Author's Note: For those following my progress, I have completely finished Chapter 7, and here is Chapter 8. A big thanks for your patience.

As Teal'c walked back to the hieroglyphics room, Daniel was waiting on him with a hopeful look on his face.

"Teal'c, I think I've found how to work it. If you put pressure on the extra letter, the beam activates."

"This is very good, DanielJackson, but, do you know how to come back?"

A worried look crossed Daniel's face, but instantly vanished. "I think the return activator will be at the other side. If our hypothesis is right, this should just take us to another part of the pyramid. Have you told General Hammond about our situation?"

"Indeed, DanielJackson. I have also brought our packs in anticipation of our trip."

"Good. Okay, you need to stand in the center of the room, and I'm going to activate the beam and jump in. Ready?"

Teal'c gave Daniel a short nod, and Daniel pressed the activator letter. A blue light shot down from the ceiling, and Daniel leaped into the area with Teal'c. "I hope I'm right about getting all of us back," was Daniel's last thought as he faded into nothing and the room was empty once more.

As the blue light faded, Sam and Carter saw two men materialize in front of them. Recognizing her teammates, Carter quickly ran over to help them get off the floor. Sam took this opportunity to stay in the background. "If I don't try anything, then they might believe me more easily." As Al stood beside him, Sam whispered quickly under the noise of the others. "Al, I need you to go talk to Ziggy some more and see if you can get a better idea of what's going on and why I'm here. But hey, don't be too long, okay? I really need you to come back and help me." With these last words, Sam's face briefly showed worry and concern, and at that moment Al would have given anything in order to bring his friend back home.

Hiding his strong feelings, Al breathed in quickly and said "Wild dogs couldn't keep me away, buddy. You just hang in there and ol' Al will help ya out of this." With that, Al accessed the Imaging Chamber door and was gone. Teal'c, believing that the sudden bright white light and equally sudden disappearance of it was perhaps a visual hallucination caused by the alien technology, shook his head once to clear his sight and refocused on the room.

With the distraction of her teammates beaming in over, Carter quickly remembered what was going on, and drawing back from her friends, trained her gun once again onto Sam. As the daze quickly faded, Daniel and Teal'c were shocked to see Carter behaving this way.

"Sam, what is going on! Why are you pointing a gun at Jack?" Concerned that his friend had somehow been adversely affected by the beaming process or something inside the pyramid, he ran in front of Carter, blocking her view of Sam.

"Daniel, that is not the Colonel over there; it's an imposter."

Daniel, startled by this reply, turned and looked at Sam. "Well, he looks like Jack. Are you sure?"

"Daniel, he says his name is Dr. Beckett and that he's from a secret government experiment in the future, and that he somehow switched bodies or something with our Colonel."

Teal'c and Daniel stood there for a few seconds, trying to absorb this strange story. "Um, okay, why don't we all calm down a second and see what's going on." Daniel took a few steps towards Sam, now standing near the corner of the room.

"Jack?"

"Hi."

"Hi, Jack, are you really you."

"How am I suppose to respond to that? Do I say yes, and then have them grill me on questions I can't answer?" Deciding that honesty was his best shot, Sam loudly sighed before responding. "No, I'm not Jack, Daniel. Carter's telling you the truth. My real name is Sam."

Taken aback, Daniel tried to regroup. "Well, THAT wasn't the answer I was looking for!"

As Al left the Imaging Chamber, he stopped at The Observation Room annex briefly to check on their visitor. Jack was sitting back in the hospital bed, watching what looked like old Simpson reruns. "I hope he's enjoying himself while Sam is out there literally at gunpoint saving his neck." Sighing, he left the annex and went down the wall to the Control room. Inside, a huge blue round sphere with electrical current running from it to the multi-colored square panels beneath it were humming like normal, confirming that Ziggy was running normally. Al stepped up to the control panel in front of the sphere and addressed the computer. "Okay, Ziggy, I have some more information that I need you to run. Jack said the year was 1998, so that's about 2 years from now." Al paused as he realized the ramifications of that statement. "My God, that's the closest Sam has ever Leaped to the present!"

"Indeed it is, Admiral Calavicci. If you could please provide me with what information you have, I will see about extrapolating the reason as to why Dr. Beckett has Leaped to this place and time.

Sorry, Ziggy, okay. Jack's full name is Colonel Jack O'Neil. There's a cute blond he's with, and from what Sam called her all I got was Carter, but her rank is lower than a Colonel. They both are in the Air Force, but beyond that, all I have is a feeling that this Leap is going to be very different from the rest. Sam was very excited about something, and I'm note sure if he was making sense or not at the time; he said something about mother ships and other planets and he insisted that some alien device had pushed him out of whatever you called it."

"Space-time, Admirial Calavicci."

There was silence for a few seconds, and Al hoped that he hadn't somehow offended Ziggy again. He almost jumped when she spoke again.

"I have predicted a 86.9 percent chance for the reason Dr. Beckett has Leaped into Colonel Jack O'Neil."

Ziggy then paused, as if she was waiting to be asked. Shaking his head at the wonders of Ziggy's ego, Al took the bait. "Okay, Ziggy, can you please tell me why Sam is there." He wanted to grad a hold of some of Ziggy's microchips and start popping them off one by one, but he knew any further agitation to her would only result in a delay of information, and that was not something he was willing to risk at this time.

"Well, Admiral, the initial tracking pinpointed Sam as being in the vicinity of Idaho on March 15, 1998. As I tracked him, his readings became suddenly erratic, resulting in the difficulty from before." At the mention of her previous behavior, Ziggy's voice almost had a defensive quality to it. "After compensating for the unusual interference and providing contact once again between you and Dr. Beckett, I performed detailed research on the interference and have determined that indeed Dr. Beckett is located in a slightly altered space-time field. I cannot determine the technology to perform such a task, but I can say with certainty that only the same technology can restore Dr. Beckett to normal space time. Also, taken into account the recent research I have performed on Colonel O'Neil and Captain Carter, I can determine that they are in fact not working on deep space, but on something very top secret, which is why it is taking longer to access the files. I can estimate with some certainty given the odd circumstances, though, that Dr. Beckett has entered this situation in order to ensure the safe return of his host and whoever is with him.

Al's mood towards Ziggy went from murderous to less aggravated, but still not happy. "Well, Ziggy, last time I left Sam, he had a gun pointed at him and was getting the third degree from our visitor's teammates, so as soon as you have any idea about what is really going on let me know right away.

"Affirmative, Admiral."

Endnote: Did anyone catch the cool foreshadowing there? Sorry, had to ring my own bell kinda thing because I was so excited when I thought of it!