As the back wall explodes from the grenade, clouds of dust and rubble spread in to the room, as it dissipates, O'Neill goes over to the large hole that was created in the wall, he sticks his head out and has a quick look around, "Its clear..come on." he shouts, waving the others to come over, as the other get to their feet and make their way over, the doors bust open, "O'Neill" shouts Teal'c turning to see the Umbra squeezing through the doorway like a clowder of cats squeezing through a cat flap.
Teal'c, Daniel and O'Neill gradually form a line as they open fire on the Umbra and move back towards the hole in the wall, flashes of light, smoke and dust spread all around the room and the walls from P90, Zat and energy gun fire, the sound echoing through the room is deafening, bodies of the Umbra start piling up near the door.
"I'm out." shouts Daniel, he ducks behind O'Neill to reload.
They keep firing but they've only managed to take out 9 of them, "DanielJackson." shouts Teal'c, "Its jammed!" replies Daniel, trying to load his gun
O'Neill runs out of ammo and starts reloading, then the wall around the door crumbles and breaks as the Umbra push through, several of them rush forward wearing plates of armour and carrying energy guns, "...Sh*t." says O'Neill as he looks up, still loading his P90, the Umbra open fire but the energy beams stop a few feet ahead of them.
They look around and see Filida with her arm out and concentrating, she's creating an energy barrier in the middle of the room, the Umbra stop and try punching the barrier but they're unable to get through, "Maybe we should leave now." says Daniel.
They quickly back away and get to the hole in the wall and step out, Filida remains standing near the wall, "Filida, let's go." says O'Neill, Yol grabs her arm and starts pulling her, "Come princess, come." he says.
As Yol pulls her out through the hole in the wall, O'Neill takes one last look and sees the barrier disappear and the Umbra immediately start running forward, he turns and runs along the side wall with the others "Go, move, go." he shouts.
Out of the tower they make their way around the back, running and jumping over boulders and rocks, they come to a steep slope and slide down it one by one as the groans of the Umbra get louder and louder, closing in on their position.
They make it down the slope and back in to the alleyways between the buildings, Daniel takes the lead and Yol holding Filida's hand run behind him, Teal'c and O'Neill are behind them and turning occasionally to fire at the pursuing Umbra, they continue running through the maze of alleyways until they come out in to a street just ahead of the tower stairs.
The Umbra who was issuing orders to the others at the tower entrance spots them emerge from the alleyway, he lifts his head and lets out a loud roaring sound alerting the other Umbra, he then looks and points to the street and the Umbra come poring out of the tower and chase after them.
"We must run faster." shouts Teal'c, they all run down the street ducking and darting around to avoid the energy blasts and spears being fired and thrown at them, suddenly a large explosion blows out of two buildings at either side of the street between them and the pursuing Umbra, the force of the blast sends them crashing to the floor.
After the blast stops rining in their ears they lift themselves up and look back, 20 or so Umbra lay dead on the floor behind them but they can see the remaining Umbra running through the cloud of smoke and dust, then Mitchell comes darting out of an alleyway near them, "Mitchell?" says O'Neill, "What are you waiting for..let's go." shouts Mitchell.
They make it to the city entrance and continue to fire of shots behind them as the massive horde of Umbra start gaining on them, "Where have you been?" asks O'Neill.
"Saving our asses." replies Mitchell.
"What?" says O'Neill.
Mitchell reaches in to his vest pocket and pulls out a detonator, O'Neill just looks at him slightly puzzled, Mitchell points upwards to his left at the cavern wall and smiles, O'Neill turns and looks, "Get back to the Lantis." he shouts.
They pick up pace but Yol and Filida lag behind, with such small legs they just can't keep up, as they cross the bridge a section suddenly collapses and Yol and Filida are hanging off the side, Yol pulls Filida up and pushes her back on to the bridge, "Go princess." he says, then the part of the bridge he's holding on to breaks and he falls down on to the rocks at the side of the river.
Mitchell is closest and he runs back over to them, he looks over the bridge, "Yol, hold on I'm coming to get ya." he says, the Umbra run out of the city entrance towards the bridge, "Take the princess to safety, leave me." shouts Yol.
The Umbra will be there within seconds so Mitchell grabs the princess, holding her like an infant in his arm he runs away.
O'Neill turns and sees Mitchell running towards him carrying Filida, "Where's Yol?" he asks.
"He fell off the bridge." says Mitchell, "Daniel, take her." he says, passing him Filida.
While Daniel takes Filida back to the Lantis, Mitchell, Teal'c and Mitchell run back towards the bridge laying down as much fire as they can to slow down the Umbra.
On the bridge of the Lantis, Vala sees life signs appear on the sensors again, "I've got them." she says.
"General, is everything okay?" says Carter on the radio.
Daniel scrambles to get his radio from his pocket, "Sam, Sam." he says.
"Daniel?" she replies.
"I've got the princess, I'm coming back now." says Daniel.
Vala points at two life signs heading towards the ship, "That's them." she says.
As Daniel reaches the exit door of the Lantis, the rescue team Caldwell sent down emerge from the exit, "Whoa.." says Daniel as he stops momentarily.
"Where are the others?" asks Major Pauletti, leader of the rescue team.
Daniel points behind him, "Back there." he says as he barges passed the rescue team on to the ship.
The rescue team run off to find the others.
Mitchell and Teal'c are kneeling a few meters from the bridge firing everything they've got at the Umbra and managing to slow them down and take a few of them out, O'Neill makes his way around and under the bridge to Yol.
"Hey." he says, looking at Yol laying on the ground.
"The princess?" says Yol.
"She's safe...come on lets get out of here." says O'Neill.
"I can not move, my legs are broken." replies Yol.
Just as Mitchell and Teal'c are about to be seriously overpowered, the rescue approach from behind and open fire, holding the Umbra back once again.
"Let's go, SG-1." shouts Major Pauletti.
"O'Neill, we must leave immediately." shouts Teal'c.
"Leave me, save yourself." says Yol.
"For crying out loud." says O'Neill, he goes over and picks him up, with Yol in his arms he makes his way back under the bridge, while trying to avoid the Umbra bodies falling off the side he makes his way up the bank to the others.
Teal'c takes Yol off O'Neill and they all start running back but continuing to fire, "Carter, I hope you're ready to go." says O'Neill over his radio.
"Almost Sir." replies Carter.
"We have two minutes before this place comes down." says O'Neill.
"Two minutes?...that's not enough time." says Carter.
"Two minutes!" replies O'Neill in a firm tone.
O'Neill drops his radio and begins firing again, he turns to Mitchell, "Now would be a good time." he says.
"Yes Sir." says Mitchell, he grabs his detonator, "Haul ass!" he shouts, and he pushes the button.
When Mitchell separated from the others when they got to the tower stairs, he went back to the river, once there he scaled the cavern wall next to the narrow waterfall, when he reached the top he placed C4 in to the crack where the ocean water is seeping through.
Detonating the C4 it blows the crack wide open and the surrounding rock face breaks apart allowing the ocean water to rush through at an alarming rate.
The others on the bridge of the ship heard the explosion and went to to the window to see what was happening, "Are they insane." says Vala.
Carter and Alisana look at each other with disbelief, "We better hurry." says Alisana, "Yeah!" says Carter.
The Umbra turn and look when they hear the explosion, a massive wave of water sweeps most of them away and the cavern quickly starts filling up with water.
The rescue team and the others make it back to the ship, as water catches up with them and flows in to the ship they rush inside and seal the door, they stand leaning against the walls of the corridor, exhausted and out of breath, "That was fun." says Mitchell.
"You're nuts do you know that." says O'Neill.
"We are not yet out of danger." says Teal'c.
"Right. Lets get to the bridge." says O'Neill.
With everyone now back on the ship and standing on the bridge, they need to hurry up and get out of there, Carter is carefully positioning the booster rods around the corners of the captains chair and turning them on, the tops of the rods glow and hum but one is malfunctioning, "Okay try it now." she says.
Alisana is at a console trying to connect a signal to the rods, "Still nothing." she says.
"Damn it." shouts Carter, getting frustrated.
Looking out of the window in to the cavern, it's now a third filled with water and continuing to rise rapidly as it flows through the roof of the cavern, and the city in the distance is gradually being submerged.
Carter has been working on the rod for several minutes trying to get it to work.
"Carter, we need to leave right now." says O'Neill.
"Just give me a minute sir." replies Carter.
O'Neill walks over to her and turns her head, "Now...Carter." he says, as Carter looks out of the window she sees the water rising up, realising they don't have much time she ups her pace and starts frantically adjusting circuits and cutting and splicing wires, finally the rod glows and stays on.
"Try it now." shouts Carter.
"That's it..you got it." says Alisana, connecting to the rods and sending the data to the Daedalus, "Sent." she says.
"Bill, did you get the data?" asks Carter over the radio.
"I got it, it's recalculating now. It needs a minute." replies Bill, looking at his screen and seeing the progress bar slowly increasing.
The pressure of the water is making the cavern walls weaker and the ship starts vibrating slightly, "Bill, we need to do this now. If the ship shifts position we're screwed." says Carter.
"Come on..come on." Bill moans to his computer, it beeps to indicate its finished calculating, "Done." he shouts over the radio, and simultaneously activates the beam.
Caldwell stands and looks out of the Daedalus window, he turns to Bill, "Where are they?" he asks.
Bill looks puzzled and looks at his screen, "Err...I err...they err...they should be right there..." he says in a panicky tone.
A second later they see a powerful bright flash of light in front of them that floods in through the window and lights up the bridge of the Daedalus, as the light fades they see the Lantis floating in space in front of them, some water and a few rocks that were beamed with them float away around it.
"General O'Neill, this is the Daedalus, come in?" says Caldwell.
"This is O'Neill, looks like we have ourselves a new ship." says O'Neill, sounding cheerful.
Everyone takes breaths of relief and sit on the floor, too exhausted to do anything.
"Good work Carter." says O'Neill, "All of you...good job." he says.
"Thank you Sir." she replies.
4 hours later back at Stargate Command, SG-1, Yol and Filida are gathered at the foot of the gate ramp ready to send them home, Filida has managed to use star maps and gate addresses to locate the planet with the gate they used to get here, Yol's legs have not yet healed and as he's unable to walk he's using his psychokinetic ability to float himself in the air.
"Are you sure you can't stay, I mean at least until your fully healed." asks Daniel, standing in front of them.
"We must return to our people, they need us." says Filida.
"You know...if you tell us where your world is we can have the Daedalus swing by and see what's going on." says O'Neill, "You have no idea what you're walking in to." he says.
"I know your intentions are good, but the location of our world must remain a secret to ensure this never happens again." says Filida.
O'Neill nods, "I understand." he says.
Filida takes a step towards O'Neill, she flicks her finger asking him to bend down, when he does she kissing him on the cheek, she then does the same to everyone else, "Thank you." she says.
Yol kisses Vala, Alisana and Carter on the cheek, "Err..Woah..easy there." says Mitchell as Yol attempts to kiss him. "Handshake is just as good." says Mitchell, the guys shake Yol's hand.
"Will we ever see you again?" asks Daniel.
"No matter what happens when we return home, the Tulla will always be friends of Earth." says Filida, "I'm certain we will meet again some day." she says with a smile.
As the Stargate dials and activates, Yol and Filida start walking and hovering up the ramp, they stop when they reach the gate and turn.
"Good luck." says Carter.
"Hey Yol...you're the bravest Tulla I've ever met, you take care of her." says O'Neill.
Yol bows at O'Neill, "Always." he says.
"See you soon." says Daniel.
Yol and Filida wave and then turn and step through the Stargate, moments later it deactivates and they all just stand briefly reflecting on the days events, then they all make their way out of the gate room.
They made new friends and Earth now has another ally, as long as the war with the Umbra goes the way the Tulla planned and they successfully return home and free their people, they should see them again in the future.
Earth now also has a new ship, the Lantis, the original ship used by the Alterans to get to the Milky Way, more than a hundred scientists and engineers are now on board making repairs and discovering what it has to offer, what will they discover?, only time will tell.
O'Neill just received an urgent communication from Colonel Swanson, captain of the Alliance ship, he's in his office looking at his computer monitor answering the call.
"Hey Swanson, what's up." he asks.
Swanson looks very concerned, "Sir, we were returning from Atlantis and we dropped out of hyperspace when our sensors detecting a strange anomaly."
"..and?" asks O'Neill.
"The anomaly was detected at...Astrobaga...Sir." says Swanson, with a lump in her throat.
O'Neill leans forward with his hands clutched on his desk, he has an extremely rare look of dread on his face, "Verdain?" he asks, Swanson doesn't respond, he already knows the answer from looking at her facial expression.
The End...