Disclaimer: I don't own Danny Phantom, Stargate, or anything else I mention.
Author's Note: I looked over the original story and did not like where it was going. It was too much of a mess with everything planned.
Danny wears Zeref's outfit.
Chapter One: King of the Castle
(Space)
Danny looked down at the planet Earth. The beautiful blue gem floating in the black starry void. The people of this time were still trying to regain the knowledge they had before the fall of Rome. The Middle Ages had just ended, and the Renaissance was in progress. Now it was a time of discovery, philosophy, exploration, conquest, and slavery. It was very important to the history of Earth. People had discovered that the planet was round and that there were many valuable jewels and gold just waiting to be found and taken. For many it was an age of adventure and romance. For others, it was a dark time that would only lead to more pain.
The door's bell alerted him that there was someone outside his quarters requesting his attention. Danny used his powers on the screen next to it and watched as the screen changed revealing the Jaffa outside. The Jaffa are a slave race created from humans from this planet back when the Egyptians were ruled by pharaohs and worshiped the Goa'ulds. They were stronger and faster than baseline humans due to the immature Goa'uld they held in their stomach pouches. Another benefit given to them was a longer lifespan than humans with a slower aging rate. The odd thing about all this though was that due to the original Danny's memories he knew that Stargate SG-1 had just been a show and all these species belonged to it. Vlad had also been to space and there were no signs of aliens if you did not include the ghosts.
When he first landed on the planet Dinai he had wanted to try and elevate the Jaffa above being slaves, but Nirrti had challenged him on that request. She made him realize that the moment something like that happened the System lords would come to invade her kingdom and burn everything to the ground. He knew that they still had not gotten over the revolution on earth and she would not budge on the topic so he tried to find a way to give them a better life for both them and the human servants without setting Niirti or the others off.
"What do you want Kada?" Danny asked the Jaffa outside his door. His original body would never have been able to keep track of all the names and technology around him despite his extreme interest in it. For this body though it was as simple as remembering the names of Earth's days. It was times like this that he was grateful for this Lantean body. It had sure come in handy this past three centuries.
"My king we are ready. The others are waiting for you in the Tel'Tak." Kada said. Kada was the newest Jaffa tasked with guarding him and organizing the other Jaffa around him when not ordered otherwise. His version of a prime. His previous one Jitma died of old age. Nirrti's prime had stayed backed on their central world Dinai with Nirrti watching over the population of the kingdom.
"Good. Let us go." Danny said as his data pad flew into his hand, and he left the room. The Ha'tak is the pyramid like warship he and his army were moving in. It was going to be staying in space overlooking the planet with the goal of looking for the useful objects and desired people that the Earth held. Most were unknown to the Goa'uld since they only came around long after the Goa'uld were overthrown and banished from the planet. Nirrti would probably have a field day with everything that was on the planet's surface.
"My king you do not need to come with us. Tell us of your desire and I will tell the Jaffa to accomplish it." Kada said as they walked through the yellow painted walls. He was new to this job, but he wanted to do the best to serve his king and goddess.
In the beginning all of the walls of the Ha'tak had been yellow. It was like standing in a beehive. Danny eventually had each section of his fleet painted in different colors depending on the section to give him some variety. The living quarters were yellow, engine room were blue, and so on.
"I am going because I have plans for this planet. I need to make sure that everything goes well. I know that you Jaffa can probably take care of it, but I want to make sure that this is done correctly." Danny said as he turned to face Kada. "I am the chosen king of Nirrti. Do not worry."
"Very well my king." Kada said with a sigh.
He knew he could win if he played the Nirrti card. The Jaffa were long since trained to listen and obey without question. If Nirrti told them to march into a volcano and fight a lava monster they would do so without hesitation even if it cost them their lives. The Goa'uld had raised them to do so learning from their past mistakes about free will and servants not reliant on them.
"You are a good servant to worry for your king but calm down. The people of this world cannot hurt me." Danny said.
"That is true my king but our goddess would be devastated if anything happens to you." Kada said.
That was somewhat true. Nirrti was fond of him to the level of obsession. If she was not spending her time experimenting, she was spending time with him. Sometimes she tried to do both. This body was basically the goal Nirrti was striving for. The Hok'Tar a human body with advanced abilities. The Goa'uld were power hungry and obsessive so a host body with superpowers would be something they would salivate over. The problem Nirrti had been facing before they met was that all her experiments were deformed, or they would have a short lifespan due to her modifications.
There were graveyards filled with dozens of bodies in the Dinai kingdom that had been part of her experiments. The Jaffa had longed proved that human D.N.A. could be altered and manipulated but she was not having any success.
They arrived at the Tel'tak. It was a scout ship capable of holding twenty-seven people. Twenty-five passengers and two pilots. It was supposed to look like a pyramid at its base with an elongated nose. To Danny all it looked like was a toy shoe with extendable wings. Those wings would have been a feature for the cartoon commercials. The hangar door on the back of the ship opened up letting them see the other Jaffa sitting waiting for him to give the orders.
"My King." The twenty-three Jaffa said putting their hands to their chest to salute him. Danny nodded to each of them and took a seat opposite the Jaffa. They knew that they would either have to stand up or sit on one side of the benches because the other half was entirely for him when he was on a Tel'Tak.
"Let us go over the plan one more time just to make sure everyone understands." Danny said taking the data pad from Kada and turning it on to project the images on it for them to see.
The object of interest they were going after right now was the carriage transporting the Queen of Scotland Mary Stuart and her husband Francis Prince of France and King Consort of Scotland on their return from their honeymoon. They had known the route they would take coming back to Paris as he had been talking with Lola. Currently they were near the village of Le Povot. It was a quaint village given the name for the poppy flowers that surrounded it. The Jaffa were to incapacitate the guards while they took Francis hostage. It was a simple and easy task but still he wanted to make sure that nothing went wrong. In the case that it did he would use his powers to heal Mary and Francis. He needed the both of them whole and healthy for his plan.
"Does everybody understand their roles?" Danny asked the Jaffa.
"My king I do not understand." The Jaffa Raios asked. He was a young Jaffa with a bald head and black beard. He had the same purple eyes that showed he descended from the people on Dinai.
Danny was glad that the young Jaffa opened his mouth. It was better that everyone understood their roles and targets before they landed and began their mission. The ride to the surface would take about forty minutes which was more than enough time.
"What do you not understand?" Danny asked.
"I mean no disrespect. I am just wondering why go through all this trouble. Why not just attack this castle with the death gliders and execute the family living in it?" Raios asked.
Danny had no doubt that if he asked his soldiers to do it the way Raios asked they would eliminate his enemies to the last man. While their devotion to his goals were useful, he wanted to capture the castle in an easy way that left his most of the inhabitants alive. "Destruction is not one of my goals right now." He said. Both sets of king and Queen would be more useful alive. The Earth was truthfully already his, but he was not in the mood for having to rule it directly. He already had too many planets under his control for that to work. Keeping track of everything would be a nightmare. It was better to delegate the tasks to servants that served him loyally.
"The King does not want to replace the royal family." Kada said.
"I know that I could wipe these people out if given the choice. I want to give them the chance to see me and make the correct choice on their own." Danny said to the young Jaffa and the others listening in. It was always good to appear reasonable.
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(Earth, France 1558)
"Get out of the way!" A guard shouted at him from on a horse. There were nine others with him on horses surrounding the carriage carrying the Queen and Prince/King-Consort. There was another guard that was serving as the carriage driver. Their swords were sheathed at their sides but probably very sharp. The moment the guards stopped to shout at the man lying in the road in front of them was the moment that each one was shot down. The guard were hit with a blast of energy that would render them unconscious, but he had to use his powers to make sure that they landed safely. Falling off a horse at a bad angle while unconscious could maim them for life or kill them at worst.
There was no need to kill them yet. They could help him get into the castle.
"Great work men." Danny said jumping to his feet and shaking the dirt off of his clothes.
Ten Jaffa came out of the forest in their armor. One of the changes that Danny had made to the Jaffa life was giving them better armor. The old armor was just a cheap metallic alloy. It could withstand clashes with primitive weapons but a good strike from a staff weapon could take them down. Danny had given his Jaffa armor made from a trinium alloy. Trinium was an element that was normally useless and brittle but when refined could become a substance lighter than steel yet hundreds of times stronger. It could withstand about seven strikes from a staff weapon. The armor was a suit that covered the Jaffa everywhere except the head. This way if someone stole the armor, he and the Jaffa could recognize who did not belong. The symbol of Nirrti was on the armor's right arm.
"Let us go and say hello." Danny said walking up to the carriage. He could hear the whispers of Mary and Francis wondering what was going on. Francis was reassuring Mary that everything would be alright. It would be if they just agreed to what he wanted. He opened the carriage door catching the two of them off guard.
"I am sorry to tell the two of you, but your honeymoon has just hit a rocky road." Danny said with a smile.
Prince Francis charged at him having no weapons available and no plan or desire besides protecting his wife. Danny would admit that it was brave, but it was also stupid and reckless. Against anyone else he may have had the element of surprise but on him it was useless. Danny began to vibrate his molecules. Matching them with the frequency of air and it looked like Prince/King Francis passed right through him and fell to the ground landing in a painful crash. Danny heard him groan in pain. He would check later to make sure that the prince had not broken anything.
"What do you want?" Queen Mary asked cautious, but she was trapped, and they both knew it.
"I just want to talk. I promise that I will not hurt you." Danny said with a smile.
"What about my husband?" Queen Mary asked.
"I promise not to hurt him either. You are going to have to get him to stay calm though. He is the biggest threat to himself right now." Danny said. Prince/King Francis was the type to fight for what he believed was right even if the odds were against him. Danny knew that if he saw the slightest chance to escape with Queen Mary, he would take it.
"You should come with me. Me and my men have you and your husband surrounded. Your guards have been taken care of and will be of no help to you." Danny said.
"You killed them?" Mary asked horrified.
"No but they will be asleep until I need them awake. So please come with me." Danny said as he held his hand out for her to take. Queen Mary was feeling wary, but she took a deep breath and allowed him to bring her out of the carriage.
"Francis!" Queen Mary shouted once she saw his Jaffa carrying Francis tied up on a board.
"Do not worry. I promised no harm will come to either of you." Danny said and his men carried the two of them into the woods where they were stationed for the moment. Danny used his powers to bring the carriage and horses along with them. The guards were being lumped onto a hover tray to be carried to the site where the Tel'Tak was parked. He had two Jaffa watching the roads and making sure that no one disturbed them.
They needed time to talk.
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"It is such a beautiful night." Danny said looking at the stars in the night sky. The original had loved to stare at the night sky and that was something that carried over to him. No matter the planet or ship that he was on he loved just staring at the stars.
"Kind of hard to see that when we are your prisoners." Prince/King Francis said rubbing his hand. Danny had checked on it earlier and saw that it was sprained from the fall and so Danny fixed it before they let Prince/King Francis free from the board. Right now, they were sitting around a campfire. Their castle was only a few days ride away so to prevent his guest from trying to make a run for it he had the camp surrounded by his Jaffa. The armored men in suits were at each end of the camp. If they tried to make a run for it than the only thing, they would run in to would be his Jaffa. His Ha'Tak was also keeping an eye on the camp from their location.
"I prefer to think of this as a face-to-face discussion. I already promised your wife that I would not harm either of you and I try to keep my word." Danny said.
"What do you want?" Queen Mary asked.
"I have lots of wants and desire Queen Mary. I want wealth, I want adventure, I want love, I want to find what has yet to be discovered, I want to see what has been forgotten, but right now I just want to have a discussion with the two of you." Danny said.
"My father will not pay to kidnappers. He will send his soldiers to find out what has happened to us." Prince/King Francis said.
"You are Queen Catherine's favorite child and King Henry's heir. I am more than sure they are willing to talk to get you back." Danny said. He had many demands for King Henry of the house of Valois. They would probably try and fight him on it because they would see them as outrageous. That was why he had taken Queen Mary and Prince/King Francis hostage. There were also many other children of the House of Valois to take as hostages if Prince/King Francis was not enough. He would get what he wanted in the end. It only mattered how many he had to hurt to get it.
"Where are you from? Your hair and accent are very strange?" Queen Mary asked. His accent was not something she had heard from an Englishman before.
"I have not heard it before either or seen people like your men before either?" Prince/King Francis asked.
It was no surprise that Prince/King Francis found him odd. His body may have looked similar to a twenty-year-old man, but his white hair made him seem so much older. The mutation that this body went through when he had been sent to the ghost zone had turned what was originally red hair pure white. It was no longer spiky either but flat and long. He was sent there because of the war while all of his other people were either fleeing, dying, or ascending. His eyes were still an emerald green but when he got excited his irises turned into a glowing neon green. It was similar to the old one in some ways and different in others. His accent was still American, but that country would not officially exist for a few centuries if at all.
"I am from a land far far away. It is beyond these shores. It has large mountains and countless wild plains. It is not on any map. That is also where I got my army." Danny said.
"Army? I have seen fewer than forty men. My father can call upon over ten time this many. If you continue with this path the only end available to you is at the end of a rope. After my mother tortures you." Prince/King Francis said.
"I appreciate the worry but I have more than enough men to fight with if your father decides to go that way." Danny said. It would be easy to wipe them out from above with the Ha'Tak. It had many cannons on board just ready to be fired at a large group marching against him. They would never see it coming. One moment they were marching with the intent for battle and the next they would be caught in a barrage of explosions so hot that just being around them could turn them to ash.
"Anyway Queen Mary I have a question for you." Danny said taking a bite of the cooked chicken in front of them. The Jaffa had gone hunting for it before they captured the carriage and cooked it while he and the others were coming back. It was spiced with penla. A spice found back on Dinai. It was similar to a jalapeno. It gave off a blue sparkle like a sapphire.
"What is this?" Queen Mary asked looking at the chicken.
Danny was so tempted to ask if she never had chicken before but decided to answer her seriously.
"It is a spice from my lands. It is quite good." Danny said.
"You cannot believe we would trust the food given by our kidnapper?" Prince/King Francis asked holding his plate in his lap. He was really being ungrateful to him after he went to the trouble of healing his arm.
"I want the two of you alive. Poisoning the two of you would only make my plans harder." Danny said.
"What plans?" Queen Mary asked.
"We can go into the details later but how do you feel on making a deal with a devil?" Danny asked with a smirk on his face. Mary could be a very useful person for his goals. This six-teen year old girl was the Queen of Scotland, married to the future king of France, and held a claim to the English throne. That would be very helpful if used correctly.
"What kind of deal would this be?" Mary asked. Already the terms he used were making her wary.
"I want to help get rid of Queen Elizabeth of England for you." Danny said taking a sip of water from his canteen. He could see that Queen Mary was tempted. From Vlad's memories of the show Queen Mary had spent years hiding in a convent in France to prevent being assassinated by the English for her claim to the throne. She was descended from Margaret Tudor daughter of Henry VII and Elizabeth of York but due to the will of Henry VIII excluding the Stuarts from taking the throne it had passed to Henry's daughter Elizabeth. The two queens would spend the rest of their lives fighting for the land of England. In his original world and the show, it had led to Queen Mary's death.
Things did not have to end the same here.
"You do not have the men to promise such a thing." Queen Mary said.
"I have many men under me. I could go and capture her right now." Danny said. He could see a bit of hope in her eye. He knew that she wanted to end the long war between the Scottish and the English. They were constantly waiting and watching along the border waiting for the moment to attack. There had already been a few assassinations attempts on Queen Mary from Queen Elizabeth and her supporters. They were willing to poison an entire convent to try and get her.
"What would you get out of this?" Prince/King Francis asked causing Queen Mary to look back at him.
"Francis." Queen Mary said.
"Mary I know that it may seem great but this is too big a gift. Something like this will cost a lot later on and it may not be something that you would want to pay." Prince/King Francis said.
"He is not wrong Queen Mary. The payment for my help will be massive." Danny said as he stared at the two.
"You married Francis to help protect your people. You are a kind queen, but you do not have a bright future ahead of you. If you take this deal, I will make sure that you never have to fear England's wrath again." Danny said causing the fire in front of them to burn colder and turn blue. The two of them jumped back in fright and tried to move as far away from it as they could.
"I told you this could be compared to a deal with a devil. I can accomplish what I promised you Mary. Do not doubt that. All that remains is for you to shake my hand." Danny said as he stood, raised and parted the fire, and allowed his hand to stretch out and reach towards them.
"Mary do not do this. You can clearly see that this man is not normal. I do not know what hell this man walked out of but if you do this it can only end badly." Prince/King Francis said.
It was not like he was wrong. If Queen Mary knew what he was planning than she probably would not help him. Her personality on the show was one of strong morals and deep faith. She would not agree with what he had in mind for their countries.
"Can I think on it?" Queen Mary asked.
"Sure. Spend the night thinking it over. Just remember all the problems your family is having in Scotland. I should tell you that I have heard there have been talks of uprisings against your mother and brother." Danny said.
"What?" Queen Mary asked shocked. Mary was getting letters from her family but not even they knew of the true dissent raising up in their countrymen. Catholics and Protestants ready to start war with each other. People wanting to be ruled by a Scottish person in Scotland and not the land of France. A lot of Christian blood would be spilled.
"The tension is building up and eventually something is going to give. Like a battering ram smashing a castle gate. It is more than likely going to lead to a civil war where countless of your countrymen will die." Danny said and he could see that Queen Mary was growing more worried with each second.
"My men will lead you to your tent think on what I have told you. Do not try to run." Danny said waving his hand and causing the blue fire to turn into an ice statue of a crown. Danny picked it up before there eyes and tossed it to Mary.
"Remember I can help you get the throne of England Queen Mary." Danny said walking off into his own tent to sleep with a smile on his face. He wondered what her answer would be tomorrow. He frowned when he noticed a presence around him but saw no one in the tent.
"You really should quit spying on me." Danny said to the space around his room. The ascended liked to spy on him from time to time. Not to offer him ascendance but to try and lecture him over what he was doing and why he should stop. "I told the lot of you I have no intent to ascend so leave me alone." The presence remained for a bit before leaving for elsewhere. 'Now I can finally get some rest.'
Author's Note:
How the Goa'uld Empire works is that Ra has one massive empire around the galaxy. Each Gao'uld has a personal kingdom inside that empire, but all serve him.
Goa'uld hierarchy*
Supreme System Lord (Can own as many planets that support sentient life as they want)
System Lord (One hundred planets that support sentient life)
Mid-level Goa'uld (Ten planets that support sentient life.)
Minor level Goa'uld (Rule over one planet that support sentient life)
* There are loopholes to this.