Here's the next chapter and the last new for a while as I will be going through and rewriting the old chapters (1-4) as I fell that they fall short compared to the newer episodes.
And sorry for taking so long with this, life's a bitch at the moment.
If you're confused with receiving a mail about chapter 10 a while back it was episode 9 that was released, but I merged the two halves of episode 1 to match episode and chapter numbers, sorry for that but I think it was needed.
Happy reading.
Unknown location. Pegasus.
He woke up with a chock as the ice cold water hit his face. Opening his eyes all he saw was darkness, then a lamp was turned on and in the dim light of the lamp he saw the silhouette of a large man, standing at around two meters and looking extremely well built, taking a step into the light he saw that the man was wearing a skin tight black suit and a matching helmet.
This had not gone according to plan, this should have been as simple as gating there and killing a few Wraith worshipers, freeing the villagers and dial back home. Then these people or whatever they where came and screw things up, first seeing the guards on the wall falling as if they where shoot from behind and then seeing this thing, that was now standing in front of him, take a hail of bullets straight to the face and then feeling like he'd been shoot in the back with a paintball gun.
"What's your name and rank?" The man asked.
"Lieutenant Aiden Ford of the former Atlantis expedition." He answered.
"And how did you end up working with the Genii?" The man again asked.
"I don't need to answer that." Ford replied.
"But I think you do." The man said as his face got closer to Ford's.
"I won't tell you anything." Ford said as he braced himself for the beating he knew was coming.
"I think you will when we're done here." The man said as his face got even closer, now only a few centimeters away.
"I doubt that, hurt me all you want, I won't tell you a thing." Ford said
"Boo." The man said as he pushed his face forward so far that Ford tipped over in his chair in surprise, when his head stopped to spin he could see the man removing his mask.
"Sheppard? You're a real asshole, you know that?" Ford said as he realized who the man was.
"You should have seen your face." Sheppard said laughing.
"Well I want to punch you in your face right now!" Ford said
"That won't be necessary Lieutenant." Elizabeth said, walking out of a dark corner.
"You too?" Ford complained
"Not the reaction I was expecting but I'll take it." Elizabeth said
"Lets get you out of here and get you to Beckett for a check up, but after that I want a complete report of what you've been up to." Sheppard said as he knelled besides Ford, released his hands and helped him stand up. Sheppard gave Ford a poker chip and pressed a few buttons on his arm, taking the chip Ford examined it and tried to work out what it's use was, then to his surprise he was beamed away to a room which was no doubt built by the Ancients, but it was not the regular light blue happy color scheme, it was more of a dark and gray sad color scheme. Standing in the room was Beckett.
"Hello, get over here." Beckett said pointing to an examination table.
Conference room. Tower.
Siting in the room was Sheppard and Weir, in front of them lay Beckett's and Ford's reports and standing in the middle of the room was Ford.
"So Beckett tells me that you're no longer under the influence of the Wraith enzyme and that you're healthy in any other way." Weir said
"Yes mam." Ford said
"So do you mind telling me how you managed to become clean, as far as I can tell there's no detox clinics in Pegasus?" Sheppard said.
"It's all in my report." Ford said
"Well these are for the paper-pushers back on Earth." Sheppard said holding up the report. "I want to hear it from you."
"Yes sir. It was a few weeks before the last confirmed contact someone had with you. We'd just hit a Wraith patrol for the enzyme, it all worked for the rest but when I took it I continued to shake for a few minutes, I didn't think to much about it but soon the rest of my men started to react the way I did, at that time I needed four times the normal amount to stop shaking but it still took me several minutes to stop shaking. That's when I realized that something was wrong, the following days I tried to contact you in any way I could think of. But it was no use, you where no longer here. After a few more weeks we could no longer keep up with demand, some started to go into withdrawal, I managed to stay on my feet for a while longer thanks to my personal stock of enzyme but soon things got out of hand, the ones who had been with me the longest went mad and started to shoot at the others, it was one big bloodbath in the cave when they where done, no one made it out of the cave except me and soon after that I started to feel the symptoms of withdrawal, at that time my head was a bit clearer and so I came up with the plan to lock myself inside an empty room until it was over.
Don't ask me how but five days later I was back on my feet and when I looked in the mirror I saw that my eye was normal again, realizing there and then that the enzyme was a really bad idea I decided to search for a place to stay and so the following months I spent looking for a planet where I felt at home, I ended up on a nice planet with just the right temperature, climate and locals girls, I settled down for a short while and I was planing on staying there but one day the Wraith turned up and culled the planet, I thought that we where all doomed, but I still fought back thinking that if I was going to die I was going to take as many Wraith as I could with me, then someone came through the gate, to our surprised it was the Genii that came, guns blazing and then someone came through with a large pipe and aimed at a dart, turned out they had seen a Stinger in Atlantis and decided that it would work well against the darts, the rocket shoot out of the pipe and hit a dart.
Anyway, when the battle at the gate was done they helped me evacuate the people left to their planet, apparently their leader saw my Atlantis uniform and asked to speak with me, Landon I think he calls himself, he told me that they had been seeking for you and wanted my help to establish contact, unfortunately I had no way of contacting you and so I told him what little I knew of what you where up to. When I was done he said something about apologizing for a trial during a coup against him and asked me to help them against the Wraith, they had a deal with the Coalition of Planets, they send military aid to any planet under attack by the Wraith and help the population escape, the planets of the coalition in return gives the Genii a really massive discount while trading. Looking around the galaxy I realized that this was my chance to help it, so I accepted and we've been going to help planets when they are under attack ever since, lately we've also been attacking Wraith worshipers that have lured villagers by clamming to be you, just like the group we were assaulting when you attacked and captured us." Ford said
"Wow, that's quite an adventure you've been." Sheppard said
"Yes sir."
"Well then Lieutenant, you're ordered to return to Earth for debriefing and some family time, I believe that your cousin Lara have gotten a little boy a few months ago." Elizabeth said.
"Yes mam. When am I leaving?" Ford said
"We're going in two hours, I'll be coming along as I have some business on Earth to. If you have a gate address for the Genii we will send the soldiers back." Elizabeth said.
Gate Room. Atlantis.
Elizabeth and Ford walked through the white gate in Atlantis gate room, greeting them was Lucius.
"Hello Dr. Weir and Lt. Ford." Lucius said.
"Hello Lucius." Weir said as she recognized him from her studies.
"Hello." Ford said before leaning close to Weir and whispering, "Didn't we just leave Atlantis?"
"No, but that's one of the things you'll be briefed on when you've reported to Gen. O'Neill, he should be in the conference room." Elizabeth whispered back.
"General Jack O'Neill is waiting for you in the conference room." Lucius said and gestured towards the room. Taking the hint Ford walked away from the gates and up the stairs.
"I hope you like your new body." Lucius said as he and Elizabeth moved of.
"I do, but it think that someone didn't use DNA straight from my real body." Elizabeth replied.
"Well there where some things that I felt didn't belong in your DNA, so I removed and replaced until I was satisfied."
"Like what?"
"Well there where some genetic deceases, none that you would notice but your children might, then there where a few bad gens that where replaced with better gens."
"And what where those bad gens?"
"Well there was one that would make you loose your hair at an early age and one that would give you a really bad case of Presbyopia."
"Well for those I thank you, but I think that you've done something else too."
"And what would that be." Lucius said with a mysterius smile.
"Well some parts feel bigger and this body feels much younger then I remember my old one to feel."
"Ha-ha-ha. Why yes, I did take the liberty to add a little to some parts of your body and then some was added as a result of the other changes, I didn't feel like giving you something that wasn't close to it's peak, the body you now inhabit is around the equivalent of twenty years."
"I suspected as much." Elizabeth said with a smile
"If you're not happy satisfied with it I can grow you a new one with whatever modifications you desire."
"Oh, don't worry, it's perfect this way."
"That is good to hear."
Tollana. Milky Way.
Carter was standing on the bridge of her command class ship as they dropped out of out of hyperspace, following right behind them was two carriers that had been converted into hospital ships as well as a dozen cruisers and Auroras. Five days ago they had received a transmission from Narim, it was short, but it showed that there was still people on Tollana and while O'Neill wanted to send someone else she had taken the mission as soon as she heard about it.
Facing them was a five Ha'taks and ten Al'kesh. On the bridges of four of the Ha'taks panic erupted, on the fifth the Goa'uld in charge of the fleet wasn't to concerned, they had shoot down ever ship which had tried to break the blockade of the planet and while these ships sure looked bigger than the usual ships he was sure that he would win this battle.
"This is Lt. General Samantha Crater of the SGC, stand down and leave the system or we will open fire." Sam sent to the Ha'taks.
"You can threaten us all you want but we will not leave, we have guarded this system for years from outsiders and we will continue to do so even after we have destroyed your pathetic ships." The Goa'uld commander replied.
"The smallest of the ships I'm commanding is a match for an Asgard Bilskirnir vessel and my biggest ship is more than a match for anything the Asgard could design. Face us at your own risk."
Hearing this the Goa'uld commander started to feel nervous, but still still sure of his advantage he replied.
"Your threats are as hollow as your skull, if you believe that your pathetic ships are a match for my fleet it will be my pleasure to prove you wrong."
"I will not warn you again."
The Goa'uld commander, having convinced himself that there was no way he, a God, would lose against these ships, shut of the channel and ordered the fleet to open fire.
Detecting the energy rushing to the weapons of the enemy Carter's fleet broke formation, the hospital ships moving of towards the planet without caring for the slaughter that was about to start, the Auroras unleashed only a small part of their payload of drones and combat jumpers before seeking cover behind the command ship and the cruisers. Not in any hurry Carter let her ship and the cruisers simply take the shoots that where fired at them and then she fired back with every weapon that was mounted on her ship and the cruisers.
The Goa'uld commander only had time to realize his mistake before his Ha'tak was cleave straight trough by three shoots from three different main batteries on Carters command ship, taking another two with it to it's death, the cruisers meanwhile where mopping up the remaining Ha'tak's and the drones and combat jumpers where chasing down the Al'kesh, who where desperately trying to escape the battle, of the ten Al'kesh only two escaped by jumping to hyperspace.
Feeling that the crews of the cruisers could use the training Carter turned her attention away from the massacre to Tollana, what had once been a planet filled with ultra modern cities was now nothing more than a large pile of ruble, where large towers had been standing there where now craters and ruble. Seeing the once beautiful planet in ruble she felt how a tear slowly rolled down her cheek, suppressing the feeling she got only more determinate, they where here to help and that's what they would do. Piloting her ship she moved it close to the planet, once there she angled her ship so that the hangar was right above Tollana's capital, then she opened the ejection tubes and the fifty or so marines she had brought with her shot out of the ship and headed towards the location of Narim's signal, the moment they where ejected she stood up and beamed directly to the surface, while she enjoyed the feeling of ejection she didn't feel that she had the time to allow the pressure to build up.
The place she beamed to was what had been a large plaza, now it was filled with ruble from the collapsed buildings on the sides, in a circle around her about twenty Tollans were standing on their knees, with their hands locked behind their heads, facing inwards to her, outside of them a second circle could be found, this one made up of around forty Jaffa, two for every Tollan, with their staffs pointing at the necks of their victims. Surprised by her sudden appearance it took them a few moments to rise their staffs, unsure of what to do they held their fire as they watched Carter rise her hands.
Inside her Atlas suite Carter was surprised by where she had landed, turning around she saw that she was completely surrounded by Jaffa and there, in the inner ring, she saw Narim. She slowly raised her hands as she realized how much trouble she was in, then her suit begun to count down.
"5...4...3...2...1...0" She heard inside her helmet, as the countdown reached zero she crouched and moved her arms down fast, just as her arms reached as far down as they could the marines touched down around them and created small impact craters in the pavement, so even creating craters filled with Jaffa. The Jaffa looked up in surprise for some kind of bomber, before they had a chance to look back down the marines where on their feet and pointed their PP-90s at the Jaffa, seeing this as an act of aggression the Jaffa in turn turned around to fire their staffs but was cut down by the marines before they could do so.
Looking around for more trouble the marines broke up and moved of to secure the area, Carter meanwhile walked up to Narim who, like the rest of the Tollans, was shocked by the turnout of their execution, taking out a bunch of poker chips she handed Narim one before moving on to the rest of the Tollans, then as one they where beamed away by the hospital ships in orbit, Carter still standing among the dead Jaffa sent out a new set of orders, find and capture all remaining Jaffa, if they resist use lethal force, surviving Tollans are to be beamed to the hospital ships. Sending the order she took of running in the direction of where the gate had been, feeling the artificial muscle-fibers in her armor help her body she accelerated to a speed that a world class sprinter would envy, when approaching a destroyed building she simply jumped over it in one jump, unless it was higher than a few stories, in which case she had to make several jumps.
A few minutes later she approached the gate, or at least the place where it should have been, all that remained of the plaza where the gate had been located was craters and lots of them, seeing this she sighed, this would make her job harder, she moved up to the place where the gate was suppose to be and started scanning with her FMC, the gate was there, but it was a long way down, taking out one of the grenades she carried she turned it up almost all the way before placing it on the ground above the gate and activating it, when she was done she ran like she was chased by a tiger to try and get as far away as possible, taking cover wasn't an option, any cover would just be vaporized by the blast.
She had gotten a few hundred meters away when the grenade went of and took much of the debris above the gate with it, over a kilometer away a Jaffa patrol felt the blast. When she had recovered from the blast she made a mental note to never use that high of a setting again and to always throw it as she walked up to the crater the grenade had left, being well over two hundred meters wide and ten meters deep she feared that the gate might have been damaged in the blast, but to her relief her scanners showed that it was another two meters down. Grabbing hold of a large piece of a wall she dragged it out of the crater, the armor helped a lot but even it had it's limits without the proper mods, after removing more walls and other debris she had uncovered the gate, sending a subspace signal from her FMC to the ship in orbit it was relayed to the SGC, it didn't take more than a few minutes before the gate activated and jumpers streamed out of the gate. Feeling happy to have completed her mission she requested beaming and was engulfed in a white light shortly after.
Arriving in one of the hospital ships she looked around for Narim but saw him nowhere, but just as she was about to turn around and leave she spotted the man sitting on his knees next to the Ancient equivalent of a medical bed. Taking care not to frighten him she retracted the helmet into her armor before walking up to him, he saw her approach and got up to greet her.
"Hello Narim." Carter said when she got to the bed.
"Hello Samantha. You do really must be a... what was it you called them... big wings... beautiful..." Narim responded
"Ah.. I think you mean an angel."
"Yes, an angel. You really do have a tendency to show up when I'm about to die."
"Yes, well we received your message and came as fast as we could, we though that you had already been eradicated by the Goa'uld."
"Both yes and no. As a people we are dead, all of our records are gone and every piece of technology we once mastered is like magic to us now, but as individuals we are still alive."
"That is sad to hear, but there's still colonies out there that your people still live on."
"No, there isn't, they captured people and forced them, to clear up the ruble, one of them escaped and told us that they were shipping them off-world to our former colonies to salvage what they could of our technology, the only survivors you will find is down on Tollana, Samantha."
"That's bad news, we were hopping to take you to one of them when we were done here."
"Yes, but as I said, the only thing we have of our culture is what we can remember."
"Well then we need to come up with another plan, but at least some of you are alive."
"Yes, but still more will die before this is over." Narim said as he looked at the woman in the bed, she was laying under a blanket but from the condition of the arms on her dress you could see how bad her clothes looked in general, with tears and scratches all over them it was easy to understand the conditions the had been living in, but still her straight midnight black hair was laying around her head as a frame.
"We have made great progress since we last meet Narim, she will not die."
"I hope so."
"Who is she by the way?"
"She is someone we rescued from a smaller execution, similar to the one I was saved from, the Jaffa was just preparing his weapon when we intervened and saved her and five others, she was in a bad shape and we just managed to save her, then a few weeks later she was up on her feet and was helping us to gather food and fight the Jaffa, after a few more weeks things changed between us and well to be honest with you Samantha, she's my wife." Narim said as he tried to hold back tears, her she, the woman he loved, was lying in a medical bed and there was nothing he could do about it. Seeing the tears and the love he felt for the woman Carter was surprised.
"I see, we will save her, I promise you that." She said before leaving the couple with mixed feelings.
Meeting Hall. Higher plane of existence.
The meeting hall was a large round room with a large table in the middle with hundreds of chairs around it and nothing more, there wasn't even walls, a floor or a roof on the room. All of the chairs where filled with people who had a white shining aura around them.
"So, there's been a slight problem." A man with long white beard and hair said.
"There's always going to be problems with a plan this big and long." A blond haired woman said.
"Yes and that's why you two and some others have watched and intervened when necessary." The man said pointing to the woman and her brown haired partner in crime.
"Well this is not something we anticipated." The brown haired woman said.
"Well we can't anticipate everything, that's why you help them when needed." A man with short black hair said.
"Just deal with it. I need to look after my own people, the Wraith are on their way." A red/brown haired woman said.
"The problem is that the Furlings, in their eagerness to resume the war, forgot to send the address with the humans when they woke them up, they won't wake our sleeping brothers up." The brown haired woman said.
"Oh." was heard from the white haired man and the red/brown haired woman, from the rest of the people in the room a mix of curses, outcries and complains could be heard.
"Deal with it, we need them to wake up our brothers too." A man who had been sitting quietly said. Sitting in a large black chair, his clothes where the same dark color and so was his aura, he was clearly someone important and he stood out from the rest of the white clad people, on his right was a woman, his direct opposite, she sat in large white chair and was wearing a dress that was so white it was hard to look a her and her hair was just as white.
"I will take care of it." The white haired man said.
"So what's next on the list?" A young Chinese boy said.
Unknown System. Pegasus.
A hyperspace window tore open and a small silver colored ship jumped out, built around two ZPMs and a hyperdrive it was around twenty meters wide and fifty long. Approaching the ship that had been left adrift it ejected a ten by ten centimeter cube who hit the ship, but instead of doing damage it melted into the ships hull and left a silver colored spot in the hull, carefully aiming, the small ship ejected a ZPM at the silver spot, hitting the hull it went through and landed in a corridor inside the ship, on the outside of the hull the silver spot disappeared and the cube came sliding out of the wall in the corridor, forming around the ZPM it formed a plate and claws that gripped the ZPM, drawing power from the ZPM the silver plate started to hover above the floor and shoot of towards the ZPM-hub that was installed somewhere on the ship, it only had to find it.
Outside the drifting ship the small silver ships sensors told it that the package was delivered, having completed the delivery the ship turned around and jumped away again, after about one hour it dropped out of hyperspace again at a drifting ship, this time there was no ejection but instead the entire ship melted with the drifting ship, including the hyperdrive, taking the hyperdrive and the ZPM through the ship the silvery substance soon arrived in engineering, what greeted it was wires and more wires hanging from things, ignoring the cables it drifted of to the hyperdrive which it melted with, bringing the new hyperdrive with it inside the old, to keep the ship from imploding if the hyperdrive was removed and exposed the ship to vacuum the silvery substance held the old one and the new one inside each other and then switched so that the new one replaced the old one, it the pulled back into engineering with the old one and absorbed it making it grow, with the ZPM inside itself it moved of to repair the rest of the ship.
THE END.
That's it people, as always please review and sorry for the long wait but you'd better get used to it as my schedule is way to packed in the coming month to try and press writing inside too.