Angels of the RDF
Disclaimer: I don't own Ranma 1/2 or Robotech or anything else that appears in here.
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Chapter 3- Arrival of the Zentraedi
I don't get it. It was supposed to be a normal day that I got to see my daughter I haven't seen in a year then those guys have to show up and things spiral out of control like water down a drain.
- Mr. Honjo , Interviews from the start of the Robotech War . Classified Documents
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February 2009- Macross Island
Fireworks were going off above the SDF-1 and helicopters were hovering around it. The SDF-1's reconstruction was completed and the ceremony was under way. A limousine is seen moving toward the SDF-1. Inside is Captain Henry Gloval and Vice Captain Nodoka Kinomoto on one side looking upset over something and Senator Russo on the other. The senator is waving to people as it passes by and looks at the others. " Don't look so sour you two it's our big day! Surely you realize all those people out there consider you all heroes! You should at least wave back."
Nodoka sighs. " Fine."
Henry looks off to the side. " Ok I'll wave."
They both wave to the people for a few seconds and mutter to each other. " But we don't have to like it."
The limo drives past the mayor and he waves back and sighs. " It's sad to see the old girl leaving us." the mayor says.
A man named Vern standing next to him nods. " Yeah I can't believe its going to be leaving us. Its because of the SDF-1 this city was built."
The mayor nods. " Ya and Captain Gloval and Vice Captain Kinomoto don't look to happy about it."
Vern nods. " Yeah I think its because the Senator is making them ride around in that limo."
On the bridge of the SDF-1
Lisa is laying on her console bored out of her mind while Sammy, Vanessa, and Kim were at their monitors going over some system checks when Claudia walks in. " Morning everyone."
Lisa groans. " What's so good about it. I knew I shouldn't have let you, Roy, those 3 back there, and Angel squad take me out to party last night."
Kim laughs. " You need to go out and live out your life Lisa."
Vanessa smirks. " Ya you may even meet a cute guy but you know your is in love with this ship Lisa."
Kim laughs harder. " You got that right."
Sammy leaps up and pouts. " Come on guys don't tease Lisa. You know how she feels about starting a new relationship after what happened at Mars base."
The bridge goes silent as Lisa feels a sting in her heart. Suddenly Claudia taps her on the shoulder. " If your going to pout do it after and check your monitor."
Lisa snaps out of it, and opens a hailing channel. "Unknown craft inbound please state your name."
A voice answers back. " This is Rick Hunter invite #203."
Lisa looks it up. "Roger. An invite from Commander Roy Fokker. Follow course Five-Seven to land."
Rick answers back. " Roger that."
Back at the base
Roy is standing on a stage in front of a lot of people with Ranma and the rest of angel squad and their guests behind him. " Welcome to our little show everyone. Today we will be showing you what the RDF is made of." A pair of 5 skull planes fly over head and break formation. " Keep a close eye on planes 2 and 4 which will pass three meters from one another. Robotechnology makes such things possible." the planes come and near each other and pass by each other and suddenly a small fanjet power plane zooms past them and Roy groans. " Oh no. Rick is that you Rick Hunter." He yells into the mic.
Rick answers back happily. " Hiya Roy so you're a Commander now. Very nice."
Roy fumes. " Now you listen here…." He stops as Ranma taps him on the shoulder. " Yes?"
Ranma smirks. " Roy just who is leading your boys up there?"
Roy looks back. " Captain Kramer in skull 2 .… why?"
Ranma smirks. " Let me see that for a sec." She takes the mic and looks over at the guy working the sound. " Change this to radio only for a minute." He nods and does so. " Captain Kramer this is Lieutenant-Commander Ranma Kinomoto I know your unarmed right now but do a missile lock on that guy's plane when you here me say take him down."
Captain Kramer smirks. " Will do. I hate little snot nosed brats like this."
Ranma motions for it to change back and speaks into the mic so Rick can here it. " This is Lieutenant-Commander Ranma Kinomoto and what your doing is violating our airspace and not landing where you were told to."
Rick replies back. " So what you going to do about it hmmm?"
Ranma smirks. " Skull 2 take him out."
Rick blinks. " Huh?" he looks behind him and sees one of the Veritechs behind him and hears his radar beeping confirming he is being targeted by a missile. " Oh boy I think I over did it." He slips on a parachute and opens the top and dives out causing his Mockingbird to Crash into the water while he drifts down and lands in the water also.
The crowd, everyone on the bridge, Ranma, the rest of angel squad, their guests, and even Roy are howling with laugher and Roy speaks into the mic once more " Well I have to fish out that trouble maker and have a talk with him. Enjoy the show everyone. " He drops the mic and takes off running.
The crowd breaks apart and goes their separate ways and Umi smirks. " That brat had that coming."
Minako laughs. " Ya he probably wet his pants when he though he was going to be fired at."
Kasumi smirks a bit. " It was funny but un called for."
Mikaze shakes her head. " He endangered the pilots and everyone on the ground he had it coming. Besides you laughed also."
Ami holds up some figures she did. " According to my math if Rick had flown in 2 seconds earlier all 3 planes would have crashed and fell to the ground killing at least 100 people so he got what he had coming."
Hikaru is rubbing her head. " Math …. Hurt….. Brain"
Ukyou, Nabiki, and Mr. Honjo nod while Fuu giggles. " Well I guess it has to hurt to learn sometimes."
Above the Earth
The stars shimmered and wavered as if shivering with fear. Suddenly there is a bright flash of light and a huge nine mile long flag ship comes out of it. More lights appear and at least a thousand other ships each between one to four miles long appear. They followed the flag ship keeping distance from it not daring to move in front of it and line up in a formation. The Zentraedi had arrived.
On board the flag ship a giant man with a metal plate covering most of his face stands there. This is Supreme Commander Breetai. He stood at the edge of his control bubble and looks at the planet before him on a holoscreen. " So the finder beam has locked onto this location Exedore?"
A man some what smaller then Breetai but with gray skin walks up and stands next to him. " Yes sir. There is no evidence of another fold so it must be here."
Breetai nods. " So Zor's fortress is on this planet?"
Exedore nods. " Yes sir. All data proves that fact."
Breetai smirks. " Very well. Dispatch a scout team."
Two of the smaller craft break away rom the fleet and start making their way closer to earth.
Macross Island
Angel squad and their guests had been joined by another soldier who would take the guests into the ship and show them around it but right now they where being shown Angel Squads Veritechs which where sitting on runway 3. Near the front of the SDF-1.
Mr. Honjo runs his hands over it. " Never in my life have I seen such a aircraft as this. Your lucky to fly this Mikaze."
Mikaze blushes. " Thanks dad."
Ami smiles. " They really did a good job making these. It far surpasses anything ever made on this planet."
Ranma smirks. " Such is Robotechnology you see it…." Ranma is cut off as a loud clang is heard over head. " What the?"
On the bridge
The crew is running around crazy. Claudia is looking around her area. " What's going on here."
Lisa is going over her console. " Claudia give me a read out." She yells over the alarms going off.
Claudia goes over to her station and the readings she has. " Every system is starting up." She reads it more and gasps. " The defense system is activating the main gun."
Lisa panics. " Its never been fired before who knows what will happen. Shut down all systems."
Claudia turns the emergency shut off switch again and again. " Its no use. I'm getting no response."
Outside
The two giant white booms at the front of the ship spilt apart from each other and move out till they are at least 300 feet from each other. Gold and orange lights start to flicker across em and start to gather energy. Ranma sees this and panics. " Third Lieutenant Collins use your radio and find out what's going on."
The man salutes her, " Yes ma'am" He pulls his radio out and starts trying to get through to the bridge.
The Bridge
The crew watches as the sparks build up more and jump back and forth trying to get back control when Captain Gloval races in and slams his head into the door frame top and curses in Russian and Nodoka is right behind him and can't stop in time and runs into him knocking them both onto the floor and she quickly gets up and apologizes and dusts herself off.
Captain Gloval sighs. " Its ok now just what is going on here?"
"The main gun is preparing to fire sir." Kim yells out.
Captain Gloval quickly looks over everything then at his crew and he can tell they are all worried when Lisa walks up to him. " What will we do Captain."
He looks at her and pulls his hat over his eyes. " We pray."
Outside
The spark build up reaches it max and a huge blast is fired and it arches over the city going threw the mountains on the other side and continues on threw the water and out of the atmosphere and slams into the 2 approaching ships.
Third Lieutenant Collins looks at Ranma. " The captain said to get the guests of yours inside now and they can sit in his room. I'll take them there.
The Zentraedi Fleet
Breetai smirks. " Zor's ship must be there all ships advance but use caution."
The fleet of ships begins to move forward. But soon is engaged with 2 Space cruisers built by Earth. After a brief fight lasting less then 3 minutes Armor 2 is completely destroyed while Armor 10 is heavily damaged and tries to contact the SDF-1.
The bridge
Sammy jumps up. " I have the report of what the Main gun shot at but thank god the city was spared."
Lisa nods. " Yes Sammy and I have it here. Two objects of unknown origin most likely space craft were struck by the beam and destroyed about 200 miles out of the atmosphere."
Vanessa yellows out. " Incoming message from Armor 10 Captain."
Gloval hears the message and sighs. " The activation of the main gun and this report has given us the truth. Unfriendly forces have come to earth. Order all Veritechs on standby and arm them now!"
Outside
An alarm goes off and the helicopters move away form the ship. Lisa's voice can be heard. " Emergency … emergency… All Veritech pilots to standby now."
Ranma looks at her team which looks back at her. A second later 5 flat beds pull up loaded with missile packs and a large gun and they start attaching them to the Veritechs. " Oh boy when I said two weeks during training I was only joking this isn't funny."
Nabiki looks at Kasumi. " Sis."
Kasumi puts up a hand. " Nabiki this is my job now and I will do it."
Minako nods. " Yeah I will show them what happens when you ruin a day with my friend I haven't seen in years." The rest of the squad nods and start climbing into this Veritechs and start the start up checklist and put on their helmets.
Ukyou looks at Ranma. " Be careful and bring them back safe."
Ranma nods her head. " I will."
The techs finish loading up the Veritechs and drive off to load up the next squad and each of the girls waves to their family or friends and close their visors and canopies and move into ready position while Collins leads everyone else inside.
The Zentraedi Fleet
Exedore is staring at a screen. " Very heavy resistance sir."
Breetai nods. " Yes but why are they using such primitive weapons? Our scout ships have broken through already."
Exedore thinks. " It must be some trick no doubt."
Breetai thinks. " Yes you're probably right. Launch all fighters and have all ships hold position here."
Exedore nods. " Yes sir."
Several green painted fighters start to come out of the ships and a few white half circled one's also make their way out and enter earths atmosphere.
The bridge
Nodoka looks at Captain Gloval. " We show ready signs from the squads and some are still being armed."
Captain Gloval looks out the window and puts his pipe in his mouth. " Just when we have peace and nothing threatening our life style this happens." He moves to light it.
Sammy jumps up. " CAPTAIN GLOVAL!"
He turns to look at her with the match in his hand. " Yes what is it?"
Sammy looks at him. " NO smoking on the bridge sir. Its against regulations." This causes a groan from the rest of the crew."
He looks at his pipe and puts out the match and shoves the pipe into his pocket with a blush. " I was just holding it I wasn't going to light it. Launch all Veritechs."
Outside
Lisa's voice is heard once more. " Emergency. Alien invaders in sector four-one-two. All Veritechs launch."
Ranma's voice comes over the net. " Ok girls this is it. Remember your training I gave you and it may save your life. Final Check. Angel 2?"
Umi comes up. " Angel 2 Dragon ready."
Ranma nods. " Angel 3?"
Kasumi comes up. " Angel 3 Archer is ready."
Ranma smiles. " Good. Angel 4?"
Mikaze comes up this time. " Angel 4 Comet all systems are go."
Ranma nods once more. " Excellent. Finally Angel 5?"
Minako comes up. "Angel 5. All systems green and ready to kick butt."
Ranma gives a smile. " Good job girls." she changes her radio to the bridge. " Angel leader Crimson to SDF-1. Angel squadron ready to launch on runway 3."
Lisa comes up. " Rodger that Angel leader. Stay safe and may the Kami's watch over you. You are go for launch"
Ranma nods. " Your heard her girls. Take off."
The 5 Veritechs move down the runway and pick up speed as the engines gain more power and once they reach full power they lift off the ground.
End chapter 3
Outake
Captain Gloval looks out the window " Just when we have peace and nothing threatening our life style this happens." He pulls out a large bottle of sake.
Sammy jumps up. " CAPTAIN GLOVAL!"
He turns to look at her with the match in his hand. " Yes what is it?"
Sammy looks at him. " If you bring sake on the bridge you have to share. Its regulations"
Captain Gloval laughs. " Ok everyone lets drink!" He passes out cups and sake to everyone.
Randa is twisting one of her tails with her hands. " CUT! I'm the only one allowed to drink on the set!"
Kim laughs. " Then come join us Author."
Randa eyes flash. " Ok!"
By the end of the day the entire cast is to drunk to do anymore work and are all passed out on the floor.
Outake end
Notes: another day. Another two chapters. Heck I'll probably finish this fic by the time I talk to Thorn again lol.