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Chronus1326 chapter 8: Doesn't things always work out in the end in the Stargate universe?
You've already read what happens to the Travelers in episode 9.
We're using the different gates now.
A training mission was the only way I could think of to satisfy your requests.
Yes, I've actually begun to write slower, but I've also tried to use a different technic to write which I think has improved the content.
That was because Eli had no one to talk to, but as mentioned above, new technic to write, it's based on this, less dialogue and more description.
Gate Room. Atlantis.
O'Neill was standing in the gate room in Atlantis, standing next to him was Lt. General Samantha Carter, Maj. General Daniel Jackson and Teal'c, in front of them was Atlantis white gate and at the moment it was dialing the address that was found carved into the wall in the Ancient lab. Uncertain what to expect on the other side the team was wearing Atlas armor boosted with extra shields. The gate dialed and after locking the vortex shot out, preparing to face whatever was on the other side the team stepped through the gate and was sent far away, arriving on the other side they were faced with total blackness, turning on their flashlights they could see large white pillars and a long white/gray hall, very similar to the one O'Neill arrived in on Othala, but bigger. Walking away from the gate the team could see the centimeter thick layer of dust on the floor.
"This place has not been used in a long time." Daniel said
"I can see that." O'Neill said
Moving of along the hall they saw nothing but more dust. When they got to the other side of the hall Sam moved of to the side of the wall and after moving some stones a door opened and with it came light, the new room was spherical and the door located half way up with a bridge extending out to the middle of the room, at the end of the bridge they could see a single egg-shaped stone, around two meter in height and one meter wide. Looking around inside the sphere the team moved fast across the bridge until they got to the platform with the egg-shaped stone, when they got there a pedestal shot out of the ground.
"What is it Sam?" O'Neill said as he and Teal'c was looking out from the platform for anything that could be hostile.
"I'm not sure sir, it's runes with Stargate symbols and nine slots, it could be some kind of lock." Sam replied
"When standing in the hall of the Asgard, in the presence of Odin, name thy world and be greeted." Daniel said
"What?" O'Neill said
"It's an old Nordic saying." Daniel said and moved to the pedestal. "If you ever get to Asgard you'd say that you were from Midgard and they would greet you as friends, what if Midgard isn't the answer?" He began to move the stones and place them in the slots, when he stepped back the stones was showing the address to Earths white gate.
From far away they heard a gust of wind approaching, it took it a few seconds to get to them but when it did the wind moved around them, looking back in the direction of the gate they saw no trace of the dust that had been there. Turning back to the stone they saw small cracks of light coming out of it, as the light intensified they had to cover their eyes. When the light had disappeared a four-meter tall man was standing in front of them, looking down at them the man laughed.
"You come here to the hall of your gods and bring weapons? What do you hope to accomplish?" He said
"Hey, cut the crap." O'Neill said as his helmet retracted into the armor.
"Oh, it is you O'Neill." The man said before dissolving.
The stone once again begun to glow, but this time in horizontal lines at the bottom and top as well as one line from top to bottom, the light got wider and wider but not as bright as before, then the two parts in the middle of the stone opened and an Asgard stepped out of the stone.
"Hello O'Neill." It said in the regular monotone voice of the Asgard.
"So I guess there really was one of you left then? Who are you?" O'Neill said
"I'm Odin, once more sane."
"Yea, how did that happen again?"
"A small error, part of my pattenr was left in the computer when I was downloaded."
"Oh, so you were split?"
"Yes, you could say that. Might I ask what brings you here?"
"Well we found an Ancient lab and someone had carved the Address to your gate into a wall, so we thought we'd check in and see were you'd left the gate."
"Ah, so it's already time?"
"Time for what?"
"Time to prepare for war. When you discovered that lab you set in motion things far greater than you can imagine. Once there were four, the four fought back to back but to no avail, so they decided to sleep until a time when the enemy was looking the other way, we were the last ones to sleep, unable to do so until we found a cure for our problem, when we did we went to sleep, but now after only a few short years we have awoken and so shall the others. The Asgard are going to war once again with their brethren." Odin said
"War against whom? The replicator, the Goa'uld and the Ori are all dead." Daniel said
"Training they were for you, not for us. It's time for you to leave this place, we must prepare. Know that when they come, and they will, we will stand next to you as we once did with your ancestors." Odin said.
All around them the team saw the wall of the sphere coming inwards and then begun to light up like the stone in the middle, all around them Asgard awakened. Right behind Odin they saw an Asgard who waved; then they heard the Stargate activate and were beamed through the Stargate back to Earth.
"Dial it again, same address." O'Neill shouted to the gate-technician.
The gate started to dial again, but halted on the last symbol.
"I can't get a lock. But we received something just before you came through, looks like an address for the white gate."
"Don't mention this to anyone, if someone asks things went great, we found some things and we're going to examine them now." O'Neill ordered before dragging away the team to a room not far from the gates.
"So they're back but won't let us visit them again." Daniel said.
"We will worry about that later, new address, new mission." O'Neill said
"Sir there's no way to know for sure what's on the other side of that gate." Sam said
"But they sent us this for a reason." Daniel said
"I agree with Daniel, I say we go there find whatever is waiting and solve this mystery."
"As do I." Teal'c said
"Fine, lets go." Sam said reluctantly.
Moving out of the room they occupied they made their way back to the gate room and ordered the tech to dial the new address. Once again the white gate activated and the team stepped through. This time they were greeted by a similar sight, but instead of white it was green and brown, from the roof hung large vines and from the pillars came roots, as it was in the Asgard facility a thick layer of dust was seen on the floor. Feeling the similarity the team moved through the hall and after some searching Sam managed to open a door, not the conventional type of door but instead made of branches and leaves that retracted into the walls. The sight they saw on the other side was like the Asgard sphere but with the green and brown color scheme, in the middle of the room a cocoon of branches was sitting. The team moved up to the cocoon but found no pedestal, instead the cocoon started to unravel and soon all that was left was a Nox sitting on the floor in a meditative pose.
"Hello young ones, I welcome you to our place of sleep." The Nox said
"Hello, who are you?" O'Neill said
"I am Oyr, oldest of the Nox."
"Might I ask what this is about?" O'Neill said
"What do you mean?" Oyr said
"We find an address that sends us to the Asgard, who we thought were dead, they say something about a war, sends us back to Earth and gives us this address."
"So the Asgard have awoken, then the time for war will soon be here, we must prepare."
"I thought you hated war?"
"We do, but if this enemy is not stopped all life will die as so many of the four great races have already done."
"What is this enemy everyone speaks of?"
"You will find your answer in time, for now you must prepare, as we shall. When you need us we will be there helping you in any way we can."
"Hold on a minute, we need answers." O'Neill screamed, but they were already standing in the gate room.
Ordering the tech to dial back they got the same response as before, no lock, but a new address, dialing the new address the team once again stepped through the gate.
As before they were greeted by darkness, pillars and a hall, this time everything was black as the night, not a single color was seen in the room, moving up to the door they knew were at the end of the hall Sam once again tried to open the door, but this time to no avail, then her waist hit something and the door opened.
Feeling certain of the layout of the room the team simply walked up to the central platform, there sat a one by one meter black cube. As they approached the cube a pedestal slowly came out of the floor and stopped at waist height, lying on the pedestal was a wooden sword, as O'Neill picked it up the top of the cube split in four parts and a black shadow jumped out towards O'Neill with a sword. Parrying the blow O'Neill was forced to take a step back due to the force of the blow.
"You are good enough to live." The shadow said as it moved about, making it impossible to make out its shape. "But are the rest?"
With a quick move O'Neill swung around and hit the shadow right were the head would be, just as it was about to cut of Carters head from behind, taking the blow directly to the head the creature fell down and hit the floor hard, shaking away the dizziness it stood up and bowed.
"I'm glad they insisted on making that out of wood and not steel." It said holding it's head between it's paws, standing still it looked like a mix of a cat and a human, around one meter high and thirty centimeters wide, it was covered in black fur all over the body.
"Who are you if I may ask." O'Neill said, still holding the wooden sword pointed at the creature.
"I'm one of the Furlings, you may call me Grimrr."
"Hum, I always expected you to be cuddlier and kinder." O'Neill said
"Were the hell did you get that idea from?" Grimrr said confused
"Well your name mostly, Furlings, it sounds like big pandas that go around and hug people."
"Ha-ha-ha-ha." Grimrr shouted as he was rolling on the ground laughing, after a while he got back up on his feet. "Nothing could be further from the truth, we were the tip of the spear, the edge of the sword and the ones to pull the trigger. If the other races needed someone dead or a race calmed with violence we got the job done."
"Oh, that's not what we were expecting."
"Well you're the ones who gated here, tell me why did you come here?"
"We got this address from the Nox, their address was given to us by the Asgard and the Asgard's address was carved into a wall in an Ancient lab."
"Wo-ho, so they are all awake? This is going to be fun." Grimrr screamed as he jumped back into the cube, got hold of a drum and started to play on it, despite being only one decimeter across its sound rang out as if the sphere was one gigantic amplifier, soon the walls of the sphere sprung open and more Furlings jumped out. "Prepare for war." Grimrr screamed, in response the Furlings raised their swords and shouted back.
"We thank you for waking us up, for to long have we slept, now we will return, when the day comes we will be there to help you." Grimrr said.
"Now you listen to me." O'Neill said as he scruffed Grimrr. "Tell me what's going on right now or I'll rip your tail of."
"Sorry, no can do. That's the rules." Grimrr said with a childish smile, then he snapped his paw and the team were transported to the gate room on Atlantis.
The gate technician was about to dial back but O'Neill shacked his head. This time there was no new address so the team simply walked out of the gate room and headed for the mess hall. When they got there, still dressed in Atlas armor they each took some food and sat down at a table.
"So lets see what we've done today." O'Neill said, slightly irritated. "We found out that our most powerful ally didn't commit suicide but instead went into stasis some place that we don't know about and when we wake them up they scream about war and kick us out with an address to the Nox, who also is in stasis and is also going to war and also kick us out of their place and also with a new address, on that address we find a meter high fur ball who tries to cut our heads of and then goes all weird and happy about going to war and once again we get kick out, but this time without a new address."
"Yep, pretty much." Daniel said as he took up a piece of meat.
"Oh, and don't forget that we still don't have any idea of who they are going to war with or if it's even the same enemy." Sam said
"I hate this mysterious crap they always do with us 'younger' races." O'Neill said
"All will be revealed in time." A voice said out of nowhere.
"Great so now I'm hearing things to?" O'Neill said frustrated before charging out of the mess hall.
"I think I heard that too." Daniel said
"It looks like everyone did." Sam said, motioning at the people in the rest of the mess hall who looked like they just heard a ghost.
Unknown planet. Milky Way.
The planet was a green planet with large oceans very similar to Earth, while having a rather advanced population only a small part was populated, on the parts that was not colonized there was large plains and dense forests, this was how Earth would look like if humanity had not evolved. The few buildings on the planet was built out of a white marble looking material shaped into long, thin and flat buildings connected by white stone paths.
Patrolling around the planet was a massive fleet of white ships, identical to the ships that attacked McKay and Beckett in the Hepstus system except for their color, between the fleet and the ground a beam from a set of rings flashed, arriving on the ground at a set of rings was a lone figure wearing a brown tunica, with a hood pulled down in front of his face, walking out of the building the figure moved fast across the yard and entered a different building, walking through a short corridor filled with cells on both sides and people screaming and begging for the figure to let them out, but the figure just kept moving until reaching the other side, there the figure pressed a piece of the wall and a door opened, moving through the door and closing it when it was through the figure arrived in a sparsely lit room, on a trolley to the right lay several knives of different kinds, some made to gut fish, some made to craft things, some meant for hunting and many other types, from some there were dripping blood and some were so covered in blood that they would be useless as tools. Taking a few steps to the left the figure approached an almost nude woman hanging in her hands, suspended just enough so that her toes were unable to reach the ground, she doesn't even lift her head up when the figure approaches and simply tries to use her long dark hair do block out the world, she's dressed in a grey and green rag that has been cut so many times that it's impossible to make out what it was before.
Picking up a knife made to skin an animal the figure moves up to the woman and presses the tip against her abs, piercing the skin with the tip a small drop of blood floats out across the blade of the knife.
"Tell me what I want to know and we can end this right now." The figure said in the voice of a Goa'uld.
Just as the figure is about to apply some pressure an alarm rings out, high above the planet fifty hyperspace windows opened and spit out black ships, the same kind from Hepstus, moving of to intercept the white ships move of towards the black ships.
Control Room. The Tower.
Sheppard, wearing Atlas armor, was standing in the control room looking out over the gates bellow, the chair had been moved to the same place as the one in Atlantis and was replaced by gates, one of every kind except black, arriving at the moment was a cargo sleight filled to the brim with materials, looking similar to a jumper but longer and without the pods on the sides, it was an automated vehicle built and programed to travel on the yellow gate network and pick up resources from the mining facilities that the Travelers where operating. Thanks to the resources delivered this way the repairs of the Towers were going faster than expected, they had even managed to gather more resources than Maximus could use and so there were piles lying around in the corridors and several rooms, thanks to the large amounts of resources available the central tower was repaired within a week and several more towers soon begun to rise from the ground around the tower, large parts of the city that was underground had collapsed but most of it was still standing, to their surprise and so the time needed to repair the city had been reduced by two months. Above them in orbit was the Supergate that they had brought with them and further out in the system their ships were patrolling looking for Wraith or other enemies. At that moment the team Sheppard was waiting for dialed in and came through the gate, the four members of the team was wearing the Atlas armor, which now was standard off world equipment.
"Report." Sheppard said
"We have made contact with several of our old allies and they are all happy that we are back, there's also rumors of a false Atlantis expedition who invited villages to come and live under their protection, but someone has been ambushing the camps the false expedition have built, killing the members and freeing the villagers. No one knows who it is or why, but they're doing a pretty good job." The leader reported.
"Good work. Get some food and sleep." Sheppard said
"Sir, we also managed to get the address for the latest location of the false expedition."
"Good, now go, I'll take care of this."
"Yes sir." The leader said and walked away with his team.
Someone pretending to be them was not something Sheppard was going to allow, not on his watch, sending a message to Teyla and Ronon telling them to gear up and meet him in the gate room, he then ran of to the closest armory, when he got there he grabbed three stunners, a new weapon coming from Earth a few days ago, it fires small rubber balls filled to the brim with energy at a low velocity, thanks to the small area of impact a few shots were able to take down a shielded target by overloading the shields in one location and slipping small amounts of energy through, if needed it could be loaded with a normal 9 mm magazine. Taking the stunners and a few magazines he ran back to the gate room where Teyla and Ronon were now waiting for him.
"What's going on Sheppard?" Teyla asked
"Some people are pretending to be us and some other people are shooting and killing the pretenders. We're going to find out who the pretenders are and who the trigger happy guys are." Sheppard said
"Let go and get them." Ronon said
"We are, a team just reported their location."
"Well dial that thing and lets do this." Ronon said with bloodlust.
"No, they might have the gate guarded, we're taking the Reaper." Sheppard said, pressed a button on his arm and the Reaper beamed up the team to the bridge. Walking over to the command chair Sheppard sat down and plotted a course to the planet where the pretenders should be. It didn't take the ship more than a few hours to reach the planet and they soon had the Stargate's location. Piloting the ship over the location of the gate the sensors started to build up an image of the terrain, it was an Earth like planet that was well suited for farming, but on the surface there were craters from impacts that had scorched the earth leaving large parts of the surface black. Focusing the sensors on the area around the gate Sheppard found a camp of tents and a thick wall of tree around the tents making it look more like a prison than a camp, focusing the sensors even more he detected that a group of people where just coming through the gate, putting the ship in orbit over the gate he walked over to the set of rings in the back of the bridge and the other two followed right behind him, when they where all standing inside the rings Sheppard ringed them down to the hangar. Walking over to an equipment rack he picked up some extra modules for their armor, throwing some over to Teyla and Ronon, happy with his configuration walked over to a tube formed pod, built to host one person, stepping inside he sealed the door after him, realizing what he was going to do Teyla and Ronon hurried to pick the necessary modules, hopping that it would be enough Teyla walked over to the pod to Sheppard's right and Ronon came rushing after and took the left one a second after.
"5…4…3…2…1… Launch" Was heard inside their helmets as the ship prepared to make a drop. When the word launch was heard the floor opened and the pressure which had been built up during the countdown pressed them out of the pods at several hundred meters every second, if not for the extra dampeners they would have died the moment the floor opened due to the g they where pulling, crouching up and preparing for impact Sheppard enjoyed the feeling of free fall, to say that Ronon was enjoying it would have been the biggest lie ever spoken, had it not been for Sheppard he would never have done it, the armor on the other hand that was something the Satedan really liked, during the battle on the hive he had managed to jumper over the Wraith fire, grabbing the heads of two Wraith warriors and smashing them together so hard that they got stuck together. No, dropping out of a spaceship down to a planet bellow was not something that he thought a sane person should do. Hitting the ground the trio stretched their muscles and ran in the direction of the camp, as they approached they heard the sound of gunfire, hearing this they pressed on as fast as they could manage, arriving outside the wall they moved in the direction of the gunfire, around a corner they saw a group of people hiding behind fallen trees and bushes, firing in the direction of the wall, from the wall came Wraith stunners flying back at the attackers. Not feeling like letting anyone go Sheppard ordered the other two to flank the attackers from behind while he himself jumped over the wall. Not waiting for Teyla and Ronon to get into position he drew his stunner and begun to take shoots at anything moving on the wall, staying undetected and taking down the guards on the wall one by one he managed to stun the ones still alive, jumping up on the walkway on the wall and looking out at the attackers he was greeted by a hail of bullets to the face, crouching down behind the wall he greeted them in the same manner by shooting back, after a few shoots he could see Teyla and Ronon approach, their suits camouflage melting into the background making them hard to spot, as he continued to shoot at the attackers he saw Teyla and Ronon open fire from behind the attackers, all of whom fell in a matter of seconds. Jumping down from the wall and walking up to the attackers he saw that they all carried Genii rifles and guns as well as Genii clothes, all except for one. Taking out a bag of markers, once activated the marker would send a subspace signal that any ship could pick up, it was a very easy and pain free way of transporting prisoners, putting one on each of the attackers they soon saw them disappear one by one, walking back to the wall and jumping back up they were not ready for what they saw, when they saw that their guards were stunned the captured people had soon realized that they could wake up at any time and had taken actions to prevent that, lying in expanding pools of their own blood was the heads of the guards, having been separated from the bodies.
Seeing this sight Sheppard simply sighed and requested to be beamed back to his ship, accepting his request the Reaper beamed up the team to the bridge.
Destiny. New Galaxy
As Destiny dropped out of FTL at the edge of a new galaxy she was greeted by Nakai motherships and fighters locked in combat with the drones, both sides were taking heavy damage but more ships arrived on both sides, when they detected Destiny the drones ignored the Nakai and focused their attention on Destiny, firing at her shields with every gun available it was only a matter of time before they would collapse, the Nakai realizing what is going to happen moves in between the drones and Destiny to take their fire, due to the amount of drones the Nakai begins to lose ships faster than they can replace them. Then Destiny's main cannon roars to life and the drones lose one command ship, then another and another, but they just keep coming and the drones just keep moving, feeling that this is not something she will survive on her own Destiny sends a signal through subspace and just as the last Nakai ships is about to receive it's death sentence five hyperspace windows open up on the other side of the drones.
THE END
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A/N: If you think the "torture" scene was inappropriate you should be happy that I didn't post the original, the one posted here is the third or fourth rewrite and they have only gotten kinder and kinder so don't complain. I actually had four different warnings about that scene in the last rewrite because I feared that some might get nightmares, first version made one of my friends throw up.