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A/N: Thanks for all the reviews, guys! Yep, I definitely appreciate some of you taking some time and effort to review my story! Thanks! Yea…. erm, as the name implies, this is going to be another battle chapter. I hope you guys don't mind that much. Don't worry too much though, next chapter would definitely not be a battle scene. R&R!
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Chapter Two: Battle of the SexesKira's eyes cleared. He saw that the people who just slapped them were 3 girls who were pretty hot. Of course he knew who they were, they are like the few most popular girls in school: Lacus Clyne, Cagalli Yula Athha and Miriallia Haww. He asked "Hey! What's up? Why the violence?"
The three gals stared hard at him with a fire of anger burning in their eyes. Lacus replied in an angry tone "Are you acting dumb or are you really dumb?"
"What? Me dumb? No way! What's the problem anyway?" replied Kira in a defensive tone,
Lacus stared at him in a you-better-not-act-dumb glare. Which caused Kira to gulp. "The fact that you are bullying three students who are better than you in every aspect except in mobile suit fighting!" Lacus almost screamed.
"Hey, I didn't start it. Yzak challenged us first!" Kira hurriedly tried to defend himself.
"Yeah! We challenged him, alright! And we do not need some girls to defend us." Yzak sneered and spat on the floor right in front of Lacus' boots.
"See? That's gratitude for you for trying to help these buncha losers. By the way Yzak, we can kick your butt anytime, any day." Kira said.
"Do you really think that your mobile suit fighting skills are like the best? You need to open your eyes!" asked Lacus.
"Uhh…. Not that good really. Just the top three pilots in Archangel High." Kira said with a smile.
"Oh my god! You are really arrogant. Well, the three of us" said Lacus, gesturing to herself, Cagalli and Miriallia, "would like to challenge the three of you. May the best pilots win!"
Throughout Kira and Lacus' conversation, the others didn't utter a single word (except for Yzak), and they just looked as the two argued. To them, it seemed like Kira and Lacus were two couples who were arguing.
Without pausing to think, Kira said, "We accept your challenge.".
Kira, Athrun and Dearka slipped back into their suits and put on their helmets, and sat next to each other in the VR Chair. The three girls slipped into their own pink, light pink, and brown suits and helmets.
With the highly advanced technology, everything from the mobile suits' parts to the background is very vivid and realistic. One doesn't just select some parts and it would be installed into the Mobile Suit. One has to manually install the parts themselves and program the OS themselves, in the side program appropriately named: The Hangar. Kira went into The Hangar and checked the statistics of Freedom. With the money he earned through his many victories, he has managed to purchase a nuclear-jammer canceller, allowing Freedom to be nuclear-powered, with almost limitless battery power, so Freedom's battery was still at 100 even after his battle with Yzak and Co. He quickly purchased two beam sabers to replace those that he threw at Tolle. Splurging slightly, he modified them to be brown and blue colour to match his hair and eyes. Sensing Dearka and Athrun's impatience beside him, he quickly entered the main program: Mobile Suit Battle: Space Collision.
Upon entering the program, Kira found that the random battlefield was Heliopolis. This battle field has a twist in it: Since Heliopolis is easily destroyed, whichever team destroys it will lose automatically, testing the pilots' ability to aim well, and restricted them to less powerful weapons. Kira had always liked this battlefield, as his Freedom's High Mobility Aerial Tactics (HiMAT) Mode would definitely give him an advantage in atmospheric battles. Kira quickly checked the specifications of his enemies' mobile suits.
Lacus was piloting the Gundam Astray Gold Frame, with a claw, sabers, beam rifles, beam swords, mirage colloid system and another weapon which is unidentified. Cagalli was piloting her custom-made Strike Rogue with its light pink colour, and beam rifle and two assault knives. It also has extended power to increase the time in which Phase Shift Armour can operate. Mirialllia was piloting the Gundam Astray Blue Frame with Scale System, which has two assault knives and a torpedo launcher. It seemed as if this was gonna be a long battle. The three girls' mobile suits definitely beats the Moebius, GINN and Duel Gundam of their previous opponents.
Kira told Dearka and Athrun to be careful. He told them of the battle plan. They would each take care of one girl. Dearka and Athrun nodded in response. The battle was scheduled to start in 10 seconds. Kira took a deep breath, and prepared himself. Then a voice rang in their ears: "Gundam Fight all set! Ready…. GO!"
Kira picked out Lacus and immediately pelted her with shots from his beam rifles. Lacus deftly dodged all of them and used the Mirage Colloid to turn invisible. Kira blinked in confusion then suddenly realized what she has done. He listened intently for any sounds made by Lacus. Suddenly, he heard the whirring of engines behind him, and turned behind, but it was too late. Lacus used a whip like weapon to entangle Kira. Kira noticed that his energy levels dropped by 3 and Lacus' energy levels increased by a lot. So that is the unidentified weapon! A whip to suck the energy of the opponent! Well, at least I have a nuclear reactor!
Dearka went after Miriallia. They battled all the way and Miriallia suddenly dove into a huge lake. Fearing for Buster's lack of mobility underwater, he took pot shots with his gun launcher. However, none of his shots seemed to have hit his target. Taking a huge risk, he dove underwater.
With only Cagalli left, Athrun went after her. He took out his beam sabers and went for a straight stab to the cockpit. Cagalli dodged, but the sabers still scraped the side of the Strike Rogue, effectively cutting off the left arm. She flew back, took out her beam rifle, and started shooting. The barrage of shots was so well placed that Athrun could not dodge all of them and ended up with Justice's right arm shot off.
Kira drew his beam sabers and cut the whip off, and started to unleash a barrage of slashes and stabs at Lacus, trying to keep her occupied long enough so that she cannot use her Mirage Colloid. Lacus drew a saber with Gundam Astray Gold Frame's (GAGF) right arm and parried all his slashes. She used her left arm's claw to rid Freedom of its right arm. For the second time, Kira was surprised and caught off guard. Lacus took the chance and slashed Freedom's head clean off.
Dearka was immediately met with 5 torpedoes connecting with his Mobile Suit. His left arm was severely damaged, with his head off and severe damage to the torso. He combined his beam rifle and gun launcher together to form a sniper rifle, and shot at Gundam Astray Blue Frame's (GABF) cockpit. At exactly the same moment, a torpedo hit his cockpit and he went out of the fight with Miriallia at the same time.
Cagalli then started throwing both assault knives at Justice, and immediately started shooting afterwards. Unable to dodge, Justice's right arm and right leg got shot off. Pissed, Athrun took out his beam boomerangs and threw them. Cagalli could only stare on as two pink streaks of light spun towards her. With an explosion, Strike Rogue was out of the game.
Before Athrun could catch the boomerangs back, he suddenly noticed a gold gundam right in front of him. The gundam used the sword in its right arm to stab into his cockpit. Justice blew up in a ball of flames.
Kira took the chance of Lacus being occupied with Athrun, and used the multi-targeting system at Lacus, shooting his plasma cannons. Multiple shots flew towards Lacus and GAGF was destroyed. However, Kira wasn't concentrating and one of the plasma cannons shot at the foundation of Heliopolis, destroying Heliopolis at about the same time.
Kira was very tense, awaiting the results of the battle. The words "You are Victorious" flashed across his field of vision, and he breathed a sigh of relief. He checked and found that GAGF was destroyed exactly 0.1337 seconds before Heliopolis. He removed his VR suit and helmet with a distinct look of pride and victory on his face.
He saw three very pissed girls glaring at him. Their eyes were burning with an intense fire and their uniforms and hair seemed to billow in the non-existent gale. It took the courage of a brilliant pilot not to quaver under their gaze, and luckily Kira was just that, so he did not turn into a pile of quivering jelly, but his proud and victorious face immediately disappeared, and was replaced by a rather nervous look.
Cagalli was the maddest. Her glare seemed to pierce as many holes in his body as his beam cannon pierced into Tolle's mobile armour. She stepped forward and shoved Kira hard on the chest, causing him to lose his balance and fall – hard – on his butt. "You were just lucky, bastard!" she hissed. With that, the three girls turned on their heels and left Kira on his butt and his two buddies looking on him with concern. Kira was watching the girls leave, and noticed that Lacus turned around for a moment and looked at him with what was it? concern? In her eyes. That certainly left Kira bewildered.
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A/N: Hope you guys enjoyed that. Yep and as I said, next chapter would not be a battle scene, and it would probably be development between Dearka and Miriallia, with minor developments for KiraLacus and Asucaga. So watch out for it in about 3 days' time. Till then, cya!
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