Authors notes: I'm going to be writing longer chapters after this one, so my updates will come a little less frequently but in bigger pieces. Please review and tell me what you think! Have fun reading!
Authors Note edit 1
This is the revised chapter 6. 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 6
"What happened?" yelled General Landry after he got help up from a nearby guard.
"We don't know yet sir, but it appears our guest is no longer on base."
"Just great! Bring up the security footage, I want answers five minutes ago." Landry said.
After looking through the footage and seeing how himself and everyone else was knocked out with a wave of energy Landry turned to Walter and asked, "What did he take?"
"Everything sir, he took everything...mission reports, tactical assessments, technical specs, all of it." Walter said grimly.
Landry punched the table and said to everyone in the room, "How did he do it? I thought we looked him over for weapons! I want answers damn it!" he shouted.
"Sir, he was looked over before being brought up and he didn't have any visible weapons, just clothes and some jewelry." one of the guards said.
"Send the footage to the labs, I want all of it analyzed! I want a defense so that never happens again." he shook his head angrily, "Now I have to tell the president we were comprised and all of our databases were stolen..."
Odyssey arrived at the relative coordinates of the ancient city that SG-1 had discovered and began searching for the city.
"It's somewhere in this solar system. We know that from the stargates' coordinates. Start scanning the planets looking for any anomalies or power signatures." Sam said.
Col. Ian Davidson, the captain of Odyssey, spoke up, "You heard her, take us to the closest planet and start scanning."
They arrived at the third planet and a few moments later a beep was heard, "We've found something Col."
"On screen."
Mitchell, Sam, Daniel, Teal'c, and Vala all looked on at the screen trying to discern what they were looking at.
Teal'c spoke first in his solemn voice, "It appears to be a mining facility."
"Yea, that's definitely not our city." Daniel added.
"Hold on," the comms officer started, "we're getting a transmission, audio only."
"Odyssey, it's good to see you. I've been expecting your arrival, please come quickly, I couldn't fix the life support and the city is low on oxygen. I could use your assistance."
Sg-1 looked at each other trying to decipher whose voice they heard over the transmission.
"That was Tim!" Daniel exclaimed.
"We're receiving some coordinates in system. It appears to be a large asteroid near the asteroid belt." said the navigation officer.
"Sir I recommend caution, but we did come here to get him and the city back." said Mitchell.
"Take us there at best speed." said the captain.
When they were in beaming range Sam walked over to the sensor station and started scanning the asteroid. "Sir, there doesn't appear to be anything here, not a power signature or anything that looks like civilization."
"Open a comm link." said the Captain. The comms officer typed a few commands and nodded at the captain, he continued, "Tim, we're at the designated coordinates, we don't see anything. What's going on?"
There was a few second pause than there was a reply, "Oh good, I'm lowering the hologram...now."
As he said that a large portion of the surface of the asteroid shimmered and disappeared. What they say was a beautiful large city covered by an artificial atmosphere shield, nothing like a city ship shield for defense, just enough of a barrier to keep in atmosphere.
"Wow!" came from Daniel and Vala at the same time. They looked at each other briefly and looked back, Daniel shaking his head.
"Sir, we're picking up one life sign. It's in the room with the stargate."
"Acknowledged. Alright SG-1, ready to beam down for a rescue operation?" asked the captain.
He glanced in their direction and got a nod from all of them, "Ready sir." Mitchell said.
I saw the flashes from the Asgard beaming technology and knew they fell for the trap. As SG-1 rematerialized a dozen feet from me the base defense protocols kicked in popping a shield into place around them preventing much movement. As this happened three of my light frigates in orbit of the asteroid uncloaked and and started targeting Odyssey with their weapons powered. Surprise achieved, I thought.
Mitchell stepped forward to the shield and touched it, pulling his hand back quickly as he received a slight shock.
"Hey, what's the meaning of this? We're here to save your sorry ass!" Mitchell yelled.
I laughed slightly and said, "No one here needs rescuing, but I appreciate your concern."
I turned to the comm station and told Col. Davidson that the frigates surrounding Odyssey were more than a match for his ship and that I meant him no harm, as long as he didn't do anything silly. After he begrudgingly conceded to not start a fight a cloaked Altera boarding team ringed onto Odyssey and started to download the Asgard database that was on the ship. I turned back to SG-1 and waved my hand. All their guns and knives and equipment were beamed away and then I lowered the shield.
"Don't worry, I don't mean you any harm. We're just going to have a little chat." I said while grinning widely.
I beamed all of SG-1 and myself to the conference room. I made sure that all of my replicators were hidden under guise of cloaks throughout the whole city. I didn't want Avalon to know all that I had accomplished yet.
"It's time for a chat." I said pleasantly.
"Tim, what are you doing? Are you crazy?" my cousin Daniel said.
"No Daniel, I am very much in control of my state of mind. What do you think of my English? It's better now isn't it?"
"Much, considering you couldn't speak it at all the last time I saw you." Daniel said.
"What are you going to do to us?" Mitchell asked harshly.
"Right to business, I see." I said then shook my head, "I'm not going to do anything to you, besides return you and your equipment when we're all done here."
"Done with what?" Sam asked.
"Having a talk." I said pausing for a few seconds. I slowly said the next sentence knowing the magnitude of what I was implying, "I'm going to reveal to Avalon that they are not alone in this universe, and expose what's been happening with the SGC."
SG-1 looked like they were hit by a shock wave of an atom bomb.
Daniel spoke first, sounding mortally wounded, "You...you can't do that! The world isn't ready to know that! There will be riots in the streets! Murder, looting, and more! Why?"
I shook my head knowing that all of what he said was indeed possible. I do know what life on earth is like after all. "That is indeed possible, but I think it will be minor. The world needs to know they are not alone. I think it will be a shock to the world, one that will unify it as a species, hopefully they will be able to get past their petty differences and look up at the sky with excitement." I said.
The conversation went on and on with all of SG-1 vehemently opposed to the idea. In the end I wanted them to understand why I was doing it, I thought they would come around but they were stubborn.
I then switched the conversation to my other thoughts and plans. "I would have you know that I plan to eliminate the remaining hiding goa'uld system lords and deal with the Aschen once and for all. Also at some point I intend to take on the wraith and end their threat for good."
"Well at least there's some good news." replied Mitchell with more than a bit or sarcasm.
"You and what army?" Daniel said, not quite believing I could achieve such feats.
"You don't need to know everything." I said, smiling at my cousins' curious nature. "Just be aware that is only the start of things. I have many more plans for the future."
Not wanting to tell SG-1 just yet of all my plans, including bringing back the Asgard species, I decided that the meeting was over.
I beamed SG-1 and myself back up to Odyssey. When we appeared on the bridge, SG-1 in their full gear, weapons and all, they foolishly attempted to subdue me. The guards of the bridge and SG-1 all pointed their weapons at me and told me to put my hands on my head. I laughed and just looked at Col Davidson and said, "Col. I would have you know that I've taken the liberty to disable your hyperdrive, one of my ships will tow you back to Avalon, it would be much quicker that way anyway. I wanted you and the crew to witness the revelation to your planet."
At that point the guards rushed forward in a attempt to manhandle me into cuffs. I looked on bemusedly as they just ran into the shield and bounced backward a couple feet. Knowing they couldn't do anything to me they backed up and kept their weapons trained on me.
"What revelation are you referring to?" Davidson said angrily through gritted teeth.
"I'll let SG-1 fill you in, we'll be arriving at Avalon in a few hours." I said. Then I was beamed onto one of my nearby cloaked scout ships. I then uncloaked the ship and captured Odyssey with the tractor beams. Then my scout ship and all the others jumped into hyperspace on the way back to my birth world.
Upon arrival at Avalon, I moved my single uncloaked scout ship over to the other Tau'ri vessels in orbit. I turned off the tractor beams and let Odyssey move under it's own power back to the 'fleet'. I cloaked my ship and moved away from them to make it harder for them to detect the ship. I then appeared as a hologram directly in front of the President of the United States, Henry Hayes, in the oval office to tell him what I was about to do.
When I appeared the guards just outside the oval office run inside at the sound of the president's shock from me appearing. They circled around me and told me to get down on the ground. I laughed and when the president saw a slight flicker he knew what was going on.
"It's alright boys, he's just a hologram." Hayes said.
"I knew I'd like meeting you." I said to the man of power. "Though I have to admit, I voted for the other guy."
"No one is perfect," he said , "so what do you want?"
"I want to tell you that I'm about to blow the lid to the people of the world that they are not alone."
The president stood up with a frown on his face and walked over to my hologram. He said, "That's not such a good idea, and I would prefer if you didn't."
"Sorry Mr. President, it's going to happen, I need Avalon united in a single purpose and this is the only way. It has to happen sometime, might as well be now."
With that I turned off the hologram and 'returned' to my ship. I ordered the fleet to disperse one ship to every major city on the planet. Within minutes my ships were in position, still cloaked. I ordered them to descend to the cities and they went down, each starting to glow a little from the entry into the atmosphere. The ships, about the size of earths' 304 class ships like the Odyssey, were not the most terrifying looking ship around, but that's not what I wanted to come across as so it was good. They all moved into position directly above the most populated spot in each, still cloaked. The movement through the atmosphere caused some 'strange' wind and noise that the people in the cities noticed.
Little did they know that the planet's history was about to change forever.
On my order all the ships uncloaked.