Well, here it is. The new and (hopefully) improved story that is Random Vipers. As always, thought, commemts and suggestioned are welcome.
I don't own any of the recognisable characters, if you want to use any of the others please ask.
Chapter 1
The three vipers were surrounded by a large group of Cylon raiders. For some reason, the raiders had only disabled the vipers, leaving them floating listlessly. The three were the only survivors from the small fleet that had been there. All the other vipers, the Battlestar Olympus and the small ships, had been destroyed by the raiders not long after the dog fight began. The raiders had jumped in on the mini fleet and immediately started to destroy it, overwhelming the fleet with their numbers. Most of the vipers had been destroyed as they came out of the launch bay.
"Why don't they just kill us already?" Lt. Kiara 'Storm' Batiski growled over the radio, clearly frustrated.
"They're not killing us and you're complaining?" Lt. Helen 'Azrael' Shait turned in her seat to look out the window at her friend.
"Shouldn't you be used to it by now?" Lt. Katee 'Firefly' Batiski asked, sighing slightly; "You've known us for how many years?"
"Don't remind me," Helen smiled to herself, "but she does have a point. Why haven't they destroyed us yet?"
"Maybe they can't quite believe that they have the three of us finally cornered," Katee suggested as she looked at the line of raiders in front of her.
"No, they can't tell the difference between us, they're waiting for something," Helen stated as her viper floated close to Kiara's and just missed hitting it.
"What though?" Katee asked.
"Hell if I know," Helen shrugged, even though they couldn't see her.
"Real useful that," Katee remarked, rolling her eyes.
"Well, oddly enough I don't know everything," Helen replied flatly.
A few moments of silence passed and the raiders still didn't make a move on the three vipers. Suddenly the raiders then all turned and flew off in the direction they had come, leaving the vipers to continue to float idly.
"Well," Katee broke the silence, blinking in surprise, "at least we're not dead."
"But now we're trapped in our vipers and no one is going to find us," Kiara began to panic.
"Storm?" Helen called, "Storm?"
"Kiara?" Katee asked.
"What?" Kiara snapped.
"Calm down," Helen told her calmly, "we've been in worse situations before and managed to survive. We'll get out of this. I promise."
"Promise?" Kiara asked in a quiet voice.
"Promise," Helen repeated, "now take several deep breaths and calm down."
"Now what?" Katee asked as her viper almost collided with her sister's, "we're sitting ducks for anything or anyone that comes along."
"I'm workin' on it," Helen muttered.
"We're doomed!" Kiara yelled dramatically.
"I always did question your sanity," Katee smiled.
"And I always questioned why you came into the service," Helen added.
"But you guys love me anyway," Kiara stated.
"We do?" Katee questioned.
"Yes," Kiara replied emphatically, "yes you do."
"If you say so," Katee muttered before changing the subject. "So… how are we going to get out of this?"
"Work faster, work faster!" Kiara laughed.
"You're not helping," Helen told her, smiling to herself.
"Work faster, work faster," Kiara and Katee replied together.
Helen laughed and shook her head. Kiara always could find the lighter side of any situation. Silence settled over the three of them for a couple of minutes as Kiara played 'dot-to-dot' with the stars, Katee sat seeing if anything in her viper would work again and Helen sat thinking of a way out.
"So… thought of anything yet?" Kiara broke the silence; "I honestly never thought it would end this way."
"What do you mean?" Katee was sat back in her seat with her eyes closed, having given up on her viper working again.
"That the three of us would end up like this," Kiara replied, "I always thought that we'd all die old and happily married with kids."
"Life rarely is fair," Helen spoke up, "you just have to make the most of what you're given."
"It's been fun though," Kiara added, "even if we never did make it home."
"What do you think they would say if they could see us now?" Katee inquired.
Silence descended over the three of them as they all thought of the home they would never see again.
Gradually more and more of the Cylon raiders began to break off from the dog fight with the vipers. They were all heading in the same direction, crowding towards two of the vipers that had been separated from the others. The rest of the vipers began to follow the raiders, taking out as many as they could on the way.
"Hey, what do they want with the two of you this time?"
Lt. Analyn 'Hecate' Adama smiled to herself as her brother's voice came over the radio.
"We were just our same, loveable selves," Analyn replied, "you know, we killed some Cylons, annoyed them some more, the usual. Why, want some attention?"
"I get all the attention I need," Lt. Zach 'Hermes' Adama stated.
"Really, who from?" Lt. Kayla 'Phoenix' Agathon piped up; "I've not been talking to you."
"She speaks!" Zach exclaimed.
"Just watch it mister."
Silence settled over the radio as the raiders continued to close in on the two vipers, the others continuing to destroy the raiders.
"Hey, Kay, why are we running?" Analyn inquired; "I mean, we're us and they're just… well… them."
"Err… pass?" Kayla replied; "Shall we?"
A few moments later both of the vipers had flipped over so that they were facing the oncoming raiders.
"Guys, I know you're fraking good pilots, but why are you flying backwards?"
"Trust me, we're not," Analyn's voice was laced with panic, "we're being pulled backwards; my engines have cut out. Nothing's responding."
"Why hasn't Kayla said anything? She normally has a comment for every occasion," Zach asked, "just like her bandannas."
Analyn turned and looked out the cockpit window. She saw Kayla out cold in the viper next to her.
"She's out, we're still getting pulled backwards, the raiders have stopped their pursuit," Analyn stated as she was travelling further and further away from their pursuers, "and we're going backwards faster."
"It's like they're all waiting for something to happen," Fudge stated as he continued to shoot at the raiders, "it's almost seems they planned it this way."
Everything seemed to blur as the two vipers continued in increase in speed as they were pulled backwards. The last thing Analyn remembered was hearing her brother shouting her name over the radio.
The rest of the raiders were easy pickings for the remaining vipers once Kayla and Analyn's vipers had vanished into thin air. Once the vipers had destroyed all of the raiders, they turned and began searching the area where the girls had disappeared and found absolutely nothing. After a while, they all reluctantly began to head back to Galactica.
As the last one who landed, Zach sat in his viper for a moment, thinking over what had just happened, before climbing out and looking over to the four people that were waiting for him near by. It was the usual group who came to see the three of them whenever they did something wrong; his grandfather, his parents and Kayla's father. Knowing he would have to talk to them sooner or later, he sighed and walked over to them. The five of them stood in silence for a moment.
"Where are Lieutenants Agathon and Adama?" Commander Adama asked his grandson, breaking the silence.
"Vanished," Zach replied quietly.
"What do you mean, 'vanished'?" Karl demanded; "People don't just vanish! Especially Kayla and Analyn."
"Vanished. As in gone, poof, no longer there, no where to be found, no idea how, vanished!" Zach shouted at him.
Silence settled over the entire hanger bay after Zach's outburst. Everyone seemed to have stopped what they were doing to find out what happened to the two girls.
"What do you know?" Lee asked calmly.
"Kayla was out cold," Zach told him quietly, looking down at the floor, "I think Analyn might have been knocked out as well. I don't know. It looked like the Cylons were planning it."
"They're tough kids, Zach," Kara spoke up, to assure herself as much as Zach; "they'll be fine and back home before you know it."
"I hope so," Zach sighed before walking away from the four of them.
"I'll go after him," Lee stated before he jogged after him.