Chapter seven

The Zeus, Tria and the General Hammond was taxing their hyperdrives so that they could reach earth with in 3 hours. Only thirty minutes ago, they had been at the calm Swedish outpost on P1X-279. Now the three ships where racing against the clock to earth where the entire fleet had been gathered. The Ori was on their way to earth. They didn't know how many ships the Ori would send, but they where sure, it wasn't going to be easy. The Zeus and the Tria had two ZPMs each, while the General Hammond had been lend one for this mission. All ships had been preparing them selves for battle, the General Hammond had already had a fight with the Ori and was almost destroyed, she had been given emergency repairs on the Swedish outpost and on the way to earth.

"How's weapons, shields, sublight? I want to know the state of every thing before we drop out of hyperspace! Colonel Hagberg ordered.

"Weapons are online and working at one hundred percent. Shields are fully charged and are at maximum power. Security teams are standing by in case we're boarded. Damage control teams are also standing by" Major Lund reported.

"Good. How many ships have we been able to get and I want to know if we can expect help from our allies." Hagberg said

"It seems like we have our fair number of ships. The Zeus, Tria, General Hammond, Daedalus, Apollo, Odyssey, Tsun Tzu, Vermont and the Independence. Several other countries also have a few ships, Al'kesh's, maybe two 303's and several Tel'taks." Lund reported

"Good, very good. After this I guess that the Americans will be more the willing to let other ships have asgard weaponry, even Al'kesh's. Wait, those 303s, do they have asgard weapons?" Hagberg asked.

"I don't know sir. I don't think they have. But as all ships, I'd assume that they've been loaded up with nukes and Railgun rounds."

"Okey.. The Americans think that it was them the Asgard gave their legacy to. But it was probably meant to all of earth." Hagberg said.

The center of defence during this attack was set at Stargate Command. They had also devised a plan. Atlantis would take off from the moon and land in the desert of Nevada. They would remain cloaked from there and use the Antarctic drones to fire on the Ori ships. It was first meant for Atlantis to be on the moon, cloaked but since the shield wouldn't be up, they would die in the vacuum of space. Colonel Carter was speaking with Colonel Caldwell through subspace communications on the Daedalus.

"Sam, we got some new Intel. They are going to be here in twenty minutes. We also got reports that they are sending five motherships. Not much of an attack there" Caldwell said.

"Don't say that Steven. They have upgraded their weapons and shields.. Have you heard anything from the Jaffa or the Tok'ra?" Carter asked.

"No, I'm afraid not.. Twelve thousand people have already gone through the gate to the Alpha site. People are going through it by the second. I don't say this very often, but I think we might get out asses kicked in this battle, Sam" Caldwell said

"Don't be so sure. The Swedes picked up that ancient warship that's been floating around between our galaxies for a few years.. It's loaded with drones, they actually found a ZPM on it." Carter said.

"Wow, that's.. We must negotiate with the Swedes about a ZPM" Caldwell said

"Hey, I haven't told you the good news.. One of their scientist got her head full of ancient knowledge, she filled six ZPMs and the seventh to thirty percent! All in all, they got twelve ZPMs!" Carter exclaimed.

"What the.. Now we really have to talk to them!" Caldwell said. On his end, an alarm beeped, alerting them of hyperspace windows opening. It was the Ori fleet.

"Sam, hurry up! They're here! Caldwell out!" And the com cut.

Colonel Hagberg had just gotten reports from the SGC that the Ori had arrived. He ordered all power to the hyperdrive, and asked when they where going to be there.

"ETA in one minute Colonel!" Lund said.

A minute later, the Zeus, Tria and the General Hammond dropped out of hyperspace, opening fire the second they dropped out. Colonel Carter and Colonel Hagberg orders all fighters to be launched. The Tria's commanding officer Colonel Hanna Svensson doesn't want to launch all of her Jumpers, but sends out ten of the ancient gate ships.

None of the sides are gaining any ground, not a single large ship has been destroyed. How ever, this soon change when earths only Ha'tak is destroyed. But very soon after that, the Tria makes the first kill when it takes out a mothership with it's drones. Quickly after that, Atlantis's chair, that's been re-routed to Antarctica, opens fire with the Antarctic defence. Destroying a mothership.

"Shields are holding at sixty four percent! Goa'uld weapon two is out of action!" Lund shouts.

The Zeus had been equipped with eleven goa'uld ship cannons, for point defence, in addition to Railguns.

"How's the rest of the fleet!?" Hagberg shouts whilst avoiding a rain of sparkles. Directly after answering that question, one of the 303s explode, taking down the two out of seven earth al'kesh's.

"We just lost a 303 and two al'kesh! Shields are failing on the Independence!" Major Vagner shouts.

The Independence explode at the same time as an ori mothership, with only two motherships left, they order their fighters back to the hangars and enters hyperspace. Over earth, the wreckage of the Independence, the 303 Thor, and several fighters and al'kesh's floats. Some minor sparks erupts from computers or some thing. The battle has been won, but with the loss of over five hundred people. The Independence and the Thor never had the chance to evacuate. They went down with all hands.

"Damage report!" Hagberg says.

"Shields held, Goa'uld weapons are offline, a few hurt in the infirmary, but no causalities." Lund says.

"Good. Very good. Re call fighters. Is it night in Sweden?" Hagberg asks.

"Yes sir. Yeah, it's night in Sweden." Lund says

"Good. Land the ship in our hangar, I think that the king and prime minister might want to have a brief."

The 302s and jumpers returns to their hangars and the Zeus starts descending through the clouds over Kiruna. The roof of the hangar retracts as the Zeus lands in side of it. On the outside of the roof, it's just large pieces of snow and ice. Kiruna is very far up north with not that many inhabitants, an ideal sight for a top secret facility. The Zeus will now have some minor repairs as well as a few upgrades while it's crew gets a few weeks off to se their families and friends.