No copyright infringement intended, not really mine, just borrowing from MGM.

Takes place during Unending, immediately after Teal'c goes back and stops them from forming the time dilation field. AU from there on.

The Odyssey fled the remaining Ori vessel and before their enemy fired another shot, they swiftly slipped into hyperspace. General Landry immediately contacted Col. Carter to discover what had happened. "Col. Carter, report."

"Sir, I'm still finding out all the details. Teal'c suddenly appeared and well, we'll be on the bridge in a minute to explain."

Mitchell frowned and looked around, "The big guy was here a minute ago, I swear. Jackson," he appealed to Daniel while the archeologist finished putting out a fire, "back me up here."

Daniel put down the fire extinguisher and nudged back his glasses. He was still looking around in similar confusion when the lift doors opened.

Vala exited first and met Daniel's raised eyebrow with a shrug and a shake of her head. Sam nervously walked to Landry and Teal'c serenely followed. A swath of white hair boldly tapered from his right temple. Vala leaned on the console next to Daniel and whispered, "You are never going to believe it."

Daniel gave her a sharp look before smirking and whispering back, "Want to bet?" Daniel doubted much of anything could surprise him anymore. He redirected his attention to Sam's explanation of why they were on their way home, rather than paused as planned inside a time dilation field.

Daniel's jaw actually dropped when Teal'c revealed fifty years passed before they discovered the solution to escaping the bubble without the blowing the Odyssey apart permanently.

Vala grinned and chucked him lightly under the chin. "Told you so."

Too stunned by the ramifications to speak, he continued to stare glassy-eyed at Teal'c. Vala leaned closer to whisper directly in his ear, "I win." His body tensed.

She felt his awareness return to her. "So," she purred, "are you my prize?" Her sultry voice sent shivers down his spine. Daniel furrowed his brow and attempted to form a coherent reply when what he could only describe as an energy wave, washed out in a circular pattern from the center of the bridge.

His mind tried to command his mouth to issue a warning to the others, but he was frozen, helpless to struggle as the wave widened and bathed them all with its energy.

More waves pulsed from the center of the ship, washing over them faster and faster until an intense blue light flared and sound, as thunderous as the waters crashing over Niagara Falls, reverberated through the command deck.

Teal'c saw the energy pulse wave ebb and disappear at the same time silence retook control of the bridge. General Hank Landry slumped to the side of the command seat, unconscious, and the rest of Sg1 were likewise incapacitated and passed out on the floor. Only he seemed unaffected by whatever had transpired. No alarms sounded, the sensors read normal and their course remained unchanged. It seemed the ship's circuitry was equally unaffected.

Before he could take further action, they began to stir.

Cam struggled to his feet, shaking his head as if he was trying to dislodge something. "What the hell was that? Did the Ori find us? Some kind of new sonic weapon?" He went to the ship's control panel. He didn't see anything on the sensors.

Teal'c provided a hand to Sam, while Daniel and Vala were mutually assisting each other to stand. The General leaned forward and rested his head in his hands. Cam lightly shook his shoulder. "Sir, are you alright?"

General Landry gingerly raised his head and looked around, a frown pulling his eyebrows together. He stared hard at Sam and Mitchell before becoming distracted by his hand. He held it out in front of his face and rotated it slowly, seemingly extra fascinated with the back of it. "No spots." He pinched himself and winced. "I'm not dreaming. Sam must have done it," he said in wonder.

"Sa-am." Cam called over his shoulder, afraid to look away and afraid to keep looking as Landry threw back his head and hooted triumphantly. "I think the General is injured or," Landry hooted again, "insane."

Sam rushed to the General who grabbed her by the shoulders and dragged her into a bear hug. "You did it, you never gave up," he said proudly.

Sam stood stiffly in his embrace. "Sir, you are behaving very oddly, something must be wrong, I need you to…," she stopped as a flood of memories swirled through her mind, including the time General Landry took his last breath. She dug her fingers tightly into his forearms as her eyes began to well up. "Oh, sir! You're alive!" She cried before returning his bone-crushing hug.

Cam rubbed his face in confusion. "What the hell is going on here?" He threw his arms up in the air out of frustration and turned around. "Jackson, do you have…," he faltered, stunned to silence at seeing the normally reserved archeologist grinning and raining exuberant kisses on Vala's face, temples, and hair as she clung to him and wept silently.

Cameron twisted away from the bizarre tableau. "Teal'c, give it to me straight. Is, is it me?" He put the back of his hand against his forehead, testing for temperature. "Am I going…," suddenly fifty years of images, thoughts, sounds, tastes, smells and temper tantrums zipped into place, "crazy?" He ended on a whisper.

He whipped his head around; taking in Teal'c's look of dawning comprehension and seeing Sam laugh and wipe away happy tears. He saw Landry smiling at Sam, his chest puffed out, beaming with pride as if she was his own daughter. He saw Jackson and Vala wrapped joyously together, just as they had been for the last fifty years, only young again.

Everyone was young again and the ship…it was vibrating and thrumming with life. It was moving -they were moving– they had evaded the Ori's blast and slipped into hyperspace and were now racing toward home.

Home, they were… He could not quite believe. He ran to the nearest port and saw space streaking by and no trace of the energy beam that defined their outside world for fifty years.

"She did it. She did it!" He threw head back and let loose a joyful cry. "Wahoo!" He whooped and danced around the bridge. "Superman flew around the world!" He threw his arms around both Daniel and Vala at the same time and squeezed. "She did it!" He shouted and hopped over to Teal'c and thumped him on the back. "T, my main man! My, oh, my, oh, my! You did it! Mr. Turned back time!"

He bounded back to Landry and swept Sam up in a madly twirling hug. "Why didn't you tell us we'd still remember everything?" He demanded, grinning like a fool.

Sam waited to find a solid surface beneath her toes before answering. She brushed back a loch of hair and seemed surprised by its short length. "The chance of this happening was so remote I didn't even finish calculating the odds. It could have been due to the resultant damage by the first blasts. If enough energy spiked and gravity was within the ratio of curvature while expending a shower of vanheloxiom particles, then the subsequent force…"

Cam cut her off by placing a wet smacker on her lips, "Sam, you've been my best friend for fifty years, but I don't care how this happened, just that it did happen. We're moving, no, flying -literally hurtling- through space again and I can't say I feel a day over thirty-something." He grinned widely, "Even if I do recall my eightieth birthday being the shindig of the decade." He released her and pointed at the General.

"Sir, I am officially challenging you to the ultimate chess tournament rematch. Last time we played, you bailed before we finished, and as I recall, I was ahead by two games."

Sam's jaw dropped, aghast at his comment. She smacked him on the arm. "Cam, he collapsed during your game and two days later, died!"

"Death! Ha! This is Sg1 and the head of Stargate command! We don't let a little thing like death or aged decrepitude get in the way. Do we sir?" He clapped the General on his back.

Landry shook his head and dryly drawled, "Glad you haven't lost your enthusiasm Mitchell, but you were behind by two games in our last chess tournament." He grinned. "I'm going to kick your butt all over again."

"Now that's what I'm talking about!"

Author's note: More to come soon!