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Another Road not Taken

Chapter6: No Man's Land

July 13th 2006
Sol System
Earth
Area 51
Holding Room

After their capture on New Caprica both Cavils had been temporarily imprisoned at the Delta Site before they were placed in separate holding cells deep within Area 51. The six known as Gina who had been captured after trying to detonate a nuclear weapon aboard Cloud Nine was a few cells down and was being talked too by a physiatrist in order to help her recover from her time as a prisoner aboard the Pegasus. Currently the Cavils stood in their own cells along the walls of the room and were surprised when General Landry entered.

"Ah General Landry," Caprica-Cavil greeted mockingly. "How nice of you to join us today...I hope this is a social call."

"Unless you've finally come to surrender?" asked Galactica-Cavil with a smirk.

"No I'm afraid not," Landry smirked back. How he hated these two...especially after trying to interrogate them for the last month. "Dear god what did I do to get stuck listening to you two?"

"You're gods cannot save you now," Caprica-Cavil shrugged. "You're world will suffer the same fate as the Colonial Colonies and there is nothing you can do to stop it."

"You can skip the fire and brimstone. We've spotted your fleet at the edge of our system," Landry shot back.

"It is not too late," the Caprica-Cavil offered. "Surrender to our rule and we will spare your world. We only wish to live in peace with our parents on Earth like our god prophesied."

"I have to tell you," Landry chuckled. "Even if my government did surrender to you the rest of my world is just not going to bow down to you."

"Then you are doomed," Galactica-Cavil sneered.

"That maybe so...but I don't think it's you that's going to do it," Landry told them.

"I would not be so sure," Caprica-Cavil countered.

"Really? What took you so long?" Landry looked between the two Cylons. "You're people had to have acquired Earth's location long before now and Earth is the most heavily populated planet in the galaxy. Even now your fleet is sitting at the edge of our system doing nothing...what are you waiting for?" he took a step back towards the door and looked them both over. "We've been a pain your proverbial backsides since we first encountered you so you can't really expect me to believe that you've been saving the best for last do you? What's wrong? You guys are never speechless?"

"It has been a long time since we have been with the consensus," Galactica-Cavil commented. "How are we supposed to know what is taking our brothers and sisters so long while we're stuck in these cells?"

"I'll tell you what I think," Landry spoke clearly. "I say this move of your reeks of desperation...you're not sure if you can pull it off."

"Your defences are no match against our fleet," Galactica-Cavil sneered. "We defeated the Colonials and they far out outnumber the abilities of a single world."

"You only beat the Colonials because of a computer virus," Landry shot back. "Not that it matters...you won't destroy Earth...we won't let you destroy our home. More powerful entities have tried...none have succeeded...and neither will you."

"Your planet will burn and become lifeless amongst these cold and unfriendly stars. There is nothing you can do to stop it," Caprica-Cavil chuckled.

"Oh we'll see about that...however there is one thing I do know for sure," Landry finished as he turned away. "If we're going to hell then you're both coming with us."

"That's where you're wrong General," Galactica-Cavil said as the General left. "We will resurrect and continue to take our rightful place in this universe."

July 14th 2006
The Void
Hyperspace
USS Daedalus
Main Bridge

"Exiting hyperspace in ten seconds," Captain Dave Kleinman spoke up.

"Lock-on to the target the moment we drop out and await my order," Colonel Steven Caldwell told him as he sat down in his chair.

"...Five...four...three...two...one," Kleinman finished.

"Fire at will," Caldwell gave the order.

A second later the Daedalus ripped open the space in front of it and dropped back into normal space. Almost immediately the sensors on the Tau'ri battlecruiser detected two massive contacts ahead—the Hiveships—along with a large number of darts standing guard. The tubes along the Daedalus' neck opened a second later and expelled dozens of missiles into space towards the nearest Hiveship.

"Missiles are away," Kleinman informed.

"Dart activity?" Caldwell questioned.

"Quite a number of them sir," Kleinman replied. "They're moving too intercept our missiles."

"...Now would be a good time Orion," Caldwell muttered.

The missiles split away from each other and continued on course for the first hive as the darts quickly moved to intercept. Missile after missile was shot down before impact however one slipped through, detonating against the hull of the Hiveship and consuming its rear section in light.

"One missile got through sir," Kleinman reported. "One of the Wraith ships has suffered serious damage and the other one is-" he was interrupted by a flash from the sensors. "Sir the Orion has arrived and the other hive is moving to intercept."

"Have they fired their weapons?" Caldwell inquired.

"Negative sir," Kleinman responded.

"Open a secure channel," Caldwell ordered.

He looked out of the viewport and saw the second hive firing on the Orion which hung in the distance. The blue plasma bolts from the Hiveship were slamming into the Ancient warship's shields continuously as it moved closer to its target.

"Hey Lorne, now would be a good time to open fire," Caldwell said into the comm.

"Yes sir, I gave the order but nothing happened," Major Evan Lorne responded. "We're having a little difficulty transferring power from shields to weapons."

"There's a hive bearing down on your position," Caldwell told him.

"Yes sir I see that," Lorne acknowledged.

A few seconds later the Orion's shield disappeared and the plasma bolts from the Wraith ships struck the ship itself. At the same time the pods littering the ventral frame of the Ancient warship unleashed a hailstorm of orange drones across the space between the Orion and its target. The drones manoeuvred out of the way of the darts that littered the area and carved into the Hiveship itself, literally tearing it apart until the hive's spinal frame finally shattered.

"One Hiveship has been neutralised," Kleinman reported. "Sir, the remaining hive is shifting its fire to the Orion."

"Move to intercept," Caldwell ordered.

"The Orion has no shields," Kleinman informed. "We're not going to make it there in time sir," the sensor's suddenly pinged again as two hyperspace windows tore open with one beside the Orion and the other beside the Daedalus. "Sir, the Odyssey and the Korolev just arrived and the Odyssey is moving to intercept the Wraith's fire."

The two newly arrived battlecruisers took up position and began firing off missile after missile at the damaged Wraith Hiveship. The remaining darts were torn apart by the railguns of the Tau'ri warships even as the hive continued to batter the shields of the Odyssey.

"Get me a secure channel to the Odyssey and the Korolev now," Caldwell ordered.

"Channel open," Kleinman informed.

"Colonel Emerson, Colonel Chekov," Caldwell greeted. "Thank you for joining us," he added.

"Anytime Colonel," Emerson responded.

"I must apologize for our tardiness Colonel Caldwell," Chekov reasoned. "Our Hyperdrive wasn't even test before we launched."

"No apologies necessary Colonel Chekov," Caldwell told him. "I'm just glad you're here," the intensity of the hits the shields were taken suddenly increased. "Bring all railguns to bear on the main dart bays and fire at will."

"I have a contact sir," Kleinman spoke up. "A single Wraith ship, possibly a transport; it just left the hive and is on course for us. It's broadcasting a signal on our frequency."

"What the hell do they want?" Caldwell asked. "Let's hear it," he gave the order.

"This Colonel John Sheppard, authentication code alpha-seven-tango-three, please respond," a familiar voice sounded through the comm.

"Sheppard, we writ you off," Caldwell said clearly.

"Well don't get all emotional on me now," Sheppard responded. "Look I got McKay, Ronon and Michael aboard a Wraith transport."

"Michael?" Caldwell questioned.

"Yes sir and he's got a plan I think you're going to like. It probably won't be long before they start shooting at us," Sheppard replied.

"The Wraith just opened fire on the transport sir," Kleinman reported.

"Beam them directly to the bridge," Caldwell ordered and four figures appeared before him in columns of light. "Colonel, you said something about a plan?" Caldwell inquired.

"I've disabled their jamming codes," Michael was the one who answered.

"All you've got to do is send over a nuke," Sheppard added.

"Sir-" Kleinman started.

The Korolev had moved in closer to the hive and opened fire with every nuke it had onboard. Several missiles made it through now that the bulk of the darts were destroyed and detonated against the dorsal frame of the Hiveship. The Odyssey joined them with missiles from the other side until the entire hive broke apart in a series of secondary explosions.

"Enemy contact has been neutralised," Kleinman reported.

"...Relay a message to Earth informing them that the Hiveships have been destroyed," Caldwell gave the order.

"Yes sir," Kleinman nodded.

"It's over," Sheppard sighed before turning to the Wraith among the group.

"Colonel Sheppard, would you please escort our guest to the brig," Caldwell said clearly.

"Yes sir," Sheppard acknowledged and gestured towards the door. "After you," Michael wordlessly started out of the room with several guards following close behind.

Author's Notes:

Short chapter this time but that's only because the next chapter will be the Cylon attack on Earth. Halfway through when I was writing this I thought it felt more like a filler than anything else but I wanted to show what would have happened had Earth not sent ships to the Ori Supergate in the series. We would have had those two ships ready to head off and face the Wraith in the void. We wouldn't have lost the Orion or the Korolev and both Hiveships would have been destroyed outright.

I agree with stark40763 when I say the Aschen would have been very convincing bad guys for seasons nine and ten. A conflict with them in space would have showed how far Earth had come over the years even before the Asgard donated their plasma beam weapons to Earth.

As for Alex Retzer...I think you're confused; I never said the Asgard would be unable to kick Cylon ass. I said that the Cylons had adapted to beaming technology and that the Asgard had dispatched some of their ships to the Protected Planets in order to counter the Cylon invasion. Also Baal will be explained later and the Lucian Alliance is being nuked by the Cylons.

Just because the Cylons are technologically inferior to most races doesn't make them any less of a threat; yes they can jump in and nuke planets defenceless planets but Earth is not completely defenceless. RAAB is a great story and shows a more 'realistic' world in the event of an 'alien' attack on Earth. But the Asgard weren't defending Earth in his story and Earth had no idea that the Colonials were even coming until they were right on top of them.

In this story the Cylons in my story have been spotted and Earth has gathered its defences to face this threat on short notice. The Cylons won't be able to just jump in a rain nukes down on Earth because the Asgard would stop the missiles before they struck the planet using that transporter beam of theirs.

The Cylons are debating about Earth and the Colonials along with the other human worlds in the galaxy. The Pegasus has already shown up because my story is based when the Colonials find New Caprica and Helena Cain is already dead.

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