Guinevere (Camelot 3000)

In her first life, Guinevere was King Arthur's wife and queen. She loved him deeply, but she also later fell in love with his greatest knight Lancelot. Although they knew it was wrong, were unable to resist each other and had an affair. Arthur eventually discovered them and was bound by the law to sentence Guinevere to death. Lancelot rescued her from execution but Camelot fell in the civil wars that followed.

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Over two thousand years later, Guinevere was reborn as Joan Acton. She entered the military and eventually rose to be commander of United Earth Defense. When aliens invaded Earth she lead the fight against them, but the alien's superior weapons and the inexpereince of her troops meant that they were simply outclassed and could do little to stop the invaders.

When Arthur awoke and drew Excalibur from the stone once again it released seven bolts of energy which should have restored the reincarnated knights' memories, however Morgan LeFay disrupted the spell and so it would instead only halfway awaken them. When the spell reached Joan Acton she half-remembered Guinevere's life as a confused dream. Arthur, Merlin and Arthur's new squire Tom Prentice came to her quarters but she did not recognise them and attempted to fight them off, until Arthur was able to restore her memories with a kiss.

Merlin said they needed to leave and reawaken Lancelot, the second person to be reached by the spell, and Guinevere hurriedly insisted on coming with them. Merlin teleported them to a terraformed asteroid in low Earth orbit belonging to Jules Futrelle, the richest man in the world. Arthur claimed it as "New Camelot" and fought off the robotic guards. Jules Futrelle himself came out to confront them, but as soon as he laid eyes on Arthur he regained his memories as Lancelot, and immediately knelt and pledged his loyalty to Arthur. He also greeted Guinevere again with the respect due from a knight to a queen, but both were still full of desire for each other.

The next day, Merlin said they must find the other knights reborn in the future and bring them to join their quest. He told them to arm themselves quickly and return, but when they left Merlin's quarters Lancelot followed Guinevere and told her that he still loved her. She momentarily tried to resist but quickly embraced and kissed him. Guinevere went to her quarters and dressed for battle, dwelling on how she was once again torn between the two men she loved, a problem which Joan Acton never had.

She joined the others with Merlin and the wizard gave each of them a charm which would help awaken the memories of the other knights reborn in the future. He teleported each of them to a knight's locations and Guinevere arrived in Australia near a prison camp. Through a window she saw political prisoners being forcibly converted into mutant "Neo-Men" and broke inside, realising that one of them must be the missing knight. One of the prisoners saw the amulet and regained his memories as Sir Percival, but before she could rescue him he was changed into a Neo-Man. Fortunately, due to the effect of the magic he kept his free will and personality, and helped Guinevere fight off the other Neo-Men.

Guinevere and Percival reunited with the other reincarnated knights and found many of them also changed from their previous lives. Shortly afterwards, Merlin warned them that they were under attack from a combined air and ground force of United Nations troops. As Commander Acton she tried to call off the attack, but her subordinates told her that they had no forces in the area. The knights defeated the attackers, who were revealed to be aliens in disguise. The knights assumed it was a deception intended to turn them against their government "allies" but in fact they had been sent by Jordan Matthew, the U.N. Security Director, who was secretly working with LeFay and the aliens.

After a celebration of their victory, Guinevere met Lancelot in a secluded part of the estate and they again embraced. As Lancelot and Guinevere were about to make love, Arthur called everyone to the throne room. To everyone's shock, including Guinevere, he announced that they would marry again in only two days. Arthur claimed that this was to provide inspiration to the people of Earth, although it was clearly more to assert his relationship with Guinevere, who he was not technically married to in this life, over Lancelot's. Lancelot expressed enthusiastic support, to the further surprise of the others. Later, Guinevere begged Lancelot to object, saying they could not let a marriage come in the way of their love again, but Lancelot refused and said she must marry Arthur, as he would need her beside him to lead them to victory against the aliens.

The wedding was held on the main floor of the United Nations Building, just as the ceremony was concluded and when Arthur and Guinevere were about to kiss, Guinevere was shot by an assassin. Guinevere died, and Lancelot prayed over her body for his life to be taken and given to her. Lancelot collapsed and Guinevere returned to life, and then Lancelot himself also rose.

The next day, Arthur held a council of war with Lancelot, Guinevere and Merlin. After the assassination, Arthur no longer trusted the governments of Earth and decided to free the prisoners from the camp where Guinevere had found Percival. The knights launched a full assault of the prison and freed the political prisoners whose only crime was to demand freedom. That night Guinevere came to Lancelot's quarters and said that his love had brought her back to life, and she could not simply forget that or her love for him. They made love, but Arthur once again caught them. This time he chose not to kill Guinevere, but simply banished them from New Camelot.

Lancelot and Guinevere returned to Paris, while Arthur fell into a deep depression and ceased his war against the aliens. Although they did not regret their love, Lancelot and Guinevere did regret the pain they had caused Arthur and how it had caused him to withdraw from the fight. Arthur soon recalled them as Merlin had been kidnapped by his former apprentice Nyneve and he needed every soldier he could call upon regardless of his personal feelings. A talisman which Merlin used to protect himself has been destroyed, seemingly by Sir Tristan. Arthur put Tristan on trial and he admitted that he had planned to destroy the charm, as he had been tempted to betray the Knights of the Round Table by LeFay, but swore it had already been broken when he got there. Arthur made Tristan swear his innocence on Excalibur, claiming that it was sharp enough to cleave truth from lies and would kill anyone who lied while holding it. Tristan seemingly proved his innocence when Excalibur did not kill him and Arthur asked each of the knights to do so in turn. They all did, including Lancelot and Guinevere, but Sir Kay refused, demonstrating his guilt. He admitted that he had broken the charm in the hopes that seeing Merlin in danger would rouse Arthur from his funk, and that Merlin would have been able to resist Nyneve. He begged for forgiveness but Arthur sentenced him to death.

The Knights went outside for Kay's execution, when they were suddenly attacked by a fleet of alien ships. The knights managed to rally, but one of the ships flew up on Arthur from behind and fired on him. Kay and Tom both jumped into the path of the beam to save Arthur; Kay took a direct hit and was killed instantly, while Tom only caught a glancing blow and was left alive, but seriously injured and afflicted with radiation poisoning that would kill him in only a few days. Arthur gave Kay an honourable burial for sacrificing his life.

To save Tom's life, Arthur determined to find the Holy Grail which could heal him. He sent Tom with Lancelot and Guinevere, as well as Percival, who had seen the Grail in his previous life, to find it. Meanwhile Arthur lead the rest of his forces to take the fight to the aliens and LeFay on the tenth planet of the solar system. The party travelled to Glastonbury Tor, where Percival saw a figure which the others could not and lead them to a hidden cave. There they met the Guardian of the Grail, Percival's own beloved uncle, still alive over two thousand years later thanks to the power of the Grail. The Guardian showed them a collection of objects, one of which was the disguised Grail, and told Percival he must choose which it was. One of the objects was a crucifix, which Lancelot told Percival to grab, but Percival recognised that the true Grail was a simple cube; as Christ was no longer on the cross and had transcended death. The cube unfolded into a cross and then the Grail itself.

Percival used the Grail to heal Tom, who was mere moments from death. The Grail then transformed Percival back into a man and he ascended into Heaven, thanking his friends for fighting for him and freeing him. The Guardian gave the Grail to Lancelot, telling him he was now its Guardian, but as soon as they left the cave they were attacked by a force of aliens, who stole the Grail.

Lancelot knew they needed to follow Arthur and the others to the alien planet, both to help them and retrieve the Grail. Although Arthur had taken the only spacecraft on Earth, Lancelot knew that the Lady of the Lake could help them. He lead them to Salisbury Down, which was now a nuclear power plant, and broke in; taking the opportunity to vent his aggression on the facility's alien guards. He called upon the Lady, who had once been a mortal woman named Elaine who loved him, but he had not been able to love her back as his heart belonged only to Guinevere. The Lady was able to take them via magic to the tenth planet, arriving just ahead of Arthur's party and the two sides reunited.

That night Guinevere and Tristan, who had been reborn as a woman, both heard a low humming which the others could not. They were approached by friendly aliens who took them to meet their queen mother. The queen asked to speak to their leader and Arthur stepped forwards, but the mother wanted to speak to Guinevere. The queen mother telepathically told Guinevere that LeFay's forces were some of her children, who had been corrupted by Morgan's magic, and offered her people as soldiers to help them stop her.

Arthur planned to lead a small force into Morgan's castle and rescue Merlin while Lancelot lead the remaining knights, Neo-Men and their alien allies in a frontal assault. However, Lancelot knocked Arthur unconscious and took his place so he could find and retrieve the grail. When Arthur woke up he lead the frontal assault, which included Guinevere, himself. They were unable to breach the defences, and so Arthur ordered Galahad to use the ship as a battering ram and break through. The castle's defenders threw themselves from the battlements onto the ship, weighing it down and preventing Galahad from piloting it through the main gate. He triggered a self-destruct which blew open the walls of the castle, sacrificing himself.

In the corridors of the castle they found the treacherous Jordan Matthew, wearing armour made from the Grail itself and just about to kill Lancelot. Matthew revealed that he was the reincarnation of Arthur's bastard son Modred and duelled Arthur, who quickly found that he could not be harmed as the armour healed all wounds instantly. Their fight took them to Morgan's throne room, where they found Merlin being held under an enchantment. Lancelot realised that the holy power of the Grail might react with Merlin's demonic magic and called out to Arthur, who threw Modred at Merlin. This created a great explosion that killed Modred and freed Merlin.

The knights fought off the remaining aliens and monsters in the castle, however, Morgan summoned her entire army to attack them, and the knights and their allies could not fight them off. To destroy their enemies once and for all, Arthur had Merlin teleport the others back to Earth and used Excalibur to split the atoms of a rock, triggering a nuclear explosion and sacrificing himself to kill Morgan and her army.

The surviving knights returned to Earth, where they erected gravestones for Arthur, Galahad and Percival next to Kay's grave. Lancelot and Guinevere chose to remain together and Guinevere discovered that she was pregnant. Either Arthur or Lancelot could be the father, but they both agreed that they hoped the child was Arthur's.

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This character or object is an adaptation of Guinevere, a character or object in traditional stories. These include, but may not be limited to religious texts, myth, and/or folk lore. More information on the original can be found at Wikipedia.org.

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