Only a careful look at the real "face" of the model brought Peter into the realisation. He remembered now, last year at the tournament he fought a team with a Gunpla that looked identical. He had to be sure that his opponent was defeated by destroying much of it. In hindsight it was cruel but he had to make sure. The distraction costed his his focus as the kick unbalanced the Byzantine Gundam. "I had to make sure you were defeated!" He justified. As he regained his focus he prepared to parry the next attack, though the earlier attack on the right arm did cause damage that can cause it break if stressed further.

Marie sighed as she looked at her assembled Zabanya gundam It was far from being ready for a true battle being nothing more than a straight build. Though she supposed that was enough for today carefully packing it away she sighed to herself. People was off battling leaving nothing more than her, gary, and Alice in the room. With a small sigh she looked out and hoped that with all things considered there would be some action soon they still had their whole "practice" match with the other school soon and she doubted they fully mastered working as a team despite having a former champion mentor they did little in terms of actual training. "So how's the match Gary" she decided to speak up since there was little to do at the actual moment.

"Well..." Gary started to say but decided to give up and show her the laptop showing the ZZ Gundam blowing up the last of the enemy mobile suits with extreme prejudice. To say the suit was destroyed was anything short of an understatement. A full powered ZZ Mega Cannon blast to the face plus the suit's own custom adjustments made sure the last enemy knew what it felt like to get run over by a locomotive. Gary really had nothing to say he expected AOA to win the match but he was expecting more out of the other team because at the end of the day they were strong. "Does that answer your question?" Gary asked as the crowd cheered and the announcer gave the victory to AOA praising their teamwork in the match and how they managed to overwhelm and work over WTHDYTWA!?.

" That's your reason? " Raiyen replied Peter's statement as his gundam threw both of its beam sabres which were aimed at the Byzatine's chest area. Each of the beam sabres length shortened themselves just before they were thrown at their target to be more dagger-like. Shortly after that, the Vermillion Gundam grabbed both of its GN pistols that were stored inside the containers mounted at side of its legs and proceeded to open fire on its target. Aside from firing the GN pistols, the Vermillion Gundam also fired its GN vulcans to increase the amount of shots being fired. " What's the matter? Having second thoughts ?" Raiyen uttered with his usual monotone voice as his Gundam continued its onslaught of fire.

The GN beam sabers struck the cockpit, but the extra armour prevented complete destruction. The armour of Gunpla as a whole began taking stress from the repeated beam attacks before he decided to go with a 'do or die' attitude. He powered his beam saber to high output again. "I will not let my past haunt me!" He roared at the remarks of the Raiyen. "I am sorry for the destruction I caused but haunting a past is another!" The Byzantine Gundam flew to the Byzantine Gundam, lunging it's beam saber at the cockpit of the Vermillion. With the stress made to the right arm, it broke from the pressure and ending the flow of power to the main weapon. At the same time the gold-coloured Gundam sccumbed to it's damage in the cockpit.

BATTLE ENDED

DRAW

Raiyen was caught off guard by Peter's all-in attack to the point where the best Raiyen could do was dash backwards. Unfortunately despite his quick reaction the Vermillion Gundam once again could not keep up with his commands which causes it to be impaled by the Byzatine Gundams beam sabre. From the holographic interface Raiyen could tell that his Gundam was losing power fast, so as a last ditch attempt Raiyen quickly diverted all remaining power to its right arm. As a result, the Vermillion Gundam quickly toss aside its pistol in his right arm and opened its hand wide as it glowed vermillion red. However just before the Vermillion Gundam could use its Vermillion touch on the Byzatine, Raiyen remembered that the last mobile suit that was attacked using the Vermillion touch suffered severe damage despite the low model damage level set. " If I destroy his Gundam.... then I'll be no different from him..." Raiyen thought to himself as he powered down his the Vermillion touch and allowed his gundam to fall limp and lifeless on the floor of the forest.

" "I will not let my past haunt me.", truly words to live by" Raiyen said while smiling as the computer announced the result of the battle. "In time everything changes, even people" Raiyen uttered as he collected the pieces of his gunpla and placed them all in his suitcase. " Your resolve to look pass your past actions is admirable" Raiyen continued on as he turned around and grabbed his opponents mobile suit. Raiyen took a short moment to admire his opponents fine work before making his way towards Peter. " I look forward to fighting you and perhaps.....even alongside you somewhere in the near future Peter." Raiyen said with a genuine smile on his face as he handed over the Byzatine gundam.