" Don't mess up that Jumper, they don't appear out of thin air." I roll my eyes as Lt. Col. John Sheppard's comes over the small ships comm system.

Without looking I reach over to one of the many glowing buttons on the panel, at the muted blup sound I know that the command has gone through, " They don't?"

In truth, I know this, but because I'm flying this Jumper for the first time technically alone... I only have one passenger, a Wraith named "Todd". Do not ask me, it was Sheppard's idea. You see, I'm what is known as a vampire and even though I have the ability to turn into a bat I'm not anything like the legends, and a bat isn't the only thing I can turn into. I can control technology too, take this ship... it can only be flown by people like John who have this special gene, or me.

I glance to my right to see Todd eying the glowing panel, " Don't even think about it."

His gaze shift to me and he does me the curtsey of blanking his mind. I have to hand it to him, he does know how to stop his thoughts from taking over.

I turn back to the window, just to the right I can see Sheppard's Jumper slightly ahead, with the endless blackness of space expanding around us. In the black further in front of us I can see a speck starting to form, our destination. The only reason Todd and I are here is because of that harmless looking speck, because it is anything but. One of Todd's "Underlings" betrayed him and the Hive that we were on, forcing the two of us of go to John on Atlantis to see if they would help us destroy the underling and the Hive he stole.

" Your taking thing well." even after ten thousand years his voice sends shivers down my back.

I shrug, " I haven't a clue what you mean."

" Seeing them again, being in Atlantis."

Pause, " There isn't anything new. John and the others feel the same toward me as they always have, granted I have to glare at Ronan every now and then, but nothing new there."

I didn't say why I have to glare at Ronan, the reason being his glaring at Todd. You take over one Earth ship and suddenly everyone thinks your untrustworthy. Personally, I don't get it seeing as I've done worse than that, and I'm a lot more dangerous.

" Todd?"

" Yes?"

" Thank you for giving them some of the ZPM's, this will be the first time Atlantis will be fully powered since the Ancients."

" It couldn't have had anything to do with Sheppard bribing me with revenge."

I smile slightly at the somewhat playful tone in his voice, he only does that with me.

" Here we go."

Focusing my eyes ahead at John's voice I see that we are about three miles from the Hive, I loss feeling in my extremities as I stare at the super Hive. It is rather larger than any Hive I had seen in all my years and the weapons looked more powerful than before. " I guess this is what you get when a ZPM is added."

" They're powering up weapons." McKay, master of the obvious.

I glance to the left as a readout appears with energy output, presently it is at fifty percent and rising. I turn to Todd, " With a ZPM can they detect things that they previously wouldn't have?"

" Like a cloaked Lantian ship?"

He doesn't say anything else and honestly, he didn't have to. The answer is a unknown that we're about to find out. My gaze flickers to John's Jumper and I tighten my grip on the controls, if something happened to anyone in that ship... a small shiver runs down my spine as I turn my eyes back to the growing monster of a ship in front of us.

I watch with mild horror as the super Hive fires a volley, my horror grows as the energy blast just misses John's Jumper.

" I guess that answers my question," I whisper as a more serious volley is fired toward us. I swerve to the left to avoid them, out of the corner of my eye I see the other Jumper de-cloak before speeding in the direction that the Earth ship waited for us. The only problem with this strategy is that unless the ship intercedes one of the energy blasts will most likely hit it's mark before you can get any where near.

I reach over the controls to de-cloak our Jumper before gripping the steering handles and yanking them as far right as I can. The small ship hums loudly as I push it as fast as it will go, toward the Hive.

" What are you doing?" John sounded shocked and annoyed.

" Giving you time to get out of here. Now go!" I slam the button next to my left hand to end the communication.

" Your going to sacrifice us to save them?" he doesn't turn to face me.

I sigh, " Yes, if I have to."

My eyes narrow on a section of Hive speeding toward us, without a second thought I hear the hydrolic sound of the weapon pods opening on either side of the ship. Four glowing yellow lights shoot forward and race ahead of us before hitting the section my eyes stared at. The explosion was massive but no where near what I had hoped. It wouldn't even leave a dent.

" Forgive me," I force the engines to exceed their limits and we close the distance between the two ships, but before impact the Hive jumps into hyper space. I pull the controls back and allow the Jumper to stop, " What happened?"

" I do not know." Todd seemed confused, I don't blame him seeing that we were on the loosing side.

Suddenly, without warning, the power shuts down and the hum of the Jumper dies as some kind of turbulence rocks the ship. Before I know it, the black space outside is taken over by a blinding white light as the turbulence increases. I don't know what is happening and I fear that there is nothing more that I can do. The interior of the Jumper is filled with the light now and I squeeze my eyes shut as pain sears the nerves.

My body is pressed against the seat as who knows how many G's threaten to crush me, I turn my head to the side in a faint hope that it will lessen but it doesn't. I can feel the darkness clouding my mind and I know the unconsciousness is only a short time away. Weakly, I reach out to Todd with my mind to find him in no better state then myself.

" I'm sorry."

" For what?"

" Getting us into this situation."

" I'm not."

" I love you," with that, I slip into the darkness that is oblivion.