Kanoko blanched a little at the sight of the 80's disco fever throwback, shivering a little as the man moonwalked off stage. "Anyone got any bleach? I need to erase that from my head. Can't believe he's actually a sponsor..."

Sighing heavily, Kanoko's face returned to a cheery state before she finished snapping together her Hi-Nu Gundam, nodding at Cassandra's observation. "IT's true, they do have many suits which can be considered cookie cutter, but that's the natural progression of military doctrine and upgrades. You create several high-performance prototypes, but if they can't pass the mass production test, then use what techniques you learned designing it in the newest models being created. Much like how the RX-78 series was used as a testbed, most technology used on them was strictly reserved for the mobile suit with the power of a thousand mobile suits. Some of it wouldn't have been fit for mass production, as Unicorn explored with the Psycoframe."

"Speaking of Unicorn though, let me go see if I can't grab another couple kits for later. I have a few ideas that are rattling around, and I need another Sinanju for that. The one I have at home is display only, eheh."

Yumi let a small shiver as the disco obsessed person left and a groan at how he was in charge of the shop. Still looking up at her gusion she assumed that one was one of the free ones so she might as well pick the last two free ones. If she failed the exam oh well she got three free gunpla and experience if not than she was prepared for may be thrown her way. “Im afraid brain bleach might not work.” Yumi stated her voice filled with mirth at the one girl’s horror of Mr. Gunpla. “Despite how he acts he is one of the major faces of gunpla and of gunpla fighting sadly.” She stated welp time to face the music “let’s she what Mr. Gunpla carries” Yumi stated as she stood up and left towards the store area her completed gusion in a pose with one arm slinging the hammer over its shoulder while one hand splayed out with the open hand option in a somewhat dynamic pose. Reaching the store she swallowed it was ordinary looking though she could spot garish leopard print rugs on the floor. “So you said that we can get two more free gunpla right?” She asked the afroed person.

“Yes crazy layday!” The sunglasses themed man responded from behind the counter. He seemed to have some sort of a song stuck in his head as his body softly bounced to the beat.

“Ah I see thank you than would you happen to have the kits for the Blitz gundam and the Destiny gundam?” She asked looking at the person who for eight years was a champion gunpla fighter.

“Ofcourse! Anything for the Girls!” He said, disappearing into the back. He came back out with the two kits. “Good luck with the beams! Dazzle the Blind!” he cried out, throwing a fist up into the air, the broken engrish pushing him over the top as some people laughed. However, the male got on his elbows and began speaking fluent japanese in a rather relaxed and cool tone. “Tell me little blossom, how will you dazzle them with beams if they deflect them?” he asked, tilting the sunglasses down so she could see his eyes and how serious they had become, 180’ing the craziness from before.

“Seed has a lot of beam spamming as people call and hatred in general for the series. There is more to gunpla fights than beams I fought using a verde buster against IBO kits before my weapons all but countered. It does not however speak about the pilot. The blitz has the lance darts and the gliepner for example all non beam weaponry that if used correctly can win the battle against IBO kits in general. Destiny has a lot of beam weaponry however the Arondight sword is more than just a large beam sword it does in fact carry a edge so as long as you don’t activate the beam it can be used just as well.” Yumi said speaking honestly she may not like seed as a whole but Beams is not everything on the gundams.

“Gunpla academy ran a team years ago in the regionals and they had a fighter by the name of Saga Adou. Look into his suits and learn from them. When the orphans come out to play, show them your fangs, fight them where you’re not.” He said and flicked his glasses up. “Rememba, Fight Supah cool for Supah Fun!” Mr Gunpla shouted and struck another disco pose, this time more in line with the beegees than anything else.

“Wait can I exchange the destiny for the providence gundam instead.” Yumi spoke up the small serious moment from Mr. Gunpla sparking an idea in her head that she would have never thought of without some pushing.

The man smiled and walked over, grabbing the kit off of his shelf before bringing it to her with a wink. “Stay crazay.” he said and took back the Destiny.

With a small thanks to the former champ Yumi left gripping the providence gundam in her hand her mind going over the ways she could use it while the blitz was under her arms. Before reaching the room with everyone else was at. "So im back and with some new ideas but thats for later first though who is ready for the exam?" Yumi asked debating on if she should start on the providence gundam or not.

Sakuya smiled at the sight of Mr.Gunpla despite all his craziness and cringey badly spoken english he did know what he was doing just he had a persona he kept up all the time similar to the Meijin in that sense. “Say what you will about him he does know his stuff.” Sakuya said in defense of the somewhat crazy ex gunpla champ. “Learn to see what hides behind the masks.” Sakuya stated her hat pulled over her eyes but a large grin was on her face.

Cassandra

"I understand why the are the way they are, from a narrative perspective. But from the perspective of 'randomly walking through the store', outside a handful of suits across all of UC, they all look the same, and have differences that would be better served in those IBO optional parts parks instead of a whole new kit. Be cheaper to." Cassandra replied, as Yumi returned with her kits, a pair from SEED apparently. She finished assembling her Full Cloth and got up. "Be right back, gonna go get a kit, maybe two, we'll see."

Cassandra walked over to the storefront where Mr Gunpla was, and where Yumi had just come from. She took a quick look around before addressing Mr Gunpla him self. "I'm looking for one kit for sure, not sure on a second just yet."

"How can I help you YoungStar!" he asked, tapping his hands on the counter to the beat of the thriller, head bopping and bouncing to it as it went through his head

Cassandra reached for her case and pulled out the heavily damaged Lupus Rex and set it on the counter. "Well, I need to fix my partner here." she replied. Now that it was free of the carrying case, and the tail blade was exposed, the damage to it was visible. the tip was chipped off, the 'hook' at the top was missing, and there was a crack down the length of it. Amazingly, despite the damage, it stood firm, nothing was sagging or even looked like it wanted to fall over.

The man left and came back with a Lupus Rex. "Crazay Kit for a Stafightar!" He said now, sliding it across the counter to the girl. However, he rested up on an elbow and dipped his glasses, the serious twinkle returning to them. "How long will you use Mika's Suit instead of your own?" Mr. Gunpla asked the girl.

The sudden serious shift actually took her off guard, as did his question, and it took her a bit to answer. "I don't know. Mom has been encouraging me to take Rex and do something with it to make it mine, but I donno. I haven't found that 'spark' yet she did with her Exia."

He smirked now, continuing to stare. "My first experience with gunplay fighting was an out of box suit... I found myself needing something that match. Fill your holes to compliment your style. there doesn't need to be a spark for you to add. could be a weapon, could be more armor where you take hits a lot. Just look for things to help you get out of trouble when using the suit. Some people are more utilitarian than flashy when it comes to fighting. you may be that kind of a person." He said and flicked up his glasses.
"Remembah, you get one more kit! Make it smart, StarFightah!" he called out and threw out a peace sign, smirking at her, giving a wink that she could see from behind the glasses.

Goofy as he was, he had a point, her biggest weakness was 'assholes with Fangs', and she needed to do something about those, or she was just going to end up with a busted kit even if she won "If you don't mind. I would like to save that last freebie kit for when I have a solution to my biggest weakness with Rex, and I know what I want to do with it."

"Tis fine, Stay strong StarFightah!" He said, making a mental note of who wanted what and how many people had.

She nodded, put her damaged Rex back in her case, tucked the kit under her arm and walked back her seat and just looked at the box for a minute, gears clearly turning in her head. "He's not as goofy as he seems. You'll see when you go to him."

Alexis

"Yeah, he's kinda cringy, but he's surprisingly knowledgeable." Alexis said as she watched Cassandra walked over to him. "He has a knack for saying what people need to hear to get them thinking to. So just suck it up, he'll be good for the students." she added, then turned to Sakuya. "So what the entrace exam this time around? It didn't say, and I'm kinda curious about it."

She shrugged a little, watching as Cassandra moved up to the counter where Mr. Gunpla was hanging out. "To each their own. I honestly can't stand half of SEED's designs, and a number of them are just remodeled knockoffs of UC suits. I will admit some special types of kits are a bit too much, like GM customs and the like, but at the same time, you can't expect all GMs to function alike. IBO has its own flavor with the modularity; it's one of the things I like about the series!"

Her mental image of Mr. Gunpla imploded as he went from the over-the-top 80's man to a cool cat in a span of half a second, her jaw nearly dropping to the floor as she listened in on his and Cassandra's conversation, or at least what she could hear of it. The goofy sponsor was gone, and in its place was a man obviously dedicated and into the craft of Gunpla and Gunpla battling. Unfolding her arms, she could feel a bit of shame burning up on her cheeks, Kanoko chuckling nervously as Cassandra came back. "Uh-HUH! Y-yeah...I guess what they say is true; never judge a book by its cover..."

It was Kanoko's turn. She stepped up to the counter nervously, now unsure of what to think of the sponsor. "U-uh, hey there..."

"What is up Buff Buildah!" Said the man as he threw up a flex on his right arm, ofcourse it looking pathetic. "How can i help!" He said excitedly.

She managed a short chuckle at his attempt, the buff builder comment making her blush the tiniest bit. "That noticeable, huh? Well...I'm looking for a Sinanju Stein and an EZ-8, if you have them."

The man sat back and thought for a minute, stroking his goatee in thought. He snapped his fingers and walked off, coming back with the shinaju stein and EZ-8.
"Hi-NU, Shinah... juuu And the Greight, Eazy Eight!" He sorta beat boxed out.
"Tell me Buff Buildah, why do you tango with only tha YOU CEE suits?" He asked her, still jiggin and jivin.

"To be fair? It's the series I grew up with. SEED has good suits but never really interested me, and while I appreciated 00, only UC and IBO have really kept my interests. Everything else has just gotten space colony-vaporizing weapon after weapon even mounted to mobile suits. Besides, who doesn't like having a nice brawl with some real, grounded suits?"

The male leaned down and dropped his glasses a bit to see eye to eye with her. "With Iron Blooded orphans, you'll find more people into that, but still doesnt mean you get to ignore the other suits. Trans-am, phase shift armor, dragoon, exam system, zero system, hyper mode, learn your enemies tricks. A lot of them got good with those tricks; so learn them. Brawn will get you places, brains does the other half, but since you're here, you must have both." He said and smirked. "With building, as i see parts of your Hi New sitting over there, you find a natural flow to progressing, but following an order. You set a routine for your workouts, but only did what your body could naturally with its flow. Fighting is the same. You have your own flow, but you put your mind to the test when knowing when to apply the motions, info and tactics you learned." He explained sitting up. "Even those with beams over long distances can crush those fond of orphans woth tactics and jnfo."

She swallowed a bit, taken aback by his words. He acted quite a buffoon, but in reality she had quite underestimated him. Taking her kits, she bowed a little, straightening back up after a minute. "Thanks for the good advice. You should always look for a weakness, rght?"

He flicked the glasses up and smiled now. "Even in you, Buff Fightah!" he called out and gave a thumbs up, a sparkle of light off of his pearly whites, knowing he had helped the girl somehow.

"Now you're gonna have me calling my Gunpla the Muscle Unit..." Kanoko managed back with a friendly roll of her eyes, shaking her head as she left and grateful for the advice. With kits in hand, she latched onto her Hi-Nu, grinning nervously. "So....anyone been through one of these exams before?"

Yumi was not talking much after grabbing her kits rather she went straight to work building the providence gundam giving it more attention and care than she did for most. It needed to be perfect something about her idea that she gained after talking to Mr. Gunpla sparked something she long thought dead. An ambition to not only create something to show her own point of view with but win a desire she was now acting upon. It wasnt long before the providence was completed hell to the outside viewer she looked more like a machine or a demon building with the most efficency though adding small touches like removing safety flags and sharpening the points as much as she dared. Before long the providence stood proudly a slight sheen reflecting the lights off the dull colored plastic of the gunpla. "Im heading out" Yumi suddenly said grabbing the providence as she stood towards the doorway towards the exam area her body covering the light creating a large shadow behind her. "Time to show them that anything thing they can do I can do better" she said aloud as she stepped into the arena for the exams

"GUNPLA BATTLE, COMBAT MODE, START UP! MODEL LEVEL DAMAGE SET TO C. PLEASE SET YOUR GP BASE"
"BEGINNING PLAVSKY PARTICLE DISPERSAL"
"FIELD 11- CASTLE"
"PLEASE SET YOUR GUNPLA"
"BATTLE START"

With that news Yumi charged forward the providence flaring to life as it turned from a pure grey to show its dulled gundam colors. Before landing gently on top of a castle roof her eyes peeled for enemies.

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“It seems the exams are starting fellow participants you are allowed to view the battle via the television screens in the room you are currently located in.” A announcement blared into the hopeful’s building lounge as the tv’s suddenly blared to life showing the oddly graceful descent and landing of the providence.

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“Welp rather than telling why dont we watch” Sakuya said leading Alexis and Dani to the area of the labs where teachers and other special guests were allowed.

Cassandra

Cassandra had started tearing down her Lupus Rex to see was salvageable when the announcement about the start of the exam came over the PA system and Yumi's Providence landing started being displayed. She re-positioned her seat and how she was sitting so she could watch the screen and keep working on the Barbatos.

Alexis

Alexis nodded and fallowed Sakuya and Dani into the guest lounge and took a seat, and watched as one of the potential students, piloting a Providence flew into the the battle arena and landed, and waited for the test to start.

Justin continued working on the Xamel, somewhat paying attention to the TV screen after the announcement came through the PA system. He quickly adjusted his seat so that way he could both work on the Xamel and keep an eye on the test, but then remembered something. "I knew I forgot something." he said as he dug into his backpack, "Now where did I put it?" It took him a couple moments, but he pulled out an MP3 player and put one of the earbuds in his left ear, turned the MP3 player on, then went back to work on the Xamel.

"oh cool." Jessica said with the Pale rider sitting before her. She watched the battle going on now with great interest, shaking herself free before walking up to Mr. Gunpla. She had observed him and gotten a somewhat general gist of what he was saying prior to heading up there.

"What is up, Fightah Girl!" he said flexing a bit.

"I need a barbatos first form and a graze." she said to the male.

he would nod, shoot a finger gun at her and click from the side of his mouth. Coming back with the kits, Mr Gunpla slid them across the table. He dropped his glasses and began to speak. "You know, if-" he got to before the girl interrupted him.

"yes, i know, no, i've done it once, tried that, didn't think of it, 15, i like the colors." she said staring at him.

Mr. Gunpla's jaw hung open with a finger into the air, like asking for a second to say something, however, Jessica walked away back to the table and began to put together the first form barbatos she had picked up.

Rumbles would come around the castle as the MS would start picking up movement on sensors. Something was awakening in the countryside and castle grounds. Had to be at least thirty signatures that appeared around the castle.

Yumi stood quiet as they approached not really making a move acting and reacting was two different things and in the most cases the first one to make a move wasn’t always the winner. With that in mind she prepared for the worse prepared to leap or to fight depending on what happened next.

Out of the walls, a bunch of plumas emerged, several dashing at the MS in hopes of one shotting it. Meanwhile, up over the edges of the building came plumas with guns deployed, beginning to lay down suppressive fire against the Suit.

“Damnit this suit isn’t ready just yet to go toe to toe with a hashmal.” Yumi said as she took to the skies the phase shift armor protecting her against the fire from the plumas. The only weapon of sorts she had at the moment that can do some damage was the CIWs. Though she did have to fight a flauros before with her verde buster so she knew how to handle things somewhat. Ejecting the backpack and the shield lightened her load the dragoons and the shield was of no use at the moment. Aiming at a pluma firing at her she flew down creating a large dust cloud from her landing. Before letting loose her CIWs at the plumas kicking away the ones that was closest to her. If you can beat them with what you have old fashioned hand to hand was always an option.

More and more of them began to pile out of the castle’s walls, a horde wave arriving as she tried to fly away. They kept firing with their guns, launching themselves into the air and even making ramps as the little buggers kept their persistence up. Drills whirling, the plumas kept their attack strong despite the kicking and occasional death from the CIWS.

“Annoying little mindless buggers.” Flying back she aimed her beam rifle at the walls of the castle it wasnt going to do crap to the plumas but the walls and the environment it will. Taking aim while flying back she aimed at the nearby wall close enough where the collapse would be able to crush the plumas in the debris. Smirking yumi fired the beam rifle watching s the beam spread apart by the pluma hitting the side and upper wall of the castle causing it to collapse the debris easily crushing a good amount of the plumas as a result. Next was to take out the single bridge leading to the castle.

Yumi got a warning lighting up behind her and it was a massive one. Something that easily outclassed Hashmal in size. Being able to notice it and dodge the massive MA, the thing plowed past her, a blue of grey and purple, impacting and crushing the shield, but leaving the backpack fine, however, Yumi’s ms would be visually impaired from the massive cloud of dust and rubble thrown up, a mono eye lighting up from the massive blobby silhouette.

“That is definately not a hashmal” Yumi mutters to herself as she called her backpack to her it seems she would need all of her dragoons for this one. Going by the size and the mono eye it was zeon make. Which meant I fields and possible funnels. It also meant her shield/beam saber was a no go being vaporized in the blast. “Still in the words of Rau Le Creuset I'll give it a try. Anything that man can do, I'm sure I can do just as well.” With that said Yumi let out a smirk sending out the dragoons. “You’re something that shouldn’t have been allowed to exist now say goodbye!” Yumi exclaimed firing her Judicium beam rifle into the dust cloud as the backpack settled itself once more on the back of the providence.

The beams arced into the unit, but were all bent around it in the form of a bubble as they scattered into the countryside the castle was situated in. A few steps forwards and Yumi finally saw her opponent. Great Zeong.



The machine’s mouth split open and unleashed a mega particle beam out of it, dropping the i shields temporarily as the MA unleashed its attack. Meanwhile, the arms split off and chased the dragoons to keep them busy while the main unit was less defended. It still had the massive binders to protect the core unit, so it’d be safe for now

“A great zeong” Yumi muttered a near insane grin spread across her face her body leaned forward one hand controlling the dragoons she set off as she charged forward having dodged the the large beam it shot. Firing multiple shot with the judicium beam rifle and releasing the four small dragoons she kept firing as she moved using the others to keep the arms busy. T still had the binders so they had to go with the small dragoons she angled them taking shots at the binders while she kept the beam rifle steady firing at the main body before she aimed two of the large dragoons one at each arm and fired.

The machine could read this setup attack thanks to Sakuya’s new a.i. Improvements and the entire machine split apart. Upper torso from the the head and lower body. The arms still connected to the torso via the cables as she soon had five opponents now. The head began to buzze the girl as she had missed her shots, small cannons in it strafing her as it readied another mega blast. The torso began to charge an attack as well, ifields up, but the solid linkings of the arms allowing them to continue to dance with this as they dodged and fought the dragoons, using multiple predictive algorithms to fire where they were expected to be.

Seeing as it was smarter than expected she pedaled back and recalled the dragoons save for the two large ones. Taking direct control of the two as she started to fire at the arms it was smart predicting the obvious paths on which it might take though with her taking direct control she could start doing more crazy patterns and unexpected things that it was having time to predict and react. “Lets dance shall we?” Yumi said her insane grin still on her face as she started to dance around letting out small shot at the small dragoons acting as beam cables as she aimed it at the cables connecting the arms to the torso.

One of the cables to the left arms was injured, meaning it retracted back to the torso, the other did as well for safety. The several mini units fought off against the dragoons and the MS itself. Dancing back and forth, the two units clashed, the Great Zeong combining and splitting itself apart on the fly. Over the course of the battle, it pushed harder and harder, eventually starting to consistently wear down the providence. Just as it was about to deliver a critical blow, it stopped. “Match Over.” the robotic voice said.

Yumi smiled as she stepped off the arena grabbing the providence along with her she knew now what needed to be done. She watched as a assistant walked forward handing her a slip saying that once the exams was over for everyone to turn in the slip and they would announce the winner. Slipping it inside her pocket Yumi walked off back into the room with everyone else.

“So what you think of my child” Sakuya said as she looked at the battle that happened that was its lowest setting the basics of the basics. “The battle was on its lowest setting as you saw it saw and countered the strategy with more work and data I imagine it could provide equal strength to former champions” She continued pride in her voice she wasn’t great at these things like Niels or Dani but this this was child her magnum opus it was the greatest of her achievements.

Alexis

Alexis watched the fight between at first, the Pluma and then a supped up Zeong and the Providence Gundam. The Girl piloting the Gundam, in Alexis's mind did an admirable job against the Zeong, but felt she would have done better had she been more aggressive. At least until Sakuya asked her what she thought of 'her baby', which she figured meant the AI Sakuya had been talking about earlier, this cause Alexis to reassess the pilot of the Provenience a bit more favorably for having to deal with a 'reactive AI' that was learning as the fight went on.

"So the Pluma and Zeong was running on that AI of yours?" Alexis said. "I'll get back to you on that, after I've seen more of it."

Cassandra

Cassandra watched the battle unfold, taking note of the Pluma. The Zeong was interesting as well. Yumi fought well, enough so that when Yumi returned to the table, she stopped working on the repairs to Rex and grabbed her Full Cloth and headed toward the Battle System.

Alexis

Alexis watched as Cassandra made her way to the Battle System. "Well, I guess we'll get to see who's 'baby' is tougher" Alexis snarked, as Cassandra placed her GP Base and Gunpla and got ready to battle.

Cassandra

"GUNPLA BATTLE, COMBAT MODE, START UP! MODEL LEVEL DAMAGE SET TO C. PLEASE SET YOUR GP BASE"
"BEGINNING PLAVSKY PARTICLE DISPERSAL"
"FIELD 10 - CAVERN"
"PLEASE SET YOUR GUNPLA"
"BATTLE START"

Cassandra set the Full Cloth and GP base in their respective places and wordless launched into the battle field, flying for a few moments before stopping and just hovering, waiting for something to show up.

Slowly circular discs crept up the surface of the large geometric shapes that formed the the closed cavern they were in the spinning of the circular saws slowed down so the noise they were making to a minimum

For a brief moment, the sensors lit up with several contacts, then quickly went silent again. Which told her, ether stealth units, which is highly unlikely since almost all stealth MS where some kind of special build, and with the last fight to go off of she was pretty sure she'd be dealing with something like a Pluma. Which meant what ever she was dealing with was using the terrain to hide them selves. 'I frigen hate fights like this ..' she thought to her self as she scanned around. her first instinct was to simply start blasting with the Peacock Smasher, and remove anywhere to hide, but she also knew this field, or rather one like it. Careless blasting like that could bring the whole cave down on top of her, and she doubted she could just blow a hole in the roof and force a change of field, though she didn't rule that out completely as an option. For now though, she held the Muramasa Blaster in 'gun' mode, lit the Beam Zanber, and took aim at a near by rock where she'd confirmed a contact. Even if it wasn't there, doing nothing wasn't getting her anywhere.

They slowly crept up using the formations to their advantage from all directions singally converging onto the fullcloth's location. They kept up a slow and steady pace as more and more crawled out of nowhere like their namesakes they were multiplying at a alarming rate. Before long few of them lept up their circular saws spinning at full speed firing the laser torches at the suit.

Cassandra activated the Full Cloths I-Field and let the beam weapons just bend around her suit as she proceeded to light up every enemy, something called a 'Bug' she saw with the Muramasa Blaster, Machine Vulcans and Machine Cannons, cutting down the odd one with the Beam Zanber that lunged at her to get through the I-Field. For a moment anyway, it be came very clear, very quickly that just sitting there was not going to do her any good. So as she fired on the Bugs she moved away from where she was, while looking for some place she could lure them, a bottle neck of some kind so she could wipe them all out at once.

Though she flew off it did little as the numbers were to great to really get safe area. As some flew up from underground landing solid hits on the back of the suit with the circular saws along their bodies before falling down. It continued like this for awhile bugs jumping up and attacking before falling back down again sometimes landing hits sometimes not. Though it was clear the suit needed to to think fast as at this rate they would quickly overun her with their sheer numbers

"Fine then ... Plan B" She said to her self, rolling again to throw another bug off, and using this roll to hide the fact she was changing from the Muramasa Blaster to the Peacock Smasher. She fended the Bugs off just long enough for the Peacock Smasher to get to full power. "Hate Bugs" She said before pointing one of the single most power guns in the Gundam cannon at the celling and fired it's full fury into it. With the hope of blowing a hole in it to both destroy the Bugs, and get away from them.

"FIELD CHANGE"

Was announced as the scene changed briefly as the rocks caved in by the nine shots from the peacock smasher damaging all the suits in the process and getting rid of a large amount of bugs in the process. Leaving behind a ruined cave but also revealing a large body of water that was previously hidden by the walls of the cavern. Still as the bugs was destroyed the child bugs was released each of them leaping over the remaining bugs and landing and sticking onto the crossbones left leg before trying to detonate.

Cassandra, naturally, kicked at, and tried kicking away the smaller Bugs, as well as shooting at them before they got close enough for her to need to kick at them, only slashing at them with the Beam Zanber, even going so far as to 'tactically purge' the heavly damaged 'metal cloak' and the damaged left skull/I-Field generator, letting that explode and take out a few more, while moving away from what was left of the Bugs.

While the kicking managed to get a few of the child bugs off some managed to stay and detonated lightly damaging the left leg. Though as the cloak was falling a large mega particle beam tore into the sky from the water damaging the bugs from the blast as it was headed straight for the crossbone

Cassandra, very quickly rerouted as much power as she could to the single I-Field generator, leaving only enough power to stay air born and as a back up plan, light up both Beam Markers in 'shield mode' to further bolster her defenses incase the single I-Field generator wasn't enough.

The large mega particle beam punched into the suit a large amount getting diverted by the shields and the I Field breaking through the shields before it stopped. As the beam died down a gleaming red dome surfaced from the water before it revealed a long stretching neck and multiple bits was released. Slowly the shamblo surfaced revealing itself in all its glory as it slowly crawled onto the ground and out of the water. As it did so two smaller beams shot out at a wide angle quickly closing on the suit. Though it was not done as the two beams was closing one of the arms reached out to try and grab the suit as wel hoping to drag it down onto its level.

Cassandra cursed under her breath as the Shamblo revealed it self and continued its assault on her damaged suit. With two beams baring down on her, and the claw reaching up for her. Cassandra choose to dive at the Claw, with the full intent of cleaving it from the Mobile Armor with the Beam Zanber, figuring is she had any chance of winning at all she would need to limit the Mobile Armors options, make it rely on a weapon she could avoid and cripple before she moved in for the kill.

As the crossbone started its dive the reflector bits opened up creating a large barrier protecting the shamblo as it started to charge up its mega particle beam

Cassandra cast the Beam Zanber aside "lets play chicken then" she grinned, swapping the Peacock Smasher to her right hand, using the left to put up the shield, gambling on the shield holding long enough for the Peacock Smasher to do its job, and she waited only until the barrier started to move to once more unleash the full fury on the weapon on her target.
As the reflector bits let down and the Shamblo released its mega particle beam a announcement stopped everything quickly putting the game of chicken on hold "OVER THE TIME LIMIT" was said as the plavsky particles started to lower causing the crossbone to lightly fall onto the stage.

Cassandra sighed, and was frowning slightly as she collected her Gunpla. She REALLY hated timers on battles, much like her mother. Just like Yumi, she was met by a member of the staff, and handed a slip of paper, then was told to turn it in after the exam. From there she made her way back to her table and sat down. "If I'd had a few more seconds, I'd have won." she mused to her self, as she started inspecting the Crossbone to see how much attention it would need.

Alexis

Alexis watch Cassandra's battle more closely the she'd watched the prior fight, you could tell from the look in her eyes, and then annoyance as the fight ended due to the time limit. Again. "A few more seconds and it'd have been over regardless ... yesh, stupid timers ruining things." she said as Cassandra walked back to her table, clearly of the mind set her daughter would have come out on top in the end. "Though, take that little display as a bit of a warning, you'll still be having to deal with 'my crazy', so have fun with that." Alexis snarked patting both Sakuya and Dani on the shoulders. "Still, so far, I'm not impressed. I'm sure it's set nice and low due to these fight being entrance exams, but Mobile Armors and the Gundam equivalent of low level trash mobs? Not exactly flattering for a first impression. I wanna see it in control of a Mobile Suit, cause I know you wouldn't so proud of your AI with those kinda of performances."

"Twas a good match" Yumi said as she saw Cassandra sit down and start looking at the crossbone. "If the timer did not end when it did I do believe you would have won. Though for my match with how it went I had a plan but it would have taken a bit longer." Yumi stated a bit put out with how her match turned out she had a plan but it was hard to put into action though it did give her ideas and plans for later. "Still what was your take on the battle?" She asked once more looking at Cassandra as she looked at the Providence she needed to reinforce the armor of the gunpla itself not to mention adding a few things here and there. Either way she supposed that as things were she found her main problem the providence lacked true close range options that meant that without the shield she had to rely heavily on the dragoons and the judicium beam rifle. Which needed to change having everything useful on one shield was asking for trouble similar to the blitz in that matter she supposed.

"So Alexis I suppose I should thank you for the fact I managed to get new data for the system. Even if she pulled something only you would probably do. Out idiot the smart A.I that something I would have never thought of." Sakuya stated with a droll tone as she wrote down her observations and what needed to be done. "Also for your information beyond the students who are taking the exams their was only one person who tested the system former world champ and off and on rival of the current Meijin Sei Iori. He was also sadly the one who ended up naming the system." Sakuya stated her eyes giving a small glare at Alexis saying "It had to be trash mobs and mobile armor to give the student a sense of unease and urgency apparently. My original idea was apparently to much which was bringing up former champion data and have them fight against that. Due to being to hard on the student and not totally being a fair test." Sakuya stated with a huff it was her project it was her potential class she should have been able to choose the exam in her opinion.

“I guess I’m up next.” Justin said as he finished up the Xamel and then proceeded to the Battle System, readying himself for whatever may lay before him in battle.

"GUNPLA BATTLE, COMBAT MODE, START UP! MODEL LEVEL DAMAGE SET TO C. PLEASE SET YOUR GP BASE"
"BEGINNING PLAVSKY PARTICLE DISPERSAL"
"FIELD 2 - DESERT"
"PLEASE SET YOUR GUNPLA"
"BATTLE START"

As soon as the battle began, the Xamel dropped onto the battlefield, coming to rest above the surface thanks to the hoverjet system in its legs and skirt armor. Justin gave a slight grin as he slid the other earbud from his MP3 player into his ear and turned up the music. “Guess it’s time for me to fight.” he said as ran a quick check of the systems.

Slowly they climbed out of the sand that was previously burying them Large four clawed fingers shooting out slowly dragging their bodies out of the desert. The blowing sand hiding their features and their sound as they slowly crawled up. One by one quickly became two by two and so forth till their numbers seemed to dwarf the expanse only the mountain in the distance was clear as the sand blown by the winds covered their slow and steady march.

After completing the systems check, Justin began moving the Xamel forward cautiously. At the same time, he brought the sensors up to their maximum range and began carefully scanning the terrain in front of and all around his Gunpla in an attempt to locate whatever foes he may be facing.

With a sudden rush a few charged forward at great speed while others in the back lifted up the large arms and started firing the machine cannons and the gatling guns located on their body. At the Xamel. All the while the others were charging forward set on attacking the xamel with their claws. Though while this was done others that remained under ground slowly crept forward before launching their arms and started the slow process of dragging the suit downwards.

The moment that his Xamel got grabbed by the enemy suits, Justin began to formulate a plan. He began rapidly increasing the power to the Xamel’s hoverjets and thrusters in an attempt to drag his assailants out of the sand and use them as impromptu flails against the charging Hygoggs, while priming the weapons systems on the Xamel to greet the remaining suits with a wall of ordinance. The massive 680mm gun-cannon’s barrel swung up from the travel lock and locked into ready position. On his targeting screen, he could see 3 suits firing at him from afar while 2 charged. “What better way to deal with the three in back than with a really big gun.” he said as the massive main gun lowered itself down to a near-horizontal position, then fired. The air of the battlefield was split by the cannon’s roar as one of the 680mm shells screamed at the position of the three firing Hygoggs. At the same time, the seven-barreled 20mm vulcan gun turret spun up and began spitting death at the two charging Hygoggs in an attempt to either slow them down or knock them down by hitting legs or even hitting the cockpit.

Unable to move in time the Hygoggs ended up hitting each other though as the Xamel was firing away upon the Hygoggs a large sound echoed across the field as a large mega particle cannon was fired towards its direction getting rid of the Hygoggs in one swoop as they were eradicated by the beam cannon.

“What the!” Justin nearly shouted as the mega particle beam came barreling at him, “Gottamovegottamovegottamove.” Reacting quickly, he dumped even more power into the hoverjets and thrusters, gaining more altitude and starting to move back far enough that it would be the Hygoggs getting vaporized instead of his Xamel. The moment the beam had passed, Justin rapidly decreased altitude back down to the point where he was hovering before. As soon as the Xamel was hovering a short ways from the ground, Justin elevated the barrel of the 680mm gun-cannon to the highest possible elevation it would be able to hit the Grand Zam from, then set a plan into action. Without even saying anything, he fired a round out of the cannon while firing the first salvo of missiles out of the 8-round missile launcher. Within moments, he had lowered the cannon’s elevation slightly and fired again, punctuated by another salvo of missiles. He then repeated the process three more times, lowering the cannon’s elevation, firing it, then firing the missile launcher salvo. The way he had fired all five 680mm rounds, they’d all land at the same time on the same spot. Once the salvo was done, Justin immediately began moving the Xamel to try to get away from the mega particle cannon’s firing arc, firing more salvos from the missile launcher in order to further tie up and other weapons it could have.

With nary a response it met fire with fire as the anti aircraft machine guns fired at the missiles aiming at it while others was met with its own missiles. Though while this was happening it was charging up is mega particle guns and launched them towards the Xamel. Before creating a second barrage of missiles to meet up with more of the incoming fire.

Seeing the second barrage of fire headed his way and the fact that his first barrage against it wasn’t enough annoyed the Canadian. “Alright then.” he said as he dumped power into his thrusters to avoid the MPB cannons and missiles while using his 20mm vulcan turret to shoot down missiles that he couldn’t avoid, “Let’s try this again.” He quickly had the autoloader reload the 8-round missile launcher’s magazines, then went for another attack. This time, he aimed the cannon’s barrel right for the center of the Grand Zam’s body and began firing. The 680mm gun-cannon’s roar split the air five more times as a series of shells went screaming at the Mobile Armor, punctuated by a series of missile salvos from the 8-round launcher. With the barrage done, Justin immediately began to move, trying to throw off the aim of the Grand Zam.

Being unable but to take the brunt of the hit the grand zam staggered but quickly righted itself before launching its large mega particle beam cannon hitting Xamel but unable to do much beyond hitting the bottom of the artillery piece. With did that it prepared once to fire it’s mega particle guns.

A display began beeping a Justin, showing what the particle beam hit had done to his suit. “Hoverjets are damaged, eh?.” he said as his face took on a more serious expression, “Well, time to return the favor.” As the Xamel skimmed just barely off the ground, Justin decided to try a new trick. He strafed sideways at maximum speed, putting another salvo of five shells and 40 missiles into the center of the Grand Zam, followed by aiming the Xamel’s 680mm gun cannon at the Large Mega Particle Cannon’s barrel and firing three shells at it.

Though the shells landed hits it did little in the overall damage of the barrel of the cannon leaving it scorched maybe but it was still able to fire. However due to the focus at the large mega particle cannon’s barrel. It managed to fire off it’s mega particle guns at the Xamel.

“BATTLE END OVER THE TIME LIMIT”

“Phew.” Justin said as he turned off his MP3 player, collected the Xamel, and stepped away from the arena, “That was really close. I just hope it was enough for me to pass. At the same time, I should considering customizing my Xamel to improve its battle performance.” Just like the others a member of the staff met him on his way, handed him a slip of paper and let him know to turn it in after the exam was done. Once that was done, he made his way back to the table he had been working on the Xamel at, a slightly serious expression on his face from having been in such an intense battle.

"I'm next, eh? Wasn't a bad idea to wait and see what everyone else had to deal with...Why did this school invite me again?" Kanoko mentioned nervously. Everyone else had some experience with gunpla battling, and the two prodigies completely ripped through their tests, even if they didn't quite succeed in the end. Even Justin's Xamel did incredibly well, making her anxious as she made her way towards the hex arena. "Well...wish me luck!"

Kanoko's Exam

"GUNPLA BATTLE, COMBAT MODE, START UP! MODEL LEVEL DAMAGE SET TO C. PLEASE SET YOUR GP BASE"
"BEGINNING PLAVSKY PARTICLE DISPERSAL"
"FIELD 7 - COLONY"
"PLEASE SET YOUR GUNPLA"
"BATTLE START"

“Kanoko Tanegashi, sortieing in the Hi-Nu Gundam!” She announced before igniting her unit’s boosters, flying out of the gate. Her eyes were wide with awe as her Gundam entered the habitat area of the Anaheim Electronics space colony, easily identifiable from Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn. Blinking a little, she kept her hands ready, the mobile suit’s head panning around. “Alright...so what do you have in store for me?”

Things were very quiet. There was little to no life in the dark colony. Only the blinking of some lights were about and a couple of the clouds drifting in the open space of the colony. Something seemed erie and off about the colony’s quietness.

The Hi-Nu drifted a bit further in, and she quickly dropped the altitude to near-building level. A quick run of her sensors didn’t show much, but that didn’t deter her. Still, the empty colony made her shudder a little, thinking back on some of the other series she had seen. She dropped the RX-93 down to the streets. It was cramped, but more defensible so long as she kept her guard up.

It wasn’t a long time before the girl triggered something, a trap exploding on her right, making the large building that once was a home to someone, exploding out with tremendous force. This trip mine along with the apparent lack of enemy ms showing that it was a definite spec ops team of some sort.

“Gh!” Kanoko’s breath caught as she quickly brought up her shield, trying to boost enough to get out of the way. Unfortunately for her, it didn’t pan out quite as well as she expected; huge chunks of rebar and superstructure pounded against the shield and sent her staggering across the street, nearly smashing into another building. Her sensor suite still didn’t pick up anything, although now that the trap was triggered, she could see the setup used among the ruins. “So the other two get full frontal assaults with a bunch of mooks and a mobile armor, while I deal with a spec-ops unit inside of a space colony? Hooo boy…”

As if waiting for her to finish the line the building she landed in exploded as well triggering the traps within the building. Making it explode causing debris and shrapnel to fly out due to the force of the explosion. Causing the suit to get caught up in the explosion caused by the trap to send her careening into another building.

“Oh balls-!” was all she could get out before the chained eruptions sent her careening through the air, smashing into another residential complex. The suit was damaged, but only minorly; she was currently laying face down on the Hi-Nu’s shield, but unfortunately it had only protected her front from the third impact. The second blast trap had done quite a number on her funnels, as only three were functioning properly and could undock from their charging ports. “Oookay...so the entire town is rigged. I only have three funnels left...it’s enough to produce a funnel shield, unless I can get a fourth one working. But first!” Scrambling to get the RX-93 standing, Kanoko boosted it back onto the streets, checking left and right. “A park? Not ideal but…”

Throttling up, the blue and white mobile suit burned along the street towards the nearest park.

As it was charging forward one of the suits hidden within the building took steady aim with its Long cannon and let loose a burst of three shots all aiming towards the remaining fin funnels on the hi nu. Beyond that two more let out shots trying to force it back into the three incoming shots should it try to dodge them.

Kanoko quickly brought the shield up on her Hi-Nu as she heard the alarms go off, but knew only one thing: she had to protect the remaining funnels. They were the Hi-Nu’s greatest strength. The straighta way she was in was almost devoid of exits on either side. Just as she heard shots rang out across the colony and she detected the faintest hint of their tracers, she put the large shield up again and rapidly changed the booster’s direction, diving into an alleyway just barely large enough for the advanced MS to scrape by without ripping the funnel racks off. She glanced over with her pulse throbbing in her neck, eyes bulging as she maneuvered the Gundam out of the way. “That was way too close…”

She entered an area that looked like an alley loading dock not long after, sequestered between buildings and out of what she could tell was line of sight for her stalkers. The Hi-Nu’s shield was damaged fairly heavily; impact marks scuffed the front, but she counted herself lucky that the missiles didn’t explode. Checking the status of her other weapons systems and mobility, she breathed softly, cracking her knuckles. “Alright then, how about I make some noise instead?”

Before she could do anything a barrage of missiles came raining from above. As one Loto’s came out one firing their long cannons at the damaged hi nu aiming at the shield and some at the back towards the fin funnels. Till before long the suit was surrounded by at least eight lotos each firing their long cannons at the hi nu while a few a bit way back was firing the missiles towards the hi nu but out of the sight from it.

The integrity of the suit was falling quickly as Kanoko felt the piloting station being shaken underneath the vicious onslaught of firepower, the shield close to collapsing despite its initial strength. Gritting her teeth, she thumbed over to the fin funnels, clenching the controls as hard as she could. “Alright then! You asked for it! Deploy!”

A green glow emitted from the Hi-Nu’s eyes before it stood up underneath the withering fire, the remaining fin funnels detaching from their recharging ports and zooming upwards at a high speed. Raising what was left of her shield, Kanoko launched the missiles at the Loto suits in front of her, the explosion enough to blind the mobile suits left in that area. Turning her attention around, she whipped the right forearm of the RX-93 around, the 90mm Gatling peeking out from its casing. “EAT LEAD!”

Spinning the suit around using her boosters, she ripped into the remaining Lotos visible to her with a hailstorm of heavy automatic fire, launching herself into the air not long afterwards. The missile barrages continued, but from on high, Kanoko could detect their launches as the missiles screamed towards her. Keying the funnels again, she had them soar in front of her and form a triangular pinpoint defense shield, using the limited number she had to her advantage. Her vulcan defense guns along with the wrist gatling roared as she destroyed as many of the seekers as she could, eyes tracking the artillery Lotos and locking on. “Gotcha.”

Beaten and scarred, the Hi-Nu raised its hand up before directing the funnels once more, the shield disappearing and Kanoko diving at one of the artillery locations. Reaching for her Gundam’s left forearm, she ripped the saber from its socket and gutted the Lotos next to her, the Gundam’s eyes blazing as it toppled before her. The others were still functional; she had no idea how many of them were left. The funnels blasted two of the other artillery zones, Kanoko attempting to drive them away so she could recoup. “Guerilla warfare is not my thing...they had over sixteen of those damn things! I know they’re not as strong as a full-sized mobile suit, but the exam system is crafty!”

It wasn’t long before a large shaking was heard in the distance the captiol building broke asunder as if a large figure was breaking out of a shell. Than it emerged a large purplish figure emergerd from the building gliding slowly towards the the location of the damaged hi nu. Either way it barreled through building ignoring everything as it slowly made its way towards it destination. Upon arriving it unfurled from its fortress mode and revealed itself in its glory the large gundam shaped figure slowly stood its large shield on its arm snapping together. Before long it stood at it’s full height towering over the building and the hi nu below it.

The rattling stunned her as the entire colony quaked underneath the might of whatever it was rising from the abyss of ruins, its shadow casting over the whole interior and darkening it even further beneath its monolithic figure. She turned around slowly, eyes trailing up its massive stature before the Hi-Nu’s eyes met with the titan’s gaze, her jaw dropping open. “NAAAANI?! WHAT THE HELL IS THAT THING?!”

Without a single warning it did a large sweep with its arm knocking the hi nu while it was off balanced before launching its many beam cannons at it. Seeing the hi nu dazed it ejected arms forming a monumental sized beam sword and started to swing it downward at the dazed suit.

“Gaaaaaah!” Kanoko seethed as the Hi-Nu was subject to a massive barrage of beam cannons which ripped into the colony around the Psyco Gundam Mk 2, trying her best to reorient her Gundam before she could be attacked again by the gargantuan mobile armor. Retrieving the funnels, she quickly activated the shield barrier again, blocking them from directly hitting her unit but failing to save her from- “Agh, dammit!”

The impossibly huge beam sword swept toward her as a towering pillar of megaparticle light, descending upon her like a guillotine. Eyes wide, she quickly tried to draw as much of her mobile suit in under the umbrella of her funnel shield with the remains of her ballistic shield up in an attempt to stave off the attack. “Fuck-!”

A huge explosion rippled at the impact point, collapsing several blocks’ worth of buildings with a thunderous roar as the gigantic beam sword impacted the Hi-Nu’s barely-existent shields. Smoke engulfed the battlefield, suffusing both of the mobile weapons from view momentarily. There was still time as the counter ticked down on her HUD, the only item visible as her console had dimmed horribly in the aftermath. “Gh...wait, the timer’s not down, but I can’t see anything…”

Raising the sword once more it prepared for a downward sweep once again. It was about to swing downward towards the hi nu that was knocked down. Placing part the foot downward in attempt to prevent fleeing. It started once more to swing its beam sword downward.

The Hi-Nu was badly damaged as the dust cleared and she could see the state of her poor mobile suit. It was seconds away from shutting down, its Plavsky particle count dangerously low. She barely had enough to get the unit to move, let alone try and dodge! None of the funnels worked anymore, smashed and overloaded as they were by the assault of the Psyco Gundam. The left arm was gone, the legs crumpled by the mighty steps of the mobile armor. Thumbing through her weapons quickly to see if anything was left, her eyes bulged.

The Beam Rifle the Hi-Nu had was a magnitude lower than the hyper mega launcher, but the one mounted with the RX-93-v2 was known to have the firepower of a battleship’s megaparticle beam cannons. She had enough Plavsky particles left for one shot.

Scrabbling with the good hand, she reached for the weapon just as the Psyco began its execution, raising the massive rifle in defiance. She dumped the remaining Plavsky particles into the weapon, the vents glowing crimson on the sides before the trigger was pulled, unleashing a massive stream of beam energy which illuminated everything around in a crimson glow, just as the mobile armor’s beam sword fell.

“BATTLE END! OVER THE TIME LIMIT!”

Kanoko yelped as she fell backwards, unused to the Gunpla piloting cubicle disappearing quite yet, especially after such an intense moment. Landing on her backside, she wiped the cold sweat that had built up on her forehead, breathing shallowly. “So...that’s a Gunpla battle? Or at least one type? How did they manage against so many?”

Standing up, she noticed the Hi-Nu, dirtied a little but without much heavy damage in comparison to what she saw it go through. She breathed a sigh of relief; nothing a bit of R&R and some cleanup couldn’t fix. Taking the Gunpla off of the stage, she moved back to the group, rubbing the back of her head. “Bad showing, right? Eheh…”

Cassandra

"Thanks" she replied as Justin got up for his turn. "Yeah, another few seconds and the fight would have been over, one way or another, But I'm sure I'd have won as well." She waited a minute or so to reply to Yumi's question though. "Something's screwy with the AI, that's what I think." She said as she watched the Hygoggs and then a Grand Zam fight the Xammel. Then when Kanoko's turn with the way the Loto's where acting. "Yeah, somethings defiantly screwy with the AI. Never seen it set up traps like that before. Or really use cover to hid it self." she said as Kanoko came back.

Alexis

"Sei huh? He still running a custom Strike?" she replied as the fight between the Xammel and the Hygoggs/Grand Zam started. Though the mention of 'former champion data' having been an option on the table, got the strangest reaction from her. "I'd rather you didn't use mine, or rather, not use my data in regards to my Exia. Use the Viper if you want to have some one get mauled by 'me'." She said, watching one fight end and the next begin. "Or I can give you fresh data with Bael. Ether way, I'm forbidding the use of my Exia." she said, the last line carrying almost the same edge to the tone as Sakuya had used when she'd taken a jab at her AI.

"GUNPLA BATTLE, COMBAT MODE, START UP! MODEL LEVEL DAMAGE SET TO C. PLEASE SET YOUR GP BASE"
"BEGINNING PLAVSKY PARTICLE DISPERSAL"
"FIELD 1 - SPACE"
"PLEASE SET YOUR GUNPLA"
"BATTLE START"

Jessica walked up to the field. In her hand was form 1 barbatos, mace in hand. Lack of shoulders, a gauntlet on its side of the left arm. She set the unit down and stretched a bit, placing her base after stretching. “Right, let’s see how badly we can damage you.” she said to her unit, grabbing the command balls with a good bit of vigor.
“Barbatos First form, Jessica, Launch!” she called out, slamming the control balls forwards and launching the unit out of the gate and into space. The unit literally had no other weapons than the mace and it’s limbs. Seemed she had something to prove.

As the barbatos launched nothing was quiet as things stood still suddenly though a large shot was fired as a bazooka fired from a distance. Than as if by one zaku II’s came charging in heat hawks at the ready while two stayed in the back placing supporting fire on the barbatos.

The barbatos was an agile enough machine to allow Jess to roll out of the way of the bazooka shots. “Zaku? That’s it?” she asked, casually batting the zaku with the heat hawks away as the head of the mace was about half a zaku in size and equivalent mass. The torso was wrecked, no doubt about it, and that would count as a pilot kill. She dodged out of the way now and dashed off at the two bazooka wielding zaku’s.

With the destruction of the zaku’s more came at incredible speeds obviously at a better skill level firing the long range rifle at the barbatos while others came in swinging the heat hawks at the barbatos once more. The zaku’s with the long rifle aimed carefully at the exposed inner frame of the suit in question landing a blow on the left shoulder as the one’s with the heat hawks tried aiming for its waist.

The woman’s eyes were that of a fighter’s, monitoring positions, body language and intentions of those around her. The Zaku’s with the long rifle hit her shoulder, thankfully, the frame material being tougher than the bullet and causing little in the way of true damage. Arm was fully operational. She caught the incoming heat hawk by the handle, ripping it out of the zaku’s hand and proceeding to cut the zaku up with it, swinging the mace at the second one coming in. Jessica proceeded to use the tip of the mace to keep the suit stuck to said weapon. Moving it between herself and the firing zakus, she made a makeshift shield out of it, charging the firing zaku’s in order to stop their harassment.

As if embodying everything a zaku was known for one of the ones with the long rifle charged forward tossing the long rifle aside brandishing its heathawk in a singular charge at the enemy. In it suicidal charge the other one seemingly of more sense withdrew with incredible speed. Before Arriving at a different spot on the side of the barbatos and started to release a multitude of shots at the the exposed left shoulder once more.

Jess growled now, spinning and using the pile driver in the mace head to pierce the nuclear core of the zaku she had as a shield. The girl kicked the zaku off her mace and into the enemy, Boosting away now, the woman let the detonation consume both suits. Boosting towards the retreating suit, the left hand shoulder was showing some signs of wear now. “Fucking hell.” cursed the girl, reaching the rather antique zaku in good time with her even older but better suit. Swinging the mace down, she crushed the backpack and damaged the reactor, flying off from the suit now.

Seemingly watching the fall of the comrades was a zaku in the far back that gleamed red under the stars. Seeing as the others was gone it charged forward weaving in and out of the asteroids around a boa qu. Hefting its long rifle it took careful aim before letting loose three consecutive shots aimed at the head, the shoulder, and the waist section. Before heading back into the asteroid field for minor protection.

Jess seemed to be getting used to these accursed long rifles. Holding the mace sideways, she had some competency blocking the incoming shots, using the massive hunk of metal as a shield. Taking the opportunity to pursue the suit that began attacking her, she pushed into the asteroid field, dancing around them as it seemed like the suit was more home to the adverse conditions instead of the vast openness of space.

Seeing as the suit was out of place per say the red zaku grabbed its bazooka and let loose a veritable barrage of shots emptying it in one go. Before tossing that towards the suit and with careful aim shooting it causing it to explode. Before heading back once more towards a boa qu. Potentially leading it on a wild goose chase.

The woman stopped. She merely moved the gundam into a shadow on an asteroid, hiding it from sight. She decided to sit tight now, keeping her eyes on the scanners.

As things was settling into a quiet state a multiple large beams fired at th4e asteroid field eradicating a large amount of it leaving behind small debris and revealing the hidden suit. With the suit revealed large tentacle like rods swarmed out and grabbed its chainsaw tips heating up as it pulled the barbatos to the rafflesia. The chainsaw tips went to work slowly cutting their way to the inner frame of the leg as a few more popped up and grabbed onto the mace of the barbatos and pulled it away from the suit.

The suit grabbed the tentacle and ripped it off the leg, burning away from the MA as the machine shuddered and shook. “Barbatos seems happy today. Since i can’t exactly run or hide from this, lets see what you have in your most raw form barbatos. Hundreds of years in a basement can’t dull a demon’s soul. Let’s forge something new!” Cried out Jessica. The eyes of barbatos turned red and the control area tinted a blue purple color. The woman began to display martial talents, fighting off the tentacles in hand to hand, but clearly struggling with how high the suit’s performance had become, reacting late to the hyper fast movements. Seemed that someone modeled in the anti MA bonus.
It continued its relentless assault as it tried to assault the gundam something that was being met with equal part success and failure. It landed hits but at times some was destroyed it was being eventually it came to the strategy that it can overwhelm the suit with numbers as more of the tentacles came out easily numberings in the sixties it was obvious to see that it was starting to wear on the suit it could predict but couldn’t react fast enough. It eventually came to the point where it managed to lop the foot of the gundam off.

The barbatos seemed to only get more angry at this. It slashed through the tentacles, coming down with an arm and pushing hard as she could inwards towards the mobile armor, showing little signs of caring about the damage. Grabbing the base of a petal, the gundam began pulling hard and attempted to remove it.
Seeing as it was being attacked by trying to rip its petal off its close up the petals and sped off trying to knock the suit off with quick turns and rolls anything it could do to shake the suit off its petal. Arriving in front of A boa qu it waited stopped than as if on signal the single red zaku started to release a barrage of shots at the barbatos with its long rifle.

The barbatos flipped off the flowerma, moving behind it to avoid the long rifle fire and letting the flower take the shots. Barbatos meanwhile came from behind and delivered a dive kick to the petal, damaging its hinge now. The barbatos spun around and grabbed hold of the edge of the petal, using the boosters, she tore it off and chucked the petal at the red suit now, boosting for defensive evasion.

Seeing as defense didn’t work the rafflesia went onto full frontal attacking it with its tentacles while cornering it for the red zaku could take pot shots with the long rifle. Eventually it managed to get the gundam to the back of aboa qu and quickly went to trapping it in the area with the tentacles while the zaku stood on top of the raflessia and with careful aim took a single shot at the waist joint of the barbatos.

The barbatos was thrown into Aboa qu, seeing the red mobile suit lining up for the shot, she ejected her gauntlet, the piece of metal exploding infront of barbatos into a pink could. She thrust off into an access hatch that was too small for the large MA to chase her into, deciding to get some distance.

With the suit going into a boa qu the red zaku left its former perch and backed away as the raflessia tilted and aimed all of its cannons into a single beam and let loose onto the floating fortress tearing a large hole into it as it started to cause explosions in still intact parts the mobile suit had two choice flee towards the rear and bunker down for the debris or try to escape.

The woman grunted as an explosion took out the remainder of the leg that lost a foot. She decided to be stealthy now as she drifted away with a chunk of base as a shield. Waiting till they were distracted, the suit made a dash for the mace that was left floating. She grabbed it and made a full burn, intending to end the ma.


The rafflessia stood there as it waiting while the zaku was following a patrol pattern in case the mobile suit escape. It wasn’t long before it became clear that it wasn’t there and the rafflessia left in search of the escaped gundam using the tentacles to cut down the debris that was littering the field. All the while the zaku came and stayed close to the it in case a sneak attack was going to happen.

Barbatos dove down on it from the top. It was moving too fast for much to be done as the momentum carried it. The notice would come too late, barbatos dove and impaled the top, the cockpit of the mobile armor. The suit hadn’t cleanly escaped either, the remaining bits the tentacles didnt tear off on the way down were the right arm holding the mace, the torso backpack and head, eye still red as the MA began to end.

“MATCH END.”

Jess was panting hard. Something wasn’t right though. A bloody nose was the first sign of something wrong, second thing was the fact her control booth was purple. A mode rarely seen, but a sign of a safety failsafe. When that disappeared, it was clear something had gone wrong or atleast different, because despite the damage setting, her gunpla was on the ground before her in pieces. Arm, head and torso were all that remained of the barbatos. “Damn…” she said, grabbing him and walking off stage. A medic ran out to greet her and the girl was confused. She didn’t even realize she had a bleed. Wiping it up and a quick lookover, she went back to the table. “Damn intense.."

Kanoko just stared at the massive battle which had just occurred, and the weirdness that had engulfed Jess's match. The Gunpla's movements were savage and visceral, nearly throwing the pilot around in the holographic cubicle. Not only that, but the system itself was acting far more violent than normal, the mobile armor and Char's Zaku ripping at the Gunpla in a way that surpassed the damage her own Hi-Nu had received.

As the match ended with Jess claiming the one mobile armor victory, Kanoko stared at her as she descended from the exam platform, joining the medic as he rushed over to check on the Gunpla fighter. "Hey, are you okay? That's not normal for this sort of thing, is it? It's...just like Mikazuki..."

Keeping out of the medic's way while he attempted to administer some aid, the carrot-top put her arm around Jess' shoulder, starting to steer her towards a seat. "C'mon, sit down. Get some water and relax."

Yumi remained quiet as she watched the events somehow things got a bit more intense than what was planned but it was not the first time she seen this having seen some things similar before. Still she supposed it was a fail safe failure but so far nothing really seemed odd or but perhaps it was their first time seeing it or using it. Still she seen it and somewhat experienced it her one time with it when she used it by accident during a match was something

Sakuya seeing the match was livid beyond so in fact someone messed with her system her brainchild and she was not going to let it slide. "Voice control alpha six three six last known person to activate system repeat loop and playback." She stated out loud as she jumped out the booth and began walking to the stage. "Readings are normal but something odd happened best to seal the system back into its blackbox till I figure things out." She muttered once more the system was not acting normal way my viscous than it should have that and what exactly caused the anti MA system to activate so suddenly? She took into account of the IBO gundams and shut the thing down from activating. Something changed it automatically not someone. Sakuya muttered quietly to herself as she looked at the system still she supposed it was up to her to forcefully shut it down with a battle of sorts. "Alexis come over here I need ya help real quick." Sakuya called as she tossed her lab coat off watching it fly from the force of the throw onto the large rock that was nearby. "Ok lets get serious we all know im speaking nonsense so lets just fight already" She said pulling out a customized flauros its white paint gleaming in the artifical light.

Cassandra

Cassandra didn't bat an eye at how the fight unfolded. She knew how Barbatos could get around a Mobile Armor having experienced it first hand what she found odd was every one elses reaction to it. Had they not seen a Gundam Frame in 'high gear' before? Did they not know how close the Gundam Frames really are to their anime counter parts, which in turn can make them a bit unruly.

Cassandra waited till Jess was back before speaking up. "You'll get used to it, the first few times are always rough, but just like the show, you'll get used to it." She said, continuing the repairs of her own Barbatos.

Alexis

"There's no real mystery Sakuya. It's a Gundam Frame, they tend react like that around Mobile Armors." Alexis said as she followed Sakuya, having heard her mutterings. "And if what Cassandra said is true, and I think it is given my own experience with Bael. They did 'to good a job' translating them from the show to the system. Cassandra has said a few times how she feels like there's 'something there' when piloting Rex. I have felt something similar with Bael, but not to the degree Cassandra has with Rex. So if I had to guess based on that. Barbatos didn't like being restrained, and ignored what you want in favor of what it wanted." Alexis added as she followed.

"Though if you want to fight." Alexis started, smirking "I guess we can show these kids what real battle looks like."

Dani smiled as she began to hit some buttons and send some commands for the system. "come on girls, leaving me out of this? got some kind of fear of god or something?" asked the woman now, smirking as she definitely had some kind of god complex, given the kind of controls she had developed, the woman was in a position to brag. Walking up to the stage, she set a base. "No limits?" suggested the woman.

Jess was thankful for the assistance. "Yeah... that felt good. Most intense feeling i've ever had... if this is professional gunpla battling, i think i'm an addict!" responded the girl, a smile on her face as she held a tissue up to it. "But god, barbatos... you're perfect." said the girl, looking at the remains and already started to snap apart the grazy, mind crazy with the idea of running custom parts for him. However, this was short lived as she noticed the battle system booting. "oh... the staff are gonna fight." she pointed.

Kanoko looked at Jess and Barbatos worriedly before her attention snapped to Cassandra, frowning a bit. "Oh, you cannot be serious. THIS shouldn't be normal for anyone! Even if the Battle System is as close to realizing the shows as possible and the abilities, that's just absurd actually sacrificing your health for a single battle! Geez, what kind of damage do you think it could do, permanent brain damage? Even I know not to push myself too much..."

Letting out an exasperated sigh, she looked to where Jess was pointing, watching as three staff members strode up to the battle arena. Something was familiar about them as their faces came to light, Kanoko narrowing her eyes a little to get a good glimpse before they jolted open. "No, it can't be!"

Standing up, the weightlifter stared at the three staff, who were looking very familiar now. "Hey! You three were the top runners in that Gunpla Battle Race I participated in! I came in fourth behind you! Don't tell me that you're running this place, you absurd battle monsters!"