A/N: I do not own Harry Potter or Stargate. But I do own a keyboard and so I type.

Chapter 5 Fire and Brimstone

With the Aggressive Asuran faction basically blackmailing Harry and his Asuran's everything stalled to a standstill. Sure the Asuran's continued building ships at their ridiculous rate, but there was no war for Harry to fight. There was no need for tricky magic or logistical thinking. There was no need for Harry Potter.

Harry felt useless. He continued studying ways magic could combine with technology. He continued to explore Alteran and Lantean technology. He continued to learn.

Harry still felt useless. It was unavoidable that Harry felt inferior to the Asurans. What took Harry hours to understand, the Asuran mind could wrap around it in seconds. In the same way, it takes Asurans days of thinking to apparently understand magic or even figure out a new use for it. Magic is creativity and uniqueness and science is simple and logical. That is why Harry felt useless now.

They didn't need magic. They needed science, not magic. That left Harry wondering what he should be doing. He had provided weapons that gave the peaceful Assurans technological advantage, Unless the aggressive Asuran faction literally stumbled upon a way to shield then they would never be able to defeat the peaceful Asurans. Sighing to himself he returned to lazily glancing through the Lantean database for anything of interest.

He did find one unique thing that caught his interest. There was a strong subspace signature detected during several of his scans on a planet. This planet had a space gate and no energy signatures. The subspace signature is the only in that system and it is very strong.

Harry smelled magic. Harry didn't feel quite so useless anymore.

~~Magic~~

"No." Fred said. "I am not letting you go like that! It might be a trap or something else!"

Harry grumbled to himself. Fred had built him a nanite suit for protection but Harry thought it itched and didn't like wearing it. But since the planet has no energy sources he thought it would be ok to not wear it and Harry was most certainly was not whining about it.

"Fine." Harry grumbled. "I'll wear the bloody suit!" Harry swifted reached into the bin and the nanites quickly spread across his skin and became clothes. "Now let's go!" And Harry marched away with a determined walk to the Gateship bay.

Fred grinned happily to himself. He wondered when Harry would notice his nanites on his backside were displaying random images.

~~Magic~~

They landed on the planet a short distance from the village and walked the rest of the way. Their ship was of course left cloaked.

When they entered the village they were greeted by a very peaceful people with no knowledge of war. Something felt fishy. They were directed to the high priestess as she 'led' the village.

If Harry had been looking at the high priestess with his eyes, he may have thought she was drop dead gorgeous or that she was stunning. Instead his mage sight was staring her dead in the face and what he saw surprised him greatly. She was not human. She was a being of pure magic, or energy. Her physical form was a mere subspace desire to exist physically. Her true form was very much pure energy.

A quick glance at Fred indicated he didn't see it and it was only Harry.

"Greetings." The being of energy said. "I am called Chaya. It has been a long time since we have had visitors."

Harry was still slightly shocked. Fred glanced at him and wondered if some crush jokes were in order.

"Hello." Fred said cheerfully, taking the lead. "We are travelers and came to investigate your lands after we saw something of interest."

As Fred was speaking Harry was observing Chaya's energy. It was actually fairly expressive. The energy fluctuated colors and her face reflected them to a degree. Clearly human expression was built into her physical form but the energy just pulsed with a magical feeling of curiosity. While Fred spoke Harry had gently leached his magic into the environment very discreetly to get a feel for Chaya's. He hoped he was being discreet enough

'Oh?" Chaya asked "What could draw your attention to our world?"

Harry froze. She said world. A completely farm based society believed they were from another planet?

Fred caught it too but continued on trying to figure out what was going on. "Ah you see there was a unique energy signature here and we wondered what had caused it." Fred explained.

Harry had already determined she was the cause of the energy source. His magic had also finished seeping into the environment and suffused enough around Chaya that he was able to detect her emotions quite clearly. She was actually broadcasting quite loudly. It made Harry believe she hadn't needed to restrain herself or learn any control since she took that form. At least Harry is assuming she was human before or else why would she bother with a human body now?

When Chaya frowned Harry felt a spike of fear pass through her energy.

"Energy signature?" Chaya asked slowly.

"Ah well… It's like we have a animal that can smell energy. Except they aren't animals but a advanced machine." Fred explained as simply as he could.

At this point Harry sensed Chaya was growing more worreid and stepped in. "Alright enough silly games. Why are you here? You are clearly not human. I don't understand why you would go to the hassle of pretending."

Chaya froze. Her energy froze. Shock swelled through her being and Harry clearly felt… Something.

FInally she coughed and spoke "Not here. Come my people do not know."

Chaya then led them inside into a private room where she shut the door. "First, how did you know?" Chaya asked curiously.

Harry glanced at Fred and spoke "I can sense you." He said simply not wanting to give away his mage sight.

Chaya nodded. Fred looked surprised. His sensors hadn't detected anything odd about the women.

"I was human before. In fact these were my people before I ascended. Ascension is what my people call shedding their physical forms and becoming pure energy."

Harry nodded. He had read about ascension from the Lantean database. They had been trying to discover how to ascend and several had succeeded. "Then you are an ancient? I had wondered if you were a new species but you acted far too human, in my opinion, for you to be a different race."

Chaya nodded. "Yes I am an ancient. I can also tell you aren't human." Chaya glanced at Fred "In fact you look like a Asuran. I honestly thought they had been destroyed."

Harry was a bit surprised she could tell so easily. Harry could only tell at a glance because he knew humans did not have energy running through their entire being. But the fact she knew he was a Asuran was highly surprising.

Fred nodded. "Technically Harry created me on Atlantis and not Asura but I joined them regardless after we freed them from their crazy brethren. Although I should say I'll always stick with Harry."

Chaya nodded her understanding. "Why do you say the Asuran's had crazy brethren?" She had never heard of them being spoken of in such a human way before and it made her quite curious.

Harry glanced at Fred and Fred spoke "Basically in a nutshell the same subspace network that allowed for rapid communication and information sharing, shares far too much information. It allowed for several strong willed Asurans to power themselves up with a Potentia and take control of many other Asurans. Eventually a large faction of them formed and the Asuran's became enslaved."

Chaya looked chagrined. "I had no idea the malfunction the Lanteans detected was actually because of the enslavement. Even as I am now I cannot see into this 'subspace network'. I would be unable to tell. Now tell me, how did you obtain Atlantis?"

At this Harry was slightly uncomfortable. "I'm not exactly sure." He began slowly. "On my world there are a people of Alteran descendants. We studied magic, the energy you discovered advanced humans could generate. I strongly suspect that my people are significantly more advanced in the non technological uses of magic than yours ever became.

Anyways, in my world there were discovered crystals that were the focal points of magic. Usually they were crystals that had laid in the earth for a long time at the meeting point of many ley lines. Unfortunately on my world there were two dark wizards. These wizards were in exile and their forces scattered. A strong government had arisen that was successfully preventing them from taking power and so the dark wizards sought other means to conquer.

But there was a prophecy that many believed even though I never did. It basically said that as long as I lived the chance remained for me to vanquish them. So they focused much of their efforts on killing me. Because of the prophecy, my growing up years were plagued by assassination attempts and other problems.

It wasn't until the second dark wizard, Dumbledore, was revealed that problems arose. After he was driven out of the government he fled to the shade of Voldemort and revived him. Together they united against me to overcome the prophecy but with the assistance of my friends and the stronger government forces we prevailed. It was years later that they popped up again with the stones. We knew they were gathering them for some reason but were unable to catch them.

Then they ambushed me. Somehow they cast a spell that banished me from my world and I landed on Atlantis." Harry concluded sadly. It always saddened him to retell how he was banished from his world. He was not terribly worried about them though since the government would be more than strong enough to handle two on the outs dark wizards.

Fred had heard the story before in more detail and was unaffected though he laid his hand on Harry's shoulder.

Chaya had never heard of such uses of zero point energy. Sure she could do it now that she had Ascended, but to use it while human? That is far more power than she ever expected a human to be able to wield. "I am sorry for your trouble. It is a sad story. It's amazing that you landed on Atlantis when you could have ended up anywhere."

Harry nodded not trusting his voice to speak now.

Chaya looked at Harry. He was shrouded in zero point energy. Even amongst the most advanced Alteran who ascended, the consolidation of zero point energy was not so high. If Harry ascended… His power would be massive.

'That is something the ancients don't wish to admit to. We aren't quite as enlightened as we like to believe.' Chaya thought bitterly. In truth the ascended are ruled by a group of strong ascended with much greater power than the rest. The strongest ascended have managed to gather a large following in their beliefs and thus are the voice of the ascended and all must follow their opinions. That is why pretending to be a god amongst humans is forbidden. If a ascended gained enough power they could change the hierarchy.

Chaya sighed. She really was far too bitter about this. "I suppose I should tell you my story now."

Fred looked at her eagerly and Harry looked relieved to be off his past.

"I was born amongst the Lanteans on this planet before the wraith came. I lived during the war when the wraith forced us back to Atlantis. I left with one of the first groups from this galaxy that fled to Earth. At that time many of us had become extremely demoralized because of our defeat by the wraith. The desire to rebuild was nonexistent and no one could inspire the rest to assist them. Instead the remaining Lanteans spent their days meditating and attempting to ascend. In the Earth outpost was a machine that would force ascension or death within forty-eight hours. Many elderly utilized it and many ascended but some passed on happily at the end of their days.

I was young then like I appear now. I had too given up. You see I was on one of the worlds when the wraith arrived. I had felt their telepathic cry when they died. It made war for me impossible. It is ironic that it was only then on Earth that I mastered my telepathic abilities until I could block out others. I retreated into myself and focused on ascension.

It was not long after that I succeeded. Ultimately it was forgiving the wraith for being so different and foolish that had held me back. When I forgave them it freed me." Chaya said smiling brightly. "Unfortunately after ascending you gain so many senses. My mind naturally drifted to my homeworld and there I saw the wraith feeding on my people. It was so easy. A single thought and I sent a wave of destruction that saved my people. Unfortunately this did not go unobserved by the other Ascended." Chaya scowled at this "They had not even met me yet but they said I was subject to their laws. The primary being we do not interfere with the physical plane. Of course I plead ignorance but they said it did not matter. I was banished. I was told to protect this world and only this world and to stay here for all eternity." Chaya finished looking quite broken.

Harry was horrified. She was punished for helping her homeworld! "Do the ascended have an appeal system?" Harry asked tremulously.

Chaya shook her head. "The ascended do not have a government. We are a democracy with a majority and a minority. The majority rule supreme. But like I said, the majority are also ruled by the strongest of us and the ascended are all about ascending higher. Many hope to gleam the secrets of ascending higher by observing the strongest of us. Technically strength for a ascended is relative to how high you have ascended. But it's really far too complicated to put into words. It's simplest to say they are just stronger than the others." Chaya explained morosely. "So no. No formal appeals. If they feel you have spent long enough they may arbitrarily decide to end your punishment."

Harry was worried. There was an almighty race of beings out there with the power to singularly decide the fate of everyone else and the only thing preventing that was their own rule of noninterference and if anything they sounded quite sketchy in their judgments. It may not be too long before they decide they want to interfere for some reason and there is nothing anyone can do about it.

Harry interfaced with his suits subspace scanners and scanned Chaya. It indicated she was completely human but underneath was a web of magical energy. Her very being was a subspace order to exist. It is as if her physical form existed merely on the principle that she desired it. Chaya glanced at Harry with a bemused look. "Like what you see?" She said innocently.

Harry blushed slightly and coughed.

Chaya still looked amused but continued. "Well that is my story. I'm stuck here until who knows when. So tell me what has happened in the galaxy lately?"

So Fred explained the new free Asuran faction and the sleeping wraith. He explained that massive numbers of bombs and warships are being built to exterminate the wraith in the hopes of finally ridding the galaxy of this threat.

"So you plan to wipe the wraith out in one fell swoop?" Chaya asked.

Fred nodded. "Yes the currently plan is to bomb all the wraith ships at the same time to prevent them from waking up. The total number of wraith vessels are over several hundred but there's only around twenty hives. If we at least kill all the queens the wraith should be unable to recover."

Chaya nodded. "I hope you succeed. Until then I will maintain my vigil over this planet." Truly Chaya was long past the days of being concerned about the genocide of the wraith. It one galaxy of dead humans too late.

Harry smiled sadly. He understood being alone because of his childhood. Fred and Harry stood to leave.

"Feel free to visit whenever you wish. I cannot help you but I am always available to listen." Chaya said.

~~Magic~~

The Aggressive Asuran Collective

"We have made progress in how to block those new weapons the Alteran named Harry Potter is suspected of designing. It appears to interact directly with the energy of the ship and somehow manifests physical changes. We suspect there is a hidden element we are unfamiliar with but have been unable to detect it. On that note we believe a sufficient shield using this wavelength may block or slow down the attack.

We also detected that Harry Potter uses the same weapons on his own person. Scans taken from combat indicated he wielded only a standard wrist weapon and a stick. The stick was able to summon strong shields despite it's apparent lacking of any technology. The stick was composed completely of wood and some sort of animal byproduct."

Murmurs filled the Asurans at that. The use of animal parts was considered inhumane in the Lantean society ages ago. "This clearly indicates that he is from a non-Alteran world. We suspect that based on his thoughts we briefly gleamed from contact that he may somehow be from Earth itself. We know our ancestors left bread crumbs that would enable Earthlings to eventually return but it is unclear whether or not he found the city in that fashion."

More murmurs arose.

"Enough!" Oberoth declared. "We will continue to build warships in secret. Our force grows by the day. Let the foolish Asurans attempt to destroy the wraith. We will block them and force them into a war of attrition with the wraith. Let us use the wraith to destroy our lost brethren and learn how their weapons operate. If we can capture a drone while they fight against the wraith then we will be able to discover how their weapons work! Then we will defeat our foolhardy brethren and rid the galaxy of the filth that is organics!"

And the Asurans cheered.

~~Magic~~

Asuran Homeworld

City Of Atlantis

"What did you say?" Harry asked as he paled.

"I said," Raff said perfectly calmly. "That all the wraith around the galaxy are waking up."

Harry stumbled back slightly and leaned on the table in front of him heavily. This was terrible news. The Asuran's weren't ready yet. They nearly had one ship for every hive in the galaxy after months of constant production. Ordinarily it wouldn't have been that fast but Harry had optimized the construction process with some magic. Cooling charms do wonders for replacing coolant and such and the ship's own power will power the magic that fuels the cooling charm. The list of replacements a simple rune could perform was staggering and since the Asuran's created components using nanites or beaming technology, the component was created with the rune per inscribed.

The only requirement was for a Asuran to pass by with a magical charger. Once that was completed the component was ready to go.

"Do we know why?" Harry asked.

Raff glanced back at his screen and did the Asuran equivalent of a shrug. "The results are inconclusive."

Harry groaned again. He thought that things were looking up. They were months from destroying the wraith quietly and without fuss and then the galaxy would be free and he could go visit Earth. Simple. But no someone had to go poke a hive with a big stick!

Harry connected to the city and began a scan of the galaxy again. He wanted to see who had moved. Harry had expanded Atlantis' scanning capabilities with remote satellites that are equipped with Atlantis' long range sensors. Because of the satellites, Harry can receive a picture of the galaxy in under ten minutes.

The results were less than helpful. All he could detect was that a new pile of energy signatures were on the outer rim of the galaxy and had destroyed one of the hives. Based on the fact the energy was on the planet might indicate colonization or it could just mean they were mining something.

Harry focused back to the scan and noted the wraith were all quite active now. Well at least the wraith will focus on the invaders first.

"Harry." Fred called out as he enters the room. "I heard…" He said solemnly. "The wraith are awake. Who did it?"

Harry then filled him in on what he discovered. The Asuran's had a great deal of planning to do.

A/N: This chapter was really hard for me. I wasn't sure where I wanted to go exactly and I was tired from my exam and then I rushed out two new websites and then I had to build a photo page and then the election.

Hmm maybe it was my week that was hard and not the chapter haha. So if there's a quality dip or something I apologize in advance. I honestly mustered the desire to write just by reading the 52 beautiful, encouraging reviews. There will be some battles with the wraith in the future. It's time to find out if Harry's spellcrafters can hurt the wraith.