Chapter Two

June 1 1999

Xander learns a few things about himself

Somewhere east of L.A. 50 miles past Mojave, out in the middle of nowhere, Methos' device reenters the atmosphere and slams into the engine of Xander's stalled car, totaling the car and knocking Xander unconscious, his hand laying on the surprisingly cool crystal egg. The egg flashes three times then liquefies and enters the pores of Xander's hand and spread thru his body and starts making changes. 30 minutes latter a helicopter from China lake NAS picks up Xander and takes him to the nearest military hospital where Dr Janet Fraiser and SG1 are waiting to check him out.

Xander finds himself in a white room.

"Ah hello?"

"Hello Ares."

Xander whirled around to see a woman in white standing behind him. She was about 5 foot 2, petite with reddish brown hair and had a good tan, what surprised him was the fact that she looked like an older version of Buffy. He felt that he should know her.

"Sorry lady the names Xander and where am I."

"You are on the psychic plane, a place where minds can meet and yes you use the name Xander now but you were once Ares the Goa'uld worshiped by the Greeks, Romans and is stilled worshiped by the people from the Colonies of Kobol."

"You're crazy I'm the zeppo the normal guy, just ask my friends."

"You were never normal Xander, you are Ares." And she put her hand on his head and said "REMEMBER".

Xander felt pain flash thru his mind as he started to remember his past all of it. He relived his life, starting as a Goa'uld larval swimming in the lakes and streams on the Goa'uld home world and taking his first host a Unas, of the centuries of moving up the ranks in the Goa'uld society. He remembered when Ra found Earth and the humans were easier to control and heal and the fact that they looked better helped. He saw in his mind of taking the humans and spreading them among the stars, he remembered the realization of what they were becoming and how he and his Friend Zeus gathered some friends together and helped Queen Egeria create the Tok'Ra to fight Ra and to free the Humans from their slavery to the Goa'uld and he remembered the flight from the Earth when Ra found out and in the process making Ra believe that they were the renegades allowing Egeria to go unnoticed. They left ten years before Ra left Earth. He remembered making peace with his human host an Alterian by the name of Cain, a lab assistant to Methos, who was the one that created the Kindred and arriving on the Planet that they would call Kobol and how they set up their followers into 13 nations (tribes) and tried to forget there past and how he wound up as the 13th lord and how after nearly 200 years he was looking forward to retiring and because they didn't have a sarcophagus with them when they left earth and something in the environment of Kobol made it hard for the others to leave one's host and move into another.

He remembered the day when everything changed and he started down the road to being an outcast on Kobol. His first human host Cain had been a bit of a genius and because he had used Hermes the 3rd Lord as his front man for his inventions everybody thought Hermes was the genius, at first Ares liked it that way because if something went wrong Hermes got the blame. The day things started to change was the day he decided to go for a ride on his favorite horse, the tech level at the time on Kobol was round the same level as on Earth at that time, that is except in the citadels of the Lords their they had kept what technology that they could, (they had destroyed their ships when they landed on Kobol after destroying the stargates in a 2000 light year radius on Kobol). While he was riding the horse thru his lands, a feral child had ran into his horse causing the horse to buck and throw him off and breaking his neck, in a frantic bid for life he had some how left Cain's dieing body and entered the child's body. Now things got strange, Xander never really remembered the time between hitting the ground and waking up in the child's body or how he brought Cain's mind with him and to find out that the child was autistic, when he tried to fix the child's brain he, Cain and the child's mind became one, that's when he discovered the serum they called Prolong, the child had been eating the flowers from three very rare plants that only grow in his territory, the plants when mixed together in the right proportions enhances the immune system and speeds up the healing factor in a human body, this is how the ten year old child had lasted so long in the wild, the main side effect of the serum was the fact that it caused regeneration of the body tissues, repairing the damage to the brain caused by extended use of the sarcophagus, and it rejuvenated the body to a physical age of 25. What pissed the other lords off about the serum was the fact that the serum flushed out the Naquadah in their systems making quite a few of their technologies to stop working for them of course they found this out after their first dose. With the loss of their "powers" they had to rediscover technology again from scratch.

The next 3000 years were filled with both pleasure and pain as he helped in a lot of ways in getting them back into space by developing the magogravic tech needed for artificial gravity and the ion engines and the space fold drive and the fact that the other Lords never really forgave him for taking away their tech in the first place, and in the possess destroyed the environment of the planet. He remembered the day that he and his people were exiled from Kobol as the scape goats for the mess that Kobol had become. Scout ships from Kobol had found a double binary star system 650 light years from Kobol with twelve habitable planets in it and the other twelve lords had each claimed a planet to colonize so they had put the blame for their current mess on the 13th tribe and put it to a vote and the people Kobol had exiled the 13th tribe as the other lords had wished, so they didn't have to share. So Ares had gathered up 30 ships and took 15,000 of his people and headed to Earth, 50 years latter he made it with one ship and 50 survivors.

The woman in white showed how ten years after Ares left Kobol, it suffered a massive ecological collapse, the ocean currents stopped flowing and with in 6 weeks the green house temperatures drop down 150 degrees causing a ice age to happen over night, with in three months there were glaciers growing on the high mountains on the equator of Kobol. The people that didn't die from exposure and the food riots headed to the colonies in what ever would take them, by the time Ares got to earth there wasn't a living person on Kobol and the only ice free spots on Kobol was a thin area around the equator. She also showed how the massive in flux of refugees had caused the infrastructure of the colonies to collapse and how it took them 1500 years to get back into space and how it was 300 years after the collapse before their history books became reliable and by then the Lords of Kobol had all died of old age, they couldn't leave their host bodies by then and with out prolong they died. He also saw how the colonies had got back into space and their discoveries of Tylium (a form of liquid Naquadah) (Found around the earth year 1793) and how it brought a new space age to the people of the Colonies and how around the late 1940's Earth time a Goa'uld by the name of Iblis had crashed on Caprica and how he creates Hephaestion Industries and using the knowledge that he stole from Anubis and manufactures AI package known as the CLT-12 unit, an organic based CPU made from cloned human brain tissue that only certified technicians from Hephaestion Industries were allowed to work on, they were Cylons as well, that make the Robots that will be called Cylons possible, Iblis planed to use the Cylons as his Jaffa. It was Iblis who started the war to take over the colonies and when they lost went with the Cylons as their God.

"Why are you showing this to me?" asked Xander

"One Day you will meet the people from the Colonies and with my Children save them from the Cylons for they will return to the Colonies."

Xander started to remember again, how he and the survivors crash landed off the west coast of Ireland and how he went by the name of Danaan and his people came to be known as the Tuatha de Danaan and wound up helping the people of Ireland fight the Romans and who over the next 2000 years he had been many different people, he was Goa'uld enough at heart to have brought a stash of Prolong with him when he came to Earth, during the 1000's he went by the name of Arthur Pendragon and with his friend and mentor the Alterian known as Merlin made a name for themselves. He spent the year of 1783 hanging out with his immortal friends Connor Macleod and Kastagir and sees Connor's famous drunken duel on Boston Common against a man named Basset after calling his wife a bloated warthog, Kastagir was posing as an middle east Prince. In 1864 He was married to Mary and was going by the name of Angus Jones and had a son by the name of Henry who became Professor of medieval history. Prolong prevents the passing on of the genetic memory of the parent to the child in Goa'ulds. In 1899 Ares Grandson Henry "Indiana" Jones Jr. is born, in 1924 Indiana dies in an car wreck in Chicago, from 1890 until 1924 Xander went by the name of Gabriel Van Helsing and works for the Catholic Church as a hunter, in 1924 Ares drinks the last vial of prolong and takes the Identity of his dead Grandson Indiana. Xander relives his adventures as Dr. Jones and how in 1980 he had interrupted a ceremony that a bunch of neo Nazis were doing to bring Hitler back in Sunnydale and how in retaliation they had got Mayor Wilkins to do a spell on him that rejuvenated him to a baby and wiped his memory after which the Mayor arranged for him to be adopted by the Harris's.

Xander stood their for a moment and them started to do his Scooby dance, singing, " I'm adopted, I'm adopted, oh thank God I'm adopted" them he really looked at the lady in white, "I remember you, you were the mother and watcher of the slayer that took out Seth's Jaffa in Greece, he killed you both," and then it clicked in Xander's mind' OH, MY, GOD, that slayer was Buffy, your Buffy's mom, but that make her 10,000 years old, how?"

"She is like your friend Connor." And then she showed Xander the history of the Immortals since they came about and how in retaliation Seth had created the game to keep the immortals busy and in time kill them all. Xander also learned the history of the werewolves and the other vamps, and then she disappeared and Xander woke up looking into the eyes of Buffy's younger sister Janet.

"Oh God you wouldn't believe the dream I just had."