Chapter 6: The Children of the Gods: Part 1 A
Harry ducked the fast punch that was thrown at him, going to his knees he let fly a kick which Jack barely jumped over, throwing his own kick at Harry's face as he landed. Doing a backflip, Harry managed to get away and land a few feet away.
Harry and Jack had been sparring for the past half hour and neither of them were showing any signs of giving up. Harry at age eleven looked liked a slender fifteen year old, with a body that was ripped with muscles. Muscles that had saved his life on more than one occasion in the line of duty.
Harry was of course a Lieutenant in the United States Air Force, taking after his Dad who was a retired Colonel.
After they had found Diagon Alley, back when Harry was six, Jack and Harry had found themselves being led by an extremely excited wizard to Gringotts Bank where they discovered the wizarding currencey as well as the fortune Harry had hiding in the depths of the bank.
Next they visited the bookstore where Jack indulged himself for the first time in books, and procured a number of tomes ranging from every subject. After leafing through a recent history book, Jack's attitude suddenly changed. He bought the remainder of the books quickly and ushered Harry out as fast as he could.
Jack had decided to train Harry without telling him anything yet and after a year of hard working, using techniques from the books Jack had bought, Harry finally managed to unlock the knowledge he recieved on the day of the car crash. He had slept the whole next day and then it was Harry's turn to do some explaining.
He had told Jack about his previous life, Voldemort, Hogwarts and how he came to idea of sending his knowledge to his past self. He explained that by doing so he had created a paradox that would have ripped apart the world and so magic had stepped in and seperated the two worlds, one world where Harry had continued living happily married to Ginny, and one where Harry at age six, for some explicable reason recieved all of the other Harry's knowledge and some of his power.
After that Harry had pushed himself harder than ever. He himself had not changed, his personality –that of a seven year old- had remained all he got was a bit of power (okay a lot of power) and some knowledge, and so he and Jack's relationship had not changed and continued to grow until they acted more like brothers than father and son.
For two years he trained physically with Jack while he learned from private tutors until he got his High School Diploma, and a year later he got several degrees officially claiming the title of Doctor over three times as an Archeaologist, a Physicist, and a skilled linguist. As a hobby he studdied medical books becoming a certified Life Guard, before claiming certification as a Emergency Medical Technician, and finally a full Doctor.
For people who knew him, he was a prodigy. Bored and having nothing to do, he had enlisted in the Air Force and had quickly risen among the ranks. In the Air Force, he was considered a legend, an eleven year old who was one of their top men it was unheard of. It had taken a lot of convincing on his Dad's part to get the Air Force to accept him, but after a few sparring sessions with the boy, the General in charge of recruits had quickly agreed.
Because of his age, and his size, Harry trained and exercised harder than anyone their eventually reaching the point where he had the body of a fifteen year old. Girls who didn't know his actual age would watch him with a gleam of lust in their eyes, something which never failed to amuse Harry.
Because of his extra training he was able to last for several hours in a fight without breaking a sweat, which is how he was able to last that long again Jack. Truthfully it had stopped becoming a challenge for Harry to beat Jack, and was now more of a challenge for Jack to beat Harry, their constant sparring pushed them to a level of skill that was unprecedented by anyone else in the force.
Before the two could clash again, they both turned to look down the street as they heard the unmistakable sound of a car driving towards them. Together they watched as the car pulled up to Jack's house and two men got out wearing the uniform of the United States Military. One of them stepped forward.
"Colonel Jack O'Neill?" he asked giving a quick salute.
"Retired." Jack replied easily ignoring the salute and raising an eyebrow. The man seemed to have not have heard him, or just chose to ignore the answer, Harry was unsure which.
"I'm Major Samuels."
"Air Force?"
"Yes, Sir."
"You want my opinion Major? Get reassed to NASA. That's where all the action is going to be, out there."
"I'm the Executive Officer from General Hammond, I'm under orders to bring you in, Sir."
"Never heard of him."
"He replaced General West, Sir. He want's to talk to you about something called the Stargate."
Without a word, Harry turned around and went inside the house, knowing Jack would be going with the Major to find out what the General wanted. He himself would be visiting someone else to find out what was going on. Someone much higher ranking than General Hammond.
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Quickly going through all the checkpoints at Cheyenne Mountain, Jack took the time to look around and remember the time when he had been here, not too long ago, when he had left a young Dr. Daniel Jackson on Abydos with his new wife. When he had come back to find his own wife gone. When he had, for the first time defied direct orders and filed a false mission report. He wondered if that was why he was called back here.
Stopping outside General West's old office, Major Samuels knocked and waited until he was given permission to enter.
Jack stepped passed Samuels as he held the door for him and took a quick glance around the office absently noticing that it hadn't changed much aside from a few pictures here and there.
"General Hammon," Samuels said as he stood by the door, "Colonel Jack O'Neill."
"Retired." Jack reprimanded Samuels before turning to face the General.
"Ah yes I could see that." Hammond said frowning, "Me, I'm on my last tour, getting my thoughts together; maybe write a book- you ever thought about writing a book Colonel?"
Jack mentally frowned while keeping his face stoic, he hated these games. "I've thought about it," he said slowly, "but then I'd have to shoot anybody who read it." He resisted the urge to roll his eyes at the looks he was getting from both Hammond and Samuels. "It's a joke, Sir." He said annoyed, "Most of my work that I've done over the past ten years has been classified."
"Yes, of course." Hammond said nodding his head in understanding.
Jack decided to cut it short, "Major Samuels said something about the Stargate?" he asked making it obvious he didn't like beating around the bush.
"Down to business then," Hammond said nodding, "I can do that."
Getting up, Hammond walked out, Samuels beckoning Jack to follow him.
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"Lieutenant Potter!" came the exclamation of from the President, "This is a pleasant surprise! What brings you here?"
Harry grinned at his friend of three years, they had gotten to the point of where Harry was able to apparate directly into the oval office, well into the closet at least in case anyone was outside, although Harry still insisted of calling the President by his formal title, no doubt a drawback of his military training.
They had first met when the President had called him in and asked him if he was The Harry Potter, after, when Harry confirmed he was, the President decided that he could use an adviser to help dealing with the magical world and his counterpart; the magical President. Harry had agreed and the two had formed a friendship over the years. The President himself insisted on calling him by his rank until Harry agreed to call him by name, something which had not yet happened.
"A funny thing happened today, Sir." Harry started. "You see earlier today I was sparring with my dad, Jack O'Neill."
The President leaned forward, already aware of what was happening, and where Harry was going. He decided to cut Harry off, if he was right, Harry would want to get to Colorado as quick as possible.
"Ah well I believe I know where your going with this, Lieutenant. Last night the Stargate was activated, and not by our side." Harry mouth dropped. "But isn't the one on Abydos destroyed, or at least buried?"
The President nodded, "Yes according to your father's mission reports. That's why he was brought in, to question him about them." The President noticed that his friend shifted uncomfortably, and he narrowed his eyes at him.
"Did anything come through the gate Sir?" Harry asked nervously. The Presidents answer was not reassuring.
"Eight hostiles came through, killed four men and kidnapped another." Harry swallowed audibly. The President wasn't done. "Seven of them were guarding another one, according to General Hammond, his eyes glowed."
Harry took a deep breath and let it out, "There's no way it's Ra." He said confidently. "Ra had a tactical nuclear warhead blown up in his face! There's no way he could have survived that."
The President frowned, "The orders were to blow it up on the other side of the Stargate, Daniel Jackson was supposed to blow up the bomb, the mission reports say he did, how do we know Ra was even there at the time the bomb was set off?"
Shit Harry thought, before shaking his head, no way out of this one. Slowly Harry started the tale that was told to him years ago by his dad. He told the President how Jackson was still alive, how the kids were still alive and how the bomb was enhanced by Ra with a foriegn mineral.
He then told of how his dad had transported the bomb to Ra's ship while it was in orbit, seconds before it blew up, destroying the ship but leaving the planet and everyone on it alive. He finished by telling of the deal Daniel Jackson made with his dad to bury the gate, and of how they checked after to find indeed that the gate had been buried.
The President was not happy, but after ten minutes of calming him down, Harry was able to negotiate with him. Another ten minutes later, Harry was sent off by the President to Colorado with new orders for Genral Hammond.
A\N: Wow it's been a tough one. Most of the dialouge from Hammond and Jack was taken from the show and I had to find it again to watch it. I think this is one of my longest chapters, happy reading!