Story: Dragon Lady of Macross (chapter 18)

Authors: CalamityQueenCordite

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Chapter 18

Title: Chapter Eighteen

Dragon Lady of Macross

Written By Lisa Grey

Developed by Lisa Grey and James R. Axelrad

Edited by James R. Axelrad and Johnny G


Chapter 18

February 2010...

"I am Supreme Commander Dolza," the large bald alien said. "You will submit to my interrogation."

"Wow, he speaks our language," Vicki said.

"Amazing," Ranma agreed.

"You! The male! Why have you attacked us?" Dolza demanded.

"Attacked you? What the hell are you talking about? You attacked us," Ranma said angrily.

"Tell us what you know of Protoculture?" demanded the smaller alien with the Marty Feldman eyes.

"Huh? What's Protoculture?" Ranma asked looking at Lisa.

"I don't know," Lisa said looking at the other two who looked just as baffled.

"What the hell are you people talking about?" Ranma said.

"So you deny you've made a secret weapon?" Dolza asked.

"Secret weapon? Look, we have no idea what you're talking..." Ranma said, but Lisa interrupted him.

"It's okay, Ranma," she said. "Look, we have no idea what you're talking about and I refuse to submit myself or my people to anymore of your questions."

"So the female is in charge," Dolza said. "Observe."

A holographic image appeared around them, depicting the area of space around an Earth-like planet. Hundreds of Zentradi ships took up orbit around the planet. Once all the ships were in position, they opened fire on the surface of the planet. Explosions blossomed and the atmosphere was filled with smoke and dust. It quickly settled, allowing the now dead, cratered surface of the planet to be seen.

"Oh my god," Akane gasped.

"Bloody hell," Vicki said in dismay.

"Fucking barbaric savages," Ranma snarled, clenching his fists tightly.

"So you see," Dolza said smugly. "The Zentradi have more than enough power to destroy the SDF-1 and your people. You will answer our questions."

"I don't think you do," Lisa said. "The SDF-1 is much more powerful than this bucket of bolts."

"Are you bloody bonkers?" Vicki gasped.

Dolza slammed his fist down on the table causing everyone but Ranma to fall down. Dolza reached out to grab Lisa. Seeing the huge hand heading toward his fiancée, Ranma snapped. Just before the hand reached her, he attacked with a brutal kick to the hand. There was a snapping sound and Dolza howled in pain as his finger broke. The Supreme Commander swung his other fist down in a brutal blow that would leave Ranma a bloody smear on the table.

"Ranma!" Lisa screamed just before the fist hit.

Everyone stood still for a moment, unable to comprehend what they had just seen. Dolza had used his considerable might to crush the tiny human...but the tiny human wasn't crushed. Instead he had caught the fist and stopped it. Ranma grunted with effort as Dolza bore down harder.

"Very well, Micronian," Dolza said. "Your size belies your strength." Nobody was prepared when Dolza withdrew his fist and snatched up Akane. "Now talk or the female dies. By what process do you become Micronians?"

"Become? We're born this way," Ranma said.

"Yes, but born from what?" the Marty Feldman eyed alien asked.

"Huh? Our mothers," Lisa said, confused.

"What are 'mothers'?" the large Zentradi with the metal faceplate demanded.

"You know, mothers, females," Ranma said.

"You mean you all come from females," the bug-eyed alien demanded. "How is that possible?"

"Well, when a man and woman love each other, they have sex and sometimes the woman will get pregnant and have a baby, a little human which they take care of until it becomes an adult human," Vicki explained.

"Sex? What is 'sex'? You, male and you," Dolza pointed to Vicki. "Show us," Dolza commanded.

"But we can't," Vicki protested, trying to thing of a way out of this. "The man and woman have to love each other."

"Very well," the bug-eyes one said. "The male and the other female then."

"But we don't," Lisa started.

"Love..." Ranma added but trailed off when the image from earlier appeared around them and displayed a very clear recording of Ranma and Lisa professing their love for each other. The bug-eyed alien sat back, looking smug and raised an eyebrow.

"Show us, or this female dies!" Dolza ordered and squeezed enough to make Akane whimper.

Ranma and Lisa looked at each other. Lisa nodded slightly and licked her lips nervously. Ranma unzipped his flight suit and pulled his arms out of the sleeves. He carefully removed the overly tight sports bra, which was actually something of a relief. With the upper part of his flight suit hanging around his waist he approached Lisa who was looking very shy and vulnerable.

He pulled Lisa to him and began to slowly caress her. First her arms and her back, and then around front to stroke her breasts. Lisa let out a little moan of pleasure. Ranma unzipped the front of her flight suit and slowly slid it down her arms. He began to stroke the bare skin he had revealed. He massaged her breast again through her bra, gently tweaking her nipples. Her hands had begun to stroke his powerfully built upper body as well. He pulled her close and leaned in, taking her lips in a deep passionate kiss.

They had been trying so hard to lose themselves in the pleasure of each others touch to forget they were doing this in front of an audience that they nearly missed it when the gathered Zentradi began to freak out in disgust at what they were seeing. They were brought back to reality to the howls of revulsion and horror the Zentradi were making.

"Stop this," Dolza demanded, having released Akane during the first shock of the kiss. "You must stop this at once!"

"That was disgusting," the large metal-faced one said as Lisa and Ranma separated.

"That was 'sex'?" the bug-eyed one asked.

"Oh no, that was just foreplay," Vicki said helpfully with a smug grin as she watched the Zentradi squirm uncomfortably. "That was just kissing, part of getting prepared for sex. Sex is when the man gets aroused and his penis gets hard. Once the woman is ready, prepared by the foreplay, he sticks his penis in her vagina and works it in and out."

By now the Zentradi were looking positively green...even those that weren't positively green naturally.

"Stop, I wish to hear no more," the metal-faced one moaned.

"Yes, take them away," Dolza ordered. "I think I'm going to be sick."

"Geez," Ranma commented, slipping the top of his flight suit back on and stuffing his bra in the pocket. "Talk about a world-class case of repression..."

Lisa giggled and slipped back into the top of her flight suit.

(oOO/Oo)

'Man this is easier than I thought,' Max thought to himself as he maneuvered his battloid through the corridors of the Zentradi ship in his commandeered uniform.

Max had slipped back aboard the ship through a hole left from previous battle damage, after being blown out of the bay they had been fighting in. He had thought the jig was up when the soldier had opened the compartment he was hiding in, but Max was able to subdue the alien and take his uniform to use as a disguise. Thus far he had passed several others of the Zentradi soldiers and no one had questioned him.

Up in the distance, Max spotted two more of the soldiers pushing a cart of some sort. Something on the cart caught his eye and he zoomed in on it with the optical scanners. It was a stroke of luck. He had found his captured teammates.

Max discreetly followed the pair until they reached a compartment. They placed the small humans inside and closed the door. Max looked on as the pair took up guard beside the door. He would have to wait for at least one of them to leave before he made his move. He settled in for a long wait.

(oOO/Oo)

"I was thinking," Ranma said with a mischievous grin.

"I thought I smelled hair burning," Lisa teased as she snuggled into Ranma's side where they were sitting on the floor with their backs to the wall.

"Ha ha," Ranma said. "Anyway, I was thinking we might have a new weapon to use against these Zentradi."

"Oh?" Lisa asked interestedly.

"Yup, all we have to do is anytime they attack start broadcasting pornographic videos and watch them run," Ranma chuckled.

"Oh you," Lisa laughed and playfully punched him in the side.

Akane came over and knelt on the floor in front of them, looking down.

"Were you two really going to..." she trailed off unable to say the words.

"Make love," Lisa supplied and Akane nodded.

"...in front of all those alien perverts just to save me?" she finished.

"Well, we were going to try," Ranma admitted. "I don't know if it would have worked. Not that making love to Lisa is not my favorite thing in the universe, but I don't know if I could have performed for an audience."

"I'm sorry for what I said about you," Akane said. "I really have no right to judge you. This is twice you've saved my life and I've been watching you. You may look like a guy right now, but you move and talk like a woman still." Ranma blushed in shame.

"Yeah, well, like I said, I'm not a guy anymore," Ranma said sadly. "I've lived as a woman for too long. Even when I was a guy all the time, Pop never let me be around people long enough to learn any social skills as a guy. When I finally got away from him, I finally started to develop socially, only because I was a girl all the time, I learned female social skills."

"It really doesn't matter to you that he...she...changes, does it?" Akane asked Lisa.

"Whatever the body, it's always my Ranma," Lisa said. "Ever since the Academy, she has always been my best friend. When my fiancé Karl was killed on Mars and Ranma came back into my life, I wasn't sure what I felt for her. I was attracted to guys, but I felt a deep connection to her. I slowly realized that I was attracted to her female body as much as this one. Maybe more so since she's much more confident as a woman."

"I'm happy for you both," Akane said sadly. "I wish I could find someone to love me like that."

"Someday you will, Akane," Ranma said, reaching out and taking her hand. "I think if I had come with Pop to meet your family I would have loved you. You're a good person Akane. A little short tempered, but a great person. I already thought of you as a friend, but now that you know, if you can accept me, you can be one of my best friends. I don't have many. Basically, Vicki, Claudia Grant, Roy Fokker, and, of course, Lisa. Tia knew as well before she died. She and Vicki stood by me while the rest of the Roses took a while to come to terms with it when they found out."

"I'd like that, Ranma," Akane said.

"Thanks, Akane," Ranma said giving her hand a squeeze before letting go. "Now how about we think of a plan to get out of here?"

"I have an idea," Lisa said, grinning lecherously.

"Do tell," Ranma grinned.

"Well, you saw how they reacted when we kissed," Lisa explained. "All we have to do is wait for a guard to open the door and we start kissing. While he's stunned we make a break for it."

"Sounds good," Ranma said.

"I thought you'd like that plan," Lisa batted her eyelashes at him and Akane giggled.

"Blimey," Vicki shook her head and laughed. "I'm going to have to get bloody dentures if I have to spend too much more time around the two of you."

It was another half an hour before they heard some noises at the door. Ranma and Lisa got into position in the center of the room and began making out. Akane and Vicki stood to either side of the door and got ready to run for it.

The door slid open to reveal a frozen Zentradi soldier.

(oOO/Oo)

Max had been waiting about an hour before he saw one of the guards leave. He peered around the corner and the other guard gave a mighty yawn. 'Great,' Max thought. 'He's not very alert. Now's my chance.'

Max moved into the corridor and walked along until he got in front of the guard. He spun around and delivered a haymaker to the surprised guard's chin. Max tapped the door controls and the door slid open.

Max could only stand in shock as he looked at Commander Hayes making out with some guy. Where the hell did the guy come from? The Zentradi must have captured others. Then he stated to notice things about the guy, like the fact he was wearing a pink and white flight suit that looked too small and the fact that his black hair was in a French braid. This was definitely weird. Then he heard Vicki's voice.

"Come on Mum, Commander, it's working, let's get out of here," she yelled and she and Akane ran into the door way.

"Wait, it's me, Max," Max said.

Everybody stopped.

"Max?" Vicki said looking up at him. Max pulled his hat back a little to reveal his battloid head. "Bloody marvelous," Vicki laughed.

"Come on lets get out of here," Max said. "Commander Hayes, who's your new boy friend? And where's Mom?" Lisa could almost here a hint of disapproval in his voice.

"It's a long story, Max," Lisa said.

"He is Ranma, Max," Akane said.

"Damn, what did they do to you, Mom?" Max said, horrified.

"I'll tell you the whole story when we have more time," Ranma said. "Right now we need to move out."

Max dragged the guard in to the cell and placed Ranma and Lisa in one pocket and Akane and Vicki in the other. They left the cell and began walking down the hall, passing the other guard that was returning. The guard got past them and noticed his partner wasn't at his post.

"Hey you!" the guard yelled whirling about and leveling his weapon. "Stop right there!"

But Max was already running. The guard opened fire and shots streaked pass them down the corridor, a few of them going through Max's Veritech.

"Guardian mode, Max," Ranma yelled.

"Right!" Max called back and switched to guardian mode to get more speed.

Streaking down the corridor they smashed through a window. Ranma briefly identified Dolza and metal-face diving to the floor as the Veritech ripped through the air over them and flew through the control room and into another corridor. Now there was a platoon of Zentradi on their heels firing at them down the corridor.

"The elevator!" Max said. "We'll lose them by going to another level."

They flew down the corridor toward the elevator, which was just opening. The soldier inside had to dive out as the gunfire peppered where he had just been standing. Max brought the Veritech to a halt inside the elevator and slowly lifted the guardian's arm to the switch.

"I'm losing power and overheating, somebody has to hit the switch," Max called.

"Roger," Ranma yelled and jumped out onto the arm and ran toward the switch. He hit the switch and the elevator door shut in the face of lead pursuing Zentradi.

As the elevator descended, Max popped the canopy.

"This thing's gonna blow real soon," he said.

"We'll just have to find our way out on foot then," Lisa said.

"Right," Max said as he jumped to the ground with a laser rifle.

The elevator door opened and the five of them rushed out, only to scatter when a Zentradi tried to dive on them. Ranma, Lisa, and Max went one way and Vicki and Akane went the other. The Zentradi was just getting up when the Veritech blew, killing him.

As Ranma, Lisa, and Max wandered through the corridors looking for a way out, Ranma explained about his condition. They found themselves looking into a room with large tanks with smaller tanks in front of them. It looked as though there were Zentradi in the large tanks, but in the smaller human sized tanks, copies of the larger aliens seemed to be forming.

"I guess if I'm seeing this, I can believe your story, Mom," Max chuckled.

"That must be why they all look the same," Lisa opined. "They're clones."

"But what do you suppose is going on there?" Ranma wondered. "It looks like they are being shrunk down to human size."

"I don't know," Lisa admitted as she took video of the tanks with her micro video recorder.

Their speculation was interrupted by the appearance of a soldier and they decided to fade before they were spotted. After wandering the corridors for a while they found themselves in an armory. They hid behind a rack of rifles to rest for a bit.

"Man, this is really weird seeing you like this, Mom," Max shook his head. "Are you sure you started out as a guy? I mean because, you definitely look like a guy, but there's no question it's a woman behind the wheel so to speak."

"Yeah, I was a guy for the first 16 years of my life, Max," Ranma grinned ruefully.

"That's hilarious," Max said. "Miss Macross, the most desirable female on the ship, used to be a man. Well at least now I know why you made me wear the pink flight suit," Max laughed.

"Well, if I had to, then I don't see why you couldn't," Ranma chuckled. "But that's only a small part of it. It was an esprit de corps thing. I wanted to make sure you got accepted since a lot of those women were fond of the idea of an all female squadron. If I let you wear a different flight suit from everyone else then it would be like you were ashamed to wear the unit colors and thus ashamed to be part of the unit. They would have resented you for that."

"I see," Max said. "Well, I don't mind, really. I'm proud to be part of your unit and we do seem to be a tighter nit unit than the others. Do all of them know about you?"

"No, just the original five, you, and Akane," Ranma sighed. "I guess I'm going to have to tell them when we get back. I went for nearly seven years without being changed by accident and now it's happened twice in less than six months. I'm tired of having to explain things to people that are already pissed off because they found out by accident."

"I can understand that," Lisa said. "That's not a bad idea. I want to be there as well to explain that this is classified information."

"You got it, Love," Ranma said.

Just then a huge hand came down and grabbed Lisa.

"Gotcha, Micronian," the soldier laughed.

"Lisa!" Ranma yelled and charged the Zentradi.

The Zentradi kicked Ranma, knocking him back into the rack of rifles causing them to collapse on him.

"Ranma!" Lisa yelled, seeing Ranma buried under the rifles.

The Zentradi turned toward the door but he didn't get far when a rifle shot rang out. Ranma had picked up one of the giant rifles and was holding it aimed while Max was pulling the trigger. Five shots rang out hitting the soldier center mass. The alien convulsed and dropped Lisa.

Lisa yelled as she fell toward the floor, but then she found herself in Ranma's arms as he had leaped into the air and caught her. They landed lightly and Lisa hugged him tightly in relief. However, more soldiers came running at the sound of the rifle fire and the trio had to run for their lives with the Zentradi in hot pursuit.

As they ran out on to a catwalk, the soldiers began to open fire. The floor of the catwalk began to disintegrate under the rifle fire and the three fleeing humans fell though. Ranma pulled Lisa to him and used his aerial martial arts skills to direct their fall. He bounced off of pipes and walls slowing their fall until they landed lightly beside a large puddle of water. Max wasn't so lucky. He had no way to slow his fall but he landed in the water. He was knocked out by the impact but appeared okay otherwise. Lisa went out and got him, so that he could see Ranma's transformation when he came to.

"Man, for all their high-tech equipment, they sure let this place get run down," Ranma commented as they waited for Max to wake up.

"It's almost as if they don't know how to fix their own ships," Lisa said. "Have you noticed, that all we've seen are soldiers, no civilians, or technicians or anything?"

"They seem to be a society of only warriors," Ranma admitted. "I wonder how many planets they've destroyed, how many lives they taken?"

"They probably don't even know," Lisa said.

"I've trained all my life to be a warrior, but even I think it's pretty pathetic that all they know is war," Ranma said contemptuously.

"I can understand their way," Lisa commented. "I'm like that in a lot of ways."

"You're nothing like them, Lisa," Ranma said firmly. "They are brutal, barbaric killers."

"But still, I've come from over a hundred years of military tradition," Lisa pointed out. "My family has always been a military family. My father always said 'Where there is a battle being fought there's a life being lived'."

"In a way I can understand that saying," Ranma commented. "But I don't believe in the glorious battle concept. In battle, defending others, I feel my purpose is being served, but I hate it. I hate taking life. I understand that it's necessary, but battle is a horrible, ugly thing. There is no glory in watching your friends get taken from you. There is no glory in having the blood of others on your hands. Anyone that thinks that is fucked up. I don't feel alive in battle. I feel alive when I'm together with you or with my friends, but mostly you."

Lisa hugged Ranma and snuggled up to him. They sat quietly together for a while.

Max groaned as he began to come to. "Oww, what happened?"

"We fell," Ranma explained. "The water broke your fall."

"Oh," Max said sitting up. "Man, I hurt. Any idea where we are?"

"Nope, none," Ranma chuckled.

"Situation unchanged then," Max said.

"Here, Lisa managed to find your glasses," Ranma said passing them over.

"Thanks," Max said putting them on.

"Now are you ready for something completely different?" Ranma smirked.

"What would that be?" Max asked.

"Well, I waited until you were awake before I changed back to my female form," Ranma explained. "I thought you might like to see it."

"By all means," Max said.

"Okay now watch closely," Ranma said and stepped over to the water.

He cupped his hands and brought the water to his face, splashing himself. As Max watched his body seemed to flow like the water and form itself into a smaller form and the hair changed from black to fiery red. When it finished, the whole process had taken a second or less, but his familiar CO was back before him.

"Amazing," Max said in wonder. Ranma laughed.

"Okay, now turn around and don’t look," Ranma said. "Flight suits are kinda rough on unprotected breasts. I have to put my bra back on."

Max turned around and Ranma unzipped her flight suit shrugging out of the top and removing the bra from the pocket she had placed it in earlier. She quickly slipped it on and adjusted it noting the Lisa had no compunction at all with watching her avidly. She gave the brunette a smile and slid her arms back into the flight suit before zipping it up.

"Okay, I'm decent," Ranma said.

"More like delectable," Lisa smirked, causing Ranma to giggle.

"I have to admit," Max grinned, "I like you much better this way."

"Yeah? Me too," Ranma laughed. "Now let's get moving or we'll never get out of here."

(oOO/Oo)

"Whoa, look at all those ships," Max said in awe.

"Yeah, there must be a million of them," Ranma said, knowing this was only part of the total fleet. They had seen a lot more ships on the way inside this place. "We'd never be able fight off this many."

"We have to get back to Earth and make sure it never comes to that," Lisa said firmly.

Just then they heard footsteps behind them. They quickly ducked around the doorway and pressed themselves against the wall.

"Where do you think we are?" a familiar female voice said.

"How the bloody hell should I know?" another familiar woman replied.

"Hey guys," Ranma said. "Fancy meeting you here."

"Mom!" Akane said. "You're back!" She hugged the redhead.

"Yeah, we found some water," Ranma said, laughing. "I'm feeling much better now."

"Looking much better too," Akane grinned.

"Funny, that's just what Max said," Ranma smirked.

"So have you guys come up with an idea of how we're going to get out of here?" Vicki asked.

"Well, that cruiser over there taking on supplies looks like it's going somewhere," Lisa suggested. "How about we get on it?"

"Sounds like a plan," Ranma said.

The five humans made their way to the conveyor passing supplies to the cruiser and waited for the guard to turn his back. As soon as he did they jumped on the conveyor and were carried onto the ship. Jumping off they made their way to the hanger bay and hid.

"Now that we're here, how do we get back to the SDF-1?" Vicki asked.

"Well, I don't see why four shit-hot pilots like yourselves can't figure out how to work one of those pods over there," Lisa suggested.

The four Wild Roses looked at each other and grinned.

It took them most of the fold to figure out how to get in to the thing. They had commenced defold as the four Roses were still figuring out the flight controls. Ranma brought the pod online and the view screen came up to reveal a guard standing in the bay. The noise of the pod powering up had attracted his attention.

"We've been discovered," Lisa said urgently. "Do something."

Max moved his stick and pressed the button, firing one of the energy beams and taking out the guard. Ranma and Akane managed to bring the thing to its feet.

"Now how do we get out of here?" Lisa asked.

"Leave that to us, Ma'am," Max grinned and winked at Vicki who returned it. They both opened up with the pods weapons and blew a hole in the side of the ship. Ranma and Akane managed to move the thing out of the hole and they were free. Piloting the thing wasn't easy and they were very lucky that nobody was really trying to shoot at them. They were flying like a wounded duck.

Lisa tried tuning the radio to the SDF-1's frequency. She stumbled across a channel playing a Minmei song. They paused to listen for a minute.

"Hey, that's Minmei," Ranma said. "She must have made her singing debut while we were gone."

"That means we're close to home!" Lisa cheered. It was an unspoken fear that they would end up in some other system far from home with no way to get back.

"Well, maybe you better get the SDF-1 on that thing before we get shot," Ranma suggested with a smile.

"Roger," Lisa grinned and went back to tuning. "This is Lisa Hayes and Elements of the Wild Rose Squadron. We have escaped the Zentradi and are in a commandeered battle pod. Request assistance."

"Lisa is it really you?" Claudia's voice came over the radio. "Oh thank god."

"Yes, Claudia," Lisa said happily. "It's me and the rest of Wild Rose Alpha Flight. We all survived."

"Outstanding," Claudia said happily. "I've sent some very eager folks out to help you."

"Roger," Lisa said. "We're the pod flying like a lame duck."

Soon a group of pink and white Veritechs approached then and grabbed on, flying them toward home.

(oOO/Oo)

As the humans were making good their escape, a new type of Zentradi mecha blasted its way through the Earth forces with terrible skill. It swiftly approached the SDF-1 and tore a hole in the hull. The mecha quickly deposited its cargo inside and sealed the hole before flying off in the confusion.

The object inside the hull popped open and three human sized figures emerged.

"Hey, alright!" one said. "Miriya got us here. I can't wait to start spying."

"But first we need some Micronian uniforms," another said.

"What are we waiting for, let's go!" the third said.

TBC

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