CHAPTER 11

Ford heard a strange noise and looked through the window using a replaced mirror. That small strange place on the floor where he was at opened up. The concrete opened like a box with only two panels. A possibly six at most elevator came out and stopped with a vibration that he could feel even in the vehicle. Six men did walk out with zats and a couple of heavy assault rifles. The worst part was they were headed for the Hummer he was in. Ford kept quiet thinking that they'd just pass by, but was wrong when they tapped on the window with the rifle. Ford stayed still and put his mirror away. A few of them muttered something then the window was tapped on again, but harder.

"We know you're in the vehicle! Open the door and come out with your hands up! Drop your weapons on the floorboard!"

Seeing as the Hummer was armor plated and had other protective features, Ford opted to stay quiet and wait till they either blew the door off or something else dealing with getting in. Carter came through the com line, which he turned down just enough for him to hear earlier, saying they made it onto the second floor. They were unable to get on the first. When she asked him how he was, he didn't mention that he was…..under attack as it were.

"I'm doing better. Might be with you soon. Just resting." he whispered back.

"Everything ok?"

"Just fine. A few soldiers are looking around. Since the windows are tinted, I'm still an unknown." he said. He looked at the window when he heard something placed on the windshield. "I got to go Carter. They're looking like they hear me."

"Stay down and quite." she said back then signed off.

Ford turned the unit off and covered his face when he heard a whine from a mechanical X on the windshield. It exploded sending glass to the floor. A couple of guys got in front of the vehicle and pointed the assault rifles at the inside. Another hand unlocked the vehicle. When the passenger back door opened, they dragged him out.

"Hey guys, be careful. I'm not fighting back."

They searched him and relived him of his equipment. As Ford figured they dropped his gun.

"Must be a universal constant." Ford muttered.

They grabbed him again and handcuffed him as they got into the hidden elevator. Three of the guys stayed up top as the others with Ford descended back underground.

You or we can take these guys. Your arms are already healed, not that they were really hurt.

I know that. I have a plan in the works. What better way to get to the leader than look and appear injured.

Yes. That is a good plan. I'll make sure that it appears that you are seemingly weak if you need to be.

Thanks Hercules. I'll try my best not to get us killed.

Let's hope so. I can only heal you up to a point.

Ford cracked his neck as they reached the final level. Several other guards were outside the elevator waiting as they got out. They walked him to a room where there was a chair and a light above it. The chair was made of metal, not a folding chair and bolted to the ground. They sat him down in it, forcefully.

"Ouch. That was uncalled for." he grunted.

One of the guards punched him in the face. Though he heard bones crack or break, Ford rolled with the blow and made it seem like it hurt. He shook his head as though he was trying to clear it as the guard that punched him walked out moaning. The others cuffed his arms and hands to the back of the chair and his legs. After they had him secured they all left the room.

Can we break these?

We can. It may take some time though. I'd say that two minutes would be the time needed, from what you know about these sort of things..

Well lets see how much we can do. Ford thought testing the chain.

As he pulled slowly, he could hear the metal straining as it gave way to his strength. Instead of breaking completely free he stopped and sat back as though he could do no more. He didn't see a camera anywhere, but that didn't mean it or they wasn't there.

Is it your plan to look defeated?

Yeah. The person in charge won't come if I'm capable of possibly being able to kill them. If I can get free, then I will possible be considered a liability and then most likely get shot, or worse. Must buy time. Ford thought as he closes his eyes and dropped his head. He only hoped that they wouldn't take long to get to him or the boredom would make him fall asleep.

After talking to Ford they proceeded down the hallway slowly. For some reason the underground base looked a lot like the SGC. Walls where different color and some of the pipes weren't showing as much, but it was close. They noticed a camera on the ceiling when they came in and hit it with a zat gun blast. So far no one had been encountered as they had rounded a few corridors. If there were any other camera's, they hadn't seen them yet.

So far, so good. Carter thought as they came to a split in the corridor.

One to the left and the other to the right. The right had a couple of doors. She signaled for Daniel to check them as she and Teal'c kept watch. Teal'c opened one door revealing a storage room with janitorial stuff. He raised an eyebrow and mentioned nothing of importance was in it as he closed the door. The other door, opposite to it was the stairs leading to the first level, but not the top floor where they came from where Ford supposable was still at. The stairs looked to continued down to the bottom level. Carter said they may need that later and to remember where it was at. The other door opened into what looked to be either a workshop of some sort, a lab maybe or a strange storage unit. When Teal'c noticed it was clear he told Carter there was a running computer.

"Keep watch while I search the database, assuming there is one of this place."

Daniel looked around the room at the different objects, some from planets they had been to and others he couldn't identify. He would occasionally look at Teal'c to know if was safe to continue. Teal'c was at the door keeping watch through its small window.

"They have a pretty big security lock on this thing. Just getting to the main screen took two passwords, luckily someone was on earlier and didn't sign off." Carter mentioned as she typed away. "This may take a few minutes to maybe twenty or more."

"Indeed."

Ford had been thinking of ways to escape, the time he'd been sitting there and other strategy things to keep himself awake when the door finally opened. He thought of sitting up, but stayed looking asleep.

"Wake up you pathetic moron." a familiar voice said as he was smacked up side the head. "You and the SGC are nothing but worthless losers who can't see a potential investment to save and better humanity. You figure that making peaceful exploration and making allies who have better technology that won't share is a better use of the Stargate. Idiotic jackass's is more like it."

Ford slowly moved his head up but didn't watch the guy walking around him as he talked. He counted two men with the assault rifles and a couple of zat guns at the door inside and two guards outside. As to what they where carrying, he couldn't tell. Luckily the door had to be opened coming in the room. He glared at the man talking as he came back into view.

"So Colonel or is it just Ford? Hmm? I heard reports of some mix up with you and Major Carter. Something to do with dimensional shift or something. By the way, where is Major Carter?" the silver haired man said moving closer to Ford's face.

"Well, well, well…..Senator Kinsey. This isn't any surprise. You've had it out for the SGC since it came into being. You don't give a damn about anyone but yourself. You're just looking to improve your career, become President and take over the world. If anyone's the jackass, it's you." Ford said as he moved his face close enough they were breathing on each other. They stared at each other a few moments more, then Kinsey backed off.

"We're going to bring in your com unit and you're going to call Major Carter and tell her to surrender or she will be killed. We know where she is along with Doctor Jackson and Teal'c. We've been monitoring them for sometime."

"Fat chance of that happening. There's a bigger chance of me getting lose and kicking you ass." Ford said. One of the guards moved forward, but Kinsey told him to stay put.

"We were watching you on a camera. You already tried to get free, but those are titanium chains. They'll hold." he said gesturing for the com unit. Once it was in his hand he moved it in front of Ford's face.

"Now tell her to give up."

"Or what? You'll torture me. I'll dealt with worse than you." Ford said sneering at him. I'm tired of this guy. Time to break free.

I agree. This guys worse than some of the one's I had to put up with in my time.

Ford slowly started to move his hands apart causing the chains to give.

"We can torture you. We have several of those pain sticks they use on un-loyal Jaffa or other prisoners. Marvelous pieces of technology. The experiments we used them on sometimes lasted a few hours to a few minutes. It's amazing what the human body can and cannot take." Kinsey said tapping the com unit in his hand. "Now you're going to tell her that you've been captured and that she is going to be surrounded very shortly. Her only choice is to surrender or die. Understand?"

"Fine. Bring it here so I don't have to shout. My mouths dry enough."

"Good." he said opening the com line. "Major Carter."

"Who is this?" she asked.

She was still hacking the computer when she was interrupted. Everyone could hear her talking through a speaker they had brought in on a table with his com stuff. They apparently rigged it so you didn't have to hear it through the ear mike.

"One of the men in charge of this facility you have invaded. We have captured your friend Ford here. He's got something to say to you." Kinsey said placing it near Ford's mouth.

"Carter."

"Ford. Are you alright?" she asked with concern. He could hear her stop typing as did everyone else.

"Oh just fine. I've been captured and told to tell you that there are soldiers headed your way. You have the choice to either to surrender…." he said before continuing.

Kinsey had a smile on his face as Ford paused and licked his lips before continuing.

"Or hold your ground till I get there!" Ford said quickly as he snapped the chains.

With his right hand he reached up quickly and grabbed Kinseys hand that held the com unit and squeezed. Pulling his punch just enough he managed to only break Kinsey's nose with his right hand as he still held Kinsey's hand. As the guards started to move, Ford shoved Kinsey, while still holding him into the guy behind him, smashing him into the wall. With his left hand he grabbed the other guys face and literally picked him off the floor and smashed his head through the small window.

"I'm somewhere on the bottom level!" he shouted through the com line before giving Kinsey another right hook and dropping him.

As the door began to open Ford shoved it back hard hearing it hit someone. Bending down quickly he snapped off the chains as the door began to open again. Ford grabbed the barrel and pulled forward making the soldier coming in come right into his elbow. There was a sickening crunch as he impacted. Ford spun the assault rifle around and emptied the clip into the guy that was getting up from trying to get in the first time. Ford tossed the gun aside picking up Kinsey and the guard that was behind Kinsey. He tossed a moaning and bleeding Kinsey out into the hallway as he picked the other guy into the air. He grabbed the assault rifle and put the barrel deep into the man's groin.

"Where the hell is my stuff and more importantly where is the Quantum Mirror?!" Ford yelled at the guy.

"I DON'T KNOW WHERE THE MIRROR IS!!!!!!!!! YOUR STUFF IS IN A ROOM DOWN THE HALL! Kinsey has the key!!! Kinsey has the key!!!!" the guy begun to whimper and cry saying over and over Kinsey has the key as he pissed his pants. Ford tossed the guy into the wall behind the chair and looked out the door. He heard footsteps approaching. Grabbing a zat gun he placed it in his belt while picking up Kinsey.

"You'll never leave this place alive." Kinsey muttered as he spit in Ford's face.

"Neither will you." Ford said shoving the assault rifle's barrel into Kinsey groin and firing one round.

Blood splattered as Kinsey screamed. Ford then put a round in each knee and elbow as he dropped him to the ground. Ford grabbed the other assault rifle from the guy he shot full of holes and pull the door the opposite direction bringing it out the opposite direction it was intended. The door groaned in protest but stayed standing as Ford got behind it. Several men came around the corner and slowed to a stop.

"Somebody get a medical team down here!!!! The prisoner is on the loose!" one of the guards said.

He was starting to say something else to the men with him when he and several other guards went down in a hail of gun fire. Ford came out from around the door firing both guns into the crowd of men. They started firing back, but their numbered dwindled quickly as Ford moved into the room. What was once a twenty man contingency was now maybe five or six. Ford tossed the rifles aside grabbing the other zat gun.

"Ford what the hell's happening?!!!!" he heard Carter yell through the open line. He switched it off as bullets and zat rounds hit the door and wall near him as he crouched down. The door disappeared as the zat vaporized it.

"I surrendered!!" Ford yelled as the firing stopped.

"Throw out your weapons!!!"

Ford tossed the empty assault rifles out and looked around the corner.

"Come out with your hands up!" one of the guards yelled back.

Ford set the zat guns in his lap and stuck his hands out the doorway with his head. "You guys got me in the leg. I can't stand." he said sounding injured.

Ford only left his hands out a moment before bringing them back in. "I'd keep my hands showing but I'm trying to keep from bleeding to death." he said with a fake groan.

The guard seemed to believe him as they approached slowly. Ford kept watching until they got within a good twenty feet then he rolled out firing the zats.

"It's aaaaahhhhhh!" the guard yelled going down.

The other few left started firing back but didn't hit Ford as he kept moving around. The last guy running away died when two zat blast caught him. Ford tossed one aside searched the dying Kinsey's pockets.

"I hope it really hurts." Ford said giving Kinsey a kick in the side as he walked off.

He ran off down the hallway seeing a door. Placing the card key in he found a room with a guy looking over other objects other than his things. The guy turned around a little too late as Ford rushed him and decked him across the table he was working on. Seeing no one else around he noticed the camera's and ripped them from the wall. Grabbing his things he headed out.

Carter quit typing and told the other to rush out into the stairwell after Ford told them to expect company. Luck was with them, at least they thought seeing as the stairs were built so you couldn't fall over the rail to the bottom floor because the stairs were built next to each other with a wall between them. This was fortunate because they couldn't be shot at from above or below, bad because they couldn't see if anyone was above or below them. More fortunate since they'd hear if anyone was coming. As they descended Carter heard lots of moving, fighting she thought and some shouts of pain. Ford came on the line saying he was on the bottom level. There was more fighting noises and shouting. Carter heard gun and zat fire over the line suddenly.

"Ford what the hell's going on?!" she yelled.

She heard some more weapons fire then the line went silent.

"Damn! You better have not got yourself killed." she muttered as they continued down.

"What do you think happened?" Daniel asked as they kept going. He tried to think the best as he asked.

"More than like he killed everyone around him. Hopefully he didn't go with them."

"I do not believe he has died Major Carter. This Ford is difficult to kill." Teal'c said.

"The bottom level is not far." he said as they passed the sixth floor.

"Do you sense or hear anything Teal'c?" she asked.

"Not as yet Major Carter."

They kept going not finding any resistance. After they passed the tenth floor, they heard a message over the intercom.

Ford continued around different corners finding no one around. Most of the doors, though locked….once, had either living quarters, labs, storage, mechanical things and computer things. He came across a door saying stairs and two elevator doors, though far apart from each other. The main elevator was down, mostly from the damages SG-1 did to it. The other elevator was the one he came down in. The hallway continued on passed a small hallway that went to a pair of big doors. Ford approached slowly looking though the metal meshed windows. There was several men and woman inside at different stations. It looked a lot like Stargate command, just much bigger in room space. Ford kicked the door open bringing both zats up as he entered the room.

"EVERYBODY FREEZE!"

Several people jumped up running for cover. Several others went for weapons. Bullets and zat blast flew where Ford was as he fired off several of his own shots as he jumped behind a computer console. Sparks and flames erupted on the console as it was hit by the incoming fire. Ford rolled out firing several shots as he went for better cover. Several more consoles exploded or disappeared completely as the zat blast from Ford hit them. He heard several groans as he got behind another computer system. Ford stood up as he heard weapons being reloaded. He fired as he moved catching several people off guard. Ford kept moving back and forth as he kept firing. It didn't take long until the one's fighting him were hit. There were several other people that where hiding behind objects that stood up saying they surrender.

"Consider yourself lucky." Ford said zapping them only once.

The five people left fell down quickly. As he began to check the room a guard, at least Ford thought it was a guard, stood up and shot at him with a sub machine gun. The sub machine gun ripped across the computer and caught him in the left leg. He grunted and fell back into the computer. As the guy started to reload Ford fired both zats at the guy. He disappeared before he had a chance to hit the ground. Now pissed off more than when he came in, Ford looked around finding an intercom for the base.

They were getting to the eleventh floor when Carter told them to stop. They all could hear movement on the stairs from above of people coming down quickly after them. The movement stopped as they also listened to the intercom.

"Testing….oh to hell with that. Damn…I'm shot, ouch…….whoever is still in this facility better leave now and get anyone that you find to go with you if they are trying to come after me. Understand this if nothing else….." there was a low grunt before he continued. "I'm a slayer, a cold blooded killer when I have to be and whoever I meet will die badly, painfully, and horribly. If you see what's left of Kinsey, you'll know what I mean!" Ford 's voice said over the intercom.

Carter and everyone else had to cover their ears momentarily as they heard a loud screech through the intercom.

"If it weren't for friends in the base, I'd keep this screeching noise up. If I find anyone near them and you try using them for hostages, you'll wish you were never born!"

"I think Ford's pissed off." Daniel said.

"Indeed. Would he really be that ruthless Major Carter?" Teal'c asked.

"I don't think so. No, he's just scarring everyone." she said. To herself though….I hope he's not that ruthless. He doesn't seem to be that ruthless.

They started off again when they heard lots of running, all of it up stairs. Some were going up and the others headed down.

"Run." she said watching their backs.

Before leaving the control room, he blasted what was left of the computers and other systems then walked away. He turned hearing movement coming from the stairs. Despite his leg hurting Ford pulled his personal gun and got behind the door. As it opened he kept quiet keeping the gun on the door. The door stopped halfway open.

"I see no one Major Carter, but I sense a Goa'uld."

Ford relaxed putting his gun down and grabbed the door. He realized afterward that it was the dumbest thing he could have done. And so did Hercules.

No, bad idea!!!!!

As he pulled the door more open, he forgot to announce himself. Teal'c, thinking it was an enemy, shoved the door hard smacking whoever it was on the other side. Ford didn't move quick enough as the metal door impacted with his face. The impact shoved him into the wall smacking his head and then he was hit again as the door slammed him into the wall causing him to smack his head again. He dropped the gun with a groan and slowly slumped to the ground. The world spun as he tried to focus.

I hate when that happens.

Your not kidding. I think I'm going to be sick. Last time this happened…….Ford thought as he fell over.

Was when you slipped on that ice a few years ago. Your friends warned you to get cleats. Hercules said finishing the memory. This is going to take a few minutes. Even I got effected by that.

Great. Ford thought back as he tried to focus. There goes all that healing I did with that concussion.

His head still felt like it was spinning, bad. Couldn't focus, nausea, and the feeling to completely pass out was overwhelming as the floor spun.

"Ford? How many fingers am I holding up?" Carter asked sitting him up. Ford tried to look but he couldn't really tell.

"I….I…can't….tell…I…think...I'm…..going….to be….sick." Ford said falling over again. "Permission to pass…."

"Great. I think he passed out. Can you carry him Teal'c?"

Teal'c nodded and picked him up. Carter put his gun back into its holster.

"Let's get out of here."

"What about the Mirror?" Daniel asked.

"Ford's injured and carrying him around will make things to difficult if have to make a run for it."

"Get…the…Mirror." Ford muttered. "There's another….ele….ele…lift system….that goes straight to the top."

"Those men are coming." Daniel said looking into the stairway.

"Place a few claymore's down. Make sure the door explodes if they open it." Carter ordered.

Daniel got down putting the explosive's in place as Carter and Teal'c moved off. They took Ford into a room where there was a lot of computer supplies and several objects from other planets. Carter shoved some objects off the table and Teal'c laid Ford across it. Daniel came in afterward and closed the door.

"I figure we have.."

BOOOOOM!!!!!

"Okay, maybe I have the time wrong." Daniel said as the room shook.

"How many did you use?" Carter asked.

"Two." Daniel said.

"Okay Daniel. See if the Mirror's in here, though I doubt it. Teal'c keep watch." Carter said checking to see if Ford's head was bleeding.

Teal'c nodded and left the room to look around. Daniel started looking and disappeared behind a bunch of shelves.

"Ford are you still with us?"

"I'm doing better." he said blinking.

"How much better?"

"Well, I'd do better if you did something for me?" he asked. Carter could tell he had a hint of humor in his voice.

"What would that be?" she said as she stopped checking to see if his head was bleeding or had a damaged skull. Luckily he didn't. She turned his head back to where she could see his face. His eyes were still unfocused.

"Kiss me." he whispered.

"What was that?" she said after a moment. "Did you just ask me to kiss you?"

"Yeah." Ford said after a moment. He sounded weak, but getting better.

Carter shook her head and laughed lightly.

"What? I've wanted to ever since I got here. If we don't make it out of here…" he said finally able to focus again. He looked serious about the question.

"We will make it out of here." she said leaning back over him. Her left hand touched something wet near his leg. It startled her as she looked. "Ford you've been shot!"

"No kidding. I think the bullet went straight through. I.." he said trying to sit up.

"Don't strain yourself. I'll fix it." she said pulling out the first aid kit. She cut his left pant leg and began working on it. "Find anything yet Daniel?"

"No yet. Still looking though." she heard him say from somewhere in the back. She looked over at the door seeing Teal'c was still standing guard outside.

"I'll be fine in a few minutes. Just got to rest a moment." Ford said to her. "Should have said something."

"We may not have a few minutes." she said.

"Hercules doesn't work well when he's dizzy."

"How is that possible?" she said tying off the bandage.

"The dizziness has caused an imbalance in his brain chemistry. It is causing me great difficultly with the healing process." Hercules said taking over. He sat up and looked around. "The dizziness has passed. I have fixed the….mistake done by Teal'c."

"That was a mistake." Carter said putting the first aid kit away.

"It's my fault. I forgot he could feel if a Goa'uld was near and that you can too. I should have announced myself." Ford said. "I was being serious with what I said. I know it's bad timing. Never mind."

Carter looked at him a moment then looked around to see if the others were near. Teal'c was not at the door, but sounded like he was looking around outside. Daniel ran into something in the back so she knew where he was.

"You okay?" she asked as Ford slid his legs off the table and rubbed the injury.

"I'm fine. Didn't see a black box on the floor." Daniel called back.

She looked back at Ford.

"What the hell…." she said kissing him.

Ford was surprised at first but kissed back. It lasted almost a minute when they heard Teal'c coming back. They broke off quickly and she helped him off the table.

"No one can come through the stairs Major Carter. The explosion has blocked the door. Another explosion could cause a cave in." Teal'c said.

"Good." Ford said. "I'd rather not be shooting anyone right now."

He tested his leg seeing he could walk as he walked around some. "Running may be out, for the moment anyway."

"I didn't find the Mirror, but I did find this box." Daniel said.

"What's in it?" Carter asked.

"Lots of zats. I'd say they all work." he said pulling a couple out.

"Give me a couple those. At least with these, I won't waste ammo. I'm still having trouble seeing straight." he said as Daniel gave him the one's he was holding.

"I thought you said you were better."

"Much better." he said giving her a wink she only saw. "But these make less noise and I'm still a little dizzy. I've felt worse."

Carter took a couple and put her PC-90 behind her as Teal'c took one. Daniel took one and then vaporized the rest with the box per Carter's request.

"Any idea's where the Mirror is?" Carter asked.

"The control room computer told me is was a couple of levels up."

"Let's go check it out." she said leaving the room.

"We can't. The room was pretty much destroyed by all the ammo being blasted everywhere. I had to run around the room to find cover several times. With all the zat blast going on, cover didn't last long." Ford said. "A lot of the ammo was also from hand guns to assault rifles."

"Great. How do we get up then?" Carter asked.

"The other elevator. It's this way." he said pointing.

They took off going slowly as they listened for any movement. There was sounds of people moving, but they couldn't place where it was coming from.

"This is it." Ford said pushing the button for the door to open. No one was inside.

"Lets try and not damage this one. That Mirror is big." Carter said.

They entered and Ford pushed the button for the tenth floor. They clung to the wall as the door opened. They all peeked out seeing no one around but heard voices. Carter motioned with her fingers to move out slowly and look to the left. Ford pointed both ways as did Teal'c who was holding two zats. Daniel was holding two and was pointed left as was Carter.

"Where to Ford?" Carter whispered.

"I don't know. It just said that the Mirror was being placed on the tenth floor." he said.

"I believe someone is coming Major Carter." Teal'c said.

She nodded and motioned for them to all head down the other direction. They followed along the wall until they came to a intersecting corridor. The way forward kept going at least another hundred yards. The left looked to go half that and maybe branched off and the right side went the farthest. There was large windows showing the inside of labs. No one was in them. Carter and Ford got on the right side as Teal'c and Daniel took the left side. They hugged the wall and waited. Ford pulled his mirror and looked around the corner. Carter watched it as well as they saw unit of men, about 20, heavily armed. Several with grenade launchers on the M-16's.

"Great. They'e really pack'n a lot of heat." she said. She looked around them to find some sort of cover. "Ford, does that window look like its got a security devices on it?"

Ford glanced then looked again down the hall. Seeing they were a good minute or two away, he walked over and tapped the glass lightly. Nothing happened. "Want me to shoot it?"

She seemed to mull it over before telling him to shoot the second panel. Ford shot it once and it just crackled like anything else that gets hit. The second shot did the same and the third vaporized it. Carter motioned for Teal'c and Daniel to do the same as she placed a her C4 on the floor and then crawled over the wall with Ford. They got down next to the wall and waited.

As the group approached, Carter and the others could hear them talking.

"Did you hear about what happened to the people guarding that one prisoner?"

"Hear about it! Hell, I saw what happened to some of them."

"So did I. Kinsey was brutally murdered."

"Brutally my ass. He was getting ready to torture me with one of those pain sticks." Ford mumbled. "He had it coming anyway."

"Brutal! The guy blasted his balls off! Then blew out the joints in his arms and legs. The guy bled to death!"

"That's gross."

"My nuts are hurting just thinking about it!"

"Mr. Primus has interesting methods of defense which include torture." Teal'c said.

Daniel only nodded as he heard them continue to get closer.

"They're not exaggerating the issue are they?" she whispered.

"No. They forgot to mention I busted his ribs to." Ford said. "I've been tortured before. I'm not having that happen again."

"He killed one guy by ripping a clip into him."

"Team 3 come in. Team 3 come in."

"This is Team 3. Over."

"Report your status."

"Nothing so far. It's all quiet up here."

"Keep searching. The intruders were last heard to be near you position."

"Understood. We'll keep a look out."

They stopped at the intersection and proceeded to debate how to split up.

"How about you go down that hall and you all go up this way and me and the rest will take this left side."

"I need to go up the middle though. The bathrooms are closer."

"Mark, you drink to much coffee."

"I can't help it. I enjoy it to much."

"A triple shot espresso with cream and double dark chocolate shot latte style. That's enough to keep me going for a week."

"And you drink around three of those a day."

"You forget the one I have at home."

"Oh my God." a few guys said.

"That's enough caffeine and whatever else is in those things to kill a horse or buzz them into a frenzy."

"No wonder you piss like twenty times a day."

"How about we change the plan. You guys go up the middle and the rest of us will take the left and right, unless anyone else has to go."

Several hands went up from the sounds of the rustling of clothes.

"What the hell have you all been doing?! Almost all of you have to take a piss!!"

"I had a couple of egg sandwiches for lunch and now…" one guy said.

"Oh man." several guys said. A few more said he was to go last.

Daniel and Teal'c sat quietly as they listened to the very stupid conversation. Daniel had enough willpower to keep himself from laughing.

Carter's face changed from one of confused to bewilderment to disgust with that last statement. Ford was watching her and then lost it with the last remark. He bit his hand to keep from cracking up.

"Did you hear something?!"

"Yeah it sounded like laughing."

A few others said they heard the same thing.

"Let's spread out…"

"I got to go so watch my back while I run.."

"You can't hold it?!"

"I can't take this anymore." Ford said grabbing the detonator from Carter. "Stay down."

Carter was going to grab him but he was already up and she doubted she could pull him down.

"As funny as your conversation is…"

They all turned seeing him and started moving forward when he mentioned there was an explosive behind them.

"I'm not falling for that." the lead guard said. He was about seven feet from the C4.

"Sir. He's not kidding." a guy said in a shaky voice.

"My friends are somewhere else, so I have no problem pressing this button. It being a dead mans switch anyway." he said waving the detonator.

"You can all drop you weapons…" he started saying when he heard something that sounded like water dripping on the floor. The unit turned looking at the guy who drank the coffee. He had wet himself. It took everything Ford had not to laugh as he coughed. "Drop the weapons or else."

"He bluffing! Shoot him!!!

Ford dropped, literally, as bullets flew over him, through the glass and into the wall behind him. He pressed the trigger as he hit the ground.

BOOOOMMMM!!!!

Screams were heard as the ceiling caved in and the floor gave out where the C4 went off. Several of the soldiers flew over the small wall and landed on Ford while others rolled away. Pieces of the walls, ceiling and body parts flew everywhere. Daniel and Teal'c got the better end of the problem. The glass around them was blown out, but only a few bodies landed near them. Ford had two bodies on him and Carter was covered with wall debris.

"Major Carter! Ford Primus!" Teal'c said coming over with Daniel to help get them out.

Carter stood up shaking the dust and other stuff off her. Ford was shoving bodies off him along with part of the ceiling. The lights flickered as power began to reboot to the area. Several wires and cables danced across the floor as they sparked. One body had a wire that bounced around on the body as the dead guy twitched from the electrical shock. Incidentally, it was the egg sandwich guy.

"Anybody else's ears ringing?" Ford said as he tried to get up.

"Not me. Once I saw you get up and they started yelling, I knew then to plug my ears." Daniel said.

"Indeed. I did as well."

"Carter?"

"As soon as you stood up, I had my ears covered. Took longer than I thought though." she said smacking him. "That was stupid!"

"There was more of them than us Carter. They all had assault rifles and over half of them had grenade launchers. Besides that, they wanted to fight."

"We need to get going before anyone else arrives." she said still brushing herself off. "We have to split up. There's too much ground to cover and possible to many of them."

Carter was looking at Ford the whole time waiting for him to fight it like he had once before. When he didn't say anything she told Daniel and Teal'c to be careful and take the left side. When they even found the end of the hallway they where to report any findings and then come back here and wait till she and Ford returned. They were going to check the right hallway. Teal'c nodded and began to head off when Ford told him to wait a moment.

"We should check the bodies to see if there is any explosive's we might need later."

Carter nodded and they did a quick sweep. The badly injured bodies they left alone. After a few minutes they managed to find 23 hand grenades, lots of extra M-16 ammo and a lot of grenade ammo for the launcher attachment. Ford found a undamaged M-16 and took it. Along with all the grenade ammo. Luck was with them since he found a belt holding several rounds that he was able to fill.

"Got enough?" Daniel asked.

"I think so. Not that I plan on using it all of them." he said putting a few clips of M-16 ammo to his pockets.

"Let's go." Carter said shaking her head.

As they head off in there different directions, they did keep to the wall and tried to be a silent as possible. When Ford and her came to a turn that went left and right, they had trouble deciding which way to go.

"How about flipping a coin?" Ford said. "Or roll my dice?"

"You've been listening to the Colonel to much."

Ford laughed a little to loudly that also made Carter laugh. "I must have."

"Yeah go ahead." she said still looking around the corners.

Left. Take the left.

"Why?" Ford said aloud.

"Why what? I said go ahead." she said.

"No. Hercules said go left."

"Oh."

Can't you feel the presence of a Goa'uld to your right.

Not really. Ford thought.

Interesting. In any case, I feel it.

"Let's go left. There's a Goa'uld down that way."

Carter nodded and they went down the left hallway. It turned to the right into a door. Nothing else.

"This…is different."

"Cover me." Carter said creeping up to the door.

She crawled forward on crouched and Ford kept the rifle pointed at the door. She opened the door and pointed her zats into the room. When she went to get up, she noticed movement and rolled back quickly as a zat blast hit the wall where she was just at. Ford emptied the clip into the room hearing a grunt of pain. He dropped the empty clip as he shoved a new one in and burst it off as well in a scattered pattern. Carter held her hand up as Ford put in a new clip. She pulled a flash grenade and threw it in the room. They covered their eyes and turned as it went off. Someone screamed and ran into the wall. Carter shot him with the zat bringing him down quickly. She found the light switch and turned it on. The room had one thing other than two bodies. The Quantum Mirror.

"Well I'll be damned." Ford said dropping the M-16 in amazement. "That is…."

"Amazing we found it so fast." Carter said checking the two bodies. She didn't notice he dropped the gun.

"No. Just seems to easy or just plane stupid. Never mind." he said checking its weight. It was heavy, but not enough he couldn't lift it. He'd need major protection if he had to move this by himself.

"I can lift it out of here." he said dropping the extra ammo and zat guns. He kept his gun and his ammo.

"That's got to be over a couple hundred pounds!" she exclaimed.

Ford reached around the best he could and lifted the whole thing. "I can't defend myself like this. More importantly I can't protect you." he said setting it back down.

"I could tell that from the kiss." she said leaning against the table. Her smile was infectious as he smiled with her.

"I want to thank you for that. If that's as close as we ever get, I could live with that. Despite looking like a hardened soldier, there's a very beautiful woman in there that knows how to be one too."

Carter laughed and blushed. "When we get back we can talk more about a relationship. Right now we need to get this out of here. If you can carry it, then I'll watch your back."

"You're right. Mind on the job."

"Good." she said setting the zats aside. She picked up the M-16 and a few clips. As she picked the M-16 off the floor she noticed something that could help them.

"Let's use this." she said grabbing on of those low level rollers that you find at lumber and hardware stores to carry out large pieces of many different things.

"Saves my back. Not that it would matter." he said setting it on the device. The device creaked, but held.

"Let's go." she said handing the M-16 back to him.

"Wait. Ummm…something is missing." he said looking over the Mirror.

"The hand device." Carter said snapping her fingers. She helped look around the room. Ford found it on the floor under the guy he shot.

"This suppose to always glow?"

"Not unless you activated it."

"Oops. Must have done that when I wiped it off."

"Don't touch the Mirror, just the outside."

Ford nodded and looked at the Mirror seeing where it was showing. He almost dropped the hand device. Carter started to take it from him when he pulled it away.

"What are you doing?"

"It's home. My home." he mumbled.

She looked at the Mirror seeing a couch, knocked over table, and a black coat on the couch. And some food on the floor.

"This isn't home." she said.

"It's mine."

"You don't have a home yet. You live on the base."

"It's my home back home in my universe."

"That's…."
"Theoretically impossible." he said reaching forward.

"No. It's possible, its just…don't touch!!" she said grabbing his arm.

They zapped away and reformed back in his living room. Everything looked the same as when he left it when he entered the Stargate universe the first time.

"FORD! How are we going to get home?!"

Ford turned and looked at the TV which was burned, badly. It showed the doorway they had taken to get into the room where the Mirror was. He picked up the remote for the TV and tossed it at the screen. It landed on the floor where they could see it just in front of the Mirror.

"The same way we came. I forgot that it did that. Sorry." he said dropping the rifle and its ammo. He took off the SGC coat and picked up his coat off the couch.

"What are you doing?" she said looking around the room. "Why is there food on the floor?"

"I knocked over the table when I got pulled into your universe." he said adjusting the coat. "Oh yeah. This feels better. Much better. Hell of a lot more familiar too."

"Is that that coat you talked about?"

"Yes." he said happily as he pulled one side open. He pulled the other side open as he checked to see everything was there.

"Jesus Christ Ford! Now I see why you carry so many weapons and ammo. You're practically a walking fortress."

"How true." he said smiling as he left the room. He had set the Mirror device on the couch and told her not to touch it or they would be stuck here forever.

"As if. Wait! Where are you going?" she said following him.

"We are going back with a few personal items." he said grabbing a large suitcase and putting a few things in. "Nothing big like clothes or such. Can you grab those DVD boxes I have on that shelf there."

"We need to get out of here before someone show's up. If that Goa'uld came in they could enter this world and no one could stop them."

"Actually they could. You'd be surprised at what we can do in this universe. Adamantium is expensive, but obtainable here." he said grabbing the DVD boxes.

He left the room and went to the guest bedroom. The door was closed as they approached. "In case there ever was any doubt in your mind that I was making it all up about….another universe where you and the rest were all a fiction show. This will convince you." he said opening the door.

Carter walked and was in instant shock and bewilderment.

"Oh my God." she exclaimed.

The guest room had been turned into a collectable room. Different sections of the room had memorabilia for different shows. Stargate SG-1 took a large section. The room was at least a 20 by 20 Carter figured. The one thing that truly caught her attention was the picture of her in her military uniform that was signed by a Amanda Tapping. It said, "To a true fan who took his favorite celebrity to dinner."

"That's what my character's name is?"

"Yeah. I managed to get a date with her when I came by to get an autograph. She was mentioning how hunger she was and I offered to take her out. I was surprised that she even took my offer. I paid for the meal and then took her home. She was nice but seeing…her almost blew it for me. She's nothing like you are. Just looks the same. I was more surprised that she even took the offer even though she's married."

"Did she kiss you?"

"No. I fell in love with the character, you I mean. Not her. It was more of a business dinner anyway. Lots of questions." he mumbled.

"They had action figures of us." she said looking at the different one's he had.

"Oh yeah. Oh I really shouldn't do this since O'Neill will kill me but…hehehe." he said with an devilish laugh.

"What?" she said smiling at his funny impression of being evil.

"Here's a interesting picture I got autographed. This you should recognize." he said showing a picture of Colonel Jack O'Neill. It was signed by Richard Dean Anderson and said "To a great fan who helped my friend."

"He was talking about Amanda. He hurt himself during a stunt and she had planned on going with him to dinner to ask him questions about the show. I figured that's why she went with me since I knew some of the answers and was going to talk to him later. Now this picture I got also signed by him but, it's a little different." he said showing another picture of what looked to be O'Neill, except younger and with longer hair and not in a military outfit.

"A younger version of him. So what?"

"Look at the signature."

She look and her eyes widened not believing what she saw. It was signed again by the Richard guy but it said, "To a fan who loved me as MacGyver as well as Colonel Jack O'Neill."

She stuttered some as she tried to come up with something.

"O'Neill has been lying for a long, long time. At first when I got to your universe, I figured he wasn't and didn't bother asking. I still haven't asked, but I have noticed that he does a few things MacGyver did do. He's him, unless he has a brother which was spec…."

"I don't believe it!! I wondered why I saw him put a roll of duct tape in his bag once. He said you never know when you might need it. I never thought on it since then."

"I'll be back in a minute. Look all you want." he said leaving.

"Tauri scum!" Carter heard suddenly. She ran out seeing Conrad holding a hand device on Ford. Ford was moving forward at a fast pace despite the beam.

"That doesn't really work on me!!!" he said in a strained voice.

Carter picked up the lamp next to her and threw it at him. He noticed and smacked it away with his other arm. He gave Ford another quick blast and then aimed for Carter. It started glowing as Carter tried to bring her PC-90 around to shoot him when Ford grabbed the guys hand with the hand device. Ford had intertwined his fingers with Conrad's and pushed his forward making the device hand snap and brake as it was forced to bend backwards. Carter saw the wrist bone break the skin. Conrad screamed in pain until Ford slammed his left hand into the guys face busting his nose and shoving into his cranium. Ford let go of the guys hand and clothes lined him into the floor. He snapped the guys neck making sure he didn't get up.

"You okay Carter?"

"I'm fine. He never got a chance to hit me with it. What about you?"

"My head feels funny, but I'm fine." Ford said dropping the dead man against the screen. He disappeared and reappeared on the floor near the Mirror. "I'm going to get what I needed real quick then we can leave." he said getting up.

After a few more minutes, Ford came back with a large trunk and grabbed a few things from the collection room and placed them in.

"You're bringing that?"

"I'd bring more if I could. I might try later to see if I can get back later, but I doubt that it's going to happen." he said lifting the trunk.

"If something happens to that, it's not my fault."

"Not a problem. I won't blame you." he said grabbing the Mirror device and handing it to her. He then grabbed her hand as he touched the screen. They disappeared and came back into Carter's universe.

"See we're home." he said putting the trunk on the cart. He pulled a book from his pocket and took the device from her hand.

"What is that?"

"A book on how this works. It's a technical manual on different things in the Stargate universe. This section tells about how the Mirror works. Now whether it actually is true in this universe…" he said flipping through the pages.

"Okay, I push this and this and.." he said following the instructions. The Mirror shimmered then went back to normal looking and the hand device turned off.

"That's incredible!" she said. "What else is in there?"

"You can have it." he said giving it over. "Incidentally, when we get back to the SGC and you decided to…no we both confront him about it. And not in front of everybody."

"I can live with that." she said taking the book. "Let's go. Teal'c, Daniel, we found the Mirror. We're headed back to the elevator."

"Understood. We found nothing here." Daniel said.

"No one has showed up Major Carter." Teal'c said.

"We'll see you there then." Carter said as they left the room.

Carter took one last look to see if the Goa'uld that attacked them earlier was in fact dead. From the blood coming from his ears and mouth she figured he had to be.

"I snapped his neck Carter. I don't think the snake made it." he said grabbing her arm gently.

"I'm coming."

They all met up at the elevator even though it took some time to get the cart over the open hole. They had to take the cart first, then the trunk and then Ford tossed the Mirror over.

"Where did the trunk come from?" Daniel asked.

"I'll tell you later." Ford said patting it lightly.

"And the coat?"

"It's mine." he said smiling.

After that they had no trouble getting to the elevator. The ride up went fine. Trouble began as they went to get off.

"Hello Major Carter. Colonel Ford."

They turned around with weapons pulled seeing a all too familiar man. Ford itched to shoot the guy.

"Nice new toy you have there Mr. Primus. Drop it." Simmons said.

"No."

"Drop it or your precious Major dies. As does the rest of your team."

"I don't see a weapon." he said looking around anyway. So far he heard nothing that sounded like anyone was hiding and saw no visible weapons, though there could be one under the large tarp.

"I have a very powerful weapon. Mechello made it. You remember Mechello?" he said removing the tarp. The large machine under it was something they had never seen before but looked dangerous. It had a Mechello design to it from what they had seen before, with human technology add to it.

"What does it do?" Daniel asked.

"Really, I'm not sure. We took the designs and made it a little different so it's more portable and doesn't need two hands to use it. We even amplified the output." he said turning it enough the crystal area was pointed at Carter.

She involuntarily stepped back as Ford got in front of her. She was about to tell him to move, but stopped herself. She knew Ford really cared for her enough to sacrifice his life and he could recover better than her. And from what he told her once about the coat, it would save him most likely.

"You'll have to shoot me. I might not make it, but the other's will get you."

"Drop the weapons. This is your last warning." His hand was on the button the entire time.

Reluctantly they set their weapons down and backed away slowly.

"Nice work people. You were suppose to be looking for the enemy." Ford said with a grunt of displeasure as he winked at her enough she only saw.

Carter understood what he was doing and went along. "I thought you were watching our back Colonel. You're the one who pays the most attention!" she said smacking his arm and wincing.

"Ouch Carter. That's the third time you've hit that arm."

Teal'c was watching them argue trying to figure out why they were arguing. Simmons was watching with delight but still paying attention to the other two.

"Well maybe you'll see better after I hit it a few more times." she said smacking his arm again. She was hoping she was doing a good job of putting a show. If she had to hit his arm again her hand might go numb permanently.

"Ouch. Knock that off Major or else."

"Or else what?"

Ford gave a slight shove just enough for her to stay standing, but enough to hopefully know what to do. He also flicked his wrist causing two small, double shot pistols to slide from his coat arms. She did get it the idea and made it look like she was about to fall down but stopped herself. She also noticed the guns.

"I can't you believe you just did that Colonel."

"Neither can I." Teal'c said.

"This is your fault Teal'c." Daniel said getting into the act. He noticed Ford winking at Carter before he pushed.

"I don't understand." he said.

"You were suppose to be watching our back." Daniel said.

"ENOUGH! Your bickering is driving me nuts. Time to die."

"Wrong." Ford said bringing his hands around. He aimed quickly and fired at the same time as Simmons pushed the button. One set of bullets went through his belly and into the machine. The other two went through his forehead between his eyes. He collapsed to the floor quickly. The device he activated sent a blue beam through Ford and Carter. Nothing else seemed visibly wrong.

"It wasn't you fault Teal'c. I was…we all were acting to distract him." Daniel said.

"Indeed." Teal'c said nodding. It wasn't the first time apparently.

"Are you two okay?" Daniel asked coming over to them.

Their distraction included moving father away from Teal'c and Daniel. Several good feet away. They didn't look to have any visible injuries.

Ford was looking at his hands as Carter seemed to be looking herself over.

"This…this…" Carter said. The problem was she said it from Ford's body.

"You've got to be kidding!!!" Ford yelled from her body.

He looked up and saw the back of his coat.

"This isn't happening." Ford said dropping the PC-90 and running over to the machine. "Dammit! The machine's completely busted!!!"

He punched the machine which made him start shaking his hand. "Ow! Ow! Ow!"

"Carter?" Daniel said looking at Ford's body.

"Tell me this isn't happening." she said slowly from Ford's body.

"Mr. Primus?" Teal'c said looking at Carter's body.

"The damned machine was that body swapping thing. I thought it looked familiar!" he continued to say as he rubbed his/Carter's hand. "This isn't good and certainly ain't right in my book. Man that smarts."

"How do I put these away?" Carter said shaking her hands. The two small guns where still out.

"This is really strange. Looking at myself."

"How do you think I feel?! I'm in your body! A MAN'S BODY!!!"

"Duh! I'm stuck in yours!!! We got to find…"

"We don't have time to go back and see if that thing is in the base. There are too many soldiers still around." Daniel said trying to get them to be more silent. "Teal'c took a look outside while you were arguing and saw a lot of reinforcements."

"Great." Ford muttered. The look he had on Carter's face didn't suit her.

"Idea's?" Carter said.

"Let's take it out the back and run." Ford suggested.

When the other two couldn't come up with anything she opted for the idea. Carter and Ford both pushed the cart. Carter wasn't expecting the amount of strength Ford had in his body and when she pushed it, it rolled away quickly and made her and Ford hit the floor. Teal'c stopped it before it hit the wall.

"That hurt." Ford groaned. He was slowly getting off the floor.

"I just landed on several guns in this overweight coat." Carter said getting up quickly.

"Surprisingly it didn't hurt. Strange." she said helping Ford up.

She tried to be easier with the strength she wasn't used to but still almost lifted her body off the ground.

"Thanks. Let try that again without as much force." Ford said after getting his feet on the ground.

"Good idea. I had no idea you were this strong. It's been awhile since I felt this sort of….power." she said.

"Yeah, I wanted to try those armbands Anise brought too. Maybe she'll let me try one later."

"You're strong enough. I can feel it." she said as they got over to the door.

Teal'c looked out the door seeing no one around. They rolled it out quietly and moved it down two warehouses before turning and heading forward.

"I think were safe." Ford said. "Let's hurry and leave. The sooner the better."

They kept going and made it past a couple more when one of the soldiers found them.

"They're here!!" he yelled.

Ford instinctively reached for the gun he didn't have. Daniel had the PC-90 and he knew that the nine millimeter wouldn't work. The soldier started bursting off shots that fortunately missed on the first burst. Ford grabbed Carter and turned his body around. He thought it was…strange, but he used his own body as a shield. Teal'c and Daniel made it behind the Mirror and trunk.

"What are you…"

"Keep your…..my head down! The coat will protect you." Ford said searching the coat.

He pulled a large six barreled pistol out and looked out quickly. The pistol had a large rectangle section on top where the barrel would normally be. The barrel was beneath it. The bullets fired from the bottom of the wheel. The upper part was a highly powerful laser sight. Ford saw the soldier was reloading and lined the guy up the best he could, noticing that Carter had good eye sight, not as good as his, but well enough with one shot he caught the between the eyes.

"What sort of weapon is that?" Teal'c asked.

"It's a revised version of Vash the Stampede's gun."

"Who?" they all asked.

"A cartoon character. This was the gun I used to use before I had the money to have that personal cannon as O'Neill calls it made."

"Let's move before someone else comes." Carter said.

Since she had the most strength she had to push the cart as the others provided cover. Another guard came out where the other guy found them and was shot dead quickly as he looked up.

"I must say Carter. Your eyes are really good. No wonder you're a great shot." Ford said.

"Thanks. I think."

"Well they're also very beautiful. Everything looks different. The color's are off."

"I know the feeling. What I know to be a certain color is different from what I'm seeing. Now I know what being color blind is."

Ford smiled at her, feeling weird too, as another guy came around. He fired and missed on the first shot, but the second and third didn't miss. He started reaching into the coat on himself, or herself, or on Carter's body when he realized that he didn't have the coat of ammo. He reached in finding the quick loader and pulled it out. He reloaded the pistol when he noticed a familiar sound, several familiar sounds.

"Wait. I think I found a way out of here that's going to be quicker." he said moving into one of the warehouses. Carter wanted to yell, but was to tired to try.

Ford, even though in Carter's body, was being as intimidating as possible as he walked in with the gun raised high. He fired off one round getting the people insides attention. Pitching his voice, he tried sounding like a woman.

"Listen up! There are over several dozen authorities outside! Do what you want with it!" he said moving over to a couple of guys near a certain muscle car.

"Keys. Now." he had the gun right on one guys forehead.

"It's in the ignition." the guy whined. He looked behind her seeing three more people come in with weapons.

"Leave!" Ford said pushing the guy away and firing a round through the back window. The second shot made everyone panic and start running.

"You're stealing a stolen car?!" Carter asked.

"You want to live?"

"Good point."

They went back out and brought the cart in and slide the Mirror through the broken window.

"There's not enough room for all of us." Carter noted as Ford lifted the trunk into the trunk of the car.

"That Mustang has its keys. Teal'cs a competent driver." Ford said. "I don't know how you drive Carter so I'm going to. I used to race cars, somewhat." he said grabbing the door. When it didn't open he realized it was an original.

Teal'c nodded and went over to the Mustang. He shot a guy as he came up into the building. The guy dropped from the zat blast.

"Do you really know how to drive Teal'c?" Carter asked.

"O'Neill taught me."

"That…works." she finally said.

Ford told her to get in as he gunned the Dodge Charger engine. The licenses plates were gone, but the car was easy to identify. It had a large Confederate flag on top and a large 01 on the side. It also said General Lee on the top. Carter slid in and told him she thought this was a bad idea.

"Got a better one." Ford said backing the car up.

Teal'c followed out in a 69 Mustang Mach 1 as they exited the warehouse on the other end. The authorities were outside and picking up the people who where inside. The Fed's and several other authorities were there and they ran out of the way quickly as the two vehicles rushed past them. They started to get ready to chase them when three heavily armed Army Hummer's rushed past, or only two of them did. The other spun out as the driver tried to turn to sharp, to quick, and caused it to turnover into a S.W.A.T. truck.

"We are being followed." Carter announced.

"I noticed. This is one of the reasons I chose this vehicle and the Mustang. These have way more speed and power." he said gunning the engine as they passed by the warehouses.

"Call Teal'c and Daniel and tell them to split at the next turn and meet us at the gate we came in. We'll transfer the Mirror and my trunk to the Hummer we came in and then you and me will provide a distraction so they can get back to the SGC."

Carter relayed the message as Ford sped up. Teal'c turned as he was instructed and was gone from their view quickly. The two Hummer's continued to follow Ford just as he thought.

"Carter get in…just open the coat."

"Which side?" she said opening both. Now that she had time, or she thought, being in the coat, she had a better look at the stuff Ford packed inside it. Ford reached over into the left side and unlatched a launcher.

"Load this with….this one." he said pointing at a grenade.

"You've got enough arsenal to be your own team!"

"Load it please."

She loaded it and then got ready to shoot the lead Hummer. Ford did a quick spin making the car do a 360 in the dirt. As it spun around, Carter was able to get a quick shot off. Unfortunately she missed. The grenade exploded a few feet from the lead Hummer. The blast sent the vehicle into the air and it crashed through one of the walls of the warehouses. Ford straighten out and floored it. They could see the other Hummer had stopped but was getting ready to take off again.

"Nice shot." he said.

"I'd done better if we were stationary."

They showed up a few minutes later where the Mustang with the other two SG members were waiting. Ford came to a quick stop and got out fast. Teal'c and Daniel had already removed the tarp and were waiting. Ford and Carter placed the two objects in the Hummer and then went back outside. Ford took the Mustang and ran it into the buildings side. He rolled out at the last second and then slashed one of the front tires making it look like a out of control accident. Carter thought it was stupid, because she didn't want her body injured, but smart to make it look like Teal'c and Daniel were in the orange car. Ford slammed the General into gear as the undamaged Hummer came around a corner. The raced out of the warehouse district with incredible speed. Carter kept thinking every time he went around a vehicle in front of them or around a corner that he might wipe out.

"Can you drive a little….safer." she muttered.

"I would but we are being chased and besides your safer in my body. Besides, I know how to drive at high speeds."

"I know that. I'm more worried about my body, not yours. Why hasn't Hercules talk to me yet?"

"Like I know." he said passing a semi.

"He was in…he's in your head…. my head…whatever."

"He couldn't have been transferred over. Maybe he's….in both of us or something." he said making a hard evasive move as one of the soldiers opened upon them.

The bullets raced across the pavement and then through the trunk of a Mercedes making the driver run off the road. Whoever it was lost control and smashed into the guard rail making all the vehicles behind it backup. Ford instantly liked and disliked it. For one, there was no cover, but that also meant there was no one that could get hurt.

"Reload that launcher!"

"What! We don't need the authorities causing us problems."

"Then use my gun. Think of it this way, you'll get to experience how I use it."

"What if I miss?!"

"Carter!" he said swerving on the freeway to avoid the bullets. Unfortunately he didn't do well as several struck the right front and going down the side. Carter looked down at her leg…his leg…whatever and found a flattened lead round.

"Thank god for the coat huh?" he said swerving again.

"Yeah. I barely felt that."

"Now I can avoid their fire for only so long before they're going to hit one of us seriously….or I should say me seriously. You can choose to hope that I make it away or shoot them!" he said trying to avoid more rounds.

This time they got a few in the back section. Ford glanced at the gas gauge and hoped that it wasn't hit. It still said just above half empty. Carter pulled the large pistol out from behind her and looked it over a moment. Ford grabbed the gun from her.

"You'll take my shoulder off if you use that!"

"Hold my arm and hand. I'll fire it. Here we go." he said turning the wheel.

The car spun suddenly bring them around again. The driver of the Hummer noticed and thought that they were trying the explosion attack again. He started swerving as the car turned. Ford thought the gun felt familiar, yet not familiar as he fired. The recoil certainly didn't help his…Carters already hurting hand. He let go of the gun and took hold of the wheel to hide the pain. The Hummer was hit dead on in the front. For whatever reason it didn't go completely through, probably the massive amount of armor it had, causing the engine to blow and making the vehicle flip instantly. It continued to roll as the General Lee straighten out and drove away.

"We got them." Ford said squeezing his right hand a few times.

It stung. He knew he had caused Carter's hand some damage, but he wasn't sure how bad. Possibly a fracture, not broken though.

"What's wrong? You didn't break my hand?"

"No. If it was broken I couldn't move it." he said shaking it her face. When she reached out to grab it he pulled it back. She still hadn't gotten used to using his bodies strength.

"Then why are you flexing my hand?"

"I think I just sprained it some. The recoil was a bit much."

"It better be a sprain." she muttered.

"It is." he said grabbing the wheel again. It stung, but he ignored it.

"Well, we are going the wrong way so get off on this exit and…where are we?"

"I don't know. I'm not used to driving in downtown San Francisco. I'll figure it out though."

They spent the next hour going up and down streets until they finally asked a cop. He pointed them in the right direction, inquired about the car condition and decided not to ask about why their voices were different. They said is was a military problem, showed military credentials which he checked on and then let them go. They took another hour to get to the outer edge of town. As they passed by several food joints Ford pulled over in a parking lot of a large computer store.

"What's wrong?"

"I don't know about you but this body says its hungry. Now since I'm in your body, what sort of food would you prefer I eat?"

Even though she was in Ford's body, he could still see that look she did when she would pull her head back and had to think. Ford couldn't help but chuckle.

"What?" she said. It was strange to look at his body smiling like that.

"Even in my body you still can pull off that involuntarily thing you do. When you go into think mode, you pull your head back, involuntarily as I said and think a moment about whatever was asked. You'll see later what I mean later on those DVD's."

She did it again. "DVD's? What do you mean?"

"I'll tell you later. I could go for Chinese."

"Okay. I occasionally eat that. There's one up the street that I can see."

They went to the one called the Double Dragon and got take out. They ate and then headed off again. According to the map, they were several miles from the airport. They phoned ahead only to find that the plane they were suppose to get on had already left and that the N.I.D. were waiting there for them.

"We drive then. Between the both of us, we should get there in a couple of days, maybe sooner. You can call the General and let him know what we intended to do."

They head off again with Carter driving this time.

"We have to discuss something?"

"Okay. What is it?"

"It's..…this is embarrassing. Since we have to spend the next couple days together, we…."

"I know where this is going. Uh…..this is going to be difficult." she said rubbing her face. It was then she noticed that Ford's face needed a shave. "This is going to be real difficult."

They spent the next hour, figuring out how they were going to go about being adults about their situation about privacy problems. It wasn't the best conversation they ever had and was certainly the most embarrassing. They did agree on the fact that since the really liked each other it was better that she had switched bodies with him instead of Teal'c or Daniel. Carter figured it would have been impossibly difficult if it was one of them. Especially Teal'c who walked around bald. Carter called every morning to tell them that they were okay and on their way. Since Teal'c and Daniel had already arrived, General O'Neill already knew that they had a body swap problem. The Mirror and his trunk had made it intact. He wished them luck on their return and informed them that the machine Mechello had made that swapped bodies was missing. They'd have to find a different way to get back into their own bodies or use the machine from their own universe, if they could find it.

A couple of days before they were to arrive at the mountain, a problem arose. They were both in a motel with separate beds and morning was just starting. Carter had woken up before he did.

"Bad dream?" she asked seeing him getting up from a semi fetal position with a grimace on his face.

"I don't feel very well."

"What do you mean, don't feel very well? You didn't go out and get snacks from that vending…" she asked sitting on the bed across from him.

"No. Thought about it, but you said no." he said rubbing his/her forehead. "Your skin is a lot softer than mine. I got a headache and some cramping….oh no."

She laughed and laughed hard.

Three days later they managed to get into Colorado. Mostly for needing to keep away from being followed. As they climbed the hill to the Cheyenne Mountain Complex the engine began to sputter.

"Come on General. We still need you for a couple of miles. Don't give up yet." Ford said.

"You talk to cars." Carter said like it was something really strange.

"So. You talk to plants……well, so do I."

The car seemed to respond with renewed effort as it continued forward. As they came into view of the opening to the mountain the engine gave its last breath and quit. Ford let the car move forward on what was left of the momentum. He stopped it short of hitting the fence. As they climbed out the hood popped open and smoke poured out.

"Airman. Make sure this car it taken care of. Give it to the Colonel when he returns." Ford said walking into the Complex with Carter.

Since General O'Neill had already informed the people up top that they would be coming in sounding funny. They didn't ask anything and didn't stop them from going in.

After a quick look over them in the infirmary, they were sent to the briefing room.

"About time you returned. Feeling better I see." the General said.

"Not really. No offense Jack, but I really want to go home." Ford said tiredly. General O'Neill let it slide since they were used to a first name basis in their universe and being they were in different bodies, especially being the opposite sex, they must have had a interesting time for those three days.

"I see. In that case, you should get going. The sooner I have my people back the better. Dismissed." he said.

They got to the other side with no trouble and with Melissa and a few other members of the planet there to help them with the different things. Mostly helping Daniel understand their past.

Carter managed to get the Mirror working with the help of the manual that Ford had. Then they began to look for their universe and they came to the planet to use it, since Ford said that if it was him, they'd be looking for them with the Mirror on the same planet. Carter figured it was a stupid idea until Ford told her that it was her stupid idea that saved the Asguard, so stupid idea's usually worked. So the search began.