Chapter 4.5

It wasn't a long trip. It had taken Harry, who was now familiar with their destination, about ten minutes to arrive on Abydos and take them to the surface. It was night-time when they arrived, and most everyone was asleep, if the fact that most of the lights were out was any indication.

"I thought you'd know what time of day it was here, Daniel?" Harry asked.

"I have a chance of finding my wife, do you think I'll be waiting till morning?" Daniel asked.

"Good point." Harry said.

"Do you have a way to find her?" Jack asked Daniel.

"Um." Daniel said intelligently. "I know where her father's house is?" he offered. He was still not thinking clearly, but the chance of seeing his wife again and in the state he knew he would see her in was occupying a lot of his mind at the time.

From there it still took them a while to find the father and daughter. They weren't in the town, where Daniel had met his wife. Instead they were in a tent, right next to the pyramid. Kasuf, Sha're's father, was actually sitting by the coals of a fire, poking some coals under a pot of some kind, likely preparing something for his daughter for when the sun came up.

"Good Father." Daniel greeted respectfully, as he and the team, along with Harry and Daphne walked into the light. Cooper was also there, but kept his distance, invisibly.

"Daniel!" Kasuf greeted as he instantly got up to embrace the man. "It is good to see you again."

"It is good to see you too, Good Father." Daniel said.

"I have very good news for you." Kasuf said.

"Sha're is here." Daniel said with a nod. Kasuf frowned at him. "Our allies have captured the demon who took her away."

"Daniel?" a voice asked from inside the tent, as Sha're opened the flap and exited. The team's immediate response was to point their weapons.

"Stop!" Daniel demanded as he stepped before his wife. He knew she was a host, but he still loved her.

"Lower your weapons guys." Harry said. "She doesn't have anything in her hands and she couldn't attack us in her current state." he said, indicating her swollen belly.

Daniel and his wife were soon speaking and it seemed that Amaunet was dormant, to protect the baby. Daniel had the ability to talk to his wife. It was decided that the Stargate would be buried again, but Harry took it a step further. He transfigured a patch of sand into a hard container and then he encased the Stargate into it, pointed down, before sinking it a few hundred feet into the sand of the desert, until it met a deep stone surface.

Then he set up a new device for them, in the abandoned underground temple, which was where Daniel had found all the new addresses that they were currently exploring at the SGC. He needed to make it so that nobody could find it, however, so he showed Kasuf where he could go to leave a message to contact them. It would be monitored by the Transport Tunnel operators anyway, connected through the Eudaemon and StellarNet system.

Sha're said her farewells to her father and they were soon back on Harmony, with Sha're immediately being taken to the Hospital, where Pansy would look at the child and learn all she could about it, without hurting the baby. While Sha're may be the host, she was carrying a child that partly her own and she didn't want to see the baby hurt. Daniel was with her every step of the way, even though he seemed conflicted.

OOO

Daniel had taken a few days off, so that he could spend time with his wife, while General Hammond had a private word with the rest of the team.

"It seems a private organization, called Marauders Inc., has offered to cover most of the expenses in running the SGC, for a bit of the action, as it were." Hammond started. "After some digging, a certain name popped up; Remus Lupin. He's listed as the COO, with the CEO being someone called Sirius Black."

"Ah, right." Jack said. "We were told Mister Black may be up to something at some point."

"He's got contact with the Envoy?" Hammond asked.

"They are familiar with each other." Teal'c said, without giving anything away, his face as stoic as ever.

"And the Envoy eluded to him being up to something?" Hammond asked.

"I believe the word he used was underhanded." Sam said, with a smile. "I do believe the CEO is following a plan that the Envoy put in place."

"'His plan, my execution.'" Jack quoted. "That's what the Envoy said. I believe that, if you allow this, you may be given clearance to know more."

"Then there's the motherships." Sam pointed out.

"What motherships?" Hammond asked.

"Can we tell him?" Sam asked Teal'c. He was usually the quiet one, thinking before he spoke.

"I don't believe that that would be a problem." Teal'c said.

"The Envoy was able to track down the ships that were going to come to our planet. His people stopped them and he now has two of the motherships to experiment with." Jack said.

"And he intends to keep them?" Hammond asked. It wouldn't be unfair, but alien motherships would bring a lot of resources in for the SGC.

"We asked if we could have one, sir." Sam said. "The Envoy then told us that something was going on."

"And you think this offer is that 'something'?" Hammond asked. He pondered it for a bit, at their nods. "As you know, the people in charge have been complaining that we aren't bringing enough out of the Stargate Program. Do you think the Envoy would give us one of these ships, so that we can reverse-engineer them?"

"Sir, the Envoy and his people don't need us to protect the galaxy." Jack said. "That being said, if they are trying to get in, legally, it's likely a sign of good faith."

"The Envoy and his people have far superior technology to the Tau'ri." Teal'c said. "I think that the only technology that we would not be allowed to bring back, would be their own."

"Why?" Hammond asked.

"Because, sir." Sam said. "It's superior to the Stargate, as far as we can tell."

That got Hammond's attention. The fact was that he wasn't happy about anyone else trying to dictate their actions, as a foreign power might. The Envoy had proven himself on multiple occasions, though. He also trusted his team, so he nodded and adjourned the meeting, which was an informal thing between those who knew of the Envoy, only, even though most of the base suspected something was going on, with how often the SG-1 team, and once, Doctor Fraiser had disappeared, with no sign of where they had gone and no evidence stating that anything had happened, except for their absence.

Doctor Fraiser had had to sign a contract, or lose her memories and she refused to lose her memories. Unfortunately she couldn't tell General Hammond anything, either. In her case, however, she didn't even know about the Envoy, so she was still mostly in the dark, except for seeing the miraculous recovery of, her now adopted daughter, Cassandra. The girl who had been turned into a bomb.

OOO

General Hammond had needed to speak to the President, to inform him of some of their discussion. Nothing specific, of course, but the President could read between the lines. He was also receiving a lot of pressure to shut the Stargate Program down, due to the low success rate of bringing advanced technology back. Both the President and the General suspected the NID was pushing for the end of the Stargate Program, because they had their own designs on the device.

Not having liked what he had been hearing about the NID's tactics, the President gave the green-light for Stargate Command to receive external funding, support and resources, from a company he, personally, suspected was run by Magical people. If only he could tell people about them, but unfortunately that was not an option. The American magicals had, quite literally, made him incapable of telling anyone their secret. He couldn't even write it down. He smirked as he signed the documentation with a flourish. 'Take that, Macusa.' he thought to himself.

OOO

"General Hammond." Harry greeted respectfully.

"Envoy." Hammond said. He'd spoken to him once or twice and the team had described him to him. "It's good to put a face to the person who has been helping us out all this time."

"Same here, General." Harry said. He knew what the man looked like, but speaking face to face felt long overdue. "Shall we get this party started?" he asked, indicating out of the meeting room, where he had appeared.

"Where are we going?" Hammond asked.

"To my world." Harry said. "It's just a short walk, I assure you."

Hammond turned to the SG-1 team and Sam shrugged, indicating that she had no idea what was going on. He sighed then. "Very well." he said, as they all followed Harry. Exiting the meeting room, Harry turned away from the staircase down and to a wall, through which he walked, making a door appear. "What is this?" Hammond asked.

"It looks like a Transport Tunnel, sir." Jack said, looking in. He'd seen the one Harry had installed on Abydos, for the people to contact them.

"Transport Tunnel?" Hammond asked.

"It works like a Stargate." Sam said. "We never used the one I saw." she admitted.

"It's like walking through a tunnel." Harry said. "Trust me, you'll like this."

"I don't like finding out we have alien technology installed in our top secret facility." Hammond argued.

"We only installed this after the paperwork was signed, General Hammond." Harry promised.

"And this one goes to your planet?" Hammond asked.

"Or Abydos, or the Prometheus." Harry allowed. "Depending on where we decide to connect it to. For now, this one goes to a designated location in Harmony."

"Harmony is their settlement on…" Sam started. She looked at Harry. "Can I tell him?" she asked.

"Go for it." Harry smiled.

"Harmony is a town they started on Mars, sir." Sam said.

"Our Mars?" Hammond asked.

"Is there another?" Harry asked, indicating for the General to follow. He finally walked into the room, the rest of the team having preceded him. The door closed behind them and another one opened on the other side. It was not a vanishing room, but Harry had made it look that way, to simplify things. "If there's ever a need to come here and something goes wrong during transport, the other door will not appear or open, but instructions will appear on an overhead display, to instruct you on contacting someone to help. So far it's never happened, but at least we can't have accidents with our system, since we created it ourselves."

"Accidents?" Hammond asked, as they walked through the opening door and he saw a hallway with doors on either side, with people in lab-coats visible through some of the windows.

"Of course." Harry said. "Since we don't know everything about the Stargate, we can't know everything that can go wrong. We only understand a fraction of the ancient's technology."

"I'll be asking questions all day, won't I?" the General asked.

"The ancients, or Alterans, were the original Gate Constructors." Sam said. "At least, that's what the Envoy has told us."

"Oh, right." Harry said. "Now that you are coming into the fold, I'll not need you to call me the Envoy anymore." He held out his hand, "Call me Harry, sir. Harry Black."

General Hammond took the hand and shook it. "You can still call me General Hammond." he said.

"Of course, sir." Harry said, smirking.

"Black? Like Sirius Black?" he asked.

"My godfather." Harry allowed. His friends and family knew how excited he was to do this tour, so had left him to it, watching remotely. Cooper was still there, but he was invisible as usual. "He's both the CEO of Marauders Inc. and the Mayor of Harmony."

"Sirius Black is an alien?" the General asked.

"He's as human as you or I." Harry said.

"Wait." General Hammond said. "Human? You?"

"That's the big secret, sir." Jack confirmed. "Turns out, there's a whole group of people with magical powers, back on Earth. They hide to protect themselves from normal humans."

"How do we not know this?" General Hammond asked, incredulously. Magic! What an advantage, if what he was seeing and hearing was right.

"Your President does." Harry said. "Unfortunately the Macusa are stricter than the European wizarding community."

"You've basically almost taken over, as I understand it." Sam said, shaking her head. At Harry's look, she said, "When your scientists were looking into how the second Stargate functioned, many little details came to light."

"Taken over?" General Hammond asked dangerously.

"In the sense of political power only, sir." Jack said. "Nothing hostile as far as we can tell." he looked at Harry then, "You didn't know? We were discussing this at my house."

"I don't watch you guys when you're home!" Harry objected. "I'm not paranoid or some sort of pervert!"

"Well, that's good to know." Jack said, nodding in appreciation. "Anyway, we discussed what we saw, after that day, back at my house."

"From what we can gather, sir," Sam continued, "there were people that abused their power on people like us. Harry had his guardians start a company that hired the disenfranchised and trained them to stop the bad seeds, because he believes that the magical people will be discovered at some point. The Wolves are that force."

"Oh, and get this." Jack said. ��The wolves used to be werewolves, until Harry fixed that. Now they're some sort of non-werewolf, wolf-people." He looked uncomfortable then, "Just, don't call them wolf-people. It's apparently an insult. They consider themselves real wolves."

"That's because we are." Cooper said, as he slipped from invisibility.

"Who the hell are you!?" General Hammond exclaimed, having jumped at the sudden appearance.

"Corporal John Cooper, Marine Corps, sir!" he said, saluting the general. "I served for a while, before I was bitten while I was on liberty. Worst day of my life, when I was forced to leave. Got a dishonourable discharge for desertion. Couldn't stay if I wanted to. The corps was the first family I had."

"We had no issues with that, obviously." Harry put in.

General Hammond suddenly had a lot of sympathy for the man. Taking a breath, to calm down he saluted the man back. "At ease, Corporal." he said. "And I'm sorry for that." He didn't understand the werewolf thing, but he understood how the military was like a family. He'd been in it long enough that he couldn't imagine life outside the service, even if he was an airman, not a marine. The corporal took a step back and became invisible again. "Is that something all the wolves can do?" he asked.

"It's not a wolf ability, but we equip our people with tactical magic." Harry said. "It's one of the reasons we'll be assigning two wolves to every SG team. We'll show you what we have in mind in a bit, but for now, we've got a demonstration to get to."

While they walked, General Hammond asked, "Macusa?"

"The Magical Congress of the United States of America." Harry said. "Hard-asses, all of them. You can't marry someone who isn't magical. You get arrested if you defend yourself magically. You can't even tell anyone, or their memories get wiped and you go to prison. That's the reason we're talking here." He turned to Jack. "It's probably best not to discuss these things at your house. We've added some protections for you, but you can never be too careful."

"Protections?" Jack asked.

"Protection from harmful intent, some preventions to stop espionage and burglary. That sort of thing." Harry said. "It should keep people from overhearing you, but you can never be too careful. We've set the same thing up at all our mundane people's homes. I hope you don't mind."

"Mine and Daniel's?" Sam asked.

"Of course." Harry agreed.

"Thanks." she said.

"Why are we discussing this so openly, and why are you telling us things which will get our memory messed with?" General Hammond asked. He sincerely hoped they had plans to protect his home as well. His and that of his children and grand-children's.

"We're on Mars, sir." Jack said. "The laws of Earth don't apply here." he said. He'd figured that one out on his own, when he saw obvious mundane people interacting with magicals in one of his few visits. The fact that some people had asked others to cast spells for them was another clue.

"Got it in one." Harry said, smiling at the perceptive man. "I was planning on moving the Stargate to another location on Mars, but I'm worried about the repercussions of doing something like that. You guys get way too much attention as it is. I won't risk the lives of my people, because one of you decides to piss someone off, who decides to fly here and drop a nuke, or something."

"But, you've got your sensors for that." Sam pointed out. "The Prometheus has a sensor that can detect things far away. I always assumed you've got something that would detect hostiles entering the solar system."

"We do." Harry admitted. "But we can't be certain we've got everything covered. There's more than one kind of stealth after all." He thought about it for a moment, before explaining, "For example, if someone else has one of those dimensional quantum mirrors, they could go to a different dimension, come here, drop a bomb and leave. You'd never even know they were there."

Sam lost some colour at that. It was true. It was probably the stealthiest way to destroy an enemy she'd heard of. You'd literally be unable to predict such a thing. "That's a very good point." she said.

"Why do you think we've got a whole department studying the damn thing?" Harry said. "We need to know how it works and how to detect something like that, or at least how to protect from it."

"You think you'll be able to defend from something like that?" General Hammond asked.

"Not at present." Harry said, seriously. "But, I'm positive that the scientists will figure it out. So far we've established that the mirror contains a quantum singularity."

"Why does that sound familiar?" General Hammond asked, as Harry finally led them into a Lab, where a couple of people were standing around Apophis, who was strapped down and unconscious.

"Black holes, sir." Jack said. He looked very worried. Black holes formed around singularities. A single one could swallow a solar system. Playing with them was NOT a good idea.

"I know him." General Hammond said. He'd picked up the bit about the black hole, but he was compartmentalising. This was more immediate.

"We're here to remove the Symbiote." Harry said.

"You've found a way?" Teal'c asked.

"Which one of you is the better shot?" Harry asked between Teal'c and Jack.

"I am." Jack said instantly, his hand moving to his side-arm.

"Not that one." Harry said, smirking at the man's eagerness, pulling out a gun of his own. "You'll be using this." he said.

Jack looked at the gun, and realised it was a bb-pistol. "This is a toy." he said, looking at Harry in question.

"Don't worry, Colonel O'Neill." Harry said. "There's a plan." he said, pulling out a pair of glasses and handing them to the man. "Put those on." he said.

Jack put them on, and once again, he was seeing through people's… everything, but from the waist up. "X-ray?" he asked.

General Hammond instantly covered his crotch, and Sam turned around, but Harry chuckled. "Specialized." he said. "Only sees the torso and up. It also works like an x-ray. He can't see through just clothing, Sam." he explained. "The bb-pellets have certain magic on them." he continued. "I want you to shoot the Goa'uld. Aim for the actual symbiote."

Jack shrugged, walked closer and held the gun at the man's throat, looking at the creature. "Wish this was a real gun." he muttered before firing.

The symbiote, who had been knocked unconscious, again, was suddenly awake and tried to awaken his host, only to realise he was in a glass jar, filled with liquid. He wanted to scream, but with his body unconscious on a table he could see through the glass, he had little he could do. He was afraid, of course. If someone could remove a Goa'uld and save the host, this could spell the end of the Goa'uld.

"Hey there, little guy." Harry smirked at the symbiote.

"So, the pellet goes through?" Jack asked, as he looked at where he'd shot the unconscious man. There wasn't a mark.

"And transports him here." Harry agreed, still tapping at the jar. It was impervious, and specifically protected against the symbiote escaping. "We'll keep him alive in here, until we can do something more permanent."

"Why not just kill him?" Teal'c asked with a dark scowl. He loved seeing the symbiote so helpless. If he could only reach in and squeeze the life out of him.

"In our world, we've got laws about how to treat prisoners of war." Harry said.

"But he's not human." Jack said.

"He's sentient." Harry countered. "All sentient life on Harmony has the same rights." he said. "We'll see if we can devise a body for the creature and then we'll put him into a prison where he can get his deserved punishment."

"Why not just turn him into a frog, or something?" Jack asked. "Then we take him to a French restaurant and have them serve him up. No sentience, no rights."

"What if I turned you into a frog?" Harry countered again. He had a thoughtful look then. "I do suppose I could try something, though." he mused. He focussed his ring on the creature and transported him out. Changing one sentient being into another, should be doable… He focussed his power on the creature he was holding with his power and concentrated, using his last form and making that his current one. It surprised him when it worked, however. "Huh." he said as he watched the now human Symbiote flopping on the floor, with the guards in the room having moved to cover him. "Guess he'll need some time to acclimate." he said, as he ran some diagnostic spells on the creature.

"Did you just make him human?" Sam asked, in shock.

"Physically." Harry said, also apparently in shock. He wondered if his knowledge that there was magical power being distributed in Harmony, had somehow tapped into that. It was possible to sustain Transfigurations that were not equal, but you had to add power to the change every now and then to maintain it. From what he could feel from the flopping human transfiguration, it was stable. "On the bright side, he doesn't have a symbiote, so he can't take another host, and we don't need to keep him in a special containment unit."

"That's impossible." Sam said, as she watched the naked man start to shake less and less. He seemed to be gaining control of his body.

"I'm not arguing with you." Harry said. "The mass and ratios are all off. His body should already be turning back."

"Perhaps it is the Naquadah?" Teal'c suggested. "It can contain large quantities of energy."

Harry nodded at that. They knew that the symbiotes contained trace amounts of the stuff, likely from when they were larva and being fed liquid Naquadah, as a source of energy, or from the Sarcophagi. "That theory is quite insightful, Teal'c." he complimented. "Maybe Naquadah is the solution to some of our own limitations. I'll put it on the books for one of our teams to look into."

On the floor, the newly formed body of Apophis was now still and the ex-symbiote was looking around, moving very minutely, but he seemed to have gained control. "Wha… What have you done… to me?" he managed. His voice was no longer a double tone, as it was when he possessed a person. His eyes didn't shine either.

"Oh, I'm going to enjoy this." Jack said, with a wicked smile, as he walked up to the man on the floor. He offered him a hand up, and Harry allowed it, knowing what was coming. Apophis struggled to stand, but after a bit, he found his balance. "You up?" Jack asked. The Goa'uld sneered at Jack. Jack punched him out. "I was right." he said, with a satisfied smirk on his face. "I feel better."

"My turn." Teal'c said, as he stalked forward.

"In time, Teal'c." Harry said, as he freed the original body and floated the man off and the Goa'uld into its place, strapping him down again. "Please inform the team of what we have done, so that they can monitor what is happening here." Harry asked one of the guards.

"Will Apophis not face justice?" Teal'c asked.

"I'm not in charge of that." Harry said apologetically. "Chances are, we'll be bringing the creature before the Tribunal, or maybe some other legislative committee. I'll give them my recommendation that he faces justice from your people, if that's what you want, but I don't control everything here."

Teal'c's jaw clenched, but he seemed to accept it, for now. "If Harry suggests that they do something, chances are that is what will happen." Jack assured the big man. He'd picked that up in his time on Harmony. Harry might not be in charge, but he also, kind of, was, since he'd basically built the entire town and gave everyone the opportunity to be there.

"Thank you." Teal'c nodded at Jack, then Harry.

"So you don't have any affiliation with any country on Earth?" General Hammond asked. "The Geneva Convention-"

"Does not apply here." Harry interrupted. "But we do treat people with fairness. We'll not harm a prisoner. What Jack did, technically, is against our law, though."

"What's the punishment?" Teal'c asked. He'd be willing to take a punishment, if it was worth it. His wife and son lived here, though. He'd not jeopardise his ability to see them.

"There's likely a fine involved." Harry shrugged. "Like I said, I don't control everything. Madam Bones will likely take charge of our legal and justice systems." Susan's Aunt hadn't joined them officially, but she had her house moved to Harmony and she was contemplating a permanent move. Harry really hoped she decided to come to Harmony soon. She'd already been offered the position.

"Madam Bones?" General Hammond asked.

"She's the head of the DMLE, the Department of Magical Law Enforcement, back in Britain." Harry said. "Her niece is one of my girls, Susan."

"She's been recruited by the wolves." Jack said, as he recalled being told that. "She's in training still." he turned to Harry. "Will she be joining the SG teams?" he asked.

"That will be up to her commanding officer." Harry said. "I have a hand in it, but am not in charge of military affairs." he grumbled.

"You don't seem enthused about that." General Hammond said.

"Well, I was heading a small unit that was keeping an eye on you lot, but when you started making enemies everywhere, Remus decided that they needed a bigger force involved." Harry explained. "Now I only have a say when it comes to SG-1." he finished.

"Are we not enough?" Jack asked, smirking at him.

"I suppose you do get up to more than most." Harry allowed.

He led them from the lab, and as they walked, General Hammond asked, "About this singularity…?"

"Completely contained and in a remote facility." Harry said. He'd not be giving specifics. The fact was that they had set up another research facility on a planet Doctor Hawk had found. It wasn't capable of sustaining life, but it had the correct distance from the sun and almost the same gravity and atmospheric pressure as on Earth, which simplified things for them. The scientists stationed there were working on plans to terraform the planet, using magical and technological means. It would provide them with valuable data and would also allow them to experiment in an environment that wouldn't cause problems for the people in Harmony.

"How remote?" General Hammond asked.

"It's on a planet without a Stargate in a different sector of our Galaxy." Harry said.

"That's remote enough." General Hammond nodded. "How is it that you are able to travel to worlds without Stargates? I can understand Mars, if you have advanced more than the rest of humanity, but that far?"

"I invented a system that can use… a different principle, for instantaneous movement in our galaxy." Harry said.

"So you really don't need the Stargate?" General Hammond asked. "Why take part in our program, then?"

"Because you are placing Earth in jeopardy?" Harry said/asked. He pointed a thumb behind them. "Just look at Apophis. He's so damn entitled, he believes he has the right to conquer Earth, just because it's there. Just wait until you hear what he had planned for Earth."

"You know his plans?" General Hammond asked.

"They have mind-readers." Jack said. "They had one of them look into Apophis's mind, to find Doctor Jackson's wife."

"Is that why he's taken time off from the program?" the General asked.

"She's here, in Harmony." Harry confirmed. "There is a wolf unit keeping an eye. Once she goes into labour, we'll have people on standby."

"Why not remove the symbiote immediately? You know your process works." Jack said.

"We don't know what that will do to the baby." Harry said.

"It's going to be a monster." Jack pointed out. He'd not say it around Daniel's wife, but she wasn't with them now and he believed it was worth saying.

"It's also going to have the genetic knowledge of the Goa'uld." Sam said. "If it's a taboo to make them, that is likely a reason why the Goa'uld forbade it."

"Finding out all we can from the baby could possibly give us an advantage we don't have now." General Hammond agreed.

"We won't be experimenting on the baby." Harry said. "It's not our way. We do have both the parents, though. If we find out what to look for, we can have Professor Snape read them and get the information from them."

"How many mind readers do you have?" Jack asked. He'd noted that Harry could do something like that, but besides him, there'd only been this Professor Snape.

"It's a useful skill, but only a few people have the necessary skill to learn it properly." Harry said. "At present, I only know of two people that can do it besides myself."

"Harry prefers only to read the mind of willing people." Sam said, when the General looked like he was going to ask about that. He nodded at her in thanks. It seemed that the young man had some moral fibre.

"Prometheus?" he asked, then. It had been mentioned more than once now. Once in conjunction with the Transport Tunnel and once, when they were talking about sensors to detect people entering their solar system.

"The Prometheus is my fastest long-range transport ship." Harry said. "It doesn't have light-speed capabilities, yet, but it's faster than anything Earth has currently."

"It uses some sort of teleportation, to travel between different solar systems." Sam clarified. "It could reach Mars in a few days, though, which is much faster than we have could achieve with our current technology."

"Until we figure out how the Ha'tak FTL works." Harry added. "We'll be adding that to Prometheus and the rest of the fleet, when we crack it."

"You've got a fleet of space-capable ships?" General Hammond asked.

"Mostly still in construction." Harry allowed. "They use our technology, so they will be off-limits to the SGC for now. We've got about four of them that are ready to ship out, and another eight that are nearing completion."

"Why so many?" General Hammond asked.

"It's a big universe, General." Harry said. "If one System Lord can have two Ha'tak constructed rather quickly, then we have to be prepared for the possibility of a larger fleet. Fortunately, from what we have gathered, our capabilities are quite uniquely qualified to subdue them rather efficiently."

"How is it that you are more advanced than Earth?" General Hammond asked. "I can understand 'magic' helping, not that I know what magic is or what it does, but it sounds like Harmony is a rather recent development."

"I've been using some family tricks to speed our progression along, by using normal scientific principles." Harry said, smugly.

"He's being modest, sir." Jack said. "He's achieved most of his advancements all in the last few years, from what we can tell."

"Magical people seem to live in a world where magic is mysterious and mystical." Sam said. "Harry seems to consider it just another source of scientific research. By combining the two principles, he's been able to achieve more than either of those disciplines are capable of on their own."

"To be fair, there are certain fields of magic that are far more mystical and mysterious than the kinds I tend to use." Harry said. "Divination, for example, is mostly a mystery to me. While I don't understand it, there is something to be said for being able to predict the weather accurately, by what the tealeaves in your morning cup says."

"So, that stuff is real?" Jack asked. "Star signs and stuff?"

"That's a mundane concept." Harry said. "It relies on a form of cold reading. Psychologically speaking, people who believe in star signs are more positive, because it takes a bit of optimism to see when the signs you are expecting to appear, does. That makes them better people in my personal opinion. Not that I believe in that particular viewpoint."

"But reading tea-leaves is real?" Sam asked, sceptically.

"For some things I find that dead useful." Harry agreed. "Mostly only for the weather predictions, though. The more personal it gets, the more unreliable it becomes. Luna's morning television show tells people her reading for the weather here in Harmony. It's mostly a joke, since we control the weather." he finished with a chuckle.

"Luna?" General Hammond asked.

"She's one of Harry's girls." Jack said.

"'Harry's girls.'" General Hammond repeated. "I've heard that a couple of times now. Is it personal or could you elaborate?"

"It is personal." Harry said. "I don't mind talking about my girls, though." he said with a smile. "When I started at Hogwarts, the premier magical school in Scotland, I started making friends. While in my first year, I learned about some people who were abusing the gift of magic for perverse and evil things. I put a stop to what I found and planned a system where there was more supervision.

"I told the girls in my circle that I wanted to protect them. My family is old and respected, so offering them a part in a close-knit group of friends, under the guise of looking for acceptable candidates to someday marry, put a form of cultural protection on them. Over the next few years we became very close and the girls decided that they didn't want to give me up, so they agreed to all marry me." he finished.

"So, you have eight girls you intend to marry?" Sam asked. "And you are all intimate?" she asked, a stern look in her eyes.

"You don't approve of love, Captain Carter?" Harry asked, sternly.

"I'm not saying that." Sam defended. "It just seems unfair to the girls."

"Try telling them that." Harry said, as he felt something and smirked. "In fact, try arguing with them." he said as some of them started appearing. They were watching, after all.

"How dare you!" Hermione exclaimed. "You don't know us!"

"You don't know Harry either!" Padma, having arrived with Hermione, said.

"Not here, ladies." Fleur said, as she hooked an arm in Sam's one arm, with Luna taking the other, like it was planned.

"We'll be educating the Captain about what she's looking down on." Daphne said. She turned to Sam. "You are very lucky that Pansy is on duty at the hospital. She doesn't like when people look down on us." she said, as they left the hall they were in.

"Where are they taking her?" General Hammond asked.

"I don't know, and I don't intend to interfere." Harry said. "I'm not an idiot."

"Captain Carter has not yet learned to keep her mind open to other cultures and their traditions and ways." Teal'c said. "I don't think she will be harmed."

"She'll not be happy, either." Jack said.

"That was the Lady Fleur?" General Hammond asked. He was one of those who had remembered her appearing and putting Hathor in her place. "She looks older than the rest." he pointed out.

"She joined our group shortly after my fourth year." Harry said. "She's three years older than the rest of us."

"She's a Veela." Jack said. At General Hammond's look, he elaborated. "Magical people, with a supernatural beauty. They are all female and can seduce men very easily. Until you piss them off. Then they grow wings, their faces change and they start throwing fireballs."

"You've seen this?" General Hammond asked.

Jack looked uncomfortable at that. "Well… Harry dropped me off at this place, where only Veela worked, once. One of the patrons were getting a little too familiar with one of them and they burned his hair off." he explained delicately.

Harry was smirking at the man, as he led them out of the building and lifted them up, shocking the General. "What he isn't telling you, is that Veela are mostly all exhibitionists. The place I took him to was a strip-club."

The General would be asking questions about that later. For now he was more interested in how they were flying. "This another gift of magicals?" he asked.

"I invented items that allow magicals personal flight capabilities. For now, only the wolves have access to those." Harry said. "It's a quirk of my own power that is bringing you along." He flew them over Harmony and, for a while, the general was quiet, as he took everything he was seeing in.

"If Veela can seduce men, why do they object to men when they act on their attraction?��� General Hammond asked.

"They are forbidden from using their magical allure to attract men in that establishment, or in public." Harry said. "The man was probably acting on his own initiative. Veela are all naturally attractive, though, so it makes sense that that should happen now and then. Everyone knows, though, that you are allowed to look, but not touch."

They soon flew from the main residential area and down a fork in the canyon, where they turned right. Before long they reached a place that even Jack had not seen before. "This is our military section. We have training grounds, R&D and a few other facilities." he said, as they crossed over some sort of visible barrier and suddenly they saw the fleet of Prometheus class ships, with people around them and walking in and out of them.

"These look different to the Prometheus." Jack said, noticing that while the general shape was the same, there were more angles and these seemed a bit sleeker. One of them looked like it had been heavily modified and had a larger base. The ship itself had a design that made it look like the head of a wolf. "What's with the wolf-head?" he asked.

"That's the Plutus." Harry said. "It's Daniels's personal ship."

"Doctor Jackson?" General Hammond asked, confused.

"J. Daniels is our head of security. He's basically the leader of our military, while Remus is the Alpha for all the wolves and serves in a more general capacity, even if he is the official leader of the Wolf Brigade." Harry said.

"What's the 'J' stand for?" Jack asked.

"Jack." Harry said. "His full name is Jack Daniels. He'd obviously prefer if that didn't get around too much, so keep it to yourselves."

"Aren't they watching now?" Jack pointed out.

"Only people that already know, are." Harry allowed.

"And he won't mind you telling?" Jack asked.

"I don't think it will be a problem." Harry said. "Just don't call him that in public."

"Are all of these ships able to travel like the Prometheus does?" Teal'c asked.

"Pretty much, yes." Harry said. "They don't have access to all of the Prometheus's weapons and outfitting them all with the same protections Prometheus has, would be expensive as hell."

"What weapons?" General Hammond asked.

"Trade secret, General." Harry said. "Some things I can't tell you. Let's rather say that I built my first laser using magical means when I was fourteen, and found that it was much more powerful than mundane standards. Since then, I've had exponential success in applying better and better techniques."

"He almost cut the moon in half with his latest version." Jack said, uninvited.

"Not you too?" Harry whined. "I thought you were better than that, Jack."

"It's just to give the General an idea of what you are capable of." Jack assured him.

"He informed us that he was working on a defensive item, at the time." Teal'c added.

The General's eyebrows lifted at that. "That's powerful." he said.

"He's taken precautions that something like that won't happen again." Jack assured the General.

"We can only hope." General Hammond said. The young man was working with some dangerous things if what he was hearing was true.

"My weapons research is now based out of our other base, where the research on the Mirror is taking place." Harry relented. "People kept on badgering me about doing things no man was meant to play with." he said sarcastically. "Could you all drop this, now? I've been raked over the coals enough and you can't be affected by it anymore."

The General still sighed a sigh of relief, as Harry landed them. "I didn't mean to offend you, but caution is probably best when working with science that could potentially destroy planets."

"Destroying planets isn't all that difficult." Harry scoffed. He had a few ideas about doing things like that, but he didn't think about them all that much. He was more interested in making cool stuff. "It's saving them that takes real effort."

"That's right." General Hammond said, remembering. "Could you tell me what devices you've been placing on Earth?"

"CITA." Sam said, as she joined them, where they had landed. Apparently the girls were done with her. She turned to Harry and said, "I'm sorry for assuming you were using your girls. They have informed me that you have been nothing but forthcoming with everything and that you treat them with respect." she apologised formally.

"It's fine, as long as you understand." Harry shrugged.

"CITA?" General Hammond queried.

"Carbon Isolation and Transfer Array." Sam said. "It uses magical means to take the carbon out of carbon dioxide and transport that Carbon to central locations. Doctor Robert Edwards was there when we were inspecting the second Stargate. His research is mostly on finding other uses for the principles involved with the CITA." She looked at Harry, then. "I was told that you invented the technology?" she asked.

"It was a project of mine for a while." Harry said. "Shortly after I started working with the British Prime Minister."

"Why is the Prime Minister allowed to work with magicals?" General Hammond asked, incredulously. The United States was supposed to be one of the most advanced countries on the planet, in his personal opinion.

"Like I said, Macusa are way stricter." Harry said. "I suspect that they have magics on the President that makes it impossible for him to reveal their existence. Technically, the Prime Minister isn't allowed either, but we worked around that, until they couldn't stop us anymore. The Queen is still our monarch, even if the Magical world doesn't like admitting it. When she ordered them to allow the wolves to work in both the magical and mundane worlds, we started making a bigger change."

"But Britain doesn't even have a Space Program." General Hammond objected.

"They still don't have an official one." Harry said. "We have a few people capable of flying the one short-range spacecraft I ever made. They've been using that to bolster our funding and to deliver communications satellites and the like into orbit. It's much cheaper and we can do that how often we want."

"Doesn't seem fair, does it?" Jack asked General Hammond. "One magical kid decides to make a flying saucer and now Britain has access to the world's most advanced Space Program."

"We've spent trillions on our Space Program." General Hammond agreed.

"And then a twelve-year old boy figures out how to go to the moon, during school holiday." Sam said, shaking her head. "If only we had access to that technology, we could advance our scientific knowledge by hundreds of years." she finished.

"What do you think we're doing here?" Harry asked, cocking his head to the side. "With the Stargate Program now being funded and powered by my technology, and a few protections and changes in protocol, we can start working together."

"How will we keep knowledge of the fact that we're working with Magicals from these Macusa people?" General Hammond asked. He needed to look out for his people after all.

"That's a good point." Harry said, leading them to a Transport Room.

"This is a Transporter." Jack said. "Like from science fiction." he added.

"Colonel O'Neill, we're currently living in science fiction." General Hammond said indicating the fleet, as the door closed and opened, to show the labs again. "Point made." He looked at Harry. "Is there a difference between this and the Transport Tunnel?" he asked.

"The Transport Tunnel is made for longer distances." Harry said. "The entire Tunnel is transported and switched with one we have on this side. That way if the transport fails, because of something I can't discuss with you, you won't be left in the vacuum of space unprotected. The Transport Rooms are meant for shorter distances and uses a different principle."

"Your scientists helped you with that?" Jack asked.

"No." Harry said. "I made the original design and they just added their own input, like suggesting artificial gravity and seats with seatbelts that come out the sides, in case people need to use the backup transport system." he said. "The backup can be more jarring, but is completely safe."

"So you've refined your magic into a science?" General Hammond asked. It sounded like everything had contingencies and was backed up with protocols and a firm understanding of every principle they used.

"To a degree." Harry said. "Nothing is set in stone and magic does allow some of the rules of science to be bent. Knowing how and why certain things work, allows us to do more with that knowledge. I can do things with magic that no other magical is capable of, because I understand the science that they scoff at. One of the easiest examples of this, is the ability to change the molecular structure of a thing. Diatomic carbon, for example, can be changed to diamond with much more ease than the Scientific methods allow and that was only possible due to my understanding of the molecules involved."

"So, you could potentially construct an entire ship out of diamond?" Sam asked, in wonder.

"Well, potentially." Harry allowed. "The amount of power such a thing would need is astronomical though. I said it's easier, not that it was easy. It takes a lot of power, still. I used Tungsten Carbide for the protective shell on the Prometheus and added magical runes to further enhance its toughness."

"Tungsten Carbide is supposedly nearly as hard as diamond already." Sam said. "Have you tested its hardness?"

"It��s off the Mohs scale." Harry agreed.

"Meaning it's tougher than Diamond." Sam said, nodding. "So instead of using something that was already the hardest, you used something almost as hard and made it even more so. You've taken the concepts of science and made a whole new field of research, simply because magicals didn't think of the possibilities of doing so."

"Well, there is alchemy." Harry allowed. "It seems that it uses chemical knowledge and the magical art of potions to create things that were before unachievable. Bobby is working with the CITA for now, but I suspect he'll be going into that field as soon as he finishes with his current research."

"Bobby?" General Hammond asked. He was getting tired of asking questions, but it seemed that there was much to be learned and he was loving the possibilities that were opening to them, with all this.

"Doctor Robert Edwards." Harry said, as he led them into his personal lab. "He prefers Bobby.���

Harry went to sit down behind his desk, indicating the comfortable chairs that appeared in front of the desk. "Now, let's discuss magical contracts."