Captain was past "hoping for the best". It was always just the "expect the worst". Always since someone mistook her 'Vette for a ramming target. That's why she now drove a Hummer. And once again, being prepared for the worst was about to pay off, as an alarm went off in the C&C. Before she could as much as look in the direction of the person in charge of sensors, he was already reporting: "...Explosion on the Ha'Tak, naquadah enhanced. Jamming is up on the planet. Enemy ships approaching, our guns responding."

"Launch tube four to intercept the cloaked Al'Kesh, calculate with their maximum speed. With some luck the blast will take some out. Don't deploy the fighters until our shields drop below fifty. Try to get through to the facility team. If that doesn't work we'll have to wait for them to trigger the beacon."

Turning to Ariadne, she gave a sharp nod: "Time to get the loot. Someone blew up the main prize but and Al'Kesh will do. Get Brandt and be ready to beam. As soon as you gain control of the ship jump straight back to Sol. We'll report your arrival to SGC so they won't shoot you down." she said, pointing to the gate tech as she said so, who nodded in affirmative.

A few seconds after the missile detonated. “Reading debris from one Al’Kesh, we momentarily got a glimpse of four others as the radiation interfered with their cloaks but they’re gone again.” The results were not as good as Kat hoped for, but they would have to reveal themselves eventually when they fired at them. That would be the opportunity for the hijack team to get on board.

The gliders started swarming around the ship. The railguns were picking them off, but the shields started dropping none the less. Catherine considered firing a warning shot down towards the planet and threaten to target it if they didn't stand down, but decided against it. A) she wouldn't have followed through with it and b), she really wanted their ships, and if they stood down, that wouldn't be possible. "Ma'am, Al'Kesh should be within range any second now." Kat acknowledged and messaged the away team: "Get ready. Earth has been notified of the plan, don't hang around too long." Frankly, she wanted to be done here as well.

"Contact with the lab team?" she asked, with the communication's tech giving a thumbs up. "Blaze, how are things looking down there? I can't say I want to hang around any longer. Be advised that fighting has started and you may have incoming. Also, you'll need that beacon now to get out." she gave the colonel update on the status and hoped they could finish their work before they had to withdraw. "Reset tube one: Timed detonation, one minute after launch." she ordered. If they had to go, she'd leave a present behind to eliminate Tolia's space craft. These people were dangerous as is. Now that she thought about it, where did that naquadah bomb come from?