AN: Happy Holidays, everyone, and I hope you all enjoy this chapter.

They materialized on the bridge of Thor's ship; O'Neill was pacing around his inpatients, showing that he was anxious to get back to Earth while Carter was examining some piece of tech.

"About time you guys got moving," O'Neill snapped out when he saw them appear on the ship.

Carter looked up from the tech with an apologetic expression, "Cool your jets, we have bigger things to oversee than getting you two back home," Alex snapped back before turning to Thor, "We are ready when you are Hermiod is speaking with the council about our guest and the Wraith,"

Thor nodded then moved a few of the control crystals, "We will arrive in orbit of Cimeria in three hours, I have connected to the ship in the hanger bay and uploaded a map of the galaxy to its navigational computer,"

"Ship what ship? Won't you be dropping us off on Earth?" O'Neill asked.

Alex shook his head, "You guys aren't that important. You just have to ride along with us in our secondary ship; Thor will be repairing the damage to the hammer and then doing something important to his people."

"I'll need to go do the systems check on the ship," Sam told them before turning to Thor, "Could you transport me to the ship?" she asked then disappeared in the flash of transporter light.

Sam looked around the hangar bay, spotting the Javalin. She smiled, 'Well if they somehow take this thing, they won't get anything too advanced,' she thought as she walked to the ship; the loading ramp was down and waiting.

The inside of the Javalin looked just like they did in the cartoons they had watched lately, it wasn't hard to find the cockpit, taking the pilot seat she began to run preflight checks, with the knowledge she gained from scanning the Watchtower she knew how to fly this ship and a few others that were in the hanger bay but were too advanced to allow these people to have.

'Samantha Carter, please power down the secondary flight engines. They seem to be interfering with the hyperspace corridor,' Thor announced over the inter-ship communications system.

"Sorry, powering it down now, I was running the diagnostics to ensure everything was functioning properly, thought the knowledge that those engines affect the corridor is useful information," Sam answered as she powered down the wormhole engines.

'Thank you, and yes that information will be helpful when we can study the ship, Alexander left us to study, and the corridor is returning to stable, I shall copy the sensor reading to you for your study as well,'

"Alex gave you a ship to study?" she asked as she read the last of the diagnostics.

'Yes, one similar to the one you are in now as well as one he called a Milano,'

"Ah, that ship will need some testing we don't know much about it, the jump drive it uses can theoretically move across multiple galaxies but we do not know what effects it could have on your people," she said as she stood from the pilot's seat to inspect the interior of the ship.

'Yes, the science council has begun to design testing programs, Alexander did warn me that the drive would need extensive testing before we move to testing with living occupants.'

Sam moved to the outside of the ship to inspect the hull, "What I do know of the drive is it opens a small hole in space between two points or something similar,"

As she was flying around the ship to inspect it, a flash of light caught he attention; looking toward the flash, she found Carter looking at the ship, her eyes gleaming as she tried to take in the ship.

Carter moved around the ship, looking at everything she could see from the ground, "This looks like it was built using earth tech," she said as she noticed the main thrusters that looked like a jet engine similar to an F-sixteen only larger.

Sam floated down to the floor and nodded, "It was built on an earth we went to in our travels, it'll be what we will take to get from Cimeria."

Sam took an hour to show Carter around the ship; even if they do not lose the ship to the humans of Earth, Carter should be able to make some improvements to what they already know about shipbuilding.

On the bridge of the ship, O'Neill was pacing again, even knowing that they were on the way home. He was worried about Daniel and Teal'c; Alex was watching the viewscreen as they flew through the hyperspace corridor.

"Hey, Thor, do you have a fabrication device on this ship?" Alex asks while typing out a message on his Omnitool.

Tor glanced at his console before nodding, "I do. Would you like me to move you to it?"

"Yeah, I need to make something for the Earthlings to wear other than those body suits," Alex said then he was swept away in a flash of light.

O'Neill stopped for a second, hoping to find a way to get tech for Earth, but gave up when he heard it was for clothing.

Kira kept Karen occupied by using her omnitool to show cartoons on its holo emitter; O''Neill continued his pacing but also made sure to note all he could about the omnitool.

After a few minutes, Alex reappeared holding a set of fatigues that he handed O'Neill, "Put these on," he told the Colonel.

O'Neill looked to the fatigues and then to the black suit he was wearing, taking them he hurridly pulled them on after seeing that the body suit showed his body off more than he liked, his mind blanked after it brought up the memory of Carter in a similar suit and how it showed off her curves.

"What's with this get-up?" he asked pulling up a sleeve and looking at the black sleeve of the body suit.

"I'm sure you saw the condition of the fatigues you were wearing?" At O'Neill's nod, Alex continued, "Well, we didn't want you walking around naked, so we put those on you; they are body armor, reach behind your head and run your hands over your head and down your face until the neck."

O'Neill did as he was told slowly; as his hands moved, the cowl of the suit followed his hands until his face was covered, "What the hell?" He yelled as the tactical hud began running its start-up process.

"Gene-locked tactical body armor will help in combat; ask for a tutorial, and it'll give you a run down on what it can do," Alex explained, omitting that he used the Alteran gene scanners to tie the suit to the two soldiers.

For the next few hours, Colonel O'Neill read and listened to the suit teach him its functions and really liked what it was capable of doing; he was sorely disappointed when he thought he would have to give it back when they got home.

"Exiting hyperdrive, please stand by to be transported to your vessel," Thor announced just as the ship exited the hyperspace corridor.

"Thank you for the lift," O'Neill said just before he was transported to the Javalin that was now outside Thor's ship being held in place by a tractor beam.

Alex nodded to Thor, "We'll be in touch," he told the diminutive alien, and then he, too, was transported away.

When his vision cleared, he found himself on the bridge of the Jvalin surrounded by Sam, Carter, and Kiria, who was holding Karen. He noticed that Carter was also wearing the fatigues he had sent to her with the cowl of her suit covering her face.

O'Neill was sitting in the pilot's seat, "O'Neill, get up you're not qualified to fly this thing," he called out, making his way to the seat.

"How is that? This thing is set up just like some of the planes I've flown,"

"Yeah, it was built by humans, but that button you are about to push activates the weapons on auto-targeting."

O'Neill snatched his hand away from the button and then stood up, Alex waved him into the co-pilot seat as the others took seats, Alex sat and flicked a few switches then hit the communications array, "We are ready to leave,"

Almost immediately, the beam holding the ship in place released it, "O'Neill, please inform your jaffa friend that he will be able to return to this world safely from this day onward, but please refrain from contaminating this culture as much as possible," Thor told them before he disengaged.

Alex opened the galactic map and then set the course for Earth, "Okay, this is going to be a quick trip in just over an hour," he told them, setting the wormhole drive.

Once the javelin was pulled into the wormhole Sam began reading over the sensor readouts as well as copying the data so that she could send it to the Asgard to help in their studies on the drive.

Carter had gotten up to stretch, but when she looked around, she saw the readouts. She quickly joined her in reading, and then they began to speak about what they were seeing.

"These readings are almost identical to what we found in the test we ran on the Stargate, but if I am reading this right the ship shields emit a wave that allows the opening and closing of the wormhole, but how do you navigate?"

Sam nodded along with Carter, "It's a straight line from point A to point B. Then, if the sensors detect anything larger than the ship, it adjusts course depending on the gravity well of the object."

"How is the ship maintaining the wormhole? It must take an astronomical amount of energy to open a wormhole as well as maintain the shields and propulsion."

"Pinpoint opening on both ends cuts the energy needed to negligible levels. Once the ship is inside the wormhole, the portion in front of the ship expands, and the rear portion shrinks down, which helps push the ship along again, cutting the energy cost by another factor."

"I'm only seeing the aperture we entered from, but it closed almost as soon as the ship entered."

"The aperture is only needed to enter and exit; if the ship had to hold open both ends, we would need the equivalent power of the entire United States with the size of the ship and no fixed points like the Stargate system; the naquadah helps amplify the energy as well as anchor both ends."

"That seems to work similar to how the Goa'uld ships use hyperspace."

"Almost, a hyperdrive cuts into the higher plane of hyperspace, where this drive opens a point in subspace to achieve the same results in travel only it is easier, though, with hyperdrives the gravity wells bend the path, this method needs the navigational computers to scan for large bodies to adjust course to avoid hitting something," Sam informed her while pointing out where the reading showed where they passed by a Jupiter sized gravity well.

"How would a Phantom drive function?" Kira asked as she joined them Karen on her hip.

"Phantom drive?" Carter asked.

"It is a mode of FTL my uncle created; it sounds similar to how hyperdrive works, only it passes through a layer of space my uncle named the phantom zone."

Sam shook her head, "I'm not sure; we do not have a working copy of any of your people ships; we'll need to see about getting one and testing it."

O'Neill watched and listened until his head began to hurt when the three began speaking maths on such a level even Stephen Hawkens would be lost on the first equation, he turned to Alex.

"This thing got any weapons?"

Alex shook his head with a shrug, "Nothing dissimilar from what you already have. Maybe the railguns are more advanced, but nothing else; this is an exploratory ship, so it was not given anything heavier."

"And this gizmo?" O'Neill asked, plucking at the exposed neck of the battle suit.

"Something I picked up, it was built by a human who had to fight powered people, he was a paranoid man and fought for nearly sixty years until someone forced him to break his code, the suit amplifies your strength as well as having non-lethal weapons in the form of thrown weapons as well as a stealth system and a short flight system that's more of a gliding system than actual flight."

"You going to want these back once we are back on Earth?"

"No, they are now bio-locked to you and Carter, and we would have to destroy them, which would be a waste."

O'Neill gave a grin, "Wouldn't happen to have an extra we could study, would ya?"

"Got a crate of fifty or so back in the cargo hold, I can give you one or two, possibly more, depending on how things go once we get you back to the SGC," Alex told him as he read the displays on the pilot's console.

After that, they spoke about a few things until the console beeped, "Okay we are about to enter Sol, I'm going to bring us out on the dark side of the moon," Alex announced to let the others know to return to their seats.

"Why behind the moon?" O'Neill asked.

"To hide the flash when we re-enter normal space, the ground telescopes wouldn't see it, but if the Hubble or space station are pointed in the right direction, we would be seen."

As the ship exited the wormhole behind the moon a burst of light could be seen for a few seconds lighting up the moon, everyone was looking through the window, neither O'Neill nor Carter noticed a metallic surface reflect the light but Alex and his group noticed, Alex made a note on his console to return to survey the site later.

"Okay, do you know which satellites you will need to contact the SGC?" Alex asked, looking at Carter.

She nodded and then looked over the passive scans as the ship moved toward Earth and its satellite network until she found the one she wanted, pointing it out to Sam who nodded and then worked on her console to match its communications frequency.

In the deepest level of the Norad complex that housed the Stargate command, Major General George Hammond sat behind his desk, he was reading the most recent report on the damages one the Stargate and the progress the engineers had made in returning it to working properly but from all reports work was going slowly without Carter there to help.

It had been nearly two days since Daniel Jackson and Teal'c had been thrown from the Stargate then their computer system overloaded and shut down along with the Stargate locking down, Teal'c had woken from being thrown out of the gate followed by Daniel who was even now unconscious, Teal'c had demanded to be returned to the planet to search for Colonel O'Neill and Captian Cater only to be told that the gate was nonfunctional.

Hammond had just finished the latest report when someone knocked on his door, "Come," he called out.

Master Sargent Walter Harriman opened the door, "Sir, we just received a strange call, they are asking for you, It is on line four,"

"Thank you, Walter, what makes it strange? Hammond asked.

"Sir, it's coming through our defense satellite; the call is piggybacking our early warning signal," Walter explained, his expression showing his confusion as that satellite was not built for communication.

"Thank you, Walter, any news on the Stargate?"

"No sir, Captain Carter is our most knowledgeable on the Stargate and its systems; without her, the work is going slowly. They estimate another twenty-four hours before they will be able to test if the gate is functional."

"Very well, thank you, Walter. You may return to your post."

"Yes, Sir," Walter saluted, then left, closing the door behind himself.

Picking up the phone and pressing the blinking light indicating line four, placing the phone on his ear and spoke, "This is Hammond," he nearly dropped the phone at the voice on the other end of the call.

'Sir, it's Colonel O'Neill, Captian Carter, and I were picked up by some friendly, we are in orbit right now, and our new acquaintances need to know where to land their ship,' O'Neill told his commanding officer then spoke in a muffled voice then return to the call, 'Sir the sip has VTOL capabilities, if you can find a spot for a Ch-forty-seven Chinook sized craft to land we are good.'

"I'll need to speak with the president; what can you tell me so far before I make that call?"

O'Neill described what he could with Carter adding things here and there, 'Sir, you want to send Janet along; some things have changed due to the healing process.'

"Alright, Colonel, call back in an hour; hold your position," George said, then hung up the phone and reached for the red phone.

"This is Hammond, I need to speak to the president," he spoke as soon as the other end of the line was picked up.

Five minutes later, the red phone rang; picking it up, he spoke, "Hammond here, Sir."

'George, what can you tell me about your situation?' President Hayes asked.

"Sir, the Stargate is still down. Repairs will take another twenty-four hours before we can test the systems, but sir, I called to inform you that O'Neill and Carter were rescued and are now in orbit waiting for permission to land; I need your go-ahead before allowing the ship to land."

'I am in the air aboard Airforce One; Kensey is trying to distract me over something again; right now, we are over Utah; how long would it take a team to reach the decommissioned Wendover Airforce base?'

"I can have my people there in three hours," Hammond quickly answered.

'Get them there; I'm having Airforce One landing in Toolel; you stay there; Kensey may try something if you leave the SGC right now.'

"Yes, Sir, we've had Maybourne sniffing around up top. My people have been blocking him from entering under our blackout protocols, but I'm not sure how much longer we can keep him out."

'Alright, George, I'll see about adding to the distraction on my end.'

"Thank you, sir, my team will be ready to go soon,"

After that, the call ended; Hammond then had SG three and SG seven prepare, along with Dr. Janet Fraiser, get ready to move out; not long after he was told they were ready, he received a call from the topside guard post telling him that Maybourne and his lackeys took off in a hurry.

"SG three and seven, you have a go, Janet. Make sure our people come back in one piece," he ordered the two four-man teams and one doctor who was on standby in the conference room.

"You can count on me, Sir," Janet said as she followed the SG teams out of the room and to the elevator where their gear was waiting for them topside.

After they were gone, Hammond returned to his office to wait for O'Neill to call back; as he waited, he finished his reports, and just as he finished the last one and signed it, Walter knocked on his open door, "Line four, Sir," he said as Hammond looked up at the knock.

"Hammond," he said as he picked up the phone and put it to his ear.

'It's me again, Sir. Do we have clearance to land?' O'Neill asked.

"Wendover Airforce Base in Utah is decommissioned, SGs three and seven will be there in," he checked the time, "two hours."

'Okay, sir, I've been told it'll take us twenty minutes to ease into the atmosphere without causing a fireball; what is our cover for when or if someone sees us landing?' O'Neill asked.

"Give me a description of the ship you are in."

O'Neill gave a rough description of the javelin, 'Sir it can pass for an Earth-built ship,' he finished.

Hammond hummed for a second, then spoke," Hold for a minute," he said before laying the receiver on the desk and then picking up the red phone.

Once the other end was picked up, he spoke again, "This is General Hammond. I need to speak with the president." he then hung up the phone to wait.

After a minute, the red phone rang, 'George, we are about to land. How can I help you?'

"Sir, I have Colonel O'Neill on hold; he describes the ship as resembling an Earth-built ship, and he wants to know what cover will be used in the event it is seen by the public?"

'Experimental privately built craft with a joint test flight by the builder and the airforce, we are thinking of offering a contract for our military avionics division.' Hayes rattled off.

"We could swing that other than the paper trail, but I am sure we can come up with something and have most of it redacted or classified beyond top-level, the only one I can think of that will give us any trouble would be Kensey, that snafu with the SGC and Apophis comes to mind, if he hadn't pulled run around then SG-one going AWOL things could have ended for the worst,"

'I know I've had a team of trusted people going over that situation, they haven't found anything illegal yet but they are still looking into it,'

"Good to hear, though as slimy as Kensey and Maybourne are, I doubt they'll find anything that will stick."

'Maybe so, but it will keep them from causing trouble for a time; now for a really important question: do you think these people will share any technology with us?'

"We can hope so, sir," Hammond replied, then remembered that he had O'Neill on hold.

Looking at the other receiver, he picked it up, put it to his other ear, and spoke, "O'Neill, what are the chances they will share their technology?"

'Depends on how they are treated, sir, but Carter has been in nerd heaven; she is telling me that even now, she has come up with a few theories to apply to our current stuff even if they don't give us anything,' O'Neill answered.

"Alright, colonel, see what you can do, I'll see you when you get back," he said before hanging up the phone.

'What was the answer?'

"We'll see, sir, but it depends on how we treat them; Captain Carter has been able to study some things and may be able to apply some of it to what we already have."

'Good, now we are on the final approach. They are telling me I need to end the call and keep things working on your end. If all goes well, we may have a new allie out there in the stars.'

"Yes sir," Hammond said before the president hung up the phone.

Back up in orbit just after the call ended, O'Neill turned away from the console to find Carter talking with the woman who looked like a younger and more fit version of herself about something.

"So, any chance we can get some of this stuff?" he asked, gesturing around the ship.

Alex just shrugged. "Like I said while you were talking to your boss, it depends on how those down on the surface act."

"Well, the general and the president want to do good by you. It's Kensey and his buddies that could be a problem," O'Neill said, ending with a sour look crossing his face.

"I know about Kensey and Maybourne's little group; they skirt the boundaries of legal and illegal actions, staying just barely inside the legal side, for the most part."

"Yeah, they pulled that with Teal'c when we came back from Chulak, then with the Tolan after we rescued them from their home world, what they pulled was immoral but legal until the general pulled the asylum card for Teal'c and Daniel helped call the Nox," O'Neill said with a sigh.

Alex nodded then looked down to the control panel in front of him, "Alright, I just finished a scan of the U.S, I'm seeing a bunch of Goa'uld tech in Seattle, let's see weapons grade naquadah, and I'm guessing her from the readings a set of ring transporters," he said while hitting a few buttons them a print-out of the scans showing the area where the naquadah readings and passed it to O'Neill.

Oneill looked over the printout, then folded it to put in his breast pocket, "Thanks, I'll pass it on to the general."

Alex nodded, "Also, you guys need to do a thorough sweep of Egypt. I doubt that the Stargate was the only thing the goa'uld left behind."

"Yeah, Daniel has been trying to push for a dig team to be sent over to see if there are any more artifacts; he keeps getting shot down by the senators in the know," O'Neill said, then swore under his breath.

"Yeah, you get it now, Kensey most likely, I'm guessing that if the files weren't above his clearance he would know where to look for possible artifacts, it's one of the reasons he wants control of the SGC," Alex told him while moving the ship into position for atmospheric insertion.

For the next hour and a half, they spoke about mundane things while Carter and Sam kept talking techno-babble; Kira was distracting Karen by pointing out landmarks they could see from orbit, which, with their enhanced vision, was a great deal.

When it was near time to head to the meeting, Alex called out, "Alright, buckle up, we're heading in."

Easing into the upper atmosphere slowly to keep from causing a plasmatic fireball took some work, Carter was bouncing in her seat as she watched out the forward window.

"Does this ship have antigravity?"

"No, I'm using the gravity of Earth to pull us down while using the VTOL thrusters to slow us down just enough to not superheat the hull," Alex explained.

"How are we not shaking apart?"

"Inertial dampeners coupled with vibrational absorbing hull plates that convert that into energy for the shield matrix."

Carter sat there with her mouth opening and closing repeatedly, then her eyes grew wide as new ideas ran through he head as the possibilities of such technology ran through her mind.

For twenty minutes, the ship glided through the upper atmosphere. When it broke through the clouds above the location they were given to the land; Alex switched to vertical flight.

As the ship sank, Sam pulled up a view from the cameras Alex was using to land; she then widened the view, "We've got suits and camo on the ground," she told them.

"The Pres and SG teams most likely," O'Neill answered.

Alex nodded, then adjusted the path to land a dozen yards from the group; he watched them cover their eyes and faces from the dust when the ship touched down; Alex put the systems on standby, "Alright, let's go see what the big wig wants."

Everyone stood from where they were seated and made their way to the ramp leading off the ship bringing them to the ground and facing the waiting people who were all looking at the ship in awe.

Alex and his group let O'Neill and Carter lead as the two groups met; Alex did notice the Secret Service guards never took their eyes off of them, nor did their hands move far from their guns as well as a few kept watch on the surroundings.

They watched the two airforce officers salute the President, and then they spoke briefly, most likely giving a short explanation. Then he sent them to speak with Dr. Fraiser, who, from her expression, was shocked at their new appearances.

President Hayes then turns to face Alex and his group. When he sees Sam, he is startled, and he quickly looks toward Carter and O'Neill.

Alex waves his hand, making a fist; he then looks at Kira, "Top of the building, just over the president's shoulder," he said, opening his hand to show a twisted lump of copper and lead.

Kira's eyes narrow at seeing the metal, then nods before disappearing in a blur, starting with the people who were approaching both her disappearing and then reappearing seconds later, dropping two men on the ground, both unconscious.

"Not a very nice welcome, "Alex said looking directly at the president, dropping the bullet.

The president looked at the two men on the ground recognizing Colonel Harry Maybourne and one of his own Secret Service people.

"Arrest them both; charges are attempted murder of foreign diplomats," Hyes growled out, pointing at the two men; his security men moved to follow his orders.

"You are lucky we are aware of this man's history," Sam said as she watched the two men were searched for hidden weapons

One of the Secret Service agents pulled a folded paper from Maybourne's inside pocket; without opening it, he took it to the president, holding it to show that it had the presidential seal holding the paper closed.

Breaking the seal Hayes opened the paper and began to read, his face grew redder and redder as he read, "Have an arrest warrant drawn up for every person who signed this, charges are falsifying presidential orders, this is a rubber stamp of my signature look here there are no signs of pen pressure,"

The agent took the paper and then saluted before walking off his hand to his ear, "I'm sorry, but it seems we will need to try to speak some other time, please contact the SGC to schedule the meeting," Hayes told them before turning away, followed by his agents.

Carter who was finished with her medical exam, had not been changed as much as O'Neill had been other than a few scars she was physically, joined the four looking concerned, "What's going on?"

"Someone took a shot at me, and then the president found false orders of some kind on Maybourne, he told us to schedule a meeting with the SGC, and we will dial your gate in a week, do not let anyone try to take your armor apart other than yourself or they will self-destruct," Alex answered her then looked to Sam.

Sam shrugged, "You're going to have to keep them hidden from McKay; that man is too sure of himself; we have seen realities where he has destroyed entire solar systems by ignoring orders because he thought he knew better than his superiors."

Carter was stunned at hearing that shivers ran down her spine thinking about what it would take to destroy a solar system, "He is not a pleasant man to be around, I'll let the Colonel and General know."

They all fell into silence for a few minutes until O'Neill joined them after getting clear on his health for the time being from Fraiser, "Who lit a fire under the Pres? He and his boy's burnt rubber taking off,"

"Maybourne and a sniper took a shot at me; other than that, I'm not sure they found a paper that he didn't like, told us to get with y'all later for a meeting, we just told Carter will call in a week."

O'Neill began swearing, but it took him several minutes to stop, "Make it two weeks. I'm guessing we may be called to do some investigating on the base if Maybourne was involved. We have a mole, or they hacked our systems," he then stormed off yelling orders to return to base.

Before Carter could leave, Sam held out a device, "You guys are playing a dangerous game of Russian roulette; all of these workarounds you put into the dialing computer, hook this to your computers to act as a DhD; so far, you've gotten lucky."

Carter took the device, looked it over, and spoke, "We had to write in programs to block out several feedbacks that were stopping us from dialing out."

Sam sighed, "Those were internal security functions built into the gate, those feedbacks were the gate warning you that dialing the gate was not recommended or that you were close to overloading its systems somehow, picture this, you dial out and the wormhole goes through a star instead of bending around the star which a DhD dose, then the wormhole introduces a heavy element, or you dial to a gate on a planet near a black hole."

With those examples, Carter grew paler and paler, as the possible dangers they could have caused.

"Just hook it up near Walter's station, it will take about two hours to overwrite those workarounds," Sam told her pointing to a port on the side with a USB slot, "This won't act as a dialing device you'll need to continue using the computer but this will interpret the feedback and either tell the gate to bend the wormhole or not connect if it detects a black hole."

Carter held the device against her chest still picturing how they could have destroyed a star and or themselves if they had connected to a gate near a black hole and the gravity well could have grabbed the wormhole or if it opened inside the gravity well they could have pulled the Earth through the gate if they couldn't close the gate fast enough or at all.

"We've seen it happen, in one incident the gate passed through a star, and even though it was a trace amount of platinum it was enough to cause a chain reaction that caused the star to go supernova within a few years and your counterparts didn't even know because the star was not the one the planet they dialed to orbited the supernova destroyed it own solar system then the gamma-ray burst took out another several hundred more in its path over the next few years as it traveled."

Carter nearly fell to the ground when she heard about the supernova, "Have we already done that here?" she asked in a weak voice.

"We don't know, we'll have to visit every planet your teams have been to," Alex answered her with a shrug.

"Come on, Carter, we need to get back to base asap," O'Neill called out from where he and Fraiser were with the other SG teams stood.

The four watched as the SG teams scrambled to get ready to leave, "We'll go take care of a few side jobs, I want to get to see about hiring a few people from the market."

Sam turned to look at Alex in confusion, "You think anyone will want to come here?"

He nodded, "Yeah, we won't be here all of the time and there should be some newbies who want to come to a reality like this one."

Kira nodded as well, "Do you know what you will offer in payment?" When they looked at her in confusion she shrugged, "I've been doing some reading on those panels, most of it was just a bunch of mumbo jumbo about sending in people to either concur a reality or help fix it, most are paid in one way or another but most of the time it's in powers or equipment."

Alex turned to re-enter the ship when he saw the crates of armor he had created to use as an offer of alliance to the SGC; he turned and whistled to get the SG team's attention, and when O'Neill looked at them, Alex waved them over.

When they joined them, O'Neill spoke up, "What's up?"

Alex pointed to the crate, "Gather enough to outfit each team and Carter can take a spare to study, you too doc."

"You're just gonna give us some of your tech?" O'Neill asked incredulously.

Alex shrugged, "This stuff is only about twenty years ahead of what you all have so far, well for the most part anyways, but it's not far from some of the stuff some of your people have been working on after looking at the jaffa armor, or at least those collapsing helmets anyways."

Carter's head snapped up, "How do you know that? It's classified."

Sam sighed and shook her head, "How many times do we have to say that we've seen things similar realities to this one just some things are different,"

"Oh right," Carter said as she gathered up one of the suits to take for study.

O'Neill and the other SG team leaders gathered up enough suits to outfit the teams, "How will this work for a jaffa?"

"Should be fine, it's just armor; it won't affect the larva," Sam told him as she passed a set of tools over to Carter that would allow her to work on the armor.

"We are going to see about setting up a base in this galaxy; once we do have a planet, well, dial your gate and give you the address; once you guys are ready, give us a call," Alex told them as they finished packing the armor away.

O'Neill nodded, "That's fine; I'll tell our boss to expect the call. Just don't try to come through."

Alex nodded, "The Iris, you guys may want to look into something else, like possibly an energy shield or sealing the room off entirely with remote-controlled guns to guard the room with no living people in the embarkation room by closing the iris on travelers someone innocent could die trying to get help."

"I'll bring it up," O'Neill said thinking about the few times they had closed the iris on inbound travelers.

After they were finished, the teams left. Alex led the others to the bridge and took off and headed for the moon to use it to hide the flash as the wormhole drive, Sam asked, "Where are we headed?"

"The planet where the Asgard found the replicators is empty and someone needs to clean up the place and destroy the pieces and that robot girl," Alex said just as the ship entered the vortex.

An hour later, the ship shot out of the wormhole in orbit of a planet, "Sam, can you step out and put a watchtower in orbit? We can use it as our base,"

"Sure," she said, getting up. She went to an airlock and stepped out into open space, holding out her hands as she focused on the watchtower in her mental folder; unlike Alex, who could create something almost instantly, it took her ten minutes for it to finish.

Alex piloted the Javalin to the hanger bay just as the power systems were powering up and the forcefield meant to hold in the atmosphere snapped into place, Alex opened the ships loading ramp holding up his hands, and waved them around, it was only after a few minutes that they realized they had been in a vacuum and he was adding oxygen and it was building up pressure to match Earth's.

"Why did you want me to build this if we are going to use the planet?" Sam asked about fifteen minutes later after Alex dropped his arms when a console registered that the pressure was where it was needed.

"Well, there are some things we won't want to share with the SGC, plus use this as a base for the people we are going to hire to come here. Also, the Asgard can work from here."

Alex then opened the door to the house once the computer had confirmed that the Watchtower was in a stable orbit, they entered the house and came to a stop when they saw a blonde woman sitting on the couch in what looked like a medical gown, she looked up with a smile that reached her deep black eyes, her skin was an alabaster.

"Your medical unit is a wander. I used it to scan myself, and before I knew what was happening, I was waking up like this," the woman said, standing up to reveal that she was nearly six feet tall and well-muscled though not so muscled that she looked strange, more of a swimmers build.

"Hermiod?" Sam asked.

The woman nodded happily, "Yes."

Alex looked worried, "What happened? Didn't we say only use the bed to scan you?"

"Yes, and that's what I thought the bed was doing, but the next thing I knew after laying was waking up looking like this, which I must admit I have not seen this face in a reflection in thousands of years after the degradation began," Hermiod told them as she ran her hands over her body as if she were dreaming ending with her hands on her face.

"We need to check the bed," Alex said before leading everyone to the workshop and the medical room.

Sam took the lead when Hermiod pointed to the bed she used; running the diagnostics, she began shaking her head with a wry smile on her lips.

"We forgot to reset the beds, they are still set to scan and auto-heal and repair, we got it from the market, it's a combination of magic and technology, if I'm reading this right it used temporal scanning to find a time where Hermiods DNA was not damaged and took a sample then advanced it enough to handle her higher mental capabilities."

"Could we study this and build something similar for my people?"

"I don't know, we bought this equipment from people who are way more advanced than anyone we can imagine right now, heck I can't even understand this equipment after scanning it with my powers," Alex answered.

"We will be going to speak with the people we purchased these from soon we can see if we can get more on them there but you can not go there though," Sam told her then went over the data again then began tapping a few places on the screen, after a few seconds she went to the replicator and had it create a tablet which she lay on the control panel after a few seconds she held it out to Hermiod, "Study this and send it to the Asgard mabey they can figure something out as well."

Hermiod took the tablet, and almost immediately, she began reading the data; when they were finished, Sam saved the data and then reset the beds; Kira had to lead Hermiod out of the room by the arm and back to the living room, Alex and Sam were discussing going to the market.

"You guys go ahead and go I'll watch Karen and see about getting dinner ready," Kira told them as she helped Hermiod sit and then took Karen from Alex's arms.

They nodded and then went down to the transport ring leading to the market; as soon as they stepped into the ring, they disappeared in a flash of light.