DEFEAT
Chaya reappears in Atlantis with Lya, they see everyone scattered around unconscious.
"Wake up." says Chaya, "Wake up." she says.
Lya spots Raina laying on the floor, she goes over to her and gently lifts her up, "Raina." she says.
The crew start to come around and pick themselves up off the floor, many holding their arms, legs and heads that are bruised or broken, power fluctuates throughout Atlantis, lights consoles and screens blinking on and off, the eerie sound of Atlantis' alarms fill the city.
"What happened?" utters Woolsey, "General." he says.
"We must have caught the tail end of the blast wave." says Carter.
They hear a loud noise and Atlantis is slightly shaken, Ronon steadies Lya and Raina, and Sheppard steadies Chaya as they momentarily lose balance.
"What was that?" asks O'Neill grabbing on to a console to pull himself up off the floor.
"No idea." says McKay, "Help me up." he says holding out his hand.
Carter helps McKay to his feet and he makes his way over to a console, he manages to reboot Atlantis' systems and steady the power.
"Shields are down to 12%...looks like we've sustained a lot of structural damage." says McKay.
"What about the radio, can you make contact with the other ships?" asks O'Neill.
"Yes, channels open." replies McKay as he rubs his bruised neck.
O'Neill goes over to the console, "Swanson, come in." he says, "Anyone...can anyone hear me?" he adds.
Over on the Alliance, O'Neill's voice echoes in the bridge, Swanson slowly awakes and is laying on the floor, she looks around and sees others waking up but most are still unconscious or trapped laying lifeless stuck under large slabs of metal fallen from the ceiling.
Swanson reaches up and grabs the arm of her chair, using it lift herself up she manages to pull herself on to it, she hears O'Neill's voice and activates the radio, "Sir." she says.
"Swanson, you alright?" asks O'Neill.
"Not really Sir...*cough*..*cough*...most of my crew is dead...the Alliance is a mess." replies Swanson, "You sir?" she adds.
"We have a lot of injured people..Atlantis is a mess too." says O'Neill.
"What about the rest of the fleet?" asks Swanson.
"Unknown, no one else is responding." says O'Neill, "Hang in there, we'll try come and get you." he adds.
Raina has an injured leg and hops over to O'Neill, "Alisana." she says in a concerned voice.
"McKay can you get anything on the sensors?" asks Carter.
McKay activates the sensors and brings up a display, "Yes, yes." he says.
"Anything?" asks O'Neill.
"Detecting an Al'kesh, the Alliance...the Daedalus, badly damaged but they're still there." says McKay, "There she is, right there." he says while pointing at the screen, "That's Alisana's ship" he adds.
O'Neill gets back on the radio, "Alisana can you hear me?" he says.
"Alisana." says Raina, "Alisana." she says.
"Come on say something." says O'Neill.
They wait but don't hear anything, O'Neill lowers and shakes his head, then they hear a faint voice over the radio.
"Jack." says Alisana.
Raina and O'Neill look at each other with a smile of relief.
"Yes it's me Jack, good to hear your voice." says O'Neill.
"Alisana." says Raina.
Alisana gets to her feet and using the wall to steady herself she gets back in to her pilot chair.
"Hi Raina, I'm still here." says Alisana.
"May not be for long..GENERAL" shouts McKay, "The battle ship, it's still there" he says worryingly.
"What?" says O'Neill as he looks at the display.
Over on the battle ship, the power is out and the ship is in complete darkness, the floors are littered with fallen Verdain armour, the blast wave had taken them all out.
A hand appears from behind the Commanders chair, it grabs the top of the chair and a silhouette slowly stands from behind the chair, it's the Commander, he was the only one to survive the blast wave.
He looks out of the front of the ship and sees the fleet in the distance, angry he goes over to a console and opens communications.
"You." groans the Commander, "You did this." he says.
"Yeah, you deserved it." replies O'Neill.
"You'll be sorry you did." says the Commander.
"The only thing I'm sorry about is that the blast didn't take you with it." replies O'Neill.
The Commander moans in anger and pushes a button in front of him, power is restored to the battle ship.
"He's powering weapons." shouts McKay.
The battle ship opens fire on Atlantis, "With our shields at 12% we're dead." shouts McKay.
"Chaya?" says Sheppard, "Can you stop it?" he asks.
Chaya looks around, "I don't have enough energy, I can't do anything." she says regrettably.
Lya steps over to a broken window and stares through it towards the planet, she concentrates and manages to gather the small amount of natural energy that remains. She focuses the energy stream to intercept the weapons fire as it approaches Atlantis, it stops them so she sends the beam of energy at the battle ship, after a prolonged strike she manages to take out the ships weapons.
This makes the Commander angry and he bashes the console in front of him, as he does he inadvertently activates the viewer and Alisana appears on his screen, he knows she was the one that dropped the ZPM and now he knows she survived the blast.
He has no weapons to destroy her with so he plots a collision course and starts the battle ship flying towards her.
"Is it...moving." asks Carter.
"Yes it is." yells McKay, "It's heading straight for Alisana's ship." he says.
The communication with the Commander is still on screen, O'Neill steps closer to it.
"Hey. What are you doing." shouts O'Neill at the Commander.
"SHE...will pay the price for what you've done." replies the Commander in a menacing tone.
"Leave her alone." shouts Ronon.
The communication cuts out.
"Alisana, get out of there." shouts O'Neill over the radio.
Alisana looks out of the window and sees the battle ship in the distance heading towards her, she gasps and starts frantically touching the controls.
"I can't, the controls are.." replies Alisana, then her ship completely loses power and goes dark and communication cuts out.
Lya heard her distress and concentrates at the window once again, the planet has little energy left making it difficult to gather, she pauses and takes a deep breath and concentrates incredibly hard, energy begins to gather but as it does the plant life disappears and the surface turns to a desert as Lya quite literally sucks what little life is left right out of it.
Lya manages to gather enough energy and shoots it directly at the battle ship, it doesn't destroy it but the focus of the energy stops it from moving.
McKay hears a beep on the console and goes to check it out, Atlantis' deep space sensors have come online.
"Oh no...I'm picking up another ship coming fast." shouts McKay.
"What, where." asks Carter.
"More Verdain?" asks O'Neill.
"I don't know, but when I say it's coming fast..I mean fast." shouts McKay.
The battle ship has been stalled by Lya's energy and it starts interfering with the battle ships power and it starts to fluctuate.
"Arrrrrgggggh!" screams the Commander as he disappears from the bridge.
Moments later he appears on Atlantis behind Lya, he steps forward and whacks Lya really hard with his arm sending her flying in to a wall at great force, Lya lays on the floor unconscious and her energy dissipates.
Sheppard and Mitchell open fire on the Commander but he disappears again, he reappears moments later back on the bridge of his battle ship and it starts moving again, he turns up the speed as he heads toward Alisana's ship.
"Chaya can you get her out?" asks O'Neill.
"She's on a Verdain ship, I can not get through it's armour." replies Chaya.
O'Neill searches for more options and gets on the radio, "Swanson, do you have teleporters?" he asks.
"I have nothing Sir." replies Swanson.
"Daedalus." says O'Neill, "Daedalus, come in." he says.
"Sir we can't get through, the Daedalus is so badly damaged I doubt their teleporters are working anyway." says Carter.
O'Neill paces a few steps back and forth trying to think of what to do, but he knows there's nothing left, he get's frustrated and kicks the base of one of the consoles, "God...damn it!" he shouts, "You son of a *****" he shouts while looking at the blank screen that earlier displayed the Commanders face.
O'Neill hunches down with his hands on the console, everyone in the room shares his frustration and realise there's nothing they can do for her.
Carter walks over with a tear in her eye, she touches O'Neill's shoulder, "Sir." she says.
O'Neill turns to Carter, he's not crying but he's clearly upset, "She's just a kid, Carter." he says.
Alisana knows there's nothing that can be done, and with the ship disabled she can't get away, she slides herself off her chair and sits holding her knees in the darkness with her back against the console.
The battle ship gets closer, at the speed it's moving it will completely obliterate Alisana's ship when it hits, the Commander stands on his bridge looking out the front of his ship with joy.
"Uh...Ha...ha." laughs the Commander, "Inferior" he screams as merciless and menacing as ever.