Shiyonichi

Gundam Build Fighters Imagine! [6/7]

“Thunderbolt Sector...?” Kai looked at the objective... and knew nothing about the setting they were thrown into, so the Gundam noob took out his phone and looked up “thunderbolt sector gundam.” “Oh, it’s a debris field with a bunch of lightning.” Kai rubbed the back of his neck. “Oi, kid.” Kai called out to Tomiyoka.

“The field is gonna be a debris field, agility is more important than raw speed. You’re probably going to have to switch to AMBAC controls, instead of relying your transformation. When you’re controlling a Gunpla with a Humanoid form, don’t think to control it’s limbs by moving your controller. It’s all about instinct. Well, I should stop there, it’s not something that can be taught explaining it in detail would be detrimental.” Kai simply stopped his advice. Like he said, controlling a Gunpla fundamentally came down to instinct, he couldn’t really teach that, he could only push him to the right answer.

Kai had no real problem, well he was disappointed that he wouldn’t really be able to fight Hachiyama, while he felt taking out a worthy opponent like he did back in the old tournament was dissatisfying, he wasn’t one to put it above the rest of the team. He needed to do what he needed to do, after all he had a score to settle and he needed to win here.

Kai reached inside his back for the case that he kept the Benkei. It was time to fight... only he didn’t manage to wrap his fingers around the Zaku, rather he pulled out a lacquer box. “Huh... Do ya want to fight to partner?” Kai told muttered to himself. There was a thousand reasons why Kai shouldn’t use what was in the box and only one reason to use it, but that one reason overpowered the others. The Gunpla Fighter removed the ropes binding the box and unsealed his broken blade. “Alright partner, just this once.” Kai got to the Gunpla table, holding the lacquer box.

“Kai Asakura... Turn-XCEED Gundam, launching to the fray!”

The Gunpla that was launched into the battlefield was covered in a nanoskin cloak, as it shifted to avoid the debris, parts of it’s body was revealed. The silver and blue unit had cracks and battle scars lining it’s body on some parts black tape was wrapped around to keep it intact, it didn’t seem combat worthy, but that served as a testament to the build quality that it was still able to move with such agility.

“Sorry about this, boss.” Kai told Naoki, knowing that he probably had no idea that he even had another Gunpla and it seemed to be in bad shape and probably messed with his plans. “I just wanted to use this.” It was a simple reason, he was starting to move forward, he got nostalgic, he wanted to use his partner.

There was no other reason.

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Kai cracked his neck, another victory. He didn’t really celebrate or have any real option on this. They were stronger and that was it, no need to think about it more than that. Kai cracked his neck and walked over to the others who were discussing the others. “Oh we’re talking about Hachiyama’s team.” Kai said having completely forgotten Seo’s existence.

The Gunpla fighter looked over the footage taking a look at both the footage of the “mercenaries” that Seo had hired and gave his thoughts. “The masked guy, I’m assuming, he’s good, but it feels more of a big fish in a small pond kinda deal, the guy Loudmouth pissed off is the more dangerous of the two. Pretty sure he actually experienced, think this guy might have been in a higher league like regionals or nationals. It’s not out of the question that Loudmouth might have to look out for a new Gunpla afterwards.” Kai summarized.

“Though I don’t think ya’d have to be too worried about them, like it or not a team fight is a team fight, the weakest member dictates the the strength of the team, not the strongest. They can’t be everywhere at once. If we separate them from the rest then, they don’t matter. There’s only one other person who I can say would give us trouble, the rest of the team shouldn’t be too difficult to defeat.”

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So how we all doing?

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Once again, Kai didn’t give any thought to his opponents, they were just that another foe he had defeated. They had their reasons to fight and he had his, they clashed and he was stronger, that was all. That was Kai, simply unhesitant. The delinquent diver looked up to the defeated Mobile Armor, his faith in his comrades wasn’t unfounded as both of them defeated the giant opponent. Riku took the spotlight this time, but Kai didn’t really mind. A team was together, it shouldn’t matter if someone else had the spotlight, it shouldn’t have mattered...

Shaking himself out of his thoughts, Kai answered back. “Alright, I’ll head back.” The Gunpla fighter waited until the ship lowered back into range and then boosted full speed into their ship’s hanger, he didn’t really feel the need to conserve energy since entering back into the hanger would quickly refil their supplies and particles, as such he prioritize getting back to the ship over conversation.

Kai saw that Blade had switched his Gunpla, Kai saw the new Gunpla and he honestly couldn’t really judge, other than it looked strong and he realized he was about the only member of the recruited team that didn’t have a second Gunpla... Well that wasn’t actually true, he still had his partner but it wasn’t in the best of shapes and since his attempted repairs were crude to say the least. Even if he was confident that he could win with it in it’s current condition, he didn’t want to risk it unless he absolutely had to pull it out.

Kai switched his focus on the battle, he didn’t say a launching call this time as it felt redundant. Another benefit of the Caletvwich, was the fact that the particles helped with flight by manipulating airflow, it was basically a do anything sword, which is why he picked it.

As the Barrage fired towards them Kai dashed away separating from Riku, before tossing a cracker into the path of a shot and under the cover of the smoke he dived into the lake, making it seem that he had been shot down and the wreckage fell into the water. Of course they could check the points to see if he was actually dealt with, but he doubted they would do that in the heat of battle especially with Riku firing back. Kai dropped the Composite Weapon, it was a beam rifle combined with a rocket launcher and a Gatling gun making it an amazing weapon, but the problem was that the weapon was too large and the Benkei had so many weapons that it had to be ditched when going into melee combat. The Gunpla fighter made a note to his comrades. “Dropped my Rifle there, if either of ya want to use it, feel free, it’s kinda wet though.” It was also a mouthful to pronounce.

Kai from under water fired his rocket anchor at the Zaku cannon to drag it back under as a sneak attack, making sure to catch it from the side to limit it’s ability to fight back. The Delinquent Samurai drew his GN Tachi, stabbing rather than slashing to minimize Water resistance aiming to skewer the other Zaku’s cockpit.

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As the son would attempt to slash the Benkei, the side railguns would turn forward and howl to life, blasting the child back with a railgun round to the face. The beam saber on the shield of the Benkei would flare to life as Kai then blocked the father’s heath axe. Kai would then kick the other red Zaku away, but it didn’t stay far away, for too long.

Kai would fire his rocket anchor at the Father’s Zaku before he could recover, and grappling it. “Get back here.” Kai would quickly drag the enemy back ramming the front part of his composite rifle into the enemy, the under barrel Gatling spinning to life as it sprayed a barrage into the enemy at point blank range, filling the chest with holes, but the reaper wasn’t done yet. Spinning around Kai threw the other Red Zaku at the green Zaku, before aiming his composite rifle once again and fired a beam at the red one’s reactor, in order to explode it and take both out with one shot.

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“Right, I’ll be right there.” Kai responded back in his usual calm demeanor, before moving his Gunpla to the catapult “Kai Asakura, Zaku II Benkei, Launching to the fray!” The catapult of the ship came to life and the Benkei accelerated before being shot out like a cannon. The Benkei’s Dober Gun unfolded from it’s backpack and in it’s other arm held it composite weapon. The Gunpla fighter quickly triangulated the locations of the two Zakus, not just from their shots, but the Caletvwich’s special properties.

Kai lined up both shots, before shooting at the two Zakus. Kai, contacted Riku over the coms. “Yankee.” Yankee was Kai’s nickname for Riku just like how Loudmouth was Jun’s, it was a bit ironic for Kai to be calling another person a Yankee. “I’ll deal with the two in the forest, ya go ahead and take the mobile armor, I’ll help with the big bastard after I take care of them.” The would be better for Kai to deal with these two alone, since Caletvwich’s special ability made it difficult to hide from him. Making it harder for them to use the terrain against him and use the tree to try and ambush him.

Kai dived into the trees, making sure to zigzag through his way there to avoid a counter attack, as he wasn’t arrogant enough to believe he took down both with his earlier shot. He was going to engage the both Zakus in a triple Zaku fight.

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Kai had no objections with Naoki’s plan so he simply accepted the outcome, the delinquent turned to Jun. “Remember not to get ahead of yourself. The team should come before your recklessness.” The Gunpla fighter didn’t need to address anyone else, as he felt that the loudmouthed Gunpla fighter was the only real loose cannon in their group and not to diss Tomiyoka, out of the group he was probably the weakest link meaning a screw up would be very costly. Just like usual Kai simply passed by and prepared to launch following Riku’s example.

“So you’re going with the Leo?” Kai asked Riku, having seen what his teammate had set. The Gunpla fighter didn’t really have much to say about their ship, after all he barely knew about Gunpla in the first place, much less ships. “So, I’m on point then.” The Benkei was very heavily armed as a matter of fact it was actually a bit too armed as the unit had some balance issues which made it hard to control, though this wasn’t much of a problem with Kai’s own skills. Either way the other two members of his assault team would be less armed by a pretty wide margin, meaning it would be up to the Gunpla fighter to come in with the wide scale destruction and dealing with the enemy’s ace and other nasties if they were at the base, but considering the fact that losing the base would be more devastating than the train, it was very likely that they would defend the base more heavily.

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@Shiyonichi You know I'd be surprised if Kai didn't go to Riku and/or Naoki at some point for building advice.

@Double

Well I didn’t know if that would be considered controlling characters or not, so I left it a bit ambiguous. I’m surprised Riku didn’t go to Kai for martial arts advice.

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“Hey Kai, when we reach the world circuit, let’s have a fight there.”

Two units were standing on top of a pile of parts, all once having been a Gunpla, all having been crushed by the just the two units, who stood triumphantly over the carnage.

“What brought on that for? Besides even if ya asked that, one of us could get eliminated without meeting the other.” Kai asked unknown why the other pilot would ask such as thing.

“I wish you were less of an idiot, but that’s besides the point!” The other pilot said with both frustration and with a hint of affection. The other unit starred out into the distance as a beam shot came towards both of them. Kai’s unit stepped forward and raised it’s arm the beam disappeared when came close the other unit lifted up it’s rifle almost lazily and pulled the trigger getting a critical hit even with the lack of effort put into taking it out. “I know I can make it and you’re someone that can nearly rival me, so I know you can as well.”

“Alright I promise-“

Kai woke up from his slumber, he sat next to Jun. Needless to say the Gunpla fighter found him too much of a pain in the ass forced himself to sleep only momentarily waking up when his reactions felt that someone was getting too close, before promptly going back to sleep. His years of martial arts training made him something of a superhuman or a cat, able to do some crazy things most people would think possible.

In the training and without it was pretty clear that Kai didn’t need any help in the combat department having aced all of the practices and practically winning all of his practice matches, rather he needed help in the building department, so he got a crash course on that, luckily his Taisen was the best subject for practice, and he seriously needed that.

First up was to dismantle up the Taisen and clean it up, better filing down nubs and seam lines. Then was to paint the Taisen or at least it’s arms to give it and even color scheme. Next was the replacement of armaments, at first Kai was given an option set that would convert the Exia into the repair IV, taking the GN Tachi and GN bayonets from it, though that wasn’t enough. Kai had done some research and he had a few other weapons he wanted on the new Taisen, the problem was that they were a part of full kits and it would be a waste just to get them for a single weapon, so Kai was introduced to the 3D printer to recreate them for his use.

Those weapons were the ♾ Justice’s Carrier Beam Shield, the Pale Rider Calvary’s Composite Weapon "Shekinah", The Stike Freedom’s Railguns and Beam Sabers, and the Astray Red Frame dragon’s Caletvwlch. Kai also didn’t forget to recreate the crackers and panzerfausts using the same 3D painting methods. Due to the influx of new weapons Kai needed to learn how to modify his Zaku and it’s Dobergun. The backpack was replaced with a much more powerful one with battery packs to power the extra weapons and the Dober Gun was shifted to the backpack on a subarm and modified to be foldable allowing it to stay out of the way when not in use. The final thing he learned was creating completely custom parts, The Gunpla fighter had thought the shoulders were a bit barren so he made a pair of armaments that doubled as shoulder armor. With all these weapons Kai removed the Leo’s beam rifle and the Machine, as the Shekinah fulfilled their purposes and then some.

Kai renamed this new version, Zaku II Benkei.

Kai took out a Gunpla box, this was not the Benkei, rather it was stored in a traditional wooden lacquer box, sealed shut with rope that you would find wrapped around a sacred tree, making it seem like it there was a god or a demon sealed in the box.

“Well partner, we’re moving forward.” Kai told the box before looking out the window for their next battle, the Kishimoto Arcade why was that name so familiar? Either way that thought was interrupted when armband were handed out. “What are we the student council?” Kai deadpanned, but grabbed the armband and put it on, before getting out of the car and stretching his legs.

Kai watched as Riku got off to taunt Seo and his group, Kai didn’t really care for mocking others. Kai gave a short wave to Hachiyama as he was the one that had earned Kai’s respect as a fighter and mocked Seo in a different way by completely and utterly ignoring his existence.

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@Renny Not gonna lie, I REALLY like Imagine V. It gives a very similar vibe as Try Fighters.

@Crimson Lion

Really cause I think it makes us sound like a sentai Squad.