CHAPTER 13

After the Monday morning indoctrination, Harry and Hermione were given badges, security clearance and then shown how to access all the systems. Harry, having a little bit of fun, began apparating to different parts of the base to mess with Sergeant Syler who was conducting the tour. Hermione finally admonished Harry and he stopped messing around.

Daniel came with them to see the Star gate the highlight of the tour. When they arrived in the room Harry separated from the group and walked up to view the symbols on the star gate. Hermione walked up with Daniel and asked "Those are odd looking runes, are they alien?"

Harry answered with a smile "They are not runes; they are symbols for star constellations."

Daniel looked at him "What, how did you know that?"

Harry responded "At first I was terrible with remembering the constellations for my astronomy class. I did some reading and found many of the Greek stories about the gods and their constellations and that helped tremendously. I drew lines to map the constellations much like these."

Daniel grinned and shook his head "It took me three weeks to figure that out. I spent most of it thinking they were Egyptian writings and trying to decipher them."

Hermione looked at him "Sam stated that others had been working on it for over three years before they brought you on. I think that is saying something." Daniel shrugged it off.

Harry walked closer to the actual star gate and placed his hand out. "Do you know if they have had any problems with this?" he asked.

Daniel answered "Not that I am aware of."

Harry closed his eyes and then popped them open "Go get Sam there is something off with the waves coming from this."

The speaker boomed out "I just notified her and Captain Carter is on the way." The voice then added "We have seen glitches from time to time. It is mostly software we believe because the Gate refused to dial out."

Harry looked down in thought "I don't know how I know but I think this is operating on a fail safe mode and if anything else gets out of place it will shut down completely."

Sam came into the room "What's wrong?"

"The energy coming from the gate itself is off. Based on what the operator says this gate is operating in a fail-safe mode." Harry stood up abruptly "Sam the energy feels like a compatibility problem. How do you supply power to it?"

Sam looked up at General Hammond who had been monitoring. He gave her a slight nod and she turned back to Harry "We have been using a Naquida generator we got from the Gaould."

Harry walked over to her "Can you show me this generator?"

Sam motion for him to follow and then went to a utility room right around the corner. When she opened the door Harry was hit with a wave of energy that no one else seemed to feel. It was definitely a very similar energy like what he had just felt from the gate only much stronger. Is this the normal method of powering these?" Harry asked with suspicion.

Sam answered "No, they had modules that have a form of energy we cannot duplicate and this was the closest we could find."

Harry watched the generator "Do you have one of those modules I could look at?"

Sam pulled out one from a container "Yea, this is one of about three we have found in our travels. There is a base on a planet that had shelves of these and all were not functioning. This is almost completely depleted and I can't figure out how to charge it."

Harry placed his hand over it and then closed his eyes "I am not sure I can explain this properly but this feels good to me and the Naquida generator feels off, it's very close but not the same as this. If I had to guess the Naquida generator is slightly out of phase."

Hermione had notice the writing on the side of the casing and slowly began to interpret it. She looked confused by the writing "What does place within a place mean?" she asked.

Sam looked around "Well in physics it would mean something occupying the same physical space like another dimension."

Hermione placed her fingers on another set of runes and then pulled out her wand with a smile and then tapped the three runes. Suddenly the module began to hum and grew brighter. A little display on the side registered bars going across from red to green. The red bars were starting to fill in and then the amber ones were filling in. After two minutes the green ones filled in.

Harry still had his hands out "I feel an immense amount of power stored in this now."

Hermione chuckled "You should because by tapping those runes it opened a small pocket dimension inside and if I read right this is called a zero point module."

Sam looked bug eyed "You are kidding me this creates its own power just by tapping those runes."

Harry looked at her "Not exactly. Hermione charged the runes so the dimension could be placed in the module."

Sam looked at Harry and then Hermione before she smiled "Do you realize what you have done?"

Harry shrugged his shoulders "Made the gate work better?"

Sam laughed "Well that is just the start. From what we know these modules can last for thousands of years. That planet had a whole bunch of these ZPM's and we even found a bunch of DHD's to control the Star Gate. We couldn't get them working without a working ZPM."

Sam shook her head "We have unlimited power with these. Why if we had a ship we could put these in…oh shit, General we need to get a few of these to Area 51."

General Hammond "I suspected as much. Are you going to take Mr. and Mrs. Potter with you? I think they have earned it."

Hermione turned and looked at the star gate "we get to go through there?'

Sam chuckled "If you want. You can look the ancient's base over and see if you can help us make it work."

Hermione was smiling "I would really like to go."

General Hammond grinned "Then the mission is on for tomorrow morning. Captain Cater Please inform Jack to come and see me."

Sam answered "Right away sir."

Harry, Hermione, and the SG1 team were at the threshold awaiting the gate dial up sequence to initiate. Harry and Hermione had both been outfitted with standard gear to include two handguns and supplies for five days. Both had their wands on them as back up and primary. They watched the gate with wonder as the event horizon came out at them. Hermione always observant "It looks like water, should we hold our breath when we go in?"

Daniel chuckled and then turned to them "They say it doesn't matter if you do but I automatically do anyway."

They sent a mout through to check the area around the star gate before they entered. Once the mout sent video back that all was clear the team began to go through. Jack and Teal'c went through first then followed closely by Sam and Daniel. Once they were set, Jack's voice cackle across their radios "Ok, dynamic duo it's clear to come through."

Harry smirked and then waved his hands to change Hermione's clothes to look like Robin and his to a Batman suit. Hermione just laughed. On the other side Harry came out and jack did a double take before he started to laugh. Soon Daniel and Sam joined in. Jack looked at them "I swear Potter you only do these things to mess with me."

Harry smirked and answered in a deep voice "Who is this Potter you speak of I am Batman and this is my faithful sidekick Robin." This made Sam laugh more.

"Sir, you know you brought this on yourself." Sam said to him.

Jack turned and started the hike to the Ancient ruins "Smart ass kids!" he muttered.

It took them about an hour to reach the base and Harry and Hermione were amazed at how well preserved the base was. When they reached the specific lab that SG1 found before Harry and Hermione began to look around. They had brought the mout and a mule to carry cargo back to the gate.

Hermione had been looking over the various consoles and reading the text that was written on the various gadgets. "It looks like this was the main power station for this base and if I am reading this correctly…" Hermione went to a floor plate and tapped two buttons and a ZPM module rose up from the floor. She checked it for damage and then taped the three runes to power it. She did this two more times to the other ZPM's.

When she got back to the first one it was fully charged and she lowered it into the floor plate. Lights began to come on and then consoles began to activate. Sam looked around "Wow this place is amazing."

Harry and Sam began to look the consoles over while Daniel and Hermione went to check out other areas of the base. Sam began to look over what she believed were schematics for various circuits. She found one that looked very familiar and stopped to study it.

"Harry I think this is a schematic for the arm band shield." Sam said and then suddenly the screen changed to show a schematic that was very similar to the first. I wonder how they built these from the schematics.

Daniel voice yelled out "Hey over here!" All of the team came running up to find Hermione and Daniel watching a machine that spit out a small device.

Sam picked the shield generator and looked it over "That is it. This must be a facility to build their devices.

"How do we test these things?" Harry asked. Jack walked over and took the one before setting it on a box. He pushed the button on it and then stood back. He pulled his zat gun out and shot it. When the zat charge hit the shield it caused the shield to visible sizzle and become visible.

Jack turned to Harry "Take a shot with your wand and see if it does anything." Harry pulled his wand and shot a stunner at it. The spell was absorbed by the shield and after ten seconds the shield was no longer visible.

Sam came over and looked at the arm band "This appears to be exactly what we thought and it is already able to dissipate energy weapons."

Jack turned to her "Carter can you build more of these for all of us and a few more for Harry?"

Sam looked over at Harry "Can you remember what you did earlier to make this work."

Harry walked back to the main room and thought about what they had done earlier. "I think we just tell it what we want and it does it. Can you build ten arm band shields? He asked the console.

Hermione yelled out "Whatever you did another one came out… two are done."

Harry smiled "This is kind of neat." I wonder what else it can do?"

The team spent the next five days exploring every nook and cranny of the base. They found some sections where the walls had collapsed but after Harry and Hermione cleared the hallway they realized that most only led to crew living areas.

The team had built enough arm band shields to supply every SG team with them. Harry had one for Hermione, her parents, and himself plus two additional spares.

The night before they left Sam came into the control room to find Harry busy working with the computer to build something. He closed it out before Sam could begin to understand it. Sam looked at him "I know that was a dampener of some sort but I don't know for what.

Harry stood up "I would like to tell you but I need to keep this secret. It will not harm Mundanes."

Sam looked at him "Harry, you don't have to explain yourself. I trust you and I realize that it is probably something to protect your family." Sam looked thoughtful for a moment "If you deem someone worthy enough to be family, then it is there honor."

Harry looked at her and smiled "So SG 1 is ok to be in that category?" Sam smiled at him "Yep, but you have to come and see us two or three times a year and especially at Christmas." she said with a laugh.

Harry turned to leave and then suddenly stopped "Don't tell the old man or he might think I like him or something." Sam just chuckled and nodded her understanding.

The next morning they were all suddenly awakened by Jaffa guards coming into the center of town. Above the town were a couple of Alkesh bombers hovering with a squad of fighters. The lab entrance they were in was completely surrounded. On the horizon they could see a Gaould mother ship had landed.

Jack looked over at Teal'c "How many troops did you say a mother ship held?"

Teal'c replied "They have well over two thousand soldiers."

Jack looked out over the town square "I think nineteen hundred of them are out there to greet us."

Harry came up and took his wand and pointed at a group of ten and fired a stunner. All ten dropped to the ground. Harry looked at him and smiled "The way I figure it that means we each have to get 317 soldiers apiece and right now, old man, I am ten ahead in the count."

Jack's mouth flopped open "You aren't serious are you?"

Harry fired in the opposite direction and ten more soldiers' fell "That is twenty for me and Jack your still at zero."

Sam smiled "Sir I think he is serious."

Hermione came up and fired three times in quick succession "Oh darn I only got twenty-six." Hermione arched her eyebrow and smiled "Your turn Jack."

Harry was laughing now at Jack's expression "I guess I should take some pity on you Jack. How about I take them half of them? Would that make you feel better about it?" Harry disappeared from apparition. He came back five minutes later and held an electronic box in his hands and turned to Hermione "You can operate the base defenses right?"

Hermione looked at him very confused "Yes but we determined it was only designed for space defense. I don't think it will work for this."

Harry smiled "Just take out the two big ones and the fighters I got the rest." Hermione shook her head and left with Daniel for the entrance into the control chamber. Two minutes later small lights moving at incredible speed shot out of the ground and wiped out all the spacecraft. Harry looked at Jack "Ok now for phase two."

Harry walked out of the entrance with swagger and stopped in the center before dropping his round electronic disc on the ground. He tapped the center with his toe and a thrumming noise came out from it. "Who is leading this army? Show yourself if you aren't afraid."

A man walked out of the alley to the right and his eyes flashed "Who dares to attack the soldiers of the gods?" he asked Harry.

Harry with no fanfare asked him "Who is asking?"

The man looked livid at being talked to this way "Your god, Amranth is asking! Kneel before me and die by the hand of your god."

Harry held his hands out "I think not…" Harry turned to Daniel "How do you say you idiot in Gaould."

Daniel looked at him "I don't think that is a good idea Harry."

Harry chuckled and looked Amranth "Do you understand what idiot means." Amranth eyes flashed in anger. "Yes, I think you do."

Amranth screamed "Kill this blasphemer." He stated while pointing at Harry.

Harry held his arms out and smiled at them and over a hundred soldiers raised their staff weapons and tried to fire. All anyone heard was the weapons losing all of their energy. Amranth looked shocked at this and then looked to Harry before he raised his palm to him. "You may have defeated my troop's weapons but you cannot defeat mine."

Amranth tried to use his palm weapon and it suddenly powered down. Amranth looked at it shocked and then pulled his sword and began to charge Harry. Harry watched him and when he was still twenty feet from him he pulled his sidearm and shot him in the head. Harry holstered his gun "Never bring a knife to a gun fight… idiot!"

Jack, Daniel, Sam, and Hermione came out from the lab and stood next to him. Teal'c called out in his language and a Soldier with special head piece and armor came running forth. He kneeled before Harry and began to speak. Harry looked at him and then to Teal'c.

"This is Amaranth's first Prime and he has transferred his loyalty to the greater God, you." Teal'c said.

Harry shook his head and bent down to lift the soldier up. "Teal'c please interpret this for me. I am no god and neither is that!" Harry pointed at Amranth. "You will take that ship return your people to their planet and then I want you to return the ship to Jack at the Tauri home world."

Harry turned to Jack and smiled "If Amranth had any other mother ships they will be placed under Jack's command. Is that understood?"

Teal'c finished and the first prime looked shocked before he bowed and swore it would be done. He turned and yelled at the troops to return to the ship. The base was cleared of Jaffa in five minutes.

Sam looked at Harry "That was the dampeners you were working on, wasn't it?" Harry just picked the electronic disk up and shut it off.

"I don't know what you are talking about but there are three boxes filled with these and instructions on how to use them. One box is for me." Harry said enigmatically as he walked back to the base.