Disclaimer: Lauren Ahrns and all the other Muphridians are mine; MGM owns Stargate and all stargate characters.
A/N: No knowledge of Dierapyámuk Myon 2 is required to understand the SG-1 universe story. This first chapter may make some more sense after reading DPM-2, but can be followed without it.
A bright green beam impacted the front of the ship, but thanks to the shields, it failed to cause any real damage, it just shook the crew around.
"Shield status is at 27%, we can't take this kind of beating for much longer!" shouted someone from the side of the bridge.
"Hold on, we going in!" another person, directly in front of the viewscreen, shouted as she pulled the ship into a roll to avoid another beam, then returned fire with a beam of her own.
The beam impacted a boxy ship that was much bigger than their own ship in front of them, and as the beam dissipated, and purplish glow rippled outward from the point of impact as the enemy ship's shield failed.
"Fire bavabera'ti!" the person ordered, and around 20 glowing, round balls sped out of the top of the ship, and shot towards the now shieldless enemy ship, penetrating deep within it before exploding. The enemy ship quickly broke into 3 separate pieces as several secondary explosions occurred, then became silent as numerous pieces began drifting away from the newly created rubble pile.
"Maraina, is the hyperdrive online yet?" asked the person in front of the viewscreen.
"It should be up in a minute, Lauren," Maraina replied over the comm. system.
"Good. Have you been able to determine the status of the ZPM we recovered?"
"It appears to be nearly full, but we haven't been able to get it connected to the ship's systems yet."
"Get on that as soon as the hyperdrive is online."
A slight humming sound started up, letting them know that the hyperdrive was now online.
"I'll get to work on the ZPM," Maraina said.
"Relaph, get us out of here before any more of those ships show up," Lauren ordered, and though he didn't say anything, the guy who had announced the shield strength earlier pressed several controls, and a hyperspace window opened up, and the ship entered.
Lauren stared at the lights of hyperspace for a few seconds, before turning around and walking toward the door at the back of the bridge. Just before she exited, she said, "I'll be with Maraina, call me if anything unusual comes up."
Lauren walked down the empty hallways of the ship, looking around for any possible damages. She was about 8 feet tall, with green, scaly skin, and also had a tail somewhere around 3 feet long, as did everyone else on the ship, due to the fact that they were Muphridians. Lauren herself had brown hair that reached just past her shoulders, reddish-brown eyes, and she was currently wearing a black dress that extended down to her knees. She walked up to a door at the end of the hall, which opened as she approached, and walked into a room full of pipes and other machinery, which was empty except for a blond leaning over behind a large control console.
"Maraina?"
The blond quickly stood up, and hit her head on a pipe with a dull thud.
"Sorry about that, I didn't mean to scare you," Lauren said.
She rubbed her head where she hit it, before replying, "It's not a problem, though could you make a little more noise when you come next time?"
"I'll try. How is it going with the ZPM?"
"I was just about to install it when you came in."
She walked over to the other side of the room, where the ZPM was stilling on a shelf covered with tons of other objects, and picked it up, and then walked back to the ZPM plug she had been leaning over before, and pushed it in. After she pulled a switch, the ZPM, as well as several lights on the plug, lit up, and a message came over the intra-ship comm.
"We just recorded a massive increase in the available power to the ship," Relaph said.
Maraina checked the readout on the control console next to her, and then replied, "It's nothing to worry about, it's just the ZPM."
"How much longer until we get back to base?" Lauren asked.
"At our current speed, about an hour."
"Good. Lauren out."
"Is everything set up like I asked?" Lauren asked, now looking at Maraina.
"Yes, all power used is still coming from the main generators, with the ZPM serving only as backup and for when the generators can't put out enough power."
"Good. You can rest now."
"Thank you, Lauren."
Lauren smiled, then gave Maraina a part on the back and began walking back to the bridge. As soon as she reentered the bridge, Relaph turned around and said, "A strange energy reading just came up on long range sensors, around 1000LY away."
"Change course to investigate, how long before we get there?"
"About 6 and a half minutes."
The minutes passed quickly, and once they were near the location, Lauren said, "Drop us out of hyperspace just outside of short range sensor range."
The boomerang-shaped ship dropped out of hyperspace several seconds later, in view of a large yellow and green nebula.
"Nothing is coming up on long range sensors around us," Relaph said.
"Good, now slowly move us with sensor range and scan the location of the energy reading."
The main engines turned on for a few seconds, then powered down again, leaving the ship to coast closer to the nebula.
"Coming within range… now." Relaph looked at the sensor readout on screen, but no clue of what the energy reading was came up on the screen, just that there was an energy reading there.
"Decrease distance to the source by half."
The engines once again powered up, but for longer this time, and then once the ship neared its destination, they switched to reverse thrust to slow the ship to its original costing speed.
"I'm picking something up on visual scanners… it appears to be some sort of vortex, no sign of what caused it."
"Run a full sensor sweep on the vortex."
The readings from the sensor sweep began coming up on screen, showing that it had its own gravitational field, though weak, and it was also steadily releasing some form of energy, which was what they had originally picked up on long range sensors.
"Mark this location in the data logs, and prepare to resume course back to base."
"Right away — hold on, there's a hyperspace window opening… it's the Scourge again."
"Shields maximum power, and power up the hyperdrive for a quick getaway."
The shields activated, several times as power as before due to the ZPM, and 4 more of the boxy ships like the one they had previously destroyed came out of the hyperspace window, and opened fire. They impacted harmlessly against the shields, and all the ships began weaving around each other, trying to get a good shot lined up, but for the most part, failing to do so. Beams from both sides shot in all different directions, and at least once, one of the Scourge beams hit another Scourge ship. One of the missed beams shot toward the vortex, and curved toward it as it got closer, and went in.
"Shields are at 97%, wait, massive energy burst detected from the vortex!"
The vortex expanded to several thousand times its previous size, and its gravitational field underwent a similar increase, drawing all 5 ships in.
"Full speed away from the vortex!" Lauren shouted.
Even as the engines powered up to full power, the vortex continued to drag the ship in, though somewhat more slowly than the Scourge ships. Two of the Scourge ships got caught up in the very outer part of the vortex and were ripped apart, shortly after this the remaining two were pulled in as well, but since they were away from the edge, they survived.
"It's no use, aim for the middle of the vortex, full speed!"
Lauren's ship turned around and flew straight toward the eye of the vortex, as they saw one of the Scourge ships T-bone the other due to the chaotic forces in the vortex, and both were destroyed. The ship shuddered as it flew straight into the vortex, into what appeared to be some sort of wormhole.
"Shield strength is 69% and falling rapidly!" Relaph yelled as the entire ship shook.
Just as soon as it started, however, the shaking stopped and the ship dropped back into regular space above a familiar looking planet. Behind them, the exit of the vortex remained open for several seconds, before vanishing from sight.
"Where are we?" Lauren asked as soon as the ship stopped.
"According to our maps, earth. But something's not right." Relaph replied.
"What do you mean?"
"This isn't the earth we know. It's very similar, but there are some differences. For one, the stargate's in the US, instead of Myoria, and Myoria doesn't even exist here."
The comm. system came on, and Maraina contracted the bridge. "What is going on? I was just about to go to sleep, when the warning sirens go off, then a little after that, the entire ship started shaking!"
"We were attacked by the scourge, but they're gone now. Also, we seem to have been transported to Earth, but it's not the Earth we know."
"What?"
"It's similar, but different."
"I'll be right up."
"You don't —" Lauren began, but Maraina cut her off and began running to the bridge.
As soon as she arrived, wearing her nightgown, the comm. system beeped.
"I'm receiving a message from the surface, location is near the gate. Audio only," Relaph said.
"Open a channel."
"Attention unidentified vessel, please identify yourself."
"I am Lauren Ahrns, and I mean you no harm. We were sucked into a vortex of some kind and we came out of it over your planet. I can meet you to explain who I am and where I came from in greater detail."
"I am General Hammond of the SGC, and how, and when exactly would you plan that we meet?"
"As soon as you can, and I will be there in hologram form, it's easier."
"And your ship?"
"We can park it behind the moon until we get the cloak working again."
"Very well, we will meet in the briefing room in ten minutes, along with SG-1 as well."
"Who?"
"SG-1 is the flagship team of the facility."
"Oh."
"Hammond out."
The comm. system beeped again to show that they communication had been ended, and Lauren Ahrns got up to use the hologram projector.
She spent 5 minutes to find the exact location of the briefing room, and after making sure that she wouldn't interrupt another meeting, she activated it. She appeared in the empty briefing room, just as a person walked in, who promptly dropped the papers he was carrying in surprise.