Episode VI: Danger Will Robinson Danger?
"Danger! Danger! Temporal shift has occurred, Dalek network unavailable!"
Dalek Acalo grated in his tin voice.
"Where are we?" Dr. Weir asked as she picked herself up off the floor.
"I…uh…give me a minute," McKay strode over to one of the main terminals and activated the sensors, "We are where we were, and the question is when, not where. Sensors indicate that there is no solar system and only a proto-star forming."
"Which tells us what?" said Sheppard.
"We're at least three billion years in the past. We picked a solar system that was near the same age as ours."
"And how are we supposed to get back?" Dr. Weir came over to Rodney's side to look at the screen.
"We don't, or rather can't. Time has reverted, the linear form of time as we see it no longer exists. The rift is exponential, seemingly originating and growing in speed outward from the origin point. History has been erased. Which means," Rodney went to the control panel and began to input several equations, "…we're looking at a reversion to the big bang, the origins of the universe."
"You are not saying what I think you're saying, McKay!" Sheppard looked at him and then to Weir.
"Yes, the further we are from the point of origin the more time will disappear. The only reason why we are safe is because we have the temporal shielding. It gets worse," McKay put up another screen that showed the calculation renderings.
"…the edge of the universe is reverting; the universe is no longer expanding but in fact gone. What ever it is that it was expanding into has reformed, and it's emitting a strong energy signature."
Acalo approached them, hovering up the stairs. "It is coming, the darkness, the time of blood and magic."
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"Calabi-Yau is collapsing. Do you not understand this?" One Ascended spoke before a council of hundreds of Ascended beings, "Even our omniscience is dissipating, we cannot know each other's thoughts as we once could, or how the lower plane fairs. We are blind, which means something far worse than our greatest fears have occurred." The lone Ascended stood, "We must intervene, and we can no longer stand idly by while the reality below breaks apart. Even the guardians have entered into that world in whole. Time has been reverted."
Another stood before the council. "We do not understand the extent of this damage, how can we act if it would interfere with the lower beings. We agreed that if they undid themselves then it was their own responsibility."
"Yes, but we are in danger ourselves. We are becoming mortal again."
"There is no evidence of this, don't be absurd."
"Is that so, death has already claimed one of our kind. The already half mortal Anubis fell to the outcast Oma. She is here now to speak, for she has been amongst the lower levels now for sometime."
"Oma?" the second Ascended slipped back into his seat. The murmurs and whispers filled the amphitheater and then died as the outcast Oma took a place where all could see.
"You Fools! Had you acted when they needed us, such foolishness would never have transpired." Oma harkened on the large group, "It has taken all efforts to build this place, something that we could at one time bring forth into reality without the slightest effort. It is time to leave our shell and take our efforts to where they are needed, to stem the tide of temporal displacement and help those capable of fixing the separations between our layers."
"Our ways are set Oma, you know this." The Ascended who had opposed the first quipped up.
"Our ways are what have gotten us into this mess. I will no longer sit idly by. Anubis died in my arms, fully mortal. It only took a few moments in the lower to lose all that he had attained as an ascended. I know this, I have seen this, and it is undeniable. Anubis was evil, but his body dissipated into nothingness. If this is what happened to him, then what will happen to the whole of reality? The Howling has unsealed surly you can understand the significances of this."
"We will consider your words." The Ascended who has opposed her waved his hand to her as if to dismiss her.
"You have no power even here now. Your will is nothing." Oma turned from her spot and left to the howls and jeers of the other Ascended.
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Anansi squirmed as the skeleton came to her his hand outstretched. "Darkness descends upon your kind, the howling is your place." The Guardian touched his hand to the exoskeleton of the spider woman which began to varnish to black and harden.
"Nooo, hessh, I sshall not submit. The eternal darknessss, nothing'nesss…" she crept backwards as the black flowed from her leg and up her thorax. Death then looked to Mitchell, strapped between two pillars. "Darkness, it is not your time, but with time all will crumble." The skeleton touched the pillar on the right which crumbled to dust, the rope frayed and broke, and disintegrated as well. "I can do no more for you. Time has become fleeting, the howling returns." With that the skeleton disappeared into a dim light.
"Yousss human, comes help me, Help Me!"
"Why should I help you?" Mitchell said, as he pulled his other arm free. "Creepy bug women have no place here. Go to Hell, where you belong." Mitchell grabbed his gear which lay to one side and as he strapped the gun to his belt he witnessed as Anansi's body hardened into solid stone and crumbled to the floor.
"Now to get off, what ever this is."
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"Today is March fourteenth two thousand and seven thank you for watching Dateline I am Tom Brokaw. The world was stunned today when all of the stars disappeared out of the night sky. Researchers say they have no clue as to what is happening. NASA is mum for now. We now go to our on site correspondent Terry Rasmussen."
"Thank you, at four thirty this afternoon calls stormed the information center of NASA's research departments. The stars were gone; the sky was black and empty. Reports from around the world flooded in and the researchers here are baffled. I have here top astronomer Michelle Thaller; what exactly has happened?"
"I don't know, we don't know. You have to understand that star light comes from millions of years away. The nearest star's light, besides our own sun, takes just over four years to reach us. For all of the stars to have just disappeared is an amazing and baffling event."
"Has anything else odd happened?"
"Unfortunately yes, though we do not know if it is related. The planets have shifted their positions. Mars appears to be about a year behind where it should be, Jupiter is where it was four years ago, and Pluto appears completely absent as well as Neptune."
"Thank you Michelle, back to you Tom."
"Thank you Terry, we now go live to David Reeds who is covering a riot in downtown DC."
"Ye..yes, David here, it seems that," David was cut off by the explosion of a car just visible a block away, "…that two different dooms day groups have rallied end of world…" another explosion rocked the platform that David and the cameraman stood upon knocking both to the ground.
"We seem to be having technical difficulties, David are you all right?"
"I…I think so. It seems our camera has been damaged are you still getting our audio signal?"
"Yes, we'll cut back to you when you are in a more secure position." Tom looked up to the camera, "Ladies and gentlemen, the President has just released an emergency order to install martial law. The white house correspondent has conveyed the message asking that we please stay calm until further information can be obtained."
General Landry clicked off the television, the red phone that was a direct line to the President held to his ears. "I know sir. We have already tried to connect the Stargate to the alpha site and several other planets, none seem to be working. Yes we have all SG teams standing by except for SG-1, which has disappeared. The Russian command has no clue either. Yes sir…right." He put the phone down onto the sat-com base and looked to the Russian liaison officer. "We need to get into contact with our other allies, any of them. Keep trying."
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"Jack, you and Martha head back to the fair and see if anything else has happened. Get that pig body if you can, I want to examine it as well. The temporal matrix has degenerated and if you haven't noticed the stars have disappeared. What ever happened has spread."
Jack and Martha both looked up to the sky, the stars had disappeared, except for one lone blip which seemed to race across the black sky.