General O'Neill heard Colonel Carter speaking to him over the intercom.

"Sir, could you come back down to the Core room? Thor and I would like to speak to you."

"Sure. I'm on my back down to see you then." He replied.

"Sir, Thor just informed me that by using the Asgard transporters, we can create anything as long as we have the energy. We talked about our only real limitation. Sir, as you should be well aware, we only have skeleton crews on our ships, and small skeletons at that. So we were thinking that we should come up with some way to guarantee our safety. The best idea we came up with is to modify a very old Asgard combat/survival suit that they used when they had better bodies. We would like you to give us your input in this project."

At this time Major Marks was alerted to something on the sensors. "Sir, we are picking up a superluminal distress call. Its originating roughly one hundred light years away. Its audio and visual sir."

"What?"

"Sir its going faster than light." Said Colonel Carter.

"Well than, let's see it. Major, transmit the message to my location immediatly."

"...First Minister Kellan, to anyone that can hear this and can help. Please we are in dire need. There is a missile headed for our world that just destroyed our only defense fleet and can't be stopped. We are estimating the casualties will be in excess of two million lives! Please help us..."

After listening to the distress call, General O'Neill starts issuing orders. "Major Marks, sound battle stations. Major Womack take us to the location of the distress signal." Activating the intercom, O'Neill continues to issue orders. "SG1, report to the bridge, prepare for a first contact situation. Thor, I'd like for you to man the Asgard console and any information or advice would be helpful. Have our fleet stay in position. We aren't going to risk more than one ship right now. O'Neill out."

Having been moving while giving the orders, he could use the controls on his command chair, General O'Neill opens an audio communication channel to the planet from which the distress call came from. "This is [Latin translation 'general'] O'Neill, Commander of the Tau'ri vessel Hammond, we have received your distress call and are in route to assist you, please do not be startled by the size of our ship, over."

"[Latin translation 'general'] O'Neill, this is First Minister Kellan, we are thankful for any assistance that you can give us! We need help as soon as you are able. The missile is one hour away and nothing that we know can stop it."

"Just sit tight and we will be there in a few moments to render assistance, Hammond out."

While the General was talking, Major Womack plotted the course for the small jump to get them to their destination. Once the General was done with his conversation, the Odyssey entered hyperspace and was brought right back out by the computer since a human would have overshot their destination since it was so quick. Once they were out of hyperspace, they were near an Earth like planet with numerous heavily populated areas.

Just like any other Asgard, Thor was diligent in his duties. "General O'Neill, I have located what the message referred to as a 'missile'. It is on a direct course for the planet. I reading that this 'missile' has weapons as well as a massive warhead..."

Sam, inquisitive as always asked, "What type of warhead?"

"I am reading an matter/antimatter warhead, precisely 1000 kilos of both matter and antimatter. The blast would be big enough to destroy an average sized moon."

Sam couldn't help but feel a little awe struck. It has been a dream of everyone in the science department to use matter and antimatter in such quantities and in such a controlled way.

Colonel Mitchell wasn't impressed. "Alright so how do we help these people? Can we kill it with our weapons?"

Vala was too busy wondering how much she could get for this technology at home and Teal'c was being as stoic as ever. It was Daniel who had to play devil's advocate. "Are we sure that we want to involve ourselves in this. I mean I want to save these people as well, but at what cost?"

Thor had more information to add as well, "The shields will not withstand an attack by us so we can destroy it. But there is other information to consider. There is one humanoid onboard. There is also a vessel following the missile closely. It has its shields up and its weapons are armed."

"Put it on the screen so we can all see it please."

Thor gives a brief description of the vessel. "It is 345 meters long and has a tonnage of 700k. It has fifteen decks and is powered by a matter/antimatter core. Im reading thirteen energy weapon arrays as well as several missile launchers. The vessel has shields but they do not impede our scans. From the information available and considering the energy output and number of weapons, this vessel alone poses little threat. Both the ship and the missile use an unknown method of FTL flight."

Out of nowhere, Teal'c spoke. "Thor, the writing on the vessel, can you magnify so we can see it. It looks... familiar."

Thor manipulated the controls and on the view screen the name of the ship can be seen, and it is in English. Daniel couldn't believe it and reads it aloud. "USS Voyager NCC-74656. Holy Hannah! It's a ship from Earth!"

On the bridge of the USS Voyager, there was a tense silence in the air. The ship had been dragged seventy thousand light years from home by a mysterious entity two years previously, and if that wasn't enough, now they were chasing and trying to destroy a rouge Cardassian unmanned dreadnought missile ship that was on a course to destroy a sizable portion of an innocent planet. Lieutenant B'Elanna Torres was on board said missile trying to destroy or deactivate is from the inside. Apparently the missile had been dragged across the galaxy to the Delta Quadrant just like Voyager had been.

Before the two ships were pulled from the Alpha Quadrant, Lieutenant Torres was working for the Maquis and managed to board and reprogram the dreadnought to attack a Cardassian target. Because of this, she was the obvious choice to send over since none of Voyager's weapons could stop the thing. Now Lieutenant Torres was onboard the missile and Voyager couldn't lock onto her with the transporters do to the shields that were activated after she boarded it.

It was Ensign Harry Kim that broke the silence on the bridge. "Captain, sensors just picked up a unknown subspace distortion near the planet."

Captain Katherine Janeway sprung up from her command seat, she was just itching for something to do besides waiting in a tense silence. "Put it on the view screen and perform a full sensor sweep."

Ensign Kim was quick with his response while he started to do as he was ordered "Aye Captain."

On the view screen everyone could see a gigantic blue and purple like 'cloud' forming in a high orbit of the planet. Out of the cloud like subspace distortion came a ship. A very very large ship. Everyone was shocked at what they saw.

Turning towards Harry Kim, Janeway asked, "Ensign what's the status of those scans?"

"Captain, the ship seemed to exit a deep layer of subspace that I would say is their method of FTL travel. I couldn't get any more readings because their transition to normal space was too quick. I do know that their inertial dampeners have to be really advanced in order to stop as fast as they did and for the crew not to be injured." They all saw how fast the ship came to a rapid stop after leaving the distortion.

Nodding her head in understanding, the Captain then turned her attention to her tactical officer. "Mr. Tuvok, what's your tactical analysis?"

"Sensors are unable to penetrate the vessels shields. I am able to get a rough estimation of their power levels and I must say I am shocked. The vessel is currently outputting an estimated two hundred times our generated power at least. I am unable to give you a more precise reading."

Everyone was shocked at that statement. Voyager was a ship from an entirely new class of vessel, with one of the latest matter/antimatter reactors that made the ship one of the fastest created. To be so completely outclassed was unexpected and quite surprising.

Tuvok wasn't done with his analysis. "Visually I can see what appear to be energy weapon turrets, and …projectile weapon turrets." If the power estimate was a shock, then a ship with that much power using primitive slug throwers was even more shocking. "I also see what could possibly be missile tubes, many of them. There are two hanger doors, one on each side which is possibly used for shuttles. It is also more than fifteen kilometers in length."

Lieutenant Tom Paris, Sr. Helmsman of Voyager just couldn't hold back his comments. "Look at the thing. It puts out way more power than we do and yet they use projectile weapons? If you ask me it looks like a warship that would have been built on Earth, but hundreds of years ago. It's boxy, fully loaded and built for war. It's a contradiction if I have ever seen one; advanced and primitive."

Commander Chakotay stood from his seat to get a better look. "The design does look primitive but let's not judge a book by its cover eh Mr. Paris. Its power output alone and the fact that we can't scan past their shields should tell us all we need to know. Captain?"

"I agree, Let's find out there intentions, we still have a crew member to retrieve and a missile to stop. Mr. Kim, open a channel to that ship."

"Aye ma'am. Channel Open."

"This is Captain Katherine Janeway of the Federation Starship Voyager, be advised that the craft that in a approach vector is hostile and that we are currently unable to stop it. Your ship might be in danger. Please respond."

A few minutes earlier on the Odyssey

On the bridge, SG-1 and the general was discussing the name of the vessel that was trying to scan them with no success. "Well the name is written in English and was also the name of a probe that NASA sent out to get early scans and pictures of the farthest planets in Earths solar system."

Vala, who was looking bored and a little impatient, voiced her thought. "Ok, so yeah, the ship is from this Earth, but what does that have to do with why we are here and this missile. Can't we just blow it up and get on our way."

"I find myself agreeing with Miss Mal Doran. Let's help these people then speculate about this ship and Earth." Teal'c said this in his usual, direct fashion.

Sam was about to defend herself when they were interrupted by the Lieutenant manning the communications systems. "The Voyager is hailing us, audio and visual Sir."

Sitting back in his chair, the General responded with a curt, "Let's see it Lieutenant."

"Aye sir."

"This is Captain Katherine Janeway of the Federation Starship Voyager, be advised that the craft that in a approach vector is hostile and that we are currently unable to stop it. Your ship might be in danger. Please respond."

"Open a channel Lieutenant Audio only, we don't want to startle them unnecessarily."

"Channel open. Sir."

Still sitting in his command chair, General O'Neill responded to the hail. "This is [Latin translation 'general'] O'Neill of the Tau'ri vessel Hammond. We are aware of the danger and are responding to a distress call from the planet to render assistance. We are reading a person onboard the missile, do you know anything about them."

"Yes [Latin translation 'general'] we do, that is my Chief Engineer. She is trying to disable the missile from the inside. We are unable to retrieve her yet because the craft has raised it shields."

"Well Captain, we just may be able to assist you and the planet. Question, does your ship incorporate matter transporters? Never mind. Anyway, please break off pursuit so the blast from the warhead won't damage your ship. Hammond out."

With the comm channel closed, Landry got Thor on the intercom. "Thor, are we able to get a transporter lock on the person on the missile?"

Thor answered in typical Asgard fashion, short and sweet. "Yes."

"Can you transport them to the Voyager's bridge?"

"Indeed. I will transport them immediately."

"Thank you Thor. Major Marks, once the missile is empty I want that missile out of my sky. Major Womack, plot a course to make it happen."

Aye Sirs rang out on the bridge as the officers readied the Hammond's powerful systems to complete their tasks.

Meanwhile on Voyager

Captain Janeway was a little chuffed at being ordered to drop pursuit, especially when she had a crewman onboard. She saw the reason behind it but wasn't going to leave B'Elanna behind.

Tuvok's voice rang out on the bridge. "Captain, the Hammond is accelerating towards the missile. They are locking some type of targeting scanners onto us that is completely bypassing our shields. I can't break the lock Captain."

"Mr. Paris, evasive pattern Beta 6!" Order Chakotay.

"Mr. Tuvok, remodulate the shields, try to block them. Lock onto the Hammond and return fire if they fire first."

On the bridge everyone heard a loud whine then all they saw was a bright flash of white light. When the light disappeared, B'Elanna was standing there looking around visibly startled. Everyone else was surprised at the Hammond's ability to transport a person through their shields.

B'Elanna, still startled at the sudden transport from the missile to the Voyager Bridge via an unfamiliar transporter system couldn't remain silent for long. "What happened? How did I get here? It wasn't our transporter, whose were they?"

Chakotay walked over to her and tried to calm her down. "While you were onboard Dreadnought, a ship answered the planet's distress call sent by the planet. It was them that transported you here, THROUGH the shields and its them on the screen on an attack vector, let's see what they can do."

Both Chakotay and B'Elanna turned to watch the view screen. The Hammond was above the missile coming right at it. All of a sudden, with no warning from the sensors and at an impossible range, the Hammond fired a narrow, bright blue lance of energy at the missile. The missile was visibly shaken by the attack and the shields lasted about two seconds before they gave out, allowing the beam to impact on the hull. But the beam didn't stop there. The beam ended up going right out the other side, blowing a huge hole out of the other side of the missile. Because of the missile's momentum and the Hammond closing the distance, the beam ended up going right down the spine of the craft, splitting it in half. That is until it reached the matter/antimatter payload. Once the beam hit that, it exploded in a frightening display of mutual annihilation.

While the Hammond's shields flared, the ship wasn't fazed at all while Voyager was thrown to the side with several exploded conduits and some damaged systems throughout the ship.

Captain Janeway was picking herself up off the floor. "I guess we should have backed off when [Latin translation 'general'] O'Neill asked us to. Mr. Tuvok," she walked over to him, "what in the hell was that weapon that went through Dreadnaught like tissue paper? Nothing we had could stop that thing and that ship took one shot and destroyed it? I want answers!"

"According to the sensors, the Hammond used very narrow high intensity beam of extremely super-heated beam an unknown plasma type. I would suggest beaming up a sample of the hull for further analysis."

"Do it."

Onboard the Hammond

"It was no problem at all First Minister Kellan, We were glad to help." General said.

"Is there any way that we could repay you for what you have done?" The man asked in such a way that O'Neill knew they truly were grateful and it would be impolite not to ask for anything. Taking a second to think of what they could offer, the general made up his mind.

"Ok First Minister; how about a map of the galaxy as you know it and any cultural information you could give us about your people. We would very much like to get to know you and hopefully become friends."

With raised eyebrows in shock the First Minister answered immediately, "Friends indeed! I will contact you in thirty minutes for the transfer, agreed?"

"Agreed and thank you First Minister."

"No [Latin translation 'general'], thank you."

With that the comm channel closed. Noticing Sam at the controls for communications scrutinizing what she was reading. "Sam, what has your attention over there?"

"I'm looking at the communications on the planet; I thought that since we were here already and seem to be on our way to being friends, we could start to grow a sensor net of sorts. We can make it cloaked and if in the future we can put a stargate here, we already have the place monitored. I'm just looking at their communications so we can fine tune the satellite. That is if that's ok Sir?"

"Great idea, you and Thor get stared right away. And find out what exactly what it takes to build a stargate."

"Aye sir."

"Raise Voyager on the com" General O'Neill ordered.

Seconds later, Captain Janeway was on the view screen. "Captain Janeway, good to see you're ok. Sorry for sending only an audio transmission, we are having a bit of trouble with our comm arrays." The Voyager Bridge was in one piece with technicians fixing consoles in the background. The bridge crew looked a little battered but O'Neill didn't want to mention that.

"Thank you general, it got a little bumpy but we are fine. I'd like to thank you returning my Chief Engineer to us, and for taking care of the missile."

"Like I told First Minister Kellan, it was no trouble at all." General O'Neill wanted to see if it was now possible to get information on Earth now before they even got there. "Captain, would it be possible for a few of my officers to tour your starship, we have never seen a design such as yours and a couple of my people are anxious to stretch their legs."

"I don't see a problem with that General, how about in one hour?" Janeway asked.

"One hour is perfect." answered the General.

"See you then, Janeway out." With that the comm closed.

"SG-1, you're up. Go see Thor and Sam and see if there is any handy Asgard tech that you can use while you're on your tour. You leave in one hour."

"Yes Sir." Mitchell responded. He turned to leave the bridge with the rest of SG-1 following behind him. They made it down to the Asgard core room to see Sam and Thor manipulating a holographic representation of a complex looking Asgard satellite.

"…is the latest in Asgard design. Based on what you call Puddle Jumper technology, this satellite is invisible to everything. They are even capable of detecting ships in hyperspace and have a greater range than older models. These are what I would recommend."

Sam looked at the model for another minute. "Ok let's do it Thor." In between everyone was satellite. The probes were based off this satellites technology so it was almost the same. Instead of having shields, it had better scanning technology, and it also didn't have a hyperdrive or sublight engine, just thrusters for emergency use only.

Sam looked up to talk to her team as Thor beamed the satellite to the 302 bay so that it can be deployed in stealth mode instead of the bright flash alerting everyone that something was beamed into the void of space. "So what brings you guys down here?"

It was an excited Daniel that answered Sam. "The General got Janeway to agree to a tour of their ship. I can't wait to talk to them and learn of their culture and history. I wonder if any of our history happened here or is it all different."

Colonel Mitchell interrupted Daniel mid rant. "General Landry wanted us to see if there was any cool Asgard gear we can get for the tour. We need Intel bad and this is a good way to get it. Thor what do you think buddy? You guys put anything cool in that core?"

"All that we had is now yours. I want to give you something that was created right after we perfected our beaming technology. My people created this device when we still did things as you do them now. We needed a way to carry all of the supplies and tools that we used from day to day and we didn't want to carry them everywhere so we devised a technology that did it for us. Before you is a materializer. While it can dematerialize things to rematerialize later, you can also create things from detailed schematics stored within the stone, or from a database that the stone is connected to but it will require more energy to do so. This energy can be provided by your armor. We didn't need this technology anymore once our cellular degradation became a problem and we created a society where technology did everything for us. Used in addition to your already distributed battle armor, it will allow you to carry much more than in your time exploring through the stargate. It can also act as "

The hologram disappeared and in its place was what looked like a wristband and a medium sized oval stone that would fit in a person's palm, and the two were connected by what looked like a strap that would lay on the wrist. Thor manipulated the hologram and the wristband disappeared. He made five for each of them and each took them and attached them to their armor.

I upgraded the stones to the latest ones we created. It will have a greater storage capacity and even act as a redundant communications device. Also, it will be keyed to your DNA to prevent its use by someone else."

"Well I should say that this is cool!" Mitchell exclaimed.

"I agree. This is a very formidable piece of technology. What is the storage capacity for such a unit?" Teal'c asked." He was wondering how many weapons he could hold in his materializer.

"Yeah and can you use this for anything? Food? Water? You know living stuff?" Vala couldn't wait to try hers out. The things she could boost now were limitless.

"While the capacity of objects that you are able to store in the stone is based on the size of the pattern that is stored, I assure you that it will be able to hold everything that you will need and more. In its original form only one maybe two stones were used by a person; as you can see, you have five. While I would not suggest trying to store a living person, it is capable of storing food and water for consumption."

With the explanation finished by Thor, SG-1 created several items to actually store in the materializer to save power. They each decided to carry emergency food and water along with some stunning weapons. While the more military minded of the group decided to store more weapons in their materializer, like Teal'c and Colonel Mitchell, everyone also decided to carry Asgard personal shields and cloaks. The team made more choices to fit their individual needs as well. Sam decided to wear a stone on her left forearm that would act as a scanner and an interface with technology while Daniel wore one that would act as a database that he could use for storing sending and receiving of cultural information. Daniel's stone was ideal for storage and allowed Daniel to instantly review information on any culture that was stored on the stone. While one could use the stones to give them access to any technical information, it didn't mean that you would automatically understand how or why it worked.

Once everyone picked what they wanted that they wanted or that they thought would be beneficial for the upcoming mission, they left and headed for the bridge to get ready to leave for their trip to Voyager since it was nearing the one hour departure time.

On the bridge, SG-1 found General O'Neill sitting in the command chair monitoring the bridge crew as they went about handling the operations of his ship. He turned towards the door as SG-1 walked onto the bridge fully fitted in armor and stones. "Ah right on time and ready to go I take it. Did you get anything from the Asgard Core that would be of assistance? I don't need to remind you how badly we need the Intel that these people may be able to offer us. A little while ago, we received the information from the First Minister, and while it offered a lot of cultural information, it seriously lacked in stellar Intel."

Colonel Mitchell stepped forward to show the General the new technology that Thor showed them. "Thor shared with us a really nice piece of technology with us that his people stopped using when they started to have their cellular degradation issues." He held out his hand so the stone was facing up and thought of what he wanted and the stone glowed white while in his hand a Zat gun formed, bit by bit. After several seconds the weapon was formed and the Colonel dematerialized it for later use.

While Mitchell was giving his demonstration to the General, Daniel was busy linking his database to the core computer of the Hammond and copied all the information that his Earth encountered as well as the cultural information that they just received. After the transfer was complete, Daniel was pleased that while he could mentally access the data from his stone, it didn't transfer the knowledge to his head like an ancient repository.

"Well it seems that you have everything that you will need for the mission to Voyager. Good luck. Major Marks, beam them to the coordinates Voyager provided."

"Aye sir" Major Marks beamed SG-1 away and made a mental note to go to Thor and get a materializer himself.