Disclaimer: I do not own the rights or any thing under the name of Robotech or Super Dimensional Fortress Macross. Nor do I own anything that I may cross this story with, they are all owned by their respective owners. I do not own the original idea that spawned this story, that belongs to CSS Stravag, though I do own my own plot. I only my own characters and mecha I created for the purpose of this story. Also I do not own the VS-1 Series of Veritechs they are owned by my old friend EVA-01 Beta. So please no lawyers, I have no money to give them!
Robotech: The Long Road
An Robetech/Macross General Crossover Novella
Written by William R. Woods aka Deathzealot
With input and ideas from SethMKlein and Barbatisrahl
Pre-Chapter Author Notes:
Alright folks, welcome to the SG1 universe! This is the first stop on this crazy adventure, and I need to explain a few things before we go into this. First of all like I mentioned the Macross will be dropped a few years after everything happens during the final episodes in Atlantis. This is a good reason behind this, and that is I want to give the SDF-1 a good easy first jump. All they have to go against is a bigger and badder version of the Lucian Alliance. Next up with them being in the SG1 'verse that means they shall get some very good toys to play with in later jumps. For example they shall get some very good shields, and a good old fashioned Asgard Hyperdrive as an alternate form of FTL. Since their Fold System has basically been turn into what I call a Universe Jumper instead of the usual Hyper-Space Fold system. This Jumper will be how the SDF-1 jump between universes, and hence will need some sort of new FTL system.
Many may notice that I am adding Omakes for this story. The first was just a small funny little piece, but all future Omakes are going to be either just a funny little piece like the first one or generally a piece that can be included in the overall story. Some of them maybe just introducing another OC character, or expanding on a character. This is similar to how all of my past Omakes have been, but the difference is that you the reader can vote to include it in the overall story either at a later time or just generally part of the story. This is something new that my sometimes co-author and friend SethMKleim has suggested, and I would like to try it out. So please leave a review if you like Omake #2 to be part of the story.
One last thing to add, you may notice a note of MC or LC attached to dates during the story. MC stands for Macross Calender, the one used on board the ship and in the home universe. LC on the other hand stands Local Calender, which is one used by the Universe the Macross is in at the time. The reason behind that like the SG1 universe when compared to SDF-1s own universes is that there a few years in between. So these are used to symbolize the difference between the two, if that makes any sense at all to you guys. Anyways that is it time to get to the story.
Anyhow time for me to stop yapping get with the first chapter. So enjoy!
WRW
EDITED: 2/15/11
Chapter BGM is Lost Souls in a Sea of Time by Dragon Force
Act One, Chapter One: We Are Not In Kansas Anymore!
Gah! Why does everything happen to this ship! I knew I should have taken that nice assignment at the L-5 Shipyards instead of joining the crew of the Macross. Whatever at least we are in good company anyways.
Unknown Engineer
April 1, 2009 (MC)
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LaGrange Point Four
Earth, Sol System
March 30, 2012 AD (LU)
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Space has many infinite and strange mysteries gracing its expanse. Like the powerful yet unknown black holes, and beautiful yet mysterious nebulae. However there also the mysteries that no one can explain or even contemplate, one of these so called mysteries suddenly showed itself as a large white globe of light appeared around a small yet very familiar planet. Out of this glow some sort of ship appeared, over a mile long this ship could be easily identified by this who know of its existence as the Super Dimensional Fortress One, or better known just as the SDF-1 Macross. On the darkened bridge of the massive ship the seven man bridge crew started to pick themselves off the floor of the bridge and stumble back to their assigned duty stations. The single male on the bridge, Captain Henry Gloval groaned as he sat down into his command chair. With a shake of his salt and pepper like head, the Captain managed to clear the final cobwebs from his head, before retrieving his officer's cap that had flown to the floor along with his body. With a final shake of his head, Gloval turned to inspect the rest of his bridge crew to see that they all had returned to their stations.
"Megumi report! Where are we?" the Gloval asked with a frown looking around the still darkened bridge but soon brightened some as the red emergency lights flashed on. The dark haired woman standing at the station near the front of the bridge looked down at her station and started to fiddle around with some controls before sighing in relief.
"Thank god! We are right on target Captain, LaGrange Point Four," Commander Megumi Tanaka the ship's experienced XO, reported with a sigh of relief and a radiant smile. The other five ladies on the bridge lightly cheered at this report and Captain Gloval sighed in relief before settling his officer's cap back on to his head once more.
"Very well, Claudia send a message to UNEDC Headquarters and report our position, along with a request for further orders," the captain said with a small smile on his face, just as the main lights came on with a glare. With a small cough the aged captain reached into his uniform jacket and retrieved a long wooden smoking pipe before putting the thing into his mouth. With his other hand he retrieved a old steel match box from his jacket's pocket and retrieved a match from the mentioned box before lighting the retrieved match. However before he could light the pipe an angry face appeared in his line of sight and took the wooden pipe from his mouth with a forceful tug.
"Captain what did I tell you about smoking on the bridge!" the young Ensign Sammie Porter said angrily looking up at her taller captain, while Commander Tanaka rolled the retrieved pipe in her hand with a frown. The captain blinked as the other ladies laughed erasing whatever tension was left after the Fold. With a shake of his head the captain mumbled something in Russian before holding out his hand to the young commander at his side. The Japanese woman sniffed before slapping the pipe into his hand where it soon disappeared back into his inner jacket pocket. Suddenly a gasp from the sensor station drew the others attention to the young glasses wearing Lieutenant Junior Grade Vanessa Leeds, the sensor operator.
"What is it Vanessa?" the captain asked as he took a few steps over to her station and leaned over the young woman's shoulder to look at the screen in front of her. Commander Tanaka followed her captain and stood slightly behind the captain.
"Captain these readings cannot be right, I am not detecting either the L4 Foundries or the Hyperion Factory. Is as if they are not even there at all," Vanessa said with a frown looking over her shoulder at Captain Gloval. The two massive Foundries located at L4 took in material from the various mining outposts located throughout the solar system before refining the material and sending it to the even larger L5 Shipyards. The Hyperion Factory also located at L4 is a small factory complex which is one of the factories used to produce Veritechs or smaller auxiliary craft, like shuttles. In fact one of the squadron of Veritechs they had on board had been produced there and while on a test flight using a new type of Veritechs they watched as the Aliens destroyed about sixty percent of the UNE Spacy's Orbital Fleet. They then against orders flew to the SDF-1 and helped the large ship recover any survivors from the fleet. With a thoughtful frown the Captain rubbed his chin in thought before looking over at the Commander.
"Well what do you think Commander?" the Russian captain asked his younger first officer at his side, who looked thoughtful as well. The other ladies on the bridge looked briefly shocked at this news but waited with baited breath for anything else.
"At first thought they could have all been destroyed by aliens after we folded to Plato but according to these readings there not even any debris at all, so at this point I can only guess," the ship's youthful first officer reported with a frown. The young woman had been with Gloval ever since his first major space command the Oberth Class Destroyer Goddard, where she had been the sensor officer on the said ship and had been the one who suggested the move that managed to destroy the Koroljev another Oberth Destroyer that had been hijacked by Anti-UN Terrorists. When Gloval was chosen to be the Captain of the SDF-1 early last year he handed the smaller ship over to his first officer and came to the Macross with a few officers from the ship to his new command. Megumi was one of those officers and after a three month stint being the first officer of just finished ARMD-02 Langley she became Gloval's own first officer on the SDF-1.
"Hmmm... Vanessa please see if you can detect either the L5 Shipyards or one of the Bases on the Moon," the captain ordered with a thoughtful frown on his face, mentioning the two moon bases Apollo and AluCE. Apollo was newer than AluCE and was only built a few years prior to be a more military post than the more civilian, research minded AluCE. Commander Tanaka nodded at his order and looked on as the younger woman typed a few commands into the station in front of her. Within another few moments the results came back and made the young sensor operator could only gasp in surprise which was echoed by the Commander looking over her shoulder as well. Blinking in confusion the old captain looked between his XO and Vanessa wondering what the scans found. However both ladies were white faced and shocked at whatever they see in the readings. Captain Gloval who never received any training in sensors operations could not read the raw data rolling onto the screen.
"Well what is it Lieutenant?" the captain finally asked hoping to break either woman out of their shock and report on what is going on. The other ladies on the bridge were now blinking in confusion, but knew not to leave their own posts. Vanessa soon shock off her shock before turning to look at the captain with a shake of her head.
"I'm sorry Captain I am not detecting anything at L5 and as far I can tell there is no bases on the moon at all. There is something on the darkside of the moon, but that is about it sir. There is not even any debris to symbolize where either Moon Base are located it is just flat ground," the young woman reported shocking the entire bridge crew. For it was all out impossible for something like this to happen at all. The first thought that everything was destroyed by the aliens after their Fold, but why would they leave Earth intact without at least destroying anything on its surface. It only took one glance out the view ports to see that Earth was still floating peacefully in space as if waiting for them. However even if those facilities where destroyed than there is bound to be at least some debris floating around space or laying around the dust on the moon. Suddenly they were all jolted out of their thoughts when Megumi snapped her fingers as she thought of something.
"I think I know what is going on here Captain. Though you might want to have Dr. Lang and his astrophysics team verify my thoughts on this later. But I think that we either somehow went back into time or skipped over to some sort of alternate reality or dimension," the Japanese woman said with a frown looking over at the view ports and Earth through them. The others blinked in surprise, a few of them rolled their eyes at this but Captain Gloval looked thoughtful.
"Yes Dr. Lang did say that he thought something was iffy about the Fold Drive when he looked it over at Plato. Perhaps you are right Commander; though there is one way to find out if we jumped back into time or if true how far back we are. Vanessa I want to do two things first get some readings on anything in Earth's Orbit, and secondly see if there are any fighting going on around the planet or least what you can see," he ordered looking down at the sensor operator who blinked in surprise at the order but only nodded before turning to follow the order. After another few moments more data started to scroll down her screen which made the young officer blink in surprise before turning back to look at the captain.
"Well Captain our sensors are detecting some sort of an orbital station though it is on the other side of the planet from us, and there also various orbital satellites in orbit as well. As for any fighting I cannot be sure for since we are not directly in orbit I cannot get any good readings on the surface, but what I can get is that there is no direct heavy fighting anywhere on the planet," she reported with a frown as she looked over at the two senior officers standing behind her chair.
"Well that answers that question we did not travel back in time, at least not that far anyways, that must mean we are in some sort of alternate dimension or something. Though we have to let Dr. Lang and his team make the final decision but I am pretty sure we are not in Kansas anymore, or at least our Kansas anyways," Commander Tanaka responded with a slightly chuckle that made the other girls chuckle as well along with a small smile from the captain.
"Very well then, Commander Hayes you have the bridge, Megumi you are with me. Sammie please have the command staff report to officer's briefing room, though when you contact Dr. Lang transfer over all of Vanessa's sensor readings before instructing to do a quick look through at them before reporting to the briefing room as well," he ordered straightening his cap on his head and heading for the bridge's door. Megumi followed him with a small smile while the other girls saluted.
"Aye Aye Sir," they chorused almost together before the captain exited the bridge. Before the door slid closed the two senior officers could see the young Lieutenant Commander Lisa Hayes stretch her arms before moving to take a seat in the command seat, while the other girls started to talk. The two officers shared a looked before heading for the lift to get to the briefing room.
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Homeworld Defense Center
Cheyenne Mountain, United Sates
Earth, Sol System
22:47 Local Time
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On the planet itself a uniformed young man rushed through the corridors of the massive base of Cheyenne Mountain. For after the end of the Ori Crusade the IOA and President Hayes ordered the NORAD Base that used to occupy the upper levels of the base to be moved elsewhere and its place would be the new Homeworld Defense Center. Some would think that this would be a bad idea for the world's most secret base, the SGC, occupied the mountain's lower levels. However the SGC has since been moved to a massive underground base located in the Nevada dessert, while the entire Cheyenne Complex became the new Homeworld Defense Center, a facility set-up to command the planet's entire defenses, not mention numerous operations going on throughout two galaxies. The Defense Center also sported a large air base housing numerous space superiority fighters and other defenses. None of this was one the young officer's mind as he ran through the corridors with a folder tucked securely under one of his arms. Finally after arriving at his destination he started to pound on the door knowing that the person or persons for that matter sleeping in this room would not be really happy with him, but the young officer had no choice he had his orders. After a few seconds pounding the door was finally opened and the pepper haired older man who opened the door angrily glared at the young officer. The officer only gulped before shaking his head and saluting the half naked man.
"General sir sorry to disturb you and your wife but this just came in from Kepler Base on Luna," the officer said handing over the folder over to the older man, mentioning the smaller Observation and Research base nestled in Kepler crater on the near side of the moon. Blinking the older man only waved the officer into the room and flipped on a nearby light before opening the folder to read it. As the General started to read through the report, the officer took a brief moment to look around seeing a typical American living room, however what was surprising was that this was in the military base of Cheyenne Mountain not in a suburban home. Another thing that was very surprising was the windows on the roof displaying a breathtaking view of the stars and more windows covering tops of the walls. For this room was part of a large apartment like complex that was the General's personal home, hence the homely feeling of the room. This was due to the General being the overall commander of the entire Homeword Security Command allowing ready access to the rest of the complex and information streaming in from numerous sources. The officer after inspecting his surroundings turned his attention back to the General to see that he was frowning and did not like what he was reading.
"Sam you might want to see this!" the General yelled out looking over at a half closed door the officer knew was the older man's bedroom. A tired yawn answered the older man's shout and the officer respectfully turned his eyes away as a beautiful blond woman in a half opened robe appeared at the bedroom door.
"What is it Jack?" the woman asked with anothor tired yawn as she walked over to the older man who silently handed the folder over to the woman. She rubbed her eyes for a moment before opening the folder and starting to read. After a few moments she was finished thanks to her being a faster reader than her husband. Looking up from the folder she looked at the thoughtful on her husband's face before looking over at the officer.
"When did this come in Lieutenant?" she asked the officer with a very similar thoughtful look to her husband's on her face. The officer by reflex stood at attention when he turned to look at her. For while she was no longer part of the military many including him still respected her and as such gave her the respect that an officer often required.
"It came about little under ten minutes ago ma'am. Lieutenant Colonel Davis wasn't sure if we should awaken you and General O'Neill but the colonel soon had me do so anyways when the Armstrong Base started asking for instructions," the officer replied with a frown on his face, now mentioning the larger lunar base located in the Apollo crater on the moons far-side. While it was still pretty much under construction, it would be fully operational in a matter of weeks. The woman only nodded before looking back over the report. Meanwhile the older man who the officer knew as Lieutenant General Jack O'Neill, Commander of Homeworld Security, looked over at him.
"Lieutenant have Davis get either the Apollo or the Pendragon to investigate this disturbance, they should the best choices for they are on patrol or on maneuvers. We shall head down to the Command Center in about ten minutes," O'Neill ordered as he looked over at the bedroom door wistfully but only turned his attention back to the officer. The officer nodded and saluted but before he could leave the General's wife shook her head before looking at the General.
"Actually have the Odyssey do it for it is on its way back from Chulak and SG-1 do happen to be on board. I think they should be the best people to look into this," the woman said with a gleam in her eyes that the General soon copied. The officer only nodded before turning to leave knowing that they were right, for something like this the best people for the job would be SG-1. As he left the two started to get ready, Jack O'Neill into his uniform while his wife former Colonel and now Doctor Samantha Carter-O'Neill slipped into some her husband's older fatigues and a white lab coat over that. Soon the two Stargate veterans slipped through the door and left their comfy apartment behind.
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Officer's Briefing Room
SDF-1 Macross
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In the SDF-1 Macross officer's briefing room, Captain Gloval watched as the various officers filtered into the room before sitting down at the large table in the center of the room, from the head of said table. Sitting to his right is Commander Tanaka, who patiently waited for the other officers to arrive and sit down. Also included in the meeting is the Mayor of Macross City, Ms. Gabriella Brewer who was elected after the death of Tommy Laun earlier last year. Mayor Brewer a retired Marine Lieutenant from the Global Civil War was someone Gloval liked working with and he was sure the two of them would get along very great in the future. Captain Gloval had included her for since with her people on board the ship, she had a right to know what is happening elsewhere on the ship and what is done to help defend the ship.
First there is Colonel David Masitroff of UNE Army Intelligence, and served as the ships Chief Intelligence Officer. Since he had more experience and higher ranked then the Spacy Officer who had the position before the Battle of South Ataria Island, he like much of the Army and UNE Air Force personal on the ship had retreated to the ship before it launched. Next up was the younger Lieutenant Colonel Ian Jackson, the surviving senior officer of the Army forces formerly stationed on South Ataria Island. He now currently commanded the Civil Defense Force, a small group of Destroids and Army Infantry forces tasked to protect Macross City in case of invasion, as well serving as Military Police and keeping the peace in the city.
Next is Lieutenant Colonel Grant Avery, a big Scottish Marine who like Colonel Jackson becomes the senior officer of the Marines after the Battle of South Ataria Island and the enemy bombardment that had led to their ground forces attacking. Colonel Avery's men served as Security Forces elsewhere around the ship, and his Destroid forces, which included the three Heavy Monster Destroids, served as the ship's secondary defenses. Captain Gloval was aware that during the Battle of Plato Colonel Avery, piloting a Spartan Destroid at the time, launched from the ship using the Destroids boosters and placed the mecha in between an approaching enemy Pod force and the ship itself. The Marine Colonel managed to destroy several of the enemy pods using his machines internal weapons and a single GU-11 gunpod policed from a downed Veritech, before several Veritechs from Wolf Squadron arrived to help him out.
The fourth officer is, one of the most junior officers in the room, is Lieutenant Hoshi Ikeda and is in charge of the ship's internal factory. The junior officer while having such a junior rank happened to be as old as Gloval if not a year or two younger. The half-Japanese and half-American woman had her black hair arranged into a tight bun on the back of her head. Only a small lock of hair which like majority all her hair was slightly sprinkled with gray hairs that lay against her left check. The woman had the naval rank of Captain and was quite a famous yet talented ship engineer. However after she sat on the design board reasonable for the design of the ARMD Class Carriers and Oberth Class Destroyers, she pushed to produce a larger more powerful ship. But her requests were denied by the UNEDC High Command and when she tried to push further she was bumped back to Lieutenant Commander. It was then she resigned in disgust and went to live on South Ataria Island to help in the reconstruction of the SDF-1 Macross. When Captain Gloval found that she was on board and still living in Macross City after the jump to Plato, he gave her an offer to take charge of the ship's internal factory as an officer in UNE Spacey once more. However she refused to accept her old rank before her retirement, and instead asked for a Lieutenant rank, which the Captain happily gave her. From what the Captain knew she was quite happy being charge of the factory, and from what he understood the woman still did a lot of designing work on the side. While she officially was supposed to be under Dr. Lang, Gloval decided to include her in command meetings.
With a sigh the aging captain turned his attention away from Lieutenant Ikeda and to the other officers filling in the room, they were still missing a few besides Lang and his department heads. However a young looking, boyish looking officer soon walked with a grin on his face. This is Lieutenant Colonel Charles Mitchell of the UNE Air Force; he unlike the Marines or those from the Army was only one of the few Air Force officers on the ship. Instead of joining the Veritech Wing or piloting a Destroid he along with his fellow Air Force officers happened to be in charge of the Flight School. While the young Lieutenant Colonel could be flying in Veritechs, he had one minor problem he had no valid experience in space combat or even training for that matter. So instead he taught basic flight instruction at the Flight School, while his partner Major Michael Sheppard who along with a few other Air Force pilots were at the South Ataria Island Naval Station to be trained in Veritechs, taught the more advanced portions.
The next officer to arrive made Captain Gloval sigh sadly for Lieutenant Alexis Chase was the senior surviving officer of the Orbital Fleet that was destroyed by the enemy. She was assigned to the Miranda one of the fleet's Oberth Class Destroyers. Unlike the other three destroyers in the fleet the Miranda happened to lucky and had been shielded from being all out destroyed by the larger form of ARMD-02 Langley. Lieutenant Chase while on the Miranda was in command of the ship's two Light Rabbit Shuttles and had been suited up in her flight suit when the ship was hit. Her eight man flight group. the five hanger techs, sixteen other crewmen on the ship, and five Veritech pilots on FLEET CAP were the only survivors of that attack. While technically Lieutenant Chase currently did not have an assigned duty station while on the ship Lieutenant Ikeda took the young pilot under her wing and asked Gloval to assign her to the factory section as her aide, at least for now. With haunted eyes the young pilot took her seat next to the older Lieutenant who smiled briefly at the younger woman before turning her attention back to her hand computer.
Finally the last two officers arrived and the door slid closed behind him. First there is Commander Roy Fokker the ship's experienced CAG and then another man who happened to be a little younger then Fokker but had the same experienced eyes. Captain Gloval knew this other man to be Lieutenant Commander Christopher Banner, the commander of single operational VA-3 Intruder squadron and who also happened to be one of the key backers behind the Variable Attack Fighter Program. His squadron, the VSA-01 Banshees, disobeyed orders to come to the SDF-1s aide after an enemy bombardment took out the rest of the fleet. He now served as Fokkers XO while on the ship for the two were old friends and had fought together in the Global Civil War.
With a sigh the Captain stood up bringing the gathered officers attention to him, with a small nod to them all, he took his position at the head of the table.
"Very well now that everyone is here, I like to mention that Dr. Lang and his team are now currently going over some data, the reason behind this meeting. But till he is done, I will like Commander Fokker's report on the Veritech Wing and Lieutenant Colonel Avery's report on his Destroid group before finally getting a report on the ship's factory's effort on the hydroponic bay. Commander you first please," Captain Gloval asked turning to look at the blond haired pilot. The younger man cleared his throat before standing and looking down a hand comp lying on the table in front of him.
"Very well Captain. As of half-an-hour ago our flight groups is finally fully transferred to the Prometheus as per your earlier orders sir, only leaving the ship's Cat Eyes, Shuttles and our remaining Ghost Drones in the interior hanger bays. Though from what I gather there some ideas on remaking them to something else," the pilot started with a nod briefly looking over at Lieutenant Ikeda who smiled mysteriously.
"As for the Veritech Squadrons themselves, we have the four squadrons originally assigned to the ship,VS-1 Skull, VS-2 Wolf, VS-8 Lion, and VS-9 Pirate Sqaudrons. As you all are aware we took only light causalities during both the Battle of South Ataria Island and the Battle of Plato. I lost five pilots during South Ataria, and only one during Plato, though Lieutenant Franks only was heavily injured and should be returning to duty within a few weeks. However I cannot say the same for the Navy's four Veritech Squadrons originally assigned to the Prometheus, and the two assigned to the Naval Air Station, including the VS-3 Veritech Demonstration Squadron, took almost forty percent causalities during the South Ataria Battle. I and Lieutenant Commander Kramer the senior surviving Naval Pilot remaining reorganized the survivors, along with the six from the VS-12 Starfighters based on the Langley, into two more squadrons, Brawler and Widowmaker. Some of the remaining pilots were used to fill in the holes in the four Macross squadrons. With those two squadrons that gives us six squadrons," Fokker continued to report but Banner sitting next to him cleared his throat and glared up at the standing Commander making the taller pilot roll his eyes at the other.
"Sorry make that seven squadrons including Lieutenant Commander Banner's VSA-1 Banshee Squadron, thankfully to the make shift Flight Academy myself and Colonel Mitchell put together graduates its first class in a matter of a few weeks. These new pilots along with the remaining Navy pilots shall give us about three more squadrons, for now called Gold, Blue and Green. We also have the twelve -D Types assigned to the ship, which Commander Banner and I are planning on converting them to some sort of ELINT Recon birds or something similar. For the Factory has managed to produce a fair number of VT-1s to replace them as training craft. I shall get back to you on that, after I discuss it with Lieutenant Ikeda. As for the ship's Ghost Drone Complement which are also under my command, they suffered far worse than the Veritech Squadrons and only somewhere around thirty-five percent survived both South Ataria and Plato. With that said this concludes my report Captain," the pilot said with a salute before sitting down in his chair. Captain Gloval nodded to him before turning to look at the Marine Lieutenant Colonel, but was surprised when both Avery and Jackson stood up.
"Sorry sir, we decided that since we both have Destroids in our command, we should deliver a combined report, for it would save us all time," Lieutenant Colonel Avery said surprising not in a usual Scottish accent like many Scottish officers in the UNEDF. Captain Gloval blinked in surprise before waving a hand at the Marine for them to keep going.
"Very to start my forces currently stand at about fifteen Spartan Models, about forty-five Tomahawk models, and the three Monsters. However I am sorry to steal Lieutenant Ikeda's thunder here, but they are currently looking at producing two new designs, both had been already put on paper, or at least were in the process before our jump to Plato. The first is the ADR-04 Mark X Defender, which is a new anti-aircraft and mecha unit, which shall increase my forces anti-air ability dramatically. Next we have the SDR-04 Mark XII Phalanx, this one is a heavy artillery unit with a heavy missile complement. It should increase the firepower of the Destroid units by a far margin. Both units shall distributed to both my own Marines and Colonel Jackson's Civil Defense Forces though the CDF shall only receive a small number for Colonel Jackson has some other plans for a good model for his command. That concludes my portion of the report, I shall turn you over to Lieutenant Colonel Jackson to finish the report," the big Marine reported in a calm and precise tone, before waving his Army colleague forward to finish.
"Thank you Colonel Avery, my own command currently stands as of now at some thirty-eight Spartans and twelve Tomahawks set aside for some heavy firepower if I need it. However with Lieutenant Ikeda's help we are going start building some of the older ADR-03-MkIII Cheyenne Destroids, along with another on-paper design before our jump the MBR-08 Masamune. Which is a design built for urban environments like Macross City in mind. As for the other two new Destroids we are only getting a small amount of them to balance out my forces. That concludes my own report sir," the young Army Lieutenant Colonel reported with a sigh. Captain Gloval nodded at this and was quite surprised at the foresight Colonel Jackson was displaying. Clearly the other officers thought the same as they nodded in agreement with him. Though Colonel Masitroff looked a little peeved, but that was to be expected for the Army Colonel. Captain Gloval after looking over at the other officers turned to glance at Lieutenant Ikeda, who now rose to deliver her own report. She waited a few moments as the other officers started to quiet down before she cleared her throat and started her report.
"As for my report Captain, construction of the ship's new Hydroponic Bay is just about done. Within a few more days we shall start getting some fresh fruits and vegetables not mention wheat and grain, so that means we are going to be on a meatless diet till such time we get some meat from Earth. Speaking of that Captain, I along the others here are all most likely wondering if that jump happened to be successful at all. Though personally I think it was not, for you would not ask for these reports otherwise," the engineer reported before laying down the last bit down like challenge. By the looks, some panicked, that the other officers were shooting each other, they did not even realize what Ikeda just did. With a sigh the Captain was about to say something when the door slid open and admitted the dark-eyed Dr. Lang along with his two department heads trailing behind him. With not a single look at the other officers the ship's chief engineer sat down at his place at the table and looked at the Captain.
"Well Doctor Lang, your findings?" Gloval asked looking at the slightly younger man who sighed before pulling out a note computer out of one of his lap coat's pockets before sitting it in front of him.
"Well sir from I what understand Commander Tanaka is right. We are in fact in some sort of Alternate Dimension or Universe from our own. As far as I understand it, our Fold Drive somehow took us here and I do not think it shall act as a Fold Drive anymore. For whatever happened to it thanks to our jump from Earth to Plato changed it permanently," the Doctor reported with a sigh. The other officers looked over at him wide-eyed or in shock before turning to look over at Captain Gloval and started to speak all at the same time. With a sigh Gloval knew that this was going to be a long day and turned his attention to calming down the officers.
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Earth Ship Odyssey
In Route to Earth
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Cruising through the bluish-white corridor that is hyperspace was a large vessel on its way back home; this ship is the Earth Ship Odyssey one of Earths premier Battlecruisers. On the bridge of the mentioned vessel a few personal went about their duties with a certain precision that came with doing so long and so well. Thanks to it being so late in the ship's day only a handful of personal manned the bridge, one a slightly young officer manning the ship's communication station looked from his station to stare over at the slightly dozing woman in the command seat of the ship.
"Colonel, I have just gotten a sub-space message from the Mountain," he reported from his station calling the Homeworld Defense Center by its nickname that many in the Earth Space Forces had started calling it. The woman blinked shaking her head to clear last of sleepiness before looking over at the communication officer.
"Well let's have it then Lieutenant," Lieutenant Colonel Karen Sharp the ships XO asked holding out her hand towards him. The man nodded before handing over some sort of small data pad to her. The colonel frowned before started to read through the small message. Raising an eyebrow she looked out of the bridge's view port at the various colors of hyperspace wondering what she should do, for she was only the ship's XO not its commander. Shaking her head, she knew that she had to do something before turning to look down at the helm officer who was looking up at her having been alerted by the frown on her face.
"Helm, drop us out of the Hyperspace and plot us a course to Earth's Fourth LaGrange Point" she ordered handing over the pad over to young officer seating there. The officer only nodded before turning to follow his orders. Granted they could have gone on for they were heading for Earth anyways but they would come out near orbit to Earth, and would either have to use their sub-light engines to reach L4 but the orders directed them to re-plot their jump to appear at LaGrange Point Four. With a calming breath the young woman turned to look over at the communication officer once more.
"Very well Lieutenant, have Colonel Emerson report to the bridge and let SG-1 know as well. Also let the Mountain know we have received the orders and are on our way," she ordered the officer, mentioning the ship's commander, Colonel Rolf Emerson a former US Navy Officer who skippered Subs for a long time before retiring. He was later brought out of retirement thanks to his younger brother Paul Emerson the ship's late first commander. It was quite an experience serving under the brother of an officer Karen respected a lot and was far more like a father to her then her real father.
"Aye Aye Ma'am," the officer responded before turning to follow her order. Karen smiled lightly at the officer's response for the man was another former Navy officer who had been brought in by Colonel Emerson and other Navy Officers. With a sigh Karen leaned back in the seat and watched as the ship launched itself back into hyperspace on a course towards Earth's Fourth LaGrange Point, wondering what will the next fifteen minutes shall bring.
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Back on the bridge of the SDF-1 Lieutenant Commander Hayes yawned a bit before she leaned back into the command chair to think a bit. She already had been in the hot seat, as it sometimes called, for several minutes but she had spent that time talking to the girls and doing several minor things, like ordering a Veritech CAP to launch. Now that the girls were done talking and were either gone off-duty or went back to work, Lisa had the chance to think about the chance of being in some sort of Alternate Dimension. Unlike the girls and others on the ship she had no family on Earth, she only had her father Admiral Hayes, but the two of them had been getting very distant lately ever since Lisa had gone to the academy. So the SDF-1 was her home and the girls practically her family hence she had no trouble with that thought, the only thing that bothered her about the whole thing was that leaving their Earth all but unprotected against the alien enemy. With a sigh, Lisa turned her thoughts away from that thought, for she did not want to think about it. Lisa yawned once more and silently begged the Captain or Commander Tanaka to hurry up to relieve her for she desperately needed to get some sleep, for she had not gotten any sleep that night. Suddenly she started to hear a harsh beeping over at the ship's sensor station. Vanessa stopped her conversation with Kim to look over at her station to see whatever the trouble is. With a blink the woman turned to look over at Lisa almost speechless.
"Lisa! We have a ship on an intercept course towards us. They are about two minutes out and closing pretty fast," she reported with disbelieve in her voice. Lisa blinked at this before she silently wondered how that was possible for they should have seen it coming before then.
"How come we did not detect them before Vanessa?" she asked the younger woman with a frown on her face. The other woman paused a second before turning to look over her station once more before turning to look at Lisa once more.
"Because they have some sort of a new FTL drive that we never have seen yet, it is as if they just appeared there, but we managed to detect some sort of energy release when they appeared. Orders Ma'am?" she asked in a shocked tone. Lisa gritted her teeth before looking over at the young tech at Sammie's station, who had gone off-duty a few minutes before.
"Ensign Reeds, bring the ship to Second Stage Alert. Also page both Captain Gloval and Commander Tanaka to the bridge as well," she ordered as she turned her attention to the sensor screen that Vanessa brought up on the command chair's left armrest screen. She watched as the icon representing the unknown ship fast approach the Macross. Getting up she walked towards the bridge's large viewport which allowed her to have a great view of the approaching ship.
'This cannot be happening,' she thought with a frown as she eyed the approaching ship inspecting its general looks and lay-out which made her think that it was not produced by anyone in their home universe. Lisa sighed knowing that life is about to get very interesting, for that ship confirmed that they were indeed in some sort of alternate dimension. With another sigh Lisa turn away from the viewport and started back towards the command chair with one thought in mind.
'Yes very interesting indeed!'
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Post Chapter Notes
Alright folks! I hope you all enjoyed this new and improved Chapter One of the Story. Several things have changed, while others have remained the same. One thing that changed is that the VS-1 is finally formally replaced with the VA-3 Intruder, not to mention I added Squadron Designations to Roy's report. This was missing from the original and gives a nod to modern day US Navy Squadron Designations. Also the scene that introduces Jack and Sam to the story has been slightly enlarged with several changes. Finally the final scene with Lisa has been expanded a bit as well due to how much I hated the original ending, for it seemed rushed and seemed like I just threw it out there. I hope that this new ending has fixed that problem.
Now with that out of the way I like to leave you with my first Story-Bound Omake. Enjoy, and remember to leave a review!
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Omake #2
The Patrol
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Not far from the SDF-1, three of its numerous Veritech Fighters were patrolling around the immense ship. All three of the fighters did not happen to be the main VF-1 Series of veritechs, instead all three happened to be new VA-3 Intruders. These fighters were the Veritech answer to the idea of an Attack Aircraft like the elderly A-6 Intruder, which the VA-3 happen to based on and named after, and the newer LVT Avenger II. In the lead aircraft the flight leader, one Lieutenant Senior Grade Christina Banner, watched as the unknown ship approached the SDF-1.
"I really wish the bridge would give us the orders to attack LT. For I am getting a little bit nervous on how close that ship is getting to the Macross," one of the other Intruder Pilots mentioned with a frown in his words.
"Yeah we do have the firepower to do some damage to that ship, not to mention that is what our Veritechs where designed to do after all," the third pilot replied to his wingmate's comment. Even then he happened to be right since all three fighters sported two RRG Firebird Missiles each, which happened to be non-nuclear version of the RMS-01 Angel of Death Missiles.
"No we cannot attack unless we receive the command to do so. Besides this is a ship we have never seen before, therefore we cannot just attack it. We may actually manage to befriend whoever built it, and get an ally out of this meeting," Christina replied after a few moments of silence on her behalf. She thanked god that cooler heads happened to be in command, not mention the vast majority of the command staff of the ship. Granted she too wanted to test her fighter on an enemy, but that time was not now.
"Look the Prometheus is launching some Valks," the first pilot said looking back at the ship and the Super-Carrier that is now the main fighter hanger for the ship. Christina frowned before craning her neck to look and saw that the pilot was indeed correct.
"It looks like they are launching an entire squadron," the second pilot said as numerous other fighters were brought up to the deck of the ship. Christina frowned for that was not a good sign, and she hoped that they indeed did not attack this unknown ship.
"Banshee Three, bring in your flight. Let the Widowmakers take your station," a static filled order managed to filter through her helmet speakers. The Lieutenant blinked in surprise before sighing and nodding her acceptance of the order.
"Understood Gunsight, we are now returning to base. Alright Banshees you heard the order, lets return to the base and pray that we do not get ourselves into yet another battle with an unknown enemy," she replied before turning her fighter back towards the large figure that is her new home. Her two wingmates after a few moments of grumbling followed her lead. This patrol was now over for the three of them.
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