 While Hikaru takes the new VF-1 Valkyrie on a test flight the aliens retaliate.He then encounters Lynn Minmay and rescues her from the aliens.The "Macross" crew attempts to use the experimental "Fold System" (Faster-than-light drives) to escape to the Moon's orbit, but instead it accidentally takes the "Macross" and South Ataria Island to the edge of the solar system.