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Carter was back in the gate room helping with the escape efforts, more explosions rattled the SGC from above this time a lot closer than previous ones, and the General could tell their attackers were progressing downwards. Landry had just finished entering his authorization code to arm the SGC's self destruct sequence; if the Daleks could not be stopped the base and equipment inside had to be destroyed to defend the human race and planet Earth. Teal'c ran into the control room surprised to see Landry hadn't gone through the gate "General Landry you should leave for the Alpha Site immediately"

"I am not going anywhere Teal'c, I need to ensure personnel are evacuated" Landry shook his head and turned his head towards him also surprised to see that Mitchell was not with him "Where is Mitchell?"

Teal'c did not know the answer to his question bearing in mind what he had just seen "Colonel Mitchell entered the box we recovered from the Doctor and it disappeared to I do not know where General" Teal'c averted his gaze out through the window of the control room to the gate room where the last of the personnel bought down from the upper levels were running through the gate followed by supply boxes.

"Colonel Mitchell this is General Landry, come in" Landry said through his radio and waited for a short time for a response before trying again "Mitchell, come in" Each time he tried the radio replied with a crackle but nothing else "Damn" Landry muttered to himself under his breath. The radio next to him came to life but it wasn't the voice he wanted to hear "General this is Lieutenant Reynolds, the Daleks have reached level 27 sir, we are doing our best to slow them down but they will reach you within minutes"
Landry sighed and scratched the back of his neck not knowing what he was supposed to do next, he pressed the button down on his receiver and spoke through "Lieutenant this is the General, try and fall back to level 28, seal the doors and get yourselves through the gate" Landry released the button and waited "Understood sir, we will attempt to get back, Reynolds out"

It was short time after the lieutenants transmission that another came through on the screen above them, this time it was Colonel Caldwell with the Daedalus "General, the Daedalus has arrived, we have come under fire from the enemy ship, we will return fire and do our best to take them out" Sparks flew out of the consoles behind the Colonel as the ship was hit by another bolt from the Dalek ship.

Caldwell closed the transmission and turned to the controller on his left "Revert power to shields and weapons, fire everything we have got at that ship" She replied with "Yes sir" Caldwell then turned to the other "Evasive manoeuvres, reduce the amount of fire taken from their weapons, get around them"
The ships alarm was ringing constantly to indicate damage and weapons lock from the Dalek ship, the Daedalus shook violently as it was hit over and over "Shields at 60%, attempting to revert more power"
The Colonel felt he did not have to respond and continued to stare out of the window into the blackness of space which was lit up weapons fire from both sides.