Episode 7: Dark Forces Rising
[Episode begins with Robotech3:Dark Odyssey Theme and scenes
from the previous episode.]
Narrarator[VO]: In the last episode of Robotech3: Dark Odyssey, the starship
Voyager enters the Babylon 5 universe unannounced by the god-like
being known as Q enters the dark conflict between the Galactic
Aliance and the Crongus Inperial Aliance. The crew aboard the
SDF-3A learns more about the culture of the Crongus and the
history of the earth and soon orbits around a gas planet for a
strategic invasion of a Crongus outpost and the Crongus creates a
Zor warrior of the notorious T.R. Edwards to kill Lynn Minmei.
[Int. shot of the warroom with the members of REF High
Command around the 3-D hologram of the moon/planet.]
Narrarator[VO]: We find Rick and the REF High Command in the warroom with a
hologram of Yullan in orbit around the gas planet, Arrona. There he
plans to create a strike base that can help fuel gurella strike
missions to destroy the bases and ultimately drive the Crongus
away from the moon/planet. Unknown to Rick that the strike
mission will bring a horror aboard the SDF-3A.
Rick Hunter: Ok now, this is what our tactic planners thought up for our invasion
of Yullan. Our landing sight in sector Gamma Omega 7,
located several miles from the first Crongus base. It is well hidden
by a huge rock formation that obstructs and is found in a gorge
deep enough for a hidden base and with holograms, the base would
be unnoticeable, but the descent of our dropships would lead some
attention of the Crongus bases and so they have decided to launch
the dropships somewhere in the eastern hemisphere and transport
the troops and the construction crew through dead volcano
tubes that are found near extinced volcano geyesers and old lava
rivers in which we can widen and use for sneak attacks. The tubes
will keep the troops from being spoted by enemy units.
[The hologram changed into a system of lines with a red line running
across the surface and stops at a yellow dot.]
Tirolian: Our First obstacle will be a huge gorge that was once a lava river
valley and that is where construction of the first air strike and major
command base will be located. It is about several miles from the
proposed main front line base in which will be used to begin strike
missions against the Crongus bases and we have located several
dead volcano geysers near the targets which will be perfect
for sudden attacks.
Rick Hunter: So basically, the planners have scrapped the idea of a mobile base
network because it is venerable to enemy strikes. The observation
probe has reported no movement in that area but we are advised to
be cautious for the enemy can still detect us.
Britai: My Zentraedi believe that a full scale bombardment is more effective
and cost effective than secret installations that will only see this one
battle and never be used again.
Rick Hunter: Yes we know but the moon is covered in Plasm cannons that could
destroy any attempts of bombardment.
Britai: Yes, exempt for a fighter bombardment which is hard for the Plasm
cannons to target and the fighters will be carrying thermonuclear
detonators.
Rick Hunter: Yes, the planners have thought of that but they almost forgot an
important detail. The bases will be shielded and so the base is the
most reasonable strategy. Marine bombers can place drill detonators
here...[Hologram changes to a Crongus base which looks like a fleshy,
pulsating scab with a thin, but sharp looking spike in the middle.
There was a pulsating red area near the base of the spike.] ..the heart of the base which also fuels the shield generators near it
nutrients to power itself and so taking those out will lower the
shield and allow a sky bombardment all the way until we reach the
Central base which is protected by the shield emitters of the
surrounding bases. Intel tells me that those minor bases are actually
shield transmitters which creates a shield barrier impervious to any
attack and so the more bases we destroy, the weaker the shields.
[Cut to a scene inside a dropship hangar filled with dropships,
mobile bases, personnel, construction equipment, Bioroids, ground
mecha and ground defenses and weapon artillery. Commander
Minmei and the Dragon Borg Squadron are near their personal VBF-2
dropship.]
Narrarator[VO]: Hours passed since the strategic meeting of the invasion and many
gound trained troops are beginning to load into the dropships and cargo
pods for the worker Bioroids and construction equipment.
Commander Minmei Lynn, who has just arived with her squadron
several days ago, debriefs for the mission that could either mean
victory or disaster.
Commander Minmei: Ok now, this is the mission so far. We are to drop to the planet.
The Bioroids will protect the dropships from enemy units and as we
touch down, we are to travil into the subterranian volcano veins
until we reach the first construction site and destroy any enemy
units in the site and protect the new base. Is that clear?
[One Marine raised his fist.]
Commander Minmei: What is it Johnson?
[Johnson spoke with a southern accent but talked so fast that it
just like gibberish.]
Johnson: Commander Minmei,whatifweencounterthemCronguswhoweres'
pectingustodropandkillusjust'forewecangetreadytocounterattack
theirattackandtheyshreadus'tilthere'snothin'left
ofusbuttinysqurmingtissueandjunk.
Commander Minmei: Don't worry Johnson, I plan to have all weapons ready and preped
before we drop and so if we do meet with any trouble, well be
ready for them. Do the rest of you get me?
All members: MA'AM, WE GET YOU MA'AM!
Commander Minmei: Ok, now let's move out!
[All members of the Dragon Borg Squadron entered the dropship.
Each sat upon a seat that had a chest buckle that tightly strapped the
marines to their seats. Ext. view of the dropship moving toward the
dropbay outside the ship's hull.]
Commander Minmei: Everyone, get you weapons ready to fire and make sure to kill
anything that looks like a bio.
[Ext. view of the dropships all lined up for launch. One by one, the
the dropships detach from their holding mechanism and fly tward
Yullan and each dropship is escorted by two Bioroids on Bioroid
Hovor Crafts. The Construction Pods were escorted by three
Robotech Assult Carriers.]
[Shot of invasion group in the sky looking like falling stars.]
[Shot of entire invasion group landing in a small valley near a
Volcano geyeser which looks like a mini-volcano with a crater
large enough for a object 156 meter object to fit though snuggly.]
Commander Minmei: Well Johnson, I guess that your theory was a bit..
Man[VO]: We have a swarm of Vicoo on scanner I repeat, we have a swarm
of Vicoo heading tward our direction!
[Commander Minmei lowered a one-eye targeting computer on the
left side of her helmet and switched to telescopic mode and saw
several insectoid creatures swarming over rocks. On the screen
were several creatures clad in exoskeleton armor. Some were flyers
with fly wings and had their mandibles on their abdomen instead
of their heads and grasshopper feet. Another was a creature with a
long head shaped like a spear and had two sword legs attached to
it's "chest" and another pair that are curved for slicing but can cut
like scissors and had beetle wing covers. A numerous breed were
six blade-legged creatures with a single spike attached to a launcher
like tissue under the mouth and beetle wing covers. Another
numerous breed was a snake-like creature with huge slashing
claws that was primarily used for slashing and thrusting and
supporting it's body like legs than for cutting and grasping and had
a tri-mandible mouth oozing with saliva. There was also another
insectoid creature with a huge tri-mandible mouth that looked like
pliers and has four sword claws for attacking with. From a distance
came the sound of organic fighters with a mono-wing design and
only two weapon cannons.]
Commander Minmei: Targets are identified as Vicoo Attack Flyers, Lancers, Warriors,
Killers, and Marauders and there is an attack wing of Vicoo fighters
heading towards us.
[Then all of a sudden, a Killer Qulan emerges from the ground and
snags a helpless marine and pulls him into the ground followed by
echoing sounds of human cries and a monstrous roars and ends
with the sound of crunching bone and then a sudden explosion.]
Commander Minmei: ALL DRAGON FIRE MARINES, FIRE AT WILL!!!!!!!
[All members began firing Energy Discharge Pulse Weapons(E.D.P.W.), grenades and explosive rockets and each projectile that hit a Vicoo either blew off a limb, created burn holes in the exoskeleton and flesh or blew the whole thing up in a hugh and bloody fireball. Soon a battle erupted with bodies of both soldiers and marines were being mangled and eaten, Vicoo insectoids being shot at and blowing up in bloody fireballs, and both energy and solid projectiles streaked across from one army to another. Several Bioroids were literally covered in Qulan entails and many of them were swarmed over and ripped apart. Several Zantraedi began stomping on the Qulans like cockroaches and firing rifel ammo before being overwhelmed by Qulan Warriors. And then the Qulan retreated as quickly as they appeared and the landscape was littered
with bodies of both combatants, either blown to bloody pieces, mangled, or filled with shot holes and huge lakes of blood in every possible color.]
[Int. shot of lava tubes filled with Marines, Soldiers, Bioroids,
Mobile Bases, Power Armor Mecha and Construction Vehicles and
Mecha slowly traveled down toward their destination which was an
ancient lava bed.]
Commander Minmei: Base Commander, this is Marine Squadron Commander Minmei
Lynn, over.
Women[VO]: This is Base Commander Joida Hayis, what is it Minmei?
Commander Minmei: I'm just not sure that any of this fit Commander Hayes, the Qulans
have never retreated during a battle and there hasn't been a
Crongus attack army yet. I have a bad hypothesis that the Crongus
are hurtling us for some major offensive.
Joida Hayis: I was thinking of that possibility to Commander Minmei, but we
cannot let a simple gut instinct stop us from completing the
mission and if it were true, then we have to be ready for any
possible strikes.
[They have reach the construction sight and in over time the lava
bed became a concealed command base with Mecha Hangars, Mobile
elevators, cloaking fields, artillery towers and several armored wall
lava tubes leading toward front line bases and camps.]
[Int. shot of SDC-01 "Macross" bridge, we see a captain in his command
chair looking at a computer tablet filled with report data. His first
officer walks up to her.]
1st Officer: Captain, is something wrong?
SDC-01 "Macross" Captain: This just doesn't seem right, were making enough construction noise
on that moon and the Crongus haven't even sent an unarmed scout
to investigate us. I have a bad feeling that this is a trap.
1st Officer: Your feelings could be right, there is enough activity on the
Crongus bases to suggest a huge army waiting for us to make the
first move and yet they do not respond. My feeling tell me the same
possibility.
SDC-01 "Macross" Captin: Well you should have that feeling, the Tirolian/Atlantian race has
that kind of psychic ability.
[Then suddenly a huge Tachion field erupted in the main monitor
and from it was a huge starship with a "tail" and covered in bending spikes and horns.]
Communications Ensign: Captain, we have a laser transmission coming from the Zandrini
Destroyer.
SDC-01 "Macross" Captin: Put it through and activate the translator.
[On the screen was a female huminoid alien with scales on her
eyebrows and backside of her hands, blue/white skin, ropelike
purple hair, cat eye slits and clad in body armor.]
SDC-01 "Macross" Captin: I am Captin Emila Ezuku of the SDC-01"Macross" ship "Exadore" to
unidentified Zandrini Distroyer. Please state who you are.
Female Zandrini: This is Rokha'Mache of ye Groch'Mahanta Cast. High
Commander of ye Zandrini Distroyer "Halath" of ye Zandrini
Warrior Clan Heretics to UCE REF Starcruiser. Thy request
permission to speak to ye REF High Command.[Author's Note: The reason the Zandrini speak like above is because their species speaks(slightly) Shakespearian.]
Captain Emilia Ezuku: I may have to patch in a message to the SDF-3A to grant you
permission Miss Gro-
Commander Rokha'Mache: Thy is to be addressed as High Commander Rokha'Mache of ye Groch'Mahanta Cast captain.
Captin Emilia Ezuku: I'm sorry High Commander Rokha'Mache of the Groch'Mahanta
Cast. By the way, why are you using laser communications instead
of holographic displays like your species always have done in the
past?
Commmander Rokha'Mache: Thy chose this method of communichation because thy do
not want ye enemy to eavesdrop and locate thine position.
[Inside the Zandrini Distroyer in a dark room was a lone Zandrini
Shock Leader practicing sword swings with a wooden sword like a
samurai and swishing his reptilian tail to keep banance. Everything
that he and any Zandrini speaks is English and not of his native
language so that it would be easier to understand until further
notice.]
Shock Leader[Thinking]: It has been years since thy was freed from that cursed
betrothen female. It has been years since thy had last saw
that Leadership Princess that thy has loath so much and
cursed of since that first day. It has been years since thy was
again a member of ye Warrior/Sorceron and it has been
years since that betroth has last stained thine sacred and
ancestral heritage.
[Shot of an orange tinted flashback of a bace and the Zandrini
begins to step into a Zandrini Troop Transport. Offscreen, we see a
very attractive Zandrini Maiden wearing silk-like robe/dress came
running toward him.]
Zandrini Maiden: Nujokolo, wait!!!
[The Sock Leader turns his head toward the running Maiden who is
several feet from him. On his face was the emotion of hatred and
anger as she approached him.]
Zandrini Maiden: Nujokolo, please do not leave thine!
[The Maiden was about to cling to Nujokolo's arm when he
roughly shoves her away.]
Shock Leader Nujokolo: GET AWAY FROM THINE, KIKIA!!!!
Kikia: But thy want to be with thou!
Shock Leader Nujokolo: Thou were never meant to be with thine!
Kikia: But what of thou betroth, what of thine love to thou?
Shock Leader Nujokolo: A stain upon thine bloodline.
[Princess Kikia was shocked and tears began to grow in her eyes as
the hatch closed and the Troop Transport begins to lift off.
Nujokolo looks down at the still visible figure bent down and crying
and he smirks at the sight of her broken heart.]
Shock Leader Nujokolo[VO]: At last, thy am once again a proud member of ye Warrior/Scorceron Cast.
[Flashback ends.]
[Int. shot of base's main hangar with several veritech mecha from
the REF, a few Verimorph mecha and fighters of the UCE,
Bioroids, Battlepods and Power Armor and several unknown
mecha which has somewhat a human look but was not a disign of
the UCE. Karl Riber and some other man walked across the scene
who looks like a younger Lynn Kyle.]
Karl Riber: Let me try to get this reality through your thick, dumb skull. If we
don't fight the Crongus, we would all be slaves and turned into
reusable amino acids and don't even think about trying to talk peace
to these guys, they would rather destroy you before you even
suggest the terms of peace.
Kyle Lynn: That is just typical military propaganda. We can always talk peace
to the Crongus but your military commanders won't allow it. I can
still believe that we can all work this out and forget the pain that
this war ha-
Commander Minmei: So are you suggesting I should forget about my dead fiancé,
cousin?
[We now see Commander Minmei in the shot with angry eyes. Karl
Riber suddenly took several quick steps behind Kyle Lynn.]
Karl Riber: He said it, not me.
Kyle Lynn: Cousin, I didn't mean that we s-
[Instantly we see Kyle Lynn being beaten up by Commander Minmei.]
Commander Minmei: If you so EVER suggest that we should forget the pain and
suffering that those Crongus Bastards did, I will make sure that you
will regret it.
[Commander Minmei starts to walk away from the bruised body of
her cosine, and then she turns her head towards Kyle.]
Commander Minmei: Just be thankful that you're family Kyle.
Kyle Lynn[groaning]: Gotcha.
[In the background we see Roy Hunter looking at what just
happened to Kyle Lynn.]
Roy Hunter[thinking]: I don't know how bro came to love her, but then they all say that
"love is blind".
[Int. shot of SDF-3A Hangar with a Zandrini Troop Carrier at the
landing portion of it. In front of the Carrier was an entire battalion
of Zandrini Warrior Clan wearing either Body Armor or a native
uniform. Rick Hunter and Exadore were approaching the group
offscreen with a few bodyguards.]
Rick Hunter: Greetings, I am-
Commmander Rokha'Mache: Thy know who thou are. Thine purpose of boarding this
ship is to make an alliance with ye UCE. Thine people have
been rebelling ye Leadership clan for many Solons[years in Zandrini.] and thy are low on supplies and ye Heritic High Command has
ordered thine ship to find ye closes fleet and arrange ye alliance.
Rick Hunter: This is all so sudden, creating a war alliance would take days to dis-
Commander Rokha'Mache: Thy will begin ye preparations as soon as thou are ready
General Richard Hunter.
Rick Hunter: Wha-um...as you wish.
Exadore: The REF division will be grateful to have such an alliance with such-
Commander Rokha'Mache: Thou may stop thou flattering Zentan, thy judge by action and
not by words.
Exadore: I see, I've read reports that your race, the Warrior Clan, were a
society of practicers of the ancient art of sorcery.
Rick Hunter: SORCERY?!
Commander Rokha'Mache: Thy were once, and thine people will be again.
[Int. shot of a Mobile Base's bridge.]
Woman: Commander, we are getting heavy losses from both ground troops
and pilots from Vicoo and TL'am forces.
Commander: Any activity on the Crongus?
Women: I'm only detecting base defense weaponry and normal base
activities sir.
Commander: No biofighters or soldiers?
Women: None sir.
Commander: This doesn't feel right. The Crongus should have sent their soldiers
and biofighters five minutes ago. What are they up to?
Women: Sir, they have dispatched many battalions of BioMechs! 50% is
composed of Attackers, 20% of it are Wardogs, 10% are
Hellspiders and 10% are Enforcers.
[Shot of an attacker rearing its head for a long and bone-chilling
roar. The Attacker has a humanoid form with dog-hind legs with
two toed hooves, three fingered hooves, insect exoskeleton, two
blade arms with the blades folded behind the back, spikes and
red in color. It lashes its long and slimy tongue at a REF soldier,
grasped his head and threw him away and towards a pack of Wardogs
which are four-legged creatures that have a tri-jaw mouth, a green/
yellow exoskeleton, finger sized claws and an arrowhead tail end.
The Wardogs began to ferociously bite the soldier's flesh off and
then finished him off with several Plasm bolts from its tail. A huge,
spider like creature walked over them. It had no hair, crab-clawed
toes, a stinger, ant mandibles and a pair of small feeder claws on
each side of the mouth. It fired several Plasm bolts from its stinger
and then a legion of Enforcers ran under the Hellspider and fired
several more Plasm bolts from their forearms. The Enforcers are
humanoid in appearance with a plasm cannon on the right arm and
a huge blade attached to the back forearm side on the left, a
demonic skull, three toed feet and a fin on its back.]
Squad Leader: This is Lieutenant Jonathan Horad of the 8th Artillery squad to Mobile
Base "George Washington", we are being overruned by enemy
BioMechs, Qulans and Vicoo units and we cannot hold them back.
Their swarming us like a bunch of bees here and we are dieing by
the numbers. We need reinforcements immediately.
[Then a Qulan Humanoid Male with bat-wings and wearing a bizarre
body armor swooped down and killed several soldiers with its
sword.]
[The Qulan was pumped with several energy shots as several
VAF-8a's lead by a VAF-8j. Shot of many soldiers on the ground
cheering and whooping as a wave of Veritech and Verimorph
squadrons swooped down and fired energy projectiles and missiles.]
[Screen fades.]
So watcha think? Review about it.
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