A Shadow From the Future

[Fran2k]

Chapter1
Finding the SDF-3

The year is 2044 a search has begun for Admiral Rick Hunter and the SDF-3, Captain Grant finds himself helplessly guiding the Ark Angel back to the SDF-3’s last know location in the Omicron Sector.
“Captain, we will be coming out of space fold in 3-2-1...” said Louie
Captain grant gave an affirmative head nod, folding his hands behind his back and watching the display screen in front of him. In the display screen was a blue and purplish tunnel spiraling over the entire ship, giving a sensation of traveling through a majestic color marble tunnel.
There was the sound of the space fold disengaging and the tunnel became long bright blue streaks of light only for a second until the Ark Angel slowed and the stars became dots of lights suspended in space once again.
“Sir, The SDF-3 is right where we left it.” Louie exclaimed.
“No Louie, Look they have drifted closer to the black hole.” Captain Grant said pointing to a read out on the monitor.
“CAPTAIN, SDF-3 IS STILL UNDER ATTACK FROM THOSE CHILDREN OF THE SHADOW THINGS!!!” yelled one of the crewmen sitting at a computer in the front of the control bridge.
“They are called Haydonites.” Janice chimed in from the back of the control room where she was standing by the entrance door. Captain Grant looked over his left shoulder ad Janice for a moment then back to the monitor.
“It doesn’t matter what they call themselves they can still be shot down, SCRAMBLE ALL FIGHTERS!” Ordered Captain Grant
The alarm sounded through out the Ark Angel, red lights flashing in every room. The door leading from the barracks to the hanger slid open and hundreds of pilots came running in zipping up their flight suits and climbing into their VFAs. Lieutenant Floyd walked nervously into the hanger rubbing the new Wolf Squadron emblem on the shoulder of his flight suit.
“Not even 24 hours since I got promoted to squad leader and given two rookies put under my command and now I have to lead them into battle to save the SDF-3 and Admiral Hunter… Only the greatest pilot to ever fly a VF.” Lieutenant Floyd thought to himself.
Lieutenant Ronnie Floyd was 5’10; 180lbs with dirty blond hair that was parted down the middle just long enough to not need any gel and cover the top of his ears. He was not very big and muscular but his mussels were well defined, and they even threw in a tight six pack at the additional cost of three hundred sit ups everyday. His eyes wear a blue/green mix that reflected the color of the deep clean ocean waters off the shores of Hawaii when the sun reflected off of them.
“Floyd.” Said a familiar feminine voice behind him, Ronnie turned to see his old squad leader Commander Sterling.
“They finally gave you your own squad?” she said raising a brow in a teasing manner.
Ronnie nodded in affirmation to Commander Sterling’s question.
“Still the quiet brooding type I see, I just hope these rookies put you through as much hell and drive you as crazy as you did to me.” She said grinning.
Ronnie just rolled his eyes and turned for his VFA.
Ronnie was always trying to keep up with the greatness his reputation kept laying before him, having lost his family on the SDF-3 in and explosion during an attack, Captain Grant took Ronnie under his wing (His parents were family friends with the Grants.) this left his training instructors expecting perfection in all his training excursuses, and all the ladies afraid to show any interest or say yes when he would ask any out for a date, no one wanted to go home and meet the parents, they were in to much aw over all that Captain Grant has done for Earth, and Mrs. Grant, if she found any sickness or injury it was like a shark smelling blood in the water, but that drive is what has made her the best Medical personal on any RDF ship.
“Go get them tiger.” Commander Sterling yelled out laughing as she said it then turned and walked toward her own VFA, Ronnie just threw his hand in the air half heartedly in a what ever gesture, and climbed into the cockpit of his VFA.
“Ok, guys this is it the real thing, don’t think you are ready for combat know you are.” Ronnie said looking at his two new squad men in the two monitors on the sides of his cockpit.
“SIR!” both men replied in harmony.
“Wolf squadron, move into position to take off, you will be covering Omicron vector-7 with the Skull squadron.” A voice chimed through his helmet radio.
“Rodger Bridge, Wolf Pack line up, and prepare for takeoff.” Ronnie answered back over the open channel radio, once all three VFAs lined up and they were given the green light the wolf squadron fired their boosters and raced off into space. The Skull squadron took off right behind them and the six fighters moved into position to cover their sector.
“Ok boys; keep an eye on your monitors that black hole wont affect your Veritech, unless you get in real deep, but watch out for any large ships or large pieces of dibber that could hit you and suck you in real fast.” Said Commander Sterling’s voice over the radio
“Yes Ma’am” replied five male voices.
Arriving at Vector-7 several squads of Haydonites fighters swarmed to engage them in battle.
“There are to many of them.” One of the rookies said holding a hint of fear in his voice.
“Ok, break formation, but try to cover each others backs.” Ronnie ordered
All six VFAs spread out, and Ronnie accelerated to pull ahead of the others, quickly switching from fighter to BATTLOID MODE, sending his Battloid into a head first spin he pulls his gun out and starts firerring rapidly leaving a wall of bullets in front of them and detonating all the missiles before they come close enough to harm the VFAs. Knowing what Ronnie was going to do Commander Sterling pulled up right behind him, and as soon as he stopped firering, she pulled up flying just above him as the pulled through the firery wall of explosions in front of them Commander Sterling unloaded her own barrage of missiles. As the battle roars on space is literally stuffed with fighter jets, command ships, and explosions of all sizes.
“Marcus, watch your back.” Called Ronnie shooting down an enemy fighter right behind Marcus’s battloid.
“Thanks LT. I owe you one.” Marcus said.
“You can buy me dinner tonight after all this is done.” Ronnie replied.
Commander Sterling dodged as three enemy fighters fired at her from behind, she accelerated until she came close to maximum thrust, suddenly switching into Guardian mode and putting her thrusters into sudden reverse, the three fighters took evasive action to avoid slamming into the back of her fighter. The force of the sudden stop jerked Commander Sterling forward straining her chest against her safety restraints and then slamming her into the back of her seat, the impact was so great it knocked the wind out of her but she was able to sight the three fighters zoom past and her computer targeted and locked onto all three of them. “Fire!” Commander Sterling tried to yell but she still hadn’t regained her breath, several missiles launched from her fighter blowing up all three fighters.
Commander Sterling coughed and gasped s she regained air in her lungs once again.
“Oh that is going to leave a mark.” She thought to herself rubbing her chest.
Suddenly her VFA started shaking violently and alarms inside her cockpit were sounding off, in a panic Commander Sterling looked at her controls and saw that she had drifted closer to the black hole then she wanted, and it was sucking her in.
“Crap!” She yelled as she opened her thrusters and started to slowly climb our of the black ole’s pull.
Another Haydonite command ship moved into position just outside of vector-7 and unleashed wave after wave of enemy fighters racing towards the 6 VFAs guarding that sector.
“STERLING, GET OUT OF THRE!” Ronnie yelled into the intercom.
“I am still stuck in the gravitational pull of the black hole.” She replied.
“SKULL SQUADRON, WOLF PACK FALL BACK TO COMMANDER STERLING NOW!” Ronnie ordered.
All five VFAs raced as quickly as they could to Commander Sterling’s position. Ronnie opened his thrusters for all they were worth, pulling away from the others firering missiles and his gun way in advance clearing a path for him and his men that fallowed. Ronnie was not going to let anything happen to Commander Sterling, she was the only one who understood him… With her parents and grand parents playing such vital roles in man kinds continued existents the last name of Sterling carried quit a load of pressure to live up to. Everything slowed down right in front of Ronnie’s eyes, all he could think about was ever since he joined the RDF Sterling has always been there to bail him out… He could talk to her, and open up to her, she understood where he was coming from… everyone on the Ark Angel joked around that they were dating, but there was no real truth to the rumor, they just spent a lot of time together going over battle tactics and their VFAs.
“Almost there.” Ronnie thought to himself as he raced onward getting closer to Commander Sterling’s location.
Suddenly another wave of enemy fighters moved around from the front side of the Ark Angel and moved in behind the racing VFAs.
“What the…” one of the rookies started to say before his voice was over thrown by the sound of his VFA blowing up.
“Behind us.” Yelled the other just before a dozen missiles impacted on his VFA and it vanished into a bright ball of fire. Marcus switched his fighter into battloid mode and flying way from the new wave of fighters at the batteloid’s feet he opened the thrusters as much as he could trying to stay as far in front of them as he can, pulling his gun out and moving hid battloid into a semi-sitting up position Marcus opened fire shooting between his legs and at the enemy fighters.
“AAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!” Marcus yelled.
Commander Sterling was able to maneuver left and right ok allowing her to avoid her attackers thus far, but with out being able to move forward and unable to go back or get sucked into a black hole, she found her self a sitting duck. There must have been over sixty enemy fighters between Ronnie and Commander Sterling, but Ronnie never hesitated not reduced his speed, he just flew right into them and one of the biggest dog fights of his life.
Ronnie made a big barrel roll firering missiles taking out several enemy fighters, then he raced toward a big patch of fights with several dozen enemy missiles hot on his tail.
“Wait for it… Wait for it.” Ronnie thought to himself as he came close and closer to the group of fighters. “NOW!” He yelled pulling up just before running into them, but it was to late for the missiles to change course and another ten fighters were blown up by their own missiles. There was only one Haydonite fighter left near Commander Sterling, and Ronnie locked onto him and fired his last set of missiles, but before they could destroy the fighter, it fired its own bombardment of missiles at Commander Sterling. Commander Sterling evaded the missile bombardment the best she could but several missiles clipped the rear of her VFA.
“I’M HIT, I’M HIT… MY THRUSTERS ARE GONE!” Commander Sterling cried as she rapidly gained speed in the direction of the center of the black hole.
“Marcus, keep out exit clear I am going after the Commander.” Ronnie ordered as he dove straight at the center of the black hole.
“Yes Sir, I got the exit covered.” Marcus replied shooting down several more enemy fighters.
“Ronnie, don’t, it’s too dangerous.” Said Commander Sterling.
“All the fun jobs are.” Ronnie said jokingly winking at her image on his monitor.
“NO! LT. Floyd do not come after me that is a direct order, if you save me I will have you thrown in the brig. IS THAT CLEAR!?!” Commander Sterling ordered.
“Bridge better start preparing a cell for me in the brig.” He replied
As Ronnie caught up to commander Sterling’s VFA he switched to battloid mode.
“YOU STUBBERN…” Commander Sterling started to but Ronnie cut her off.
“Look I am all ready here, now shut up and eject.” Ronnie said with the need of haste in his voice.
Commander Sterling sighed and pulled the ejection bar, a small explosion just behind the cockpit disengaged the cockpit at the base of the rest of the fighter. Ronnie used one of the arms of the battloid to grab a hold of Commander Sterling and fired off his thrusters to head out of the black hole. Suddenly several gun blasts ripped through several parts of Ronnie’s VFA.
“Almost out, hold on baby.” Ronnie said under his breath
Suddenly his thrusters went out and he started drifting back into the black hole.
“Marcus, quick catch.” Ronnie said as he threw Commander Sterling’s cockpit like a football.
“What are you doing…NO!!!” Commander Sterling yelled hysterically, as Marcus swooped down and snatched her up at the fringe of the gravitational pull of the black hole and ignited his boosters heading back to the Ark Angel.

Ronnie got sucked into the black hole, and his veritech started shaking violently his vision started to blur his stomach turned, everything turned really dark, all he could hear was a loud rumbling, he felt like he was on a rollercoaster, getting thrown right, left forward, bright light raced by in flashing stripes of light flashing lighting up the cockpit like a disco ball, the pressure pushing him back into the seat pulling the blood out of his brain and forcing it all down to his feet, Ronnie’s skull felt like it was going to split into two… then he passed out.

Ronnie blinked his vision blurry, he lifted his head trying to wipe his eyes but the face shield on his helmet prevented him from doing so. Ronnie blinked a few more times before his eyes started to focus, his ears were still ringing loudly from the rumbling.
“Am I dead?” he thought to him self
Ronnie’s vision was fading from double to triple back to double and then finally focusing and settling on single vision. Ronnie’s eyes grow wide, and his mouth dropped open, it took Ronnie a couple of moments to realize what he was looking at, he shook his hear to try and clear out the cobwebs out of his head and make sure he wasn’t dreaming.
“Earth.” That one word escaped from Ronnie’s lips as he realized it was his home planet he was looking at, some how the black hole didn’t crush him but shot him out of some kind of tare in the space atmosphere right in front of the Earth. Ronnie picked up the readings of a base and set his concordance into his computer and headed for Earth, as he broke through the atmosphere he picked up a transmission on the open com line.
“Max, the base is asking you to retreat, Right now.” A voice said
“They want me to retreat? Wha… Wait, I don’t get it what’s the big ideal..” Max replied.
“That bandit on your tail is trying to hard.” Said the first voice
“So what?” Asked Max.
“So they want to find out what his game is.” The first voice said.
“You got it.” Max replied.
Ronnie look out over the battle from high above, then he saw something… Something Imposable.

[Fran2k]

Chapter 2
Rescuing Big Brothers

High above the battle over the ocean surrounding the SDF-1, LT. Floyd hovers in guardian mode, shocked by what he sees below him…
“Can’t be… That’s imposable… Skull Lead...” Ronnie’s thoughts drift off to his memories of when he first joined the RDF. “Private Floyd, right this way sir.” Said a young Lady holding his file.
“Yes Ma’am.” Ronnie said fallowing her down a hall and through the lunch room. Ronnie looked around at all the pilots in their jump suits talking about this move or that move, how they did this or how that did that Ronnie could feel the energy in the room, the excitement running though their veins, and he could not help himself and cracked a small grin. Ronnie fallowed the lady up two flights of stairs and out a door that lead to a bridge that crossed over the rear one of the runways and connected to the main training hanger bay on the other side, half way across the bridge a VF lined up for take off, The jets roared to life, as the VF Raced down the runway Ronnie’s hair was blown by the hot back burst of the jet’s boosters. “PRIVATE FLOYD!” the lady yelled from the end of the bridge, Ronnie turned and signaled with his hand he was on his way, a little embarrassed for he didn’t even realize he had stopped.
Once down stairs in the hanger bay, the lady walked over to a man it a white flight suit. “Captain Hunter, here is your new pilot and the files on him you requested sir.” The lady said Saluting Rick. “Thank you LT. Weston.” Rick replied saluting her back, then she turned and Walked by Ronnie and back to her desk. Ronnie turned and saluted Rick. “Private Floyd reporting for duty as ordered sir.” Rick Saluted Ronnie and said “At ease.” Ricked quickly thumbed though his file. “You have an impressive file, one of the most promising in your flight simulator class, and Captain Grant speaks highly of you.” Rick continued eyeing his new pilot trying to see what he was made of.
Rick saw that Ronnie was looking over his shoulder and knew what he was looking at. “Come on let’s go have a look at her.” Rick said with a bit of laughter in his voice as he turned and led Ronnie through the open hanger door where the infamous Skull Leader VF sat with crew members all around finishing her pre-flight check. Ronnie walked under the nose putting his hand up and touching the bottom ever so lightly with his finger tips, the cold smooth feel of the white metal sent chills running down Ronnie’s arm to his spine and then down to his fee and out the fingers of his other hand.
“She is very special not only has she been very good to me but she once carried a great man… Commander Roy Fokker… My big brother… He was shot down during a battle over the Pacific Ocean they didn’t even come for the SDF-1 that day… They came to hunt down one of our ace pilots Max Sterling. But during the evacuation Commander Fokker took on some heavy damage and bleed to death, and the next thing you know I was promoted to Skull Leader, me someone who was always getting shot down at that time.” Ronnie watched Rick as he told his story never taking his hand of the VF. “I heard they are retiring her today.” Ronnie said one of the techs walked up behind Rick “She is all ready for her final flight sir.” He said handing Rick his helmet. Rick thanked the tech and saluted him. “Want to ride piggy back?” Rick asked looking over his shoulder.
Ronnie grinned and grabbed an extra helmet the tech was holding out for him. Ronnie’s vision of his past bulled and faded away as he was climbing into the back of the Skull Leader cockpit. Suddenly aware of alarms going off inside his own cockpit Ronnie shook his head clearing his memory away and focusing on his monitor.
“NOT GOOD!” he exclaimed seeing that several missiles were heading right for him, with out thinking he switched to battloid mode and used his gun to detonate the missiles why they are at safe distance away. “Well looks like they know I am here, might as well join in the fun.” Ronnie thought to himself switching back into fighter mode and diving head first into middle of the battle.
“Captain Gloval there is an unidentified aircraft coming from sector g-4, its moving fast.” Vanessa said watching the radar read out on her monitor. “Is it a command ship?” Asked Gloval standing up out of his command chair. “No sir, it appears to be some kind of fighter.” She added. “Its readings are as that of one of ours a VF ranking, but not any classification I have ever heard of.” Vanessa finished looking over at Captain Gloval. Lisa Hayes turned to he command station bringing up the an image of the unidentified VF that was now spinning it’s way through the crowded battle zone and destroying several battle pods along the way.
“Attention unidentified VF, this is the SDF-1 please identify your self, once again, attention unidentified VF, this is the SDF-1 please identify your self.” Said Lisa
Ronnie’s image appeared on Lisa’s screen once he opened the video channel. “This is LT. Ronnie Floyd of the RDF, Jupiter Division.” Ronnie replied
“JUPITER DIVISION!” all five of the ladies in the bride exclaimed at the same time.
Lisa looked to Gloval who gave no reaction or emotion of any kind on his face to the bizarre response, and then she turned back to her screen. “There is no such Jupiter Division…” Lisa was cut off by the sound of Max Sterling over the open radio “It’s too late to stop.” He exclaimed. Lisa quickly flipped a switch bringing up Max’s fighter on her monitor, Lisa gasped and turned to Captain Gloval “They’re heading this way Captain, Straight for us” she exclaimed.
“Order all hands to battle stations, and seal off the ship.” Gloval ordered sitting back in his captain’s chair.
Back out in the battle field, Ronnie came around and lined up two more battle pods.
“Gottcha.” He said firing his gun and blowing them up. Looking over the battle field Ronnie saw an enemy fighter coming up on Skull leader fast. “Skull Leader, watch you’re seven.” Ronnie said over the open radio channel. Roy looked at his scope and saw the fighter that was pointed out to him, switching to battloid mode; Roy quickly spun around and shot the enemy fighter down with his gun.
“Thanks kid, I never saw him he would have got me for sure.” Roy exclaimed
With most of the battle pods destroyed and Max forcing Miriya out of the open roof hatch of the SDF-1, the Zentraedi fleet starting their retreat. “They’ve had enough boys, let’s go home.” Roy said returning to base.
Suddenly Lisa Hayes appeared on one of Ronnie’s monitors inside his cockpit. “LT. Floyd, You are here by commanded to head on course a-7 zero, niner, five and land in hanger bay G.” Lisa barked out her orders in a very stern voice.
“Rodger command.” Ronnie replied changing course to fallow as he was instructed.
“Lisa picked up her intercom and called the brig. “Yes this is Commander Lisa Hayes, we have an unidentified air craft preparing to land we need a cell ready to hold the pilot in until we can identify who he is and if he is a threat… thank you, and send two squads to hanger bay G to arrest him as soon as he lands, I will meet you there.” Lisa said switching off her intercom, she then turned and walked out of the bridge to meet this mystery pilot in hanger bay G.
Ronnie opened the cock pit of his fighter, and climbed out onto his ladder, stopping for a moment her removed his helmet and placed it on the pilot’s seat before climbing down. No sooner did both his feet touch the ground he saw several men marching towards him lead by the women that identified her self as Commander Hayes on his monitor. As they got with in ten feet or so of himself, Ronnie stood at attention and saluted Lisa. “Lt. Ronnie Floyd reporting ma’am.” He said holding the salute. Lisa quickly saluted him back “Commander Hayes, LT. Floyd.” She stated with an I out rank your ass so don’t try anything tone of voice. Ronnie just raised a brow and put his hands behind his head as one of the MPs came around behind him and cuffed his hands behind his back. “You are here by under arrest and confined to the brig until we can interrogate you and identify who you are and where you came from. Ronnie kept looking at Lisa, she looked strangely familiar but he couldn’t place who she reminded him of.
“Take it easy, he has cooperated with everything you have asked…” Roy said walking into the Hanger bay, but Lisa cut him off. “Fokker, he is an unidentified pilot flying an unregistered VF.” She said. “But he fought with us Lisa, and saved my ass… Look I am not saying doesn’t lock him up, but you can be nice about it, he has done everything you have asked without hesitation.” Roy replied making a face as he said it.
“Lisa… Commander Lisa Hayes…” Ronnie said once he heard her first name the light went on she was a younger version of the Great Lisa Hayes of the SDF-3 “Wait Fokker that is Roy Fokker? But he died was shot own…” Ronnie thought back to the story Admiral Hunter told him on his first day of flying a real VF. “Roy was shot down in a battle over the pacific ocean, and the thing was, they didn’t even come to attack the SDF-1, but to single out one of out ace pilots Max Sterling.” Suddenly all the pieces started to click, the first conversation he heard when he entered into the Earth’s atmosphere was Roy telling Max to retreat so they could tell if he was singled out for termination…and that enemy fighter that he warned Roy about… Roy admitted he never saw the enemy fighter… that must have been the one that shot Roy Fokker down and killed him… and… suddenly another piece of the puzzle fell into place this whole time Lisa has been saying SDF-1, but Ronnie was so wrapped up in the battle and surviving the black whole he didn’t even pick up on it. Ronnie suddenly felt really sick to his stomach and his head started spinning. “Could I have really traveled back in time?” he thought to himself.
Roy and Lisa finally stopped bickering at each other and she led her prisoner to the brig where he will spin the night, and first thing in the morning start his interrogation.

Rick opened the door to his hospital room, after seeing Max fighting a Zentraedi pilot inside the SDF-1,Rick couldn’t just sit around anymore so he went for a walk, he missed the action somehow though his body was in pain physically and his nerves a bit shaky after his near brush with death… Through all this his heart ached to get back in the air, Rick loved to fly all he ever wanted to do was fly. He grew up in his pop’s flying circus… Rick let his thoughts drift back to the past.
Rick Hunter it flying his fan jet in the amateur flying competition, he was climbing higher and higher increasing his speed, Rick is smiling form ear to ear, his mouth open wide like a 5 year old kid in a candy store, Nothing mattered not a worry in his heart… Flying was so easy back then, Rick never once thought about the possibility of crashing, he didn’t care about girls… his life was simple fly.
But now there were no more flying circuses only the war, now flying was filled with the fear of his next flight possibly being his last… but even in these new circumstances Rick loved to fly. Coming back to present time, Rick realized he was sitting on the foot of his bed where Minmei was sleeping before he left.
“Minmei…” Rick thought to himself. “We have drifted so far apart, now… now I think Minmei only comes around to get away from the drama that came with being Miss Macross…” Rick sighed and looked over at the flowers on the table by the door. “Lisa brought me flowers…” Rick thought to himself laying back on the bed and losing himself in thought of two completely different women in his life…
Claudia was putting the final touches on her pineapple salad listening to Roy playing the guitar behind her. “I don’t think you realize how terrified I get every time you fly up on one of the combat missions, it’s almost as if you pilots think it’s some wonderful game that you’re all playing when you go up in those veritechs.” Claudia said finishing her pineapple salad and picking up the dish to take to the table. “It has never been a game Claudia, maybe some day you will understand that. Roy replied “Anyway I said all that is on my mind, and I promise to keep my mouth shut in the future, dinner’s ready.” She said placing the food on the table. Roy just smiled at Claudia and enjoyed a meal with the one person dearest to his heart.
Ronnie was flying in space, his VFA free as a bird turning left he is suddenly forced back into his pilots seat, the veritech shaking violently alarms of every kind going off, looking up Ronnie sees the black hole with Maia Sterling falling, her VFA has ejected the cockpit but now she has no booster and is getting sucked into the black hole. Ronnie opens his thrusters wide open and races back into the black hole that changed his life for what looks like ever. Ronnie switches to battloid mode and reached for Maia but she suddenly disappeared, there is a bright whit flash, Ronnie is blinded by this new light, raising his hand, trying to shield his eyes, he hears Maia screaming from behind “NO!!! WHAT THE HELL DO YOU THINK YOU ARE DOING?!” her voice yells. Suddenly Ronnie’s veritech vanishes and Ronnie is floating in his fight suit his helmet is gone and his hair is blowing in a clod breeze. “You left me…” says Maia’s voce from behind, Ronnie turns around quickly the breeze so cold now that his nose and ears are starting to sting, but he doesn’t care, all Ronnie can see in front of him the outline of a female body, the light so bright behind her it cover her body in deep, deep shadow. “Left… Me… You… You left me.” Maia says as the light dims and Ronnie can see her at last. “I did not want to.” Ronnie replies his own voice echoing in the nothingness that surrounds them. “BUT YOU DID!” she yells and hatred can be seen in her purple eyes, they no longer carried that sparkle of hope that Ronnie love to see when ever he looked at her... Now a flame burned in them.
Ronnie couldn’t move, he opened his mouth but nothing came out.
“I TOLD YOU… NO I ORDERED YOU NOT TO COME AFTER ME.” She continued to yell, with each word the flames in her eyes grew bigger. Ronnie felt like some one kicked him in the gut, he could not breath his knees became weak, his whole body shaking uncontrollably. Unable to hold it back any longer a tear ran down his cheek.
“I… I…” Ronnie tried to say… anything he didn’t know what to say or do.
“You never even told me…” Maia’s words so soft so full of pain, as she started to cry uncontrollably hiding her face in her hands she fell to her knees and just cried “We all knew…” she said through a tear soaked mouth “We all knew… but you never told me you love me…” Ronnie’s heart broke and he could not hold back his tears any longer as they ran freely down his face, Ronnie wanted to tell her so many times… But every time he tried something happened, suddenly an image appeared over Maia it was showing the last time he tried to tell her, it was two days ago the night before the battle in Omicron Vector-7 She was putting another serving of food onto a plate in the mess hall.
“Hey Captain Sterling, you look great… err… uh… I mean you looked great out there flying today.” Ronnie said scratching the back of his head. Maia looked at him and just grinned
“Floyd, how many times do I have to tell you to call me Maia?” she said leaning her back against a wall at the end of the food bar, and folding her hands behind her head, she loved doing this around Ronnie it made her flight suit extra tight showing off every detail of her body, every line of her bust, every curve of her hips. She couldn’t help but laugh watching Ronnie looking at her and quickly looking away, he was so shy around her, she felt bad but it was just too much fun to flirt with him… well physically anyways. Ronnie’s eyes locked on her breasts her flight suit so tight now with her arms pulling it up and back behind her head, he could see she was still physically excited from her flight the adrenalin pumping threw her blood. Ronnie suddenly realized he was staring and dropped his head down, his cheeks turning a bright red.
Maia tried to hold back her laugh but her amusement was too great and it slipped out causing Ronnie to turn all shades of red. “Do you want me...” She pause to get another reaction out of him then finished her sentence “Do you want me for something fly boy?” she said in a seductive voice shifting her weight to the foot farthest from him and watching his eyes jump up to her hip now sticking out at him, she thought she saw his lips part slightly letting a silent gasp escape from his mouth, and a devilish grin came across her face. Ronnie tried to gather himself and look up at her face, but her head was down chin against her chest eyes closed, Maia slowly licks her lips opening her eyes and making eye contact, deep down she wanted him to make a move, she wanted him to just grab her trap her body against the wall with his body, and kiss her until they both passed out from lack of oxygen.
Ronnie could see her desire in her eyes, the sparkle of hope that was always there was now replaced with raw desire, the desire you see in a predators eyes as they watch their pray, the primal passion just before they pounce. Ronnie froze he couldn’t move, he knew in that very moment he was the prey, Ronnie tried to speak but his mouth was dry he hadn’t noticed his mouth was hanging open ever since Maia shifted her weight.
“I am sorry Captain Sterl… I… I mean Maia, a gentleman never stares, my apologies.” Ronnie finally forced the words out with a breathless voice. Maia pushed off the wall and walked over to Ronnie and ran her hand through his hair “try not to fall for me fly boy, I only love my veritech.” She said turning the back of her hand to his ear and slowly running the tips of her finger nails ever so slightly down the side of his neck tracing down the line of his flight suit’s caller reaching the middle zipper she pushed down unzipping it slowly, her nails still sliding down the smooth bare skin of his chest. She could feel his body start to shake and ran he hand back up his chest and putting her thumb under his chin she brought his head up to see his face. Ronnie’s eyes were open so wide tears were puddle up in the corners of his eyes, all Maia could see was fear, Maia took a step back from him to give him his personal space back, she new she had gone to far this time.
The whole mess hall roared to life with thunderous applause and cheers from all the solders that were enjoying the show all the ladies sat at the table smiling thinking Ronnie’s shyness was so cute, he had a reputation for being one of the nicest guys on the Ark Angel. But the men were jumping up an down clapping, whistling, and even a couple of the them yelling out amounts of money they will give to the Captain if she would come over and put on her little show with them.
Hearing the noise Maia shook her head, she got so into her game she forgot that they were in public, Ronnie didn’t his body started to shake even harder looking down Maia saw he was very excited and she knew everyone in the room saw it to, Ronnie stepped around her and quickly walked out of the exit, and headed down the hall for his baric. “WAIT, WAIT, STOP!” Maia yelled running down the hall chasing after him, Ronnie Stopped head up staring at the wall in front of him his fist clinched so tight his finger nails dug into the palms of his hands and blood dripped off of his knuckles. “It’s too late.” Ronnie said from clinched teeth.
Maia raised an eye brow not under standing he meant he all ready fell for her “To late for what?” She grabbed his shoulder and spun Ronnie around. “You cam in there to ask me something, what did you want.” She asked, but Ronnie was so embarrassed he wanted to ask her to his place for a candle lit dinner and a movie on his 13 inch wall T.V. and she decided to make a fool out of him in front of the whole ship Ronnie was filled with such rage, but once he saw those purple eyes and he knew how he felt for her, it instantly melted away, but the pain remained and showed in his eyes. “What you not going to talk to me, and just brute around now like an ass hole?” Maia regretted the words as soon as they cam out of her mouth knowing she was the one at fault here not Ronnie. Ronnie slapped her hand off his shoulder and walked off.
The image slowly faded and Maia looked up tears dried on her cheeks.”Why didn’t you just tell me?” She ask her voice still shaky, Maia stood “Is it because you don’t love me, that you never loved me?” she said as she started crying again just letting the tears run down her cheeks.
“NO!” Ronnie yelled out reaching his hand out to touch her but as soon as his fingers touched her face he felt the air get sucked out of his lungs but he didn’t care he pulled her close to him putting his other hand on her waist, Maia licked her lips and leaned her head slightly to the side Ronnie moved in, he could smell her perfume and it was exhilarating sending chills running down his spine, moving his lips in to kiss her he now could feel the warmth of every breath she took against his mouth. He wanted to do this for so long their lips were about to touch he closed his eyes but before they touched lips some invisible force grab the back of his flight suit and pulled him way from Maia at extreme speeds, Ronnie struggled trying to break free but couldn’t looking back Maia’s image became smaller and smaller the white light grew blinding him and he heard her voice once again “Why didn’t you ever tell me.” So soft and so full of pain full regret.
Ronnie sat up in his bed reaching out to the ceiling “MAIA!!!!” Ronnie yelled out from the top of his lungs leaning forward and holding onto his legs Ronnie cried into his knees realizing it was all just a dream and he was in the brig of the SDF-1… Knowing he would never get another chance to tell Maia Sterling how he felt “I love you…Maia…” Ronnie said ever so quietly in between sobs, Ronnie was afraid to try to fall asleep again even if he wanted to and just sat there hugging his legs resting his head on his knees… just rocking back and forth.
To be continued

[Fran2k]

Chapter 3
Cooking for His Heart

Claudia entered the Mess Hall for a cup of coffee, paying for her coffee she sees Roy waving his hands in the air pointing to the table his drink was sitting on.
“Well Rick I better go, I shouldn’t keep the lady waiting or they make you wait you know.” Roy said winking at Rick then walking over to join Claudia at the table.
“I saw that wink Roy.” Claudia said, “So?” Roy replied taking his seat.
“So, when Roy Fokker winks, it can only mean he has been talking about one thing.” Claudia replied Roy just grinned before taking a sip of his coffee “You offering?” Roy said raising his brow his grin so wide it could be seen around the side of his coffee cup.
Rick leaned forward on a wall ledge looking out of the giant size window that went from the middle of the wall all the way to the ceiling. “Earth, it seems like so long ago since the last time I saw it.” Rick thought to himself, Rick looked over his shoulder at Roy and Claudia, Claudia was poking Roy in the ribs, demanding Roy to take back what ever he just said, but Roy just laughed and grabbed for Claudia’s hands to stop her, both of them were laughing now. Rick turned back to his reflection in the window and sighed.
Lisa walked into the mess hall instantly seeing Claudia’s tickle attack on Roy, and felt she better not disturb them. “I am sure they want to be alone.” Lisa thought to herself, she ran her left hand through her hair and flung it back out of her face and resting behind her shoulder. “Rick?” she said under her breath, seeing him leaning against the wall resting his forehead on the window looking out over the city below.
“Hello Rick.” Lisa said leaning her butt against the half wall and looking out the window over her shoulder. “Lisa” Rick said stepping off the wall and giving her a nod of his head.
“I didn’t know you would be up here?” said Lisa.
“I just needed some fresh air.” Replied Rick. Rick turning around leaning his back against the wall mirroring Lisa’s position. “Look at those two.” Rick said pointing to Roy and Claudia now sitting at opposite ends of the table, both leaning forward on their elbows both hands holding their coffee cups, eyes locked into the others over the top of their cups sitting in silence just enjoying each others company.
Lisa just smiled looking at the two of them, based on the way they were sitting now, you would have had no ideal they were having a free for all tickle war just a couple of minutes ago. Rick shook his head clearing his thoughts and looked at Lisa. “I almost forgot, what is going to happen to all the civilians ?” Rick asked. “No body knows, but right now they have to stay on the SDF-1.” Lisa Replied. Just then one of Minmei’s songs came on over the room’s speakers. Lisa turned and looked at Rick who was staring off into space, as if he couldn’t see the room and all the people in front of him. “That girl singing on the PA, that’s your girlfriend isn’t she Rick? Are you still getting along?” She asked “Yes, at least as best as can be expected I guess, she has been spending a lot of time with her cousin Lynn Kyle.” Rick said. “Rick, I am really glad you are ok.” Replied Lisa looking at Rick, who has once again lost in thought. “He seems so different somehow.” Lisa thought to herself. After a couple of minutes Rick noticed Roy and Claudia leaving the mess hall together.
“So Roy told me you had an interrogation this morning.” Rick said. Lisa shook her head no, then leaned back against the window. “No we decided to make him wait and sweat it out a little longer.” Lisa said with a little smile.
At that very moment down in his cell, Ronnie was doing some push ups, his flight suit unzipped and pulled down to his waist. Trying to kill time before his interrogation. Suddenly the cell door opened and two guards walked in closing the door behind them. Ronnie stood up sliding his arms into the sleeves and pulled it up over his shoulders looking over at a guard pulling out a pair of hand cuffs. Ronnie zipped up his flight suit, turned his back to the guard and crossed his hands behind his back. The guard walked over and cuffed his wrists together.
“This way LT.” the guard said Ronnie turned to see the other guard had already opened the door. The two guards led Ronnie down a hall one guard in front of him and the other behind him. The front guard stopped and opened the door at the end of the hall. “In here Sir.” The guard said, Ronnie walked into and looked around, there was a mirror wall to the right witch he knew was where several people were probably standing on the other side listening and recording everything that was about to be said, There were two metal chairs one on each side of a big wooden table. Ronnie just sighed and sat in the chair closest to him, and allowed one of the guards to reset the hand cuff chain around the back of the chair, then he just sat and waited as the two guards took up their security positions on each side of the exit.
Several minutes latter the door opened, both men stood at attention and saluted as Lisa Hayes walked into the room, she saluted and walked around the table to the other metal chair and one of the guards closed the door behind him. Once Lisa was all set in her chair and pulled out a pad of paper and a pen, she started her interrogation.
“I am Commander Lisa Hayes, I will be leading your interrogation, please state your name, rank, and division.” Lisa asked.
Ronnie adjusted to the most comfortable position possible, if there was one.
“I am LT. Ronnie Floyd from the Juniper division.” Ronnie said eyeing Lisa.
“The Juniper division, as you just stated dose not exist.” Lisa replied.
“Not yet it doesn’t.” Ronnie said, Lisa raised a brow to his words.
“What do you mean?” Lisa asked.
Ronnie rolled his wrists in his cuffs that were starting to dig into his skin.
“That means the Juniper base did not finish completion until the year 2020.” Ronnie replied watching the look on Lisa’s face, trying not to laugh.
Lisa was in shock for a moment, and it took her a moment to regain her composer.
“So you’re saying you are from the future?” Lisa continued.
“Well that depends, what year is it?” Ronnie asked.
Lisa thought about that for a second before answering. “The year 2010.” Lisa answered.
“Then yes I am from the future.”Ronnie had to shake his head, the thought of traveling through time made his head hurt, something he just couldn’t comprehend, but obviously could not deny either.
Lisa felt her anger building up inside her, as she pressed her fingers into the table so hard they turned white.
“What kind of fool do you take me for LT.?” Lisa asked, her anger coming out a little in her voice. She stood up and walked around the side of the table. “Where is your time machine then? Is it built into the veritech?” she asked sarcastically. Ronnie looked up at her taking a moment to gather his thoughts before answering.
“No ma’am, I was fighting in a battle against an unknown enemy in the Omicron vectoer-7…” Ronnie pause to choose his next words carefully, for all this information was classified.
“My wingman was hit and her thrusters went out around a black hole, and the gravitational pull sucked her in towards the black hole, I was able to fly in grab her ejected cockpit but I had to use my VFA to block the gravitational pull of the black hole she drifted into the saving arms of another battloid, but I got sucked into the black hole… and ended up just out of orbit of Earth, so I flew down and saw the battle, and you know the rest.” Ronnie didn’t expect Lisa to believe what he just said; he lived through it all and still couldn’t believe it really happened.
“WHAT KIND OF FOOL DO YOU TAKE ME FO!?!” Lisa yelled, grabbing a handful of Ronnie’s flight suit, playing the bad cop.
Just then there was a knock on the door, and when the Lisa regained her composure she gave the guards a nod. One of the guards turned and opened the door. Kim Young from the bridge of the SDF-1 walked in. “Commander Hayes, Admiral Gloval would like a word with you in private.” She said looking Ronnie up and down. “Thank you.” Lisa said, and Kim took that for Lisa’s way of officially telling her to get the hell out. “Yes Commander.” Kim said then turned and walked out the door, looking over her shoulder at the man in questioning until the door was shut in her face.
Lisa grabbed her pad of paper and pen, and then walked out the door, the guard was holding open for her, saluting. Lisa saluted them and then walked out of the room turned down the hall and entered the room next to her, the room on the other side of the mirrored wall.
Admiral Gloval stood in the room arms crossed, there were only two other men in the room, one who operated the audio recording and the other in charge of the video recording. “Shut down your equipment, and wait outside a moment.” Gloval said. Lisa stood in silence waiting for the last man to close the door behind him.
“You asked to speak with me privately sir?” Lisa asked.
“Yes.” Gloval replied, pulling out his pipe and placing it in his mouth, but not lighting it.
“I believe there might be a chance he is telling the truth, a slim chance mind you.” Gloval continued when Lisa’s mouth dropped open “Sir?” She asked.
“Lisa, what I am about to disclose to you is highly classified, and dose not leave this room.
“Understood sir.” Lisa replied.
“I am one of only three people that know of plans to build a base on Jupiter… incase there is another attack after this war is over we want a base farther out to give the RDF more of a warning.” Gloval sad walking over to the mirrored wall looking at Ronnie, arms folded behind his back.
“Secondly, both his flight suit and his veritech are exact replica’s that have been shown to me for future modifications. Now none of these three projects are anything more then a thought at this point, yet he can show two of the three in completeness, and describe the third for exactly what ideals we have in our head for the base on Jupiter.” Gloval finished. Lisa was completely speechless; she just stood there looking down at what she had written down on her note pad.
“Sir, then what do you presume we do with the LT.?” Lisa asked. Gloval turned and looked Lisa in the eyes. “I have arranged a baric for the LT. he is to be under house arrest until we feel safe that he is no threat, and I want him placed in the rotation of pilots, on any squad that has an opening… he claimed to be the leader of the Wolf squad, if he shows leadership abilities we will make a wolf squadron, and place two rookies under his command.” Gloval said.
“Sir.” Lisa said saluting Admiral Gloval, then heading back into the other room to inform Ronnie of his sentence.
Ronnie looked up when the door opened and Lisa walked in with another lady hold a syringe, Lisa pulled up his sleeve and the nurse injected the serum into his forearm.
“A micro chip GPS has just been inserted into your arm, so we can keep track of where you are at all times. Lisa said signaling for the guard to un-cuff the man.
“So dose this mean I am free?” Ronnie asked. Lisa laughed “Hardly hot shot, you are under house arrest, how ever you showed exceptional skill out there yesterday so we are placing you into the flight rotations. You will fly one of our veritechs that we can shut down should you try and run, and because your veritech is under inspection by DR. Lange to see if we can reproduce any of your weapons and shields to add t our veritechs.” Lisa said leading Ronnie out of the interrogation room and down the hall they first came down.
Lisa showed Ronnie all the things he needed to know, how to get to the barics, and back to the bridge, then from the bridge how to find the hanger bay, and lastly the mess hall, these were the only places Ronnie was allowed to go as of now.
“Oh, and LT. after every flight I don’t care it is recon, a battle or just flying for the fun of it, what ever it be, anytime you go up in a plane you will fill out a flight report the very moment you land and physically hand it into me.” Lisa said once again reaching the entrance to the barics.
“Will do Commander Hayes.” Ronnie said smiling.
“Good, I had several flight suits in your size delivered and placed into your closet, here is your key, clean up and meet me on the bridge, you fly in an hour.” Lisa said, before she turned and walked away, she wasn’t happy with Gloval’s dissection, something about this guy scared her, not personally like she feared he would ever try to do something to her, but how quiet he was, and fallowed everything he was told to do with out question… it was different from the gossip and flack she got from all the other male pilots who know she was an Admiral’s daughter, and knew her personality.
When Lisa got back on the bridge, the terrible trio were doing what they do best, gossiping. “I hear he is a great pilot, and save Captain Fokker in this last battle.” Sammy said leaning towards Vanessa’s chair.
“Yeah, and I hear he is real mean to.” Vanessa added.
“I don’t know about that, but he sure is cute.” Kim chimed in. Sammy sat up in her chair, her eyes getting really big. “Really?” she asked showing a little more excitement in her voice then she meant to, but everyone was use to seeing her do.
“Just remember I saw him first, s I get first crack.” Kim added.
“He must be real cute if Kim s calling the first see rule.” Vanessa said, and all three girls started laughing. Lisa just rolled her eyes, and walked over to her station.
“So I hear after your little chat with Rick you spent all day with another guy, careful now, or Rick might get the wrong impression.” Claudia said jokingly.
“It wasn’t by my choice.” Lisa replied.
“Doesn’t matter, but tell me is he as devilishly cute as Kim claims he is?” Claudia asked. Lisa just looked down at her monitor trying to ignore all the gossip around her. “Ooo, the Silent treatment, that must mean Lisa thought he was cute to.” Vanessa said.
Sammy’s eyes light up “Oh Kim you have to take me to meet him.” She said bouncing up and down in her seat.
An hour later there was a knock on the frame of the open door to the bridge. Ronnie took a step into the room wearing his new flight suit, it was white with green as the secondary color and yellow stripes, his hair was still wet parted down the middle, and he was now clean shaven, removing the 5’o clock shadow he had in the brig.
“Lt. Ronnie Floyd reporting as ordered.” Ronnie said saluting.
“At ease.” Admiral Gloval said standing from his chair. “I am Admiral Henry Gloval; you will be under the direct order of Commander Lisa Hayes.” Gloval said.
“Yes Sir.” Ronnie replied.
“LT. Veritech VF-1J has been prepped and is ready for take off, you will be flying recon with the Vermillion squad in sector C-6 through G-8 is that understood?” Lisa ordered.
“Yes ma’am” Ronnie answered saluting once again before turning and heading out, Ronnie couldn’t help but notice the young lady that he saw earlier when he was cuffed to that metal chair in the interrogation room. Ronnie smiled when they made eye contact for a quick moment, then he was gone out the door. All three girls ran to the door, watching him until he went around a corner and out of sight.
“Oh, he is so hot.” Sammy said showing how excited she was. Vanessa just smiled a little. “Kim you are so lucky.” Vanessa said.
Kim looked down and blushed a little. “What do you mean?” she asked.
“Oh come on…” Vanessa said
“You two just had a moment just now.” Sammy said finishing Vanessa’s thought.
Claudia cleared her throat loudly “Ladies I believe we have work to do.” She said, the three girls just let out a sigh and walked back to their seats.
Ronnie pulled his veritech into position and waited for the green light to take off. Lisa appeared on one of the monitors, “Vermillion squad you are clear for take off.” Lisa said
“Rodger.” Ronnie said, then opened his throttle and took off, Ronnie climbed straight into the sky spinning over and over.
“Vermillion-3, you are spinning out of control, what’s wrong?” Lisa asked
“Nothing command, just getting a feel for my new veritech.” Ronnie replied leveling out and dropping back into formation.
Rick Hunter’s face appeared in Ronnie’s other monitor “She use to grill me the same way.” Rick said, Lisa rolled her eyes and sighed “Great just what I need, another hunter to babysit.” She said.
“She must be really impressed with your flying, if she is comparing you to my skill level.” Rick said laughing. Lisa’s image on the monitors showed she was less then amused “Alright cut the chatter you two or both of you will be bunking together in the brig.” Lisa said her face starting to turn red with anger.
“Yes ma’am.” Ronnie said moving his veritech into alignment with the other two veritechs in his squad, while Rick just laughed and turned off his video transitions. Lisa leaned forward onto her work station closing her eyes, and counting to ten trying to swallow her anger. “I didn’t like this guy before, now he reminds me of that loud mouth ht shot flyboy Hunter… Now I really hate him.” Lisa thought to herself, when she opened her eyes, she noticed an extra pair of high heels standing next to her, looking up she as all three of the Bridge Bunnies crowding around each other trying to look over Lisa’s shoulder to see the new pilot on the monitor.
“And you three get back to your stations.” She ordered.
After their recon was finished, Ronnie returned to the SDF-1 with the rest of the Vermilion squad.
“LT. Floyd.” Rick yelled out running after Ronnie who just reached the exit. Ronnie stop turned and saluted. “Sir, Yes Sir.” Ronnie answered out of basic instinct from Admiral Hunter Drilling military edicts into all the cadets aboard the SDF-3before being shipped out to the Jupiter base. Rick just laughed and saluted him back. “You know you are the only one I have seen fallow every protocol the military has to offer.” Rick said “It’s the way you… I mean I was trained in the academy.” Ronnie corrected himself, afraid that if he revealed anything about ones personal future to that person it might change the way they live their life, thus having a major affect on the way the future played out.
“You looked good out there today, Roy Fokker and I are heading up to the mess hall for some drinks, want to come along?” Rick asked.
“Thank you sir, but I can’t, Commander Hayes ordered me to fill out a flight report the moment I land after every single flight.” Ronnie sighed knowing how much paper work that was going to add up to. “Then I have to march it up to the bridge and hand it to her directly or my ass is back in the brig long term.” Ronnie said, as he raised his arms making and I don’t know gesture.
“Well when you get done, head on up, we will probably still be there.” Rick replied running down the hall to catch Roy and his other Skull squadron member. 30 minutes later Ronnie walked onto the bridge paper work in hand. “LT. Ronnie Floyd, reporting to turn in flight report as ordered.” Ronnie said. Lisa was over talking to Claudia, she heard Ronnie. “I think I found our answer.” Lisa said to Claudia as she walked over to Ronnie. “Thank you for the report LT.” she said taking the file. “This should make for some good reading tonight, but since you want to get more acquainted with your new Veritech, I am assigning you to run recon tonight in sector A-11 through C-3, you will be alone, but it is pretty quiet out there.” Lisa sad grinning. Ronnie must have showed his disappointment on his face, because Lisa’s grin widened.
“Ma’am isn’t that shift until 9a.m.?” Ronnie asked.
“Yes it is, so you will land, refuel, and then go right back out with you Vermilion squad. Oh and should you make any contact with the aliens, radio the bridge right away and fall back to base until all the fighters are scrambled.” Lisa added.
“Yes ma’am.” Ronnie replied, then turning to look at the Bridge Bunnies who were all staring wide eyed and clueless to what was happening around them. Lisa looked over her shoulder and waited for Claudia to hand her station over to her relief “Come on ladies, our night shift is here, let’s call it a night and get some sleep.” Lisa said trying to get under Ronnie’s skin a little.
Nineteen hours latter Ronnie finished the last of his paper work, and headed up to the bridge to drop it off, but Lisa met him in the hallway. “Commander, I was just on my way to drop the flight reports off to you.” Ronnie said yawning. Lisa put her hands on her hips and looked at him. “I got off at 18:00 hours, that was 15 minutes ago LT.” Lisa replied, she could see the physical fatigue written all over his face, but at her words she saw something in his eyes, she had only seen in the mirror. He was mad at himself for being late, she noticed reading all his flight reports that he was very thorough no detail to little to add, he probably checked three times to make sure all his I were dotted and his Ts crossed. She figured 3 because that was how many times she checked every one of her reports. She talked to the night shift ladies when she came in this morning and non of them complained, said the LT. did what ever he was asked with a smile, and that is how he treated her when she sent him back out at 9a.m. He had the same drive that Lisa herself had to a fault, they both except nothing less then perfection out of every single task they have personally, wither it was a flight assignment or turning in a report on time Ronnie strived for perfection and Lisa saw it.
“You did a great job out there today LT. enjoy the rest of your evening, and your day off tomorrow. You earned it.” Lisa said saluting Ronnie. Gave Lisa a half smile and a salute back, then headed out the door, and prepared for the long walk back to the barics, but to his surprise Kim was leaning against the front door, waiting for him.
“Long day flyboy?” She asked.
Ronnie gave her a half smile, and nodded a yes.
“Come on, my jeep is right out front, I will drive you home.” Kim said, putting her arm around his, and dragging him out to the jeep. Ronnie nodded off and fell asleep on the ride home, and was awakened by the sudden slamming on of the brake, as Kim came to an abrupt stop right outside of Ronnie’s living quarters. “Almost missed it.” She said, jumping out. Ronnie climbed out of the passenger seat of Kim’s jeep and leaned against the handing Kim the keys. “It’s the only old one.” He said half nodding off again. Kim opened the door and put the keys in her pocket. Ronnie walked in, and his stomach started growling, he was so tired from flying he forgotten to stop and eat. Kim laughed a little watching Ronnie collapse onto the couch and listening to his stomach. “Tell you what, you take a nice shower, and I will run right out to the market and pick up some groceries, and cook you some dinner.” Kim said walking into the bathroom and starting the hot water running.
“Thanks.” Was all Ronnie could say walking pass her his flight suit unzipped half way and hanging around his waist. Ronnie pulled his white undershirt off and tossed it down the hall and into the bedroom. Kim just stood there and watched him, staring at his golden tan that told her ran without a shirt on, Ronnie’s chest, shoulders and back weren’t so much big as they were just very defined, but Kim loved the look of his tight muscular abs, and just stared until he disappeared into the bathroom.
“Ok I’ll be back soon.” Kim yelled from the front door listening to the sound of the water running, it was then that she realized he didn’t bother shutting the door to the bathroom. Kim Smiled as she thought about what the other half of his body looked like, and what all of it looked like with steamy hot water running over that golden tan skin.

Drying himself off, Ronnie felt refreshed a little, and more awake, he wrapped the towel around his waist, and walked down to the bedroom at the end of the hall. From his bedroom he could smell the food cooking in the kitchen, felling even more hungry now then he ever had, Ronnie quickly threw on a pair of sweats and a wife beater tank top, and headed out to the kitchen.
Ronnie, stopped at the end of the hall and watched as Kim light the last of two candles on the table, she had not only cooked for him, but found a table cloth somewhere or bought one, set the table both plates full of food, and had all the lights turned off. Ronnie smiled a little when he realized what was happening, Ronnie finally knew that to Kim this was a dinner date… and with that thought, Ronnie turned off the light in the hall and enjoyed a candle light dinner with a women that he noticed for the first time he was attracted to, and starting to like more and more, in the little time he has known her.
After dinner, Ronnie slipped in a movie, and Kim kicked off her heels and changed into a pair of sweats and a big T-Shirt that Ronnie gave her to get a little more comfy, then the two of them spent the rest of the evening talking, and even watched the Sun rise the next morning, Kim tucked under Ronnie’s arm. Ronnie Smiled picked her up and carried her to the bedroom, once she was tucked in, he quietly closed the door and grabbing a sheet out of the hall closet, Ronnie lie down on the couch and fell fast asleep.
to be continued

[Fran2k]

Chapter 4

Kim woke up the next day still feeling a little groggy from staying up until the sun rise. Kim sat up rubbing her eyes, trying to get them to focus; sitting up Kim arched her back stretching her arms over her head and towards the wall behind her. “What was I thinking staying up so late? Good thing I am off today.” She thought to herself as she got out of bead and heading for the bathroom for a nice hot relaxing bath.
At that same moment in time on the other end of the SDF-1 Ronnie jogging down to the end of one of the flight decks. “Ten miles out, now just ten miles back.” Ronnie thought to himself as he came to a stop just one hundred feet from the end. Ronnie closed his eyes, feeling the gentle breeze on his face his hair blowing slightly; Ronnie straightened his right arm slowly bringing his hand up… In his mind Ronnie saw his Veritech rising up onto the flight deck, as his wrist locked so his finger tips pointed out over the end of the flight deck he saw the Veritech in his mind locking into the wild cat launcher. Ronnie saw the Veritech’s wings spread open as he crossed his middle finger over his ring finger spreading his index and pinky fingers out, he tucked his thumb under into the palm of his hand. “Vermilion-3 you are cleared for take off.” He heard Lisa’s voice in his head. “Rodger.” He said softly, slowly opening his eyes Ronnie leaned forward his hand almost scraping the deck. Ronnie started sprinting as fast as he could making the sounds of his repulse jets launching him down the runway, reaching the end of the deck he jumped up onto the side railing and stretched his hand as far into the sky as he possibly could.
Ronnie aloud himself to drift into a memory of doing this alongside Maia Sterling, they use to act as if their hands were Veritechs and dog fight each other, not to be stupid or silly, simply because they loved to fly and when ever they were not flying, all they could think about was flying.
Ronnie shook his head bringing himself back to reality; Ronnie took one more look out over the city and then started his ten mile jog back to his barics.
Kim came out of the shower with a towel wrapped around her chest barley covering the bottom of her butt, and another wrapped around the top of her head, she started drying her hair with it as she walked into the bed room to find something to wear.
Ronnie opened the door, “Kim, you up?” Ronnie asked walking into the kitchen to start cooking lunch. “Yeah I am trying to find my uniform.” she yelled from the bedroom.
“I have it right here, I took it in and had it dry cleaned while I was out on my run.” Ronnie said walking down the hallway and into the bed room holding her freshly cleaned and pressed uniform. Ronnie froze when he saw Kim standing in nothing but a towel, strands of her wet hair stuck to her forehead, Ronnie felt a rush of warms running to his face and knew he was starting to blush but he couldn’t stop staring. Kim looked up at Ronnie who was in shock, holding out her uniform, she smiled seeing she was right he did run shirtless and wearing only a pair of basketball shorts and running shoes, he had beats of sweat on his face and streaks down his chest from sweat running off his shoulders, the way the light reflected off his wet golden skin it made it almost shine in the room light. Kim slowly sits down on the bed crossing her legs; she slowly lies back on her elbows causing her towel to slide showing the slightest of curve of her butt. Looking up Kim watches Ronnie’s eyes grow even wider; His body stated to shake slightly, that look of seductiveness on her face looked the same as Maia did that day in the mess hall.
“To bad that is all I have, and it’s my day off.” Kim said giving pouting puppy eyes.
Ronnie looked away from those sad eyes and headed down the hall for the kitchen.
“There are shits in the top drawer, help yourself.” He yelled back to her, his voice a little shaky. Back in the kitchen Ronnie fired up the stove and started to cook some lunch when there was a knock on the door, Ronnie turned to see he had left it open and Vanessa and Sammy were standing just inside both of them smiling Ronnie still breathing a bit hard from his run just raised a brow. “Can I help you ladies?” Ronnie asked. Vanessa closed the door behind her, “Look Sammy, he has no shirt, is covered in sweat and breathing hard” she said with a smile on her face. “And he is cooking, that can only mean one thing.” Sammy added with wide eyes imagining what Vanessa was hinting at, just then unaware of her friends arrival, Kim walked out into the living room wearing only one of Ronnie’s big shirts going down to mid thigh. “This is all I found that fit.” Kim said in a very seductive voice as she turned the final corner to the kitchen and freezing in place seeing bother her friends staring at her wide eyed.
Sammy’s mouth dropped wide open, when she saw Kim in what she assumed was naked under that shirt, her hair still damp, and looking like she just got out of bed and it was 3p.m. “When you didn’t come home last night we knew you would be here, we just didn’t know what you would be doing.” Sammy said. “Come on Sammy we should go I am sure the two love birds want to be alone they might want to go a second round.” Vanessa added winking at Kim. Ronnie jumped at that and turned around quickly, “Wait, you don’t think that, her and I… that we…” Ronnie said looking over at Kim who was just blushing, but her eyes told him she really liked the ideal.
“Sure, you keep saying what you want, but we know the truth.” Sammy said laughing.
Two weeks later. Rick was sitting in his room at his computer, trying to figure out how to explain to Mr. And Mrs. Dixon how their son Ben was killed in action when the barrier overloaded and destroyed 25 miles of the city driving them back into space, the SDF-1 was leaving the Earth’s atmosphere at that very moment. Mean while in another part of the SDF-1 an Asian man walked to one of the dark alleys filled with water and heating pipes below Macross city, he was about 5’7 160lbs very muscular. “Welcome aboard the SDF-1, we have been looking forward to your leadership skills.” The Asian man said to another man standing in the corner completely hidden in the shadows. “Chan, I am here to put your team back on track, we have been receiving reports that you have been letting things get out of hand on this ship, I have been sent to put you back on schedule.” The man in the Shadow replied. “Sir, we are having a harder time then expected in regards to dealing with Gloval.” Chan said.
“That is why I am here to deal with Gloval… any way necessary.” The man said, and stepped out of the shadow revealing himself to Chan, Chan’s eyes widened and his mouth dropped open. “Yes Chan, but for now call me Shadow.” He said and the two walked off.
“Admiral Gloval, there is incoming message from Dr. Lang.” Lisa said turning to face Gloval who was sitting in his chair. “Patch it threw to my phone Lisa.” Gloval replied.
“Yes Admiral.” Lisa said patching the call through to Gloval. “WHAT! HOW CAN THIS BE!?” Gloval slammed down his phone and headed for the door. “Sir, is everything alright?” Claudia asked. “Dr. Lang just informed me that LT. Floyd’s Veritech is missing.” Gloval said then headed down to Dr. Lang’s research hanger. Several minutes later Gloval entered the hanger bay, and saw Dr. Lang and rushed over to find out what happened. “Admiral Gloval, as you can see from de damage behind me, vey blasted the wall and flew vee veritech out of here.” Dr. Lang said pointing the west wall that had been completely blown away. Gloval’s mouth dropped open and his eyes grew wide as he stared at the damage. Gloval felt fear climbing in his stomach, but used all his years of training to hold it back, closing his mouth and resting his eyes he thought for a moment. “Then that means…” Gloval started “Yes, Admiral vey must have had a pilot with vim in order to fly vee Veritech out of here.” Lang finished. “Not to mention that only military personal know about LT. Floyd’s veritech being here.” Gloval added “Tell no one of this.” Gloval said as he headed for the bridge.
Ronnie was in his room, a towel wrapped around his waist he just finished taking a shower after getting off duty. “Man what a rough day, the Zentraedi attacked, the barrier overloaded and we have been banned from Earth.” Ronnie thought to himself as a page came out over the PA system through out the entire SDF-1 “Would Corporal Strong and Corporal Peterson please report to the briefing room, as well as LT. Floyd.” The lady’s voice echoed through the SDF-1. Ronnie felt his energy drain from his body, his eyes became heavy and his body felt like he was going to collapse from fatigue. “What do they want now?” he thought to himself, grabbing his uniform out of the closet and putting it on.
20 minutes later Ronnie was standing in the briefing room standing at attention next to corporal’s Strong and Peterson, on the other side of the room sat Admiral Gloval and four other captains sitting behind a table.
“Gentlemen, I want to thank you for reporting on such short notice.” Admiral Gloval said standing up from his chair, and folding his arms behind his back. “Corporal Jeff Peterson, Step forward, based on your acts of bravery and skill in the battle field yesterday, we are assigning you as Wolf-3 on the new Wolf squad.” Gloval said, as a young lady walked over to the men and placed a new wolf head shape medal on Jeff’s uniform. Jeff Saluted Gloval then stepped back into line. Gloval nodded and continued “Corporal Riley Strong, please step forward, you have also shown great skill in piloting a veritech, and great bravery, and thus you also Will also be assigned o the Wolf squadron as Wolf-2.” Gloval said walking across the front of the table and stopping inline with Ronnie, once the medal was pinned on Riley’s uniform, he saluted and stepped back into line. “LT. Ronnie Floyd, please step forward.” Ronnie stepped forward and saluted Admiral Gloval then stood at attention. “LT. Ronnie Floyd, not only have you shown great skill and bravery in battle, but you have shown great tactic and leadership ability, you are not only here by promoted to Captain, but I am assigning you leader of the new Wolf squad, both corporal Peterson, and corporal Strong are here by appointed to Wolf squad and will serve under you.” Gloval said, saluting Ronnie.
Ronnie looked down at his new medal and Saluted Admiral Gloval, and then stepped back into line. “Congratulations gentlemen you are dismissed.” Gloval finished and saluted. “Captain Floyd may I please have a word with you in private?” Gloval asked as he took his seat again. “We’ll catch up with you later Captain.” Riley said as the two men walked out the door fallowed by the gentlemen that were sitting with Gloval.
Dr. Lang walked into the conference room, and the door behind him; once the three men took their seats Gloval started the private meeting.
“Ronnie as you know, Dr. Lang has been doing research on your veritech, hoping he can duplicate your weapons and shields to use on our own veritechs.” Gloval said his face looking very serious. Ronnie nodded knowing all this information already. “What you don’t know is as of last night it was taken with by force.” Gloval said folding his hands across on the table. “Vee vere able to complete the research on your weapons and are vorking on adding them to our Veritechs.” Dr. Lang added. Ronnie leaned his elbows on the table his hung low he felt like someone had hit him in the stomach. “Today you will be assigned your personal Veritech, this is your life treat it as you would your own life.” The words of Admiral Hunter ran through Ronnie’s mind over and over again.
“It appears that the Veritech was flown out of the hanger, and is probably hidden some where in the underlay of the SDF-1, this has led us to believe that we have some spies on board, but our specialist looked into the situation and claim it dos not look like the job of a Zentraedi, the only other possibility is a RDF pilot was involved in some way.” Gloval added. Ronnie snapped his head up “You mean one of us?” he asked. Gloval nodded “Ever since the alien ship crash landed on Macross Island, and UN Spacey was formed, there has been a group known as the Anti- Unification. They went under ground when the SDF-1 folded out to Pluto, but none of their leaders were never discovered or arrested.” Gloval said. Ronnie leaned back in his chair, not really sure what to make of all this new info. “And they might have an agent onboard?” Ronnie asked. “Yes vee vink so.” Dr. Lang answered.
Gloval adjusted in his chair and looked at both men before finishing “That is why we have assigned you leader of the new Wolf squadron, and assigned both Corporal Strong and Corporal Peterson under you, Wolf Squad is a special unit squad, your squad will conduct a search through out the belly of the SDF-1 when ever the enemy allows us a break from battle.”
“Yes Sir.” Ronnie added “That is all.” Gloval said, the three men stood and saluted each other.
“Oh and Ronnie, no one is to know about you veritech, not even your men, the will be lead to believe they are looking for spies.” Gloval added before the door opened, then all three men walked out and headed to their desired destinations.
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Rick was walking down the street trying to clear his mind, he felt out of control like there was nothing he could do anymore, and Rick felt like his life was ripped from his body. “How can I tell Ben’s parents…? Me the man responsible for the life of my men…” Rick thought to himself.
“Rick?” Lisa’s voice came from behind him. Rick turned to see Lisa Hayes walking over to him; she was wearing a pair of blue jeans, white tennis shoes, and a yellow sweater. “Commander.” Rick said giving her a head nod.
“Rick we are both off duty please call me Lisa.” She replied walking over to stand next to him. Rick just looked at Lisa for a moment; ever since Roy saw Lisa’s flowers in Rick’s Hospital room, he had been telling Rick. “You know Rick, Lisa has another side, those who really get to know her, like Claudia and myself we see the other side, we see who Lisa really is.” Rick felt something different around Lisa right now, she was not surrounded by her usual over powering Commander Presence, but instead she felt like a women. Rick noticed Lisa’s natural beauty for the first time, taking a deep breath he noticed a sent of perfume that smelt rich of flowery scent.
“Rick, is everything alright?” Lisa asked after a moment of standing in silence Rick shook his head.
“I was just admiring how good you look.” Rick said scratching the back of his head. Lisa looked down blushing a little, Rick took another deep breath.
“You perfume smells nice, what kind is it?” Rick asked.
Lisa looked up and couldn’t help but smile a little.
“It is called Angelic Sent.” Lisa answered.
Rick smiled and held his hand out. “Lisa, I just sent a letter to Ben’s parents… I … I don’t really want to be alone right now, would you join me for dinner?”
Lisa was taken back for a moment by surprise, she didn’t know how to react, her heart was screaming out for her to jump into his arms, but her pride refusing to allow her to show her feelings. Lisa slowly took Rick’s hand. “Rick, that would be nice.” She said as they started walking down the street.
As Rick and Lisa entered the White Dragon they both saw Ronnie sitting alone at a table leaning forward, his head in his hands, resting his elbows on the table. Over in the corner there was a large crowd of soldiers and civilians holding out pens and paper to Minmei.
“RICK!” Minmei yelled out over the crowd, forcing her way out of the corner she ran over and jumped into Rick’s arms, Rick had to take a couple of steps back to keep from falling over.
“Minmei, I didn’t know you would be here.” Rick said letting her slid back down onto her feet. Minmei took a step back and noticed not only were Rick and Lisa holding hands when they walked in, but even when she jumped into his arms he never let go of Lisa’s hand.
“Lisa.” Minmei said in a snooty tone of voice. Minmei’s uncle pushed the last of the fans and press out the door. “BUY SOMETHING OR GET OUT!” he yelled out the door.
“Rick, it is so nice to see you.” Aunt Lena said smiling at Rick.
“It is nice to see you to Aunt Lena, how is business?” Rick asked.
“Good, feel free to sit where ever you would like, I have to take an order, then I will get you some drinks.” Aunt Lena said waving to Rick as she walked of.
Minmei was staring at Lisa, trying to burn holes in her with her eyes, but Lisa was use to this from all the pilots who didn’t like a Women commander telling them what to do. Lisa stepped in close to Rick, switching Rick’s hand into her other, and placing her free arm around Rick’s neck running her finger back and forth across his chest. Lisa rested her head on Ricks shoulder to everyone in the room Lisa’s body posture looked very relaxed, comfortable and in love, but what everyone didn’t see was Lisa’s eyes were cold, no emotion they stared right back into Minmei’s. After a couple of seconds, Minmei flinched and shook her head, Lisa smiled she had won the staring contest.
“Lisa why don’t we take a seat, I am starving.” Rick said feeling the silent battle swallowing the air around them.
“LT. Floyd.” Rick said walking over to the table where Ronnie was sitting, Ronnie looked up and smiled, but before he could say anything, Minmei poked her head in.
“Actually, he was promoted to captain; I head him telling Aunt Lena.” She said placing a hand on Ronnie’s shoulder. Ronnie saw the look Lisa was giving Minmei, Ronnie suddenly felt the silent battle beginning once again.
“It really isn’t that big miss.” Ronnie said moving his shoulder hoping Minmei would get the hint and move her hand, she didn’t.
“The restaurant is very busy; you don’t even have a drink yet Ronnie.” Minmei said with an evil smile starting to grow on her face. “I’ll be right back.” She said running off to the back room.
Lisa rolled her eyes “What is she up to now?” she thought sitting down, Aunt Lena walked over about 5 minutes later and took their orders.
“Congratulations on your promotion Ronnie.” Rick said patting Ronnie on his back.
“Yeah, Thanks.” Ronnie replied sounding very tired. Lisa noticed he seemed out of energy, almost stressed.
“Is everything alright?” Lisa asked. Leaning onto the table
“Nothing that I have clearance to talk about.” Ronnie replied Lisa got the point and sighed.
Just then a hand placed all three of their drinks on the table.
“Are we ready to order?” Minmei’s voice came from over Rick’s shoulder. Ronnie looked up to see Minmei had changed into a red silk Chinese dress with gold dragons and gold trim, the slits where so high on the sides they showed the top of her hips curve into her waist. Her hair was split down the middle and then rolled into two separate buns one on each side of her head. Every guy in the restaurant was staring at her, and the look on her face showed she knew it.
Rick had a look of shock on his face, he had seen her wear that dress before, but it never seemed to make her look anything less then beautiful.
Ronnie looked down first, and cleared his throat loudly snapping Rick out of his stare.
After bringing them their food, Minmei walked around behind Ronnie and started massaging his shoulders. “Oh, your so tense.” She said. Ronnie shrugged his shoulders pushing his seat back and standing to his feet.
“Stop.” Ronnie insisted, but Minmei just looked over at Rick, “Oh come on, I do this to Rick all the time, I know how to relieve all your tension.” Minmei said the last part looking over to Lisa. Lisa was filled with anger, and stood up so fast her chair toppled over behind her, but before she could speak, Ronnie turned grabbed both of Minmei’s wrist and stared her in the eyes, “Don’t use me to play your stupid game.” Ronnie said, but Minmei stepped in closer putting her forehead against Ronnie’s their eyes locked “What game?” she replied smiling, their gaze was broke by the sound of Lisa gasping, Ronnie moved his eyes to look at Lisa, she was covering her mouth with her hand and staring at the door. Ronnie turned to see all three of the bridge bunnies standing at the door; Ronnie released Minmei’s wrists and walked over to Kim.
“It’s not what you think… She…” Kim put a finger over Ronnie’s lips and silenced him.
“Your right, it’s not what I thought we never officially became a couple.” Kim said not able to make eye contact.
“You are free to do what you wish, as am I.” Kim grabbed the arm of a guy that walked in with them, and started kissing him, when he didn’t protest Kim made the kiss more intimate putting one arm around his neck and running the other up and down the man’s back. Ronnie fought back tears looking back at Rick and Lisa for help; both of them were speechless and didn’t know what to do. Ronnie was brought back around to the sound of Kim gasping for air.
“How about we finish this at my place tonight after dinner.” The man asked, Ronnie didn’t wait to hear Kim’s answer he just stepped around her and ran down the street.
“WHAT THE HELL DID YOU THINK YOU WERE DOING?!” Rick yelled at Minmei, she took a step back tears welling up in her eyes, she reach for Rick with her left hand, but he slapped it away “DON’T TOUCH ME!” he yelled at her again, turning towards Kim to try and explain what happened.
“Do you care about anyone but yourself?” Lisa spoke not yelling, but her voice very stern. Minmei looked at Lisa, her expression showing she didn’t understand.
“Look everyone knows you and I have our little battle for Rick, but you just hurt the women who loves that man with your little show.” Lisa clinched her fists so tightly her knuckles turned white, then walked over to try and comfort Kim who was crying her eyes out when Rick explained what really happened, knowing she hurt Ronnie with what she did out of anger, that she would never be able to take back the scar she just put on Ronnie’s heart… she only hoped he would forgive her.

[Fran2k]

Chapter 5

Ronnie’s Veritech locked into the wild cat. “Wolf squadron, Stand by for take off.” Lisa’s voice said over the open air radio.
“Rodger that.” Ronnie replied Ronnie took this rare moment of rest took look out at the Earth at the end of the runway. Ronnie drifted into thought; it has now been one year to the month since that day he was sucked into the black hole. Ronnie had been shot out of the black hole just out side of Earth’s atmosphere and thirty three years into the past, he saved Roy Fokker.
Ronnie met a beautiful young lady named Kim Young, Their relationship started out ruff, but over the last four months they had fallen deeply in love with each other. And now there were some micronized Zentraedi living on the SDF-1; Max Sterling even married a micronized female Zentraedi worrier named Miriya.
“Wolf squad you are clear for take off.” Lisa said.
“Wolf leader taking off.” Ronnie said, saluting the tech on the flight deck, and then speeding off down the runway. Once in space, Wolf squadron fell into formation and pulled in behind Skull squad. Roy was still Skull Leader, but Rick Hunter was promoted to Skull-2, and Max Sterling was promoted to Vermillion Leader and his wife Miriya was assigned Vermillion-2.
Minmei’s song was playing over the radio, but her singing stopped while she kissed Kyle, this was to add to the shock affect of Dolza’s grand army that was unaccustomed to males and females interacting together.
This was the signal for all veritechs to begin their attack. Roy’s voice came over the radio “Ok, boys and girls, ATTACK!”

All the Veritechs launched off into space to meet the enemy’s battle pods. “Wolf Pack, fallow me to sector C-4 to intercept the new wave of battle pods.” Ronnie said to Jeff and Riley. Both men fallowed the orders and changed their heading to sector C-4.
Rick pulled his veritech around behind two enemy pods chasing Roy. “I got them.” Rick said launching a couple of sidewinder missiles blowing up both battle pods in and spectacular flash of orange and yellow light. Rick let out a deep breath and looked for his next target.
Max raced into a swarm of attacking battle pods, firing his Gatling gun several of the pods broke out of formation to avoid the rain of gun fire coming their way, Miriya flew into position from Max’s 3 O’ Clock position firing a series of heat seeking missiles destroying several of the battle pods that pulled out of formation. Max quickly switched to battloid diving head first and pulling out his Gatling gun, Max fired one of his impulse thrusters sending his battloid into a spin firing his gun Max spun through a hole in the middle of the pod’s formation destroying several of the pods, with Miriya picking off any that survived.
“Carry the two; yep that’s twenty three for me, not a bad start.” Max said with a bit of cockiness in his voice, Miriya’s face appeared in one of Max’s monitors “I would almost be impressed; if I hadn’t already shot down twenty eight… make that twenty nine pods.” Miriya said kissing the palm of her hand and blowing it into the monitor.
Rick was being chased by a couple of battle pods, switching into guardian mode, Rick pulled the feet out in frond of the nose of his Veritech opening both of the foot thrusters Abruptly slowing down his forward momentum his body jerked forward his seat belt keeping him from smashing into the front of his control panel. Both pods rocketed past Rick’s Veritech as Rick was slammed backwards into his seat, Switching into battloid Rick pulled out his Gatling gun firing and blowing up both Battle pods.
“Well that should… AAAAAAAA!” Rick yelled as several heat seeking missiles locked onto Ricks battloid. Rick pulled the Battloid’s legs forward thrusting him backwards, Rick shot down several of the missiles but he did not have enough time to shoot all of them down. In a panic Rick brought both of his Battloid’s arms together in front of him using a new shield Dr. Lang added to the new heavy duty Veritech’s. Dr. Lang was able to add the Shields and extra fire power based on the research he performed on Ronnie’s Alpha Veritech from the future. The explosion of three remaining missiles violently rocked Rick’s Veritech, sending him into a daze.
Ronnie’s Veritech swooped down on the lead Zentraedi Destroyer ship, the bottom of his Veritech practically scrapping the top of the destroyer, blowing up several guns along the way.
“Watch your six Wolf Leader.” Riley’s voice came across the radio, Ronnie cut his thrusters off and pulled up, his Veritech started back flip rotation his momentum still pulling him forward, one Ronnie’s Veritech was upside down Ronnie fired his sidewinder missiles destroying the pursuing battle pods once Ronnie’s Veritech finished it’s flip and righted it’s self Ronnie fired up his thrusters and sped off.
Rick shook his head regaining his composure, there were several alarms whistling inside Rick’s cock pit, Checking his schematic read outs and looking around outside his view port he could see the shield saved his Veritech from being destroyed completely, but he still took on some pretty severe damages and would not be able to return to battle. Earth’s gravity grabbed a hold of Rick’s Veritech and started to pull him down towards the devastated Earth below. Rick switched into fighter mode, and put down his heat shield.
“Phew it’s getting cooler already.” Rick thought to himself, once inside the Earth’s atmosphere Rick’s radio cut out and he no longer had any contact with the SDF-1. Rick looked out over the Earth; his body was struck with pure horror “It’s horrible...” Rick’s thought were cut off by the sound of a female’s voice crackling through the open radio waves. “Can… Hear…Me… This is Commander Lisa Hays, can anyone hear me?” Rick’s heart pounded in his chest, his palms started to sweat, Rick tried to speak but his mouth was dry… he was caught between pure joy that Lisa was alive, and fear by the sound of her voice… Was she hurt…? Were her injuries fatal? “Lisa, it’s me.” Rick finally replied.
***
Back on the bridge of the SDF-1 Claudia turned to face Admiral Gloval “Admiral, one of the enemy destroyers is moving into position to ram us Sir.” She said. Gloval stood and folded his hands behind his back.
“Sammy, perform Commander Hays’s Daedalus maneuver.” Gloval commanded, Sammy opened her intercom and started ordering Destroids to feel the front of the Deadalus, and the Omni barriers system to move into position.
Once the Zentraedi Destroyer came into position Sammy performed the Deadalus maneuver created by Lisa Hays.
“Ronnie look, a second ship is heading for the SDF-1.” Jeff’s voice said over the Radio Ronnie looked over his shoulder there was a full size Zentraedi baring down on the SDF-1 from behind, it was aimed right for the Bridge.
“Removing the Deadalus arm now…” Sammy started to say, when suddenly several alarms sounded in the bridge.
“Admiral, a second enemy vessel is heading right for the bridge.” Claudia yelled out her mind struck with fear. Admiral Gloval’s head snapped over to Claudia’s station
“Do we have time for another Deadalus maneuver?” Gloval asked
“Claudia shook her head no “We wouldn’t even be able to turn the ship in enough time let alone re-arm all the Destroids.” She replied.
Suddenly Ronnie’s face appeared on Sammy’s monitor.
“Sammy, can Claudia lock onto their impulse reactor furnace?” He asked.
Over hearing his conversation, Claudia punched a few buttons and ran over to Sammy.
“I have them locked in Captain, what do you have in mind?” Claudia asked.
Ronnie pulled back on his control stick sending his Veritech into a steep climb
“Patch them through to my targeting system.” Ronnie ordered, reaching a certain height Ronnie cut his jets once again performing a back flip, but this time once he was upside down and facing where he just came from he opened his thrusters and shot back towards the Zentraedi Cruiser still barreling towards the SDF-1 bridge. Suddenly a Red arrow appeared on Ronnie’s cockpit viewer locked onto the Impulse Reactor indicating Claudia had fallowed Ronnie’s request. Ronnie set his Veritech on course for the Target indicated, and slowly increased his thrusters.
“Admiral, Wolf Leader is diving right at the enemy Cruiser and increasing speed.” Sammy reported. Gloval walked over meeting Claudia at Sammy’s station.
“What is he doing? His speeds are reaching dangerous levels.” Claudia exclaimed a little louder then she meant, this caught Kim’s attention, and she raced over to see what was happening.
“What is he doing?” Kim asked.
Claudia thought for a moment her eyes widening is fear as she finally realized his plans.
“He is going to blow up their reactor.” She exclaimed.
“But his missiles will they cause enough damage to blow it up?” Kim asked.
“Only if they are launched with the force of the Veritech at full thrusters.” Ronnie’s voice came over the com system indicating he over heard their entire conversation.
“But at that speed, you will black out before can fire.” Kim exclaimed clearly worried.
“It is a risk I have to take.” Ronnie said winking at Kim’s image in his monitor.
“DAM YOU FLOYD!” Kim yelled, “WHY DO YOU HAVE TO BE A HERO?!”
Ronnie’s face became very serious, as he increased thruster power to seventy five percent, the G-Force was sending all of the blood to the back of his body and out of his brain, Ronnie felt cold and numb his body starting to tingle, it became very hard for him to focus or even think.
“I have never tried to be a hero.” Ronnie started to say his voice very calm “I must do this to save my fellow military brother and sisters who fight along side me… For the safety of all of the Civilians on board the SDF-1… All of you on the bridge are the closest thing to a family I will ever have… And for you Kim… I Love you.” Ronnie increased his thrusters to eighty five percent.
Kim just started crying “NOOO!” she yelled out
Ronnie locked his thrusters into one hundred percent, his vision started to blur and darken around the edges… he was just about to black out when he heard Kim’s voice over the radio.
“The answer is yes, so you better come back to me.” Ronnie had no time to talk to Kim before this battle so he left a ring box on her station keyboard within it was a three diamond engagement ring. Ronnie shook his head hearing her say yes she would marry him, and suddenly the darkness moved to the edge of his view enough for him to see the Zentraedi Cruiser below he was in the perfect line.
“NOW!” Ronnie yelled firing all his sidewinder missiles waiting a moment then firing every missile he had left, throwing his Veritech into a spin he held the trigger down firing every round of his Gatling gun held.
The Zentraedi Cruiser rumbled down both sides and then exploded into a brilliant flash of light; everyone on the bridge put their hands up in front of their face protecting their eyes from the bright light of the explosion.
Sammy turned quickly to her station.
“Wolf Leader comes in… This is the SDF-1 come in…” There nothing but static, no reply form Wolf Leader, nor could anyone see his Veritech where the Enemy Cruiser use to be.
“He was a self less man, and a great Pilot… I am so sorry Kim.” Admiral Gloval said, Kim fell to her knees completely collapsing to the ground and started crying her eyes out.
***
Rick’s Veritech in Guardian mode slid to a stop, and ejected the shattered canopy, Rick and Lisa stood in the cock pit holding each other.
“It looks like the fighting has stopped.” Lisa said pointing to the sky.
Rick looked up and saw the explosions were stopping.
“I wonder if anyone survived.” Lisa said as more of a statement then a question.
“What do you mean?” Rick asked.
“It would be a shame, if we were the only ones left.” Lisa said leaning more of her weight into Rick’s arms.
“That wouldn’t be that bad, at least you would never be alone.” Rick said looking down at Lisa, they stared into each for a moment, Rick placed his hand on Lisa’s cheek and slowly Moved in and Kissed Lisa. After a moment of shock, Lisa forced her defenses down and melted her body into Rick’s and she increased the passion in the kiss, searching his mouth with her tongue. Rick pulled back suddenly
“Do you hear that?” Rick asked
Lisa listened for a moment then her eyes shot for the sky “its Minmei’s singing.” She said.
“Then that means the SDF-1 survived.” Rick said suddenly pointing “There.”
Lisa fallowed Rick’s figure to see the SDF-1 settle down a few hundred yards off in the distant.
Rick sat down in the Pilots seat and Lisa sat sideways in his lap, then the two of them sped off towards the SDF-1.
***
The next day Lisa walked in to the Hospital, to check on her friend; Kim was lying in the bed in the corner she hadn’t spoken since Ronnie sacrificed his life to save everyone’s on the SDF-1. She hadn’t eaten for several hours and show signs of physical weakness. The Doctors said she was in a mental state of lock down, she had been placed in such shock… the horror of what she had just watched before her eyes, she has close off the world around her.
Sammy and Vanessa ran over and gave Lisa a huge when she walked into the room.
“How is she doing? Max told Rick and me everything that had happened with the ring and Ronnie’s heroic sacrifice.” Lisa said.
Both girls looked back at Kim who was huddled up in a ball on the bed.
“Not good.” Sammy said, for the first time since Lisa had met Sammy there was sorrow in her voice.
Suddenly Kim cried out. “WHY DID YOU HAVE TO DIE!!!” she yelled sitting up, then folding her legs, and barring her face in her hands she started crying uncontrollably.
All three girls ran over to Kim’s bedside to comfort her, and ran out to the Nurses desk to get a doctor.
After being checked over by the doctor, Kim looked over to Lisa, “I am glad you are ok.” Lisa smiled and rubbed Kim’s hand.
Suddenly the doors to the ER swung open, and three doctors ran over to a team pushing a gurney in with an injured pilot.
“What do we have here?” one of the doctors asked.
“Pilot, his Veritech just crashed to Earth ten minutes ago, it was a mess blood every, the face mask of his helmet was shattered into his face, but he is breathing barley.
Rick jumped to the side letting them push the gurney with the injured pilot into the nearest surgery room. Lisa, Sammy, and Vanessa met Rick at Kim’s door. After saying their goodbyes the four of then headed to the SDF-1 to meet with Admiral Gloval to work on a plan of rebuilding a city and moving all the civilians out of the SDF-1.

[Fran2k]

Chapter 6


April 26th, 2011
Rick, Lisa, Roy, Claudia, Max, Miriya, Sammy, and Vanessa all walked out of the briefing room looking at each other.
“Wow, do you think the report was right… over seventy percent of the whole Earth was destroyed?” Sammy asked putting her hand on her head.
“Yeah, I saw the attack from the view port of my room onboard the SDF-1… it was devastating.” Rick said running his hand through his hair.
Max squeezed Miriya’s hand and pulled her in for a one armed huge.
“Well we have to get to the flight deck; Gloval wants the remaining Wolf team to go out with the Vermillion squad and search for any survivors or possible Zentraedi threats.” Max said waving to his friends as he and Miriya started walking down the hall.
Roy yawned and stretched his hands above his head. “Well we have the day off, and I didn’t get much sleep last night, if you know what I mean.” Roy said winking. Claudia elbowed Roy in the ribs.
“After last night, you sure you have enough… fuel for another flight?” Claudia replied jokingly winking at Roy dragging him down the hall.
Rick shook his head at those two “I don’t think I could sleep if I wanted to, not after hearing that report.” Rick said looking at the three girls remaining “I could go for a cup of coffee before my flight assignment starts, anyone care to join me?” he added.
Lisa smiled taking a step towards Rick. “Rick, coffee sounds great, care if I join you?”
Rick smiled “I would like that.”
Sammy opened her mouth, but Vanessa quickly grabbed her hand. “We told Kim we would come right back as soon as the briefing was over.” Vanessa said quickly cutting Sammy off. Sammy gave Vanessa a lost look. “We never sa… OUCH!!!!” Vanessa quickly stomped on Sammy’s foot shutting her up.
“Come on Sammy threes a crowd.” She whispered into Sammy’s ear and started dragging her down the hall until the light finally went on, and they disappeared around the corner.
Lisa and Rick walked to the mess hall, talking about their time away from each other.
“No way only one date?” Lisa asked surprised as Rick ordered two coffees for them and paid.
“Yeah, she came on board to find and assassinate him, and they fell in love… I guess it was love at first fight.” Rick answered as the two of them took their seats at one of the tables.
“Wow, how amazing… and that one act started the peace talks between the SDF-1 and the Zentraedi forces?” Lisa asked after taking a sip of her coffee.
Rick took a sip of his coffee and gave a head nod. “Well that and the group of defects that came on board.” Rick replied.
Lisa looked lost in thought and Rick reached across and placed his hand on top of Lisa’s.
“You ok?” he asked.
Lisa shook her head. “I was… just thinking about my Father.”
“I would like to hear about him.” Rick said.
Lisa looked up surprised. “You haven’t heard the rumors?” She asked.
“I know all about his reputation as a General, but I want to know about his reputation as a father.” Rick said with a smile drinking the last of his coffee.
“He was a… a good father…” Lisa started, a little hesitant.
“Well look how his daughter turned out, he must have been.” Rick said leaning back in his chair.
Lisa felt warmth rushing to her cheeks as she blushed and continued “Well he loved the military…”
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Riley finished barring the poll of his transmitter and stood up wiping sweat from his brow.
“Well that is the last of the transmitters.” He thought to himself walking back to his Veritech and grabbing his hand radio.
“This is Wolf-2 the last of my transmitters are set in place.” Riley said.
“Copy wolf-2 pack up and head back to the SDF-1, all the transmitters are in place, we are done for the day.” Max’s voice came back across the radio.
“Rodger Vermillion Leader.” Riley replied tossing his radio back into the cock pit of his Veritech, once he was set Riley close the cock pit and fired the foot thrusters of his Veritech which was in guardian mode.
An hour later Max walked into Admiral Gloval’s quarters.
“Sir all the transmitters are in place and functionally properly.” Max said Saluting.
“If anything moves with in a hundred mile radius of the SDF-1, we will know about it.”
Max finished.
“Good.” Gloval replied “Dismissed and Sterling good job out there today.”
“Sir.” Max said saluting once more before leaving.
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Back at the barics Roy was laying on his back he was shirtless, and Claudia’s short hair tickled his stomach, where she rested her head, Claudia was naked as well, her chest was pressed against Roy’s mid section, and the bed sheet ran sideways barley covering her butt, she was running her hand through Roy’s hair.
“Fokker, you never fail to impress.” Claudia said kissing his stomach, licking a circle around his belly button, this sent shivers racing up Roy’s spine, and ripping a small gasp from his lips.
“Come on Claud, we have done that before.” Roy said leaning his head back into the pillow and raising his chin.
Claudia sealed her lips around the skin on Roy’s lower rib section, and sucking it into her mouth… Roy closed his eyes letting out another gasp, reaching his hand down and ever so lightly running his finger tips down Claudia’s spine, this left goose bumps racing down her body. Claudia pulled her head back making a smack sound when Roy’s skin broke from her lips.
“Yes Roy, but not for four hours straight.” Claudia said smiling up at him.
Roy pulled Claudia up to him to place a kiss on her lips, and also lining up their bodies.
“Skull Leader, re-fuelled and ready for take off.” Roy whispered into Claudia’s ear, she could feel the warmth of his breath on her ear this sent running down her body again.
“Command to Skull Leader, you are clear for take off.” Claudia whispered into Roy’s neck, kissing it ever so gently.
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Kim stepped out of the bath room, having just changed into a pair of jeans and a tight fitting sweater; she sat on her medical bed to put on her socks and shoes.
“You are looking a lot better Miss Young.” The nurse said walking in with a bag of her belongings.
Kim gave her a light smile “Thank you Tammy.” Kim replied.
The nurse nodded her head, and looked at Kim’s chart
“The Doctor wants you to come back in next week for a check up, and if you have any trouble sleeping, eating… or of any kind he wants you to come back in right away.” She said.
Kim’s smile slipped away a little before she caught it and tried to put on a more cheerful façade.
“Yes ma’am.” Kim said.
The nurse turned and walked out looking at Vanessa who was waiting out in the hall
“She is all set, keep an eye on her, here is the Doctor’s business card if anything happens call him.” The nurse whispered into Vanessa’s ear then walked ff to check on the next room in her afternoon rounds. Vanessa leaned against the door frame and watched her close friend finish tying her shoe, Kim looked up and smiled at Vanessa, on the out side Kim looked the same as she always had and Vanessa knew she had most people fooled, but both Vanessa and Sammy felt it, there was something different about Kim… She had been through so much, to fall in love over a couple of months, then get engaged and less then two hours latter watch your fiancée sacrifice himself to save you and you friends… That would change anyone Vanessa thought to herself. Vanessa shook her head bringing herself out of thought and back to reality as Kim walked over.
“Let me carry the bag for you Kim.” Vanessa said giving her friend a firm huge.
“Thank you.” Kim said using her free arm to return her friend’s embrace, then handing Vanessa her bag of belongings.
The two ladies walked out of the front door to the Hospital where Sammy was leaning against their military jeep waiting for the two ladies. As soon as the front doors opened and Sammy saw Kim, she ran over and picked up Kim in a giant bear hug and spun her around.
“YEAY YOU FINALLY OUT!” Sammy yelled, witch cause the passer bys to stop and look what was happening.
Once Sammy put her down, Kim took a couple of steps back coughing, and trying to regain her breath.
“Easy there Sammy, do you want to put her back in the Hospital with a couple of broken ribs?” Vanessa said jokingly, both Sammy and Vanessa smiled and started laughing; this brought the first genuine smile on Kim’s face that Vanessa had seen since that dreaded moment the night before.
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“SDF-1 to Wolf-2, come in Wolf-2.” Lisa called over the Radio.
“Wolf-2, are you there?” Lisa tried again.
Riley came running out of a near by crater, tripping in the lose dirt falling to his hands and knees
“CRAP!” he yelled scrambling to his feet and racing into his Veritech.
“SDF-1… This… This is… Wolf-2… Go ahead.” Riley said out of breath from his climb out of the crater.
“Wolf-2, you haven’t reported in, in over an hour.” Lisa’s voice came over the radio and he could see from her image on his monitor she was a little annoyed.
Riley took a couple of seconds to regain his breath before responding.
“Sorry Commander, I saw some wreckage in a crater as I flew by and stopped to check it out, I need you to send a search and rescue team to my co ordinance right away.” Riley said patching the co ordinance through to Lisa.
“Are you alright Wolf-2? What has happened? Are you under attack from Zentraedi forces?” Lisa asked not giving Riley enough time to answer any of them before asking the next.
“Yes, I am alright, and no I am not under attack but I found…” Riley said taking a second looking out of his cock pit over the edge of the crater “I found Wolf Leaders Veritech.”
“WHAT!” Lisa jumped at her station replying a little louder then she meant to, causing all the girls in the bridge to jump and look at Lisa with casern, Gloval jumped out of his seat and walked over to see what all the commotion was about.
“Rescue-3, report to two, niner, five, seven, in the B-9 sector you will meet up with Wolf-2 and begin a search of the area for any survivors.” Lisa said into her hand radio transmitter.
“Lisa?” Gloval knew that one worded question was all he needed to ask.
Lisa turned to face the Admiral.
“Sir, Wolf-2 has reported in… LT. Strong has found Wolf Leaders Veritech.”
Gloval raised an eye brow and looked at Lisa’s monitor.
“Are there any signs of the Captain?” Gloval asked.
“No, sir, but there are several sets of food prints leading deeper into the crater, it appears that the blast caused a cave like hole in the Earth.” Lisa replied.
Rescue-3’s helicopter landed next to Riley’s Veritech 20 minutes later. Once they touched down the field leader ran over to Riley and saluted him.
“All right, at the base of the crater is the Veritech, but the cave goes down as far as eye can see.” Riley said.
The field leader fallowed Riley to the top of the crater’s edge and looked down seeing how far and deep the crater was, after a moment or two the field leader turned and gave some hand signals, that meant something to his men because they went right to work grabbing supplies, and three men drove a small three person quad looking thing out of the back of the helicopter.
Riley took the watch looking tracking device and fastened it tightly onto his right wrist and the search began.
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Sammy parked their jeep in their parking spot. “Home at last.” She said turning the jeep off and getting out. The three ladies walked to the front door, Sammy unlocked and opened the door since she had her keys out already. It was seven in the evening and the sun had gone down a half an hour ago leaving the room dark with no lights on, Kim felt a rush of cool air on her face and looked over her shoulder as she walked in.
“Did you leave the air on again…?”
Kim’s question was interrupted when the lights suddenly turned on and several people yelled welcome home all together. Kim looked around the room lost for a second, all her friends were there, and there were balloons that said congratulations on them there were banners that hung in the middle of the room that said Welcome Home Kim.
Kim’s eyes started to fill with tears of joy, her heart raced, she felt so insignificant sometimes like she was always in the shadows and no one could see her, but this showed her how that she really was someone, that she had friends, and they really cared for her.
Suddenly with out warning Kim was wrapped up in a hug from behind, Lisa had rushed over as soon as she got off duty but there were a set of head lights that fallowed her from a few corners back, afraid it might be the trio and not wanting to ruin the surprise she drove past the barics and went around the block before pulling inside to park, Lisa saw the three Kim walk in the house and slowly crept up behind her after she was distracted by all the people inside.
“Welcome home Kim, it has been so quiet with out the terrible trio in the bridge.” Lisa said giving Kim a second huge after her friend had turned to face her.
“Lisa, you’re here, that’s great everyone made it.” Vanessa said walking over with Sammy making it a four girl group huge.
Kim pulled way from the girls looked at them and smiled, but her smile faded a little as a thought ran through her mind, she looked at the three girls letting them register in her mind then turned and looked at everyone in living room, she saw Max and Miriya, Roy and Claudia, and Rick. After slowly looking at each of them as if it took a second for her mind to capture an image of each friend in her mind and make a list of who was there, Kim quickly walked in one of the entrances of the kitchen and seeing no one there she exited the other entrance and went down the hall looking into each of the three rooms but seeing no one she returned to the edge of the hall, Vanessa and Sammy ran over to huge their friend.
“Sorry, he is not here.” Vanessa said ever so softly kissing Kim on the top of her head.
Kim smiled, using the back of her hand to wipe a couple of tears that escaped from her eyes and ran down her cheeks.
“I will be ok, I am hungry though.” Kim said her voice a little shaky.
Rick walked over to Lisa and gave her a hug.
“How was your shift?” he asked.
Lisa looked at him and Rick could see sadness in her face.
“Hold that thought.” Rick said, he turned and grabbed to mugs of tea, then escorted Lisa out to the balcony where they talk alone.
“What’s wrong?” Rick asked placing his tea on the railing and placing his hands onto Lisa’s shoulders looking into her eyes.
Lisa put her cup of tea down on the railing as well, she felt cold, not just from the weather outside, but from her rush of emotions on the inside, she probably knew better then anyone what Kim was going through tonight. Lisa lost her fiancé Karl to war, she had not watched him die on a monitor as Kim had, but she watched her father die on a monitor down in Alaska Base yesterday.
“Rick… Rick, Riley found…” Lisa tried to say but she couldn’t force the words to come out.
Rick stared straight into Lisa’s eyes; they were usually a bright green that seemed to almost glow with pride and strength… but tonight that glow was gone, she looked lost, hopeless, and very scared.
“Lisa, it is ok, I am here for you, what did he find?” Rick tried to make his voice sound as reassuring and comforting as he could. After a moment of silence Lisa continued.
“Rick, he found Ronnie’s Veritech… a search team was sent our as soon as he reported in to me…” Lisa’s eyes started to well up with tears of her own.
“What, Where?” Rick asked. Rick was searching for something he could say that would help Lisa; he really wanted to make all this go away to take her tears away.
“In a crater about fifty miles out in sector B-9… it took them two hours to search the crater, but there is no sign of Ronnie… the whole front of the Veritech was smashed into the pilot’s seat.. the cock pit was covered in blood… based off of the report I read from Rescue-3 there is no way anyone could have survived that kind of carnage.” Lisa forced out as quickly as she could, running out of breath by the end.
Over Rick’s shoulder she could see Kim talking to her friends, and flashing a fake smile that Lisa knew all to well.
Look at her, she is trying to be so strong… it is not easy to lose someone you love let alone watch them die.” Lisa said more or less thinking out loud.
Rick pulled Lisa into himself and wrapped his arms around her hugging her as tightly as he could, she had told him earlier about her father and talking to him on the monitor before he was killed by an explosion in the room he was in. Lisa admitted early that she cried when she saw it, but she went into shock, and with the joy of Rick finding her and rescuing her… she had not yet dealt with all of her emotions… she was just trying to hold them all back and go on with her duty, but now seeing Kim, watching her race around the house trying to find Ronnie, wishing with everything she was, that she would see him s soon as she came around the next corner…
Lisa hid her face in Rick’s shoulder and started crying uncontrollable, her body shaking… If Rick wasn’t holding her up she would have collapsed on the ground.
“It’s ok Lisa, let it all out.” Rick said.
Rick held Lisa around her waist, pressing her tightly to his body to not only comfort her but also keep her from falling over. Rick used his free hand to gently run across the top of Lisa’s face. This was a side he had never seen of the great Commander Hayes who was always busting his balls about this that or the other thing… But here at this moment in time she looked so fragile, that Rick was afraid if he held her too tight she might break. Lisa had stopped crying and just rested her head on his rubbing his back with her hand. Rick felt helpless, and weak, like he was suppose to protect her some how… Rick made a promise in his mind at that moment, he swore to protect her, and do everything in his power to keep her safe, and not let her get hurt ever again.
Roy walked back into the house as everyone was saying their goodbyes it was after midnight and Rick and Lisa were talking to Kim.
“Where have you been the last ten minutes mister?” Claudia asked poking him in the ribs.
“Hey watch it Claud, you know I am ticklish, I was… um… taking care of a matter.” Roy said
Claudia shook her head and smiled as Kim walked over.
“Thank you so much for coming over, it meant so much to me.” Kim said hugging Claudia.
“You would have done the same for us kido.” Roy said now his turn to hug Kim.
“We are just glad you are doing better, now get some rest and don’t forget to see your Doctor next week.” Claudia said.
Kim smiled and walked them to the door, they were the last of the guest, and so after closing the door, Kim locked it and went to bed.
Out side Roy was holding Claudia’s hand they could see Lisa and Rick over by Lisa’s car and thought they would say goodnight.
“Hey you two, think it’s late enough?” Roy asked jokingly
“Not funny Roy.” Lisa replied her voice indicating she was not in a happy mood.
“Ah, what’s the matter Lisa your battery dead?” Roy asked in a teasing tone of voice.
Lisa looked at Roy “How did you…”
But before she could finish Roy spoke up.
“Lucky guess, Look I am going back to Claudia’s for the night, Rick your place is right down the street, why don’t you and Lisa walk to your place, then in the morning you can fix her car.” Roy suggested.
Rick was about to open his mouth and protested when Lisa grabbed his arm and leaned her head on his shoulder.
“Rick, would that be ok? I don’t really feel like being alone right now.” She said looking at Roy and Claudia “Or being kept up all night by the noise those two make.” She added.
Rick felt her longing in her touch, and the warmth of her body was nice, he remembered how he felt on the deck… he didn’t want her to slide back into that helpless state again, Rick closed his eyes and took a deep breath The smell of Lisa’s perfume raced up his nose and sent a farm tingling feeling down his spine Rick opened his eyes as he exhaled.
“Sure Lisa, I would like that.” Rick said grabbing a hold of Lisa’s hand and the two walked off down the street.
Roy helped Claudia into her car and leaned into the window to kiss her on the cheek.
“Roy, how did you know Lisa’s battery was dead?” she asked.
“Because it is in the trunk of my car, let me put it back in why you go get the place ready, and then I will meet you over there.” Roy said grinning.
Claudia rolled her eyes when Roy admitted he planned this whole thing out.
“Three times in one day, carful Fokker, don’t go setting a standard you can’t keep.” She said starting her car and driving off.
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Back at Rick’s place Lisa had slipped into a pair of running shorts and a tight fitting tank top that Rick had given her to sleep in. Rick had decided she could have the bed and he would sleep on the couch, Lisa sat on the edge of the bed and waited for Rick to bring her a glass of water.
“Here you go Lisa.” Rick said handing her the glass, and sitting on the bed next to her.
“Thank you Rick… For everything.” Lisa said taking a sip and placing the glass on the small dresser by the bed.
Lisa rested her head on Rick shoulder and stared up at him, there were so many emotions running through her at this moment… she didn’t know what to do the day he saved her on her flight back to Earth she told her in code that he cared about her a lot, she played that code over and over in her head why on Earth, and this day was like a dream come true… they spent the whole day together minus the hand full of hours she was on duty, and tonight when she really need someone it was Rick who was there for her to hold her and protect her… Rick, the only one she wanted o hold her and now she was sitting on his bed next to him.
Rick looked down at her, his big blue eyes locking in her Green eyes, they glowed once again, but this time Rick saw something different in them, not just pride and strength but passion and pure primal desire. Lisa though about her life how in the military she put aside everything she wanted and only went after what she was suppose to and look what it had gotten her, a dead fiancée, a dead father, and nothing but sadness… Lisa wanted Rick she didn’t care about anything but Rick at this moment in time… She wanted to feel the warmth of his skin against hers… To know how he tasted… Lisa closed her eyes and let a gasp slip from her lips, when she opened them again she saw Rick looking down at her, he didn’t look scared or uncomfortable… Lisa decided to go after what she wanted for once and slowly moved inn to kiss him.
Rick closed his eyes when he felt her lips press against his, to Rick’s own amazement he wasn’t shocked or surprised when she kissed him… part of him wanted her to… Rick let his body melt into Lisa’s and they slowly crawled back onto the bed and laid down, never braking their kiss. Lisa moved herself on top of Rick, sitting on her knees straddling his waist and leaning forward on her hands… Rick felt Lisa press her lips harder, forcing him to open his mouth and allow her to search every inch of it with her tongue… Rick ran his hands up Lisa’s back sliding it under her shirt and stopping when he reached her bra strap, Lisa threw her head back gasping for air.
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With Lisa giving into her feelings for Rick and laying her heart on the line, what will Rick do? How will their lives change after this one act… was it Love or Lust? Be sure to check back and read the next exciting chapter of Robotech: A Shadow from the Future.
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Director’s notes: so I decided to jump start Rick and Lisa’s relationship, just to clear things up, I wanted to show with Roy tampering with Lisa’s car that since Ronnie saved Roy in chapter two, Roy has been trying to get Rick to open his eyes to how Lisa feels and get the two of them hooked up. With that said there were a lot of different ideals I had to show Rick and Lisa slowly building a relationship, but the time period I had planned for this Fan Fiction is the two year gap right after the destruction of Earth by Dolza, and jumped right into that time frame with this chapter.
1: I want to thank everyone who has read this fan fiction that is why I post them. And to those who have commented I enjoy your feed back and hope you continue to give feed back.
2: For those Minmei fans out there, I have a couple of ideals for her as well, tough this fan fiction is mostly about Rick and Lisa, she is apart of the Macross realm and I do not plan on cutting her out.
3: I plan on focusing on Max and Miriya over the next couple of chapters, I plan on playing this out like a soap opera where you get four or five story lines going and show a little in each chapter, or focuses one chapter and a couple story lines and then the next chapter covers the rest, this allows me to keep everyone on the edge of their seats.

[Variados]

Uh....this is so good....I need to save it on my computer for references when I make my own...if that is ok with you...

[Fran2k]

sure use it to help you

[Fran2k]

April 27th, 2011
Lisa woke up early then next morning and rolled over to see Rick still sound asleep on the other side of the bead. “Was last night really a dream?” She thought to herself pulling the covers down to see she was truly naked underneath, then lifting them ever so slightly to see Rick was as well. Lisa had to reach out and touch Rick’s arm, to feel he was real before she was convinced last nights was not a dream and that she was awake at this very moment. Rick didn’t wake up when Lisa touched his shoulder, but he moved around a little pulling the sheets over his face to block out the morning light. “I wonder if a full on Zentraedi attack would wake him from his slumber.” Lisa thought to herself as she walked off down the hall to the bath room.
Lisa turned on the hot water to the tub and searched for anything she could find to make her bath more relaxing. Lisa sighed realizing there was nothing in the bathroom she was looking for, but after a search through Rick entire barics she found a handful of candles still in the plastic wrapping, most likely a gift he just tossed into the closet she thought, pouring a handful of shampoo into the tub Lisa used a book of matches she found in the Kitchen to light the four candles and place them around the room. “Men just don’t know how to bathe.” Lisa thought as she slowly lowered herself down into the steaming hot tub, laying her head against the angled back of the tub she was relieved to see his tub was big enough for her to fully extend her legs in front of her, lowering herself down until the bubbles closed in over the top of her shoulders the lowest lengths of her hair getting wet and sticking to the back of the tub. As Lisa relaxed and closed her eyes, Images of her wild night with Rick kept flashing into her mind…. Lisa couldn’t help but smile and enjoy the replay.
June 10th, 2011
It had been six weeks since the night Kim got out of the Hospital, through the work efforts of all the survivors and the Robotech technicians, a small city had been built in only two weeks, and two more cities over the last month, most of the big time civilians like the Mayor and celebrities like Lynn-Minmei had already been moved out of the SDF-1 and into the new city. Kim was walking in the park inside the SDF-1, with the new city being built people were being moved out of the ship one block at a time, several blocks a day, this left the park empty… most of Macross City was like a ghost town, with close to a third of the population already moved out of the ship and the thousands of remaining civilians packing and preparing for the chance to move out. Kim sat on a bench in the park looking up at the rusted space fortress above her head where there once artificial sky and sunset once set over the city.
Kim thought back about the last couple of months… her and Ronnie… everything was perfect until that day… Kim shook her head snapping back to the present “My shrinks says I shouldn’t dwell on the negative.” Kim thought to herself and she rose and started back to her barics to change into her uniform and get ready to start her shift on the bridge.
Rick jumped out of his veritech, having just finished his morning patrol of the surrounding area. Rick pulled his thinking cap off and walked out of the hanger bay to find Roy leaning against the wall in the hall way waiting for Rick. “Hey big brother, what’s up?” Rick asked as Roy stood up and slapped him on the back “Was your patrol as eventless as mine?” Roy asked. Rick just smiled “What you mean to tell me that sitting inside the cockpit of a veritech isn’t event full?” Rick asked half joking. Roy rolled his eyes “I saw you hot dogging out there, your just lucky Lisa has been sick the last couple of days.” Roy said Rick laughed knowing Roy was right even with Rick and Lisa officially dating she still would have let Rick have it for hot dogging out there. Roy and Rick both started off down the hall “What she got anyways?” Roy asked. “I don’t really know she says the last couple of days she has suddenly become nauseas and throwing up a lot, most likely just some bad food.” Rick replied.
“WHAT DID YOU SAY?!” Claudia jumped up out of her seat on Lisa’s couch. Lisa looked down to the ground sweat on her fore head and feeling sick to her stomach again. “Don’t make me say it again; thinking about it makes me dizzy.” Lisa said, she was feeling dizzy, the room started to spin, he body started to sweat and shake a little. “Girl you are much sicker then you think, come on let me help you to your room.” Claudia said sliding under Lisa’s right arm and helping her up, Lisa tottered and it took all of Claudia’s strength to keep both ladies from falling to the ground. Lisa more then less slid her feet across the floor rather then pick them up with each step; the effort of shuffling to the bedroom with Claudia’s aid drained what little energy she had left. When Claudia finally helped Lisa sit down on the bed she noticed Lisa was covered in a cold sweat, and shivering out of control. “YOU’RE BURNNING UP!” Claudia said removing her hand from Lisa’s forehead. “Come on you need to cool down strip and get under the sheet only.” She said with a mother’s commanding tone in her voice, Claudia went into the bathroom and ran a wash cloth under cold water then rang it out and placed it on Lisa’s fore head. “You rest, I am going to start some soup, and then call the doctor you need to eat and rest that is it, if you want to get over this ill feeling.” Claudia said then she left the room.
Captain Gloval sat in his command chair looking over the work reports for the new cities. “Sir, I just received a transmition from New Detroit, all major construction is finished and only 15 % of their workers are needed to finish the clean up work.” Vanessa repotted. “Very good Vanessa, tell them to take the next two days off to rest and perform any repairs on their equipment, then they are to report to the Military designated grounds at 0800 on Monday the 14th to begin work on the New Military Barics.” Gloval replied. Vanessa fallowed her orders as the bridge door opened, and Kim walked in. Gloval stood and walked over and gave Kim a little smile. “How are doing?” Gloval asked. Gloval had found his time spent with the main crew on the bridge over the last year and a half had become like a family, and Gloval very much felt the father of these girls.
“I am doing fine thank you.” Kim replied as she sat down at her station.
Claudia parked at the front entrance of the new hospital and parked along the pick up and drop off curb. “Wait here and I will be right back with a nurse and a wheel chair.” Claudia said, Lisa opened her mouth to protest but had to quickly close it and swallow down the sudden tightness in her throat, which was the third time in the 8 minute drive that Lisa had to fight back the sensation to through up. A couple of minutes later the Nurse was pushing Lisa into the Hospital entrance sitting in a wheel chair.
“So when did you first notice these symptoms?”The nurse asked taking Lisa’s blood pressure.
“They started about three days…” Lisa quickly turned and lowered her face into the small trash can on the table next to the medical bed and puked her guts out for the next five minutes.
The nurse smirked at Lisa as she returned the blood pressure cuff to it’s shelf on the wall.
“First time huh.” The nurse said picking up the clip board with all of Lisa’s medical info.
Lisa just stared at her wide eyed. The nurse laughed, “Hun, we get girls in here all the time, don’t think the pregnancy test is right, think it must be a mistake, they don’t start eating more, and they keep working their butts of and not slowing down, your body is already starting to use a whole lot of extra energy to prepare for the baby, this is nothing more then just a severe case of morning sickness.” Lisa lay back on the bed the whole room started to spin she barley herd the nurse in the background saying something about the doctor will still run test to confirm she is pregnant but there was nothing to worry about. “Yeah right.”Lisa thought to herself “What is Rick going to do when he finds out?”
Claudia was outside in the hallway buying a café waiting for the doctor to finish with Lisa, the door opened and the doctor was backing out of the room giving some last minute instructions to Lisa “Not that note is to put you on sick leave for a week until you recover, stay in bead, eat several little meals through out the course of each day and just rest.” The doctor was suddenly interrupted by the sound of a nurse yelling for him just a couple of doors down the hall.
“The mystery pilot is a wake finally doctor.” She yelled before disappearing back into the room
Seeing Lisa still resting on the bed, Claudia decided to take a walk by the room and see who this mystery pilot was, there were still several dozen military personal counted M.I.A. since the great battle against Dolza.
There were several nurses in the room, one taking blood pressure another taking his pulse, a third checking his heart monitor, and the doctor was using his light pen to check the pilot’s eyes
“He looks to be better then we hoped, nurse Chantal, go get…” Claudia couldn’t what medications were being described for a page rang out over the entire hospital, then all but one nurse left the room.
Claudia waited a little farther down the hall until the final nurse left then walked by the door slowly looking inside the room.
The pilot was laying back his right arm in a sling, the top of his head was wrapped in a medical bandage down to just above his eye brows, he had two black eyes his nose showed signs of being broken, and his whole face was covered in bruises and cuts he defiantly looked like he had been in a plane crash. The pilot turned his head towards the door sensing he was being watched, the way the light hit the pilot’s bluefish green eyes made them almost glow. Claudia put her hand over her mouth as she gasped. “It’s couldn’t be him.” She thought to herself, Claudia was staring so hard at the pilot tying to make out his face in the dark room, that she never noticed Lisa walking up on her and when Lisa taped her on the shoulder, Claudia screamed and jumped what felt like ten feet in the air.
When Claudia finally re-gained her sanity she told Lisa to look inside the room, Lisa dropped her bag of medication when she finally realized who they were looking at. The pilot’s eyes were glazed over, and the look on his face showed either he could not see the two women clearly enough to identify them, or he had not fully recovered from his coma and didn’t remember who they were. Either way before Lisa and Claudia could move into the room, a nurse came up behind them pushing them out of the way. “NO VISITORS!” she yelled at the two women then slammed the door in her face.
Lisa and Claudia just stood there for several minutes, neither of them knowing what to say, finally Claudia knelt down and picked up Lisa’s medication. Lisa walked over to the nurse’s desk and flagged down a nurse. “Who is in room 328?" Lisa asked the nurse, who looked at her chart and shrugged. “No one knows, he was found ejected out of his plane, his flight suit was ripped to shreds so we couldn’t even get a rank, and he has been in a coma ever since he arrived.” The nurse replied, Lisa’s knees started to shake and she had to grip the counted to keep from falling down. Claudia ran up behind her friend and the nurse ran over with another wheel chair.
“Lisa, are you alright?” Claudia asked lowering her friend into the wheel chair. Lisa nodded her head “Yes, I just used up to much energy and became dizzy again.” She said. Claudia started off down the hall ahead of the nurse pushing Lisa back to the front of the Hospital ‘I’ll get the car, we need to get you home to rest, I will worry about the pilot later.” Then she was gone.
Fifteen minutes later Lisa was tucked back into her bed, she had used what little energy she had left to slip into a red silk slip with matching panties that Rick had bout her after their wonderful night together The slip barley covered the lower curve of Lisa’s butt when she stood straight up, and though she protested it was to short, Rick would always say with the biggest of smiles it was the perfect length.
“What is Rick going to say?” Lisa thought to herself “Is he going to hate me? Is he going to be mad at himself?” Lisa’s eyes started to well up with tears, another negative side affect of being pregnant, she was an emotional wreck… even more so then usual at least when it came to Rick Hunter. Claudia walked in and knelt down beside her dear friend, it broke Claudia’s heart to see her friend so burdened by this ruff patch in her life. “Give him a chance Lisa, if there is one thing I know about Rick, it’s that he has a way of surprising you in those times you are certain he will fall flat on his face.” Claudia said, as there was a knock on the door.
Claudia opened the door to find Rick and Roy standing on the other side, Claudia put on her best smile and said “Rick just in time, I started Chicken Noodle soup for Lisa and it should be ready, be a dear and take her a bowl, she is resting in the bedroom. And you Roy turn around; you need to help me get groceries out of the car.” Roy frowned as Claudia closed the door behind her and the two walked out to the car. “So how bad is it?” Roy asked as he reached Claudia’s jeep. “Not bad at all, actually in a way good.” Claudia said with a smirk. Roy raised an eyebrow as he looked inside the jeep and found it was empty. “Hey what’s the big ideal?” he asked looking over to see Claudia standing with her right arm crossed over her stomach just under her breasts and holding the keys to her jeep out to Roy with her left hand.
“Lisa and Rick need some alone time to talk, so you get the honor of taking me out to dinner.” She said with a smile. Roy took the keys and opened the passenger side of the car and bowed, “My Lady.” Roy said.
Rick set the bowl of soup on the table beside the bed, and knelt down beside Lisa, running his hand through her hair, he was felt cool to the touch and a bit clammy, she looked flush as if the color has drained away from her face, Rick knew she just returned from the bathroom where she had probably puked her guts out yet again. “How are you feeling?” Rick asked
“Lisa turned her green eyes to Rick and locked onto his baby blue eyes, she said a silent prayer, “Pleas oh God, don’t let him hate me for this.” Lisa looked away trying to find the words so she avoided them.
“When we were at the hospital, there was this big commotion…” Lisa started, speaking very softly. Rick took a seat in the chair by the bed and listened, he was hanging off of every word Lisa said.
“A pilot had been brought in the day we picked up Kim, had had finally awoken from his coma.” She continued. Rick smiled not knowing what t do and just waited for her to speak again.
“Rick… I… We don’t know for sure, but we think it is Captain Floyd.” Lisa finally said closing her eyes and breathing a little harder, her heart was pounding at an alarmingly rapid rate, and Lisa could hear her pulse humping in her ears.
Rick’s eyes grew wide “IS… Is he ok?’ Rick asked when he finally found his voice a couple of minutes latter. Lisa shook her head “I don’t know, the nurses made us leave, but he is alive and off of life support.” She finished showing signs of running out of breath.
Rick leaned in and kissed her fore head. “That doesn’t matter right now, what did they say about you?” Lisa swallowed harshly, her throat felt suddenly dry, her heart seemed to speed up even more, and every pulse in her body was pounding, she hadn’t realized it at first but she was holding her breath.
“Lisa?” Rick asked starting to get a little worried.
Lisa opened her eyes once again turning her head ever so slightly locking in his gaze once again.
“I’m pregnant.” Lisa whispered hoping he wouldn’t hear and wouldn’t ask again. Rick just sat there for a moment the room fell so silent you could hear the air moving around you, Lisa started to shake tears running down her face; she had finally lost it and could not hold back her emotions any longer. Rick was lost, he felt like he was hit in the stomach and never saw the punch coming, Rick’s face was now the one that was flush, and lost color and he felt so cold, as if someone had sucked all the heat from his body. Rick crossed his arms trying to keep them from shaking… then suddenly when the blow of Lisa’s words finally sunk in, a small smile started to form in the corners of his mouth, the more he tried to fight it the bigger it became.
Rick got down on his knees and hugged Lisa holding his tightly in his grasp.
“I am so sorry.” Lisa started to say when Rick pulled back so he could look at her.
“For what? I am going to be a father, and you are going to be the beautiful mother.” Ricks smile widened showing teeth. “This is the happiest day of my life.” Rick said, and the two of them hugged each other both crying tears of happiness, Claudia was right, Lisa expected Rick to fall flat on his face and hate her, but he surprised her and in that moment became her rock to lean on, yes Rick Hunter was going to be a great father. Lisa thought to herself.
Writer’s notes: sorry it isn’t that long I just wanted to really get the next chapter out there so eople didn’t think I had stopped writing it.
So I hope you enjoy the twist that will really send your head spinning when you find out how all this affects Ronnie.