Colonel Makepeace had not expected to be knocked out, but he obviously was. He didn't remember how or why, but he woke up on a foreign planet covered in trees. He felt like he was waking up from an anesthesia injection. He gripped his head and rubbed his eyes. He looked up at the sky and found it was still blue with a gas giant looming overhead. "Not earth," he said out loud to no one in particular.
"Indeed this is not earth, but an abandoned planet on far reaches of the galaxy called Himinbjörg." Makepeace turned his head to find a grey alien. He could tell it was Asgard, and that it wasn't Thor. His voice gave it away.
"Who are you?" He asked skeptically.
Makepeace tore his gaze from the sky as he turned his gaze to the tunnel that he figured that he was supposed to go through. He peered down at earth's ally who looked so fragile that Makepeace could break him with a flick of his wrist. "Greetings, human. My name is Heimdall."
"Doesn't even sound like a name," Makepeace mumbled.
"Indeed, it is a name that has not been in common use since the days of the Norse." He said with a happy note in his voice.
"Then you'll have to refresh my memory. I am not Dr. Jackson."
"Indeed you are not, however Doctor Jackson will meet you along the way."
"SG-1 is in there?" Makepeace peered around the edge of the cave to check for people inside but all he found was more rocks that one of the geeks back at the SGC would drool to get their hands on.
The small alien with disproportionately large eyes lowered his gaze at the denseness of this humans mind. "This tunnel you see is only an illusion. It is known in your world as a Bifrost. And I am its gamekeeper."
"Doesn't ring a bell." Makepeace's mouth tightened in a straight line as he continued to talk to the little guy. "Can I just get this over with?"
Heimdall heaved a great sigh "Be warned; should you chose to go further there is no other way but to move forward. Once this has started, there is no stopping it. You will face three challenges in there and the fourth will be elsewhere. There will be help granted to you along the way."
Makepeace huffed impatiently and folded his arms across his chest. "Let's get this party started."
Heimdall shook his head. He liked O'Neill better – that seemed to be the general consensus for the entire race. He waved his hand over the white stone attached to his narrow wrist and a force shield that was activated was drawn downwards and collapsed into the ground. He turned around again to peer at the entrance going into the cave but hit what felt like a solid wall. He moved his hand up and down and figured that it was kind of like a lock, but only to trap people in instead of keep them out. "You weren't joking were you?"
"Indeed, I was not."