Size Matters Not
The Republic vs the IOA.
Major Gerald McCoy could only stare at the men who escorted his people to what he hoped was not a cell, after the day he had, had he would not like to end it in a cell.
The door opened to reveal even more men, he didn't know what shocked him more, the fact he was on a massive ship, that all the men he had seen so far looked identical, the two foot tall green alien wearing a light brown and tan robe or the space whales that seemed to be diving into the crater.
"Major McCoy?" Said the small green alien.
McCoy nodded "Yes ma'am, is Colonel O'Neill on board" He asked looking around, at the identical men.
"No he is on board the Triumphant, if you wish you can go over to them once we are out of the pod" She said.
McCoy nodded "The pod?" He asked, the small green alien nodded and smiled up at him.
"Yes the Purrgil seem to be feeding on the gas, it is safer to get out of their way then risk going threw them" She said.
She pointed to the window McCoy looked and gasped as massive space whales glided past them.
He blinked he looked at the red and white armoured men, he opened his mouth to ask a question "We're Clones" Said one of them who had a nasty scar over his left eye and some of his face.
"Clones? Like the Asgard?" He asked the Clone looked at him and raised an eyebrow "Who?" He asked.
McCoy was a little more shocked that there were people who didn't know of the Asgard.
A few hours later.
McCoy looked at the two ships, they looked like propeller-less helicopters, it was big enough for the everyone from the Alpha site.
He heard a weird growl, he half turned and could only stare as the reptile like dog thing was growling, it was straining on its leash, McCoy looked at to see what was setting the creature off.
All he saw was General Carter and Tarac/Rulf.
"Sorry sir I don't know why she's acting like this she generally really likes people" Said the creature's handler.
Yaddle looked at the growling creature "Some times beasts sense things that we can not even those of us who can use the force" She said she closed her eyes.
McCoy was a bit worried that the reptile, would break free and make the small Jedi a snack.
Yaddle frowned "I sense a dark presence" She said as she slowly turned her eyes still closed "It's well hidden, I feel fear, a being suppressed" She said her dark eyes snapped open, she was staring at Tarac/Rulf "You are not who you claim to be" She said.
Tarac/Rulf gave a snort "You are mistaken" He said Yaddle shook her head "No I am not, you will realise Rulf at once" She said.
By now General Carter was staring at him "It was you, the council weren't sure if it was you or Kelran" He said holding up a ribbon device.
Tarac sneered he pulled out his own ribbon device, he pointed it a Yaddle but he never got the chance to fire it as the reptile dog lunged forward clamping her powerful jaw around the forearm, the now revealed Goa'uld yelled in pain as the ribbon devise dropped to the floor.
The reptile dog handler gave a whistle and the creature released the now bloody limb.
The Goa'uld lay on the floor panting in pain, his hand clamped over his savaged arm.
Yaddle stepped forward her hands in the sleeves of her robe "You will realise Rulf at once" She said calmly despite the pool of blood that was slowly forming beneath the now exposed Goa'uld, the Goa'uld sneered "The host is gone there is nothing left of him, if I leave him he will die" Sneered the Goa'uld.
"He's lying the host will survive Tarac leaving him" Said Selmac.
Yaddle continued to look at the bleeding man.
"Kill me and I will kill the host" Sneered the Goa'uld.
Yaddle took a deep breath "This is my last warning Tarac, leave Rulf at once" Said Yaddle.
The Goa'uld just sneered at her, "Never" He said.
Yaddle sighed "Very well, so be it" She said.
She bowed her head and closed her eyes and raised her hands.
McCoy looked at the small alien wondering what she was doing, the Goa'uld just half lay there just glaring at the small alien.
The Goa'uld gave a grunt "No" Shouted Tarac "I will kill the host!" Yelled Tarac "No, you will leave Rulf now" Said Yaddle.
"No, you can not do this" Yelled Tarac he started coughing, he held his throat "No!" Yelled Tarac.
Slowly the host's body rose off the floor, his hands were torn away from his throat by an invisible force and held out to his sides, McCoy stood there staring as the host body hung there, choking and yelling sudden his mouth opened wide, McCoy was sure his own eyes were not meant to be that wide as the Goa'uld's spiked head appeared out of Rulf's mouth as though the Goa'uld was leaving of its own free will.
Slowly the Goa'uld lifted out of the body, it hung in the air screeching and thrashing about, Rulf was lowered gently to the floor.
A medic ran over and attended the former hosts bloody arm, McCoy watched as the struggling Goa'uld was lowered into a container.
The lid was firmly placed on top of the container and locked.
Yaddle opened her brown eyes.
"We had best take this to the Triumphant, they have better facilities then we do right now" Said Yaddle calmly before she walked over to the former host, who was in shock Yaddle placed a tri-fingered hand on his forehead "Sleep Rulf, the nightmare is over, your dreams will once more be pleasant, be at peace" She said softly.
Slowly Rulf closed his eyes, his face relaxed.
"Thank you General, his blood pressure is down to a much safer level" Said the Clone medic, he nodded a few times as he looked at his medical scanner.
"I'd feel better if he is transferred to the Triumphant's infirmary, ours is still being set up" Said the medic.
Yaddle nodded, she looked at McCoy "Shall we depart?" She asked.
McCoy blinked several times "Sure".
The Triumphant.
McCoy was not going to lie, he was impressed with what he seeing, General Carter was hugging his daughter.
Colonel O'Neill came up to him "Your people ok?" Asked O'Neill, McCoy nodded "Yeah their ok, a little shook after finding out that there was one the snakes hiding in plain sight, though it does seem the Tok'ra knew that there was a Goa'uld hiding among them" Said McCoy with a shake of his head.
A few minutes later.
McCoy, O'Neill and the rest of SG1entered the infirmary.
McCoy winced but hide it, he had been feeling a slight ache in his stomach for the last few days.
What he hadn't noticed was the Clone medic had seen the wince.
"Is Rulf going to be ok" Asked O'Neill as the now former host was laid down on the bio bed, a medical droid scanned him.
"He will recover though he may need phycological help, to help deal with his mental trauma" Said the medical Droid.
O'Neill nodded after a short while they all began to leave when suddenly the Clone medic spoke up "Where do you think you're going, get back in here!" Yelled the medic, the group turned to look at the medic.
"Pardon?" Said O'Neill looking at the grey and white armoured Clone.
"Get back in here Major!" Growled the medic.
"What is wrong Pain?" Said Plo.
The Clone medic called Pain held up a medical scanner "The Major's appendix are about the burst" Said the medic with a growl.
"Your mistaken, I feel fine, its just a stomach bug that's going around that's all" Said McCoy, the medic glared at the Major, he pointed at one of the bio-bed "On the bio-bed now" Growled the medic, the look in the medic's eyes made any sane person frightened.
McCoy winced once more this time it was more noticeable this time.
"McCoy?" Said O'Neill McCoy let out a moan "Its just a stomach ache, its nothing" He said even though he was almost doubled over in pain.
McCoy let out a yelp as Pain hauled him over to the bio-bed and with a glare that told him there would be dire conquences if he even thought of leaving the bio-bed.
The medical droid walked over, and confirmed that in fact the Major's appendix had in fact burst, Pain looked at every one gathered "All right every one out!" Ordered Pain, in this room Pain's word was law.
McCoy was about to protest when Pain placed the universal injector ageist McCoy's neck shot him with a powerful sedative.
A few hours later
McCoy woke he looked around the room, he turned his head to one side to see the Clone medic Pain reading a pad at the small desk.
"Your awake good" He said as he walked over and fussed with the blankets and looked at the monitor, he nodded "How you feeling Major?" Asked Pain.
"OK tired but ok, what happened?" He asked Pain smirked "Your Appendix burst, I had to operate, as long as there is no complications you should be discharged once we arrive in your home system" Said Pain.
McCoy took a deep breath, he was a little surprised that Pain had not looked at the site of the operation.
Pain noticed the confused look on his face "What wrong?" He asked glancing at the bio readings "You've not looked at the operation site" He said.
Pain raised his dark eye brow "Why would I?" He asked he gently lifted up the top of his medical top, with care he half removed the pale blue square patch, he looked at the site, he gentile pressed it softly, McCoy looked at the site he blinked several times the area had a thin line that seemed more or less healed "Where did you operate?" He asked he looked at Pain, he raised his eyebrow again "Right there can't you see the healing scar, by the time we reach Earth the scar will be more or less gone" He said McCoy blinked "Damn I think Doctor Fraser is going to want to be your new best friend, she'll kill to get her hands on what ever you used on me" He said Pain smirked "Is she cute?" He smirked as he restored the patch and out the top back down.
"She's scary" Said McCoy, Pain smirk "I like her already" He chuckled "Do you want something to eat" He asked.
McCoy nodded Pain handed him a pad "See what you'd like your Doctor Jackson has given us translation to several of our foods" He said once more McCoy was again was surprised, normally after an operation you were only allowed a light meal.
But McCoy shrugged it off and looked at the menu he selected a few things and handed it to Pain he gave a nod and pressed it "The food will be brought up soon, I call Colonel O'Neill let him know you're awake now" He said.
McCoy settled back he glanced over to Rulf who was sleeping peacefully, "Is Rulf doing ok" He asked Pain looked over at the former host and nodded "Yeah he's blood pressure is down to a safe human level, though he will need mental help to deal with the trauma of his forced hosting, but other then that he should make a full recovery, though he's being kept sedated until we reach your home system" Said Pain
McCoy took a deep breath, as he got comfy, a few minutes later, a droid rolled in carrying a tray, it beeped at him he looked at it, unsure what to do "Not used to Droid's" Said Pain, McCoy nodded Pain chuckled "Take the tray off, it'll keep beeping at you" He said McCoy reached over and lifted off the tray and placed it on his lap with one last beep the droid rolled out of the infirmary.
McCoy looked at Pain who just grinned at him "Better eat your grub, I've got to write up your medical file for you Doctor Fraser" Said Pain.
Several days later Earth Solar system.
"Entering orbit sir" Said a Clone trooper, Plo looked at the sixth planet
Of the Sol system, its many satellites helped hide the fleet of ships that settled in its orbit, Plo looked at Wolffe he hide a smirk, "Are you still sulking Wolffe" He chuckled Wolffe looked at him "I don't understand why you did it sir" He grumbled Plo chuckled he placed a large hand on his Pauldron "You have more then earned the promotion" He said Wolffe looked at him "You've tripled my paper work Sir you know that don't you" Moaned Wolffe, Plo chuckled "I'm sure your brothers can advise you on the paper work of a Marshall Commander" He said.
Wolffe grumbled he looked at the comm officer "Any word from Earth?" He asked the comm trooper listened to the comm frequency he shook his head "No sir nothing yet" He said.
"Hopefully they should see us soon, what is the planet like?" Asked Wolffe, a second trooper looked at the scanner he shook his head "Polluted sir, I'm picking up mass deforestation, they have towers pumping out toxins, the poles seem to be shrinking, there also seems to be pollutants in the oceans, they seem to be using fossil fuels as well" He said shaking his head.
Plo looked at the planet on the holo table, "They do seem to acquire our help if only to prevent them from destroying their on planet threw polluting their atmosphere" Said Plo.
"Sir I'm not picking up any space port's or any kind of advanced technology, it seems the third planet is the only inhabited planet in the system" Continued the trooper.
Wolffe groaned shaking his head, "Its low tech" He said in disbelief the trooper nodded "Yes sir so it seems" Said the trooper.
The bridge door opened to reveal Colonel O'Neill and his team.
Wolffe almost glared at the Earthers.
O'Neill grinned "Oh nice, Saturn" Said O'Neill still grinning, Wolffe almost growled "There's no Space port!" He growled.
O'Neill looked at Wolffe "Pardon?" He asked Wolffe took a step forward, only for Plo placed a large hand on his shoulder.
"We have not detected any Space ports in the system" Said Plo.
"Yeah we don't have any" Said O'Neill.
Wolffe growled "Now you tell us!" He said.
"I'm sure the Colonel would have told us if we had asked" Said Plo assuredly.
O'Neill blinked several times "Yeah, if you guys had mentioned it I would have said" Said O'Neill.
Wolffe grumbled folding his arms, Plo chuckled "You must forgive Wolffe his promotion recently came threw" He said O'Neill raised an eyebrow "Promotion?" He said Plo nodded "Yes Wolffe has now attained the rank of Marshall Commander, I am very proud of him" He said fondly Wolffe went an interesting shad of pink "Sir!" Said Wolffe as he blushed.
Plo chuckled "Colonel it may be prudent for you to contact your people, I'm sure they can see us" Said Plo.
O'Neill nodded "Ok" He said he walked over to the comm.
Earth SGC.
Master Sergeant Walter Harriman glanced at his watch he was off duty in just under hour, the Daedalus had reached the Alpha Site and reported that the planet was seemingly becoming a Gas Giant, and no life was detected, suddenly his phone started ringing he picked after one ring "Sergeant Harriman" He answered.
He automatically picked a pen up, ready to write down anything required.
He nodded as the person on the other end franticly told him that almost a dozen large objects were detected in orbit around Saturn and its many moons.
He jotted down all the details.
He put the phone down and pressed the speaker "General Hammond to Stargate Control please!, General Hammond to Stargate Control please!" Said Harriman.
Barley twenty seconds later the General entered Control "What's happened?" He asked Harriman looked at Hammond before continuing to type at his computer "N.O.R.A.D has picked up a dozen large objects in orbit of Saturn sir" He said as he brought up the info that N.O.R.A.D had just sent him.
Hammond looked at the reading "Any idea who or what they are?" He asked Harriman shook his head "No sir" Said Harriman.
Suddenly he detected a signal "Sir we're receiving a signal" He said Hammond nodded "Can you put it threw?" He asked Harriman nodded "Yes sir" Said Walter as he typed at his keyboard.
A few moments later a voice came of the comm system "This is Colonel Jack O'Neill can any one hear me, Hello?" Said O'Neill, Hammond smiled "General Hammond here, Where have you been Colonel, we thought you all lost" Asked the General.
"Hey General well you know the same old, same old, get taken prisoner by a System Lord wanna be, rescued by potential new allies, we are currently on board one of their ships, that shall we say make very short work of the Goa'uld motherships" He said
"Potential new allies? That's all well an good Colonel but right we are dealing with the potential loss of the Alpha Site" Said Hammond.
"Yeah we have them on board, we arrived just as the planet started breaking up, becoming a Gas Giant" Said O'Neill.
Hammond blinked several times "You have them on board?" He said.
"Yep, We have them on board along with Selmak and Jacob as well as a recently revealed Goa'uld, they would like to meet with our leaders to discus an alliance, they even hint they could help us with our little environmental problems" He said.
Hammond stared at the comm for a few seconds before he spoke again "I'll have to clear it with the President and tell the IOA, can we reach you on this channel?" Asked Hammond, O'Neill confirmed they could.
A few short hours later.
General George Hammond really didn't like dealing with IOA, they had proven more then once they were not capable of making a decision's less they loose power or it goes wrong and they get blamed, they nit picked about everything, they moaned about the budget being a little over, then they moaned if the SGC and its teams only concentrated on certain things and not the things they wanted them to concentrate on i.e. weapons and high level technology that could help them create new weapons to deal with the Goa'uld or even the Wraith in the Pegasus Galaxy.
In front of him at some one from the IOA as well some one from Washington to talk with these new potential allies and most annoying of all was the fact that Senator Kinsley was here, the man was very annoying, it was obvious to most that Kinsley was ambitious, Hammond was sure that the man would do just about anything to gain power and money though Hammond was sure the man would stop short of betraying Earth to the Goa'uld.
"How do we know that these new allies that Colonel O'Neill has found can be trusted not to become as big of a threat as the Goa'uld" Demanded Kinsley, Hammond took a deep breath, he was about to speak when the man from Washington spoke "The President has full confidence in Colonel O'Neill's judgment he is rarely wrong in these matters" He said.
The IOA person nodded in agreement, much to the annoyance of Kinsley.
"If that's all gentlemen I told Colonel I would get back to him shortly" Said Hammond.
Everyone nodded and waited for Hammond to have the call.
"Colonel O'Neill?" Said Hammond.
There was a pause "This is the Triumphant, Colonel O'Neill is on his way" Said a male voice.
"Who am I speaking to right now?" Asked Hammond there was another pause "This is CT-4466 Sir" Said the male voice.
Hammond blinked several time wondering why the man would simple given what he assumed was his regimental number instead of his name.
"What your name son" Asked Hammond there was another long pause.
"I've not chosen my name yet Sir" He said Hammond stared at the comm what had the man meant he had not chosen a name yet.
"Excuse me?" Asked Hammond.
"This is CC-3636 Marshall Commander Wolffe, forgive the Trooper he's still a shiny, Colonel O'Neill is currently on his way from the infirmary" Said a voice that sounded almost the same as the first voice.
"The Infirmly? Has there been an accident?" Asked Hammond.
A grunt of a laugh came of the comm "Only from Major McCoy who was being a di'kut, he ignored his body telling him that his appendix was about to burst, luckily for him he was in our infirmary when it happened, Pain and 2-1B handled it, Pain is preparing the medical report for his medical records" Said Wolffe.
"Pain?" Asked Hammond.
"Yes, he's our Medic, Needles hasn't got his infirmary set up properly, so I hate to think how they would have operated, maybe a vibrio blade, alcohol from the still that no doubt is in the engine room" Chuckled Wolffe.
"Ah here's the Colonel" Said Wolffe.
"Hey what's up?" Came Colonel O'Neill.
"Colonel what happened to Major McCoy?" Asked Hammond.
"He's appendix burst, they had to operate, Pain is scary he actuary growls at people" Said O'Neill Hammond heard "Wolffe" grumble "I told him that".
Hammond blinked several times before he spoke "When will the Major be fit to leave the ship?" He asked.
"Oh Pain kicked him out of the infirmary not long ago, he wanted us all to have cheek ups in case we had anything or they gave us anything that our immune systems couldn't handle" Said O'Neill, Hammond could almost hear the shudder of the fear of a medical check up.
"Are these people willing to come down here so that we may speak face to face?" Asked Hammond.
"Yeah sure their wiling, but I'm thinking Fox and Wolffe won't let their General's down here with out at least a small protection detail each" Said O'Neill.
Hammond heard a Wolffe? Grunt "Damn straight".
"How soon can you and them arrive here?" Asked Hammond.
There was a pause before O'Neill spoke again.
"Two hours tops, that'll give you guys time to prepare the landing strip" Said O'Neill.
"Colonel how big of a protection detail?" Demanded Kinsley, Hammond heard O'Neill groan at the sound of the Senator.
But it was Wolffe who answered "It'll be standard protection detail, six troopers plus an officer" Said Wolffe.
Kinsley wanted to argue but the connection was cut.
Two hours later.
Hammond stood on the landing strip, he waited for SG1 and the people from the Alpha site to land along with the new allies that the team had potentially found, though of course Kinsley had argued about SG1 may have been compromised.
Suddenly an air man called out "Picking up four bogy's! North east!" He yelled.
Hammond turned and looked in the direction at first they were specks but soon they grew bigger, Hammond noticed that, two of the ships looked some kind of helicopter minus the blades on top, flying besides the two odd ships were two more extra weird looking ships, they seemed to have four wings that formed what looked like an X shape, the two escort ship flew over head and seemed to check the parameter, before they flew back to the other two ships, soon all four ships landed.
After a few moments the larger ships opened and SG1 and the Alpha site survivors jumped off of the ship.
Soon they were followed from the other ship by a dozen men in red, grey and white armour followed by men in grey and white armour holding a stretcher between them, followed by a tall being wearing a long brown robe and wearing and mask over his noise as well as eye protection, next came a short green being with pointed ears and a light brown and tan robes.
Hammond was a little shocked to see two beings who were clearly no were close to being human.
"General its good to see you again sir" Said O'Neill with a smile Hammond smiled "Good to have you back SG1, though I thought there was only going to be six men and an officer" Asked Hammond, O'Neill looked at the men " Well there, is each General has got six men and an officer sir, they take protecting their General's very seriously" Said O'Neill.
Hammond blinked several times.
Soon the two robed new comers walked over, Hammond was a little shocked how alien they actually looked he was so used to the aliens actually being human, who ancestors had been taken from Earth thousands of years ago by ether the Goa'uld or by some other alien race wishing to protect a culture from Earth.
"General Hammond?, I am Jedi Master Plo Koon this is my colleague Jedi Master Yaddle" He said.
Hammond blinked once more, he looked at the taller being then at the shorter one both gave him a slight bow.
"Yes, welcome to Earth, though why bring so many men?" He asked Plo chuckled deeply "This was the minimum our commanders were willing to bring down, if they had their way they would have brought the entire fleet with them" Chuckled Plo, he half turned and called over the Commanders, Yaddle nodded and giggled softly.
A few seconds later the two men wearing Kama's marched over in prefect step before coming to attention next to them.
"Sir" Said one of them though to be honest Hammond had no idea which one spoke, other then the colours on the armours they were identical.
"General Hammond may I introduce Marshall Commanders Fox and Wolffe" Said Plo indicating to the pair of them, Hammond was a little embarrassed he had no idea which one was which.
"Commander Fox is Red were as Commander Wolffe is Grey" Said Yaddle a soft smile on her green face as though she had sensed his confusion.
As one the two commanders removed their helmets though in reality that did little to help Hammond, as the two men were near identical save for the scars, Wolffe had a scar across his right eye.
Fox had the almost same like scar over his left eye, plus several other scars all over his face.
"Yeah, their Clones sir" Piped up O'Neill his hands rammed deep into his pockets "Be glad they didn't bring the lizard dog" He said.
Fox looked at O'Neill "She's Massif not a lizard dog" He said.
It seems that O'Neill had mentioned this more then once.
O'Neill shrugged Hammond shook his head it was going to be an interesting few days.
Several days later.
Hammond was still trying to get used to the idea of Clones, sure he had , gotten use to the Asgard, but it seemed harder because these Clone's were Human, and had been sadly breed for war, Hammond was not at all surprised that Washington and the IOA was interested in as many weapons and heavy armour vehicles that these new allies could give them, though that had been stamped on quickly by both the Jedi and the Marshall Commanders who it turned out were in command of whole armies across the galaxy not just on ships or a single planet.
"Sorry but according to Republic Law 0002 no planet shall attain weapons or military tech before they have achieved Class 6 level of development" Stated Fox when the man from Washington pushed.
"Class 6?" Asked the man from the IOA.
"Class 6 development means, left your own solar system and set up a colony or out post" Said Fox the IOA man smiled a little "But we have lift our solar system we have set up a number of out posts" He said almost smugly Fox look at his pad then at the IOA man "According to this you were given the tech by an alien race called the Asgard and some help from the Tok'ra as well what ever you took from these Goa'uld, yet this tech has not been shared with the rest of your world or the other governments of your world, I assume this Stargate facility is not known by the general populace or even other governments other then your allies?" He asked.
"That's right" Said the IOA man, Fox shook his head and put the pad down "Then I'm sorry, but according to the law we can not give you any Military tech until your ENTIRE planet is Class 6" Said Fox.
The IOA man blinked several times, stunned that their request for Tech had been turned down flat without hesitation.
"Mayhaps we can bend the rules a little" Said Plo, Commander Fox looked at him and frowned "I'm sorry sir but the law is very pacific in this matter, they have to be Class 6, the law does not budge on this, its for their own safety as well as any other low tech race's they may come across" Said Fox.
"Agreed Commander we can not give them any tech, but maybe we can give them medical advancement and environmental help in some form" Said Plo.
Fox took a deep breath, he looked at his pad, he shook his head "Sorry sir but we can not give them anything that could adversely affect them, socially, physically or science wise" He said.
"Maybe we can help them in a minor way, nothing that can be turned into a weapon or a narcotic to be abused" Said Yaddle.
Fox looked at her and back at the pad he pressed it a few times, "That can be done as long as we do not give them anything that can be turned into a bio-weapon or turned into a narcotic" Said Fox he continued to look at his pad.
Yaddle nodded "Maybe we can give them Bacta and the list of ingredients required to create Bacta as well advise on cleaning up their environment" She said Fox nodded that by law they could do that.
Plo nodded "We can arrange for a shipment of Bacta, as well a list of the ingredients required as well information on helping their environment recovering " He said.
Hammond blinked several times "Bacta?" He asked.
"A fluid or paste that can be applied to an open wound for minor wounds or injected for serious internal injury's, but also allows for a body to be immersed in to a tank if the wounds are both internal and external" Said Yaddle.
"You can ask Major McCoy, Bacta was used on him after his operation" She continued.
"Would this Republic be willing to help us fight the Goa'uld?" Asked the man Washington "Yes, but we will require as much information on these Goa'uld as you have, so that we may understand this new enemy" Said Plo.
"It maybe better if maybe some of your people were to speak to the Chancellor herself, to explain the threat the Goa'uld pose" Said Yaddle.
Hammond looked at the gathered people, Kinsley was sulking at the fact that he had been turned down for new tech, the IOA man was also sulking that he hadn't convinced the new comers to hand over any of their more powerful toys.
"Oh let me guess who you'll send General" Sneered Kinsley.
"I think Senator, that SG1 is the best suited for this mission, they have the most experience off world" Said the man from Washington, he handed Hammond an envelope "Orders from the President" Said the man he then stood he nodded at the Jedi and the Marshall Commanders he then looked at the Senator and gave a very slight barely there nod before he looked at Hammond "General" He said with a nod.
"Pleasure to have you here Sir" Said Hammond as he stood they shook hands and the Five Star General lift the room followed by his escort.
After a few moments Kinsley left in a huff.
The IOA man stood slowly "I look forward to reading Colonel O'Neill's report upon his return" He said as he took his brief case and left the room.
"I hate dealing with bureaucrats" Growled Fox, next to him sat Wolffe who nodded "I'd rather deal with a certain protocol droid, at least you can turn him off or order him to go away" Said Wolffe
Yaddle giggled and shook her head.
Even Plo chuckled shaking his head.
He looked at Hammond "So you will allow Colonel O'Neill and his team to accompany us to Coruscant" Said Plo.
Hammond looked at Plo, "Yes though I am sure that Doctor Fraser would be very interested in going as well to learn as much as she can about this Bacta" He said.
Yaddle smiled "We will be more then happy to allow her to come" She said with a smile.
Several hours later.
Colonel dumped his gear in his bag, he had to admit he was excited, they would be gone for several weeks to a month or so, once he had stuffed every thing he needed in his bag, he then lift his room after a while he came across Teal'c, at his feet was a duffel bag, soon the pair went in search of Daniel and Sam.
They found Sam first, then they made their way to Daniel's room/office Jack watched as Daniel was cramming god knew what into his already bulging bag, he turned and found a thick book and tried too ram that into the bag Jack doubted if Daniel would even be able to carry the bag down the corridor let alone to the jeep.
"Done yet?" Asked Jack, Daniel looked at him still holding the thick book in his hands "Yeah" Said Daniel as he put the book back down.
Sam smiled and shook her head "Lets ago" He said soon the team made there way to the waiting jeep, Teal'c picked up Daniel's bag after a few short minutes.
Waiting Gunships.
Teal'c put Daniel's bag as well as his own into the waiting Gunship, the bags were then moved by one of the Clone troopers inside.
Janet Fraser was almost vibrating with excitement, at the very idea that she would see brand new medicine she couldn't wait
Soon it was time to leave, she climbed on board the Gunship that would go to the Triumphant, she also had to admit she was a little nervous, she was going to an alien world though she would not be going through the Stargate.
She would be going via ship.
Soon the side door slide closed, Janet took a deep breath as the ship shuddered and lifted off the ground.
Janet felt a jolt, as the ship left the atmosphere, Janet was breathing deeply "Relax Doctor" Said Plo, Janet looked up at the tall alien she smiled up at him and did as he said she knew she was working her self up to hyperventilate.
Several minutes later, the word went out that they were approaching the ship "That was quick?" Said O'Neill, Plo nodded "The Triumphant has moved to your moon, its dark side to avoid being detected by your planet satellites and other surveillance means" Said the tall Jedi Master.
The Gunships landed on the Triumphant, soon the ship jumped back to the rest of the fleet.
After a short while the fleet of ships launched into hyper-space.
Janet was stunned at the sight of the ship full of Clones, she was fascinated, she had a thousand questions, as she was escorted to her quarters, she was promised she would be shown the Infirmly in the morning.
On the bridge.
Plo rubbed his chin, he sighed deeply it seemed that Colonel O'Neill and his team would be introduced to the Clone War sooner then expected.
He gave the order for the course change.
He hoped they arrived before it was too late to save his fellow Jedi and the Clones that survived under them.
Felucia.
Bly really was starting to hate this planet, they had been here for weeks and nothing, then suddenly General "Bloody" Grievous, the head Clanker himself arrives followed close behind by 212th and the 501st it had been a bloody long battle in fact it still was, he had gotten word that General Kenobi was making his way with Cody towards his position as was Commander Tano with Rex.
Though it seemed weird not having General Skywalker not among the 501st any more, as the young General had retired from the field when he had had a mental break down following the death of his mentor Sheev Palpatine, after a short time it had been revealed that a dark presence had been messing with his mind and this dark presence had been the Chancellor himself, they also found a lot of Sith artefacts in his quarters.
Not to mention the chips in their heads, but that was another story, right now his concern was the advancing Battle Droids and Super Battle Droids.
He glanced over to Patches as he attended Aayla's wound, a damn Clanker had gotten a lucky shot.
She was in pain and there wasn't a damn thing he could do for her, other then buy Patches time to attend her wound.
He heard the clunk of the Battle droids feet on the ground as they made their way threw the trees and foliage, the Super Battle Droids making much more noise as they followed.
"We're running low on ammo sir" Said Belt as he loaded his DC-15A Blaster, along with his DC-17 Blaster, Bly's own weapon's was loaded though he too was running low on ammo, Bly sighed deeply he saw Aayla's Light Saber lying in the ground, he picked it up and clipped it on to his utility belt, he would give it back to Aayla when she was safe in the infirmary.
Then he heard them "Roger, Roger" Said the Battle Droids as they made their way threw the clearing.
"You are ordered to surrender, Republic dogs!" Called a Battle Droid, Bly had to buy more time "On who's order Clanker!" Yelled Bly.
"On My Order Clone" Said the hacking voice of Grievous, Bly almost groaned it had to be him that was leading this party of Clanker's, it couldn't be a Tactical Droid or on the rare occasion a braver the normal Neimoidian.
"Well aren't I honoured the head Clanker himself, I'm sorry you wont be getting a new Light Saber to add to your collection today" Called Bly.
"Your Jedi is wounded, I will give her a quick death, of that I can promise you, but you will die slowly if you do not surrender now" Coughed Grievous.
Bly tightened his grip on his DC-17's "Hello there, not interrupting am I?" Said a voice, Bly closed his eyes thanking what ever Gods there were that the red headed bastard had turned up, Grievous turned around and growled "General Kenobi!" Said Grievous.
Bly had to wonder why was it that the General's enemy's had to say his name when they saw him, he had heard from Rex that the loudest of these was the Dathomirian Zabrak called Maul who had been cut in half over ten years before, he just yelled Kenobi's name very loudly.
"Kill them!, Kenobi is mine!" Yelled Grievous as he ignited his four Light Sabres, and jumped at the Jedi Master.
Bly and his troopers along the just arrived squad from the 212th started firing at the Droids.
Bly smirked when one of Grievous's arm was lopped off, and it and the Light Sabre in his hand flew off into the bush's, this seemed to anger the cybernetic warrior who strike out at the Jedi Master.
One of theses haphazard strikes grazed Kenobi's leg, he crumpled to the floor hissing in pain, Grievous chuckled and coughed, as he rotated his remaining arms till all you saw were blue and green circles edging towards Kenobi.
"Not today Grievous!" A young woman's voice called out, Bly blinked as Ashoka Tano jumped at the now tri armed General.
Her two Light Sabre's striking his, close behind her was the 501st squad shooting at the Droids.
A Trooper was dragging Kenobi towards Bly and his men which was the furthest away from the dualists and the droids, for his selfless act he was shot by a Super Battle Droid, who in turn was shot by a dozen Troopers and another Trooper dragged Kenobi to the relevant safety of Bly and his remaining Troopers.
Patches at once began attending to Kenobi's wound though it was not as serious Aayla's.
Bly saw at once that there was a problem, Tano was tiring, "Get ready" Said Cody who had seen it as well Bly nodded "Protect the General's" Said Bly to the few injured men he had in his squad that was still alive.
Then they heard and saw it Tano gave a scream as Grievous stabbed her in the side.
At once Cody and Bly leaped at Grievous in their hands they held their General's Light Sabres, Grievous seemed more then surprised to have a pair of Clone Commander's leaping at him holding blue Light Sabres.
He soon recovered caught the strike's with his Light Sabres.
They were soon joined by Rex, striking at Grievous with Tano's two Light Sabre's along with hitting at the Cyborg they hit at the Droids who stupidly got in the way.
Bly knew they couldn't last long ageist Grievous, but they would buy as much time as they could for their Jedi, Bly smirked as he managed to take one of Grievous's arms, this earn him a kick to the ribs, he went flying back, Bly heard a few ribs break.
Bly took a few pained breaths, before he forced him self to stand and run back tot he fight.
Suddenly they heard Gunships, Grievous coughed as he manged to force the three Clones away, he took a step forward to kill the Clones when he heard a Light Sabre ignite "General Grievous I assume" Said the deep voice of General Plo Koon besides him stood General Yaddle her green Light Sabre ignited,
Grievous yelled and charged Plo, why Bly didn't know, surly he didn't think he could take on the best duellist in the Jedi Order.
Bly smirked as he started taking out the Battle Droids who seemed very confused at the sight before them, their General was fighting two more Jedi and advancing on them was three Clone Troopers who held Light Sabre's.
Bly had to admit it was fun stabbing the Super Battle Droid in the chest with the Light Sabre, Cody took a trio of Battle Droids head's clean off with one swipe of the his Light Sabre.
Rex had some how come across a Dwarf Spider Droid and had cut off its laser cannon noise and was now cutting its legs out from under it before plunging Tano's two blades into its domed head.
There was shooting behind the Droids this was the 104th and the 65th legion taking out the remaining droids.
Bly glanced over to the fight between Grievous, Plo and Yaddle, it was a blur of Light Sabres, Yaddle was bouncing all over the place, off trees and even General Koon.
Yet Grievous could not land a hit on ether of the Master's.
Then suddenly the two Light Sabres pierced Grievous defence, he coughed a few times before he fell back dead.
Bly coughed he wiped his mouth, he ignored the blood, he went over to Aayla he looked at Patches "She need's a Bacta tank but she isn't going to die" He said he pulled out his medical scanner "You've got broken ribs and a puncture lung Commander" Said the medic, Bly shook his head "The Generals are the priority" He said the medic sighed and nodded he fussed over Kenobi who had passed out from the pain or Patches had sedated him to stop him from trying to re-enter the battle most likely the later.
"How's it going Wolffe?" Asked Plo over a comm.
"We've take out most of the droids sir, Fox and his boys managed to take out a Tactical droid with its head intact" Said Wolffe almost grudgingly Plo chuckled "Next time Wolffe" Said Plo.
"Yes sir" Said Wolffe before he cut comm's.
Plo turned and looked at Yaddle "You heard?" He asked Yaddle nodded with a smile "They did well for their first battle" She said proudly.
A few hours later on the Triumphant.
Jack stood at one the observation windows, it had been a surprise to sudden appear in a battle, they saw massive ships pounding equally large ships, they saw the ARC-170's fighting other ships and saw some explode.
The ship had shuddered as every now and then when it was hit, now the battle was over.
Jack and the rest of SG1 followed Janet as her, medical training kicked in and she hurried to the infirmary.
Jack had seen a lot of infirmary's during a number of engagements, they all sounded the same, of men moaning in pain.
He saw a few tubes with men and Aayla Secura in.
He saw Commander Bly being glared at by Pain, it seemed that Bly had a punctured lung as well as a few broken ribs, but the Clone Commander was being stubborn and wanted to make sure his General was alright before he allowed the medic to attend his wounds.
General Plo walked over after he saw to his own injured men "Commander you can see that Knight Secura is safe and is currently in a Bacta tank, you know she would not want you to delay your own medical treatment" He said.
After that Bly allowed the treatment, Jack wondered if Pain was going to pull out the extra large needle.
Janet walked over to a Red and White armoured Clone who had come over from one of General Yaddle's ships to help with the wounded of the 212th and the 501st lucky the injury's to the 104th and the 65th were few and minor.
"Can I help, I'm a Doctor?" Asked Janet the Clone looked up for his Pad he had his helmet on, it was something that Jack noticed about the 65th they rarely took their helmets off in front of others unless they all did at the same time .
He wondered why they did that, when Jack could see the other Clones only wore the "Buckets" as he heard the Clones call the helmets, when they were on duty or going into battle.
"Sure here" He said handing her a devise, he saw her confused look "I forgot your from Earth, here" He said as he took her hand and with the devise still in hand ran it over the wound "It scans the wound, cleans it then heals it" He said as he gave a nod satisfied that the wound was healing well "I thought you used Bacta to heal?" Asked Janet as she saw the burn heal slowly leaving a barely visibly scan.
"We do but Bacta doesn't clear out the dirt and microbe's that can cause infections it just heal's the wound, so we use the medical scanner to clean and remove microbe's that cause infection, if its a minor burn like this we use the scanner to heal it as well, if it was a deeper wound we'd use Bacta" Said the Medic.
As he taped his scanner updating the medical records of the trooper on the bio-bed "All done Trooper, go get your self some new blacks and return to duty" Said the Medic.
The Clone grinned, he was one of Plo's men "Thanks Needles, Doctor" He said as he got off the Bio-bed and walked out.
Janet looked at the scanner, she blinked the burn on the Clones leg had been at least a third decree burn and would back on Earth would have taken a few weeks to heal at least, she hoped that maybe she could convince the Republic to let her have a few of the medical scanners as well.
"You can help me with a few of the others if you like" Said Needles she gave a smile and followed him to a few of the more serious injured Clone's.
Needles looked at the Bio-bed chart, Janet noticed he was very still, yet he was alive "What happened to him" she asked as she felt his pulse, it was weak but there.
"He's a pilot, his fighter got hit by Buzz Droid's, he only just got the buggers off his ship before the hull was compromised, he all but crashed his fighter back into the hanger, his life support had given out a minute or so earlier" Said Needles with a shake of his head "He needs a few hours in a tank, he has some damage to his lungs from the brief exposer to his lungs to the vacuum of space, plus he has several burns over his body from when his fighter crashed" Said Needles he waved over a medical droid who began attaching straps under the injured pilots arms gently before the gears over head activated and the Clone was gently raised off of the bed he was then settled in the tank before his head went under a breather mask was carefully fitted.
Needles pressed the console programming the duration, after a few seconds of monitoring the Clone before he nodded.
Janet had to wonder what other marvels they had, so far a number of the injuries she had seen, would have been more or less career ending back on Earth.
Several days later.
Jack and the SG1 could only stare at the sight in front of them, "How big is the city?" Asked Daniel as he saw Coruscant from orbit "It is the whole Planet" Said Plo who was standing besides them.
Daniel could only stare in shock "The whole planet, is there anything on the planet that's not the city?" Asked Sam.
Plo shook his head "Not really there is only the peak of Umate in Monument Plaza" He said "Damn" Said Jack.
After awhile the SG1 team went down to the surface to meet with the Chancellor, and the Jedi council.
Plo hinted that maybe the SG1 team may like to go to "79's" a Clone bar.
A few days later.
Jack looked at the escort, the man was a Human or what the people here called near Human.
The man was a stick, how the man had survived the politics of this world was a mystery, the man had almost gone white when he was told by O'Neill that they wanted to go to 79's.
"Is there a problem?" Asked O'Neill the man shook his head "No there's problem, its just 79's is a little rough that's all" He said.
Jack grinned he already liked the sound of this place.
The man swallowed and took them to an Air-speeder, soon they were flying threw the city, Daniel was staring at everything at once.
Soon they landed out side a building, on the front of the building hung a sign that showed brightly that this was "79's" Jack could hear pounding music.
The man who was escorting them was called Dill Sranan, he had gone even paler as they all climbed out of the Air-speeder.
Jack could see several drunk Clones singing some song that didn't really have any words.
They entered the bar Jack smiled even wider, the bar was a grunt bar, the kind of place any grunt could recognise at first glance.
All around the bar were groups of Clones, some were blind drunk, some were sporting slight buzz's.
Jack could see that among the Clones were various women, some were Human, some were clearly Alien.
"Colonel!" A Clone yelled, O'Neill looked over to one side, seating at a table sat Wolffe, Fox, Cody, Bly, and Rex plus a few other unknown Clones.
"Hey guy's" Said O'Neill as he walked over to them, he looked at the new Clones "Colonel this is Marshall Commander Gree of the 41st,Marshall Commander Ponds of the 91st, Marshall Commander Neyo of the 92nd, what brings you here Colonel?" Asked Wolffe.
"General Koon mentioned that 79's was a good place to visit" Said O'Neill.
Gree smiled widely "He's right!" He said as he shuffled up to allow O'Neill and his team to sit down, once they were all sat down there was a loud shout O'Neill and the team looked over in the direction of the shout.
Off to the side was a massive man who was doing a push up's, on his back was a young woman, a green Twi'lek, she giggling as the man continued to do push ups, O'Neill looked at Wolffe and the other's "Who's the big guy?" He asked.
"That's Wrecker, he's from Clone Force 99 "The Bad Batch" as they call them selves" Said Rex.
O'Neill did a double take "That's a Clone?" Said Jack as he looked at the 6'6 tall man as he continued to do push ups with the giggling woman on his back.
Rex nodded "Yep, him and his team are Clones that were allowed to have mutations" Said Rex.
"What kind of mutations?" Asked Janet as she sipped a brightly coloured drink that had been handed to her by Gree.
Rex took a sip from his own drink and looked at the loud group, he smirked at them
"Sergeant Hunter has enhanced senses, Crosshair has superior eyesight, he's an elite marksman, he rarely miss's his target, Tech is their computer genius, he can slice any system, and is scary smart, Wrecker, his basically their muscle, he's far stronger then any Clone or most people, they are our Black Ops squad, they get sent behind the lines" Said Rex as he watched the group.
Jack drank his drink it, he blinked a few times it was probably best not to drink to many of them.
"How's Aayla, Kenobi and Ahsoka they ok?" Asked Daniel.
"Their okay they've been transferred to the Jedi Temple to fully recover and rest up, they should be back to their ship's in a few days" Wolffe as he drank his bright blue drink.
Sam was staring at everything, she didn't know what to look at first the varies Clones that were hanging out at the bar or the different kind of aliens that were there or even the tech that was on display via the serving droids that rolled and walked around.
Teal'c just looked chill as always.
Janet took another drink her third "Better take it easy Doctor you're not used to Spotchka" Said Gree with a smile Jack noticed that Gree had the oddest hair do that he has seen on a Clone since they had arrived.
It was shaved apart from two thick strips of hair on top, his armour was white and green, he also had a bandolier across his chest.
Ponds had darker red on his armour, he had a shaved head, Neyo had a tattoo under his left eye, he had it seemed a regulation hair cut, his armour had a different shade of red as well.
Jack noticed that Janet was looking a little flushed, "So how you finding Coruscant Colonel?" Asked Commander Cody.
"Colourful, busy" Said Jack as he sipped his drink.
"How many live here?, do you know" Asked Sam.
Commander Fox rubbed his five o'clock shadow as he thought "I think at last estimate there was about 6 Trillion sentients at any one time here" Said Fox.
Sam blinked several times, "How's that even possible Earth is roughly the same size as Coruscant how can there be 6 Trillion here?" She asked in shock Fox looked at her.
"Earth doesn't have the whole planet covered does it, plus Earth is actually bigger then Coruscant, there are levels here, currently I think there are about 5000 levels, each level has about a few billion life forms at least, though nothing sentient is believed to live down at level 0000, you can go as far as level 500, before you start needing air rebreathers, plus environmental suits, below level 500 it becomes almost toxic down there for most humanoid species, I lost troopers down there more then once" Said Fox as he looked at his drink.
Wolffe clamped a hand over his shoulder "Its over now Vod" Said Wolffe, Fox nodded and threw back his drink.
Sam just sat there in shock.
"Oh no I think she's gone blue screen" Said Jack as he looked at the stunned Sam, the Clones looked at each other a little confused.
"Hey every one its on!" Yelled a Clone.
Every one turned and looked at the massive screen that had descended from the ceiling, Jack was convinced now that this was a Grunt bar they even had the big screen too watch the game on.
"Oh no not again!" Whinged Bly as he covered his face with his hands.
The other Clones in the bar cheered and hollered.
Jack looked at the massive screen, on the screen was a battle, Jack could clearly see Aayla laying on the floor being attended by a medic, while Bly was shooting his blasters at the droids, he could see Kenobi fighting a multi armed droid, he then saw Kenobi go down, only to be replaced by Ahsoka as she hit at the multiarmed droid as well.
Jack saw a Trooper dragging Kenobi toward the medic, only to be shot by a large grey droid.
After a while Ahsoka was hit, this was when Bly, Cody and Rex attacked the multi armed droid, the Clones cheered as Bly sliced off one of the arms, leaving it with only two.
Jack winced as Bly was sent flying into the trees from a powerful kick from the droid.
They were then joined by Plo and Yaddle, while Bly, Rex and Cody attacked the droids with glee it seemed.
A louder cheer went up as two Jedi stabbed the droid at the same time.
"General Grievous falls in battle, Republic citizens cheer at the death of the Separatist General" Read Daniel from the scrawling script at the edge of the screen.
Daniel looked at Bly, Cody and Rex "He wasn't a Droid I thought he was?" aid Daniel.
"No he was a cyborg he used to be a humanoid but an accident destroyed his body only his eyes, brain and a few important organs survived" Said Cody "We just called him a Clanker to annoy him, he slaughtered a lot of our Brothers, he also killed a lot of Jedi, he enjoyed collecting their sabres, he got something out of it by killing a Jedi with a sabre from a Jedi he had killed" Said Cody with a shake of his head.
Jack looked at Janet who a had an almost glazed look "You ok Doc?" He asked Janet blinked very slowly and looked very confused.
Her cheeks were very flushed.
"Doc?" Asked Jack as he peered at her.
"I'm fine!" She suddenly said.
"I don't know why you military types think that I can't handle myself!" She said as she stood, she wobbled, it was only thanks Gree's hands on her waist holding her almost up right, that prevented her from falling face first on to the table.
She half turned and looked down at him "Your very cute you know that don't you?" She said with a slur Gree gave her a massive smile "I Know I'm the cutest one of all" He said giving her a cheeky grin.
Fraser nodded "Yes you are" She said.
Gree smiled widely at the others.
The others just shook their heads at the silliness of the drunk woman's observation, then just as suddenly Janet toppled to the side it was only Gree holding her that stopped her from falling on to the table then on to the floor, she ended up sprawled across his lap.
Gree blinked looking a little shocked to have a passed out woman in his lap.
"Gree why did you give her your Spotchka!" Said Fox as Janet was pulled backup, Gree shrugged "How was I to know that she couldn't handle high end Spotchka" He said as Sam gentile tapped Janet's check, Janet mumbled a song as she sung to her self.
"Ohh she's gonna have a bad head tomorrow" Said Rex.
Wolffe shook his head, he caught sight of Dill Sranan "Oi you get over here!" Shouted Wolffe.
Dill almost jumped out of his skin at Wolffe's yell.
Jack looked at the stick that was Dill, the man had some how gone even paler, he fletched every time a Clone yelled or a drunken one moved to near him.
"Y...Yes how can I help Marshall Commander?" He stuttered.
Wolffe glared "Get an Air-speeder" Ordered Wolffe.
The man couldn't run out of the bar fast enough.
Wolffe shook his head, "Where you guys staying on Coruscant?" Asked Wolffe.
"Um the Federal District, Senate Apartments" Said Jack.
"I'll take you there I know how to get there faster" Said Fox.
After a short time Dill returned.
After a little negotiation the SG1 team had climbed out, Fox nodded when Teal'c with ease lifted a very drunk passed out Janet into his arms who had started mumbled in her self.
Soon they pilled into the air-speeder Fox slipped his helmet back on.
Fox almost growled at Dill when he tried to get in to the drivers side.
Soon they were flying threw the crowded sky's.
Jack was sure that Dill was going to have some kind of heart failure, Jack was even more sure a person was not meant to be that pale.
It was weird hearing horns honking as they zoomed threw the traffic.
Soon they landed the Senate Apartments.
Daniel all but dragged Dill out of the passenger seat, Fox shook his head.
"Have you got your door card's?" He asked Daniel went threw Dill's pockets and found the four cards and handed them to Fox.
Fox nodded and took the cards "Level 300 not bad" He said before he turned and escorted them into the building.
After a short walk they entered the lift, Jack was surprised that the journey was quite short.
The lift door opened and the group lift, "Which one is Doctor Frasers?" Asked Fox "I think 315"Said Sam.
Fox found the right card and led them towards the right door.
"315" He said as he slide the card into the lock, the door slide open, they all walked in Teal'c carried Janet to the bed and laid her in it after Sam pulled the blankets back, Sam then got to work removing Janet's shoes before pulling the blanket up.
Fox then placed a glass of water next to the bed as well as a pain killer on the bed side table.
Soon the group left the room.
Fox went to show them to their room's when suddenly arrogant voice called out "Clone!, What do you think you are doing here!" Yelled a male's voice.
They all turned to see a man wearing blue armour and holding a equally blue helmet under his arm, Fox sighed deeply "Captain Argyus, I was escorting these people to their temporary quarters" He said Jack noticed that Fox's voice had become dull and flat.
"Were you and who are they to even be here in the Senate Apartments Clone?" He asked his voice if possible becoming even more arrogant.
Jack was about to argue with the man when Fox spoke up "They are personnel guests of the Chancellor" Said Fox putting a lot of stress on the word Chancellor, Argyus looked at Fox he raised an eyebrow "Why was I not informed of the Chancellor's guests, as head of Senate security I should be informed" He said sounding very self important.
"With so many of your duty's involving protecting the Senate and the Senators, the Chancellor thought it prudent not to add to your already great burden of responsibility" Said Fox blandly.
Jack looked at the Clone and thought "He's got this ego stroking down to an art" Thought Jack.
Argyus looked at them then back at Fox "They don't seemed dressed as though they are guests of the Chancellor, what's your number Clone so I can confirm this with your superior" He sneered.
There was a pause, for a split second Jack thought Fox was going to punch the S.O.B out.
"CC-1010 Marshall Commander Fox" Said Fox in a very near growl.
Jack had to admit he enjoyed seeing the Captain's face drain of blood, the Captain went to what he thought was a smart attention but even to Jack it look sloppy.
"Marshall Commander I'm sorry, I didn't recognise you sir" Said Argyus.
Jack bite his lip, as Fox just looked at him, for a long time, no doubt making him feel very uncomfortable.
"You may go" Said Fox simply, the Captain left as fast as he could.
Now Jack understood why the 65th rarely took their helmets off in front of non Clones, it was so the could hide the eye rolling when they come across idiots like Argyus.
Fox looked over to Dill, Jack could almost envisage the raised eyebrow.
"Sorry Marshall Commander, I thought Captain Argyus had spoken to you before" Said Dill, Fox continued to look at him.
"He has a dozen times, but before he didn't need to remember my name by law he out ranked me, to him I was another Clone, it's only now that Chancellor Mothma has been voted in and she changed the law having a Marshall Commander out rank a Captain, even Nat-born" He said with a shake of his head.
With that they continued along the corridor, soon another lift opened up to reveal a short blue woman with gold tattoo's on her cheeks and a tall Human male, with a neat goatee.
They turned and saw Fox and smiled at him "Commander Fox!, we had heard that the 65th had returned from deployment, we're glad that you were un-harmed" Said woman softly the man nodded and smiled kindly.
"You may not know this but the news network is a buzz about you and your boys taking out a Tactical droid, with it's head intact not an easy task at the best of time's" Said the tall man, a grin on his face, Jack was sure that Fox was most likely bright pink right now.
"Just doing our duty Senator" He said.
The Senator just grinned he looked at Jack "You must be the Earther's that the Chancellor has been talking about, I'm Senator Bail Organa of Alderaan, my colleague Senator Riyo Chuchi of Pantora" He said the young woman gave a sight bow.
"Colonel Jack O'Neill, Major Sam Carter, Doctor Daniel Jackson and Teal'c" Said O'Neill, Riyo looked at Daniel "A Doctor of what may I ask?" She asked "Archology, I dig up things from the past simply put, plus I speak many languages, I love learning abut new and different cultures" He said.
The two senators smiled "I'm sure you will exposed to many cultures while you are here though I think it's the Mandalorian culture that you will see more then any other one" Said Organa.
Daniel blinked several time his brain spinning wildly at the mention of a new culture, it almost made him dizzy.
Daniel looked at him "Why would you say that" He asked Organa smiled "The Clones have somewhat developed a culture primarily based around their Progenitor's culture, he was a Mandalorian" He said.
"Mandalorian" Said Daniel he looked at Fox then at Organa.
"I'm sure that in time, Doctor Jackson will be introduced to any of the many cultures that are here" Said Chuchi she smiled at them "We'll let you go I'm sure we'll meet in the senate building in the future" Said Chuchi before she and Organa left.
"Mandalorian?" Said Daniel.
Fox sighed "A Warrior culture or it used to be before Clan Kryze took over, their pacifists, their trying to remove all elements of the Warrior culture, no weapons or armour, though the simple truth is when people think of Mandalorian's the first thing they think of is the T-shape on the visor and the fact the Mandalorian's are known across the Galaxy as Warrior's, that's over 10,000 years worth of history" Said Fox.
With a shake of his head he escorted them to their quarters.
Daniel couldn't wait to get his note pad and jot down what he had just learned, first he would have to ask for more info on the Mandalorian's as well as the culture that the Clone had developed based on their progenitor's culture, plus as well info on their progenitor, who was he? why was he cloned?, was he still around?, were just some of his questions, also he wanted know about Senator Organa's culture and Senator Chuchi's as well.
Daniel hoped he had enough note pads.
Wil Daniel have enough note pads, the Republic decides to send a small force (for them) to take on the few System Lords remaining.
I promoted Wolffe as I noticed that he does wear Kama, also I wasn't sure if Fox was a Marshall Commander so I made him one too as well as Ponds.
Cody, Bly, Gree and Neyo are all Marshall Commanders according to Wookieepedia, though Fox isn't mentioned even though he is a Commander, but Wolffe is.
Plus both Ponds and Neyo served in the 91st so I changed it a little Ponds still serves in the 91st under Windu where as Neyo now serves in the 92nd under Stass Allie.
I also had it that Mothma changed the law so that Marshall Commanders out ranked Captains wither they are Clones or not.
I know that Ponds was killed by Aurra Sing but this is my story so it didn't happen.
Please review I write for my own enjoyment, all information was from Wookieepedia or from the too many Star Wars reference books I have.
The Stargate info was from my own memory of the show and the internet.