Hello Everyone!
To be honest this fanfiction should've been posted before the last episode of GBF Try. But as life would have it I have been continued to be delayed due to my... laziness. Well, there's nothing I can do about it.
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Gundam Build Fighters: Zeliel's Hobby Shop
Akihabara. The place where most of electronic gadgets/devices and popular culture goods is scattered around the district and selling like street-food on the busy roads. If you were an anime otaku then this is the place for you. Lots of anime/manga merchandises on display left and right at the hobby shops aligned on the streets, cos-players who randomly do poses in crowded areas, and of course, those girls in maid outfits handing out promotional materials for their Anime themed Cafes.
Thursday, 7:00 A.M.
"Hmmm, it's about time I open up for the new day..."
In one of the business blocks of Akihabara district, a modest hobby shop is situated just beside the center of an intersection. Surrounded by high-rising shopping malls and game centers teeming with people this hobby shop had the ideal setup for business. From the other side of the road it will look like a huge grayish black box with a metal grids at the center, which covers the shop's main window and door. On top of it is a huge sign with words written in black large font style characters on a yellow background; Zeliel's Hobby Shop, with the word "Zeliel's" written in English while the rest is written in Katakana, and beside it is a darkened silhouette of what it seems to be a federation mobile suit firing its beam rifle upwards. While being a dwarf in comparison to the large establishments towering over it, this shop is easy to spot by onlookers who comes across this intersection.
"Crowd density are in ideal condition. Calculating expected sales for today." A tall and lanky looking man is walking around the busy main Akihabara, where he seemingly observes the crowd around him while he walks toward the hobby shop.
Sasaki 'Zeliel' Furukawa, a loner 26-year old man hailing from Okinawa is the store-owner of this small hobby shop. With a messy Spike Spiegel-style dark brown hair, medium built body physique, well-rounded eye proportions, black pupils and a light brown complexion, he can be considered as a default personification of an adult Juan de la Cruz rather than a true Jiro Yamada.
An undergraduate engineering student after he quit college, he chose to become a hobby shop owner due to his experience as a hobbyist and recommendations from his friends and relatives. The name 'Zeliel' comes from his username on his game account on a famous third-person shooting online Gundam game. He became fairly famous in that online game; the first one to charge into the fray, and the first one to be shot down. While he performed poorly on the game, he did made some friends over time and slowly gains the respect of several other players and became a well-known player on the online gaming community. Soon after he quit playing the said game he adapted 'Zeliel' as his default nickname in every game/event he participated; Game beta-testing, local contests and of course, Gunpla building/battling. Thus, he named his shop 'Zeliel' - a surefire way of having his shop being recognized by the people who knew him.
Generally, his interest in Gundam and Gunpla were more of a casual fan rather than an avid fan; he knew most of the prominent Gundam series that have been aired in TV and the internet, but he rarely reads any mangas or light novels related to Gundam. Although he had little exposure to the side-stories of Gundam universes, Zeliel does know some of the mobile suits outside the main fandom - the OYW Pezun manufactured Zeon MS's, T3(Titan's Test Team) TR series, the Silhouette formula MSes, the bizarre MS designs of the Jupiter Empire, Geminass twin Gundams (and their upgrades) in Wing G-unit, the Librarian Works MS series in Seed, the second generation Gundams of Celestial Beings in 00 and many others.
He started Gunpla model-crafting after he watched the series Gundam wing and X, which was aired in television during his elementary years. And just like any other kid who got their hands first time on a Gunpla kit it was quite a unique experience. Indeed his works back then were only classified as 'quick-assemble-no-paint' (and sometimes no sticker) straight build, with the infamous 'nub funnels' sticking out like a sore thumb on the Gunpla, but for Zeliel it was the greatest moment of glory for him; this toy is something that he 'built' by himself. This sense of accomplishment drove him to go further into Gunpla model-crafting until he started high school, where he can no longer support his hobby and ends up losing most of his old Gunpla collection. After he suffered from a depression due to his failing grades he quit college and became a shut-in for a couple of years. Sometime after a close friend of Zeliel convinces him to go back to his old hobby to cure his depression; a crucial push that he needed to change his life. Gathering further support from his relatives he moved to Akihabara and started his own hobby shop business, just in time for the launching of a new entertainment system that's hitting Japan by storm; the Gunpla Battle System.
While not really a remarkable craftsman, Zeliel's skills as a Gunpla builder is considerably well-received. Using new-found techniques such as panel-lining, airbrush paint job, nub-removing and detailing techniques he skillfully built sample Gunplas of different Grades to perfection. He even had painted some of his Gunplas on display into Titanium Finish, glossy Metallic Finish, and recently Pearl White Finish. From this he also built some converted Gunplas, such as the PG 1/60 Zeta plus A1 based on the PG 1/60 Zeta Gundam, an RG 1/144 Full Armor Gundam Metallic Finish based on his RG 1/144 RX-78-2 Gundam, an MG 1/100 Reborns Gundam based on his MG 1/100 00 Raiser, and the PG 1/60 Gundam Epyon EW Red Metallic Finish based on the PG 1/60 Wing Gundam Zero EW.
His skills in Gunpla battling isn't really top-tier, but he can put up a good fight should the conditions be favorable to both him and his opponent. He even managed to nail a spot in the semi-finals during the last World Gunpla Battle Championship, until he was defeated by an Italian representative who uses a green and dirty white color schemed XXXG-01W Wing Gundam. Though he had fun competing in the world championship, after his fourth participation (Which he became a finalist) Zeliel goes back to tend his hobby shop and did not return to Gunpla world competition to refine further his skills as a builder/fighter.
So for now, he's ready for another day at work...
"Beginning preparations, opening shop." Zeliel noted to himself, after he slides up the roller shutter door covering his shop. After entering the premises he immediately begins to arrange his merchandises in a neat and orderly fashion.
Though the lot it occupies is no larger than an average convenience store, inside the shop is quite spacious enough for its customers to move around. When one views the shop entering at the glass door, the cashier takes the place on the right side adjacent to the window, where several HG and MG kits in diorama are displayed on the large table beside it. In the middle there are three 3X2X3 (LXWXH) meter glass boxes arranged perpendicularly to the window, in which several more items such as various Anime character figurines, Kamen Rider action figures, 'Robot Tamashii' toys and a number of custom built HG/MG/PG kits displayed inside. The spacings and walkways between and around these glass boxes is enough for 10-20 people to look around the hobby shop without feeling cramped inside. On the left and right wall shelves were numerous boxes of HG model kits that dominate the walls, followed by dozens of MG kits beside their HG counterparts, a couple of PG And RG kits that takes the middle shelves, and a few more NG/FG kits of varying scales at the lower corner shelves which completes the selection. Further back is the Gunpla Battle Arena, which is a separate room where three Gunpla Stadiums for customers who those who wants to play Gunpla battle. And finally a noticeably large flat TV screen screwed on a viewable angle at the ceiling for people who wants to watch the ongoing Gunpla battles inside the room.
After applying the finishing touches on his shop, "Preparations complete. Commencing enterprise procedures..." Zeliel silently muttered to himself, as he finally sits on the counter while reading a newspaper at hand, waiting for his customers to come.
12:30 pm...
It's already past noon. As usual business is good for his shop. A little while ago he already sold nine HG model kits to four people, and three more who bought some Tamiya paint bottles and panel markers. As he had no customers at the moment he took this chance to survey his shop's area through the window, staring at the crossroad in sight. And during that time...
"Warning, inbound unknown entity approaching."
He notices that an unusually fast object is heading towards his shop. The said object is moving so fast that it's exaggeratingly creating a cloud of dust on its trail.
Following the fast object with his eyes, "Engaging foreign entity in three, two, one..." Zeliel continues to observe the 'Unknown Entity' from his seat until it bursts through his fragile glass door.
*CRRAASSSHHH!*
"...Damn, My poor door..."
"OOooRrreeeeee, SAaaannJOooouuUU!"
The 'unknown identity' crashes into the shop's door, revealing itself to be a high school girl still in her complete uniform attire. She had Lapis Lazuli back-length hair, sky blue eyes, wears a typical white and blue blouse and a 10-inch long skirt and carries a school bag that looks like the backpack unit of a MS-06J Zaku II Ground Type.
"Oh shit..." Zeliel frowns as he glances at the girl, which he immediately recognizes and said, "You again...You damn frigging hyperactive Chuunibyou girl."
Hearing this from Zeliel, "Y-You scoundrel! How dare you address me like that!" the girl squealed as she points her cute index finger at the vexed store-owner, "Heed, young peon. For you will address me as... Purinsesu Godo (Princess God) Akina, the Master of Seven Blades!"
"Yeah right..." Zeliel rolls his eyes unimpressed and annoyed by this girl's reply.
Akina Himekami, a cheerful 15-year-old first year high school student of the prestigious Nadeshiko Academy, is one of the few females who frequently visits his shop. At 4'5" she is the shortest among all her classmates, however her unusual 86-50-84 figure, creamy white complexion and a perfectly shaped child actress-level facial structure makes any of her classmates hide in shame when compared to her (Yup people, this girl follows most of Gundam fan-service girls template in a form of a plumpy loli, being the eye-candy to please male Gundam fanboys who had raging hormones... although she's the very definition of a Chuunibyou - a girl who always lived in her imaginary world).
Wild and upbeat, she will take any opportunity to show off her 'Supernatural abilities' as Purinsesu Godo Akina, a character that she shamelessly emulates in public. Its because of this quirkiness that most people who met her were either ostracized or openly mocked her, much to her chagrin. She does have true friends who always support her, but they're not fond of her tendency acting as a teenage girl with a mind of a preschooler. The only ones who seemed not be too disturbed by this are her parents (which were somewhat supportive on her over-the-top fantasies), and Zeliel, who always reminded her that reality is a cruel mistress that she can't escape from.
"Dat engrish..." Zeliel remarked, "And you're attending an elite all-girls academy where the finest of all Japanese girls gather together and learn how to become a true Yamato Nadeshiko... I kinda feel sorry for the teachers who painstakingly trying to put up with your crazy antiques." sighing as he gently massages his temple.
Walking high and mighty towards the cashier counter, "Hmph, no ordinary human will ever understand the elegance of my presence..." The self proclaimed supreme being haughtily replied, "The only individuals who can grasp the true essence of my beauty... Are those who have transcended from you Oldtypes into Newtypes..."
"Yeah, I will never understand why are you so full of yourself... And I doubt no one other than your parents would take you seriously even if all the people in the world would become Newtypes." Zeliel shooked his head in deplore.
"Hmph... be enlighten, Oldtype... For you should be feel honored that you have been granted audience by this benevolent presence before you." Akina offers her hand to Zeliel, like she was some kind of villain praising his efforts to confront her.
"I don't really felt that honored." Zeliel just shrugged her off with a rude 'no way' hand gesture, "But still, I'm quite amazed that it's so early in the morning and your damn Chuunibyou-ness is already in high mode..."
"Correction. It's already past noon, you know." Akina intervened, while she points at the wall clock at the upper left of the cashier counter. "And I said call me Purinsesu Godo Akina!"
"Huh? Oh, yeah." He lazily commented after he take a look at the clock itself, "More importantly, don't you have school today? I believe It's still class hours until late afternoon." He then returns his focus to Akina.
"Eeehh!? You don't want seeing me~?" Akina suddenly changed the tone of her voice from an arrogant tyrant to an innocent little girl. "And I've made all the effort just to be here with you.~"
"Wha... What's with the sudden 'flustered little girl' look?" He becomes wary of her expression, trying to read her intentions.
Although Zeliel knew that this girl's actions were synonymous to worldly outrageous events, not even in his wildest dreams did he expect her most daring act yet would happen right now...
"Look. I even wear this for you to see..." Blushing like a ripe tomato, Akina slowly raises his skirt to show Zeliel her striped blue and white panties, much to Zeliel's shock and disbelief, "...D-Does this excite you?" She shyly asks, while trying to show more of her Victoria's secret.
"I-Idiot! Wh-What are you trying to do!?" Flustered and desperately looking away he snapped back at the now exhibitionist Chuunibyou, "Don't you realize that we can be seen from the outside!?"
"... You really don't want to see this?" She asks again, this time with a puppy eyes expression. Akina's pretty serious about this.
"Wi-Will you cut it out already!" For Zeliel, this is already too much. It was already hard for him to keep up with this energetic girl with a mindset of a preschooler, not to mention Akina's getting a bit too lovey-dovey with him. It doesn't even help that her advances towards him can warrant a visit to the police station by either charges of scandalous acts or sexual harassment case (Or in the worst case scenario, adultery).
"Hm!? This is-?"
Just then, an imaginary lightning flashes on his head, as if he senses two other unknown entities opening the shop's door(Nope, he's just parodying them, that's all). Before these two could enter the shop's premises Zeliel manages to get out of the counter and convince Akina to lower down her skirt and make herself busy looking at his new batch of custom built Gunplas. And when they entered the shop...
"W-Welcome to Zeliel's Hobby Shop! How can I help you?" He greeted the two newcomers with a smile, seemingly unaffected by what happened earlier. Now that's amazing.
The two promising customers took a quick look at the overall appearance at the shop. And after a moment they take notice of a certain custom built Gunpla displayed at one of the glass shelves. While they look different, these two resemble some of the characters from the Gundam franchise...
"Hey, look! It's that aquatic grunt suit from Gundam Seed Destiny...Though I can't recall it's name..." One of the customers points at the 8cm green toy robot on the center glass shelf. He had semi-curled blonde hair, cyan eyes, and wears a white military uniform similar to the ones seen worn by the Earth Alliance in Gundam Seed.
"Seriously?" His companion replied, "I thought it's that infamous Zaku II..." who thinks his guess is the right answer. This one had that popular 90's style cut brown hair, wears also a 90's style shades which hides his eyes and an obvious scar, and a deep blue Russian-style winter coat atop of white shirt and white pants.
"Great. Now these two have turned my hobby shop into a barber's shop." Zeliel muttered, while mentally face-palming from what he heard. Their guesses were both wrong, as the Gunpla in question is a EMS-06 Batara, Jupiter Empire's grunt suit. Although he admits one of them did came close, as he uses an old HGUC Zaku II as a base to create the kit.
"Don't you think their sense of fashion is a little too odd for their age?" Akina whispered to Zeliel, "And, wearing a winter coat in the middle of summer? That's just ridiculous, right?"
"You're one to talk..." Zeliel responded, giving a raised eyebrow look at Akina who seemingly forgotten what she had done earlier.
"Excuse me, where can we play a Gunpla Battle here? And, how much for the rent?" The EA (Earth Alliance) cosplayer walks up to Zeliel, who had a blue box in hand.
"Further at the back. 30 yen for 30 minutes of solo play per person." Zeliel nonchalantly answered, pointing at the separate room behind the two customers, "Also, 60 yen per match for two players who wants to trash each others multimillion yen plastic toy robots for fun." he added.
All three who listened to Zeliel's answer had gone silent for a moment. It was like their reaction was 'WTF did I just heard?' from what he said.
"Oohhh, you described Gunpla battles in a cruel way...I like it!" The winter-themed customer breaks the silence, smiling like a maniac and doing a thumbs up gesture at Zeliel.
Moments later a red and white small delivery truck stops right in front of Zeliel's hobby shop, which catches everyone's attention. It's a delivery truck with a Bandai logo on its sides and cargo compartment. After unloading several boxes from the truck the driver enters the hobby shop while towing a trolley from behind.
"Zeliel, I've brought the new batch of kits and some custom parts that you requested yesterday." A man in a white and red delivery man uniform greets Zeliel, carrying what seems to be boxes of newly released kits from Bandai. His uniform consists of a red and white themed cap, plain white T-shirt with assortments of red line accents, and white pants and black shoes.
"Oh good, you're here. Just put them at that corner. I'll organize them later." Zeliel points at the corner near at the counter, adjacent to the window display.
"Good afternoon." Akina greets the delivery man by bowing politely to him. She does know when to act as a proper lady from time to time.
Looking at Akina, "Dude, someone's been submitting her resume' to be your girlfriend at your desk. She maybe a loli but she's got the curves, and here you are ignoring her even she's right in front of you..." said the delivery man, redirecting his attention to Zeliel.
"I'd rather be fondling an Asuna Yuuki Dakimakura than touching this girl. You had no idea how crazy this girl can be." Zeliel nonchalantly points his right thumb at Akina, "Any man would have his future and dreams ruined the moment he dated this Chuunibyou."
A vicious punch in the gut followed by a sharp kick on the chest suddenly knocked down Zeliel, leaving him cringing in pain on the floor. The two customers along with the delivery man immediately backed away from the crime scene, not wanting to get involved in this brutal beat-down. The perpetrator is none other than Akina, who is still in her deadly Karate pose after she almost broke his ribs in a split second.
"Aaahhggghhh... Man down, man down...!" Zeliel silently mumbled, while still writhing in pain. "That's overkill, you know..."
"Hmph..." Ignoring him, Akina just flipped her long and elegant Lapis Lazuli hair like a model advertising a new brand of shampoo.
"Seriously, dude. You should be more aware of a girl's feelings, or she'll share it to you with her fists of fury." The delivery man said, offering a mocking smile at Zeliel.
"Shut up... Ugh..." Zeliel faintly retorted, as he massages his aching chest and abdomen trying to sooth out the painful sensation.
"Uhm, can we use the stadium now?" The blond EA cos-player intervened, cutting off short the comedy segment between Zeliel and Akina.
"Oh, right. This way... Oww..." Slowly getting up on his feet Zeliel regains his composure and lead the two customers on the Gunpla Battle Stadium room at the back.
Inside the room there are three separate Gunpla Stadium sets to choose from. These are then separated by two thick wooden walls as to prevent two ongoing Gunpla battles from disturbing each other. After they chose and activated the middle one the two customers goes to the opposing sides of the Gunpla Stadium and take out their Gunplas. After a few more explanations for the two customers Zeliel left the room and goes back to the cashier counter waiting for the battle to start.
"So they'll be watching the battle from those cameras, huh? We should give them a good performance, Jammille."
"Sure thing, but just don't get too sloppy on the controls like last time, Muhara."
"Please set your GP Base."
The two participants then placed their GP bases on the Stadium terminal and prepares for the Gunpla Battle. The GP Bases of both fighters reveals their names and their custom Gunplas; Muhara Rau Fraga with his Perfect Strike Gundam Mk. II, and Jammille Nilt with his Gundam X (Jammille Custom).
"Field 1, Space."
"This might get a little bit ugly for me..." Muhara thought to himself, as he knows that this stage is favorable towards his opponent and had few spots to setup an ambush.
"Please set your Gunpla."
The two fighters then placed their Gunplas on the Stadium's Gunpla Launching Point. Although colored in their default blue, white, red and yellow schemes these two miniature mobile suits are well built; no visible nub marks, painted accurately from its original design(NO stickers!), panel-lined, and polished neatly with Acrylic.
Muhara on the blue terminal of the stadium uses a Gunpla that have been quite popular in Japan after the airing of its HD remastered version of its series, the HGCE 1/144 GAT-X105+AQM/E-X01 Aile Strike Gundam. While the actual Strike Gundam had minor modifications such as its left skirt armor had a hidden anti-armor knife while the right side stores a single beam pistol from the HG Strike Noir, its backpack and main weapon systems have been given major modifications that give it a distinct design. The handheld beam rifle had two muzzles instead of one (Possibly a combination of the HGCE Strike's beam rifle and the other beam pistol of the HG Strike Noir) and the shield is a modified shield from an HG Strike Rouge IWSP, now with two large blades at the end sides of the shield (Again possibly from the HG Noir Kit) and the beam boomerang is hidden under the shield just below the Gatling gun. The backpack consists of the original Aile pack (with the wings inclined upwards and minus the beam sabers) with two more additional large thrusters on the top of smaller ones, a pair of large plasma cannons and small rail-guns attached to the side of the Aile pack's main body (Probably from the NG 1/144 Blast Impulse Gundam, connected to the beam saber's storage), and two anti-ship swords attached directly to the Aile pack's center(From the NG 1/144 Sword Impulse Gundam, located where the battery pack should've been). And last but not the least, two additional beam boomerangs and a pair of two-tube missile launchers equipped both on its shoulders completes the full arsenal of weapons in the Perfect Strike Gundam Mk. II.
On the red side of the stadium his opponent Jammille uses a newly released kit, An 1/144 HGBF GX-9999 Gundam X Maoh. And just like his opponent this Gunpla had also been slightly modified for the owner's personal taste. From one look one can tell it was built using three kits; the whole body is the Gundam X Maoh, its backpack came from the original HGAW Gundam X, while the battleship grade beam machine gun and Divider shield is from the HGAW GX Divider. It carries over the two shield beam rifles from the original GX and X Maoh, stored both on the modified side skirt armors for quick-draw-and-shoot tactics. The beam sabers of the GX Divider is placed on the forearms for quicker access, while it still retains the original beam sword of the GX in its S.C. backpack. The backpack is is also modified as well, having the GX Maoh's own energy panels attached to the two lower poly-cap attachments giving it a slight resemblance to the GX Divider's backpack design, while the Satellite Cannon itself is revamped to a much larger scale (Which is almost as large as its 1/100 counterpart). While this kit had fewer weapons than Muhara's Strike, it had more thrusters and smaller wings equipped on its body and limbs giving it a spiky look and a hi-speed feel. Because of this it doesn't have the optional Vulcan and missile pod like the original GX or the GX Maoh had, but boasts higher mobility than its base Gunpla.
"Gunpla Battle, Combat Start!"
"Muhara Rau Fraga! Let's do this, my Strike!"
"Jammille Nilt in the GX, going in for the kill!"
As the two mobile suits bursts out of their catapult and races toward the battlefield, they took a moment to observe their surrounding area. They realized that this field is the aftermath scene from Gundam 0083, with the Earth below them having a huge darkened crater where the dropped colony went. The Plavsky Particle generated battlefield faithfully recreated the remains of the MSes and battleships of the Delaz fleet and the EFSF, giving off an eerie feeling to both players.
"Hmm... guess I'll setup an ambush here..." Muhara finds a large broken solar panel floating beside him, and with it he takes cover as it is large enough to hide his bulky mobile suit. He thought that his friend's Gunpla needed a considerable amount of time to begin his attack until...
*BLAAAAAAAAAAAMMM!*
Without warning the Gundam X fires away its customized Satellite Cannon at the ruins of the Solar system II, decimating any cluster of debris that gets in the way of the powerful beam blast. The resulting damage is so large it cleaned a fourth of the debris floating around the battlefield. Luckily for Muhara his Strike is just a few clicks away from the beam shot, protected by his cover.
"Wh-What the!? It was this powerful!?" Muhara cried out with a gargling Take***to Ko**su voice, "And he already charged his cannon so soon!?"
"Muhara, if you don't make your move now this battle's going to be a one-sided win for me!" Jammille screamed, as he fires another round of the Gerobi assault at his opponent after he spotted the Strike's bulging cannon on the solar panel.
"Khh! You're not giving me any rest, are you!?" Muhara's Strike managed to boost away in time before it gets hit by the engulfing burst of beam directed at him.
Meanwhile, outside the Gunpla Battle Room...
"Kukuku... Kuhahahahah!"
Like a little kid watching a Michael Bay-style power rangers, Akina is thrilled to see the ongoing battle on the 5x3 meter monitor screen as she watches the two Gunplas duke it out in the recreated outer space battlefield.
"Hah!HAh!Hah! This battle is making my genes boil! Hah! Hah! Hah!" She declared, standing just below the monitor. With her arms on waist, grinning and laughing like a mad scientist she's now in her own world not caring whether or not someone hears her maniacal laugh. Creepy...
"Hey, was she this energetic whenever she watches Gunpla Battles?" The delivery man whispered to Zeliel, leaning towards his face.
"I told you she's not a normal person..." Zeliel whispered back, carefully not letting Akina hear their conversation.
"DESTROY! DESTROY! MORE! MORE! HAH! HAH! HAH!"
Back to Gunpla Battle Stadium 2...
Firing the Satellite Cannon five times in a row, the GX turns the whole scrap-littered battlefield into an almost cleaned state. Most of the large chunks of battleship ruins were disintegrated into space dust by the fierce Gerobi attacks, leaving only small bunches of space junk scattered thinly on the empty space. After exhausting the Satellite System itself, Jammille observes his surroundings, looking for his opponent's Strike Gundam. Just then a warning signal alerts Jammille of an opponent coming from behind, firing his two-muzzled beam rifle.
"Just stay still you-!"
After Jammille stops his Satellite Cannon spam attack, the Strike manages to close in at the GX and the fight becomes a dogfight shooting frenzy with them exchanging shots of their beam rifles. With the large fragments of broken battleships and colonies vaporized by Jammille's attack earlier there are little or no place to use as a hiding spot for the two fighters, leaving them resorting to shoot-and-dodge/block tactics.
"You aren't getting better in ranged combat!" Jammille blurted out, doing evasive maneuvers whilst returning fire with the battleship-grade beam machine gun.
While firing his dual-muzzled beam rifle and shield Gatling gun, Muhara then unfolds his Strike's twin plasma cannons and unleashes a dark reddish beam at the GX, only to be evaded by the customized A.W.(After War) era mobile suit with ease. He continues to fire again and again its cannons in tandem with the small rail-guns but to no avail, his opponent would always evade his attacks.
"Khh, I can't do this for too long...!" Jammille thought to himself, halting his counterattacks and focuses more on evading the Strike's fast and powerful ranged attacks.
The GX then dashes away from the Strike and its unforgiving barrage of bullets/beam shots in an instant. Seeing this the Strike gives chase, all the while spamming more beam shots at the GX.
"You're not getting away!" Muhara shouts out, still trying to shoot down his opponent as he chases it.
No sooner they arrived on a remaining compiled large wreckage of Salamis and Magellan-class warships some three minutes away from their initial position. In there the battle becomes a hide-and-shoot diorama, where the Perfect Strike Mk. II and GX (Jammille Custom) begins another exchange of beam bullets battle.
"Hiding there won't help you!" Muhara's Strike deploys all of its missiles from its shoulders and back compartment(Located behind the beam cannons) against the intact stern of a Magellan-class warship, where he saw the GX flew inside it.
After coming out from its hiding spot the GX unleashes its beam harmonica, destroying all the missiles launched by the Strike and grazing it's left head exhaust. The Strike fights back, only to have its handheld beam rifle and Gatling gun damaged by the beams from the same attack.
"Khhk...Take this!"
After throwing its damaged beam rifle at the GX and discarding the Gatling gun the Strike cunningly fires the beam boomerang from its shield in secret. Distracted by the beam rifle's explosion after he destroys it completely with its beam harmonica, the sneaky beam boomerang pierces through the Divider shield's open compartment, destroying together the Divider shield and the beam boomerang with a huge bang.
"Dammit!"
Using the huge explosion as a cover the Perfect Strike deploys again its twin plasma cannons and fires its dark reddish beams through the pink lump of fireball and into the GX's legs. The customized GX's legs were still attached, but the custom-part thrusters and wings on it were destroyed and it's already showing some malfunctions in Jammille's controls.
"Tchh!"
"Hahah! Guess it's going to be my win after all!"
Noticing that the GX is already decreasing its mobility and reaction time Muhara uses this opportunity to quickly dash below it and throw the Strike's two more beam boomerangs. The first one slashes the beam machine gun in half after Jammille fails to shoot it down quickly while the other one severely damages its backpack's thrusters and the enlarged Satellite Cannon, completely disabling it.
"I've had enough with those effing boomerangs!" Jammille yelled, commanding the GX to draw out its two buster shield beam rifles and shoots down the beam boomerangs before it could return to the Strike's hands.
"I still have these!" Muhara's Strike redeploys again its twin plasma cannons and focuses his aim at the GX's chest, but just before he can fire away...
"I won't let you!" Jammille quickly shoots down the fragmented remains of a Salamis-class battleship above the Strike, causing an explosion that scatters the small fragments and distracting the O.M.N.I. mobile suit. In that moment he gave a well-placed shot each at the twin plasma cannon's barrel, cancelling the beam attack and destroying the cannons.
"You damn-!?" after discarding the plasma cannons Muhara attempted to use his rail guns, only to be quickly shot down by the GX's beam rifles. "Did he actually increase the firing rate of his rifles!?"
"Heh, quite the unlucky day for you, isn't it?" Jammille openly mocked his opponent while he pours down more beam shots at him. "Now you can't shoot me from afar!"
"If that's the case, then...!" Drawing the two solid blades from its shield Muhara drove his Strike straight ahead towards the GX.
"What the-!?" Jammille's GX increases more of the beam rifle's firing succession chipping away little by little the Strike's shield as he boosts away from the attacking mobile suit.
Holding the shield in front of the mobile suit while continuously evading the beam rifle shots the Strike charges through the beam barrage and closes the distance between him and his adversary. After taking too much damage from the beam shots the Strike's shield finally shatters into pieces, and in that moment the Muhara's Strike gets into the grappling range of the GX and slashes the two beam rifles with its jet black solid blades.
"Khh!"
Before it could cut away its arms the GX does the same by deploying its beam swords from its forearms and blocks each the Strike's solid blades. The battle quickly escalates into a deadly sword fight between two Gunplas, each intends to cut his opponent into pieces. While the Strike's solid blades were treated with beam coating, the GX's beam swords eventually cuts through them after a few block and parry contacts.
"EEeeiihhh! I ain't done yet!" Muhara shouted, as his Strike kicks the GX's arms and boosts away for a moment.
Throwing away the broken solid blades the Strike finally draws out its two anti-ship swords from its back and restarts another hack-and-slash action with the GX.
"Fine, Let's see how will you fare this time with a larger sword." Jammille smirked, confident that he can win against Muhara's Strike even with a larger weapon in hand.
The two Gunplas then engages in another Star Wars-style sword fight. Slashing in horizontal, vertical and diagonal patterns each of them evade the attacks of the other while countering with their own attacks. The Strike lunges at the GX in a downward diagonal fashion with its anti-ship sword in impaling position, however the GX just sidesteps in the left and tries to puncture the Strike's back, only to be parried by its other Anti-ship sword and kicked away in the process. Jammille's GX then goes on the offensive, slashing its beam swords diagonally from both left and right sides at the Strike. The Strike responds by blocking the two beam swords with its own pair of anti-ship swords and kicks the GX in the abdomen. This sword fight lasts for another five minutes until Muhara shouts-
"let's settle this here and now!"
In a last resort the Strike jettisons its backpack and launches it towards the GX after he lured his opponent into a feint attack and boosts on the right in a split second. The GX was completely caught offguard, as the Strike's backpack continues to tackle him against a hull of a Salamis-class battleship.
"Aw, what the hell!?"
The Strike combines two of its anti-ship swords, handle-to-handle, into one gigantic heavy sword. The Strike then spun around the combined weapon and tries to puncture the pinned GX through the Aile pack. The attempt was slightly successful, as the GX barely managed to knock away the Aile pack (by repeatedly punching and slicing it)and escape in time but its whole left arm was severed and destroyed in a pink explosion along with the punctured backpack.
"AArrghh! Not yet!"
After the explosion the GX vanishes from the Strike's line of sight, but its radar shows its still in right front of it. The Strike then reaches to its beam pistol and carefully investigates the surrounding area. Then without warning the GX appears from behind the still intact Salamis ruin and throws its beam sword aiming at the Strike Gundam's chest, much to Muhara's surprise. The Strike narrowly escaped from being skewered by the beam sword, as it sacrifices its right arm (and accidentally along with the beam pistol) to divert the beam sword's trajectory.
"Tch, you still managed to survive from that!?" Jammille shrieked, desperately dashing away from the Strike. With its main thrusters damaged, it couldn't properly boost away from the Strike as it dashes closer to him.
The Strike then pulls out its anti-armor knife and puts all of its energy at its boosters at full speed and charges at the struggling one-armed GX.
"I've told you before! I'm the man who will make the impossible possible!" Muhara cried out, before the scene flashes in an engulfing white light...
1:15 pm...
"Battle Ended!"
The aftermath scene reveals result of the battle. The GX is still standing, but the Strike had been incapacitated with a gaping slash mark across its chest. The GX is in no good condition, barely standing on its damaged leg unit. On the monitor outside the Gunpla Battle Room a message in colorful and large bold letters is diplayed.
"Gunpla Battle Ended. Winner, Jammille Nilt and Gundam X (Jammille Custom)!"
Just before the Strike impales the GX's torso with its knife, in the last second the GX raises its left knee to block the Strike's knife, damaging the knee armor. Then it draws out its last beam sword from its back and slashes the Strike from the shoulders down to its central chest area, stopping its movement. And finally the Strike slowly powers down and lets go of the knife still stuck on the GX's left knee, exploding a few seconds later.
"Splendid! A splendid fight indeed!" Akina lets out another roaring applause, pointing a Japanese-style folding fan at the screen. She poses like a true Japanese royalty expressing her satisfaction.
"Where the hell did she pull out that fan?" The delivery man asked Zeliel, looking at Akina out of confusion.
"I don't know. And I don't want to know." Zeliel replied coldly, wanting to shrug off his question.
"But seriously, that's some intense fight." The delivery man commented, giving a serious stare at the large HD screen."That gave me goosebumps all over."
"It's pretty common in this place." Zeliel replied, "Stick more often around here and you'll find more battles like this everyday."
After getting out of the Gunpla Battle Room the two customers were interrupted by Akina who stands right in front of them.
"I commend you, sons of man, for showing us such a splendid fight-MMmmMMMmmpphhh!?"
Before the Princess God could finish her monologue Zeliel instantly grabs and wraps her to a large mattress sheet.
"Ahhaahahahah! Please don't mind her, she's just a bit excited after seeing your match. Now then, to the counter please..."
"..." Muhara and Jammille couldn't find any words to describe this awkward situation so they kept silent and followed the storeowner to the cashier counter.
Zeliel then lead the two straight to the cashier counter and pays the bill. They even bought some modelcrafter's tools and Tamiya paint while they're at it.
"Whew, that made me sweat a lot." Muhara exhaustedly said, "I know I'll be having a hard time fighting you, but I never expected it would be this intense."
"You made me panic big time back there, you know." Jammille replied, "If I hadn't drawn out my beam sword in time I'm the one who should've been destroyed in that last attack of yours."
Before they exit out of the store, Zeliel called out their attention for a moment.
"Hey, you two."
"Huh?"
"Here." Zeliel throws two packs of custom parts series 06 at the two customers, much to their surprise. How gallant of him.
"Huh? Aren't these..."
"Custom parts for your kits. I'm sure they'll be useful to you." Zeliel informed them like a true entrepreneur.
"Oh. Thank yo-" He then looked at the clear plastic bags and said, "Hey wait, why do these looked like they're deformed?"
"They're factory rejects. I found them lying around on this guy's working place. I thought it was a waste throwing them away so I took them with me as extra souvenirs." Zeliel then points his right thumb to the Delivery man, looking at Zeliel with an annoyed expression.
"..." Jammille and Muhara was dumbfounded from what they heard, "And... What are we supposed to do with these trash?" Muhara asked.
"Well, use them. You guys are good doing 'scratch-builds', right?" Zeliel commented smirking. "That should be enough for you guys." I take back what I said.
"I don't know if I'm going to thank you or scorn you..." Muhara muttered, having mixed feelings as he stares at the 'freebies' he was given.
"Ahahahah! You're one funny guy." Jammille intervened, "It's really nice we visited this place. We'll come again!"
"Thank you, I'll be waiting." Zeliel replied back with a smile as he saw the two left his shop.
"That was fun to watch, right? Right? Right?" Popping her head out of the wrapped mattress Akina jumps over and over again into the counter like a hare excited to see a carrot hanging in front of her.
Yeah, It is..." Zeliel replied, looking through the window. "Now then, I wonder who's going to be my next customers...?"
End Session 1