Flight of the Phoenix

by Lexi1981

Start five days and three months before the miniseries begins and covers through before the miniseries start through season one. The cast of miniseries and season one are in the fan fiction plus a character I made up who is a viper pilot named Krista Thrace, Kara Thrace older sister. Lee and Krista will have come to term with they past and if they want to be together again?

10. chapter ten call to arms part two

Chapter ten: Call to arms part two

At four minutes to 2100 hours, which is nine o'clock in nonmilitary time, Krista Thrace who is now wearing her green battle dress uniform walks into pilot ready room one, Kara is the first to stand up and she starts to yell at the rest of the pilots.

"Attention on deck."

The rest of the pilots stand up and then all the pilots salute the captain, as Krista Thrace walks up to the podium at the front of the ready room. Krista set a handful of printouts that she got from commander Adama onto the podium and then looks up at the pilots and sees that all the pilots sitting on the seats in front of the podium have worried looks on they face, Krista looks over at Kara who is sitting on the seat that is up against the right-hand wall, if you are standing behind the podium and sees that Kara looks a little worried too. Krista Thrace clear her throat and all the pilots look at her.

"At ease!"

Kara and the rest of the pilots take they seat and Krista looks down at the top printout and then she read through the printouts to see what the printouts say, so she can let all the pilots know what is going on. A minute later Krista looks up from the printouts and all the pilots know by the look on Krista's face that she does not like what she has read and that what she is going to say is not good. All by one of the pilot stop talking, but Flat top who is still talking to the female pilot sitting next to him.

"Flat top stop talking!"

"Yes Sir."

Flat top stop talking right away and gives his full attention to captain Thrace that is giving all of the pilots a stern look. All the pilots notice that captain Thrace has spread the printout across the podium so she can look down at them if needed.

"We are at war with the Cylons and all of our training will be put to the test in an hour. We have all seen pictures of the Cylon base ships, raiders and heavy raiders used during the first Cylon war, but seeing that the Cylon has not been seen since the first war ended we can only guess that the Cylon ships have not changes in looks, but I am sure that some of the ships will look different and that the Cylon has created new ships since the first war ended. I know that all of you are scary of what is to come, but I need you to stay calm and remember your training when combat starts. Commander Adama has asked me to tell you about the reports that are coming into us and the reports are not good, the new Battlestars have lost power when coming into contact with the enemy, it is like someone flipped a switch and turn off the ships. There have also been reports of the viper mark seven power going off and the ships lose communication too. In addition the reports say that once the vipers lose power all the vipers start crush into each other and then the Cylons start attacking the vipers, Battlestars and other new or upgrade ships, which explode when the missiles hit them. It seems that the Cylons have done something to the ships computer systems and that the Cylons are using electronic jamming to keep pilots for talking to the other vipers, raptor and report into the Battlestars, but there is some good news coming in with the reports it seems like the older Battlestars, Raptor, vipers and other ships along with the ships that are in need of updates do not seem to be effort by what is affecting the new or update ships."

Krista takes a deep breath and looks down at the printouts to see what else she needs to tell the pilots, at the same time everyone on Galactica hears commander Adama voice on the intercom system.

"The preliminary reports that have reached me indicate a thermonuclear device of fifty megaton ranges was detonated over Caprica City thirty minutes ago. In addition there have been reports of nuclear detonations on the planet's of Aerlon, Picon, Saggitarion and Gemenon. As of right now there are no reports on casualties, but the casualties will be high and there is no time to mourn the dead right now. We can mourn the dead later and the best thing we can do is to get our ship into the fight."

The pilots in the ready room let out a long sigh because some of them have family or friends living on Caprica City, Aerlon, Picon, Saggitarion and Gemenon, when Adama finish talking and then all the pilots look at Krista Thrace who is still standing behind the podium. Krista takes a deep breath fighting back the feeling that she is going to get sick to her stomach. At the same time Kara puts her right hand into the air and look at her older sister.

"What do you want Kara?"

"Has there been any word on our fighter squadron or Boomer Raptor?"

"No, commander Adama thinks that our fighter squadron was affect like the other squadron flying mark seven vipers or update ships and the new battlestars, but he has not heard from Boomer or major Spencer and he has not been able to get in contact with Boomer or major Spencer, so he does not know for sure. The commander will give us an update on our fighter squadron and Boomer when he has one, for now I have been made the CAG of Galactica and for these of you that are wonder how many people are in Caprica City there are seven million in the city. But as commander Adama said the best thing we can do is to get this ship into the fight and make the Cylon pay for the life they have took and for attack our home worlds, so head to the port side hanger deck and pick a mark two viper and start doing a preflight check on the viper, so you are ready to launch when the commander gives the order."

"Yes Sir."

All the pilots stand up from the seats they sitting on. Then almost all the pilots beside Kara and Krista walk out of the pilot ready room, then the pilots who walked out of the ready room start walking to the port side hanger deck. The pilots are talking to each other as they walk to the hanger deck.

At the same time Krista walks over to her younger sister and then Krista sits down on the seat that Kara stands up from a short while ago. Krista starts to untie her black combat boots and Kara watches Krista untie her boots, then Kara watch Krista's take her boots off. Once Krista boots are off, she stands up and then take off the green battle uniform jacket that has suede shoulder patches. She set the jacket on the seat and Kara hand Krista her flight suit. Krista puts on the flight suit over the green pant, a green web belt that has a two-tone gold and black plastic snap buckle and a gray sleeveless shirt with the brown tank over it. Then Krista zips up the flight suit and Kara hand Krista her utility belt that holds two extra magazines, Colonial Blaster (sidearm) on the left side since she is left hand. There is also a small first aid kit that has anti radiation medications and other supplies, a multi tool and a small flash light on the right side of the utility belt. Krista puts the utility belt on, then Krista puts on the boots that go with the flight suit and connect the boots to the fligh suit.

"I made sure that your suit oxygen was filled, which it was but I put a few extras refills into the large pocket on the left leg of your flight suit."

"Thank you, Kara."

"You are welcome."

Kara sees that Krista is ready, so she hands Krista her helmet and flight gloves. Krista grabs her combat boots and green uniform jacket, which is more of a button up long sleeve shirt then a jacket off of the seat and then set the boot by the podium and the shirt on top of the podium. Kara looks at both doors of the ready room and sees there is no one walking past the ready room and hears not one in the hallway. Kara sees that Krista has starts to walk toward the side hatch door, so Kara steps in front of her older sister and cross her arm over her chest. Krista who is not happy about Kara stopping her puts her hands on her hips, as Kara looks at Krista stomach and the reality of her older sister being pregnant and about to take part in flying a viper into battle hits Kara. And now it does not seem right to let her older sister leave the pilot ready room.

"Krista you can't be thinking about getting into a viper and take part in combat, its one thing for you to take part in non combat exercise, but to take part in combat is not safe for you."

"Take part in combat is not safe for anyone Kara and I was giving an order by commander Adama and I am going to follow the order."

"(Whisper) but would commander Adama give you that order if he know that you are pregnant with his grandchild?"

"I have no idea what he would say if he knew that I was pregnant Kara, but we are at war and I have been giving an order and I am not going to fight with you about the order that the commander gave me."

Krista walks away from her younger sister with her hands still on her hips and walks out of the pilot ready room. Kara runs out of the ready room and into the hallway. Kara then runs after her sister and catch up to her in the hallway. The two sisters walk to the port side hanger deck together, but do not talk on the way to the hanger deck.

Once in the hanger deck Kara walks over to the last mark two viper number 8547 on the left-hand side of the mid hanger deck and Krista walks over to the last mark two viper number 6757NC that is on the right-hand side of the mid hanger deck and then the Thrace sisters get to work doing a preflight check on the vipers they will be flying. As Krista is checking the thrust turbos on the back of the viper, she is wondering if Lee Adama is alive and safe or did the Cylons shot down the mark two viper that used to be commander Adama's viper during the first Cylon war. Kara looks up from doing her preflight check and look across the room at her sister and can tell that Krista is worried about Lee Adama, by the look on Krista face.

At 2200 hours all the vipers are in the launch tube wanting for the order to be lunches into outer space. In addition all of the pilots have worried looks on they face. A few moments later Tigh voice comes over the intercom.

"Attention there is inbound DRADIS contact and it highly probable that they are enemy fighters. All hands stand by for battle maneuvers and launch vipers."

"Phoenix this is Shooter and I have control. Viper 6757NC is clear forward. Navcon is green, interval check (Phoenix gives Shooter a thumb up) and Navcap is ready. The tube door is ready, thrust is positive and good hunting."

Shooter push the button and Phoenix viper is launch into outer space, a few moments later Phoenix is the only viper in outer space and is looking for DRADIS contact on her monitor, hoping that her right ankle can stand the G forces that are use in combat and hope that she will not need to throw up, seeing that she can't take her helmet off during combat and throwing up in your helmet is uncomfortable in every way and makes it hard to see out of the helmet. Krista sees a Cylon raider coming at her and the first thing she notices is a red light going back and forth, like the raider is scanning the viper. Then notice that the raiders that the Cylons are flying now have wings off of each side and the wings come around the front of the rider with pointed ends, unlike the round wingless raiders used during the first Cylon war.

Krista flip the switch to turn off the weapon safety and then presses the center button on her joystick and start fire at the raider. Once the raider is destroyed, Phoenix gets on the intercom.

"Galactica actual and vipers the Cylon raiders now have a red light going back and forth, like the raider is scanning the viper, but it did not have any affect on the mark two vipers and the raiders now have wings off of each side and the wings come around the front of the rider with pointed ends."

Phoenix gets off the intercom and sees another raider and start shooting at the raider and at the same time Shooter is talking to Joker on the intercom.

"Viper 1104 you are clear forward. The navcon is green. Interval check (Joker gives a thumb up) and the navcap is ready. The tube door is ready and thrust is positive, good hunting."

Shoot hit the button and Joker's viper is launched into outer space, Joker join Phoenix in looking for the DRADIS contact and a few seconds later he is fire at Cylon raiders too. At the same time Starbuck is listening to Shooter over the intercom.

"Interval check (Starbuck give Shooter a thumb up) Starbuck stands by. Your viper thrusters are fluctuating. You need to abort the take off."

"Galactica viper 8547 copy that. Throttle down and tube is safe."

"Roger that viper."

"Frak, Chief get me out of here and fix the issues with my thrusters!"

The chief of the deck along with Cally and Prosna runs into the launch tube and pull Starbuck's viper out of the tube and back into the hanger deck. Once the viper is in the hanger deck and is parked in the first space that is near the launch tube, Starbuck open up the canopy of the viper. Then takes her helmet off and at the same time the chief of the deck start to talk.

"Let's go Cally and Prosna. We need to figure out what is going on with Starbuck viper."

The chief of the deck push a ladder up to the viper and then climb up the ladder, so he can see Starbuck and talk to her. When Starbuck sees the chief, she starts yelling at him.

"Three frakkin' aborts. This should not be happening, Chief?"

"We are on it, sir. It has to be the pressure reg. valve again."

"We should pull the reg. valve."

"Cally we cannot pull the valve because we do not have a spare."

"I do not care Cally and Prosna, let's go!"

"(Cally and Prosna) I am on it Chief."

Kara start running her hands through her hair, as Cally turns her head and looks at the chief, who looks away from Starbuck and looks at Cally. Cally take a deep breathe and then Cally starts to talk to the chief of the deck.

"We should just pull the valve and bypass the whole system."

Prosna stops what he is doing and looks over at Cally with a look that say he does not like what she just said and he begins to talk.

"We cannot do that because the relay will blow up."

"No the relay will hold Prosna."

Starbuck, Prosna and Cally start yelling at each other and the chief of the deck gives each of them a mean look, then start yelling over them.

"Just pull the valve!"

Cally begin to pull the valve and at the same time in the CIC, Adama is looking over at the person that is flying the ship and he is yelling at the male that is flying the ship.

"Bow up half and forward left one-quarter, then stern right and full."

Gaeta sees Inbound enemy contacts on the DRADIS and the contacts look to be coming toward Galactica. Gaeta picks up the intercom and starts to talk to everyone on the ship and the vipers in outer space.

"Bearing is two hundred and forty-seven with a range of one hundred and fifteen and closing."

Meanwhile in the port side hanger deck, Kara is become impatience with the chief of the deck, Cally and Prosna who are taking a long time to fix her viper, because she wants to be in the fight and is worried about her sister. At the same time Joker voice comes over the intercom.

"Firing at a raider, I missed the raider and the raider turn. Then the raider dropped below me in a blink of an eye, I cannot believe how fast these raiders are."

"Joker's this is Phoenix you need to watch it, you almost fly into your wingman when going after that last raider."

"Yes Sir, I will be more careful for now on. I have a lock on another raider."

Kara hears the cannons of Joker's viper through the intercom as he shoots the raider and at the same time Kara runs her hands through her hair, wishing that she was out there with them. Meanwhile, in CIC Adama starts to yell at the male flying the ship and Adama facial expressions is serious.

"Engines all ahead and full speed."

Adama looks over at Tigh and the two of them is lock in eyes connect for a few minutes. Back in the hanger deck Kara is listening to a pilot voice on the intercom and the pilot Jolly sound worried and scary at the same time, which make Kara more impatience with the chief of the deck, Cally and Prosna.

"I cannot get a lock on the Cylon raider, Karen's got the raider. No, Karen does not have the raider! I will go after the raider, seeing that I am the nearest to the raider."

"This is Phoenix to all viper pilots, you need to stay in formation and remember your training, now is not the time to lose your head or forgot how to fly or forget how to fire your weapons!"

"Jolly I got the raider."

Kara listens impatiently to Joker who was the one yelling I got the raider. At the same time Cally has finish pull the valve and she looks over at the chief of the deck.

"The viper is ready Chief."

"Okay, clear the tube, let's go! Get Starbuck into the tube, move!"

Kara puts her helmet on and then close the canopy of the viper. A few moments later the deck crew is pushing Kara's viper into the launch tube. A minute later Kara's viper is launched into outer space.

"Starbuck, this is Phoenix and it is nice of you to finally join us."

"Nice to be in the fight, had issues with the pressure reg. valve in the viper and the valve had to be pulled before I could join the fight."

At the same time a Cylon raider appears in front of Kara's viper and a red light start moving back and forth, Kara watches the raider that is waiting for the viper to do something and is thinking I wonder if the raider is waiting for my viper to lose power like the mark seven vipers did, but Kara does not hold back as soon as the raider stop scanning the viper, Kara start firing her weapons at the raider and destroy the raider. At the same time Jolly's viper get shoots down by a raider and Phoenix voice comes over the intercom of Galactica and the vipers.

"Viper pilots you need to hold it together, this is war and pilots will be killed, but did not let losing Jolly get to you, we can mourn the falling pilots when the fighting is over."

A second later fire shoots by Starbuck's viper and grazes the tail of her viper and then the tail section of Starbuck viper gets hit by missile, which shock Kara but that does not stop her from firing at a raider coming at her and at the same time Starbuck voice comes over the intercom.

"Everyone I am all right and I am still in this fight."

Phoenix looks out of her cockpit and sees that Kara viper is still flying, but the viper appears to be missing a chunk of the tail section. At the same time Phoenix notices that a Cylon raider has launches a nuke at Galactica. Phoenix hit the intercom switch and start to talk to the vipers and Galactica.

"Galactica, this is Phoenix and you have an inbound nuke coming your way. All vipers break away from Galactica right now!"

At the same time Inside the CIC Tigh and Adama looks at each other, then Adama starts to yell at everyone in the CIC, but he is looking at his XO that is standing across from him.

"Brace for contact, my friends."

"I have not hard that one in a long time William."

"I have not had to say brace for contact in a long time."

Everyone in the CIC brace for contact and In outer space all the vipers break away from Galactica and gets out of the way right before the nuke hits Galactica. A few moments later a voice comes through the intercom to all the vipers and to CIC of Galactica.

"Galactica actual, this is Starbuck, the forward section of the port flight pod has sustained heavy damage and you have violent decompression all along the port flight pod. Galactica do you hear me?"

Kara does not get an answer from Galactic, so Kara keeps fly her viper around the port flight pod and shot down any raiders that come near the battlestar. At the same time inside the CIC everyone is standing up the equipment that has falling down and several people are breaking out first aid kits. Adama starts to check the reading to make sure everything is normal and then he starts talking to Tigh.

"Radiation levels within the norm. The hull plating kept out most of the hard radiation."

Gaeta turns in his seat and looks over at Adama and Tigh and Adama nods at Gaeta to let him know he can talk.

"Sir, the port stern thrusters are locked open and all bow thrusters are non responsive. We are in an uncontrolled lateral counterclockwise spin. I just talk to Phoenix and she told me that all the vipers are keeping the Cylon raiders from firing on Galactica, so we can get the ship running again."

"Send a DC party up to ox control and have them cut all the fuel lines to the stern thruster. Then get hold of Phoenix and let her know that it could be a while before we are up and going and make sure to keep the vipers up to date on Galactica status as it changes."

"Yes Sir."

Gaeta turns back around and picks up the phone and makes a call, at the same time Adam and Tigh looks at each other and Tigh start to talk.

"We have buckle supports all along the port flight pod and chain reaction decompressions that are occurring everywhere forward of frame two through two hundred and fifty sir."

"That is a problem, Saul's take personal command of the DC units."

"Me?"

But before Adam can say anything to Tigh, he hears Gaeta clear his throat and Adama turn his head, so he is looking at Gaeta, who is talking to him and into the intercom with Phoenix.

"Sirs the stern thrusters are still locked open and we need your help Colonel Tigh."

Commander looks at his best friend who standing across from him and is taking in all the damage in the CIC and hearing the alarms going off in the background. The commander yells over the alarms so that Tigh can hear him.

"You're either the XO or you're not."

"I am the XO and I will do as you told me sir."

At the same time Adama pick up the intercom, Tigh looks at Adama, then he walks over to damage control, which is where the chief of the deck is at and at the same time Adama start to talk into the intercom.

"Attention on all decks, you need to switch emergency power relay to positive flow, switches to emergency power to positive flow."

Meanwhile in the port flight pod, it is chaos with smoke everywhere and people coughing, as they run around the flight pod. Prosna is on the phone with the chief of the deck and Tigh, who are in the CIC and Tigh is looking at the chief because he is not sure of what to do.

"Chief, we're losing pressure and the port pod is buckling, we need help."

The chief and Tigh look at each other again and then Tigh starts to yell at the chief of the deck.

"Report."

Chief point up at the board where there are red light, which means fires and start to talk to the XO.

"We have got structural buckling all along this line and we have to put out those fires!"

"Chief the Fire suppressors are down and the water main is down too, I am trying to fight the fires with only hand hold gear."

"Prosna there is another decompression heading toward the port pod."

"What are your orders, sir?"

Tigh says noting to the chief of the deck or Prosna, but he looks over at Adama, so the Chief starts to talk.

"All right listens to me Prosna. I need you to get the rest of your DC teams down from the landing bay and give them a..."

But the chief of the deck get interrupter by Tigh who start to yell at the chief and Prosna on the other end of the phone.

"No time. Prosna's seal off everything forward of frame thirty and start an emergency vent of all compartments."

"Wait, I have more than a hundred people trapped up behind frame thirty-four, I just need a minute to get them out."

"Seal it off now or we are going to lose a lot more than a hundred men. Seal it off, now Chief."

"They just need a minute!"

"We don't have a minute Chief! If the fires reach the hangar pods, it will ignite the fuel lines and we'll lose the ship. Do it!"

The chief of the deck gives the XO a mean look and then he picks up the intercom and start to talk into the intercom.

"All hands seal off the bulkheads from twenty-five through forty that is an order."

The crew members in the affected area are running through the smoke coughing, as crew members outside the affected area start to seal off the bulkheads, once all the bulkheads are sealed off and the chief has given the XO a thumb up to let him know the venting can start Tigh turns a key, which vent the bulkheads that are in the affected areas of the ship and a few bodies fly out of the ship and into outer space as the fire gets extinguishes. The vipers in outer space pull up or down to avoid hitting the bodies that have flew out of Galactica. A few moments later in the CIC the Chief is looking at Tigh and he starts to talk.

"Venting complete and the fires are out."

"If the deck crew remembered the training, they had suits on and were braced for possible vent action."

"There are a lot of rooks in there."

"No one is a rook now."

The chief of the deck is now standing in the CIC looking lost and in the port side of the ship the deck crew has starts pulling the bodies out of the burned sections. The chief leaves the CIC and heads to the port pod to help. Once in the port pod he sees that Cally is holding Prosna's burned body and crying onto the body. The Chief walks over to Cally and helps her move Prosna body.

At the same time the vipers pilots are shot down the raiders that are still attacking Galactica, it takes the viper pilots a half hour to shoot down all the raiders. After Phoenix shoots down the last raider, she takes a deep breath and lets the pressure off the thruster pedal, which is on the right side of the viper and she slow the viper down and is thinking I can't believe that my right ankle held up when I was pulling seven G's. Phoenix's switch the intercom on and start to talk into the intercom of her viper.

"Galactica this is Phoenix all of the raiders are destroyed."

"Phoenix this is Adama, I want you to bring your viper pilots in and have the deck crew start fixes the damaged vipers right away."

"Yes sir."

Phoenix and the rest of the vipers start flying into the land bay in sets of four and at the same time in the CIC Tigh has just hangs up the phone from talking to someone in the port side pod and he has a large book in front of him, Adama looks over at Tigh and start to talk to his XO.

"What are the final counts?"

"Twenty-six members of the deck crew walked out of the pod after the venting and eighty-five did not walk out."

The commander and the XO look at each other with sad looks on they face, as the rest of the crew in the CIC is during they jobs. After Adama and Tight have looked at each other for a few minutes Tigh starts to talk to the commander again.

"There is a munitions depot at Ragnar Anchorage, I think we should go there for supplies because we are running low on warheads, missiles and small arms."

"Yes we should, but it is a bitch to anchor a ship there."

"Well the book says that there are fifty pallets of Class-D warheads' storage there and we should be able to find all the missiles and small-arms we will need. There will also be equipment there that we could use too."

"I want you to verify that."

"Yes, sir."

At the same time the chief of the deck walks into the CIC and walks over to Adama and the chief of the deck gives the commander a look that says he is very angry. The chief of the deck then gives Tigh an angry look, then he looks at the commander again.

"Do you know how many members of the deck crew that I lost?"

"Yes and I want you to set up a temporary morgue in hangar B."

"Forty seconds, sir all I needed was forty seconds. Eighty-five of my people dead and I told him."

Adama walks closer to the chief of the deck and start staring down the chief of the deck with a look that say I am in charges of the ship, not you and the chief of the deck stare back at the commander.

"He is the XO of this ship, do not forget that. He made a tough decision, If it had been I, I would have made the same decision."

"I just need forty seconds, sir."

"Resume your post, Chief."

The chief of the deck walks away from commander Adama and leaves the CIC. Saul Tigh is verifying what supplies are at the munitions depot at Ragnar Anchorage. Commander Adama starts to walk around the CIC. As he is walking around the CIC the commander is making sure everyone is the CIC is doing they jobs.

Meanwhile, the second to last groups of four vipers are being brought into the hanger deck. The last group of vipers pilots are waiting to be allowed to fly into the lading bay, as the chief of the deck is head down to the port side hanger deck to help the deck crew with the vipers. In the CIC Tigh looks over at commander Adama, who has just stop walking around the CIC and then Tigh starts to talk.

"Commander Adama the munitions depot is confirmed, but we have two problems. One is that the Ragnar station is at least three days away from us at our best speed and two the entire Cylon fleet is between here and there."

Commander Adama looks away from his XO and over to one of the specialist that is sitting at the FTL station.

"Specialist."

"Sir."

"Bring me our position."

"Yes sir."

"William Adama, you do not want to do this."

"Saul Tigh, I know that I do not want to do this."

"Because any sane man would not want to do this, It has been twenty or twenty-two years since the last FTL jump?"

"Twenty-two years, but we trained for this."

"Training is one thing, but if we are off in our calculations by even a few degrees we could end up in the middle of the sun."

"We have no choice. Colonel Tigh please plot a hyperlight jump from our position to the orbit of Ragnar."

"Yes Sir."

At the same time Dualla who is in tears looks up at the commander and Adama looks at Dualla and can tell something bad has happened by the look on her face. Commander Adama gives her a moment to wipe away the tears and take a few breathe before talking, once she has calm down Dualla starts to talk.

"A priority message has come through sir."

Before Adama can say any thing to Dualla, Tigh starts to talk to one of the specialists at the FTL desk. Adam walks over to Dualla and take the printout of the priority message from her and then walks over to the control table in the center of the CIC. Adama reads the message, as Tigh is yelling at Gaeta.

"Spin up the FTL drives one and two. Lieutenant Gaeta I want you to break up the FTL tables and warm up the computers because are making a jump."

Adama set the printout on the control table and then looks at Tigh with a sad look on his face and Tigh look back at Adama with a worried look on his face, then commander picks up the intercom and starts to talk into the intercom.

"Admiral Negala is dead. Battlestar Atlantea has been destroyed. Triton, Solaria, Columbia et cetera has all been destroyed!"

Everyone on the ship and in vipers let out a long sigh, as Adama hangs up the intercom and the commander look down at his feet, at the same time Tigh start talking to the commander.

"Who is the senior officer and who is in command of the fleet now?"

"Dualla sends a message to all colonial military units using priority channel one, the message begins I am taking command of the fleet."

Dualla start type the message right away and once the message is type she sent the message to the all military unity. A few minutes later Dualla clear her throat and commander Adama and Tigh looks over at Dualla who is walking over to them. Dualla hand the commander a printout and the commander start to read the printout, then he looks up at Dualla.

"Is this a joke, is the ship within voice range?"

"Yes, sir."

Dualla runs over to her desk and pick up the phone and then dial colonial one. Adama walks over to Dualla desk and start watching Dualla. Dualla picks up the headset and then she hands the headset to the commander. Adama puts the headset so he is ready when the call goes through.

"Colonial One this is Galactica and Galactica actual wishes to speak with Apollo."

"This is Apollo. Go ahead actual."

"Are you, I mean is your ship all right?"

"We are both fine and thank you for asking."

"Is your ship FTL functioning?"

"Yes the FTL is functioning."

"Then you are ordered to bring yourself and all of your passengers to the rendezvous point. Do you acknowledge?"

"I acknowledge sir."

"What the hell does that mean?"

"It means that I heard you."

"You will have to do a lot better than that, Captain Adama!"

"We are engaged in rescue operations."

"You are to abort your mission immediately and proceed to Ragnar."

"The President has given me a direct order."

"Captain Adama you are talking about the Secretary of Education, we are in the middle of a war and you are taking orders from a school teacher?"

Commander Adam hears alarm going off on Lee end and can hear his son talking to the pilot of Colonial One. Commander Adam begins to worry as he waits for his son to come back on the line and a few moments later Lee start talking to his father again.

"Stand by Galactica, Colonial one has warning alarms going off."

Adama pulls the headset off and tosses the headset at Dualla, then Adama walks over to the table in the center of the CIC. Adama looks at Tigh and a few minutes later Gaeta turns his chair around and looks at commander Adama with a worried look on his face, then Gaeta starts to talk.

"Sir, we have remote sensor telemetry on Captain Adama's location and there are two enemy fighters closing in on his coordinates."

Adama picks up the phone from the side of the table, which is still connect to Colonial one and he starts yelling into the phone that is in his right hand and Tigh is giving Adama a worried look.

"Colonial One this is Galactica, Apollo you have inbound enemy fighters coming toward you and need to get out of there! Apollo? Apollo? Lee, get out of there Lee!"

At the same time there is a big flash of light and all the radars get frizzy, Gaeta looks at the commander with a sad look on his face and commander Adama has a very bad feeling when he sees the look on Gaeta face and knows that he just lost his oldest son.

"A fifty-kiloton thermonuclear detonation has gone off and the Cylons are moving off, sir."

Saul Tigh walks over to the other side of the control table and puts his hands onto Adama shoulders and the two of them gives each other a sad look. Adama then takes a deep breath and start to talk.

"Resume the jump prep."

Everyone goes back to work and Tigh takes his hands off Adama shoulders and then he picks up the intercom.

"Attention all hands, the jump prep is underway and condition two need to be set throughout the ship, set condition two throughout the ship."

Tigh put the intercom down and looks over at commander Adama and puts his hands back on Adama shoulders, then Tigh starts to talk to the commander.

"Leave the CIC and take sometime to yourself."

"I do not need to leave the CIC, I am fine and do not need any time to myself."

Adama pulls away from Tigh and start walking around the CIC to make sure everyone is working. Tigh walks over to the other side of the table to the area he was standing at before. Tigh then he picks up the phone to get a hold of the chief of the deck and let him know about Lee Adama. As Tigh is talking to the chief of the deck, he is watching his best friend walk around the CIC.

Meanwhile in the port side hanger deck, Krista Thrace is opening up the canopy of her viper, as Cally pushes a ladder over to the viper. Once the ladder is up against the viper Cally climbs the ladder and when at the top of the ladder Krista push her helmet into Cally hands and then Krista pull the harness off. Krista then unzips her flight suit, because she is burning up and she is also fighting the urge to vomit. Cally looks at Krista Thrace and see that Krista's face is very red and that Krista is resting her hands on her stomach and that the pilot looks unwell.

"Are you feeling all right captain?"

"I am not sure give me a moment."

"Yes Sir."

Krista close her eyes and takes a few deep breaths, a few moments later Krista starts to stand up, but sit down again when she realizes that Cally is still standing at the top of the ladder and block her from getting out of the viper.

"Cally get down so I can get out of the viper."

"We still need to go over the first part of your post flight check list."

"Everything is turned off, now let me out."

"I have to see the check list to make sure you check everything off of the list for the first part of the post flight check list."

"Just take my word this once."

"I cannot Sir."

Krista start gagging and lean to the right side of the viper and then start vomiting over the side of the viper and gets vomit on the side of the viper and also get vomit on the hanger deck floor. Cally looks into the viper and see that Krista has not get any vomit insides of the viper, so far. A few minutes later Krista lean back in the seat of the viper and close her eyes, at the same time Kara viper is push into the space on the left side of Krista's viper. Kara looks out of her cockpit and sees that Krista look flushed, tired, eyes are closed and she is resting her hands on her stomach. The chief of the deck walks over to the right side of Krista's viper and looks at the side of the viper and then he looks down at the hanger deck floor.

"She is the fifth pilot to throw up post combat, Cally did she get any vomit inside of the viper?"

"No chief."

"Good I hate clean vomit out of viper cockpits and there are all ready four viper cockpits with vomit in them. I will do the rest of Krista's post flight check list, go help Kara out of her viper."

Cally walks down the ladder and then set Krista helmet on the floor beside the ladder. Cally then grab another ladder and push the ladder over to Kara's viper. A minute later Kara's steps off the ladder and the chief of the deck walk up to Kara's viper and is shock at what he sees, which is that there is a missing chunk of the tail section. The chief looks over at Kara and sees that she is standing by the end of the viper with her hand on her hips and looking at the missing chunk of the tail section, with a worried look on her face.

"Lieutenant what did you do to the viper?"

"I wondered why the engine gave out on me."

"We will have to pull the whole mounting to fix this, Cally go get the high lift. I do not know how you managed to fly this thing, much less land the viper Lieutenant?"

"That is not something I want to think about right now Chief and where is Prosna at? He's has to get the frakking gimble off or I will have his ass."

"He is dead, sir. He died in the fire."

"Chief, how many of the deck crew were killed?"

"Eighty-five sir."

At the same time Krista walks up beside Kara and looks at the chief of the deck and then looks at her sister and the three of them all have sad looks on they face. Kara and Krista start to walks away from the chief with they hands on they hips, but stop when they hear the chief clear his throat. The two pilots turn around and look at the chief of the deck, with worried looks on they face.

"Captain and Lieutenant, I don't know if the two of you heard about Apollo, but..."

The chief looks down at the floor to avoid seeing Kara and Krista face and at the same time the Thrace sisters start to talk.

"Heard what?"

"He did not make it."

"(Krista and Kara) Right, has there been any word on Sharon or our fighter squadron?"

"No, Sirs."

Cally walks up to the chief of the deck and put her left hand onto his shoulder. The chief turns his head and looks at Cally with a sad look on his face.

"Are you all right Chief?"

"Yes, get back to work and pilots turn in your post flight check lists and head to pilot ready room one for your post flight debriefing."

At the same time Krista and Kara walks away from the chief and Cally and Kara can see that Krista is favoring her right ankle a little bit, as the two of them walk to ready room one. But since there are pilots walking in front of them and behind then Kara does not ask her sister how her ankle is doing or how she is feeling. At the same time the flight pods starts retracting into the ship. Once in the pilot ready room one Krista walks up to the podium and the rest of the pilots sit down on seats that are in front of the podium. The pilots all look up at the acting CAG of Galactica with sad looks on they face and Krista gives them a sad look back.

"We lost Eighty-five of Galactica deck crew today and Jolly, we possibly lost the seventeen pilots from Galactica that was flying in the fighter squander to Caprica and maybe Helo and Boomer too. Then there are the lost of the pilots and crew members of the other Battlestars, but we will not stop fighting for our home worlds and for all the people that was lost in the attacks. In addition we learned that the viper mark two is not affect by what the Cylons are using to turn the power off in the viper mark seven, new battlestars or update ships, which is good to know. I have nothing else to say beside go take sometime to get clean up and rest and if you need to talk to someone about what has happen come talk to me, I am a good listener, you are all dismissed."

All the pilots that were sitting stands up and then start walking toward the door of the ready room. Krista grabs her boots and long sleeve shirt and then walks out of the pilot ready room. At the same time in the CIC, Tigh is checking to see if all the sections of the ship are ready for the jump. A few moments later Tigh looks at commander Adam and start to talk.

"The board is green and all of the reports say that the ship is ready to jump, sir."

"Take us to Ragnar, Colonel."

"Lieutenant Gaeta."

"Yes sir."

"Execute the jump."

Gaeta turns his seat around so his back is to Tigh and Adama and then he picks up the intercom. Gaeta takes a deep breath and then he starts talking into the intercom.

"All decks prepare for immediate FTL jump.

Gaeta stops talking and then puts a blue crystal device in the consoles, then turns the device. Gaeta then starts talking into the intercom again.

"Clock is running ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one."

And the ship jumps, which makes the crew members, senior officers and pilots that are aboard Galactica feels like the walls are closing in on them during the jump that only takes a minute. When the jump is over Adama looks at Gaeta and who is checking his computer screens.

"Report Lieutenant Gaeta."

"We appear to be in geosynchronous orbit directly above the Ragnar Anchorage, sir."

"Colonel Tigh?"

"What do you want me to do, Sir?"

"I want you to update your chart for a course that take us right down into the eye of the storm."

"Yes sir."

Tigh gets to work updating the chart with a course that will take them into the eye of the storm. Commander Adama start walking around the CIC and at the same time in hangar deck B it has been set up as a temporary morgue. The bodies of the dead have been laid out and a crew member is collected they dog tags.

Meanwhile in the officer bunk that Kara and Krista bunks are in and that is for Lieutenant, captain and majors because the jr. Lieutenant and lower ranks are in a different bunk. Kara and Krista are standing in front of they open lockers, Kara is looking at a picture of her, Zak, Lee and Krista and Lee is holding a Pyramid ball. In the picture Zak has his arm around Kara waist and Krista is standing behind Lee with her arm around his waist. The picture is tape to the mirror that is on the insides of Kara's locker door. Krista is looking at a picture of her, Lee, Zak and Kara sitting on the couch in the living room of Kara's apartment and in the picture Kara is sitting on Zak lap and Krista is sitting on Lee's lap. The picture is tape to the insides of the locker door and at the same time Kara and Krista start saying a prayer to the lord of Kobol out loud.

"(Thrace sisters) Lords of Kobol hear my prayer, I want you to take the souls of your sons and daughters that were lost this day especially that of Lee Adama into your hands."

Once Krista and Kara finish the prayer the two sisters take off the flight suits and then hang up the flight suits in they lockers. Kara close her locker door and then looks over at Krista and see that her sister has sat down on her bunk and is crying into her hands. Kara walks over to Krista and sits down on the bunk on Krista right side and put her arm around her sister shoulder and Krista lay her head on Kara shoulder, but before Kara can say anything Adama voice comes over the intercom.

"We have crossed into the ionosphere of Ragnar Anchorage, all hands be ready to head into the munitions depot once we have a hard seal."

Once Adama stop talking, Krista lifts her head off of Kara shoulder and looks at her sister with tears running down her face and then looks at the ring on her left ring finger and start crying harder.

"Krista it will be all right, you just need sometime to take in what has happened."

"Lee can't be dead, Kara. He just can't be dead because I need Lee's too much right now for him to be dead, please tell me it is not true."

"I wish I could, but I can't tell you that it is not true Krista. It will be fine, I am here for you and once you let Adama know about Lee and your secret he will be there for you too. You will get through this, I promise you, I lose my soul mate too and it gets easier with time."

Krista puts her hands on her stomach and start cry harder then before. Kara pulls a tissue out of the box of tissues that is sitting on the bunk top shelf and hand the tissue to her sister, Krista takes the tissues from her sister, but just set the tissue on her lap. Kara gives her older sister a hug and then stand up from the bunk and looks at her sister for a moment.

"How about I give you sometime alone, so you can calm down before the next Cylon attack happens, I am going to head down to the port side hanger deck and work on my viper mark two, seeing that the deck crew is going to be busy restocking the ship weapon supplies."

Krista does not say anything to Kara, so Kara walks over to her bunk. She looks at her sister one last time then sits down on the bunk. Kara puts on her black combat boots and a minute later Kara start to tie the boots. A few moments later Kara stands up from her bunk and see that Krista is laying down on her bunk. Kara also sees that Krista is laying on her right side. Kara walks over to Krista's bunk and pulls the curtains closed. Then Kara walks out of the officer bunk and start walking to the port side hanger deck.

At the same time In the munition depot the deck crew has stops dead in they track because a guy has a machine gun point at them. The chief of the deck starts to talk to the guy holding the gun on them.

"Everyone do not make any fast movement or try anything that will get us killed."

"I do not want any trouble."

"Then let talk."

"I will not go to jail!"

"Why would I take you to jail?"

"Do you understand me? I am NOT going to jail."

"We are not the police and are not here to arrest you. Now, put your gun down."

"Then who the hell are you?"

"We are from the colonial fleet and we just came to get some equipment and weapons for the battlestar and viper from this station, so we can get back in the fight."

"What fight?"

"We are at war with the Cylon, now give me your weapon."

"You think that I am stupid and you expected me to believe that? I want passage out of here on a safe transport ship that has untraceable jump system?"

"Look I don't have time to argue with you. Here is the deal, we have got more than 2,000 people on that ship. You think you can shoot every single one of us, fine, but if not get the hell out of my way!"

"Okay, okay."

Leoben lowers the gun and the chief grabs the gun out of Leoben hand. Then the chief of the deck hands the machine gun to one of his worker.

"If he move shoot him, I am going to get commander Adama."

The chief of the deck walk out of the munition depot and start walking toward Galactica. Most of the deck crew starts to work on getting the supplies together. But two of them keep an eye on Leoben. By now the chief of the deck is walking down the halls of Galactica looking for Commander Adama.

Meanwhile, Kara has reached the port side hanger deck and is now working on the underside of her viper mark two, as a few of the deck crew fixes the tail section. At the same time in the officer bunk Krista has opened up the curtains. Krista is sitting on her bunk looking at a picture of Lee and her sitting on the beach around one of the lake on Caprica. The picture that Krista looking at was took the day Lee asked her to marry him the first time.

A few minutes later at the munitions depot all of the deck crew is hurry around gathering up what is need and Adama is talking to the men that had his crew at gun point a few minutes ago and has learned his name is Leoben. Adama has also learned that Leoben is an arms dealer and that his ship is decked on the other side. Adama and Leoben have just walk into the passageway that lead toward Leoben's ship when a stack of explosives falls over and one of the explosives rolls off and starts beeping. The deck crew jumps out of the way and a few moments later the bomb explodes and traps Adama and Leoben into the passageway. Commander Adama starts to yell, so the chief of the deck can hear him over the deck crew that is talking loudly.

"Chief is anyone hurt out there."

"No."

"That is great, I want you to get all the warheads, bullets and equipment into the ship. Don't waste anybody on anything else. Leoben Is there another way out of here?"

"Yes."

"Then lead the way and get me out of here."

"Are you sure you do not want me to get you out Commander Adama."

"Just get the warheads, bullets and equipment onto the ship Chief."

"Yes sir."

The chief of the deck and the deck crew go back to work and at the same time Leoben start leading Adama down the passageway and Adama notices that Leoben is flushed, sweating and he has blood shot eyes. In addition Adama notice that Leoben keep rubbing his eyes and look unwell.

"You do not look well."

"It is just allergies. I am fine."

The two of then stop talking and Adama starts to watch Leoben very closely, thinking that there is something off about him and he should not be trusted. At the same time Leoben is thinking my head is killing me and it is hard to see out of my eyes because of how red and irritate my eyes are, what could be cause this? Ten minutes later in the CIC Tigh is looking at Gaeta who just got off the phone with the chief of the deck.

"The chief says it will be three hours minimum before we have all the warheads in our magazines, all the weapons, equipment and bullets are stored on our ship."

Gaeta turns away from Tight and goes back to during his job and at the same time an alarm start going off in the CIC. Tigh looks to see what alarm is going off and it is the one that says incoming DRADIS contacts. Tigh grabs the intercom and then he starts yelling into the intercom.

"Action stations, action stations!"

A few second later Gaeta starts yelling to everyone in the CIC and Tigh looks over at Gaeta.

"We have multiple contacts coming down through the storm toward the anchorage, it looks like more than fifty ships are coming toward us."

Tigh grabs the intercom start yelling to everyone in the CIC, who have stop working and to everyone on the ship.

"Cut us loose from the station. Launch the alert fighters! Set condition one throughout the ship. Prepare to launch vipers."

Dualla clear her throat and looks over at Tigh to get his attention, Tigh looks at her with a look that say what now.

"Wait. I am getting Colonial signals now."

"Confirm that. Do not just accept friendly ID."

"Sir it is confirmed the Incoming ships are friendly."

Tigh start yelling into the intercom once again and Dualla is staring at the XO.

"Action stations stand down."

Tigh puts the intercom down and at the same time Dualla wave at Tight to let him know she has another message. Tigh nods at Dualla to let her know to go ahead.

"The lead ship is requesting permission to come alongside, sir. The ship pilot says they have the president of the colonies aboard."

"Grant the request."

"Yes Sir."

Dualla lets the lead ship know that permission is grant and Tigh start walking around the CIC. Several minutes later Roslin is in the CIC standing beside Tigh and Lee is standing a few feet for Roslin and Tigh.

"I want ships and crew to help rescues the fifty thousand people that are in ships that do not have FTL and could not make the jump with us."

"I do not care that you are the president or that you want ships or crew. We are in the middle of repairing and rearming this ship. We cannot afford to lose a single man or woman off the line to start looking and caring for refugees."

"Some of them are hurt and our priority has to be caring for refugees."

"My priority is preparing this ship for combat because if you have not heard yet, there is a war on."

"Colonel we lost the war."

"We will see about that."

"Oh yes, we will. In the meantime as the President of the Colonies I am giving you a direct order Colonel Tight to provide pilots and ships to help the refugees."

"You do not give orders on this ship. Commander Adama gives the orders on this ship and no one else!"

Lee Adama walks up beside Tigh and clear his throat. Tigh stop looking at Roslin and looks at Lee Adama and Tigh is relieved that the commander son is alive and is standing beside him, but at the same time Tigh has a feeling that he not going to like what Lee is about to say.

"Hold on Colonel, at least give us a couple of disaster pods to help the refugees that did make the jump with us?"

"Because you're the old man son and because he is going be so damn happy you are alive, I will give you two pods, but no personnel. You get them yourselves and you distribute them yourselves and you are all off this ship before we jump back. And Lee Adama's report to Captain Thrace to get your order because she is the CAG of Galactica until we know what happened to the major that was leading the fighter squadron."

"Yes Sir and Boomer told me to let you know that none of Galactica fighter squadron survived the Cylon attack."

"I will let your father know, now leave the CIC Lee and report to the captain Thrace who is now the full time CAG of Galactica."

"Yes sir."

Lee walks away from Tigh and head to the door, Roslin looks around the CIC and is thinking where is my aid at? Tight gets on the phone and calls the officer bunk to let captain Thrace know she is now the full time CAG. At the same time Roslin aid Billy and Gaius Baltar are wandering through the corridors trying to find Roslin and the CIC and the two of them are lost. Baltar is thinking there should be map seeing that this place was going to be a museum. Dualla walks out of the head to see Billy and Baltar and she walks up to them.

"Are you lost again Billy?"

"Yes, we need to get to the CIC."

"Follow me, I will take you to the CIC."

Dualla starts walking and Billy and Baltar follow Dualla to the CIC. In addition the deck crew has starts to bring the equipment onto the ship. Boomer who is walking down the hallway sees the chief of the deck and the chief see Boomer, the two of them run up to each other and Boomer jumps into his arm. Then the two of them start kisses each other, a young boy walks up to them and the chief set Boomer on her feet and she smiles at the chief of the deck.

"There is someone I want you to meet. This is Boxey and he is a new crew member and is going to need quarter."

"I think that I can handle that."

Boomer, Boxey and the chief go and find the boy a place to sleep. Lee Adama is walking down the hallway of Galactic head to the port side hanger bay. A few levels up Billy and Baltar follows Dualla into the CIC. Once in the CIC Billy and Baltar walks over to Roslin and Tigh and Dualla goes back to her station.

Meanwhile, Lee Adama is walking through the port side hanger bay and toward Kara Thrace who is under a viper and working on the under side of the viper. When Lee reaches the viper, he kneels down beside Kara's leg.

"Hello Kara."

"Lee's I thought that you were dead."

"No I am alive and I thought you were in hack?"

"Get out because of the Cylon attack."

Kara slides out from under the viper and Lee stand up. He then grabs Kara's hands and pulls Kara to her feet. The two of them look at each other from a few moments and then Kara starts to talk.

"It is good to be wrong."

"You should be used to being wrong by now."

"Everyone has a skill. Lee have you seen Krista yet, she was so upset after the chief told us that you did not make it?"

"No, where is your sister?"

"She in the officer bunk."

"I will head there soon, so I hear that your sister the new CAG."

"Yes and it is a good thing that you the next in line for the CAG, because it is the last thing I want, I am not a big enough dipsticks for that job."

"How the repair going?"

"Should be done in an hour and does your father know you are still alive?"

"Not yet, but I will let him know and I will see you around Kara."

"Bye."

Lee walks away from Kara and then sit back down on the deck floor. Kara then lays down on the floor and slide under the viper. Lee is walking up the stairs to the catwalk of the hanger bay, as Kara gets back to work on her viper. As she works on the viper, Kara is happy for her older sister that Lee is still alive and Lee is thinking about what he is going to say to Krista.

Meanwhile commander Adama and Leoben have walks through a doorway and into a room. Adama looks over at Leoben and sees that he is very pale and sweaty. Leoben turns around and looks at Commander Adama and the commander notice that Leoben eyes are almost swell shut and he is rubbing his forehead with his left hand.

"What is this place doing to me?"

Leoben leans against a wall and then start coughing into his right hand and he is still rubbing her forehead. Commander Adama watching Leoben and is studying him, like he has been the whole time the two of them have been together.

"I thought it was your allergy."

"I do not have allergies."

"I think it is the silica pathway to your brain or whatever you call the things you are pretending to think with and it is decomposing as we speak because of the radiation of the storm."

"You discovered that the storm has an effect on Cylon technology and this is a refuge. This is a last ditch effort to hide from the Cylon attack. Well that is not enough, I have been here for hours and once they find you, it won't take them long to destroy you. They will be in and out before they even get a headache."

"But you, you will never find out, because you will be dead in a few minutes. How does that make you feel, if you can feel anything at all?"

"I can feel more than you could ever conceive of Adama, but I will not die. When this body dies my consciousness will be transferred to another body and when that happens, I think I will tell the others exactly where you are and I think that they will come and kill all of you. In addition I will be here watching it happen to all of you."

Leoben collapses to the ground with a groan and Adama kneels down and starts laughing at him. Leoben lifts up his head, but the room has started to spin. Leoben lay his head back down and try to focus on Adama face, but the commander face is becoming a blur.

"Do you know what I think? I think if you could have transferred out of here, you would have transfer long before now. I think the storm radiation has clogged up your connection and you are not going anywhere and are stuck in that body."

"Sooner or later the day will come when you cannot hide from the things you have done and then everyone will know what you done."

Adama pull Leoben to his feet and pins him against the wall, then Adama start punch him and Leoben start fighting back, despite the room spinning and hardly be able to see where he is punch. The two of them fight for twenty minutes and then William Adama hits Leoben over the head with the flashlight in his left hand until Leoben dies and fall to the floor.

Meanwhile, in the CIC most of the crew members are working at the standing and Tigh is walking around the CIC. Baltar is sitting at one of the unused station in the first row and Gaeta is standing in front of the station. In addition Baltar and Gaeta are talking to each other.

"I have been looking at the ships updated navigation programs and I discover that the Cylons found a way to use your navigation program to disable the ships, by using the CMP to infect the ships with some kind of computer virus, which makes them susceptible to Cylon commands?"

"You are saying the Cylons are able to disable the new and update ships?"

'Yes Gaeta that is what I am saying, do you have CMP on this ship?"

"Yes but our computers are not networked, so it has never been loaded into primary memory, we never even did a test run on it."

"To be on the safe side you should remove it from Galactica and remove the CMP from vipers and other fleet ships too."

"I will let the chief of the deck know to remove the CMP from the vipers and other ships under his control and I will remove it from Galactica right away."

Gaeta walks away from Baltar and the blonde hair woman he was seeing before the attack and who is a Cylon appears next to Baltar, but only he can see her and at the same time Gaeta turns around and looks at Baltar.

"It has to be hard that the Cylon is using a program that you created against us?"

"No."

Gaeta walks over to his station and the female Cylon start laughing at Baltar, he turns his hand to look at her and she starts to talk.

"I remember you telling me once that guilt was something small people feel when they run out of excuses for they behavior and that you never feel guiltily about anything and that is the reason I fell in love with you because your clarity of spirit is not burdened by conscience or guilt or regret."

She sits down on his lap and the two of them start kisses each other and he does not think about how weirdly this has to look to everyone else in the CIC. A few minutes later the female Cylon points over to a strange device that is on the bottom of the monitors, which are overhead of the control table in the center of the CIC, which Tigh is now standing at.

"Is that a Cylon device?"

"Yes, but how are you going to let them know without tell them you help the Cylon."

"I will find a way."

The two of them go back to kisses each other, but the two of them are interrupted by Doral who hands Baltar a printout. Baltar does not look at the printout, he just looks at Doral and is thinking he could tell Tigh or commander Adama that he sews Doral put the device onto the CIC DRADIS console.

"What is this?"

"The report on how many of the civilian ships has your CMP program."

"Thank you for bringing the report to me, but I am busy so leave me alone."

Doral walks away from Baltar and walk over to Tigh to see if there is anything else he can do. Baltar and the female Cylon watch Doral talking to Tight for a short time, then Baltar and the female Cylon start to make out again. Tigh hands Doral some paperwork to take to the chief of the deck. Doral walks out of the CIC and goes to find the chief of the deck.

Meanwhile, Lee Adama walks into the officer bunk and then Lee walks over to Krista's bunk. He sees that Krista is laying on her back on the bunk and staring at a picture of him and her sitting on a beach and tears are running down Krista cheeks. Lee clears his throat and Krista put the picture down and turn her head to see Lee standing beside her bunk.

"The rumor of my death has been exaggerated, but there was a moment aboard Colonial One when the Cylon found us that I though I was dead. But then I went down to the cargo bay of the ship where the hyperdrive from Galactica was being stored to take back to Caprica and I used the hyperdrive to manipulate the energy coils and that put out a big pulse of electroma-magnetic energy that disabled the warheads, which made it look like a nuclear explosion just like we practice in war college and it worked the Cylon left and it gave as enough time to get the hell out of there."

"Lee's never do that to me again, I thought that you left me forever!"

"I won't Krista, but we are at war that might not be a promise I will be able to keep."

"I know that, I just need you to be here for me and your support right now Lee."

"I know and I want to be here for you."

Krista jumps out of her bunk and runs up to Lee, then she gives Lee a big bear hug and he hugs her back. Krista lay her head onto Lee left shoulder and continue to cry, despite being happy that he is still alive and standing in front of her. Lee lead Krista over to her bunk and Lee help Krista sits down on the bed. Once sitting on her bunk Krista slide back, so her back is against the wall of the bunk, then bring her knees up to her chest and wrap her arms around her legs. Krista then lay her head onto her knee and start crying harder, at the same time Lee pick up Krista boots and then walks over to the hatch door. Lee set the boots outside the door and then close the hatch door to give him and Krista some private and time alone to talk. Then Lee walks over to Krista's bunk and sits down on the bunk, on Krista's left side. Lee grabs few tissues out of the box of tissues that is on the top shelf of the bunk and then he starts to wipe the tears off of her face.

"Calm down Krista, you are feeling emotional because your emotions are run over time because of the pregnancy. Now is not the time for your pregnancy to be discovered by anyone on Galactica or on the civil ships. We need to get through the next few days and take out the enemies' Cylon and then maybe we can let my father know about the pregnancy. This might cheer you up a little, I walk by a group of rook pilots in the hall and heard them saying to they friends that they were embarrassed from vomit all over the cockpit of they vipers post combat until they sew the CAG tosses her dinner over the side of her viper and onto the hanger deck floor."

"My greatest achievement so fair as the CAG was to make the rook feel better about throwing up post combat."

The two of them start laughing and at the same time Gaeta voice come over the intercom and make Lee and Krista stop laughing and the two of them are thinking please do not let it be a Cylon attack.

"Captain Thrace you need to meet the XO and the commander of the ship at the morgue lab on important ship business."

Lee stands up from Krista's bunk and he heads over to the hatch door. He open up the door and he pick up Krista's boots. Lee then takes the boots over to Krista, she takes the boot from him and then puts the boots onto her feet. A few minutes later Lee and Krista are walking toward the ship morgue. When Krista and Lee walk into the morgue lab commander Adama runs over to his son and gives him a bear hug and start crying onto Lee right shoulder.

"I am so happy that you are alive, go to my quarter and Krista and I will meet you there when we are done here."

"Yes Sir."

Commander Adama let go of his son and then Lee walks away from Krista, the XO and his father and then walks out of the morgue lab. Lee then starts to walking through the halls and toward his father quarter. At the same time Tigh, commander Adama and Krista head into the morgue.

Once in the morgue Commander Adama leads Tigh and Krista to Dr. Cottle that is standing beside an autopsy table that the body of Leoben is laying on and the doctor has just finish preforming the autopsy on. Krista starts to gag and she takes several steps back from the dead body. Dr. Cottle, commander Adama and Saul Tigh looks over at the new CAG and can tell the smell of the morgue is getting to her. Dr. Cottle grabs a chair and pushes the chair that is on wheels over to captain Thrace. Captain Thrace sits down on the chair, then lean back in the chair close her eyes and resting her hand on her stomach that feel like it is in her throat.

"Thank you, Dr. Cottle."

"You are welcome, Krista's are you still getting sick to your stomach and how are you holding up?"

"All right, I just can't shake the stomach bug I have. But I am fine, my health does not matter right now we are at war and fighting for our home worlds are what matters."

"If you start to feel really bad come see me in the sickbay."

"I will keep that in mind Dr. Cottle, but I am fine right now."

Dr. Cottle turns around and walks away from Krista and then he walks past Tigh and Commander Adama and the doctor is thinking that Krista is not fine and that she is hiding something for him and commander Adama. The doctor then walks by the table that the dead body is on and stops on the other side of the table and look over at Tight and commander Adama that is on the other side of the table with they backs to the door of the morgue and then looks at Krista that sitting a few feet from the table the body is on. At the same time commander Adama clear his throat and then start to talk.

"Krista's the Cylons now look like us and as of right now Tigh, Dr. Cottle, you and I are the only one that knows and that how it will stay, at some point we might have to tell the president of the civilian ships stay with us, but I think the best choice would be to leave the civilian ships here."

"William's this is not good that the Cylon looks like us, they could be anywhere and will would not know it."

"Yes that is a problem Saul, how are we on warheads?"

"Magazine two is secure, three and four will be secure within the hour."

"Good, Krista I need you to pick a pilot to fly to the edge of the storm and put the nose of the viper out of the storm, then look around. In addition I want the pilot to listening for wireless traffic, because before Leoben dead he said that when he dies he would reload into a new body and he would tell the Cylon our location. I want to know if there is anyone outside the storm or if there is wireless traffic, so I can figure out if we can leave the civilians ships here or if we need to bring the civilians ships with us."

"Yes sir."

At the same time the doors to the morgue open up and Gaius Baltar walks into the morgue and he walks by Krista Thrace, who has starts to gag again. Tigh looks around the morgue and sees a trash bin behind the doctor. Tigh walks over to the trash bin and then moves the trash bin beside Krista Thrace, as Gaius Baltar walks over to Dr. Cottle and commander Adama who are standing beside the dead body of Leoben. Krista looks at Tigh and gives him a small smile and he smiles back.

"I thought you might need that."

"Thank you, I hope that I will not have to use it."

"You are welcome."

Tigh walks over to Dr. Cottle, commander Adama and Gaius Baltar and Adama walks over to the other side of the table and stand on Dr. Cottle left side, so he can look at Tigh, Baltar and Krista.

"Commander Adama I was told that you want to see me."

"Yes I do, but what I am about to tell you is top secret and cannot leave this room do you understand this Gaius Baltar?"

"Yes sir."

"Cylon looks like us now and the body you are standing in front of is a Cylon name Leoben."

Gaius Baltar who has a look of shock on his face looks at the body on the metal table and at the same time the smell of the morgue has finally got to Krista Thrace and she leans over the trash bin and vomit into the trash bin. Commander Adama watch captain Thrace helpless, wishes he could make Krista's feel better, but know there is nothing he can do for her. Commander Adama waits for Krista to stop vomiting, because he wants her to hear everything that is say. A minute later Krista's stop vomiting and lean back in the chair she is sitting on. Krista closes her eyes and set her hand on her stomach and at the same time commander Adama clears his throat.

"Dr. Cottle what can you tell us about Leoben?"

"Leoben's internal organs and lymphatic system appear human and the tissue samples that I take from him yielded unique chemical compounds that reveal the nature of the sample to be synthetic."

"Commander Adama I do not understand how I can be of help here?"

"Gaius Baltar you are a scientist and we need a way to screen people and tell who is human and who is Cylon and that is where you come in."

"I think I can do that if Dr. Cottle gives me the samples he take for reference samples and I will need a lab commander Adama."

"You can use the morgue lab, which is the room that lead into the morgue, the only people that every walk through the lab is with me or Dr. Cottle, you will not be interrupted too often and when the door is close I or Dr. Cottle will knock and wait for you to open up the door."

"Yes Sir."

"But remember what you are working on is top secret right now and you cannot tell anyone what you are working on."

"Yes sir and there is something that I think you should know, I saw the public relations executive Aaron Doral playing with a round white device under the DRADIS console screens above the control table in the CIC and it seems like the device was sending a signal."

"Thank you for letting me know, Tigh go find the marines and have them find Aaron Doral and have the marine put him into the brig, then go to the CIC and have Gaeta find this device and remove it right away. In addition have Gaeta bring the device to Baltar in his new lab. Baltar I want you to find out what this device is use for."

"Yes Sir, I will go get my lab set up."

Tigh does not say anything to the commander, he just leaves the morgue and at the same time Dr. Cottle grabs the tissue samples and then he hands the samples to Baltar. Gaius Baltar walks out of the morgue and walk into the morgue lab and start setting up the new lab, so he can get to work. At the same time Dr. Cottle walks up to Krista and stop in front of her.

"Krista I am not letting you leave until you tell me what symptoms you have and I give you a small check up?"

"Fine, I am not able to keep anything down and I am hot, but otherwise I feel fine."

Dr. Cottle puts his left hand onto Krista's forehead, which feels clammy but it does not feel like she is running a fever. The doctor takes his hand off Krista's forehead and lift up her right wrist and he places two fingers over the artery of the wrist and then start count the beats for a count of thirty and then does the math in his head to figure out the beats per minute.

"It does not feel like you are running a fever and your pulse is normal, but I do not like the fact that you have not been able to keep anything down for a whole week. If you are still sick in a few days you are to report to sickbay and I am going to do some blood work and run tests to see what is making you sick."

"Fine."

Commander Adama walks over to Dr. Cottle and Krista, then William Adama takes Krista hand and pulls Krista to her feet. Then Dr. Cottle, Krista and commander Adama walk out of the morgue and into the morgue lab. Gaius Baltar who was looking at a sample through a microscope that is a metal table in the center of the lab, looks up from the microscope and sees Dr. Cottle, Krista and commander Adama.

"You seem to be under the weather captain Thrace, was it just the smell of the morgue that made you sick or do you have a stomach bug or are you hang over?"

"I been fighting a stomach bug, but I do not think I am contagious because no one has caught what I have yet."

"That is good to know that no one caught what you have and I hope you feel better soon."

Krista, doctor Cottle and commander Adama walks to the hatch door, as Baltar goes back to looking at the sample in the microscope. Baltar is finding the sample so interesting that her does not her the hatch door open up. Baltar also does not hear Commander Adama, Krista and Dr. Cottle walk out of the morgue lab. Baltar is thinking I should draw some of my own blood to compare the Cylon blood to human blood.

At the same time in the hallway Dr. Cottle is head to the sickbay and Krista and commander Adama head to the commander quarter. As the hatch door of his father quarter open up, Lee stands up from the sectional couch. Krista and William Adama walks over to the sectional couch and the commander sits down on the couch by the arm of the couch that is near the hatch door.

"Lee and Krista take a seat. I want to talk to the two of you for a few minutes."

"(Lee and Krista) Yes sir."

Lee and Krista sit down on the couch, Krista is sitting on the commander left-hand side and Lee is sitting on Krista's left side. Commander Adama looks over at Lee and Krista and sees that Lee is hold Krista hand.

"I am not going to stop the two of you from getting married and I think that the two of you should get married before we leave the storm if we leave the civilians ships here, if we take the civilians ships with us, then the two of you can take a little more time and choice if you want to marry aboard Galactica or on cloud nine."

"(Lee and Krista) Yes sir."

"That is what the two of you want to get marry and spent the rest of your life together right?"

"(Lee and Krista) Yes."

"Then I look forward to the day you become my daughter-in-law Krista. But I also think that the two of you seem to be hiding something for me, but I will not push the two of you to tell me right now, if it is something I need to know then you will tell me when you feel the time is right. Krista you need to go back to work and do your CAG duties, Lee's go with Krista and give her some help, she been feeling under the weather for eight days now."

"Has it been eight days now?"

"As of a short time after arrive here, so yes Krista it has been eight days."

Lee and Krista stand up from the couch and salute the commander, then the two captains leaves commander Adama's quarter. Once in the hallway and the hatch door to commander quarters is closed, Lee takes a hold of Krista hands and looks into her eyes and Krista look into his eyes, then he starts to whisper into her right ear.

"I think the two of us will have to tell my father sooner then later that you are pregnant because he knows we are hiding something from him."

"I think you are right Lee, but let just get through today and take it one day at a time for right now."

"That is fine Krista, what CAG duties to you have to do?"

"I have to pick a pilot to put they nose out of the storm to look around and listen to the wireless to see if there is any talk on the wireless."

"Whom are you going to pick to do the reconnaissance job?"

"Kara, she has the most experience beside you and me and I am not feeling up to do the job and you look exhausted and I need someone that not going to fall asleep in the cockpit."

Krista stop talking and Lee start yawning, then the two of them start to laugh. When they stop laughing, the two of them let go of each other hands. Then Lee warps his right arm around Krista's waist. Krista and Lee start walking down the hallway and are keeping an eye out for Kara.

Twenty nine minutes later in the port side hanger deck, Kara is sitting in her mark two viper finish the preflight check list that need to be done before being moved over to the launch tube and Lee and Krista is standing beside the viper look up at Kara, Lee is listening to Krista who is talking to her sister.

"Do you understand the mission?"

"I put my head outside of the storm and have a look around then listen for wireless traffic and come home when I finish the mission sir."

"I do not want to see any heroics. This is strictly reconnaissance Kara. Look, listen and return."

"I understand Krista and you do not have to worry about me. My taste for heroics vanished about the time I engaged that first Cylon raider."

"Krista I think your sister changed and might become a pilot that behavior and follows orders."

"I would not go that far Lee, I do not want to die right now is all. Lee there is something else that I need to tell you."

"What do you need to tell me Kara?"

"Zak failed basic flight or at least he should have, but he did not fail because I passed him. His technique was sloppy and he had no feeling for flying, but I passed him because he and I were in a relationship and I let it get in the way of doing my job and I could not fail him."

"Kara's why are you telling me this and why now?"

"It's the end of the world Lee and I thought I should confess my sins. I am ready to be move over to the launch tube."

Kara puts her helmet onto her head and then closes the canopy of the cockpit. Members of the deck crew come over and start to move the viper Kara is in over to the first launch tube. Krista and Lee watch the viper being push into the launch tube. Inside the cockpit Kara is going over the mission in her head.

At the same time in the brig, Tigh and Baltar are standing outside the first cell, which is the cell that Aaron Doral is in. Aaron Doral still has the handcuff on his wrist and Aaron Doral is grabbing the bars of the cell. He is also staring at Tigh and Baltar and yelling.

"I am not a Cylon."

"Baltar if he is a Cylon why is he not sick from the storm radiation?"

"I can only theorize that it takes a while for the storm's effects to become readily apparent on Cylon physiology. By the time you encountered Leoben, he was here for several hours. I feel that we have not been here long enough for the storm to have an effect on Aaron Doral."

"I do not suppose it matters to the two of you that I am not a Cylon."

Baltar looks at Aaron Doral and then looks at Tigh, who is not paying attention to the person in the cell.

"Are you sure that he is a Cylon?"

"One can never be a hundred percent sure sir, but the evidence seems conclusive. I expanded on your doctor's analysis of Leoben's corpse and went around the CIC discreetly taking random hair samples of people who have been working there. Then I subjected the hair samples to a special form of spectrum analysis and wrote a clinical computer subroutine to screen for synthetic chemical combinations and his samples were the only samples to register as synthetic."

"I will take you word for it and I want everyone on this ship screened and that is an order."

"Yes sir."

Tigh walks out of the brig and the female Cylon that Baltar was seen before the attack appears beside him, with a huge smile on her face and then step in front of him block Baltar view of Doral. Baltar forgot all about Doral when he sees the female standing in front of him wearing a red tight dress that has a very low neck low and thin straps.

"Just like that, Dr. Baltar invents the amazing Cylon detector."

At the same time Doral start yelling and he is hoping that it will get Tigh to come back into the brig, seeing that he is still standing outside the brig talking to the guards.

"I do not know about anybody else on this ship, but I can tell you that I am human. I am from Oasis, you know where Oasis is and that it is only a couple stops from Caprica City. I grew up on the south side and went to school at Kobol Colleges on Geminon, I studied public relations!"

Tigh sticks his head back into the brig and look at Baltar and then Tigh clear his throat, which make Baltar jump, he turns around to see who is there and see Tigh looking at him.

"Baltar get to your lab and figure out what that device is that was removed for the bottom of the DRADIS console."

"Yes Sir."

Baltar waits for Tigh to walk away from the brig. Baltar then walks out of brig and start walking to his lab. The female Cylon is walking beside Baltar and she is running her hand through his hair. Baltar looks over at her and the two of them smiles at each other. A few minutes later Baltar and the Cylon walk into the lab.

At the same time Kara is flying her viper through the storm. In addition Starbuck is looking around the storm to make sure there are only Galactica and the fleet ships in the storm and no Cylon ship hiding with the fleet as she flies toward the edge of the storm. Starbuck knows she has to be near the edge of the storm because there are no more ships in sight, when a voice comes over the intercom.

"Starbuck this is Galactica and you should be approach turn eight."

"Copy that Galactica and I am starting to lose wireless contact, Galactica. I am making the final turn now. I am through the threshold. Galactica do you read me? Galactica, do you read me?"

Starbuck losing wireless contact and at the same time check the viper DRADIS console and cannot believe what she is seeing and is thinking that this cannot be right. She then looks out the cockpit and sees Cylon base ships, which now look like star and not round like the base ship from the first Cylon war. In addition Starbuck sees fighter squadrons and recon drones too. Starbuck put the viper into reverse and after a few moments flips her viper around and then start head back toward Galactica.

Meanwhile, onboard of Galactica Krista Thrace, Lee Adama and commander Adama walks up to the hatch door of the wardroom and there are two guards standing on each side of the wardroom door. One of the guards open up the hatch door, then Commander Adama walks through the hatch door, Krista walks through the hatch next and she is followed by Lee into the wardroom and the three of them stands in front of the door because they do not want to interrupt Billy who is talking to President.

"The medical supplies are running low again and three ships have reported engine trouble. The ships want to know when they will be receiving engineering assistance from Galactica?"

"That's a good question. Hello, Commander, captain Thrace and captain Adama, have a seat. I will be with you in a moment. You can keep going, Billy."

Lee, Krista and commander Adama do not walk over to the tables and chair, but stay standing by the door and at the same time Billy starts to talk.

"The captain of the Astral Queen wants you to know that he has got nearly five hundred convicted criminals under heavy guard in his cargo hold. The convicted were being transported to a penal station when the attack happened."

"Great."

"The captain wants to know what to do with the prisoners?"

"What to do with them?"

"With the food and medical supplies being what they are, I think he is considering just airlock the convicted criminals."

"No, we are not going to start that, they are still human beings. Tell the captain I expect daily reports on the well being of his prisoners and if there are any mysterious deaths, the Astral Queen may find they do not have the protection of Galactica."

"Yes, Madame President."

"That is all for now Billy."

Billy leaves the wardroom and Laura Roslin notices that the commander, Lee and Krista are still standing and have they arm behind they backs. Laura Roslin takes off her glasses and set the glasses onto the table and then looks at the three people standing in front of her with they hand behind they backs.

"Are you planning on stage a military coup commander?"

Lee and Krista look at the commander, who looks at them and then the commander looks at Laura Roslin with a confused look on his face.

"What?"

"Do you plan to declare martial law and take over the government?"

"No."

"Then you acknowledge my position as president as constituted under the articles of colonization?"

"Miss Roslin, my primary objective at the present time is to repair Galactica and continue to fight the Cylon."

"I do not see any Cylon at the moment commander, but there are fifty thousand civilian refugees out there who do not stand a chance without your ship to protect them from the Cylon."

"We are aware of the tactical situation and I am sure that you will all be safe here on Ragnar after we leave."

"After you leave, where are you going?"

"To find the enemy, we are at war and that is my mission and the mission of this ship."

"I honestly do not know why I have to keep telling you this, but the war is over."

"The war has not begun yet."

"That is insane!"

"You would rather have us run?"

"Yes, absolutely. That is the only sane thing to do here, exactly that run. We leave this solar system and we don't look back."

"And you want us to go where?"

"I do not know another star system, another planet, somewhere where the Cylons will not find us."

"You can run if you like, but this ship will stand and fight."

"I am going be straight with you commander Adama. The human race is about to be wiped out. We have fifty thousand people left and that is it. Now if we are even going to survive as a species, then we need to get the hell out of here and we need to start having babies."

(Lee, Krista and commander Adama) Excuse me, but if you count the people aboard Galactic there are more then fifty-two thousand people."

"I say we need to start having babies."

Lee, Krista and commander Adama turns they back on Laura Roslin. Laura Roslin stands up and clears her throat. But Lee, Krista and commander Adama's do not turn back around to see what Laura Roslin wants. Commander Adama, Lee and Krista walk out of the wardroom.

Once in the hallway Lee, Krista and commander Adama walk to the CIC. Lee, Krista and commander Adama have just reached the table in the center of the CIC, when Kara's voice comes over the CIC intercom.

"Galactica this is Starbuck, when I was outside the storm, I saw what like two base stars with ten fighter squadrons and two reconnaissance drone attachments patrolling the area."

Tigh looks at the commander of the ship and sees that the commander, Lee and Krista have looks of shock on they face and he knows he also has a look of shock on his face. Tigh picks up the intercom and start to talk to Starbuck.

"Were you followed into the storm?"

"Negative. There are no signs of pursuit, but by the way the Cylon ships are deployed it makes me think the Cylon is waiting for us."

"Starbuck continue your present course and return to visual contact, then stand by for instruction."

"Yes sir."

Tigh put the intercom down then look over at Krista, Lee and the commander and at the same time Gaeta walk up beside Tigh and look over at Lee, Krista and the commander and starts to talk.

"How did the Cylon find us commander?"

"No idea."

"Why aren't they coming in after us, sir?"

"(Krista and Tigh) Why should they Gaeta, when they can just sit out there and wait us out? What difference does it make to them, they are machines and we are the ones that need food, medicine and fuel?"

"Tigh and Krista I am not going play the Cylon game, I am not going to go out there and try to fight them. Can we plot a jump from inside the storm Tigh?"

"With all this EM interference mucking up the FTL fixes that would be a no, we have cleared the storm threshold first."

Krista clears her throat and Lee, Gaeta, commander Adama and Tigh look over at Krista, who is leaning against the control table with her elbows on top of the table and her head resting on her hands.

"Once we are outside the storm we have to jump fast because they will launch everything they have at us the moment they see us coming through the storm."

Commander Adama hit his hands against the table and Lee, Gaeta and Tigh jumps and then looks at the commander Adama, but Krista does not jump and still has her elbows on the table and resting her head on her hands, at the same time at the commander start talking.

"We need to start having babies."

"William's you are telling us to have babies and is this an order?"

"Maybe before too long, we are going to take the civilians with us and we are going to leave this solar system and are not coming back."

"We are running William?"

"Yes."

"(Tigh, Krista and Lee) where are we going?"

"The Prolamar Sector."

"That is way past the red line sir."

"I know that Tigh. Gaeta can you plot that jump."

"I have never plotted a jump that far, sir."

"No one has."

Yes, sir."

"Do it by yourself. We are in a bad tactical position, we will pull Galactica out five clicks and the civilians ships will come out behind us one at a time and once the ships cross the threshold the ship will make the jump. While we hold off the Cylons long enough for all the civilians ships to make the jump, once the civilians have made the jump, every fighter is to make an immediate combat landing and then we will jump out of here, Krista's go let you pilots know."

"Yes sir."

"And I want all my pilots to return. Do you understand?"

"Yes sir."

Krista lifts her head off of her hands and then takes her elbows off of the control table. She starts to walks away from the commander, but stop walking and grabs onto the table for support, because she starts to feel light head. Lee puts his right arm around Krista's waist and then Lee, commander Adama and Tight looks at Krista with a worried look on they face.

"I am fine, just weak from not eating or drink enough the last eight days."

"Lee help Krista to the officer bunk to get her flight suit, then go get her a bottle of water and something to eat from the kitchen and bring it to Krista in pilot ready room one."

"I will Father and Tigh get on the intercom and let all the pilots know to meet in ready room one."

Lee and Krista walk out of the CIC and Lee shut the hatch door behind him. Lee and Krista stop walking and Lee takes his arm off of Krista and then take both her hand, looking over his fiancée and Lee sees that she looks exhausted and hot.

"Lee's I am fine."

Lee put his right arm around Krista's waist and then the two of them start walking down the hallway. At the same time in the CIC Tigh is looking at the commander who staring at the door his son and Krista walk out off a minute ago and Tight start to talk to the commander.

"Do I have to take your son order commander and what should we do about our prisoner?"

"Yes and we are leaving our prisoner at the anchorage. The two of us will get him from the brig and take him there in a few minutes."

"Yes sir."

Tigh picks up the intercom and he pushes the button on the side, then start talking into the intercom to let the pilots know to head to pilot ready room one. Commander Adama has starts to pace the CIC, as Tigh talks into the intercom. A minute later Tigh hangs up the intercom and start to pace the CIC too. After a few moments Tigh has caught up to his best friend and the two of them pace the CIC together making sure everyone is doing they jobs.

Two minutes later Krista is standing in front of her locker and is getting her flight suit out of the locker and is resting her right hand on her stomach, wishing that she could just lay down on her bunk and get some sleep. She tosses the flight suit and utility belt onto her bunk and then get the boots and helmet from the floor of the locker. Krista then walks over to her bunk and sits down on the bunk. Krista takes off her combat boot and then stand up from the bunk. Krista slow puts on her flight suit and a minute and half later Krista is standing in front of her open locker again and grabs a plastic bottle full of pink liquid off of the top shelf of the locker that has the name pick me up for tummy trouble on the front, which is for nausea, upset stomach, heartburn, indigestion and diarrhea. Krista takes the cap off of the bottle then drinks some of the liquid out of the bottle, hoping that it will help her keep down what she eats and the bottle of water. After putting the cap on the bottle of pick me up for tummy trouble, Krista set the bottle on the top shelf on the right-hand side in front of bottles of other medicines. A minute later Krista's walk out of the officer bunk and start walking down the hallway. A short time later Lee walks up beside Krista. Lee hands Krista a large bagel with cream cheese on the bagel and Krista hand Lee her helmet. Krista eats the bagel as the two of them walk to the hallway that the pilot ready rooms are in.

When they reach the door of pilot ready room one Lee hand Krista the bottle of water and then the two of them walk into the ready room. Lee sits down in the only empty seat that is the last seat on the left in the back row, as Krista walks up to the podium drinking from the bottle of water, at the same time all the pilots stop talking and look up at Krista Thrace. Krista put the cap on the bottle of water and then set the bottle of water onto the podium and looks at the pilots. Krista sees Kara standing at the back of the ready room behind the last row of seats. Krista takes a few deep breaths and blocks at the nauseous and the light head feeling that is affecting her and start to talk.

"I know that we are all tired and are ready for some rack time, but that is not going to happen for a while and I'm not sure of the next time we will get some rack time. This is what I know outside of the storm are two base stars, fighter squadrons and reconnaissance drones. For us to jump away from here we have to leave the storm systems, but because of the Cylon being here, we cannot leave the civilians ships behind. Galactica is going to go out first because we are in a bad tactical position. Galactica will pull out of the storm, so that we are five clicks out and then the civilian ships will cross the threshold one at a time to make the jump, as the viper pilots and Galactica hold off the Cylons long enough for all the civilian ships to make the jump. Once all the civilian ships have made the jump, all the vipers are to make an immediate combat landing and then Galactica will jump out of here. Head to your vipers because skids up will be soon."

The pilots that are sitting, stands up from the seats and then all but three of the pilots walk to the side door of the ready room and leave the ready room. At the same time Lee and Kara walk up to Krista who is still standing at the podium, once at the podium Lee set Krista's helmet onto the podium and then he and Kara look at Krista, Lee sees that Kara is worry about her sister and he starts to talk.

"Are you ready to go Kara and Krista?"

"I am ready Lee, or you ready Krista?"

Krista does not say anything, she just picks up the bottle of water and takes the top off the bottle. Krista then takes a drink of water, from the bottle. Kara grabs her sisters' helmet off of the podium. Then Lee, Kara and Krista walk out of the ready room and into the hallway. Krista drinks the rest of the water as they walk to the port side hanger deck. A few minutes later Lee is sitting in the cockpit of mark two viper number 3266, because the mark two viper number 7242 that he flew in the air show and along side colonial one is still being repaired. Kara is sitting in viper mark two number 8547 and Krista is sitting in viper mark two number 6757NC, all the pilots have they helmets on and the canopy of they vipers are down and locked. The deck crew is slowly moving the vipers into the launch tubes because Galactica is moving out of the storm and is being followed by the civilian ships. As Galactica reaches the edge of the storm all of the vipers are in the launch tubes and are ready to be launches and the viper pilots know that Galactica has stopped at the edge of the storm to wait for all the ships to reach them, when a voice comes over the intercom.

"Action stations, action stations. Set condition one throughout the ship. Action stations, action stations set condition one throughout the ship."

The deck crew takes deep breathe and so do all the viper pilots that are waiting to be launches into outer space any time now. In the CIC Tigh is standing on the left side of the control table, if standing with your back to the side hatch door and Adama is standing on the right side of the control table if you are standing with your back to the side hatch door. Commander Adama looks over at his XO and Tigh looks over at commander Adama and Tigh starts to talk.

"The fleet is ready to jump, sir."

"Thank you XO, Lieutenant Gaeta."

"Yes Sir."

"Disperse to all fleet our final coordinates."

"Yes sir."

"Tigh stand by to execute the battle plan."

"Yes sir."

At the same time Galactica start moving out of the storm and into the view of the Cylon, once five clicks out the worker in the CIC hear Tigh start yelling at them.

"Weapons grid to full power, stand by for enemy suppression barrage."

The person control Galactica weapons raise the guns and the Cylon base stars launches more raiders from they two base stars. In the CIC Gaeta has grabbed the intercom and is yelling into the intercom.

"There are seventy-two Incoming Cylon fighters and the fighters are closing in at one two zero mark four eight."

Adama takes a deep breath and look at Tigh, then start to yell over the nosie of the CIC, so Tigh can hear him.

"Enemy suppression fire, all batteries execute now."

"Yes sir, all batteries commence firing."

Galactica start firing the ships weapons and the weapons takes out some of the raiders that are coming toward the ship. In the CIC Gaeta is looking at the commander of the ship.

"The perimeter established sir."

"Dualla tell the deck crew to launch the vipers."

"Yes sir."

Commander Adama starts to pace the CIC to make sure everyone is doing they jobs. Tigh watching the commander pace and know that his best friend is worried about the out come. At the same time Dualla pick up the intercom and start to talk into the intercom to let the deck crew know they can launch the viper. When Dualla hangs up the intercom, she goes back to doing her other job.

A few moments later the vipers are launches into outer space and then the viper start flying in formation in front of the Cylon riders. Phoenix voice comes through all the vipers and Galactica intercoms.

"A broken formation and razzle dazzle, don't let the raiders use they targeting computers and for frak's sake make sure that you stay out of Galactica firing solution vipers, that included you, Starbuck."

"Yes sir."

The vipers break out of the normal formation and then all of the vipers do razzle dazzle and get into position again and then Phoenix switches the intercom on, to talk to Galactica.

"Galactica this is Phoenix all viper are in position and are ready to fight."

"Vipers engage raiders only, leave the base stars to us."

At the same time the vipers and raiders start firing at each other and Galactica start firing at the base stars and in the CIC Tigh is shouting into the intercom at the civilian ships.

"Galactica to all civilian ships commence jumping in sequence giving to you."

The first civilian ship pulls out of the storm and jumps. A few second later the second ship comes out of the storm and jump away from the fleet. At the same time Phoenix is shooting at a heavy raider that is flying toward her viper. The third civilian ship comes out of the storm. A few second later the third civilian ship jumps away from Galactica, vipers, Cylons and the rest of the fleet.

Meanwhile, in the CIC Gaeta is yelling at everyone in the CIC and into the intercom.

"Incoming ordnance."

A few second later Galactica is hit by two missiles and the fighting between the vipers and the raiders continue. Apollo's ship gets hit by a missile and one of the engines gives out. Starbuck who is flying Apollo's wing gets onto the intercom and start talking.

"Apollo, do you read me?"

Apollo is busy trying to get his engine restart and at the same time Starbuck sees another missile heading for Apollo vipers. Starbuck hit the button and fire the cannons of her viper and shoots the missile down, at the same time she yelling into the intercom.

"Whoooo! Come on, bad guys. Apollo it looks like you broke your ship."

"I have had worse Starbuck, but thank you for the help."

Lee, Starbuck and Phoenix see Galactica take a few more hits that were fired from the base stars. Phoenix flip her viper around to check on the civilian ships and see that most of the ships have jumped away because the ship that just came out of the storm was the third to last ships in the line of civilian ships behind Galactic. Phoenix sees a heavy raider going for the civilian ship and goes after the raider, as she gets onto the intercom to Galactica.

"Galactica this is Phoenix and there are three civilian ships left to jump away."

Phoenix start shooting at the heavy raider and after several hits Phoenix takes out the heavy raider. At the same time people are running around to station to check on what alarms are going off and Tigh is yelling to be heard over all the noise in the CIC.

"Function check on the damage control panel. "

The ship starts to rock as it is hit by another missile and Tigh and Adama grabs onto the control table and the XO and commander looks at each other.

"The base stars are targeting the landing bays. We got to get the vipers back on board and retract the pods or we won't be able to jump."

"Fleet status Lieutenant. Gaeta?"

"Two ship left to jump sir."

"We have to hold out for a little longer XO."

"Yes Sir."

Tigh keep looking at monitors to make sure the landing bay are not getting heavy damaged by the missiles. At the same time Starbuck, Phoenix and the rest of the vipers are firing they cannons at raiders and heavy raiders that are fly toward the last two civilian ships, the one that is jumping and the one that is about to come out of the storm any second. The second to last civilian ships jumps away. At the same time the last ship comes out of the storm, Phoenix hit the intercom switch on her viper and start to talk into the intercom.

"Galactica the last civilian ship is about to jump away."

"Phoenix this is Galactica actual, once the last ship is away bring your vipers home."

"Yes sir."

Phoenix sees a heavy raider about to fire on the civilian ship and hits the cannon button and shots the heavy raider down, right as the civilian ship jumps away and Dualla voices come over the vipers intercoms.

"Galactica to all vipers break off from the fight and come on home."

The vipers break away from fighting the raiders and heavy raiders and start flying toward the port side landing bay. At the same time in the CIC Gaeta is yelling and the ship gets hit with another missile.

"FTL are a go. Sublight is a go and the board is green. Ship reports ready for jump as soon as landing bays are secure, sir."

"Dualla how many ship are still out?"

"Three viper sir, Starbuck, Lee and Phoenix."

"Commander we cannot stand toe-to-toe with those base stars."

Commander Adama looks at Tigh, who picks up the intercom and start yell into the intercom to the deck crew.

"Retract the pods."

The pods start to retract and commander Adama looks up at the monitors that are over his head and start to talk.

"I can't leave them here. Patch me through to Starbuck Dualla."

"Yes sir."

Dualla patches the commander through to Starbuck viper right away. At the same time Lee has warring light blinking in his viper and the second engine is starting to give out. Starbuck who has been listening to debris hit the canopy of her viper is shock to hear the commander voice over the intercom of her viper.

"This is Galactica actual to Starbuck. What do you hear?"

"What?"

"Good morning, Starbuck, what do you hear?"

"Nothing but the rain."

"Grab your gun and bring the cat in."

"Yes sir, coming home now and Phoenix is right behind me."

A second later commander Adama, Starbuck and Phoenix hear Apollo voice over the intercom and Lee is trying to start calm, but commander Adama, Starbuck and Phoenix and hear a hit of nervousness in his voices.

"I am losing power and I am not going to make it back to Galactica. Starbuck and Phoenix it is over just leave me and that is an order."

Starbuck takes a deep breath as she starts flying a little fast and Phoenix knows what Kara is thinking before her sister start talking into the intercom to Lee.

"Apollo, shut up and hold still."

Kara swings her viper around and aims the viper right at Apollo. Apollo eyes get really big as he sees Starbuck viper speeding toward him and that Phoenix is flying her viper backwards at a fast speed and Phoenix is shooting down raiders that are flying toward them, at the same time Lee start yelling into the intercom.

"Oh no, Starbuck what are you thinking?"

At the same time Starbuck start yelling and the two vipers hit each other and then the ships lock together. Starbuck start pushing Apollo viper toward the landing bay and she has a huge smile on her face, but Apollo has a shock look on his face.

"You are beyond insane Starbuck."

"I know that Apollo. I am kicking it into burn and the three of us are on our way home."

"Come on Lee, Kara and Krista."

"We are coming in a little hot, don't you think Starbuck and Phoenix?"

"(Thrace sisters) No? Not really?"

A few second later Lee and Kara fly into the landing bay and right behind them is Krista's viper and the doors shut right as Krista landing gear hits the landing bay. Then the landing bay starts to react into the ship. At the same time Starbuck and Apollo slide across the bay and smack into the opposite door and Phoenix viper slide to a stop right behind Starbuck and Apollo vipers. Meanwhile, in the CIC, Tight is shouting into the intercom.

"Stand by for jump."

"Lieutenant Gaeta is the landing bay secure?"

"Yes commander the landing bay is secure."

"Jump."

Gaeta puts the jump key into the key hole and then turn the key. In the land bay Krista is sitting in her viper waiting to be move into the hanger deck, when the ship jumps Krista stomach start doing somersaults and at the same time the feeling that the walls are closing in starts. By the time that the jump is over members of the deck crew are trying to pull Lee and Kara vipers apart. A few members of the deck crew are pulling Krista's viper away from Kara's viper, because the vipers stop within inches of each other.

Four minutes later Krista's viper is parked in the third space in the port side mid hanger deck. Krista open up the canopy of the viper and then take her helmet off of her head. Krista then hands her helmet and the clipboard, which has the check list over the left side of the viper and Cally take the clipboard and helmet from Krista. Krista stands up and unzips the flight suit. Krista pulls her arms out of the flight suit and then pulls the top half of the flight suit down. Krista then stands up and step out onto the ladder. Krista slowly walks down the ladder and when she gets to the fourth to last steps of the ladder Krista has to stop walking because the hanger deck as start to spin. Krista sits down on the fourth to last steps of the ladder and then lean back against the ladder close her eyes. Cally walk over to Krista and set the helmet on the deck floor by Krista left foot. Cally know by just look at captain Thrace that the CAG is in rough shape, at the same time Krista put her hands onto her stomach and start gagging. Cally run over to the nearest trash bin and push the trash bin over beside Krista. At the same time Krista open up her eyes and see the trash bin on her right side. Krista Thrace lean toward the trash bin and start vomiting into the trash bin right away. Cally grab the hair that fall out of Krista braid out of the captain face and holds the loose hairs for five hold minutes, because that is how long Krista is vomiting into the trash bin, when the captain stop vomit Cally let go of the loose hairs and Krista lean back against the ladder and close her eye.

"Thank you."

"You are welcome sir, can I get you anything?"

"No, I am just going to sit here for a few minutes."

"If you need me for anything just let me know sir."

"I will, but I should be fine now."

Cally walks away from Krista Thrace and walks toward Starbuck's viper that has just been parked a few spaces away from Krista Thrace's viper, when Cally reach Starbuck's viper, the chief of the deck walks up beside Cally.

"Cally do I need to get Dr. Cottle for captain Thrace?"

"No, I think she is fine now, but she does not look well."

"Because she has been unwell for eight days now, captain Thrace should not have been flying a viper at all yesterday or today."

At the same time Kara open up the canopy of her viper and then take off her helmet. A few moments later Kara walks down the ladder and once at the bottom of the ladder hand the chief of the deck her post flight check list.

"Chief do a full work up on the viper because I think the viper take some damaged when Lee's viper and my viper landing on the land bay and Lee viper hit the bay door."

"Yes sir."

Kara walks away from Cally and the chief and walks over to her sisters' viper and sees that Krista is sitting on the ladder and leaning forward with her head between her knee. Kara kneels down in front of her sister and puts her hands on Krista shoulders.

"Krista all you all right?"

"I feel awful, I need to lie down and get some rest. I am going to head to the officer bunk and lay down, tell Lee to cover the post flight briefing for me."

"Sure Krista, just go get some rest."

Kara takes her hands off her sister shoulders and then Krista stand up from the ladder, despite the room spinning and her leg feeling like lead. Krista starts to fall backwards and Kara catches her sister and help Krista sit back down on the ladder. Krista close her eyes hoping that the feeling that the hanger deck is spinning will go away, but it does not go away and Krista is fighting to keep herself from crying in front of the deck crew and the viper pilots.

"Krista, I am going to go talk to Lee and then I will come back and help you to the office bunk."

"Ok."

Kara walks away from her older sister and then walks over to the last viper on Kara's left-hand side, which is Lee's viper and the viper is in rough shape. Lee is standing beside the viper and the chief of the deck is standing on Lee right side, the pilot and the chief of the deck are talking, but stop talking to each other when Kara walks up to them, with a worried look on her face.

"Kara what is wrong?"

"Krista feels awful and asked me to ask you to cover the post flight briefing Lee, she need to go lie down and get some rest. I am going to help my sister to the officer bunk and then I will head to the pilot ready room."

"Stay with your sister Kara, she the only family that you know is still alive and Krista needs your help right now."

"Ok Lee, but do not take forever Krista need your help too."

"Just take care of Krista for me right now. I might be awhile, because I have to give my father an update after the post flight briefing."

"All right."

Kara turns away from the chief and Lee and then walks over to her sister, who is still sitting on the ladder and has her back leaning against the ladder now. Kara notices that Krista eyes are close and she is resting her hands on her stomach. Krista's open up her eyes when she hears Kara walking up. Kara takes a hold of her sister hands and pulls Krista up. Kara then walks up to Krista left side and wrap her arm around Krista's waist. Krista lay her head onto to Kara shoulder, as the two of them walk over to the staircase. Once at the staircase the two of them start to walk up the stairs, but walk slowly because Kara is supporting all her sister weight, seeing that her sister legs are not support Krista at all.

Ten minutes later Krista and Kara have reached the hallway the officer bunk is in and the two sisters see commander Adama walking toward them. Kara and Krista stop walking and the commander walks the rest of the way to the sisters and stop in front of them. Commander Adama sees that Krista head is on Kara shoulder and it looks like Kara is supporting her sister.

"The two of you should be in a post flight briefing and Krista should be giving the briefing to the pilots."

"I am helping my sister to the officer bunk, she feels awful and is not up to doing the post flight briefing, Lee is doing it for Krista and she is going to get some rest."

Krista eyes close and she starts to gag, after a few moments' Krista stop gagging but keeps her eyes close. Commander Adama sees that Kara is having a hard time support all of Krista's weight, so commander Adama walks up to Krista right side and put his arm around Krista's waist. Then the three of them start walking and the commander help Kara gets her sister to the officer bunk. Once in the officer bunk Kara and commander Adama help Krista over to her bunk and then help Krista's sit down on her bunk. Commander Adama unhooks the flight suit for the boots and then he unzips the right boot and a few moment later he takes the boot off Krista's foot, as Kara takes the utility belt off of her sisters' waist. Kara put the utility belt on the top shelf of Krista's locker, as commander Adama takes Krista's left boot off.

"I can take it from her commander Adama and thank you for help me bringing my sister to the officer bunk and to her bed."

"You are welcome Kara and Krista get some rest. Kara and Krista there going to be a funeral for the dead in about an hour, dress gray for the service but if you are not up to going Krista you can stay in the officer bunk and rest seeing that you have been sick for eight days now."

The commander walks away from the Thrace sisters before either of them can say anything to him and he walks out of the officer bunk, close the hatch door behind him. At the same time Kara pull Krista's flight suit off and then hang the flight suit in Krista's locker. Kara puts the flight suit boot onto the floor of the locker and then closes the locker door. At the same time Krista put her leg up onto her bunk and then lay down. Kara walks up beside her sister bunk and kneels down beside the bunk by her sister head, which is at the end of the bed by her locker.

"Can I get you anything Krista?"

"Can you go to the kitchen and get me a bottle of water?"

"Sure I will be back shortly."

Kara stands up and then walks over to the hatch door, at the same time Krista realizes that the room is not spinning anymore. Krista sits up in bed and then put her two pillows up against the wall of the bunk that are under the shelf and then Krista leans back against the pillows, as Kara walks out of the officer bunk. Krista pulls a stack of pictures off the top shelf of her bunk and start to look through the pictures of her and Kara playing against each other in the high school all-star Pyramid games during Kara's four years in high school. Krista is on the all-star team and Kara is on the varsity pyramid team. Looking at the picture is making Krista feel a little better and taking her mind of how nausea she was.

A few minutes later Kara walks into the officer bunk with two bottles of water. Kara walks over to Krista's bunk and Krista set the stack of pictures on her lap. Then Kara hand Krista a bottle of water, Krista takes the bottle of water from her sister and then Kara sits down on the edge of the bunk. Krista open up her bottle of water as Kara looks at the top picture on the stack of pictures and sees it from her first all-star pyramid game against the all-star team that Krista was on. Kara sees how tired and pale she looks in the picture and how happy Krista looks playing pyramid for fun and not being pay to playing.

"We look so young in the picture, I still can believe that my coach did not make me sit out of that game because of being pale and how tired I was acting during warm up and that he did not take me out of the game when I start to slow down and start to look flush."

"We all look flush from play the game and you were the youngest and the best player on the varsity team coach Patterson was not going to make you sit out the game or take you out of the game with it being a tie game up to the last second of the game, I think the coach would have left you in the game even if you get hurt."

"I also can't believe I made it through the game, my stomachache was really bad by the middle of the game and I though about asked the coach to take me out, but I thought that would make me look weak, so I push myself through the game and by the end of the game I was so weak and hunger despite the stomachache that I made myself ate that apple. After the first bite of the apple, I know that ate the apple was a mistake because I because nausea right away, but made myself finish the apple."

"I know you were not feeling well when I first show you that morning because you look pale then you normally did and looked tired, but I tell myself that you were fine and would not be in school if you were sick. But when you walk up to me ate the apple after the game, I had a feeling you were going to ask me to take you home and I know the nurse was sent you home before she take the thermometer out of your mouth, because was started to look green and your stomach was making funny sound as the nurse take your temperature. But then you start throwing up into the nurse trash can right as the nurse was written you a pass to go home sick. By the time I get you home from school, I was started to get a little scary because I never saw you look so sick or see you so weak before. Then you were home for only a few minutes when you ran into the bathroom and was in there for a half hour because you were throwing up and using the bathroom because of having diarrhea. I have always thought mom was scary when she walked into the apartment that afternoon and seen me sitting on the couch."

"Mom was scary when she saw you Krista, she told me when I wake up about an hour after you left, that seeing you sitting on the couch in the living room and seen your backpack and my gym bag meant that I was not at pyramid practice and that I was sick and it was not nervous about my first all-stars vs. varsity team pyramid game that made me have a stomachache that morning. Mom did not go to bed that night and sit on your old bed in my bedroom to kept an eye on me and hand me the trash can when I had to dry heaven and help me to the bathroom when I need to use the bathroom. She also kept putting cooler washcloth on my forehead, when my fever would go up."

"I thought she stays up with you all night, because of how tired she looked when drop you off at my place."

Krista and Kara stop talking and start looking at the pictures together, as they drink they water. A few minutes later Lee carrying a gym bag and three helmets walks into the officer bunk with Sharon Veleril. Lee set two of the helmets down by Kara feet and then set his gym bag on the first bottom bunk, as Sharon walks over to her locker. Lee then walks over to Krista's bunk and sees that Kara and Krista are looking at pictures of them play each other in the all-stars vs. varsity team pyramid game, Kara on the varsity team and Krista on the all-star team.

"The two of you look so younger in the pictures."

"(Krista and Kara) we were young then."

Krista start yawning and cover her mouth with her left hand, Lee sees the picture that Krista set down and that the younger Krista is help Kara off of the ground and he notices that Kara face is bright red, when everyone else facing is only a little red in the picture and that Kara looks tired. Lee picks up the picture and see that in the next picture Kara is throwing the bell toward the goal and has her left arm wrapped around her stomach.

"Kara were you playing in the game sick?"

"Yes, I had appendicitis, but did not know it at the time, I just thought that I had a stomachache and a low grade fever. After the game I went to see the school nurse to get a pass to go home because I was feeling really badly and had an upset stomach and it take a few minutes at the nurse station because the nurse check to see if I had a fever, which I did and then I throw up into the nurse trash can. Once I had a pass to leave school sick Krista give me a ride home and stay with me to our mom got home because I did not want to be home alone because I could not keep anything down, I get sicker once I was home and by sicker I mean that I keep throwing up and also had diarrhea."

"That not good, did you go see the doctor that evening?"

"No, mom kept an eye on me all night and the next day she had to go to work, so mom dropped me off at Krista's apartment because I was too sick to go to school and too weak and sick to be home alone."

"I was so worried when I sew Kara standing outside my apartment door being support by our mom because she was too weak to stand on her own and she was so pale. My mom end up carry Kara into the apartment and lay her down in the guest room, because her legs went out when that start walking through the apartment door. Kara was only at my apartment and resting in the guest room for an hour when she started running a high grade fever and start having stabbing pain in your lower right abdomen. I rush Kara to the emergency room and a nurse took her into an exam room and ten minutes later Kara was being rush into emergency surgery."

"Sound like Kara was very sick that day."

"I was Lee. I am just happy that Krista got me to the hospital before my appendix bust."

"You were very luck that day Kara."

Krista takes the pictures and puts the pictures back on the top shelf of the bunk and then lays down on the bed and closes her eyes. Lee looks at Kara who still sitting on the edge of Krista's bunk and then looks at Krista who is resting her hands on her stomach.

"Krista and Kara, the two of you need to get up and change into your dress gray uniform for the funeral."

Kara stands up from the bunk and then walks over to her locker thinking I have starts to get a headache. This cannot be a good sign. Kara open up her locker door, then grab her gray dress uniform out of her locker and tosses the uniform onto her bunk and at the same time Krista start to talk.

"I am not going to the funeral Lee, your father said if I am not up to going to the funeral that I can stay in the officer bunk and rest seeing that I have been sick for eight days now."

"That fine Krista, you have pushed yourself all evening yesterday and into the early hours of this morning fighting Cylons, just get some rest and make sure to drink lots of water through the day."

"I will Lee."

Lee walks over to the first lower bunk and open up his gym bag and gets out his gray dress uniform. At the same time Kara has grabbed a bottle of over the counter pain pills off the top shelf of her locker. Kara open up the bottle and then pour out two pills into her right hand. Kara puts the pills into her mouth and then Kara takes a drink of water for the bottle of water in her left hand. Kara set the bottle of water on the top shelf of her locker and then put the lid onto the bottle of over the counter pain killers. A few moments later Kara, Lee and Sharon are changing into the dress gray uniforms. By the time that Kara, Lee and Sharon have finish getting changes Krista is sound asleep, Lee walks over to Krista bunk and pull the curtains shut. Then Lee looks over at Kara who is sitting on her bunk and rubbing her forehead.

"Kara's are you feeling are right?"

"I feel all right Lee, I just have a little headache is all and the over the counter pain killer should kick in soon and I will be fine."

Kara stands up from her bunk and then Kara, Lee and Sharon walk over to the hatch door and a few moments later Lee, Kara and Sharon are walking to where the funeral is at, which is in hanger deck b that is on the starboard side of the ship, the deck crew has clear out one of the airlock to use too sent the bodies into outer space after the funeral. Once in the hanger deck Kara, Lee and Sharon join the front line and a few minute's later Elosha start to talk.

"It is with heavy hearts that we lift up they bodies to you oh Lords of Kobol in the knowledge that you will take from them they burden and give them life eternal. We also pray that you look down upon us now with mercy and with love just as you did upon our forefathers many years ago. Just as you led us from Kobol and found the twelve worlds, so now we hope and pray that you will lead us to a new home where we may begin life anew. So say we all."

"(Crowd) so say we all."

Commander Adama is walking back and forth in front of the pilots and crew of Galactica and cannot hear want the crowd is saying, so he starts to yell at the crowd.

" So say we all!"

"(Crowd a little less quietly) So say we all!"

"So say we all!"

"(Crowd louder) So say we all!"

"So say we all!"

(Crowd) So say we all!"

Adama stop walking when he reaches the center of the front row and stop right in front of Kara Thrace, who headache has get worse for shouting so say we all at the commander, but does not let onto the commander that she has a headache, the commander start yelling to the pilots and deck crew.

"Are they the lucky ones? That's what you're thinking, isn't it? We are a long way from home. We have jumped way beyond the red line and into unchartered space. Limited supplies and limited fuel. No allies and now no hope? Maybe it would have been better for us to have died quickly back on the Colonies with our families and friends instead of dying out here slowly in the emptiness of dark space. Where shall we go? What shall we do? Life here began out there. Those are the first words of the sacred scrolls and they were told to us by the Lords of Kobol, many countless centuries ago. And they made it perfectly clear that we are not alone in this universe. Elosha, there is a thirteenth colony of humankind, is there not?"

"Yes. The scrolls tell us a thirteenth tribe that left Kobol in the early days. They traveled far and made their home upon a planet called Earth, which circled a distant and unknown star."

"It is not an unknown star and I know where it is at. Earth, which is the most guarded secret we have and the location was only known by the senior commanders of the fleet and we dare not share it with the public. Not while there was a Cylon threat upon us. For now we have a refuge to go to. A refuge the Cylons know nothing about. It will not be an easy journey and it will be long and arduous journey to get to earth. But I promise you one thing on the memory of those lying here before you, we will find earth and earth will become our new home. So say we all!

The crowd and Adama yell so say we all eight more time and when the crowd says the last so say we all and commander Adama knows that everyone is dead on they feet, so he looks at them and then yell really loud.

"Dismissed."

The crowd claps and cheers for a few minutes and then everyone slowly walks out of the hanger deck and to they bunks. Tigh catches up to Kara Thrace in the hallway just above the hanger deck and stop in front of Kara, who is rubbing her forehead with her left hand.

"Lieutenant Thrace. Kara what you did out there today with Lee Adama. It was a hell of a piece of flying. The Commander has always said that you and your sister were the best pilots he ever saw fly vipers. Well today you proved it. Now about yesterday during the game well maybe I was out of line too and I wanted to say sorry. Do you have anything to say?"

"Permission to speak off the record, sir?"

"Granted."

"You are a bastard."

"You do not know when to keep your mouth shut, do you? I am offering you a clean slate."

"I am not interested in a clean slate with you. You are dangerous and do you know why?

"This will be good."

"Because you are weak and because you are a drunk."

"Are you done Kara Thrace?"

"Yes, sir."

"You are returned to flight status and let see how long that lasts."

"I say forever seeing that my sister is the CAG."

Kara walks away for the XO and head to the officer bunk, still rubbing her forehead with her left hand. Once in the officer bunk Kara goes over to her locker and opens the door of the locker. She looks into the mirror on the insides of her locker door and sees that she looks tired and has black and blue bags under her eyes. Kara gets out her battle green dress uniform and then changes out of her dress gray uniform and puts on the battle green dress uniform. Kara hangs her dress gray uniform up in her locker then close the locker door and walk over to her bunk. Kara lays down on her bunk to rest because her head in pounding.

A half hour later commander Adama is eating pasta in his quarter when Roslin walks into the quarter and over to Adama, then the two of them start to talk. At the same time Boomer and Boxey are sitting at a table in the break room and Boomer hand Boxey a plate with cookies on it and Boxey take a cookie off of the plate. Boomer set the plate back on the table and Boomer goes back to filling out paperwork and Cally and chief of the deck is working on the viper Lee was flying in the last battle with the Cylons. Meanwhile, at Ragnar Anchorage station Doral is shaking and sweating. He is also rubbing his forehead because of a headache. The door to the station blasts open and metallic Centurion enters and is followed by the humanoid ones, which are a few copies of Six, Leoben, and a couple of Doral too and a copy of Boomer. The sick Doral starts to talk.

"We have to get out of this storm because the radiation affects our silica relays."

"Where did they go?"

"I do not know Leoben."

"We can not let them go."

"I agree with you Leoben."

"Six I feel the human will return one day and take revenge."

"It is in their nature to take revenge Leoben."

Boomer walks in front of the six, Leoben and the healthy Doral and her back is to the sick Doral.

"We will find then, I have already sent groups of raiders out to look for them. When the raiders find them one will jump back to the base star and give as a report, as the other raiders fight the vipers and Galactica."

The Centurion and the human Cylons walk out of Ragnar Anchorage station and to they base star. Meanwhile back on Galactica Krista is still asleep and Lee and Kara has also gone to sleep, but have only been asleep for a half hour when Tigh voice comes over the intercom.

"Incoming raiders take action station, I say take action station. Viper pilots to your vipers, fleet is making an emergency jump, the viper will be fighting the raiders until every ship is gone, then the viper will make a combat landing and Galactica will jump out."

At the same time Lee, Kara and Krista jump up and look around the room. The three pilots walk up to the locker. Lee is the first locker right after the hatch door on the left-hand side, if standing in the hatch door. Lee looks over at Krista who holding onto her locker door and Lee notices that Krista leg are shaking.

"Krista's lay back down, we can do this round without you."

"Lee's I'm only a little light head and I am the CAG, gagging I need to be out there."

"Krista you are in no shape to fly a viper right now, your legs are shaking and you are pale as a ghost. You are going to make yourself really sick if you do not get some rest, so I am step in as the CAG for a while and you are off flight duty until have rested for eight hours."

"Ok, I guess you are right."

Krista close her locker door and then walks over to her bunk, as Lee put on his flight suit. Krista lay back down on her bed and see that Kara has her flight suit up but has not zip up the flight suit, but is put on the utility belt. Once the belt is hook Kara rub the nasal bridge with the fingers on her right hand.

"Kara are you feeling all right?"

"I just have a headache and my sinus are aching a little, but I am fine Krista do not worry about me, just get some rest."

At the same time Kara sits down on her bunk and start to put her flight suit boots on. A minute later Lee and Kara are running out of the officer bunk and down to the port side hanger bay. A few minutes later Lee is leading the vipers in fighting the Cylon raiders. Kara is Lee wingwoman. Lee start firing at a heavy raider and Kara see a raider coming up behind Apollo. Kara push the button down that fires the cannons and shoots down the raider come up behind Apollo. The sound of missiles being fire and empty bullet cartridges hit the top of the canopy cockpit is making Kara's headache worse. Once all the civilian ships have jumped away the vipers fly into the landing bay and all the vipers do combat landing and then Galactica jumps away. Kara heads to the head a few minutes after finish the post flight check list and take a warm shower to see if the warm water will give her some relief from the headache, but it does not help. Thirty-three minutes later the Cylon raiders appear again. Almost all of the viper pilots are fighting the raider again as the fleet jumps away, but Krista who is sound asleep, because Kara nor Lee had the heart to wake her up and let her know what is happening.