Chapter 4

Colonial Battlestar Endurance

" What the Frak was that!" Commander Aaron James shouted mostly to himself as picked himself up from the cold metal floor of the flight deck. He looked around and saw that everyone was doing the same and running to their duty post .

Next he turned his attention to the party from Royal Sovereign he seemed to be alright. Apart from the fact that the Two Marines had weapons at the ready pointed at Dr Levy. He was just about to ask what in Hades they were doing. But he then noticed a pistol in the doctors hands pointed at the kneeling form of Captain Simpson.

"Dr what do you think you are doing!" He shouted at from less than 2 feet away, he went to snatch the gun. But he was stopped in his a tracks as one of the marines raised her sidearm towards him and motioned for him to step back. "Sergeant, you well lower your weapon and Detain Dr levy.

"She won't listen to you" the doctor replied not even looking up from Captain Simpson who was glaring absolute daggers at her

"And why the Frak not" James replied understandably upset with what basically amounted to mutiny on his own damn ship! And for some reason he could not stop it.

"Because she is simply following orders from a superior officer." Levy said looking him in the eye

"Who are you" was all James said.

"See that's the reason you were chosen for this mission, you are quick to catch on. A very useful trait for when facing the unknown."

"Answer the question "He snarled completely ignoring everything that was going on around him.

"Well as you already guessed I am not Doctor Levy or a civilian at all actually."

"Your stalling."

"I know" She smiled, James found it very unnerving. "My name is Cain, Admiral Cain." The name sounded familiar he thought.

"And what you just heard was about 30 of the most powerful weapons in history destroying of hopefully only Crippling our friend's ship." There was allot of valuable tech on board, it would be such a shame to lose it.

"WHAT!" Simpson shouted forgetting about the gun in his face. He rose up quickly drawing a knife he had concealed in his boot. Before anyone had chance to react he had grabbed Cain who and mistakenly turned her back to him. The knife was at her throat in an instant.

"You better explain yourself right now or I will kill" He snarled loudly into her ear. "You also better pray to God that not a single person on my ship has so much as a paper cut or a will take your head off.

"Captain!" It was only the sound of the Commanders voice that made him look up and see what he really didn't want to. His small party was completely surrounded by at least 30 Colonials most Marines all armed.

"You can't win Captain if you kill you will sign your own death warrants." James tried to reason. "If you let the Admiral go have my Assurances you and your party will not be harmed."

"Your assurances!" He laughed "they mean absolutory nothing to me. I came onboard this Battleship in the name of peace and you sucker punch my ship, I have no reason or need to trust you" he spat.

"Look I swear to the Gods! I knew nothing of this." He shouted, James really did not want started a war with another unknown Civilization on his shoulders.

"That may be true, I don't know" he sighed. "But she certainly did, Probably ordered it and most likely planned it. For that I will kill her." He said tensing the arm holding the knife. Cain was still struggling against his grasp but Simpson was too strong.

"If you do this I will shoot you myself."

"I can live with that" Simpson said preparing to pull back his arm and slit her throat.