The black veritech (completed 17/17)

Beyond the land of Oz

THE BLACK VERITECH

Capítulo 3: Beyond the land of Oz

"What the hell is this!" Knight shouted with all his might.

Scientists had explained to him that a transposition operation was something he didn't even feel, but something seemed to have gone wrong, Knight's body felt the same as when he had an intense fever and he felt that his teeth were going to fall out at any moment.

"Don't take your helmet off, don't take your helmet off!" Roy shouted at him as he saw Knight trying to take off his helmet.

"Sir, I'm going to vomit..." said one pilot.

"I can't breathe," said another.

"Fuck, I'm telling you to keep your helmets on! If you're going to throw up, throw it up in your damn helmets," said Roy.

Knight stuck his tongue against his palate to avoid vomiting and prayed that the transposition would stop.

"Well, guys, it seems that's all over," Roy told his pilots.

Knight unstuck his tongue and saw the outer space with tearful eyes from the effort of not vomiting, which he saw was not to his liking one bit.

In the movies you could always see in outer space like something beautiful and full of stars, but in reality the stars were only seen from the Earth. There in the void of space, there was no star in sight, all around it was total and infinite blackness, Knight had a shudder all over his body.

"Sir, where is the moon?" asked one pilot.

"It's right underneath us.... Wait a minute, what the hell is that!" shouted Roy.

"I think it's Macross Island," said another pilot with his eyes open like a plate.

"Claudia, Claudia! Roy shouted on the telemarketer, "What the fuck, that's Macross Island! Where is the moon!"

"I don't know, Roy," Claudia said nervously. "Vanessa is calculating our position immediately... Roy, we've been informed that the enemy is in the vicinity of the ship and Macross Island! You must go and destroy them immediately."

"I'll be right with you, Claudia," said Roy, cutting off the teleprompter.

"Knight, I want you to do me another favor."

"Whatever you say, Roy," said Knight, who was nervous about the present situation.

"Go to the ship and make sure Rick's okay."

"Right away, Roy," said Knight and promptly headed to SDF-1.

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Once on the ship, Knight got into a jeep and went to where Rick and Minmei were supposed to be.

"Oh no, oh no," said Knight when he saw that neither Rick nor his plane were on the scene.

Knight shouted Rick's name several times but got no answer, so he decided to walk around the place a couple of times and after an unsuccessful search, returned to the hangar and told Roy about it on the telemarketer.

Knight could see Roy's voice filled with fear and ordered him to continue the search. The pilot did so but after a few hours he returned to the hangar, this time Roy was present.

"Knight, where's Rick!"

"Roy, they're nowhere to be found, I've been all over the ship and nothing."

Roy's face broke for a moment, but then it regained its hardness and he held Knight by the shoulders and gave him new orders.

"Knight, I was ordered to help with the evacuation of the civilians to the ship," said Roy, Knight was impressed, he thought they were all dead, he wanted to say something but Roy interrupted him.

"I want you to get out of the ship and search the whole place, the island, the surroundings of the ship, I don't care, but you have to find them. You know, don't answer the tele-com and pretend you're deaf, and then I'll find an excuse."

"Yes, Roy," said Knight and left immediately in search of Rick.

"Skull 27, skull 27, you are not allowed to take off, I repeat, you are not allowed to take off" they informed him from the bridge.

"I gotta find Rick, you better make up a good excuse for what I'm doing," Knight thought.

Knight searched around regardless of the bridge calls, Lisa and Claudia were furious and Captain Global went to the tele-communicator.

"Knight, this is your captain, come in or I swear I'll put you in solitary."

"What I do, what I do," Knight thought in panic, finally responded, but only used the audio channel.

"Psss... sorry pssst sir, pssst I've got pssst inter pssst rences, bad pssst comu... I'll follow your pssst orders pssst patrol the pssst sector like pssst told me psst... Over."

"KNIGHT!"

"Oh, Roy, I hope you get me out of this."

Knight could find no trace of Rick and headed to the hangar, where he informed Roy of the unsuccessful search.

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Roy bailed out Knight (he prevented him from being ignominiously discharged) but still couldn't stop him from being sent to the cell for a whole week.

Roy went to visit him and informed him of the news about how global was commanding the reconstruction of the city of Macross inside the ship, however, there was no news of Rick or Minmei.

"Don't worry, Roy, Rick was probably far from Macross Island when It started the transposition operation," Knight told him one afternoon after he left the cell.

"I hope so," said Roy in a depressed, sighing mood. "Well, I have to go now."

"Sure, Roy, I'll go for a walk around the city, I still have two hours left," said Knight and said goodbye to his commander, leaving the ship's cafeteria.

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Knight was strolling around, amazed at how quickly the city was beginning to take shape, when he heard a loud rumble two blocks away and decided to go and see to investigate.

It appears that one of the cranes had dropped a containment platform and is across the floor, leaving a large section of it exposed. A forklift was carrying two young men covering their eyes with their hands.

"That's Rick and Minmei!" Knight shouted and pushed his way to his friend.

Rick, thank God you're safe! He was yelling at Rick when he approached him, his friend seemed a little malnourished and confused.

The mayor of the city slapped him in the back hard and Rick fainted right there, Knight called for a military jeep and took Rick to the ship's hospital.

CONTINUARÁ...