Season 6 of Stargate Atlantis
Disclaimer: This version of season 6 is all my idea but I don't own Stargate Atlantis or any of the characters in SGA.
Author Note: I liked to thank everyone for their support. Please, favorite, follow, or review. I'm currently looking for a Beta-reader to help me with my spelling and grammar for this story as I'm not very good at grammar or spelling. I hope u enjoy the story. I'll see you all in Pegasus.
Chapter 1
Return to Pegasus Galaxy Part 1
The Atlantis Expedition teams have been back on Earth for three months and two months ago Colonel Devon Heath Horton the military commander on Atlantis has been trying to get General O'Neil and others to allow them to return to Atlantis. They are all happy to be back home to see their families, but everyone wants to return to Pegasus Galaxy since they haven't finish what they intended to do five and half years ago and haven't defeated the Wraith. Colonel Horton has been having nightmares about things in the Pegasus Galaxy but he isn't sure if they are true or not. Three or four months ago Earth was attacked by a Super Hive which is more powerful than any previously since they were being powered by ZPMs. They stop the Wraith thanks to Todd who arrived on Atlantis and told them what happened and gave them two other ZPMs. Colonel Horton just arrived at the SGC to ask once again to take the Hammer to the Pegasus Galaxy. "Sir, I'm asking you that you allow me to take the Hammer back to Pegasus to find out what's been going on since we left." Colonel Horton asked General O'Neil and several IOA personal.
"Colonel, the Wraith threat is over." Mr. Woolsey tells him.
"Sir, the Wraith threat to Earth is over for now, but not to the rest of the Pegasus Galaxy. Teyla's people are still endangered and I have a feeling that the Wraith Civil War is drawing to a close."
"Mr. Woolsey I don't think it will hurt anyone for him to take a small team back to Pegasus along with one ship, a crew to operate the ship, and several security detachments," General O'Neil says. Colonel Horton was given the choice of a small detachment to take with him and the choice of the crew for the Hammer. He chooses ten men from his off world team; he also chooses Major Rhodes, Lieutenant Jack, and seven of Major Rhodes men. He also chooses Lieutenant Colonel Sheppard and his team along with Major Learn and his off world team. Even though the Hammer has a small crew of ancients Colonel Horton also chooses Colonel Coldwell and part of the crew from the Daedalus. Doctor Carson Beckett along with Colonel Samantha Carter, Dr. Daniel Jackson, Teal'c, Doctor Keller, and Colonel Mitchell are also coming along. He also picks two dozen additional marines and army soldiers. However, before he could go and inform them about getting the mission approved General O'Neil comes up to him. "Colonel Horton the president has seen fit to promote you to Brigadier General." General O'Neil removed his colonel insignia and placed on the one star on his shoulder. "Congratulations General Horton."
"Thank you sir," Brigadier General Horton replies. Woolsey also said congratulations to him as well.
Three hours later Brigadier General Horton is on board the ancient warship the humans' call the Hammer. The Hammer looks like the human's spaceships plus ancient ship. The Hammer has two hanger bays, crew quarters, guest quarters, brig, mess hall, bridge, engine room, chair room, and second bridge. The armaments of the Hammer include, railguns, missile delivery systems, drones, and ancient energy beam weapons. Colonel Coldwell and Brigadier General Horton are waiting for the last flight of F-302s to land in one of the two hanger bays before they make the jump to hyperspace. Everyone that's taking part in the mission has already given Brigadier General Horton their congratulations. Brigadier General Horton turns to Colonel Carter, "What's the ship status?"
"All flights of F-302s are on board sir, missile pods and drones are full. Railguns are operational and so are the ancient energy beam weapons and three nuclear missiles are on board. The ship is ready to go on your command sir," she tells him.
"Very well take us out." He ordered. The ship jumped into hyperspace.
"ETA to Pegasus five days," someone else on the bridge announces. Brigadier General Horton leaves the bridge and heads to the mess hall to get something to eat since he messed launch. Rodney, Ronan, Teyla, and John were all in the mess hall talking when the he arrived. He gets his plate and joins them at the table.
"So Heath, how does it feel to be a general?" John asked him.
"It's different now I have more responsibility then I did when I was just a colonel."
"Heath, weren't you offered a promotion before this?" Rodney asked him.
"Yes Rodney I was, but I turned it down at the time because I wasn't ready I'm still not sure if I'm ready."
"I know you're ready you've been the best military commander on Atlantis from what I hear," Colonel Mitchell says as he enters the mess hall.
"I quite agree general you've been an excellent military commander Doctor Weir, Colonel Sheppard, Woolsey, and Colonel Carter couldn't done it without you," Teyla says. The others nod their heads.
"Thank you all, but I had helped John you and the other officers helped me out a lot." Major Rhodes and Lieutenant Jack choose that time to join end.
"How's it going General Ancient," Major Rhodes says to General Horton.
"I'll general you if you don't show proper respect to a commanding officer I'll bust you down to private you hear me captain!" General Horton says. General Horton and the others watched as the expression on Major Rhodes and Lieutenant Jacks' face changed. "I'm only joking." The rest laugh and so did Major Rhodes and Lieutenant Jack. "Take a seat." They take their seats.
"Why are we going back to Pegasus anyway?" Lieutenant Jack asked.
"I'm going back to find out what the Wraith are up too. I'm sure Ronan and Teyla have things they want to do," General Horton answered.
"Yes I can't wait to see my son and his father," Teyla replies.
"I can't wait to get back and kill some Wraith," Ronan says.
"Yeah I bet so," Major Rhodes says. "So general why are you going back?"
"I just have a feeling that we need to get back there because I believe that the Wraith are up to something."
"What do you think the Wraith are up to?" Teyla, John, and Ronan asked at the sametime.
"I'm not sure it's just in my dreams," General Horton answered. Beckett just entered the mess hall.
"General, how long have you been having those dreams?" Carson asked him.
"A couple of months ago," General Horton answered. They talked about all kinds of things what they did before this mission was approved of course no one was surprise that General Horton went off world fighting the Lucian Alliance since the ORI threat is over. "Since Michaels's death I don't think we have to worry about any more of his hybrids and if they are still any out there we'll deal with them like we did with Michael."
"I quite agree general," Teyla says. General Horton told them that he would be turning in for the night. He leaves and head to his quarters.
Six hours later General Horton wakes up and he hears alarms sounding throughout the ship. He heads to the bridge. He arrives on the bridge. "What's going on?" He asked Colonel Carter.
"We're picking up a distress signal and Colonel Caldwell wants to go and offer some assistance with your permission sir," Colonel Carter replies. She watched his reaction. "You think it might be a Lucian Alliance trap don't you?"
"The thought had crossed my mind." Teyla, Ronan and John arrived on the bridge.
"What's going on?" John asked.
"We received a distress call, and we're going to investigate." General Horton replies. "Colonel Caldwell, I want all hands at battle stations and I want our shields to be up the moment we exit from hyperspace."
"Yes sir," Colonel Coldwell replies. The Hammer emerges from hyperspace. They see two Goa'uld ships in front of them. "Scan for life signs." Mark scans the Goa'uld ships. "Are you reading anything?"
"Yes sir, I'm reading an energy output. They're powering weapons," Mark replies. The two Goa'uld ships under the Lucian Alliance control fired onto the Hammer. "Our shields are holding."
"Return fire with all energy beam weapons," Colonel Coldwell ordered. The Hammer returned fire and the Goa'uld ships couldn't withstand the firepower from the ancient energy beam weapons.
"I'm detecting ten more ships just emerge from hyperspace," Sheridan which is another person on the bridge tells them. "They're launching fighters."
"Launch our own fighters and get those railguns online," General Horton ordered. Lieutenant Colonel Sheppard and Colonel Mitchell headed to the hanger bay to board F-302s. Majority of the bridge crew are ancients which were found with the ship and revived four maybe five years ago. The F-302s headed to intercept the Lucian Alliance fighters. Several enemy fighters are destroyed by the Hammer's railguns. Two more Lucian Alliance ships are destroyed by the Hammer's energy beam weapons. More Lucian Alliance ships arrived. "Call backs all F-302s and prepared to jump back into Hyperspace. The F-302s returned and the ship jumped back into hyperspace. Colonel Carter comes up to General Horton.
"Sir, did you know that was a trap?"
"No, I thought it might have been somebody in need of help, but I also thought that it could also have been a trap. I guess colonel we both could have been right. Luckily we didn't lose anyone." He leaves the bridge.
"You think he knew it was a trap and he wanted to show the Lucian Alliance that Earth has even more powerful ship than the others?" John asked her.
"I don't know John, but I'm betting the Lucian Alliance would love to get their hands on this ship not to mention Atlantis," Colonel Carter replies. The ship continued on its way to the Pegasus Galaxy. The crew kept themselves busy by making sure everything onboard kept busy such as running, sparing with Ronan, Teyla, Sheppard, and even the general. Several played board games. General Horton, Colonel Coldwell, Colonel Carter, and Doctor McKay are glad that the ship wasn't damaged in its run in with the Lucian Alliance.
General Horton hears over his radio that they would be arriving in Pegasus in an hour. An hour passed and the Hammer emerged from hyperspace over an uninhabited planet. General Horton, Ronan, Sheppard, McKay, and Teyla arrived on the bridge. "Where are we going to now general?" Colonel Caldwell asked.
"The Athosians settlement," General Horton replies. He watches as a smile appear on Teyla's face. They opened another hyperspace window and arrived at the planet that the Athosian settlement is on. They weren't expecting to see a Wraith Hive Ship in orbit above the planet or two cruisers supporting it.
"My people are down there we have to help them!" Teyla screamed.
"Teyla we're going to help them," General Horton tells her. "Arm all weapons I want all hands at battle stations, prepare F-302s and Jumpers we're in for one hell of fight."
"Yes sir," several of the bridge crew replied carrying out the general's orders. Several ancient soldiers that never ascended headed to the Jumpers.
"Take us in." Colonel Coldwell ordered.
"Sir Wraith Cruiser moving to intercept us," one of the ancients on board the bridge tells all that are present. Darts are launched. The Railguns opened up on the attacking Darts many are vaporized, the Hammer also fired Drones at the attacking Darts. Several Darts crashed into the ship's shield and the ship is taking fire from two Wraith Cruisers that are heading straight for them. The Hammer fired two blasts with the Ancient Energy Beam weapons destroying one of the Wraith cruisers.
"How's the shield holding?" Colonel Coldwell asked Doctor Rodney McKay.
"There holding," Rodney replies.
"Sir, Hive ship moving to intercept us," Marks replies.
"Arm a salvo of missiles and fire on the nearest cruiser and launch some drones as well at the enemy cruiser. Fire the ancient energy beam weapons at the Hive ship." Colonel Coldwell ordered. Another Wraith cruiser and thousands of Darts have already been taken out of the fight above the planet where the Athosian settlement is located. One of the six Wraith Hive ships was destroyed by the ancient energy beam weapons.
"We have to get down there," Teyla said.
"We are," General Horton replies. "I need two teams ready to beam down to the surface of the planet to evact Teyla's people back to safety." Lieutenant Colonel Sheppard's team and a team of marines are gearing up to beam to the surface. General Horton, Major Rhodes, and Lieutenant Jack are also gearing up. Sheppard watched as the general place claymores and C4 into a backpack. Once everyone was ready to beam down to the planet they head to hanger bay. Then they are beamed to the surface of the planet. They all know that the area could be crawling with Wraith. They could hear Darts above them. General Horton radios the Hammer. "Colonel Carter, launch a pair of F-302s and a pair of Jumpers to the surface to deal with the Darts down here, but try not to completely destroy them there might be Athosians onboard."
"We'll launch them as soon as their pilots get on board their fighters." They head into the direction of the Athosian settlement. They encountered a Wraith patrol consisting of Wraith foot soldiers and two Wraith officers. They were quickly dealt with.
"Teyla, do you know where your people that might have escaped the Darts could be hiding?" General Horton asked her.
"They could be hiding in the caves," Teyla replies.
"Alright we'll split up colonel Sheppard your team will search the caves radio me if you find them, I'll take my team to search the village, and Major Rhodes your team will guard the gate as soon as it shuts off dial the gate to the nearest friendly planet you remember." They go their separate ways. Colonel Carter contacted Brigadier General Horton and tells him that the F-302s and Jumpers are on their way. She also tells him that another Hive ship has been neutralized. The Jumpers are the first to arrive their ancient pilots fired four drones apiece while cloak and eight Darts are neutralized. The ancients piloting the Jumpers must be scanning the Darts and also relaying the information to the F-302s so they know which Darts to destroy. Several of the Jumpers disabled several Darts, the Wraith pilots managed to land the Darts. They sent the location of the down Darts to the Hammer, Colonel Caldwell beamed several squads of marines and a few ancients to recover the Athosians if there are any onboard. Brigadier General Devon Horton and his team arrived at the Athosian settlement. A Dart flew overhead, but one of the generals' men with a Stinger brought the Dart down. "Let's search these buildings and tents before more Wraith and Darts show up." They began to search, they found nothing.
"General Horton, this is Teyla we found my people in the caves."
"Alright Teyla I'm on my way," General Horton responds. General Horton and his team headed to the caves. He has two men on point making sure that there are no Wraith ground troops ahead of them. They could hear the Darts above. Another Dart flew overhead with an F-302 in pursuit. The F-302 fired one of its missiles the missiles hits the Dart in its tail end and it spins out of control and crashed. The two men on point came hurrying back towards them.
"Sir, we have a Wraith patrol heading right for us," Private First Class Walker.
"How many are there?"
"We counted at least a dozen sir," Corporal Hays replied.
"Get off the path we'll ambush them," Heath tells them. They get into the bushes and waited for the Wraith to show up. It didn't take long for the Wraith to show up. Heath fired first, and a hailstorm of lead hits the Wraith, some of the Wraith tried to get up but grenades landed right beside them finishing the job. It didn't take long before the Wraith patrol was completely neutralized. They recover the Wraith Stun pistols from their corpses and also found several grenades among them. They continued towards the caves. They follow a trail towards the caves, Heath ordered two men to find cover and radio him if they spot any Wraith coming up the trail, the rest continued towards the caves. Lieutenant Colonel John Sheppard and Ronan Dex were waiting for him when he arrived. "Where's Teyla?"
"She's in the caves with Rodney she's getting her people together to leave the planet." Heath contacts the Hammer in orbit.
In orbit the Hammer is in constant battle with Wraith Cruisers and Hive ships. Darts, Puddle Jumpers, and F-302s are flying all over the place. A dozen Darts crashed into the Hammer's shields. Colonel Carter and Colonel Caldwell turned towards one of the ancients monitoring the shields turns to looks back at them, "Primary Shields at 30%, secondary shields will come online when primary reaches 11%." An ancient in the control chair release a dozen of drones to destroy Darts that are heading right for the ship. The railguns are also inflecting damage to the Darts. Another Hive ship is destroyed by the Hammer's drones. "Colonel Carter, General Horton asked if we could start beaming Athosians onboard." Chuck asked Colonel Carter. She activates her radio.
"General Horton we are unable to beam at this time thousand of Darts up here not to mention enemy ships."
"Carter, you know that the ship can beam people up with its shields up." General Horton replies.
"Yes Heath I'm well aware of the ship's capabilities, but Darts are everywhere including on the planet I'm sure you can hear them," she replies.
"Yes I can hear them." A Dart flies over the cave that they are hiding in. "Carter, I think I know why the Wraith are here?" Teyla comes out.
"Why do you think they are here Heath because you and I both know the Wraith feed on humans?" He allows Carter to hear him explain his theory why the Wraith are here. "According to Colonel Carter the Darts haven't had any Athosians inside of them but what they do have are Wraith foot soldiers in them which have caused the death of several marines, since our scanners haven't been calibrated to determine who's in the Darts. It is my assumption that the Wraith didn't come here to call the planet or destroy the Athosians they came here for me," Heath tells them.
"Sir, why are you saying that?" Lieutenant Colonel John Sheppard asked him.
"The Wraith knows who I am and I'm sure the Wraith Empress wants me. So the Wraith knew that we would come here to protect the Athosians since you're with us."
"How did the Wraith know that we were in Pegasus Galaxy?" Teyla asked.
"Remember we dropped out of hyperspace near an unhabited planet with a Stargate in orbit to send a team to the Beta Site. The Wraith must had a scout ship somewhere watching us but out of our sensor range," Colonel Carter replies over their headsets. "General what's your plan?"
"I'll use myself as bait to lure the Wraith to these caves while Teyla leads her people towards the Stargate once the gate deactivates you can dial the beta site and send your people through. Carter can than beam Colonel Sheppard and the rest back to the Hammer."
"You're not planning on fighting the Wraith by yourself are you?" Ronon asked.
"Are you volunteering to help me Ronon Dex?"
"You know I am Horton," Dex replies.
"I'll need six soldiers to assist us," Heath says. Six soldiers stepped forward. "Alright well hold the Wraith here until all of Teyla's people are safely through the gate. Teyla I want you to radio me as soon as the last person is through the gate. John I want the rest of you to help with the evacuation but make sure the Stargate remains secure until the last of Teyla's people are through the gate then Carter can beam you back on board the Hammer. Do you have any questions?"
"Sir, how will you get out?"
"I'll figure that out when I get there."
"Now let's get to work."
"Are we going to do anything to slow the Wraith down to give us some time to prepare for a warm reception?"
"Ronon do you think you can sit some traps that the Wraith will run into and want be left alone for any gate travels will run in. I also think we should place C4 and claymores to try to slow the enemy down." They get to work. They grab logs and anything they could find to build a barricade in the front o the cave entrance. They plant the mines and Dex builds the traps. Several hours go by and Ronon hurries back from patrol.
"There on their way here now general," Ronon tells him. General Horton looks around the marines and army soldiers who volunteer to help him are all ready to do what they have to do. Some of the explosives they plant explode killing or wounding the Wraith soldiers. Some even trip all the booty traps Ronon sat. A few minutes go by and the general can see the Wraith approaching his position. A squadron of Darts flies over their position but since the forest is so dense they can't use their weapons. Four F-302s swoop in and go to intercept the squadron of Darts. General Horton and Ronon Dex are the first ones to open fire onto the Wraith soldiers. The rest follow after them. The Wraith soldiers fire their stunners at the humans, but they duck behind cover one of the marines is struck by a stunner. Another marine carries the stun marine into the cave. General Horton throws a fragmentation grenade at the Wraith. The grenade explodes but only the wounded Wraith are killed from the deadly shrapnel. No matter how many Wraith soldiers they killed more kept coming therefore General Horton orders his men to fall back into the cave. He and Ronon cover the retreating army soldiers and marines. They fall back into the cave after they were sure the marines and army soldiers are already in there. They enter the cave two Wraith rush after them, but Ronon kills them both with his gun. General Horton tells them to head for the exit of the cave which would push them deeper into the cave. He shoots several Wraith Drones that entered the cave. They go to one of the bigger opening in the cave to hold off the attack. They fire on the Wraith coming at them. Two Wraiths manage to feed on two of the marines draining the life out of them, but the other marines manage to kill them. He tells the marines to head back to the gate. They leave. General Horton and Ronon continue to fight the Wraith as they came through the different cave tunnels. Ronon looks at Heath who looks at him. "Ronon get back to Sheppard and help him get the Athosians safely out of here. I'll hold them off." Ronon Dex hands Heath his sword.
"You're going to need this," Ronon tells him. Heath takes the sword. Ronon leaves. General Horton continues to fight the Wraith all by himself. He uses his P90 until he runs out of ammo. The Wraith fall back but he knows they'll be back. He takes the P90 ammo from one of the dead marines and he picks up the SAW from the other marine's body. He knows he's been hit by three stun blast during the battle with the Wraith maybe more but somehow he hasn't collapse from the stun blast. He knows that the Wraith are almost immune to their stun weapons. The Wraith attack again Heath fires the SAW at the attacking Wraith until he's out of ammo. He switches to his P90 and kills two more Wraith soldiers. A Wraith officer comes at him and throws him against the wall of the cave. He gets back on his feet the Wraith comes at him. He picks up Ronon's sword and cuts the Wraith head off. He kills six more Wraiths before they form a line in two rows and fire their stunners. They pick him up and carried him out of the cave. A Dart flies over and beams them up.
Meanwhile back in orbit above New Athos the Hammer is under constant bombardment by Wraith ships, but their shields are holding. Colonel Carter and Colonel Caldwell watches as another Wraith cruiser is destroyed. Some of the Darts ram into the ship but are destroyed by the shield. A Wraith cruiser moves to destroy the Hammer with collusion. Colonel Caldwell and Colonel Sam Carter look at the Wraith ship heading right for them. A flight of F-302s head to intercept the Wraith Darts that are going to try to take them out before they take out the primary shields. The primary shields are down to 25% but Colonel Carter orders them to bring up the secondary shields. The ship wasn't even vulnerable to attack when the secondary shields are raise. Colonel Caldwell contacts the Ancient in the chair and tells him to destroy the Wraith cruiser. It only takes a minute before the Wraith cruiser is destroyed. Colonel Carter contacts Lieutenant Colonel Sheppard and his team that is securing the gate from the Wraith. He tells her that the gate is secure and they dial the Beta Site. She beams down six marines to help John keep the gate secure. Two marines go through the gate to the beta site after the radio the team that was drop off earlier. The first group of Athosians and a few refugees they took in are the first to go through the gate. Another second group goes through the gate follow by a third. Sheppard radios Colonel Carter telling her that the last of the Athosians are through the gate. Teyla and Ronon proceed through the gate with the Athosians. Lieutenant Colonel Sheppard and the rest of his team and the others are beam up to the Hammer. The Wraith Hive ships and cruisers jump into hyperspace. Lieutenant Colonel Sheppard arrives on the bridge hoping to find the general on board but only Colonel Carter and Colonel Caldwell are on the bridge. "Where's General Horton?"
"He's onboard a Wraith Hive ship," Colonel Carter responds.