Here's the next chapter for you all, questions will be answered and others will be asked. Note: I only own what characters i create, the names and places i invent and the ships and vehicles i seem to be designing in droves for this single story.

I would like to thank AlexanderD for all his help and i strongly recomend reading his story New Dawn. I hope he likes the character named after him Admiral Alec Xander.

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AlexanderD: Banter between Sheppard and McKay always promises to be entertaining. SPECTRE just had its first real beta test, now they can get down to the real hard core action now that the team dynamic is proven to work.

BIG Z1776: I thought you might. Jason is more like the Wraith equivalent of both Ronon and Teal'c.

Cdoctor: I have a plan for the Jaffa for the future, don't worry they will eventually be making an appearance. Though i won't say in what capacity just yet.

Oddliver: Or is it?

stormwolf3710: The moment i gave Teyla plasma rods i knew someone would make a lightsaber reference.

EPetrelli: You'll see.

: I try.

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Zarasian flagship

Jason fired a burst from his spear rifle into the reaper directly in front of him, swiping the dying form out of his way with the butt of the rifle before swinging at yet another reaper with a powerful chop that sunk the cleaver like blade several inches into yet another reapers skull.

Beside him Teyla danced around four other reapers, batting them with her plasma rods as she flitted past them. The reapers could only attempt to dodge her precision strikes since blocking them would mean burns that would easily go through their armour and sear away the flesh. After each reaper had been sufficiently hampered by the injuries dealt she switched to needle prick attacks that turned the reapers into pin cushions before they finally collapsed from their injuries.

Ronon meanwhile was blasting away at the reapers that had the common sense to engage the SPECTRE's from a distance and was quickly proving that even that distance wasn't far enough away.

As the last reaper fell to the ground the three took stock of their situation. Out of habit Ronon plucked out the power cell from his particle magnum and replaced it with a fresh one from his belt while the old one was recharged by his armours power supply.

"Where are the next ones?" he asked.

"Nowhere," said Sheppard over the comm. "There are no next ones."

"That's it?" Ronon asked.

"That's it," confirmed Sheppard.

"Well that didn't take too long," said Teyla.

"Too easy," said Ronon with a cocky grin.

"You three killed well over a hundred reapers apiece over the course of this mission and you think it was easy," said Sheppard in disbelief. "Never mind that we've got bigger things to deal with. I need you back on board ASAP."

"What is wrong?" asked Teyla.

"The Aror just jumped into hyperspace," said Sheppard. "No warning, no message, they just left. We're tracking them but they aren't responding to our hails which has some of us worried."

"I have an estimate for their destination based off their trajectory," said McKay, joining in on the conversation. "It looks like they're heading towards the Vanir homeworld. They aren't heading straight there but as far as I can tell it's the only thing in the area."

"If we are going to follow them we'll need to take our ship with us," said Todd. "It's still cloaked on the planets surface."

"It definitely survived the blast right?" asked McKay, who had personally had a hand in tricking it out.

"I moved it so that it would be well outside the blast radius before we began this operation," Todd assured him. "It is quite safe."

"Good to know," said Sheppard. "Now get it and let's get moving."

"What about Eurielle?" Todd asked with an edge to his voice.

"I would recommend we tow the ship with us," said Eir. "The Vanir city has the most advanced cybernetic related medical equipment and some of the best specialists in the galaxy. I would rather have that equipment on standby if we should need it when I attempt to disconnect her."

"Sounds like a plan," said Sheppard. "Now let's get to it people."

Keltona

It had taken several days for everyone to finally arrive, which wasn't entirely surprising given that they each had to make sure their peoples were in capable hands, but finally the council representatives for the Coalition of Planets had arrived. In the past two years the Coalition membership had expanded greatly in both member worlds and standing members on the council. The original three representatives Kelore, Dimas and Shiana were all present but the council had expanded along with its membership. Queen Harmony of Larris, as the leader of one of the most advanced non-industrial worlds that possessed Ancient technology and had not been culled by the Wraith for some time now, was present. Then there was Ladon Radim of the Genii as the Genii possesed the largest population of any people in the Pegasus galaxy. Next was Richard Woolsey officially representing Atlantis but technically representing the Tau'ri as a whole. Finally there was Larrin representing the Travellers who, while not technically having a single capital world to call their own, were the second most technologically advanced natives to Pegasus after the Averians.

When the Travellers had finally settled down and established a series of colonies with Tau'ri and Wraith assistance they had been formally introduced to the Coalition of Planets and had officially become members. The Genii had immediately become very interested in trading with this advanced space faring race, after they got over their surprise at their very existence, and had attempted to trade for technology. They had immediately hit a roadblock however when they discovered that the Travellers possessed everything they had and more and wanted nothing the Genii could offer. It wasn't even possible for the Genii to sneak in spies to gleam technological secrets since the Travellers possesed such a small and close community that they immediately spotted the strangers and kept an eye on them the entire time said strangers were trying to sell them tarva beans. The number of Genii traders on Traveller worlds had dropped dramatically after that, much to several people's amusement.

None of the Coalition members had been informed of the existence of the Averians, or the Vanir and the Asgard for that matter, at those races request. But they did know that the Tau'ri, being extragalactic themselves, had extragalactic allies that the Tau'ri had never bothered to introduce them to. It was a cruel twist of fate that they would now learn about them under such circumstances as the announcement of a potentially galaxy wide war.

"Thank you all for coming," began Woolsey. "I realise that the timing of this meeting must be inconvenient for many of you but I assure you that it is of the utmost importance."

"I'm sure it is," said Dimas. "However the rather cloak and dagger nature of this meeting is not something that is appreciated, perhaps you could please enlighten us as to the purpose of this gathering?"

"Of course," said Woolsey. "As many of you are no doubt aware my people have many allies and contact with other cultures that you yourselves have not yet been introduced to since they value their privacy."

"A fact we are very much aware of," said Shiana spitefully. "I hope that you intend to change that fact."

Woolsey gave her a cool look in return.

"I am here to make you aware of several of them at this time," he continued. "I believe that you have heard of a race called the Asgard?"

There was a general consensus of agreement amongst the representatives.

"We have heard rumours," said Larrin. "Of a space faring race that possess incredibly advanced technology that frequently work with you. In all our time in space though the Travellers have never encountered them however and it wasn't until your return to this galaxy that the rumours of their existence arose."

"The reason for that is simple," explained Woolsey. "The Asgard are not native to this galaxy."

"You know them from your own galaxy," surmised Ladon.

"That is correct," said Woolsey. "They have been our allies for some time now and we have helped them just as they have helped us. It was at our request that they began to establish a presence in this galaxy in order to deal with what we believed was a mutual problem."

"The Wraith?" asked Harmony.

Woolsey shook his head. "At the time we did hope that they would eventually join our fight against the Wraith but their appearance was motivated by another reason. Several years ago we encountered an offshoot of their race called the Vanir that had apparently arrived in this galaxy during the war against the Wraith ten thousand years ago. At the time we knew that they were the ones responsible for the activation of the Attero device that resulted in the destruction of several stargates and the loss of countless lives."

Larrin visibly flinched at the mention of the Attero device. The Travellers had lost an entire colony along with their Aurora class warship when the stargate there had exploded.

"What happened to these Vanir?" asked Larrin, with an edge to her voice.

"They were eventually tracked down and it was determined that the actions were undertaken by a rogue element that your people helped eliminate in its entirety," explained Woolsey. "The one ship that escaped the battle was heavily damaged and suffered a reactor breach shortly afterwards. There were no survivors."

"Good to know," Larrin muttered darkly.

"As I was saying," Woolsey continued. "The Vanir have since become our allies when we learned the truth, however when we met them we were introduced to another race of native humans that had allied themselves with the Vanir and since become our allies. They are called the Averians."

"Never heard of them," said Larrin. "I'm guessing they're not space capable."

Woolsey resisted the urge to roll his eyes. The Travellers were of the, slightly arrogant, belief that they were the most technologically advanced race in the galaxy. It didn't matter that the Tau'ri possesed technology well in advance of theirs because they weren't native to this galaxy.

"As it happens," said Woolsey. "They are space capable and as far as we can tell they have technology much more advanced than your own along with a very large fleet of ships."

Larrin's face was a picture of disbelief and Ladon was suppressing a grin.

"I don't believe it," she said. "How could any race have advanced to such a point without being annihilated by the Wraith?"

"That is a good question," added Ladon. They could all see the spark of curiosity twinkling in the eyes of the scientist turned commander.

"They are located on a world unknown to the Wraith in an isolated part of the galaxy," explained Woolsey. "They discovered basic examples of Ancient technology over time and learned of the Wraith at the same time and decided to prepare to fight them. It was with their assistance that we were able to finally eliminate the last of the human feeding Wraith and end the war."

He paused to take in the council's reactions to the news. There were many dark looks and mutterings about undeserved luck. It was rather expected given that they themselves could have advanced to such a point if they hadn't been repeatedly culled by the Wraith. Naturally they were wondering why this one world had been so lucky but it helped that they had at least been fighting against the Wraith.

"Why have they not come forward before now?" asked Kelore. "While it is obvious that a certain level of secrecy would be necessary for them to survive the threat of the Wraith has long since passed, so why are we only just hearing about them?"

At light speed Woolsey's brain was churning through the facts of the situation to come up with an appropriate answer to the question. For the Averians sake he was only told part of the story and not going into full details, for many reasons. If they knew the whole history about how they had been left with a cache of Ancient blue prints and scientific equations that had jump started their space age then they would be alienated and constantly judged. There would always be groups that would want to claim the technology for themselves and would demand that the contents of the Ark be shared, something that the Averian government would not allow. Then there would be groups that would be looking for an excuse to take over from the Averians should they ever make a single minor mistake. Not wanting to delve into the galactic politics shark pool was the very reason that the Averians had politely requested that they remain anonymous despite the sizeable contribution they made to bringing down the traitor twins. Of course another reason for not joining the Coalition was because of the obvious problem it would cause should a group as large and advanced as the Averians joining. As it stood if you added up the populations of every single Coalition world, which by now included nearly every single world in the Pegasus galaxy except for the most advanced, the population count only reached a little under ninety million even with the last two years of growth. The Averians though had a population count that had long since past the hundred million mark and was now well into the billions. This meant that they would easily overshadow the Coalition, which would cause untold problems for them and was one of the reasons they would rather keep their existence a secret.

"They have been isolated from the rest of the galaxy," began Woolsey. "As it stands they have slowly been preparing to make themselves known but they required time. The Averians have dedicated their future to fighting the Wraith threat, but when the threat suddenly disappeared so unexpectedly they found themselves at a loss for what to do next. They have had to alter all their plans for the future which made revealing themselves a problem they would rather have to deal with later on. However the current situation has forced their hand as it were."

"And just what is the situation?" asked Kelore.

Woolsey sighed.

"Many years ago a small group split from the Averians after a disagreement arose. This group intended to battle the Wraith by bringing the native populace of the galaxy under their control and using you all as a potential labour and ground force to aid in the fight. Rest assured that the current Averian government and the previous one detested this idea which caused this group to be exiled. Now they have returned in force, after they stole a cache of classified information from the Averian government, and have revealed plans to conquer this galaxy while exterminating the Wraith and anyone else who gets in their way."

The Coalition members were stunned into silence allowing Woolsey to continue unchallenged.

"The Zarasians as they are called are lead by a man named Zarin and the threat they pose should not be taken lightly. My people and our allies are even now engaged in battle against them but the problem is finding them. When they left Averia several thousand years ago they vanished and as it stands we currently have to comb the galaxy to root them out leaving us on the defensive."

"You are saying there is an advanced race out there that is planning on conquering the galaxy and you don't even know where they are?" said Shiana in disbelief.

"Allied forces are currently engaged in battle against Zarasian forces as well as standing guard over many worlds," said Woolsey calmly. "The purpose of the current battle is to acquire information that we may use to neutralise the threat they possess as well as rescue a member of the Wraith race from captivity. Helping our allies is something we take very seriously."

"And what if you lose?" asked Ladon. "I assume you have a back-up contingency in place?"

Woolsey nodded.

"While I should point out that the chances of the allied forces losing the battle is practically impossible given our technological and numerical superiority, and that we are extremely determined to succeed, we do have an alternative should we be forced onto the defensive. With our technology we can monitor the Zarasians movements and have enough warning to prepare for their arrival. If we need to we can evacuate entire worlds of its population or deploy forces to defend them."

"You would have us leave our worlds?" asked Shiana.

"If it necessary for your survival, yes," said Woolsey calmly.

"And you would choose which worlds are to be saved and which are to be lost to this enemy we know nothing about?" asked Shiana sceptically.

In response Woolsey pulled out a compact disc object from his pocket and placed it on the conference table in front of him. Pushing a small button the disc lit up and a holographic projection appeared. Displayed were the three corpses of the reapers they had recovered from the crippled fighter they found two years ago.

"These are reapers," explained Woolsey, all traces of complacency gone from his voice. He was now a man on a mission. "They are genetically engineered foot soldiers with cybernetic implants connected to their brains robbing them of emotions while making them completely obedient. We believe the enemy to have an army of these expendable creatures large enough to lay siege to this entire galaxy. The Zarasians have been preparing to wipe out the staggering numbers the Wraith could produce with sheer numbers and only slightly better technology. This is an enemy we don't want to have to fight a war of attrition against if we don't have to."

"If the enemy are fighting you then isn't it more likely they will focus their attention on you since you are the greater threat," reasoned Ladon. "You, these Averians, the Asgard and the Wraith are the only ones in this galaxy that have warships of some description that could pose a threat to them."

"That is true," agreed Woolsey. "However there will come a time when they will feel it necessary to begin capturing other worlds to increase their industrial capabilities. Zarin has shown that he is not above using his subjects purely to service his plans for conquest so I'm sure you can imagine what he would think of those who are not fearfully loyal to him."

He let that sink in a little, taking in the reactions of the assembled representatives. The mood was certainly dark.

"Will they use orbital bombardment?" asked Ladon, his face sketched with worry.

"They have done in the past when they wished to inflict damage rather than capture a target," said Woolsey, recalling the attack on the Wraith world.

"That means they will most likely destroy our worlds rather than attempt to capture them if they thought we would be able to resist them," reasoned Ladon.

"Unfortunately that is most likely true," agreed Woolsey. "Being highly militarised your people would prove difficult to overwhelm quickly and Zarin may decide that it would be easier to simply annihilate you."

"Let me be certain of one thing," said Dimas. "You are offering your support to protect our worlds should they come under attack. That is the purpose of this meeting?"

Woolsey hesitated before speaking.

"The purpose of this meeting is to warn you of the threat so that you can prepare for it."

"How?" asked Ladon. "We do not have the ability to fight an enemy with ships that destroy our worlds from orbit where we cannot threaten them. Even the Traveller fleet is limited and won't be able to last against a dedicated assault. Many Coalition worlds do not even have the ability to fight on land so how do you expect us to prepare to fight them?"

Woolsey sighed.

"We don't," he said. "We need you to prepare to temporarily evacuate your worlds."

"You wish us to abandon our worlds before they even come under threat?" asked Shiana, her expression showing her outrage at such a notion.

"Ideally yes," said Woolsey "In order to safeguard your people from harm we need to have them where we can protect them since we don't have the forces to protect so many worlds that the Coalition occupies."

"However we realise that isn't possible for those of you with larger populations," he continued, looking directly at Ladon.

The other representatives looked at Ladon as well with a hint of suspicion. They all knew that the Genii had kept their capabilities as a fairly advanced race, by Pegasus standards anyway, secret from the rest of the galaxy so they could build up their forces without the Wraith knowing. No one was aware of what the exact number for the Genii populace was but there were estimates.

"Our estimates put your population at around ten percent of the Coalitions total Ladon," said Woolsey. "So that would be around nine million."

Several of the council representatives went wide eyed at that proclamation. It wasn't surprising really since most Pegasus worlds populations numbered in the tens of thousands at the most. Even the Travellers only had about thirty thousand people, albeit due to population restrictions on their ships.

"Long ago in our history, after the Wraith decimated the Genii confederation," said Ladon. "One of our leaders saw the need for numbers if we were to ever successfully fight against the Wraith. He instituted an order for a minimum child birth rate so that our numbers would grow but at a sustainable rate. The result of this is that today we now have a population of a little over ten million spread across many worlds, some of which we have only just begun to reclaim in the past two years."

"You kept this from the rest of the Coalition," accused Shiana. "Why?"

Ladon shrugged. "There were plans to allow certain members of the Coalition to learn of this information so that we could fight the Wraith but with the threat gone it was not necessary to broadcast it."

"You should have told us," said Dimas.

"And the Tau'ri should have told us about the war they were fighting sooner," deflected Ladon. "But what is done is done."

"Your population was much larger before the Wraith forced you underground, correct?" asked Woolsey.

"Yes that is correct," said Ladon with a hint of sadness at the thought of so many lost lives.

"Your former worlds are also highly industrialised," said Woolsey. "And even though they have been abandoned for some time most of the buildings on some are still standing and only require repairs to become habitable, correct?"

"They are," said Ladon studying Woolsey with a calculating look. "Many of our worlds were levelled by the Wraith but I believe with your help we could restore the less badly damaged ones."

"Our idea ladies and gentlemen," said Woolsey. "Is to move your populace to these worlds if it should prove necessary and to have our forces stand guard over them. If this is not possible then we have a back-up plan. The Genii can provide additional ground security so that you will not feel like you are surrounded by aliens."

"Aliens?" asked Harmony curiously. She had never personally met someone truly alien before.

"The Asgard race is humanoid but they look very different to us," explained Woolsey. "We also plan on calling in support from our other allies that aren't yet fighting this war with us and while they certainly look like us the Jaffa race has double the life span of a human."

"I hope you will be providing us with information on these races," said Shiana sternly, causing Woolsey to mentally delete the 'I hope' part of that last statement.

"I have information dossiers and brief history outlines of these races for you all to view," said Woolsey. "Let me be clear that while these races have had troubled histories they are to date trusted allies of ours."

There was a general murmuring, as the representatives contemplated the various possibilities of a troubled history, before a general consensus of agreement was made.

"Since the Zarasians are a threat to us all would you be willing to share, or at least trade, for some of your technology?" asked Larrin hopefully. "If we had better shields and weapons we would be able to assist you in the fighting and defence of these worlds if we need them."

Woolsey gave her a stern look. "As you know my people do not trade technology with less advanced races, just as you yourselves do not."

Larrin winced slightly at the barbed retort and Ladon visibly suppressed a grin, even though it still showed through.

"Is there anything else?" asked Dimas, trying to hastily change the subject before this old argument could resurface.

One of the laws that several members of the Coalition had tried to pass was that some technology should be shared among member worlds. Naturally the ones pushing for this most had been the Genii and the Travellers. Woolsey had immediately turned around and made it clear, without stating outright, that the Tau'ri would leave the Coalition if such a law was passed without their approval. The Travellers then found themselves backtracking hastily and also threatening their resignation, which lead to the domino effect of the Genii strongly supporting the motions failure when they would be forced to share their technology for nothing.

"As a matter of fact yes," said Woolsey. "While you have your own guards here we feel that the security is not sufficient to protect this world. With the permission of this council we would like to install shielding to protect this bunker from detection and relocate the stargate below ground. We would also like to place several cloaked defence satellites in orbit in case the world is ever discovered by the Zarasians."

Again there was a general murmuring and nodding of heads as the council members gave their approval. While they were grateful for the protection it would afford them there was some doubt as to handing over their safety to the Tau'ri.

"How long would these changes take to implement and what would they involve?" asked Ladon.

"The satellites would simply need to be placed in orbit and set to only target enemy vessels and not surface targets," explained Woolsey. "For this bunker though we would need to install a dampening field generator along with a hidden shield generator on the surface along with a power generator. The stargate can be easily relocated at any time with our beaming technology once an appropriate chamber is chosen."

"Does this mean we can't come here by ship anymore?" asked Larrin. The space born Traveller rarely went anywhere without at least one of her peoples ships.

"For the sake of secrecy it would be preferable if you could arrive by stargate," said Woolsey. "Of course my people will also do the same."

"Are we all in agreement to Mister Woolsey's proposal?" Dimas asked.

The assembled representatives nodded their approval.

"Then I call this meeting to a close," announced Dimas.

"I have the information dossiers for you to look over," said Woolsey, giving Larrin a subtle look.

Taking the hint Larrin waited for the last of the representatives to collect the dossier provided by Woolsey before taking her own.

"Would you mind giving me a lift to my ship?" she asked.

"Of course," said Woolsey before tapping his ear bud. "Two to beam."

The pair disappeared in a flash of light to reappear in the conference room of a Tau'ri vessel in orbit.

"What did you want to talk to me about?" she asked, still slightly miffed at being denied her wish for better technology for her people.

"Your people have clearly heard of the Asgard from your time spent in our company but have you heard of the Alliance of Four Great Races?" Woolsey asked while settling into a chair.

Larrin shrugged. "Something about an old alliance between the Asgard, the Ancients and two other races I know nothing about. Apparently your people are supposed to the fifth race."

Woolsey smiled. "The other two races are the Nox, who are still around today but maintain a pacifist isolationist stance, and the Furlings, who haven't been seen for a long time."

"Furlings?" asked Larrin with a smirk. "So I'm guessing they're really hairy guys."

Woolsey grimaced. "That seems to be a lot of people's reactions when they hear the name. I once asked Thor what they looked like and the answer was interesting to say the least. Sheppard showed your people a few horror movies I believe when you stopped by for a visit every now and again?"

"He did," said Larrin, who had a sneaking suspicion she knew where this was going.

"After studying some parts of our history the Asgard came to the conclusion that before they vanished completely they visited Earth in human form to observe their ally's children," explained Woolsey. "They believe that at certain times though their disguise might have, for lack of a better word, faltered and their true forms were revealed. As a result it marked the origins of the legend of the werewolf or wolf man."

Larrin sat there stunned for what seemed like the umpteenth time that day.

"You can't be serious?"

"Apparently it's true."

"You mean there are quite possibly still creatures out there that can only be harmed by silver bullets and can turn people into creatures like themselves by biting or scratching them?" she asked in disbelief. Believing in aliens and space vampires was one thing, but werewolves? Surely this was a joke.

"Actually those ideas come from more recent fiction and have no basis in truth," explained Woolsey. "But the legends about human shape shifters find their roots in history from many thousands of years ago and these more closely resemble what is known about the Furlings."

"You said they had vanished," said Larrin. "Any chance of them reappearing again?"

"To be honest not even the Asgard know what happened to them," said Woolsey. "We don't know why they vanished so we don't know if they ever will come back."

"You didn't bring me up here just to tell me all this," said Larrin. "What did you really want to talk about?"

"We have an invitation to extend to you," said Woolsey, with a certain amount of dramatic flair. "We would like to invite the Travellers to join the new Alliance of Great Races."

Vanheim

In orbit of the Vanir world the Kalen Aror exited hyperspace. The ship had been completely out of the crew's control the entire journey, much to their frustration. Shortly behind them the Weir appeared, having been making short jumps in order to keep track of the ship's strangely erratic course. To the crew of the Weir it appeared that the crew of the Aror had been trying to shrug off possible pursuers and hide their end destination. What they didn't realise though is that the crew of the Aror had done no such thing and that their own ship had turned against them. But they didn't know that because all of their hails had been ignored.

But when the Aror exited hyperspace the ship automatically started communicating with the computers of the hidden city below on an encrypted frequency. Anyone monitoring the city's computer mainframe would notice that access codes were being transmitted and upon confirmation a download took place. The moment the download was complete the crew of the Aror found themselves with full control over their ship again. Whatever had hijacked the control systems had vanished and as would be noted by the flickering lights throughout the city had moved on to the Vanir mainframe.

Throughout the city the inhabitants stopped what they were doing and looked around as a wave of flickering lighting originated from the main transceiver, across the city and finally into a private medical wing. In this wing, in a private room and hooked up to numerous pieces of monitoring equipment lay Sovaer. All this time he had been comatose and as a result had to be fed intravenously. Connected to his head was an interface cable that linked to the main computer that was attempting to stimulate his inactive brain and access the stored data on his chip implant, so far without success.

As the wave of flickering lights hit the wing they halted and focused on the medical equipment. Sparks flew around the room as the foreign presence flitted about the local systems before finally focussing on the main computer. The two connection points of the interface cable crackled with energy as the seals around them were briefly overwhelmed by the amount of raw data being channelled through it. Sovaer's comatose body, which had been motionless ever since he was recovered from the Zarasian flagship, started to spasm in response to the data flow. The readings on the monitoring equipment that had been minimal just a moment ago became erratic as his heart rate and blood pressure began to spike. Just as soon it started it stopped and his body stilled and his readings normalised to what they had been before. Then without warning both his hands gripped the side of the bed and he sat bolt upright, eyes wide open in shock. He took a deep breath as though he was starved for air before his eyes rolled into the back of his head and he collapsed onto the bed. His readings were still the same but with one major difference, this time his brain activity readings were normal.

As Sovaer lay on the bed, unconscious but definitely no longer comatose, alarms started blaring and medical personnel poured into the room. Yet despite the noise from the blaring alarms and frantic voices Sovaer slept soundly, content in the knowledge that he was home at last.

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