7A/N: This fanfic will be set somewhere in the first few seasons, although as far as the timeline goes it is necessarily set in 2005. (It'll make sense later, especially for those of you who do the math. Sorry!) I'm going to apologize right now for the horrible spelling of most of the Jaffa terms I'm going to use; I'm aware I can't spell them, but for some odd reason I'm using them anyway. Also, I reference several trademarked/copyrighted/otherwise protected works and products. I do not claim any rights to any of these things. I am merely using them as an element of this story, which is not getting me any profits. Please don't sue me; even if you do, you won't get much.
BTW, the only characters that belong to me are Melody Favale, More', and Jor'a along with most of the other characters you don't recognize. Now this author shuts up and gets on with the story…..
The sirens blared through CMC as a voice announced, "Unscheduled off-world activation!" The members of SG-1 ran down the steps to the control room just seconds behind General Hammond, watching through the large windows as the iris closed over the gate. Colonel Jack O'Neill stood behind Captain Samantha Carter as she typed on the terminal next to Walter. "SG-1's iris code has been received, Sir," he told the General, silently double-counting the team that stood around him.
"Bra'tac?" Daniel offered as he thought through the possibilities.
"Open the iris," ordered General Hammond; SG-1 headed automatically down toward the gate. He followed them down and waited with them behind a line of armed airmen all aiming their weapons toward the event horizon.
The airmen relaxed when a familiar figure stepped through the gate and the wormhole disengaged - all, that is, except one new recruit who had never met the Jaffa. "Bra'tac!" Jack called, casually lowering the newbie's weapon for him. "Welcome back. Not that it's not a nice surprise, but we weren't expecting a visit."
"It is good to see you again, old friend," Teal'c greeted him, extending his hand.
"And you, Teal'c," Bra'tac replied as he grabbed Teal'c's forearm. "What news of Dre'auc and Ry'ac?"
"They are treated well in the Land of Light."
"Master Bra'tac." General Hammond took his turn shaking hands with their visitor. "What brings you to our world?"
"I believe I have found a member of the Tau'ri on another world."
"Well, yes, that's no surprise." Daniel was a bit confused and took up the "I'll explain it once more" tone he usually saved for Jack. "As I've told you, we believe that most of the people we encounter on other worlds originated on Earth and were displaced by the Goa'uld."
"You do not understand my meaning. I believe I have met a young girl who was more recently mistakenly transported to a world near Chu'lak."
If Bra'tac was waiting for a response, he didn't get one. All of the Tau'ri in front of him simply had confused looks on their faces. "Why don't we take this discussion to the debriefing room?" General Hammond waved the warrior through the mob of airmen who came to defend the gate and led him straight to the infirmary. Once cleared, he brought him to join SG-1, who were already discussing some possibilities.
"Daniel, what can you tell me about the experiments they ran on the gate before our first trip to Abydos?" Jack asked. Daniel got a look on his face, the one Jack had come to know and fear as his "story time" look, and he held up a hand to stop his response. "Pertinent information to its activation only."
"Well, I know they hadn't figured out how to activate it until I told them to use the symbol for Earth as the point of origin."
"Right, but using random permutations, it is possible that they managed to dial out a few times. I mean, we know they did it at least once. Who's to say they didn't do it again?" Carter theorized.
"It is possible that the gate could have been randomly dialed to reach a valid address," Teal'c interjected, "but would there not be a record of all combinations attempted by your scientists before Daniel Jackson discovered the seventh symbol?"
"Yes, we still have the records." Jack and Sam rose and saluted their CO. "And, given the fact that the gate was only successfully dialed out three times, and twice to the same address in the 1950s, we're left with only one possible address. Master Bra'tac says that's where he found a Ms. Melody Favale."
"Melody Favale… That name sounds familiar." Daniel searched his mind for a moment. "A few months before I came on, there was a young girl who got lost on the base, separated from her parents during a tour of the surface level. It was in the headlines for weeks. After a month or so of searching for her unsuccessfully they assumed she wandered off base and was kidnapped from there."
"Well, apparently kidnapping was the wrong assumption," Jack remarked. "So you say you found this girl on another planet?" Should I be concerned that that doesn't sound strange anymore? Jack wondered to himself.
"Yes, while I was working to strengthen the numbers of rebel Jaffa we visited a world called Fayum, under the guise of searching for further stores of naquadah. A young woman was reading a text that I have seen often on Dr. Frasier's shelves, a PDR," Bra'tac sounded out uncertainly.
"Yes, a Physicians' Desk Reference," Daniel clarified. "It outlines the uses, side effects, and interactions of basically any drug."
"On this planet," Jack threw in, intrigued.
"Which begs the question of why someone on another planet would have one unless she really is from Earth." Captain Carter was still a bit concerned about how valid this girl's claim would be. "So, how old was she?"
"She said she is 19 of your years."
"So that would mean somehow a, what," Jack began ticking off on is fingers, "nine-year-old girl got past Air Force personnel and managed to go through an active wormhole to get stuck halfway across the galaxy? If I said this in front of a shrink I'd be locked up for life!" he muttered.
"It sounded strange to me as well. I asked her for some proof to present to the leaders of your race. She gave me this." He opened his hand to reveal a small Giga pet, complete with a Mighty Morphing Power Rangers sticker attached to the back.
Jack turned the small toy over in his hands. "Yes, Tommy was popular that year."
"Oh, I remember these things!" Daniel said with disgust as Jack passed it on to him. "There was a girl who lived in the next apartment over who must have had a million of them and no idea how to mute them. They would meow, bark, and cry at all hours of the night."
Sam was a little more convinced after looking over the beat-up toy. "So a nine-year-old girl somehow gets through the gate undetected, lugging a Giga pet and a PDR? Sadly, it sounds like something that could have gone unnoticed back in the early days."
"She has many books which she brought with her through the chapa'ai," Bra'tac added. "She has learned the ways of scholars of her world based on her love of books."
"Great, another egghead." Jack picked up his pen and started clicking.
Click, click!
"Teal'c, what do you make of this? Could this be a goa'uld trick?" General Hammond watched as the large man thought, all the while wondering whose brilliant idea it was to give the Colonel a retractable pen.
Click!
"I cannot think of an instance where the goa'uld have used such methods." Click! "They do not have the resources to mimic literature of this world."
Click, click, click!
"General Hammond, if she really is from Earth," Sam paused, collecting her thoughts. Click! "If she really is from Earth and she's been on another planet, she could be a valuable resource to us and sympathetic to our cause."
Click, click!
"General, what if we took a little trip to this planet, check out Ms. Favale's claims?" Jack set his pen down, much to everyone's relief.
"Permission granted. SG-1, you will leave for these coordinates at 0800 hours tomorrow. Master Bra'tac, I'd like to offer you the use of one of our guest quarters for the evening, assuming you would like to accompany my men in the morning."
"Yes, I believe that would be wise. Thank you for your hospitality." Bra'tac knew the base well, so he didn't need a guide to help him find where he was staying.
"Well, waddaya know? Apparently the United States lost two of its citizens through that thing thanks to their incompetence and now we get to dig both of their butts out. Aren't we special?"
"Colonel, I'm going to need you and your team to make an objective assessment of this situation. If it seems in any way that this is some sort of trick or that this girl may pose some threat to this base you are not to return with her. The primary objective of this mission is to determine whether or not this girl came from Earth. Bringing her back is secondary and dependent on your observations."
"Understood, Sir." Jack and Sam stood as General Hammond rose to leave.
Daniel rubbed his hands together in excitement. "Well, tomorrow should be interesting."
I hope that was interesting! Please read and review if you'd like to find out what happens tomorrow…..