Robotech: The Saiyajin Encounter
Prologue
The SDF-1 shook as another barrage hit it. The alien ostrich looking vehicles continued the onslaught, mixing it up with Veritechs all across Earth's chosen battlefield, Macross Island.. Several of the smaller alien fleet ships also moved in, firing salvos that streaked dangerously close to the SDF-1's surface.
Commander Roy Fokker instructed Skull squadron to go to battloid mode. Using their neural interface "thinking caps," the pilots all thought their crafts through mechamorphosis, the normal fighter planes quickly transforming into sixty foot tall robotic warriors. Quickly forming together outside the ship, Skull squadron formed a defensive line that would not allow the enemy to punch through.
"Captain Gloval," Fokker spoke into his intercom, "We're not going to be able to hold like this forever, requesting SDF-1 for assistance."
Captain Henry Gloval listened and nodded.
"This battle is lost, recall all craft immediately. We will attempt to execute a hyperspace fold."
Lisa Hayes looked at him. "A fold? But sir, we haven't tested the drives yet."
Smiling, Gloval said, "Well, I think now is as good a time as any. Set fold coordinates for the far side of the moon. Order all craft to recall. We are in complete disarray and need to reorganize our forces."
Executing the commands, Lisa ordered the two space carriers Prometheus and Daedelus, to quickly provide the SDF-1 with cover. The two sister ships quickly complied, forming up on either side of the flagship.
Outside, the fighting was still in full swing. Fokker's men were providing cover for the rest of the Veritech flight squadrons, allowing them a chance to retreat with minimal losses.
Looking at the SDF-1, Fokker remembered all his friends on board and swore a silent vow not to let anything happen to Claudia, or Rick Hunter, his long time friend that was suddenly caught up in this. Rick, he thought, I just hope we can get you out here with us, we need you little brother.
A pod suddenly disturbed his thoughts, firing directly at him. The bolt of energy passed right through where Fokker had been only a second before. Quickly he flew over the thing, using his chain cannon to utterly destroy the pod.
Fokker again thanked the new science of Robotechnology. He never could have evaded that blast flying manually.
"All right guys, everyone is clear, recall at once."
Unleasing a spread of cluster missiles that wiped out yet another attacking squadron of pods, Fokker swung his battloid around and reconfigured to fighter mode, kicking full afterburners on to escape.
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"Sir, the micronians appear to be retreating back to their mother ship." One of the techs reported.
Breetai nodded, saying, "Exedore, these Micronians appear to be more resilient than we first assumed. Capturing the protoculture may be difficult than we thought."
The second largest warrior of the Zentraedi race, Breetai stood an impressive seventy feet tall. Garbed in his formal uniform of green and brown, his blue tinged face was set in a permanent scowl due to the metal faceplate covering half of his face.
Standing beside him stood Exedore, Minister of Affairs. Hardly a warrior himself, Exedore was short and gangly, but the most intelligent member of his race.
Looking at a nearby terminal, Exedore again scanned the ship. Standing up abruptly, Exedore spoke.
"Lord Breetai, I've detected a high energy mass building up around the Super Dimensional Fortress. It appears that the micronians are attempting a hyperspace fold."
"What? That's insane! Executing a fold while still on planetary surface!" Breetai bellowed.
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"Execute hyperspace fold immediately!" Gloval shouted.
The ship was suddenly surrounded by an energy field that flickered with every color of the spectrum. The field extended, nearly surrounding the whole island. Abruptly it flickered, and everything was gone.
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The field rematerialized as the ship defolded. Amazingly, most of Macross Island, and the two carrier ships had been folded as well.
The moon, and more importantly, Earth, were nowhere in sight.
"Where the hell are we?" Gloval demanded.
"Captain Gloval, we have a problem." Dr. Lang, father of Robotechnology and most intelligent human that had ever lived reported over the intercom.
"What is it Doctor?"
"The....fold drives have disappeared."
"Sir," said Lisa Hayes. "We are in an uncharted part of the galaxy. I'm afraid I don't know where."
Clenching a fist, Gloval said, "What else can go wrong?"
Dr Lang appeared on the bridge. "Captain Gloval, by my reports, we not only did not appear at our designated coordinates, but also failed to arrive at "when" we should be here."
"When? What are you saying?" Gloval asked.
"We appear to have punched a hole in the time warp continuum. We have also gone twnety-five years in the past."
Moaning in dismay, Gloval ordered the situation to be put aside for now. He ordered the island to be checked for survivors, and to have Lang find a way to assimilate the two carriers into the SDF-1's design.
The island, it turned out, held most of Macross Island's population, more than 70,000 citizens. They were immediately brought on board, and one of the mammoth storage facilities was quickly cleared to bring what survived of Macross City on board. After a few days or repairs and other adjustments, the refugees were much more comfortable, if not completely adapted to their new environment. The storage hold now looked like their old home, and the EVE system controlled the environment, making it night and dark inside the city.
2 days later
Having decided the best way to discern their location was to seek a recognizable system, the SDF-1 utilized its reflex engines in search of any form of planet. This had not gone well so far, the space they had coveniently reentered was void of any planetary system.
Finally, a system appeared. It would take a week to reach at Reflex power, but the system did contain one planet. A giant red that was capable of supporting human life, but with 10G gravity as its natural atmosphere. The veritechs would have to do all contact with any life found on the planet, but hopefully, if intelligent sentient life did exist on the planet, they could find a way to get home and save Earth from the mysterious alien forces.
To be continued....