"While McKay's doing that," Sheppard said. "I need to contact our base and update our commanding officer. Also, your Ms. Calendar figured out she was in a different reality and time from the people you already know when McKay showed her a collection crystal we call a ZPM, zero point module, which is used to collect zero point energy from space. She said she'd been teaching Major Carter, who's a Lt. Colonel here and leading SG 1, how to collect energy like that. She said we could talk to you guys about teaching it to us once you guys saved her. My CO, Dr. Elizabeth Weir, she's going to want to know who she can talk to about that."
"Xander is who you talk to about it." Jenny told him. "He's the only one with authority to discuss any technology we could give you or anything we could teach you about. He speaks for us when it comes to other realities."
"I have the necessary access to the technology and it streamlines things to also have me be the one to meet with representatives in other realities." Xander explained. "Visiting realities being a fairly common occurrence for us. I'm learning a lot about diplomacy along the way, but I still prefer just blowing things up."
"So do I." Sheppard grinned. "Something General O'Neill and I have in common too. I'll just use the Stargate and give her a call. Your age might make her a little hesitant."
"If she doesn't want to hear what we have to say, we can always leave." Xander answered seriously. "But I want to know more about these Wraith myself, it seems to me, that fighting them might be a war worth fighting."
"You don't have to get involved in a war in another reality." Sheppard pointed out.
"And if they ever found their way to our reality and we knew we could have done something about them sooner, don't you think we'd regret that?" Xander sighed. "These are the kind of decisions the position I've been given mean I have to learn how to make, to decide if a war is worth fighting or not. Worth dying for and I'm being trusted to figure that out and chances are I'll screw up at some point. But here's the thing, which can my conscience live with - doing something or doing nothing? In this instance, doing nothing might be the one I can't live with."
"I can understand that." Teyla told him. "And your age doesn't concern me, I was younger than you when my people first turned to me for leadership and your demeanor and maturity tell me that you have experience and the actions of your team tell me that they trust your leadership. You don't put yourself above them." Apparently oblivious to the irony of that statement as he'd literally been above his team during the battle. "I will tell Elizabeth my observations and recommend she speak to you."
"Me too." Sheppard decided. "The Stargate's about half a klick from here, it won't take me long and we can get some people here to check over the survivors."
"Tell her we're going to want as complete an accounting of the last five years as possible." Jenny told him. "We have an information and technology exchange set up with Stargate Command in another reality, that's information they'll definitely want."
"I'll let her know, since we're currently out of contact with Earth, it's her call. But personally, I think if we can help them avoid some of the problems we've had, I say that's a good thing."
"I've met several counterparts of myself and my friends," Xander grinned again. "but I haven't met a counterpart of Jack yet. In his reality my father is a Marine Corp lifer and my counterpart's been accepted to the Naval Academy since the Marine Corp doesn't have it's own Academy. Jack wants to recruit him once he graduates."
That told Sheppard a lot about the young man in front of him, if O'Neill was tracking a counterpart in the hopes of recruiting him and it further cemented his opinion that this was someone they wanted to work with.
"Just be sure to pass on one message to your CO." And now Xander was no looking even remotely amused and neither were any of his team. "There will be no attempts to capture, experiment on or attack us. We will defend ourselves and as I once told Colonel O'Neill, may the gods have mercy on your souls, because we sure as Hell won't."
Colonel John Sheppard had absolutely no doubts about that. Because these people might be young, but they were soldiers and as Jenny Calendar had already told them, they were a family and they'd fight, die and kill to protect each other if necessary. He very much thought he'd prefer them as friends and allies then enemies, especially after having seen them fight firsthand.