Speaker A
Lieutenant, General Galaxy, our new prototype is ready for flight evaluation, the YF-21. We want you in the cockpit.
Lieutenant Galaxy tests the YF-21 prototype, encounters mysterious phenomena, and discovers a time portal linked to Macross history.
Key Takeaways
- Advanced aerospace technology like the YF-21 offers superior capabilities but also new challenges.
- Unidentified phenomena can disrupt even the most advanced flight operations.
- Time travel introduces complex ethical and strategic dilemmas.
- Preserving the timeline is crucial to avoid catastrophic consequences.
- Legacy and personal history deeply influence the characters' motivations and actions.
What the video covers
- Lieutenant Galaxy pilots the advanced YF-21 prototype with cutting-edge technology.
- During flight, unidentified contacts and mysterious phenomena challenge the pilots.
- The pilots discover a portal that transports them back in time to the era of the SDF-1 Macross.
- They encounter historical figures including Kenji's parents and the ace pilot Skull One.
- The team struggles with the implications of time travel and the fragile timeline.
- They must avoid altering history while seeking a way back to their own time.
- Stealth tactics and cloaking technology are used to evade detection in restricted airspace.
- The pilots face emotional and strategic challenges as past and present collide.
- The narrative explores themes of legacy, duty, and the consequences of advanced technology.
- The story sets up a tense atmosphere of mystery and impending conflict linked to the Macross universe.
Chapters
- 00:00YF-21 Prototype Flight Evaluation
- 02:20Encounter with Unidentified Contacts
- 04:04Discovery of the Time Portal
- 06:00Arrival at SDF-1 Macross and Historical Revelations
- 09:08Stealth and Evasion in Restricted Airspace
- 10:25Reflections on Time Travel and Legacy
- 12:40Introduction of Key Characters and Emotional Stakes
- 16:50Preparation for Future Challenges
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Speaker A
The YF-21. When do I fly? YF-21, let's see what you've got. Direct neural interface, thermonuclear turbines, she'll fly past anything the UN has. Think you can keep up, Lieutenant?
Speaker A
Ready when she is. All right, show me. Galaxy 21, taxi runway 31. Skies are yours. Galaxy 21, cleared for takeoff.
Speaker A
21 rolling, rotation. Telemetry's green. Take her through the gate, Lieutenant. 7G, she's not even trying.
Speaker A
General Galaxy, your girl flies. Copy that, 21. Bring her home. 21, we show you our return heading.
Speaker A
Not yet. Spinning up the simulator. My father left me some homework. Three bandits, just like you taught me.
Speaker A
Pull lead, wait for it. Just like you showed me. [sighs] Where did you learn to fly like that, Lieutenant?
Speaker A
[snorts] My father. Coming home, 2-1 inbound. Nice moves back there, 2-1. Shinden 1-9, care to see some real ones?
Speaker A
Your funeral, 1-9. Shinden built them better, 2-1. Then fly it better. And now, you fall.
Speaker A
Not bad, 2-1. Not bad at all. Next time, for real. Anytime, 1-19. Bring a faster plane.
Speaker A
Whenever you're done making friends, 2-1, your hangar's waiting. Galaxy 2-1, break off approach. Unidentified contact, 150 km north, no transponder, not answering. You're the only bird in the sky, Lieutenant.
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2-1, copies. Coming around. Your weapons are cold, Lieutenant. Eyes only. 2-1, contact should be 11:00, 5 km.
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Contact. No lights, no markings. It's like flying next to a hole in the sky.
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9G. Come on, girl. Stay with her. [groaning] 2-1, radar shows clean sky. Whatever it was, it's gone. Say your status.
Speaker A
2-1 is intact. But that contact, it wasn't one of ours. And it wasn't one of theirs.
Speaker A
Coming home. For real this time. Galaxy 2-1, cleared to land runway 3-1. Welcome home.
Speaker A
2-1, wheels down. Good girl. Debrief can wait for morning. You did good tonight, Lieutenant.
Speaker A
She did most of it. Lieutenant, the whole grid just dropped. Is everything all right out there?
Speaker A
All clear. All scheduled traffic, you are not fine. Shineray 1-9, cleared to land. Of course it's you.
Speaker A
Two nights ago, 200 km south of here, my scope painted something doing total silence.
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Tell me you saw it, 2-2-1. I didn't just see it. It followed me home.
Speaker A
It holds this corridor. Both contacts inside 40 km of it. The next time it shows, we don't chase it, we bracket it. Two ships, two angles. It can't mirror us both.
Speaker A
Then you'll want to see this. It's back. Contact holding station 180 km north. Whatever you two are planning, bring both ships home.
Speaker A
Copy. 21, flight of two committed. Just like the dual 21, except this time I'm on your wing.
Speaker A
Then keep up. 21, it's not running, it's turning. Like it wants us to. 21, be advised that heading takes you past our radar coverage. You'd be alone out there.
Speaker A
It waited two nights for us to come look. I'm not turning around now. 21 is following.
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Flight of two, following. Where are you taking us? It just waited for us. 21, it's making sure we keep up.
Speaker A
It's not an aircraft down there. It's a door. Position marked. Nav point locked. We found where it sleeps.
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Nobody's going to believe us, 21. Then we come back with proof. Every camera on both ships is hot. Every recorder, every sensor. Whatever happens out there, it gets remembered.
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[groaning] Coordinates check. This is it. There's— There's nothing here, 21. Tell me we didn't dream it.
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[sighs and gasps] Telemetry's, 21, I'm seeing it. Whatever this is, we're getting all of it.
Speaker A
It's opening. 21, you have everything. Full tape. You can come home now. We came for proof, 21.
Speaker A
21, I've got no THRUST RESPONSE. IT'S PULLING US. DON'T FIGHT IT FOR SPEED. Fly attitude.
Speaker A
Stay on me. 21, I'm losing your Kenji. You with me? With you. 2-1, where the hell is the circle? Where's the ocean? We— Where are we?
Speaker A
Sky's wrong, Kenji. Sun's wrong. Everything's fine. That's what's wrong. 2-1, that's the SDF-1. That's— That's Macross City from the history files.
Speaker A
That's not possible. I know it. I've seen it my whole life in pictures. It's supposed to be history, Kenji. Why is it standing there?
Speaker A
What is going on? What is this? Kenji, check your datestamp. March 2010. 2-1, the city, the fortress, the date, it all matches the history files. We're not looking at pictures anymore.
Speaker A
That light didn't take us somewhere, Kenji. It took us back. We're inside the history books now, and nobody's written how we get home.
Speaker A
Unidentified aircraft, this is Fighter 1 Macross Control. You are in restricted airspace. Identify yourself and respond.
Speaker A
I say again, identify yourself. Unidentified aircraft, this is SDF-1 Macross Control. You are in restricted airspace. Identify yourself and respond.
Speaker A
You are on my scope and in my airspace. Identify yourself. Now. Mom. Unidentified flight, I will not ask again. Identify. Kenji, break off. We leave now. We disappear before this becomes a fight.
Speaker A
Nobody chases what they never saw. On me. With you, Aoife. Going quiet. Kenji, full burn. Activate cloak. We vanish now.
Speaker A
Copy, Aoife. Going ghost. Contacts lost on surface radar, Lieutenant. No wreckage indication. They just dropped off.
Speaker A
No flight plan, no registry, no wreckage. Aircraft don't vanish. Pilots hide them. Fuel state's honest. We have maybe two more cloak runs in these birds. After that, we're pedestrians in 2010.
Speaker A
Then we spend them like they're the last two on Earth. This is SDF-1 Macross Control. You are in restricted airspace. Identify yourself.
Speaker A
Mom. There's a woman in the recording. And she said, "Mom." Who are you? Kenji, the officer on the screen today.
Speaker A
Her name is Misa. She's my mother. And if she's here, my father is here, too. For sure, he's here. He's the one who taught me how to fly.
Speaker A
Then we can never answer that channel again. No flight plan. No registry. No wreckage.
Speaker A
And a voice that shouldn't exist. Whoever you are, this channel stays open. 30 years of aerospace progress, and I'm wearing a dead man's jacket.
Speaker A
We touch nothing. We change nothing. We find a way home. And if the past touches us first?
Speaker A
Then we walk away. Every time. No matter what it costs. Every person on this street is in the history books.
Speaker A
Then stop looking at them like exhibits, Aoki. Museums notice. That coin isn't meant for 20 more years.
Speaker A
Pedestrians with homework. [laughter] Aoki, walk away. A perfectly ordinary afternoon. So, why do I keep seeing the crowd?
Speaker A
Someone watched me today. The way you watch someone you know. Empty sky. Empty scope. And I don't believe either one of you.
Speaker A
Skull One, negative re-light. Crash course rolling. State intentions. No sound. Trade altitude for airspeed.
Speaker A
Reel it on the descent. Fuel ignition now. Come on. [screaming] Skull One, roger. Skull Squadron. That's— That's a squadron leader's bird.
Speaker A
That's Skull One. That's my father. In the history files, he's the ace of Space War One, the Zentradi. He's in every textbook I ever— It's just him. Him before everything.
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Skull One. You're transferring to my fortress and I find out from paperwork? I wanted to see your face when you found out.
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Worth it. You're impossible, Hikaru. Stick with me, Lieutenant. We're going to make history. Both of them.
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One roof. Then that roof is the one place we never go. I know what you're going to say.
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Then I don't have to say it. One more day, Kenji. That's all I'm asking.
Speaker A
Two weeks until your squadron settles in. Try not to give my deck crew heart attacks.
Speaker A
Do I know you, miss? I don't think so. Sorry. Every day we stay near them, the timeline gets one day more fragile.
Speaker A
We need the door, Iowie. We need to want the door. I know. I can have them flight ready by dark.
Speaker A
In case we ever need to run. Ready for what, Kenji? We don't have anywhere to fly.
Speaker A
We're not waiting for a door. We're living here. We should start. No, absolutely not, Aowie.
Speaker A
Fine, then I'm trying out, too. You're not walking through that fence without a wingman.
Speaker A
Nobody flies like that. Except me. Where'd you learn to fly like that, miss? Here and there.
Speaker A
And you two hold formation like you've flown each other.
Speaker A
Can I have a day? Take two. Good pilots are worth waiting for. I joined to watch your back.
Speaker A
So, tell me, who's watching ours? I want to exist, Kenji. We're here for good.
Speaker A
And I don't know anymore if surviving and existing are the same thing or opposites.
Speaker A
Evaluation Program, phase one. You fly for the SDF 1 Air Group now. And the Air Group flies for every soul down there.
Speaker A
Lieutenant Hayase, signals liaison, she'll coordinate your frequencies. Candidates, channel assignments by end of day.
Speaker A
Existing, then. Officially. No. Beginning. Skull flight, form up. Tight Vic, evaluation profile. 2-3, tuck it in.
Speaker A
Nice. Very nice. Welcome to Skull Squadron. Skull flight, break left. Copy. Apparently. 2-4, I didn't call that yet.
Speaker A
Never mind. Hold what you have. 2-3, 2-4, who trained you? Skull flight, weather ahead, close it up. Instruments, stay with me.
Speaker A
Everybody breathing? Good flight, Skulls. Let's go home. Solid work up there, both of you.
Speaker A
2-4, maintenance owes you a drink. That panel gets torn down tonight. Oh, one more thing.
Speaker A
My girlfriend runs signals liaison. She wants to meet the new pilots. Tomorrow, 0900. Drowned men don't fly.
Speaker A
No history, no records. Flying the evaluator calls impossible. Three times I've seen you. Tomorrow at 9:00, you'll be sitting across from me.
Speaker A
Routine interview. Candidate Harada, candidate Sato. Your records begin this March, and this file says you drowned 3 years ago.
Speaker A
We got out. The paperwork didn't. Of course. Welcome to the SDF 1. I don't know who you are, but you fly like him, you watch like me, and you're the first impossible thing I can touch.
Speaker A
She's good. Who is she? Lin Min Mei. She used to sing that over the dishes.
Speaker A
She's my mother, Iwi. You watched your father fly today. I listened to my mother sing.
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We're the same kind of ghost. Then let's be the kind that stays. No. Listening's one thing.
Speaker A
Watching her look at me and not know me? You stood at my fence. I'm standing at yours.
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Macross City, she's home. Please, Min Mei. [cheering] Hello, Macross City. It's good to be home.
Speaker A
Under one more evening [singing and music] sky, I set your name adrift. If my voice [singing] can [music] reach you past the stars, past the rain, hold my song till I hold She looks happy.
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She looks like you. [cheering] He's a fan. First shows are lucky. Thank you for coming.
Speaker A
Thank you. Did you book her? Or did she find us? I signed the request this morning.
Speaker A
It came from her office. Lieutenant. Lieutenant. It's been a while, Min Mei. Welcome aboard.
Speaker A
You both look the same. They know her. They know her. Thank you for the tour, lieutenants.
Speaker A
Until Saturday, then. Candidate Sato, escort our guest to her car. You don't talk much, candidate.
Speaker A
No, ma'am. Little wings on the window sill, fly before the water's cold, and come home when the lanterns glow.
Speaker A
Thank you, candidate. Little wings on the window sill, fly before the water's cold, That verse isn't in the song.
Speaker A
I never sang it on stage. I only ever sang it at home. Who taught it to you?
Speaker A
My mother, ma'am. She used to sing it over the dishes. What was her name?
Speaker A
Your car is waiting, ma'am. Fly before the water's cold. Note for me. The escort today, candidate Sato.
Speaker A
He knew the window sill verse, all of it, in my key. Nobody knows that verse.
Speaker A
Papa auntie me. So, who is his mother? Auntie, it's me. Sweetheart, did you eat?
Speaker A
I ate. Auntie, the window sill song, did we ever sing it for anyone? Customers?
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Anyone? That old thing? That's a family song, sweetheart. Why? No reason. I'll come by Sunday.
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But she asked who taught me the verse. I said my mother. Then she asked her name.
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He sang back. I didn't decide to. I know. That's what scares me. She has your voice now. Misa has our faces. We know how this ends, Kenji.
Speaker A
We run before it does. Run where? She's 20 m away in a live IOW.
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I'm not leaving the voice. That voice will unmake us. Then let it. You don't stand at her fence without me.
Speaker A
We don't tell them. But we stop pretending we're not here. They gave you papers.
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Work. Little songs. Do you remember being warriors? Two mysteries. One city. They keep you as pets.
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I kept my ship. When you remember what you are, come find me. NOT [screaming] YOUR WORKER!
Speaker A
UNASSIMILATED activity is up 40%. Three districts, one pattern. Somebody's talking to them. The concert amplified in the open.
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It's everything they hate in one place. She sang us through one and war. We don't cancel.
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We guard. Something's waking up. Everything is. He remembers you. They gave you papers. I give you back your hands.
Speaker A
14 work permits. All last the same week. They're not missing. They're gathering. We lost the drone.
Speaker A
Where? Sing to me. Sight lines are clean to the water. It's the water I don't like.
Speaker A
If nothing happens, we sit here all night? Hope we sit here all night. Catch me on Catch me [music] the It's not on the map.
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Then it's in the sky. Harada, airborne. Sato, airborne. Contact, Zentraedi warship. It's holding position.
Speaker A
It's just watching. Copy. Do not engage. I remember this song. I heard it the night I lost everything.
Speaker A
Sing it again. Say the word. Not yet. Let them sing. While they can. I'm asking you not to sing.
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He asked me to. That's why I have to. She's the bait whether we like it or not.
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Then we build the trap. I will find a way to rise above the storm. [singing] If it comes back, you two are the first answer.
Speaker A
If the line birds aren't enough, we finish it in these. She answered. She said yes.
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The dream of [music] little me turns sand. Never shone on the rain. [music and singing] Contact north, same track.
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He's not strolling this time. Say the word. The word is given. Still flying. The line birds aren't enough.
Speaker A
We finish it in these. There you are. Misa, are you seeing this? Looks like they're on our side.
Speaker A
Where did they come from? Lord Kyron, the upper launchers are gone. All of them, torn from the hull by the two machines. We cannot identify them.
Speaker A
Two machines against a battle cruiser. They silenced my ship. So, we silence their song.
Speaker A
Destroy the venue. Catch me on the way. It's heading towards the concert. Ma, I, stay on Kyron's ship. I'll intercept.
Speaker A
Lord Kyron, the weapon was intercepted. The white machine caught it and threw it to the stars.
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Caught it. Then they are worth keeping. Take us out. Retreat for now. Kenji, Kyron's ship is turning. He's retreating.
Speaker A
Meet me at the forest. Unidentified aircraft, this is Skull Leader. Please identify yourself. That's definitely a UN Spacey logo.
Speaker A
We have to get back to base soon, or they'll get suspicious. Yeah. You two went dark for half the night.
Speaker A
Where were you? Engine trouble. We had to land and make repairs. Engine trouble. Funny night. I flew beside something out there. Dark airframe, faster than anything I've ever chased, and it was wearing our insignia. I'm not asking.
Speaker A
But whoever was up there saved the city, and people will start asking questions I can't stop. Get some sleep.
Speaker A
You know what a night. Stand by. Soon. This next one is for whoever was up that night.
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Catch me on the wind. Ah. Tell me about the night of the concert, Lieutenant.
Speaker A
Which part? It was a long night. Two unknown machines saved the city, Lieutenant. We don't know what they are. We don't know who flew them.
Speaker A
Find out more about them. Yes, sir. Relax. It's routine. Your aircraft went dark for half the night. Where were you?
Speaker A
Engine trouble, sir. We put down and made repairs. That night two unknown machines saved this city.
Speaker A
We still don't know what they are. Thank you. That will be all. Routine. Whoever they are, they knew each other.
Speaker A
How do you know? Nobody flies like that with a stranger. They trained together for years.
Speaker A
Then we're not looking for two pilots. We're looking for a pair. You came a long way to watch me wait.
Speaker A
I came to see if the stories are true. Which stories? The two little machines that beat you.
Speaker A
If you've come to laugh, the fleet already has. I don't laugh at things I don't understand.
Speaker A
Show me what they did to your squadron. Formation drill. On my mark. Copy. Try to keep up.
Speaker A
Mark. Who's flying? Kenji and Ayo. He flies like you. Everyone flies like me. I set a bad example.
Speaker A
[laughter] That was beautiful flying. Thank you, ma'am. Good reversal up there. Thank you, sir.
Speaker A
Have dinner with me tonight after your shift. I Why? To say thank you for keeping my stage standing against Chiron.
Speaker A
She invited me to dinner. What does she know? The pilots, not the rest. Go to dinner, Kenji.
Speaker A
You remind me of someone. I can't think who. Maybe I have one of those faces.
Speaker A
Eat more. You're too thin for a hero. And your father, what's he like? I never really knew him.
Speaker A
Growing up, it was just me and my mom, always. She raised you well. She did.
Speaker A
So, who taught you to fly like that? I only know one pilot who flies that way.
Speaker A
Chikara. I always father. He trained us both. Well, he must be quite a pilot.
Speaker A
He is. Little wings on the window sill, fly before the water's cold and come home when the lanterns glow.
Speaker A
I'm sorry. I have to go. Who are you, Kenji? Little wings on the window sill.
Speaker A
Two machines, my ship, watch. These machines weren't built yet. We must investigate this further.
Speaker A
Their technology, their weapons, far exceed anything our battle pods can match. Machines need hangars.
Speaker A
Pilots need beds. Find where they sleep. I will find them. Begin. She's saying it again. She was watching me when she did it.
Speaker A
Something flew over the clearing tonight. What? We have bigger problems than a song. Look all you want.
Speaker A
Oh. Clever. Did you find them? No. The site returned nothing. Which means it was real.
Speaker A
Nothing natural hides from a second look. The great Chiron asking for help? I need your scout battalions, ground search.
Speaker A
Say please. Find them, Azonia. Better. I never sang it for anyone. So how do you know it, Kenji?
Speaker A
What's wrong with me? Hikaru. He has Mesa. He's happy. [sighs] It's just going to be you and me, little one.
Speaker A
Always. [gasps] [sighs] [sighs] Cattle, you're going to be a father. Misa, what's wrong? Nothing's wrong. Everything's right.
Speaker A
You're going to be a father. Really? [laughter] Let's get married soon. [gasps] How soon?
Speaker A
As soon as possible. Yes. Soon. We could fly them out tonight, somewhere further. Two launches would light every sensor from here to orbit. Flying is how they find us.
Speaker A
So, we stay. The veil holds, as long as nothing walks in. Footsteps. Two of them, coming this way.
Speaker A
Aaliyah, what are you doing? They're hunting a signal, so I'm giving them one somewhere else.
Speaker A
It worked. For now. Ghosts don't last. A signal, the moment my hunters got close.
Speaker A
How convenient. You want me to look east, so I'll look at where you threw from.
Speaker A
The outer ring. They came back. They didn't chase the ghost. They traced it. 60 seconds. Go.
Speaker A
Up, then low and fast. Right behind you. Two contacts airborne. Real ones. There you are.
Speaker A
Two contacts low over the northern forest fast. Ours? Nothing of ours is airborne, sir.
Speaker A
It's them. Just watch where they go. Finally, launch the interceptors. And they'll outfly everything you send.
Speaker A
We've seen the footage. Let them fly. Tired prey lands. And when it lands, we'll know where it lives.
Speaker A
Every eye on the planet is watching us right now. So, we land where they're looking.
Speaker A
And sleep somewhere else. No wreckage, no marks, no landing. It knew we were watching.
Speaker A
Silent running. All the way in. Clear one right under their noses. The last place anyone looks.
Speaker A
Every search, every sweep, every ghost, and around it all, one silence. Silence with edges. They're not hiding from the humans.
Speaker A
They're hiding among them. Recon flew the valley at first light. Nothing. No aircraft, no marks.
Speaker A
A false landing. They knew they were being watched. They're hiding from something. I want to know if it's us.
Speaker A
I forgot what mornings sound like. Trams, 6:00 and sunrise, the city runs on time.
Speaker A
We'll need food. Then today we become citizens. Last poke, key it. I'll never get used to that.
Speaker A
Empty hanger. Just how we like it. From here on, two student pilots, that's all we are.
Speaker A
80% in the air? 70. Nothing that flies like us. New standing order, every evaluation flight records full telemetry now.
Speaker A
Signature analysis, they're comparing every pilot on this ship to the footage. So if we fly like ourselves finds us in one sec, okay?
Speaker A
Fly like his students, never like his footage. There they are, my two best students.
Speaker A
Roster say you're back with us full-time. Good. Your scores are the best I've ever signed.
Speaker A
You know what's funny? Those two ghosts everyone's chasing, the way they fly is me of you two. It reminds me of me.
Speaker A
We'll take that as a compliment, sir. Take it as a challenge. You fly with me tomorrow. Lose trail, you two. Show me clean basics.
Speaker A
You're hesitating today. That's not like you. Big audience on the telemetry, sir. Don't want to show off.
Speaker A
Fair. But tomorrow, show off. Evaluation flight 41, clean. Careful. Too careful. Hesitation isn't a rhythm.
Speaker A
Who flies worse on purpose? You're chasing ghosts, Mika. Today was a mistake. Our mistakes were perfect. Perfect is a fingerprint.
Speaker A
From tomorrow, chance flies with us. Odd or even, every break, every roll, we hand our errors to luck.
Speaker A
We let luck fly the plane. Luck has no signature. The venue list is down to two.
Speaker A
Pick the one with the bigger sky. My students flew strange today. Careful, like they were hiding the good stuff.
Speaker A
Hiding. Telemetry day. Everyone flies stiff for the machine. Hikaru. Your students Never mind. Bigger sky it is.
Speaker A
No basics today. Show me what you've got. Copy. Going up. There they are. Better.
Speaker A
Still rough edges. We'll fix those. Working on it, sir. Better. Much better. That's the flying I hired. Your rough edges are strange, though. They don't repeat. Most pilots make the same mistake twice. Yours never come back. It's like your mistakes
Speaker A
learn. Wish mine did. And you two, keep flying like that. Whatever you're not telling me, it's making you better pilots. Keep not telling me.
Speaker A
Sir. Tell me you're calling about the tour dates. That's why I'm calling, Rico. I need to pause it. Two months.
Speaker A
Two months? The venues My voice, Rico. The doctors want it rested completely. Two months. I'll make the calls.
Speaker A
We need the quiet, don't we? Miss Min Mei, what do you need? Hana, I need you to find someone for me.
Speaker A
The best pediatrician in Macross City. A pediatrician? Mhm. And set an appointment under a different name.
Speaker A
Quietly, Hana. Just you and me. Just you and me. I'll have it by tonight.
Speaker A
Thank you. Miss Hoshino? Excuse me. Has Has anyone ever told you you look just I get that all the time.
Speaker A
So, what brings you in, Ms. Hoshino? I'm going to be a mother. Her tour is paused.
Speaker A
Months, they're saying. Spring. I was born in the spring. She's pregnant right now with me.
Speaker A
And my father, he's here. Somewhere in the city, alive. One ghost at a time, Kenji.
Speaker A
Weeks of silence, weeks of maps. The map is working. I'm close. So is the end of my patience.
Speaker A
Your dead zone is a blind road straight to their fortress. I'm taking it. You'll flush them into the open.
Speaker A
That's the idea. Great sirens [music] inbound through the blind approach. Squadrons deployed, there's nothing up there. If we launch, everything ends.
Speaker A
The doctrine died 30 seconds ago. Today we fly like us. Right behind you. No hiding this time.
Speaker A
Every screen in the city just found us. Then let them watch. Take the ground. Guard the streets.
Speaker A
They're breaking. Skull Leader just hit the board. He's coming. Ghost Flight, this is Skull Leader. You fly like me.
Speaker A
You fought for my city. Who are you? Ghost Flight, you defended this city when no one else could.
Speaker A
You have safe passage. Stand down and come home. Skull Leader, do we pursue? No.
Speaker A
Let them go home. But, two beds? They live here. Mistakes that learn. You flipped for them.
Speaker A
Who are you two? In here, kill everything. Home number two. Better ceiling than the last place.
Speaker A
Worse floor. We left the spares behind. Then somebody's holding our luck. From the hangary, there were two beds and these.
Speaker A
Cheap steel. Expensive luck. You're not going to chase them. Are you? Officially, the file's closed.
Speaker A
They'll come back when they're ready. Students always do. Longest commute in the fleet. Safest hangar in the world.
Speaker A
Reporting for duty, sir. Glad you're both safe. Briefing's at 8:00. Dismissed. Sir. Briefing's at 8:00.
Speaker A
He knows. And he closed the drawer. The moment we confess, he has to act.
Speaker A
Rules, boards, questions we can't answer. Silence is the only shelter he can give. He's still protecting us. Someday we tell him everything.
Speaker A
Someday, when it doesn't cost him everything. Lord Kyron, the raid force. Three pods lost. The survivors are returning.
Speaker A
Three by two machines. You watched them longer than anyone. What do I do next, huntress?
Speaker A
Not another raid. They'll only win again louder. We flood their city with large must sleep somewhere. And everything that sleeps breathes.
Speaker A
Then listen, Chlora. Every ear awake. Breathe for me. Jeff, something's in the water. It hurt something.
Speaker A
Not anymore. Water doesn't crack. One ear went quiet. Ears don't die of silence. No more probes.
Speaker A
We watch the mouth and wait for the door to open itself. Every time we come and go, we draw them a map.
Speaker A
We need a room in the city, ordinary. The best camouflage is a boring life.
Speaker A
So, we become citizens. Citizens with a locked garage. How much is the rent per month?
Speaker A
12,000 credits. Utilities included. We can't afford that. We'll find another place. Goodbye, citizen. Wait.
Speaker A
You too. Minime. Small city. Apartment hunting? The rent hunted us back. [laughter] I own a unit upstairs. It's been empty a year. It needs noise in it. We couldn't friends rate?
Speaker A
One credit a month? We'll take it. Three bedrooms. I kept the big one. Naturally.
Speaker A
We'll flip for the view. Welcome home. Home.
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