Hey everyone, I have been looking at the reviews on stuff and, I want to clarify on somethings. The UNSC have Slipspace technology and if its inferior to the Wraith? No, The UNSC slipspace technology is more advance, now why they didn't mention about the differences, when McKay mentioned Hyperspace, is because they don't want to give away anything important, when it comes to their technology. When both sides can trust each other than they will begin sharing information and technology.
Atlantis
Conference Room
Sheppard and AR-1 returned to Atlantis, on the Daedalus from the UNSC's Ignis base, they beamed down to Atlantis conference room to discuss what had happened to Doctor Weir.
Sheppard and his team were discussing their meeting with Captain Alton and possible joint mission together. Doctor Weir didn't like the sound of that "They want your help in attacking a Wraith facility?"
"Apparently they discovered it when they were trying to track Hive ships when travelling hyperspace." said Sheppard
"Track Hive ships in hyperspace?" asked Weir unconvinced "Is that even possible?"
Sheppard was about to speak, only for Rodney to speak first. "Not possible." said Rodney with absolute certainty
"You don't know that Rodney." said Sheppard countering Rodney's answer.
"Um who in here has an understanding of hyperspace travel raise your hand!" said Rodney the only one who raised his hand "Me! Okay then you all should listen."
Sheppard had scowl look, wanting to shoot Rodney when he acted like this. "Fine explain to the rest of us why it can't be done." said Sheppard
"Gladly!" said Rodney giving Sheppard a look of smug satisfaction "There attempts were to study a Hive ships hyperspace vector to learn where they were going, but it's impossible to predict where they are going in space."
"Have you ever considered they might have the technology to do this Rodney?" asked Weir "Atlantis sensors are able to track Hive ships in hyperspace?"
"Yes, Atlantis sensors are able to, but their method was to use their computers to plot a vector course in the direction they were opening a hyperspace window on where they were headed, but it's impossible to predict that." Rodney said as he countered her argument.
"Wait a minute." said Sheppard "Your able to track and predict when the Hive ships are able to drop out of hyperspace."
Rodney was getting annoyed "Yes, but we have been studying Hive ships hyperspace travel for over a year, we have a much understanding of them using Atlantis sensors." said Rodney "Look their method was to see where they travel to in space and try to plot a vector course on where they were going and figure out where they'll drop out of hyperspace."
"This method is impossible?" asked Teyla
"Yes!" said Rodney stressing over it. "You can't predict where they'll drop out using that method, plus they just came to this galaxy, it'll take them a while to figure out about Wraith hyperdrives."
"So how did they find this Wraith facility?" asked Weir trying to move on
"They were tracking the Wraith, try to find some patterns in their movement and strapped a transmitter on one of the Hive ships, it led them to a planet and took images of this." said Rodney as he brings up images on a screen of a facility that looked Wraith.
"Why would the Wraith build a facility on planets?" asked Weir looking at Teyla and Ronon
Both of them shrug and didn't have the answer. "It's probably some kind outpost the Wraith use for supplies or research." said Sheppard the military in him thinking of it's strategic importance to the Wraith "It's kind of like what we do when we set up outposts."
"Sheppard's right!" said Rodney "It could be some kind of research base, like the one we found on that planet we discovered last year."
"Yes, but that Wraith was trying to hide his research from the other Wraith." countered Weir
"Well it's probably an outpost for them to fall back if there Hive ship comes under attack, there's a Stargate on the planet." said Rodney
"Do we have the address?" asked Weir
Rodney pressed a few buttons and a gate address appeared. "We got the address from the coordinates they provided us." said Rodney
"So what's their plan?" asked Weir
"They have a ship that's smaller than the Daedalus, capable of being undetected by the Wraith." said Sheppard
This caught Weir's attention. "Smaller than the Daedalus and is undetectable by the Wraith, how's that possible?" asked Weir
"Mmh! Yes, it's very interesting." said Rodney "The Daedalus was able to scan the ship and it provided information on it." he brings up an image of the ship on the screen replacing the Wraith facility.
"What have you discovered?" asked Weir looking at the screen
"The ship is 162 meters in length, it does appear to have weapons around it as well as a missile system." said Rodney
"Do you know how it is able to hide from the Wraith?" asked Teyla curious about their ability to stay undetect from the Wraith
Rodney shook his head. "It wasn't giving off any noticeable energy readings or anomalies, but the Asgard sensors did pick up a unique radiation signature in the system."
"What about the Praeter?" asked Weir "Did the Asgard sensors picked up anything?"
"Not as much as I would have liked, Caldwell didn't want them to detect our scanning and burn any bridges we might be working on, but we did a quick scan of the ship when we left and got these readings." said Rodney as he switched the image on the screen to the Praeter. "It's main weapon appears to be some sort of magnetic rail gun, while it does have some kind of missile launchers along the top and appears to have deck guns and some kind of rail guns around the side."
"Do you have any idea how powerful their weapons are, or how will the shields on the Daedalus stand up to their weapons?" asked Weir
"Not a clue, but hopefully will see how powerful they are when they go into battle." said Rodney
"I don't think they're going to risk their one ship for us to see how powerful their weapons are!" stated Sheppard
Before Rodney could say another word, Weir stepped in. "Demonstration or not, I reported to the IOA and they want us to establish diplomatic relations with these people ASAP."
"What's the rush?" asked Ronon
"These humans came from another galaxy, besides us or the Asgard, that is an incredible achievement, who knows what we can learn from them." said Weir "While I do have my concerns about them and my reluctance to attack a Wraith facility, we do need to establish good relations, you have a go."
Ignis Base
Conference Room
In the conference room all senior staff members of the Praeter were gathered together to have a meeting. "So my discoveries in the last month have given me an insight into the Wraith as a species." said Dare as she brings up reports, her people and Dare took. "These Wraith while technologically inferior compare to us, can still pose a serious problem."
Alton was reading through the reports. "You witness a culling on a planet?" asked Alton
"Yes and I have to say, I don't know which is worse being captured by aliens for sick experiments or fed on, or killed by glassing from the Covenant." said Dare remembering all the darts that scooped up people from the planet.
"In your report you noticed the Wraith darts using some sort of beam that absorbed the people, not killed them." said Crane reading the report
"Yes! Why?" asked Dare
"This sounds like some sort of transportation technology." said Crane "The UNSC has never come close to creating something like this, but we've encountered teleportation before on Halo."
"So they have technology that we don't have?" asked Faison a little impressed about the transportation technology
"It would appear to be." said Crane "What were their Hive ships like?"
"Massive, their 2500 meters in width and about 3000 meters in length." said Dare bringing up a holographic image of the ship for everyone to see. "Funny thing is their ships really are organic in nature." said Dare remembering her doubts about the information Doctor Weir had sent them.
"So are you coming around about Doctor Weir and her people?" asked Alton crossing his arm and looking at Dare, but before she could remark on his question, Faison stepped in.
"The Praeter still beats that by about 500 meters in length." said Faison breaking up the tension.
"What form of FTL they use?" asked Alton as he wants to know more about the Wraith.
"We've never encounter this form of FTL before, not even the Covenant had this." said Dare as she brings up the information on the holo display.
"Interesting!" said Crane as he examines the data flow on the Wraith ships FTL. "You didn't detect any Cerenkov radiation when they went into FTL."
"Yes and that's not the weirdest part." Said Dare, as she shows them videos of the Hive ships entering FTL.
"Interesting." said Crane again as the shock of the video surprised him. "Their method of entering FTL is different then Slipspace."
"We might be dealing with a new form of FTL, we've never encountered before." said Yelena.
Alton looks at the video and wondered of how it compares to their slipspace, but with this information wasn't enough to compare that. So decided to move on to other questions. "Weapons capability?" asked Alton knowing the answer already through Weir's information.
"According to Doctor Weir plasma based weapons, but I never saw them fire it or use it on anyone." said Dare "They don't seem to have anyone to challenge them."
"Until now." said Faison with a grin on his face.
"Don't get cocky Faison, you haven't faced their ground forces yet." said Alton
"With this upcoming mission sir, I'm looking forward to facing these Wraith." said Faison
"Speaking of the mission do we know what this Wraith facility is?" asked Alton
Dare shook her head. "No clue, but it's an outpost of some kind, maybe military or scientific research, it's a good start to gather some Intel."
"Defenses?" asked Faison "What's the terrain like?"
Dare brings up an image of the outpost she took when she passed by the planet. "The outpost appears to be in a forested area in a locale valley, as for defenses there are a couple of darts that land near the base, but the big problem is the Hive ship that appears on occasion." said Dare
"How often?" asked Alton
"A couple of days it stays delivering what I assume are people." said Dare disgusted by the thought of the Wraith feeding on them. "Afterwards they leave not showing up for another couple of days, we monitored this pattern and figured out the best window of opportunity."
"Okay sounds like a plan, but why did you ask Sheppard and his team to join us, we can handle this?" asked Faison thinking that his Spartans were unbeatable.
"I figured we owe them for the information on the Wraith." said Dare
Everyone stared at Dare accusingly while not believing her generosity. "It will also be a perfect opportunity to see them in action." She finished after looking at everyone's faces.
"Do you ever stop being a spook?" asked Alton glaring at her.
"You may not like how, I do things, but this method has given humanity a fighting chance against the insurrectionist and the Covenant." Dare said with a stern voice making Alton realize, that without ONI there wouldn't have been much intelligence gathering during those wars.
"Moving on." said Alton not wanting to deal with Dare "Yelena bring up the images."
On the table a holographic image of two ships appeared replacing the Hive ship. "What can you tell us about these ships Colonel Sheppard and his people used?"
"I must say not as blocky as the ships we build, but smaller than any ship we've built that's not used for stealth operations." said Yelena "At 225 meters in length, 95 meters in width, and 75 meters in height, it appears to have 16 missile bays at the top part of the ship along with what appears to be 32-point defense guns."
"It looks like they have two hangar bays on each side of the ship." said Alton studying the ships design
"Don't know what kind of fighter compliments they use, but it was open to allow their version of a shuttle to leave and return back to and from the planet." said Yelena
"What do we know about this shuttle?" asked Alton looking at it, it was an odd design small, roughly cylindrical shape with an angled front and rear, green color.
"I don't know what they call it, but given it's look and design does not match their ship." said Yelena
"You're saying they didn't build this thing?" asked Dare curious
"It's a possibility." said Yelena "From it leaving their ship's hangar and leaving the planet, I have learned their engines are equipped with two anti-gravity drive pods, which may either be extended or retracted during flight. However, the drive pods when extended are capable of propelling the craft at far greater speeds at 17000 Km/sec."
"Some of our people were on the ground when it left and they say the craft hover silently above ground in one spot before leaving." said Dare. "Makes good for operations that require stealth in enemy territory, now if it can cloak that would be great."
"Anything else on these ships we should know about?" asked Alton curios about a branch of humanity not from the UNSC, on how they build ships.
"I did detect some form of energy around the ship when it came into view, possibly a shield that protects it from damage." said Yelena "How strong the shield is compared to our own, I don't know at this time unless we see it in a battle situation."
"Were not going to go off into battle just to see their shield strength." said Alton not wanting to go into battle just yet, until he knows the full capabilities of Hive ships. "What about their FTL capabilities?" asked Alton
"Surprisingly their form of FTL is similar to the Wraiths, but I don't know how fast their ships FTL's are, their form of entering in FTL and dropping out of FTL is different from our own, but still the same way as the Wraith." said Yelena showing them images of the ship opening a green portal entering and leaving at high speeds. "The strangest thing is, I didn't detect Čerenkov Radiation when it opened those portals twice, but a different form of radiation."
"Well it seems they have something of value we would be interested in." said Dare
"Something of value, is an understatement." said Crane "If they don't have or never had the same kind of problems we did when trying out slipspace, could be extremely valuable to us."
"Will cross that bridge when we get there." said Alton "Right now let's focus on this mission."
The rest of the time continued out planning the mission, after a while they broke for lunch and left the conference room.
Ignis Base
Gate Room
One Month Later
When Captain Alton decided to stay, he immediately ordered the disable of the Stargate as he didn't want any uninvited guests to discover them, the Gate was taken to the facility and blocked from being able to be used.
While the Gate was blocked from making a connection or receiving connections, Doctor Crane still continued work on studying the Gate, by working on the DHD. The Gate Room itself was a large room with a number of defenses in place.
Gate Control Room
The Gate control room was where the DHD and a number of computers connected to the DHD was located, away from the Stargate.
Alton walked into the control room. "Doctor how is everything in here, are you making any progress?"
Crane looked away from the computers and looked at Alton. "Captain, I've uncovered a number of interesting things about the Stargate." said Crane
"Such as?" asked Alton
"The DHD for instance is not only responsible for connecting to other Stargates, but also provides power to the Gate to make it work." said Crane
"So if the DHD is destroyed or damage, you won't be able to use the Stargate?" asked Alton
"Correct." said Crane. "I'm trying to determine if the Stargate can absorb or is limited to certain forms of energy."
"Why?" asked Alton
"Well the element the gate is made up of a superconductor element, I'm trying to determine if the Gate can absorb energy in many forms, such as heat, nuclear, solar, and static." said Crane
"The purpose of these tests are for what?" asked Alton curious about Crane's research.
"The DHD provides Stargates with power." said Crane pointing at the DHD next to him "We need to know if the Gate can accept any other forms of power not required from the DHD in case something happens to it on other planets when we start sending teams through the Gate."
"Doctor if you manage to find a different way to power the Gate, that still leaves no way to activate it." said Alton putting a wrinkle in his research.
"I'm one step ahead of you, Captain." said Crane "The DHD has a wireless connection to the Stargate, I'm trying to learn the wireless signal and to be able to mimic that signal to connect to the Stargate."
"This signal will be able to connect to the Stargate and activate it?" asked Alton
"The Stargate is digital so it won't be much of a problem to make a connection." said Crane confident in his work. "It's not like we have to manually dial an address."
Alton then had a thought. "Is there a way to block this signal, cut it off from the Gate?" asked Alton
Crane thought about it for a moment. "Maybe, I'll have to do more tests if there is a way to disrupt or interfere the wireless connection."
"In the mean time I need to know if there is some form of protection we can put in place of the Gate to prevent unwelcome travelers?" asked Alton. "Like a shield?"
Crane gave it some thought. "Maybe, but like I said I need to do more research on the Gate, but this could go a lot faster if we had help." said Crane
"Doctor Weir's people?" asked Alton
Crane nodded his head. "They have better understanding of this technology than I do, it could take me weeks to do all the necessary tests before we can use it."
Alton thought about it and while he wanted to wait to get to know these people, asking for help would show a good faith on their part. "Can we use the Gate now?" asked Alton
Crane nodded his head "Once I remove the obstruction in between the Gate we can."
"Send a message to Weir with the address she gave us." said Alton
Atlantis
Stargate Operations
Control Room
It had been almost a month since Doctor McKay blew up a solar system due to the Ancients experiment called project Arcturus, Doctor Weir gathered them in the control room. "We received a message from the Alpha site thirty minutes ago from Captain Alton."
"Are they ready for that mission?" asked Sheppard waiting almost a month for them to respond back.
Weir nodded her head. "Yes, but that's not all." said Weir "They also want help with their Stargate, provide them information that will speed up their research on it."
"What kind of research could they be doing?" asked Rodney curious about their own scientists attempted effort in understanding the Stargate.
"I was hoping you could tell me?" asked Weir
Rodney thought for a second. "It could be anything from altering the Gate operating system to test its metallurgy."
"Well they requested our assistance, I feel this will be a good start at forming a bridge especially if we answer their request for assistance." said Weir
"So what are we getting in return?" asked Rodney everyone stared at him with disbelief in their eyes "What?!" shouted Rodney "Were going on a mission to attack a Wraith facility and now were helping them with their research on the Stargate."
Weir stopped Rodney, to clarify how diplomacy works. "Okay A, they asked us if we would join them on the mission, even after we gave them all the information we had on the Wraith, they had a distinct advantage and were prepared; they didn't need to ask us to join them." said Weir "And B, by requesting our help in their research shows a lot of trust on their part in showing us what research they do and this could be a test to see if we would decline or not."
"Oh!" said Rodney taken aback by Weir's explanation. "Okay when you put it like that."
"When do we leave?" asked Sheppard annoyed at McKay for stalling.
"They request we come by ship, because there not ready to receive travelers through their Stargate." said Weir moving over to the side. "The Daedalus is standing by in orbit, when your ready take Jumper three and park in the Hangar of the Daedalus."
Weir walks away leaving AR-1 to gear up and prepare to leave.
Ignis Base
Conference Room
AR-1 arrived in the conference room after the Daedalus travel to the UNSC outpost, Alton greeted them. "Colonel Sheppard, thank you for coming." said Alton
"Well when you told us about this Wraith facility how could we say no." said Sheppard with a warm smile. "I also understand you requested assistance with the Stargate?"
"That's correct!" said Alton "We could use your help, seeing as the experts in this technology."
"We will be more than happy to help." said Sheppard
"By 'we', he means me." corrected Rodney, as he un-straps his tablet from his back. "Where have you set up the Stargate?"
"Right this way Doctor." said Alton as, he guides Rodney to the Gate Room, Alton stops and looks at Sheppard. "Colonel you can wait here; Captain Dare will be by to go over the mission." He walks out with Rodney leaving Sheppard, Teyla, and Ronon in the conference room.
Gate Control Room
Captain Alton walks into the room with Rodney behind and the look on Rodney's face said it all, while not as elegant or sophisticated as Atlantis control room, it was bigger than the SGC's and looking more high tech. As a scientist Rodney couldn't help himself, he walked up to the controls.
"Incredible, this is amazing." said Rodney "I assume you've manage to connect the Gate with a power source?" Rodney asked looking at Alton
"Doctor, I'm not the man you should ask." Said Alton as he looks to the man responsible for this operation.
Rodney looked to where Alton stared at and it was a man in a lab coat walking up to the two. "Doctor McKay, it's a pleasure to meet you again, I'm Doctor Crane chief science officer on the Praeter." said Doctor Crane as he sticks his hand out to Rodney.
Rodney took the man's hand. "Ahh, yes I remember you, during our first meeting on your ship." said Rodeny while trying to not bring up the incident between there two people.
"Yes! I wish we could have met under better circumstances, but I'm glad we can work together now, shall we begin?" asked Crane as he goes over to the control areas.
"Yes let's begin." said Rodney excited at the prospect to be working with a technologically advance group of humans.
Alton walks out of the room, leaving the two scientists alone, when he was out of ear shot range from the two he called Yelena. "Yelena, keep an eye on Doctor McKay."
"Expecting him to cause trouble Captain?" asked Yelena
"No, but would they be any less kind to us if we were visiting them?" asked Alton knowing that his people would be under constant watch. "There's a security guard keeping an eye on him, but watch our network in case of intrusion."
"Understood Captain." said Yelena with confidence in her voice.
Conference Room
In the conference room, Dare had arrived after Alton left and gave them the plan on the mission and what to expect. "That's pretty much it." said Dare turning off the holo projector.
"So this Hive ship that stops by periodically, you've managed to figure its pattern and know the best time to attack?" asked Sheppard with an interest in this mission.
"We stayed at that planet for two weeks and kept progress of the Hive ships movement." said Dare with arms crossed feeling insulted by Shepard's questioning of her intelligence gathering.
"How did you manage to conceal yourself from the Hive ship?" asked Teyla wanting to know if what they used could be helpful to the other humans in the galaxy.
Dare hesitated for a second, unsure if she should reveal what they are capable of, but with this upcoming mission, they're going to find out anyway. "We have a stealth capable ship we use to hide from the Wraith."
"Really?" asked Shepard curious about this new information. "Now when you say stealth, you cloak?"
Dare looked at Shepard with suspicion, making her think that they have some kind of experience in this technology. "Our ships is capable of cloaking."
While Sheppard took this information into consideration of this new information he decided to move on. "Alright then when do we leave?"
"As soon as Doctor's McKay and Crane finish with the Stargate." said Dare "In the mean time remain here, Captain Alton should be returning soon." Dare walks out of the Conference room leaving AR-1 to themselves.
Gate Control Room
In the control room more scientists showed up going over other systems to make sure everything was working in proper order. Crane was showing the facility and other technical systems. "So as you can see we've been busy working on getting this place in order." said Crane directing Rodney to a number of systems.
Rodney looked around and saw a window allowing all present in the control room a view of the room housing the Stargate. "I see you connected your computers to the DHD." said Rodney looking at the wires. "Is the Gate drawing power from the DHD, or do you have a power source plugged into it?"
"The DHD is still connected to the Stargate and provides its power instead of the Stargate drawing power from our reactors." Answered Crane as he gets up and shows McKay. "We've managed to take control of most of its operating system and have transferred all controls to dialing to our computers."
"Interesting, where I come from we have a similar set up except we didn't have the DHD, we had to create a dialing program that allowed us to dial our Stargate." Said Rodney amazed at what they did. "Have you managed to dial other planets using this system then the address we provided you?"
"No, unfortunately not, the Captain doesn't want the Stargate to remain open to allow anyone else access to the base until I figured out a way to create a proper defense." Crane said with disgruntle look.
Rodney stopped examining the DHD and looked at Crane. "We can help you with that." Said Rodney. "I'm surprised you haven't figured it out."
Training Room
Sheppard, Teyla, and Ronon were guided by Alton through the facility on a second tour of the base, he led them into the training room where all ODST's and Marines train at. "This is the training room." said Alton "We like to keep our soldiers in shape and provided them with best equipment."
Sheppard looked around and it reminded him of his old academy days in the air force. "Impressive." said Sheppard "I got to say it's not easy being the one in charge."
"It's not, but someone has to do it." said Alton leading them to another room.
Spartan Training Room
Alton and AR-1 minus Rodney walked into the Spartan training room where the Spartans train in their armor, out of armor, and train with weapons at shooting range built into this room to keep their skills sharp.
"This is the Spartan training room, where all Spartans train." said Alton showing AR-1 the best the UNSC has to offer.
"Why do you have another training room?" asked Teyla "Do not all your soldiers train together?"
"These soldiers are different." said Alton with a small smile on his face remembering hearing the stories about the Spartans during the Covenant war.
While Alton didn't finish why they're different, Sheppard understood. "They're special forces." said Sheppard, Alton giving Sheppard a look. "You don't give a group of people a name like Spartans for nothing."
"What do you know about Spartans?" asked Faison as he walked over to Sheppard and his team to size up the new group of people.
Sheppard and his team saw a black man out of armor with buzz cut hair and facial hair from his lower lip down to his chin in a straight line, standing at a height of 6'7, very muscular standing over them, Sheppard at first was surprised by his height whether it was natural or unnatural he couldn't ask "I... I was just saying where I come from we had something called Spartans, but that was about a thousand years ago."
Alton wanted to ask, but left it alone. "Colonel Sheppard let me introduce you to Major Faison, he commands all the Spartans here."
"So Colonel Sheppard." said Faison while looking down and up on the colonel. "What do you think of our home away from home."
"Impressive how much you guys put into this place after 2 months being here." replied Sheppard remembering the tour.
As Faison and Sheppard stared each other down, Ronon saw one of the Spartan's who decked him in the face when they were on the Praeter being interrogated. "YOU." he snarled as he walked up to the Spartan
Other Spartans around the room immediately reacted to his aggressive walk to their fellow Spartan and stood in Ronon's way, Sheppard and Faison walked up to the gather group to diffuse the situation. "RONO!" yelled Sheppard grabbing him by the shoulder "What do you think you're doing?"
"It looked like he wanted to pick a fight with me." Answered a woman, who everyone was looking for, until the Spartan, that Ronon was walking up towards took off her helmet to reveal her face.
This took Ronon, Sheppard, and Teyla by surprised at a woman being that tall. "There's no way a woman could knock me out." claimed Ronon staring at the Spartan.
Faison walks up to her. "Spartan explain?" asked Faison
"This man tried to escape during our first contact with these people, I decked him in the face when he opened the door after, he fired on me, sir." said the Spartan
"Seems justified to me." said Faison looking back at Sheppard
"Ronon is this true?" asked Sheppard not wanting to hear the answer.
"Yeah it's true, but only cause these people took us at gun point what was I suppose to do." said Ronon. "Besides, right now I want a rematch, this time no weapons, just you and me."
Alton was going to step in and stop this, but Faison had other ideas. "Alright, there's a ring over there where you can have your fight." Faison said with a grin. "Spartan go take your armor off at the station over there and get your ass in that ring."
The Spartan nodded her head and left for the station, Faison turned to Sheppard. "Your good with this Sheppard?" asked Faison with a grin.
Before Sheppard could respond, Ronon spoke for the both of them. "He's good, let's do this." said Ronon as he starts removing weapons and taking off his jacket.
"Hey, stop right now." said Sheppard "We came here to be friendly with these people not to get in a boxing match with one of their guys."
"Colonel Sheppard is right Ronon." said Teyla joining in the conversation. "We cannot afford to do this when were about to go on a mission together."
"It's fine I'll be alright." said Ronon heading to the ring "Besides what better way to get to know these people then to spar with them." Ronon said, but in reality, he doesn't like being tossed around and was looking for some payback.
As other Spartans began surrounding the ring, Sheppard, Teyla, and Captain Alton stood just outside of the crowd as they waited for the female Spartan to come back out of her armor.
"So how good is your guy?" asked Alton curious of Ronon, as no regular soldier in the UNSC would ever pick a fight with a Spartan.
Sheppard knew how skilled Ronon is, but didn't want him to start a fight that could hurt diplomatic relations. "Ronon is an incredible shot, none of my guys could beat him in a fight, and he's ex-military."
Alton nodded his head. "Not bad, but when you go up against a Spartan, start praying to whatever god you believe in." said Alton looking at the ring.
The Spartan soon arrived without her armor looking at lot shorter than before, almost at Ronon's height, but leaving her combat skin on. The Spartan gets into the ring and began stretching and flexing her muscles. Ronon was doing the same while glaring at her with contempt.
Faison steps up on the ring. "So how do you two want to play this?" asked Faison
"I'm fine with hand to hand." said Ronon with an evil smile.
Faison looks at his fellow Spartan for confirmation. "I'm good with that." said the Spartan with a grin.
Faison nodded his had and jumped off the ring. "I'll be referring this match, so whenever you two are ready fight, go ahead." said Faison while looking at each one.
The two got into their fighting stances and carefully circled around the ring while staring each other down, as the tension in the air was tight as everyone around the ring was anticipating for the first move, Ronon decided to make that move, by charging at her with a ferocious roar.
Ronon charges the Spartan, but instead going at her directly, he fakes a frontal attack and goes for her legs by doing a scissors attack at the back of her legs making her fall to the ground. Ronon got back on his feat about to follow up on his attack, but was surprised of how fast the Spartan recovered instantly.
The Spartan got back on her feet, by rolling out of Ronon's sight and flipping back up, she then charged Ronon and did a tornado kick sending Ronon across the ring, but the Satedan warrior wasn't out just yet and climbed on the ropes and jumped off of one and on to the Spartan, both fell to the ground.
As the fighting was going on, Rodney and Crane walked up to the crowd confused about the sudden commotion in the training room. "What the hell is going on around here?" asked McKay
"You got me." said Crane with a surprised look on his face. "I never come down to the training rooms as, I prefer working the most important muscle." he said, by pointing at his head.
"That we can agree on." said McKay with a small smile appreciating the obvious choice, as both men began walking up to Alton and Sheppard.
Captain Alton noticed the two scientists walking up and turned to face them looking away from the fight. "Doctors, I hope everything is alright?" asked Alton
"Everything is fine, we just finished getting the Stargate ready for your people to use, we just need you to look everything over." said McKay as he looks around to see the commotion, he noticed Ronon in the ring fighting a girl "Is that Ronon?"
"Yeah." said Sheppard not taking his eyes off the fight.
"What the hell is he doing fighting a girl?" asked McKay clearly not up to date on the situation.
"Apparently one of my Spartans knocked out your companion the first time we met." said Alton answering McKay's question.
"Well why isn't he fighting that guy?" asked McKay
"He is." said Sheppard
McKay had only a confused look on his face. "The woman in the ring is the Spartan who knocked him out." said Sheppard clarifying.
Rodney looked at Alton and to Crane who nodded in agreement, Rodney looked at the ring to see for himself.
Ronon and the Spartan were now throwing punches at each other with Ronon taking more of a beating then his opponent. Blood running down his face, bruised and bloodied, he was barely standing, as for the Spartan while she was still standing better then Ronon, she still had signs of a punch to her face with cuts and marks.
Faison saw how things were going and decided it was time to end this, but just as he was getting into the ring, Ronon collapsed to the ground. "Get a medical team down to the training room now." said Faison as he walks up to Ronon checking on him.
Ignis Base
Infirmary
Ronon was rushed to the infirmary and was taken care of by the medical staff, Sheppard, Teyla, and McKay were waiting to hear from a doctor on Ronon. Alton was present as well as he felt responsible for what happen.
As the silence continued, Doctor Allison Collins walked up to the group, Sheppard was the first one to speak "How's Ronon doing?"
"He's fine, apart from the beating he took, he's remarkably resilient for a normal man to have gone up against a Spartan." said Collins
"He's a tough guy to take down." said Sheppard with a smile. "Just ask the Wraith."
"In the mean time he needs to rest, he's awake if you want to see him." said Collins
Sheppard, Teyla, and McKay followed the Doctor to where Ronon was, Alton tagged along as well. At one of the beds in the infirmary, Ronon was lying down recovering from his fight.
"Sheppard!" said Ronon acknowledging the Colonel's approach.
"Hey there big guy." said Sheppard "How you feeling."
"Better than I look." said Ronon with a grin. "What happen to the Spartan?"
"She's recovering elsewhere on the base, figured it wouldn't be best to have both of you in the same room." said Sheppard not wanting to see a rematch between these two.
"You should not have picked a fight with her Ronon." said Teyla not liking the idea of fighting potential allies.
"She's right, have you looked at yourself." said Rodney pointing at the bruises to his face. "I mean there are times when you need to let things go and not allow your ego to take over."
Everyone stared at Rodney with a frown. "What?" asked Rodney not getting the hint from there looks.
"In the meantime, Ronon can remain here and use our facility to heal and recuperate." said Alton trying to offer hospitality after one of his Spartans put a member of Sheppard's team in the infirmary.
While the offer was genuine, Sheppard objected to it "While we appreciate the offer, we feel more comfortable if Ronon returned back with us."
Alton wasn't going to argue, he would have done the same thing if their roles were reversed. "Very well, I'll have Doctor Collins have her people prep Ronon to go."
"Thank you." said Sheppard. "In the mean time will have to reschedule on that mission."
Alton nodded his head. "Sounds good, we still need to hash out some other things, until next time." said Alton walking out of the infirmary.
While the day ended with Ronon in the infirmary, in the end relations between the UNSC and the Atlantis expedition continued down a path to an Alliance against a common enemy.
I know I left it off on a cliff hangar, but I think this is a good spot to leave it at, but unfortunately this will be the last chapter of the year until next year, as I am currently dealing with issues in college that I must focus on, I don't know when I will update next year. Thank you all for your patients with me and the patients for waiting next year, So I hope to see you all in 2018.