taxonomites | 1 [Holo-Location: Sanctuary]

All he did was blink, how could everything have changed so drastically? Daniel blinked again, hoping despite himself that he’d only imagined he’d seen a metal room with him standing on a platform. No luck. He glanced around, warily, before calling out.

“Thor?” Surely it had to have been the Asgard’s transporting beam, right? Except without the flash of white.

“Jack?” He tried again. Despite the fact Jack hadn’t been on the Prometheus with him, weird things tended to happen when Jack was involved, so it was generally a safe bet to assume he had something to do with this. Still nothing. He gave a sigh, reaching a hand up to ruffle his hair.

“This isn’t funny, guys.”

Only then did he look up and spy a rather odd and unusual device.

“..Okay, definitely not Asgard.”

Feeling a strange weight on his wrist, he sent an enquiring glance at it, only to do a double-take. What the heck was on his wrist? It didn’t hurt, despite the fact the metal seemed to be fused to his skin.

“Oh that can’t be good..”

He also noticed at that point the pedestal standing next to him. Was something wrong with his sight that he’d not noticed that? He stared at the tablet resting on top of the pedestal, the metal bracelet attached to him temporarily forgotten as he walked carefully around it before reaching out and picking the tablet up. Then he glanced around again.

“Jack?” Silence. “Isn’t someone going to say I shouldn’t have done that?”

This was getting tiresome, and he was starting to feel even more uneasy. He stared back down at the tablet, if only so he wouldn’t be looking around the large room anymore and see no one. Without really expecting anything to happen, he tried to open the tablet, finding it flipped open quite easily, as if it were a cell phone. He sighed again, glancing around once more despite himself.

“Jack, I know you have to be there. I get that you must be laughing your socks off, but this really isn’t funny.”

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Daniel looked around at the voice, a bit familiar but not immediately being placed. After a moment he peered at the tablet, maybe the voice had come from it?

"Uh..yeah. Who is this?"

Lt. Colonel Sheppard of the Atlantis mission. Didn't really expect you to remember me.

"No...No I do remember you. It's just been a couple months. Care to tell me why're back in this galaxy Sheppard?"

While he was talking, he was looking the tablet over to see if he could just turn it to verbal communicating. It took a few tries, right now he thought the person on the other end could just see and hear him.

Sheppard nodded as soon as the visual kicked on the other side. There was a faint smile on his face.

"Taxon isn't in the Milky Way or Pegasus."

And now they could both see each other. He gave a quick smile to Sheppard. And then it dropped.

"..Taxon? What's that?"

He gestured to the area around Daniel. Not that it really came across that well.

"Place you've found yourself in... well, that we all have. It's an underground city. No Gate either--well, no. Cheyenne Mountain is here so now we have the Earth Gate. Not that it works, but still."

Regardless, Daniel glanced around once again.

"Huh.." Wait, Cheyenne Mountain was there? He blinked at Sheppard, obviously confused. "..How is that physically possible?"

"I have no idea. But when I showed up? My room from Atlantis was here. So unless they are Gods and can move mountains? I'm thinking it's just a copy... a really dead on creepy replica."

Well, it made sense to him at least.

"..Fantastic." Daniel muttered, believing what Sheppard said despite how insane it sounded.

"How long have you been here?"

He bit his lip as he thought. "May."

Daniel was once again left standing on the platform, staring speechless at the tablet. After several minutes, he cleared his throat. "Just to be sure..What's today's date?"

"September 23rd. Even if the weather looks like July."

He never really got why Taxon's weather never changed.

That said something about the place, if just about the weather.

"I was afraid of that..."

"Not the day you thought it was, I take it."

"Nope. It was August last I checked."

"...Huh. What happened before you got here?"

Daniel frowned, considering whether he should meddle with the timeline or not. Well, he was already there, right? And this didn't seem like the usual place.

"Well..The Supergate was almost complete, but Vala managed to hyjake a scout ship and pilot it where the last link was supposed to go. Supergate exploded. We're not sure what happened to Vala."

He fell silent for a moment. "So... Carter hasn't come to Atlantis yet."

That comment rather rankled. Ever since Atlantis had been discovered, he'd wanted to go. And every time he had the chance, something came up or someone else was sent.

"..I'd have to go with no.."