@Lunar Templar@Suku "Sakuya, pleased to see you, You too Alexis." she said, looking between the two of them. she was happy she was going to be able to head to the place with two of her friends. "These fights lead to lone wolfing because of lack of communication. I'm not even sure if i'm going to bother using block. i might have to build something new..." she said, scratching the back of her head.

"I'm gonna use Exia, mostly cause I wanna use it." Alexis replied. "But yeah, a team needs time to ya know, become a team, this not telling us who we're gonna be teamed up with is crap. If it was a tourny I could understand the short notice, but the battle isn't until tomorrow. We should be allowed the time to ya know, 'become a team' rather then just hoping for the best."

@FerriteFox Alex comments: "I'd hope so too, if i'm not shot in the back. I'm sure you'd also find a friend of mine named Rou a challenge too."

Alex sighs before saying: "I think i need to take a little walk. I hope to see you soon again." With that, he was off.



Later outside, Alex was walking out the front door. He noticed the bus was about to depart, and at the window he saw Alexis, Dani, and Sakuya there. Not sure if they saw him, he gave a slight wave to them, just before the bus took off. Alex then commented: "I'd feel much better if any one of them were my partners, or my opponents." After he saw them off, he headed to the path that was by the lake.

Back when he was in the tournament at the 12th Gunpla tournament, he was initially excited to try the blind team battle, but the team he got didn't have the same kind of view on teamwork he had. His team nearly lost when one of his teammates, a big guy representing Germany, fired at him for claiming that Alex was holding the team back, though he got easily shot down. Alex and his other teammate had to really push themselves to win. The guy who was attacking him vowed to get him kicked out of the tournament for that, but failed to do so since Alex defeated him in a one on one battle later on. If it wasn't for that event, or the fact how he felt many people thought about him, he'd still be excited for this blind battle. He also wonder how others thought of this event, like fights in tournaments of past, and fighters of current.

Alex stops by the lake, the sunlight shimmering off it, making it look amazing. He pulls out his partner, and looks at it, thinking about what Ball Guy said to him: "All I request is that you give it your all, with fellow builders and fighters who are doing the same, and you'll find your fun."

Alex sighs before commenting: "Fun... the one thing that keeps me from quitting Gunpla... but how long can that fun last? Especially when people try to punish you for trying to have fun?"

From the corner of his eyes, he noticed he wasn't the only one by the lake. A closer look and he noticed a girl on her knees, apparently in meditation. It was Kasumi Arashi. Alex thought: (Kasumi? What's she doing?)

Alex places his Gunpla back in his vest pocket and decided to see what she was up to. As he approaches her: "Hey, whatch-"

Before he could finish, like a blur, Kasumi (who thought someone was trying to sneak up on her) grabs Alex by his arm and flings him right into the lake. Alex screams as he is flung into the lake until he hits the water. Kasumi then see's who she had flung and gasps as Alex floats to the surface, dazed from the event.

After his heartfelt talk with Alex, Ball Guy returned to the still full auditorium. Many eyes were on him. It was so strange, Rou hated being subject to scrutiny, but as Ball Guy he loved being the center of attention. He patted the hard case containing his Ball Modules. DAI-BALL-OH! hadn't see ln the field since Rou arrived. No one had given him enough of a reason or challenge. Would this 3v3 be able to bring out the best in him?

@Lunar Templar"Yeah, i'd rather have myself to depend upon and not have to worry if my teammate is going to hinder my chances at performing my best. But oh well." she said as they pulled up to the store. "Well, that's rather quick." she commented, looking out the window at the shop. Rolling herself forwards, she got to the stairs, then rolled down them, thankful for her modifications to do that. Rolling up to the side walk, she waited for her friends.

Stepping out of the bus with a sigh Sakuya stretched a little before walking up to Dani. "I can agree with you on that I would not want to be bogged down by people who wouldn't have my back. Still a three vs three sounds pretty interesting something from the tournament becoming main stream huh?" Sakuya mused as she looked at the gunpla store there was a building competition coming up soon one she was not going to miss. After all it showed her exactly where she needed to go and what better way than to showcase the return of the lightning count than a widely publicized event like that? "Still it is going to be nice to use my own personal build did some minor upgrades to my seravee and what better way to test them out than a 3 vs 3 battle. After all people shine best under adversary or so the saying goes." Sakuya added her own opinion on the matter as they waited for Alexis.

"I might tweek Exia a bit if I have time." Alexis said as she stepped off the bus behind Sakuya "If not, oh well, it's not like I relay on heavy customizations to carry me in a fight anyway. Ether way though I'm still gonna be working on something tonight. A Reborns or a Legilis. Not sure which yet." Alexis said as she stopped between the two.

"I'm also probably gonna sort through the discarded parts. See what they have."

@Suku@Lunar Templar Dani looked at them both. "I have an idea. We could all grab an HG kit and put them together, then fight after we're done shopping. I know i want to grab a couple of Zakus and maybe even a shinaju varient before i head back, just to mess around with." she commented to the two of them, starting to roll up to the building with them.

"Like what? a 1v1v1 battle or us vs some one else?" Alexis asked as they headed into the shop. "Besides, what happen to that hard objection to running a straight build" Alexis teased as she looked for where the 00 and AGE kits would be.

"Sounds pretty interesting lets she how it goes than" Sakuya said as she quickly and with purpose strode forward and grabbing the gunplas she wanted the Gundam f-91 being one of the many. "So Dani what specific models of Zaku you looking for? The classic or one of the newer models" Sakuya decided to ask as she quickly grabbed a model of the gundam 1.5 and the Dynames gundam from the Gundam 00 isle. "Two down off my list" Sakuya said off hand as she opened up a small notepad and crossed out two gunpla names from the list. Looking down she looked at what was needed a Nightingale, Sazabi, Khysatria, Deathscythe, and finally the the gundam F-91. Though looking around she kind of wanted to try a sandrock custom.

After being tossed into the lake, Alex was out of the water and spitting out some water that was in his mouth. He was soaking wet, but it didn't seem to bother him a lot.

Kasumi was on her knees just next to him apologizing for what she did: "My apologies. I wasn't aware it was you, it's just something I was taught to do if someone sneaks up behind you."

Alex takes off his hat and shakes it a few times to knock the water off of it: "It's alright. The water helped cool me down. Something i needed a bit."

Kasumi's eyes close as she asks him: "You're concern for tomorrows battles, aren't you?"

Alex was a little surprised. She was right on the mark with what was troubling him. Alex stares out at the lake: "I guess it's plain on my face. *He takes out his partner, luckily it wasn't affected at all by the water since all the stickers had been changed to paint, though he had a little help with Dani on that* Ever since the tournament, I've been having trouble just enjoying building and playing Gunpla like I had when i first started. I entered the tournament because it was suggested to me by the others back home, saying I had the battle skills to really reach high. But ever since I won, it felt like people were treating me worse than i was before... at least outside of home. Is it really okay to be punished for succeeding and trying to have fun? Now i have more than half the class wanting to blast my Gunpla into thousands of pieces. I'm not sure who's really gonna be on my side."

Kasumi didn't respond right away, but when she did, she replies: "There are many challenges in life we'll have to face. Obstacles to overcome. No matter how big they are, we need to find a way to overcome them."

Alex was a little confused to what she meant. Was she talking about his situation, or something else, but he didn't wanted to sound rude, though all he said was: "Umm..."

Kasumi stands up and tells Alex: "I think i know a way to help. Follow me."

Alex wasn't sure about this, but if it can help him out, he'd give it a try. So he stands up and follows Kasumi.

@Lunar Templar@Suku
"I object to the flat out denial of modifications to gunpla. I don't mind building something to modify later, or to see how it feels when i run it. I have a few images in my head already of what i wanna do with the Stein." she explained, grabbing a few of the mk 2 Zakus off the shelf. "And Sakuya, i'm mixing G gundam with the UC timeline in terms of generic bad guy design." the girl explained as she also grabbed a few other accessory packs and went over what she wanted to do in her head.

"Oh sounds like a interesting build would something I would want to see how it will turn out later" Sakuya said as she grabbed a few more models from her list. All she needed now was the deathscythe and sandrock though she did grab a few extra side packs like Dani. "My personal idea is a bit harder to describe but I want to do is create a custom sandrock gundam that has the option beyond its iconic swords." Sakuya said as she tried to explain her idea. Still she supposed saying her idea wouldn't hurt after all sandrock was a nice gundam and one of her favorite gundams of all time. Though she never could do a custom version of it always doing a straight build of it rather than anything new or interesting but she believed she got a idea for one though right now it was unsure

Ball Guy examined his Brigadier Ball. All the connection points for the other Ball Modules were just fine and dandy. Rou pondered just how far this schtick could go. How could he evolve the way he was using this? Combiners had been around since the early days of UC, but Rou was aiming to build off of everything that the source material had to offer. DAI-BALL-OH! was just a stepping stone to something bigger, but not yet. DAI-BAL-OH! still hadn't made a big enough impact on those in the meta. To truly leave this institution with those harking to his name, his execution would have to become perfect...Perfect Grade...

Alexis just sighed at Dani's response and went to find the kits she came for, then moved over to the spare parts bins and set to digging around. She listen idly as Dani and Sakuya discussed the builds they where considering. Alexis really only had one build in mind, and frankly she thought it odd she was going to actually build it, and it was gonna take time.

but Alexis kept digging, pulling the odd partial tree out and setting it a side now and then.

@Lunar Templar@Suku Dani kept looking around as she and Sakuya browsed the shop. "That sounds cool, i wish you luck in your build. now to get a few more parts..." she said to herself, grabbing a heavy arms and wandering into the 'other' section of the gunpla store, an area that carried not gundam plastic models. she found herself wandering the armored core sections and found a massive weapon, in a 1/72 scale, picking it up, she smiled stupidly. Quickly heading back to the group, she found Sakuya and looked around a little bit more, seemingly giddy. "Right, just need my stein and a few little bits and peices and i'm gooood!" she said happily.

"Same I need one more suit and a few extras before I finish" Sakuya said as she pointed to her basket full with multiple gunplas and other odds and ends. The basket was already full of odds and ends of gunpla boxes and extra packs ranging from virtue, seravee, nadeeleh, raphaeal, deathscythe hell, Sandrock kai endless waltz, Nightingale, Sazabi, Khysatryia, and finally the destiny gundam. Beyond that she had grabbed a box for the dendrobium stamen, and finally grabbing the double x gundam and a arios gundam both which was on sale it seemed. Sakuya looked down at the basked she had all the suits she wanted and a few extras for spare parts and few for ideas. "With this amount I do believe having them ship the suits to me would be a best bet but I will take 3 with me" she muttered to herself as she calculated how she would do everything.

As Sakuya and Dani finished up with what they where after, Alexis, just stayed near the 'spare parts' bin. She'd already gotten what she was really after set a side and was now just tinkering with the 'junk'. Seeing what, if anything could be thrown together from it.

Dani found the stein and was practically drooling over it before she shook herself off. "Right... umm... you can just hang the bags off the back of my chair if you want to, i've got a bit of space to store mine underneath. The girl commented before paying for the large bundle of gunpla and other parts she had gotten. Looking around between the group as she stored the stuff she wasn't going to use just yet in a compartment in the bottom of the chair, Dani broke the ice. "So, wanna build and fight?" she asked Sakuya and Alexis.

@mcpop9@Lunar Templar@Suku At the counter waiting, was the shopkeeper, Toshio, was waiting for customers to come up to purchase their models. While he was waiting, he was finishing up the final touches on a model he was gonna keep on display at the counter, it was a MG grade RX-78-2 Gundam, expertly put together and a nice finish, no doubt the work of an expert.