DISCLAMER: I DO NOT OWN GUNDAM, HOWEVER I DO OWN SEVERAL GUNPLA

CHAPTER 1

RAGE ON! VALIANT STRIKE!

"HARUTO! IT'S TIME FOR YOU TO WAKE UP!"

A young boy, around 15 years old, groaned as he opened his eyes and glance at the alarm clock next to his bed. "It's only 6:30 in the morning, so why would mom be waking me up so early?" He mumbled to himself, "I mean, it's not like there's anything special going on today, right?" Regardless of the self-asked question he climbed out of the bed and walked downstairs.

"MOM! It's only 6:30 why are you waking me up right now?" He asked walking into the kitchen where his mom was cooking breakfast. As he entered he also noticed his father sitting at the table reading the morning paper. Noticing that his son was looking at him he chuckled with a pitying grin on his face that read 'I'm sorry'.

"Well dear, it's simple," The boy's mother started as she turned to face him, "It's your first day at Ichinose Academy, so I wanted to make sure that you were up and ready for it." The teen simply stared at her as she gave her reason, all the while wearing a simile that was far too sweet to mean anything good for him on her face.

"Mom, I still have an hour before I have to be there. We live like, 10 minutes away from the school now." He replied with a deadpan look on his face. "I mean, look out the window. We can see the top of the school from here!" Her smile then slightly got bigger as he said this and then he started to wonder '… what does she have planned for me?'

"Oh, I know, but I just want to make sure my wittle Haru-chan is ready to be the talk of the school today." She tells the boy as she makes a move to pinch his cheeks as her smile turned slightly devious. Ok, now the boy was really scared. The smile still hadn't left her face and the fact that his dad was now openly laughing wasn't helping.

"Now, now, dear. Give Haruto a little credit. He's fifteen you know. He knows what'll happen if he's late on his first day." The now named Haruto's dad to his rescue. 'Dad's always been the voice of reason to counter balance the insanity of my mom.' He thought, 'Some days I wonder how they even met each other.'

"But honey," Haurto's mom whined as she puffs out her cheeks in a pout while simultaneously brushing her red hair behind her ear, "What if on his way to school he meets a nice girl and….."

He started to tune out his mom at this point when a weird gleam appeared in her eye and decided to go back up to his room to get ready, as there was no way his mom would let him go back to sleep now.

As Haruto entered his room, he took the time to study it. It was slightly bigger than his old room back in previous house and the size finally allowed for him to have enough room to fully indulge in his hobby. Gunpla building. He then walked over to the desk in the corner of his room and picked up the GP Base sitting on it and looked at the partially finished custom gunpla beside it.

The gunpla has the torso and the side hip plates of the Strike Noir, allowing it to carry the two M8F-SB1 "Shorty" beam rifles. The arms of the gunpla were from a HG Gundam Exia Repair II kit with the shoulders being those of a HG AGE-2 Double Bullet kit complete with the twin DODS cannons and large beam sabers that the red binders were known for in them. The head and hips of the mobile suit that he used were from a Stargazer Gundam kit and the legs of the mobile suit were actually custom made legs based off the legs of the Double X Gundam, with the panels on the legs modified to open from the top and had two standard beam sabers in them instead of reflectors. He then also used both the hands and the feet from the Strike Noir on the gunpla allowing for it to use the EQS1358 rocket anchors installed in them and the Entire gunpla was painted to match the paint scheme of the Strike Freedom only gold replacing where the red and blue would be.

"Man, I'm going to have to thank Tetsuya the next time I see him." He said to himself while looking at the unfinished Noir striker pack and other gunpla sets that he had used parts from that were sitting on the desk. His thoughts then drifted to the teen who had been manning the counter at the model shop he had visited. He had been overly enthusiastic when he had told him that he was making a custom gunpla based on the Strike and then he even showed him his own custom gunpla that he was making. The teen had even offered to help Haruto when he told him that aside from using the noir striker pack he wanted to make custom striker packs.

"HARUTO! ARE YOU READY YET?" The teen sighed to himself when he heard his mom yell to him from downstairs. "NO MOM, NOT YET!" Haruto yelled back to her as he walked across the hall to the bathroom. He gazed into the mirror as he walked in and bushed his shaggy black hair out of the way of his eyes to see the unique bronze colored eyes that were inherited from his mom staring back at him. 'Guess I better get ready.' Haruto thought as he looked back into his room at the gunpla sitting on the desk.

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"STAND! BOW! SIT!" Haruto heard from inside the classroom that he was standing in front. He took a deep breath to calm his nerves while waiting for the teacher to call him into the room. He glanced down at his feet when he heard the teacher call for him to enter the room and steeled his nerves as he entered.

"Class I'd like to introduce our new student, Masaru Haruto." The teen got his first look at his new teacher and noticed that he looked a little like Sol Ryuune L'ange from Gundam Seed Stargazer. "Well, go on," the teacher continued, "introduce yourself Haruto."

"My name is Masaru Haruto, and I look forward to the rest of the school year with you." He said as he introduced himself. Haruto started to say more but as he was looking at the rest of the class he caught sight of someone that made him lose his train of thought. Now Haruto would be the first person to admit that the main reason that he enjoyed Gundam Seed was because he had crushes on some of the female characters. Cagalli especially. And-lo-and-behold that sitting in front of him, the person who caught his eye is a girl who looks exactly like Cagalli only with with brown hair and eyes instead.

"So class any questions for Masaru-san?" The Sol look-a-like asked. "Yes, I have one Yukimura-sensei." The Cagalli look-alike raises her hand. "Well go ahead and ask Tsukino-san" The teacher, whose name is now known as Yukimura-sensei, says as he calls on her.

"Masaru-san, I just want to know if you like gunpla?"

'WAIT! WHAT!?' He started stammering as his mind tried to wrap around the question she just asked. "I-I-I-I'm sorry, what was that you just asked?" He started praying that she's not one of the girls who thinks gunpla battling is stupid, especially because she looks like Cagalli. Stupid reason he knows, but he still has a crush on Cagalli, so Haruto hoped she liked gunpla.

"Well, I asked if you like gunpla," the girl replies, "you see, I'm the new president of the model building club and due to the fact that our school has a battlefield system, thanks to the previous president's father, we're trying to recruit more gunpla builders."

He could only stare at the girl as she asked the question. 'This girl is the president of the model building club?' Haruto thought to himself. "Do you like Gunpla Tsukino-san?" He found himself asking before he can stop himself.

"I wouldn't be the president of the club if I didn't." She replies hotly, "So do you? You never answered my question."

Haruto started to feel sweat drip down the back of his neck as she glared at him. 'Damn,' he thought, 'she even has Cagalli's glare as well.'

"W-w-well, yes, I do like gunpla." Was the reply as she replaces her glare with a smile. 'Phew, I'm happy that she stopped glaring.' Haruto thought, 'That's almost as bad as my mother's smile.'

"Good. So do you-"

"Tsukino-san, you can interrogate Masaru-san later, we have a class to start." Yukimura-sensei interrupts.

"Oh, r-r-r-right. Sorry sensei." She replies while a blush starts to burn at her cheeks while their sensei started the class.

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"So Haruto-san are you ready to go see the club room?"

Haruto looked up from the sketch book he was drawing in to see Tsukino standing in front of him.

"Yea I'm ready Tsukino-san," He replied, "So how many members are there in the club who build gunpla?"

"Please, my name is Hoshiko, you can call me Hoshi if you want, and to answer your question there are twelve of us in the club who build gunpla but there are only four of us that battle, including the club supervisor. Oh and by the way do you play gunpla battle right?"

"Of course I gunpla battle Hoshi," Haruto replied, "I take pride in my gunplas and like to see how it holds up against other's work."

"Oh that's good, now all that's left is to introduce you to the vice-president as we both decide who joins, his name is Takahiro Morita. He also battles but…." She starts to trail off, "Well he's been in somewhat of a bad mood since the old president left and I got the position."

"Well, what are the chances that he'll accept me? And why are you so insistent in questioning me about if I gunpla gattle?" The black haired teen asks as he looked around the hallway memorizing the way to the clubroom.

"Oh don't worry about him, so long as you prove you can fight, he'll probably accept you. And the reason why is that we need to have at least five members of the club who battle for the next tournament that's coming up."

"Wait, even with me in the club, that's still only four student members who battle."

"Well, for some reason the tournaments allow for the supervisors of the club to also compete alongside the students." She suddenly stops and looks at him, "Hey, Haruto, do you have your gunpla on you?"

"Huh? Yea why do you ask?"

"Well, it's a good thing you're going to try to join today, cause only the modelling club is allowed to have gunpla during school hours. Don't worry, I let you slide this time," She replies as she starts walking again. "Hey, do you mind showing it to me when we get to the clubroom?"

"Yea I don't mind but it's not finished, well it is, but it's not."

"What do you mean?"

"Well, it's a custom gunpla that's based on the Strike Noir. The mobile suit is completed but I've still got to finish the Noir striker pack and I'm planning to possibly make some custom striker packs for it as well."

"Wait, it's a Strike variation? Oh man, Morita's going to love this. What's its name?" She asked as they walked into the club room.

"Oh Hello Haruto-kun. Hoshiko-chan, I can see that you did drag him along with you. Was it against his will?" A voice called out as soon as they entered causing them both to stop and look to one of the tables in the room to see Yukimura-sensei sitting at it.

'Wait, wait, wait. What's Yukimura-sensei doing here? Wait, he's into Gunpla?' Haruto thought outloud gaining a look from the Aoi doppleganer.

"Well I am the club supervisor, and yes, to answer your obvious question, I'm into gunpla Hotaru-kun." He says with a chuckle.

"Oh, did I forget to mention that Daiki-senpai was the supervisor?" Hoshi says while scratching the back of her head sheepishly.

"Uh yea, you di- wait Daiki-senpai?" Haruto asked as he look towards him with a dumbfounded face.

"Please, we're doing club activities right now and most of the other teachers trust me enough to not check up on us, so it's all right to call me by my first name here in the club. You also don't have to call me senpai either but remember, its Yukimura-sensei at any other time while we're in the school building unless we're doing club activies."

"Ok, I think I can handle that Daiki-senpai."

"Oh, who's this?" A voice suddenly sounded out from behind Haruto, and when he turned around to see who it was all he received was a face full of chest.

"HOLY CRAP! IT'S A NINJA GORILLA!" Haruto exclaimed jumping back from the person who had walked up behind him

"WHO THE HELL ARE YOU CALLING A GORILLA!" The man screamed at him, "Ahem, who are you?" He coughed into his fist while straightening his school uniform allowing those in the room to get a good look at him. The teen, Haruto realized, stood at about 6' 7", and looked more like he had just gotten out of military boot camp than he did a student, with his dark brown hair cut into a flat top and combined with his staggering size.

"Hello," Haruto said while bowing, "I'm Masaru Haruto and I'm here to join the modelling club. I heard that you guys were looking for more gunpla battlers so you can put the battle systems to good use, and seeing as how I've just moved here I thought I'd try to join."

"Oh, so you're a gunpla battler, are you?" The goril….. giant teen replies. "It's nice to meet you, I'm Takahiro Morita, the vice-president of the Ichinose Academy model building club. And while you may have the president's vote you still need mine to join. So I'll test you and if you manage to impress me enough, you'll get my vote to let you join so long as Yukimura-sensei agrees to it."

"Oh I'm perfectly fine with it Morita-kun. In fact I'll go spread the word around to gather a crowd if you guys don't mind having the battle today?"

"I'm fine with that Sensei, do you have a problem with that Haruto-san?" Morita asked, looking do to see Haruto's face.

"Yeah, I have no problem with that, I'm ready to battle whenever you are." He replied to the taller teen.

"Well then Sensei, go spread the word. And Haruto-san, take your pick from the models on the wall. They were all were mostly built by the previous president so be careful with them as well please."

Haruto looked at the wall that Morita motioned to and in spite of all the extremely well built gunpla on the wall, Haruto didn't even need to choose due to the fact that he had his gunplay with him. "No thanks, I've got my gunpla on me." He instantly replied with a small smirk.

"HEY! That's right, you said you'd show it to me when we got to the club room!" Hoshi exclaimed, finally speaking up for the first time since Morita entered the room, rounding on Haruto with a glare that would send the devil fleeing in terror. "Well? I'm waiting?" She said exasperatedly, holding one hand out and placing the other on her hip.

"Well you're just going to have to wait till the battle to see it now. Along with everyone else." Haruto answered her with a full-blown smirk on his face. "You should've reminded me when we entered the club room."

"OH! WHY YOU LITTLE!" She yells as Haruto dashes out of the room following the vice-president to the battle system after he made a 'follow me' motion while wearing a pitying look on his face.

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"Whoa, guys have a seven field system? How did you guys afford this?" The black haired teen exclaimed as he set his eyes on the battle field. He also ignored all the gathered students, though he did notice that there was a large amount and had to hold in his laughs when he heard a few students' mention how they wondered if the gorilla was going to lose again and Morita seemed to have hear them and due to the fact he started yelling at them about how he wasn't a gorillia.

"Well, the previous president's father donated the battle system to the school." Hoshiko said gasped out between laughs.

Haruto glanced over and notice that Morita had now started chasing a few of the students who had called him a gorilla and this time even he couldn't hold back his laughs. "Hey! Takahiro-san! Are we going to battle or what?" he yell out.

That yell seemed to have caught his attention as he walked over to the battle system while pulling out a Legend Gundam "Are you ready Masaru-san?" He asked as he takes his place across from him at the battle system. "Remember now, if you impress me well enough I'll let you join the club."

"Ok, whatever you say."

"PLEASE SET YOUR GP BASE"

As those words were said Haruto's blood started to boil in excitement, and as he set his GP base and reached into his bag for his gunpla. Pulling it out he can hear the gasp that came out of Hoshi's mouth and growl from the thin line that Morita's mouth became as he stared at the mobile suit. Haruto couldn't help but feel pride well up in his chest alongside the burning desire to finally fight in the gunpla that was made by his own two hands, upon hearing their reactions to it. He also heard a few members of the crowd start to wonder what kind of suit he was using as they only caught a glimpse of it.

"FIELD 7 RUINS"

The battle field took the form of a ruined city and Haruto couldn't help but think that it was a perfect setting for the first battle of his new Gunpla.

"TAKAHIRO MORITA! LEGEND GUNDAM, LAUNCHING!"

"MASARU HARUTO! RAGE ON! VALIANT STRIKE!

Haruto noticed that Morita's face took on a slightly nostalgic look as he called out his launching phrase, but didn't let that distract him for a second as he came out with the Valiant's thrusters blasting full throttle. He started firing the twin DODS cannons at the surrounding buildings hoping to lure the Legend out of hiding only to have to jump backwards to dodge shots from the funnels that the Legend had deployed, and as it turned out Morita had the ability to plan ahead because as soon as Haruto jumped back the Legend appeared behind him firing with its beam rifle.

"CRAP! Man he's fast!" Haruto yelled as he dodged a shot from the enemy's beam rifle. "Well let's see how you handle this!" He then pulled on of the beam sabers from its compartment on the gundam's calf, only to realize that the Legend had disappeared. 'Damn, where the hell did he go?' He questioned himself as he looked around for where his opponent had disappeared to. Seriously, how hard is it to find a gundam that bulky in such an enclosed space as they were? "Oh right, all the smoke from me trying to draw him out." He muttered. Suddenly the warning alarms go off and he barely managed to dodge a blast from a hyper mega blaster but it forced him to let go of the beam saber he was holding.

"Seriously!? You have a freaking hyper mega blaster equipped!"

"Less talking and more fighting! You're not impressing me yet Masaru!"

"FINE," He yelled pulling out the suit's second beam saber, "BRING IT ON!"

He charged at the Legend as it pulled out its own beam saber and me Haruto's in a deadlock. The Stike variant trembled as the Legend slowly but surely started to prove its superiority in the strength department as it started to push the smaller gundam back. The entire time Haruto's blood slowly, but surely, was starting to boil with more and more excitement, THIS is what he wanted. To test his strength against another person, to prove that his building skills are noteworthy.

"Hey, Takahiro-san, I've got one thing to say to you before the end of this battle."

"What's that?" Morita asked, thinking that Haruto was going to surrender.

Haruto then had the Valiant jump backwards causing the Legend to lurch forwards and using that small window of time managed to knock the Legend's beam saber away and then tossing away his own beam saber, shoulder checked the larger mobile suit, knocking it off balance and he then pulled out both of the "Shorty" beam rifles and aimed both them, and the twin DODS cannons on the Valiant's shoulders at Morita's gunplay at almost point blank range.

"THIS!" Haruto exclaimed, a large grin growing on his face, "RAGE ON! MY VALIANT STRIKE!"

And with that exclamation he fired all four of the beam rifles at once shooting the Legend straight through the chest with all four beams.

"NO NOT AGAIN! NOT TO ANOTHER KIRA WANNABE!" He screams as his gunplay 'blew up'.

"BATTLE ENDED"

"So did I manage to impress you Takahiro-san?" Haruto asked with a cheeky grin adorning his face as he picked his gunpla up off of the field.

"Yeah, you've mana-"

"OH MY GOD! YOUR GUNPLA WAS AMAZING HARUTO!" Morita's reply was suddenly cut off as Hoshi ran up to them while ripping the Valiant Strike from its owner's hands.

"Hey what are you do-" Haruto started to say before he was suddenly cut off by Hoshiko who had started questioning him.

"How did you manage to get all the kits that you used to make this? The Stargazer Gundam is pretty hard to find right now and why do you have the Exia's arms and-and-and." She started to hyper ventilate with how excited she was getting over the Valiant Strike.

"Calm down, Hoshi. Take a few deep breaths, and I think Takahiro-san has something he wants to say to me." Chuckling he looked over to Morita with a expecting smile on his face.

"Congratulations, Masaru and welcome to the modelling club, as you've managed to impress me. Now do whatever repairs you need to do to your Gunpla, we have a tournament in two weeks."

"Heh, gotcha big guy. Hey, Hoshi can I have the Vali- HEY! get back here Hoshi!" Haruto yelled taking off after her when he noticed that she was walking away while still was still in fan-girl mode and examining the Gunpla.

Next chapter preview:

"So Masaru do you have any other Gunpla?"

"What kinda mobile suit is that?"

"TSUKINO HOSHIKO! RISING AKATSUKI! READY TO SORTIE!"

"MASARU HARUTO! RAGE ON! VALIANT STRIKE!"

"YUKIMURA DAIKI! TIME TO REAP, KUROTENSHI!"

"KUROSAWA NOBORU! IMPULSE EPYON! DESTROYING TARGETS! KEHAHAHAHA!"

New allies and old rivals emerge from the shadows of the past. What is the real meaning behind the sudden appearance of one thought to be gone?

GUIDE THE WAY THROUGH THE FOG GUNDAM!