Ch 3 the comeback

"This is the battleship Yamato, with President Nelson. Over." Kodai said.

"Yamato, thank god. This is the destroyer Ramius. These Cylon bastards have been at it for hours on end. Request assistance!" the Ramius screamed.

The transmission quit, and Yamato warped into the fray, guns blazing. Once again, the Cylon base-ships were at the mercy of the plasma weaponry, and said weaponry was unkind towards them. Kodai blasted My sweet shadow by In flames.

"It's the big Y! Nothing can stop us now!" Kodai shouted, as the pilot flies them into a Cylon base-ship.

"You broke the radio!" Kodai exclaimed.

"Good. I'm sick of that shit." Kyle said.

"That shit is part of your history. Should remind you what we're fighting to protect." Kodai said, trying to form a plan on how to escape their mess.

"These guys want to wipe out that part of my history, that's fine by me." Kyle retorted.

"We're screwed." The captain of the Ramius muttered, after he saw the Yamato storm the Cylon fleet, and crash into one of their ships. And there was still 22 base-ships, all converging on the Yamato.

The Yamato blew the tangled base-ship to pieces with their shock cannons, and fired at everything in sight. Unfortunately, a tactical nuke screamed towards them.

"Enemy nuke, right towards us." Karl said.

Bad news, since they couldn't move real fast. And all their weapons were busy fending off the Cylon attack force.

"How long until impact?" Kodai asked.

"7 minutes." Karl said.

Kodai was surprised. That's plenty of time to evade, unless if it was a heat-seeking missile, with extreme maneuverability. But there was still several cylon ships around.

"Get us to the nearest base-ship. Once we're behind them, power down."

"Sir?" Kyle asked.

"You heard me." Kodai ordered.

The Yamato sailed behind one of the imposing base-ships, and shut down everything. The nuke took the bait, and blew up the cylon capital ship. The Yamato was tossed away several miles, damaged.

"Shit. Engines are offline. Along with the shields." Karl reported.

"Weapons?" Kodai asked.

"Still shooting."

"Then keep firing!" Kodai ordered.

Yamato put up a good fight, taking down 5 bases-ships, but there was too many. Around 15 were left.

"How soon can we get moving?" Kodai asked.

"We'll be dead long before we can move, severely crippled if we're lucky." Mickey said.

"Fuck!" Kodai yelled.

While the Cylons were occupied with the Yamato, they failed to notice the rest of the EDF line up for an attack.

"Fire!" a captain ordered.

Volleys of plasma and missile fire tore thru the ranks of the Cylon ships. Between the Yamato's devastating guns, and the volley from the Ramius's fleet, the Cylons were chewed to pieces. But 4 nukes hit one of the EDF destroyers, destroying it.

"We lost one destroyer. And our ship's crippled." Karl said.

That wasn't good. Despite their overwhelming firepower, they simply didn't have the numbers to fight the Cylons. But Kodai was making up a plan. He knew that Pluto was a strategic base for Earth. An enemy would use to conduct long range attacks.

"I want the captains on the Yamato in 15 minutes. Get us over the line. I have plan." Kodai said.

An hour later, the fleet's captains were on the Yamato.

"I have a plan. I'm taking Pluto." Kodai said.

"What?" someone asked.

"Yes. I'm taking 3 destroyers, that's all. But not now. We need to organize ourselves. Need to know how badly the rest of the system has been hit." Kodai said.

"Don't suppose you'll want to risk the Yamato. It's the only battleship we have left." Captain Cormack said.

"Are you serious? How many ships are here?" Kodai asked, not believing it.

"We have 1 battleship, 15 destroyers, 5 frigates, and 13 cruisers. Out of hundreds of warships." Cormack said.

"Are you serious? That's all? What about earth?" Kodai asked.

Everyone was silent. Finally, someone spoke.

"After the HQ was bombed, the top brass at earth, was killed off as well. They hunted our fleets down bit by bit, though they took heavy losses in the process. We're all that's left. The only EDF left in the system."

"We need facts, not supposition. Send two frigates, scouting only. No engagements. And someone tell me who's in charge here." Kodai exclaimed.

"You are, sir." Captain Irons said.

"Unanimous?" Kodai asked.

"Yes. We heard you took on 10 of those base-ships, and destroyed all of them. And that you took on that entire fleet. We could use a commander like that. Congratulations, Admiral Kodai." Cormack said, tossing Kodai new ranks.

The reports came back. While Earth and Mars were only slightly wounded, the other colonies that they've made, were blown to pieces. Nothing was left. And the fleet was in sorry shape. Only 24 warships left.

Kodai grabbed a phone, and dialed in the entire fleet.

"This is your admiral. I'm sure you heard the rumors. I'd like to say those are the truth. But the real truth is, it's worse than we've imagined. Our fleet has been reduced to a mere 24 ships, we've only 2 human colonies left; mars and earth. There are hundreds of millions, instead of tens of billions, of us left. Sherlock Holmes once said, if you eliminate all your possibilities, whatever remains, must be the truth. Here's the truth. War is our truth. The only thing left. It's the only thing left for us to do. Lets make these murdering things realize that as long as this fleet is still around, that this war they started will not go unpunished. They want to use that shit planet called Pluto, to launch long-range attacks against us. That's not gonna happen. They'll go wide eyed, when they see the EDF recapture the planet. They may have started this war, but we will end it! We will yank them from there shit filled base-stars, by their balls! When we find them, kill them all!" Kodai finished.

Everyone cheered and shouted, wanting payback against the Cylons.

"By the way, how'd we know their name? Cylons?" Kodai asked, hanging up the phone.

"Intercepted their wireless transmissions. Wasn't that hard." Cormack said.

"Good. Lets get this started. Get two more destroyers. Half the fighters will stay here at the line. The rest will go with us to Pluto.

"Lets get this party started." Cormack said, shaking Kodai's hand.

The Colony

Unknown space

"This is great. We send out over 2 dozen base-ships, and they still get destroyed. These humans are like a bad case of the runs. I can't get rid of them. Set up an IGBM (inter-galactic ballistic missile) base on Pluto. And send 10 more base ships to the line. We'll pin them down with a pincer move." Cavil said.

"You sure that will work?" Doral asked.

"Of course it will. They'll head towards Pluto to stop us, but we'll destroy them with our missiles, and any survivors, will be hunted by our fleets. They can't stop the inevitable." Cavil said, badly misjudging the 13 tribe.

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