sorry for a number of things.. including how short this chapter is and how long it took me to get this chapter written... SORRY! now... can i have reviews? grins

"Colonel, why did you bring him here?" the general said, his Texan accent showing its colors. The Jacks both cringed inwardly, the normal voice meant he was angrier than he looked… either that or he was just worried. The accent showed through when he was upset. Hawke spoke up first.

"Well sir, he looks like us for one."

"He's right!" O'Neill said candidly. Hawke threw him a "no-kidding" look. "Besides, he was being chased by the same people that chased us. Where else is he supposed to go general?" the older "twin" said. Hawke nodded his agreement.

"At least here he can fall off the face of the Earth, if not literally, for a bit," the clone reasoned. The two shrugged at the same time and, despite the colonels' predicament, Hammond chuckled. They faced each other.

"Stop that!" they shouted. Hammond raised his eyebrows and cracked a small smile.

"Anyway!" O'Neill raised his voice, "can we show Mac what we do?"

"After all, he is one of us."

"I'll think about it," Hammond compromised. Usually that ended up as a yes. Noticing that the two colonels were silently celebrating, he added, "But don't try to pull this kind of a stunt ever again!"

"Yes sir!" The clone turned to the original and yelled at him… again. And again, an argument sprang up. It was interesting.

"Stop it!"

"No! I was here first – Loki stole my ass, not yours."

"My ass is a clone!"

"Heh, Xerox…" O'Neill muttered as he walked out the door. Hawke stared at him and muttered something as well. Hammond was debating getting them a date with a marriage counselor, especially after he heard Hawke say back to O'Neill.

"Faulty original…"

OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

The trio walked out of Hammond's office and faced SG-1. Actually, it was Carter, Teal'c, Daniel, and MacGyver – who looked an awful like Jack O'Neill.

Coincidence? Maybe not…

It was a valid question that simultaneously skipped through Mac, Hawke, and O'Neill's head. This was like the Urgo Effect, the whole "we're-connected" thing was going on.

As MacGyver and the two colonels sat down, Hammond went to a phone on the wall and ordered something to the people downstairs. Slowly the gray door in front of the window rose. It was some time before you could see out of it, but the expression on Mac's face was totally worth the wait.

It turned out that SG-13 was due back at the same time that Hammond raised the blast doors and Mac has just seen the "floosh." After that, a blue puddle and people walking out of it looking like they did this everyday.

After all, stranger things could happen in the SGC than coincidences. Still, MacGyver's face had all the awe of a baby's face when first experiencing real food. He was amazed. (Well, who wouldn't be?) The twin stood up and buzzed to the window and stuck there for awhile. SG-13 vaguely wondered why Colonel O'Neill was gazing so intently at them and the gate.

They shrugged it off – after all, stranger things had happened before.