Rou stood up and slammed his hands on the desk, startling everyone around him. "No no no no no no no no NO!" He yelled. "I know Gunpla originated from straight builds, but Gunpla battle thrives from creativity! I didn't come here to straight build like I did when I was 6. Gunpla is about freedom and expression, it's about evolving!" Rou exhaled and looked squarely at Ran. "You're telling me, I came to this class to build a Gunpla and paint it? The VERY BEGINNING stages of customization!" Rou picked up his special order for the class. "This Buster Gundam...it's a beautiful Mobile Suit. I love its base design..." Rou dropped the box and picked up his thick notebook. "But! Weapon Binders. Shotguns. Beam Cannons. Every weapon I could think of loading onto this Buster Gundam, are now moot designs." Rou was about to start rambling on about something else, but he cut himself short. "I'm gonna sit down before I make more of an ass of myself." He slumped back into his chair and crossed his arms as he pouted.

@Pilot231Dani decided to interrupt his rant there. "Victory has four beam sabers, a beam rifle, mega beamcannon, mega beam rifle, mega beam shield, two more shields flat out built into the arms, multi launcher, a spray beam pod and variable speed beam rifles. Not to mention it can travel to Jupiter from the moon in less than a week without using any of that teleporation mumbo jumbo. Alexis's wing over there can literally destroy an entire massive space rock gone space station with its main gun and can transform into a jet bird. You're no more special than anyone at the table, champ." she commented, done with one leg's rough assembly.

Alex realized he was going off track: "Oh sorry. I get lost when i express what i like." He didn't want to comment back about that champion bit she threw at him, cause he knew in his heart that he was not better than anyone else. And that would be shown when he looks at his kit and his tools and pauses.

Alex: "... um... okay..." When he picks up the first runner that has the first piece mentioned in his manual, he was trying to place the cutter, but his hands were a bit shaky. Apparently when it came to Gunpla building, he did not have the most steady hands.

Sakuya was not happy that much was a fact. Sitting alone on her table she was able to spread the pieces out there was so much she wanted to do for this model. Though now it was moot point it seemed though she smirked when she heard Allelujah break out she agreed with him quite a bit but now was no the time to voice out. Looking back down at her work she was carefully building and sanding the pieces each one colored to the exact colors of the gundam. The stickers was placed neatly as well she was mad sure and angry but that did not excuse sloppy work. She started to sand down the torso of the gunpla since the legs was already done. "Hey Allelujah I understand that your mad and angry and I agree with you a hundred and ten percent but right now its time to retreat. Remember as a member celestial being we must stop all conflict not start it." she threw in talking to Rou and added the part of celestial being as a small easter egg she supposed.

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Dani stopped and watched him try to build. Taking note of his shakey hands, she guessed the kid was a great fighter since his gunpla assembly skills didn't seem top notch. The female let out a sigh and put down her tools. She rolled herself closer to him and grabbed his hands. "Take a few deep breaths and close your eyes, just focus on being calm and then cut a little bit away from the plastic of the part." she said, helping guide his hands to where they had to be. It also appeared that he didn't have much choice since he could tell that her hands and arms were more akin to the jaws of life than human body parts.

She helped him clip a single part out, then showed him what to do. "You go in closer with the snippers the second time around, cutting it almost flush with the plastic, leaving a teeny tiny bit to sand down." she explained, still guiding his hands until the part was clipped down. Then the girl had him pick up sand paper before having him set to work grinding down the remaining stubs. "Good, now look at the part." she said, the one that she helped him with looking damn good.

Rou grumbled and nodded as Sakuya told him to hush. She was, sadly, right about the situation. Rou looked at his kit, a very nice MG Buster Kit, one he had built a few years ago when it released. Today though, his skills were much sharper and keen, and he had become a great builder. In fact, building was his greatest strength. His supreme knowledge and confidence of his own creations were what made him deadly on the field. He emptied the runners out of the box and set to work, swiftly but carefully cutting and shaving nubs from the parts. Rou had a set in stone method for building. He built from the ground up. Legs, then waist, the torso, the arms and accessories, and finally attaching the head. Rou didn't build any other way. The Buster's feet and shins rapidly formed. Rou's concentration was unbreakable, for he was truly a monster at the cutting board.

"Ah ... the good Freedom, good suit. Better then it's 'Upgrade' anyway." Alexis said as Alex went off about it. She was about to comment on it when another kid flew off the hinges about the 'straight build only' thing. Another girl silenced him but she just rolled her eyes. "Apparently we have to many 'artists' and not enough 'warriors' in class" Alexis bemused really only loud enough for her table to hear her, though Dani pulling out her 'Block' caught her attention, it was really well built, but not 'over built' like a lot of customs where.

"Well, since we're sharing ..." Alexis commented as she pulled her Gunpla carrier off her hip and after putting the GN Blades on its hips, set Exia on the table. The Suit it self was 'unremarkable' at a glance. It was clear from the paint, and lack of seems that Alexis put a lot of effort into making it look 'show accurate', save the white line stickers on the left shoulder and vent cover. The GN Blades, and GN Sword hinted it was more then that though, the way the light in the room reflected of them was like the way light reflects off of polished metal, not the shiny plastic the kit came with.

Since others where starting Alexis followed suit, she figured they'd be on a timer but eh, oh well. Alexis started building Zero like every other kit she'd built, torso and waist first, then, what ever she felt like doing next. Past building the 'core' of the suit first she really had no set way of building, more over she didn't seem like she was in any hurry what with the way she leaned back and took the time to inspect the pieces before putting them together. Building was the 'relaxing' part of the hobby to her after all. "Oh, and, Dani, This is Wing Zero Custom. From the Endless Waltz OVA, it doesn't have the Neo Bird mode that Wing and Wing Zero have in the show. Just as fast though."

Alex was starting to understand better: "Ah. I get it. I'm sure that..." As he was cutting out the next piece, without holding onto the part well, as he cut the last gate/tree connecting to the part, it suddenly flings downward and bounces across the table: "Oops! I didn't mean to do that."

As the class went by, tips were passed along that some who were still novice at building including to cut the trees slightly longer and then trim the excess off, more effective to make two cuts than one, carefully placing stickers on right due to losing adhesion and to use cotton swabs to help put them in place, along with checking the range and movement of the model so they would have a better understanding when in combat.

For Alex, the tips given to him by Dani and the instructors did help him out in making the model starting to look better in quality, however, it did not help improve his speed too much. Around the time others were finishing their models, he had yet to start on the Freedom's legs. He was double checking to make sure he did not botch a step. But so far, it appeared the Freedom was very well put together, despite this being his 3rd model he ever built.

On Kasumi's side, she was quiet most of the class. The model she had chosen was G Gundams GF13-017NJ Shining Gundam. It didn't take long for her to soon produce a well quality HG Shining Gundam. She was now applying on the panel marking with the marker.

Johnson told the class at this point: "Next door, we have our battle systems up and running, ready to test your models in battle."

Rou sat back and observed his work. The MG Buster was a marvel to behold alright. The perfect mixture of tan, green, and red was beautiful. Every nub mark was invisible, every panel line was perfectly flushed with gray or black. Rou posed the Buster with its dual cannons and missile pods open, ready for battle. He looked over at Kasumi, who displayed a quite lovely Shining Gundam. Rou nodded approvingly. "Good choice." He said.

Kasumi responds: "Thank you. It was the first suit i saw when i first saw Gunpla Battle."

Alexis finished just a bit before Alex, though she had enough time to put Zero next to Exia in a 'brofist' kinda pose, due to it amusing her, more then it probably should have. Ether way she was done and decided to have a look around at other peoples kits, there's was a lot more 'meh' in the group then she'd figured, nothing poorly put together or anything just, not as good as she was expecting. That, made her feel better in a weird way, she figured she'd be the worst in the class and instead, turns out she was just 'average', though the kid who came all unhinged before, his Buster was really good.

Dani was still toiling away on the victory two. she had most of everything sanded down, the entire build set out and her hands flying to assemble the body and skeleton of the suit before attaching the armor to it and then the weapons. Everything on the suit was very much in a sanded down form and rather well put together. She had a lack of paint on the suit and the seams were rather well down, not yet invisible, but her skills showed.

"Do i paint it or test mobility now..." she asked staring at it standing next to her Block.

Sakuya smiled to herself as she finished her gunpla model it was still a bit rough around the edges not having yet fully tested it out to see what needs to be fixed. While it couldn't be modified they never said about tuning it up to try and get better performance. Pulling the joints around she tested how far it could go with and with out the full cloth. Nodding to herself she quickly painstakingly painted a small emblem on the gunpla twice on the "full cloth" and once on the left arm in bright orange color. The emblem in this case was a circle with a x through it this was her personal mark she added on gunpla like her signature but in orange it shows that it is good as is.

"A Crossbones Full Cloth, nice, don't see many of those around." Alexis commented, her trip around the room bringing her to 'Tiera's table. "Shame to, its a sharp looking suit. I'm Alexis by the way." She added, sticking her hand out to shake.

"Ah hello my name is Sakuya its a pleasure to meet you" she added while shaking hands with Alexis. "Also I do agree its a sharp gundam but like the f91 it does see much light if at all people like to avoid these mobile suits for some reason." She added as she eyed her recently built gunpla it was painted the original colors the only change in it being the orange emblems she painted on it. "So what gunpla for the straight build did you end up choosing?" Sakuya asked as she tried to continue this impromptu discussion that happened.

After many checks, Alex finally locks the last piece in place. He moves from a lean forward position to a lay back one, letting out a big sigh. A big smile forms on his face as he looks at his new model. It didn't matter if it was straight forward assembly, it was still his own.

Alex quietly comments to himself: "It's finally finished. It's great to meet you, Freedom."

Alex's HG ZGMF-X10A Freedom Gundam model seem to be lower quality compared to the more later models that others had chosen, like HGUC or MG, and of course the RG models. Thanks to the tips and tricks he applied, the suit almost looked like it jumped from the anime into the world... and shrunk. Though far from perfect, he was happy.

He leans forward to it, nearly at eye level: "I know you and I are gonna have a great time together"

"Wing Zero Custom, apparently" Alexis said, shaking Sakuya's hand "I don't actually remember writing it down though. If had it to do over again, I'd firstly, pay more attention, but secondly, Hydra Gundam. Just to see the looks on peoples faces as the try and figure out where its from. That, and I am rather curious as to how it would handle." Alexis said as she sat down next to her. "But yeah, I hear you about the F-91. There's a lot of cool Gundam out there that get over looked cause the series isn't 'popular' or new, and don't even get me started on how 'more of the same' a lot of these 'starter' Gundam like the Strike or G-Self or getting to be."

"ha on that we can agree I am actualy tired of the same old same old. To be honest I prefer the F-91 as a gundam and the only reason I choose full cloth as my straight build was because of a coin flip." Sakuya added it was refreshing to talk to someone like this who understood the beauty and sheer utility the older suits had compared to some of the newer ones. "The endless waltz version of Wing huh she added hearing her mobile suit choice. That one was a interesting suit I am also working on a custom built one of it as well if you would like to see later?" @Lunar Templar

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Dani placed the half finished victory two in her lap along with her guntank, then pulled away from the table. She rolled out across the room to her instructor 'Johnson'. Giving a small bow from her position, she looked up at him. "Sensei, i have a question to ask of you and i hope it's not too out of place considering the context and implications of it." she asked, looking up at him. "Who would i talk to about plavasky particle research and experimentation?" she asked.

"Sure, I like seeing what some one with imagination can do with these kits, some of its pretty mind blowing you know." Alexis said, though her comment carried the tone of dis-inclusion, like she didn't count her self as one of those imaginative people. "You'd like my brother, while he's still gotta soft spot for Wing, cause it was what got him into Gundam, he's mostly about the UC time line now, mostly Feddie junk though" Alexis said, giggling a little "One of these days I get him to see the light that is Zeon Mobile Suit design."