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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 A New Dawn from the Robotech Perfect Soundtrack

Part 08: Homeward Bound

The City of New Carter was settled soon after the end of World War II as support base for the new combined Air Force, Army, and Navy Base that is the New Carter Military Base. This would continue right till the end of the Global Civil War, where the Base would be chosen to be close after cut-backs due to ending of hostilities ended after the end of the war. It would be briefly reactivated during the Unification War but would soon end up closed soon after when Alaska Base was opened. While the base was closed the city of New Carter continued on uninterrupted and one of the bases small attached air fields would be taken over by the Pop Hunter's Flying Circus for its home base.

Taken from A Recent History of Earth: Landmarks

Published May 15, 2009AD

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Quarters of Rick and Lisa Hunter
May 31, 2010AD

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A week after finding out they were going to have a baby found the couple at the altar with Captain Gloval acting as the priest. The wedding party was quite small with Max Sterling, Max Lynn, and Samuel Rush the main groomsmen, while Claudia was maid of honor for Lisa with Rachael, and the Terrible Trio as bridesmaids. The position of Best Man was left vacant in honor of the missing Roy Fokker who would have been the best man if wasn't missing. Also since this happened to be a military wedding the honor guard of the wedding were the other eight members of the Skull Squadron in full dress uniform. After completing their vows and their first kiss as a married couple the wedding attendees erupted with applause while they walked away from the altar under the raised swords of the honor guard.

The next day found the new husband and wife in their now married quarters preparing for their honeymoon at Rick's hometown of New Carter, California. New Carter is a small city positioned about thirty miles northeast of Sacramento, California. The crew of SDF-1 had been ordered by the Council not to let any of the civilians off the ship for whatever reason, that order didn't say anything about members of the crew. Besides the crew of the SDF-1, as well the Macross City civilians didn't really care for the council anyways. Suddenly the two looked up when their door chimed announcing that somebody was outside. Rick waved at Lisa to continue to pack and went to answer the door. He was surprised to find that Captain Gloval himself was on the other side of the door, which made him salute the older man. However he hesitated briefly since he wasn't in uniform before shrugging and completing the salute. The Captain chuckled and returned the salute with one of his own.

"Good morning Rick. May I come in?" The Captain asked with a smile on his grizzly face.

"Yes sir," Rick said before stepping aside to let the older man into the large quarters.

"Rick may I ask how you are getting to New Carter?" Gloval asked as he came into the living room. Rick just shrugged looking over at his wife to see her curious about this.

"We were planning on taking an Aquila or a VC-33," Rick said as he zipped up the final bag of their baggage mentioning the VC-12 Aquila the transport version of the Avenger II attack aircraft, and the VC-33 Mom's Kitchen Light VTOL Transport.

"Well I might have a better option," Gloval replied with a smile on his fae. Rick looked curious on what this was all about and looked over at Lisa to see her waving him along. Rick nodded and followed the Captain out of the room and all the way to a small docking bay, which Rick immediately recognized as the one which held his old Mockingbird Stunt plane when the SDF-1 first went into space. Now in the bay was a similar looking plan to the old Mockingbird, though a bit larger. It did bear some resemblance to his old Mockingbird as well other Fan Racers he piloted over the years; however what it really look like was a smaller version of a VF-1. He also noticed that it is painted in the tan paint scheme of something right off the floor of one of the Robotech Foundries. Rick wide-eyed did a circle around the magnificent plane that sat in front of him.

"This Rick is the VC-01A Peregrine, the first ever Civilian Veritech," Gloval stated from his place by the door to the bay. Rick snapped his head over to Gloval in surprise at this statement for as far as he knew the Veritechs had been classified only for military purposes.

"A civilian veritech?" Rick said in surprise eying the plan in front of him seeing the clear-cut lines of a veritech. Gloval just smiled as he joined Rick in inspecting the CVT.

"Yes Dr. Lang was bored and brought back one of his old projects that he was working on before the start of the war. He had all the plans for it, but the working prototype was lost during the battle on Macross Island." Gloval said with a smile. Rick just nodded as he started to circle the CVT looking it over once more.

"So Rick this is Dr. Lang's and mine wedding present for the two of you," Gloval said with a smile. Rick looked over at him with a frown for a moment before he got what the Captain was trying to say.

"You mean this is mine?" Rick asked surprised over what his captain had said. The other man just chuckled and patted Rick on his shoulder.

"Yes the design calls for a cargo pod similar to that of a gunpod, which should be enough cargo space for a normal trip for two. This design can also be equipped with various extra features for a variety of different non-combat missions and in a pinch it can be armed for the purpose of self-defense," the Captain explained to Rick making him nod while he continued to look over the plane and as he squatted down he found that sure enough there is a large cigar shaped pod, that looked very similar to a GU-11 gunpod, but a little larger. It was big enough to hold the Hunters luggage. Rick sighed and looked back at Gloval with a smile knowing that he looked like a little boy with a new toy, but he didn't really care at the moment.

"So I better go get Lisa for we wanted to leave as soon as we get some transportation," Rick said with a pleased smile as he started to head for the door. However Gloval just cleared his throat and stepped beside Rick.

"That it already taken care of Rick and here she is," Gloval smiled and turned to see Lisa, Rachael and Claudia who was starting to show that she was pregnant. All three women looked in awe at the plane in front of them.

"Yeah Lisa this is our ride to New Carter," Rick said bouncing over towards his wife much to her amusement.

"What is it?" Lisa barely managed to ask. Rick just smiled and took her hand leading her towards the CVT.

"It's a Civilian model Veritech," Rick answered with a large beaming smile on his face while Lisa looked in awe at the plane for she had heard about a project for civilian model Robotech Mecha in the near future. Gloval suddenly appeared by their side holding a pair of flight suits not like a normal VT flight suit. The Hunters just smiled at this and Lisa moved to give the older man a hug. Gloval meanwhile just gave her a fatherly smile and sent her on her way. He had pulled a lot of strings to get them along with a few other personnel to visit their families.

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California Airspace
An Hour Later

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Rick smiled as he brought the CVT away from the hovering metal island like SDF-1 and started for the California coastline. Lisa was already asleep in the back seat since she was up all night packing. Rick craned his neck to see her and just smiled knowing he did the right thing and married her. He then turned his attention back to his controls. He started to test the CVTs abilities and was easily impressed for it handled a lot better than a VF-1 or even his old Mockingbird. Suddenly Rick thought of all the tricks he could pull off in this plane that he couldn't do in the Mockingbird or any other stunt plane. He looked at the ocean and saw the image of his plane reflected back at him. It had been repainted to his now famous red and white colors he had decided upon; also in gold lettering underneath the cockpit were the words: VC-01A Peregrine Hunter's Special - Mockingbird II.

The name plate and the paintjob was a last minute addition to the plane before they left. As he continued to fly towards his hometown Rick chuckled imagining the expression on his mother's face when he dropped by the house. He knew that his father was most likely off with the air circus somewhere. Just then he saw the coastline and quickly announced his presence to any nearby air controllers over the radio before coming about on a heading towards New Carter.

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Fokker Field
New Carter, California
Thirty Minutes Later

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Rick yawned as the small airfield known as Fokker Field came into view, while New Carter was too small to sport a full-length airport it did sport this small former military airfield which had been taken over by the Air Circus in 1992 when it was first formed by Rick's Father. It was named after Roy's father Dan Fokker who was a good friend to Rick's father Mitchell "Pops" Hunter during their service in the Global Civil War together.

"Fokker Flight Control Come Back, this is Mike-Charlie-Papa-Zero-One on approach to Fokker Field," Rick calmly said into his radio towards the distant flight tower of the airfield.

"This is Fokker Flight Control, Mike-Charlie-Papa-Zero-One be advised that this is a private air strip only. Please divert to Sacramento International," a young man's voice called back a few moments after Rick's call. Rick blinked in surprise at the voice for he knew this person on the radio, and he wasn't all that surprise for the Air Circus was mainly a family run show after all. While he really wanted to razz and tease the person on the other end of the radio he knew it would not be a good idea thanks to this being an open channel.

"Understood your last Fokker Flight Control, but be advised that personal ID Code is Hotel-Zero-Three-Alpha and Mike-Charlie-Papa-Zero-One is now requesting to land," Rick replied knowing that since Fokker Field was a private field he wasn't going to be able or allowed to land unless he declared an emergency or had a dedicated identification code that told the controllers he was allowed to be land for he either paid to use the air field's facilities or other similar stuff. The problem he was sure was that since no one outside the military knew the SDF-1 and Macross City where not destroyed he was going to get some sort of bad response.

"Mike-Charlie-Papa-Zero-One this is Fokker Flight Control. This better not be some sort of sick joke," a deeper, aged voiced called back after several long moments. Rick wasn't surprised that the original younger controller handed him over to a more experienced controller.

"Negative Flight Control. No Joke," he responded with a fond smile as memories came to him of hearing that same voice over the radio when he flew during the circus as well as the flight competitions.

"Very well Mike-Charlie-Papa-Zero-One. You are cleared to land on runway two, wind is at 15SE. Be advised that you will be required to prove your identity upon landing," the voice of the controlled replied after several more long moments. As he brought the plane around for a landing he noticed Lisa waking up behind him and smiled over at her.

"Understood Control, I do believe I will be able to establish my bona-fides upon landing. Mike-Charlie-Papa-Zero-One is now on approach on runway two," Rick replied with a small smile on his face as he started to lower the plane towards the second of the air field's three runways. One was large enough to land large heavy aircraft, while the other two where for smaller planes like the CVT. After a moment or two he landed the CVT and as he did so he saw a man with a pair of batons leading elsewhere on the Air Field. He ignored the man and brought the CVT around towards the guest hangers he knew to be set aside for guests and away from where the man was trying to lead him to.

Upon reaching one of these guest hangers he stopped the plane in front of it and started to shut down the plane. When he was done he unbuckled himself from the flight couch and stood up taking a quick look around the familiar airport and found that the old converted four C-130 Hercules Transport Aircraft that made up the Hunter's Air Circus were gone. Rick nodded turned to help Lisa, but found that she was already free of the seat's harness. She was standing up in the seat as well and looking over at him with a smile. Rick grinned back at her and jumped down with skill the Lisa could not manage and help his beloved wife down from the cockpit. Then he ducked under the fuselage of the plane to check the under slung cargo pod. As he kneeled down under the plane he saw Lisa look off somewhere making therefore leaned to one side so he could he see past the bulk of the CVT and see what Lisa was looking at. He smiled when he saw a pair of Jeeps driving towards their downed aircraft. In the passenger seat of the lead Jeep was none other than the brown haired Kyle Carpenter, his Cousin and the first controller that he had talked to earlier. Rick smiled at this and decided to give his younger cousin a surprise. He ducked further down letting the bulk of the CVT hide him from the approaching Jeep, as he so he noticed the Jeep stopping alongside the larger CVT and heard something being asked by Kyle to Lisa.

"No I'm not the pilot of this aircraft, my husband is who is currently checking our cargo," Lisa said with the cool tone that she was famous in the bridge of the SDF-1.

"That means lady that this pilot that claims to be a dead man is not in fact not Rick Hunter like he claims to be, for the last time I checked he wasn't married," a voice stated that sounded like Kyle to Rick. He then heard Lisa laughing in amusement, which sounded like lovely music to his ears.

"That my friend is where you are wrong since my name is Lisa Hayes-Hunter," that shocked the people around her. Rick the decided to land the killing blow and stepped from under the plane rubbing his hands on a rag that came from one of his flight suit pockets.

"Well honey I checked the cargo and fixed that problem we were having with that god damned cargo clamp," Rick growled out as he came around the wing to stand by Lisa's side looking out at the group of now shocked group of people that were standing in front of the CVT. He smiled at the shocked group and leaned towards Lisa to kiss her on the cheek making her blush.

"Hello Kyle, man you have grown to a fine young man," Rick said with a smile at the younger man looking him over surprised that Kyle was actually taller than him now.

"Ri-ck," Kyle said stumbling through his name. Rick smiled and held out his hand which Kyle took which managed to calm him down somewhat from his shock.

"Well I believe you know my wife Lisa, but Lisa doesn't know you. Lisa this is Kyle Carpenter my little cousin," Rick informed her with a grin making her chuckle at that.

"Yeah I am not little!" Kyle exclaimed with a blush. Rick chuckled at Kyle's shout knowing that it was now indeed true for Kyle was taller than Rick and even Roy now.

"All right that is enough of reunion boys, and it is nice meeting you Kyle but currently I am hungry I didn't eat anything before we left," Lisa mentioned with a frown elbowing her husband in the gut making him wince.

"Well I have some of my men take you luggage to the hotel, since I know you to lovers birds want to be alone," Kyle said waving at the mentioned men but it earned him a smack on the back of his head from his cousin.

"Okay, okay. So do you want to see your Mother?" Kyle asked with a smile seeing the look on his cousin face.

"Yes, it has been so long since I last saw her Kyle," he said with a heartfelt sigh. Kyle nodded and leaned against the Jeep with a smile please to have Rick back.

"Well why doesn't your lovely wife go with my men to the hotel, as well as assuring Dad that you are indeed Rick Hunter and I drive you up to the house," Kyle responded with a nod of his head knowing that Rick would want to see his mother. Rick smiled at the mention of Kyle's father Nicolas Carpenter, his mother's younger brother and the second older controller he had talked to earlier. He was sure his Uncle would want to know if nodded his approval as he got up to follow Kyle towards the second Jeep but not before he kissed his new wife on the lips. Lisa smiled at him before directing the rest of the now recovering personal to load the bags from the CVT into the back of the first Jeep.

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Hunter Residence
New Carter, California

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A few minutes later saw a former green military jeep pull up to a large house on top of a hill overlooking the city of New Carter. This is the residence of the Hunter family and a sort of secondary headquarters of the Pop Hunter Flying Circus after Fokker Field. As the Jeep stopped Rick Hunter jumped out to look at the familiar house that was his home for fifteen straight years before he joined the Competition Circuit. He smiled as he walked up to the front door with his cousin at his side and wondered how his mother would react.

"Wait a moment Rick. While don't you wait over there," Kyle said pointing over to a dark shadowy spot that was created by a tree not far from the front door. Rick nodded with a smile as he stepped in the shadow that was created by the tree. Kyle then nodded turning back to the door and rang the doorbell. A couple seconds later the door opened to show a boy about fourteen. It was Matt Hunter, Rick's adopted younger brother who had been adopted a few years before after the young orphan had started to hang out by Fokker's Field while the circus practiced. Soon Matt found himself adopted by the Hunters, and Rick hasn't seen him personally in over three years due to Rick being on the Circuit to different cities competing against other flyers.

"Yeah Matt, is Aunt Ann here?" Kyle asked the young teenager. The boy simply smiled back and leaned back to yell at someone. Within a few minutes a middle-aged women in an apron appeared at the door wiping her hands on the said apron.

"Well Kyle what a pleasant surprise, what can I do for you?" the women of about forty-three asked Kyle. This was Ann Hunter (nee Carpenter), Rick's mother and the wife to Mitchell "Pops" Hunter his father.

"Nothing really, but something happened at the airport this morning," he replied with a sigh rubbing the back of his head. Ann's face went white with fear as she looked at her nephew standing before her.

"Did something happen to Mitchell and the circus Kyle tell me?" Anne asked with wide scared eyes. Kyle blinked in surprise at this, and then chuckled lightly.

"No nothing major or dangerous like that just someone arrived at the airport today that I thought you should see," Kyle said with a smile. Anne sighed with relief at this and then glared at Kyle angrily. Kyle gulped and took a step back from the women. Rick in his hiding spot smiled at this and simply steppe out of the shadow.

"Mother, as Kyle was trying to say, I'm back," Rick said with an embarrassed smile on his looking at his shocked mother who was now was white with shock. Rick smiled pleased to see his mother after so long apart. For her part Ann stood in the doorway shocked and looking like she seen a ghost, for she like many others thought Rick was dead. Now Rick mysteriously alive standing before her with that same annoying smile on his face.

"Hello Mother, can we come in?" Rick asked after several moments of shocked silence. Ann shook her head to clear it and took another long look at Rick to make sure it was true, which made Rick laugh lightly in response.

Ann Hunter couldn't believe it as she looked over her son still waiting patiently in the doorway of her home. Her little boy was all grown up to a fine young man and he was also now taller than her for when he left for Macross Island he was up to her forehead for she was a pretty tall lady after all. Finally Rick asked again which brought her out of her funk and moved out of the way to let Rick and Kyle in.

"Rick I just can't believe it your alive and well standing here. Oh my little baby you are all grown up now!" Ann said once she had recovered from her shocked silence and did the most unthinkable thing a son could ask for; she started to pinch his check to the amusement of Kyle.

"Mom...Mom please stop!" Rick frantically yelled pushing his mother from him. Granted he wanted to see mother but he did not imagine something like this.

"Oh bummer, I haven't seen in you in over a year and a half you can't let your dear mother do that. I'm hurt!" Ann replied trying to look hurt but to no avail as she threw her arms around her son and embraced him in a warm comforting hug.

"Oh God have I missed you," Ann whispered quietly to Rick with tears in her eyes. Rick returned the hug twice over with tears in his own eyes.

"I missed you to Mom and I'm sorry I made you worry but trust me when I say I didn't intend to make you think I was dead," he replied with a smile and eyes filled with tears. Ann and Rick stayed like this int'l a soft cough came from Matt who had just walked into the room and was wondering what the heck was going on. Mother and son broke apart and looked over at the teenage boy.

"Yeah Matt is has been a while hasn't it," Rick said with a smile at the young teen. After a moment of shock Matt jumped up and hugged Rick as well. Anne just sighed at this display of brotherly affection. After a moment the two brothers broke up and looked at one another before Rick looked over at this mother.

"Well I do have quite a story to tell you guys but you need to sit down mother for this it is one hell of a story," Rick replied with a sad smile on his face and started to look for somewhere to sit down.

"Right lets seat down in the living room and you can tell me all about this hell of a story as you so colorfully put it," Ann said with a another sad smile, a copy of Ricks own and started lead the group to the living room. Rick took a quick moment and smiled as looked around the house deep in memories for he had finally come home.

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Post Chapter Notes:

Well that is makes eight chapters, and this brings into Part Four of Frozen in Time. Basically I have changed quite a lot from the original. I kind dropped the whole teasing over the radio bit as Rick comes to land to Kyle. For I am sure no self-respecting pilots civilian or otherwise would pull a stunt like that over the radio, hence my changing that scene a lot. I also changed some of the radio chatter a bit to reflect real world aviation radio communications. Though I am pretty sure I still kind of messed it up even if I researched it a bit. For the record the tail-number for the Mockingbird II is MC-P01 which stands for Macross City Peregrine 01 instead of Frozens P01CVT Call sign which makes some more sense. Speaking of the CVT by the way I am basing it on the VT-1C Commercial Valkyrie from Macross Dynamite Seven instead of say the SNN Valkyrie from Macross II, which to me is a little too fancy for a simple civilian design though I did kind of steal the model number for the CVT.

Also I am not sure if it is possible to leave the best man position open like that in a real wedding but I thought it would be a nice touch to reflect on Rick's desire to have Roy stand by him during his wedding even if he is missing.

With that said I bid all good night and Happy Halloween try not to eat too much candy.

OH! I like to mention that I have added an Omake to the last chapter for those interested. You might want to read that one before reading this one for the two are connected.

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Omake 08: A Daughter's Forgiveness

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"Damn the Council!" a shout came from the office of Admiral Donald Hayes as he read the last new reports going from the council but before he could say anything else someone knocked onto the door of his office. Frowning he looked up from the paperwork wondering what this could be about.

"Come in and make it fast," he ordered as he looked back down at yet another bit of paperwork hearing the door open to admit the visitor into the office.

"Admiral sir during the daily report from the SDF-1 I found this impeded in the background of the data," a young communications tech reported making the Admiral look up in interest at this.

"Well what is it?" the Admiral asked eying the young tech. The man simply sighed nervously before handing the Admiral a page from your everyday pocket notebook. Frowning Hayes looked down at seeing a message written on it, and blinked in surprise at the message before closing his eyes clearly affected by what is written. The tech simply saluted before leaving the Admiral's office knowing why the Admiral was emotional at what had been written on that small piece of paper for he had written it there himself after finding it inside the usual daily report from the SDF-1. A note that simply said:

"Love you too Daddy and all is forgiven

Lisa

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Figured I write up a response to the last Omake, since I got the idea when writing the other Omake. Anyways simply Lisa manages to put a message somewhere in the daily report from the SDF-1. The young COMM tech someone who is not only part of the later Hayes Faction, but someone is has known the emotional pain of being estranged from your parents. That is all I am going to say about that.

That is about it time for me to get some much deserved rest!