fanfic_name = What If

chapter = Chapter IX

author = Knights Templar

Rating = AP15

Type = Adventure

fanfic = What If

A/N: I feel that there are a few things that need to be cleared up before I leave tomorrow. Riber can't do anything to the SDF-1, they do have a weapon that could knock out shuttles, and a Battloid would waste Riber. But Riber for now serves my purposes.

Jacob sat in the observation lounge with a cup of coffee. It had been two months since he had first arrived. He had barely seen Lisa since his first day of combat other than from the bridge and the occasional times when they'd have some coffee. She was spending a lot of time with Rick, which was ok with him, Rick was good guy.

Jacob looked out at Earth and realized that he needed to make some friends. He was a fun guy; he should've been able to make friends easily. Jacob decided he would go see what Max and Ben where up to, they seemed nice enough.

Jacob got up and made his way to the Little White Dragon, Max and Ben seemed to like to hang out there. Jacob got to the street and hailed down a cab and made his way to the Little White Dragon.

As Jacob walked up to the Little White Dragon he opened the door and saw the little Asian girl who Lisa had beat the crap out of. Her face was almost perfect except her nose seemed a little crooked. Jacob looked around and saw Max and Ben in a corner of the restaurant.

Jacob walked over to them, "Hey guys, what's up?" Max and Ben looked at him, Max smiled, and Ben just looked at him. "So, you guys mind if I sit down?" Jacob asked nervously. Max smiled and Ben smiled too, "Yeah sure take a seat..." Max looked at Jacob's name tag, "Evers, take a seat Evers."

Jacob gave them quick thanks and sat down and the little Asian girl made her way over to the table seeing a new person sit down. "Hello, I'm Minmei, what can I get for you?" Jacob risked looking her in the eyes and saw that she didn't remember him at all.

"Yeah, I'll have some coffee, and an umm, what are you having Ben, oh never mind just give me what Ben's having." Minmei smiled and came back a few minutes later with Jacob's coffee and food. Jacob looked at the food and realized he was starving.

"So, Evers, do you have a first name?" Max asked with a casual grin. Jacob smiled as he took a bite, "Yeah, Jacob, and Max I must say it's great to fly with you, you're something else out there man." Max smiled and nodded his head, "Well, it's nothing."

Jacob couldn't help but smiling, Max was so modest, "So Ben, what's up with you?" Jacob asked Ben who was stuffing food in his mouth at a tremendous rate. "Nothing, can't talk, food," Ben managed between bites.

Max and Jacob laughed, and Ben just shrugged. "So Max, what do you think about the new pilots, I mean not that their so new anymore. But since you seem to be the best out there, you gotta have an opinion on how they manage." Max put down his drink and looked at Jacob and thought a minute.

"Well the 'New Hands' as we like to call them seem to have finally come into their own. I mean they still have a lot to learn, but they will get a lot better. An I hear that they are bringing up more Cadets and they want to have Rick give them all lessons. Poor guy, last time he tried they made him look a fool."

Jacob and Max enjoyed a good laugh, Ben was too busy eating. "Well he'd have to split his time between Lessons, flying, and Lisa. I don't think Lisa'd fly for that idea. But then again, maybe he'd hurry up and ask her to marry him so that they could move into a bigger place," Max said, Jacob laughed, "An they could finally stop making up stories about sleeping with each other, half the time I dunno if they are embarrassed or if they think I'll get mad, an to be honest, it's not my place to get mad."

Max gave a deep laugh, and Jacob smiled. "Well Jacob I don't know if Rick and Lisa have gone that far, but I think they both have enough integrity to wait, especially Rick, he knows about Lisa's father an that's enough to scare any man."

Jacob sighed as he thought about Rick and Lisa, they were a perfect couple. Lisa mellowed out Rick perfectly, and Rick made Lisa show her fun self more. "So Jacob did you hear that they are thinking of having a second Miss Macross pageant?" Jacob looked up and gave a smile; he should get Lisa to try.

"Yeah, that'd be nice for all us 'New Hands' that keep coming up. How many have come up already, two-three hundred?" Max nodded his head, "Yeah that sounds about right, the more the better, am I also hear that they have finally completed a few ships an are gonna send them up here to help us."

Jacob's eyes widened, "Well, that's good to hear, can stop being the only one's doing all the fighting. Where are the ships coming from?" Max cocked his head and scratched his head, "Well I think they are coming from the re- fitted Detroit and New York ship yards." Jacob gave another nod.

Jacob would have talked more with Max if it hadn't been for a civvie that recognized him as the one with Lisa when she beat Minmei. Most people didn't seem to care that Minmei had been wiped out. She hadn't even had her first concert and she had to cancel because she acted like a child and tried to pick a fight with a military women, so for the most part, many people didn't care.

"Hey that's the one that was with the bitch that beat Minmei," A few people shifted and looked at him and Jacob knew it was probably a good time to make a move for the door. But as he got up to move he was cut off by a few civvies.

"Where d' ya think your goin asshole?" The man said in his face, "I think we need to teach you a little lesson bub." The man didn't even finish his sentence before he took a swing at Jacob, but Jacob wasn't there. He had side stepped and punched the man in the face taking him down.

The next guy came charging at Jacob and took heavy swing at his head, but Jacob ducked and landed a punch to the man's stomach and the man doubled over. But the other civvies were now getting into the fight and one of them came up from behind him and got him in a bear hug while another civvie took a swing at Jacob's face.

Jacob pushed back against the man who had him in a hold and jumped and kicked the other man in the head, but couldn't get out of the hold. Jacob felt himself being moved towards the window, and before he knew what was happening he was flying through the air, and out the window.

Jacob landed with a thud on the sidewalk in a shower of glass. Jacob shook his head and opened his eyes and saw people looking at him. As he got up woozily, he felt someone touch his shoulder and Jacob tensed and jumped and turned ready to face his opponent. It was Lisa and Rick.

"What was that? Did you just get thrown out the window?" Jacob nodded his head, with a sour look on his face, "Hold on I'll be right back," Jacob walked back into the Little White Dragon and a minute later three civvies came flying out the window's, but unlike Jacob, they didn't get up.

Jacob, Max, and Ben all came out of the restaurant laughing, Jacob walked over to the pile of people with Max, leaned down and said, "You just got knocked the fuck out," both Max and Jacob laughed like school children.

"Whew that was fun; I just wish I hadn't gotten thrown out the window that kinda smarts." Ben gave a hearty laugh and padded Jacob on the back hard, "You know your not that bad and any time you want to hang out with me and my little buddy Max here, just feel free to tag along." Jacob smiled, he appreciated it a lot.

Jacob looked at his watch and saw it was about seven P.M. Jacob thought for a moment and realized that he didn't have duty till tomorrow afternoon. "Well if you guys will excuse me, I don't have duty till tomorrow afternoon; I think I'll go settle my nerves. Would any of you care to join me?"

Max and Ben both nodded their heads, but Lisa and Rick balked, "We have the early shift tomorrow, an make sure you don't get to messed up, your still on call." Jacob laughed and waved as he walked away, "Yeah thanks dad," Jacob placed a comical emphasis on dad and turned around.

Lisa paused and her facial expression changed for a second and looked at Jacob who had an innocent look on his face. Jacob saw the look and cocked his head to the side and gave Lisa a confused look. Lisa shook her head and smiled to Jacob, 'He was just joking that's all,' Lisa thought.

The group started to go their separate ways when a loud voice stopped both groups and both parties realized that something bad was about to happen. "Hey you!" The voice sounded behind them and Jacob's group turned, "Hey what," came the smart ass reply from Jacob.

"You just trashed my restaurant, you're gonna have to pay for what you broke," Minmei came walking up to Jacob." Jacob shook his head and gave Minmei a dismissive glance and started to walk away. That may have been the end of it, but Minmei gave a wail and walked up to Jacob and kicked him square in the groin.

Jacob's faced contorted in pain and he dropped to his knees. His vision started to blur and the landed on his side in a fetal position. Jacob felt his world going blurry and then heard a laugh and saw Minmei through his blurry eyes laughing at him, an Jacob got mad.

Jacob got back up on his wobbly legs and he made a move for Minmei, but he felt himself get nauseous, and he threw up right there. But Jacob wouldn't have to wait for revenge; Lisa took care of that for him as she landed a hard slap to Minmei's face dropping her to the floor.

Jacob got up and made his way the few yards to the nearest bar, got to the stool and sat down. "What'll ya have flyboy?" The man behind the counter asked. Jacob still feeling sick with the pit in his stomach looked at the man and told him to give him the vodka, and to leave the bottle.

The man nodded his head and brought the vodka and a shot glass to Jacob and he made his way to a table and sat down and poured himself a shot. Jacob drank the Vodka and closed his eye's and heard the sound of chairs scraping on the floor and opened his eyes to see the four he had just left.

"How ya feelin'?" Ben asked stupidly.

"Oh great, just great, I mean you take a square shot to the nuts from some sixteen year old egotistical bitch and tell me how you feel," Jacob said taking another shot.

"I dunno if it's such a good idea to drink after...er what happened," Lisa put in.

Jacob just looked at Lisa and stuck his tongue out at her playfully, "Yes ma'am Commander, I'll do that when you get drunk with me." Lisa gave an exasperated sigh and muttered something to the effect of, "Men are impossible."

Jacob looked at the other people at the table and asked if any would want to see who could hold their liquor the best, "Hey sure, I got nothing better to do," Max chimed in and Ben nodded his head.

Jacob got two more shot glasses and filled them with Vodka and all three of them took a shot. They repeated this process three more times and Ben shook his head an declared he was out. Max took another shot and looked at Jacob, he didn't even look flustered.

"Damn, you can hold you alcohol," Max admitted knowing that he had been beat. Jacob chuckled and put down the glass and gave his attention to a female pilot that walked by the table. Jacob smiled and got up, checked his uniform and looked at the woman, Max followed his gaze nudged him, "Not a chance hot shot, you'll get shot down in flames," Max said grinning.

Jacob gave Max a sly look, "We'll see, I bet you and Ben twenty bucks I could score with her before tonight is out. Max and Ben both pulled out their wallets and pulled out a twenty, "Your on you egotistical bastard," Ben said. Rick smiled and Lisa scowled.

Jacob go up and walked over to the woman and sat down next to her, knowing that the table was watching him, he looked over at her and smiled and she smiled back, 'Well, step one down, no start a conversation,' Jacob thought.

"So, can I get you a drink?" Jacob asked casually. The woman looked at him, "Well Jacob, it's been a long time. You disappear and then come back and offer to buy me a drink, an after you left me waiting for you." Jacob winced, Wendy was right, he had stood her up.

"Well...um...I can...I mean...aww shit," Jacob managed to get out. Wendy gave Jacob a look, "Well I guess I can forgive cause your so damn cute," Wendy smiled. Jacob's face was one of shock and exuberance. "An is this any way to treat your old lover huh Jacob?" Wendy didn't miss a beat she pulled Jacob in for a kiss.

Jacob smiled inwardly and knew he had nailed it, he was forty bucks richer. They broke the kiss and Jacob risked a glance at the table he had been at and saw Max and Ben groan, Rick shake his head and Lisa continue to scowl. "Hey Wendy, want to meet some friends of mine?"

Wendy nodded her head in affirmation. They got up and walked over to the table and Jacob introduced Wendy, "Rick, Lisa, Max, and Ben, this is Wendy. Wendy this is...the other people," Jacob said waving his hand at the table.

"Hey wait a minutes," Ben said, "you know her?" Jacob gave a nod, "Yeah, you think I would try any of that stupid stuff on a woman I didn't know?" Jacob wore a mock hurt look. "Why guys I am shocked that you would think I am a chauvinist asshole," Jacob smiled and Wendy wrapped her arms around him, "Hey, want to go do something fun?"

Jacob smiled, he liked the way Wendy said "fun", "Hell yeah, lets rock and roll!" Jacob said and left the table with Rick, Ben, and Max smiling and Lisa rolling her eyes at the typical male behavior.

A/N: Sorry for the short chapter, I have been busy but I will make up for it. This sets me up for some very good chapters ahead like a second Miss Macross contest with a certain Commander being entered, the run by a psycho to enter the SDF-1 and a then comes the Forces of Arms and a few others. So anyway please R&R, I am going to have some very good chapters ahead.

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