The cheers and applause from the audience filled the stadium, as an incredible variety of different gunpla from several teams flew around the giant stadium, exchanging blows and beams. Looking at the battlefield itself, it was easily noticeable that several gunplas have already fallen in battle, as broken beam rifles, cracked armor plates and scrapped gunpla limbs lay scattered all around the arena. All of the remaining gunplas were locked in fierce battles against one another, with several duels and conflicts occurring all over the stadium at once, from the intense three way battle between Yuta, Raul and Yuu, or the tag tea battle between Grind and Mina against Kayla and Mike. However, shortly after halfway through the battle royale, a certain battle occurred that caught the attention of every spectator present in the stadium.

Looking down at the battles from the vast emptiness of space, Kosetsu's Sapphire Exia zoomed around rapidly, shortly followed by Mitsuo's Armored Gelgoog. They departed from what seemed like a massive battle where they emerged the victor, leaving behind the debris from 4 broken and demolished gunpla. The only casualties to Team Carbon visible were a few barely noticeable scratches on the Sapphire Exia's left shoulder.

The Sapphire Exia suddenly halted, and froze in spot. It tilted its head down and observed the miniature explosions that occurred in the biomes right below her. From space, the massive earth shattering explosions seemed like little sparks of red that appeared and faded instantaneously. From behind the light blue crystal walls of thin plavsky particles, Kosetsu stared blankly at the screen present in front of her. With a flick of her wrist, she adjusted the zoom on the view, and focused it down to a single battle on a single biome. Kosetsu's wide azure eyes reflected the battle of a certain impulse and strike gundam, furiously attacking a throne Zwei and a crossbone gundam. Through in-cockpit voice and video communication, Kosetsu contacted Mitsuo in his Custom Gelgoog.

"Now that we've taken care of that wandering team, I think the best course of action would be to head down and provide backup to Grind and Mina."

Mitsuo's Custom Gelgoog turned downward to face the battle below, and prepared its thrusters and shield for atmospheric entry. Its glowing red mono-eye reflected bursting yellow explosions that broke the land below. Blue flames began to slowly pump out of the several structures protruding out of the Gelgoog's backpack as it prepared to jolt downwards to assist the Searing Impulse and the Void Striker. Although the Gelgoog was all ready to head downwards, the Sapphire Exia had not shifted and inch. It was still gently floating in space- as if it had no intention to join the Gelgoog at all. Confused by Kosetsu's lack of movement, Mitsuo opened his voice communication to question Kosetsu's actions.

"Hey, you joining me? This is your idea after all"

From the within the video displayed in the voice communications, Mitsuo noticed a drastic shift in the nature of Kosetsu's eyes. Whereas before they were relaxed and gentle, they now shone of a maleficent and deadly light. Kosetsu's Sapphire Exia unfolded its GN sword, and took an offensive battle position, much to the confusion of Mitsuo.

"K-Kosetsu?"

However, after a few seconds, his confusion was quickly cleared as an enemy mobile suit was approaching them in the form of a blinking red dot displayed on his radar. Mitsuo immediately recognized the situation, and smiled to himself as his Gelgoog began to take off in a blinding blue light.

A gentle, feminine familiar voice taunted Kosetsu through voice communications, as a terrifying silhouette of a formidable red gunpla began to approach the Sapphire Exia.

"Hello, Kosetsu. How are you faring in this battle royale so far?"

"A few scratches here and there, but nothing you need to worry about, Elisa."

The ace gunpla of the defending champion personally went face to face with the gunpla of a newcomer whom the school had never seen before. It was inconceivable – the strongest gunpla to ever set foot on the school stadium to go out of its way to face a newcomer it had just met yesterday. Elisa confidently smirked, and flicked her hair gracefully.

"Oh? That's rather rude. Your Exia is rather powerful as well…although I knew of an Exia who was even stronger."

"You came here to fight not to talk, Is that right? Elisa Ayumi?."

The clouds parted as Mitsuo's Gelgoog dived in from space right above the raging tag-team battle. Its shield that was being used to cover the face of the Gelgoog began to burn up as it entered the atmosphere, leaving a trail of red fire as it came closer to the surface.

Suddenly, a rapid beeping noise came from within Mitsuo's plavsky particle formed cockpit that quickly alerted him to two quickly incoming missiles from behind. Afraid to turn around to block the missiles using the shield as atmospheric entry would burn up the backpack of the machine, Mitsuo grunted at his lack of options as the missiles closed in on the Gelgoog.

With barely any time to reconsider, Mitsuo decided to allow the missiles to just hit the Gelgoog's rear, sacrificing sustainable damage to the thrusters in exchange for his shield which was still usable despite being burnt up from the atmospheric entry. A violent bang followed by a large explosion erupted over the heads of Mina and Grind, as they fought fiercely against the Zwei and Crossbone that stood before them confidently.

From behind the blue walls of plavsky particles, Kayla smiled maniacally as she watched from her Zwei's eyes a red Gelgoog fell from within the cloud of smoke. It turned uncontrollably, and was about to crash into the forest biome below. Mitsuo grunted, and he desperately tugged and pushed the plavsky particle controller to regain command over the decimated Gunpla. After a few a few flinches from the remaining leg thrusters and a few backpack thrusters, the Gelgoog regained balance, and was gently floating below the giant smoke cloud that hovered above the entire biome. Dragging his hand around the plavsky particle walls, Mitsuo brought up an image of the Gelgoog that assessed the damage it had taken.

"Tch, this is going to be a pain. 68% of the thrusters on the backpack are now completely unusable. Whoever fired those missiles has incredible aim. To take these thrusters out so easily."

Before Mitsuo had time to fully assess the damage taken, the bleeping noise once again emerged as two more missiles dashed through the smoke cloud, headed straight for the Gelgoog. With barely any time to react, the Gelgoog brought out it's half-destroyed shield and braced for another heavy impact.

Suddenly, two beam from below rushed upwards and blasted both of the missiles at once, causing a loud, violent explosion to occur mere meters away from the Gelgoog. Mitsuo sighed as he looked down at his saviors, in the form of an Impulse gundam and a Strike Gundam. Mina energetically fiddled with the voice communication settings, and created a three way video call between Mitsuo, Grind and herself. She started off the call with an energetic howl

"WHOOOOOO! Dem missile headshots!"

"Yo, Mitsuo! You're in pretty bad shape huh?"

"Thanks guys, you saved me!"

"More importantly, who fired those missiles?"

The three gunpla looked upwards, and as the smoke began to clear, a familiar, revenge-powered gunpla stood above them, looking down confidently. Grind gulped as he recognized the dark red glow in the gunpla's eyes, and the several missile pods on its shoulder.

"Dammit. Spencer's Chaos bullet…Enflamed Quinter are really out to get us."

Spencer laughed maliciously as his two teammates took to the skies to stand by him. He opened his microphone for everybody in the battle to hear, and he viciously taunted the three cornered members of Team Carbon.

"Listen up, you mongrels. I'll pay you back big time for the humiliation you gave me in the first round. I won't be kind."

The three gunplas of Team Carbon stood on the forest ground, with several trees in the vicinity broken and torn down. The remaining, much larger trees went up to even the gunpla's shoulders, and acted as a strong hiding area if neccecary. Grind calmed himself, and he spoke slowly and carefully to each of his teammates- as if he were nervous that the members of Enflamed Quintet could eavesdrop on their group call.

"Listen to me closely. We have to get away – if we fight now it'll severely hurt our chances of being in the finals. We can head under the trees and out maneuver them. I'll stay back and keep them busy- you guys have to get out in the meantime."

Mitsuo instantly objected, and he raised his own point

"No. I'll be the bait, my gunpla is practically a moving wall at this point. Without my primary thrusters, I won't be able to move out so easily anyway"

From the skies, the Chaos bullet pulled out a single grenade from its side skirt, and prepared to throw it towards the three gunpla. Taking notice instantly, Mina suggested a much safer and logical plan. Her voice was much more serious and collected than normal.

"There's no need for bait- just watch Spencer. Once that grenade hits the ground, we'll all dart into the trees and head out. We'll all regroup later."

The grenade left the hands of the Chaos Bullet, and was about to hit the ground at an incredible speed. Mina watched closely as the grenade approached the ground, and when it was a few seconds away from hitting, she shouted

"Now!"

The three gunpla darted into the trees as the grenade was about to hit the ground, and was confient in their escape. The grenade hit the forest surface, and the three gunpla were in the trees already – nowhere to be seen. As if predicting their movements, Spencer laughed crazily as instead of an incredible explosion, the grenade violently erupted into flames, setting the entire forest on fire.

"Just like I predicted. Run rats, run!"

Mina instantly halted her escape as trees started to burn and collapse right in front of her. Mitsuo and Grind were forced to turn back as well, and before they knew it, the three members of Team Carbon were locked in a prison of fire, with three terrifying opponents in the sky looking down on them.

Within seconds, large asteroids floating aimlessly in the void of space were broken and sliced apart by the raging battle between the two melee oriented red and blue gunplas. Leaving trails of crimson and azure wherever they dashed, the black, emptiness of space was painted with light ribbons of red and blue. The canvas in the sky painted by the two gunplas were notice even by the fighters in battle below on the surface. However, anybody that took the time to notice could easily tell that the red trails easily overpowered the blue trails.

As the sharpened GN blade of the Exia clashed against the dense yellow beam saber of the Legilis, a raging white spark would always appear at the point of contact- so bright that from the surface, it seemed like a white star. It appeared and then faded within a matter of seconds, but by then the two gunplas would have already rushed past each other, ready to turn around to clash swords once again.

Taijin peered over on the video display on his screen, and noticed something peculiar about Kosetsu. Whether it be in the most intense of battles or the most mundane of tasks, she would never show any emotion whatsoever. Even now, fighting against arguably the strongest competitor in the entire tournament, her large azure eyes always shone of innocence and purity. His trance of staring at Kosetsu was disturbed by her very voice calling out to him from the voice communications.

"Taijin."

Despite the situation, Taijin was still fascinated about the lack of emotion in her voice. Looking at Kosetsu as she was now, nobody could tell whether she was having difficulties fighting against Elisa or not. Shaking his head to clear his mind, he responded to Kosetsu with a worried voice

"Hey, you alright?"

"Send out the flight booster down below to help out the guys there"

Immediately, Taijin opened his operator panel and proceeded to assess the damage dealt to all of the gunpla in the team. Despite only being taught how to be an operator by Cindy just a few weeks earlier, in seconds, Taijin was able to identify the situation. He instantly reached for the Flight booster, which was waiting idly in the black briefcase that he carried beside him. Before he opened the case however, he got an incoming call from Mitsuo. With his left hand fidgeting with the padlock securing the briefcase, his right hand accepted the call and opened communications with the other three members of the team. Mitsuo started off the conversation ignoring all formalities and heading straight to the point.

"Eh, we don't really need the booster right this instant. We can last a bit longer, or at least long enough for you to get down here"

Grind butted in instantly and urged the team to reconsider the idea of sending out the flight booster.

"So your plan is to send out the flight booster, have it dock with the Exia just so it can run it's way down here to save us? Well first of all if the Exia's heading down, without a doubt Elisa will follow. And if Elisa manages to shoot down Taijin's booster, that's an easy-"

"I'm not running from this fight"

Kosetsu's cold, chilling yet gentle voice cut through the entire conversation, bringing all of the members back to their senses. Mitsuo scratched his head in confusion, and raised a very important question.

"So if you aren't running away with the extra speed boost, why exactly do you need the flight booster?"

Taijin smiled confidently from behind his transparent light blue cockpit.

"The flight booster isn't only for increasing speed, you know."

With the blue jet model in his right hand, he looked at the video communications screen to make sure that Kosetsu was serious about it. He saw Kosetsu nodding confidently, with her blue eyes shining of self-assurance and strength. Taijin placed the booster on the platform and prepared his cockpit for controlling the jet fighter. After a few seconds on the launching pad, the red lights that surrounded the fighter suddenly turned green, and Taijin was ready to send out the booster into battle.

"Taijin Sakamoto. Flight booster. Heading out"

A gray portal opened up in an area of space not too far from where Kosetsu was- and the blue jet dashed out of the porta straight towards the battle between Kosetsu and Elisa. Despite the booster approaching the Exia at blazing speeds, the red Legilis showed no sign of wanting to shoot down the booster, let alone even look at it. Confused at the lack of enemy movement, Taijin suspected something was going on, and he varied his movements and path towards the sapphire Exia. Ranging from zig zag movements to exaggerated barrel rolls, Taijin tried his best to minimize the likeliness of being shot down. Elisa smiled subtlety as she watched the booster go to excessive lengths to avoid being shot down. She called out to them from behind the piloting chamber.

"It's perfectly fine. Go ahead and dock. The closer you get in strength to that Exia, the more fun it'll be for me."

Kosetsu turned the Exia around and began to approach the booster slowly. Even though the two gunpla were merely a few seconds away from docking into a much stronger form, the Legilis showed minimum concern. Taijin asked Kosetsu through the communications system

"Hey, what's going on?"

The Exia turned its back to the booster that was approaching it, ready to dock with the blue jet. Despite how vulnerable the Exia was, Elisa showed no sign of wanting to attack.

"Who knows? I think she really wants to fight us at our best"

"Well, that's a mistake that she'll soon regret."

The blue jet decelerated, and slowed down its speed to perfectly synchronize itself to the Exia. The cockpit of the jet folded over, revealing a slot for the Exia's GN drive to slide into. The two machines, approached, and as the back of the Exia slammed into the core of the booster, the two gunpla became one angel-like sapphire beauty. Spreading its new blue wings wide, the Sapphire Exia pointed its GN blade directly at the face of the Legilis, who was idly standing at the sidelines. Elisa stretched her arms, which were growing tired from waiting for the Exia to get ready. Kosetsu smiled gently, and prepared to charge right at the Legilis. Placing her hands on the yellow controller orbs, Elisa smiled eagerly as well.

"So, Kosetsu. Shall we begin this dance?"

At the blink of an eye, the blue winged gunpla that was previously several meters away rushed right up in the face of the Legilis, preparing to swing down its shining blade of silver death. As it swung down to slice the Legilis in half, Elisa dodged the attack with a sidestep to the left, leaving the sword to rush right down past her. To counter the attack and to capitalize on Kosetsu's vulnerabilities, Elisa called forth a yellow beam saber that rushed out from the palm of the Legilis' hand. But before she could even aim her swing, all that remained was a trail of blue exhaust where the Exia once was.

"Good! Very good Kosetsu! More!"

The Exia charged right at an asteroid, and it slammed its feet right into it. Kosetsu aimed her blade at the Legilis as she planned for the Exia to pounce right off the asteroid at blazing speeds to take out the Legils with one clean slice, in the same way that she defeated Spencer in the first day. Elisa smiled, as she tilted her Legilis to point the yellow blade right at the Exia to counterattack.

With a violent rumble, the Exia blazed right off the asteroid, right at the Leglis at an insane speed – with her wings fluttering behind her like a butterfly. The Legilis responded quickly and decicively, charging right at the Exia as well. With a swift rotation from the Legilis and a brash slice from the Exia, the two gunpla rushed right past each other with a loud sizzle.

The Legilis decelerated, having blocked the attack confidently with her beam saber. The Sapphire Exia left unharmed as well, with the exhaust smoke of the thrusters dying down as it rested. Kosetsu's azure eyes widened in surprise as she turned around to see the Crimson Legilis completely unharmed. She whispered to herself nervously

"No way…had she just seen the attack yesterday and she can already block it?"

Panicking nervously, Kosetsu headed to another asteroid to try it again, assuming that it was just a fluke. Using the newly gained speed from the flight booster, she reached another asteroid in mere seconds, and prepared to use her pounce slice attack once more. Elisa smiled as the red feet of the Exia slammed into the rocky surface of the asteroid.

"Checkmate"

Suddenly, Taijin heard a loud beeping sound coming from the hazard panel. He glanced at the Sapphire Exia's field of view, and noticed several small yellow beam remnants hidden under some brown dirt on the asteroid's surface.

"Kosetsu! Get away now!"

Taijin's warning came too late, as mere seconds after Kosetsu landed on the asteroid, the previously hidden yellow beam bits expanded in size, and overwhelmed the Blue gundam on the asteroid. After a few seconds of unparalleled rapid growth, the yellow orbs exploded violently, reducing the asteroid into a pile of space debris and engulfing the blue gunpla on its surface into a cloud of fire and smoke. The Legils stood a fair distance away from the explosion as it watched the fire die down - leaving little sign of the Exia.

"So the beam mines do work. Interesting, I'll make a note of that for further use."

The smoke continued to fade slowly, but there was no sign of the Exia's' presence. No silhouette that stood visible in the smoke, or no broken parts that belonged to the Exia. The Legilis relaxed its tensed body for a bit, realizing that the Exia was blown into smithereens in the explosion.

"Kosetsu, you dissapo-"

Interrupting her sentence mid-way , Elisa rotated her wrist on the controller, which caused the Legilis to reactivate it's beam saber to swing it backwards, intercepting a silver GN sword that was being swung right at it. Like a ballerina, Elisa spun around, and forced back the oppressing gunpla that almost took off the head of her gunpla. The Sapphire Exia stood behind the Legilis, missing its entire left leg from the knee down to the explosion.

Despite being caught off guard, Elisa regained composure and smiled at the blue winged machine that stood before hers.

"Not bad. But you're in pretty bad shape, huh?"

Kosetsu smiled innocently, with her blue eyes reflecting the projected light coming from the plavsky particle screen.

"Well I didn't really expect that you would be able to nullify my attack , let alone counter it within the span of a single day."

Taijin instantly contacted Kosetsu through video, panting heavily from panic.

"We're going to have to use it."

"Yeah."

The Sapphire Exia pointed it's GN blade that was dulled and cracked from so many clashes against the Legilis' super-dense yellow beam saber. Kosetsu sighed, and called out to Elisa who was smiling confidently, yet gently.

"Don't worry. We've still got one more trick under our sleeves."

Kosetsu tilted her attention to her pilot screen on her cockpit. She tilted her controller and pressed a button on her index finger to bring up the weapons menu. She scrolled right until she reached the very end of it, where her cursor hovered above a special tab that read "SP-01". She looked above to the video communications, and nodded at Taijin, who nodded back confidently. At the same time, they screamed out with pride and passion

"Overclock system – activating!"

Slowly, the sound of the Exia's GN drive could be heard violently roaring and spinning from inside the flight booster's thick interior. The surface of the Exia that was a clean, light blue began to shine with an ethereal white glow. Steam started to rise from all the surfaces of the Exia, from the tips of the wings to the thick shoulder pads. The two wings of the Sapphire Exia opened up and spreader out, with streams of burning hot steam rushing out of the now pearl white wings. Taijin immediately shuffled his hands around the controller, and maintained control of the Exia's functional systems.

"All systems green! You've got around 5 minutes!"

"That's more than enough"

Within the blink of an eye , the white hot Exia rushed past Elisa's legilis, and as it did, a red ring formed around the Legilis' right arm. The Exia pointed it's sword at the Legilis, as its right arm began to slide off its body , leaving a flat, clean cut. Elisa's eyes widened in a mixture of shock and joy as she watched her right arm explode into an unrecognizable mess of red plastic

"Yes…Yes! This is much better! Much closer!"

The Legilis tilted it's head up to look at the new version of the Sapphire Exia, which was covered in an intense layer of burning hot steam coming from the GN drive's overclock. Its wings were spread wide, and it had just one sword. Despite missing a leg, the Sapphire Exia looked as intimidating as a divine beast looking down on a petty mortal human. Elisa began laughing widly as the Exia charged right at the Legilis, leaving behind a trail of white exhaust.

"COME, KOSETSU!"

Author's note:

I'm so so so sorry for being inactive for an entire month guys! I was on holiday in a place with no wi-fi for an entire month so I couldn't inform you guys at all. I'm really sorry! T.T Don't worry, I'm still alive and this fanfiction has not been abandoned!

I hope you guys have enjoyed this chapter! Once again, sorry for taking so long!

Chapter 10 – The Other Exia will come soon! ( In less than 1 month time, I promise~!)

Have a nice day~