Stargate: The Return - Part One

Chapter 16

Meanwhile, on an uninhabited planet, with a toxic atmosphere. In a dark room, a red light started flashing. After a few moments the room lit up, a few consoles activated and screens above them came to life. On the surface the floor of a desert began to shake and a crack appeared, it continued to expand. Bright lights leaked through the opening as it expanded.

In a large, dark room, a humming sound started. It got louder and louder. In the distance, light was appearing. Getting closer. The walls were high with strange patterns all over, it had several levels of walkways along the sides of the walls and what looked like panels of ice along the walls. They led far into the distance, too far to see where they ended. The room was now perfectly lit. The ice panels weren't ice. Lights went on behind them. Now there were shadows inside the panels. They were like windows. The humming was now almost deafening, the light blue colour began to fade. The humming stopped completely. The shadows that were behind the panels began to move. Simultaneously they all stepped forward. Into the light. They were soldiers. Armoured soldiers. It was as if they had risen from the dead. They turned, facing the same direction. They marched. Heading into the distance. Hundreds of them. Hundreds of thousands. Into the distance.

On the surface the floor had finished expanding. There was a sudden roar. As if some sort of engines were starting up. Then, from inside the hole, came ships, small ships at first, then bigger ships. Giant ships. Warships. A war was about to end. And their enemy was going to regret it.

On another planet, a large wave hit the cliff face. Then another larger wave. A tsunami. The ground began to shudder, an earthquake, the most powerful in 10,000 years. Then hundreds of towers rose from the ocean, all connected to a glowing, snowflake base. The city rose from the ocean. And it kept going. Up and up. And yet still accelerating. Then it disappeared, into the stars. But the powerful tsunamis and earthquakes hadn't stopped. Another giant city rose from the ocean. A powerful ship. City-ship. Following the flying cities were more Warships. Their enemy wouldn't live long enough to regret starting a war. A war that their enemy believed to have ended a long, long time ago.