Author notes- thanks to those that helped with this chapter. Especially to Lancelot who has given me a lot inspiration and writing ideas, some will be included on the fic' New Frontier'. To Daniel who has offered suggestions, andother reading material to further enrich this story.

Thank you all.

Chapter 3

It was at this point I decided to visit the 'diner' that the Ancients use as a meeting point for others of their kind. As soon as I walked in, they all looked at me. So much for hospitality, I mean how rude is that? What was it a local diner for local people?

"Id like a coffee" I said to the waitress as I walked to a table to sit down. She had brown hair and one of those truly awful hats they wear in American diners.

"You're new around these parts aren't you?" she asked

"Not really, sort of my old stomping ground"

"What's your name?" she inquired politely

"Q"

"Mine's.." she never finished as I interrupted

"I already know your name Oma" I said.

"How? Was it Daniel?" So much for their powers of deduction.

"Not really"

"We've not encountered you before. Are you new to being ascended?"

"Hardly" I said. How arrogant is that, thinking that all other 'ascended beings' were like them?

"I've not been around these parts for a long while" I continued, technically this would be true, maybe an aeon or three. Not that I was counting.

"How is Daniel, I've not seen him for a few months" Oma replied conversationally.

"Linear time really isn't my thing, I'm a more of an anytime, anywhen man myself" I said in my best bored tones.

"Who are you?" she asked. If it isn't obvious to you all, but the Alterans experience time like most other limited beings, they can time travel, but at the cost of creating a divergent reality point; or simply put another parallel universe.

"4th dimensional beings" I said and put my head in my hands.

"Your not one of us" she said giving me one of those questionable looks, and raising an eyebrow. See what I mean about their deductive reasoning, talk about being simple!

One of the other ascended beings got up and walked over to me, he seemed oldish, grey hair, carried an 'air' of authority.

"I don't know who you are" he said in a gravely, and 'gruff' tone. It was almost an 'ascended' General Langdry. He continued, "but you are not welcome here". I stood up, and could feel my temper beginning to unwind like snake around a tree.

"We are in charge here" he replied. I looked at him like an annoying insect that you are about to swat, only instead of a roller up newspaper it would more likely be a flamethrower - and enjoy watching it burn.

My look obviously worked because he stepped back.

"I have news for every 4th dimensional being related to the Alterans" I began; now this was not just being heard in this 'diner' but across the whole multiverse, "consider your status revoked" I finished and clicked my fingers for effect and severing their connection to the 4th dimension.

"What have you just done?" he asked.

"I Hope you all enjoy being human, again" I said with disdain

"You can't" he said. Other Alterans stood up with bemused looks, unable to access their powers.

"Is that a fact?" I quipped clicking my fingers and the diner and the Ancients vanished in flash of light.

If I was going to place the Ancients and Ori on trial, I had to collect a few more ascended beings. A while ago, some Ancients had left this universe and sought to explore only to become a 'force' somewhere else as the 'Powers That Be'. I appeared in a white room with two beings who had silver skin, one male the other female, with tattoos on their faces, wearing togas. They were known as Guardians, or more precisely Oracles. How unoriginal is that?

"What is your purpose here lesser being" he asked. The woman continued to look at me. The cheek of it, honestly.

"I could say the same to you" I replied and clicked my fingers turning the male into a little dog; Pomeranian to be precise. I continued to ignore them and walk to the large archway behind them made up of white light.

"You are not permitted to go there" she said.

"Unless you would rather I turned your 'friend' there" I said pointing at the Pomeranian "into an Alsatian, and you into a lamp post I'd button it"

"You wouldn't" she said taking a step back away from me.

"I am about to evict your 'Powers'" I said, using their title like a disease "for not paying a long overdue bill"

"They won't let you" she replied.

"They don't get a choice" I said and off I walked leaving the woman and her new pet dog. I hope she would take him for walks, feed him, and pay him attention, some dogs have a tendency to 'yap' a lot, and you must always be a responsible owner of your pets. I am.

As I got to the end of the hallway, it branched in many directions. I wandered up the main hallway that changed to resemble a library. I didn't need to walk, but you may as well enjoy your work. There were books galore on everything, all kinds of knowledge stored here; Mortals would positively salivate at thought, but to a Q absolutely nothing interesting. It would be a like a Phd physicist regressing to reading 'Physics for dummies'

I walked around another corner, and it narrowed into a hallway leading to an office, all with a very 'dark wood' kind of feel. I opened the door to find an old man sitting at a desk smoking a cigar, with the same dark coloured wood everywhere. It looked more like an old mans club.

"Who are you?" he inquired. Many of you will have realised I didn't have to do any of this, so why? You figure it out.

"The name is Q" Nothing like building a little bit of tension, "It's a bit dreary and depressing, I think you might need a new colour scheme" I said and turning all the wood into all the colours of the rainbow, that's better don't you think?"

"What is your business here? You aren't a demon" he said. Some beings still have belief that anything which doesn't match the local populace is a 'demon'. How child like is that? Some ascended types are not very intelligent.

"Don't bother to call for any help, it isn't coming." I could see concentration lines on his forehead.

"What have you done to them?" he asked.

"Same as I'm going to do you, other Alterans, and the Ori" I said and clicked my fingers as he disappeared. If you've guessed right, I just wanted to taunt him. I was also aware at this point that SG-1 were discussing me again. I decided to eavesdrop, unobserved of course.

"What if he is telling the truth about being more advanced than the Ancients?" Daniel asked.

"You can only transcend time and space once, as far as I know" Sam replied.

"What about 'Omega point'" asked Daniel.

"No one really knows anything about it Daniel, and it's just theoretical. I would have thought that being an Ancient you would have reached it already". I could see the Sam and Daniel were conversing. For those of you that don't know, 'Omega Point' is when you have learnt all that is possible in normal 3-dimensional space, at which point you transcend to 'higher dimensions'. Learn all that is learnable. Sound familiar? It should, V'Ger did it by combining with Commander Decker and Lieutenant Ilia.

That level of evolution should have happened in the Federations far distant future, when their minds had evolved further to comprehend other dimensions; as it was the new lifeform was very nearly stillborn. The Q intervened here to help. Usually we wouldn't have bothered, but I was feeling helpful that day. So sue me? Ooops you can't, I'm the judge and jury.

The Ancients had indeed reached 'Omega Point', but that stage as you may have guessed is but only the beginning of a long journey. Now in another multiverse, humans battle huge sentient machines the size of galaxies that are capable of consuming Quasars as a light snacks. In this particular universe humans had evolved to the point where we hoped the federation would one day go, the 'human kind god' had been born, and was in fact triune in nature, one part intellect, one part empathy, and the last part inhabiting the spaces in between 'planck space/ time'. But the Federation were a long way off, but the Q were ever hopeful. We were also hoping the 'humans' and 'machines' in this universe would leave their battle behind, as it rages in both time and space, and eventually join to become 4th dimensional beings with a difference; if they didn't they would get a visit from Me. The technology here would put V'Ger to shame. Why did I care? We'll let the intelligent among you figure that out.

I think at this point I need to explain the 'mechanics' of meta-universal location, at least that's that the technical name for it. Take a 'core reality' like the one I'm in. Every being in this universe, not just SG-1, but every being that makes a decision creates a branch point if you will. Not just humans, but all life. A parallel universe is where there are a set of decisions, each one creating a different outcome. An alternate universe is where a decision earlier on in the universe creates a different set of laws, or living conditions that would affect how all life would evolve. So there might be no humanoid beings, or a whole universe of 'Fluidic Space' if that helps. All these parallels, and alternate universes. This is a mutliverse.

If you were to have mutliverses, it would be like saying 'infinities', or infinity plus one. It doesn't really make a lot of sense. So a new measuring stick had to be used.

So every core reality creates a multiverse around it. The Federation is part of another 'core universe', the same is true for the Gallifreyans. So more than one multiverse becomes an 'Omni-verse'. Although the Q are the top of 'food chain' we do have a few equals, but I'll explain about them later.

"Hello again 'Johnny', I hope you've decided to run my little errand for me?"

"Q. Our ship isn't in any condition to do anything other than limp home" replied Jean-Luc.

"Really" I said making his ship as good as new, "look again"

"What the" Commander, or rather the recently promoted Captain Riker tried to say.

"Now, I really do have things to do" Not one of them moved.

"We aren't going Q, none of us will do what you want, and neither will we interfere in the timeline"

"Billions of lives are depending on you, would you rather watch them die"

"We cannot interfere the 'Prime Directive' forbids it"

"Here's a thing. I can either tell you how to travel there under your own steam, or I'll just toss your 'little barge' where I want it; but don't let there be any misunderstanding, you are going" I said emphasising the last three words. See what I mean about lower lifeforms being dense? If they were vaguely intelligent they'd understand and do what I told them first time around.

They actually thought I was trying to harass them, in actuality I was defying the 'continuum' who believed they have travelled too far, too fast. By being in the other multiverse they would pick up some rather new and interesting technologies and advance even faster. With a bit of string pulling, without being too overt the 'temporal cold war' would never happen and that timeline cease to exist. If I told them that, it'd make their predicament even worse. Woe is me. Woe is me.

Now if I 'played my cards' right, and let's face it no one on that terrible program ever did, but I had to now try and tell Geordie La Forge how to construct a trans-universal dimensional transwarp conduit, and that was the simple terminology. I had a greater chance of explaining quantum mechanics to a chimpanzee. While I left a 'part of me' behind to do that, I had been holding the collected Ancients, and Ori in a sort of 'null space', devoid of light, sound, anything really. Complete sensory deprivation. Vindictive, who me?

The 'Ancients' appear in an old fashioned 20th Century courtroom, naturally I'm judge, and another twelve of me sit as jurors.

"Its time" I said, I have not at this point restored their powers. I can see them looking around in shock, sensory overload, and in general fear.

"How do the Alterans plead, guilty or not guilty?" I knew their answer before Oma stepped forward.

"Guilty of what" she inquired.

"Being a lower lifeform who is no longer worthy to maintain their position in the cosmos".

"I have to plead guilty" she began, she was about to add ' or not guilty' but I interrupted her sentence deliberately.

"So you all plead guilty? The sentence for that is death" One of the 'Powers That Be' stepped forward, it was actually the one whose office I had walked into.

"No. We will plead 'not guilty'" he replied with a tone of authority.

"Well, well. If it's not one of the Powers That Has Been"

"We do not take kindly to your mocking, Q, or whatever you are" he replied in rather angry tones.

"Life's hard and I'm a Q and I shall do whatever I like. You would do well to remember that"

"We plead 'not guilty'" one of the Ori shouted. Murmurs of agreement went through the former 'ascended' ranks.

"If that be the case, we shall begin the lesson with awareness" I said. Slowly I gave them back their 4th dimensional awareness, and extended to, 5th, 6th & 7th dimensions. Slowly expanding it to the level of a Q, albeit temporarily.

Every 'ascended' being gasped in astonishment and wonder, a couple passed out; more than one threw up metaphysical vomit. You can't make an omelette and all that. They could now see that I was 'flexing' my 11th dimensional muscles. They looked in awe at the sight before them.

I could read their minds, trying to grasp how I did this, that there was no description for this technology. I knew that they now understood that I was playing with their consciousness like a 'master pianist'. Glory beyond their reckoning lay before them. Majestic waves of creation, destruction and entropy lay before them. They seem to float freely above the wheel of all existence.

In every direction they viewed reality after reality, the shock of the revelation of their ignorance warred with the appreciation for the wonder of Existence. Coupled with their sensory imbalance the dominant feeling that they now experienced was incoherent "FEAR". Who, What was this being that held all of this to be his playground?

"This is my backyard" I said for dramatic effect. Now as you become a 6th dimensional being you leave the Omni-verse behind, and transcend to higher realities that can have no parallel or alternate. You begin to see the 'Cosm-verse'. You know I said that the Q were top of the food chain, well that was a slight lie, but also a truth. There are two beings, that are also locations- one is called the 'Everything', made up of brilliant shining blue, and green material with huge red veins running through it. The other is the 'Nothing', and is a void of pure destructive force, even the Q fear this; it has another name, 'the Heart of Darkness'.

To our knowledge only two beings have ever merged successfully with either 'power', the usual result is to be consumed. What goes in, does not come out the same. To even attempt it, you have got to be out your cosmic mind. As I said two powers survived the 'joining', Apeiros emerged from the 'Everything', a woman of immense power, she has another name I recently learnt, Melonie but I digress.

The other wants to destroy whole realities, and he is called the 'Nameless One'. The Q encountered him about ten aeons ago on the 'fringe' of reality, before we knew what happened a Q was dead. It took the collective might of several Q to send him packing, since then we have several 'Q Enforcement Squads' dedicated to detecting either of them and making sure they both stay away. We want nothing to do with either.

The reason I mentioned this, well I just noticed, or sensed that the 'Nameless One' had just entered this universe. I could empower the Ancients with the power of the Q, fight it/him myself, or alert the continuum? He obviously sensed me, and 'cut off' my access to the continuum before I could act. I flung the Enterprise, had to keep my pet safe. How do I describe the 'Nameless One?' Well imagine a human with skin as dark as a 'black hole', and eyes that contain a power to match. Scary eh? You try standing right next to him, in a metaphorical way.

I did the only thing I could, I shouted across the Cosm-verse for help. Unfortunately, he destroyed whole universes before I stop him. Oh crap!