Fanfic Name / Nombre del Fanfic: A Shadow from the Future

Chapter / Capitulo: Chapter 6

Author / Autor: Ronnie Floyd

Rating / Clasificacion: AP15 (For Teenagers = Para Adolescentes)

Romance

Fanfic: 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... 
(I'll let your imagination finish this scene.) 
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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.  
4: a couple of chapters back I introduced the Anti- Unification group, I really want to run with this, but other then a very brief mention in the novel BattleCry by Jack McKinney, and a little bit more in the comic book series from the stars, I do not know much about them I was wondering if anyone knows where to fine info about them because I don’t mind making it up as I go but I don’t want to step on any toes by portraying them differently then they might have already been portrayed in a novel.  

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