WAR – PART 2

Suddenly Verdain start appearing on board the ships, they grab anyone nearby and start throwing them through the walls like they were ghosts, straight out in to space. Even the Ancients don't seem immune to the attack as many are grabbed by the Verdain and drained of their energy, causing them to disappear.

On Atlantis, all personnel carrying a weapon open fire on the Verdain, the control room descends into absolutely chaos as many people are thrown through the walls and others shot by Verdain energy guns and injured.

O'Neill and Mitchell duck behind a console for cover, constantly leaning out from the sides to shoot at the approaching Verdain, Ronon and Teal'c are down by the Stargate fighting the Verdain any way they can as others frantically run around trying to get away.

Raina, Teyla and Alisana are attending to the wounded, dragging the unconscious across the floor and away from danger.

Teal'c opens fire on Verdain with his staff weapon, it slows them down but doesn't do much damage, he grabs his staff with both hands and uses it as a hand combat weapon, after a while he takes down a Verdain sending it falling to the floor, but another approaches quickly and knocks the staff from his hands.

While this is happening, Ronon is also in hand to hand combat with Verdain, he launches punch after punch and jumping in the air using the full force of his body to pound on them, he manages to knock one down on it's knees, he pulls out his gun but it's knocked out of his hand and lands near the Stargate next to Teal'cs staff.

Both Teal'c and Ronon continue fighting the Verdain with their bare hands but they're slowly being overpowered as more come towards them, soon they're surrounded and with their backs to each other they slowly circle.

"They are proving most difficult to take down." says Teal'c.

"Yeah." replies Ronon.

O'Neill and Mitchell continue shooting the Verdain up in the control room and by concentrating their fire on single Verdain, they begin beaten them one at a time.

Teal'c and Ronon push apart and engage the Verdain in hand to hand combat once again, they team up and attack the them together, using clothes-line tactics and double tackles which although it doesn't kill the Verdain it proves successful in knocking them down.

They continue to attack the Verdain and after knocking down a few more they turn around, as they turn around, two Verdain punch them both and send them flying through the air towards the Stargate.

Teal'c and Ronon land very hard on the floor, after a few moments spent getting their bearings back they see their weapons on the floor, they look at each other and then pick up their weapons, jumping to their feet they stand shoulder to shoulder and open fire, their combined and concentrated fire power successfully shatters the Verdains armour and one by one they fall to pieces.

As more and more Verdain fall, the ones remaining give up and disappear.

"Have they gone?" asks Woolsey.

"Yes, they've gone." replies O'Neill as he stands from behind the console and looks around the room.

As they look around they see wounded all over the place, Keller comes in with medical teams to treat the wounded and it takes a while to take in what just happened and everyone that was lost.


"There's still hundreds of ships heading right for us." says McKay while holding his laptop and cowering underneath a console.

"Swanson, what's the status of the fleet?" asks O'Neill over the radio.

"The Odyssey is gone Sir, we managed to get most of her crew on to the Alliance but our transporters cut out before we could get them all." replies Swanson, "We lost 2 Al'kesh and most of our crew when the Verdain boarded us." she adds.

O'Neill goes silent for a moment, "Hang in there, Swanson." he replies.

"Yes Sir." says Swanson.

"Look." shouts Raina while pointing at the display showing the battle outside.

They see all the Verdain ships heading towards the battlefield, hundreds of them.

Then the great battle ship moves forward to join the battle

O'Neill quickly gets back on the radio, "This is O'Neill, deploy every ship we've got." he shouts.

The remaining Ancients on board the ships get to their feet, as they see the ships approaching they take a few steps back, then they run forward and as they run they turn in to spinning balls of energy and fly out towards the battlefield.

The entire Earth fleet move forward and attack with everything they've got, soon every ship in the fleet is engaged in the battle, the glow from trails of railgun fire, drones, energy weapons, Ancients, Nox energy and constant explosions light up the surrounding space.


Ships are destroyed on both sides as the epic battle wages on, but the sheer number of Verdain ships greatly out number the Earth fleet and the great battle ships weapons are really powerful, they're losing ships at an alarming rate.

"We're not causing enough damage." says Woolsey.

"I know. Why didn't we bring nukes." says O'Neill.

McKay stands up, he clicks his fingers a few times and points at O'Neill, "I've got an idea." he says, then he runs off.

As the great battle ship opens fire on the Earth fleet it causes massive damage, shields are failing and their hulls bombarded with weapons fire blowing holes in the sides of their ships, the towers around Atlantis are struck and one is completely destroyed, crew on all ships being knocked off their feet as panels and consoles explode from power surges.

The Ancients in the form of balls of energy strike the hulls of the Verdain ships but are still unable to penetrate their armour, they manage to weaken many ships but it drains the Ancients energy and soon one by one they start vanishing from the battlefield.

A Verdain ship is struck with the force of many of the Earth fleets weapons and it spins out of control, crashing in to several other Verdain ships, Jumpers and Tel'tak ships completely destroying them, another Verdain ship is struck by the blast wave of the sudden explosion and goes hurtling towards the planet.

The battle ship fires on the Daedalus as it enters the battlefield, unleashing a prolonged wave of weapons fire, Daedalus' shield strength rapidly drops and soon the weapons fire is ripping straight through its hull, the X-302 bays are blown clean off and a massive explosions erupts from the back of the Daedalus.

On the surface of the planet, the Nox are continuing to channel it's energy out in to space, but the Verdain ship sent hurtling towards the planet plummets through the atmosphere and impacts the surface near the Nox, as it crashes on the surface it breaks the circle of Nox and sends them flying through the air in a massive cloud of dust and debris.

With the Ancients nearly all but gone, the Nox knocked unconscious on the planets surface unable to use their powers, and the Earth fleet numbers dwindling at each passing second, this war is nearly over...and everyone feels it.

"General...it was a pleasure serving with you." says Swanson over the radio through a lot of static.

"The pleasure was mine, Colonel." replies O'Neill.

"We did our best Sir." says Carter as she stands with Swanson on the broken bridge of the Alliance.

Everyone stands with a deep feeling of hopelessness, but they have no regrets and remain proud knowing they did their best and fought with honour side by side.

A few moments of silence pass and Teal'c walks up to O'Neill next to the communication console, "We die with honour." he says.