Chapter 2: Auratora
SGA
The Library of Alexandria on Auratora was incredible; not only the technical and historical books/documents here; but the fiction and theological works too. I'd been here 3 months and though I think Drs Jackson (both Daniel and his daughter Kayla) had an idea of who I was, I hadn't told anyone. Reading through stakes of books in all dialects of Ancient was a pleasure and one that brought a smile to my face remembering. I even found a couple of tomes I had written, how incredible that they'd been saved (I'll have to remember to have the city's AI "forget" me somehow) when Atlantis had first moved to Earth and then back again to Pegasus.
I had suppressed so much of my abilities, hidden who I was both from the outside world and the others, that I had in a way, forgotten that I was from here. Janus and the others had a either ascended or died. The Ori, the Ancients' wayward siblings, where no more. Even Adria, their messiah in a way, had been refreshing. But she was gone now too. I could read Daniel Jackson's mind, though he didn't know it. He had liked Adria in a way, and I could understand why, she was rebellious, like a child, angry and alive; but she was also dangerous. I could see similarities in Kayla Jackson as well, though she wasn't the power hungry twisted child of the Ori, given form on this plane of existence.
I was walking into the gate room when the gate shield dropped and the operations gate went up; I didn't even notice as I walked through the latter absentmindedly as I headed to meet my team as they were readying to head off planet. It was the aiming of P90s and such at me and the "what the hell" from Dr. Carter and General O'Neill, that brought me out of my haze. Looking up, I saw everyone looking at me in shock, dismay and disbelief.
"R'oss, what the hell is going on here?" General O'Neill ask.
"What?… Oh, the shield. It's tuned to allow Alterans through while stopping anything else." I say, nonchalantly. It was after all, designed this way and though I could change it, why?
"And you just forgot to tell us all you're an Ancient? Just slipped your mind did it?" He and Carter chimed in together.
"Well, yes and no. If you want to talk about it, could it be somewhere else; and no, I don't like the cells in the basement." I answered, trying to defuse the mood.
"Okay, we know you, or think we do; conference room, now!" General O'Neill replied, pointing at me, then motioning to Carter, Jacksons', Colonel Mitchel and Teal'c.
Sitting down in the conference room, all eyes on me. It was Dr. Carter who started first.
"So R'oss, you're an Alteran?"
"No Dr. Carter. I am from another race, that spawned the Lanteans, the Dinok; just as you, humans are the children of the Lanteans/Ancients." All looked at me in both wonderment and confusion. It was Daniel Jackson who spoke next.
"Okay, I'll bite, I didn't know any race could live that long naturally?"
"I'm much older then you think and have done things that would amaze even Dr. Carter or McKay. Destroying a star or planet is one thing, have you ever thought about creating a star or planet? But to your unasked question, the Lanteans knew me and thought of me as one of them. I never told them, they never asked me. I moved around enough to hide myself from detection. Only one Lantean ever knew who I really was and she ascended many years ago. The three remaining cities, Atlantis, Auratora and Allaria know who I am, as does Destiny." I said.
"Allaria, where's that?" Daniel Jackson asked before anyone could.
"Lost from this universe; but still there. Her 'sisters' communicate with her though and with Destiny too." I answered.
The discussion when on for a while longer and it was agreed to have a full medical done on me again (as I had manipulated the previous ones to hide things). It was though agreed that I wasn't a threat and was an advantage as I knew things that no one else could about the cities of Auratora and Atlantis, like where the ZPM generating facilities were, etc.
It was later that same day when things started to get weird.