Stargate Atlantis Trading Grounds I: The Return To La Rochelle
Warnings: I lost another page, so I have to fix this, before I finish the upload right now, as from here it's case of fixing the damage. In the cast, and with it, Nick Ballard makes an appearance, as he sees after 25 years. Daniel found his way back to the command side of the grouping that we're trying to over turn his decision. After Daniel's parents were killed in the accident here now, so from here it changes now.
But if anyone noticed here in the continued references to the movie script of Sphere, the story is going to follow some of it, but changes in other areas. And this story on Sphere, is going to be book 3 of the 6 part series I'm creating. Basing it from now, to end of Season 5, and instead of dead, Daniel's going to be training to be a Q. And like season 6 showed, only 3 of the 22 episodes, has him with the trio, the others.
He's there at the SGA, Daniel's clone, turned twin brother ascended and Daniel is at the SGA, making his powers stronger. As the last episode unlocked his potential completely, though by doing that, everything that came with it. Starts coming out in visions, till they reach my other story, of the Past and Present series. Till the final shot results now here in the 5 years he spent, on board the enterprise, there in Antarctica.
With this series, there's going to be a severe amount of backlash brought on by the traumas of Hathor and Machello. But the connector is going to be Need and Shyla's kingdom, so for Sam and Jack. The events of Hathor and Shyla have stuck, leaving them facing a backlash that has Daniel. And Teal'C, on one side of the line, them on the other, in basing this solely on the book series on the movie, directly after it.
The events are altered to it being civilian ran with military help and the SGA is just that, as Jack and Makepeace get the entirety of the consequences. That resulted in Daniel becoming a pariah now in that book series, only now it's reversed here. So everything negative on Daniel is Jack now, in the SGA and everything Jack is Daniel. In the SGC ops, but it's because of the permanent effects of Hathor's pheromones.
This story and it's followers are going to match the dialog, in the flashback memories, of chapter 4, of the past meets the present series. As it also follows the complete mental breakdowns, of the human half of the team. And Robert Makepeace and Adam Johnson, so the story is going to follow the dialog to the letter exactly. Along with some new dialog that was not in the fast forwarded portion in the flashbacks.
Basing this in real time, rather then the show, of 25 years ago, Antarctica was a neutral zone for research so military research was not allowed out there. And with it, as the chair is considered military technology, it was meant to be last resort. In case of another orbital attack, so the outpost is now trade and exploration. So with this chapter, is the colony/crew is now getting used to being a slightly underwater crew.
As he's getting to work in trading to bring in more improvement for the planet at large now, so a military attack. Just to bring him back to the states, is attempted, is an international. In incidents and enough to get them convicted for kidnapping now, with his clearance. So from here, is he's dropping in on Ry'ac and Drey'auc and before the press conference. And just before his first stop in planets is to Gaea, home of the Nox.
This chapter will finish off this portion of the story-line, as the next two chapters and forward, cover chapter 2, going by the name. And of The Glory Of Tantulus, which covers things, from his going to the races and Tok'ra creation of the treaty. And his return to Shyla, before the following Chapters cover the the breakdowns of the trio and Carter, who's lost her ability to function mentally, out of desperation now.
As the mission was sanctioned, and he was transferred to Landry and the Atlantis team at the time. As Rodney McKay, Cam Mitchell, Vala Mal Doran, Hank Landry, Frank Simmons, Steven Caldwell, John Shepard. And Elizabeth Weir enter the picture here, the story will have Daniel and Teal'C joining their team. As the SGA is founded 5 years early, and moved into the outpost on earth….
Disclaimers: I don't own the shows, the story belongs to everything else belongs to the creators and the movie companies.
Chapter 33: New Futures And Fresh Starts IV: Time's Arrow and Recovery III
"I walked into you, Heather and Maggie first, Jeremy, but there's a piece into why here, but you made the serums. But as the French wizarding Nation, apothecary is actually the Muggleborn pharmacy, John, you're the Potions Master." he said and she and Rickman smiled as she said it for both of them at the news then. "Is this in anyway connected to my current character, or rather Alan and me, our characters now, Harry Potter." she asked and he smiled at her.
"Yeah Maggie, the French Wizarding nation was the first to enter the cosmos, it's 200 years after, Pyrus moved out there now. He killed Ra's minor, took the ship, 1/5 of the current France population, and chose a set planets the size of Jupiter. The Castle so to speak, is a planet full of talking plants, not devils snare, but rather where Howard. Then got his inspiration for Audrey II's current form, they're fine, they just love to tickle people." he said and she started laughing.
"So that means he knows about the bloody snake." Rickman said and he nodded. "Yeah they're the descendants of the members of your version currently, but exactly 701 years after. After Salazar left and locked up the chamber, he knows about that, because the sarcophagus. That kept him alive, but your characters are all real people." he said and they nodded. "Yes, yes of course, we can make a guest star appearance as the British nation." She said, gently smiling.
"That and your previous occupation now, Maggie, remember, Reverend Mother, that's why I needed you here, your character is the leader of the planetary convent. French Catholic, Jeremy's character's the family priest and leader of the Jesuit order." he said and they smiled in affection "Fair enough baby, so once again here I'm head of the convent and Reverend Mother, we met on your arrival, and we bonded instantly now, and Jeremy and I called judgment Day."
"For those brats and she decided to not bother with the mission and her crude language came back to haunt her in the worst way possible, as you translated your vocation to us." she said and he nodded smiling as Shyla's double and her character's father smiled in affection. Now knowing everything seen on the episode was no where close to the truth, as they rewrote the episode. And to show it from his side of the story, knowing why he changed over night at the time now.
As Maggie looked at him then, now seeing here he matched Daniel Radcliffe in personality, if Daniel was what Radcliffe would grown into then it was clear, he was everything. That they remembered, as their characters, in the woman playing Radcliffe's mother now. "There it is right now, alright here, so you look like your father, but have your mother's eyes and hair color." Rickman asked and he nodded to him and she smiled, already seeing it then, he was adorable.
Then, a child, and the young man she could see why her character double adored him so much he was kind, compassionate and courageous. "If you're what Danny grows into, and I can see here that though a wolf, you've got the heart of lion, you're a Gryffindor, through and through." she said and he looked down, smiling and she chuckled. "Like him, I carry all the best attributes to every house at the school, but like him, I would want to stay with you, my adopted grandma."
"As you mean just as much to me, as you mean to him." he said and she smiled in affection and Hammond chuckled then. "I understand baby, but back to being the reverend mother, and in this case, it's Whoopi all over again. And as you did your dissertation on the pre French Revolution, Bastille Day." she said and Irons looked at him then. "That's the time frame, pre Bastille day, so around the time of our movie, when we were getting ready to switch Leo with his kinder."
"In personas, not realizing he's really the son of our best friend, we adopted." he said and Daniel nodded then. "In which case, being your chosen profession, if they were still looking for you, and never found you, it's 'you want to escape with your genes intact. I suggest you leave, right now, because we have a serious loathing for green turned reds and reds. After they kidnapped our baby boy, and that in turn, murdered our king, and our new queen is in mourning here."
"So leave, right now, before we arrest you for trespassing.'." Maggie said sternly and the NID went white in fear then. "Were you reading the entire book series I created since, I separated from the SGC though, Maggie?" he asked and she nodded. "Indeed I was honey, fact of the matter now, I now saw here, that the way they made it sound. Was trying to keep track of you, was like a stalker, do they honestly think we would buy that excuse, 'only trying to protect you'."
"That just how thick do they think we are here exactly, my age group is old enough to be your parent to grandparents here. That we can see the lie for what it is, that do they honestly think we're gullible enough to buy that excuse. But that the little bastards are trying to find you, to do it again." she said and they both went pale. "There you see what I mean by reading the books focused on these missions, you see passed the behavior and see the true agenda right now,"
"But these bastards have been programmed by her, to break me by any means necessary." he said and she nodded sternly. "Then our characters course of action was the correct one, in trying to scare them off the destructive track now. Get them to drop it, but clearly their personal vendetta is stronger then common sense, as after meeting us. And doing it god knows in truth how many times here, any smart person would drop it." Irons said for her and he nodded then.
"Exactly, any smart person." he said and they paled, realizing their decision said stupid and stubborn to drop it in everyway it could be said. "If you tried to scare me off this path of self destruction like this, I would say screw this, after I'm trapped with being half earthling." Chris Benson said sternly and he nodded. "Yeah there, you see what I mean, once you got it redirected back at you, you decided screw this, I'm dropping it right now, I know here now."
"When I'm beaten and I do not want to face being changed fully, so you win right now." he said and Jack swallowed hard, at that remark. "Well I guess your vendetta over ruled self preservation here gentlemen, the vendetta and the programming is too strong to resist. And you self destructed here, we warned you, you let sin dictate your life, it's going to lead here. And straight to the devil, do you even understand what they do to people like yourself here."
"But your actions of not letting this go, say stupid and self destructive in everyway it can be said, as any sane person knows. That after having it turned around back on you, is knowing when to leave it alone." Maggie said sternly and they started shaking in fear then at the remark, now realizing that they should have dropped it when they had the chance too. But their pride and anger caused their self destruction 100x's now, and Irons crossed his arms sternly then
And as he looked between them. "Issues in the 7 deadly sins, the most destructive are anger, lust, greed and pride, simple common sense. But this made clear you never paid close attention in Sunday school, but he certainly had and I'm Catholic. That you should have heeded our lessons more closely, before you self destructed here right now. And looks to me, this child had, and he's so much like my baby co-star it's ridiculous." Maggie said and he swallowed hard.
"No kidding and you should never have screwed with me, it's judgement day now, gentlemen." Irons added sternly to Jack. "Well guys, but I mean here, the intercourse elixir, is permanent, and the Barons are sex driven maniacs in human form. You remember eternal damnation, well this is a fate worse then death, because it's like Andy and his drugging Mariel Hemingway. Once he did it, he regretted it immediately, as your body, once they get their arms around you now."
"If you drank it in death, your body never stops, and as, in death, it's the panic attack of your worst nightmares here." he said and her eyes widened in horror. "Oh dear god, alright point taken baby, you convinced me here, but in life is however many men they had done. The number is done to them, in life, but to touch a child like yourself and in many ways. You're still a baby here, there is no forgiveness now." she said sternly and Irons nodded sternly in shock.
"I was borderline 33 at the time, but to your doubles, I'm still half that and these bastards, excuse me here, are 9 years older, so 9 trapped in a going on 33 year old body." he said and Irons crossed his arms as the older man said it gently then. "It's fine son, you can get away with that, them not so much and now that I know you bonded that tightly to me, it's a case of. Now, that the damn thing never destroyed the good in me, but made it stronger here in truth.
"But I love children and you created your own place, in our hearts, I adopted you and I'm crazy about you as well, just like Maggie, Jeremy, George and the quartet are now. But there it is, but the least you could do, after I nursed you back to health, after they, possibly. In truth broke your back, is by you giving me my last happy days with you, who I considered a son." George Touliatos said gently and the woman playing Shyla nodded then, smiling in agreement then.
"Agreed, and that's a good reason for those gold bracelets on their wrists, they violated the contract we helped you create and now they're under arrest for it." Maggie said sternly then and Irons nodded in stern agreement. "Good first impression, and I showed you the proper respect and etiquette, you also kept your earthly ties longer then the others. But the time frame is you're still doing the festival." he said and they nodded with a chuckle as Irons said to that.
"Let me take a guess here, but the entire ring loves children, so though you're adults, we see you as children, but you made a perfect first impression on us. And instead of seeing you as an adult, we saw you as half your age." he said and Daniel nodded. "Yeah children are beyond precious to your doubles, that baby in an adult body is quite adorable to them. But I figured if you're like this with my age group, never send a teenage cadet there." he said and they smiled.
"After realizing that Philippe imprinted on me, the realization hit, if you're like this with my age group, never let a real teenager come there, or you're never letting go." he said and she chuckled and nodded. "Well I'm about to be surrounded by children in the movie series, but year one is growing pains, knowing the type of things my baby co-stars get into. In the next movie, and after 2 years of this, instead of entering or leaving their teenage, I see the baby I know."
"Standing there, my dear baby boy as I practically raised them myself, once I became their head of house, but as he said this can't be good, if I had to talk to him with the first day. And of just entering their advanced testing years beginning and knowing his biological father. Now, was a magical policeman, and with him Gary, therefore he wanted to be one. But my job to protect that child, he's my favorite student now, in truth." She said and Hammond started laughing.
"Well you and Alan, once you get into character, you can't be separated from said." he said and she nodded. "Point taken here, after I told Robin the truth, but I've lost count to many how many teenagers and preteens I worked with here. But when I look at you I see Danny himself, a kind, endearing child, that jumped into my heart. I adore you, you are my favorite grandson, I could never be more proud of you baby." she said and he smiled gently then in humility then.
"Danny's actually what he was like as a child, but the quartet are actually Matty, Emma, Rupert and Danny as children, beyond close and a quartet. So your students are my gang kids in everything that counts, but as adults here now. But Danny, my Danny's penchant for selfless acts resulted in making him well known, he saved and touched so many lives. That the world would become a darker place without him." Dillon said and she nodded with a gentle smile.
"Yeah alright so 17th century dress code, I'm back to wearing the robes of a Jesuit priest, as in the 20th century here, those robes out of the church now, becoming a black suit. And with a red or black shirt, indicating the level we were at and I'm a high priest of the jesuits here. But in matters of holy ceremony, such as an exorcism, I'm wearing the ritual robes now. Of a priest about to conduct a ceremony now." he said and Daniel nodded and he smiled gently then.
"Aramis was actually what you looked like on the movie, as you're entering your 60's at the moment, but you, John. And Gabriel are the oldest of the quartet, Aramis is no older then we are, by that I mean my age group. So the ages are in reverse here as a result, Aramis's twin brother is the leader of Paris now. The planetary names are the cities of France, so Toulouse, Calais, Paris, Gascony and so on." he said and Irons nodded, knowing immediately then.
In what he meant. "And there we go, the only priest of out of the 4 of us, and John sees me in character again, heads are going to roll next." He said and they nodded. "You can say that again, we heard the entire conversation, so same set of clothes. Only we're planetary court leaders, but though at the end of the courtline, I'm a pharmacist here. But yeah I can make that believable now, so we understand both French and English here too." they heard in response.
"Yeah, you're the apothecary John, said clothes are the really ones you to the ball at the time, but out of the office. That you dressed in what you were wearing when traveling around the country, these court meetings are once every 3 months. The day I arrived, I met all of you at once, Nichole and Collette, who's her lady in waiting." Daniel said and he nodded. "I guessed we hit it off and decided you're too young for us, them just right?" Gabriel Byrne said to him then.
"Yeah any sane man would drop it after meeting you guys, but your entire kingdom, was that you still saw us as children, and baby in adult body, as you see us, being our parents age group. Was actually quite adorable, and I connected to you immediately, about 4 days later, after I called in and brought you and Heather to Earth, to meet the brass, my father and the secretary." he said and they nodded. "You hit the medical Jackpot." their young protege said to him then.
And he nodded smiling and the quartet chuckled and nodded. "In English that stands for the pharmacy." Byrne said and Jack went white in fear, never knowing that whatsoever. "You're, and you're also going to love this guys, the French wizarding nation." Daniel said and they nodded. "Full or normal raised?" Gerard Depardieu asked and he nodded. "Muggleborn raised, you're descended from the original grouping, nearly 300 years after the quartet." he said to him then.
"And there's where I come into it, so we're, as our characters, directly descended from the quartet that created my school in the book series." She said and he nodded. "The muggleborns are actually Ancient descent, so far more powerful and by the sound of it. You're a half blood, Maggie, so you knew everything and you're going to love this, but your character is real. Just hiding in plain sight here, you're in year 2, as your character." he said and she smiled at that.
"You tell us everything?" Maggie asked and he nodded. "Yeah and the decision was joint, that you decided, if they're going their training on me. What happens when I use my own against them, and after they committed espionage and then put the blame on me exactly." he said and Gerard Depardieu said it firmly. "That we become a real soldier's worst nightmare, as the 17th version of the Directorate-General for External Security." he said sternly and the trio nodded.
"Gerard, lose the beard for this one, you targeted Jack after hearing what I told you." he said and the man nodded sternly to him. "The book is solely focused on me, so not knowing what was going on, on his end here, was, after he told Garry to shut up. You and Anna knew you had the right men, and Nicole's lady in waiting chose Johnson, but in Carter's case here. After not listening to my warning of, 'don't come crying to me, if something happens and I'm not there."
"Just to stop it, as you deliberately ignored my rules and never checked it first', Aramis, Leo's double, chose her." he said and the quartet nodded sternly. "Yeah I'd say if they realized John created that changing elixir, turning them into one of us over night. I would consider here, not to pursue the subject and just leave it alone now, but the fact they hadn't. Is now enough to have them confined, as the programming is too strong." George Kennedy said sternly to this.
"Yeah well you're playing Heather's family doctor and we walked right into each other, as I was arriving, but seeing a gentle paternal look in your eyes, I knew your double imprinted on me." he said and Kennedy nodded in understanding, smiling. "Well I'm the right age for it, but if Wizards still look no older then 65 to 70, with their magic keeping them young. Then I'm really 74, looking like I'm 58 years old still, which is my age as of right now." he said and he nodded.
And Irons nodded in stern agreement to his opinion. "Serves him right, you gave them a chance to leave it alone escape with what's left of their genes intact. But no, they're still trying to destroy you, and John's concoction of invulnerability serum. Said made to look like apple cider was what saved your life, but any sane man that considered. They're half dead already in the earth genomes, would decide to just drop it and leave it alone already." Gerard said to this then.
"Agreed and that's just the point, any sane man would see, after they lost half their genomes, that pursuing this is suicide, in the earth genomes, you're still just a child in many ways. Though 34 years old you still look like you're 20 years old here, so we arrived directly after you did. If Anna's playing the Grand Duchess, it just resulted here, in these idiots dealing with the clock. Running out, as she and I dumped poppy serum into the pills as well once we drugged them."
"But there are two things that can kill you if you don't control it." John Malkovich said sternly and he nodded. "Leo, you're one of the courts, but your planet is…" He started to say and Daniel nodded gently to him. "Gascony." he said and the young actor nodded gently. "I just need the added 8 years to match me to your age, but clearly here marriage is the scariest possibility. To a woman that does not wish to give up the adrenaline filled job here, this program gives off."
"But honestly here right now, that how stupid can you really be by not paying attention, if they told your replacement to shut up, we just found our targets against you." he said sternly and Irons nodded then. "There's the key point, any sane man." Daniel said and they all paled, realizing the fact they hadn't dropped it, said insane and dangerous in everyway it could be said. "Yeah now you see it, any sane man, knowing he wants to keep his sanity and genes intact."
"Would drop it after they lost their earth genomes, would decide 'screw this, I would rather live to see another earth day, then die as a refugee on the planet who's leader chose me.'." Leo said and Jack went white. "Like Maggie said, to us you're still a baby, a child, how could they do something this cruel to a baby, well there is no coming back from that decision. And what I decided on, in judgement day, was a fate well deserved here now." Irons said sternly to that.
As Jack swallowed hard in fear. "Jeremy, just pretend you're Aramis again after you decided to switch Leo's alter ego with his kind persona now." Sanderson said and he nodded. "I never tolerated what the bastards do or what Leo decided, as I was the secret general. Of the Jesuit Order, in the movie, but this crossed the line, I'm not committing suicide. To suit his needs, but going after Judy, and killing Peter in order to do so, I had it, and John with me at the time."
"Gabe didn't know the truth, Leo's kind persona was his alter ego's twin brother and now that the entire legion heard that truth, from Gabe. We were ending this once and for all, but that's on Earth, but 17th century France, in intergalactic form now. But this, this is too easy, I love children and to me, you are still a child, with you being close to half my age here. My character, if he's no older then the generals, all to easy." he said and Daniel nodded to confirm that gently.
"I can take a wild guess here, you told that to us and Carmen, and we saw you looking like you were about to throw up, as you came to out of said vision of the past." Leary said and he nodded, as the quartet, Wisden, Teague and Leary exchanged disgusted looks then. "Knowing in life, what I did was a mere mercy to them after what they did to me, in death now. The Baron that chooses them is never going to stop." he said and Teague nodded sternly to the news.
"Okay so Barons, as in B.A.R.O.N.S., not B.A.R.R.E.N.S.." She said and he nodded to her. "Bad spelling here, you get it confused with the aqueducts where the sewer lines. In truth, connects to the drainage out in the woods here." Lou said and she and Irons nodded with a bemused look at that remark gently. "And knowing that we can replicate it to the very last detail, as we play back the episode from your point of view helps here." She said and he nodded as Irons said it.
"As for these Barons, are you telling me that the 10 that became demons transformed into the Barons on the video game?" he said carefully and he nodded. "The Ori have that power, in fact I saw the transformation via a beyond strong vision, I felt like I got shot back 45 million years. When they were still in the Ateran home galaxy ascended above their home planet." he said and he nodded in understanding. "Talk about an out of body experience there." he said to that news.
"So you, or Jeremy and I, as our characters, decided in showing them what it feels like, I went to one for each man they had done, and till their minds snapped." she said sternly and he nodded. "You both had Maggie, in fact George and you, it was combined decision, but the courts arrived directly after I arrived there. So I could explain it once and you were all furious at this, but we got to know each other and I adore you." he said and she nodded smiling gently then.
And Irons hugged him and he closed his eyes and she nodded. "Yes, he's completely traumatized, but laughter is a good remedy, that's what the serum does. Makes you extra sensitive to touch, but he's been spending weeks getting to know us. And we adopted him as our own, so if they expected to use George against him is too late. As you had the engagement arranged when he was with us, so he's protected from their idea." she said to him then gently.
"And not only am I once again playing a priest, I'm possibly the leader of the king's musketeers, before he turns the family business over to the princess now." he said and Daniel nodded to confirm that thought and he smiled then. "Did you tell my double?" he asked and he nodded. "I made a perfect first impression on you guys, George and Heather now, you three. The family doctor and the captain of the treeple guard adopted me." he said and he nodded smiling then.
"Yeah I can make this beyond convincing, but as you said, anything these beyond paranoid types don't understand, they immediately assume it's a threat. And to follow up your opinion, they sent Carmen, Dennis, Robert, Marshal, Eric, Heather, Colin and Brent. And you all made a perfect impression with us, and started jumping from planet to planet in the ring. So Gerard, John, Gabe and Leo himself, but we're cloning Leo adding the same 10 years to his appearance."
"We have on you, so his clones are your age now, and while you're on Earth, they walked onto John's planet and Makepeace and his unit walked onto the woman playing Anne's planet. Anna, that's it, Brad, we can use Anna, she can do Nichole and Judy can play Collette now. So that's all of us, but I'm leader as both the head of the Jesuit order on George's planet now. I'm also the head of the security, while someone else plays Heather's captain." he said and Cooper nodded.
"Danny, so how long had you been jumping around, knowing they were looking for you in the Cartouche exactly, before you walked into us, Heather and George." he asked and he smiled. "I been on the go 3 weeks, and after repeated pit stops, you decided to yank the medical card. After you saw my body frame and Philippe, the doctor, drugged me with the medical arrest serum, which meant vacation on a timer now." he said and Maggie Smith nodded gently then.
"Well though 34, you still look half that baby, so it's easy to see why our parental instincts went crazy when it comes to you, been on the go so long, we had to nurse you back to health." she said and Irons smiled as he brushed Shanks's bangs back gently and he looked down. Smiling and she chuckled with a smile of affection. "Well all I see is Danny Radcliffe at his current age, you're adorable." she said smiling and Hammond chuckled, knowing that's how their version.
Saw him, he created a place in their hearts and could come and go as he pleased on their country ring now. "Trust me he has that effect on everyone our age he comes into contact with at the moment here, I think your character is no older then we are, Jeremy." he said and he nodded. "Makes perfect sense, I'm not entirely retired as a professional soldier in protection duty, but priest first, then security guard." he said with a chuckle and Landry started laughing.
"Well sacrifice one to save billions is an honorable trait, but the fact that they're willing to kill billions to save their charge, I call that cold blooded genocide. Because there are other ways to save that child then letting a scientist enemy go right now. Did anyone consider the sarcophagus to change her back here now, or was it because of Jolinar's opinion. And on the sarcophagus you decided not to bother, you're not destroying her soul, just to save her life here now, in truth."
"And let that tramp go." she said sternly and Jack swallowed hard in fear, realizing they couldn't be more disgusted with his and Sam's decision, then they were right now. "I said the same thing, we can find another way to save her life, but it's the same crap every time. But if not us, then Cronus, so long as she's not loose everyone is safe, but they would let the enemy go. Destroy billions of lives to save a child, that's cold blooded murder." he said and they all paled.
"You intended to have her arrested then and there, if she assaulted any of the duo, us or Teal'C to sabotage the treaty!" Arthur Simms said smiling and he nodded. "Yep, but the next best thing is having Cronus holding her hostage, protecting Earth and billions. So anything happens to him, we have a shot here now to have a renegade in our clutches. For science experimentation at the moment." he said and Teal'C and Hammond smiled sternly then and Jack swallowed hard then.
"But of course to save me, they decide to let her go, well how does it feel now, you let the enemy go, in order to save someone you love. You ever stop to think that use of a sarcophagus, could undo the tampering with my genomes." Colleen Rennison said and they and Janet started shaking in fear, realizing how badly they were screwed up, so close. But in the end they let her leave in order to save their charge, which was nothing short of genocide in the eyes of the brass.
"Now that's primitive you let the real enemy go to save someone you love, and keep experimenting on a friend, well the reverse just happened: they let her go. So you, as the supposedly compassionate Stargate Command, could experiment, on a peer and friend. And you wonder why we keep calling you primitive, this is entirely barbaric." Omac said sternly and they swallowed hard in fear, knowing how screwed they really were for that decision making then.
"And by the way, the sarcophagus could undo the splicing that she had done to her body, but with you believing every word Jolinar put in your hand, that labeled that one out." Yosuf said and she swallowed hard in fear, realizing she screwed up another chance to save her life. After Hathor destroyed the sarcophagus they had in their grasp. "You know your pride and arrogance keeps resulting in a '1 step forward, 4 steps back' approach." Hammond said sternly to this.
And she swallowed hard in fear, she had the sarcophagus in her clutches, but her idiocy just destroyed that option and repeatedly and all because she wanted to be right. Even though Daniel showed again and again the exposure after only sum number of times. Was only temporary, afterwards they would be back to being themselves again after that. "Talk about 20/20 hindsight, they never see this till it's already too late." Dan Shea said and he nodded.
"Examining old missions that never came to fruitation at the time and why you were irritated with O'Neill, here's the reason why, he started seeing Greece as back luck after Artemis now." Davis said and Anderson covered his eyes, now realizing how serious here his arrogance was, to result in why both Shanks and Davis were getting irritated at him. "I knew what your orders were about to become and they walked into a hot zone." he said and Freeman nodded sternly.
"I just became a werewolf in terms, and it took me to subdue her, but she got struck harder then I had, but it's because I'm already a werewolf at heart here. But heart of a wolf, literally and now I am a wolf, but I look like a real one, my powers. They were a family trait, and John just undid the lock fully on my powers now." Daniel said and he nodded as they remembered seeing him. "And the only ones that knew this are the adopted family." Davis said to that gently.
"What do you look like as a Cub exactly?" he added and a flash appeared as they saw his wolf sitting there as a Cub, no older then 4 months old and Hoffman chuckled. "Yeah like Brandon said, you're adorable." Carmen said and he nodded. "Yeah just imagine if dad had those powers for real, and they ended up in me at the moment here." He said and the quintet exchanged looks. "Yeah just corralling you so you can rest is a problem." Freeman said to that, bemused.
"So wolf injured and the only way to calm said Cub was stroking your fur, if you gone Cub right there on the planet now." he said and he nodded. "Yeah I'm a young wolf, and papa grabbed me, before I phased right then as I hunted her." he said and Davis nodded, smiling then. "Though you're a wolf, you're a cat person, as evidenced by Denali now, yeah okay here, so our beginning, before I dropped the barriers and went father with you." he said and Daniel nodded.
"The reason for the loss of your temper, was SG-8, the second in a command, dropped a 75lb barbell on his team mate and broke his ankle. So the team was on mission stand down for 6 months, so bringing back Catherine, your irritation at his irresponsibility. Of putting his own team mate in the hospital got transferred to me, before you calmed down. As I explained who the explorer back in '46 was, and it turned out to be Ernest." he said and Davis nodded gently.
"Guys, think over the events of what happened after the camera turned off, starting with the first, Greece in one area is lush trees and rivers, in the ruins on Earth. So why are we dressed in forest green and let alone you know how cold it gets on the said planet. If it's the middle of winter it's freezing at night, but dressed in that type of clothing now. You're, once you succumb to the whatever in alien technology, and running like I was you're drenched in sweat here."
"You know your own episode acting, so focus on the premise, what could the titles possibly mean and they were thinking I was out of my mind, and Teal'C and I are SGA. So you knew they tried this, then their records are sealed, as you decided this vendetta against me. Any more stunts, you were taking Cassie away from them and she was going to a new mentally strong. In families now, and as Dustin said here is their vendetta is stronger then common sense now."
"I just told you beforehand I was quitting and you granted me, after the instance on that episode, time off, before I could leave, came Linea." Daniel said and he smiled and nodded. "In this case now, was I knew that he would destroy her mind and Teryl chose to stick to blood tests. You as your age group had a way I preferred, I'm old school psychiatric areas, and attacking someone for throwing their big mistake in their face is considered mind games here."
"So 3 strikes and then there's I got McKenzie, Kinsey and now Maybourne on my case, simply because I made them look like idiots, so all in all, there is no reason to return." he said to that. "Well now I got a reason for my acting out season 5, they chose their psychosis on you over me, why should I see passed the persona they are for what they're trying to convey, only you, Chris and Don were straight with me, you set aside this vendetta." Colleen said to this then sternly.
"And you know I never meant it, I was acting now, you're still my baby girl, never forget that." he said and she nodded, as Shanks hugged her and she smiled. "Agreed and again, you honestly think, now, or sum years into the future, I would ever allow you to let her go, save me. At the expect of sum number billions of people, you're out of your minds if you think that." she said and the trio all paled at that, realizing if they made that choice, they were screwed now.
"Well my life to the hundred of billions in the galaxy, I choose said billions, don't let her go." she said and Davis and Judge nodded sternly. "Agreed, when we have a real one on hand, they let them go, but they want to experiment on a friend?" Davis said and Jack went white in fear, realizing he was dead. "That how do you like it when you have us turn your tendencies back on you, let the real one go, and experiment on a friend." Judge said and he went white as a ghost.
Now realizing how screwed they were, they would let a real one go even if it meant killing billions, and using a friend as the lab rat. To everyone else, now that they used Sam as one, they could understand how it felt to be labrat, because they preferred. Now to be evil and not show compassion now. "We let Nirrti go, and started experimenting on Carter, how does it feel, we let the real one go to use the friend for the lab rat." Hammond said sternly and they paled.
Now realizing they had her in their grasp, but they let her go and decided to use Sam as their test subject, and Jack started shaking violently in fear. "I think that sums up things now, the so called compassionate SGC members let the real one go. And chose to use one of their own, as the lab rat now, in the very same way that the NID do to our own. If that's not an homage and nothing ever is now, why else here now in truth, do the Races call us primitives now, in truth."
"The very act of letting the real one in enemies go, and you decide to experiment on one of our own now, so now what, Colonel. You think this is barbaric, well you did it first now, and now George follows your example and uses Carter as the lab rat." Clinton said and McKenzie swallowed hard in fear. "I decided anymore stunts after George and Heather, then I was taking Colleen away from them and putting her in foster care till they were all thinking straight now
"Our conversation, they already, out of their own self absorbed behavior, forgot your birthday, though Chris, your family gang, Brent and I came for that, and these two. Proved once again their own safety matters more then your happiness, and what would make you happy. Well that's, now that ship is up and running, you being transferred and full time anthropology." Davis said and as he looked at the titles as he thought over the first one with Apophis on it then.
"Hold on, I recognize this, Politics, Within The Serpents Grasp, Within The Serpents Lair, and the entire storyline. Is named after the trip to the alternate reality, Forever In A Day, some of these are coming off the current show. As name titles, like there is connection between them, but There, But For The Grace Of God?" Davis said slowly, reading the next chapters, in that book, as he heard the dialog, as it started flashing up his exchange with Ronny Cox then.
And he straightened. "The book is the entirety of the finale of season 1 and the opening of season 2, before we met Jolinar and she lead us to the Tok'ra, as Carmen comes into it now. He just named it after his trip to that reality!" he said and they nodded in shock. "Alright now the titles make sense, it's so simple, Broca's Backfire, that's The Broca Divide. Thor's Thunder that's the ending of Thor's Hammer, Tantalus's Siren, That's The Torment Of Tantalus."
"The Chosen, and there's an enlarged picture of Susanne here, that's the ending of Hathor, and as you said there's a barring R rated area here. Cor'ai's Deliberations, that's after realizing there are lasting side effects, after his yelling at me during our conversation. You knew better then to do that, but then I'm your father so that makes sense here at the moment. Their remark on us being too young, and you, and the SGA, just rephrased that as not so young."
"And me with you, we're not quite so young, that we don't know or understand that violence is not always the answer now." Davis said smiling, in understanding at the title and Bridges chuckled and nodded. "Nice choice Michael, in names." he said and Shanks smiled, at the title, realizing his character created a background of furthered adventures for them. So they could understand their characters better, or that Anderson's character had a lot of R rated material.
In his background that he tried to hide, it wasn't till Hathor came into it, that it got unlocked fully. "The rest of these are key missions leading up to now, like this one, The Curse Of The Bend'ii now is making like Sarek now, only the plant triggers those symptoms. In my case as you said, it took me longer to cave in, after I found the root system for it now, One False Step. The Chosen's Legacy, this says I found the GDO in my gear bag, that's Into The Fire, now."
"Legacy's Backlash, the aftermath matches exactly what happened to you, after we saved me from the symbiote killer, that's Machello's weaponry. While Barque of Heaven is the follow up to Deadman's Switch and Forever In A Day and Past And Present." Judge said smiling in realization to the names of each of the episodes now and the cast smiled. "The events where you could have saved billions of lives, and from the sadistic tyranny of the NID now in truth."
"That's it, you just prove you're above it all, by way of seeing this with a clear head, you are an Angel in human form and the kindest, most courageous man there is. Your compassion shows severely here, if anything you could the most powerful adult Jedi there is. By doing the impossible and saving billions." Jackson said, smiling at that. "And you call yourselves, selfless and compassionate, you show a sadistic streak, only a Sith shows." Hayden said with a growl.
At her and Jack and they both went white at the ridicule then. "Thank you son, that's the whole point here, but killing one, to save billions, by killing a goa'uld renegade mad scientist. This was our chance to destroy her, once and for all, and they say you shouldn't let your emotions. And for the host, or target of the persecution of the said goa'uld cloud your judgement here. They do that all the time here now." Hammond said sternly and they and Janet went pale in fear then.
"Just what do you think Cass' would do in your position, if you were dying from a retrovirus?" Daniel asked and they all went white in fear. "She…, she would find another way to save us." Janet said shaking in fear and and Hammond nodded. "Even if that means a sarcophagus or just being blended with a symbiote, she would figure out a way to say you. As would we, but millions of lives could be saved by sacrificing freedom for justice." Hammond said sternly to her.
"Hayden here's where your decision, and your alter ego's betrayal came into it, Natalie, or the entire Jedi Order, what would you do exactly?" he asked and he crossed his arms. "If Ewan, as Obi-wan, granted me permission to study the restricted session I could search the archives. And till I found what I was looking for, as I swore to the agreement, in exchange of my spying. And on Ian, I want access to the archives." he said and Jackson and Ewan nodded in approval.
"That's you as Anakin, Vader weighed her life over our own, and it was no contest, to hell with the Jedi order, your family came first." Ewan said sternly and Hayden nodded. "There's the comparison, they weighed Cassandra's life over the lives of 600 sextillion people. There was no contest, they were letting her go now." he said and they nodded in shocked disgust. As Hammond looked between the trio sternly as he said it then, as Daniel crossed his arms then.
"Well for the greater good, sacrifices must be made, that sacrifice is the destruction of a friendship, if you'd bother to let this go over Hathor, you would not be in prison right now." Hammond said and Jack swallowed hard as he felt his heart shatter into a million pieces, realizing his pride was his own self destruction and it cost him everything now. "Danny is selfless and this is what being a Jedi is all about, young lady." Liam said sternly and she swallowed hard.
"I take it you meant that, the three of us, Sam and Yoda are the perfect example of what not to do now, and as you learn from my mistakes and you become the greatest Jedi in history." Lloyd's young adult double said and he nodded. "You're what I was like as a teenager." he said and he chuckled and nodded smiling. "So 16 years younger and playing a just turned 20 year old, that just because, we're not honestly selfish enough to destroy the galaxy to save them."
"Our loved one, that they see us as crazy and brainwashed, no their circuits are crossed, you're what I grow into, if I stayed away from Ian right now." He said and Ewan and Jackson nodded. "I'm too much like Liam as it is, but she's seeing my idealistic attitude as a flaw, when, to our mentors, the trio, it's a strength, if you became a Jedi healer. You've turned into the strongest and most powerful Jedi in the galaxy now." he said and Hayden nodded as Ewan smiled gently.
"Then she's out of her damned mind, we're not destroying the entire galaxy to save someone we love here, aside from that, they're complete idiots. If they were smart, they'd have dropped this and accepted you win now, but no, their pride over ruled common sense. And they're trapped in a hospital now, as they get labeled as everything they say about you." Jackson said sternly and she swallowed hard, realizing he was getting into character as Mace Windu now finally then.
"Yeah I prefer my nickname in your voice Daniel, you call me Cass'." She said and he smiled as he hugged her tightly and Hammond chuckled. "That's short for your name of Cassandra, but as we said, your name is from Greek mythology, as an oracle in Greek mythology." he said and she nodded gently as Freeman checked the stories and Sutherland nodded. "Oh good grief, seasons, 1,2, and 3 of SG-1, in your point of view." Hoffman said, reading the names then to get it.
And of each book and he nodded as Anderson nodded, knowing this was pre his breakdown then. "Which explains this Mat character you just mentioned, she's Hathor's predecessor, but a real one, not a queen, his mistress." Shanks said and he and Teal'C both nodded gently to him. "We managed to kill her, so it's safe to train there in the obstacle course and we're telling them we're still his owned, we just practice to stay loyal." he said and Anderson nodded gently then.
To his character upgrade. "You named the book after the entire cliffhanger, one after another?" Tapping said and he nodded. "Yeah I did, though you and I knew each other, I knew leaving you and Teryl alone with him and Steven, your minds were going to snap. And your's does after Leo decided to drug you with the changing elixir, after you blew Gary off. Information dad doesn't need, for the Intel he and the others do, and George and Heather now, dad based it now."
"And on my background information now, I accepted being adopted by his doctor, and he and George were crazy about me. So to them now, was they, the Brass were basing this entirely on my experience in their ring, and Marshal. And Dennis were along for the ride, because your helping in the mines, was part of the new contract. And by-laws I created that George helped me out with." he said and they nodded. "Been a while: a year." Teague said to the news then.
"I'm your boss, and I just made full colonel and Marshal is playing my companion Colonel." Leary said and he nodded. "Captain actually with us being Starfleet officers now." he said and he nodded. "Right, Starfleet is based on the Navy, and your uncle, though our rank, is our parents age group, so we follow orders here." Marshal said and he nodded gently. "I wouldn't call this living on the sea, as it's so dark, I feel like I'm looking out over the galactic sea here."
"But it's peaceful and quiet, much better then being in a constant war zone, so we maybe playing spec ops officers, but we decided. We're not doing that anymore, after his encounter with the blackhole, I quit being involved. And with the cartouche directory and decided I wanted to be an anthropologist and we became the best of friends. And you took my opinion a bit too seriously, since asking me on his team in Desert Storm." Leary said and he nodded, smiling.
"You're Andy Dixon, your counterpart is Chris Dixon, so with both of you having the same first name you went by your middle names of Andrew and Christopher now. So David Andrew Dixon, Captain David A. Dixon and we call you Andy for short." he said and Leary nodded, smiling. "Anthropology is my vice, you like my way of being your team leader and I can take care of you, and you see me as big brother now, your protector, in this book, and we work well together."
"Yeah okay, so you suggested me, Rob and Marshal, and we brought along Heather, Brent, Colin, Dave, Carmen as our commander and Adam and half of his unit came along as well. Adam is my counterpart Dixon now." he said and Daniel nodded and Teague chuckled and nodded. "The last time I saw him, Amanda and Chris, let alone Don was this book, there's 'it's been a while'. And they stripped that memory from the girls minds." he said and Jack paled, knowing he was dead.
"Yeah there's the 'been a while', and I wasn't with 6, but rather we, Dennis and I, were doing another country at the moment and decided to tell dad, we're stopping off for a dig. Before we came home and he told you that and just as 10 is on their first mission, the star implodes." he said and he nodded in aggravation at the news. "And there's why I'm pissed off, thinking I lost you for good and instead, I come get you only 8 months after." Leary said and Teague nodded.
"Yeah we can make this believable now, after you made sure that the trio were not there, you reported in and alerted to us, you found a treasure trove here, drugs, medical research. And growing supplies the total came to exactly 7.5 nonillion. And the technology itself, to the same number so all in all, we had a treasure trove of 15 nonillion, and that saved your career. As the threat to drop this came out now, as I came with you." Wisden said and Leary smiled then.
"Three piece episode, so the first half, is the ending of Enigma, the second half, is how I created the trap to have these guys branded as permanent traitors, my direct opinion on Carter's. In truth, self righteous behavior and Jeffrey, Sean, Ian and Susan let alone the trio and Doug. Now make their appearance and the third now, is where we meet Denali and Starfleet is born. And created and as we separate into two sides here." he said and the man nodded gently to him.
"In truth you're at the right age here now, Jack's also '57." he said and Leary nodded in understanding. "Making me exactly my character age, while Marshal is 3 years older." he said and Daniel nodded. "So I'm 46 years old and a skilled soldier, but my version is I'm a spec ops, but he's in the military intelligence services now." Teague said and he nodded. "Retired and you're an anthropologist now, man, so skilled anthropology." he said and he smiled at that.
"Issues in the job, and you needed someone to put this in a way they understand and you did just that by doing Cool J's explanation to the physics expert, to me." he said and Landry started laughing at that remark. "She's good no doubts there, but when under a time constraint, we don't have time for physics lessons and need the bottom line. Before it destroys the window and it had, when they're on the line." Dan Shea, who was playing Siler, said and Teague nodded.
"Well trust me here, I understand these things, but after living in habitats most of my life, it's physics is a matter that needs less long winded explanations. And cut to the bottom line, you get it too under the level, the habitat could flood, if over, it's going to explode." he said and Shea nodded in understanding then. "And the same is said for the sub right now, but our shifts were normal, till we end up on this scenario." Barnes said and he nodded smiling in agreement.
"Not Quite So Young, that's our entrance point, how I came into your life now, I knew about what they did to you, and went big brother with you, you being 12 years younger. But as I said, he got hit, he went down and I made a judgement call to save the rest of the team. But this is the same thing, the very same thing, on Earth or not, it's the same god damn thing. And until he gets that through his head, he's going to recover here now." Teague said and he nodded.
"You're my boss, but I'm a going on 35 year old version of you Marshal." he said and he nodded sternly. "And there's why he hates you, it's because you're me, you're me in everything that counts that the episode. This one in chapter 4) which is A Matter Of Time when you came to get us, is our brotherly bonds, it's my job to protect you, like you protect us now." he said and Daniel nodded smiling and the man smiled in affection then and Jack went white in fear at that.
"But yeah that was a facade, in the opening when I came to get you, and the bomb gets dropped here now, I knew you, but you knew Dennis and I. We were on mission, before going to help out with a anthropology dig, Barnes was doing now." he said and they nodded. "Actually he erased the memory of her and Frasier meeting you, and the attitude problem. He realized he was screwed, which is why he was irritated Uncle Jerry sent you." he said and Teague nodded.
"Well that makes perfect sense, with you becoming a prophet, instead of a cliffhanger, we get the entire book all at once as that does a repeat of the episodes now. Only in SAO format at the moment at the moment, only now our attitudes make more sense. We both know, if you're right and we're screwed, as my mind snapped as I don't want to get married yet. And I got chosen by a man looking like a 12 year older version of Leo DiCaprio." Tapping said, reading the book.
"So we're just starting to get used to each other and after a heart to heart talk between you and me, the second comes out between you and Amanda next. And just being on that planet the curse of Artemis is kicking in you and Amanda are becoming hunting hounds. While we're the stags, till you forcibly broke the curse by this poisoned version of holly. Which is like Arsenic, and enough the guy that's playing Esios, decided wolf on you." Judge said and he nodded then.
"Yeah and hence my version of Dustin's report being born now, but to give the entire thing and this is what the report is meant for, Harrison, you better listen up. This is connected to Kali and the Thuggee in your prequel to the Ark." He said and Harrison nodded, smiling. 'Missions in anthropology, entering a new state of development change from variation to variation. But must be met with extreme caution, because, food and drink can be drugged.'."
"Or worse, the culture is hiding some dangerous secret behind it now, that beneath that kind persona, conceals a threat. To both your soul and sanity, and entering combat situations, the stress reaction from what is to come, must be prepared. As having seen a variety of stress combat situations in the past, subjects must not think the job is useless, or the damage to the person's sanity will be the inevitable result.'."
"While officers attempting deep sea exploration, must train and understand the rigors of living underwater. As astronauts do being in the space station, the job comes with severe physical and emotional. Stress, and in order to stay strong, must train in the conditions set to the circumstances. Extraction teams dealing with traumatizing combat situations, must be prepared, for severe psychological side effects.'."
"Of that environment, as stress reaction when of studying that possibility has not been sufficiently studied. And can not be entirely predicted, in advance, but the most likely consequence, of contact, is absolute terror.'." he read out and Davis nodded smiling. "Perfect I needed that, and that connects to George and Heather as well and if these guys would pay attention, it wouldn't keeping ending in absolute terror." he said and Hoffman chuckled.
"Yeah I agree with that at the moment, but then why not, I'm a master at fear and performance, so what could possibly be scarier then walking into a bloodbath. The answer: it's getting chosen for a life of luxury and someone wanting you to quit your addiction. To them that's the scariest thing imaginable and you like it there, because you prefer the anthropology. Good food, great lodging and all the anthropology you can dine on, there's your paradise." he said with a smile.
"Yeah that episode, a repeat of Need from your point of view, now having the truth come out, she tried to stall to get him arrested, but the idea backfired. He met George and Heather already at the time now." Davis said firmly, understanding immediately why he, himself, was looking at Anderson and Tapping with a wary look on his face, after he recovered to return to duty. "Yeah in the time it took for me to reach my fill of their attitudes now, I became a prophet here."
"And Hanno he basically made my point, Teal'C changed and became my loyal bodyguard, we shared a bond, and he decided. In total honesty, Jack was only his unstable team leader, Dad was his commander, followed by Landry and Picard. And now Jacob got added to the list and of Earthly commanders, next to Bra'tac, Jack's still under her influence." he said and he nodded. "So this was pre our psychotic breaks, before last week." Tapping said and he nodded gently.
"Yeah after you create these, you can retire and relax after this now." he said and they nodded. "Good enough, we'll do that then, we can stay on to do the SAO versions of these episodes and then stay on call for cameos, otherwise, we're taking other show or movie postings." Rothery here said and Anderson and Tapping nodded in agreement to her opinion. "Hey did you have the A-teams involved in this, after he did his wrist, again." Davis asked and he nodded to him then.
"Issues in the autobiography now, the story playback, so with the activation of the tv show, we're doing a playback, getting everyone caught up, and these stories are part of the tv show." he said and Wright smiled. "So the SG-1 phase prologue, before the show fully activates, awesome, everyone is going to love that." Cooper said and Hoffman nodded with a chuckle, as Daniel placed said books with the show title on the table and the cast nodded smiling then.
"Exactly, this catch on previously on Stargate SG-1 backlogs never provide enough information, so these stories provide the intel needed. To what happened on that mission and the aftermath to that mission, and with it, we're the. And in truth, the opening to the Star Trek shows, it's our ship is the first Generation Enterprise D crew. The cast is the secondary as we start rounding up our version of their crew, as we're here on Earth." he said and Hoffman smiled at the idea.
"So instead of flashbacks through each episode now, we're seeing said book series come to life now, the way we would the Harry Potter series. You gave our descriptions in these books, and now here we are in the flesh now finally. And the guys, Darlene, Renee, Ronee and I did a few cameos throughout that portion, strike 3. That was just last week, and clearly their vendetta won out over common sense now, to drop it here." he said and Daniel nodded smiling then.
"The books are the missions between episode, so this is post Enemy Within and Emancipation, the first of the Greek planets. That we went to, and this underlines Dustin's remark perfectly, so reflect on when you guys, as us started out. We're still adjusting to being together, and you forgot the last time you both saw me. That was in 1973, so 16 became 39 years old, 10 became 35, 8 and 6 became 32 and 30 years old." he said and they all nodded.
"So the pilot episode was Sacrifice Moon, and we're playing back a mission nobody expected to see, at the moment." Anderson said and he nodded. "Would this explain why I was limping when we were on Simarka?" he added and Daniel and Teal'C both nodded. "Yes, you tore a muscle in your ankle, but refusing to let it rest, it started getting so bad now. That you were laid up two months and then Simarka." Hammond said and he nodded in understanding then to the news.