It took awhile for Tigh to get the CIC quiet again after the Macross's Big Fracking Gun fired and destroyed two baseships, wiping out hundreds of Cylon fighters and missiles for kilometers along the beam path.
"Commander, I have Macross on scrambler." Petty Officer Dulla said,
"Over here, Dee." Adama picked up the phone. "Adama here."
"Commander Adama, I have distressing news. The Macross can't fold, the main cannon overloaded the new conduits."
"How long till you are FTL capable?" Adama asked.
"A few hours if we push it but we can't fold very far and we're looking at six weeks for total repair." The tension in Gloval's voice was very evident, even through the translation software.
With a heavy sigh of, "Understood," Adama hung up the phone and turned to Dulla. "Dee get me the president and Cain."
"Aye, sir. Sir, Apollo is reporting a problem on the Olympic Carrier."
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(Location: Cat's Eye AWAC Tiger One; Near Olympic Carrier)
"Tiger One, what the frak are you doing !?" Apollo shouted.
"I'm not writing them off yet, Apollo." Turning to his back-seater he said, "We're going to scan the hell out of this ship to look for anything remotely out of the ordinary."
The Cat's eye made several passes of Olympic Carrier at very close quarters.
"Got something, some sort of object attached on the hull; port side aft just in front of the engine cluster. Can't get close enough to see it. Skull One, we need a hand over here!"
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(Location: Colonial One)
A four way 'telephone' conference was going on between President Roslin and Commanders Adama, Cain and Captain Gloval.
"So the Olympic carrier has been compromised," Roslin stated. She rubbed the bridge of her nose and reseated her glasses. "What are our options?"
"We take the ship..." Gloval said brusquely. "One of our Cat's Eye and Valkyries have found some sort of parasite mine attached to the Olympic Carrier."
"Where?" Cain asked. The last time the Cylons had tried this particular trick was back during the first war.
"Above the lower engine cluster, it set off the Valkyrie's radiological alarm."
"Disarming a nuke is going to be a nasty prospect," Adama said solemnly.
"Then we don't disarm it, Commander Adama, we negate it. Madam President, if we can capture the Olympic Carrier intact we can relieve some of the overcrowding on some of this ships in the fleet. A Valkyrie can destroy or remove the mine and then we send in Marines to secure the ship," Gloval suggested in his gruff manner.
Audacious tactics were something of the norm for Captain Gloval, the other leaders had found. But when you didn't have a lot of experience, you had to have someone in charge that was will to think outside the box.
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(Location: Battlestar Pegasus 109 - CIC)
"Richards, prep the Marines for boarding operations. We're taking back the Olympic Carrier."
"Yes, sir!" The XO grimaced; the fatigue was catching up too him from the previous battles.
"And I'm supposed to be the ambitious one," Cain muttered.
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(Location: Near Olympic Carrier)
"Repeat that again, Lisa?" Roy asked looking down at the small COM window on his HUD. He had always wondered why that feature was in the communications system. Now he knew it was to tell if you were given an order or if some one was playing a prank. Even if the order sounded insane.
"Remove the mine from that ship, "Lisa repeated.
Roy looked at the mine. The mine was about the size of the battleloid's fist and looked like it was a box covered with thrusters with several spider-looking arms embedding themselves into the hull of the of the Carrier.
Claudia moved over to Lisa's station looking over Lisa's shoulder. "Don't tell me you are scared, Roy?"
"No, I just want to make sure we're clear you want me to futz around with an alien nuclear weapon." After a second, Roy smiled with a devil may care grin. "Roger, I'm removing the nuke now. Tiger One, Skull Squadron and Galactica patrol; clear the area."
Skull One's four head-lasers rotated and got to work. That's when the Olympic Carrier engines roared to life, Roy's Valkyrie nearly smashed into the engine pods. Fortunately Roy steadied his battloid and continued cutting.
"Skull One, abort-abort-abort! It's heading for the Macross!!" Lisa ordered in calm voice.
"I'm not... There got it!!" With surprising speed Roy grabbed the mine and threw it over the Valkyrie's shoulder.
Starbuck came in at full burn with a tight cork-screw turn. She peppered the nuke with her rail-gun rounds now that is was far enough away from anything important. Just in case it blew, of course . "WAHOOOO!" she screamed as the conventional ordinance exploded.
"One problem solved. Now how do we stop this thing?" Apollo asked as he followed her in another loop towards the accelerating ship.
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