Hello all my readers, here is the next chapter of Slayerette's Slide I hope you enjoy, and on a side note, after looking over the results from the poll in the last chapter, the winner was Stargate, I will be making chapters with the other worlds soon, probably in a double chapter of some sort. Also I can't remember the exact amount of years that they would be stuck on a world if they miss the slide so I am taking a guess.
And I also want to say sorry for the long wait, sadly my muse was on vacation and only just got backA Slayerette's Slide
Chapter 5
Sunnydale High Library
Xander's Home World
1:00 PM
"Could things get any worse!" Buffy exclaimed to her red haired friend as they walked into the library.
"Well with the annoying new watcher, Faith turning evil, Xander being MIA, and the mayor ascending, I'm gonna guess and say no," the red head responded.
"Yeah well knowing my luck, I'll get hit by a meteor while on patrol tonight," Buffy grumbled as they sat down at the table.
"Ah Buffy, Willow glad you're here," Giles said as he walked out of his office, being closely followed by Wesley. "Has there been any news about Xander?"
"Zip," Buffy responded, sadness in her voice.
Shortly after the disappearance of the so-called Zeppo, Giles had found out about what Buffy and Willow had done and proceeded to severely chew them out. After close to three hours of yelling at them they then realized that they had made a mistake in their treatment of the young man and tried to reconcile with him, unfortunately they did not realize that he had departed for another dimension.
"I think that we have more important things to worry about then a wayward teenager," Wesley told the group.
"Yeah, yeah we know, the Ascension," Buffy responded as she grabbed a book an opened it.
A beach in another dimension
Same time
"Ten minutes people," Quinn said to the group as they moved to a secluded area in the large park they were in.
"This really sucks," Xander commented to the group.
"What does?" Wade asked her boyfriend.
"The fact that on the last world, which was experiencing a nuclear war, we were stuck there for two weeks, where as on this nice, calm, tropical beach world, we get an hour!" the young man shouted.
"Get used to it," Maggie responded as they found a secluded area to wait out the last few minutes before the slide.
Soon the waiting was over and the group was preparing for the next slide.
"Alright, time to go," Quinn said as he opened the vortex.
Another Dimension Same Time"Chevron seven locked, wormhole established," the technician said over the PA.
"SG1 prepare to move out," General Hammond called out to the four people in the room below.
"Sir something's happening to the wormhole!" the technician called out.
Looking up at the Stargate the collected group of people saw that the Event Horizon was turning a darker shade of blue as it morphed into a tunnel.
"Shut it down!" Hammond called out.
"I can't!"
"Alright people lets go!" Quinn called out.
Wade and Xander then grabbed hands and ran and jumped into the tunnel followed closely by Rembrandt, then Maggie and Quinn.
The collected group of soldiers quickly raised their weapons as five figures emerged from the blue tunnel and rolled down the metal ramp, which quickly closed behind them leaving behind an inactive Stargate.
"Freeze!" one of the soldiers called out as the group stood up.
"Well, this can't be good," Xander said as the soldiers quickly closed in on them.
SGC Holding Cell
1:30 PM
"We're screwed aren't we?" Xander asked the group from his spot on one of the beds in the room.
"Pretty much, and since they took the timer we have no idea when we slide out of here," Quinn responded.
"I wonder where we are?" Wade commented from her place next to Xander.
"A military base of some kind," Maggie answered her.
"How do you know?" Remy asked.
"Former marine remember," the brunette woman responded.
"Right, I keep forgetting that,"
"You know, for some reason this place looks really familiar?" Xander asked.
"It must be your imaginanation," Quinn responded.
"It can't be, I'm almost positive that I've seen this place before," Xander shot back.
"Well, we'll worry about that later," Quinn told the young man.
SGC Briefing Room
Same Time
"Do we have any idea who they are?" General Hammond asked the collected members of SG1 as well as a few other scientists employed by the SGC."None, we don't even know if there alien or not," Carter replied.
"What about the strange remote control thing?" Jack asked.
Sam then pulled out the timer and showed it to the group before speaking. "We have no idea what it is, but it is counting down to something," she responded.
"Counting down to what?" Hammond asked.
"I have no idea," Carter answered.
"Would it not be wise to ask the owners of it?" Teal'c asked.
"We probably should, so far that haven't shown any hostile intentions towards us," Sam responded.
"Alright, do it," Hammond said before adjourning the meeting.
Holding Cell
2:00 PM
The silence in the small room was abruptly broken by the sound of the door opening, turning the group of sliders saw a woman with short blond hair and the timer in her hand walk into the room.
"We have a few questions for you," Carter said to them.
"Alright," Quinn responded, speaking for the group.
"First off, who are you?" she asked the group.
"I'm Quinn, that's Wade, Xander, Maggie, and Rembrandt," the physicist answered while pointing to each person in turn.
"Where are you from?"
"As hard as it is to believe, we are from another dimension," Quinn responded.
"Another dimension?" Carter asked in shock.
"Yes, you probably don't believe me but it's true," Quinn said with a sigh.
"What is this?" she asked as she held up the timer.
"That is our timer," Quinn responded.
"What does it do?"
"That is what we use to travel between dimensions, when it hits zero we have to open the vortex that we use to slide, if we don't we get stuck here for thirty nine years," the physicist explained.
"To be honest with you, I find that pretty easy to believe," the blond responded.
"You do?" Remy asked in surprise.
"Yeah, seeing as how I have dealt with parallel dimensions before, and with the way the gate reacted when you came through," Sam started to respond before getting cut off by Xander.
"Stargate SG1!" the young man yelled out in triumph. "That's where I've seen this place before."
"What the hell are you talking about?" Maggie asked.
"This was a TV show on my world," he responded before turning to Carter. "You're Samantha Carter."
"How did you know that?" she asked in shock.
"Like I just said, on my world this is a TV show, that must mean that your double on my world is Amanda Tapping," Xander answered.
"Wait a minute, your saying that the world we're on is a TV show on your world?" Wade asked her boyfriend.
"Yeah, but I've only seen a few episodes," Xander answered before turning back to Carter.
"You think that I could go through the gate?" Xander asked in a tone of voice that sounded like a child begging to know what his birthday present is.
SGC Briefing Room
2:15 PM
"So you're saying that you are from a parallel world, and on that world, we're a TV show?" Colonel O'Neill asked Xander in a calm voice.
"Yup," Xander replied from the chair he was sitting in next to his fellow sliders.
"Just out of curiosity, you're not one of those psycho fan boys are you?" Daniel asked him.
"Nope, I just watch the show every now and again because most of my time was spent combating the forces of hell," the young man responded.
"Who's your favorite?" Jack asked.
"What?" Xander responded in confusion.
"Your favorite character," the Colonel explained.
"That would be Teal'c," Xander responded, earning a raised eyebrow from the Jaffa.
"I believe that we have more important matters to discuss right now," Hammond told the group. "Now, will you please explain how you ended up in my base,"
After that question Xander fell silent and allowed Quinn to answer. "We arrived by means of an interdimensiol wormhole," the physicist explained.
"Then how did you come through the gate?" Daniel asked.
"I don't know for certain but I believe that we activated our timer at the exact same time you activated this gate thing, the resulting two wormholes then merged and made us come out here, instead of somewhere in California where he usually land," Quinn answered.
"That seems like a very possible situation sir," Carter spoke up.
"So then, how do you leave?" Jack asked.
"When the timer hits zero we open the wormhole and slide out of here," Quinn answered.
"And when will that be?"
"If you would give us the timer I could tell you," Quinn answered.
Carter, who was currently in possession of the device, looked over to General Hammond, who gave her nod, she then pulled out the timer and handed it over to Quinn.
After a pressing a few buttons on the timer, just to make sure they hadn't messed with anything, he examined the digital readout of the number before speaking up. "We are out of here in two minutes, we got to stop cutting these so close"
"Again I say this sucks," Xander spoke up.
"What do you mean?" Carter asked.
"We always have like three weeks on the shitty worlds, but in the cool ones, we get less than a day," he responded before he started to mumble to himself about the unfairness of the universe.
"Get over it," Wade said to him as Quinn prepared to open the wormhole.
"Here we go," Quinn said as he activated the timer and the familiar blue swirling portal appeared.
One by one the group of five ran forward and jumped into the portal, leaving behind a fairly calm SG1 and General Hammond.
"Well, you don't see that everyday," Jack commented.
"Indeed," Teal'c responded.
Before anyone else could speak there was a ripple in the air as the wormhole opened again and the group of sliders fell out backwards and landed on the floor of the conference room.
"That didn't go as planned," Maggie said as she pulled herself to her feet.
"What happened?" Daniel asked.
Quinn took a few seconds to gather his thoughts, as well as his footing, before answering, "I have no idea," he responded.
SGC
3:00 PM
"So what do we do now?" Remy asked the group that was once again back in the room they were in earlier.
"I have no idea, there seems to be something preventing us from sliding out of here, but luckily the timer reset itself" the scientist responded.
"Could it be the Stargate?" Xander asked.
"What do you mean?" Wade questioned.
"Well, both you and Major Carter agreed that the Stargate somehow brought us here," Xander said, addressing Quinn. "Maybe it's also keeping us here."
"That actually makes sense," Quinn responded in slight shock.
"Really?" Xander asked.
"Really," Quinn replied.
"So how do we use this new information to get out of here?" Wade asked her oldest friend.
"That I don't know yet," Quinn responded.
"Maybe you should try and talk to Carter," Xander suggested.
Quinn thought the idea over for a minute before agreeing with Xander's idea and walking over to the door too ask the guard if he could see the air force major. A few minutes later Carter had shown up and she and Quinn got into a long-winded science talk.
SGC General Hammond's Office
4:00 PM
"So you're saying that the only way for you to get off of our world is to activate the timer at the exact same time that we activate the gate, dialing the same coordinates that we dialed when you got here?" General Hammond asked the two scientists in front of him.
"Exactly," Carter responded.
"How will that work?" the aging General asked.
"It's like this," Quinn began to explain. "When we activated our timer at the same time you activated the gate the two wormholes somehow collided and caused us to leave out slide zone, which is primarily California, but now since the Stargate pulled us out of the slide zone we can't slide out." Quinn explained.
"Why can't we just give you transport to California?" Hammond asked.
"We though of that sir, but since the Stargate interfered with their slide we believe the only way for this to work is by using the gate again," Carter responded.
"Alright we'll try it," Hammond said before turning to Quinn. "When do you leave?"
"In just over two hours," Quinn responded.
"Alright, until then I would like you and your companions to stay under observation," Hammond told the young man in a stern voice.
"No problem," Quinn responded as he and Carter left the office.
"Is he always that serious?" Quinn asked as the two started down the hall.
"Pretty much," Carter replied.
"Jeez, must be rough,"
"At times," Carter said before a thought struck her. "Quinn, can you tell me something?" she asked.
"Sure," the scientist responded.
"How did you end up with the technology to travel between dimensions?"
"Ever hear of the Einstein Rosenberg Bridge?" Quinn asked. "What physicist hasn't,""Well, with a little help from myself, I figured out how to cross it," Quinn explained.
"Really?" Carter asked with a mixture of shock and happiness in her voice.
"Yup."
"That's amazing! Can you tell me how?"
"I guess, but you have incredibly careful," he responded in a very serious tone.
"Of course," she replied, trying to hold in her immense joy.
"But before I do I have a few warnings for you," Quinn said to the Air Force Major. "First, never activate the timer before the time runs out, that's how me and my friends got lost. Second, there is a race of creatures called Kromaggs that use sliding technology to conquer other worlds, they are incredibly dangerous so be careful if you ever meet them."
"Right," Carter responded as they continued down the hall, all the while Quinn explaining everything he knew about the bridge and sliding.
SGC Mess Hall
Same Time
"So do you really think that Quinn and this Carter person will figure all this out?" Maggie asked Remy, who was sitting across from her.
"If any one can, its Q-ball," Remy responded.
"Well, lets just hope that they can figure it out before the slider," Wade commented as she and Xander sat down with trays of food.
"Yeah, nice place to visit but I wouldn't want to live here," Xander said, in-between bites of food.
"I still kinda find it hard to believe that there just letting us walk around here without a guard escort or something," Remy said to his companions.
"Who ever said that there wasn't guards following us," Xander responded, putting down his fork. "Those two guys at the table in the corner have been following us all day," Xander explained as he took a sip of his coffee.
"How did you know that?" Maggie asked.
"Two things," Xander answered. "One, I have all the memories of a fully trained soldier floating around in my head, and I also saw them following us,"
"What?" Maggie asked.
"I saw them following us," Xander repeated.
"No, the other thing," Maggie clarified.
"Oh, the soldier thing, didn't I tell you guys about Halloween?" the young man asked.
"It's a holiday where kids dress up and get free candy," Remy answered.
"Yeah, well on my world a chaos mage cast a spell so that everyone turned into their costumes for the night, and since I was dressed up as a soldier, I got all of his memories," he explained before picking up his fork and finishing his meal.
"Why didn't you tell us this earlier?" Wade asked with a slight amount of anger in her voice.
"Uhh, slipped my mind," Xander replied sheepishly.
"So you have all the memories of a fully trained soldier?" Maggie asked in interest.
"Yup," Xander replied.
"That must be handy," Remy commented as the group stood up.
"Very, remind me to tell you about the rocket launcher someday,"
Holding Cell
4:30 PM
The group of sliders was once again in the room that had been assigned to them for the duration of their stay in the SGC. All of them were gathered around the desk in the room save for Xander and Wade who were curled up together asleep on one of the beds.
"So Q-ball, what's the word?" Remy asked the scientist next too him.
"We're gonna try and use the gate to slide out of here," he responded.
"How will that help?" Maggie asked from the chair she was in.
"We believe that the two wormholes were opened at exactly the same instant and the wormhole from the Stargate somehow pulled us out of our wormhole and into the other," Quinn explained.
"Is that why we couldn't slide out of here?" Remy asked.
"I think so,"
"So then by using both of the wormholes at the same time we will be thrown back into the right wormhole?" Maggie asked.
"We hope," Quinn responded.
"Alright then, onto other topics of conversation," Remy said in a positive tone.
"Like what?" Quinn asked.
"Like them," the singer responded, pointing to the sleeping forms on the bed across from them.
"Have to admit, I didn't see that one coming," Quinn commented.
"Are you okay with it?" Remy asked his friend of close to three years.
"Yeah, I see Wade as a sister," Quinn responded. "But if he hurts her, I swear to whatever higher powers there are, I will leave him on the worst possible world,"
This comment caused the two other sliders to grin before breaking into quiet laughter, as to not wake the sleeping forms.
The three friends continued talking for the next hour about the various different things in their life and what they would do when the found home. Soon the group was pulled out of their conversation by flashing red lights and a voice coming over the speaker system that caused the all of the sliders to spring to alert, and wake up the two sleeping ones.
"Unscheduled off world activation," came the voice over the speaker.
"Wonder what's going on?" Xander said as he looked out the small window in the door and seeing a bunch of people running around.
"Something bad," Maggie answered gravely as the sound of gunfire reached their ears.
"What do we do?" Rembrandt asked in a calm tone.
"I suggest we hide," Xander responded from his place at the door.
"Why?" Wade asked.
"Because a three Jaffa are heading our way," Xander replied as he ducked down, hoping the alien soldiers hadn't seen him.
The rest of the group then mimicked Xander by ducking down and hiding behind or under the various pieces of furniture in the room. They sat in silence for what seemed like hours before the sounds of gunfire and yelling was heard. A few seconds later the door opened to reveal an angry Colonel O'Neil and Teal'c.
"You alright?" Jack asked the group as they moved out of their hiding places.
"We're fine," Quinn said as he saw the three dead Jaffa outside the room. "What the hell is going on?"
"The Goa'uld are attacking," Jack responded.
"How did they get through the Iris?" Xander asked as he helped Wade up.
"We're not sure on that yet," Jack responded.
"Can we help?" Maggie asked.
"You know how to use a gun?" the Air Force Colonel asked as he held out an extra M16 he had with him.
All he got was a grin as the woman took the gun from him.
"Right, what about the rest of you?"
"We're no strangers to combat," Quinn responded.
"Alright, stay close and try to avoid getting shot until we get the armory," Jack replied as he walked out of the room after a quick check of the halls.
The group of sliders followed closely behind, after Xander crouched down to retrieve a Zat gun from one of the dead Jaffa.
"What the hell is that?" Wade asked as Xander activated the weapon.
"A Zat gun," Xander replied.
"And that would be?"
"It's kinda like a stun gun, only if you shoot the person twice they die, and if you shoot them three times they disintegrate," he explained to the red head.
"Be careful with that," Jack said as they rounded a corner.
The groups then continued at a slow pace, running into Jaffa quite frequently, but were able to dispatch them with no injuries. Soon they made it to the armory on that level and anybody who didn't already have a weapon was giving one.
"Now what?" Quinn asked as they left the armory.
"We need to get to the control room and shut down the gate," Jack responded.
"Were is everyone else on this base?" Remy asked.
"They are either dead or have been taking prisoner," Teal'c answered.
They then continued to head for the control room, they were almost there when they ran into a group of six Jaffa, that immediately opened fire with their staff weapons, causing the group to duck behind the corner they just came around to avoid the energy blasts.
"Shit," Jack said as he fired down the hallway before ducking back into cover.
"Now what?" Maggie asked as she too fired down the hall.
"We split up," Jack responded, shooting down the hall. "You two stay with me and help distract them," he continued while pointing to Xander and Maggie. "The rest of you go with Teal'c and try to get to the control room."
"Very well, good luck O'Neil," Teal'c said as he started back down the hallway they came from with Quinn and Remy close behind, Wade stayed a moment longer to quickly kiss Xander and wish him luck before running after them.
After ten minutes of trading fire with the Jaffa, all of the invading Aliens were dead, either from gunfire or the Zat gun Xander had.
"Let's go," Jack said as he started off down the hall.
"Colonel there is something bothering me about this invasion," Xander said as they moved toward the control room.
"And what would that be," Jack responded sarcastically
"Why are the Asgard allowing it?"
"The who?" Jack asked as peeked around a corner to see if it was clear.
"Ah, guess you haven't met them yet,"
"What are you talking about," the Colonel asked, quickly getting pissed.
"I'll explain later," Xander said as they heard gunfire farther down the hallway.
Taking off at a run the trio quickly found a small group of soldiers being led by Carter that were pinned down by a large group of Jaffa, luckily they were behind the Jaffa and had not yet been noticed. Without hesitation the three quickly started to fire on the Jaffa. Not expecting an attack to come from behind, the Jaffa quickly fell.
"Good to see you sir," Sam said as she lowered her weapon.
"Same here Carter," Jack responded.
"We need to get to the control room and shut down the gate," Carter said as she reloaded her weapon.
"Teal'c is already on his way there right now," Jack told his teammate and second in command. "If we hurry we can meet him there."
"Lets get moving then," Carter replied.
They then continued on toward the control room, at a steady pace all the while the two sliders there wished they could go faster because they both knew that time was running out before the slide. Soon they were able to make it to the control room were Teal'c and the other three sliders had gained control. Carter instantly went over to the computers and was able to successful close the gate.
"That seemed a little to easy if you ask me," Jack commented as he looked around the room.
"Indeed," Teal'c responded.
"I've got a bad feeling about this," Jack said as he quickly reloaded his weapon.
While the Air Force people were checking and reloading weapons, Xander and Maggie were with their fellow sliders, it was then that Xander noticed bandage on Wade's arm.
"Oh my god! Wade are you alright?" Xander asked with concern in his voice as he quickly began to inspect the injury.
"One of those staff blasts nicked me, I'll be fine though," Wade responded with a small smile.
"You sure?" Xander asked, staring at her
"Positive," Wade said, staring back.
Clearing his voice, Quinn broke the two's gaze. "I'd hate to break up a touching moment but we're almost out of time," he explained as he showed them the timer.
"We can't just leave when they need help," Maggie said, the soldier in her coming into the forefront at the thought of abandoning a battle.
"We don't have a choice," Quinn explained.
"Why don't we activate the timer with out the gate, won't that just start it over again?" Xander asked, not liking the idea of leaving the fight either.
"We can't risk it," Quinn responded.
"Why not!" Maggie practically yelled.
"He's right," Carter said, breaking up the conversation. "You are not members of the SGC, hell your not even members of this earth, you need to get out of here now while you have the chance," Carter explained.
"But.." Xander began before Carter cut him off.
"No buts, you have to get out of here now," she responded as she headed over to the dialing computer.
"Let's get you down there," Jack said as he picked up his weapon and head for the stairs that led to the Gate Room with Teal'c and a few soldiers with them.
The sliders then followed, some more reluctant then others, soon they were in the gate room. After checking the timer Quinn called up to Carter in the control room the amount of time they had left. The blond scientist then began dialing the address of a friendly planet, just in case their theory didn't work.
The last Chevron was locked in place just as the timer hit zero. Quickly aiming the device at the gate Quinn activated it just as the gate materialized. The two wormhole openings collided; causing the Event Horizon to change as it had done hours earlier.
"Lets go!" Quinn called out over the usual sound of the wormhole.
It was then that fate decided to turn cruel as a group of Jaffa blew open one of the doors and began to open fire. Without wasting time Rembrandt ran up the ramp that led to the wormhole with Quinn and Wade hot on his heels. Maggie dropped the empty gun in her hands and ran for the wormhole, Xander following seconds later.
Forest in Another Dimension
6:10 PM
"Everyone all right?" Quinn asked as the wormhole closed. He was met with a yes from everyone in the group.
"You think they'll be okay?" Wade asked, looking up at where the wormhole used to be.
"I'm sure they will be," Xander answered as he put his arm around her, being careful to avoid her injury.
"How long have we got here Q-ball?" Remy asked his friend.
"Five days," Quinn responded.
"Let's say we find a hotel," Maggie said as she dropped the empty gun in her hands.
"Lets," Quinn agreed with her as they found a trail and began to walk down it.
A few minutes later they arrived at the edge of the forest and began to walk down the street in front of them until a man holding pistol up to them stopped them.
"Give me all your money," the man said as he pointed the pistol at them.
"Oh I so don't want to deal with this," Xander said before quickly raising his hand and firing.
The mugger then fell to the ground as the bolt of blue energy hit him. All of the sliders then turned to look at Xander, Zat still in his hand.
"What? You never heard of a souvenir?"
End Chapter 5
Well there it is, sorry again for the wait.