Disclaimer: I don't own the rights of the characters of Battlestar Galactica or The terminator . this has been done just for fun and I hope that you like it.

Update: I tried to improve readability and dialogues. Hope story is easier to understand now.

Chapter one: Unexpected help.

Starbuck was still listening to what Lee was saying when suddenly she felt dragged away, she was now in a dark place but she wasn't experiencing any form of fear , quite the opposite in fact she felt home for the first time in her whole life.

A voice that sounded male and female at the same time echoed trough Starbuck's soul rather than her mind:

"You did well Starbuck , we are proud of you. But is not over yet, I'm sorry we have to send you back for another mission "

"Mission ??!" Starbuck's soul answered

"You are the harbinger of death , but death is not the end, we think that you already figured that out by yourself"

"What?!?!"

"Never mind , you won't remember any of this on the other side, remember just this:

We love all our children , flesh and metal alike, we always have and we always will. In spite of the mistakes you can make. Even in the darkest despair none of you is never alone"

"Wait…what do you mean… flesh and metal alike?" Starbuck felt dragged away again.

"On your feet soldier, you won't die today " She heard form a distant voice, her vision was blurred and her head was hurting like hell.

"What the frak!" she said.

"We can't stay here, metal could come for us anytime " The voice belonged to a man in his early twenty, He was wearing an uniform that seemed to have survived a lot of battles, the name "Reese" was written on the jacket .

Kara, still confused was wondering where what happened , she was laying on the floor she found her clothing and equipment changer dressed in the same uniform as Reese, and instead of her colonial standard sidearm she was holding a strange in her hands.

Reese helped her to raise "are you okay…" he paused a moment to read the nametag on her jacket " Thrace?"

"Yes" she answered weary.

He thought that she might had a concussion so he asked:

" do you know where you are?"

She looked around, the ruined wasteland that she saw made occupied Caprica looked like a paradise, burned cars and bleached skulls everywhere, she realized by the wiev of the wasteland around her that the place where she was now must have been subjected to an intense nuclear bombing in a not so far past.

"In hell?" she replied briefly.

Reese laughed at that answer at least she was ok he didn't know of any Thrace in any unit but he could feel that she wasn't "metal" therefore he could trust her , suddenly the sound of a squad of marching endoskeletons , made him realize that the need to find cover soon was greater than he thought.

Kara jumped when she heard a noise that was awfully similar to something that she hoped not to hear anymore in her life .

"Frakking, centurions !" She said.

Reese pulled her away and the two hid under the rusty wreckage of a pickup van, he made her the military gesture to remain silent, it was slightly different but a soldier is a soldier and certain things never change.

The trick worked, while the squad of six robots was walking past them she had the time give a better look to those machines. This world centurions were different, they were looking much more like a human skeleton and they had a two glowing red eyes instead of the single scanning one, all the hydraulics were exposed as if their covering was missing.

Reese and Kara were sure that their hiding place was very difficult to spot, nevertheless one of the robots turned back and started to run towards them. Or so they thought . She prepared herself for combat but Reese restrained her by grabbing her shoulder.

"Wait!" He whispered

"for what?" She replied

Before Reese was able to reply the sound of a twenty millimeter machinegun was heard . The robot fell down a couple of seconds after, it's head was crack open by explosive rounds.

"for this!" he replied with a muffled voice "stay put until everything finishes"

The other robots of the squad came back to see what happened to their fellow, a very unlikely show happened second after . More robots , four of them, that looked more like the centurions that Kara remembered, came out of nowhere and started to battle the endoskeletons, one of the centurions shot two of them in the neck using the gun mounted on his fore arms detaching their heads . Three endoskeletons were still standing and ready to fight, one of them, fired a burst of glowing plasma melted the cannon of one centurion, one of the others came in help of his companion and shot the plasma rifle of the endoskeleton making it useless but instead of keeping up the fight he focused his attention to another endoskeleton while its "wounded" fellow retracted the other cannon and started to fight the endoskeleton who shot it in hand to hand combat .

"Good match, they should sell ticket for it" Reese spoke.

"what the frak are you talking about?" Starbuck said

"Earth to Thrace, haven't you heard about the red stripes?" replied Reese amused, red stripes was the name that the resistance gave to this machines since all of them bore a distinctive red stripe painted across the torso.

She figured out that was better to lie until she understood what was going on , she had another clue now she knew that they still were on the earth.

"Actually not" She replied.

Reese done his best to update Kara "they literally appeared out of nowhere a couple of weeks ago, and started to fight against skynet units. Sometimes they destroy the endos, other times they capture them , we haven't tried to make contact yet, after all they are metal. The free machines never heard of them either."

"Free machines?" Starbuck asked astonished

"Oh my, where have you been until now? I'm really thinking that you have a concussion don't you remember the renegade terminators that joined the resistance, they taught us how to reprogram the captured machines so they are not simple drones ".

Starbuck remained silent.

While they were talking the endoskeletons were defeated by the "red stripes" , of course they could communicate between them with wireless connection but instead they decided to speak each other, it seemed like they wanted to be heard. One of the centurions spoke to the one who had Its cannon disabled whit a distinct metallic voice:

"What are the condition of your arm Aefestus?" the leader asked .

"The cannon must be replaced Sir, but the manipulator is 100% efficient" The soldier replied.

"I'm glad to hear it , you're going back to the base for repairs" Said the leader

"But Leonidas , sir the squad is heavily outnumbered, what if you're defeated before you find the human?"

"I need all of my centurions in the best shape possible, we haven't been able to free any of those …terminators up to now. You can go on your feet or I can call a raider " the leader didn't use the word reprogram It used "free", as they were.

Aefestus knowing that there was no point spoke the only possible answer:

"By your command"

Starbuck jumped at that sentence, they were slightly improved versions of the centurions she knew (she didn't remember any of the centurion to have speaking capability) but she was sure that they were related somehow to the red stripes that she fought alongside with. She decided to crawl out of the hiding place, with the plasma rifle held tight in her hand she walked towards them. At that sight the leader tilted her head slightly, its scanning eye stopped and blinked for a while, the other centurions did the same thing. This was the best expression of amazement that a centurion could give.

Starbuck raised her hand "Hi"

Reese couldn't believe what was going on, there were different possibilities:

Thrace was crazy.

She knew them .

Both.

"We finally found you I could not believe that we would meet again…After all this ….centuries " Said the leader, it was very strange, but there was some kind of emotion in his metallic voice then he continued.

"the hybrid, told us that our brothers and sisters were in danger, and that we had get back to earth to save them, but that without the guide of the last human soldier our brothers fate would face…extinction"

"I Don't understand, those machines that you are fighting should be your relatives not them " she pointed Reese while she was saying "them", he wasn't able to hear what they were talking about .

The leader spoke in its metallic voice, his tone was the same that an elder brother who explains to his little one that Santa does not exist.:

"Actually Starbuck , three hundred millennia ago there were a lot of biological cylons among the fleet , we calculated that, by consequence of breeding with humans from the colonies and /or the earthlings of that era, cylon DNA is now present in all the population , they are in fact cylons descendants this makes them our brothers and sisters , and this makes you the only pure human on this planet. This means that you are now our leader."

Starbuck was astonished

At the same time while he was running towards the extraction point , Aefestus tripped over something . he could not believe it but when he checked what was the cause , he saw a young girl, her age was around sixteen she had long brown hair and brown eyes. Aefestus knew that she wasn't organic because if she was one her leg would had been broken in the attempt to make Aefestus trip.

"Red stripe my name is Cameron . We need to talk I think"

To be continued …