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.

Disclaimer: I do not own Robotech, Poke'mon, Star Trek Voyager, Rifts or Babylon 5. Also most of the Mecha and starship designs belong to someone else.