**Mega Float Guest – Actually in my mind there is a difference between an overpowered character and a Gary Stu or Mary Sue. Overpowered characters just have more power and/or experience than every character, such as a Dragon Ball Z character. Gary/Mary are original characters that have no experience in anything at all, yet they are able to master anything and everything in an instant or few minutes, have no weaknesses and has every single ability known to man like Ren from Star Wars: TFA**
Chapter 6 Build Banshee VS Shenlong
**Next Week, Class League Match**
The day that every single person in the IS Academy had been waiting for a few days in endless and indescribable excitement had finally come, pitting each class representative against each other in order to see which class would come up on top ad etch their class number as the best class in the entire academy.
Just outside of the arena where the fights were going to take place was a board of the match-ups, surrounded by girls looking at who was facing who. They scrolled their eyes past the match-ups right to left of the four brackets until they could find who the only male class representative was up against. Spot on the left side was Dart Silver and he was up against the new class rep of Class 1-2, Huang Lingyin.
They were up first to battle.
"Silver's match is up now!"
"I can't wait to see his personal IS in battle!"
"We better find seats in the arena now!"
"Don't worry, if we don't find seats in the arena they'll show it throughout the school on monitors so there's no worry."
Inside the arena it was however, full to the brink with no free seats available in sight, even the steps were taken as a substitute chair. The female spectators chatted with themselves, how they were amped up for this tournament and they were all waiting in patience for the first match to start. Ling was already in the arena in her Shenlong IS on the ground, with two large axes stored on her back that were so strong they could crush the toughest of metal.
In the hangar where Dart was equipped in his black full armor IS, he was joined by Cecilia, Ichika and Houki. The latter being there because of Ichika.
"Who would have guess I would be taking on your childhood friend in the first fight, Ichika." Dart commented staring own to his right at the three supporters looking up at him.
"Try not to tick her off so much…or else you won't hear the end of her ramble, hehe." Ichika scratched the back of his head in a little joke. Ling was a time bomb ready to go off at any time if provoked, and she does not hold back.
"I'll keep that in mind," Dart replied smiling.
A miniature model of Ling's IS appeared on Dart's HUD. It was metallic gold and it spun in 3D showing off what her IS looks like in detail. The noticeable part was two circular shoulder pads with three spikes coming out of each one, and it showed something circular in the middle on both front and back.
"Her IS is called the Shenlong," Miss Yamada informed over the communications like from the hangar control room behind and above Dart. "This model is a close range type just like the Uchigane you used and Orimura's Byakushiki." She finished with the IS model disappearing from his HUD.
"The Shenlong, huh? What's next, she'll be calling it the Nataku when it's been upgraded?" Dart inserted a little Gundam WING joke.
"This match won't be like ours Dart, so please don't let your guard down," Cecilia cautioned Dart.
"You're right, I won't be using an IS with only a sword. I'll be using my personal IS with much more in the arsenal." Dart gave a thumbs up and a cheeky grin at Cecilia. After that, holographic lines appeared on both sides of the catapult, somehow pretending like it's a launch bay from a Gundam series.
[Will both contestants move to your designated positions at this time] a female voice that was not Chifuyu's or Maya's ordered as the weather protection roof of the arena slid open like it would do before a football or rugby match, removing the space restriction of both fighting IS.
Dart bent his knees slightly like he was inside a Gundam again, ' Dart Silver, Build Banshee, taking off!' He mentally thought for the nostalgia launching out of the launch bay and into the open being instantly gazed at every female in the arena and in the academy watching through the monitors.
The Build Banshee flew up into the air leaving a trail of dark purple pixie dust from his Phase Shift Armor parts and met eyes with Ling and her Shenlong IS, spacing each other for their starting positions. Girls on the stadium and in the academy gasped with amazement for his IS, glittering particles from the knees, body and elbows.
"What so you think of my personal IS? Does it scream power and fear into your eyes" Dart began the word exchange with Ling with a little bit of confidence and boast for a first impression.
"Not really, that horn makes you look like a unicorn!" Ling spat back still holding a grudge for not trading rooms with Dart. But not for long. She'll win this fight and have the right to live with Ichika. "I'll give you one chance to surrender your room to me, or you'll experience excruciating pain! FYI the Absolute Defense isn't perfect. If your attack is strong enough to penetrate the shields, it transfers the damage to the pilot. It'll hurt a lot for you but it won't be lethal."
"Duh, I learnt that lesson last week. Why do you think we attend this school to learn about the IS?" Dart countered.
[Both contestants, you may start the match after the alarm]
*HHHHRRRRNNNNGGGG!*
The loud alarm sounded initiating the battle.
Ling reached her hand over her back and tightened her IS hand on one of the handles for her big axes, bringing it out for battle. Dart respected she wanted to start with one melee weapon, so he went with the same idea. Bringing his right hand out, he summoned a green beam saber.
His NT-D Mode meter started to count up in percentages quickly, 1%, 2%, 3%.
The Shenlong and Build Banshee charged towards each other but both called each other's bluffs, flying past each other and spinning around in circles as they rose up staring at each other. After a few rotations and Rin had gained some air above Dart, they charged once again with Rin slamming her axe down on Dart's beam saber which blocked the attack. However since she had the momentum from falling down from the sky she had more pressure put onto Dart's beam saber. He was able to defend, but had a hard time returning the hard force from the height disadvantage.
"Not bad," Ling complimented staring down at the blocking Dart.
"The battle is still fresh so don't assume things so quickly!" Dart returned holding back his left hand and quickly summoning his AA-VN in closed form and punching Rin in the chest, dealing damage to her shields dropping from 600 to 511.
"That must be the Armed Armor VN (Vibration Nails) ," Chifuyu spectated in the hangar control room with Ichika, Cecilia and Houki in the room with her looking at the screen viewing the battle.
"Ghh," Rin groaned being pushed back up and putting more distance away from him and her. She came to a halt being 20 meters away from Dart, who unequipped his beam saber in his right hand and summoned his Armed Armor BS(Beam Smart gun) returning the default look of the Build Banshee prior to becoming an IS.
The BS folded forward as the Build Banshee aimed his right arm forward and firing a plasma shot at the Shenlong, evading doing a right barrel roll and firing her Dragon Cannons back at Dart continuously with heavy yellow shots. The male ceased his BS shot and changed plans to evading. Dart flew randomly in the air to evade the shots the best he could against the stray shots, however one hit him on the chest and launched him back with hard hitting force. He recovered before he could hit is back on the ground and stood up straight.
"What the fuck was that?" He gritted asked himself looking at the Shenlong above. "It took out nearly 300 of my shields with a single shot!"
"What on Earth was that?!" Cecilia exclaimed with worry.
"What she used was a shock cannon," Miss Yamada swing her chair around a bit so she could look at the panicked Cecilia. "It's a weapon that compresses nearby space and shoots out the resulting shockwave as a projectile. The Shenlong's cannons can fire at any direction without any limitations due to the barrel's angle of skew. In other words, it has no weak spot." Miss Yamada turned back to the screen. "No matter where Silver goes he will always be in range."
Dart now looked at his NT-D gauge and saw it soared from 16% up to 43%. It must increase while he took damage too. The harder he's hit the more it increases.
'Fair enough…' Dart thought as he returned his attention back to Ling in the air, resuming to suppress him with shock bullets. Dart swooped left and right charging up to the aired IS unequipping his VN and BS in exchange for one beam saber.
Dart flew up to the Shenlong this time stopping before at her level and swinging his beam saber across his chest for a vertical slice. It was blocked when Ling held her axe upside down and stopped the beam saber from getting close to her chest.
"Big mistake!" She grinned bringing her other axe from her back with her spare hand and downward horizontally sliced him in the chest, launching him down before she shot two more shock bullets at Dart and flung him down to the ground with force, impaling him to the ground covered in a smoke of dust.
**BOOM!**
The females gasped with horror fearing for Dart's welling. Cecilia gasped as well with the most panic covering her mouth with both her hands, only staring at the smoke that covered his IS.
"And with that I win," Ling grinned victoriously waiting for the horn to go, announcing her obvious victory. She waited for a few more seconds, and the horn still didn't ring. "What's the hold up?!" She exclaimed impatiently.
She looked down at the smoke and she felt a chill up her spine, dark purple eyes looking at her coldly with a piercing glaze. More dark purple lights showed underneath the dark purple eyes, resembling loose limbs of the IS.
Chifuyu widened her eyes finally knowing what this mode was as it appeared on the screen showing everyone in the room what was activated. It showed a large square prompt with three black letters in big font with red virus-infecting waves in the background. Along the bottom was a light dark red ribbon with smaller black text. They both read:
-NT-D Engaged-
-Enabling Psycho-Frame-
"Psycommu systems?" Cecilia asked with absolute wonder, no idea what this means.
"What does this mean, Miss Orimura?" Ichika asked her sister for some clues since she was more experienced with IS and its history.
"Psycommu…" Chifuyu muttered to herself with curiosity. Just what does it mean? 'Psycommu…Could it be something related to psychic?' She mentally deduced telling from the 'psy' in the name which relates to something of mental activity.
The Build Banshee now in destroyer mode shot up into the air with far superior speed, leaving a dark purple trail behind him.
"So fast!" Ling spoke in panic firing her shock cannons into the air in hopes to shoot down the speedy opponent.
Like connecting the dots in the air the Build Banshee zipped across the sky evading the shots with ease thanks to his heightened mental awareness to react quicker and pilot his IS with his thoughts alone.
"Whoa!"
"Dart's IS's is amazingly fast!"
After the zipping across the sky, the Build Banshee equipped the open AA-VN in his right hand and sped towards Ling, grabbing her by the head, spinning around and throwing her down to the ground quickly and stronger thanks to the momentum of spinning Ling around.
**BOOM!**
"Guh!" She collided with the ground and got back up on her feet and turned around, now staring up at the Build Banshee with rage. "What up with the big idea?!" She hissed with venom.
The two expanded shields on the Build Banshee's back due to the NT-D mode detached from his back and now were able to act like funnels, leaving a dark purple trail where they flew and fired their yellow Mega Beam Cannons at the grounded Ling, deciding to evade their attacks jumping about.
"So those things on his back were bits?" Cecilia questioned, only guessing half of what they were.
"You're half right. They're also shields with something called I-Fields in them." Miss Yamada explained recalling when she examined Dart's IS for his weapons and systems.
Ling was in a very bad pinch, having to deal with funnels at the same time. But Dart was inactive, staring down at her doing nothing.
'Chance!' Ling thought seeing the weakness of a funnel-type IS pilot. The rule of thumb of funnels is that to use them, the IS pilot must concentrate on using them which left the pilot vulnerable to attack.
Ling diverted her evading away and charged up as fast as she could to the idle Dart.
"Now you're mine!"
She swung her axe downward to the Build Banshee, however Dart was ready for her and held his right hand up, emitting a beam Tonfa that was bigger and wider and blocked her attack.
"What?!" She exclaimed as Dart held her in place and left her open for two mega beam cannon shots from the back. They both hit her, backing her lean forward from the impact. Dart kicked her vertically across the chest following a downward claw slice, slicing her with three nails at the same time and launched her back down to the ground.
**BOOM**
For the finale the Build Banshee raised its right arm in the air, equipping the Beam Magnum and aimed it down to Ling as it charged so when he aimed it at Ling he could fire it whenever he was ready. With the two shields by his sides with their barrels aimed at Ling too, two mega beam cannons and one beam magnum shot fired at the same time all heading to Ling with pin-point accuracy.
**PEW**
**KA-BOOM**
[The winner, Silver Dart from Class 1-1. Remaining shields 101.]
The battle was finished.
The crowd erupted in cheer and a round of applause. The Build Banshee lowered itself to the ground as it deactivated NT-T mode, returned the shields back to the back and was back to normal. The dust cleared and it revealed Ling out of her IS, lying on the ground coming to terms that she lost. She was beaten.
Dart walked over to the grounded Ling in the small crater and when he came to a stop in front of her, giving him a slight sad expression he held out his right arm to her.
"That was a great battle, Huang." He complimented with a small smile on his face. Ling looked at his hand for a few seconds.
"Yeah," she softly said taking his hand and being helped up onto her feet. Louder applause was heard from this show of sportsmanship.
Cecilia sighed relieved, "Dart won." She said pleased no longer fearing Dart had to fight against those shock cannons.
Miss Yamada and Chifuyu both closed the case that this NT-D mode was nothing more than a speed boost, bringing new weapons to the fray just like when Ichika's IS evolved from the default setting to First Shift. But it didn't mean that the origins of his Build Banshee was not yet closed, and it is still being investigated.
**Night, Room 1025**
The day finished with the conclusion of the Class League tournament with Dart Silver the winner of the tournament. As the prize for winning and showing that Class 1-1 was a class to look out for, the entire class received half a year of free dessert coupons. It felt like being in primary school again.
"You were awesome out there!" Ichika complimented Dart sitting on his bed with an excited tone congratulating his pal.
"Thank you Ichika," he replied.
"By the way, what exactly is NT-D mode?" Ichika inquired recalling today when a prompt on the screen appeared in his face notifying him, Chifuyu and the others that NT-D was engaged and something called Psycommu System being activated. He was keen to know what it actually was.
"NT-D mode, short for New Type Destroyer or I should be calling as the IS-D (Infinite Stratos Destroyer) now, is a system that only my Build Banshee has. It allows me to pilot completely with my mental thoughts, increasing my speed, reaction times and allowing the full effect of my weapons as you saw when my VN, the closed fist prior to NT-D when it became claws."
"Whoa! What generation is you're IS? It must be a fourth or fifth to be that powerful and advanced."
"Well actually-"
*Knock knock*
The door was knocked twice interrupting Dart in mid-sentence. These timely interruptions, eh?
"I'll get it this time," Ichika offered standing up from his bed and making his way to the door in wonder who might it be. It could be Ling to talk to him or Dart, any girl to congratulate Dart on winning the tournament. Who knows?
*Click Whoosh*
Ichika opened the door to Miss Yamada standing on the other side, showing some hesitation on her face, like what she said was going to complicate things more.
"Hello Orimura, I'm afraid I have some bad news for Silver…" She awkwardly said straightening her glasses to compose herself. "I'm sorry to say this, but Silver isn't finished playing magical chairs yet…"
"What do you mean Miss Yamada?" Ichika tilted his head to the right arching an eyebrow. Dart overheard this and peeked his head forward so his head was seen on the right side of Ichika while he sat on the bed.
"Well…to put it blunt…he has to change living arrangements again…"
"Again?" Dart expressed his concern and slight rage getting off his bed and walking towards the door to get more information from Miss Yamada.
"I am very sorry Silver!" Miss Yamada apologized greatly; even so much she was bowing.
Dart breathed in and out of his nose dismissing the angry tone in his voice, going for a quick walk to the front of his bed and picked up his bag of belongings and returning the door. Walking off more anger helped a tad.
"I guess we're going to be roommates with girls again." He held up his right hand as a sign of farewell, "Good luck with your new roommate, Ichika."
"Thanks, you too Dart." Ichika nodded wishing him luck too.
Dart left the room and followed Maya who was extremely empathic to have two boys split apart and having them live with the opposite gender where it is clearly a bad idea.
Ichika closed the door behind Dart and Yamada and now turned back into the room, silent and alone for the night.
A few minutes later of walking without a single word spoken Dart and Miss Yamada had come to the new room where Dart would be staying. However he had a moment of Déjà vu. He looked up above the door and saw the room number as 1052, the room of Cecilia Alcott.
"I'm going to room with Cecilia?" Dart asked turning his head to the green haired teacher on his left. He placed his left hand on his hip reminding himself of something. "Are you absolutely sure that this is the room I will be staying in? The last time you led me to a new room it was the wrong one."
Maya nodded once with confidence, 100% sure she was right this time. "You've been getting along with Miss Alcott recently, so we thought that rooming you with her was a good idea since the two of you are now friends."
"I think classmates would be more suitable," Dart turned his head back to the door and he was about to knock on it to get Cecilia to open it, but she beat him to it from hearing Dart's and Miss Yamada's voice on the other side of the door.
"Hello Dart and Miss Yamada. I couldn't help but overhear that Dart will be my roommate," she greeted in a casual tone wearing a long light blue night gown reaching to her knees.
"I'm surprised that this greeting has a more friendly tone to it compared to last time," Dart joked lightly.
"Yes…well that was a horrible greeting and I wish to forget about it."
"Yes he will be, Miss Alcott. I hope you don't mind," Yamada said hoping Cecilia would say yes.
"Of course it wouldn't!" She replied with joy clapping her hands together, quickly turning down her tone and excitement level back to normal. She moved to the side and gestured inside with her left hand, "Please do come in Dart."
"Thank you kindly Cecilia," Dart nodded walking into the room with Cecilia closing the door behind her. The first thing that Dart could differentiate was that the second bed which had a princess-like look to it, having blue drapes tied to the four corners of the bed. The other bed was normal, no special features at all.
Dart stopped and turned his head to the left staring at the normal bed. "I guess that one is mine."
"Yes, it is."
Speaking of beds, he really wanted to go to one from the day he had fighting in numerous IS battles until he came out the victor. Dart gave a yawn placing his hand over his mouth.
"I think I should hit the hay early tonight," he said tired. He turned to Cecilia, "Would you mind looking away until I get dressed for bed?"
"Ohh, sure," Cecilia quickly looked away from the male with a blush on her face, hearing the sound of clothes stripping behind her. She could peek around and have a little look at the changing male behind her, but she respected his privacy too much to do it. The undressing noise stopped as bed covers being shuffled was heard.
When the bed sheets stopped making a noise, it was safe for her to turn around. While he was in bed, she might as well go to since she is dressed properly for bed. She walked to the light switch and turned every light on, leaving her in the darkness with little to be visible.
She walked past Dart's bed and was about to pop into her own bed. She held out her hand for her bed covers but paused, looking at Dart's bed. Her heart was racing in thought of actually sleeping in the same bed as Dart. It's just…she felt so safe and protected when Dart hugged her a few days ago. No one other than her mother would hug her.
She wanted to feel it again.
She withdrew her hand away from her bed and turned her body around to Dart.
"Um, excuse me Dart. Would you mind if I slept with you? For tonight…?" She fidgeted with her fingers as her heart was racing from asking such a question easy to say no to.
"Why?"
"Well, when you hugged me on the school roof a few days ago…I felt safe, happy and protected in your embrace. I…I know this is weird of me to ask and I won't get angry if you say no, but…can I feel the same embrace tonight?" She asked with a blush.
"Are you that desperate to find a boyfriend?" He sighed softly before he grabbed the bed sheets and threw them over him, leaving an uncovered part of the bed inviting Cecilia in. He remembered how hard her life was and how traumatizing it was, so he wanted to give the comfort and happiness before.
"T-thank you!" Cecilia said joyfully walking slowly to Dart's bed and crawling over it to get close to Dart as she could before scooting herself into position and throwing the bed sheets over her. When she was inside the bed sheets feeling the warmth and laid close to Dart as she could, he wrapped his left arm around Cecilia's neck and placed his hand on her upper back, while her wrapped his right arm around her waist and brought her closer to him and hugging her to sleep.
Cecilia could feel something was off… He was shirtless, but she didn't seem to mind at all.
She laid her head against his chest, falling asleep to the peaceful heartbeat of the boy and drifted off to sleep while embraced by someone who she could love to marry someday in the near future.
**Morning, Room 1052**
At 6:45am in the morning Cecilia opened her eyes after a very blissful sleep. She slept like a baby without worry still feeling the embrace of the man who she slept with throughout the night. She opened her eyes refreshingly rubbing them to get sleep out of them, looking at Dart's sleeping and cute face.
"Excuse me Dart, but it is morning already." She softly and happily said in a casual tone to the gentleman to her side. He didn't react at all continuing to sleep. "Dart," she said more loudly to get the heavy sleeper awake.
Since words won't get to him, the next method was trying to get him up with physical pain. She raised her left hand out of the bed sheets and clamped his nose with her middle and index fingers cutting off the air supply for a brief moment. A few seconds later he opened his eyes and quickly sat up, changing his source of oxygen to his mouth.
He breathed in and out desperately with Cecilia's fingers removed from his reopened nose. After he regained his normal breathing pattern he looked to his left seeing Cecilia kneeling on the bed looking at him.
"What was that for?!" He yelled bearing his teeth.
"Humph," she crossed her arms and looked her head away. "Consider that your new alarm clock. I told you to wake up, but you didn't listen." She looked back to Dart who quickly pinched his index and middle fingers together against the nose of Cecilia.
"Stop it!" She demanded trying to force a release, staring at Dart pinching her nose for a few seconds before he released purposely.
"Now we're even," he said rolling out of bed and walked to his bag of belongings on the floor and getting out a fresh IS Academy uniform while Cecilia walked into the bathroom carrying an IS Academy uniform, puffing her cheeks out and getting ready in the closed bathroom.
After some time in the bathroom Cecilia came out of the bathroom fully dressed, hair combed and tidy, carrying her folded blue night gown in her hands and walked over to her cabinet and placed it in one of her drawers. While this time Dart had brushed his teeth and was ready.
The two walked out of the room with Cecilia locking the room behind her. Dart and Cecilia didn't notice that the few students getting ready for the day had stared speechlessly at them, witnessing Dart now being roomed with Cecilia.
The two roommates began their walk to the cafeteria to have breakfast with each other, though in silence until Dart spoke up. Since two of the nearby girls, Honne Nohotoke in a yellow fox hood and Kiyoka Aikawa were ready, they decided to be nosey and follow Cecilia and Dart to the cafeteria from a safe distance.
"I have to admit," he began with a soft and slightly humiliated tone, a blush appearing on his cheeks. "You were really comfy to hug last night…"
"H-hug?" Both sneaky girls said with the softest and quietest tone trying to prevent their surprise alerting them to their presence.
"D-Dart…" she flustered feeling a blush coming on.
"So…how did you feel last night?" He asked rubbing the back of his head awkwardly. "Did being hugged to sleep feel as you thought it would be?"
Kiyoka and Honne stopped in their footsteps ceasing their spy nature, looking at east other shockingly
"D-did Alcott sleep in the same bed as Dart?" Kiyoka asked with widened eyes.
"We have to tell the others," Honne suggested holding her arms out like a praying mantis with her over stretched sleeves reaching further than her hands. The two girls ran in the opposite direction to find a quicker and stealthier route to the classroom so they can tell the others of Alcott's and Silver's incident last night.
"Y-yeah I did," she nodded gently. She was filled with the same level of humiliation as Dart. "It was very soothing."
"I'm glad…"
"Hey…Dart… If you don't mind….c-can we please do it tonight?" She boldly asked, making Dart flinch and look stuttered. "I really enjoyed being hugged to sleep last night, a-and since you thought I was comfy to hug as well, maybe we can come to a mutual decision."
Dart gave it a thought and ten seconds late of silent thinking, Dart gave an answer.
"Tsk, fine. But if this mutual decision has to work we can't wake each other up in a dangerous, harmful or silly way. We do it the considerate way. Deal?"
Cecilia blushed with happiness expressing her feeling right now with a big smile. "Yes!" She said clinging onto Dart's left arm and walked next to him, being escorted by a gentleman. And he said chivalry died when the IS cam about.
**Later, Class 1-1**
"Hey! You have to listen to this guys!" Honne said aloud excitedly to a group of girls currently waiting in the classroom for class to start. There were fewer than 7 people in the class at the moment with Houki, Ichika, Dart and Cecilia absent.
"Hear what?" One of the other girls peeked with interest.
"We saw Alcott and Dart coming out of the same room!" Kiyoka explained unable to hold back the news.
"What?!"
"No way!"
"What's even more shocking is that Dart hugged Cecilia to sleep! In other words, they slept in the same bed!"
"EH?!"
"You're lying! Dart would never be that friendly to Alcott, especially since after the first day!"
"But...Alcott and Dart have gotten non-hostile to each other after the Class rep match."
"That's true..."
Their gossiping ended when Ichika, Dart, Houki and Cecilia entered the room by the front door.
"What's everyone so excited about?" Ichika asked overhearing loud voices from the room.
"N-nothing!" The girls replied in a choir.
Chifuyu came up from behind the four blocking the door and with a demanding voice, "Get in your seats now. Home room is starting," the four moved out of the way and quickly scurried to their seats ready for the class.
Miss Yamada was at the front and she looked hesitant, constantly blinking and looking around the room.
"Erm…we have another transfer student joining us today." She informed. The door to the left opened and in came a person with short blond hair, purple eyes wearing the male version of the IS Academy uniform. It was hard to believe but this person was a boy, emitting an aura of beauty around him, making the girls around the glass to ooh in wonder trying to see if this was reality or just a dream. "I'm Charles Dunois, and I have come from France. It is nice to meet you." The new male identified as Charles Dunois greeted in a French accent. Ichika was overjoyed to have a second male to talk to, but Dart had his suspicions about how this guy's accent sounded.