Nearing Earth Orbit

Brian couldn't believe his luck as his ship brought him back towards the Galactica. As he was approaching it though, he noticed that it looked different. He thought he must be hallucinating things as he was contacting the Galactica.

"Galactica actual. This is Nova, requesting permission to land." Brian called to the landing bay.

On the bridge of the Galactica

Lt. Rigel was receiving a comm. message over her headset requesting permission to land. She had never heard of a Nova before, and alerted Col. Tigh.

"Col. Tigh sir."

"Yes Rigel."

"There's a pilot on the comm. line requesting permission to land."

"That's not too reasonable."

"I've never heard of him before. His name is Nova."

"Nova?! Have him land in Launch Bay 2. Then have Apollo and Starbuck, along with Boomer and Sheba 'meet' our 'guest'. I'll inform Commander Adama about this. We don't need any trouble now that both the fleet and Earth have stopped the Cylons nearly 2 yarhen ago." He told Rigel.

Col. Tigh went to Commander Adama's quarters to inform him of the situation. He rang the announcer to the Commander's quarters.

"Come." Tigh heard from the other side of the door.

"Yes Tigh, What is it?"

"Commander, There's a Viper coming in to land."

"What's so strange about that?"

"It's being piloted by someone that we don't know."

"I hope that precautions are being taken for this pilot then?"

"They are sir. I have Apollo, Starbuck, Boomer, and Sheba to greet him."

"Good work Col. As soon as he's been through Decon., have him brought here so we can find out where he is from then."

"Yes sir." Tigh said before leaving.

Brian landed his Viper in the landing bay, and saw that everything was definitely different. He climbed out of his ship, and was greeted by four people with weapons pointed at him.

"Oh, Hold on there. What's with the drawn weapons, and where's the Galactica?"

"This is the Galactica." The leader of the group said.

"No it's not. Where's Apollo and Starbuck at?!" Brian said to them.

"I'm Captain Apollo, and this is Lt. Starbuck." Apollo said.

"No. Col. Lee Adama is Apollo. And Lt. Col. Kara Thrace is Starbuck. That's their call sign's."

The group looked at each other in confusion. Apollo then looked at Brian.

"I think you better come with us to see Commander Adama."

"Commander Adama? William Adama is an Adm., not a Commander anymore."

"We definitely need to see the Commander then if he thinks that the Commander is an Adm." Starbuck said.

Boomer and Sheba just shook their heads as they escorted the unknown pilot to Commander Adama's quarters.

On board the Galactica in Brian's Time Band

Adm. Adama had reconfirmed that Capt. Tregare had not returned from the Cylon satellite after engaging his FTL.

"Look. He had engaged his FTL at the same time that the Raider hit his ship. There is no way possible that he survived that." Adm. Adama told Kara and Lee.

"He must have made it. There was no sign of debris anywhere." Lee said.

"And the recon patrols didn't find him anywhere. We have to move on without him in the squadron." The Adm. said.

"I hate the thought of telling his family and fiancée the bad news about him." Kara said.

"It's all part of the job. Let's get started on the next mission that Earth needs help on." Adm. Adama said to his two subordinates.

On board the other Galactica

"So you are telling me that you are from the Galactica?" Commander Adama was asking Brian.

"Yes sir, only my Galactica is different in many ways." Brian told him.

"I see. How do I know that you are not an enemy agent here to try to sabotage the Galactica?"

"Well sir, I belong to the Battlestar Galactica since its arrival nearly 2 years ago. I have my orders here to take out a Cylon Satellite that was just outside of Earth's Solar System. Here, You can read them if you want to." Brian said to Commander Adama as he was handing the Commander his orders.

Commander Adama was going over the orders, and was stunned that they came from an Adm. Adama of the Battlestar Galactica.

"It appears that our guest is telling us the truth here." Commander Adama said to the group in his quarters.

"I have a question Commander." Brian said.

"What's that Captain?"

"How and when do I get back home?"

"I'm afraid that I don't have an answer for you on that. I'm truly sorry Captain. But if it's any consolation, you could anyways become a Colonial Warrior for this Battlestar Galactica."

"I have to think on that sir. I'm not sure just yet." Brian said with remorse in his voice.

"Take all the time that you need. In the meantime, you could just relax in the Officer's Club for a bit, and try to know some of the other Warriors there."

"If they have a card game going on , I'm there." Brian said with some enthusiasm in his voice.

"I hate to tell you this, but I'm the best card player in the ranks." Starbuck said to him.

"You sound just like the Starbuck that I know, but she'll most likely wipe the floor with you after she gets a right cross to your jaw first." Brian said with some laughter in his voice now.

Everyone else laughed a little as well to try to brighten Captain Brian Tregare's spirits.