Macross Delta (マクロスΔ（デルタ）)

I don't like this rain.

The main shaft of the structure is affecting the planet's core.

Due to its influence on the crust, the weather pattern has changed.

How much has the terrain changed due to the structure's emergence?

It changed by 5.28%. Within error margins.

That means we can still use the same map from our last stunt here.

Glad to know we won't be getting lost.

Once you reach the innermost confines of the structure,

Walküre will perform a tactical show.

We know the enemy's security layout,

but we can't afford to let our guards down.

I pray for your success.

Kaname?

The last time we were here, Messer was with us.

That's right.

Respond, Delta Platoon.

What is it, Captain Larrazabal?

Multiple Windermerean vessels have de-folded.

Have they realized we're here?

That means we've gotta wrap this up quickly and pull out.

Yes, sir!

Roger.

Roger.

The Aerial Knights' mission is to protect the Protoculture structures.

Keith. Theo. Xao.

You will patrol in orbit.

Hermann. Cassim. Bogue.

You will stand by on the surface.

Once the structure's reaction has been observed,

all of you leave atmo along with the research team.

Leave atmo?

I do not understand.

What is happening on Voldor?

Don't worry. These are just security measures.

Is His Majesty aware of the details of this experiment?

His Majesty has granted me full authority on the matter.

This is Delta 2.

We are in.

What is it?

I'm just surprised you didn't disappear like you usually do.

Surprising, isn't it?

What the hell's up with you?

Do you agree with what we're doing here?

We are activating a system we know nothing about on an inhabited planet.

It's a tactical necessity.

I can only feel one wind rise, and it is ominous.

Are you saying you won't trust His Majesty and Lord Roid?

I meant no such thing. However...

Some sacrifices must be made. We are at war.

One who cannot obey his king is a knight no more.

Just fold your wings and return to your precious apple fields.

Th-Thanks.

S-Sure.

So far, so good.

Yeah. Reina's hacking did the trick.

Still, we shouldn't let our guards down.

Let's get to it.

Captain...

What is it?

Why did you team them up?

We can't afford to let them mope around.

We need both Freyja's songs and Hayate's prowess.

They must overcome their difficulties.

I had no idea Hayate's father did such a terrible thing.

Were you close to him, Captain?

He was my superior officer.

And you still took in Hayate despite all that?

I was going to tell him eventually.

When I checked his profile, it only said his father was a NUNS soldier who died in action.

The bigger an organization, the more secrets it hides.

Does that go for you too?

Every rug has a few secrets swept under them.

Well, that's just life.

This won't work.

We need to find another route.

Not a knight anymore, huh?

You can't grow good apples here.

Apples?

Let me go! Let me go!

What do you want from me?

It's you?!

Nothing. As long as you don't try anything funny.

Apparently I'm a knight no longer.

You had an apple orchard, right?

I'm Cassim from Exder.

Ah, that's just on the other side of the hills!

What?

I'm from Ravengras!

Ravengras? Do you know Ol' Gustav then?

Is that even a question? He's the head of our village.

His apples are gosh darn delicious.

I'd always lose to his at the apple fairs.

Have one.

Freyja!

Where did she go?

If you won't marry me, I'll tear off my rune and kill myself!

He was yelling that while crying his eyes out.

No surprise Erica rejected such a loser.

Freyja!

Hayate?

I knew you would've been with her.

Hayate?

Whatever. Sit.

Sit.

Are you okay?

What were you talking about?

How Erica and her now husband eloped.

Huh?

Are you here to destroy the structure?

Is that your answer?

Are you sure about this?

That man sitting next to you is from Earth.

Windermereans can't live without the winds of Windermere.

It will only get harder.

Who the hell are you to decide for us?

Earthling, how old are you?

Seventeen.

Seventeen? That's how old I was when my son was born.

My son. He's turning six this year.

When I was six, my father gave me an apple sapling to look after by myself.

I worked hard raising it, and six years later it bore its first fruit.

Even if I gave my son a sapling now, I may not be there to see its fruits.

That's the life of a Windermerean.

Go home, Freyja.

Now I can he—

No way!

There are songs I want to sing,

and I have people I want to sing with.

There are people I want to sing to.

I don't know how to end the war,

and I don't know what's the right thing to do.

But I want to sing as long as I live.

I belong with Walküre.

Our lives are too short to walk alongside Earthlings.

Then ya should just make ev'ry day a thousand darn times better!

Together!

Hayate...

This is Delta 2. We have reached the target.

Copy that. Continue with your preparations as planned.

Roger.

This wind...

Is this... fear?

Mikumo?!

We've picked up signals coming from the structure.

What's going on? His Majesty hasn't begun singing yet.

Is it Walküre?

What shall you do?

Let them sing.

Mikumo, the others aren't—

It's fine! Let her sing!

Walküre! Team up with Mikumo!

Delta Platoon! Cover them with your Siegfrieds!

Roger!

Mikumo?

Go.

Before I put this on.

You're letting us go?

I also don't know what the right thing to do is.

But until the fight is over and our wings turn white again—

No, until I can return to the fields of apple blooming white,

I am a winged knight.

I will show no mercy in the sky.

Fine.