"Kel!" the door slammed open and Phoebe burst into the room.

Kel looked up from is laptop to see her glaring down on him. Uh oh, what did I do now? "Yes?" Kel gave her a weak smile.

"Tell me you didn't eat all the leftover pizza!"

"Um…" of course he had. He was hungry, but that answer would get him in big trouble. "No?" Kel flinched when he said it, bracing for Phoebe's outburst.

"Bullshit!" Phoebe stormed off.

"Must be that time of the month," Kel mumbled.

"What!" Phoebe stopped in mid-stride.

"Nothing!" Kel's heart skipped a beat. Sometimes he wished that he had a guy for a crew chief. He hated having to deal with Phoebe when she was like this, especially since he had a fight against Neo-Russia's fighter, Daniil Osip today.

Suddenly, his computer beeped twice and a box popped up "1:00." It's time to go. Osip will be here soon.

Daniil walked into the hanger to see his crew sitting around a table, playing cards. "She ready?" he headed strait for Gundam Grozny.

Colonel Dimitri Lazar looked up from his hand, "course she is." He was a large, muscular man with a bald head and a scar across his cheek. He was a very good mechanic and was respected throughout Neo-Russia. "You're not getting in now? We haven't touched down yet."

"Alexei is landing now," Daniil explained, "and Marchand is waiting in his gundam. I'll meet him in mine"

"Skippin' all the formalities, huh? Well, good luck then." Dimitri went back to the card game. The Neo-Russian government had certain bylines they preferred their Gundam Fighters follow. Daniil scoffed at them, and Dimitri wasn't going to force him to follow rules that he didn't agree with. Besides it was hard enough keeping the young fighter focused without more complications.

Kel watched as Gundam Grozny stepped out of the transport ship and onto the green southern Canadian field. "It's about time," he mocked. "I thought the Gundam Fight would be over before you got here.

"Traffic was a bitch," Osip mused.

"Hah," Kel smiled. "Alright, let's do this."

"Gundam Fight all set." Daniil took a fighting stance.

"Ready," Kel followed suit.

"Go!" Each pilots lead with a straight right punch. They make contact knuckle to knuckle before jumping back.

Kel began to fire at Gundam Grozny with his head vulcans. Unfortunately, Osip merely knelt down and crossed his arms in front of himself. He was virtually unaffected. Damn, his armor's too thick. Kel stopped firing and instead activated his wrist buzz saws.

Daniil immediately began to fire his own vulcans at Maple Gundam. Kel was forced to dodge to his right. As he rolled around to his feet, Daniil drew his hammer and sickle.

Kel immediately jumped towards Daniil and attacked. His first strike was parried as Daniil took a swing of his own. Kel quickly dodged Daniil's attack, and tried to make contact with a sweeping kick. Daniil was barely able to jump over the attack and landed barely in time to block Kel's next attack.

Suddenly on the defensive, Daniil found himself backing up with Kel's every attack. I've gotta do something. As Kel came at him with an upward kick, Daniil was able to spin to his left and get an attack of his own in.

When Osip's hammer passed over Kel's head, he was able to quickly grab it, twist it out of his hand and toss it to the ground. Daniil followed up with a swing of his sickle that Kel barely dodged.

Marchand then attacked Osip with a series of kicks and punches. Daniil blocked each of these and then returned with a kick of his own.

His kick was met with one from Marchand. The two froze for a quick second before jumping back from each other.

"Flying Sickle Grade Two!" As Daniil raised his sickle and prepared to throw it, a second curved blade extended out of the butt of its handle.

"Buzz Saw Shot!" Kel shot his wrist buzz saws at his opponent just as he released the sickle.

Kel's buzz saws sped towards Gundam Grozny, and Daniil's sickle spun towards Maple Gundam. Marchand jumped to his left, but the sickle curved towards him. As he landed the weapon caught him, digging into his shoulder.

At the same time Osip's attempted roll could not prevent one of Kel's buzz saws from cutting through his gundam's ankle. "Well," he sat up after a few seconds, "I think that makes this a draw."

"Yeah," Kel got out of Maple Gundam and walked over to meet Daniil as he exited Gundam Grozny.

"Good match," Daniil offered his hand to the Neo-Canadian. He was relatively small for a gundam fighter. Marchand was about 5' 8" and wiry with short blonde hair. His mobile trace suit, which he was still wearing, was white with a red maple leaf on the chest.

Kel stretched out and began to shake Daniil's hand when he caught sight of the scene over his shoulder.

Daniil, surprised by the look on Kel's face turned around to see his transport ship cut in half by one of Maple Gundam's buzz saws. The entire Neo-Russian Crew was walking towards them.

"Don't worry!" Colonel Lazar yelled to them. "We're all ok!"

"Not that anyone seems to care," mumbled a tall thin man next to him.

"Shut up, Ivan," another one of the crew members elbowed him in the gut.

"Hey," Kel turned back to Daniil. "If you need a place to stay, the Neo-Canadian government gave me this huge mansion to stay in. There's plenty of room for all you guys."

"That sounds good," Colonel Lazar had now gotten to them and answered before Daniil could. "It could take a few days for us to get a hold of a new transport."

"We'll try to stay out of your way." Daniil added.

"Don't worry about it." Kel smiled. "It'll be nice to have some guys around for a change.

"Gundam Fight all set!" the opposing gundam took a fighting stance.

"Ready!" Ignatius followed suit, as he sized up his opponent. Shanghai Gundam was red with black and yellow armor. Strapped on its back was a great naginata, and around its waist there seemed to be a multitude of shuriken.

"Go!" His opponent immediately began by attacking him with the shuriken.

Ignatius sidestepped one then knelt down as two bounced off his shield. Still kneeling with the ninja stars hitting his shield, Ignatius grabbed a javelin and threw it at his opponent.

Shanghai Gundam rolled to its left. "Ha, you missed."

"Wait for it," Ignatius smiled at the cockiness of this Neo-Chinese fighter. Just then the javelin exploded knocking the gundam to the ground. Drawing his energy sword Ignatius headed for the fallen gundam as it was getting up.

"Not so fast," his opponent drew his naginata and knocked the energy blade out of his hand. "Time to end this," he began to attack Ignatius with a combination of swings of his naginata.

Argento, after barely dodging each of his attacks, drewtwo javelins and crossed them in front of himselfto blockthe downward strike. When the blade of the naginata made contact with the javelins,they exploded sending both gundams flying backwards.

Quickly rolling over back to his feet, Ignatius drew the great broadsword from his back. He sprinted towards his opponent who replied with a thrust of his naginata. After parrying the attack Ignatius jumped back and sprinted towards his opponent.

Xiang followed suit with his Naginata prepared at his side. When the gundams reached one another they both swung with one powerful strike and continued past one another. After a few seconds, Shanghai Gundam fell to its knees, having sustained some substantial damage. Ignatius looked over his shoulder and sighed with relief.

As Centurion Gundam turned to walk away Kun Wu Xiang climbed out of his gundam. "You will pay for this, Argento! I am going to get you!"

Ignatius continued to walk, ignoring him. His brother's face appeared on a screen in front of him. "Ignatius," he looked dumbfounded.

"What?"

"Grandpa's sword…you're even faster with it than he was."

"So?"

"I thought you hadn't used it because you couldn't lift it yet."

"I wasn't gonna use it unless I needed it. Besides, did you think I would fight with a six ton sword on my back just because it looks nice?"

"Well…sort of."

"Moron," Ignatius mumbled under his breath.

"Hey, shut up."