Colonial Fleet Titan

This is my first story. I got this idea from a video that I saw that had three of the names of the Battlestars that I used in the story.

Constructive criticism is very welcome, flames not so much.

Disclaimers: I own nothing.

First Cylon War: 40 years before series

Over the Planet Tauron

Lt. Colonel Terrence "Frost" Hood and his squadron, Captain Jacob "Maverick" Keyes, Major Ethan "Ice-Man" Cole, Captain Avery "Corsby" Johnson, Major Will "Section" Cutter, Captain Jacob "Harper" Adama, Major Clarance "Epsilon" Davison, and Captain Letti "Echo" Anderson, were engaging in a heavy dogfight against Cylon Raiders and Basestars when they heard over the battle net the comm.'s planet side. Continuing to engage several Raider squadrons in the hopes of saving the planet and discovering that on the ground things weren't too good, Frost made a high risk decision: to assist ground forces with air support.

"Maverick, I'm breaking off to assist ground forces planet side. You can assist or take command of the squadron until I return, your call." said Frost to his wingman.

"WILCO. Be advised that I'm all you have for cover until you hit the atmosphere, then you're on your own." replied Maverick to Frost.

When both pilots broke off to head down to the planet, a squadron of Raiders turned to engage Frost and Maverick. Seeing the threat posed to them, Maverick performed a High G maneuver, pushing his Viper to the absolute limit of maneuverability, to get on the Raider's six and protect his wingman. Achieving his objective, Maverick begins to attack the Raiders starting from the closest one firing a quick three second burst destroying the Cylon Raider. Maverick continues to do this until he reaches the last Raider in the squadron and lines up his shot, but not before the Cylon Raider is able to get a burst of and hits Frost's Viper destroying one of his engines and his vertical stabilizer forcing him to crash land on the planet. After seeing his wingman get hit, Maverick is able to quickly pull lead on the Raider and fires a final three second burst destroying the last Raider in the squadron. Pulling up along side his wingman, Maverick sees that Frost's Viper has taken major damage and he will either be forced to eject over in the planet's atmosphere or risk returning to the Battlestar Hera.

"Frost, looks like you lost one of your engines and your vertical stabilizer. I not sure if you can make it back the Hera, it might be best if you ejected in the atmosphere of the planet." Maverick informed Frost.

"Copy, I'll eject after I'm able to get inside the atmosphere. Return to the squadron, there's nothing more you can do here."

"Roger. Safe landings, boss." said Maverick with a hint of worry in his voice.

Seeing his wingman return to the dogfight, Frost focused on guiding his Viper into the atmosphere of Tauron.

Guiding his Viper into the atmosphere, Frost waits until he is well into the atmosphere of Tauron before he ejects from his Viper. Seeing that the altimeter is reaching 30,000 feet, Frost went to grab the eject handle to escape from the doomed Viper. Pulling the handle, the Viper's canopy is dispersed and Frost is propelled from the Viper by his seat and then Frost detaches himself from the seat and free falls to 10,000 feet before he deploys his chute to avoid any serious injury in landing. As he approaches 10,000 feet, Frost moves his hand to the release handle for his chute and pulls it after he passes the 10,000 feet marker. As his chute deploys, Frost looks down at the area that he is landing in to see what he will be going up against (unknowingly the same area where Helena and Lucy Cain are located). Seeing that he is landing in a battle field, Frost looks to see where the enemy and friendly lines are located and notices that the Cylons are winning in the battle with the Colonial forces being nearly routed and more Cylon troop transports moving into the AO (Area of Operations). As he gets closer and closer to the ground, Frost sees two civilians run out of a building heading to most likely a shelter and notices that one falls down while the other is a few meters away and is trying to get the other one to get up and run only to turn around and leave the one on the ground. Touching down on top of some containers, Frost removes his chute and runs to the end of the container to what has happened to the civilian, only to discover them to be surrounded by three Cylon Centurions. Pulling his side-arm, Frost takes aim at the Centurion behind the child and fires a three round burst at the Centurions head dropping the target and quickly does the same to the two remaining Centurions before leaving his position. Confirming that the area is clear for the time being, Frost secures his side-arm and begins to scale his way down the containers. After making his way down to the ground, Frost turns while again pulling his side-arm and makes his way over to the child to see if she is alright and can move.

Seeing that the child is alright, Frost picks her up and makes his way back to the building that she just came out of not to long ago. Making his way into the building, Frost puts the girl down next to him as he takes up position next to the door to ensure security. Turning to glance at the child Frost decides to introduce himself in order to ensure that the child remains calm, "My name is Lt. Col. Terrance Hood, call sign Frost. What is your name little one?"

"My name is Lucy, Lucy Cain." said Lucy not knowing what else to expect from the person in front of her.

Seeing that she was not too scared of him, Frost decides to find out who the person that was with her earlier was, "Who was the other person that was with you earlier Lucy?"

Seeing no harm in the question, Lucy answers Frost, "That was my older sister, Helena. Why did she leave me there like that?" asked Lucy hoping to get an answer from the older man in front of her.

Discovering that the person that was with the child he saved was her older sister caused Frost to develop a small amount of dislike for this Helena Cain and a small amount of pity for Lucy Cain. Realizing that Lucy had asked a question, he tried to answer it the best he could ever if she wasn't asking him directly, "I'm not sure why she left you there, little one. My guess would be that she was afraid for here her own life and fear of what the Cylons would do overcame her judgment."

Knowing that it would be best to continue this conversation later and in friendly territory, Frost took out his radio to call the Hera or his squadron mates to relay a message to the Hera for extraction, "Hera, Frost. Hera, Frost do you read?" said Frost only to be met with static. Seeing that he wouldn't be getting in to contact with the Hera, he decided to try his squadron mates, "Maverick, Frost do read?"

"Frost, …erick, we ..ad you, ..er." said Frost's wingman even though it was garbled.

"Maverick, relay this to the Hera: 'need emergency extraction with one civilian.' copy?"

"Copy, transmission relayed to the Hera." said Maverick over the radio.

"Roger, how are thing going up there?" questioned Frost hoping that things were better than down on the surface.

"Frost, Hera; the war is over son. The Cylons just signed the armistice, await at current location for extraction. Over." said the communications officer on the Hera.

After processing what was just said, Frost was suddenly over come with momentary shock that the war was over. Getting over his shock, Frost turned to his young charge and relayed what he was just told if she wasn't paying attention to comm.'s, "Lucy, the war is over."

Hearing what was just said, Lucy looked directly into the eyes of Frost and repeated exactly what he said, "The war is over." she said with a puzzled look on her face.

Seeing the confusion on Lucy's face, Frost elaborated what he meant hoping she would understand what he was meaning, "The Cylons have quit fighting and a leaving us alone for now." said Frost knowing that this wasn't the end of the war, but the start of something else.

After being explained what just happened, Lucy began to wonder what would happen to her since she didn't know if her sister was still alive or if she had any living relatives. Turning back to Frost, Lucy asked him what was on her mind, "What will happen to me now that the war is over?"

Looking at Lucy after being asked this, Frost thought for a few moments of what would happen, "Well, if you have any living relatives or if your sister is still alive then you would live with them; if that is not the case then you would live in a orphanage until you were adopted or became too old to continue living there." stated Frost not knowing if there was another option to take.

Taking up a thinking pose, Lucy thought of an option that was not mentioned and hoped that it was possible to do, "Is it possible if I lived with you, sir?" asked Lucy.

Not expecting that to be said or even mentioned, Frost turned to Lucy with a shocked look on his face, "Are you sure that's what you want to happen?" questioned Frost wondering if that is what she really wanted. Still looking at Frost, Lucy just nodded her head yes in reply to his question. Confirming that is what she wanted, Frost just nodded his head back to her and began to hear the sound of a Raptor coming closer to his location. Opening the door and looking up, Frost was able to see a Raptor beginning to land directly in front of his current location.

Turning to pick up Lucy to carry her quickly to the Raptor, he saw a slight look of fear but mostly happiness on Lucy's face which just made him show a slight smile on his face. Picking her up, Frost opened the door and made a run for the Raptor out of habit and if there were any lingering Centurions around that could damage or destroy the Raptor. Getting on board, the hatch closed right behind him and his charge and the Raptor lifted off to return to the Hera.

And last it for now. Tell me what you think so far and if I should change something or continue the story at all. Thanks.

- Frost