Episode 13: Opteran Ace, Red Barron

[Episode begins with Robotech3:Dark Odyssey Theme and scenes from the previous episode.]

Narrator: In our last episode of Robotech3: Dark Odyssey, The REF barely survives an encounter with the Crongus and rescue the Mars Base survivors. Casualties mount as another attack from the Qulan and Vicoo creates confusion onboard the ships and selected few individuals look deep inside of their hearts for an answer that were not obvious to them before.

[Scene opens to several Dropships and Horizonts begin their decent upon the Invid homeworld of Optera and escorted by several Veritech and Metamorphtech Fighters. In the distance, several Invid Scouts and Armored Scouts are approaching the Dropships and Horizonts.]

Dropship1 Copilot: We got Invid Mecha approaching us. Scanners tell us that there are fourteen Scouts and seven Armored Scouts.

Dropship1 Pilot: Get Reaper Squadron on line and tell them of the approaching Invid Swarm.

Dropship1 Copilot: Aye.

[Shot of VAF-8 Alpha Fighters attached to VBF-2 Beta Fighters.]

Squadron Leader: This is Alexander Haltom the fourth, call sign Grand Reaper, of Reaper Squadron, what's the prob.

Dropship1 Copilot: This is the dropship Saratoga, we have detected a swarm of Invid Scouts and Armored Scouts.

Alexander Haltom: Are they with the Crongus Alliance?

Saratoga Copilot: Unknown, most likely they are the native Invid Mecha since the Invid Collective mainly use their new Mecha and that older Invid Mecha usually are accompanied by the newer mecha.

Alexander Haltom: Should we attack them.

Saratoga Copilot: Not yet, they could be on reconnaissance. We should wait until they react first.

Alexander Haltom: Right, besides we are probably larger then them.

Dropship Fleet Commander[VO]: This is Marcus Mc'Darlian of the dropship Montezuma to Dropship Fleet and escorts, we are ten seconds to Burn Zone, activate heat shields and prepare for burn zone turbulence.

[We see the shields of Dropships and Horizonts activate and radiate with heat as they enter the Burn Zone of the planet(which is the area of a planet's atmosphere where a ship is entering or reentering a planets atmosphere and friction between the atmosphere and the ship causes intense heat and bla bla bla.). The Invid Swarm passes by as the Dropship Fleet enters the Burn Zone. After several minutes of intensified friction heat, the Dropship Fleet finally entered the lower "Sky" Zone of Optera's Atmosphere.]

Marcus Mc'Darlian: Dropship Fleet, we are currently in the Sky Zone of Optera and as of now, currently in the shoot down zone. We are to head strait towards Opteran outpost "Valley Forge" to resupply them with troops, equipment, ammunition, Cryonite cells and other essentials. Escort Squadrons, keep a look out for any enemy mecha in the pepsinate.

[The Dropships, Horizonts, and fighter escorts heads towards a small outpost atop of what seems to be a crater filled desert. The Outpost "Valley Forge" seems to be under attack by a mixed group of Shock Troopers and Combat Trooperslead by an Invid Strike Unit. Valley Forge's defense cannons and soldiers are barely keeping away the Shock Troopers. The Escort Squadrons fires several shots upon the attacking Invid. The Dropships and Horizonts hover above a landing pad within Valley Forge's walls as one of the ships land, unload its cargo and personnel and take off as another begins the unloading process. The new soldiers then join their comrades in defending the outpost. After all of the ships have unloaded, the escort squadrons then fired upon the attacking Invid and shortly the Invid began a forced retreat.]

[Shot of several soldiers in a front line trench are ducking and watching for enemy mecha.]

1st Trench Soldier: Shit, my back hurts.

2nd Trench Soldier: Tell me about it, I'm not sure if my fingers are numb or not attached to my hand.

1st Trench Soldier: That's because one of your hands is in the coolant gel of your EDPW Einstein.

2nd Trench Soldier: What the fuck!

[He tosses the leaking EDPW rifle away from him and wipes his hands.]

2nd Trench Soldier: Shit. That gun is nothing but shit.

1st Trench Soldier: Hey, don't complain to me about it, get another one.

2nd Trench Soldier: Right.

[As soon as he turns around to get another functioning EDPW, a plasma disk flies by his head and kills other soldiers in the other trench lines.]

2nd Trench Solder: What the fuck is happening?

1st Trench Soldier: Just get a gun and fire.

2nd Trench Soldier: Fuck the guns, I'm getting a rocket launcher.

[The 2nd Trench Soldier grabs a Reusable Rocket launcher and fires a rocket at the eye of a Combat Trooper's eye.]

1st Trench Soldier: What the fuck are your doing? You know that we have a limited supply of Rockets!

2nd Trench Soldier: Well it's better than these pea shooters.

1st Trench Soldier: I don't get you. You can shoot an apple off a guy's head with a rocket, but you can't fire shit with an EDPW rifle even if it was in zero range.

3rd Trench Soldier: Can't you two shut the fuck up and fire?

[The Trench Solders continue firing their weapons at the approaching Combat Troopers as the Combat Troopers continue killing soldiers in the trenches. Several lines behind the soldiers, several hover tanks are preparing to assist the frontline soldiers in battle. The Soldiers of shallower trench line soldiers avoided the hover tanks by either ducking their heads into the trench or moved out of their way. As the tanks continued their trek to the front lines, they began firing their energy and missile projectiles at the approaching swarm. Many Invid mecha were destroyed by the volley of tank weaponry as the tanks approached the front line trenches. Several swarms of Invid Attack Scouts began strafing the hover tank's assault but the anti-aircraft tanks and trench soldiers supporting the assault tanks prevented the Attack Scouts from successfully attacking the tanks and soon, the Invid Swarms were forced into a retreat.]

1st Trench Soldier: Shit yah! We beaten them back!

2nt Trench Soldier: Yah, we showed them who's the superior species on this rock.

3rd Trench Soldier: Yah, and not any help from you two bastard slugs of soldiers!

[The 3rd Trench Soldier takes off his helmet, and side hits Soldiers 1&2's heads/helmets.]

1st Trench Soldier: Aught, fuck!

2nt Trench Soldier: Shit, what did you do that for?

1st Trench Soldier: What?

2nd Trench Soldier: What?

1st Trench Soldier: What?

2nd Trench Soldier: What?

1st Trench Soldier: What?

2nd Trench Soldier: What?

[3rd Trench Soldier side hits Trench Soldiers 1&2 again, but harder.]

3rd Trench Soldier: Shut your fucking traps up and get back in line!

1st Trench Soldier: What?

2nd Trench Soldier: What?

1st Trench Soldier: What?

2nd Trench Soldier: What?

1st Trench Soldier: What?

2nd Trench Soldier: What?

3rd Trench Solder: Shut up.

1st Trench Soldier: What?

2nd Trench Soldier: What?

3rd Trench Soldier: Oh fuck, I give up.

1st Trench Soldier: What?

2nd Trench Soldier: What?

1st Trench Soldier: What?

2nd Trench Soldier: What?

[Shot of two VAF-8R attached to VBF-2 following a VAF-9 attached to a VBF-3 flying inside a huge canyon which seemed to have once flowed lava with several stone "towers" rising from the canyon floor and several gas geysers spew yellowish red vapors into the air. The veritechs gently avoided the obstacles as they scout the area.]

VAF-8R REO1: Man, I didn't remember Optera being this unstable geothermal planet before? Optera in my universe didn't look like this.

VAF-8R Pilot1: Well, there are different variations of Optera throughout the Cosmos and this Optera had to be a dormant geothermal planet before the native Zentraedi defoliated the planet.

VAF-8R REO1: The Zentraedi used chemicals to defoliate Optera, right?

VAF-8R Pilot1: The Tiresians used sonic emitters that instantly kill leaf cells of a plant and I guess that the side effect was that it reanimated the dormant planet to life with geothermal energy.

VAF-9 Pilot: Look out people, we got a bogie at nine thirty.

VBF-3 Pilot: What is it?

VAF-9 Pilot: Scans suggest that it is some kind of Invid Battloid.

VAF-8R Pilot2: Then it mustn't be alone.

VAF-9 Pilot: No, it is.

VAF-8 Pilot2: What makes you say that?

VAF-9 Pilot: The scanners show that it is alone and Invid Battloids, what ever they are, are rarely alone.

VBF-3 Pilot: It could mean two things; one, it could be an extremely good and brave pilot, or two, that Invid is really stupid and arrogant.

VBF-2 Pilot: Never seen many of those around.

VAF-9 Pilot: Well, whatever it is, our mission is to scout the area for potential mining sites, bases, or enemy concentrations. We'd better go back to base and report this.

[The Invid Battloid fires a Plasma disk at the second Legios and barely misses.]

VBF-3 Pilot 2: He almost shot us!

VAF-8 Pilot2: I'm voting that he's stupid.

VAF-9 Pilot: Everyone, prepare for skirmish! All fighters separate and engage! Jackie, Joe, return to base and keep a communications link on us. If something happens to us, it won't be a mystery, got that!

VAF-8R Pilot & REO1 Rodger.

[As the pilots and REO, Jackie and Joe, rushed off towards the base, the remaining veritechs begin to attack the Invid Battloid.]

VBF-2 Pilot1: Shit, its a Warlord!

VAF-9 Pilot: Everyone, keep a cool head. All veritechs, transform to battloid mode. Alphas, jam the equipment on that Warlord and aim for potential vulnerable spots. Betas, land on the top of the canyons and cover me while I engage the Warlord.

All Pilots: Right!

[VAF-9 Pilot pulls out the GU-18 Energy Pulse Pod and unleashed the furry of energy discharge pulses at the Warlord. The Warlord easily dodge the energy discharge pulse volley and pulled out what seems to be a long pole with an oval shaped end.]

VAF-9 Pilot: What the fuck is that?

[The pole then unsheathed an energy blade from the oval shaped end and the Invid Warlord Battloid made an attack pose as the VAF-9 rushed towards the opponent.]

VAF-9 Pilot: Shit, he has an energy blade weapon!

Ocampa'Shea[VO]: Attention humans, I am Kulagi Ocampa'Shea of the 27th Royal Battloid Cosmos Swarm. If you value your lives, you will surrender to me and the Invid Collective.

VAF-9 Pilot: Ocaumpa'Shea, aren't you the guy who had his ass kicked by Miriya Sterling?

Ocampa'Shea[VO]: Enough, if you fear me, run. If you value your lives, surrender. If you don't and stupid enough to appose the will of the Regent and Regis, fight me.

VAF-9 Pilot: Hah, you should talk. You came all the way out here to fight us without any support of Invid mecha and if you haven't noticed, we have you surrounded and outnumbered. I think that it is you who should consider running or surrendering.

Ocampa'Shea: Silence, I am a Kulagi of the Invid, I do not need reinforcements to handle the likes of you. Prepare to die!

[Ocampa'Shea charges towards VAF-9 Pilot, who unsheathed two mecha sized Energy Blades and blocked the attack. The VAF-9 Pilot did a knee kick into the torso of the Warlord. Ocampa'Shea then attacked again and Energy Blades crossed as an airborne sword fight begins. The Alphas and Betas fired their weapons each time Ocampa'Shea was away from VAF-9 Pilot and each time Ocampa'Shea dodged the Missiles. He dove towards VBF-3 and used its energy blade staff to cut the beta right down the middle.]

VAF-9 Pilot: BASTARD!!

[The VAF-9 then performed a trust accelerated leap kick at Ocampa'Shea, but he simply caught the Mecha's foot and spun her around until he chose to let the VAF-9 fly into a VAF-8.]

Ocampa'Shea: I see, you cared for that mecha pilot. Your hate has clouded your judgment. How long do you think that your rage will take you to kill yourself.

[The VAF-9 then made another attack run at Ocampa'Shea with the energy blades tightly in the Mecha hands and prepared to strike, but Ocampa'Shea met his blade with the mecha. The VAF-9 Then used its autocannons at Ocampa'Shea, which distracted Ocampa Shea long enough for the pilot to get well into the proper distance to fire its missiles. Ocampa'Shea barely avoided the attack and he prepared to fire.]

Ocampa'Shea: Now you will know the furry of the Invid Collective.

[Ocampa'Shea fired many short range missiles at the VAF-9, but it avoided the attack entirely, but the missiles seemed to change course.]

VAF-9 Pilot: What, its targeting me? But that's impossible, the VAF-9 is powered by cryonite energy.

Ocampa'Shea: All the more difficult, but have you forgotten that missiles can also have eyes.

[The SRMs began to chase the VAF-9 and despite all of the pilot's efforts, the missiles still followed the mecha. The other Veritechs fired missile and energy projectiles at the missiles and after several seconds of continuous fire, the missiles were finally destroyed and all veritechs ran out of missiles and were empty of weapon energy.]

VBF-2 Pilot2: Shit, I'm out of weapons.

Ocampa'Shea: As it should be.

[Ocampa'Shea then made a final attack run upon the Veritechs with its Energy Blade and Plasma weapons blazing. After a heavy battle, all veritechs were so severely damaged that they could barely fly and Ocampa'Shea took the advantage by attacking the veritechs with his Energy Blade Staff, one by one. Then a video screen of the VAF-9's Point of View showed the Warlord standing above it and holding the head of a VAF-8.]

Ocampa'Shea: Game, set, match.

[The Warlord tossed the head in the air, raised his energy blade staff and sliced into the VAF-9 and its head and the video ends.]

Max Sterling: This is who were against people.

[We see a huge viewing room with pilots of every occupation seated around a view screen showing the previous battle with Ocampa'Shea. Max Sterling and Roy Fokker were beside the viewing screen.]

Max Sterling: As we all have seen, this particular Stage 6 Invid had out maneuvered and outsmarted the pilots into running low on fire arms so he could attack them face-to-face with the Invid's new melee weapon. Also the evidence of SRMs equipped with seeker optic warhead with the programmed picture of the VAF-9 Alpha, so the advantage of having mecha powered by Cryonite or fusion is no longer our advantage. From analysis of the scanners of the wreckage, it showed that the missiles lacked the explosive warheads, and it has been hypothesized by UCE and REF Intel that the missiles fired by Ocampa'Shea were decoys to lure the Veritechs to fire all of their weapons to leave them unarmed with distance weapons. Intel has also warned us that Ocampa'Shea may change his missile supply so that half of his missiles will be decoys while the other half will be real missiles, so don't assume that the missiles are not armed and dangerous.

Roy Fokker: There have been several skirmishes before and after this recorded encounter, none on them ever shown us any of his actions since they have all been annihilated. What we have here is a "Red Barron", as REF Intel puts it, an Invid ace of aces that uses intelligence and trickery to lure his victims into their doom. So in short, expect the unexpected. We want this Invid shot down and we want him shot down immediately. We lost some good pilots to this guy and what we don't need now is a new Invid ace. If we are to succeed in this occupation, we need to destroy that ace and any other secret weapons of the Invid. Our current mission has not changed, we just have a new adjective, which is to destroy that ace and any other threats to victory over the Crongus Alliance. This emergency meeting is adjourned.

[All pilots begin to leave the viewing room and began discussing about the Red Barron.]

Pilot1: Did you see what that slug can do?

Pilot2: Shit, if I was there, I would have used my missiles for zero range volleys.

Pilot3: Stupid, if you do that with missiles, that slug isn't going to be the only one to be blown to oblivion.

Pilot2: Well, at least I'll take him with me.

Pilot1: Yah, on what, a date?

Pilot2: Shut the fuck up. I don't see you scoring any kills lately.

Pilot1: I'm just saving my skill for that ace.

Pilot3: That'll be short.

Pilot1: Shut up.

[Within the crowd, we see Roy Hunter standing against a wall.]

Roy Hunter[Thinking]: So, there's an enemy ace out there? There is no way I'm going to get shot down by that guy. I'd rather face an entire Crongus army battalion any day then be humiliated by a stinking slug when I die.

Lynn Minmei: Roy?

[Roy Hunter turns to see Lynn Minmei walking toward him.]

Roy Hunter: Oh, hi Minmei.

Lynn Minmei: I just heard about Ocampa'Shea, the Invid ace. I just don't want you to get hurt like last time.

Roy Hunter: Don't worry Minmei, that slug won't be a match for me-

Lynn Minmei: Roy! Don't say things like that! Please.

Roy Hunter: Alright, I won't. I'll be careful.

Lynn Minmei: Promise me that you won't die and come back to me.

Roy Hunter: Well Minmei, that's a bit of a hard-

Lynn Minmei: Please.

Roy Hunter: I promise. Now stop worrying about me. I'll be fine as long as I stay with the group.

[Lynn Minmei sharply strikes Roy Hunter in the stomach with her elbow.]

Lynn Minmei: You better.

[As Lynn Minmei starts to walk away, Roy Hunter holds his struck stomach.]

Roy Hunter[Thinking]: Shit, no wonder military marry military. [Speaking]Fuck that hurt.

[shot of Lisa Hayes3's apartment. Lisa Hayes and Ren enter the apartment and found it covered in hairballs.]

Ren: Stimpy, you moron, what on earth happened here?

Stimpy: Sorry Ren(sniffing), but I have allergies.

[Stimpy coughs up another hairball.]

Lisa Hayes3: Stimpy, what could you possibly be allergic to?

Ren: Yah, stupid, what could you be allergic to in the first place?

Stimpy: Viruses.

Ren: Stimpy, you idiot, you don't have any allergies, you have the stinking flu virus.

Stimpy: But Ren, aren't I suppose to be sneezing and runny nosier all the time?

Lisa Hayes3: I guess that's a way a cat's suppose to be, coughing up hairballs.

Ren: Stimpy, get your flu ridden hairballs out of here! I don't want to get your nasty germs on me or anything.

Lisa Hayes3: Ren, you should be ashamed of yourself.

Ren: Yah, I just don't want to be infected or something, but I don't see you cleaning any of it up.

Lisa Hayes3[angrily]: Fine, I'll do it myself. With an attitude like that, I should kick you out-

Ren: NOOOO!!!

[Ren falls to his knees and begins to beg.]

Ren: Anything but that, those two are coming and I don't want to leave!

Lisa Hayes3: What two, I want to know right now.

Stimpy: Bevis and Butthead.

Lisa Hayes3: Who?

Ren: Bevis and Butthead, two of the most dangerous individuals in the known cosmos. They're stupider then Stimpy.

Stimpy: Right, wait wasn't that a compliment thing or an insult?

Ren: We heard that they once destroyed an entire planet because they thought it was funny.

Stimpy: And I also heard that they look up women's skirts, for no apparent reason I think.

Lisa Hayes3: I think I know the reason why. Don't worry, I won't do that to you two.

Ren: Really? Oh thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you.

[Both Ren and Stimpy were bowing at Lisa Hayes3's feet and chanting.]

Ren and Stimpy: We're not worthy, we're not worthy, we're not worthy, we're not worthy...

Lisa Hayes3: Okay, you can stop it guys, guys?

[Upon the Opteran landscape, several Veritech and Verimorphtech wings began a battle with the Invid Collective who were currently engaged in combat with the native Opteran Invid.]

Pilot1: This is Captain Amatol Grenada of the 129th Dragon Borg Wing "Epyon Wing" to DTC (SDF-3A "Defender" Tactical Command). We have visual sighting of Invid skirmish and are requesting to engage and destroy the enemy.

DTC Officer[VO]: This is DTC to Captain Amatol Grenada, you have permission to engage the enemy, but only Collective Mecha, we have no hostile intentions towards the Native Invid unless they fire at you. Understand!?

Epyon Wing: Yes Sir!

Captain Amatol Grenada: Right, all fighters we are to attack only Collective Mecha. Ignore the Native Invid unless for defense.

[The Fighter wings begin their battle against the Invid Collective. In the thick of the battle, Ocampa'Shea's Warlord Battloid turns his attention towards the Human Mecha.]

Ocampa'Shea: Invid Collective Swarm, this is Kulagi Ocampa'Shea. Sulagi Kimana, Shuo, Katough and I will engage the Humans, the rest of you engage the rival hive warriors.

[Ocampa'Shea and four other Invid Assault Battloids/a turned towards the approaching Wings in full thrust while the rest of the swarm attacks the native Invid.]

Captain Amatol Grenada: All fighters fire!

[The Wing of Captain Amatol Grenada and that of the other Wings fired all of their weapons. The Invid Battloids broke off and speed towards different directions towards the Veritech and Verimorphtech Wings.]

Ocampa'Shea: Well see how long these humans last against me.

[Ocampa'Shea pulled out his Energy Blade Staff and slices the nearest fighter into pieces and began to fire his plasma weapons and missiles. The Invid Kimana grabs hold of a Veritech by its arm and begins to club any fighter that is foolish enough to get close to the Battloid welding Invid. We see the inside of the Assault Battloid's cockpit and we see a young-looking Sulagi having brunet hair with green highlights and her armor is colored in shades of yellow and white.]

Kimana: Come and face me cowards![She swung the Battloid into a Verimormptech fighter, resulting in an explosion and the only thing left of the battloid was its arm and shoulder. Kimana then turns her attention towards Ocampa'Shea who is slicing a VAF-8 in half.]

Kimana[thinking]: Please be proud of me, my lord.

[The Invid Katough was currently boxing with several Betas and he is has just punched of the head of a VBF-3.]

Katough: Come on, I can battle you all!

Shuo: Stop being idiotic Katough, we are to kill the humans, not play around with them.

[Int. shot of Katough's cockpit with Shuo on one of his screens. Katough has huge pectoral and deltoid muscles and has his hair shaped into a tomohauk fasion. Shuo was Katough's opposite in everyway. The Sulagi was small compared to the huge Invid and his purple hair stop at his shoulders.]

Katough: Then it wouldn't be any fun.[Katough blows up two betas and an alpha in one blow.]

Shuo: Ugh, shatough!! I don't know how I put up with you Sulagi. [Shuo steals an energy blade and thrusts it into the torso of the true owner of the blade and the fighter explodes in a ball of fire.] You are the physical representation of everything the Invid species shouldn't. [He then punches into the cockpit of a VAF-9 in fighter mode.]

Katough: I am what I am Shuo. [Katough dodges a missile volley from a VBF-2 Beta. He grabs onto one of the Beta's missiles and throws it at the Beta.]

Shuo: No, your not what you are. [Shuo rams into a VAF-8/VBF-2 Legios.]For instance, you have these disgusting, [He rips the legios into two pieces of scrap metal.] stupid crushes on human females.

Katough: Hey, that was a temporary phase I was going through.[Katough fires one of his missiles at an attacking UCE Dragon Borg fighter.] I did not know what I was thinking.

Shuo: Right, now silence your larynx and kill those humans.

Katough: Hey don't tell me how to battle!

Shuo: Oh really, if you are a much a warrior that you claim to be, then why did you let those human mecha blast away at you?

Katough: Wha- Augh Da Pluagh!!

[The battle continued on until the Veritech and Verimorphtech wings retreated.]

[Int. Shot of Tyrolian/Atlantian Destroyer's Hangar bay. On the sides of the hangar bay were Assault Carriers held by drop hydraulics' and being loaded of Bioroids, ammunition, weapons and personnel. We then see a battalion of Foot Soldiers in clad with armor similar to a Hipolite armor worn by ancient Greek soldiers but the breast, leg and fore arm armor is similar to that of the Terminator's armor, the skirt is made of flexible metals and the helmet looks like a half cross of the Hipolite Helmet and a CVR-3 Helmet. The battalion is marching double time. From here on, the Tyrolian/Atlantians will speak English until further notice.]

Hipolite Leader: Left MARCH.

[The Hipolite Battalion immediately turned toward an Assault Carrier being loaded with human sized weapons and ammunition.]

Hipolite Battalion Leader: Battalion, HALT! Everyone get your shields and board immediately.

Hipolite Battalion: Affirmative Sir!

[Each Hipolite is handed a metal shield that had a glass window near the top of the shield. The inside of the shield held weapons to be used by the Hipolite foot soldier. Each shield consists of at least three weapons; a Terminator's Rifle, a sword forged and made by the Hipolite himself and designed to suit his tastes, and an UCE Energy Blade that can be used as a bayonet for the Terminator's Rifle. The Shield has room for at least two weapons of choice. A Scythe of either energy Blade or normal blade that can fold into the shield, an energy or bullet hand gun, a dagger, a hand ax, and spear. After receiving their shield, the Hipolites enter the Assault Carrier and strap themselves into the seats.]

Hipolite Battalion Leader: Everyone prepare for atmospheric reentry. As soon as the Assault Carrier lands, disembark with weapons ready and immediately join up with the landing force in the assault of the hive. All will fight, for it is our mission to rid the universe of the evil and corrupted. Understand!

Hipolite Battalion: YES SIR!!!

[The Assault Carrier is being pulled by the hydraulics, into an airlock, and after a few moments, outside of the Capital Ship and the clamps release the Assault Carrier and allow it to descend full thrust toward the atmosphere of Optera. Several Invid Mollusk Ships launched Invid mecha toward the incoming Assault Carrier Fleet. The Assault Carrier and it's escorts fired volleys of energy weapons upon the attacking Invid. Several Invid mecha were destroyed but the surviving Invid mecha fired their weapons and so the Assault Carrier Fleet's escorts were waging battle with the Invid while the fleet enters the burn zone of the atmosphere. After entering the safe zone of Optera's atmosphere, the Assault Carrier Fleet were caught off guard by Invid Surface-to-Air Weapons.]

Assault Carrier Captain: We have no choice, we have to do an air drop if we are going to attack the hive.

Assault Carrier Officer: But we can't leave the Hipolites without a way to return.

Assault Carrier Captain: We'll signal our landing zone as soon as all of our passengers and cargo have landed successfully.

[The hatches open up and everything in the holding bays of all Assault Carriers were dropped into the Hot Zone of the Invid Hive and were forced to land to a safe location far from the battle. Several Bioroids were launched to enforce the attack force as Invid Shock Trooper and Enforcers appeared to engage the invaders. The battle was, for lack of words, hellish chaos. Hipolite foot soldiers and Bioroids battled a seemingly endless hoard of Invid Mecha and Archers fired Lightning Arrows to bombard the defense force. At last they have reached the Hive itself. One Bioroid was carrying an Alpha Disruptor Gunpod on its shoulder and fired a bolt that created a hole in the force field large enough for a Bioroid to enter through easily. The Bioroids, Hipolites, and Archers fired every round they have at the hive structure until it collapsed from massive damage. The Landing force cheered victoriously until a dark formation appeared from the rugged horizon.]

Bioroid Pilot: This is Bioroid 1 to Assault Carriers, we are reading a large number of Invid Mecha heading towards our direction, we need immediate evacuation of battle zone now.

[The only thing upon the communications link was static.]pp

Bioriod Pilot: This is Bioroid 1, do you read? I repeat, this is Bioroid 1, do you read?

[We see the Assault Carriers under attack by a Warlord Battloid, the same one that was shown earlier in the episode. The Battloid uses its Energy Blade Staff to destroy the Assault Carriers.]

Ocampa'Shea: I'd say that this is all to easy.

[Ocampa'Shea continues his massacre upon the Assault Carriers as he dodges their fire.]

Ocampa'Shea: The Invid Collective is to be a force to be reckoned with!

Roy Hunter[VO]: I don't think so slug boy!

Ocampa'Shea: Wha-

[Roy Hunter's VAF-8 has successfully knocked Ocampa'Shea off of his feet and he landed in front of him doing an attack stance.]

Roy Hunter: Let's see how you deal with a real Veritech Pilot.

Ocampa'Shea: Ha ha ha ha ha ha! You, a mucus nasal ensign, dare to challenge I, Ocampa'Shea, Ace of the Invid Collective.

Roy Hunter: [Talking to Assault Carriers.]Hey you guys, don't you got some passengers to pick up? [Returns attention to Ocampa'Shea.] I have no idea what you've just said, but I'm gona make you eat your own words.

Ocampa'Shea: Well come on then, I'm not going anywhere.

[We then see the Optera sun, Tzuptum, rising aa it silhouetted both combatants among the background of the Opteran dawn and we see the subtext: "To be Continued" shown on the bottom of the screen and after several seconds, fade to black.]

Disclaimer: I do not own Robotech, Gundam Wing, South Park, Ren and Stimpy, Star Wars, Bevis and Butthead or Star Trek Voyager. Also most of the Mecha and starship designs belong to someone else.