"John, we have a gift for you." Jack, Real Jack, was saying over the radio. "Somehow she ended up in our galaxy."

"Who is it?" John's voice asked.

"Her name's Larrin I think." Jack said. "Said she was in command of a generation ship by the name of Legacy and it belongs to the-"

"Travelers," John finished for him. "Send her through."

"Ok, you can tell me about it later." He looked at Fake Jack, "I have unfinished business here."

"Ok." The radio cut out.

Jack pressed the intercom to the gate room. "You have permission to head to Pegasus again."

She walked through the gate and the wormhole closed.

"Now then, what about me?" Fake Jack asked as he clapped Real Jack on the shoulder.

Jack sighed, this would be a long day of paperwork and confusion, and more paperwork, then more confusion, and the paradox would continue until one of them either died, or went MIA.

"How the hell did you reach my home planet?" John asked Larrin as she walked through the gate. "I thought you were looking for safe planets in our territory?"

"We were." She said smugly. "Its just we went deeper than you expected."

John rolled his eyes. "Alex, John, Lauran and Edd, stand down."

Four armoured soldiers uncloaked before her eyes. They stood like statues then turned around like an uncoordinated rabble and headed through each door in pairs of two. They cloaked just as they turned a corner.

"What was that about?" She asked as John walked down a ramp to the gate room.

"Protocol." He returned. "They're, well, our secret police."

"Not very secret anymore." She countered. "Why do you have them?"

"Politics." He said simply. "And most of our army went rouge recently."

"Rouge?" She asked in disbelief. "I thought you said you had over ten thousand troops here?"

"We did, and we've recuperated our losses," He assured, "but most of the army left and went to a rouge element called the trust."

"Oh," She realised the irony of them being called, the trust, when they were backstabbing traitors. "What have they done with them?"

"We have no idea." He admitted. "But we do have a planet under our protection which was why I was trying to get your attention."

"Really?" She asked in surprise of the sudden change in conversation. "You mean it?"

"Yeah." He said smiling slightly. "But we need to know figures."

"Figures?" She asked. "Like population?"

"Yeah, and ships, and what resources you have." He was beginning to think he was on dodgy territory, but he really wasn't, she did like to see him confused though. "And what you'd need to survive."

"The extra help would be appreciated, but all we really need is defence." She reassured him it wasn't dodgy territory. "To population, I'll have to find out."

"Just do me a favour, and keep this with you." He handed over a device which looked ancient. "It's a subspace transmitter. It's also a communications device."

She looked at it and smiled. "Ok."

"How are you going to get back to your people?" John asked, getting serious.

"I have a locator beacon." She said as she pulled out the device from her pocket. "It's able to be picked up by a relay ship in a radius of two-hundred light-years."

"Ok." He took something else from his pocket. "This is so you can get passed the shield."

"Thank you." She looked around. "How long do I have to stay here?"

He shrugged. "As long as you like or until one of your ships comes to pick you up." He looked to the control room at something then back to Larrin. "Are you planning on staying?"

"Well, seeing as I'm here, I may as well." She looked around. "Can I have a tour?"

"Sure," He motioned to the left corridor away from the gate. "Right this way."

She couldn't believe she was in the Tau'ri Pegasus Command.

Alex was sitting on the roof, again, drinking a can of beer. Being cloaked came with its advantages. Edd was sitting next to him with a can as well. They were on the east APBW array looking at the mountains further away. It was very calming up here, at least when they weren't test firing the APBWs that was.

Which, gladly, they weren't. It was quiet here. Apart from the stray gunshot from the training facility. The sun was in the middle of the cloudless blue sky. The mountains were in time-dilation to help with the mining process. You could be in there for years, and only a week would have gone by in the real world.

The problem was exactly that. With the mining robots with no controllers, they were not functioning properly. When one source was depleted, they would wait for which to go to next. Sometimes that would take years in their world. And so they grind to a halt. Men had been sent in to repair them a week ago, and they were going back today to do the exact same thing. It was cycle which would go on for a while.

"Alex, you there?" Alex's mike sounded John Sheppard's voice. "We have a huge problem and I'm guessing your on the APBW array, get off now!"

The array cover doors started to open. "Shit." Alex and Edd swore mutually.

They clambered down the escape hatch as four of the APBWs fired toward the sky.

"Six hives?" Sheppard asked. "Get the Daedalus up there now!"

"One hive is neutralised." The base's weapons officer reported. "A second is down."

"Raise shields!" John shouted as he saw the slight haze of blue in the sky. "Fire missiles and get the rail guns on any fighters that try to get past."

"Yes sir."

The shields lapped out over the base in small domes and the blue started to become bigger.

"Another hive is disabled." The weapons officer informed. "Last three hives are, retreating?" He added slightly confused.

"Retreating?" John looked out and saw the blue come to a halt on the shield surface. Sparks flew out from the location of the hit like shrapnel. "What in gods name are those?"

Black dots fell from the shields and headed down to the base. They stopped in the air before the ground then started to glow.

"Section shielding now!" John ordered.

Smaller bubbles formed inside the larger bubbles, ten was an average for each bubble. The black dots, now blue glowing lights, started to grow in size.

"Rail guns are firing sir." The weapons officer said. "They seem to have shields around them."

"Shields?" John croaked. "Wraith, use shields?"

"The shields are growing sir, but are starting to weaken."

John watched as the shield bashed against another. It stayed in the same place and started to push the other shield down.

"Evacuate all personnel away from that shield dome." John ordered.

"Get your weapons ready gents." Alex ordered as he looked at his gate team. "And lady." He added to Lauren.

Alex pulled on his helmet, like the other three did. He activated his cloak and walked through the hall. This was where one of the containers had landed. They knew another had landed somewhere else, and that the other one was sitting above them.

His team followed and they turned heat sensors on. One of the pods was a head of them. One lone wraith stood doing something to it. Another appeared from a corner followed by six or so. Seven more walked out from a room. They grunted something to the wraith working over the pod. He growled back something they didn't catch.

Two more wraith appeared. Alex noted none of them were drones. They were males. And the one working over the pod was slightly more tattooed than the others.

"Do we shoot?" John asked over the mike.

"Not yet."

He regretted those words. The pod glowed slightly and a line of wraith appeared from a culling beam. They moved out of the way and another line appeared. For each commander ten drones were sent out. There were now about two hundred wraith standing in the corridor.

"We should have killed him when we had the chance." Edd growled. "Our job just became a hell-of-a-lot worse off."

Alex stared at the wraith working over the pod. He stood and turned to the commanders standing around him.

This they heard. "All two hundred and ten of you shall feed today my brethren." He paused for effect. "The humans in this facility have kill thousands, if not millions of our brothers. Today we return the favour." Cheers raged from the wraith. They must have been down each corridor in crowds. "They have burned our ships, broken our queens, destroyed our bases. But now we shall destroy them!" Cheers raged through the hall.