A/N: I hope my attempts a humouring you all will bring smiles to your faces.
Reviews are welcome!
Chapter 9 – Revelations part 1
"Then I grabbed her and threw her in the cryogenic tank. And that was the end of that stupid bitch Hathor." Finished Jack O'Neill.
"As much as I'd love to hear your story again, Colonel," said Dr. Frasier who came walking in with test results, "I have news for both of you."
"Good news or bad news?" asked O'Neill.
"Good news, I suppose. Well, as good as it gets in here."
"You're saying we can go home?" asked O'Neill.
"No, not that good. But you, sir, are going to have to take it easy the next couple of weeks. You have no major damage to your internal organs, but you'll have to give your side some rest. It's badly burned, and It will take some time to heal."
"And you," Frasier said to the young king Minos, "are just as lucky. The bone is fractured, but it has broken almost exceptionally clean. We won't need to operate it, but you do need to wear a cast for four weeks or so."
"That means no walking?" Minos asked.
"No walking for the first two weeks, and after that you still have to take it easy. And you have to stay in the infirmary for at least two days, to give your leg a quick start."
"Aww man." Started O'Neill. "You said you had good news."
"This is good news, considering what it could have been, being shot up by an Ashrak and jumping from high up on an injured leg."
"D'oh!" O'Neill said, quoting Homer Simpson.
"What does 'D'oh' mean?" asked King Minos
"It's a quote, from the Simpsons. It means as much as 'oh shit', I think." Answered O'Neill
"What are the Simpsons?" Minos asked.
"That's a television show... wait, I have a dvd box here on base, in my office. If we can get it, I'll show it to ya." O'Neill said.
"But neither of us can leave the infirmary right now." Said King Minos. "Or I fear Dr. Frasier will hit us back into bed."
"Carter!" O'Neill exclaimed, as he saw Carter walking in.
"Hi sir, Hi Minos." She said. "What's the news?"
"Well, we both are locked in the infirmary for a few days, and I must take it easy for a few weeks. I think that means paperwork." O'Neill answered.
"And Dr. Frasier is going to put my leg in a cast and I can't move for two weeks. Then another two weeks before the cast can come off." Added Minos.
"That's not really good. Did Dr. Frasier said it was good news or bad news?" asked Carter.
"Good news, but I'm doubting that." Answered O'Neill. "Speaking about good news, can you get me that dvd-box of the Simpsons that's in my office? It's boring in here."
"Yes sir, I'll get it for you." Said Carter.
She left the infirmary.
"I'm bored." Said Minos. "And I'm hungry."
"Yeah, me too." Said O'Neill. "Doc!"
"Yes?" asked Dr. Frasier.
"Can we get something to eat?"
"I'll give you the card." She handed them the card with the menu on it.
"Thanks, Doc." O'Neill said.
Ten minutes later both patients were lying on their beds, eating their dinner. O'Neill had chosen for the salad with macaroni and cheese, and Minos had the macaroni with cheese too. Then Daniel, Carter and Teal'c came in.
"Hi guys." O'Neill said.
"Hi." Said the other members of Sg-1.
"Sir. General Hammond contacted the Tok'ra. They sent Jacob here, together with Anise, to check out the gun we've designed."
"Anise? The scientist that hooked us up to the wrist-thingies?" O'Neill asked.
"Yes sir, that one."
"That was one cool adventure we had back then. Except for the nearly-dying part, then." Said Jack.
Then Jacob and Anise walked in.
"howdy, Jack." Said Jacob Carter.
"Greetings." Said Anise.
"Hi Selmak." Said Minos before anyone got a chance to greet him.
"Greetings... Minos!" Exclaimed Selmak, who had taken control over Jacob by the sight of his old friend. "That was a long time since we last met, old friend."
"Wait. You two know each other?" asked O'Neill.
"Yes." Answered Selmak. "I have known Minos for a long time. The last time we met was when Ra attacked our base a long time ago. I had presumed that you were killed in the process." He said to Minos.
"And I thought the Tok'ra were defeated in that battle. Luckily it seems that we were both wrong."
"Wait. How long was that battle ago?" asked Jack.
"My guess is fifteen hundred years or so, but memories from that long ago are a bit vague and dusty." Answered Selmak.
"It was fifteen hundred eighty-two years ago, according to the Tauri calendar."
"Wow. That's unexpected." Said Carter.
"What?" asked Minos.
"We guessed that you were fifteen years old, not fifteen hundred." Answered Carter.
"Actually," Selmak started, "He looked exactly like this back then too. Now we're talking about it, he looked that way for as long as I can remember. That must be somewhere about two thousand years ago, I think."
"Are you going to tell us how old you are, exactly?" asked Carter.
"Nope."
"Why not?" asked O'Neill.
"Because."
"Because what?"
"Because fifteen equals Thursday."
"What?"
"Because fifteen equals Thursday." Minos repeated.
"Good to see you haven't changed a bit in all those years, Minos." Said Selmak.
"Good to see you too, Selmak. Now, are you going to introduce me to your new host?" asked Minos.
"Hi. I'm Jacob Carter." Said Jacob as he reached out to shake Minos's hand.
"Carter, as in the same Carter as Sam?"
"Exactly the one."
"Greetings. My name is Anise." Said Anise. "And my name is Freya." Said Freya, Anises host.
"Hello. I'm Minos. I'm was an ally of the Tok'ra, until we lost each other." Minos said.
"Yeah, come to speak of it, where have you been all that time?" asked Selmak.
"I found Avalon soon after the battle, and the people there helped me heal. In turn, I protected them and over time I became their king."
"Avalon?" asked Selmak. "You named your home after the final resting place of Artorius?"
"Yep. I couldn't pronounce the planets original name, so I renamed it."
"Wait. Artorius is king Arthur?" asked Daniel.
"Yes. Artorius was his original name. I knew him for a long time. He was my apprentice for several years, before he founded the round table."
"You were on Earth during that time?" Daniel asked.
"If by that time you mean around four hundred years after the start of your year-count, then yes. But I've been here longer than that. I helped your peoples uprising against Ra by slaying a lot of Horus Guards that defended his Ha'tak."
"Wow. That's impressive." Carter said.
"Well, the Horus Guards are pretty crappy fighters, so the only challenge was Ra himself. And he fled before I could 'damage' him."
"And Ra did not attack from his Ha'tak?" asked Teal'c, who was curious as to why the Goa'uld supreme system lord had not followed his own standard technique.
"Nope. I don't know why he did it."
"So you've been active throughout the history on Earth until... sixteen hundred years ago?" asked Daniel.
"I was here on earth, but I wasn't really actively playing a part in history. Until I decided that it was better to bury the gate here. I instructed the people to do that, and after I went through they did. But apart from that I mostly fought in the shadows against the Goa'uld." Minos said.
"Are there any more secrets about you that we ought to know?" asked O'Neill.
"Yep. Hundreds, possibly thousands. But I'm not going to tell them. That would get all the fun out of discovering them yourselves." Minos answered.
"The fun?" asked Sam incredulously.
"Yes, exactly. What fun is a puzzle when you know all the answers already?"
"Enough fun to build a paper airplane." Answered Jack O'Neill.
"As much as I like your way of thinking, Colonel, I don't think it's possible to build an aircraft from mysteries. Though if you did succeed in building one, it would be incredibly hard to take down." Minos said.
"Guys, " Jacob started, "I think we have derailed this conversation far enough. Now let us get back to work."
"Work being...?" said O'Neill.
"The anti-armour gun." Finished Anise for him. "We've come here to analyze it. We ourselves have not been able to build a gun successful in destroying a Kull warrior in one shot. If it works as its name suggests, then the Tok'ra would be extremely interested in trading some of those guns with the Tauri."
"Well, the gun basically works on a flaw in the armour of a Kull." Carter started.
"How is that possible? The armour is molecularly designed, so it does not contain construction flaws." Interjected Anise.
"However, it does contain a flaw." Minos said. "The initial impact of an energy weapons does damage the armour, only once that impact has gone the residual energy from an energy weapon is absorbed by the armour, and then put to use in repairing the damaged part."
"So you're saying that only the front of an energy blast does damage?" asked Anise for confirmation.
"Exactly. If you fire the right amount of bullets that contain enough energy on exactly the same spot on the Kull's armour, you can overload the armour. Then all the energy-reserves that are stored in the armour will be released, thus killing the Kull in one large explosion." Said Carter.
"How could you find out? We have been studying the armour of an captured Kull warrior several months now, but we have not found a way to overload the energy-dissipation-system yet."
"We put it under a microscope and we tried to electrocute it." Said Minos. "Every time you shock it, the armour is damaged a little bit from the initial blast, but then repairs itself. That process is visible from under a microscope."
"But wait a minute." Interjected O'Neill. "You managed to dismember and decapitate two Kull warriors with just a sword on Avalon!"
"You didn't think I named my sword Excalibur because I only liked the name, did you?" said Minos.
"Well, yes. Actually, I did."
"My own sword Excalibur was based on the original Excalibur, designed by Myrrdin. Unfortunately, that sword is now lost, so I had to make my own."
"And how does it work?" asked Carter curiously.
"It uses the energy of the wearer to power itself up. But it takes special skills to utilize the power correctly, and it takes a lifetime to train those skills." Said Minos.
"A lifetime being...? " asked O'Neill.
"Roughly a century, but it depends on the person. Some can do it in twenty years, other take three-hundred."
"Can Tok'ra also learn those skills?" asked Anise.
"Well, it depends. The Goa'uld cannot, because that power only humans have. But I have never tried to learn the skills to one of the Tok'ra. They form a friendship with their hosts, so perhaps they can learn it. Though I'm not really sure."
"How does your sword, Excalibur, transfer the power from the wearer to itself, and utilize it? That must be very complex technologies, because we never heard from such technology before." Said Selmak.
"Yes you have, although you weren't really aware of it. Several technologies of the Ancients work that way. Even the Stargate, though not as obvious. And it takes special training to 'communicate' with a Stargate in the same way I can communicate with Excalibur."
"Communicate?" said Anise.
"Yes, communicate. Transfer thoughts from one place to another through various ways. One of them is touch. It takes talent to be able to communicate by touch alone, and only very little humans have that talent." Said Minos. "Oh, by the way, colonel. A friend of yours wants to speak with you. Bye!"
"What do..." O'Neill started, but he never finished because he was beamed away.
"How did you know?" asked Carter who had recognized the transporter as Asgard.
"I heard him coming." Minos answered.