Inheriting Knowledge

By SciFiFantasyWriter1

Disclaimer: I own nothing of any recognized characters or universes within.

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Chapter 10

February 29th 2008…

It had taken days longer than those on Atlantis had expected but Taylra had finally signaled that she was ready to be extracted. The expedition members hadn't been idle. During those days Todd had reported increased wraith activity. There was a lot more fighting between the wraith. The few worlds that hadn't received the protection of the Spatial Folding Engines had been attacked by wraith ships. But the Atlantians had fought hard battles until the Spatial Folding Engines had been installed. The Wraith ships were still testing the SPE network to try to determine any weaknesses from space. But the arrival of Atlantian warships had dissuaded the wraith from sticking around.

It had been decided that since the Star Skimmer and her design of ship were the stealthiest around that she would carry in Centurion Xan, his team of Legionnaires, SGA-1, Sam, and Daniel as an advanced team to see if Michael couldn't be taken out before any Atlantian designed warships showed up in the system Michael was holed up in. The worry was that Michael would kill any hostages or captives when the Atlantians showed up. Stealth was the name of the game in this situation. To that end the human-form replicators would be adapting the appearance at the surface of their forms to their surroundings not unlike a chameleon. Meanwhile Sam, Daniel, and SGA-1 would be flying near the ceilings in a tactic that had previously proved effective.

Daniel's telepathic abilities had been growing stronger and stronger over the past few weeks. Two days previously he had reached the point where not only could he sense and even read minds from several miles away but he could also send his thoughts into those minds. Therefore he could communicate with Sam without speaking. It was an intimate experience for the couple but one which they relished in.

"I have found her," Daniel sent to Sam as they navigated through Michael's complex slowly with the rest of the strike team.

Daniel meant he had found Taylra's mind telepathically.

"Is she alright?" Sam thought back to her husband.

Sam simply had to think what she wanted her husband to hear and he would pick up on it. He didn't invade the privacy of her thoughts unless she made the mental "gesture" that she wanted him to read her surface thoughts. It had taken some getting used to but the couple had quickly adapted.

"Yes, she is currently being held with the other Athosians and Carson. Michael is in a lab prepping for something. There are only half a dozen hybrids nearby. The rest are spread out throughout the complex," Daniel replied.

"That should make things easier. We won't have to worry about hurting any innocent bystanders…well other than the hybrids. But we should be able to subdue them," Sam mused.

"We are close to Michael. He has got half a dozen hybrids nearby but no Athosians or Carson," Daniel whispered down to the strike team as he guided them. Teyla was currently sitting up in a cloaked Star Skimmer observing the mission on sensors. As the group came to a closed door he halted them with a silent hand gesture. "Michael is on the other side of that door."

The group members were all armed with K2 Gauntlets in addition to their traditional weaponry. Stunners would be used from the K2s for this mission. Michael was to be taken alive if at all possible. Before the group could blow open the door and hit the room energy shields suddenly sprang up all around them. The walls then fell away to reveal that the section of corridor they had been standing in extended out into the room a short ways. It had been a trap point.

"Welcome to my compound," Michael said as he stepped into view.

Seven hybrids entered the room from multiple corridors.

"Hello, Michael," John greeted the hybrid.

"I find it agreeable to see you, John," Michael greeted. "I just wish it was under better circumstances. I am afraid I can't let you take Teyla."

While Michael and John spoke Xan and his team of human-form replicators were trying to break down the force-fields but with little luck. The force-fields were quite energy dense and strong.

"See that is where you are wrong, Michael," John said with a grin.

"How so?" Michael probed, suddenly wary.

The success rate of the Atlantians couldn't be denied when it came to the combat of their enemies. That was a large reason why Michael had lined all of his compounds with sensors to detect intruders and multiple trap points.

"You don't have Teyla," Ronan announced with glee.

"You have Taylra, Teyla's clone," Rodney added.

A look of terrible rage flashed over Michael's face momentarily before he controlled it and pointed out, "No matter. This Taylra as you call her has Teyla's ability to sense the wraith and is carrying a child that I will find very useful."

Michael had not only taken who he had thought had been Teyla because of her child but because he held special conflicting feelings for her. Teyla had befriended him on Atlantis while betraying him by helping to force a change on his species. He was very conflicted about his feelings for her.

"I am afraid that is where you are wrong," Taylra said as she stepped into sight from one of the corridors with a K2 Gauntlet leveled at Michael and his hybrids. There was no sign of a baby on Taylra's belly. "There was equipment hidden away in that baby bump such as this very effective weapon."

Michael appeared stunned for a moment before saying, "I scanned your child thoroughly."

"Yes, but I am smarter than you," Daniel said before he punched the top of the energy cage holding the strike team with a glowing fist.

There was a shattering sound while smoke and noise issued from nearby in the wall likely where the shield generators were held. All hell broke loose as the strike team was freed. Taylra took out several hybrids with stunners before the strike team ever could. Michael dodged several shots from Taylra and the strike team on the ground. But Sam had flown straight above him as soon as the shield had broken and proceeded to drill him with several close range shots from her K2. Michael was out like a light. The fight was over with no fatalities on either side. Sam, Daniel, and SGA-1 touched down as Carson and Athosians began pouring into the room.

Sam and the strike team members began dealing with the situation as the Nephyrim jumped into orbit. Daniel went over to Michael's form as Ronan stood nearby with his weapon ready. The Satedan didn't want any chances taken. He had never gotten along well with Michael even during the short time Michael had been human. Daniel laid a hand on Michael and suddenly knew something was wrong.

"What's wrong?" Sam asked her husband as she knelt beside him.

Since his telepathic awakening Sam found it easier to pick up on her spouses' moods. It was like he subconsciously broadcast his moods to her and only her.

"I think this is a clone. I don't think this is the original Michael," Daniel explained.

"Shit…I didn't think we would have to go through this situation again after Ba'al," Sam said with dismay.

"Maybe we won't," Daniel suggested as he laid his hands on Michael's head and closed his eyes. Daniel focused on entering Michael's mind and reading the hybrid's thoughts. It took some minutes but eventually the burgeoning telepath succeeded in learning what the hybrid clone knew. "He doesn't know where the original Michael is located. This clone communicates through other clones. He knows the location of other clones that act as intermediaries. So maybe we can track down the original through the intermediaries. He was giving Carson a weekly injection that kept Carson alive. This clone knows how to make that injection since Michael considered this a very low priority secret."

"Well that is good. And the location of other clones is a start," Sam said. "Let's get the Athosians and hybrids back to base."

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"You wanted to see me?" Ronan asked as he walked into Sam's office where Daniel and Sam were waiting for him.

"Yes, take a seat please," Sam invited while gesturing to one of the chairs in front of her desk.

Ronan sat and waited for the two people he had come to call friends to speak.

"Ronan," Daniel began. "I want you to understand that I kept her existence from you a secret because I wasn't sure I could undo the mental damage the wraith did to her."

"Did to who? What are you talking about?" Ronan asked with confusion.

"It will be easier if we just show you," Sam said as she triggered the transporter and Ara was transported into the office looking perfectly healthy and alive.

There wasn't even a scar on Ara's neck where her throat had been slit. The Satedan woman looked nervous and stared at Ronan waiting for his reaction.

"Ara," Ronan said in a whisper.

Ronan's tone conveyed shock, a lot of shock. His reaction was not surprising.

"Hello, Ronan," Ara answered back nervously. "Your friends were able to heal me…including the damage to my mind."

"Yes, once my telepathy began to emerge I was able to reverse the damage to her mind brought on by her torture. She still has the memories of her torture but none of the emotion going with it. They are very weak memories I guess you could say," Daniel explained.

In one swift movement Ronan had stood and had Ara caught up in a hug. The two Satedans hugged gratefully. After about a minute Ronan drew back and looked at the Jacksons gratefully. Then he had them both caught up in hugs.

"This is fantastic news," Ronan declared with an actual smile. "How long can you stay?"

This question was directed at Ara.

"Well, if you don't mind I would like to stay here on Atlantis. I have already been asked," Ara explained.

Ronan looked at the Jacksons in surprise.

"Daniel has been through her mind enough to know she can be trusted now," Sam explained.

"I would love it if you stayed," Ronan admitted. "Where are you staying?"

"She has been staying in quarters near my lab while I worked with her telepathically. She will need new quarters. I believe there are quarters free available near yours," Daniel suggested.

"Come on. I will help you get settled," Ronan offered.

Ara nodded her agreement with that idea before leaving with Ronan.

After the Satedans were well out of earshot Sam asked, "So how long until you think they are a couple?"

"I would give it a day," Daniel replied. "I saw a healthy attraction for Ronan in Ara's mind and Satedans aren't very inhibited about sex."

"Good for Ronan," Sam said. "Now he will finally have someone who shares a long history with him."

"It's good to have history with someone," Daniel said as he drew Sam into his arms.

"Indeed," Sam said with a grin before kissing her mate.

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"The wraith have just arrived in the system," The sensor officer on the capitol city-ship of the replicator home-world reported. "They will be in primary weapons range in three minutes at their current speed."

"How many vessels are there?" Jewel prompted her sensor officer.

Jack, Teal'c, Sam, Daniel, Rodney, Ronan, John, Teyla and many other Atlantis personnel stood nearby Jewel. Plenty of advanced warning for the attack had been had between Todd's information sources and long range sensor systems the replicator world was equipped with.

"I am counting forty-three hives, one hundred seven cruisers, and 873,000 darts," The sensor officer said as the hologram showing the battle theater came online.

"Shit," Sam said, summarizing everyone's feelings on the matter.

Then within moments the forty-seven replicator ships were engaged with the enemy wraith forces. For a moment it seemed like the replicator ships would have little trouble dispatching the enemy as a dozen cruisers and five hives were cut in half by the plasma beam weaponry the replicator vessels had been upgraded with along with drones. But then the hologram was lit up by massive explosions coinciding by the arrival of the darts at the engagement. The darts had been released shortly before the larger wraith vessels had engaged.

"What the hell was that?" Jack asked.

"Antimatter explosives," Jewel said grimly. The explosives are in the darts. The darts' pilots are sacrificing themselves. Our ships are not doing so well against these new weapons. Those explosives reduce our shield strength by a quarter with each hit. If our ships had been piloted by humans this battle would have already been lost. We are attempting to compensate," Jewel announced.

"Was that an insult?" Jack asked confusedly.

"No, Jack," Sam replied. "She means if humans had been in the ships the inertial dampeners wouldn't have been able to keep the crew from dying when those explosions rocked the vessels. The crew would have been smashed to bits by the insides of their own vessels."

"Oh," Jack said with sudden understanding.

"Look, they are getting a lot of the darts," John pointed out.

And it was true. The replicator ships were using millions upon millions of mini-drones as a screen to take out the incoming darts. Despite this screen some darts still got through. But it wasn't very many.

"We are picking up several wraith ships in a star system nearby. They are viewing the battle on sensors," The sensor officer announced.

"Those remote ships you are picking up are the wraith queens," Daniel stated.

The others turned to look at him curiously.

"You can sense that even from here?" Jack queried.

"Yep," Daniel said with a nod. "And I can do something about them."

Daniel closed his eyes and reached out with his mind. Over the past couple of weeks his telepathy had expanded to a whole new level. Now he could send his consciousness out across light-years of distance and take on opponents in their very minds.

"We have darts incoming from the other side of the planet," The sensor officer informed those present.

"Shoot them down with drones," Jewel instructed.

Several moments later the sensor officer reported, "It is done. The darts are destroyed but an unknown number of…beings…have beamed into the city using wraith culling beams. Some register as if they are wraith but others are life-forms we have never encountered before."

"Xan, take teams to dispatch these enemy," Jewel commanded her most competent Centurion.

"We will help if you don't mind," John suggested.

"We will?" Rodney said in surprise. At John's look he added, "Oh right. Of course we will."

"Of course," Jewel said. The Atlantians followed the replicators to split into teams. When Sam made to move off with the others Jewel said, "Uh, Sam. Where are you going?"

"To help take care of the intruders," Sam pointed out.

Jewel glanced at the mentally focused Daniel and stepping closer to Sam said in a quieter voice, "Are you sure that is a good idea? You are with child."

Sam rolled her eyes and answered, "Look, I am a soldier. I am not that far along. I already agreed to wear the shield belt Daniel gave me. I am also wearing his armor and I have the Star Skimmer with its sensors locked onto both Daniel and I. If I am at all harmed the Star Skimmer will transport me into our medical pods. I will be fine. Now I am not going to let my people have all the fun."

Sam left with that. The shield belt she was describing was a personal shield which protected Sam's belly and the baby within from virtually any threat. The armor Sam was wearing should protect her pretty well too. It was powered armor which could augment her strength beyond the abilities her mating with Daniel had provided her. This made Sam a pretty formidable opponent.

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Daniel had attacked the minds of the eight wraith queens simultaneously. In the time Sam and Jewel had held their argument Daniel had managed to overcome the minds of three of the wraith queens. The simultaneous attack had been necessary for had they had any warning the eight queens could have coordinated their attacks. This most likely would have changed the mental battle considerably. Daniel Jackson had one of the strongest wills in the universe. He had held captive the entire replicator collective mind in the Milky Way galaxy. Each wraith queen had a separate type of mindscape. Daniel was shaping the power from within his body and using it to enhance the speed of his mental attacks digging gouges through the mental defenses of the queens. The queens were as a rule skilled at hiding their true minds behind false fronts and misleading defenses. While Daniel was searching out their true minds they were seeking to coordinate with each other.

It was a race to see if Daniel could destroy enough of their minds before the queens managed to find each other and coordinate. Once enough of them were destroyed even if they coordinated it wouldn't matter. The process was generating an immense stress on Daniel's body. His form began to try to heal itself. Unbeknownst to him Daniel was starting to glow in the control room. This did not go unnoticed by others.

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Jeannie, Rodney, and Jennifer were behind the corner between two corridors firing at a group of wraith and the weird engineered organisms the wraith had brought with them. The trio had gotten separated from the military personnel and replicators they had been with.

"I don't think the wraith are trying to capture us this time," Jennifer said after she fired another burst of plasma rounds from her K2.

"I agree. That is deadly energy they are firing at us," Jeannie added.

"And those big scorpion-like things don't look too friendly," Rodney said as he also released shots down the corridor. "We can keep them suppressed for a while but we shouldn't stay here."

"Maybe we should use mini-drones. That tactic will damage the corridor but it will take out those wraith and creatures," Jeannie suggested.

"That is probably best," Rodney agreed. Before he could say anything else Rodney thought he heard something and turned to see a smaller version of the creatures down the corridor about the size of a large cat clinging to the ceiling above Jennifer getting ready to drop onto her. "Jennifer, look out!"

Rodney's shout came too late. But he had already been moving. Rodney hit Jennifer in a tackle that flung her out of the way but saw the creature landing on top of him. Jennifer stared stunned as the creature hit Rodney with its stinger several times before she managed to come out of her shock enough to shoot the creature. It was blown to bits with a plasma burst.

"Oh god…Rodney…oh god," Jennifer said as she started to examine him.

Rodney began foaming at the mouth and convulsing.

"Rodney," Jeannie cried in dismay after firing a drone off down the corridor.

"We need to get him to the control room. Daniel can help him the quickest," Jennifer insisted.

The two women got a shoulder under each of Rodney's arms and began hauling him back to the control room as fast as they possibly could.

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Sam was starting to admit to herself that she might be in trouble. She had gotten separated from the other fighters. She had managed to kill several wraith and the creatures accompanying them using her K2 gauntlet along with the strength granted to her by her powered armor. When combined with the abilities given to her by her flight suit she was a pretty formidable enemy. As she rounded a corner she realized her luck had run out.

"Oh shit," Sam cursed even as she brought her K2 to aim on one of the three scorpion-like creatures that were the size of a small pony.

They spit acid at her and it was only her armor that saved her from getting killed. A shield flared around her head as she leveled two of the creatures. She didn't have time to kill the third before the acid started dissolving her armor. She leapt back around the corridor and tore at her armor. With the superior strength her mating had given her she was able to tear the melting armor away from her before she was burnt.

Just as she finished removing her armor which had taken her only seconds she glanced around the corner looking for the third creature. She was met by the hand of a male wraith. The wraith grabbed Sam by the throat and immediately squeezed, lifting her off of her feet. She flailed as her oxygen was cut off. She had trouble thinking. She could see the leering wraith draw back its feeding hand after it had torn open her shirt. Then she felt the feeding hand latch onto her chest. She thought her life was over.

Sam waited for her life to drain away. But the wraith's triumphant grin turned to a horrified expression. Then it began to scream. The life didn't drain from Sam. It drained from the wraith. The wraith began to wilt and decay as if it was being fed upon. Sam felt as if energy was pouring into her. She idly noticed her belly where her baby was growing was glowing with a faint blue light. Then when the wraith became too weak to hold her up she was grabbing its wrist and holding that feeding hand against her. Within moments more the wraith was dead and she let go of its wrist. The last creature was standing there and Sam's K2 had been melted. But she felt no fear. Sam instinctually knew she could take it.

Then Sam moved. She dodged the creature's strike with its barbed poisonous tail and a spray of potent acid and reached one of its forelegs. She grasped the creature by the foreleg and with a casual tug tossed it down the corridor into a wall with a satisfying crunch. She had grown even stronger.

"Wicked," Sam said to herself.

Sam decided to head back to the control room until she had more knowledge of her new abilities. But she wasn't in any particular hurry. It wouldn't be until she got to the control room that she would realize that she looked about ten years younger than she had looked ten minutes earlier.

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Sam arrived back in the control room in time to see Daniel's eyes open. He was glowing with power. It was almost like Daniel was partially ascended with how he was glowing. But the look wasn't quite the same as the ascended Sam had encountered in the past.

"Oh shit," Daniel cursed as he stumbled.

"What is it?" Sam asked as she rushed over to his side.

"The attack is just a diversion. As I killed the last of the queens that were hiding I saw their true plan. Jewel, have all your ships land on the planet as quickly as possible and then activate the planetary phase cloak," Daniel directed.

"But we are nowhere near needing to use the phase cloak. That was supposed to be the fallback in case our fleet was overwhelmed," Jewel pointed out.

There currently existed a glitch when using the phase cloak on a planetary scale while the Spatial Folding Engine technology was in use. The phase cloak destabilized the SPE generators. The exact cause was being studied and once found would likely be overcome. But that hadn't happened yet.

"The queens are overloading the star in this system," Daniel rebutted.

"Oh shit," Jewel said echoing Daniel's earlier sentiment while already contacting her fleet to land.

The replicators were not biological beings so were less susceptible to death by inertial forces. Therefore their ships were able to land fairly quickly.

"The wraith are trying to escape," Sam pointed out on the hologram while watching ships pulling away from the gravity well of the planet to jump into hyperspace.

Wraith hyperspace systems were more susceptible to gravity wells causing glitches. So they liked to be a good distance from a planet or other large body when jumping.

"Not if I have anything to say about it," Daniel muttered before closing his eyes and reaching out towards the wraith fleet.

The glow on Daniel became brighter.

"Sensors are detecting a localized energy field known as an Attero field surrounding the wraith fleet," The sensor officer reported.

"How is he doing that?" Jewel asked in wonder as the teams that had been out in the city hunting invading forces began to return to the control room.

No answer was immediately forthcoming as several wraith ships tried jumping out only to explode under the effects of the Attero field. The other ships stopped trying to jump into hyperspace and took off at their best possible sub-light speed. Sweat was beading on Daniel's forehead as he held the Attero field in place. He began to shake.

"Daniel, stop!" Sam said. "It is hurting you."

"I will hold it," Daniel whispered. "This is the best chance we have to kill these bastards. They have been plaguing this galaxy for far too long. Besides, it is almost time."

"Time for what?" Sam asked.

"Time for the star to go," The sensor officer reported. "All ships are landed and the phase cloak is active."

That was when it happened. The star exploded. It only took about twenty seconds for the explosion to reach the replicator world rather than the minutes standard light took to travel. Plasma, radiation, and exotic forms of matter blew through the planet without harm and accelerated out into space. Daniel managed to use his power to protect the eyes of his flesh and blood companions or the light would have damaged their vision irreparably despite having their eyes closed. The wraith fleet didn't have the protection the replicator home-world had. Some ships chose to attempt a hyperspace jump despite the Attero field and were torn apart. Others accepted their fate and were blown to atoms by the supernova. The wraith had been killed by their own weapon.

When the supernova faded some time later, only the internal lights of the city-ships kept absolute darkness from enveloping the replicators and their guests. The phase cloak had protected the planet's atmosphere or it would have been burned away. There was no star to provide light. A faintly glowing gas cloud permeated space surrounding the star system. Another glow came from the control room of the primary city-ship. This glow faded in and out of existence as did the being causing it. Or at least that is how it appeared to the occupants of the control room.

"Daniel, what is happening to you?" Sam asked her husband.

Daniel appeared to be fading in and out of existence which had Sam immensely worried.

"What I just did was too much strain on my physical body. It forced an evolution which is in process," Daniel whispered as his face showed immense strain and a considerable amount of pain. "I can see it all…everything," He whispered as his mind expanded to previously unimaginable reaches of the universe.

Daniel felt himself elevating up through the layers of existence. He could sense the ascended Alterans and the level of existence they inhabited. Daniel could sense it as he rose above the layer of existence the Alterans were on to several layers higher. He could sense layers of existence higher than him but his instincts told him not to try to reach those layers until he was ready and knew what he was doing.

The Others from their lower layer could access small amounts of energy from Daniel's layer to fuel their powers. But Daniel was now living in that layer and his new matter was comprised of that energy. Daniel drew small amounts of energy from higher layers than he lived in to fuel his powers. The individual ascended Alterans could affect change in regions of space spanning a few light-years and greater distances when combining their powers. Daniel sensed he could affect change in regions of space spanning galactic distances by himself.

Daniel also grew to understand more about the Alterans. The ascended Alterans for the most part spend their time sending their consciousnesses out into other realities/universes and living out all possible existences that they can. Only the council known as the Others are strong willed enough to divert their attention from this pastime long enough to meet out the occasional justice. Daniel could now see the lure of the other realities and didn't honestly blame the Alterans for falling to this incredibly exciting and fascinating form of entertainment.

Daniel learned this all in the blink of an eye as far as his flesh and blood companions were concerned and without ever having physically left the control room. Unlike the Alterans once his form stabilized Daniel found he could maintain a physical form without losing access to any of his higher powers. The ascended could maintain a physical form for a few hours to a few days. But their ascended abilities diminished the longer they were in that form until they would have to retake fully ascended form for a few weeks to "recharge" so to speak. Daniel's glow diminished until he was again human-looking. But there was definitely something different about him. Those watching couldn't put their finger on it.

"Are you…alright?" Sam asked her husband.

"Never better," Daniel assured with a smile.

"We need to move our city-ships to another world. Without a star this planet will become very inhospitable," Jewel pointed out.

"I think maybe I can do something about that," Daniel said while gesturing out with his hands like he was drawing something in from the depths of space. That was exactly what he was doing. Daniel pulled in all the gas and radiation that had just been released and began manipulating matter on a subatomic level. He poured in some of the energy he now had access to. Within moments he stopped moving. "There. That should do it."

"Do what?" Jewel asked.

"It will take a few minutes for the light to reach us. But your sensors should be picking it up," Daniel replied.

The sensor officer gaped at her station and then announced, "He is right. There is a new star we are orbiting."

Everyone in the control room including Sam turned to look at her husband with varying expressions of amazement, awe, and shock.

"That shouldn't be possible," Rodney said. "The power requirements for forming a star that fast would be…fantastic."

Daniel had casually healed Rodney's affliction from the poison with barely a thought of effort.

"Anything is possible, Rodney," Daniel assured.

"Are you ascended then?" Jeannie asked.

"Something like that," Daniel replied as he took Sam's hand and pulled her closer to him.

"What now?" John questioned.

"Now I think Sam and I need a little vacation. We have some thinking to do," Daniel stated.

"Will you be back?" Teyla asked.

"Most definitely," Daniel assured.

"You are in charge while we are away, John," Sam informed her military head.

"I don't know that the IOA will agree to that depending on how long you are away," John pointed out.

"Tell them I will be watching to make sure Sam's order is followed and remind them that I am more Alteran than they are. Atlantis belongs to the Alteran people no matter who is currently occupying it," Daniel said.

"And that order will be backed up by me," Jack added.

Teyla stepped forward and enveloped first Sam and then Daniel in a hug while whispering, "Be safe."

Jack, Teal's, the rest of SGA-1, and several others also offered farewells for the time being.

"We will see you when we see you," Daniel said with a grin.

"Where are we going?" Sam asked her husband.

"Everywhere," Daniel said before he and Sam transformed into a golden light and then disappeared.

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Epilogue

Daniel lay with his sleeping wife half draped over him. He listened to her heartbeat and her breathing as he thought about the recent past of their exciting lives. Sam's libido had drastically increased as her pregnancy progressed and sex hadn't exactly been infrequent between them before her pregnancy. The couple was asleep in their bedroom onboard the Star Skimmer. They had been flying around the Pegasus galaxy, the Milky Way galaxy, the Ida galaxy, the Ori galaxy, and several other galaxies since Daniel had achieved his new level of ascension. They had been exploring and enjoying each other for the past couple of months and Daniel had been teaching Sam a lot of what he was aware of now that he existed on a higher plane.

Daniel suddenly sensed something unusual happening that caught his attention as he stared off towards Earth. He casually slipped from beneath Sam and caused his clothes to materialize on his form in a manipulation of energy and matter. He watched Sam shift in her sleep. To him she was so amazingly beautiful. He would be back shortly he told himself before he teleported away across millions of light-years until he reappeared in his old lab back on Earth.

The lab space surprisingly hadn't been reassigned yet and stood empty except for basic furniture and a single occupant.

"I thought you might show up if you were able," Harry said as he focused on the new arrival. "It took me a long time to figure out what happened."

"Who are you? And what are you talking about?" Daniel asked as he tried probing the other man with his extra-dimensional (extra-D) senses.

Daniel was quite surprised. But he couldn't sense anything from the other male.

"My name is Harry Potter. And I guess I am as close to a brother to you as a person can get considering you absorbed a large portion of my essence, what some might call a soul," Harry said. "Did you feel a massive amount of pain a few months back?"

"Yes, and I had extra-universal energy in me after that," Daniel confirmed. "I take it that came from you?"

"Yes," Harry confirmed. "I was transitioning between my home universe and another through a wormhole when an anomaly struck the wormhole. That anomaly threw a large portion of my essence into this universe and left me much weaker for a time. I think the essence went to the version of me in this universe who I would have been born as had I been here."

"I see. I am your counterpart," Daniel said.

Daniel sensed this other being was telling the truth.

"And I am yours," Harry confirmed. "You don't seem too surprised by this revelation," He said with a question in his tone.

"We have experience with travel between universes," Daniel said.

"I was just developing it," Harry explained. "I have since added systems in place to prevent the anomaly from doing what it did again."

"Why are you here?" Daniel queried.

"I wanted to determine fully what effect my power had on you. My ability to sense such things was limited from another universe. Now that I am here I can see it had an impressive effect. I think you are actually more powerful than me," Harry said.

"I can't sense your power at all," Daniel pointed out.

"That is because I am quite skilled at manipulating my power," Harry replied. "I am both proficient at using the power I have without wasting energy and hiding from those I don't want to detect me. I have dealt with hostile powerful beings before."

"Perhaps you can teach me how to better utilize my powers," Daniel suggested. "In return I might be able to boost you up to my power level."

Daniel knew there were beings more powerful out there than even he was. It would be nice to better be able to defend himself and those he protected from those beings if the need ever arose. And having an ally that was just as powerful and skilled could only be a benefit.

"I think we can learn a lot from each other, Daniel," Harry said as he held out his hand to shake.

"I think you are right," Daniel agreed as he shook Harry's hand.

The two powerful males couldn't yet realize how much their working together would change the fates of multiple universes and for the better.

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A Look into the Future

"What is on your mind?" Ishta heard from behind her.

Ishta turned from the balcony of her home on Tera Prenata to see her husband Teal'c standing in the entrance to their bedroom.

"I was just thinking about the past 1200 years and how good they have been to us," Ishta told her mate as he walked up behind her and enveloped her in his arms.

"Indeed they have," Teal'c agreed. "Thanks to Daniel Jackson."

"We owe a lot to him," Ishta agreed. "If he hadn't offered to ascend us we wouldn't have had Prya'l and Bra'den."

Prya'l and Bra'den were the daughter and son Ishta and Teal'c had been able to have after Daniel had ascended them. Daniel had ascended them to a layer of reality between the layer that Daniel was on and the one the ascended Alterans existed on. It was not easily possible to reach the layer that Daniel existed on unless it was through your own means. A few exceptions were unless you were born with a portion of higher-dimensional energy within you or if you were mated to one that existed on that layer. Daniel's long-time friend Harry Potter met the criteria for the first case. Samantha Jackson met the criteria for the second case. As such they both existed on that layer of reality.

One day that layer is something that Teal'c and Ishta might reach on their own. But until then they were pretty happy with their lives as it was. Daniel Jackson had made the offer of ascending many of his old allies and friends from his days at the SGC and on Atlantis. Those on SG-1, SGA-1, along with their families had joined the ranks of the ascended. Still many others had been made immortal on the lower planes if they had wished it. Daniel was capable of turning a mortal being into an immortal being. Tera Prenata, the planet that was the home of the ascended made by Daniel Jackson, existed in the layer those ascended existed in. It was a beautiful world the likes of which simply couldn't exist on the lower planes due to physical laws.

"It is good to come back home in between rangings to remember how far we have come," Teal'c said.

Rangings were what Teal'c and the others called going out to explore other realities. The ascended Alterans had trouble pulling themselves away from that pursuit. Those ascended to the layer Teal'c and Ishta existed on didn't have quite as much struggle. But it was still hard to stop exploring all possible adventures. Teal'c particularly enjoyed living through different scenarios of his days with SG-1.

"And for other pursuits," Ishta said as she turned her head up to her husband and gave him a look.

Despite the fact that the couple had been together for over 1200 years they had never lost their passion for one another. That continued passion was something that ascended couples didn't seem to lose. This was perhaps the greatest gift of their ascension. It also didn't hurt that they had many different role-playing scenarios they could act out with their powers. They could assume any physical form they wanted, including the appearance of others. Nobody's feelings were hurt if their partner's thoughts strayed to being attracted to another form. Because as ascended they could share their true essence of self with one another. That essence of self went deeper than physical appearance. Ascended mates would routinely assume the form of another for a little sexual fun before resuming their normal appearance.

"I do enjoy these other pursuits you speak of," Teal'c said between kisses.

"I know you do my love," Ishta said as she began kissing her way down his body.

No more words were exchanged.

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The End

Rev 0 Published 3/9/2019

Author's Note

This story is listed as a pure Stargate story. The only elements of Harry Potter in this story are in the epilogue and the power from which Daniel draws extra strength from. Percentage-wise that is probably less than 1% of the story. Therefore I am classifying it as pure Stargate. I hope you enjoyed reading the story as much as I enjoyed writing it.