O'Neill, Landry, Caldwell, and Thor were going over the scans of the island. The Asgard had been able to penetrate the shield the Old One had used to hide their presence on the island. Sixteen life signs and the ascended being were present, eight of those life signs appeared to be located in the cells.
"We can't beam them out?" asked Landry.
"No, we were unable to lock on to them. The shielding is preventing that," replied Thor.
"We are sure this is where the missile that hit the shield came from?" asked Caldwell.
"Yes, the missile entered hyperspace, and appeared just outside the shield," replied Thor.
Larrin and Vinn just then entered the room, "We have eight teams standing by for the assault sir."
"Larrin, your beaming in here. Vinn, your beaming in over here. Remember priority number one is to get our people back, priority number two is to capture Narim, he has been taken by a Goa'uld, we hope to save him, however, if it comes to it, you have permission to shoot to kill," ordered O'Neill.
"Yes sir!" replied Vinn.
"You got it," replied Larrin.
Caldwell spoke up, "We have ten puddle jumpers that will remain cloaked around the island, to provide aerial support if needed."
"The Nemesis will also be cloaked over the island," informed Thor.
"Suit up people we go in 15 minutes," ordered O'Neill.
Carter was becoming more aware of her surroundings as time progressed. Narim entered the room, wearing a hand device.
"She lied to you!" Narim screamed at the Old One.
"That is impossible." replied the Old One.
Avalyn entered the room behind Narim, "Narrim what are you doing with a Goa'uld Hand device?"
Narrim turned on her, "Bow before me as your god! I am Quillon your god!" He raised the hand device and shot energy at Avalyn causing her to scream.
Avalyn quickly became unconscious. Narim turned his attention to Carter.
"Now tell me the frequency of the shield around Atlantis!" ordered Quillon. Carter began to scream as the hand device was used to cause great pain to her.
Teal'c and Ronin we using all their strength at the bars of their cells trying to escape.
At that moment Janet Fraiser appeared next to Carter, "No you won't do this!" With a wave of her hand, Quillon found himself thrown the length of the cells and thrown into an open cell. Janet quickly slammed the door shut behind him.
"You dare to interfere with me!" spoke the Old One.
"Not only me," smiled Janet.
An energy stream erupted from George Hammond who materialized behind the Old One. It threw the Old One several feet. Now he looked at this two assailants. Energy erupted from him at both Hammond and Fraiser, who each were returning their own energy streams.
"Janet?" spoke Carter.
Daniel and Teal'c could not believe their eyes. Fraiser and Hammond were both there attacking the Old One. Blasts were heard from each end of the cell block, as multiple SG teams were entering the cell block, much to their excitement. Jack appeared, he went immediately to Carter to help her out. Larrin and Vinn had team members blowing the cell doors open. Larrin assigned 10 men to guard Narim.
"Everyone out of here now!" ordered O'Neill.
"Jack what about Janet and General Hammond?" shouted Daniel.
"Run now, Daniel, they know what they are doing!" shouted O'Neill.
As soon as each team member stepped outside of the cell block, they were beamed away.
O'Neill was with the rest of SG-1, and PJ-1 were beamed directly to the bridge of a ship they did not recognize.
"Now Thor!" shouted O'Neill. Thor quickly activated the main weapon of the ship. A single beam came from the front of the craft and covered Alcatraz in a brilliant multi-colored light. Suddenly where there once had stood a prison, there was now nothing but smoldering rocks, most showed signs of reaching a molten stage.
"Did we get him?" asked O'Neill.
"There is no sign of the ascended being we had been tracking," replied Thor.
"What about Janet and General Hammond?" asked Jackson.
"We are both just fine Dr. Jackson, thanks to Janus here," replied Hammond, as he along with Fraiser and Janus materialized in front of him.
"Great, I'm still in the virtual reality," cried Carter, before she passed out. O'Neill with Carter was beamed directly to sickbay, where Dr. Beckett was waiting for any and all patients.
Dr. Beckett checked Carter out, other than being exhausted and confused about whether she was in a virtual reality, she was in good health. Fraiser was able to intervene and show Carter she was no longer in a virtual reality.
Once everyone was back on Atlantis, Freya was contacted and two Tok'ra had been sent to remove the Goa'uld from Narim. Narim was now in the medical bay, unconscious while Dr. Beckett fully examined him.
"Carter you do not need to come to this debrief," ordered O'Neill.
"Jack it's OK, I need to understand what all has happened, otherwise I will keep going over everything in my mind," replied Carter.
"OK, I get that," replied O'Neill.
Four hours later, Thor, Landry, Caldwell, Woosley, O'Neill, Teyla, Ronin, Sheppard, Carter, Mitchell, Daniel, Vala, Teal'c, and McKay gathered in the conference room.
"Let us catch you up on exactly what happened. Apolo was destroyed first, we, unfortunately, lost everyone on board. The Asgard Core on board did not recognize the danger in time. The Ares, Hades, Nemesis and Hammond, the core was able to enact safety protocols to beam everyone to safety. McKay was able to make it to the gate and escape to Midway station. Thor enacted a contingency plan here using the nanites, and time dilation fields. A city was built on P4r-169, where the remaining Asgard moved to. They enacted a time dilation field there and lived out little over eleven hundred of our years in a time dilation field building the DN-1103's. They were built and in orbit dealing with the Cla'Tee within 30 minutes. Our new ships were able to handle them effortlessly. Thor and McKay can catch you up on the technology we now have." replied O'Neill, "Thor is please secure this room."
Thor secured the room and then activated the phase shift on the room.
Fraiser, Hammond, and Janus materialized in the room after it had been shifted.
"Could someone please tell us what is going on here?" asked Vala.
"Daniel, do your thing to them please," ordered O'Neill.
"This won't hurt a bit," spoke Daniel. Daniel went around the room, touching Vala, Teal'c, McKay, Teyla, and finally came to Ronin who eyed him skeptically.
"Ronin, what Daniel is doing will protect your mind from the ascended reading it. It's perfectly safe," spoke Sheppard.
"Then why haven't you done it?" asked Ronin,
"He already has, along with the rest of us in here. Your the last one in this room" answered O'Neill.
Daniel touched Ronin's temple and a slight glow.
"Ok, what is going on?" asked Vala.
"Thanks to Janus here I learned that Moros had left me a gift when we were doing that entire Merlin thing. He gave me the ability to block people's minds from being read by ascended beings," answered Daniel.
"I believe Moros saw the day that has now arrived," replied Janus.
"Ok, enough with this, explain it to us," replied Teyla.
"Ok folks. The Ancients and the Alterans were not the first to ascend. In fact, other races far older had done so, and some were born into the ascended realm. They like the home they have there and they don't like having new people arrive and changing things. In the past, they always were strong enough to bully any newly ascended beings around. The tolerated the Ancients and Alterans because in comparison they were few in number compared to them. They have done things here to try and limit the number of ascended beings joining. In fact, as I understand it, they were responsible for Vala and Daniel being detected by the Ori, hoping the Ori would dominate us. Also they were very content with the Goa'uld dominating the galaxy until we kicked their butts. They also caused the genetic mutation that nearly wiped out the Asgard," spoke O'Neill.
"Why didn't the Ancients do something about it?" asked Vala, "I've seen your power surely you could have done something."
"We have done what we could, but we face annihilation if we had done anything more. Our numbers are small in comparison to the Old ones, so we have done what we could," explained Janus.
"Go ahead and explain the part about Earth," spoke O'Neill.
"The greatest secret in this galaxy right now is that the people of Earth, are close to ascension. I don't mean a handful, but the nearly 9 billion people you have here. Please forget what you have read from our database on ascension, it is all wrong. Even if only a billion people here on Earth ascended, then they would outnumber the old ones, would pose a threat to them. However as we have shown with the actions and advances that you have made in the last two years, you can already hurt them," explained Janus.
"Daniel Jackson no longer possesses the knowledge to create the anti-ori weapon," spoke Teal'c.
"I'm not talking about that weapon, and honestly I would not want you to use that again. Today you destroyed an Old One. I can tell you they took notice, and they are now coming for you," replied Janus.
"We have shields, that can protect us from them now. With the information that Janus gave us, we were able to modify our shields, they now will take a significant amount of power from the Old Ones before they can break through," informed Thor.
"So we are at war with these Old Ones? Where does that put the Ancients and Alterans?" asked Ronin.
"You've been at war with the Old Ones for your entire life, you just didn't know about it. You think the wraith just happened? They nudged that into happening," replied Hammond.
"So what was the point in kidnapping us?" asked Carter.
"We figure the Old Ones made a deal with Narim, they give him SG-1 and PJ-1 the lead teams from Atlantis, he extracts the information he needs to destroy Atlantis and Earth. They used Narim, to wipe out the Earth and problem solved. They just didn't count on some of your minds blocked," replied Landry.
"The Old One only worked on each of us for short little while, he kept going at Carter. Why is that?" asked Mitchell.
"I think I know why. He was trying to get as much information from me on Atlantis, and our technology. He was constantly trying to manipulate the reality in my mind. Everything from being a scientist making amazing discoveries, to trying to get the shield frequency from me. Out of everyone I have the most knowledge on all of our technology. He needed to understand it all," answered Carter.
"Why wasn't I told about this and have my mind blocked?" asked McKay, "Seems like the kind of thing that your science department should know."
"Because you would be the closest watched. If your mind closed to them all of sudden they would suspect things. It was for your own protection." replied Caldwell.
"So what do we do now?" asked Sheppard, "I mean they are coming for us, but I don't think we have enough ships to fight all of the ascended without being overwhelmed. Even with the Alterans and Ancients on our side. Am I correct?"
"That would be the correct assessment," replied Ronin.
"Then how do fight this war?" asked Mitchell.
"Earth will not stand alone," replied Thor.
"With the destruction of Alcatraz, the press is having a field day. They have been told 24 hours we will explain everything. President Hayes will address the United Nations, with the ambassadors of the I.O.A. We are going public with the Stargate program. Myself, Thor, Janus, Ray'tac, Freya, and Lya, we will be announcing a new alliance between the six races. It will no longer be under Earth Control alone. Atlantis, Pacifica, and all our resources will be pulled under the new alliance Atlantis Command. Earth will remain the primary location for it. General O'Neill will be leading it," informed Woosly.
"Excuse me?" asked O'Neill.
"We will be holding a number of press conferences, as we release new technology and information out to the world. Everyone seated around this table has a specific task. For those of you who just escaped, I am sorry but we will need to call on you considerably in the coming days," explained Woosley.
Author's Note - I apologize for the long delays between chapters. Life has been extremely hectic. I have chapters 41-50 mapped out, and working on 51-60. I will post the next chapter as soon as I am able. As you can imagine things are about to get very interesting. I am not abandoning this project, but it may be some time in between chapters.
Also the coming chapters you're going to see a more diverse use of people, and some new ones appearing, mainly Stargate Universe's cast.
FYI - If I ever do have to quit, I will make a post here informing you of that.