Return of the Leviathans

by ob1292

Atlantis and Avalon are living beings and hold far more secrets than the expedition ever expected see what happens as they cause changes from the very moment that John stepped through the gate.

10. Chapter 10

Chapter 10

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Two Months Later

It had taken a bit of time but with the aid of the control chairs in the Tria and Orion all of the Satedan people had been fully integrated into the city's population. With their addition and the addition of the Daedalus' crew the Lanteans population rose to over 1,000 and when the Aurora's crew fully recovered their population had risen to over 2,000. The former crew of the Daedalus was now stationed on the Orion and Cameron was now the captain of the Tria both crews familiarizing themselves with the new systems. The best part influx of citizens into the city was that there were now over 100 bonded trios and almost triple that number of duos waiting to find their missing partner. The Aurora's crew had been hooked up to the city's energy reservoirs and using their ever growing reservoir of life energy Atlantis and Avalon were able to restore them all to full health.

One month after the Asgard had left the Stargate had activated and the Asgard signal came through. Doing a quick scan John figured that there were a several hundred Asgard present seeing Thor he walked forward and asked if there was a problem the reply he received shocked him. All of the Asgard present wished to bond it appeared that many of them had taken well to the A/B/O dynamic. Another thing that shocked John was that Omega Thor was bonding with beta Loki and Alpha Hemdall. John congratulated them but asked if they were all determined to bond aboard the Aurora or if they would be willing to bond in any of the available bonding rooms because the Aurora only held eight rooms and each trio would require a minimum of one week to complete the bonding process. The Asgard seeing the problem conceded that if they wish to bond anytime soon they will have to use whatever rooms are available so all 36 bonding rooms on all four vessels were occupied for a full month. After the initial wave it seemed that the other Asgard were taking their time to find mates and bond, it also seemed that thousands of years of celibacy made the Asgard quite randy because all those whose bonds had settled were now using the rooms constantly in fact the Aurora's reserves were almost ¾ full. The Asgard seemed to prefer using her rooms as much as possible, and now the Asgard were heading back to Orilla with the Aurora.

John, Rodney, and Ronon were also slowly adjusting to the Alteran repository that had been downloaded into their minds. Though they had not been happy about the strain it would put on them until the adjustments were complete they understood the value of the knowledge so put up with the headaches as their minds adjusted to the mass of information. It would take several months before they could access the information, and then the three of them had to work in sync to access any of the information. Since it was broken up into three separate pieces one in each of their minds, it was a protection that they accepted it prevented any one person from being able to do whatever they wanted with the knowledge.

The scientists had also finished creating a viable inoculation to the Wraith feeding process and had given the information to the people of Hoff who were now distributing it. There was a danger approximately one in one-hundred thousand would reject the inoculations and die from it. The last time they spoke to Hoff they had offered the inoculation to all of their allies and trading partners and were attempting to spread it out to other worlds. The Lanteans estimated that about 30% of Pegasus was now immune, and they were not sure how the Wraith would react when they finally awoke but they knew it would not be good.

The most disturbing event that occurred was that after Helia read all of the files concerning the Replicators she had come to John and the others telling them that the Alterans had actually created human form Replicators hoping to use them in the war against the Wraith. After she gave them the planet's coordinates they had taken the Orion and flown through the solar system cloaked to avoid any form of detection in the event that the Replicators still existed. What they found shocked and terrified many among the Lanteans the scanners indicated the planet was covered with Alteran style structures, and there was not a single life sign on the planet. Instead there were billions of human form Replicators, after the discovery they had high tailed it back home to share the disturbing news. After words they had contacted the Asgard to get the schematics for the Planetary Wide Anti Replicator Weapon (PWARW) so they could destroy them if necessary.

The last exciting thing that happened was that they had found the last Alteran ship known to have survived the Wraith and it was as of yesterday sitting in the SCF undergoing repairs and upgrades. John, Apollo, and Artemis had ignored the former name of the ship and decided to come up with their own so it was changed to the Eclipse.

Just as John prepared to sit down and start going over documents an alarm went off bringing a multitude of people to the gate room all of them looking at a panicked Radek.

"Radek what is the problem?" asked John

"They are moving." Radek replied

"What are moving Radek?" asked Elizabeth

"The Wraith Hives." Was the reply

Still not understanding why he was so upset they were in a better position than they had ever been they could take on a few Hives so he asked. "How many Radek five, ten, fifteen?"

"No. No. John the Hives are moving ALL of the hives are moving they have all awakened!" and now they all understood the reason for panic

"Exactly how many Hives are active Radek? We need a definite number, and do you know why they are awakening now?" Insisted John since they had never gotten an exact count

Peter and Rodney moved to assist Radek of finding the information that John had asked for. All three of them look up at the assembled crowd. "There are 136 Wraith Hives and close to 300 Cruisers. The reason that they awoke is because two of their hives were destroyed by what their data indicates are nuclear bombs, which means that the Genii are behind it."

Cursing the annoying fools that had forced them to begin the war against the Wraith sooner than they had wanted to, they had hoped to have six-ten fully operational warships before engaging the Wraith. At this point they had two and one undergoing repairs, they could easily protect themselves and a few planets from the Wraith, but there was no way for them to protect all the inhabited planets throughout Pegasus. So they began to plan and prepare for the coming war.

Athos had been the one to approach John with an interesting idea to get the Wraith and the Replicators to fight and decimate each other then they could go in and eliminate what remained. The plan that they came up with was to capture a Wraith vessel either a Hive or Cruiser and have it send out a signal to all the Wraith that it had found the new home world of the Ancients. They would also be impersonating the Genii so that no blame would come back to them and to get back at the Genii for waking the Wraith. It took a great deal of planning and work but they finally found a Wraith Cruiser and took control of it. Then they took it to the outer edges of the Replicators solar system and sent the signal to the Wraith indicating their discovery. The Lanteans had also planted a virus in the signal to the Wraith that would make all of the Replicators appear to have life signs the same as the Ancients. After the team finished they were beamed to the cloaked Orion, then the autopilot on the cruiser activated setting it on a collision course for the Replicator planet to help erase all evidence. Now all they had to do was sit and wait for the Hives to arrive so they could use their hyperspace disturbances to leave undetected.

After two weeks of waiting the crew was beginning to think their plan had failed when their scanners indicated incoming vessels. As soon as the Wraith began appearing the Orion left leaving behind a satellite to record and transmit the data from the battle to a remote planet where it would be recorded and relayed to The Tria in orbit so that there was no connection to the Lanteans. They were pleased to find 65 Hives and 130 Cruisers exiting hyperspace, they were surprised to discover that the Wraith did not even attempt to cull the Replicators. The ships just advanced on the planet and began firing, annihilating everything on the planet. After the initial volley by the Wraith the Replicators finally began retaliating using normal Drones and beam weapons. The battle lasted for 12 hours it had decimated the Wraith forces and left the planet in ruins, there was not a single Hive left intact and only three Cruisers had been able to escape. Leaving only 71 Hives and about 170 Cruisers currently functioning both the Wraith and the Replicators had been dealt a crippling blow.

After the excitement of the Wraith, Replicator battle the city was surrounded by Whales that live on the planet they discovered that the sun was currently very unstable which occurred every 15,000 years. They could expand the shield to cover the planet but it would heavily tax their reserves, something they did not wish to do with the Wraith now all awake. Rodney was the one to come up with the idea to capture and utilize the energy; they built three devices that would be attached to the ships. The ships would spread out and create a large umbrella type shield that would funnel the solar flare into a converter that would convert the flare into raw energy and store it into the Eight ZPMs that were currently depleted. However due to the sheer size of the flare they would need to use up the energy as soon as it was stored so the hooked two Asgard Beaming Devices up to each ZPM. The Asgard had advanced their beaming technology so far that they could create anything as long as they had the energy. Each device was set to create a substance four were set for reined Trinium and four for Naquadah, and the other eight were set to generate the rarest useful substances known to the Alterans.

When it was over each Beaming device had generated over 100 tons of their designated substance filling all of the warehouses under the SCF. The Trinium was spread to the four ships to reinforce their hulls and when combined with the Naquadah already present it actually tripled the energy storage capabilities of each ship and increased the strength of the walls by 25 times. They also now had enough materials to so that when Atlantis and Avalon were ready to reproduce again they could feed the new Leviathans and build them a new ship when they were ready.

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Knowing that they could not wait any longer they finished the preparations to launch Eclipse, Orion, and Tria and take the fight to the Wraith. Aiden, Peter, and Teyla were placed in command of the Eclipse and Ronon took over Evan's position as head of city security and was coordinating all of the SG teams since Aiden was now on the Eclipse. The science and engineering department had been busy designing a new fighter that would be added as a complement to all the Lantean ships it was shaped like an X-Wing and three twice the size of a Jumper. It was equipped with two rail guns, two energy laser weapons, and one SBD in the event that they needed to destroy something large. They were equipped with both shields and a cloaking device so they could go on stealth missions. They each possessed a Naquadah/Trinium core that stored the craft's energy each ship was capable of holding a ZPM worth of energy, and when they docked with the ship their reserves would be replenished. They were also equipped with a small Naquadah generator for emergency power. Each warship carried 20 of these vessels and the city had built a bay that held thirty.

Over the next two months the Lanteans waged a full out assault and reduced the Wrath numbers to only 9 Hives and 23 Cruisers. It appeared that the Wraith were attempting to make one last strike against the Ancients because they were on a course for the Replicator home world. So the three warships ended their pursuit not wanting to draw the attention of the Replicators. In the end the Wraith inflicted little damage to the Replicators who were far better prepared for an attack this time destroying the last of the Wraith vessels within minutes of them exiting hyperspace. Once the Wraith were destroyed the Lanteans dialed the Replicators Stargate and fired their Anti Replicator Weapon through it eliminating the Replicators permanently.

Once the Anti Replicator Wave had covered the Whole planet the warships moved in and using their beaming technology rendered all of the structures and Replicator remains into their base materials for later use. A team was sent down to copy the Replicators entire knowledge repository and gather the ZPMs that they had been using all together they recovered 8 ZPMs, however all of them had been depleted long ago and now were used for raw energy. It took the ships two weeks to complete their task and they were able to recover a massive stock pile of raw materials for their future use.

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After the short war with the Wraith the Lanteans returned to the city to rest though none of the Lanteans had been killed several had been injured when traveling to various planets in order to help them during the war. Many of the trios in the city had also chosen to make ZPMs since they were necessary and once the six they had were depleted they would have no more. Much to everyone's disappointment they found that a ZPM had to set idle for at least a thousand years before it could be utilized. They also found out how the Alterans had seeded life throughout the galaxy. ZPMs were produced and filled with life energy and after the first thousand years of setting idle began to naturally generate small amounts of life energy. So the Alterans would place several new ZPMs on planets capable of sustaining life and leave them for thousands of years. By doing this they would accelerate the natural process of evolution allowing races to grow much faster than they originally would have.

The John also went to speak with Chaya and asked her to get in touch with the Ascended council on the Lantean's behalf and ask for them to send a representative to the city. As soon as they returned there was there representative was there asking what they wished to speak about. Elizabeth stepped forward and told the Ascended Alteran that that they wished to clean up the Pegasus galaxy of all traces of Alteran technology so that it did not fall into the wrong hands and asked them if they would provide the Lanteans with the locations of all of their hidden labs and outposts. The Ascended Alteran had been hesitant, but saw the value of picking up all of the technology that was left lying around. After they were given the list of addresses he said that the council requested that they destroy all data, research, and technology at the addressed marked in red because they were things that should never have been built but in their desperation had made terrible mistakes. Elizabeth agreed that they would do their best to destroy what the council had requested and also asked if there was a way to contact them again if they needed to speak. The Ascended Alteran had given her a Stargate necklace and told her that if she dialed the correct address on the gate it would send out a signal to him telling him she needed to speak with him, and then showed her the address to dial.

The entire time the two had been talking waves of attraction were pouring off the Ascended Ancient and Athos. Just as he was about to leave John stepped forward and asked for a private word. John had told him that if he wished to descend and join them in the city he was welcome as long you follow the rules of the Leviathans. John found out his name was Maximus and he would consider John's offer.

The next few weeks the Lanteans were busy cleaning up the many labs throughout the galaxy the most disturbing one they found was a powerful weapon on the planet Doranda. The entire planet reeked of negative emotions and once they reached the Alteran lab and unsealed the doors bodies littered the hallways. They found that the lab was an experimental weapon that they Alterans were testing with an alternative form of energy. Since life energy was so powerful, but had become so hard for them to obtain and create they choose to go the opposite direction and attempt to power the weapon using Anti Life Energy or Negative Energy. They had discovered too late that it was almost impossible to control; the Negative Energy generator that they built drew the energy from another plane of existence to supply the weapon. This is part of what made them hopeful because they believed that they could simply switch planes if the source ever dried up, however when they turned it on they discovered that it was too chaotic and unpredictable to control. The most disturbing discovery though came when they tried to shut it off; the radiation from the Negative Energy was so toxic that it ripped through all of their containment protocols. Then it spread across the entire planet infecting everything it came into contact with, whatever it did not kill it turned in terrible creatures that tore each other apart until there was nothing left except death and destruction. The scientists had given their lives to shut down the generator and seal the lab.

They all walked back outside and John ordered the Orion to beam them up, once on board John turned to Rodney and told him to destroy the planet. Shocking all on the bridge except those who had been in the planet so Rodney used the weapons on the Orion to detonate the planet's core just as the Orion escaped into hyperspace to return to the city. Once back in the city several different people were angry with John for his decision to destroy and entire planet until he shared the entire experience with everyone by using the control chair to amplify his telepathy.

Interestingly it had only taken Maximus five days to descend and join the Lanteans it seemed that he and Athos hit it off immediately and were now just looking for an Omega. Other than the clean up the Lanteans were improving their relations with several different races and just relaxing now that they were no longer under the constant threat of the Wraith. So it was a shocker when the Stargate dialed in and a message came through form Earth from the newly created United Nations Stargate Council. The message was a call for help and some recorded footage from planets in the Milky Way what really shocked the Lanteans was that there were Wraith there culling different planets. The reason that they were contacting the Lanteans was that the Asgard had attempted to fight the Wraith and lost six of the seven vessels that they sent, the only one to survive was the Aurora and she had only done so because two other Asgard ships had moved to cover her escape.

The recording of the battle with the Asgard had also been sent and it worried the Lanteans because twelve of the Hives were half again larger than normal Hives and the thirteenth was easily double the size of a normal hive which was saying a lot. After a brief discussion with the senior staff they were all in agreement that they had to go and help the people in the Milky Way.

"Cameron take the Tria and go to the Alteran Weapons Platform use your tractor beams and hook on to then take it and go straight to Earth. Take three of the ZPMs with you to power it, it will need the power and station it in orbit above Earth. We will be right behind you as soon as the Orion and Eclipse are locked in with docking clamps and we recall the MDFs." Ordered John receiving a round of nods from everyone

John had another task to undertake though and he was unsure how to do it, he felt they would need all of the ZPMs that they could get to and they only had six three of which were now being installed in the Weapons Platform. So he took Ronon and Rodney into the chair room to discuss with Atlantis and Avalon. The plan that the five of them came up with was that John would take all of the ZPMs that they had created put them into sealed boxes that would contain all of the energy they would give off so no alterations would occur and was reinforced enough to protect the precious cargo then go back in time with them. Once there he would leave them on the main land. So the trio quickly gathered the ZPMs, put them into the boxes, loaded them into the jumper, and went back in time 5,000 years since they wanted to ensure that all of them would be ready. Once on the mainland they found a cave that had still existed in the future and left the boxes there and the traveled to their time. After they returned they removed all of the debris from the boxes loaded them back up and returned to the city.

Now a bit more secure about their emergency power situation the trio went to the control chairs to begin the long journey back to Earth, it only took them two days to arrive with the Alteran hyperdrive luckily the engines were all functioning properly. When they arrived they saw the Tria in orbit alongside the Weapons Platform and the Daedalus and another ship just like it not far away. Using their holograms the trio appeared on the Daedalus where they found General Hammond in command and on the other ship a Colonel Paul Emerson introduced himself as captain of the Odyssey.

"It is good to see you back in command general though I thought you had retired. Perhaps some introductions are in order for those who don't know us. I am Keeper John Sheppard of the Leviathan city ship, this is Rodney McKay Chief of Science for the city and my Beta mate, and this is Ronon Dex Head of city security, commander of the SG teams, and our Alpha"—A smiling John spoke as he introduced his mates

"I was until that bunch at the IOA went ape shit and screwed everything up. Due to the lack of confidence created by the IOA and with Jack rejoining SG 1 they pulled me out of retirement hoping that with my record and experience from the SGC it would help the public trust that they were doing everything they could to fix the problem."

"Are they general, are they doing anything to tear apart the IOA and find all of the corrupt officials or did they just find a few scapegoats to take the blame and bury the rest?"—John

"For the most part yes, but there are some who know too much or are too well connected to be prosecute. The other problem is that most of the evidence seemed to disappear before the investigators could get to it."—Hammond

"Well that is terribly unfortunate perhaps we can help. Rodney why don't you send the general what he is missing. General the data you are receiving is everything that we found on all of the corrupt and illegal dealings of the IOA and those connected to them. It is also only a copy so in the event that it disappears again we would be happy to replace it."—John replied with a feral smile

"Thank you it will help us immensely we have been going in circles trying to recover the information that they erased. I would like to say thank you for coming to help us I am sure that many among you harbor resentment for what the IOA did"—Hammond

"It does not matter what we feel for the people of Earth, it is our responsibility to eradicate the Wraith we don't know how they were able to reach the Milky Way but they are the last of their kind and we intend to finish them."—John

"You mean that you have destroyed all of the Wraith in the Pegasus galaxy?"—Hammond

"As far as we know there are no more Wraith in Pegasus, but with these thirteen hives escaping there may be more out there that we don't know about."—John

"How? I thought that there were millions of them and a couple hundred of their ships."—Hammond asked shocked

"The Genii awakened them prematurely from their slumber and we were forced to wage war against them sooner than we anticipated, but we destroyed or caused the destruction of all 136 Wraith Hives and about 300 Wraith Cruisers that we were able to find. These thirteen must have separated from the rest of the Wraith before we arrived in the Pegasus galaxy or somehow cloaked their presence from the rest of their kind. Because we are using Wraith programs to track them and none of the thirteen hives in the Milky Way show up on those systems. We have never seen Hives the size of those twelve they are about half again the size of a normal Hive ship and the thirteenth that is easily double the size of a normal Hive and the shape and design is completely different."—John

"General, Colonel were your built to incorporate ZPMs as a supplemental power source?" after receiving a nod from both "Then here is a fully charged ZPM for each of your ships. Someone will also beam aboard to augment your shields and weapons to incorporate the increased power levels soon." Stated Rodney as a ZPM beamed on the bridge of each ship and floated to the nearest person.

"General I request permission to land the city on Earth so we will be able to conserve energy and if the various governments are willing some of our people would like to visit their families. We have put this off as long as possible due to the deceptions of the IOA many feared that anyone who knew we were actually alive would become a target and the IOA would kill them cover up the truth."—John

"Yes the UNSC stated that if you did answer our call you were welcome to land on the planet. If I may make a suggestion it would be best if you landed in international waters to prevent any governments or politicians from getting any foolish ideas."—Hammond

"Agreed and thank you for the suggestion it would not do to have anyone believing that we are siding with them simply because the city is setting close to them."—John

"Also it is fine with them if you wish to see your families they simply ask that you limit the weapons you carry, and John I have spoken a couple of times with your father since the Stargate was revealed he has been pushing very hard for information about you. He said that he really need to see and speak with you and it seems that your brother Adam was injured in combat and wishes to see you."—Hammond

Though John was tense and upset with having to see his father he really wanted to see his little twin brothers Adam and Evan. "Thank you for the information, allowing us to land, and see our families. Now what climate do the two of think we should choose I am thinking tropical what do you say?" After receiving two nods he nodded his own head and their holograms all blinked out.

From the moment that the Tria had exited hyperspace all of the images were being broadcast around the world in an effort by the UNSC to keep the people informed about what was happening beyond their little planet and to try to get the population used to the idea of Aliens. So the world watched the arrival of the city ship and the conversation that followed the information that had been shared about IOA had the investigators around the world delighted since they were having little luck in their own investigations. Now they were watching as the city advanced towards the planet and began its descent.

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OK I think that is a good place to stop. Enjoy