CHAPTER 14

Hermione spent the next few months setting up and establishing companies to sell the many products that they developed. Many were small items that no one questioned. Hermione began to bring in a good sizeable cash flow in a relative short amount of time."

Harry and Sam wrote many white papers that were published in scientific journals. Some of the papers raised eyebrows with just enough details to be tantalizing. When products started coming on the market using the theories this got even more attention.

Harry was able to settle down with Sam and Hermione after the first two weeks. Sam had to work late one evening and Harry had been home with Hermione. They ended up in bed together and just finished when Sam walked in the door. Harry opened his eyes to find her leaning on the door with a smile. Harry watched her and didn't see jealousy but only happiness that Harry was happy.

Harry kissed Hermione's hand and extracted himself from her to stand before Sam. He pulled her in for a hug and kissed her like she liked to be kissed. Sam felt Hermione's fingers removing her clothes. Sam smiled and looked into Harry's eyes "Did you warm him up for me, Mione?"

Hermione bit her lip and grinned "Hmm I had to take a test ride to ensure he was ready." She said with a laugh.

Harry pulled out Sam's shirt "I am starting to feel like a piece of man beef. You do realize I have feeling don't you?"

Sam looked at Hermione "I told you we should have gotten that Vibrator. Just plug the batteries in and we don't have to deal with all that emotional stuff."

Hermione almost laughed at Harry's expression "Sam this toy is oh so much more versatile don't you think."

Harry looked at both of them "I believe you have hurt your toys feelings and he shall not perform until his ego is assuaged." Harry sniffed in mock hurt.

Sam went behind him and started rubbing his back "Ah, baby we didn't mean it, not really. We know you have feelings and just want us to respect you in the morning."

Harry grinned "The hell with respect I want breakfast in bed." This caused all three of them to laugh.

Things were going well. Harry and Sam were still having trouble figuring out how to get to Atlantis to look at it. They assumed that they would need pressure suits because they had no idea what the environment would be like when they arrived. Harry finally got this straight when he procured three p-suits from storage at Area 51.

There chance came when Harry asked General Hammond if they could go to a world for some of their vacation time. The idea was unique as never had someone asked before. After a week General Hammond received the nod to ok it.

Sam and Harry determined that the world PX3-839 was a good excuse as it had a temperate climate and plenty of beaches for relaxing on. They set the stage for a two week vacation in December. Hermione was getting excited as the time neared. Harry had taught her to shadow walk and they would sneak her on base and keep her disillusioned as they went through. They were taking a puddle jumper that they helped build. General Hammond justified its use as a test flight and check out ride."

They had no problem getting Hermione on board and they arrived at the designated planet. They set up camp on the first day and recorded a message that Jorax, the water being they had met, had told them about a world with a temple and they were headed there for five days before returning.

The second morning they left after the daily check in. They dialed the eight Kartush address and found that a good connection came on two minutes later. It was not a normal connection and they very much wondered why. They entered the event horizon and exited in a chamber filled with water. The place looked very well kept despite the water present.

They entered the chamber in the p suits and found the inter city transport. They went to the first Power hub facility and discovered that the city had three such hubs that required a total of three ZPE modules per hub. With a limited air supply of an hour they split up to cover each hub.

With only five minutes of air to spare they re-powered the modules by placing small pocket dimensions in each one. As soon as the power was initialized the Force field pushed the water out and the atmosphere started to balance out.

It took Harry and Sam another two days to lift the city above the water and when it broke through the surface, the outside doors and windows opened to grand balconies. They spent another day checking the star drive and found that constructor bots had maintained the drives and the city in very good condition. They found that the internal storage for basic elements were empty and before they could go anywhere they needed to replenish these. The ship was fully checked, replenished, and repaired the next day.

They checked the star map and found they were not in the milky way galaxy, they were in fact three galaxies away from their home galaxy and that the trip to New Eden would take ten days in hyper space. This was four days longer than they had time for. Harry was all for going for broke and getting it done. They would worry about the consequences later.

Sam entered the control room to prepare for the journey and found before the ship would answer her commands, a hologram began to play.

"To our ancestors who found their way again we welcome the new Alterran's. Before leaving this part of the universe know that it was with regret that we left your galaxy. But the plague was ravaging our population and we had no choice but to leave some behind for the safety of our society.

We have moved on from this galaxy which was our safe haven for many millions of years. In time this Galaxy was found to have dangers so be wary of the beings you meet here. When time has passed, encoded in this cities programming is our new destination. According to the celestial clock the Ship has already revised, we left the Delta Galaxy 10,000 years ago. We have high hopes that if you have made it this far that you shall journey to join us some day, until that day, farewell and good luck."

Harry sat down as Atlantis lifted from the surface and began the trek through the void between the galaxies. He watched as the viewer showed him the multicolored hues of the hyperspace flight. The steady thrum of the machinery to cause this sounded like a heart within a human being. Harry smiled at the thought that Atlantis lives again and would soon support the Alterran race as it was designed!

It was now day six of their journey and they had found more and more information about the Alterran's in the cities database. They even found the cure for the plague that had caused them to leave the Milky way galaxy. Sam had become concerned with leaving the SGC in the dark. In her mind, General Hammond and Jack deserved her respect and she convinced Harry that Hermione was capable of delivering the city to New Eden without them.

Hermione was hesitant, at first, but realized that the city was self sufficient and all she had to do was monitor its' progress. Reluctantly, Harry brought the city out of hyper drive so that he and Sam could make the jump back to SGC command.

Harry took a different jumper from Atlantis to return to SGC command to study. The Atlantis jumpers were different in that they had additional nacelles that would extend to allow small hyper space jumps through local star systems. The other thing is they were only capable of operation by Alterran's as they were DNA encoded.

This had fascinated Harry as to the sophistication of the programming to allow this. With Sam in one and Harry in the Atlantis jumper they entered the SGC gate to the amazement of Jack, Daniel, Teal'c, and General Hammond.

Harry jumped from the back and smiled "Surprise, look what Sam and I found."

General Hammond pointed at the ship "Is this why we have not heard from you in six days?"

Sam walked up "Yes, we found this in a cavern at the site we told you about and we had to repair it. It is a gate shuttle from a city called Atlantis, at least that is what we think the logs tell us. They are pretty patchy."

Daniel became excited "You can access the ships logs?"

Harry smiled at him "Yes, but only certain people with a certain DNA signature can do that. It took us almost four days to find that out. Sam was working on the controls and I was working on the engines. When I went forward to assist her, the displays began to light up in response to me. It took us another day to adjust the program to recognize Sam and the last day was to satisfy ourselves it was operational."

General Hammond "I was ready to send in the cavalry for you two."

Harry looked contrite "I am sorry sir but this find was just too big to walk away from and I hoped you would understand."

Jack put his arm around General Hammond's shoulders "You know sir that he is offering you a really big carrot so you don't use your big stick."

Hammond looked up at Jack "Oh, so how would you know this Colonel?"

Colonel O'Neill looked stumped "Well sir I heard some of the Special Forces guys state it was how they train their Generals."

Hammond frowned "I seem to recall that you came to my command from the special forces, colonel."

Jack jumped back "That is a lie sir. I came from Special Operations Command. It is easily confused with that lesser, but more popular command. Similar functions but very different operations."

Harry leaned over to Jack and whispered "Ass kisser!"

Jack smiled "In the modern age we like to call it rectal engineering and I can give you few pointers if you like."

Harry chuckled and looked at the new jumper "No thanks I think I just graduated Summa Cum laude."

Jack grunted at him "Show-off."

General Hammond let out a smirk "Knock it off. You don't get top honors so that is Magna cum laude because I have met far better ass kissers, than you two in my day." General Hammond gave them a smile before barking out "Debrief in two minutes." as he walked out of the room.

Sam walked by "Boys!'

Jack laughed "Yes, and the girls can't live without us."