Disclaimer: I do not own Robotech or Macross. Neither do I own any Mecha from either series or the characters. Nor do I own Macross: Do you Remember Love...
Author Note:
This is going to be a "what if..." fic. Basically the Robotech version of Macross: DYRL and so that means that Rick and Lisa's relationship starts a lot earlier in the series, a lot earlier indeed. Also this shall start up about right after Rick, Lisa, Ben, and Max's return to the SDF-1 and end about the start of the second space arc of the series. Also Lisa and Rick's relationship at this point is a little bit more then it was during the series. Well enough of my babbling time to get writing…
Robotech: Frozen in Time
Lisa Hayes sat in her bed thinking of that kiss. Her feelings turn from Karl to the pilot Rick Hunter. She felt a deep love for him that she didn't know before. Lisa leaned over to the side of her bed and picked up a picture, it was a picture of her and Karl before he left for Mars Base Sara.
"Good-bye Karl," She whispered to the picture as she sits the picture face down on her dresser. Suddenly the door beeped announcing a visitor. Lisa wiped her eyes and went to answer it. It was her good friend Claudia Grant, still wearing her dark green duty uniform.
"Are you alright Lisa?" Claudia asked with a worried tone. Lisa turned and sat down on her bed.
"Yes, but I may need your help Claudia. I'm sure you heard how we escaped the Zentraedi ship, also you read my report on our interrogation?" She asked and with a raised eyebrow Claudia nodded wondering were this was going.
"Well I think I'm if love but I don't know how to approach it," She said making Claudia's mouth opening in surprise. Then she snapped it close, as it became clear.
"Oh my god your in love with Lieutenant Hunter aren't you?" Claudia asked with a giggle, and in response Lisa just nodded with a blush.
"Well…well…well I guess you better wait int'l you are sure that he loves you in return," Claudia stated with a motherly smile.
"But Claudia what happens if he doesn't love me back, I have already lost one love interest and I don't want to lose another." She said as she picked up Karl's picture again looking at it. Claudia quickly figured what she meant and sat by her and threw an arm around Lisa's shoulders.
"Don't worry Roy is going over there to check up on Rick, I'm sure if Rick does have a thing for you he will tell Roy. You know how close the two are." Claudia said as she gently took the picture from Lisa and sat it down on her nightstand yet again.
On the other side of the base Rick Hunter was indeed thinking Lisa. He was thinking about both the one kiss in front of the Zentraedi Commanders and in the cell. He knew that he would never have Menmei since she was star and it took an arm and a leg to see her. But as he thought more of his relationship with Menmei he figured that he looked at Menmei more as a little sister then anything else. But this new love he had for Lisa was something else entirely and vowed that he would treat her with a little more respect. Suddenly his door beeped announcing that he had a visitor. Rick got up to answer the door and saw that it was his "Big Brother" Roy Fokker.
"Yeah Rick you doing alright?" Roy asked with concern. Rick nodded as he took a seat on his bed again with his face in his hands. Roy sat down next to him with some fatherly concern or more of a brotherly concern for his young protégéé.
"I'm fine Roy, just I think I'm in love but I am confused with it. I already figured that the love I have for Menmei is just some sort of brotherly love not a real love. But this new woman makes me feel more…. Alive." He said as he tried to find the word. Roy beside him blinked in surprise and then grinned.
"You are in love with Commander Hayes, I'm I right Rick?" Roy asked with a laugh. Rick blushed and nodded answering the question.
"Well…well…well I'm surpised it took this long Rick, but something is still bothering you bro, what is it?" Roy asked with a frown sensing that something was wrong.
"Well first of all Roy, I'm not sure that she likes me, secondly she outranks me and is older then I am." Rick stated with a frown. Roy just nodded and then laughed surprising Rick.
"Well first Rick you have to look into your heart, second look at me and Claudia does that answer that for you." Roy said with a smile and got up to leave.
"And Rick please don't follow my footsteps with your love live, follow your fathers. Second, start off by taking her out to dinner, if she refuses then that's it, but if she says yes then you can continue the relationship." Roy said then left leaving Rick in his own thoughts.
In Claudia's quarters the couple sat down and compared notes with each other on the relationship with Lisa and Rick. Both smiled evilly as they reward themselves with wine and a dinner. Then they proceeded to fall asleep together with their arms wrapped around themselves.
Rick strapped into his rebuilt red and white Veritech was on patrol with the rest of Vermilion Team. Max and Ben in their respective blue and orange Veritechs were on his wing. Rick looked around and saw nothing to report around him. Suddenly, his COMM came alive as Lisa contacted him from the bridge of the SDF-1.
"Vermilion One report your status please?" Lisa asked from his right lateral COMM screen. Rick gritted his teeth as he thought over what Roy told him to do.
Better do it now, but still it is on an open channel. What if she says no and brings me up on charges? What if she laughs? Oh no I can't do it! Rick thought with panic. But he quickly calmed himself down and looked around. Suddenly Lisa cried out from the COMM screen.
"Vermilion One, are you even listening?" Lisa said with a tone of anger. Rick gulped and turned his attention to the COMM screen.
"Sorry, Commander nothing to report, but Lisa…" He said but stopped in the middle of the sentence.
JUST DO IT HUNTER! He screamed at himself.
"…Would like to have dinner with me at the Macross Electra." Rick stammered over his line that Roy gave him. He blushed turned away from the screen inspecting either a no or a scream of rage. But neither happened so he turned back to see Lisa staring back at him wide-eyed. Her stern look had melted away being replaced with a stunned look. Rick then notice how beautiful she was with from hair on down.
On the bridge of the SDF-1, Lisa sat frozen at her station looking at Rick wondering if she heard what she thought she heard from him. Claudia was chuckling lightly next to her at her own station. Captain Gloval who was drinking some coffee at the time that Rick asked her out, now he was wiping away coffee from his face and quietly ordered somebody to clean the mess up from the floor in front of him. A tech quickly complied and wiped up the puddle.
"Umm… Lisa are you alright?" Rick asked again. Lisa still sat stunned at her station.
Oh my god, I'm I dreaming, did Rick Hunter just ask me out for a date. Lisa thought to herself. Suddenly Claudia was at her side and guessing what happened punched her lightly in her arm bringing Lisa back to Earth. She then realized that Rick was staring back at her waiting for an answer, she could tell that he was getting inpatient by the way he was twitching. She realized that the ENTIRE Bridge crew was looking at her with grins on their faces, even Captain Gloval was grinning as he got another cup of Coffee. Meanwhile the Trio, Sammie, Kim, and Vanessa were giggling at each other. Lisa was now blushing from head to toe.
"Answer him Lisa!" Claudia hissed from beside her. Lisa snapped out of it and turned back to Rick with a shy smile of her face and a small blush on her face.
"I'll be glad to go Rick, what time would you pick me up?" She asked Rick, she saw that he was relieved and quickly smiled back.
"Umm… 19:00 would be good, since that gives me time to make the reservations." He replied with a smile. Lisa just chuckled since she sensed that he wasn't expecting any answer from her.
"Right see you then Rick," Lisa said with a smile of her own that she saw made Rick literally melt in his chair. She then signed off and the entire bridge crew cheered. Claudia leaned over and grinned at her.
"Told you so Lisa," Claudia said with a smile. Lisa blushed again, but she was worrying again, since she didn't think she had anything nice to wear since the Electra was a nice and fancy restaurant in Macross. She made a note to ask Claudia for advice after the shift if she could help. Once the cheering died down she turned back to her station now back into work mode.
Back out in space, Rick did a few loops for the hell of it. His two wingmates suddenly appeared on his lateral COMM screens.
"Jeez, boss what was that about," Ben said with a smile. Max on the other hand just smiled.
"Well, what happened boss?" Max asked with a smile knowing that something was up. Rick looked at both of his friends and was about to snap at them, but then he decided to tell them. Since they were his friends and his wingmates who trusts his life with everyday. They deserve to know what was going on.
"Well I just asked Commander Hayes out for a date at the Electra… and she said yes!" He said barely managing to contain his excitement. It was well know by his two friends that he had a crush on the Commander. Ben's looked surprised, but Max just smiled knowing what was going from a mile away ever since he found out about the kiss.
"Good Luck boss," Ben said with a smile as he recovered from his surprise. Max smiled but then it faded as their sensors lit up as enemy Pods appeared.
"Crap! Lieutenant, Pods at 9 O'clock Angel's High!" Ben yelled out in surprise. Rick nodded and switched his COMM over to the Command Channel.
"SDF-1, SDF-1 Vermilion One reporting enemy pods sighted permission to engage Control!" He yelled out as he started to maneuver to confuse the enemy. Lisa's face sprang up on his center COMM screen. This time it was all business for the couple.
"Roger that V-Leader you may engage at will," she ordered with her usual stern tone. But it disappeared as she started to worry about Rick.
"Please be careful Rick," Lisa said quietly to Rick. Rick nodded and gave her a smile.
"Don't worry Lisa, I'm to stubborn to die and also I finally got you to come back to don't I," he said with a grin. Lisa chuckled and smiled blowing him a kiss. Rick blushed and turned to the battle.
"Lisa launch the Veritechs, Claudia power up the barrier…" Gloval stood up from his chair coffee forgotten as he started to snapping out orders, but of course his well trained bridge crew were already in action. Gloval chuckled and sat back down in his chair. Luckily the SDF-1 was still in Attack mode so he didn't need the ship to Modular transform. With a few minutes after Hunter's report the SDF-1 was primed and ready, it's VTs screaming to intercept the enemy, while the Destroids were lumbering out of their own hangers to take position on the two flattops. Finally the barrier started up making four spots of light appear on the hull of the ship. Gloval smiled knowing very well that the two years that they spent on their way here to earth made his crew the fastest response then any other ship he had the pleasure of commanding.
"Captain enemy Pods heading towards us!" Reported Kim at her station. Gloval nodded getting up from his chair again.
"RIGHT! ALL UNITS FIRE!" He bellowed out, Lisa nodded and relayed the order to the Defender Destroids and the SDF-1s own A-A guns. Then the space in front of the SDF-1 lit up as tracers lit it up. Soon alien wreckage replaced the pods and Gloval allowed himself a smile.
Meanwhile Rick and the rest of the SDF-1s Veritech wing were fighting for their lives. Rick cursed as a tan and white ship blew up next to him. He brought his plane around trying to find his two wingmates. He quickly found Max because he like all ways was the center of the attention, so in other words he was in the center of a large group of pods. But Ben was trying to dodge a group of six pods on his tail. Rick growled as he dived into the battle taking on two of Ben's pursuers with his gunpod. Rick then dropped down behind the remaining four pods and unleashed a group of Hammerheads from their place on his wings.
"There you go big guy your clear, been careful for now on will you?" Rick said into his COMM. Ben on his right lateral COMM screen nodded clearly shaken about his near death experience. Then suddenly Roy's face sprang up on his center COMM screen.
"All Veritechs their retreating break off and return to base. Good job people another job well done," Roy said with a smile behind his faceplate. Rick nodded and turned his Veritech back to the SDF-1 following the blue thrusters' trails of the other Veritechs. His, wingmen came up on either side of him. Ben's VT looked like it was really beaten up, while Max's had not even a scratch on it. Rick nodded slowly counted the VTs returning to the SDF-1. They got off easily this time but still they took losses.
Back on the SDF-1's bridge the crew were slowly coming down from their high. Lisa looked up at the Gloval and caught his eye.
"Sir the Veritechs are heading back and they suffered over 25 causalities sir," Lisa reported to Gloval, she saw a look of sadness come across the Captain's face. Lisa nodded silent turned back to her station; she then looked for Vermilion Team and quickly found them at the rear of the formation. She sighed with relief when she saw the blip labeled with Vermilion One heading back to the ship.
Back in her quarters Lisa was fussing over what to wear. Of course it was rare for her since she usually wore a uniform or just jeans and a T-shirt when off-duty. Of course her inner-women was now surfacing. Something that was shut off since the death of her old fiancé Karl Riber at Mars. Now she was acting if she was teenager once more and Claudia who watching her couldn't help but laugh at her friend.
"Lisa…Lisa this is only your first date with the man!" Claudia exclaimed with a smile. Lisa stopped and looked over at her from the sea of clothes that she happened to be knee deep in.
"Well that's the reason why I want to be prefect Claudia," Lisa said with a frown with one of her old dresses in one hand and a nice strapless dress in the other hand. Claudia just sighed and stepped past Lisa and looked into Lisa'' surprising big closet. Suddenly a dress caught her eye that was stuffed in the back of the closet. She smiled and took it off the rack.
"Yeah Lisa how about this one?" Claudia said with a very nice satin light blue strapless dress with a silver lining around the edges. When Lisa saw it her eyes widened in surprise for it was the same dress that her mother wore on her own first date with her father. As if she was in a daze, took it from Claudia to inspect it further. She then smiled throwing the two dresses she had back into the closet.
"This is one Claudia," She stated quietly to her friend. Claudia nodded and helped Lisa put it on. What Claudia saw made her breath go away, for Lisa in the dress looked like a goddess.
"God Lisa you're beautiful in that, this is the prefect thing for Rick!" exclaimed Claudia with a smile leading Lisa to a mirror. Lisa couldn't believe her eyes for she looked almost exactly like her mother in the picture when she was in this dress. She could almost here her father's voice from back then when he saw her Mother.
"Right Lisa time to get down to business let's get you ready!" Claudia exclaimed as she pulled Lisa into the bathroom to finish the magic that Lisa was with the dress on.
Rick in his own quarters finished putting on his bow tie. He looked over to Roy who was sitting in a chair not far from the mirror for approval. His big brother just smiled and nodded his ascent. Rick took a quick look at his watch to see that he had better leave. So he started to head for the door but Roy stopped him with a glance.
"Rick don't forget the flowers," Roy informed his little brother. Rick hit his head and stepped back into the kitchenette to grab the dozen roses he bought earlier in the day. He then ran out of the room with Roy in tow. Roy closed the door and headed in the opposite direction of Rick.
Lisa heard the buzzer and took another look into the mirror to see if everything was good. Claudia, Sammie, and Kim smiled proudly behind her as they started clean up the mess they made to get Lisa ready for the date. Lisa looked at them with a worried glance.
"Don't worry Lisa we will take care of this, you need to get your man," Claudia said with a smile followed by Kim and Sammie. Lisa nodded and went to the door as the buzzer went off the second time. She opened the door and saw Rick standing there with a bouquet of a dozen roses in one hand and his other hand on the buzzer control. When she opened the door he froze up and looked on shocked staring at Lisa. Lisa smiled at him and decided to break his shocking experience.
"So Rick are these for me?" She asked with a smile. Rick then finally shook of his shock, and then nodded handing Lisa the roses.
"Am I dreaming?" Rick asked with a frown that was so cute that Lisa laughed in his face.
"No you're not dreaming Rick Hunter," Lisa said with a smile and pinch that made Rick flinch. He then smiled and gave Lisa the roses, then offered his arm, which Lisa took. Rick led Lisa to his car outside the base parked were his parking spot, which he had hardly timed to use anymore. But this was one of the few times that he had the time to use it since he usually drove a Military Jeep that came with his rank.
"After you malady," Rick said opening the door for her. Lisa smiled and slid into the passenger seat of the small yet powerful car that Rick owned.
"How come fighter pilots always love having a car like this?" Lisa asked with an eyebrow raised in question. Rick just chuckled as he slid into the driver seat not bothering to answer her. He smiled at her and started the car and revved the engine to answer Lisa's question. Lisa chuckled and sat back in her seat as he Rick pulled away from the base and headed towards Macross City.
Rick pulled into the Valet parking of the Electra, which was a very expensive restaurant, which dated to the time that Macross was on the Island. Rick stopped and got out running to the other side to help Lisa out but one of the Valets beats him to it. The heat Valet a blond haired stocky man walked over to him, and nodded to Rick. Rick smiled and handed his keys over to the man, who just frowned at him. Rick then took Lisa's arm and headed into the restaurant with its bright lights and brilliant music. The walls and the roof of the restaurant showed a sunrise, which was another EVE projection like the one above Macross. Rick walked up to the host stand and smiled at the little man behind the stand.
"Name please?" the man, asked in a nasal thick voice, which sounded like it went through a flute.
"Rick Hunter, for two," Rick answered with another smile. The man looked down at his list and saw Rick's at the bottom of the sheet. He nodded and motioned one of the hostesses over to him. The women dressed in a very expensive two piece dress came up to them and grabbed two menus from the slot on the side of the stand.
"Right this way Mr. Hunter," the women said as she took off in into the sea of table's before them. Rick and Lisa followed the women to a nice two-person table in a far corner of the restaurant. Rick thanked the women and pulled Lisa's chair out from the table then when Lisa was fully seated, he sat down himself. He opened the menu and started looking over the dishes. But Lisa just stared at him with a dreamy smile.
"So Rick what about Menmei, do you still love her?" Lisa questioned now back into her Commander mode. Rick surprised looked up at her and put down his menu.
"I still love her, I always will but she is more like a sister to me then any thing else. If you heard lately on the television she called me her very close friend instead of her boyfriend, even when that reporter threw the a question about me and her getting married." Rick answered truthfully as he gazed into Lisa green eyes. Lisa sighed and looked at the dance stage. Suddenly the music stopped and a very familiar man walked up to the mic.
"Ladies and Gentlemen it is a honor for me to present to you tonight the lovely Miss Macross herself Lynn-Menmei!" the man said into the MIC. Rick groaned and hit his head on the table since he forgot to check the restaurant's performance schedule. He was now afraid to look at Lisa, but he did anyway and saw that she was pissed- really pissed. But it melted as she started to cry and then she jumped up running for the bathroom. Rick stunned look at her seat for a like five minutes and then dropped his head into his arms. Suddenly slim hand fell onto his shoulder surprising him, at first he thought it was Lisa but it wasn't it was Menmei in a nice silver lace dress, who had just got down singing her two song performance.
"Hi, Rick why are so down and why are you alone I would thought that you be here with somebody?" Menmei said with a frown. Rick sighed and leaned back in his chair.
"I'm here with Lisa, but when she saw you come out she got pissed then got up and ran into the bathroom," he said with a sighed as he cover his face with his hands. Menmei just sighed and pulled a chair from a near by empty table. Her own feeling's she had for Rick is something else entirely then she first thought. She looked at him now as a really good friend then any thing else. Of course she sensed that Rick now knew that.
"So Menmei, please tell me now straight do you still love me?" Rick asked with his eyes closed. Menmei sighed and leaned forward towards the table.
"Rick I will always love you, but as a very good friend to me. Some one to lean against when times are bad and to hold hands with when that person needs it. Rick you a very, very close friend to me and you always be. I'm sorry I never told you this earlier but I thought you would hate me for it." she finished with another sigh. For the first time Rick felt whole and complete knowing what he had just heard. Rick nodded and held Menmei close to him.
"It is the same for me too Menmei, but mine is more of a brotherly love then anything else and no I am not mad at you." Rick said with a huge sigh of his own. Menmei sighed with relief as she hugged Rick.
"Yeah Menmei can you do me a favor and go get Lisa for me please?" he asked with a smile at him. She nodded with a smile and took off for the ladies bathroom. Rick smiled glad that he got that out of the way, now all he needed was for Lisa to believe him.
Lisa sat down in one of the stalls with her knees up to her chin crying silently. The two ladies already in the room had looked at her, but said nothing. Her mind went over everything that Rick had said to her since they first meet. Suddenly the door opened again and somebody walked in. The other women briefly talked to one of the women standing in front the mirror and then walked over to the stall that Lisa was in.
"Lisa would you come out please?" a voice that she knew as Menmei's asked from the other side of the door. Before Lisa could respond an alarm went off followed by Claudia's voice came on ordering all civilians to shelters and that they were at Red Alert. Lisa bolted out of the stall and took a brief look at Menmei.
"You now what, you can have him Menmei I don't care any more!" she yelled and took off towards the exit leaving Menmei speechless. But she had no time to go after her; she had to get to a shelter.
Rick back in the dining room cursed as the Red Alert siren went off. The patrons of the Restaurant being used to this filed orderly out. Rick knew that he couldn't get to the base in before the SDF-1 transformed back into attack mode so he headed for a shelter meanwhile looking around for Lisa or Menmei. He saw Menmei join a group heading towards one of the closet's shelters. Rick nodded relieved that she was safe but he still couldn't see Lisa anywhere. He got worried but still headed for a shelter.
Meanwhile, the battle started outside and it was furious over ten VTs exploded in the first few seconds of the battle. On the SDF-1 three Defender Destroid's turned to engage a group battlepods that landed on the ship, but were in turn destroyed as a large officer's pod joined them. In the middle of this crazy storm was Max and some sort of new unit that had appeared in the middle of the battle. Max gritted his teeth, since this same unit had already taken out Ben Dixon's luckily the man managed to eject and a Rabbit Shuttle was already heading to pick his escape pod up. Max trap shot the unit with his Gunpod but it dodged his shot but in turn got hit by a stray round. The unit then went down to the deck of the SDF-1. Near by a hatch opened letting a group of Civil Defense Tomahawks and Spartans Destroids out to engage the group of 'pods that had landing on the ship and were trying to force their way into the ship. The new unit as it landed destroyed two of the Tomahawks and slipped into the hatch and into the heart of the SDF-1… Macross City. Max cursed and followed him into the ship, after he quickly gave a report to the bridge. He quickly thought his VT over to Battliod mode from Guardian Mode and took to the streets. He quickly drew up a map of Macross in his mind and went in a different direction then the unit.
Meanwhile Lisa who had ran out of Electra crying was trying to find her way to the base or a shelter in the empty streets of Macross but it was no use. Her eyes were still wet from her crying, but her tear ducts happen to be empty so all that showed were the silent tear streaks down her face. Lisa sighed with a snivel and sat down on a bench on the side of the road since her heels were killing her. Suddenly a crash came from nearby and she got up to see a strange looking Mecha running down the street. She quickly knew that it was the same type of unit that had nearly destroyed the pod that her, Rick, Ben, and Max captured to get them back to the SDF-1. She looked on frighten as it got closer, but a building collapsed in front of the mecha revealing a blue and white VF-1J Battliod. Lisa cheer since she knew that the pilot of the Battliod was none other then Max Sterling. Max took the enemy's surprise to pound him with his Gunpod. The enemy quickly started to retreat heading back to where he came from. Max followed him, but not before the enemy loosed off a flight of missiles at him he dodged them easily. Lisa smiled, but it quickly to change to a frown as she tracked the missile with her eyes. Her eyes widened in fright for they were heading directly at her. She turned and ran but she was not fast enough to avoid the missiles. They exploded and all she saw was black.
Outside the RDF was finally getting the upperhand with the battle but not without heavy casualties. The Zentraedi finally retreated and left the SDF-1 to lick it's new wounds. The shelters opened releasing their precious cargo into the streets of Macross City. Rick soon as he walked out of the shelter and headed back to the Electra and found that his car was still intact. After throwing his jacket and tie into the backseat he slipped into the seat and took off towards the base. Luckily the city was unharmed give a take a few places were the transformation damaged. He pulled out his cellphone from his belt and dialed the base. When an aide answered the phone Rick didn't waste any time.
"This is Lieutenant Rick Hunter get me the bridge now!" he ordered and heard the officer on the other end acknowledged.
"Bridge here," a familiar tired voice said into his ear. Rick cursed silently to himself as he dodged a large section of the road that was damaged.
"Claudia, it's Rick," he said into the phone. He heard a sigh of relief and some mumbling.
"Thank god your alright Rick, Ben got hit and most of your squadron got destroyed Rick!" Claudia said into the phone. Rick sighed not wanting to know who died, but he had better things to worry about.
"Thanks Claudia, is Lisa there?" Rick asked hoping that she made it to the bridge before the battle began.
"No isn't she with you Rick?" Claudia asked worried. Rick sighed and pulled into the base.
"Long story Claudia tell you later, right know I am pulling into the base." Rick said and hanged up getting out of his car.
Meanwhile a relief worker moved some debris away from the street and suddenly cried out in surprise as he saw a human hand underneath the piece. He quickly with his partner's help lifted a large bench away to reveal a women lying underneath it. They both cried out in surprise when they saw her. One quicker to recover jumped down and checked her pulse. He looked up at his partner and shook his head yes.
"She's alive, but barely get a med team here and get the supervisor!" the man ordered clearly the one in charge. The other man nodded and within minutes a couple of Volunteer Medical Officers jumped down along with the team's supervisor. The newly arrive supervisor bent down even with his sore back and picked up the women's purse which fell not far from the women. He opened it and took a purse seeing that this women was part of the military, he pulled out her Military I.D. Card. His eyes widened in surprise what it said on the little piece of plastic.
"Commander Lisa Hayes! Shit, Anders get in contact with the base!" he ordered one of the men around him. The man nodded and ran to a fire truck and pulled out a cellphone and called the base.
In Rick's quarters, he managed to complete his story with a sigh to Claudia and Roy who were staring back at him speechless. Suddenly his phone rang from the other room. He got up to answer it and while Claudia shook her head heading to the kitchen to make some tea.
"Lieutenant Hunter here what can I do for you?" he asked into the phone.
"Yes, this is Lieutenant O'neil we just got word that Commander Hayes has been found and taken to the base's hospital. She is not in good condition sir," the voice on the other end said sadly. Rick went white and quickly said good bye and slammed the phone back onto to the cradle. He turned and ran back into the living room to see Roy accept some tea from Claudia.
"Lisa has been found and taken to the base's hospital," he said breathless. Roy jumped up from his seat and ran towards the door.
"Then why are we waiting around here for let's go!" he yelled out as he ran out of the room. Rick and Claudia following him out, Claudia took some time to close the door and lock it.
The three friends stormed into the hospital and quickly learned that Lisa was in the middle of surgery. In the waiting room Rick paced hitting the wall once in the while. An hour, two, three hours past and still now word on Lisa. Finally a doctor came out and announced that they could see her but she wasn't awake and properly wouldn't survive.
Rick a few minutes later, pale in the face looked through a window to see Lisa strapped up to multiple machines. He slammed his head on the window and fell to his knees. He started to cry with both Roy and Claudia's hands on his shoulders trying to give him some of their strength to him. It was like a moment frozen in time and Rick would remember it int'l he died.
Me bad a cliffhanger, but I wasn't really going to make this a multi-chapter fic but it kinda got a live of it's own. Also yes the unit that Max was fighting was Miriya, but he was fighting her a little bit earlier. So please tell me what you think, so I can continue this. If I get no reviews or so few of them I might not continue this. Also one last thing, I am not a Menmei hater I still like her as a character but she can get a little annoying at times. So I hate her off and on, so if somebody bashes Menmei I don't care. Well enough of this please tell me what you think.