"Action stations! Action stations! Set condition one throughout the ship! This is not a drill! I repeat. Action stations! Action stations! Set condition one throughout the ship!" Lieutenant Gaeta shouted through the ship's intercom indicating a Cylon attack is underway. The CIC was full of commotion. The comms officer giving coordinates to pilots on targets. The Admiral commanding everything, giving orders to target the basestar.
Kara Thrace was not much for the dramatic, but when it comes to flying, she's all for the dramatics. Jumping in her viper and being shot out of tube into the abyss to fight cylons is the reason why she gets up in the morning.
Hearing the claxons in the ship blaring, Kara jumped into her flight suit and ran down towards the hanger bay ready for some cylon ass kicking. Running through the narrow corridors she bumped into Lee, together they ran towards the hanger bay.
When they arrived, it was already busy with activity, everyone was running around getting the vipers ready to be pulled into the launch tube. Kara wasted no time and jumped into her viper and before long she was pulled into the launch tube, Lee only a fraction of a second behind.
With the adrenalin pumping through her system, her viper shot out of the launch tube and headed straight for the fight. The cylon basestar was right ahead of her. The gigantic ship had plenty of raiders shooting out of it heading straight for her. Kara's wingman was not that far behind. This would be their first cylon encounter since Lee and Kara made up.
"Starbuck Apollo, let's light those frakkers out of the sky!"
"Apollo Starbuck. Those frakkers don't stand a chance with us around."
With their vipers whizzing by, one by one they saw blood and explosions. One by one Kara's viper looked like something out of a horror movie with cylon blood splattered all over her ship.
"Starbuck Apollo. Can your viper look any less than a massacre happened?"
"Apollo Starbuck. Not a chance!"
They continued to weave between cylon raiders and kill those in their way without any mercy.
The fight was intense and they lost three vipers in combat. Several occasions Kara nearly got obliterated by cylon raiders but thanks to Lee she still lived. Not before long they were called back to The Bucket.
"Starbuck to all vipers, you heard the old man, time to head for home. Combat landings only." Kara shouted through her intercom to all vipers that were surrounding her. Everyone broke from combat and made a beeline for Galactica.
"Galactica Starbuck. All vipers accounted for."
The landing deck for the Galactica closed and before long Kara felt the familiar tug of the FTL drive spinning up. Not long later they have jumped away. Kara waited patiently in the cockpit for the familiar routine of being pulled back into the hanger bay after a combat landing and subsequent jump.
As her viper was being pulled back in, she looked around her for the other people who were also patiently waiting to be pulled back into the hanger bay. She suddenly realized that there was one very important viper missing. She decided to wait until she climbed out of her viper to be able to say for sure.
Apollo was heading back to Galactica like everyone else. He was right behind Starbuck and practically flying in formation. Not long later he felt a vibration and he was knocked to the side. He was hit and was spinning out of control. Everyone was too busy and focused on flying home that they didn't realize that he was in trouble. His viper lost control and power. He was defenseless and drifting.
Little later, after he saw Kara enter the landing bay and it retracting. He saw his only "safe" home jump away. Leaving him alone in the dark in his viper. He was at the mercy to the cylons, just waiting to be noticed and shot dead. Instead he saw that the remaining raiders headed straight back to the basestar and a heavy raider was heading in his direction.
Apollo was knocked out cold and his world became even darker.
Kara was eager to jump out of her viper and scan the crowd for Lee. When she was finally pulled into the hanger bay, she gladly jumped out of the cockpit and he was nowhere in sight. His viper wasn't there and she started to panic. She knew something was wrong.
In the meantime, the CIC was busy, checking in with the Chief and other pilots on who was missing and who was here. Suddenly, Admiral Adama stopped in his tracks, stared at nothing in particular, everything around him started to blur and noises started to be muffled.
"Apollo is missing, his viper is not on the deck sir."
Ok, enjoy chapter 1 and let me know if I should write more or if this should be the end of the line for this story… haha. I have a plan don't worry.