PART TWO

"Jack, you awake?" a voice came through Mark's dream.

"Jack?" he asked, opening his eyes.

His eyes remained open, wide open. That hadn't been his voice that had just said Jack. This was not his bedroom. Actually it looked more like a prison cell. He sat up and looked around.

"Who are you?" he asked the man standing next to his bed.

"I'm Dr Daniel Jackson, your friend…" the man replied, pushing his glasses up his nose. "Jack are you OK?"

"Where am I?" Mark asked, looking around. "Who's Jack?"

"Oh oh," Daniel muttered to himself. "Hey Janet, you wanna take a look at Jack here?"

"Who's Janet? Where am I?" Mark asked again. "Where's my room? This is Ascotville."

"Ascotville?" Daniel repeated. "No. This is Cheyenne Mountain Base. You are Colonel Jack O'Neill, you work for the SGC on the team SG-1."

"No I don't. I'm Mark Swanston. I live in Ascotville and I am not in the army," Mark replied.

"No, you're actually in the airforce," Daniel replied.

A short, brown haired, woman in a doctor's coat walked casually into the room. "Is he OK?"

"He's - " Daniel looked back at Mark. " – having delusions."

"I am not having delusions," Mark replied, looking down at his hands. "Whoa, I'm old. Man look at all the wrinkles on my hands. What does my face look like?"

With energy that a middle-aged man should not have, Mark bounced off the infirmary table towards the nearest mirror. He gaped at the reflection he saw looking back at him. Grey hair, brown eyes. He looked what he thought he would probably look like when he was older.

"Oh my god, where am I?" said a woman's voice from another bed in the infirmary.

"Sam?" Daniel asked. "Are you OK?"

"I'm not Sam," the woman said. "My name's Amber."

"Amber?" Daniel exclaimed. "First Mark now Amber? Janet I think there's something wrong with them. Did you find anything wrong with their brains?"

"No," Janet replied. "They seemed normal except they were unconscious.

"Amber? As in Chris's friend?" Mark asked, running towards her bed. "Do I look old?"

"Mark? You're Chris's cousin right?" Amber asked. "Wow…yeah you do – real old."

"Damn," Mark said. "Hey guess what, I think I'm in the body of a Colonel in the army."

"Airforce," Daniel corrected, subconsciously.

"Airforce," Mark repeated. "How cool is that?"

"What am I?" Amber asked, sitting up.

"You're Major Samantha Carter," Janet said. "I don't know what's gotten into the two of you, but I'm sure as hell going to figure it out. Daniel get the General down here."

"General?" Mark and Amber repeated in awe.

Daniel ignored them. "Yeah, I'll get Teal'c too. He might know what's going on."

"What sort of name is Teal'c?" Amber questioned.

"A pretty cool one," Mark replied. "Hey you think the Colonel and Major are in our bodies?"

"Who cares?" Amber replied. "This is so totally cool. I miss my science test."

"Oh by the way Carter, I love your accent," Jack smiled.

"Thanks, sir," Sam replied.

"And I really love your hair," Jack continued.

"Thanks, sir – I think," Sam said.

"Amber Watson and Mark Swanston I presume," a voice said from behind them. "I am Mrs Thorne, your new science teacher. I was just wondering where two of my class members were. Could you please follow me to class."

Sam shot a worried glance at Jack. "Now we're dead. I remember my first detention, it wasn't fun."

"Detention?" Jack asked, raising an eyebrow. "Oh, I'd forgotten about those."

"Now class since your old teacher Mr Smith, has fallen ill, I will be taking your class for the remainder of the term. I believe that you were scheduled to have a science test today – but I am postponing it until I know fully what you are up to," Mrs Thorne said.

There was a jumble of 'yes' and 'whoo hoo' throughout the class. Sam almost groaned. She missed school science. It was so simple and easy and she never had to use it to fight aliens trying to kill everyone living on Earth. That had been the life.

"Damn," she muttered.

"You're complaining Carter?" Jack asked.

"I miss high school science," Sam replied.

"Oh," Jack said. "I failed high school science."

Sam rolled her eyes. "Is that part of the reason you dislike scientists."

"No, my dislike of scientists came from my science teacher…if you could call him that," Jack creased his forehead. "Maybe he was a Goa'uld."

Sam smiled. "I don't think so sir."

"Why do you keep calling him sir?" a kid next to Sam asked her.

"Umm – it's a long story," Sam replied. "It's a joke, we used to pretend we were in the military when we were younger – the nickname's have just clung on."

"Oh," the kid replied, looking away.

"Close," Jack said. "Hey, you think Mrs Thorne could help us get home?"

"Oh yeah, I'd forgotten about getting home," Sam replied. "I doubt it. She's a science teacher, probably not a real scientist.

"Whoa, what's that?" Mark asked, looking at the symbiont on Teal'c's head.

"It's a sign that I worship a fake god," Teal'c replied.

"Why would you do that?" Amber asked.

"Because I was not aware that my god was fake," Teal'c replied.

"So are you, like, an alien or something?" Mark asked.

"That's enough questions," Daniel replied. "How did you two end up in Jack and Sam's bodies?"

They both shrugged. "We woke up in them."

"I believe they are telling the truth Daniel Jackson," Teal'c replied. "Major Carter and Colonel O'Neill would not be able to put this much energy into their bodies. They would also not ask offensive questions to me."

"Sorry, I didn't mean to offend you, Teal'c," Amber said. "I am Amber Watson."

"OFFWORLD ACTIVATION!" the alarm started screaming.

"Not now," General Hammond groaned.

"Offworld?" Mark asked, looking at Amber. "As in another planet, offworld?"

Daniel, Teal'c, Hammond and Janet ran out of the room, leaving Mark and Amber by themselves. A squadron of guards ran past, armed and ready to shoot.

"Let's check it out," Mark said, running out of the room after the others.

Amber sighed and ran after him, she found it strange running in this body.

Mark and Amber ran into the gate room and gaped as they saw the large stone ring.

"What are they doing in here?" Daniel asked. "Get them out."

"What is that?" Mark asked.

The wormhole activated and Amber's mouth fell open. "That's wormhole technology. It's theoretically supposed to transport people to other planets."

"How do you know that?" Daniel asked, sounding surprised.

"I read it on the Internet somewhere – is this the Stargate project?" Amber questioned.

"Internet?" Teal'c asked, sounding confused.

"Don't ask now," Daniel replied.

Four people stepped through the Stargate. Mark noticed Daniel rolling his eyes as he noticed who it was.

"Tok'ra," he murmured.

"Tockray?" Amber asked.

"Tok'ra, it means 'Again Ra'" Daniel explained, subconsciously.

"Ra? As in the Ancient Egyptian god?" Amber asked.

"He wasn't a god, he was an alien," Daniel explained. "Forget I said that."

"Like Apophasis?" Amber asked.

"How do you know about Apophasis?" Daniel asked.

"He's Ra's twin brother right?" Amber asked.

"Is there anything you don't know about?" Daniel asked.

"And Hathor? And Isis? And - " Amber started.

"Yes all the Egyptian gods were aliens," Daniel shouted.

"Dr Jackson, maybe you shouldn't tell her all of that," Hammond warned.

"Well they're going to find out anyway, if they hang around the base," Daniel said. "And we can't lock them away, people will ask questions and we don't want the NID hearing about this."

"Good point," Hammond said.

"So the aliens have been on Earth for thousands of years?" Amber wondered.

"No not really," Daniel said. "They were here thousands of years ago – but they left."

"A couple of years ago there was a really big flash of unexplained light – was that anything to do with this?" Amber asked.

"That was Apophasis and Klorel's spaceships blowing up," Daniel replied. "General what do the Tok'ra want?"

"I have no idea, I'm just going to find out," Hammond replied, disappearing down the stairs.

"Can I meet one?" Mark asked.

"No," Daniel replied. "Stay up here."

"And the Roswell Grey's?" Amber asked.

"Yeah, those are the Asguard," Daniel replied.

"And - " Amber started again.

"No more questions right now," Daniel shot back.