Chapter 3: An Eye for an Eye
Setting: Earth's orbit and surrounding space
Sheppard looked around the bridge of the Daedalus. He knew where he was and knew Caldwell must have beamed him up as soon as he landed on the moon.
"Get back out there Colonel. You got a job to do." Without saying a word, Sheppard ran to the ship bay and ran into the closest Puddle Jumper – a much better fighter and he could cloak easily. He took off to rejoin the fight, knowing he had much better control over the Puddle Jumper and they had been outfitted with weapons similar to the F-302s, making the Ancient Drones onboard a last-resort weapon.
Onboard the Celestra, Colonel Tigh watched the battle from the large window in front of the command center.
"Sir, one of the baseships is powering weapons and taking aim at us." The lieutenant across the room informed the Colonel.
"Very well, activate the shield. Let's see how handy these Asgard shields are."
The lieutenant pressed a couple buttons and waited. Down in the bowels of the ship, the shield generator crackled to life before dying. A lone human walked away from the generator carrying a pair of wire-cutters.
Back in the command center, panic was beginning to spread. "Sir, the shield generator is not responding. Cylons have their weapons locked on to us and there is no time for an Asgard to repair the generator."
The Colonel looked out the window to see a pulse of energy headed right for their ship. "Oh, frack."
The ship exploded in a brilliant burst of light. The surrounding ships and even the fighters felt the explosion. Chatter hit the fleet and panic began to spread as fast as it could.
"Galactica, this is Prometheus. Fire all ordinances on that baseship," The two ships rapidly began to fire all their weapons. For five minutes, all they did was fire as the fighters in the middle continued to fight. Finally, the baseship began to tilt to one side and then exploded. Crew onboard the Galactica and the rest of the Human Fleet could feel the explosion. An electromagnetic pulse hit the uncloaked ships, knocking their communications down.
The same E.M. pulse that hit the main ships hit many of the fighters as well. Apollo's Viper had been hit and all weapons, engines, and communications shut down. He was dead in space, but so were the fighters around him – Vipers, Puddle Jumpers, Raiders, and F-302s. Unfortunately, one unaffected Raider hit Apollo's Viper, causing his FTL drive to come online. His fighter jumped without any word of where he was going and there was no way to tell. In a crippled and incapacitated Viper, Apollo was alone in an unknown area of space.
Because many ships in the Human Fleet were unable to fight due to the E.M. pulse, The Samantha Carter uncloaked and surprised the remaining baseships, which also were unable to fight. Before all systems came back online for the ships, The Samantha Carter fired a nuclear-enhanced warhead at the baseship, taking it out instantly. Many of the surrounding baseships and fighters were damaged, but it was well worth it. There was but one baseship left and it was badly damaged.