CHAPTER 11

It took the next six months for technicians, brought in from other government agencies, to develop the three prototypes of the Flying MALP which the techs had called the magic ball; an anti-grav satellite; and a gate ship which they called the jumper. Harry assisted with the development during his mission down time.

The ball was being produced in great numbers and within a month had saved two teams from ambushes. They then used drones to deploy weapons and bombs that drove the Jaffa from the gate until the teams could get on the ground. The set up was perfect and brought the risk to the teams down considerable.

The next week found Harry very busy working with Sam to develop the schematics and drawings as they said they would. In the morning or afternoon Jack would run tactical scenarios with Harry in the team mix. Harry during the week knew that Jack was setting him up for something big so he decided to do many things by non magical means.

He asked Sam to refrain from the use of any magic as well. He first needed to learn the basic of tactical thinking and would read manuals at night before going to bed. He was amazed by the number of books that could be found on the subject and soon had an appreciation for what it took to plan and conduct a battle.

Harry and Sam discussed the current tactics and soon came to realize that even with magical abilities, the tactics were sound. Magic gave a person more ways to get to someone and hurt them but it was no different than a fight with an opponent that had superior weapons. Harry had to smile as the first contact with Jack would catch him by surprise because he was not used to dealing with magical fights. After the first time Jack would learn and all bets were off.

The President arrived on Wednesday afternoon and was guided to the conference room. When he sat down Harry had conjured a whoopy cushion underneath that made a big fart noise as the President sat down. The President just looked up at Harry as he saw him standing.

Harry turned to Jack and gave him a high five "See Jack I told you all politicians were full of hot air."

General Hammond looked embarrassed as Harry smirked at the President who then let a small laugh out. "You are a riot Mr. Potter, good prank by the way!" The President leaned back "If I see a video of that anywhere on any TV or the internet, I will think of very nasty things to do to you."

Harry replied "Sir, I assure you that was entirely for my own personal amusement." Jack cleared his throat. Harry pointed his thumb towards him "Oh and Jack's too."

The President just rolled his eyes and smiled "This office use to command respect."

Jack sat down across from him "I assure you sir any man that can pass gas like that has my undying respect and my vote." Harry, Sam, Daniel, and General Hammond tried to hold in their laughter.

They could not hold it in when Teal'c asked "How does the passing of bodily gases instill respect?" Even the President had to laugh at that."

The President looked at all of them "You know I don't get many days to just enjoy life anymore. That felt good!" The President turned to General Hammond "General do you have a small briefing for me?"

General Hammond was still smiling "Yes, sir I do but I am afraid that some recent developments require some discretion on our part."

The president turned to his entourage and looked around "Charlie and my guard can stay. I need just a few minutes alone for classified matters."

The secret Service agents opened the door to allow the others out. The President looked at them "Gentlemen, I only asked you to remain because I didn't want your boss to ask me a lot of questions. You can relax because I can trust everybody here."

The senior agent replied "Sir, we can't just relax."

The President turned to Harry "Can you convince them I am in no danger?"

Harry didn't answer he just disappeared and appeared behind them to stun them. He removed all their weapons and radios before levitating them into chairs. Harry then enervated them when they came to they were looking at the blacked haired youth with great displeasure.

The President got their attention "I assure you gentleman if that man wanted me dead, I would already be dead and there is nobody who can stop him. So relax."

The senior agent nodded to them. Harry began his briefing "Sam and I had an event that altered Sam to be very similar to me." Harry nodded to her and she conjured a dummy and then sent a blasting hex at it. Harry continued "She has the same power and abilities as me so far."

The President asked "She was magical to begin with?"

Harry shook his head "No, sir I have the ability, called mage sight to see a person's Aura and their magical core. Hers was like a very tiny pea when I first met her. Today it is equal to a small beach ball, just like mine."

Sam began "We had what the Alterran's, the people who built the star gate system, called a blending. We basically shared our minds, emotions, and our bodies."

"Wait you two have been married almost two years and together for almost three years, surely in that time you have shared…each other."

Harry smiled "Yes we have but two weeks ago we did it while I entered Sam's mind. She was able to follow that connection to my mind. The next day she and I were exchanging knowledge. The third day we found that she was magical."

The President sat back and asked "Any theory or explanation as to how this happened?"

Sam answered "We have no scientific evidence to back this up but we believe that either mine or both of our genetics were altered."

Harry then continued "I already had the ability to work with Alterran technology. I can connect and communicate with the Star gate and I also did it with a scanner. We believe my genetic make-up was just enough of an Alterran signature to register with this equipment."

Yesterday I noticed that the communications with the star gate is much better and I can do this with their complex machinery. This, in a way, validates that we both had are genes altered or otherwise Sam would not have grown a magical core."

The President rubbed his finger over his chin in thought. "The problem, as I see it, is that you can't go to outside sources unless you reveal this secret and that would bring too many questions."

Sam answered "Exactly Sir and we want to keep this under wraps based on the current situation in the galaxy."

Harry stepped over to the star gate window "Sir, I have something else but I will only speak about it with you, General Hammond, and SG1."

The president looked at him "All right gentlemen, this is serious and I think Mr. Potter has a good reason. Am I going to hear any other arguments from you?"

Charlie stood up "You can put this as information I don't want to know. The burden is too great."

Harry turned to the three with his wand out and said "Obliviate."

The President sat there calmly as Harry pushed them out the door. "You erased their memory of all of this?"

Harry nodded "I wasn't comfortable with them knowing. Another magical with the right training can extract the information without them knowing."

The President gestured to the room "What about us?"

Harry smiled "With your permission, I will put this information under a fidelus charm and I and Sam will be the secret keeper. No one can remove the information and you cannot talk about it without our permission."

The President smiled "Tidy I like that and I have a growing appreciation for magic."

Harry cast the charm and then sat back down "Sir, I believe that the world's magical community is the closest remnants to the Alterran's, genetically speaking. I found a repository on a planet that the star gate told me about and I absorbed the collective knowledge of the Alterrans up to five million years ago, when they left this galaxy because of a plague that was killing them. They left survivors on this planet who were carriers but had no symptoms of that plague."

The writings and pictures I have absorbed state that they had what is best described as an ability to manipulate energy with their mind, much like we do with magic today. The pictures I have seen are what humans look like today, an exact match to what Alterrans looked like."

The President stood up and looked very concerned. He stood thinking about this for many minutes. "Harry what do you plan on doing with this knowledge?"

General Hammond broke in "Sir, Harry is already using this knowledge to improve our current technology. We have new MALP sensors, new Satellites, and a new gate ship already being built."

The President turned to Harry looking for more of an answer from Harry "Sir, I think I know what you are asking and I don't really know what the right answer is."

The President responded "But you understand the problem, I take it?"

Harry looked at him and nodded "But I have the benefit of five million years of knowledge and wisdom from their race to make a relevant moral judgment." Harry tapped the table "Mankind is only 7 or 8 thousand years old and very young and immature."

The President looked down "Yes but we will never become a million year old race if we let the gaould enslave our race."

General Hammond looked grave as he asked "We need the technology to survive but we may not be able to handle it as a race because we are too young."

The President sat down heavily and rubbed his face, he looked at Harry "You know I really like you as person Harry but damn if you don't bring some very complex problems to the table."

Harry looked at his fingers "Sir, why don't we take this one problem at a time. We don't have to solve all of the world's problems in a day, after all we are not gods."

Sam smiled and rubbed his shoulders "He is right, the immediate threat is the gaould. So let's handle them first and then deal with the rest later."

Jack looked at them "We can't really do that as we need some of the technology and when people know about something it always gets out. There is no way to hide it."

Harry chuckled "I knew you were just playing at being dumb."

Jack smiled "I didn't want to ruin Sam and Daniel's expectations from me as her commanding officer." Jack leaned over to whisper "Nerds have such tender ego's"

Harry leaned over to Jack "Well don't tell Daniel that I make a dollar more than he does."

Daniel sat up "Wait! What? Why does he make more than I do?"

General Hammond groaned out "Potter!"

The President smiled "I feel for you Hammond I really do. He specifically asked for a dollar more than Daniel didn't he?" Hammond nodded which cause the President to chuckle.

The President stood up and looked at Sam "I think I really want you out of the military's hands. If you are genetically an Alterran and anyone found out about it they could exert too much pressure and use the command structure to use you."

The President looked at Hammond "How do you feel about resigning her commission and hiring her on as a civilian, Mrs. Potter." The President turned to look at Sam "I will guarantee that you always make a dollar more than your husband." He said with a smirk.

Sam had to smile at that and responded "How about you always ensure that I am his boss."

Harry smirked "Isn't being on top all night enough?"

Sam's face turned red and then she swung at his shoulder and hit air "That damn man. I swear I want to strangle him sometimes."

The President smiled "Sam I feel for you I really do. Harry is the man you hate to like but you just can't help yourself."

Sam grinned "In my case I hate to love him but he is very addictive." The men just laughed.

The President went to the door "Sam I need to see you and Harry about every two weeks to be debriefed. So tell white house security you are cousin Harry that he has a dinner invite every Sunday night at the white house."

Sam looked confused "Cousin?"

The President shrugged "What can I say a government bureaucracy works better under certain premises, silly I know but family at the white house is not scrutinized."