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 13
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Ha'tak

In the grand scheme of things he was not an important Goa'uld, he had never reached system lord status, acting only as a servant of Apothis before he was killed. With the death of Apothis he had gained a, he snorted sardonically, loyal following of Jaffa and his two ships and began planning for revenge on those who brought his master down. In this he was unique, most Goa'uld have little, if any loyalty to those they call master, but not this Goa'uld. His chance had finally come when he had discovered an abandoned mothership on the edge of what little space he controlled, it was damaged, mostly beyond repair, but its cargo, a trio of advanced Hyper drives were intact. Two went into his Ha'tak's; the third was being built into a new mothership he was constructing. With these new drives he felt he could catch earth totally by surprise, before any of their allies could intervene, and then leave.

"My Lord, we have arrived."

"My Lord" a dark skinned Jaffa said, his voice strangled with suppressed laughter, "We are picking up a number of unarmed craft; they are ballistic and powered down. They think they can hide from us!"

The Goa'uld snorted with contempt, unarmed they were no threat; he would deal with them later.

"My lord, the Tau'ri have built themselves a spacedock!"

He perked up, a spacedock, such facilities were always heavily defended with the best weapons and ships available, it might actually be a threat. He was interrupted in his thoughts by the Jaffa bursting into outright laughter, he glared at the Jaffa, such conduct was unbecoming the servant of a God such as he, but the Goa'uld noted, considering the crew of mutinous dogs, dregs and banished Jaffa he had as a crew, hardly surprising.

"My Lord" the Jaffa added, not bothering to even say My Lord with respect, "the spaceyard, it has no heavy weaponry, nothing that could challenge us!"

"These Tau'ri defeated the great Apothis!" he said, disbelief echoing through his voice.

The Jaffa spoke again, this time all laughter and disrespect was gone from his voice, "My Lord, we have a sensor contact you should see!"

He glared at the Jaffa as he turned to the sensor display, and mentally began cursing.

"Order the fighters to engage that facility, we will engage the Asgard!"

"Yes, My Lord"

Within minutes swarms of Udajeet fighters left the Ha'tak's, and moved with deadly grace towards Thundersdawn, the Ha'taks moving aggressively towards Earth, and the waiting Asgard vessel.

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