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Ancients
of the Past
by
AJ
Marks
Part 2
Athena and Artemis walked along the small lake that had been near the
campsite. So far they had spent most of
their time consoling Artemis' sister Aphrodite.
The young woman was taking the loss of her mother and father harder than
the other siblings. Athena reasoned it
was because the other three were too busy to think about it. Ares, Apollo and Artemis were warriors where
their younger sister was a pure woman who loved cook and tell stories. She was not one to fight and they all knew
that. Athena would tell the others that
Aphrodite got all of their mother's genes that they did not get.
"Its pretty here," Athena said glancing up at the three
moons that were in orbit around the planet.
At the moment all three were in view with different phases.
Artemis glanced up and noticed what Athena was talking about. So far they had been there for a week and
nothing much had happened. Most of the
time had been spent making sure that everything was taken care of for basic
needs. The shelters had been put up and
they were now beginning to scavenge for food in the local area. There was some game in the area that was
edible and actually quite good but no other intelligent life had been
encountered.
A sudden sound made them both look over toward the stargate. They could see it beginning to turn around as
chevrons activated. The sudden whoosh
indicated that gateway had been established.
Artemis could see people beginning to run around and taking up defensive
positions as she and Athena also began to run towards the gate drawing their
own weapons as they went.
Apollo and Ares quickly scrambled around as the alarm came through
the camp. The warriors quickly set up
their positions hoping that it was not their enemies that would come
through. Both of their hearts sank at
the sounds of a battle being waged. As
they approached they noticed what appeared to armored men firing with
staffs. Their firepower was good but not
very accurate, or as good as their enemies.
Within a few minutes the fight was over and just a few of the
attackers were left, one looked to be the leader of the group. Ares walked over to the man who looked
defiant the entire time. Ares wanted
nothing more than to smack the look off his face but they needed information.
"What happened," Ares asked looking around noticing that
a couple of warriors were down, but not nearly as many as the attackers.
"They came through the gate and opened fire," Artemis
said walking up to her brother.
Ares turned around and faced the man who appeared to be in
charge. "Who are you and why did
you attack us," he asked.
"I am first prime, Re'lee to my Lord Thoth. We know all about you and your lies
Tau'ri," the man said and Ares could hear the venom in the man's words.
"I don't know who Thoth is, or the Tau'ri," Ares said
watching as the man looked in shock at him.
"Thoth is a god," the man said. "And he will destroy you if you don't
join with him."
"Well from what I see," Ares said picking up the staff
weapon and examining it. "We don't
have much to be worried about then."
"My god has powerful allies that will crush you," Re'lee
relied not backing down from his stance.
"Perhaps I should talk with him then," Ares said more to
Apollo who was standing next to him than anyone else.
"I'm not sure about that brother," Apollo said from
where he was standing and listening to the conversation. "It doesn't feel right."
Ares was about to argue when Aphrodite chimed in that she thought
Apollo was right. He glanced over to
look at his younger sister. She had a
look on her face that reminded him of their mother Hera and knew that Apollo
was right this time. He could feel it as
well.
"You're right brother, thanks," Ares said before
motioning the guards to take the attackers away until such time they could
figure out what to do with them.
"There will be more," Athena said from where she had
been standing.
"I know," Ares said.
"Perhaps we should try and find these Tau'ri," Apollo
said.
"Perhaps, but if they are at war with this Thoth then they
would know how to fight using stargates," Ares said thinking about the
problem.
"They would have a cover on their stargate against
invaders," Apollo said.
"Perhaps we should start thinking of something similar,"
Artemis said as she watched a couple of the warriors being helped by the med
teams.
"That's a good idea, we'll have to ask our scientists about
it," Ares said. "For the
moment we should increase the guards around the gate and set up some heavy
firepower as well."
"I'll get on it," Apollo said walking off towards the
warriors who were busy working to give the new orders.
"Come on, lets get some sleep and we'll figure out what to do
in the morning," Ares said.
Daniel sat down at the table where Jonas and Sam were both
sitting. So far the work aboard the
mysterious ship had been slow. There had
been a few symbols that they could understand, but so far nothing that made a
break through for them. There had bits and pieces that they had deciphered
along with the help of the Asguard but they appeared to still be in the dark as
well.
"Daniel, what if these aren't pictographs like the Goa'uld
use but more like the letters our two civilizations use," Jonas said as he
stared at a page.
"If that's the case it might take us years to learn it, maybe
even lifetimes," Sam said as she glanced at the paper full of symbols.
Daniel rubbed his eyes as he placed another book on the
table. He had been looking over the
legends of the civilization that had recently been destroyed trying to see if
anything could help out there as well.
So far the legends were quite different to anything else on any other
planet. It was full of Greek gods and
goddesses, not Egyptian, but that did not make much sense to him. Even the legends were different.
As Daniel flipped though the book Jonas suddenly reached across
the table to grab the book. Both Sam and
Daniel were startled by his actions.
Jonas quickly flipped through the book until he came to the page that
had first caught his attention.
"This, what is this," Jonas said quickly turning the
book back around to face Daniel.
"Ah, let's see," Daniel said glancing at the spot where
Jonas was pointing. Daniel quickly read
thought the part for understanding.
"Well if I understand it correctly, it’s the name of the man who
lead a group of about 200 to some place.
I haven't been able to make out where."
"Because that is the same symbols that are on the outside of
this ship," Jonas replied.
"That might prove interesting," Daniel said.
"Daniel, what is the legend that goes with," Sam asked.
"Well according to the legend, this man and several others,
called warriors, fought a war against a mortal enemy. Their enemy was an evolved life form that
became more robotic. They fought for
over a thousand years. That's when one
of the warriors betrayed them. All of
the warriors were killed except for him.
He gathered up the survivors and fled for whatever this is," Daniel
said pointing to the word.
"Interesting story, perhaps we should use this along with
this ships computer to see if we can find anything," Sam said.
"It’s worth a shot, maybe we can see what Teal'c thinks after
his next mission," Daniel said.
Teal'c had returned back to Stargate command for a new mission that Jack
wanted him to head up.
"Sounds good," Sam said.
"I'll let Jack know next time I talk with him.
"Report," the figure on the pedestal said to the two
figures below it.
"Our attacks have met very little resistance," one of
them said.
"Excellent, proceed into the galaxy," the leader said.
"By your command," the figure said and left the room.
Jack was immediately walking to the command room when he heard the
announcement of an unscheduled incoming wormhole. He had just shown up when the gate
activated. He quickly glanced down to
the officer on duty.
"No IDC sir," the reply came.
Jack took a breath before saying what needed to be said. "Close the iris," he said.
They all watched as the iris closed off the gate blocking anyone
from coming through. Jack watched as he
waited to see what was going to happen when it started to go off the scale.
"Multiple hits," the officer said watching the screen as
it registered hit after hit.
"Is there anything," Jack asked hoping that he was not
making a mistake in not opening the iris.
"Negative sir, nothing on any channel, except for one but it
is unknown to us," the officer said.
"Could it be Goa'uld," Jack asked hoping that they would
say yes.
"Unknown, it might be but we just don't know," the reply
came.
Jack stood there hoping that he was not making the mistake that
could have cost lives of innocent people.
There had been a lot of hits on the iris and each one could have been a
child or other civilian fleeing the Goa’uld.
He was just about to order the iris open when the hits on the iris stopped. The gate was still active and continued to be
until it shut down five minutes later.
"How many hits," Jack asked hoping that it was not too
high.
"Fifty hits exactly," the officer replied.
"Fifty," Jack replied wanting to make sure that they had
gotten the count right.
"Yes sir," the man replied.
"That is not normal for a Goa'uld operation," Teal'c
said from where he was standing.
"No, and they know that they can't get through our
iris," Jack said.
"Perhaps it is the new system lord Skyleon," Teal'c
said.
"Could be," Jack said.
"If it was then he's dumber than we thought."
"Perhaps," Teal'c said but he did not sound convinced
about that.
"All right, now that the excitement is over lets get back to
work everyone," Jack said as he headed towards his office with Teal'c
following him.
Ares headed to the tent where they were holding their
prisoners. He wanted to see what they
knew and what type of new danger they might be facing. So far there were several ideas that were
going through his head. From the short
conversation they had the previous night Ares was sure that there was nothing
the two of them would agree on.
Walking into the tent he noticed the three men were tied up with
armed guards standing around them. Ares
noticed that the leader was still looking quite defiant despite his current
conditions.
"Hello again Re'lee, now who is this Thoth," Ares asked
hoping that he might get more information this time.
"He will be your god soon enough," the man replied. "When we fail to return he will return
with more
"We're not your enemy, there is one that is really your
enemy, they should be feared," Ares said.
"My god fears no one," Re'lee replied. "No one can defeat them."
"They are human," Ares asked making the man look at him
strangely.
"They taken human hosts which is a privilege," Re'lee
replied.
"Then they will die," Ares said. "My enemy only lives for one thing now,
the complete destruction of the human race."
"Then let them come, we have faced bigger threats and
defeated them," Re'lee replied.
"Not like them," Ares said sadly.
"Chevron seven engaged and locked," the voice said as
the stargate engaged and a wormhole was established. There were the normal sounds as the alarm was
going on whenever a wormhole was activated.
"Send through the mouse," Jack said from where he was
standing watching everything. It felt a
bit different to be the one giving orders.
General Hammond had done it for so long that he had gotten used to the
man doing it.
"Probe off," the reply came from the officer in charge
of it.
Jack glanced at the stargate room where Teal'c and his team were
waiting then back down to the screen to see what the probe would see. The images that came back were not what he
was expecting to see. There was a group
that he had never seen before and it reminded him of a group of
Apollo walked over to the tent where he knew Ares was talking to
the prisoners when a warrior came running up to him. He knew by the man's face that it was
important.
"Commander, the stargate is activating," he said in a
huff.
"Alert everyone, form a perimeter around the gate, no one
gets through at all costs," Apollo said as the man quickly ran back with
his orders shouting as he went. Apollo
quickly ran into the tent to alert his brother.
He noticed that Ares and the prisoners were just standing there
looking at each other. Ares glanced at
him and knew that something was wrong already.
"We have visitors coming again," Apollo said watching as
a smirk appeared on Re'lee's face.
"See my god is coming," he said to the two brothers.
"We better give them a warm welcome then," Ares said
with a smile that made Re'lee involuntarily move back from him.
"Let's go," Apollo said knowing that his brother had a
way with looks.
Arriving at the gate they noticed that it was just
activating. They raised their weapons
ready for anything that might come through.
What did come through was not quite what they were expecting. It was a robot of some sort, but unlike anything
their enemy had ever sent against them.
This one had wheels, an arm, and looked more like a probe than anything
else.
"Everyone hold positions," Ares yelled out. There was something about it that did not
give off a potential of danger even though he was not ready to discount that
yet.
He watched it for a second while what appeared to be a camera
rotated on the robot. It had not moved
since it had come through the gate and stopped about ten feet away. A glance around and Ares noticed that all of
the warriors were a bit nervous about what was happening. He knew that he was not to comfortable with
this situation either.
"I'm going to see what it is," Apollo said whispering to
Ares. Ares glanced at his brother not
sure if this was the right thing to do or not but watched as his brother
approached the thing.
"This is General Jack O’Neill United States military," a
voice said from the 'robot'. Apollo had
quickly drawn his weapon when he first heard the voice. A glanced back at his brother and he saw that
everyone else had their weapons pointed at the thing as well.
"This is Commander Apollo, what are you," Apollo replied
to the voice.
"I'm human," the reply came a couple of seconds
later. "What are you?"
"I'm commander of the Colonial warriors," Apollo replied
wondering about what was going on. By
then his brother had joined him and they were looking over the vehicle. "What is this?"
"The machine is a scout to make sure that the atmosphere is
breathable and nothing hostile is waiting for us on the other side of the
stargate," the voice identified as Jack said.
"I see, so this isn't how you look,” Ares said making sure.
"Right, we look very much like you," the voice said
again.
"We would like to meet with you," Apollo said.
"I can arrange it, in two hours we'll send a four man team to
meet with you," the voice said.
"Two hours," Apollo asked.
"Before you day is out," the voice said.
"We'll be waiting," Apollo said and with that the gate
shut down. Apollo turned to Ares after
thinking for a second. "We might
have made some allies."
"Perhaps, they might even know this Tau'ri," Ares said
watching as Apollo nodded his head.
Jack sat at his desk looking over the morning reports when a knock
came on his door. He looked up and saw
someone that he would have rather not seen the rest of his life. It was the Vice-President Robert Kinsey.
"Well, to what do I owe the honor," Jack said a bit
sarcastically to the man.
"I’d do well enough to stay civil general," Robert said
using the word general like a slang term.
"I've noticed that a new report has come across my desk."
Jack leaned back in his chair as he could only think of one thing
that Vice-President Robert Kinsey could be thinking of, the spaceship that had
been discovered.
"Let me guess, the spaceship," Jack said looking right
into the man's eyes.
"I can't believe you brought the Asguard in on this. It would be something that we could have used
in case they became hostile against us Jack.
Instead you hand them the biggest single ship on the planet," the
Vice-President said. "Now you've endangered everyone on this planet, along
with a new threat that you seem to want to find."
"We are not trying to find him. We're trying to gather intelligence on
him. There is a difference," Jack
said. "But then I guess you're plan
is to shoot first ask questions later."
"No, I wouldn't have opened this Pandora’s box in the first
place," Robert said voicing his opinion as he always did about the
stargate project.
"But it’s already open," Jack said. The two men did not like each other and Jack
was wondering what was going on this time.
"Yes and now instead of keeping things that might help us to
ourselves, you go and give things to people like the Asguard," Robert
said.
"And how would you have proposed to get it out, dig it out
and keep it a secret," Jack replied.
"At least it would have remained here," the reply came
back.
"And we don't have the knowledge to decipher what was written
on it, even the Asguard don't know," Jack told him. "It would probably take us decades to
figure it out."
"Next time, you ask me first or you'll regret it Jack,"
Robert said walking out of the office.
"Yes sir," Jack replied a bit sarcastically to the man's
retreating back.
Jonas walked into the office where Jack was sitting and the man
did not look to happy. He had seen
another man walk by and had a feeling that he was bad news. Jonas pushed that thought out of him mind and
concentrated on why he was there. He had
been called back to stargate command by Jack himself. He was wondering what was going on and figure
he would wait until Jack told him.
"Have a seat Jonas," Jack said from where he was
sitting. He was looking over some papers
then looked back up to Jonas.
Jonas was sure that he was ordering him back to him home. He was not ready to leave Stargate Command. Some of the most exciting moments of his life
had happened here. He also liked to
think of Jack, Sam, Daniel and Teal'c as friends.
"I want you to go on a mission with Teal'c, it’s a diplomatic
mission," Jack said.
"Why me sir," Jonas replied not sure about it. "I’m not even from Earth."
"I want a scientific person on this mission, and I can't take
Sam and Daniel away from their mission, so you're the next best one," Jack
said relaying his trust in Jonas' intelligence.
"Also Corporal John Jaktan will be in charge of negations for
Earth, you and Teal'c are there for your experience."
"Then I'll go Jack," Jonas replied.
"Good, you leave in a few minutes," Jack said watching
as Jonas got up and walked out of the room headed to the gate room.
Jonas walked in just in time for the seventh chevron to
activate. The stargate came to life.
"You are just in time Jonas Quinn," Teal'c said to him.
"Sorry, didn't have much time to get ready for this
mission," Jonas replied.
"Nonetheless you did make it," Teal'c said as they
walked to the gate. They then walked
through it headed for a diplomatic mission.
Apollo and Ares stood waiting for the arrival of the new
comers. They had watched as the gate
activated then a few moments later a man wearing green with a shoulder weapon,
a cap and sunglasses walked through the gate.
There was a bit of a surprise but the man was not even carried it in a
hostile way. He was followed by another
two men dressed the same. It was the
last man that caught his attention. He
had a symbol on his forehead that resembled the previous men who had come
through and attacked them.
"What god do you serve," Apollo asked approaching the
man with the symbol on his head.
"I serve no false gods," the man replied with
convection.
"Then you don't serve Thoth," Apollo asked.
"Thoth is a false god, a Goa'uld and is a parasite," the
man replied. The tone in the man's voice
said everything for Ares. He knew that
this man did not work for Thoth.
"Come, there is much to discuss," Ares said motioning
for the four men to walk with him.
"There is much we must tell each other, but first my name is Ares,
and this is my brother Apollo."
"I'm Corporal Jaktan, this is Private Terrison, and the other
two with me are Jonas Quinn and Teal'c," the man said to Ares.
"Is this where you're from," Jonas said as he looked
around the area. He was feeling that the
group felt more like refugees than a home world.
"No, we were forced to leave our home world after we were
defeated by our enemies," Ares said.
"Have you heard of someone called Skyleons," Teal'c
asked wondering if they had been attacked by the same system lord as the other
planet, or if they were part of that planet.
"Skyleons, I've never heard of anyone by that name," Apollo
said though he was thinking about something when he heard that name. He and
Ares shared a brief look that Teal'c did not miss.
"Have you heard the word Skyleon before," Teal'c asked.
"No, I don't think so," Apollo said again. They walked to the tent where everything had
been set up for a formal meeting between the two groups.
Jonas walked along with the group eyeing the technology along with
the people. They seemed to be very
advanced and their weapons were more advanced than anything Jonas had ever
seen. As they approached the tent he
noticed a small red haired woman who smiled at the group of children around
her. He could hear laughter coming from
the area but it was her that attracted his attention. He had never seen anyone quite like her before. With a second glance at the woman he walked
into the tent to listen to the beginning of the diplomatic process.
"Incoming wormhole," the voice said over the intercom
alerting the entire base that there might be trouble coming in. Everyone ran to their stations to see what
was going on.
"I'm getting a signal, its Master Bra'tac," the officer
said.
"Open the iris," Jack said as he began to walk down to
greet their uninvited guest. Several
things were wondering around in his mind and all of them were bad news.
He walked in just as Bra'tac and several other
It was then that laser fire began to come through the gate. Everyone took cover and the guards assumed
defensive positions just in case.
"That's everyone, place up your iris," Bra’tac said
which Jack did so. A few seconds later
there was an audible thump against the iris as the attackers began to hit it.
"Master Bra'tac," Jack said walking over to the older
man.
"General O'Neill, it is good to see you again, though I wish
it wasn't under such circumstances," Bra'tac said.
"Well if it isn't your savior Jack," Vice-President
Robert Kinsey said walking over to where they were standing.
"He's still here," Bra'tac said giving a marked look at
Robert. Neither of them back down from
their stare and finally Jack had enough.
"Bra'tac, what happened," Jack said as he looked around
at the
"I'm not sure O’Neill," Bra'tac said. "Whoever they were they came out of no
where and attacked with a ferocity that I’ve never seen before in my
life."
"Another make believe threat against Earth," Robert said
with a sigh.
"When will you accept that there are threats against our
planet even if we did nothing," Jack said turning to the man.
"I believe that if we close this program down we would no
longer be involved in any of this," the man said.
"Bra'tac, any idea as to who they were," Jack asked
deciding to ignore the Vice President.
"I've never seen them before in my life. All I know is that they were robots, and they
were very efficient in their jobs," Bra'tac said.
"Replicators," Jack asked wondering if that could be the
cause.
"I do not know. If it
was them then they have evolved again," Bra'tac replied.
"What about the base," Jack asked.
"The base on Hemdar is gone," Bra'tac replied.
"So all of that money we spent was wasted," the Vice
President said.
"We were overrun before we could even mount a defense,"
Bra'tac said to Jack ignoring the man as well.
"That's not good," Jack replied. "Well we'll give aide and help you with
a new base."
"We would be most grateful," Bra'tac replied.
"Wait a minute here," the Vice President said. "You are not going to waste our money
helping them."
"I run the SG command, not you. And until I hear otherwise from the President
I'll continue to run it my way," Jack said to the man who turned around
and with a muffled threat walked away.
"I see he is still causing you trouble O’Neill," Bra'tac
said.
"He comes in even so often to complain," Jack said. "I'm more concerned with whoever
attacked you. We were about to strike up
an alliance with another group, planet PX-3342, when something attacked and
destroyed their entire planet. Scout
teams did not find any survivors."
"It is possible. A
system lord would want to keep some of the population alive as slaves,"
Bra'tac said thinking bout his knowledge.
"Have you ever heard of Skyleon," Jack asked.
"Skyleon," Bra'tac replied as he thought about the
name. "No, I'm afraid that I have
never heard of him."
"We think he is the one behind this," Jack said.
"If so, then he is a force to be reckoned with, and not taken
lightly as he would take a threat," Bra'tac said with a motion to the door
where the Vice-President had disappeared.
"I'll see if there is any available planets we can use,"
Jack said.
"Anything would be appreciated," Bra'tac replied.
Jonas walked away from the tent during their first break in
talks. So far there had been a little
bit of headway made. They were looking
for supplies and forces to use against their enemies. John had been doing a good job in the
negotiations but so far there had been little to do beside food exchange. Jonas wondered if Earth was maybe stretching
its recourses too far now.
He glanced around and noticed that the red head was still with the
children. He casually wondered over just
to hear what she was saying. He had
learned from Daniel that sometimes the best way to learn about a culture is by
the children's tales that were told. As
he approached he was able to hear her voice.
It was as sweet as honey and he found himself listening to the tone of
her voice and being drawn in. He
realized she was telling a legend.
"The proud Commander Adama watched hopeless as his world was
destroyed. It was not until after the
battle that he realized that the Galactica alone survived the battle. The other four, Atlantia, Triton, Pacifica,
and Acropolis were all destroyed," the woman said pausing after giving the
names. "Adama knowing that his
people would need help rallied his people around the Galactica and any ship
that could travel and was loaded with people."
Jonas' listening was interrupted by Teal'c coming to get him of
the continuation of the talks. He spared
one last glance at the woman who made eye contact with him and smiled. It seemed to light up her entire face and he
miss stepped for a second as she continued her story. As he turned away he heard a name that made
him stop in his tracks.
"I'm sorry to interrupt, but what did you just say,"
Jonas said approaching the group.
"No problem," the small woman said. "You must be the newcomers; I said that
they headed towards the thirteenth tribe called Earth."
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