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A Stargate Atlantis Fan Fiction.

Poking a Sleeping Dragon

Part 1

In comparison to the Milky Way galaxy the Pegasus Galaxy was much larger. With thousands of planets that had not been explored in millions of years. When the Ancients had discovered the system, they thought that it was a perfect place to create a home and seed the worlds that they had encountered.

The people of Atlantis and the wraith were about to discover that when sleeping dragons awoke; they are very hard to put back to sleep.

"Okay so we've been back in Pegasus for a couple of months and the wraith seem to have went on vacation as we have not so much as heard a peep from them," Richard Woolsey said as he addressed his senior officers in a morning meeting. "Anything new to report?" he finished as he sat down.

John Sheppard looked around and noticed that Rodney McKay looked like he wanted to say something but was clearly at odds about it, which is hard to believe as the man usually spoke his mind.

"Yes, I have something which might raise some eyebrows." Rodney stated as he stood. The scientist walked over to the large screen on the far corner of the room, making the others follow him with their chairs turning.

"While we were on Earth, a team of scientist found a lab that held most of the ancients logs from when they first arrived, and some of the logs pertaining to the beginning of the their war with the wraith." Rodney put up a visual of the Pegasus in it early stages.

"Now when the ancients first arrived in Pegasus, they said it was virtually void of life, so they repopulated the planets, blah, blah, blah. But I have found a system that the ancients never looked in, well they did but the logs of that system were erased." He pointed to a system that was in the far left corner of the screen.

"Now you know earth has some of the best computer experts in our galaxy and they were able to find a back door if you will to the erased data." Rodney stated proudly at his fellow scientist.

"The data, which was broken up stated that the ancients sent a couple of their warships into the system, but this is where it was broken up a little, those ships never returned." The silence in the room as all eyes went to the screen. Rodney saw the attention that he was being given and continued.

"They had recorded that several wraith ships have also went into the system and they too never returned, ancients had sent hundreds of probes into the system and all of them got maybe about two days of information, but then nothing," Rodney said looking at the screen.

"They did however get a picture of a rather large planet." He pushed a button and the picture came up. A sharp intake of breath was the only sound to come from the people in the conference room.

The planet looked a lot like earth; it was blue that showed a rather large body of water with brown indicated that land was on the planet.

"Are they any stargates on the planet?" Teyla asked as she looked at the screen, Ronan was fixated on the screen as well.

"No, I think that after four of their warships were lost in that system, they decided to leave it alone, and I think that since the wraith are leaving it alone, then there has to be something in that system." Rodney said looking at Woolsey.

"Are you suggesting that we take a look? No offence to your all your hard work on this Rodney, but if the ancients and the wraith never went back to that system, what makes you so sure that we should go." Woolsey said placing his hands on the table looking at the scientist.

"Well in the name of science and future technology not withstanding, I am not saying that we just barrel right into it, but just to the border and maybe send in one of our probes." Rodney suggested.

"But you just said that the Ancients sent probes in there and none returned." Sheppard said looking at his friend and lover.

"Yes, but our technology is less advance than the Ancients and it was thousands of years ago, maybe they or who ever is in that system will ignore ours, well at least for a little while, look I know this seems insane, but what if there's a species out there that would be willing to help our war with the wraith don't you think we should try?" Rodney said looking at all the senior officers.

"The Hammond should be out this way and she has advance weaponry and engines that can out run anything that should chase after us." Rodney saw that Woolsey was crumbing to his will.

"How long will it take to reach the system?" Sheppard asked, as he hated long journeys.

"Well with the Hammond's new wormhole drive thanks to my theory, I think three jumps should do it and it takes four days for the drive to build back up, two weeks at the max," Rodney said getting excited about the possibilities of discovering the unknown.

"I feel like I am making the biggest mistake of the century and my career, but if Carter thinks that her ship can handle it then you have a go, but only to the border, not straight in." Woolsey said as he stood, he nodded to group as they stood.

Carter arrived with the Hammond and was briefed on the new mission. She raised some interesting questions, which Rodney argued on behalf of science and well she was a geek and the call of science was too great for her to ignore, they left after only four days after arriving.

After a week of pacing the ship Sheppard was about to lose his mind, at least on Atlantis there was always something that had kept him busy. Rodney had kept him busy but after a while the scientist was about to murder him in his sleep. Finally after what seemed like the longest journey of Sheppard's life they arrived at the border of the system.

"All systems operational, launching probe now," Rodney said as John entered the bridge. He went directly to the scientist's side and started seeing all types of read outs.

Carter was sitting in the captain's chair and was reading what Rodney was reading when an alarm went off. She stood walking over to the helm.

"Colonel Carter, I am reading four wraith hive ships coming our way; darts are on an attack vector, Orders?" the ops officer called out.

"I think that is our queue to get out of here, helm, prepare the wormhole drive, were leaving." Carter said as she sat back down on the edge of her chair.

"Wait," Rodney said making Sam turn to him. "The wormhole drive is out for at least four days." He stated looking at the drive readouts.

"Rodney we can't take on four hive ships. Helm, go to hyper-drive." She said as she turned back. The ship lurched forward as one of the hive ships opened fire, darts coming at them firing.

"Rodney! Report?" Sam screamed as sparks flew in all directions, an explosion making her flinch, as officers were thrown away from their computer stations.

"That last hit took out our hyper-drive, working on it." Rodney screamed back dodging the falling debris and sparks as he went to main engineering, Sheppard following.

"Damn, helm, take us forward. Weapons control open fire" Carter said almost being jostled out of her chair as a hit made the ship lurch again.

"Sir that will take into the system." The helmsman said as he pushed his controls to follow her orders.

"I know, hopefully Rodney was right about them ignoring us and going after the wraith." the colonel said as she righted herself on her chair.

"Course laid in, were going in sir." the helm said as the ship took off in the direction of the unknown system.

The Hammond raced forward with the darts following with the hive ships following them in. The darts kept firing, but the wraith ships stopped at the border. The darts stopped as well turning back.

"Status on the hive ships and darts?" Carter asked as she got up when the firing stopped. She looked around and saw that medical staff were arriving and assisting the fallen crew members.

"They have stopped their pursuit and are returning back to the hive ships." the operations officer answered wiping sweat off his forehead.

"Start repairs, but keep an eye on anything that might be out there, I'll be in engineering." Sam said exiting the bridge.

When Sam reached engineering things were chaotic as engineers worked at a fast pace to repair the damage on the hyper-drive. She saw Sheppard bent over one of the consoles and then she saw Rodney on the floor working occasionally putting his hand out for Sheppard to hand him equipment.

"Status on the hyper-drive Rodney?" she asked as she bent down.

"Give me two hours and then I will be able to see what the real damage is, but right now I am trying to put a patch on it so we can at least get out of here." Rodney said biting his lip as he tried to get a piece loose. Sheppard shared a look at Carter as they watched the scientist make repairs.

"Rodney, were in the system." Sam said as Rodney jerked upright causing the whole system to spark and shut down.

"Oh great, there went that patch, really colonel next time wait until I come out after I'm done." Rodney sneered at Carter, and then he realized what she had said. "Really? The wraith ships?"

"They stopped their pursuit; they stopped the instant that they realized that they followed us in." Carter said as she looked around. She looked up as the bridge called her.

"Colonel, the wraith ships are in pursuit. They are coming in hard and fast." the helm called out.

"If they fire at us, fire at will, repeat fire at will." She said as she raced back to the bridge, Rodney and Sheppard following after her.

"Fire main batteries at the darts and fire the main beam weapon at the hive ships." Carter said as she entered the bridge. Sitting in her chair she looked down at the read outs.

"Shields down to thirty-five percent." the tactical officer said as he fired the beam weapon at the main hive ship.

"Damage to the hive?" Carter asked as she looked up and over to tactical.

"Negligible, still in pursuit." tactical said as he looked at his screen. "Shields down to fifteen percent, the ship can't take another hit."

"Damn, take us further in." Sam said as she gripped the arm rests on her chair. Rodney was hard at work trying to get more power to the shields.

The hive ships followed slowly as if they were contemplating going further. The crew of the Hammond watched with bated breath as the ships came closer. Sam closed her eyes as if in prayer that the ships would turn back. Her ship rocked again, but this time it wasn't from weapons fire.

"My god, Colonel look!" the tactical officer said in amazement. Carter's eyes snapped open and she stood up from her chair to get a closer look as two hyper-space windows opened and two very large ships exited, following the ships were smaller ships.

The wraith ships turned as the other ships came closer. But the smaller ships went after them. Carter had never before seen ships that flew in space as if they were fish in the sea. They swerved and weaved around her ship and started firing at the wraith ships. The darts were being destroyed one by one as they retreated back to the hive ships. The wraith tried to open a hyper space window, but before they could enter they were shot down by the two larger ships. The four hive ships that had followed them were nothing more than scrap by the time they were finished.

Carter and the bridge crew watched in awe as the ships stopped and turned in the direction of her battered ship.

"Colonel, we have a message coming in from one of the ships." the operations officer stated as he looked nervously at the screen.

"Play it please." Sam whispered. At first it was static and then a voice echoed through the speakers causing the others to look up. What was said left a sour taste in her mouth. And a cold chill down her spine.

"You Do Not Belong Here." an alien voice said as it came from the speakers.

To Be Continued.

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