MACROSS 7: THE POWER OF WORD FORCE
Chapter 10: For Me
Utis never believed that his feeling of excitement when he returned to the Macross 7 fleet would turn into stupor. The UNS had managed to restore order to Jenius and Milia's fleet, now with nothing else to do, Utis spent his time on the Galaxy Network, writing his fanfics and reviewing the status of his book, which he put on sale online.
"Hell, my story for the contest didn't come out winning, with this one going the second time.... if only it had come out among the ten finalists," he thought as he looked up to the ceiling. "Basara, Neki Basara, where have you been?"
Colonel Rubio Aristizabal's plan was to measure "his" word energy with the sound energy of Dr. Chiba and Colonel Burton, however, Basara had left the fleet and no one knew when he would return.
A notification came to Utis, it was from Aristizabal, in it he instructed him to prepare, in the afternoon he and the Sound Force would make measurements of anima spiritia.
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Once again Utis was carrying the instruments for measuring and generating anima spiritia, while the team of co-pilots of the Jamming Birds were carrying the technical instruments and were looking at Utis with attention.
“Hello," he said to the three girls watching him, and they greeted him back.
From the reports Utis had read, he knew that the male members of the military branch of the Sound Force had been wounded against the protodeviln forces. Since then, Colonel Burton considered an all-women team to be the best option. What neither Utis nor anyone else knew was that Burton's decision was heavily influenced by Dr. Chiba, an obsessive fanatic of Lynn Minmay and therefore of the concept of idol singers.
"Now I see why the old men at UNS are so worried," Utis thought. "These girls are nothing like military forces. I think they're the future, even if they don't like it."
The trials began and to Aristizabal's surprise, Utis' performance was not that of the best.
Utis lamented his poor performance, but had to concentrate as Fire Bomber entered the room.
“This... hello," said the YF-21 pilot, eager to greet the members of the rock group.
“Oh, you must be the member of the forces of the UNS of the Earth...”
“Thank you so much for saving Gamelin!" Mylene interrupted the large, dark-bodied fellow as she approached and shook Utis's hand.
“Hey, it was my pleasure...”
That's when the drummer of the band came in. She was the biggest meltran Utis had ever seen, carrying a life-size Neki Basara poster in her arms.
“Well, I guess she thinks we're complete," Mylene said, closing her eyes and smiling nervously.
Again the tests were done and again Utis's performance left a lot to be desired. As he looked up in distress to see the monitoring room, he saw the Mayor of the city talking to Aristizabal.
"That's the mayor... For someone who's had six daughters she looks great, it must be her meltran genes."
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It was a new day at the New Macross and again Utis felt purposeless, his eyes focused on nothing in particular as he sat on one of the sidewalks of the square, when a young man dressed casually approached him.
“Otonashi Utis?”
“Yes.”
“Kizaki Gamelin, I'm the leader of the Diamond Force Squadron.”
Utis got up in a hurry and got as square as he was supposed to.
“Don't worry, we're both off duty. I wish I could talk to you.”
“Of course...”
In a coffee shop, Gamelin thanked Utis for saving his men's lives and his own.
“I see something's bothering you, Otonashi. Could you tell me what it is?”
“I... At first I loved Fire Bomber and Neki Basara, but now...”
“You feel that life isn't fair, don't you?”
“How did you...?”
“I felt the same way about Basara, but after meeting him, I realized that I had to put aside all envy and see my own limitations. So I was able to move forward and improve as a person. In the end Basara and I became good friends.”
"I hear your superiors are waiting for Basara's return. Why don't you go and get him?”
“Do you think that would be best?”
“Yes, Utis... you can't go on living like this. When you find Basara, you'll find yourself.”
“I'm afraid that when I find him I'll find out that I'm really nobody.”
“Basara had the same concerns," Gamelin said, causing Utis to look at him with surprise. “That's why Basara left, to find himself.”
Utis nodded as his eyes glowed with a light of their own as they had not for some time.
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“So you want to go after Neki Basara?" said Aristizabal, as he rose from his seat to look out the window at the "night" covering the city. Utis swallowed saliva, but he was determined to go after the Fire Bomber singer.
“I don't think there'll be any trouble. After all, I was weighing that possibility, we can't wait for that guy forever, and I think all the recent inactivity has taken its toll on your performance.”
“I'm sorry.”
“Don't apologize. I know the emptiness one feels when one thinks one is not doing anything with one's life... Why do you think I took this assignment in the first place?”
“Sir...”
“We don't know where Neki Basara is, so I can't go with you. You'll be alone, Utis, you understand?”
“Yeah, I want to go anyway. Not just for the mission, not just for the Word Force, but for me.”
Rubio saw that light again in the face and eyes of his subordinate, it was the same light he saw when Utis finished piloting the Spartan.
“Sergeant, I hope you won't disappoint me," said Aristizabal and Utis stood up to him.
"Basara, I want you to listen to my song," Utis thought, sure of the journey ahead.
CONTINUARÁ…
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