The Star Gate Program (Hetalia/Stargate SG1 X-Over)

Author: Ashynarr

Summary: It was the discovery of the century. A devise older than human civilization, capable of transporting people across the galaxy in an instant. But things have a way of quickly becoming complicated, pushing America and others to their limits as they find themselves embroiled in galactic politics and intrigue throughout the stars.

Disclaimer: Hetalia's not mine. Stargate isn't mine.

Warning: Alterations of the Stargate timeline/canon and Hetalia canon

[Inspired by Stargate Reopened; I recommend reading it if you have the time.]

[Chapter 5]

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[July 1993]

As brothers and closely allied Nations, Matthew and Alfred had a long standing habit of meeting up to discuss issues that affected both of them, either directly or indirectly. Most of these meetings were of the unofficial sort, consisting mainly of complaints about the state of their governments or else just catching up whilst gaming or enjoying some other pastime.

The official meetings, though, generally signified that it was something Very Important. Something like would likely be discussed with some of their officials soon after, but required the basics being discussed ahead of time so that there was more time for them as Nations to determine how the topics of these meetings would affect them in the long term.

Naturally, Matthew was on high alert when his brother asked for the second sort of meeting, mind instantly searching for what his neighboring country could be planning. Was this about Iraq? Russia? Was there going to be another war, or was this something closer to home? It bothered him the entire week, though he did his best to focus on other things while waiting.

Approaching his brother's office, though, made all the concerns return at once. He freverently hoped this wasn't asking for military assistance.

"Hey Matt," Alfred greeted his brother, gesturing to the chair across from him. "Sorry for calling you over for a meeting on short notice like that."

"It's fine," Matthew smiled, accepting the offered seat. "You never told me what this was all about, though."

"Really? Dang, I know I'd forgotten something." The American pushed a small stack of folders over, waiting for his brother to pick up the first one before continuing. "You remember how we borrowed the lower levels of Cheyenne a while back for a project?"

Just short of opening the folder, Matthew glanced up to his brother with surprise. "You mean-"

"Boss finally gave the okay to bring you and NORAD into it." Alfred confirmed, allowing the Canadian to open the folder to look at the images of the original Giza dig findings. "This is the Giza Ring. It was first discovered in Egypt in 1928, and brought back to the US soon afterwards.

"Experiments were conducted on it through World War Two to see if it could be used as a weapon, but after its first successful activation the project was scrapped and buried. It was thought that Dr. Ernest Littlefield, who had been chosen to go through the wormhole the ring had generated, had died, but we - I - had reason to believe he was still alive.

"The current Giza Project started up again in early February 1981, after getting in contact with Dr. Catherine Langford, whose father and fiance had both been key members of the first project. The supercomputer built in Cheyenne at the time along with the other two more recent additions were reprogrammed by Captain Samantha Carter and her team to synchronise with the ring, allowing us to activate it and dial the code that was used in the first project."

Alfred reached over to open the second folder, showing images of a ruined room that was nothing like that on Earth. "Upon successful activation, we sent through one of our MALPs to determine what things were like on the other side. After ten seconds of no video or radio feed - our assumption of that being the travel time - we received our first images of what we soon concluded was another planet, since no structure like this currently exists on Earth.

"We gathered data for the next thirty-eight minutes before the Ring shut down on its own - some sort of time limit built into the object itself, apparently. By the time we'd processed enough of the data to determine the planet has a breathable atmosphere different enough from our own to support the New World theory, Captain Carter and Dr. Langford had gotten permission from the President to override General West's hold on reactivating the Ring in order to acquire samples to send back through for analysis.

"Upon activation of the Ring and reacquiring contact with the MALP, we discovered that Dr. Littlefield had in fact survived all this time on the foreign world. He had been examining the MALP when the video feed kicked back in, and, well…" Alfred laughed a bit. "Let's just say we're pretty sure the planet's average temperature is higher than ours.

"After we sent a two way radio through to confirm to him that we were members of the US Air Force, he was more than happy to share everything he'd learned about the planet during his fifty years there. He also accidentally showed us that the Ring only works one way for physical matter - when he threw through some of the smaller pieces of rubble for chemical analysis, the only thing we received on our side was a brief surge of energy.

"We've sent in food, clothing, and a mobile video camera that would send footage through the MALP to us. His main project has been exploring the alien database he found there, which he says is the compiled data from four races that used to work together ages ago. From what he's managed to translate, the site was called 'Heliopolis', and was the scientific and political hub of the galaxy during its heyday.

"Due to the strategic importance acquiring such data would have, both for the military and for the scientific community, General West was allowed to organize a squadron, lead by Colonel Jack O'Neill, to go through the Ring and help secure the building and the database. Dr. Langford also went through the Ring to rejoin her fiance and study the database, along with several other scientists.

"As it stands currently, the main projects aside from the retrieval of everything in the Heliopolis archive are to stabilize the structure as much as possible against the upcoming summer storms and to figure out a way to activate the Ring from their side so that two way transportation is possible. Our only lead so far is the broken structure that has symbols matching the Ring on their side, which is likely what used to dial the Ring. Captain Carter is working with several others to see if it is possible to juryrig a power source for the structure, and Dr. Littlefield and Dr. Langford are looking to see whether the database contains the code that will connect them back to Earth."

Alfred leaned back, linking his fingers together. "We're hoping to find out where exactly Heliopolis is in relation to us spacially, to see if we can train some of our Earth-based telescopes in that direction. It will probably take at least another year to be certain of the distance, though, seeing as images of their night sky need to be processed and compared to ours to match up stars, but our current best guess based on initial images is that it's within five hundred light years."

Matthew found himself unable to speak, trying to look through all the images and documents while processing everything his brother had just told him. A wormhole-creating device that allowed one to simply - walk out onto a new world? Alien databases from ancient civilizations? "What have you learned so far from it?"

"So far?" Alfred opened the last folder. "That there's 146 stable elements in the universe, and that the four races used it to communicate as a basic universal language. We also know that it'll take years to transmit all the data through, and probably decades to process it all."

"Why didn't you say anything about this before now?"

"We didn't know what it did at first; we didn't retrieve the information from the first Giza Project until mid-March, and the official Heliopolis mission only started three weeks ago. We're sort of learning as we go along here."

Matthew nodded, lips pressed together slightly. "Are you going to bring in other countries as well?"

Alfred shook his head. "Not yet; we're waiting until we have the two way system setup and the surrounding area explored and secured before we think about bringing in more countries to help. On top of that, Heliopolis is currently sitting on the edge of a cliff; we don't think it can survive many more years before part of the place collapses into the ocean unless we put in a lot of support bearings. We have no clue if having too many people there at once will cause something to give out early, so we want to be certain it can handle having that many people around."

"Ah," Matthew looked back down to the documents briefly. "Then why bring me in now?"

"You're my bro, duh," The American replied immediately. "And because you have a lot of the people and resources we need in order to maintain the Heliopolis base and any other potential outposts we might choose to build should we get access to other habitable planets. Plus it'd really help if we have NORAD on board so we can convert more of Cheyenne for use with this project."

"At least you're honest about it." The Canadian laughed a little, still feeling a bit overwhelmed at the sheer scope of this secret project. "You weren't kidding about this being huge."

Alfred laughed. "I told you it'd blow your mind. Let's just hope that whoever your prime minister is will be on board with all this."

"A chance to gain access to alien technology and knowledge? I don't think anyone would turn that down." Matthew paused thoughtfully. "What does Tony think of all this?"

"He's not back from his mission yet; I dunno if he'll know anything about the Ring or about Heliopolis, but at least I can ask."

Matthew closed the folders, gathering all of them together. "When were you thinking of having the meeting with our bosses about this?"

"Probably after your elections; it'd be a pain to bring your current boss into it just to have to do it again in a few months when a new one gets elected in."

"I think Kim's going to hold office; she seems pretty good, and my people like her. I get what you mean though, so I'll go over this with General Clements and some other people under him who are trustworthy first. Can I take all of these papers with me?"

"They're all yours; just make sure not to lose any of them, because we're still trying to keep all this on the down low for now."

Matthew nodded in thanks. "That should make it easier to explain to them."

"Hey, Mattie," Alfred stopped his brother as he rose from the seat to leave. "When you're all done bringing your guys in on the project, call me up; I'll show you some of the footage we've gotten of the place so far."

"That sounds like fun."

It was only when he was stepping out of the building that he stopped, laughing briefly as he realized he'd indeed agreed to giving military assistance to his brother after all.

"At least it's not for war this time," He muttered to himself, shaking his head and wondering just what his brother had gotten himself into.

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AN: Thank you, kind Stargate fan who reminded me that indeed the Canadian government was in on it much earlier, thus making it easy for me to bring Matthew in this chapter, ahaha. I debated whether to show all the earlier things happening, but I decided it was better to sort of introduce what had happened so far through Alfred.

I've basically got everything lined out for the rest of this arc, so it shouldn't be too hard to write it all out. Just have no clue how many chapters it'll actually take to get through it to the Abydos arc (which, if I'm right, was in early- to mid-1994, while this story is currently in summer 1993, so that means I'll be able to handle the whole Ra showdown-thingy - although it'll probably go a bit differently...)

Anyways, jumping back to Stargate Command next chapter - let me know what you wanna see! I can basically go over whatever was discussed in this chapter in more detail, or I can go into whatever. Just lemme know, yeah?