A/N:thank you to people who reviewed. I will try to make this one longer.
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Sheppard and his team stood on the bridge of the Deadalus. Each patiently waiting for the swirling blue outside to turn to black.
Each in turn shifted to stop themselves falling as the Deadalus came out of hyperspace.
There were gasps as they came into view.
Three hive ships were lined next to each other at different levels above the planet. Swarms of darts coming to and from them, most likely full of humans.
"Thought you said this place was peaceful."
Colonel Caldwell accusation was met with a simple shrug as Sheppard stared at the fleet in front of them.
Both officers looked at each other, before looking at others around them. There were small whispers within the teams that were supposed to be beamed down.
Eventually the matter was resolved, only half the teams going down instead.
As they re-materialised, each found a suitable place to hide. They had been beamed into a building of some sort in case outside wraith were 'running riot' as Sheppard had put it.
Sheppard settled into his crouch next to Ronan. He could see the man's knuckles going white with how tight he gripped the glowing gun in his hand. He was jumpy as well. Like he just couldn't wait to start blowing wraith to bits.
A piecing scream ran through the building. They jumped up and followed it.
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The hive had began moving to a better position. They would need their tactical advantage for this.
All wraith had heard of the Lantean ships and the shield that surrounds them, but the lanteans had a weakness.
Their expectance for everything to stay the same, to never change.
Did they really expect her race to back down and except their own defeat?
Carmiha would take great pleasure in proving them wrong. For this culling to take place, each hive had to give to each other hive, something to help them. For example information in science or recent planets discovered for culling.
The information gained from the other hives was the last bit her scientists needed for the 'experiment'. Finally they had a weapon equal to the lanteans yet so much more destructive in power. Finally her kind was strong again.
She spun and faced the hologram. It showed the ships included in the fight, their shielding. The lanteans shielding was failing. Even the humans could not protect themselves from three hives.
Then she felt it. A twinge. Only small at the back of head. The echoes of her kin falling. It was now or never.
She gave the order to a commander. The hive shook as a large orange beam shot from it. It continued to flow until it hit the Lantean ship.
It pieced the shield seemingly without effort, scrapping along the front of the Lantean ship. There was a small but damaging explosion emitted from the failing ship.
She smirked proudly. This would most certainly get her the credit she needed among other queens.
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Sheppard and his team ran towards the scream, Ronan leading them, eager to get his chance.
They were barely in the door when the red light hit the unsuspecting wraith. It went stiff, then limp before falling to the floor. In front of it lay the husk of some poor woman. Sheppard knelt over the fallen enemy, sighing before giving the order to move out.
They came out the house ready to fight. Yet no one had estimated the scale of this culling.
Wraith ran in and out of houses and buildings in large groups, dragging anyone they found outside and throwing them into the blue beams that were sweeping up anyone who was unfortunate too be in their way.
Unfortunately they had not gone unnoticed. Something that was hard to do when your large companion had ran out the building firing in random directions.
A party of several rather tall wraith now surrounded then. Several drones stood in the background. Sheppard smirked and held his gun firm, meeting the wraith stunners. This was how they stayed for several minutes.
"Well…this is all very nice but we really have to be going" Sheppard looked up. Exploding darts littered the sky and were threatening to rain on the planet.
One of the males followed his gaze until he growled and sharply turned his head beck to Sheppard.
Sheppard studied him for a second. He was different than most wraith Sheppard had seen. Come to think of it all the wraith surrounding him were. The marks that they bore were unfamiliar. Instead of the odd swirl going across their foreheads, they wore large tangled marks going down the side of their face and they were a lot taller than usual.
Even for a wraith this was tall. Sheppard could see McKay's jaw hanging open gawping at them. They were easily taller than 6 foot and most of the towered above Ronan as well.
It was like the best of the best had been sent out today.
There was screeching over head as the darts suddenly ran back to their hives. The wraith frowned, but it quickly washed away as an orange beam flew across the sky. The wraith looked Sheppard in the eye and grinned mockingly. Sheppard could feel his brows knit together. This wraith was creeper by far.
Suddenly the hunting party turned and walked around them, and were quickly swept into a darts beam, leaving the team firing into air.
McKay's jaw was still round his ankles, when they finished. It quickly snapped shut before opening to speak.
"That was different."
The team were so busy watching the dart leave no one noticed the one behind them approach.
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Daynygh strode down the corridors, his pace quickening as he continued.
He continued this journey like this until eventually he had broken it into a jog, then a small run.
Although it was less often now, explosions still rattled the hive. He could feel Carmiha in his mind; she was the one who was calling him. He could sense her joy. Her invention had worked. She had finally proved herself among the hives. He smiled himself. He enjoyed his friend being so joyful.
When he finally got to the control room, he found his queen slumped over the glowing panel. She turned to face them. Although she was not physically smiling he could sense her inwardly grinning.
"Daynygh all went well I trust: all darts are back?" she cocked her head to one side.
"All is well my queen, storage is full and we have the one you wished"
Everyone crouched as an explosion erupted nest to them.
A gloating smile appeared on her face before she began hissing commands at the commanders.
"Then we shall leave."
There was a tilt to the ship as it turned and entered hyperspace.
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Carmiha strode proudly towards the cells. Admittedly the culling had not gone exactly as planned and the parts that failed would inevitably cause her much embarrassment in the future, especially when the other two queens took their pleasure in pointing these flaws out.
However Carmiha stood proud in the knowledge that her hive would soon be the stronger opponent and of course they had the trade now.
She stood in front of a large door and looked through the cracks that the creeping organic material left. She tilted her head up, grinning widely and sparking obvious fear to the human in the cell.
"So you are the one they call McKay"
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A/N: well there's chapter 3 and I think it's longer this time. Woo!! So…review?? Maybe? Possibly? :)
