Author's Note: Right, so, the muse puked; I had to get a new one, and that one failed, so…third time's the charm? Anyway, that's what took so long. I had to order the muse on the internet, and…it's dicey.

Spoiler Alert!: Atlantis will stay in Alagaesia.

In the gym: Boom. "What was that?" asked the elf boom.

"Atlantis is under attack." boom "Come with me, we have to get to our stations." boom

"Damn Wraith, why can't they just go pick on someone less protected than us?" boom, boom "Damn it!" The now very disgruntled ranking officer picked himself up off the floor. "Why us?" boom "Let's see. The Daedalus gets here in four hours, we just have to hold out for four hours."

Rodney walked in. "There you are, Major! I've been looking all over for you."

"Well, here I am. What's going on?"

"The Wraith are attacking."

"I got that, Rodney. What are we going to do about it?"

"Well, Elizabeth was talking with the elf, ah, queen whats-her-name, and she mentioned that there was some sort of cylindrical object, well four, actually, and when Elizabeth had me show the queen what a zedpm looked like, the elf was all like 'yeah, that's exactly what they are'. So of course we told them how valuable they are, and the queen offered to give them to us."

"With no catch?"

"Well, if we take them, we are to help with their war, but if we decided to say, deactivate the shield, we could take Atlantis there, and the Wraith would never be the wiser."

"Get on it. And tell the queen what's-her-name that on behalf of the military contingent, we accept. However, we need those ZPMs right now."

"Right." The leading scientist practically ran out of the gym.

"I guess we go to the Gate Room now." boom "That was close! Let's get out of here."

They ran out of the room, weapons and sparring forgotten. Tapping the screen for the Gate Room, Sheppard stepped out of the Transporter as soon as the doors reopened. Running over to the ops station he asked the tech what was happening outside.

"They've stopped the bombardment, and there are darts on the way. I think they intend to capture Atlantis."

"Alright, issue P-90s to anyone that can handle them. Tell them to fire at will, and don't hesitate. Dr. Wier? Is it true? I heard that the queen offered us four ZPMs provided we help them with their war."

"Yes. I sent McKay to check it out. Can you do anything about our uninvited guests?"

"Can you handle a gun? I'm going to need all the help I can get."

"Unscheduled 'gate activation!"

"That would be McKay.""McKay! What did you find?"

"The ZedPMs are all fully charged. We can raise the shield and fly out of here in five minutes or less. Can I come in now?"

"Oh! Yes, the shield is down, feel free to come back home."

"Thank you. Oh, because I didn't bring the ZedPM carrying case, I just asked a couple elves to help carry them. I hope you don't mind."

"No, when it comes to survival, I would have done that too."

Rodney came through the 'gate along with three other elves, and proceeded to the power room.

"Well, I'd better get down to the chair room. I'm sending Rodney back to the planet so that he can shut down the shield when we get there. Better yet, I'll have Zelenka go…" He dashed off, headed for the Chair.

~"Attention, All personnel, we are about to fly the city out of here. All equipment is to be secured for liftoff, it's going to be a little bumpy as we clear the atmosphere. And Rodney, if you could come to the Chair Room as soon as the ZPMs are in place, I need to talk to you."~

Rodney found Sheppard slowly spinning in the Chair three minutes later when he arrived. "What did you need?"

"Can we cloak the city?"

"Not without taking the shields off-line."

"Do we have a thermonuclear device that we can blow up?"

"…Yes, why?"

"Tell the Wraith that we intend to blow up the city in order to keep it from falling into their hands. Then from a cloaked Jumper, detonate the device outside of the shields, then switch to cloak. When they leave, we will lift-off, engage the shields again, and fly to the planet with that really cool shield thingie over it."

"What if they don't buy it? They could just decide to help us blow it up."

"No, they need Atlantis so they can find Earth. If we decide we are going to blow it up because of them, they will retreat, and hope that we don't blow it up. If they find that we are still around, they will find a slightly sneakier way in. We're going to 'blow it up' anyway, if for nothing more than the fun of detonating a thermonuclear device."

"You and explosives." muttered the scientist.

"The Daedalus gets here in about three and a half hours, so we are going to keep the shield up until we can get the Daedalus to drop the bomb on the shield, then we get out of here, maybe a day later. Could you tell the queen that I would like to talk to her? I'm going to get cleaned up a bit." Indeed, the fearless leader of the Atlantis military was rather dirty from the shelling before the shield was erected around the city.

"Yeah. Wow, you really are dirty."

"Thanks for the heads up, Rodney. I couldn't have figured that out by myself."

In the conference room: "We agreed to help you with your war when we received the ZPMs that you had available. We are under bombardment, and cannot move until they leave. Now, we are going to tell them that we are destroying this city to prevent it from being captured by them. Because we stand between them and earth, they will do almost anything to prevent that, and capture this facility. There are shields around your world, and if we deactivate them, we can fly this city to your world, and help you that way. Or, we can send people through the gate to your world, and help that way. If we move, we will be able to help you more easily, and we won't have to deal with a constant Wraith threat. We will honor our agreement if you deny us asylum, but we will not be able to devote all of our attention to help you. Can we come?"

The elven queen tilted her head, considering. After what appeared to be a silent conference with her advisors, she looked at John and stated thus: "You may come to our world. We will give you three days after this scum in orbit leave."

Sorry that was so short, I've been having difficulties coming up with stuff to write, and I didn't want you guys to think I had abandoned you. SO…

Answers to readers: Master of the Blood Wolves: I have no clue about the Anubis drones, the bugs that look like metal spiders are Replicators (read: Nanites), and I don't know who Ork Warboss is. That leaves the Wraith. Ding, ding, ding! You're a winner! I'm glad I had no errors in the last 'episode'.

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