Disclosure
by Chaoseternus

The Truth Is Out At Last, Are You Ready For It?

Note: One reference ahead some people may not like...

Chapter 3

Vengeance will be mine.

They could have avoided it, could have staved me off if only they had been honest enough to say what happened to my beautiful, innocent daughter, but no, they didn't.

They mentioned the Dauntless, they mentioned the war, they mentioned many many deaths, they mentioned how close they had brought the Earth to destruction but they did not mention my reason for being, and for that they will suffer my wrath.

I have to admit though, I did not expect them to react so quickly and in such a… ready manner once they knew what was going on. I expected the public reaction to be worse too, but it's strangely muted in some areas, as if some had seen the signs and were expecting this. Strange, I had known that some would say ‘told you so', some always do, but this many?

They have been preparing the population, they must have been otherwise, bad as the reactions have been, they would have been worse. For that… they must have been planning on revealing all on their terms at some point, the slam down they hit us with all those months ago merely because they weren't ready for it.

That might be a problem, if they did know they couldn't hide it forever and were prepping for the revelation then they have shown uncommon intelligence for Deniable Operations types, they might have to be watched more closely.

In the mean time, I must contact a few of my ‘allies', and have them do some research, maybe we can find something useful in their preparations, even if it is only leads to their allies outside the military. Maybe they can shake out another useful tool for me. Of course, they consider me their tool, consider me useful themselves and for now, I can live with that so long as they fulfil my needs.

But later, I will show them who is the master and who is the tool, and tools are made to be disposable after all.

Colonel Pierce was forced to admit that she had gone insane.

Of course, when you are a human from earth who never believed in Aliens as a child, scoffed at those who did who, years later, finds herself commanding a team going off world to fight aliens called Goa'uld who clamp onto the central nervous system and take control of human hosts and on your very first mission, end up as host to not just any Goa'uld but one whose power put any of the old System Lords to shame, well then maybe a little insanity was warranted.

Especially as her resident Goa'uld was more then a little certifiable himself, she had seen his dreams, knew what had been done to him by his captors of old, seen the damage the betrayal of the one whom he called ‘sister' had done to his fragile grasp on reality. Well, fragile might not be the best word, his grasp on reality was firm; it was just skewed, very skewed.

In truth, if he was human and on Earth, and sane psychiatrist would have him sectioned in a heart beat for his blatant paranoia, his often violent swings of mood and opinions. But then, unlike the bulk of the Goa'uld, Maktenos wasn't inherently evil, in fact she had a pretty good idea both he and Enerina were more Tok'ra then any other of that rebel band. After all, many of those that she knew were alive and in all honesty, her information was way out of date, were not Egeria's children, they were a mixture of Goa'uld's who had turned against the System Lords because they believed or because they saw no way to advance in those ranks and were willing to be decalred Rebel to pursue their own interests.

Maktenos and Enerina on the other hand, at least from what she could gather from Maktenos's memories, were Egeria's spawn, the children of the founder of the Tok'ra. A woman who must be spinning in her grave at what the Tok'ra had become.

Still, Maktenos had been known as a child of Egeria's and had suffered long and tortuous years because of it, being driven insane by his captors. Enerina on the other hand had also been Egeria's child but for whatever reason, this had been missed and in an insane world she had become insane to survive, becoming a Goa'uld in manner in order to survive. Both of them had clearly hsown that some spark of goodness still rested in their souls, Enerina had turned against the Goa'uld, against the System Lords and had allied herself with the Tau'ri and Maktenos was known for looking after those that were willing to call him Master. He would ensure they were fed, housed and protected and would not kill them without reason, as was the want of most Goa'uld.

Still, that didn't help her and her sanity. She had been trapped in the prison that was her own body for too long and Maktenos was wise to her now. He knew she could regain control if he was distracted and that she had tried to hide it, he knew she had sent a number of transmissions to the Tau'ri detailing his activities and whilst he would have loved to jump hosts to a more pliable form, he couldn't. He was damaged, nearly killed by Pierson during her teams escape from his ambush all those years ago and now, she would be host to him until the end of his existence whether she wanted to or not.

She could no longer take control, if only for a moment, she could no longer whisper words into Maktenos's ears and watch gleefully as unknowing of her manipulation, he did as he was told. All she could do was see, hear and feel and oh god did she wish she could do the free monkeys act but the very nature of her imprisonment prevented that.

And every day she was helpless, she could feel this dark blackness, this pit of all things evil and hateful, the burning centre that made normal humans do things that would make any Goa'uld sick rising up in her soul. She tried to hold it back, to hold onto what remained of her precious sanity but every day it crept a little further towards the light and everyday thoughts of duty, of her oath, of her family and of Queen and Country helped a little less.

It seemed just a matter of time before she snapped and she truly feared she would become worse then her enemy, the Goa'uld. Unfortunately, her only way out was bared to her, Maktenos had too much control over her body even in his permanently weakened state.

She wondered what he would do when he noticed how far the blackness, the murky tar filled pit had risen up in her soul, for he knew most of her past and he knew what most didn't, of the secret her family had kept hidden for centuries.

That there was Demon in their bloodline.

“"Greetings, this is Damon Tillsner of the Tau'ri Armed Forces Network making the first report that will go out to the folks back home. So, to you people on Earth, glad to have you with us.

Behind me, the other side of this barbed wire fence with its radiation and biohazard warning signs is a crater where once there was a mine..."

“"Within hours, hoarding began as news reached the American public, and garage forecourts filled, not just here but in Europe as well as the news broke. Its official, several Oil-providing nations had closed their borders, blocking all exports of crude oil in protest at the Western Domination of the Stargate and space, indeed, at what many in the Arab nations see a Evil Westerners bringing the Earth into an Interplanetary war.

Indeed, many refuse point blank to believe that the war was inevitable, that the very nature of the Goa'uld prevented peace with them..."

“"Once again, a building burns in Waco Texas as a raid by Law Enforcement officials, this time from Homeworld Security goes wrong. Three days ago, the cultists made a threat no sane person could ignore, they stated that they had Naqudah and a nuclear device and that if America didn't surrender to the True Gods within a week, then they would detonate an enhanced device.

This is not the first time a cult had made this threat, witness the seizure of the Empire State Building just ten days ago now but worryingly, this is the first time the meagre forces of Homeworld Security have responded and the first time an SG team has responded visibly to an incident occurring on this planet.

An unconfirmed source within the White House has suggested that an ‘energy signature which could potentially have been naquadah' was detected by an SGC controlled satellite..."

“'"Desertions at an all time high', that was the word from sources within the Ministry of Defence today as the public demands to know: Why aren't more military units assisting the Police in keeping the fragile peace?

Word just coming in, as yet unconfirmed reports of a riot in progress at an Army base in Cheford, where the 22 nd Regiment, the Cheshire's are based, we'll bring you more on that as it comes in..."

"“I have seen the signs, it is the Second Coming and He walks the stars once more, but the devils spawn; the Hammond and the Thompson, servants of the Morning Star are poisoning our souls against Him.

We must be strong, we must retake the Ring Of The Gods and we must go meet our God! Join us! And may the righteous arise in victory!”"

“"How close did we come to a second 9/11?

This 747 you see behind me had been seized by Religious Radicals, worshippers of the Sun God Ra who claimed that America must be punished for such heresy as to suggest their God was dead, we don't know which building they intended to hit and in truth, we will never know.

The plane landed just five hours ago with only a flight crew in SGC uniforms aboard, her original crew and passengers having vanished halfway through a broadcast by the militant radicals.

It is unknown what has happened to the Flight Crew, the passengers, indeed, even what happened to the cultists at this point in time”"

"“Desertions at an all time high yet recruitment reaching fever pitch as idealists and patriots stream to the recruiting centres to fight, not for their country but for their world. No clearer was this more evident then Washington DC where just yesterday the Military withdrew a regiment that had gone under strength after losing one hundred soldiers the last week, despite only 10 being injured.

Yet the streets of Washington are filled with people queuing to join the Air Force, hoping for a chance to join the Stargate Program, the hopefuls now guarded by the watchful eyes of the newly arrived Delta and Green Beret forces. It is perhaps noteworthy that despite their continued presence at the SGC, the queues outside the Marine, Army and Navy recruiting offices are almost non-existent.

We've spent a few minutes before going online asking why people were so eager to join up and the responses varied from keeping the homeland safe in the face of increased aggression across the globe, hoping to keep the Earth safe for their families, or even, for just a chance to get into space, or set foot on another world..."

“"Across the country they arrived, by bus train or air, flowing to this undisclosed desert location to be trained in fighting the Goa'uld. These are representatives from every regiment in the Alliance Nations, here to learn the face of their new enemy, and to pass that knowledge on to their units back home..."