"Our mother is also a True One, helping us in our time of need." AutumnStarr said.
"your mother?" Anakin asked.
AutumnStarr nodded, fingering her sword. she was uneasy because of the two Clone troopers standing by the door. why full body armor? anybody that wears full body armor says they are not friendly. She thought. She stood and went to look out the window, just as a Ha'tak mothership appears fireing on Hathor's ship. Mother is here! AutumnStarr thought as a message came over the comm.
"This is the System Lord Bastet of the Calt'lac system...Where are my children?" came Bast's deep voice.
AutumnStarr responded, "hello Mother, it is I, AutumnStarr of THEE ANAR, where have you been?"
"AutumnStarr my child, I have been banished for a while, 120 years is too long to be away." Bast said.
"Who is that on the comm?" Anakin asked, "he sounds like you." he pointed to ChiYou, AutumnStarr answerd him before ChiYou could respond.
"Her name is Bastet, she is my kinds mother." She said voice also deep like ChiYou's. "please donnot insult my mother again."
"I'm sorry I did not know" Anakin said. bowing his head to AutumnStarr who nodded.
"where are you my child? I wish to see you" Bast said.
"I am on the odd shaped ship, they have a shield though, I donnot think you can get thru." AutumnStarr said.
"they have a ringplatform do they not?" Bast asked.
"not that I know of Mother."
"Nar Kee AutumnStarr I have a teleportation system that Thor has given me before i was banished. I shall use that."
"Nar kee Mother" AutumnStarr said as Bast's ship moved above Dark Striker two seconds later there was a flash of light at the door way. Bast appeard. "Hello ChiYou, it has been a long time welcome back"
ChiYou smiled brightly.
"Bast! It is good to see you again, cousin. What happened? Were you also banished like I was?"
"Almost. When Ra had found that you and your father has hidden the Garuda on my planet, he attacked me for the information. Few other things along with that has forced them to banish me, though I was not placed in a stasis like you. Anyway, I am grateful for the Protoss Crystal you gave me. I did not have to use the Sarcofagus too much and retained my sanity thanks to the mystical powers of that crystal."
"It is good then. What about others of our group?"
"Egeria escaped the clutches of Ra and formed Tok'ra. Though I have heard she died. Gluskab, Jar'Edo Wens, Mangar-kunjer-kunja, Heget, Dangun and Prometheus are dead, killed by the head System Lords. Hephaestus, Soma, Balam, Taweret, Pan and Mitra are still alive but all except Hephaestus and Mitra are in hiding."
"This is disturbing indeed. I have heard that Ra was killed and so was Apophis."
"Yes, they were. Thanks to the people of Tauri. Also, they have made alliances with the Tok'ra and the Asgard. Garshaw is currently leading the Tok'ra and they have made excellent progress in the fight against the oppression of the System Lords. We can talk about it later. Who are these humans?" asked Bast, pointing at the Jedi.
"I wondered the same thing. The Garuda must have reacted to the dimensional recall attempted so close to the planet surface. Protoss did mention something about the Garuda that it was affiliated with Xel'naga, who the Protoss believe as their gods."
"I have studies the Garuda for a long time and I was unsucessful in deciphering what it does and how it works, I could figure out that it has capability to bend and twist dimensions, like the dimensional recall of the HwanUng."
"Very interesting. However, we must know about these people." said ChiYou pointing at the Jedi.
Then Bast approached AutumnStarr and hugged her tightly.
"You have done well, my good daughter."
Mace Windu listened very carefully to the conversation with the feline-woman and the man. It was obvious that something the man with strong aura of Force did that brought Dark Striker to this strange place. Mace leaned forward in his chair.
"If you are responsible for our coming here, then surely you have means to return us to our original place, as you can see, we were on war and we must go back."
ChiYou and Bast winced. ChiYou cleared his throat.
"I am sorry to say that I cannot do it. Though my ship is capable of dimensional recall, it is beyond my ship's ability to send you back. However, once we recover the Garuda, I assure you that I'll do anything to return you, as the Garuda holds the key to your return."
Bast tapped ChiYou on the shoulder.
"I am sorry to say this, ChiYou, but the current location of Garuda, along with other fake Garudas, are controlled by the System Lords. The real Garuda is under Hathor's guard. Unfortunately, neither the Anthrofeilds nor the Tauri, have enough ground forces to retake the real Garuda."
Anakin quikcly interjected.
"If this 'Garuda' thing can return us to our original location, perhaps we can help to retake it. We have a sizable army on board this ship."
Obi-Wan frowned and waved his hand to hold back his student.
"That is not your call, my young padawan."
"I'm sorry, master, it's just that I am anxious to return..."
"Be mindful of your thoughts, young Skywalker." said Mace.
However, ChiYou and Bast were delighted by the idea.
"If you could help, we will be delighted to extend our best effort to return you to your dimension." said Bast
"If you can help us, it would be easier to retake the Garuda and therefore easier for me to access the Garuda."
"Where is the real Garuda, mother?"
"My child, the Garuda is hidden in a cave on the third peak of the GreyClaws Mountain Range. As you already know, and I have scanned, the region is crawling with Hathor's Jaffa." answered Bast.
"You have not moved the Garuda from where I have hidden it."
Bast shook her head.
"No, ChiYou. I planned to do it when the System Lords found that the Garuda was on Caltt'latc but they captured and banished me on my route as I was returning from planet Farn where your servant U'sa and our friend Hephaestus are hiding."
"I see. AutumnStarr, contact O'Neil and tell them of our situation and ask whether they agree with receiving help from these aliens should they offer it."
AutumnStarr smiled when she heard that Mitra was alive on Farn.(or so she thought) but when she heard that Hathor's Jaffa had overrun the GrayClaws she looked to the three Jedi, "Mother, ci ni Huar-tu ni?(Mother why does Hathor want this thing?)" She asked. if they could help them, they would Help the Jedi
"Hathor belives that it will give her power over Anubis." Bast answerd her.
When ChiYou told her to make contact with the Tauri group she nodded, "Yes, I will do that from my ship." She said standing, she then left the room, but before she left she huged her mother once more, "Ei ni ti noa Ei dr ti(I will return mother, I promise)" she said.
She enterd her ship, and started the comm, "Shepperd, O'Niell, my home world has been overrun by Hathor, My mother Bast has arrived here to help us, however, that is not doable without more soldiers." She said.
"Oh how I hate that Goa'uld" O'Neill mutterd.
"the people in this ship have offerd to help, Mother and ChiYou want you to have a say in this." AutumnStarr told him.
"hmm, how many soldiers does that ship carry?" Carter asked.
"4,000 troops, though I do not trust them"
"Why?"
"these troops wear full body armor, My kind do not trust any that do not show their skin." AutumnStarr said. "But if you say we should use these troops they offer, I go by your choice"
"Lets go with this for the time being. I'd like to see these troops for myself." O'Neill said.
"very well, you see the teleportation ring?"
"yes."
"stand on it."
O'Niell did so and vanished in a flash of light, two seconds later he appeard in the cocpit of AutumnStarr's ship.
"well where is everyone?" Jack asked his scarcasem getting the best of him, "where are the troops you spoke of? I don't see them, they must be hiding in the weapons lockers."
"come with me O'Neill. I must tyake you to meet the head people of this ship." AutumnStarr told him.
the two of them left her ship, the clones that lead AutumnStarr to her ship raised their weapons at O'Niell, "Who are you?" one asked. O'Niell fingerd his P90 "uh AutumnStarr, a little help."
"he is with me, let him alone now" AutumnStarr said activating her sword, the clones lowerd their weapons, "this way" they said leading them to the room where the three Jedi and the two True Ones where. AutumnStarr truned off her sword.
as they neared they heard Bast ask, "You have never heard of the System Lords?"
"Who are these System Lords? are they like the Trade Federataion?"
"The who?" O'Niell asked as they enterd the room.
"and you are?" Mace Windu asked.
"Col, Jack O'Niell, US Air Force." Jack said looking at the two clones by the door. "who are they?" he jerked a thumb at the two.
"that is a question I wanted to ask you." Bast said truning to Jack, "my child who is this?"
"this is a friend from Tauri" AutumnStarr said hugging her mother again. "O'Niell this is my mother Bast. a True One like ChiYou."
"nice to meet you." Jack said, "now will somebody tell me what's going on?"
ChiYou raised his hand to silence everyone then he spoke.
"I will explain."
He cleared his throat.
"The Garuda is a spaceship made by an unknown alien who is affiliated with the Protoss, an alien from different dimension who have help a small group of goa'ulds to fight against the powerful System Lords such as Ra. Garuda was such a powerful ship that its capabilities were... extreme. Even Janus..."
"ChiYou, Kree'ta!" shouted Bast with alarm in her voice. Then ChiYou also made a face of surprise and bowed his head. Bast continued the story.
"When whoever was controlling the Garuda disappeared, fearing that Ra would take hold of it, ChiYou hid it on Caltt'latc and Hephaestus made almost one hundred fake Garuda to fool the System Lords. However, after ChiYou was defeated by Hwang Di, Ra banished ChiYou to a remote planet within a sacophagus. Other members of our small group who fought against the oppressive regimes of the System Lords, managed to evade capture but when Mangar-kunjer-kunja was captured, he told Apophis that the Garuda was hidden on Caltt'latc. He never managed to come to Caltt'latc for Garuda but Hathor, Baal and Anubis were also made aware of the Garuda's location. That is why there is a war here. Whoever possesses the Garuda would have enough power to wipe out the entire galaxy of his or her enemy."
Then O'Neil asked a question, pointing at the Jedi.
"What about them?"
"Garuda is affiliated with the Protoss, and my ship HwanUng uses Protoss teleportation technology. When I attempted to use dimensional recall to bring the Corsairs to the hanger bay of HwanUng it seemed to have reacted with the Garuda and somehow brought these people and this ship from a different dimension to ours."
Sam was excited at the prospect of a new technology and Daniel was thinking about the incidents with the quantum mirror.
"As for you, Jedi, I have no knowledge of a 'Trade Federation' but I can assure you that neither Hathor nor Baal, not to mention Anubis, would do nothing against you, especially when you have thousands of humanoid soldiers. They will try to capture or kill you. They think they are really 'gods'. The System Lords rule planets as 'gods' and treat the inhabitants of those planets as slaves. These people of Tauri fights to free those people from the oppress of the System Lords. I you would fight with us, I would be grateful. Now, tell us of yourselves and this Trade Federation, Jedi."
AutumnStarr's ears flattened to her head when Bast shouted to ChiYou, after Bast explained to the three Jedi about the ship, she spoke,
"Mother...is Mitra onboard your ship?" She asked.
"yes my child she is." Bast said.
"may I contact her?"
"yes." Bast said.
AutumnStarr did so. "Mitra kinnea tow ni ri?(Mitra are you there)"
"I am here Kitten" Mitra said, she always called AutumnStarr a kitten, which she was compeard to Mitra's age.
"Can you come to me and Mother?" AutumnStarr asked.
"If Bastet allows it I shall."
AutumnStarr turned to Bast. "Mother? can she?" Bast nodded. AutumnStarr turned back to her comm, "Mother has said yes...bring Sazhi'fa with you.(Bastet's staff weapon)" AutumnStarr told her.
I" am on my way, Bastet's weapon as well as mine and yours with me." Mitra said.
the two clones by the door stiffened a bit once more as the flash of light appeard and a Female warrior appeard carring three weapons with her. "Hello Kitten" She said.
"Hello Mitra." AutumnStarr said.