Teyla fell into a lightsleep as she laid on the floor of the Chair room, the city was in Hyperspace, so for the time they were safe, which meant she could finally get some much needed sleep.
As she was sleeping the radio went off, "Sheppard this is McKay come in."
Johns voice answered, "Go ahead Rodney."
"I found something that you might wanna see, though the only area it can be seen is the Control Chair room as it has 3D holographic systems it can show what you need to see." Rodney said
"Great, Teyla is there, might be on the floor where I left her to take Mike to Becketts place, I'll meet you at the Chair and Teyla." John said.
"Got it" Rodney said. Ten minutes Later Rodney entered the Chair room and found Teyla on the floor sound asleep, the first thing he said seeing here was,"She needs the rest." indeed he was right Teyla needed the rest badly after what she had been through. He went to the computer and started typing in all sorts of codes and the holo lit up above the two in the room as Teyla was actually laying on the Chair platform itself which also powered it up so Rodney could get a good look at what he was seeing. "Oh boy Sheppard's gonna flip when he sees this." he said as John came back in.
"See what?" he asked.
"That." Rodney said pointing up at the massive ship in the holo above their heads.
"Wow" John said.
Rodney nodded, "yes wow, look what it runs on for god sakes!" Rodney brought up the holo for power and shields, "It runs on six ZedPMs but in pairs and it keeps forty-eight more in a special made store room" Rodney said pointing to the ship.
"OK, then... where is this massive thing? It looks huge" John said looking at the holo as it came down into a countertop view so the two wouldn't break their necks looking up.
"Well, the database ended up sending the info to what is known as the Furlings, you remember Gen O'Niell talking about them?" John nodded, "Well it turned out that when Atlantis was repowered with the ZedPM we have here now the first time we powered it up, the Furlings headed for Earth to help make the ship, it is a Daedalus Class II ship and is named Wraith's Bane, and it is ready for us to use." Rodney said.
"Then where is this new ship?" John asked.
"Tt's at Earth right now, though at this speed we will be in the Milky Way in... less then a week so we can pick it up or get a look at it." Rodney said.
"Less then a week and we'll be home again, returning to Earth with Atlantis in orbit might not be a good idea unless we radio Earth ahead of time before we come out of Hyperspace" John said, then a thought hit him, he looked to Rodney, "If the chair is needed for the holo to work and Teyla's asleep, how is it still powered up for us to use the holo?" He asked, he didn't see Teyla in front of the chair, but she was behind the thing on the platform, which meant it was actually powered up for only the holo part of it, if she was in the chair they be using more then just the holo.
"Well, Teyla is actually on the chair platform itself, which is giving the platform just enough power to run the holo, not control all of Atlantis." Rodney explained, he pointed to the holo, "But like you say this thing is big, total length, from what I can translate, is seven hundred and seventy meters long, two hundred meters wide, and one hundred ninty meters tall."
"That's big" John said finally spotting Teyla sound asleep on the floor behind the control chair. "Well, I wish I could snooze like that." John said seeing Teyla in the most peaceful slumber in what must have been weeks.
"Heh, well, seems that we will be on Earth for a while, so we might as well get her back to your room so you can clean your wife up, unless you wanna do it here." Rodney said.
"Let her sleep, she needs it." John said looking back to Rodney and the countertop view holo-model of the Wraith's Bane, "I just thought of something. If we sent out that Atlantis was found when we powered up the city with the ZPM, and sent to these... Furlings, that we needed help against the Wraith, that was just over a year and a half ago wasn't it?"
"Yes it was actually now that I think of it, why?" Rodney asked.
"Well if Home and these Furlings are actually making this ship, is it ready for use already? I mean, how long did it take to make the Daedalus?" John asked.
"A little over three years why?" Rodney asked.
"We've been on Atlantis just under two years, and if this thing is right, the ship should be ready for us to use against the Wraith" John said.
"Yeah so." Rodney said.
"Then the ship must have been rushed to be made." John said. "And since we are actually headed for Earth like you said, a deadline must have been set when we powered up Atlantis with the ZPM that first time, which then alerted the Furlings that Atlantis had been found and needed a ship since the rest of them had been blown" John thought.
"What are you saying? The ship not ready or fully equipped?" Rodney asked.
"Yup, that's what I'm saying." John said.
"Ok then this has me thinking, why did the city shake when we were on the water? how did Teyla know what to do with the Chair? How did she know where there was more ZedPMs?" Rodney asked
"Well, we are just gonna have to find out when she wakes up." John said as Weir came on the radio, "Rodney, John, look out the window" They did so and found themselves looking at Earth.
"How did we get here so fast?" Rodney asked.
"I'm the one that is supposed to ask that" John said as Teyla rolled off the chair platform to get up.
"Where are we?" She asked looking out the window as she stood up, "Is that..."
"Yup, that is where we are from, That, is Earth and it is also what the Wraith want." Rodney said, "and that... looks like the ship we are here for" he said pointing to the Wraith's Bane, the ship was twice the size of the Daedalus, and there was a very odd looking ship alongside it, it was a Furling Warship, the thing was at least over a thousand meters long and at least a quarter of that wide and high, "What is that ship?" Rodney asked pointing to the Furling warship.
Teyla went to the window and took a long hard look at it, "I am unsure, I have never seen such a ship before." Teyla turned to look to John as the holo shifted to show the Furling vessel, "That ship, it feels like I know it for some reason, but I've never seen it before." Teyla said seeing the holo of the Furling warship.
"I never seen anything like it either, but then since you did Ascend not too long ago, maybe that's why." John said.
"It could be, but I am not sure." Teyla said looking from the holo to the window, "Is that really your homeworld?"
"Yup, good to be home huh Col?" Rodney said looking out the window.
"You could say that Rodney, I just wonder how any of my family members would feel now that I'm married." John said, "I mean, they weren't happy that I left for McMurdo three years ago."
"You mean you were already married with another?" Teyla asked, feeling as she was married to John for sheer hell of it, "What happened?"
"Well, she didn't like that I was almost never home, whereas here with you, I'm always home" John said, "so we ended up getting a anullment from her church, which said we were never even in bed with each other, now since you and I have been married, I have a better look on life" John explained, taking Teyla into a hug so she wouldn't feel worried that he didn't love her, why would she have to feel that way?
She hugged him back as Atlantis got into what seemed a high orbit around Earth, and the Daedalus lifted off and headed for the planet, "Is it," Teyla started to say, before thinking of something then she tried again, "is it possible to see your homeworld?"
"Actually yes I think it is possible." John said, "Rodney, would you like to join us?" Rodney nodded, he was going back home to see his sister no matter what now since he was so close to seeing her again. "Great, Deadalus this is Sheppard, I need a beam up of three from the Control Chair room on Atlantis can you beam us over?" John asked stepping back from Teyla so the thre could beam up better, "How many of you? I read only three inside the chair room." came a confusedvoice, "That's us, beam us over." John said
The three were beamed over into the Daedalus bridge, "Col Sheppard, why did you want us to beam you over?" Caldwell asked.
"Sure, we wanna go home again." John said, Caldwell just looked at him.
"You want to go back to Atlantis?" He asked.
"No we wanna go to Earth, you get it, home, Earth, hello?" Rodney said looking like a complete dork, but then when he wanted to see his only family(namely his sister) he had to act like a dork, after all it had bee... almost a year since he last saw his sister.
"Yes Dr McKay I get it, you want to be beamed down to the SGC, how about getting cleaned up first?" Caldwell said, mostly to Teyla, who just smiled and pushed her bloodied up hair out of her eyes. "I think it best that you get cleaned up before heading for Earth and the SGC with Col Sheppard, trust me, if the medical staff at the SGC saw you like that, they wouldn't let you out of their sight for at least a week and a half." Caldwell said, which made Teyla look a little confused, so she said.
"I'll be in my room then and will be ready in a few minutes." Teyla headed off for her and Johns cabin to get cleaned up before the they headed for Earth, first thing she wanted to do was see the sunrise that John told her about.
"Fine with me, we are almost in transport range of the SGC, I can beam you guys to the 'gate room" Caldwell said.
"Uh... Col, could it be possible for you to beam me right to my sisters place?" Rodney asked.
"I don't see why not Dr. after all it has been a year since you last saw her face to face, same place as where I picked you both up from last time?" Caldwell asked, Rodney nodded, "OK we are in transport range, so Dr McKay you have as much time as you need, radio me when you are ready to return."
"Right, got it" Rodney said as he was beamed away.
Teyla entered the cabin and started to get cleaned up, she felt something odd about the planet below, but she couldn't tell what it was that she felt right away, it could be either a Wraith or a Wraith turned human she was feeling, but she couldn't tell, she finished cleaning up and headed back for the Bridge, she was ready to go to Earth for the very first time, the last time was only in their minds that the team went to Earth, this time Teyla would see the sunrise John told her about many times.
Entering the bridge she called to John, "I am ready."
"Great, so am I, Col if you would beam us to the 'gate room." John said, and the two were beamed from the Daedalus and into the SGC, Jack O'Niell was actually there in the 'Gate Room waiting for the two to show up, "Well, it is about time you showed Col Sheppard, there are a few people that want to meet you, they're upstairs in the briefing room." Jack said, he nodded to Teyla, "good to see you again Teyla, hope you are John are getting along fine" he said his ever present happy-go-lucky smile on his face as he spoke.
"We are" Teyla said, then she went silent as she had never been there before, the stargate was different, the room itself was not like Atlantis at all, though Atlantis was now in high orbit over Earth, something was bound to go wrong, and Teyla still couldn't shake the feeling that something was near.
"We already got a kid." John said once more showing off the exact same grin he gave Teyla the first time he met her two years ago.
Jack looked to John, "really, you've been busy." he said.
Teyla looked to John confused, why is he telling this man I just met about what just happened to me? she wondered then spoke up, "No not in those terms, more like with help from the Ancestors, the child is with them in their care now."
"Got yourself a cheap set of caretakers for the kid huh Sheppard?" Jack said good humorly.
"Well, it didn't exactly happen that" John said, "You see, we got back from a mission about, oh I'd say... ten hours ago, Teyla was beamed right othe Infirmary on Atlantis, to get helped by Doc Beckett, Beckett left Teyla alone and asleep in the isolation room to keep a better eye on her." Jack seemed to be really uninterested by the tale until John said, "Then when Carson was with me, Wier and Rodney, McKay foound a second lifesign coming from the same room that Teyla was in, it turns out she was pregnant, Beckett went to make sure, and indeed she was."
"Was?" Jack asked.
"Yes, was, within minutes of being told by Carson that the child is actually a Ancient, Rodney and I both fainted, ten minutes later when Teyla woke up, Weir told her she was with child and had nine months, we have never been so wrong about the timing, five minutes later Weir, Rodney, Ronon and myself were in the Stargate Operations area when Teyla screamed bloody murder and had the child, a few seconds after ashe had the kid the Ancients took it up with them to care for it." John said.
Jack looked thoughtful, "uh... huh" he said, then looked to Teyla and and John together, "you two are a good couple you know that?"
Teyla nodded and stepped off the ramp leading to the Stargate, looking around taking in everything, John followed and spoke with Jack as he walked, "plus she killed a Ori and two Wraith Hives."
"Really, that is something to hear, but you can tell us later, we have a few people that want to meet with you Col Sheppard" Jack said, "They want to talk with the guy that is gonna be flying the thing."
"OK not that I'm the guy that is gonna actually fly the new ship, which by the way looks very nice, who thought of the name?" John said.
"Woosley did, thought that if not only could you kill off the Wraith with the Daedalus, you'd need more then one ship, he thought up the name during a meeting, it went like this, I said, 'so we got a new ship, Atlantis database had been informed of it, what are we gonna call it? The Enterprize?'' and Woosley said, 'well off the top of my head all I comes to mind is Wraith's Bane' the cats liked it and we didn't talk about it any more." Jack said as the three entered the hallway then went into the control room and up to the brifing room, and saw four tall-ish feline-like creatures seated at the table, along with Gen Landry.
One of the Furlings spoke, "which of you are the one that brought the Great City to this planet?"
"Uh that'd be Teyla." John said, "by the way, I'm--" John started to say who he was when the Furling cut him off.
"We know who you are, but what of you? We donnot know you, you posses the same power that the Ancients had." The Furling asked Teyla. "Yet you are not of the Ancients at all, how is this?"
"I... uh... I..." Teyla wasn't used to being asked so many questions by those she never ever knew about before, thankfully Red came the rescue
"She joined us Sacri, she Ascended a week back then descended a day later, the reson she has the power to run things on Atlantis is because of her Ascension." He said.
Sacri nodded thoughtfully, "very well, it appears that the Ori and the Wraith well soon be ended once and for all," the feline said.
"What do you mean?" Teyla asked after sitting down at the the table, the window looking out the gateroom below was covered by the blast shield.
"The ship we have made alongside Earth is of Furling technology, which as it comes to no surprise to those that have the power that the Ancients did to run things in their cities." Sacri said, then the alarm went off.
"Unauthorized Stargate activation!" it yelled, "Wormhole estleblished, Iris not responding."
Teyla screamed and grabbed at her head, her nails seeming to dig in, a Wraith Hive Queen had arrived through the Stargate to Earth for the very first time.
John knew what Teyla was screaming about even before she reached for her head, "Seal the gate room now! There's a Wraith in there!" he yelled, the room was sealed, but the Wraith got free. "Damnit!" John and Jack both swore.
Teyla had stopped screaming when she grabed her head, slowly looking up, she had a look of pure dread, "It's a Hive Queen." she said as if completly horrorfied of the thought of one so powerful would dare to come to Earth through the Stargate.
"OK that's bad then" John said knowing full well that a Hive Queen was hard to kill even when it hadn't fed in a while. "Any idea where Becky is?" He asked Teyla, who shook her head, she had no idea where the Wraith had gone. "That's just dandy" John muttered to himself.
Sacri looked to Teyla, "you can sense the Wraith? How is this possible?"
"Well to tell the tale in full would take time, which we donnot have, but I will tell you this, my people were at first used as a test subject for some odd exepriment that we have yet to find out about. However, it was my bloodline that is actually... well, tainted because of the Wraith so long ago." Teyla said.
"I see, Now that a Wraith has made it this far, can you find it?" one of the other felines at the table asked, the female Furling looked somewhat the same as Sacri, only she had brown fur instead of black, her name was Renai.
"I think so." Teyla said tentively, already reaching out trying to find the Wraith. "I think I found her too"
"Where?" Sacri asked.
"Right here" came a voice, everyone turned to look, and there was Becky, ready to fight it out, John swore and aimed his P-90, while Teyla merely stayed seated, waiting to see what everyone else would do.
The four felines reacted and reached for the weapons, Landry spoke first before anything happened, "what do you want?"
"I want the one that managed to kill a Hive on his own without help," Becky said, "I want the Wraith Slayer"
"And why would you want this Wraith Slayer?" Jack asked from his seat at the table.
"So that I may slay him." Becky said.
"Well that is where your gender idea has gone wrong" John said.
The Wraith Queen just looked at him, and Teyla stood up as if to leave, The Wraith hissed and Teyla threw her legknife at it, the others got up from the table as Teyla and Becky got into a major catfight, the Wraith tossed Teyla and she hit the table and rolled off the other side, getting up from the floor Teyla jumped at the Wraith, only to get tossed at the window, which cracked into a lot of spider webs, Teyla once more attacked the Wraith, the blast shield rasied as if my magic to show the gate below. The Hive Queen grabbed at Teyla with her right hand as if to feed and ended up shoving Teyla backwards into the already cracked window, and through the thing to the gateroom floor below, landing on her back with a startled sounding cry, the Wraith followed, and tried to rash ontop of Teyla only to have Teyla roll out of the way, this was not the First Time On Earth expireance she had wanted.