[b]Ruiko Saten, New York City, Arcadia-1[/b]

For the moment it seemed that Nova was busy, but Ruiko was fine with that. He would have something for her to do soon enough, and she didn;t mind having some time to get used to her now natural powers, and how strange her body was feeling after he had finished doing....whatever it was that he had done. Forcibly altering her brain chemistry into a new natural state did that. 

Suddenly though, she found herself being poked in the back of the head. It almost earned a knee jerk reaction from Aero Hand, which probably would not have been appreciated by the offender even if it didn't do much damage, but she managed to restrain herself. Blasting someone that was one of Nova's allies probably wouldn't be that good of an idea. 

Turning, she found the strange man who seemed to manipulate crystal at will, now asking her if she knew where a not-destroyed clothes store was. "No," she replied, shaking her head. "I've never been to New York before. And stop doing that!" That last was in response to having her forehead poked, and the urge to blow him away with Aero Hand was rising. She wouldn't mind the test of her new abilities, if he insisted on annoying her. Even normal, she wouldn't have accepted that without protest. 

Before she could do so though, some noise from above attracted her attention, rawing her gaze up to a UFO looking thing just before it exploded. It reignited her old interests, rumors and urban legends and the like, though the explosion was distressing, and worrying. "What was that?" she asked, noting the escape pods and using her powers to bat away any debris that approached her. 

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[b]Ba'al and Teal'c, Caracas, Venezuela[/b]

Ba'al and Teal'c had been walking along, headed to examine some new construction when Ba'al came up short, the telepathic message from the God-Emperor coming straight into his head like some form of telepathy. He stood motionless, lips curled downwards in annoyance as his First Prime watched him, wonder just what had happened, and why Ba'al had stopped.

"My Lord, are you alright," he asked, once Ba'al had recovered, though he did not resumed walking the way that he had been before. 

Ba'al held back a sigh as he nodded. "I'm alright Teal'c. However, it appears that the reports we had of the death of that...'God-Emperor' were a tad exaggerated. He wishes to meet with me, upon threat of wiping out the entire Empire if I do not comply" RThat, of course, was outrageous. No one could destroy the entire Empire, not one that held an entire galaxy. BUt he knew better than to rule such thing an impossibility. 

"That is impossible," Teal'c pointed out, not knowing any better. "No single individual wields so much power to destroy an entire race." 

That earned something of a sigh, though Ba'al did not disabuse him of the notion. "Of course not. But nonetheless, I cannot ignore him." He was a major player in this world, and would have to be dealt with, sooner or later. It was just a matter of figuring out how to do it. But he would manage it, one way or the other. 

Such an answer was accepted by his First Prime, who turned his gaze forward as he walked along with Ba'al. "What will you do?"

A chuckle escaped as Ba'al headed back towards their command center, to plan. "For now, nothing. We will focus on bringing the Ha'tak through, in order to ensure our own defense. Once that has arrived, then we will go meet with our 'God-Eperor'." He was not one to negotiate from a position of weakness if he could help it. Teal'c nodded, and fell silent as he walked along with his Lord.

The God-Emperor would regret underestimating the Goa'uld.