Stargate: Unity, 4th Series
Episode 3: An old Friend
Chapter 3:
2 hours until Zero Hour. Four ships in orbit above earth, three still in hangar bays, and three off world.
"Colonel, we have a contact, 2 Hatak's along with several Alkesh, 8000 kilometres out." Reported Major Marks.
"Alright, relay your sensor data to the other ships, set course, and get me General O'niell." Replied Carter.
"Ma'am, The Odyssey is not responding and the Sun Tzu ceased receiving transmissions halfway through. The Odyssey now appears to be losing altitude."
"What?" Cried Sam, getting up to look at marks screens over his shoulder. "That can't be right, there's no energy signature at all. Major beam out all personnel."
"We just lost Asgard sensors, and sub light engines."
"What the hell is happening?" Carter exclaimed, and at the same time lights all over the Hammond went out, along with artificial gravity and life support. Within an instant every unattached object, including Sam, left the ground and started floating throughout the bridge.
"Looks like power throughout the whole ship is down, but it is possible the problem is isolated on the bridge." Said Marks, thinking out loud.
"No, we wouldn't have lost sub lights if it was just the bridge. I'm going to try and make my way down to engineering, marks you have the bridge."
Before she could get her bearings by grabbing onto the roof and walls, she, along with the entire crew, were beamed out.
"General?" Asked Mitchell, slowly knocking on the generals door and walking into his office.
"Mitchell, I want SG-1 SG-3 and SG-11 to get out there and find out what they can about the Lucian alliance, find out if they really are behind these attacks."
"Yes Sir, but what about Baal?"
"Agent Barrett from the NID is heading up an investigation; we'll let them deal with Baal for the moment."
"Carter?" Asked Jack, still sitting in the chair he despised the most, "What happened?"
"We don't know sir, one second everything is fine, next second we have no power." She replied, then turned and noticed Davidson and Huang.
"Same thing happened onboard the Odyssey and the Sun Tzu." Davidson responded.
"Well your crews have been safely beamed to the surface, but I thought you'd each want to stick around and watch some fireworks, we are about to engage the enemy."
"What if this ships systems fail like the others?" Carter asked.
"That's what you're for. There was a security breach on one of the computer system... thing-a-mijigs... it didn't get passed the firewall, but I want you to check it out."
Sam Nodded a reply then went running down the hall.
"Lieutenant, weapons at maximum!"
"Sir?"
"It's from Star Trek Lieutenant; just get me into range of those mother ships."
"Sir there are 6 Alkesh, and multiple gliders in the air along with the two mother ships."
"Launch all 302's, Fire missiles and rail guns at the closest mother ship, and all beam weapons at the farthest."
"Sir there's something else, the Sun Tzu and the Hammond are going to touch down in the middle of the ocean, but trajectory confirms that the Odyssey will be hitting Washington, if any of their ordinates explode it could level the whole city."
"Alright, beam a nuke over." He ordered, after a second of thought. Then turned to his right, "Major, Get me Tau'ri Command."
"General," Jack exclaimed, with sparks flying over his head, "There is about to be a very large explosion over Washington, you may want to put the word out."
"Understood. What is the situation up there?"
"Shields are holding for now with Michaels ZPM onboard, but this ship doesn't have the fire power to take out 2 Goa'uld mother ships when they're protected by such a large squadron of gliders, requesting backup!"
"Unfortunately we have no ships available, we are having power issues on the ground same as the other 304's in the air, but we've launched 20 more 302's to join the dog fight, God be with you Jack. Vidrine Out."
"Shields down to 70%" shouted the young lieutenant just as more sparks flew.
"Alright send this message to the 302's, Focus all Alkesh that are making a bombing run of the Arcturus. If this ship falls there's nothing to stop those ships wreaking havoc all over earth."
"Red 3 this is Red leader, we got a bogy headed for Big
Red, we are in pursuit."
"Red Leader, Red 3 has your 6."
"Fox 4, 2," Shouted the 302 pilot, as he tapped the red button twice in succession, "Alkesh is down, but I still got 2 gliders on my back."
Within seconds a missile from Red 3 came whizzing through to take out a glider, followed by some rail gun fire aimed at the second glider, "Yee Ha!"
"We still got 3 more Alkesh in the Air Sergeant; this is not the time for celebration."
"Red Leader this is Blue leader from the ground squadron, where do ya need us?"
"We can handle the rest of the gliders and Alkesh, but the Arcturus could use some extra fire power to deal with those Hatak."
"Blue Squadron, Head for the Hatak, fire at will."
After several missiles from the 302's coupled with the barrage from the Arcturus, the first Hatak finally went down. From there the second Hatak was destroyed easily with al fire focused on it.
Zero Hour.
Although the original plans involved drawing as large a crowd as possible, that was revised because of the new information on the Lucian Alliance threat, so instead the Vice President addressed the country, and the world via media.
"My fellow Americans and Citizens of all nations on this great planet, I am here today to inform you of the existence on extra terrestrials. The fact is the governments of this planet have known for quite some time, the United States Government has until recently been leading the exploration of the galaxy and more for the last 15 or so years through an alien device known as the Stargate...
