The last glow stick was just fading into darkness when Sam's head poked around a rock at the back of the cave. "Whatcha doing guys?"

Jack visibly jumped when she spoke, clearly not expecting to hear her voice. Sam stifled a giggle and came the rest of the way around the rock. "You guys ready to go home?"

Daniel and Teal'c looked very relieved and jumped up grabbing their packs. "So how'd you figure out how to get us out of here?" Daniel walked over to Sam and grinned anxiously.

"Yup, turns out we're just on the other side of the mountain from the base. Still not sure how we got here but I know how to get us out." She motioned to the rock she'd emerged from, "Seems there was a passage back here the entire time. It leads through a tunnel to a stair case that goes up to the basement of the man that was in all the scenarios."

"Care to explain that Carter?" Jack looked like he was ready to throttle someone if he didn't get out of the cave soon.

"I wish I could sir. There must have been a power fluctuation or something and we ended up on this side of the mountain instead of back in the SGC. I'd need to see the data from the gate computer to give you an exact answer. For now why don't we just get out of here. I had to tell Walter that we were spelunking and got lost. It seemed the only logical reason for us to be in the caves."

Jack's eyebrow raised, "Walter?"

Sam blushed a little and nodded, "Yeah, Walter Rogers. He's apparently a video game designer and we got pulled into his home made video games. Again, I'm not sure how or why but I'll figure that out when we get back to the base."

"Can we just go now?" Daniel whined.

"Sure. Let's get out of here. Oh, and remember that we're just ordinary people lost in the caves. No mention of anything military. Teal'c did you bring a hat?" Jack directed them all to the stairs and waited for Teal'c to pull his hat out of his pack. When he had they climbed the stairs to Rogers' basement.

They'd been poking around Walter's basement for a while when Jack realized that they had no way out of the area so he walked over to the phone and called a secure line to the base. "General Hammond please." He was waiting patiently when Walter came back down the stairs.

"Hey, you found them. Sorry about the confusion and such. I've been trying to figure out how you all got caught up in the VR games. The only thing I can figure out is that the holograms bled over into the cave and you all just happened to get fooled into seeing them."

Not wanting to hang up the phone on General Hammond, Jack was suddenly in a situation where he had to figure out how to get his point across without actually saying anything while Walter was in the room. "Uh, hi George. This is Jack." He glanced over at Walter and noticed that the other man was paying him no attention.

"Colonel O'Neill? Where the hell are you? You were supposed to return almost seven hours ago and no one came through the wormhole."

"I know that George. We kinda got lost. Listen we're at the home of a Walter Rogers, could you send a car to come pick us up? Seems we're way far away from where we thought we'd end up and we left our ride back at the other end of the cave."

"Are you telling me you are at a civilians house?"

"That's right. Can you give us a ride please George?"

"I'll send an unmarked car to pick you up. What's the address?"

Jack asked Walter for the address and relayed the information to General Hammond. Hammond promised a car to be there shortly and hung up.

Three hours later:

"So as near as I can figure, the fluctuation in the gate program caused us to be pulled into the cave. Apparently that also accounted for the misfiring of his holographic generator and that's what pulled us into his basement scenarios." Carter had been droning on in her techno babble for what seemed like an hour to Jack.

"So have we figured out how to keep this from happening again or not?" Jack's patience had left him about six hours ago and if he hurried he could still make the second half of the hockey game.

"Yes sir, we believe we have found a way to buffer…"

"Okay, next question. Carter, tell me again about this outfit you were wearing?"

Sam's jaw dropped and she coughed a few times trying to find and answer that was not terribly embarrassing. When she couldn't come up with anything that would not make her blush furiously she turned to General Hammond for help. Before she could say anything Jack spoke again.

"Good, then I'll see you all tomorrow. Good night," he said in a hurry as he got up and bolted for the door.

Daniel, Teal'c, Sam and General Hammond all stared after him with open mouths. After a moment of staring at Jack's receeding figure Daniel rose from the table. "Well I guess everything's back to normal then huh?"

General Hammond looked around the room at the others and nodded slowly. "Yup, sounds pretty normal to me."