The attack

It has started out like any Atlantis Tuesday. Colonel Sheppard and his team had just returned from a mission in the Pegasus galaxy. Scientists where working on machines, military personnel working out. Every thing was disturbed by claxons going off, indicating an un-scheduled off world activation.

"Chet, who is it?" Woolsey asked.

"For the last time it's, Chuck. And we're getting stargate commands IDC" Chuck said.

"What? Stargate command doesn't have a ZPM." McKay said.

"Video feed coming in, Woolsey! Colonel Sheppard!" Chuck yelled.

Stargate command came up on one of the screens in the Atlantis control room. But instead of the normal, calm General Landry, it was now full of smoke, sparkles and dust falling down from the selling.

"Technician in command, this is General Landry of stargate command. Earth is under attack by the Ori. Request that we can come through!" Landry shouted as you heard General Jack O'Neill in the back round yelling for them to 'hurry up or stick it'.

"The ori?!" Sheppard said.

"Lower the shield!" Woolsey ordered as the gate force field lowered, people started to run through. People in near by hall ways escorted people away from the gate room and to the infirmary of mess hall.

"How the hell did they attack?! We cleansed their minds n' all! McKay squeaked.

"General, how long can you hold the mountain?" Woolsey asked.

"We can hold it for at least thirty minutes! Civilians from Colorado Springs has taken refugee here. They're coming through the gate!" Landry yelled.

"Okey! But I suggest that you get through the gate as soon as possible! The ZPM might go dry!" Woolsey said.

Hundreds upon hundreds of earthlings ran through the gate in atlantis. All of them was escorted from the gate room. Along with the people that ran through, there was equipment, food, weapons, Naquadah generators, you name it was shipped through.

About ten minutes later Colonels Carter and Mitchell along with Vala and Daniel Jackson came through the gate. They ran up the flight of stairs to the control room.

"Sam! Could you tell us what happened?!" McKay asked.

"We'll explain later, Rodney!" Carter yelled.

Several hundreds of civilians ran through the gate after a few minutes, fragments of the SGC walls came with them. Then, a few more military personnel came through. Then it was several seconds before any thing came through. Five minutes later, Generals O'Neill, Landry and Maynard chair man of the joint chiefs, President Henry Hayes, Sergeant Siler and Sergeant Walter Harriman ran through. O'Neill yelled for the shield to be raised. Seconds later, thuds was heard against the shield and the wormhole fizzed out. Colonel Sheppard, Major Lorne and the other few military personnel that was in the control room/gate room saluted the president and the generals.

"Mister president, welcome to atlantis. We all should discuss in the conference room. Follow me" Woolsey said. He, the president, Maynard, O'Neill, Landry, Sheppard, McKay, Carter, Mitchell, Vala, Jackson, Teal'c, Siler and Harriman entered the conference room and took a seat.

"Now, could anyone please explain what the hell happened at earth?!" Woolsey said/yelled.

"SG1 had just arrived back from a mission, seconds later, Walter here got a call from NORAD. They had detected over 50 ori mother ships in orbit. The Daedalus, Odyssey, Apollo, Tsun Tzu and the almost finished, General Hammond engaged the motherships. The Tsun Tzu was destroyed very quick. Colonel Caldwell on the Daedalus had a hunch that we needed the ZPM from Antarctica so he beamed it to the SGC along with me, O'Neill and Maynard here. We dialled you guys here, and let every one that wanted through the gate. Civilians from Colorado Springs ran up to the entrance and was let in. We sent as much equipment as we could through with every one that came through the gate. The civilians that had no idea what the thing was, got a bit scared, but as the motherships began to bombard the mountain, they ran through." Hayes said.

"But the mountain should have been levelled by the ori fire.." McKay said.

"We installed shields to protect the mountain a few months back" Carter said.

"Any how, before we went through, The General Hammond was destroyed. The ships beamed up as many people as they could. The Daedalus had orders, that when the stargate was shut down, they would beam the ZPM up, before the SGC self destructed. They should be on their way here now as we speak. Just before we left, Siler said that the TV stations was reporting that New York, Washington, Denver, Los Angeles, Seattle, every major city in the US had been hit 'by a golden beam from the sky'." Hayes said.

"Oh my.. Did any other high ranking people get out except for you?" Woolsey asked.

"We don't know yet. We heard that the IOA was being evacuated out of Washington D.C. Our ships beamed up as many people and supplies as they could, but even with our 304's full, they couldn't have taken more then a few hundred each." Maynard said.

All the sudden, the gate began to dial. Every one went to the control room.

"What is it, Chuck?" Sheppard asked.

"We got an incoming eight chevron address, Colonel" Chuck reported.

"What the.." McKay started as the wormhole connected. Colonel Ellis's voice came up on speakers.

"This is Colonel Ellis commander of the Apollo. Atlantis base, do you read?"

"We read you Colonel. How many people did you manage to get out?" Hayes asked.

"Our three ships managed to beam up two thousand people. We made it to Dakara where we'll send some people and supplies through. Our life support can't take on more then three hundred in addition to the crew. The Odyssey should be dropping out of hyperspace over earth about… Now." Ellis said.

"Why is the Odyssey going back to earth?! She'll be destroyed and she got the asgard legacy and a ZPM on her!" Maynard shouted.

"Not any more sirs. The Odyssey knew very well that it might not make it out, so the Daedalus has the asgard core, and I have their ZPM. The Odysseys crew has been divided between the Daedalus and my ship, so if the Odyssey don't return, lives will have been spared. And if she does return, we have a few more hundred of our people." Ellis said.

"Did any of the IOA make it out?" Woolsey asked, as they where his old co-workers, and his friends.

"Miss Xiaoyi, mr. LaPierre and mr. Chappman was beamed up to the Daedalus. Mr. Coolidge and Mr. Storm missed the beam up and was shuttled in a jumper, it was only a few hundred meters from the Daedalus when it was shot down by ori fighters." Ellis reported.

"Oh, I see.. When the Odyssey returns, send the people through so that your ships can get on their way to us here in Pegasus. The Wraith are growing even larger then they where before. They've built a 'superhive'. It has a ZPM on it.. Speaking of ZPMs, we should cut the connection between the gates, your ZPM is being drained, and we need every ZPM we have." O'Neill ordered.

"Will do sir, Ellis out" The wormhole fizzed out. Every one was clearly worried about the Odyssey, even though it didn't have the core nor the ZPM on it. They had lost earth and all means to build ships. Every loss would be heavy now..

A few hours later, a head count had been made on the evacuees. 4000 made it through the gate on earth, another 2000 when the Daedalus, Odyssey and the Apollo gated to Atlantis, and now a possible a thousand or so by the Odyssey.

President Hayes had made a speech to the civilians that had no idea what just happened. Out of the 6000, about 3000 was civilians with no info about the stargate.

Most of the 'normal' civilians are chocked. A secret program has been operating a few kilometres from their homes.. Some are pissed, if they would've known, they could have put up more of a resistance.

Four days later, Chuck was at his normal station. Amelia Banks, doing the same job as Chuck, noticed a few blips on the sensors. Hayes and O'Neill noticed it also, as they where in the control room.

"I'm reading IFF! It's the Daedalus, Apollo, Odyssey and.. and the General Hammond.." Chuck said. Surprised since the General Hammond had been destroyed over earth.

"Open a com, Banks" Hayes ordered.

"This is General O'Neill. Report Colonels!" O'Neill ordered. Caldwell's face and the bridge of the Daedalus, along with the familiar faces of Major Kevin Marks and Major Emma Cooper.

"This is Colonel Caldwell of the Daedalus. We have refugees on board. Request permission to land on one of the piers, all ships." Caldwell asked.

"Use piers one, three, four and five." Banks said.

The four earth ships landed on a pier each. All ship commanders was beamed to the conference room, except for the General Hammond's commander, as that would be Colonel Sam Carter. But she'd gone through the gate at the SGC.

Colonels Carter, Sheppard, Mitchell, Caldwell, Ellis and Davidson along with Generals Maynard, O'Neill and Landry plus President Hayes, Dr. McKay, Siler, Walter, Mr. LaPierre, miss Xiaoyi and Mr. Chappman. Was in the conference room.

"So, what happened after the gate shut down?" Landry asked.

"I beamed up the ZPM from the SGC as I was ordered to, then I ordered all fighters back, and that major Marks would begin beaming up civilians and high ranking military officers. I got the joint chiefs and some civilians onboard before we jumped into hyperspace." Caldwell said.

"That's pretty much it, yeah. We also beamed vital equipment onboard, some spare parts for our ships, some food.. Then left for hyperspace" Ellis said.

"Okey. But there's one more thing, where the hell did the General Hammond come from?! She was destroyed!" Hayes said.

"We thought so sir. But she wasn't. She had managed to beam aboard people and supplies and then jumped into hyperspace. We thought that she had been destroyed since we did not notice her enter hyperspace." Colonel Ian Davidson, commander of the Odyssey said.

"But how many people where you able to bring after you went to earth a second time, Colonel Davidson?" Maynard asked.

"Almost fifteen hundred people. We saw that the people at area 51 had yet to be beamed out, so we did that. We also beamed out some more spare parts for our ships. Like pieces of hull. We beamed up as many nukes as we could and then we headed to hyperspace." Davidson said.

"So.. We got about seven or eight thousand people off the planet.. And then we got the twelve hundred stationed here at atlantis.. We only have about nine thousand people left.." Woolsey said. The people in the conference room went quiet. Colonel Davidson broke the ice.

"We got some more bad news.. When we got there the second time, all ori ships was bombarding every city, every country, every corner of the planet. Most of Europe and north America had been flattened to the ground." Davidson said. This even mad people more sad. They all left, a few crying. Samantha Carter went to find her ship, the General Hammond. When she got there, she saw that there was really much supplies, and even more so, ship spare parts. Over a dozen hyperdrives, even more asgard beam weapons banks, well more then fifty Naquadah generators and most off all, hull that was going to be attached to where ever it was needed.

The next day, most people had gotten quarters. There was only a hand full that hadn't gotten quarters by now. Chuck was dialling the 'gate.

"Chevron eight.. will not engage." Chuck said, with obvious disappointens.

"Jack, we've been dialling earth's address since we got evacuated out of Cheyenne mountains. Maybe we should try dialling Terra." Jackson said.

"Daniel, earth is Terra." O'Neill said.

"Oh Jack, your dumbass! Terra is our off world ship yard!" Jackson said.

"I think we had a ship under construction there.. It was the X-305. It was designed to battle the Wraith. Well, it's about five times larger then a 304, but it looks exactly the same. Down to the millimetre. But then of course, it has more decks, more weapons and well.. A hell of a lot more weapons." Carter said. Chuck, dial Terra.

The Canadian technician dialled the gate, and a wormhole formed. O'Neill radioed the base.

"This is General Jack O'Neill, code alpha-foxtrot-charlie-91389. Terra base, do you read?" O'Neill said.

"This is Colonel Bryson, commander of Terra. We lost contact with earth. Do you know what happened?" Bryson asked.

"We got some very bad new, Colonel. Earth was attacked a week ago by the ori. From what we've learned, Europe and north America has been levelled. We're about ten thousand evacuees here on atlantis. Almost three thousand civilians from Colorado Springs here too.. And of course other parts of the world. We got the Daedalus, Odyssey, Apollo and the General Hammond here. What's the status with you over there?" O'Neill asked.

"My god.. Ea… Earth.. Ehm, we're mostly fine here sir. The X-305 is nearing completion. We just need to get the hyperdrive online and then she can travel between stars.." Bryson said.

"Good. I want you and your men on that ship as soon as it can go to hyperspace. I want you to travel to atlantis. Take every thing with you. Materials, supplies, every thing. Even a plasma torch. All food supplies that you can take with you as well.." O'Neill said.

"Okey sir.. But we're almost two thousand souls on this base, the 305 can hold a maximum of twelve hundred souls on the X-305." Bryson said.

"You said that the X-305 was five times as large as the DSC-304! The 304 can hold a maximum of five hundred souls. Shouldn't that make the X-305 hold twenty five hundred souls?" O'Neill said.

"Although the 305 is five times as large as the 304, doesn't mean that the life support is bigger. Plus, as I remember, they only had one life support unit on the base. It's not even half of what the 304's life support is. But we do have the life support designed for the 305 here." Carter said.

"I have a ZPM here that was going for the 305, we'll use it to dial you up and send people and equipment through. Bryson out" The Colonel said and the stargate shut down.