Part 4

"What's a Goa'uld? Is that a demon?" Xander looked over at Giles.

Jack's lips twitched, "You could say that."

"I don't believe I've heard of a Goa'uld." Giles furrowed his brow in concentration.

Spike lowered the crossbow but warily watched the strangers. There was no WAY he was going to be another experiment for the military.

"We're travelers."

"Uh huh. You know as fascinating as that is and everything . . . how 'bout you tell us what the hell just happened and why you came through that circular thingy."  Buffy narrowed her eyes and came to stand next to Giles.

"The Chaapa'ai."

"Bless you."

"No. The circular thing is the Chaapa'ai. Or Stargate."

"Stargate?"

"It allows people to travel to other worlds."

"Crap it is a dimension portal thing." Buffy mumbled.

"We are the Tau'ri." Daniel kneeled down and drew the symbol for Earth.

Giles leaned down to get a closer look. "That's one of the symbols on the artifact. Are there Amtuth where you come from?"

Teal'c stiffened. The Amtuth were spoken of in hushed tones on Chu'lak.

"Amtuth?" Daniel had not heard of them before. He turned to look at Jack who just shrugged.

"Y-yes. The symbols there and over on that pedestal closely resemble the ancient language of the Amtuth."

"Okay as fascinating as this is . . .not. We don't have a lot of time and we need to talk to whoever is in charge of this Niurin planet?"

Xander started laughing, "Did he just say Niurin planet?" Xander turned back to Jack, "No clue as to what a Niurin is but I think you may be a little confused. You're on Earth. More specific Sunnydale, California."

"WHAT?!"

Jack to Sam, "Carter? Care to explain how we could be on Earth?"

"Impossible, Sir. The Stargates can only travel between planets."

"Yet, we seem to be on Earth." Jack pulled out his cell phone but growled in frustration when it wouldn't work.

"Here." Willow handed him her phone. "You can use mine."

"Thanks." Jack dialed the General's number.  "What?!" Jack angrily turned off the phone and dialed again. "Damn it."

"What's wrong, Jack?"

"If you'll excuse us for a minute?" Jack indicated the others should follow him away from the curious onlookers.

"I'm going to dial the General's number. Listen." Jack dialed the number for the General.

"I'm sorry, you have dialed incorrectly. There is no such number. Please try again."

"Maybe his phone is not working."

"That's what I thought so I tried calling my house." Jack dialed his house.

"I'm sorry, you have dialed incorrectly. There is no such number. Please try again."

Daniel reached for the phone and called information. "Yes, I'd like to have the telephone number of a Daniel Jackson in Creek Mountain, Colorado." There was a pause, "Are you certain? Yes, of course sorry."

"Let me guess no such listing."

"Not only not listed but apparently there is no such place as Creek Mountain, Colorado."

"Okay what the hell is going on?"

"I have heard of this Amtuth that they speak of. They are as old as the Ancients and as feared."

"Well, they get my vote if they can make the Goa'uld and Jaffa afraid."

"I don't understand it, Sir." Carter wrinkled her brow in concentration. "It is theoretically impossible to jump from the Stargate in Colorado to another Stargate on Earth."

"Do you think it's another reality?"

"No I doubt that, the Stargate uses space time to create a wormhole that allows us to travel across great distances. It doesn't take you to an alternate reality." Sam said, "However the theory for alternate realities is that there are an infinite number of alternate realities. Some are very different, and some are almost identical. So . . . why couldn't some of the planets on the Stargate system develop the same way?"

"You mean a planet similar to our Earth?"

"Exactly. It would explain how we can't get a hold of General Hammond at Stargate Command and why there is no Creek Mountain."

"But why would they call this planet Earth? What are the odds in that?"

"I don't know, Sir but it's the only explanation I have."

"Right, okay." Jack turned to Teal'c. "You say these Amtuth things are the Jaffa version of the boogey man?"

"I am not familiar with that term, Colonel O'Neill. But the Amtuth are feared, yes."

"All right. I say we find out what we can about these Amtuth guys. Carter you and Daniel figure out what the hell is going on."

While SG-1 were meeting off to the side the Scoobies were holding their own meeting.

"Do you think they're demons or just insane?" Xander asked. "Planet Niurin."

"Well, actually Xander, Niurin in an ancient Celtic word meaning Hell. It very well could describe what this planet was like when the demons were taking it over."

"Giles, I don't know about the other three but the tall African American with the Gold emblem on his forehead is making my Slayer sense all a tingling."

"Demon?"

"I don't know just not human."

"I know. Let's have Spike hit them to see if his chip goes off."

"Sod off, moron. I'm not getting a headache just to prove if their human or not."

Willow stiffened when she saw they were returning. "Hey. Did you get whoever you were trying to reach on the phone?"

Jack handed back the phone, "No, but thanks. Listen, we didn't introduce ourselves earlier. I'm Jack O'Neill, this is Samantha Carter, Daniel Jackson and Teal'c."

"I'm Rupert Giles, this is Buffy Summers, Xander Harris and Willow Rosenberg. Over there is Spike. So you come from this Tau'ri world?"

Before Daniel could answer Jack interrupted, "Yes. We're from Tau'ri. So Amtuth? Have a lot of information on them cause they just fascinate me."

"Umm, no. I'm afraid very little survived."

Willow beamed, "But Giles has some of their writing. It's very similar to the these carvings."

"Really? I'd love to see it."

Daniel just rolled his eyes at Jack.

Spike and Buffy stiffened and looked around the park. "We have visitors."

Buffy threw a couple of stakes at Willow and Xander. Giles raised his crossbow as did Spike.

"What?"

Buffy just looked at their visitors. "Stay out of the way and try not to get too close."

Buffy and Spike ran toward where the vampires were just emerging from the shadows.

Willow tossed Jack a cross, "Here. If they get too close use that."

Jack looked down at the cross and over to where the fighting was taking place. He powered up his zat and moved closer, "Teal'c."

Teal'c powered up his staff weapon and fired.

The vamp that was quickly approaching Willow stopped, twitched and fell to the ground as Teal'c's staff weapon found its target. Willow wasted no time and staked the twitching vampire. She had seen a white light streak by her just before the vampire fell. She looked over her shoulder at the direction that it came and saw that Jack and Teal'c were running towards them firing their odd weapons.

Jack stopped as the last of the vampires were staked. "Okay what just happened here?"

Xander patted Jack's shoulder and in a bored voice, "Yes, Jack vampires and demons are real. Welcome to our world."