Battlestar Galactica Ghost ship Chapter 1, a battlestar galactica: 2003 fanfic

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"Knight Sabers" or "Bubblegum Crisis" characters are the property of Artmic and Youmex, No infringement of Copyright is intended.

The character "Daigo Ajax" is my own,

Battlestar Galactica

'Ghost Ship'

Uncharted Space - 38 years before Colonial holocaust

Colonial BSG- 42 Battlestar Demeter

A fleet of Colonial ships can be a hub of activity ranging from large Battlestars to Escort ships, even supply ships can be cause of activating in a colonial fleet. This was just the case for Battlestar Group 42 patrolling a section of uncharted space. It was a standard patrol for the Battle Group, they were busy patrolling a section of space months after a final truce had been called between human and Cylons, and Tensions were still high as viper craft ran their patrols around the battle group.

But life went still going on inside the fleet, as fleet personal went about their business. For example Young Specialist Mackie was making his way to the hanger deck for at this very moment a game of Pyramid was going on between the fleet Battlestar squadrons.

"Come on You Knights!" shouted Lt Wong as he watched from the sidelines, "I got fifty cubit running on you!" he watched as four figure traded moves inside the make shift cage that the engineer crew had built from scratch.

The team that Wong had been referring too was two figures of the legendary Knight sabers who were one of the best viper squadrons in the combine colonial fleet. Many members of the squadron had moved on to other duties and postings, but at lest four members of the original squadron remained together, two of them now were playing the game of Pyramid on the hanger deck as the other two watch from the sideline.

"Come on Priss!" shouted a little red head Libran named Nene from the side line, she watched as her squad mate Priss traded the ball to the other member of the squadron, a man named Daigo 'Black Knight' Ajax, a beefy man from the colony of Tauron. Priss the young woman moved and dodged the opposition as she set herself up to score once she got the ball passed back. As soon a clean shot presented itself, the pass crossed straight between the two members of the opposite team straight into Priss waiting hands. As soon as she had it in her hands she turned and moved to shoot. The ball left her grip and glided glyph through the air and right into the basket.

"SCORE!" erupted the watching fans including two team mated named Linna and Nene from the side line, The Knights had won again by scoring the last point of the tie game.

Captain Ajax was moving through the crowd of cheering people as he left the Pyramid cage. He weaved through them like he was dodging Cylon cannon fire, coming to stop feet away from his wing man.

"Hey Linna, was I good or not" he said casually as he smiled at her, she turned and looked at him. She just smiled before kissing him with a peck on the cheek, before she turned towards the rear of the hanger bay.

-Smack- Daigo looked back to see who had slap him on the back, turning he saw Priss grinning like a Cheshire cat and Nene at her side.

"Look like the Knight scored yet again" bragged Priss as she smiled "Aren't you two love birds ever going to get serous?" Daigo looked back smug as hell.

"I am not saying anything, but you two know the Reg's regarding relationships between officers" he let out a sigh as he began walking out to the rear hanger bay "Maybe at the end of this tour, I might pop the questions…"

"Are you Serous?" asked Nene rushing forward, hanging onto Daigo arm wanting an answer. Daigo was about to answer when the whole hanger bay was plunged into chaos as the emergency Klaxon came to life, followed by a blast of the duty officer voice coming from CIC.

"All Hands Action Stations, Action Stations, Set Condition One Through out the fleet, Suspected Cylon Base star has been sighted off the port bow. All Viper Pilots to the flight deck, Repeat All Viper Pilots to the Flight Deck" Three figures turned from facing the speaker to turning to look at each other, nodding they showed a sign of understanding and teammanship built up through the years of the war.

"Let Move!" Daigo shouted as he raced for the rears of the hanger deck were their vipers were.

"XO on the Bridge" shouted the duty officer as Lt Colonel Stingray walked into the Battlestar CIC. She saluted as she nodded at her Commander as she walked up to the Dradis console and stared at the information coming in.

"What's the situation Sir?" she asked turning to Commander Todo who was busy issuing orders to a 2nd Lt.

"The rear patrol was coming round on sector 9-B when a unknown ship matching Cylon configurations jumped in from unknown sources" replied the small and elderly gentleman who was one of the best military tacticians to come out of Picon Military

Academy

"Sir Have we launched the Alert fighters?" asked Stingray as she ran her hand through her black gloss hair, he nodded as the Dardis screen suddenly flickered going blank for a second before returning.

"What the Frak was that?" Spoke Todo as the screen returned to normal.

"Sir we're picking up some strange energy readings in sector 7-G"

"Any idea of what causing them?" ordered Stingray

"No Sir" answered the specialist as the ships sensor station answered back.

"But Sir these energy spikes match nothing the Cylons have used before in the fleet engagements in Ticonderoga" answered a young woman Lt

"Launch all Vipers and Growlers on the Starboard flight Pod" barked Lt Colonel Stingray as she issued the order.

"Aye Sir! Launching Knight and Ranger's viper squadrons" replied the chief of the Deck. The Chief turned to his control panel, flicking a switch he keyed into the Viper Squadrons in standby mode in the flight pod.

"Knight saber Squadron, you're clear to launch!" was the message given and the reply returned on the same channel.

"Aye sir, Knight sabers Squadron Launch!" the voice barking as he to order his squadron to launch.

Outside 30 or so Vipers of the knight Saber and Ranger Squadrons launch from their launch tubes and begin to form up on each other wing. Leading the Knight Sabers Squadron was colonial squadron leader, Major Ajax, flying in his Viper Mark 2. Behind him off his port wing was Captain Linna Yamasaki, Call sign Green Knight. She was his wingman through thick or thin, inside or out of the squadron. For they had a hidden relationship of love, which had been going on for the past three years. Since the war had ended and a truce had been called, Ajax was going to as Linna to accept him as her husband at the end of their current tour.

Behind them flew Priss 'Blue Knight' Asagiri, who was currently confirmed as the Demeter's Topgun with the most Cylon kills. However Priss is a shell of her former self, even being one of the best fighters flying vipers. She has lost more wingmen and anyone else, Rika, Sylvie, Irene and Anri just to name a few.

Along side her, flying under her protection was Nene, the squadron ECM expert flying a Picion Avro Growler. This bird was souped up to defend the Battlestar and it's fighters from the Cylons jamming and hacking.

Nene might have been the youngest member in the squadron but she was one hell of a computer expert, nicked named 'Little Red Knight' for having the lowest kill ration in the squadron.

One other knight wasn't flying today, she was busy with her other duties being the Demeter's Executive Officer. Lt Colonel Sylia Stingray had been the Knight Sabers squadron leader since the day it was formed; she had gained quite a reputation as the famous 'white knight'.

"Right boys and girls" squawked Ajax over his radio to the entire flight of Vipers "lock and load, we have one unconfirmed Cylon Capital ship, lets closes up our formations and stay with your wingman. If they are toasters let not give them any way shots" as he closed his radio a cocky grin crossed his face as his and then the other squadrons sounded off.

A few thousands kilometers away captain Leon McNichol was flying for his life.

"Frak he on my tail" shouted his wingman as he too tired to dodge the enemy fire.

"Break hard left" shouted Leon as he tired to get behind for a shot.

"Frak no Good…. Zzzzkkkk" his wingman Viper disintegrated as it was enveloped in Cylon weapon fire.

"DEMETER WERE'S MY BACKUP!" Leon roared as he was fighting a losing battle, he was up against five Cylon raider wings by himself. Tactics had changed; he was now fighting to survive.

"This is Black Knight, we're on route we're be on your six in two minutes" Cater said as his Viper flew through space at full Military thrust.

"My ass won't be here in Two minutes" replied Leon as Cylon cannon fire exploded around him.

"Frak" mumbled Daigo as he put the Vipers engines into overdrive; however his actions weren't going to change what happened next. As aboard the Cylon ships systems were going into place in order to launch their attack. Suddenly streaks of golden light flash as eight missiles launch from the tip of the Basestar column.

"Missiles Inbound" shouted a crewmember in the Demeter CIC, suddenly another alarm bell when off as the Dradis system detected the warheads.

"Radiological alarm! Nukes, we have Nukes inbound all hands brace for impact" said the officer in charge of the tactical controls.

"Estimated time to impact?" asked Sylia as she turned and faced the officer who just told them about the inbound nuclear weapons. The officer who was now showing signs of stress.

"Errrr 3 minutes" he answered double checking his findings with the computers records.

"Give me full Sub Light Engines" bellowed Stingray as an order, Commander Todo looked up at his XO across the table.

"What the hell have you got in mind?" he said calmly

"Those energy readings we picked up frak our system, why shouldn't it do the same to the toasters" she answered back at him, a smile crossed Todo lips as he heard his XO answered.

The large ships sublight engines kicked into over drive as it started to move on a new course, smaller escort ships had began to turn and cover the Battlestar with their own weapons fire. The Rail guns of these ships blazed away at the incoming missiles, even the Vipers who weren't engage the enemy raiders tired to attack the missiles head on, slowly one by one half of the missiles were destroyed by colonial weapons fire. However the other half continues on towards their target through the colonial weapons fire. The Demeter was putting as much distance between herself and the missiles, however the last four missiles continued in on towards their target.

It was a battle of time, who would reach their targets first, it, was Daigo who watched from the cockpit of his viper as the two series of object closed in on each other.

"Come on" he whispered to no one in particular as he watched and hoped the missile would miss. Just as quickly something else caught Daigo attention, a ball of white light passed straight by his viper window.

"What the frak?"

"Black Knight did you see that?" asked Linna from her viper as she too saw an orb of light flashed right passed them. Suddenly another and another light passed the cockpit window of Daigo viper. It was then the sound started a high pitch electronic scream that caused Daigo to reach for his ears. It was deafening but there was no way he could stop it.

"Arrrrggg… This is Black Knight leader… I'm under some type of attack, These Balls of light, There….. Arggg….."

"Daigo Break Right There some type of Ship of your six, it closing fast" bellowed Priss from here own fighter as she watched in amazement as the craft closed in on her squadron leader "Repeat break right!" she order, but she was left with radio static.

Daigo tired to advert his course as to avoid a collision, however all his control failed him and the pain from the sound just so more worse. He tired one more attempt as he watch Linna viper move off as his own viper seemed to slow down, his final thought as he fell into Unconsciousness was of 'Linna I love you'