Hi, Mike! ^_^

Hey!

> Well, that'd be different, a flying version of Turbo Teen.

Different yes, but good...?

I dunno, but I think Starranger beat us to it in his fic "Tales of the Wanderer", another interesting series.

> >You wouldn't happen to be a Minmei fan, ne? ^_~

> ::raises hand::  I am.

Good for you!

> > >Really? I thought Minmei loved stringing Rick Hunter along like a
cruel,
> > >sadistic puppet master and putting him through the emotional wringer
> >because
> > >she's a vapid, giggling little twit.

> >That too. ^_^

> I dunno, I have to lay some of the blame on Rick for being so wishy-washy
> half the time he was around Minmei.  After all, it only took 4.8 million
> Zentraedi ships to make Rick confess his feelings, and by that time,
someone
> else had a firm place in his heart...

That may be true, but you can't deny that she didn't make things easier for
him. She _had_ to know he was in love with her, and she never said 'no'--or
'yes'.

Well, IIRC, at that time it was the girl who was oblivious to the guys feelings, so I think that played a small part.  As for her knowing, I have to say I disagree.

> >Well, I also used to be a Lisa fan, but now I'm a completely-unbiased
> >fanfic
> >writer.
> >
> >Really. ^_^

> Um hmm, will see.

Hey, trust me. You won't notice how much I actually hat--Eh, I mean, uh...
^_^

> For the record though, I am both a Lisa fan as well as a
> Minmei fan, I just happen to like Minmei a bit more.  ::scratches head::
> Hmm....maybe it's because for about 9 years I only had the two first
> Robotech episodes to go by until I was able to collect the series.....

You had to wait _NINE_ years?! Wow, that's some patience.

Well, and the fact that I never knew if there were any other tapes, as the video stores had the tapes I had, which were those one episode per tape FHE put out during Robotech's run in '85.  You can imagine how ecstatic I was when I saw that every episode was being released, in which then it took me another 4 years to get them all....

> Morgen, Tux-boy don't have no hero hair.  Outta all the people you listed,
> Mamoru has the most normal hair 'o them all...

I hadn't noticed that, but it's true. He doesn't even have the hair--he
CAN'T be a hero. ^_^

Not that he ever was...  ^_^

> >But, to say the truth, Tuxy doesn't strike me as a big hero. Maybe in
your
> >fic, and I haven't read the manga, but in the anime...

> Tux-boy, a big hero in Morgen's fic?  Well, he got lucky in a few
chapters,
> but he's still the same old punching bag, which isn't saying much....

I disagree. Come on! He fought _WITHOUT MAGICAL POWERS_ in the Pit against
dozens of youmas. I want to see one of the Senshi doing that.

That doesn't say much for the youma though....  If you can be taken out by Mamoru then that's rather sad....

> >He rarely wins a fight by his own, hides behind the far more powerful
> >Senshi, and makes corny speechs. Is he a hero? Umm...

> No, he's a disgrace to all superheroes.  ^_^

Ha! I knew there was someone out there who thinks like I do.

Yeah, as you can tell, I've lost all respect for him.  He was ok for the first season and R, but after that he became pathetic....  What's the point if you have cool armor with a sword and don't use it but opt to fight with a stick and flowers?

> >'Old sourpuss'... Now _that_ is a famous phrase. I'll just have to use
>>it.

> > >And so it begins. Yeesh. ^_~

> I've already got my popcorn.  ^_^  Hopefully this won't be a one chapter
> thing.

One chapter?! No! This will be long and painful. ^_^

Cool.  ::begins evil laughter::

> >It could have been worse. Now that I think about it, Rick would create
> >one
> >helluva Moko Takabisha, right? ^_^

> Now that I think of it, damn....

RICK: Finally. I've mastered the Perfect Moko Takabisha. Gosh, I'm almost
TOO good!

Y'know, that reminds me of Hikaru(Rick)'s line from "Macross:  Do You Remember Love?";
Kakizaki(Ben):  Wow, Max!  He's a genius!!
Hikaru(Rick):  So am I!!

> It most likely was because of his connections with Roy.  Sad thing that
> his
> first time out in command we bid farewell to Ben.  Y'know, as much as it
> hurt seeing a lot of characters go(especially Ben, he went out even more
> undignified in DYRL), with Ranma around, could we some changes in that
> department?

Sur--Not gonna tell. ^_^

Aw...

> And I wouldn't tell him that if I were you..  ^_^

Heh. That's what is so wonderful about writing: I can insult one of the best
martial artists in the world, and he can do absolutely nothing about it. ^_^

Unless it's a revenge fic.  ^_^

> >Heheh. Which ego will we the winner? Which ego will be the _biggest_?

> Vegeta?  Hiko Seijuurou?

Shinji's...? Nah... ^_^

Shinji?  Before he can have an ego he needs to purchase a backbone...

> > >Ah, Minmei. You almost have to pity a girl with so few working brain
> > >cells...

> .........

He REALLY dislikes her.

::deadpan::  Yes...I noticed...

> Makes me wonder how Breetai will react when he sees vids of this battle
> later on....

Um, I don't know about this. I don't think the Zentraedi long-range scanners
would be powerful enough to distinguish a single, tiny Micronian in the
middle of a war zone. Besides, Bretai was focusing his attention in the
SDF-1.

It wasn't through their scanners.  Remember the battle pods brought back vids from the assault on Macross Island?  It's when Breetai and Exedore confirm that they're dealing with Micronians.  It was in Chapter 20 of Genesis

> > >and good catch on the colour change of that Guardian! It was orange and
> > >white in the anime, but McKinney's books do refer to it as being brown
> >and
> > >white.

> Where?  I remember red and brown, and orange and brown, but not white and
> brown for the VT-1D.  Remember, brown and white are the redshirts of
> Robotech.

I really don't remember the initial episodes of the anime, so I'm using
McKinney's novels as a guide. And there, the Battloid is brown and white.

I dunno, it reads as Rick's red-trimmed Battloid, at least in the 3 in 1(heh, now there's a pun for Robotech) novel that I have.

> >I can't blame you, even when I think that the original Dragonball is much
> >better than Z.

> I dunno, I just saw more of Son Goku vs Kid Buu today and like I told my
> friend, the more I see of this series (even though I have seen a good 73%
> of
> it....) the more I continue to like it.

Um, DB Z is fights and more fights, with too little comedy (IMO, the element
that made DB so refreshing). Almost the exact opposite of the original
Dragonball.

True, and though I do like the comedy, I do admit of being a fan of the million mile per hour fights of DBZ.

> > >Buzzsaw is one word, I believe. Like hacksaw or jigsaw.

> >Umm, I'm not sure. I've checked, and, while 'buzzsaw' isn't in the
> >dictionary, 'buzz saw' is. Will check again, though.

> It's buzz saw, as that's how I see it in the novel at this moment.  I
think
> Morgan was thinking of the Decepticon 'Buzzsaw'.

Those Decepticons are famous, ne?

Yeah, hell, I saw a humongous 'con symbol on a board during one of the  WWF tapings...

> >Doomed to fail? Don't know about that. After all, things might be a
> > little
> >different with Ranma around. ^_~

Hehe.

> That, and aside from this fic, I am one of those who think Rick and
> Minmei's
> relationship would have been far different if they were rescued at least 5
> minutes later while they were trapped somewhere in the SDF-1.  Despite
what
> Mckinney said, in the anime Rick and Minmei came close to actually kissing
> before they were nearly flattened.  They missed it by milliseconds, and in
> those milliseconds, there relationship never got around to what it could
> have been.

Maybe, and maybe not. Rick kissed her before the final battle against the
Zentraedi, but when everything was over, they weren't that much closer.

Yeah, but by that time Rick had to deal with his feelings for two women, so it couldn't have been easy on him.

> If we're going by McKinney, then Rick's about 18, IIRC, as is Max.

Right.

> > >Then again, the RDF signed up Max
> > >Sterling, and those blue glasses of his are prescription, so I guess
> > >maybe it doesn't matter.

> And there damn lucky they did sign him.

Yep, he was an ACE.

And he still has it, even in Macross 7.  Damn, he's flying a VF-22 in a cave and still dodging laser blasts and firing back.

One other thing I have to know about.  Is Ranma still cursed?  It'd actually be kinda cool to have a fic were Ranma's actually cured, as there are too little of those..

Thank you very much for your kind words. I'll try to not bore you too much.

Trust me, you aren't.  ^_^

> >BTW, FFMLers. If you're reading this, know that this and the previous
> >chapters of SB can be now found at:
> >
> >http://lwf58.tripod.com/fan_fiction/latin_d/

> Is the url right?  For some reason I can't get it.

Seems to be working just fine. Maybe it's your server? Try again, it should
work.

It's working now, but before I'd get a no-go page.

> > Now get to write Ronin Summer's new sequel! ^_^

> I second that!

Don't keep your fans waiting, Morgan!

Yeah!

Thanks again for the comments, Mike.

No prob.

Bye and good luck,

You too!  Until next time!

-Mike

"The Land Before Time" was over, and the Dinobots were watching
cartoons again.
    "Me like Airazor," Swoop said, raptly watching the screen. "She
pretty."
    "Megatron even more stupid as Dino than real Megatron," Grimlock
said. "Me much better Dino than him."
    "Rattrap stupid," Slag said. "Me eat him."
    "Can't, he in TV," Sludge said. "You stupid."
    "Dumb velo-verla-eva-enveloraptor-thing stole our name!" Snarl
complained. "What we do?"
    Grimlock scratched his head. "What humans do when someone steal stuff?"
    "Sue," Swoop said helpfully. "We sue?"
    All complaints were forgotten as Optimus Primal unfolded a massive
amount of weaponry on the screen, yelling "All right! WHO WANTS SOME?!"
    The Dinobots stared at the screen, jaws dropping. "Cool!" Sludge
finally declared.
    "Me Grimlock wish Prime do that..."

-A Day in the Life
by Sionna Klasson

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