Finally got to this episode in my every-other-yearly Macross franchise rewatch.

This Sheryl was too high to be on the Macross shelf

An alpha!Michael x omega!Alto ABO AU where they were an established couple, and an unprotected night resulted in an unexpected pregnancy

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Alto didn’t find out until the night Ranka planned to leave Frontier to return Ai-kun to his home planet. 

Brera, compelled by a strange gut instinct, checked his physical condition before knocking the pistol out of his hand and subduing him rather than resorting to more violent tactics. 

“You shouldn’t get worked up in your condition,” he told him, and Alto growled. 

“What the hell’s that supposed to mean?!” 

“Stress isn’t good for an omega with child.” 

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Silence. 

There was only a tiny gasp of surprise from Ranka, and tears broke their dams in Alto’s eyes. 

It...it couldn’t be true. It couldn’t be! 

Oh, but it was. The proof was in Brera’s holographic screens that he so kindly pulled up to show him. 

Michael left this world with all of him, but he left a piece of himself in Alto. 

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Notes

MihaAru’s relationship was a secret. Everybody knew they weren’t single, but nobody knew who their partners were. It was kind of a game amongst the Mihoshi students to guess who MihaAru were seeing, and there was most likely a betting pool out there. 

Klan took this pretty hard. Her childhood friend didn’t choose her and was seeing some mysterious person he refused to tell her about. What was so special about them? Why keep it a secret? Did they even exist at all, or was it some kind of trick to keep all the suitors off his back? 

When Sheryl asked if Alto was making excuses to his partner—perhaps that girl, Ranka—during their little outing, Alto was terse, “No, we trust each other.” That was all the confirmation Sheryl needed to know she was with a taken man. So, being the mature person she was, she didn’t make anymore advances toward him but did take every opportunity to tease him about his mystery girl- or boyfriend.

Ranka never figured out Alto was already seeing someone until that night when Brera revealed to Alto that he was pregnant. She never asked, and he never perceived her gestures as romantic. If he was seeing anyone, Ranka guessed it was Sheryl, her rival, and she continued to think that until after the conflict with the Vajra was resolved. 

While Sheryl was able to deduce that MihaAru were an item just by watching them, it was revealed to Klan when Michael died, when his last words were an apology and a farewell to Alto. Ranka had to be told when she asked if the baby was Sheryl’s. 

Following the revelation of his pregnancy, Alto was hysterical. The Vajra took his baby’s father, and Michael left him all alone to raise them. How could he’ve possibly thought straight regarding the Vajra after this was dumped on him? 

He wanted to do nothing more than to eradicate the insectoid race with his own hands, but Klan was the one who brought him back to reality. “A piece of Michel is inside you right now. A part of him is still here,” she told him. “Don’t you dare run headlong into danger when they’re the only link to Michel we have now!” 

She then vowed to him that she’d get revenge for the both of them, and that Alto should take care of himself and the baby in Michael’s name if nothing else.