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Tower System. Pegasus.
High above the planet that the Tower's sitting on two dozen hyperspace windows tore open and returned two dozen hives and six dozen cruisers to normal space, to the Wraith's surprise there where no other ships there, having sent a scout ship ahead they knew that there were almost thirty ships that made regular stops here, having recognized some of the designs the Wraith feared that the Lantean's had returned a they had decided to make a preemptive strike, before they could rebuild their fleet and resume the war against the Wraith, to now find the system empty was not what they had expected.
Furious the queen in command of the fleet stop up from her throne and walked down to her commander.
"Where are they?" She hissed
"We don't know. They were here just a minute ago, before the scout returned." The commander said.
"Find them." The queen ordered.
On the planet bellow people were running around inside the Tower on their way to their posts.
Control Room. Tower. Pegasus.
Elizabeth was standing in the control room of the Tower looking at a console, she was thank full that they had gotten the long-range sensors back up when they did or they would have missed the approaching Wraith fleet.
"John, they're here." She said
"Good, we're ready to take them out when you need us to." Sheppard replied over the comm.
"That's good, we're going to wait until they approach the planet before launching drones, so they get as little warning as possible."
With that she closed the comm and walked of to the chair room.
Chair Room. Tower. Pegasus.
When Elizabeth arrived at in the Chair room she walked up to the chair and sat down, feeling the power of the city floating through her she felt in control, one of the things she had gotten while she was on Earth was the new ATA-gene therapy, only much more concentrated than the one given to the soldiers. Feeling the city around her she realized just how little privacy the Lantean's had, anyone in the chair could use the sensors to track every movement of a person or even make an image of the room the person was in, not even the showers and bathrooms were safe, realizing this she made a mental note to ask Maximus to limit the sensors there, taking the thought as a command the chair limited the sensors in those areas to only allow detection of a person, not who or how the room looked, feeling the change she understood just how much power the chair was in control of, she'd have to limit access to the chair later.
Pushing away her thoughts she concentrated and the shield was brought up around the city and then expanded out wards over the closest villages, feeling the sensors tickle her for attention she felt how the Wraith begun to move towards the planet when they picked up the energy flowing through the shield, not that they would need the sensors, if they would have had windows they would have seen the shield if they looked at the planet. Realizing that she was exaggerating a bit Elizabeth withdrew the shield to only cover the closest of the villages, the rest where already empty as the villagers had moved closer and closer to the Tower.
The Wraith were not fools, they knew what to expect on the surface when they saw the shield, there was only one thing that could do that, a functioning city-ship. So instead of rushing in they slowly moved towards the planet to assess the threat. Down on the planet Elizabeth were losing here patience, she felt the power of the city and felt how she with one thought could obliterate the Wraith fleet, but they were here to exterminate the Wraith so they could and would not allow a single ship to escape.
Preparing to launch the drones in the city's holds she moved them away from the racks and made them hold position just under the hatch that would soon open and let them out.
Expedition Fleet. Pegasus.
The expeditions fleet was standing by a couple of seconds away through hyperspace for Elizabeth to signal them, between the Reaper and the Nightmare messages were being sent as Sheppard was sitting in the control chair of his command ship and was having an argument with McKay.
"You're not coming with us. You need to stay here and guard the fleet." Sheppard said.
"My ship is just as fit for combat as yours and the fleet can take care of themselves." McKay answered
"No, you're staying here, at least until we get some one else to take over as guardians."
"Well there's no other ships out here that can guard, so I might as well be sitting her waiting for nothing."
"Don't worry, you'll know when replacement gets here." Sheppard said before cutting the link and ordered the Nightmare to lock out the hyperdrive until someone who would take their place arrived.
On the bridge of the Nightmare McKay was sitting in his control chair in a not so happy mood, the first time that they where ambushing Wraith and he wasn't allowed to participate. While he was sitting there cursing Sheppard his ship received a subtle subspace message and a clock that was counting down from twenty minutes appeared over his chair together with a map and two dots that were speeding towards his location from different directions.
Tower. Pegasus.
Elizabeth was sitting in the control chair waiting for the Wraith to get a little bit closer before she unleashed the drones at them and the moment the Wraith stopped and opened fire she unleashed the drones, not feeling like fighting with only the city that was still under repair and had only a few of it's shield emitters online, making the shield weaker than it's sister city's, so she sent a message to Sheppard and a minute later Sheppard arrived with sixteen ships, all of the well-armed ships, except for McKay and his Nightmare.
Jumping in right behind the Wraith fleet Sheppard caused panic with his arrival and panic is not something that the Wraith are good at handling due to a lack of experience in that field, when fighting the Lantean's they where never ambushed, the Lantean's never understood the concept of ambushes and simply attacked head on, being attacked from two directions thereby made them unsure what to do as some tried to push the attack on the city and some tried to fight the newly arrived fleet.
From Sheppard's point of view things looked much different, almost comical, as some cruisers tried to turn around in the same space leading to disaster, enjoying the view of the Wraith in disarray it took a few seconds before Sheppard ordered the fleet to open fire, as the mighty fleet opened fire they let go of everything they had at their disposal, from the front the three command class ships opened up with their anti fighter turrets and then they brought out their big guns, taking aim all over the Wraith fleet the guns fired one time and then silenced, in the wake of the shots five hives went down along with several cruisers who where pierced straight through, after firing their main guns the command class ships created what seemed like a blanket of anti fighter fire, meanwhile the Auroras held back nothing and let out almost all of their drones and combat jumpers, only keeping enough to stop any ships trying to escape the battle, after doing so they circled around to stop any ships from escaping to the sides.
The lone carrier and it's complement of cruisers meanwhile split up with two cruisers following the carrier down under the fleet while the remaining cruisers moved up above the Wraith fleet. Just after they ships begun to move to flank the Wraith the drones from the surface joined the onslaught and took down a few more hives and some cruisers.
The Wraith was just beginning to recover from the few seconds of confusion and panic when the shooting started and soon found themselves to be surrounded by so much debris that they had a hard time shooting back more than a few shoots every other second and then the fire coming from the anti fighter turrets smashed into the debris, clearing up the field in the process, the Wraith seeing their chance to escape started to maneuver towards the gap before they saw the real threat, when the command class ships started to lay down their blanket of fire the drones and combat jumpers stood by waiting for a pause, when that pause came they quickly accelerated and followed the blanket, arriving only seconds after the turret fire they took the Wraith by complete surprise, but while most of the drones went directly at the ships a few drones and combat jumpers flew past the first ships and dodged left, right, up and down when the cruisers and hives tried to take them out, but instead hit each other and only increased the damage the Wraith fleet was taking, arriving in the middle of the fleet the drones and jumpers split up with one combat jumper in each group followed by a few drones, each heading for a single hive, the commanders of the hives didn't have the time to understand what was going to happen before it did.
Flying inside the hives the combat jumpers and drones laid waste to as many darts as they could before running out of energy, while this happened to the drones rather quickly the combat jumpers continued to wreak havoc in the hangars and soon the hives had lost a great deal of darts, seeing that the combat jumpers could take out much more than a hangar if left unchecked they tried to man the darts but each dart was destroyed as soon as someone entered it, having had enough with the combat jumpers they soon started to send larger and larger groups to the darts at the same time, eventually, after large losses of darts and Wraith's, they managed to get enough darts out that they were able to destroy the Wraith, as this was happening the crews were to occupied to notice the command class ships coming towards them while cutting a line straight through the fleet.
As the command class ships was moving in on the enemy fleet the cruisers and the carrier was in position and started their attack runs, coming from above and bellow they were well out of the Wraith's sight, having only forward mounting guns and two or three cannons with any sort of maneuverability as well as some anti fighter turrets the cruisers and the carrier meet almost no resistance and instead fired every canon they had at the enemy and just as they were about to crash into the enemy fleet they didn't even slow down but instead the cruisers following the carrier moved in behind it as it diverted power from the guns to the shields and engines, the cruisers above on the other hand diverted power only to the engines from the shields and guns increasing their already impressive speed, weaving in and out between the Wraith ships they took a few hits that got through their shields, but they only kept going as they were maned by replicators controlled by Maximus, meanwhile the carrier stopped to fire and diverted the remaining power to the shields and then powered on straight into a hive, continuing as if it didn't even notice the hive it crashed into three more hives before coming out on the other side with the cruisers till following it, due to the unexpected move some of the hives and cruisers who had been firing at the command class ships now instead found themselves shooting at their own ships, with devastating results.
Taking the opportunity Sheppard targeted the hives through the debris and let a salvo from his main guns damage or destroy four more hives, at that moment a hyperspace window tore open in the midst of the Wraith and the Nightmare jumped out in the middle of the Wraith fleet, the hyperspace window tore two more hives apart as it opened. Realizing his mistake McKay tried to move out of the hostile fleet but was unable to as the Wraith opened fire on their new found target, taking more and more hits McKay saw how his shield strength started to move down, cursing out loud he returned fire and taking out a hive diminished the incoming fire but it would still go down before he could take out the remaining ships that attacked him. Sheppard on the other hand was slowly working his way towards McKay and just as McKay was about to lose the shields they arrived and started to clean up around him managing to draw enough fire and taking out enough ships that the shields went down but no more shots reached the ship. Thanking the gods or who ever else was watching out for him McKay diverted power to the shield and after a few moments they popped back in place and grew stronger and stronger.
At this time the only remaining Wraith ships where one hive and five cruisers who Elizabeth's drones took out just as Sheppard was about to take a shot and blow them out of existence.
Chair Room. Tower.
Sitting in the chair Elizabeth felt and saw with the sensors how her drones took out the last ships just as Sheppard was about to take the shot, feeling a sense of satisfaction she stood up and as she did that McKay ans Sheppard beamed down.
"I'm telling you that you made a bad call." Sheppard said
"And why's that? I'm fine and my ship's in the same condition as before." McKay retaliated.
"Yes, but only because I came and save your ass."
"Gentlemen." Elizabeth interrupted. "While it was a bold move that you pulled of Rodney it was also a pretty stupid one."
"But I was only..." McKay tried to defend himself
"No buts Rodney, don't do that again." Elizabeth said. "And you weren't even suppose to be here, who's protecting the none-combat ships?"
"Ah, that would be the ships that Sheppard appear to have summoned up." McKay said
"Summoned up?" She said scepticaly.
"More like salvage, they where drifting around so I thought that it might be a good addition to the fleet. All it took was two ZPMs, some nanites and a hyperdrive and we had two new ships without calling Earth and asking them to send us backup." Sheppard said with a smile.
"Really? Well I'll take anything we can get." Elizabeth said.
"Thought so, any way, I'm going to split the fleet and let the command class ships team up two and two against the Wraith and also let Max wing attack some Wraith facilities alone, the rest of the fleet, along with the new ships will stay here and cover your asses." Sheppard said.
"It's your call, but I don't think you'll find an abundance of Wraith's after this battle."
"I don't think so either, but we're going after any facilities they have instead of their ships, should be at least some out there." Sheppard said.
"Good. Now if you'll excuse me I believe that Ladon will want to discus an alliance between us and the and the Coalition of Planets after this little show." Elizabeth said before walking past the two men and out the corridor.
Holo Room. The Tower. Pegasus.
Walking inside the holo room in the Tower Elizabeth was greeted by Ladon and two other representatives from the Coalition of Planets, one dark haired male and one dark haired woman.
"Ah, Dr. Weir. That was a most impressive show." Ladon said
"That wasn't just a show Ladon, that was a real battle fought above the planet we are curently on." Elizabeth responded
"I'm skeptical, we have no evidence that what we just saw was a real battle." The male representative said
"I assure you that what you just saw was real."
"That is still not any evidence."
"you want evidence, I'll give you evidence." Elizabeth said before pressing a few buttons and the group was beamed up to the Reaper's hangar. Motioning for them to follow Elizabeth made her way to a nearby jumper and got in the pilot's seat, as soon as they were inside the jumper she took of.
"This is outrageous, you can't kidnap us like this." The woman screamed before running towards the cockpit and Elizabeth, just as she was about to reach the cockpit the door slammed shut and she ran straight into it, with the door locked and a shocked Ladon next to her Elizabeth piloted of towards the closest Wraith ship.
"Was that really necessary?" Ladon said
"No, but your two friends where burning through my patience rather quickly. Now please sit down." Elizabeth replied motioning for the other chair, uncertain of what to do Ladon simply sat down and looked out the front window, for the first time noticing were they were going he was shocked, while his colleagues had thought that it was all made up he had been thinking that it was all recorded and maybe all little bit edited, but this, this showed that it wasn't made up at all, every ship was here and every piece of debris was where it should be, sitting in his seat he simply stared at the devastation and the size of the debris field for several minutes.
"You might want to be ready to calm down you friends." Elizabeth said as she stopped the ship, getting out of his seat Ladon pulled out his gun and aimed it at the door, after a few moments the door opened and the still angry woman found herself to be staring down the barrel of a gun.
"Come in and take a look for yourselves." Elizabeth said from behind Ladon as she exited her seat.
Walking out of the cockpit and letting the two representatives take a seat Elizabeth was shocked when the door closed and locked her and Ladon out of the cockpit, now things were different. Aiming his gun Ladon was about to take a shot at the door when Elizabeth stopped him.
"It won't help, all it would to is to bounce back if we're unlucky." She said.
"I won't stand here and wait while they ruin any chances of a formal alliance between us." Ladon said as he pulled up his gun again.
"Don't worry, pressing a few buttons on her FMC she sent an override to the jumper and it turned around and headed back to the Reaper which was already moving to pick them up. In the cockpit the two representative turned thieves found themselves unable to steer the jumper and when they tried to open the door nothing happened, after a minute they saw the impressive size of the Reaper as they came in for landing in it's hangar underneath the ship.
When the jumper landed they saw the barrels of five PP-90s held by five marines, wearing the Atlas armor, through the front window and, unseen to them, in the aft section five more marines were standing by as the hatch opened and Elizabeth and Ladon walked out, when they were safely outside Elizabeth opened the door and the marines arrested the two people.
"That was quite the show too." Ladon said.
"Well, we can't have anyone stealing our jumpers now can we." Elizabeth replied
"I guess you can't, but I'm more impressed by those armors or are they robots?"
"They are armors, but robots might be something to look into to increase our numbers."
"I guess asking for a couple of those is to much?"
"Yes, but there's other things that you could get, we are for example ready to protect a few key planets of your choice with drones and we should be able to mask the energy that your generators give of so that the Wraith will be unable to notice them. Among other things of course, you will notice that we can be very generous when we get to decide what happens, but we will discus this in my office tomorrow, today you
should see the rest of the Tower and some of our other facilities." Elizabeth said before she beamed them down to the Tower again.
Unknown System. Pegasus.
Far away from prying eyes, in a system close to the galactic core, the few hives and cruisers who had survived were gathering, they were almost all that remained of the race that had once instilled fear in the hearths of every human in the Pegasus galaxy, except for the few surface facilities that they had the five hives and ten cruisers were the last places where Wraith could be found. The Wraith is not a species that would go down so easily, they where determined to do a comeback and a big one, so all of them had gathered here where the first of the Wraith had been coming from, the true homeworld of the Wraith and somewhere down there the first Wraith where still sleeping, having only awoken once before, when the time to drive out the Lantean's came they were there and brought about their destruction, now again the remaining Wraith had banded together and sought to awaken the First to help them drive out these pesky humans who over the last years had been such a problem.
The plane in question, which once upon a time had been green and lush, was a toxic mess; the atmosphere was made out of mostly sulfur dioxide, which made it a hostile environment even for the Wraith, but still it was the place where the First slept, so they queen of each hive took a dart down to the surface of the planet were a lone structure was all that stood as a reminder of the once proud race that the Wraith had been before their transformation, aiming for the structure the queens landed their darts on a platform which was connected to the building by a walkway, bellow the platform there was a drop of several kilometers, stepping out of the darts they made their way inside the structure, made out of a green stone material the structure looked like something out of a old roman town, but with the wrong colors, walking through the building they found the stairs they were looking for and walked down, when they reached the bottom of the stairs several hundred meters bellow they didn't take the left nor the right corridor they found, instead the oldest of the queens, one who had been here when they had awoken the First last time, took out a necklace with a green star hanging on it, holding it in her hand she felt it pulsate as it recognized were it was, holding the necklace out in front of her she pressed it against the wall and the wall swung open.
Stepping inside the five queens heard the wall close behind them, here even the young queens, whose telepathy was still weak, could feel the presence of the First, feeling weak and vulnerable they young followed the older queen who was less affected by the presence, after walking for several minutes they reached another door, this close even the older queen felt the effect of the First's presence, but the younger queens where in even worse shape, barely able to stand up and walking was a real challenge, calling forward one of the younger queens the older queen then pressed her hand against the wall and her other against the younger queen effectively draining her life and giving it to the wall, taking just as much as the wall needed, removing her hand from the young queens chest she then opened the door, looking down at the younger queen saw realized just how lucky she had been when she had been drained this way, had she not feeded just a few minutes before she would have died just as this queen was.
Ignoring the soon to be corpse the Wraith queens walked over her and through the door, on the other side of the door was a large round room several hundred meters in diameter, in the middle of the room three Wraith hibernation pods was standing, each facing away from the others. Taking a few steps in the direction of the pods the elder Wraith kneeled, closely followed by the younger queens. This close it was taking them all of their willpower just to keep their hearth beating, in the hibernation pods the First sensed that they had arrived and the pods started to let go of them, after two minutes the pods opened and two queens stepped out, had their presence not been there they could almost have been mistaken for humans, standing at just over 1,5 meters the left one was quite cute with her auburn colored hair, shoulder long, hair, the right one was a few centimeters bellow 1,7 meters and had blood red, shoulder long, hair and, for a Wraith, she was a really hot lady.
It took another minute before the front pod opened and when it did a male Wraith stepped out, towering above the queens at well over 2 meters he looked more human than even Michael had done as a hybrid, with short messy brown hair and a body shaped like a boxers he was not someone you'd want to mess with.
Looking around the room he saw his two queens walking up to him and as they reached him he put one arm around each, enjoying the feeling of them in his arms he then looked back at the ones who had awaken him, letting go of his queens he walked up to the still kneeling Wraiths he looked down at each of them and felt how their wills melted, realizing the effect he was having on them he withdrew his presence into himself and felt as the queens begun to recover and regain their senses.
"So you are all that's left?" He said to them.
"Y…ye… yes." The older queen managed to say.
"I remember you." He said as he walked over to her and took a firm grip of her jaw. "If you are all that's left then things must be even worse than last time."
"Yes, we… we have failed you."
"You have not failed me, you have done what I meant for you to do, to find me an opponent with whom I can compete. Now show me what has happened." He said as he forced his mind inside hers, taking what she knew he felt happiness, these people might be the ones to best him and release him.
Withdrawing from her mind he sent out a thought and from nowhere light came and the wall became visible, then the roof, on both the wall and in the roof were hibernation pods and by his command they opened up and let out the Wraith kept inside. Then the floor begun to shake and it opened up to reveal consoles and equipment otherwise found on a bridge. Sending the queens back to their ships the First then split up and walked over to different consoles, interfacing with the consoles and starting to power up the facility tremors could be felt, from the hives around the planet it looked like it was going to break in two, after a few seconds a massive numbers of hives, to many to count, broke of from the planet, some were even parked one top of each other, spreading out they all angled towards the galactic core one by one and jumped away, following after them was the hives and cruisers that had been in orbit of the planet, as soon as the system was clear of ships the planet broke up into hundreds of pieces and one massive ship emerged, being easily four hundred kilometers long and at least ten wide it was a behemoth, as it freed it self from what had been the planet it jumped after the hives towards the galactic core. The Wraith would retaliate, not today, not tomorrow, maybe not this year, but soon they would arise and cleanse this galaxy from the Tau'ri.
THE END
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So this was suppose to be done on Sunday, but I got a motorcycle, so I was busy with that all weekend.
No more chapters this week (I think), but I'll try to have a new one out next week.