Chapter Two
Is That Really You?
Author's Note: Heh, the final days of school down to Christmas have been extremely hard to concentrate on. Thus, this story was written. It has been great fun so far. I am writing this completely from my perspective on other fellow teenagers, so the information will pretty much be accurate. Happy Chrismahanukawanza if I don't update before the holidays!
Disclaimer: I wish I owned Stargate. Maybe Santa will bring me a certain contract for Christmas...lol in my dreams!
Spoilers: S7 Fragile Balance
"Carter!" Jack O'Neill gasped
"Sam?" Daniel Jackson asked.
"It appears to have been successful." Teal'c stated.
"Yes sir, it's me." A higher pitched voice drifted from within the machine.
"For cryin' out loud, you look like one of Cassie's friends!" O'Neill (sort of) shouted in a strangely excited manner. From what all three men could see, it certainly was not the same Samantha Carter who had entered the machine. She had short hair like always, but it was a slightly honey tinted blonde now. She…well there was no other way to put it; she shrunk. Her shoulders were narrower, her hips lost some of their curve, and she looked like she had lost about thirty pounds by the way her clothes hung on her body. Her long sleeved shirt cuffs hung past her knuckles, as the neckline tipped towards hooking itself onto her shoulder, kind of like in Flashdance. Her face had lost the faint smile lines it had begun to gather around her eyes, and she subtly tried to hitch her drooping pants up every few seconds or so.
O'Neill started to laugh hysterically. "You look like a midget!" he choked out as he literally fell onto the floor. Everyone else looked on in surprise-nobody had ever seen this side of Jack O'Neill.
"Sir, with respect, SHUT UP NOW."
"Yeah Jack, you're kind of scaring Teal'c." Daniel said as Teal'c turned his face into a mess of weird expressions. Being that the colonel could not settle down, the sane members of the team voted to stick him in the machine next. Teal'c lifted him up over his shoulder, and placed him inside. He was still gasping for air hysterically. The Asguard turned on the machine again, and another beam of light enveloped his body. He wasn't surprisingly different looking though. He was in essence, Mini-Jack again. Shorter, no six o'clock shadow, browner hair, skinnier; the team had seen it all before. He was not laughing when he got out of the machine with his pants threatening to fall about his ankles. He glared as Sam and Daniel snickered at him.
Teal'c went next. Nobody was quite sure how different a man over 100-years-old would look once he was transformed back into a teenager, but they were eager to see. He emerged with an extremely toned down body, and hair-an afro. Jack didn't dare laugh this time though; he still looked like he could break a board in half with his bare hands. Teal'c didn't shrink at all in height though, although his face and body were narrower.
Finally Daniel was up. Jack was prepared to make fun of him though. Bewildered, neither Jack nor Sam believed it was he when he reappeared. He had dirty blonde hair, a few freckles across his nose, and his smile was absolutely radiant. He could pass for a pretty boy, it occurred to Sam. He didn't lose any height; only a little weight. Of the four of them, Daniel looked the most different. It was actually kind of cute though how he kept nudging his oversized glasses back up onto his nose.
"How do I look?" asked Daniel.
"A hell of a lot different…" Jack replied as Sam literally drooled at him. Teal'c as always, stood stolid.
"It appears the procedure has proved itself adequate. I meant to do this before, but if you will join me over here, I will debrief you…on yourselves." Thor said monotonously. The group shifted over to the alien's small chair, and began their second debriefing that day.
"As you well know, we have transformed you into an adolescent state. With this change, you must grow used to the effects it will have on you." Thor addressed the group. "Firstly, I must warn you that any damage rendered to this body will be permanent when the retransformation is implemented. You must take care of yourselves as you normally would. Next, your hormone levels have been changed back to the levels they normally are at in the adolescent stage. Expect all normal hormonal fluctuation effects." He continued, but was cut off by Sam.
"What? I just thought we looked younger! I don't want to get any damn acne again…" she mumbled.
"I am sorry Major. I was not aware that you held such a distaste for this…thing." Thor apologized.
"Oh, don't you worry about it Thor buddy. Old Carter is gonna be fine with it." Jack said as he poked Sam sarcastically.
"Oh, well then. There are no farther details I have to share with you then." The alien said.
"Alright, thanks Thor. Beam us back to Earth then if ya don't mind." Jack said. The four transformed people were then enclosed in a beam of light, and disappeared from the ship.