A Different Beginning-Chapter 46

Kara and Lee meet for the first time the day the cylons attack.

Chapter-46-This chapter deals with what happened the day before with Caprica and Eliza as they blew up Cavil and Deanna's basestars along with their resurrection ships with help from the Galactica. Also the nuking of the Creations planet.

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Eliza was on her way to Caprica's basestar after the Galactica helped destroy Cavil's basestar and then jumped away.

Boomer had contacted Caprica after the Galactica jumped back to the fleet for an update " What are you going to do next Caprica?"

Caprica sighed " That depends on what the fleet decides on the offer Natalie presented them with "

Boomer had just left Lee and Kara and was currently standing in an empty supply closet " All I know for sure is that the commander and Natalie met with Roslin and she said she would let them know later today "

Caprica was pacing again it had become a habit of hers " Eliza is on her way here and I am going back to Caprica to pick up the sixes, eights and the rest of the Simon's, I just hope she agrees with me?"

Boomer could tell Caprica was troubled " Why wouldn't she?"

Caprica whispered " Because I think we should nuke Caprica before we leave in order to kill any remaining Cavils, Doral's or Deanna's buying us time until we destroy the Hub "

Boomer gasped " There are still humans on Caprica, you know the ones in the breeding farms and maybe even more survivors like the resistance "

Caprica practically sobbed " I know, but I don't know what else to do or who to ask if I should even do it "

Boomer slid down the wall " Caprica at least wait a day and I will try to find out if you should do it or not, but I think you should still return to Caprica and have the Simon's see if any of the women from the farms can be saved. You could also check out the detention centers and as far as the Cavil's are concerned they knew the original Cavil trusted you " Boomer thought of one more thing " I will check with Willow and have her ask Aurora if there are still humans on Caprica "

Caprica sighed " Okay, but what about Eliza they will kill her if they see her?"

Boomer stood up she was so tired " Leave Eliza orbiting Kobol for now and I will contact you later or tomorrow at the latest "

Caprica agreed " Okay, and if you see Willow tell her I said hello, and thanks for the advice Boomer "

Boomer cut the link and exited the small room heading for a shower, she would have to tell the Commander about Caprica before she could even think about sleeping.

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Boomer was so out of it she turned the corner and ran into the Chief making her step back quickly " Sorry Chief "

Tyrol had thought a lot about Boomer since everything had started happening and he knew the commander trusted her along with a lot of other people and if they could see her as Boomer and not as a cylon maybe he could to, especially since he realized he still loved her. " It's okay Sharon, are you okay?"

Boomer looked at him in surprise " Yeah I'm okay, just tired and this has been a long day and apparently I still have stuff to do "

Tyrol could tell she was tired and had a quick thought " I was on my way to grab some chow and I bet you haven't eaten today, so why don't you join me, it will at least give you a moment to rest ?"

Okay Boomer thought now I am officially shocked, but she also felt relief that maybe they could at least be friends even though she wanted more because she had never stopped loving him " Thanks Galen I would love to "

They both sighed as they walked together to the mess hall.

After getting their plates they sat at a table in the back away from traffic.

At first they ate in silence until Tryol spoke " I know something important is happening and I know you are right in the middle of it and I also know Commander Adama trusts you as well as Apollo and Starbuck, so I have to ask can you tell me anything about what is going on?"

Boomer put her fork down and looked at him " Galen I wish I could, but I am under strict orders not to say anything, I'm sorry "

Galen studied her a minute " Can you tell me if Starbuck and Apollo know anything?"

Boomer laughed " I will say that they are smack dab in the middle of all this "

Galen chuckled " That's not news, they are always right in the middle of everything "

Boomer thought for a long moment and finally decided she would ask him one thing " Galen even though I can't tell you anything can I ask you to do something for me without me having to explain why and you can't mention it to anyone, promise me?"

Galen knew she was worried " I promise Sharon, what do you need me to do?"

Boomer leaned closer to him and whispered " Whenever Starbuck is on the flight deck or anywhere you are please watch her back, absolutely nothing can happen to her and keep a look out for anyone you don't know "

Galen snorted " Since when has Starbuck not been able to take care of herself?"

Boomer slapped both hands on the table and whispered harshly " Since people will be trying to kill her if they get half a chance "

Somehow Galen knew that was Sharon's greatest fear, he just didn't know why " Okay Sharon I will keep an eye on her "

Boomer sat back " Thanks Galen and I promise to explain it all to you one day and thanks for asking me to eat with you, but I need to go so I can update the commander and hopefully grab a few hours of sleep "

Galen stood with her " Maybe we can eat together again when you have some free time "

Boomer smiled " Maybe we can " then she walked away.

Galen sighed as he headed back to the deck wondering where Starbuck and Apollo had disappeared to.

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Boomer had gone to the CIC only to be told the commander had gone to his office. Boomer knew he was probably taking a break, but she needed to tell the him about Caprica's plans.

She left the CIC heading straight to his office and knocked before she could talk herself out of it.

Adama had been filling out reports when he heard the knock instead of getting up he yelled " Enter "

He wondered who needed to see him now as he watched the hatch open up seeing Boomer who looked stressed out " Come in Boomer and have a seat you look tired "

Boomer took him up on his offer and sat across the desk from him " I filled Starbuck and Apollo in on what has happened, she is going stir crazy being in that room "

Adama chuckled " I figured as much, but we don't have much choice until after Eloshi's meeting, which could turn ugly, I sent a team of marines to Cloud Nine in case it gets out of hand, anything else you need to report?"

Boomer leaned back " I contacted Caprica, she is going back to Caprica to pick up the sixes, eights and the Simon's, but she thinks she should nuke Caprica after picking them up "

Adama sighed " You disagree with her plan?"

Boomer looked away for a moment before answering " Yes, I told her there could still be humans on the planet, I know there are women in the farms and may still be some people in the dentition centers plus there could be people like the resistance still hiding out "

What did you advice her to do " I told her to look for those people and I would ask Willow to contact Aurora to find out if there were still humans there before she nuked the planet "

Adama nodded " Good advice, I will call Adam and have him ask her, I can't take the chance of sending you over there, now go and grab a few hours of sleep and I will let you know what I find out "

Boomer stood up and exhaled " Thank you commander and I am heading to my rack now before something else comes up "

Boomer all of a sudden paused " We didn't destroy the Creations Planet during the cylon battle, why?"

Adama leaned forward " We needed to help Eliza and I knew that if we destroyed Cavil we would have time, so Athena and Helo are meeting with Natalie now coming up with a plan using armed raptors and Natalie's raiders armed with nukes "

Boomer nodded " How long before it's a go?"

Adama grinned " You have enough time to grab a couple of hours of sleep, I will have someone come and get you before we began "

Boomer sighed and went to leave.

Adama stood up " Boomer I want to thank you for everything you have done and I would like nothing more than to promote you and I will after Mark takes Roslin's place "

Boomer was stunned " Thank you sir and thank you for trusting me "

Adama steered her toward the hatch " Go and get some sleep, that is an order "

After Boomer left Adama realized they could have never come this far without her help, but he also knew her motivation for doing so was to protect Starbuck.

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On Caprica the eights and sixes were doing what their sisters asked, keeping an eye on the Doral's and Deanna's, but mostly on the Cavil's. That is when they found out the original Cavil had been killed and never down loaded and things were getting tense.

Without being told to Simon along with a six was trying to save as many women as possible at the farms, but some of them weren't going to live.

One of the eights was working in the hangar so far back that when a three and a one entered they did not see her. She stopped what she was doing and slowly made her way closer to them so she could listen to them.

The three and the one walked into the hangar bay and after making sure no one was around they stepped between two raiders.

One was agitated " Three who do you think is responsible for killing Cavil?"

Three rolled her eyes " It had to be Natalie, because Cavil and Deanna left here to follow Leobon's tracer which I'm guessing was a trap set up by Natalie "

One shook his head " We can't know that for sure, where is Caprica she might know?"

Three stomped away a few feet " I'm not sure, I know Cavil trusted her, but she could be helping Natalie "

One walked closer to her " I don't think so, remember she is the one who broke into the Colonials defense system so we could attack them "

Three looked at him " I still don't trust her and if she shows up we need to all connect in the stream "

One relented " Fine, but I still think we can trust her "

Eight waited until they walked out, she needed to warn the sixes and the Simon's along with her sisters. They didn't know much, but they knew enough that it would be bad for Caprica.

Eight took a raider up to a basestar hoping to verbally warn as many as possible to stay away if Caprica came back and Deanna or Cavil called a meeting.

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Eliza arrived shortly after Caprica spoke to Boomer. Even though Boomer had asked her to wait she was still going to run her thoughts by Eliza.

Caprica was standing beside the hybrid listening to her babble as she waited on Eliza to join her, as soon as she saw her she went to meet her " We need to talk in private let's go to my room "

Eliza fell in beside her walking " I was surprised when the Galactica jumped in earlier today, it could not have happened at a better time, Cavil was just about to jump "

Caprica kept walking but responded " I know Boomer told me and he left Natalie guarding the fleet, I'm not sure what the fall out from that will cost him "

Eliza stopped after entering Caprica's room and waited for the door panel to close " Did Boomer say anything about the Creations planet?'

Caprica glanced at Eliza startled that she hadn't even thought about it " She didn't say and I forgot about it "

Eliza sat down " It doesn't matter with Cavil and the resurrections ships gone I'm sure they will get to it if they haven't already, they still have the rest of the day "

When Caprica didn't comment and continued pacing Eliza knew something was bothering her " What's wrong Caprica?"

Caprica finally sat across the small table from her and told her everything that she and Boomer had talked about.

Caprica waited for Eliza to say something " What do you think I should do Eliza?"

Eliza seemed to think about it and smiled " Well if we think like Starbuck and Apollo and wanted to get rid of some of the models, but protect the humans we should be able to come up with something "

Caprica thought about it " Knowing Starbuck she would blow up the basestars and any resurrection ships near by, but we would have to get our people off first "

Eliza picked up where she left off " Apollo would insist on a recon first to save as many of the cylons on our side as possible "

Caprica was getting excited now that she had somewhat of a plan " You need to keep your basestar back and pick out a team of nine consisting of three of each of the sixes, Simon's and eights and you can take two heavy raiders from my basestar along with yours. Right before I land you need to leave my basestar discreetly and split up and go different ways and when you find our models have them jump to your basestar "

Eliza nodded in agreement " Okay, but what are you going to do?"

Caprica smiled " I am calling a meeting with the Cavil's, Doral's and the Deanna's and keep them occupied while you put your plan in motion, as soon as you are clear let me know "

Eliza stood up " What will we do then? "

Caprica stood up also ready to start " The humans will have to wait to be picked up after we destroy the basestars and the resurrection ships "

After an hour Eliza returned in a raider carrying the nine member team. After they got out of the raider she started assigning them to certain places " I am taking one eight and a six with me to the raider hangar bay because that is where most of my sisters should be, Simon I want a six and another Simon with you to head to the farms and convince them they have to leave we will be coming back for the humans afterwards " she paused looking at the last team an eight, a Simon and six " I need you three to to split up six I need you to go to Cavil's basestar and very carefully explain everything to them, eight and Simon I need you both to split up also covering the other basestars "

A six had a question " What if they try to stop us?"

Caprica answered " Kill them and most of the centurions have already been instructed to do the same thing when one of us gives the order " Caprica felt she should explain " Natalie told the sixes how to change the centurions directives before she left "

No one said anything more.

Caprica had them split into the groups Eliza had chosen and had them get into the raiders and then landed on Caprica right after the three raiders flew out of her ship.

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Athena and Helo had returned with mission plans for the planet he looked them over while they explained.

Helo spoke first " Sir Natalie and us agree that with four armed raptors and six of her cylon raiders strapped with nukes we should be able to jump in and blow it up fairly easy "

Athena spoke next pointing out where they would each be located " Natalie has the jump plots down, so that we can hit the planet from all sides, she said she could probably do it own her own, but thought if we were going to work together we needed to start now "

Adama agreed " I think so also, but I would rather my raptor pilots agree instead of me ordering them to do it "

Helo understood " We have Athena and I am almost certain Racetrack and Crashdown will agree and we could use Boomer " Adama spoke up " No, I want Boomer in the CIC not on this mission, I count on her to keep things running smoothly, we need to think of someone else.

Athena thought of someone, but hated to suggest it " Since Roslin is busy on Colonel one preparing for tomorrow we could use Apollo "

Adam and Helo both spoke at the same time "No " then Adama "No, I would not be able to keep Starbuck from going, think of someone else "

Helo suddenly thought about " Duck would do it and Keeper would go as his ECO they have flown together before"

Athena agreed " He's right commander and Skulls is Racetrack's Eco, Helo is mine and we could use JoJo as Crashdown's ECO, they are all loyal to Starbuck "

Adama turned to Helo " Get them together and make sure they keep it to themselves for now, be ready to leave in half an hour "

He turned to Athena " Boomer is asleep in her rack go wake her up and fill her in and let her know she will be controlling this mission from the CIC and let Natalie know my raptors will be going with her on her basestar, you are both dismissed and good hunting "

They both left the situation room and Adama headed to the CIC hoping Roslin would be to preoccupied to know it had even happened "

When he reached the CIC he pulled Tigh to the side and explained to him what was about to happen and told him to inform Gaeta so he would know to keep quite when the basestar jumped away.

When Boomer made it to the CIC all of the raptors were ready and she used the line open to Natalie to let her know she was sending the raptors now.

Next she gave orders for the raptors to leave, now they just had to wait.

As they waited Adama wished he knew what would happen at Eloshi's meeting tomorrow, it was just as important as this if not more.

Thirty minutes later Natalie jumped back and told Boomer over their secure line the ' Creations ' planet was destroyed and the Galactica raptors were heading back.

Adama was amazed at how much they had accomplished in a day, but he had not had a chance to speak to Adam yet.

Adama left Colonel Tigh and Boomer in the CIC as he went to meet the raptors on the hangar deck.

He knew it had gone well when they all stepped off their ramps smiling.

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Ten minutes after Caprica landed a three, a one and the original Doral had stomped into the control room.

Three of course started right in " Where in the frak have you been?"

Caprica turned her back continuing to pretend she was doing something important.

Doral walked up next to her " Where have you been Caprica ? "

She turned to face him " First I went to Kobol, but the fleet had gone, so I searched for Leobon using the trace marker Cavil had put into him and sent out cylon raiders trying to find the fleet, when I did not accomplish either of those things I returned here " She looked at all of them " Satisfied now and where is Cavil?"

The three sneered at her " Your sister Natalie killed him and Deanna along with their resurrection ships and I willing to bet you helped her "

Caprica did her best to show astonishment " You are wrong and are you sure it was Natalie?"

One approached her " I believe you because Cavil trusted you, but the others want you to connect with them so they can be sure "

Caprica threw up her arms " Fine, let's get this over with so we can find out what is going on "

Caprica had already filtered out what she didn't want them to know and placed her hand in the stream of goo waiting on them. They all walked up and placed their hands in also and while they were reading her thoughts she read theirs.

The one pulled his hand out followed by the others " I told you Caprica was not responsible and she knows no more than we do "

Three didn't like it, she had been so sure " Fine "

Doral spoke " We need to know who helped Natalie and why she would kill Cavil and Deanna "

Caprica knew they needed to hurry she knew the three was going to take matters into her own hands by trying to replace Cavil as the leader, so Caprica decided to slow her down " I think with the original Cavil and Deanna gone only another original one should replace him "

Caprica also hoped they would stay and try to come to a conclusion on who that should be, so she could buy Eliza and the others more time.

Three sneered at her again " I suppose you think it should be you?"

Caprica shrugged " It doesn't matter to me one way or the other I plan on following our gods plans " she almost said gods and remembered at the last second and added our.

Doral spoke again " Boomer is gone so that leaves her out and Cavil and Deanna are gone for good, Leobon has been boxed and I am sure Natalie boxed the original after using him for bait so that leaves me, Caprica and Simon, we need the other models to put it to a vote, so call them in Caprica "

Caprica still hadn't heard from Eliza, she needed to stall " I want to know if Cavil placed a tracker in you or me first Doral "

Doral spoke harshly " I had no idea Cavil had placed a tracer in Leobon, how do you know about it?"

Caprica could safely answer since Cavil never down loaded " He told me about it so I could help search for him "

Three asked " Why would he do that it goes against our trust?"

Doral answered " Probably because of his infatuation with Starbuck "

Caprica nodded " That is why, he told me he was afraid of what Leobon might do "

Caprica finally got Eliza's signal which was simple " I need to speak to Cavil it is an emergency"

Everyone looked at Caprica " I guess I'm not the only one who didn't know about Cavil and now I am afraid this meeting is over " she paused long enough to command her centurions standing at her side "Eight we have a go proceed "

The others looked puzzled until the centurions raised their weapons at them shooting them where they stood.

Caprica ordered them to " Throw them off my ship, we have to go " she would find out later what took so long and hoped they were able to get most of their people.

Once in orbit along with Eliza she ordered all the basestars and resurrection ships destroyed.

Caprica then called a meeting between Simon, Eliza and herself.

Simon immediately wanted to go back for the women. " We will Simon as soon as we make sure we finish killing any models the centurions missed, so I suggest we have some of our people go down in raiders to confirm while Eliza and I keep watch in case any basestars so up, I will let you decide who goes back down "

Simon left and Caprica looked at Eliza " Was there any problems?"

Eliza sighed " It took a lot to convince Simon to leave, at least that is what six reported and there was trouble on the basestars our cylons had to kill some of their brothers and sisters, it was hard on them, but they did their job" Eliza paused a minute " You know at some point we are going to have to tell them the reason we asked them to do this "

Caprica sighed, something else she had been doing a lot lately " I know and we will after the fleet agrees to let us join them, besides we need to make sure we don't have any moles among us "

Eliza laughed " That's simple just have them link up, I know it will take time, but it looks like we might be here a couple of days and I will take care of it, that is if you trust me "

Caprica rolled her eyes " Of course I trust you Eliza and I am glad you offered I need to project and relax for a while "

Eliza got up " Go ahead Caprica, I will start with my basestar first and come back over here and start later " right before she left she added " You know you, Boomer and Simon are the only original models left, I hope there won't be any problems "

Caprica had already stood up to retire to her room " It won't be, we all want the same thing now "

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A.N.- I apologize for any mistakes and I think I wrapped up everything so Caprica and Eliza can deal with any survivors left on Caprica. Plus everyone in the fleet is now ready for Eloshi's big meeting and deciding on letting the three basestars join the fleet, so Kara can finally be free to find them a home.

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