Eight Weeks Later…

Brigadier General John Sheppard, Atlantis veteran and military leader of the city since it's discovery in July 2004 sat comfortably in the chair in his office preparing for one of the many meetings he was too attend over the next few weeks, more so due to the fact that the City was now more or less defenceless since the last of the vital Drone weapons had been used many weeks earlier during an attack by the Human Alliance. Since then the job of defending the city bad been placed upon the many Rail-Guns scattered around the city which where originally used as a last resort after the ZPM was installed. Even the vital Miniature Drones used by the 'Puddle Jumpers' had become depleted with engineers taking weapons from as many of the Ancient Gateships as possible to keep a full squadron operational. However the 'Jumpers' where not the only air-based defence for the city, since it had been equipped with four squadrons of F-302-C class fighters lead by the newly promoted Lieutenant Commander Jenna Cole.

It was no secret to everyone within the city that the war was going badly, tensions within the city had arisen to almost new heights, yet the only person who seemed to be enjoying himself was the Alien Weapons Expert and Head of City Security Ronan Dex. Even when the President of the United States, the leaders of the Tau'ri Coalition and the Pentagon staff left, earth threw the Stargate he seemed to be enjoying himself. The order for the leader to leave Earth was not an easy one to give, yet being kept on a Highly Classified Planet and away from enemy attack, they would work safely, knowing Atlantis was taking every precaution possible to keep Earth safe.

Although the Civilian population d has no idea, the President had left the planet since a duplicate Oval Office had been constructed on the planet known as Genesis, a place where the best and brightest of Humanity would survive away from the death and destruction on Earth. Based on a concept by Rodney McKay the planet did not originally have a Stargate nor a DHD, since a gate was salvaged from the old Gate-Bridge and a DHD taken from an uninhabited world, the Genesis site would remain outside of the gate network with only a link to Earth and the Alpha Site.

"Damned Reports just keep coming threw…" He yelled to the ceiling.

Sighing briefly he looked at the watch on his wrist and stood slowly, his desk was as messy as always since he had taken over this command, he knew someplace in the middle of all of those papers was his notes for the up coming meetings on the Genesis site. Cursing to himself, he picked up his uniform jacket, his cap and briefcase before walking onto the upper level of the main control room as his escorts stood by the Stargate waiting for him. Slowly he made his way down to the lower level as Rodney McKay and Jenna Cole joined him.

"McKay, wanna come along?"

"No… Not really John" He said with a smile.

"Jenna, sure I can't change your mind?"

"Not a chance General besides, I'd just get in the way. Colonel Lorne and his team are the best…"

"I know, I trained them myself. All right, Cole since you are the ranking officer… I am leaving you in charge of the city until I return. Rodney how's that secret project you're working on coming along?"

"You know about that?" Smiling slightly he replied. "Almost done. It just needs a few adjustments"

Nodding slightly he turned as the Stargate activated, with a nod to his escorts he disappeared into the active Stargate surrounded by Colonel Evan Lorne and his team, as the Gate shut down McKay looked at the woman to his side and smiled slightly.

"How did he know about Lazarus?"

"Search me…" She said with a smile.

As she walked off she felt McKay's eyes run up and down her body, rolling her eyes slightly she spoke aloud.

"I didn't mean literally McKay. Alright everyone back to work, Chris… what have you got?"

Quickly a deep booming voice rang out in the control room as a large German man looked up at her and spoke with a thick accent.

"I am having trouble with the long range sensors, since the last attack by the Alliance cruiser I have attempted to track the rogue BC-304 using the City's long range sensors… yet I come up blank. They may have found a way to hide the ship from our sensors, if so we are in shit Commander"

"What do you mean?"

"If we can not detect them, they can drop out of Hyperspace directly over us… I very much doubt we could raise our shields in time" He said slowly.

"Ahh crap. Contact the Hammond; I wanna speak to Colonel Carter"

"Yes Ma'am. Right away ma'am"

"Once you have her, pipe it threw to Sheppard's office"

"Of course"

One Hour Later…

"… So forgive me for saying so Colonel Carter but we have no damned idea where that ship is. Is it possible they've found a way to hide the ship from our sensors?"

"It would be difficult Commander, but not impossible"

"I've received orders from General Sheppard before he left for the meetings. Effective immediately the USS Achilles is to be shot down on site. He would have given the orders himself… but they where buried under all this crap. I think that's why he was in a rush to leave so I would clear up these damned reports"

"That sounds more like the John Sheppard I know, I'll pass it on to the fleet… thank you Commander. USS Hammond out"

As the screen went blank alarms rang out threw the city, quickly she looked up as the Stargate activated, with no teams off world but for General Sheppard's escort duty she ran out of the office, almost falling over her feet as an IDC came threw.

"Chris, what the hell is going on?"

"Major Frank's IDC Ma'am. He is a part of General Sheppard's escort team"

"Lower the shield… DEFENCE TEAMS STAND READY!"

The form of a man fell threw the gate as it deactivated quickly. A blood curdling scream rang out threw the Gateroom as his legs had been severed below the knees by the deactivated gate, shock ran threw everyone as he screamed in pain while medical staff ran towards the injured officer and attempted to help. Almost instantly, Jenna ran towards him as she saw he was covered in burns and blood, as he barely managed to keep conscious.

"Franks? What happened Franks… do not pass out on me now boy! What Happened?"

"Genesis was hit, everyone is dead… they… those bastards"

Her face went pale as she looked into his eyes; he was barely managing to keep himself conscious as she replied.

"Who is… who attacked you… Where is Shepp… what happened?"

"I don't know, I think it was the Achilles, we managed to get most of them threw the gate before… I was cut off from everyone else when the Gate shut down, Sheppard ordered me to get back here. You have to help them Commander, the last thing I saw was ground troops… lots of them"

"Alright, Chris… Get Ronan up here… tell him to assemble his team, I want three Jumpers fully loaded and ready to launch now"

"Commander?"

"DO IT CHRIS, Or I will find someone who can"