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An exasperated Keira walks back to Rick's room. She was hoping nobody saw her exchange with Lisa. Keira's mood turned to a happy one now that Rick was conscious again. At least Keira could go back to work and at least she still could now immediately know what Rick's condition is, because she working in the ER of the hospital. She let her supervisor know before going back to Rick's room.
Rick sees Keira walking through the door into his room, and trepidation fills his thoughts. Keira is standing and leaning against the closed door. She says to Rick, "I'm sorry for acting like a jealous teenager, but Lisa and I needed to have a talk. Rick I'm only ask you one more time, and I will let it go. I trust you to be honest with me, OK? Do you have any feelings for Lisa?" Keira was looking at him intently.
Rick was looking at Keira shocked that she was even questioning him in the first place. He soon realized that it must be hard knowing what she knows and what she had been feeling about Lisa; It also must be hard for her knowing Lisa was his commanding officer and had contact with him on a regular basis. He began to speak to Keira, "There is nobody in the world; oh wait, universe since we met in space that I would want to spend the rest of my life with. Nobody but you, Keira! If we could I would tell you lets get married now!"
Realizing she was being really insecure, Keira apologized to Rick for acting like that. She asked how he was feeling, and he told her that he was feeling well enough to chase after her earlier. Rick mentioned he forgot about the IV and that kept him there in bed instead. Rick continued on, "Can't you pull some strings and get me home already?"
Keira laughed at Rick's comment and insistence to go home. She quietly locks the door behind her and approaches Rick's bed. Keira climbs onto Rick careful not to hurt him. She then tells him, "I guess the other nurse's were right when they found out I was dating a pilot; your head is made of granite!" Keira then kissed him and proceeded to have her way with him in Rick's hospital bed.
Meanwhile in space, Miriya and Khyron were having battle of wits over the communication line from their respective battle cruisers. Back and forth they traded insults over who was the more superior pilot. It was starting to get ugly when Khyron laid down the gauntlet and challenged Miriya.
Khyron arrogantly spoke, "There is one Micronian pilot who stands above the rest. The Micronian who pilots the blue mecha, and has dispatched many of my very best pilots. Do not confuse him for there are two other pilots who are good, but not as good as the pilot of the blue colored mecha. If you are able to destroy him, I will admit over all Zentradi communications lines that Miriya Parina is the greatest Zentradi pilot! Of course, you will never have the chance to do it because he's mine!"
Miriya never one to back away from a challenge, especially from Khyron; raises the stakes and says, "Thats too easy, what are the color schemes of the other two so called aces? Let do this, the first to dispatch all three by themselves will get to lead the losers battalion until the end of the Zentradi's campaign with the Micronians!"
Khyron was liking what he was hearing from Miriya, replied back; "I accept you arrogant fool, I hope you are ready to hand over command of the Quadrono Battlion to me! Oh yes, the other mecha's colors schemes are a red and white one, which seems to be in the same squadron as the "ace!" The other one I believe is in another squadron and is black and yellow." After Khryon finishes, the two participants in the sadistic bounty quickly sign off; they are disgusted with looking at each other already.
Keira and Rick are laying in bed recovering from their love driven tryst in Rick's hospital bed. Keira and Rick put themselves back together, and Keira goes to unlock the door. She goes on to say that she let her supervisor know she wanted to get back to work. Keira let Rick know he's obviously feeling better and she still can get updated on his condition at the drop of a dime. Rick saw the logic in Keira's idea and agreed with his fiancé. She went to say that she was going to go home and get cleaned up. She was going to grab some scrubs for tomorrow and be back to spend the night. They exchanged as kiss and Keira left Rick's room.
A few days had passed and Rick's doctor gave the orders for him to be discharged the following day. Rick was ecstatic to hear the good news. Rick was bored and started working on the model airplane that Roy gave him. When he was finished, Rick decided to take a nap. As his eyes was closing Keira enters to check on him. She's on her lunch break and brings her lunch to eat in Rick's room.
Rick was asking her about her day, and she was sharing her events. They started to talk about their wedding and how she still needs to get her wedding dress yet. When suddenly the alarms of an imminent battle sounds.
Miriya's death squad along with Khyron's were rapidly approaching the SDF-1. Each respective Zentradi battalion's orders was to engage the enemy and separate the identified targets. Leaving Miriya or Khyron to deal with them. As expected the SDF-1 sent its defense to intercept the Zentradi advance.
Skull and Vermillion squadron rushed to engage the Zentradi invaders. Khyron saw Roy's Skull-1 and could not resist the urge to get one of the bounty targets out of they way. Roy was destroying the battle pods that was trying herd him off. He had targeted and destroyed a battle pod that was in hot pursuit of one of Roy's wingmen. Suddenly out of the blue, Miriya on her way to engage Max's veritech; opens fire at Roy showering him with lasers as she quickly sped over his now damaged Skull-1. At the time the damage seemed minimal, and he continued on.
Miriya had identified Max on her radar and was not going to miss her chance to get the Micronian "ace" pilot. On her way to engage Max; she saw Roy's Skull-1 and decided to give him a quick hello en route to Max. Little did she know her fly by did more damage than she realized.
On the bridge of the SDF-1, Lisa notices how odd it was that Roy and Max are off fighting their own battles with individual battle pods. Alarmed, she mentions it to Captain Gloval. The Captain thinks about it for a minute, and become extremely concerned. He immediately orders Lisa to recall Max and Roy. He realized what the Zentradi's was doing. They seemed to have identified their best Zentradi pilots to serve as assassins against two of the RDF's best pilots. Little did the captain know, that it was a twisted game being played by Miriya and Khyron. The orders are given to Max and Roy to return the SDF-1, and they are confused by the request but comply.
Claudia is a nervous wreck watching Roy being pursued intently by his designated hit man, Khyron. Roy realizing he didn't have time to land safely without Khyron hot on his tail. Roy quickly speeds to SDF-1 as fast as he can. Roy flies around the perimeter of the SDF-1 and switches to battloid mode. Roy quickly hugs the corner formed by the Prometheus and the SDF-1. He lays and waits patiently; and as Khyron comes around the corner Roy fires his laser cannon completely surprising Khryon and disabling him enough to quickly jet back into the hangar bay.
Meanwhile Max is doing his best to avoid the fire of the nimble battle suit of Miriya. Max changes quickly and frequently from fighter to battloid mode to throw Miriya off his tail and offer some kind of resistance against his hellbent potential killer. Max sees his chance to make it into the SDF-1. He finds an auxiliary hangar bay, and enters quickly. Miriya gives chase and barely makes it before the hangar bay doors can crush her.
Max is informed by Lisa that Miriya has infiltrated the SDF-1. Upon hearing this he switches back to battloid mode and turns to push Miriya from the battle fortress. He opens fire and Miriya quickly dodges his attack and quickly retreats deeper into the ship. Miriya finds refuge in the evacuated Macross City. Max quickly follows and is playing a dangerous game of hide and seek between the buildings. They take their shots at each other over and over. Each miss is a destructive one, as the city of Macross is being destroyed by the duel between Max and Miriya.
Knowing the city better than Miriya; Max acts like a sniper and takes his shots at an unsuspecting Miriya. Max damages her battle suit enough for her to retreat. A bitterly disappointed Miriya, tries quickly to find an exit. The SDF-1 obliges when it's hatches open above allowing for her retreat. As Max pursues Miriya, Lisa orders him to stand down and to return to base.
Rick was watching the battle unfold in the city from his hospital room. Keira was about to leave to return to her duties in the ER. Her peaceful lunch break is ruined when Rick tackles her to the ground. Rick saw one of Miriya's missiles destined for Max go astray and head toward his rooms direction.
Rick is covering Keira making sure that no debris falls on her. Keira gets the wind knocked out of her, but tells Rick that she is fine when he desperately checks to see if she is hurt or not. Keira then kisses Rick and tells him, "Thank you for saving myself it all happened so fast! I guess now I know what it's like for you to save me. I can get used to this sweetie!" Rick helped Keira up to a standing position, and insisted that Keira go get checked out first before returning to work. She ensures Rick that she will and gives him a long kiss before she eventually leaves.
Roy has never been more relieved to be back on the SDF-1! He barely made it and it showed! Skull-1 was heavily damaged from Miriya's opening attack. Roy felt like he could sleep for a week, because he felt dead tired. Slowly he exited his veritech and made his way to Claudia's. Claudia and Roy were having dinner and talking about Rick's and Keira's wedding. They wanted to avoid the subject of work today. Claudia asked Roy what he wanted to get the soon to be newlyweds for a wedding gift. She got no answers from him as she was taking a bite of her pineapple salad.
Claudia looked up to see Roy hunched over looking like he fell asleep at the table. Claudia was calling him, "Roy, Roy, Roy wake up! How could you fall asleep during dinner. Are you OK?"
Claudia got no response from Roy, and was getting angry. She kicked him from under the table, but still got no response. Instead Roy slumped forward even more, and Claudia ran to his side to see the chair covered in blood.
Keira was checked by the doctor at Rick's urging and she was fine. She had a few bruises from when Rick tackled her, but nothing serious. She was walking to the Nurse's Station, and saw a gurney being wheeled in covered in blood. As she was ready to assist, horror struck Keira for the second time in the ER in about a span of two weeks. Roy was being rushed to the Operating Room, and Keira followed in tow quickly to assist attending to Roy.
Knowing that Claudia would be waiting for Roy; Keira requested that she be the one to break the news to her. She explained to the doctor and he agreed to Keira's request. Keira made that slow walk down the hallway of the ER crying. Thinking, "How am I going to tell Claudia and more so; how was I going to tell Rick!" Before entering the waiting room; Keira took a deep breath, wiped her tears away, and went to break the news to her big sister Claudia.