With Atlantis now back in the Milky Way, O'Neill, Daniel, Carter, Teal'c, Sheppard, McKay, Ronan, Teyla and Woolsey are in a briefing room at the SGC. They all go over what has happened and inform each other of their encounters with the Verdain.
"So any ideas what these crystals are for?" asks O'Neill "Well Sir we don't yet know what the crystal Lya gave you is for but the one McKay found looks like a data crystal." replies Carter "What's on it?" asks O'Neill "Well..." says Carter who is interrupted by McKay "We don't know yet, we're working on a way to access the data" he says "OK Carter, McKay get to work on that thing. I want to know the second you have something" says O'Neill and Carter and McKay leave the room.
"Sheppard" says O'Neill "Sir" replies Sheppard "Have you heard anything else from our Ancient friend?" asks O'Neill "No Sir but before she disappeared she was very upset about something." replies Sheppard "Yeah about that, you said the Verdain held her by the throat?" asks Daniel "Yes he had a pretty good grip on her too" replies Sheppard.
"That doesn't make any sense" says Daniel "That's what happened" says Ronan, "The Ancients are ascended beings and they have almost unlimited power." says Daniel "What are you saying Daniel?" asks O'Neill "I've never seen or heard of the Ancients being powerless like that, if she was unable to defend herself then these Verdain must be more powerful than they are. And let's not forget they also took out the Nox, if the Nox and the Ancients are unable to stop them then what chance do we have if they come for us." replies Daniel and a feeling of worry fills the room.
"Look we don't even know if these..what? What?" says O'Neill looking at Daniel "Verdain" replies Daniel "We don't even know if these Verdain are coming for us, our only encounters with them so far have been off world" says O'Neill "One appeared on Atlantis" says Woolsey "Did it attack you?" asks O'Neill "No, didn't seem that interested in us actually" replies Woolsey "Well, there you go" says O'Neill.
"What about the Ancients" asks Daniel "What about them" replies O'Neill "Well the Verdain are obviously after them, shouldn't we try to help them?" says Daniel "No" replies O'Neill and Daniel looks around the room and looks back at O'Neill "Why not?" asks Daniel "If the Verdain have a problem with the Ancients then let them fight it out, it's not our problem." replies O'Neill "Jack.." says Daniel who is interrupted by O'Neill "No, Daniel. Whenever we needed their help they did squat, so why should we care now it's their asses on the line." replies O'Neill.
"General O'Neill we're receiving a message from Col Swanson" announces Walter over the radio "Put her through" says O'Neill "General we've detected a ship approaching Earth" says Swanson "Hostile?" says O'Neill "Unknown Sir" replies Swanson "Beam us aboard Col" says O'Neill and they are beamed on board the Alliance.
Everyone is no on the Alliance's bridge "What do you have?" asks O'Neill "We're having a little trouble with our sensors but we believe it's a single ship and heading right for us." replies Swanson "We should return to Atlantis" says Woolsey "Go" says O'Neill and Swanson looks over to transport control and gives the nod to beam them to Atlantis. "Have you tried communicating with them?" asks O'Neill "Yes Sir, no response" replies Swanson "Do you think it's them" says Daniel "Hope not" replies O'Neill "Where about to find out." says Swanson and gives the order to activate shields and ready all weapons.
A ship drops out of hyperspace "It's the same ship we encountered near Proclarush" says Swanson and the ship immediately opens fire on the Alliance "Fire. Fire" orders Swanson.
The Verdain ship is small and fast making it hard for the Alliance to get aim on it and they're quickly losing the fight as the Verdain ship passes by unleashing a barrage of weapons fire along the Alliances hull. "Destroy that ship" shouts O'Neill while being thrown around the bridge "Fire everything" shouts Swanson and after many misses they finally hit the Verdain ship with the Asgard weapon which although appears to cause no damage it sends the Verdain ship spinning and they retreat.
"There gone for now. Damage report?" says Swanson and crew members report in saying the engines are fried, shields are down to 8 percent, life support has failed on several decks and their primary weapon (the Asgard beam) is offline. Then the proximity alarm sounds "There coming back." says Swanson "Oh Crap" says O'Neill "Everyone brace for impact" announces Swanson.
As the Verdain ship heads back toward the Alliance and opens fire they brace themselves for what will surely be the destruction of the Alliance.
Suddenly the Verdain weapons fire is deflected "Alliance this is Atlantis, we've extended our shields around you" announces Woolsey over the radio "Well it's about time" replies O'Neill and Sheppard from the Atlantis chair room fires drones at the Verdain ship.
The drones are causing very little damage but they continue to fire and the Verdain ship turns it's attention to Atlantis, the Verdain ship breaks off and begins to build some type of charge around it..then it turns back toward Atlantis and fires an energy beam at their shields which shakes Atlantis "Our shields are weakening" shouts Teyla "What?!" replies Woolsey while looking at the monitors "Col Sheppard we don't have much time" says Woolsey over the comms "This isn't easy" replies Sheppard and the Verdain ship continues to fire a beam weapon at Atlantis's shields draining them on every shot.
A Verdain then appears in the Atlantis control room "Ronan!" shouts Teyla as she sees the Verdain and Ronan pulls his gun set to kill and fires off repeatedly at the Verdain but as before it does nothing. Ronan is pretty p*ssed off after what happened last time "Ooaaarrrr!" screams Ronan as he charges towards the Verdain and he tackles it by the waist which sends them both flying over the balcony to the floor below.
They both stand up and away from each other and Ronan ties his hair back "Come on" taunts Ronan to the Verdain and the Verdain moves forward and reaches out to grab Ronan but he dodges the grab and kicks the Verdains leg sending him kneeling to the floor then he grabs the Verdain and starts kneeing him in the head sending him flying onto his back. As Ronan runs over to pound him some more the Verdain vanishes and Ronan stops and looks around "COWARD" he shouts.
Sheppard is still firing at the Verdain ship but still causing little damage as it continues to fire at Atlantis's shield "Our shields can't take much more of this" says Teyla and Woolsey gets on the radio "Alliance, I'm afraid we're losing this fight. Sorry General, we tried" says Woolsey "It's OK Woolsey, you did good" replies O'Neill and crew members of both the Alliance and Atlantis look at each other knowing they're losing the fight. "Woolsey we can't allow them to get down to Earth" says O'Neill "I know General. I recommend we initialise the self destruct." replies Woolsey "Yeah" says O'Neill but before they can activate it they detect another ship.
"There's another ship approaching" says Teyla "General we're detecting another ship heading this way" says Woolsey "Yes we know, we're detecting it too" replies O'Neill "Let's hope the self destruct take them both out" says O'Neill. Another Verdain ship appears "Everybody brace" says Swanson once again but instead of attacking the Alliance or Atlantis it goes after the other Verdain ship "They are attacking each other O'Neill" says Teal'c.
The new ship fires on the first one which appears to be very effective and after a while successfully destroys the attacking Verdain ship. Sheppard sits up in the ancient chair "Woolsey did you see that?" he asks "Yes Col" replies Woolsey "Should I shoot this one?" asks Sheppard "Stand by Col" replies Woolsey. "General the attacking ship appears to have been destroyed" says Woolsey "We noticed" replies O'Neill "What should we do about this one" asks Woolsey.
Suddenly both the Alliance and Atlantis receive a video communication and a 3 figures in black appear on screen "WAIT" one of them shouts "We're not a threat". "What's going on up there?" asks Sheppard "We're receiving a communication from the ship" replies Woolsey "I'm heading back to the control room." says Sheppard and he gets out of the chair and heads back.
Daniel, Swanson and O'Neill look at each other "Oh yeah, tell that to the last one that tried to kill us" says O'Neill "We're not Verdain." it replies "Really. Well you look like a Verdain to me." replies O'Neill and the figure removes its helmet revealing the face of a young girl "My name is Alisana, I'm a Novum." O'Neill looks at Daniel "Daniel?" he says "Err.." says Daniel and shrugs his shoulders indicating he has no clue.