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Lt. Commander Posts: 472 (March 23, 2008 02:13 AM) Lt. Commander Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite	Tags : None http://www.robotech.united-earth-group.com/component/option,com_fireboard/Itemid,307/func,view/id,8877/catid,33/ My fic "A New Life". It's small but pretty much a Robotech episode. Now that I look at it again it needs to be rewritten, such as the narrator repeating words, but it turned out okay for writing it straight through a few nights without revising. I'm still not sure about some character names before I write the next one. This fanfic series is a reworking of the ideas I wrote years ago when I had Legioss.com, which has since split into my own movies, which I'm still writing, and this. The overall "Robotech saga name" I haven't decided on. -Legioss
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Lt. Commander Posts: 491 (December 13, 2009 04:41 PM) Lt. Commander Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite	Site died. This was all I wrote of it: ROBOTECH MAIN TITLE EXT. CANYONS The sun sets over sparsely wooded hills. There are people in various locations rebuilding and going on with life. NARRATOR Life: What right does one species have to take it from another? How does one reconcile the loss of another with the prosperity of your own? The people of Earth have explored these questions among others through 3 devastating alien invasions which nearly destroyed the planet while wiping out any civilization that dared to invade it. It has been months since the powerful Invid departed from their long invasion of Earth. Our young Robotech heroes, having completed their long journey, part ways and begin a new life on the beautiful planet in the 4th Quadrant known as Earth! ExT. ROAD IN THE FOREST CAPTION: A NEW LIFE The wheels of a JEEP plow down the road, kicking up dust. Lunk's jeep is getting a little old but it is still tough as it rattles along the unpaved dirt road. The jeep turns a corner and descends down over a steep hill. INT. JEEP LUNK turns a knob on the jeep's radio in frustration. The radio only makes squeaky sounds and static. Lunk turns the wheel of the car. EXT. JEEP The jeep turns around another corner. INT. JEEP LUNK Agh. I thought they got the broadcasting back up in this area. ANNIE LABELLE plays with a handheld video game in the back seat. ANNIE Not again! Jeepers, I'm gonna get so bored on these long trips without at least two things to do at once. MARLENE looks out at the countryside. She grins and turns around toward Annie. MARLENE Don't worry, Annie. You'll have plenty to do when we get there. Helping me with the garden for example. Annie pauses and puts down her game. ANNIE I can't wait, Marlene. We've been though so much. Sometimes though I wonder if I should be thinking about the rest of my life. Annie turns toward lunk and leans forward in her seat. ANNIE Hey Lunk, do you think maybe this town... Marlene slightly shudders behind her, as if she were dozing off and woke up. She makes a "that's strange" expression. LUNK You're not talking about running off with the army again are you? Lunk starts to roll his eyes. ANNIE What else is there to do? LUNK Help out. Join in the rebuilding. All together we can make this world a great place to live again. ANNIE Hmph. Seems like a great place to me already. Annie folds her arms. MARLENE Annie. I think what Lunk is trying to say is once we get settled into our new life, we'll see what's ahead and then we'll know what the future holds for us. Annie looks out at vast, freshly plowed, fields some distance from the road. An old tractor sits out there, the sun glinting off it as the jeep passes by. ANNIE The future, huh. LUNK Alright everyone. We're almost there, our new home! The jeep, going a little faster goes down the road, past the fields, and around a corner out of sight. A boy in the field standing next to a motorcycle watches them leave and takes a bite of his sandwich. EXT. HOUSE Two birds fly off of a tree, seeming to do a mating dance with each other. The tree is in the yard of an old house. INT. HOUSE A woman sits up in bed, still partially beneath the blankets. She stretches as the one beside her sleeps soundly. INT. SHOWER Beads of water slide down her body. She lathers her arm with a bar of soap. INT. KITCHEN She fills up a cup from the coffee machine. SERA lifts the cup to her mouth and takes a sip, as the two birds fly up and away though the window behind her. The sunlight pours through the window, causing her to squint. Behind her a pair of arms wrap around her waist. SERA Up a little early today? LANCER fills up his own cup with coffee. LANCER I thought I'd catch up on that report for the Expeditionary Forces. Better to get it out of the way before it's time to go back up. SERA The human army is quite efficient at keeping you in line. Maybe I should take notes. What are they wanting to know? Sera takes a drink of her coffee. LANCER The details of our mission. They want to know all that happened in the line of duty. SERA You're serious? They want to know everything? LANCER They'll get a report, but it might not be everything. I'll do all that I can for you Sera. Sera suddenly winces and drops her coffee. It shatters on the kitchen floor. She grabs the table. Lancer rushes over to her. LANCER Sera! Sera, what's the matter? Sera, still holding the table, composes herself. SERA I felt something, something... odd.. and.. familiar. LANCER Can you tell what it is? Are you hurt? Sera stands up. SERA No, it's... Maybe it's just something I'll understand in time. There couldn't be anything wrong. Not again. Could there? Lancer looks down at her with concern. EXT. TOWN The jeep pulls up the street. Lunk parks it in front of a building. ANNIE Wow, this one's deserted too. MARLENE Not quite, Annie. Look over there. Annie sees a procession of people head into town with farming equipment and implements. Soon they are surrounded by people. An old man shakes hands with Lunk. LUNK Old man Richmond. We finally made it. You ready for us to help out here? RICHMOND Of course, Lunk. We're glad to have you as part of our community. Come inside and I'll tell you about the farm and then we'll head out there. MARLENE I've never seen a town like this before. Have you? ANNIE No way. All the ones I've been to weren't nearly as friendly as this. The boy from earlier rides up on a motorcycle. He stops in front of them and takes off his helmet. BOY Hey, so that's who you are. I was wondering why you were heading into town. The boy smiles at them. Annie gets hearts for eyes. RICHMOND Brian, this is our new manager, Mr. Lunk... BRIAN A strong guy. Alright! Richmond ...and his companions, Annie LaBelle, and Marlene... Marlene... I'm sorry I didn't catch your last name. MARLENE Bernard. Lunk looks over at her a bit disapproving. RICHMOND Yes, and they'll also be helping. Brian looks down at Annie. BRIAN This girl? Cmon Pops, she aint seen a day of work in her life. She'd only get in the way. Annie's starry eyes turn angry. She doesn't like this guy at all. RICHMOND Please Brian, these people want to contribute and we need all the help we can get. First thing tomorrow show them around. I'm sure they'll do fine. Now then, Lunk, I'll show you the paperwork and then we'll head out to the manager's house. Annie sticks out her tongue at Brian. He glares at her. She glares back. He glares more. She walks away, hurrying to Lunk and Marlene. Behind them Brian smirks. INT. HOUSE - NIGHT Annie lays in bed. The house makes a sound. She jerks her head and sees nothing. ANNIE (THINKING) Cmon, Annie you sleep in the forest. It's just an old house. There's nothing there. Annie settles back down. Moving only to breathe, she settles back down to sleep. There's a sound from outside. Annie sits up. ANNIE That wasn't the house. Annie looks out the window and sees part of a shadow move. She breathes out and lays back down. ANNIE Just a cat. EXT. HOUSE Brian keys the lock on a shed. He opens the shed door. Inside is a Cyclone. He walks into the shed and puts his hand on the seat. BRIAN (ROBOTIC VOICE) Bio-energy device detected. A man behind him in farmer clothes stands at the entrance. FARMER (ROBOTIC VOICE) Keep looking. It must be here somewhere. Find the protoculture! Brian's eyes are lifeless. He nods. EXT. HOUSE - MORNING Lunk pushes open the shed door and looks around. ANNIE What happened? LUNK Somebody broke into the shed during the night. MARLENE That's strange. Only the owners of the farm have a lock code. It should be impervious to anyone else. ANNIE Hey, the Cyclone's still here. What could they be looking for? LUNK I dunno, Mint, but we're gonna get to the bottom of it, whoever it is. An old truck drives up to the house and stops. With the truck still running, Old man Richmond gets out. RICHMOND Lunk, somebody broke into the main fuel cell units last night. LUNK Looks like they were here too. RICHMOND Strange thing about it is, it was the people we had guarding it. LUNK What? RICHMOND That's right. They didn't take too many of the fuel cells, but they made off with their Cyclones and didn't come back this morning. MARLENE Why would they do such a thing? RICHMOND I don't know, but I came here to ask you a favor. Lunk, you have experience with these bikes, so I'd like to ask you to help us stop these guys. There's another fuel cell unit a ways off from town and we think that's where they might be heading. LUNK I'd be glad to Boss. I'll teach them not to break into our house. RICHMOND All right then. Follow me and you and the boys can head out there. INT. FUEl CELL UNIT ROOM The farmer from the previous night is tinkering with the fuel cell unit. A LARGE MAN in tough guy clothes opens the door and walks in. The farmer quickly turns around, then relaxes, and turning back around, goes back to his work. LARGE MAN Well Red, did you find anything? RED (ROBOTIC VOICE) Broltai, look at this. These units contain no active protoculture. Only the conventional energy systems are being used. BROLTAI That's hard to believe. They must have run out of protoculture. Red turns around. RED (ROBOTIC VOICE) The fuel cells are still in place. The protoculture they contained no longer exists. bROLTAI Empty canisters of protoculture? Where did they come from? LUNK So that's what you're after! Lunk kicks in the door holding a gun. He's wearing CVR-3 armor. Red picks up a gun next to him on the floor and aims it at Lunk. Lunk dodges and shoots Red in the leg as his own shot misses. Broltai gets mad and lunges toward Lunk. He punches him out the door. INT. FARMING OFFICE Annie comes in through the front door. Richmond is at his desk. ANNIE Hello. I'm here to take a tour of the farm. RICHMOND Ah yes. Brian was supposed to do that. Where is that boy? His bike is still here. Maybe he forgot and went off ahead. ANNIE Hmph, he was all about work earlier. He shouldn't talk so much. RICHMOND I'll get everything ready and you can go out there yourself and remind him. EXT. FARMING TOWN ROAD Annie rides off down the street on a conventional motorcycle. EXT. GRASSY HILL Through the lens of a scope, Broltai is walking out of the door. Lunk is on the ground. Brian is looking through the scope of a large gun. BRIAN (ROBOTIC VOICE) Broltai has failed. I understand. I will terminate them for their incompetence and the human as well. ANNIE (V.O.) Brian, I didn't like you so much at first, but I didn't think you'd turn on your own friends. Brian turns around startlingly. He looks at Annie and smirking, relaxes. BRIAN (ROBOTIC VOICE) Well then, I guess I'll have to take care of you as well. Brian makes a quick grab for Annie. She squeaks and dodges him. Brian makes another grab for her. She tries to get away but trips and falls down. ANNIE What's happened to you? Brian makes a third grab for her. Annie's eyes go wide. He's about to reach to choke her, but an arm comes from behind and grabs his wrist. LANCER (V.O.) I wouldn't do that if I were you. Annie gasps. ANNIE Lancer! Lancer flips Brian over himself. He lands on the ground. Brian gets up and struggles with Lancer, but Lancer puts a pair of handcuffs on him and restrains him. ANNIE Lancer, don't hurt him! Somethings got control of him! BRIAN (ROBOTIC VOICE) You can't! Aaaaagh... Brian passes out. A small amount of electricity sparks on him. ANNIE Brian! LANCER Can you hear me? Brian is passed out. LANCER We better get him to the doctor. ANNIE Uh, Lancer. Not that I'm not happy to see you and all but, what are you doing here? LANCER I'll tell you on the way. Grab his legs. Annie looks at Brian's face, then grabs his legs and they both lift him up. EXT. FUEL CELL PLANT Broltai walks out the door taking practice swings with his fists. Lunk is on the ground. He wipes the blood off his lip. LUNK Zentraedi. BROLTAI That's right. Got a problem with it? Lunk gets up and stumbles away from him. LUNK There's no protoculture here. All the protoculture is gone. If you needed help all you needed to do was ask. BROLTAI Nevertheless, I'm out one ally and that's unforgivable. Can't have you telling the others about me. Lunk starts to run faster away from him. Broltai angrily pulls out his gun and shoots at Lunk. Lunk dodges and runs into a nearby storage shed. BROLTAI If you'd rather die in there. Broltai walks toward the shed. BUMPER The SDF-4 fires it's main gun. FEMALE RDF GENERAL Remain at full alert! Robotech will be right back! BUMPER An alpha and beta fighter combine. FEMALE REF GENERAL All veritechs move out! Robotech has returned! EXT. SHED Broltai walks toward the shed. INT. SHED Lunk limps through the shed and behind some boxes where he collapses tiredly. He pulls a cyclone down on it's side. It lands with a thud. He pushes a switch marked "Conventional". Slowly and with an agonizing transformation sound, it breaks apart. The door creaks open. Broltai nudges it open with his gun and looks around. BROLTAI (ROBOTIC VOICE) Where are you little human? It's no use running. Maybe you're in THERE! Broltai kicks a heavy crate out of the way, smashing it across the room. Lunk looks at him with sweat on his face. He's looking down the barrel of Broltai's gun. EXT. SHED Broltai is jacked up out of the shed. He flies out of the shed and lands on the ground. The gun tumbles away. He rolls once, his dazed eyes close, and his head turns to the side. A slow clunking noise comes out of the shed. Lunk slowly walks out of it in a Cyclone in ride armor mode. He is having trouble walking. LUNK And so what if I am? A truck pulls up to them. It's Richmond. RICHMOND Lunk! The jeep also pulls up. Annie is driving with Marlene in the passenger seat. Lunk gives them a confused look. Annie flashes a V with her fingers and grins. LUNK You're driving again? MARLENE I thought it would be good to give her some practice. LUNK Yeah, I suppose you're right. Lunk concentrates on something for a second. Then, his suit begins to slowly and noisily transform. RICHMOND Lunk? Marlene looks to Annie questioningly. Annie shugs. INT. CLINIC RICHMOND Well Doc, what do you think happened to them? A doctor in a white coat is injecting Brian with something. DOCTOR These people have been drained to exhaustion as far as I can tell. Their heartbeats irregular too. RICHMOND That's all? They went crazy is what it looks like to me and I'm not even a doctor. DOCTOR There's a few things I can look at. We don't know until we can run some more tests and... One of the farmers bursts in the door. FARMER I'm sorry to disturb you Mr. Richmond, Doctor, but you've gotta come out side and see this. There are army ships landing just outside of town! RICHMOND What? Soldiers? Why? They must be here to take over or possibly they've come for Lunk. I'd better go see them. EXT. HORIZONT A Horizont descends to the ground and lands. Lancer's Alpha fighter lands, goes past it, then stops. The cockpit opens and Lancer gets out. Richmond's truck pulls up. He and the doctor get out. The jeep pulls up with Lunk, Marlene, and Annie. Lunk goes up to Lancer. LUNK It's great to see you Lancer. How's the house? LANCER The house is perfect. Sera's not feeling so great though. I came here because I was worried how all of you were doing. The Robotech forces seem to know something about what's going on. A group of soldiers approaches with a high ranking officer. LANCER They're here to help. Just cooperate and everything will be alright. Lunk and Lancer salute. LUNK AND LANCER Sir! COMMANDER Lieutenant, thank you for assisting us in this operation. LUNK Sir, I... COMMANDER Ah yes, the missing biomaintenance engineer. You on the contrary... A woman's arm pushes him out of the way. It is the GENERAL. GENERAL Lunk! So there you are. I was hoping you hadn't run off on us again. I'm General Marianne Noble. LUNK I...uh... I take full responsibility! I'm ready to accept my punishment. She makes a dismissive motion with her hand. GENERAL NOBLE Don't worry about all that. I've taken care of everything. LUNK Taken care of it. The commander looks away exasperated. She straightens up a bit. GENERAL NOBLE However... LUNK Ma'am! GENERAL NOBLE You're not out yet Lunk. LUNK I understand. When do I leave? GENERAL NOBLE You're not going anywhere. We have need of a engineer here on Earth. That is if you're up to it. There's plenty to do off planet. LUNK I accept the post. GENERAL NOBLE Perfect! This will help us immensely and you'll get to stay right where you are. LANCER Well done Lunk. GENERAL NOBLE Lancer, you are free to go. I expect a report on this as well. LANCER Yes ma'am. Thank you ma'am, Commander. Lancer leaves. COMMANDER As for the victims Mr. Lunk, we'll take over from here. LUNK Do you have any idea what happened to them? GENERAL NOBLE We suspect they are being manipulated to search for protoculture, but the details of that are classified Lunk. We'll be taking them with us for further testing. An advanced medical facility will help them more than the small clinic here. After, they will be returned to their normal lives. LUNK General, I have to go make sure my friends are alright. GENERAL NOBLE Of course, Lunk. We will make contact again soon. Lunk leaves. General Noble turns to the Commander. GENERAL NOBLE Another town. Where could they be? Right under us and we can't see them. Ext. FIELD Lancer's Alpha lands vertically in a clearing. Sitting on mossy rocks at the edge of the forest, Lancer plays his guitar. A small cup of coffee sits off to his side. He sings for a while then stops. A girl with long cyan hair watches him as she leans against a tree, arms crossed. Lancer turns around. She smiles. GIRL Not bad at all. Lancer recognizes her. LANCER You! She walks toward him and shows off her REF uniform. GIRL How do you like it? I'm a cadet in the Robotech forces now. LANCER Amazing. You must be with the General's group. So you're going up into space after all, just like you wanted. She spreads her arms. GIRL I just couldn't keep myself from the universe. A bigger audience and all. LANCER A soldier huh. Looks like they've been recruiting everywhere. GIRL When I got back there was nothing but a bunch of old farmers and the soldiers. So I picked the most exciting one and went up and asked them one day. Now I got this uniform. LANCER So then they've been here before. GIRL The people running this town didn't know the war was over. I guess somebody had to tell them. That's when I joined up. Her watch lights up and makes a rhythmic beep. She turns it off. GIRL Time to go. The girl gets on her motorcycle. GIRL I'll see you around sometime, Yellow Dancer! She rides off. Lancer scowls. It turns into a smile. LANCER Now she's here. EXT. HORIZONT - sunset Marlene and Lunk stand in front of the Jeep. Off in the distance in front of the ship are the silhouettes of Annie and General Noble talking. Noble leans down and hands her an electronic notepad. LUNK We're back where we started, Marlene. I guess you never know what's going to happen to you. MARLENE It's what she wanted to do. After all she's been through, she must have thought about it sometimes. LUNK They've taken all the people effected by it with them. What's going to happen to that kid? Marlene collapses in pain. Lunk leans down next to her. LUNK Marlene! Marlene, are you alright. Marlene is knocked out unconscious. Doctors and soldiers rush to them. Lunk goes to the jeep and grabs a portable radio. He pushes some buttons on it. LUNK Lancer! Lancer, are you there? Lancer, do you copy? Over. Lunk looks back to Marlene being hauled away on a stretcher. He puts the radio down in the jeep. LUNK He sure left in a hurry. What in the world could the Invid have to do with this? EXT. SKY Lancer's alpha flies rapidly over the towns, roads, and forest. INT. ALPHA FIGHTER LANCER That was Sera's alarm. Sorry Lunk, but she could be in some serious danger. Hold on Sera. I'm almost there. Lancer's eyes worry about what has happened. NEXT EPISODE PREVIEW EXT. MOON BASE ALUCE NARRATOR In the next episode of Robotech, General Noble moves to uncover the mystery of what is causing the alien manipulation, a threat that may come from anywhere at anytime. INT. CONTROL ROOM General Noble gives orders. INT. MEDICAL ROOM Patients lay in chambers. NARRATOR The victims mount and they can no longer be certain if the enemy isn't within their own ranks. INT. HALL The commander looks around. NARRATOR Meanwhile, Annie LaBelle joins the Robotech Defence Forces. INT. TRAINING ROOM Annie fires a gun. It recoils and misses. A second shot hits one of the floating targets. Annie trains in an Alpha fighter simulator. NARRATOR As months pass, she has yet to complete the training and unexpectedly encounters her first mission. EXT. ROAD Annie drives a hovercar along a forest with 2 passengers. INT. HALL Annie and a couple other kids walk down a dark, damaged, hall in cadet uniforms looking around cautiously. NARRATOR Be sure to watch "", the next exciting episode in the amazing adventure of Robotech! ROBOTECH END TITLE ROBOTECH MAIN TITLE EXT. SKY An INVID SCOUT flies by at amazing speed. At it disappears, two others zoom out of the clouds to catch up with it. Alongside the scout, the sunlight gleams off it's surface. A scout behind it drops down. The scouts eye sees a village below. EXT. VILLAGE Through a binocular, the Invid can be seen as specks in the sky far above. The man holding it drops it down, an angry look on his face. Many terrified villagers run for their lives. Some of them hop on motorcycles and jeeps. Villager 1 The Invid! They've returned! VILLAGER 2 How did they find us? An Invid scout drops down to the ground hard. It starts to walk forward. Two other scouts drop down. The scout stops. It raises a claw and charges it's gun. Villager 1 trips and falls. He turns around and attempts to crawl backward from the Invid. VILLAGER 1 No! The Invid's gun shoots out annihilation discs. The villager screams in the background. A Royal Command Battloid drops down from the sky, colored pink and purple. After hitting the ground and straightening up, it motions forward with one of it's gun arms. Alongside it a scout zooms ahead. The RCB waits. The scouts fire heavily on the villagers. Their bodies fly. Their vehicles explode. The scout eye adjusts clinically, unfeeling. INT. CLASSROOM A girl's eye looks to the side. To her side is a boy about high school age, slumped over on his arms looking ahead. On the monitor at the front of the classroom, annihilation discs fly at Cyclone riders. The scout again adjusts it's eye. The boy slowly turns his head to the side. The girl's eye quickly adjusts back to the monitor. The boy looks back at the monitor. The girl smiles at the plan forming in her mind. She grips the tickets in her hand tighter.

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