Author's note: This is my first fanfic, so please be gentle ).
Disclaimer: I do not own any part of the Robotech franchise. This is merely a fan's musings on a wonderful story.
Chapter 1
"Attention, this is Macross Island, please identify yourself and give your invitation ID code." A strong, beautiful voice called through the comm system.
"This is Rick Hunter, invitation no. 344289, requesting permission to land tower, over."
"Roger that, we confirm you as a guest of Commander Roy Fokker. Proceed to runway 13. Commander Lisa Hayes out." Replied the cool yet strong female voice from Rick's speaker.
"Roger tower, confirming runway 13, Rick Hunter, out."
'I sure would like to meet who is behind that voice' thought Rick, silently imagining a gorgeous blond walking towards him as he landed. Laughing to himself, Rick maneuvers his Mockingbird to land upon the runway.
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"He sounded cute!" exclaimed Sammie from her comm chair. Turning, Lisa smirked at her friend as she yet again thought about the men on the other side of the chat.
"C'mon Sammie, not every man deserves a drool." Laughed Claudia as she turned to look at Lisa for agreement; turning her smirk from Sammie to her best friend, Lisa replied, "At least she's not hooked on a certain hotshot pilot Clau."
Stifling snickers, the Trio turned away as Claudia's mouth dropped open in shock.
"Oh well, I guess we'll just wait for your turn Lisa, yours is coming up quick," chided Vanessa from the other side of the room. All around her Lisa heard giggles erupting around her as she realizes she is blushing.
"All right, that's enough. I want a status check on all decks!" Lisa calls among the laughter hearing the girls turn to their stations and still joking about her turn to fall for a pilot. 'Not this one girls,' thought Lisa, 'I don't think I can find it in me again to love.'
"Though that pilot did sound cute," realizing the blushing grew, Lisa focuses intently upon her monitors. As Claudia erupts at Lisa's little slip.
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Flying into land, Rick starts to hear some chatter on the open frequency from below. Tuning his radio to the general broadcast, Rick can't help but smile as he hears his 'big brother' Roy Fokker calling the scene from below as his pilots are showing off some maneuvers.
"….Here ladies and gentlemen, you will notice Corporal Meitts begin his ascent into the way of 1st Lieutenant Graves as they will begin to pass within mere feet of one another. As you can see ladies and gentlemen, with the advancement of Robo..tech..nology… WHO IS THAT IN THAT PLANE!?"
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Claudia jumps as Lisa spits her coffee out upon part of her instruments. Moving over, Claudia gasps in a sharp breath as she watches what was unfolding on Lisa's screen. On the vid screen, they both watch in horror as a small dual prop plane begins to fly among the VT's. Holding their breath at what was more than likely going to be a huge crash above a scared crowd, they stood in shock as the dual prop flies in between the two VTs, narrowly missing both as it climbs opposing its later modeled companions.
"Is he mad!?" screamed Sammie watching on her screen as it seemed that the dual-prop began to choke and its engine died. All of the bridge crew, the crowd below and those in the air feared that the dual-prop was about to collide with one if not both of the VT's in the air.
At the last second, as the plane began to turn toward Lt. Graves, a blast of smoke erupted out from behind the plane as it rushed higher above the jets, outmaneuvering them and completing multiple barrel rolls before coming to a stop upon runway 13.
Letting out a breath that Lisa realized she had been holding since that stupid stunt started, she stared at the video screen. A flood of emotions ran over her as she stared at the screen of the dual-prop that landed, among them, she felt anger and fear, but also a small inkling of wonder and curiosity.
"The nerve of that man! I am going to give him a piece of my mind! How dare he endanger all of those people just to get a small slap on the back!" Turning, Lisa glared past the Trio as they stepped out of her way.
"Uh oh," muttered Claudia as Lisa exited the bridge, "Looks like 'Ice Queen' Hayes is on the rampage once again!"
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"What the hell's wrong with you, Rick!?" screamed Roy Fokker. Roy had been like a brother to Rick since before he left his father's flying circus and joined the Robotech Defense Force. Ever since then, Rick has only heard about the RDF and the Veritechs from Roy the few times he had talked to him. Showing Roy up with his father's patented 'fake, fall, and awe' and having the crowd cheer made it worth its danger to Rick.
"You could have been killed trying that shit, Rick!"
"Calm down Roy, I just did the very move you taught me a week before you left for the war. I figured you would have been pleased."
That had just the effect Rick was looking for. Knocking the fight out of Roy's sails by praising him and making him feel like he ignored Rick was his little win for the year, he knew Roy would be back on top in shutting him down soon enough.
Turning his head after noticing Rick's smirk, Roy froze as he spotted Lisa Hayes marching toward them across the Tarmac. 'Good lord, way to go little brother' thought Roy.
"Well Rick, it was nice knowing you." And with that, Roy turned and moved away, he knew what was coming. Confused, Rick stared in the direction that Roy had veered from, and saw a woman walking forward. Looking intently toward her, Rick could barely see her outline as she moved with the sun behind her. As she moved closer, Rick could not help but drop his helmet, in front of him stood what he would have believed to be an angel, sent from heaven to him: her sleek body, though hidden for the most part by her uniform, was sleek and athletic, her hair, long and auburn, blowing in the breeze as she moved forward towards him. Staring openly at her, he finally saw her eyes, piercing green eyes with a fire inside, a fire he realized very quickly was coming straight for him.
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Walking forward with anger growing, she could make out most of the man standing by the dual-prop, seeing as how his left hand was blocking part of his face as he tried to see her around the sun. As she came up to him, she saw in confusion as he dropped his helmet and it rolled a bit from him. Wanting to see what this man looked like, Lisa began to give him the head-to-toe. He was of average height for an American, jet black hair that couldn't help but stay messy, and something she saw stopped her dead in her tracks, she saw his startling blue eyes, eyes that pulled her into them, swallowing her whole as she was lost beyond words looking into them.
Standing there, Roy gawked as he watched Commander Lisa Hayes, 'Ice Queen' to almost every pilot in the RDF, completely losing herself and stand there like a schoolgirl staring at Rick. Turning, Roy's jaw dropped as he noticed that not only was she entranced, but so was Rick. 'Oh boy…wait till Claudia hears about this.' Thought Roy, about how he was going to share this little tid-bit with his fiancé.
"Lisa, I take it?" It was all Rick could do just to utter that word, that simple word that his voice cracked on and riveted him even more to the spot. Somehow, he knew this was her, the voice from the tower.
Staring into those blue diamonds, Lisa could only muster one thing as she stood there, completely entranced, "Then you would be Rick," as she nodded assent to his question. Those eyes, god they held her as if he was a vision, something that would disappear if she stopped staring into those beautiful eyes. Her heart leapt as he moved closer and they felt themselves in their own little world hearts bounding within their chests.
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quick author's note: I changed a couple things of course from the original story so please let us see where this heads!
Chapter 2 will be up soon!