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It had been a long day, he had driven from Denver to south Dakota, after picking up three large heavy crates. The inspector at the airport had gaped at the bright gold on the sarcophagus and filling one of the crates. It had bee difficult to convince the man that he shouldn't have others around when inspecting the crates, which had been marked secret. George provided the proof that he was to receive the crate, and the airport personnel helped him load the large crates onto the flat bed truck. He stopped at the gate, it was shut so he radioed Sam.
"Sam" for a moment there was nothing.
"General?"
"Yes, is the door locked?"
"Yessir, IDC?"
"two niner five seven three niner." The gate opened on its own. "Good work Major."
"Thank you sir. You know we have to do something about this rank thing, I'm not a major and you're not gonna be a general." George chuckled .
"Very true Sam, I'll meet you at the door, maybe you can figure out how to float this thing."
"Yessir." He met Sam at the door and she clamored over to the oblong crate. She studied the symbols for a moment. "This one."
"Let's get it inside. Then bring the carts out for these two."
"Actually sir, we might be able to put at least the small crate on top of the sarcophagus. They're made to move while holding people after all."
"Do it."
"Um-"
"Never mind, you can't. Get the Sarcophagus into position then." Catherine appeared as Sam caused the sarcophagus to hover next to the truck. She gasped when it bobbed after George pushed the crate onto it. Two heads whipped towards her. Sam glanced up at her former CO and he shook his head. "Hello Catherine, how are you this evening?" Catherine looked over distractedly.
"Fine, what is that?"
"That ma'am is a Sarcophagus, an addictive healing device that can heal anything, even death if one is placed in it within 24 hours of dying. This." He patted the other large crate. "Is the device that was missing from your father's dig. Daniel Jackson found it in the great pyramid at Giza, a logical place for it actually." Catherine's bewildered look hadn't faded yet but she spoke.
"Daniel, the boy who called me from Egypt?"
"That is correct. Now if you would help me we can lower this into the silo."
"Oh, of course."
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Teal'c knocked on the Door to Master Braytac's home. It was opened by the older Jaffa.
"Teal'c, come in." He nodded to his former master.
"Master Braytac." He noticed that Braytac was slightly nervous. "I know that you believe the Go'auld are false gods." Only the slightest widening of the other jaffa's eyes gave away his distress. "Fear not, I will tell no one. I am here because it is likely that I shall not be first Prime much longer."
"And why is that, my friend?"
"I will be leaving Chulak for a rising power in the galaxy. One that could help us free our people from the Go'auld." This time the elder did not hide his surprise.
"And who are these people?"
"I will not say, they may not wish their identity to be known yet. Even to friends."
"Then how do you know?"
"Mid campaign I awoke from a deep sleep, such as I have not had since childhood. I awoke knowing much more than when I went to sleep. I knew a life and a future that will no longer come to pass. They will come for me, they would never leave anyone behind." Braytac stared at his former pupil for some time.
"Are you certain that they have these memories?"
"I am. We entered the Chapa'ai at the same moment. They will have some difficulties in accessing their Chapa'ai, but I do not believe they will give up." He gazed at Braytac with tormented eyes. "I have lived free for far to long to be content to minimize the destruction which the gods wreck upon the people."
"And so you came to me."
"Indeed. Who else would understand better than the former first prime who hated the gods as much as I."
"I understand, my friend. Guard thyself and send word to me if things with your friends go well."
"I shall, they may approach you for aid in finding me, help them no matter how they seem to you."
"I shall."
"I will not visit again, you would be brought under suspicion if I were seen here too often. Farewell, My friend."
"Farewell Teal'c."
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To Micael, the situation was unreal. Four years ago he'd helped older versions of these people leave the planet now he was sitting in their car on the way to South Dakota.
"So you're not really aliens?"
"Um, well. No, not really." Daniel hedged
"Teal'c is."
"Yes! And we couldn't tell you the truth. I mean telling you we were from the future was unthinkable."
"I get that, that's cool. But that big dude was an alien?"
"Yep."
"Awesome."
"So Michael, what have you been doing lately?"
"Aw well, I was in the army for a couple years. They made me a cookI actually just got out. Didn't know what I was going to do."
"Um, that's good. How's Jenny?" Michael beamed.
"She's great, decided to be a nurse."
"A nurse, that's good. She's invited too-in case you sere wondering."
"That's awesome man. I'll call her when we stop for gas, she'll be thrilled."
"Yeah well, don't say anything about aliens. We don't need people after us or anything." Jack didn't even look over his shoulder as he said it.
"That's cool man, I'll tell her that our hitchhikers are back."
"And with the messes we get into we could use a nurse."
"Yeah, and a doctor." Added Daniel.
"So what do you do that gets you hurt?" Daniel opened his mouth to speak.
"No Danny, he'll find out at base. Catherine doesn't even know yet."
"Fine. Sorry Michael, but you'll have to wait on that one."
"No problem." They lapsed into silence, Michael thinking how odd these people were, they might be human but they were weird.
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Catherine sat in her chair at the table and surveyed the odd group assembled there. Two children, a teenager, two young men, and herself of course, were seated at a folding table in the middle of a room twenty feet underground.
"Shall we begin?" One of the men, George Hammond, nodded to the boy. The child steepled his fingers in front of him.
"Um, yes sir. Please bear with me on this, it will make sense. Or some sense at least by the time-"
"Danny, just tell the story."
"Um sure Jack. Anyway in 1928 Catherine's father was digging in Giza when he uncovered a cover stone and large circular artifact, which both of you have seen. The Doorway to Heaven, as it was incorrectly translated, was brought back to America and stored until in 1945 the Military began having it researched for possible military uses. They managed to turn it on and Earnest Littlefeld, Catherine's fiancee, went through to the other side and was stuck there. In 1969 Catherine received a visit from two time travelers, myself and Sam in disguise pretending to have found the former resting place of the DHD, the second devise which controls the Stargate. That is what the cartouche literally says. Catherine began researching and trying to get the military to do something with the Stargate and in the mid 1990's they did. Samantha Carter began work on the Stargate project in 1996 two years before the first Mission would be sent. As the lead astrophysicist Sam figured out how to interface the computers to replace the missing controlling mechanism. In 1998 you, Catherine, recruited me. I had been struggling to prove that someone else had built the great pyramid and had just been laughed out of a lecture. You gave me a plane ticket and promised that it would be the opportunity of a life time. More than one lifetime apparently. I figured out the translation in a minute and a half and spent two days figuring out what the seven symbols on the center of the cartouche were. They were star constellations. Sam." Sam pushed two pieces of paper across the table, both contained several diagrams and symbols including a diagram of the Stargate.
"Right, to identify any one point in space you need six points, to chart a path there you need the point of origin. That is what the seven symbols mean. The symbols on the cartouche made up the Stargate address to Abydos, a desert planet about a quarter of the galaxy away." Sam paused for a breath and, despite the incredulous looks on both Michael's and Catherine's faces, continued. "The Stargate acts as a giant superconductor and creates a stable wormhole allowing instantaneous travel from one point in space to another."
"Wormhole?" croaked Michael.
"Yes, the gate creates a supercharged path that jumps outside of time and space to connect to another gate."
"Wow." Sam gave a tight grin.
"Yes well, the details aren't necessary at the moment but the Stargate can go to millions of other Stargates in this galaxy cluster. The Air Force was put in charge of a top secret facility known as Stargate command. The mission of this command was to perform reconnaissance, make alliances and gather technology. We found out the hard way that my theories on time travel were correct, which is when we met you both in 1969. On May 17, 2020 we were fleeing through the Stargate after evacuating a large portion of earth's elite to other worlds as the Go'auld blew up our sun. Five of us went through the gate and now have our memories, at least given that we do we assume Teal'c has his. Any questions?" The two recipients of the speech seemed to be in shock, Catherine certainly was.
"I think you scared them Carter." Jack drawled and George covered a smile.
"Alright people, meeting dismissed. Catherine, Michael take some time and ask whatever you like. We may or may not answer, also please do not tell anyone else as we would like to keep this secret for the time being." The four dimensional travelers exited the room leaving Catherine with one shocked young man.
"You know, I used to think they were aliens, know I'm sure of it." Catherine chuckled.
"Considering that the definition of alien is something different, yes they most certainly are. But they are also telling the truth. How else could they have know about 1969?"
"Oh, it's true alright. They bumped into me in the airport of all places. And I recognized them." He shook his head. "I'm for bed. See you in the morning."
"Yes, goodnight." Catherine stayed there for some time lost in thought before heading to bed.
katejones2005: Glad you like it!
Cocoa Girl2: Wow, I'm glad you like it so much. As for who should be recruited to join the non-military SGC, I'm open to suggestions. I must confess to having only seen seasons 1, 2 and 6 in their entirety so some extra info would be nice. I hope I've answered your other questions too.
CtuSS: Ah, I'll put that in, don't worry. as for expenses-well I'll explain soon. those are questions that Micheal and Catherine are bound to ask now aren't they? ;-)
MuseUrania: I don't know, though I'll look if they're given I'll change them,
cinderella2122: lol, I'm glad you understand more now. If you want a charector in the strory email me and if they aren't in season's 1,2 or 6 geve me an in depth description of them, their relationships with SG1 and such since those are the only seasons I've seen al the way through.
Cocoa Girl: Yes they are in South Dakota, the maid wasn't in the room and thus did not hear him say it. It is an old missle silo, yes we were still in the cold war but let's just assume that they decommisioned one. As for warning others, I don't know they really cannot do much as they do not know what has changed, you know the butterfly effect. As for Micheal not fighting, we'll see after all we're talking about freeing people from tyranical slavery here.
AN
Please R&R, all comments and questions are welcome after all they help to shape the story-I can't think of everything on my own now can I?