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A Different Path Taken

Chapter19: Epilogue

September 2004
Higher Plains
Avalon
Diner

The diner was busier than normal today when Janus entered, sidestepping an angry pair of his former colleagues. Raising an eyebrow as they passed, he instead opted to ignore them and head over to the counter where his wife was waiting for him. She was as beautiful as she was the day they had met all those centuries ago. Doctor Elizabeth Weir sat on the stood at the counter reading over the newspaper in hands as she waited patiently for the waitress to bring her the pancakes she had ordered. Even as he approached he could tell she was trying her hardest not to burst out in cheer as she reread the headline for the umpteenth time this morning.

Avalon Galactic War Over

"Interesting read?" Janus asked her as he sat down on another stool.

"Oh you know how it is," Elizabeth reasoned as she handed him the newspaper. "It seems everything has come full circle."

Centuries ago she had accidentally traveled back in time while trying to escape from a flooding Atlantis mere minutes after arriving in the underwater city-ship. After traveling ten thousand years into the passed she was rescued by a very much living Lanteans and discovered that they were in the midst of a war against a race called the Wraith. A few days later the Lantean Council ordered that the remaining Lanteans evacuate through the Stargate to Earth and abandon the galaxy to the Wraith.

Once back on Earth the two of them had started traveling together through the Stargate in Janus' Gateship, helping people whenever they could hoping to atone for leaving the inhabitants of the Pegasus galaxy the mercy of the Wraith. Eventually Janus installed the Gateship with a time machine like the one he had originally built and they thought that they could make a better future with it.

They succeeded...

Mostly...

Worlds like Velona turned out rather well after they had intervened against the Goa'uld however there were setbacks, the most prominent being the attack on Earth by the Cylons. In the original timeline the Cylons never left Andromeda and the end result was the destruction of the Twelve Colonies with the survivors fleeing to Earth. When they had covertly entered a program into the Cylon consensus the result was them leaving the Colonials alone and pursuing their own destiny. They hadn't expected the Cylons to splinter into factions and for the war to take place.

After they both ascended to the Higher Plains they still kept track of what was happening. The timeline was different now and the future wasn't written yet. Even so, some things remained the same. Anubis meeting head end was something Elizabeth had personally been working towards after he had tricked pour Oma into ascending him. It was a testament to Elizabeth's negotiating skills that she had been able to convince the Others into setting conditions on Anubis' descent back to the Lower Plains.

They wanted to punish Oma for her mistake but Elizabeth talked them into a corner. Anubis was sent back half way however if he was dealt with by someone from the Lower Plains then they wouldn't intervene like they would if Elizabeth herself tried to. Many of the Others were angry at what happened when they realised that a half ascended Jack O'Neill had dispatched the rogue System Lord.

"Your pancakes," Oma said she walked over and placed a plate down in front of the seated woman. "On the house."

"Thank you," Elizabeth smiled back.

"You do know the Others are going to be mad about this for awhile, yes?" Janus mused with a sigh.

"Give them a couple of centuries," Elizabeth responded. "They'll get over it."

September 2004
Uncharted System
Deep Space
CIC

A flash of light signified the arrival of the Battlestar Valkyrie and her support ships. They drifted slightly, cruising through the empty space in the middle of the system. Vipers and Raptors launched to secure the area followed by a single Stealthstar. It had taken awhile but they had finally tracked Loki's subspace wake to this star system within the Triangulum Galaxy.

Idly Commander Lee Adama wished his father hadn't been recalled and was here with him. He should have here for this but instead the Admiralty had ordered the bulk of the Colonials fleet to Dakara in the Milky Way. Subspace chatter relayed from the beacon they had dropped in the void had let them know what had happened. Apparently the Goa'uld Empire was no more, the loyalist Jaffa having rebelled against their Masters and formed the Free Jaffa Nation.

The Cylons were in full retreat and wouldn't last the month thanks to the new Asgard-designed anti-Replicator weapons based off of what the newly promoted Brigadier General Jack O'Neill had done to what was being called the Dakara Superweapon. The Stargate Union fleet was days away from hitting the Cylon homeworld and with it taken out the war would effectively be over.

That left Loki...

"Talk to me Starbuck?" Lee spoke into the comm. "What do you see?"

Aboard the Stealthstar-II otherwise known as the Blackbird, Captain Kara Thrace jumped to within range of the lone contact that her sensors had picked up. Once she had gotten her bearings again she saw it, its massive shadow blocking out the light from the star it orbited. For a moment she couldn't believe her eyes, after all she knew what it looked like and to her knowledge they weren't built this big.

A mile wide...

"It's a Stargate," Kara answered. "It's a really big Stargate."

"Say again Starbuck," Lee said confused.

"It's a Stargate," Kara repeated. "And Loki's trail leads right to it."

Author's Notes

I actually really enjoyed writing this but the final battle was a bit of a pain. As you can see this reality diverged from canon when Doctor Weir travelled back in time to the Lantean-Wraith War and headed back to the Milky Way with Janus. She was there with him when he built his second time machine and together they travelled, trying to do as much good as they could though admittedly there were some setbacks-Cylons attack on Earth-but in the end everything came full circle and here we are. As for Loki, I actually have plans for him and the 'Supergate' his trail leads too. I will continue this someday but it depends on however the rest of this year goes for me. I hope you all enjoyed it and please review.

See Ya Later...