Chapter 1

Jake was walking home from work, hoping to spend his Friday night playing his Xbox. He hadn't had the time to just sit down and play in a very long time due to work. He finally arrived at his apartment complex and went up to the 3rd floor. He walked down the hall till he got to his room, apartment 309.

He opened the door and walked in. His place had the typical look of someone who had just got out of college: clothes everywhere, empty beer and soda cans littered the counters and tables, a few chinese food cartons and pizza boxes here and there. 'Ahh, just how I like it' Jake thought to himself. He walked over to his entertainment are, the only clean and organized part of his apartment, and started to scroll though the various games he had. 'Halo, nah. Call of Duty? nope' Mass effect, ehh why not' he though as he grabbed Mass Effect, the first one to be specific. He turned his Xbox on and put the game in, then sat back against his couch. He played through the first missions, getting passed the part where you become a specter, then he turned it off realizing it was 12:36 a.m. and that he was really tired. 'Man, I wish my life was more exciting than this. I thought being on my one would be fun, but instead it's just a drag' he thought.

He walked into his room and laid down, not even bothering to take off his clothes he had worn all day. As he began to fall asleep he started having that feeling of falling off your bed, but it wasn't a fast jolt that would normally wake you up, it was a slow almost floating feeling. Jake thought it felt really good, like flying almost. When the feeling finally ended, lasting less than a few seconds, a huge bright light entered his vision, he immediately fell unconscious.

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'Augh my head' Jake thought to himself. He had a massive headache, worse than any hangover he had had. 'What did I do last night' he continued to question, when he realized that he was no longer in his nice warm bed. Instead he was on a cold, steel colored floor in a equally dull colored hallway. 'Am I on a ship' he thought, wondering if he had somehow gotten on a Navy ship during the night. 'Dam, I must have really been outa it last night' he chuckled to himself. He stood up, having to lean on the wall for support since his balance was a little off. Once he gained his footing, he started walking down the hallway looking for someone that could help him. 'Where are all the sailors?' he questioned. Reaching the end of the hall he found a room that had its doors opened. Curious he entered, hoping to find someone inside.

Upon entering the room, he noticed several things he had never seen before. On one end of the room was U-shaped station with a few screens and different colored buttons all over it. Directly across from that was another U-shaped station, but instead of screens and buttons it had a flat, white, smooth surface on it. Lines and various symbols were all over it, as well as strange triangle shaped white stones that appeared to be held to it by an unknown force. In front of that station was an even more amazing sight; a large monitor sat against the wall with two box like things coming out on either side with crystal like tubes sticking out of them. Everything on it was glowing like the other station. 'This all seems...familiar' he thought.

Jake was mesmerized by the beautiful, almost alien, technology. He began to walk towards it, almost drawn to it by an unknown force. He stood in front of the white station, and reached out his hand to touch the stones. He noticed a black stone in the middle of the station, different from all the white one. He went to go touch it and once his fingers made contact with it his mind was flooded with images. He saw US soldiers fighting, going through a giant ring, men with silver armor and symbols on their foreheads, ships like pyramids and sleek silver ones, and many other wondrous things. When he finally came out of this vision, made the connection. "This is the Asgard core room aboard the Odyssey!" he exclaimed out loud.

"Yes it is," said someone behind him.

Jake whipped around to see a woman, an attractive one at that, who was wearing white and tan robes.. She seemed to be glowing as well, and her voice had an eerie echo to it.

"W-who are you?" Jake asked, more than a little nervous. If this was the Odyssey, which meant Stargate, then the look of this woman would indicate that she was...

"Why ask a question you already know the answer to," she said with a warm smile.

He knew what she was, watching Stargate as long as he did he knew just about everything about it. "You're an Ancient. An ascended one to be exact," Jake replied, still going over what was happening in his head.

She smiled again, "Yes. My name is Liastra De'lumina. Or as I was called in Earth's history: Athena."

That was a bit of a shock to Jake, "But wait, I thought the Ancients had a strict rule of none interference in the lower planes," he said, reciting his knowledge of the Stargate universe.

Athena nodded her head, "Yes, that is correct. After we fled Atlantis and returned to Earth, I and a small group of other Lanteans traveled to what you know now as ancient Greece. When we arrived the people there believed us to be their gods, due to our technology and other worldly attire. We eventually convinced them otherwise, but after we had ascended the legends of our 'divinity' spread again. It was... amusing. But we feared that we would be tempted to follow the Ori's path, but since our legends became popular when we were mortal, we could do nothing about it without interfering. Thankfully the religion died out, and we remain uncorrupted."

'Well at least I'm not dealing with the Ori' Jake thought. Then he realized something. "Wait a minute! Stargate, the Ancients, and everything else related to that is just a TV show. Science fiction. It's not real," he said to Athena.

Again she smiled at him, "So how do you explain this? How are you here and how are you talking to me?"

"This could all be a dream, I could be hallucinating or a number of other reasons," he replied, almost trying to convince himself.

"Well after you touched that stone, you should know this is real. That stone downloaded a large amount of knowledge into you. Just relax and think," she told him.

Jake thought about what she said, then nodded and closed his eyes. Soon he realized he knew a lot of things. Not just historical facts but real information: languages, how to fight and shoot, how Stargates and hyperdrives worked, how ships were built and ran, weapons systems, and hundreds of other things that he never thought possible. And he knew the knowledge was real because he could see the images in his mind like different fighting styles and how to take apart weapons and put them back together, and how to operate various technologies. Information that was far too complex and detailed for his mind to create out of nothing with no prior knowledge in any of those areas.

He opened his eyes, staring at Athena in wonder, awe, and a little bit of fear at the realization that this was all real. "H-how?" was all he could mutter.

"I brought you here, to this ship. An almost exact copy of the Odyssey from Stargate, with some minor alterations. I am from that universe, you see. Long ago I had a vision, a great darkness would someday spread over many universes. Destroying countless lives and civilizations in its wake. I knew I could not sit idly by and let that happen. So I continued on my Journey, searching for a means to stop this great evil, when I came upon the knowledge to travel between universes at will. While this was already known to Ascended higher than me, I had only just discovered it. So I searched several thousand universes, until I came here; and found you."

Jake couldn't believe his ears; out of the trillions of beings she had no doubt encountered she chose him. A 22 year old fresh out of college, and she had chosen him to stop some great evil. "Why? Why me? I'm no soldier, scientists, or hero. I can barley support myself, let alone the weight of entire univeres," he questioned, chuckling in a condescending way at her.

She frowned, and gave him a glare that shut him up real quick. When a near all powerful ascended being gives you a death glare, you know that you probably shouldn't be messing around. Normally he wouldn't care, since she isn't allowed to take action in the lower planes, but they were in his universe now. Where the Others didn't exist, so she could very well wipe him from existence if she wanted to.

"I chose you because I see goodness in you. A caring for other people and pureness of spirit that only occurs a few times in a generation. That is why I chose you Jacob," she replied with some force in her words. And the way she said his full name reminded him of his mom, so he listened.

Jake sighed, and nodded. "So, what now?"

"Now I take my leave, I have given you the knowledge and the means to complete your task. I have left more instructions in the ship's computer for you to follow. Good luck, Jake."

And with a bright flash she was gone, leaving Jake alone to his thoughts. 'So... I'm supposed to save the universes. Well, I did want more excitement in my life. This just isn't what I had in mind exactly' he thought to himself.

He walked back over to the Asgard core, now that he had the knowledge on how to use it he began going through his instructions on what he should do first. Apparently this Odyssey had a alternate reality drive, like the one encountered by the Atlantis Expedition, but much more advanced thanks to being built by an ascended Ancient. It already had a specific universe punched into its course, so all he had to do was initialize it.

What he read next surprised him a lot, and scared him a bit. Athena had altered his body, drastically so. He had an artificial Goaul'd symbiote in his body, it made him stronger than a normal human, heal faster, and increased his life span to over a thousand years. He could even use the glowy eye thing and scary voice too. The best part was that the symbiote had no mind, it was essentially a mix of organic and nano tech that used things his body naturally produced for fuel, and in return did everything a real symbiote would do but did it even better. That made him feel more comfortable knowing he didn't have to worry about being controlled by it. Athena had also given him the Ancient gene and artificially evolved him to a higher state, not to the point of getting any of the really cool powers but just enough to increase his intelligence and ability to hold onto massive amounts of information without it killing him.

Next he read that this Odyssey was slightly different than the one in the show. First it didn't have any hanger bays, instead it used that extra space for Asgard Neutrino Ion reactors which were pretty big. It also had a lot more Ancient tech installed into it, like a ZPM, Ancient drone launchers, and a control chair that he could use to fly the ship and fire its weapons which was pretty cool. It also had two shuttles like the ones Destiny had that would attach directly to the hull. 'Man, she really went all out' he thought as he went over the rest of the schematics for the new Odyssey.

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Jake spent several hours in the Core room, going over everything he could about the Odyssey, its technology, and various other things. It was still hard for him to rap his mind around how much knowledge he now possessed. He saw things in a way now that he would have never thought to have looked at them. It was amazing, but it also startled him a bit. To have that kind of knowledge at your finger tips, to have a ship with the power to level worlds, it was a heavy burden. But Athena had chosen him, so she must have seen something in him. 'God, I hope she wasn't wrong' he thought.

Jake left the Core room and made his way up to the bridge. It was similar in layout to the one in the series, but the monitors, navigation and weapon stations, and command chair had all been replaced with Asgard and Ancient equivalents. The navigation and weapons stations no longer had monitors or keyboards but holographic screens to view and send commands. The command chair was a mix between a Ancient control chair and an Asgard command chair, like the one Thor used a lot. The rest of the monitors and screens in the bridge were all replaced with holo screens, and the X-like navigation boards in the back of the bridge were replaced with a large table that mad 3d images to show the galaxy, your location, or anything else that you could use for tactical assessment. The only other major difference was the hull, meaning the outer and inner, had been replaced with the same type that was used on the O'Neill class warships. It was very sleek and it gave the ship an even more advanced look.

Jake walked over to the command chair and sat down, leaning against the back rest. He put his fingers on the soft, organic like material that was used instead of buttons. He closed his eyes and focused his mind, trying to start up the alternate reality drive. He found that operating the chair came easy to him, most likely thanks to all the information that was downloaded into his brain. Suddenly he 'felt' the ship begin to hum from the energy being spread all over as it prepared to shift universes. He looked out at his planet, his Earth. Not knowing if he would ever see her again, see his family again, he whispered, "Goodbye," silently. Then in a flash, the Odyssey was gone, onto a new universe with untold dangers waiting for the young inexperienced man.

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Hope you like, next chapter coming soon.