Interdimensional Reunion Time! [Logs Only]

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Summary: Daniel Jackson’s super-genius scientist friend/coworker, Samantha Carter, built a machine intended to try and study the dimensional energy signature left behind on Daniel after his strange trip to alternate-reality Manhattan. (AKA Daisychain) The machine goes haywire, and suddenly Daniel finds himself involved in another strange trip! Read

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Seifer - SGC

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It had been several days since the incident that caused all of this had happened, and Daniel was just about resigned to it by now. So far, he hadn’t been transported to or visited by anyone other than friends from his time in Alternate Manhattan, and while the sudden shifts were disorienting and confusing for everyone involved, nothing dangerous had happened. And it wasn’t like he could do anything to stop it

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Generally speaking, Seifer wasn't entirely unfamiliar with the concept of suddenly finding himself somewhere where he hadn't been before. Ultimecia'd been fond of the the the trick even before he'd found himself unceremoniously dropped off in another world.

But that didn't exactly mean he liked it when it came without warning, especially when he'd been in the middle of taking care of a slight monster problem (read: a random monster he'd run across). One moment he'd been charging towards his foe, and the next he was somewhere else entirely entirely. Luckily for all involved, he managed to pull his blow short before anything or anyone got hurt.

"The hell is that?"

Presumably he meant the sudden flare of blue from the portal below.

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Daniel jumped back a little when the man suddenly standing next to him just about punched him. Fortunately, he managed to pull up before Daniel got hit in the face. Unfortunately, with the residual inter-dimensional lense-flare combined with the distracting light of the gate, it took a minute to identify who had arrived.

Then that voice spoke, and Daniel's eyebrow went straight up. Well, THIS was definitely different. Not one of the people he would have expected.

Oh well. These things happened. And who knows? This could be interesting. The part about him seeing the gate might get a little tricky, however.

"Oh, hey, Seifer," Daniel deadpanned, giving the guy a small wave. "Welcome to my dimension. Thanks for not punching me just then, I'm having enough problems right now."

Sam looked distinctly startled; this was the first time she had been there when someone new showed up. Glancing nervously out at the active gate and then back at the blonde stranger, she said somewhat uneasily, "Uhh...Daniel?"

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"Shouldn't have been in my way then," Seifer shot back, hand dropping almost automatically to brush against Hyperion's hilt. It was an unconscious gesture, meant more to make sure that it had made the jump between worlds properly this time. Not that it looked like he'd need it around the place, and after a brief moment of checking to make sure everything was in order (and seeing what he could of where he'd landed) he dropped into a somewhat more relaxed posture. He could deal with this.

"After all, next time I might not be able to stop in time. Hell, you're lucky it was just a punch."

Pulling a gunblade strike was a lot harder than pulling a punch, for example, mostly because of the added weight and momentum.

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Daniel waved slightly at Sam, gesturing that she could relax. He'd explain in a minute, but he didn't really think it was much of a risk for Seifer to know about the gate. And honestly, it wasn't like they could do much about it at the moment

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Truth be told, Seifer'd seen things a lot stranger than a glowing blue... whatever the hell that thing was. And really what difference was him seeing something going to make? He couldn't replicate the damned thing after all.

Besides, he was too busy paying attention to the explanation of why he was here anyway. Someone could have shoved the Ragnarok through the damned thing and he probably wouldn't have noticed anything past the fact that it looked oddly familiar. "And it ain't my problem that you almost got punched," he answered with a grin. "I sure as hell wasn't the one who started the mess in the first place. Your experiment, after all."

The rest sounded close enough to standard Garden procedures to make sense. Of course the commander - General - would want to know what was going in his Garden, no, his base. Techwise... he was going to make the hesitant guess that it was on a rough par with Esthar, although they hadn't had a standing army for... years? Since the end of the Sorceress Wars, probably. But he could figure

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Somewhat surprisingly (at least in his opinion), Daniel felt the tug of a grin at the familiar beginnings of another Seifer argument. He couldn't say that the conversations he'd had with the guy over the Manhattan networks hadn't been interesting. "Considering we got you stuck here, fair enough," he conceded

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He might well have been. It wasn't like he couldn't be somewhat more polite then he usually was, and he had to admit to some curiosity as to what the place was like. But then someone had to go and ask for something he wasn't going to do to and well... things never went well when Seifer was challenged.

He was plenty determined to continue to challenge the airman's authority as long as he needed to. One of the few advantages of being almost endlessly stubborn.

"If your General has a problem with it, he can bring it up with me himself," Seifer answered back, drawing himself up to his full height instead of the half-slouch he'd adopted shortly after realizing he'd jumped worlds. "In the meantime, I will be taking taking care of my own weapon since I'm damned sure you ain't seen a model like this one before and I'm not risking you breaking it."

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Okay, suddenly Seifer was a god bit taller and looking a tad more dangerous. The airman actually paused for a moment, realizing that the 'boy' he was talking to looked more trained and prepared for a fight than he had a moment ago.

But y'know, egos are terribly hard things to stifle, and the airman really didn't like his authority being threatened by a guy who looked young enough to be a newly enlisted recruit. And who, as far as he knew, wasn't even military.

"Listen, I don't know what dimension you come from," the man said tightly, glaring back at (the slightly taller) Seifer, "but this is a high-security military base, and you WILL follow our procedures. We will use force if necessary."

This was not going well, and Daniel knew he should interupt before someday did something stupid. "Uh, guys?" he tried.

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The airman's assumptions would be dead wrong. Seifer might not have ever passed the final SeeD exam, true, but he had plenty of training and really, fighting a war practically made someone military by default. Being Ultimecia's Knight hadn't been just a fancy title.

"I grew up in a military base," Seifer snapped back. Technically speaking, it was perfectly true, even if the Garden was more often a school than an actual base. But even as a school it had military capabilities and more than enough similarity (he assumed) to this one for him to understand the general concerns about him walking around fully armed. Stubborn he might have been, but stupid he was not.

Unfortunately, that also meant a slight change in how he'd have to play. Much as he'd loved to punched the glare off the other man's face it probably wasn't going to be the best of ideas.

"You use force and I'm gonna bet that you'd have your superiors down on your head faster than you could blink." Again, it was assumption, but hey, what was one more to the pile?

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The airmen did pause for a second to consider what the stranger was saying. He wasn't EXACTLY sure if there were any special protocal dealing with inter-dimensional visitors (considering that it didn't happen that often). And the sudden change of tactic, bringing up his superiors, was a bit off-setting. But he wasn't quite ready to back down

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While Seifer couldn't exactly say he was pleased with having been 'rescued' from the argument it was certainly satisfying to see the airman put in his place. It wasn't like he was go rampaging through the base after all. It would have been stupid, especially when he had no idea what the layout of the place was like. Besides one execution was plenty for him.

Of course, he wasn't going to actually comment on that fact, and the glare that Daniel sent his way was ignored with the ease of long practice, but given that he was settling back into that half-slouch of his it looked like he didn't have any intention of drawing it on anyone. Drawing it to show people what it looked like, maybe but he was figuring that was probably okay.

Especially given the alternative that Daniel had presented. He'd just gotten it back, after all and really wasn't looking to lose it in some alternate dimension.

"Really not lookin' to get it lost again," he commented with a shrug.

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Daniel breathed a slight sigh of relief. Thank goodness that issue was resolved. "Great. Let's go see General Landry."

A few minutes later, Daniel, Seifer, and Sam were inside the general's office. Landry gave the new visitor a lookover (probably wondering to himself about the outfits these people wore). Glancing back and forth between Daniel and Seifer for a moment, he finally said calmly, "Is there anything specific I should know?"

Daniel shrugged. "Not that I can think of. He's not going to hurt anyone while he's here."

"Um...he did see the stargate, Sir," Sam added uneasily.

Daniel hurried to add, "But I don't think it will be a big deal, since he's not from an Earth reality."

Landry had looked a little unsettled at the mention of Seifer seeing the stargate. This whole affair was getting tiresome. Settling back in his chair, he said, directly to Seifer this time, "Do you have anything to say for yourself?"

There was nothing accusatory in his tone. He just wanted to get a feel for this new 'visitor'.

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'Not a big deal'? 'Not from an Earth reality'? What sort of difference did that make? So they had a bit of shiny technology. Big deal, although he supposed it was nice to have a name to fit to the thing. And a rather simple name at that. Functional, just like he'd imagined something on a military base would use. They couldn't all be 'Gardens' and 'SeeDs'.

And that left only the question of what to say. Deliberately pissing the other guy off was... not likely to be the best idea, so his usual sorts of answers were out. Or at least until he'd gotten a general feel for the guy.

"Got a nice place here," he answered after a moment of thought. "Wonder what Cid would make of it."

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Landry quirked an eyebrow at the comment and looked to Daniel. Daniel only shrugged in response; he didn't know any Cid. He was relieved to see Seifer acting civil in front of the general. That wasn't a side Daniel was used to seeing, after all. Maybe his mention of being in the military had something to do with this sudden improvement in respect.

When the general's eye settled questioningly on the weapon Seifer was wearing, Sam gave a brief explanation of the confrontation in the Control Room. Nodding absently (although there may have been the slightest hint of a smile at the corner of his mouth), Landry asked Seifer with casual interest, "So what do you do in this other reality of yours, Mr...?"

Daniel blinked, realizing that he had only given Seifer's first name. He actually wasn't even sure he remembered the teenager's last name; it had been quite a while ago that they were first introduced, after all.

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It was more that his rarely used sense of self-preservation had kicked in, but there was some amount of respect. Mostly in the sort of 'who knows what this guy could do' sense but it was better than no respect at all. The fact that no one had outright asked him to be nice didn't hurt either.

"Almasy." He wouldn't fault Daniel for forgetting. This time. "And I'm a mercenary. SeeD trained since the age of ...six I think, and briefly in charge of the Galbadian Army."

Of course, that was because of Ultimecia but Seifer was hardly going to mention that. The fewer people who knew about that the better.