TITLE: Stargate Ascenant

AUTHOR: MikeJaffa

SUBJECT: Millennia after the fall of Stargate Command, Samantha Carter and Daniel Jackson meet their destinies.

SPOILERS FOR: "Star Crossed," "Lone and Level Sands," "Day of Judgment, Day of Wrath," and "Shadows Cast by a Final Salute." Extremely minor SG-1 spoilers WRT the life, death, and life of Daniel Jackson.

RATING: About the same as the TV shows.

DISCLAIMER: I own neither the rights to STARGATE: SG-1 nor ANDROMEDA nor the song lyrics quoted. I would also like to apologize for any blunders I make WRT STARGATE's mythology; I have watched every DROM ep but only recently got interested in SG-1. This includes any and all misspellings of names, species, worlds, etc.

SETTING: Except for the prologue, which is only a few years down the road, this story takes place early in ANDROMEDA's Season 4. I wrote this in the summer of d seen season 4, so some of my guesses about where DROM was going were wrong. So that makes it kind of an AU for both shows. I also did a little editing/rewriting, but not much. If you read it before, I hope you like it. Thats bring it!

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"All this time I can't believe I couldn't see

Kept in the dark but you were there in front of me

I've been sleeping a thousand years it seems

Got to open my eyes to everything."

-Evanescence, "Bring me to Life"

PROLOGUE - THE LAST STAND OF STARGATE COMMAND

"We're all set, sir," Major Samantha Carter-O'Neill said as she came down the corridor, up to the makeshift barricade where General Hammond and the last of his men, joined by a handful of Tok'ra, as well as master Bratac and some liberated jaffa, waited for the end. She pulled a small black box from her pocket and offered it to her superior officer. "You can activate the self-destruct mechanism with this. You have a five minute delay; nothing can stop it."

"And this will destroy the gate as well as this facility?" Hammond asked, accepting the box.

"Yes," Sam said, "which will knock the gate network out of alignment for ... Oh, something like two, three thousand years. But no one up top should know anything other than a moderate Earthquake has happened."

Hammond grunted. Earth had been untouched by this final, all-or-nothing war being mounted by the Goa'uld, and he regretted the apocalyptic impact it had had on their allies. But he remained determined that the Goa'uld's aggression would stop here ... no matter what the cost.

Hammond turned to the bespectacled, brown-haired man who'd accompanied the blonde scientist. "Dr. Jackson?"

"Yes, um..." Daniel Jackson said, still awkward as ever. "Unfortunately, we've lost contact with the *Prometheus;* she may have been destroyed. But the last Goa'uld warship has been dealt with. Apparently."

"Good," a voice said from behind them. "Let the snakes be cut off on unfriendly turf for once."

They turned to see Colonel Jack O'Neill, SG-1's leader, a bit unsteady on his feet, a bandage on his forehead, and a crying, fussing bundle in his arms; and Teal'c, the powerful, dark-skinned Jaffa warrior who had long ago pledged his allegiance to Earth.

Sam didn't hesitate to get in her husband's face. "Jack! You're supposed to be in medical." She turned on Jack's companion. "Teal'c, you were supposed to-"

"I am sorry, Major Carter-O'Neill," Teal'c said, "but he insisted."

"If I'm goin' out today," Jack said, "I'm going to do it on my feet, where the snakes can look me in the eye." He handed the bundle to Sam. "I want you and Teal'c to take the baby and get out of here. If we make it out alive, I'll-"

"No, Jack, I'm not-"

"DON'T! ARGUE!" Jack lowered his voice. "If I can buy some time for my wife and daughter to escape, it's worth it."

"Jack-"

"Go, please."

They looked into each other's eyes - there was nothing left to say - and kissed one more time. Then Jack's eyes found the powerful Jaffa's. "Teal'c. I shouldn't have to ask, but-"

"I will guard their lives with my own, Jack O'Neill. You have my word."

Jack nodded; Teal'c gave a slight bow, then gently tugged at Sam's shoulder. Her eyes stayed with Jack until she'd gone 'round the far corner.

"Ok." Jack hefted a rifle and took his place at the barricade. They could hear the enemy finally coming closer. "Let's do this."

"Ham-mond of Texas," Bratac said. "I wonder what a human leader would have to say to inspire his troops at a time like this?"

Hammond smiled grimly. "'Remember the Alamo.'"

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Sam looked up from the laptop she'd wired into the stargate's control circuits, past where Teal'c waited with the baby in his arms, and watched the gate as the last chevron locked into place and the glistening event horizon erupted into existence.

"Let's go." She yanked the laptop's connecting wire from the wall and started for the ramp -

- and whirled at the sound of gunfire from the entrance behind her. Someone had forced the door open a crack. A jaffa energy bolt whizzed just over their heads and hit the gate. Sparks flashed from the metal ring and odd patterns played on the event horizon, but it remained active.

"Go!" Sam screamed, diving for cover as she drew her own .45 pistol. "I'll hold them off."

Teal'c shut the sounds of human and jaffa weapons fire from his thoughts as he held the baby girl to him and raced for the gate, feeling the jaffa energy bolt approach just as he went through the event horizon ...