Macross 30: Voices Across The Galaxy

Chapter 1: The Zentradi Girl

PART 1: PLANET OUROBOROS

Chapter 1: The Zentradi Girl

Everything was burning. Rion shouldered his way past the technicians and emergency personnel as they scrambled to put out the fires. He saw his sister Mia and Rod Baltomar come stumbling out of a corridor, their white flightsuits smudged with soot, as was Rod's platinum blond hair. The sight lifted Rion's spirits; when Mia had first started dating Rod, one of their fellow pilots, Rion had initially acted the overprotective big brother. But Rod had won him over with his quiet devotion to Mia and, just as importantly, his skill as their wingman. Normally a romantic relationship between pilots in the same squad would have been frowned upon, but NUNS had been getting a bit lax in recent years with enforcing the little regulations.

"It's no good! We're cut off from the Valkyrie hangars in area B!" yelled Rod, his voice hoarse from the smoke.

"Area B got hit the hardest by the attack. There might still be people in there but it'd be suicide to try and get at them."

"Rion, we can't just leave them there" chided Mia, "we have to try and save them if we can!" Before Rod or Rion could do anything to stop her she turned and ran in the direction Rion had come from.

"Wait, Mia, it's too dangerous, let the fire crews handle it! Mia!"

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 Rion's eyes snapped open and his hand jerked forward, outstretched towards his sister. But he was not actually in that burning base anymore. Blinking he looked around and saw that he was laying atop a reclining bed in what was clearly some kind of sickbay. But where exactly? The last thing he could remember was being on approach to Ouroboros in his YF-25...

The crash! He hadn't been able to prevent his YF-25 from auguring into the planet and had ejected at the last second! But after that was a blank...

He pushed himself into a sitting position that allowed him to get a better view out of the window. Nothing but blue ocean and blue sky out there. Was he on a ship then? He caught a flicker of movement out of the corner of his eye and saw an island slip into view from the left side of the window. There was just one strange thing about this island though, it wasn't down in the water, it was floating just about level with Rion's window! Before he had time to gape at this sight any further, he heard the hiss of a door opening, footsteps and a woman's voice.

"So what exactly do you need me to do?"

There are several crates of parts waiting at one of our drop-offs. We're a bit stretched at the moment so could you please pick them up?" replied the tinny voice of a woman which sounded like it was coming a mobile phone.

The woman then came around the curtain that was blocking off Rion's view of the rest of the sickbay. She was most definitely NOT a nurse, not in that outfit. She wore a magenta and red vest with the SMS logo that barely contained her very ample chest, leaving a large swath of toned stomach on display, very brief shorts that strangely had suspenders attached to them, just dangling down her hips and legs covered in black stockings that went up mid-thigh, tucked into calf-high white boots. Combined with bright, bubblegum-pink hair and ice-blue eyes set in a lovely, heart-shaped face and it wasn't hard to imagine that this young woman caused a sensation wherever she went.

She was indeed speaking into a cat-shaped mobile phone, which was projecting a hologram of another young woman with violet hair but the angle of the hologram prevented Rion from getting a good look.

"Well, I'll have to think about it. No pressure right?"

"Eh?! Hang on a minute..." but the violet-haired girl's response was cut short as the pink-haired girl hung up.