Chapter three

(20 sec recap from chapter two)

The Zeus is still battling the ZPM hive, but it's loosing. Badly.

"We are loosing shields!" Major Lund yells out.

"Plot a course for Dakara!" Colonel Hagberg yells out as sparkles flies, and fires starts.

"Hyperdrive is non-responsive! I am detecting another ship! It's the Orion!" Lund yells

The 303 enters the field, spitting out as much damage as the Zeus. But since the 303 is inferior to the 304s, it won't last long. The Orion has already begun to take damage, and their shields are down to 78%.

"SIR! We need to slow don't with the asgard weapons! Our ZPM is going to over load if we don't, and then it won't be an earth left to save!" Lund shouts as there's a massive explosion on the bridge. People are thrown away, and Colonel Hagberg is injured and taken to the infirmary. The Orion isn't faring that well either, they are starting to loose their shields. On the bridge of the Orion.

"Divert as much power as you can to the shields!" Colonel Wilma Sabot yells out, commander of the Orion.

"I'm trying! We have lost several power conduits has blown, and we can't divert power! We have a hull breach! Deck 7 and 8, sections 23 through 85! We're venting atmosphere!" Major Christan Lundwall shouts.

"Seal off affected areas! By pass the conduits! We need that power! Order all 302s and jumpers launched! Tell them to target the hives weapons systems. I don't care if it's given any affect, just want it done." Sabot shouts

The condition of the Zeus has gone from bad to worse. It's shields are almost gone, and it has several hull breaches.

"Seal off all breaches! Divert more power to the shields! Don't give a damn if the ZPM blows! Hagberg yells.

"We can't sir! Engineering reports that the ZPM is beginning to pulsate! The conduits down there are melting from the power! Lund shouts.

"FINE! Don't then!"

The Orion has just lost it's shields, and are taking heavy damage. It will very soon explode. Decks are vented of atmosphere, people are sucked into space, and people are killed from explosions.

On the bridge of the Orion, there're several fires, sparkles are flying and pipes are leaking.

Colonel Sabot flips the intercom, and starts to speak.

"This is Colonel Sabot, all hands to the nearest beam out sites or escape pods. Abandon ship!" She shouts. Several of the bridge crew are reluctant to leave, but Sabot orders them to go, she will stay behind and take care of the transporter commands. The people in engineering watch as the ZPM is beamed away by an asgard transporter.

On the bridge of the Zeus.

"Sir! The Orion are abandoning ship! We have people beaming aboard. They beamed aboard their ZPM! I'm also reading several escape pods, being attacked by darts!" Lund shouts.

"Order the remainder of our fighters to guard those escape pods with their lives! Lay in a course out of here! Full sublight!" Hagberg yells over exploding data screens.

Outside, the battle has been lost. The ZPM hive has been given very much damage, but yet, very little. The Zeus turns away and fires up their sublight to maximum. The Orion has several deep holes in it. It picks up speed and is headed strait for the ZPM hive. The hive launches darts to take care of the ship, but it's to late. The Orion rams the hive's dart bay. There are several secondary explosions which makes the hive explode. The hive splits up in several pieces and those parts finally explodes. Parts from the Orion floats away in space as well. But the largest debris of the Orion remains where it was.. Colonel Sabot's remains will dance in earths orbit for long times to come.

"The Orion just rammed the hive sir.. Both ships has been destroyed." Lund reports.

They had all thought that they would've been celebrating the destruction of the hive, but they don't. They didn't think about the possibility that one of their ships could be destroyed. Their crews killed. Earth had once again been saved. But it cost many lives. 30 people where left on the Orion when it rammed the hive. 20 aboard the Tsun Tzu, 13 on the Apollo when both ships fought the hive in the galactic void. 9 people died on the Zeus, 63 in 302s or jumpers when the Zeus was there and another 70 over area 51 when darts did kamikazes at the facility.

People on the Zeus are crying. Both because they saved earth, and for the death of their comrades. Just a few minutes later, the Odyssey drops out of hyperspace and hails the Zeus.

"This is Colonel Ian Davidson commander of the Odyssey, what's happened?" He asks.

"The super hive has been destroyed Colonel. The Orion rammed it. We.. Could you tow us back to earth orbit? We lost sublight, and we're in a very bad shape." Hagberg says. Seconds after that, Atlantis drops out of hyperspace and asks what happened. Hagberg tells the same thing.

"Ships in earth orbit, this is Colonel Carter at stargate command. Colonel Sheppard was aboard that hive." Carter says.

"As was Doctor McKay, Major Lorne, Ronon and Teyla." Woolsey reports.

"Wait! We have an in coming wormhole from the alpha site. It's Colonel Sheppard, McKay, Lorne, every one! They made it!" Carter says. Hagberg doesn't want to listen any more, so he cuts the com.

The Zeus is now going to under go some heavy repairs on earth before returning to P1X-279.

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