A/N: I need to revise my 'copyright' statement. MGM owns the original characters. I created the Yetri and their language. So, on with the story…
SGCSGC
O'Neill was becoming more and more worried. He and Daniel had been searching for almost an hour, and they'd found no sign of Carter or Teal'c. When they reached their starting point – Carter's sample kit – he decided they needed to get back to the SGC and scare up a UAV.
Daniel had his brow furrowed, obviously thinking hard. He gathered up Carter's kit and headed for the Stargate, following O'Neill.
"What's up, Daniel?" O'Neill asked, knowing that look on his friend's face meant he was mulling something over. As he asked, he started dialing Earth.
"It's just… they disappeared without a trace. No radio contact, no sign of a scuffle that we found. They're just gone. It makes me wonder if they happened across a device of some sort that… I don't know, transported them, maybe. Wait…" He trailed off, a look of horror on his face.
"What, Daniel? What!?" Jack rounded on him as they stepped onto the ramp in the SGC.
"Do you think that the pillar I found had anything to do with it? I don't know what it is, or does. What if I did something?" Daniel whispered.
O'Neill pondered that. "It's possible, but let's just add it to the list of possibilities, for now. We need to send a UAV out, first. Don't panic yet."
Daniel nodded. "Right. Don't panic."
As General Hammond hurried into the Gate room, seeing it was just the two of them, he asked, "What happened to Major Carter and Teal'c?"
O'Neill gave him the short version. "We don't know, how it happened, sir, but they disappeared."
Hammond nodded slowly. "Get to the infirmary, and we'll debrief after Dr. Frasier checks you.
O'Neill and Daniel left the Gateroom, their shoulders slumped. Hammond sighed and glanced at the Gate.
Stay safe.
SGCSGC
Carter pushed a tree branch out of her way, and blinked. A small village stood in a large clearing of the forest. It was tidy, friendly-looking, but that wasn't what surprised her. Every person in the village looked much like Eota, and each person was peacefully tending to daily chores. And many of them were using technology Carter had never seen before. It was not Goa'uld in origin, thank God, but it didn't look like anything else either.
One mother was using a short pendant to amuse her baby. The pendant produced colorful holograms for the child to watch. He often reached out to pet a furry animal in the pictures, and blinked when his hand passed right through.
A man held a spherical object in his hand, holding it over a woman's head. He pressed one of the markings etched on it. It began to emit a light green beam that ran over her head. After it stopped, he looked at the sphere for a moment, then handed the woman a handful of some kind of herb.
Oh! Carter thought. He was scanning her. He's a doctor.
Eota led them straight to an old man weeding a garden. As they approached, he turned, and his eyes widened.
"Major Carter? We thought you were dead! And Teal'c! Yor Liyo!"
Carter was stymied. "H-how do you know us?" Inwardly she sighed. Brilliant, Sam. Very non-cliché.
The man looked surprised. "How do we know you? We have been friends for over a year!"
Carter was completely confused. "But, we've never met! We…", she trailed off in thought.
She thought back to the forest, about nearly every tree growing in a slightly different place than before the light from the device had enveloped them. "Oh, my God…"
"What have you discovered, Major Carter?" Teal'c asked.
She turned to him. "Teal'c, I think we're in an alternate reality. Think about it. When we were in the forest, we were confused about the trees being in different places. And he just said that they thought we were dead! Maybe, in this reality, we are dead."
Comprehension dawned in Teal'c's eyes. "You believe the device transported us into this reality."
"Yeah, I think so." Carter turned to the man. "I'm sorry. We're not… the Major and Carter and Teal'c you know."
The man smiled. "I know the theory you speak of. Our Major Carter spoke of it often. Our people have performed many experiments to find a way to cross into other universes. Unfortunately, none have been successful."
"So, um… who are you?" Carter asked hesitantly.
"My name is Yokan, Major," he said. He gestured, "And, of course, you already know Eota."
"Yes. I noticed that he spoke a language I've never heard. What is it?" Carter asked.
"Oh! That's right. If you've never met us, you wouldn't know. We call ourselves the Yetri. Eota spoke our language. Many of us speak English, like our friends from Earth. Eota, though, has never learned. For a Yetri, he is very young."
Carter wondered what was showing on her face. Eota was at least seven feet tall? And he was young? Very young?
Yokan grinned widely, his luminescent skin stretching to show large white teeth. "I remember when our Major Carter first discovered that our lifespan is very long, she wore the same shocked expression."
Carter blinked. "Um… how long do you live?"
"Some of us may live to be one-hundred-fifty years old, much like the Jaffa." He nodded to Teal'c.
"Would it be rude to ask how old you are?"
"Not at all! I am one-hundred-twenty-seven years old."
Carter thought about that, trying not to seem shocked.
Eota tapped Yokan on the shoulder, and whispered in his ear. Yokan chuckled and responded, "I tha Yatta, thas, met I tha Teal'c."
"What was that about?" Carter asked.
Yokan turned back to her. "Eota has never meet Teal'c. He knows what Jaffa look like, and was worried. I reassured him that this is Teal'c, our friend."
Carter looked at Teal'c. "Well, at least we found friends. Now we just have to figure out how to get home."
"Indeed," Teal'c replied. He ducked his head, and touched her shoulder briefly, reminding her that her friend was by her side. She smiled a little. There's no place like home. Wonder how many times I have to say it?
SGCSGC
"Colonel, what happened?" Hammond asked.
"Well, sir, I told Teal'c to go with Carter to get her soil samples. Daniel was looking over a pillar he found. Said he couldn't translate it."
"Translate what?"
"There were markings on it, General," Daniel said, "and I've never seen anything like it before."
"Anyway," O'Neill continued, "after about two hours, I radioed, and no one answered. We searched for an hour, but found to traces. No sign of a struggle. It's like they disappeared into thin air."
Hammond sighed. "We'll send a UAV before we get too worried. It'll be about an hour, so get some rest."
O'Neill and Daniel exchanged looks. They sighed, but agreed to some down-time.
Come back soon, Carter. You too, Teal'c. We need you guys, O'Neill thought.
SGCSGC
A/N: I decided, since I'm creating the Yetri language as I go, that I will include a glossary at the end of each chapter for my readers. This one will be composed of phrases from chapters 1 and 2, in order of occurrence.
"Mur tha Tayi, chan eil?" "You are Tau'ri, no?"
"Yin tha Eota." "I am Eota."
"Fiyata yi." "Follow me."
"Yor liyo!" "My (God, heavens, goodness)!"
"I tha Yatta, thas, met i tha Teal'c." "He is Jaffa, yes, but he is Teal'c."