Lieutenant Commander Elizabeth Wheeler pulled her hand away from the new insignia as she walked the ship, her new command the Charon class frigate Colossus. Following the capture of the Colossus and the two Mako Corvettes she had walked the ship at least a dozen times.

As she walked the corridors she absent mindedly recited everything she knew and had learned about this particular Charon.

The Colossus was originally deployed against the covenant back in 2526 in battlegroup X-Ray under Vice Admiral Preston Cole for the second battle of Harvest. And the Colossus was one of thirteen ships destroyed. That was everything from the UNSC files the rest was pierced together from security camera footage from she had to guess a few weeks later the Jackals boarded the ship and began repairing or replacing broken components with other UNSC equipment like the fire control station from the UNSC Phobos a Diligence class light destroyer that was lost in the same battle.

The Colossus was just shy of five hundred meters long with a standing crew of seven hundred normally the ship was armed with a Mk ll light MAC throwing a half ton projectile of tungsten at just over twenty percent the speed of light. Backed up by ten Archer missile pods containing five missiles a pod.

However, she grinned looking up at the alien weapon system the pirates had installed. This Sharon had lost half of its missile pods and gained a Heavy plasma cannon. She had seen cannons like this melt the two meters of super hardened Titanium-A battleplate of UNSC destroyers in seconds much less the three hundred millimeters of Armor Charons sported. A dedicated pinch fusion reactor from a Scarab was hooked into the heavy turret to power the weapon. The alien power plant was as big as two HEVs and provided almost the same power as the deuterium fusion reactor that powered the Colossus.

"Five minutes to real space Commander." her executive officer, a warrant officer that had transferred from the Artemis James Robertson called out over the ship's speaker.

Sighing, she made her way back to the bridge just as the ship arrived on the edge of Leonis orbit. As she sat down in the command chair the ship rocked under a near miss and alarms started to blare, they had physically intercepted a Cylon missile barrage heading to impact a group of ships behind the Colossus.

At a quick look some of them were warships she recognized three of them to be Beserks with four more Firestar's others looked to be armed civilian ships. Turning back she came face to face with eight baseships.

"Lock them up petty officer Menendez." she ordered. But Samual Mendendez was already on it as the 50mm ramparts started intercepting missiles and raiders alike. Before grinning and hitting the only piece of alien controls attached to the weapons station firing the plasma cannon.

The incandescent bluish purple orb left a glowing trail for the two seconds it took to impact near the center axis of the nearest baseship. Colonial and Cylons watched in complete horrified amazement as the superheated plasma quickly severed the two halves of the cylon ship and the incredible heat caused nearby missile magazines and fuel tanks to go critical and consume the ship in a short lived fireball in seconds.

The MAC fired its own shell also decapitating another basestar just without the dramatic fireball.

The Colossus continued to rain fire on the remaining raiders as it moved to take aim at the next cylon ship.

The cylon five in command of the fleet who went by the name Aaron O'donnell saw the terrifying new arrival swat two of his baseships aside with little or no difficulty turning in his ships direction. With his hand still in the fleet interface linking him to the other six ships his mind screamed RUN. The cylons, believing this to be an order to retreat, jumped away followed closely by the dozens of surviving raiders.

The jump completed Aaron looked around in rage and confusion "who the FRAKK ordered the jump?!"

A Centurion manning the weapons board turned toward his hybrid commander "Sir you ordered the withdrawal." The machine's transversing scanner stopped looking at the hybrid's hand still floating inside the interface.

Aaron follows the warriors laser and it hits him "it was a mistake." he sticks his hand back into the interface and the disorganized cylon forces prepare to jump back.

When a six walks up being him letting her hand transverse his shoulders "we should wait for reinforcements you saw how fast that strange ship destroyed two of ours."

Aaron could feel his human body react to the temptress but he stomped it down "we need to disable and capture some of those Leonis ships. We need to find out where the rest of their planetary forces went."

She draped her arms over his shoulders pressing her chest against his "Arron there is more than one way to find that out." she smiled looking into his eyes.

"What do you propose then?" he asked, looking into her eyes searching for what he could be talking about.

She just smiles seductively and pulls out a small communicator "Father? bring in your ship."

"We are on the way." the voice replied "five minutes."

Exactly five minutes later a colonial freighter appeared tailing debris and atmosphere she sticks her hand into the interface and eight raiders go out to join it "we will use the humans compassion for each other to get some more spies in among them and should that fail the freighter carries a dozen launch rails for two megaton warheads."

The freighter jumped followed a few seconds later by the raiders.

Fifteen minutes earlier…

The colossus turns to bring the next cylon ship to bear when the four remaining ships blink and jump away. Elizabeth crosses her arms with a small annoyed pout "come on we just got started." turning to Menendez "excellent shooting petty officer."

"Thank you ma'am," he replied.

"Ma'am we are receiving a hail from the lead Leonis ship" James Robinson her communications and executive officer called out

Picking up her headset she nodded and with a small click the voice of a woman called out "This is Commodore Felicia Sanne of the Leonis Republic Navy cruiser Luna, identify yourself."

"Commodore Sanne, this is Commander Elizebeth Wheeler of the frigate Colossus." She identifies herself and her ship."Be advised we are from Scorpia assisting your new president Elizibeth Horner, your former secretary of the interior."

The flood of information causes Sanne to pause before recovering "what is your ships orders revolving Leonis and her people? And is Scorpia truly still standing?"

Wheeler smiled and replied "Yes ma'am as to why we are here we are running fighting raids to keep the Cylons off balance as Colonial warships are repaired, civilians are rescued and general mayhem." she finished.

"Now a question for you Commodore, what are you doing here?" Wheeler asked.

"I'll answer as we enter orbit there are thousands of our people still on the planet." with a nod the Leonis ships headed toward the planet as the frigate followed.

"We managed to escape when the assault began; none of our older ships were affected by the virus sent through the updated CNP codes. Hells we only discovered it when we came across a squadron of vipers drifting in the void, their pilots dead from asphyxiation. We have been running raids the last week to get as many people offworld to our asteroid base as we can."

She paused to issue orders to her forces as dozens of raptors and civilian shuttles descended toward the planet before continuing. "My fleet when we started had twenty five ships now we are down to eight." She said heavily " using Octopus tugs we have managed to gather pieces of destroyed ships and transfer their weapons to civilian ships to add to our numbers.." she halted as alerts started screaming as a damaged freighter jumped in the transponder identifying it as the Prophet a moment after its arrival a transmission came in and a man's voice called out "The lords of Kobol said you would be here my children the gods shall lift up those who lift each other."

"Oh great Gemenese fanatic….Frack Raiders" she interrupted herself as eight of the small fighters jumped in firing at the freighter.

Vipers from the Leonis fleet CAP rocketed towards the cylons. Arriving moments before the raiders who must have been out of missiles opened fire scoring hits on some of the cargo pods.

The dozen vipers in teams of two quickly cut the fighters apart until the last damaged survivor jumped away.

"You all need to get out of here before any more of his friends follow him." Wheeler said to the commodore. "Head to Scorpia, you'll be safe there for the time being."

The commodore watched as the first transports started returning full of survivors and supplies. "Very well, as soon as the last evacuation craft is aboard we will jump."

Over the next hour it was discovered the Prophets FTL and sublight drives suffered several direct hits and they could not make the jump shuttles after offloading their cargos of people and supplies from the surface head to evacuate the freighter.

The ship, according to the captain and its manifest, did not have any cargo and only carried eight Geminese priests and nuns and a hundred crew; the ship was left in a decaying orbit over the planet. As they prepare to jump four base ships arrive just outside weapons range followed by eight more…..fifteen more…..sixty more.

"Looking at the mass of ships Wheeler looks at Robertson "we have that pelican right?"

He doesn't even have to look "Yes Ma'am our only one."

With a dark grin she looks him in the eyes "i saw on the manifest we have a Covenant antimatter charge load it inside and remote it towards the center of their formation." she turns to Samual "as soon as the pelican launches fire at every Archer we have to cover it on its approach." she looks out at the mass of basestars "then we leave.

As the last Leonis craft overloaded with people and supplies docked the boobytrapped Pelican launched heading right for the cylons center after a moment the five Archer pods opened and discarded their complement of twenty five missiles to follow the pelican.

"Jump" the order came as the Leonis ships jumped first followed by their civilian ships. Leaving only the colossus to watch the explosion.

The cylons not detecting anything watched the lone craft come towards them and watched in confusion right up until a blinding flash as the antimatter explosive detonated with the force of a twenty megaton nuclear weapon.

The wave of heat and hard radiation atomized forty five of the sixty eight basestars leaving eighteen more tumbling dead in space. As the blast wave also approached them the Colossus also jumped leaving the reminits of the Cylons to pick up the pieces.