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Class had just ended. Mister Oobleck was busy rapidly packing his things to head home for the day. Ruby sat, staring at the white-haired girl in the seat in front of her. She was busy reading a book at her desk, and as class ended for the day and people began filing out of the room, both her and Ruby remained seated. Ruby was leaning in, staring at the back of her head, chewing on her lip and thinking. She tapped her pencil anxiously against her knuckles.

The other girl sighed. "Ruby, your tapping is breaking my concentration."

"Did you get my message?"

"Yes…." The tone the girl had was one filled with annoyance.

"And?"

"And what?" she turned around and looked at Ruby, her icy blue eyes meeting earnest silver. "Did you honestly expect me to take you seriously?"

"Weiss, come on! It'll be fun!" Ruby smiled at her, excited. "Just think about it! You'd be able to go to Japan, and-"

"Here, let me think," Weiss replied, cutting her off. "Hmm... no, I don't think so." She turned around and resumed reading her book.

"But Weiss! I need a partner for the Gunpla Battle Tournament!"

Weiss spun around and gave her a cold glare. "Keep your voice down, you dolt!" she hissed. "Do you honestly expect me to participate in a battle of...toys?" She looked around at the last remaining students, who were gathering their books. Ruby thought she looked a bit paranoid. "Just drop it, okay?"

Ruby looked at her, dejected, but nodded. She sighed. "Okay…"

"Why don't you ask Jaune, or Pyrrha? Or Ren?"

"Well I did," Ruby said. "But it turns out, all of them got invited too, thanks to their high placings in Regional's or winning other events." She pulled out her note to show Weiss. "They all got this."

Weiss took the note and read it. "Ruby, this isn't an invitation to the World Championship, this is an invitation to compete to be in it! The tickets are for the Tag battle, but for the Singles Championship you have to qualify by competing in a series of exhibition matches."

"O-oh…"

She gave her a look. "You didn't even fully read this, did you?"

"No...I guess I got too excited…" She looked at her desk and rubbed the back of her neck.

Weiss waited until the last student got up and the classroom door closed. She spun around and leaned in to whisper. "So, tell me the details."

Ruby looked up, startled. "What?"

"The Tag Tournament, you dunce! Tell me what it's all about!" She had an enthusiastic grin as she read over the paper again. "It doesn't specify."

"But, I thought you didn't want to do it." Ruby gave her a confused look. "You just said-"

"I said that to keep people from thinking that I like fighting with toy soldiers," Weiss shook her head. "With a family as rich as mine, it's hard enough to try and just be a normal kid going to public school instead of a private one. The last thing I need is to get harangued about liking model kits and fighting in a nerd's sport. Even if I DO enjoy it."

"Weiss, you shouldn't have to hide what you like to do." Ruby gave her a reassuring smile. "If someone wants to be a butt about it, let them. Don't let them kill your love for things or hide it just because they are mean."

"Assholes, you mean," Weiss corrected.

"Hey, swear jar." Ruby reached into her bag and pulled out a tiny mason jar with a few nickels in it.

"Wait, you actually carry around a swear jar?" Weiss raised her eyebrow.

Ruby giggled. "Yang owes me fifteen cents. C'mon, pay up."

Weiss scoffed. "You're impossible." She reached into her pants pocket and pulled out her coin purse, depositing a nickel into the jar. "There, you happy?"

Ruby smiled. "Yup! Now, about the Tag Team Tournament. It's a two-v-two competition. Anyone who qualified for the Regionals in their areas is eligible. So I'd bet we'll see a lot of really tough teams there."

"How do they manage so many teams?" Weiss asked. "That seems like a ton."

"Well, they hold preliminary battles to eliminate all but the top eight teams, I think."

"Ah, so it's similar to the Singles bracket, but that one only went out to the Final Two of each Regional or National competition, thus narrowing the field by quite a bit." Weiss nodded. "Alright. That means I won't be able to fight in the World Championship, then."

"No, you can," Ruby smiled. "The winning team of the Tag Tournament will be both eligible for the Singles fight. Meaning if we win the Tag Championship…"

"I'd get a spot in the Prelims of the Singles Tourney…" Weiss's mind began to race. "It also means there's a chance the Tag Champions could fight each other."

"Yup! But that's a chance I think we should take."

Weiss smiled. "Okay. I'm in. I'm intrigued by this."

"Sweet! Yang and Blake are entering too." Ruby bounced in her chair. "This is gonna be awesome!"

"Blake plays, too?" Weiss asked curiously. "I'm surprised. She doesn't seem the type."

Ruby smiled. "She's curious because Yang's into it. She doesn't play much, and she's still a noob at building, but she'll get better. What she really needs is a place to practice."

"Hmm... I might be able to help with that." Weiss looked at the clock. "Have the girls meet up with you and come to my house in three hours. I'll explain more then."


The Alameda Heights area of Portland was one of the richest and most confusing areas in Oregon's largest city. Yang, Blake, and Ruby felt horribly out of place among the sprawling, confusing, twisting roads and gated communities, and it took a long time to find the Schnee residence.

Ruby has only been to Weiss's house once, and she had been driven there by Weiss's butler. This was the first time they had to walk there, and boy, was it an ordeal.

The house, if you could use the term, was gigantic. The gate that separated them from the front yard, which had to be at least a full acre in and of itself, was equally impressive. An intercom sat at the gate's brick support, clearly meant to be how someone got the attention of anyone inside.

Ruby cleared her throat and took a step towards the gate. She pressed the button awkwardly, leaning in to speak into the microphone. "H-hello? Weiss? It's Ruby."

There was a pause, followed by a pleasant-sounding British man on the other side. "Ah, Miss Rose. Miss Schnee is expecting you."

"Klein! Hello!" Ruby said happily. "It's good to see you again! Or...hear you, I mean. Heh."

"And likewise, you, Miss Rose. One moment. Your other friends are already here."

Ruby looked over at the others. Weiss hadn't told her that there would be others.

The gates opened, and the girls walked up the pathway to the estate.

"Damn. Weiss's home is beautiful," Yang said, admiring the area around them. "I bet her Grandpa could probably afford something even bigger, though."

"He probably likes simple." Blake was overwhelmed by the sea of pretty flowers on either side of her, lined with small trees on its outskirts. The fragrances made her feel at ease, and she drew her cat eared hoodie's hood up off of her hair. She smiled happily as they walked. This was nice. She grabbed Yang's hand and squeezed it tightly, and she squeezed back.

The front door opened as the mustached, balding man with hazel eyes and a warm smile greeted them. "Welcome, Miss Belladonna, Miss Rose, and Miss Xiao Long, to Nikolas Schnee's home. Miss Schnee is in the parlor room, overseeing her other guests."

"Heya, Klein," Ruby greeted cheerfully. "Um…what other guests? Weiss didn't tell me about anyone else coming."

"They are from the Multicultural Club, I believe," Klein replied. "One Jaune Arc, Pyrrha Nikos, Nora Valkyrie, and Lie Ren."

"Oh!" So, Team Juniper was here. Ruby smiled. "I didn't know they were coming!"

"They come here regularly, actually," Klein said. "They practice their Gunpla Battle skills on Miss Schnee's system."

All three girls stood there, stunned. "Wait-they knew Weiss likes Gunpla before we did?" Ruby felt betrayed. Her best friend confided her secrets in others before her? How was this possible?

"Follow me, and I will take you to the gaming gallery." Klein turned and headed inside. Yang stared at the massive atrium, the polished checkerboard floor and mahogany walls intimidating her.

"Wait, Weiss has a game gallery?" she asked. "What the actual hell, man?"

"I didn't know!" Ruby replied. "Last time I was here, we just hung out in her room. Which is, like, the size of our living room."

They walked into the atrium and looked around at the paintings. The robust and portly Nikolas Schnee was displayed prominently. Only one picture of his son, Jacques, was on the wall, and it was only in a photo of him and Nikolas meeting for the first time at a business event. The elder Schnee was very open about the fact that he did not enjoy Jacques or his business shark attitude, or the fact that he had changed his name when he married into the family. It had been why his daughter Willow and his granddaughters Winter and Weiss had left California to be with him over Jacques.

Ruby pitied Weiss. Her friend had grown up in the lap of luxury, but it was a gilded cage. Even away from Jacques' influence, the Schnee name carried with it a connotation of pompous arrogance. Weiss was used to playing that role, but she was happy to have people that she could just be her real self around. And Ruby was glad to be one of those people.

Klein pushed open a pair of large doors, and inside, an assortment of video games, televisions with consoles, tables, and seats sat. But the thing that drew their attention for real was the ten-person Gunpla Battle table that sat at the center. Weiss was leaning against a wall, watching them with crossed arms and a smile, as Jaune, Pyrrha, Ren, and Nora practiced in their respective holographic cockpits.

Weiss turned and smiled at the newcomers. "Thank you, Klein," she said pleasantly. "Welcome, girls. I'm glad you could make it."

Klein bowed respectfully, before stepping aside and allowing the other three to enter. Their eyes were wide as they looked around. This was like heaven.

"Alright!" Yang cried out happily, a massive grin on her face. "Now THIS is what I call a party room!"

"It is rather impressive…" Blake admitted, pushing a strand of hair out of her face.

"WEISS! How could you hide this from me?" Ruby asked in despair. "You totally could have showed this off last time!"

Weiss scoffed. "And you would have spent the entire time in here." she rolled her eyes. "I wanted to spend time and talk with you, not watch you play video games until the joysticks fell off."

Ruby chuckled nervously, then took a step towards the table. "Klein mentioned they come over all the time to practice. How come they knew before I did that you had this?"

"Ruby, stop being jealous," Weiss sighed, exasperated. "I simply wasn't ready to reveal it to you guys yet. If I had, I knew you and Yang only would want to hang out with me to use the table to practice. You two are extremely enthusiastic about it."

She looked at the table. "The Multicultural Club comes to my place once a week to meet. Even though I was born here in the states, my parents are both immigrants, and I enjoy representing my cultures. The table is just what we use as an after-club activity. It started out as fun, but all four of them are seriously good. So, I told them about the Tag Tournament, and it lit a fire up under them. It seems Pyrrha and Nora also got invitations due to winning some other official tournament a while ago."

"Oh…." Ruby looked at the far wall. Sitting in the middle of it, with a pair of arcade machines on either side, a built-in display case stood, filled up completely with models. It was massive, and Ruby approached it, walking past the fighting friends at the table to examine the kits inside.

Tiger and Panzer tanks, several sized replicas of the Red Baron's airplane, and a massive number of Gunpla from the Principality of Zeon, Neo Zeon, Sleeves, ZAFT, and Crossbone Vanguard kits sat, all of various sizes and skill levels. Ruby gasped excitedly, and Weiss walked over to her, smiling proudly.

"They're so good!" Ruby fawned. "The quality, the weathering, the paints...these are all top notch!"

"Grandpa Nikolas made sure that I was well supplied with kits. I was told I needed to try all kinds. It was kind of a stress relief. And Klein helped me perfect them once I got good enough for detailing."

"There are hundreds of kits in here!"

Weiss nodded. "I'm under a lot of stress." She looked at the case as Yang walked over to join her sister. Blake headed to the table and watched the other four practice. "There's about four hundred kits in there."

"F-f-f-four hundred?!" Ruby exclaimed, shocked.

"Wow, someone who has more than Ruby. I'm impressed," Yang noted jokingly. "You're really a kit above the rest, Weiss Cream!"

"Yang, don't ruin this for me!" Ruby groaned as Weiss facepalmed. Yang snickered and crossed her arms. Ruby scanned the case again, noticing something odd. "Do you really like Gyans, or…."

She looked at the middle shelf's right side. The regal French Knight-looking Zeon Gunpla stood like a mechanical suit of armor, in rows of three. They had so many variants, some customized, some repainted, some were just different stock variations. There were about eighteen in total, but the last five were the ones that caught Ruby's attention the most. They appeared to be prototypes for a customization.

"Ah." Weiss walked over to that side. "Yes, I had decided on the Gyan to be my main customized mobile suit. Specifically, the Gyan Krieger. I used these kits to practice, so I could memorize its design characteristics and learn to easily modify it.." She smiled fondly as she opened the case and retrieved a customized Gyan, holding a Dom's Giant Bazooka and a standard Zaku hand shield. Its limbs and head were painted in green, with the body, kneecaps, and feet in a deep forest green. "I poured a lot of time, and more than a little bit of blood from exacto knife cuts, into these kits, to perfect the design."

She looked up at Ruby and smiled. "Fortunately, I did just that. And it'll be what I use in the tournament."

Yang whistled as Weiss put the model back and closed the cabinet. "Ooooo... So, we get to see it today?"

Weiss nodded. "Gimme a second. I know you girls destroyed each other's mechs in the tournament. Feel free to grab any of the mechs out of there to use today."

"Nah, I got my own," Yang said, pulling out a completely rebuilt Burning Gundam Echelon. "I finished it yesterday. I really just needed to mod a Duel Gundam body. I have plenty of arms and legs laying around."

Ruby opened the case and grabbed one of the ZAFT kits, Lunamaria Hawke's Gunner ZAKU Warrior, and carefully removed the backpack from it. Weiss grabbed a black leather case, and watched as Ruby grabbed another ZAKU, Heine Westenfluss's Blaze ZAKU Phantom, and removed its backpack, placing it onto the back of the red ZAKU Warrior. She set the orange ZAKU Phantom back onto the shelf and pulled out a pencil pouch from her pocket, removing a small black and red rifle and placing it in the hand of the ZAKU Warrior.

Yang looked at it. "Oh, you finished it!"

"Yup!" Ruby grinned. "I managed to piece it together last night. I just needed to make a latch for it to stay closed. Now, it should hopefully work. I already wrote the code for it into my GP Base.

Weiss smirked. "You dork," she said affectionately, before opening the black case. Inside of the felt-lined carved foam, a highly decorated and ornamental Gyan Krieger sat. White, with a metallic icy blue secondary and a black and white Sleeves motif inspired by the famous Sinanju, the Gunpla was one of the most beautiful things Ruby had ever seen.

"HOLY WOW!"

"Allow me to introduce you to my partner, the Gyan Noblesse Oblige," Weiss presented proudly. "This is the culmination of the hard work and pain I went through to perfect the building of the Gyan. I custom built the shield; I wanted a smaller one to reduce weight, so I took an SD Gyan's shield and basically recreated it in a 3D printer. The sword is a highly customized rapier from the Gundam Rose. I also modified a Gelgoog High Mobility Type's backpack. I figured it might have higher thruster output than the Gyan Krieger."

"The motif is so perfectly aligned, you'd think that it came with the suit!" Ruby looked at her friend in shock. "I can't believe how good this is."

Weiss picked it up and waved it in the air, a mischievous look on her face. "Want to join the fun?"

"YES! Blake! Get your Gunpla!" Ruby said, running over to the table and activating the holographic cockpit. She looked to her right, where Jaune glanced at her and smiled.

"Finally decided to join in?" Jaune asked. His French accent always made Ruby smile. She liked listening to him talk, with an accent that made him sound romantic, even if he was one of the biggest dorks she had ever met.

"I'm SO STOKED!" Ruby said as she grinned.

"NEW COMBATANTS," the computer announced as Yang, Blake, and Weiss joined Ruby. "COMBAT PAUSED."

"So, what have you guys been doing?" Yang asked.

Pyrrha looked over at the blonde. Her Greek accent flowed subtly in her words. "Mostly just practicing team moves. We weren't planning to fight today."

"That just changed," Yang said. "Reset yourselves and let's go!"

"FIELD RESET. DAMAGE LEVEL SET TO C. PLEASE SET YOUR GP BASE," the table asked, and Ruby, Weiss, Yang, and Blake placed their bases down.

"Dette blir morsomt!," Nora yelled excitedly. Most of the table looked over at her, confused.

"Nora, English," Ren reminded.

The ginger Norwegian blushed and chuckled. "Sorry! I said 'this is gonna be fun!'"

"BEGINNING PLAVSKY PARTICLE DISPERSAL. FIELD 2, DESERT. PLEASE SET YOUR GUNPLA."

All of them reset their kits, placing them on the circle right in front of the GP Base. As they were scanned, the Plavsky Particles that the circle emminated activated all of their machines.

Jaune leaned over his light orbs. "Jaune Arc, Duel Cavalier Pale, launch!"

Ruby watched as Jaune's machine jetted forward. She recognized each part-the arms, legs, waist, and head came from the Pale Rider,, while the leg armor, shoulders, and backpack were from the Blu Duel Gundam. The body and shield was from the Duel Gundam Assault Shroud, so it could use the heavy cannon on its right shoulder. And, in what truly impressed Ruby, Jaune had modified the head to accept a GM Sniper II visor, which she had seen him use to enhance the accuracy of his shoulder cannon. Jaune skimped on the main weapon and shield, though; it still used Duel Gundam's basic equipment.

"Pyrrha Nikos, Tallgeese Leonidas, launch!"

The Tallgeese Pyrrha favored, painted in traditional Spartan bronze, red, brown, and white, shot off its launch pad. It used a normal Tallgeese shield, taken from the 1/100 kit so as to increase it's coverage. Ruby was most impressed by the powerful looking custom beam cannon Pyrrha had designed. It already had a beam saber in hand, since the cannon was mounted on a subarm, freeing her right hand up for melee combat.

Ruby looked to Ren, who was next to launch. The quiet Chinese student looked to Nora, making sure she wouldn't launch when he did, which would have caused the two to intercept and crash into each other. When he was certain she'd wait, he smiled. "Lie Ren, Gundam Lotus Dragon, launch."

The Altron Gundam EW/Dragon Gundam hybrid was an impressive machine, clad mostly in green and black, with gold accents. Ren had been crafting it for months, slowly designing it to perfectly fit his fighting style. Like Yang, Ren used the Mobile Trace system to best utilize his martial arts skills. Yang had been wanting to test her skill out against him for a while.

"Nora Valkyrie, Gundam Gusian Rebake Magnhild, let's go!"

Nora's bright pink, white, and black collage of the Gusion Rebake and Gusion Rebake Full City was as outlandish as it was powerful. She wielded a devastating explosive warhammer, complete with small rocket jets in the back to increase the force of her swing,, and had converted both of the arms on the back pods of the Rebake Magnhild into grenade launchers to make up for her lack of ranged weapons.

Blake watched the four relaunch with disbelief. "We aren't seriously going to do this, are we?" she asked. "Like, we don't have to announce ourselves, right?"

"C'mon, Blakey, it's part of the experience," Yang said, encouraging her girlfriend. "It helps you get into the mindset of things."

"It's embarrassing," Blake countered. "I can't imagine Weiss-"

"Weiss Schnee, Gyan Noblesse Oblige, launch!"

Blake blinked, taken off guard by the normally formal Weiss suddenly jumping into the fray like the others. Weiss gave Blake a satisfied look. "Sometimes, it helps to cut loose a little, Blake." She flashed a satisfied grin, before turning back to her display.

"Ruby Rose, Blaze ZAKU Warrior, launching!"

Blake watched as Ruby's stock-built ZAKU shot forward, flying effortlessly in the air as she barrel rolled, giggling the entire time. Ruby preferred SEED and SEED Destiny kits because most of them allowed for near-permanent flight. Few others outside of the Gundam 00 kits allowed this naturally.

Blake sighed. "Yang, et tu?"

"Yang Xiao Long, Burning Gundam Echelon, time to break some faces"

She sighed in defeat. "I'm going to die of embarrassment… Blake Belladonna, Gundam 00 Quanta, launch…."

Blake had outfitted her 00 Qan [T[ with a normal 00 Gundam GN blade, as Ruby had never actually finished the weapon set for the kit. Luckily, she was used to using Gundam Exia, which had basically the same weapon. She was also relieved that Weiss had set the damage level to C, which basically meant that, while pieces could be removed from the kit, the kits overall would not actually take real damage when the simulation was done, meaning she wasn't going to wreck Ruby's model.

The eight of them practiced for a short time, dodging and blocking attacks, though none of them were really wanting to fight each other.

This concerned Ruby, who sidestepped a slash from Blake and then stopped mid-air. "This isn't helping much," she noted. "Hey, Jaune!"

"Hein?" Jaune asked, looking up from his practice.

""You and Blake square off! She needs practice dodging things, and your Gundam is basically nothing but weapon spams!"

Jaune looked at Ruby, dissatisfied by that description. "Gee, thanks…."

Blake came down, hovering just above the ground. "Is that alright with you, Jaune?" she asked. "I'd appreciate it."

"Bien sûr, Blake. It's no trouble." He smiled and turned Duel Cavalier Pale towards her. "When you're ready."

"Alright, go!" The GN particles that made the 00 Qan [T] hover increased as the twin solar reactors increased their output, leaving sparkling green particles all around her, before she leaned forward and came at him.

Jaune responded by firing his shoulder cannon and beam rifle, both of which Blake effortlessly dodged. The missile pods on his shoulder opened and began firing small sidewinder missiles at her, causing her to begin a far more erratic flight path, forced into the air to dodge. Blake gritted her teeth as the missiles bombarded her.

She twisted around in the air, before flying downward, back towards Jaune, most of the missiles chasing her. He opened fire with the cannon again, which forced Blake to dodge. The cannon shot detonated some of the missiles, and Blake returned fire with the GN blade's rifle mode. Jaune blocked the first shot with his shield before hovering to a new location as Blake quickly dove at him, then pulled up, riddling the spot he was just in with the missiles he had fired at her.

Weiss watched and nodded. "You're better than I thought, Blake," she admitted. "That was a nice maneuver."

"I saw it on Dragonball Z when Goku fought Frieza. I thought the concept might work here."

"Well, it did. Good work."

Blake blushed at the praise. "T-thanks, Weiss."

"Hmmm... still, this isn't helping us too much. We need a bigger challenge."

Ruby landed next to her. "What kind of challenge?"

Weiss thought for a moment, before contacting her butler. "Klein, activate Operation: Cold Call."

"As you wish, Miss Schnee."

Yang and Ren paused from their spar and looked at her. "What's Operation: Cold Call?"

"NEW COMBATANTS ENTERED."

The entire field began to shake as the desert floor opened up. A large platform began raising from the ground, and all of the combatants paused to watch as two titanic machines raised from the ground.

Ruby's eyes grew wide. "Wait ...those aren't Gunpla!"

"What the crap?" Yang asked, shocked.

"Weiss, quels sont ces? (what are those?)" Jaune asked, eyes glued to the machines.

One was a giant, silver mechanical pterodactyl, the edges of its wings lined with sharp blades, and massive rocket engines on its back. But it was the second mech, a massive black, purple, and red mechanical scorpion, that had everyone's attention.

"Those...are Zoids! A Storm Sworder and Death Stinger!" Ruby called out. "But, how-"

The Storm Sworder screeched, a terrifying battle cry as it slowly began to wake up. Yang grinned.

"Now THAT'S more like it!" she said excitedly.

"I decided to try an experiment a while ago," Weiss admitted, a smug smile on her face. "Zoid model kits are made of the same plastic as Gunpla and tank or plane kits. So, I plopped my Command Wolf in here, and with a little recoding, it worked. I had myself a pet for my Gyan. So….I created a battle scenario for us, though I imagined it would only be four of us, not eight. So I upped the stakes a bit."

The Death Stinger began to slowly walk off of its platform, examining its surroundings. "Legally, in tournament play, Zoids are prohibited. But here...I thought we could have a little fun," Weiss admitted. She looked to Ruby. "Up to the challenge?'

Ruby stared as the two massive animal shaped machines began to move. And her eyes grew wider, and her smile got bigger. "Yeah. Let's break stuff!"