the killing of the four Russians, but Timmins is different, I can sense that." Gwyn paused as she continued to stare at Timmins. She grinned. "That's why he's different. He's of Sinyin origin. "Sinyin??" asked Jack. "He's an elf. One of my sisters commanders if I'm not mistaken." "She rarely is." Muttered Julie to Jonas. "And don't you know it Julie, said Gwyn without turning to face her. "Well he's definitely worth saving, I believe I'll return him to my sister, I'm sure she'll be glad to have him back." "Did you just say he's an elf?" asked Jack. "How come he doesn't have pointy ears?" "He has a glamour cast over him." Said Gwyn, she waved her hand and the others noticed the differences. Timmins was immediately taller and his facial features were finer, and his ears had gone all pointy at the top.
"It'll be a shame to lose him, he was a good solder." Said Carter. "How long will it take to remove the symbiote?" "Shouldn't take too long. I'll need to go back to my world to gather some equipment and some things for my sister as well. Oh and I'll need a secure room to set up the zip portal." "Jack, Jonas could you see to it please?" asked Hammond. "Yes sir." Said Jack. "Come on Jonas, Teal'c." said jack as he led the other two out of the office. "Where do you want me to leave Timmins for now? He won't be able to do anything he's kind of out of it a bit." "Take him down to medical." "Thank you General. I'll just get rid of these for you." She said, indicating the Russians. She waved a hand and they seemed to become a pulse of light that flowed into her hand. "They're life-force is a part of me now, they won't cause any trouble." She said. "That was amazing Sir." Said Sam. "Thanks, one of my abilities. It strengthens me as well, and the transfer of the knowledge from the symbiote's previous hosts is transferred to me too."
Oh General, would you like to send an envoy with me to meet my colleagues?" asked Gwyn, Carter's face lit up. "That's a very kind offer, could I send Maj. Carter with you? I would normally send Jack but he'll be busy when you're ready to leave." "Let's take Timmins to Dr. Fraiser and then you can get your gear together and show me your lab." Said Gwyn smiling. "Of course Sir." "Sam, you can call me Gwyn, don't bother with all this Sir stuff. You'll know when it's the right moment to call me Sir." "You want to come Julie?" "No thanks. I sense much technobabble in the force. And besides there are those huge spiders in your lab." Julie shuddered. "They're quite harmless you know." Said Gwyn smiling.
Gwyn led the way out of the office with Timmins gliding in front of her, she gestured for Sam to walk next to her. When they had deposited Timmins into Janet's capable hands Sam led the way to her lab. "I'm sorry about the loss of the Naquadria that Jonas risked his life for. I happen to know where there is a rich deposit." "Really, where?" "On my sister's planet. I'm pretty sure they would probably give you unlimited access to it if you help them with a minor problem of theirs." "What sort of problem?" "Their planet is overran with some pretty big spiders. And the only flaw of the elves is that they're petrified of spiders, it's probably something to do with the fact that spiders are particularly lethal to elves." "I'm sure that wouldn't be a problem." Said Carter grinning.
Mess Hall
"Hey Julie." Said Jack as he walked into the mess and saw Julie sitting eating a light lunch. "Hey Jack." Said Julie gesturing for him to seat himself. "Since your going to be here for a while you really should come and watch Teal'c floor me millions of times." He said smiling. "Sure, why not? I could do with a bit of a workout." Said Julie as she followed Jack out of the mess. "Hey Jonas, you doing anything?" "Nope why do you ask?" "Jack's invited me to watch him get floored by Teal'c, too be honest I could do with a sparring partner myself." "Your on." Said Jonas grinning. "Promise you won't be mad with me?" "For what?" "You'll see." Said Julie grinning as she walked after Jack down the corridor.
Sam's Lab
"Some set up you've got here." Said Gwyn, looking at all the machines in Sam's lab. "Thanks." Said Sam, who was rummaging through a drawer full of books. "Whatcha looking for?" "Hmm? Oh a book Daniel gave me before he died. It's written in Goauld, he said it's roughly about some ancient virus that killed off a lot of Goauld ages ago. He was looking through it because some of the symptoms matched the ones that four of the SGC members from different teams died of. This is it." She said, giving the book to Gwyn. "Hmmm, if this is what I think it is I'll need to get something from my sister when we take Timmins back. I'll run this through a couple of machines in my lab when we go to my world." She said skimming through the book. "He's not dead you know." "Really that's superb! Where is he?" "He's off world, on my sisters planet funnily enough. When we take Timmins back I'll see how he's doing. When you thought he died he actually ascended to a higher plane of existence."
"When my sister found him he was nearly dead as when he was descended he came back in the state he left in. He was almost beyond the healing powers of the elves. Last I heard he was fine." Gwyn paused. "Why did they send him back?" "I'm not really sure." Said Gwyn frowning. "When I questioned him halfway through his heeling, he didn't really want to talk about it. Something about an argument with one of the bosses." "Yep, I'm definitely going to need to see my sister about this, I just hope it's only the first kind and not the second. Anyway, you ready to go?" "Yes I think so, is this okay or should it be formal?" Sam asked pointing to what she was wearing. "Better bring your formal stuff in this, I wouldn't want it to get damaged going through Zip. And anyway I've got some things to show you in my lab first, you might get a bit mucky." She said smiling as she gave Sam a protective bag to put her suit in. Sam led the way to the room where Gwyn had set up the portal.
A.N. Hoped you liked the first part of the story as much as Julie and I do! Anyways the next part should hopefully be up soon (if I can get Julie to write any!!) Now then unless you want a taste of Gwyn's medicine you'd better fill in that little box called a review so we can know what you think. From: Don't. Poke.Me
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