Chapter 3 by stargatesg1fan1
Disclaimer: I own nothing from Stargate, Star Wars, Buffy, Percy Jackson, or Harry Potter.
Kakistos...
The next day they all went to the Library and introduced Faith to Giles. They both seemed to be pretty friendly with each other. Buffy and Faith on the other hand had major Alpha Issues. They could hardly stand to be around each other. Xander was the first one to notice. The others caught on pretty fast. Nobody would say anything about it though. On their first night of patrol together they about got into a fight with each other. They did not have the same idea about slaying. Then at a Point when they had about enough of the other, they ran into some of Kakistos' vamps. Buffy's Shield-Watch went into alarm mode. The Computer at CRD sent the alarm to Xander. He apparatet into the middle of the fight assessing the Situation. Faith was fighting with a Vamp and beating it in a blind rage mixed with fear and Pain.
Buffy trying to be the responsible of the two tried to keep the rest of her. But Kakistos had choosen wisely. She was in real trouble. Xander helped out Buffy first with her Vamps. Blasting them with an Incendio-Spell they all turned to dust. Looking to Faith seeing her still beating on the now unconscious and bloody Vamp. Xander pulled her off the Vamp and kept telling her that it was ok. She was safe now. Faith barely recognised Xander voice but turned around and held on to him as if she was drowning in fear.
"What is wrong with you?" Buffy asked Faith sternly.
"Buffy let it go." Xander ordered her in a stern voice. With that he turned around and went home with faith to CRD.
The next day Xander came into the Library in the Morning and found Giles looking sternly and Buffy outright glaring at him. Xander explained what Faith had said to him as she had explained. Giles looked disturbed at first but called the Watcher's Council to try and talk with Faith's watcher. Finding out that she was indeed dead was a shock to Giles. Buffy didn't really show any emotions.
Xander was a bit annoyed with Buffy as she didn't apologize to Faith. He started to figure out that Buffy had her own Problems. Being an only Child meant she always was Number one in the Family. That Translated into being Number one in Slaying. When Faith showed up she started to move into that Territory. He decided to just separate them for now until they could play along.
Sitting in his Lab in front of the Computer, he went trought the internet to kill some time. One of Kakistos Minions was searching trough the Internet to find something about the Slayer. Apparently Kakistos had somewhat intelligent Vamps. Faith was with Jenny and Cordelia. Both of Xander's Girlfriends really took care of her. Xander decided to nip the problem in the bud. Arriving invisibly at the warehouse the master vamp was holed up in he kept out of sight sneaking around the Warehouse. Appearing on the main floor just in time to hear the end of Kakistos' rant.
"I will kill all the slayers," he screamed at Mr. Trick.
"I don't think so," Xander stated as he willed himself into visibility.
"Who are you," Kakistos sneered.
"Your death," was Xanders answer. Kakistos didn't like that very much. He charged in a fit of rage. But faster than even Kakistos could perceive Xanders hand shot up and caught him by the throat. The old Mastervamp hung in Xanders iron Grip with widened Eyes slowly getting scared.
"This is not possible," he choked out as he flailed.
"Yes it is," Xander answered as he shot fire out of his other hand at his fleeing minion.
Mr. Trick turned to dust as Xander started to rip the oldest vampire alive in two pieces. Kakistos tried to fight a futile fight. But Xander in display of Anger tore the Head off of Kakistos and watched as he crumbled to dust leaving only the Skeleton behind.
Cleaning the warehouse out of Kakistos Minions and Kakistos Skeleton did a lot to calm him down enough so he could go home with out too much soul baggage. Arriving home Cordy and Jenny had sensed Xanders rage and prepared Faith. "It is done," He told his lovers and Faith in a tired voice before heading into the Shower to clean of the Vampdust and bad mood the old fashioned way.
Smut Scene nonexisting (I can't write something like that. Can you?)
Tokra...
January 13th 1999 SGC…
Samantha Carter sat down at her computer chair and thought about the last several months of her life. They certainly hadn't been boring but the most excitement came when she met Alexander Harris.
Flashback...
Jack told Talc to fly the ship behind the Moon. Contacting Hammond was going to be fun, not. They had worked on that for some Time now. Sam had finally just said that they could take a smaller cloakable ship to earth and show the Brass and General Hammond what they had via Video screen. Before coming all the way down. Jack had Talc call the General immediately. Hammond gaped a bit but quickly got a glimt in his Eye and told his Team that they could land the one or two of the smaller Transporter ships on the Tarmac. After SG-1 had landed Hammond had already told the President about their new "Toy". He was very happy about the new Hatac and told Hammond that they would be Commended. Sam was being promoted to Major. A Raise and increased Funding was also into Packet.
End Flashback...
She had been so busy helping to organize the production of new technologies that she hadn't had the time to go over much of what Xander gave her. So that she didn't have to worry about revealing the secret of her new toys she had read enough to set the shield watch to activate on her command only. That turned out to be somewhat of a mistake.
Flashback...
Going through the Gate they saw Goa'uld fighting a primitive Settlement. Carter came over to one who seemed alive. She got inhabited by a symbiote during mouth to mouth resuscitation. Passing out shortly she didn't feel the Symbiote at first. Coming back to the SGC she felt something was wrong. The Watch that Xander had given her was acting up. Nobody saw it as she was on the way to her own Lab at the time. She felt the Goa'uld going dormant and knew she had to contact Xander. She kept thinking about the Time Kowalski had a Symbiote inside him and how wrong it went when they had tried to remove it. Arriving in Her Lab she opened a Chat to Xander asking for his help. He arrived a few seconds later to her surprise. The Computer already having alerted him about the Activation of the "Extra Gadgets" he had built into the Watch he knew what he needed to do. He waved his hand over her and there was a flash of white light. The next thing she knew the Symbiote was out of her and in a container that Xander was holding.
After that they explained things to Hammond. Xander claimed he knew about the Goauld because he was keeping an eye on things so she didn't have to reveal her method of communicating with him. He explained the difference about Goa'uld and Tokra. Jack had a hard time believing him about that.
End Flashback...
Using his connection to his Computer and the Internet he quickly located a host for the Tokra. Jolinar. The new host was a terminally ill orphan who was cured by the symbiotes' healing powers. She was all too happy to be a host for a chance at a longer life.
After that Sam made sure to leave the shield watch on its automatic threat detection settings. It actually interfaced with the nanites in her body to determine her desires in a given situation. It was a good thing to because on their next mission a relatively advanced society tried to capture them for helping a prisoner. The shield detected that she wanted to protect her team so expanded to encompass them. Arriving home she naturally had to explain what was going on. The NID showed up.
Flashback...
Maybourne, Simmons and a Host of Scientist arrived and ordered Sam to relinquish the Watch to them. They had the Papers for it so the SGC could do nothing but watch. The Scientists got a nasty Shock trying to remove the Watch to far from Sam. Maybourne and Simmons tried it themselves but the result was the same. A nasty Shock followed by the Watch transporting back to Sam's wrist. SG-1 and General Hammond could not help but chuckle that the mighty NID had to go home defeated.
End Flashback..
Almost every mission after that the watch was built into and used in every Mission. On the planet Cimmeria SG-1 managed to capture a second Hatac thanks to the shield allowing them to take on a Goauld and his Jaffa. The shield allowed objects like bullets out but nothing in. While she was receiving an award in Washington for her recent work on the new technology earth was producing she got a double whammy surprise. She found out her father had cancer and then found that Daniel's wife was on Abydos pregnant.
That was the Reason she was sitting here in her Lab thinking. She knew she needed the big guns for that. so she called in Xander. He arrived a short while later. Sam quickly told him what was going on. They both walked in the direction of General Hammond's Office. George knew Sam was very fond of her Father and was not surprised as Sam and Xander stood in his Office. Sam asked for permission to take Xander to her Father. She hoped he could help him. George did one better. He brought her Father onto the Medical Facilities up top.
He was hoping that he could keep an eye on Alien Visitor. Sam and Xander visited Her Father. Jacob was laying in the Hospital-Bed looking worse for wear. Sam ran over to him and hugged him gently. Xander came over more slowly. The rest of SG-1 where there as well. They where standing outside looking in thru the Window. Xander simply touched her father once there was soft glow and the cancer was gone.
Sam was ecstatic and wanted to hug the Stuffing out of Xander. Babbling a mile a minute. Jacob was well enough that he understood that this young man was not of Earth. That led to Xander telling her father about the Stargate program. Everybody was shocked. General Hammond was there as well and was about to lay in on the "Alien". But Xander just smiled and told the General that the Local Brass could do nothing about it. He was a foreign Dignity and not within the Command-Structure of Earth. So he couldn't get in trouble for it.
General Hammond could do nothing about that and just rolled his eyes at the Antics. He had a Scapegoat for that. Xander was happy with that. George was not a General for nothing and asked him if he could help with Daniel's Wife. Xander just smiled and nodded. They all went back the SGC where he went through the gate with SG-1 to Abydos. They arrived in Share's house and saw it. Recovering Daniel's wife and removing the Goa'uld from her was a cakewalk. Share came out of the Goa'uld infused trance and thanked the Man infront of her. Needless to say Daniel and Share didn't come up for air for some time.
After the reunion kiss Xander came up to Share and examined her with his own watch. Touching her belly and concentrating for a bit he informed the group that the Harsesis child would not have access to his genetic memory until he was ready and only then in the right amounts.
Daniel was happy. He had his wife back. Jacob was recalled to active duty by the Brass. The Tokra was on visit at the SGC so he ended up talking to the Tokra and became a liaison between them and earth.
It was after that she decided she would like to start dating Xander. He easily agreed and they started going out and doing things. She also started chatting with his girlfriends on the computer. She found out that Jenny was only about five years younger than her. Sam got along well with all the girls. When Faith was added to the group Sam was questioning whether or not she could be a part of what appeared to be a harem. There was no pressure or anything like that.
Sam continued to date Xander. When her birthday came around she was quite shocked from his gift. Xander paid off her mortgage on her house. She couldn't believe it. Cordy, Jenny, and Faith paid off her car. She tried to turn it back down but they wouldn't accept. Apparently it was pocket change for them. She also learned more about how Xander got his powers.
At first Sam was skeptical about the apparent magic. When Xander explained that magic was nothing more than vacuum energy manipulation she accepted things. Learning that her current boyfriend grew up on a mouth to a hell reality was a real shocker.
Working..
Jacob came back to earth and reported that the Tokra were evacuating one of their bases because the system lords were sending two Hatac ships. Hammond ordered the immediate deployment of both earth Hatac ships. The second Hatac had immediately upon capture been upgraded with a cloaking device.
One ship helped the Tokra evacuate to a planet off the gate network (taking a gate with them) while the second stayed behind cloaked. A couple of teams of black ops special forces were on Board the cloaked Ship. The Goa'uld came with two Ships the Cloaked Ship went into position and transported all Black-Ops board the ships using the rings. The Teams used to dirty work and everyone on board having enough training with a Hatac transported close to Bridge. Fought their way onto the Bridge and vented atmosphere everywhere else. With the rest of the Jaffa dead they only had the other Ship to deal with. That was made easier that expected because on that other ship there was no socalled god. So rinse and repeat. During the skirmish and the relocation of the Tokra Colonel O'Niell saw a Tokra with a Goa'uld Communication-Ball. The Tokra was very happy that they cought a spy quickly enough that it couldn't tell others about their new place. The brass on Earth was very happy at acquiring two more ships.
When Colonel O'Neill accidentally found himself in possession of an alien repository in his mind Sam called in her boyfriend. She realized that this was out of their league. Xander saw it as an opportunity to help the SGC out even more once he realized Jack was carrying an Alteran repository in his mind. Speaking to Jack in Alteran he instructed him to update the Goa`uld database that the SGC now had with as much Alteran level science as he could.
He managed to get quite a bit of new information into the computers before the strain became too much on his mind. Xander did the hand wavy thing he does and Colonel O'Neill was back to his old self. With Xander's help Sam was able to create a search program that made it easier to find specific topics of science. Even with that information Sam found herself in over her head with the current situation. The SGC had opened a wormhole to a planet in the process of being swallowed by a black hole and the wormhole wouldn't disengage.
Almost as soon as she sent the message to Xander he appeared a few feet from her.
"I'm glad you're ok. I was about to come whether or not you called me when I detected the time dilation. What seems to be the problem," Xander asked as he walked up to his girlfriend.
Sam kissed him before explaining what was going on.
"Damn you guys get yourself into the most bizarre situations," Xander told his blonde girlfriend.
"Yes, yes we do," Sam agreed as they began to head towards the gate room.
When Sam and Xander stepped into the gate room Xander walked up in front of the event horizon of the wormhole which was now swirling black. Raising his hand he channeled a blast of white light into the wormhole to overload it and force it to collapse. When the gate shut down he turned around to face Sam.
"So we still on for dinner tonight," he asked casually.
"You betcha," Sam answered with a grin as they walked out of the gate room holding hands. Sam thought it was time they took the next step in their relationship. It would certainly never get boring around Xander. Later that night after their date…
The door to Sam's house practically flew open as Sam and Xander staggered into the house wrapped in a hot kiss.
Smut Scene nonexisting (I can't write something like that. Can you?)
Sangral...
High Earth Orbit aboard the Muliebris…
Xander, Jenny and Cordelia were aboard the Muliebris using its more advanced sensors (compared to the satellite) to do a more detailed scan of the earth. Sam was at work and Faith was helping the Scoobies.
"There appears to be an energy field concealing a structure under Glastonbury Tor from conventional earth detection techniques," Jenny announced.
"I see it. I think it's Alteran in nature," Xander answered.
"Then there should be rings down there," Cordy spoke up.
Everyone gathered on the ring platform and sure enough the rings connected to the under ground structure. When they all rematerialized they were in darkness so they used the nanite enhancements to shift the eyes into night vision sight.
Just then a flash signaled a remote transporter as a sword appeared in a stone.
"How cliché," Cordy drawled.
"Do you think Merlin was an Alteran," Jenny asked.
"It wouldn't surprise me. It would explain his rumored powers," Xander answered as he walked up and examined the sword.
Giving it a tug before the nanites in his hand told him what the sword was made of.
"It's a hard light construct," He informed his two lovers.
Just then a hologram of Merlin appeared. He challenged them to prove their worth and get the riches found within.
"Do you think you could override the program," Cordy asked.
"I probably could but it would take quite a while. There is also the chance that whatever is being stored to be destroyed if it detects tampering," Xander answered.
"Then it's probably best just to prove our worth," Jenny stated.
The Group followed one of the corridors. Instead of splitting up the three went in one direction. They came to a room with a column in the center. On it was an obvious puzzle. There were two pots.
"One reads 'the universe is infinite' and the other reads 'the treasure is in this pot'," Xander spoke.
"Let's just choose one," Cordy decided.
"Eenie meenie minie moh," Jenny recited before grabbing one of the lids.
It was empty and the ceiling started to come down.
"Obviously not that one," Cordy stated the obvious.
Xander reached up and held the ceiling up. It wasn't even really that heavy for him. The girls put the lid back on and chose the other one. The ceiling stopped coming down and went back to its previous height. They went on to find another room with a second puzzle. This one was easier as it only required them to organize eight symbols in order. They just happened to be sequential numbers and their mirror images.
After that the Group went back to the main cavern.
"Well let's try the sword again," Xander spoke as he grasped the Sword and easily removed it. As he turned around he sensed another energy construct forming. It took the form of a sword wielding black night.
"Have at him honey," Jenny told him.
Walking towards the Knight he started to attack the Knight. It wasn't much of a challenge. Xander had been practising with his light saber lately to learn how to combined it with his Jedi skills. Percy was also no slouch with a sword. Harry wielded the sword of Gryffindor on several occasions. So he quickly defeated the Black Knight in armed combat.
"Hmmm…I think it can sense us," Jenny announced after nothing happened.
"We'll just step back to the ship for a second," Cordy announced as both girls disappeared via the ship's transporter.
As soon as they were gone another flash of light revealed a room full of treasure. The girls were back a second later.
"Ooooh…shiny," Cordy stated with a smile while Jenny just nodded in agreement while grinning. Letting the girls play Xander searched for technology throughout the Room. There were several artefacts that he would have to look at later. One he recognized immediately was an old style longrange communications terminal. He would have to be very careful because it was likely that the device might be connected with the Ori galaxy. It would be very bad to alert these Guys to the presence of life in the Milky Way. Activating the Transporter he relocated all of the contents of the structure up to the ship before heading home to count the loot, both technological and monetary.
After they arrived home Xander put the Loot in a Room not being sure what was what. So to figure that out he set some HFNCs on the task of analysing everything they had brought back in case any of it was dangerous. The one device turned out to have research notes into a weapon Merlin built to destroy ascended beings. It was constructed to deal with the Ori threat as the Alteran ascended wouldn't protect themselves.
Merlin...
"Ready a gate ship," Xander ordered one of the HFNCs after the Group analysing relayed the results of their analysis to him.
"Right away commander," he answered before leaving the room.
Having constructed several gate ships that were similar in design to those the Alterans used on Atlantis. He had a lot of them. Even having improved them a bit with several different Tech. The Alterans in the past had never felt the need for such upgrades when they had other ships available. Xander didn't have that option since his fleet was considerably smaller than what the Alterans had at their disposal. To make up for any sort of lack in numbers the weapons array was very lethal. The ship carried a complement of drones, an energy pulse weapon that was putting out a devastating amount of power, and an anti matter accelerator beam. This last one accelerates anti matter to relativistic speeds and has devastating effects if it connects with matter.
Soon the three Lovers were landing outside of a village on the planet Merlin's device had supplied the coordinates for. They walked in to find a medieval looking village with mud and other unpleasant things for the streets.
"Charming," Cordelia said as she wrinkled her nose at the smell of horse manure.
"Quite," Jenny agreed.
They walked into the village to be greeted by the locals.
"Welcome travelers. I am the village leader," a man said as he came up and greeted them.
"Hello my name is Xander and this is Cordelia and Jenny," Xander introduced.
"What brings you to these parts," the man asked.
"We are looking for a red round jewel," Xander further explained. They had been able to get enough of a picture of the weapon's core from Merlin's notes.
"The sangraal is what you seek. You will not find it here. Arthur and his knights left to quest for it long ago on Castiana, Zehal, and Vegunbrae," the man explained.
Xander recognized the names and their corresponding gate addresses from the Alteran database that his nanites were even now sifting through.
"Thank you for your help," He told the village leader before they left.
"So where to now," Cordelia asked.
"The limited AI in my nanite systems has speculated that the glyphs for the three planets just mentioned make up the address for the actual planet the weapon is on," He explained.
"So to the planet the AI found," Jenny answered. Taking off with the cloaked Ship they soon arrived on the new planet.
"Hmmm….this is interesting," Xander stated.
"What is," Jenny asked.
Examining the Sensor readings he announced: "The planet appears to have been shifted to a pocket dimension of some sort. It is only accessible via wormhole,"
"Wow that would take a lot of power," Cordelia stated.
"Yes we're talking ZPM level power here," He confirmed. Thinking over everything Xander decided it would be best to find out if anybody knew anything in the local village first. It turned out there was a map in the village archives. Using the Nanites he only had to glance at the map once to have it scanned into memory. Leaving quickly after that they started to head for the route of the map.
"The sensors are showing a time dilation field up ahead Xander," Cordy informed them.
"Just fly us right through it," Xander instructed her as he enveloped the ship in his power. As Cordy flew them through the field he brought the ship into the between of universes/realities where only the gods could stay for any amount of time without negative effects. In the between time did not have any effect. Only personal time was even measured. It was here the essence of a god resided. While the ascended resided in a higher layer of a reality the old gods resided in this ultimate base layer.
He brought them back into the universe as they bypassed the field. They flew on until they came to a box beneath them on the ground. The sensors revealed a shield generator and a program designed to test the charity of the person trapped inside.
"Well we'll just avoid that now won't we," Jenny stated as they flew past.
They soon came to the base of the mountain where we had to park the ship. It was too big to fit in the tunnels. Xander led the way as they entered the tunnels.
"There appear to be power suppressing fields in place to render an enhanced being virtually powerless," He announced as he encountered said fields.
"Is it going to affect you," Cordy asked.
"No because my powers are rooted in a layer of the multiverse that the creator of these fields didn't really understand too well," He reassured his girlfriend. They made the way through the obstacles. Some riddles written on the walls, an attempt to rescue a hologram child. Finally the last obstacle the group came to was a wall of fire.
"I'll be right back since that can't harm me," Xander informed the girls before walking through the wall of fire. It was an enhanced illusion as it disappeared as soon as he stepped through.
"Damn and I was hoping it might just singe his clothes off," He heard Jenny whisper to Cordy.
"You horny bitch," Cordy laughed in reply.
"Like you wouldn't like to see that show to," Jenny teased.
"True," was Cordy's reply as the rest made their way out onto a ledge that overlooked a deep chasm. Xander and the others walked across a narrow bridge to find a dais with a glowing red jewel on top.
"Well that's obviously a hologram," Jenny stated the obvious as the nanites all informed them of the same thing.
"Might as well go ahead and trigger the trap," Cordy stated as she swept her hand through the hologram. Just then there was a loud roar from deep in the dark pit.
"Well that sounds ominous," Jenny stated as everyone quickly made the way back over to the ledge for more room to defend themselves. Out of the depths rose what appeared to be a dragon. It roared at them in challenge.
"Shields on full girls," Xander instructed. The shield watches blocked the first blast of fire. When the dragon construct realized that fire wouldn't work it swung its tail at them. That was a mistake on the creature's part as Xanders light saber activated and severed its appendage. It roared in rage.
"I think you just pissed it off," Jenny said. He used a force powered jump to launch himself onto the creatures back. He drove the light saber down to where he knew the construct's power core to be located. Without power the creature became inanimate and dropped into the pit. He stayed at the same height he was and floated back over to his two lovers.
"Showoff," Cordy joked.
"Now let's see if that passed the test," He stated as they walked back over to the dais.
After his hand passed through the hologram the obelisk behind them activated and they felt themselves being remote transported through the stargate. The Group were inside a chamber in a cave. Xander could tell already that they weren't on the same planet. Looking around they discovered a stasis Chamber. It was occupied.
"Is that who I think it is," Jenny asked in awe.
"Here lies Myrrdin, Arch Mage of the realm," Cordelia confirmed as she translated the title above the stasis chamber. Xander walked up to the stasis pod and deactivated it. As the machine shut down Merlin collapsed out of the standing chamber for him to catch. He carried him over and laid him on the table. Looking down on him Xander realized he wasn't in much condition to do much of anything with his advanced age. Xander fed a bit of power into him and he woke up.
"Where am I," Merlin asked as he looked around.
"In a cave Morgan preserved you in for the last millennium or so," Xander answered back. Merlin wasn't so weak that he couldn't sense an old one. He immediately tried to get up and bow.
"My lord," Merlin said reverently.
"Relax," Xander told him. The old gods helped the Alterans get to where they were. He knew they were still not anywhere near the powers of an old one. So it was in his best interests not to piss the old one off.
"I want you to come work for me," He informed Merlin.
"But the others will stop me," Merlin stated what he thought was obvious.
"They won't interfere if you are working for me would they?" He asked with a raised eyebrow.
"No I suppose you are right," Merlin answered in realization. Xander laid his hand on Merlins chest and encompassed him in a white glow of energy as Xander reversed the aging and pushed Merlins evolution up to the point just before he would ascend. Xander had already done the same for his girls a while back. It obviously wasn't something they were advertising.
"Thank you my lord," Merlin stated as he looked over his new youthful body. He would guess he was about 18 years old.
"Now come. We will return home," Xander instructed. Before everybody left they took all the Alteran technology with them (stored in a pocket dimension). Morgan had closed the Stargate off from the network but it was a simple task to reconnect it. Xander remote called the gate ship home.