On the bridge of the General Hammond SG-1 and Colonel Carter were helpless as sparks flew and smoke lingered all around them. Meanwhile on the bridge of the Apollo things were looking much better although their shields were faring better then the General Hammond's. "Apollo and General Hammond this is Daedalus" came in over the ships comm. Systems. "We are going to fall back and try to give you guys some breathing room" radioed Col. Caldwell. After receiving the message the Daedalus pulls a hard turn and heads toward the enemy fire as her shields glow blue as the weapon impacts hit it.
"Target the lead Ha'tak with Asgard weapons and fire all forward railguns on the lead Aschen ship." Commanded Caldwell. As the Daedalus opened fire the Aschen fighters and bombers were firing on her like a swarm of bee's defending their nest. The remaining railguns opened fire on the fighters and bombers.
"Sir the lead ha'taks shields are down and is venting atmosphere but minimal damage to the Aschen ship" reported Lt. Stewart.
"Are you telling me that the Aschen shields are stronger then the ha'taks?" asked Caldwell.
"Sir I don't know, I recommend firing one Asgard beam at it and splitting the railguns and other beam towards the ha'taks" reported the Lt.
"Do it" ordered Caldwell and with that one white beam and railgun rounds headed towards the Aschen Battleship. Its shields lit up a green color before the Asgard beam penetrated and caused an explosion on the side of the ship. The ship then turned and plotted an escape course as other ships filled in to protect the damaged ship.
"Direct hit, the shields are down on the battleship and she is retreating sir" reported Lt Stewart.
"Switch all fire on the Ha'taks and plot a parallel course so we can engage the Ha'taks only" ordered Col. Caldwell. Then another Ha'taks shields went down under the two Asgard shots and the railguns penetrated the hull and caused explosions.
"Sir the Aschen fleet is moving to join the Ha'taks" reported the Lt.
"What? Why?" asked the Col. As he looked on with a confused look on his face.
"I don't know sir, up until now we thought the Aschen were wiped out of had decided to leave us alone, looks like they allied with the Lucian alliance" reported the Lt.
"Ok Lt get us out of here and reroute all auxiliary power to shields and engines" ordered Caldwell and with that the Daedalus turned and headed towards the other two Earth Ships. The Apollo and General Hammond had made it clear of the hyperspace inhibitor and had taken up a stationary position at the edge of the inhibitor's ranged and were ready to open fire the minute the Aschen and Lucian Alliance Vessels entered weapons range. "Stephen was seeing that some of the Aschen fleet is retreating with the battleship to protect it" radioed Sam.
"Roger that Sam" responded Caldwell. The Aschen Battleship was retreating guarded by 4 destroyers which left 13 Ha'taks and 25 more Aschen ships that were pursuing the Daedalus and Sam knew that the mines had done too much damage to the Apollo and General Hammond for them to be of any real use in a battle against such odds even with the Asgard beam weapons. The Daedalus caught up with the other two ships and they both fired Asgard weapons and railguns in a salvo then turned and the three earth ships formed up in a line and headed for retreat. Just as the three ships were about to engage their hyperdrives and retreat from the battle 10 more Ha'taks exited hyperspace right in front of them. To make it worse the Ha'taks were escorted by 30 Alkesh bombers. The ships were then under attack from the front and rear, then they turned and headed towards the planets since that was the only way they could head to avoid entering the hyperspace inhibitor. "Ma'am I'm picking up more alkesh leaving the 3 planets on an intercept course" reported Maj. Marks.
" We need to launch F-302's to clear a path threw those alkesh, let Col. Caldwell and Col. Ellis know to do the same." Ordered the stressed Col. Carter.
"Ma'am they are launching fighters as well" reported the Maj. 48 F-302's headed towards the incoming wave of alkesh. They fired missiles and engaged the alkesh as the 3 battle cruisers were being bombarded with weapons fire. Thing didn't look good for the 3 ships of the earth fleet that couldn't be afforded to lose at one time. Luckily the Fighters downed the alkesh and the ships were pulling away from the trailing fleet using military thrust to gain distance.
"I'm reading 10 hyperspace windows opening to port, ma'am" reported the Maj. Then 10 triangular shaped ships exited hyperspace and headed for the Aschen ships that were trailing the Ha'taks trying to keep up. "Do we know who those ships belong too?" asked Sam as she directed the question at Major Marks and the other two ship captains.
"Sam, we don't have an idea if they are friend or foe but our sensors indicate that they seem to be more powerful then the Aschen fleet of 25 remaining ships" Responded Caldwell. Then a message came over the radio "Samantha is that you" asked whoever was on board the mysterious vessel.
" This is Colonel Samantha Carter of the Earth Ship General Hammond, please identify yourself" Said Sam as she stood viewing the screen on the side of the bridge and then a familiar but long forgotten face appeared on it. "Narim, is that you?" she asked.
"Yes Samantha it is I' he responded. Then around the back edge of the hull of the 10 ships blue lights lit up and all 10 ships fired on the Aschen fleet targeting their shields and engines. The Blue balls of energy impacting and disable the ships and the Tollan ships began to disable all the ships in the Aschen fleet. The remaining ships that weren't disabled stopped pursuit and went to the aid of the disable ships. The Tollan ships then started to target the Lucian Alliance Vessels.