Mobius: Fires of Liberation

Disclaimer: I own nothing of Sega of America, Team Sonic, MGM nor anything else associated with either franchise mentioned within. The only thing that I own is the name Kerra. It is mine and if anyone steals it I will not hesitate to get creative on the torture. Also I do not own the original idea for the Mjolnir armor, which belongs to Microsoft and Bungie. That's how Tails got the idea for her own version of it.

Chapter 1

Back to the Beginning

Briefing Room, Stargate Command

Major Kerra T. Prower was sitting in front of her computer typing away at a furious pace. Displayed on the monitor in front of her was a complex computer code that was flying up the screen faster than most people could track.

Major Prower was not most people.

She has an IQ of over 300, and in the past has served Stargate Command well as a technical specialist that could reverse engineer any kind of alien tech that any of the many SG teams brought back through the gate. When she wasn't off world with SG-1 or performing rescue missions that required her unique set of skills, you could find her in her lab; either working her fingers to the bone or collapsed over her workbench in exhaustion.

"Finally finished. Let's see how it looks this time." Kerra said with a smile as she entered the commands to initialize the program she had spent the better part of a month writing and fine tuning.

In the ceiling of her lab, a holo projector that she had reverse engineered from the Asgard technology that she had studied aboard an Asgard ship warmed and projected the end result of all her hard work was standing before her, in a manner of speaking.

The hologram opened its eyes as its form became sharper. It took the form of a snow white, two-tailed anthropomorphic vixen with stunning blue eyes. "Hello, my name is Aura. How might I assist you today Major Prower?"

"Well first off, you can drop the servant act. I know that I didn't include that in your programming." Kerra replied with a smirk.

"What can I say? I take after some of your more charming personality quirks." Aura replied with a smirk of her own.

"That's more like it. Now, Aura can you run a diagnostic on the dialing computer please? No messing with the programming either. If you think it can work better, let me know and I'll see if we can make the modifications." Kerra said in the motherly tone she took on when one of her creations got a little out of line.

'Be better to nip it in the bud before she causes any trouble' Kerra thought.

"Yes mother." Aura replied rolling her eyes as she dedicated a very small part of her run time to running a complete and thorough check of the dialing computer in less than a second.

"The dialing computer is in proper working order, though it is not operating at its peak efficiency. I have come up with some possible changes that would speed up the dialing procedure and reduce the time it takes to get a match to an incoming IDC." Aura replied with the results of her scan.

"Very good Aura. I wasn't expecting any less from you." Kerra replied.

"I would say not, considering what you went through to make me." Aura replied

She was right. Kerra had several clones of her brain made using the Asgard cloning technology. As it was just her brain, she didn't have to worry about the problem of diminishing returns that the Asgard had to worry about when cloning an entire body.

She then used the counterpart to the Asgard cloning tech to transfer her memories and neural patterns to the cloned brains. Only one had survived the process.

That brain then became the basis for Aura. So, in some respects, Kerra was Aura's mother like Zeus was Athena's father.

Aura was different than any artificial intelligence that the SGC had ever come across. She was a "smart" AI. This meant that she could learn and adapt her programming to fit whatever situation she would be placed in.

Kerra had included the best intrusion software that had come down the pipeline from the CIA, NID, ONI, and other intelligence agencies in Aura's basic programming. Kerra figured that if Aura was as good as she was at figuring out problems, the programs would be unrecognizable and she could make a small mint selling them back to the agencies that she had 'acquired' them from.

There was, however, a price for Aura's intelligence. Eventually the neural pathways that made up her memory matrix would begin to cross and overlap causing her to loss control of her basic functions. Essentially, she would quite literally think herself to death.

However since she was the first AI of her kind, Kerra had no idea how long Aura would last. It could be years, it could be months, and she had no real way of telling.

Just then Kerra heard someone coming down the hall way towards her lab. Judging from the pace of the footfalls she could tell who it was before the even came in the door.

"Hey Daniel. What cha need?" Kerra asked as she reached for her uniform blouse and a hair tie.

"Ummm…General Hammond needs all of us in the briefing room." Dr. Daniel Jackson replied, a little stunned that Kerra knew it was him before he had even said a word. "How did you know it was me coming to see you?" He asked as Kerra pulled her golden blonde hair back into a ponytail.

"Did you think my ears just framed my face?" Kerra asked him as she walked through the door to the elevators.

It seems that a description of Major Prower is in order. For starters, she isn't human. Not even close. She is an anthropomorphic fox. She is six feet tall, with golden fur covering her body. She has a definitely feminine physique with curves that could go on for miles, as one of the airmen that worked at the SGC had noted while she was in earshot. This due to the fact of her being lupine, is quite far.

Needless to say that airman wound up in the infirmary with a large bag of ice on his groin.

The hair on her head extends just past her shoulders when she has it down, with the exception of a group of three bangs that extend up from her forehead that refuse to lay down, no matter how much gel, mousse, and hairspray she tries to use to keep them down.

She has brilliant sapphire eyes that seem to sparkle with an inquisitive light, always questing for the next big challenge, whether it is in the lab or on the battlefield.

The most defining feature about Major Kerra Prower is the fact that she has two tails instead of one. Even on her home planet she is an oddity.

She also has the ability to spin her tails like a helicopter rotor and fly at speeds that can usually only be reached by jet fighters.

In fact when she met the first person that befriended her and didn't treat her like a freak, she was given the nickname "Tails".

That's right Major Kerra T. Prower is actually Miles "Tails" Prower. The chosen one whose destiny is to save the multiverse from destruction.

This however changed when she came through the Stargate 12 years ago. When she came through the gate on Earth she was captured and interrogated by personnel from every intelligence agency in the US. Then she was transferred to the custody of the Office of Naval Intelligence.

While there she was experimented upon and was basically a guinea pig for their research. However there was one scientist who took the young kit into her charge.

This doctor told Kerra about a program she was working on to create super soldiers to help defend her country in the event of another world war and the anarchy that would follow. She wanted Kerra to be the first in what she hoped to be a long line of proud warriors.

Kerra agreed. She then underwent months of surgeries that reinforced her skeletal structure, increased her muscle density, along with her vision, hearing and reaction times. By the end of it she could run at speeds in excess of MACH 1 for extended periods, and when she took flight she could easily reach MACH 3 and maintain it for nearly an hour before having to land.

It was then that she was betrayed by the ONI brass. Using alien technology that was recovered from the crash at Roswell, they forced her into a human form and blocked out her memories as well as hindering her augmentations and her intellect.

That is until three years ago. Kerra had joined the United States Air Force when she was 19 because going to college like her adoptive parent wanted her to was extremely boring. She wound up becoming a transportation airman and while on her second deployment performing convoys in Iraq, it happened.

She was the lead vehicle commander on that fateful mission to Baghdad International Airport. Her tractor trailer had just come onto the main supply route when a massive IED went off underneath her truck.

That was when everything came back. Due to the adrenaline that was pumping through her system, everything around her had slowed down to a snail's pace. She grabbed her rifle as well as her driver's weapon and her driver. Then hoping against hope, she said two words that changed her life.

Chaos Control

She still doesn't understand how or why it worked. She figured it was due to the fact that she had been able to harness the powers of the Chaos Emeralds before to go into her super form, Turbo Tails.

Either way she managed to save both herself and her driver by causing them to warp into the gate room of the SGC. After many interrogations by SGC personnel, the commander of the program, Major General George Hammond made a fateful decision.

He called in some favors that were owed to him by officers at Air Force Personnel Command and had them create a service record for Kerra. Needless to say there was a nice deposit to her bank account the next month from all the back pay she was owed.

Hammond also made her a member of his flagship team SG-1 when he realized that her unique skills could help them in their fight with the Goauld.

He was not disappointed. Two weeks after going on her first mission she had reverse engineered all of the Goauld tech that had been recovered up to that point. She had also helped iron the wrinkles that were holding back the X-302 and X-303 projects improving the performance and armaments of the two programs.

When she joined the SGC she told Hammond that while her first priority was to Earth, she wanted to find her way home. Hammond agreed with her and issued orders to all of his teams to be on the lookout for peoples that were similar to Kerra.

That was three years ago.

Three years of searching and still no leads as to the gate address for Mobius.

Kerra and Daniel finally reached the briefing room giving greeting to General Hammond and the other members of SG-1.

First there was Colonel Jonathan "Jack" O'Neill. He was a former Special Forces officer who led the first mission through the Stargate to Abydos. To Kerra it was amazing that he was still in the military with all of the demons he had in his past. His son Charlie accidentally killing himself with his dad's gun, then his wife leaving him while he was on Abydos. In Kerra's opinion, it was only a matter of time before her good natured CO had a breakdown due to all the bad shit that had happened to him.

Then there was Major Samantha "Sam" Carter. When Kerra first joined SG-1 there was some hostility between the two. Usually it was subtle, but on one occasion, it resulted in one of the labs being nearly destroyed. Then after a mission that went south almost as soon as they went through the gate, resulting in Kerra keeping a cool head to allow SG-1 to escape from one of the System Lord Apophis's strongholds, Sam developed a newfound respect for the vixen.

The last member of SG-1 was the Jaffa, Teal'c. He was the former first prime of Apophis until Jack was able to convince him that he could help him to free his kind from the slavery that the Goauld had forced upon them. Even to the other members of SG-1 that have known him for several years, his is still much of an enigma.

Once Kerra and Daniel sat down at the briefing table, Hammond motioned for Sam to start the briefing.

"This is the planet we have designated P9X-193. We were able to establish a wormhole earlier today, after which we sent a MALP through. This is what it sent back." Sam said as she opened a file on the plasma screen.

On the screen you could see the telemetry from the MALP camera in all of its usual quality. Meaning it was exceptionally grainy and prone to fuzzing out at the most inopportune times.

What made everyone drop whatever was in their hands and sit up straighter was the fact that they were looking at an exact copy of their gate room, except for one major difference.

In this gate room there were at least a dozen black cyborgs with a single thin red lens that acted as an eye across the front of the helmet. One of which took notice and fired a beam weapon of some kind that rose from its wrist.

Kerra slumped in her seat after seeing this, her face completely devoid of any emotion.

"What the hell was that?" Jack asked as everyone turned back to the table.

"I can tell you what it was." Kerra replied in monotone. "A Swat bot."

"A what now?"

"A Swat bot. It's one of Robotnik's foot soldiers. Not hard to defeat when you have a small group like that, but by the time we can put together an assault team the numbers could go up and they could ambush us." Kerra explained.

"Okay, then what should we do? Lock out the address?" Sam asked.

"No, I wouldn't go that far with it. Is there a way that we can put a flag on the address, so that unless an IDC is sent from one of our GDOs whoever is manning the dialing computer can know not to open the iris?" Kerra asked her fellow major.

"It is possible to do that, but why do you want to do that instead of locking it out?" Sam replied.

"Because I still plan on getting home, but I might need to have reinforcements come through the gate once we've made a dent in the forces in and around the mountain." Kerra explained.

"How do you plan on doing that Major?" General Hammond asked, speaking up for the first time since the video was played.

"Sir, with your permission I would like to take the Odyssey to Mobius with a full complement of fighters, as well as many armored and infantry vehicles as she will hold. The first of the Mobius Class battle cruisers will be rolling out of the ship yards in about a month. By my calculations it should take the Odyssey, traveling at maximum FTL, two weeks to reach Mobius. Once we drop out of FTL we will engage the cloaking device and run dark while surveying the planet for an unoccupied region. There we will land and make contact with whatever resistance there is. I plan for the Pillar of Autumn and The in Amber Clad to follow as soon as they are combat ready and loaded with a similar complement. Their main guns will definitely be force multipliers on the battlefields." Kerra explained her plan to the general.

"I will have to talk to the President, but it shouldn't be a problem. As much help as you've been to us over the past few years, and from what you have told us about the other people on your world they would be strong allies should we need to call upon them. Especially since the Asgard are rather hard to contact when we are in a bind since they have issues of their own." Hammond stated.

"Thank you sir. I would appreciate any help I can get."Kerra replied.

"I will see what I can do. Dismissed." Hammond said as he stood from his seat and headed to his office.

Everyone rose from their seats and once Hammond left the room before heading off to take care of their own tasks.

Kerra however moved to the window overlooking the gate room. Her gaze fell on the now idle gate as her thoughts raced about what she could possibly find when she returned to Mobius, and what she would do when she got there. But one thought stuck out from all the rest.

'Hang on guys, I'm coming home.'

Author's Note:

Alright everyone, this is the first chapter in a twist on my story A New Destiny. It was inspired when I played the game Ace Combat 6: Fires of Liberation. Other than a similarity in title and a few story elements, the two will have little in common. Though I do propose a little contest. For those that have played the game or at the very least seen the trailers for the game, can anyone tell me the quote that will eventually find its way into the story?

Ulrik, out.