Sam, Daniel and Jacob were standing dumbfounded on the Tok'ra ship for a while. They were at that meeting, then Fenchurch had flipped and...now they were back here. "We need to go after them!" Sam spurted out when she had taken in her surroundings.

"How?" Her father asked. "We have absolutely no idea where they went, and no way to find out." Indeed, their situation looked quite grim.

"Well can't we track them by analyzing the party hats and confetti it left behind somehow?" Sam asked without thinking.

Jacob and Daniel gave her strange looks. "Sorry." Sam had gotten just a bit overexcited there, she admitted. But they had to do something.

"Listen, I don't want to sound like I don't care, but I've already lost out on a almost any chance I had of accomplishing the mission I was on. I'm bringing you two back to Earth and then leaving." Jacob told the two members of SG-1 who were still in the galaxy.

"That's okay Dad, I understand." Carter sighed.

"I'm sure we'll be able to find them...somehow." Daniel's false optimism wasn't very reassuring. In a matter of almost no time at all, Jacob had returned them to the SGC without even registering as a blip on anybody's radar.

Sam dreaded telling Hammond what had happened, but there was no avoiding the chain of command. When she was safely back in Cheyenne mountain in the briefing room with Hammond and Daniel, there was no evading the matter. "Sir, we don't have them."

"Well I can see that." Hammond said, not fearing the worst quite yet, but he never he'd never be able to replace Jack or Teal'c. "Well what happened?" He asked what he feared were the only two surviving members of SG-1 sitting before him.

"Well Sir it's a long story." Carter breathed deeply. "We were about to rescue them when...A large silver spherical spaceship appeared out of nowhere."

"Well whose ship was it? What did they want?" Hammond asked, concerned. He didn't like the sound of alien vessels appearing in their solar system.

"Well, it there were three people on it." Sam stated.

"Who were they?" Hammond was getting frustrated. "Goa'ulds? Tollan? Asgard? What?"

After a brief pause, Daniel spoke up. "Well, one of them had two heads and three arms."

Hammond didn't like what was going on here. If he didn't know better he'd think these two were joking with him. Jack and Teal'c's lives were still an unknown, and they were talking about men with three arms. "So some new sort of alien?" He asked them cautiously.

"Well, he was fairly human. Claimed to be the President of the Galaxy. Horribly dressed man though." Daniel told Hammond.

"Oh! And the paranoid android, he was there too." Carter added.

"And the lady who claimed to be from an Earth that wasn't our Earth, or some other guy's Earth." Daniel mentioned the third and final person they had encountered.

"That's right, you can't forget her." Carter agreed.

Hammond looked from one to the other. They appeared to be serious. "Well if there were only three of them, couldn't you rescue Jack and Teal'c from them?" He asked what was left of SG-1.

"Oh, no Sir." Carter said definitively. "They had Kill-O-Zap guns." This debriefing was going better than she had thought it would.

It all added up to one thing for Hammond. Paranoid androids. Men with extra heads. Women from multiple Earths. Kill-O-Zap guns. He spoke to the officer standing outside, "Get Dr Fraser to check these two out." He was now seriously worried that he had lost all of SG-1.

Carter didn't realize how crazy any of it had sounded until she heard it come from Hammond's mouth. Good thing that she hadn't mentioned how the ship appeared in a shower of pink carnations.

Dr Fraser shined a beam of light in first one eye, and then the other. She did more of the usual, and came up with the usual answer. "As far as I can tell, you're both perfectly okay, mentally as well as physically." That didn't make any of the ridiculous things they claimed any less insane, though.

"Thanks, Doctor." Daniel said politely as he got up. "Well, what are we going to do now?" Daniel asked Sam.

She paused for a long while before admitting the truth. "I don't know."

"Don't worry" Dr Fraser calmed them, "I'm sure Jack and Teal'c can handle themselves. It's best not to worry, do what you can but don't expect them to come through the door any second." She really hoped they would find their way back soon, her work just wouldn't be as interesting without those two always bringing back some alien disease or other problem.

They contacted all the usual characters, but nobody aside from the Asgard knew anything about intergalactic travel. Even the Asgard couldn't help, without some idea where they had gone. It was useless. Hammond gave them a brief absence of duty, but thought it best that they start going on missions again as soon as possible.

Their only hope now was to encounter something new that would be of help, or rely on Jack and Teal'c's ability to find their way home safely. When Sam and Daniel finally agreed to start doing missions again, Daniel had one important question to ask.

"Well, if we're going out there, who else are you sending with us? Surely Sam and I can't just go alone." Daniel asked Hammond as they sat around the briefing room table once more.

"You make an excellent point." Hammond agreed. "I considered re-assigning some personnel from the other SG teams, but I just didn't think it would be a good idea. I searched around for a while, but someone came to me. They told me that they thought a medical expert would be an invaluable asset to have on the team, and I could only agree. So, here she is..."

Dr Fraser walked in the room, in full military apparel, P90 included. "I've had enough of letting you people go out and have all the fun." Fraser commented. "The personnel on base can easily fulfill my role while I'm away exploring alien worlds and giving you people first aid. I'll try to make sure I only let Daniel die two or three times." She laughed and took a seat next to Daniel, who laughed along with her. By Daniel's count his life insurance policy owed him a few hundred grand, but he thought he could let that slide.

"Well that's great, Sir, but we're still a member short." Carter pointed out.

"Well it was the damnedest thing," Hammond began, "But it seems like everyone wanted to join up with you two. You have quite the reputation. But some were more adamant than others. In particular, when word reached one gentleman that Teal'c was in danger, he found himself compelled to help. Come on in Bra'tac." And with that the old Jaffa master came in, giving all those present a firm handshake.

"I look forward to doing battle with you once more. The uprising goes well, it does not require my presence for several months now. I can only hope that I may be able to help Teal'c in some way." He looked very downtrodden at the thought of what may be happening to his comrade.

Carter was smiling from ear to ear. They might not have Jack or Teal'c back just yet, but they just might find some way to get them back yet. "I think it's high time we went off-planet Sir." She voiced her opinion to her superior.

"Agreed." Hammond wished the best of luck to the new SG-1 as they went through the gate. He still worried about the two that were lost, but those remaining were the best personnel in the entire damn world. They would find something.