fanfic_name = What If

chapter = Chapter XII

author = Knights Templar

Rating = AP15

Type = Adventure

fanfic = What If

Disclaimer: I don't own Robotech; it is property of Harmony Gold (exclusively).

A/N: Thank you to lisay for pointing out a hole in my story, I will address that, and Wendy and Karl will come into play more so during the reconstruction.

Jacob lined his VT up for a landing on one of the carriers and, he had done this so many times that is had become second nature to him and he didn't even notice that he was doing it, an so the landing officer on the deck of the carrier didn't even have to flag him as he touched down.

He looked out at the sky above him and he saw the bright blue sky and the clouds in the sky and as he looked further he saw around them a naval carrier group courtesy the US Navy who had responded to the growing shortage of room on the SDF-1 that was becoming worse everyday due to the new pilots coming from all over the world.

Jacob smiled and he gave a little thought to the pilots he had seen, he had met one from Russia, two from Japan, a few from the European continent, and more than a good number from North and South America's. He was hoping to see more pilots from more countries, but he knew that it wouldn't happen because as far as most of the world knew, they were all dead.

But then again, more and more ships were being sent into space, and more and more VT's were being fabricated and some sorts of defenses were being set into place around cities in order to save lives. Jacob gave an un- caring shrug; he didn't much care about anything anymore. Wendy had lost it and now she was being sent to a institution for the mentally insane.

Jacob made a sour face and thought back to Wendy, she had been a wonderful person and it pained him to hear that she was pregnant with another man's child and that she was cuddling up to him in hopes of being able to either use him or make him think that the child was his and then Jacob thought of Lisa.

Lisa had been through a lot, Karl turned out to be alive and all sorts of emotions that Lisa had pent up on the inside and Jacob had been there to see Lisa break down into tears and sob into Rick's shoulder for hours and Rick sat there and stroked her hair and talked to her softly comforting her the whole time.

Jacob had to admit that Rick was a good man and that Rick was the best person that had ever come into Lisa's life, but for that matter, he was the only man, other then Riber, who had ever come into her life. Jacob opened the canopy and let the cool air of the pacific winter rush in around him and he climbed down the ladder to the deck and walked to the barracks in the hangers determined to get a shower.

As Jacob walked to the barracks and stripped off his gear and went to one of the showers he began to think more and more about what had been happening. Minmei had been devastated since she had been upstaged by Lisa almost three months earlier on television and Jacob remembered vividly seeing that little segment played over and over again.

It had gotten to the point where if he had seen it again he was going to get into his VT and was going to put a few missiles into the Macross Broadcasting Station. Rick and Lisa had also changed, they had become completely care free of how their relationship appeared because everyone know knew about it.

An in those three months a lot had happened, Roy had been wounded and a enemy fighter had gotten into the SDF-1 and had all the while being pursued by Max and finally in the end Max had gotten the edge and had defeated the enemy ace. It had ended with Max defeating the enemy ace and getting a huge welcome back by all the pilots and almost everyone else congratulating him.

Jacob couldn't help but congratulate him too and ended up buying him a few drinks and they ended up getting drunk together and walked around Macross ogling all the women and getting encouraged by other pilots and they ended up at Rick's place, very drunk and got Rick a little drunk and they all ended up falling asleep in random places till Lisa came looking for all of them and found them in Rick's quarters all hung over.

Well it had been awhile since then and for the last few weeks they had been in constant non-stop combat. Lisa had been very affected by Riber, thought not at first, it came on heavy and she broke down and for awhile she was completely non-responsive, but Rick had taken her back to her place and he didn't see them for a few days and when he saw her again she was very perky and seemed very happy, Jacob smiled evilly and knew what had been going on, 'Smart man that Rick Hunter,' he had thought to himself.

Then just yesterday as Jacob was enjoying some lunch with a few of his buddies from the frigates and fighter squadrons, Lisa and Rick joined him and they told him that Admiral Hayes was going to be arriving tomorrow, and that he specifically requested to see him, Rick and Lisa when he arrived and Jacob had lost his appetite.

Well Jacob had just gotten back from yet another battle and looked at the scorch marks and noticed that the paint was chipping and coming off; he would need to get the paint redone, but now he was going to have to face his father and deal with some more bullshit from him and then get degraded some more and then later he would go out and get drunk so that he wouldn't have to deal with the anger he felt about the whole issue.

But he didn't have time to dwell on the issue, he was already, by habit making his was for the debriefing room and when he got there he saw that Rick, Lisa, Captain Gloval, Lang, Cymry, Admiral Hayes, and now he was here and he assumed that they had all been waiting for him and he felt himself flush a little in embarrassment, and noticed then that there was no chair for him and he walked in and stood at a casual parade rest and waited for the discussion to start.

Admiral Hayes stood up and looked at the group assembled before him and a grim expression came over his face as he activated the projector and a picture came up and the angry faces of the UEDC all appeared on the screen, "Ladies and Gentleman, the council has recently decided the fate of all those on board the SDF-1," Donald gave the words time to sink in.

"They want you all off the planet, and they want all those ships orbiting to be pulled back to Earth and used to defend the Earth," a few voices broke put, but Donald kept talking, "an I know that a dozen vessels wouldn't make a difference against the Zentraedi, but they want them." Donald stopped and looked around at the people assembled before him and for a second Jacob thought he saw his father look at him with a frighten, almost fatherly look, but as soon as it was there it was gone.

Lisa looked at her father and Jacob could read the look, "What are we going to do? I mean we can't just leave, and then give up our only support, can we?" Everyone nodded their heads and Jacob found himself questioning what they were going to do in their present situation, it seemed that if they didn't leave that they would be attacked by forces on the planet, and if they did, they would be attacked by the Zentraedi more and more in space.

Donald smiled a little and he pulled out a CD and turned the projector off and hit another button and a screen opened up and revealed a computer and a very sophisticated looking broadcasting system, Donald looked at Jacob and pointed towards the computer, "Lieutenant Evers, I would like you to hack into the UEG main broadcasting system and play this recording, I think it's about time that the people of Earth know what they are having to face," he said with a determined look.

Jacob went to the computer and grabbed a spare chair that he hadn't seen in the corner and set to work, he did what he had to do and he did it quickly, he was good at what he did. It took Jacob all of maybe five minutes to get into the system, 'The boys in the UEG don't know what is out there,' Jacob thought all the while smiling to himself. Jacob put the disk into the broadcasting system and waited for Admiral Hayes to give him the go ahead, "Now Lieutenant Evers I want you to broadcast this on every communication frequency on the whole planet," Jacob quietly hit the enter key and watched as his handy work started to take root and the broadcast went out all over the globe.

Admiral Hayes turned on a TV that no one had noticed before and turned it on and everyone saw Admiral Hayes face and they listened intently for the entire broadcast, when it was done everyone let the comprehension of what had just happened sink in. The response by the UEG was almost immediate; the launch of squadrons of conventional fighters didn't go unnoticed by the very experienced radar technicians on the SDF-1, and the alert klaxons went off and the pilots started to scramble for their fighters, saddened that they were fighting their own kind, but determined to do the job at hand.

The UEG fighters, most of them anyway, had seen the broadcast and were not too keen on fighting very experienced pilots of the RDF and most of them were reluctant still to even attack other humans with so many aliens threatening their planet, and so most of them privately told the SDF-1 that they would not attack and would hang back and join the RDF, but the few that hadn't seen the broadcast continued to streak for the SDF-1 and most of them had their lives ended before they could get off even a missile.

The fighters that had decided to join were told to ditch their planes into the ocean and just eject and wait for a pick up by the rescue teams. An as the rescue teams worked to get the ever increasing number of pilots going into the drink, a much different situation was unfolding in the Battleship of Breetai, he looked at his dwarfish advisor, "Exedore, what was that broadcast we just watched?" Exedore analyzed it for a few more minutes and finally looked back up at Breetai.

"It would appear milord that the Micronians are preparing for us in a way we never thought, revolution; they are going to over throw one government in order to make their military position stronger. These micronians are a strange lot indeed." Exedore explained to Breetai who seemed to be in deep thought. As he stood thinking about many things one thing kept playing it's self over and over in his head, more and more of his warriors were refusing to fight the micronians because they began to figure that they were more alike then they had thought before.

"Exedore, I think that we are in a position were if we continue to fight against the micronians any longer, we will end up having the largest desertion in the whole Zentraedi history on out hands, more and more of our warriors refuse to fight, so I think we would be better off allied ourselves with the micronians," Exedore nodded his head, he already knew what his commander was going to ask, he already set in coordinates for the SDF-1.

Breetai stopped turned to Exedore, "Have Azonia and Khyron locked up and jam all transmissions just so they don't alert Dolza to our plan, which would be disastrous." Exedore nodded and smiled as he relayed the orders, he didn't much care for Khyron, and Azonia wasn't on his good side to often either.

Admiral Hayes was talking to one of the downed pilots when he was interrupted by the sounds of people hurrying and shuffling around, he got up and grabbed a private, "What the hell is going on?" He asked the scared looking private, "A Zentraedi battlecruiser entered the Earth's atmosphere about an hour ago, and a rebellion against the UEG began about thirty minutes ago too sir, it would appear that Earth got your message." Admiral Hayes let go of the private, he had never suspected that he would start a rebellion an he thought a minutes more and realized he knew he would.

Donald mad his way to the secondary bridge and walked in and found Gloval sitting chatting amiably with a Zentraedi with a large part of his face covered with a cowl to hide obvious wounds that he had received from some battle, and as he walked in he became angry that Gloval was talking to the Zentraedi and stormed over to Gloval and demanded to know what was going on.

Henry looked at Donald and just nodded his head and coolly explained that Breetai was offering an alliance with the SDF-1, and the most important thing he was offering was the use of over one million vessels. Donald let his jaw slacken a little. He looked at the monitor and saw Breetai smile, "An I think you will find what I am about offer you most...interesting," Donald turned his attention to the alien and listened as he told him about a huge factory that could be captured easily from a Zentraedi fleet guarding, and if captured, it could provide the humans with an industrial boost the equivalent to the combined industries of North and South America and Europe combined.

Donald couldn't help but letting his eyes bulge a little and his jaw drop. He nodded his head and looked at Gloval, it was then he found himself thinking that they had a chance after all and that this might be the salvation that humanity was looking for.

A/N: Okay another chapter down don't know if it was too short, but next chapter there will be some romance and some fighting. Sorry for taking so long, but I will get back to my regular schedule, or at least I will try. An I have two ideas for now, and if anyone wants to tell me what they think of them e-mail me at or IM me on AOL at Hospitaller1296.

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