-1Jon looked around and saw that he was in what appeared to be some sort of high tech lab, just in front of him there was a platform with what looked like multi coloured blocks on it a blinking on and off, just above him there was a blue ball filled with some type of swirling energy? Jon was still looking at this globe when uniformed men rushed in and pointed weapons at him.

Security officer: "Don't move!"

Jon wisely stopped everything he was doing.

One of the people came out from behind the table with the coloured blocks on it.

Donna: "Wait stop, don't shoot!"

Donna walked over to where Jon was, she looked at him closely and then Jon saw a look of profound sadness cross over her face.

Donna: "You're not Sam are you?"

Jon knew it was a statement, not a question, but chose to answer it anyways.

Jon: "No, I'm sorry."

Donna sighed again and looked at the security guards. "Lower your weapons, he's not here to harm us." she looked back at Jon "Are you?"

Jon shook his head.

The lead security guard nodded once, holstered his weapon and was followed out of the room by the other guards.

A short man wearing glasses and with curly red hair came out from behind the table and approached Jon.

Gushie: "I remember you now, you were here the last time"

Jon had to stop himself from stepping away from the man, he had horrible breath.

Jon: "I don't know what you're talking about, I've never been here before, return me to my ship"

Donna: "I'm afraid that's not possible Captain Archer."

Jon looked at her, he hadn't told them his name, and how did they know who he was?

Donna: "If you'll come with me, we can fill you in on where you are, and maybe we can find out why you're here." Donna glanced up at the glowing orb in the ceiling. "Ziggy? Please pull up all data from Captain Archer's last visit with us, and have it ready in Sam's office."

Ziggy: "Yes Dr Ellese."

Jon followed Donna out of the room and wondered just what the hell was going on here.

Meanwhile…..

Hoshi/Al: "Dammit Sam, what the hell is going on here? Why am I a woman?"

Al and Sam were now in Archer's cabin, Sam had dragged Al here when he started ranting in the middle of the corridor, and Sam figured it was safer considering all the looks they were getting.

Sam: "Al, calm down."

Al: "Calm down? Calm down? At least you get to look like you, I'm in this woman's body!! And not in the good way."

Sam just shook his head.: "You wanted to leap, now you have to face the consequences. Remember all the times I was a woman?"

Al: "Yeah but, I don't even have the hand link, we got no contact with the project. How are we gonna find out what to do?"

Sam: "We do what we have to, right now until we hear something, we have to act like the people were supposed to be. You're Hoshi Sato, ships comm. officer."

Al interrupted him: "How do you know?"

Sam: "I've been remembering things from the last time I was here. It's like the time I leapt into Jimmy again, I remembered everyone. My mind hadn't been so….swissed cheesed. "

Al just shrugged and sat down on the couch.

Sam sat on the bed and shook his head again. "I'm not sure I can do this a second time Al, Archer's different this time. I've been reading his logs, both the one he records concerning ships business, and his personal ones."

Al: "Different, how do you mean?"

Sam: "He's closed himself off from the crew. He's become, focused, driven….darker."

Al: "Why?"

Sam mentally slapped himself, Al didn't know.

Sam told Al to sit at the desk, he then pulled up the information about the attack on Earth.

Once it was finished Al had a grim look on his face, well on Hoshi's face.

Sam: "He's become a harder person Al, he pushes people away. I've read in his logs that he thinks it's the only way he can stay focused for what needs to be done. Remember when I was here last time, I was supposed to set him and his first officer up? Well it worked. Until this attack. He even pushed her away, and I think that hurts him the most."

Al: "What're ya gonna do kid?"

Sam: "What I have to, I have to try to be him. But I can't let him keep pushing his friends away, especially T'Pol. Archer should have realized his friends and crew are in the same boat, they could help him."

Al: "Yeah? Well don't try to change everything back too soon or then they'll really think something's wrong."

The two of them were interrupted by the Comm. going off.

"Bridge to Ensign Sato"

Sam pointed to a box on the wall and showed Al how to activate it.

Al: "Ensign Sato here"

T'Pol's voice came over the speaker "Ensign, you are 10 minutes late for your duty shift. Do you have an explanation?"

Sam motioned to Al to move out of the way "T'Pol this is the Captain, I was briefing Hoshi on the deployment of the communication buoys. She'll be right up."

T'Pol: "Understood Captain, Bridge out"

Al looked over at Sam: "I don't even know how to get there."

Sam chuckled: "I'll show you, I should probably be up there myself. I am the captain after all. And maybe I can start patching things back together with everyone if I start now."

The two friends left Archer's cabin and headed for the Bridge.

Back at PQL, Jon was getting brought up to speed on everything that was going on. He'd even told Donna about how he'd gotten sent here. Donna sat and thought about that for a moment before speaking up.

Donna: "Well, it seems you're here to replace another member of our team who has leapt in order to try to find Sam. I'm guessing that's what the reference to you being an observer was meant for."

Jon: "What do you mean?"

Donna: "Shortly before you arrived here, our project observer, Admiral Al Calavicci, had taken it upon himself to leap to try to find where Sam was. Everything happened the same as when Sam would leap, Al leaped out, and someone leaped in to replace him."

Jon: "Who?"

Donna smiled and stood up, taking Jon's hand in hers and guiding him towards the waiting room. "Someone whom I'm pretty sure you'd like to meet Captain."

As Jon walks into the waiting room, he sees an older gentleman in a white body suit sitting on a cot like bed, the older man looks up as Jon approaches and smiles at him. He jumps off the table and runs to Jon and grabs him in a bear hug.

Jon: "What the hell?"

Man: "Captain! I'm glad to see you, I have no idea where we are, one minute I was getting ready to go for breakfast and the next I was in this room. And to top it off, something is really messed up around here, why am I a man?"

Jon pushed the man away and held him at arms length. Jon looked at the man very carefully and came to the realization that he knew the person he was looking at.

Jon: "Hoshi?"