Battlestar Galactica
Starboard Flight Pod

The Colonial Heavy 798 had already docked and was off loading its passengers. Unlike the Colonial Raptors and Vipers the transport was too large to be lowered down into the hangar so instead the ship would be connected to airlocks that would allow the passengers to walk through and down into the interior of the massive ship. It was difficult as the Galactica lacked the automatic systems that could easily connect to the civilian transport so they had to do it manually.

If one mistake had made in the days before atmospheric shielding than the entire crew would have been sucked out into space. It took nearly five minutes before the passengers heard the clamping sound of the airlocks connecting transport's airlocks and the sound of clamping docks was heard meaning the ship was now safely docked and it was safe to leave.

"I hope we don't have to stay for long. My sister's been calling non-stop." Billy Keikeya whispered to Roslin as they were escorted to civilian quarters by the two marines assigned to them.

The civilian transport had been sent by Adar to deliver his personal representatives on the Galactica due to its status as the flagship of the Colonial Fleet.

"I get the feeling the negotiations will be short." Roslin replied.

Colonial One
Baltar's Quarters

The woman, Natasi smiled as she looked at her lover as he gasped for breath with sweat pouring down his face. He was brilliant, smarter than almost any other human she had come across before so much that she could overlook his arrogance. She didn't know how but she had fallen in love with Gaius Baltar, something she didn't think would happen. It didn't matter though, she along with her kind was meant to evolve if they were to bring order to the galaxy.

She supposed that she could allow him to live; they would need people like him as they spread out from their little corner of the universe and the more humans with brilliant and creative minds the better.

"Gaius?" She whispered.

"Yes." Baltar looked at her.

"Have you considered the relationship between a child and the parent?" Natasi asked thoughtfully.

"Philosophy? Right now?" Baltar asked but flinched when she glared at him. "Which is fine. Absolutely fine!"

"Children are born to replace their parents." Natasi stated. "That is God's plan. God plans the death of one's parents to be a critical component of a child's development into adulthood."

"Nothing worse than a parent that hangs around too long. Mine certainly did." Baltar joked but withered under another glare.

"God wants children to grow and develop on their own. He wants them to reach their full potential and so it is that the parents must die. But who stand in the way of God's plans, who defy His will…They must be struck down." Natasi stared at Baltar with something burning in her eyes.

Baltar suddenly felt very afraid. "What's going on?"

"Humanity's children…They rise today." Natasi said with a smile.

Helios Delta
Ragnar
Republic Star Destroyer Protector

"We've picked up enough transmissions to learn that apparently these people are known as the Colonials of the Twelve Colonies of Kobol. They are human and they are advanced. This is their main warship." Koren projected the image of a Colonial Battlestar for the bridge crew to see. "A true warship design, one I never thought humans could conceive. Measuring nearly two kilometers in length with weapons nearly completely covering the hull and the nacelles are actually a combination of hangars and launch bays for their fighters. It is called…a Battlestar."

"I can see why." Anakin remarked, admitting that it was an impressive design.

It was larger than the Venator class Star Destroyer and was a true battleship/carrier hybrid. It reminded him of the Dreadnaught design the Republic uses but this 'Battlestar' was far superior. It was designed be as armed as a battleship but had larger hangars than any ships outside of any carrier Anakin had ever seen. He briefly toyed with the idea of meeting the people who had created such an impressive design but remembered that they still needed to get back to their galaxy…

Not to mention their universe.

"As we've learned before these Colonial humans have been at war with a machine race known as the Cylons for half a century now. Only recently these Cylons have agreed to sign a treaty to end the war. They are meeting with Colonial representatives in a neutral location. A remote dead planet known as Cimtar."

"Can we intercept any transmissions from that location?" Shon asked.

"Negative. There has to yet to be any information regarding this armistice yet." Koren answered.

"I believe we should monitor this treaty just to be safe. The Lleiset can warp to their location monitor what happens there. Our astrometric scanners have detected the possible location where both factions are meeting."

"Be careful, commander. If either side detects you it could cause the entire peace summit to crumble and restart the war." Malcolm pointed out.

"Understood."

"Captains," Captain Creed spoke up. "We've just detected a transmission being sent here…It was sent into the gas giant we are orbiting."

Anakin looked over his comm officer who quickly scanned for anything. "I think there was something, General. But whatever it was it was too encrypted for me to intercept in time."

Anakin frowned. "Put the ship on alert. I got a bad feeling about this."

Battlestar Galactica
Port Flightpod

Captain Lee 'Apollo' Adama adjusted his systems as his Viper approached the lifeless planet were the supposed armistice is supposed to take place.

"So this is where we and the toasters sign the treaty?' Zak asked inside his Viper. "Why out here?"

"Supposedly because it's remote." Lee answered as he turned on his scanners. "Running active scan of the planet."

"What do you think we're supposed to find on a hunk of rock?" Zak asked.

"Just about anything. You wouldn't believe the kind of things the toasters have come up with. The Admiralty nearly wet themselves when the toasters made ships that could turn invisible." Lee stated.

Zak was silent as he thought over when his older brother said. Through the course of the war the Cylons pulled a lot of advanced technologies out of their figurative hats and next to the teleporter was the cloaking device that literally made their ships invisible, allowing them to slip past enemy lines. This technology was considered originally theoretical by the science committee with most believing it was impossible to create but evidently the Cylons proved to it was possible to create. The cloaking technology was something the humans had tried to steal and utilize as their own but their attempts replicate it proved disappointing as Cylon cloaking devices were proved too advanced for Colonial ships and when they tried to create their own cloaking technology they ended up jamming their own sensors and communications while using up almost all the power in a single battlestar.

Though the Colonies failed to create their own cloaking devices they discovered how to scan and detect ships using cloaking technology which proved instrumental when the Cylons tried to press the advantage.

"Switch to high level and tachyon scanning. If a Cylon fleet is approaching under stealth we have to make sure the fleet knows before it's too late." Lee switched on the scanner.

The two Vipers and the one Raptor flew across the surface of the dead planet, running active scans for anything strange.

Lee looked down at the readouts.

Location: Cimtar

Class D Planet

No Atmosphere

Water Levels: Zero

Length: 987 Kilometers

Surface: Not suitable to land on without air reserve

No suitable materials for mining located

Final Result: Planet is unsuitable for colonization

"This place is a dead a rock." Lee mumbled. "Hardly the place for a peace treaty to be signed."

"Maybe the toasters find it homey. Just as cold and dead as they are." Zak offered as a joke but only Helo chuckled.

Lee didn't reply as the three fighters flew from one side of the planet to the other, now flying on the dark side of the planet which obscured them from the fleet's sight.

Lee noticed a slight static on his scanner and frowned. "My scanner's acting fuzzy. Zak, Boomer, are you getting anything?"

Sharon looked at her scanner and saw the active scans were fizzling with static. "No good on my end. Active scans are being reflected back."

"Same for me." Helo called from his console at the back of the Raptor.

"I got nothing on my end, Lee-I mean Captain Apollo." Zak said, quickly correcting himself. "Could they be malfunctioning is there some kind of electronic disturbance around here?"

"This planet is on the far edge of the Colonies and the nearest stellar bodies are over five light years away." Lee answered, frowning but didn't reprimand Zak for almost breaking protocol because he honestly didn't give a frak about protocol between family and when he was the only superior officer around.

"Apollo, Helo, I'm getting something up ahead." Helo frowned as his screen showed a strange signature. "It's some kind energy surge."

"Where?" Lee asked, getting a bad feeling.

"It's-Enemy contact!"

The pilots could see a large crater up ahead that looked too large to be natural and out of it came six fighters that were as large as the Raptor, shaped like giant bats that flew up and turned to the human ships. Originally the Cylon Raiders were shaped like giant flying wings but as the war continued they were upgraded, looking sleeker with their wings slightly extended and angled downwards that made them resemble bats. They weren't as fast as the new Vipers but they were more manoeuvrable and maintained the cockpit which held three Cylons as a pilot, gunner, and commander. Like all Cylon ships they were highly advanced, powered by advanced fusion reactors and had deflector shields for protection with deadly disruptor cannons.

"Cylon fighters!" Zak cried out as the Vipers and Raptor quickly rolled out of the way of Cylon disruptor fire.

"Full power to deflectors and use full turbo!" Lee shouted, pressing down on the turbo button, feeling his Viper propelling at full speed. "Whatever you do don't let them hit you! Those disruptors will tear you to bits!"

That was an understatement as Cylon disruptors literally vaporized a human being instantly and they were more deadly on their ships as they could easily pierce the hulls of a battlestar which led to Colonials hastily designing deflector shields on their ships.

"They're following us!" Zak said as disruptor bolts flew past them. "They don't want us to warn the fleet!"

"Boomer, can you get a transmission out?" Lee asked, gritting his teeth as he dodged enemy fire.

"Negative, my long range transmitter is knocked out. Cylon jamming." Sharon answered as she weaved her Raptor left and right to dodge the incoming enemy fire.

"But what are they hiding? There's nothing here." Helo called from his station.

"There is because they wouldn't be attacking us." Lee said, watching as the Cylon icons came closer on the scanner. "We can't let them chase us back to the fleet. They'll mow us down if they on our backs. We'll have to fight them here."

"Two Vipers and a Raptor against six Raiders?" Zak asked, absurdity in his voice at the thought of them trying to take on six Raiders that outgunned them in almost every way. "That's crazy."

"Not if we outsmart them." Lee said with a smirk. "When I say now, hit your reverse thrusters at full and make sure you're not in any Raider's way when they fly past us. Three…"

Zak gulped but readied himself.

"Two…"

Boomer and Helo braced themselves.

"One! BREAK!" Lee jammed down on the reverse thrusters, almost stopping his Viper in space along with Zak and Boomer as the Cylons flew past them. "Full thrust!"

"Full forward thrust!" Lee said, jamming down on the throttle and chased after the Cylons with Zak and Boomer.

Lee switched on his targeting computer and targeted the nearest Cylon Raider. The Viper mark IIV was modified with best up to date technology that had been built up from the Viper Mark II that had been modified with reverse engineered Cylon technology from when Admiral Adama had been a Viper pilot before his children had been born. These Vipers were installed with an advanced fusion reactor, deflector screens for extra protection which increased survival against Cylon fighters by twenty percent in all engagements and the built in plasma cannons and missiles armed with solium warheads allowing the Vipers to make a stand against their Cylon counterparts. Lee's computer locked onto the Cylon and he fired, hitting the Cylon's engines several times before the shields collapsed and it exploded into a shower of flames.

Zak had stop himself from throwing up as he chased after his own Cylon and fired, the first three shots missing the target but the fourth shot clipped the wing and the Cylon was sent spinning down onto the surface of the moon where it literally crashed and burned.

"WHOO!" Zak shouted with sheer awe pumped by the adrenaline. "That got him!"

"Not bad, Zak. Not bad." Lee said as he chased after another Cylon.

Meanwhile Boomer and Helo's Raptor were chasing after three Cylon fighters that were flying close to the surface of the moon.

"Locking on…Firing!" Boomer pressed down on the fire button and fired three solium armed missiles at the fighters.

The Cylons detected the missiles and split up and the missiles impacted the moon, sending pieces of rock flying everywhere. Boomer locked onto one Cylon and fired the Raptor's plasma cannons, managing to hit the Cylon as it was disorientated by the explosion. The Cylon's shields blocked three shots before they finally fell and the fourth one hit its fuel cells.

"One down!" Boomer laughed as the fighter vanished into flames.

"We got the other two inbound." Helo said as the two fighters spun around and fired their disruptors. "Incoming fire!"

"I see that!" Boomer shouted as she worked on dodging the disruptor pulses that shot past the front of the cockpit.

"Boomer, Zak, I'm coming in!" Zak said as he quickly moved to help, firing on the two Cylon fighters who quickly broke off. "I got them!"

"Zak pull back!" Lee shouted, seeing another Raider moving up from behind Zak. "You got one on your tail!"

Zak looked back, seeing the rough outline of the Cylon as it fired. "Frak!"

"I'm coming!" Lee shouted as he performed a U-turn and angled his Viper in Zak's direction before hitting the turbo thrust. "Hang on!"

Zak gritted his teeth as he struggled to stay alive. "Hurry, Lee!"

"Steady…" Lee said, letting his pilot instincts take over he locked onto the Cylon chasing his brother and fired, hitting the Cylon several times before it exploded.

However the Cylon got off one shot and managed to clip Zak's Viper, shaking him up enough that he was sure if he hadn't buckled in he would have been shot right out of cockpit.

"Zak, are you all right?" Lee asked anxiously.

"I…I think…" Zak looked down at his instruments. "I've lost my turbo thrusters. I might have sprung a leak."

Boomer piloted her Raptor close to Zak's and looked at the damage. "It's not good from here. The primary engines look scrapped. We're just lucky they didn't hit a fuel line."

"The remaining Raiders are pulling back." Helo reported. "They must be calling for rein-Oh frak!"

"What?" Boomer asked.

Helo didn't have to answer as out of the many craters in the moons came swarms of Cylon fighters that shot out of the craters and resembling clouds that loomed over the three Colonial ships like a massive shadow.

"Are many are there?" Zak asked, his voice becoming dry.

"I'm reading over…Over eight hundred fighters and the number's still rising. I'm also detecting fighters with different configurations but they match Cylon profile." Helo reported.

"What does it mean?" Zak asked.

"It means there isn't going to be any peace. The toasters tricked us and if we don't get back and warn the fleet there may not be a fleet if we don't get back." Lee replied, gripping his throttle. "Full speed, back to the fleet."

"Apollo, Zak can't use turbo thrusters without following." Boomer stated urgently.

"Then, Boomer, you jump back to the fleet." Lee stated, not willing to leave his younger brother behind.

"I can't. There's some kind of heavy jamming…The nav computer's being jammed." Boomer gritted her teeth. "I can't jump until I'm out of their range."

"We don't have that time!" Lee shouted, seeing the Cylons had spotted them and were now chasing them. "We have to warn the fleet."

Zak looked at the scanner. "Lee…Go on ahead and warn the fleet. We'll catch up to you."

"Zak, I'm not leaving you." Lee replied, emphasizing his statement.

"You have to. Vipers are faster than Raiders; we'll make it back ahead of them." Zak said, urging his brother to leave. "Now get out of here and warn the fleet. We'll be all right."

"He's right, Apollo. We'll make it back but you have to hurry." Boomer agreed. "Helo and I will make sure he makes it."

Lee wanted so badly to argue with them.

The part of him that was a Colonial Officer warred with the older brother inside of him but he knew if he didn't warn the fleet they would all die. "You can fly with me anytime…little brother. Boomer, look after him. Good luck."

Lee hit the turbo thrusts and his Viper shot forward, moving back to the other side of the room where the fleet was waiting.