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A Changing World

Earth
Incursion: Day 1

    It had been on it’s way for centuries. People had noticed the signs, but known nothing of their meaning. Some violent anomalies would overturn a table, but someone would call it a poltergeist. An object would disappear from existence, but it was written off as misplaced. Children would vanish never to be seen again, but kidnappers would be blamed, and later the blame would be passed on to Slenderman.
 The truth, Earth was a doomed planet. It had the highest concentration in the Multiverse for instances of dimensional travel. This came with major side effects. A strange creature spotted in the forest or jungle. Fields of crops flattened and woven together in massive patterns overnight. An unexplainable realistic vision appearing to someone in a dream.
 And now it had been pushed over the brink. At first there was silence, a calm before the storm where no unexplained mysteries popped up baffling scientists and detectives. Then it hit like a train. News cameras and weather satellites transmitted the photos to governments and media stations the world over. People in Japan, Australia, California, Mexico, and Chile swarmed to the coast to watch the rising cloud of flame and smoke. Hawaii had vanished from the map, smothered under a massive black blotch of volcanic ash.
 Almost before anyone could question why and how it had happened, Japan joined it’s fellow island in oblivion. Then one by one, other volcanoes went up in pillars of fire, regardless of whether their status was active or dormant. The world was instantly plunged into chaos. Then it ended.
 Ash continued to fall from the blackened sky, coating the streets and buildings of every city in the world with white. But the fire had stopped. Then all at once, every glass window pane in Manhattan shattered, the frames of the buildings bending under the pressure of an invisible force. Then nothing.
 Then the sands in northern Iran began to shake, and in a matter of seconds a line of mountains rivaling Mount Everest erupted from the ground. Then the earth was still. Then the ground parted, a massive ravine opening up and splitting down the centre England. Before it even stopped Florida dropped into the ocean, disappearing under the water. Then silence.
 The space surrounding the planet fared better, as various ships and space stations found themselves dodging around ships the likes of which they had never seen. Such is the situation where we find the crew and passengers of the Daedalus, a ship that should not have been forced into a dead stop in order to avoid a collision with a MAC platform.
 On the bridge of the Daedalus, Colonel Cameron Mitchell was observing the MAC platform. He turned to the ship’s commander, pointing at the giant station. “Where the heck did that come from, Colonel?”
 Colonel Caldwell sat back in his seat. “We have bigger problems right now.” Mitchell gave a look that indicated he wasn’t entirely sure of that. Caldwell turned to his helmsman. “Marks, what was that ash cloud we just saw on the surface?”
 Major Marks shook his head. “It’s chaos down there, sir. I... I can't get a good signal. I have no idea what's going on.”
 The communications officer called from her station. “We're picking up a transmission from one of the other ships, sir!”
 Caldwell motioned to her. “Patch them through. We need to find out what's going on.”
 The transmission came through, full of static but mostly understandable. “This is Lord Hood-“ Static. “-NSC ships-“ Static. “-spond! I repeat, please respond!” The message continued repeating the same words.
 Caldwell nodded to the comm. officer. He wanted to talk to this Lord Hood. She gave him the go signal. “This is Colonel Caldwell, commander of the Earth ship Daedalus. I’d like to know what you’re doing this close to our planet and how you got here so fast.”
 There were a few seconds of silence, then the response came. “This is Lord Hood. Colonel, I think we’re all on “Earth ships” here. We’ve got a lot of transmissions flying around from confused ship’s commanders, but you’re the first one that said Earth ship without saying UNSC in the same sentence. I see your ship though, and it doesn’t look very alien, just looks old. The Cairo station is right in front of you. Come aboard. We have a lot to talk about.”

Cheyenne Mountain

    The walls were shaking, the ceilings and floors cracking, and the lights flickering. Dr. Daniel Jackson and Col. Samantha Carter rushed through the halls to the gateroom. All around them were other people running the same direction; towards the Stargate. It was the only means of escape. The mountain was collapsing on top of them.
 The doors to the gateroom were left wide open so as to avoid hindering people's escape. Teal'c was in the gateroom, standing beside the ramp, waiting for them. He spoke, his normally unshakable voice raised in alarm, but nowhere near panic. “Where is Colonel Mitchell?”
 Daniel stopped and stepped to the side of the ramp, allowing others to run past. “He's on the Daedalus. He'll be fine.” He turned to Carter. “What about everyone else on the planet, though?”
 Carter ushered the few last people up the ramp, trying to be heard above the sound of the floors above collapsing. “There's no way for us to know right now...” She looked up to the control room, seeing General Landry and Sergeant Walter Harriman watching through the window. “Come on! There's no reason for anyone to stay! We're going to need you on the other side!”
 The General grabbed the mic in front of him. “We'll be down in a moment. We're just making sure it's not the whole planet.” A few seconds passed, with Walter talking on a headset, before Landry put the mic to his mouth again. “Go on! Get out of here!”
 Teal'c turned and started up the ramp, grabbing the other two and pushing them ahead of him. The three of them disappeared into the event horizon as the Stargate transported them hundreds of lightyears in the blink of an eye. They would reappear at the Alpha Site, safe from harm.
 Walter pulled his headset off and stood up, turning to the General. “Sir, reports are saying there's been some sort of disaster, but the planet in general... uh... the planet will be fine, so long as nothing more happens.”
 Landry nodded, sighing. “Disastrous, but survivable... We've done all we can , Walter. Let's get out of here.”

Japan

    He had tried his best. The moment he had seen Yuki Nagato running towards them, seen the look on her face, he had known something was wrong. She had never before expressed anything like that look on her face. Now he understood it, he knew what the problem was. He would have never thought it could come to this.
 He looked back at Yuki. She was holding an energy barrier around the group, protecting them all. There were twelve people within the barrier, and he could still see the faces of those just outside the barrier. That image was burned into his memory.
 She had told him that the Data Integration Thought Entity had warned her of a disaster. It had apparently told her that Japan was about to explode. It had seemed a bit over-exaggerated at the time. Now, seeing where the wooden floor disappeared into blackened ashes, he knew it was hardly an exaggeration. The world outside the barrier was no longer visible due to a cloud of volcanic ash. The air was undoubtedly scorching hot, meaning that if Yuki dropped the barrier they would probably all die.
 He looked around him, at the faces of the people he had just saved. Yuki may have produced the barrier, but he had been the one who grabbed these people and made sure they were protected. He hadn't chosen anyone in particular, simply taking anyone he could find, but he could tell they were grateful to him for saving them.
 “Kyon...?”
 He turned to Haruhi. This was probably the worst part; explaining everything to her. She was supposedly possessed of god-like powers allowing her to change the universe at will. Now he felt himself wondering if that wasn't true, and she was just another scared teenager whose entire world had just been vaporized.
 She inched closer to him. “What's happening, Kyon?”
 That was the main problem. If she really did have these capabilities, then she was completely unaware of it. He was still relatively convinced that she did have these powers, as he had seen some pretty good proof, but he was now forced to wonder if it had been staged or faked somehow. Fortunately, for the moment, he could tell her the truth without actually saying anything that required putting thought to his words.
 He shook his head. “I don't know.”
 Then Yuki spoke, and it nearly stopped his heart. He was certain it shocked and scared everyone else just as much when she said it.
 “I am going to drop the barrier.”

Daedalus

    Colonel Mitchell was seated in the command chair on the bridge of the Daedalus while Caldwell arranged transport to the Cairo station. The situation on Earth was of great concern to everyone, but it appeared as though there was little anyone could do. The places where disaster had occurred, it had been instantaneous and massive. No one could have survived. Any other place, people were panicking, but safe enough.
 Mitchell was shifting uncomfortably in the seat. How many lives had been snuffed out in the volcanic eruptions, there was no way to know for sure. It hurt, that he could do nothing. It made him feel responsible, for some reason.
 Major Marks called back to him from his station. “Sir? We're getting a signal. Someone's requesting transport.”
 Slightly irked by Major Marks' vagueness, Mitchell grunted. “Where from?”
 “Uh... Japan. The entire area is covered in the cloud, but I can make out a clear signal. I can't beam them out right now, there's some sort of energy interference... like a shield. They're saying they can shut it off, but we're going to have to beam them up quickly. They won't be able to survive longer than a few seconds.”
 Mitchell nodded. “Beam them up as soon as you get a lock. Do we know how many we should expect?”
 Marks looked back to his console before responding. “The signal is attached to twelve different points, I can only assume that they're all people.”
 “Alright then, tell them to cut the interference. Get those people out of there.”
All heck just broke loose.

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Well this is intresting.