Secia's creatures had entered the SGC via the Stargate and begun their attack across the entire facility, personnel were taken by surprise as they flew, roared, clawed and ripped their way through the base one level at a time, most of them did not survive and the attack continues, Linda was also a victim having been crushed by a falling wall in the corridors, Daniel and Teal'c took a few moments to stay with her in her final moments after realising they could not save her, she passed away from her injuries a few moments ago.
Teal'c gently slides his palm over Linda's eyes before reaching around for his weapon and standing up, giving her an honorary bow of respect and thanks for saving his life.
"We must move from this location, Daniel-Jackson." says Teal'c, slightly turning his head towards Daniel.
"Right. You go ahead I need to grab something, it could be important." says Daniel, stepping backwards towards the door, "I'll catch up." he adds.
"Very well." replies Teal'c, and he takes off gaining speed as he runs down the corridor and around a corner, cocking his shotgun.
Daniel enters his research room and starts rummaging through his books lined on the shelves, occasionally pulling the odd one out, realising its the wrong one and dropping it on the floor, he pulls out a big old looking book covered in dust which he blows off, "There you are." he says with a slight grin, he takes one final look around and then heads for the door.
When he gets a few feet from the doorway he suddenly stops after feeling a vibration and hearing a rumble, looking around he sees a small cloud of dust fall from the ceiling outside in the corridor, then chunks of plaster falling to the ground, he tries to dash out of the doorway but more rubble drops sending clouds of plaster smoke in to the room choking his air supply, as he moves to the back of the room he hears a louder rumble followed by the sight of the the base level above collapsing into the corridor outside.
When the rumbling stops he covers his mouth and nose with the side of his shirt and walks over to the door wafting the dust away with the book he's holding, the collapsing rubble has completely blocked the doorway, he's trapped in his room with no way out, "Ooh, that's not good." he moans.
In the gate room, Secia stands slowly glancing around the room, the lifeless bodies of several marines lay scattered all around, a pulsing red warning light flashes in patterns along the walls as the alert siren continues to sound and echo in the air.
Sam is standing by the small narrow window looking down at the gate room from the global command room above, she sees Secia slowly tilt her head back to look up at her, when she sees Sam standing at the window she grins and lowers her eyebrows in a menacing manner, Secia suddenly looks away when Jack enters the room from the side entrance.
"Hey!" shouts Jack, standing and holding a powerful M60 machine gun.
As Secia turns around to face him he pulls the trigger and lets loose, a few moments later Teal'c enters and opens fire with his shotgun, when the shotgun is out of shells he tosses it aside and swings a P90 around from his back and fires, as they run out of ammo they try Zats and Staff weapons but despite shooting off thousands of rounds hitting their target dead on, it's done absolutely nothing to Secia, who just stands there.
"Alright...alright. Teal'c, T...stop." says Jack, seeing Teal'c still firing a Zat, "..Its not working." he adds, with a hint of anger and failure in his voice.
Teal'c lowers his Zat.
"Are you finished?." asks Secia, "Your weapons are so messy, extremely primitive and will do me no harm." she adds.
"Look, what the hell do you want?." replies Jack, frustrated.
"I want to go home." says Secia, she steps a little closer to them, "What do you want?." she asks.
Jack points to himself, "Me, what do I want...well lets see, world peace, my knee to stop aching every time it gets chilly, I wouldn't mind having my parking space back...and oh yeah..I want you to drop dead!." he says, "..you know what, just drop dead and forget everything else." he adds.
Secia's childish mind is a little amused by Jack's response, "I'll make you a deal, you give me what I want and I'll leave your world and withdraw my army." she proposes.
Jack glances at Teal'c, "Fine, what do you want?." he asks.
Secia just stares back at him and they all remain silent for a few moments.
"Well?." asks Jack, puzzled by the lack of response.
"Colonel Carter." says Teal'c.
Jack glances back and forth between Teal'c and Secia looking confused, "Excuse me?." he says.
"Colonel Carter is the one she wants, O'Neill." says Teal'c.
"Cart-...Sam?!." says Jack, he looks at Secia, "You want Sam?!" he asks, "Forget it." he says firmly.
"I will get what's rightfully mine." says Secia, responding firmly.
"Yeah, over my dead body. You stay away from her or I..." says Jack, getting angry at the mere thought of her getting close to Sam.
"What?, you'll what?. Do you really think you can stop me, your weapons can't hurt me." says Secia.
"Oh yeah. You hear that?." says Jack, focussing her attention on the automated voice of the base auto destruct countdown coming through the speakers, "In about 6 minutes this base and everything in it..including you..will be vaporised." he says.
"Including all of you." says Secia.
"If that is the way it must be. I will take great pleasure in watching you burn as we all die together. The people of this galaxy will be free and you will be able to hurt them no more." says Teal'c.
Secia narrows her eyes and then the sound of the creatures roars start to sound down the corridors, getting louder and louder as the creatures approach.
Teal'c looks back and down the corridor, "O'Neill, the creatures are approaching." he says.
"Crap!." says Jack, walking over to the lifeless bodies of the marines and taking their weapons and ammo and handing some to Teal'c.
Milky Way Galaxy - Atlantis
The city is under a relentless attack from the hundreds of remaining enemy ships all around it who keep circling around them, all the Jumpers have been destroyed with the loss of many members of the Atlantis team, including Ronon and Teyla, the last of the Jaffa, Tok'ra and Tulla ships helping in the fight fell just minutes ago, Atlantis is all that remains and as the power of the ZPM is quickly draining, they're only a few attacks away from complete destruction.
"I told you we need to leave now!." shouts Zelenka.
As the city is hit with constant weapons fire it rocks and sways, the shock waves are penetrating the weakened shield and causing the outer buildings that line the city to crumble and fall, the peak of the tower also being close to the shield perimeter has suffered damage as well, part of the tower by the Stargate has collapse leaving a big hole in the wall making space outside visible.
"And go where?!, we're out of Jumpers, Atlantis is no longer under control...we have nowhere to go." replies Sheppard, frustrated, he's a military man and his job is to defend against the enemy but there isn't a damn thing he can do about it.
Atlantis' alarms begin to sound, Zelenka turns to his console and sees the worst has happened, "The shield is failing...we won't survive the next attack." he says, turning back.
Knowing there's nothing they can they stand by the balcony railings looking out through the broken wall of the tower and watch helplessly in to the distance as a wave of enemy ships heads towards them, "It was a pleasure serving with you both." says Woolsey, looking at Sheppard and Zelenka before turning back to see his murderers approaching.
As they all hold on to the railings so tightly it cuts off the blood flow to their fingers and squeeze shut their eyes unable to watch their own demise, a few moments go by when the ships should have opened fire and they should all be dead, but nothing happened, opening their eyes one by one and realising they're alive.
"Is that it, are we dead?." asks Zelenka.
"I...don't feel dead." says Sheppard, slowly poking Woolsey's shoulder like in a dream to check he was real, "..you look alive to me." he adds.
"Where did they go?." asks Woolsey.
At that precise moment they hear a loud humming sound above them, followed by a roar like the sound of a jumbo jet passing overhead, as they look up and out of the hole in the tower wall they see the metallic underbelly of Destiny flying by them with all guns blazing, followed by several smaller Seed ships moving ahead and attacking the enemy.
"This is Atlantis." says Sheppard, grabbing his radio with surprise after hearing a voice come over it.
"Colonel Sheppard, is that you?." asks Mitchell.
"Yeah...who is this?." asks Sheppard.
"Its me, Mitchell. You didn't tell us you were having a party." replies Mitchell.
"Well consider yourselves invited, come on in." replies Sheppard, still surprised at their arrival.
On board Destiny, "Time to pull out the party poppers, Colonel." says Mitchell, standing on the bridge and turning to Colonel Young whose sat in the captains seat.
"Scott, Rush...fire everything we've got at those ships." says Young, he turns to Camille who is sitting at the communications console, "See if you contact Earth, let them know we've arrived." he says.
Now that Destiny has arrived back in the Milky Way, the odds have once again been evened out, and not a moment too soon, Atlantis was on its final breath and about to be destroyed, Destiny, the Seed ships and enemy ships now circle Atlantis like a swirling pool of water, moving in opposite directions in a chaotic fashion and mess of ships and weapons fire, the war once again rages on in what could be the deciding battle.
The USS Lincoln, which was crippled and the only ships to survive the first battle over Abydos, managed to get its engines back online and head back toward Earth, as it approached its sensors detected the battle now underway close to the planet but Captain Philips decided not to stop, the ships shields are offline and they have no weapons to fight with so stopping to join the fight would do no one any good, instead he drops the ship out of hyperspace behind the battle and pushes for Earth orbit.
Stargate Command
Daniel has been trapped in his research room for about 20 minutes, despite his best and exhaustive efforts to remove the rubble blocking the door and dig his way out, he's been unable to move enough to make any difference, all he's done is move rocks to reveal even bigger ones in his way, the ventilation system has also cut off which is thinning out the air and the dust from the dirt isn't helping matters.
He stands up in the middle of the room, arms on his hips and breathing heavily, wiping the sweat from his brow with his dirty cut hands he just happened to glance over to the corner of the room and he spots the cable of the intercom phone dangling from the wall, mentally bashing himself for not thinking of this earlier he rushes over and digs out the receiver from under the rubble and attempts to call for help.
"Come on, come on come on..." he says, holding the receiver to his ear desperately waiting for someone to answer, "..please pick it up...someone pick it up." he says.
Walter was in the control room locking out the systems and on his way up to Landry's office when he just made out the sound of the phone ringing on the wall over the sound of heavy gunfire coming from the gate room as Jack and Teal'c shoot the creatures swarming down the corridors.
"Oh thank God." says Daniel.
"Dr Jackson?." asks Walter.
"Yeah, yeah its me." says Daniel with a chuckle of relief, "..I need some help, I'm trapped in my research room, can you send someone down to help dig me out." he says.
"We're under attack Dr, the levels above have been overrun by these things. Just..just don't move I'll inform the General and try and get someone to help." replies Walter.
"No, no, no...Walter, my air is running out in here. You have to get me out...please." replies Daniel.
A creature is shot by the control room doorway but it's not completely dead and starts to clamber up the small steps towards Walter, he jumps and drops the phone before running off towards the stairs and up to the briefing room level.
"Walter?!...Walter?!" shouts Daniel over the phone, unaware of what's happening.
Realising that help probably won't be coming, his hand lowers going limp dropping the receiver on the floor, he then presses his back to the wall and slowly slides down it to a seated position knowing he doesn't have a chance, "Great." he moans.