Atlantis – Pegasus Galaxy


The Atlantis base personnel have been preparing for the arrival if this new enemy just as Earth has been doing for the last two weeks, due to the Daedalus being recalled, a steady stream of food an equipment has been coming through the Stargate from Earth two to three times a day.

The world leaders decided that it was best to leave Atlantis at it's current location in the Pegasus galaxy for the time being, bringing it back to the Milky Way may not do any good in the long run and they don't want to put all their eggs in to one basket – so to speak, if and when the time comes, Atlantis will need to be ready to receive evacuees from Earth.

There is a limit to the number of people they can actually take on board, if they take on too many people they won't have enough power to take off and evade a potential attack, to that end, Sheppard and his team have been searching for potential evacuation sites off-world in which to temporarily relocate the evacuees.

Sheppard and Teyla are walking the corridors, slow moving as they have to zig-zag around stacked boxes that line the walls and personnel rushing around trying to clear and store them.

"How many have we done so far?" asks Sheppard, referring to the planets explored as potential evacuation sites.

"Eight. So far only two were found to be suitable. Major Lorne and his team are currently exploring another." replies Teyla.

"Only two...what about the others, they looked fine to me." asks Sheppard.

"Apparently when the ground teams returned to the planets we explored they identified weather patterns and wild life that made them unsuitable for long term stay." replies Teyla.

"Why do they have to be so damn picky, we may not have a choice." says Sheppard.

A man walks passed them carrying a large box in his arms, the lids are slightly open, Sheppard turns when he sees what's inside the box, "Wohw hold up." he shouts, the man stops and turns around.

Sheppard walks up to him and reaches in to the box, "I need to take these." he says, as he pulls out a packet of Oreo's.

"Sir?" enquires the man, wondering why Sheppard has to take them.

"...quality control. I have to check these for...flavour." replies Sheppard, with a cheeky expression on his face, clearly telling a lie, the man turns and walks away.

Sheppard walks back to Teyla and they continue walking down the corridor, "Out of the planets that were found suitable, were any of them ours?" he asks.

"No." replies Teyla.

"Were any of them Lorne's?" asks Sheppard.

Teyla grins, "One." she replies.

"Damn!" groans Sheppard, "Well we've gotta find one, we're making ourselves look bad...Oreo?" he says

"No, thank you." replies Teyla.

They continue walking for a short while and then make a turn in to the infirmary, as they enter they see McKay laying on the top of one of the beds at the far end of the room, tapping away on his tablet computer with intense concentration.

Sheppard and Teyla glance at each other briefly as they approach and stand at the foot on the bed, "You do know we're leaving in a minute, right?" asks Sheppard.

"Humm.." sounds McKay, never taking his eyes off the tablet screen.

"McKay?" says Sheppard, "RODNEY!" he shouts.

"What?!" asks McKay, clearly frustrated by the interruption.

"The mission...we're leaving in a minute." says Sheppard.

"Yeah, yeah, yeah. I know." replies McKay.

"Then why are you in the infirmary laying on a bed?" asks Sheppard.

"I'm waiting for err...err..Jennifer...she'll be back in a minute, she's giving me a jab." replies McKay.

"Are you ill Rodney?" asks Teyla with concern.

"What, no I'm not ill...why, do I look sick?" replies McKay, lifting his arm and placing two fingers on the side of his neck to feel his pulse, "..I was feeling a little hot earlier." he adds.

"You look fine, Rodney." says Teyla.

"Really?" asks McKay.

Sheppard is getting inpatient, "Oh I've had enough of this, come on!" he says, grabbing McKay's sleeve and pulling him off the bed.

"No, no I can't leave yet." moans McKay.

"Why?" asks Sheppard in an annoyed tone.

"I need my jab first..in fact you should all have one." replies McKay.

"You don't need a jab Rodney, let's go." says Sheppard, grabbing his sleeve again.

McKay pulls Sheppard's hand off his sleeve, "NO!" he moans, "Do you know what's on M33-811, a forest, a thick densely packed forest, much like the amazon back on Earth. Do you know how many possible diseases there could be out there, not to mention the possible thousands and thousands of poisonous plants and insects." he adds.

"Reaaally?" asks Sheppard, sarcastically.

"Yes...really." replies McKay.

"Uha. And how are these thousands and thousands of poisonous plants and insects going to infect us with their diseases when we'll be inside a JUMPER THE WHOLE TIME!." asks Sheppard, shouting at the end just to make his point.

"Oh...forgot about that. But I'm going to get it anyway, just to be sure." says McKay.

Sheppard doesn't look too happy.

"There she is now...two secs." says McKay, swiftly walking off towards Jennifer, narrowly avoiding being manhandled by Sheppard again.

"McKay" says Sheppard under his breath, "Teyla, say something." he adds.

"Just let him get his jab and then we can leave. Unless you would rather listen to him complaining the entire time we're off-world." replies Teyla.


Earth: Stargate Command.


After the first encounter with their new enemy and being saved by the Ancients, the Alliance, although badly damaged and a large number of crew members seriously hurt, managed to enter hyperspace and safely make it back to Earth.

Upon their arrival in Earth's orbit, the injured crew members were beamed down to the Air Force Academy Hospital, Teal'c, Sam, Jack and Cpt Swanson were asked to attend an IOA debriefing at Stargate Command to discuss recent events while a team of engineers are working quickly to repair the Alliance.

The briefing ended a few moments ago and everyone left in relatively high spirits, knowing they may finally have the help of the Ancients fighting their corner – for once.

General Landry pulled Jack to one side when the briefing ended and informed him that Linda has requested to see him, in fact she's demanding to see him. Naturally Jack didn't care and wants nothing to do with her, but Landry argued that she said she has some important information and will only talk to him.

"This is a bad idea, General." moans Jack in protest.

"Just go and see what she wants, you don't have to be nice or anything." says Landry.

Jack refused and refused but was eventually ordered to go.


Area 51: High security subterranean facility.


Linda is hunched up and gently rocking on her narrow cot bed and biting her fingernails, looking very nervous, she turns to look at the outer door when she hears the clanging sound of metal keys, the door opens and Jack steps inside the room.

"Don't bother locking it, I won't be long." says Jack to the guard as he closes the door behind him.

When Linda sees Jack enter the room she untangles her arms and legs and spins around to sit on the edge of the cot bed, "Jack, you came." she says.

Jack steps up to the cell bars and looks at her impatiently, "All right, let's get one thing straight, we're not friends, I'm not your buddy or your pal so don't talk to me like we are, all right!. Now, they said you wanted to tell me something...so make it quick." he says.

"You have to take me out of here first, then I'll tell you." says Linda.

"No deal. Say whatever it is you wanted to say to me or I'm leaving." says Jack.

Linda stands her ground, "...take me out of here and I'll.." she starts to say.

Jack gets annoyed as isn't in the mood, "Oor I knew it, I told Landry this was a bad idea. As for you getting out of here you better get that idea out of your head right now, because it isn't going to happen, forget about it. Have a happy life, let's not keep in touch huh - see you later." he shouts and then turns and heads for the door.

"No..wait!" shouts Linda, springing from her cot to the cell door with her arm extended through the gap in the bars as if reaching out to grab him.

Jack opens and stands by the door, "Something you want to say?" he asks.

Linda looks like she wants to say something but remains silent.

"Bye!" says Jack and he begins to leave the room.

Linda appears to panic, "Noo...err...O-O-Omitus...Omitus!" she shouts.

The cell room door stops moving an inch before closing completely, it slowly swings back open and Jack takes a step back inside.

"What did you say?"

Linda lowers her arm and grabs hold of the bars and slides to the floor on to her knees, her head lightly bangs against the bars and she begins to weep, "Omitus." she mumbles, lightly shaking her head from side-to-side.

Jack walks up to the cell and looks down at her, "Where did you hear that?" he asks.

The word 'Omitus' was spoken to SG-1 by Nym, it is part of the information that has been classified top secret and even the people at Area 51 aren't aware of it so there is no way Linda could have heard or seen it, whatever she saw in that room she passed as she was being taken to her cell, it wasn't that word.

Jack kneels in front of the cell to Linda's level, "What do you know about Omitus?" he asks.

"Old...so old...monster.." says Linda, under her breath.

"Hey, hey, look at me. What do you know about Omitus?." asks Jack, speaking slowly and clearly.

Linda slowly raises her head and connects her eyes with Jacks, "Please take me out of here, I'll tell you everything you want to know. Just don't leave me here." she asks.

Jack shakes his head and stands back up, taking a few pacing steps in the room he's conflicted in his own thoughts.

"Please Jack...Sir. I promise I'll tell you anything, you ask a question and I'll answer it I swear." begs Linda.

Every bone in Jack's body is telling him to just walk away, this is just another Goa'uld playing tricks trying to get out by making false promises, he sees her kneeling on the floor and purched against the bars with her wet eyes and cheeks, she genuinely looks scared and lost and afraid of something, but it's a Goa'uld, this is what they do...but she does know something and he can't afford to ignore it.

A few seconds later they feel a vibration all around them, it gets stronger and stronger and the whole room shakes, Linda forces herself up on to her feet, "What is that?!" she shouts, a few moments later and the shaking has stopped.

A guard enters the room, "You all right, Sir?" he asks.

"Yeah, you boys testing missiles down here or something." asks Jack.

"No Sir, it was an Earth-quake." replies the guard.


Atlantis – Pegasus Galaxy


Woolsey was in his office sitting behind his desk, looking a little exhausted putting his signature on a form, he places the form on to a small stack to his left then reaches over and pulls another one off of the foot high stack of paperwork to his right, being in charge isn't as good as it sounds, being the leader of the Atlantis expedition he isn't only responsible for those under his command or the day-to-day running of the city, but it also requires him to file reports and sign-off on inventory, which has quadrupled thanks to the steady stream of supplies from Earth.

As he takes another breath and battles to sign yet another form with his tired and strained wrist, he suddenly gets a strange feeling, like a shiver down his spine, he places the pen down and slowly stands up looking out in to the control room he walks out of his office and walks around for a few moments.

"Mr Woolsey?" says the control room technician, Amelia, after spotting him and seeing him looking a little distant.

"Huh?" mutters Woolsey.

"Are you all right, Sir?" asks Amelia.

"Oh..yes I'm fine." replies Woolsey, "..did you feel something just now?" he asks.

Amelia shakes her head gently, "Like what?" she asks.

"...A vibration..." replies Woolsey.

"Nope...are you sure you're all right, Sir. You have been working pretty hard over the last couple of days, you should get some rest." replies Amelia.

"Yes. Yes, actually I think I will. I'll be in my quarters if you need me. Thank you, Amelia." says Woolsey, and he heads away.

"You're welcome, Sir" replies Amelia, smiling at Woolsey's odd behaviour which has always amused her, she goes back to her duties.

Woolsey had just got to the transporter when the unmistakable loud sound of Atlantis' alarms begin to sound around him, he turns around in surprise and then starts running back to the control room, he hears the hum of Atlantis' shields forming around the city as he runs up the steps.

As he enters the control room he sees Amelia and Zelenka gathered around the sensor console and looking at the screen, "What's happening?" he shouts.

"Proximity sensors just went off." replies Amelia.

"There was a big burst of energy close to the planet, now we're picking up two energy signatures entering the atmosphere." replies Zelenka.

"Wraith?" asks Woolsey.

"No, no I don't believe so." replies Zelenka.

"Ships?...well what is it?" shouts Woolsey.

"I don't know, but they're heading right for the city. Trajectory puts them directly in line with the main tower." replies Zelenka.

They look up towards the ceiling and listen, they don't know why they do that, it's not like they can see outside, just an subconscious instinctive response.

"What's happening?" asks Woolsey in a soft tone, although only a few seconds have passed, it feels like minutes.

Zelenka pushes his glasses back in to position on his nose with his finger and looks back at the screen the moment the objects reach the shield barrier, "Breach..Breach!" he shouts in panic as the objects pass right through.


The objects appear to pass right through the top of the tower and the jumper bay, then one comes crashing through the ceiling of the gate room, personnel who were on the gate level moving boxes and crates dash out of the way covering the tops of their heads with their arms as a ball of white light crashes through the ceiling above them, the light crashes into a large crate below and appears to transform in to person, a person who then bounces of the crate and on to the floor with great force, what appears to be a large dark ball of smoke crashes through just moments later.

Personnel in the control room ducked for cover, Woolsey comes out from behind a console and hurries over to the balcony overlooking the gate level, he looks down and sees dust, bebris, boxes and crates littering the floor, a few personnel who were unlucky enough to be hit by the falling objects can be seen getting to their feet and hurrying away, he spots a woman dressed in a long white gown laying face down on the floor.

"Get medical teams up here now." orders Woolsey as he turns and starts making his way down the main staircase.

As he gets down just 5-6 steps he suddenly stops, the woman laying on the floor below raises her head, her messy and dusty hair partially covers her cut and bruised face, she looks around and then looks at Woolsey when her eyes catch him at the top of the stairs, despite her current appearance, Woolsey can still tell who it is, he recognises her immediately as he stands their in shock.

They look at each other for a few moments then break eye contact when the boxes and crates start to creek and move behind her, as they both look over towards them they suddenly burst in to the air and are thrown in every direction and emerging from the pile they see a creature hovering.

The creature has the shrivelled and bony head, torso and arms of a human, but with a wide jaw, thin long teeth, claws instead of fingers, in place of its legs is just a long winding mess of bone and rotted skin resembling a tail, as it hovers it appears to have wings made up entirely of thick black smoke.

As Woolsey makes a quick retreat back up the steps, the woman on the floor looks at it with intense fear, breathing heavily she swings her body around, when the creature looks down and growls menacingly at her, she screams loudly and starts shuffling backwards across the floor and screaming in panic as she goes.

Just then, Sheppard and group of marines run in through a corridor adjacent to the gate room, Sheppard sees the woman on the floor shuffling away, a split second later he turns and sees the creature after hearing its growl, he doesn't know how he missed it when he first came in, "What the fu..." he quietly sounds with his lips.

The creature turns and sees them stood by the corridor but completely ignores them and lunges towards the woman.

Sheppard draws his side-arm and opens fire on the creature, as do the marines behind him, this appears to p*ss off the creature as it stops mid way towards the woman and turns toward the gunfire, Sheppard runs out of ammo as it starts heading towards them, he darts out of the way when he hears the shout of his team mate running up behind him.

"Move!" shouts Ronon, who casually – yet quickly, strolls in to the gate room and opens fire with his pulse gun.

The pulse fire from Ronon's gun seems to hold the creature back and combined with the heavy fire of the marines P-90 fire the creature eventually goes down after letting out a growl of defeat, it crashes to the floor a few feet from the gate, Ronon runs over and trains his gun on it.

"It's dead." he says, after kicking and shooting it a few more times just to make sure.

"You sure?" asks Sheppard, walking up behind.

Ronon doesn't reply, he just gives Sheppard a brief look, he should have known better than to ask, if Ronon says it's dead then you can be damn sure it's dead, "Good work." says Sheppard.

"The hell is this thing?" asks Ronon.

"I don't know...don't take your eyes off it." replies Sheppard, walking over to the woman cowering on the floor with her arms over her face.

Sheppard kneels down on one knee beside her, hesitantly touching her on the arm, "Are you...you all right?" he asks.

The woman slowly removes her arms from her face, after briefly looking across the floor and seeing the dead creature, she looks at Sheppard and grabs his sleeve, "Help me..help me..please help me!" she cries, looking wide eyed and scared out of her mind.

"Step away from her, Colonel." shouts Woolsey coming down the main staircase.

"What's going on.." asks Sheppard, standing back up, "..do you know her?" he asks.

"Unfortunately, yes. Her name is Adria." replies Woolsey.