Chapter 27
Lightning Fervor
Helltanz's Notes: The populous of Earth does know Aliens exist, what they don't know is all the different aliens out there, or about the Stargate, but to the Chinese they think they need reveal the existence of the Stargate program and more importantly the existence of Goa'uld in order to prepare for a possible invasion or attack.
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This was as far as things went one of the more interesting explorations that SG1 had been on, well it had been until some minor prick of a goa'uld had shown up. O'neil checked, rather pointlessly, the alien weapon he'd gotten out of the gene locked arms locker. It'd been a rather necessary thing, originally they hadn't messed with the weapons, then the goa'uld had shown up, and cut them off from the camp, and they'd run drive after the first eighty jaffa.
SG1 had originally thought that this had just been ancient ruins, it turned out that it'd been a ship... and that it wasn't an Alteran design, it belonged to, as the asgard put it, their Kin the Ayelied. Long ago like the Asgard and the Vanir had, the Ayelied, and Asgard had been bitter rivals, relatives, and at times even enemies. Finding it was a major windfall, and would be a key discovery that would certainly help prove the SGC to congress. No invasions had yet threatened earth this year, that had actually been a joke that Cronus had cracked during his meeting with the SGC. The system lord had meant it in a friendly manner supposedly, but well it hadn't been funny. In any event SG1 had after surveying the ruins radioed back the SGC Alpha site.
They'd been exploring a few days and then the prick had shown up, succeeding in scattering the assembled stargate personnel, but not before they'd launched a subspace beacon. Right now the Tauri Starfleet was overhead, their first real entry into a real battle against anything more than a token goa'uld force.
Overhead there were at least seven Ha'tak, their attacker had originally planned on landing three, though that had been scrapped. Teal'c had said they were mainly third and fourth rate vessels, which strictly speaking gave their own Ha'taks. Their Prometheus-class vessels on the other hand were going to get a work out. The main reason that the SGC ship design problem was the replicating of anti capital ship scale guns. It was true that their captured Ha'taks provided them with working examples, but really there was only so much that could be done. Right now though those big honking space guns weren't helping the ground situation.
A jaffa came around the corner O'neill hefted the alien weapon and squeezed, Carter had speculated it was some form of photon, or plasma based weapon. All O'neill cared about at the moment was that it was damned useful for killing things. The weapon discharged a cone of light rather light a shotgun, and burned a wide spread through the Jaffa's upper torso dropping him like a stone, well what as left of him.
Teal'c nodded, "The ancients created a very useful weapon."
"It takes some getting used to," O'neill grunted. "but yeah its a kickass alien shotgun."
The jaffa nodded again, "It seems that the battle in space is going well for us," So Jack had heard over the radio, the Enterprise was currently occupying the enemy enough that the Prometheus might be able to actually drop down towards the planet and provide some close range support. It was of critical importance they keep this ship out of goa'uld hands.
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Once again he was here on the top floor of the Foot Headquarters here on Earth, from his vantage point Raiden looked down from the Foot New York City Headquarters specifically at where the TCRI building had once been. The blasted Tauri reporters, and government agencies wer all crowded around the crater. Constantinos must have gotten whatever it wasa he'd been wanting, Sithis had been oddly tight lipped so Raiden hadn't pressed the issue, at least once Sokar had shown up in orbit.
The system lord's eyes made a cursuroy sweep of the city scape. Raiden turned to face the Shredder. "Saki ignore the turtles, now that the last of the Umtrom have been slain, I want you to redirect your activities to discretely gather information on the Hoktar popoulous particularly the nearest community, and as always be vigilant of the Shinso."
"Hai Raiden-sama." The leader of the Foot ninja bowed.
"And Saki I emphasize the use of discretion in your task," The system lord stated, "Tepes is on the planet." Raiden allowed the statement to hang in the air, allowing it to sink in.
The Shredder didn't respond for a moment, "Master?" He exclaimed in mild shock, he didn't particularly like being anywhere near the listener of the crimson scar.
"I believe I understand the root of your surprise," He announced maintaining his gaze on the standing leader of the foot clan, "I am aware of your objection."
Saki collected himself, "Raiden-sama Tepes's results cannot be denied but his methods are beyond reproach. He is completely with out moderation, he will surely draw attetention to your plans with his pointless bloodshed, my lord."
Raiden knew this and in all honesty there was nothing that could be done, "I admit have little expectation for Tepes to restrain his lust for blood for very much longer, he is rash, this rashness of his will draw attention away from sensitive areas, and garner the templar into showing themselves. I should assume that is part of Sithis's plans, but I cannot truly say for certain, and in truth nor do I care." As long as Tepes stayed across the pond he hoped it would keep attention away from the new world.
"I understand Raiden-sama." The shredder nodded in understandingif Tepes was to draw attention in order to draw out the Knights of the Nine in order to destroy them well perhaps such was a wise course. Without their prescence and with the recent destruction of the Umtrom, Raiden's forces would be able to operate much more freely and resolve their tasks with much lower risks of a capable enemy interfering. "Once the Templar have been dealt with are we to move against the Shinso, My lord?"
"NO," He responded more forcefully than he intended, in truth he had no idea what Sokar intended or if he was even involved with the Shinso, though he did suspect it. "not quite then I wish to resolve the conflict with Anubis first and strengthen my forces after this conflict ends." The leader of the foot bowed. "Once this has been done we will move on." He dismissed the leader of the foot to carry out his assigned task of keeping an eye on the local hok'tar population.
The system lord leaned back propping against the wall and starred over the city, Karai was obviously familiar with the turtles on some level that greatly annoyed him, but he would permit them to live for the time being at least.
He stared at the crater... and wondered precisely what Constantinos had done.
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Constantinos was kneeling, he'd erected this small shrine in the manse constructed in Bayville. The girl had spent the last half hour mocking his dedicated praying to the Dread Father, and while it annoyed him he'd been silent. He'd held his tongue because strictly speaking Sithis was occupied with other things, "So why are you praying?"
The man rose his robes ruffling but making no noise, "Did you know that Jyggalag awoke, this era dies." He uttered, "Did you know this? As all things must, but Jyggalag is the god of Order, Sithis's most loyal ally. Long ago they were teacher and student, but that was long ago, I worry, as is my place."
"What are you talking about?"
He sat back on the pew, "Jyggalag so powerful was he that a collection of the other gods long ago bound him, this was after the War in Heaven. They created Sheogorath the anti thesis of everything Jyggalag stood for." Then he reached into his pocket, and presented the fourteen inch tablet computer, which itself was testament to just how large a man Constantinos was. "This whole nation is a powder keg, such a volatile little world this is, and yes I mean little, I have seen the worlds ruled over, I have seen Sithis's homeworld in all the splendor of the old gods, and of the Ayelied, its countless spires and the forests of yore. " He sighed wistfully, "The dread father will show you, one day, of that I'm sure, but there is another task, in another town in this nation Phobos seeks his sister, but also seeks to battle 5 guardians wielding the heart of the world forged by the death of Mehunes Dagon and Akatosh," Seeing her blank look, "and his is why I tell you this, for Mehunes Dagon was a Daedric Lord, and Akatosh was the Aedric dragon god of time it was the last major time an Aedra died at the hands of a Daedra."
"So what exactly?"
"You should know this because such knowledge has been lost to this world for so long, and because of that your world cannot comprehend of how its defenses are lacking," He said, "you should understand I am sure your professor Xavier does indeed mean well, but even he can know little of what has been lost. For your own safety."
Rogue sat back and tapped the screen, she groaned, and she thought that the freaking Xmen uniforms were ridiculous, and well as far as things went well if not for the clear theme, and fairly identical physical modifications she could see how some might assume they were just bang babies. "Hey what about this whole defrosting Captain America thing," That was probably the main reason she figured Constantinos was sticking around that whole debacle with Wolverine and Magneto recently,
"Arkay's chosen, and SHIELD? Hardly the concern of the brotherhood," It was a boldfaced lie, "You shouldn't worry about it, I am sure the matter will resolve itself."
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Raiden's eyes swept the homeworld command facility particularly one of the nearby consoles. Things were going as scheduled, seeing as Anubis had decided to deploy the Kull Warriors, Raiden had retaliated by first arming his troops with weapons to neutralize the life given to the kull warriors by the Alteran device, the second and now beginning full circulation amongst the Shinto System Lord's forces was the upgrade to said forces personal armor. He was however growing increasingly angry by Sokar beating him to this upgrading of his troops.
The armor was no one specific color, the sensitive materials changed color base on setting, and several models of the armor were produced. The armors had the added benefit of being well suited to enclosed environment, a benefit to pilots to be sure.
Despite the armors benefit it was unlikely the others would choose to follow suit at least not any time soon, the cybernetic armors were difficult to produce in comparison to that of the traditional and mundane chain mail that was traditional of the mainstay of most Jaffa. Even for his units this would remain the case save for those frontline divisions.
The armor was a great benefit on the ground capable of resisting, even the most basic model, several discharges from the Kull warrior's standard weapon, and about twice that many of staff blasts in quick succession. The armors durability increased with rank, and each increase added more useful features, the most advanced even possessed personal shields, something he was loath to say other goa'uld had done. He'd even considered armors designed for more specialized tasks. He smiled, shock troops equipped with this armor would be useful in forcing enemy Jaffa formations into rout in any event which would be beneficial.
"No word from Morrigan?"
Raiden's mood soured, and glared at the minor goa'uld who'd spoken up, as he reached to finger the ayelied glove resting on a table, for a minute he considered seriously slipping the weapon on and using the plasma caster to kill the little nuisance. He had hoped that given how Baal was pressing on her border Morrigan might be amenable to a certain arrangement, thus far though he'd heard nothing, and it rather infuriated him. As it was he'd finally begun selecting designs to take prescedence. Yu had warned about this particular problem, but even the Jade Emperor was starting to hit the edge of his supply chain, but then again so had Anubis. They did expect some kind of battle as from all intelligence Anubis was massing for a thrust to at least keep them further off guard.
Right now Yu was busy constructing fresh Skyborne Calamity, and as the tauri called them 'Super Ha'taks'.
Anubis's new ships were also proving to have a significant edge. These new ships were dangerous, and truth be told Raiden was growing increasingly concerned over just how much ancient meddling was going on behind the scenes. He'd even heard that the SGC had begun mass producing anti Kull warrior weapons, something that should have been undoable without a copy of Telchak's notes, or the original ancient device, which Raiden had been sure that Anubis had destroyed centuries ago in conflict with Telchak.
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As soon as the battle had been won the SGC had wasted little time attempting to sanitize the situation, even if it had meant calling the NID. It was true that they were all on the same side, especially given this recent attack on the SHIELD Facility, which the anthropology, and xeno archeology departments of the SGC were working double time to look into. There was still no idea what exactly had been inside the artifact stolen, though the asgard suspected it was some kind of data or control crystal for what they could not say.
Jack looked up at the sky, and flexed his gloved hand. The weapon was thought controlled interfacing to sensors in the glove to project a heads up display of sorts into the mind. It certainly made sense now where Anubis was getting some of his toys, of course the Kull weapons were linked to a targetting system built into the helmet which were a bit modified, but the helmet also dealt with a lot more environmental information. "So is it actually the Ayelied."
The Asgard's head bobbed, "That is indeed the case, while the replicator problem has indeed been dealt with O'neill I must caution you even with the armies, and fleets of the systems lords focused on the matter of this civil war," Thor began to caution, but O'neill waved him off.
"Believe me I know buddy," He commented, "Right now the eggheads are hoping to actually get some useful directed energy weapons," well ones that could be used to fight Ha'tak. "well ones we can actually mount on the new daedalus class," They had mounted one of the Prometheus's sister ships with a test bed of weapons based on the alkesh's weapons somewhat modified, and it had been fairy effective, but as it was the homebuilt first and second generation Tauri Naquadah powerplants just couldn't reliably provide the energy needed to power anti capital ship guns.
"Your new class is still an important development, and with the replicators gone the asgard fleet may yet be able to deter further Goa'uld meddling."
Jack nodded, "Yeah well thanks for running Zeus off, I think," As it was he hadn't heard all the details, but up until recently Cronus had had his son Zeus imprisoned in Tartarus, Daniel had found the irony hilarious apparently, but Zeus had managed to escape, and had attempted to make his way to contact earth, for what nobody could say. Kvasir would had been hanging around had run him off fairly quickly.
"In any event O'neill, this particular Ayelied vessel is quite old I should think that even as primitive as it is this dreadnought should be of great use to teaching your shipwrights how to construct warships." Apparently the asgard considered the closest translation to the original ancient word to be dreadnought. The navy's representative had all but had a fit considering he'd been touring the mobile armor bay at the time, but it did make sense given the promience of large scale guns, the ones that were intact anyway, on the hull of the ship.
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Roughly considered as the 'Northern' portion of Goa'uld space approximately the border there was a very narrow strip of worlds between border realms seized by both Raiden and Anubis's armies. This particular area of space was unique as it had a small strip of systems, which belonged to neither of the powerful system lords. A buffer zone, as it was at least for the mean time.
The system's invasion had been more than a tad daring, and very foolish, for one launched by such a minor Goa'uld taking system a system on the border between the two mightiest of the system lords. Both of the system lords had mistaken this for a sudden mobilization by their rivals, and now they looked rather silly staring at each other guns warmed up.
Raiden eyed Anubis's ships, neither fleet had moved since their arrival both fleets hovering in the void of space a waiting the upcoming show of force, and Raiden could foresee Tsukuyomi was becoming quickly devoid of what little patience she possessed. In between the two system lord contingents was the minor Goa'uld's fleet.
Her host's face appeared on the screen, "Raiden what are we waiting for!" She demanded in truth
Raiden glanced at his fellow Shinto System Lord, lady in this case, and gave an infuriatingly calm smirk. "Calm yourself, being rash will not settle this matter with a favorable outcome." Thankfully one of the fleet officers interrupted before the discussion could continue.
"Lord Raiden Anubis's fleet is moving."
He nodded, "Weapons release all units advance." Raiden and Anubis's fleet went into action nigh simultaneously, firing on the minor Goa'uld lord's fleet. Both system lords could very much appreciate the effeciency of each others guns, and Raiden appreciated this opportunity to watch Anubis's ships in action.
The destruction was absolute and the tense staring match resumed. Baal's arrogant façade appeared. "Ah Raiden it has been a while." Truthfully it hadn't the latest goa'uld summit, Moloc's blustering announcement had not been that long ago.
"Baal." Raiden remarked calmly,
"Baal!"
Anubis's lieutenant lips twitched no doubt resisting the urge to frown at the situation, "Ah Tsukuyomi you're here as well… how nice."
Raiden ran a hand along his console in a bored manor. "Where is Anubis?"
"He's elsewhere?"
That picqued his interest, Baal was commanding one of Anubis's fleets, that was rather an interesting turn of events, well so much in that none of the ships bore Baal's mark on them. "Is he now? Are you nervous Baal?"
"Don't be ridiculous, what reason would I have to be nervous." The other goa'uld declared, " You have rushed into an engagement, I should think that in this particular engagement you are distinctly unprepared."
Raiden was tempted to sneer; Tsukuyomi didn't bother to resist the impulse and did.
"Tsukuyomi do not act rashly." Cautioned Raiden "Then as Anubis's envoy you will uphold the agreement. We will withdraw you are to do the same."
Baal as arrogant as he may have been didn't need telling twice. Raiden sat backwards, in truth while he longed to take the system he knew that he didn't have the supply line to hold it against an assault. Neither did Anubis, but it'd be a pointless expenditure of resources, particularly manpower.
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Truthfully he didn't quite understand this session for the United Nations security council conference. Originally they, the Tauri, had considered just the permanent members being involved but then they'd decided to have the entire council present, elected members included. It seemed a rather stupid thing to be having here in New York.
"We must reveal the existence of the Goa'uld," The Chinese representative declared, "so the people may prepare for the inevitable."
"Prepare for the inevitable what?" Raiden's entrance had more than its usual flair and a much more awe inspiring affect, the system lord remarked materialized in stunning bolt of lightning.
"Raiden." The Base Leader of the US Stargate Command greeted, no doubt he had been brought in as an 'expert' witness concerning the program.
The system lord smiled, truthfully he thought this a waste of time, but it was either he come or Cronus, and he was getting tired of Cronus mucking about on Earth. In truth he was at the point that he wished that Yu, or Heru'ur had been available to do this, but better he do this than Cronus, "General Hammond."
"I take it you know this person general?" inquired the Arab representative on the Security Council. The old man was not as steady as he had been, no surprising considering normal people didn't show up in a flash of lightning and he was hardly the only one. The thundercrack of his arrival had disturbed many.
"This is the System Lord Raiden."
"He is one of the ruling members of the Goa'uld governing body." Stated the Chinese representative with good reason to be eying Raiden nervously.
Raiden eyes glowed as a surge of magic passed through them, the man who had been standing during his tirade took a step back instinctively. It was a childish trick, but easily worth the amusment it brought.
Major Davis cleared his throat. "We're surprised you decided to show up."
"Really," He murmured smiling slightly. "I know the Asgard are somewhat busy, they are at the moment otherwise distracted by those last bit of troublesome Alteran toys at the moment the problem is being resolved so you needn't fret. So I decided to handle Earth for this little matter."
Hammond quirked an eyebrow, Thor had relayed that the last of the replicators should have been destroyed "The Replicators?"
"As I said, you needn't worry general I have been assured that the Asgard have dealt with the situation." he stated in a reassuring tone. In truth even if the Asgard had already dealt with the replicator problem, which was possible, and in fact they had even if he didn't know it, it hardly mattered. Raiden turned to face the delegation. "I fail to see how revealing the existence of the Goa'uld is a problem, your populous already is aware of the existence of life on other worlds about time, subconsciously they must acknowledge the fact a power beyond this world intervened to stop the Thanagarians and their foolish invasion." That had been fun, "It is not so much the revelation but your reason you believe that earth is in danger, you would merely be creating panic if you revealed the existence of the Goa'uld and that you fear an imminent attack from Anubis."
"Earth is facing an Imminent Threat of Invasion." Stated the Chinese representative punctuating each word by slamming his fist on the wood table that the permanent security council shared.
Raiden was unimpressed by the declaration. "The threat to earth is hardly imminent. Anubis has made no preparations toward any world in this area of space, he is far to occupied with fortifying his positions and the occasional minor skirmish. He is likewise the other system lords is awaiting the beginning of major hostilities. And these minor skirmishes are well away from earth on the opposite side of Goa'uld space. This war does not involve the Tauri unless you chose to become involved in it. Anubis Kull warriors and mobile armors, his Ha'tak nor his Jaffa have made active pursuits against this world if anything, it is the forces of Earth who are the aggressors." Chastised the System lord, personally he found it amusing though at times irritating. " Anubis and his allies are focused on the much more pressing issue of the other System lords." Well Yu, and himself at least, then he noticed the Tauri security personnel were starting to scurry about.
"Uh excuse me sir," A security guard said stepping past him, "We've got a class 7 security breach, we're under attack." The man was calm, which was surely a good trait to have given the building had been breached by super powered individuals "We have already sent a distress call to the Justice League."
Still it seem too little too late, the building shook as a red armored figure plowed through the doors of the meeting room. The various Security detachments fired their weapons to no avail.
"You can't stop the juggernaut." Declared the giant red armored figure as he just soaked up the gun fire.
"Well this is an interesting turn of events." Muttered the system lord. Raiden turned to the security guards who were reloading. "Don't bother."
"What?"
Raiden didn't bother to respond and simply unleashed a blast of lightning the rapid expansion of air and superheated bolt of plasma sent Kurt Marko flying. "Your weapons will be useless he is drawing his power from an artifact which belonged to the Goa'uld Cyttorak, your fire arms are quiet useless." He'd never actually gotten the chance to examine Cyttorak's work closely before the goa'uld had vanished into exile, so this was a prime opportunity.
"Why You!" The juggernaut lifts one of the destroyed doors over his head, which was no small feat all things considered, in preparation to strike the system lord. Raiden levitated the giant into the air with a glance. "Hey! Put me down you dress wearing…"
Raiden drew his hand back towards the array of seats and slammed the juggernaut head first, vanishing the juggernauts helmet a moment before impact, this of course lead to a particularly bad case of whiplash for Professor X's half brother.
Jack perked up, great more goa'uld junk stashed around earth, and in the hand of criminals too as if Thanagarian junk wasn't bad enough. "I can't say were familiar with that Goa'uld?" inquired O'neill.
"It would not be surprising Cyttorak was a minor Goa'uld he was exiled aproximately one thousand and sixty four years ago in a conflict with Sokar. I believe his first prime's spine still adorns the entry way arch of Sokar's audience hall." Raiden absentmindly flicked his fingers causing the Juggernaut to sink into the now molten ground. Strictly speaking Raiden couldn't actually remember what offense had sparked Sokar and Cyttorak's little disagreement.
Several world leaders looked a tad ill at the brutal revelation. 'I thought that was what it was.' Thought O'neill remembering Sokar's interesting taste in décor. "so uhm we're going to leave him stuck there right?"
The building rocked violently again. He didn't like that sign at all. This apparent attack on the building by what appeared to be a group of what were likely, excluding the Juggernaut, Hok'tar, was far too convenient.
The incoming blast of fire was swallowed by a sudden surge of water. Two playing cards came flying through the air widening the entranceway as they exploded. His shield flared angrily at the explosion, well it wasn't like he liked this silly building anyway. Raiden examined the new guests, one appeared to have living metal armor for skin, the second judging by his field could control magnetic fields similar if in a less capacity to Raiden and was the apparent leader, the next had a pair of wrist mounted flame throwers, his ability was to control flame obvious, the next was a card wielding Cajun and the final was Sabretooth. Two plumes of light appeared beside Raiden, and judging from his growing migraine Sithis had reason to intervene in this battle.
"General Hammond perhaps you would like to be introduced to one of your counter parts, Tsukasa General of Dreams," Tsukasa dressed similarly to Raiden save color, his clothes were light blues and white.
"I don't believe we have met, I am particularly interested to hear your excuse for interrupting a diplomatic summit."
Sabretooth simply charged, much to Magneto's displeasure who was willing to talk to the system lord after his impressive counter offensive. Tsukasa interceded first, a blast of white energy sent the feral Hok'tar flying and impacted against the wall with a sickening crunch. Pyro responded with an attempted attack Tsukasa; a mass of shadowy tentacles tore the flame throwers from the mutants back.
The building rocked again from yet another seismic disturbance. "Perhaps going outside would be a good idea, I doubt the building can take much more of this."Not that he particularly cared about the building A blockish spiral, the japanese symbol meaning thundergate, expands out from Raiden's feet. Outside the United Nations Headquarters was where the assembled delegates and the intruders appeared after the light faded.
"uh with respsect, lord Raiden." the 'younger' of the two generals began indicating a potential problem.
"Yes Tsukasa I see it." It stood about three stories tall a large imposing robot; well it was imposing to humans not to Raiden however who too had equally large but far more deadly mobiles suits.
"That's not one of ours." O'neill stated, though there were development programs in the work for battle mechs.
He nodded, "I am aware of that." Acknowledged the system lord.
The Sentinel fired on Magneto first, surprisingly enough, who was still to close to the delegates, an energy barrier flared to life, "Your not going to blow that thing up from orbit are you?" O'neill asked fiddling with the ancient shield projector.
Raiden didn't answer, focusing his attention on the Hok'tar who were approaching. The system lord's communicator activated. "Lord Raiden."
"Shredder you are to protect the Hok'tar from this aggravating automaton," He ordered to the shinobi leader, "do not allow a single one to be captured." The system lord ordered furiously
"Yes my lord."
The Sentinel fired again, and again the blast was absorbed. "Perhaps if you freed Juggernaut we could resolve the situation." Stated Magneto.
"I have a better solution." Raiden eyes clouded over and a large tornado descended from the now very dark clouds onto the sentinel tearing it apart. The winds subsided and the pieces fell to the earth. "And as to answer your question O'neill no I would not bother with such an excessive amount of force. Rei did you locate the broadcast origin."
"Yes lord Raiden."
Raiden smirked "Wonderful." He remarked "I am quite interested into find who did build this thing," and kill them, thus far the tauri mech programs had all been rather disjointed, something he was quite grateful for.
The facade of the United Nations Headquarters was certainly a wreck. "My, my this is such a nuisance." It certainly taken the Justice League long enough to actually show up. Not that it mattered, they were here now. A pair of Javelin Sevens had begun their descent, and were decloaking and deploying members of the Justice league.
"This is unacceptable, Rei be an dear... send additional forces down, Hok'tar units preferably."
"Acknowledged lord Raiden."
A squadron of mobile suits pierced through the atmosphere. Truthfully he expected this too touch off some pathetic whining about the Justice League, and that was something he hoped to head off, He watched as the mobile suits settled around on overwatch, with the Javelins. "Now can we discuss this little issue like civilized beings? Providence Legend you are to secure any Hok'tar in combat actions."
Green Lantern stepped forward, looking at everyone, "So that leaves this altercation needing to be explained." John Stewart was the ranking leaguer on the scene, and he had a kryptonian backing him up, so he was pretty confident he could handle the situation, as long as it stayed calm, "So why don't you guys do that seeing as the big robot that was attack is out of the picture?"
Raiden tapped his ear, "Rin I would like a status report," he requested as he turned away from the group, in truth he didn't particularly care for whatever explanations were forthcoming so long as the attacks stopped. On the plus side Saki's observation reports from months ago were proving to be useful.
"We received intelligence that this was an anti mutant meeting." Conceded Magneto, it seemed the information he had received was incorrect.
"So that gives the-"
Raiden spared a glance at the French ambassador irritably, "You will be silent and allow Magnus continue." The Frenchman instantly went quiet under the scolding glare, but it was the mutant who looked more interested.
"How did you know my name?"
"Your name is Erik Magnus Lehnshererr, named for your father's brother, born 1928, interned in Auswitchz after the polish ghetto uprising, and liberated in 1944." Personally Raiden never quite understood exactly the human motivation for the Holocaust it'd seemed rather stupid all things considered. "I can give you a detailed biography on anyone here." The Silver dragoon armed mobile suit returned depositing a group of gel encased mutants. He looked up inquiringly at the war machine.
"Paramilitary forces were attempting to aprehend the hok'tar I utilized non lethal methods."
Another blast of energy slammed across the ancient energy shield that O'neill had protected. The shield flared, ablating, deflecting the crimson energy emanating from the Scarlet Witch.
"This is becoming troublesome." He commented with some irritation, "I have a diplomatic solution. Shinku Rai Tatsu Recovery now."
A bright aura of white energy cascaded over the area. "Where are we?"
"Welcome aboard SRT-01 Shinku Rai Tatsu. We are currently in orbit above New York City."
"Were on a space ship this is soo cool." Stated Nightcrawler porting about the deck.
Raiden spared the blue mutant a look of irritation, "Technically it is a battleship," He preferred the distinction, "I would appreciate it if you would not teleport around my bridge."
"Eh sorry."
John Stewart looked over one of the consoles, but the SGC's pentagon liason beat him to the all important question, "So what now?" inquired Major Davis.
Raiden sat down on his throne. "Well we could move to the conference room." After some discussion between those present he stood up and led the way. The room was used primarily for military briefings, but it was set up to accommodate conferences, which was useful in the current situation. It did also give a sense of professionalism to meetings.
Everyone took their seats; the room reflected more on Sithis, given it had an almost gothic architecture appearance, than the designs of Japanese architecture common of a Shinto system lord, not that it mattered there were no obvious markings to reveal it. Of course when the Shinku Rai Tatsu the sheer shift away from traditional goa'uld architecture and design had annoyed him.
Raiden's eyes swept the Hok'tar. 'An imposter how interesting I am surprised the Adimantium one hasn't realized it yet, the shape shifter no less.' He still had not gotten a response on just how these two had warning markers on their files.
'Professor Xavier' was the first to inquire. "Exactly who are you?"
"I am Raiden. Though occasionally I am known by other names,"The System lord reclined in his chair smugly, "Of course it isn't uncommon for one of us to have many names. Though usually we tend to abide using our preferred name the most."
O'neill rolled his eyes.
"So as to address the issue of why we were interrupted again, so I shall recap you do need to be prepared if you will be half as useful to this world as I imagine. Under normal circumstances this meeting would have been conducted with one of the Aesir present as they are Earth's primary defenders," and all things considered Raiden legitimately would have preferred at least one member to have been present for just the sake of decorum, "as it is however they are otherwise occupied, with a small matter in their principle dominion. I am to the main problem has been dealt with, however they are merely being cautious, thus I came to delegate the matter." He didn't bother elaborating attempting to explain the history of the replicators was probably a pointless waste of time to the humans of earth, "The People's Republic of China believes that the populous of earth should be made aware of the existence of certain powers that exist among them myself, or more importantly to the Chinese Government Anubis, who they erroneously believe poses an imminent threat," He snorted the idiots continuing to put pressure on the other nations who had been discussing the Stargate was why he was here, wasting his valuable time. "they are convinced Anubis intends to launch an invasion of this world." Raiden surveyed the room. "Personally I hardly care about this worlds day to day politics, if you choose to reveal the powers that be that is not terribly concerning of me. I do not believe Anubis is capable of launching a successful attack against this world anytime with in the next six months, after that I cannot be positive however it is unlikely he will attack at the moment he is other wise occupied dealing with the others of my faction and myself of course." All things considered in six months he expected to be have churned out a fresh line of standardized ships, "I cannot say that Anubis's actions are completely unmerited however he and his faction's actions are our concern and does not at the moment concern earth."
"Can't you just get Ra or uh Osiris deal with Anubis."
He blinked in a bit of surprise, but then again it made since that they didn't know he supposed if they didn't know about the stargate in general, "Ra's power base has been shattered, his dominion thrown into disarray. As for Osiris he along with Baal are Anubis's top lieutenants, I fail to see how either could persuade Anubis and his faction to cease their actions."
"Isn't Osiris Anubis's dad or something?" asked Kitty Pryde perking up from where she'd been settled down.
Raiden raised an eyebrow, he didn't understand how such things could be confused as it was, no, "He is Anubis younger brother actually, and," with good reason, "he is also one Anubis's more loyal supporters," As it was truth be told he was following after Anubis like a loyal pet, with good reason. Where Baal still had his own holdings, Osiris was rather dependent on Anubis for forces.
The SGC were, or rather Daniel was jotting down notes as fast as possible, he wasn't the only one many of the representatives were taking notes to report to their respective governments.
"Daniel what are you doing?"
"Taking down notes on what Raiden is saying we might learn something."
"Oh come on." Protested the Alteran gene carrier. "The goa'uld like to hear themselves talk, Cronus talks all the damn time when he is here."
"He's right sir we might learn something about the Goa'uld."
Jack leaned back shaking his head, "Not you to Carter." Groaned O'neill. "We already knew all that."
"Daniel Jackson and Samantha Carter may have a point O'neill, underneath the Rhetoric we may yet learn something." Stated the former first prime of Apophis.
"What do you think general?"
"I'm inclined to agree with them Jack we might learn something, we do kind of know nothing about Raiden's faction and little more than Anubis's faction." Whispered the Texan general.
He looked at his other guests ignoring the members of the SGC, he'd heard that there were complaints about the superpowered population, but this could be problematic, "So to elaborate on what I have gathered on your reason for interrupting the summit, you believed the governments were planning to move against the rather vast Hok'tar portion of the populous." The mutants understood the word through the context of the sentence, as it was it hardly mattered to him. "I suppose the idea isn't totally farfetched, humans do tend to be quiet foolish at times. Hmm. Which indicates a third faction interfered, providing you with false information, in order to lure you into a trap."
Wolverine looked up, "Trask. Bolivar Trask." He announced, "Thats my bet who pulled this off."
"So what about Allah?" interjected the Pakistani representative, "Surely you should not have us believe he is an alien?"
"I am not quite sure he vanished about one thousand years ago after he defeated Slaanesh. Truth to confess I was otherwise occupied so paying attention to Allah wasn't nessacarily my highest concern." Conceded Raiden, and he hadn't been not during that time, not with Sokar busy mucking about the whole galaxy. "He and fleet simply vanished with the majority of his populous, though it was fairly surprising at the time he was one of the more powerful system lords."
Daniel definitely wrote that down.
"Well if the Tauri do decide to reveal the existence of the System Lords, it should not cause to much trouble. Though according to the agreements between everyone, and by everyone I mean the Tauri, the Aesir and the System Lords. The Stargates are to remain in United States Air Force custody. Cronus would have a fit, if it didn't."
Shadow Cat looked up at him confused. "Isn't Cronus locked up?"
"No, why?"
"Never mind."
It took him a minute before he came to the most likely when Zeus had long ago managed to dethrone Cronus for a few centuries, "Ah your thinking of Zeus's rebellion, no he was held for a short period of time, and then he managed to escape, and Zeus nearly got cleaved in half by Cronus adimantium scythe, and the resulting civil war did extensive damage to the Olympian and Titanic Pantheon's power base. Cronus is one of the only remaining one, Ares was recently dealt with he was affiliated with Anubis," Ares had quickly thrown in with Anubis once it had leaked that Zeus had escaped," He tapped a console bringing the hologram, "Of the others, hmm Hermes is a minor system lord, and member of the neutral faction he is allied with Sokar." That had always been a weird alliance in Raiden's opinion, "Artemis affiliated with me after the rebellion. For Zeus though he is in Exile. The muses are affiliated with Shiva, who is oddly a member of the Neutral faction, Isolationist would be more appropriate."
"And the other Greek Gods?"
"It varies most have ended up siding with the neutral faction, Anubis is affiliated with a few and the same about myself. Some are in Exile. It varies, when we left Earth some just vanished."
Col Chekov looked up. "Exactly how are the other system lord's?"
"…" Raiden glanced at the Russian Air Force Colonel, it was a valid question to ask given all of this. "To be precise it is tumultuous, my own Faction and Anubis's Faction have been at one another's throat. What Remains of Ra's Faction is quickly collapsing, or folding into Heru'ur's domain, the Neutral faction is the only one which has not engaged in major combat activities. Though the non affiliated system lords have made some rather rash actions."
"Yeah we heard about that." Muttered O'neill. The delegates turned to face the Ancient gene carrier. He waved his hand "One of the Minor system lords moved against one of Kali's outer rim territories, well needless to say it failed. We got to watch Bastet and Kali swing up and clean the field."
The Chinese represenative frowned thoroughly, "And the US possession of advanced technology once again rears its head."
"If you have such a problem with it ask Sokar or Cronus." Raiden growled irritably, as it was if they were whining like this Yu would just tell them to stop whining.
"What advanced technology?"
"The United States Air Force has five fully functional atmospheric and Space classes of warship, four of which are capital ships, as well as two models of functional atmospheric space interceptor fighter air craft. F-301, a first generation atmospheric space interceptor fighter, it has few minor improvements over the Jaffa Death Glider. The F-302 and its respective variants, an originally terrestrial built fighter that has much better capabilities in dog fighting, The capital ships are, two of those are terrestrial designed, BC-303 Prometheus class Space Battle Cruiser, and the first of the BC- 304 Daedalus, the Daedalus was completed recently and is currently undergoing tests before being entering active duty. The Prometheus class has three models in service, it has shown exemplary ability to stand against Anubis's mobile armors, and the Alkesh, it is capable of holding its own against the standard Ha'tak Flight one and the Ha'tak Flight two, though it begins to lose efficiency against the Ha'tak Flight Twos fielded by the US air force, Anubis, and myself, as well as the Ha'tak flight three. Though its shields can hold out long enough for it to withdraw."
"You didn't mention the type four." Carter commented, "I thought Yu was deploying those in increasingly larger numbers, didn't he just make plans for a planned test with our own ships."
Raiden snorted. "I didn't mention them because whatever Yu has planned with you is between you and him. His Tun'cma'le Ha'tak or Anubis's Tuat battleship I do not care enough to comment on. Besides the BC 303, the United States Air Force has type two and Three Ha'taks, which they have improved via several modifications, hyperspace, shielding, point defense, modifications to better suit the F 302 fighter interceptors, and their ordinance. The BC 304 Daedalus shows remarkable promise for its capabilities as a warship. It should prove to be useful to your people in developing unto the point as a people one you can stand under the strength of your own legs."
Chapter Conclusion
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