((Note: I got a PM the other day from someone asking me why things are different in this story when compared to the Stargate TV Series, for example Colonel Young from SGU being Samantha Carters Cousin; or, how the Destiny Expedition happened a year or two before what was said on Television.

The short answer is that this story is set in an Alternate Reality dubbed 117, which is in direct connection to a planet which will feature later on in the story, P3W-117 to be exact, get ready as fans of both the first 1994 Stargate Movie and various TV Series' will love the upcoming chapters. Lets just say, I've got a lot planned for both the crew of Destiny, SG-1 and the Atlantis Expedition!))

There are those who believe that on the outer edge of our known galaxy, beyond that which we have ever seen lay dormant a pure form of evil, an evil that not the which of even the Goa'uld System Lords would have even dared to oppose. History which was never officially written, never released to the public by government interlopers whom were in the know, officers never briefed and truths never spoken.

Only in passing do these monsters ever bare mention, only in rumor do their people have a voice, and only in blood do their spirits thrive. Rumor suggests that They are a race of mechanically augmented bio-netic lifeforms that thrive on death and destruction, unleashed upon an unsuspecting galaxy by those who would seek to cause harm, whom selfishly wished to rule a galaxy that wasn't theirs in the first place.

Legend tells that millions of years ago they lived alongside the Ancients, learning from them and eventually gaining even the councils approval. No one knows exactly when they began learning the ways of the darkness, but it surely did happen, their exploits being known by some throughout the Pegasus and Ida Galaxies; the mere mention of their name amongst some people would be enough to send chills down their spines, to insure panic at the thought of their return which has already been foretold.

They cannot be reasoned with, cannot be negotiated with, their reasoning is simple and that is to be the last race standing. A race of tyrants hellbent on plunging the entire universe into war, set to plunder and pillage those weakened by what they call the great culling, and when even the wraith know not to mess with them, then you know just how dangerous they really are.

Marked by a brilliant light, and followed by a swirling vortex the prophets shall return!

Cloaked as friends from old their meaning remain unclear, what at first seems harmless slowly becomes the key to deaths door!

When they return the lost city shall fall, and with it any hope thy enemy have for victory!

Your weapons, your power, your very way of life cannot be allowed to proceed!

Their return has been foretold, and the end shall be sooner than you think...

PREPARE FOR WAR!

Chapter 3: The Darkest Night, Part 2

-Area 51- Top Secret Research Lab

"But my lord." Dr. Kirkland shook her head wondering how their plan could work, knowing the only reason they escaped execution was that they were Goa'uld, yet had turned against the others. They were, independent you could say, having held no viable power amongst the other system lords since right after SGC's first mission to Abydos. "We need to be very careful, if they discover our treason all is over..."

"That they will not do!" President Ramsey smirked before watching the final chevron lock on the Prometheus gate, it then flashed very quickly 3 times before engaging the wormhole. "Besides, if Apophis and the System Lords couldn't stop me, who do you think can?"

"Ra..." Was all Kirkland said.

"That is a name I have not heard in a very long time, not since..." Ramsey shook his head slightly. "No matter, just keep an eye on the Prometheus. I will get Stargate Command ready for our little demonstration, one the likes of General O'Neill or anyone else have seen before."

"What if they figure out who you really are? That you are in one of their holographic disguises and there as that distraction, you know, they don't take kindly to threats against their existence...Especially ones whom are of a race they thought were extinct, who could enslave them even when it's only me and you, and..."

"You worry too much, my queen." Ramsey walks upto the event horizon before sticking his hand in and pulling it back. "What is it the Tau'ri say? Wish me luck?"

Kirkland nods watching him step through the gate which disengages about 20 seconds after he dematerializes, she walks over to the control panel and types a few commands in pulling up a picture of a Goa'uld Transport Ship Cloaked in orbit of Earth, she couldn't help but wonder what lay ahead in their future. "Time to execute plan b!"

The woman types another set of commands in on the small control panel situated beside the computer, the device beeps three times then glows a bright red color before gently returning to a dim red seemingly showing the device was activated. "Kla mel harek...(Too Late) Kresh'ta (Outcast)"

With those words spoken the device begins emitting a strong pulse of energy causing the Prometheus gate to begin dialing, it had activated it's accelerated dialing mode and in 10 short seconds had already engaged, this being only the start of the galaxies nightmare!

-Stargate Command- Gate/Control Room

"Mr. President I cannot let you leave the base until we are sure it is safe, with a suspected Goa'uld ship in orbit cloaked all key personnel will remain here. I know you certainly outrank me but I can't allow you to take this risk, clear?" Landry asked in a no non-sense tone of voice, he had his suspicions of the president, but he rightly didn't let them show.

"Crystal, clear." Ramsey shook his head then looked out the glass barrier of the control room at the gate, the inner ring began to spin before stopping on the Earth's point of origin symbol, at which time the chevrons lit up but no wormhole activated.

"What's happening now Walter?" Landry asked turning his attention to the lit up Stargate.

"I don't know sir, the gate isn't responding and I can't get it to dial out...It's like someone locked it, sir." Walter began like he so often had many times before typing on the keyboard in front of him, to no avail though he couldn't gain any sort of control over the gate. "The gate seems to have stored Earths address in it's memory bank as thats the address I see on the computer, someone dialed here just before the gate locked up."

"How do you know someone dialed here?" The General looked at the computer screen seeing the same thing Walter did, sure enough, right there flashing in red were the symbols to dial Earth. "Close the iris, something doesn't seem..."

"Attention, this is Colonel Erica Sheppard of the Columbia, can anyone hear me?" A voice full of static blared over the speakers in the Control Room, causing Ramsey to slightly snarl under his breath, but he regained his composure so no one would get suspicious.

"Columbia this is General Landry of Stargate Command, how can we be of assistance?" The General asked after Walter patched him through.

"SGC we have a major problem up here, our prototype on board Stargate has locked up and we can't dial out to Earth in order to change shifts and gain fresh supplies and officers. We need further orders on what to do, I can't reach anyone at the N.I.D or D.H.S, communications seem to be out aswell...It's a miracle we reached you." You could hear the uncertainty in the Colonels voice.

"I don't know what to say as our gate is locked out aswell and we can't seem to..."

Landry was about to finish when the alarms screamed out throughout the base signaling both the gate reactivating and an incoming wormhole.

"Incoming Wormhole, closing the iris!" Walter puts his hand on the thumb print scanner closing the iris on the gate, the wormhole engages as the incoming alarm shuts down leaving only the activation alarm. "Sir, this is odd, at first the computer registered an incoming wormhole...Now, it's outgoing." Walter was perplexed at what was going on.

"Outgoing? To where?" Landry asked his own mind a bit confused.

"Sir, it seems to be the same 9 chevron address as before and I can only assume it is going to the Destiny, the only problem is we can't step through that event horizon." Walter kept his eye locked on the computer screen which now showed a flashing error flag, #66, but exactly what error it was he couldn't say.

"SGC be advised, a Goa'uld Hatak just decloaked and is moving in closer to the planet, it seems to be trying to get as close as possible." Erica's message played loud over the SGC's sound system. "The Apollo and Odyssey are standing by to assist in it's destruction, we will keep you informed...Colonel Sheppard out."

"Alright Erica, good luck." Landry turns his attention to the gate. "Keep the iris closed just in case, I don't want anything coming through that gate I don't care what it is, this planets safety comes first...Understood?"

Walter nods before beginning to work on figuring out what was going on, first the other day now this and on top of that they couldn't contact Atlantis, no idea why but Everytime they had dialed Atlantis their connection was refused.

-Atlantis- Gateroom

"Rodney!" John shook his head watching McKay run readings on the computer system for the 100th time, he was still a bit groggy having been awoken by McKay's call earlier.

"WHAT!" McKay asked a bit agitated but then he calmed down. "Sorry, what?"

"Now thats better, have you found anything?" Sheppard asked. "Why can't we dial Earth?"

"We should be able to, that saying this isn't a problem with the gate itself nor our ZedPM" Rodney looks at the gate monitoring screen on his laptop. "It should dial, from all readings we have enough power to hold the shield and dial Earth at the same time...I just don't understand."

"Anything I can do to help?" Lieutenant Ford asked as he walked upto the two in full Atlantis uniform, having been reinstated to Sheppard's team.

"Yeah, you can tell me something. While you were out there scouting around after you, well, were supposed to have died did you hear anything? You know, something that could explain why everything seems to be going down the drain all of a sudden?" John couldn't help but sound agitated, not so much at Ford but at the situation at hand, no one could figure anything out and when they did get close to a solution, something else came up and took the last problems place.

"I did hear something strange on a world I visited, I did some reading into SG-1's past missions before I was stationed here at Atlantis. Anyway I read about their encounter with Ra on the planet Abydos, how he had once enslaved people on Earth but was overthrown and eventually defeated. People on a planet I ended up on when trying to get Wraith Enzyme seemed to know him, thats all they talked about and I heard one say that he wasn't dead." Aiden took a deep breath before looking right at the Colonel. "They seemed to think that he was alive and well though in hiding..."

Ford didn't get a chance to finish as the gate began to light up in a 8 chevron connection. "Incoming Wormhole! Gate shield activated..."

"Let me guess, still not Teyla's team?" John asked a little bit worried by the fact that they still hadn't gotten word from her, neither could they connect to P3W-117's Stargate.

"No, this connection is incoming from the milky way galaxy...Wait a minute." McKay couldn't believe his eyes when the address began to read out on the computer, for a second, he thought it could be wrong.

"What is it now?" Sheppard asked kinda getting tired of all the surprises.

"Colonel Carter needs to see this, where is she?" Rodney asked looking over at Sheppard.

John takes a deep breath before tapping the small button on the communicator which was on his ear, after it beeps he begins to speak. "Colonel Carter, please report to the Control Room. We have something we think you might want to see." After he finishes he looks back toward Rodney. "Now, whats so important about the address? Why did I just wake Colonel Carter up in the middle of the night, better yet...Why did you wake me up in the middle of the night?"

"I woke you up to give you my report on the Stargate, but that doesn't matter now, answer me this...How can a planet thought to have been destroyed a long time ago, be dialing Atlantis?" McKay asked seeing the perplexed look in Sheppard's face. "Don't have an answer? Well, to tell the truth, neither do I."

"What planet?" John asked walking over to the computer and gazing at the screen. "What am I looking at, exactly?"

"That Sheppard, is the address to the planet Abydos, destroyed in 2003 by Anubis using the eyes of the Goa'uld." McKay sat down at the controls before his communicator beeped. "McKay here."

"Rodney..." Zelenka's voice rang out over the communicator. "We have a big, big problem down here."

"What problem, what did you do?" McKay asked.

"I didn't do anything, but still that connection is draining our power and I estimate it will be fully drained in under 48 hours, if we don't terminate the power connections to some of the non-essential systems in Atlantis; it could be as short as 24." Radek shook his head. "It cannot be held as long as we did the 9 chevron connection, the ZPM was drained enough from that, this one will surely completely drain it."

"Oh, great, just great." Rodney begins typing in commands on the computer just as Sam walks into the control room. "No time to talk, so don't say anything...Just look at this!"

Samantha shook her head dismissively, that is until she saw the gate address which was flashing on the computer screen. "Abydos!" The word escaped her mouth before she even knew she said it, could it really be? But how could a planet destroyed so long ago by Anubis have an active Stargate, better yet, who was using it?

"There is a traveler coming through the wormhole." McKay looked up right at Sheppard. "Whoever it is their alone, their pattern is the only one in transit."

"Are you sure?" Carter asked breaking out of her quiet thought filled silence, that is before the gate made a loud but kinda drawn out sound, almost that of a car motor starting up only to go away as fast as it was heard. "What on earth was that?"

"McKay..." Sheppard began before seeing a figure step through the gate, from what he could make out it looked like a young boy around 15 or 16 years old, he then turned his attention to Colonel Carter whom looked like she was about to pass out. "Someone you know?"

"Yeah, but there is just one problem...The person I know from Abydos, the person that is standing down there in the gateroom, is supposed to be dead!" Sam couldn't just stand by any longer, she needed answers, so turning around she heads quickly down to the gateroom leaving the others scratching their heads.

"McKay, can we dial the gate bridge?" Sheppard asked in a semi-quiet manner.

"Yeah, it should be a piece of cake once that connection shuts down, it seems that is what was keeping our gate from working, why do you ask?" McKay wondered the last part aloud.

"Ask? Why do I ask? Oh I don't know, just the fact we got a connection from a planet we thought to be gone, then a person steps through the gate that was thought to be dead, not to mention our gate seems to be going haywire lately. Is that reason enough?" John asked in a kinda sarcastic way. "When we can dial earth, alert General O'Neill of our situation and advise he send SG1...Not the new team, the original team."

"Teal'c, Dr. Jackson and General O'Neill?" McKay nodded understanding Sheppard's reasoning. "This would be more in their league then ours, after all, Abydos was where it all started all those years ago."

"Now..." John started before turning to look down at the gateroom, he saw Colonel Carter hug the kid which stood in front of the now deactivated Stargate, she seemed convinced as to his identity but to him there had to be doubts. She seemed to know exactly who he was, but even she could be wrong at times. "We have to find out who our visitor is, Colonel Carter may think she knows, but looks can be deceiving..."

(To Be Continued) Chapter 4: The Darkest Night, Part 3