The internal lights of the Odyssey flashed red. "All hands, battle stations," Admiral Ryan's Boomed over the ship's intercom. Daniel rushed to the bridge. They were still in hyperspace. Their destination must be within five minutes away. Marines rushed to their armories to suit up and the pilots rushed to their F-302's.

"Glad you could join us, we are about to exit hyperspace," the admiral turned to Carter, "shields to maximum and send orders to fire at my command only." The blue and green of hyperspace disappeared and a planet that looked stunningly similar to Earth appeared in the bridge's forward window. "Status?"

"All ships are present and accounted for. We are detecting two ships on the far side of the planet."

"Send a transmission to them demanding the release of our people. If you we don't receive a response, I want you, Daniel, to go to our holo-room and transmit a message from there. Bring us to the far side of the planet."

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"Contact. Six ships just appeared on DRADIS. All of unknown origin." The eight seemed confused.

"Incoming message stating: 'Return our people to us or you will suffer the consequences'. Should I reply?" The second Eight Model on the bridge looked at the One.

"We don't take orders from humans. Launch the raiders and pull the safety off all nukes, see if these humans are worth the trouble".

"Raiders are launched and we are beginning to launch ship-to-ship missiles," the Eight looked as if something was wrong.

"What's going on?"

"None of our ordinance is hitting the enemy vessels. It's all exploding 200 meters from the targets as if there was an invisible wall". At that moment the ship shook and sparks flew from several systems. Vibrations could be felt throughout the deck they were on and the centurions seemed on edge. At that moment a strange glow appeared in the middle of the deck. A human appeared and one of the warrior machines fired a shot that would of landed in its head, but a rippled shot through the image and the centurion stood still.

"I'm guessing that this is the bridge?" The humanoid cylons were puzzled and could barely comprehend what was happening, "Look, my orders are to tell you that you are making a huge mistake by keeping our people and attacking our ships. I need your response now while I am still talking to you or we will disable your ships and board them".

The One smiled:

"Good luck with that, the basestars we have here are more than capable of defending themselves. The two prisoners we took aren't even located in this solar system".

"Where are they?"

"We sent them to a planet where your lost brothers are under our control". The image disappeared. "What is going on out there?"

"They have completely disabled our sister ship and there are reports of firefights throughout the base star. Their hybrid is dead. How did they get inside if no other ships have been detected?"

"I don't know," More vibrations shook throughout the ship. The first Eight looked worried as she looked at her screen, "FTL has been damaged and sub-light engines are gone. We are dead in the water."

"The resurrection is too far away for us to use the self destruct and hope to fight another day. We fight to the death."

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Jonas Quinn was blindfolded and led outside. His captors laughed as they kicked him whenever he fell. A voice sounded over an intercom:

"People of the Colonies, here is one of your lost brothers from Earth. Doesn't he look pitiful?" His blindfold was removed at what he saw. He didn't see a city, but a large camp with tents in every direction going on over the horizon. The people looked at him as if they had already lost hope.

What have they done to these people? They look as if they have been through hell and were spat out of it. We need to escape and find a stargate, if there is one.

Jonas was led to the only building. The walls were plain and the shiny machines that had captured him were guarding outside. Inside there looked to be what seemed to be an asylum and a prison facility. He was put in a padded room with a woman who's will to live seemed to be gone. She smiled when he entered the room.

"What did you do to piss-off Baltar?"

"I don't know who Baltar is but, I was studying some room on a planet I think they called Kobol when my friends and I were attacked before we could escape to the stargate". The woman looked puzzled. Let me speak to her. Not yet, we don't know if we can trust her

"Stargate? I don't know what that is."

"There was once a race a beings that was so advanced that they built a system of devices that could transport living matter to anywhere in the galaxy instantaneously. My people, the Langarans, were contacted by the people of Earth through this system of stargates and have since then learned more about the universe. My people are in their debt after they freed us from destruction from our own mistakes, and two very evil groups of people. I work for the people of Earth".

"You have been to Earth?" She looked surprised, "prove to me that you have been there". The voice sounded again: Let me speak to her.

"Why don't I let you talk to my symbiote, he would be able to explain to you things better." Don't frighten her. Jonas' eyes closed and he felt himself loosing control of his body:

"Don't be afraid, my host is new at having to share a body with a Tok'ra symbiote. He wants you understand that I have lived inside of him since my host was killed on Kobol." The woman was more than terrified after seeing Jonas's eyes glow yellow and a new personality take over the body, "let's start from the beginning. My name is Searena and my host is Jonas Quinn. What is yours?"

"I am Laura Roslin, former president of the Twelve Colonies of Kobol"