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The Strongest of his Generation

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The 4rth of April
Year 77 of the Cosmic Era or 2177 Anno Domini
Orb, Kaguya Island National Park and Game Preserve restricted area

Hovering just above the island of Kaguya is the Earth Alliance ship, SBS-1 Macross. Normally having a foreign warship within Orb territory would have been construed as an act of war if they weren't given permission by the Orb Government to enter their air space.

Today is different

In a show of power (economic that is) Ranma requested that the Macross be allowed in Orb air space only for tonight and promise he will forget the attempt on his life by Orb Special Forces and though they denied it, they refuse his request.

So Ranma went to Plan B, which he threatened the Orb government an economic apocalypse, meaning that he's calling the government to pay all its debts and to be paid immediately of both past and present. This alarmed them now that a certain safety net, the LSA that they relied so heavily for financial support is now gone.

The LSA or the Lady Sarina Account is actually an alliance of banks that handles Lady Sarina multiple accounts that hold payments from shares and stocks where Lady Sarina is a major shareholder in hundreds if not thousands of companies in Orb and across the globe. The LSA hold a staggering amount of money that during her time, other governments, companies and institutions went to her for loans and investments and the returns from them was staggering that no one in history has ever reach her level of wealth and power.

Before her death she named the five Orb families as custodian to the LSA with stipend that reach to the hundreds of millions. They are allowed to take loans and financial support in any amount from the account so long as it will be paid back with interest.

The Orb government also gets a fair share as this was to make sure that Orb's government will not fall into economic collapse.

Thru the years, the Orb government and the five families kept on taking multiple loans from the LSA and what they borrowed is paid back in installment like any other back with one exception, time. The Orb and the five families is solely privy in the longest payment plan that stretch to fifty years to a hundred years to complete the payment, which was absurd and yet it is what Lady Sarina orders and what she wanted and with the absence of the inheritor of the LSA to gain control and rescind it, this went on, until now.

Now the Orb government and the five noble families, the heads of state that rule the Nation of Orb is in a panic when the banks that held the LSA, are asking full payments from the loans they made since 2067 to the present be paid immediately post haste.

Ranma told them that if they don't pay the debts they owe to the LSA, then he has every rights, every legal rights to repossess all of their property and holdings in Orb economic, financial, and industrial, communication, and transportation, medical and other holdings in the Orb nation…as payment.

The five noble families and the Orb government is in a panic when they got his demands and scramble to find a way out of the problem they are in.

Fortunately, Ranma is being generous

He made a deal, that they can keep receiving stipend from the LSA for another five years and he will forgive all debts made from 2067 to 2097 that is if they allow an Alliance force led by the Macross to fly within Orb air space and remove certain items under the Orb Museum for one night.

Needless to say that they wholeheartedly agreed to the term.

While the Macross hover above Kaguya, it deployed three Zentraedi Re-entry Pods and six Zentraedi Shuttles (with EAF markings) to the main island and began landing near the Orb Museum.

The Zentraedi Re-entry pods and Shuttles were salvage prize recovered from the destroyed scout fleet that chased the Vulcan ship a year back. The EAF were able to repair and then repurpose many of them to serve the Alliance fleet and found them to be very useful and some are assigned to the Macross.

Alliance troops and Mobile Suits took position around the museum while some of the troops went into the underground basement and began taking a dozen machineries known as seawater desalinator generators and then entered and exit another secret room and started removing unknown materials placed in inside large silvery cases with airtight sealing's mainly associated to refrigeration.

Cagalli was very much livid as she and her people was ordered to evacuate the museum while being held back by her friends and Colonel Kisaka "They can't do this to us!" Cagalli yelled angrily at a redheaded shrimp a.k.a. Washu, wearing a doctor's coat with radiation/bio hazard symbol at the back

"You have no right to be here, this is Orb!"

"Your government have given us permission to be here princess" Washu said back calmly

"Since when?"

"An hour ago, relax princess we are not here to loot your museum or any of the relics you found underground" just then half a dozen forklifts carefully coming out of the underground parking entrance and towards armored vehicles

"We are here to take those" Washu pointed

"And why are you taking the sea water desalinator?" she inquire

"They're actually cryo pods disguised as desalinator, princess" Washu answered smiling

"What?"

Washu didn't explain further but pointed out what else they were taking "We are also taking things inside a reinforced vault where the cryo pods were found"

"I didn't know there was a hidden room in there"

"You don't princess, but the Lady Sarina told us with a messages she left behind for Ranma to find them" Washu told her as one of the soldiers open up one of the special containers with a pressure lock to keep the cold in. Washu carefully remove one of a sphere the size of a basketball and inside is a human embryo in complete stasis and it made Cagalli and everyone wide eyes at what they are.

"Those are,"

"They are, and yes princess" Washu corrected her and using a scanning device on the embryo

"Curious" she remark "They may have some minor alteration in their DNA and yet, it's not as heavily modified like coordinators… an fascinating" she said as she carefully place it back to the case and resealed it.

"Where are you taking them?" Cagalli asks

"They will be taken to Macross Island for the time being and then move to a more secured facility safe and away from Blue Cosmos or any other bunch terrorist crap or coordinator fanatics"

"But what right do you have to take them?!" Cagalli demanded "They came from Orb so they belong to Orb, so that means that we are responsible for them"

"Except that you don't have permission from Lady Sarina to keep them, Ranma does!" Washu answered cheerfully

"The founder of modern Orb" Colonel Kisaka remark with curiosity

"The very same one, Colonel Kisaka. Her messages told us where to find them" Washu confirm "transfer will take a while, as there are over 5 thousand embryo stored in there"

"F-Five thousand?!" Cagalli and the others were shock at so many and they came from an obscured history…which she is now wishing that it stayed that way. Discovering that Orb has a dark past was one thing, now the discovery of a hidden vault filled with human embryo and then allowed the Earth Alliance to take them without opposition is going to be hell to explain to the public.

She feared to ask but decided to do it "What will the Earth Alliance decide to do with them?"

Washu snorted and answered her sweetly "That's actually up to Ranma to decide and not the Earth Alliance, my dear princess"

"I don't understand uhmn, Lady Washu" Washu just look at her smiling mischievously,

Cagalli suddenly remembers who Washu is from Dr. Kasumi Tendo and though she had a hard time believing most of Kasumi Tendo stories…which they are all true. One of which is that, Washu has the ego the size of the universe itself and she can actually back it up.

Case point, when Ranma security details namely the Extended's, identified and caught a Blue Cosmos agent, a top lieutenant spying on them by hiding among the crowd in plain sight. He was alone doing grunt work because they are short on foot soldiers to order around.

They brought him before Washu while ranting, grating, spatting and shouting insults and profanity at her and even spitting…which was a big mistake.

Washu had enough of the man so by her command, a computer console appear in the form of hard lights, she tap some commands and a circle of light appear below the BC agent. The next thing that happen is the BC agent suddenly transform into what it looks like mythical Japanese kappa for a start, followed by multiple animals both real and mythical before returning him back to a human form and now cowering in fear after going thru all that. The next moment he found himself strap down on a coroner table with embalming tools at the side while hanging from above are nasty looking devices hanging out from out of nowhere.

Washu, who now sporting a pair of garden gloves, old fashion welder goggles, a gas mask and an apron with frills with the word at the front 'KISS THE COOK or else, you will be my next guinea pig' and… holding what looks like a nasty looking endoscope of some kind.

How she set up a coroner room in the middle of nowhere is a mystery as Washu put the BC agent thru a battery of very invasive test (mostly involving electric shock) that left the BC agent crying like a little girl and begging for Washu to stop but she continued on until he talk.

Eventually he started spilling his guts (not literally) of why he was here spying, of who's he was with and who is he was taking orders from.

No one raised objection to the BC agent mistreatment in Washu hands… even though he deserve it. A while back, Cagalli remembers Kasumi Tendo warnings of avoiding a certain redheaded midget named Washu and that they be very, very, very respectable around her, otherwise they will suddenly find themselves strap down on a very cold table and looking up to see strange devices they don't know or don't want to know what they are used for.

Washu just look at her and smiled like she's eyeing a new guinea pig and said "The Earth Alliance gave Ranma jurisdiction over this operation princess" she said

"Jurisdiction?"

"The embryos are entrusted to Ranma by Sarina for safe keeping with all the legal protection under Orb Law,"

"But still," Washu gesture to her to stop and sternly she look to Cagalli "Ranma is not exactly a fan to let politics dictate the lives of …innocent children yet to be born and if you try to challenge that, Ranma will take drastic measures that will empty Orb of people without resorting to war"

Washu look at Cagalli confused expression and it's a face that's wanting to ask what kind of drastic a measure Ranma would go to secure these embryos.

The Macross now stationary at about five thousand feet is still deploying shuttles and mechas to the ground.

Back at Kaguya

While Ranma is up a hill and talking to Macross commander via comm…the young lady who is body guarding Alfredo was behind him now and observing him. Ranma notice her presence but ignored her as he sense no ill intent or malice coming from her, and yet he does sense a form of hostility…like a beam gun trying to bore a hole thru his back.

Looking back towards her, Ranma can see the resemblance of a certain classy blondie he use to know way back when, and she even shared her first name…Helena, she's Helena Douglas descendant.

Ranma just sigh "Is there a reason why you are trying to burn a hole at the back of my shirt, Miss Helena Douglas or should I say… Helena Glenn"

She look surprised "How did you know who I am?"

Ranma smiled and answered her by looking down on a device, one of the new tablet phones that's coming out of the commercial market "From information, the company Alfredo bought and renamed it to Glenn Pharmaceuticals… was once part of a thriving global company during the late 20th and early 21st Century, and it was named DOATEC. But hard times hit the company bad and had to either sell off part of itself or close it. Glenn Pharmaceuticals was once named HD Medicines which was once named DOATEC Pharmatech and it was one of the last part of DOATEC that still survive to reach the Cosmic Era," he said

"Not long after, Alfredo remarried and had children, one of which is George Glenn mother" Ranma sat on a boulder nearby as he continues talking "George Glenn married his college sweetheart in secret right after the Jupiter Mission in CE 30. They had three children, and you are born a Coordinator the middle born a Natural and the youngest is a boy also a Natural, and you being the eldest…am I correct?" Ranma queried

"Yes" was all Helena can answer as she's a bit taken back that Ranma is this well informed… too well informed for her liking after what their parents took great lengths in making sure that their parentage is kept hidden from the world for their safety sake.

"Now, you being the eldest carry her name…Helena Douglas, which you do have an astounding resemblance to your distant ancestor in your mother side as well as an affinity for Martial Arts especially Pi Gua Quan or Chop-hanging fist which is very interesting since Helena is an Master at that" Ranma pointed out

"The Middle sister is named Maria Douglas and she was born and lived in the Plants for decades but was forced out due rising tensions and…discriminations. She move to Earth live there for a few years fell in love and move to the Kansas space colony at L2 and started a successful Agritech Lab that's just gotten a contract to use their new hybrid plants for the EA Mars expanding surface habitats project" he said

"Now as for the youngest, Marco Douglas, well he's now a captain on an Earth Alliance ship, a repurposed Agamemnon class for deep space exploration heading for Jupiter with an exploration fleet. Now as for you well you are one of Zaft intel-,"

"STOP!" Helena yelled to stop him from saying it

"No one is listening in on us Helena," Ranma said smiling seeing that he got a reaction from the glaring lady "not nearby or in orbit like one of those pin point camera spy satellites orbiting above or was orbiting above us." Looking up Helena sees flashes of light caused by an EAF Agamemnon-class battleship shooting down two stealth satellites spying down on Earth.

"This meeting is a private meeting with your great grandfather and me…does Zaft know of this?"

"No"

"Good'

"Now what do you want to talk about?" he asks of course Ranma has an idea of what she want to asks and she took a moment

"What would it take for you to help the Coordinators?" she asks finally and Ranma look at her wearily and can sense that she's pinning him as the aggressor in this conversation 'Sigh'

"What would it take…well aside from you guys stop shooting at me, which is a start because…it's getting rather annoying really, you guys are really lousy shooters" Ranma answered sarcastically

"But if you want to know… I would like you, to stop at looking down on others" he told her sternly "You may be better at everything a Natural could, but that doesn't give you the right to rub it into their face every chance you get"

Helena expression hardened when he look at Ranma, then suddenly felt something really cold in the air like death walk thru her. It frightened her and tried to move as if trying to avoid something but couldn't because her legs won't let her move.

'I can't move, why can't I- she look at Ranma who is now her face so quickly, and she could have sworn that something very dark and dangerous was looking back at her like a predator looking down on its prey.

Helena felt paralyzed as she tried to scream but couldn't as it became hard to breathed 'what the hell is this?!' she screamed in her thoughts

"You think you can look down on me, glare dagger looks to intimidate me, you think you can take me on little girl?" Ranma said to Helena in a heavy and venomous tone

"I face far stronger and more dangerous foes most of my life and some of them think they were gods that I should kneel down." He said as the cold air stings Helena skin

"They all look down on me…and I made them ALL look up at me"

Ranma step back a little and ease off on the battle aura on her, which made Helena take a step back and tried not to fall down on her butt, still her entire body was shaking at the experience of it all.

'Is this what great-grandfather said about him, the strongest of their generation?' she thought as she never once believe that, believing that it's nothing more than to praise ones ego

"You may be Helena Douglas descendant but you are nowhere near Helena level, as she can shrug off the intimidation I did to you like it was nothing"

"I apologize for that, sir" she said shakily and breathing heavily while showing respect now "I mean no disrespect sir, it is just that…It's a hard for me to understand that … you are the patriarch of all coordinators and yet you are fighting against us instead of helping us!" and then she yelled in declaration

"COORDINATORS ARE THE VICTIMS HERE! WE ARE THE ONES WENT THRU-" she didn't finish that as Ranma cut her off

"I KNOW WHAT THE COORDINATORS WENT THRU AND BELIEVE IT OR NOT I SYMPATHIZE ON THEIR PLIGHT AND APPLAUDED THEIR ZEAL FOR INDEPENDENCE AND FREEDOM!" Ranma yelled back

"Still you would not lift a finger to help us, why?"

"You already know my issues with the Augments of my era and their connections with the Coordinators of this era, which you pretty much had a front row seat of the real truth of your existence" he said

"The question: what makes a Coordinator better than a Natural? ... Is, a question that caused so much war, misery and death in this Cosmic Era that even when there is peace… there is really no peace, just a pause for the next war" he thought out loud

"So you are just going to let them die. Is that it?" she asks dejectedly

"They have been dying even before I reappeared in this world, Ms. Helena Douglas" Ranma replied "Coordinators are at the end of the line and if I did help, would they accept it, coming from a Natural especially me who is not exactly a very popular person to coordinators in general"

In Helena thoughts, she's doing the math of what Ranma told her and sadly it kept answering no again and again

In the early years of the coordinator boom, the first generation decided to produce a pure bred coordinators for one reason or another but the majority believe that 'we are better than naturals so why should we have kids with them' and so begins a new branch of humanity

But in producing a purebred coordinator, geneticist found something that alarmed them, sterility, and they kept this a secret from the public that is until the birthrate of third generation coordinator that is so low that it did not reflect the size of their population.

The scientists blames the human body own fickleness because it's not cooperating the way they want it to, but that's partly to blame and yet they assured the public that the problem will be corrected … eventually.

"Your geneticist have been trying to figure out the sterility problem for decades now and still, third generation coordinators are born less and less each year and along the way in solving the problem they gotten desperate. Committing numerous acts that's considered unethical … like human cloning and ripping a child from the mother wound to be experimented on!" he said grinding his teeth in anger at that last part

"Wai-what, what did you say?" Helena took a moment to process that last part and rejecting such idea "No! They wouldn't do that!"

"I got it in good authority that it did happen with the proof to back it up, and I am sure you are aware of that sociopath named Le Crueset past along with the rest of his clone siblings?" Ranma hands balled up into a fist as he remembers Kira Yamato birth and the look of the mother whose child was rip out of her body to be experimented on.

"No…they didn't," Helena look into Ranma eyes to see if there are any form of deceit, but she sees nothing to indicate otherwise

She knows that improving ones knowledge or technology relies on a long term process of trial and error, test and experimentation, of knowing the do's and don'ts, of what works and what doesn't and that takes a lot of time which they eventually ran out of it.

Then Helena remembers something of a rumor of human experimentation and human cloning at …the Mendel Colony years ago 'the ultimate coordinator… Ulen Hibiki lab' she thought which is also the same place Le Crueset came from.

She never took it seriously at first as she and many believes that it's nothing more than Blue Cosmos black propaganda in order to discredit the research lab working to help find the solution on the coordinator sterility problem.

"Eventually, they painted themselves into a corner and forced to admit to the people that they need more time, more research about a hundred or more years to solve the sterility problem. But by then it would already be too late for everyone today, and the only hope you have, have been largely ignored by the people you are trying to save"

She couldn't say anything back, for she knows that he's right and everything she has heard in the meeting were true and what was currently offered was the only hope but not everyone is taking advantage of it because of one thing and it involves Naturals to have a child and not all of them like the idea of having a child with a Natural.

"Is it really that bad having a child born a coordinator?" she muttered to herself but Ranma heard that and took it as a question and gave an answer in the form of a question

"Is it bad for a Coordinator, to have a child with a Natural?" he asks her

"Do you think the child born from that union, makes them less than a coordinator and if I help, would they accept it from a Natural like me, especially me since-"

"No please…enough…enough" she begged him to stop as she fell to her knees, defeated

Down the hill, Alfredo was waiting for Ranma finish chewing out his Granddaughter, who is also Alfredo Great Granddaughter.

"She's very passionate in saving the Coordinators" Ranma remark as he walks down the hill towards him

"She doesn't want them to die"

"Having a child with a Natural is not dying, but a way to live on" Ranma remark "George Glenn said that, he never meant them to be a different race but a stepping stone to humanity's evolution"

"So what now?"

"Now…that's up to the people at the Plants to decide out on what to do. No one else should decide their fate for them but themselves" Ranma said and then he remembers a while back she remembers Captain Talia Gladys of the Zaft ship Minerva, and she has a son with a Natural… one of a few he considered, a glimmer of hope to an otherwise bleak future.

"Believe it or not Alfredo, I am pinning my hope to the children born between the marriage of Coordinators and Naturals"

That last part Alfredo find surprising "curious" Alfredo remark and Ranma smiled at him

"I have faith to those who took a leap of faith, like a certain Zaft captain I know" he said "her son and others and those who we found will be the bridge towards hope"

"Found, found what Ranma?"

"The missing embryos we thought to have been destroyed, along with the rest of the missing DOA players we thought to have died, are in cryo stasis"

That news got Alfredo wide eyes in surprise and he asks to confirm "You found the cold storage vault?"

Ranma nodded and told him "It was underneath the Orb Museum where Sarina and her people found them and hid them away from prying eyes"

"Under the Orb Museum" Alfredo was in disbelief at the news

"I ordered them be removed and transferred onboard the Macross which is probably the safest place because the cold storage has only a year left of power before it breaks down"

"What do you plan on doing to them?" Alfredo asks anxious and worried

"Nothing for now" Ranma answered as he thought about the many embryo carrying his DNA and the DNA of a number of women from the DOA tournament. In his inner thoughts Ranma is groaning at the headache he started having

'I haven't gotten laid with any of those women not even once and already I have kids from them, unbelievable!' he thought

"I won't let anyone lay a hand on them until I figure out what to do first"

"Ranma-" Alfredo was about to asks on something that got him concerned but Ranma put a hand on his shoulder and gave an him an assurance that calms him down "Relax Alfredo, I won't do anything to harm them, and you would be surprise what a certain redheaded scientist found something about them"

To be continued