Macross 30: Voices Across The Galaxy

Chapter 8: The Vajra's Guardian

PART 2: SUMMONED BY THE RUINS

Chapter 8: The Vajra's Guardian

A few days passed and Rion and Roy continued to work with Mina on her piloting, with Aisha pitching in when she wasn't coordinating with the Hunter Guild, working on the Gefion's menagerie of half-assembled variable fighters or researching the ruins. Today, Rion was showing Mina how to adjust the cockpit controls on her Valkyrie, both because a pilot should be familiar with such things and because of the Gefion's reduced maintenance crew.

"I see, so if you do it this way you can react quicker," said Mina, as Rion showed her how to make some adjustments to her controls.

"Just a little trick I picked up," replied Rion, just a little bit proud of himself. Just then the main monitor on Mina's control panel beeped and Aisha's face appeared on the screen.

"Sorry to break up the mood you two, but we're getting an urgent message from Leilong."

"Oh? What does she want?" asked Rion.

"I don't know, which is why I'd like you all to come up to the bridge so we can all listen to her together."

"Well, hopefully it won't be another pickup job," Rion muttered as he and Mina climbed down from her VF-11.

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Once Rion, Mina and Roy had arrived on the bridge, Aisha quickly established a connection with the Hunter Guild headquarters in Britai City.

"This is bad, everyone! We're seriously going to need you help! A Vajra swarm has appeared at Point X61! Fortunately, nothing there has been damaged or any civilians put in danger, yet."

"If there's no one in danger then what's the urgency?" asked Roy.

"Because when the local militia showed up to drive the Vajra off, some guy in a Valkyrie appeared and attacked them! And not just any guy either, he was flying a VF-25 Messiah!"

That certainly got everyone's attention.

"A VF-25? I wonder where it came from?" wondered Aisha, "I have trouble believing that bandits or some sort of animal protection group could have got a hold of one."

"I take it since this bird's got an even higher number than Aisha's plane, this could be a bit tough to deal with?" asked Roy.

"Yeah," replied Rion, "The VF-25 is one of the latest Valkyrie models, only the Unified Forces and SMS should have them."

"That's just it," continued Leilong, "One of the militia managed to scan the bogey's IFF and it registered as being from the Macross Frontier fleet! Specifically from the SMS Frontier branch!"

"What? I was never told that anyone from SMS Frontier was coming to Ouroboros," exclaimed Aisha.

"Well whoever it is, you need to deal with it fast," said Leilong, "Someone from SMS shooting at government forces and protecting Vajra will make you guys very unpopular, very quick, no matter if he's from a different branch than you." With that, Leilong signed off.

"So, we've got a self-styled knight who's protecting the Vajra, huh? I guess this planet has all kinds of people," remarked Rion.

"Wouldn't you do the same if you were in his position? I wonder if he's doing this because he loves the Vajra just that much..."

There was a pause, just long enough for Mina, Rion and Roy to trade looks over Aisha's odd romantic detour.

"Anyway, we should get ready to fly out there, right guys?" asked Mina. Rion and Roy nodded and the three of them exited the bridge.