Disclaimers: 'Battlestar Galactica', Adama, Tigh, Starbuck. Apollo, Cassiopeia and the others are owned by Universal City Studios, USA. Jason, Bri, Aaron and Cronus are mine.
A Killer Revealed, A Killer Unknown
by
AJ Marks
Cassiopia quickly got up from where she was sitting along with the doctor to where Apollo was helping his father into the room. The commander was clutching his chest and it was obvious that he had some pains, which could be related to a heart attack.
The doctor quickly ran over to help Apollo bring Adama into the room and lay him down on the examination table. Cassiopia quickly ran over and took a blood sample for analysis if Ithian was in his blood stream.
Sticking the sample into the computer it would tell in a short second if the poison was in the commander's blood stream and whether or not they could administer the antidote. If the antidote was given and the poison was not in the blood it was just as lethal. Cassiopia dreaded what she saw. There was a spike indicating that Ithian was in the blood stream and nodded to the doctor.
He went over to the medical cabinet and using his keys unlocked it. Looking around he found the antidote and began to measure the amount that would probably be needed to counter the poison. The hardest part was that no one ever knew how the person would react to the antidote and poison. Some people would lie in a comatose stated for a couple of days while others would feel weak and not able to move around while the agents countered each other.
"Commander, you've been poisoned, Ithian." Cassiopia told the two men while the doctor was at the cabinet. Apollo just stared at her in shock, how would they even know to look for that poison, a person would have to know in advanced in order to properly treat it.
"How do you know this?" Apollo asked as the doctor walked back over to the table to begin administering the only known antidote.
"I was told by one of your new recruits that he overheard conversation that someone was going to use Ithian to kill someone, so we've been keeping our eyes out for anyone who showed the symptoms." Cassiopia replied as she hooked up the monitoring systems to Adama.
Adama had been listening to the conversation and could not think who could have had access to him to put the poison in to his blood, but he did figure that it would have had to occur in the cafeteria. He would think about who was behind it later as he knew that there many who did not share his ideas and opinions. He wondered who would have had the strength to try something like this.
Apollo knew that Tigh would have to informed right away, as he would be the acting commander of the fleet until his father recovered. Very few people had ever survived a poisoning by Ithian and he knew that he would have to investigate who and why. The why might be easier than the who Apollo realize.
"Dad, I need to go talk to Starbuck, you're in good hands here." Apollo said looking up at Cassiopia who understood the message and told him that if there were any change she would contact him right away.
Apollo walked out of the med lab towards the bunks of the fighter pilots where he knew Starbuck would be. Entering the room he noticed that there were several people asleep and Starbuck was sitting with Boomer and another pilot playing pyramids.
"Starbuck, I need to talk to you in private, now." Apollo said to his friend.
"Okay." Starbuck said knowing that it was useless to argue when Apollo used that type of tone in his voice, and it usually meant one of two things. It was either something that he did not want to do, or something was seriously wrong.
"Okay, what's up Apollo?" Starbuck said, as they were alone.
"Father's been poisoned." Apollo told him and watched as Starbuck's face registered both shock and the knowledge that he already knew.
"Ithian. So your father was the target." Starbuck said in a calm voice. "Lets get Jason, Boomer and Aaron over here. We'll need some help and I think that Jason and Aaron will have some good clues for us."
"Okay, I'll meet you in Tigh's ready room then." Apollo said as the two friends went in different directions, Apollo went to tell Tigh as Starbuck went to gather their friends and allies, as Starbuck put it.
It was several minutes later that the four men walked into Commander Tigh's ready room. Tigh had already been told and was wondering what these two new pilots knew about the plot.
"Your are probably wondering why you are here, but before I do you must remember that everything that you hear here is strictly confidential, understand." Tigh said watching as two heads nodded, Tigh was not concerned about Boomer as he had already proved himself time and again. "Okay, just a short while ago Commander Adama was poisoned, I have already heard that he will probably recover, but he will be out for about a week."
"It was Ithian, wasn't it?" Jason said watching as the commander's eyes focus on him. "I overheard someone in the landing bay talk about an assignation using Ithian."
"He told Cassie and I while we were eating, that's how come the doctor knew to look for it." Starbuck said. "The problem was we did not know who the target was, and you were training some of the new recruits." He said anticipating Apollo's question.
"So you just knew that someone was going to use Ithian to kill someone, but they never said who?" Tigh asked Jason who nodded his head.
"Did you see anyone?" Boomer asked.
"No, but I did bump into someone just before entering the cafeteria that sounded like one of the men, but I never saw his face." Jason said.
"I got a brief glance at it, but there was nothing out of the ordinary about the man." Aaron said speaking up for the first time.
"So we have one person who has heard their voices, and another one who has glimpsed at a suspect, wonderful!" Apollo said with a sarcastic voice.
"Hey, we've had worse." Starbuck reminded his friend who reluctantly agreed.
"I think that the first thing that we should do is not announce that the commander was poisoned, but suffered a heart attack and is resting under observation for the next couple of days, that would allow us time to start an investigation." Commander Tigh said to the group. It seemed like the most logical choice to everyone. To announce that he had been poisoned would allow who ever was responsible to cover his or hers tracks.
"I know Cassie will go along with this, and I'm sure that we can get the doctor in on it as well." Starbuck said knowing that Adama was a father figure for Cassie as well as Starbuck himself.
""I don't want them to have another chance." Apollo stated. "And I really don't want to have Athena concerned, she already has a lot of pressure on her with all of the moving that's being done."
"I'll be sure to keep an eye on her." Boomer said, leaving an unsaid thought that there might also be attempts on Apollo and Athena as well.
"Here's what I'm going to do." Commander Tigh said. "At the moment I'm in charge of the fleet and there is a lot of work that still needs to be done, so I'm going to put you five in charge of this secret investigation."
"We can do that." Jason said knowing that he and Aaron were going to be the prime witnesses for it. He knew that there were at least two people involved, if not more.
"How are you feeling commander?" Cassiopia said from beside the bed as she checked his vital signs.
"Like a battlestar just ran over me, and I have a feeling that I'm going to be feeling this way for a while." Adama said to her.
"You were lucky that one of the recruits overheard someone saying that they were going to use Ithian for an assignation, we didn't think that it would be you though." Cassie said honestly.
"I've got many enemies in the fleet, as well as allies, but I don't think that you should tell anyone else about this. Give my son and your boyfriend time to find the killers." Adama said and Cassiopia understood what he was saying. "I'll need to speak with Commander Tigh as soon as he has a spare moment."
"I'll tell him, in the meantime you rest, it will help you heal quicker." Cassiopia said walking over to where the doctor was.
"He should be able to leave in a couple of days, but I would like to hold him for a few more so that he gets the rest that is needed for a full recovery." The doctor said to Cassiopia.
"The poison had not gone far into his system yet had it?" She asked him.
"No, it does take some time for the poison to start to work, he really did suffer a slight heart attack." The doctor said. "So we won't be telling any lies if he doesn't want us to tell anyone yet."
"I didn't know that." She replied in wonder thinking that the beginnings of the attack probably either saved his life of prevented a longer recovery time. The commander was indeed a lucky man.
Commander Tigh walked onto the bridge of his ship, something that was still strange to him. The battlestar had arrived at the fleet and the Galactica was being looked over by the construction computer at the asteroid to ascertain the time that would be required to make repairs to the ship. He also did not like the next part of what he ad to do. While Commander Adama was in sickbay he would be taking over his friend's role at the council, and there were bound to be some hard decisions. At least Adama was awake and he could talk to him about certain things.
"Commander, report coming in from Omega over the fleet line." The operator said.
"Put it through." Tigh replied and watched as Omega appeared on the screen. "What's the report Omega?"
"The construction computer says that it can be done in a couple of days, the only problem is that we have to wait for either the refueling to finish or stop refueling the tankers and work on the Galactica." Omega replied.
"A couple of days." Tigh said pondering the news. "The refueling of the tankers is the most important thing, we'll see what happens afterwards and where the fleet is, and I don't want to slow down the fleet anymore than necessary. Keep the Galactica there and wait for further orders."
They had forgotten that having two battlestars in the asteroid would block the refueling area that the tankers were using. He also knew that waiting, or slowing down the fleet would allow for the Theseus to be completed. There would be a massive amount of recruiting that would need to be done before everything would be ready, but if everything went like the first round of recruits then it would be a smooth process.
Tigh did some mental calculations in his head, if they could refuel all of the ships and the tankers, it should only take a day, then the work on the Galactica could start, and by the time the Galactica would be ready then the Theseus would be ready and they would have three battlestars to protect the fleet.
Apollo and Aaron spent time walking around the Agamemnon looking at people hoping to run into the person that Aaron could recognize from the cafeteria. So far all they had found was a few people and a couple of other recruits including a few from the pilots. There was also a new inflow of recruits that was beginning to come on board.
"So how does it feel to now be part of the veterans?" Apollo asked Aaron as they passed a group of fresh recruits being led to their bunks.
"For being only two days it feels strange." Aaron replied.
"Well, we're going to be counting on that first group to handle themselves better and be the leader for the groups coming in, because guys like Starbuck and I are going to be spread real thin." Apollo replied.
"We'll be ready." Aaron said.
"That's good, because you are going to be having patrol real shortly." Apollo said as they passed another group.
"Wait a minute." Aaron said glancing back to the group they just passed. "I think that the one leading that group was the one." Aaron said.
"Are you sure?" Apollo said having recognized the man leading the group.
"Pretty sure." Aaron replied.
"He's a maintenance person." Apollo replied. "Lets go see Boomer and Jolly."
The two men found Boomer and Jolly just getting off from patrol duty and Apollo knew that their turn would be next.
"Hey guys!" Boomer said as the approached them. "What's going on?" He asked seeing their faces.
"We think that we have a lead in the case of who tried to poison my father." Apollo said to him getting both Jolly's and Boomer's attention.
"Jason and I ran into a guy running out of the cafeteria as we were walking in." Aaron replied.
"It's Zarron." Apollo said. "Would you keep an eye on him to see what happens. They will be making a report that my father had a slight heart attack and only a few trusted people know the truth, you and Jolly, Tigh, Starbuck, Cassiopia, the doctor Aaron, Jason and myself. So anyone else who knows had to be part of the attempt on his life."
"I be sure to keep an eye on him to see if anything happens. He might panic and run to the brains behind the whole thing." Boomer replied.
"Right!" Apollo replied. "Well, come on kid, time to get you wings." Apollo replied giving Aaron a slap on the back.
"Right behind you." Aaron replied both excited and nervous.
Aaron walked onto the launch bay where all of the vipers were. The one he was about to get into was brand new and had never been flown before. That thought made him just a bit nervous about take off. The vipers gleamed white in the lights of the bay and looked larger than he had originally thought that they would.
"Nervous?" Apollo said slapping him on his back.
"Yeah, a bit." Aaron said still trying to get over his nervousness.
"You'll forget all about it when you get out there." Apollo said remembering just about everyone's first launch. They would be nervous at first, but after their first glance out into space they would forget all about their nerves and they would be fine.
Apollo watched as his new wing mate climbed into the cockpit and the canopy lowered into place. He watched as Aaron gave a thumbs up sign saying that he was ready to go.
"All set." Apollo said and received a conformation in reply.
""Core command to viper patrol." Aaron heard his sister's voice say. He heard Apollo reply and knew that he had to reply as well.
"Viper scout two ready." Aaron said following Apollo's lead.
"Core command transferring controls to viper patrol, launch when ready." Bri's voice said.
Aaron watched as Apollo's viper vanished down the launch tube in flame and smoke and he looked at the launch button. His thumb pressed the button and he was pushed back by several G-forces as his fighter accelerated down the launch bay. Then just as quickly the G-forces lessened and he was staring out into the vastness of space under his own control.
"Wow!" He said out loud to himself. It was surprisingly beautiful for something that was mostly empty. The stars seemed crisper than he ever remembered.
"Stay sharp." Apollo said knowing what Aaron was going through. "We still have a job to do."
"Sorry sir!" Aaron replied knowing that Apollo was only stating the truth.
"Don't worry about it, we all have done that." Apollo said. "Stay with me and follow my lead."
Aaron made the turn with Apollo as they started their patrol around the back part of the fleet.
Boomer and Jolly walked past the janitorial room glancing inside as they went past. They were looking for a certain man, and were waiting to find him then tell Starbuck that he had been found before Tigh made the announcement through the ship about the condition of Adama. They were hoping to spook the man into leading them to who was actually behind the scheme. If Jason had heard correctly then there was more than one person involved in the operation and they wanted to capture the head guy.
Boomer and Jolly radioed in that they had made visual contact with the suspect and that Tigh could make his announcement. The two men only had to wait a few moments until the report came over the intercom that Commander Adama had suffered a heart attack, but was resting comfortably in the med lab. Until he was able to return to his command position Tigh would be in command of the fleet.
Boomer watched as the man visibly stiffened at the news about Commander Adama. The man was obviously not real pleased with the news. He quickly looked nervously around to see if anyone was watching. Boomer was well hidden so the man did not see him.
The man then left the room in a bit of a hurry. Boomer had to walk quickly to catch up to the man and not lose sight of him. He would continue to follow him until someone else spotted him and Boomer would stop. They had positioned their people all over the ship, but only those they could trust. Boomer just wished that Apollo was with them instead of flying patrol. But they had decided that if Apollo suddenly skipped out of patrol duty who ever they were after might get nervous.
Boomer kept the man in sight as he walked out of the room. They went down a few corridors before he noticed Jason. They nodded to each other and Boomer walked a different way allowing Jason to follow the man.
Jason was a bit nervous, but he did hide it very well. He had seen the man walk into his area and with a quick nod to Boomer to let him know that he had seen their target started to follow the man. He walked a bit further to a communications area and noticed that called someone. He could not tell who the man had called and after the call the man walked out of the room, still nervous.
He then walked down to some of the quarters and picked something up from his quarters and then walked back to where he came from.
Boomer picked the man back up and watched as he put something in one of the trash receptacles. He did not think anything about it until he noticed that Jason walked over to it and motioned Boomer over.
"What's up?" Boomer said rather quickly not wanting his man to get away.
"I think that our man is trying to get rid of any evidence." Jason said just as quickly.
"Let Colonel Tigh know and stay here, don't let anyone near the trash, I'm going to continue to follow our man." Boomer said then disappeared out of sight leaving Jason there by himself.
"Colonel Tigh, Ensign Jason here." Jason said into the intercom to the bridge.
"Tigh here, what is it ensign?" Tigh said wondering what was going on. He had not heard anything since his first message about Adama and that their target was on the move.
"I'm here next to the trash in corridor six, we think out target decided to get rid of some of the evidence in here." Jason said. "Boomer is still following the target."
"Okay, I'll send a team down there to recover it, Starbuck should be headed your way now." Tigh said as he watched the lieutenant walk off the bridge.
"Yes sir!" Jason replied. He did not have to wait to long before Starbuck showed up.
"In here?" He asked to which Jason nodded his head. Starbuck and Jason did not have to wait to long before a maintaince person came. The two of them waited for a bit while the man retrieved a small item that was unusual for that trash receptacle.
Starbuck took the small vial carefully and warned the maintaince man that if he felt any symptoms of a heart attack to report to a medial bay right away and mention Ithian poisoning. The man paled a bit at the news at took off like he had been bit.
"Lets get this to the lab quickly," Starbuck said wrapping the small vial carefully in plastic to avoid any more incrementing marks on it. The med lab would be able to determine more about what it was and who it belonged to then anything else.
Starbuck hoped that they would be able to trace who the man had called, but with so many calls it would be very hard to do, and security on intership calls were even harder to track. If it had been to another ship they might be able to track down a passenger list for that time period, but anything more than that would be hard to do.
"Do you think that will open the case up a bit," Jason asked Starbuck as they walked into the lab.
"I hope so," Starbuck said handing the small vial to Cassiopia who placed it on the scanner. It was then that they noticed the maintenance man who had recovered the vial was in the room. Starbuck tilted his head towards the man with a question on his face to Cassiopia.
"Came in complaining that someone was poisoning him with Ithian," Cassiopia said with a shrug of her shoulders.
"He was the one who recovered the vial Cass," Starbuck said.
"That's good, if it is Ithian, then I want each of you to receive the anti-toxin just in case." Cassiopia said with some concern in her voice.
It took the computer a few minutes to analyze the trace amount of mixture that had remained in the vial. A screen indicated the results and they had their answer. The vial did contain Ithian poison and Cassiopia gave each of them a shot of anti-toxin just in case. The poison usually had to be ingested, but there had been rare cases of it being absorbed through the skin.
"Well now we know he was part of the plan, the next step is to track down who his companion is." Starbuck said hoping that Boomer was able to track own the call.
"This is not good news," Tigh said as he listened to the report that Boomer and Starbuck gave. They now figured that they had enough information to bring in the known man and charge him with attempted murder, and hope that the man cracked and gave up the name of the others involved.
"The only thing I was able to determined was that the communications was to another ship, the Hilos. I have a ship list coming in now from the captain, but I don't think that it will matter." Boomer said knowing that the Hilos was another entertainment ship with people coming and going all the time.
"It will narrow down the list, and maybe we can correlate with who was aboard the Agamemnon at the same time as Jason was." Tigh said, knowing that it was a long shot.
"We'll work on it, but I think that out strongest hope will be questioning our subject and see who's pulling the strings," Starbuck said.
"Get on it and keep me informed," Tigh ordered headed back to the bridge.
Boomer, Starbuck, Jolly and Jason all acknowledge the order and watched as Tigh left the room for the bridge. Starbuck wondered who could have the nerve to try an assignation of Adama, and who would benefit from it the most.
"I'll send a couple of guards to arrest our friend," Starbuck said and the others nodded as he left the room.
"Come on, we've got come lists to go through, and they won't get done just sitting there." Boomer said to the other two who groaned a bit but got up and left with Boomer.
Starbuck walked into the ready room and noticed who was still there. Sheba was sitting at the table resting until her next patrol time. Starbuck walked right up to the table and did not wait for her to notice him before he asked her if she could help him.
"Does this have anything to do with what's going on around here?" She asked her voice a whisper.
"What do you mean?" Starbuck asked back not wanting to give away to much information while looking around to see who was in the room. Most were Silver Spar squadron, and he felt that he could trust them.
"We've all been hearing rumors that Adama is not as well as the news is saying, that and we can't get in there to see him." Sheba replied knowing that as she had tried to see the commander to talk to him but was turned away by the doctor telling her that he needed his rest.
"Commander Adama was actually poisoned." Starbuck said and the statement echoed across the room. There were looks of shock on the pilot's faces as the news was heard. "We don't really know who's behind it yet, but I'm going to arrest the one who we think did it, and I was hoping that you could help me, and what I've told you needs to be kept quiet." Starbuck said watching, as everyone understood the news.
"Of course I'll go." Sheba said getting up from the table to join Starbuck. A few others wanted to join as well, but Sheba told them to stay and keep their eyes and ears open for anything that could be used to find out who was responsible for the attack.
"Where was Bojay?" Starbuck asked as they left the room.
"He's getting ready for patrol with one of the new recruits, I believe his name is Cronus." Sheba replied. Starbuck nodded his head remembering the name. Starbuck thought that the new recruits showed remarkable promise.
The two went down a couple of different corridors before coming to a room. Starbuck put his hand on his weapon as he opened the door. Sheba followed Starbuck's lead and scanned the room for any trouble while Starbuck looked for their suspect.
"Frak!" Starbuck said as he walked into the empty room, well almost empty.
Sheba glanced around Starbuck and saw what he was looking at. "Is that the guy?" She asked looking at the figure lying on the ground motionless.
"Yeah, but it looks like someone got to him first." Starbuck said bending down over the body to see if the man was really dead. A check of his pulse confirmed that the man was dead and Starbuck knew that an autopsy would have to be done.
"What did you do?" A question come from behind them as they both spun around to see another worker walk in the door.
"Did you see anyone come in or out?" Starbuck asked the man who shook his head no.
Starbuck walked over to the intercom and informed Cassiopia of the bad news and if she could get a team down to the room to begin the investigation, then he called security and informed them of the murder. Something he was sure of.
It took a few minutes before Starbuck and Sheba could leave the area. Both were subdued in their attitude. Starbuck knew that they were now back at square one, with little to go on but a call that the man did several minutes ago. He went back to tell the others the bad news whole Sheba went back to her squadron promising only to inform those who she felt were loyal.
Aaron gently lined up the viper for the landing on the Agamemnon's landing bay. The entire patrol had been a wonderful experience and for a while both he and Apollo had forgotten about the problems waiting for them when they got back. Apollo had run Aaron through a gauntlet of situations and even one attack run on an asteroid nearby.
Aaron had learned quite a bit that might one day save his life in real combat. He was determined to learn everything he could from his instructors, it would greatly increase his odds of surviving a battle. Aaron still could not get over how beautiful space was. He had seen it before when he was on a shuttle, or through a window, but this was different. He was able to control where he was going, and he could see more.
Aaron had taken a moment to observe the white armor of the Agamemnon as he flew past to line up with the landing bay. The immense size of the ship astonished him still. This was the ship he wanted to serve aboard, and he felt that this is what it was like for Apollo and the others for the Galactica.
Aaron touched down without any problems as the fighter came to a stop. Maintenance crews gathered around the viper to begin moving it to the launch tube and running it through its proper checks to make sure nothing broke down during the patrol.
Aaron handed his helmet to a nearby crewmember and quickly talked to the head crewman. Aaron told the man that he had noticed nothing wrong, but that it was his first flight so he was not sure what would be considered normal, and what was not normal. The man nodded in understanding and told him that he would take care of it.
"So, how was it?" Apollo asked Aaron as they stepped onto the lift.
"Exciting. You don't see that much from the cockpit of a shuttle, that's for sure." Aaron said as the lift lifted up taking them to the living area of the Agamemnon.
"That's true, but then again, you're not transporting twenty or so people around the fleet either. The only time you fly around and see all of the ships of the fleet are when you're in combat. And then your too busy to look at them, some are truly beautiful ships." Apollo told him.
"That's true, the Rising Star is an example of that," Aaron said remembering his shuttle experience to the ship.
They got off the lift and were greeted with the sight of Boomer, Jolly and Jason hovering over lists talking to themselves.
"Take a seat," Boomer said to the two of them motioning for them to have a seat at the table.
"What's up with all of this?" Apollo asked knowing that it had to do with the attempt on his father's life.
"We found the man who we think is responsible for the poisoning attempt. He made a call to the Hilos, and who also know that Jason heard the conversation aboard the Agamemnon, so we are trying to correlate who was where, and when to narrow down the list of suspects." Jolly told Apollo form where he was looking at his list.
"There's only one problem, there's quiet a few of them, it seems that the council went to Hilos to take up temporary quarters while the Galactica is undergoing repairs, several of them shuttled over to the Agamemnon, along with several of their staff members." Boomer said.
"How big is the list?" Apollo asked.
"At the moment, we're at twenty-three people, including five council members." Jason said looking up for the first time rubbing his eyes.
"Where's Cronus?" Aaron asked wondering where the other friend of theirs was.
"He took your sister out to eat then went on patrol with Bo-Jay," Jason answered a bit too quickly.
"Just wondering," Aaron answered figuring out a piece of a puzzle. Jason also like his sister, this would be interesting, he just hoped that the friendship they had formed would last.
Starbuck walked into the room looking a bit sullen. Everyone waited to hear what he had to say before they began to form their own conclusions about the face that he wore.
"It seems our friend was killed before we were able to arrest him." Starbuck said to the group leaving them stunned.
"How?" Apollo asked.
"The doctors are doing the autopsy right now, we should know within the next day or so." Starbuck said breaking the news to the group. "It seems that no one saw what happened. His friends said that he appeared healthy when they left, and when they got back from their duty he was found lying on the ground dead."
"Great," Aaron muttered thinking that all that the group had done was in vain.
"Actually its better than before, at least we know that whoever is in charge knows that we are on to him, or her, and we are close enough to make them nervous." Apollo said thinking about the entire situation. Something was there that they were overlooking, but what it was eluded him at the moment.
"Chances are they probably won't make another attempt for a while now that we are on alert, so that would give us some time to go through all of this information." Jason said from where he was sitting still looking at the names in front of him.
"Yeah, five council member and their staff, not exactly a group that we can just go around accusing of murder," Boomer said stating the obvious.
"Maybe not, but we can keep an eye on them, and look out for any that appear to be hostile to your father." Starbuck said.
"Well, my father won't be out of the med lab for another couple of days, and we have duties to perform, I suggest that we keep a low profile and not talk about any of this in public." Apollo said. "We have a battlestar to prepare and crew." He told them walking over to the bunks. "I'm going to visit my father for a while and then get some shut eye, I suggest you do the same, we have a full day tomorrow."
"I'll go with you Apollo." Starbuck said as the two men walked out of the room.
"I'm going to grab something to eat, anyone want anything?" Aaron asked the three at the table. After getting their orders he left the room headed to the cafeteria.
"The job is complete." The voice said over the intercom.
"Very well, we will lay low for a while. Adama's son will be looking for another attack real soon, we have time still." The other man said. "Wait for my orders before doing anything else."
"Yes sir!" The other one said before signing off.
'So, you thought that you are safe Adama, well we'll see about that.' The man thought to himself. 'You are not going to be able to meet with the council for the next couple of days, so I have accomplished part of my plan. I will run this fleet, soon.'
The end.
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