Authors Note: This is a new episode to Season 1 of Stargate Atlantis.
Chapter Two
BR666
One week after arriving in Pegasus this is Heath's second off-world mission in a new galaxy but for most of his off-world team his is the first in the new galaxy. He has served at the SGC for several years before Doctor Elizabeth Weir recruited him for the Atlantis Expedition. Colonel Horton, his team and a marine team along with Dr. Jay Cake arrived on BR666 through the Stargate. The colonel's NCO is Master Sergeant Garrett Howzer. "Sergeant, secure the area." Colonel Horton ordered.
"Sir Yes sir," the Sergeant replies. "Marines, you heard the colonel secure the gate!" They spread out securing the area.
"Sergeant instructs your men to set up base camp, I only need three men to accompany me," the colonel tells Sergeant Howzer.
"Corporal Chelsea Hart, take PFC Oliver, PFC Sarah Scott, Private James Neman, Private Lee Gainey stay here and setup a base camp," the sergeant tells them. Therefore, Master Sergeant Garrett Howzer, Staff Sergeant Geoffrey Rhodes, Lieutenant John, Corporal Craig Farte, and Dr. Cake are following the colonel. They climbed a hill, once at the top Colonel Horton took out his binoculars.
"There's a structure in the middle of the forest," Colonel Horton tells them.
"Are we going to go there?" Dr. Cake asked.
"Not tonight," the colonel replies. They headed back to the base camp. "Lieutenant, head back to the gate and tell the good doctor what we found tell her to send the rest of my team through." The lieutenant headed back to the gate. He tells Dr. Weir and she sends the rest of Colonel Horton team through the gate. Once back at base camp, he gives his report to Colonel Horton.
"Sir, Dr. Weir has suspended all gate operation to and from Atlantis because Major Sheppard team keeps getting attack by Wraith off world," the lieutenant tells him.
The following day Colonel Horton and his team along with the marines headed to the structure in the middle of the forest. Somehow they alerted the Wraith to their presence. They reached the structure by mid afternoon. Colonel Horton recognized the structure to be made by the Ancients. They started to explore the structure. Once Colonel Horton stepped into the structure the lights came on. "We're going to split up and check this place out. Lieutenant, leave two men to guard this entrance." The Colonel tells Lieutenant John.
"PFC Jimmy Hart and Private Newman remain here and guard this exit." The lieutenant tells them.
"Yes sir," they replied. The rest headed inside. Dr. Cake along with Master Sergeant Garrett Howzer, PFC Sarah Scott, and Corporal Chelsea Hart went one way. Colonel Horton, Staff Sergeant Geoffrey Rhodes, Corporal Griffin, and Private Lee Gainey went another way. The others went another way. Dr. Cake and his team found more puddle jumpers. "I wonder if they have any ZPMs here." The sergeant asked Dr. Cake.
"Let's go find out," Dr. Cake replies. Therefore, they went to see if there were any ZPMs in this structure.
"Colonel, you have to come see this," Major Jason says over the radio.
`"What did you find Jason," the colonel replies.
"Sir, we found the control room," Jason replies.
"We'll be right there." Therefore, they head to the control room. "Dr. Cake please report to the control room." They arrived at the control room.
"What is it major," the colonel asked him.
"Sir, the outpost long range sensors have detected several Wraith ships heading this way." Major Jason answers. Dr. Cake and his team arrived.
"Does this outpost have a ZPM?" Colonel Horton asked them.
"Yes sir," Master Sergeant Garrett answered. "Four ZPMs actually."
"Good, we're going to need them," the colonel replies.
"Why sir?" Dr. Cake asked.
"We have Wraith on the way," Major Jason answers.
"Major we must prepare the defenses of this structure. Doctor I want a blueprint of this base ASAP. Lieutenant, I want you to see if this structure has a weapons platform similar to the one found in Antarctica and see if it has any Drones left. Master Sergeant Garrett you'll accompany me back to the Gate we must inform Dr. Weir of our situation besides we are almost due to check in any way we must not let this outpost fall into Wraith hands," the colonel tells them. Therefore, the colonel and Master Sergeant Garrett headed to the gate. Major Jason got the others preparing defenses. It took hours to reach the gate and it was almost getting dark. The colonel started to dial the gate while the sergeant covered him. After he dialed the first two gate icons, more light lit up. "Incoming wormhole!" They took cover in the woods. Wraith stated to come through the gate. Once the last Wraith was threw the gate shut down. The colonel estimated four dozen Wraith. "Let's get back to the structure." The colonel suggested.
"Let's go sir," the sergeant replies. They headed back to the structure. The reach for the night vision goggles in their packs. The colonel brought out a life signs detector. "Are we clear sir?" The colonel looks at the detector.
"Negative, we got six headed our way, they're almost here," the colonel replies.
"What are we going to do sir?"
"We're going to kill them," the colonel answers.
"Now you're talking." They took cover off the trail. A few minutes went by the six Wraith started coming down the path. The colonel and the sergeant used hand signals to communicate. The colonel took careful aimed at the Wraith leading them. He shot the Wraith in the head, and then they opened up on the others. They threw grenades it took a lot of rounds to dispatch them, but they manage to kill them all. Then they continued on to the structure. Lieutenant John was out on patrol with several marines. They found the colonel and the master sergeant. Lieutenant John escorted them back to the structure. They returned to the control room.
"Report major," the colonel says to him. "Sir, seventeen Wraith ships just emerge from hyperspace. This base does have an ancient platform like in Antarctica but it only has sixteen dozen Drones," the major responds. "What did you find out sir?"
"They have troops coming through the gate," the colonel tells them. "Dr. Cake have you got a blueprint of this place yet?" The Doctor brought up a blueprint on the screen. The colonel found a perfect place to hold the Wraith up for maybe a couple hours. They go where they enter the structure and looked up. There's a balcony above them and the doors can be closed that go further into the structure. Therefore, they start to set up barricades from anything they can find in and out of the structure. They planted claymores outside of the structure where the enemy will have to come up to get into the structure. They planted C4 inside of the structure where they are going to ambush the Wraith. Colonel Horton went to the control room to talk to Dr. Cake. "Dr. Cake I need you to find a way to destroy this structure and the Ancient database in case we cannot stop the Wraith." Colonel Horton tells him.
"The Ancient Database has a lot of stuff in it we can't destroy it," Dr. Cake tells him.
"Then you better find a way to store it somewhere else otherwise we will have to destroy it." The doctor nods. Then the colonel headed to the Ancient weapons chair. Private Newman remained in the control room.
"Colonel they're launching fighters," Private Newman tells him.
"Bring up the shield," the colonel tells him. Private Newman pressed the button to open the shield. The colonel fired the Drones at the Darts, but he sent some to destroy as many ships as he could in space. Darts ran into the shield and were destroyed. More Darts and transport ships are coming down from the ships in orbit. The colonel fired the last dozen Drones. Three Drones destroyed three transport ships. He only destroyed two Wraith Hive ships in space. The last reaming Drones he instructed to destroy the Darts. He headed to the ambush site. The transport unloaded hundreds of Wraith soldiers in each transport that landed. Master Sergeant Garrett and his men are on one side of the ambush site on the balcony. Major Jason and his men are on the other side. Colonel Horton arrived and took his place along with Jason. "No fire until I fire," the colonel says over the radio.
Meanwhile on Atlantis Major Sheppard and his team just arrived with a Wraith prisoner. Another team of Marines escorted the prisoner to the holding cells. Doctor Elizabeth Weir came up to Major Sheppard. "Is there something wrong?" Sheppard asked her.
"John, we haven't heard from Colonel Horton team for hours they missed their schedule check in," she tells him.
"You want me to take a team to find out what's keeping them?" Sheppard asked.
"Yes," she replies. Major Sheppard, Lieutenant Ford, Rodney McKay, and Teyla headed to the jumper bay with another team of Army Rangers lead by Lieutenant Michael. They dialed the gate and went through. They emerged through the gate. They see Darts in the air; therefore, they cloaked the ship.
"Colonel Horton please come in, this is Major Sheppard." He says over the com. He repeated several times.
Before they came through the gate the Wraith attacked the structure first by orbital bombardment and Kamkazzie runs with their fighters. It did not take long for the shields to fall. Then the ground forces attacked the structure. They believe the Ancients were here. They hit claymores outside, but it did not stop them. They ran into the structure and realized they were trapped. Colonel Horton shot the leader of the first wave in the head. The reason you can tell they are leader is because you can see their faces. Then the rest opened up. The Wraith returned fire, but hit nothing. One marine fired is grenade launcher killing three Wraiths. Then more Wraith entered the structure. They continued to fire."Sir, we're going to run out of ammunition if we keep this up," Major Jason tells the colonel. They continued to fire. Colonel Horton heard Major Sheppard's message over the radio.
"Major Sheppard we're in the structure Wraith everywhere, you can enter through the Jumper bay."
"They have a Jumper bay?" McKay asked. No one answer. Therefore, Sheppard flew the Jumper to the Jumper bay. Sergeant Garrett kills several more Wraith before he ran out of ammunition to his P90.
"Hit the C4," Lieutenant John ordered. They hit the C4 remotes killing even more Wraith, but they still kept coming inside.
"Fall back to the control room," the colonel ordered. They returned to the control room where Major Sheppard and his team were waiting for them. "Let's get the hell out of here!" They sat a huge C4 bomb in critical areas of the structure. Dr. Cake, have you taken care of the Ancient Database?"
"Yes Colonel," he replies.
"What about the ZPMs?"
"Fully depleted sir," Private Newman replies.
"Dam we could've use them on Atlantis." Then they headed to the Jumper bay. Only Colonel Horton, Major Jason, Major Sheppard, and Lieutenant John can pilot the Jumpers really well. They all get into several jumpers. They open the Jumper bay doors and had to destroy several Darts before they could leave. They cloaked once they were in the air. Major Sheppard dialed the gate and they follow him threw. Once they were safety on Atlantis the shield was raised and they could see were an explosion took place behind them from the color of the shield.