Battle of the Super-hive

The Battle of the ZPM powered Hive Ship was a battle between the Wraith, Kenny's, ZPM powered Hive Ship and the Tau'ri. The battle took place in the Pegasus and Milky Way galaxies, and over Earth in 2009.

Prelude
"I may have acquired a few more [ZPMs] than I let on...let's not get caught up in unnecessary details."

- Todd

At the Battle of Asuras, Todd was able to steal a number of Asuran Zero Point Modules before the planet was destroyed. He used some of them to power his massive cloning facility, and set his underling, Kenny, to work on devising a way to integrate the ZPMs into a Hive ship.

The retrofit took well over a year to complete due to the incompatibility between Ancient technology and the organic nature of a Hive Ship. However, when Kenny was finally able to make it work, he mutinied, chasing Todd from the Hive. Todd crash landed on an unknown planet with a Stargate and dialed Atlantis. He apprised the Expedition of the situation and was permitted back into the city, to yet again ally against the Wraith, though with his track record of duplicity, the Expedition remained suspicious, notably John Sheppard. He revealed that the ZPM powered hive ship was still in the process of upgrading its systems, and if the process is allowed to complete, the Hive would be unstoppable.

In an alternate reality, after a failed attack on Earth, a single Wraith Dart entered Earth's atmosphere after witnessing his Hive's destruction. After crash landing, the Wraith inside was able to salvage parts from his craft and began building a communications device. After gathering other equipment and money, the Wraith completed his device, tapped into Las Vegas' power grid and set to send his transmission to the Pegasus galaxy. However, his plans were thwarted by the actions of John Sheppard (a Detective in this reality) and Richard Woolsey. The Wraith's device is destroyed, stopping the transmission short of Pegasus, however, a rift in space-time was opened, and the transmission was sent, amplified, to other realities.

The Battle
Todd urged Woolsey to attack and destroy the Hive Ship before it became a threat to Atlantis. Onboard the Daedalus, Colonel Caldwell, Colonel Sheppard and the rest of the team rushed to engage the new Hive ship. A good distance away, AR-1 proposed to Caldwell that they scout forward in a cloaked Jumper, just to make sure they were not walking into another one of Todd's deceptions. Keeping in constant contact with the Daedalus, they set off and after cloaking, Rodney McKay almost immediately began receiving readings confirming Todd's assertion that there was indeed a Hive, however, it had a significantly higher than normal energy output. McKay quickly realized the Hive was using the surplus energy from the ZPM to grow. He stated that if the Hive is able to complete its growth, the hull of the ship will be all but impenetrable. Sheppard and his team were about to send in the Daedalus when the Hive began powering weapons and fired a massive blast that just barely missed the cloaked Puddle Jumper. Sheppard realized they could be seen and decided to decloak and take evasive maneuvers so he could fire drones back. However, one of the Wraith blasts grazed the right side of the ship and Sheppard lost control. Fortunately, the Daedalus arrived and took position to cover the Jumper's escape. The Daedalus returned fire with their beam weapon, causing only minimal damage to the Hive's new dense hull. The hive fired back, completely depleting the Daedalus' shields and causing heavy damage. Suddenly though, rather than destroy the Daedalus, the hive jumped into hyperspace. McKay repaired the Jumper's engines and AR-1 rejoined the Daedalus. Onboard, McKay was able to decipher a Wraith transmission that was found by Kavanagh. The transmission came from another reality, and it contained the coordinates to Earth. They now know the Hive left for Earth. After McKay calculated where the Hive would have to pause between hyperspace jumps, they notified Stargate Command via Atlantis (once the communications array was repaired) and told them to send the only two available 304s to that location.

In the Milky Way galaxy, Colonel Ellis and two of Earth's BC-304 starships, the Apollo and the new Sun Tzu, failed miserably to stop the Wraith ship, with the Apollo, in bad shape herself, taking on crew from the crippled Sun Tzu. They relayed a message back to Atlantis, detailing the failure to stop the Hive and shortly thereafter, the Daedalus returned to Atlantis and was briefed on the situation. They learn that the ZPM powered Hive was the only one to receive the coordinates to Earth, thanks to its improved sensor systems. However, with the Apollo and Sun Tzu out of the way, there is nothing to stop the Hive from reaching Earth.

Meanwhile, Sheppard and McKay had the same thought, they could send Atlantis itself in defense of Earth, but it would need a full complement of ZPMs. Sheppard interrogated Todd for the location of more ZPMs, which Lorne and his team were able to locate; Atlantis, now has her full complement of three ZPMs to return to Earth in a last-ditch effort to defend it. Before take-off, Sheppard was notified that he was being recalled to Earth by General Jack O'Neill to power the Ancient Control chair in Antarctica. Carson Beckett took his place in Atlantis' chair and flew the city until the hyperdrive failed. Zelenka proposed activating a highly experimental and potentially dangerous drive based on the same wormhole technology as the Stargate. With it, they reached Earth in seconds.

When Atlantis arrived, it placed itself in a position between the Hive and Earth in order to buy the SGC some more time. Atlantis took the brunt of the hive ship's assault on Earth and launched a barrage of drones in retaliation. The sheer force of the Hive's weapons fire pushed the city ship into Earth's atmosphere, and it strained the shield. With little power left, Beckett could either have adjusted the course of Atlantis, or kept firing at the enemy ship; Woolsey gave the order to keep firing. The SGC eventually succeed in destroying the Hive, but Atlantis was forced to make a landing through Earth's atmosphere.

Aftermath
Everyone at Stargate Command erupted into celebration when Atlantis landed successfully over water. The city was able to cloak just before their approach, and the area in which they landed was placed under under naval quarantine, so for now at least, Earth's population is still in the dark.

John visited Todd, who was locked in a holding room. Todd boasted about his help in saving Earth because of his ZPMs and asked if John has come to kill him, who does not respond. Ronon was visited in his infirmary bed by Amelia Banks, who took him to join the rest of the senior Atlantis staff on a balcony overlooking the Golden Gate Bridge.