The 11th Gunpla World Championships it was a odd one to be sure with the days ticking by the fighters gathered slowly towards the the tournament proper it was customary for the fighters to meet up before the start of the tournament for the standard "party" and for the standard going over of the rules and so forth. The prize for this world championship was a bit different from others while offering the standard prize money and other such things it featured a few change in rules such as more randomized team events but beyond that it was a different prize being offered that drew in people a chance for your own custom gunpla to appear in the newest gundam anime. This drove people into a frenzy making even the most die hard fans and fighters to come out in droves.

Sakuya sighed as she straightened out her black blazer she was unsure why she bothered to enter the world tournament. Even with her new found confidence in her skills after her recent tournament win she was still unsure if she was ready for such a big step after her failures in the recent years. Still she needed this if she was to move forward and make a name for herself this was the only way to do so. With one final sigh she stepped forward into the Yajima stadium to register herself this was it than time to face the music and face the world she once turned her back on.

Alexis didn't care about the prize of having one of her Gunpla featured in an anime. It would certainly be cool, and something she could brag about for years. But that's not why she was her, not why she'd worked so hard over the last 3 years to build a Gunpla capable of getting her here and winning this thing.

One reason she was here was for her own pride. She'd spent the last decade of her life in the Gunpla scene, building, battling, even going to a school to get better at both. The other reason was sleeping next to her in a stroller, her daughter Cassandra. Alexis knew she'd have to choose between the hobby she loved, and being, in her mind, a good parent and devoting her self to her child like she had her Gunpla career sooner or later, and because of that, she felt pressure, more then normal to have accomplished something, to go out on top, or as close to it as she possibly could.

Right now though, she was all registered and just waiting on her brother, who had come with her to baby sit while she did 'glorious battle that they will sing tales of for generations!' as Raechel put it. He was staying in a hotel close to the stadium, and right now was just stowing his bags in his room.

Dani hatashi was going around, a familiar guntank wheelchair now with a sword on the back instead of the helmet. She was shaking peoples hands as she had been the host of the first paralyzed gunpla world tournament. Not competing, the gunpla tournament was for those with paralysis, the girl organizing it due to her very close ties to Nilson Labs. She was smiling and greeting people before coming across a familair set of under eye baggage. "Holy shit, Sakuya?" she asked, rolling up to her, a smile on her face. Her eyes had changed colors, but it was still familiar old dani, a bit older now as well. "Hey, long time no see. You're here to register for the tournament?" she asked, seemingly cheery. "Not to mention you've changed so much." She said, tilting her head to the side curiously.

Sakuya slowly turned her head and faced the speaker "Oh hey Dani how you been?" She asked as she looked at her friend from the summer academy "Heard you made a name for yourself a bit belated but congratulations." Sakuya added with a nod of her head as she grabbed her hat and pulled it down further on her head blocking her eyes from view. It was something of a habit she supposed after her whole fallout from gunpla for a little she quickly gotten used to adjusting her hat as if trying to hide from the crowd and her self perceived failures.

Alexis was just sitting idly, watching the people around her, and her baby. At least until she saw a familiar wheel chair, and heard a pair of familiar voices. Well, that was a surprise, she didn't think that Dani would be here what with the work she'd heard about her doing for Nils Lab. She also thought she heard Sakuya, but didn't see her.

Still, it'd been a while since she seen Dani, and got up greet her. It was only after Alexis got closer did she realize the girl Dani was talking to was Sakuya. Which was kinda concerning given how burnt out Sakuya looked. "Sup treads" Alexis said as she got close to the pair, stroller in front of her as she approached, though the baby was still asleep. "Been awhile. Hey Sakuya, you ok? You look kinda torched."

With sakuya on the friendly side of seeing her, then Alexis showing up, Dani was rather happy and sure that this tournament was going to be fun. "Yeah, Nils has been fun. Hey alex-BABY!" She said excitedly, turning to face the Us fighter. "Oh my god, they're so adorable." she said, looking at the baby. She seemed to have gotten side tracked rather quickly by the appearance of a small child. "How old? What's their name?" she asked.

"Unless you wanna try and get her back to sleep, keep it down" Alexis said, pushing the stroller up between the two. "Her name is Cassandra, and she's 10 months old, and she's a total angel, when she's asleep." she said with a mix of pride and levity.

"So here we all are together again huh?" Sakuya said quietly as she took in mind the little one sleeping. Times really have passed she though to herself as she looked they all changed. "Well its good to see you are well Dani, Alexis." Sakuya said as she let out a tired smile she registered already so she had time might as well play catch up with some old friends right. "So Alexis the american champion now huh congrats. Still american champ or not dont expect a easy fight from me." Sakuya said her tired grin growing all the larger she may be the american champ but she was also a champ former or not her skills had been rusted but she should have polished it up enough.

"She's Beautiful Alexis." Dani said hushing herself to a lower level. "So I take it this is that last Urah so to speak for You then. Heh." The girl commented and looked at the sleeping baby. However, she looked up at Sakuya now, upon hearing there was going to be no easy fights. "The fact that anything less crossed your mind is troubling. You should go at it with your all every match. Not saying to go gung ho, but you should plan each fight like it's the champion match. anything less and you could fail." she said, then giggled and softly smiled. "That being said, it's between you and Alexis here, to determine if Cassandra here sees her mother with a second or third place trophy for her to look at and strive for. Since i'll be taking first ofcourse." she giggled in an obviously teasing tone.

"Thanks, though, I feel like I should have claimed the title a lot sooner then I did. Still it's good to finally have that goal out of the way and in the books." she said to Sakuya before turning to Dani.

"Oh I doubt that. I'm not using the Barbatos I used to claim the US title here. I have two Gunpla just for this event, and even IF you remember the one. It was only 20% finished then, and the other you've never seen before." Alexis said with a grin. "and it is as you say, the time is closing fast where I'm going to have to put my Gunpla on the shelf for good and devote my self to rising my daughter. So I'll give both of you this one warning. I'll be going even harder then I used to from here on out, because for me, this really might be my last 'battle'"

"Well than lets all agree that when we do fight if we fight that we will all give it our all than shall we?" Sakuya said as she tilted her head downward her grin still evident on her face. "You all talk about how great and or scary your thing is if there is one thing I learned is that one should never put their money where their mouth is. A fight has yet to be determined nor won boasting will get us nowhere in the end." Sakuya said showing that she to has grown from the hotheaded person she once was.

Dani giggled. "Bah, it's some friendly banter."She said waving off Sakuya's comment about boasting. "That being said, My sensei has taught me a lot in the way of plavasky. So i wouldn't consider you two friends of mine if either of you give any less than 100% in our fights." she said, sitting up in her chair. "Shall we go get some food?" she asked The two of them. "the pre tourny party is going on soon, i happen to know the way there, plus i can get us to that buffet before anyone else."Dani teased.

Sakuya mused to herself quietly true to her word Dani got them to the party quickly arriving well before anyone else even made it there yet. Though while it was all said and good Sakuya wasn't really paying attention rather she had a pencil and pad and going over her revamp of a gouf custom. She had planned to have had it done before the world tourney but things didn't work out and with the discount on gunpla and the rumor of some potential events it was best to have it done soon. She wanted to keep the armaments original plus a few extras give or take but that was about it. With a sigh she decided to close her pad and walk up slowly towards the punch bowl as others started to walk in. She recognized a few faces but that was about it still it seemed that things was officially getting started.

Alexis just parked her self at a table. She'd never really been one for these kinds of parties,and while it was neat to see a bunch of the major players in the Gunpla battle scene in one place, she'd rather battle them then drink with them. Besides, much as she loves and trusts her brother, she couldn't help but worry about him and Cassandra.

Still she took the opportunity to load up on ribs, worrying a little or not.

Dani disappeared for a bit, mingling with a few people she recognized. She eventually got back to the two of them and nodded. "My Apologies. I'd like you two to meet my sensei, he should be back in a minute or so. Needs to just finish up a few things." she explained to Sakuya and Alexis. "So, in the time since we've last met, anyone work on anything specific? i kinda realized my building skills were only keeping me afloat along with my stubbornness. So i learned i needed to know how to fight now. that and working to improve my disability is what i've spent these past few years doing." she said to the two of them, sampling some sushi they had.

"I wouldn't say much on things we worked on or built in particular but I will say that I did end up taking a break from gunpla as a whole and focused on something rather different in the end. Though I do believe that once it comes time to unveil it that skills I learned from said time would show it self. Sakuya said as she let out a small sigh to be honest she had a specific gunpla in particular that made full use of her skills she learned. Though that was better left unsaid and unheard as she wanted to really surprise people which was partially the reason she was using a qubeley. The same qubeley that won her the tournament to get to the world tournament. Though many credit that to her over developed shield which left many a person cursing at her for it.

"Besides having a kid? Not really. Dealt with a lack of inspiration for a while. Turns out it's actually kinda hard to make stuff up for a custom Gunpla, but once I found a groove I liked thing just started coming to me." She said, after cleaning the meat from a rib. "The two I've got here for this are pretty much my best work to date, and like I said earlier, you all have seen one of them. Was built back at the Labs but never had a chance to finish it till later, which is fine, I really like how it looks so a late finish just means It's better then it would have been if it had been finished at the Labs."

"i look forwards to fighting it Alexis, and to see what you've been up to Sakuya. As for myself I've been extremely busy learning to fight from sensei." she said, scratching the back of her head. Taking off her coat, they could see she was actually rather fit and well built compared to her previous form before someone familiar walked up behind her.

Dark complexion, dreadlocks and a white suit, yellow tie, the one known as Nils. "There's my Student, and Students of past." He said, placing a hand on Dani's shoulder. She let out an Eep and swung her chair around, giving a bow from her position. "Sorry Sensei! i didn't hear you." the girl said to Nils.

He let out a bit of a chuckle and shook his head. "We're at a formal party, no need to be so stiff, though i admire your dedication." he said then ruffled her hair a bit. She blushed hard and began to pout. "I'm not a child Sensei..." she said, however, Nils then turned back to the two before him. "It's good to see two students who passed through my labs make it to the world tournament. Dani, mind formally introducing me to them?" the man asked.

"Kawashiro, Sakuya and Voll, Alexis." she said, gesturing to them respectively. "Ladies, this is Yajima Nils." she said, introducing her Sensei.

Seeing who she was being introduced to Sakuya let a small bow of her head "It's a pleasure to meet you in person Nils sensei." Sakuya said as she looked at the former man who was once her teacher huh if anything this was a big surprise sure she expected a stand in for the game but she was not expecting him to make a appearance himself. "I am surprised to see you here I thought a representative would have been sent instead of you coming yourself Nils sensei." Sakuya continued if anything has changed she was desensitized to the whole deal with celebrities of gunpla and so forth.

"Getting here took longer then I would have liked, and I would have liked to have gotten here on my own, like so many of the great builders and battlers have, like you, Sei Iori and of course the Meijin did." Alexis said trading one rib for another with some meat still on it. "Oh well, what matters is I'm here now, and I accomplished a goal I'd have for awhile along the way."

"I to am curious has to your presence here. Not why you'd wanna be here, that's easy, Battling gets in your blood, and with one look at you, it's easy to tell you'd love nothing more then to hop in and join the fray your self. I just thought you'd be to busy to, ya know, show up in person."