Princeton University Lecture Hall, 1300 hours.
Willow and Faith looked at the stunned expressions on the faces of Ira and Sheila Rosenberg before Faith put the memory recall device back into the box, while Willow picked up her briefcase, and then reached into her pocket and took out an ear piece. Faith took out her cell phone and called the SGC to inform the guards waiting outside that they could leave in a minute. The redhead then smiled at her mother and father before turning around, walking over to the table, and grabbing the bag that Sheila used to pack her papers, and carried it in her hand while tapping her earpiece. Willow then reached for, and held her mother's arm, while Faith held onto Ira's hand.
"Prometheus," said Willow while Faith grinned, "four to beam up."
"Wait…" said Sheila with her eyes wide open as a flash of light engulfed the four of them. Where they were once surrounded by bright lights and seats all around them in the lecture hall of one of the most prestigious universities in the U.S; once the bright light faded away.. the two of them found themselves in a grey coloured room with consoles in front of them, and screens on the wall that was showing the spinning logo of the SGC, and a rotating schematic outline of the ship they were on. Ira and Sheila then just stared at Willow and Faith who had to chuckle before the both of them gently turned around the two older couple, and with their hands on the couple's shoulders, guided them to a floor to ceiling piece of glass that was looking over more of the grey coloured exterior of the ship they were on, and then they could see the Earth below.
"Where… where are we?" asked Ira as he lay his palm on the glass and looked out the window, as did his wife who was speechless.
"Prometheus Space Station," said Faith as Willow went to one of the consoles and placed Sheila's bag underneath it, "this used to be an Air Force deep space battlecruiser, but it was badly damaged in a battle against a very powerful enemy. It was rebuilt, and then recommissioned as the Earth's first defensive space station. You should know that the only reason this ship survived that battle, the only reason that most of the crew survived? It was because of Willow."
"Faith," said Willow as she looked at her wife with a questioning look, and a blush; while Faith smiled proudly at the redhead.
"What?" asked Ira as he looked at Willow who was walking back towards them waving her hands around saying that she didn't do much. All the while Sheila was still looking out at the planet below, and then at the stars as it crashed upon her as to what Willow and Faith were involved in. She listened as Faith was telling Ira that Willow stopped a very powerful weapon on her own, and saved the ship. Sheila looked outside the window and closed her eyes as she listened to Faith saying that Willow saved hundreds of lives that day; however, she also noticed that Faith failed to mentioned how exactly Willow did it.
Something inside Sheila was telling her that she really did not want to know.
All Sheila could do to handle all of this, everything around her, was to look out at the beauty of the planet below, and then out at the stars.
"Mom?" asked Willow as she put her arm around the shoulders of the older redhead after sensing a mixture of feelings from her, "I know it's a lot to take in. The truth is that everyone, every family member of the people who work where I work is undergoing a deep background check. They interviewed us, and then checked your records for any weird theories about space aliens…"
"Basically to check if you are, or ever have been a tin-foil hat nut-job," said Faith as Willow nodded her head, "some of my colleague's won't be able to tell their families until the day of disclosure, as for the ones who can be trusted after the checks? Well, you guys are one of them."
"Yea, mom, dad," said Willow as Ira looked at her, and then at Faith, and then at the sight on the other side of the window.
"See that ship there?" asked Faith walking up to, and the standing next to Ira as she pointed to a small ship that was docked at the port side of the station, "that's one of four Avalon class Escort-Cruiser ships, Willow was the one who designed it."
"Faith," said Willow blushing as Ira smiled at his daughter while Sheila looked up at Willow and then lay her head on her shoulder while she was trying to take this all in. Willow looked down at surprise at her mother's reaction, and then she looked at Ira who had a small smile on his face, and then at Faith.
"So.. you designed a ship?" asked Ira as Willow nodded her head.
"It's really cool," said Willow excitedly as she nodded out the window towards the ship that was docked, "it's got shields, advanced sensors, subspace communications, and hyperdrive gifted to us by an alien race as thanks for saving their entire civilization; and on top of that, it's got railguns that are Earth made, and an energy weapons system that we rediscovered from an ancient alien race. Weapons that we had to figure out a way to get them to work."
Ira saw how excited his daughter was getting and he couldn't help but smile as Faith then grabbed his arm and the four of them walked down the nearby hallway to a nearby Mess Hall that gave a better view of the Avalon which was taking a break from duty over Furling Earth. The ship had found hundreds of bunkers around the planet with low levels of energy-emissions coming off them, but so far there have been no more Furlings found after checking fifteen of these large complexes. The Russian Avalon-class ship was now pulling duty over that planet, especially important now since there were more Cylon archaeological teams on that planet, with the Colonial teams due there within the next few days. It was already agreed with the Colonial leadership on the area that they'd be checking out on their first trip to Furling Earth. The areas that were selected ensured that the Cylon and Colonial teams would never meet, for their own safety.
While still looking at the ship, Willow was telling her parents that the Avalon was back in Earth orbit to reload on supplies and refuel. She also told them about the special mission that the ship had in store for some of the world's eminent scientists.
"The President's invited some astronauts and scientists on board the Avalon," said Willow as she pointed at the ship, "of course they've had to go through the checks and everything, but they won't be told about the Stargate."
"Stargate?"
"The thing that was found in Giza?" said Faith.
"Oh," said Sheila as she looked at the ship that her daughter had designed, and now she couldn't help but feel pride as she took in the entire vessel.
"They'll know about the ships," said Willow, "but not the Gate, at least not yet."
"Who's on there?" asked Sheila softly as she lifted her head off Willow's shoulder and nodded at the Avalon.
"Even I don't know," said Willow as she, Faith, Ira, and Sheila grabbed some coffee and then sat down near a window, "I'm guessing Stephen Hawking will definitely be among them. The ship's scheduled to stop by near a black hole, so I'm just taking a wild guess…. Actually it's more like a wild rumour that's been going around the base."
"You said that everything will change, Willow," said Shelia.
"Yeah," said the young redhead, "there are some things that we're keeping out of the public, and what we're going to be telling you is one of them because of mostly religious complications."
"Which is?" asked Ira; Willow knew that this was going to be a litmus test for whether to reveal everything they know about alien life, or just expose certain parts while lying about the rest. Willow and Faith knew that Ira and Sheila were deeply religious; making it a surprise to her and Faith that they agreed to the two young women getting married. Willow had asked Ira privately why he and Sheila agreed, and all he said that was she was happy with Faith... and that's all he and Sheila ever wanted for her.
Willow and Faith looked at each other, and then at Ira and Sheila again. They started off simple as they were told to by General O'Neill, and General Landry. It would be the same for the rest of SG-1 who had their families approved for full disclosure – Colonel Carter had just Kristin and Mark approved since the kids were too young, Colonel Mitchell had his parents approved, and Daniel would be taking Anya up to the Prometheus Station later on that day. Willow started off by telling them about the Goa'uld, and them how the Supreme System lord, Ra, was looking for a new host body that could be repaired easily.
"I know you have questions," said Willow just as Ira was about to interrupt her, "but let me just finish this one thing…. Good? Okay.. so Ra travelled the galaxy looking for a suitable host. And then one day he landed in Ancient Egypt and took control of a human boy. He became his host a little over ten thousand years ago."
"My colleagues say that Egyptian history doesn't even go that far back," said Sheila who was about to ask the same thing that Willow knew Ira was going to ask, "and did you just say that Ra is an alien? Then how about our people escaping the pharaoh and…."
"All that still happened, but much later," said Faith as she leaned forward, "Ra kidnapped people from Earth and seeded them throughout the galaxy, then five thousand years later… there was a revolt on Earth by the Ancient Egyptians. They got rid of Ra and his people, and the Stargate was buried in Giza until 1928. After the Gate was buried, then the line of pharaohs began. Everything you've read about in history books and religious texts still happened."
"But evidence and…"
"There's evidence," said Willow nodding her head at her mother, "and that's going to be released into the public domain once disclosure day comes. So anyway, Ra was kicked off the planet, but the rest of the Goa'uld kept humans as slaves and their own personal army… genetically engineered humans who're used as incubators for larval Goa'uld symbiotes."
"That's cruel," said Ira as he narrowed his eyebrows, "are they free or…"
"They're free now," said Willow, "they're free off the Goa'uld symbiote; you see the symbiotes give the Jaffa their long heath and immune system. Without it they die, so another human culture called the Pangaran's developed a chemical called tretonin… that's taken over the work of the Symbiote. So now the Goa'uld have lost their power base."
"We've been at war with the Goa'uld for nearly eight years," said Faith, "Willow and I came in at the tail end of it, but it was tough going there."
"The world nearly ended a few times," said Willow as Sheila and Ira looked at her, "I was there when a Goa'uld called Anubis came with his entire fleet to blow our planet out of the sky, and we survived."
"Yes," replied Sheila as she smiled at Willow.
Willow and Faith then went on to tell Sheila and Ira everything they could about the Goa'uld, and then they told them about how the ships that Earth had were capable of inter-galactic travel and that they had an outpost in the Pegasus galaxy manned by an international team of scientists, and diplomats, as well as a military presence. Willow said that she'd be able to give them more details at another time, and that she didn't have clearance to tell them much more than she already did about the Pegasus outpost.
"That's amazing," said Sheila as Ira sipped his coffee while nodding his head, "but it doesn't seem to have the things that would get those who are religious off their feet; it might rile up the fundamentalists of all faith's, that's true. But the majority do think that God created creatures big and small on other worlds."
"This is where it gets a bit complicated," said Willow, "the oldest Stargate was found on Earth in the Antarctic, and according to carbon dating? It's anywhere between fifty to sixty million years old… and before you say anything, we have proof of a race of humans who came to this galaxy from another one far, far away. They were having their own version of an exodus, escaping from genocide at the hands of a religious sect of their own people."
"Are you saying that those humans came to Earth?" asked Ira as he motioned towards the planet that was spinning below.
"Yeah," said Faith, "Earth's old name is Terra? These people called themselves the Alterra, they named the planet after themselves."
"Humans from another galaxy running from persecution and coming here to settle and build a new life," said Ira as he leaned back on his seat with a smile in his face, "so familiar."
"I know," said Sheila shaking her head.
"There's more you need you know," said Faith, "that's only scratching the surface."
Willow and Faith then went to talk about the empire of the Ancients, the plague that hit the entire galaxy leading to widespread deaths, the second exodus to Pegasus, the death and rebirth of life using the Dakara Superweapon, and then the evolution of human beings on Earth. The four of them talked about the religious and social implications of what they had just heard, with Willow mentally telling Faith that her parents would have a lot to say about the Ori.
They were just sitting there in the Mess Hall talking for the next two hours when the conversation turned to the Ancients who had left for Pegasus encountering an enemy there that defeated them. Faith told Ira and Sheila that this enemy defeated one of the most technologically advanced races ever, and made them run back to Earth. Willow sensed the worry coming off her parents before assuring them that the enemies of the Ancients would never find the location of Earth.
Of course that wasn't necessarily true. Willow had heard about the two Wraith ships that had gained access to the Atlantis database via a virus. The virus uploaded all the worlds that the Ancients knew about in the Milky Way and were about to head to Earth. The Odyssey was sent to help the Daedalus precisely for this moment a little less than three weeks ago, to defeat the two Wraith ships, which they did in a battle over Lantea; the Earth ships used their Ancient weapons systems to destroy the two ships, and the data that they carried. Following that incident, corrective measures were taken on the computers in Atlantis with the Odyssey returning to Earth through hyperspace.
Willow and Faith, however, did tell Ira and Sheila that the outpost was protected from this enemy. Willow then continued by saying that some of the Ancients ascended to a higher plain of existence after shedding their physical forms, while others bred with the local population on Earth and passed down not only basic knowledge on improving their lives, but also a gene that was specific to their kind.
"We call it the ATA – Ancient Technology Activation gene," said Faith, "a handful of people have it."
"Dad," said Willow, "the woman you saw that looked like me? Her name is Athena."
Willow saw that Ira and Sheila were about to interfere by asking several questions, but she raised her hand and asked that she finish first before they ask the questions that she knew they wanted to ask. Willow and Faith smiled when Ira and Sheila looked at each other, and then nodded their heads at Willow and Faith.
"First of all," said Faith, "the Athena that I'm sure you're thinking about? The Greek goddess? She was a Goa'uld who used the real Athena's name to enslave people… she and her other so-called Olympian 'gods'."
"The real Athena was one of the Ancients who returned to Earth after they lost the war in Pegasus ten thousand years ago," said Willow, "she, and a lot of her people, integrated into the people of that time; had children, and then later she ascended when she was about…oh… ninety?"
"The woman you saw?" asked Faith as she motioned towards Ira, "she's one of your ancestors. I know it sounds wonky, but we have another officer from Earth, who has an exact copy who's a robot… based on a real person who was never born on Earth. Understand?"
"What…. What you're talking about is…" said Sheila shaking her head.
"Our scientists call it genetic drift, or something," said Willow, "a quirk of genetics that I look exactly like Athena. Mom, Dad, we've encountered a tribe of Jaffa called the Sodan. When they saw me? They thought I was Athena… apparently they were fighting for their freedom and trying to escape a Goa'uld system lord. Athena killed the enemies going after them when they were on a planet she considered a sanctuary world, and then showed the Sodan to another planet… a new home where they can be safe. They even showed me a picture of her… she looks just like me."
"So that woman?" asked Ira shaking his head as he tried to absorb this new information, "she's either mine, or Sheila's ancestor?"
"Yep," said Faith as Willow nodded her head, "and we should know… we met the ascended Athena once… I mean they don't come to this plain often because they can't interfere. It's their highest law, and before you ask why? They don't want to be seen as gods."
"They're not gods?"
"I already told you, mom," said Willow, "they're highly advanced humans far along on the evolutionary ladder. They have untold amounts of power and knowledge at their fingertips, but it's because of that they are forbidden from interfering in our affairs. They're just highly evolved humans; mom, dad… nothing more and nothing less."
"So the woman we saw…" said Ira, "she's Athena?"
"Yep," said Willow, "she told us that she loved chocolate shake with her sister, Hera."
"Amazing," said Ira.
"Oh," said Faith, "there's so much more."
Willow and Faith then went on starting to tell Ira and Sheila about the Ori, and the current war that they were in. Of course they had left out the fact that Willow ascended, or that she found out that she was Athena; but the surprised Ira and Sheila Rosenberg were told about everything else. They listened as Willow and Faith told them about the Ascended Ori who sent Priors, who have the power to destroy entire worlds, and even raise the recently dead, through the Stargates to the Milky Way. Faith said that the Ancients won't interfere, although they did have help from one who descended to find a cure for the same plague that was spread by the Ori.
"That influenza scare?" asked Ira, "that was a…"
"Yeah," said Faith as Willow nodded her head, "the Ancient, Orlin, did everything he could before his brain became too damaged. But he succeeded with the help of another Jaffa who became a Prior. They helped us with the cure; but they paid the price for it."
"The Jaffa's dead; the Ori have a built-in failsafe in the Prior's that destroy them if they ever go against the Ori," said Willow, "and like Faith said, Orlin's alive and in a care-home but he has no memories, and his mind has been permanently damaged by descending with the entire Ancient knowledge base."
"How's his care?" asked Ira as Sheila shook her head in disbelief at what she just heard.
"He's getting the best," said Faith, "he helped save the world after all, but doctors say that his mind won't heal… it'll be at the level of a child even when he grows up."
"I see," said Ira.
Willow then proceeded to tell them about the Colonials, and their near complete annihilation at the hands of the Cylons who were themselves a race that was already near extinction thanks to the Ori. Ira and Sheila wondered if they could be surprised anymore than they already have been upon hearing about twelve worlds of humans that built Artificial Intelligence constructs that turned against them. They listened as Faith told them about humanoid machines that believed in one God, a concept that had several religious scholars in the know foaming at the mouth with excitement to talk to these beings, while other scholars wanted to visit the Colonials. Willow and Faith then told Ira and Sheila about several cultures that reflected ancient Earth, particularly the societies that those people were taken from originally, were preserved perfectly on their new world.
"So cultures that died out on Earth," said Sheila recognizing that implication, "most of them are preserved on other planets?"
"Yep," said Faith nodding her head, "when disclosure happens, the Stargate isn't going to be a tourist travel device so that people could go to these planets… many in the IOA want the cultures to be as they are right now."
"Oh my," said Sheila as Willow smiled. The group continued talking for hours after that, eventually meeting Colonel Carter and Debra, General Carter, as well as their family. Soon after they met Daniel and Anya, and then Teal'c who had accompanied Colonel Mitchell and his parents, as well as Vala. The group sharing the adventures they had with their loved ones, finally being able to tell them the truth. Sg-1 just looked at each other while Vala was telling stories of her exploits, while certain 'amendments' were made by Colonel Mitchell.
It was a day that the family members would never forget.
Kobol, 1330 hours.
Tessa was close by the downed Colonial Raptor; she could see it from her hiding spot.
She was alone now on this world, the world that she knew as the birthplace of Humanity. Although right now, this planet represented the death of her kind. Her people were gone, all of them dead… the last to go was Cavil, and her sister, Sophia. They were being chased by even more blood demons last week after having avoided them for an extended period of time. She didn't know how they were being tracked, especially since any wounds they sustained during their travel's would heal quickly.
'Who are you kidding, Tessa,' thought the humanoid Cylon to herself while she was holding onto a wooden spear and hiding behind a thick trunked tree, looking out of the side to the Raptor that had crashed several months ago in a field of tall grass, 'they tracked you by your blood, by Sophia's blood, by Cavil's, they can smell us."
Tessa then looked at the brown grime on her arms, and hands, and then she looked at one of two large transparent vials on her belt. In desperation after the blood demons killed Sophia and Cavil, destroyed the remaining Centurions; all except for the Centurion who had been Tessa's personal defender. She recalled the Centurion carrying her in its arms after it unloaded all its ammo into the crowd of blood demons. It had already seen it's brothers get destroyed by the combined strength of all the other blood demons, followed soon by the deaths of Sophia and Cavil who was holding on to Tessa, and refusing to let go.
The Centurion then sliced off Cavil's arms before carrying Tessa in its arms, and running as fast as it could. Eventually it evaded the groups of blood demons that were coming after it, and then left them far behind. An hour later, the robot stopped and put the tearful Tessa down onto the ground, and stepped back… the single red eye roving from one side to another in its head as it wirelessly communicated with the humanoid Cylon.
"We're alone now," said Tessa as she answered the Centurion's query before she looked at the chrome plated robot in shock, "no… no I am not going to allow you to do that… no… I.."
The Centurion wirelessly told the Humanoid Cylon that the creatures were going to come after her now, that it seemed as if the both of them were wading through various different territories of the blood demons. It 'told' Tessa that it couldn't protect her effectively since the blood demons would destroy it first, as it did the rest of its brothers the other times they were attacked… which indicated some intelligence on their part; getting rid of the greater threat before feeding on the humanoids. The Centurion saw Tessa shaking her head, but it told Tessa through their wireless connection that it was correct, that its thinking was logical. The blood demons would destroy it, and then they would kill Tessa. She wouldn't have a chance of surviving and since she was the last 'living' humanoid on the entire planet, it would be possible that the creatures coming after them would return to wherever they had crawled out of hiding after she was killed.
Tessa was still shaking her head while the Centurion wirelessly told her that it was going to deactivate itself, and then open its chest plate. It told the tearful Tessa to take out the two large vials of machine grease that kept it lubricated, the smell should hide the scent that the humanoid Cylon was giving off, and instead the Blood demons would believe that she was a centurion. And since there were no other humanoid Cylon scents near her, she would be safe… or at least that was the theory it had come up with.
"But you…." said Tessa as the machine just looked at her saying that she would survive, that it was still protecting her… albeit in a different way.
Back in the present day, Tessa looked out at the crashed ship as she recalled the Centurion getting on its knees, and then deactivating itself after opening the chest cavity. With trembling hands, Tessa then reached in, and apologized to the robot as she took out the two large vials of the brownish liquid. She then tore off her sleeves and made ties that would attach the vials to her belt, and then opened one of the vials and slathered some of the pungent liquid, that made her face grimace, onto her hands, arms, and face. She then closed up that vial, and attached it to her belt before walking off. Now, with the wooden spear in her hand, which she remembered from the television program was the only weakness that the blood demons had, Tessa then crouched down and headed straight for the Raptor. It had been a week since the Centurion had sacrificed itself for her, and while she had heard footsteps and growls from the hiding places she'd find, and then hide in those natural formations; or she would climb trees and hide in the foliage. However, she did discover that the grease really did hide her scent.
But Tessa was worried that the blood demons would soon come after her anyway.
'Would they care that I smell like a Centurion?' thought Tessa to herself, 'would they want something like a Centurion walking about? What would they do if they actually find me? Would they still feed on me?'
Those questions were still playing in Tessa's head as she made a mad dash for the downed Raptor. She hoped that even after all this time, there would be some power left in reserve in the small ship. She hoped that at least the weapons systems worked so that if the blood demons did finally wise up, then she could have her last stand here.
At least she'd be taking out many of them with her.
But only if the weapons worked.
Only if there was power.
Tessa ran into the ship, and then she heard screams, growls, and roars from the distance in the trees. Tessa closed the Raptor hatch and then she leaned with her back against the door, and brought her legs to her chest and wrapped her arms around them. After a week of hiding, and running, and more hiding… all Tessa could do now was break down and sob.
She was alone.
Alone on a godforsaken world.
All she could hope was that those growls and screams were for something else, that maybe the Blood demons found some other animals to feed on, and that they didn't know where she was as the interior of the ship started to fill up with the smell that was on her body. As Tessa lay on the floor of the ship while curled up into a small ball… she wanted to get some rest. She wanted to sleep for an hour before she started to test the systems of the ship. She wanted the sounds to quieten down before she did anything as she imagined the TV show where blood demons could hear footsteps from a great distance. She was afraid that if she moved around the ship now, especially with all the noise out there, then the Blood Demons would hear her and come down to investigate. So, in her exhausted stated, Tessa just sat still
When the sounds had quietened down, Tessa closed her eyes.
She was exhausted as she went into a deep, uneasy sleep.
Orbit of P9U-673, Lucian Alliance deep space Kassa processing facility.
Norrin was the head of the Processing facility on the planet below who was sitting at one end of a table facing one of the Seconds, one of the leaders of various different territories within the Lucian Alliance sphere of influence who reported directly to Netan. He was giving his monthly report on their production, which had fallen due to various Earth teams sabotaging their convoys of raw, unprocessed, Kassa. He asked the Second if Netan, the leader of the Alliance was doing anything about this, but all the man claimed was that a trap was being set for the next team to sabotage their shipments. That they were going to leak out information on a Kassa shipment that was going out to one of their worlds, and then the Alliance would capture the team that boarded the trap, and then kill them. Thus sending a message to Earth that if they continued interfering with the Alliance, then the planet itself would be in danger.
It was a few minutes later that Norrin and the Second walked out of the room when the entire ship shook, and the lights in the ship started to blink, and then turn off; covering them in darkness. However, the darkness only lasted for a few seconds, followed by a bright flash of light.. and then intense heat that engulfed all of them.
At that same time, on the Colossal Cylon Homeworld known as the Colony, a grinning Cavil looked at the DRADIS screen with his hands in the flowing water in the basin before him, along with his brothers, and some of the Number Eights, including Alana, who had their eyes closed; not wanting to show Cavil the horror in their eyes of the Pyramid like ships getting destroyed. They were a hundred light years away when a scout group of Raiders found the ships over the planet below. The Raiders then jumped into the planet's atmosphere, and found human life when they were supposed to be searching for more of the mineral that had enhanced the effectiveness of the nuclear weapons that were fired on Torralia. Alana remembered them finding the first planet that had a mine full of that mineral, however since there were noxious fumes in the mines… it was no place for the humanoid Cylons. Alana remembered Cavil ordering a company of Centurions to go to the planet and get the mineral out, he wanted it tested for effectiveness. Cavil had told them that he was sending raiders to look for more of the mineral, while others would search for human populated planets that they could enslave once they learned how to refine the material.
Or they could enslave humans who knew how to refine the material if the Cylons weren't able to do it themselves.
But for now, they were preparing to test the mineral in its raw form.
Back in the present day, Alana was present when the raiders returned and reported on the ships, and the humans on the planet below. However, it didn't report any facility like the one they had seen on Torralia.
"I still want a test," said Cavil with a smirk before he looked at a Simon, "jump."
Once the Colony jumped in orbit of the planet, Cavil ordered the transmission of a computer virus, the same one that they had used unsuccessfully on the Earth ships which they first appeared over Caprica several months ago. It was the same virus that annihilated the Colonials using the back-door, so this would be a more electronic brute force attack. He wanted to try it again since he was confident that their weapons would work with the advancements brought about by the raw form of the unknown mineral that was inside their nuclear warheads.
Cavil smiled when the virus was transmitted, and their DRADIS showed that the enemy ships energy levels were dropping off; just like what happened when the Cylons attacked the Colonies.
"Their ships must be susceptible to the virus," said Doral with a smile, "how unfortunate."
"Fire the nuclear weapons that have been enhanced," said Cavil as several missiles were fired to the now shield-less, and powerless Pyramid ships… ships that didn't have the same Asgard anti-virus software that would have prevented such an intrusion. The ships were defenceless and listing as the nuclear missiles with the raw mineral hit the ships and tore them apart in massive explosions. Cavil, Doral, and Simon gleefully smiled as the DRADIS systems showed one ship after another falling before Cavil ordered two missiles be fired to the planet's surface.
Alana and her sisters, who still had their eyes closed, flinched when data came through from the Colony sensors of an energy release four times of their ordinary nuclear weapons. Alana knew that the surface was devastated with only two nuclear weapons. She looked at Cavil who was smirking as he looked at the water in the basin, and knew he had gone mad.
All of them had.
And in the end, Alana knew that they would die when the Thirteenth Tribe finds out what they did, and switch their focus on them from the Ori. The worst case scenario was the Ori switching their focus to the Cylons, but none of the other Cavils, Dorals, or Simons seemed concerned, and it frightened her. She took her hand out of the basin of water just as Cavil ordered a contingent of Centurions to one of the ships, he wanted to know if at least one of the large ships that the raiders outside were sending data on was still intact.
"I want all the data they have," said Cavil, "if anyone still survives what we just did? Kill them, but I want any data that could be retrieved."
"By your command," said Doral as he smirked before motioning to one of the Centurions standing in the corner to follow him out of the large room they were in. Alana watched them leave, and then turned to Cavil.
"I would like to examine the surface," said Alana who was hopeful that she could use whatever time Cavil could give her to examine the ring shaped object that she had been hearing whispers about every time the Raiders would return from various planets, and report its existence. She hoped that it held the key to being free of Cavil and his insanity, and hopefully it would be a way to send a message to the Thirteenth Tribe.
That is if she could find out how it worked.
"Fine," said Cavil looking at Alana, "Doral and Simon are going with you to examine the ring our Raiders reported finding down on the planet. Look at what you want, Alana… I could use a break from you. Maybe I'll have one of your sisters later."
Alana looked at the fear on the faces of her other sisters, and closed her eyes.
"Very well," whispered Alana, "very well."
TBC.