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The Wars of Legends

Sidestory: Honeymoon Earth

One Shot

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With a burst of light, a hyperspace window opened in one of the few gaps in the Earth's protective interdiction fields allowing the USS Theseus to return to normal space. Surrounded by dozens of defensive satellites and space stations, the BC-304 finished the last leg of its journey back to its homeworld at sublight under the watchful eyes, and guns, of its comprehensive defence network.

Onboard this warship were Terence and Yelana as they headed to Earth for their honeymoon. They'd originally intended to simply use the Intergalactic Gate Bridge to Gate back over from Atlantis however the bridge had rather inconveniently suffered something of a malfunction caused by one of its constituent Gates being knocked out of place by an unexpected flyby of a rogue planet. This had forced them to make the trip by the relatively much slower ship instead.

However, as the couple gazed out at the awe inspiring view of Earth's orbit from an observation lounge as the Theseus cruised towards the planet, they couldn't help but think that perhaps the view alone made the longer trip worth it.

"Terence, what are they doing?" Yelana asked, pointing towards a trio of Prometheus-class destroyers as they gracefully soared just above the blue marble that was the planet leaving behind trails of small diamond shaped objects as they went.

"They're adding to the defense net." Terence told her. "See those satellites they're deploying? Those are Tollan Defense Satellites."

Yelana blinked and surveyed the many such satellites already in orbit in addition to the forms of the much larger Lantean Satellites off in the distance.

"That's a lot of defense satellites."

Terence chuckled. "It is. I think Homeworld Defense is aiming to make the Earth the world with the most comprehensive defense net in the Coalition though, so there'll be more, a lot more, by the time they're done."

Yelana just looked at him in disbelief. Uneasy with the look, Terence rubbed the back of his neck nervously and searched around for a distraction.

"Lana, look at those." Terence said a little too quickly as he pointed to another formation of Prometheus destroyers as they flew close to the atmosphere surrounded by a white glow.

"What about them?"

"They're doing something amazing." Terence told her enthusiastically. "They're extracting excess carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases from the atmosphere using their transporter beams as part of the Homeworld Defense's environmental programme."

"They can do that?" Yelana gasped in wonder.

"With a little tweaking to the systems, yes. We're using the same set up to clean up the seas of all kinds of pollution and to clean up any litter floating around up here in orbit too, though I don't see any of those ships around."

"Amazing. But why is it necessary at all?"

"Well, we Tau'ri haven't always been very responsible in how we treated our homeworld's environment." Terence confessed with a nervous shuffle.

"At least you're fixing it now."

Mentally chiding himself for bringing up another uncomfortable topic, Terence searched the view for something to change the topic again. Something safe this time.

"Oh! Over there in the distance! Can you see it? That's the orbital shipyards the Chiropterans gifted Earth."

Said shipyard was a massive structure located at one of Earth's Lagrangian points and even from the great distance between it and the Theseus Terence could see the dozens of glowing lights that were unmistakably ships moving to and from it. The huge structure was divided into a rectangular outer section with docks for ships to load and unload goods and a circular inner section consisting of an outer ring of structures divided into a series of docking bays for ship maintenance, along with a cylindrical module at its centre that was connected to the rest of the structure by a series of thin flying buttress looking sections.

"It looks a lot like the Lantean Hive's shipyards back in the ocean back home." Yelana commented as she eyed the megastructure intently.

"Well, it is developed and built by the same people."

"Yes, but this is in space! Surely they'd, I dunno, try something different."

Terence just shrugged.

"Oh look at that!" Yelana said pointing to a gigantic cylinder that seemed just to hang in space came into view. "What is that?"

"That's the Temasek." Terence said proudly. "It's the modular cityship I told you my home country was building."

"The one you helped with before you joined the Expedition?"

"Yup."

"Wow! It's incredible. It looks bigger than Atlantis."

"In its current state? It probably about the same size, at least in mass." Terence said thoughtfully. "It's modular though so it'll likely get bigger eventually."

"Your people have truly surpassed the Ancestors."

"I wouldn't go that far."

"I would." Yelana told him earnestly. "Maybe not in terms of your technology. Not yet. But you've done things the Ancestors failed to do. And in that way you've surpassed them."

"I suppose we have." Terence said, humming to himself thoughtfully.

A few days later found Terence waiting on his wife in the Presidential Suite of The Fullerton Bay Hotel in Singapore that they'd been provided for the duration of their stay on Earth. It was one of the most expensive hotel suites in the country, but since their honeymoon was an all expense paid trip courtesy of no less than the Prime Minister himself they had decided to splurge. It was, in the statesman's words, a reward for Terence's exemplary actions in the name of Singapore in the Pegasus.

Terence hadn't done what he'd done for his country but he wasn't about to tell the Prime Minister that. Not when the misunderstanding got them such luxurious digs for their honeymoon.

This beats staying in my room back in Mom and Dad's flat. By a mile! Terence thought as he rested on the suite's bed as his wife finished putting the final touches to her makeup for the day.

Not for the first time, he cursed how foolish he was for introducing Yelana to his female cousins yesterday. Sure he'd been away for years and probably wouldn't have been a good guide, but calling them in had definitely been a mistake. Surely he'd have managed to navigate Orchard Road without them! Thanks to the brats now his precious, innocent wife had been corrupted by the temptations of mass consumer cosmetics, a fate that his wallet would likely never forgive him for.

Though as his wife exited the bathroom with the light makeup that she'd learned to put on just yesterday, he felt maybe it wasn't too bad. Unbelievably it made her look even more gorgeous than normal!

"Shall we go?" Yelana asked, smiling in a pleased way that showed she knew just what kind of effect she was having on him.

"Of course, darling." Terence said offering her his arm.

The next few days had been a whirlwind tour of Earth and many of its cultural sites made possible by the Transporter Nexus built under Singapore and its satellite Transporter stations worldwide. The off the beaten tracks attractions at least. After an aborted attempt at visiting the Wat Traimitr Witayaram Worawihan in Bangkok and Yelana getting uncomfortable with the large crowd of tourists, they'd learned to avoid the more popular sites. Despite that, it had been a wonderful experience for both of them as they enjoyed their taste of Earth's rich history and diverse cultures.

It was the last day of the trip however and the couple had decided to brave the tourist crowds once again to visit one of the world's newest attractions: Prehistoric Park, Pitcairn Islands.

Partially funded by the proceeds from a remake of the docu-fiction television mini-series of the same name and also substantial investment from the Chiropteran Swarm, the Park was a place where Earth's scientists engaged in the de-extinction of various flora and fauna. It offered scientists involved in the process the chance to practice and perfect the techniques involved, while building up public support for the de-extinction of species and, of course, earn its investors some money on the side

If what Terence had heard was correct, the eventual plan was to reintroduce some of the more recently extinct lifeforms back into suitable habitats on Earth, while the others would possibly be introduced to other planets as part of preserves that offered snapshots into Earth's distant past.

And distort the development of those planets? I don't really understand where they're going with this to be honest.

Whatever the reasons behind it, Terence couldn't help but approve. Especially since the sight of various majestic creatures like Mammoths, Wooly Rhinos, Thylacines, Deinosuchus, Arthropleura, Meganeura and Pulmonoscorpius had had so enthralled Yelana.

"Your people are truly amazing Terence," Yelana said still awed by what she'd seen as they sat to have lunch in the Park's cafetaria. "To bring such animals back to life, some after millions of years! That's simply incredible."

"You'll have to thank the Asgard and Ancients actually. A lot of the DNA used to recreate these animals actually comes from their ecological surveys of Earth in the distant past."

"Maybe, but it's your people which brought them back. I doubt any other people in the universe would even consider doing something like this."

Terence shrugged.

"Thanks for the compliment, I guess?"

"You Tau'ri," Yelana chuckled. "Always so humble."

Lying in their bed on Atlantis a week later, Yelana still thought back fondly on their honeymoon bringing a smile to her lips.

"What's got you smiling, dear?" Terence asked as he ran his hand down her spine soothingly.

"Just thinking back on our honeymoon is all."

"Ah. It was pretty fantastic wasn't it?"

"Not as fantastic as you," Yelana said as she moved to straddle her husband, pushing the blanket that was the only thing covering her naked body aside in the process.

"You're ready for another round already?"

"You aren't?" Yelana asked coyly as her hands wrapped around her husband's tellingly erect member.

"For you, I'm always ready."

Smiling at his cheesy line, Yelana guided him inside her for another round of lovemaking that night.

Done!

This is the last of my planned one shots so with this I'll be finished with this series for now. It's been a wild and fun ride that I hope you readers have enjoyed as well.

I'm not entirely sure what I'll be working on next but I'd like to think I've impressed some of you enough to see at least some of you in my next project whatever it'll be.

Till then, zàijiàn!