2. The Pegasus Galaxy
The Pegasus Galaxy was the galaxy where the Ancients travelled to in the city ship Atlantis after they abandoned the Milky Way. Much like in the Milky Way, they again built a galaxy-spanning empire, but the Ancients where forced to abandon Atlantis after most of the galaxy was conquered by a race called the Wraith.
Similar to the Milky Way, the majority of the human cultures in the Pegasus Galaxy are at low levels of development due to constant attacks by the Wraith, with early to mid twentieth century Earth technology being rare. There are several other cultures, whose technology rivals that of the Tau'ri on Atlantis these other cultures are currently in hiding from the Wraith as to avoid destruction.
Prometheus
Four weeks later...
On arriving at the edge of the Pegasus Galaxy, the Prometheus had briefly dropped out of hyperspace to make sure there were no problems with the ships systems after all they did not know the situation on Atlantis. It was better to drop out of hyperspace now and find out if there are any problems rather than in the middle of a combat situation.
After re-entering hyperspace General Hammond ordered a series of drills, to make sure that the Prometheus was ready for anything that it might encounter.
Atlantis
While the Prometheus has been in hyperspace for the past few weeks, a lot has changed on Atlantis, the main problem being that there are three Wraith Hive ships on their way to Atlantis. Dr Zelenka reveals that the Wraith Dart that recently made a pass over Atlantis sent its information into deep space to three hive ships, which will arrive at Atlantis in two weeks, though the Prometheus should arrive within the next few hours.
In the wake of discovering a fleet of three Hive ships heading towards Atlantis, Dr McKay manages to give the Stargate enough power to dial Earth for one second, which is more than enough time to send compressed data, including the team members' messages to their families.
A few hours after the data burst has been sent Atlantis long-ranged sensors pick up a ship approaching Atlantis, what no one knows yet that this is the Prometheus.
The Prometheus should arrive with the next three hours.
Dr McKay who has been studying the new contact says, "This new ship is coming in from a different direction to the Wraith."
Colonel Sheppard asks, "More Wraith ships trying to catch us in a pincer movement?"
Dr McKay replies, "No I do not think that this ship is Wraith."
Colonel Sheppard asks, "Why is that Rodney?"
Dr McKay replies, "Well for one thing, this ship has not dropped out of hyperspace as Wraith ship need to and for the second, this ship is travelling though hyperspace much more faster than a Wraith ship can, according to these readings."
Colonel Sheppard asks, "Any idea at all who that ship belongs to?"
Dr McKay replies, "In a word, nope."
Colonel Sheppard says, "Well they may not be Wraith perhaps someone else with advanced technology in this galaxy?"
Teyla says, "That is most unlikely as they Wraith do not allow other species with advanced technology within this galaxy."
Dr McKay replies, "It could be a race with advanced technology that is able to hide from the Wraith while they advanced or it could be an advanced civilization from another galaxy. After all we know there are other races within this universe with advanced technology, like the Asgard."
Teyla asks, "Could this be the Asgard you talked about?"
Dr McKay replies, "No, as the Asgard does not know we are here, well I assume that Stargate Command has not told them, if they did then they might help us. The message we recently sent to Stargate Command, we are not even certain that the message got through."
Teyla asks, "How could these Asgard help us?"
Dr McKay replies, "The Asgard have been studying the Ancients technology for over one hundred thousand years, they have had a lot more time than we have. Also there technological level makes them one of the most advanced races we know."
Teyla says, "Oh."
Dr Weir asks, "So what are our options?"
Dr McKay replies, "Well without a ZPM to power the city's shields and defences, not many."
Dr Weir asks, "Can we defend Atlantis?"
Dr McKay looking at his computer replies, "Short answer, no"
Dr Weir says, "I cannot accept that, there must be something that we can do, what about that Lantean defence satellite we discovered, could that be made operational?"
Dr McKay replies, "Possibly, but we do not know what is wrong with it."
Dr Weir asks, "What about the city's own weapons, can we use our Naquadah power generators to power them?"
Dr McKay replies, "Again, no, the Naquadah generators do not provide enough power, except to power Atlantis's basic systems."
Major Sheppard asks, "There must be something that we can do?"
Dr McKay replies, "Yes there is, but you are not going to like it."
Sheppard asks, "What is that Rodney?"
Dr McKay replies, "Destroy the city, that will stop it from falling into Wraith hands."
Sheppard says, "That is a bad plan, I think we need another option."
Dr McKay in an annoyed tone replies, "There are none, unless you known the location of a fully powered ZPM?"
Sheppard in a sarcastic tone replies, "Sure I do I just had not bothered to tell anyone."
Dr McKay in a mocking tone replies, "Not funny."
Dr Weir intervenes to stop the exchange and says, "We must not let this city fall into Wraith hand, Rodney I want you to look into seeing if you can repair the last remaining defence satellite, though it may stop this attack, it could buy us some time. The other option that will need to be set in motion is to destroy this city."
Dr McKay replies, "Ok, I will look into the defence satellite."
Sheppard says, "Well at least we have 'A' plan, we may need a plan B?"
Soon the Prometheus will arrive this will change everything for the Atlantis expedition.
Prometheus
On the bridge of the Prometheus, Sergeant Harriman says, "Sir, we are fifteen minutes away from Atlantis."
General Hammond replies, "Very well, all hand to battle stations, have the pilots report to their fighters, have the pilots remain at cockpit readiness, they are not to launch unless I give the go ahead."
Sergeant Harriman says, "Yes sir" then sounds the battle stations alarm along with issuing General Hammond's order to the F-302 fighter pilots.
Whatever happens when the Prometheus arrives at Atlantis, the Prometheus will be as ready as she will ever be.
Prometheus, Fifteen Minutes Later
With the Prometheus fully prepared for battle, Sergeant Harriman says, "We are about to exit hyperspace in 5 4 3 2 1."
The Prometheus drops out of hyperspace in high orbit over the planet were Atlantis is based, General Hammond says, "Begin sensor scan of the planet is Atlantis down there?"
Sergeant Harriman replies, "Beginning sensor scan" a few moments later he says, "Sir I have detected Atlantis, it appears to have limited power, there also appear to be scatted life signs in the city, but at this range I cannot tell who or what they are."
General Hammond smiles and says, "That is good news, Sergeant hail, them, let us see if our people are down there."
Sergeant Harriman replies, "Sending hail now."
Atlantis
An alarm goes off in the control room and Dr McKay looking at his laptop says, "A ship has just dropped out of hyperspace, it appears to be scanning the city."
Sheppard says, "Well that is not good news, we should get the jumpers in the air, at least we will have a fighting chance."
Dr Weir replies, "Agreed, John get our people that are qualified to fly jumpers to the launch bay."
However, before Sheppard can move Dr McKay who is looking at the display on his laptop with a steadily growing smile on his face says, "I do not think that will be necessary."
Dr Weir asks, "Why is that Rodney?"
Dr McKay with a growing grin on his face replies, "Because they have a valid Stargate Command IDC, they are hailing us."
Dr Weir lets out a sigh of relief and says, "Put it on the speakers."
Over the speakers comes, "This is Lieutenant General Hammond onboard the Prometheus, Atlantis please respond."
There is cheering around the control room, Dr Weir then says, "Open communications" pausing for a few moments then she says, "This is Dr Elizabeth Weir, it is good to hear you voice General Hammond I am sending our authentication codes now."
For a few moments, there no reply then over the speakers, "This is General Hammond authentication codes received and confirmed. We thought we had lost you Dr Weir."
Dr Weir replies, "We are very much alive, I would suggest you land the Prometheus on Atlantis General, as we have much to discuss."
General Hammond says, "That is unnecessary Dr Weir we can beam down, just give us the coordinates."
Dr Weir replies, "Understood, sending now." That interesting, Dr Weir thinks to herself she thought that the Prometheus only possessed ring transporters and not beaming technology, a lot must have changed on Earth in the past few months.
A few moments after sending the coordinates a detachment of heavily armed air force personnel beam into the control room just in front of the Stargate in a defensive circle.
An air force Colonel into his communicator says, "This is Colonel Reynolds, it is secure General, you may beam down when ready" then to his men he says, "Stand down men these are friendly's" Colonel Reynolds men lower their weapons.
Once Colonel Reynolds force has moved out of the way, General Hammond and Dr Jackson beam down.
Dr Weir approaches General Hammond and shakes his hand saying, "Welcome to Atlantis General."
General Hammond replies, "Thank you for the welcome Dr Weir I think you already know Dr Jackson" turning to introduce Dr Jackson who is already studying the Stargate design General Hammond says, "Dr Jackson"
Dr Jackson looks at General Hammond and says, "Sorry, thank you for the welcome."
Dr Weir replies, "That is ok Dr Jackson, Atlantis is an amazing place."
Dr Jackson still looking around the control room says, "Yes it is."
General Hammond says, "Dr Weir I think you and your team needs to brief us on what has been going on during the past few months, along with your current position."
Dr Weir replies, "Yes, if you and Dr Jackson will follow me to the briefing room I will brief you both on our situation."
Several Hours Later
After listening to Dr Weir's briefing along with her senior staff, General Hammond says, "You all have done an amazing job, we will be happy to stand with you in the defence of Atlantis."
Dr Weir replies, "Thank you General."
General Hammond says, "I will be assuming command of the defence of Atlantis, Dr Weir you will be my deputy, Major Sheppard I am hereby giving you a field promotion to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel."
Sheppard with a smile on his face replies, "Thank you General."
Dr Weir says, "I can understand you wanting to take command, but I am better qualified for this that you are, as my people have been dealing with the Wraith for the past few months."
General Hammond in a neutral tone says, "Request denied, Dr Weir."
Dr Weir is about to counter when General Hammond raises his hand and says, "My decision is final Dr Weir. Now down to business, the Prometheus has supplies that will help with the defence including several of the new Mark II Naquadah generators, these are capable of a six hundred percent power increase over Mark I reactors and should help with the defence."
Dr McKay who is looking at the downloaded specifications of the Mark II Naquadah generators on his laptop says, "Yes, the Mark II Naquadah generators should be able to power the City's Weapons Chair and allow us to launch the drone weapons, but they are not powerful enough to power the cities shields."
General Hammond says, "That is good news Dr McKay, then we will be able to shoot back, Dr Jackson I want you to return to the Prometheus and see if you can transmit a message to the Asgard and requesting any assistance that they can provide. Using the communication system they provided for us to contact them, though we cannot use this system to contact Earth."
Dr Jackson replies, "I will try, but the Asgard do not seem very responsive at the moment and do not seem to come every time we ask, but it is worth trying."
General Hammond says, "We should be able to give them a good fight and if the message you sent to stargate command got through, they may send the Daedalus to help us. Is there anything else?"
Dr McKay says, "Yes there is, we recently discovered a defence satellite one of many that were used is the original siege of Atlantis, however this one seems to have been damaged, we had intended to take one of the jumpers to try and fix it, but I would be much quicker to use the Prometheus."
General Hammond asks, "Are these defence satellite able to take out a Wraith ship?"
Dr McKay says, "According to the Ancient database, the satellite should be able to take out all three hive-ships when fully charged. Keep in mind that the Ancient technology was far superior they only lost the war because they were vastly outnumbered. The other bit of good news is that we can use one of the new Mark 2 Naquadah generators to power the satellite, along with being able to operate the defence satellite from here, provided we can get it to work."
General Hammond replies, "That is good news, well done Dr McKay, I approve the mission, if there is nothing else we have a lot of work to do an very little time to do it, I suggest we get started right away, Dr McKay you will concentrate on the defence satellite first. Once the Prometheus has beamed down the supplies and equipment, we brought with us. Carry on."
The meeting breaks up.
Over the next two hours, the supplies and equipment are beamed down from the Prometheus, one this is complete, the Prometheus leaves with Dr McKay and his team will try to fix the defence satellite.
They have ten days, before the Wraith ships arrive at Atlantis.
To be continued.