AN: So this first scene is a little something that I had to write. I needed to add in that there was some time in which Daniel and Jonas transitioned each other in and out of the base at the beginning of season seven. I loved Jonas Quinn and I felt very disappointed when they just dropped his character like yesterday's moldy leftovers. He had so much potential and I genuinely smiled when he smiled because it was his "first time" doing something. Instead they dropped him and brought Daniel back, not that I am complaining because the show was still good. I do have one nitpick about Jonas and that was… gee did he ever recover from brain surgery fast.
"So you are sure you are going to be going back to Kelowna?" Daniel asked as he walked around his, no Jonas', no his lab following Jonas around as he packed up items that were exclusively his.
"Yes, we discussed this." Jonas turned to Daniel, "For the first time since you died I feel as if I am going to be welcomed home. There is much to do now that my planet is striving for peace."
"Well, I get that; I was just hoping you would stay a while longer, at least until your injury heals or more of my memory returns." Daniel protested having gotten used to the Kelownan's presence around the SGC.
"Fraiser has given me a clean bill of health and this new position needs me as soon as possible." Jonas replied, "Besides I have been quizzing you for the last few weeks now and I don't think you are going to have a problem remembering anything. Your memory is just fine; you just need to test it every now and then."
Daniel stopped at a large bound book, "I still need you around, for example what about this book that you recovered on…" he scratched his head as he attempted to remember the gate code for the planet.
"Corinthum," Jonas replied using the planet's name. "You can have at it, maybe your newfound ability to read ancient will prove beneficial, aside from references to the planets name here on Earth I can't find any equivalent to the language written in that book. Nor can I isolate their culture to any distinct earth culture. We met people who were very ethnically as well as culturally diverse on the planet."
"Do you at least know what the book describes?" Daniel asked as he flipped through pages of text.
"Apparently it is a book that describes how to operate the giant city ship located on their planet." Jonas shrugged.
Daniel closed the book and followed after Jonas again, "You mean the planet has a ship the size of a city?"
"No, it's only surviving city is a ship that brought their people to the planet about 9,000 years ago." Jonas informed Daniel.
"I think I am going to have to see this in person." Daniel said highly interested.
Jonas sighed with a hiss, "Not going to be able to happen for a while I'm afraid. They sealed their gate to protect them from anything that might harm their planet as they rebuild. Apparently they didn't even know their planet had one prior to us coming through the star gate."
"You do know that I hate you right?" Daniel cursed
"No, I don't think you do. You are just saying that because you are jealous of me." Jonas shook his head, "I will say that if you ever do get invited back to Corinthum, I will not turn down an invitation to go with you all."
"Why do you choose Corinthum over all of all the planets that you got to travel to?" Daniel asked.
Jonas whistled and avoided eye contact as he grabbed a few more things to stuff into his bag.
"You met someone there didn't you?" Daniel shook his head.
"Alright so I found a few of their people attractive, it isn't like I haven't read about all the girls who seduced you on different worlds." Jonas shook his head, "I just really admired their strength and perseverance. Corinthum provides a lot of parallels to many societies but without one key factor, their history is older than most and with no evident history with the Goa'uld."
"That is two key facts." Daniel accused.
"Alright so shoot me… wait don't shoot me. You have a briefing to get to and I need to finish packing. I will see you later in the gate room when I leave." Jonas announced
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Kim sat on a rock and looked at the night sky, "Do you ever miss Earth Trini?"
"I try not to think about it too much." Trini sighed as she watched the stars with Kim.
"I guess you are right… but the fact still remains, I miss my cat." Kim laughed
Trini rolled over, "what about Tommy?"
Kim chuckled even harder, "You really are out of the loop aren't you?"
"What do you mean; did you and Tommy break up?" Trini asked looking shocked
"Not in so many words. I guess you could say." Kim shrugged, "We did have our differences but they didn't drive us apart. I think we both decided that if we are to fight in this war then we should put a hold on our relationship."
"I don't think I understand, we were told to live our lives to the best of our ability and we could say no at any point." Trini asked shaking her head.
"I don't think it is that simple. I mean Tommy is very devoted to the mission; he has successfully mentored a team and I think we both felt that if we formed a relationship and something like this happened we wouldn't be able to say no. I mean what if we had children now and I was asked to come here and fight?" Kim asked her friend back, "I mean there is always that time after the war to have the happy life we always wanted."
Trini frowned, "Do you think there will be an end?"
It was Kim's turn to look shocked, "You don't mean that do you?"
"You haven't been out here very long Kim," Trini shook her head, "Some days there doesn't seem to be an end to the fighting and if we aren't fighting we are training as hard as we can to improve our skill. Besides what will I do after the war ends?"
"You could come back to Earth, I am sure Billy would love to see you again." Kim smiled as she punched her friend in the arm.
"You think that is wise? People think I am dead; apparently there is even a casket with a body in in?" Trini asked with a small smile.
"True, did you even know that I went to your funeral and I cried; I was such a sap." Kim laughed
"You didn't did you?" Trini became shocked, "Did you know?"
Kim shrugged, "I think we all had our suspicions what with Zach and Jason disappearing as well but if you mean were we informed of your true location then no we weren't. We felt it best to keep our knowledge of what was going on a secret so if we were compromised we couldn't give anything away to the authorities. I also know that individually we knew small details so that it was like a puzzle fitting the pieces together."
Jason and Zach came running over carrying something between the two of them
Trini jumped up, "Did you find it?"
"Right where the map said it would be!" Jason exclaimed proudly as he set the load down.
Kim scrambled over and eyed the box, "you two were digging around all this time for a treasure chest? That isn't ironic at all!"
"Kim you have much to learn hanging with the rest of us again." Zach laughed as he shook his head
Trini nodded, "It is our duty to search for the greatest treasure and to put all the pieces together about our powers."
Jason nodded, "Basically our powers were created long ago but they were determined to be too powerful for an ordinary ranger of the time to handle so everything was scattered across the universe and broken into smaller increments. However it was determined recently that these powers were now usable."
"You missed it, we had to bust into a Zangyack ship to steal our morphers." Zach said making a punching motion.
Trini rolled her eyes, "yes unfortunately that is why the Zangyack Empire is now attacking GSA planets and not huddling down inside Onyxian space."
"How did the darkness get their hands on our morphers?" Kim said picking up the morpher she had been given.
"I don't think it was intentional that they had the morphers or that they even knew what they had. I think the morphers had been buried and then Onyxian space has expanded and changed its borders over time so that they were sort of just swallowed up by the Zangyack." Jason shook his head
"So what is in the chest?" Kim asked eyeing the large chest again.
Trini grinned, "Our powers," she lit a lamp as Zach used a key on the lock.
The lock swung open to reveal a chest full of small figurines. Kim reached down to pick one up and examine it, "I know this ranger!"
Jason nodded, "all the powers in this box are a duplicate of every power that has ever been used to fight the darkness with."
Trini shrugged, "More like all the powers used to fight are duplicates of these powers. All the powers used were originally meant to be used by one team."
"But it was something like the morphing grid was too unpredictable and the powers were too wild." Zach took the figurine from Kim
"Apparently, the morphing grid is much tamer now that most of the powers have been used at least once." Jason said taking the figurine from Zach, "You said you knew this ranger?"
Kim nodded, "Yes that is PteraYellow, and she is one of Tommy's rangers. To most she is Kira Ford." Kim took the figurine back from Jason, "so what do we do with these?"
Trini took it from Kim and pressed a lever on the back. "These are the keys to our powers. You flip them up to reveal a key that will work in your morpher."
"So when do we start our campaign now that we have our powers?" Kim asked reaching for the key that represented her original power.
"We still have other pieces to look for. It isn't safe to use the morphers with just these keys. We really should find the five baseline keys that will give us our unique form." Zach shook his head as he explained.
"Those keys are not here?" Kim asked curiously
"No, they were separated so that the power wouldn't fall into the wrong hands. We also have to find our zords." Jason shrugged, "Don't think we haven't been out here all this time doing nothing though."
"I don't think that at all." Kim said with a frown, "When do you think Billy and Tommy will rejoin us?"
"I assume Billy will be called for soon. However hearsay is that Tommy won't be joining us out here. He has so many powers already and is a mentor to a team." Trini shrugged, "but right now there isn't a sixth ranger for our team anyways."
"I heard that there is a sixth power out there. But it was hidden away from the rest and the seeker of that power must search a different path on their own." Jason explained.
SG1RPM
Tenaya rubbed her fingers across the display screen of her reader and sighed at the reports that were now coming in. The GSA had made contact and the communication channels were opened once again. The news that came across didn't sound good to her but she didn't know the full impact as the reports were still vague. A representative would be coming before long to make the necessary changes and help her people resume their place within the alliance.
After the encounter with the team from Earth Tenaya had isolated herself in the memory core of what had been Venjix's palace. She had gotten eagle squadron to halt their demolition of the place just in time. Dillon had decided that it was too dangerous for her to be going out with him so she turned to looking for any and all information that might have been on file about the strange device known as the Star gate.
Part of her wished for her direct link to the computers but the other part of her was grateful that that had been one of the first things to go. She didn't know if a direct link would reenergize anything that may have been left behind of the virus. She was thankful for the new invention of the screen reader that allowed her to read everything with her fingers that came off of the computers.
Unplugging the data receiver which had been plugged in to receive the daily news stream she fumbled until she found the cord that would plug her reader back into the core computers. She had been at this for weeks now but so far she had found nothing about the star gate.
She heard footsteps coming down the corridor. "Tenaya do you need any help?"
Looking towards the voice, "No Gemma, I am good for right now."
"Scott asked me to come out and check on you. I think he is worried about you." Gemma whispered.
"That is a good one; Scott being worried about me." Tenaya laughed
"Are you still looking for references to the star gate?" Gemma asked
"There has to be something here. Venjix might not have known what it was but he must have known it was something." Tenaya muttered
Gemma placed a list of braille words in front of Tenaya, "I took the words and concepts of what the star gate does and translated it into other languages and then translated them back. Maybe some of the other meanings might reveal something."
"Thanks, I had searched a bunch of different words but I had run out of words to describe the object in our common language. Maybe the alternative meanings from other languages will have an effect." Tenaya took the list.
"I have to go; we are heading out to take out one of the last Venjix satellite towers." Gemma nodded as she ran back towards the entrance.
Tenaya searched the list for a new meaning before typing anything into the computer. Immediately the core began spitting back information to her. And she gasped as the information raced past her fingertips. Venjix had known what it was and he had been secretly trying to figure out how to use it against the entire GSA. Luckily for them Venjix had never gotten to star gate to work.
Copying the data she stuffed all of her equipment into a bag before feeling her way to the door following the path that she had had memorized from her time living in the palace. Once out in the fresh air she followed an exact pattern to get her back to Corinth. Dillon had been worried about her walking around in the wastelands however she had proven to him that she knew exactly how many paces it took to get her from the palace to Corinth.