fanfic_name = Our Destiny

chapter = 3

author = Komander Kool

dedicate = To All Rick and Lisa Fans

Rating = AP15

Type = Humor

fanfic = Our Destiny

A/N This took a while. Many scenarios came to mind leading me to scrap my original plot. Anyway, I was also reading most of the reviews and I really tried to put them here. I hope I did a fine job if not at all hehehe… Well, this chapter is a bit more of action and subtle character development. Most of the scenes are excerpts from the Robotech Booby Trap up to Space Fold. I’m just borrowing and the characters and most of the familiar scenes are the properties of the rightful owner… Do review and help me out!!! Thanks and more power to you all!

Chapter 3 – Blurry Destiny

Rick was forced to fly in battle as ordered by Lt. Lisa Hayes only to find himself shot down and crash land in a remote area of Macross City. He was now in a battloid as the fighter jet transformed while it crashed. He only followed what the Lieutenant advised and as he pulled a certain lever, the fighter did something weird as it went down. For now, it didn’t matter how it happened. He was thankful enough that he was still alive.

“There must be someway to get out of this thing.” He said to himself as he scanned the cockpit for some switches or levers that might at least make something happen.

“Hmmm… let’s try this!” He said aloud with the hope of a positive response from the machine as he pulled a lever.

“Woah!”

Suddenly his seat shook so he held on tightly and then he felt himself rising.

Outside, the head of the battloid tilted forward and revealed some sort of a hatch where Rick’s seat came out in an automatic fashion. He was amazed and tried to examine where he was.

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Aboard the SDF-1, Captain Gloval and the rest of the bridge crew were busy coordinating the battle that suddenly unfolded before their eyes.

“Oh my God! Is this for real?” Lisa quietly said to herself.

“Captain, our radar caught 24 unidentified objects that landed just off shore!” Vanessa reported.

“Why didn’t we detect them earlier?” Captain Gloval anxiously replied.

“The main gun sapped all the power sir. We’ve been cut off line!” Vanessa explained.

“Lisa, send a reconnaissance group over there and contact available air support to follow!” He ordered.

“I already did captain!” Lisa promptly replied.

“Mind reader!” Captain Gloval smiled at Lisa but the smile quickly vanished.

“This is PHP202, no sign of alien craft so far!” The leader of the recon group called the bridge.

“Roger that PHP202. Proceed with caution. It is suspected the crafts are submerged!” Lisa replied.

“Copy that!” Replied the recon.

Just then the submerged battle pods rose from the water and fired at the group, destroying them in an instant.

“Control, were… heavy…. Aahhh….” The PHP202 leader shouted on the communication link then was followed by static.

“PHP202 to control, do you copy?” Lisa called using her headset.

There was nothing. No response. Only silence and static.

“Sir, I believe recon group has been gunned down.”

“Hhhhmmmnnnn!” Was the only reply of the Captain while in deep thought.

Just then, the senator entered the bridge and ordered them to launch the vessel.

“Captain, I think it’s about time that we test the worth of this ship by fighting off the invaders!” The senator confidently spoke.

“But senator, I can’t just take this ship into combat with a group of inexperienced crew.” The captain protested.

“It seems you don’t have confidence in your crew captain!” The senator challenged Gloval.

“I did not say that! It’s just that… yes, I know we rebuilt this ship but most of this ship is still alien to us and we’re still not sure on how to really use it.” The captain defended himself.

“I’m ordering you to take off captain. We’ve spent a considerable amount of fortune on this ship. It is a battle ship and I hate to see it destroyed on the ground.” The senator raised his voice.

“W-Well, if that’s you’re order sir!”

With that said, the senator made an exit.

“We just aren’t ready for combat!” Captain Gloval shouted within.

“Fire the main the engines! We’re lifting off!”

“Aye, Aye captain!” Lisa and Claudia replied in unison.

“Oh Andrea, I hope you’ll be safe!” Lisa fearfully said in her heart.

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Meanwhile, Rick stood up and moved to the battloid’s shoulders wondering what ever happened to the plane that was supposed to be his ride. He noticed someone peeking through the window of a nearby building. He noticed that it was the same girl he saw earlier and she was with the same boy she was arguing with earlier that morning.

Rick called out to the girl. “Excuse me what is this? I mean, what does it look like to you?”

“Some kind of robot I think.” The girl answered naively.

“Oh great! Wow, when I got into this thing it was an aircraft! I thought I’ve gone nuts!” Rick scratched his head only to notice he still had his helmet on.

“A convertible airplane? You must be joking!” The girl and the young boy exclaimed in chorus.

“I’m as puzzled as anybody about it!” Rick replied in an amazed tone.

“You’re kidding! You’re the pilot and you don’t even know what it is?”

“I’m not a military pilot, I’m just an amateur!”

“What? How did you get that robot?”

“It’s all a big mistake! I’m not supposed to have it!”

“An enemy spy!” The young boy accused Rick.

“Spy? Look, this was the army’s idea, not mine!” Rick defended himself.

“Wow, look at all the damage!” He continued.

“You don’t have to pay for it?” The girl asked.

“Me? I hope not!”

Just then a military truck honked its horn with the driver yelling at Rick to get out of the way because he was delivering some vital military supplies.

“Well, I guess I’ll have to move this thing out of here! I don’t know how it works but I’ll try!” Rick moved back towards the pilot’s seat.

“By the way, what’s your name?” He asked the girl before strapping himself on the pilot seat.

“Minmay - Lynn Minmay!”

“Nice meeting you! I’m Rick, Rick Hunter!” He waved good bye as the seats went back inside the robot.

“Hope to see you again sometime!” Minmay shouted as the seats went in.

“What a sweet name!” Rick gave Minmay a wink.

Inside the battloid, he tried to pull levers and step on pedals to at least try to maneuver the machine. He felt the robot try to move its legs but to his dismay, he also felt it falling forward. Worse, he almost pinned down Minmay and her little cousin when he accidentally crashed the robot on the building where they were, head first. The military truck had to find an alternative route when the driver noticed it will take an eternity before he got past the battloid.

Some concerned residents in the area tried to help. They tied ropes on the battloid and tied the other ends on their trucks, hoping they could pull the robot from the Lynn building.

“Okay here we go! Forward, now!!!” The lead driver of the group shouted.

So the trucks moved to pull the robot back to its feet and were successful in a way but due to momentum, the robot came crashing with its back first on the opposite building.

“This will take a lot of work!” Sighed one of the drivers.

Suddenly a jet fighter came into view. To the amazement of everyone in the area, the fighter transformed into a robot as well. Everyone was relieved to find out that the objective of the robot that arrived was to assist the other robot that was causing more damage than the aliens that came to attack their city. It was Roy in his Skull 1.

“Hey Rick! How’s everything holding up?” Roy teased Rick.

“Roy! Thank God you’re here! I really need a hand on this – whatever this is!”

“Okay hold still! Handling a battloid is easy. I’ll explain to you as I do some repairs. You really messed up this baby!”

He made some repairs on Rick’s VT and at the same time lectured Rick on the basics of handling the battloid. After the repairs and crash course lecture on how to handle the VTs, Rick was able to make the battloid stand.

“Wow, you learn fast!” Minmay complemented Rick as they were about to go the underground shelters.

“We’re being evacuated, see you!” Minmay continued with no sense of panic as she said goodbye.

“Hey, take care! I’ll come and see you when things get clear!” Rick called out.

The two battloids were left standing in the area. Roy told Rick to try the guardian mode since it handled like a fighter. Rick just did that. Roy’s battloid also transformed into a guardian. Then both machines started to move to safety, hoping to avoid the intruders.

“Okay Rick! Let’s go! Tag-along and remember not to fall behind! Hahahahaha!”

“I’ll try to make sure of that!”

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In space, the alien armada were ordered to fire at the surrounding areas of the SDF-1. It was in preparation for the invasion of the city. The city received heavy fire, reducing most of the buildings to rubble. The SDF-1 was spared from the blasts.

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Near the underground shelters, people were lined up seeking safety from the alien fire.

“Oh no! I forgot my diary!” Minmay exclaimed.

“Minmay, don’t be crazy! It’s dangerous. Forget your diary!” Her aunt pleaded.

Stubborn as she was, Minmay still made a dash back towards their home. Her uncle and auntie only watched helplessly as she vanished among the buildings. Unknown to them, the aliens have landed and are already making their way towards the SDF-1 for a closer investigation.

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Rick and Roy were scanning the area, when suddenly they encountered Minmay being chased by an enemy pod. Just as the pod was about to crush Minmay with its foot, Roy opened fire that quickly destroyed the pod. He was even quick to protect Minmay by using the guardian’s hand to shield her from the blasts. They found out that she went back for her diary.

“What a stupid thing to do!” Rick thought.

“Okay Rick, you’ll have to take the girl to safety. I’ll stay for a while to provide covering fire. C’mon!” Roy ordered Rick as battle pods were slowly creeping their way.

Rick managed to pick up Minmay using the hand of the guardian. Soon enough they flew leaving Roy to take care of some more aliens in the area. Unfortunately, an alien pod caught Rick’s veritech in its radar. It fired a couple of missiles at them. Almost panicking, Rick tried to outmaneuver the missiles that were trailing them. He was successful for a while until one of the missiles hit the arm of the guardian where Minmay was. It tore the arm from the fighter and she came free falling down. Rick maneuvered his VT to catch up with the falling Minmay. When he was at the same speed and level with the girl, he opened the canopy and tried to reach out for her. When he caught her hand, he pulled her inside and landed her on the back seats. It was a very dangerous unrehearsed acrobatic move by Rick but he was able to bring Minmay inside the guardian.

“Now why didn’t I think of getting her inside in the first place?”

They landed safely as the guardian slowly crept through the outskirts of the city. Rick couldn’t help but look at Minmay, crying and shocked at what just happened.

As she was recovering from her shock, she noticed her image on a mirror inside the vertich.

“Oh no! My hair!”

“Hey! What’s more important? Your life or your hair?” Rick asked.

“Well… my hair of course! Hahahahahaha! “ Minmay tried to laugh off the shock they both went through.

Rick caught himself paying attention more to Minmay than where they were going. He accidentally bumped a battle pod and his VT went crashing down. Rick tried to maneuver the VT to face the alien. He noticed that battle pod was about to fire but when Rick noticed that Minmay was unconscious, he got infuriated and fired his gun first. He exhausted all the ammo of the gun and the battle pod just crashed down. The next scenes proved too frightening for Rick as he saw for the first time who they were fighting with. A giant went out of the battle pod and walked towards Rick’s VT. Rick was shocked and couldn’t move a muscle. A series of gun fire was heard as the giant made its way towards Rick. The giant fell. It was Roy who fired the gun and thanks to him who came just at the right time to bring down the alien for good.

“Okay Rick, no more fooling around! Let’s go and get both of you to safety!”

Rick just sat there, shocked at the reality he’s facing. Actually, it’s the reality the whole world is facing since this attack has proven that the earth has a tough enemy to deal with and they are not humans but giants from another galaxy.

Roy flew ahead and headed for the SDF-1 to provide escort. On his way, he tried contacting Rick but no response came to his console.

“Oh boy! I think he cracked up!”

“This is Skull One to SDF-1. I believe I might be delayed for the escort so I’ll be delegating the responsibility to Captain Kramer. I’ll be up there in a few minutes.” Roy contacted the bridge.

“Roger that Commander!” Lisa replied.

“And what might it be that will keep you delayed Fokker?” Claudia squeezed through Lisa’s console.

“Oh, it’s the VT102. I’m going back for its pilot!” Fokker grinned.

“That pilot is an impostor! He didn’t even know how to fly a VT!” Lisa exclaimed.

“Yes, I know that! He’s a civilian. He’s Rick Hunter. I’ll explain later.”

“A civilian?” Lisa was surprised. “So that explains why!”

Meanwhile, Rick recovered from his shock and noticed that they were still on the ground. He looked out of the canopy and notice the giant that was lying dead beside them. He looked at Minmay and saw that she was still unconscious. He tried pulling some levers to at least move the guardian out of there but the guardian was not able to move. Instead, it fell down. Rick noticed that the giant’s hand was clasped on the guardian’s feet that’s why they weren’t able to move. Rick trembled and panicked inside once again and stared at the giant. Just then, Minmay also recovered from her unconsciousness that brought Rick back to his senses.

“Don’t look out the window!” Rick shouted.

“Huh? Why?”

“Just don’t!”

Heavy footsteps were heard of a sudden. Again, it was Roy.

“Hey Rick! Unlike me, women have the hots for me. But for you, aliens too! Hahahahahaha!” Roy joked as he slowly approached the downed guardian.

Commander Fokker had to remove the cockpit where Rick and Minmay were from the veritech fighter since the machine was no longer flight capable, especially in deep space. Rick could only be amazed. Roy connected the cockpit to his battloid’s arm and headed for the SDF-1 which had a successful lift off a few moments ago and is already heading into earth’s orbit.

As the Skull One was approaching the massive spaceship, Rick couldn’t help but hear the conversation between Roy and a certain female over the communication line. He was only listening and didn’t pay any particular attention to the console. Maybe he was still overwhelmed of the events or maybe he got infatuated with his passenger.

“Hhhhmmmnnn… is that the same voice who ordered me to fly that @#$%^ VT!” He thought with a curse.

He heard Roy taking blame for allowing him to tinker with the VT. At the same time, he was ridiculing Rick that he was too scared in the battle. Rick disagreed and defended himself but heard an approving laughter of a woman on the other line. Rick was insulted by the laughter.

“Who’s the old sourpuss Roy?”

“Old sourpuss?” The woman on the other end was shocked at Rick’s words.

“Hey Lisa! My passenger thinks you’re an old sourpuss. Never heard something as accurate as that! Hahahahahaha!”

“Commander Fokker, you could get court-marshaled with what you just did!” Lisa fired back.

“And as for you Mr. Rick Hunter! You’re in a lot of trouble whether you know it or not.” She continued.

“Hey this was all her fault in the first place!” Rick protested as he looked at Minmay.

“I think you better apologize Rick. You wouldn’t want to mess with a woman of her age.” Minmay commented absentmindedly.

Roy continued teasing Lieutenant Hayes until they were able to land inside the ship.

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After landing, Roy drove both Rick and Minmay and brought them to a cargo area. Rick couldn’t believe his eyes. His mockingbird was there and Roy said he told his people to get his plane inside the SDF-1 prior to the ship’s take off. Rick looked like a little boy next to his plane. Just like when a little boy lost something precious and found it back. He couldn’t thank Roy enough.

As the SDF-1 was about to dock with two ARMDs, all personnel were paged to report to their stations. Roy had to go but before so, he told the two to stay where they were because if they wandered around, it’s likely that they will get lost because the ship was so enormous.

Rick was still relieved to see his plane, still not minding the world around him, until when he noticed he was of course with Minmay.

“Uhrm… do you really want to go back to Macross Island?” Rick proposed to Minmay.

“Oh, after all you’ve got me into? You’re the reason my hair is a mess!” Minmay replied sarcastically.

“Well, I’m sorry but it was my first time to fly that kind of plane. But for this baby, I can fly you to Macross City with my eyes closed.”

“Well, I think I could use another adventure, don’t you think?” Giggling she accepted Rick’s invitation.

“Okay, wait and I’ll just check if we’re flight worthy!”

Rick went inside the cockpit to check his plane.

“Oh dear, Roy’s people may have brought the plane inside this ship in one piece but they forgot something!” Rick disappointingly uttered.

“What’s the matter?”

“Call off the celebration! I’m out of fuel!”

“I guess we’ll just have to heed what the commander advised us to do!” Minmay suggested.

“You’re right about that! I hope it’s not an eternity!”

Unknowingly for the two, the SDF-1 figured in a heavy bombardment from the enemy making them decide to go for a space fold.

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After a few moments, the ship reappeared in what looked liked deep space.

“Vanessa, report status of our fold!” Came the excited voice of Captain Gloval.

“Sir, our computers are still trying to compute our de-fold location but our radar is picking up something big right below us!”

“Well, that must be the moon!”

“No sir, it’s not as big as the moon! It’s… it’s… it can’t be… “ Vanessa was shocked at the revelation of the computers.

“Sir, calculations say that we de-folded near the orbit of Pluto and the big object below us is…”

Vanessa was unable to continue with what she was reporting.

“Confirm the computer’s calculations Vanessa!” Gloval ordered.

“Oh my God! Is that Macross City? The fold operation took it with us!” Claudia exclaimed.

“It’s covered with ice and… we’re… we’re crashing into it!” Lisa added.

“The controls ain’t working!” Claudia reported as she tried overriding the controls.

“Everyone, brace yourselves…” Gloval shouted.

The Macross crashed into the city and slid on the icy surface destroying the surrounding buildings. Good thing that the residents of the city were in the vacuum locked bomb shelters.

“Everyone all right?” Captain Gloval raised his voice of concern over his crew as the sliding SDF-1 came to a halt.

“I think we’re all okay sir!” Claudia replied.

“Claudia, try a calculation for another fold operation. This time make sure it’s on our moon!” Gloval ordered.

Suddenly, the communication link made a buzz. Gloval was quick to pick it up and answer it.

“What? It can’t be! I’ll be right there!” Shocked, Gloval answered Dr. Lang on the other line.

Gloval started making his way to the door.

“What was it sir?” Lisa anxiously asked.

“Dr. Lang reported that the fold system vanished into thin air! I guess we’ll have to crawl our way back to earth!” Gloval answered casually.

“What?” The crew came into shock.

It was a frightening fact for the crew, especially that most of them has no experience in space. It was more of a heartbreaker for Lisa than frightening and it provided more anxiety on her knowing that she’s so far away from her Andrea, the love of her life.

In her mind, Lisa spoke. “Andrea! Please be safe! I don’t know if I’ll ever see you again! Oh dad, take care of my baby for me!”

She is in the military and she knew that a time like this were possible. But no amount of training could ever prepare one at the reality of war. But she knew she had to hold on. She made a resolve to try to stay alive and hoped that nothing unthinkable would happen to earth.

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In the SDF-1 cargo bay, Rick and Minmay were tumbled to and fro as the ship crashed. He held onto Minmay, preventing any harm to come upon her. When the ship came to a halt, there was blackness everywhere.

“Hey, where’d the lights go?” Rick exclaimed.

“What happened?” Minmay worriedly asked.

“I don’t know… felt like we crash landed! I can’t see a thing! It’s too dark in here!”

“Wait! I’ll try to get a flash light… heck, where’s my plane? Can’t see a damn thing in this darkness!”

“Rick where are you?”

“I’m still here but I can’t see where I’m going!”

“Hhhhmmnnn… what’s this? It’s… soft…and…” Rick sounded like he found something.

“RICK! That’s my… “ Minmay shouted.

“Oh… I’m sorry… I didn’t mean to… I was ah….” Rick stuttered.

“Cut it out Rick. I think I know what you’re up to and you’re taking advantage of the situation!” Minmay replied.

“No! It was too dark. Can’t you see it’s pitched black? I never thought I was going around in circles!” Rick explained.

Suddenly, the lights turned on and both were surprised. Roy was there standing near the cargo bay door with a wide grin on his face.

“Rick! You rat! How could you take advantage of this young girl!”

“Hey watch your mouth! I didn’t do anything! I was crawling and trying to look for my plane. It was dark and…”

“Okay, okay… no need to explain… as if people will believe that!” Roy continued to tease.

“M-my plane… my plane… my mocking bird!!!” Suddenly Rick shouted like a man gone wild.

His plane got tumbled as well in the crash and it smashed against one of the walls of the cargo bay. The scene wasn’t good.

“Rick?”

“Hey Rick!”

“My plane…” Rick uttered weakly.

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