CHAPTER 75

EPISODE…………RIPPLE EFFECT

It was a nice day outside. Things were going pretty good for the day. No troubles or Prior problems, effecting them personally on Earth yet anyway. There was only one problem though. One very big problem, according to Ford anyway, though he didn't announce it to everyone, other than the team before they left. Reynolds was off world and had been for a couple of days with his team. They were due back later that day along with SG-1. He would have been with them, but Reynolds team got, a little lost and found some old structure, so they had stayed the night and were coming back today. So SG-1 was off world, on a mission, leaving him at the base yet again. At least he had little paperwork that day. He was currently hearing reports from Carolyn when Walter announced the gate activating an unscheduled activation.

"Any idea who it is yet Walter? Better not be SG-1 in trouble."

"No I.D.C yet General." he said as they all suddenly looked up as they heard something slam into the Iris.

"What the hell was that?"

"Unknown Gen….I'm receiving SG-1's I.D.C."

"Open the Iris, quickly." he said rushing out leaving Lam in the control room.

He rushed into the gate room and had everyone get ready. He had his guns out and ready as the Iris opened. Seconds later SG-1 walked through and started down the gate. They stopped as they noticed the guns pointed at them.

"What ha…." Ford started saying when he cocked his head.

He lowered his guns and told the other's to keep their guns ready as he walked up the ramp slowly, after putting his guns away, though he twirled them a few times out of habit first, to which he got strange looks from the SG-1 team. He stopped a couple feet away and gave them a once over, to which they looked at themselves before looking back at him. This SG-1 was wearing black SGC BDU'S. He remembered that his team left with the light green colored ones.

"Hmm. This is….interesting." he said raising an eyebrow.

"Sir, where's General Landry? And who are you? And what's wrong with our appearance or is it something else?" Mitchell asked.

"Landry huh?" Ford said slowly. "Hmm. Carter, show me your left hand please."

"What for sir?" she asked slowly as he kept her hands on her PC-90.

"Just show me your hand Colonel."

She held it up and he gently, though startled her when he touched her ring finger. He could feel what could be a ring there once, maybe. But there was a few differences, mostly her eyes didn't show what he normally saw.

"Hmm. You're not my Carter, and I'm more than willing to bet the rest of you are not my SG-1. So, this leads me to think that some how, some way…."

"Unscheduled off world activation!" Walter yelled quickly as the gate started to light up.

They all dived quickly. Mitchell and Teal'c jumped over the right side while the other two went over the left. Ford just dropped to the ramp, backwards and flattened out as the event horizon came out just above him.

"Jesus Christ that was close." he muttered as the Iris closed.

"General?!" Walter yelled.

"I'm fine!" he yelled back waving a hand and then said with less volume. "Just fine."

"I'm getting, SG-1's I.D.C?" he said with obvious confusion.

"Open the Iris." he said rolling back and getting on his feet.

Four people walked out as Ford was brushing himself off, and then there was two sneezes.

"Oh great. We're here again." a female voice said.

"Hey Mitchell. I had fun while I was here. Finally got to fight someone worthy of my talents." another female voice said. "Though I have to ask, why the hell are we here? What have you been doing and were you thinking…."

"No. I was not Chevy. Nice to see you too."

"Any idea what's going on here?" the Colonel Mitchell in black quietly asked his Carter.

"No. This must not be our SGC or we've been captured…."

"Any idea's why we're…."

"Hang on Chevy." Ford said holding up a hand to her then turned to tell the other's to stand down. He walked down the ramp with the female versions of SG-1 following. "I don't know how, but for some reason, you have gated to an alternative universe SGC. Now, you may not believe it, but I'll explain it, or else your Carter should be able to if she's anything like mine. And if you have any problems, this Carter here can help."

The male Carter smiled lightly as the SG-1 team in black looked at him with confusion on their faces.

"So, you all go, including your team Chevy." he said hearing a groan from her. "If this was your universe, I'd have to go there to. You all go to the infirmary, get checked out and then meet back in the briefing room."

As they all started to leave, Ford pulled Chevy aside.

"Please keep a watch on them, just in case."

"You think something is up?"

"There was a loud bang against the Iris before they showed up. I don't know what it was and haven't had a chance to figure it out because your team showed up before I could ask them anything. And they didn't act like anything was up, such as an attack."

"Oh, blame it on my team." she said sarcastically.

"That's not what I meant and you know it."

"I was kidding. I'll keep a discreet watch anyway. Where's your team?"

"Still off world."

"Bummer for you."

"No kidding. I want to know later why you are with yours." he said turning away. "Oh, what a way to begin the day. Walter, check the gate please and tell me when my team is suppose to show up."

"On it General."

Less than an hour later, the two teams were in the briefing room. Her team on the right and the other team on the left. She sat in the chair from his office on his right.

"So, basically we know…."

"We?" the other Mitchell asked.

"Yes we. Me and my female counter part here." Ford said as Chevy smiled lightly. "We know that you're both from other universes. She and her team are from a universe that had the core group as females, except for there being a Samuel instead of a Samantha. A female George Hammond in charge and a Jackie O'Neill. Other than that, everyone else is the same. In your universe, General Landry became in charge since I never existed in your universe. From what we can tell, I barely exist in any universe really. I'll try to explain that later."

Between Chevy and him, they gave a very brief explanation about their weird ability which caused them to see each other sometime back.

"If this is all really true." the other Sam said. "Why are we here and how do we get home?"

"That is assuming that this isn't some sort of trick like the time SG-1 awoke to the belief that they were in the SGC, in the future and….." the other Mitchell began.

"Yes. I know that mission, but was not here for it. I really don't have any way of proving that you're not dreaming or being manipulated in your mind, though I can see why you'd think something is up. Basically, I can tell you that we don't plan much less have any plans to torture you for information. Not that you should or would have much of anything that we don't already know. Hopefully that will alleviate any fears you have. Though I would hope that you would understand that since you're not the team from this universe, you can't leave this base, at least to go out into this world."

"What if we can't ever get home?" the other Carter asked.

"If it comes to that, we'd make arrangements then that would allow you to work and live here." Ford said shrugging. "Hopefully it won't come to that seeing as your people wouldn't be able to get along very well without you. Now, can you tell me what planet you came from?"

"I don't see much harm in that. We came from P4R…."

"You're going to have to describe the planet and its people. I never could remember the names of planets with designations such as….." Ford began as he waved a hand.

"Same here." Chevy muttered.

"Off world activation!"

"Take over here Chevy. That should be my team. I hope."

"Okay." she said as he rushed out.

"Walter, this is the time my…our SG-1 is suppose to be back, right?"

"Yes General. It's their I.D.C."

"Oh, good. I'm going down. Open the Iris."

The defense team got into position as he came out and had them get ready. He waited at the end of the ramp as the Iris opened and they came out.

"General. What's up?" Mitchell asked as they walked down slowly and saw the guns pointed at them still and worry on his face.

Ford waved a hand and the men stood down and backed up.

"Before you all walk off the ramp, who am I and who is Sally?"

The group looked at each other then at him again.

"Is this a serious question General?" Mitchell asked.

"Yes."

"Well, as far as I remember, you're the person in charge here, took over after General O'Neill moved on to taking over command of the Home Planet Security…."

"What is going on and is there something wrong with Sally?" Carter asked really worried.

"She's fine. Who is she though?" Ford asked crossing his arms.

"What the hell is going on here and what's wrong with our daughter." she asked stepping closer with a mean stare.

He took her hand seeing the ring indentation and then stared into her eyes a moment.

"Okay, you're my team. Just making sure. Head to the infirmary, get that over with and get to the briefing room before you go anywhere else. I'll explain everything then."

"What…."

"Sam, and the rest of you. Questions later. Everything is fine, no problems that are serious. I'll explain when you get back. Now go, that's an order." he said leaving.

"Times like this I hate it when he has authority over me." she muttered.

Mitchell looked confused.

"I…what? I don't get it."

"Never mind." she said shaking her head.

Daniel lightly tapped Mitchell on the shoulder and they both slowed down.

"You know that age old saying about who wears the pants in a relationship?" Daniel asked very quietly as they kept walking, but some distance from Teal'c and her.

Mitchell nodded and Daniel pointed at her as she turned to them. They stopped a moment and kinda looked like they wished they were somewhere else.

"I can hear you guys talking about me."

"We were…um…." Daniel began.

"Yeah. You were something." she muttered as she gave them a glare and then kept walking again.

Over an hour later, Chevy and her team along with Ford and his team were in the briefing room. Hers on the left this time and his on the right. The other team explained to Chevy that they came from a planet that she and Walter, of this universe, could tell they had never been to. Selmak was still alive and a different Goa'uld had came to power instead of Ba'al. Ford's team had went to a planet called PX7-455. Once his team found out everything that was going on and were able to talk to the other team, they realized why Ford acted strangely to them and the current problem going on.

"Well, we can say for sure, with Chevy's and the information that Walter found out that we've never been to the planet they say they came from. All the blood test came back saying they are, well, us, but from another universe because of the scans K-9 says reveal that they're quantum signature is different." Samantha said.

"I had a team sent to the planet they came from, just in case and the locals had never heard of us." Ford said leaning back in the chair and placing both hands behind his head. "So that right there also proves they're from another universe."

"Another parallel universe." Mitchell muttered.

"That's what, the third time you've said that now Mitchell." Ford said.

"Still trying to get used to the fact that there are multiple universes out there. Just seeing a girl version of me out there is strange."

"Feelings mutual." the female Mitchell said.

"There are a lot of parallel universes out there. According to the theory, which I explained…"

"We." Samuel said.

"Yes, we, explained to those of you who didn't get it before when they showed up." Samantha said pointing at the other team. "Anything that could happen, is and did happen."

"So, I got to second base with that Amy girl in another universe." Mitchell muttered. "Damn, if only it was this one."

"Same here." the female Mitchell muttered. "Though it a guy named Jamie."

"Theoretically, yes." both Carter's said with a resigning sigh.

"That was more….." Ford began.

"Than we need to know." Chevy ended.

"Yes. As interesting as this conversation is, we should be asking the important question, how did they get here and how are they getting home?" Daniel asked.

Everyone looked at the Carter's for answers, though mostly it was at the Sam's.

"We...um…" Ford began as he looked down at his lap.

"Have no ideas." Chevy muttered also looking down.

"We've got nothing either." Samantha said.

"Yet." Samuel said as the two got more stares. "Give us time. We'll get it."

"Okay. Let's get see what we can figure out." Ford said standing up.

"Any idea where to begin?" Chevy asked as she got up.

From the looks on everyone's faces, no one had any ideas.

The other SG-1 team, that was from a different universe, was talking to Chevy and Ford's team about the differences in the other universe. Experiences and such. The only exception was that the Carter's were in a room all to themselves talking together. Other than to get the same info, but also to figure out how they got to this universe and how to get them home and maybe even why they were here. They were sitting at the briefing table, each with coffee. Ford and Chevy sat at the head of the table Ford on the right with his Carter and the other Carter and Chevy on his left with her Carter.

"Okay, what can you…..what are you looking at Chevy?" he asked after seeing her look back and forth between the two female Carters.

"Don't tell me you can't see it?"

"See what?" he said glancing between the two of them.

"You seriously don't see it?"

He glanced at the two for a few seconds.

"The clothes and hair are the only difference I can see."

She rolled her eyes and whispered into his ear. He lifted and eyebrow and looked over the other Carter.

"What are you doing?" both female Carter's asked. His Carter had a jealous and more seriously questioning tone.

"I'm surprised I didn't notice it. Well, I noticed earlier, somewhat." Ford said leaning onto the table with both elbows. "I wonder if it's anyone we know."

"What are you talking about?" both Carter's ask.

"This Sam is also married and rather recently. Explains the ring indentation I felt."

"You are?" his Samantha said turning to the other one. "Anyone I know?"

The other Sam was surprised that they did notice and fidgeted slightly.

"We met sometime ago. He's a cop."

"Hmm. I was a cop, well Federal Marshal actually. I guess taste in men don't change much." Ford said.

"I never dated any law officers. Been pulled over a few times, but….how long?"

"I just came back from my honeymoon after Colonel Mitchell took over head of SG-1. When was yours?"

"Years ago. We have a daughter now. She's at home with my parents."

"Parents?"

They gave her a quick explanation of how Ford managed to save her mother and Jack's son.

"Wow. If only I had gotten that lucky." she said sitting back sadly.

"I am glad to see that there is another Sam out there who's finally getting something out of life other than going to work and then back home to an empty house."

"It wasn't that bad." his Sam counter.

"You barely dated much if at all since you started working here. And Janet did inform me of a few facts about your life before I showed up." Ford said.

"It was worse for him." Chevy said.

"Hey, don't put my life into this." Samuel exclaimed.

"You didn't even have a sex life until I showed up." Chevy muttered.

"Oh yeah, if I'm correct, he was just like you! Never had one until the wedding night." Samuel blurted out pointing at them both.

Both Ford and Chevy blushed and tried to hide it.

"You never heard a word airman." Ford said pointing at the guard by the stairs. The man nodded quickly.

"Wow. I've heard of close knit groups." the other Sam said. "But you guys really talk. How old are you two?"

"How about we try and get back to what were suppose to be talking about?" Chevy suggested quickly, avoiding the question like it was the plague.

"Are you afraid of your age of something?"

"You're a guy. They usually don't care about age until much later in life. Women are more self conscious." Chevy said with a fluster wave.

"Ouch." Ford said feigning hurt. "Despite our real age, we both still look young."

"I'd still rather look like I did twenty years ago."

"This could go on for hours." Samantha muttered. "Can we move on or do you two need to work out some issues?"

"Let's do what Mitchell likes to say and pretend that whole conversation never took place." Ford said tapping the table with both hands a few times. "Okay, ah…what can you tell us about what's going on with your universe, that we might be able to help with, if you can get home, and may help us here?"

"You sure you two…."

"Yes." he and Chevy said.

"Well, despite everything we tried to do, the biggest problem we have is the second beachhead that the Ori got established."

"We've so far not found one yet." Ford said.

"Is Chulak still here?"

"Yes."

"The Ori have destroyed ours. And most of the other Jaffa strongholds."

"Damn. We've got a lot of preparing to do." Ford muttered.

"Same here." Chevy said.

"It's only a matter of time before they attack Earth. Our Earth. You have to find a way to send us back."

"That's why we're all here. This is the smartest group in the base right now." Ford said.

"Just because there is three of us….."

"Me and Chevy's I.Q. is just as high, if not higher in some ways than yours. You three."

"You understand everything I…she, we know?" the other Sam said pointing between the Sam's and herself.

"We understand Quantum Theory and Mechanics. Time travel is not lost on us." Ford said surprising the other Sam who looked at Ford's Sam who nodded.

"I don't understand all of it, but enough. I could possibly rebuild the time drive in the Ancient shuttle if I had to. Given time." Samantha said.

"We also have the gene that activates the Ancient technology." Chevy said.

"It sounds like this universe is doing a lot better than ours."

"It is in some ways. But we'll try to get you home." Ford said.

"K-9, our computer dog I mentioned, is analyzing the data from the gate. There was some sort of booming noise that was heard prior to your arrival. Less than a minute later….." Samantha said.

"We showed up when we were trying to go back to our SGC." Chevy said.

"Anything happen at that….oh hell. Whatever planet you were on." Ford said with a wave.

"You're as bad as O'Neill is. Well, we were there gathering intel and had been for 24 hours. There was no solar activity or unusual weather patterns. No explosions were near the gate either or seismic tremors."

"Hmmm. I can't even think of what could cause this." Ford muttered.

"The gate isn't designed to allow matter to go to another universe." the other Sam said.

"Actually it can." Ford said. "Evident mostly because you are here."

"Done right, you can do time travel as well. Though it's not very efficient." Chevy said.

"You all know a lot more than we do about the gate then. You all should have some idea then of what could have brought us and them here then. What could possibly exert that much influence on a sub space matter stream?" the other Sam said.

They all thought a moment and then looked at each other.

"A black hole." they all said.

"Well, let's see if there is one around that could be close enough to have caused this problem." Ford said getting up.

Another hour or so later………….

They sat around the briefing table again. Ford's team on the right of the table and Chevy's on the left. Ford was leaning against the window that showed the gate, Chevy next to him as they all watched his Carter talk about the information they learned. The pull down TV screen was showing a planet, on the left side of the screen, with information under it and above it. Seeing as they didn't want to have a repeat of what happened last time Chevy's team was here, they opted to let Ford's team do all the talking since it was their universe. If there was something that the other counterpart forgot or there was a question, then they were going to speak up. Mostly it helped to eliminate confusion and stopped the double talk which drove everyone but Ford and Chevy nuts.

"Though it took a bit of time, and a great deal of information gathering that took even less." Samantha said. "We managed to pinpoint the source of the phenomenon to a precise window."

"It took you all, a group who's combined intellect is probably higher than everyone on this base and possibly K-9 included, more time than it should have? That's what you're saying?" Mitchell asked.

They all gave him a look. Chevy's team gave her a look.

"What did your group discuss?" the other Mitchell asked. "He makes a good point."

"It took us awhile to realize the problem, which she's trying to explain." Ford said waving a hand at Samantha.

"You know, they are lying to us." the female Mitchell said to Danielle.

"We should do something about that." Danielle said.

"Yeah. What did it take…." Daniel began.

"We aren't going to discuss this. Sam, please continue." Ford said ignoring the multiple glares he and Chevy got.

"Where was I when we were rudely interrupted, oh right." she said turning back to the screen with a small remote that had a laser pointer unit in it. "This is P47-455. Their point of departure."

She aimed the deceive and it brought up a picture of Earth on the other side of the screen.

"This is Earth, their point of arrival. The worm hole that brought them here," she said making the red dot make a two ended funnel appear between the planets with a spiral in the middle. "Crossed this section of space, bisecting this singularity."

"The black hole that was created when we destroyed the Ori beachhead." Ford's Teal'c said.

"Right. Now, we're theorizing that as they bisected the singularity, subspace was ruptured." she said making the screen change to show a top grid and bottom grid with the planets on either side, on top and bottom, showing as white dots.

The wormhole expanded to show the other team leaving P47-455 in their universe, going through the wormhole and then appearing on the Earth they were currently on instead of their own.

"Creating a rift in the space time continuum that brought that SG-1 into this universe. The same thing happened to Chevy's team as well."

"Why were you able to go with them on the mission and General Carter, Ford couldn't?" Mitchell asked.

"Yeah, what did you do right that I couldn't?" Ford asked.

"I put someone else in charge and told them to tell Reynolds to call me as soon as he got back." Chevy said.

"That simple?"

"Yeah. I wanted to go, so I went."

"Damn. At least our Reynolds is back now." Ford muttered.

"Why didn't the other team you sent to P47-455, how come they didn't end up in the other universe?" Mitchell asked.

"A good question." Ford said getting off the window. "Um, we don't know."

"I suggest we reroute all teams around or away from this event horizon for the time being." Samantha said.

"I'll get Walter on it….." Ford began.

"Unscheduled off world activation!"

"I'll be back." Ford muttered as he walked off and down the stairs quickly. "Who is it Walter?"

"I'm receiving SG-1's I.D.C, again." he said confused.

Ford ran his hands through his hair.

"Oh brother."

"I'm receiving a transmission." Walter said putting it on.

"This is Colonel Mitchell what's the hold up?!"

"They're under attack. Open the Iris."

Walter did so quickly.

"Come on through! Defense teams at ready!" he said then rushed down.

Four people came through quickly, another SG-1 team in camo BDU'S and carrying heavy assault weapons. This Teal'c carried a staff weapon that fired heavy burst shots that was attached to his hip. They looked around skeptically, though got into defensive positions as well as the Iris closed and the gate shut down. Ford waved his hand and the defense team stood down.

"Welcome to an alternate SGC. I'll be quick, then you can go to the infirmary and we'll set you all with hopefully temporary rooms." he said then gave a quick explanation of what he knew, which included what he and Chevy's team just learned. "Just tell me if you understood what I said Carter?"

The Carter on the ramp stood with her team and though skeptical of the info, saw another her in the Gate Control Room with Walter and saw the other's like her team beside her.

"Ah, yes sir. I, get it."

"Good, explain it to your team on or during your infirmary visit. You'll get more explanations later. Dismissed." he said then turned going back into the control room. "Something tells me this is going to continue to happen."

Ford and his team were walking through the hallway talking. After a brief explanation, with his team present, it helped calm the fears and confusion that this new team had.

"We now have four SG-1 teams on this base. You can be damned sure more are on the way. I guess this wormhole has expanded itself." Ford said. "And has jumped into other universes."

"I think we underestimated its influence." Samantha said.

Ford kept himself from saying, ya think.

"It's possible that the spatial tear may have caused a ripple effect." she said.

"Which means, if we don't find a way to stop or close it, other realities will just keep coming and coming here. Which also means those other teams may not be able to ever get home." Ford said.

"Well, yeah. It could be a few or many realties. Any wormhole that passes by that singularity is being redirected here." she said.

"Great, we'll be Grand Central Station before the days out." Ford muttered. "Yeah. It would also explain why gate travel here is unaffected."

"Hmm. Mitchell, go back to the gate room and have Walter dial all the sites he needs to. Have those teams off world right now go to the Alpha site. The gate is to be shut down for outgoing travel until further notice."

"What if any team….."

"Any team that is in trouble, we'll let in. Whoever comes knocking, we'll inform them of the situation and then let them decide what they want to do. Also, have Walter find out if they have any ideas. The rest of you, try to find some solution. Get help from your counterparts if you want."

"Where are you going?" she asked as he kept going and they stopped.

"To eat and cook. If we start getting a lot of teams here, eventually they will be hungry. And what a better way to help alleviate any fears then by having really good food." he said not stopping as he kept walking.

"Good idea. I know I think better after eating something he made." she said.

Several hours later. Carter was working on her laptop as Lee was talking to her. K-9 was in the Gate Control Room scanning the computer system and trying to find a solution to their problem, not to mention trying to find out what the loud sound was that seemed to start their problem.

"Why is it that ever team that has come through the gate so far has been exclusively SG-1?" Lee asked as she kept working. "How come no alternate SG-2's or SG-3's?"

"Well, SG-1 is the front line team. The one to most likely get into trouble off world. And as a result, they'd be the one most likely to be let through."

"Right." he said nodding as he rubbed his chin.

"So far we've turned away over fifty teams and not all of them have been SG-1."

"And still none of them have had the General in them at all, much less him being heard of."

"Nope. He seems to be very special to this universe only. Which is strange."

"Except that clone of him that left. Whatever universe that he ended up in hasn't dialed in yet."

"They may never. Interestingly, each of those teams have dialed in for a different point of origin. No repeats. All originating from a corridor of space, starting from Earth and passing within a few degrees of the singularity."

"What about that, um, superfluous energy signature? Has that happened again?"

"No. Not since the first team gated in."

"Any idea on what it was yet? K-9 have anything."

"No. He's even baffled. But it does remind me of an incident on…."

"K'tau."

They turned to see the first alternate SG-1 Carter standing in the doorway.

"In that case, we introduced a unstable super heavy element into their sun's nuclear reaction." the other Carter said walking in and standing in front of Ford's Carter as she turned from her computer.
"When the wormhole that brought us there passed directly through it," she said placing her hands on her hips. "But in this case, the wormhole is passing through a black hole."

"Who knows what the effect could be."

Lee gave the Sam he worked with a curious stare.

"I figured we could use the help and Ford did say they could so…."

"Well, two heads are better than one."

"Unscheduled off world activation!"

"We better get to work." Carter said turning back to the computer.

Ford finished another explanation, in the infirmary, one he just completed less than ten minutes ago.

"That's it. I'm making a file or billboard or something before I become a walking recorder."

"Ford."

He turned slightly as Daniel and Teal'c walked up.

"Daniel. I was about to come get you. Follow me. Teal'c any information from Bra'tak yet?" he asked as they kept walking.

"He has dispatched a mothership to investigate the location that we learned from the other Colonel Carter." Teal'c said as they passed a team that was commanded by another Colonel Mitchell, but with different members, that were temporary.

"Good. If the Ori try to build another gate, at least we know how to stop it before it gets complete."

"Up to this point, many of the other universes have been remarkably similar."

"To some points anyway." Daniel said as they passed another SG-1 team.

"Indeed."

"Because I'm here it makes more of a difference in the similarities. Now, we have over twelve teams here. I think the real number might be fifteen, not sure."

"At least we are all in good company."

"So far, that's true. Anyway, we recently got another team in and the personal are….a little different. Thought you might want to see this arrangement."

"You're in one finally? Or is it your clone."

"No. Other than Chevy, but I don't really count her. I expected her being out there. As for my clone…." he said with a shrug.

The guard opened the door for them and they walked in seeing a short red headed woman in normal camo BDU'S. She turned to them and gave them a strange look.

"Daniel? Where's General O'Neill?" she asked confused.

"Janet? Wait, I thought you said you talked to all the teams before you let them leave the infirmary?"

"I've been doing it every so often and so has Chevy. Some teams have had to learn everything second hand, in a manner of speaking. Janet's team hasn't heard anything yet. Janet, my name is General Ford Carter. You're in a different universe, alternate universe. I'd love to stay and chat, but other pressing matters need attending to, so I'll leave them here to explain. Besides, you might be more comfortable with them here." he said then left.

"What's going on? What do you mean by alternate universe?"

"You might want to sit down." Daniel said. She did so and he continued. "This may look like home, but it's not. This is not the Stargate Command you left. We're not the Daniel and Teal'c you know. You and your team gated to an alternate reality. This reality."

"Why are you giving me pity like looks?"

"In our reality, Doctor Frasier was injured off world." Teal'c said.

"Since then, she's been at home raising Cassandra, amongst other things."

"What isn't she here?"

"The injure made it difficult for her to walk without a cane, so her career in medicine by use of her hands became practically impossible, in some ways. She's gotten a little better though and works voluntarily at a local hospital."

"Oh. Military must have gave her a big pay out or something then."

"No actually. Um, Ford gave her a million dollars to live off of."

Her eyes widened considerably along with her jaw dropping.

Ford came back after a few explanations and had to call the President with an update. He entered his office and started to grab the phone when he felt the buzz, a strong buzz. Thankfully he got his hanky out in time as he sat down.

"What's up Chevy?" he called out as he grabbed the phone.

He started to talk into the phone when a tall man in a black coat similar to his walked in and sat down across from him. Though he could see himself sitting there, it was a visibly older version, by a few years. A few wrinkles here and there along with some gray in a few places.

"You can go ahead and call him. I can wait." the older Ford said with a wave.

"What team did you come with that they didn't…."

"Inform you of? None. I'm you. Just the…alternate time line version."

"What are you doing here?" Ford asked setting the phone back.

"Time traveling. What else?" the older Ford said grabbing a few chocolates from the small bowl on the desk.

"What else? I thought you were going to commit suicide or something close. You said you hated life and things after we parted."

"I did. But then I came across something in the far future that gave me what I wanted. Imagine the ability to stop time, just for maybe an hour, on a planetary scale. I went back, stopped time, with some more help from future things, replaced my Carter with an almost life like copy, and then restored time after I left. It took my Carter awhile to get over what I did and get over the death of the Teal'c, but once she got over it and saw the future was fixed, she realized why I did it. I did the same with Jack and he decided to live nearby, spending the rest of his years fishing. That was about a decade ago. I'm not sure why but Teal'c decided to die free. We've had Sally, and a boy as well."

"Wow. Talk about change. You're not trying to be like the Doctor are you?"

"Hell no. Watching is one thing, actual interaction is only for television. Besides, I don't have a T.A.R.D.I.S." he said with a huff. "We've got a home on another planet actually. Made quite a few friends too. Sally and Avon are at home with a baby sitter. We came back to see how things turned out here. Think of it as blending in with the crowd and not being seen."

"She's here?"

"Yep. She should be down there helping the other Carter's with the solution."

"What is the solution?"

"Actually, I have a pretty good idea of what's going on. But how and why it is, I don't know. I didn't look on purpose because I wanted to watch and figure it out myself. Well, we both did. Though I can offer you a small piece of info, but later. Right now, I'm hungry and plan on going down to eat. Thought you might want to come and bring all those Carter's a surprise."

The multiple amount of Carter's were now in one of the bigger labs, all doing work of some sort. Some talked around the table, other's were working alone or with another one. Samuel was in there helping as was Doctor Lee. Ford's Sam was at her laptop still looking at the data and working on it as Lee spoke to her.

"22 different SG-1's. 22 different points of origin. But only one point of convergence, this universe. Given the fact that previous trips through this black hole didn't produce a subspace rupture in the subspace structure…." Lee said.

"They may not have produced the rupture, but it is entirely possible that their repeated trips contributed to the deterioration of the space time fabric that, weakened, eventually ceded to the singularity." she said. "Creating the bridge between the various realities."

"And I'm thinking that the proximity of these realities, in relation to each other may account for the absence of the Entropic Cascade Failure." Lee said as Carter nodded in agreement. "But, that still doesn't help us with the main problem. How do we reverse the process?"

"I still don't have the answer to that." she said walking a few steps away and throwing her hands up. "Because if I did, we all wouldn't be here."

"Coffee?" one of the Carter's asked holding up a pot.

"No thanks."

That Carter nodded and went to a different Carter that did signal for it.

"You know, I can't help but think that this whole thing would be easier if the Quantum Mirror could get them all home, but it's just too random and no one would really know what universe they'd be stepping into." Lee said with a sigh.

(A.U. If you hadn't noticed, this writer who is a extremely big fan of this show, apparently didn't notice the small fact that Hammond had the Mirror destroyed. And seeing as the Mirror has been used on occasions in past chapters, I have to say here and now that somehow and someway, for this story, it wasn't destroyed.)

"It's really strange seeing you as a younger person, even though you're not really my Ford. Well, you understand better than anyone else would."

"Yes. Don't take this offensively, but despite the fact your pushing fifty or going past it since he didn't say how long you two had been together so far since rescuing you, you really look good. Gives me an idea of how my Sam is going to look at your age." he said seeing a few wrinkled around her eyes that his Carter didn't have yet. Her hair had lost just a bit of its normal golden blonde look too.

"Thank you. Even though you're different time line wise, not much has changed in the way you love me, or yours I mean."

"Nope. Not much. Though we're still getting used to being parents of one child."

"Parenting can be really difficult at times, but worth every minute."

"It is worth it. Having time travel capability makes it easier on leaving them I take it?"

"Oh yeah. We leave for a few hours to do a few things and then come back. In this case, we'll be gone for about an hour maybe. Usually we come back, still cloaked and see how things are going. If our children are doing fine, we…um…." she said then trailed off.

"Yeah, I can guess pretty easily from there what you two do. Can't blame ya." he muttered quietly as he parked the large rolling food tray outside the door. "Don't say anything yet when I walk in. Just wait."

"Why?"

"I want to see how many of them notice a superior officer in the room. You know, given how you are with some project and how you just drown out everything."

Ford walked in slowly with his hands behind his back and looked around. The many Carter's were working and talking. None of them saw him and the other Carter walk in. They just stood there looking around for several seconds. Ford coughed a little loudly making everyone look at him. All of the Carter's, except one stood at attention quickly. The Carter next to him didn't do anything though.

"Well, that's the quickest I've seen a Carter move around a superior officer in some time. I'd say go back to what you were doing, but at stay at ease for the moment." he said holding up a finger. "I have something I need to say, and give."

"What's going on Ford?"

"First off, I'm here to say that this Carter has came to help." Ford said placing a hand on the shoulder of the Carter next to him.

"One more will help, though the rest of us haven't found anything yet." she said. "Which team number you come with?"

"None actually. I came with another version of him."

"There's actually another team out there with….wait, is this that team that your clone…."

"No." the Sam next to Ford said. "I'm around ten years your senior."

Everyone looked at them confused.

"She came with the Ford that is from the alternate time line."

"Ten years? I thought…."

"I'll explain later." the Sam next to Ford said. "I'm here to help and get a few things before going back to our home in the future."

"The future? Wait then……"

"Sorry. I don't know how or why this is happening." she said shaking her head.

"The other me likes to travel through time and check things out. In this case, he's here with her to see why this problem is happening and seeing as there is much more versions of SG-1, they can blend in without much trouble. I've also brought another volunteer that's offered to help and treats to help your minds all work." he said walking back out a moment.

Most if not all the Carter's looked at Ford's Carter and mouthed treats. She shrugged not sure and then realized what it was as he pushed the tray into the room. On it was the biggest tray of his brownies that she had ever seen. How he managed to get it here without being over run, she had to ask later. But it was quite obvious, most of the room was looking at the brownies instead of at him. A large glass jug of milk and cups were also on the tray.

"Now there is enough of these here for everyone to have at the most five so share. I'd stay to help, but General duties have me else where. So, go back to what you were doing. Oh, and here's the newest help."

He walked out and waved a hand. Martouf walked in and looked around. He had surprise on his face.

"Which one is yours?" he asked quietly.

"That one." Ford said pointing. "If you all need anything, just call or have my Sam call. Or have anyone call actually. I'm the only one of me on the base, except one other, but he doesn't count actually."

"How could you tell yours apart?"

"Other than the eyes, she's wearing the right clothes. Not to mention the watch I made her gave her away quickly. Mostly though, she was the only one not to stand at attention. Good luck ladies, and gents."

Daniel and Teal'c were still talking to Janet. They were talking about the difference in things that had happened and other stuff. How she survived in her universe and how it went in this universe for their Janet. Then a problem came up.

"You may be stuck here. We've been unable to find a solution to getting anyone home." Daniel said.

"No. You have to get us home as soon as possible." she said earnestly.

"We understand. From what Ford said, all of the different Carter's, Doctor Lee and even a few others are trying to find a way to get you all home."

"You don't understand. The Ori have targeted our world. Earth is being ravaged by a plague. Hundreds of thousands are infected. If we don't find a cure soon, the entire planet will be wiped out."

"Yeah, we know about that already. It happened here and a cure was found in time." Daniel said seeing her eyes brighten considerably. "And if we are able to get you home, there is no doubt in my mind that Ford will give you many supplies worth."

"Indeed."

Since Martouf wasn't really into chocolate, Sam took him to the mess hall to show him what there was, though she took a few of the brownies with her. They were talking at a table, about his universe. In his, he and Sam got together and then ended up breaking up because of some disagreements. She moved on and had someone else now. Sam asked who it was, just in case she knew the person when the first Samantha that showed up when all the trouble started came in and sat down next to her with a laptop.

"I think I have something." she said.

"This is the post-mortem analysis of the P3W-451 incident." Ford's Sam said looking at the screen.

Martouf was lost and she noticed.

"A planet who's orbit strayed to close to a black hole. One of our teams was attempting to gate back at the same time, and as a result, the SGC couldn't shut down the gate from this end. I don't see…."

"We were unable to severe the connection because Stargate Command was still connected to the singularities gravitational field through the open Stargate." the other Sam said.

"But we're not trying…."

"In that case, we used a shaped charge to deliver a energy surge to the matter stream, forcing the matter stream to jump to a different gate, thereby severing the connection."

"That must have been the sound they heard. And the superfluous energy signature that accompanied the matter stream from the first wormhole. It was some sort of large…."

"Maybe a super nova or gamma ray burst that discharged the exact millisecond that that wormhole passed through the singularity. It's a one in a billion fluke that ruptured subspace and created the point of confluence that drew the effected realities into this one."

"Then to seal the bridge between the multiverse, we have to target that point of confluence, basically recreate the circumstances that caused the breach in the first place."

"But how is that possible?" Martouf asked. "You said it yourself, it was a one in a billion freak incident."

"Well, it would drop significantly if we took the wormhole out of the equation."

"Then what happens to us?" he asked looking at the other Carter.

"We'd be stranded here." the other Carter said slowly. "I considered not telling you about this."

"I understand why you hesitated, but you made the right decision. Sealing the rupture will ensure that no other teams get stranded here." Carter said with understanding and remorse.

"That's provided that this actually works. We still have one major obstacle to overcome. How are we going to deliver a explosive device into the singularity?"

"Well, we can get help from a friend." Sam said with a smile.

"Okay, so you want to call the Asguard, to see if they will let us use their Time Dilation Device, which I wish I owned, so that it can be used to blow up a black hole to ensure that other teams don't get stranded here. And if this idea works, all these other teams will be stuck here with us, more than likely having to try and find a way home through the Quantum Mirror, if they can even get that lucky." Ford asked leaning back in the chair with his right hand, using three fingers to hold it up his head as he elbow rested on the arm.

"Um, yeah. Ford, is something wrong?" she asked sitting across from him. The rest of the team and the other Carter and her team were also in the room.

"Actually there is." he muttered. "I never thought I would have this sort of problem. In case….every one of you hadn't noticed, I'm been getting reports you could say of different Carter's asking about me. One includes you."

"I admit I was a little curious about you. Your commanding style and such." the other Carter said with a wave of her hand. "Things are a lot different here than in our universe and….."

"I can understand that." he said cutting her off. "But there have been more personal questions I've heard. One was about my loyalty. Another about my performance to name two."

"From what I've heard, your loyalty to the people here and to this planet….."

"Not, that loyalty."

"What?" his Mitchell asked hoping it wasn't what he thought Ford meant.

"You mean to me?" his Sam asked pointing at herself.

"Yes."

"Please tell me that when you said performance you didn't…." his Mitchell began somehow knowing that he was going to get the answer he didn't want to hear.

"They weren't asking about my job."

"That's sexual harassment." his Carter stated.

"I can't do anything about it. I can't bring myself to ask every Carter, some twenty or more of them now who's doing it. I know I can exclude three of them. And yes I am including Samuel in the list of Carter's on the base."

"What else is being asked?" his Carter asked.

"Things about my past, that I've done here. I don't know if you know this, but it'll probably get around eventually, especially if you end up stuck here, but I can't die. I am also a Ancient."

The other team were startled by the news, though the other Carter nodded slightly.

"I heard the idea of those things, but thought they were rumors, until I heard that you weren't the only, Immortal as they said you are called, in the base and that some lady named Kate was also one. I never got to speak to her personally, though I heard she spoke to a few of the other Carter's."

"You're an Ancient? What did the SGC here do to get that lucky?" the other Daniel asked. "Did you descend or….."

"No. I came here from another universe actually. We'll just leave it at that for personal reasons." he said then sat up and leaned both elbows on the desk. "We have a further problem with this idea, though I have to agree with plugging the hole, we really need to concentrate on getting these teams home."

He looked at his Sam sternly.

"The questions I'm about to ask, have merit and I know what I'm doing so please don't interrupt, not matter how much you feel the need to Colonel." he said then looked at the other Sam. "With everything you've heard about me, learned and whatever. I need to what you feel when you look at me, as if you wanted a relationship with me."

"Wha…." his Sam began.

"Colonel." he warned and then looked at the others with the same look that said don't speak. "Well?"

"This is…." she said a little uncomfortable.

"Just answer it please. It's very important."

"Alright. With what I've learned and heard, as you say, you sound like someone I could really grow love and cherish as she does. Someone you could count on and from other personal things I've heard, if we did get together, I'd be more than willing to give up my career for someone like you, and not look back. But that's not going to happen, mostly because I am married to a man back home who I really miss a lot right now." she said then looked down a moment in sadness.

"What was the point of that?" his Sam asked not caring what he said. "Because I don't…."

"I wondered if you had seen it Sam. But seeing as you've been busy and know that I am truly that loyal, you probably didn't even think of checking your other version out, in a sense. When I entered that room earlier and you were all working, before I brought in the brownies, I noticed quite a few of them checking me out, in more ways than one. Later, I was propositioned by one of them."

"You were what?!" his Sam exclaimed.

"What?" the Mitchell's and Daniel's exclaimed at the same time.

"Damn. That rumor is true then." the other Carter muttered flushing slightly.

"What rumor?" Ford asked not sure if he wanted to know.

She started opening her mouth and then leaned over whispering in her counterparts ear. Sam blushed, badly.

"Oh my god. Then our house….." his Sam began saying when she trailed off and covered her face.

"Actually, I heard it was a private roomed hotel." the other Sam muttered quietly.

"Oh god." Ford muttered covering his face and rubbing it as he realized what she said. "More than one of the other Carter's have asked me some questions, though some were a little personal, but nothing that wasn't a big thing not to answer. Out of the twenty some odd, I can say with certainty that six or seven of them would try and interfere with our marriage."

"I can't see Sam as being someone like that." his Daniel said.

"This is the multi verse we're dealing with. Any of those teams could have a hidden agenda here and we'd never know it until it was too late. So far, nothing has been stolen, though a few request have been made that I can grant. Such as the cure for the Prior plague. A few others have asked for one of my bullets, which I will probably provide to each team. I am going to approve the use of the Time Dilation Device and its use, in the meantime, we have to find a way to get these other teams home. Though the President has said that them staying here would be okay because it would help us in our fight against the Priors and whatever else comes along, I personally couldn't deal with it for very long. The rest of everyone else could be easy, it's all the other Carter's. There is only three Carter's I can deal with and two are right here."

"I….probably shouldn't ask, but…do I have anything to worry about?" his Sam asked.

"Like if one of them tried to impersonate you? No. I can easily tell you from the other's. It's your eyes that give you away."

She nodded with a smile, feeling reassured.

"I'll call the Asguard, seeing as I need to check on something Thor was trying to get me, and you all figure out whatever you can to get them home until then. If I come up with any idea's, I'll let you know." he said standing up. "This whole conversation, though most of it disturbing, don't tell anyone or ever try asking the other's Carter's anything about it. We just forget what they are doing pertaining to me. That's an order."

They nodded, though didn't look comfortable with the idea. After they left and he called the Asguard, he returned to his desk and got his thermos of cold coffee from the fridge.

"Oh, this day is turning out so…." he started muttered to himself when he turned away quickly to sneeze. "Who is it?"

"Just me. I hate when that happens, which isn't very often actually." the other Ford said walking in and putting his hanky away as he sat down. "Heard what was said in here and been hearing the different questions about us. Yes, they ask about both of us."

"Something is up then. I just haven't figured out what it is yet."

"Me either. But maybe it's just curiousness about who we are, we are rare in the universe."

"So far that clone of us never showed up."

"I've noticed that. Wonder if he's doing okay."

"Knowing how we are, our past and stubbornness and everything else, he's doing well, maybe better." Ford said picking his pen up and looking at a folder.

"Or worse considering what we have and he probably doesn't."

"Yeah. Family and all."

"Um, you know that question you're afraid of asking Sam?"

"Which one? There are a few." Ford said setting the pen down.

"That one, about why we go at it…."

"You didn't?!"

"I figured why not. Two kids now and the fact we barely do anything together alone, lots of love and trust for each other. Want to know?"

Ford sat back in the chair as he looked at the other version of himself. He wasn't sure if he wanted to know the answer, but curiosity got the better of him.
"We know she's not a nymphomaniac. You've seen her past and showed me enough to know that's true. Hell, from what we noticed, she was more interested in her future than having sex."

"Well, she is it with us. We've always wondered why. Other than because we didn't marry her to just, 'get lucky almost every night'." he said using his fingers. "My Carter's quote. Our gentleness and ability to reach her in ways that she didn't believe possible, make her almost constantly thinking about it. Besides the fact that Janet used to tell her how a active sex life was healthy and good for her."

"Yours maybe. Since you guys don't work like we do. Well, I don't…."

"We do work, occasionally. Looking at future technology, sometimes past to figure out how it works and things of that nature. We are currently building a ship together. The time ship we use actually has been rebuilt with accommodations. It's now just over the length of a semi trailer. Bedroom, bathroom, kitchen, small lab area, things like that."

"Damn. I'm envious. Wish I could do that with a ship."

"Maybe one day. That's not a future thing I know. We barely check things out on you guys at all, personally anyway. But as for that question, I figured since I knew the answer and you wouldn't probably ever ask…."

"You'd let me know. Got it. Do you pass out more often than not still?"

"Fifty-fifty." he said tilting his hand back and forth.

"I still haven't figured out how my Sam doesn't pass out first. It's almost rare."

"Can't help you there. Did you know that Janet told Sam, that she is envious."

"She told me that once, sometime after the time travel incident you went on."

"Always thought she was really attractive, but, no common interest really. All this aside, I came here to talk some serious business, well, not business, anyway……we need to talk before her and I leave."

"Should I close the door?"

"I'll do it." he said getting up. "Don't tell anyone anything. Wouldn't want to mess up the timeline."

"But telling me would…."

"We know better. We'll keep quiet. Hell, if we had ended up in the Doctor's universe and was in his past, we'd keep quiet."

"Up to a point. But otherwise, all true."

A couple hours later, Thor was able to send them the Time Manipulation Device, but unfortunately he was unable to come himself and sent a different Asguard. Also unfortunately, the thing Ford wondered about wasn't ready so it wasn't brought either. He called the team back and they sat around the table as the Asguard spoke to them.

The object was placed next to him, or was until he had picked it up and looked at it. It was all silver, with a big ball on top. Just near the bottom, in a tri pattern, was metal tripod arms coming down at an arc that made up the stand for it. The arc stand was connected by a thin ring of metal on the inside.

"Thor sends his apologies, for not attending personally."

"He's busy. I can understand that. Especially today." Ford said muttering out the last part.

"He and Heimdhal are in a neighboring galaxy, dealing with a most sensitive matter."

"Hmm. Can't tell us I take it?"

"Not at this time."

"Didn't think so. Thanks for bringing this Kvasir."

"So, do you think this will work?" Mitchell asked.

"I prefer not to prognosticate."

"He wants to know the odds Kvasir. And so do I." Ford said looking at the device from different angles.

"Less than twelve percent, and this is provided that you are able to enact your plan before the black hole decimates your ship."

"That won't happen. We aren't getting kissable close. Just enough to be outside the range and fire off the weapon. Let gravatic pull do the rest." Ford said frowning at the device as he put it back. "Okay, I'll tell the Prometheus to get ready. It's going to be a couple of days though, so you all go back to trying to find a way to get these people home."

"Why so long General?" Mitchell asked.

"Other than some maintenance that is being done, they're doing some recalibrations on the hyperdrive along with…..some other job, which I can't remember at the moment. So, the ship can't move except on sublight engines and thrusters. I'll call you when the ship is ready." he said going into his office.

"I've read the reports on the Asguard, and they aren't what I expected." Mitchell asked standing right in front of Sam as she got up. He at least asked the question in a very low tone.

"What did you expect?"

"Pants for one."

She chuckled as he moved out of the way.

"You aren't the only one. You eventually get used to it." she said patting him on the arm as he left.

"I'm bored and tired of cooking. And we've ran out of the brownie mixing stuff along with a few other items."

"I'm tired of sneezing every time you, Kate or my other self comes around." he said sitting back and putting his hanky away.

"Ditto, but what are we going to do about it? It's a gene thing." she said sitting across from him.

"It does suck. So, what are you thinking of doing? We can't spar again, we promised our Sam's we wouldn't."

"True, but that was sparring."

"Hmm." he said getting an idea of what she was saying. "They won't see it that way you know?"

"We aren't trying to kill each other. Just, release some spent up energy. So, with or without the coats?"

"Defiantly with. If they show up, we can at least say we kept ourselves safe. I figure when we start getting tired and hot, then we can take them off. Same rules as before as well."

"No face, hair or below the belt, got it. Let's use the other swords instead."

"We'll destroy them in seconds." he said with a look.

"Oh, right." she said with a frown. "Didn't think of that really."

There was a multiple amount of people in the room, training, sparring and working out. When the two came in, a lot of people who knew Ford got the message and back off the large mat he used. There was also a lot of the other versions of teams in there and most of them paid attention.

"Any points or anything?"

"Yeah. We'll say, possible kill hits. Depending on the force of blows, assuming you get through." he said making her smirk and chuckle darkly. "Will depict if it's a normally fatal blow or not."

"Works for me. We'll make up things along the way if we need to." she said removing her sword from the coat.

He nodded and removed his pointing it at her like she did. The ends barely touching it and they held the swords out with one hand.

"Should we…." she asked with a point of her head.

"Nah. Let them watch."

A few seconds later, they still hadn't moved. And the time started getting longer.

"You two going to do anything?" a Mitchell asked.

"Um….you got your dice?" he asked.

"Yeah." she said digging into her pocket while still looking at him with the sword out. He did the same and they tossed one die each at Mitchell.

"What am I suppose to do with these?" he asked picking them up.

"Toss them and tell us the numbers." Ford said still not moving like Chevy.

"One towards me and one towards him." Chevy said.

"Why not flip a coin?"

"We'll pick the same side." they both said.

"Oh. Okay." he said then tossed them. "Um, six on the left, two for the right."

Since Ford was on the left, he started.

"Oh, this is not good." his Daniel muttered as he watched a moment.

"Indeed." Teal'c said sitting up from the weights he was lifting.

"Should we say anything to Sam?"

A smile came to Teal'cs face.

"No."

After a moment of watching them clang their swords together at speeds that sometimes seemed impossible.

"I have to admit, they are really good."

"Indeed."

"I once saw a mock sword fight in Egypt, I mean it was actual sword fighting, but they weren't trying to kill each other. These two make what I saw child's play."

Outside, it was nice weather and the day still had a few hours to go until night time. So far, it had been a couple of days of having this many teams on the base. It was getting tiring for some people and hope was beginning to run out for others.

While they were, sword playing, for quite awhile now, Sam and Kvasir were working in her lab on the large bomb, similar to the one that was used to try and destroy the shield that the Ori were using on that planet before. Actually, she was doing all the work while the Asguard complained and pointed out things. Martouf was working on a laptop nearby on another program.

"The distance between the launch point and the target is crucial." Kvasir said. "And you must be precise in your calculations."

Sam sighed lightly and kept working on her computer.

"I know."

"The slightest oversight in either the timing of the explosion or the proximity." he said as she quit working and dropped her head. "Of your ship to the singularity, could result in a failed mission at best, or certain death, at worst."

"You know what, I'm practically dead tired. Mostly because my daughter didn't feel like letting either of us sleep last night, so why don't you finish this for me so I don't screw it up." she said with a little sarcasm.

"Of course." Kvasir said with a tone that hinted at that only he could do it to begin with.

She resisted the urge to snap at him as she started walking over to see how Martouf was doing when Walter walked in.

"The Prometheus is almost ready Colonel."

"Where's Ford?"

"I believe he and the other General Carter are in the training room sparring Colonel."

"Excuse me?"

"According to what I've heard, they've been…fencing, I think is the right word."

"You mean they are going at each other with their swords? The swords that can't be damaged or broken and such?"

"I believe so Colonel." Walter said seeing and hearing anger in her voice.

"How badly have they hurt each other?" she growled.

"Surprisingly not at all. From the reports I've gotten, I've been monitoring them ever so often just in case, they've never managed to hit each other."

"They haven't hit each other? Well…..that's, strange. They practically killed each other before. When did you last check on them?"

"A few minutes ago Colonel. I thought about telling them personally, but with the incident last time and how much you…."

"You want me to stop them. Not a problem Walter. Tell the Prometheus we'll be getting ready."

"I don't understand what is happening Samantha."

"Ford and his counterpart are fighting each other with swords that the Asguard made them personally."

"Counterpart? Oh, that tall dark haired female that he talked about. I don't remember her name."

"Chevy. Their parents named them after vehicle companies."

"I have finished the calibrations." Kvasir said now standing next to her.

"Thanks Kvasir. I'll be right back."

They were blocking each other and had been the entire time. The sounds of clanging swords had gotten quite a bit of attention from others in the base and most if not all the teams were there watching now. Though they never noticed and just kept clanging away. At first, there was the possibility of betting, but once a few of the other Carter's explained who the two really were, one of which was Samuel, they realized that there was little chance of there being anything to bet on. Neither of them had ever hit each other much less had ever stopped long enough to let a chance, other than for the brief few seconds they took to shrug out of their coats while still fighting. They eventually kicked them almost off the mat while still fighting. Kate was watching and though had been getting lessons and still was, had no idea just how skilled Ford was until this moment. The alternate time line Ford and Sam came to watch for a few moments before leaving to go back home to the future. A lot of the Carter's weren't surprised to hear that Samuel was enjoying the moment. He being a male Carter just showed off how much he was a he. Some of the Carter's thought it was interesting to watch and a little bit of a turn on to see Ford going at it, but most of them thought it was just another guy thing. Most of the room was filled with guys anyway. Since they had removed their coats, everyone could see they were really working hard since they were sweating pretty bad and it showed more than it should have on Chevy's chest. They both only had their black T-shirts on under the coats. Ford and Chevy never really did wear those SGC BDU button up shirts really. When questioned, Samuel pointed out he didn't care if everyone fantasized about Chevy. They'd never have her anyway and seeing as telling someone not to think about it would be pointless, he didn't bother. They were both blocking each other and were a little close when they both jerked from being hit by zat guns. No one did anything as Ford's Daniel quickly explained that it took something like this to break their concentration, though it was a lie. He and the rest of the team, both teams, didn't want everyone to know what happened the last time Ford and Chevy fought and the promises they made before. Even though they both dropped, they both went down in a cry of pain. They're swords had slipped or they did in the sense of dropping their guards by accident when they were hit by the zat guns. Her sword had dropped cutting him across the chest, nothing really serious, but enough to bleed, and then it went right down through his right foot. She got hit right down the middle of her chest, doing enough damage she was bleeding enough to need stitches, if not for her healing ability. It ripped her shirt right open and cut the bra in half as well. Thankfully she landed the other direction away from all the people so they didn't see her chest.

No one moved as the two stayed on the mat in pain. Not screaming but were groaning, and saying a few words. Chevy didn't move but Ford sat up and grabbed the sword, only to let go when he almost cut his fingers off.

"Nice Sam. You managed to do it again." Daniel said.

"They deserve it. He promised." she growled lowering the zat guns. "Besides, yelling didn't work last time and wouldn't have worked this time either. They did say shoot them."

"Shouldn't we be calling the infirmary." one of the Daniel's asked.

More than a few people in the room said it was pointless and to watch.

Ford's chest did heal before their eyes though his foot didn't and was bleeding visibly.

"Sam, they promised not to spar like they did before. This is different." Daniel said.

"Not in my book."

Daniel shook his head as did Mitchell as she walked away from them.

"The Prometheus is ready." Samantha said as the other's dispersed seeing the show was over and were told to break it up now.

"Fine." he grunted out as he put his hands on either side of the flat of the blade and pulled. "God that hurt. We told you make a noise, not shoot us. Or wait, we did say shoot. Humph. Hey Chevy, you okay?"

She muttered something and still didn't turn over as he set the sword aside.

"Samuel, she wants you."

He knelt down and then after Chevy muttered something, took his uniform coat off and helped her up while keeping her chest covered.

"Um, sorry." Ford said seeing what he did.

"I seem to have got you in the same place. Now, if we ever come back here or you end up in our universe, either case, and we go at this again….walk up or something, better yet, throw something between us. That will get our attention. This is the second time I've had to replace my bra because of you." she muttered then walked off after Samuel got her coat.

"I told you two not…."

"You said something about the Prometheus Colonel."

"She's ready to go."

"Good. I'm going to take a shower, then you can give me a update on the bomb and such." he said standing up.

"You promised me…"

"That we would not fight. Yes. In this case, we knew what we were doing, and though it looked like we were trying to kill each other, we weren't. It was just harmless sword play. Now, if you'll excuse me." he said walking away before she said anything else.

"General, can I have a word with you?" Janet asked as he came out of the locker room.

"I'm on the way to the briefing room, so sure."

"I want to make a request, on the behalf of all the teams stranded in this reality. Please, postpone this mission until we find a way to get home."

"I can't. I want to, seriously, but if other teams get stranded here, then they won't be able to help much less find another way to get home from their universe. I heard you need the cure, as does a few other teams. So you'll be getting it, as soon as the way to go home is found."

"But if you…."

He stopped and pulled her into an empty room.

"I have it from someone who knows what they are talking about that you all get home. But they didn't tell me how or when. All they said was that everyone gets home. So this mission has to continue because he said it was part of the plan to get everyone home. Don't tell anyone what I've said."

"He? You aren't meaning that future you that was helping and talking to a lot of us?"

"Yeah. I'm surprised he told a lot of people who he really was." Ford said scratching his head. "He didn't know how everyone got here or how to get anyone home, but he did tell me before leaving, well before the sword fight, that everyone made it home and he came to find out why. I'm guessing he figured it out but couldn't say anything otherwise he'd mess up the timeline. Anyway, just keep waiting. There's over twenty Carter's working on this problem, Chevy and our dog K-9. Just give it time."

"The longer we are here, the more people who are getting sicker and dying in my world."

"I'm sorry Janet. I'd send you home with a snap of my fingers if I could, but I can't. Just know you'll be getting home and probably soon. And you'll have the cure to give out. Beyond that, there's little else I can do."

"Alright General. Thank you for doing what you can."

Ford's SG-1 were on the Prometheus. Mitchell was at the control station on the left of the Captain chair while Teal'c was in the right. Carter and Kvasir beamed onto the bridge in front of them. Daniel was standing off to the side of the console that Teal'c vacated as Sam walked toward it.

"We finished loading the warhead and the Time Dilation Generator." she said.

"Once the final system checks are complete, we are good to go." Mitchell said.

Daniel looked off to his left as the other SG-1 team, the first team to enter their universe walked onto the bridge.

"Where's the crew?" the other Daniel asked.

"You're looking at it." Mitchell said getting up and taking the command chair.

"Given the dangers we will face, it was decided that we were to proceed alone." Teal'c said.

"So, if this plan goes FUBAR, we're the only ones that go down with the ship." the other Mitchell said. Mitchell waved a pointed finger and then looked at the controls on the arm of the chair.

"Well, theirs plenty more from where we came from right?" Daniel said getting strange looks from everyone.

"The perilous nature of this mission should not be taken lightly." Kvasir said. "There is a chance that the Prometheus will not survive this voyage."

"You Asguard have got to have more faith in us humans. Thor does." someone stated rather forcefully from off the bridge.

The other SG-1, still in their black outfit, jumped and turned around quickly. Ford's SG-1 were also startled, but not as bad.

"General, what are you doing here?" the other Mitchell asked.

Ford noticed the man looked worried as did his team.

"I'm coming with." he said making a gesture with his hands to part the way.

"You never told us you were coming." Carter said looking at him.

"I didn't know if Chevy would take over for me."

"Why are you coming General? There's no need to protect us or anything." his Mitchell said. "Wait, not that that's what….that didn't come out right."

"Don't worry about it." Ford said making a thumb gesture to move. Mitchell got up with a questioning look as Ford sat in the command chair. "I'm coming other than to get out from behind the desk and to get out of the mountain, but because, I've never commanded a starship before. And this is one opportunity I'm not missing."

His Sam chuckled and turned back to the station.

"So commanding a base isn't enough?" Mitchell asked.

"It doesn't go anywhere. This does. I think we'll be fine Kvasir. Thanks for your help and once we're done, we'll bring back your property. Safe and un-damaged."

"Well, good luck to you all." he said then beamed out.

"I miss Thor." Daniel said.

"Me too. I don't like Kvasir's attitude." Ford muttered.

"More like pain in the ass attitude." Carter muttered. "Kept telling me how to do my job and the consequences if I failed."

"Well, what are we waiting for?" Ford asked looking between the two.

"System checks are complete." Mitchell said.

"Coordinates are set. We're ready to go." Carter said.

"Let's go then. Sooner we're finished, the sooner we might get an idea on how to get everyone else home."

"You certainly have a good outlook on all this. What if we fail? Shouldn't one of you be back on Earth with….um, your daughter. Sorry, can't remember her name." the other Mitchell said.

"No. She's fine and we'll be coming home. I know it. That future like version of me says we succeeded and got everyone home. He just didn't give any details."

"What did he say exactly?" Daniel asked. "Because if we don't have to go…"

"He says we succeed in our mission and got everyone home. Exact words. Refused to say anything else." Ford said with a shrug. "Drove me crazy that he wouldn't say anything else."

"You're sure?" his Carter asked.

"Yep. So, engage, or, make it so, or whatever order it takes to get this bucket going." he said waving a hand at the large window.

"Okay then. Here we go." Carter said with a small laugh as she activated the hyperdrive. They felt the ship surge forward.

"I'm going to go eat something. Didn't get the chance to after all that sword play." he said then walked off the bridge quickly.

"That is the weirdest General I have ever met." the other Mitchell said rubbing the back of his neck. "He's….."

"Different from everyone else? Yeah. That's why we love him." Carter said.

"Indeed." Teal'c said.

"I'm hungry too. Wonder what he's making." Daniel said leaving.

"I'm going to." the other Daniel said.

Eventually everyone left leaving Carter on the bridge. She put in on autopilot and left as well.

"Which one of them propositioned you?" she asked as they sat alone at the table eating sandwich's he had made.

The other's had theirs and either ate or left to somewhere else. The other SG-1 left to probably talk to each other or something. Taking their sandwich's with them, drinks and such.

"One of the civilian types." he said around a bite. "It was that, but more like, would I do it if I could. She said something about an injury that made it impossible for her to have children so she decided to ask. She figured I'd say no, but wanted to find out anyway. And she said she would jump me if I said yes. Shocked the hell out of me since I didn't think I'd ever hear something like that from….in a sense you."

"I hope you don't think less of me or something….."

"No. It feels weird ever time I remember her saying it, but otherwise, I ignore it. The memories I have with you override everything else." he said with a certain look.

"The ship is on autopilot and we have quite awhile before we get to the singularity." she said with a suggestive smile. "And since there is no one around…..in a sense."

"You do know that they would realize what we're doing?"

She shrugged.

"We've been working for a long time, with lots of stress. We could say that we're just tired, like everyone probably is and go to bed early." she said batting her eyes seductively.

"What if something comes up?"

"There's that other me that can fix it."

"You know, I've always wondered something, but was afraid to ask. That alternate timeline me asked his Sam." he said as they got up.

"What question would you be afraid of asking me?"

"I'll tell you in the room."

Once in the room, he told her the thing that his alternative time line version said about the question. They did inform the other's they were going to get some sleep before they arrived. The other's said they'd come get them if they needed anything.

"Were you afraid I'd be mad or something?" she asked as they sat on the bed.

"Or something. It just sounded like a strange question and weird."

"Well, that other me answered right." she said pushing him back and crawling on top.

"I wonder if Samuel is like this?" he muttered.

"Nope. Chevy said she is though." she said.

"Too much info there Sam."

"You wondered."

"You're weird."

"That's what makes us the perfect couple." she said tapping his nose. "We are both weird."

"What if we come under attack or….."

"You're killing the mood, but good point. I am tired. Since Sally didn't let us sleep much last night, or the night before."

"Must have been a bad dream."

"Or she was just full of energy. I'm guessing energy by the way she kept walking around and exploring."

They talked for about and hour and then got some sleep, her still lying on top of him.

Several hours later and the ship almost at its destination, there was still several hours left to go, though, both Mitchell's were in the mess hall eating and talking about some memory about someone drinking bad orange juice and spitting it all over the place. Everyone was up though. Ford and Carter were on the bridge. The Daniel's and Teal'cs were somewhere. The other Carter was somewhere else on the ship too. That was until she walked into the mess hall finding the two Mitchell's laughing.

"Reminiscing over old times?" she asked.

"Yeah." her Mitchell said.

"Hell, I could talk to this guy all day." Mitchell said.

"No doubt." she muttered.

"You finish your shift?" her Mitchell asked.

"Yeah. The other Carter and the General are up there now. I'm exhausted, I'm going to bed."'

"Speaking of which, it's past my bed time." the other Mitchell said finishing his drink.

"And you need your beauty sleep." Mitchell said saluting him with his cup.

"Well, look who's talking."

Mitchell laughed and finished his drink as the other two walked out.

"So how'd it go?" the other Mitchell asked as they were far enough away from the mess hall.

"I found a way around all the security protocols." she said as they kept walking and got onto the elevator. "Everything is set."

"Perfect. By the time they figure what happened, it will be too late."

"There's only one problem, the internal sensors are malfunctioning and from what me and the General found out, the system had an overload. We tried replacing the parts, but apparently there's a glitch in the program that's making the overload to continue. I couldn't figure it out and neither could he. Since it wasn't a big thing, we left it alone."

"So basically, we can't scan the ship for them if they escape or something?"

"Yep. On the bright side, we can hide from them detecting us if something goes wrong with the plan."

"Nothing should go wrong. They suspect nothing."

"I doubt the General notices anything other than her anyway. With the things I heard, and with that strange but apparently true rumor, he watches her more than anything else when she's nearby. Did you notice how tired they both seemed to still be after they supposedly went to their room to sleep?"

"Yeah. I chalked it up as they used to sleeping without their baby nearby to wake them or something."

"No." she said shaking her head. "They were not sleeping, at least not much from what I gathered."

"You mean they were, having sex?" he asked a little shocked. "While on duty?"

"Oh yeah. From what I heard about how long they spent rather recently in a private room, in some hotel in Denver, I would have been surprised to see them come to the bridge completely rested."

"What rumor are you talking about?"

"Something private that I'm not repeating."

"Because it concerns you."

"Because I had a similar experience. Or I should say close."

"Similar? Oh, the honeymoon." he said nodding as they got off the elevator.

"They were only there for a Star Trek convention and the fact they were given a week off. So it was like a second honeymoon, even though they haven't even been married five years."

"Well, from everything I've heard, they're practically the perfect couple."

Sometime later, the other Carter was back on the bridge on Ford's left. His Sam was on his right at the other console. The scene of white-ish blue passing by the ship as it traveled through hyperspace went away as they dropped out and went to sublight engines.

"Wow. Never seen a black hole this close." Ford said leaning forward in his chair. "Looks rather pretty in blue. Wait a minute. I think…."

"Where are you going?"

"Taking a picture, per say." he said going to a station in the back.

The other Sam chuckled lightly.

"Yeah, he is weird sometimes." Carter said shaking her head like her counterpart.

The other Teal'c and Mitchell were walking through the ship headed for a certain area near the bottom on the long neck section. Their Daniel got off the elevator and walked up.

"Showtime." Mitchell said walking.

Teal'c and Daniel walked onto the bridge as Ford walked back up and sat in the chair rubbing his hands together.

"We're approaching the singularity." the other Carter said as Teal'c and Daniel stood behind the command chair.

"What are you so happy about?" Daniel asked glancing at Ford.

"I got a picture of it. Plan to frame it and put it up back home." he said holding his hands up like he was already holding it.

"You can't do that though. People…"

"We work at a place that does Deep Space Telemetry, remember?"

"Oh yeah. Right." Daniel muttered feeling stupid.

"Yeah. Times like this that that cover story works out. Can bring home pictures. Okay, it's your show here Colonels. Start it when you're ready."

Carter smiled as she started pushing buttons and such.

"I'm starting the calculations to the minimal prime distance to the warhead launch."

Unbeknownst to the other's, who were looking at the black hole, the other Carter pulled up a map of the ship that showed a lower section of the neck area, and she began messing with the protocol system. She glanced up every so often to see what they were all doing, mostly glancing at Ford.

The other three of her team got to the 6th armory and after seeing the door was not opening, waited.

"Come on Carter." Mitchell muttered.

"Is there something on my face or…." Ford asked after he had noticed her look at him more than once. He wiped his face thinking his Carter might have left lip stick on it.

"Sorry. I was thinking of….never mind." the other Carter said quickly going back to looking at her station.

She quickly pushed the right buttons and down below, the other three looked up as the door opened.

"I don't look like that cop…."

"No."

"I've got to call that hotel when we get back."

Daniel walked in and pointed out the box they needed as Mitchell started looking around. Mitchell opened it and pulled out a zat gun, giving them each one.

"How much longer Sam? The view is beautiful, but too dangerous." Ford asked.

"About two minutes."

He nodded and sat back.

"K-9 should be able to clear up the picture if I blow it up to say…"

"A 20 by 20 would be nice in the main room. You could put the Enterprise picture in our room." Carter said not looking away from her screen.

"That's a nice idea."

"Glad I thought of it. Ah, here we are, relaying the information." Carter said with a smile.

"Received. Engaging sublight engines. Proceeding to coordinates." the other Carter said.

"We've reached the target location." Mitchell said after he came across his counterpart standing in the hallway. He was going to their quarters to see if they were there.

"Yeah, I heard." the other Mitchell said with his hands behind his back.

"Yeah, I think they're just circling, looking for parking." Mitchell said rolling a finger in the air.

He realized quickly something was wrong. And was right when his other self pulled a zat out and shot at him. He dove out of the way and took off running down the corridor quickly. Mitchell spun in the air as he was suddenly clothes lined by an arm he didn't see there moments ago.

"I should warn you, I've been practicing those Sodan moves." he said slowly rising to his feet.

Teal'c slowly took a step forward.

"I warned you." he said barely able to keep standing.

Though his brain was telling him to lash out and defend himself, he couldn't. Teal'c grabbed him by the back of the collar and pushed him into the bulkhead, head first. Mitchell slowly turned around in a daze as Teal'c still kept held of him.

"Wouldn't it have been easier to just zat him?" Daniel asked as he and the other Mitchell ran up.

"Easier yes, but much less gratifying."

Teal'c pushed Mitchell down the corridor toward the bridge.

"Did he just insult me?"

"Why is it blue?"

"The…." his Carter began when Mitchell walked in rubbing the back of his head.

"Mitchell, did you fall….okay, can rule out falling down apparently." Ford muttered as the rest of the other SG-1 team came in and pointed zat's at them.

"What's going on?" Daniel asked raising his hands.

"We're making a slight detour." the other Mitchell said with a nod. Ford and Carter looked at the other Carter, who gave them a slightly evil smirk.

"Setting course for new coordinates."

The ship turned to the right and took off into hyperspace.

"Let's go. No funny business either. Oh, General, remove your coat and weapons please. Leave them in the chair." the other Mitchell said.

Ford did so, reluctantly and then stepped down following the others out. At least to the doorway, when he stopped and turned to them.

"Why are you doing this and where are we going?"

"That's none of your business. We may or may not explain things later." Mitchell said pushing him with the end of the zat.

"If you just told us what it is, we could help."

"Nah, we got it." Mitchell said shaking his head.

"This is mutiny." Ford said turning around.

"Well, it's for….." Mitchell began saying as he started forward as Ford began walking as well.

They all barely saw as he spun around and knocked all three zat's from their hands. Daniel was quickly shoved away hitting the floor. Mitchell got hit with a blow that pushed him back into the console behind him. Teal'c actually succeeded in catching Ford in the face with a backhand. Ford's head snapped to the left, but otherwise he didn't move. Teal'c was shocked and it was just enough Ford needed to shove him away as well into the wall by the windows. He hit it hard, his head making a loud sound as it hit the wall. Teal'c slid to the floor as Mitchell got up slowly. The other Carter had picked up Ford's personal cannon and pointed it at him.

"Give up Colonel's. One, I can easy overpower you Mitchell. Two, a zat blast will not stop me. The second one might take me down after a few seconds, if you could get to the zat in time to even shoot me twice. Three, only I can use my guns."

Carter tried it, but the gun didn't do anything. The trigger refused to move. Mitchell tried a swing, but Ford easily caught him and pushed him into Daniel who was crawling for one of the zats. His team came in quickly and subdued them before they could try anything else.

"We're should we put them?" Mitchell asked holding his groggy counterpart.

"Leave them right under the main window." Ford said retrieving his guns and coat before sitting down.

"Why not the brig?" Daniel asked.

"They're your counterparts and if they suddenly woke up and managed to subdue you all, I might not be able to distinguish who's who. Except for Sam." he said waving them to continue. "Besides, they'd probably figure some way out of it. This way, we can watch them."

They put them under the window, though the other Carter remained standing.

"There must be a very good reason for why you want to take this ship. Care to start telling us?" Mitchell asked as Ford had Carter find out where they were headed.

"Not really." she spat.

"If we hold this course, we'll be in the Pegasus galaxy in three weeks. Other than that, there's nothing else I know or can see we could be headed to." Carter said.

"You want their ZPM." Daniel said making the connection quickly.

The other Carter sat on the floor as the other three started waking up.

"I can guess why. With what you said about the Ori starting to take over your universe, you need it to power the weapon in Antarctica." Ford said as he pushed a button on his watch. "Okay, you can come up and bring the package."

"Who's coming up?" Carter asked.

"Package?" Daniel asked.

"You'll see. The internal sensors aren't damaged as bad as I made them. Just enough to fool you guys. They've been working at 100. I just didn't want you to see the backup I brought along."

Samuel and the rest of the team walked onto the bridge, minus Chevy. He was holding a small yellow crate that he handed to Ford.

"I'm surprised to see they tried that." Samuel said.
"Yeah. Kinda surprised me when I was informed of the coming future event. Thanks. You can take that station please."

"Sure." he said.

"You all have been hiding all this time?" Daniel asked.

"It was quite easy to avoid you all." Chevy's Teal'c said.

"Just mostly hid in the hanger bay. The General here transferred the internal sensor grid to us, so we wouldn't run into anyone. A few close calls." Chevy's Mitchell said.

"And I made sure that everyone thought the grid was damaged. When really, I was in totally control of the system." Samuel said.

"You knew they were going to take the ship?" Samantha asked.

"Yep. Had I failed to stop them before leaving the bridge, Chevy's team would have taken us all out with a couple Jaffa stun grenades. You can figure out the rest." Ford said with a shrug.

"And you weren't going to tell us, or me anything?"

"Could have screwed up the plan. Besides, they weren't going to kill anyone."

"Are you really going to give them that?" Danielle asked. "After what they just tried."

"That depends." Ford said tapping his fingers on the box.

"That isn't the other ZPM is it?" Samantha asked.

"Yes. I'm somewhat surprised that you didn't try to steal it instead. But seeing as it was pretty much only accessible if I was there. Anyway, we can't use it to dial Atlantis and you know why, the ZPM from Dakara is being used to fire off whatever those missile things are in Antarctica when the time comes. Despite being an Ancient, I do not know what they are called. The other me said it would be okay and figured that's why they were here and checked it out, which is why I knew what they were planning. But we still haven't figured out how they got here. And he didn't check on that, or if he did, he didn't tell me."

"Why…how does he know giving it away will not hurt us in the long run?" Daniel asked.

"Something about looking over the SGC history and not seeing it being used. Now, how did you guys plan on getting home, because I'm pretty sure everyone else has now figured out that you started this whole problem."

"You're going to give us a Zero Point Module, if we tell you how to get everyone home?" the other Carter asked.

"Yes. For the record, that is all we have and Atlantis is keeping theirs, so if you use this one up and try to come back and get theirs or something, we'll either toss you back home or do something more drastic. Deal?"

"How do we know you're not just trying to get us to talk?" the other Mitchell asked.

He opened the case to show the glowing ZPM.

"I know your team was also asking about me. What does that information tell you?"

"Alright then. We've got a deal." the other Mitchell said. "Tell them Carter."

After an hour of studying the black/blue hole, mostly for scientific purposes, and Sam giving a theory as to why it was blue in color, they went back to Earth. With Kvasir's help and using some weapon that the Asguard owned, they managed to open the gate to the first world that the first SG-1 team came from. Each team would be sent back to their own universe as the SGC fired the large device that hung in front of the gate. Each world that the other teams came from would be dialed, weapon fired and then they would go home. Kvasir made a point of saying that he would need the weapon back after they were done. Ford, Chevy, Carter and Samuel all rolled their eyes and said, "we know", all in tired voices too.

The first SG-1 came into the gate room, holding the ZPM contained in the yellow crate.

"If you ever show up again, just ask for help." Ford said through the mike. "Unless it's serious, just stay in your universe. Trust me, if you come back, we'll know it's you."

"How?" his Mitchell asked.

"Quantum signature."

"Ah."

They nodded and walked up the ramp.

"Hey Mitchell." the other Mitchell said as he stopped just at the gate mouth. "When the time comes, cut the green one."

"What the hell does that mean?" Mitchell asked as his counterpart disappeared.

"I don't know." Daniel said.

"It's probably something he's already done that you're probably going to do. Get it now?" Ford said. "I'm going to have to give you guys a course in Quantum Mechanics and Theory."

"Sorry, but I can barely understand half the stuff that Sam says, much less what you say when you go technical General." Mitchell said.

"Same here. Though I try to." Daniel said.

"Teal'c?"

"I would listen General Carter, though I cannot guarantee I would grasp the issue."

"Nor I." Chevy's Teal'c said.

As they were sending off the teams, Ford got a chance to see the team from the universe his clone went to. They were very surprised to see him, considering how busy he was and the fact of something that Chevy did. Ford's clone wasn't with them. They told him that something happened on a mission where he was fighting some Goa'uld and they both fell through the gate which had dialed a eight gate address. Since then, they haven't been able to dial it. Though someone from wherever the clone Ford was, a girl had ended up in their galaxy and was helping them out. The girl had strange powers that even were capable of fighting the Ori. There came a problem, since some people inside and outside the mountain were keeping watch to see who all came through the gate from other universes. They were waiting to see who might come with extra technology or help. In this case, they tried to take the girl, but Chevy literally punched the three people out and had them put into the brig. Once she was gone, then Ford was going to release them. Since he wasn't there for what transpired, and the fact that Chevy ripped up the orders so he couldn't see them, he was clear from any trouble. The orders were verified as being authentic, though the President was against the idea, he was outvoted. Once Chevy learned this info, she then knocked the three guys out. The only reason why this SG-1 that the clone was with even came to this universe was because Chevy had accidentally mentioned Ford's name and since this group knew his name, they were allowed through. Mostly because Chevy thought it might be SG-1 from the future or something. And out of all the teams that came through the gate, this was the only one where Jack was still on the team.

Janet's team was second to last to go. She was really happy to leave and though Martouf wasn't with his Sam anymore, he was happy to see her anyway. The Carter that was suppose to be in the team Janet was in, was currently on maternity leave. Chevy's team went last.

"I doubt this will be the last time we see each other."

"Yes. This was a good experience though. If another team shows up, like I'm sure they will, we'll give them what they want and wait a while for other's to show up so they can get the cure like that Janet just did." Chevy said.

"I think we'll wait a week before SG-1 goes anywhere off world. As much as being in your universe….."

"Yeah. I started missing Avon the second I walked into this universe." she said nodding.

The other's said goodbyes to each other and then they walked up the gate and left.

"Okay, SG-1 is down for a week. Just in case they have the same problem." Ford said rubbing his hands together.

"Cool. I'm going to go get some well deserved sleep. My head still hurts from hitting the bulkhead." Mitchell said then walked away. "I can go…."

"Yes go home. SG-1 is off for the night. I just got to call the Prometheus before I leave though." he said sitting down near Walter.

"You forgot that picture didn't you?" she said.

"I was busy with trying to land the ship. Not bad for my first time too."

"You hit the hanger door." she stated. "No one else ever has."

"I grazed it." he said with a shrug. "They said a little paint and she'd be right as new."

"You sheared off a twenty foot section."

"There was no internal damage. And it was just paint."

"Okay, I've give you that. I'm going to the locker room. I'll see you at the car."

Atlantis Episode………..CRITICAL MASS

The next day was fun, not. At least for Ford anyway. Atlantis was in trouble. They sent Zelenka and a bunch of other people to the planet that was protected by a ZPM that was running low on power and currently having functioning trouble. It powered a shield that protected them from the Wraith by keeping any technology from functioning. McKay didn't like the children bothering him the first time they went there so he was sending Zelenka to deal with them and the generator this time. One of the problems that Atlantis was having some trouble with was two Wraith cruisers that were in sensor range of their planet. So far, it looked like they hadn't been seen. Their sensors detected the ship were fighting each other.

At the SGC, Ford had finished doing a post mission briefing and was about to help Carter with a project concerning some Ancient device that they had yet to figure out. He got a call from the Secretary of State and was talking to them about some issues that needed addressing. Walter came up to him and told him that Agent Barret was in the briefing room with vital information. So he said he'd call back later to finish going over the issues.

"Hey Barret. What's going on?" he asked as he left his office. "I hope this isn't really bad news."

"Unfortunately it is General." he said with obvious worry on his face. He was dressed in a suit and tie along with two other men behind him. "There is a situation developing that you need to be made aware of."

"Isn't there always?" Ford muttered with a sigh. "Let's hear it."

"We've noticed a increase in chatter amongst the Trust recently."

"Great. Just what we need." Ford said sitting in his chair at the table. "What are they doing?"

"The Goa'uld have infiltrated the highest ranks of the organization." Barret said as he sat down as well. "They have access to government agencies that are a lot deeper than we realized."

"If only this was the universe I came from." Ford muttered.

"Sorry, I didn't catch that."

"I muttered words about wishing for assassinations. What have they done or going to do?"

"Atlantis."

Ford sighed deeply and Barret saw anger flash in his eyes, that didn't go away.

"And they want to do what with my city?" he growled.

"You…."

"Answer the question Agent Barret."

"They've somehow gotten to the city, and they've planted a bomb."

"Hang on and wait here." he said getting up and going down stairs.

He came back with Carter, Daniel, and Lee several minutes later. Teal'c and Mitchell were else where doing something. Lee and Carter brought up a large detailed map of the city on the pull down TV. Barret told them what he told Ford while the map was being brought up.

"There's a bomb in Atlantis?" Daniel asked as he sat down on Ford's right next to Sam. Lee and Barret sat on his right.

"Yes. According to our information, the Goa'uld planted one on Atlantis." Barret said.

"Why would the Goa'uld want to blow up the city?" Lee asked.

"Easy. The city is very powerful and if we ever got it home, and it was still fully functional or at least still functioning on a level where it could defend Earth without much trouble, whatever is left of the Goa'uld out there wouldn't ever be able take this planet over." Ford said. "There's a good chance that the Goa'uld don't want the Wraith to come to this galaxy either. Despite the loss of the technology that would happen in the process. Though they probably figure it wouldn't matter anyway since it takes a person with the Ancient gene to use the technology anyway and no Goa'uld can use it at all."

"Any idea who it is?" Carter asked.

"No. Just someone at the bottom of the chain." Ford muttered rubbing his face. "They planted the bomb and no one noticed. I had Walter get teams to look the base here over just in case."

"Glad we left Sally with mom and dad."

"Same here."

"When's the bomb suppose to go off?" Daniel asked.

"The next time that Atlantis dials Earth." Barret said. "The Trust have probably set up a transmitter somewhere around Cheyenne Mountain that is suppose to send the signal as soon as the gate is dialed again."

"Airman. Go down and tell Walter to have that team and a few other's also look around to see if there is a transmitter or anything that looks suspicious inside and outside this place. Check the whole mountain outside, within our jurisdiction. Got that?"

The man nodded quickly and went down the stairs.

"We've got a problem." Daniel said. "Atlantis is suppose to dial in today."

"The weekly status report." Lee stated as Ford shook his head as he muttered something they didn't hear.

"Damn. I forgot. Um….I think it's in two, or three hours. Walter would know."

"It's two hours." Daniel said looking at his watch.

"How do you know?" Carter asked.

"Getting the reports may be the closets I ever get to going to the city." Daniel stated.

"I'm trying Daniel. I really am." Ford said. "We've got to warn them….but we can't call them. Um, don't have a time machine and not enough time to build one."

"What about the Daedalus?" Carter asked.

"They are on their way back." Lee said brightening up considerably. That went away quickly though. "Wait, we can't. Our long range transmitters can't reach that far."

"Come up with something fast then people. I'll be trying to think of something as well. I'd call the Asguard, but they are really busy with something. Since they are going to dial in, in two hours, let's hopefully have something in a hour and a half at the most. Dismissed."

At Atlantis, they were preparing the next burst transmission for sending information to the SGC. A Lieutenant Catherine Cadmen, that Rodney knew stayed behind, after asking Sheppard if it was okay. So the Daedalus left her and headed for home. Rodney wasn't all that happy with the idea, but couldn't do anything about it. She didn't like him in some ways either. They weren't enemies, but they weren't really chummy either.

Back at the SGC, they figured out a way to send a message without the bomb to go off. A team was to be sent to a planet designated P4M-399. From there, they would relay a data burst transmission to the Daedalus that would send it along to Atlantis. Anything Atlantis sent would be relayed through the Daedalus and then from 399 back to the SGC. Ford sent one of the SG teams to go do the job. SG-1 was still trying to get downtime and doing a relay mission….it wasn't beneath them, it was they had more important jobs to do anyway.

The Daedalus was in hyperspace travel when they got the burst message. After some talking with one scientist named Kavanagh saying it was too late and the Asguard on board saying he could make it possible for them to get the ship to the relay point in time, Colonel Caldwell had them turn the ship around and race to the relay point. The message told the ship to stay at that point to continue relaying more messages until further notice.

At Atlantis, they were getting ready to send the message. McKay was getting the message ready by putting it into a data compression system. The Daedalus made it just barely in time as they were almost finished dialing. The man had his hand just over the dial button when McKay managed to stop him. They looked over the message and shut the gate down. Not long after they also removed the ZPM from the system and switched to Naquada generators. Thankfully the only team off world was Zelenka's, so they were to stay a bit longer until the situation was resolved. Weir had the gate shut down so no activity of any kind was to take place dealing with the gate. Sheppard and McKay were really surprised to hear that the Goa'uld had taken over the Trust and had also managed to be the one to place the bomb. Ronon was there listening as well. After getting a brief explanation as to what a Goa'uld was, Weir had teams made to search the entire city to find the bomb. The only thing they could hope was that the areas they hadn't managed to get into didn't have the bomb. Weir also had them send a message back to the SGC of them still being there and that they were going to search for the bomb and hopefully find the operative. She also was ordering Caldwell to return with the ship to help in the search and just in case the operative was on board the ship.

On the mainland, Doctor Beckett was helping Teyla with one of her elderly friend/family member.

Ford had just got finished eating when Barret showed up beside him as he was headed back to his office.

"Tell me you've got good news."

"I've just received word that one of our teams just raided a Trust compound. They discovered computers containing further detail on Atlantis. It's not much though. The Goa'uld are being very cryptic about it."

"Anything on the bomb?"

"Not yet. No location either." he said as Ford began to ask. "And there is no transmitter here on Earth either."

"Figured as much. We've looked everywhere and found nothing, inside and out. No bomb here either. K-9 couldn't find much less detect any unknown signals around here or outside the base either. Did the computers say anything about how the bomb blows up since it isn't done by a transmitter?"

"Whatever it is, the trigger is at their end, not here."

"I'll have Sam look over the information from those computers. The instant you know anything important, find me."

He nodded as Ford left to the control room. Once in his office, he told Carter what Barret was going to be bringing her and to have K-9 look with her.

The Daedalus was sitting still in space, waiting for messages. They got the message from Atlantis and sent it along to the SGC. Along with Weir's request for them to return. At Atlantis, McKay and Catherine were working together on checking the computers. Teams were all over the city searching, though nothing had been found yet. Even with eight teams looking, the city was rather big so it was going to take some time. A problem arose while the teams were reporting in to Weir. The gate was self dialing, Earths address. Because there was not enough power to dial out, it never finished. McKay realized that the operative had must have put in a backup program to ensure that the city was destroyed in case of what was happening happened. Except the plan apparently needed the ZPM to still be in place. Since it wasn't powering the city, the backup plan didn't work. So another problem kicked in when the cities distress beacon kicked in and alerted the two Wraith cruisers. That night, after all the searching and finding nothing, McKay told them the Wraith would show up in a day or day and a half, depending on if they had to pause for something. Since they realized that this was part of the plan to make them put the ZPM back, they had to do something to make the Wraith go away. Washed up rubble with a barely functioning transmitter was the idea to get rid of the Wraith ships. The idea came up to cloak the city again.

Walter showed up while Ford was in the middle of finishing paperwork and told him about the message from Atlantis and the fact that Weir requested that the Daedalus go back to Atlantis to help in the investigation. Ford told Walter to tell Caldwell no, but Walter informed him that the ship had already left.

"Great. Just great. I'm getting a headache from all of this." he said rubbing his temple with both hands. "I guess it just turned into a waiting game. Thanks Walter. You can tell the team on...that planet to come home."

"Yes General." he said then walked out.

Ford called Carter's office and told her not to bother hurrying anymore and to let someone else take over unless she wanted to continue.

In the early morning at Atlantis, Sheppard found Weir looking over the passenger manifest. They even believed that the operative was still on the base. McKay entered and heard enough he believed it was Lieutenant Cadmen. She was an explosives expert. Sheppard didn't believe that even though she had requested to stay at Atlantis because something came up. This was the same lady that was trapped inside McKay's head when they were beamed into a Wraith dart and only one of them was able to be reintegrated. They later managed to get separated and she was back in her own body. As they were talking about her, she walked up. Though she didn't hear anything about them talking about her. She reported the Daedalus had landed on the East pier. Weir dismissed them and she went to talk with Caldwell. He suggested they start interrogations immediately. They both butted heads on who was in charge and where it should take place. She overrode his authority since it was her city. So all interrogations were to take place on Atlantis and everyone was going to be checked, with some exceptions. Weir, Sheppard, McKay, the people of this galaxy to name a few.

The first person they talked to was Kavanagh. No one liked this man, he was a heavy complainer and when Ford went through his messages ever time they came with each data burst, hell, when they got the first data burst when Jack was still in command, Ford was there looking it over and had to laugh. It seemed the guy would probably complain if you accidentally filled out a form with the wrong colored ink. Good thing the guy wasn't military because he'd would have been drummed out before he got a week in with his attitude. How he even ended up in Atlantis was strange. Considering his past and such, he was basically at the top of Weirs list. The man had once said, after they had all learned about Ford making certain blackmailing demands after taking over the SGC, that not even General Carter should be in charge. Someone of that caliber wasn't trust worthy and would probably get the Earth destroyed, especially with the temper problem and the fact he was married to someone who worked at the SGC. It impaired his judgment Kananagh had stated. So far, everyone could tell from different reports that Ford was doing a great job and they continued to ignore Kananagh. Still didn't take him off the top of the list.

Weir also talked to the lady that had the hiccup problem back when Vala stole the Prometheus. She had the hiccups again when she talked, and stuttered through sentences a lot. Weir could tell she was nervous, but according to her record, this lady, though good at her job, got nervous a lot sometimes, and when she did, hiccups came. Weir figured that this lady had nothing to do with their problem and asked if she noticed anything. The lady pointed out she thought Kavanagh was acting strange almost all the time.

McKay called in having Weir come to the control room at that time. McKay found out there was no bomb. None at all. But there was a explosion to come, if certain events took place. The explosion that was to destroy the city was programmed into the computer. The program was to make the ZPM overload. The result would be instantly gone Atlantis and anything within a certain range, which could be the entire planet. Even though McKay had made sure the DHD and gate wouldn't dial, the problem was that they needed to use the ZPM to cloak the city. Fail safes were built into the system to keep a ZPM from overloading, but the operative had made sure that they were bypassed so the overload would happen anyway. Now the fail safes could be re-engaged, but the operative had placed a large code lock on the system to ensure that such a effect couldn't be done, making them have to let the city be destroyed or be taken over by the coming Wraith. They needed a new and better plan and to get the interrogation under way quicker in hopes of finding the code.

Weir interrogated Kavanagh again. And she showed him her patience with him was gone. She believed that he knew the code and was thinking of using torture to get it.

Back in the control room, McKay stated he could possibly make sure that with turning off certain systems, they should be able to cloak the city to make it so that there would be no overload.

Caldwell and Sheppard's team were talking about the interrogations and the fact Weir was sure that Kavanagh was withholding information. Ronon said he'd get the information in ten minutes. Sheppard agreed that they should use that method to get the information. McKay said he hated the guy, but that torture wasn't the idea. Weir agreed until Caldwell pointed out they had little time and had a lot of lives to save.

McKay left and found Catherine working on some data stream thing. They argued until McKay noticed the Wraith were very close. So Weir told him to cloak the city. He did so and then started checking the system to make sure that the ZPM didn't overload. The Wraith showed up outside the atmosphere and things were looking okay until the cities inertial dampeners started powering up, which started the ZPM into overload. They had 30 minutes to stop it or else the city and planet were going to go up in one big bang.

Caldwell, Weir and Sheppard's team got together again, minus Teyla who was doing a ritual still with her dead adoptive mother. The idea to get everyone they could onto the Daedalus was the best idea, and the rest by puddle jumper. They would all head to a planet that was close by seeing as the mainland was out of the question and they couldn't dial the gate. Ronon stated he should interrogate Kavanagh. She allowed him to.

Kavanagh was still in the interrogation room when Ronon walked in. He got up with fright on his face as Ronon walked up slowly.

Everyone else was either getting ready to leave the city by going into the Daedalus, or by the jumpers. McKay and a few other's were trying to figure out the code while trying to shut the dampeners down. Teyla was performing the ritual of her peoples over her dead adoptive mother with some of her other people.

Ten minutes to go until the overload, Catherine found something of importance. Sheppard ran to stop Ronon and found him standing over Kavanagh. Ronon said that the man had fainted before he would even get close.

Caldwell was in his command chair and he called to tell Weir that the ship was leaving. When he got no response, he was going to call them when he was transported to the interrogation room. Weir and Sheppard were standing across from him on the other side of the table and she asked for the access code. They knew he was the operative and told them how they found his personal code in the system. Ronon paced behind Caldwell as they talked. Caldwell showed himself off as the Goa'uld. Weir left and Ronon practically kicked his ass before he could try anything, which included throwing him across the room. Before he could get up, Sheppard shocked him with a multi capable taser gun. After being shocked very hard twice, the real Caldwell came out, though in great pain and was able to give the code. They rushed it to the control room and McKay was able to stop the overload in time. Caldwell was taken to the infirmary and the Goa'uld was taken out with the Asguards help. Everyone was then able to go back to the city and things were basically back to normal. Zelenka came back and was very pissed off. The kids had dyed his hair, braided it and even changed his face with paint. Everyone was also to undergo a examination to make sure that on one else was an operative. They were able to send a message to the SGC finally before they ended the day. Before sending it, they made sure everything was safe, just in case.

At the SGC, everyone at the base was more than ecstatic to hear that the Atlantis team and the city were still out there. Weir had sent along a personal message to Ford, who agreed with the idea and had everyone, including himself tested to make sure there was no one hidden on the base that could have possibly be or were a operative. Luckily, they found nothing.