CHAPTER 85

EPISODE……………….um, my own idea here. And a rather good one if I say so myself. I go really far out there with this. Really far out there. I'm sorry if I end up alienating anyone from reading this any further, no pun intended. After reading a story series by a author named Kody Wright, who is very talented, in my opinion. I noticed she and I kinda wrote with some of the same ideas, in a sense. And whenever you do get to this part of the story Kody, email me if I ended up using any ideas of yours by accident. I don't think I did, as to taking anything from your story series personally.

Anyway, I really worked hard on this people and decided to go with the idea. In my opinion, this actually gets better for the things I do with my character and the rest of SG-1. And I'm really trying to get rid of the, Marty Stu, aspects a lot of people hate seeing.

Ford and the rest of SG-1 got to at least say bye to Weir before she went back to Atlantis. That only happened because Thor allowed them a brief moment to see the new ship before he had to go. That happened a few days ago. Seeing as there was still work to be done on the Daedalus, the President wanted SG-1 to stay on base or at least on Earth until she was fight worthy again. They thought of it as down time, in some sense. They figured next week they'd go off world again.

The day was slow, no problems cropped up, on Earth that the SGC had to deal with. There was some problems off world, but nothing that was too serious and nothing that SG-1 had to deal with personally. Except for Ford, naturally. Daniel had went home early for the night along with Mitchell. Vala had went to bed on the base since it was still up in the air if she was ever going to be allowed off the base in a home of her own like Teal'c. Teal'c had also went home for the night, though with Mitchell because they were going to watch a movie together. Some Sci-Fi. A special gift that Ford ordered had came in today, a little early actually and so he was taking it down to a particular someone.

Sam was working on a project when Ford walked in with his hands behind his back. She acknowledged him with a hey and turning back to her computer as he sat on the edge of the metal table and put whatever he was holding behind him. She realized it must have been a present for her, or another project, but the program she was working on, dealing with her project was seriously important.

"I made a phone call, you could say rather recently, not today though."

"You make a lot of calls. Want to be more specific?" she said not looking away.

"Well, I told these people I am married to a very sexy and drop dead gorgeous blonde woman that I would do anything for, even have her children if possible."

"Hmm. Like the words and dedication, but who were you telling these things to?" she asked with a smile. But she didn't look away from the computer as she kept typing.

"One moment. You don't want me to ruin the surprise. Now, the guy said he felt sorry for me because he thought I was married to a fat dumb blonde, which I said was completely the opposite. I also told him how much of a ferocious bear she can be when angered, but most of the time is warm, cuddly, lovable, and the most understanding woman you'd ever find. Not to mention incredibly smart and so attractive I can barely stand to keep my eyes off her. And that is hard to go to work and not be able to work with her like I used to. I didn't go in to details as to work, but I know you know what I mean."

She didn't turn around, but had stopped working and other than blushing slightly was smiling even brighter. He noticed it and continued before she could speak.

"Anyway, I couldn't tell them exactly what you do, but I was able to tell them what I would like to have made and when I mentioned what I was willing to pay, or more, they gladly did it. And they assured me it would be one of a kind."

"I knew it. You did get me something." she said turning around with her hands out. "Let me have it."

He pulled a present from behind his back, which was in a big white box with a red bow.

"This was made with you in mind. Well, the object inside. I had someone else do the ribbon. Can't do a tie, or a ribbon. Kinda feel lucky I can even tie my shoes."

She laughed as she slowly opened it and pushed the wrapping paper aside. What she pulled out made her tear up quickly. It was a large white teddy bear. In a white lab coat, with black rimmed glasses, a fake pencil attached beside its ear and holding a small toy laptop in one hand and the other holding what looked like a crudely made small plastic naquada reactor.

"I made the naquada reactor and glued it to the hand, with some help. The Beanie Baby Company made everything else."

"I…I…."

"Sam?" he asked getting up as she broke down. "Did…"

"I've never…..had a stuffed animal, before." she said between tears as she held it close. "Just wasn't…a military family thing. Not that I really asked for any before."

(A.U. If she has any stuffed toys, even with the few episodes with it showing inside her house, I never actually saw them. So, if she did, we'll say for this story and its universe, she never did before.)

"I never knew that." he said slowly as she hugged him. "But it does explain why I haven't found one in the house."

"Yes." she said pulling back and looking it over. "This is one of the greater gifts you've ever got me. Any one has gotten me."

"Wow. Well, it gets better. Check the tag."

She opened it seeing the normal info inside on the left telling about the company. On the right side it had the web site at the bottom, above it said the bear's motto.

"Science and technology are fun!"

The date of birth was hers and the bear's name was Sammie Science.

"I named the bear and gave the motto."

"I….don't know what to say…" she said slowly.

"That's a first. If I knew that it would affect you this much, I would have gave her to you at home." he said as she wiped away more tears with a different hanky he kept.

"I'm going to bring her to work all the time and take her home every night. Since you're not in here much as much as I wish you were…"

"I know." he said sadly. "But having to take care of a whole base now, plus other things…"

"This will help fill the void some." she said setting the bear next to her computer. She spun around quickly. "Anything pressing that makes it so we can't go home right now?"

He knew that look and tone.

"Unfortunately yes." he said slowly. "And you call me the weird one. Where do you get that energy?"

"Damn." she muttered. "Call it spent up years of waiting for the right person. Better leave before I shut off the camera and lock the door."

"You used to have more self control." he said backing away as she got the look in her eyes.

"With you, it's hard not to. Had you brought someone else with you, then I would have." she said with a few fantasy's running through her head that he could see going on just by the way she kept eyeing him and licked her lips.

"We only have a couple hours left till it's time to go home." he said. "So why don't you quit teasing me with that look and tell me what you've got going on here?"

"Ah, yes!" she said very enthusiastically as she turned back to the computer. "I've been working on a program here, dealing with you."

He looked at the screen trying to figure it out.

"Okay, and this, which still has me confused, give me time though." he said as she started to open her mouth. "Will be finished when or I should ask, how soon until this experiment is ready to be started?"

"You figured it out already?"

"Well, some of it. You're not giving yourself enough credit in your teaching skills. As for what I can tell, you want to do something that will deliver a small electrical charge, which I may not feel, into a certain area's of my body."

"Close enough."

"Thankfully none of this seems to be anywhere near my waist area."

"Well, 'we' certainly wouldn't want that. Yes you heal, but I have noticed on those nights we've been together after you've, gotten injured there, you…."

He waited to hear what she was going to say, mostly to see if she was going to say what he was thinking.

"Aren't, as into it as usual. Don't last as long as on some other nights. Like tonight might be."

"Hmm." he said blushing slightly as she ran a finger down his arm. "And I thought you were going to say, not as great."

"There's has been very few times that I can count where you didn't please me as much as I wished."

"Why are you doing this?" he said pointing at the screen before he lost control and turned the cameras off.

"Right." she said hearing his tone. "You know that weird gene, let's call it a dimensional gene, or multiverse tapping gene, that makes no sense?"

"You want to see if there is some way to activate it? That could be dangerous." he said turning away from the screen. "God only knows what might show up."

"Well, in that case, when we start this, tomorrow possibly, since I'm almost finished. You'll have to concentrate on one thing. Such as…" she said then gazed off in thought. "I know, think of Luke Skywalker. If he suddenly showed up, that would really make Teal'cs day."

"I thought he liked Vader. Why not someone from Star Trek?"

"How about we just think about it tomorrow and I finish this tonight before I loose my train of thought." she said looking at the bear again.

"Yes, tomorrow." he said catching the tone and walking away quickly.

"Oh Ford."

"Yes." he said sticking his head back in.

"Don't go off and spar or train or anything that involves a shower. I know you'll take a cold one and I want you suffering as much as I am. Understand?"

He groaned and nodded, saying yes ma'am.

The next day…….or, the day of hell.

They both went in early, well before the rest of SG-1. Well before Jack ever showed up, unless it was an emergency. They had went to bed early the night before, just after Sally had went to bed, well, they stayed up for an hour before finally going to sleep. Carter finished the program and got it set up as Ford finished a few reports and told the on duty Sergeant that took Walter's place when he was gone, where he would be. He finished the reports quickly and made quite a few dishes. They missed their morning run, but what Carter wanted to try was worth one missed day. While they were eating, the rest of SG-1 showed up and a little surprised.

"What are you two doing here so early?" Daniel asked sitting across from them.

Teal'c sat next to him with Vala on the other side. Mitchell sat next to Sam. Ford was putting his hanky away as Vala sat down.

"I've had an idea for awhile." she began.

"A long while." Ford muttered around his cereal.

"Yes." she said giving him a small look. "Anyway, after learning about that strange gene that Ford has…"

"What strange gene are we talking about?" Vala asked.

Ford was the only one that didn't look at her.

"I have….this ability to possibly open a gateway to other universes. Which is supposedly how I got here. I guess it's a side effect of traveling to the other universe and back. I really don't know how or why I have it."

She gave him a look of some shock and surprise. Though it suddenly went away as she tossed her hair back.

"Well, I've seen just about everything else. I guess this shouldn't be any more surprising. So Colonel, let's hear it." Vala said picking up her utensils.

"I've been working on a program that should access this gene of his. I'm not actually sure if it will even work. I couldn't do any real test or simulations since this has never been tried before. After all this time and work, I think I may have something finally. At least K-9 says it should work. I've got a chair with a few interfaces set up inside Observation Room One. Doctor Lam is going to be there keeping watch up in the upper room. You all coming?"

"Oh yeah. Got nothing else to do." Mitchell said.

"I could give you something Colonel." Ford said looking up seriously.

The look on Mitchell's face was priceless. Ford kept the look on his face as Mitchell was looking like he was thinking of something to say. The other's were looking between the two. Ford suddenly broke up shaking his head.

"I'm kidding Mitchell. I'd rather all you guys be there in case anything happens." he said still chuckling, and then it went away quickly. "Unless you're looking for something else to do Colonel."

"No, no. I'm fine." he said quickly.

"Good. Consider your self lucky too. I can't think of anything that you could do if you had asked. Let's finish here and get going."

Ford was sitting back in a chair a little similar to the one that Mitchell was in during the time he was accused of the murder of a prominent doctor off world. Though he wanted to keep it on, Sam made him take the coat off. He took his black shirt off and put the button up SGC BDU on, leaving it open. A couple of wires were attached to either side of his head, on the back of his hands and a few places on either sides of his chest.

"These are rather cold Sam."

"Quit whining." she muttered.

"Excuse me?"

"I'm trying to concentrate." she said typing away at a computer terminal attached to the chair behind the chair. "I want this to try to activate those genes, not fry you and them."

"Hmm."

Teal'c, Daniel and Vala were in the upper room with Lam. Carter, Mitchell, K-9 and Doctor Lee were in the room down below. A couple of monitors on either side of him showed different displays of information. Mitchell was leaning back on the table nearby, which held emergency medical equipment, along with Ford's coat and guns. K-9 was keeping a watch on the computer systems and Ford's medical condition as he stayed parked next to Carter. Lee was looking at a row of computers with several monitors that were against the wall under the upper room.

"I've just noticed something strange about him." Vala said as Ford sat back after briefly talking to Sam.

"Oh really." Daniel muttered.

"What is it that you have noticed Miss Doran?" Teal'c asked.

"He doesn't have any chest hair. Or underarm hair. Most men do."

They gave her strange looks, and another look, mostly from Daniel.

"You do remember he's married? And he's not interested in you."

"Yes. Doesn't mean I can't appreciate a good looking man." she said crossing her arms. "Wonder if he has hair else where other than his head?"

"He does not." Teal'c muttered quietly. "In fact, I have never seen his facial hair."

"Maybe he doesn't have any like the rest of his body." Vala said.

"No, he can grow a beard. Saw a five o'clock shadow once. Kinda weird on him really…" Daniel said.

"So, how much longer Sam?" Mitchell asked through the mike.

"Another minute. Ford, I want you to clear your mind. Think of nothing."

"Easy for you to say." he said closing his eyes.

"Concentrate on one thought." she said hitting a few more buttons.

"Ideas anyone?" Ford asked.

"Do what I said last night. Think of Luke Skywalker." she said.

"Indeed."

"Why not someone from Star Trek?" Mitchell said.

"I said the same thing." Ford muttered.

"Okay, it's ready. Now, just think about one thing." she said. "Once you have an idea, then I'll press this button and we'll see what happens."

"We're still trying to decide on what I want to to." Ford said.

"How about we vote?" Mitchell suggested.

"I say Star Wars." she said.

"I concur." Teal'c said through the mike.

"Star Trek." Ford said.

"I'm with the General." Mitchell said.

"Daniel?" Carter asked.

"Um, ask me after I think a moment."

"I've seen the Star Wars movie and think they have some interesting abilities. One of those….."

"Jedi's." Teal'c supplied.

"Yeah, they might have the power to help us against the Ori." Vala said.

"Three for Star Wars." Carter said.

"I'm going with Star Wars." Daniel said.

"You're outvoted. Think of Luke Skywalker." she said.

"Fine." Ford muttered. He took a few deep breaths and relaxed. "Okay, ready when you are."

"Here goes." she said pressing the button.

Ford twitched slightly and let out a small gasp.

"Damn, I felt that down to my toes." he muttered. "Notice anything yet?"

"Nothing here." Lee said.

"Your adrenalin levels have increased General. Nothing dangerous so far. Blood pressure is slowly rising." Lam said. "Not that any high rises will matter since you can't really die, but I'd rather stay on the safe side."

"Walter, anything strange going on in the base or otherwise?" Mitchell asked through the phone.

"Nothing at the moment Colonel. Security reports that nothing…." Walter was saying when the alarms blared. He quickly reported that security had picked up an unknown person on their monitors in one of the storage rooms.

Carter came around quickly helping remove the sensor leads.

"The rest of you go!" Ford yelled as he got up and grabbed his coat.

"Figures, couldn't even finish the experiment." she muttered.

"Maybe it is a sign it is a bad idea." he said, then seeing her look. "We can come back and try again. I don't mind."

SG-1, minus Carter and Ford ran up to find several guards stationed outside the room. The door was still closed and the alarms were silent.

"What's going on?" Mitchell asked one of the airmen.

"There's an unknown female in there sir. She has a rifle of some sort and white body armor from the looks of it."

"Anything yet?"

"Not that we can tell."

"Security reports that she seems to be looking around. I don't think she knows we are here." another airman said.

"Or she does and she's waiting for us to enter." Mitchell said.

"Who is it?" Ford asked walking up quickly as with Sam behind him.

"Some female General. No name as yet or identification." Mitchell said as he reported what the airmen said.

Ford looked at the door then looked down thinking.

"Isn't this the room we put that Quantum Mirror in?"

"Yeah." Carter said nodding and then it suddenly dawned on her. "Wait a minute! The Mirror has access to other universes and realities. It's possible you reached out, unconsciously and pulled someone from another universe through the mirror."

"It's possible. She must be from another universe if she's wearing white armor." he said rubbing his chin.

"But Jedi don't wear armor. Unless…" Carter began.

"No Colonel. This person isn't from Star Wars." one of the airmen said. Most of the base knew what she was trying to do. "I'm a fan as well, and no one in those movies ever looked like this woman. She didn't have a helmet. Though I think I saw what could have been goggles."

"Unless she is from one of the games." Ford said.

"Indeed. The characters in the Knight of the Old Republic game could wear goggles." Teal'c said.

"True." Ford said. "Um, quick question. If this person is wearing armor, how can you tell the gender?"

"Well, um…" one of the airmen said a little uncomfortably as he looked at the others, who looked at him to answer. Seeing no help, he decided to be blunt. "Men don't have breast General."

"Okay, that answers that. They are covered? I don't have to send a team of women in do I?"

"Yes General. Whatever the armor is, though part of it is dark on color, she's covered."

"Well, if it is a Jedi, since a Sith would have attacked already, don't do anything unless I say attack. They may or may not hit me with a Force Wave or some other Jedi power. That is if this is even someone from the Star Wars universe. I'm going to go in. The rest of you just wait." he said as he closed his coat.

They all backed off as he swiped his card. He heard movement inside as he glanced around while slowly walking in. The room had lots of shelves with different objects obtained off world. A lot of them were artifacts that were identified, translated or figured out in some other way that were going to head for different areas outside the SGC. Nothing really technological, other than the Mirror.

"Hello. I hope you can understand me. I'm not here to harm you nor anyone outside the room. Hey Daniel, get in here."

"What?" he asked walking in quickly.

"If I can't understand her…"

"Oh right. I am the linguist." he said glancing around. "I don't see her, wait I don't have a weapon."

"Forget it. Best approach is a less hostile one. Besides, you can just get behind me if she tries anything."

"Works for me. What if we get tossed back by that Force Wave attack? You'll crush me, almost literally."

"I don't think the person is a Jedi. If they were, they would come out in peace, not to mention they could feel…you know." he said shrugging. "And we know it is not a Sith because we'd both be dead by now."

"But…."

"Where did we put that Mirror anyway? Sam!" he yelled ignoring Daniel.

"In the far left corner."

"Back wall?"

"Yeah."

"Great. If I remember correctly, this door is the only way out." Ford muttered still looking around. "Wait a minute."

He pulled his glasses out and after a few button pushes.

"There she is." he whispered pointing at some shelves.

"I don't see anything."

"Yeah, too dark and she is crouched on the ground. But from the position, she probably can see us."

"And hear you. Who are you?" the unknown female asked.

He took the glasses off and put them away.

"Good, you can understand us. Thank God for small miracles. I am General Ford Carter. Commander of this base. This is Doctor Daniel Jackson. Base linguist, amongst other things. I have several guards outside with automatic weapons waiting for my order. I'd rather there not be any fighting. We're not here to hurt you."

"We mean you no harm. We both are unarmed." Daniel said holding his hands away from his body.

"I have my weapons on me. They're just not in my hands at the moment." Ford said getting a look from Daniel. "What? Better to tell the truth. Besides, she could have some sort of technology that detects weapons. Never know."

They both looked away from each other as the unknown female stepped out from behind some shelves down from them. She had both hands on some sort of rifle that was aimed away from them, which she leaned against the shelve and back away from slightly. She had slightly short, bright red spiky hair. Not shoulder length, but just a little bit longer than Sam's. The right side could cover her face if pulled in the right direction. Three long set of beads hung from the left side of the back of her head from her hair. A very pretty triangular face with semi large blue eyes. About Sam's height. The white armor, metal or some sort of strong plastic, covered her back, shoulders and wrist. Her abdomen, part of her hips and groin area along with her backside was also covered by the white armor. About mid thigh and down from there was also protected. Everywhere else on her body, except her head, was some navy blueish colored, tight fitting turtle neck suit. Tight enough it really accenting her chest, giving the words, no imagination needed. Around her neck was some sort of goggles, kinda high tech looking.

"Wow." Daniel muttered as the rest of SG-1 came in behind them slowly.

"Iria? What are….oh no." Ford said then muttered quietly as he drummed his right fingers against his chest and looked down.

The team looked at him and he waved a hand telling them to lower their weapons.

"You know who she is?" Mitchell asked as Ford nodded rather fiercely.

"Ford?" Carter asked in a non sweet tone. "I said think of Star Wars."

"I…..um." he muttered as he tried to think of something, but couldn't.

"She looks to be a formidable warrior." Teal'c stated. "Who is she?"

"Um…."

"Quite a looker too." Mitchell muttered only to get a small glare from her as she looked back and crossed her arms.

"Considering you can easily see her boobs, even with that material, no wonder you're staring Colonel." Vala said. Mitchell turned to look at her sharply as did everyone else. "See, no matter where I go, all men are…."

Other than Teal'c, the rest of SG-1 told her to shut up. Iria raised her eyebrows and covered her chest with her crossed her arms.

"So?" Carter asked crossing her arms as he turned back to her.

"Sorry." he said with a small pleading like tone. "I haven't seen Star Wars since we watched that third episode in theater together. It wasn't the last thing I saw."

"Oh and she was?" Carter asked with a hint of jealousy.

"You said Skywalker, I thought sword, and it brought me back to seeing her fight with a chain like sword and…..well." he said shrugging uncomfortably under her gaze. "On the bright side, I guess the so called experiment was a success."

"Can you tell me where I am or should I take a nap while you all figure out what you're going to do?" Iria asked.

"Everyone, this is Iria, a highly trained professional bounty hunter." he said waving a hand.

"Another one?" Carter mumbled.

"This is Teal'c, Lieutenant Colonel Mitchell, Lieutenant Colonel Samantha Carter and Vala Mal Doran."

"Bounty hunter? You aren't after me are you?" Vala asked stepping slightly behind Daniel as Iria gave her a more defined once over afterward. Ford groaned.

"What part of another universe didn't you understand…." Ford began.

"You didn't say that before." Daniel said.

"Oh. Okay, are you willing to follow me, us?"

"That depends on where 'we' are going General?" she asked.

"Normally, anyone who comes onto this base, other than the front door or by a transporter beam, or Stargate, drops off all weapons. But since I doubt that you're willing to do so at the moment, I'm going to wave that since I am in charge. What I can't wave, is a rule that even applies to me, is the infirmary visit. Besides, you look like you might need it."

Iria looked down at her left side seeing a small dark spot forming around a small rip in her outfit.

"I've had worse." she said with a wince as she poked it slightly.

"It's standard procedure. Just a quick check and then you don't go back again unless you get injured. We can fix that, no problem."

"And how much for all of this?" she asked picking her rifle back up slowly.

"Nothing. Money isn't used on this base." Ford said waving a hand.

"Except in betting." Daniel said.

"Yeah. Though there really hasn't been any new bets lately." Mitchell said.

"Free medical? Hmm. What else is going to happen?"

"Some questions. Nothing invasive. Mostly we're going to try and get you home because you aren't in your universe anymore." Ford said making a small gesture with his hand at the door. "I'll explain on the way."

"I'm just going to have to hope that you're telling me the truth." she said walking out as he followed next to her.

"Let's put it another way. You're a bounty hunter. Important, but you're not in possession of any military secrets or such, so if we had captured you, which we didn't, why would we?"

"I can think of a few reasons."

"I'm going to go back and shut down what we were doing." Carter said.

"Wait a minute. Mitchell go back and look at that Mirror, but don't touch it."

Iria asked if they meant an object that she quickly described as being the Mirror.

"Yeah." Ford said nodding.

"Didn't look like a mirror to me. More like that strange object I came across before ending up here. Well, at least the moving liquid look anyway." Iria said.

"I found it General. But I don't see any reflections. Kinda looks like moving gray water."

Ford went back with Teal'c finding it wasn't looking like it should.

"I want this thing in Observation Room One."

"That is the same room where Colonel Carter is conducting her experiment on you General." Teal'c stated.

"Yeah. And she succeeded. This is the result. It isn't going to other realities, not like we think, it's going to other universes. I want her to watch it along with K-9. The minute anything starts to change, inform me. Oh, and don't touch the mirror part."

Mitchell and Teal'c, along with Ford's help, got it on a cart and wheeled it out quickly. Ford told Carter to keep a watch on it and to have guards with zat guns ready, just in case something bad came through. She nodded and left with the other two as Daniel and Vala followed Ford and Iria to the infirmary. A quick explanation was all Lam wanted to know about the intruder alert. Though a little reluctant, they managed to convince Iria to take off part of her armor to have the doctor look at her injury. Lam didn't really want the weapons there, but Ford told her he promised to let Iria keep them with her as long as she didn't try anything. So far, Iria was trusting them. Twenty minutes later, Lam came out of the infirmary to give her report.

"She has multiple scars on her body, ranging from small to a few rather large ones. Which might be why she wears that skin tight blue thing. Several of her bones have been broken in the past, a few more than once. A concussion or two as well. The injury she has happened while chasing down someone with a bounty on their head. She didn't move fast enough and was grazed with a short sword she said. Took fifteen stitches. I offered her pain medication, but she refused. She's getting dressed at the moment. I'd like her to stay, if anything to get rest. She's showing signs of being up for more than a day or more and any undue stress to her side could make matters worse. Luckily, she didn't have any infections."

"She'll be followed at all times just like anyone else. We're going to try and talk to her some more in the mess hall. After that, if she wants, I'll see about getting her to get some rest in the guest quarters."

"Very well General. Just call me if she needs help."

"So, instead of some Star Wars figure, the General was thinking about one of his cartoons and from what I gather, seeing as she is the hero in one of them, she just showed up." Mitchell said as he looked at the rippling effect on the mirror.

"Yep. I don't really know what's going on with Ford and this mirror, but in a way, they seem to be linked now. Whatever that strange gene is, which my computer here is still monitoring through K-9 keeping a scan on Ford, it bears a striking resemblance to part of the elements in the mirror, plus he is giving off a slight energy signature that is almost completely the same as the one the mirror is giving off. Whatever I did right to activate that gene, made the Quantum Mirror activate at the same time. Security reports that it went active at the same moment Ford, well, lit up in a sense."

"Then it is still possible for Luke Skywalker to enter this universe?" Teal'c asked.

"Theoretically, yes. Seriously, I have no idea how they would end up here. I figured that something would happen with him and he would…." she said waving her hands slightly. "I don't know, maybe he'd snap his fingers like the Q do in Star Trek or wave a hand like they do in Star Wars and some glow would appear and we could just step into another universe. I really had no idea what to expect."

"I don't think that is going to happen now or ever." Mitchell said.

"Yeah. I have no idea how anyone from any universe is going to get here or when. We have no way of knowing who is coming and at the moment, me and K-9 have no way of determining when or if anyone or anything is going to show up. For all we know, it could just ripple bigger and they or it would just appear like she did." Carter said.

"Until then I guess we just keep watch and wait to see who or what shows up."

"Yep." she said nodding.

"You seemed a little jealous back there?"

"I was, for a moment." she said shrugging. "Considering some of the cartoons he watches, I probably shouldn't be too surprised if more of those character's show up."

"Any idea why she showed up? As to, her and what you mentioned about cartoon characters?"

"I'm guessing that it has something to do with that he likes watching female heroines as the main characters."

"Okay, that doesn't surprise me. Well, he wanted me to get some security down here, with zat's just in case. And one of those Tok'ra shields on the door too."

"Good idea. I'll keep monitoring this."

"So, I'm on some planet called Earth. Doesn't sound familiar."

"Um, actually, I don't even know if it exist in your universe. If it does, I don't remember." he said as they headed for the observation room.

After Lam walked back to her office, Iria got re-dressed and then followed Ford out. So far she had a little trust in them since they hadn't taken her weapons or subjected her to tortures test. The free medical was a big bonus, though she would have to repair her own clothes since they didn't have anything close to what she would like to have and there was no way she was going to wear those green, brown or blue BDU's. She gave him a really confused look as they stopped in the hallway.

"I know you're a bounty hunter, but I'm hoping you're a lot smarter than what I saw, which I'll explain in what I call, the dumb down Jack version. The universe is infinite, there are parallel universes and other realities with and without parallel universes. With me so far?" he asked pointing his clasped hands together at her.

"So far." she said crossing her arms. Her tone was more of, you'll loose me if you go technical or any more scientific.

"Okay. How about this, there are TV programs or whatever you call those boxes that show moving pictures, kinda like a security camera shows."

She nodded understanding so far.

"Okay, those programs, which are used for entertainment, done by actor's and actresses, in another universe, that program is an actual life going on. In another universe, it's real."

"You mean like us?"

"Yes." he said nodding quickly. "Good, you've got it. Now this will be a little hard to grasp, possibly, but that Mirror you came through allows access to those other realities. Well, it is only suppose to access other realities for this universe, but, an experiment made it open to others. Anyway, if you know where to look, you can get to those other places, unfortunately, we have no idea how to do that. Which is why we don't go anywhere."

"And the point here?"

"In this universe, you are a fictional character, in a movie."

"Okay." she said not believing it, yet. "And if this is true, which seems too far fetched, what do I do?"

"Not what you're thinking. What is it with women and thinking that sex is that is all that's ever on a guys mind?" he asked looking up briefly.

"Because it usually is." she said with a look.

"Not me. Well, not until I got married anyway." he said then shook his head and started walking again. "The movie is about how you fought and killed Zeiram."

"Which version?" she said sarcastically.

"You tried to let him take you over, or inside him actually so you could defeat him that way. That failed and you instead used that hidden knife in your hair bead." he said thumping it lightly with a finger. "To cut that small little head in half, crushed in under your foot and ran away before the desert blinded you for life and possibly worse. You had no help, well, not until you left Kay behind after giving her that, wing thing. Looks like you got it back or a new one."

She stopped and he kept going for a few moments before turning around.

"Who rescued me?"

"Kay, in….what was that thing called?" he said snapping his fingers. "Um, the….Creeper. Kinda weird name for it considering it flies. Bob told her where you were and they came as quick as they could."

"I never told anyone the real story, at least not that well in detail."

"I left a lot out. Like Kay's weird ice staff weapon, whatever the hell it was called, I don't know."

"For the moment, I'll believe you. But if it is true, I want to see this movie."

"I can take you there in a few moment, depending on what I learn here." he said entering the room. "Any change Sam?"

"Nothing yet. You okay?"

"A few stitches." Iria said. "Assuming what you said about me is real, the movie thing, does she know?"

"I also saw it." Carter said looking up from the laptop at Ford a little fiercely. "You better not think about….whatever that horrible monstrosity she fought…."

"I'm not." he said with his hands up. "Trust me, that is the last thing I am thinking of."

"What are you thinking of?"

"Optimus. Unfortunately, I don't think he will show up. Might be because I know he won't fit in here. Hell, none of them….well, some of the small Autobots could…."

"Ford, I'm picking up strange readings coming from the Mirror."

"Is something coming through?" he asked reaching for his gun.

"I don't know." she said typing.

"General, ma'am." Mitchell said walking in with the four security guards.

All four of them stayed outside, two by the door and two across the hall from them to be able to see inside. They started putting the shield up as the other's talked.

"I would prefer Iria."

"Iria, okay. Colonel Mitchell."

"We met." she said shaking his hand anyway.

"Right, forgot."

"That reading is climbing."

"Mitchell." Ford said pulling one gun as he pointed over by Carter.

"On it." Mitchell said aiming a PC-90 as he stood next to her.

The guards stayed back as Ford waved for them to stay in the hallway. Iria aimed her rifle after Ford asked her if she wanted to help, but to please wait to see how and what it was. They all saw the rippling effect start to increase, to instead of a few inches apart between the small waves, they were getting to a inch or less apart.

"Gotta be something big. Sam?"

"I'm getting a power reading that I can't begin to identify much less register. You didn't seriously think about having one of those robots come here?!" she asked looking up.

"I thought about it, but not that hard. I was trying to think about Star Wars this time."

"Are you saying that you are responsible for me being here?" Iria asked.

"Um, yeah. I…have some gift that makes it so this Mirror brings what I think of here, at least that's what it seems like." he said not looking away from the Mirror.

"This, Star Wars, is another movie?"

"Yeah."

"And what does it have to do with me being here?"

"I was thinking about the swords they use, and suddenly thought about that chain like sword you have, and then you walked unto my base."

She turned her head to him and slightly lowered the rifle.

"My sword? I'm here because of my sword?"

"Would you rather have had him thinking about something else on you?" Mitchell asked.

"When you put it that way. On the bright side, free medical and I hear I can get free food. Haven't eaten since yesterday."

The Mirror rippled and a strange tall alien creature walked out with blue armor on parts of its body. Its three fingered left hand had nothing in it but its right hand held some sort of energy sword that had a curve on either side that stretched up into a blade, though the blade was essentially cut in half since there was nothing but empty space about two inches wide between the blades. It looked at them and roared as it raised its sword. Ford didn't even have a chance to fire, but then he was a little startled to begin with. The creature had roared mostly at him and other than the fact he could see down its throat, which he found quite revolting, the breath was just as bad, if not worse. A hail of gun fire erupted from the weapons around him taking the creature down within seconds. Blueish blood splattered him, the walls, the floor and the Mirror.

"Damn, that was one of those Covenant Elites." one of the guards outside said as he walked up to look at it. "You were thinking of Halo General? Why?"

Ford had a frown as he bit his lip and put his gun away.

"Hey, hey, hey! It's not a Lightsaber, but…" he said picking up the energy sword and giving it a once over. "This experiment worked in our favor here. Who else here loved to use these things?"

There was a chorus of me's. Mitchell was one of them, but it was mostly the security behind them all. Halo and Halo 2 were part of the XBOX list of games on the base. And they were popular. As much as it irked Ford, he wasn't the best multiplayer. It was actually a low level air-woman who tried to avoid action, in reality anyway, as much as possible. But games came to her rather easily and the woman could kick ass in multiplayer. Lee was over seeing a project that involved some other scientist who were trying to hook up the Halo game to chairs so they could interact with the game in person. It was still a work in progress. And that air-woman was part of that help.

"Excellent news." he said finally figuring out how to turn it off. "Okay, someone takes this to Carter's lab please. She can look it over later with K-9. And don't push this button."

"Yes General." the airman next to him said smiling as he took the object and left.

"What the hell is that?" Iria asked.

Several people started to talk and then shut up promptly as Ford cleared his throat.

"It is an alien race who wish to see the destruction of humanity in a popular video game." Teal'c stated.

"A game?" she asked giving Teal'c a strange look.

"Too much trouble to explain. What we're trying to do is bring things that are considered fiction to us, to this universe, like you." Ford said.

"Ah. Why?"

"We got some powerful enemies out there in the universe we have to fight to survive and seeing as not many of our allies are particularly wanting to help us with getting better technology and such, we're trying this approach. In a sense."

"Okay." she said with a small nod. "Um, no offense, but I can't help much in any of those ways."

"It's my fault. I didn't concentrate on the right thought."

"The power levels have decreased back to normal." Carter said. "Why can't you just think of some Jedi?"

"I've been trying….."

"Don't think about their weapons. Just think about them. As to the people."

He turned back toward the Mirror and started to concentrate. Then quit as he felt something on his coat.

"Um, Mitchell, call a clean up crew."

"Wow, this is really good." Iria said as she ate some ribs that Ford made earlier.

They were sitting at a table eating, seeing as a few of them got hungry while waiting for the cleanup crew finish the room. Seeing as it was an alien from somewhere else, even though they didn't come through the gate, protocol dictated that the place had to be sterilized and such. The Mirror was cleaned off by Sam and Doctor Lee though.

"Just spicy enough." Mitchell said picking up another one.

"You're all lucky, along with just about everyone else. I barely was able to get them sent here." Ford said eating the mashed potatoes he also made.

"I remember a time we did this with Jack once." Daniel said. "Except you weren't here yet."

"I remember that. Jack burnt them, not badly, but….." Carter said.

"He decided to pour his beer on them." Teal'c stated.

"Damn. Does he pour his beer on everything?" Ford asked.

"He said he had a recipe that involved eggs, something else and cooking it in beer." Carter said with a grimace. "He invited me over one day to try it with him for breakfast. I turned him down and told him to try Daniel. His truck needed some work done and so he needed one of us to get to work."

"I didn't try it, but I did take him to work like he needed."

"I'm guessing the grill caught fire." Ford said.

"Somewhat." Carter said as an airman came in.

"The room is ready Colonel Carter."

"Thanks." she said getting up. "I'm going to go check on the computer and see if everything is still functioning at 100."

She barely got out of the chair when the base alarms went off.

"Intruders in Observation Room One! All security forces to Observation Room One!" Walter yelled throughout the base.

"Walter, what's going on?!" Ford asked grabbing a phone off the wall. "Say what?! Initiate base lockdown! Have all non combatant personal head for the upper levels. All other combat personal head to level 17 and keep a watch on all exits on and off that level, all of them! Hold anyone or anything suspicious. If whoever or whatever it is, is not recognized, stun first if they aren't hostile, kill if they are. Seal off level 28, shut the gate down and close the Iris and lock out the computer."

As Walter was issuing the orders, Iria was checking and reloading her weapons.

"God, she's got a lot of weapons like you." Mitchell muttered walking up as other's left the mess hall. "What are we going to?"

"Get weapons and find out what the hell came through that Mirror." he said pulling his personal cannons. "You all stay behind me until we get some weapons."

"You gonna help or stay here?" Mitchell asked.

"I'm in unfamiliar territory and from what I understand, not everyone on this base knows who I am. I might be considered suspicious like he said." she said sarcastically as she closed the rifle and stood up. "Besides, even though I am not as smart as I wish, I got enough to know that he is my key to getting home."

"This key is moving out." he said heading out.

"How many levels up, or is it down?" Iria asked.

"Two levels up." he said running. "Sam, where's K-9?"

"I don't know. Probably my lab. I didn't want him near the Mirror if anything that he couldn't handle came through."

"K-9, where are you?"
"The Mistresses lab Master."

"Close and lock the door. Access the base cameras and tell me what's going on near the Mirror."

"Working Master. Link established. Security cameras are detecting several intruders on level 19."

"Shut down the elevators to that level and inform any personal on that level to use the ladders or hide."

"Affirmative."

"Isn't there any weapons on you we can use?" Mitchell asked. "Spare pistol, rocket launcher maybe?"

"Sorry, never had one personally. Though I have a grenade launcher, unfortunately……"

"You left it in your other coat?"

"No Mitchell. I left it in my locker."

"And where's that?" Iria asked.

"Six levels down. Damn." he said stopping near the open door to a ladder. "Um, this goes to that corridor and then we go….left to the second armory?"

"No, it's a right then a left General." Mitchell said.

"I'll take the lead followed by Iria and the rest of you."

He slowly opened the door with his weapons pointed. Smoke hung in the air and burn marks were on the walls. A few personal were on the ground, unfortunately dead. A few bullets here and there littered the ground. There was blood on the walls, some of it red, some blue.

"I think we have a problem." Ford said.

"Such as, oh. Yeah, looks like the….um whatever allowed them here didn't shut down on their side." Carter said seeing another dead Elite soldier against the wall just down from them.

"On the bright side." Mitchell said taking the plasma rifle from its hand. "Um, any ideas on how to use this?"

Ford was beginning to look it over when Teal'c took it away.

"I believe this is how it functions." he said giving it a quick look before pointing it at the wall. It fired off one blast and burnt the wall. "I am uncertain of the amount of ammo left."

"How'd you do that?" Ford asked.

"I have read the walkthrough manual. As well as the technical manuals they came out with." Teal'c said with a smile. "I have also noticed that you do not use the plasma weapons as much while playing the game."

"Unless he has too." Mitchell said looking at the weapon Teal'c handed back. "No ammo limit visible. Oh well."

"I do know one thing. Remember to keep it from over heating." Ford said.

"Right. Um, Teal'c?"

"I believe it was 8 shots. I am uncertain though."

"8 shots, wait a few seconds. Okay."

"Check if anyone else here had….." Ford began when he put a hand up.

Iria walked over slowly and looked around the corner.

"I see three, no four, um short ugly creatures."

"Grunts." Teal'c, Mitchell and Ford said.

"How good at head shots are you?" Ford asked walking up.

"Very good." she said as he glanced around the corner.

"Looks like they are keeping watch. You have enough ammo to take them out?"

"Yeah. But I'm running low." she said taking aim.

"If your weapons have ammo similar to ours, you'll get as much as you need. If not, you can use any of ours."

The first shot, which all of them were a little loud, made the small grunts jump up and look around as one of their own died. Another one fell and the other two noticed where the shots were coming from. The third one died before he could get his weapon up. The fourth guy fired off a charged shot.

"Everyone back away!" Ford shouted as he pulled Iria off the ground and covered her.

The shot hit the wall and blew a large chunk out of it, showering them with small debris. Mitchell got up as Ford was gently getting of Iria. He stepped out and fired off three shots in quick succession. The first shot made the grunt cry out and the next two splattered his blood against the wall.

"I got him. This thing works pretty well." he said eyeing it as the others got up.

Iria waved him off as he was asking if she was okay.

"Nice shooting Cam. Let's keep moving."

They each got the small plasma pistols, which were a lot easier to figure out. Though they still didn't know the ammo amount. After seeing what an overcharge shot did, they decided unless it was absolutely necessary, do not fire a charged shot. They didn't need to bring the ceiling down on them or falling through holes. Vala, Daniel, Teal'c and Sam had one each. Mitchell still had the rifle.

"What's this blue round thing?" Daniel asked.

"It is a plasma grenade Daniel Jackson." Teal'c said taking it from him.

"I think you should keep that with you Teal'c." Ford said.

"Indeed." he said with a small smile.

A few more corridors later, they hadn't met up with anything or anyone. Ford quickly swiped his card and the door to the secondary armory opened.

"Wow. You guys have a lot of weapons." Iria said glancing around.

"Mitchell, show her were the ammo is stored. Hopefully we have stuff that will work with her weapons. Everyone get something."

"Why not just use one of ours?" Mitchell asked Iria.

"I work best with weapons I am familiar with."

"Good point. Pick out something else, like one of these PC-90's." he said giving her a quick bit of info on it.

Carter got a PC-90 and handed over the plasma pistol to Teal'c. Daniel gave his plasma to Vala and got himself a PC-90 as well. They all got the jackets and utility vest on. Iria put one on seeing as it had small inserts to protect from energy blast, but she didn't zip it up.

"I wish I had my Tommy gun." Ford muttered as he put his personal cannons away. "Well, well, well. I didn't know this was here. Wonder why it is?"

"Isn't that a little overboard?" Daniel asked as Ford checked the large weapon out.

"You haven't played Halo have you?" Ford asked.

"No."

"That's a shame Daniel." he said sadly. "Even Sam has played. Beat me a few times too."

"You know me, games aren't that appealing." Daniel said as Ford loaded the weapon.

"The belt is missing. Not that heavy though. Missing the ammo box too. Hmm, oh well. Just wrap it around my arm here."

"Ford, that might be pushing it." Carter said as he looped the gatling ammo around his right shoulder.

"If this base is under Covenant attack, more powerful firepower will be needed." Teal'c stated.

"Especially if we run into Hunters." Mitchell said as he put a PC-90 behind his back.

"Indeed."

"Ah. Rally got one thing right about updating this place." Ford said pulling a twelve gauge shotgun off a rack. He quickly loaded his coat with slugs as the others were filling their vest. "K-9, inform Rally to get heavy weapons and help secure the upper levels, mostly the top level."

"Yes Master."

They exited the room several minutes later and locked it down.

"I hear movement from this direction." Teal'c stated pointing the way they hadn't went yet.

"We got to get to the Mirror and shut it down." Carter said.

"That doesn't sound like Covenant troops." Ford muttered as he walked forward a few paces.

"Sounds more, almost like something with metal feet." Carter said.

"Big metal feet. Almost like they are stomping." Mitchell said taking aim with everyone else.

What came around the corner almost made Ford drop the gatling gun. He quickly jerked it up and released the safety. Tall men in silver outfits that kinda made them look like space suits walked out, except for the fact that they were cyborgs. There were at least a dozen of them.

"What are those?" Mitchell asked as the unknown silver suits came at them still.

"Cybermen. Open fire!"

The bullets seem to rattle them enough to make them stop moving for a moment. But that moment was not even a second. The plasma weapons were at least doing something and after a few hits, made the enemy it hit explode sparks and fall down crying out. The group slowly backed up as they kept firing. More of the men kept coming around the corner. There was over two dozen now despite the six or so they had taken out.

"Teal'c, throw the plasma!"

Teal'c pushed the small button and tossed it. It landed on one in the third row. They quickly backed off and headed around the corner while Ford kept backing up as he kept firing. The Cyberman had taken the glowing grenade off his chest as it exploded. The explosion tore through the ranks taking a good portion of the group out. It disoriented them long enough Ford kept firing until he ran out of ammo. Once it was out of ammo, he spun around tossing the gatling gun at them. It slammed into one of them taking the head off instantly.

"Mitchell, give me that rifle!"

He was a little hesitant, but gave it over anyway. Ford wasted no time and fired until it overloaded, then dropped it as it burned his hand. Several more had gone down, but they were still coming. He picked it back up quickly while the others were firing the plasma pistols at them. It fired off three shots, then one more and quit. He tossed it at them, but an arm blocked it.

"Well, we can be thankful they don't have their weapons on them." Ford said as he pushed them to run.

They made it to the corridor with the ladder and found the door was still closed. There was sound of fighting behind them, but nothing distinguishable. They either stood or leaned against the wall to rest.

"K-9, what else has came through the Mirror?" Carter asked.

"Security cameras are down Mistress. An unknown intruder is attempting to gain access to the base computer. They have yet to break through my encryptions Mistress."

"Is the base secluded from the rest of the world yet K-9?" Ford asked.

"All computers have disconnected from the outside world Master."

"Have you any idea who is trying to gain access to the base computer?" Carter asked. "It's not those…"

"Cybermen." Ford supplied.

"I know of the Cybermen Mistress. Their attempts failed as another took over. I have yet to identify the new intruder."

"Keep at it K-9. Do not let them have access. If it looks like they are about to gain access, purge the system and blow it up. Let us know when….."

"Intruders identified Master. It is the Borg."

"Ah shit." Daniel, Mitchell, and Carter muttered.

"Why did you…." Carter began.

"I'm not thinking about Star Trek. I haven't been. At least not until K-9 mentioned them. The only thing I've been thinking about is the Doctor."

"K-9, do you still have access to the computer that's monitoring the Mirror?"

"Yes Mistress. The Borg attempted to access it and failed. The Mirror has been active since the Covenant came through."

"Speculation K-9." Ford ordered.

"Processing Master."

"What were those things back there?" Iria asked.

"Cybermen. A race of robots that believe in total conquest of the universe. If they think you're worthy, they turn you into one."

"Like the Borg." Mitchell muttered. "Great."

"Yes and no." Ford said.

"And what are the Borg?" Iria asked.

"That." Vala said as she pointed.

Two Borg came around the corner and stopped. Another Borg came around and stood in front of those two. Except it wasn't a human Borg. It was a former Covenant Elite. One of the yellow armored ones.

"General Ford Carter, Lieutenant Colonel Samantha Carter, Lieutenant Colonel Cameron Mitchell, Doctor Daniel Jackson, Teal'c, Vala Mal Doran." it said.

"Yeah." Vala said sarcastically. "What do you want?"

"You will surrender immediately. Your biological…"

Vala pointed both plasma pistols and fired. A shield blocked both hits.

"Uh oh." Vala said.

"Resistance is futile." all three Borg's said.

"Well, let's see how well they like bullets. Worked in First Contact." Mitchell said aiming.

The other two Borg both fell down as the group riddled them with ammo. The Covenant was pushed back a few steps as his shield blocked the shots.

"Now we're in trouble." Mitchell said.

"They adapted." Carter said.

"No. That was a Covenant shield. They must not have assimilated it into their network yet." Ford said pulling the shotgun out.

The first slug hit the shield and it fizzled out. The second round took the head off.

"Damn. I didn't think that would actually work."

"This is a Borg? Kinda creepy." Iria said tapping the end of her rifle against the foot of one.

Ford knelt down looked at them more closely.

"Are they our people?" Daniel asked.

"No. Thankfully not."

"Master."

"Yeah K-9."

"I am initiating the base computer to self destruct before it is taken over. Per your instructions Master, the base self destruct has been set. You have one hour until it detonates."

"Have all personal head to the top levels, all of them. They are not to let anything get out of the base."

"Initiating Master."

"Is there any way you can keep them out of the computer system anymore K-9?" Carter asked.

"Negative Mistress. The lab is about to be breached in ten seconds. Goodbye Master. Good bye Mistress."

"K-9……"

"I'm sorry we aren't there K-9. You were a good dog."

"Thank you Master."

Ford and Carter both wiped their eyes.

"What's wrong?" Daniel asked.

"K-9 had to set his self destruct code to ensure that he wasn't compromised." Ford muttered angrily.

They all heard a faint explosion though Ford and Carter didn't seem startled by it. Teal'c just looked around.

"Why do we have an hour?" Mitchell asked. "If the computer systems are down and we can't get out…"

"He gave us an hour to fix this and stop the bomb." Carter said sadly.

"Is there any other way to access the gate?" Daniel asked.

"Remotely from in the gate room. There's hidden supplies put in the floor behind the gate. Only a select few people know about it." Ford said.

"I never knew this." Mitchell said. "Did you Teal'c?"

"Indeed. I was instrumental in its construction."

"I had it done shortly after taking over. Walter knows along with Reynolds and Sam. Jack and Hammond know. A few others. We got to get moving."

"And you didn't tell me." Daniel said upset.

"I meant to tell all of you. I just forgot. The other problem was you were all leaving so….." he said stopping near a corner.

Most of the rooms they came across were ransacked or demolished. A few were still intact, though most of them that had came across on this level were in various states of disarray.

"Is there something there?" Mitchell asked quietly as he and the others pulled their weapons up.

"Yeah. We're in trouble. Anyone bring a zat gun?"

"Indeed." Teal'c said pulling his from its holster.

"What is it….oh boy." Mitchell said looking around the corner.

Teal'c shot it once and the 8 foot tall black alien turned to them. It screeched at them as it shot its second mouth out at them. Teal'c shot it again, but it kept coming. He fired a few more times and then it vanished.

"That's not good." Mitchell muttered.

"What was that?" Iria asked.

"Something worse than Zeiram. When you shoot it or….its blood is an acid that goes through just about everything." Carter said. "And they can lay eggs in you."

Iria grimaced.

"Had we had to shoot that thing, the acid would have went all the…." Ford said shaking his head.

"We got company." Iria said spinning around.

"HALT OR YOU WILL BE EXTERMINATED!"

"Those look dangerous." Vala said as she took a shot with the plasma pistol.

It was instantly absorbed by the Daleks shield. It fired back and on impact, Vala was blasted back into the wall.

"RUN!" Ford shouted as he pushed them around the corner quickly.

He dropped barely avoiding a blast that took a chunk out of the wall. Several more blast from other Daleks that had came around the other corner just missed him as he rolled out of the way dragging Vala with. He quickly draped her over his shoulder and ran.

"Are those Daleks?" Carter asked as they kept moving.

"Yes!" Ford said breathing hard as he ran with them and looked back. "Come on Vala, come back soon."

They heard the Daleks keep yelling exterminate.

"Those things only have one real weakness. Shoot for the eye thing. Their weapon is completely fatal…." he was saying when a blast door to one of the rooms opened and a Cyberman that had a Borg look to it stepped out.

They fired a few burst at it, but the shield blocked everything. Teal'c took a swing with his weapon, only for it to get blocked. The Cyberman grabbed Teal'c by his jacket and picked him up tossing him into the others. They all went down in a heap.

"I am officially beyond pissed." Ford growled getting up as the Cyberman came at them with a couple hoses hanging from its arm.

A shot from the shotgun, point blank did nothing as expected, but it did distract the Cyberman. He swung the weapon into its face, but did nothing other than breaking the shotgun. Two fist came down toward him. He caught them and held them as the other's got up.

"Don't shoot, you'll only hit Ford." Carter warned as a few of them took aim.

"He can't hold out forever." Mitchell said as Ford started to drop to his knees.

"We need to do something fast." Daniel stated.

Teal'c shot the Cyberman in head as Ford's head got out of the way. The shield did not block it and both of them twitched. Ford suddenly was on his feet again and had shoved the arms back and away from him with a shout of rage. The Cyberman didn't fall though even after Ford cocked back his fist and punched his hand right though its chest. A few electronic parts and some body parts came out the back landing several feet away. The shout that accompanied the punch was heard throughout most of the level they were on. At first the team thought he was screaming from the pain of being electrified because his hand was still in the Cyberman's chest. That was until they noticed the right arm of the Cyberman was next to his next. The Cyberman dropped as Ford fell to the ground screaming and convulsing. The left side of his face was starting to turn black with lines along with his neck. His left eye had already changed to having a glowing red look. Carter was on the ground next to him in a heartbeat.

"Dammit! He's being assimilated!"

"Get out of the way Sam! We have to shoot him!" Mitchell said.

"Shoot him?!" Iria shouted.

"His body should fix itself…"

"EXTERMINATE!"

Iria shoved Daniel out of the way and pulled a couple objects from her armor. She tossed them between the Daleks as they started around the corner.

"Get down!" she yelled covering Daniel.

The explosion was strong enough it shook the area they were in. It took out the floor, the walls and part of the ceiling. Smoke filled the air as they all coughed and looked around quietly.

"Good thing the General can afford to get this place fixed." Mitchell muttered as he sat up shaking dust and other things out of his head. He picked something off his arm and then tossed it after seeing what it was. "A tentacle? Ugh!"

"Ford?" Carter asked as she got up off him slowly.

"I could hear them. I….oh my god." he said through tears, mostly from pain. "I could hear them and I couldn't make it stop. I……"

"You're fine. Your skin is back to normal." she said feeling his face and neck. "And your eye isn't glowing anymore."

"I've never been so frightened in my entire life. Oh god." he said as she helped him sit up. "I…."

"Ford, it's over. We're all here and still alive. Luckily."

"Miss Doran is now conscious." Teal'c stated as he knelt next to her.

"What happened?" she slurred out.

"You were killed." Teal'c said.

"Damn. Did I take one of those things with me?"

"No."

"Double damn. That hurt."

"I thought you said those things had lethal weapons?" Iria said shaking dust out of her hair.

"Uh, yeah. Ford and Vala here are, unique." Daniel said.

"They are Immortals." Carter said helping Ford to his feet.

Iria raised an eyebrow before glancing at her handy work.

"The Queen is here and she wants me, badly." he said wiping his face and tearing eyes. "She managed to get a lot out of my mind. Forget the Mirror. Couldn't do anything there anyway. We need to get to the gate room."

"Isn't that nine levels down?" Iria asked.

"Yes." Carter said nodding. "Why the gate room?"

"She knows about the secondary way to activate the gate. Borg are on their way there to activate it so she can go to Atlantis."

"But we're running on internal power and there is not enough…."

"I don't know how she's going to do it, but she has a way." Ford said pulling his personal cannons.

"Why don't we split up? One group go to the Mirror and…." Mitchell began.

"We can't." Ford said slowly. "Not even the Borg Queen can enter the room. The Mirror was destroyed some time ago. The entire room is now in some state of flux that I guess has access to every dimension and reality out there. You could end up anywhere."

"What else do you know?" Carter asked as they slowly made their way through the cracked corridor. There was scorch marks and blood on most of the walls and some on the floor, but little if any bodies thankfully.

"Not much. I'm losing a lot of what I saw. Though we have a bigger problem that I have no idea how to fix. The field is expanding and I don't know how fast or how far it will go."

"All realities could combine. That would cause a explosion so big everything, and I mean everything could be wiped out." Carter said. "This is all my fault."

"It's both our faults. Whoa, what the hell is that?" he asked seeing some strange silver robot walking toward them.

"It's a Cylon." Mitchell said taking aim and firing at it.

It didn't stop and started to raise some energy rifle, so the rest of them opened fire, except Ford. It literally exploded and fell.

"It's a what?" Ford asked.

"A Cylon." Mitchell said.

"It is an enemy in the show Battlestar Galactica." Teal'c stated.

"Never saw it."

"Oh god! It's Zieram!" Iria shouted pointing her weapon down the hall.

They all quickly raised their weapons and looked. Ford stepped out slowly into the front pulling both hammers back.
"Where?"

"He's the creature against….no, hanging from the wall." Iria said waving her weapon.

They walked up slowly to see the seven foot behemoth pinned against the wall by large spikes. His right arm was missing and there was several large holes with his blood still leaking out of him. The small white skull head was missing. Ford and Iria both lowered their weapons and sighed loudly with relief.

"It's dead?" Mitchell asked poking it lightly with his PC-90.

"Yes. Very dead." Iria said.

"There's nothing around the corridor. At least nothing alive." Daniel said. "But there is a quite a few bodies."

The lights flickered in the heavily damaged hallway. There was a dead human like alien that hadn't completely burned its way through the floor. Probably because of the light blue robot it was laying on that was still being dissolved. A few Covenant Elites and grunts. One blown up Hunter. Its weapon arm was in a few pieces while the larger parts of its body seemed to be in a pile. A couple of dead Brutes with holes through them. Several dead Borg. One was twitching, but obviously dead because its head was just barely hanging on. A few dead SGC security personal. From the looks of the bullets around them, they held their ground for awhile. A couple grenade blast marks here and there too.

"Rumble huh. Well, I didn't like him anyway." Ford muttered giving the robot a kick as he walked by. "Good thing he's dead."

"Who's Rumble?" Mitchell asked.

"A Decepticon." Carter, Teal'c and Ford said.

"What?"

"A bad guy Transformer." Ford said.

"Oh, that cartoon with robots that change into things. Okay."

"Be nice to see Optimus here, but not going to happen."

They didn't notice the dead Klingon and his two friends until they walked past the Hunter. He was dead from several wounds as were his friends. His Bat'leth was still clutched in his hand, though broken. The other two Klingons were holding their knives and disruptor pistols. One of them was bent but the other one looked functional. Ford knelt down slowly and started to pick up the disruptor pistol as one of the team behind him was closing the eyes of the other Klingon. Teal'c was probably the one doing so Ford figured. The other's jumped and aimed their weapon as the Klingon that Ford was kneeling next to grabbed his coat and pulled him closer. Ford only managed to make out part of what the guy said though.

"I'm sorry, I don't understand Klingon. I'm still trying."

"Are you with the Federation?" he rasped out.

"Not really. But I am a ally." he said looking at the wounds the man had. "You're wondering if you'll make it to Sto-Vo-Kor?"

"I am Drek, son of Zard'Rik."

"General Ford Carter, son of Primus. If I could get our medical team to help you, I would, but even if they were here, they couldn't help you. We don't have access to your medical needs."

"It was an honorable battle. Though the enemies we had I had never seen before." he said letting go of Ford's coat. "You are the General in charge of this place?"

"Yes."

"Your Major Takara knew of us." he said pointing with a shaky finger.

Carter went over to the fallen bodies of their personal. Mitchell followed and helped identify.

"It's him. Along with Lieutenant Bosely, airman Styles…."

"And airman Brandes." Mitchell said looking at the dog tags.

"They fought honorably. Helping us defeat these unknown creatures."

"They were good officers. I do not know a lot about your people, but I know enough to say you and your men will go to Sto-Vo-Kor Drek. You fought honorably and courageously to protect my people and this base, for that you have my gratitude and thanks." Ford said patting the man lightly on the shoulder. "It saddens me that we will not be able to share glorious battle stories over a cup of bloodwine."

"Indeed General." he said with a small cough. He smiled and placed his uninjured hand on Ford's shoulder. "May Kahless be at your side."

They both nodded at each other and then he picked up the disruptor.

"This has accompanied and served me on many battles. May it serve you as well as it has me."
"I shall tell any other Klingons I meet of your courage here and make sure that they get your bodies when we have taken our base back."

"Qapla' General." he said as he closed his eyes.

"You do know that we can't get give the bodies back since…." Daniel began saying as Ford got up.

"We may find a way Daniel. Besides, we may find more Klingons." he said looking at the disruptor. "Here Teal'c."

"Why aren't you using it?" Carter asked and the quickly realized that it was a stupid question. "Right, forgot."

"He's better with weapons that have a kick to them." Mitchell said to Iria as she started to open her mouth.

"Oh. I can understand that."

Ford glanced around and then noticed something on the floor next to a few human soldiers that were dead, but were not their men.

"Oh yeah! Now here is a weapon." he said putting his guns away.

"What did you find?" Mitchell asked as Ford picked up some large machine gun. "Oh, that is so unfair. Is there another that will help us?"

"Don't think so." Ford said checking the weapon. "Hmm, got about 80 rounds. And there is a couple of clips on this guy. And about three grenades."

"Is that a Pulsar Rifle?" Carter asked.

"Oh yeah." he said smiling.

They had to pass by several more bodies before getting to the corner. As they rounded it, they found a couple dead robots that had been shot several times.

"Terminators. Probably were shot by one of those plasma weapons or that Klingon thing." Mitchell said seeing all the burn marks.

"At least they were one of the older models." Carter said keeping away from them like the rest of everyone.

"The blast door is down." Teal'c stated.

"We're going to have to blow it." Mitchell said walking up as he pulled C-4 from his pocket.

"Wait Mitchell."

"What?" he said then looked at his feet to see blood coming out from under the barrier.

"Keep back." Ford said as he slid out a blade and stuck it through the door slowly.

"Nice. Now that's something I could do." Iria said looking at her arms.

"None of this bother's you?" Daniel asked.

"No. I've seen worse, much worse."

Ford looked through the hole he cut into the door to see more bodies and carnage. Something yellow walked out of his view, but he didn't catch what it was that rounded the corner. The whole base suddenly shook making them all fall to their feet. A loud explosion was heard barely a second later as they saw the walls crack.

"That was big. Probably damaged the foundation." Ford said getting up.

"That wasn't the self destruct was it?
"No Iria. The whole base would have gone up and the mountain would have collapsed in on everything." Mitchell said.

"We're in a mountain?"

"What did you think we were in?" Vala asked.

"A large building that extended underground."

"Since we know that wasn't the self destruct. How much time is left?" Mitchell asked.

"It won't matter. The Queen managed to shut that off already. Or she should have by now. A few drones were in there with her working on it at the time I was still connected. More than likely, they are trying to turn it into a power source to activate the gate and get to Atlantis. We need to get through here quickly and to that other ladder." he said cutting a door for them.

"How's he doing that? My sword isn't that sharp." Iria asked as he kicked the cut panel away.

Daniel and Carter quickly explained what his knives in his coat along with his coat was made of as they walked through.

"Where is your sword General Carter?" Teal'c asked.

"With the grenade launcher."

"Damn, this area was a terrible battle." Mitchell said as they passed bodies.

There was a few more aliens and one had dropped through the floor and was currently burning a path to the next one. More Covenant forces and several more terminators. Though they had been taken out by the plasma weapons. A destroyed Dalek was knocked over on the floor. Several blown up Cylons were around as were a couple of Cybermen. And a few dead Borg.

They picked up a few of the functioning laser rifles the terminators had. Carter, Mitchell and Vala used those while Mitchell managed to find a couple of plasma rifles. Teal'c picked up a Covenant carbine and a few plasma grenades. Iria found a functioning Covenant sword and took it. Daniel took Teal'c's zat. They rounded another corner and Ford looked into a room next to them.

"Now here's a weapon that suits me too." he said picking a large object off the floor next to a dead marine after slinging the Pulsar Rifle behind him.

"That guy isn't one of ours." Mitchell said.

"He is one of the forces that fight the Covenant." Teal'c stated.

"Whoa, that weapon you can't bring." Carter said waving a hand.

"Why not? It's perfect for me and has two rounds in it. Might find more." he said looking it over.

"Whoa General. I agree with Sam."

"So do I." Daniel said.

"Agreed." Teal'c said.

"If we run into the Borg, this lovely rocket launcher will work greatly to our advantage." he said patting it lightly.

"Yeah, and you might take us with." Daniel said.

"I know what I am doing. I do very well in the game with this thing." he said walking out ahead of them. "Looks like more Earth forces from Halo also were here fighting."

"Yeah." Mitchell said seeing the various bodies. "You shot my character in the back."

"That happened once Mitchell. I haven't shot my team since then. And we've played a lot."

"And lost."

"Only when that lady….hold up."

They all got down as he pulled his personal cannon and pointed at a room down from them.

"I know I saw something duck back into that room, so come out."

"I saw something as well." Teal'c stated.

"I thought I saw a long black pole duck back in."

"Ah, you're General Carter and the rest of SG-1. Considering the info I found in here, I'm not surprised to see you all still alive. Don't know who the other lady is, but guess she's on our side." a female voice said from their coms.

"What the…." Mitchell began as he grabbed his com. "Identify yourself please."

"We're coming out of the room. I ask that you do not shoot us." a slightly familiar male voice said.

"Better do it slowly." Ford said aiming his personal cannon.

A tall green colored suit came out of the room slowly. He had a sniper rifle in his hand, though with it pointed at the ground.

"Master Chief. It is an honor to meet a fellow warrior." Teal'c said with a slight bow after getting up.

"I'll take that as a compliment." Master Chief said nodding back as he set the rifle on his shoulder.

"That voice must be Cortana then." Mitchell said.

"Yes. You have a sophisticated yet primitive computer system. Wasn't all that hard to crack and take over. That robotic dog of yours almost did a good job of taking the computer out, but I managed to stop his attempt. Would have liked to meet him."

"The Borg are trying to take over the base computer. We can't have that." Ford said sternly.

"Rather sophisticated group I must say General." Cortana said from Master Chief suit. "But I am a lot better."

Those that knew the Halo game looked stunned. Which was everyone but Daniel.

"Wow." Ford muttered. "I new you were impressive Cortana."

"Thank you." Cortana said sweetly. "You're record speaks the same General."

"Who are we talking to?" Daniel asked.

"A.I. construct inside his helmet." Carter said.

"What?"

"Follow me." Master Chief said entering the room again.

They followed to find that though the room was one of the ones used for computer work or some basic information gathering with lab work or something close, the room was in pretty good condition. One of the monitors, there was a see through female looking at them. No defining features, as to graphic anyway. Her body was made of lines of information running across her in blue. The background was black.

"Hello General. Colonels. Everyone else. I am Cortana. I must say, traveling through that Stargate thing sound very appealing."

"Where are you?" Carter asked. "I mean your core program?"

"My head." Master Chief stated as he looked out the door. "I think it is all clear at the moment sir."

"You're not under my command Chief." Ford stated more as fact than an insult.

"True, but it is your base sir. This is all unfamiliar territory."

"I've got access to most of the information in the base mainframe. But some areas have been blocked out by these Borg. They've assimilated several other species into their collective." Cortana said crossing her arms as she looked to her right. "One of which is those Daleks. If it wasn't for the Chiefs shield, we'd be dead."

"What else have they assimilated?" Ford asked as he set the rocket launcher down and began accessing one of the computers nearby.

"Some beings called Cybermen. Those ones you fought earlier were under their control. They tried to assimilate some species which I can only find a reference to as Aliens, but they failed, badly. Tried on those robots you called terminators too, not really sure if that worked. Level 16 is almost completely overrun by the Alien creatures and some other creatures that were only classified as bugs. Um, Starship Troopers bad guys apparently. They are currently battling those other robots called Cylons, which some of them were assimilated."

"What about level one?" Mitchell asked. "Everyone else in the base was to make a last stand there."

"They are. So far, there has been only one casualty on your side. The cameras still function on levels 5 and up. A lady named Rally has took charge and currently nothing has gotten within fifty feet of the main door. That group is packing some serious firepower and a lot of it. Short of a horde of attackers, they'll be able to keep that door secure for awhile. Not even a group of Brutes could get within ten feet of them."

"Any other robots? I saw a Transformer back there."

"Yes. Some Decepticon called Frenzy. He was assimilated."

"Damn. Well, on the bright side, the Borg Queen isn't dumb enough to activate his pile drivers down here."

"What are those? I mean what would they do, these pile drivers?" Mitchell asked.

"Take that robot back there and change his color to black. His arms transform into large pistons that slam incredible force into the ground. Earthquake shattering force." Ford stated as he kept looking.

"I could find whatever your looking for quicker General."

"I need to know where the Hive is and what they are doing."

"What they are doing is a problem. I can't access information on that, at least not yet. As for where, they are in the gate room."

"Has the Stargate been activated?" Mitchell asked.

"No. They haven't figured out how to do that yet."

"What about the self destruct?" Vala asked.

"Been deactivated. Several drones, which unfortunately are a few of your people, made it inoperable."

"What else is in this base that has came through the Mirror?" Ford asked getting up.

"Some strange blue hedgehog is fighting with other humanized animals two levels above us. Some short red headed lady on level 9 is throwing what I believe is called magic around. Fireballs specifically. There's a lot of damage and at the rate she's going she's, the walls are going to melt along with a few other things. She's tried to call on something big I think, but keeps getting interrupted."

"Fireballs? Oh no." he said tapping his fingers against his chest in thought. "Um. Just answers the question please and don't think about why I ask. No one think about it. She have a small chest?"

They all gave him looks. Except the Chief. Cortana even gave him a glare.

"Does she?" he asked with an order tone.

"Yes. For someone of her size, they are rather small breast." Cortana said.

"Great." Ford muttered with worry. "Lina will probably destroy the base before the Borg does. What is she fighting?"

"Aliens, Covenant troops, Cylons, lots of Flood. Surprisingly she hasn't been touched or hurt at all."

"Lina is who?" Mitchell asked.

"Lina Inverse. A very powerful….female equivalent of a warlock. Got a spell that could take out the whole mountain. Unless she calls on the Giga Slave, in which case, the whole state goes up in a massive explosion. Show me on the base schematic please. The blue hedgehog's location I mean."

Cortana brought up a 4-D picture and made a blip show where they were. Ironically, exactly two floors above them, another blip showed up.

"Everyone in the room, now." he said walking out with the Chief. "See that far…."

"Ford, what are you doing?" Carter asked.

"Getting backup."

"From animals?" she stated without thinking first. He gave her an insulted look. "That came out wrong."

"You want me to blow a hole in the far corner ceiling down there General?" Master Chief asked as he hefted the launcher.

"Please." he said plugging his ears as the others got down in the room and covered their ears.

The Chief knelt down and fired. The missile slammed into the far corner from where they had came before. The whole level shook and dust came at them as it sprayed debris everywhere.

"Cortana, any way to get a message up to them?" Ford asked.

"Yes. I assume you're going to fire the last rocket in the same spot, just one level above."

"Yes. Tell them that we know they are Mobians and if they want to survive, do not go near the area were we are firing."

She was giving the message as Ford took the weapon from him.

"Are you sure about doing that sir?"

"Trust me Chief. I move a lot faster that I look."

"Ford, be careful please." Carter said before he took off.

"Message sent General. They have left that area."

"Any bad guys or whatever they are above me?" he said aiming.

"Something they keep calling Swat-butts."

"Fire in the hole!"

Sonic and the other Freedom Fighters, Sally, Tails, Antoine, Bunnie, Rotor, Knuckles, Amy Rose and Shadow were headed in the other direction, keeping it slow just in case. Since a few dozen Swat-bots were coming from the other direction, they didn't have much choice and the message they just got told them to go the direction they were currently going. They all turned when the floor under the Swat-bots suddenly erupted upward in a loud explosion that shook all three levels, at least in the immediate area. It also caused the ceiling above the explosion to break apart and fall down.

After Ford fired, he dropped the weapon and jump out of the way. Even though the back blast of the explosion caused him to fall, he just managed to keep from tumbling into several broken metal poles that stuck out of the concrete. He instead grabbed a couple and pushed, vaulting himself over and rolled away as he hit the ground. Several metal bodies came tumbling down causing other explosions which made the floor give out. Several more bodies followed and so did explosions.

"We now have a way down to level 28." Cortana stated.

"That's going to take awhile to fix." Mitchell muttered as he walked out to look with everyone else.

"We've got a problem." Cortana stated quickly. "A large contingent of some troops are coming around that corner in less than a minute."

"What are they dressed in?" Daniel asked. "Might be some of our own still left down here."

"Unless your people wear white bulky armor, they aren't your people." Cortana said.

They all looked at each other trying to think.

"Do they carry black rifles that are an energy based weapon?" Teal'c asked.

"Yes. They killed a few Covenant troops recently."

"I believe they are Storm Troopers."

"Oh great. We wanted Jedi's to show up, not the enemy." Carter stated in a very frustrated voice. "At least there isn't some Dark Jedi with them."

"Cortana, is there any person amongst those troops that isn't in white armor?" Mitchell asked.

"Yes. She has a dark robe on. Or did last I saw her. Killed a few people with some red energy blade."

"Everyone, back off the way we came, quickly." Ford said waving a hand.

"Do you intended to fight the Dark Jedi General Carter?" Teal'c asked.

"I'm the only one that would survive. Unless she tried for my head. In which case." he said reaching in his coat.

"We can't go back. It's just a large hole." Vala said looking down. "And it's too far to jump across."

"Climb down. That's an order for all of you." he stated sternly as Teal'c answered Master Chief's question about who and what was coming.

"I'll drop down and catch each of you as you drop." Master Chief said before dropping to the next level.

Ford put his gloves on and put the large choker he made for keeping his neck protected. Teal'c climbed down last as Ford helped him down.

"What are you going to do?" Carter asked.

"If I can't stop her, she'll easily go through the rest of you. Go down another level and wait for me."

"She's got a Lightsaber Ford. And the Force. How are you going to keep her from not killing you outright?" Daniel asked.

"I tell her who I am. The Empire always captures base commanders for interrogation." he said standing up.

A rope dropped down past him and a injured black hedgehog slid down it to stop right in front of his face. Ford spun around as he heard the troops come around the corner. They stopped a few feet in and aimed their weapons.

"Stay where you are. Resistance will be met with hostile force." one of the Storm Troopers stated. "Commander, we have a prisoner."

"You and the rest of the Freedom Fighters keep dropping. My team are two levels down. Staying to help them will increase your survival odds." Ford said quickly over his shoulder, but not loudly. He took a couple steps forward with his hands out and then dropped them as he stopped.

"My name is General Ford Carter. I am the base commander. Needs some repair, but it is still functional. As far as I know anyway."

A lightly blue hued female Twi'lek passed by the soldiers as they parted to allow her through. She had tattoo's on her face and anger in her eyes. She kept her eyes on him even as she noticed several strange yet small furred creatures slid down a rope behind him. Something was off about this man. He was too calm and yet, his emotions showed a extreme dark aura, though she felt no Force powers at all.

"This person claims…."

"I heard Lieutenant." she said in calmly. "Surrender General and bow before me and you may live. Fight me and I will make you life a living hell filled with pain you can't even phantom."

"I got a better idea. You defeat me, without using your Force powers, and I'll willingly tell you anything about this place and this planet. I'll even give you free access to the computers. No having to go through pass codes and such. Deal?" he asked calmly.

"Does that mean you won't use your Force powers?" she asked.

"Can't you tell I don't have any?"

She began to say something when there was a sound from above. A man very similar to him dropped down onto the level next to the General. Though he looked like the same guy, he was different in spirit. And a little older. And he had some large object with him under a white sheet.

"I should have warned you and Sam sooner." the alternate time line Ford stated shaking his head. "She did this and we ended up with all sorts of problems. Thankfully, we got it sorted out before things got as bad off as you all are."

"What are you doing here? Not that I don't mind the help." Ford said crossing his arms.

"Give you a few things. You'll need them." he said handing him a paper bag. "Here's this too. I'll be on the first level with my Sam keeping all this from leaving the base. Oh, like the fact you hired Rally to help. She's doing a really great job up there. Took out four Daleks with that anti-tank rifle. Is that a Pulsar Rifle?"

"Yes." he said proudly.

"Give it here. I need it up top."

Before Ford could asked his alternate self anything else, he suddenly beamed away after ripping the Pulsar Rifle off his back.

"I never even got to shoo that. Oh well. I need just a minute." he said pulling a object that he attached to his right arm. Part of it closed around his wrist as he pulled a small vial out of the bag and drank it. "Oh god, that stuff is disgusting. Now, ask me anything you want and I'll answer correctly and truthfully."

As she pulled her Lightsaber out and started to approach him.

"Ah, ah. I need a minute to, pray if you will. If I'm about to die, I'd at least like a minute to be able to get ready. I assume you could give me that. None of my people can do anything to you. Feel around. No one here has access to the Force." he said getting on his knees and putting his hands before his face as though he was praying.

She actually stopped and looked around feeling. She sensed other life forms in the base they were in but nothing she could consider dangerous to herself. She sensed the people they were coming up on earlier had moved down three levels through the large hole behind the man kneeling before her. She did feel hints of the Force from the man before her and what would be a stronger connection to it from some man down on that third level. But as to direct access, no.

"What is the name of this world?" she asked using the Force persuasion.

"Earth. Located in the Sol system. Milky Way Galaxy. What we call sector 001." he said feeling the urge to tell her, which he realized quickly was the Force. Wasn't sure why he felt it, but he decided to give more info as well.

"What are the galactic coordinates?" she said with the same power.

"I don't know."

"What are the galactic coordinates?" she asked forcefully.

"I really don't know." he said with some strain. "Our system and charts do not use the same system and charts that the Empire does. Besides, we are several life times away from your galaxy."

He stood up slowly and picked up the sheeted object.

"Now, I kick you ass."

She ignited her Lightsaber and Force jumped at him with the intention of taking his arm off. The large object spun at a unnatural speed and blocked her blade. The sheet caught fire and she backed off. He ripped the sheet off quickly and tossed it behind him.

"What the? I guess a bedroom caught fire." Vala stated.

(A.U. Yes, many people may have trouble with this part, but hey, my story and if I had the money, I would have this sword made. Seriously. Since I can't and never will, putting it here is the next best thing. Now, if you haven't watched Final Fantasy Advent Children, I pity you. Ford is holding the sword that Cloud Strife used in that movie, not the game.)

She took a step back in fear as she looked past the enormous blade the man was holding, sideways, with his right hand. The whole sword had to be six feet long or more and two feet wide. The sword didn't bother her. It was the deadly intent in his eyes. She could tell he didn't have the Force, but those eyes, they showed death in them that not even Emperor Palpatine could ever give off. His anger and hated were far greater than any she had ever felt. The man had no fear of dying. She didn't even get the chance to bring her blade up and she realized her mistake too soon. He needed time for something in that vial to take effect and she had given it to him. She saw him move, but it was so slow and yet so quick.

He had decapitated her before she had a chance to call upon anything. A quick rush over and he had taken one of the bombs off a trooper, activated it and then dropped it. He rushed over and grabbed her Lightsaber before dropping down the hole. The troops never saw the thermal detonator until it was too late. The other's saw him drop past them and then they were suddenly being placed on the other side of the hole, one level below. As he was taking over Teal'c and Master Chief at the same time, the detonator exploded.

"What the…" Mitchell began as everyone else was looking at themselves.

"Move that way, quickly!" Ford said pointing down the open hall as he grabbed the sword he left against the wall.

"What…how…" Carter began.

"MOVE!"

They ran quickly as it felt like the whole base shook. It was a little hard to stand, but they managed to keep moving as the floor cracked and some areas fell in. They rounded a corner and Ford slid his card quickly and helped the door down. It was loud as he pulled it down so quickly that the gears broke under the speed.

"How'd you move that fast?" Carter asked as they were all catching their breath. Except Master Chief. "And where in the hell did that sword come from?"

"My alternate timeline self is up on level one helping them. He dropped this and this off." he said waving the sword slightly and then showing the thing attached to his arm. "And took the Pulsar Rifle."

"Where did you get that?" Daniel asked. "And how it is working for you?"

"More importantly, how do you have access to the abilities it gives so quickly?" Carter asked. "Took us…."

"Him and a special chemical he and his Sam made. Takes a minute to enter the system. I have, roughly about 12 hours until it wears off. I have another vial I need to take before then or else my immune system will take over and I'll never be able to use these lovely armbands ever again."

"You can't swing that sword without…Anises armbands can you? That is what they were being called right?" Mitchell asked.

"Right. This is one of them." he said covering it back up. "We need to get the gate room and stop her."

"I thought Lina was worse." Mitchell said.

"Too far away and I doubt she'll blow the base up."

Master Chief was looking around the corner ahead of them as they, bickered as he put it to Cortana.

"I'm getting radio signals directed at this facility." she said as the Chief was listing for movement.

"Doesn't he look familiar Sally?" Sonic asked. "And her?"

"Yeah. But they were changed. Maybe something happened…."

"You know them?" Daniel asked.

"Sure do. They helped us fight against Ro-buttnick." Sonic said.

"They were hero's on our world." Sally said.

"Why don't they remember us?" Tails asked sadly. "Ford used to play games with me a lot."

"Oh! I know who they are now!" Mitchell exclaimed as he listened. "You're the Sonic that that Fox version of the General…."

"Wait a minute." Ford said interrupting them as he walked up and knelt. "You're the Sonic team that met me?"

"You're remembering then?" Sally asked.

"No. Long story short, the version of me you saw did get back here, but they were both still, Mobians. They live in this universe, just on another planet."

"I don't get it." Sonic said scratching his head. "Aren't they from this zone?"

"I'll try to explain it better later." he said as Rotor walked up.

"We always wondered if we'd ever see you and Samantha again. I have a gift I've been keeping for a few years now." he said digging through his backpack.

"It is going to help us in this situation?" Carter asked. "No offense, but if not, now's….."

"Oh, it will help." Sonic said.

"The other Ford used it to help us defeat Ro-buttnick." Tails said proudly. "I helped Rotor rebuild it after…."

"The parts were used for helping this place with something that I don't remember at the moment." Rotor said pulling a small black gun out of his pack.

"Kinda small Rotor." Ford said holding his hand out.

"Ah, I haven't transformed it yet." he said pushing a button.

The small gun somehow expanded in a way that Ford couldn't describe. He was baffled and so was Sam.

"That was cool." Mitchell said as Ford took the large rifle.

"Oh my god. He did make Optimus Prime's rifle." he said looking at the large laser rifle. "How did you make it become…."

"General, there's something coming. Sounds like a lot of troops." the Master Chief said coming back up. "Nice rifle. You get all the cool weapons."

They looked around to see no where to go. Not even a room to duck into. Ford reached into his coat and pulled out a cylinder as he put the rifle in some spot in the coat.

"Sam, where's a safe place to cut one of these walls?"

"I…." she said looking at both of them. "I really don't know at the moment."

"Everyone stand back." he said turning the Lightsaber on. "I hate red versions of these things."

It took a little effort to cut through the wall into another room on their left. Water and steam came out quickly.

"Great. Now I'm freezing and burning at the same time." he said getting out of the spraying a little too late.

He cut another section and more water came out. It practically gushed out as he knocked the large door sized chunk of wall into a filing storage room. The blast door to the room was closed as they all quickly got in.

"Enemies approaching General." Master Chief said as he entered last.

As Sam was activating the door, he stepped out to look around the corner. It was a massive amount of Borg. And it was a variety of races and/or species. A few terminators that were assimilated. About a dozen or so Daleks and Cybermen. Covenant and a few other's he wasn't sure about. And they were coming fast.

"Run, I've got another idea." he said sticking the large sword into the ground about an inch. "Try to make it to the elevator that should be just around the corner."

"More like a few corners." Mitchell said as the door opened and they all pointed what weapons they had.

Ford gave the sword a certain push and it clicked as the Master Chief walked out.

"Chief…."

"There's a Colonel Pendergast trying to get hold of the SGC." Cortana said as Ford pulled two swords from the large sword.

"Impressive." the Chief said as Ford gave them a twirl and then a quick toss.

The sword flew straight at the chest of a normal Borg and one assimilated Covenant Elite. They both reached out to stop the blades only to fail as the blades went through them and through several more Borg. One blade continued through until it sank into a Cyberman hanging him on the wall. The other stopped in a Dalek after going through at least seven Borg. Ford threw the other blades quickly taking another dozen or more of the Borg out and pinning three more to the far wall before trying to hit one of them with the Lightsaber. The shield blocked it and he barely ducked out of the way. The hidden blade in his left hard struck into the Terminators chest. It convulsed and grabbed his hand. He yanked and ended up ripping his coat off from the elbow up. His blade and its ejection system stayed in the Terminator as it fell to the ground. He ran and helped the door close. Master Chief helped somewhat and then they took off to join the others. He reached into upper inner pocket and placed a headpiece into his left ear.

"Can said as a voice entered his ear.

"General. We've got some serious problems up here!"

"What's going on?!"

"There's a huge ass Borg cube up here! Our weapons are doing little damage. Several other unknown and known vessels are here helping or fighting amongst themselves!"

"What sort of ships do you recognize?"

"A few Star Destroyers. A few ships from that Battle Star Galactica show. The Enterprise E and several other Federation vessels. A few Klingon. A few ships that one of my Lieutenants says are from Babylon 5. There's even a few large robots fighting up here. What's a Megatron? General, you're not going to believe this, but I was just informed there's a large yellow and blue vessel out there with a Autobot symbol on it."

"That nice. Is Earth under attack?" he asked as they rounded the corner to find the other's still trying to open the elevator door.

"There's fighting all over the planet! There's….so many different things showing up attacking! A nuclear blast took out the east coast of America and Australia is also gone! The Antarctic site was using its ordinance when it was taken out several minutes ago!"

"Colonel, open your communication channels. To everyone and everything. Tell them you represent this Earth and that the large Cube has to be destroyed to matter the cost. After that, everyone had better stop fighting and run for it. There's a chance the planet may explode."

"Seriously General?"

"Yes." he said lying as they other's watched him.

"OH MY GOD!"

"Ah!" he said pulling the earpiece from his ear.

"General! You still there?"

"Yeah." he said putting it back carefully. "What happened?"

"This, Earth designed battleship that has been made space capable used some very large blast that come from some large barrel on the front bow! The Borg Cube was totally destroyed! They're saying they will destroy any vessel that attacks the Earth or its people!"

"Is there some white anchor symbol on the side?"

"Yeah. How did you…."

"Protect that ship at all cost Colonel. It has no shields but would be the greatest weapon against the Ori and anything else we'd ever come across." he said as they all turned to hear the enemy coming. "I'll call back later if I can. We're kinda busy here."

They let the Mobians go in first after Daniel and Iria. The elevator was somewhere at the very bottom and from the looks of it, it dropped seeing as there was no cable. So they had to use the ladder.

"What ship is Pendergast protecting?" Mitchell asked.

"The Yamato." he said handing the Lightsaber to Teal'c as he pulled the laser rifle.

"You don't mean…." Carter began as the Chief started down the ladder.

"The Space Battle Ship Yamato, from that anime I love. Yeah. They just took out a Borg Cube. Mitchell, Teal'c, you two go. We'll be right behind you."

Carter was staying by the door with her weapon ready as he aimed the rifle down the corridor. Several Borg came around it as he fired. It impacted on one of them and caused a big explosion. Several more loud blast later and the gun quit.

"Ah damn. Sizing it must have made it run out of power." he said tossing it into the elevator shaft.

"Why'd you do that?" she asked quickly getting onto the ladder.

"That way they and no one else gets it. Hopefully." he said getting on and sliding down it with her.

They got off on level 28 finding the other's there also. And they were firing everything they had. But it was turning into a loosing battle. They were heavily outnumbered and the Borg were starting to adapt to the different weapons. Sonic managed to take a few out before he was knocked aside and assimilated. Shadow was fairing much better until he was hit. Knuckles hand was grabbed and he was taken over. Sally couldn't do anything except try using a pistol Daniel gave her. Master Chief was fairing better taking them out with head shots until one bullet hit a shield. He tossed a plasma which destroyed a few of them, but it did little to matter to the numbers. Carter started to fire when Ford put a hand on her weapon.

"We surrender!" he shouted.

"What?!" Mitchell exclaimed as Ford took the weapon away and tossed it aside.

"Drop all weapons. We're outnumbered." he said loudly and then he whispered quietly. "Besides, I have a plan."

The Borg stopped a few feet away as they dropped their weapons all noticing Ford make hinted hand signals. Iria protested in the beginning and pulled her sword taking three Borg out before they assimilated her. The newly assimilated people were taken away to another area as they were taken down the corridor. As they were coming up to the door to enter into the gate room on the right side, as if you just stepped out of the gate, Ford disappeared. The Borg in front of the group went flying and hit the wall hard enough to go through. They dropped quickly as bullets flew over them taking the Borg around them out. Ford rushed around the corner and into the gate room. There was alcoves with Borg on the walls going up three units. The Queen watched as the Borg around her were blown away by an unseen force and metal casings kept falling to the ground. For an instant she saw someone and then they were in another place. Almost all the Borg she had in the room were all dead as the man she knew to be the base commander suddenly showed up in front of her with his personal cannon pointed at her face.

"Game over." he said.

And then he pulled the trigger. It was almost like slow motion. He saw the bullet leave the gun as she waved her hand slightly, making his last bullet bounced off her shield and go somewhere up into the ceiling. He watched the casing fly out of the gun slowly and bounce off the ramp. And then time returned to normal as she backhanded him. He lost hold of his guns as he rolled off the ramp.

"My dear General." she said slowly walking down as he was trying to shake off the blow. "Your attempt at stopping me was admirable. But ultimately useless. Your friends failed to make an escape."

SG-1 was brought in by several Borg. Everyone else that was in the group was assimilated including Master Chief. The group was shoved toward him as he was getting up.

"I have accessed all your records and your internet. This planet will be assimilated shortly. And no one in this universe will be able to stop me. Not even these pitiful Ori. Atlantis will be my first stop before branching out into this vast universe." she said waving a hand at the Stargate.

"Why weren't we assimilated?" Mitchell asked.

"Your General here is a very proud man. So much like Picard. I am intrigued by the fact I and many of the other strange creatures and other species that have showed up here in this universe all are considered fiction. Interesting how Janeway was going to defeat me, in a week by your terms. She was a worthy opponent. Alas, another Queen will take my place. She may fail to her. It is of no consequence to me." she said with another wave as she walked up to them.

"You are a very interesting man." she said caressing Ford's face as he tried to step back. "It seems you are unable to be assimilated. I would prefer to have you as a partner as I once offered…."

He tried to slap her and ended up on his knees as she grabbed his hand and twisted. He didn't cry out, but he did keep from getting his hand broke.

"I wish to break you dear General. By assimilating your friends before your eyes. One by one. Your wife will be last. You will be kept alive to serve my purposes for universal domination."

She let him go and had one of the Borg grab Daniel and bring him forward. Another Borg grabbed Ford and made him stand and kept his head toward Daniel to watch.

"Watch, your futures end." she said making a couple tube come out of her arm.

"We need a distraction, bad." Ford said looking up at something on the alcove.

The Borg Queen turned as something yellow jumped into the air.

"Diamond Storm!"

Shards of diamonds came down and hit the Borg around them. The Queen managed to block it with some shield she deployed. Probably something she assimilated from the Master Chief. A yellow fox landed on the ramp and snapped a kick at the Queen. She blocked it and a Force Wave shot out tossing the fox through the gate and into the wall.

"Well, Renamon tried." Ford said as he got up and backed away with the group. "Thought that yellow blur was her earlier."

"Who?" Daniel asked rubbing his neck as they began looking for a way out or a weapon at least.

"Digimon."

They had no idea what he was talking about.

"Never mind." he said standing in front of them as she turned around.

"I have plenty of Borg to call upon." she said as a few Borg came to each door. They didn't come in though. "I see that you are a fighter General. And you wish to fight to the death instead of being my partner."

Ford took a few steps forward and then stopped.

"I can't defeat you. You've gotten more powerful than you should be."

"Magic is possible, once you know how." she said causing a fireball to appear in her hand. She then wave it away.

He took a deep breath and closed his eyes as he stepped back and held out a hand.

"What are you….." Mitchell began as the Queen gave Ford a look and then started walking forward.

"I think something….." Carter started saying when they all stopped and looked around. Even the Borg Queen stopped.

A strange noise, kinda like gears grinding, and popping noises with a slight music tone to them filled the air. Other sounds accompanied it but were drowned out as Ford opened his eyes with a smile. Though there was no wind in the base, it felt like it was whirling around them.

"You loose bitch." he said grabbing them all suddenly and pulling them close.

They didn't know what was going on and were still somewhat looking for the source of the noise and didn't notice where it was coming from, until everything began changing around them. The Borg Queen roared in anger as a blue box shape appearing around them with a light blinking on top. It finished dematerializing and in their place was an old blue British Police Call Box. She yelled in anger and hit the box with a fireball, but it didn't do anything.

"Ah, we've landed Rose."

"We have, where at Doctor?" a short blonde haired teenager asked looking at the console with a just under six foot tall, young man in a suit and tie. She had a very British accent, he had a slight one.

"Not sure. The T.A.R.D.I.S. doesn't know where we are. I think we have left our universe. Again."

"Again? I didn't think we could with all your people gone."

"And yet we have done so." he said confused.

"Is it dangerous out there?"

"Not sure." he said bringing up a small screen. "Looks like a military base of some sort."

The external camera, though not visible, showed the Borg Queen and several other Borg trying to get the door open, blasting and otherwise.

"Hmm, looks like another power hungry robot that wants to get in here." the Doctor said shrugging. "I don't think the real owners are around anymore."

The group kept quiet seeing Ford put a finger to his lips. They all knew who Doctor Who was just because Ford talked about him on and off, plus seen some of the episodes. And they knew where they were and that they were safe. He wanted to see the exchange and see if they would notice them being there.

"We're the owners per say. Or I should say, it's my base, so you have nothing to worry about as long as you stay in here."

They both turned around quickly to see a unknown man in a long black coat standing near the door with a few other people. One of the arms on the coat was missing like it was ripped off. He had both hands on his hips and he was looking around in awe. The other's seemed less awed. A metal plate fell from the damaged arm of the coat and hit the floor with a clang. Everyone looked at it though no one did anything.

"Wow! I never thought in my entire life, hell, existence, I would ever have this honor." Ford said with his arms outstretched toward the ceiling. "This is….wow."

"Where did you all come from?" Rose asked.

"Out there. The T.A.R.D.I.S. dematerialized on us." Ford said still glancing around.

"And those cyborgs out there?" the Doctor said pointing.

"Not mine. They don't belong in this universe. Our base was over run and our universe is in trouble of being taken over, destroyed, that sort of thing."

"Is he being serious?" the Doctor asked as Ford kept looking around, but not touching. "Because if he is, he doesn't sound like he cares much for the plight he described."

"Oh yeah, it's real." Carter said as they all walked up closer but not near the console. "He's just……"

"Just what?" Rose asked.

"Impressed for one thing. I prefer the old control room though Doctor. When you had Ace with you." he said walking around outside the console. "And we always thought Atlantis was a technological high. This…..makes Atlantis pale in comparison."

"General, are you okay? We just almost got assimilated into that group out there and you're acting like….."

"This is the ultimate time machine Mitchell." he said stepping up to stand near the Doctor and Rose who stayed near the console. He gently but somewhat firmly grasped the Doctor's hand. "Doctor, it is an honor to meet you."

"Delighted." he said smiling as he noticed that even though they were all military, they weren't a threat. "Who are you?"

"Yes, introductions would help." Daniel said.

"This is Teal'c of Chulak. Lieutenant Colonel Cameron Mitchell, Doctor Daniel Jackson, not medical. Vala Mal Doran and my wife, Lieutenant Colonel Samantha Carter."

Teal'c bowed, Mitchell gave a small wave. Daniel smiled with a wave. Vala just smiled and gave him a slight look that made Rose glare at her. Sam shook his hand.

"And you General?"

"Brigadier General Ford Primus Carter. Commander of the SGC."

"SGC? Not familiar with that branch." he said scratching his head.

"Stand for Stargate Command." Ford said and then looked at Daniel. "Your turn."

"My turn?"

"You explain everything when we go somewhere."

The Doctor was quite fascinated as Daniel launched into the story they'd told others about finding the gate back in the early 60 and such. Even Rose was listening. The other's would jump in when needed. The Doctor was quite impressed with Teal'c and what he did. He mentioned something similar on another adventure where he helped the people see that their god was false too. Things got pretty bad when Carter and him started talking though. It was a back and forth thing as he caught on quickly understanding what she said and sometimes finishing her sentences.

"Um, hello. Over here." Vala said waving a hand. Everyone did look. "As nice as this little chat is going, we do have other problems. Such as saving the Earth and the rest of the universe."

"Right miss. We need to save the Earth." the Doctor said shaking a finger before looking at them all again. "Do you have a plan?"

"Nope. Got nothing. Lost my guns and that doesn't matter much since they adapted to them anyway." Ford said getting off one of the rails and stepping closer to the console. "I wish the T.A.R.D.I.S. could help, but traveling back in time is risky. I understand it enough I could go back and stop us from starting this experiment, but that would end m….."

He placed both hands on the edge of the console and a large shock plus blinding light made them all fall back. The console popped up and a very bright and beautiful light shown forth from it. The Doctor told everyone not to look at he got up shielding his eyes. Ford though looked directly into it as energy poured out in bright vapor like streams straight into his eyes.

"Doctor!" Rose exclaimed seeing what was happening seeing as she went through it once before.

"Ford!" Carter yelled trying to make a grab for him. Mitchell stopped her, barely.

"I saw what happened as did you to him and Rose." Mitchell said. "Touching him could probably kill you."

The Doctor tried to close the open console but it refused to budge. And then the light went away and the console closed. Everything went totally quiet and all they heard was the hum of the systems running and the occasional banging on the walls and door.

"Oh my god." Ford muttered looking at his hands as they glowed slightly. "Everything makes sense. I understand. The power is incredible! I can do almost anything! I can see my future! And so much more!"

"Ford, put it back. It will kill you. You won't recover." Carter said begging.

"There's so much I can do. Not even the Ancients had a small sample of this power! Not even the Q continuum." Ford said with glowing eyes as he looked at them all. "With a thought I can…."

"Brigadier….." the Doctor began when Ford vanished. Seconds later, so did everything else.

He looked around seeing he was in a desert of some sort. The sand looked grayish and there was shrubs and cactus around. Kinda the environment where the desert meets the town and water table line. Though he didn't see any town or city for that matter. There was a white table with an open white umbrella and what looked like ice tea pitcher on the table. A couple of whicker chairs and glasses were also there. He still had his clothes on and they were repaired. No weapons though, none at all.

"Hello?"

A sort of clinking noise was in the air and he turned to see a slightly old man appear slowly in one of the large chairs. The man had a white three piece suit and shirt on with a hat to match. He picked up the pitcher and filled the glass.

"Do you know why you are here?"

"No." he said walking up, but not sitting down. "Not even sure where here is."

"Do you know who I am?"
"You aren't God. I can guess that much. I know I didn't die."

"No, I'm not God." he said taking a drink. "Hmm. You have seen me before though."

"Not placing ya." he said after a moment.

"I once met the Doctor. He had a robotic dog with him, K-9. Just like you. And another Time Lord was with him too, to help him on a quest of sorts. Romana ring a bell?" he asked as Ford was obviously thinking.

"You're the White Guardian." he said with some awe.

"Yes." he said nodding. "You have broken the fabric of time, of space and more importantly, reality. The boundaries that keep each universe and reality from interacting has come undone. Chaos has taken over to the point not even the Key to Time could save us."

"We….."

He waved a hand.

"There are many other, entities, like me. You could say. With all the universes you kept thinking about, all colliding together, you caused havoc on a scale that I cannot even begin to describe. The very timelines of all those universes have been shattered. Lives have been lost on scales that once again I cannot begin to number for you."

"So you're the one that has screwed everything up." a annoyed, mockingly, upset, condescending voice said behind him.

Ford turned to see someone he really hated. The man was in a Starfleet Admiral uniform. But he quickly changed it to a four star Air Force General uniform.

"Q. Hmm." he said turning away with a shrug.

Q began to say and possibly do something when the White Guardian waved of his finger.

"Mr. Primus…."

"It's Carter…."

"Would you prefer me to use your real name?"

"How about Ford?"

"General, you have done something that only one other person has ever tried." he said looking at Q.

"I never tired it." Q said pointing at himself. "That was Trelane…"

"Whatever the case, he did the same thing. Only it was a little more confined." he said cupping his hands. "You however have done much, much worse and disrupted everything."

"Everything?" Ford asked.

"Not everything, but enough. Given time, a short amount of it, everything would eventually collide and all would be destroyed. I had to take you away from there because you hold inside you a power only a select few are ever able to use. Rose Tylor was lucky you could say. You have that power now and despite what you think, you would have used it for all the wrong purposes."

"I…."

"I can see many things. How other universes will begin and other will end. I even see the multiverse. And something has surprised me greatly, which does not happened very often. Rare actually. You and your female counterpart are a uncommon element. In case you are wondering she is in the same mess, though with the female version of me."

"Uncommon element?" Q said with a gruff snort. "More like that rare metal only found in one galaxy in all of the multiple universes there is."

"What?" Ford asked confused.

"You and your other selves, the very few that there is, are just that. You only exist in this universe and barely that. Your parents exist in many other universes of what you call the Stargate universe. But you are the only child in that universe you come from they ever had. In none of the other universes did they have a child like you."

"Okay. And that means what exactly?"

"You should not exist."

"Excuse me? I shouldn't exist!" he said then wave a arm angrily. "You brought me here, wherever the hell we are, to tell me I don't deserver to exist!"

"Yes." the two said.

"It's probably pointless to argue or even fight back." he spat.

"Yes." Q spat back. "Unfortunately for us, we aren't allowed to do anything."

"What?" Ford asked even more confused than before.

"You are a good guy, in the terms of being on the side of right and good. Despite some of the atrocious acts you did in your past. You have made many contributions and helped many people in this universe you're in, including what you call repentance in the world you came from. I cannot tell you the outcome, for obvious reasons, but you will be returned. And everything is going to be fixed."

"Wait a minute. Why aren't you being allowed to get rid of me?"

"Because someone who has the power to make us cease to exist likes you. Likes Picard too." Q said upset.

"You have caught his eye Mr. Carter."

"Aren't going to tell me a name huh?"

The old man shook his head.

"The events that took place will all be reset soon. As much as it would be easier to make sure you never do this again, I would have liked to taken away the mirror and your memory. Instead, you shall be returned prior to certain events. You and Samantha Carter will remember everything. No one else will."

"That's it?"

"That it, he ask. What did you want? A medal?" Q asked mockingly.

"Can I punch you out?" he asked seriously. "Never got to hit Colonel Simmons."

Q gave him the strangest look as the old man laughed.

"We cannot give you anything. But I will say that I am somewhat impressed with how you've handled everything. You would make a good Time Lord."

"Not really. I'd end up being like the Doctor."

"That's the point." he said as Q vanished and then everything around them started to disappear. "I can say this. A couple of special, gifts of sort, will come your way in the future. Not entirely my doing though…."

"Gifts?" Ford muttered still unsure why he felt calm through the whole ordeal. Well, except for the outburst part. And then everything faded away.

Ford awoke to feeling a very warm and naked body next to his. He gently pulled a little tighter on the warm body and heard a content sigh. That lasted about two seconds when they both suddenly sat up quickly and looked at each other. And then the alarm went off. Carter quickly shut it off and then turned back to him looking deeply into his eyes before grabbing his hands.

"What the hell just happened? We were just in the T.A.R.D.I.S…"

"I…" Ford said looking around and spotting K-9. "But he...hmm. K-9, what's today's date?"

K-9 answered.

"Wait a minute. That was the day we were going to try and see about activating that gene." she said confused. "We were going to go in early, like now…."

"We did. But it almost caused everything to be destroyed." he said holding her hands. "After I absorbed all that power from the T.A.R.D.I.S…..."

"Wow. So everything is reset." she said after he finished his story.

"But I don't remember anything about what I knew after absorbing the Time Vortex energy. As much as it would be nice to know our future, this way we will hopefully have many special and happy surprises. On the bright side, we don't have to get up and go to work early now. I'm really tired for some reason."

"I remember everything so vividly." she said as they laid back down and she laid her head on his chest.

"Same here. I just concentrated on the one thing I felt could save us. And then the Doctor was there."

"Any ideas what the surprises might be?" she said looking up at him.

"Not a clue. You're not pregnant are you?"

"No." she said with a small laugh. "That little monthly problem ended yesterday remember?"

"Oh, right. Hmm. Can't think of what it could be then. Oh well. We'll see what it is when it comes." he said yawning.

"You don't feel like you have any super powers or anything? Maybe, you know?" she said glancing down a few times. "Part of you is obviously in the mood."

"No size change or anything else down there that I can feel. We can check later though. You're totally naked so part of me is thinking of sex. But I'm really too tired." he said pulling the covers more over them. "I kinda feel a little different, but nothing I can really describe at the moment. Way too tired to think."

"I'm too tired to even think either. K-9, wake us at the normal time hmm." she said feeling very tired herself.

"Yes Mistress."

"Hey Ford?"

"Yeah." he muttered sleepily.

"Your heart beat sounds funny. You feel okay?"

"Yeah. If I needed to suddenly fight something, I'd wake up quickly, otherwise I'm fine. Just really, really tired."

"Maybe an after effect of that, whatever that stuff in the T.A.R.D.I.S. was." she muttered not thinking much beyond that as she also fell asleep, still lying on top of him.

A few hours later, they got up and had their run, in which case he had to slow down for her a few times. He had a lot of energy and didn't know why. Once home, they showered and went to work. She went off to hide the program and such in case they might need it in the future. She was going to erase it, but he thought it a better idea to hang onto it just in case. While she was doing that, uploading the info for K-9 to keep hold on, he went down to the observation room to have them put everything away.

"No, forget it, take it apart." Ford said waving his hands.

"What's wrong General?" Siler asked.

"Um, we'll just say a little bird told me that doing this, is a very bad idea." he said rolling a finger in the air. "Take it away."

"Are you sure General?"

"Yeah. Trust me, I know from first hand experience that it, was a very bad idea." he said shaking his head.

"Time travel thing?"

"Yeah, something like that. I'd explain it, but you'd never believe me." he said walking away and leaving them a little confused, but mostly happy to hear no problems were going to crop up.

He walked in as Sam was finishing.

"You feeling any different or anything? Other than all that energy?"

"You've asked that…." he started saying. Seeing the serious concern. "All right, let's go to the infirmary and have them check me out. Ease your worries."

"General, Colonel, what can I help you with?" Lam asked as the two entered.

"I….feel different."

"Okay. You'll have to give me more than that to work with. Does this have something to do with that thing you were…"

"Something like that." Carter said. "I don't know why, but his heartbeat sounded funny or off earlier this morning."

"She was sleeping with her head on my chest." he said to Lam's confused look.

"Oh." she said nodding in understanding. "Okay, sit on the bed and lift your shirt for me."

He took the coat off, set it beside him and did as told. Sam stood by as Lam was getting her stethoscope out.

"I've noticed the colors have seemed funny since I woke up."

"In what way?" Lam asked.

"Um…well, as strange as this might sound, I don't think I'm color blind anymore."

"I'll check that out in a moment. General, not that I'm looking to loose my job, in a sense, but why didn't you have K-9 scan you?" she asked tapping it before placing it on his chest.

"Ah, those things are always cold."

"I didn't actually think about it." Carter said. "He's always been helping with other things that aren't medical related. The only real medical question I ever ask him is….um….well, never mind."

"I think I know which one." she said having talked to Janet a few times herself about her former patients. "Are you breathing normally?"

"Yeah, in through the nose…" he said as she put a finger to her lips.

About a minute went by and then she took it away and grabbed his wrist feeling the pulse as she looked at her watch. She frowned and then turned away to have a nurse get the X-ray machine ready and a blood draw ready. Even the blood pressure cup said a different story.

"I want to scan your chest to have your heart checked. Your heart is either beating wrong or you have some sort of murmur that your body isn't fixing."

"Let me hear."

She handed it over and her listened to a sound he never heard before. He put it on the other side hearing the same thing. A slight smile crept across his face as he gave it back.

"I think I found out one of the gifts." he muttered. "Which will be a bad thing if….I need a scalpel."

Lam gave him a curious look as he cut his hand. After a moment it healed up, but with a barely seeable golden light instead.

"That was different." Carter said.

"Very different. At least your blood is still red." Lam said as she started taking blood.

Ford was laying back on the bed with Sam sitting next to him near his chest talking as Lam was coming back with the results of his chest X-ray and his blood work. Sam brought over a few items that were different colors that he sometimes had trouble with before and now he saw completely normal like everyone else. Sam was telling him it was a good thing despite being a small gift seeing as it would help him better with certain projects she usually had to watch him with because of some color trouble in the past as Lam came up with Teal'c.

"Hey T, what's up?"

"I am unsure. Doctor Lam asked me to accompany her."

"Is something wrong?" Carter asked.

"I'm not totally sure that this man is the General." Lam said seriously.

"What does the blood results say?" Carter asked.

Lam handed them over and they both looked.

"Can we see the X-rays?" Ford asked.

She handed those over too, but only to Carter.

"Oh my god. I'm not completely human anymore."

"What….did that, stuff do this?" Carter asked. "What was that called again anyway?"

Lam and Teal'c were lost as was Mitchell who had came in as the X-rays were handed over. Ford was explaining something to Sam that went over his head.

"What's going on?" Mitchell asked.

"Lam is unsure if this man is General Carter."

"I don't think the T.A.R.D.I.S. did it. It could have." Ford muttered.

"You've mentioned more than once how you wish you were a Time Lord and had a T.A.R.D.I.S., but…."

"Getting those as gifts would be like wishing for world peace. Not happening." he said shaking his head. "But this X-ray says I have two hearts. And the results here say I'm not completely human anymore."

"Sam?" Mitchell asked.

"Yeah." she said looking up.

"Care to fill us in?"

"Um, well. Ah." she said at a loss for words.

"Perhaps she is not Colonel Carter." Teal'c stated getting a glare from her.

"Colonel." Lam said bringing the tray close.

"Oh great." she muttered holding out her arm. "We should have told them what happened."

"They won't believe us." Ford said setting the results and X-ray aside.

"Unbelievable things happen just about everyday here." Mitchell said waving a hand. "Whatever you think isn't believable probably is."

"General….." Lam started.

"You don't think we are who we are and yet you still call me by rank. That's….I don't know what to call it. Sorry, go on."

"Are you will to give up your coat and guns?" she asked calmly.

"Would taking off my boots help too?"

"Indeed." Teal'c said pulling a zat from behind his back.

He shrugged out of the coat and took his belt off carefully handing both over. Sam undid his laces and helped get the boots off handing them next.

"I'm unarmed. Still a threat normally, but unarmed." he said holding his hands up and waving them.

Sam went over to the other bed seeing as Lam didn't want them together, just in case. Daniel was now down there with them. Vala came in and as she approached, Ford was able to get his hanky out just in time. It startled Teal'c at first, but Mitchell kept him from firing it.

"What's going on?" Daniel asked.

"Until Lam gets the results back, we're not sure if these two are who they say they are. His results show him to not be completely human." Mitchell said waving the papers.

"And Sam?" Daniel asked looking at the results.

"Still waiting on them."

"Well, he sneezed like he always does when I am around." Vala said.

"I do that when any Immortal comes around."

"Okay, these kinda explain him, but why not Sam?"

"Because I said we should have told you all what happened before coming here." she said.

"And he says we'd never believe it." Mitchell said.

"Perhaps if you explained what you are referring to, things may settle down." Teal'c stated. "And return to normal."

"You know that experiment that I was going to do on Ford?" Carter asked.

"Yeah. Kinda thought it strange when I showed up to see Siler and the crew with him taking it all apart." Mitchell said.

"Well, the experiment was, a success of sorts." she said tilting her hand.

"Of sorts?" Daniel asked.

"It worked. We managed to activate that gene. Things were doing really well for about an hour or so. I think it was that long." Ford said thinking. "Anyway, what happened was a little different from what we expected. Instead of some portal opening or the gate activating…."

"The Quantum Mirror activated." Carter said. "At first, it started out okay."

Between the two they told the story, even after Lam came back stating that Carter was definitely Carter. K-9 came in as Lam wanted and stated that sometime during the night, his scans detected a increase in brainwave output in both of them. The Master had also changed on a different level that K-9 found different but very acceptable. When they asked why, his answer indicated he had a program of the Doctor's physiology. Ford's matched it on certain points and he found that acceptable.

"Wait, you're telling me, us that you've…um…" Mitchell said then looked at Daniel. "Help me out here Jackson."

"According to your story, which I believe, this White Guardian turned you into a, partial Time Lord?"

"I think so now that I…think about it." he said with a small laugh. "I told him I would be a bad Time Lord because I'd be a lot like the Doctor. Righting wrongs and such, you guys have watched Doctor Who with me a few times. Even the Doctor is half human."

"It makes sense." Daniel said.

"It does?" Mitchell asked. "Sure, on some levels. But…."

"Look at what Ford is able to do. That connection to other universes thing. I don't understand it completely, but we would never have met our female counterparts. Remember, his fox counterpart went to other universes. That version of him managed to somehow activate that gene."

"Okay, that makes more sense." Mitchell said.

"Indeed. I do not believe that you are another person General Carter." Teal'c said.

"Only internally." he said getting up. "If you all want, you can have me watched for as long as you feel necessary until your comfortable."

"What are you going to go do?" Daniel asked.

"Cook. I'm hungry." he said putting his stuff back on. "I never got breakfast because I've been here most of the morning."

"Sam, serious now, are you sure that this is the man you married?" Mitchell asked holding up a hand at him.

"Oh yeah. It's definitely him. Sally mentioned something this morning that I'm remembering." she said as Lam let them leave. "Ford picked her up and after the hug and kiss, she said, 'You're different daddy.' We asked her what she meant and she just said that daddy was different. But she wasn't afraid so I didn't think about it."

"Gave me the same response when I didn't shave for three days and walked in with a beard. She wouldn't hug me around the neck until I got rid of it."

"Neither would I." Carter said.

"I've never seen a beard on you. Always thought you didn't really grow one or had facial hair. Barely ever see the five o'clock shadow. Other than that once." Daniel said.

"Takes a few days before it starts filling out. I didn't shave one Friday and waited till Monday morning. I mostly did it because she wanted to see what I would look like."

"I almost didn't recognize him. It was just so different. Glad he got rid of it." Carter said.

For the next week, SG-1 didn't go off world and Lam had him in everyday and checked. Sam too. They were both even watched, but only at the base. Seeing as they didn't do anything different and seemed okay, those that knew about the change in him just accepted it. From then on, it was just business as usual. The worst part about it all, they couldn't come up with anything about his situation that would be considered helpful to their problem with the Ori and such. Despite the fact Ford's blood was O negative to begin with, she refuse to allow him to give blood anymore. Before, once it was drawn out of his body, it stayed as blood, but the special properties that made it make him Immortal didn't stay so it was basically just type O blood anyone could use. Now, it was a no.