Sequel to 7 Points
By Chaoseternus
Chapter 7: Cylon Treachery
It was a grim war council of Cylons that gathered in a Baseship far above the glowing remains of Caprica, it number joined by a young Colonial Officer, the same naïve officer who had appeared at a meeting just a couple of weeks ago, the same naïve officer who had asked if the new information could possibly end the Human/Cylon war.
He wasn't entirely surprised that his 'escape' in a captured Cylon fighter had been so easy, he had figured out a long time ago that only a minimum of effort was going to be made to stop him.
How they had figured him out he didn't know, he was a Twelve for Gods sakes! More advanced than any of the earlier models, supposedly harder to detect and far more capable.
But they had done it.
They had then given him information on the false god, they had even told him exactly what they were doing, exactly why they were telling him about the false god and then they had arranged an escape for him.
He had to admit, the Tau'ri had him impressed, he knew they hadn't told Adama, he had him bugged. Not that that was important, not as important as this anyhow.
It had taken them just hours to find the supposed embedded files once they had known what to look for, to verify their truthfulness.
Just hours for the world to drop out between the Cylons feet.
"So, what do we do?" Five asked.
"Only one thing we can do" Six replied "We wait, we upgrade every vessel we can and then…"
Six glanced around at the assembled Humanoid models, "And then we wipe this Iblis and Anubis off the map. For now, we avoid the Humans. They will have to be dealt with eventually but this is Holy War.
He desecrated us, pretended to be our God, violated us.
We will use his tools, his weapons and we will destroy him. Then we will deal with the Tau'ri and the Colonials" she paused, "Hopefully the other humans will never find a reason to seek our destruction, but if they do then we will deal with it then. God did not order us to destroy the humans therefore we only fight the surviving Colonials and the Tau'ri for our own survival, for that which we did under false orders; they will seek to eliminate us. If twelve is to be believed, they plan our annihilation in time even though they understand our position"
"You all assume Anubis and Iblis are false Gods" Number one commented, a frown marring her pretty face, "they are not. All the Tau'ri and the Colonials have done is identify our gods for us. For that, we should reward them with as swift and as painless a death a possible"
"But they didn't, they proved that the orders to destroy the colonials came from a fake" Number 4 commented reasonably.
Twelve's eyes widened in horror and awe as the full scope of the Tau'ri plan became suddenly, horrifyingly clear to him.
Not only had they redirected the Cylons to attack the Anubis, their own enemy and now the Cylons but they had triggered internal dissension, possibly the seeds of civil war within the Cylon Empire.
Number Twelve suddenly found himself doubting that they would ever be able to defeat the humans.