Ch.106

When life gives you lemons, give them to Rodney McKay as they say. Anyways, a month later Sam ended up with Tok'ra named Jolinar in her while saving some Nassyans. We evacuated everyone and when Sam was outed, I gave her the watch, telling Jolinar that it would heal her if she's telling the truth or eject the symbiote if it's a lie. Jolinar said I already knew she was telling the truth and I nodded. "I do, but you're injured, not thinking rashly and that can get Sam killed. Wear it, it'll protect you both. If not for yourself then for her safety if this so called Ashrak shows up."

Jolinar took the watch and it covered her before she relaxed visibly telling me. "Thank you."

I nodded before telling Jolinar. "Try to flee with Sam and I'll make a belt from your hide. Be reasonable, let us work things out with General Hammond and you'll be treated fairly. You know this. You can see this much and more. You know what I'd do for Sam."

She nodded slowly. "Anything."

I grunted. "Just know that it goes both ways. If someone takes her from me, I'd do anything to them before I ascended or went insane. You don't want that. No goa'uld, no world and no galaxy would be safe. I would hunt you from now to the day you die before resurrecting you for my vengeance."

She shivered and I left, stopping at the door. "I love you Sam. Know that I can feel you and you aren't alone in there. If I have to I'll crush Jolinar's mind, Tok'ra or not, to see you free."

I heard her thoughts and her not wanting that. I smiled and told her I heard and I'd look for another peaceful way out. We shared a telepathic hug of sorts and I left to find a suitable solution for Sam's situation. When the Ashrak came, it killed two guards and I broke it's arms. I took it's weapon and grabbed it by the neck. "No suicides. I swore I'd protect Sam and this world. You're in my way so forgive me."

I entered it's mind and the suit downloaded everything while I was reduced to a puking mess. The Ashrak was barely conscious so Jolinar killed him before holding me. It was all a big mess but I was incoherent for some time because my mind was flooded with the memory equivalent of a thousand Hitlers. Jolinar told them I was fighting off the memories of the Ashrak and trying to purge before it overcomes my mind which is causing severe side effects.

She told Jack about the Ashrak and the memories I took to help them. By the time I was coherent again, Jolinar was willing to leave Sam so long as we helped her get to the Tok'ra. General Hammond said it was still too risky until I walked in and set my watch on the table. It changed into a projector and the secrets of the goa'uld system lords were revealed before our eyes.

I'd been in a coma for days repairing myself from what I'd endured. They watched all the Ashrak knew and it was a hell of a lot, down to chasing Jolinar on Cronus's orders, her torture and the death of her last hosts. Now all that remained was his attempted murder of Sam, her newest host. Screw actionable intel, they had everything, all the secrets of the goa'uld down to their technology, the worlds they rule, everything.

General Hammond agreed to send Jolinar through with Sam and me at least because he knew I couldn't be killed and that there would be a bloodbath if the Tok'ra hurt Sam. Jolinar agreed and asked for a copy of the memories of the Ashrak. As for the intel here, General Hammond had a copy sent up the chain of command. There was just so damned much that it would take weeks or months before any of it could be useful.

Sam and I met the Tok'ra and they got their intel as a sign of a peace offering and show of good faith to become allies. They mentioned hosts and I told them I'd be willing to share the knowledge of cloning technology with them to engineer their own hosts, but they'd have to agree to an alliance to share intelligence and meet with our Diplomats to form a formal pact and alliance.

The Tok'ra high council agreed until I stopped one of them and told them he wasn't Tok'ra, but goa'uld having killed the Tok'ra days before and taken his host. Jolinar vouched for me in her new body, telling them I am an ancient, one of the gate builders. The Tok'ra had questions and I told them that I could not let that information reach the ears of the system lords or thousands could die if they come for me on earth when I wipe out their fleets.

The council member had his room searched before they found a long range communication orb and had the goa'uld extracted. The host was a mess and nearly offed himself, but I helped him calm himself and told him he did no wrong. I told him the goa'uld that took over only wished to break his will, but he is Tok'ra, stronger than all the goa'uld combined even if he didn't believe it at the moment. In the end he didn't kill himself so we helped them pack up and change bases.

I gave them the gate address to a world not known to the goa'uld, a lab I'd tried to rebuild before I'd left to ascend. I told them it would be abandoned by now, but it was miles below the surface of a dead star and had it's own stargate as well as a thermal heat ventilation and power supply. I warned them the weapons technology there was incomplete and unstable so they'd have to dump it on an uninhabited world carefully because any jostling could set it off and wipe out a star system.

They had questions and all I could say was that it was a planet breaking bomb, but I hadn't been able to stabilize it long ago before I chose to ascend so the explosion grew exponentially greater when introduced to air. I told them I'd wiped my notes and the materials were all in sealed cases so they could dump it anywhere, but if they moved it out of the loaded energy field, it could go off. I told them the energy fields were on pallets like my own that hovered only using antigravity technology and were self sustained.

I shrugged. "Beyond that the facilities are advanced, definitely big enough and secure enough that you can use the transporters to beam to the surface and send out your goa'uld detection satellites. They don't know about the planet and the internal systems should be viable so long as you can clean the CO2 scrubbers."

Lantesh said they could easily so I nodded before touching his head and giving him all relevant information to deactivate and control the security of the base. I warned them of the radiation and gravitational issues on the surface and outside the energy field, but beyond that they'd be fine since the power supplies were meant to last a million years on standby and a hundred thousand at full power.

Sam asked what powered it and I grimaced. "An incomplete upgrade to the ZPMs. It was shoddy and too bulky to be of use so it was left there to power the base I never got settled into much. It was basically where all my would be latest technology went to die in the end. None of it's completed but the power source is stable and the facilities are safe. So long as they dump the weapons safely they won't die. The gate there has a shield as well which is why I gave Lantesh the encrypted signal to send through to deactivate the shield."

She slugged my chest lightly and asked why I didn't share it with earth. I grunted. "It's defense systems and the weapons alone would jump earth to the forefront of power in all the galaxies. Earth isn't ready for that kind of technology. I don't want the US using alien technology to rule your world and forcing compliance from the super powers there. Nor do I want them out trying to conquer other worlds. The Tok'ra are different. Their goal is single minded and while they could figure out how to utilize everything eventually, they have no use for it beyond it's current functions."

We went back to earth and heard from the Tok'ra later that the goa'uld showed up and shot their abandoned planet, setting off the weapons and wiping out the star system. Their message said they observed three ships from the system lords go in and everything was reduced to space dust. I grimaced and shook my head, wondering out loud why I trusted anyone anymore.

Weeks later I'd gotten ahold of Jacob just before a mission, introduced myself and asked for his permission to marry his daughter. It wasn't a no, he just asked me out for beers when he wasn't taking secret calls to his doctors over chemotherapy possibilities. I went on the next mission and landed on a prison world where I beat down several men who tried to attack and take Sam.

I broke the big guy's neck and kicked him into the crowd of people, knocking them on their asses. Jack spoke up, telling them if they tried that again he'd let me kill them all so they can leave us alone or there was that other option. They backed away when I growled inhumanly and picked up a decent sized boulder. Sufficiently terrified, they fled before an old woman made her presence known saying Vishnu was the strongest and their leader.

She said I'd be expected to carry out his role and I told her she can do it because I'm not playing by prison rules. I turned to Jack and told him I recognized this planet's address as an old Heliopolis and a Nox controlled one from ancient records. He asked if I had my suit and I touched my watch, making it appear on me. It grew back into a watch before he asked if I could power the gate and dial out.

I nodded and he relaxed. "Then we look around and see what we can find before we leave."

The old lady asked if we really had a way out before I knocked her out. I took her weapon and told Jack. "She's a mass murderer who uses biological warfare to wipe out worlds. She started a plague just to be the one to charge the government to cure it. Millions died as half the population was wiped out before she even stepped in."

Jack sighed. "Jeez, even little old ladies are killers here. Did you read her mind?"

I shook my head and pointed to the man hiding. "No, his. I figured he'd try and attack but she scares him more than we ever will and he's frozen in terror."

He flipped out and ran screaming about the destroyer of worlds.