Chapter 4

Chapter 4

Colonial Fleet

The Colonial civilians that were lucky enough to have access to windows looked out, some in awe and some in horror, as a large green anomaly appeared in the centre of the fleet. Their faces dropped as a ship came out of the weird, yet beautiful 'cloud'. The ship travelled between ships until it came face to face with the Galactica. Children looked on wanting to see the outcome of this strange meeting, before their own ships disappeared in a flash of bright light.

Hyperion

"Shields up, bring beam weapons online! I don't want us being caught off guard!" Mitchell barked out orders to his crew as the Earth ship dropped out of hyperspace. Out of the forward window they saw the capital ship straight ahead.

Major Ross spoke up as he noticed something strange on his console. "Sir, the ships are disappearing. They aren't jumping to hyperspace or cloaking, they're just… vanishing." He looked at his commanding officer to see him staring out the window, along with the General and everyone else.

"Yes… We can see that Major." Cam had never seen technology like this before, only about half a minute after they had appeared, the fleet had begun to disappear.

"Get us over to the bigger ship over there and hail them." O'Neill pointed at the Galactica. "If Sam and John are still in this fleet, my money is on them being in there."

Galactica's CIC

Admiral Adama walked into his CIC with Laura, Lee, Carter and Sheppard behind him, three guards at the back ensuring that the two unknowns did not escape. Tigh looked over to his old friend as he entered. "Good to have you here Admiral, but what the frak are those prisoners doing up here?"

Adama stood in his usual position next to the command table. "You said that ship wasn't a Baseship." He looked over at Sam and John. "Well I think their friends may have come looking for them."

Sam had noticed Kara looking at her out the corner of her eye, but didn't return the look. "That's correct, we believe it may be one of our ships. We have the ability to track ships in the Galaxy, so it was only a matter of time before they got here."

"Is the fleet jumping away?" Adama asked, concerned about the welfare of his people first and foremost.

Lieutenant Dualla answered quickly. "Yes sir. They're nearly gone, the Baseship is preparing to jump too."

"Good." Adama said. "I want them all out of here."

Felix Gaeta was the next to speak. "That's the last of them sir. Our FTL drive is spooled up and ready to go."

"Don't jump." The room went silent at the Admiral's order. "I want to see how this plays out."

The room remained silent, until Dualla spoke up once again. "Uh… Admiral, they're trying to communicate with us."

Admiral Adama nodded and picked up the wired phone near his side, Dualla patching the other ship through.

Hyperion

Teal'c walked onto the bridge of the Hyperion, followed by Ronon and Teyla. "General O'Neill, Ronon Dex, Teyla Emmagan and I are prepared to beam aboard that ship if needed."

"Nice to know we have that option." O'Neill replied with a smile.

"Sir, the ship is responding to hails."

"Thank you Major Ross, put them through." Replied Cameron. "This should be interesting…"

The voice of an older but authoritative man was heard on the bridge of ship. "This is Admiral William Adama of the Colonial Fleet. Who is this?"

Cameron glanced at the General, who gave him a nod. "This is Colonel Cameron Mitchell of the Hyperion. I believe you have two of our people onboard."

Galactica's CIC

The room watched intently as Admiral Adama spoke to the other ship. "If you are referring to Colonels Samantha Carter and John Sheppard then, yes, we do."

Adama awaited the reply of the other man. "Will you be prepared to hand them other peacefully, are do we have to take them back ourselves?"

"That depends. If we do give your people back do you give your word that you will not harm anyone in this fleet?" Adama was once again left waiting for a reply. Before he could get one however, both Carter and Sheppard both disappeared in an amazing flash of light. "What the frak?"

Hyperion

Samantha Carter and John Sheppard materialised on board the bridge of the Hyperion. Teyla and Ronon hugged Sheppard while Teal'c and O'Neill did the same to Sam. McKay wasn't quite sure who to go to first.

"What took you so long?" Asked Sam as her friends embraced her.

"We wanted to see what these Colonials were like first. Did they treat you OK?" O'Neill asked.

The three separated as Sam answered. "Fine."

"Yeah, well your face tells a different story." There was no hiding the marks from Sam's scuffle with Kara.

"That was a misunderstanding, I'm interested in what these people have to say and I don't want that to ruin it. Anyway, it's my Galaxy." Sam smirked at her old friend.

Galactica's CIC

Onboard Galactica, Admiral Adama had heard the whole conversation. He admired what Sam had said, but did not admire the way in which Colonel Mitchell and this General O'Neill had displayed their advanced technology and used it as a way to determine whether or not to trust the Colonials.

Suddenly, Jack began speaking again. "Adama, this is General Jack O'Neill. I came here with every intention of blowing you out of the sky for what you did to my people, but luckily for you Carters changed my mind. We will be willing to speak to you, perhaps at a neutral location, but this bit's up to you. You can either jump away and join up with your fleet again, or you can stay and we can try and make this work."

Adama did not speak for what felt like minutes to both parties involved, but was probably only seconds. Eventually, he spoke. "Gaeta, Jump the ship."

With that, the Galactica disappeared in a flash of light and left the Hyperion sitting in space, alone. Onboard the Hyperion, the crew on the bridge was quiet, until Jack broke the silence. "Oh well. Their loss."