Kajos: Wow, this updating thing is getting almost regular, which considering there are some years between up dates of this fic I think it quiet good. Anyway, the whole premiss of this chapter is quiet confusing so to make life easier (mostly it's the three different Jacks) between people in the real world and people in the weird world, those in the other world i.e. the non physical world, and all things pertaining to that world will be in italics. Okay? Clear? Right, on with the fic...Oh and I've desided that by defualt James is in the real world
The four of them started heading out towards their goal, the surveillance room. The place seemed to be half empty to the others and James had Jack and Daniel doing a running commentary on who they could see so James could tell who was in which world. The rest were just sort of hanging about the place.
"There's three airmen in this corridor!" Jack called back before asking them all it stand with their backs to the walls until James had passed. That was Jack's suggestion just in case James needed to know what he was firing at he knew not to go for people stood against the wall. Jack was on point followed by Rya'c so that with Cassy next and James at the back Cassy was well protected. She had complained they were all sexist until they pointed out she was the one with no combat training at all. They made it as far as the lift before the alarm was sounded. Luckily they were able to set up a defence and take out the occupancy of the lift before they could react. Jack selected the level.
"Could you guys not stand there?" Everyone looked curiously at James as the lift traveled upwards. "Sorry. I meant Jack and Daniel."
"Oh, sorry." Daniel said stepping further into the space also occupied by Jack's clone. When James winced he shrugged. "Where would be good?" James looked around and gave up.
"Forget it, no where is going to be good. I'll just close my eyes. Don't forget to warn people as the doors open."
"Will do." Jack said from where he was leaning against the wall. The way to the surveillance room was mostly clear and where possible they ducked down side corridors. A trail of unconscious people might give their position away a bit otherwise. James was just about getting used to being told the corridor was clear by clone Jack and then turning the corner to see six people stood against the walls as they reached the room and he went to work on the card reader while the others covered him. Soon they were in and scanning the cameras. Jack and Daniel were a bit at a loss as the rest of the senior staff slowly made their way to the right floor and they all stood outside discussing events so far in a casual way that made James feel like he was going insane
Rya'c was the one they were depending on here as none of the rest of them had actually ever seen the girl and the woman who had come through the gate. The rest were stuck looking for people they didn't recognise. There were lots of camera and eventually people would find them but it was taking worryingly long as five minutes stretched to fifteen. James and all of them were getting worried, they had checked all the obvious places when suddenly Rya'c got up and pointed at a video feed as it flashed across the screen.
"That! That is them!" He said shouting at the screen. Cassy noted the camera number and looked up in a manual where it was. Before asking Jack.
"That's the computer room. You know where they keep an eye on all the computers and stuff?"
"Server room?" James asked.
"Yeah. What would they be doing in there?" James just shrugged. "Well, it's seven levels down among the storage levels under normal circumstances no one's really down there other than patrols and a few technicians."
"But if they are there is it not likely that there is added protection in that area?" Rya'c said.
"Almost certainly." James sighed. "Which means we don't really know what to expect and we're going to have to wing it. Do we have any idea's yet on how this thing is being caused or how we can stop it?" The other three shook their heads.
"I have an idea." Sam said James turned to look at her indicating for the others to be quiet. "We were all effected almost instantly by it so what ever it is doesn't take notice of walls doors or anything else and can effect a large area instantly not even as a pulse, just there. It also based on what I heard about Rya'c description it didn't debilitate us at all and we've been replaced with different consciousnesses. Well, we've seen with Daniel that you can carry different people per say in your mind. What if they were carrying all these people in their heads and just instantly swapped them all out."
"So they have some kind of psychic ability to do this?"
"Yes. Which would mean we're in their minds or at least one of them. Now younger minds are under developed which would explain why none of you are effected."
"Except for James." said Daniel.
"I'm not sure why James is acting like he is, by my theory that would be that James is in they're heads and his own at the same time."
"How is that possible?"
"You must have some latent psychic ability." Sam just shrugged.
"Okay...working on that theory, how would we reverse this?"
"I'm not sure, I think they would have to reverse it. Given that they can move off base I can only think that the new conscious aren't tied to them. Which means that the swap is complete and we'd need them to swap us back."
"Great. We'll just see what we can work out, okay?" They all nodded."Right, normal people, it seems that the only way to reverse this thing may be to convince those two girls to reverse it for us. Any suggestions?"
Kajos: Sorry, thats your lot. My brain is mush after trying to write this a balance the whole two world thing. Sorry if it was confusing it parts it certainly was for me writing it. I promise to resolve this thing in the next few chapters after which there will be a chapter or so to round things off before I start on a sequel. Not sure what it will be called but I will hopefully have decided by the time I finish this. Hope you enjoyed it. Reviews and constructive criticism welcomed.
