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Chapter 6

Harry sat back in his chair at his workstation. The information on his screen was not too surprising as he was certain that in the time the Lantean civilization had been gone someone had to have moved in. But what had moved to replace them was pure depravity.

He'd picked up the signal when he'd first built the transmitter/receiver but had been unable to translate it at the time. He'd needed a bigger sample. Now that he had those larger samples the translation routines had finally finished the job. He didn't know how he would tell the girls, who were due any time now. He supposed that he would just jump right off into the explanation as to why the plans were going to have to change. He had hoped that the historical records that he had in his head about the humans across the galaxy quickly evolving their technology would play out into small confederations at best.

But the rulers of a great part of the galaxy called themselves gods. They had used the Astria Porta to great effect to spread their influence and subjugate a great number of human civilizations. They were every bit as bad as Tom Riddle had been and were still going strong. They had fleets of ships at the ready to do their bidding across this galaxy and, if what he'd hacked out of their systems was any indication, there were more than one of these 'gods' all jockeying for position. It was a galaxy full of Voldemorts as of now and the only plans right now he could think of were to be ready to defend the Earth in case his or the American's efforts drew their attention.

The floo flared and the twins stepped through. Today was a tank top and tight jeans ensemble that hugged all of their curves deliciously. He found himself staring at them intently before standing to greet them. He had been prepared for good morning hugs but when he found each girl wrapping themselves around him for a snog he abandoned that thought.

"Morning ladies. Can't say its a good one but it is morning. Not to say that the greeting wasn't well received." he said. This got them suspicious.

"Why? What's wrong?" said Parvati. Padma stepped closer as she had stepped away when it was Parvati's turn to kiss Harry.

"I'm going to have to change my plans is all. I was going to spend the rest of my life slowly bringing out new magic technology and drag the wizarding world out of the dark ages. Then I finished translating a transmission or two from this galaxy and well...we are not alone. Its a good thing that there are weapons on the shuttles because we could have run into one of their ships. I used a carrier wave disguised as background radiation to piggyback their signal and hack the transmitting ship. I got a sense of just how depraved the rulers of most of the galaxy are and its not good." he intoned.

"The worst part is that they call themselves gods and wish to enslave everything. Anyone they meet they proclaim themselves the gods of and demand you pay homage. Surrender everything immediately and quietly allow yourselves to be enslaved or they wipe out all resistance. They don't allow for technology or free thought just subservience. The nearest realm is a few hundred light years away but still. With hyperdrive it is not that long of a trip." he waited a bit.

"That's not good at all. I was going to ask just how bad they were in terms of Dark Lords but its the same things all over again. Just more than one with armies under their command this time right?"

"Yeah. They've been at it for thousands of years and show no signs of slowing down now. Theirs even signs that they spent some time on Earth. Their ships and technology look like old Egyptian pyramids. And someone brought the second Astria Porta to Earth. I finally managed to pin down its location with the scanner. Its buried deep in the arctic near the ancient outpost and the only reason I found it is the nearly depleted potentia that is powering it. But back to the Goauld. They are bad news and if they find us before we can be ready to fight back it will be the end of us, Statue of Secrecy or not."

"Goauld? Is that what they call themselves or is it what they are?" said Padma.

"From what I can tell its both. In their language it means god. And its what they call themselves. They don't allow their subjects to learn anything that would lead them to want to overthrow them so no history and no reading and writing. They want you weak and stupid."

"So whats the new plan?" said Padma. Parvati nodded.

"Now I need us to figure out a way to phase in the new/old technology faster. We need the wizarding world to accept it and the sooner the better." he sat back down.

"I'm going to have to build and program nanites to build ships and get them started now. I am talking drone ships that will patrol the system. We need to keep that from the muggles and they are always staring at the sky so we need to cloak them. We need armed forces and manned battleships after that. The good thing is that our technology is leaps and bounds better than theirs so we have that advantage but that didn't help with the Wraith."

"The Wraith?" asked Parvati.

"Oh yeah, you wouldn't know. The Wraith are the reason our ancestors came back to Earth. They feed directly on life force, human life force. They are the major players in the Pegasis galaxy where Atlantis is currently hidden. That's another reason the shuttles are so heavily armed, so if we are caught out there by the Wraith we have a chance to fight our way out. Soon we will be able to make multiphasic drones again, along with full power weapons and shields and armor up hulls and the like. We are going to need it. There's an old drone ship design that might work with some tweaks. There's one out there somewhere called the Destiny that is in another galaxy exploring."

"Any more bad guys out there we should know about?" sighed Padma.

"There's Ashura for sure. Our ancestors built nanite constructors before but programmed independence into them. The things rebelled and now I don't know if they wont kill us on sight. They had coding that said that they couldn't hurt Lanteans, they were built to fight the Wraith by the way, but I don't know how much of their original programming that they might have found a way to circumvent. That's all I know for sure. I wouldn't trust immediately anyone I met out there at the moment either. Most that could carve out a place for themselves in this and the Pegasis galaxy would have to be pretty ruthless to hold on to their territory." he warned.

"Just great. And you just said you wanted to build nanites too?"

"Yes, but the difference is programming. Mine are pure constructors. I was working on the code I found when the translation finished. I removed the personality and independence. They will still self replicate but the mining and construction is what they will do for us. They will actually increase the speed of operations by more than one hundred percent. I will be sending that code later today after a final check." the girls were nodding.

"Ok we trust you that they won't get out of control if they can't think for themselves. But if you're going to increase the pace of your operation here then you're going to have to do something about your relationship with the goblins. Taking unfair fees on every transaction and constantly calling you thief is going to be very bad for business. You need them to stop that or you need to keep your own money." said Padma.

"And will the mining operation be collecting gold as well?" asked Parvati.

"Yes. All precious metals and stones will be mined as well. Why do you ask?" said Harry.

"I ask because its not illegal to print your own galleons if you want to handle your own money. The rights to money wasn't given to the goblins, just the rights to handle the majority of banking for us. Scan a galleon and a sickle, then tell the mining and constructors to turn whatever isn't going to be used into those for us. That way you don't have to have a press around here just for that purpose." she replied.

Harry looked at her for a moment before nodding and turning to his station. Pulling up the command console to the mining operation he typed in the new commands and hit send. It was a good idea and he knew that the goblins were not going to let him demand he be treated better. He was going to have to prove that he was good for profit but that still would not mean that he would ever be called anything but a thief.

"I'm going to have to pull my money out. We can do that later on after I get something to carry it all in. They are going to take a large fee, twenty percent I think I was told, but there's somewhat around ten million galleons in there. I'm gonna replace it pretty quickly with this mining operation and there should be no worries after that. I just thought of something though. What about the muggleborns? Well...undocumented half-bloods if we want to be technical. If we are going to do the whole defense thing correctly then we have to get them to enlist with us. That means paying them for their time." he pondered out loud.

"You're going to have to tell some of the story about this Atlantis stuff and soon. That is the only way you're going to anyone to work with you." said Parvati.

"You're right. But how much to tell them and when? I can't dump the whole story on them at once." he said.

"You're right, you can't. And now isn't the time yet anyway. You have time to think about it. You still have to be free from the goblins first and then you can worry about the telling. You still haven't told us all of it yet and we're not going to press you on it." said Padma.

"And I thank you for that. Noone needs to know all if it." he said with finality.

"I bet." sniped Parvati. "We will need to get some expanded trunks to put your money in. something with multiple large compartments would do the trick. Three of them might be overkill but we need to pull some eight million galleons and who knows how many sickles."

"I still have a few thousand galleons in my pouch and we can stop to pick up more if needed before we do the withdrawal. I already have an idea what I'm going to say about the history as well. That as a side effect of being hit with the killing curse a second time I gained access to the knowledge of our ancestors from Atlantis and that I will be making devices that run on magic available to the market. That our ancestors came from among the stars and we still have enemies out there that are looking for us and we need to be ready for them. That magic can and has taken us to the stars before and, with what I am doing, it will take us there again. How does that sound?"

"It sounds like something you could give the Daily Prophet to report and get some attention. I don't think you're quite ready for that yet. You need more things on the market first."

"I already have the calculators and computers, but we aren't building those for everyone yet. I have a medical scanner in the works that will make the work at Saint Mungo's easier. Personal shields and stunner pistols for the DMLE and we can make little ship toys for the kids. The ship toys would be the big thing as we can tell them that the scaled up model would be able to go into space. They will be able to fire a mild stinging hex and we can sell them to Weasly Wizard Wheezes. That's just what I can think of right this second."

"That's a really good start. You should look into computers for the ministry so they can automate the records department. That way they could look up anything in seconds instead of minutes to hours. It would make things a little easier."said Padma.

"That's a good idea. I like it. If you have any more of those don't keep them to yourselves."

"We won't." said Padma.

He turned back to his station and pulled up the nanite programming to finish his checks on it and made sure the programming couldn't be simply changed by just anyone. They would have to have the access codes he's absorbed from the Hallows. He had the personal code of the High Chancellor of Atlantis in his head and wondered if that meant he should take that position. Currently no one was better suited and he had the knowledge and the hand device came with the wisdom of the ages to go along with it. The stone was not originally intended to call for the dead but the ascended to ask them what would be the best course of action. History said they usually responded that as little interference as possible was the correct course so the chancellors had quit asking them anything.

It took him close to an hour to check but the code was ready and he sent the code and designs. The constructor bots on the planet would build the first pile of nanites and the nanites would build more until they reached a few million, which would take maybe a week, then start grouping out. Some would go to mining and half mine while the rest replicated and some would go to construction of the new defense ships. Even the builders would replicate as needed until ships were being built at a quick pace. He wouldn't need crews until it was time to construct his upgraded Aurora class battleships.

He stood and approached the girls. They, after the scaled down repositories, had graduated to more advanced subjects. Currently they were looking at high energy physics. He bent and wrapped an arm around each of their waists and pecked them on the cheeks. They, of course, didn't leave things there. They each turned and reached out to capture his retreating head and kissed him soundly on the lips.

"Ladies are you ready to go? I figure we can go look at trunks first and then go get the required funds to buy them later. Then you will have to help me get all that gold put away." he breathed.

"We are assuming you sent the commands for the new nanites?" said Padma.

"Yes." he said simply.

"Then we are ready to go." the stood from their station.

The trip to Diagon Alley was typical as it started with a floo to the Leaky Cauldron. There were few patrons in the pub today but Tom the barkeep waved as they entered. They continued threw the portal in the wall into the alley and saw that, it too, was sparsely populated...for Diagon Alley. The twins led the way to Trunkenstien.

"Welcome to my humble shop!" greeted the proprietor when they entered.

"Good to find this place. We have questions about your inventory." started Harry. "Would you, by any chance, have a few multi-compartment trunks with overall large compartments?"

The owner paused before replying. "We do have a few. Rarely do they sell."

"Each compartment would have to be about the size of a large room for our purposes." said Padma.

"Yes I have a few built to those specifications. What kind of security?"

"Fingerprint and or magical signature and can they be shrunk?" said Harry.

"You can have both and they can be shrunken down yes." came the reply.

"How much for three of them?" said Parvati.

"Because they've been in stock forever and you're buying in bulk I could let them go for 5500 galleons. Can you afford that or will you have to come back?" recognizing Harry for who he was.

"We will have to come back. Can you hold them for us and begin installing the security?"Harry asked.

"Of course Mr. Potter, though I doubt I will find other customers for them before you come back from the bank." Harry blushed at the reply.

"Thank you."

The trip from there to Gringots was short but worrying. He resolved not to tell the goblins what his plans were and simply pull as many galleons as he could carry on him. Then he would return and empty his account.

The attendant at the desk scowled at him as he approached. "What do you want thief?"

"I would like first for you to stop using that name to refer to me. You may call me Mr. Potter if anything else." Harry said.

"Gringots will always call a thief a thief. So what do you want, thief?"

"Very well I wish to withdraw galleons from my vaults. I trust there is someone available?" Harry asked.

"Griphook will be the only goblin you will do constant buisiness with thief. The rest of us don't want to associate with you at all." the goblin waved Griphook over.

"Your key thief." stated Griphook as he held out a hand.

"Hello to you too Griphook." Harry said as he handed the key over.

"Follow me." and with that, he simply walked to the carts quickly.

The three followed him into the cart and they sped of into the depths of the bank. The trip was short and the goblin led them to the vault door. Beyond they saw piles and piles and Padma did a quick tally. They would be able to fit it all in three trunks easily. The sickles and knuts would all fill one trunk and the other two would hold the galleons with some room to spare in the first. She nodded at the estimate as Harry filled up on galleons.

The trip back to the surface was just as quick as the one down with quick glimpses of dragons and other defenses before they were again in the lobby. The trip to Trunkenstien brought out a stroke of genius from Parvati.

"Why don't we not tell the goblins what we are up to and just fill the trunks. We could withdraw the whole amount and not let the goblins do it for us. The fee is for if the goblins do the accounting for you so we do it ourselves."

"I never thought you would be volunteering to get all sweaty Parvati." said Padma with a giggle at her expression from the remark.

"If it will help Harry...and loosing two million galleons for being lazy doesn't make me feel very good as an assistant." she responded.

"If you two are sure?" Harry postulated.

They looked at each other. "We're sure." said Padma.

He smiled. Not that he really cared about the money so much but that the sweat that they were likely to work up would make their clothes cling even more tightly to their forms and give him quite a show.

They walked into Trunkenstien to a grinning proprietor. He had he three trunks out in the middle of the floor. "I trust you brought the galleons, Mr. Potter?" he was smiling.

"Oh yes. 5500 galleons you said?" smiling back.

They made their way over to the till and settled up. It took a while to count all of those galleons but it was well worth it.

"Now let me show you how to set them and they have auto sizing runes on them for easy shrinkage." and with that showed Harry how to set each trunk.

"So all I have to do is put my finger here and push with my magic?" he asked.

"That's all. It sets the fingerprint and magic signature. To shrink them tap this rune on the top here with your wand or finger if you push your magic." showing him the procedure but not actually doing it for fear of setting it himself.

"Thank you. You've been a big help today."

"It was nice to be able to finally part with these ones." he watched as Harry set all three trunks to himself and shrunk them for his pockets. He shook his hand when he was done and retreated behind the till.

The walk back to Gringots was somber as they thought about having to move all that gold themselves but they would use magic. However that doesn't excuse the weight against your magic. They would feel it against their magic which would make their bodies react as if they had hauled all of that gold themselves.

The goblins looked suspicious but Griphook took them down to the vault. His trust vault he had closed when he had access to the family vault after the war which is how he learned of the high percentage they were charging him.

Unshrinking the trunks, he quickly opened them and he and the girls got to work. Sickles and knuts first, the first trunk was filled to near capacity in all but the last compartment. The other two nearly were just enough in galleons to fill them but they did. They were indeed sweating after the whole ordeal and, even with magic, it had not gone quickly. Here were several goblins waiting on them when they finished. One looked rather important if the guards around him were any indication.

Harry closed and shrank the trunks before putting them in his pockets, even with weightless runes on them he could feel that they were much heavier than before. Not enough to be a problem but still. They moved to leave and the important looking goblin spoke up.

"So the thief decides to rob us of our fee as well." he growled.

"Your fee if you did the work. We did the work ourselves so there was no need for said fee is there?" Harry snarked back. Padma reached out and laid a calming hand on his arm.

"So you would close the Potter account?" the goblin said.

"No. All I've done is taken a huge withdrawal. I haven't even seen my account manager." he returned with much less snark this time.

The goblin growled at him and stalked away. Griphook bowed as he passed before glaring at Harry.

"You would dare speak to Ragnok in that manner?" he growled. Padma and Parvati gasped.

"That was Ragnok? Director of Gringots! Harry you almost picked a fight with the highest ranking goblin in Europe!" said Parvati. Wide eyed he grasped Padma's hand in thanks.

"I didn't know it was Ragnok. All I knew was that some goblin that I didn't know was calling me a thief for withdrawing my own gold. By the way Griphook, I should probably speak with my account manager as well."

"Follow me." Griphook sighed.

The ride and subsequent walk to the office was again short and they found themselves in front of an office carved directly from the rock. Griphook knocked once and waited for a response.

"State your business!" sounded from the other side of the heavy door.

"Potter to see his account manager!" Griphook shouted through the reinforced wooden door.

"Send him in!" Griphook stepped aside and settled in to wait.

Harry grabbed the handle and pulled before letting the girls in first. The office was stark with a pair of crossed axes on the wall behind the desk. There was a single armless chair facing the desk and a goblin perched in the chair behind it.

"I'm Sharpaxe, the Potter account manager." he snarked.

Harry sat and the girls picked a knee each. "This is the first I've been here and I just thought to ask for an account manager. Then they took me here. I didn't know you existed."

Sharpaxe looked at him intently. Then at the two girls on his knees.

"Are you sure you wish to look into accounting with these two as witnesses?"

"We can trust them. I am considering both of them for the ladies of the house."

"Considering not chosen."

"I may very well close my account based on the treatment I've had from Gringots so you can keep the judgment to yourself. I was just thinking that I should find out if there are any investment still paying dividends to the account."

Sharpaxe glared at all three for a moment before he replied. "No. The moment Gringots declared you a thief all goblin investments were pulled. Only those made by your ancestors would still remain and the last of those went out of business in the first war with Voldemort. News has already come that you took the rest of the galleons out today. Is that true? Is the vault completely empty?"

"Yes it is. I took it all. I was thinking with the outrageous fees that I would bank for myself. We withdrew the monies ourselves. It would be hard enough to work with people without the goblins constantly telling my customers that I am a thief. I did a service to the goblins in getting that cup out of here and the majority of you still claim as loudly as you can that I can't be trusted. Made me think you wanted me to withdraw it all." Harry said.

"That was Ragnok's plan. Force you to close your account and take our 20 percent fee for packing it all up for you. But since that plan didn't quite work out for us I don't see there being much more of a problem. You will have to tell your customers that you are taking the money yourself. No bank drafts will be accepted in your name without a large fee attached." Harry sighed at this.

"That's why he was so upset then. He was looking forward to taking my money from me. Shows what happens when you push too hard."

"Indeed. I wish you luck Mr. Potter." and with that the meeting ended.

The girls rose from his lap and he stood behind them and they made their way to the door. Griphook was still waiting outside when they exited. He led them through the winding hallways to the lobby.

"Goodbye thief." he gave a parting shot. Harry didn't take the bait.

They went and had lunch at the Leaky Cauldron. Harry kept a close eye on anyone that approached him and an even closer eye on his pockets. He was carrying a rather large supply of gold on him after all. They didn't speak of what they had just done as a security concern with him carrying the entire Potter fortune in his pockets.

Lunch didn't take them that long to finish under the circumstances and they flooed back to Number 12 Grimwald Place. Harry went upstairs to store his gold while the girls stood in the work room and waited. He was back quickly and gave them both a toe-curling kiss.

"That was thanks for helping me today. You didn't have to lend me your magic and get all sweaty for me, though I appreciate the getting sweaty so much." he teased. Padma, who'd gone last this time stepped closer into him and nibbled his ear.

"We could always do something else if you want to get sweatier." she purred in his ear.

He shivered and pulled her as close as he could. He knew he lost this round but it was okay to loose these if she was going to keep this up. She started to trail kisses down his neck and he groaned as she pulled back with a smirk.

"Wow Pad! For a second there I was about to get something to pry you off of him." Parvati joked. "But seriously, with what we just did, there's going to be a lot of gold in this house. What do you know about the ward scheme?"

"I'm keyed as the owner and its old. Old Black family defenses but doesn't stop portkeys. Apparition is out but portkeys go right through. Makes me wish I took runes at Hogwarts. Its just after noon. I wonder if there are any warders that I could trust that could do the job?" Harry said after he'd calmed down.

"If you have access to the wards I can do it. I was looking into upgrading the defenses on the Patil House and figured out anti portkey and anti apparition wards." responded Padma flushed.

"I'll put the money under a fidelis as well. That way when we go to retrieve Atlantis we don't have to worry about it so much. No one invading the house should be able to find it that way." Harry said. "And I want to check the price of gold. I don't think the goblin conversion is correct as that was the only fee that didn't change. I'm betting their ripping everyone off there."

The twins walked with him to his station and watched as he hacked into a satellite internet feed and searched the price of gold. It didn't take long to find that the average price of gold today was 283.60US. They all found themselves a little angry at the discovery.

"They exchange at five pounds to the galleon! It should be much higher." the girls agreed. "It would be better to go to a money exchange if you need pounds to live on. The goblins are just ripping you off. Those clothes expensive, so tempting, but expensive." he joked a little.

The smirked and pulled him from his seat.

"Tempting you say? Can't have you saying the future Mrs. Black and Potter are teases now can we?" Padma said and with that they drew him over to the couch where they engaged in passionate snogging and cuddling until it was time for the girls to go home.