Shortly afterwards there was a thumping sound and the Samantha Carter vibrated gently. One of the Andromeda Ascendant's small craft had arrived. O'Neill heard footsteps approaching, quite a few footsteps; it seemed that the Commonwealth was sending more than just their friends over. A moment later the Commonwealth troops arrived in the Samantha Carter's control center. In addition to Captain Hunt and his staff, there was a squad of Lancers with weapons at the ready. Several of them were casting decidedly nervous looks at Thor and Lt Colonel Carter.
"I wish I could be giving you a friendlier greeting Colonel O'Neill," said Captain Hunt. The tone of voice was pleasant enough but there was nothing pleasant about the gauss rifle he was pointing at O'Neill, nor the look in his eyes. "But if you have been monitoring our transmissions you undoubtedly understand the reasons"
"I'd do the same if our positions were reversed Captain, said Jack, "and it's general now."
"Really, congratulations. We can have a wetting down later but for now, Trance will you do the honors and insure that our visitors are really who they say they are."
The woman who stepped forward resembled the Trance Gemini that O'Neill knew but it was only a resemblance. The Trance he knew had been barely out of girlhood, was blonde, purple skinned and had a tail. This Trance was older, with red tresses, and golden hued skin. She was also tailless. Some sort of device was in her hand; she was apparently studying some sort of readout from it.
She approached Daniel and he instinctively stepped forward only to come to a quick halt as the Lancers leveled their weapons. Trance held the device against his neck and he felt a slight pricking sensation where the device touched him.
"I'll explain later Daniel," she whispered in his ear. "I look different but it is still me."
Then to the observing members of Andromeda's crew she added. "The DNA is an exact match for Dr Jackson."
Daniel flushed slightly. He knew how Trance had obtained the samples. She had obtained them when the Andromeda had "accidentally" been moved though it's home universe to his universe. The sampling procedure had entailed extensive skin on skin contact, and had been repeated on numerous occasions
Trance proceeded with the DNA analysis of the other members of the Stargate team simply pronouncing them to be 'human'. When she came to Thor she paused apparently having trouble understanding the readings but eventually deciding on 'organic'.
With the SG-1 team given a clean bill of health, preparations were made for a rendezvous on the Siege Perilous.
