Chapter 2
"So, what exactly can you tell us about what happened to you?" Hammond asked Konoko seriously. Hammond, Konoko, Dr. Frasier and SG-1 had assembled in the briefing room, a few hours after Konoko had arrived.
Konoko sighed. "I don't know much. All I know is what I was able to read off computer files. For some reason, I can't remember anything about what happened before the Syndicate."
"I may be able to shed some light on that," the doctor chipped in, "General, do you remember Martin Lloyd? The alien who made the pitch for that awful TV show? I found traces of the same memory suppressant used on him in Konoko's bloodstream."
Hammond raised an eyebrow, or at least tried. Sam turned to the doctor, "Dr. Frasier, what else did you find?"
"Well..." Frasier replied, unsure of how to answer, "the thing is, I didn't find anything. Konoko is in perfect, and I mean perfect, health."
"So what's so strange about that?" Jack asked casually.
"Well, usually any person has some sort of foreign bacteria in their body. Konoko doesn't have a single foreign organism inside her, and her heart and lungs are working at 250% of normal human efficiency. she quite literally is a super soldier."
All eyes turned to Konoko. "From what I understand," she started, "The Syndicate is a division of the NID. This is their second attempt at off-world activity, so they are working under an alias."
"But how did they get off-world?" Sam questioned.
"Well, have you had any soldiers lost on, what you might call, routine missions?" Konoko queried.
"Of course," Hammond replied, "accidents do happen after all."
"I see." Konoko said disappointedly, "Have you ever considered that these soldiers might not be dead? My guess is that NID operatives wormed their way onto off-world teams and then faked their own deaths."
"That makes sense, although it pisses me off." Jack said quietly. "So, what exactly does this, "Syndicate" do?"
"The Syndicate has been acting as a terrorist organization." Konoko replied, "They learned from their first attempt that stealing from more powerful races like the Asguard has been frowned upon, so this time they took a different route. The Syndicate first attacked the Goa'uld and stole technology from them, then adapted it. A good example is the Van de Graaf pistol that I brought, which is essentially just a zatnikatool. The plasma rifle I brought is also an adapted staff weapon. Anyway, with these new weapons they started to attack advanced races as terrorist bands. They came through the Stargate, stole what they wanted, and pulled out. Since the weapons were so foreign, no one thought to associate them with Earth."
"Ok," Sam cut in, "that explains the weapons. I figured about them anyway. But what about you?"
"Well, from what I was able to read, the research for what happened to me started here, on Earth. Do you remember Adrian Conrad?"
"He attempted to find a way to heal his disease with the use of a Goa'uld symbiote." Teal'c stated.
"Yes, but before he got his hands on a symbiote, he tried something else." Konoko continued, "One of the scientists working for him, Dr. Hasegawa, had a radical idea. The idea was to create an artificial immune system that could heal any threat to the body. Conrad went along with this until he got the symbiote, at which point he cut funding. The NID, however, still saw the potential in this. Simmons funded the research, and the end result was called the Chrysalis. You see, in order for an artificial immune system to control organs, the organs must be linked to it in someway. What it does, in theory, is slowly ingest the bodies vital organs, and replace them with it's own, more powerful versions. It starts with the heart, then the lungs, muscles, skin, and so on."
"So what's with the hair?" Jack asked, pointing to her brightly coloured purple hair.
"That's also a side effect. Even my hair gets stronger, I am the brain child of Hasegawa's idea. Anyway, from what I can tell, Dr. Hasegawa eventually realized the Syndicate's intentions and tried to destroy the Chrysalis. He succeeded in destroying the data before they killed him, but not before the two Chrysalis' he had created were implanted in my brother and I."
"Why you?" Jonas asked curiously.
"Well," Konoko said sadly, "from what I could tell from the notes, my brother and I were related to Dr. Hasegawa. I think he was my father."
"Where is your brother?" Jack asked.
"My brother is still in the compound. For some reason, the propaganda didn't take on me. I openly resisted at first, but they just beat me and increased the intensity. Finally, I just started faking. I went along with it for about a year before they trusted me enough to keep my door unlocked. But it wasn't really all bad. The Syndicate gave me an incredible amount of training. I was trained in hand to hand combat to an insane degree, enough that I could probably take on ten of their soldiers and win, and they gave me full weapons training."
"But..." Jack interjected, "your brother got all of that too. Plus he really in programmed to be their little killing machine, isn't he?"
"Unfortunately, yes." Konoko nodded.
"So what do you suggest we do?" Hammond asked.
"Well, I can give you a pretty good layout of the compound." Konoko answered. "You could mount an assault."
"We don't have that kind of manpower." Hammond stated manner of factly. "I just don't see that as a feasible alternative. Besides, I don't want to make the first move. We don't attack on the information given to us by a woman we just met who has admitted to being brainwashed."
"For now, at least look at the weapons I have given you, and please let me join SG-1." Konoko pleaded.
Hammond looked at Jack. Jack shrugged. "Hey, who I am to turn down a super soldier?"
Hammond nodded, "alright then, Konoko. You can join SG-1. Major Carter, what about the weapons?"
"Well sir, the Van de Graff pistol is exactly like a zat, but the plasma rifle has merit. It fires the same energy as a staff, but because of its design it is much easier to carry and aim. The problem is it only has a 10 round clip, but the clip is a hydrogen cell. My guess is the NID doesn't have enough naquada to mass produce cells."
"But we do." Jack grinned.
"Yes, Colonel, we do. I could probably make a naquada cell that would give the weapon an almost unlimited clip."
"Get started, Major." Hammond ordered. "Konoko, the Colonel here will show you around. Welcome to the SGC."
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Yeah, I know that was a bit of a boring chapter, but I had to introduce people who haven't played Oni to some of the history. And yes, I know I changed the Van de Graaf pistol, but meh. Please review!
"So, what exactly can you tell us about what happened to you?" Hammond asked Konoko seriously. Hammond, Konoko, Dr. Frasier and SG-1 had assembled in the briefing room, a few hours after Konoko had arrived.
Konoko sighed. "I don't know much. All I know is what I was able to read off computer files. For some reason, I can't remember anything about what happened before the Syndicate."
"I may be able to shed some light on that," the doctor chipped in, "General, do you remember Martin Lloyd? The alien who made the pitch for that awful TV show? I found traces of the same memory suppressant used on him in Konoko's bloodstream."
Hammond raised an eyebrow, or at least tried. Sam turned to the doctor, "Dr. Frasier, what else did you find?"
"Well..." Frasier replied, unsure of how to answer, "the thing is, I didn't find anything. Konoko is in perfect, and I mean perfect, health."
"So what's so strange about that?" Jack asked casually.
"Well, usually any person has some sort of foreign bacteria in their body. Konoko doesn't have a single foreign organism inside her, and her heart and lungs are working at 250% of normal human efficiency. she quite literally is a super soldier."
All eyes turned to Konoko. "From what I understand," she started, "The Syndicate is a division of the NID. This is their second attempt at off-world activity, so they are working under an alias."
"But how did they get off-world?" Sam questioned.
"Well, have you had any soldiers lost on, what you might call, routine missions?" Konoko queried.
"Of course," Hammond replied, "accidents do happen after all."
"I see." Konoko said disappointedly, "Have you ever considered that these soldiers might not be dead? My guess is that NID operatives wormed their way onto off-world teams and then faked their own deaths."
"That makes sense, although it pisses me off." Jack said quietly. "So, what exactly does this, "Syndicate" do?"
"The Syndicate has been acting as a terrorist organization." Konoko replied, "They learned from their first attempt that stealing from more powerful races like the Asguard has been frowned upon, so this time they took a different route. The Syndicate first attacked the Goa'uld and stole technology from them, then adapted it. A good example is the Van de Graaf pistol that I brought, which is essentially just a zatnikatool. The plasma rifle I brought is also an adapted staff weapon. Anyway, with these new weapons they started to attack advanced races as terrorist bands. They came through the Stargate, stole what they wanted, and pulled out. Since the weapons were so foreign, no one thought to associate them with Earth."
"Ok," Sam cut in, "that explains the weapons. I figured about them anyway. But what about you?"
"Well, from what I was able to read, the research for what happened to me started here, on Earth. Do you remember Adrian Conrad?"
"He attempted to find a way to heal his disease with the use of a Goa'uld symbiote." Teal'c stated.
"Yes, but before he got his hands on a symbiote, he tried something else." Konoko continued, "One of the scientists working for him, Dr. Hasegawa, had a radical idea. The idea was to create an artificial immune system that could heal any threat to the body. Conrad went along with this until he got the symbiote, at which point he cut funding. The NID, however, still saw the potential in this. Simmons funded the research, and the end result was called the Chrysalis. You see, in order for an artificial immune system to control organs, the organs must be linked to it in someway. What it does, in theory, is slowly ingest the bodies vital organs, and replace them with it's own, more powerful versions. It starts with the heart, then the lungs, muscles, skin, and so on."
"So what's with the hair?" Jack asked, pointing to her brightly coloured purple hair.
"That's also a side effect. Even my hair gets stronger, I am the brain child of Hasegawa's idea. Anyway, from what I can tell, Dr. Hasegawa eventually realized the Syndicate's intentions and tried to destroy the Chrysalis. He succeeded in destroying the data before they killed him, but not before the two Chrysalis' he had created were implanted in my brother and I."
"Why you?" Jonas asked curiously.
"Well," Konoko said sadly, "from what I could tell from the notes, my brother and I were related to Dr. Hasegawa. I think he was my father."
"Where is your brother?" Jack asked.
"My brother is still in the compound. For some reason, the propaganda didn't take on me. I openly resisted at first, but they just beat me and increased the intensity. Finally, I just started faking. I went along with it for about a year before they trusted me enough to keep my door unlocked. But it wasn't really all bad. The Syndicate gave me an incredible amount of training. I was trained in hand to hand combat to an insane degree, enough that I could probably take on ten of their soldiers and win, and they gave me full weapons training."
"But..." Jack interjected, "your brother got all of that too. Plus he really in programmed to be their little killing machine, isn't he?"
"Unfortunately, yes." Konoko nodded.
"So what do you suggest we do?" Hammond asked.
"Well, I can give you a pretty good layout of the compound." Konoko answered. "You could mount an assault."
"We don't have that kind of manpower." Hammond stated manner of factly. "I just don't see that as a feasible alternative. Besides, I don't want to make the first move. We don't attack on the information given to us by a woman we just met who has admitted to being brainwashed."
"For now, at least look at the weapons I have given you, and please let me join SG-1." Konoko pleaded.
Hammond looked at Jack. Jack shrugged. "Hey, who I am to turn down a super soldier?"
Hammond nodded, "alright then, Konoko. You can join SG-1. Major Carter, what about the weapons?"
"Well sir, the Van de Graff pistol is exactly like a zat, but the plasma rifle has merit. It fires the same energy as a staff, but because of its design it is much easier to carry and aim. The problem is it only has a 10 round clip, but the clip is a hydrogen cell. My guess is the NID doesn't have enough naquada to mass produce cells."
"But we do." Jack grinned.
"Yes, Colonel, we do. I could probably make a naquada cell that would give the weapon an almost unlimited clip."
"Get started, Major." Hammond ordered. "Konoko, the Colonel here will show you around. Welcome to the SGC."
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Yeah, I know that was a bit of a boring chapter, but I had to introduce people who haven't played Oni to some of the history. And yes, I know I changed the Van de Graaf pistol, but meh. Please review!