The shop owner was hopping people would be noticing it and asking about it, cause recently people coming from the labs to buy and build stuff were talking more about how to defeat a certain person and claiming him to be a cheat for someone so young to beat so many others, or that he could be like a psychic. Whatever the reason, he felt they were focusing less on the reason for Gunpla, which was to have fun. That's when he remembered to let his customers know: "Just a reminder everyone, we have our battle system up and running in the other room for those who want to test their models they're working on here or just want to have some fun."

Back at the labs, one person was about to hopefully re-learn that lesson. Walking in the courtyard, Alex was following Kasumi (who were both being followed by someone who saw them earlier from a distance) heading for what looked like a small building somewhere in the courtyard. There were no people around it or in it when they entered. The building was filled with plants and tons of greens.

Alex was a bit curious asking: "What is this? A greenhouse? Why'd you bring me here?"

Kasumi places a hand on some greens and answers: "For this." She moves them to reveal a Battle System right there, and the power was on.

David: "What? A system here?"

Kasumi: "I found it when i was wondering around. I believe no one else came in here, cause i usually see it covered." Then she does something that was catching Alex off guard, she was starting to undress.

Alex was shocked and red in the face as he starts to look away: "NO! WAIT! DON'T DO THAT HERE!"

But a few seconds later she told him: "You can look now."

Alex hesitated: "But you're... *he sees her now fully in a Kimono* Wait... how'd you do that so fast?"

Kasumi answers: "Years of practice. So... are you ready?"

Alex got a bit confused by the question: "Ready for what?" She steps behind the system and pulls out her GP base and Alex replied: "A Gunpla battle? But i thought the systems were not ready for player battles."

Kasumi: "In the main building yes, but this one is still fully ready. It's time to see if we can find the answer you seek."

Alex wasn't sure: "I don't know about this... i mean, we still needed..."

She immediately claims: "So you rather just run away then stand and fight?!

Alex was caught off guard by her claim: "I... ...." The look in her eyes was one of a fierce warriors, she really meant buisness. The kind of fighters he faced before that would give him the battles to remember, thus he stood his ground, clenched his fist and replied: "... I'm not running. Not this time."

She smiles as the system starts to whirl up and the system announces: "GUNPLA BATTLE, COMBAT MODE, START UP! MODEL LEVEL DAMAGE SET TO C. PLEASE SET YOUR GP BASE."

Both bases were place in their spot, info pops up on each of them as the system continues: "BEGINNING PLAVSKY PARTICLE DISPERSAL."

The particles began whirling up and lay down a field for the battle to take place. With a bright flash, the field, a sort of castle ruins from the Feudal era, was formed with a storm brewing: "FIELD 7, RUINS."

The particles form around the fighters and Alex takes out his Star AGE Gundam: "Alright buddy... here we go again."

System: "PLEASE SET YOUR GUNPLA."

Alex sets down his Gunpla, the system scans it, and the head of it rises up and lights up along with the suits AGE system. With controls forming at Alex's hands, the catapult forms as the system announces: "BATTLE START!"

Alex got the green light: "Alex Taylor! Star AGE Gundam! LET'S GO!"

With that, his suit was launched and headed into battle.

Alexis came back to the table as Sakuya started talking about what her Abyassal custom did currently. She looked at her unnamed custom then back to Sakuya's and then to Dani's Shinaju. 'Can't just be tanky it needs something more, some ace...' she thought as she sat back down to build the EW Sandrock Shotels she'd found along with the EW Sandrock backpack she ended up using. "'It's not finished' seems to be the theme for our new 'partners' here." she said as she put the over sized swords on their racks.

"Did we still wanna battle some thing we found on the self or what." Alexis said as she set her Custom aside and started building the Reborns Gundam.

Ball Guy followed Alex and Kasumi to the greenhouse unnoticed. As he stepped inside after them, he saw the hidden battle system.

Huh. Strange that there's a battle system hidden out here. Oh well, lets see how Alex fairs off.

Ball Guy waited in the corner of the greenhouse behind a row of ferns. He rested his hand on one of the hardcases that contained one of his backup Gunpla, the Radiant Rider.

"Hmm a battle to test the new suits we made would be ideal. Right now as you stated 'It's not finished' seems to the main problem with ours. So a quick battle going by that knowledge in mind would make it ideal to figure out where exactly we are with these builds." Sakuya explained the idea was solid in her head at least. A battle with her new partner was ideal a way to test the waters. "That is if you guys want to battle with them? I know for sure that I will probably try a test battle with my new gunpla after all I need to make sure that parts are all solid for a solid battle." Sakuya continued as she looked at her two friends with her at the table to see their responses.

@Suku@Lunar Templar "I'm up to battle, i wanna know what stein is missing." she said, having completed the base build. Rolling back, she held it in her hands, admiring the beauty of the suit. "So, i'm not sure what else i'll need to do.. or even want to... this suit is beautiful.

"Sounds like a good idea" Alexis said as she started to clean up the part trees from the Reborns she'd been working on. "It'll be good to see just how much 'under the hood' work will need to be done on my ..." she paused, looked at her kit bash, the smirked. "Viper."

"Well lets get going shall we?" Sakuya asked as she packed away her items and gently carried her new gunpla towards the other room. Should be interesting to see how well this stacked against a stein and a custom dueling suit. "Let's see how well your maiden voyage goes" Sakuya mumbled to herself as she reached the room and placed it down while waiting for the other two arrive.

Alexis set her Viper Gundam and GP Base on the battle system. She was oddly nervous, not cause of who she would be going up against, but because she was treading on new ground for her. She wasn't sure how Viper was going to handle, but at the same time that was what made this fight interesting, and kinda fun for her.

@Suku@Lunar Templar
Dani rolled over to the side of the table and set her GP base and the Stein. "Girls, before we begin, i'd like to speak to you about something." she said, rubbing the back of her neck. "I've never given up on trying to walk. Ever since my accident, i've been trying to find a way to do so. Hell, i even had neurodes implanted into my brain to see if we could set up some pseudo nervous system to reconnect my legs to my brain, but... it didn't work and the removal of them would have been brain damaging to levels of near vegetable. Thankfully they've been left in and i've managed to repurpose them..." she said, smiling as she rubbed the helmet, now in her hands.

"Would you girls mind not immediately attacking me? I'd like to get my bearings first, since i've never fully done this before." she said, sliding on the helmet with her hands shaking a little. "Ready when you are." she said to him.

"That's fine, I'm a need a moment my self to see what all is even there besides what I built into it. Random parts and all." Alexis said, also ready as she was gonna be to start this battle.

"It's understandable I also need some time to make sure all systems are a go" Sakuya said as she lightly exhaled. Setting her GP base she looked forward and and wondered how this battle will turn out. Watching the plavsky particles appear she she let out a small sigh looking at her gunpla again she couldn't help but wonder how well it will stand against the others with nothing more than its cane and its dual hidden beam guns on its pack and of course the GN field she had installed.

@Suku@Lunar Templar
System: "FIELD 7 - RUINS. SPECIAL MAP: CHERNOBYL"


System: "BATTLE START!"

With that Dani launched, pushing forwards until she was on the map. Launching out of a tunnel, she got a small feel for the stein before landing ontop of one of the large apartment buildings. Switching to her special system, she activated it, the Stein activating the psycho frame, going into its destroy mode.



With this, Dani let out a small cry of pain, wincing hard as she felt the helmet activate and join into the plug in the base of her neck. IT was always uncomfortable when it happened, but she also had never fully 'dived' so to speak. The girl didn't go limp, but closed her eyes and her hands were in her lap. That was when the stein powered down. It appeared powerless, but still threw off a reading as the shining pink turned to dull. She wasn't out of the battle.

Alexis launched her Viper and exited the tunnel, landing by one of the near by ruined buildings.

Alexis then took stock of what functions the Gunpla actually had. Beam Sabers, Heat Sholets and Head Vulcans where accounted for. The lack of the Death Scythe's stealth system kinda surprised her due to her use of Hell Custom for the torso and forearms. She would have removed it anyway, but it was still odd to not see.

There was thrust read outs for the legs as well as the back pack, as she expected, given her use of the TV version of Altron for the legs. All in all everything seemed to be as it should be, save one thing, the arms seemed to have an extra function to them, 'Shining Finger' it read. 'huh... hands must be from the Shining Gundam or something. Neat.' she though as she pushed the throttle forward and took off to see how well it could turn and generally handle.

Launching form the tube and landing quickly Sakuya took a look around the city seeing as they agreed for a quick warm up first she took the time to test the limits of her new gunpla. Putting it in its standard post of resting both hands on the cane she quickly operated its pack and revealed its twin beam guns located there. Looking at the features she noticed nothing off really it had what was expected she supposed The TransAm, the GN field. Taking a few steps forward she activated its thrusters seeing how well it could maneuver seeing as it was all good she took to the center field and placed the gunpla in what would be seen as its "trademarked" pose with its hands resting on its cane and its cape covering most of its body.

that's when the coms burst into life with Dani's voice. "I'm here... i'm here... i'm not dead... i'm not dead..." she panted out, but then stopped, realizing that she didn't need to breath. "this.. feels weird..." she said, the Stein looking down at its hands as she opened and clenched the fist. "Wait... does this mean..." she said, not realizing she was broadcasting the comms to everyone in the match. Taking a step forwards with the stein, she felt the foot hit the ground and her weight being supported by it.

The other two could hear her begin to tear up as sniffles came from the comms. "It works! it really works! i can feel myself walking!" she shouted and then proceeded to jump off the building, landing with a crouch to one knee, before getting up and running along the ground, laughing happily like a child might as they played in a yard. Inadvertently, she ran into the Abyssal Gunpla. "LOOK SAKUYA! I'M ON MY FEET!" she said over the comms, moving her legs and watching the motions of the mobile suit's legs as it looked downwards. The movements themselves looking rather natural compared to other gunpla and their controls; they looked almost as if it were just a human in armor.

The sudden com chatter got Alexis's attention for how utterly bizarre it sounded and decided to investigate. Turning the Viper around she put the throttle all the way down and flew off toward she picked up some movement. The Viper at full burn was a lot faster then she thought it'd be, even with the added leg thrusters so it didn't take her long to cover the ground from where she was near the gate she'd used to launch the Viper to where Dani's Stein and Sakuya's Abyssal where at. With Dani's Stein acting ... oddly ...

Not odd in a bad way, just odd for a Gunpla, it looked 'natural', fluid like human motion.

The Viper landed and walked over to the other two. "Ok, I'll bite, what do you mean on your feet, I can still see you in your wheel chair."

Ball Guy casually walked into the local hobby store, feeling the hellish stares and glances of its patrons. Alex and Kasumi were hard at battle, never noticing that he had already entered and slipped away. He sauntered along the aisles making mental notes of what he wanted to purchase. Hearing the sounds of battle and chatter, his interest was piqued. Ball Guy quietly slipped into the room, and surprisingly found his acquaintances battling inside. Strangely, Dani was wearing the odd helmet she usually toted around with her. It allowed her to...control the Gunpla...with her mind? Was it like the G Fighter system from G Gundam? Ball Guy took a step closer, extremely intrigued.

"A full dive system?" Sakuya asked she heard of rumors of something similar with people literally becoming one practically with their gunpla but she never really seen it happen till now. Or she would assume it was how it was working now as she watched Dani run around as the stein. "What a interesting idea" Sakuya said out loud as she stood there still examining Dani the potential this had was practically limitless she supposed though she was unsure on how to best apply this. Still it was literally like she was there moving the gunpla as if it was her own body to do that you practically had to fully understand the limits of your gunpla and body. She had tried to do something like that for ages though to no success she had heard there was something similar to that in a previous championship a person called Aila she believed.

"Oh... right... what i was talking about earlier!" Dani said, pacing back and forth now. "I had these neurodes in my brain and i wasn't using them, so i developed a system to use them, not to make my legs walk, but to shove my head into a gunpla, so now i'm sitting here and feeling everything my gunpla feels and walking for the first time in years; it's so amazing!" she shouted happily as the stein thrusted its arms into the sky.
"The only thing that is really required is electrodes planted into your brain which is highly dangerous, but since i had already had them i just had to make them work and now it is and i really need to remember i just can't ramble on like this." she said, if anyone was to look at her body as this point, she'd be sitting there, now somewhat limp as her head hung down and her arms were motionless in her lap. She was still breathing, but it really did appear like her head was ejected into her gunpla.
"i still haven't figured out just how much i feel when i'm like this, but i don't care! i can walk!" she shouted as her jets activated and she flew up into the air. "AWESOME!" Dani screamed out.

"And researching into this topic, i did hear the rumors, but it's not like my body is sinking up with anything, it's that my mind is literally being projected into the gunpla! i love me!" she raved on, pulling out her beam rifle and now flying around, putting holes in random buildings.

Ball Guy nearly gave himself away by gasping. So this is what Dani had been up to all her life. It was heart breaking and astounding, really. Rou couldn't stand it. He considered himself a little tougher emotionally, but he couldn't help it. He slapped down his GP Base and the Radiant Rider. The Plavsky Particles surrounded him and he entered the ruined city. The Radiant Rider was an older model, one of Rou's first "successes". This did not mean however, that its performance was not highly above average. Ball Guy rode his Shield-Board right towards Dani's Stein. In a flash, the Radiant Rider was in front of the Stein in an aggressive stance. Ball Guy did not attack, but instead clapped both hands onto the Stein's shoulders.

"I'm so...I'm so happy...you have it..."

Rou began tearing up and sniveling uncontrollably.

"You truly...love Gunpla..."