The SGC was silent as Major General George Hammond sat in his office, looking at the man across from him. This man looked like Theodoore Rosevelt but he wasn't the same man, in fact, this man was distantly related to the man himself. This was Theodore Rosebelt, the Magical liaison to the SGC, taking over from the last person that had this position. George Hammond looked at the man that was dressed in a dark redwood colored suit coat, a blue vest and pants the same color as his suit coat. In his lap was a short top hat the color of his suit coat, as the man looked at him with sharp silver eyes.
"General Hammond," Theodore said, "While my predecessor was a bit...overzealous in wanting Mr. Potter to return to Britain, as he was a part of the Death Eaters."
Hammond frowned, "Death Eaters?"
Theodore nodded, "Yes, some of Voldemort's followers, until we sent in a team to deal with the coward ourselves instead of the British magicals. They couldn't figure out how to get out of their own paper bags to get their tea, bigots. Still, I'm going to have to say that Mr. Potter is no longer a concern to the magical world."
"So my orders are not valid anymore, is that what you are saying?" Hammond asked.
"Very much so," Theodore nodded, "but I would say that if he does return-"
He was cut off when the room started to shake as alarms started sounding, as Hammond led them to the gate control room. The man at the computer was saying to be ready for the arrival, when it activated and Hammond went to the departure room. When he saw the four armored figures step through followed by the offworld gate team, the helmets came off and showed the face of Harry Potter and three women.
"Close the Iris!" Samuels ordered over his radio, causing everyone that was on the ramp to spin around as the iris closed behind them.
"What the hell's that, sir?" Jack said, confused.
"That's our insurance against any more surprises. It's pure titanium, hopefully impenetrable." Hammond said, as the iris opened up once more.
Harry Potter, from what Hammond could see, was clearly unamused at this. One look at Hammond told him all he needed to know, it seemed that Harry was giving him an accusatory look that said that if that iris had been closed, he could have killed the women.
"Take them," Samuels said from behind Hammond, pointing at the three.
That was a mistake as Harry's helmet reformed over his head and he used his staff to knock everyone back from the three, hard enough to send them into the wall. Several soldiers lifted their weapons but didn't fire, due to Rosebelt interfering. The soldiers were stock still as he walked into the room, glowering at Samuels.
"That is not how you handle guests here, Major Samuels," He said sharply, "especially when you were told that you had been removed from the project two hours ago."
Samuels looked like he was swallowing a lemon before he turned and left, as Theodore turned to the people on the ramp still.
"Hello, I'm Theodore Rosebelt, liaison from the magical side of things." He greeted them genuinely.
It wasn't until the next morning that brought everyone together at the meeting room table. Hammond was looking over everyone as they sat down, well, mostly everyone. Mr. Potter still wasn't joining them, oddly enough, he was busy running symbols through the dialing computer. Captain Carter had tried to pull him off of it but he had pushed her away and continued to type away at the computer, before complaining that this was way too slow. Hammond shook his head before addressing everyone after they gave their reports on what they saw happen. The gist of the report; they enemy came through, grabbed both Skaraa and his girlfriend, On'rhea.
One of the women, whose name was Isis, spoke up, "The survivors kept saying that Ra had returned...he did not return, Ra didn't like snakes in any form."
"He was the only one, right?" One of the airmen asked, before looking at everyone else, "I mean, he was playing God with them."
"Gods," Daniels coughed.
"What?" Hammond asked, not sure he heard Doctor Jackson correctly.
"Not as in "God" god. Ra played a god, the sun god. He borrowed the religion and culture of the ancient Egyptians he brought through the 'gate and then he used it to enslave them. You see, he wanted the people of Abydos to believe he was the only one." Daniel explained.
Hebe snorted, "There are way more of these "Gods" out there, known as System Lords. They have conquered a lot of the galaxy, with much more to take over."
Hammond sighed before stating, "People, let's not fool ourselves here. This thing is both vast and dangerous, and we are so far over our heads we can barely see daylight. We would all be much better off if the Stargate had been left in the ground."
Carter looked ready to say something before the room shook.
"Unscheduled offworld activation!" Came over the intercom as the sirens blared.
The gathered soldiers all stood up and looked out as the stargate activated, but the iris didn't close at all. Hammond moved as quickly as he could to the gate room as he saw Mr. Potter at the base of the ramp, ready to give orders when black armored figures stepped through the stargate. Followed two more with staffs and behind them was a beauty that defied words, followed by two more staff wielding black armored soldiers. She looked them over before smiling warmly.
"Who the hell is this, Mr. Potter?!" Hammond snapped, looking at the wizard.
"I can tell you easily, Sir," O'Neill said before looking the woman over, "This is the woman that helped us defeat Ra on Abydos. General Hammond, let me introduce Aphrodite and Venus."
Aphrodite looked over everyone before looking at her counterpart, feeling him sending her a message mentally. Seven symbols, but not really in any order and with the many combinations these seven could produce, it took Venus looking them over to figure it out.
"Chulak," Venus said to her counterpart, eyes flashing to signify she was in control, "Those symbols lead to only one location."
Harry nodded before looking at the others, guns aimed at her due to Venus being in control. Aphrodite took over, waved her hand, turning every gun in the immediate vicinity turned into a black kitten. This shocked every soldier while making those without weapons look at her with a great deal of respect now. Aphrodite smiled softly as she bowed slightly to General Hammond, her outfit similar to the one she wore before Ra but in the color of black.
"Greetings," She said formally, "General Hammond, I am Aphrodite and the one that spoke was my mother, Venus. Before anyone spouts anything about me being like Ra, I am a Prima'uld. A-"
"A Primordial Goddess," Daniel interrupted, "Something that came before the other Gods."
Aphrodite chuckled, "I'm guessing your wife, the former First Prime of Ra, Mi'ria, has been teaching you the Goa'uld language."
"She has been trying her best to do so," Daniel said in return before Aphrodite stepped off the ramp, her guard following.
"I don't care if you're some Deity of a forgotten religion," Hammond said, calm once more, "you are still a threat to the security of this base."
"If I truly was a threat," Aphrodite retorted, "I would have taken the Porta Astra, both of them, from this planet completely and invaded from space. I'm not like the other Goa'uld who are trying to reverse engineer the technology I grew up with, I'm old, General Hammond. The Goa'uld are children to me, if you knew about the Prima'uld a bit, you'd understand that the Goa'uld once saw us as their parents but now are their biggest threat."
Hammond frowned, clearly thinking before saying, "If I agree that you are not a threat, what will stop you from going back on that?"
"Simple," She said, "I wish to form an alliance with the Tau'ri, or in your language, Earth. But first, you must send a team to Chulak as quickly as possible. I fear that Miss Granger is still in grave danger with the one known as Apophis, for he is looking for hosts to give his mate, Amaunet."
Hammond looked at Jack, Sam, Matthew and Emma before looking back at Aphrodite. He was clearly stuck between a rock and a hard place but this one had big rewards.
"Very well, after this mission, I will let the president know of this alliance. Colonel O'Neill," He turned to Jack, "You will have your team be known as SG1, Kalwasky will lead the team known as SG2. These are the President's orders, I fully intend to complete them."
All the military in the room saluted as one, even though it looked awkward for the airmen and their guns-turned-kittens in one hand.
Hermione was relaxing on a makeshift pillow bed in her corner of the room when she was awoken by the sound of the massive metal doors opening. Getting up, Hermione rubbed the sleep out of her eyes as she saw that it was Teal'c and his guards. Behind them was another woman, whom they pushed towards the group trapped here. Then Teal'c looked around the room before focusing on her.
"Her," He pointed directly at Hermione, "You will come with us."
Two servants marched up to her, ready to grab her arms when Hermione kneed one in the groins and blasted the other one away from her into the far wall with a sickening crunch. Teal'c looked at her with both eyebrows raised, his guards aiming their Mo'tak staffs at her.
"I can come of my own volition," She snapped, glowering at Teal'c, "I will not be dragged before your God like some terrified damsel."
Internally, Hermione was not sure how long she could keep this facade up before the stoic man but Teal'c nodded.
"Very well, woman," He said before his guards walked up and fell in behind her, "Apophis will be interested in your powers as well."
"I bet he will be," She remarked, cursing herself for her bout of accidental magic.
She silently followed after the dark skinned man as the two other guards kept her boxed in as they marched her towards their God, Apophis. Hermione's mind went to the mythology of the Egyptians, Apophis was the Brother of Ra. The Serpent God, meaning that he had the Cobra as his sacred animal. That was until she saw that a bunch of the guards had the lower halves of snakes, which made her pause for a second too long and get shoved forward by the guard behind her.
"Keep moving, human." The guard snapped, a woman from the voice.
"Fine," Hermione said, "Just looking at the snake based guards that your God has around here."