Title: The Soon to be Traveller
Author: Mixer
Rating: Nothing bad, yet!
Spoilers: Not Sure
Pairings: Why would I want to spoil it?
Summary: Stargate/Smallville Crossover, A girl follows SG-1 back through the gate in a hunt for one of the last of her race, and she finds him along with some complications. Please give this fic a chance
Disclaimer: Anyone or anything that you recognise doesn't belong to me, other stuff probably belongs to me, but please don't sue for what I'm borrowing from trademark people.
And thank you to The Die Hard for Clarke's name, I couldn't remember it exactly and Alkari did wonder herself why they spoke the same language. (This chapter was fixed up a little.again!)
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Alkari watched in awe as the seventh symbol locked. In her seventeen years, never before had she seen the Gateway open, and now it filled her with an excitement and pleasure she couldn't describe as the blue water-like-portal bulged forward. It was like a bubble bursting out before it crashed back into the confines of the gateway.
She couldn't help but begin to move forward as her curiosity began to peak, some kind of metallic device was emerging from the gate and moving around the area in a search like pattern, probes swivelling this way and that.
What was it? Some kind of a machine for sure, but she had never seen anything as advanced as it was, though from what her guardians had told her before their deaths, her world had been thousands of times more advanced then the one she was currently on, buildings that were hundreds of feet tall. And technology that could take her people to the stars.
Though Alkari had no first hand knowledge of her world, no evidence that what her adopted parents had told her was true, she believed it, she had to.
Because for as long as she could remember, her entire life that would be, she had lived on one world, had called it home. But for all of that time she hadn't felt right, she hadn't felt like part of that world, she had always felt alienated from it, separate, apart. Like she didn't belong, like she wasn't tied to it the way everyone else was.
And now the gateway was opening, the ones who had raised had always said that it could, and she'd spent hours upon hours upon hours watching it and randomly pressing the keys on what she was told was a dialling device, since she was eleven. But to no effect, she had never been able to get it to work, and the people in her village thought her attempts were hopeless, that the Gate would open when the Gods deemed it should.
Guess the gods deemed it time for it to open, then.
Alkari moved to within a few feet of the machine, but chose to stay behind a fairly thick tree, as much as she wanted to get closer she wasn't so stupid as to forgot all thoughts of caution. And she wasn't so stupid as think that everyone in the big wide universe were good people, who knew who'd opened the gate or what they were up to?
But still.
She was almost unconsciously moving forward when the machine came to a stop and the liquid inside of the gate dissipated. Partly she was relieved, and another part of her was also very much disappointed by the opportunity that she had just missed due to her caution.
"Drat it!" she muttered in a hiss of breath. Who knew how long it would be until the gateway opened again? It could be months or even years. Frustrated and more then a little annoyed she gave the machine a hard enough kick that her foot was going to be aching for hours, muttering to herself she slid down the side of the machine and hit the ground, tucking her arms around her knees and dropping her head into them.
*******
Alkari jerked awake to the sounds of a symbol locking and the gate bulging open, she mentally cursed herself as she scrambled away from the gate and back to the tree she had been behind earlier, and not a moment too soon.
Glancing back around the tree she saw ripples form as a figure emerged, black, bald and tall. He had some kind of a gold emblem branded onto his head and was clad in a uniform. Shades of green and brown, and carrying a staff with a oval end.
A weapon was her best guess.
She watched in awe as two more people emerged from the liquid in the gate, one of them was a man with greyish hair and an air of authority, by some instinct she knew he was the leader of the people coming through the gateway. Dressed the same way as the other man, she could see his clothes better and could see insignia on his arms.
The other person was a women, with ashy blonde hair and shorter then the others, but just as confident in her movements. A fourth and final human emerged before the gateway shut down once more. Light brown hair, glasses and the most noticeable difference was the lack of visible weaponry, unlike the other three who were loaded down with it.
Alkari watched them for a few moments more before it became unbearable, she was so close, they were her key to escaping her world, to learning the secrets of the Gateway.
Stepping out from behind the tree, she called out to them "Braj te cal omesh cnat" Greetings, and welcome to my world.
She was going to guess that she'd surprised them, from the way they swivelled and almost shot her, she was most interested in the way the black mans staff popped open on either side and an orange charge crackled through it. An energy weapon of some kind, it made her smile to watch him straighten back up as the one she thought was in charge made a motion with one of his hands, relaxing the other three.
He said one word and made it a question "Daniel?"
The one with the glasses moved up to the speakers side "Ah, I think I recognise the language, um. Brash cee al kot. Doctor Daniel reanot" The last directed at Alkari
The small smile on her face was blooming now, Die now, evil one. I am Doctor Daniel man. "Kray frith acnown" Prepare to speak fledgling. She was caught in a giggling fit, he was trying to speak a complex language and was getting the emphasises all wrong, changing the entire context of what he said. She couldn't help but find it amusing, if he was the sole link in trying to speak with her the newcomers would be in a lot of trouble.
Pulling herself together she let her smile remain as she spoke "Rajon ritren krayith denver garg Doctor Daniel" Your accent and emphasise are terrible Doctor Daniel.
An odd look came over his face "Jack"
Jack, the leader of the group, replied simply with "Daniel" and a shake of his head as he did it
"I think she's making fun of me" Daniel stated, Alkari was going to go with the assumption that they didn't yet realise she could understand the language they were speaking in, she herself wasn't quite sure why people from another planet would speak one of the same languages that she did, but it was making things interesting to say the least.
"It is true Dr Daniel, I am making fun of you, and I apologise for it" she stated with a broad grin "My name is Alkari"
He smiled in return of her grin, and with the revelation that she knew there language, Jack responded. "Ok then, I'm Colonel Jack O'Neill of the planet Earth" A chill was sent through her with the mention of Earth, Kal- El. Before they died her protectors had told her of him, and how he was sent in a ship not long before their world was destroyed, sent to a world called Earth. And until that moment she had never been able to remember the name of the world, Colonel O'Neill had just handed her the answer to what she had been racking her brain for, for years.
"This is Major Samantha Carter" indicating the woman to his right "And this is Teal'c" A gesture to his left pointing out the previously unnamed one. "We're part of a program known as the SGC and I suppose to put it simply we're explorers"
"So you travel through the gateway to explore other worlds? Why? Are you looking for something in particular.?"
Obviously taken a little back by her Colonel O'Neill was once more the one to speak up "In a sense we're searching for worlds with technology that could help us to fight an enemy known as the Gou'ald, but we are also looking for worlds to alley ourselves with against them"
Alkari continued to smile at them and jumped subjects "What is this device called?" she asked, turning her attention towards the machine that had come through the gateway earlier.
It was Major Samantha Carter that gave her the answer, the other three began to spread out, Doctor Daniel heading in the generally direction of her village. "This is a MALP" she explained "We send it through the Stargate-"
"Stargate?"
"It's what we call the gateway that we came through, we send the MALP's ahead of us to make sure the world we are visiting is safe for us, breathable oxygen, radiation. All those sort of things" she finished.
Unconsciously Alkari made a small sound in the back of her throat as she contemplated what had been said, it did make sense. "How often do you leave your own world then Major Samantha Carter?"
Looking a little flustered she said "Please, call me Sam, and on average three or four times a week, though quite often it is to return to places we've already been to for various reasons"
"Do you ever take people back through the, the Stargate with you?"
An odd look flashed through her eye's, but it was gone before Alkari could understand what it meant "Sometimes when its necessary"
Sam's attention was wondering past her, and she glanced back to see Daniel attempting to speak with two of the adults from her village on a rise. She couldn't help but wonder what he was meaning to say and what he was actually saying.
Alkari's curiosity about the four who had travelled through the Stargate, as they called it, was intense and she certainly wanted to learn more about them. She opened her mouth to ask another of the million questions racing through her mind but Sam got in first "Daniel doesn't seem to be doing too well with those two over there, would you mind giving him a hand?"
The two of them wearing smiles she said "Sure, I think I may be the only one on this world who speaks your language"
*******
Climbing the rise to the speak with the three, Sam at her side, she heard the Major's exhale sharply at the sight of Alkari's village. With the sun setting it was an incredible sight, the last rays from the sun bouncing through the lighter atmosphere along the horizon and scattering a multitude of colours over miles of land.
"Bo rathen gri-" Alkari quickly cut Daniel off, rapidly explaining to the two elders who the newcomers were and where they had come from, apologising for what Daniel had been saying also.
As they came to understand, she became a translator between the two sides, and made a mental note to try and straighten some of Daniel's vocabulary out, so at the least he wouldn't insult her village elders. Or anyone else for that matter.
"The Elders say that they are honoured to have you here and welcome you to enjoy a feast tonight in the Great Hall, though they request that you be gone by the day after tomorrow at the latest if that is at all possibly" Seeing the question forming as to why, she quickly jumped ahead in her translation "In a few days Umblo will begin, a religious season lasting for seventeen days in which intensive meditation and religious rights are observed. It would be a sacrilege for someone not initiated in our village to be present in the area, it might even insult the Gods themselves and disturbed the harvests" She was a little breathless by the time she'd said what the Elder had said.
Daniel gave a small bow of his head "We would be honoured to attend your feast, but we must return to our world within a few hours"
Once more she gave the translation and she found herself being offered to the newcomers as a guide while they remained on the planet, something that didn't displease her, as it gave her more of an opportunity to learn more about them. With the final translation and the acceptance, the Elders nodded and continued about their work, leaving Alkari with Daniel and Sam.
Making their way back down to Teal'c and Jack, Samantha said something about dirt samples to the Colonel and began to unpack some equipment.
Jack and Daniel headed off to a tablet nearby the Stargate while Sam began to collect samples of dirt in phials and run some kinds of tests on them, Alkari never even heard Teal'c move up behind her, and she jumped when he spoke. "Major Carter is searching the soil for traces of Naqueda"
Attempting to quiet her racing heart she managed to get out "Naqueda?"
"An extremely useful substance for its energy properties and the weapons applications the raw metal can be put to" he explained, she wasn't sure why. But she was beginning to take some comfort in his presence, the way he seemed to radiate indifference while at the same time seemingly being focused on everything.
"I'm going to guess that your world has none of this substance?"
"My world does, there's does not" Alkari filed the thought away that he did not come from the same world as the others who had come through the gate.
"Alkari" Swivelling to the sound of her name she saw Jack beckoning her over to him and Daniel, no doubt they couldn't decipher the second set of symbols on they tablet Daniel was leaning over.
Making her way over to them, she crouched next to Daniel and ran a hand along the symbols "Brethe de longe for grethet um kiray baa kret omesh hole" She said "Our world is gone but we remain and we shall not be forgotten. Krypton"
"Krypton was the name of a neighbouring planet that was destroyed," she said "Though I'm not sure how"
Daniel made a noise as he assumed a thoughtful expression, he looked as if he was going to say more but was interrupted by Major Carter "The soils clear sir, no trace"
Colonel O'Neill checked the area for his team and announced "Ok, pack it up, We have three more planets to visit today" Turning to Alkari "Sorry we can't stay longer but our Naqueda retrieval has been taking priority for the past few weeks" he gave a bit of a shrug "If its alright SG-6 would appreciate the opportunity to come to this world in a few months when things aren't so stressed in the SGC"
Alkari nodded in understanding, but inside she was burning. A few months? She'd finally found a way off the planet, and to the one Kal-El had been sent to at that! And the chance was slipping through her fingers.
It wasn't just the desire to find another from her world, but it was like there was some kind of a burning rage screaming through her, some instinct freeing itself from the depths of her, surpassing her mind. Suppressing her and manipulating her.
Her body seemed to act of its own accord as she said it would be a pleasure to have more visitors come through the Stargate.
Parting words were spoken as she watched the Dialling Device became active, unconsciously memorising the symbols that were pressed to open the gate.
Alkari stood on the platform as first Jack, then Daniel and Teal'c passed through the liquid wormhole, Samantha Carter passed through and time seem to come to a crawl for her. Like she had eternity to consider the thoughts that had begun to race through her mind, and calmly, collectedly. Almost as if she was in a trance she too stepped forward and into the gateway.
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Authors Note: Do you like? It might be a bit of a slow story to progress, but I'll try and get to some of the interesting stuff soon.
Author: Mixer
Rating: Nothing bad, yet!
Spoilers: Not Sure
Pairings: Why would I want to spoil it?
Summary: Stargate/Smallville Crossover, A girl follows SG-1 back through the gate in a hunt for one of the last of her race, and she finds him along with some complications. Please give this fic a chance
Disclaimer: Anyone or anything that you recognise doesn't belong to me, other stuff probably belongs to me, but please don't sue for what I'm borrowing from trademark people.
And thank you to The Die Hard for Clarke's name, I couldn't remember it exactly and Alkari did wonder herself why they spoke the same language. (This chapter was fixed up a little.again!)
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Alkari watched in awe as the seventh symbol locked. In her seventeen years, never before had she seen the Gateway open, and now it filled her with an excitement and pleasure she couldn't describe as the blue water-like-portal bulged forward. It was like a bubble bursting out before it crashed back into the confines of the gateway.
She couldn't help but begin to move forward as her curiosity began to peak, some kind of metallic device was emerging from the gate and moving around the area in a search like pattern, probes swivelling this way and that.
What was it? Some kind of a machine for sure, but she had never seen anything as advanced as it was, though from what her guardians had told her before their deaths, her world had been thousands of times more advanced then the one she was currently on, buildings that were hundreds of feet tall. And technology that could take her people to the stars.
Though Alkari had no first hand knowledge of her world, no evidence that what her adopted parents had told her was true, she believed it, she had to.
Because for as long as she could remember, her entire life that would be, she had lived on one world, had called it home. But for all of that time she hadn't felt right, she hadn't felt like part of that world, she had always felt alienated from it, separate, apart. Like she didn't belong, like she wasn't tied to it the way everyone else was.
And now the gateway was opening, the ones who had raised had always said that it could, and she'd spent hours upon hours upon hours watching it and randomly pressing the keys on what she was told was a dialling device, since she was eleven. But to no effect, she had never been able to get it to work, and the people in her village thought her attempts were hopeless, that the Gate would open when the Gods deemed it should.
Guess the gods deemed it time for it to open, then.
Alkari moved to within a few feet of the machine, but chose to stay behind a fairly thick tree, as much as she wanted to get closer she wasn't so stupid as to forgot all thoughts of caution. And she wasn't so stupid as think that everyone in the big wide universe were good people, who knew who'd opened the gate or what they were up to?
But still.
She was almost unconsciously moving forward when the machine came to a stop and the liquid inside of the gate dissipated. Partly she was relieved, and another part of her was also very much disappointed by the opportunity that she had just missed due to her caution.
"Drat it!" she muttered in a hiss of breath. Who knew how long it would be until the gateway opened again? It could be months or even years. Frustrated and more then a little annoyed she gave the machine a hard enough kick that her foot was going to be aching for hours, muttering to herself she slid down the side of the machine and hit the ground, tucking her arms around her knees and dropping her head into them.
*******
Alkari jerked awake to the sounds of a symbol locking and the gate bulging open, she mentally cursed herself as she scrambled away from the gate and back to the tree she had been behind earlier, and not a moment too soon.
Glancing back around the tree she saw ripples form as a figure emerged, black, bald and tall. He had some kind of a gold emblem branded onto his head and was clad in a uniform. Shades of green and brown, and carrying a staff with a oval end.
A weapon was her best guess.
She watched in awe as two more people emerged from the liquid in the gate, one of them was a man with greyish hair and an air of authority, by some instinct she knew he was the leader of the people coming through the gateway. Dressed the same way as the other man, she could see his clothes better and could see insignia on his arms.
The other person was a women, with ashy blonde hair and shorter then the others, but just as confident in her movements. A fourth and final human emerged before the gateway shut down once more. Light brown hair, glasses and the most noticeable difference was the lack of visible weaponry, unlike the other three who were loaded down with it.
Alkari watched them for a few moments more before it became unbearable, she was so close, they were her key to escaping her world, to learning the secrets of the Gateway.
Stepping out from behind the tree, she called out to them "Braj te cal omesh cnat" Greetings, and welcome to my world.
She was going to guess that she'd surprised them, from the way they swivelled and almost shot her, she was most interested in the way the black mans staff popped open on either side and an orange charge crackled through it. An energy weapon of some kind, it made her smile to watch him straighten back up as the one she thought was in charge made a motion with one of his hands, relaxing the other three.
He said one word and made it a question "Daniel?"
The one with the glasses moved up to the speakers side "Ah, I think I recognise the language, um. Brash cee al kot. Doctor Daniel reanot" The last directed at Alkari
The small smile on her face was blooming now, Die now, evil one. I am Doctor Daniel man. "Kray frith acnown" Prepare to speak fledgling. She was caught in a giggling fit, he was trying to speak a complex language and was getting the emphasises all wrong, changing the entire context of what he said. She couldn't help but find it amusing, if he was the sole link in trying to speak with her the newcomers would be in a lot of trouble.
Pulling herself together she let her smile remain as she spoke "Rajon ritren krayith denver garg Doctor Daniel" Your accent and emphasise are terrible Doctor Daniel.
An odd look came over his face "Jack"
Jack, the leader of the group, replied simply with "Daniel" and a shake of his head as he did it
"I think she's making fun of me" Daniel stated, Alkari was going to go with the assumption that they didn't yet realise she could understand the language they were speaking in, she herself wasn't quite sure why people from another planet would speak one of the same languages that she did, but it was making things interesting to say the least.
"It is true Dr Daniel, I am making fun of you, and I apologise for it" she stated with a broad grin "My name is Alkari"
He smiled in return of her grin, and with the revelation that she knew there language, Jack responded. "Ok then, I'm Colonel Jack O'Neill of the planet Earth" A chill was sent through her with the mention of Earth, Kal- El. Before they died her protectors had told her of him, and how he was sent in a ship not long before their world was destroyed, sent to a world called Earth. And until that moment she had never been able to remember the name of the world, Colonel O'Neill had just handed her the answer to what she had been racking her brain for, for years.
"This is Major Samantha Carter" indicating the woman to his right "And this is Teal'c" A gesture to his left pointing out the previously unnamed one. "We're part of a program known as the SGC and I suppose to put it simply we're explorers"
"So you travel through the gateway to explore other worlds? Why? Are you looking for something in particular.?"
Obviously taken a little back by her Colonel O'Neill was once more the one to speak up "In a sense we're searching for worlds with technology that could help us to fight an enemy known as the Gou'ald, but we are also looking for worlds to alley ourselves with against them"
Alkari continued to smile at them and jumped subjects "What is this device called?" she asked, turning her attention towards the machine that had come through the gateway earlier.
It was Major Samantha Carter that gave her the answer, the other three began to spread out, Doctor Daniel heading in the generally direction of her village. "This is a MALP" she explained "We send it through the Stargate-"
"Stargate?"
"It's what we call the gateway that we came through, we send the MALP's ahead of us to make sure the world we are visiting is safe for us, breathable oxygen, radiation. All those sort of things" she finished.
Unconsciously Alkari made a small sound in the back of her throat as she contemplated what had been said, it did make sense. "How often do you leave your own world then Major Samantha Carter?"
Looking a little flustered she said "Please, call me Sam, and on average three or four times a week, though quite often it is to return to places we've already been to for various reasons"
"Do you ever take people back through the, the Stargate with you?"
An odd look flashed through her eye's, but it was gone before Alkari could understand what it meant "Sometimes when its necessary"
Sam's attention was wondering past her, and she glanced back to see Daniel attempting to speak with two of the adults from her village on a rise. She couldn't help but wonder what he was meaning to say and what he was actually saying.
Alkari's curiosity about the four who had travelled through the Stargate, as they called it, was intense and she certainly wanted to learn more about them. She opened her mouth to ask another of the million questions racing through her mind but Sam got in first "Daniel doesn't seem to be doing too well with those two over there, would you mind giving him a hand?"
The two of them wearing smiles she said "Sure, I think I may be the only one on this world who speaks your language"
*******
Climbing the rise to the speak with the three, Sam at her side, she heard the Major's exhale sharply at the sight of Alkari's village. With the sun setting it was an incredible sight, the last rays from the sun bouncing through the lighter atmosphere along the horizon and scattering a multitude of colours over miles of land.
"Bo rathen gri-" Alkari quickly cut Daniel off, rapidly explaining to the two elders who the newcomers were and where they had come from, apologising for what Daniel had been saying also.
As they came to understand, she became a translator between the two sides, and made a mental note to try and straighten some of Daniel's vocabulary out, so at the least he wouldn't insult her village elders. Or anyone else for that matter.
"The Elders say that they are honoured to have you here and welcome you to enjoy a feast tonight in the Great Hall, though they request that you be gone by the day after tomorrow at the latest if that is at all possibly" Seeing the question forming as to why, she quickly jumped ahead in her translation "In a few days Umblo will begin, a religious season lasting for seventeen days in which intensive meditation and religious rights are observed. It would be a sacrilege for someone not initiated in our village to be present in the area, it might even insult the Gods themselves and disturbed the harvests" She was a little breathless by the time she'd said what the Elder had said.
Daniel gave a small bow of his head "We would be honoured to attend your feast, but we must return to our world within a few hours"
Once more she gave the translation and she found herself being offered to the newcomers as a guide while they remained on the planet, something that didn't displease her, as it gave her more of an opportunity to learn more about them. With the final translation and the acceptance, the Elders nodded and continued about their work, leaving Alkari with Daniel and Sam.
Making their way back down to Teal'c and Jack, Samantha said something about dirt samples to the Colonel and began to unpack some equipment.
Jack and Daniel headed off to a tablet nearby the Stargate while Sam began to collect samples of dirt in phials and run some kinds of tests on them, Alkari never even heard Teal'c move up behind her, and she jumped when he spoke. "Major Carter is searching the soil for traces of Naqueda"
Attempting to quiet her racing heart she managed to get out "Naqueda?"
"An extremely useful substance for its energy properties and the weapons applications the raw metal can be put to" he explained, she wasn't sure why. But she was beginning to take some comfort in his presence, the way he seemed to radiate indifference while at the same time seemingly being focused on everything.
"I'm going to guess that your world has none of this substance?"
"My world does, there's does not" Alkari filed the thought away that he did not come from the same world as the others who had come through the gate.
"Alkari" Swivelling to the sound of her name she saw Jack beckoning her over to him and Daniel, no doubt they couldn't decipher the second set of symbols on they tablet Daniel was leaning over.
Making her way over to them, she crouched next to Daniel and ran a hand along the symbols "Brethe de longe for grethet um kiray baa kret omesh hole" She said "Our world is gone but we remain and we shall not be forgotten. Krypton"
"Krypton was the name of a neighbouring planet that was destroyed," she said "Though I'm not sure how"
Daniel made a noise as he assumed a thoughtful expression, he looked as if he was going to say more but was interrupted by Major Carter "The soils clear sir, no trace"
Colonel O'Neill checked the area for his team and announced "Ok, pack it up, We have three more planets to visit today" Turning to Alkari "Sorry we can't stay longer but our Naqueda retrieval has been taking priority for the past few weeks" he gave a bit of a shrug "If its alright SG-6 would appreciate the opportunity to come to this world in a few months when things aren't so stressed in the SGC"
Alkari nodded in understanding, but inside she was burning. A few months? She'd finally found a way off the planet, and to the one Kal-El had been sent to at that! And the chance was slipping through her fingers.
It wasn't just the desire to find another from her world, but it was like there was some kind of a burning rage screaming through her, some instinct freeing itself from the depths of her, surpassing her mind. Suppressing her and manipulating her.
Her body seemed to act of its own accord as she said it would be a pleasure to have more visitors come through the Stargate.
Parting words were spoken as she watched the Dialling Device became active, unconsciously memorising the symbols that were pressed to open the gate.
Alkari stood on the platform as first Jack, then Daniel and Teal'c passed through the liquid wormhole, Samantha Carter passed through and time seem to come to a crawl for her. Like she had eternity to consider the thoughts that had begun to race through her mind, and calmly, collectedly. Almost as if she was in a trance she too stepped forward and into the gateway.
~*~
Authors Note: Do you like? It might be a bit of a slow story to progress, but I'll try and get to some of the interesting stuff soon.