Chapter 13: Cloak & Dagger
Location: Milky Way galaxy
Earth, Colorado U.S, Cheyenne Mountain Complex, SGC.
Merriman shouted "We are receiving an incoming wormhole"
O'Neal instictively ordered the Iris closed
Merriman went on "We are receving a transmision. It's Bra'Tac sir!"
"Open the Iris"
Master Bratac came through the Gate. Just as he did the wormhole shut off. O'Neal, Teal'c and the rest of the SG-1 team came down to meet him.
Teal'c saluted respectfully "Is good to see you Master Bra'tac!"
"It is always good to see you Teal'c!"
O'Neal saluted in his usual way "How yah doing Old pal? What brings you to our Lake Edna woods?"
"Lake Edna? have they changed the name of this place?"
"Umm... No it's just a saying... Never mind!"
"Ah I see, Well is good to see you too O'Neal and the rest of you as well. As for what I'm here I need to bring Teal'c back with me immediately!"
Teal'c interjected "What has happened?"
"We are going to have an emergency meeting of the Free Jaffa council."
"What is the meeting about?"
"Is in regard of the newcomers to this galaxy I'm not aware if you knew about them or not."
O'Neal responded "Oh, we know!"
"Yes well as it turns out Baal did send a Ha'Tak about a day ago to capture whatever technology this newcomers possesed by force. But their weapons were able to disable the Ha'Tak while in orbit. Not only did they managed to disable the mothership but also latter boarded it using some alien EVA suits with boosters that allowed to go up to the ship all the way from the planet's surface!"
O'Neal simply had to say it and he did "Cool!"
Bra'tac looked at him with a perplexed look O'Neal added "Please go on"
"Yes well... As I was saying they managed to board the ship after fierce fighting in which many Jaffa died"
O'Neal added "Let me guess they killed everybody right?"
"Actually they allowed the Jaffa to leave through the Chapa'Ai"
"Wait first the Jaffa were fighting this newcomers off and then they are allowed to leave through the StarGate?"
"At some point in the battle the newcomers issued a defiance to the Goa'uld that commanded the ship telling him that if he were truly a god then to show it by taking on them on his own. As he could not the Jaffa realized that he and the rest of the Goa'uld are indeed false gods just as the free Jaffa had been saying all along"
"They did that, I did not know they could speak either Jaffa or Goa'uld!"
"Apparently some machine did the translation for them. The voice that came through the comm. in the ship sounded pretty mechanical according to the Jaffa that witnessed the event. Anyway after being proven that the Goa'uld are false Gods they accepted to surrender the ship and the Goa'uld to the newcomers and after showing them how to operate the vessel were allowed to dial our home base since at least they were a few of our spies with them"
O'Neal had to break his silence "So this people allowed the Jaffa to just go after the Jaffa showed them how to operate a Ha'Tak?"
"Yes O'Neal as you see we may have gained powerful allies in our fight for freedom from the Goa'uld"
"Allies might be too strong a word for them old pal"
"You don't think they could be allies O'Neal?"
"There is something we need to show you Bra'Tac"
Teal'c added "Indeed we do!"
Bra'tac came along with the SG-1 team to the briefing room
O'Neal went on "Bra'Tac this is something you will really have to see to believe" as he did he popped a DVD in the player and on TV the logo of 20th century fox appeared and then huge letters that filled nearly the whole screen and spelled Star Wars
Bra'Tac was more perplexed than ever "What is this O'Neal?"
"Oh it gets better we will skip to the good parts" using the remote O'Neal quickly dialed scenes he had previosly bookmarked on the DVD and to Bra'tac's amazement he saw people wearing armor that was identical to the ones the newcomers soldiers were wearing although they looked a bit phony compared to the real thing. Next he saw somebody brandishing a sword that was somehow made of energy. Something that also the Jaffa that witnessed the event saw.
Bra'tac was at a loss for words "What is all this O'Neal, where get so much information on this strangers? How?"
"Well... That's a bit hard to explain old pal, you see this what is called a movie"
"A movie?"
"Yes it's a piece of entertaiment we go to places called theaters and watch them for fun, of this they actually made at least 5 movies and they are working on 6th one!"
"But how can a piece of entertaiment end up overpowering a Ha'tak and capturing it O'Neal? That just doesn't make sense!"
"Doesn't it now! Well as I said is kind of hard to explain. I will allow colonel Carter to explain the rest. Well colonel it's your show!"
Carter picked up the conversation "Yes sir! It seems that George Lucas the man who produced and directed all this films somehow was receiving images of real events from some distant galaxy. He never knew it and in fact still has no knowledge of this."
"Images, how with what?"
"Images in his brain"
"His brain?"
O'Neal simply shrugged and allowed Carter to continue with her explanation
"Yes his brain. It is possible that he may posses the Ancients gene and somehow that allowed him to tune into this specific very real events happening on the other side of the universe."
O'Neal finally added "Ok, now we roll the really good stuff we got from this morning." he popped another DVD and press play on the remote as he did an image of a planet that Bra'tac acording to the Jaffa witnesses accounts recognized as the one were the event took place he saw again people wearing the armor described by the Jaffa but by the looks of them they were not movie props by any stretch of the imagination, The DVD played all the way up until the MALP was destroyed.
O'Neal finally added "As you can see this people may not turn to be good allies, not at all"
Bra'tac went on "Could it have been a misunderstanding?"
"Anything is possible. But from what we know of this people from the films and all. They could just turn out to be worst news than the Goa'uld ever where and as surprised as I am for even saying that!"
Location: Milky Way Galaxy
Planet SGD: PXZ-698
Tenel Ka was busy still gathering all the data she still could from the Ha'Tak when a science officer interrupted her. "I'm sorry to interrupt you mistress but I think you really need to see this!"
"What is it?"
"As you may recall milady you ordered us to make a routine deep space scan into the region of space where our own galaxy is located to check how our neighborhood mis doing at this time."
"Yes and?"
"Well is still pretty much there as expected but we can't find any traces of life on the Corusca Galaxy on this timeline!"
"What that's impossible are you sure is not a glitch?"
"We are pretty sure we checked quite a few times. The Corusca galaxy at this time is simply devoid of life!"
"How can that be, did you check the galactic core and the core's blackhole for any unusual activity?"
"We did. There's nothing that indicates any growth in the mass of either the core's blackhole nor the smaller ones within the maw!"
"That rules out the possibility of our galaxy having imploded on itself! anything else?"
"I am afraid not. There's no explanation, at least not a naturally ocurring one!"
A fist of ice formed inside Tenel Ka's stomach as she heard that statement. Indeed if the cause was not natural it had to come from someplace else and now the only place it seemed logical was this very new frontier they were exploring. For the first time she began to question the wisdom of the venture they had all embarqued on.

