Title: Of Future Ancient Times

Summary:

Lilly Potter made a discovery. One that will save her child, but at what cost to him? Harry was flung from his home to a new world. New abilities. New enemies. They tried to deal with him now they ignore him. How long until we discover who Harry really is... or who he will become? Slow updates HP/SG1/SGA

AN:

I'm not sure how this fanfic will go as I love Hp/SG1/SGA fics, however, I fear that my knowledge in some of the areas of stargate as I haven't watched as many episodes as I would have liked! So therefore some of the Stargate things I may miss or confuse. Some things on purpose (a cross between worried that I don't know it well enough or because it doesn't fit in this AU). I also predict that Harry will seem over powered but there are several barriers being put in place to prevent that. One being psychological and the other being that he can not be everywhere at once. This is also my first fanfiction where every detail hasn't been carefully planned out. So I'm not really sure where everything is going (it's an experiment to see how I do without a detailed plan... slightly prompted by the fact the both my fanfics have gone on hiatas due to one loosing the plan and having to re-do... 3 times... and the other where I know the fic so well that I have no interest to type it out!).

Oh yeah. I pushed HP up 10 years. I just decided that at the moment... while on an aeroplane 12,437 metres in the sky. Taking this improvisation thing well aren't I?

So let's get started!

"Halt!" yells the nondescript man in the indescribably plain clothes. "In accord to legal proceedings it is required that we state that we do not own Harry Potter or Stargate." the man says in the most boring voice possible.

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It was a cold October night in 1991 where the pavements of Godrics Hollow were still moist from the drizzle of rain that was present only moments ago. In the quiet village where the residents had fled inside to escape the gloomy weather, a man shrouded in black glided down the streets. Walking towards a small house that contained the warm glow of firelight flickering from the windows, he paused. Observing the family inside as the dark haired man continued to pull faces at the toddler in his lap. The lady with flaming red hair also waving various toys in front of the young boy as well. The man shuddered as he realised exactly what was making the baby so upset as it's green eyes woefully gazed upon him, completely ignoring his parent's attempts to make him happy.

Taking this as confirmation to his beliefs he strolled forward, cloak curling around his figure as the chilly winds woke up and warmth drained away. His skin tingled as he pushed through the flimsy wards that relied upon the fidelius charm, a ward to which he already had the key for. With a quick flick of his Yew wand he swiftly set up wards to prevent them leaving, tied into his own magical core.

Both parents quickly jumped as the felt their wards breached. Had they not already been war hardened they may have paused in disbelief and horror at the betrayal. Yet they both quickly tried to escape only to discover they were trapped. Quickly the dark haired man yelled "Lilly! It's him! Take Harry and Run! I'll try and hold him back for as long as I can!". With a look of understanding in that they could not escape therefore they had to run and prepare Lilly's back up runes. With one last glance of a parting goodbye Lilly ran with Harry up the stairs to Harry's room where she had the supplies prepared.

Trying to ignore the shouts coming from below, she quickly grabbed her equipment and laid Harry on his cot while pulling up his shirt. She quickly began to draw the complicated runes and patterns that she saw onto his stomach with a specially mixed ink that also included her blood.

Her assortments of rare materials such as centaur's blood, sands of time – the ones used to power time-turners -, essence of the divide – obtained from her work with the veil of death -, phoenix birth flame – how Fawkes knew that she needed it, or why it was given so willing, she will never know – , dried basilisk eye, shards of unicorn horn and numerous other magical materials that led to her greatest magical project. There was a reason she was one of the top unspeakable of her time if not all time. With the help of James – her husband, the prodigy transfiguration user (who forced her to refer to him as such when she came to him for help) -, who provided the understanding and the balancing of the physical aspects of the equation and ritual, while she joined it up with her unprecedented understanding of magical theory and spiritual energy to tie the bonds between body and spirit and form a protection as strong as could be. She and her husband had completed the majority of the ritual successfully leaving only the last part. The part that required two human sacrifices. One willing and another not. She allowed herself a brief smile as she now had an unwilling participant. She wondered if perhaps this will teach him a lesson it what it I like to be used and to be stripped of your life, your goals and aspirations. Of course she knew he wouldn't be gone forever, how she knew she didn't know but she knew. Just like how she knew she was about to die and how she knew that that was okay because she would soon be with her husband, which she knew how he was now dead.

Shaking her head she focused back on her task.

When she was finished she channelled some of her magic into the interconnected runes on his torso where they flared with magic before fading away. It seemed just in time as she heard the shouts stop and footsteps on the stairway. Flinging her equipment across the room so that they skid under the dresser and out of sight, she prepared herself mentally before facing the door with her wand out.

When the door swung open she immediately sent at stunner through it. Surprise caught her eye as both the stunner hit the hallway and the wall beside her exploded. Bits of rubble went flying into her, knocking her wand out of her hand and pushing her to the ground with cuts and bruises.

Slowly the figure entered the room, all the while gazing at the boy in the cot. Lilly jumped and screamed "No! Not Harry! Take me instead!". Voldemort sneered at the woman before him and remembered the request of one of his best Death Eaters. He will try to spare her and as such he said "Move aside you silly girl".

Lilly understood that this man wanted to kill her child and wouldn't accept that. She ran towards him in hopes of diverting his attention. As she ran she felt a sharp pain come from her side where one of the beams had hit her in the chaos of debris. She let out a pained gasp that changed everything. This last development distressed Harry even more, so he glared at the cloaked bad man and wished he went away.

Voldemort was flung through the air,smashing into the hallway wall behind him. Getting up he growled at the child before waving his wand at the stunned mother to deal with her. Now that there were no distractions he went over to the child, feeling the child's power rescinded back to normal, he cast the killing curse. This is where things got really strange.

A complicated runes network lit up on Harry's torso when the killing curse hit, flinging the curse back at Voldemort with fluctuations in the magic. He yelled out in pain as his soul was flung out of the crumbling body and out of the house. Meanwhile Harry was screaming I pain as well. The runes were defensive by nature and with Harry's unconscious attack, they were weakened. Fortunately only by a small amount, yet still the killing curse was seeping into his body and attacking the first thing it came in contact with. The genetic limiters in his body that prevented him from using all his power, and were forcing his power down before and when the curse hit, were being destroyed by the curse. Screaming as some of his genetic code was being destroyed and his abilities were fluctuating and spiking all over the place, he focused on trying to get better and away from the falling house into protection.

As his power was swirling around him trying to work out what to do, it prepared to activate at a moments notice. An old man with a long white beard rushed into the room, wand drawn, only to gape at the raw magic turning around this child which was visible to see.

It was also at this moment that on the other side of the world that a large group of people stood tentatively shuffling, waiting for the stargate to finish dialling. While the crowd were cheering in joy at the stargate establishing a connection mostly from nervous excitement. Yet few noticed the white flash of unstable energy mainly because it happened before the wormhole had stabilised.

With a wormhole forming, causing changes into the space-time continuum, Harry felt his understanding expand and he knew what to do. Quickly his magic responded and before the old man's eyes, Harry Potter disappeared from the cot in a flash of white light.

Several million light years away...

The Alterans that occupied Atlantis in the Pegasus Galaxy were moving around and continuing their duties. They had already, long ago seeded the planets in this galaxy and were excited to see the advancements of the people there. Many technological wonders had been discovered and the Alteran people were thriving after the devastating hit that their people had suffered by the powerful virus. Now they had worked tirelessly with their technology and their own biological abilities.

In focusing on these aspects they have been able to ensure that no disease will ever affect them as it had done in the past. They were excited about these new developments and hoped to soon speak to their allies. Already a special ship had been designed, and was in the process of being built, that would travel back to the Milky Way and determine if there was still any biological risk for them to perhaps return, or at least to contact their allies again.

After-all, they had some exciting developments that they needed to relay. Their research into making themselves immune to disease through the use of technology and their own internal abilities and mind had led to a startling new field of research. One that they had recently had success. This would eventually lead to their people ascending to a higher plane of existence.

It was at this time that the council were using the meeting room to discus the construction of the probe being sent to the Milky Way.

"But this could not only help us discover if we are ready but also work out exactly how this happened." exclaimed a young but well respected Alteran scientist called Janus as he stood looking out over the angular table towards the council that sat before him. The dark haired man then said "It's not like this hasn't been done before. They were unsuccessful but we already have it working. Now with our improved technology and understanding we can do this."

The council turned their heads towards each other and silently communicated their final decision.

Not long after they turned to face him as their leader cleared his throat and prepared to speak. Moros then gave a slight nod of his head in acknowledgement of the arguments presented by Janus presenting the councils decision.

"Janus, your intentions are sound, but we can not allow you to install your 'time travel' device to the probe. We understand how this benefits our understanding of the plague and how we might be able to discover it's origins. We also recognise that it is a endeavour we have sought in the past. However," - he paused and turned from placation of a diplomat to the authoritative figure that he represented - " we can not allow such unknown technology to go beyond our grasps and be operated in inhabited realms. Decades of study needs to go into the device. Even if we were to do that and delay things for that period, it would be pointless. The ascension program has already started and within the next 50 years we will all be on a higher plane of existence where we can move through time at our will. If there is anything of concern we can inform our allies and act accordingly. That, however, is a matter for the high council -"

"High Councillor Moros, I have already voiced my concerns over our ascended brethren and -"

"Yes. You have voiced your concerns. They were heard, assessed and deemed inconclusive. There is no evidence to back your paranoid thoughts on their changes in personality. These are occurrences of the shared vast wisdom and knowledge gained during ascension. There is no big secret which they are hiding -"

A loud klaxon sound filled the room as the general alert was sounded. Jumping with a start the people quickly ran to the control room as they opened their telepathic networks where they joined minds to help solve this issue- whatever it may be. Quickly sensing it was to do with the stargate, they made hast towards the stargate controls while checking the information systems.

Quickly they recognised that the information they were receiving was anomalous and that a quick glance towards the stargate proved the readings. The stargate was receiving a connection yet before it had stabilised, the fluctuations had paused as it exploded outwards while shining a bright white colour. Janus quickly connected telepathically to Atlantis information databases to quickly and easily access all the information about the stargate.

"Seal off the gate grounds! Why didn't anyone activate the shield before this occurred?" demanded Moros as he saw the team of technicians try to activate the shield without depleting all the ZPMs from having to override a connected unstable wormhole that contained a large amount of energy, most of which was space-time distortion.

"The connection was near instantaneous! Somehow what's connected is using the natural energy of space to carve through time while using an active wormhole echo as a guide. None of the gate shut down systems have been triggered either because as far as the gate is concerned, all the protocols have been met, but it seems this is true just for the same connection along the same gates but during another time." Replied an amazed Janus. Meanwhile Janus had already determined that the gate could not be shut down and had activated the containment shields that sprung up 10 metres around the gate.

"Preposterous! Who could possibly do such a thing!" Asked a flabbergasted Moros as he watched the large, strong containment shields lift over the gate floor.

"Sir, the distortion patterns seem similar to our ascended brethren but there are still some discrepancies."

Pausing suddenly Moros turned to Janus and quietly but clearly queried "The Ori?"

"Again no sir - thankfully. But it is much closer to our Ascended brethren than the Ori yet it- wait... some-thing's coming!"

Immediately guard personal had their stunners out and defensive systems where ready with immediate teleportation to their holding chambers below.

The outer portions of the stargate surged out like the middle portion in a blinding white lite with spinning, and waving tendrils before it snapped back leaving a once again dormant stargate and a small figure in the middle of the room. That figure started crying and the advanced race of millions of years stood stunned at what happened.

After a moment Atlantis queried asking for order with what to do with the child. Moros pushed down on his parental instincts and ordered that the child and surrounding area be scanned for any harmful properties that were now in the containment area. Soon it was discovered that no harmful things could be discovered other than a slight residue of some unknown but extremely corrosive psychic attack which centred over the child's forehead where a little lightening bolt scare laid.

After determining that the energy was no longer harmful Moros ordered that the child be teleported to a biological containment lab where an in depth scan was to be held and ensure there were no possibly biological hazards after not wanting to leave the final opinion to Atlantis' advanced bioscans for checking inbound travellers which are near the malfunctioning gate.

He turned to Janus and informed him that he would lead the investigation into what exactly happened before following the Ganos Lal – a fellow member of the council and good rival and friend – as he knew she, like him, would be heading towards the containment lab for updates and to watch over the child. Janus looked over the information from the logs of the stargate and started to formulate some theories before heading off to the labs himself. After finding some surprising information from the labs he then ran some calculations before heading to the assembled and impatient council members.

"Janus! What ave you found?"

Janus allowed himself a small smirk as he looked over the assembled people. He realised that where he felt different in his desire to learn, explore and discover was perhaps not so different after all. His people were after all explorers and these people before him were just as eager to learn more about what shocked them only a few hours before.

"This is perhaps one of the most amazing incidents in the history of our people. From this incident we have expanded our knowledge of the natural patterns and energies of the universe, the time flows and it's distortions, biological lock and so much more. I think the most exciting bit is I still have barely any idea of how or why this occurred. But I do have some aspects and a theory."

Everyone shuffled around as they allowed Janus to quickly set-up the display with the information he wanted to show. He turned around and took a breath to try and formulate a way of explaining this phenomenon in an orderly fashion.

"Let's start with Harry's genes – oh sorry that's his name -" Janus apologised after seeing a flicker of confusion on some of the member's faces.

"Aries?" enquired a council member.

"Probably not. There does not seem to be an 'S' at the end of his name and it seems that there's a possible letter before the focus on the 'A', however, we are unable to determine that and at his age we may never know. We did, however, find some kind of script on his clothes seems likely to be his name. Without more knowledge of this language we will not be able to work out his true name as-"

"Yes very well he shall be known as Aries until we can determine his actual name. Now perhaps we can get back to how Aries arrived here and why?" Interrupted Moros who was getting irritated at the side-tracking for an event that had them at the mercy.

"Ahh yes sorry sir." Mumbled a slightly embarrassed Janus. "Aries' genes are amazing. Quite simply they seem to come from a background of a more primitive version of our own but certain aspects being locked out, such as the ones that largely contribute to our large memory abilities and processing. Essentially it's like a guided second evolution of our genetics but only guided at the very start. I can tell that they are young. Only a few million years old from the biological start of their evolution. From what we can tell from the scans and the ingested foods, we estimate them to be a primitive but technological civilisation. Perhaps a bit more primitive than the when we first me the Asgards but much more so than the currently developing life here in this galaxy. I can also say with a fair certainty that he is from Earth."

Gasps erupted around the room as people took in the implications.

"Earth? Surely not! Perhaps from some remote sector of this galaxy?"

"I thought the plague would have killed them. Our gene locking worked?"

"How could they evolve to such a state so fast?"

"And beyond! How could they do that with the stargate at such a level."

"Quiet, please. Continue."

"Thank you High Councillor Moros. As I was saying I think they are from Earth just from the biology as the environmental variables are much the same as Earth's although some differences have occurred. Plus there are certain genes that were active that are not here and the opposite is true as well. We have also determined while not all of his ancestors carried it, Aries has the activation gene."

Janus paused as the council gasped and shook their head in disbelief.

"This, however, is only the surface. The stargate logs also support my theories."

It was here that Janus noted that Moros sat up a bit more.

"I still have barely any idea of what happened but I do have several key aspects understood that help set up what may have happened. Firstly we were able to work out that the connection came from Earth's stargate. Most interestingly, the connection itself is noted that the connection came from Earth's stargate but not from Earth's current location. I did a quick check and Earth gate is still located in the expected location and not these new co-ordinates. The new co-ordinates also do reside in any place of significance... Yet. I noticed that the stargate disturbances also had strange energy signatures similar to my 'time travel' device – as you so aptly named it. I ran some calculations and found the unknown location will be where Earth currently resides in 10,000 years time."

The council sat quiet for a moment as they thought over the information.

"This really is amazing, but it still does not explain how this happened." Moros said in a soft contemplative voice.

"Well yes. What I have said is mostly what we have worked out. For the most part we have no idea on the how although I may have a theory but it's – to be honest – beyond our understanding."

This of course raised a more than a few eyebrows and so Janus felt it best to quickly explain before people started doubting him.

"Here's what more we know. They should not have the ability to affect wormholes let alone to the master displayed here. There were two power signatures. One was the raw chaotic power of the natural planes which is used in our psychic abilities and the energy composition that makes up the frequency for the ascended beings. The other was a ZPM. Which means they are using our technology and do not have something to generate that power or can use our technology entirely. The last and most annoying data we discovered was that the stargate activated but Aries did not go through it but rather tapped into it or got swept away in it. It seems like Aries ascended in order to do this or at least partially ascended. The problem with this is that you need over 90% of synaptic activity for this to occur and Aries is genetically capped at 60% - although his body is trying to force itself over that cap which is remarkable but dangerous. I should mention that if we don't remove those genetic caps he may die. He probably needs to ascend again." Janus said solemnly before noting that he forgot to explain his theory on how he did it the first time.

"I believe that while the caps were placed on their intellect and other key areas to reduce vulnerability to the plague. Yet, areas such as healing and manipulation of energy, illusion and psychic energy were not blocked. In fact, I think evolution used that to their advantage and it has started to bring it to new levels that completely out do us for power, understanding and control. Now this may seem unrealistic but take into account what happened to the stargate. There is also another aspect. When Aries was transported he had some kind of fluid residue making a design across his stomach. Our sensors detected a massive amount of energy swirling with that design and linking with other much more complex design in psychic energy. I should mention that pattern has also stained the skin and will probably remain that way. We tried to analyse the fluid as not only for information and detection of anything harmful but also because we have never come across anything to conduct so much psychic energy amongst a large array of others including the flow of time. We managed to determine there was biological elements to it such as blood and minerals but that was the most we could discover. Somehow the fluid continued to disrupt the information as large amounts of chaotic energy moved through it. The quite suddenly it stopped and the fluid burst into flames leaving no trace. The information we got from was in the nano second between the lowest energy interval that didn't disrupt our equipment and scattering of atoms when it burst into flames.

"We can guess that the amount of energy around him suggests something happened that caused a large energy release possibly in response to the detected negative psychic energy. Although that negative thought pattern that seems to be brutal forced attempted at killing the host and assuming concious control of the body. The explosion of energy stalled it and we have since negated it in hopes of keeping Aries alive."

The council members sat back for a moment to allow their minds to go over the information. Murmuring to each other before they settled down and looked at Moros who turned to the Defence councillor on his right and said "So finally. Why did this happen? A warning? A statement? An accident? An act of war? Or something else?"

"I'm thinking that for us it's all of the above but for what the people considered it possibly a statement and an accident." Ganos said – for the first time adding her own comments in.

"There seems to be a lot of preparation to what happened to bring him here yet little on what happens when he get here. If we ignore the how and assume it had to be a baby and so forth there is a lot unexplained. The clothes looked comfortable and well worn which means they are casual. If it were a war or a threat then that would not be so. Plus the clothes and markings show that inorganic material could be transported yet no message has appeared. Perhaps they could not alert anyone that they were sending a message. Yet still to apply so much effort for guesses does not seem like the answer and if there is some coded message there then if they new where we were and made so much effort to get him here, surely they new we would not be able to decode that message at this time. So for an act of war, threat or statement that's for now then it is ineffective. The only statement I can make for it at this stage is that they can do what they did."

Moros turned to Ganos and said "Quite right. Something is wrong with this." He turned back to Janus and questioned him. "The symbol painted onto the boy's stomach, have are we sure that remains only to assist in circuitry to stabilise the desired effect?"

"Oh umm no. I mean.. oh aghh no. The circuit was designed to get him to travel – well not really. We think it was designed to look after him the explosion of energy was the defence mechanism to the psychic attack, the hitching a ride and going 10,000 years back in time is just an after effect. You see the symbol on his stomach is one of neutrality. We have found that aspects of the symbol contain certain psychic patterns and then their opposite. Such as life and death, healing and injury time an-"

"Yes, thank you. But this energy explosion. If this is the side-effect then we can be almost certain that Earth is no more. The amount of energy in that explosion would have been felt through out the galaxy!" interrupted the Defence Councillor.

"Oh no I don't think it would have. For some reason a large amount of energy was used and exploded that stopped the attack on Aries but Aries somehow controlled that energy, wrapping it within his own and that's what brought him here."

"Okay. Than you for your time Janus. We seem to be running in circles with no idea on how or why this occurred exactly. But we know a few things. The main of which is until more information is found, we take today as an accident but one we should note as being caused by some sort of great unrest. This unrest has the potential to harm us and – considering Aries neutrality as it was called – they would have the potential to be great allies. They are most importantly not from our time. For now we continue building our probe and send it as soon as possible. We also must do a vote of if we de-activate the genetic locks that are causing Aries harm. Raise your hand if you agree to this procedure."

A quick tally proved a vote in favour. Moros gave a quick nod before standing up and finishing,

"I think that when Aries has recovered he should be integrated with our children pending another biological and psychological review. Make sure that he can not harm anyone with any abilities he has. We will need to find a carer for him."

Immediately Ganos spoke up stating that she would look after him. Offering a nod of acknowledgement Moros continued.

"I will speak to the Ascended to find out if they might know of any more. I want everyone to review the information and see if we have missed anything. Dismissed."

Jonas and Ganos quickly left for the bio labs. When they ordered the removal of the genetic blocks they were surprised to hear that already some had been removed by the child body already. Yet still with the procedure, everyone could immediately see the stress taken away as more brain power opened up.

Over the course of the next few day they were surprised at how the body and psychic ability reacted. One of the main ones was with the surprise revelation that the ascended wanted help the child ascend only to be surprised when the child's body rejected it constantly, time and time again.

Eventually giving up, the focused on the boy and his body. Amazed at how they considered themselves such an advanced race yet have this boy's body confuse and baffle their best experts. They only knew that they had a lot to learn and until they had more information there was little they could do about it.

Aries was an active child growing up. He preferred to play around and have fun but what child didn't? He struggled with their academics at first until he developed his mental storage – to which he took to unprecedented levels both in memory sort and review... and also structure. His brother Janus was the first to fall victim to his illusionary mind that was filled with pranks.

When we was four years old his life changed unexpectedly forever.

As he and his best friend Hester were running around Atlantis, dodging the complaints of the people around them. They laughed their way to the balcony.

Aries quickly climbed up the rails so he could see the large city floating in front of him on the water. With a big smile on his he grasped the necklace he wore that contained a bit of cloth with strange symbols on it covered in a protective glass and plastic, metal alloy. Aries leaned forward until he felt the protect barrier shields pressing back on him while gazing at the view with glee.

Hester turned her head toward the pendant in Aries hands. "Aries? What's written on the cloth in your hands?"

Turning towards her he smilies and proudly said "Apparently my true name. I don't know what it sounds like or means. But mother says that when I know what it says then I'll know my true purpose."

He moves around, balancing on his heels with his back against the shield as he showed her the 'cloth' with his true name on it. While both were looking at the cloth the barrier suddenly failed leaving Aries nothing to balance on and tumbling backwards over the rails with a yelp.

Hester let out a loud panicked scream as people came rushing over. Quick bursts of telepathic conversations were made to alert the technicians of the faulty barrier and the medics of the critical case. People a few levels below rushed to the body laid sprawled out along their balcony. Already blood was forming a puddle around him.

Those with healing abilities tried to help but found him without a pulse and with too much lost blood. Before the agony of loss could sink in the bystanders jumped back with surprise as Aries body suddenly caught on fire. Some were about to try and extinguish the flames until they noticed that the flames were not affecting his clothes.

After just over a minute the flames died away leaving and sleeping boy covered in blood but otherwise unharmed.

The technicians later explained that there was no record of any problems occurring nor any reason to say why it occurred. The only the exposed it was the reduction in power usage to the area but that was not explained.

Janus grew concerned over his little brother after he noted a few instances where he should have sustained injury but shrugged it off. He decided to do more research into what was happening.

Over the next year Janus eventually came to a startling conclusion. He found that according to all their simulation and experiments. As far as they could theoretically tell, they had no reason to believe that Aries could sustain injury, physically. For all intents and purposes he was immortal. He had even discovered the compound that would be released by his body when he reached the apex of his physical lifetime that would capture his body at that point and time where it would never age again.

Perhaps with his friends and family known to age at slow rates and allies that age even slower, it was never fully comprehended the implications of such an ability. Nor perhaps was it any shock after the fall and a few other various injuries – nesting itself in the subconscious waiting to be exposed.

So life continued as normal with normal every day issues until one day.

"But Hester and I want to Janus because he's doing this really awesome experiment with dimension creations and controlling the energy matrix that makes their form." the 5 (or nearly 6 as he would tell you) year old complained.

"I am aware of that but I said 'No'. Not until you have finished the quadratics tasks set for you and gone over your compound interaction simulations that you are being quizzed on at the end of this week. Once you have completed that you can go play with Hester unless you would prefer helping the biolab clean their latest batch of grime from their experiments." stated Ganos with her disapproving stare glaring into him.

Inwardly Aries groused at how apt it was that his mothers simulated profile was used as his classes teacher.

Suddenly an urgent telepathic probe came calling the council for an emergency meeting.

Ganos gave one quick glare at him as a warning before quickly moving toward their hall's shift pod to get to the council room.

Aries managed to slowly shuffle through a few of his maths problems before he finished them. Looking at the chemical simulations he scowled. 'Who would want to look at things that stay still, even if it was strong. Explosions were much more cool!' he thought with a gleeful smile as he remembered the time he tricked Atlantis into giving Hester and himself some Caesium. They had fun throwing the little protect pieces into the water watching them explode. Grimacing slightly as the punishment they received also came to mind he quickly moved away from that memory.

Pausing he noticed that his mother had been gone for longer than expected. With a small smirk he decided to visit his mum – which he also decided didn't count as not going to see Ester and thus not doing work.

Making his way to the pods he transported to the control tower. Quickly he noticed that everyone was in a frenzy, moving all over the place. This made it slightly easier for him to slip by the chaos and stand near the council meeting seeing what he could over hear. At first he couldn't hear much so he tried to tap into the telepathic networks that the adults kept up. He was surprised to find that the people in the tower were speaking to each other while blocking everyone else out. While he was pretty sure he could easily tap in with his advanced skills he wasn't sure if he could do it unnoticed and trying to hide in the shadows of a crevice in the wall.

Turning his attention the room just in time as one of the councillors stood up and exclaimed "And what do you propose? Today we have met a civilisation that want war, has technology to give us the challenge and the numbers to decimate us. How is it that we have never even heard of them before? Where did they come from! We need to understand that we could very well be wiped out by this and must respond at once. We must try full fire-power with preparations of evacuation if we fail."

"I hardly think this is quite THAT level of concer-"

It was at that moment he fully grasped and understood what was said and panicked. In that panic he unintentionally alerted the entire city with his telepathic raw panic and allowed the to see the memory way before he realised what he was doing. Instantly mass hysteria occurred as people all over the city panicked. His mother pinned with a glare after a quick search and he wanted to disappear.

To hide.

So that no-one saw him again.

And that's what he did. Turning invisible in front of his mother, for the first time giving her a surprise. That surprise was needed for her to re-asses a few aspects and to allow her to help in damage control.

After the panic was settled she decided to search for her son. It was common for the children of ancients to show a new ability when experiencing an intense emotion. Invisibility was not common but had been seen more and more after meeting the Nox. As with protocol they allow them a little bit of freedom before using the sensors in Atlantis to find them.

A quick discussion with a surveillance officer allowed her to do a general search. Both were surprised to see that it failed to find Aries. This level of main himself hidden now put him on par with the Nox. Surprised they did a deeper scan, one with a knack of even spotting the Nox. Again it failed to find him.

Starting to become alarmed Ganos ordered that the sensors expand to the surrounding area, to check if any ships had left recently and try to back track his movements. It was soon found that though no ships had left and no signals had appeared in the water, the records showed where he stood one moment then missing the next. No scans were capable of finding him. Soon the telepathic network was open trying to call out to him. Again, no response. Soon they were pleading for him to reply over the communication speakers. After a little while Aries had calmed down on the pier enough that he released his hold on his invisibility. Soon the sensors picked him up and his family was around him comforting him.

A few more years later an 8 year old Aries sat with a tired Janus while waiting for their final member, Moros. As he walked in he offered them a tired smile that showed the weariness of war.

"High Councillor Moros, welcome. I thought you needed to see this in action as soon as possible. This should give us a large tactical advantage for information gathering. With this machine we have now created a pocket dimension that allows things to be nearly completely hidden, or with Aries assisting then completely hidden. So far as we can tell we can make various devices the smuggle on board wraith ships to connect to their network and they will be completely undetectable – even without Aries we have yet been able to find something that can properly detect it's presence. Shall I give you a demo?" Janus say while pointing to a triangle marking on the floor that left just enough room for two men to stand comfortably.

Moros offered a slight contemplative glance at Aries before nodding and stepping into the triangle with Janus following. Aries closed his eyes and laid his hand on a pad while Janus tapped a few keys on his wrist-com. A red glow surrounded them before it settled leaving the two men alone.

"This is the hidden dimension, sir. Here no-one or anything can communicate into or out without being linked into it. That includes the ascended." Janus said with a knowing look.

"and what about Aries?" enquired Moros.

"Depends on what I set it but in this instance, no he too is excluded from us."

"Good. You have done a good job but now I must give you a difficult one that comes as orders from the High Council. Our probe sent out to the Milky Way Galaxy has confirmed that the plague is gone. You are to build a Class A containment facility on an uninhabited planet. This will have our entire knowledge and it will house Aries when we leave Atlantis. He will study, learn and remain there until he is required by the people of the galaxy."

"WHAT! You have to be kidding if you think I would create a glorified prison for my little brother!"

"Janus! You must understand that this is they High Council. If you don't do this then someone else will and you will have no say. Don't go against them Janus. They are powerful and there is strange things happening. That probe we sent to the Milky Way released an activation signal wherever it went. Activating our technology and allowing anyone to use it! I also suggest that you use this exact 'protection shield' on the facility. It will make things harder to release Aries but it will protect him from whatever is happening out there. He can't ascend so we have to so we can fight his battles for him where we can with the High Council."

"If there's really nothing we can do then I shall. But I can dictate the design, give him the best, correct?"

"Correct. Only the best. There is one more thing. Again something the council has forced but we have to and I'm sure they will be watching for this. They want to inject Aries with the serum you discovered would stop his aging. They wanted as soon as possible but I convinced them that with such a thing it was better to perhaps wait. They have allowed it to be extended until we have to leave Atlantis. I predict that this will be in 20-30 years time so hopefully by that stage he has reached the apex of his growth and it will activate naturally. The concern is that his aging will slow down until he reaches the apex which may still be hundreds of years away if that were to happen. They wish for him to stop aging the moment he step through that gate back to the milky way."

"No...NO! They can't do this! ARGHH! Can we trick them?"

"I'm sorry Janus. But I really don't think we can. I think we play loyal and leave enough hints around over where he is while we try and sort out this mess with the High Council. They must see reason!"

"I don't like this."

"Neither do I... Neither do I."

4 years later...

"I don't like this. This is wrong."

"I know." Moros said simple over the alarms calling for evacuation. They were submerging the city today and the people retreating to Earth.

Today.

Today was the day they had to betray Aries with a smile on their faces.

Today was the day they had hoped to be many many years away if not at all.

Today was the day that 12 year old Aries stood in front of him with a sad smile thinking he was leaving his home and not everything that he knew. Janus' gut clenched and he felt sick at what he was about to do. Deciding he wasn't going to hide he got down to his knees and asked for Aries arm.

Grabbing the syringe he placed it at the crook of the elbow.

This was not right.

"Aries. This is a vaccine for the Earth viruses. Everyone else already got theirs. Understand that no matter what happens here or there I have only tried to help you. Understand that higher powers have governed that this happens but I will not rest until I make sure you are happy. Do you understand that?"

Slightly befuddled by his brother strange speech, Aries figured that he was upset over abandoning Atlantis and felt the same. He too would make sure is brother and all his family were happy. He gave a smile and inclined his head to show that he understood.

A slight twinge was all he felt as the serum entered his blood stream.

"I'm dialling Earth" Moros said as he activated the pre-made program that showed Earth's co-ordinates but actually went to another planet. One that awaited for it's single occupant.

When the gate connected with an influx of energy Aries smile beamed at the thought of returning to the planet he came from he went down with Ester to the gate until Ester's mother called her back.

"What? Now? But we're just about to go through." Asked Ester casting unsure glances back to Aries.

Seeing a moment to poke a bit of fun at Hester, Aries said in his best nobleman voice that would make her laugh "Fear not my Lady! For I, Aries shall venture first, into the unknown and slay whatever best lay before me that could cause harm.

"Oh my dear warrior, how grateful I am to you. I do hope as a nobleman you would first offer your worth so I may carry it with my blessings that you succeed!" Hester Swiftly replied in her teasing damsel voice. Aries, quickly worked out he was in trouble. She wanted one of his pranking balls, perhaps to say a cheerful good bye or a warm welcome to him on the other side. The catch is that he told his mother that he didn't bring any to the technological primitive Earth.

Aha! Grasping the 'sweaty, stinky, baby blanket necklace' as Hester had so lovingly called it after one of his physical exercises, he undid it and handed it over to her. She gave the loving look of not-so-hidden-checking-when-it-had-been-last-cleaned. Before he out did her with a large bow, a big grin then a cheerful:

"Why my fair Lady! It is only proper I give my name and my being! Care for it well my lady as I shall now travel several million light years in but a few moments!" before he skipped off towards the humming gate.

'Every seemed a bit more down than expected, plus they're trying to shield it from me! So I hope that cheered them up a bit more' were his last thoughts before is disappeared through the horizon.

A few seconds after he left the wormhole snapped closed and the people started crying.

Hester was stunned and asked what happened. The telepathic channels opened to her mind and she saw what they did. She screamed in agony, horror, anger and sadness. Running up to the gate control they let her try the address over and over again with no success. In her desperation of trying to get to those co-ordinates, while her focused thoughts on Aries, amidst the commotion that was going on in the room, no-one noticed that her will had etched the co-ordinates into the back of his necklace. Not that Ester noticed as the put the necklace on.

Upon arrival to Earth they found that the gate address of where Aries was confined kept slipping their minds. Unable to grasp the knowledge they sort meditation to ascend or to start their own families on Earth. Hester watched the people construct the large statue of Aries – her best friend. Despite it not quite depicting her friend (or perhaps how he would depict himself, she thought with a slight smile as she imagined him running around with his fingers pointing up on his head like a ram), she waited for a moment to drop the necklace into statue as her good bye but also promise.

She had left her best friend in the hands of the people and now she was about to enter the battle and find out what the High Council were up to.

Rushing through the wormhole was exhilarating. Coming to stop was almost sad after seeing the universe speed by like that. Hearing the wormhole snap closed jolted him with surprise as he began to take in his surroundings.

Had he really stepped through the wormhole?

Yes. The room was different but it was of ancient design. This was not what he was told to expect at Earth.

His arm was itchy.

Looking around the room he noticed Alteran scripts flowing across the walls talking about a protector and the legacy of the ancients. Growing more curious he wondered around the room and worked out two things.

One was that this room was actually part of quite a large building. It seemed to be several stories high and ever wider. The overall shape and design reminded Aries of some VERY powerful defence buildings that were used to protect against strong attacks for long amounts of time. In Alteran terms that was quite powerful. This one was very new and had the latest technology including Janus' new energy source that could supple an insane amount of energy. It needed it as well because he also noticed the new hidden dimension system that seemed to activate over the entire planet.

That was the second thing. The planets was defiantly not Earth. This would look closer to Mars if only a fair bit smaller.

Somehow he had ended up at the wrong place.

His arm was hurting. He was starting to feel nauseas.

Going back to the stargate he noticed, for the first time, that there was no dialling device, and when he tried to sense for one he couldn't find it.

Grumbling to himself he closed his eyes and concentrated on connecting with the stargate. Feeling through all the settings he discovered his location and yes. He was in the wrong place. Strange but not uncommon. Perhaps he'll tease Moros for bad eyesight.

Going to the the outgoing wormholes section he set the co-ordinates to Earth and activated.

==ACCESS DENIED==

'What?' he wondered. That only happens when adults lock kids out of restricted systems. Frowning he tried again.

==ACCESS DENIED==

Strange. 'Perhaps some strange interference is running at Earth' he tells himselfs as the room starts to sway and the bruning in his arm won't stop. There's a massive amount of energy avalible, he should perhaps be able to contact Atlantis and warn them. And so he tries.

==ACCESS DENIED==

Maybe he needs to change vectors and try a neutral planet out of the normal path.

==ACCESS DENIED==

The other way!

==ACCESS DENIED==

A near by planet!

==ACCESS DENIED==

Shivering, noticing the floor rushing to meet him he asks one last request '… anywhere?'

==ACCESS DENIED==

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awww I feel bad after that :P This is an idea I've ha din my head for ages and it's really cruel but I can't get it out of my head.

A few little explanations... since I've typed it I decided to bend some events etc... one. If the ancients seem more technological.. it's because they are. One thing I didn't like about SG:A was that it seemed to downplay them.

Yes, they ages slower so while Janus was 'young' when they left he is 'young' 12 year before. :P

Oh yes... war with the wraiths 100 years... mine was 7... partly because the Alteran's sucked at war there... partly because the 'reason' they lost was because they were over confident and the wraith had larger numbers.

I'm sorry if the 'council meetings' were boring but I tried to keep it realistic but informative. I hope to have mostly cleaned my hands of SGA for at least a little while (I did mention at the start that there is no exact plan right? I have entered ideas and plots in but there is no plan for how it'll happen).

I offer this warning again. I am a slow updater. (AKA: my current rate is 1 chapter per year... yeah I'm working on it.)

Another warning... I have not seen all of SG:1 or SG:A but I know lots of bits from it... (I think I'm up to season 4 SGA and SG:1 I have many of the earlier eps down, some in the middle and at the end... I have not seen the ark yet.) Thus some of the Stargate stuff will be/is made up.

Let me know what you think. Oh and how long shall I keep Aries/Harry locked up for hmmm! I have a time machine you know! muahahahahahahahah! :)