It was a few days and despite all the hectic things that was going on and a students outburst not once but multiple times caused a few moments of delaying the actual classes for a bit. In the meantime to clear up any sorts of misunderstandings that might happen a pamphlet and book was prepared for the accepted students explaining things in depth. Doubly since Kanoko was making a large fuss on what was generally accepted now as a risk that can occur with the sport. With that said everyone was gathered at empty classroom in which they were told to go to.

Yumi ignored people as they were seated in the classroom with some dealing around she was able to exchange her blitz gundam for something new along purchasing a full city. Which was standing in front of her right now completed and ready for battle later when she had time she had a few ideas on how to beef up the IBO suit. Still looking at it she couldn't wait to try it out once more she tried a IBO kit once but was unable to really work with it as a whole due to her limited time with it. Still this case was different she would be able to do what she wanted with it and finally get a full use of what to do with the suit itself.

The delay in class start was to Cassandra's benefit. It gave her time to finish repairing her Barbatos, and give her Crossbone a better look over and give it a bit of a touch up. She also saw her mother off as Alexis needed to get back state side to get back to her shop. Alexis bid her daughter, Sakuya and Dani good bye for now, telling them to keep in touch via video chat or Email, there was some talk of having Alexis stay on, but it was short lived, Alexis really felt her place was in her own shop, teaching others what she knows and not be limited to those that had already proven them selves in some way or another, sighting the look on some of her students faces when they got their first win, or even seeing a kit they built come to life for the first time as a big part of the reason why she felt the way she does.

Cassandra sat in class, waiting for it start. She did watch as others came in and sat down, but really she was trying to think of away to upgrade her kit, Alexis having given her some advice before she left, but she still wasn't sure what to do past that she needed to do something.

The Hi-Nu Gundam she brought in with her had been cleaned, buffed, and then repainted with her own custom colors, maroon with bone white as the majority of the suit's complement and a light shade of gray for highlights. She hadn't done much else; there hadn't been any time, and even with the tools she had brought, there was nothing more that could be done other than some extra etching and some parts refining.

A pamphlet explaining the finer points of gunpla battling was on her desk, and although she was loathe to admit it, such incidents that Jessica had gone through were commonplace, though not particularly dangerous. Kanoko knew that her own sport of weightlifting had its share of injuries and several dangerous accidents that were near lethal, so in comparison gunpla battles were relatively safe.

Placing the Hi-Nu on the desk, she sighed a little, leaning back and folding her arms across her chest. "Well, I guess it's just something I'm gonna have to push through..."

Jess entered the classroom (more like some Victorian surgery observation room, but it was useful for everyone to look at the arena) and looked around now. Spotting Kanoko, the girl walked up to join her friend. The care she had shown jess had gotten through to her and earned her trust and loyalty. "Nice hi-nu." said Jess to her friend, setting her pale rider on the desk infront of her. It had its own custom paint as well, but while leaving the suit there. Now she worked on Barbato's custom form. This suit was speaking to her, she had a story to tell with it and the start was with these graze repairs to a suit that wasn't barbatos.

Justin entered the classroom shortly after Jess did. He spotted Kanoko and Jess and went to sit nearby, but not too close by. He had finished cleaning up the Xamel after its first fight and had just recently been finishing up the Cherudim SAGA and GP02A MLRS/Beam Bazooka type kits. He didn't say much because his mind was focusing in on customizations for his Gunpla.

"Alright, so I'm thinking a close combat weapon or two, a beam machine gun, missile packs for the legs and other shoulder, and some kinda heavy beam weapon for the shoulder that doesn't carry the cannon on the Xamel." he thought, "For the GP02, maybe some kinda high-powered melee weapon, a weapon rack to hold one of the front pieces for the bazooka, some kinda ranged weapon to handle if I'm unable to use the beam bazooka or MLRS tubes, and the standard GP02's bazooka front piece. Finally, a set of bayonets and backup ballistic weapon should be good for the Cherudim SAGA's main weapons, though I need to figure out more possible customizations for it, alongside potentially getting myself some more Gunpla."

Sakuya sighed as she walked in looking at the class it seems they were already on the start of customizing one starting to replace the barbatos with graze parts, one had painted their hi-nu, Finally one had made a lot of minor changes to a full city she could see clearly the minor modifications while keeping its appearance relatively the same. She could applaud their eagerness they clear saw that the rules didnt outright deny customization after the testing round and went with it. As she walked to the center area due to the design of the classroom everyone's view was centered on her. She went to the podium and placed her black clipboard done. "So class I see you taken no breaks to start customization. Such eagerness is always good to see you saw what you had and went to adding your own touches or in some cases saw what was wrong and went with something different. In the end this is about freedom of choice and of doing what you will. A ball can be more than a sad grunt suit it can also be a transformer if you show wish. This is what I learned from these very halls so long ago that gunpla is about freedom of choice and of will. Beyond that let us start our first class shall we? Behind you is a select amount of known mp suits and limited amount of customization parts you as a builder need to learn to adapt no matter what you face. This is meant to test on how well you adapt with these situations." As she said that a large cart revealed showing limited amount of suits as she said. A z'gok,zaku 1,graze, Waff, Cgue, BuCue, flag, tieren, Serpent, leo. Beyond that laying besides was extra kits and weapons laying in a large box.

Cassandra looked to the pile of Gunpla as Sakuya spoke, and the extra parts. Mostly trying to see if any of the MP types 'called to her', which she figured the Graze would, but seeing the Serpent next to it. That ended up being her choice, if for no other reason then how 'slept on' Serpents are.

So after walking over and grabbing the Serpent box, she looked at the box of random parts, for a good minute. Occasionally sifting through the parts, looking for something to get that spark going. It wasn't till she found a pair of Gatling Shields from the Full Armor Unicorn that the lightbulb went off. She grabbed those and a pair of 3 tube missile pods she'd seen in an extra parts kit, and a few stray Beam Saber handles and headed back to her seat and started seeing about trying to build the rather vague idea she'd just had.

"Ha, thanks! Just a bit of a touchup with some custom paint. I never did like that weird blue they gave it. Your Pale Rider looks awesome though! Glad to see you were able to personalize it too after everything," Kanoko replied, smiling at Jess and more than relieved that she was okay. Her green eyes roamed over to see Jess eagerly working on the Barbatos, fully repaired since the day before and looking much better thanks to the Jess' effort. "Glad to see he's okay. He took a beating yesterday with what happened in your exam."

Before long her attention was taken away by Sakuya's appearance, and thus the Gunpla academy's first class began. It wasn't too far into it that the objective became clear, and Kanoko blanched a little internally. Another build? She wasn't a speed builder; coming up on the spot with mods was going to be even tougher. She knew a little about the CGUE and the BuCUE, but she didn't feel like a quadruped mech, and the CGUE was pretty damn ugly to her. The Tieren was too slow and more like an archaic model of mech, and while she liked the Flag it didn't have a whole lot going for it, since adding too many weapons would kill its mobility.

That left the UC suits, the Graze, and the Leo, since Cassandra grabbed the Serpent. Kanoko wasn't familiar with the Leo, but it was a neat suit she didn't really have ideas for. As far as the Waff, Zaku, and Z'Gok, she was a UC fan primarily; if she hadn't done anything with those suits, it'd be criminal! So it left but one suit.

The Graze. And on the basis of Mr. Gunpla's advice, she chose the green-colored suit, beginning to dig through the parts that Sakuya had. "Please tell me you have the ground type feet..."

The barbatos had graze legs, the left arm was graze as well, the head, right arm torso and waist all being barabatos. She seeemed to be making a custom. "Thanks." Jess said. Heading up with Kanoko, The girl took the flag, she then picked up a spare kit, being a graze that was offered. She picked up the two kits having seen an example priorly of someone kitbashing the two before the gunpla fighting actually became a thing. "And here, these are what you're looking for." Said Jess, holding up an expansion box for kanoko with the proper parts to make the graze into a ground type.

Yumi glanced over the possible suits looking at each with a critical eye till she spotted the one the SVMS-01 Union Flag a personal favorite of hers something about it and Graham Aker in 00 drew her towards the suit. "This would be suitable" she said as she picked the box and started to look at the buckets of parts they had avaliable for customization. "A gn drive a single beam saber handle" and I can turn this into a modified gn flag II." Yumi said quickly picking her two pieces but what else could be added? Beyond that rather than aiming towards the option set boxes that was hidden she went to the bucket with individual parts ranging from backpacks to heads and other pieces. Without really paying much attention Yumi grabbed pieces that looked like it would work well such as the heat shotels from a sandrock, some pieces from the blue destiny units. Along with to her surprise a working dainslief launcher. With a small smirk Yumi grabbed it while she had the chance a few modifications and it should be able to work in more ways than expected. Beyond that she found two long double edged straight swords that she would be able to modify.

Justin snapped out of his thoughts just in time to notice the cart with the MP suit kits and extra parts. His green eyes almost instantly locked onto the BuCUE. "I can work with that." he thought as he got up and picked the kit, "Just needs a few parts to make it really work. Now, let's see if this bucket has what I'm looking for. As he went through his customization plan in his head, he dug into the bucket, looking for some boosters, some missile packs, a set of rapid-fire beam cannons, a pair of solid-shell cannons, and a pair of heavy beam cannons along with some stuff for mounting the weapons together.

As Cassandra worked on the Serpent, the vague image she'd had before got a little clearer. She'd just grabbed parts that she thought might be useful, no real 'plan'. But as she put the main suit together how she'd use those parts she grabbed came into focus.

The missile pods would go on the legs, and the Shield Gatling would go on the arms, along with the Beam Gatling, though she still wasn't sure how yet.

"Ah, thanks Jess!" Kanoko replied as she continued to root through the bins, having received the Ground-Type feet she needed. Among other things, she had grabbed a GN sword and a drive for the arm it was to be mounted on, a shield and adapter from a Qan(T), a sword from the Ground Type graze kit as well, the backpack and shoulders of the Reginlaze, and a shotgun from the Kampfer.

Among all of these things, she noticed that Justin had been busy collecting beam weaponry and a mass of firepower, and placed her pile of discarded choices towards him. "See if there's anything in there you like since you decided to stop over. I could never get behind the BuCue, but if you can make something out of it, I'll be happy to take a page out of your book!"

One more thing she needed-Helmwige Reincar's head and a few V-fins. Riffling through the container, she found her necessary parts and started to assemble her Graze Custom. The small GN drive itself wasn't completely necessary, but she thought it would be good to give it a weapon with a little more armor-piercing capabilities. Most of the other kits probably didn't have the armor to withstand a couple good cleaves with the sword alone, but still...

Yumi continued looking at the many parts in the bucket having to grab a tray for the small pieces she needed and the parts she was replacing with others or adding. "Spiked knuckles from the masurao, the shield booster from the hazel units, feet from the mr bushido ahead, rifle pieces from the rifle from the brave commander type." Yumi said aloud her head already constructing the kit and how she wanted to look in her head. Seeing as she had all the pieces she grabbed a seat and started to get to work building the union flag and quickly started painting it the colors of the Graham Aker custom flag.

"Ok people it seems you all have your ideas in place now shall we make this interesting? I propose a challenge if any of you feel confident enough you can challange me to a one on one match your mp suit vs one of my own kits. Than if you manage to damage my suit at the end of the battle I'll give you for free two kits of your choice" Sakuya said a large smirk gracing her lips this was a bit unorthadox but it would allow her to grasp just how much they need to work on and where they shine.

Cassandra had finished with the general build, figuring she'd stagger the Gatlings, one on the inside of the arm, and slightly forward, the Gatling Shields on the outside, back closer to the elbow. Though she did need to make a second trip to the parts bucket to find something to make it work like she wanted.

She'd just finished applying the paint, going for 'Leo' colors for the main body and shields, while the Gathlings, Missile Pods, and should Missiles where an 'army gray' or flat black, when Sakuya put forth her challenge. "I shall take you up on that as soon as the paint it dry and it's together again." Cassandra replied.

Her unit was painted in a fine steel, the inner frame a darker shade of gunmetal, with the complementing armor being donned in navy blue. Along the edges of the armor, she had bordered it in a lighter shade of blue to break up the monotony. The GN blade hadn't changed much, painted metallic with an electric blue edge instead of the green, while the shield was done up in shades of silver and steel, the darker metal being reserved for the 'wings' of the unit.

The head was the crowning achievement in this case; pearlescent paint was applied to the v-fins which she had chopped up and added as helmet flair, the monoeye of the Helmwige Reincar colored an iridescent green. There was a customized mane flowing from the back end underneath the crown created by the cut-up V-fins. It was made by applying a ton of carved-out pieces of thin plaplate that were meticulously put together, but glued and set in a way that made them strong.

It was an unusual piece she had decided on, but her 'Iron Maiden' was certainly an impressive sight to the girl who was usually obsessed with UC design and aesthetic.

"Puaaaaah....done...okay, I'm never building this sort of things in a class again...."

Jess was smart about building it. She got a test fit done together with some minor modifications. Taking it apart, she used an airbrush to lightly coat the peices every minute or two, this lead to the paint going on and almost immediately drying. This lead to her mixure between a flag and a graze to be among the first custom suits done. It honestly looked pretty good and while it wasn't some god tier creation, the simplicity between the graze and flag having the same male-female joint locations made it look pretty good.

"If your paint is still wet you need to learn how to paint a bit better, i'd be happy to show you what little tricks i've gathered in my travels if you'd like later." said Jess to Cassandra with a bit of a teasing smirk "Cass already called dibs, so i'll take you on after her." said the kickboxer to Sakuya with a nod.

Justin began to paint his BuCUE as he completed parts of it, having found the parts he needed to customize it. He carefully painted the Gunpla parts a drab green, planning to add dull gold trim once the paint dried and he completed it, at the same time thinking about how he was gonna put the missile launchers on the kit. "Maybe I should put a pair of these facing forward and a pair of them facing upward." he thought, "That way I could potentially bombard whatever is in my way. However, it could be a really risky maneuver." Upon hearing Sakuya's challenge, followed by Cassandra and Jessica's responses, Justin gave a slight grin. "I'll go third, then." he stated.

Cassandra sighed. "No need to wait for me, I still need to put it back together." she said, her Serpent already 50% back together and looking to be completely finished with in the next few minutes. "Also, sure" she said, directing toward Jess. "a few new pointers can't hurt."

sure enough, with in five minutes Cassandra had her Serpent back together and standing there on the table. A Serpent, with two sets of Double Gatling, I-Field equipped shields, with a pair of Beam Sabers on the end of each, and a three Pod Launcher on each leg. Giving it a bit more of an imposing look then normal for an MP type.

Cassandra picked her Gunpla up and walked over to the Battle System, and did the usual of setting it and the GP base, then limbered up her hands as she got ready to battle Sakuya, the look in her eyes when she took the controls in hand was different then in the prior test as well. She was lacking that same 'lazy' air she had in the prior test. Cassandra knew who Sakuya was, knew the level she was at. She knew there was no room for screwing around with her, and had no intention of doing so.

Sakuya smirked her flauros at the ready as she placed her gp base and gunpla down at the ready. With little warning she started up the system a futuristic looking area appeared setting the flauros onto the stage she stood there not looking in the least worried about what may happen or any sneak attack that might be done. "This stage is a prototype stage of my own design meant to narrow the movements of the fighters forcing them into uncomfortable scenarios. The course is in a single straight line so no fancy tricks or maneuvers will work it forces the fighter to adapt and over come. Now come at me" She said her lab coat billowing as she threw her arm out dramatically inviting a open attack on her.