AN: Decided to change rules, I am including Daniel. Don't do what I say, do what I do.
Chapter Two: Listen To Your Heart
Günter awoke with a suddenly start, springing up his body like a board as he looked around his room, sweat dripping from his chest and head. He sighed, still panting as he rubbed a hand through his hair. He sighed as he got up from his bed, looking out at the sea. It was at least oh three hundred hours, and he felt horrible. Something was wrong, and every time he closed his eyes, he saw a woman with blonde hair screaming.
Whatever it was, it wasn't good. But he was tired, and it was just bad dreams, he concluded. He got up from the bed completely and walked over to the balcony in his bedroom. He was only wearing his Camo pants, which showed off his muscles pretty well. He looked out to the sea, and to the sky, the night sky with the moon at its brightest part in the month, the night clouds gave him a sense of peace.
Suddenly, a small disturbance made him startled behind him as he immediately turned around, twisting his head so he could look behind him. Inside his room was a man, with a gun, a USP to be exact. He aimed it at Günter, to which the man laughed cynically before he fired two shots into Günter, causing him to collapse onto the floor...
And woke up in the main Recreation room, waking up from resting on Vanessa's shoulder, who was sitting next to O'Neill as they watched an action movie. He shook his head, to which Vanessa looked him in the eyes and smiled, Günter returning to his senses.
"Sorry, I just voken up." He said, getting the attention of Jack as he threw a glance but quickly went back to the movie. Jack saw personnel walking around, as if they knew something he didn't, to which he froze inside himself as he began to think.
What's happening? He thought to himself as he looked around, before one soldier, with a young face but grey hair, walked over to him.
"Sir, they found that man you were looking for." Said the man, the nametag on his BDU read 'LANCASTER'. O'Neill, who recognized him from earlier reports about the man, smiled.
"You found Jonas, Howard?" He said. Lancaster was caught off guard by Jack knowing his name. He then nodded, after two seconds of surprisment.
"Good, take us to him."
Jonas was not Jonas. At least, not anymore.
He was once Jonas, a small man who became a scientist who eventually saved the universe by helping SG1 defeat Anubis. He was once a man who had a secret crush on Samantha Carter, who was considered a hero by his own people. But, that was no longer the case anymore.
He was now something else entirely, and right now in the medical room, he seemed himself. But, everyone around him felt a powerful aura around him, something that spelt two things, power and corruption, of some kind.
It was two weeks since he disappeared, but after being stuck on that planet, his skin was not as tan as it used to be, and had a grayish tone to it, with eyes as blue as the ocean's deepest parts.
It was scary, Doctor McKay said, to talk to him. He had this sound that sent chills down his spine whenever he spoke of something. It freaked him out once, when he and Jonas had a 'friendly' chat about quantum mechanics to which McKay pissed him off, and suddenly he felt invisible pressure around his neck. He felt it leave soon, with Jonas looking innocent.
He left immediately, to which he told the rest of the crew on Atlantis. Hell, even Jack was scared shitless when he spoke to him. He never was scared, only once when Carter was about to die a few times before, but when he spoke to Jonas, he feared for himself. He felt powerless when Jonas spoke to him.
Jonas laughed when Jack told him he changed.
"Be that as it may, Jonathan, I have changed, but for my own good."
"Jonas, what the hell happened to you? You changed, and for the worse!"
"You know what changed me, Jack? Carter, and you should see her! You'd be surprised, soon..." Jonas stopped, looking down.
"What!" Jack yelled at Jonas, before he started to lift off into the air, slowly, before being a full foot in the air while the pressure around his neck choked him. A full five seconds later, it stopped, and he was let down to the ground.
"Leave. Now." Jonas said to Jack, pointing towards the door, and it opened. Jack took the hint, and left, scared out of his mind.
But this wasn't going to be the last chat he had with Jonas. Not by a long shot.
John awoke from his slumber, the night still in the sky as black clouds slowly moved across the sky, and felt a pleasant warmness next to his body, and knew it was Felicity. She was still asleep, and felt her in a sleeping embrace with him, and him the same as her head was rested against his chest, feeling her breathing on his chest hairs. Then, she awoke too, moving her head up, to meet his gaze.
"Hello John." She said, quietly kissing him before she broke off, fixing her hair before she laid her head back. She then got up and looked at him, with a seriousness that he had never seen her with.
"What's bothering you, John?" She asked, her tone changing to which he noticed immensely, and the fact that she was now covering herself up with the bed sheets. John decided to be truthful to her, and spoke with the absolute and undying truth.
"We have a man, Jonas Quinn, under custody. I knew him before we had him, and he was a wise and great man, had this aura around him that spoke of goodness and freedom...it's hard to explain..."
"No, I understand. Continue."
"Well, anyways, after two weeks away from a planet, he comes back...and he's not the same. His skin has a grayish tone to it, and his once brown eyes are now blue, and I mean deep blue. He speaks with this snake like hiss, and he hurt a few people already."
Felicity sat on the bed, wrapped in the bed sheets, in silence in what John guessed was deep meditation. Then, slowly, she got off the bed and dressed in those robes she arrived in. John did the same with his clothing. She had this look of complete sadness, and it looked like it was going to drive him crazy, he didn't want to see her hurt or this. John felt horrible, and then finally worked up the courage to ask what she was worried about when she was finishing dressing.
"It could be nothing, John. Or it could be everything."
John was the first to enter the room, and he had Felicity standing close to the door but she was not visible. Jonas looked up at him, and he gave him a smile that spoke of evil and horrible acts. It frighten John, but he stood firm as Jonas spoke.
"What can I help you with, Lieutenant Colonel John Sheppard?" He asked, in that hissing voice that frightens nearly anyone he knows. John gulped, but managed to speak.
"Not what I can do, what she can do." He said, and moved out of the way, so Felicity could enter. When she entered, John felt a huge spark of the good and the bad of both people, before Jonas flipped his hand out almost immediately to his left, the white cylinder flew into his hand from a desk a few feet away as he activated it, a prism of light springing out of it before Felicity even activated her longer cylinder.
When she did, two prisms on both sides activated, causing a double prism effect as he saw the blue light from hers mess with his eyes from the orange Jonas yielded. Suddenly, Jonas swung the orange light prism down onto Felicity, she barely blocking it with her cylinder before she tried to hit his side, Jonas blocking it with ease before they moved into the hallway.
They moved across the hallway, leading to the Stargate, attacking and blocking. Jonas, however, was attacking with much more finesse than Felicity was and he certainly was blocking better than that, and it scared John. One SG guard took his pistol and fired a shot at Jonas. The man moved with quick speed and blocked the bullet, hitting the man back in the stomach before he blocked Felicity move to his leg.
He then ran to the Stargate, raised his hand up quickly as the Stargate activated. He smiled as he then jumped through it, Felicity catching up to him before the Stargate deactivated. She stopped as she saw the blue warp disappear. She deactivated her lightsaber, and fell to her knees, before John was next to her.
"What..."
"Was he? He is a Sith, John. He's not the Jonas you once knew."
"A..."
"A Sith is a warrior who has embraced the dark side, who has then devoted his life to the cause of death and destruction. He is not a follower of a ideal, I felt the truth pride of the Sith within him. We need to get to the place he left. We need people to help."
John listened to her, not dropping his gaze at all. He looked over to the people working up in the Stargate telemetry consoles, before they gave him a thumbs up as Jack and Günter ran up to John and Felicity, they both shouldering weapons of their perspective.
"Did they find the address?"
"Yes, they're activating it now sir."
As if on cue, the Gate started up, and then the warp hole activated, before John and the small group ran into the blue field, and they disappeared from the Atlantis Stargate room.
"This is not the planet, John." Jack immediately said as they embarked out of the Stargate, John a little disoriented but okay nonetheless. Felicity, again, was on the ground puking her small snack onto the grass, before John knelt next to her and patted her back, hoping she'd stop. She did, before looking up and seeing Jack look at her.
"I...I had the Force change our course. We're on..."
"Whoa! You can change Stargate directions?"
"Yes. The Force can influence more than you think."
"The Force?"
Felicity gave them a
weird look, before she shrugged.
"There is not enough time to
discuss it, we need to move, else we'll get seen by the bigger
predators. Follow me." She ordered, before taking off into the
jungle at a light jog. Jack gave John a longing glare at him, before
he followed, not happy with her taking charge.
After two minutes of jogging, they came up to a busted up outpost, with men in strange armor and even stranger weapons patrolling the grounds. When she ran past them, they gave war whoops as they saw her, running down to a large command building. Jack and Günter stayed behind, while John tried to keep up with her.
"Sir, shouldn't ve try to stop him?" Günter asked him, watching the two figures disappear into a large building, to which Jack just stood there, while a man who wore the same armor as the rest of the man, except it was gold, walked up to Jack.
"Who are you?"
"Major General Jonathan O'Neill. This is Lieutenant Günter Shinstolz. And who are you?" He said, with a rather imposing command voice.
"I'm Bralor, Mandalorian Warrior who served in the Mandalorian Wars. Did you serve?" Asked the man, who sounded to Jack like he wanted to hear good stuff, so he went with what he got.
"Yeah. I did."
"What were you, Republic Fleet or Ground Forces?" Bralor asked Jack, with Jack giving him a devilish smile as he spoke again, Günter keeping a close eye on him.
"Special Operations. You?"
"I served with the Mandalorians, but I did serve in the Scouting Units." He replied. Jack felt a little more respect from the Mandalorian than he did in the first place, and because he told him he was Spec Ops, he apparently considered him more than an stranger and more than a simple man he knew.
Felicity strolled inside the man building, with John in tow as they appeared in this giant telemetry tracking station, with computer stations and a large wall map that was digital, and a man who wore stranger armor than the rest of the men he had seen so far. He turned his back, taking his helmet off and noticing Felicity.
"It's good to see you, Exile, and it has to be for a reason." He said, a rather sense of voice that imposed upon John as he quietly listened, while Felicity took a step forward, her gaze un-wavering.
"It would seem, Canderous, or else it might be for a reason you might puke." She replied, with a blank face returning to the man's own blank stare. Soon, Felicity's lips trembled with laughter as did Canderous, before they started to laugh and they embraced, like brother and sister.
"It's great to see you without the helmet, Canderous. Made me worry if you were an machine or not."
"Well, at least I'm not, or else you'd be wondering why me and HK didn't come to heads." He said, chuckling, letting go, before he glanced over at John.
"Who's the uptight soldier over there?" He spoke softly, his smile disappearing with a face of contempt.
"Lieutenant Colonel John Sheppard."
"The John Sheppard? Hmm. I thought he was a myth."
"Well, I guess he's not, but I have a reason for being here."
"Oh? The Exile having a reason to stick her nose in other people's retirement?" Canderous asked, a coy smile on his face before Felicity playfully punched him, but like a Mandalorian, causing him some pain in his arm.
"I need you and some men, I found out where the Sith base is."
"Oh? You did?"
"Yup, but it's wore than that."
"Really?"
"Yes. And if you follow me, I'll show you where on this planet the Temple is."
The temple's courtyard was huge, with rose bushes lined up in a perfect line, from different positions, forming into a fox if you viewed the main courtyard from the air. A small bench was positioned right in the middle, next to a small bean shaped lake that had fish jumping from it. And, there was two men sitting cross legged next to the lake, and they were more noticeable than anyone else.
On one side was a man dressed in black robes, with a small tint of purple on certain places like on the socket area of the shoulders and around the neck, and the face was scary. It was grey, and the skin slightly cracked in certain places, and the eyes were a dark hue of red, his orbs glaring into the night sky. He was formerly Daniel Jackson; he is now Darth Lacius, Marauder of Death.
The man in front of him was a man wearing grey robes, with black hinted into it but it was more non-noticeable that Daniel's was, and he was just different. His face was grayish, and he lacked the crack in his skin, but he did not lack in horror. To the contrary, he was more frightening than Daniel was, with his deep blue orbs of death and his stillness, along with his weird stare, which said you would either get a hug or a lightsaber into the gut. He was once Jonas Quinn, now Darth Akron, Speaker of the Infinite Darkness.
They were meditating, a quiet and peaceful meditation that would garner a glance from someone who was walking by, but otherwise if you knew the men, you would consider this normal, and continue to walk. Lord Vividus was one of those men, before he stopped and walked towards them. He smiled as they jumped up with lighting speed, activating their lightsabers before he even chuckled. Lacius had an ancient lightsaber, with the simple standard red lightsaber, while Akron had a shorter style for quicker use but less damage, and had an orange color to his.
"Lacius, Akron. It's good to see you." He said, with a coy smile upon his lips as he spoke with a slither of his tongue, a trademark of his Lordship.
"It's good to see you, mi' Lord." Lacius spoke, with a short bow, with Akron doing the same, but without speaking. Vividus then spoke again, but did not let anything stop him.
"You two, along with our newest recruits, passed the last test when you two took down that monster of a Rancor, without your lightsabers. That's what we're teaching, how to use your anger with others and fight others with that anger, that revenge. So, you and our newest Acolytes will be awarded and you will become full Sith, the true Sith. Now, you will prepare. We will be leaving this planet soon, the Exile has found our place and I trust that these...Earthlings you so call yourselves, will not be the last. We'll leave for the last staging area, before we continue to attack. G'day, you two." He said, with a coy smile as he did an about face and exited the area, leaving behind two very proud Sith.
"Well, Akron, I guess we passed." Lacius said, smiling. Akron looked at Lacius, and smiled.
"No, brother," Akron spoke, the hissing heard. "We all passed. And, if we can do this right, we'll have the Acolytes as our own apprentices, and I get to torture them as much as I want. Too bad, for Vividus I mean, he's smart but too soft..."
"What, you want more power?" Said a voice from the lake. This surprised the two men as they turned their heads, looking out towards the lake, which they saw a beautiful woman, floating on the lake as she floated forward, and her arms down but stretched out. She was beautiful, with short but not too short blonde hair and a beautiful silver robe with sparkling areas that were...'conveniently' located as so to speak.
But, her skin was pale, ghostly pale but to Lacius she was beautiful, and her light blue eyes were hues in the sunlight. Her eyes were too light for it to be natural, and it scared one person before, before he was shocked to death by Lacius from his fingertips. She was once Sam Carter; she is now Darth Arias, Instigator of Darkness.
"Well, Lacius, I see you look stunning today. And the same to you, Akron, but I can tell that you just wiped that dirt off your robe because I was floating down to you."
"As always, Arias. But I see that you are hitting on the first Apprentice a lot more because I'm here." Akron replied to her, his dark blue orbs glaring into her very light ones, but she did not return the glare, instead it was a coy face of amusement, before she looked at Lacius.
"You'll need help, there is suppose to be three Sith lords on the Council, and I intend to make there, with your help or not." She said, locking eyes with Lacius. Akron sighed as he walked away, towards his room in the commons area a very short walk away from there, before he turned around, and saw Lacius upon Arias; deeply kissing each other but it seemed more like frenzy.
He sighed louder, before continuing to walk on his set path, not minding the change of scenery for once.
