Previously on Atlantis, after the Asgard left:
"The Asgard have left Earth for P4R-169 to build us an SD-312, they are expected back here in twenty-one minutes with it. We are launching immediately for Pegasus, to rescue our teams," informed Landry.
"How can they build an SD-312 in twenty minutes?" asked Woosley.
"Time Dilation," replied Landry, "Sir I request to be on this mission."
"Granted! Get battle-ready in ten minutes. Do we have any SG teams still here?" asked O'Niell.
"No sir, they are all in Pegasus, with all Puddle Jumper Teams as well," replied Walter.
"Woosley you're in charge of Pacifica and Atlantis, till I or Gen. Landry returns," ordered O'Niell.
"I'll take good care of them!" replied Woosley.
"Twenty minutes sir!" informed Walter.
Larrin, Varro, and Ginn suddenly found themselves transported to the gateroom.
"I need you three on a rescue mission immediately. You're the most experienced we have here beside me. We have lost every ship in the Pegasus Galaxy by an unknown force that arrived to defend the wraith. Are you up to it?" asked O'Neill.
Larrin responded, "What do you have in mind?"
"Larrin I understand you have the gene and can pilot a Puddle Jumper?" asked O'Neill.
"Yes!" replied Larrin.
"I'm in!" replied Varro.
"Count me in!" replied Ginn.
"I'm going to go with Thor when he returns with a SD-312 in a few minutes. I want you three to take a puddle jumper and dial directly to P2J-402, and take a cloaked puddle jumper through. You're to try and find any of our people on the ground and assist in them getting to the gate," ordered O'Neill.
"That we can do sir!" replied Larrin.
"We will do what we can to keep them distracted in orbit, and hopefully your able to rescue some of our ground forces," explained O'Neill.
"Seventeen minutes sir!" shouted Walter.
"You have seven minutes to get suited and get the jumper bay," ordered O'Neill, who took off to get suited up himself. He found Landry already in the preparation room getting his gear on.
They grabbed their fatigues, and grabbed a pack each and headed back to the gateroom.
"Twelve minutes sir!" shouted Walter.
"Sir beaming Dr. Beckett has his team and supplies gather in medical, to beam aboard when ready," explained Walter. Right then the gate activated.
"Off world activation!" shouted Walter. The shield deactivated. Then alarms started going off on the sensors.
"Sir we have three ships that just appeared in orbit!" shouted Walter.
Then two Asgard walked through the Stargate.
"General O'Neill?" asked one of the Asgard.
"That's me. Who are you?" asked O'Neill.
"I am Thrud, daughter of Thor, this is Carson, son of Loki," replied the Asgard. The Gate shutdown.
"Those ships in orbit would be Thor and the two other ships he has brought," replied the one named Carson.
"Thor has a daughter? How long have you been in time dilation?" asked O'Neill.
"That is a long story. My father is waiting for our signal to beam you and the rest of the crew you assembled onto the ships," replied Thrud.
"We don't have enough people for three ships!" exclaimed O'Neill.
"No need the ships are crewed by the Asgard," explained Thrud, "Please tell us who is going, so we can beam them aboard? We'll explain things later."
"The medical staff, Gen. Landry, and I," answered O'Neill, as the gate the signal from
"We are receiving a signal from Midway station!" shouted Walter, everyone turned looking at Walter, "Dr. McKay is at Midway station, he managed to escape, but he believes the gate on Beta Target was destroyed."
"Tell McKay to wait there," ordered O'Neill, "I have three people in the Puddle Jumper bay that need to be beamed aboard as well."
"Done, speak to my father if you need to pickup Dr. McKay on the way to Pegasus. They can make a quick stop to do so," replied Thrud, who then signaled for the transport.
O'Neill found himself on the bridge of the Nemesis before Thor.
"Welcome aboard the Nemesis II, O'Neill," greeted Thor.
"Thor buddy, what's going on, I was expecting an SD-312, this isn't an SD-312 is it? A daughter?" asked O'Neill.
"There is a lot to explain O'Neill, I will explain later. You are on board a DN-1103. The most advanced ship ever conceived," replied Thor, "Now let us jump to Midway Station to pick up Dr. McKay."
With that Thor signaled the ships to open a Wormhole to Midway station, and in seconds O'Neill found himself staring at Midway on the screen.
"Now we have to wait thirty minutes to reach Pegasus!" exclaimed O'Neill.
"That was the SD-312, this is a DN-1103, we will be in Pegasus Galaxy soon as Dr. McKay reports to us," replied Thor, who beamed Dr. McKay on to the bridge. Thor beamed Dr. Keller onto the bridge from the medical bay as well.
"Rodney are you ok?" shouted Keller as she ran to hug her husband.
"I'm OK, thanks to Sheppard but I don't think he made it," replied McKay.
"Dr. McKay, what happened? We need to know everything," asked O'Neill.
McKay recalling...
Mitchell over the communicator, "Everyone we found the queen and she was killed in the explosion. However we believe she may have sent a signal for help, we do not know who to,"
"Roger that Mitchell we will keep scanners active and monitor for any new company," replied Caldwell.
"Rodney are you all right?" shouted Sheppard over their communicator.
"I'm still in one piece," replied McKay, getting his nerves under control. He then examined the data burst he picked up. Took him a minute to examine it.
"Yeah someone sent some sort of signal over that subspace link. A warning would have been nice I was above that building when it exploded," shouted McKay over the communicator to everyone.
"Dr. McKay, do you have something on the data burst?" asked Caldwell.
"I don't have the systems here to decode it. I'll need the system on the Hammond, would be best," replied McKay.
"Dr. McKay, we captured the data burst here, the system here can not identify it, and no known language," replied Carter.
"Sorry no warning, Teyla sensed the Wraith Queen was sending a signal and I had to detonate to try and stop it. Guess I wasn't fast enough," replied Mitchell.
Teal'c over the communicator, "We have a serious issue, Ronon and I have approximately two thousand wraiths in a room surrendering because they do not want to face the horror that is coming."
"This is not sounding good in my book," replied Caldwell.
"McKay see what you can determine from the ground there, Col. Carter you decode that data burst," ordered Caldwell.
McKay hovered back over where the building had been scanning the debris for any clues. Carter was on board the Hammond running every analysis the system on the data burst, trying to identify it, or where it was being sent to.
Carter over the communicator, "Everyone alert, we have three ships of unknown origin, by what appears to be Wormhole drive!"
"Apollo is gone, I repeat the the Apollo is gone!" shouted Caldwell, "All ships permission to fire!"
Ellis over the communicator, "Their weapons can penetrate our shields in one shot! Evasive maneuvers! The Hades is down!"
"Ares is down, everyone escape as you can!" ordered Caldwell.
Sheppard to McKay, "Get to the gate get that data to Atlantis immediately, use the bridge!"
Sheppard flew his Puddle Jumper providing cover, for McKay, when the blasts started coming down from orbit. Puddle jumpers were being targetted and blasted out of the air.
"Evasive maneuvers Rodney! You have to make the Gate!" shouted Sheppard. Sheppard used his drones to block incoming blasts for McKay's Puddle Jumper.
"The Hammond is ..." as Caldwell's voice went quiet.
McKay activated the Stargate for Midway station as soon as he was within range.
Sheppard seeing several blasts incoming for the gate area, flew his puddle jumper above McKay's firing the last two drones he had to help block the blasts.
"The last thing I know there was a large blast above me as I entered the Stargate," replied McKay, visibly choked up.
"Thor can you analyze the data?" asked O'Neill.
"I already have O'Neill, unfortunately, I am unable to determine anything from this data," replied Thor.
"What ship is this? How are we going to go back to rescue those that survived?" asked McKay.
"It is a long story this is a DN-1103, something the Asgard cooked up in ten minutes. I have a feeling it is full of surprises," replied O'Neill.
McKay a hint of recognition, "How long were you in the time dilation field?"
"One thousand one hundred three years of your time on Earth," replied Thor.
"What?" shouted O'Neill.
"I will explain after we have completed the rescue," replied Thor.
Ginn, Larrin, and Varro finally found the bridge, and walked in.
Larrin asked, "What happened to the Puddle Jumper plan?"
"The gate was destroyed, so we are onboard the DN-1103, and don't ask me anything else because I don't know what is going on," replied O'Neill.
"Ares when we arrive at the target, sweep close to the planet and beam aboard all humans you can detect," ordered Thor.
Manni responded, "Yes Supreme Commander we will make sure every human is beamed aboard."
"Oh what about the the Wraith?" asked McKay.
"Shoot them!" replied O'Neill.
"They surrendered to Teal'c and Ronon, over two thousand of them. Something about being afraid of the horror that was coming," replied McKay.
"Do not fire unless fired upon," ordered Thor.
"Hades, scan the debris for any life signs or remains and beam them aboard your ship," ordered Thor.
Sol responded, "Yes Supreme Commander."
"Time to jump to Target Beta," ordered Thor.
Three ships opened a wormhole to Target Beta in the Pegasus Galaxy. In seconds they were there. Sitting in front of them was the debris of the five ships. Nearly unrecognizable, however, it was the three large ships that were in an attack formation over the planet that had their attention.
Broadcasting on all frequencies, "To the unknown ships over the planet, allow us to extract our allies from the planet, and we will leave this system," spoke Thor.
"The heck we will!" replied O'Neill.
"Rescue first then we will determine how to handle these ships," replied Thor.
McKay having found the sensor panel, was watching the display as an Asgard monitored them, "They are firing on us!"
Each of the three ships opened fire on the Asgard vessels, an energy beam targeting each ship, instead of striking the ship, it was held at bay by the multi-ionic phase induced shields.
"How are you blocking their weapons?" asked McKay.
"This is the Ares, we have three hundred seventy-eight humans on board, seventy-three of them in the automated medical bays," replied Manni, "I have a Capt. Hailey here demanding to talk to Gen. O'Neill, may I transport her and Gen. Caldwell? Gen. Landry says you need to hear what they have to say."
Capt. Hailey and Gen. Caldwell beamed over to the bridge, the second round of weapons fire from the enemy ships hit the shields again.
"Gen. O'Neill, they took SG-1, Col. Mitchell, Col. Carter, Daniel, Teal'c and Vala, also it appears at least part of PG-1, Teyla, and Ronon for sure, we don't know about Col. Sheppard, and I guess since McKay is here he wasn't taken," spoke Hailey
"It appears that both of our primary teams were taken by these aliens. The crews of the Nemesis, Hammond, Ares, and Hades were beamed to the surface just in time to avoid destruction. I don't know how that happened. The crew of the Apollo doesn't appear to have made it, along with a number of our Puddle Jumper pilots," remarked Caldwell.
"Once the Asgard Core detected your ships was becoming unstable an emergency protocol would beam you to a safe area if it detected one within range," explained Thor.
A third blast from the enemy ships hit the Nemesis.
"Are you sure SG-1 and PJ-1's were taken by the enemy?" asked O'Neill.
"I saw Col. Mitchell, Daniel, and Vala beamed away myself," replied Hailey, "Chuck reported Carter was beamed off the Hammond"
"How would they even know who SG-1 or PG-1 was?" asked O'Neill.
"Full scans on those ships," ordered Thor.
"Life signs detected, zero human life signs," reported an Asgard manning the sensors.
"I have tried to open a communication channel with the ships, but they are not responding," spoke Thor.
"Do we have the firepower to destroy the two ships in flanking positions?" asked O'Neill.
"Yes we we do," replied Thor.
"You are sure there are no humans on any of those ships?" O'Neill pointedly asking the Asgard at the sensors.
"Your friends are not on those ships. Gen. O'Neill," spoke a disembodied voice. O'Neill and Thor shared a look knowing who that voice belonged to.
"Destroy the two ships in the flanking positions," ordered O'Neill.
"Who did that voice belong to?" asked Hailey.
"Now is not the time Capt. Hailey," ordered Caldwell.
Thor activated the two of the plasma cannons and fired on the ships. A moment later those ships were showing internal explosions and blew apart. Leaving a single enemy ship left. The last remaining ship began to turn to make a jump using wormhole drive. Thor activated the hyperspace jammer, which had the side effect of blocking wormholes as well.
"They are not going anywhere," informed Thor, "We are now being hailed."
"Let's see what they have to say now," replied O'Neill.
An insectoid creature appeared on the screen, "We are the Cla'tee why have you attacked us?"
"You attacked and destroyed five of our ships," replied O'Neill.
Cocking his head, "We are the Cla'tee why have you attacked us?"
O'Neill looking at Thor then back to the screen, "Can you hear me?"
The Cla'tee grimacing, "We are the Cla'tee why have you attacked us?"
O'Neill looking around, "OK Anyone?"
The enemy ship opened fire again on the Nemesis, shields were still holding.
"Is it a recording?" asked Larrin,
"It does not appear to be," replied Thor.
"Do they not understand our language?" asked Ginn, "Maybe that is all they can say?"
"Listen here Cla'tee we are going to destroy your ship in well a count of ten if you do not respond!" yelled O'Neill at the monitor.
Cocking his head, "We are the Cla'tee why have you attacked us?"
"Seriously? ...1 ...2 ...3 ...4 ...5 ...6" started O'Neill.
McKay yelled, "Five wormholes just opened up, we have five more ships, each larger than the one we are already dealing with."
The Cla'tee on screen, "Yes we fully understand you, now we will destroy you!" Each of the ships opened fire on the three Tau'ri vessels.
Thor to all ships, "Return fire!"
Each of the Tau'ri vessels opened six cannons firing on each of the Cla'tee vessels. The original Cla'tee ship broke apart in the resulting explosions. The five new ships that arrived, shields presented a momentary protection before they were penetrated. Two of the ships broke apart from the resulting explosions. The remaining three took severe damage. The Nemesis and Hades fired a second time on the remaining three ships, destroying them.
"How are we supposed to find our people now?" asked Larrin.
"The Cla'tee don't have them," replied O'Neill.
"Do you know who does?" asked Ginn.
"We will see let's deal with the people we do have. Dr. Keller get back to the medical bay and help out as necessary. What do we know about these surrendering wraith?" asked O'Neill.
"Approximately two thousand Wraith surrendered to Teal'c and Ronon. They could have easily overwhelmed them. They did not want to face the coming horror. What I learned since then from them, because that is where I was beamed down. They would rather waste away than be left for the Cla'tee. Apparently, they were to be the payment for the Cla'tee dealing with us." informed Caldwell.
"Payment?" asked O'Neill.
"Dinner as I understand it," replied Caldwell.
"Fitting," said Larrin,
"Agreed," replied O'Neill.
"Can we talk about that voice now?" asked Hailey.
"No!" replied O'Neill, Caldwell, and Thor in unison.
"Is the Stargate still intact?" asked Thor
"It appears to be buried under a rock slide, Supreme Commander Thor," replied the Asgard at the sensors.
"Beam the gate to the room with the remaining Wraith, then dial the Delta Target, for them to enter," ordered Thor.
Two hours later, the staff meets to discuss the next step.
"Dr. Beckett what's the medical report?" asked O'Neill.
"Loki's medical bay is amazing sir, we had seventy-three injured, forty of them were minor and have been healed. Twenty-seven were major, they are nearly healed by the medical bays. The remaining six are critical, they have been placed in stasis while their injuries are repaired. It appears the entire crew of the Apollo was lost, along with another thirty-six pilots," replied Beckett.
"Thor, have all of the Wraith been relocated to Target Delta?" asked O'Neill.
"Yes O'Neill," replied Thor.
"I talked with them, they understand we can detect if they leave the planet via ship, and the Ares jumped over and removed the stargate from their planet," replied Caldwell, "They understand if they stay there, we will not be back for them."
"What are we going to do about SG-1 and PJ-1?" asked Hailey.
"Nothing right now," replied O'Neill.
"What? How can you say that they have your wife?" exclaimed Hailey.
"You realize whoever took them, just took the two teams who have escaped more scrapes, certain death, and galactic calamities than the ancients?" asked O'Neill.
"Never thought of it that way," replied Hailey.
"Give those two groups a little while and they will make whoever it is, pay," replied O'Neill, "Let's go home."