Robotech - Tales of the UEEF (Main)

[D. Rex]

Charlise turned back towards the apparent human being carted away till he was out of sight. "So what does this mean?" She asked. "You dont just give slaves that sort of weaponry..."

Charlise was a both unsettled and confused. It wasnt a pleasing thought to think that they were turning people against each other. If that even was a human...

 

[Orikanyo]

Grumpy paused... the sight... seemed to get a raised out of him... Like a past memory triggered and came forth... a faint remembrance...

This gaze went... off... eyes glazed over as he had caught the look at the being...

The hive way back.. the people butchered and... Implanted... With things... Opperating tables and torturous equipment...

he remembers.. planting the bomb down and arming it... getting whom they could to safety but...

From the outside, grumpy had his pointing finger bent near his mouth in intense thought and with a severe gaze forward, teeth biting into the skin of his finger causing blood to drip to the floor.

"...Was it...? No.. ? maybe..."

 

[Psychie]

Pyrrah looks over at her superior officer, her Chien-Na, and a good friend, and she can sense his concern. Something is wrong, very wrong. But what? "Sir? I can see you are troubled. What is the matter?"

 

[Orikanyo]

Grumpy damn well near bit through his finger when he finally faced Pyyrah, color and life returning to his eyes, he examined her face for a second, as if expecting another... But he soon became entranced by something again.

"Ah..." he paused, he must've drifted again... He didn't like bringing attention to it but... Only so much a man can hide.

"Lets... Go see about this." He missed Chen, where did she go during all of this? He can't remember... What was the name of that sergeant who fell back then...? Was Scorch there? There was another man... Did he die? No... Alex was with him.... Alex is always there, good old Alex at his back...

Now Alex flew alone...

Flying... How he wished he could just float through space for awhile... Let his machine float and gaze into nothing... But the bugs would swarm... Always more bugs...

Bugs... Invid....

He started to walk forwards, towards where the oddity just went.

 

[Sherwood]

Heading to the medbay, you can see that it is packed with security. It takes the Chief Surgeon ordering people out of the way for some of the crowd to thin out and position themselves outside the medbay. During this moment, Grumpy sees his opportunity to slip in and get a good look at the figure strapped to the gurney, and when you do, a chill goes up your spine. The figure is male, and it is a mirror image of one of the people you saw being experimented on by the Invid on that distant planet so long ago.

But you know it is not a human, because as you watch, one of the medical personnel draws some blood, and it is a bright green! Just like the nasty fluids that spray out of a Invid mecha when it is destroyed. The sight of the green blood is a shock to many in there, and the chief medical officer orders a comprehensive series of tests on the figure to see what else might be different in the physiology that they would need to know about.

It is about this time that one of the security officers notices you in there, and he says, "Sir, you need to clear out of here and give the professionals some room to work." His tone is respectful, but firm.

 

[Orikanyo]

Grumpy didn't seem to notice the man's words, his eyes wide and mind running a mile a minute.. "This is what they were doing...? making people into monsters....?" He missed the words said by the security officer, but the gaze was enough. he at least had that faculty as he left the area leaning against one of the cold metal walls before sucking on the deep bite into his thumb, the taste of iron filling his mouth.

Would that have happened to him if he was taken?

Perhaps it could happen even now...

His leaning slowly drifted into a sitting position upon the floor, then he let out a breath he had been holding in for sometime.

it would soon be time to stand again, but for now, he would sit... And let himself recover... He hadn't stopped since he came, even when on leave he didn't feel safe or right at all. he wanted to learn more about the beings beyond the stars but here he was, captain of a god damn squad that has had multiple people leak out and he stands as one of the TWO left from the start... And the first damn fight alone, Alex faces THAT.

He was happy he sent Pyrrah out, he was getting complacent, he almost let the newbie go instead of his blooded recruit.

Everyone was fine... in the end...

But how many more close calls can they get?

The man continued to worry and think, ignoring the world around him for but a few moments longer..

 

[Sherwood]

Two days go by with little in the way of confirmed information coming out. Just a lot of rumors with each one getting farther out there than the last. Finally, there is word of a pilot briefing to go over the findings and to put the wild rumors to rest.

In the pilot's briefing room, excitement is running rampant, with everyone waiting to hear the answers. The CAG takes his position at the front of the room at the podium and calls for order in the room. "Ladies and gentlemen, after reviewing the cockpit recordings and examining the damaged mecha that was brought in, we have some solid information for you about arms and armor on the new Invid mecha."

On the big screen, various pictures come up from Pyrrah's gunsight cameras showing the target in various poses. "We are classifying this as the Invid Commander. As you can see, it is fully humanoid, a departure from all but the Soldier in its design. Another departure is that this is the first Invid mecha to be missile equipped, packing a plethora of both Mini and Short Range Missiles. In total, the mecha packs sixty four Mini Missiles, and forty two Short Range Missiles, having more overall firepower than one of our Alpha Fighters!"

"In addition to the missile payload, it also is seen to have a large, powerful particle beam cannon mounted in the right arm. Its effective range is in the order of 4,000 feet."

"Video footage shows that this new mecha is very maneuverable in space, having been seen hitting speeds of over 2,000 mph. As of now, we do not know the full flight capability of this mecha, and extreme caution must be used whenever they are encountered."

"Armor wise, this is the best protected single pilot mecha that the Invid have been able to deploy. Its main body is rated in between 350 to 450 MDC, in addition to two arm shields. Another design feature that is different than what we have seen before is the presence of a reinforced pilot compartment similar in design to our own mecha, able to protect the pilot even if the main body is blasted beyond repair and disabled. This also means that shooting it in the head only removes its sensors and cameras and does not kill the pilot."

"This brings us to another critical point of this briefing. The pilot is unlike any other Invid encountered by either the UEEF or our allies. Up to this point, we have dealt with four levels of Invid evolution, with each level being progressively more humanoid and more intelligent. This pilot is a new level that we are classifying as level five. Looking at the pilot on a purely visual exam, you can see that he looks completely human! It takes an internal exam to reveal that the circulatory fluids - blood - are green to show that the Invid is anything but a normal human."

"As such, we are now implementing new security procedures to keep these human/Invid hybrids from getting onboard one of our ships and wreaking havoc, and any encounter with a unknown humanoid is to be regarded as possibly one of these hybrids, and not just a Tyrolian clone or Bioroid pilot. Any and all humanoids now encountered will be required to subject themselves to blood and DNA testing prior to being allowed access to any UEEF ship or facility."