Rachel works quickly, her had flying over the controls of the ship, whizzing back to the tablet, back to the controls. Decker has positioned herself at the scanner terminal, keeping an eye on the approaching Wraith cruisers. Her face is calm, impassive, but her eyes are screaming 'crap'.
Rachel pulls back from the controls and runs her fingers through her hair, sweeping the stray strands back from her face.
"Okay, I think I'm done." she says with an audible sigh.
Decker looks back over her shoulder.
"How d'you know this is gonna work?" she asks.
With a slight smile Rachel hit's a button. The bridge seems to shimmer for a second like looking at something through a haze, then Rachel disappears.
"Wow, that's… awesome." Decker breaths.
"I need to get a personal one of these!" Rachel's disembodied voice enthuses.
"So with this, we can increase the look of the damage on the outside of the ship?"
"Yeah, I've only done it on one side though, in case the Wraith decide to dock with us."
"Is that possible?"
"Could be they think, recently struck ship, human survivors… dinner."
"Then aren't we kinda screwed?"
"Nope, look at me… well, no you can't, but do you see? If you stand here with me, press ourselves up against the wall, keep quiet… we get out of this scrape of ours easy of lying!" Rachel exclaims, punching the button again an reappearing before Decker's eyes once more.
The F-302 bay is a whirl of activity. Inside the bay, Puddle Jumpers populate the spaces, each one of them having a final check before deployment. Rodney is running around like a headless chicken, yelling at people and cajoling reluctant scientists into the Jumpers. He boards Sheppard's Jumper and with a united hum, all the Jumpers power up.
Sheppard cloaks the Jumper as the rear door closes and Rodney takes a seat. Radek is grumbling behind him. He'd been iffy with Jumper travel after getting stuck in one with Rachel Miller with no life support and a last second rescue. Rodney throws him a look and Radek gives him a dark look from behind his glasses.
"Okay, we're ready for deployment." Sheppard radios in.
"This is Caldwell, bay doors are open, shield is down. Good luck." crackles Caldwell's voice over the radio.
Radek closes his eyes and winces to himself as the Jumper leaves the comfort of the Daedelus' bay.
The Wraith ship is almost upon them now, the smaller cruiser is circling the Vela like a hyena, checking the stricken ship out. There was a tense few minutes as the Wraith ship approached to investigate the 'damaged' side of the ship. The smaller ship backs off and the second ship moves in to dock with the Vela.