"How come you're the one getting to do this General?" Sheppard asked. He was lying on the cold hard floor of the Apollo's hangar acting as O'Neill's spotter.

"Because I called dibs on it a month ago." He changed his aim slightly. In his hands was the Alterran equivalent of a sniper rifle.

"Still. I think everyone should be allowed to press the button and bom goes the president."

"Oh, I'd love to blow that man to pieces, trust me Colonel" Jack said and squeezed the trigger. "But there's a good chance we'd end up with plenty of collateral damage too."

"Didn't think of that" Sheppard admitted.

"So how far out is the Sun Tzu?"

"Fifteen minutes Sir, Lorne's coming in with the Tria just under a minute before the Jaffa fleet" Sheppard reported and checked his watch. "The Jaffa fleet should be here in five minutes."

"Good. Let's hope things go to plan." He pressed back the trigger. From the front of the rifle a white stream of plasma rushed, it did not last more than a twentieth of a second but the effect was immediate. What had been a living and breathing man a second before became a dead husk as a hole the size of a clinical needle was created clean through the neck. The moment the plasma stream punctured the skin it released all of it's energy straight into the nervous system and fried everything.

"Hit and kill" Sheppard confirmed as the man fell head first onto his desk.

"Good" O'Neill said as he stood up and sent an order to the bridge. "Now prepare the Sun Tzu for combat. We'll need her able and ready."

"Of course" Sheppard replied as the hologram around him faded. He was back in the holo room onboard the Sun Tzu. With a press on the ear mounted radio he activated it. "What's our status?"

-ETA fourteen minutes- the helm replied.

"Make that ten and you'll all be on my good side."

-Sir, do you have any idea how hard it would be to make this ship go any faster. We've already plugged in a ZPM and we're running on Asgard hyperdrives-

"No clue really, but you seem to know, so why don't you give it a try." Sheppard said as he came into the bridge and sat down in the Alterran control chair which had been installed in lieu of the Tau'ri made captain chair.

"Yes, Sir" the tech said as he begun to work the controls at his station.

Inside a newly constructed building in Antarctica Weir watched as a holographic message blinked into view. "Generals." She looked around at the hundred or so holograms in the room. "The time to strike has come, the enemy's leader has been killed and they are weak."

"The Chinese forces stand ready to strike, the enemy will be dead before the sun sets."

"So does the Russian forces."

"And the British."

"And the Swish."

"There's is no use telling me gentlemen" she said calmly. "Go and show the Goa'uld your resolve."

"We will see to it ma'am" a suave looking man said before he begun to fade away. Moments after the others followed under many forms of promises and traditional battle cries.

"Lets hope things go our way now" Kofi said from behind her.

"The Jaffa and the Goa'uld are formidable enemies, but this is our planet and if they want it they will have to pay a high price for it" she said steadfast while a hologram begun to count down from sixty seconds.

"I'd much rather they didn't want it." They returned to the chair room just as the clock reached zero. Above the chair a hologram of the fleet above the planet flashed into existence just in time to show the arrival of the Jaffa fleet. "Dr. Beckett, I hope you're standing by with the drones."

"Aye." He replied from the chair. "The Russian and Chinese planes have begun to lift of."

"It might be a good idea to give them an escort of drones, we don't want too many losses on our side" she said as saw hundreds of bright lights shoot up from around the outpost.

"That's all we can spare."

"I thought they managed to find a drone factory?" She hadn't had time to take care of the development of the outpost while she and Kofi had been organising Earth's defenses.

"We did" McKay said from around a corner.

"So why don't we have any more drones?"

"Because they didn't work" McKay said and sat down against a wall. "The factory had built hundreds of thousands of them. But someone had sabotaged the software uploaded to the drones. They won't connect to the chairs at all, so we can't use them."

"Why would anyone do that?"

"To stop them from falling into enemy hands I'd guess." He picked himself of the ground and walked up to one of the avenues which spread out from the outpost proper. "Since there's no way of reprogramming them the raw materials were reused, most of the advanced systems in the outpost was built with those resources."

"The Sun Tzu just dropped out of hyperspace on the far side of the moon" Beckett reported and the hologram changed to show the ship.

"Why are they doing nothing?" Kofi asked. He had watched the hologram since they entered the room and since the Jaffa fleet had left hyperspace nothing had happened. Both fleets had stayed in position and except for the deployment of hundreds of gliders there had not been any movement on either side.

"There's a lot of communications going on between the fleets" Beckett said. Without warning every drone in the outpost shot up at top speed. Meanwhile the already deployed drones changed targets from the low going gliders taking off from the ground to the fleets above.

"Carson, what's happening?" Weir asked as the hologram showed the two fleets merging into one, without any shots fired between them.

"This can't be good" McKay muttered.

"Jack, we have a situation here" Elizabeth said into her radio.

-Other than the fact that the Jaffa fleet seem to have lost the war they fought and the other guy sending his fleet here instead?- Came the reply. In the atmosphere their three ships decloaked and from the 304s blue lances reached out and sliced through sixteen of the Ha'taks gathered before their shields had been raised.

"What?"

"We picked up some chatter between the fleets" Jack replied as the Ha'taks split up into three groups with their support crafts diving towards the planet. "We'll need every 302 on the planet up in the air soon."

"I'll relay the order."

From his control chair O'Neill watched the Asgard plasma beams slice through another set of Ha'taks, then they retaliated and their cannons begun pounding away at his shields. All around the ship Death Gliders and Al'keshs dove down towards the surface and with a thought he tagged them for the railguns, seconds later the gliders begun to light up as the railguns spun into action and peppered the unshielded crafts with bullets.

As the slugging match went on O'Neill was amazed by the events unfolding inside the atmosphere below them. Around the world MiG, F-16, F-22, Eurofighter, J-10 and Jas 39 fighters had taken to the skies and where for the first time flying side by side with each other and other fighters from around the planet against the Death Gliders who rose from two or three places on the surface and the ones who did not get shot down coming from the Ha'taks above. Yet, despite their overwhelming numbers the human fighters were losing badly.

As the plasma beams of the Apollo cut through another set of Ha'taks he saw the shields of the Tria penetrated and the orange plasma bolts of the Ha'taks begun to rip it to shreds. Half a second later the rings aboard the ship sprung to life and then the Sun Tzu joined the Tria as debris raining down onto the planet.

"How are you holding up?" Sheppard asked as he came running onto the bridge.

"Forty one percent and shrinking fast, the Tria and the Sun Tzu soaked up most of the damage" O'Neill said from the control chair.

"Lets hope for the best then" Sheppard said. He slid down in the pilot's seat and begun to run evasive maneuvers to relieve O'Neill's mind. Apart from Sheppard and O'Neilll only a few others had the skill to serve on a starship and most of them had been sent back to the outpost just before the destruction of the other two ships.

"That won't do us any good Sheppard" O'Neill said, just as an orange bolt slipped through the shield and crashed into the hangar they had both been lying in before, one as a hologram and the other in person. Then another and yet another slipped through and their sublight engines failed.

Somewhere deep into his subconscious a thought formed and the control chair picked it up just as it formed. Moments before another barrage of bolts were going to hit the ship a hyperspace window formed and it was gone. Not too far though, just a few hundred million kilometers before the hyperdrive gave up and the ship went tumbling through space.

"Carson talk to me, what's happening?" Weir ordered as they saw the three friendly ships disappear from the hologram in rapid succession.

"We lost the Sun Tzu and the Tria. Their crews are at the outermost rings."

"And the Apollo?"

"It jumped to hyperspace, but the sensors didn't detect any ships in hyperspace" he said as something came into view at the outermost edge of the sensors and speed towards the planet much faster than any ship could have done. "Something's coming our way, fast."

"Atlantis" she said knowingly as the city shot into the solar system. Suddenly it was in the middle of the severely diminished Goa'uld fleet.

From around the city the Ion pulls cannons begun taking down the hostile shields and then the city rammed them. Apart from the drones and the Ion cannons the city did have other weapons, but after a long time of neglect they would have to be repaired before they could be used, which left using the shield as a battering ram. In mere seconds the number of Ha'taks were reduced to five ships who all jumped away in different directions.

-Dr. Weir what's happened to the ships?- Zelenka's voice came over the radio.

"Radek, you brought the city?" She asked while she studied the hologram which was now focused on the fighters and gliders.

-Yes, or rather our Ancient did, we used the wormhole drive, we'll have to use the stardrive to get back though, don't want to waste more power than we have to-

"The what?" she asked in confusion. "Never mind, it's good that you're here. The Sun Tzu was destroyed along with the Tria. We think the Apollo managed to open a hyperspace window but we never detected it in hyperspace."

-I think Mokar's going to look for it- he said just as the city angled away from the planet and moved away on sublight.

"We could need some help down here, the fighters are losing to the gliders" Weir said. They saw the city hurrying away from the planet.

-There's nothing we can do Elizabeth. We're all out of drones and the gliders are too small and fast for the Ion cannons. Still there might be something, Mokar took everyone who could fly to one of the piers, he might be up to something- Almost as if on his command ten small dots broke away from the city and headed for Earth. -I guess we have fighters now-

"Apparently you do. Are there any jumpers who still have drones?"

-No, all drones that worked as they should were sent to the outpost, we're dry. But if he sent out those fighters then they most likely have some other weaponry, at the very least the sensors detects that they seem to have shields-

"We'll take what we can" she said as the ten fighters broke through the atmosphere and joined the fight.