52 days cylon war
Kobol orbit
UNSC Hawaii
Dr Gaius Baltar was shocked awake as his eyes snapped open he looked around in confusion as the buzzing in his head caused another wave of nausea. Did he drink too much? No… the last thing he remembered was boarding the strange ship that had come to rescue him and the others from the cylons on Kobol then back.
He blinked a few times as the buzzing subsided and the breath caught in his lungs no….no… he looked around…nononononononononononononoono
He swore he would never come back to this frakking place "Gaius honey wake up!" came a voice from somewhere hearing it sent shivers down his spine "your breakfast is ready and your father needs your help." Jenny Baltar his mom called….
He rushed to the mirror and looked at himself to see his seventeen year old self looking at the calendar. His breath hitched this was the day…..
There was a crash outside and screams Gaius took off at a run already knowing what had happened.
His older brother Thomas lay pinned under a milk pasteurizer screaming blood pouring from his lips begging for help Gaius stood there petrified unable to move even as his father looked up from trying to lift the heavy tank "Gaius move your godsdamn ass and HELP ME!"
Gaius blinked and he was at the funeral, his mom and dad standing there crying as Thomas was lowered into the grave.
In a heartbeat months pass and he can feel his parents' hatred of him smoldering under the surface he always sleeps in staying up late reading the latest in CapricaTechnology magazines and books on coding. Causing his big brother to step up and work more rto cover for him.
Then the day of his eighteenth birthday he took what little money he had and packed a bag and left late at night as his parents slept and never looked back on the Baltar Dairy farm.
Using the money he had he bought a one way trip to Caprica where thanks to his Information Technology teacher he had already been hired as a consultant for Caprica's Police Force as a computer analyst.
The next three years flew by when his coding was scouted by the colonial military and he found himself working for the government designing a new command protocol for the fleet but he could never get them to work and that's where he encountered Katie Malcoms in a bar where he was drinking his frustration away looking at the binary code trying to figure out how he screwed up. Then laughter he turned to look and saw the most beautiful woman he had ever seen
For two years they had been lovers she had helped fix the coding issues
Then the bombs fell, she was a cylon and he could see her in his mind randomly. Her help had been fixing the code but also going behind his back and installing backdoor codes.
Through the windows of the raptor off Caprica he saw the planet burning as the cylons began killing every human they could. In space they passed multiple battlestars just shut down flash frozen bodies of crewmen sucked out of ships as the airlocks opened. Pilots in vipers and raptors that had been shut down beating on the windows of their canopies screaming soundlessly for help.
Gaius was shocked again this time to find himself strapped to a chair with multiple lines into his arms and a band over his head. He couldn't see anything. The room was pitch black.
"How interesting" a digitized voice said from all around him.
"W ... .who a ... .are you? Wh..what do you want?" Gaius stammered out straining to turn his head to look around to no avail.
"That doesn't really matter," the machine voice said. "What does matter is the implant has been removed and you won't be seeing your machine girlfriend anymore."
"Implant? What implant?" Gaius asked "I'll have you know every piece of me is human."
The mechanical voice chuckled as a sweeping red light appeared about a foot away from his feet "you know your lover Kaitie Malcoms was a cylon and she has been projecting herself and voice into your consciousness you are a relatively intelligent human Dr. Baltar you have known she was a cylon since the day the bombs dropped." the voice said Baltar's eyes locked on its red sweeping eye as it stepped forward showing itself to be a glisuming cylon.
Gaius's eyes shot open in panic and fear "no nononono" he said trying to get away but unable to move the sudden smell of ammonia filling his nose as the warm liquid spread across his seat "no i had no idea this is what they were planning."
The Cylon took a step closer raising his razor sharp hand. "Your usefulness is at an end."
Gaius felt the tears well up in his eyes and felt his body go limp in terror as he slipped into the safety of the subconscious.
POV shift
Lieutenant Commander Mathew Reading sighed as Dr. Gaius Baltar pissed himself and passed out hitting the backspace key on his computer and the cylon that was hooked into up immediately powered down and stood frozen in place armored talons still raised upright.
"So it appears the implant's fragment code history was correct." Mathew said turning to his hello ONI operator Lieutenant Samual Wright.
It appears so sir." Wright replied with an annoyed look. "The fragment of the corrupted AI was filled to near rampancy with religious text and old cylon codes and information."
Once the ODSTs on Kobol radioed with a passenger manifest with Baltar's name on it their retrieval pelican had been diverted to the Hawaii for emergency medical care for the Colonial marine with 1st and 2nd degree burns over seventy three percent of his body.
"Too bad the Tech's haven't figured out how to get these things fully remote control yet." Mathew said having the machine hop on one leg while clapping his hands together.
"They are working on it sir." said Samual "we have nearly twenty thousand ready and waiting for the possibility these cylons do have sophisticated robotics. Perhaps if we have the chance it would be worth capturing one of their factories it would help the war against the covenant. Remote control troops unafraid who don't feel pain, hunger, sadness, or exhaustion."
"true ." conceded Mathew "rather than giving them their own intelligence, having them remote controlled will remove the chance of repeating the colonial mistepps."
"So would you agree that Baltar was nothing more than a horny idiot who almost sold his species out without even knowing it?" asked Samual
Mathew looked over the piss stained man lying unconscious thinking about it "yeah, unfortunately his upbringing in the sticks of Aerilon made him smarter than the average farmer but not enough to code a navigation program by himself." he used the computer to have the cylon machine poke Baltar a few times in the chest with the barrel of the wrist mounted machine guns. "So that's what my report will say to Captain Jackson, and let the Colonial government decide what to do."
MedBay
UNSC Able
Commander William Adama sat in his bed eating lunch enjoying every bite of bacon, eggs, toast, and the Coffee! Dwindling stores fleet wide of everything from food to luxury items like coffee and even chocolate. Had drawn down the morale of the entire fleet. The botanical cruiser Eden, the fleet's only agriculture ship, had filled its twelve domes with crops but there were no animals other than small birds. As Adama held a strip of bacon up to admire it he thought back to the last time he had even had bacon. Two weeks after the attacks the Galactica sharing its massive stores of food with the rest of the fleet had still ordered strict rationing to ensure the fleet didn't starve. The officer mess had served a single scrambled egg, a single piece of toast and a single strip of bacon that morning and watered down coffee.
He ate the bacon slowly relishing the crunch and grease. A knock at the door startled him as he swallowed and washed it down with a cup of strong coffee. Once he could talk he called out "Enter"
The door of his private room opened and Kara came in followed by Tigh and Lee.
"Hey son." Adama said holding out his hand just in time to fly over Lee's shoulder as he abandoned his discipline and came in for a hug
Wincing but not saying anything William just hugged his son and patted his back. Over Lee's shoulder he greeted starbuck. "Morning Starbuck, what do ya hear?"
Kara's eyes began to water at the sight of him "nothin but the rain sir."
William smiled and said grab your gun and bring the cat in." completing the small ritual.
Kara just fell in on his otherside not even giving Lee a chance to get out of the way. Now stuck between both Kara and Lee all he could do was look over at Saul "Colonel good to see you."
Saul looked at the three for a second and as he reached out to tap the Commanders hand behind Apollo's back, he also fiddled with the beaded chain with his tags around his neck.
Face still buried in his shoulder drowning his shoulder in tears, Kara found her voice "I'm sorry sir, I'm sorry for leaving you, I'm sorry i doubted you."
Adama Laughed and patted her on the back, stopping her from apologizing any more "It's fine Starbuck. You did what you thought was right."
Starbuck tried several times to say something but the tears finally made her give up. So Saul stepped up "Listen Bill, I'm glad you're ok. I can't tell you how scared I was when you took those rounds." Saul said looking at him "I don't know what I would have done if you had died."
Adama looked over Starbuck's shoulder and smiled "of course old friend, but let's put that behind us. Their Captain Jackson gave me a quick rundown of what happened while I was out. Now I want to hear from you three.
POV change
Captain Brian stood on the bridge of the Able listening to the marine and sailor parties on the ice over the Ancient human ships. Digging down was taking time but according to Genesis the ships were sealed when they were parked there and she is confident the advanced hull and shielding kept the environment out of the ships.
According to scans they were buried in almost three klicks down the teams were almost half way down. Three more days and they would be there.
"Sir we found something." came a report from one of the teams on the surface.
Brian listened and it was too early to have found the human ship. "I'm not sure how this is possible." The marine said his video was directed at a patch of green metal sticking out of the ice they had been digging into. The marine used a gloved hand to brush the snow and ice off a chunk of the metal and the image of the UNSC logo became visible.
The marine was about to say something but then stopped. "Everyone freeze! Did anyone else hear that?"
The background noise of machinery and work came to a stop only for the marine to place his head next to the metal listening he tapped a challenge
Tap tap taptap
Brian recognized it as a ODST nonverbal low tech challenge. Brian doesn't know why but he leans forward listening just as hard as the marine.
Tap taptap tap
Brian's jaw dropped "how in the hell did a Pelican end up here much less buried in almost a klick of ice?"
Aaron shook his head "I have no idea sir." to the marine he said "tap for identification lets see who we are dealing with."
The marine began tapping. When he was finished they leaned his head down to listen again and began translating the response taps
"Corporal Jason Sands Marines 405th Infantry Division
Staff Sergeant Greg Williams Marines 405th Infantry Division
Petty Officer David palm Navy UNSC In Amber Clad
More tapes continued "they have been trapped here for three days according to implants they are out of food and need help."
"Ask them how they got here?" said brian
Taps
Reply taps "they don't know they were dealing with a covenant attack on….earth. Mombasa."
Earth was under attack…. Brian's heart dropped "Dig them out we need more information."
The marine tapped hold on
A single tap answered him as they set about digging the pelican out.
Inside the pelican a nightmare smiled
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Authors note
Hey guys hope your still enjoying the series so far i hope everyone enjoyed the reunion of starbuck with lee and Adama i hope i gave it justice. As for the end if you know your lore be excited or terrified hell maybe be both thats all im going to say.
Also im thinking of starting a interactive BSG online game story with fans if any are interested
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