Chapter Four: Arrival

As Clark appeared on the other side, the first thing he noticed was gun fire. Lots, and lots of gun fire. The second thing he noticed was that the reinforcements were already out of the game.

The Stargate was surrounded by tall, slim, pale green creatures. Three of them had long white hair, while all the others had, what looked to him like bone, helmets on.

In front of him, Sam already had her hands in the air. Imitating her again, he sighed and placed his rifle on the ground and kicking it away from him. He then walked cautiously towards her.

"Their the Wraith?" He asked, under his breath.

Sam nodded, looking at him helplessly with a slight shrug. "I guess so..."

"What are we going to do now?"

"The Stargate is the thing we're protecting, so our men should be close by..." She said, glancing around the large hall and up to the balcony's above.

At that moment, a voice yelled out from a door down a set of stairs leading off from the hall; "Fire in the hole!"

"Speaking of the devil..." Carter trailed off. "Get down!" She yelled at everyone, hearing the clatter of a grenade landing near them.

Every member of the reinforcements hit the deck at the same time; at the exact same time as a flash bang went off.

The next thing Clark noticed was a lot more gun fire, but this time in the hall itself. Ten seconds later, the place was a Wraith graveyard. As the after affects of the light bombs faded, three figures walked into view.

Carter sighed, getting up and grabbing her rifle from the floor. "Clark, on me. Everyone else; spread out and guard the entrances."

Clark scrambled to get his gun off the floor, before following Sam to the three saviours.

"Clark, this is Major John Sheppard, Lieutenant Aiden Ford, and I believe, from the reports we've received; Teyla Emmagon?" She asked

Clark looked at the three fighters; all were still armed and at the ready.

"Sam, glad you could make it." The Major said with a grin. "Prometheus arrived half an hour ago. McKay's setting up the ZPM now, but we'll still need to fight off the Darts that stay within the shield."

Sam nodded, "Ok, how many of Ancient Ships do we have?" She asked, glancing around the room to make sure everything was still good.

Sheppard thought for a moment. "Two. A scouting party destroyed one of them before the hives arrived, and we weren't going to send them out against these waves."

Carter sighed, and looked around. "Sergeant Brennan; How many Rail Guns did we bring through?" She shouted into the crowd.

"Seven." Came the curt reply, but they still couldn't pin point his location.

"Ok, well, the Colonel brought five with him when we first sent reinforcements through, didn't he?" She asked, turning back to Sheppard.

"Yeah, they've been up ever since. The Colonels dead, when the Wraith first got inside Atlantis, we took measures to keep them away; and he got killed when he went to secure one of the labs."

Sam sighed, nodding. "Ok." She tapped her communicator. "Rodney, how long will it take for you to get the shields online and working?"

"Sam!" A delighted voice came from Clark's headset. "Umm...I'm not sure; fifteen, twenty minutes max. I need to convert the..."

Clark drowned the scientific talk out until McKay stopped.

"Oh, and John; we have more Drones! Get back to the chair, we've already loaded them in..." McKay trailed off, as the lights flickered on and off.

"What was that, Rodney?" Sam asked, looking around. "Everything's fine in the control room."

Silence came over the communicator for a minute or so, until they all heard a heavy sigh.

"Shit. John, check the outer-sensors to make sure I'm not seeing things..."

The Major's eyes grew wide, as he looked at Clark and Sam. "Quickly!" He said, and they all ran up the large flight of stairs until they reached the main part of the control room.

As soon as he entered, Sheppard punched a counter. "RODNEY, WE NEED THE SHEILD UP, NOW!" He yelled, turning around. "Ford, Teyla, go and get on a separate rail gun each."

Sam's brow was furrowed in confusion. "What's happened, John?" She asked, looking around the room.

All he did was point to a large, flat screen that was on the wall. The planet was on it; and many, many little dots were making their way down to the surface; but what was more disturbing was that, what use to be two larger dots orbiting the planet, had now turned into five.

"Three more hive ships." John said, shaking his head. "I need to get on that chair..." He said, beginning to walk away.

"Excuse me; Major?"

Sheppard turned around and stared at Clark. "And you are?"

"Lieutenant Clark Kent. I was wandering if this Galaxy had a Yellow, or Red Sun?"

The Major blinked for a few seconds, staring at Clark oddly. "Yellow. Why do you ask?"

Clark smiled to himself.