Gundam Build Fighters try: Blazing
Battle one: A team is formed, Blaze on Try Strike!
The sounds of a fierce Gunpla Battle could be heard within an arcade in a rather prominent and lively town in Japan. Gunshots, blades clashing, thrusters moving around ¬¬it was standard noise nowadays with the recent spike in popularity of this game of Fighters and their customized Mobile Suits.
"BATTLE ENDED!" Boomed a loud announcer's voice. The Plavsky Particles dispersed, shutting down the console revealing the damaged remains of three Graze units and three customized Strike Gundams on the table.
"Man, that wasn't even a satisfying battle!" A six-teen year old silvery-violet hair colored boy who was part of the Strike Gundam team yawned as if mocking the opposing side. "Well, I suppose it's too much to expect from a team of Graze units though!" He smirked.
"That's enough Hiro!" A six-teen year old dark haired boy with blazing red highlights, and the leader of the all-Strike Gundam team, interrupts him. "Do not mock opponents who fought seriously. Didn't Coach Waltfeld tell you that?" The dark haired boy asked.
"Heh! I'm just stating the facts guys. You know it as well as I do." The cocky Fighter Hiro just smirked.
"Come on. Let's get out of here." A six-teen year old midnight blue colored haired boy also a part of the all-Strike Gundam team and one of the four friends sighed.
"Hiro, why is it that you talk down to the people we face I mean you sound like and I know you don't like being compared to him but you kind of sound like your brother Saga when you do that." A dark brown colored haired boy also a member of the same all-Strike Gundam team
"I told you to never ever compare me to him!" Hiro yelled at his friend in anger as he grabbed his custom Strike gunpla.
"Smooth Max, you know Hiro can't stand talking about his older brother let alone being compared to him." The midnight blue haired boy stated as he jabbed his friend with his elbow.
A few hours later the friends left the arcade with their respective gunplas in their respective pouches on their belts as they were heading to their houses, they stopped and said there goodbyes to Hiro who muttered something under his breath they were heading onto the three-way that their houses were on.
"Mason, you think Hiro will be still mad at me for comparing him to his brother Saga" The Dark brown haired boy asked as the three friends had come to a stop at Mason's house.
"I wouldn't worry about it Max, I just wished I knew what Hiro was muttering to himself when he was heading inside his house" Mason said as he opened the gate and walked into his yard and leaned on it.
"Mason's right Max, don't worry about it. If you worry too much about, you won't get any sleep and besides, Hiro will forget about it in the morning anyway." The boy with midnight blue hair said as he patted his worried friend on the back.
"Thanks Davis, I really appreciate that man. Well, I guess I'll be heading home guys. Hey Mason? Have you heard anything about Mayura, Asagi and Juri? Have they made a decision regarding the tournament this year and uhh...does Juri need any help with her Gunpla?" Max asked his friends as he started to get flabbergasted.
"Not that I know of Max, and if I didn't know any better Max, I swear you had a humongous crush on her or something man. Why not just come clean we're not going to tease you man I mean I'll admit it that I have a crush on Mayura have I told her yet nope, but I plan on it." Mason told his friend as to make him feel at ease.
"But what if she doesn't like me that way or what if I mess up somehow?" Max asked in a worried manner as he started to pace back and forth on the side walk outside of Mason's
"Well Davis, can you take Max on to his house so I can go and get some rest and I'll see you guys tomorrow" Mason said as yawned from the exhaustion of the battle earlier and the walk home.
"Sure Mason will do, come on Max let's go bud you can worry about asking Juri out tomorrow at the Academy alright?" Davis stated as he pushed Max on down the road.
"Alright Davis will do, and your right I guess I'll worry about it tomorrow then, later Mason." Max said as he and Davis left to go to their houses.
As Mason turned and walked toward the front door and walked inside as he took his shoes off and then put his house shoes on he walked over and sat down at his work bench and brought out his custom Strike gunpla and placed it on the bench. As he took the backpack/booster off, he then brought out a tool roll made of red vinyl with a black trim and upon opening it up revealing all of his crafting tools from his crating nippers to his different types of files and other items.
"Well I better do some fine tuning on the Blazing Booster, while I'm at it I might as well work on the other boosters as well." Mason said as he brought out three other custom boosters/backpacks for his Strike.
One of the boosters was designed for close quarters combat as it had a pair customized 'Excalibur' from the hg revive Sword Impulse Gundam and a pair of shoulder armor from two hg Gundam Seed Perfect Strike Gundam and modified them so much that they were almost a complete scratch build, lastly was a pair of rocket anchors from the same kits and like the shoulder armor they also were modified and looked almost like a scratch build. Next was the Assault Booster with had four weapon binders which looked similar to the Kämpfer Amazing's weapon binders which they were just slightly different as Mason had decided to slightly modify the design as to fit his gunpla's style of being a Multi-Mode MS ,then finally was the booster designed for long range artillery. It had a customized Variable Hyper Impulse Beam Cannon that was made combining the parts of the HGCE revive Blast Impulse Gundam's Blast Silhouette and the "Agni" 320mm Hyper Impulse Beam Cannon from the HG Gundam seed Perfect Strike Gundam and lastly a few parts from the VSR from the HGUC Gundam F91 and given metal parts inside the barrels.
"Man I've come up with cool names for three of the four boosters, but when it comes to the fourth booster I got nothing. All things considered if I asked Max he'd come up with a crazy name for it and I don't want that well I might as well not worry about it, WOAH, JEEZ!" Mason said as he was working on one of the four boosters/backpacks when he was stopped by an animal, but not just any animal his pet ferret.
"Nibbles, what are doing boy did you miss me that much I was only gone for….holy crap quite a few hours huh sorry boy we'll go to bed as soon as I'm done working okay ." Mason said to his pet Ferret as it climbed up the back of his and scared him by nuzzling against Mason's cheek.
He then patted his pet ferret as it went from his shoulder to its pet hammock and curled up and fell asleep. As Mason worked on the fragment beam blades he looked over at his display shelf and looked at all of his old gunpla he made as he and his friends grew up over the years to their teens.
"Man I can't believe it's been ten years since the guys and I met and started battling together course we weren't as in sync back then as we are now, and our gunpla have come a long way as well. I mean we started out with HG Gundam seed Zaku Warriors and now we've got to where we are now thanks to our team work and to our custom Strike Gundams we've even became best friends and we got into Axis Academy which was turning point for us course it wasn't easy but nothing ever is, isn't that right Strike." Mason said to himself and then to his gunpla as he looked at his gunpla and the boosters he was working on while he was reminiscing of how far he and his had come.
After he finished the last little bit of tuning to his gunpla's Blazing Booster he went to bed after he put his pet ferret into its cage. He went to bed, the next morning as he got up and fixed himself a cup of coffee and poured into his blazing red mug and walked over to his ferret Nibbles and fed him he then walked over and sat down at his bench, then took another drink of his coffee as he looked at his custom Strike gunpla and smiled.
"Well Strike I hope you're ready for our team training battles today" Mason said to his gunpla as he got up and grabbed his long crimson red over coat with a black flame design on the bottom of the coat going up a little. "I hope the guys are ready this morning course the guys are probably at the café waiting for me so I better grab Strike and put the Blazing Booster back on it and get going" Mason said as he walked back over to the bench and put the booster/ backpack onto his Strike along with Variable Beam Rifle that also has a underslung grenade launcher onto it and an upgraded version of the Absorb shield with the front part of Kyrios gundam's shield and the shields name was the Vortex shield.
"Oops I better not forget Mayura's new gunpla I made for her I can't believe it took me a week to make it." Mason said as he grabbed a silver colored gunpla off of his work bench as well. "I hope she likes it though I mean I did make it to her fighting style after all." Mason said as he put the gunpla into a pocket inside of his over coat as he walked out of his house and locked the door he walked to his garage and opened the door. As the door rose up it revealed a blazing red motorcycle with a black flame design on it as well.
"Man I can't wait to show Mayura her new gunpla I just hope that Max isn't making a fool of himself around Juri. That being said I better hurry up and get their good thing I got my motorcycle license a while back." Mason said as he put his helmet on and pushed his bike out, got onto it and turned the key in the ignition and started it up. As it fired up Mason pushed the visor down and started out of his gate once outside the gate and on the street he revved it up and started toward the café.
Meanwhile at the café the two friends were waiting with Mayura, Juri and Asagi for Mason to show up there; a coffee shop located just south-west of the Turbines Daycare and youth Battling school, right beside the battle arcade. A waitress appeared and took their orders, writing down the orders on a notepad as she kept a friendly expression. "Coming right up you all!" She beamed before vanishing to the counter, leaving the two boys and the three girls alone as they still waited for their friend to show up.
"So what do you think?" Asked,Max as he placed a amethyst purple colored custom Gundam Frame Astray with parts. "Pretty sweet huh?"
"I suppose.I mean it's a nice color? But why would you make custom gunpla for me though? "Asked a girl with blue hair and amber colored eyes that were hidden under a pair of transition glasses, as she turned the model gently around to get a complete view. Then looked at Max waiting for him to tell her his reason for making it.
As Davis handed a rose pink colored Astray to the other girl that had sat next to him, and who had turned it completely around and looked at every detail of it.
"Oh Davis it looks wonderful and you even made a version of the Beginning 30 gundam's IFS unit right." Said a sixteen year old blonde hair girl with blue eyes "But did you design this version differently?"
"I'm glad you like Asagi and your right the version of the Beginning 30's IFS unit is made to use the Armure Lumiere for both offense and defense purposes" Said Davis as he explained what all he did to make the gunpla.
"Well Juri the reason I made it for you is…..is I um….I..." Max stuttered as he tried to work up the courage to answer Juri's question. "I (inhale) I LIKE YOU JURI WILL YOU GO OUT WITH ME PLEASE!" Max screamed as he confessed his feelings to Juri and asked her out all at once.
"WHAT!" Screamed Juri as her face was red as could be from the embarrassment of what Max did and the fact that he liked her and her glasses slid down her nose a little and stopped.
"Seriously, what!" Boomed a sixteen year old Red haired and Blue eye girl.
As Davis, Asagi, Mayura were either laughing at Juri's reaction to Max confessing his feelings for her or shocked by it in Mayura's case completely shocked. Then the sound of a motorcycle could be heard heading their direction.
"Hey that must be Mason heading this way." Said Davis as he and Asagi both had gone outside of the café to wait for him to arrive there.
As the sound of the motorcycle was getting closer and closer until they saw the silhouette of a guy riding on a motorcycle approaching in the distance.
"Hey Davis, is that Mason coming there? I can't tell with the pesky heat coming off of the road it's making it hard to make out details." Said Asagi as she put her left hand on her forehead to shield her eyes from the sun as to try to see a little bit better.
"Yeah Asagi that's him, I recognize that Blazing red paint and black flame design on it anywhere." Davis answered as he and Asagi watched the bike pull up.
"Hm looks like Davis and Asagi are outside waiting for me. So I can assume then that Max, Juri and Mayura are inside the café hope they haven't ordered yet" Thought Mason as he pulled into the café parking lot and parked his bike as he kicked out the kickstand and turned off the engine.
"Hey Mason what took you man you missed out on Max having a moment in there." Davis said to his friend and team leader as he walked over to him with Asagi following behind him.
"Yeah sorry Davis, I was finishing up some fine tuning to the Blazing Booster and to my Strike Gundam as well." Said Mason as he pulled off his helmet and placed it on the bike seat as he got off his bike. "Oh yeah Asagi, is Mayura here I brought the custom gunpla that I made for her?" He asked.
"Yeah Mason she is, she's inside along with Juri and Max the guys wanted to wait till you got here before we ordered anything." Asagi answered as she walked back into the café with Davis, and Mason.
"Hey Mayura, how have you been I finished the new gunpla that I made for you." Mason said as he sat down in the chair across from her as he looked at the expressions on Max and Juri's faces. "Um….What's up with these two huh? What did you do Max you didn't do or say anything embarrassing did ya?" Mason inquired as he looked at the pair.
"Well I took your advice from yesterday and I…I uh" Max stuttered as he scratched his nose in a nervous manner. "I told Juri how I felt about her and I asked her out." Max finished as he looked at Mason and then at a still Juri who was still shocked at what Max said to her earlier.
"Wait you did what!" Mason yelled, shocked by what his other friend had told him. "So you actually told her how you feel and you asked her out well did she tell you yes yet or what?" Mason asked as he waved to the waitress as Davis and Asagi had sat down.
"No she hasn't answered me yet, I think she's still in shock from it." Max said as he looked over at Juri who was starting to come out of her shocked state.
"Alright you all ready to order now?" Asked the waitress as she pulled out a pen and pad and was waiting for to take their orders.
"Yeah, I'll have a small Frappé coffee please." Mayura said as she gave her order.
"I'll have a small Frappe Café as well, how about you Juri?" Asagi asked Juri as both her and Mayura looked at their friend waiting for a response "Juri!" Asagi said in a loud tone.
"Huh oh um, I'll have a small Frappe Café as well thank you." Juri answered after she snapped out of her shocked stated. "I can't believe that happened did I dream it Asagi, Mayura could one of you please tell me I was sleep and I didn't just have Max confess his love to me and ask me out on a date all in one?" She asked as she looked at her two friends and teammates.
"Sorry Asagi it was a dream hun he really did do that and by the way he's sitting right here." Mayura answered her friend as she pointed her finger at Max who was sitting in the chair next to Juri.
"Ok well now that the girls have ordered. I'll have a bottled water thanks." Mason said as he gave the lady his order.
"I guess I'll have an iced tea please." Davis said as he gave his order to the waitress.
"Then I guess I'll take a Latte macchiato if you please." Max said as he gave her his order.
"Ok so that's three small Frappe Cafés for the girls, bottled water, an iced tea, and a Latte macchiato. Alright it'll be just a few minutes okay." The waitress said as she tore the paper out with the orders and handed it to one of her coworkers.
After the waitress left Mason, Davis, Mayura, and Asagi all looked at their two friends as the pair looked at each other.
"So Juri did you think about your answer yet I mean it's okay if you don't want to go out with me I mean I am pretty odd and all so." Max said but he was interrupted by Juri grabbing the sleeve of his t-shirt with her index and thumb.
"Being odd is okay with me and t-to answer your question I would love go out with you Max, and thank you for the custom gunpla as well." Juri answered nervously as she looked at Max. "So if you'd like we can go out tonight or tomorrow night whichever is fine by me." She finished.
"What really yeah tomorrow night would be great Juri." Max said in excitement as their friends just looked at the pair.
"Well Mason you did tell him to come right out and tell her how he felt." Davis said as nudged Mason with his elbow.
"Augh, I only told him that as advice I didn't think he'd take it literally." Mason said as he face palmed himself and then looked at Max and his first girlfriend Juri. "But I'm glad he did, which reminds me Mayura I have something for you here it is." He finished as he brought out the custom HG Gundam Astray gunpla that he brought her.
"Oh wow Mason it looks awesome it's a custom colored Gundam Astray Blue Frame D, and instead of the Aile striker pack you used the Force silhouette pack from the HGCE Revive Force Impulse Gundam you even put the sensor DRAGOONs on the torso instead of putting it on the sides of the head that's a nice touch." Mayura said in awe as she turned the gunpla around to look at every inch of it. "By the way what's it called something cool I hope?" she asked as she looked at Mason.
"Oh right it's called the Gundam Astray Silver Frame D. Although I had planned on using it for myself in the tournament but I thought that I would give it to the girl that I have had feelings for, for a while now." Mason said as he placed his Blazing Strike on the table next to his two friend's gunplas as he confessed his feelings to Mayura as well.
"Wait you like me, but what about the other girl that you were talking to a couple of days ago at the Academy huh?" Mayura asked in a serious as she looked at Mason waiting for his response.
"What you mean Scarlet she told me that she liked Hiro but she didn't know how to talk to him so I gave her some advice is all so I told some stuff about Hiro so that she wouldn't hurt his feelings or get him mad." Mason answered as he looked at Mayura straight in the eyes. "Honest." He added.
"Ok I just wanted to hear you say it is all so when would you like to go out huh?" Mayura asked as she put her arm on the table and rested her head in the palm of her hand.
"How about tomorrow after mine and guy's training match with coach Waltfeld I'll give you a call how's that sound?" Mason answered as he looked and noticed the waitress returning "Oh and here comes our orders." He added.
"Okay here you all go that's three small Frappe Cafés for the girls, bottled water, an iced tea, and a Latte macchiato enjoy." The waitress said as she walked off to tend to the other patrons.
As they were all drinking and talking Mason had noticed that their other friend Hiro hadn't showed up yet and it had been a good solid two hours since he arrived at the café. As he was about to ask Davis if he had heard anything from Hiro since Last night when his phone went alerting him of a text message he had as answered it the shock was unbelievable.
Oh it's from Coach Waltfeld Let's see. PFFFFT (cough, cough, cough) What Hiro left the academy and joined another school!" Mason yelled as he spit the water that he had from the drink he had just took from his water thankfully he spit away from Mayura and the others.
"Wait he did what! Are you sure what was his reason." Davis said in a demanding tone as he waited for a response.
"Yeah I mean he better have a good reason." Max said in an agitated manner.
As they looked at Mason who sent Coach Waltfeld a message asking for Hiro's reason were for leaving. The response infuriated Mason and his two friends at their now former friend turned enemy.
"I am serious he told Coach that the reason is that the only way we made as far as we had been was because of his strength alone and that he would prove it to the world." Mason said in an agitated tone. "Mayura I'm sorry but our date will have to be tomorrow after all." He added as he grabbed and held Mayura's and looked her straight in the eye.
"Its fine you go do what you and the guys need to do besides me and the girls have to go and get used to using these new gunpla you and guys made for us." Mayura said as she watched as Mason and his friends grabbed their respective gunpla and left the café.
As they got on to their respective bike Mason sent a message to Hiro stating that he wanted Hiro to meet them at the Arcade they all played at as kids and that to be there at sunset. With the message sent they started out toward the arcade with the full intent of battling their former friend to find out his true reasons for leaving and to show that they gave the battles they all fought their all.
"Well Hiro you always said you were nothing like your brother Saga and you were right because he wouldn't do what you did and turn his back on his team." Mason thought to himself as he and his team headed toward the arcade for the most emotional battle ever.
To be continued in Battle two: Flare up, Blazing Knuckle!
