1: Dawn Of Thunder
Third Edition
Author: chaoseternus

When Earth is threatened, the USA and the UK join forces to protect our world…with help from an old friend.

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Chapter 8
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SGC

Hammond grabbed the nearest chair and sat down in it heavily, rubbing his forehead. He could feel another headache coming on; luckily he was used to SG-1's reports by now and had come prepared. He reached into a pocket and withdrew 2 tablets; the duty airman just looked at him sympathetically, and passed his cup over. Hammond nodded his thanks, and swallowed the tablets, washing them down with the airman's coffee.

"Let me get this straight." Hammond said, keying the radio on again "Since 1984, way before we opened the StarGate, the British have had classified proof that at least one race of aliens existed AND has been sharing technologies with a group of kids. Advanced technology at that, the sort of stuff all our 'allies' have refused to give us."

"Yes sir" the voice over the radio could be described 2 ways, very meek, and sounding like they wished they had some triple strength headache tablets handy. Hammond rubbed his forehead again, he could certainly sympathise.

"Even worse, they could have had these technologies and been in space along time ago, but a NID type operation scuppered that" Hammond's mind started screaming about NID and Ammunition to use the next time they came an knocking, "Not only that, but their visitor is generally seen as a glowing ball of light, with something of a superior attitude."

"Ah, yes sir."

"Ah… it gets better sir."

'Gets Better?' Hammond was, he had to admit, dreading this, how much worse could it get?

"Ah, well you remember those two motherships we blew up in orbit?"

By this time, whenever Carter spoke, the duty airman was wincing in sympathy, it looked to Hammond like a nervous twitch. He wondered if Doctor Frasier should be told…

"Well, their out of town friend was not fooled by the asteroids story sir"

Hammond shrugged that off, any alien, or human for that matter was unlikely to be fooled by the cover story.

"Which is when they decided to approach the British government, or rather Admiral Thompson, then Vice-Admiral, whom they believed could be trusted"

"Are you saying the British have all those technologies, their craft and spacedock because of us?"

"Ah, yes sir"

Hammond grabbed the airman's coffee again and reached into his pocket, he knew he had some more headache tablets in there somewhere…