Chapter 2: Halloween Part 2

October 31st, 1997 – Somewhere in another reality - 4:30 PM

Commander Shira Brynn commanding officer of the Battlestar Valkyrie looked down at the DRADIS frowning. After 40 years of peace the Cylons had decided to attack.

"Prepare to launch, Vipers," she yelled out.

"Ma'am," one of her bridge officers said and motioned toward the DRADIS in particular a Cylon Basestar. The Cylon Basestar was bringing its guns to bear on the Valkyrie. "They're firing."

And then suddenly everything changed.

"Ma'am, the Basestar …" the bridge officer looked to where Shira had been and found that she had vanished, "… is gone."

"Condition One," the XO yelled when he noticed his commanding officer had disappeared.

Streets of Sunnydale – Same Time

Shira Brynn suddenly found herself in front of a home. She looked around confused wondering where she was. The last thing she could remember was being in CIC on the Valkyerie just as the Cylons were attacking. Now she found herself on a street that resembled any street in most of the Colonies. She wondered had she died and gone to some sort of afterlife that resembled her home?

Gun fire sounded behind her. Shira turned to see her husband Cale Brynn and CAG backing across the street, surveying the area in silent panic.

"Cale!"

As joy and relief swept through her, Shira raced over to her husband. But to her dismay, Cale whipped around and pointed his gun straight at her before realizing who she was.

In Orbit at the same time

"Colonel," said the officer monitoring the DRADIS, "A Cylon Basestar is coming from behind the moon. It's weapons are not armed and it is broadcasting a message of peace and its Actual wants to speak with you. Also there is another vessel in orbit with us. It's DRADIS signature is like nothing I've ever seen."

On the Streets of Sunnydale

"We should try and contact the Valkyrie," Cale said.

Shira nodded in agreement and pulled out a communications device she kept with her at all times. "Battlestar Valkyrie, this is Valkyrie Actual."

"It is good to hear your voice, Commander," came the voice of Shira's XO.

"What is your status?" Shira asked.

"We are currently in negotiations with a Cylon Basestar which just arrived under a flag of truce."

"Be wary," Shira said.

"Always am, Commander. Also of note, the Basestar we were fighting disappeared unexpectedly at the same time you disappeared from CIC."

"And you are sure this Basestar is not the same one?"

"Affirmative."

"Alright, how long will it take you to get a Raptor down here?" Shira asked.

"Thirty minutes tops."

"Alright, we'll scout for a landing zone. Standby for coordinates," Shira said.

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Becca Reidel, the CAG of the Battlestar Galactica stood next to Doctor Eliza Lewis the Chief Medical Officer as they tried to get their bearings. It was then that two of the creatures that seemed to plaque the world they were now on had chosen to attack them. They were about to fight the creatures hand to hand when they heard the sound of weapons discharge and the creatures slumping to the ground.

Four people in uniforms, neither woman recognized, walked up to them. "Thank you for your assistance," Becca said.

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Caprica Six strode down the street. Right now she was very, very, confused. First she had been whisked off the bridge of her Basestar in the middle of a jump, and now she was on a primitive planet with strange creatures and humans. Where am I, she wondered.

~ You are on a planet. ~ came the response from a Centurian. Which meant that there should be a Basestar in orbit or nearby.

~Send a Heavy Raider to pick me up. ~

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Shira noticed Becca and Eliza Eliza Lewis approaching with four people; two men and two women, that she did not recognize.

"Captain," Shira said, "Doctor."

"Commander Brynn, these people assisted us," Becca said. "They're from a group we have never heard of."

A woman in a red shirt looked at Shira. "Commander? I'm Captain Ashley Jones of the Federation Starship Prometheus. This is my tactical officer, Commander Alex Turin, my Chief Chief Engineer Scott Thomas and my executive officerr Nyota Trax." She indicated the men and women that accompanied her.

"Commander Shira Brynn, Battlestar Valkyrie. You know Captain Reidel and Doctor Lewis. Standing next to me is my husband and Chief Engineer, Lieutenant Cale Brynn." They shook hands and Shira asked, "Is your ship around here?"

" We haven't been able to raise them," Ashley said. "Which should be impossible as Destiny should be online."

"Destiny?" Cale asked.

"The ship's artificial intelligence," Scott told them.

"I managed to contact the Valkyrie, my people are currently in negotiations with a Cylon Basestar. Maybe your ship is up there as well." Shira said as she took our her communication's device. "Battlestar Valkyrie this is Valkyrie Actual."

"Commander?"

"Is there any other ships up there, besides you and the Cylons?" Shira asked.

"We detected a ship on DRADIS in orbit with us. It does not answer attempts at communication."

"Understood, stand by." Shira turned back to the group of people. "Sounds so far like your ship is up there but uncrewed. Once we get to the Valkyrie, we can loan you all a Raptor and take you over to your ship and hopefully get some answers. We still need a Landing Zone for a transport."

Everyone nodded in agreement.

"We passed an urban park on the way in," Becca said.

In the Cheyenne Mountain Complex in Colorado Springs, Colorado

A NORAD technician was directing an orbital spy satellite to adjust its camera trajectory, carefully adjusting it to far outside its normal range in order to target the location where telemetry had revealed the sudden appearance of a large object in apparent near-Earth geosynchronous orbit. Five minutes after he began the very careful task of redirecting the satellite's cameras the feed finally began to transmit to the receivers above NORAD. Thirty seconds later he was staring at his screen in a mixture of awe and dumbfounded surprise. It took him a full three minutes before he managed to actually alert his supervisor to what he had discovered. Two minutes later all security feeds were transferred to the bowels of the complex that housed Stargate Command.

In his office General George Hammond's intercom buzzed. He had been waiting on word on SG-1 or the arrival of the Goa'uld who were according to Daniel Jackson about to launch an attack on them. "Yes," he said.

"General, we have a situation."

It took less than a minute for Hammond to leave his office, storm across the briefing room and down the stairs to the control room and to Master Sergeant Walter Harriman's console.

"What is it?" he inquired.

"Sir, a technician in NORAD was adjusting a satellite's trajectory and happened upon two ships that simply appeared in a near-Earth geosynchronous orbit and were shortly joined by a third," Walter said.

"Goa'uld?" Hammond wondered if the Goa'uld had arrived.

"Negative, sir."

"Put them on the main monitor."

Hammond moved up behind Walter as the image from the satellite appeared on the monitor overhead. And what he saw on that monitor made him blink, not once, not twice, but three times. One of the ships looked very similar to a ship he had seen when he was younger called Battlestar Galactica. But he could it was not completely identical to the ship from the old television show. The other two he did not recognize offhand. "That looks alot like …"

"A Battlestar," Walter finished for Hammond. "And if that is a Battlestar. It's likely that one of the other ships might be what a Cylon Basestar looks like in real life. The other think is from Star Trek. It's design does match, but I'm not familiar with all the ships shown in all the series."

"Have they done anything?"

"They've simply been sitting there," Walter said. "And sir they may be visible from the ground with a telescope, the Battlestar alone is almost a mile long."

"I'll make some calls," Hammond said already coming to the same conclusion that Walter had just stated. They would have to get any observatories that had telescopes pointed in that area redirected away. He sighed softly as the civilian telescopes he could do nothing about, at least not at that moment. "Try contacting them and see if we get a response." He hoped that these ships were friendly. With the Goa'uld possibly on the way he didn't want to risk a war on two fronts. He turned and was about to head back to his office to make the calls when he stopped and looked back at Walter. "Any word on SG-1?" he asked. They had tried sending a team to retrieve SG-1 and found the Stargate address that Daniel Jackson had brought back from the alternate reality no longer worked. He surmised they had possibly gated to a ship, it was after all the only explanation on why the address no longer worked.

"No, sir, there has been no word yet from NASA or NORAD on any ship other than those three. Unless they are onboard them …"

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Shira scanned the sky and could see two ships plummeting towards the ground. She was sure one was a Heavy Raider, used by the Cylons as a dropship. The other was a Raptor. The Heavy Raider dropped several blocks to their east. The Raptor landed in front of him and the others.

Just as the doors began to open they walked up to them and swung into the Raptor. Becca slammed the door shut behind them, absentmindedly checking the seal. She nodded to the pilot who began his pre-flight checks.

"Becca plot us a jump," Shira said. "I really hope the Valkyrie was correct about the cease fire with the Cylons. But in case the Cylons are biding their time, I don't want to remain in the area."

"Aye, Commander," Becca said as she quickly began running calculations through her system.

"What or who are the Cylons?" Ashley asked.

"It is better to have this discussion once were off the planet," Shira said.

"Of course."

Becca looked to the pilot who nodded in agreement that her calculations were correct. "Coordinates set, jump on your mark."

"MARK!" Shira said as the Raptor made its jump.

One moment it was flying through the planet's atmosphere. The next it was sitting a few hundred kilometers from the Valkyrie.

"We have clearance from Valkyrie?" Shira asked.

'Aye," the pilot said.

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Unbeknownst to the gathered group a cloaked ship settled down on the opposite side of town. A single figure stepped out of the trees and approached the ship. When the ship launched it headed towards Jupiter.

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At the Stargate Command - 8 PM

"Have they responded or otherwise done anything?" Hammond asked after an hour of waiting.

"They've simply been sitting there," Walter said. "But, both NORAD and NASA telemetry showed three ships setting down in a town roughly two hours north of Los Angeles by car. All three ships flew back into space. The satellite that tracked the ships down also tracked two of them back to the ships. The third simply vanished."

"They were on the ground?" Hammond asked.

"Yes, sir," Walter said.