Stargate SG-10
The Shattered Mirror
Since the establishment of the new off-world base on the nearby planet Mars, the SGC had almost become a large hub of activity as the Stargate had been used to transport equipment and personnel to the nearby planet, although it was nothing unusual for the experienced SGC personnel, it was a welcome break from the usual mission briefings and launches that made up any standard day for the highly classified military installation. On loan from the Royal Airforce for the duration of this task, the temporary military commander of the Cydonia Base was a young officer named Colonel Steve Harrison the Third. A battle hardened, no nonsense officer who commanded respect by his mere presence, a highly trained and highly decorated officer who wanted nothing more at this time in his life then to retire and write a book about his many conflicts, yet he threw himself into his temporary role as commander of the new facility. Originally hand picked by the Prime Minister of Great Britain too lead a British SG team after the announcement of the Stargate Program following the threat from the system Lord Anubis.
Silently, he sat in the briefing room reviewing reports and personnel files of the many personnel hand picked by the IOA to take up the position on the new outpost. In his long career, he could not have imagined that his final days in the service would be spent on the Red Planet known as Mars. Grunting too himself he pushed yet another file aside as he took a sip from his cup of tea.
"Awful. The Americans can put men on other worlds, build Starships, but they still make an awful cup of tea"
With most of the Command staff off world inspecting the new outpost, he was the senior officer on the base, but out of respect for General Landry, he refused to take his office for this task of selecting his team. After taking yet another sip from his drink, he put down the cup as alarms rang out through the facility followed by an excited voice.
"Unscheduled gate activation"
Looking up at the roof, he laughed slightly as he left the briefing room and walked to the control centre, as a young man looked up at him shocked.
"Colonel, we've got a problem, the Iris refuses to close"
"Does that happen a lot?" He sighed.
"No sir, well a few times"
"The go to manual" He smiled.
For a moment, the Colonel looked up at the large ancient Stargate before him as a small object exited the event horizon and bounced down the ramp until it came to a stop in the middle of the ramp. Excited, the young officer looked up at the British Officer as he spoke.
"Sir, the gate is drawing incredible power"
"What, what is that"
Slowly with his gun drawn, a large Airman walked towards the object slowly, for a brief moment he stopped before he picked up the object.
"Sir, it looks like a patch and a note" He yelled.
"Bring it up here" He called out.
Quickly the Airman ran through the facility and entered the control room, slowly he handed the object too the Colonel as he turned over the patch, on the back of the patch was a note, it read simply. 'Permission to enter the SGC' in gold ink. Puzzled for a moment, he turned over the patch once more. It was almost identical to those used by the SG teams yet, upside down. Two letters one number spelling out the mission team 'RT-1'.
"What the hell is RT-1?" He called out.
Smiling slightly, the young officer explained the unusual tale of SG-10's time in the alternate universe, how they helped to recover a captured team from an enemy grasp.
"Defence teams, stand ready"
Slowly, two hands began to appear from the event horizon of the Stargate followed by the figure of a woman wearing only trousers a small vest and carrying a large bag on her back.
"Permission to Enter General Landry?"
"Landry is not here, who are you?"
"Captain Amanda Williams, Commander of the Exploration team RT-1. Where is Commander MacDonald?"
"Defence teams, bring her"
Fifteen Minutes Later…
Since its creation, the personnel at the SGC had been used to many unusual things happening around the facility. From personnel contracting an unusual virus that turned them into a caveman like creature to a Clone of Jack O'Neill and beyond. Their experiences in the field that would be considered Science Fiction to many people had become the normal day around this highly classified facility, like the time when two people appeared at Area 51, the recently deceased Major Charles Kowalski and Doctor Samantha Carter appeared and the unusual time when multiple teams of SG-1 came through the Stargate.
Stood in the briefing room, General Hank Landry and Captain Alison MacDonald looked at a monitor displaying an image of a woman who appeared through the Stargate claiming to be the mirror image of the woman she once met on what was her most unusual mission for the Stargate Program.
"That's her sir"
"Are you sure Captain?"
"Yes sir. Did she say why she is here?" She asked politely.
"No, All she has said is that she would speak only to you Captain" Harrison said slowly.
"Then I guess I'm on sir. Wish me luck"
Sat alone in the room, Captain Amanda Williams awaited for something to happen. Slowly the door opened as the figure of a woman stood at the entrance of the door laughing slightly.
"My how the situations are reversed…"
"MacDonald?"
"Well I'm not a playboy bunny… actually… that's a long story. SGC party a year ago, I got the wrong memo. It was fun. What are you doing here?"
"I missed your insane personality Mac. We need to talk, now"
Slowly Alison walked into the room, sat down next to her doppelganger, and smiled slightly.
"I'm all ears missy"
"First a little history lesson, shall we?"
"It's your time" She smiled slightly.
"Okay, a week after you left, the President decided to make the RTC public, news spread like wild fire. Governments and Companies put everything into the RTC since it was made public. Using a captures Ha'tak class ship we took a gate from an uninhabited world and moved it too a facility that was being specially built on an island in the tropics…"
"Nice, great climate…"
"Shut up and listen. We bought a few motherships from the Jaffa to use until we can build our own craft, which we are in the progress of doing by the way… now on my world, every nation is involved with the new Stargate Alliance. However the new facility is still off-line so for the mean time we are still using the Antarctic facility to run the Program"
"What does this have to do with us?" She laughed.
"I'm getting to that; you know I can't see us being the same person. You annoy the hell out of me sometimes"
"Special gift" She winked. "Carry on"
Slowly Amanda stood and paced the room as she thought for a moment.
"Two weeks ago, RT-12 was captured by the Goa'uld known as Mabus…"
"We've already met" She sighed.
"No, not this one. But you will"
"What are you talking about?"
"RT-12 is a research team, they where looking into making this alternate reality gate thingy a standard procedure. Mabus found out about your reality and…"
"Ohh let me guess, stepped through?"
"We think so" Williams sighed.
Looking at the door, MacDonald sighed as she stood.
"Come on, come with me"
"Where?"
"The Briefing room… The rest of my team should have returned by now"
"Still with this… SG-10?"
"Ohh yes, a lot has happened since we returned. As a matter of fact, we may have something for you when you return to your own reality"
With a smile on her face, Amanda followed her counterpart through the facility; she could not help but feel a little out of place as everyone they passed in the base looked at them both in shock at how similar yet, different they looked. Amanda had the upbringing of a loving family and the education to match, while Alison's life took a different and a more difficult path that had left its mark on the battle-hardened pilot.
Finally, they entered the Briefing room, the last time they met, Alison remarked on how similar the RTC briefing room looked to this one, something she could not help notice as she stood and looked around.
"Captain Williams, General Hank Landry, Colonel Steve Harrison the Third, on loan from the Royal Air Force and you remember my team, Green, Anders and Jarrod"
"Of course, good to see you all again. General it's a pleasure to finally meet you. Colonel, nice to meet you"
"Now that's all over, why and how did you get here?" Landry said slowly.
"That will take some time to explain sir… I assume you are familiar with the incident that happened a few months ago when your SG-10 crossed over to my reality?"
"Very. What does this have to do with us" Landry remarked.
Slowly Amanda sat in the nearest chair as she looked around the room with a slight smile.
"A few weeks ago, one of our teams was captured by the Goa'uld known as Mabus, the team leader was taken and implanted her with a Goa'uld symbiont in doing so Mabus learned of the research they where working on that deals with multi-dimensional travel using the Stargate. Since our encounter with SG-10 we've been working on gathering information and technology in much the same way we use the Gate in our universe"
"I thought that was impossible" Harrison replied slowly.
"SG-10 and myself are living proof that it isn't Colonel, however the connection between realities is a difficult one to match as the bridge draws an incredible amount of power from both sides to make a stable connection"
"That's why our Iris didn't work when you came through?"
"Exactly, and for that I can only apologise. I sent my mission patch through first as a signal to Alison here that it could have only come from me"
"Unfortunately I was off-world at the time" Alison smiled.
"So, what makes you think that your Mabus has come here?" Jarrod said reluctantly.
Leaning forward in her chair she smiled slightly as she replied.
"The First Prime was sent through to make contact with Mabus from this reality, possibly to form an Alliance"
"Or take over for himself" Anders said quickly. "Green, what does Alanis think?"
"Alanis?" Williams asked.
Slowly Green lowered her head and took a deep breath, after a second or two, her head raised as her eyes glowed slightly. Quickly Amanda jumped too her feet and stood ready to defend herself.
"Take it easy 'Manda, this is one of ours"
"What the hell are you talking about. She's a Goa'uld?" Amanda screamed.
"Forgive me if I startled you Miss Williams, My name is Alanis, I am Tok'ra…"
"Yeah? That means nothing to me… the Tok'ra in my reality are not to be trusted. In many ways they are worse then the Goa'uld"
"Forgive me for saying so, but we are not like the ones you describe. We are allies of the Tau'ri and Free Jaffa Nation. Carla Green was severely injured on a mission; the only way to save her life was the healing abilities of the symbiont. Since our blending, I have assisted the SGC and SG-10 on many missions. You raise a troubling problem Miss Williams, if Mabus has travelled too this reality he would have gained access to technology far in advance of that in your own world, from what Major Green remembers of the level of Technology he possessed"
Slowly she sat back in her chair as she kept her eyes on the Tok'ra before her.
"Do you have any information on his location?"
"Actually, Mabus took a female host in my reality. She was a friend of mine from the RTC" Williams sighed.
"The team leader?" Alison asked.
"Yes, Major Anna Grant. A brilliant scientist and a close personal friend, before I left I promised her family that I would bring her home, one way or another"
"Do you have a location of the planet that Mabus went too?"
"Yes, this was our best estimate"
Smiling slightly she took off her left boot and pulled out a small folded piece of paper and slid it across the table too the General. Slowly he opened the piece of the paper and sighed as he looked at the gate address.
"This could be… a problem Williams"
"Why?"
"The gate is heavily guarded by Mabus' Elite Guard; it is also deep inside his facility"
"Is that a problem?" Williams laughed.
"Not really" Anders smiled. "General, what is the closest 304?"
"None, however the Hammond and Apollo is on deep range patrol"
"Then we gate to the nearest planet and ask for a lift" Anders smiled.
"What's a 304?" Alison said confused.
"One of ours… oh your gonna love it. Sir, we can be ready to go in thirty minutes" Alison smiled.
"SG-10, you have a go. Miss Williams, I assume you wish to go along?"
"You could not stop me General. This is my mess, I have to clean it up" She laughed once again.
Thirty Minutes Later…
After exiting the Stargate, the four members of SG-10 looked around as Williams stepped to the side of her counterpart, wearing her own mission patches and carrying standard SGC equipment she smiled as she looked around at the tropical island they had arrived at.
"Beautiful place, where are we?"
"Heaven, kind of a favourite haunt of mine when I'm on leave. This is the only island on the entire planet, a tropical paradise… it's been too long since I was here last. I miss this place"
"I can see why. So why are we here Captain?"
Smiling, Alison looked around one last time as a beam of energy caught them, moments later they appeared on the bridge of one of Earth's most advanced Starships. In awe, Amanda looked around the bridge as a familiar face stepped towards them.
"SG-10, welcome aboard the USS Hammond"
"Thanks for the lift Colonel. Captain Amanda Williams, Colonel Samantha Carter, Commanding officer of the USS General G. Hammond"
"Samantha Carter? Wow, you look just like her. Sam from my world of course"
"Welcome aboard. Major, set course for the co-ordinates given by the SGC, maximum speed"
"Yes Ma'am" The helm officer called out.
"This way SG-10, it should take us about three hours to reach the planet. We must have a lot to talk about" Carter smiled.
Nodding slightly, Amanda continued to look around the large ship as she followed the mirror image of a brilliant scientist from her own universe, smiling slightly she leaned too her left and whispered to Alison.
"Does she know who Sam is married too where I come from?"
"I… didn't tell her. I think you should have the… honour of telling her" Alison laughed.
"Tell me what?" Carter said as she turned.
"This will be… fun" Green laughed.
"I know your counterpart, where I come from of course. She's married and pregnant with twins by the way"
"Happy for her" Carter smiled. "Who's she married too?"
"A brilliant, if not slightly crazy scientist. I believe you know him here too?"
"Who?"
"Rodney McKay" Alison laughed.
"McKay and Me? Ohh my god" She squirmed.
"Yeah, they made a great couple…" Jarrod laughed.
A slight sound of laughter gathered around the bridge as Carter shivered slightly at the thought. Although she had known McKay for many years, even respected his work. She could never have imagined being married to him.
"I'm being Punked aren't I?" She laughed.
"No. Actually, Sam gave me a picture from your… her wedding day, I'll show you later if you want"
"Why not" Carter smiled.