Episode 5: Great Assault
[Episode begins with Robotech3:Dark Odyssey Theme and scenes
from the previous episode.]
Narrator[VO]: In our last episode of Robotech3: Dark Odyssey, the REF had
made a Hyperspace Warp Jump which was a real surprise for most
of the original REF personnel to celebrate the christening of their
newly built fleet and opens a dimensional rift which brought them to
the dimension of Babylon 5 in the middle of a huge confrontation
between the Vorlon, Shadow, and the Ailed fleets in orbit around
an alien world. Soon after their dimensional transfer, the Crongus
made an attack upon the fleets and soon afterwards destroyed all of
the Bioships that were in orbit around the alien planet. Back upon
the huge, rotating cylinder station of Babylon 5, the Galaxy
Destroyer "Angel Fire" transferred into the Babylon Universe with
an important update about the Crongus' invasion plans and soon
many of the alien government's worlds and ships were brutally
attacked by the invading Crongus and inside the Earth Alliance
President's Office, the Crongus Warlord makes a proposal which
will make the now corrupted Earth into a feared race in their area
of the Galaxy.
[Ext. shot of the Babylon 5 station and starships of the UCE
orbiting around the station with fighters buzzing around the
screen.]
[Int. shot of the Babylon 5 Command bridge, also known as CNC
with John Sheridan and Rick Hunter looking at the window while a dark
haired woman named Susan Ivonova looking at a view screen and
talking to a starship captain.]
John Sheridan: Those are BIG ships.
Rick Hunter: I've noticed.
John Sheridan: Doesn't it make you wonder how they build those ships, let alone
manned them?
Rick Hunter: I don't just wonder, I know and believe me they have a huge
population and many agriculture colonies. Plus I've heard that
they mined asteroids to gather the material and have members of
other species enlisted.
John Sheridan: How many species again?
Rick Hunter: I think that Exadore said that there are about 20 known intelligent
aliens and about 5 something animal aliens in the known territories
alone.
[Susan Ivanova came up to John and Rick.]
Susan Ivonova: I hate to disrupt your little chat now, but I got a message from an
incoming Omega class Destroyer that wants to refuel and resupply
themselves.
John Sheridan: Is it one of Clark's ships?
Susan Ivonova: No, it's one of ours and it has some disturbing news.
Rick Hunter: What is it?
[Suddenly one of the view screens just changed to show a special
report from Inter Stellar Network, also known as ISN.]
Reporter: Several minutes ago, a Crongus Invasion Fleet has just attacked the
colony of Orion and completely destroyed the surrounding defense
fleet and were about to destroy the colony itself when the UCE's
Earth Expatiation Force fleet drove the Crongus away.
[An insert of a Crongus warship that looks to have two cannon
arms, four engine legs and a saucer head firing at an Omega
Destroyer.]
Reporter: This unprovoked action caused the Earth Alliance President Clark to declare
war upon the Crongus forces and asks for immediate enlistment from
the colonies.
[View screen shows a man in his mid forties or fifties with gray,
thinning hair and slight wrinkles.]
President Clark: We must take action against this new threat that is greater than
renegade starships and rebel colonies and we must strike back
before the Crongus attacks Earth and destroys every man, woman
and child. We must take a stand against this evil which threatens the
very existence of Humanity before it is too late and we cannot be
utterly dependent upon the United Colonies of Earth for defense
and let ourselves be defenseless for this could be a chance for the enemy
to strike us down without a fight. This maybe the most destructive
war ever fought by humanity which faced extinction since the
Earth-Mimbari war but we must be strong in this darkest hour and
we will make it through the night if we keep on fighting until we
win. Defeat will mean extinction and we, the people of Earth will
not make it an option. We will keep on fighting and we will keep on
winning until the Earth and humanity itself is safe again.
[Video screen returns to reporter.]
Reporter: That was President Clark addressing the Earth Colonies to stand up
for their existence and to fight the new enemy. I'm Susanna
Summers and this has been an ISN special news report.
John Sheridan: Was this the news you were about to give me Ivanova?
Susan Ivonova: Yes captain.
Rick Hunter: Why do I have the feeling that I may have to intervene in this
conflict?
Lisa "Hayes" Hunter[VO]: General Rick Hunter, we are ordered to control the situation
between the Crongus and the-
Rick Hunter: I've heard about it on the news. Mobilize the fleet for Earth
Alliance Colonial space. I have a feeling that there is going to be
allot of messes to clean up.
John Sheridan: We've got to end this war before the Crongus destroys Earth.
Rick Hunter: The war began when the Crongus invaded your universe Sheridan.
Narrator[VO]: Unknown to all, the Crongus have staged a fake war in which to
keep the Earth Expeditionary Forces busy until the real goal has been achieved and that President Clark, in his point of view, keep the EA public's interests
away from the President's corruption and toward the war.
[Int. shot of President Clark's office in Conference Shielding and
Warlord Daeton watched a Biohologram that was emitted from the
palm of his hand of the news report.]
President Clark: This is brilliant Warlord Daeton. This war will benefit our
governments in both ways. Your real forces will be undisturbed
from the UCE as they battle the decoy fleet who in turn is battling a
fleet composed of clones and I will not be persecuted for my
actions. But tell me Warlord Daeton, what shall we do if the UCE
begins to suspect that this war is a fraud?
Warlord Daeton: Then we will have to make a real strike upon the Colony of Mars,
killing all of the colonists in one blow.
President Clark: Making the Fake war real to the UCE and eliminate my political
enemies in one single attack. This is a brilliant strategy, and what
about our final victory?
Warlord Daeton: When we find any useful information on the worlds of Vorlon and
Zu'hu'dun and find our God, Vicolmekh, we shall begin the Battle
of Earth in which both the true Earth Alliance fleet and the clone
fleet will battle our true fleet in which we shall attack the clone
ships that shall be mostly composing your fleet and when the UCE
fleet arrives, we shall fire upon them and begin retreating into our
dimension and give any information we have gained from Vorlon
and Zu'hu'dun to you in which you will use to crush all of the alien
governments and give us a large percent of the galaxy that we could
use four our own... "needs".
President Clark: Good, this plan is fool proof, there is no way it shall backfire upon
us.
[Int. shot of the SDF-3A's main hangar filled with Alpha and Beta
Fighters, REF Transformable mecha, Destroids, energy weapons
such as protoculture laser weapons and UCE Discharge Energy
Pulse weapons, missiles of different shape and size of both the REF
and the UCE. Transformable UCE robot fighters, tanks, huge
ostrage leg mecha tanks, armor and fight suits of both the REF and
UCE.]
[Shot of Karl Riber, Rick Hunter and John Sheridan walking down
a path with mecha technicians and engineers using laser welders and
sparks flying and some pilots custom coloring their fighters with
spray paint figures of Tigers, Dragons, Sharks, Hawks, Dinosaurs
and any other fearsome creatures in many colors.]
John Sheridan: This is some very high tech machines. What's the name of this
technology again?
Rick Hunter: The REF calls it Robotechnology.
Karl Riber: And the UCE calls it either Metamorphtechnology,
Verimorphtechnology, or Metatechnology. I can't remember which
'tech it was called.
John Sheridan: What I wouldn't give to get a chance to fly one of these things.
Rick Hunter: Say Karl, can I ask you a few questions?
Karl Riber: Okay, shoot.
[Then suddenly a technician accidentally fired a laser beam that
went over Karl's head.]
Karl Riber: THAT'S NOT WHAT I MEAN!!!!
1st Technician: Sorry, I thought you said to shoot.
Karl Riber: I was talking to the general here!
Rick Hunter: Karl, you and the other Lisa-
Karl Riber: Which other Lisa, I know only two.
Rick Hunter: I mean your Lisa?
Karl Riber: Oh, that Lisa. And your point is?
Rick Hunter: You and Lisa seemed to me that you don't belong here.
Karl Riber: Well that's because we were from a Robotech Universe ourselves. I
came to this dimension after the attack on Mars Base Sarah and
Lisa came when the SDF-1 was near the orbit of Jupiter during the
First Robotech War and we found out later that we were from the
same dimension in different time periods.
Rick Hunter: Now that I got that question answered, how's about telling me the
deal on Commander Minmei?
John Sheridan: I was wondering about her myself too.
Karl Riber: I don't know. The Commander doesn't like anyone talking about it
and I've only heard rumors-
Rick Hunter: It's not like she's going to pop out and pound you if you do tell.
Karl Riber: Okay but this is not exactly accurate or true but this is what I've
heard. Minmei Lynn started out as a genetically engineered clone. Her
parents didn't want her to get any genetic mishaps from their DNA
so they went to a Genetics Lab who engineer her DNA strand and
they both requested her to be a girl for some reason but then
genetics isn't always perfect. Her hair was suppose to be black but
was changed to a color of blue, which is a common side effect, and
the mutant strand from her mother in which gave her superior
muscle strength and agility kind of slipped in and she was a good
10% larger than she was suppose to be and according to most
research, Genetically Engineered children will start aging slowly at
the age of 18, like you look 32 when your 79. And another set back
is that the parents were on a colony in which Genetic Engineered
Humans and Clones were segregated and taunted. Minmei moved
in with her Aunt and Uncle for some reason and she was so tired of
Genetic Segregation that she joined the UCE Military as a Marine
because she believed that in the military she will have a place to
belong. Along the way she met a young pilot named Rick Hunter
who was in the same Marine squadron as she was.
Rick Hunter: Just like me?!
Karl Riber: Yah, spooky isn't it. I have no idea how or when but they fell in
love with each other and I've also heard that the other Rick
proposed to her but then something bad happened.
John Sheridan: Then what happened?
Karl Riber: Well I can't remember when but it was in one of the Battles of
Sulfuria when it happened. They were both battling the Crongus
and when Rick Hunter broke formation, a Crongus Biofighter came
in and killed him and then took his body to a Biosalvage cruiser.
She grieved at his demises and became the Minmei we all know
today.
Rick Hunter: And that's why she's been acting like a grouch?
Karl Riber: Grouch sounds too soft when comparing to the Commander.
Lynn Minmei[VO]: Well what is she?
[Riber slowly turned around and suddenly jumped in fright.]
Karl Riber: WHAT TH- Oh, I thought you were somebody else. Hay wait a
minute, why are you doing down here missy?!
Lynn Minmei: I was going to sing for the others when I heard your story about
Commander Minmei.
Karl Riber: Well, if they wanted some singing they could of used a Sonic
Transmitter, no offense.
Lynn Minmei: I was going to sing "My time to be a star"-
Karl Riber: Oh no no no no no, don't even think about singing that song in
front of a UCE personnel.
John Sheridan: And the reason is?
Karl Riber: No offense Lynn Minmei, but many of the others find that song a
bit annoying.
Lynn Minmei: Oh.
Pikacheu(Rick): Pika?
Karl Riber: Eep! Now don't you shock me now.
[Pikacheu(Rick) was looking around looking for something and
then ran toward Commander Minmei with an angry look in her
eyes.]
Karl Riber: Commander, I ca-
[Commander Minmei flew a fist right into Ribber's jaw and he flew
backwards and slammed into a leg of a Veritech fighter.]
Karl Riber: Oooohh, that was in the kipper.
[Commander Minmei walked pass by them and no one spoke up of
what happened to Karl.]
John Sheridan: That got to hurt.
Karl Riber: No kidding.
[Ext. shot of Babylon 5 with a squadron of Mk-3 Starfury and a
Verimorph fighter which looks like an airplane but with a cylinder
engines built into the wings, dorsal mounted robot arms, a shield ,
two robot legs on the underbelly of the fighter and two particle
beam gunpod mounted on the underside of the wing flying by the
screen.]
[Int. shot of Starfury's cockpit with an Asian pilot in an Earth
Alliance standard Flight suit which looks like an astronaut's flight
suit.]
1st Starfury Pilot: That is an interesting fighter. What else can it do?
Verimorph Pilot[VO]: The Medium Delta Space Fighter Model 20 is a bit old design but
is quite capable of fighting against our modern enemy crafts. It is
capable of transforming from a Jet Fighter mode to a Robot Fighter
Mode or a Walker Fighter mode.
[The MDSF-20 robot legs just started to move forward and the
Robot arms begun to swing forward and connected at the forward
side of the Fighter behind the cockpit and the robot elbows bent to
form an "L" shape with the fists pointing toward the front.]
Verimorph Pilot[VO]: The MDSF-20 is a common Verimorph Fighter and is heavily
armed with weapons that are either hidden within the framework or
found externally.
1st Starfury Pilot: What I wouldn't do to pilot one of these things.
Verimorph Pilot[VO]: The controls are different from yours and very difficult to use
without proper-
[Int. shot of the MDSF-20's cockpit with the pilot in a Squadron
Leader's flight suit which looks like a chest plate with belts holding
the bottom part in place and a helmet which seems to excuse his
vision and folding arm and leg guards with a knuckle, calves or
ankle guard. On his Combat Computer and HUD shows a warning
of several unidentified crafts.]
1st Starfury Pilot[VO]: What is it?
Verimorph Pilot: I'm having unidentified objects Bering 90 degrees to our left at a
distance of 145 meters at a speed of-
[Ext. shot of an entire squadron of modified Invid Attack Scouts in flight mode; Invid Combat Troopers; and several Invid Space Troopers.]
Verimorph Pilot: Mayday, Mayday, this is Commander Reggae Carolinas of the
Lupus strike squadron to Angle Fire Control. We have a squadron of Invid
Units heading towards the station. High possibility of more hostile
units.
Officer[VO]: What are the units Commander Reggae?
Verimorph Pilot: We have unknown numbers of Invid Attack Scouts, Invid Combat
Troopers, Invid Space Trooper and lead by a single Invid Warlord
Battloid. We need immediate reinforcements. Repeat, Immediate
reinforcements. My squadron is currently off duty and the Squadron
Leader of the Starfuries is not currently present and these Starfuries
and I alone are no mach for a full scale Invid assault.
Officer[VO]: We are now scrambling all squadrons to your position, you need to
keep the Invid away from the station.
Commander Reggae: Good, Delta Wing, this squadron is temporarily under my command
and I say keep the Invid away from the station.
[The Invid Squadron passed Delta Wing and headed straight for
Babylon 5.]
Commander Reggae: Squadron open fire and draw the Invid's attention away from the
station.
[All of the Starfuries open fired and soon all of the Invid changed
course toward Delta Wing exempt for the Invid Warlord Battloid.
The other Verimorph squadron opened fired upon the Invid squadron.]
Commander Reggae: Delta Wing, intercept the Warlord at best speed.
[Delta Wing and Commander Reggae began chasing the Warlord
and the Warlord banked away from the Energy Discharge Pulses
and Commander Reggae fired a mini-missile at the Warlord which
exploded and severed the Warlord's forearm and suddenly let go of
the disk device and launched an attack drone which connected itself
onto the disk and headed toward the station while the Warlord
begun attacking Delta Wing.]
Commander Reggae: Delta 2, 3 and 6, get that drone now!
[Delta 2, 3 and 6 began to chase after the drone when the Warlord
began chasing the Deltas when Commander Reggae's MDSF-20
transformed from it's walker fighter mode into a robot fighter
mode.]
Commander Reggae: I don't think so ugly!
[The MDSF-20 rammed itself into the Warlord and grabbed it with
its arms and the Warlord struggled to be released. It finally punched
the MDSF-20 in the chest and causing Commander Reggae to let go of
the Warlord. It fired a Short Range Missile that looked like a
football with a tail fin.]
Commander Reggae: Don't even mess with Reggae.
[The MDSF-20 grabbed the missile by the tail and threw it toward
the Warlord like a football which destroyed the Warlord's head.]
Commander Reggae: Delta Wing open fire!
[The Starfuries and the MDSF-20 fired their energy weapons and
the Warlord blew up in a ball of fire.]
Delta 2: Commander Reggae, this disk is a dud.
Commander Reggae: What?!
[Suddenly a great flash of light blinded Delta Wing and from that
flash of light was a huge Invid Fleet.]
Commander Reggae: Oh Hell no!
[Then another blinding light came and then the screen fades.]
So watcha think? Review about it.
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