The Omake Files - The Fifth Man
Uss George Hammond, Heading towards Icarus Base
Eli Wallace laughed as Colonel Potter regailed one of his reality-jumping adventures. He had just told about the time he appeared on the Enterprise, as in, Original-series, Kirk's enterprise.
"So his accent really was a fake?" He asked as he settled down.
"Oh yeah." Harry affirmed, smiling widely. "Spock finally told me just as they beamed me down to the lab of one of their temporal science geeks." Then his smile faltered for a second. "Of course, 'dramatic effect' and all that, when I returned, I asked Spock if the transporter malfunctioned or something, because I saw a duplicate of me stood with them. Well, almost like me."
"Oh?" Eli asked, going wide-eyed. "So what happened to him? Was it like the time Kirk was split-"
Harry shook his head. "Nope. More like the William and Thomas Riker malfunction."
Eli grinned. "Cool. So what happened to him?"
"He wanted to stay. Had all sorts of stuff he wanted to do." He smiled a bit wider, and added, "Said he wanted to make sure that as far as that universe is concerned, the events from the fifth movie, Never Happened."
Eli nodded with a giggle. "So. Ever end up in the Star Wars reality?"
One of their audience, who hadn't been quite so amused with the whole thing, groaned. It was rapidly becoming known that Eli Wallace was a bit of a Sci-fi nut.
The groan became audible when everyone noticed the odd look on Harry's face, as he looked upwards, amused, abashed and embarrassment written on his face.
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Death Star II, The Emporers' Tower
"Goood..." The emporer said, drawing out the word a little bit. "I can feel your anger..."
Suddenly, the moment was ruined when a smiling Harry Potter appeared from behind a pillar. "Hey Gramps!"
The emporer sputtered, and angrily responded, "I told you never to call me that."
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Uss George Hammond
"That was the 4th reality." Harry spoke, as the groans died down. Then with a grin, he added, "And the 6th, but that one was prequal era."
"What happened? In both?"
"Return of the Jedi, Death Star II's tower, Emporer was rather pissed off when I told him that those tribbles somehow got into the super weapons' inner workings. Apparently, they're quite..." He paused, and thought for a moment, before he said, "Conductive. Lando later told me before I left that there were lots of explosions when he flew inside it, because of the malfunction."
"Tribbles?" one member of the audience asked.
"Yeah, I forgot but, well, I sort of had one in a backpack that I took with me when I left the Enterprise. They had just been to K-7 when I appeared, you'see."
"And you spread them to three other realities?" Eli asked.
Harry nodded. "Wolverine was so angry with me because of that that when all was said and done and one of the healing mutants and got me my leg back, Xavier put him on suspension."
"Wait, you visited the X-men reality?"
"One of the Marvel realities, actually." Harry corrected. "You forget that of all the different 'realities', some are shown to be connected with other comic series. Iron Man was the Sorcerer Supreme in that one. Thankfully. He did his own brand of magic to open a portal for me, but told me that he couldn't send me back to my own... as it was, he could only put me on a path through the realities that would lead me back to my own on the shortest route. Like the realities were, stacked, and I couldn't go further than a few of them closer to my own."
"So did you go to any realities that weren't... TV shows or comics, or Books... Or any other form of media in this or your original reality?" Eli asked.
"A few. But I spent a few years in those." Harry replied. "I'm just thankful that total time in different realities didn't age my body any, and when i returned I found that it was simply my mind affected... my mind is actually 20 years older than my body because of it."
Eli sat back, and mulled that over. He already knew that Harry had been through a time-loop of sorts, it was one of the stories that Harry had told him about the stargate program after he'd finished watching Dr Jackson's primer video.
"Still telling tales?" A woman spoke up, having entered partway through the short summary of the marvel reality. Eli recognised her as Colonel Carter, the commander of the George Hammond.
Harry looked up at her, and smiled wickedly. "Now why would I lie?"
Sam looked to Eli, and with a joking wink, told him, "Don't believe a word. he tried to get me to believe that he actually met the roadrunner in his..." she glanced at Harry as she said, unsure, "8th? or 9th reality visit."
"Why wouldn't I believe that?"
Sam shared in a stage-whisper, "He keeps saying that he managed to run on thin-air between the tops of two cliffs and didn't fall."
"Hey, that reality worked more on the power of belief that my magic did in my original reality!" Harry protested. "Why do you think Will-E only ever fell when he realised he wasn't on firm ground?"
"it's a cartoon."
Harry nodded, and finished, "And despite the 2-Dimensional appearance, it was quite 3-Dimensional to me."
"Wait, it actually, looked like a cartoon?" Eli asked.
"Different realities, different rules. I'm just gratefull this reality is close enough to my own that my magic works mostly the same way." In demonstration, Harry conjured a T-shirt that had an image, depicting a cartoon version of himself, frozen in a running position between two cliff edges, holding a board on a stick, with the caption, "I believe I can fly."
"Oh god, that's corny." Sam grumbled, but she was chuckling.
"I like it." Eli said. "Can I keep it?"
Harry sighed with a sad smile. "Conjured items don't last long. sorry. It's mostly a... I guess, magic version of a hologram. Solid to touch, can take it anywhere, but it only lasts as long as the magic energy does that sustains the spell. I'm lucky if one lasts a day or two." He indicated the shirt. "That'll last long enough for someone to get the basic image enough that we can produce a real one by the time we arrive at Icarus..."
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Roadrunner universe
Harry picked up the hopeless coyote after he once again fell down. He calmly corrected the various 'injuries' to the cartoon character, and as the coyote awoke, Harry put his hand behind his back, then brough ti back, revealing a placard, stating, "You really need to find new prey."
The coyote, in the same manner, replied, "What prey? There's only the roadrunner to eat."
Puff! "Meep Meep." Puff!
Harry looked at the raw steak on a dinner plate that the Roadrunner nicely dropped off for them. Placard-talk again, Harry said, "Well, thankfully there's no rock falling down from above to ruin it."
The coyote looked up, and whimpered. Harry rolled his eyes and a second later, the rock gently landed away from the pair and the food.
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Authors note:
Sorry! I couldn't help it. and now this chapter makes the catagory selection properly set now. hehe.