The story goes A/U after the episode Resurrection Ship part II.

Helena Cain stood on the CIC of Pegasus anxiously looking at the DRADIS screen directly over her, She saw the two red blips which represented both the Cylon Basestars guarding the Resurrection ship retreating away from the Battlestars trying to escape impeding destruction, she felt the ground below her feet shake as a lone missile that had managed to pass through the flak screen impacted Pegasus.

"Multiple hull breaches, decks four and eight" Lt. Hoshi said from his station "Damage control crews are sealing them off now"

"Sir, Starbuck is reporting massive detonations, the Resurrection ship has been destroyed" Lt. Firelli said after taking off his headset.

The CIC then busted into applauses and cheers as people were celebrating the recent victory over the Cylons.

Suddenly three beeps were heard.

"Sir, three more Cylon Baseships just jumped into weapons range" Lt. Sorto cried from his station.

Godsdammit, it's is my imagination or the gods have a good sense of humor? Cain thought, she knew she was in a fight that they could win with heavy casualties, she thought about their chances and decided that they would win this, they may have had only two Battlestars, they were outnumbered nearly three to one, but they could win this.

"Set bow battery to nearest Baseship, fire as soon as ready" Cain ordered, a chorus of "Yes sir" followed her statement.

The ship then shook violently nearly throwing her off her feet.

"¡Report!" She said to no one in particularly.

"Two nuclear detonations, we are venting air through decks eight through fourteen" Captain Shaw said from her station.

Cain knew that a Mercury-Class Battlestar had fifty-six vertical decks, deck eight housed the crew quarters, at least casualties wouldn't be so bad because most of the crew was at their stations, what she was worried about is that deck fourteen was only two decks below the CIC of the massive ship, that meant that if the DC teams didn't hurry up, she and all of the CIC crew would die of vacuum exposure.

"Sir, bow battery reports they are ready to fire" Shaw said.

"Fire" Cain ordered.

The ship shook as a salvo of eight two hundred millimeters heavy armor piercing rounds left the bow of the massive Battlestar heading towards the nearest basestar.

As the massive rounds impacted the central axis of the Basestar, they carved holes along its surface, exposing it to vacuum killing the majority of the humanoid Cylons, after the second salvo was fired, the Basestar's arms split appart from the ship that erupted seconds later in a huge fireball.

"Sir, Basestar Alpha one has been destroyed" Shaw exclaimed from her station after seeing the red blip which represented the Basestar disappearing from the DRADIS screen at her station.

"Good, order Alpha Squadron to make a run to the nearest basestar" Cain ordered, she knew a good squadron of Vipers could smash a Basestar into a beer can, unlike most Galactica pilots, the pilots from Pegasus were the crème-de la crème of what the Colonial Fleet had to offer before the Attack.

The Galactica was pounding a Basestar with her Double Heavies when Commander William Adama felt the deck below him shake violently, he and Cain both knew that their chances against the four Baseships left weren't good, however, if they made their moves well they could get out of this one.

"Sir, we just lost Battery eight" Dee said from her station.

Dammit, he thought, "Have Damage control crews seal off magazine four" Adama ordered.

"Sir, Pegasus just took out Basestar one, Basestars three and four are trying to encircle us" Gaeta cried.

CIC shook violently as four anti-ship missiles impacted Galactica'sbow, Coronel Fisk struggled not to fall to the ground as Cmdr. Adama held onto the table directly on front of him.

"¡Sitrep" Adama said to no one in particular.

"Sir, missile impacts, we are venting air on decks one and three" Coronel Tigh explained.

"Have damage control cre-" Adama wasn't able to finish the sentence before six blips on the DRADIS signaled as "Cylon Missile" left the Basestars heading directly towards the Galactica, what Adama saw next almost gave him a heart attack.

"Sir, Radiological alarm, we have four, no, six nukes inbound, ETA is thirty seconds" Gaeta suddenly cried from his station.

Frak, Adama knew that Galactica could survive two or three nukes, but if he didn't do something now he would be greeting his son Zak on the Afterlife.

"Order emergency jump, just get us out of here" Adama ordered.

"Sir, we don't have time to calculate a jump back to the fleet" Gaeta exclaimed.

"What about the Vipers sir" Coronel Fisk asked.

"They will have to land on Pegasus" Adama said.

"¡Ten seconds to impact!" Gaeta cried

"¡Do it, Lieutenant!" Tigh shouted at the young officer.

Gaeta then imputed some random set of coordinates and pressed the key, Galactica disappeared in a bright flash of light, the nukes went through the empty space that Galactica was on seconds before.

Then the four Baseships moved on to attack Pegasus.

Helena Cain felt the deck below her shake violently as a nuke impacted Pegasus, she looked around and she saw Lt. Firelli dead, his console had exploded on him mere seconds earlier.

Then she almost had a heart attack when she saw the icon on DRADIS representing Galactica disappear from the screen.

What the hell?, she thought, "Sir, Galactica just jumped away" Cpt. Shaw said from her station with a worried look on her face.

"Admiral, the Basestars are moving to encircle us" Lieutenant Hoshi cried from his station as he saw the DRADIS beeps representing the Basestars come closer and closer to Pegasus.

"Land the Vipers, jump us back to the fleet as soon as we recover our birds" Cain ordered, she knew that a good Commander knew when to retreat, and that a very good one knew when to push a little bit harder.

"Load up missile tubes one though five with nuclear weapons" Cain said looking at Cpt. Shaw.

As Cpt. Shaw inserted her key, a thin metal plate on Pegasus' top part opened up to show four nuclear missiles housed in their respective silos waiting to be launched against the Basestars at any second, Cain knew that Pegasus was a flying bomb and that she could activate it when pleased to.

"Sir, nukes one though four have firing solutions on the Basestars" Shaw said after looking at the screen which changed the status of the nukes from "STANDOWN" to "ARMED".

"Captain, fire when ready" Cain said.

Seconds later, Shaw imputed her key and the four nukes left their silos heading directly for the Basestars, one of the nukes crashed with a Heavy Raider that was near Pegasus and detonated using its proximity fuse taking out over a hundred Raiders with them.

The other three continued their course towards the Basestars and then detonated perfectly on the spot mere seconds later, engulfing two Basestars in a huge fireball and severely damaging a third.

"Sir, Basestars four and three have been destroyed" Hoshi said after seeing the red blips on the DRADIS screen disappear.

"Land Vipers and get us out of here" Cain ordered, a chorus of "Yes sir" followed her statement.

Seconds later, the one hundred and twenty MkVII Vipers that composed the Air wing of Pegasus landed on the flight pods.

"Sir, all vipers aboard" Hoshi said.

"Jump" Cain ordered.

Seconds later, Pegasus disappeared in a bright burst of light.

Galactica reappeared in a burst of light near a nebulae, Immediately after the jump Adama could hear someone giving orders and screaming at people.

"Give me a gods dammed Sitrep!" Coronel Tigh screamed at Lieutenant Gaeta, the young officer tried to triangulate their position and could not believe what he was seeing in the screen in front of him.

"Sir, according to the NAV computers, we jumped way over the red line" Gaeta explained.

"What do you mean by way, Lieutenant?" Coronel Tigh asked.

"Sir, according to the computer, we jumped nearly two hundred light years" Gaeta answered.

"¡DRADIS Contact!" Dee suddenly said interrupting the conversation.

"How many and where?" Adama asked.

"Sir, I am getting Colonial Signals" Dee said, Adama could not believe that it could happen again, the chances of finding a surviving Colonial unit were astronomical, however, finding one over four thousand light years from the colonies was nearly impossible.

Adama saw a dozen icons with the tag "Colonial Battlestar" on them and nearly a hundred smaller contacts, he thought it was a likely trap until the speakers in the CIC came to life.

"This is the Battlestar Atlantia to Unknown Colonial vessel, please respond"

Adama looked at Tigh, impressed.

"How?" Adama muttered.