Storage Bay One, Avalon, 1655 hours.
Stunned by what they just heard, Satterfield and Dawn looked at each other in surprise and then at Sharon who was looking at them for an answer. Satterfield noticed that the man standing next to her was looking at Sharon in shock before he looked behind him at a blonde woman, the same blonde woman who raised her weapon at Satterfield on Caprica.
"I request asylum for me and my baby" whispered Sharon as she placed her trembling hands on her abdomen and looked at a shocked Satterfield and Dawn.
"Sharon" whispered Helo who was standing next to her, "what are you doing?"
"Saving our daughter's life" replied Sharon quietly while looking at Helo before turning back to Satterfield, "please."
"Listen" said Satterfield as she pointed at herself and Dawn as the ramp at the back of the Jumper slowly went down, "there's been misunderstandings about some things that we'll discuss later on, as for asylum…. We're not authorized to tell you anything… I mean… that's up to our superiors."
"Oh" said a crestfallen Sharon as she looked down at the floor of the Jumper.
Satterfield and Dawn both frowned at how disappointed Sharon looked. They focused on her facial injuries when Satterfield looked up after noticing Colonel Ferretti waving at her. He was signalling her to ask everyone to walk slowly out of the ship where they were to surrender their weapons to the awaiting Marines before getting checked out at the infirmary.
Nodding her head, Satterfield translated everything the Colonel had told her too. However there were a few, including the blonde, who refused to give up their weapons which led to the Marines on board the Avalon raising their weapons at the newcomers.
"No" said Starbuck as she looked at the Marines, Colonel Ferretti, Grogan and then settled on Satterfield, "how do I know that you're all not another group of Cylons?"
"Satterfield?" said the Colonel.
"They're asking us if we're Cylons" said Satterfield confused as she and Dawn stood just inside the ship while Starbuck was pointing her weapons at her, while the others were pointing their weapons at the Marines, "whatever that is."
"Tell them that we're not these Cylons" said Colonel Ferretti, "and if they don't lay down their weapons, they will be shot. Tell them that they're here as guests, and will be treated as such. But only if all weapons are down."
"We've never heard of these Cylons" said Satterfield as Starbuck glanced sideways at Helo, "look, you're here as our guests and you will be treated as guests on board this ship. But you need to put your weapons down."
"You could still be Cylons" said Starbuck.
"Kara" replied Helo, "if they were Cylons, wouldn't they be attacking us by now?"
"New tactics" said Starbuck as she glared at Satterfield, "new models…. Designed to trick us."
"You are aiming your weapons at battle hardened Marines, two Majors, and a Colonel" said Satterfield as she looked at Starbuck, "you really want to shoot us all, or do you want to put your weapons down and live. Your choice."
"Kara" said Helo, "maybe we should do what Sharon's copy is saying. Look, they saved us… why would Cylons do that? Maybe Sharon was right, these people really are the Thirteenth Tribe. You saw their weapons against that other ship, we should be convincing them to help us fight the Cylons instead of trying to shoot them."
Kara frowned at Helo while she scanned the area and noticed the weapons and gear that Satterfield and the others were wearing. She noticed that they were similar to Colonial designs in many ways, but there was also a strange weapon that was holstered away on their right legs; a strange weapon that seemed to be folded.
"Kara" said Helo, "we need to have faith in the gods, we need to put our weapons down."
"Fine" said Starbuck as she put her hands up before crouching down and putting all her weapons on the floor of the ship, "everyone, weapons down. Weapons down."
"Thank you" said Satterfield sighing as she and Dawn walked down the ship and made their way past Starbuck and stood next to Colonel Ferretti and Grogan who gently squeezed Satterfield's arm, while the Avalon Marines put their weapons down, "welcome to the Avalon, you'll be escorted to the infirmary by these Marines."
"Sir" said Satterfield looking at Colonel Ferretti after talking to the Colonials before them, "my double there just asked for asylum, for both her and her baby."
"Baby?" said a confused Colonel, "I thought she's a machine?"
"According to what Willow said, and her own admission" said Satterfield nodding her head, "but she told Dawn and myself that she's having a baby. And Sir, I don't know what happened to her but she does look beaten up."
"Yeah" said the Colonel as he glanced at Sharon who was standing away from the others, at least until he saw one of the men break off from the main group and walk towards her and squeeze her arm gently. He then turned to Dawn and told her to accompany their guests to the infirmary.
"Sure" said Dawn as she handed her P90 to one of the Marines before signalling the fifteen survivors who were flanked by some of the Avalon Marines to follow her to the infirmary. While Dawn, Airman Lewis and Grogan led the others away, Satterfield asked Sharon to remain behind in the bay with her, Colonel Ferretti and two other Marines who raised their weapons at the humanoid Cylon.
"You… you're going to execute me?" asked Sharon as she looked around for an escape route before she looked at Satterfield with hurt etched on her face.
"No… no" said Satterfield as she approached Sharon with her hands up, "you won't be harmed unless you do something to harm us. Remember the first time we met? I told you that we've had experience with machines? And not very good ones at that?"
"Ye.. yes" said Sharon who was still standing steps away from Satterfield.
"They were called Replicators" said Satterfield, "they were a race of machines that invaded this galaxy and were basically prepared to destroy everything in this galaxy until we managed to stop them. Some of them even took on human form and were resistant to ordinary bullets."
"I… I'm not a replicator" said Sharon as she looked at Satterfield while she noticed another Marine put the weapon he was holding back into its holster before he took out another strange looking weapon that had a larger barrel that shone blue.
"It won't harm you" said Colonel Ferretti as he noticed how scared Sharon looked, "it fires off an energy pulse that disrupts the signals between nanites. If you are a replicator, you'll just become a pile of inert nanites on the floor of this ship. And if you're not, then we'll have to question you like the others once you're done with your check-up."
"Sir" said Satterfield after she translated everything he told Sharon, "may I suggest conducting her check-up in isolation, away from the others? She may give us answers on what happened to her if she was away from the main group."
"Agreed" said Colonel Ferretti as he nodded his head before turning to Sharon, "this won't hurt you, or your baby. Well, unless you are a Replicator."
Nodding her head after Satterfield translated what the Colonel just told her, Sharon just stood there while the Marine took aim. Sharon saw a blue coloured pulse of energy emit from the barrel of the weapon as if flew towards her, and then through her.
"Looks like you're not a Replicator" said Satterfield as everyone put their weapons down under orders of Colonel Feretti, "you'll be taken to an isolation room where you'll be checked out. After that, you'll be questioned just like everyone else about where you're from, what you are, and…. well, there are other stuff…. But you won't be harmed. Do you understand me?"
"Yes" said Sharon as she nodded her head.
"As for your asylum claim" said Colonel Ferretti as he approached Sharon with Satterfield, "we'll have to take it up with our superiors. That decision is way out of my pay grade. Right now, we're on the way to one of our outposts known as the Beta site. We should be there in a few hours."
Once Satterfield finished translating for Colonel Ferretti, Sharon looked at the both of them in surprise.
"Beta site? I thought you people are from Earth?" asked Sharon.
Satterfield translated for the Colonel who then rubbed the bridge of his nose before looking at Satterfield.
"Tell her that the location of Earth is a guarded secret" said the Colonel, "and we've already got two enemies who knows its location. We've just met these people and have no intention of giving them Earth's location until we get to know them better."
Sharon nodded her head at Satterfield's translation, she wasn't happy about it but the humanoid Cylon understood why they didn't want to reveal the location of Earth to complete strangers. She also understood what they had said about her asylum claim; which also meant that she had to reveal everything about what the Cylons did to the Colonies, if she were to gain some measure of trust among these people who had so far treated her much better than the Colonials… then she had to gain that trust, and keep it.
A few minutes later, Sharon was escorted to the isolation room by two Marines and Satterfield. After they had left, Colonel Ferretti ran to the bridge where he found out from Colonel Ronsen that they had seven injuries but thankfully no fatalities. He also discovered that the fire power of both ships had gotten the shield of one Ori ship down to forty percent before it increased the rate of fire of its main weapon and nearly crippled the Ancient weapons system on both ships. Colonel Ronsen told Colonel Ferretti that the Excalibur was getting back to Earth so that Homeworld Security and the SGC could be debriefed on what happened, particularly the fact that they just lost another planet… and potentially ten others to the Ori.
"So to have a chance against one Ori ship, we need three Avalon class ships" said Colonel Ferretti as he stood next to Colonel Ronsen while the both of them stood at the forward window looking out at the hyperspace corridor.
"Or two Daedalus class ships" said Colonel Ronsen, "they have larger Naquadria generators than the Avalon class. I think we finally found a way to hopefully beat them back."
"Any idea when the Apollo's due?" asked Colonel Ferretti.
"A few more months" said Colonel Ronsen, "the Odyssey should be done by next month so we'll have her back on the front lines; same time as the next Avalon class."
"Sweet" said Colonel Ferretti.
"How are our guests?" asked Colonel Ronsen as the both of them turned around.
"I was heading to the infirmary" said Colonel Ferretti.
"I'll join you" said Colonel Ronsen as the both of them headed out of the bridge.
Avalon Infirmary, 1710 hours.
Dawn was running around the infirmary providing translation for the rescued Colonials when they were worried about what the doctors and nurses on board the ship were going to do. She kept on hearing the word 'Cylon' and assumed that they were referring to the robot that wiped out SG14 and had SG2 pinned down of Caprica the first time the travelled to that planet. All she knew was that they people had seen a lot, and looking closely… she noticed that most of them weren't even soldiers or in the military, a fact that she confirmed with Grogan and Airman Lewis once she helped a survivor by convincing him that the doctor wanted to give him an injection of antibiotics.
"You're right" said Grogan as he and Airman Lewis stood at one of the doorways to the infirmary, while three other Marines stood guard at another doorway, "some of the them are obviously military, probably their Colonial military.. the others though…."
"We saw that planet taken over by those robot things" said Airman Lewis, "you thinking these guys formed something like a John Conner style resistance? You know, fight against the machines?"
"Maybe" said Dawn as she smiled at the Terminator reference, "not sure about the whole Skynet thing though. Or time travel."
Dawn noticed a blonde woman, the same blonde woman who raised her weapon on Satterfield back on the surface of the planet looking at her with suspicion. She saw the dark haired male beside her whispering something into her ear which made her look back at the other male with her eyebrows furrowed, before looking back at Dawn and the others. The young brunette then saw the blonde woman as well as the other man walk towards her, and the others.
"Which one of you are in charge?" said Starbuck as Helo stood next to her.
"Dawn?" asked Grogan as he looked at the blonde woman.
"She wants to know who's in charge" replied Dawn as Grogan nodded his head. He then gave an answer to Dawn to translate.
"As far as this room is concerned" said Dawn, "Major Carl Grogan here is the highest ranking officer in this room, his superior officers are on the way and they'll have the clearance to give you the answers you need."
"You're not military?" asked Starbuck as she looked at Dawn.
"No" said Dawn shaking her head, "my name is Dawn Summers, what's yours?"
"Captain Kara Thrace; call sign Starbuck, Colonial Fleet… Battlestar Pegasus."
"Lt. Karl Agathon; call sign Helo, Colonial Fleet…. Battlestar Galactica."
"Starbuck?" said Dawn with a small smile on her lips, "please tell me you like coffee?"
"Umm… yea?" said Starbuck as she noticed Dawn trying a suppress a giggle, "something the matter?"
"No…. no" said Dawn as she tried to stop smiling, "just a strange call sign 'is all."
"You cannot give Sharon asylum" said Starbuck as she looked at Grogan, Lewis and Dawn, "the Cylons just destroyed humanity; you are the Thirteenth Tribe of humans that left Kobol thousands of years ago. If you take her in, you'll be spitting in the faces of your brothers and sisters."
"But Sharon saved my life on Caprica" said Helo as he looked at Starbuck, "and she's carrying my daughter. We can't send her back to the Pegasus, you know what Cain will do to her after the baby's born, you know what she intends to do to the baby. You already saw what the President tried to do when she was dying, before the baby's blood saved her life."
"Helo" said Starbuck, "we have orders to bring her back, I feel sorry for her… I really do… but Cain said if she doesn't come back with us; then she'll be court marshalling you for letting her go. And you know what that means."
Dawn was translating what they were telling each other to Grogan and Lewis when Colonel Ferretti and Colonel Ronsen walked into the infirmary.
"Grogan, Summers, Lewis" said Colonel Ferretti, "our guests comfortable?"
"Sir" said Grogan, "I'd like for you to meet Captain Kara 'Starbuck' Thrace, and Lt. Karl 'Helo' Agathon."
"Starbuck?" said both Colonels as they looked at each other and then at Dawn, "she likes coffee?"
"Yea" said Dawn before she introduced the two Colonels to Starbuck and Helo who immediately straightened up and apologized for causing trouble in the bay earlier.
The two Colonial officers talked to Starbuck and Helo about Sharon with Dawn translating. They told him about what the Cylons had done to the Twelve Colonies and that they were looking for Earth, which was where the Thirteenth Tribe had ended up from their home Kobol.
"From what Lauren and I translated" said Dawn as she looked at Starbuck and Helo, "Kobol is supposedly the birthplace of humanity?"
"It is" said Starbuck, "the Sacred Scrolls say that humanity was born on Kobol, that twelve tribes left the planet soon after the Thirteenth. The twelve that left eventually founded the Twelve Colonies of Kobol."
"Lauren would be so glad that her translation was right" said Dawn as she then turned around and translated what Starbuck had said to the Air Force officers.
Just then, Satterfield's voice came over the speakers asking for either Colonel Ronsen or Colonel Ferretti to meet her outside the isolation room. Nodding to Colonel Ronsen, Colonel Ferretti ran over to where Satterfield was while the others continued talking to Starbuck and Helo.
"Listen" said Colonel Ronsen as he looked at Starbuck and Helo while Dawn translated, "this is a really awkward situation. We aren't your Thirteenth Tribe, and until a few months ago.. we never even heard of Kobol."
"You've forgotten your history" said Starbuck, "you are from Earth, right?"
"Yes" said Dawn after she translated what Starbuck said for the benefit of the others behind her, "but… look… these Sacred Scroll you spoke of, they're your religious texts?"
"Yes" replied Helo looking confused, "you've never heard of the Sacred Scrolls?"
"The Scrolls say that the Thirteenth tribe went to Earth" said Starbuck, "which makes you people the Thirteenth, unless I was right and you're all new models of Cylons like that Sharon copy you have out there."
"Ok" said Dawn, "this is going to be so awkward."
"Summers" said Colonel Ronsen as he rubbed his head in frustration after Dawn translated what they were saying, "tell them that they'll be debriefed once we get to the Beta site, and then we'll have one of our people from the IOA accompany them back to their ships."
Once Dawn translated what Colonel Ronsen had to say, both Starbuck and Helo looked at each other and frowned, but they nodded their heads in acceptance. They were told that once they had all been checked out, they would be assigned quarters away from any sensitive areas of the ship until they reached their destination.
"Sir" said Starbuck as she approached the Colonel, "our fleet is waiting for us. If we don't get back, then they'll jump away in three hours. And we don't have those new jump coordinates in case we we get captured by the enemy."
Dawn translated what Starbuck told her as Colonel Ronsen looked at the remaining members of SG2 and frowned. He then made a quick decision to make their way to the fleet, while the Excalibur makes its way to the nearest planet with a Stargate and beams up a representative from the IOA from there.
"Alright then" said Colonel Ronsen looking at Dawn, "I'll inform the SGC and Homeworld; if they agree, then we'll go meet up with her fleet."
"Alright" said Dawn as she translated what Colonel Ronsen had just said. He then asked Dawn to get information on the fleet's position from Starbuck. When she said that it was a secret, sice she wasn't still sure that they weren't Cylons… Colonel Ronsen let her know in no uncertain terms that if they wanted to meet up with their fleet, she needed to tell him where they were.
"I can give you our jump stops" said Starbuck as she rubbed the bridge of her nose in frustration, "if this is a trick; then gods help us, the Galactica and Pegasus will destroy this ship.. even if we're on it."
"O…k" said Colonel Ronsen with a small smile as he listened to Dawn's translation of what Starbuck said, "tell her we just need the final coordinates."
"The final coordinates of the fleet?" asked Helo as he looked confused at Starbuck after Dawn translated everything, "but… wait… are you… you don't make stops along the way? You don't make a stop and then plot your next jump? What kind of FTL are you using?"
"Yea" said Dawn after she translated for the Colonel, and responded with what he said, "we can't tell you, yet. Sorry. But we'll get you there once we know the final coordinates."
"Fine" said Starbuck who then took out a piece of paper from her vest before writing down a series of numbers on it. She then handed it to Dawn, who in turn gave it to Colonel Ronsen.
Just before Colonel Ronsen was set to return to the bridge, Helo approached him to ask if he could see Sharon. Dawn saw his face fall when she translated the Colonel's response, that Sharon was being kept under isolation because of her having suspected nanites in her bloodstream.
"That" said Dawn as she translated the Colonel's words, "and the fact that she seems to have allegedly been tortured while, if she is telling the truth, she was pregnant. I'm sorry, but we'll have to examine her, and ask her questions separately from the rest of the Colonials."
"I understand" said Helo as he stepped back and stood with Starbuck while Colonel Ronsen turned around and walked back to the bridge, leaving Dawn, Grogan, Lewis and the other Marines in the infirmary with the Colonials.
Isolation Room One, Avalon, a few minutes later.
Colonel Ferretti had rushed to the Isolation Room where Sharon was being examined by doctors. Reaching the room, he noticed that Satterfield as well as one of the doctors was standing outside the door talking to each other. He also noticed that the doctor was holding some X-Ray film in one of her hands when she, and then Satterfield, noticed the Colonel approaching them.
"Sir" said Satterfield, "the doc has some things you need to see."
"Doc?" asked the Colonel, "what's up?"
"Sir" said the doctor as she headed towards another room, "please come this way."
Following the doctor and Satterfield into the room and having closed the door behind him; Colonel Ferretti walked towards one end where the doctor put the X-Ray film on a light source and stepped back.
"So what am I looking at?" asked the Colonel with his arms folded on his chest.
"She's been badly beaten, sir" said the doctor as she pointed at the X-Ray, "enough to cause her immense pain, but not enough to kill. She's got hairline fractures in most places above her abdomen. She should be in pain, but either it's because of her unique biology, or the fact that she's hiding the pain. But I can tell you that she's got the bruises and the cuts to prove it."
"Sir" said Satterfield as she looked at the Colonel, "she got bruises… bad bruises over her back, face, chest, legs…. Name it… it's there."
"She gave me permission to tell you, sir" said the doctor, "and to be honest with you, I'm worried about the baby. With these beatings, I'm worried about damage that's already been done."
"Have you run her under the scanners?" asked the Colonel.
"We'll be doing that in a little bit, sir" said the doctor.
"Alright" said the Colonel, "get to it."
"Yes, sir" said the doctor as she left the room, leaving the Colonel and Satterfield alone.
"Her people just murdered twelve worlds" said Colonel Ferretti as he and Satterfield looked at the X-Rays, "at least that's what one of the Colonial officers just told me."
"She told me the same thing while the doctors were examining her, sir" said Satterfield, "she said she wanted to be truthful about what happened to the Colonies; she said that she's willing to give us intelligence on these.. Cylon things but…."
"With the Ori out there" said Colonel Ferretti as he stepped back and rubbed his forehead, "damn."
"My face, sir" said Satterfield as she continued to look at the X-Rays, "she did it with my face, machines with my face participated in the murder of billions of people."
"I know" said Colonel Ferretti, "can't imagine how you must be feeling about that; hell, I can't even imagine what these people had to go through after escaping from the Colonies."
"But this" replied Satterfield as she closed her eyes while looking at the X-rays, "what happened to Sharon wasn't right either. She told me that even after she gave as much intelligence as possible, she was still used as a punching bag by the interrogator on some ship called the Pegasus. She told me that when the ship she was on, the Galactica, was found by Pegasus; she was almost raped. But she was saved by the timely intervention of the father of her child and another man. They were almost put to death for helping her. According to her, she was transferred to the Pegasus so that charges would be lessened against those two… but her beatings started once she was on-board the other ship."
"Those on Galactica treated her well?" asked Colonel Ferretti.
"As far as I can tell" said Satterfield, "but she feels betrayed by the commander of the ship for transferring her to Pegasus. She just doesn't want to go back, sir. She told me that the baby would most likely be experimented on after birth.. and she would mostly likely be executed as an enemy agent."
"This is going to get complicated" said Colonel Ferretti, "I hate complicated."
"Me too, sir" said Satterfield, "you think Willow would be able to save the baby, Sir?"
"She couldn't feel any emotions or thoughts from her" said the Colonel, "there's no way to know if she can be healed."
"But if she could heal…." Said Satterfield.
"We're trying not to give all of our secrets away. Major Rosenberg's one of the biggest guns we have right now, and I don't want to expose our hand too early in regards to these people" said the Colonel as he put his hand gently on Satterfield's shoulder, "let's see what the scans tell us. If the baby's alright, then Major Rosenberg won't be needed. I have a feeling that she and the others are more concerned on the whereabouts of Dr. Jackson."
"You were on the first mission with him, weren't you sir?" asked Satterfield as the both of them slowly walked out of the room and into the hallway.
"Yep" said the Colonel, "he was the king of the geeks then, and a vital part of the SGC now. We'll get him back. IN the meantime, stay with Sharon. We'll reach the Beta site in a few hours, then we'll see about her asylum claim."
Just then, there was a message that asked for Colonel Feretti to contact the bridge. Asking Satterfield to go on without him, the Colonel picked up a nearby phone on the wall and talked to Colonel Ronsen. Once he was done a few seconds later, the Colonel ran up to Satterfield and told her that there was a change on plans; that they were to meet the remnants of the Colonial fleet, while someone from the IOA and Homeworld would be escorted by SG1 onto another planet to be picked up by the Excalibur, and then meet with the Avalon at the coordinates with the Colonial Fleet.
"And Sharon, sir?" asked Satterfield, "will we be handing her off to them?"
"The IOA guy and someone from Homeworld wants to talk to her" said Colonel Ferretti, "and I guess they'll be making a decision from there. Just let Sharon know."
"Yes, sir" said Satterfield as she walked into another room where the doctor was conduction a scan of Sharon who was lying down on a bed, while a medical scanner built with help from the Asgard was going over the humanoid cylon's body.
"Doc?" asked Satterfield as she looked at the screens from behind the doctor.
"She is amazing" said the doctor as she turned Satterfield's attention to a screen, "she may be a machine… but look at the scans… she's made of organic flesh and blood, and her brain… her brain seems to operate just like a typical human's. Anyway, her brain has pathways made of silica…. And when I conduct a closer scan of the blood that goes through her body… look at that…"
Satterfield looked closer at the screen as tiny mechanical organisms appeared. She first saw two, then ten and even more after that.
"Nanites" said Satterfield as she looked up, "but she's not a replicator?"
"No" said the doctor looking up at Sharon from behind the screen , "have you heard about the Orban?"
"Yeah" said Satterfield, "SG1 encountered them in their early days. They're the ones who helped us develop the Naquada generators."
"They also used nanites to spread knowledge from those known as Urrones to the rest of the population" said Satterfield, "last I heard, we're helping them learn things the old fashioned way."
"Those were only programmed for that specific purpose in mind" said the doctor, "but Sharon's nanites? They form part of her biology, even her immune system. Take that away…."
"She'll die" said Satterfield, "anyway to detect them?"
"The engineers over at the Beta Site will have to handle that one" said the doctor, "I've already taken a blood sample for them so…."
"Well, SG1 and someone from Homeworld and the IOA will be meeting us later" said Satterfield, "we're going straight to rendezvous with this Colonial remnant fleet."
"Oh" said the doctor.
"How's the baby?" asked Satterfield.
"She looks fine" said the doctor as she looked at her screen, "I would have thought that the beatings may have harmed the baby, but I'm guessing that the nanites healed any damage."
"Can I see her?" asked Satterfield.
"Yea" replied the doctor, "we're done. She can be taken back to the Isolation Room."
"Alright" said Satterfield as she walked around the console and towards Sharon who was slowly getting up, "you alright?"
"I thought you people would experiment on me" said Sharon, "you know what I did, so why didn't you?"
"Does it matter?" asked Satterfield as she help Sharon stand up.
"Yes" said Sharon as she looked at her doppelganger, "you really are human?"
"Yes" said Satterfield as she led her back to the Isolation room while flanked by two Marines, "I underwent an extensive medical examination, no nanites in my bloodstream… of any silica pathways in my brain."
"Whatever your people did was thorough" said Sharon softly as they entered the Isolation Room where Satterfield asked the Marines to stand guard outside.
"Did you participate in the slaughter of billions?" asked Satterfield as she looked point blank at Sharon after she closed the door and put her hands into her pocket while approaching the humanoid Cylon.
"My model was part of it" said Sharon as she nodded her head while she sat on the bed, "my duty was to have a child with Helo, to make him stay on Caprica… and if we did have a child, I was supposed to make him stay with me."
"And if he didn't?" asked a surprised Satterfield at Sharon's honesty.
"I was supposed to kill him" said Sharon.
"But you had the baby" said Satterfield, "and he obviously left, but you didn't kill him."
"I… I love him" said Sharon as she looked at a surprised Satterfield, "we… we're all grown artificially, the humanoid Cylon models I mean. For some reason we can't have children, but we had a theory… that one thing we were missing is love. We tried everything…. We even, we even…."
Satterfield watched as Sharon closed her eyes and hung her head as if in shame, before she looked up again and slowly opened her eyes. She saw a determination to tell the Air Force officer the truth despite what may or may not happen to her.
"We even experimented with inseminating women of childbearing age on Caprica" said Sharon as Satterfield looked on in shock, "we…."
"Using my face!?" shouted Satterfield as Sharon jumped slightly when the door was pushed open hard and the two Marine standing guard outside rushed in.
"Major?" said one of the Marines, "everything alright?"
"Yea" said Satterfield as she rubbed her forehead in frustration, "sorry, I'd like to be alone with her please."
"We'll be outside, Major" said the other Marine as he closed the door behind him while Satterfield nodded her head.
"Did you participate in any of those…" said Satterfield as she tried to think of the right word to describe what Sharon had told her about.
"The Fours called these places Farms" said Sharon as Satterfield shook her head in disbelief.
"Did you, and I don't mean your model, I mean you… did you participate in what happened in the Colonies?" asked Satterfield.
"I came later after the battle was over" said Sharon, "or if you could even call it that. The killings after the nukes hit were carried out by the Centurions, the metallic robots you fought. I was one of the few who oversaw the mass burial of bodies before I was assigned to try and have Helo's child."
Sharon went on to tell Satterfield of how the Cylons disabled every Battlestar in the fleet using a virus much to the Air Force officers surprise. Satterfield then told Sharon that they had a change of plans, that they were heading to meet with the Colonial fleet instead of going to the Beta site.
"You… you're going to return me to them, aren't you?" asked Sharon, "they'll kill me after my baby's born, they'll kill my baby."
"We're not going to hand you to them until someone from Homeworld Security and the IOA talks to you" said Satterfield, "the other ship we have will be picking them up from another planet before…."
"Another planet?" asked Sharon surprised, "wait, you're telling me that there's alien life out there?"
"You really don't know?" asked Satterfield who was equally surprised, "you've have spacecraft and you…. or at least the Colonials have never explored the galaxy?"
"We have but… we haven't found life" said Sharon, "my God, you're telling me that there are other planets with life out there?"
"Are you still in contact with the others from your model?" asked Satterfield as she ignored Sharon's questions, "we found a small device at the base of your skull that's capable of sending a subspace signal, are you in contact with the Cylons?"
"My… " said Sharon as she touched the back of her head, "no, it's inactive. It only transmits my consciousness to a new body when I die."
"Really?" said Satterfield, "that's…. uh…. That's interesting."
"Not really" said Sharon, "downloading into another body hurts like a bitch… but all the way out here, I'd probably die for sure since I should be out of range of any resurrection ships."
"Resurrection ships? And that is?" asked Satterfield.
"Just as the name implies" said Sharon, "humanoid Cylons have numerous resurrection ships that store extra bodies. As long as the Resurrection ships are close by… any model that dies will be reborn in a brand new body, but with the memories from the previous life. Destroy the resurrection ships, and a humanoid Cylon that dies… will stay dead. Starbuck actually managed to get pictures of one of the resurrection ships that was being guarded by a fleet of Cylon Baseships, she showed the picture to me. She then showed me pictures of the grey ship that destroyed it in only a few shots."
"The Ori" said Satterfield as she stepped back, "is that why we haven't seen much of them? Are they going after these Cylons?"
"Huh?" asked Sharon, "who are these Ori? And hold on, one thing keeps on bugging me, how did your people escape from the museum."
"If you get asylum" said Satterfield, "then we'll tell you how we escaped, but those Ori are the threat I told you about the first time we met, they're the great danger the galaxy is facing. You've seen what they can do today, they could have destroyed both of these ships easily but we were lucky that we got out when we did."
"I saw your weapons" said Sharon, "energy based weapons… wont you…."
"I'll tell you the same thing that the IOA and Homeworld will tell the Colonials" said Satterfield, "we won't share our military technology; although we'll be willing to share medicine, food and other supplies. In the meantime, get some sleep. We should be at the coordinates in about an hour, or so."
"Alright" said Sharon as she nodded her head.
"I'll instruct the Marines outside to call me, or Dawn, should you knock on the door twice" said Satterfield before she turned around and walked towards the door.
"Alright" said Sharon before the door was shut and she lay down on the bed, 'thank you, Lauren. Thank you for saving my baby, now I hope that we can stay."
Espresso Pump, Sunnydale, 1820 hours.
Once the briefing with the BPRI was completed, everyone was interested in talking to Willow and Faith about their adventures. Others were asking Willow what was Sineya like, where did she live, and she liked to do for fun and such. It was Cordelia who reminded everyone that they still had a job to do and that Willow and Faith would be free to answer any questions later, to which the both of them nodded their heads.
After the briefing, Buffy, Willow and Giles went to Giles' office to talk more about the weapon and Sineya, while Faith was bugged by the other potentials to train with them for the day. Agreeing to meet for some drinks later on, Willow and Faith went their separate ways before meeting up hours later at the Espresso pump with Buffy and Giles. AS they headed towards their table, Buffy went to get their order of frozen mocha's and a cup of tea for Giles.
"Willow" said Giles after Buffy returned to the table with their drinks, "do you know where Sineya's buried?"
"Yea" said Willow as she sucked some of the frozen beverage through the straw, "I buried her near my home in Nairobi."
"You thinking what I'm thinking?" asked Faith as she looked at the Watcher, "visit her burial site? Pay our respects as her successors?"
"Exactly" said Giles.
"I agree" replied Buffy as she leaned forward towards Willow, "I never told any of you, I mean… I've told Xander because he was there but I didn't tell him the specifics. But I think the First Slayer… I mean Sineya came to me in a dream. I mean she wasn't wearing the white paste on her face so I wasn't able to recognize her. I told Tara about it but she didn't know who it could be either."
"What did she say?" asked Giles.
"She said that her mother was returning" said Buffy as she looked at Giles and then at Willow, "she said that I've seen the truth, but I haven't really seen the truth. She said that her mother will bring the end. Then I walked into a cave… I continued on until I walked into a chamber where I was slowly buried by bones. At first I, Xander or Tara didn't know what it was about, but… if it's about Sineya."
"Then the end could mean the end of the Shadow Men's deception?" asked Faith, "I mean, that's what it sounds like."
"Or it could mean something worse is coming" said Giles, "an Armageddon that Willow, and the rest of us may have to play a part in ending?"
"All I know is" said Willow as she leaned back on her seat, "I'm not in with any prophesy or destiny, but I know that whatever come; we can handle it."
"True" said Faith as she gave them all a huge smile before checking her wristwatch, "where's the Xan-man?"
"He's supervising Kennedy's team from the BPRI" said Buffy, "they left for L.A, something Spike found… anyway, he'll be a bit late in meeting us."
"Do Tara and Anya know?" asked Giles.
"No" said Willow, "they had a briefing from Daniel's team about whats going on as far as research into Merlin's weapon is concerned, and if we could recreate another one somehow. We're hoping that in case we can't get Daniel back, they could find a clue of a place that we could go to where there may be an instruction manual for creating another one."
"Will" said Buffy, "can you show us?"
"Show?" asked Willow.
"I'd like to see Sineya" replied Buffy, "I'd like to see what she, and you, had to sacrifice so that we could become Slayers."
"Me too" said Faith as she turned to Willow and held her hand tightly, "you don't have to show us Hera, just… we'd like to see."
"As would I" said Giles when he suddenly had a faraway look, "Quentin has access to secret records, I wonder if he knew the truth about Sineya."
"With that guy?" said Buffy as she drank her mocha, "I really wouldn't be surprised."
"Talk to General O'Neill" said Willow, "I don't see why you won't be allowed to question him, maybe you can find out about Kinsey. That bastard's trail has gone cold."
"I'll ask Cordelia to talk to him" said Giles, "but in the meantime, shall we make plans to visit Sineya's gravesite?"
"Sure" said Willow, "and I'll telepathically connect with you guys to show you what happened. Maybe it would be better if Kennedy and the Potentials were a part of it too."
"True" replied Buffy as Willow cell phone started to ring.
The blonde Slayer smiled as Willow excused herself and went to the sidewalk, away from the noise inside the Espresso Pump, to talk to whoever was on the phone. Buffy looked at the redhead pick up the phone before she turned back to Faith who was grinning at Buffy.
"What?" asked the blonde Slayer.
"So" said Faith as she leaned forward and raised an eyebrow, "when can we expect little Summers-Harris' running around?"
"Hey" said Buffy in mock outrage, "I.. I mean we…."
"I've been meaning to ask you about that too" said Giles as he hid his face behind the cup of tea in his hand as Buffy looked at him with her mouth open, "you do realize that I'm getting old."
"Giles" said Buffy as glared at her former Watcher, "I… You…. but….. I mean.."
"Giles did walk you down the aisle" said Faith with a wide grin, "and Joyce is back so I'm sure that she's waiting grandkids as well."
"Oh, she's got her hands full with those two monsters" grinned Buffy as she looked at the two of them, "and no, Xander and I haven't talked about kids yet."
"I heard you guys go at it like bunnies" said Faith laughing as she ducked a spoon that Buffy threw at her head.
"Children" said Giles as he drank his tea while Faith continued laughing when Buffy's face turned deep red, "calm down."
"Sorry, B" said Faith as she rubbed her tears, "I couldn't help it."
"Oh?" said Buffy with a smirk, "I heard from a reputable source that someone at this table screams so loud that…."
"I'll kill, Dawn" said Faith as she immediately stopped laughing and narrowed her eyes at Buffy who was trying her best not to laugh. It didn't take too long before the two young women just laughed out loud at each other's embarrassing tales as Willow walked back in and sat next to Faith.
"Willow?" asked Giles as he noticed the look on the redhead's face, "everything alright?"
"Twelve planets just possibly fell to the Ori" said Willow as she looked at the stunned faces around her at the table, "Dawn's team rescued some people who were trying to rescue the survivors of a nuclear attack, but they were ambushed."
"Dawn?" asked Buffy worried.
"She's alright" said Willow, "she and her team are safe. They brought some of the rescuers back to the Avalon and now they're going to meet a fleet of ships. Mr. Woolsey will be meeting with them, along with General O'Neill; they want SG1 be the team that escorts them."
"When?" asked Faith.
"Now" said Willow before she apologized to Buffy and Giles.
"Go" said Buffy as she stood up and gave Willow a hug, "tell Dawn I love her?"
"Will do" said Willow as she held tightly to Buffy before releasing her, "she'll be home, don't worry."
'I promise nothing will happen to her' thought Willow to herself before Faith took her hand and the both of them walked into an alleyway behind the Café where, once the Prometheus Station made sure that no one was close by, they were beamed back to the SGC.
Earth Ship Excalibur, 1900 hours
Forty minutes later, SG1 had geared up and met with Woolsey and General O'Neill in the Gateroom. Although the planet was supposed to be uninhabited, Willow used her new remote viewing ability to check out the surrounding area; and when the entire areas around the Stargate was clear, Colonel Carter and Willow stepped through the Gate first, followed by Faith and Colonel Mitchell who were Flanking Woolsey and General O'Neill, with Teal'c and Vala taking up the rear. Once they reached the other side, Colonel Mitchell notified the Excalibur that they were ready to be beamed aboard. Once that process was complete, the Excalibur opened a Hyperspace window and flew into it.
On board the ship, Willow gave a quick briefing about her experience with the early days of the Colonies when she visited them on Kobol and the Colonies when she was Athena. She told them what the Goa'uld did after they sold themselves as the Greek pantheon of gods and goddesses, about the people on Kobol finding the Furling ship, about the drones to the creation of the Cylons and the war that was fought against them.
"Robots?" said General O'Neill, "we just got rid of the Replicators, and now we're facing robots that are close to the level of Replicators?"
"I just remember what I saw as Athena, sir" said Willow, "the early humans on Kobol were forced into a cycle of violence that was encouraged by the Goa'uld, I don't know if that's what happened after they left Kobol… but when I found them again… they created those robots. Eventually they gained sentience, and from what I could tell… they rebelled against their masters."
"But you're talking about Artificial intelligence, Major" said Captain Lewis, the commander of the Excalibur.
"Advanced artificial intelligence" said Willow, "there was a reason that a section of the Furlings used to be members of the Alliance of Four, this could be it. From what I remember reading on the ships' database, the A.I. has the ability to evolve. The original organic drones left Kobol for Earth, but I changed it's coordinate because I knew what would happen if primitive man got their hand on such advanced technology."
"They could have destroyed themselves" said Colonel Mitchell.
"Yes, Sir" said Willow, "and I remember getting punished for that interference. Anyway, when I saw them again on the colonies, the humans became more like the Goa'uld. I don't know if they knew that the robots they created were based on Furling designs, and that the A.I. would evolve eventually resembling life… but whatever the case may be; the robots were basically objects that were created to do menial work. My guess is that when they gained sentience, the robots may have wanted independence and recognition… but they were denied. It may have gone on for years, but I saw the war start when a robot accidentally killed a human child."
"Then all hell broke loose?" said Colonel Carter as Willow nodded her head.
"But that doesn't excuse what preliminary reports say happened" said Woolsey as he read the report from Satterfield that detailed what Sharon told her, "near total annihilation of a people."
"I'm not saying it does" said Willow, "nothing excuses it. This Sharon told Major Satterfield that both sides did unspeakable things, that as humanity's children.. they were abused and made worthless by their creators."
"So they lashed out in anger?" asked Vala as Willow shrugged her shoulders.
"We'll have to ask Sharon" said Willow as she sat on a seat next to Faith.
"Speaking of whom" said Colonel Mitchell as he read the report in front of him, "any idea on her claim to asylum?"
"She was badly beaten" said Vala as she glanced at Colonel Carter's closed eyes.
"She was beaten while pregnant" said Colonel as she leaned back shaking her head, "no matter what she did, it's no excuse to beat a pregnant woman."
"I've read her medical report" said Woolsey, "bruises and cuts over most of her body, hairline fractures on some bones, dehydration and malnutrition."
"She's still a machine though" said General O'Neill softly, "I feel for her, I feel for her and her baby but she's almost to the level of a replicator…. I don't know how comfortable I am in even allowing her to any of our outposts. I don't even know if any of our allies with take her in."
"Sir" said Willow, "I agree.. but in a way, these robots seem to be the legacy of the Furlings… like it or not… and you know my position on the Furlings, these machines are their legacy. I saw as Athena what happened to them sir. Does that excuse what they did to the Colonies? No… but they were enslaved for years, they rebelled and a war started. Then, for some reason that I admit we still need to know, they came back and finished the job."
"This is going to be complicated isn't it?" said the General as he rubbed his head in frustration.
"Indeed, O'Neill" said Teal'c, "I believe that we should talk to this Sharon Valerii to gauge her reactions in person to the damage that she and her kind have caused."
"But Major Satterfield's report also says that Sharon didn't play a part in the actual destruction of the Colonies" said Captain Lewis as he read the report, "do we take that into account? Do we punish the individual for what the entire group did?"
"I know better than anyone on that topic, O'Neill" said Teal'c.
"You already earned our trust after saving our lives, Teal'c" said the General, "in my book that's all I needed to know that you are a good man."
"However, I too have killed many in my service to Apophis" said Teal'c, "just as Vala Mal Doran had enslaved many humans as Qetesh."
"And tricked them after the Goa'uld was gone" smirked Faith as Vala gave the Slayer a wide grin. Faith stuck her tongue at Vala before turning to the General, "and I didn't have the greatest background of all time, you still took me in."
"And became vital parts of SG1 and the SGC" said Colonel Carter as Teal'c bowed his head respectfully at the woman, and both Vala and Faith gave her grins.
"Sharon was supposed to kill the father of her baby" said Colonel Mitchell as he read the report, "but instead she fell in love with him and left Caprica, despite knowing what could happen to her. She saved his life."
Everyone looked on as the General let out a sigh before he leaned onto the seat, "we'll talk to her. But if she goes all terminator on us…."
"Understood, sir" said Colonel Mitchell, "we'll be ready."
"Captain" asked the General as he looked at Captain Lewis, "how much longer do we have?"
"About an hour, General" he said, "the Avalon should reach the fleet in a few minutes."
"One more thing" said Woolsey as he looked at a particular sentence on the report, "we shouldn't tell them about Earth being the home of humanity, at least not until we've found them a suitable world to settle on."
"You're worried about another Tegalus situation" said General O'Neill as Woolsey nodded his head. While Captain Lewis only read about the Tegalus incident, he knew enough that everyone at the table never wanted to see another incident like that again, especially Willow who was there when Caledonia and Rand launched nuclear missiles at each other before nearly wiping each other out.
"These people lost everything" said Woolsey, "it's entirely possible that the words in this Sacred Scrolls are the one thing that keeps them together. We break that…."
"We could be looking at a civil war" said General O'Neill, "that's the worst case scenario… I don't think that the best case would be any better after what they've been through."
"Maybe over time we could tell them the truth" said Woolsey, "or…"
"Or we could tell those in authority the truth" said Willow, "and hope that they can leak it out slowly?"'
"Yea" said General O'Neill as he smiled at Willow, "we'll need your emphatic abilities."
"Understood" said Willow as she nodded her head.
"Carter, Red" said the General, "take a look at the data that the doctor sent us about Sharon's nanites. If we grant her asylum, I want a way to track her and any others like her."
"Understood" said Willow and Colonel Carter together.
"Alright" said Captain Lewis, "if nothing else, I saw we break for our duties? We should be there in about fifty minutes."
"I hear you have some wonderful cake" said the General as he got up from his seat.
"We do" said the Captain, "if you'd follow me?"
"Thanks" said the General as he and Woolsey followed the Captain out of the room, leaving Willow and SG1 alone.
"Any word on Daniel?" asked Willow softly.
"None" said Vala, "I met with Anya before leaving."
"We saw her too" replied Willow as she motioned towards herself and Faith, "we told her that the Tok'ra are suing their intelligence network to find him."
"But nothing yet" replied Colonel Carter.
"But we'll find him" said Colonel Mitchell as he looked at Willow, "we'll find the both of them."
"Yes, sir" said Willow before she squeezed Faith's arm and walked away with Colonel Carter to find a way to detect more of the humanoid Cylons in the fleet.
Colonial One, unknown region of space, 1910 hours.
Laura Roslin became president of what remained of the Twelve Colonies of Kobol in the first night of the Cylon attack on the very same ship that was later renamed Colonial One. As she sat at her desk, she looked out at the Galactica which was currently responsible for protecting the Fleet while Admiral Cain and the Pegasus went on more of their Cylon hunt, without Presidential approval.
The only order that the Admiral had listened to was Roslin's order that the Galactica stay and protect the fleet with her vipers and raptors intact. She knew that the military was divided along ship's lines, the Pegasus officers were clamouring for revenge against the Cylons despite their defeat against the race of machines; while the ones on Galactica were hopeful that they could find Earth. She knew that the pilots on Galactica would fight any Cylon raider or Baseships that threatened them, but Roslin knew that they were tired as well.
Roslin was thankful that the Galactica has still been able to supply the fleet, while the Pegasus and its production facilities have been hoarding everything from both Galactica and the other Civilian fleet. Apollo, who was serving on the Pegasus, told Roslin one day when they were both on the Galactica that Cain wanted to undermine her authority. That she was so obsessed with destroying the Cylons, that she would even conduct a mission that he and his father considered suicide.
Sighing, Roslin looked at the pile of paperwork on her table that Starbuck had secretly sent her. They showed debris floating in space consisting of the ships that the Number Six on Pegasus had referred to the President and her Vice-President as Resurrection ships. The President flipped through the pictures of destroyed Baseships, raiders, bodies of blondes and other humanoid Cylon models floating in space. Roslin had seen these same pictures before; the aftermath of Starbucks run in with the grey ship in the Blackbird.
'This ship' thought Roslin to herself as she looked at a grainy picture, 'is it from Earth? Captain Thrace doesn't believe it is… but they destroyed the Cylon fleet. Every fleet that the Pegasus encountered was already destroyed, making Cain just that more bullish in her obsession to kill the Cylons herself. I don't know which one is worse, an Admiral on the verse of insanity… or these ships which could be in fact even more advanced machines that could kill us all. Either way, humanity may well be on the raod to extinction in the universe.'
As she was thinking to herself, she saw a bright flash of light from outside her office window as the Pegasus jumped into view.
"Here we go again" said Roslin as she saw two raptors flying towards Colonial One ten minutes later, one from the Galactica, and one from Pegasus.
A few minutes later, she heard two sounds on the hull of the ship as she stood up and reached towards the back of her chair. Picking up her suit, she wore it and waited for the two people she was expecting. A few minutes later a dark skinned woman by the name of Tori Foster, the President's advisor and campaign manager for the upcoming elections, led in both Admiral Cain and Commander Adama. Roslin sighed inwardly when she saw that the both of them weren't happy in the slightest.
"Admiral, Commander" said Roslin as she motioned for them to take their seats before she turned to the Admiral, "how was the intelligence you received from your Raptor scouts? Did you find what you were looking for? Or did you just take your ship on a wild goose chase?"
"The Cylon fleet was destroyed" said the Admiral as she set her jaw tight in anger.
"Now" said Roslin as she turned to look at Commander Adama, "what do the Raptors that returned from Caprica have to report?"
"They were ambushed by Cylons" said Commander Adama, "we lost fifteen people who entered a craft of unknown origin. It's most likely that they were taken by a group of Cylons we've never encountered. However, the report also states that this same ship single-handedly took out at least eleven raiders."
"Anything else?" said Roslin as she put her glasses on the table and looked at Admiral Cain who was staring right back at the redhead.
"The Raptors that managed to escape claimed they saw the grey ship, and two others battling each other using energy weapons" said the Commander, "Dr. Balter most likely believes that these could be two branches of the Cylons… fighting each other for supremacy."
"Sharon?" asked Roslin as the Commander shook his head, and frown when she mentioned Starbuck's name.
The President then turned towards the Admiral and gave her a stinging rebuke. She told her that she went against Presidential orders by leaving on her Cylon hunt, and not to attempt a rescue until they had more information. It was then that the Admiral called Roslin, and Commander Adama cowards; the very same cowards who ran away after the Colonies were attacked instead of fighting back.
"We lost good people because of the decisions that were made" said Commander Adama softly, but still with authority in his voice, "we also lost an important intelligence asset in Sharon."
"It does not have a name" hissed the Admiral, "you may very well remember that, Commander."
"Admiral Cain" said Roslin as she stood up, "you will.. and I mean you absolutely will, cease and desist all operations against Cylon targets. No more going off half assed on shaky intelligence … not while the safety of this fleet remains a priority. Is that clear?"
"You have no authority on military matters" said Admiral Cain, "you…."
"You are ordered" said Roslin as she emphasized the word 'ordered', "to stay with this fleet; secondly, any missions regarding Cylon targets go through me… is that clear?"
"Enjoy your moment, Madam President" said Admiral Cain with a sneer as she got up from her seat, "you'll be gone within the month, I'll make sure of it."
At that, Commander Adama looked at the Admiral who straightened herself before she glared at him and walked away. Once they heard the airlock close and her Raptor takeoff from the side of Colonial One, Roslin stood up and leaned forward on her desk.
"You need to kill her, Bill" said Roslin as she looked at the frown on the Commander's face, "she's willing to endanger this entire fleet for her personal vendetta; she will get us all killed."
"She has a lot of her people on Galactica" said Commander Adama, "it's easier said than done. Half of the Marines are her people from the Pegasus, and I've heard the rumours. They only have to hear one word from her, and they'll kill everyone in the CIC. Including the Command staff. We have no choice but to bide our time, if she starts doing what I know she's capable off… then this fleet is doomed by our own hands. She'll scuttle every spare part, every piece of raw material from the other civilian ships and leave them out here to die."
"Is the rumour of what she did to the fleet that the Pegasus supposedly had true?" asked Roslin.
"I don't know" replied the Commander, "people aren't talking, but the knuckle-draggers on Galactica believe it is true. The new deck chief on Galactica is called Laird, and there is a rumour that he saw what happened. Nothing concrete though."
Taking a seat again, Roslin leaned back and sighed before she noticed something from the corner of her eyes. Looking out into open space, she saw a cloud appear before a ship flew out of it and stopped, then she saw the Pegasus moved to confront the ship. Commander Adama quickly took his leave from Roslin and headed to his Raptor, which took off a few seconds later and headed for the Galactica.
Roslin looked on as the civilian ships started to slowly jump away one after another. Colonial One was the final ship set to jump when the phone rang. Pressing a button on the side wall, she informed the cockpit to hold jump preparations before running to pick it up, she brought it to her ear only to hear Commander's voice asking her to turn on her wireless system. Reaching down to the left of her desk, she pressed a button on the square shaped device and listened to a female voice, a very familiar female voice and a name that she had heard before.
"Attention unknown vessels, my name is Major Lauren Satterfield translating on behalf of Colonel William Ronsen, Commander of the Earth ship Avalon" said Satterfield as she looked out the forward window with SG2 and Colonel Ronsen at the two gigantic ships, "do not fire your weapons. We come in peace. Also, we have survivors from the planet known as Caprica who are itching to rejoin your fleet."
Shocked at what she was hearing, Roslin grabbed the phone again with trembling hands and brought it to her ear.
"Com… Commander" said Roslin as she spoke into the phone, "hold the jump, th.. this could be it…"
Then another familiar voice came in the wireless that every Galactica personnel was glad to hear.
"Galactica, this is Starbuck. Do not jump.. I repeat do not jump. We found Earth."
TBC.