Macross-12

At a command from both sides, all the battleships immediately launched a fierce assault on the opposing fleets.

The entire battlefield was filled with dense Laser Beams like a torrential downpour of pear blossoms.

The Laser Beam attacks even spread to Earth.

The ruins of that Primal Civilization were still reduced to rubble beneath the rain of Laser Beams.

The two Macross-class battleships had no choice but to make an emergency ascent, their Defense Fields fully activated as they risked charging into the crossfire and constantly maneuvered around the battlefield in search of an opportunity.

Just as Lynn Minmay wanted to head to the performance stage aboard [macrosssdf-1] and begin Song Combat,

Thor gently held Lynn Minmay back.

He told her to wait until both Macross-class battleships had left the central area of the battlefield before beginning Song Combat,

lest they be focused down by both the [Zentradi] and the [Meltrandi].

Even without knowing how the plot would unfold, Thor understood the principle of discarding the bow once the birds were gone and cooking the dogs once the rabbits were dead.

If they began Song Combat now, they would only become cannon fodder for the [Zentradi], buried alongside the panicked [Meltrandi] women.

So Thor used the cliché excuse that Lynn Minmay had gone missing and had the bridge establish communications with the [Zentradi].

They pretended to hope that the Zentradi would cover the two Macross-class battleships as they withdrew from the battlefield's central area.

However, Golk aboard the Super-large Arsenal Ship had no intention of giving up this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.

He looked at the Macross battleships near the center of the battlefield, which had yet to begin singing, then at the Super-large Arsenal Ship of the [Meltrandi] women opposite him.

He once again took out Lynn Minmay's pull-string doll and