fanfic_name = What If

chapter = Chapter XIII

author = Knights Templar

Rating = AP15

Type = Adventure

fanfic = What If

A/N: Well I have decided that this story is going to take a bit of a drastic turn, some of it may not be believable, but you'll just have to bear with me. Some parts might be better than others, but anyway, I am going to make this interesting.

Jacob sat down on a park bench and just looked around taking in all the scenery of Macross Park. It had been three; almost four months since Breetai had allied with the SDF-1, and since then there had been little fighting except with the Botoru Battalion and the Quadronos. The Quadronos had attacked and were led by Miriya; she felt that it was treacherous of Breetai to ally with the SDF-1.

An yet again she had been beaten in battle by Max Sterling, an she felt humiliated once again and vowed herself vengeance upon him, but as the micronization process was underway, a space fold was initiated and the Micronization Chamber and the Space Fold engines interacting so close to one another caused a slight malfunction to occur.

Two Miriya's were spawned from the micronization chamber. This not only shocked the personal assigned to work the chambers, but it shocked Miriya too, who was only slightly thrown at having an identical copy of herself, an she had set out to reap her vengeance on Max for defeating her.

An as the story goes, Max had met one of the Miriya's at the arcade and had asked her to meet him in the park later that night. She agreed only after having been beaten by him in the arcades.

When she met him she tried to kill him and he defeated her, and, so far as Jacob knew, he asked her to marry him right then and there. Jacob laughed, it was wild when Max's Miriya and the other Miriya had come to heads in a restaurant, the other Miriya still hell bent on killing Max.

What occurred was a battle between two identical looking women, an the outcome was one where a certain veritech pilot, who happened to be Jacob's friend, Steven Cymry walked in on the fight and ended up knocking out the other Miriya in self defense.

He laughed again as he found out later from Steven that she now lived with him, because she too was intrigued with human interaction. Jacob threw his head back and gave a laugh that made him feel better.

Jacob watched the children play for a short time longer and decided he was gonna go find Rick and ask him if he wanted to go hang out tonight, invite Max, Ben, and maybe a few others.

He walked to the RDF barracks and went to Rick's quarters, he knocked on the door and waited for a minute and heard some rustling. He was greeted with a even more than normal disheveled Rick. Rick scratched his head.

"I catch you at a bad time?" Jacob asked him as Rick stood with the blank face and glassed over eyes that easy gave away the fact that he had been asleep. Rick shook his head quickly and opened his eyes and closed them and gave them a quick rub, he looked at Jacob a bit more awake and registered his question.

"Naw, it's ok, I wasn't doing anything important," Rick told him as he tried to get the wrinkles out of his t-shirt.

Jacob looked at him and stuck his hands in his pockets, "Hey, if you aren't busy you wanna go grab a couple of the guys and go out for a cold one?" Jacob asked him, having nothing better to do. How he missed combat patrol.

Rick studied the freakishly tall man and gave a shrug, "Yeah, let's go, Lisa's busy with the girl's anyway, so I don't have anything better to do."

Rick and Jacob walked off down the hall towards Max's new quarters, they knocked on his door and waited, Max came out with an apron on handling a pan in one hand and trying to explain the nuances of a telephone with the other.

Rick and Jacob laughed and Max did too, he was good-natured and handled it well. They told him their plan and as expected when he opened the door, he wasn't going to be able to do anything. They exchanged good- byes and smelled smoke in the air and Max ran off to the kitchen.

The two shared another laugh as they walked away from Max's and made their way to Ben's whom on arrival was found to be out womanizing, Jacob gave a laugh and Rick rolled his eyes, he didn't want to have to bail out Ben again.

They made their way to Roy's in a last chance effort to enlarge the group, and were very happy to see that he was there and was more than willing to go and drink the night away with the two other pilots. He grabbed a clean shirt and they made off for the town to do some drinking.

Donald Hayes was back from the SDF-1, which was still floating around in the ocean, and was quickly taking command of the situation that he had caused, and he wanted no part in.

Donald didn't like the position he had been thrust into as Earth's "Informer," and if he had known that he would be out in such a hefty and responsibility heavy job, he would have found someone better to plaster their face on the transmission. But like a soldier he endured and carried on.

T.R. Edwards walked up to Donald and handed him a report, that he said in no uncertain terms, "Put the whole god-damn world in your god-damn hand," Edwards said frank as ever. Donald frowned; he didn't like the way this was going.

"Edwards, what is the mobilization situation like at this point?" Donald asked.

Edwards looked at Donald and arched an eyebrow, "Well Admiral, since there no more need to hide it there are thousand and thousands of workers reporting in at heavily industrialized sectors all over Earth, sir, I mean in Detroit alone over one hundred thousand people have moved there to help mobilize and the story is the same all over the industrialized world."

Donald felt his mood lighten a little, at least the people of Earth were responding to what he had asked them, Edwards continued, "An enlistment at military bases all over the world has raised tremendously most of them reporting in to RDF enlistment stations set up all over the world, I think the preliminary figures estimate that about two million new soldiers are finishing and another million plus are in training," Edwards was obviously happy, but he had no real idea of what they were up against.

Breetai paced the bridge of his battle cruiser, Exedore watching intently all the while, "What seems to be bothering you milord?" Exedore asked, forever faithful to his superior's needs and moods.

"Exedore," Breetai began, "I am not sure of the micronians will get as many ships up into space as they can before Dolza is tipped off to our plan," Breetai hurried out, thinking of a way to boost the micronians production of warships, something he himself could not comprehend.

Exedore played with an idea in his head, he had been for quite some time now and didn't know if he particularly liked what he was about to say, but he knew he had to mention it, "Milord, what about the Satellite Factory, it could easily assemble the micronians ships in much faster time then they themselves can..." Exedore's trailed off.

Breetai whirled around and gave Exedore a hard look, "Do you think the micronians could manage such a task by themselves," Breetai asked him. Helping the micronians at this point would "tip their hand," as the micronians were fond of saying, and alert Lord Dolza to the real situation.

Exedore thought for a moment and exhaled, "Well milord, it would take every vessel they posses to defeat the light force assembled there, and then towing it back is an entirely different issue, I don't think they have the capabilities, do you?" Exedore asked him.

"Well, we can tow it back for them, that is not the problem, the real problem is can they win, I think with over fifty vessels and the SDF-1 they could win, don't you?" Breetai answered and asked.

Exedore nodded his head, "Yes milord I do think they could win, but can they hold that position till we arrive?" Breetai looked away, he was going to need to talk to Captain Gloval and Admiral Hayes.

Admiral Hayes and Captain Gloval both wore wide-eyed expression as they can out of their video conference with Breetai, Henry was the first to respond, he looked at Roy, captain of the SDF-1, and Robotech Fleet, "Captain Fokker, I want you to assemble your best pilots, and I want you and Hunter, and Sterling, and Evers and everyone else who is capable of leading a squadron to get on putting together the best Robotech Air Wings (RAW) that we can get."

Admiral Gloval looked at Lisa and nodded his head, he wanted to tell her she was coming with him back to Earth, but she knew that her boyfriend was a pilot and that she would want to be with him during this assault, it was going to be a helluva ride.

Rick reported in for the first time and looked at his new Vermillion Squadron, or for this assault, also known as the 16th Veritech Assault Squadron, he looked over and say Max tinkering with a new assault missile that R&D had cooked up, supposed to use a protoculture-fueled explosive device that was reminiscent of a nuclear device as well.

Max looked over and saw his buddy standing next to his fighter, Rick was commanding a very fine squadron, made up of the best pilots that could be found in the SDF-1 and Robotech Fleet (RF), Max himself was in command of the 11th Veritech Assault Squadron that had the new Apocalypse Assault Missiles that had just been rolled off the production line.

Jacob ambled over to Max and helped him run a last minute look over the new "toys"; Jacob too was in command of a VAS (Veritech Assault Wing), the 8th. Everyone was preparing to launch for the largest outer space offensive ever undertaken by mankind ever, or since the Blitzkrieg by Gloval on the rings of Jupiter (correct planet, j/w).

But the highest prestigious honor was held for Roy, he was in command of the 1st VAS, and he wouldn't let anyone hear the end of it, and by the time the operation was about to start, even Captain Gloval was tired of hearing about it.

Jacob walked back to his fighter and made sure everything was in order, as he guided over his plane he didn't notice Rick behind him, and Jacob suddenly felt as if this was going to be his last mission, he made the sign of the cross and prayed to god. Rick watched all of this and he too crossed himself, he thought maybe it would help him get back alive, having never been very religious he wasn't keen on rotting in hell, not the lack of effort anyway.

Jacob got up and walked over to Rick, he held out his hand and Rick grabbed it and shook it hard, they had the same target area and would be riding into the guns of the Zentraedi warships together.

Rick went back to his fighter and strapped himself in for the space fold that was to land them right onto the Zentraedi forces defending the satellite. As he sat there he started to feel his stomach get queasy, and then a blinding light told him that they were jumping.

He opened his eyes and could hear the alert klaxons and Lisa's voice telling all fighters to launch and prepare for attack on enemy position. The fighters started to launch from all the ships in the RF, and the SDF-1 was putting them out as fast a possible, Jacob quickly found himself next for catapult launch.

He punched the throttle and the catapult launched him into the voids of space. He grabbed the stick tighter and made his way for Rick's and his squadrons. When he got there he found his space in the front of the wedge formation open, next to Rick's.

Rick flashed him a thumbs up and Jacob returned the gesture, they both knew that they were in for a rough fight and that there was a real good chance now, more than ever, that they could get it now. Lisa's voice then came over the tac net.

"This is control to all Assault Squadron's, repeat this is control to all assault squadrons, the estimated enemy strength is at one hundred vessels of all types, we are counting on you to soften them up for us." With that said Lisa's face disappeared.

Rick groaned over the tac net and Jacob gave a chuckle, they didn't have long to banter around, the first Zentraedi warships were coming into Apocalypse range and already Rick was firing one of the two strapped to the underside of the Veritech.

Jacob too fired one in another area so as to not have the wave of destruction concentrated in one area. The pilots watched on closely as thirty heavy ship busters hurtled their way towards the unknowing, and seemingly uncaring Zentraedi warships.

Rick smirked and Jacob couldn't help but suppress a smile, the Zentraedi realized too late that these weren't any ordinary weapons, but by that time three hundred heavy, almost nuclear like explosions went off in a blinding fury surprising the Zentraedi and destroying a dozen, and severely damaging almost twice that number.

The follow up barrage had almost the same effect, wiping out the severely damaged ships, bringing the total to an estimated thirty or so Zentraedi vessels. The Zentraedi, though surprised were in for more, on all frequencies, the broadcast of that day when Lisa upstaged Minmei on television played over and over again ad utterly disoriented the Zentraedi.

This allowed the rest of the fighters to launch and the RF to move in closer and get in a heavy barrage before the Zentraedi began to jam the signals and fight back, but by this time, more than half their number was destroyed. The Zentraedi launched their fighters and a huge melee ensued as Veritech and Battlepods fought it out in space.

Rick banked hard right, trying to lose the BP that was tailing him, but as he looked back he saw that it was still on his six and wasn't showing any signs of giving up. Rick yanked back on the stick and increased speed to as fast as the VT could handle and pulled an Immelman flying right at the surprised, and doomed, Zentraedi.

Rick rode through the fireball and spotted Max, Miriya, Ben, and Jacob making a run on a Zentraedi Cruiser. They were on about their third pass when Rick came screaming in and delivered a hammer blow of missiles to a length of the cruiser, whose hull integrity was now severely compromised and was quickly coming apart.

The small group hit the burners and made away from the dying cruiser and saw it go up in a flash, like a roman candle, but also saw two human destroyers blow up in the wake of an intense Zentraedi barrage. Rick made for the offending ships, and the others followed. They weren't done yet.

A/N: Yes I am ending on combat, so that means it will start on combat. HURRAH! Anyway, this was a loveless chapter, but everyone has a few. So anyway, I like the way this is going and as always R&R, and I am always open to suggestion, helpful criticism, not flames. IM on AIM at Hospitaller1296, and drop me an e-mail at

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