DISCLAIMER: I do not own Harry Potter, Stargate: SG-1, Star Trek, or any of the real quantum physics and science in this story, the characters, plots, or stories from those series, but I do own my own characters, plot, and story. However, if in my zeal to squish real science together with sci-fi, if I accidentally stumbled upon something that works, I do want my Nobel prize (there is a cash reward that comes along with the trophy right?) Oh, and if you build one of these things and it works, you damned well owe me a ride.

Harry Potter and the Cochran Effect - Chapter 5

ND-1 was finally ready for their first real off-world mission and they chose to go to Abydos. Even though SG-1 had a regular thing going on there, they figured if Doctor Jackson could live there for a year and got married, that it ought to be safe enough first their first time off-world. Plus, they wanted to get their own recording of the thousands of Stargate addresses that supposedly were etched on the Cartouche.

They would send in their disillusioned reconnaissance drone (aka the Sniffer drone) first. They recently charmed their armor with some upgrades above what the tech alone could do for them. They were impervious not that it needed it, could also dissolution itself, and could fly at the speed of a Firebolt, at two hundred kph. On top of that, since whatever Harry wore when he turned intangible went with him, he was an even more badass thief than he ever was.

Each member of the team carried an expansion backpack full of supplies for their missions and plenty of room to store any targets of opportunity they come across. ND-1 lacked the experience of an SG-1, but they had so many more tech advantages and defenses going in, not to mention their innate magic, that they felt they should do alright for themselves.

"Are you ready guys?" Harry asked. "Ready" they all replied. Ben who rode the main console when he didn't have something else that needed flying, dialed the gate to Abydos. The gate opened with the customary swoosh and blue blast of dangerous exotic particles. They all stood a good ten feet back from the thick yellow danger line that surrounded the gate on the floor.

Hermione sent the Sniffer drone in first. When it emerged on the other side it automatically connected audio and video back to the giant view-screen in the New York gate-room. At the lower right hand of the screen, a standard readout that indicated composition of the atmosphere, weather, radiation, pressure, gravity, estimated life signs, estimated time of day, presence of an intact DHD, and so on, updated every few seconds, the color codes next to each line of text indicated green across the board. Video indicated no visible guards, in agreement with no life signs on the detector.

"It looks clear" Ben reported, "You have a go." Every one of the permanent staff of the base was there to witness the first gate trip and to see them off. Most would stay in the gate-room keeping a close eye on progress out of general concern. All waved and expressed their hearty sentiments of "Good Luck."

The team waved back, and with one more glance at the view screen, they walked into the event horizon two by two and disappeared. The gate disconnected and the room was silent. "Now we wait." Ben told the room. "Now we wait." Johnny echoed.

On the other side of the gate on Abydos, every one of the team stumbled as they reappeared, but managed to remain upright as each persons partner helped stabilize them. "That was fast." said Remus.

"Just like wormhole travel should be." Harry answered.

Hermione recovered her drone, reset it, then released it again, feeding a display to a portion of the heads-up displays built into their helmets. The drone would always stay disillusioned, twenty yards ahead of whichever direction Hermione was traveling. If the team ever needed to split up and they wanted more drone coverage, each person had their own drone they could switch to their own helmet.

The first mission wasn't meant to be long or exciting. They just wanted to test their gear and protocols in the field and get the records from the Cartouche, which would take no time at all since they were only two hundred yards from it when they exited the base of the pyramid.

They took some time to look around the pyramid. Other than it, the various temple structures surrounding it, and the cartouche, the place was a desert with dunes in every direction as far as they could see. They actually didn't know which direction the village Jackson lived in was. For that trip it didn't matter anyway. But they thought they would see a path or something. Whatever paths there might be were covered by sand.

"We might as well just get what we came for and leave. No sense tempting the fates." Harry said, and they slowly flew over to the Cartouche, to test that modality of the charm work they put on the armor. It was nothing special, just a big temple wall covered in etchings of Stargate symbols in sets of seven. They recorded everything, returned to the base of the pyramid and performed tests of all the other modalities of their armor under the field conditions. Everything checked out and they dialed the gate to home, initiated the spell to unlock the Iris, and sent the drone through.

On the other side the folks in the gate room watched the gate activate. The base klaxon sound went off indicating an incoming worm-hole and some stragglers entered the gate-room to witness the Iris open, followed by the drone coming through. All of which everyone knew was a good sign...then a couple minutes later, ND-1 emerged from the event horizon of the gate and cheers erupted at New Defenders Command (NDC) in New York. Many "whoops" and "hurrahs" and a couple "huzzahs" and lots of smiles.

...

Their first mission was a success. After loading all the gate addresses into the NDC mainframe, they sat around a big conference table in one of their meeting rooms going over addresses and matching them with their patched together digital records of the SGC's past missions. They didn't have a full hack into their systems yet, but had been able to piece together a good bit from the stories that SG-1 told them, some stolen computer data they managed to get in some brief incursions, and copies of the written transcripts of all mission debriefs since the Elves began their spy program.

...

Over the next several months, ND-1 followed the plan of missions they laid out after the Abydos mission. First they were going to backtrack SG-1's trail to planets they thought would be safe and interesting, where they might find something that the SGC missed and could exploit for their own program. They decided that for all off-world contact they would stick to close to the truth. They would introduce themselves as other human friends of the SGC, just from another country on Earth, helping to fight the Goa'uld. Which was okay, because they planned to reveal themselves to the world, SGC included, once they finished getting their own feet wet and got caught up to them in general-strong enough that the SGC couldn't and ought to not even want to try to shut them down.

Their first planned real mission, to go behind SG-1 at Argos, was scrubbed before they even departed. They had planned to take advantage of the SGC's failure to follow-up and help them like they promised, to make friends of their own. But, after a careful second study of other teams records they learned that SG-2 had done exactly that.

Their second planned mission was more tenuous to begin with. The reports were vague on whether or not the gate even still existed and the planet should be filthy with radiation. So, the mission would be all Sniffer drone to start with. During mid-August they dialed Tollan and discovered the planet did still exist and the gate still worked, but the DHD was destroyed by lava. The environment was radioactive as reported and their was no oxygen to speak of. A bit what they expected if the gate answered at all. So, a further study of that planet would take some careful planning. The first was to research and develop an alternative way to power and dial a gate other than a DHD. They were determined to have a shot at scavenging Tollan technology from the dead world.

At the end of August they went to Altair where they met with more success. Apparently, the android SG-1 team was as good at following orders as the originals. They were apparently beginning to plan their own missions but, when ND-1 arrived Harry subdued them and froze them with magic. The Altairan android caretaker Harlan bargained for them to be restored by giving ND-1 what they wanted in exchange. They got a fully intact android manufacturing machine with instructions, and copies of the SG-1 consciousness's to take with them to reverse engineer and create androids of their own. They promised Harlan they would not make direct duplicates of SG-1 because they didn't want exact duplicates, rather ones that would be loyal to them and less independent with new personalities. Harlan explained to them how to do that. That was the first real score for ND-1 bringing home some advanced alien technology and they restored the android SG-1 as promised before they left.

During mid-September they went to the Gamekeeper planet. They learned and double-checked that SG-1 never returned to help them build new lives as promised, so ND-1 made friends with them and helped them to begin doing exactly that. In exchange for their help they gave ND-1 a set of virtual reality pods, a copy of the central computer core to control them, and a copy of the Keeper android software to reverse engineer. To them it was all useless stuff anyway, they had no intention of using it again. TND figured that since those people were far from Earth it couldn't hurt to use magic openly to help them. So, they did and made fast work of getting them set up. As a consequence they also received an open invitation to return any time and to consider their planet a sanctuary from their war with the Goa'uld if they ever needed one. Their primary aim for an application of that technology was to create a VR training simulator for all their technology. Easing any other future wizards and witches or muggles into their program, should that day come. Otherwise they used some of the advancements to upgrade their new under development shipboard AI.

At the end of September they re-dialed Tollan to send through a large module Reed helped them design that would launch and retrieve a polar satellite and set into motion two hundred fifty-six upgraded Sniffer drones linked to the satellite to scan and map the ruined surface of the planet in detail. Throughout the course of each standard Earth day, the satellite would have declined longitude by five degrees, with the drone swarm following its path and performing pre-programmed search patterns. The satellite would receive constant uploads from the drones, and together with its own scans, develop a good picture of the planet surface over a period of seventy-two days, at which time the satellite and drones would have returned to their starting position over the gate and the satellite would land and re-attach itself to its Lander module. After that it would automatically connect to the gate, dial a connection back to Earth, and signal its readiness to be retrieved by the NDC.

Feeling their successes and confidence, ND-1 planned their biggest heist yet-to them it was the coup de grace they had been waiting for. They had just wanted to make sure they were seasoned enough at gate travel to pull it off. In mid October they went to Chulak and subdued and imperioused the two Jaffa guards at the gate. Whom they used to steal two Al'kesh, splitting themselves into two pairs each with their own Jaffa pilot. They then flew the cloaked Al'kesh back to their underwater base, and after learning all they could from the Jaffa about how to pilot the ships, they returned them Obliviated to Chulak through the gate. The distance to Earth was two thousand light years and at the maximum thirty-thousand times light-speed that the Al'kesh could travel in hyperspace, the trip took them twenty-three days to get back to Earth. Fortunately they always had provisions on them for even far longer stays off-world.

...

By Christmas of nineteen ninety-nine the NDC had their first real space ship reverse engineering project well underway. Their first operational custom TND android soldier prototype was undergoing live testing, and another SG-1 generic head-only droid set up with all four team member's memories purely to answer questions allowing them to mine their memories for secret knowledge and tactics.

While they were assimilating all that, they received the alert from their Tollan mission that its data was ready for retrieval. ND-1 went to Tollan and retrieved their satellite and drones. Thus began the second phase of that large project, utilizing Reed's AI assisted design computer to ingest the information and develop a cartographic model and aerial visual rendering of the planet's surface along with the details of the scans.

With the success of capturing two Al'kesh, it even attracted a couple of in person visits from both Reed and T'Challa who beside their original wish not to, just had to see the super advanced Goa'uld tech for themselves. Naturally quid quo pro being what it was, the pair would always receive a copy of TND's discoveries along the way and this was big to them. Their advice was valuable as well. So, they began an entirely new custom hybrid warship design of their own from the ground up, combining the various tech and magic. Getting past the paper stage would still take several months, but those were the breakthroughs they had been hoping for when they began their program. Thereafter, most focus shifted to the ship project.

They kept one Al'kesh fully operational to use as their own secure transport. With that they already had one up on the SGC, who's secret X-301 and Prometheus projects hadn't gotten very far yet. The SGC has gained a brief advantage when they obtained the Orbanian's naquadah reactor design, but ND-1 had gone right behind them and stole the plans from their computers. The second Al'kesh was carefully disassembled and thoroughly studied.

The biggest concerns about their competition with the SGC was their unique personal relationships with the most powerful of the advanced races out there, the Nox and the Asgard. The Asgard primarily, having worked with the SGC on a number of occasions, the two helping each other out, and the Asgard even negotiating on their behalf to enter them into the Protected Planets treaty. It's not that they had any problem with any of that, why would they? Their concern was if the Asgard would help the SGC oppose them, to help the Americans maintain their monopoly on power once they went public.

The Asgard, who they only knew from written reports were something of an enigma to them. They were aloof and not very open about sharing their knowledge and technology, but when they did work with Earth it was through just one small branch of one military organization of one country on the planet. They had to know that the SGC did not in any way represent the will of the entire people of Earth or Earth's leaders, and that everything the SGC did was in secret even from the other major powers on the planet. Were those supposedly advanced and enlightened beings purposely being obtuse or did they really just not care? Soon, though they would be ready to reveal the TND to the world and the existence of the alien threat, as well as the other secrets the Americans had been sequestering. They figured by sometime in summer Two-Thousand they should be ready to test their own first prototype battle-cruiser. Thank god for magic, Elves, and their new androids, or it could take them years.

While they worked feverishly on all their new scientific and engineering advances, they studied the results of the Tollan scans and the rest of the magical members of TND became well enough up to speed with their muggle concepts that two new teams were being formed as backups for ND-1 on future missions and some were beginning to make significant contributions on the engineering of mage-tech integration for their new ship. While they were making faster progress on tech. they were always going to be behind the SGC in terms of off-world missions. They simply didn't have the staffing to begin randomly exploring new worlds just in the hope of discovering something useful, the way that SGC did. So, they continued to use espionage to mine the SGC for their findings and to keep abreast of the wider galactic geo-political scene.

So that they left it to the SGC to continue to engage in many off-world encounters, foothold situations, and battles with System Lords, like the Sokar fiasco-while they focused on research and development. TND almost got caught one time, when they found out that Tok'ra Transphase Eradication Rods could see through their Elves invisibility and if Harry had to guess probably his own as well. It was only the Elves quick thinking that got them out of that one. Thankfully the officer who caught a glimpse of one thought they were still tracking a Reetou and later during debrief there was no other evidence to the contrary. Nevertheless, TND got over their complacency on how easy it had been up until then and learned to be more careful. After that they more carefully watched the SGC from the shadows whenever any kind of foothold situation was going on unless they thought it would be necessary to assist them. Otherwise, they could get the status of what happened after and not risk their exposure. It had been close a couple times, but in the end the NDC did not need to intervene.

In March Two-Thousand the SGC got involved with a Replicator problem on behalf of the Asgard and ended up deciding to beam their own star-gate to the Beliskner in order to escape the crashing battle-cruiser. The Beliskner and gate were then lost in the ocean and that is when the SGC discovered their spare gate in storage was a fake. All hell broke loose, but fortunately the SGC once again thought the NID was behind it and initially focused their efforts in that direction.

In the meantime, the SGC was without a stargate of their own, crippling their operation to a relative stand-still. While the U.S. searched the ocean for their missing star-gate, TND went surreptiously to all the planets that the SGC still had teams on, carefully stunned them, brought them home through their gate and dropped them off magically at the entrance to their Cheyenne Mountain complex. They were careful not to be seen by them nor for SG teams to understand how they were transported. But, they just could not in good conscious let their theft of the backup gate get any of those people hurt. A serious mystery ensued at the SGC, wondering who their anonymous benefactor was. They had no way to reach any of their off-world contacts at the moment, so it could've been anyone. But if it were the Asgard, they figured they would have said something. Perhaps the Tok'ra were helping them without saying anything, that was their best guess. But why they would remain silent about it? they thought.

During the spring as the SGC struggled without a star-gate, ND-2 went on a long-term mission to the Gamekeeper planet to take them up on their invitation to begin a small settlement of their own adjacent to them. It was part of TND's failsafe plan that they have an off-world Beta Site of their own, to fall back to if things go badly for them for any other reason or as blowback when they decide to reveal the Stargate secrets to the world. ND-2 consisted of Dan and Emma Granger, and Colin and Ginny Creevey. After getting their settlement set up they would begin storing back-up copies of everything feasible in their new underground bunker. They couldn't go on just calling it the Gamekeeper planet either, so in consultation with the native people, they discovered it's original name and went with that, Caracalla.

Things came to a head when part of SG-1 was out trying to fight replicator's on a hijacked Russian Foxtrot submarine that had tracked down the crashed Beliskner. There was a political crisis as well as a real crisis. Meanwhile Major Carter of SG-1 went with Thor of the Asgard to help him back on his world with the replicator's. TND decided that it was time to get off the sidelines and really help the SGC. Earth was threatened by replicator's, it was no longer just contained within the Cheyenne Mountain complex, the Asgard were even losing to them, and the Russians were arguing with the U.S. over their secrets. Perhaps it had become time to open up about another secret and see if they could assist.

Subsequently, ND-1 aboard their Al'kesh, tracked down the position of the hijacked replicator submarine and when they got there, Sirius and Remus in full armor used ring transports to board the submarine and helped O'Neill and Teal'c corner and destroy the original replicator. They managed at the time to only barely convince them that the unidentified high-tech armored interlopers were on their side since they were shooting with them and not at them. O'Neill ordered his forces outside to destroy the submarine while Harry and Hermione transported SG-1 and their team back to the Al'kesh to make their escape. O'Neill, Teal'c, and Jackson finally got to meet and greet their help.

"Hello Colonel O'Neill, Teal'c, and Doctor Jackson. Colonel, Teal'c it's nice to see you again. Doctor Jackson it is nice to make your acquaintance," Harry greeted his guests after he and Hermione retracted their head armor. While Sirius and Remus remained tactically behind them in case they made the wrong moves. O'Neill lowered his weapon and the others followed suit.

"Doctor Potter, what a surprise." said O'Neill. Well, I guess thanks are in order then. You know, with that whole business back in ninety-eight, we were just following orders." he explained.

"We know. We just couldn't let you carry them out." answered Hermione, sounding not too put off about it. They'd put it behind them some time ago especially after they learned how Zat's worked. They had been only trying to capture but not kill them. They knew nothing at the time except that they were being shot at.

"Miss Granger, nice to see you again." said O'Neill. "It's Mrs. Potter now, thank you. I'm glad we aren't shooting at each other this time." she added.

Harry resumed piloting the Al'kesh back to the atmosphere while allowing O'Neill to use their comms. to contact the SGC and let them know they were alright. "Don't worry, we're cloaked. We are going to drop you off at your front door nice, safe and sound." Harry said.

"Of course, Mrs. Potter. Congratulations. It's nice to meet you too." began Doctor Jackson. "I guess it is you we have to thank for returning our stranded off-world teams to us then?" he reasoned.

"Yes, it was the least we could do since we were the ones who took your spare stargate." she answered.

"Ah yes, it all makes sense now." O'Neill interjected. "I guess you never did give up on your own space program then, just went deeper underground."

"Something like that." Hermione answered. "We can get into everything more some other time. Let's not ruin this nice and cozy we have going here right now by bringing up politics." she said.

"We decided that with everything going on, including the threat of the replicator's, that it was time we revealed ourselves to you and tried to help you out. That actually is the whole reason we've done all the things we've been doing." she concluded.

"What is that exactly?" asked O'Neill.

"You know, managing our own Stargate program in order to help defend the Earth. This big blue ball is not all yours you know." she finished. Doctor Jackson snickered at that and gave O'Neill a look that said, 'I told you so.' O'Neill just rolled his eyes at Jackson and said, "Whatever Danny."

"I am grateful to you guys for helping us and our stranded people of course, but what happens next is up to people higher in the chain of command than me." said O'Neill.

"I know Colonel, but we'll try not to go too hard on you. Harry interjected cheekily, which made Hermione, Sirius, and Remus break out laughing. Having arrived at Cheyenne Mountain, ND-1 transported SG-1 down to their gate and said, We'll be in touch," and flew back to their own base.

Back at the NDC, "How did it go with SG-1?" Johnny asked.

"It went well. We came, we saw, we helped kick ass. The replicator's were destroyed. The Russians are pissed at the Americans and confused as hell. We made nice with SG-1 and took them home." Sirius answered.

"Nice." Johnny replied. Well, we have some news for you as well. Apparently SG-1's Asgard friends arrived on the scene just moments after you finished up, and they detected you. According to the Elves, Thor returned Major Carter after having achieved a victory of their own over his home-world, with the news that they monitored another player in the game as it were, that being us-you specifically, aiding SG-1 and rescuing them from the submarine right before it exploded. Thor particularly mentioned that after they and we made nice together, they would like to meet us some time." Johnny concluded.

"That is interesting. I guess it's like SG-1 always reported, not much gets by those skinny little grey aliens. Harry replied. Well, all in good time then I guess. We'll see how friendly things are when we take things to the next level. The SGC are not bound to like it very much. Let's get our new battle-cruiser into the air and into space trials so that we can show up to the table as resourceful partners when we go public." he concluded.

...

Three months later, with the SGC still sans a gate of their own, and the original gate in the process of being recovered by the Russians, the Americans were getting very squirrelly over their entire program. They were itching to find where Potter and his people were hiding, to get that gate back by force if necessary argued the NID, despite their recent friendliness. They were busy looking but not finding. While the Russians were busy dredging up their old business, figuratively and literally. Conversations turned internally to one of either confronting the Russians or opening up with them about the entire program to propose a sharing. The questions were still being bandied about at the highest levels and nothing had really happened yet, when one dark and stormy day, lo over the horizon crept a medium sized battle-cruiser, except this one was flying through the air.

In the middle of the afternoon on the 4th of July, Two-Thousand, on a heading inbound across the old Ches. Light entering the Chesapeake Bay from the Atlantic Ocean. Slowly cruising for all to get a good look, was The New Defenders pride and joy-the prototype Battlecruiser Hyperion.

She just returned from successful space flight trials, and was enroute to make a splashy introduction on the White House lawn in a small town on the banks of the Potomac River. Aboard Hyperion was the entire membership of the New Defenders, including most of the part-timers, none of whom would miss it for the world, a platoon of Elves, and a platoon of android soldiers that looked suspiciously like Sirius and Carter had a love-child with Teal'c. Ben and Johnny were pilot and co-pilot respectively, Harry as Captain, Hermione as First Officer; and all others spread out in a variety of duty stations.

Considering where the Hyperion was apparently heading, the civilian news helicopters that shadowed it for a bit were run off by the squadrons of F-15 Eagle's and F-14 Tomcat's that were chasing the sleek and sexy 200 meter long, 80 meters wide, 65 meters tall flying battlecruiser. It was traveling so slowly, less than 100 kph, such that the jets had to keep flying circles around it to keep from continually outrunning it. There was some sigh of relief when someone on the ship finally returned hails that were frantically sent by NAS Oceana, Pax River, and Andrews Air Force Base Tower Control.

Answering on every known Earth radio and television frequency Harry replied "Greetings, fellow Earthlings..."

"I am Captain Harry James Potter, in command of The New Defenders Space Battlecruiser Hyperion. We have come in peace for some show and tell. Let the sequesters of Stargate travel, advanced alien technology, and secret off-world alien wars know that it is time to come clean with the people of the entire world. ...We will be arriving for an unscheduled public meeting with the President of the United States in a couple hours. We hope that you like the show. Potter out." Harry announced.

The Air Force continued to try to give the Hyperion orders it steadfastly ignored and found that the big ship had big fancy shields when they tried their air-to-air missiles on it. It didn't cause Harry and crew any animosity. They would've been disappointed if they hadn't tried. It was all part of the demonstration after all. And the Air Force was playing their part well.

Harry looked around at his wife, his friends, and his bridge crew with a grin and said, "Do you think it was a bit over the top?"

"Maybe a little." Hermione said sweetly. "But you have been looking forward to this for a long time."

The pilot and co-pilot at helm control just shrugged. Johnny just said, "It'll be fun, we haven't made the news in a long time."

Ben elbowed him and said, "Shuddup Flame-boy."

"Holy shit." echoed Colonel O'Neill, Major Carter, and Doctor Jackson as they gathered in the briefing room with Lt. General Hammond, listening to the Air Force mission reports coming in live.

Teal'c agreed stating, "It is indeed a revered pile of excrement."

"The shit really is going to hit the fan now." Hammond agreed. They all looked at Teal'c to see how he would interpret that, something about excrement and fans.

People around the world, were doing spit-takes by their radios, TV's and in their cars when they heard that. More so for those who knew Harry Potter, but had no idea he was involved in anything like that. Like say the entire student body and faculty of the Salem Institute of Witchcraft and Wizardry and thanks to his fame, millions of others who thought they knew him.

All around the world, in news rooms, on anchor desks, and military headquarters, people were scrambling to understand what the hell was going on and to keep abreast of whatever live feeds American news crews were able to keep up on the incoming flying battleship and the missiles that exploded against some kind of invisible force field. Over in Russia, one co-anchor corrected another when he said "На самом деле, товарищ, он сказал, что это крейсер." (Actually, Comrade, he said it was a battlecruiser.)

Two hours later, the Hyperion stood stationary, hovering low over the White House lawn. U.S. Secret Service and members of every branch of military and the U.S. Park Police all had the location surrounded. Harry wasn't going to actually land Hyperion on their nice pretty lawn, it would mess it up. That would not be very friendly at all.

Instead, an away team of twelve of them would ring down to the surface, in full armor. That way any expected barrage of immediate gunfire, if they were so stupid, would be repelled by their armor's shield. If it actually got worse than that, they would show them what they could do in their armor. And there of course were the Hyperion's 12 fire-linked twin plasma cannon turrets, 12 fire-linked twin rail gun turrets, and 12 standard missile launchers.

Everything they said and everything they did was guaranteed to be broadcast by the hundreds of press helicopters and mobile news vans and every citizen within line of sight with a Smartphone. If that wasn't enough, the Hyperion was also recording it and would finish the job if need be. They were not overly concerned if the President made an appearance himself or not. That was just theatre. The message would get out either way.

Harry, Hermione, Sirius, Remus, Dan, Emma, Colin, Ginny, Justin, Hannah, Kevin, and Padma transported down to the surface simultaneously in groups of three from all four of the ships ring transporters. By that point, the few military in town that actually were familiar with the Stargate program, were Air Force Lt. General Maurice Vidrine and White House Stargate Liaison Officer Major Paul Davis. The only two beside the President, Vice President and Senator Kinsey who were around that even knew of the program, and they were not surprised when the visitors beamed down using Goa'uld ring transporters.

To Harry's surprise they showed restraint and did not immediately open fire upon them. Harry, Hermione, Sirius, and Remus stepped forward and the other eight took up rear and flanking positions around them maintaining their full armor. The four retracted their Head and Hand armor in order to speak directly and make eye contact, to reassure people who did not already know who Harry was that they were indeed human.

Lt. General Vidrine, Major Paul Davis, and a similarly sized squad of defenders approached Captain Potter and met them half way across the grounds. Vidrine knew they had little or no chance with the current spectacle to keep a lid on things, but he had to make one last appeal to Potter on behalf of the President, as ordered.

"Captain Potter, I am Lt. General Vidrine, United States Air Force. The President sent me in his stead to find out what this spectacle is all about and to ask you to please, in the interests of national security, show some restraint." He figured he would try the nicest approach they could at that point. Their weapons weren't going to stop them. Possibly appealing to their sensibilities would.

"General, it's nice to meet you. Which national security would that be? As I understood it I am no longer a citizen of this country, and my home country isn't even aware of your secret program. If anything, I am acting in my country's best interest and I dare say the United Nations as well." Harry answered.

"Anyway, on to business. I understand the President would not have met us down here in person. That is fine. We can deliver the message we came to deliver just as well without his actual help or cooperation. Harry spread his arms and waved over the perfectly manicured lawn and continued. Don't you think coming directly to the White House Lawn in this manner did all that was necessary to guarantee that the whole world would be watching?"

"Captain Potter! Please." the General pleaded.

"I'm sorry General. We want to be friends with the United States. We want to be your allies and help in the ongoing war you are waging throughout the galaxy through the Stargate. But, we disagree with you having taken it solely upon yourselves to rile this enemy up, keeping their very existence a secret, keeping the Stargate and all the other technology you've gained from it a secret; and thinking that you can handle the situation all by yourselves. Without so much as a by your leave or even request for assistance to the other major powers of the world-not even your greatest allies, as I understand it. Harry announced. And for goodness sake, all of the citizens of the world have a right to know something like this." he added.

"I don't know what you're talking about Captain Potter, the General tried. He really had no choice, he was simply military and had to follow orders. All I know is that you have been personally experimenting with new space-age technology of your own, and refused to even cooperate with us on that back in Nineteen-Ninety-Eight." Vidrine knew this approach was stupid and would get them nowhere, or worse. Harry let pass the opening the General gave him to give a dig back on that sore point. He was sticking to message today. Higher ground and all that. They could get around to what the U.S. owed him personally at a later date.

"That is fine General. As I said we didn't actually come here to speak to the President or to you. I came to speak to the world and certainly not to stand here and hold disingenuous debates with you."

"Since I am certain that the world is watching and listening. Allow me if you will to fill you all in on a few things." Harry and Hermione turned to face where the majority of cameras seemed to be set up while Sirius and Remus kept their eyes on Vidrine and his squad.

Harry and Hermione outlined in very high-level what they knew of the American Stargate program since it's original confrontation with Ra back in the mid-90's (ignoring the Littlefield experiment for the time being), up to the most recent crashing of the Asgard battlecruiser Beliskner which by then also contained and lost the SGC's own Stargate, and nearly unleashed a super-advanced alien artificial intelligence called replicator's that could have destroyed all life on Earth, during which his organization, "The New Defenders" helped defeat and then rescue the SGC's top team SG-1 from, several months earlier.

The Stargate people listening to all that, had no idea that Potter and his people knew that much of their history. The General and Major in person in DC, were non-plussed as well. There obviously had been a major security leak in all that time. Hammond saw his career coming to an end. O'Neill said to the room "We had it under control. He made it sound like we were useless until they showed up. Gahhhh." O'Neill exclaimed, flailing his arm.

After a pause to let everything set in people's minds, Harry continued "We know that the Russian Navy recently recovered the SGC's Stargate from the bottom of the ocean, which I imagine that until today they had no idea exactly what they found or its importance. I suggest you start by reaching out to the Russians to see if they will cooperate with you and share their salvaged gate; and maybe along with them and the other major powers of the world, begin to organize a proper and just defense of the world, with the advice and consent of its citizens."

While announcing that, Harry also essentially informed the world, while in the presence of their Battlecruiser and their privileged information, that The New Defenders themselves were in a number of ways ahead of both the U.S. and the Russians in regard to the alien threat. None would know just how small an organization they really were, at least for some time yet.

"The New Defenders, with our ships and technology stand ready to join in such an alliance for the betterment of humankind. Harry said as he walked over to General Vidrine and handed him two TND sub-space communicators and continued, "Here are a couple of our long range sub-space communicators. Get in touch with us after you are finished coming clean with the world and if you want our help." Harry concluded and returned to his away team where after they were rung back up to their ship and flew off to return home and await a phone call.

A/N:

Hyperion Battlecruiser Specs:

Size: 200m long * 80m wide * 65m tall
Crew: minimum 2, optimum 12, total carry for 80. Internal artificial-gravity hull plating.
Hull: Vibranium-Titanium-Carbon alloy.
Power: Twin Naquadah reactors and Twin SSFIRE512 reactors.
Propulsion: Goa'uld 32kls Hyper-drive (for simplicity 3.65 light-years per hour) and .6 Sub-light (401 million miles per hour)
Systems: Goa'uld sensors, shield, cloak, and navigation integrated with the TND custom designed Hyperion Shipboard Operations AI and Voice Interactive Hologram (a combination of tech from Reed, T'Challa, Goa'uld, and Caracalla with Harry's own spin).
Arms: 12 fire-linked twin plasma cannon turrets, 12 fire-linked twin rail gun turrets, 12 standard missile launchers, plasma bombs (plasma bomb warheads, naquadah enhanced plasma bomb warheads)
Hangars: 1 port and 1 starboard at the mid-section. Room to dock and deploy up to two 35-meter Al'kesh or equivalent: currently containing their 1 operational Al'kesh and 1 Wakanda Quinjet.
Magical Augmentation: Impervious charmed hull, magically regenerated oxygen and water; they are still researching and experimenting with other practical things that wouldn't also be redundant.
Satcam Image: Classified by FF net. (Use your imagination).