Spoilers- "Lost City", "Full Circle", "Death Knell", "Evolution", all previous spoilers apply.

A/N: Sorry this one took forever. It was hard with being away last weekend, and exams are this week. I realized that I'm off to Australia in ninedays, and the story won't be done by then. I promise to try and get a few updates during the month that I'm there, but if not, when I get back I'll do a lot. So, I'll try to get one more review in before I leave!

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"Realities Apart"

Chapter 4-

Early the next morning, General Jack O'Neill entered the lab where the ship had been placed. He couldn't see any sign of a certain Colonel he had no doubt had worked through the night. "Carter?" There was no reply. He proceeded to the rear end of the ship, and peered inside. Sam was fast asleep on the bench inside the ship by the time device.

Jack grinned as he stepped inside, and nudged her shoulder. "Rise and shine Carter!" He noticed several empty coffee cups on the opposite bench. Daniel had no doubt been by several times.

Sam was startled awake, and she quickly sat up, looking around herself in confusion as it took her a moment to remember where she was and why she was there. Her eyes focused on Jack standing by her. "General… oh no! What time is it!"

"6 am… wait a minute, how did you know it was me and not the other me?" He frowned.

"I can't believe I fell asleep." Ignoring his question, Sam jumped to her feet, and ran a hand through her sleep ruffled hair. "There's not enough time to get this done."

"Carter!" Jack interrupted, forcing her attention back to him. "How much longer do you think this will take?"

"I don't know, I don't think I can. It might be possible, but I'd need months, maybe even years to figure it out. I have basically no knowledge of Ancient technology." She bit her lower lip as she looked up at him.

Jack placed a hand on her arm. "You can't know everything, Carter. He can still go without the ship; he's still got the ZPM."

Sam glanced down at his hand on her arm. A wave of guilt washed over her and she quickly stepped away, and retreated to the other side of the time device, hoping he hadn't noticed her flinch. "I should've figured it out." She looked down at the device, avoiding his gaze.

Noticing her sudden withdrawal, Jack chose to ignore it for the time being. "Nobody's perfect Carter, even though I think you're the closest to it."

Carter drew in a small breath. "I want to go with him."

"The other me will be just… you what!" Jack was astounded.

"I want to go through the mirror and help him."

"Uh no! There's no way that I'm letting you go! I know you feel responsible for not getting this thing," he gave a small kick to the time device, "working, which is insane. Getting yourself killed won't help anything."

Sam looked him in the eye. "I can look after myself… Sir."

"Carter," Jack gave her a warning.

She opened her mouth to protest, but Jack held up a finger. "Uh, uh. No 'ifs' 'ors' or 'buts'! You're not going, and that's that." He sighed. "Now let's go grab some breakfast before the briefing."

"Actually, Sir, I'd like to keep working."

"Carter…" But Sam set him with a leveling glare of determination. "Fine." Jack produced another irritated sigh. Obviously his good subordinate skills were rubbing off on Sam. "I'll see you in the Briefing Room in half an hour. Don't make me send Teal'c down to get you."

Half an hour later, Sam looked to AU Jack who was sitting in the chair next to her in the Briefing Room. "I couldn't get it to work, I'm so sorry." She looked completely defeated; bags under her eyes from pulling an all nighter.

Au Jack shook his head. "Hey, no sweat. We new it was a long shot."

"See, Carter? I told you." General O'Neill said, but Sam refused to meet his gaze.

"I uh, couldn't find anything in the text we found on the planet," Daniel explained, "at least not in the parts that I was able to translate last night. Most of it was the history of the planet."

"Oh yes, my favourite part," Jack drawled.

"It's ok, really. I've still got the ZPM," AU Jack insisted. He was overwhelmed by their enthusiasm to help him out. He knew he wouldn't be surprised, though, his own team would've done the exact same thing.

"I'm going with you."

Every head in the room turned to look at Sam.

"What! No way!" AU Jack interjected instantly. "There is absolutely no chance you're coming with me."

General O'Neill groaned. "For crying out loud! Colonel, what did I say? I believe I said 'no!'"

"And I'm in agreement with the General," AU Jack agreed. "A scary thought, I know, but definitely a big 'no'!"

Sam ignored the General and looked pleadingly to the alternate. "Please, I want to help. It's crazy to send you alone. I couldn't help you get her-them, I couldn't help you get them back, so the least I could do would be to help you save the rest of your people."

"If this is about last night, this was never my intention."

At the head of the table, Jack's eyebrows almost hit the ceiling. "Last night?"

Sam shook her head, and AU Jack continued. "You know I can't let you go, especially you."

Jack looked to Daniel in utter confusion, but the archaeologist just looked back, equally confused.

"If you go in there by yourself, you'll get killed." Sam replied adamantly.

"I have no other choice."

"Yeah, about that…" Sam and AU Jack turned to look at the head of the table. They'd been completely oblivious to the fact that there had been anyone else in the room. General O'Neill continued, "I've been thinking since I talked to Carter earlier, and listening to whatever is going on here, I think Colonel Carter is right. It would be stupid to send you alone with the ZPM. If we go with you, there's more of a chance you'll make it out alive."

"And you'll still get to have your ZPM's." Au Jack concluded, and Jack nodded.

"When you say 'we'll go with you', do you mean us?" Daniel spoke up, waving a hand around the table.

"You don't have to if you don't want to."

Daniel sighed. "No, I'll come."

"I too will accompany you through the quantum mirror."

"Thanks Teal'c." The rather large Jaffa nodded in response to Jack.

"Ok, but I don't want Carter to come." Sam's head snapped to AU Jack.

"What?"

"Uh, what?" General O'Neill looked to his double. "Don't tell me you and the Carter in your reality have issues or something, because the Colonel is more than capable of looking after herself, and I trust her with my life."

Sam flushed slightly under the praise, but she and AU Jack both knew that that wasn't the case.

"I trust her with my life too, but that's not it, I don't want her to come."

Sam's patience finally snapped. "So it's ok for the General to go? What if he doesn't make it? Then we've got the same problem, only reversed. I can look after myself. You don't need to protect me."

AU Jack looked sadly at her determined face, and the whole room fell into an awkward silence. You didn't need a PHD to figure out what exactly was going on.

Suddenly, AU Jack felt an excruciating pain jab at his chest, and he gave a cry, keeling over at the waist. It felt like his whole body was being shredded into pieces from the inside out.

Just as quickly as it had come, it was over. AU Jack found himself lying on the floor. "What the hell was that!" He looked up and found Carter kneeling over him in concern.

"The entropic cascade failure is beginning to kick in." She replied.

"Of course it has." AU Jack cringed. "That hurts a lot more than it looks." He shakily got to his feet and looked at the others who had all managed to crowd around him.

"Well, if we're all going," He looked pointedly at Sam. "Then we'd better get moving. I really don't want to experience that again."

"Wait, how do you plan on getting to Antarctica?" Daniel asked.

"The ship. It's on the surface. Felger had been studying it until he managed to somehow almost blow himself to pieces. It was about to be transported to Area 51."

"Why on Earth did you let Felger anywhere near that thing!" Jack asked in shock.

"Hammond let him. Believe me, I told Hammond my thoughts on the subject."

"Ok… wait a minute!" General O'Neill looked to Sam slightly panicked. "What'll happen with the entropy thing when we go through the mirror to the other reality? Will it just disappear for him?"

Sam looked thoughtfully at him. "Well, once the Colonel returns, he'll be fine as he'll be back in his reality. I'm sure that for you, Sir, you should have approximately 24 hours before the entropic cascade failure kicks in."

"Well," he smiled in relief. "That should be fine, if we're there for longer than 20 hours, then I don't think it will matter too much. Well, I'll inform the president, he seems a little intrigued by all this, and I'll get Reynolds to run command while we're gone. So what do you say we meet at the mirror in an hour, geared up, and ready to go?"

"Yes, Sir." Carter nodded.

"Oh, and Teal'c?" Jack looked to the Jaffa. "Accompany the Colonel incase he has another little episode, would you?" Teal'c bowed his head.

"Ok, see you in an hour." Jack walked into his office, and closed the door, ready to make some phone calls.

An hour later, the group was assembled in to Storage Room, ready to go. Daniel, using the remote, was searching the mirror for the correct reality with AU Jack's help.

Each member of SG-1, and AU Jack were fully armed, ready to take on whatever faced them on the other side.

"Are we going to need to use the prototypes?" General O'Neill suddenly asked.

"That what?" AU Jack asked.

"The prototype weapons." Sam repeated for Jack. "The modifications to the P-90s that can defeat the Super Soldiers."

"Super Soldiers?" Au Jack was completely perplexed.

Daniel stopped his search through the realities, and joined the conversation. "Anubis' drones."

"I have completely no idea what you're talking about."

Daniel asked incredulously, "Anubis never created the drones a year ago?"

"Anubis died almost two years ago."

"Of course!" Daniel exclaimed as if it were the most obvious thing. "I destroyed him, that would explain it." He looked to the others who all looked back at him, puzzled, except AU Jack who nodded.

"Well that's what we think." AU Jack said.

"Explanation?" Jack looked between the two.

"Remember when Anubis was after The Eye of Ra on Abydos? I tried to stop him, but OMA stopped me. At least we're pretty sure that's what happened. Well, in the Colonel's reality, he must have destroyed Anubis, and gotten away with it, which would explain why he's still ascended."

"Which would also explain why you haven't encountered the drones," Sam theorized.

"If Anubis was destroyed, then how did you encounter the Ancient Outpost of Antarctica?" Teal'c questioned.

"When Yu, attacked several months ago."

"We didn't attack you." Genera O'Neill smirked. The yu-you jokes never got old in his eyes, and it obviously didn't for the alternate Jack who grinned along with him.

Everybody else ignored the joke, while AU Jack explained, "After Anubis was destroyed, Lord Yu quickly took control of Anubis' forces, and he headed straight to Earth once I got my head sucked by one of those Ancient head-suckers again."

"With the outpost, you then destroyed Yu, and Ba'al took over." Daniel finished for him.

"Yes."

"Ok, so we won't be needing the prototypes then." The General looked to Daniel who then returned to his search while the others waited patiently.

"There! Stop!" AU Jack suddenly cried out after a few minutes, pointing to the mirror.

The mirror showed a small storage room where the door could be seen completely wide open. It showed right down through the hallway. In the middle of the hallway, a limp body lying on the ground could be easily seen.

"Is that Sergeant Davis?" Daniel questioned. His eyes squinted, trying to distinguish the dead body.

Au Jack grimaced. "Yeah, I remember passing by him on the way to the mirror.

"Ok, so this is it?" Jack asked, ready to go. He was a little more than eager to be going into action again.

"Wait a minute…" AU Jack looked carefully at the image being reflected to them. "No, that's not it. When I was coming down that hallway, two Jaffa come out of the storage room, they shot at me, and I took them out. There's no staff blast burns on the far wall, and the two Jaffa's bodies aren't there."

"Well, we're getting closer then," Daniel mumbled, and he slowly turned the dial again.

Two more realities later, they'd found the correct reality.

"Ok, we're going straight for the surface, to the ship. I'd prefer it if Ba'al didn't know we were there." Jack spoke as they all assembled closer to the mirror. "But, I'd prefer us being alive over them, so if force is necessary, you know what to do." He looked at each face in turn, and then gave a small smile. "Here we go, on three… one, two, three." All five simultaneously placed a hand onto the mirror's cool, smooth surface.

A/N: Sorry if there's many mistakes, my beta hasn't read it through yet, but I really wanted to get this up because it was taking so long. If there'sa herrendous amount, please let me know, and I'll fix it! Thanks once again. I'll try to get the next one up by next monday!