The GÅTE WÅRS
1
Fall Down at My Feet
He looked up at the huge ring of some type of unknown metal, he could feel his twin sister standing somewhere behind him. Jaina? He called out with his mind to her.
Jacen?
I think it's a transport device
Should we tell mom and dad?
Just hold on a while, we'll tell them, just not yet
Well, hurry up; it's hard to hold on to… DUCK! Jacen looked back to see her and saw something hurdling towards him. The flying object was their means of returning home, now it was shrapnel, thanks to little Anakin, their younger brother.
Jacen got an idea when one of the objects Anakin had launched hit the small dais standing near the ring. The symbol that the flying… well, what-ever-it-was, had hit, had lit up red-orange with the impact. He stepped up to the dais and pressed seven other symbols, finally, on an idea he felt sure was wrong he hit the odd orange dome in the center of the dais. He heard strange mechanized noises before a jet of water shot out of the ring; before he knew it, Jacen was flying into what looked a pool of water standing in the ring. He realized that there were two other figures flying in alongside of him.
The next thing he knew, he was in a strange place laying on a ramp of some type of metal with Anakin at one side and Jaina on the other side. Sorry, I couldn't hold on that well when he lifted all three of us up and threw as at… that thing, Jaina said to him.
It's okay Jan-ney', that was the last conscious thought he had for a good while. As consciousness slipped through his fingers, Jacen saw a man who reminded him of his father and heard a muddle of voices as he sank into the darkness.
Jacen awoke to see a woman standing over him. "Where am I? Who are you?" he asked, calling out with his mind to find Jaina and Anakin, Jaina? Ani? Where are you? Can anyone hear me?
"I am Dr. Frasier. You are on a planet called Earth. What is your name?" She asked like a mother (to keep me from being scared Jacen thought to himself) and, if Jacen had known, there was a good reason, namely that she was a mother.
"I'm sorry, it was rude of me to demand such information like that," Jacen said, carefully making himself sound disoriented, "I- I'm just so thrown off by the…" Jacen realized he didn't know what it was, "What ever it was, before. Can you forgive me for my rudeness?"
"What?" Dr. Frasier was at a loss for words. " Lets… Lets just say it never happened, okay?" Jacen nodded. "I'm Dr. Frasier, who are you?" she tried again, much to Jacen's relief.
"My name is Jacen, Doctor," he answered. "May I be permitted to know… what this place is?"
"This? This is the infirmary; it's where people go when they're sick or if they need my help."
"Am I sick?" Jacen asked
"We don't think so, you just fainted where you got here; we just wanted to make sure you weren't hurt by your fall"
"Fall?"
"You flew out of the Stargate, we didn't know who you were, so we wanted to make sure you weren't hurt"
"The- The others who came with me, where are they?" Jacen tried to sit up and felt lightheaded, proving he was hurt, but not badly.
"The girl is in the bed next to you, but the younger boy had to be put into a special room because he was having…issues with us. Who are they?"
"They are my twin sister, Jaina, and my brother, Anakin. How are they?"
"Well, Jacen," Dr. Frasier said, intrigued by the name, "Anakin's in a room, he was sending everything flying around, one of our men is trying to get him to calm down but—"
"It won't work," Jacen said. "He doesn't calm down easily; it's hard even for mother and father to calm him down. Only one person has ever been known to calm him every time, our uncle"
"Well, Jaina is still unconscious; we don't know how she's doing"
"Oh"
"Jacen, I need to do a check-up on you, okay? I need to do it on everyone who comes through the Stargate"
"Sure," he suddenly remembered something, "Doctor?"
"Yes?"
"When we came through the- the Stargate (was that what you called it?) I heard someone say something. They sounded like my father when they said it, I think I would like to meet them, is that alright?"
"Of course, Jacen. What did they say?"
"They said, 'Don't shoot! For crin' out loud! They're only kids!' They were a lot like father, I felt safe. I had thought it was father, I don't know why—"
"How're our patients doing here, Doc?" a tall man with graying hair walked into the room, much to Doctor Frasier's annoyance (and Jacen's amusement) calling out to the doctor quite loudly.
"Colonel O'Neill," Doctor Frasier said, "One of them just woke up a little while ago, the older boy. He says his name is Jacen. He was asking for you colonel"
"Well, I'm here to serve," Colonel O'Neill said sarcastically.
"It's not nice to speak to people like that, Colonel O'Neill, it's rude," Jacen accused the tall man. "You are an adult after all, not a young child. You should show that rather than being rude"
"They seem to be well brought up Colonel, I suggest watching your manners around them," Doctor Frasier said to him.
"So, you're Jacen?" the Colonel asked.
"Yes. And if I am properly informed," Jacen said, "You are Colonel O'Neill?"
"Yes, yes I am. Please call me Jack, okay?"
"I will if it is what you prefer, Sire," Jacen said respectfully.
"Sire?"
"It's a respectful term for some one who obviously has more experience than oneself; it shows that you hold the person in high regard. Where I come from it is necessity to be polite, or you must the onus of extracting yourself from the complicated problem which ensues," Jacen replied.
"Onus?"
"It means responsibility,"
"Well…let's not dwell. Daniel is trying to calm down the other boy who came with you right now"
"Who, if I may inquire, is Daniel?"
"He's a friend of mine," was all the explanation Jack would give, but he was being distracted by the doctor giggling as she did the examination on Jacen.
"Jack?" a new voice was heard as a young man came into the room with a very calm and happy Anakin bouncing along at his side. "He says his name is Anakin, Anakin—"
The young man was interrupted by the Colonel (Jack?) "Well, Jacen, this is Daniel"
"You are a terrible listener! Not only do you interrupt him like that, but you refuse to listen to wisdom. Obviously I was in the wrong to call you sire because you have no capacity for learning. You are rude and you have no respect. If one as young as I can see this, it is obvious that you are not one who cares of how people think of you, choosing instead to disgrace yourself by your indecorousness! You are not worthy of any respect," Jacen reprimanded Jack.
"It looks like you should listen to our guest, Jack, maybe you could learn some tact," Daniel said, and before Jacen could reprimand him, Jaina started to wake up in the next bed. At that moment a bald man who was obviously in charge (in fact he had called something over the loudspeakers just before Jacen lost consciousness) walked into the room.
"Colonel O'Neill! Give the kids some room to breathe! Dr. Jackson! You can tell me what you found out in my office, later," he said and the other two left sulking, only to stand outside the room watching.
"Thank you, Sire," Jaina said, her first words yet.
"I am General Hammond. Who are you?"
"Sire, it would be much nicer for you to say 'May I request to know your name?' or something along those lines. My name is Jacen; my sister, Jaina who sits here beside me, and I were flung through the devise, which you have nominated the Stargate, by our younger brother, whose name is Anakin, while we were looking at it on a planet where we were spending some time with our parents," Jacen began with the air of a practiced story-teller and he did not seem to have memorized this story, "We found, as we looked at this devise, recently uncovered by the natives, large objects, including our mode of transport for returning home, were being hurtled through the air at us. In a sudden flash of inspiration I tapped on eight of the strange symbols found on the nearby dais and a flying object hit the dome in the center, going through the place where, just a moment before, I had stood, a jet of what looked like water shot out of the circle and Anakin, in an attempt to save our lives, threw us all through the ring using his telekinesis to do so. By that point he was in quite a state and was barely able to protect us from the protective shield that you have over your Stargate. I am most disgraced by our intrusion, please except my humble apologies, Sire," Jacen said, Jacen told only partial truths to keep from incriminating his younger brother.
"It's okay, son," boomed the man, Hammond? "I'm amazed that your brother was able to keep the Iris from closing, no one has ever been able to do so before"
Jaina looked around, "The last thing I remember is that someone yelled out, 'for crin' out loud!' that's I heard. Where am I? Oh! I mean, Sire, if it is permitted, may I please know where I am? I am rather disgruntled from the experience," she too used excessive politeness, so much so that their father would have gotten very frustrated over.
"I am the one known as Anakin, I did not realize what the shield was for in my desperation and I was very worried about my sister and brother, I did not mean to cause such a disturbance" I acted on anger and fear, can you forgive me?
Of course, Ani, you're our brother. Just don't tell Uncle Luke!
I won't, Anakin laughed to them.
"I am sure that Doctor Frasier will want to see how my sister and brother are doing now that they are in a state to be checked up on, Sire. I am sorry to stop you, but she is growing rather impatient outside, and it is rude to keep people waiting. I am sure she would not mind sending people to take us to you after she is done with her examinations and I know that I will be glad to go, but I will stay here so that Jaina and Anakin know where I am, Sire"
"Of course" Hammond said, understanding perfectly.
Jacen, where are we? What's going on?
We are on a planet called Earth. We came flying out of the top of the ring and blacked out.
The one called Daniel can... Anakin started.
Can what Ani?
He can… I can't explain, here. DANIEL! Anakin's voice rang through their heads.
Anakin? Daniel's voice came bubbling into their heads.
Oh.
I'm sorry Daniel; I need to ask you some thing.
What?
Have you ever heard of my uncle?
Who?
Never mind.
Anakin?
Yes?
Where is your name from?
I am named after my grandfather.
I have to go now, Anakin
Bye!
"Daniel has it," Anakin whispered to the twins.
"Okay, but—" Jacen said.
"What now?" Jaina finished.
In General Hammond's office there were five people thinking the same thing. "Sir, if they really are who Daniel thinks they are, do we really want to treat them like that?" a young woman asked, the three kids would not have remembered her; she had been the one to carry the unconscious Jacen to the infirmary.
"Major Carter, until we learn other wise they are to be considered a threat—"
"Oawh, General, you can't do that!"
"Who says I can't Colonel? Need I remind you that I am in charge of this facility? The boy, Anakin, has telekinesis, if this is true, do realize what this could mean?" Hammond boomed out at the insolent Colonel.
"I am in agreement with Doctor Jackson," a tall man said, he had dark skin and a gold emblem on his forehead.
"Thank you, Teal'c," Daniel said somewhat vaguely, "Earlier the boy, Anakin, told me his full name, it's—" Daniel was interrupted by an airman.
"Sir, the children are here"
"Show them in," Hammond said.
"Let Daniel finish what he was saying," Anakin said, standing behind the General. He had just showed up there, to everyone but Daniel's surprise.
"Thank you Anakin. Now, you're here so why don't you tell the General
your name, please"
Sure Daniel, "I am Anakin Solo," he said, the tall man, Teal'c, gasped, "I am the son of Han and Leia Solo, heroes of the Rebellion, the Galactic Civil War"
Teal'c raised an eyebrow, "The war against the Empire?"
"Of course, Sire," Anakin said inclining his head out of respect. "Sires and kind Lady (I know not your name yet), my mother and father will soon look for us. Jacen, Jaina, and I must return as soon as we can, please help us."
"I know you are not inclined to help us, General Hammond," Jacen said, "but we must return, Uncle Luke is expecting us at the academy, we must go there. You can send a group with us to make sure we are not lying to you, but we would not lie to you"
"Please General," Jaina spoke for the first time in the conversation, "Please, we must go home! Please help us!"
"I will consider it. Do you know the address of the Stargate there?"
"No, Sire, we don't, we did not know what it was for," Anakin said.
"For now we are not able to send you home, I am sorry"
"We understand, Sire, you can't send us back because you don't know where we're from," Jacen said. General Hammond nodded his head and the airman escorted the three Solos back to the infirmary as the General, Daniel, the Colonel, Teal'c and the Major talked about what the address might be. The Major thought they might be able to come up with a few Stargate addresses from outside of our galaxy and the General sent her to work on that immediately. Meanwhile, Daniel decided to try to learn as much as possible about the three kids.