Disclaimer: I hereby declare that I do not in any way own the rights to the anime known as Robotech. This includes plot, characters, the mecha, and the ships, the only things I officially own is my own stuff introduced as part of this story. Therefore please no lawyers I do not have any money to give them. Thank You.

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 Catastrophe from the Robotech Prefect Soundtrack

Part 03: A Battle Along the Stars

The Battle of Lagrange One was a key part of the First Robotech War for many reasons, and altered the course of the war forever. It pitted the newly expanded Robotech Defense Forces up against an advance force of the Zentradi Forces under the command of Commander Azonia. The battle would see many firsts, like the first battle of the new FC101 Fighter Corvettes, and the first battle of many later heroes of the war.

Taken from A Brief Overview of the First Robotech War

Published July, 2014AD

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Cockpit
Skull One
Lagrange One
March 24, 2010AD

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Along the many Veritechs facing off against the approaching Zentradi forces is the VF‐1S of Commander Roy Fokker, known as Skull One or Skull Lead. In his cockpit its mentioned pilot looked around at the gathered fighters as more continued to join the formation. All told the combined group is around three hundred combined fighters total, just under two hundred from the SDF‐1 alone the rest from the Enterprise. Roy looked over to the second VF‐1S that flew not far from his, piloted by Commander Mu La Flagga the Group Commander of the Enterprise and a member of the old Skull Squadron from the Unification Wars.

"Yeah Fokker you alright over there?" the mentioned pilot called out over their shared channel making Roy chuckle looking down at his main monitor to see the other pilot staring at him with a similar cocky grin to his own behind his faceplate.

"Doing just fine you old dog. It is just that I never had such a large and powerful force under my

command before it is kind of empowering," he replied with a shake of his head. The other Commander blinked in surprise at this before looking around at the gathered fighters as well before smiling.

"Well don't let it get to your own head boyo, or I might just take command from you after all," La Flagga replied with a teasing tone making Roy roll his eyes before laughing.

"I don't think so, but thanks for the offer anyways," Roy fired back with a grin making the other pilot match him with a similar grin.

"Skull Leader, Vermillion Lead. Vermillion Squadron is ready to rock and roll Commander!" the voice of Rick Hunter called out over the radio as the last squadron, Vermillion Squadron, slip into formation. Roy nodded at this before looking down at the screen to see an eager grin on his friends face.

"Well good luck Mu and see you on the other side," he said with a grin and a two finger salute before the connection cut. Taking a deep breath Roy took one final look around at the Veritechs and wondered if these Zentradi knew what was going to be unleashed on them eying the large forms floating behind the gathered Veritechs with a small smile. With a final chuckle Roy turned back to look forward at the approaching enemy and grinned eagerly.

"All Veritechs attack!" he ordered and hit his afterburners heading towards the enemy with a grin on his face throwing himself once more into the battle.

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Bridge
SDF
1 Macross

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On the bridge of the large transformed battlefortress Captain Gloval stood at the front of the bridge watching as the Veritech Group hit their afterburners heading towards the enemy force of Battlepods and the handful of those new Power Armors. With a smile he turned to look over at Lisa's temporary replacement Lieutenant Emma Granger who was looking up at him waiting for his orders.

"Lieutenant have the corvettes and their escorts launch Firestorm. Let's see how our enemy deals with this," he ordered the young woman who only nodded before following the order.

"Comet Squadron you have a go for Firestorm," she ordered herself looking down at her station while Gloval turned his attention back to the battle and more specifically the six FC‐101 Tiger Fighter Corvettes that made up CVF‐01 Comets, the first fighter corvette squadron. The FC‐101 was a new weapon created by the Robotech Research Group during the time the SDF-1 made its way back to Earth and was basically a small gunship built to support deployed Veritech Squadrons. It sported two light particle cannons as its main weapons, and four anti‐mecha laser cannons for anti‐mecha work. However it also sported a pair of modular missile pods attached to either side of the small gunship that are able to be configured to carry numerous types of missiles. For this battle they were equipped with the new long‐range anti‐mecha missile Hammerhead‐II that had been introduced almost entirely for the new fighter corvettes and their pods. Hovering alongside the larger corvettes where the sixteen VA‐3 Intruder Attack Veritechs of Veritech Attack Squadrons Three and Four. They too were equipped with Hammerhead‐II Missiles, though in smaller pods along their wing hardpoints. Unlike the iconic VF‐1 series the Intruder was built with attacking ships in mind as well as anti‐ground, therefore sports several hardpoints for various types of missiles and bombs. For this battle they have been held back to help screen the larger Corvettes and to add their missiles to their larger charges for an attack mission codenamed Firestorm.

With the order given the group as one launched their three hundred eighty four missiles at the enemy which thanks to the clever positioning of the Veritech Group, the Corvettes, and the Intruders made the missiles fly over the Veritechs boosting towards the enemy. As they approached the enemy force all of the missiles burst open sending thousands of sub‐munitions towards the enemy battlepods tearing apart many as those same sub‐munitions tore through the group. The entire front of the enemy force suddenly erupted in hundreds of explosions as the new missiles did their dirty work on the enemy.

"Captain according to the readings half of the enemy force has been destroyed," came the report from the sensor station making Gloval chuckle evilly before turning to sit down in his command chair with a grin.

"Well it looks like Firestorm is a complete success. Lieutenant send my complements to Lieutenant Commander Banner and Lieutenant Hepner for a job well done," he ordered Lieutenant Granger before turning his attention back to the battle as the Veritechs joined the battle. Both Lieutenant Commander Christopher Banner, commander of the First Fighter Corvette Squadron, and Lieutenant Charlotte Hepner, commander of VFA‐03, who had put together the Firestorm Attack Mission. With that over Captain Gloval sat back and watched the battle unfold before him.

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Cockpit
Vermillion One

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In the cockpit of Vermillion One Rick Hunter could only whistle in appreciation at the damage the missile attack did to the enemy. While it did manage to destroy about half of the approaching force, including several of the dangerous new power armors, it still left the Veriech Group outnumbered six to one.

"Alright boys and girls that that trick won't work twice. So let's get a little personnel and watch it the Cat Eye's and Rabbits are picking up several of those new Power Armor in the group as well. Right let's get them!" Roy mentioned into the radio to all the pilots in the group. He mentioned the handful of Rabbit Light Shuttles from the Enterprise that had been launched alongside the Veritechs for pilot recovery. These small shuttles had been chosen for pilot recovery along with the carrier's single RC‐25 Rescue and Recovery Vehicle due to their speed and superior sensor suite. Now the Veritechs threw themselves onto their surprised enemy taking on pod individually, with wingmates breaking off from each other to engage enemies one on one, changing modes when the situation demanded from fighter to Battliod, from Battliod to guardian. Rick himself threw his squadron into the thick of the enemy formation along with the other veteran formations of Skull, Ghost, Wolf, and Dragon Squadrons. As the battle continued Rick found himself flying like had never before, for he finally had something or really someone he truly wanted to defend at all cost.

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Cockpit
A Zentradi Officer's Pod

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Strapped into his Glaug Officer's Pod hiding behind his engaged forces Captain Khyron looked over the battle actually impressed and a little angry over the enemy's opening attack. Though he had to admit it had been effective, devastating effective.

"Tricky little Mirconians! Press the attack don't let up! Grel, launch the reserve force and prepare for the second phase of the operation," he ordered as he eyed the battle from his position on the edge directing the battle.

"Understood Lord Khyron, reserves are launching now and Gerao is prepping his cruiser for phase two," came the quick reply from his loyal lieutenant situated on board the Battalion's Flagship. Khyron nodded at this pleased that his plan was going forward even with this small set-back. Eying the battle Khyron decided it was time to for him to enter the battle for he didn't he may not be able to kill anything if this keeps up, besides he could turn the tide till the reserves show up. With a roaring battlecry the Zentradi Captain threw himself into the fight.

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Bridge
SDF
1 Macross

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Back on the bridge of the SDF-1 Captain Gloval and his bridge crew watched as the Veritechs continued to fight toe-to-toe with the enemy Battlepods. The space in front of them lit up with explosions as the two groups continued to fight through this mentioned space. He turned his head to see the small group of the Fighter Corvettes staying in their formation acting both as a rearguard and an escort for the rescue shuttles along with their own VA-3 Intruder Escorts, which had been quickly rearmed during the last few minutes and as he watched the last few Intruders slip into formation newly rearmed. The Corvettes where firing their main particle cannons sniping enemy units before they could get any closer to the fleet, while the Intruders just sat back waiting as a reserve. A sudden commotion at the tactical station made the Captain looked over at Lieutenant Granger to see her talking to someone on her monitor before turning to address him.

"Captain, Wolf Lead reports that the enemy has committed a reserve force into the battle and requests further support," the young woman reported making Captain Gloval flinch at the report knowing that he shouldn't be surprised at the enemy's tactical ability. With a frown he turned to look at the corvettes and their escorts with a thoughtful look on his face.

"Henry you're looking pretty thoughtful; planning on using those Corvettes for something aren't we?" a female voice with a thick Russian ascent munch like his own asked from his small armrest mounted communication screen. Captain Gloval looked down at the small monitor with a smile and through the monitor itself at the woman sitting in a command chair in a very small bridge. The women wore a uniform munch like his own complete with a similar naval cap with black visor, unlike his own the women had it low over her eyes burying her facial features in shadow, though her long black hair flowed freely from the back of the cap.

"I was indeed thinking about using the Corvettes and their escorts to give the fighters some breathing room Alex. Do you concur?" Gloval asked with a smile. The women who happened to be one Captain Alexandra Volkova, the Commander of the ARMD-03 Enterprise, and one of Gloval's very close friends from his days in the Russian Navy during the later years of the Global Civil War. When the UNDF Orbital Fleet was first formed she was one of the first "old hands" officers to sign on as a Captain alongside Gloval. Like Gloval her first space command was an old Oberth Destroyer, the Koroljev the fourth ship of the class. Now she moved up to Command the Enterprise after its old Captain had a massive heart attack during the Opening Contact with the enemy when the Enterprise was heavily damaged thanks to the first Zentradi cannon bombardment. Now Alexandra, or Alex as her friends call her, commanded the repaired and refitted ship, the first carrier she ever commanded. Also it seemed strange and ironic for a native Russian to command a carrier named after the premier U.S Carrier line during the old Global Civil War days. The ARMD was the fifth carrier to bear the proud name of Enterprise, but it was the twenty-third ship to carry the name for the English Royal Navy had a few sailing ships and modern warships named Enterprise, as well as the US Navy non-carrier ships that had been named Enterprise. The voice of Lieutenant Commander Claudia Grant jolted him out of his thoughts making him turn to look over at the weapons console with the dark-skinned mature woman was standing at looking at him.

"Sir, the main enemy cruisers have yet to engage us at all, this looks like yet another probe," she reported with some anger and annoyance at these repeating probe attacks. The Captain blinked at this before shrugging for any reservation against sending the corvettes into battle just went away at this report.

"Very well then, Claudia keep an eye on those cruisers. Lieutenant Granger send in Comet Squadron and VFA-02 to help the fighters, they are to run through the middle of the enemy formation and take out many pods as possible. Alex you might want to power the group's barriers for we may get some action pretty soon," Gloval ordered in his Russian ascent and his tobacco stained fingers rubbing his chin in thought as he got up once more and moved to the front of the bridge watching as the battle went on.

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Nearspace
Lagrange One

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The battle continued to rage on, with various Veritechs swooping and diving along the enemy pods switching modes as required firing missile or gunpod at the enemy. Battlepods were blasting away with particle cannons, and missile launchers, as they moved through the battle during their best to destroy the Veritech Fighters. Throughout the battle explosions lit up space as missile, gunfire, or particle beam found their mark destroying both Veritech and Battlepod in an orgy of destruction.

In the middle of this Rachael Hunter found herself flying like she never had before as she fired off her last two missiles at a pair of pods harassing another Veritech. As the twin explosions cleared she realized she was panting and started taking several breaths as she looked around at the battle around her. She saw the Veritech of her brother running rings around one of the new enemy mecha. She knew that Rick had been fighting and flying like a demon, for nothing could stand before him. Rachael spotted another pair of Veritechs back to back in Battloid mode blasting away at enemy Pods, one she saw was painted mostly all blue and had the dark red stripes of Vermillion Squadron while the other wore normal tan colors but sported brown stripes of Sepia Squadron. Everywhere she looked she saw a brave few veteran aces lying waste to the enemy pods while the poor rookies of the group dying one-by-one wherever she looked, bar a few that had the raw skill like her to make it through the fight.

However even with Rick and those aces destroying enemy pods left and right; the fighters were still being pushed back towards the SDF-1 and the rest of the Fleet. Thankfully this was not going to continue as out of no were the six Fighter Corvettes of Comet Squadron rushed in and started tearing into the enemy pods. Their anti-mecha lasers stabbing out at the enemy, and wherever a laser touched a pod it was destroyed. The main particle guns, being lighter versions of the same weapons on the Oberth Class Destroyers basically destroyed pods several at a time as the beam pass right through a single pod before spearing into pods behind the first one. Even with their missile containers empty these small warships proved too many that they still had the teeth to be lethal to the enemy pods. However it was not over as the eight VA-3 Intruders of VFA-03 Squadron followed their larger charges through the fray unleashing yet another storm of Hammerhead-IIs onto the enemy pods surprising the enemy.

Even the enemy pods soon recovered and rose up against the new force that entered the battle. A single Fighter Corvette exploded as a large group of pods swarmed it with sheer numbers keeping its laser busy while a smaller group of light artillery pods snuck up and launched a spread of missiles at the new Robotech craft destroying it along with its crew. Elsewhere a pair of VA-3 Intruders tried to fight against a few of the new power armors but where overmatched by the sheer speed and maneuverability of the new mecha which soon destroyed them as they flew rings around far-slower Attack Veritechs. However the men and woman flying the Valkyries were not about to let their comrades flying these craft to be killed defending them therefore several Veritechs started covering the larger Fighter Corvettes and Attack Veritechs. This surprised the enemy and several Pods were destroyed from the vengeful Valkyries. Rachael herself led the reminder of her squadron to cover the back of a Fighter Corvette letting the larger craft start to pick off the enemy pods. With this in hand the combined deployed forces of the Robotech Defense Force started to push back against the enemy pod force, while the slower Attack Veritechs pulled out of the battle to recover.

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Cockpit
A Zentradi Officer's Pod

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In his Officer's Pod once more hiding behind his forces Khyron was getting pretty angry since his attack force was getting defeated with the arrival of those new ships and fighters. However even then he was still pleased with himself for taking out a few of their ace pilots. One which was better than the others painted in black, white and yellow colors got torn apart by the cannons of Khyron's pod, a second one not so good but had a pair of aces with him tried to fight against Khyron but got his fighter destroyed for his trouble. He did try to eject from his burning fighter but Khyron destroyed the small escape pod before the other humans could rescue him. Now that some of their aces were gone, it was time to go through the second phase of his plan before the rest of the aces and these powerful new ships destroyed what is left of his attack force.

"Gerao, it is time! Fold NOW!" Khyron yelled out ordering the mentioned Lieutenant to complete the second phase of the plan. In the back of the Zentradi armada watching the growing battle a single Thuverl Salan Class cruiser received the order and activated their already charged Fold Engines disappearing from their position. Seconds later the cruiser reappeared between the fortress and the battle. As it happened Khyron started to laugh evilly for his plan had worked beautifully and now it was the end of the cursed Battlefortress.

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Bridge
SDF
1 Macross

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Back on the bridge of the SDF-1 Gloval cursed as the enemy cruiser reappeared right in front of the ship. Once the aftereffects of the fold disappeared, they started launching more mecha into the fray. Gloval cursed again turning to Lieutenant Granger and as he did so he quickly inputted a set of commands into his armrest communication screen transferring the connection from that small monitor to the main monitor above the heads of Lieutenant Granger and Claudia.

"Lieutenant, have VFA-02 and any fighters that have retreated to rearm to see about taking care of those extra pods that launched. Alex have the destroyers prepare to support us against that cruiser if we need it," he ordered making the other Captain just nod at him and closed the connection. He then turned to look at Claudia, who was patiently doing her duties at her station and hoped for her sake that Commander Fokker made it through this for Lieutenant Granger had informed him earlier that Fokker had been shot down but she had a clean signal on his escape pod.

"Claudia since Lisa is not here, Can you launch the Daedalus? We are going to need if any other enemy ships start jumping in…" Gloval started to order, but stopped in mid order when Vanessa, the only member of the Trio on the bridge since Sammie was seating in with Lisa and Kim was MIA looked up in with fear.

"Captain the Cruiser is targeting us!" Vanessa yelled out in surprise. Gloval turned to look out the viewport to see dozens of the cruisers turrets turn to aim directly at the ship's command superstructure including the bridge they now stood on.

"CLEAR THE BRIDGE!" Gloval ordered as the turrets started to glow with discharge. Every single tech jumped up and started to head towards the door to the bridge but it was too late for the cruiser opened fire spearing the "head" of techo-knight that is the SDF-1 with particle cannon fire. Luckily for the crew the barrier control center figured out what the cruisers was planning and moved the barriers to Engineering, Command Superstructure, and Navigation. The barrier disk heading for the Command Superstructure, or the head while the ship was in attack mode, didn't make it in time but it did manage to cover part of the head mostly the bridge itself which is the only reason the ship's bridge crew had not been incinerated by the particle beam fire. Even then the entire "face" of the head was caved in. The bridge itself on top of the head was jutting out from the ruins of the decks below for it was saved partly thanks to last second arrival of the shield disk. Even then bridge was hit heavily during those very few seconds after the cannon fire hit it for the viewport was blown inwards and an emergency bulkhead slammed shut were the viewport once was and closed the bridge from the horrors of space leaving behind sparking consoles that lit up the now darkened bridge and showing the still forms of the bridge crew of the ship.

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Bridge
ARMD-03
Enterprise

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Onboard the Enterprise, Captain Alexandra Volkova looked on in horror as the SDF-1 stopped firing its secondary and anti-mecha batteries at the enemy, which meant that the weapon control center was either hit or damaged. Alex turned back to the bridge displays with teeth and fists clenched angrily. Looking over the displays she saw that ship was still slightly behind the disabled SDF-1, were Gloval had ordered her when the battle started since his ship had a better barrier and was a whole lot bigger than the Enterprise as well. Meanwhile three of her groups Destroyers the Goddard, Vesalius, and Holst were started to moving to support the SDF-1 as Captain Gloval had ordered before the SDF-1 had been disabled. With a nod of her head started to put her hastily thought of plan into action.

'Now it was the Enterprise's turn to shine,' Alex thought to herself with a small smile on her face. She turned to the helm officer, with a glare that made the man manning that station to flinch.

"Lieutenant, bring us around the SDF-1, we have to give them time to recover. Tactical power up the Pin-Point Barriers and arrange them on the flight deck. Communications have the Goddard, Vesalius, and Holst follow us with their main guns ready. The rest of the destroyers are to stay behind with the Tenders," she ordered with a growl making her well-trained bridge crew react following her orders, granted they didn't have the experience that the SDF-1's crew did but they still followed orders and followed her orders to the letter.

"Helm once we are in front of the SDF-1 roll the ship towards the enemy cruiser to present our flight deck. Tactical the Pin-Point Barriers are only needed to intercept the particle beams let the deck take the missile fire. Communications when that happens have the destroyers parked behind us and use us as a shield while popping out to snipe that cruiser with their main guns," Alex ordered with a grim smile on her face. Like the SDF-1 the Carrier had three Pin-Point Barrier disks, while the destroyers only had two. Thanks to her ship's most critical weakness, she couldn't use her energy weapons since the reactor was a little underpowered. Therefore she had to be a little creative, therefore presenting the armored flight deck of the Enterprise to the enemy making the larger carrier into a shield itself for her destroyers. Like its waterborne counterparts the Enterprise and her near-sisters sported an armored flight deck that was far thicker than the rest of the armor on the ship. Not to mention Flight I ARMD Carriers like Enterprise didn't sport the command superstructure that the new Flight II ARMD Carriers had, therefore she did not have to worry about cannon fire tearing up the superstructure.

"Ma'am we are now in position in front of the SDF-1 and barriers are online. The enemy has shifted their fire from the SDF-1 to us, but the barriers are holding off the cannon fire while the armor is shrugging off the missiles," the tactical officer reported a few minutes later with a small smile on his face. Alex chuckled trying not take a spill since her ship was rocking back and forth from the hits that the enemy was delivering to the large carrier.

"Looks like this crazy plan is going to work after all. Communications! Get me Commander Tanaka of the Goddard," she ordered with a yell the communication officer nodded and turned back to his station. Before long the small monitor mounted at the front of the bridge and above the viewport flashed on showing the face of Commander Miranda Tanaka the captain of the Oberth Class Goddard and former XO of the ship when Captain Gloval had commanded her therefore the young woman happened to be a veteran of the worse battles of the Unification War's Space Front.

"Commander I take it you know what I want you and the other destroyers to do correct?" she asked the other woman who smiled evilly and nodded.

"Yes ma'am! With us behind the Enterprise like we are that cruiser doesn't know we are here or at least doesn't think us a threat thanks to the Enterprise in the way of our cannons. However we can use our vernier engines to boost up and fire directly at the enemy without ever being exposed to the enemy's guns," the experienced destroyer crew member said making Alex chuckle thanking god that she had a senior Destroyer Skipper who thought the same as her or pretty close anyways.

"Very good Miranda, I will try to give you the best shot I can but be prepared anyways when I order it," Alex mentioned making the other woman nod before disconnecting with a salute. With that said the experienced Captain leaned back in her command chair and waited for the right moment as her ship continued to rock and shake thanks to the weapons impacting the hull of the large carrier.

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Room 3-B
Ship's Infirmary
SDF-1
Macross
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Back aboard the SDF-1 Lisa and Sammie sat in Lisa's new room in the ship's own main infirmary which she had transferred to after waking up. The two women watched the room'sTelevision which was giving the civilian's brief information about the battle. However something went wrong for report mentioned that an enemy cruiser had folded right in front of the ship. Both women went pale with fear as they heard this but before they could do anything, all hell broke loose as the ship shook violently more than it had before during the battle. The two officers looked at each other for a few minutes trying to figure out what happened. Just then a panicked nurse ran past the room, but stopped when Lisa called the young man in.

"What happened?" She asked as the young nurse stepped into the room. The nurse looked at her with panicked eyes, but couldn't say anything for a brief moment, but quickly recovered himself.

"Ma'am the superstructure was just hit and multiple casualties have been reported," the man reported with a grim frown. Both women went pale yet again, but Lisa quickly sprang into action.

"Sammie help me up we need to get to the secondary bridge ASAP," she ordered as she swung her legs around the bed and onto the floor. Sammie blinked, but quickly helped her friend up from the bed. Lisa clumsily walked to the single closet in the room and opened it to see one of her uniforms in it. With the help of Sammie she managed to change from the hospital gown to her uniform. With Sammie's support the two made their way to out of the room and into the main infirmary towards the secondary bridge hoping that they could save the ship.

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Bridge
ARMD-03
Enterprise

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As the enemy continued to pound the Enterprise Captain Volkova still sat in chair as the ship continued to shake from the enemy fire. However the Captain didn't notice this instead she kept her eyes on a display showing a graphic representation of the positioning of the enemy cruiser, the Enterprise, and the three Destroyers still hiding behind the hulk of the larger carrier. It also showed the firing arcs of the destroyers from their planned attack points. Suddenly she grinned and looked up from the display at the waiting communication officer.

"Now!" was all she said to the young officer who only nodded and relayed the order to the destroyers. A few heartbeats later Alex watched from a direct camera view as the three Oberth Class Destroyers jumped up from behind the larger carrier using their underside retro-rockets to push the ships up. A moment later the twelve MPBC-01 Particle Cannons mounted on the three ships fired almost one stabbing towards the surprised cruiser. While the MPBC-01 was not as powerful as the similar cannons mounted on the cruiser, nor as long ranged, it still has a firing yield of 8,000 Megajoules of energy. Therefore combined the twelve cannons together sent over 96,000 Megajoules of energy towards the enemy ship, basically the force of a 96-tonne vehicle moving at 100 miles per hour. These twelve beams hit the ship sending it reeling away from the small battlegroup and the damaged SDF-1 with its hull aflame from the attack. However even then it was only damaged, not destroyed and it was not happy as it turned its attention to the three small destroyers ready to tear them apart. Thankfully the SDF-1 having recovered from its near-fatal blow opened fire with its far-more deadlier MK1 Secondary Particle Cannons which has a yield of 2.5 Terajoules, equivalent to 500 tons of TNT. Three beams from these cannons and combined with another salvo from the destroyers finished off the single cruiser as its reactor went critical as one of the beams pierced its shell destroying the cruiser in a series of explosions that finished off the last few enemy pods in the area as well.

What that done Captain Volkova leaned back into her seat with a pleased look on her face, the look of a job well done. With a shake of her head the experienced captain turned to look once more to her communication officer.

"Pass my compliments to Commander Tanaka and her commanders for a job well done, and when you are done with that get me in contact with the SDF-1," she ordered as the battle started to come to a conclusion.

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Secondary Bridge
SDF-1 Macross
A few minutes earlier…
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A few minutes before the doors to the ship's secondary bridge flew open with a hiss admitting Lisa and Sammie into a somewhat larger version of the main bridge. The two could see techs and officers running around the room trying to get things in order. A lower-ranking tech saw her and snapped a salute, which was returned.

"Who is in charge here!" Lisa yelled out to the room and as if by magic the room quieted down and an officer stepped up forward with the rank pin of a Lieutenant Senior Grade.

"I am ma'am, Lieutenant Ronald Lewis!" the man answered with a crisp salute. Both Sammie and Lisa returned it as the two stepped further into the room seeing that while it did look kind of like a larger version of the main bridge it sported several other stations making it seem a bit larger.

"Right I am taking command as of now, Lieutenant Porter please if you will see what is going on with the damage and control party upstairs, then report back to me." Lisa ordered turning to look over at her young friend and Sammie only nodded helping Lisa into the command chair before taking off. Now with a veteran officer in charge the crew settled down and got back to work.

"Alright, Sensor Officer report! What is going on out there? And someone please activate the main displays," Lisa said snapping out orders to the crew. First the Ensign manning the sensor station turned towards from her station and the main display shifted from stand-by to active showing the battle outside coming from various cameras on the hull of the ship.

"Ma'am, it looks like the Enterprise and the Destroyers have joined the battle, though it is strange the Enterprise has presented her flight deck to the enemy ship and three of the destroyers are hiding behind it. The fighter battle on the other hand is coming along nicely, it looks like the Veritechs are mopping up the last few battlepods now," The women reported a few minutes later with a frown. Lisa frowned to wondering what is going on with the Enterprise and its group, for it was strange for the carrier to present its flight deck like that. She soon understood what was going on just as the three destoryers jumped up from hiding behind the larger carrier and opened fire on the enemy ship. With a shake of her head Lisa leaned forward and knew that it was time to repay the debt.

"That is an interesting way to combat an enemy ship! Anyways tactical open fire on the enemy with the secondary batteries to finish that ship off," Lisa ordered with the cool calm that she was known for. Even then deep inside she knew that had lost friends that this day. The ship's secondary guns opened at the same time the destroyers fired again pinpointing the enemy with spears of light and a large explosion.

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Cockpit

A Zentradi Officer's Pod

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Standing on the side of the battle was the officer's pod flown by Khyron who was smiling now that Gerao's cruiser had fired upon the cursed SDF-1. He laughed evilly as the SDF-1 was damaged and his last reserve forces joined in the battle. Soon his smile turned to a frown when a projbeam popped up showing a very enraged Commander Azonia.

"Khyron, what are you doing? I ordered you only to mount a diversion and the package has been delivered so retreat back to the fleet! I did not order you to do anything to Zor's Battlefortress!" the women ordered with a snarl. However Khyron just grinned at her from behind his helmet's faceplate.

"Sorry Commander did you say something…" he started to say but stopped as a couple of enemy fighters appeared heading towards him.

"Got to go Commander I'm being attacked," he said instead and cut the connection to Azonia just as she roared in anger at him. He then turned his attention to the fighters with an evil smile watching as the enemy switched to their bipedal mode.

'This is going to be so easy!' Khyron thought as he powered up his weapons as enemy got closer and closer, and when they were in range he unleashed a storm of plasma blasts their way. However he was so sure that he could kill them that he split his fire between the two, that was a fatal mistake for the two fighter pilots easily dodged the fire and quickly return fire with their Gunpods. A stream of hallow point munitions from the white one's Gunpod destroyed the top plastron cannon, while the blue one had a little more precision and destroyed the right arm of the pod. In his cockpit harness Khyron grunted in pain as his controls blew up in front of him. He couldn't believe it that his pod was damaged with two thirds of his weapons already gone and only seconds after beginning the battle. Just then the cruiser blew up in an expanding ball of plasma; he cursed as the SDF-1 flew past the remains of the ship and started to hit his remaining forces engaged with the enemy fighters. He quickly fled from the battle leaving behind the two enemy aces victorious. He waited till he retreated safely away from the enemy fighters to recall his troops. His heavily damaged pod leaking some of its innards limped back to the fleet.

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Cockpit
Vermillion One

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In his cockpit Rick could only growl in anger as the enemy officer pod retreated. The same pod that managed to kill over half of Skull Squadron, as well as Ben and Lieutenant Anders, not to mention destroying Skull One though Rick was sure that Roy had managed to eject. With a sigh he turned back towards the battle. As he did so he noticed that the remaining pods where running with the Veritechs hot on their heels with a frown Rick noticed that no one is in command of the group, therefore decided to take matters into his hands as he switched his radio to the main group channel

"This is Vermillion One, all Veritechs return to base. Our battle here is done, let them go and maybe they will grow a brain-stem and not come back," he ordered the group making a few of the pilots laugh tiredly as at his small joke. Rick however was quite surprised when every single remaining veritech broke off from the chase of the pods at his order and formed up around his Veritech. A few moments later saw the remaining four Fighter Corvettes of Comet Squadron and five VA-3 Intruders of VFA-03 pulling up around him as well. As they did so Rick took a quick and messy headcount of the remaining Veritechs. He was quite shocked to see while they had plenty of casualties it was not as bad as he thought for if his quick count is accurate there is about one-hundred fifty veritechs gathered around him. That is not including any pilots that managed to eject and be recovered, or those who had retreated due to damage. He did wonder how many of the Enterprise fighters made it through both of the transferred back-up pilots and those that had launched from the carrier itself. With a shake of his head he saw that they were approaching the Fleet and he managed a double-take at the SDF-1 for it looked heavily damaged. The Enterprise on the other hand looked to be beat-up along its flight deck with several places burning from strikes. The other pilots started to speak up in curses and shouts at the shock of seeing the two main ships of the fleet so beat up like they are. However Rick quickly managed to get them under control before turning his attention to the ship. Before he could say anything else a voice he was quite familiar with jolted him out of his shock.

"This is Gunsight One to Veritech Group, all fighters are to report to their shipfor post-mission debriefings," Lisa Hayes ordered making Rick sigh in relief at seeing his love well and in control though he did admit that he was kind of ticked that she wasn't recovering but understood the reason for her doing so when he could see how damaged the superstructure looked as he approached the ship.

"Gunsight One, Vermillion One. Roger that returning base," he reported in and smile tiredly when he saw Lisa perk up at his call before turning his attention to the group as a whole looking to see if he could find a senior pilot for the Enterprise and was pleased to find a black painted VF-1J Veritech leading a group of similar painted veritechs.

"Shadow Four thanks for the support of the Enterprise Group and the drinks are on us the SDF-1 Flight Group next time," he called out with a small smile and was rewarded with cheers and laughs from the group as a whole. Shadow Squadron or rather VF-09 Shadowhawk Squadron was the only squadron to be allowed a full-squadron custom paint job and was one of the senior squadrons on board the Enterprise alongside VF-05 Moebius Squadron.

"Understood Vermillion One, I will hold that to you sir. Enterprise Group let's move out," came the amused response of the mentioned pilot. Rick smiled and shook his head before turning his attention to his own ship, and his home.

"Gunsight One, this is Vermillion One permission for landing clearance?" he asked over the radio towards the ship. In response his monitor flashed on to the face of Lisa making Rick smile at the face of his love.

"Understood Vermillion One, you and the rest of the group are cleared to land," she said on the main channel with her usual cool and calm manner that she is known for. However before Rick could maneuver to land on the Prometheus he was surprised to see the screen flash one more time.

"Welcome Home Rick," she said with a beaming smile on her face making Rick return it with one of his own, for he was indeed home.

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Cockpit
Unknown Stargoose Shuttle

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Not far from Lagrange One a single Stargoose Shuttle made its way towards the ruined form of a Veritech Fighter. In the shuttle's cockpit a single man dressed in a powder blue business suit stood behind the pilot's seat with an evil smile on his face as he eyed the wreck.

"Doctor Azrael, I have found the escape pod and we should have on board soon. Once that is done we will return to our flight plan towards Earth," the pilot reported to the man one Doctor Muruta Azrael a noted figure in the United Earth Government. The man just nodded his head at the man before returning to the shuttle proper with that same grin on his face for Project Golem will be a reality now with this find. With that the man laugh evilly as the shuttle retrieved the single escape pod of the fighter, a pod that a white skull painted on its cockpit blast shield.

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Post-Chapter Notes:

Whew! Damn this was a hard chapter to write, therefore I hope everyone will enjoy this especially the battle itself for I put a lot work and energy into it. Another reason for this chapter to take so long is the poor flow and timing of the Frozen Part 2, which I tried to fix here but I am still not happy with it.

Moving on there are plenty of changes between this and the second half Part 02 of Frozen in Time. For one I have given a few hints of some ideas I have in the future. Those with sharp eyes will see that I have not killed off Roy instead only had him get shot down and escape, but he has retrieved not by the SDF-1 or Enterprise but someone unknown. Gundam SEED Fans may get some idea with the introduction of Muruta Azrael a character from that series. /evil laugh/ Poor Roy.

I also was a bit creative in having the Enterprise joining the battle, with it covering its attendant destroyers with its bulk. I gave the carrier an armored flight deck for several reasons, one that is normal standard for carriers since the British and Japanese started it during World War II. Granted it is for protection from aircraft dropped bombs but it still works here. Also the idea for the maneuver with it presenting the flight deck itself is actually from an episode of Star Wars Clone Wars where a Venator Class ship presented its ventral hull to the enemy allowing its fighter to use the ship as cover for an attack against the enemy.

The Fighter Corvettes mentioned in this chapter are the replacement for the older Comet Gunships introduced in Frozen in Time Part 02, and are very much different from one another. The Comet is discribed in Frozen in Time as: "They were slow, heavily armed, and armored small ships. They had banks of A-A Guns running along their sides, a pair of missile launchers in front of the A-A Guns fixed forward, and finally a brand new type of a Particle Canon better then the ones mounted on the Lancer Fighter." The FC-101s or Tigers, on the other hand while having a somewhat similar loadout are quite different. They sport four anti-mecha lasers around the front of the ship with two on top and two on the bottom, its two main guns are light particle cannons, and attached to either side of the craft are two modular missile pods able to carry a variety of different missiles. For this battle it carries new Hammerhead-II missiles that I have created for this story. As an aside the FC-101 is actually based on the FX-101 Escort Ship from Megazone 23 Part II. Also the Unofficial Reference Guide To Robotech has an entry for it under Raptor Orbital Corvette but I have changed it somewhat.

Speaking of the Guide I need to mention that I used as a reference a lot in this chapter. Therefore credit is due to where it needs to be. Thanks to the authors of that exellecent guide. Thank you.

Anyways that is about it folks. I hope to get the next chapter up as soon as possible. Till then I bid you adieu.