Chapter 3

"I must say I like this ship it is a little small but it feels nice and I think you guys do so very good work with your limited tech base. I am very interested about meeting the alien life form reading I picked up." Said the Guardian. "That would be one of our alien allies, an Asgard," said the commander of the Deadalus. The group continued down the hall way to the engineering section. The Guardian was the first one to walk into the engineering control room. "Well this looks interesting what a mix of tech, I take it that this console is Asgard technology," said the Guardian. "That would be a yes," Stated Hermeahd. The Guardian turned around and saw the Asgard alien for the first time. "Well not what I expected" smiled the Guardian. The Guardian held up his hand and a black ray flashed out of his hand and passed through the room and the whole ship out to the edge of the ship's shield. "Well that was an interesting deep scan. You are not in your original body are you?" questioned the Guardian. Hermeahd looked up at the Guardian and said, "How did you know that this form was not my race's original form?" "The deep scan showed DNA damage, damage that could only have come from cloning mistakes in recloning societies." Stated the Guardian. "How many societies have you know that do this? Asked Hermeahd. "A great many, most did not last to long but it looks like you are doing better than most others, as you are helping other races 99 of those cloning races kept to themselves and withered away, a lot of knowledge was lot when they faded into the blackness. But not all it seems that some of them ascended and that made me very happy, but than they were lost to the people that needed them most because they could have help others fight back the darkness. " said the Guardian sadly.

"Dr. Weir, The Wraith Hive ships are coming out of Hyperspace confirmed 12 hive ships, ma'am it looks like they are taking up an orbit over the city, no signs that they have detected the Guardian's ship floating beside us. Ma'am I think they are going to bomb us from orbit" stated the LT. " I think your aid is correct I am detecting weapons lock on and it looks like the hive ships are powering up there main guns no cruiser or darts detected leaving or detaching from the hive ships they may be keeping them together to power the main guns." Stated the Guardian.

The Hive ships in orbit complete their formation and begin firing on the city.

"Sir it is a good thing we changed the Atlantis shield emitters the Wraith are firing on all frequencies. The shield would have held but it would have sucked in a lot of power as it is the shield is taking up 1/4 of the power output of the 3 ZPM's. Sir Major Shepherd wants to talk to you." Said black strike.

"Yes Major Shepherd," smiled the guardian. "Guardian I am in the control chair but it feels different." Said Major Shepherd. "Well the chair should feel different it has full power for the first time in thousands of years, also I have added update systems to it. The control chair should feel different in that it should give you more help I have added a translation program and I have made sure the computer knows that you have not been trained in all of the chairs functions. So it should automatically give you pointers on what to do next if you have no ideas or uncertain thoughts, Well I think you get some practice in with the squids you have never fired more than 2 at a time right, so you need to learn how to fire more at a time. Just think about opening the doors over the firing chamber and try to fire 25 squids but don't fire at the wraith just try to control the energy squids once you can control them I will send up some dummy targets and you try to hit them but I warn you I will not make it easy on you Major Shepherd." said the Guardian. "Ok firing the squids now,(We see the doors open over the firing chamber open and 25 bright orange dots come out and flying complex plans that seem to follow jet plane formations) Ok Guardian I think I have very good control now," smiled Major Shepherd. "Ok sending up the target drones now," said the Guardian.

"All practice drones are down sir it looks like the major can control 115 energy squids at a time with no problems any more and he might burn himself out." Stated Strike. "Damn I was hoping for more, well I guess we have to limit ourselves to that as well but it should still not be a problem with the upgraded shields and nothing the Wraith have can get threw our shields Black Strike. I think that we should lift the city into space but I don't know if Major Shepherd could control firing and the engines at the same time. But the engines are a different system so it should not burn him out just make it harder to operate the engines," Thought the Guardian.

"Well Major I was hoping for more out of the energy squid firing chamber at a time, as what you can fire is what I am limited too, but you do not need to be in a hurry as you have a lot of ZPM's in reserve and the shields are updated so you have time to be careful with the squids and the breeding pool can keep up with that rate of fire for thousands of years. I think it would be a good idea to raise the city into space that way they might launch the cruisers and darts and the others can use the upgraded guns to take them out and you can take on the hive ships with the squids it should take more than you can fire at a time to kill one but if you put your fire on one at a time with a thin stream as the energy of the squid is used up to damage the hive ship you can fire another and so on." Said the Guardian.

The city rose from the sea for the first time in thousands of years and the Guardian's ship Black Strike followed it up but the Wraith did not detect it only the city showed on their scanners. The Hive ships continued there fire as the city rose out of the atmosphere and started to launch darts by the hundreds and the cruisers detached from the hive ships as they stopped firing all main guns and went to close range fire. The darts tried to surround the city but off to one side they just seemed to explode with no reason than Atlantis opened up with close range fire the darts never had a chance than the cruisers opened fire and were they came close to the city the weapons locked on and they exploded with no chance to return fire.

A/N more to come soon