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This is the revised chapter 4. Hopefully it's better than the previous one. If it's not, be sure to yell at me! I have the backup somewhere around here...

Chapter 4

Minutes after the gate shut down from Tims' departure, SG-1, General Landry, and Dr. Lam met in the briefing room.

"How did he escape?" bellowed General Landry.

"That's a good question" started Dr. Lam, " the last thing I remember is him being dead. Are we sure if it even was him that escaped? Seems more likely someone came and stole his body, he was dead after all."

"It was definitely him." said Sam. "All the nurses and other doctors that were in the infirmary with Dr. Lam and Tim say that he did wake up...err I guess I mean, come back to life. Needless to say they were all very surprised and then they just walked out like everything was fine. We managed to stop most of them before they left the base but some did make it outside. They all say that they were dismissed early from duty and they were just going back home or wherever they had things to do."

"Oooooook, so he's alive again. Weirder things have happened around here, right?" said Mitchel.

"Fine, well I want him back. He has inside knowledge about this base and if he gets caught he might be forced to reveal information. I want him back, Sam, where did he go?" asked Landry.

"He went back to that ancient city, Tarfino Hancores."

"Ok, prepare for a retrieval mission SG-1, permission to use deadly force is not granted, I repeat NOT granted, I want him back alive."

Several minutes later, Walter started dialing Tarfino Hancores.

Sg-1 walked into the embarkation room ready for their mission to retrieve Tim.

"Chevron six is locked." said Walter.

"Chevron seven...will not engage!" said Walter, a little needlessly.

Sg-1 ran back up into the operations room.

"What happened? Why won't it engage?" asked Cameron.

"The gate could be destroyed." offered Teal'c.

"He might have flown the city away, that would change it's address." offered Daniel.

"We don't even know if that city could fly, it was much bigger than Atlantis AND it was underground after all." said Sam.

Here Landry spoke up with his air of authority. "We don't need the gate, we'll have Odyssey take you there. Prepare to beam."

I knew that they were going to come after me, it was only a matter of time. Time, I needed more of it. With the knowledge download from the square like device in the SGC, I knew where I needed to go. I walked to the nearest neural download interface and decided I wanted it all, my brain at this point was capable of it after all. With my advances in my physiology I was stronger, smarter, and more healthy than ever.

I knew that I was changing, and I also knew it was happening more slowly than normal. I chose it that way, it would take longer but it would be less destructive to my body. I now had the brain capacity to store every piece of information from the Altera database. So when I got to the neural download interface (NDI) I took it all. The history, science, mathematics, culture, research, all of the knowledge of the great Alteran people. This took a few moments but it was well worth it.

As it was being stored I went over every piece of knowledge to find real understanding. Knowledge is nothing after all if you don't understand any of it. This took a few hours of my precious time. I knew that they would be here by ship in less than a day so I needed to spend my time wisely.

I was utterly amazed at the knowledge that had been downloaded. Coming from my simple earth perspective I had never real looked at the big picture. With all this new knowledge and my new brain power to understand all of it I realized that I could solve a lot of the problems earth was facing, and I decided that I would help them, in time. Some of the problems were laughably small and negligible when seen in the light of all my new knowledge. Fossil fuels, world hunger, inter-national economic turmoil, homelessness, all of it was easy to solve.

I decided that after taking care of a few things I would go back to earth and solve them. But that was for later, I was in a time crunch and I needed to take care of some things right now. Number one on that list was getting more time for myself, here and now. I activated a time dilation device for the full city and set it up so that one hour outside the bubble was one month inside, that would give me plenty of time to prepare for their arrival.

The first thing I did was activate the cities' internal and external sensors. Then I activated the automated defensive capabilities. I ran over the protocols for the defense and changed some things. I made it so that whenever there was an intruder alert force-fields would be placed around the intruders and anti-beaming devices were activated. The force-fields were one way, so that the defenders could shoot in but the attackers couldn't shoot out. I also made sure that the intruders would be knocked out by a fast acting gas, one that would leave them knocked out until a counter-agent was given to them so they could be awakened.

The next thing I did was to check the external sensors and see what was going on around the newly inhabited city. I smiled when I realized that there was nothing on sensors, internal and external was clear. The earth ship wouldn't register on the sensors for another few months, about four to five I'd say. I then thought of how I was going to get help for myself.

I started considering many options for my lack of labor. First there were replicators, clones, randomized DNA 'clones' that would be different people than myself, then I considered even taking over people and bending them to my will. I'm not an evil person per se, but I do know the big picture and I would treat such people fairly.

But when it all came down to it I decided that taking other people and using them would be wrong. I wanted to make a united group, and I thought the best way to do that was with replicators for the time being, I need help and they were an easy and loyal workforce.

I went down to the nearest lab that had a replicator table that could be used to construct them. I knew I wanted to make changes to the base code so that these replicators wouldn't be like the Asurans. Who needless to say I learned about from the Alteran database. They were too aggressive for my likes and I didn't like that their base code was shared on a network where if you changed one replicators base code, it would affect all of the replicators over their subspace link.

I recall that something of the sort of these nanite replicators had been discovered by SG-1 and subsequently fought by many cultures and races including the Asgard. Daniel didn't tell me everything about them so I thought I needed to know more, from what he told me they were quite destructive and even the Asgard had a major problem with them. So I decided that I needed to go on a mission back to the SGC to get the full mission reports and maybe even copy their whole computer database.

Before I could go back there though I needed to be prepared, and I needed to get the replicators up to speed with assignments for a few months of time.

First thing I decided to do was get some equipment ready for the trip to earth. So I had made for me, using the Altera beam technology via an energy to mass converter, some new more appropriate clothes and some gear for my 'mission'. The clothes that were in the database were just fine and knew that they would be recognized as genuine Altera clothing to the people at the SGC due to the fact that they had seen a few descended 'ancients' in their time.

Then I looked through the available equipment in the database to pick out some things that would be useful for the trip. I wanted a personal shield and some weapons just in case something didn't quite go as expected. The shield that I thought would be best for this mission was quite powerful. It was in the form of a belt, the front of the belt was where the majority of the components were and it was made to look like a jewel encrusted normal belt. The power source however I found...lacking, it was just to weak for my preferences. So I went for a more powerful energy source that would be worn along the small of my back and would be worn underneath my clothes. I had that made and put on while I was looking through the designs for some stun weapons, I really didn't want to hurt anyone. I found quite a few different designs but my favorite was a mentally activated necklace that when activated stunned everyone in a six meter radius. Depending on the mentally activated setting it would either stun someone for days or just stun people enough so they would fall down but still be conscious albeit with a temporary paralysis. I had the weapon made and made sure that both it and the shield were tied into the more powerful energy source.

The next thing I wanted to do was create some dumb downed replicators that wouldn't run amok. I needed them to start building the basis of the new war machine I was going to build. I created 5 human form replicators and gave them some orders. I needed them to take a full inventory of the materials and minerals that were in the city and to start gathering minerals for my ships of war that even now I was thinking about the designs of.

I also told them I would be gone for a few months (due to the time dilation field) and told them to restore the entire city to perfect working order and to start scouting for mineral deposits in the system and any nearby solar systems. To make sure we had enough time before the earth ship inevitably got here, the first thing the replicators would build would be several large scale time dilation devices for any mining sites they found, they were to be set for an even faster time difference than the one for the city. This would insure that the mining sites would start producing even before I returned.

All of that done I went to the gateroom and mentally dialed Avalon, the name that was given to earth from the Altera. Knowing about the iris and not wanting to waste too much time I decided I would need to go a more...diplomatic route.

"Unscheduled off world activation!" came the alarm on the base.

"Are we receiving an IDC?" asked Landry.

"No sir, we're getting video and audio communication from the other side." replied Walter.

"On screen." said Landry.

When they activated the comm link I could see they were surprised that I had dialed them. Smiling slightly I said, "Hello General Landry, it's good to see you again."

Landry noticing the background image of the ancient city said, "We thought you destroyed the stargate on that side."

At that comment I laughed genially, "No general, I just turned off incoming wormholes for the time being." I could see his confusion as he looked around to others around him looking for a confirmation that such a thing was possible.

Coming up empty Landry said, "I didn't know that was possible."

"A lot of things are possible general, now to the matter at hand, I want to return to the SGC and explain the reason I... ran away." I said smiling.

Landry looked around again and said, "I should have you know SG-1 is on their way there now and will be arriving shortly. They have orders to bring you back, and barring that to re-secure the city."

"I understand general, so will you let me through so we can discuss what happened?"

"Walter, lower the iris." a few second pause, "Alright, you can come on through."

I smiled and said, "You have made the right choice." and I stepped into the event horizon.