AN: So hi! Anyone that knows me for my other works, know that my RWBY fanfic's chapter 19 is 3400 words in and almost done, but I have to get these words out too. LOVE and I mean LOVE Gundam Build Fighters. So much that I've built 8 of them since watching this series and wanted to put this story idea up.
A different twist to the norm where the OC is from our world.
Now it's from Arian.
At the very least it'll be different.
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"Well ain't this cool? Look at all of this stuff!"
A red haired teen walked around the room with a smile, a pair of shades in his hair to hold back his wild locks. Dressed in a long sleeved shirt with puffy shoulders held in place by silver armbands on his biceps, creamy white slacks, and a red vest with a strange collar that looked as if scissors had taken some liberal pleasures with the cloth, he pushed aside relics of countless fortunes aside nonchalantly as he looked about.
A short teen with black hair followed him with a sigh, putting the treasures back into place the best he could, knowing full well that the redhead would likely knock about the same treasures again on his way back out of the room.
"Kas! Come on! Over here!"
The short teen sighed again as he scratched his head.
The king would have his head if Reiji broke anything in here.
"Coming, my liege."
"Just hurry!"
Grumbling to himself at the childishness of the crown prince of Arian, he came to the origin of the excited voice and pulled back a large ornate tapestry that the redhead had already walked past.
The shorter teen stared at what the redhead had found.
"What is this?" he asked befuddled.
A large crystal floated in the air, surrounded by smaller, but quite large crystals of the same type.
"Isn't this awesome?!" Reiji laughed as he picked up a gilded metal wristband with a small stone in it, made of the same crystal blue substance that was floating in the air.
"...My liege, I don't think we should be in here."
The black haired teen, dressed in loose pants of a navy cotton that tucked into and accented his leather boots and a black vest under a silvery armored trenchcoat that opened up from his navel down, could only stare in awe at the sight before him.
Fay Tears, one of the many names of the precious material that laid before him, had the power to change and affect the material world, having the ability to create anything imaginable or bringing life and power to inanimate objects.
Also able to react to the emotions and desires of those around it, it was both volatile and powerful.
These crystals were one of the most treasured relics of the world, and the reason for the small kingdom of Arian's prosperity that went beyond that of even the greatest empires in the surrounding lands, was revealed in from of his eyes.
"My liege, do you know what this is?"
"Hmm? They're cool rocks, right?" the prince put the wristband on as he admired the perfect fit. "Man we find something new everytime we come in here."
He picked up ring with a lion crest, the feline holding a Fay Tear in it's mouth in the shape of a small blade.
Reiji smirked as he tossed the priceless ring leisurely at his guard and friend.
"Well, you're finally and officially under my personal authority, right? This will do well enough for a badge of office. Serve me well, Kas-Al."
Kas-Al caught the ring out of the air and bowed deeply.
"I… Thank you. As your Knight-Captain I will serve you to the best of my abilities!"
"Oi, oi, no need for anything that crazy." Reiji laughed as he waved off the formalities, "We've been friends since I was five, right?"
At that moment the Fay Tears began to glow with a golden orange light and the two would leave Arian for the first time.
It was an alien experience to say the least.
The two had landed in a completely different world, in a small principality or kingdom of sort named Nippon or Japan. People seemed to use the two interchangeably, which was a source of great confusion for the two teens of Arian.
However, the peering skyscrapers, the many new sounds and smells, and especially the food, had drawn the two to the new world again and again.
Though Kas had quickly found out that the currency of their world didn't work here, he had come across some place known as a 'pawn shop' that would buy what you own in exchange for money. Pedding some of the useless gold ornaments granted to those of his station, as he had little care for such trifles, the black hair teen had acquired funds for their travels.
Still, Reiji had the tendency to walk off on his own, sometimes even disappearing without a trace from his assistant's watchful eye. That and he had no care or sense of money, having been not only royalty, but the crown prince of the most wealthy and powerful kingdom of his world.
And that's how Kas-Al found Reiji arguing with a moustached baker over a half-eaten fried pastry in one of those strange wrappings called 'plastic'.
As he was about to butt into the argument and settle the issue with one of the many slips of cloth-paper that the people of that world called currency, a blue haired teen around the prince's age came to his rescue with great kindheartedness.
"Well, what do you know?" the knight-captain smiled. "My selfish liege can make friends, too, huh?"
"Thank you for helping my friend, kind fellow." Kas-Al smiled as he walked up to the duo. "He seems to have the habit of disappearing on me at the worst of times."
"Kas? I thought you were right behind me." Reiji blinked in surprise. "Where were you?"
"Apparently not right behind you." Kas-Al sighed as he bowed to the helpful blue haired teen. "I thank you for your help once more and apologize for the inconvenience."
"Oh, not a problem. You're foreigners, right? Neither of you look japanese. Especially, ah, I didn't get your name."
"Reiji." the prince smiled as she pointed at himself with his thumb. "And this is my friend Kas-Al. You can call him Kas."
"As he said." Kas bowed again.
"Please enough with the bowing! I'm Iori Sei. It's nice to meet you." the flustered teen smiled.
Sei bought the two of them a drink, even though Kas-Al had stated that he had money and such a thing was not necessary.
"Whoa! What is this? It feels all fuzzy in my mouth, like it's boiling, but it's cold!"
"A potion?" Kas questioned.
"You've never had soda before?" Sei questioned.
"Man, this sure tastes good though." Reiji grinned as he downed the drink happily.
Kas sipped at his cola before eyes widening and chugging his down as well before the bubbling began to sear his throat in a strange, cold manner. He coughed as his eyes teared a little.
"What a surprisingly dangerous drink." Kas muttered as Sei couldn't help laughing.
Still after the novelty of the new beverage had worn off, Reiji apologized to Sei, knowing that he had indeed caused problems without prompting from his protector, much to the knight's joy. It was always nice seeing your charge grow and mature, after all.
"It's not your fault." Sei smiled, "You're not from Japan, so you just don't know how things work around here, right? We should help others when they're in need."
Reiji stood up from the park bench the three sat upon with quiet contemplation before turning to Sei with a serious look.
"I'll pay you back for this. That's a promise."
"You don't have to worry about that." Sei said. "It's not that big of a deal."
"Nope. I can't do that. It's a matter of family dignity. Our honor would be tarnished if I don't repay you."
"Indeed." Kas-Al nodded seriously.
Sei smiled a bit nervously.
It sure sounded really exaggerated to him. That was really old fashioned thinking, especially for foreigners to have.
Reiji pulled a small Fay Tear out of his pocket and handed it to Sei, much to Kas-Al's surprise.
"I'll give you this."
Sei's eyes widened.
"What's that? A gem!? No way, I can't take something that expensive!"
Reiji rolled his eyes as Kas-Al silently face-palmed inside of his mind.
"It's just a rock, don't make such a big deal out of it."
Sei just made a confused noise as he held the stone in his hand.
Reiji laughed as he picked up his now empty bottle of soda.
"If you're ever in trouble, just make a wish on that rock. At any time, regardless of the situation, I'll come running to help. I'll handle any trouble you need help with. That's a promise. I swear it."
He tossed the bottle into a container filled with other bottles of assorted colors and types, all of them empty. Probably there for such a purpose, so it was safe to assume.
"That's awesome. You're like a superhero or something." Sei laughed before looking up.
The two were gone as if they'd never been there in the first place.
"Huh? Where'd he go?" Sei muttered to himself.
Iori Sei didn't know that this was the meeting and the promise that would change his life forever.
The next day as Iori Sei sat in class as he pondered over how silly the promise and the rock and later finished building his Build Strike, Kas-Al stared at Fay Tears as Reiji fiddled with a blade, swinging the sword with all the skill and grace gained from his training.
The crown prince of Arian was blessed with both fortune and talent beyond that of normal people. Few even in the Royal Guard of Arian could best the crown prince in pure combat and fewer could claim that they were truly superior to the prince in battle.
Kas-Al parried a thrust and disarmed Reiji with a palm strike to his wrist and flipped him over with a quick yank of his collar and a sweeping leg.
Though smaller in stature despite the fact that he was seventeen, three years Reiji's senior, Kas-Al was definitely one of the latter. Hence the king's reasoning to have Kas-Al become the prince's bodyguard and personal knight despite his youth.
Besides, the serious boy kept the redhead in line better than anybody else in the palace staff.
"Man, I can't catch you off guard at all, huh?" Reiji laughed as he got up, dusting himself off. "You're still too good."
Truth be told, Kas-Al saw this coming the moment Reiji picked up the blade.
The prince always did enjoy testing his own limits.
At that moment the Fay Tears glowed again, but the brightest was Reiji's.
I can't get away…
"This is…"
Reiji had a serious look on his face.
What would dad do?... I'm… I'm going to lose again. Even though I haven't been able to do anything yet…
"Let's go! Kas-Al!"
"My liege!"
We were once again engulfed in light.
I don't want to lose.
We heard as our bodies flew like arrows through blank white space, black flecks of darkness flickering as we sped past them with great speeds.
We had to make this.
For Sei who was kind enough to reach out out of kindness.
And the honor of House Asuna of Arian!
I don't want to lose anymore!
"Darn it!"
"Don't give up!" Reiji reached over and put his hand over Sei's on some sort of yellow orb that was obviously a control for a strange metal, human-like figure on some bright stage showing endless rows of trees with flowers in full bloom. "And go forward!"
He pushed and the strange metal human flew with the force of a waterfall, plowing into a different figure in purple.
Toys?
Or something else?
And this light…
"Fay Tears?..." Kas-Al muttered to himself from his position. He had ended up materializing behind an older man and woman who were watching the strange spectacle.
"What?" a brown haired boy with a bowl cut gasped at the sudden force.
He was the one controlling the purple gunpla.
A custom version of a Gyan.
Though Reiji and Kas-Al had no idea what gunpla was. However, Sei had been right. You should lend your hand to those in need. And they owed him a favor.
It was time to pay their dues.
"Reiji. You…" Sei gasped in confusion and surprise.
Luckily for the Arian boys no one had noticed their appearance due to the dramatic moment of Sei's near loss.
"You made a wish, right? That's why I came." the prince grinned as he held up his wristband.
Sei pulled the Fay Tear out of his pocket to find it glowing a golden orange, too small to be seen to untrained eyes, especially as he only cupped it right outside his pocket.
The gunpla maniac was snapped out of his confusion as Reiji put a hand on his shoulder.
"Sei, I'm going to keep my promise to you now. I'll fight in your place."
"Eh!?" Sei's confusion got worse and worse. "But you've never done this before, right?"
"Leave it to me!" Reiji grinned as he moved the control orbs about, pressing each of the buttons to see exactly what they did, making the Build Strike dance about in place waving its limbs about like a madman.
However, Reiji was checking the limits of the gunpla's movements as well as the speed at which it reacted to a command.
It was still a funny dance.
"What are you doing with my gunpla?!" Sei cried out in concern for his masterpiece as Reiji ignored him getting a feel for the controls.
"Gunpla…" the short knight whispered to himself, catching the attention of the man next to him.
"Hmmm? Have you never seen a gunpla battle, boy?"
Kas-Al looked up at the tall man dressed in a blue suit with a pink dress shirt and grey knitted sweater vest. Though obviously a civilian, he had the same aura as the war-veteran paladin that he had once been apprentice under.
"No, I have not. But it interests me."
It did indeed interest him. To think, a this world had its own version of Fay Tears and to use it simply for toys.
Did they not know just how much war potential or medical purposes that the Fay Tears could fill?
This was a power that could bring down whole kingdoms in days.
"Hoh." Mr. Ral smiled.
It was always a good day to teach people the joys of gunpla battle and gunpla in general.
The man quickly guided the knight away to teach him about some of the history of gunpla and gundam wars. Kas-Al listened politely and attentively, as all knowledge had its own use in the world.
Knowing next to nothing about the culture of this one could be a huge detriment to blending in with the indigenous people.
"Excuse me. Are you two Sei's friends?" the woman asked with a smile.
She was slim, with a motherly aura, and the same blue hair as Sei.
Definitely his mother, but not the wife of the tall man with the moustache, Kas decided, seeing as how the two males shared very few features.
"Yes. You could say we are. We are here to repay a debt. Worry not for your son. My liege will not lose to a lesser man."
Iori Rinko could only blink in light confusion and smile.
The short boy with the cosplay outfit did say that they were here to help her son, after all.
As Ral and Kas-Al stood on the other side of the store, inside the gunpla battle room, a different atmosphere was present as the pilot of the Gyan, Suzuma Sazaki only grit his teeth in cold fury.
"I can't believe it, Sei-kun. You're letting an amateur use your machine?"
What he had been trying so hard to do, some random amateur could just take so easily?
He couldn't forgive him.
"That… that gunpla… WAS SUPPOSED TO BE MINE!"
The Gyan shot forward, swinging its yellow beam saber, only to find that the Build Strike had leaned forward and under the blade before turning about and sending the purple gunpla spinning with a roundhouse kick, the blow taking it to the ground.
"Yosh! I get the idea!" Reiji grinned fiercely, oblivious as to the shock received by his high-level maneuver.
Even with Plavisky Particles supplementing and making movements possible, kicks made on the ground were still rather difficult due to balancing issues as well as keeping the machine steady enough to aim properly.
The Build Strike's eye cams glinted in neon green as the Gyan got up and went for another attack.
"Don't mess with me!" Sazaki cried out.
The Build Strike side-stepped out of the way of two jabs before the Gyan went for a low sweep to disable the legs, only for Reiji to have the Build Strike leap over the blade and strike with another kick from behind, almost sending the Gyan to the ground again and leaving small cracks in the backpack.
Sazaki growled as he turned the Gyan around and tried to pierce through the Build Strike's headcam, only to be disarmed by the same palm-strike to wrist disarming method that his friend had used on him just moments ago.
Kas-Al grinned to himself as he saw the movement out of the corner of his eye.
Perhaps this could be a good training method for his charge.
Ral took this as a sign to continue rambling, now teaching about the storyline of the Gundam Unicorn, which actually managed to garner Kas-Al's interest.
Sazaki 'tsk'ed in irritation as he flew for his dropped rifle and shield.
"I won't accept this… such a thing like this… I absolutely won't accept it!"
He fired off his missile shield, releasing all 56 needle missiles at once, only for Reiji to cease pursuit and dash to the side to avoid the projectiles, which had been fired against too long of a distance out of panic for it to be effective.
"Do you have any weapons on this?" Reiji turned to the still shocked Sei.
"Open the third weapon slot. There's a beam saber!"
"Got it!" Reiji grinned as the Build Strike's side skirt mounted beam saber turned about and ejected forward just enough for the gunpla to grasp it and pull it out in a flash of pink.
The redheaded prince dodged the yellow beams of energy shot from the Gyan's beam rifle with the smooth poise and elegance of a noble prince of the House of Asuna.
Sei gazed in wonder at the movements.
"Those moves, that piloting… just like… tou-san… This… this is what I've been looking for. My ideal… my gunpla!"
Sazaki broke out in cold sweat as he emptied his entire twenty round clip and saw none of his shots even graze his target.
"What? Who… who are you?!"
"That's not important! What's important is that you're finished now!"
The Build Strike's eye cams lit up as it left a streak of light in the air, the gunpla dashing with such a burst of speed that the beam saber cut through the Gyan with little to no resistance, a single blow separating the machine into four pieces as the arm got in the way of the blade.
Reiji grinned as he flew the gunpla away and landed on a nearby cliff to turn and see his handiwork as a plume of fire and smoke flew into the air.
He always did have a preference for flashy explosions.
There was a 'bing' sound as a holographic announcement popped up in the sky with a robotic voice stating "Battle Ended."
"It won… my gunpla."
"I lost? Are you serious?" Sazaki bemoaned as he collapsed to his knees, gripping the edge of the PPSE Gunpla Battle system.
Ral, who had been glancing over at the battle as he taught Kas-Al about gunpla and the gundam universe, congratulated Sei on his victory, clearly impressed at what he had seen.
"That was a great match, you should be proud."
"Congratulations, Sei!" Rinko glowed as she smiled at her son, who was both happy and still a little shell-shocked by his victory.
"It wasn't me." he shook his head with a smile, "My gunpla won because of… huh? Where did he go?"
Sei quickly grabbed his GP base and dashed out of the store with a shout of "Reiji!"
Not knowing that he was with Kas-Al, still inside the store, simply out of sight behind shelves of gunpla boxes.
"...Sei seems like a good person, but he has no spacial awareness." Kas-Al muttered as he browsed the gunpla.
"Oi, Kas. What're you looking at?" Reiji asked.
"Gunpla. That's the small object you were controlling. It appears that they have some sort of cultural influence on this world. I'd like to understand it better so that we can blend in and go about this world without standing out too much." Kas-Al responded, tugging at a strap of leather and readjusting his pauldrons and breastplate.
"Oh, so that's what gunpla is. They kept saying gunpla, gunpla, but I had no idea what they were talking about."
"That's because you only hear and see what you wish to hear and see, my liege."
"Huh? What's that supposed to mean?"
"Nothing of real importance. Excuse me, these gunpla. You build it yourself with the contents within the boxes, correct?"
"Yes, you do." Iori Rinko replied as she turned to the short teen, marveling at how real his cosplay outfit seemed to be, though nothing Gundam as far as she knew. "If you'd like you may borrow the tools here. I think Sei should realize soon that Reiji-kun is still here and come back after a while. Why don't you have one for free, for what your friend did for Sei-kun."
"That's something I cannot accept. We came to repay a debt and we did so. There is no payment needed for fulfilling our duty. I also have sufficient funds to buy these gupla."
"Gunpla." the shopkeeper smiled. "Then at the very least the two of you should stay for dinner. I'll show you the toolroom and how to use everything… uhm, I don't believe I got your name."
Kas-Al blinked before nodding.
"That is acceptable. I graciously accept your generous hospitality. I am Kas-Al Biaggi. A pleasure, milady. This is my liege and charge, Aria von Reiji Asuna." Kas bowed as he announced Reiji's title-name before Iori Rinko, the laid-back prince just giving a smile as he thought about the new food that he would get to eat today.
And all for playing with some sort of toy!
"Ara~" Rinko laughed, the short one was such a serious cosplayer. It reminded her of her childhood as she had been a bit of chuunibuyo (a person suffering from something know as 'eighth grader syndrome') herself before falling for her husband Iori Takeshi, where she cleaned up a bit and fantasized less. "What is the gunpla that you wanted to buy?"
"Ral-dono has informed me of the story of the Gundam Unicorn. I believe that I know what suits me best choosing from the fighters of that story."
Kas-Al pulled a red box from the shelf.
"HGUC MSN-06S Sinanju."
"Ho? That's an ambitious choice, Kas-Al-kun." Ral gazed at the gunpla. "The Sinanju is rather difficult to build well as a beginner. And although it's certainly a powerful machine, it's difficult to control even at the most basic straight-build and requires much finesse and skill. And it's fine simply to call me Ral-tai (Lieutenant Ral), dono might be a little heavy for me."
Kas-Al blinked.
A lieutenant. So he was a military man after all. It would be best not to reveal too much of his physical combative abilities as to not arouse suspicion then.
"Yes, Ral-tai. I will make note of such."
"Huh, so you're really going to look into this gunpla stuff, Kas?"
"Affirmative. I also hold the belief that you will find interest as well, so I will take initiative where I must. I was also set in my position become your rival in all things."
"Man you need to loosen up, Kas." Reiji groaned. "Besides they're just toys. Getting all serious about it sounds kind of silly. Still, for you to take interest in it makes it interesting enough, but still…"
Kas-Al paid for the gunpla kit as he thought to himself.
The fact that the Fay Tears were able to take them to this world in the first place should have been impossible without a large enough Fay Tear to react to it. The fact that they didn't appear by one revealed that it's presence was muffled by something, then to find that small amounts of diluted, yet raw Fay Tears were prevalent in a system for combat revolving around theoretical machines in stories told for entertainment to make such battles come to life?
There was something deeper behind gunpla that simply must not have been prevalently obvious to the naked eye. As a Knight-Captain of the Royal Arian Guard, it was his duty to assess potential security threats to the country as well as his liege.
And Kas-Al was always working, always serious, and never half-assed.
He would find the secret behind this 'Plavisky Particle' that Ral-tai had told him of which seemed to be this world's Fay Tears, and he would make sure that it would never threaten Arian. No matter what.
It was his duty, after all.
…
After this second helping of this delicious vegetable stir-fry.
And a third.
A fourth.
HOW ARE SIMPLE VEGETABLES SO DELICIOUS?!
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AN2: Yeah, so I wanted to get this on paper, data? Whatever lols