"Oh like you are so great" Sachi mocked under her breath. She was a genuine lover of gundam and as a result gunpla thats what mattered to her battles was fun but not everything was about it after all. "There is more to gunpla than battles you need to understand that." Her voice scathing as she felt her hands grip tightly at the rude remarks from the girl she was a junior champion and got that spot not by fancy gimmicks but rather hard work and genuine skill. "Shall we put those words to the test? After all it seems they are going over the things and will be at it for awhile. So what do you say? Shall we play a game?"

"Ay! i'm still pissed that i didn't get my ass kicked." She fired back at cassandra. "I would have loved to have been judged on how well i faced the actual char!" she said before focusing back at the chrome weaponed girl. "Going to hide behind exam this time?" she asked, standing up, staring down at her still drying putty from the first wounds. "Or going to use a suit without some cheesy gimmick?"

"Please I need no fucking gimmick to show you I am more than just talk." Sachi said her pride getting the best of her taking out a geara zulu the mass production model with the bare basics on it. It was designed after the basic grunt suit rather than the royal family use as seen by its standard zaku esque shoulder shield. In its hand was a single beam shot rifle and from it you can see it clearly had two beam tomahawks on the side skirts as well as three Sturm Fauste Grenades strapped on as well. "So oh mighty person does this fit your standard of a non gimmick suit?" She asked sarcasm in her voice as she walked up and commanderred the stage.

"I'm just making sure you're a not a trans am kiddie." Said the girl, smiling and trying to draw out a bit more anger. She took her woundwort and case over to the station. Placing down the woundwort, she put the second beam rifle and put it on the suit. "I mean, i'm sure you could beat me if you had your precious exam or transam or ntd mode, right?" She said, now just trying to throw the girl of her game as much as possible.

"You know, you two could not fight." Justin interjected sharply, "The only thing this would do is cause more enmity between you two." As he spoke, he went back to working on the Cherudim SAGA, cleaning up the damage that had been dealt to the Gunpla by his opponent in the first exam.

"What's matter if she is or not." Cassandra said, cutting in again, this time a touch more edge to her tone. While she figured the loud mouth mean the type of fighter who relies on modes like EXAM and Trans-Am to cover the lack of them having any real ability. It came off as a general insult to just using the mode at all.

Which she instantly took as a slight against her mother.

"Though, I have to wonder who you think you are that you have any right to say anything to anyone about what they run or how they fight. Cause from where I'm sitting, all I see is a loud mouth, with to much money and an over inflated ego."

"Ch, he's right. I don't think it's going to do much to deter them though, they seem pretty intent on kicking each other's asses," Kanoko replied, having stepped away from the two bickering fighters before they got serious. Packing her Sinanju Stein away with the thought of repairing the original limbs later, she looked over at Justin, watching him patch up the Cherudim. "Do you need any tools for now? I got some putty and some extra pla plates that you can use for now. I have more elsewhere, just not in this case with me currently."

Noticing Cassandra's shifting tone and the feeling of dread that was filling the air, she looked up at the brunette, tugging on her shirt. "Hey, don't make it personal yet. If you want to do that, kick her ass. I mean, isn't the point of a Gunpla battle using everything at your suit's disposal? It's just her opinion, even if it doesn't agree with yours."

"I've got the tools I need to patch up the SAGA." Justin replied as he worked to swap out the shoulder joint as well as the parts to the small shield, "The majority of the damage was to the shoulder joint and the shield's joint. But the extra plates could come in handy. I wanna try to reinforce the armor around the shoulder joint a bit more so that way it'll survive something like what the Tallgeese did to it."

Niels watched as the two was about to start a match and let out a sigh it was clear that a clash of ideals and all that was occuring and it was probably best to step it now before it got to out of hand. “Kadomatsu go and greet the new students and stop the match about to occur” he called out as she sighed and rested in his face as he wondered how it came to this.

“Fine sir, should really let the kids tire themselves out before actually trying to correct themselves….” said Kadomatsu, scratching the back of his head. He walked down to the arena, just as kids were getting ready to launch. Stepping up to the platform, there came a few whispers from the audience as he placed his hand on the field and overrode their access. “That’s enough… Settle down you two. This is the Prototype stage for the labs and you two don’t have authorization to use it for grudge matches all willy nilly.” He explained to the chagrin of the crowd watching the two girls. “Yeah yeah, gunpla is freedom, i know i know, but using gunpla as a way to attack someone and their ideology isn’t the way gunpla battle should be….” he continued on and looked between the girls now. “A girl… minorly annoying one… once showed me that it’s about the battle and the spirit of the sport, winning is a part of it but not everything. Gunpla is the freedom to express yourselves, just not in this way.” Said Kadomatsu before turning around and starting to walk away. “Who knows, you might get a chance for some battles in the future if you don’t blow your chance to come to the top school for gunpla with a squabble like this.” he finished and shrugged, heading back to do some more programming work.

As soon as he left another stepped out she was pretty non descript and if they were paying attention in the very beginning would easily spot her as the receptionist. “Now that whole debacle is done if you would follow me as a gift for achieving such goals Doctor Nielson with the help of a very generous donator MR. Gunpla we have been able to gather quite a selection of kits that you can choose one as a congratulations of sorts. Do note that once chosen all things are final and there are no switching.” She said her voice sort of drab ubt pleasent all the same. As she gestured to the room she stepped out of. “Due to some obvious tampering during the tests a debate will be held to determine on the next step that shall be taken.” Thank you for your time and please choose wisely.

Cassandra snerked a little when this new staff member shut the fight down before it could start, and she couldn't help but smile when he told them a Gunpla battle should never be about attacking some one personally.

Another staff member said that due to tampering they where still trying to figure out the next stage of this, and in the mean time they where getting a free kit. One that can not be changed for any reason, so she figured it was going to be part of the classes.

Once the lady stopped talking, and motioned to where they were to go to get there free kit. Cassandra just got up, and headed over, looking around the wide selection of kits. Nothing really caught her eye off the bat so she just ended up browsing a bit.

Then she spotted the RX-0. The RG of it no less. She picked up the box and looked it over a bit. At first she was going to put it back down, didn't really need another kit with a super mode, then something flashed in her mind. Something her mom said about it once.

'The Unicorn Gundam, is one of the few units, far as I'm concerned with the most untapped potential, and no one seems to be even trying to see what it is fully capable of.'

"The Beast of Possibility eh? Sure. Why not." Said to her self as she turned to the counter to make her choice official.

Justin's eyes swept over the kits once he set down the Cherudim SAGA after he had heard that they were getting a free kit. "Hmm, now what should I choose?" he thought as he continued to look over the kits, "Ah ha! The Duel Assault Shroud! I can do something with that! I think I could modify it a bit to allow for Striker Packs, including one I've been designing." After thinking a bit more, he went up and grabbed the Duel Assault Shroud and brought it back to his table before getting back to work on the Cherudim SAGA.

Following after Justin and Cassandra, Kanoko left her materials at the seating area, stepping into the next room that the lab assistant had pointed out. Upon entering, she was floored with walls of Gunpla, different grades in 1/144 and of so many different kits that it seemed endless. Her eyes followed her two fellow applicants as they gathered their kits, a Duel Gundam with the full assault shroud and a real-grade Unicorn Gundam.

She had plenty of UC kits, heck she brought two to the exams. What would she pick? After all, members here already had Iron-Blood Orphans kits. What could she do to be even slightly different?

As her gaze crossed the walls of gunpla, something strange piqued her interest. It was a kit from a side story, and a grunt suit to boot. Moving close to its slot in the shelves, she tenderly pulled it out to look at it.

A GN-X Superba. An advanced, high-spec version of the original GN-X and GN-XII used by the Earth Sphere Federation in Gundam 00. This one was dark blue instead, navy with some black and grey, but its visage called to her.

She rarely had a heart for grunt suits unless they were particularly endearing. This one simply clicked, like her fingers were itching to tear it open and start cutting the parts from their sprues.

"I'll...take it. I'll be the odd duck out this time."

Jessica grumbled, but heeded the warning. She pulled her unit off the base and took a seat back in the crowd, wanting to show off her skills. Upon hearing the announcement of the next suit, the girl decided to grab a flauros. "Not going to let gimmicks end me." she said to herself, taking the kit.

Sachi sighed the scientist had a fair point everyone was entitled to their own deal and as a result she would not let it get to her. With that in mind she headed out going into the room the one person gestured to a free kit was something she wont turn down. The room was filled with kits and honestly she saw which each person chose due to being the last one in the room. Despite everything she did not have a clear idea one side she was leaning towards the ibo ryusei go though on that same thought the zaku warrior was also a alluring choice. Despite the indecision Sachi quickly grabbed the gunner zaku warrior and set aside the ryusei go if anything she would get one later.

Cassandra just returned to her seat and started unboxing her kit and going over the parts there in.

Once she confirmed all was in order she flipped a couple pages into the instructions and started building the waist unit, from there, chest and upper arms since you needed attach the arms to finish the chest anyway, then legs, head, lower arms and weapons.

As she worked on the Gundam, she found her self sighing in annoyance with just how complex it was for a 1/144 scale. She knew RGs had way more to them then an HG, but all the components for the transformation was a little irksome to her, especially in the shoulder armor when she had to partly disassemble it due to a piece not being in the right spot for the transformation like she thought she'd had it originally.

But she kept at it and complexity a side it was a more interesting build then she usually partook in. Since she was mostly a 'battler' then a 'builder' she typically just stuck to HGs since those had less going on and thus easier and quicker to repair and get back into the fight.

Ease of repair is pretty much the whole reason she picked Bael to begin with, even though it ended up growing on her very quickly.

Right as she was about to start on the zaku Sachi looked at it and changed her mind. No this wasnt what she should be doing rather going with things she liked and wanted to use. Yes that was what she should do with a clear thought in mind she placed back the graze and in its place she took out a zaku the rg zaku to be exact. It was a iconic suit in gundam almost as iconic as the original gundam. This was her choice yes she could work greatly with this one. Sitting back down again she opened up the box and set to work taking her time to not care about anything else but to enjoy building a gunpla of a suit she loved. This zaku was a good choice and no one would see it coming.

"If anything, y'might wanna see if you can't grab frame replacement parts for the RG. RG frames are sturdy themselves, although the connections may not always be, but trying to make replacement parts or repairing them is a pain. I...er...snapped quite a few frames when I started out building them and always had to order extra until I refined my techniques. Still, if we're gonna be battling, it'd definitely be my recommendation," Kanoko noted, watching as Cassandra started to build her RG RX-0.

It was perhaps needless, as the RG frame for the RX-0 was incredibly sturdy, so much so that there were very few others that she owned that could compare. Perhaps some minor lubricant to ease up the friction, but even still, that was almost a non-issue. Cracking open the Superbia box, her green eyes marveled at the plastic inside.

The Superbia was a newer kit, and as such had some redesigned framing. She knew from some experience that the older 00 kits had weird joints, but she had done her best to craft some herself, which had improved the articulation immensely. Still, the GN-X Superbia seemed to have all the right points of poseability to her, and so she cut open the runner bags, beginning her build process. "This must be part of the newer GN-XIV runners they've got put out. It's a lot nicer than the first ones..."

Justin finished up the repairs to his Cherudim SAGA, snapped the armor pieces back on, then went to work on the Duel Assault Shroud. "This Gunpla seems fairly solid." he thought as he put together the beam rifle and other weapons first. After finishing up the weapons systems, he started working on the Duel itself, his thoughts turning first to the suit's background, then to what modifications he would make when he got the chance.

Cassandra Smirked as Kanoko related her experience with RG frames, and her breaking them. "Yeah, I donno why they need to be so bloody tight. Feel like I might break something just trying to loosen the joints up enough to be useful" Cassandra replied as she continued her build. "That said, not to worried about it. Mom taught me how to build." She added, pointing to her mothers display. She resembled her mother to much to hide it, not that she'd want to.

Finishing the frame, Jessica stared at the relatively unarmored Ibo frame and at the ranged weapons. Ideas formed in her head, but she shook it. This suit needed something special to it. she could hear it calling to her, but this wasn't the suit she needed. From memory, she had one suit left to be chosen. She needed something different for the coming moments. Woundwort was a very flexible suit with minimal armaments. The girl needed something she could get comfortable in. Walking back up to the carts; Jess stood there for a few minutes, listening and staring at each suit, she grabbed an efreet schneid, feeling this was the suit she needed as it called to her most. Returning to the table in relative silence, she began to work on it.