Once the crew was asembled in the ship John spoke, his voice ringing over the PA system, "OK gang, this is my time doing something like this, so hear me out now rather then later, this goes for everybody." John took a drink of water before continuing, "I'm not used to being in this type of rank given this area of command so, lets put it simple. Lets see what this ship can do under stress, but then again, lets wonder if the Wraith can handle us." The crew cheered, then once they had quieted down John said, "Lets blow this popstand and get at those bastards!"
The ship started to move towards te hyperspace point. It wouldn't take long to get to the point where the Wraith would drop out before the final jump to Earth. Just as long as they could get there and keep all the Wraith there until the Apllo and Daedalus arrived.
Within hyperspace John sat in his chair, going over the power readouts for the ship and how she was faring, it responded just like a jumper, heck she even HAD jumpers in the main hangar bay below and behind the Bridge. He was partly amazed that even though Rodney was in the engnie area of the ship overseeing the computers navagation and engnie properties John was surprised he didn't hear him over the radio sounding all happy over all the new toys.
So he radioed him, "Hey Rodney, what's going on in your area?"
The radio called startled him, "What? oh things are going good, not what I'd expect, 12 ZedPMs in one place other then then Atlantis' power room. Kinda neat when you think about it." Rodney sounded a heck of a lot like a boy in a candy store. "What's up?"
"Well, just checking the power readout, looks like this thing has about the same ammount of power as a normal Jumper, maybe even the City itself, but from what I can see, it looks great." John said. "Beckett call you yet?"
"Uh yeah he did, said your radio was off or something," Rodney said.
"Rodney, i'm talking to you, my radio works just fine." John said, then he figured that if Carson couldn't get to him it was because of the ship or his location on it. "Did he say anything worth telling me?" John asked from his seat, already bored out of his mind, heck without any of his Team, Ronon had gone with Lorne on a off owlrd mission in Pegasus somewhere John didn't know where.
"Yeah, Teyla's in Post Op at the SGC and should be waking up soon, said she's all fixed up, but really sleepy, Kiro's with her far as I know." Then Rodney asked, "Why did you name your kid Kiro?"
"We didn't exactly have a choice in the matter Rodney," John said as the Wraiths Bane dropped out of hyperspace, they'd been in it for little under an hour, "OK tell me something Mckay. What is it that is not exactly a planet, but it is not exactly a ship either?"
"You mean they here already?" Rodney asked looking to a screen, the Wraith were indeed there already. "OK shields are at full, what else do we gotta do?" Rodney went over to the engery weapon console.
"Don't fire anything yet, make it look as if we are just dropping out for a minute before jumping again., keep the shields at full power, get the rail guns ready to fire aim for their hangar bays." John said getting into his seat.
Just then the Hives opened fire, raining down o the Wraiths Bane. The shields just barely dropped from the sudden attack of hits. "Open fire, all rail guns open fire. Beam weapons will be a last resort only, Rodney how's the shield holding?"
"Amazingly well compaired to the Daedalus' own shields that first attack." Rodney said, "do a main sitrep and boom, we have nukes ready to launch. Should we fire?"
"No, don't fire the nukes yet, we are gonna need those later against the Ori when we go against them, something tells me that they are really pissed at what Teyla did to their leader." John said watching as the gunfire was traded between the Wraiths Bane and the pair of hive ships.
Suddenly a voice broke in, it was Michael, he appeared on a screen, "Col Sheppard, why do you fight? You know that what we seek is Earth, so why not let us go there?"
"Not gonna happen Mike, you can kiss my butt for all I care!" John said as the gunfire from the Furling made ship tore into the Wraith Hives. "you can kiss my butt. In fact I think you are going to be kissing your own any time know."
"What do you mean? These Hives have better arment yet they do not yet break your systems. Back down and surrender now." Michael said.
"And what, wait to get fed on?" John retorted, "all rail gun fire on the hangar bay areas of the Hive ships" He yelled off screen. the gunfire from the ship against the pair of enemy ships seemed to thicken. Just then Rodney found something.
"Sheppard, your chair is a control chair, we got Drones on this thing!" Rodney sounded like he just had speed.
When Rodney said that John knew it had to be true, no wonder the huge ship responded like a jumper, John thought of starting up the chair, the chair went into the recline setting and John found his targets, "Bye, Mike, nice hating ya" he said as a swarm of Drones poured out of the Drone firing bay at the bottom of the craft. The hives blew up, and Michaels face disappeared from the screens. John brought the seat forward, Just as Rodney entered the bridge, "That's was... fun. What's on your mind Rodney?"
"Just got a radio call from Carson, Teyla's awake, and she uh... wants you. and she seems healthy enough for you to not do any damage if you hug her from what Carson says so it'll be just less then a hour to home so..." Rodney looked and John.
"Lets turn this bird around gang we won the fight!" John said, the huge ship turned on a dime and jumped to hyperspace John was happy, his ship won a battle, much like the Daedalus did, now all they had to ddo was go home, get Teyla, save both Atlantis and Earth from the Ori, again, then go to bed. It was considered normal to John for the daily doings of his job meant nearly getting killed every day.
Back at the SGC Teyla laid in the bed she had been given, well, more or less dumped in. Upon waking up Teyla found herslef with only Kiro standing nearby, "Where am I?" Teyla asked, she had no idea what happened since she blacked out and heard her fathers voice in her dream, or was it a dream?
"Hey mom, good to see you awake." Kiro said, she'd changed into more Earth like clothing, well, if one counted the dasrk green bathrobe as earth like clothing.
"What happened? Where's John?" Teyla asked slowly starting to remember what happened. "On second thought Kiro, don't answer the first question, where's your father?"
The timing could not have been better because John apepared in the doorway, "right here." He said going over to Teyla, grabbing a chair he sat down. "How you feeling?" He had yet to talk to Rodney about the power for the ship being taxed as it was to get back, but then Rodney knew the real reason for haste, to get to Teyla. Nobody asked any questions of why they were going fasyter thren they should have been but then again nobody really cared at the time either.
It was time to rest before the big fight, because just before they blew up the Wraith ships, Michael sent some information and with it he had allowed himself beamed over by McKay before his ship blew. Something was wrong back in Pegasus, the Wraith were gearing up for a war.