Dana walked up the dark path to Justin's house. It was risky meeting like this but all the rangers knew that they had to risk it all to have this meeting. Justin had the most secure house since Billy had been called away and Tori apparently had Blake watching from a tree.
Inside the garage all members of the undercover rangers from the SGC were gathering to talk about the new risks that were coming up in relation to their jobs at the SGC. Dana found that she was one of the last to show up.
Taylor was pacing the length of the room, "We are taking a huge risk meeting like this!"
Aisha nodded her head, "I know you are and you don't have to remind me that I don't know everything that you deal with on a daily basis."
Tori shook her head, "So what if the SGC has found a gene that allows the activation of ancient devices?"
Justin shook his head, "We may not know everything and we know that very well. However there is the fact that the Ancient devices have a connection with our modern day ranger powers."
Eric was tapping his wrist, "So theoretically we could also operate those ancient devices that Colonel O'Neil sets off?"
Tori shook her head, "Did Eric just say theoretically?"
Eric shot Tori a look which caused Tori to smirk.
Taylor grimaced, "No theoretically about it Tori, if we are rangers then we have this ancient gene. If we get tested any of us who are stationed inside the SGC will be on their radar and if we are on the radar we will have a much high risk of being linked together, much less risk revealing what is planned for Jon."
Dana nodded, "Jon is handing his transition quite well. We don't want to lead them to him before he is ready."
Tori nodded her head, "I was up at the academy last month and I hardly could tell him apart for the other students."
"There is something I can do, it will be risky and I could lose my license and or be exposed as knowing all of you. I will take all of you on my case load and before sending your blood samples out I will switch yours out with people we know who don't the gene." Dana replied knowing full well what she would be doing to her career.
SG1 PR
Jon wandered around the sacred training grounds. It was summer time and he had been at Thunder Bay for over a semester. While most of his floor mates had gone home he had chosen to stay.
Jon was confused he had been shown the training grounds but unlike others who knew he had not been sorted into a training style. Hunter had told him that this was because he was still too novice. That didn't settle right with him because he had recently been able to best Josh in every round. And to think he wasn't even using his military experience.
Hunter's voice rang out from an undetermined open window of the temple at the center of the grounds, "He isn't ready!"
Another voice followed, "Sources tell us he knows the secret and that he is a formidable fighter."
Hunter continued and it became clear to Jon that they were talking about him, "I am not even going to address the fact that Galactic Prime has a spy here at my school but I think he still needs more time Sam. His skill is still unrefined."
Jon knew truthfully where he wasn't sorted that he shouldn't be here but he was taking this opportunity of reduced staff and students to sneak around.
The voice that was now identified as Sam replied, "We are at war and we don't have forever plus to serve the purpose that people are interested in training him for, having a ninja refined skill would be a mark against him."
Yes however a year ago we didn't know he existed, I think we can wait a few more months." Hunter replied strongly.
Jon found the exact window and realized that this was where Hunter's official office was located. Hunter had shown him on his first walk through the reason why the headmaster of Thunder Bay didn't spend much time in the headmaster's office. He also knew that Hunter lived here in this building.
He was there a few minutes when a hand clamped down on his shoulder. Glancing behind him he realized that it was Blake who had found him again. Expecting to be reprimanded he turned and started to bow.
Blake shook his head, placed a finger in front of his mouth and pointed towards the exit.
Once in the sea caves Blake turned to Jon, "It is true that you weren't supposed to be there or hear that but the fact is is that you heard it. I won't even try to hide that from you."
Jon nodded, "So I was right about the fact that they were talking about me?"
Blake nodded, "Yes they were."
"It was something about sending me away." Jon asked again.
Blake pointed to the Jetty above the caves, "Let's go sit up there and talk."
They sat where the waves broke around them as the tide came in. Soon the cave that they had come through would be sealed and the one higher up would be open for a few hours.
"Jon you know that we know about your past right?" Blake asked matter of factly.
Jon nodded, "Yes it was quite surprising but at the same time I suspected that my coming to this school wasn't by chance."
Blake nodded, "yes and you know that Dana and Carter and connected to Hunter and I through the…"
Jon interrupted, "The GSA, I remember I was investigating the GSA before I was actually created."
Blake smirked, "And the Asguard acknowledged that you were special."
Jon held up his hand, "Whoa now! How do you know the Asguard?"
"Well not directly but after ebing alerted to Jacks ability to handle GSA equipment with proficiency the Asguard got in touch with higher authorities so that we would know what was going on. They acknowledged that you had been illegially cloned due to the special gene," Blake nodded, "But that the gene wasn't exactly what they wanted it was however something that might have been of interest to the GSA. Jack however were a sceptic so people decided to bring you here to our school where you could be gradually exposed to the GSA and have your eyes opened."
Jon became frustrated, "So you have been using me? I was right when I said the ancients played the same game and the Goa'uld!"
"I don't know anything about those you call ancients but I do know that no one would use you in any other way than you would want to be used. You are special and we know you miss it out there, we are just supposed to show you another path. You are and have always been in control of what is happening, you decided to come here on your own didn't you?" Blake said this as he gestured to the sky.
"Yes I guess I did choose to come here and I chose to sneak into the training ground however I have also been herded in certain directions as well." Jon frowned
"Are you sure herding is the right term, Because if you want someone to find you, you give them directions and then they interpret those directions. As I see it people have been giving you directions and you have interpreted what people want from you choosing whether you want to continue every step of the way or not." Blake sighed
Hunter found them a short time later and Jon instantly stood up and bowed to Hunter, "Blake explained to me what is going on and while I am not sure about what is going on I will follow through."
Hunter glanced at his brother and then back to Jon, "I thought I heard your footsteps outside my window. If you want to go then you should pack your bags."
Hunter turned and followed Jon, "You don't have to go. You can stay through the summer. I believe I still have much to teach you."
"Blake told me that I was never meant to be a ninja like you, I have a future with the GSA and if I go I will be able to learn more about the path that has been set out for me. Am I right?" Jon asked looking up to the young head sensei.
Hunter nodded, "Yes there is a path set out for you and you have much to learn."
"Then it is time I go then." Jon sighed, how do I leave?"
Hunter put his arm around the teen, "Sam has a ship waiting back in the training grounds, You will go with him to Galactic Prime which is the home of SPD where you will receive training to continue to your path.
SG1PR
Trini sighed as she looked around, the pieces were all falling together. They had their morphers, their team and all their powers. Now they also had a ship.
Why they hadn't had a ship before now was beyond her but evidently in order to pilot the ship you needed an active morpher unlike the Astro rangers mega ship.
Zach and Kim came running down the stairs from the observation deck, "Trini you have to check out the deck, it is shielded so that we can be up there even while in space and feel like we are outside even if we are morphed." Kim exclaimed while bouncing up and down.
Zach smiled, "I am really digging the pirate theme we have going on around here. Nothing has been wasted on us."
Billy came up from the bunks which were located below the main room of the ship, "Kim might not be so chipper once the reality of our sleeping arrangement sinks in. However the lab is quite prodigious. Where is Jason?"
Trini pointed to a sealed door, "He is getting a lesson on how to fly this ship from one of the Edenoi builders."
Kim came racing back up the stairs having to get a glimpse of her new living arrangements, "There are six beds all in one area of the ship, and we have absolutely no privacy down there!"
Zach looked to the door, "How come Jason gets the flying lesson and we don't?"
Trini nodded, "We will all get a flying lesson however I guess the cockpit is barely big enough for two people."
Kim did the math, "six beds and there is only five of us unless you count our little friend but I don't think he needs a bed…"
Trini nodded, "We will have to carry on for a while with just the five of us but I guess there is someone who has been selected to be a sixth ranger. That information is classified however."
Zach shrugged, "How hard can it be? I mean we fought Rita for half a year without Tommy the first time around and hopefully we won't have to free this person from an evil spell and we are all much more trained than we were when we were fifteen."
Jason walked out of the cockpit at that moment, "Zach you should know by now that those are dangerous words. The Zangyack is far more powerful than anything Rita ever threw at us."
Billy nodded, "They must be irrepressible if the GSA is sending us the specialists in after them."
Jason looked at Trini, "I want you to go next with the training"
Trini nodded and went into the cockpit and sealed the door.
SG1 PR
Jon walked from the common room of the small ship Sam was flying and looked around as Space flew by. "So how long will we be taking to get to this Galactic Prime?"
Sam looked around as he set his controls to auto pilot, "I have to take a roundabout way there but we will be there within a day."
Jon gave Sam another look, when he had first met Sam he had been shocked to find that Sam who was also referred to as Omega wasn't much older than he was. Through conversation he also found out that Sam had met SG1 but not his older self, apparently good old Jack had sat out while the rest of SG1 and Jonas had taken Tenaya to see the Earth base of SPD. "An how far did you say Galactic Prime is from Earth?"
"I didn't exactly say how far it is because at the speeds this ship can travel at distance is very relative. But Galactic Prime isn't so much a planet as it is a base that moves around the void between galaxies." Sam explained as he stood up.
"That sounds far away." Jon said in awe, "And we are going to be there within the day?"
"That is unless you would like to have a tour of Corinthum?" Sam asked with a smile.
"You are going to Corinthum?" Jon asked dropping his jaw.
"Yes I have to drop by the construction yards on Edenoi first to check into the progress of a project that is nearing completion and then we will have to circumvent back around the Onyxian sector to check on my team which is stationed on Corinthum."
"But I thought your team was on Earth because you said your team met my older self's team." Jon asked trying to figure everything out.
"We were stationed on Earth but when we revealed ourselves to an outside force we were given new orders to protect another planet." Sam explained, "And since moving I have not been required to be with them as much as I had been on Earth so I have been doing more currier type missions."
The ship's auto pilot began to beep so Sam turned back to the controls, "We will be over Edenoi soon and I will need you to keep quiet while I am talking to the high council."
Jon nodded and when to the back section where he sat on a couch and attempted to juggle a strange piece of fruit that resembled an apple but had the skin of an orange.
Sam came through the doors and grabbed a drink and laughed as yet another attempt hit the floor, "Have you attempted to eat one of those yet?"
Jon shook his head, "I haven't, they just looked like the best thing to try to do this with."
"Go head and take a bite, despite the looks you can eat the skin." Sam nodded and Jon bit into the fruit and chewed up the surprisingly tender skin.
"What are those called?" Jon asked as he finished the bite.
"Growing up on Galactic Prime we called it Yanisin however it has a few different names depending on where you buy it but basically it means fake fruit because the skin makes you think it is inedible." Sam nodded but looked back towards the cock pit, "I should get back out there we will be to Edenoi shortly."
Jon nodded and finished his piece of fruit and thought about his young seeming escort who claimed to have grown up at the place he was being taken to. He wondered how much growing up you did there seeing as Sam was still very much a young man himself.
Looking out a window he saw a bunch of different shaped stations floating around the planet and its many moons. The ship had slowed considerably but he hadn't felt anything. From what he could tell almost all the planets in this system seemed to have extensive networks of base's orbiting the planets. Many of the stations had ships docked with at them of varying sizes but his eyes stopped on one ship in particular and he had to laugh because he was having a hard time imagining such a thing every being able to fly, because it looked like an old fashioned pirate ship complete with a mast and sails.
His eyes were once again averted but not by a ship he laughed at but by a ship that was obviously still under construction. The ship was a ship that stopped him cold. He had seen the design before and he knew its exact purpose, the ship was a city ship just like the one that was the safe haven of the Corinthiums.
