Chapter 7
Scepter of Darkness
Summary: Harry had a completely different experience of childhood. The wizarding world, would have been unprepared and caught completely unaware by a Potter who had mastered the underworld and the way of manipulation. They never got a chance he traveled back in time to increase his powers.
Helltanz's notes: Dumbledore and Tom were sent packing after their respective defeats. Certain things from Real Time Strategy Games, mainly the Command and Conquer serieses, for example Military technology, such as once we reach the future, Red Alert and Generals style technology will be seen in use by regular armed forces, with some Tiberium references, this story will not have any Tiberium growth, fauna, or flora, though, will be explained why. On the part of the Order of the Dragon, during the fifties the Order will see a lot more action, the only time it will see more is during the return to the present.
Chapter Begin
Introduction
"The admiral I met that day was Albert Forester, wasn't familiar with the name of course I didn't have a record of him from the previous timeline other than he had been assigned to US Atlantic Command Naval Intelligence, he was also a wizard, eventually his family would become quite intent on pursuing me, and the Order of the Dragon. His son would enter the CIA, recruited from the Navy Seals, and become one of the leading experts the United States of America had on the Order of the Dragon, he also managed to draw up a very accurate psychological profile of my person.
With the signing of the Declaration of Peace in nineteen forty five marking the end of the second great war of mankind, I had hoped to hole myself up, as it were, and research to my hearts content, sadly it was not to be, Hitler wanted me to serve as Ambassador to the English, my suspicion perhaps unfounded, though it was never confirmed, was this idea was not wholly his own, sadly I was unable to verify it prior his untimely demise, it was irksome I had hoped to avoid those sheep at least until the seventies, and if I would be denied my research in seclusion that I would at least be allowed to run the order peace, but I yet managed to fulfill my new found task handling purebloods, and English politicians all the while running my Order of Knights. After the second great war, Grindelwald went back to his Thule society and, unlike myself continued his research un fettered, other than by Sehkmet of course, though we were both bothered from time by the Axis powers of whom we helped in their march to victory. So I dictated my research projects off to the order those that would be of use to the Order as whole.
As I have previously stated in my last monologue Tojo apologized for Japan's attack against the United States, the order took control or rather helped form several future major companies, it was much easier to do this in the past while the countries were just starting out then once they had been developed. December First came around and with it the formalized formation of the Empire of the Reich, Hitler becomes Chancellor, the Order of the Dragon and the Thule Society are formally recognized as individual powers with in the Empire, I'm sure this caused Stalin more than a few nights of lost sleep, even if he did show up for the Chancellor's funeral, it was a security nightmare all those leaders, I mean really you had the emperor, of Japan, all the various country leader, the cadre of German Generals, the admiralty, Thule Society, Order members, half the time, people worried about that if some one started shooting it would escalate to nuclear war in a matter of hours, but a tale for another day.
Beginning of Summer Nineteen Forty Seven of the common era, the order recovers the Second Stargate from its resting place in the Antarctic, along with, a very interesting, genetically speaking, humanoid, plus two jaffa corpses, by late August, the transfer of the Ancient outpost to an Order of the Dragon base is completed, the power problem was easily enough remedied, the devices functioned using the same type of power source, a similar power source I had located back in the thirties in Egypt amongst a cache of Goa'uld and other relics, however seeing as didn't know how long these power sources would last we used an Order power core, I won't bore you with the technical details of the power device, suffice that the device runs on a mix of alchemic and nuclear fusion and fission, transmuting materials, breaking, splitting, whatever, then recombining the atoms, to generate the energy, its quite efficient actually and not that dangerous, of course there are fail safes, I know I designed it, long ago its seems, another timeline even... similar devices power the UNIT, which stands for Unilateral Neutralization of Intense Threats, basically they're built to be a one unit, pardon the pun, crisis resolvement, there are other acronyms but that is the official acronyms, the army and SS, well most the SS, still call it a Land battleship, UNITs nine, ten, and twelve, ahead of Schedule, enter service between forty seven and forty eight, the design of the aforementioned UNITs and UNIT Eleven differed quite a bit due to technological changes though the previous UNITs would be updated. During the same time the Orden of the Dragon 'test fires' a third generation, not that any one else knows that, Intercontinental Ballistic Missile deployed from one of our new B-III series submarines, this will jump start the ballistic missile arm race, the missile is a normal, meaning it has no additional alchemic modifications, such as red water alchemic array, the Phobos, name of missile and the warhead, is successfully tested hitting its target from over one thousand kilometers away from an underwater launch.
It is interesting to note every one, well most every one, seems to think Gellert and I are the same age its quite ridiculous I'm not that old, if you exclude my experiments in bending time, not traveling back to the past, I have probably spent a decade at least inside a time bubble, in the previous timeline alone, maybe more, I mean its not like I'm mortal, that's long since been remedied by rituals, curses, yes curses, might tell you that story too eventually.
Nineteen Forty six through Nineteen Fifty were interesting, gave lectures at Durmstrang and later Beauxbatons, Nineteen forty eight through nineteen fifty, which if you didn't know is run by the Reich, I went back to lecturing during the sixties prior to resume of the Asian conflict, i.e. the Vietnam conflict of this timeline, though the Korean Conflict is included in the Asian Conflict, the powers, the actual military forces involved in the Asian Conflict would later become involved in the African Wars. France falls under the jurisdiction of general Hans Gunther von Dincklage." (I may not have spelled the man's surname right, my notes are tad smudged)
"His daughter Addeline Chanel would later become ambassdor of France. Hitler in his conintuined strive to eliminate the jews, something which is frowned upon by the two human members of the four of us, Sehkmet is ambigious she has nothing against the jews she just enjoys destroyings things, and people, 'the final solution' as he calls it, Karite jews are an exception to this extermination as apparently they are racially ambigious, and they are even allowed to join the SS, whatever I don't condone the genocide, but anyway Hitler sets the arabs in the middle east on the jewish population, Hitler's successor will not really care about the jews so they survive as a people with in the reich, and non reich countries obviously.
Forty seven was annoying got visit from an Unseelie, a true faerie as in like Titania or more presicely Mab, if one is talking about the court of Winter, really so troublesome, Sehkmet really doesn't like them, jealousy I think not positive though. Even in the past I had ties to the Fae courts, the Fae were much more organized than the Djinn I reigned over, the Djinn being the only other race I had nearly as close ties with, Spring and Winter I favored, Autumn I would aide in times, but as one born on Lughnasadh I was held in closeness to summer to, just as my ties with winter were strengthened by the events of a far off now Samhain, magic's rules are complicated, It was these four courts and one other that I shall not mention that held ties strong with, these five that I would assist with only minute hesitation if need arose, it also helps to have Sidhe owing favors really helps, the fifth court whom I hold ties is the only I truly avoid, not of fear for self or more accurately perhaps fear of self. The message contained the usual hell's gates are opening, Earth is in danger of destruction, so by extension so is never never, excetera, excetera.
OH and good news Ghandi doesn't get killed by Nathuram Godse, he does get shot still and then Godse gets shot by several heavily armed SS men, Ghandi is taken to the hospital and receives treatment and every one gets to listen to a long lecture on peace and good feelings towards one another. Oh and the pope gets killed for speaking out, convinently the blame, or rather the responisbilty for event is claimed by a Muslim extremists group, which has secretly, of course, ties to the SS, hmm… they may have actually done it who knows I was in England at the time, so I would not know.
All attempted Communist revolutions are thawarted, so several countries don't join the reds. April seventh routine trip to China, the monastery in Shanghai does't burn this time, so good for the monks… oh and some tries to kill me again, lucky me, he got burned alive. The Civil air patrol is established in the US, don't know whether they do any good, seeing as I've never seen them in action. June the Empire Windrush sinks under mysterious circumstances it location is unknown for the next two decades, not that many people were looking, the order is busy doing what the order does best and keeping an eye on the Soviets and the Allies, mainly the Americans and the kriegsmarine never publish a file on the matter. Also the Soviet Union tests its first Nuclear weapon. Einstein becomes a part of the US's Weapon's advancement program.
July twenty ninth, Forty Eight the summer Olympics are held, as in the previous timeline, in London, except this time the Axis power particpate the Axis scores second, by only a single medal, Hitler ended up swearing up a storm despite the fact we beat England and the Russians. Well then we will resume in Antarctica forty six."
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Antarctica
The ground of the frozen continent crunched. The site was crawling with artic warfare clad order shock troops, off the cost were B series U-boats, watching the skies. The site commander approached.
"Status report?" inquired the mage
"We have successfully loaded the device, and the body, excavations of the site are continuing as per your orders Mein Herr, two additional bodies, these two are deceased, as per procedure we have turned them over to the research division for cataloging of the two dead bodies genetic material, their devices have been properly stored."
"And?"
"We have made no additional discoveries, we are according to orders proceeding to excavating to the depth of the installation. We should reach the outpost in three weeks."
"Understood, alert me once you have reached the installation, once it has been completely excavated we will commence transfer procedures."
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Three weeks later, 'Axis Empire', Eurasia, Order of the Dragon Hidden facility Hell's Citadel
Attila's fortress was on a mighty mountain, the original keep of the scourge of god was once a roman fort, the great Khan built it up, and then later the Goths did make it their own, the Order of the Dragon made it their own in both times, digging deep with in the mountain expanding the fortress into a true and exemplary Citadel, a sprawling facility with hidden hangars, and labs, and barracks, with artillery, machine gun, and missile battery, deep with in technology and magic worked together in the center of the ley line. The UNITs shields held nothing in comparison to the citadel, whose shields were much greater due to the fact their shields anchored to much greater arrays of defense, but both orden bases were non reliant on their shields protected by heavy super structure, the armor plates which would absorb nuclear flames and stop radiation and still function, the metal was energy reactive in combination with the special system known as the Odessa Phase system, would stop physical munitions with great ease, the armor against nuclear weapons the metal armor refracted energy as it became heated thus creating a buffer, albeit the armor was not meant to sustain simultaneous strikes from ICBMs it could stand one or two strikes in a short period with little damage, the fortress on the other hand was heavily fortified its primary defense were the anti missile facilities, and then its under ground bunker in the event the shields failed, the bunkers would allow the facility to function even against nuclear assault, or in the event of orbital bombardment.
"Have you
located the other Stargate?"
"Unfortunately sir, it was
excavated in nineteen thirty from its resting place in Egypt."
Asran cursed in his head. "Unfortunate indeed, no doubt given that it has vanished from record it has found itself in the hands of the United States Government. If they manage to activate it we will need to create a device to indicate their gate, and detect incoming wormholes that should come through our gate, and distinguish from those that should be going to the Gate from Giza."
Asran looked up to the descending Stargate as it was lowered into its clamps. The stargate released a clicking sound as it was locked into placed. Asran glanced around several machine emplacements were arrayed around to defend the gate, a dialing device was protected from on coming fire, a seemingly redundant defense but one that was none the less probably necessary, Blast doors secured the room, with the control room protected by a similar defense as well as a window of four foot thick bulletproof glass, unlike Plexiglas it was capable of sustaining several staff cannon blasts before succumbing, long enough time for the blast shield to be lowered, after that a lethal dose of gas form Red Water, not even a Goa'uld could throw off the toxic effects, it would prove lethal in under one hundred eighty seconds.
Asran sighed, hopefully the measures wouldn't be necessary, but the mage wasn't naive enough to not believe that it could happen. "I needed back in Berlin, lock down the entire chamber and make sure the shields are functioning. In the event the gate activates contact me immediately."
"Yes sir."
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Axis Empire, Germany, Berlin, Reich Capital Building
"Adolf, the medicine working?" queried the mage.
The Fuhrer sneezed again.
"It is helping." Conceded the Austrian.
Asran rolled his eyes, it was like this every spring, and Adolf always got hay fever, quite an annoyance really.
Sehkmet gave a derisive snort, and Gellert smirked, before Sehkmet poked him in the ribs, the same ones he had had broken in his fight with Dumbledore, apparently the spell impaired healing. The German wizard winced.
"If you to are done acting like school children." Stated Hedryich.
"He's right."
"Right, so welcome everyone to the first meeting of this year of the Four and respective command staff personnel. So any particular reason we got an emergency meeting set up?" stated Gellert
"Well as the war has ended, we all need, less war indicative task, at least for you who have regular military posts, as a show of good will you will all be receiving diplomatic assignments to varying nations, Goring is becoming ambassador to the United States, Asran you will be handling the United Kingdom…"
Asran would have twitched; half of him wanted to make the Fuhrer relive his worst nightmare, that had to be the stupidest idea the mage had ever heard.
"Yes, yes, I am sure some of you are looking to taking some well deserved leave, but for now we must strive for the greater glory of the Reich."
'what is this a god damn Nuremberg rally.'
"Any way its an easy job… simple nice easy public relations job…" Hitler continued to go over the ambassadorial job. "Its not like you need to be in the country all the time, seeing as some of you have other duties."
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Asran's counterparts from England, Adrian J. Flint, a pureblood who served as ambassador from the Ministry of Magic of England, was a neutral though he leaned against muggle things, wasn't nearly as extreme as other pureblood's, the Parkinson's for example. The muggle ambassador was a rather polite Eton fellow by the name of Hughe Montgomery Knatchbull-Hugessen.
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Axis Empire, Eurasia, Order of the Dragon Hidden facility Hell's Citadel
Asran exhaled, the device was the key, the device name was the Tacitus, translated it meant the Record; the Tacitus was a wealth of knowledge. It was amazing the information contained would greatly benefit the order. Already the knowledge was being used to improve order air born weapons. The knowledge alone would rapidly speed up the time needed to deploy the orbital weapons platforms, which would be built in different portions of the solar system. Nine space capital ships construction facilities were under construction at the citadel, with similar facilities being built at the Shangri-la bases.
Asran rapidly entered another command into the interface translating another section of text. "Finally." Asran smirked; the section had yielded the information necessary, the secret concerning how to control Ichor, now all the duke of Kiev had to do was create the material and he would control it. Asran turned to as second console and entered a message, informing that the facility would commence operation shortly once the necessary technology had been constructed and installed.
The Facility in question was in an isolated portion of the Sahara designed for the purpose of handling Ichor research in the event of a containment break where Ichor was released, oh well, alchemic nuclear weapon detonates opens the gates and destroys the entire area of life. No Ichor would survive perfect safety measure, destructive but it did the job. Also with the new information the Ichor would prove non lethal to humans. This non lethal strain of Ichor was gray in color as opposed to green, blue or red, it was also not as volatile, sadly this came at a price while extremely potent it was very difficult to refine, taking much longer than Ichor of the green or blue variety.
The gray Ichor was a necessary trade off though the order was now quite large, for an order, it still needed to maintain safety over military gain, Ichor would have similar safety limits as Naquadah had, and Red Water was kept under.
Asran had developed as second Ichor strain, it was purple in color, it was much more… interesting to say the least, the substance was bonded with KAINE, a mutagenic virus developed by the order, interesting both the virus and the Purple Ichor were magic sensitive. The project would be up and running if all went to schedule by the sixties, couldn't be to careful.
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Chapter conclusion
Helltanz's notes: Red Water, is if you watch Full Metal Alchemist, this is the same stuff, you won't see nearly as much of Alchemy in this story as you will in later portions of Eternities Limits, except for the alchemic weapons and a few minor bits of alchemy in combat, but no where near as much as in the later chapters of Eternities Limits. Hitler is a moron let no one be forgetting it. Also to clarify the Orden Governed states, which very important once we get back to the present, will exist in all three futures, though technically the will be apart of the Axis Confederation. So you also see the increase of Order research. Another thing I added several Fairy Courts, each one is unique, this will be elaborated later, as will the Djinn.
The Future: (besides Stargate differences borders will also differ in each future, as will magical-muggle relations)
Benevolent Future: The Nazi succeed however Hitler dies and is replaced by a less Master race leader (Grindelwald dies as well unless people vote they want otherwise additionally Roosevelt will survive longer than in reality)
Five votes for
Moderate Future: Nazi's still in power, the Axis states are all allied together in a confederation (Grindelwald will likely be alive though also Roosevelt will survive longer than in reality, Hitler will be dead make no mistake, this is true for all timelines, he will be dead by the time we get back to the present, also the Russian Federation, well they won't be exactly the same after the fall of communism in the nineties)
Five votes for
Harsh Future the third Reich is victorious the culture Nazi Empire if this occurs will likely hold some similarities to the Dominion of Draka, it is likely rating will increase to M, the non M rated Harsh future will if written will feature all Axis states united in one large multi continental empire (Roosevelt will survive longer than in reality, Hitler is succeeded after his death by a leader who wished to build the Third Reich into the greatest empire to ever exist, additionally the US will expand to encompass both American Continents)