AN: So this chapter officially alters the Stargate timeline. I watched the beginning of season 9 and I realized that although this goes against the official timeline that it feels like a year passes in between seasons. So the next several chapters are indeed going to take place in what I am dubbing season 8.5. Also there will be a reference to the Samurai rangers having served at about the same time as Jungle Fury. Also this officially crosses over with Star Gate Atlantis as of this chapter

Ashley sat on the bed in what was known as VIP quarters but in reality felt like a cell. She had not tried to escape but knew if she had that the door would have been locked. There were two airmen standing guard outside her door. Looking at the clock she realized that she had been sitting here for hours.

Hearing some commotion outside the door she took one last look at her wrist. This was the first time since she had first become a ranger that her wrist was bare. Andros had been right that she wasn't doing this alone however the cost of having her team involved had taken something very dear to them all.

The door opened and the last person Ashley really wanted to see stood in the door way. She breathed in his cologne and glanced at this shoulders which were adorned with stars. The only word that would drift from her mouth was, "Grandpa."

"Don't you Grandpa me young lady!" The older man shook his head, "You could have come to me, and you never needed to fake your death. I am sure I would have understood and we could have worked things out."

Ashley looked down to the floor, "You never would have understood. I left before you were even aware that there were Aliens out there."

General Hammond sighed and he wrapped his arms around his granddaughter, "You threw your life away to join the GSA but now you have been cast aside so you have come home looking all dejected because you have lost your purpose."

"I have not lost my purpose, nor have I been thrown aside. In fact I come here as just another piece of the puzzle." Ashley looked up at her Grandfather as he looked down with realization stuck on his face.

"When all is said and done I will return to the GSA and my family. I have three children with the man of my dreams and currently they are without their mother. Tell me that you wouldn't do your job to the best of your ability to return to them."

"How can you work for a group that holds your children hostage so that you do a task for them?" General Hammond asked his granddaughter.

"I had a choice however it was about taking the choice that had the most honor. I also said nothing about my children being held hostage. They are with their father also doing an important task." Ashley sighed and shook her head.

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Commander Stanton looked around his command, "So Mike what do you think of our little ship now that you have seen her fly?"

Mike laughed, "Well she isn't exactly little but she sure flies nice. It will be good to have a full ship though."

"We will have a full ship in just a few weeks and then from there Terra Venture will join the long legacy of the other city ships."

"Commander aren't we at all worried about what the enemy forces are going to send at us?" A voice asked from behind."

Stanton turned around, "Kai, the GSA will ensure that we have good fortune. The darkness may seem scary because it is new to most of your people however it is not something that can't be defeated."

Kai sat down and looked at where Kendrix laughed, "You forget Kai our commander is Kerovian. If his people can thrive during an evacuation then surely he will see us to our new world."

Kai grimaced hating being shown up by his friend who was one of the chief science officers.

Kendrix laughed, "Hey when our shift is finished why don't we go take a look at the gift the Kerovian's gave us for our journey."

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Scott sat on a couch and counted the ceiling tiles. Last week he had been in charge of the eagle squadron on Corinthum and now he was reactivated as a ranger on KO-35. The entire team save for Dr. K who had refused to leave her comfort zone and Tenaya because of her position in his father's office had been reassigned.

Apparently in order to officially be well known as rangers they had to contribute to the greater whole of the GSA. And with the SPD rangers being on Corinthum they weren't needed there. It had been questionable where they would be sent until news came through that the Astro team was being disbanded until further notice. It was decided in light of this opportunity that the RPM team would pull a tour of duty protecting KO-35.

Summer had dragged Gemma out to check out the market place. Ziggy was checking out the orphanages to see if he could volunteer in his free time which it seemed like they were going to have a lot of. Flynn was with Gem making sure all the power requirements were stable while Dylan drove laps around the city trying to get a lay of their new stomping grounds. And he had a meeting scheduled with Kin-Won who seemed to be the Kerovian version of his Father and Dr. K all rolled into one person.

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Ashley stood in front of the team known as SG1 as well as General O'Neil and her grandfather.

Jack leaned forward, "You mean to tell me that in a week there will be a ship sent by the GSA in our solar system?"

Daniel coughed, "A colony ship like Corinth?"

Ashley nodded, "I have been sent to pave the way. People have already been recruited and are already aboard as the senior crew."

Sam shook her head while giving Daniel a look saying that she would kill him for being right, "How many people are we talking about?"

"Already on board there are approximately one thousand that we selected from around the world. And whether you like it or not there is going to be about thirty million people from around the planet that will be given a place on the ship. You will fail if you try to stop this from taking place. The construction of the ship was programmed nine thousand years ago and even if anyone in the GSA wanted to stop its construction they would have failed.

Teal'c inclined his head, "The GSA intends to just come in and take a portion of Earth's population. I was under the impression that is why the GSA and the Goa'uld were so far in disagreement."

Ashley shook her head, "Yes part of the reason that the GSA and the Goa'uld were at odds was the fact that the Goa'uld saw humanity only as slaves. This recolonization was started as an effort to allow people of Earth to live lives free of slavery. Now however it is being viewed as a way to help the over population of your world.

Jack pointed out, "You do realize being the granddaughter of General Hammond here makes this your world as well?"

Ashley shook her head, "I was born here but the only thing currently on this planet that I love more than my grandfather is my husband and children and they have absolutely no ties to this world. I would fight for Earth but I will never be able to call this place home again. I never had stability here, I bounced between my grandparents and my parents as my parents saw fit to actually have me be in their lives. Even now I am dead to them."

Sam looked straight at Ashley, "you said your husband is here on Earth?"

Ashley nodded, "Yes my whole team is here coordinating the recruiting centers for the people who will travel to another world." Ashley looked back at the door, "Can I go back to my room now?"

General Hammond escorted his granddaughter back to her room while Daniel pointed at the rest of the team, "I told you that my theory about every three thousand years was correct."

Jack rocked his head in his hands, "I was also right in the fact that this GSA is just playing the same game that the Goa'uld have been playing."

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Sam marched into the lounge where Nova sat with Jon going over training manuals. "How come you never told me?"

Nova looked at Sam, "What do you mean Omega?"

"All this time that I have known you. You never once told me your real name. It is always Nova this or Nova that. "

Nova frowned, "My birth name is of no consequence to you or anyone else. If I didn't need to use my birth planet for ID purposes on census documents I wouldn't. "

"I get that but I want to know if what I heard is true?" Sam asked as he shook his head.

Jon looked confused, "Sam what is this all about?"

Sam grinned, "I found something out about nova while I was on Corinthum for the last week. And I want to know why Amy Landsdown never visits her family."

Nova paled at the name that was used, "how do you know that name?"

I saw a picture that Summer left in the garage before she was transferred to KO-35. The picture was very clearly you and the caption said Amy Landsdown."

That was a long time ago and I would be surprised if summer actually knew who I was. Even though I was part of the socialite class my side of the Landsdown family didn't get along with Summer's."

Sam pumped his hand in the air and shouted loud enough to be heard by the whole base. "I knew it!"

Nova grew red in the face, "You little brat, there was no picture was there?"

Sam shook his head with a mischievous grin on his face. "No someone told me that you might be the missing Landsdown but they weren't sure. I decided to ask you for myself. "

Nova shook her head as she huffed, "I would prefer if we didn't go through this. Amy ceased to exist years ago. I am Nova and that is final. "

Nova left the room leaving Jon looking confused.

Sam smiled, "she will be back. This isn't the first time that I have pushed her buttons and it won't be the last."

"That is one thing that always confused me. You two are the only rangers that I have met that have titles because most other rangers just use their names."

"Well think about it, most rangers aren't public about their powers. Nova and I have status inside SPD headquarters so naturally we use our titles as you would use colonel when you were in the military."

"So omega is sort of your rank?" Jon asked as he tried to comprehend.

"I guess you could say that." Sam shrugged, "except that when using both name and title I go by Sam Omega."

Jon asked, "And how do you go about this on earth?"

"On earth I just go by Sam. I have actually never had to use my surname. If someone asks me about Omega I just brush it off as a nickname." Sam explained, "It has happened more than once and I have gotten creative about my explanation."

Jon asked Sam another question, "How many worlds are absolutely of limits of talking about your ranger identity?"

"Really only on earth; all of the other planets that I have been to are either GSA or SPD worlds. So as long as it isn't a conflict of interest I can be open about my job. However no matter where I go I have to follow the three core rules and no matter what and I shouldn't ever be HEY EVERYONE I AM THE OMEGA RANGER." Sam answered as he mock yelled the last part.

"Ok here is another question," Jon asked with a grin, "if you go by Sam in places where you can't use your title and with your friends what does Nova go by?"

Sam tilted his head, "You know I don't honestly know. I know she never uses Amy. But you know in all the years that I have known her she has never gone out in public unless it was for a mission. She rarely goes to the surface here. And this is an open information base of operations. I am going to have to get creative. We can't let this secrecy go on any longer."

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Tori kicked a pebble as she looked around at her companions and asked, "What are we doing on this rock anyway it is totally dead and there aren't even any waves to surf."

"Don't complain Tor," Blake frowned, "you're the one who asked for an off world assignment seeing as you were tired of playing soldier."

Tori whined, "I didn't know we would get posted out here in the middle of nowhere acting as relief staff to the normal guardians of this graveyard."

Shane jumped down from a nearby tree, "Well you did and now you have to deal with it. None of us are happy but we do our job as we should."

Hunter crossed his arms, "unfortunately being a ranger while still being students set us up to think that we would always be involved with excitement and action."

Blake smirked at his brother, "That is why being a thunder ninja was an advantage over you winds. Already we knew that a ninja's place is to be the silent observer."

"Bro I thought we were way past the whole thunder versus wind thing. Especially seeing as we have that open truce now." Dustin shook his head at Blake and then stared at the navy ranger.

Cam made his way along an ancient path, "If you are done bickering you should know that this planet has a stargate and that we have guests. I think it is fine to disappear and observe their actions."

Everyone closed their visors and sunk into the background.

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Rodney waned his arms around, "this planet gives me the creeps and not in a good way."

Teyla smirked, "Rodney I don't think there is anything to worry about. My people have a legend about mysterious protectors that used to come from this planet in times of great need however they have not been seen for many generations."

"And these protectors, did they help against the wraith?" Aiden Ford asked as he repositioned his gun.

"No stories are very clear that they didn't involve themselves with the Wraith. Some were even wary of them because they wouldn't help us with the Wraith." Teyla frowned.

Something rolled out of the weeds as John Shepard kicked his way along the path. "Well whoever was here were real litter bugs there appears to be boxes all over the place and I think that was just a tin can."

McKay stopped and picked up a small box that looked newer than others immediately around and also a fair bit smaller.

"Rodney should you be picking things up?" Teyla asked the scientist.

"I was just trying to figure out if this is litter or not. There is definitely something in this box though." Rodney said shaking the box to indicate that it made noise.

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Tori's eyes grew large as she saw what was in their hands and after checking out against the grid she jumped from her shadow and ordered the surprised group to put it down. "That item is very dangerous and must not leave this planet; you need to put it down right now!"

"Why should we listen to you? For all we know you are here to steal this piece of junk." The one with the Canadian patch mouthed back.

Tori watched as Blake walked up behind the mouthy one and stood just behind him.

The one female who had been talking about the protectors gasped at Tori, "Are you perhaps the protectors that my people wrote about?"

"Protectors?" Cam said coming out from behind a tree, "not us but perhaps a team that is no longer here"

Tori nodded, "We are told that before the war got really bad some teams would look for amusement when they were bored. However that has not been in a great many years and we are just a temporary team."

The Mouthy one turned around to find Blake just behind him and he jumped and moved closer to the two that carried guns.

Suddenly a dark shape grew and took the form of a man. Before anyone could react it picked up the small box that was still in the person's hands and started backing away from the group. The two soldiers began to shoot at it with their weapons however it was very apparent that their weapons were not going to be effective.

Cam raised his sword and pressing buttons attempted to use his powers to darken the light of the planet. Dustin appeared and called forward a dust cloud. Tori took her cue and started to form a rain cloud however before the light could vanish the creature disappeared.

Hunter appeared and stomped his foot, "Was that…"

"Yes bro that was a shadow warrior." Shane appeared

Hunter looked at Tori, "What did it get?"

Tori shook her head, "It just took the psycho cards."

Dustin shook his helmet, "How did a shadow warrior get here?"

Cam looked at the group, "It wasn't them, it was thought possible that there could be a few shadow warriors hidden in with this collection."

Shane picked up the can that had been kicked, "Well it was them to some extent," Shane rattled the can, "this is a shadow canister and they activated it."

The one who seemed to be the leader of the group pointed back to the stargate, "I think we should go now, it appears that we caused some trouble for you people and sticking around doesn't seem to be helping."

Tori glared through her visor, "Yes Major John Shepherd you should go and go now before we change our minds."

John stopped short, "What did you just call me?"

McKay turned back to the masked group, "You called him by name."

Tori tilted her head, "Yes I did Rodney McKay however that is for you to find out how I know and not for me to tell you. Just know that you should give yourself less credit than you give yourself. Colonel Carter is smarter than you credit her with."

The group turned heal and left the area but as soon as they were gone Shane opened his visor and shook his head, "Tori was that wise baiting them like that? We do have a crisis on our hands."

"Nothing we can do now but alert Galactic Prime and the rest of the GSA about this incursion and get ready to relocate the entire inventory to another planet." Cam shook his head.

Dustin groaned, "Why do we need to clear this planet?"

Blake hit Dustin on the helmet, "If and when that shadow gets back to the Milky Way it will alert all forces to the location of this planet and the darkness will be on this planet in an effort to take back the relics we have captured from them.

Hunter looked into the sky, "If it is a shadow and it moves with sources of light then it should take millennia for it to return to the Milky Way."

Cam shook his head, "Unfortunately that isn't how it works, it doesn't move with the speed of light it moves from light source to light source so all it needs to do it ascertain a course back to the Milky Way and hop from star system to star system.

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John Shepherd looked behind him as they exited the gate back in Atlantis and shook off the shock of hearing his name come from that being.

Aiden handed off his fire arm and looked at John, "I know you never spent much time around the SGC but that voice sounded very familiar.

McKay snapped his fingers and he ran off, "I will meet you in the conference room in ten minutes!"

Teyla looked at McKay's retreating form, "I don't know if I like it when he gets like that."

John shook his head, "I agree; his ideas often get us into trouble."

Ten minutes later they were all sitting around the conference room table with Dr. Weir joining them when McKay made his reappearance and set down a tablet, "When we came here I had to foresight to copy SG1's research on the GSA, don't ask me why but I thought in the very least in some down time I could validate some of the research."

Dr. Weir sighed, "I had hoped to leave all mention of the GSA behind us. In my short time in charge of the SGC that file gave a huge headache on what to classify the GSA. They have hardly appeared as allies but they are hardly enemies."

"It would have blown by if Lt. Ford here didn't say that the blue being reminded him of someone and then I remembered this information."

Teyla titled her head, "How can this information on the GSA help you against the mysterious protectors. There have never been any common factors between our galaxies before now."

"Yes but SG1 has found information in the past to indicate that the GSA may not be just in the Milky Way. In fact look at this star chart of the two galaxies and at the proposed space of the GSA the treaty lines run a straight line into the Pegasus galaxy." McKay responded as he showed a map that was on the tablet.

Ford shrugged, "Alright so that could be, but how would someone I know from the SGC be here in the Pegasus galaxy?"

McKay brought up a file, "This is a direct quote from Colonel Carter's report on the first meeting with the people of Corinthum," McKay proceeded to read the file, "The People of Corinthum are technologically comparative with Earth except that they demonstrate long standing knowledge of their galactic community even without the use of the stargate. They claim to have powerful allies who protect them from outside forces and one person that we got to converse with, identified as Summer, told us that she herself has been off world on a borrowed space ship. Summer is unable to tell us the traveling speed of such ships as speed is classified information."

Dr. Weir nodded, "I do believe I read somewhere that even though they do not have stargates they possess technology that allows instantaneous transportation much like the stargate system."

McKay nodded and pulled up another file, "The SGC was invaded by a single GSA operative; it is still unknown how this person got into the SGC however her identity can be confirmed as Kimberly Hart. She left the SGC before she could be detained via a method of transportation similar to an Asguard beam.

John raised his hand and waved it, "You mean to say that this GSA has operatives that include world renowned gymnasts?"

Lt. Ford leaned back in his chair, "This is all well and good but how does this information tell us if those people back there have had access to the SGC or not?"

Teyla stood, "I am very confused about this entire conversation, what is this GSA and why do they seem to concern you so much?"

McKay shook his hand, "Later Teyla, we will get to that later. First thing is first were these the symbols we saw?" McKay brought up a picture of six symbols on the large screen."

Teyla nodded, "Those were the symbols on the suits of our mysterious guardians."

McKay nodded back, "They are not what you believe them to be but good that makes this easy because I can positively identify the team we met as the Ninja Storm team which is the team that is alleged to have appeared in Blue Bay Harbor back in 1999."

John leaned back, "So we have a team a town and a year how does that help us?"

McKay grinned, "Well guess what we have a single member of the SGC that hails from Blue Bay Harbor and even more suspicious is the fact that she is on SG1's short list of potential GSA operatives." McKay brought up a picture, "I would like to introduce you to Airman Victoria Hanson who by the way recently came out that she was dating Motocross star Blake Bradley who went to school at Thunder Bay Academy a school that specializes in martial arts and more exactly ninja competitions."

Lt. Ford snapped upright at the picture, "That is her! That is exactly who I was thinking of. Everyone calls her Tori."

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Teyla marched down the corridor towards the jumper bay when Major Shepherd caught up to her, "You left the briefing very abruptly."

"I hardly knew what was going on in there John. It appeared to be a witch hunt from within your own planet. What am I to think?" Teyla turned, "Now if you don't mind I have a jumper waiting to take me to my people for a few days."

John fell into stride, "How about I drive you and I explain what I know. Which to be honest isn't much more then you now know."

Teyla nodded as she walked beside the commander of her team and the 2nd in command of the mission.

Once in the jumper and all the clearances had been made John began talking, "Before coming to Atlantis I read up on a little bit of the SGC so that I knew what I was getting into. I quickly found a recurring theme in the fact that there was evidence of another major player in the war against the Goa'uld that that was the GSA. Now the GSA as a whole didn't seem to care about the Goa'uld however the Goa'uld were very scared of the GSA. They had a lot of superstitious tales about an energy line in space. Don't ask me what that means."

Teyla shook her head, "Are they your allies or your enemies, should my people fear the legends?"

John shook his head, "I don't think you need to fear them. The SGC found out that the GSA have teams scattered around our planet and even throughout the Galaxy and evidently now they are intergalactic. These teams hardly are malicious and we know of them as Power Rangers on Earth. They are hard to pin down but every now information leaks however many people believe them to be a hoax."

Teyla tilted her head, "Do you not believe they are a hoax?"

"Before today I didn't know what I believed. I actually thought the information of the GSA was very far exaggerated however I was sort of suspicious of whether the power rangers were a hoax or not." John explained to Teyla

Teyla nodded, "So these Power Rangers protect your planet?"

John shrugged before turning to focus back on the controls, "I guess so but I am no expert."