Right from day one, I had a twisted idea for this chapter. Read, enjoy, review.

Burn Notice - Project: Endgame

Chapter 5 - The Op

The General Hammond dropped out of hyper space around a small moon that orbited a gas giant.

On the General Hammond's bridge intel on the enemy forces in the area began to flood in.

"There are only three Ha'tak vessels, and eight Al'kesh. They're powering weapons." Walter reported.

Carter gave the order to engage the visible forces in the area.

"Target forward beam weapons on the mother ships. Fire when ready. Then take out the Al'Kesh."

As a spy, you get used to the idea of 'collateral damage'. You don't like it, but most often there's nothing you can do except attempt a little damage control. It get's worse when your own family is in the line of fire.

"You don't think Madeline is on one of those ships your blasting?" Sam asked.

"If they are after you, then they will probably want to use her as bait. Which mean they'll likely have her captive on the Odyssey." Carter suggested.

"We're taking fire." Walter announced. "Shields are holding."

"Besides, we're not detecting the tracking device General O'Neill planted on her back in Miami." Carter admitted.

"Tracking device?" Michael asked.

"You put a tracker on Madeline?" Sam asked. "Can't you just use that to tell us where she is?"

"If she's on the Odyssey, the cloak could be effecting how the tracking device is transmitting." Carter explained.

"Colonel Carter, they're launching Death Gliders." a crewman announced.

"Launch the 302's." Carter said, then switched on the comms.

"McKay, are you ready?" Carter asked.

General Hammond - Forward Missile Bay

"I'm almost ready here. Try not to fire until after you've wiped out all the Goa'uld ships. Otherwise we'll waste our only chance to retake the Odyssey." McKay begged.

General Hammond - Bridge

"He's a little melodramatic, isn't he?" Michael asked.

"A little." Carter confirmed.

"The last Ha'tak has been neutralized." one of the bridge personnel announced.

"We have an inbound wave of death gliders, five hundred meters and closing fast." Walter announced.

"Rail guns, open fire." Carter ordered.

One by one the inbound gliders exploded.

"Start targeting the Al'Kesh." Carter ordered.

Then Michael noticed the few remaining Al'Kesh were moving away.

On the battle field, just because your enemy is moving away from the fight, doesn't necessarily mean they're retreating.

"They're retreating." Fiona declared.

"It's not a retreat, Fi." Michael corrected.

"He's right. They're leaving for reinforcements." Carter confirmed. "We'll have to time this just right." Carter said then turned to Sam, Michael and Fi.

"Get yourselves to the ring transporter, General O'Neill will be waiting for you there." Carter ordered. Then opened the comms again, as the remaining ships entered hyper space..

"Rodney, please tell me you're ready." Carter pleaded.

General Hammond - Forward missile bay.

"Ready! Go! I'm heading to the 302 bay." Rodney said clearing out of the missile bay.

General Hammond - Bridge

Carter watched out the forward viewer for a long moment.

"Fire!"

The missile launched from the ship.

The missile curved and slammed into an invisible field.

Carter opened a link to Sheppard's team.

"Sheppard, we've found them. Stand by for deployment."

Carter turned to one of her crew. "Call for the Apollo."

General Hammond 302 bay

"Understood." Sheppard said.

General Hammond bridge

Carter opened another channel to the ring transport room.

"General O'Neill, you're clear to move in."

General Hammond Ring room

"Understood." General O'Neill said.

Then motioned for a shock grenade to be place on the transporter area.

It only took a couple seconds to place and transport the shock grenade.

"Wait for it." General O'Neill said, gazing at his watch.

After a few tense seconds General O'Neill motioned a squad of Marines into position.

Odyssey - Ring room

The rings retracted to the floor revealing General O'Neill, Michael, Sam and Fiona. Heavily armed. The Marines were deployed in a defensive formation inside the Odyssey's ring room.

Three guards were incapacitated.

"General Hammond, this is O'Neill, we're on board. Send in the jumper cloaked." General O'Neill ordered.

"Major Riley, Hyper drive, Shields, Weapons, and cloak. Shut them down." General O'Neill ordered. Then the Marine squad departed.

General O'Neill pointed down another corridor gazing at a life-signs detector.

"She's this way." General O'Neill directed.

General Hammond - Bridge

"Understood, sir." Carter said, then opened a channel to Sheppard's team.

"Colonel, launch the jumper." Carter said.

General Hammond - 302 Bay

"Copy, launching jumper." Sheppard said.

The jumper lifted off the bay floor, and out into space.

Odyssey - Corridors

General O'Neill lead Michael's team towards the bridge.

"General O'Neill, Shields, weapons, and hyper-drive are off line. We're about to pull the Z.P.M., that should disable the cloak." Major Riley's voice announced over the radio.

"Fine." General O'Neill agreed. "Then get to the bridge ASAP."

Odyssey - Bridge

Madeline Westen was held under guard. Four people held Zat's, ready to fire.

"You still haven't told me what you want." Madeline reminded some guy gazing out the front window.

"I want Sam Axe." the man said calm, yet sadistically.

"Sam?" Madeline asked.

"Nobody interferes in Athena's affairs...and lives." the man said, glancing back.

"You're going to kill him." Madeline realized.

The man said nothing, confirming Madeline's realization, but there was something more.

"You're going to kill all of us."

One of the guards noticed something that caused great alarm. "Shields, weapons, hyper drive. Our systems are failing."

"What about the cloak?" the leader asked.

"It's offline." the guard replied.

Then did a double take, the IFF tag was a clear as a summer day.

"There's another ship coming in. It's the Apollo." The guard announced.

From the corner of her eye Madeline saw four shapes moving, three she knew well. Sam, Fiona, and her son, Michael.

Michael's team was faster on the draw than the four guards. A little P-90 fire eliminated the guards, the ring leader was unarmed, he never counted on the ship being boarded.

Soon the four marines arrived on the bridge.

"Open the 302 Bay." General O'Neill ordered.

"Michael, get her back to the General Hammond. Lt., take them to the ring room." General O'Neill ordered. Then turned to the remaining enemy. "Now, let's talk about Athena." General

O'Neill said.

"Sir." Major Riley said.

"What do you have there?" General O'Neill asked.

"According to this interior scan, I just performed there are one hundred and sixteen people on-board the Odyssey." Major Riley explained.

"Crew?" one of Major Riley's team asked.

"I don't think so, if there were prisoners, they'd be grouped up, but there are no more than four life-signs in a group, except for these five." Major Riley explained.

"That's Michael's team." General O'Neill replied.

"We could seal the bridge, and vent the rest of the atmosphere as soon as they ring back to the General Hammond." Major Riley suggested.

"Agreed, but we can't wait long." General O'Neill replied.

Odyssey - 302 Bay

"General O'Neill, we're on our way to the bridge."

"You might want to hurry, Major Riley is getting ready to do something nasty to the Goa'uld." General O'Neill informed.

"Oh, crap." Sheppard said.

"What?" Ronon asked.

"If I know Major Riley, he probably going to vent the atmosphere." Sheppard said.

"Is he insane?" Rodney asked.

"I suggest we hurry to the bridge." Teyla advised.

Odyssey - Corridors

The Lt. lead the way to the corridor to the ring room. But when they arrived they noticed the ring control pad was damaged. Michael assessed.

"Beretta." Michael guessed from the four bullet-sized holes in the pad.

"Guess we're not getting out this way." Madeline mourned.

"Mom." Michael retorted.

Michael heard a voice on the radio.

"General O'Neill, we're on our way to the bridge."

"You might want to hurry, Major Riley is getting ready to do something nasty to the Goa'uld."

"The jumper." Michael said.

"The small ship?" Sam asked.

"It's our only chance." Michael said.

"Where is the jumper?" Michael asked.

"Starboard 302 bay. This way." the Lt. replied, and they all took off.

Soon a door could be seen that said 302 Bay.

Going inside they saw the jumper. It looked like it had been left recently.

"Everyone inside." Michael said.

Filing in, they looked for a way to close the door. The Lt. hit a large button on the door frame, and the door began to close with a slow, mechanical whine.

Michael immediately took the pilot's seat, but nothing would respond.

"You don't have the gene." the Lt. informed them.

"What?" Madeline asked.

"A special gene is required to operate this technology. It was made that way by it's creators." the Lt replied.

"Do you have this gene?" Fiona asked, putting her hand on the console. The instant she did the lights came on, and the ship started up with a quick energetic whine.

"You've got to be kidding me." Sam exclaimed.

Now that Madeline has been rescued, our heroes have to clear out before reinforcements arrive.

I hope you enjoyed this new chapter, and the surprise twist at the end.