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Wings of a New Dawn
Book 1 of the New Macross Saga
A Robotech Story brought to you,
By
William R. Woods
"Deathzealot"
Chapter BGM is Warriors by Freedom Call
Part 2: Eternal Love
The ARMD-03 Enterprise the third of the ARMD Platforms. It along with ARMD-01 Langley would be the first UN Forces to battle the alien threat of the Zentradi. While the Langley rendezvoused with ARMD-02 Argus along with the recently launched SDF-1 and the rest of the Orbital Fleet, the Enterprise would instead stay behind to finish recovery and limp to the L-5 Shipyards due to its engines being heavily damaged during the battle. There it would be receive the repairs it needed along with some general upgrades in the face of the superior threat of the aliens along with swamping out their now outclassed Hunter and Lancer fighters with new Veritech Fighters. After managing to get out of the yards the Enterprise would become the center piece of the Enterprise Taskforce and assigned to patrol the L1 Area in case of further alien attack. After several months of hunting down an odd Anti-UN Terrorist or two, and intercepting the handful of enemy units, would join up with the just returned SDF-1 where it would really start living up to its name…
Taken from The Big E: New Generation
Circa. March, 2012AD
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Room 12-A
Macross General Hospital
Macross City, SDF-1 Macross
March 23, 2010AD
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During the last week, almost two, Rick had hardly left Lisa's bedside at all. The only time he did was to go on patrol or fight the very rare battle which was surprising after two back-to-back battles. However it been pure luck that she managed to fight through the first night and now she currently was in coma, though the doctors were confident that since she managed to make through that first terrible night she will eventually wake up. Ever since then Rick stayed in the room watching over her till the moment she awoke. Several times a day their friends would stop by for a status report on her condition or in Roy's case pull him away so he could get cleaned up and fed. There also those members of the crew who barely knew Lisa who stopped by to see how she is, and Rick finally noticed that how respected Lisa was to the crew. No matter if she was a hard-case and dedicated to her job she was someone that became almost a maternal figure to the some of the younger crew members. It was satisfying in a way to Rick on how much Lisa is respected and wondered if she knew this at all.
Currently the SDF-1 orbited the planet at the First Lagrange Point, one of the five points around the planet where gravity stabilized. The large battlefortress however was not alone for joining the SDF-1 was the Enterprise Battlegroup, giving the SDF-1 and Captain Gloval in particular a far heavier hammer to wield in combat. This comes about when the commander of this group, an old friend and former protégée of Gloval's pledged the support of her group to the fight with the Zentradi. This battlegroup consisted of six Oberth Class Destroyers, the Goddard, Huesinger, Rousseau, Holst, Fontaine, and Vesalius, the lead ship and namesake of the group the ARMD-03 Enterprise, and finally two Altair Class Fleet Tenders supporting the group. Already dedicated repair and engineering teams had come over to the SDF-1 from the tenders to start repairing some its more heavy hull damage which the repair teams from the battlefortress itself didn't have the equipment needed to repair thanks in part to their rushed launching. In return Doctor Lang along with a large team of his Robotechnicians where sent over to the other ships giving them a general look over as well as erecting some thrown together Pin-Point Barriers allowing them to survive better against Zentradi then they would normally be able to. More importantly for Rick and the rest of the overworked pilots of the ship the Enterprise carried a full complement of one hundred-twenty Veritechs, that is ten squadrons of twelve planes each not including spare fighters, which had been immediately transferred over to the SDF-1 along with their pilots. Thanks to this the SDF-1 herself for the first time since the Battle of Plato carried nearly a full complement of Veritechs themselves. This combined with the air wing off the Enterprise gave the SDF-1 more importantly Captain Gloval that same heavy hammer to wield in combat along with a few more Robotech goodies on board the Enterprise.
A knock on the door dragged Rick from his thoughts about the past few days and made him turn to see the newly promoted Lieutenant Junior Grade Max Sterling, his wing-mate and friend standing at the opened door with a smile on his face. Max after the latest battle were he had lead the Vermillion Squadron in his place received a long overdue promotion and was now officially the squadron's XO since thanks to the transfers from the Enterprise along with a few veteran pilots from other squadrons up to full strength. One of these new pilots Ensign William Anders, a sandy haired nineteen year old rookie fresh from piloting training stood next to Max. Anders is Ben's temporary replacement thanks to Ben being heavily injured in the last battle and forced to eject. Surprisingly enough Ben managed to shoot down two pods during this adding to one he had previously, therefore many thought he is shaping up and becoming a better pilot.
"Yeah Boss want to join me showing Ensign Anders here the big city and maybe some lunch as well?" the blue haired ace asked with his usual go-happy smile, that made Rick smile even in the throes of a mild depression. Looking down at Lisa had him starting to refuse when he suddenly reconsidered for he really needed to get out or he was going to go crazy especially in this downturn of attacks. Besides he hadn't seen Macross City in a while and he had heard a lot of comments about various new things added since the battle. Not to mention Roy had been pushing for him to go out and enjoy himself for it would be what Lisa would want him to do and with that he nodded before turning back to look at Max.
"Sure why not. Haven't gotten a chance to see the city lately and I really need to get out of this place before I go crazy or something. Just let me freshen up first, and then we can go," Rick finally replied with a little wider smile then he usually wore since Lisa was found and that dreadful first date. Max just smile pleased that Rick was getting out and simply nodded before leading Anders away from the room.
"We will be out front in a jeep waiting Boss," he managed to say before Rick closed the door making him shake his head with a smile knowing that the other pilot had this all planned out. He suddenly sighed before leaning down and kissing the still comatose Lisa on the cheek.
"No worries Lisa I will be back, and when you wake up we have are going to have a lot to talk about," he said to her knowing that she wouldn't be able to hear him anyways but he still talked to her from time to time. With a final look at her he slipped into the room's small bathroom to quickly freshen up before joining Max and Anders.
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Macross City
SDF-1 Macross
Lagrange One
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It wasn't long before Rick slipped into the backseat of the military jeep parked in front of the hospital with Max and Ensign Anders sitting in the front seats. As the jeep took off Rick took the time to look around the City surprised to see the variety of new faces and a literal sea of uniforms more than normal anyways. These new faces and uniforms are various crewmembers of the Enterprise Battlegroup over for some dedicated leave. What was more surprising was that not many of these crewmembers wore RDF uniforms; instead they wore the more dull tan uniform of the Orbital Defense Fleet. Only some of the new pilots have started wearing RDF uniforms. The tan uniform was something Rick had never seen since the time Roy had come home for leave one time a few years before.
However as the jeep continued moving through the city Rick started to notice a few new places springing up around the city. He blinked in surprise to see what looked to be an honest-to-god movie theater done in the old 70 style. He shook his head at that before turning to look at Max in the driver's seat.
"When did they put in a movie theater?" Rick asked with a small smile on his face. Max looked at him in the rearview mirror.
"It went up when the first groups of crewmen from the Enterprise Group start coming over and one of them mentioned that the only thing we were missing was a movie theater. Lo' and behold only a day after this a theater suddenly appeared. We also now apparently have a strip bar and a fully-fledged night club," Max reported with a smile much to shock of Rick who couldn't believe that there was now both a strip bar and a night club here in Macross. Granted there had been plenty of bars rebuilt from those from the original Macross City but no full-fledged night clubs.
"This is amazing! I cannot believe this place is the belly of starship," Anders finally said after been busy gawking around at the city since then. He was currently looking up at the EVE Hologram Projection that imitated a blue sky. Both Rick and Max exchanged grins at the awe of the new pilot, both veteran Macross residents enjoying the awe of the newbies who had never seen something like Macross City.
"Anyways I don't know about you two but I am starting to get hungry," Max finally said after several moments of silence. This statement fully caught the attention of Anders who stopped gawking at the mention of food. Rick laughed and then blushed as his stomach grumbled agreeing with Max.
"Well here is the White Dragon. How does Chinese sound to you guys?" Max asked as he approached a familiar part of the city to Rick who only smiled at this. Taking this and Ander's nod as agreement Max quickly pulled up front to the small little out-of-place building that is the White Dragon, the first Chinese Restaurant in Space.
"Haven't been to White Dragon in a while, it will be good to see Max and Lina again. Come on Anders you haven't tried Chinese till you tasted Dragon Stir-fry," Rick mentioned as he jumped out of the jeep with an eager grin.
"Yes sir," Anders replied following the two senior pilots into the place. Rick just smiled and knew that this had been good idea to get out of that room.
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Room 12-A
Macross General Hospital
Macross City, SDF-1 Macross
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Meanwhile back in the hospital room the figure of Lisa slowly opened her eyes before blinking wondering where she was and what had happened. Her eyes quickly looked around the room noticing almost everything, before she winced as pain flooded her awareness.
'What happened? Why am I in the hospital?' she thought to herself as she tried to sit-up but soon gave up. With a sigh she managed to turn her head to see a chair pulled up to side of her bed along with numerous cards, flowers, and such gracing the side-table of the bed. With a frown she wondered who had been sitting at her bed side waiting for her to wake from whatever happened to her. As she continued trying to figure out what had happened to her, when suddenly her eyes fell onto a picture of herself and Rick standing in full uniform being awarded after their escape from Zentradi. As she looked at the picture her memories of that day, of Rick asking her out, getting ready for the date, arriving at Electra, Minmei's entrance, and the battle itself, all of it returned making Lisa gasp.
'Oh that is what happened. I really screwed up,' she thought with a shake of her head. She sighed wondering if Rick hated her now, since she ran out from their first date for something really stupid. Before she continued the line of thought the room's door opened and a nurse walked in with clipboard in hand. Looking up she suddenly stopped to see Lisa's eyes staring at her, after a moment she suddenly smiled before walking over to the side of the bed.
"Good! You're awake. The doctor was starting to get worried there for a while," the nurse said with that patented beaming smile of a nurse who did a job well done. Lisa smiled back before flinching as she once more tried to sit-up. The nurse just shook her head with a frown before manipulating the bed's controls to raise the front of the bed up making Lisa finally able to set up thanks to the raising bed.
"Thanks…" Lisa barely managed to say but her dry mouth prevented her from saying anything and making her lick her lips trying to wet them enough to be able to talk.
"There we go, and you're welcome. Here is some water, take small sips and while you do that I shall retrieve the doctor," the nurse mentioned handing over a small cup with straw and lid before turning to leave. Lisa only nodded at this before slowly sipping the water watching as the Nurse left the room. As she continued to sip the water she looked around the room once more noticing a few things she didn't earlier thanks to be laying down. A blanket was neatly folded on the end of her bed, while a flight jacket was thrown over the back of the chair. She noticed with surprise that it was Ricks thanks to the Pop Hunter's Flying Circus printed on the back, and the Skull patch recently added to the front of the jacket. However before she could try to figure out why Rick's jacket was here a white-coated doctor walked into the room with a big smile on his face.
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White Dragon Chinese Restaurant
Macross City, SDF-1 Macross
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Out in Macross City several blocks away from the hospital the White Dragon stood and inside one Lieutenant Junior Grade Rachael Hunter, the older sister to Rick Hunter, sat with several other pilots transferred from the Enterprise enjoyed the great food. The group as a whole was still getting used to amazing city that was built into the heart of a spaceship. However they weren't about complain about having the ability to have leave or simply wonder around town when they had been stuck onboard a space-born carrier, that while similar in nature to its planet bound cousins in that it is basically a floating city. It just doesn't sport the amenities of a real city, a place to unwind and enjoy themselves like they were currently doing. Therefore the group was taking the time they had to enjoy their outing to Macross City. Rachael herself having lived in a small town in Northern California all her life wasn't really used to the big-city feel of Macross even though the city was packed into a space that was a little bit bigger the size of her hometown. This was thanks to the multi-level nature of the city which shocked her even more for she never even thought it was possible for a multi-level city like this newly rebuilt Macross to be built. With a shake of her head clearing her thoughts on the matter as their food arrived. Suddenly one of the other pilots looked up with surprise to look over the left shoulder of Rachael at the opening door of the restaurant.
"Yeah isn't that Anders?" the man asked curiously making the others at the table to looked over to see that it is indeed William Anders another Enterprise pilot that had been transferred over to the ship. However Rachael didn't notice this instead her eyes fell onto the man leading Anders along with another man into the restaurant. She couldn't believe it but it was her little brother, Rick Hunter. He was in a RDF Uniform and had the rank pins of a senior lieutenant. Granted she had wondered if Rick was onboard the ship somewhere, but she never thought her normally anti-war brother would join the military. She suddenly found herself getting up from her chair to the confusion of the others at the table, but was suddenly stopped when a voice blared over the ship's intercom.
"Lieutenant Hunter, please call 4125, again Lieutenant Hunter, please call 4125," the voice said making the others at the table look at her in confusion but Rachael's eyes were on the figure of her brother as he looked up in confusion before turning to the woman standing by him who had sat them at the table, Rachael vaguely recognized the woman as one of the owners of the restaurant, before asking something. The women only nodded before walking over to a wall and picking up what looked to be a simple white cordless phone before handing it over to Rick. He quickly dialed that number into the phone and listened for several moments before he suddenly smiled relieved about something before hanging up the phone. He said something to the blue haired man at the table with him with a grin and handed the phone over to the woman who was smiling relieved as well over whatever Rick had heard. The blue-haired man made a shooing motion with his hands making Rick laugh before jumping up and racking out of the place. Rachael noticing she was still standing up sat back down with a confused frown before shaking her head and turning her attention to her food ignoring the looks of the others at the table.
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Macross General Hospital
Macross City, SDF-1 Macross
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A few minutes later found Rick racing through the corridors of the hospital pass the various doctors and nurses towards Lisa's room. With a smile he rounded the corner into the room and nearly tripped as he noticed that there happened to be a few people in the room besides what he expected. First there is Roy who was talking to Captain Gloval in one corner of the room while a doctor and a nurse looked over a now peacefully sleeping Lisa. Rick frowned at this wanting to talk to her but figured she needed the sleep and sat down in his usual seat taking one of her hands into his own. Her eyes flickered open slightly at his touch and stared at him before they closed once more. Rick smiled at this before turning his attention to the doctor who was explaining something to the Captain. Basically that since she woke up she should completely recover from this and be able to return to duty in a few weeks. Rick was relieved and looked back at Roy who had walked up behind Rick when he had sat down. Roy smiled and gave Rick a brotherly pat on the shoulder pleased as well that Lisa had pulled through. Rick then settled in for a long wait as both the Captain and Doctor left while Roy pulled a chair himself and settled in it.
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Bridge
Quaedol-Magdomilla Class Ship
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On the bridge of a Quaedol-Magdomilla Class Taskforce Flagship of the Zentradi Armed Forces, its commander a tall fair-skinned Zentradi by the name of Khyron stood staring at a Projecbeam, which is basically a hologram displayed onto the glass front of the command station, which displayed the battlefortress along the small fleet it was now part of as they peacefully orbited its new homeworld without a care in the world. The battlefortress known to the Zentradi as the Zerina or just Zor's Battlefortress had been a nuisance to the Zentradi Fleet or to be more specific its native crew was. Khyron really wanted to launch yet another attack at the ship but he was under direct orders from the Zentradi Supreme Commander Dolza himself to let Commander Azonia, the current commander of the Zentradi forces in the system, direct battles against the battlefortress leaving Khyron out of it thanks to him nearly destroying the ship during an earlier battle against orders. Suddenly a communication Projecbeam appeared interrupting Khyron's study of the battlefortress and its tiny fleet.
"Commander Azonia, how can I help you?" Khyron asked with fake cheerfulness at the face that was displayed in the projecbeam. The soft features of the woman only displayed her annoyance at this but simply shook her head at Khyron over this.
"I need you to launch an attack force at the battlefortress to keep it busy while one of my Quadronos slips in to leave a package. It is the beginning of a planned operation and I don't have the forces needed for a diversion force," Azonia mentioned making Khyron blink surprised at her request but soon a plan started to form in his mind one that could finally destroy or capture that pathetic ship along with its crew.
"What about the Supreme Commander's orders?" he asked feigning surprise knowing that he could get in real trouble if he went ahead with this against Dolza's orders.
"I have already cleared it with him Khyron," she replied rolling her eyes at him. Khyron only grinned at this as that plan started to take real shape in his mind.
"Understood Commander I shall assemble a strike force to allow you to start this plan of yours," he replied with a bow of his head to the woman, who crossed her arms over her chest and eyed him curiously.
"Remember only a distraction Khyron. This is your last chance which if you screw up or go overboard like you have before you will be recalled to Tirol to face punishment from the Masters," she warned with a frown before signing off. Khyron only scoffed at this before turning to order his two chief lieutenants to assemble the attack force while he continued planning knowing he only had one chance at this and he intended to see it through. As he did he started laughing evilly, for his plan was set and it was time to repay the accursed humans for all the devastating defeats they had given him. It won't happen again if his plan succeeded. His laughter echoed through the rest of the ship.
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Room 12-A
Macross General Hospital
Macross City, SDF-1 Macross
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Several hours later saw Lisa waking up to see her friend Claudia Grant sitting in the chair by her bed reading a book, which was forgotten when Claudia noticed her awake. With a smile Claudia leaned forward and grabbed Lisa's hand.
"God! You gave us quite the scare there hon," Claudia said with tears shining in her eyes. Lisa rubbed her thumb over the back of Claudia's hand. After several long moments of silence Claudia helped Lisa to sit up and drink some water.
"Where's Rick?" Lisa asked after looking around to see the pilot not around. Claudia smiled at this and laid a hand on Lisa's arm.
"Roy took him out to get something to eat, since you interrupted his lunch when you woke up from your coma. It took a lot to get him out of here, and Roy had to physically drag him out of the place," Claudia replied with a chuckle. Lisa however only turned her head in shame at this worrying Claudia.
"Lisa what's the matter?" Claudia asked getting up from the chair and sitting on the edge of the bed to look down at Lisa.
"I don't deserve Rick, especially after I ran out of our first date thanks to my stupidity and pig headiness. I wouldn't be surprised if he left me," Lisa mentioned sorrowfully looking out the window at the darkened Macross City. She in turn was surprised when a hand grabbed her chin and forced her to turn her face to look at an angry Claudia and even more surprised, shocked even, when Claudia smacked her across the face.
"Lisa you are an idiot! Rick loves you and will do anything for you. Yes you were stupid to run out of the date, but he doesn't blame you in fact he blames himself for that. He had forgotten to check the performance schedule for the Electra in his haste to get the reservations and when you guys got there he was too busy watching you to see the signs announcing Minmei was performing there," Claudia angrily explained to the shocked Lisa who now had a hand over her now red cheek from Claudia's slap.
"But…" Lisa tried to say but was stopped with an angry shake of Claudia's head and a finger pointed down at her.
"No buts Lisa, you have a wonderful man ready and willing to be yours. I personally think both of you are idiots for putting this off for some long. I saw your feelings for each other all the way back at Mars, and I am sure many others had too. The only ones who hadn't noticed were the two of you," Claudia continued to explain with a sigh calming down her down from being angry at Lisa. Lisa meanwhile looked up at her friend in shock at this and didn't notice the black haired man who had entered the room during Claudia's little speech.
"Listen to her Lisa, she already literally forced that same speech on me, and the disaster of our first date was partly both of our faults. We both weren't too sure of our feelings and had a certain disbelieve that the other had feelings for each other. You need to know that I love both you and Minmei, but I love Minmei as a little sister than anything else. But I love you more than her Lisa," a voice said over behind Claudia making the dark-skinned woman smile and turn to look at the door to see Rick leaning against the door frame while Lisa looked at him wide-eyed shocked even more at his statement, while Claudia quickly slipped out of the room.
"Oh Rick I'm sorry for what I did," Lisa finally replied after several moments of silence in the room. Rick sat down on the edge of the bed and softly laid his hand on her face. Lisa leaned into the hand feeling the comfort and happiness coming from it. Suddenly the sirens and the voice of Sammie ruined the magic appearing between the two. Rick shook himself out of his daze and gave a quick kiss to Lisa on her lips, got up and quickly left running for the hanger. Lisa softy touched her lips with her fingers with a sigh, the burning of Rick's lips still on her own lips. She gently smiled and cuddled up into her hospital bed to wait for the end of the battle.
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Main Hanger
CVS-101 Prometheus
SDF-1 Macross
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The Prometheus was the first ship of the new Megacarriers, a new breed of Aircraft Carriers similar in vein to the older Super-carriers, which was built to serve as Earth's second-line defense with the Orbital Fleet the first line. These immense carriers where able to carry various fight aircraft like the F-203D Dragon II Fighter, A-16 Avenger II attack aircraft, and various helicopters. Commissioned in late 2007 the new megacarrier would take part in several operations against Anti-UN Terrorists. Later the carrier would trade in their old F-203 Fighters for new VF-1 Veritech Fighters, in time for the SDF-1 Launching Ceremony at Macross Island; from there it would be taken with island when the SDF-1 folded above the island. In space it would become the "left" arm of the SDF-1. Once attached to the SDF-1 it will become the main Veritech Hanger for the ship, turning the SDF-1's internal hangers for other uses.
The large main hanger of the Prometheus for first time in several months was packed full with a force of around two-hundred Veritechs going through their pre-flight checks and getting armed for the battle ahead. Already several fighters stood ready to be lifted to the deck by the seven elevators. Lieutenant Rick Hunter took a brief moment to look around the massive hanger listening to the high-pitch whine of engines going through pre-flight, curses and shouts from the deck crew as they rushed about arming planes or doing last minute checks, and finally the gentle roar of a packed hanger. Rick only shook his head at this before weaving through the hanger towards his Veritech where it stood ready for him to launch. The crew chief stood waiting as well and as Rick approached handed over the check list which the young pilot tuck under one arm before handing the chief his helmet as he mounted the ladder to climb into the cockpit of the Veritech. Once inside the cockpit and sitting down he settled the checklist on a knee before reaching out to receive his helmet from the chief who followed him up the ladder. Once settled in the cockpit Rick donned the helmet and gave the chief a nod as he hit the switch to lower the canopy.
"Good hunting Lieutenant," the man said before locking the canopy into position before jumping down to the deck to finish the pre-flight. Meanwhile Rick quickly went through his checklist and finished it in record time. That done he looked down and saw the crew chief along another member of the deck crew holding up the various firing pins for all of his missile hard-points and gun. With that done he was now armed and ready for launch, he just had to wait for his turn to launch. As he waited he took a moment to think about his reason for fighting for he used to think that when he flew and fought he was protecting Minmei, now he protected more than just Minmei but Lisa as well, along with civilians in Macross that he started to think as friends, like Max, Lina and the Mayor. That was what he was protecting and the first time since he joined the RDF he was no longer confused over his priorities and his duty. Secondly, he flew for the fun it for like Roy said back on Macross Island Robotech can get into your blood. Finally after several moments it came for his Squadron to launch. Rick smiled grimly as the elevator took him up to the deck, his tailrons raising up from their storage positions, and his wings swept backward getting ready for launch. Once locked down into catapult he exchanged salutes with the space suited "shooter" who then gave the all-clear making Vermillion One launch out into space with a burst of sudden acceleration pushing Rick into his flight seat with a grunt. Once in space he quickly meet up with the rest of Vermillion Squadron, as he did a total of eleven Veritechs formed up around him, all veterans transferred from other squadrons to make room for the former Enterprise pilots. Anders was the only newcomer to the Squadron, but he had proved himself in the Sims.
Every single Veritech of the squadron, bar Max and Rick, where painted in the normal tan colors but with red stripes on their wings and along the sides. This comes about after Roy started letting individual squadrons to have their own colors and tail-markings, though the tan colors still has to be the main color on the fighter due to several reasons. Only high-level aces, like Roy, Max, and Rick were allowed to have custom paintjobs, or squadrons that specially requested full-custom paint jobs. Currently the only squadron allowed this privilege is VTF-03 Shadowhawks which sported a dark paintjob.
"Skull Leader, Vermilion Lead. Vermilion Squadron is ready to rock and roll Commander!" Rick reported onto the tac-net, and prepared for the order to move out. As he did so he looked out the canopy at the approaching enemy and for the first time he was peaceful ready for the fight and willing to defend the lives of the people on board the SDF-1 most specifically one brown-haired woman that had his eternal love, a love that never fades.
"All Veritechs attack!" came the order from Roy making Rick along with the rest of the pilots hit their afterburners. The Battle of Lagrange One had begun!
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Post-Chapter Notes:
Yes! Yes! I split the old Chapter 2 into two. I didn't want to make this chapter too large, and I still had a way to go before I made it to the point where the old chapter two stopped at, therefore made the call to cut here. Sorry for those who wanted to see the new battle, all I can say is that it will far superior to what it was in Frozen.
Anyways, I tried something completely different for this chapter and basically wrote it from scratch only using the original Frozen chapter as a guide and outline. This comes about after I was having a bit difficult time working with the old writing and just decided to throw it out and start over. Honestly this was far easier I believe, and I do like it a whole a lot better.
Moving on, yes liked mentioned Lisa does not try to kill herself in here. I still don't why I had both Lisa in Frozen and Izzy in Saviors try to kill themselves, both times due to a broken heart or depression. God! Was I really that suicidal back then or was I going through some sort of dark patch? /sigh/ Whatever the reason I changed that here, and if I ever get around to rewriting Saviors I shall do the same with Izzy. Though I have kept the Claudia Bitch Slap to Lisa for I thought it was something Lisa sorely needed, and that a few readers enjoyed it.
Anyhow that is about folks. I am going to get started on new Part III ASAP. So no worries about a long wait.
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Omake 02: Reinforcements
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Onboard the large ship that is the refitted Colony Ship Ark Angel Lieutenant Commander Scott Bernard strolled through the corridors of the massive ship. The Ark Angel like its sisters had been built during the early days of the Expedition when it became apparent that it would take longer than it had been planned. These ships where to act as literal Arks for the thousands of civilian volunteers and support staff during the years searching for Tirol. These idea would be based on the idea of Macross City being onboard the SDF-1 during the First Robotech War. Other Ark Ships would be used as real colony ships, colonizing several planets that the REF found. Many current members of the expedition had been born and had lived onboard one of the Ark Colony Ships, Scott included though for him he had been born on the Ark Royal another of the Ark Class ships. After the Expedition found Tirol, the Arks unloaded their colonists onto the planet to help rebuild and settle on the planet alongside rescued Tirolians. The Arks would then be retired till the time that the crew of the Icarus and personal from Space Station Liberty reactivated the Ark Angel. After a quick refit of the ship at Moon Base ALUCE it was ready for its mission to search for the missing SDF-3 Pioneer and Admiral Hunter.
Scott had just finished talking with Captain Grant and the other senior officers, and was now looking forward to some needed relaxation as he headed for the quarters assigned to him along with his human form Invid lover Ariel. However as he entered the spacious quarters he was surprised and a little suspicious to see Ariel standing in the middle of the quarters grinning at him for some reason.
"Alright Ariel what is going on?" Scott asked once again cursing Doctor Nichols for explaining the human concept of pranks to her, Ariel however just continuing grinning before folding her arms over her chest as she stepped forward.
"Well Captain Grant mentioned that thanks to the Battle of Reflex Point and the loss of Space Station Liberty they were little short on experienced personal. So I decided to enlist some reinforcements for the mission," Ariel replied with that same grin on her face. Scott looked confused for a brief moment at her words before suddenly he got what she had done.
"You didn't…OFFF…" he started to say but was cut off as a human missile impacted his torso sending him to the ground to the sound of laughter, very familiar laughter. Scott after catching his breath looked down at his chest to see the beaming face of Annie Labelle.
"I should have known. Hi Mint," he said with a small smile before looking up to see the rest of his friends standing behind Ariel all grinning down at him.
"Hello to you as well buster," Annie mentioned with a shake of her head. Scott just laughed and managed to escape her grasp enough to get off the ground to engage hugs with the rest of the group. There was Rand, Rook Bartley, Jim "Lunk" Austin, Lancer Belmont, and finally the fellow human form Invid Sera, the group he had led to Reflex Point. He beamed at them all before turning to look at the smug looking Ariel.
"Well talk about reinforcements!"
-o-Fin-o-
I blame this piece on re-watching Shadow Chronicles and getting several ideas for post-SC story but still I am committed to this rewrite and its sequel I decided to some Omakes about it to help sooth my Shadow Chronicles Plot bunnies. Basically like mentioned in here, Ariel takes it upon herself to recruit the other New Gen characters to help the expedition find the SDF-3.
The first part of this omake is my take on the idea of the Ark Angel, and the "Ark Ship" name is something I just came up with while writing this for it does makes sense. We know from Scott's flashbacks in the series that the REF had a supporting civilian population but were would they been living. Well I decided to make the Ark Angel a real colony ship with a Macross like city built into it similar to the Megaroad and New Macross Colony ships from later Macross series.
Anyhow I hope you all enjoy this and expect some for SC Omakes in future chapters. Kind of baffled and shocked that there are only a handful of Shadow Chronicle stories on FFN. /shrug/ Can't help it.
Till next chapter Ciao!
