Disclaimer: : I do not own Stargate: SG-1 or seaQuest, nor the characters from either show/world. I am not making money off of this nor do I intend to. This is just for fun!

A/N: Right so... for those who have this story on alert, I just want to apologize for the amount of time that's lapsed between updates. Life's been crazy, school's been busy and work's been somewhere in between. However, the wait's almost over. Basically, I went to write the ending, and then realized I didn't remember what was going on in the story. So I went back through and over-hauled it. The first chapter has the most changes, the rest don't really have as many. Again, yeah. Sorry :D

For those who have just come upon this: I hope you enjoy the ride!

-mirage24

Chapter 1

Four Weeks Previous to Present

The water around Tony Piccolo was substantially colder than he normally liked, but he couldn't discount the feeling of complete freedom that swimming in the wide, blue ocean gave him just because of it, either. Besides, as long as his gills were working, he figured it was okay either way. Warm or cold water, it didn't matter. As long as it was water in the end.

Still, even the feeling of complete freedom didn't keep him from being restricted by orders. Back in 2022, he could have swam all we wanted with Darwin, Bridger's dolphin, when he had the time but now Bridger's dolphin was a recognized Ensign and the seaQuest had a new captain—and Hudson didn't like recreational time being set aside for a gilled ex-prisoner in a time of war. Given that, Tony was determined to enjoy this bit of freedom in a time otherwise filled with tension, one both due to war and to adjusting to a new captain.

The truth was that Hudson wasn't any better than Bridger, nor was the reverse true, either. It was just that the crew was in a new time now, and while Bridger was a brilliant tactician when the situation called for it, he just didn't know the world as it was now, at war with Macronesia.

One thing did ring somewhat familiar, although it didn't click in Tony's head until the sparkling caught his eye. He turned his head toward it, swimming forward to its location in the seafloor below.

What the hell?

When Piccolo reached the object, he had to uncover quite a bit of sediment that surrounded the sparkling before he realized the enormous size that the object could potentially be.

The similarity, he discovered in that moment, is that they were still uncovering strange objects in the ocean—the last one they discovered being remnants of the lost continent of Atlantis.

Tony depressed the button on his radio. "Piccolo to seaQuest. Do you copy?"
Tim O'Neill's voice came back over the com. "We read you. What's up, Tony?"

"I seem to have found a—well I'm not too sure what it is, but it's huge. Ya gotta see it."

"Biologic?"

"Negative. That's about all I know, Tim. I'd suggest grappling it. It looks pretty sturdy."

"Copy that. I'll relay the request through to Captain Hudson."

"You really think he's interested in s sparkly circle?" Tony asked.

There was a moment's hesitation in response, a moment that seemed to turn into a lifetime for Tony. "Do you want me to leave it or what, Tim?"

"This is Captain Hudson. We're sending out the Specters. Help them attach grapples and secure the item on sea-Deck." Tony heard him say something off-radio to Ensign Wolenczak. "Do not tell anybody that you have found something, even if you say it is a fish. No one. Is that understood?"

"Uh- yes sir. Found nada to nobody."

"Good. ETA two minutes. seaQuest out."

The Present

"Daniel!" Colonel Jack O'Neill shouted as the archaeologist came through the doorway to the Gate Room. "So glad of you to join us."

Daniel Jackson gave it a pause, and looked to Major Samantha Carter who shook her head a negative. Teal'c brow rose as his only response.

"What?" Daniel asked. "I'm not late."

"Yes you are."

"No… no, I'm not," he said, looking down to his watch. He lifted up his wrist, pointed to it and said, "I'm early."

"So were we, making you late."

Daniel took a shallow breath. "Yes, Jack. I'm late."

Carter chuckled to herself. It was great to have the team back again now that Daniel was back, although she did sometimes miss Jonas and his grand curiosity for their planet. Somehow, she found though, Jack was never Jack during the time Daniel had been gone. They were best friends, the best Jack had had since his son had died, when he lost Sarah and then again after losing Kilowasky almost seven years ago. And after Daniel had died and ascended, Jack just didn't seem right. It took him almost til Jonas left to go home again, for Jack to finally warm up to him.

Sometime during her thoughts, the gate had started dialing at Walter's hand and careful watch, and now it was about to fully engage.

"So," Jack started out. "Quick recon then go home?"

"That about sums it up, sir," Sam answered.

Daniel nodded. "Sounds good to me."

"Indeed."

The seventh chevron locked and the kawoosh spilled forward before receding like the tide before a tsunami. The team walked up the ramp together, then filed through the stargate one by one.

Jack was the first through the gate, and was surprised to be met with complete darkness.

After the rest of them had emerged from the artificially made wormhole, he complained his concern. "See, this is why we're supposed to send a M.A.L.P. through, Carter."

"The address was on the Abydos cartouche. The government deemed it an unnecessary cost."

Jack flipped the switch on his P90 that turned the flashlight on, the rest of the SG-1 doing the same.

"Unnecessary cost, my ass. Somebody find a light switch please."

Teal'c was the first to find something even resembling one, and when he flipped it upwards, light filled the room.

But so did confusion.

"Okay, someone want to explain to me why this place is so advanced?"

"I thought you said to find a light switch, Jack," Daniel pointed out.

"You know what I mean," he said. It came out frustrated, which he was, although he was more curious now than anything.

"It's not just advanced, sir."

"Carter?"

Sam was over at a panel, looking it over. Daniel came over to where she was standing. "She's right. Sam this is—"

"Is what?"

"This technology looks similar to that found on Earth, Colonel O'Neill," Teal'c said, speculating the same.

"Exactly, sir, watch—" Carter went to flip another switch but just milliseconds before her fingers graced the plastic part, an alarm began wailing.

"Back through the gate. Now!" Jack ordered. "Daniel!"

"On it!" the archaeologist replied, already side-stepping back towards the DHD. He got through all the symbols before the door burst open to the room they were in, revealing half a dozen men in military suits.

Jack looked over his shoulder, debating if they would be able to make it through the gate in time. This is not a good first contact move at all. To Jack's complete disappointment, the gate did not engage.

Daniel noticed this as he had yet to turn his back around to face the military personnel behind him, ordering the four of them to drop their weapons. What the hell? Engage! Daniel tried dialing again.

"Stop it! Now!" one of them yelled.

"Daniel!"

He hit another three symbols before a gloved hand pulled his arm away, aggressively shoving his body away from the DHD.

"Hey, look—we're peaceful—"

"You are all breaking several severe laws being present on a flagship UEO submarine without clearance," the one who shoved Daniel away said. He was tall, blond and wearing a serious and angry look on his face. "Identify yourselves immediately."

"I'm Colonel Jack O'Neill, US Air Force, SGC," Jack said. "I'm in charge. That's Major Samantha Carter."

"I'm Doctor Daniel Jackson, and that's Teal'c."

"SGC?" Brody questioned them.

"Under Cheyenne Mountain, Colorado," Carter supplied.

"That's NORAD."

"Beneath NORAD."

It meant nothing to Brody. "And you're on seaQuest because…?"

"Mind telling us who you are first?"

"Lieutenant Brody, UEO, seaQuest. You are all under arrest for trespassing on top-secret UEO property, as well as tampering with classified artifacts."

"You mean the stargate?" Daniel asked.

"He did not question your rank, O'Neill."

Yes. Jack had noticed this as well. Most first contacts involved explaining what the Air Force was. But Jack didn't recognize the organization "UEO" either. He looked to Carter, who was already looking to him for orders on what to do next. He jerked his head at this Lt. Brody in the smallest action and she looked off to the side in response.

No. She didn't know either.

"What's seaQuest?" Jack asked.

Brody laughed. "You're kidding me, right?" he asked. After a few moments of blank looks as his answer, he added, "You're Air Force and you don't know? I thought you guys all hated us."

"What's the UEO?" Daniel tried asking.

"United Earths Oceans." Brody was getting frustrated now. Could these guys really be so thick as to not know about the UEO? Or were they spies for Macronesia playing dumb to avoid major consequences of being aboard seaQuest without neither clearance nor permission?

"Earth?" Carter asked.

Jack looked to Carter. "We're supposed to be on P3C-225, Carter. How the hell did we end up on Earth?"

"How could we have?" Daniel echoed.

"It's not impossible sir, I—"

"At ease, Brody. Put your weapons down, all of you."

A man with a rank insignia Jack recognized as Captain entered the room. He stood before them, next to the Lieutenant and extended a hand to Jack O'Neill. "It is a pleasure to meet you, sir."

Sir? A Captain is calling me sir?

Jack took his hand and shook it. "Likewise. We're peaceful explorers from Earth. We came through the stargate," he said, gesturing to the large device behind him with his left thumb.

"Mm," the captain said, then pressed his lips together in a hard line, thinking something over. "Captain Hudson of seaQuest, UEO. While I am pleased to have the chance to meet you, you have boarded my sub without clearance. This is a problem."

"What year is this?" Carter asked. She'd had her doubts the second she looked at the panel. And adding to the fact that she didn't know who or what the UEO was and that the circuitry in the panel was far more advanced than anything she'd ever seen on Earth—and the fact that they were supposedly still on Earth to begin with—things just weren't adding up to present day. Well, her present day, anyways.

"2032, ma'am," Brody answered for the Captain. "Today's date is July 5th 2032."

"Excuse me?"

The last question came from Jack O'Neill.