Note: Just because, I added acouple of things I don't think are in the BSG show. I'm assumeing there's more then one kind of Raptor, and Galactica just sent the 'non military' version. Also, a 3000 plus crew ship has more then one eating area.
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"Appa, stay here. We'll be back soon." Aang said goodbye to the large, hairy beast that he had earlier called a 'Flying Bison.' The creature was covered in fur, had horns, and an arrow across the top of his head. It still caused the people from Galactica to stare.
Reluctantly, The two young children crawled into the rust colored Raptor. Aang was surprised to see the ship looked far more comfortable from what he expected. There were couch like places to sit fixed onto the walls, two chairs in the front and a panel with many flashing lights, buttons, and levers that he did not dare touch.
Laura Roslin, who was still ouside of the raptor, called out to the man they had rescued."King Bumi, please, come in." She gestured towards the craft.
The old man smiled at her. "No thank you. I may be old but I can still find my way around. Thank you for the adventure, ill make my way to Ba Seng Sa on my own."
"Sir, I must insist. We can offer you protection and a much faster trip."
"I don't need your fancy spirit magic to get there."
Laura Roslin had learned to deal with other cultures decades ago. The ways of life of one planet in the Twelve Colonies of Kobol could be the exact opposite of another. Perhaps he had to do this. "Fine. Good luck." She smiled, and walked inside of the raptor.
Adama and Kim had finished moving the two girls inside. They placed them on the seating fixtures, it would have to do. The kids could sit on the floor or stand. "We have to start moving." He said to Starbuck, who was sitting in the cockpit of the ship.
"Just making the preflight check." She said, pressing a few buttons on her console. "We should be good to go... now."
"Good." Adama looked towards Aang and Sokka, who were standing inside the ship, taking in the unfamiliar surrounding. "You two should know, do not press on the windows, don't jump around, and be careful." He expected the two to know this, but he wanted to be safe.
"Where's Bumi?" Aang asked Adama.
Laura Roslin, who had just stepped In, responded. "He's taking his own way. Don't worry."
"I wouldn't expect to see the Fire Nation outside of the city any time soon. There going to be busy trying to figure out what the frak happened at the prison." Starbuck said, with a small smile in her face. "We can leave any time we want."
"Take us up." With that, the small ship started humming as its engines powered up.
Aang instantly noticed a difference. The ship started rising, but not at an angle like Appa or another Airbender would. It went straight up, pushing him against the floor. They rose quickly, far more quickly then he expected. Then, the ship started flying straight into the sky, the unexpected increase of force nearly knocking him off balance. They were going fast. Far to fast to be anything he knew about. "How far up are we going?" He asked, a noticeable amount of worry in his voice.
Adama Remembered his first ride on a spaceship. He was much younger then Aang, but still knew what it was like. "Far." He said slowly.
It was impossible to see outside, it was to dark. There was no way of knowing how high they were. It felt strange, moving without the wind blowing against you.
"At this rate we should be able to see the fleet in thirty seconds." Starbuck said from her cockpit seat.
Aang looked outside one of the windows. There wasn't anything blocking the view, he could see stars in every direction. There wasn't a window to look down. The Earth Benders said something about spacemen, but it couldn't be...
Then he saw something. Tiny specs, to small to make out. They weren't stars, that was obvious. They grew bigger and bigger, there were dozens of them at least. Eventually he could make out a few basic shapes. One was a large white colored circle connected to a straight main section. Another was large with large green half spheres that looked like it could be a farming ship. A gigantic, white ship that had spikes sticking out of it that vaguely resembled a starfish seemed out of place from the rest of the fleet. One ship in particular seemed to be getting closer, bigger then all the rest. Aang thought the ship must be at least a mile long, he wish he had something to compare it to. It was black with red stripes, and had two giant pods coming out of it. There was something on one of the pods that resembled letters, but in a language Aang couldn't recognize. The raptor maneuvered in front of the ship, and started flying towards one of the massive pods onto a runway.
"Whats going on!" Sokka cried out. "What is this? Where are we? Where are you-"
"Please, relax, you'll get all the answers you want soon." Roslin tried to calm him down. Aang was speechless.
The ship flew inside of one of the massive pods onto a runway, slowing down and descending. It landed majestically, Aang felt the ship shake when it hit whatever it was. They waited a minute or two, letting the airlocks seal and the pod fill with air again..
Adama quickly pushed the rear door open. There were many people outside, some in uniforms that looked like the marines, others that resembled Adama. One man, an old one in a white uniform that had to be a doctor walked over.
Aang looked outside the door. He could see for what had to be hundreds of feet until the tunnel finally stopped. This ship was huge, was could it be built? What was it?
"These two. On the couches." Adama gestured to Katara and Azula.
The doctor gestured to a group of people in similar medical uniforms. four people quickly dragged them outside of the raptor and placed them on streechers. He walked over to Azula and felt her neck. "Get her some proper bandages, check for infection." Two people ran the streecher through a door. He walked over to Katara with a curious expression. There weren't any visible injuries. "What happened to her?" He asked to nobody in particular, while feeling her heart rate at breathing.
Adama knew he wasn't going to believe them. "She was hit by Lightning."
The Doctor stopped examining her for a second and looked at Adama like he was insane. "She was what?"
"It's a long story doc. Can you treat her?"
"Yes. You got her here in time, she should be fine." He and the two remaining medical people took her out of the runway.
Adama looked at a few of the marines that were on the runway. "Arrest Gauis Baltar." Four people walked towards the raptor. "Throw him in the brig."
Baltar paniced. "You can't do this to me!" He yelled, finally realizing what was happening. "It wasn't my fault!"
"If he does anything don't hesitate to shoot him."
The four dragged Baltar away, kicking and screaming.
Adama walked back into the raptor, looking at the two children. "Your friend and the other are going to be alright."
Laura Roslin smiled, trying to look friendly. She was a school teacher many years ago and knew how to work with children. "I know you have a lot of questions. If you'll follow us, we'll tell you anything you want."
Aang slowly stood up, looking around the giant room. He opened his mouth, about to say something, then closed It again.
"Out here." Roslin gestured outside of the raptor.
Aang walked slowly outside of the ship. He finally spoke, slowly. "Your not airbenders, are you?"
"No, were not."
He stopped, look"And this isn't... Earth, is it?"
"We brought you here because they were dieing. Were the only ones with the technology to treat them." She moved towards a large door on the side of the runway. "Are you hungry?"
Sokka followed Aang outside of the Raptor. "Yes?" He said cautiously.
"Lets get you some food. We'll talk. Bill, can you clear one of the mess halls, please?"
"Yeah. I should check in with CIC to. Meet you in ten minutes?"
"Sure." She watched Adama leave, and looked back at the two. "The ship you are on is called the Galactica."
"Ga-lac-tic-a." Aang sounded the new, strange word out. He had a thousand questions, and knew Sokka, who was standing next to him, did to. He didn't know what to ask first.
"You said there was food?" Sokka asked anxiously.
She laughed. "Yes. Follow me please." She started walking towards the large door. The two slowly followed. Outside, there were narrow corridors, grey colored.
Aang whispered to Sokka. "Do you think Kataras ok?"
Sokka whispered back. "They say they are. But I don't trust these guys, somethings wrong with them."
"Without them we couldn't have rescued Bumi. There different, but thats no reason to not trust them."
"Whatever. At least they have food."
The four arrived at a large empty room, with doors and tables everywhere. Adama was sitting at one of them, on a table that had a half dozen plates, bowls, and glasses with with food and drink.
"I guess you cleared the place up pretty good." Roslin said jokingly.
"They left under protest, but I think they understood." He smiled at the two children. "Eat. We have things to discuss." the two pulled up a chair and sat down.
Aang looked at the food in front of him. The plate had salad, chicken, and a type of choclate on it. He had a glass filled with water "I don't eat meat." He said.
"Alright." Adama used a fork to take the chicken off Aangs plate and place it on his own. He didn't bother asking Sokka whether or not he ate meat, he was already digging in.
"So." Adama said, cutting up his food. "This must all be very strange."
Aang tried picking up a piece of salad. "Yeah."
Sokka put his food down. "Who are you? I mean, where do you come from?"
About time you asked a question. "It's hard to explain." Adama started, "Me and Laura Roslin are from a planet called Caprica. Caprica is one of twelve planets in a Nation called the Twelve Colonies of Kobol."
"There are people on other planets?" Aang asked curiously. "What kind of bending do you use? Are you Fire Benders? Earth Benders?"
"We actually don't have benders/ Until we came here we didn't know they exsisted."
"No benders?" Aang was shocked. What people didn't have benders? "How far away is 'Cap-rica?'
"Very, very far. In your distance several thousand trillion miles." Adama wondered if they knew what a light year was. They were more then 13,000 light years from there old home.
The two were shocked at the distance. Aang couldn't begin to think how anyone could go so far
"Why'd you come here, I mean, what do we have?"
Roslin looked at Adama, telling him she would answer now. "More then fifty years ago we build these machines, robots, called the Cylons. They made life easier for us. But we didn't treat them right, we used them as slaves. The life we created turned against us, rebelled and declared war on the Twelve Colonies. Eventually there was an armistice, we didn't hear from them for forty years. Then they attacked us, disabled our defenses, destroyed our fleets. Twenty three Billion people died. Fifty thousand of us managed to survive. We searched for a planet that we weren't sure even existed, your Earth."
Aang remembered his people, the Air Nomads were killed off by the Fire Nation more then a hundred years ago. "My people were destroyed by the Fire Nation over a hundred years ago." He thought that, finally, he met somebody that he could relate to.
"Thats the condensed version anyway. That happened three years ago. A lots happened since then. We came here, not expecting to find you. What you do, bending, it's magic to us."
"What you have is like magic. Space ships, your weapons, how big is Galactica anyway?"
"Almost two thousand meters long."
Aang tried to think about how big that would be "If the Fire Nation built anything this big it would fall apart."
"Explaining how this ship was built would take three hours at least." She decided to ask some questions about them. "Can you tell us anything about your world?"
Sokka spoke up this time. "We've been at war with the Fire Nation for over a hundred years, there trying to take over the world. They wiped out the Air Nomads, The Earth Nations only stronghold is Ba Seng Sa, and the Water Nation lives only in the North and South pole."
Adama and Roslin were silent. There Situations were similar in a way, both nearly wiped out.
"And soon A comet the Fire Nation created will make them a hundred times stronger, and they'll take over the world. We have to stop them before it's to late."
Any other time Adama would have called Sokka an idiot. Comets don't make people stronger, and these people weren't anywhere near the level of technology needed to launch things into space. "I see."
Sokka's face brightened. "But not anymore, Your here! you can beat the Fire Nation and win the war, can't you?"
Roslin frowned. "We can't. This isn't our war. We'll make contact with your people, provide food or water, mabye medical care for some places that need it most, but thats it. Were going to find an uninhabited piece of land and settle down."
"What!" He yelled, jumping up from his seat. "But if you don't do anything tens of thousands of people are going to die!"
"Mabye we can arrange something, to keep your people safe. Were going to try to contact the Earth and Water nations, if you would be willing to help."
Aang stood up. "Sokka, we have to trust these people."
He was quiet for a moment. "Fine. But I don't like it." He sat down again.
"We'll arrange for you to have a tour of the ship." Adama got up and started walking towards the door. "Ill see if Gaeta is free."
"Wait!" Aang stopped Adama. "When can we see Katara?"
"Ill go see the Doctor right now. He should be able to tell me."
"Thank you." Aang went back to his food, him and Roslin exchanging stories.
When Azula woke up, the first thing she noticed was a sharp pain in her leg. She was on a hard, metal floor and unable to move her hands, which were held behind her back somehow.
She managed to open her eyes. She was in a small room, very dirty. There was a small bench, and nothing else. It had to be a prison cell. She struggled with whatever was holding her hands together, she tried pulling them apart, burning them, and sending a lightning bolt down her arms. Nothing broke it.
"Don't bother." A voice from the other side of the room called out. "The restraints are fire proof and non conductive. Or at least they should be if common sense serves me."
She looked towards the man who was speaking. The man named Gauis Baltar was sitting on the bench of his own jail cell.
"So your the girl who shoot us down? I thought you people were crazy when you moved Earth, but making Fire and Lightning? That violates at least half a dozen laws of physics. I would love to examine one of your people."
She glared at him, and tried to speak. "Where am I?" She managed to get out.
"If I told you you wouldn't believe me."
"Try me."
"Your on a warship named Galactica orbiting several hundred miles above the surface of your planet."
For just a moment, she believed him. That moment passed quickly. "Joking wont help you. When my father finds out I'm missing the entire Fire Nation military will be searching for me. And when they find you all of you will be killed for crimes against us!"
The man laughed. "Your what? Fifteen? Sixteen? And your chasing down a twelve year old boy and his slightly older friends who are trying to save the world. I don't hold much hope for people that place there faith in children."
"Your working with the Avatar, you fools have lead us straight to him!"
"Yes, foolish us."
The two were silent. "Whats your name?" Azula asked Baltar.
"Doctor Gauis Baltar. Though I suppose you wont be calling me 'doctor' much longer. And you?"
She hesitated for a moment. "Azula."
"Well, Azula, welcome to the Colonial fleet."
"Shut up."
Katara woke up on some sort of bed. She could hear a steady beeping sound and a a bright light in front of her prevented her from opening her eyes What created a light? It was to bright for a candle. She tried standing up.
"Hold on there." She felt a mans hand gently push her back onto the bed. "Your in no condition to walk, when that lightning knocked you out you must have hit the ground pretty hard."
She remembered there plan, and Aangs foolish move. But that didn't explain where she was or who this guy was. "Where am I?" She asked.
"Ill let Adama explain that one in detail, but right now your in a medical bay. I don't have much but you should be fine, just rest for awhile."
She didn't resist. "Wheres Aang and Sokka?"
"If you mean the two kids who Adama brought back for who knows why, they should be around somewhere."
"Can you get them? Please?"
The man turned off the light in front of her. "That better?"
She opened her eyes. The room was small, but very clean. There were one or two other people in different beds. "Yes, thank you. Can I please talk to my friends?"
"Ill see if I can find them. Don't move." She heard him walk away.
He started off to to CIC but was interrupted before he even reached the med lab door. William Adama was standing in front of him.
"Just the man I was looking for." He said
"Doc, the girl, can she talk?"
"Talk, yes. Walk, no. She just woke up, give it some time."