Chapter 2-The Test
Meijin Kawaguchi got up early the next morning to prepare for the demonstration of his abilities. He had already gotten dressed like he appeared yesterday and already had his gauntlet on. He was reviewing what he was required to do for the demonstration when he heard knocking on his dorm room door. Unsurprisingly, he was greeted by Chiffon and Ticy outside his dorm. He had been left under their care by Sister Margaret and they always seemed to make sure he felt well taken care of. He followed them down to the mess hall which still surprised him despite it being his second time here. He found it so odd that a military academy like West genetics was more like a five star hotel rather than the military training camp he had been expecting. He was still shocked to see the wide variety of international cuisine available. He grabbed himself some bacon, eggs and toast as he sat at a table together with Chiffon and Ticy for breakfast. He observed the two girls seated in front of him and found them very attractive. He was intrigued by their extremely prim and proper behavior while they were eating. That was not all he was attracted to though. It didn't help him at all that the standard genetics uniform was so...provocative with its tightness and how short the skirt was. Not to mention the thigh length socks. He was silently cursing Tachibana for forcing him to come out of solitary training and join this place. Just as they finished eating their meal, they lead Meijin to the arena where he was scheduled to carry out his demonstration and test in 15 minutes. The trio went up to the observation deck and met with Sister Margaret, Kim Yumi and Elize who was the medical officer of the school. Meijin was then ordered to prepare himself and move to the arena for simulated combat with nova. Chiffon and Ticy at first were worried for him since ordinarily no male would be able to complete such a test but then they remembered the event of the previous and shrugged off their worry as he proceeded down to the main battle area.
Just as the simulated area was being generated, he reached over to his gauntlet and flipped the first of the three switches. The gauntlet responded by saying, "Amazing Exia, Ready." He then hit touched his finger on the button on the gauntlet and it responded saying, "Amazing Exia, On." And then the arena was filled with a flash of blue light. As the observes could finally see after being stunned by the sudden blue light, they were all surprised to see that in the place of Meijin Kawaguchi stood a humanoid robot. It was the exact same one that was seen by Chiffon and Ticy on the previous day. It still had the same pistol and sword combo weapon mounted on its right forearm. All the observers got a god look at the armor and were surprised when the eyes suddenly flashed green and the cone on its back started emitting green particles. A voice belonging to the Meijin who was now inside the armor said, "I'm Ready to go." And as if on cue he was faced with two R-type nova in the setting of a city. "Your task is to show us your skills against these two simulated nova. Begin now." Sister Margaret announced through the com system.
The two type Rs began firing their projectiles at him but he did not move an inch. The observers were all shocked at what they were seeing and were certain that he would be badly wounded by the attack. But instead he just proceeded to fire beams from his pistol which managed to hit every single one of the projectiles that was going to impact him. The observes were all shocked at the outcome. every single one of his shots had connected with one of the projectiles from the nova. Just as the nova was about to launch its second assault, the Amazing Exia deployed its large sword which swung forwards and covered the pistol. Using the large sword, Meijin easily met each of the nova's projectiles and deflected them out of his way and putting himself out of any immediate danger. Feeling bored now he said, "I'm going to finish this now." as he finished his sentence the Exia began emitting particles at a much higher rate than it originally did. Then suddenly as the nova began its third assault, the unit disappeared from where it was originally and was effortlessly weaving in between the projectiles and clearing a path to the nova using the sword. He then proceeded to cut one of the nova with his sword. After that he returned the sword to its storage position and fired shots at the other type R, destroying it. After the simulation ended, there was again a bright flash of light as the armored fighter was now gone and the Meijin in its place. As he walked to the observation deck he was greeted by Chiffon and Ticy who motioned for him to join Sister Margaret and the other two faculty members who were already seated in a corner of the observation room. As he proceeded to mentally prepare himself for the inevitable questioning that was about to come.
He was surprised when there were only two questions asked although they were quite broad in their answer. The first question was what exactly was project omega and how complete the system was. He told them that the purpose of project omega was to create a soldier that would assist the pandora in times of need. It made use of a specific piece of anti-nova technology called the GN Drive. The GN drive was a unique power generator that produced particles which had anti-nova properties. And so the main purpose of project omega was to effectively make use of the GN Drives to combat the nova. He informed them that he was the only product of the project because of the heavy strains placed on the user of the system. He told the group that he had been created using an artificial womb in order to withstand and overcome the problems of using the system. He also said that realistically there was no way to supply that many drives since currently they only had two drives. He told them of the difficulty in creating the drives and how it required a trip to Jupiter to make. He then informed them that the system was still relatively incomplete as only one of the three available armors could be used right now and even then it was still only about 70-80% complete. Upon learning this they were shocked. He had displayed such formidable power and skill despite how incomplete and rushed the project's deployment had been.
He then said, "That would be because of the armor itself. Its weapons are all very well designed and have been tuned to my preferences and also the presence of the ZERO system onboard. The ZERO system or the zoning and emotional range omitted system, is essentially a future predicting system. It shows me every possibility based on every factor in battle. However, it is an extremely dangerous system as the amount of data can be staggering and can cause a person to hallucinate as they are unable to discern between the predictions and what is really happening. Currently the amazing Exia only has its GN sword which is a combination of a gun and a sword. The gun fires condensed particles at a target and is not stoppable by a freezing field. The sword is also special because its edge is made of a material that converts the released particles into energy giving it increased cutting power.
"But then how are you able to move inside a nova's freezing field?" This question shocked everyone except the Meijin as it was coming from Chiffon. She had seen him easily cut down an Type S nova even though its freezing field was up.
He replied saying that this was due to the unique properties of the GN particles which saturate the Exia's frame and enable him to move within a freezing field.
With all the questions out of the way he was free to go and took his leave being followed closely by Chiffon and Ticy as he said his goodbyes to the staff members. It was about time for lunch and so he decided to go grab a bite to eat. Similar to breakfast he sat at a table with Chiffon and Ticy and was admiring them unknowingly. He then remembered that his classes as a second year started tomorrow and he was not sure what he was supposed to do. So he decided to ask his two guides about his class schedule. As he went through his schedule with them he was quite surprised to find out that he shared most of his classes with them except for some limiter specific ones. He still was not sure if he could even become a limiter in the first place given his unique condition. Still he was glad to know that he would be seeing the two girls more often. He had taken quite a liking to the two of them and they were the only two second years that he really interacted with. After lunch he felt like returning to his dorm room. But before he left, Chiffon told him about the swimming pool and invited him to come over at night to meet some of the other second years. He wanted to refuse at first but then Chiffon used her smile to convince him otherwise.
He just lay on his bed thinking what he had just gotten himself into. He felt like not going but he did not want to disappoint Chiffon either. He realised he was starting to fall in love with the supposedly 'Canadian' pandora. He had been so absorbed in her beauty and grace. He was especially attracted to her smile. He also knew what she really was and wondered how someone as strong as her could come off as such a sweet person.
