"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…”