Ancient Guardians
Author: Louise Mills
Summary: SG1 found out someone in their ranks are not what they seem. The Guardians, a very old race that are once again are needed to help defect an enemy. SG1 and the Atlantis find out they know a few of these Guardians. (SG-1/Atlantis Crossover)
Disclaimer: I do not own Stargate: SG1 or Stargate: Atlantis. The Only thing I Own in this story is the Characters that do not appear in the shows.
Rating: PG13 American, 12A British.
Author Notes: I am not good at grammar, so please be patient. I am going to set the history for the story first.
Chapter Five,
SGC, Colorado.Daniel ran out of the gate room into the control centre determined to confront Jack. Sam and Teal'c followed at a slower pace.
Daniel rushed through the door of the command centre and was about to shout at Jack, he suddenly stopped when he noticed all the airman in the room were silent and were looking at Jack in shock. He then looked at Jack and what he saw was a look of terror on the general's feature's and staring at the door that lend to the corridor to the rest of the sub level 28. There in the doorway were two young looking women he had never seen before.
"Hey what's going on?" Sam asked, as she nudged Daniel. He just shook his head, indicating that he had idea.
"I don't know it was like this when I arrived." Daniel spoke explaining what scene he had arrived in. He could tell that Sam just as confused as he was about what was going on.
Jack heard the quiet conversion that had occurred between Daniel and Sam, he slowly turned towards them even though he dreaded their arrival, but they arrival was also a relief to the arrival of his daughter, whom he hadn't spoke to in a very long time. Also it would throw more problems between him and SG1 as he had conveniently forgot to tell them that he had other children then Charlie. He wasn't ashamed about his other children; he just didn't like talking about his personnel life, even to SG!
"Well now that SG1 are here why don't we all go into the conference room!" Jack ordered, recovering quickly from his shock, he pointed to SG1, his daughter and niece, then to the door of the conference room. He walked towards the conference room and the two groups followed him.
Once the conference room door was closed the chatter in the control centre erupted. Wondering about the 'daughter' of the general.
Jack slouched down in his chair at the head of the table and others quickly followed his example, except for Daniel, whom had started to pace like a caged tiger.
"Daniel, sit down. Let me introduce these two to you! Then I will tell you everything about me, before we met!"
Daniel suddenly stopped pacing, he was surprised at how willing Jack was to give them an explanation of what they found on the planet and more importantly information about Jack himself. He quickly sat down in his chair, looking eagerly at Jack. Which caused Jack to grin; he knew all of Daniel's weaknesses that would make him corporate with anything he asked of him.
"Daniel, meet my niece Olivia Williams and my daughter Doctor Allanda Astrum." Jack Introduce the girls to his old team. They were all shocked and it showed even in Teal'c.
"Your what?" Daniel uttered.
"Daughter!" Jack answered; knowing to whom Daniel was referring too; out of the two girls.
Daniel, Sam and even Teal'c were aghast they only thought Jack had only one child and that was Charlie, whom died 10 years previous.
"Do you have any other children that you neglected to tell us about?" Daniel shouted. Jack whined due to how loud Daniel had shouted and also because he had neglected to tell them that he did have more children.
"Well…of course I do… You obviously know how old I am, do you really expect me never to have children in all that time Daniel?" Jack question wisely.
"Okay when you put it that way, no I suppose I don't think that you have no other children. Um how many more do you have? And I don't exactly know how old you are, only that we saw a picture of you taken 10,000 years ago, so you have to be older then that photo. How old are you?" Daniel rumbled, answering all of the questions that were running through Sam mind as well, but wasn't quick enough to ask the questions before Daniel.
"Okay to answer your first question I have one other son and for your other question older than 10,000 years old, much older, Daniel."
"Yes that clarifies my question." Daniel muttered sarcastically. Allanda and Olivia were observing the conversion between Jack and Daniel trying not to laugh, they found the situation amusing.
"Okay lets just say I don't really know how to explain everything, How about we play 20 questions, but with unlimited questions for about an hour?" Jack offered, thinking that it would be easier this way.
"20 questions? You have got to be kidding me!" Daniel stressed. Jack just looked at him with a very serious expression.
"Well, I think it's a good idea, but let's set some ground rules Okay?" Sam voiced. Daniel nodded strongly and Jack nodded hesitantly.
"Rule 1. We have an hour like you stated." She stressed and waited until Jack nodded before carrying on with more rules.
"Rule 2. We can ask anything and you can only tell the truth." She waited again for him a nod, but this time his nod was a little bit hesitant. But all she cared was that he had agreed.
"Rule 3. If he says anything wrong, you have to say something." Sam said while speaking to Allanda and Olivia and pointing at Jack. Allanda nodded to eager to do what was asked.
"Sound fun to me!" Olivia cheerfully said.
"What are you…." Jack started to say, but was interrupted by the door swinging open.
"Hey, why didn't you get me when you came home!" Cassandra stressed and looked around the people at the table, her eyes set on Allanda. Everyone looked at her. Allanda started to smirk when she saw Cassandra.
"Sorry…" Sam started her sentence, but was interrupted by Cassandra.
"What are you doing here?" Cassandra asked Allanda.
"Oh nice to see you to Cassandra!" Allanda answered, sarcastically.
"Is she related to you or something? She sounds to much like you do!" Cassandra asked Jack, curiously.
"Yes" Jack answered.
"Really!" Cassandra answered, quite surprised as she was only joking when she had asked her question.
"Hang on, Hang on! You know Jack's Daughter?" Daniel questioned. Cassandra eyes widen at Daniel's question.
"Daughter." She whispered in shock.
"Of cause she knows me, Doctor Jackson. After all I am her Physics professor at the University. I'm actually not that surprised to see her here."
"You're her Physics professor!" Sam exclaimed.
"Yeah she is! Professor why aren't you surprised to see me here?" Cassandra questioned, very curious at how the professor was going to answer her question. Allanda looked around the room then stared straight into Cassandra's eyes.
"I think you know the answer to that question. You should be more careful that what you write down!" She told Cassandra making sure that Cassandra understood what she was talking about. She noticed that Cassandra had understood her vague answer.
"Oh right that!" Cassandra replied in a whisper and cowered down into her seat.
"Wait a minute…she didn't do what I think you're saying she did, did she?" Jack asked.
"What do you think?" Allanda replied sarcastically.
Everyone at the table except for Olivia, Allanda, Cassandra and Jack were confused. They just stared at the others wondering what they were talking about.
"Cassie what were you thinking?" Jack uttered loudly, shocked that was would do something that stupid and of that magnitude.
"I didn't think that I wrote enough to raise suspicion. Obviously I did as the professor realised what I was writing. Wait a minute you know the physics behind the Stargate!"
Sam gasped at Cassandra in shocked, understanding quicker then Daniel and Teal'c what the others were talking about. It wasn't too long before Daniel and Teal'c understood as well.
"Understand them, Ha!" Allanda stated and started to laugh. "I wrote half of the sub routines of the Stargate Cassandra," She continued. Her statement had shocked the room into silence for the people that didn't already know this little bit of information. You could cut the tension in the room with a butter knife.
"Enough we're not here to discuss Cassandra's school work. Questions and answers is the agreement." Jack ordered.
"Right!" Daniel stated, while pushing his glasses up his nose. "How old are you?" He asked again, this time knowing that Jack would answer as he had promised and agreed with the rules Sam stated.
"Give me a second?" Jack stated, and then closed his eyes to count.
"Um, why?" Daniel questioned, a little confused.
"Because I'm counting, I lost count how old I am a long time ago!" Jack answered, his eyes still closed. "Um, I about 2 million years old give or that a couple thousand years." Jack's statement of his age put a damper to the questions. They were all sharing at Jack in awe. Allanda and Olivia started laughing, due to how they looked; they all had their mouths hanging open in shock.
Atlantis, Pegasus Galaxy.Elizabeth was getting tried of John dodging Carson's questions. She now wished she hadn't promised John to keep him being Ancient, especially from his doctor, a secret.
"Lad, I don't care how much you complain about being alright. I still want you to see Kate." Carson pressed at John.
"Carson I do not need to see Kate, it's just an old memory brought on by the pressures of the situation we are faced with here!"
"More reason to see Kate." Carson exclaimed.
"You know what, I'm sick and tried of being pushed around and told what to do. First my father, then you, I don't need this crap. Kate isn't going to able to help me. I dealt with this memory a long time ago. It has only come up again, because I need to remember what has happen in the past and learn from it." John shouted, his outburst shocked Elizabeth and confused Carson.
"How is this memory going to help with what we are dealing with here in the Pegasus galaxy. Nothing you could have experienced I your past could prepare you for what we are experiencing with the Wraith."
"It's quite relevant actually!"
"You're going to tell him aren't you?" Elizabeth asked attentively, quite relieved that she wouldn't have to keep anything from Carson.
"Tell me what?" Carson questioned, quite curious.
"That I've been through what we are going through now. Due to the fact I was born right here on Atlantis. Carson I'm what you would call an Ancient." John Stated. Shocked Carson stumbled back liked someone had just pushed him hard.
"You're delusional." Carson pronounced after what John had said sunk in.
"No I'm not, all you have to do is look closer at my DNA. There are differences between Human and Ancient DNA, very slight, but still differences. Of course I could just do this to prove it." He held out his hand and a syringe from across the room flew into his hand.
"Holy……" Carson uttered silently, not quite believing what he had just shown them. Elizabeth was equally surprised, but not shocked. She knew Ancients held great power, but never thought anything about the power of their minds could hold. She knew Ancients that has ascended held the kind of power John showed he held, but she didn't know they willed that kind of power without ascension.
"So…Um…If you were born on Atlantis that would make you at least over 10,000 years old." Carson reasoned out loud.
"Yep, actually that's how old my daughter is. I'm a lot older that that, about 25 times older then that." John explained.
"Your 250,000 years old!" Elizabeth shrieked. "I knew you said older, but that much older. You also have a daughter, well that's a bit of a shock!" She continued, not quite believing what he had stated.
"Well I was born 250,000 years ago, but physically I look about 500,000 years older then that." He declared.
"How's that possible?" Carson asked confused. Elizabeth and John just stared at him. Elizabeth figured out what John was trying to tell them. That he has had a close encounter with the wraith. Carson looked over at them and saw them staring at him.
"What?" He stressed.
"Carson, you know the answer, you just don't want to except the answer. There is only one answer to how John could of aged half a million years." Elizabeth diplomatically answered.
"The Wraith!" Carson whispered, suddenly understanding. He felt a little sick as well. That someone he knew had been feed upon by the Wraith. He sat down on the chair that John had mentally placed by the doctor, as he saw the shock Carson was in. Carson hadn't noticed that the chair wasn't here a moment before.
Carson shook his to clear his mind; here was one thing that he didn't understand.
"I heard McKay once state that Ancients had about the same life span as we have. How can you be 250,000 years old? Unless you're ascended." Carson asked.
"Well, there are three different kinds of 'Ancients' as you call us. The 'Ancients' McKay was talking have a normal life span as you put it. Our kind life millions of years and we will not ascend, there only have been a few cases of my kind ascending that's because they were young."
"You're kind? And do you mean by 'Ancients' as we call them?" Elizabeth asked, intrigued.
"The species is call Terrain and the races are Alterrains, Ori and The Guardians. Alterrains are the Ancients that you know. The guardians are my kind we live a long time and are classed the Guardians of the known universe. The Ori is the race that broke off from the Alterrains and us; their domain is in the galaxy we first orientated from. The Ori banished us from our galaxy, that's when we found Earth in a galaxy far, far away and that's were we made our new home. Hence why Earth is called terra, after our species." Elizabeth and Carson were silent after the brief history lesson they had just received from John; they were still taking in everything he had just said.
"Did you get all that lass?" Carson asked.
"I think so!" Elizabeth answered.
"Good, because I think my brain has go into sensory overload. You may have to tell me again." Carson uttered. With laughter in his voice, so they knew was joking. But he still found it unbelievable.
Suddenly John and Elizabeth's earpieces notified them that someone was trying to contact them.
"Dr weir, Major Sheppard, I think you should came down to Dr McKay Lab. There been an incident." Dr Zelentka voiced over the radio, his voice sounding worried.
"Do you require the doctor's help?" Elizabeth asked.
"I think that would be a good idea." Dr Zelentka answered back "Rodney touched something, without knowing what it did. I think he has disrupted the power down here as well."
"I have not!" McKay shouted in the distance, his voice sounding weak. "I didn't do anything." Rodney defended himself, having managed to get a radio from someone.
"What the hell have you done to my city McKay?"
"Your city, I don't see your name on it!" McKay sarcastically answered.
"You want to bet!" John screamed down the microphone on my radio. Hurting everyone's ears that were listening into the conversion.
End of chapter Five, please review.